© read enough out of the Episcopal prayer REV. DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON, | Besse A STORY OF THREE TABERNACLES The Sunday Sermon as Dslivered by the Brooklyn Divine. Text: “Let us make three tabernacles* =Luke ix., 33, Our Arab ponies were almost dead with fatigue, as, in Decimber, 1889, we rode near the foot of Mount Hermon in the Holy Land, the mountain d by ome “a mountain of ice,” by another “a glittering breastplate of ice,” by another ‘the Mont Blanc of Palestine.” "Its top has an almost unearthly brilliance. But what must it have been in the time to which my text re- fers? Peter and James and John were on that mountain top with Jesus when, sud- denly, Christ's face took on the glow of the- noonday sun, and Moses and Elijah, who bad besn dead for centuries, came out from the heavenly world and talked with our Baviour. bat an overwhelming three— Moses, representing the law, Elijah, repre- senting the prophets, and Christ, represeat- ing all worlds. mpetuous Peter was so wrouzht upon by the presence of this wondrous three, that, without waiting for time to cousider how preposterous was the proposition, he cried out, “Lt us make three tabernacles—onse for Thee, one for Moses and ons for Elijah.” Where would they get the material for building one tabernacle, much less material enough to build two tabernacles, and still less, how would they get the material for building three? Where would they get the hammers? Where the gold? Where the silver? Where the curtains? Where the costly adornments? Hermon is a harren peak, and to build one tabernacle in such a place would have been an undertaking ba- yond human achievement, and Peter was propounding the impossible when he cried out in enthusiasm, “Let us build three taber- nacles.” And yet that is what this congregation has been called todo and has done. The first Brooklyn Tabernacle was dedicated in 1870, and destroyed by fire in 1872. The second Brooklyn Tabernacle was dedicated in 1874, and destroyed by fire in 1889, The third Brooklyn Tabernacle was dedicated in April, 1891, and in vhat we are worshiping to-day. Whatsounded absurd for Peter to roposs, when he said on Mount Hermon, in e words of my text, ‘Let us build three tabernacles,” we have not onl the mysterious province of pelled todo. set 1 announce to you thisday that we are at last, asa cburch, in smooth waters. Ar- rangements have been made by which our financial difficulties are now fully and satis faciorily adjusted. Our income will exceed our outgo, and Brooklyn Tabernacle will be yours and belong to you and your children after you, and anything yousee contrary to this you may put down to the confirmed habit which some people have got of mis- representing this church, and they cannot stop. When I came to Brooklyn { came to a small church and a big indebtedness, We bave now this, the largest Protestant church in America, and financially as a congrega- tion we are worth, over and beyond all in- debtadness, considerably more than $150,000. 1 have preached here twenty-three years, and I expect, if my life and health are con- tinued, to preach here twenty-three years longer, although we will all do well to re member that our breath is in our nostrils, and any hour we may be called to give an ' account of our stewardship. All we ask for the future is that you do your best, contrib- uting all you can to the support of our insti- tutions. Our best days are yet to come; our greatest revivals of religion, and our might lest outpourings of the Holy, Ghost. We have got through the Red sea and stand to- day on the other bank clapping the cymbals of victory. Yes, twenty-three years have passad since I came to live in Brooklyn, and they have been to me eventiul years. It was a pros- trated church to which I came, a church so flat down it could drop no farther. Through controversies which it would be useless to rehearse it was well nigh extinct, and for a long while it had been without a pastor. But nineteen members could be mustered to sign a call for my coming. As a committees was putting that call ba- fore me in an upper room in my houss in Philadephia, there wera two other commis- tees on similar errands from other churches in other rooms, whom my wife was enter- taining and keeping apart from unhappy coilision, The auditorium of the Brooklyn church to which I came defied all the laws of acoustics; the church hai a steeple that was the derision of the town, and a high box pulpit which shut in the preacher as thouzh he were dangerous to be let looss, or it acted asa barricade that was uaneces- sary to keep back the people, for they ware so few that a minister of ordinary muscle could have kept back all swho were there. My first Sabbath in Brooklyn was a sad day, for I did not realize how far the church was down until then, and on the evening of that day myown brother, through whose pocket | entered the ministry, dled, and the tidings of his decease reached meat 8 o'clock in the evening, and I was to préach at half past seven. But from that day the blessing 7 of God was on us, and in thres months we begzan the enlargement of the building, Be- fore the close of that year we resolved to construct the first Tabernacle. It was to bs a temporary structure, and therefore we called it a Tabernacle instead of a Temple. ‘What should be tha style of architecture was the immediate question. I had always thought that theampitheatrical shape would be appropriate for a church. done, but in od were com- Two distinguished architects were em- ployed, and after much hovering over de- signs they #mnounced to us that such a building was impossible for religious pur- poses, as it would not be churchly, and would subject themselves and us to ruinous criticism; in other words, they were not ready for a revolution in church archi- tecture, Utterly disheartened as to my favorite style otf architecture, I said to the trustees, ‘Build anything you please; and I must be satisfiad,” But one morning a young architectappeared at my house and asked if we had yet selected a plan for our church. Isaid, “No, audavhat we want we cannot get.” “What kind of building do you want?’ he asked. And taking out a lead Jeuel and a Jetter envelope from my pocket, less than’ a minute by a few curved lines I indicated in the rough what we wanted. “But,” I said, *‘old architects tell us it can’t be dore, and there is no use in you trying.” ~~ Hesaid, *I can doit. How longcan I have to make out the plans?” I said, “This even- ing at 8 o'clock everything is to be decided.” At 8 oclock of that evening the architect presented his plans, an the bids of builder and mason were presented, and in five min- utes aiter the pians were Fieented they were unanimously adopted. So that I wculd not be in the way of the trustees dur- ing the work I went to Europe, and when I ot back the church was well nigh done. fut there came in a staggering hindrance. We expected to pay for the new church by the sale of the old building. The old one had been sold, but just at the time we must have the money the purchasers backed out and we had two churches and no money. By the help of God and the indomitable and unparalle’el energy of our trustees (here and there one of them present to-day, but the most in a better world), we got the buildi ready for consecration, and on September 25, 1870, morning and evening dedicatory services wera held, and in the afternoon the children, with sweet and multi- tudinous voices. consecrated the place to God, Twenty thousand dollars were raised that day to pay a floating debt. In the morning old Dr. Stephen H. Tyng, the gy of the Episcopal Church and the rysostom of the American pulpit, preached a sermon which lingered in its gracious effects as long as the building stéod. He . book to keep himsaif from being repri- manded by his bishop for preachinz ata uon- time we occupied thaf building we had a constant dow: > religions swakening. Hosannah! lion years in heaven will have no power to «im my memory of the glorious times we had in the first Tabernacle, which, becauss of its invasion of ths usual e of church architecture, was called by some *‘Talmage's Hippodro ne,’ by others, ‘Church of the Holy Circus,” and by other mirthful nomen: clature. Butit was a buildiny perfect for acoustics, aud stood long en>uza to hava its imitation in all the larga citizs of America and to completely revolutioniz: caurch area- tecture. People saw that it was tha con- mon sense wayof seating an audience. Instead of putting them in an angular church, where each ona chiefly saw ths back part of somebody else’s head, ths auliiencs svere arranged in semicircle, so that thay could see one another's fac, anita: aali- torium was a great family circle seated around a fireplace, waich was the puipit. It was an iron structure, and we supposed fira- proof, but the in.urancs companies looked at it, and after we had gone too far to stop in its construction they declined to insurs it except for a mere notaing. declaring that. being of iron, if ths inflammable material between the sheetsof iron took fireno engine hose could play upon it. And they were right. During those days we educated and sent out from a lay college under our chargs some twelve hundred young men and women, many of them becoming evangelists and many of them becoming regularly or- dained chers, and I mest them In all parts of the land foiling mightily for God. One Bunday morning in Decamber, 1872, the thermometar nearly down to zero, I was on my way to church. There was an exzita- ment in the street and much smoke in the air. Fire engines dashed past. Bat my mini was on the sermon I was about to preach, until some one rushed up ani told me that our church was going up in the same kind of a chariot that Elijah took from tha banks of the Jordan. That Sunday morn- ing tragedy, with its wringinz of hands and frozen tears on the choeks of many thou- sands standing in the street, ani the crash that shook the earth, is as vivid as though is were yesterday. But it was not a perfect ose. All are anxious te do something, and as oh such occasions sensible people are apt to do unusual things, one of the members, at the risk of his life, rushed in among the fallen walls, mounts the pulpit and took a glass of water from the table and brouzht it in safety fo the street. Bo you ssa it was not a total loss. Within an hour from many churches came kind invitations to oec- cupy their buildings, and hanging again:t a lamppost near the destroyed building, ba- fore 12 o'clock that morning, was a board with the inscription, “The congregation of Brooklyn Tabernacle will worship to-night in Plymouth Church.” Mr. Beecher made the opening prayer, which was full of commiseration for me and my homeless flock,and I preached that night the sermon that 1 intended to preach that morning in my own church; the text con- cerning the precious alabaster box brcken at the feet of Christ, and sure enough we had one very precious broken that day. We were, as a church, obliteratad. *‘But arise and build,” said many voices. Another architect took the amphitheatrical plan of a church, which in the first instanca was nec- essarily somewhat rude. and developed it into an elaborate plan that was immediately adopted. But how to raise the money for such an expensive undertaking was the question— expensive not beciuse of “any senseless adormment proposed, bit expensive because of the immense size of the building needed to hold our congregation. It was at that time when for years our entire country was suffering, not from a financial pahic, but from that long-continue 1 financial depression which all business men remember, as the cloul hung heavy year after year and com- mercial establishments without number went down. Through what struggles we passed the eternal Gol and some brave souls to-day remember. Many a time would I have glad- ly accepted calls to some other field, but I could not leave the flock in the wilder- ness. : At last, after, in the interregnum, having worshiped in our beautiful Academy of Music, on-the morning of February 22, 1874, the anniversary of the Washington who con- quered impossibilities and on the Sabbath that always celebrates tha resurrection, Dr. Byron Sunderland, Chaplain of the Unitel States Senate, thrillel us through and through with a dedicatory sermon from Haggai ii, 9, “The glory of this house shail be greater than that of ths former, saith the Lord of Hosts.” The corner stone of that building had been’'laid by the illus: trious and now enthronel Dr. Irense is Prime. On the platform on dedication day sat, among others, Dr. Dowling, of the Bap- tist Church, Dr, Crook, of the Methodist Church, Mr, Beecher, of the Congregational Church, and Dr. French, of the Presbyterian Church. Hosannah! Another $35,000 was raised on that day. The following Sunday 828 souls were re- ceived into our communion, mostly on confession of faith, At two other commu- nions over 500 souls joined at each one. At another ingathering 628 souls entered this communion. and so many of those gathered throngs havealready entered heaven that we expect to feel at home when we get there. Mylmv! Won't we be glad to ses them— the men and women who stood by us in days that were dark and days that were jubilant! Hosannah! The work dons in that caurch on Schermerhorn street can naver be undone. What self sacrificeson the part of many, who gave almost till the blood came! What hallelujabs! Whav victories! What wed- ding marches played with full organ! What baptisms! hat sacraments! What obse- quies!. Oneof them on a snowy Sabbath afternoon, when all Brooklyn seemed to sympathize, and my eldest son, baaring my own name, lay beneath the pulpit in the last sieep, and Florenca Rice Knox sanz, and a score of ministerson and around the plat- form tried to interpret how it was best that one who had just come to manhood, and with brightest worldly prospects, should be taken and we left with a heart that will not cease to sche until we meet whera tears never fall. That second Tabernacle! What a stupen- dous reminiscencel But, if the Peter of my text had known what an undertaking it isto build two tabernacies ha would not have proposed two, to say nothing of three. As an anniversary sermon must nzeds ba some- what autobiographical, let me say I have not been idle. During the standing of those two Tabernacles fifty-two books, under as many titles, made up from. my writings, were publisned. During that tim= also I was permitted to discuss all the great qusstions of the day in all the great cities of this conti- nent, and in many of them many times, be- sides preaching and lecturing ninsty-six times in England, Scotland and Ireland in ninety-four days, During all that time, as well as sincs, I was engage] in editing a religious news- paper, believing that such a periodical was capable of great usefulness, and I have been a constant contributor to newspapers and periodicals, Meanwhile all things had bs: come easy in the Brooklyn Tabernacle. On a Sabbath in October, 1889, I announced to my congregation that I would in a few weeks visit the Holy Land, and that the offi- cers of the church had consented to my go- ing, and the wish of a life to me was about to be fulfilled. The next Sabbath morning, about 2 o'clock, or just atter midnight, a member of my household awakened me by saying that there was a strange light in the sky. A thunderstorm had left the air full of electricity, and from horizon to. horizon everything seemed to blaza. But that did not disturb me, until an observation taken from the cupola of my house declared that the second Tabernacle was putting on red wings. Say “1 scouted the idea and turned over on the pillow for another sleep, but a number of excited voices called nie to the roof, and I went up and saw clearly defined in the night Episcopal service; and we, although belong- the fiery catafalque of our second Taber- nacle. When I saw that Isaid to my family: pout of | Ten mik | a “but scepters!” gregation, and the canter of the tion, as near as we could find if is enn selected the spot, should we build aving selec e Spo “we on it a barn or_a tabernacle, beautiful and commodions? Our common our religion, commanded: the latter. But what push, what industry, what skill, what sacrifice, what faith in God wera necessary! Tmpadiments and hindrancas without num. ber were thrown in the way, and had it'not béen for the perseverance of our church offi. cials, ‘and the practical help of man people, aml the prayers of millions of souls in all parts of the earth, and the blessing of Almighty God, the work would not have one. But it is dome, and all good people who behold the structure feel in ther hearts, if they do not utter it with theirlips, “How amiable are Thy tabernacles, O Xo: 0 ” On tte third Sabbath of last April this church was dedica r. Hamlin, of Washington, preaching an iuaspiring ser- mon, Dr. Wendell Prime, of New York, offerinz the dedicatory prayer, and some fifteen clergymen during the day taking partin the services. Hosannah! > How suzgestive to many of us are the words spelled out in flowers above the pul- it—*"1869" and *‘1892” —for those dates ound what raptures, what griefs, what struzgles, what trinmphs. I mention itas a matter of gratitude to God that in thess twenty-three years I have missad but one Sabbath throu zh physical indisposition, and but three in the thirty-six years of my mia- istry. And now, having reached this twenty-third milestone, I start answ. I have in my memorandum books analyses of more sermons than I have ever yet preached, and I have preached, asnear asl can tell, about 3380. During these past years I have learned two or three things. Among others I have learned that ‘‘all thins work together for good.” My positive mode of preachin sometimes seemed to stir the hostilities of all earth and hell. Feeling called upon fifteen years ago to explore underground New York city life, that I might report the evils to ba combated. I took with me two elders of my church and a New York police commissioner and a policaman, andl 1 explored and re- porte the horrors that needad removal and where we men. There came upoa mas an outburst of resumed indignation that frightened almost everybody but myself. That exploration put into my church thirty or forty news- paper correspondents from north, south, east and west; which opened for me new avenues in which to. preach tha Gospel that otherwise would never have bean opened. Years passed on and I preached a series of sermons on Amusements, and a falsa re- port of what I did say—an1i one of the ser- mons said tohave been preached by me was not mine in a single word—rousad a violence that threatened me with poison and dirk and pistol and other forms of extinguish. ment, until the chief of Brooklyn police, without any suzzestion from me, took pos- cession of the church with tweniy-four po- licemen to sae fiat no harm was done. That excitement openei many doors, which T en- tered for preaching tas Gospel. After awhile cama an ecclesiastical trial, in which I was arraignad by paople who did not like the way I did things, and althouzh I was acquitted of all the charges, the contest shook the American church. That battle made me more frisnds than anything that ever happened and gave me Chistendom and more ‘than Christendom: for my week! audience. On the demolition of each churc a disaster, not a caricature, not a pérsecu- tion, not an assault, during all thess twenty- thres years, but turned out for our advan- tage, and ought I not to believe that “all things work together for good?’ Hosannah! Another lesson I have learnsd during theses twenty-three years is that it is not necessar to preach error or picz flaws in the ol Bible in order fo get an audiencs; the old Book without any fixing up is ‘good enough for me, and the higher criticism, as itis called, means lower religion. Higher criticism is another form of infidelity, and its disciples will believe less and less, until many of them will land in Nowhere and become the worshipers of an eternal What is it.” The mostof these higher critics seam to be seeking notoriety by pitching int> the Bible, It issuch a brave thing to strike your grandmother. The old Gospel put in modern phrase, ani without any of the conventionalities, and adapted to all the wants and woes of humanity, I have found the mightiest magnet, aud wa have never lacked an audience. . Next to the blessing of my own family I account the blessing that I have always had a great multitude of people to preach to. That old Gospzl I have preached to you these twenty-three years of my Brooklyn pastorate, and that old Gospel 1 will preach till I die, and charge my son, whois on the way tp the ministry, to preach it after me, for I remembar Paul's toundierbolt, ‘if any man preach any other Gospel, let him be accursed.” And now, as I stand here onmy twenty-third anniversary, I see two audi- ences, The one is made up of all those who have worshiped with us in the past, but have been translated to higher realms. What groups of children—too fair and too sweet and too lovely for earth, and the Lord took them, but they seem present to-day. The croup has gone out of the swollen throat and the pallor from the cheek, and they have on them the health and radiancs of heaven. Hail, groups of glorified children! How glad 1am to have you come back to us vi ‘And here sit those aged ones, who departed this life leaving an awful vacancy in home and church. Where are your staffs and where are your gray locks, and where you stooping shoulders, ye blessed old folks? *Oh}’ they say, “we are all young again, and the bath in the river from under the throne has made us agile and bounding. In the ace from which we come they use no staffs, Hail, fathersand mothers in Israel; how glad we are to have you come back to greet us, Bub the other audience I see in imagination is made up of all those to whom we have had opportunity asa church, directly or indirectly, of presenting the Gospel, Yea, all my parishes seem to come back to-day. The people of my first charge in Belleville, New Jersey. The people of my second charge in Syracuse, New York. The people of my third charge in Philadelphia. And the people of all these three Brooklyn Tabernacles. © Look at them, and all those whom, through the printing press, we have invited to God and heaven, now seeming to sit in galleries above galleriez, fifty gallleries, a hundred galleries, a thousand galleries ign. greet them all in your name and in Christ's name, all whom I have confronted from my first sermon in my first village charge, where my lips trembled and my knees knocked together from affright,speak- ing from the text, Jeremiah i., 6, ‘Ah, Lord God, behold I cannot speak, for I am a child {”until the sermon I preach to-day from Luke ix, 83, ‘Let us make three taber- nacles,” those of tha past and the present, all gather in imagination, if not in reality, all of us grateful to God for past mercies, all of us sorry for misimprov opportuuoities, all hopeful for eternal raptures, and while the visible and the invisible audiences of the presentand the past commingle, I give out to be sung by those who are here to-day, and to be pi by those who shall read of this scene of reminiscence and congratulation, that hymn which bas been rolling on since Isaac Watts started it one hundred and fifty years ago; ; 3 Our God, onr help in ages past, Our hope for years to coms; Our shelter from the stormy blast, And our eternal hotae. MONEY that 18 given to attract ap- plause from men is never entered upon the books of Heaven, ~~ the allurements that endanzerad our young. wa got a better and a larger church, and not LESSON FOR SUNDAY, APRIL 10. ‘The King in Zion,” Psalm ii, 1-13. Golden Text: Psalm ii,-12* Com- mentary. Ls w by do the Heathen | ople imagine a vain Talted the psalm of Messiah the describes the tumult of people i the Lord anointed; the agains the determinate purpose timate reign of that Son over all His ene- mies. As we read of the heathen,or na raging, we may think of Pharach and hosts, Sennacherib and his army, and all others. who vainly sought to Overthorow Israel. But in Acts iv., 23 26, these words are used in reference to the. rage of Herod, Pilate, the Gentiles and Israel against Christ, and truly that was the consummation of the wrath of man,and the height of 3 vain nings. Pei : 2. ‘The kings of the earth set themselves and the rilers take counsel together against the Lord and against His anointed.” But hear the Lord in reference fo gll such: *'As. sociate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces, Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the w and it shall not stand, for God is with us" Jea. viii., 9, 10). It is not so much to be wondered at that nations which knew not God should think to withstand Him; but to see His own people as we have seen them in some of the lessons of last quarter; thin to resist His will, “is strange indeed. Vetin condemning them we may condemn our ves. Are we for Him or against Him? (Math. xii.. 30), ! : 3. ‘‘Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.” Read of the price arroganey of Moab, the pride and aughtiness of Edom, the Dlasphein of the s Jer. xlviii., 20; 4: II Chron, xxxii., 17), and see eilion of the natural Doors against Soa. Then listen o Israel re to Jeremiah, s in the name of Shy We will ooking unto thee, but we will certainly do what. soever thing th’ ‘out of our own mouth” (Jer. xliv., 16, 17), and see the enmi of a religi eart. Surely the heart ous deceitful above all things and desperately in the heavens shall wicked (Jer. xvii:, §). 4. ‘He that sitteth laugh; the Lord shall have them in deris. ion.” They do niot consider that *‘our God is in the heavens; He hath done whatsoever He hath pleased.” “He doeth according to His will in the heaven, and among the in- habitants of the earth, and none can stay His hand or say unto: Him, What doest Thou?’ (Ps. cxv., 3; Dan. iv.,85). To those who set at nongh ‘His Sounsel, He says, 1 will laugh at your calamity: I will mook when your fear cometh (Prov, i., 25-27). 5. ‘Then shall He speak unto them in His wrath, and vex them in His sore dis; - Ire There is such a thing as the wrath of , even the wrath of the Lamb, and g time called **lhe gréat day of His wrath” (Isa, xiii., 6, 9, 13; Zeph. i, 14, 13; Rev. vi; 16,17). Tt may be delayed through the long suffe of but it will come as a thief in the night (I Pet. iii, 9 10). 6. ‘Yet have I set My King upon My holy hill of Zion.” The Lord hath chosen Zion. He hath desired it for His habitation; and He hath sworn unto David *‘of the fruit of thy body. will I seb upon thy throne.” : The angel Gabriel confirmed this to Mary cone cerning her son; and the spirit through Peter testified that the promise to David referred to Christ risen from the dead (Ps. cxxxii., 11, 13; Lukei.,, 82, 83; Acts ii., 29-32), Christ never yet sat on David’s throne, and has not yes come to His own throne, but still sits *7. “I will declare the decree; the Lor: bath said unto Me, Thou art My Son, this have I begotten Thee.” On two occasions the Father testified from Heaven that Jesus | Christ was His beloved Son; but that this verse refers to the resurrection of Christ from the dead is as clear as noon: from the spirit’s testimony through Paul in Acts xiii,, 33, By that event He was with power declared to be Son of God (Rom. i., 4); and not until the resurrection of the saints shall the Sons of God be manifest (I John iii., 2). 8. “Ask of Me and I shall give Thee the hoathen for Tine inheritance, sid the utter- most parts of the earth for y posses: sion.” Here is the promise of all nations to the Edn; confirmed elsewhere in these words: “All kings shall full down before Him, all nations shall serve Him.” “All nations whom Thou hast made shall come and worship before Thee, O Lord, and shall glorily Thy name” (Ps. Ixxii., 11; Ixxxvi, 9). owever things may seem to go in the church or in the world, the time will come when this earth will be filled with the glory of God (Num. xiv., 21; Rev. xii, 15). 9. “Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; Thou shalt dash them to pieces like a potter's vessel.” The previous verse is a great verse for missionary meetings, bot this one never; why separate that which God hath joined together, and thus distort the Scriptures? Before the kingdoms of this world become the kingdoms of our Lord there will be a great breaking to pieces. 10. ‘‘Be wise now, therefore, O ye kings; be instructed ye judges of the earth.” This psalm is divided into four sections of three verses each, the first describing the wrath of man against God’s anointed; the second, the enthronement of the anointed one; the 1 His complete subjugation of all thin, while this last is an earnest entreaty to al rulers to submit ere it be too late to the King who is ready to receive and pardon. 11. “Serve the Lord with fear, and re- Joice with trembling.” The first step isto receive Him as our wisdom and righteouse ness (Rom. i., 16; I Cor. i., 80), then serve Him with reverence and zodl y fear, working out our salvation with fear and tremblin, {Heb. xii., 28, Phil. ii., 12, 13) ; not a fear losing our eternal life, which is impossible (John x., 27, 28), but fear ol grieving such love and of coming short in our reward (I Cor. iii., 11-15; II John 7). 12. “Kiss the Son, lest He be angry, and Ie perish from the way, when His wrath is indled but a little. ~ Blessed are all they that put their trust in Him.” The kiss implies reconciliation and love (Luke xv., 20; Cant, §., 2): All-judgment has been given to the Son (John v., 22.) He is full of id and truth, and so loved that He gave mself for us (John 1,, 14; Gal, ii., 20). How blinded by the devil any one must be to resist such love and forfeit such blessing (I Cor. iv. 38, 4). Rather may it be ours to be among the *‘Blessed and Holy” of Rev. xx., 6, and the **Blessed” of Rev. xxii, 14. “Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust and not be afraid” (Isa. xii; The verse speaks of ‘‘the way.” only one way, for Jesus said, “I am the ar (John xiv., 6). And again it is written, “There is none other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved” (Acts iv., 12).—Lesson Helper. Johnny’s Rackoning. I’ve thought of such a jolly plan! The cal- endar, you know, Seems quite unfinished, for most months keep spilling over so. ‘Now should they all have just four weeks, the pages would look neat, And surplus days together form another month complete, An extra month with one odd day—oh, wouldn't it be’ prime If this were done, and added on to our vaca: tion-time! . — Caroline Frans, in March St. Nicholas. “Historic MoMEN Ts” is the title of an important series of brief papers in “the April “Scribner.” Great events arc to be described by eye witnesses, or important ~~ participants in them. Among the subjects already chosen are “The First News Message by Tele- graph.” “The Last Spike of the Union Pacific,” “The Resumption of Special Payment in the United States,” and “The Chicego Fire.” It: of God to exalt’ His own Son, and the ul. | .. My life is here, with you. with the Father on His throne (Rev. iii, 21), | SASHEILe FET uy Step ved! when we pass away a: Spo of who will come 8 the deserted cot. say WE tanta gone Il as sind we have gone into tha Where parted. households meet? Oh, who will walk beside the stream, Or sit beneath the pine, ~~ To dream again life's little dream, ‘When ‘tis not yours, nor mine? ‘Will some one fell my favorite tree, Pull down the mossy wall: 2 Fhe things so dear fo you and me, ‘Will they destroy them all? Whose name will be on oval door? ‘Whose pictures deck the walls? Whose feet press roughly on the floor ‘Where your dear footstep falls? And when the years to centuries swing, Till all we Jove are dead, ‘Will any echo backward bring The words that we have said? 1 Hope the brook down there will miss An-old familiar tune, 3 When in a hap] ier home than this We talk with all our own. : For oh, this little home is sweet, Hach corner is so dear; Can Heaven without it be complete? I would that Heaven were here. I almost think that from the skies, If I this dome can ses, 2 I shall watch those with envious eyes ‘Who live here after me. - Dear heart! it may be true; We shall not then, but oh, today ~{[Julia H. May. PURIFY YOUR THOUGHTS. A nobler career depends on the treatment given to the infant ideas that are born in the soul. A person is known by the company he keeps. So the thoughts which we harbor within us, and ‘which o out through the doors of our mouths and our hands, deter mine our real character. J One of the highest of spiritual luxuries is the enjoyment of exhilarating and sublime thoughts; to such a devout and cheerful thinker a prison may be a palace. “I thought of Jesus,” said holy Rutherford, ‘‘until every stone in the wall of my cell sbone like @ ruby.”’—[Dr. T. L. Cuyler. : FAITH’S OFFICE. = Faith is truly a light in a soul, but it is a light which shines only upon duties and not upon results or events. It tells us what is now to be done, but it does not tell us what is to follow and accordingly it guides us but a single step at a time; and when we take that step under the guidance of faith, we advance directly into a land of surrounding shadows and darkness. Like the patriarch Abraham, we go, not knowing whither we go, but’ only that God is with us. In man’s darkness we never- theless walk and live in God’s light, a way ot vg blessed and glorious, however mys- terious it may be vo human vision.— [Thomas C. Upham. : PERSONAL HOLINESS. Every individual should feel, that while his influence over other men’s hearts and characters is very bounded, his power over his own heart is great aud constant that his zeal for extending appear-chiefly in extending it through his own mind and life. Tet him remember that he as truly enlarges God's kingdom by invigorating his own moral and religious principles, as by communicating them to others. Our first concern is at home, our chief work is in our own breasts. It is idle to talk of our anxiety for other men’s souls, if we neglect our own. Without personal virtue and religion, we cannot, even if we would, do mich for the cause of Christ. It is only by purifying our own conceptions of God and duty, thal ‘we can give clear and useful ylews to others. We must first feel the power of religion, or we cannot recom- mend it with an unaffected and prevalent zeal.—[Channipg. { x HOW TO READ THE BIBLE. You cannot be holy unless you do In secret live upon the blessed Word of God, and you will not live on it unless it comes to you as the sacred word of His mouth. The Bible is not a book only, but a speaking trumpet through which God speaks from afar to you, go that You may catck the very tones of His voice. You must read the Word of God to this end, for it is while reading, meditating and studying, and seeking to dip yourself into its spirit, that it seems suddenly to change from a written book into a talking book or phonograph; it whispers to you or thunders at you as though "God had hidden Himself among its leaves and spoke to vour condition; as though Jesus, who feedeth among the lili~s, had made the chap- ter to be lily beds, and bad come fo feed there. Ask Jesusto ¢atise His word to come fresh from His own mouth to your soul, and if it be 80, and you thus live in daily: com- munion with a personal Christ, vou will then with your feet take hold upon His steps; then you will keep His way; then you will never decline to go back from His commandments, but you will make good speed in your pilgrim way to the eternal city—[Spurgeon. VALUE OF PHYSICAL HEALTH. Christ, starting on the campaign of the world’s conquest, first selected His staff officers. There were plenty of students with high foreheads and white hands. and intel- lectual faces, and refined tastes, in Rome and Jerusalem, Christ might have called in the apostleship twelve book-worms, or twelve rbetoricians, or twelve artists. Instead, He takes a group of men who had never made a speech, never taken a lesson in belles-lettres, never been sick enough to make them louk delicate—their hands broad, clumsy and hard-knuckled. "He chose fishermen, among other reasons I think, because they were physically hardy. = Rowing makes strong arms and stout chests. Much : climbing of ratlines makes one's head steady. A Gulilee tempest wrestled men into gymnasts... The opening work of the church was rough work. Christ did not want twelve invalids hanging about Him, com- laining all the tine how badly they felt. He eaves the delicate students at Jerusalem and Rome for their mothers and aunts to take care of, and goes down to the seashore, and out of the toughest material makes an apos- tleship. The ministry need more corporeal vigor than any other class. Fine minds and good intentions are important, but there must be physical force to back them. The intellectual mill-wheel may be built and the grist ground, but there must be enough lood in the mill-race to turn ths one and to grind the other.—[Talmage. A means of elevating the standard of per- sonal religion should be &-more distinct rec- ognition of and a more earnest dependence on the agency of the Holy Spirit. How many ignore the Spirit’s personality and agency. ‘What Christ did for us becomes effectual in our salvation, because it.is followed by the Spirit's working in us. Have you a beset ting sin that stunts your spiritoal growth and impairs your religious influence! | Ask for the Spirit that yon may see the guilt of it; mourn over it and be enabled tc forsake it. Are you in darkness? Ask the Father in the name of the Son, for the Spirit that you may be taught of God and guided weak and i | truth. Are you waverin to all tru res iid of the cast down? Secure the indwelling SomifoH : be stren con : ii the Gospel we must more djstinot- ly recognize, more firmly believe in 3nd more earnestly seek ah increased measute of the influences of the Holy Ghost. + | News, to-day. | volying a loss on bark - f the Keystone bar Sys lossy Bardsley's transactions “Hush! hush! we shall not care,” you suy, | On the wheels of a moving frei , and Christianity is to, | confirmed, . If'we would |. “Ton statom month ending March 31 show a ‘balance $6,490,003 75 in the state treasury, exclusive of moneys 3pproptisted to the sinking fund. - This amount is distributed among forty-two THE first nomination paper filed in the office of the Socrstary of the copmmotiwealth under the new ballot law was that of ‘B. K. Focht, edifor of the Lewisburg Satnrday 5 & THE bark sheds at Kistler Bros. tannery, Haven, were burned last in- nigh estimated at $60,000, wi 5,000 insurance. Fire yesterday destroyed the residence and barn, Dear Hintngdon, “of pe exander ey; a ey. $380 greenbails were burned. No insurance. BA et . THE report of the -B y- Investigatin Committee Jas presented. the Philader hia Councils Com o finance for ac- on. The committee advises certain Changes in to city finances, and reports that Mr. Wanamaker had no = dealings with Bardsley, and was in. no way responsi for the wrecking of the stone will Howanp D. McNErTY, of Renovo, fell up- 3 ght train and was mangled so Wadly that he died three hours later, SE THE la barn on the Jerry Kimmell farm, east of Greensburg, was destroved by fire. The fire is sup; to be the work of. an incendiary. The loss is about $3,000. No insurance. ; Fer ER Ar the hearing of the deferred license ap- plicants at Huntingdon Judge Furst decreed that no sales of liquor shall be made over the bar in flasks, except to hotel guests who take it out of the city. He also ordered that windows and doors and that 10 », m. should be the hour of closing. - Tea 5 REv_Josnua Scuurrz, while assisting in the faneral services of Abraham Krauss, at Palm station near Reading, died suddenly in the pulpit. : MaRspALL G. KExnepy, a Republican member of the lower house of the Pennsyl- vania legislature from Philadelphia, died at Philadelphia, aged 49 years. He was elected for the first time in 1891. : Wi Wirriam Brake, a well-known butcher, and William Gardner began quarreling in the shop, and a fight resulted, during which ardner struck Blake on the head with a cleaver, inflicting a probably fatal wound. ardner fled at once. Groree HARBAUGH, an employe of the Btandard mines, Westmoreland county, was killed while dropping cars. =~ . Tae Rev. Mr. Hunter, of Fairchance, is about to organize a branch of the Law and Order Society, and begin war on Siunday newspapers. ut 5 Carer Bugeess E. A. Brosgg, of Newville, declares the Sunday sale of newspapers il- legal, and has forbidden their sale in that wh. Enma Fox, aged 20, was found on Gospel Hill, an outlying district of Altoona, dying from the effects of a revolver shot in the abdomen. She was unconscious, and’ died withouf Spesking, The revolver was found ten feet away, The girl is of good fFaent age, and why she should kill herself, if she did, is a mystery. ri THERE were 832 prisoners in ‘the Western Penitentiary, Pittsburg, on Tuesday night, the largest number on record. The prison, will accommodate 1,140 males and 40° fe- males. SusTAINED THE NEW Barror Law.—Jidge McPherson, at Lebanon, rendered his opin- ion in the suit of Meredith et al, citizens and taxpayers, against the County of Le- banon, William ¥. Bension and others, eom- missioners, refusing the injunction asked for to restrain the commissioners from car- tying into effect the provisions of the Baker election law, e case was speedily de- cided so that an appeal to. the Supreme Court may be heard on April 18, when the Sarsnton and Philadelphia cases will be ar- gued. San AN insuranee of $500,000-has been placed on the public buildings at Harrisburg, in several companies. Coroner W. Hayes Geir, of Columbia, was appointed superintendent of public printing in place of Major Barton D. Evans, of West Chester, The commission will date from April 1. Mgs. Rosanio HEINZ, a demented woman of 75 years, was burned to death at Erie. While lighting her pipe she set fire to "her clo'hing and then knelt down by her bed. When found she was in the attitude of pray- T. Jam Wan, a Chinese laundrymau of Wilkesbarre, has sued the Scranton Tribune for $10,000 For printing a notice to the effect that he was afflicted with leprosy. Mgs. Dare Garrison fell into a fire at her bone at Burgettstown and was burned to eath. The Citizens’ National Bank, of Potts- town, was authorized to begin business with a capital of $100,000. Hexry M. Kure, of Dublin, near Doyles- town, has caused a great sensation by ~dis- appearing from his family and home. He was a prominent man in his neighborhood and it now transpires that he has committed some extensive forgeries. One of his wvic- tims is the Rev. Abraham F. Myers, a Men- rionite midister. The sheriff of Bucks coun- ty is searching for Kulp. Executions amount- ing to several thousand dollars were issued against Kulp. Toe L. and O. people have begun their Work on the sale of ER inday papers at Johns- OWN. THE dry house, lumber house and stable of the planing mill company at Freeport was burned last night. Toss “$6,000, partly insured. Itis believed that dydamite was used to fire the buildings. 3 Dg. Jackson, of Clark's Mills, drank sul- phuric acid in mistake for water. He. can- not eat or speak. His suffering is terrible. However, there are chances for his recov- ery. x eT Mayor Stuart, of Philadelphia, vetoed the ordinance giving the Plriladelphia Trac- tion Company permission to introduee the trolly system on a large number of streets. Jhe Councils passed the measures over the veto. . The pardon of John A. Mellon and Will- iam H, Porter of the Beayer Star, for libeling Senator Quay, was ordered Governor Pattison, and the editors are now free. April 14 and May 16 have been fixed as “Arbor days by Governor Pattison. « ° The jury in the Mills murder case at Butler, returned a second degree verdict. Miss DEria CLiserELrEr died wi sud- denly from blood Doisenin y at New Castle. About three mon 380 she scalded her leg and foot badly. She lg on a pair of hose for the first time early this week, and last night she suddenly expired, ‘the black focking on die fnjired foot having | caused blood poisoning, which went at once to the earl, pe Ap ce ale ny i An icicle fell in the Hekla mine, mear | Greensirarg and instantly killed fdward Finece, Lonmin & Sas ent of Treasurer Boyer for the = may be sick and to other persons who-will ie all screens should be removed from saloon .
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