Fhe . rr r i ——— res Ta Cr Sa ear re —— Te or ppm rs rT SrA i SA SYR REY DR. TALAGES, SERNIN [EEE ire fmt mm est one GUNDAY SCHOOL. | ooo sommow manmie f Sow FE 2 2 . { y come are 3: - : = in, LEER & — - De 3 ; 2 pe te Bid a 2 old hacimey ved solids ; He Takes the Handicap After & Terrific | Action of the Statgflonventions Regard- “SELAH” ITS USE AND MEANING. awhile the parents returned, and their first | the centuries will never arrest the through © Struggle. ing the Dalegéifes to Minneapolis. The Sunday Sermon as Dzlivared by the Brooklyn Divine. Text: “Selah.” —Psalms Ixi., 4. The majority of Bible readers look upon this word of my text as of no importance. They consider it a superflnity, a mere filling a meaningless interjection, a useless re- frain, an undefl echo, Selah! But I have to tell you that if is no Scriptural ac- cident. It occurs seventy-four times in the ‘Book of Psalms aud three times in the Book of Habakkuk. You must not charge this pestost book with seventy-seven trivialities. lah! It is anenthroned word. If, accord- ing to an old writer,some words are battles, then this word is a Marathon, a Thermopy- lee, a Sedan, a Waterloo. Itis a word de- cisive, semetimes for poetic beauty, some- times for grandeur, and sometimes for eternal import. Through it roll the thun- dering chariots of the Omnipotent God. 1 take this word for my text because [ am 80 often asked what is its meaning, or whether it has any meaning at ail. It has an ocean of meaning, from which I shall this morning dip up only four or five buck- etfuls. I will speak to you. so far as I have time, of the Selah of pcetic significance, the Selah of intermission, the Selah of emphasis and the Selah of perpetuity. Are vou surprised that I speak of the Selah of poetic significance? Surely the God who sapphired the heavens and made the earth a rosebud of beauty, with oceans hanging to it like drops of morning dew, would not make a Bible without rhychm, without redolence, without blank verse. God knew that eventually the Bible would be read by a great majority of young peo- ple, for in this world of malaria and casualty .#n octogenarian is exceptional, and as thirty ears is more than the ayerage of human ife, if the Bible is to bea successful book it must be adapted to the young. Hence the prosody of the Bible—tha drama of Job, the pastoral of Ruth, the epic of Juiges, the dithyrambic of Babakkuk, the threnody of Jeremiah, the lyric of Solomon's Song, the ‘oratorio of the Apocalypse, the idyl, the Strophe and antistrophe, and the Selah of ‘the Psalms. Wherever you find this word Selah it means that you are to rouse up to great stanza, that you are to open your soul to great analogies, that you are to spread the wing of your imagination for great flight. *:] answered thee in the secret place of thun- der; I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah.” “The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved; I bear up the pillars of it. Selah.” “Who is the King of Glory? ‘The Lord of Hosts, He is the King of Glory. Selah.” “Thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.” ‘Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swell- ing thereof. Selah.” “The Lord of Hosts is with the God of Jacob is our refuge. _ Selah.” “Thou hast given a banner to them that fear Thee, that it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah.” “I will hide under the covert of Thy wings. Selah.” “Oh, God, when Thou wentest forth before Thy people, when Thou didst march through the wilderness. Selah.” : Whoever you find this word it is a signal of warning hung out to tell you to stand off the track while the rushing train goss by with its imperial passengers, Poetic word, charged with sunrise and sunset,and tempest and uake, and Tresurrections and ‘millenniums. Next ¥ come to speak of the Selah olin- termission. Gesenius, Tholuck, Hengsten- berg and other writers agree in saying that this word Selah meaus a rest in music; what the Greeks call a diapsalma, a pause, a halt in the solemn march of cantillation. Every musician knows the importance of it. If you ‘ever saw Jullien, the great usical leader, stand before five thousand singers and players upon instruments, and with one stroke of his baton smite the multi- tudinous hallelujah into silence, and then, soon after that, with another stroke of his baton rose up the full orchestra to a great outburst of harmony, then you know the mighty effect of a musical pause. It gives more power to what went before; it gives more power to what is to come after. . So God thrusts the Selah into His Bible and into our lives, compelling us to stop and think, stop and consider, stop and admire, stop and pray, stop and repent, stop and be sick, stop and die. It is not the great num- ber of times that we read the Bible through that wakes us intelligentin the Scriptures. e must pause, What thouzh it take an hour for one word? What though it take a week for one verse? What though it take a year for one chapter? We must pause and measure the height, the depth, the length, the breadth, the universe, the eternity of meaning in one verse. 1 should like to see some one sail around one little adverb in the Bible, alittle adverb of two letters, during orelifetime—the word #30” in the New Testament passage, 80 loved the world.” Augustine madea long use after the verse, ‘Put ye on the Lord esus Christ,” and it converted him. Mat- thew Henry made a long pause after the verse, “Open Thou my lips, and my mouth shall show forth Thy praise,” and it convert- ed him. William Cowper made’ a long ause after the verse, *‘Being freely justified y His grace,” and it converted him. hen God tells us seventy-seven times meditatively to pause in reading two books of the Bible, He leaves to our common sense to decide how often we should pduse in reading the other sixty-four books of the Bible. We must pause and ask for more light. ‘We must pause and weep over our sins, We must: pause and absorb the strength of one promise. Isometimes hear people boasting about how many times they have read the Bible through, when they seem to know no more about it than a passenger would know about the State of Pennsylvania who should go through it in a St. Iouis lightning ex- _ press train and in a Pullman ‘sleeper,’ the two characteristics of the journey, velocity and somnolence. It is not the number of of times you go through the Bible, but the number of times the Bible goes through you. Pause, reflect. Selah! Si So also on the scroll of your life and mind. We go rushing on in the song of our pros- perity from note of joy to noteof joy, audit is a long drawn out legato, and we become indifferent and unappreciative when sud- denly we come upon a blank in the music, There is nothing between those bars, A pause. God will 611 it up with a sick bed, or a commercial disaster, or a grave. But, thank God, it is not a breaking down. It is only a pause. It helps us to appreciate the blessings that are gone. It gives us higher appreciation of the blessings that are to come. * The Selah of Habakkuk and David is a ‘@ividing line between two anthems. David begins his book with the words, ‘‘Blessed is the man.” and after seventy-four Selahs he closes his hook with the words, ‘‘Praise ye the Lord.” So there are mercies behind us, and there are going to be mercies before us. It 1s good for us that God halts us in our for- tunes, and halts us with physical distress, and halts us at the gravesof our dead. More than -once you and I have been halted by such’'a Selah, You wrung your hands and said: I can't see any sense in this Provi- dence; I can't see why God gave me that child; it He is so soon going to take it away. Oh, my desolate homel: Oh, my: broken heart!” You could not understand it. Bus it was not a Selah of overthrow. . It gave you ter eciation of the blessings that have gone; it will yet give you ter appreciation of the blessings that wil come, Pi¥hen tl he Huguenots were being very onated France a father and mother were obliged to fly from the country, . the Christain a Selah between redemption “God. anxiety was to flod their lost child, They looked ap and down the land, examining-$ue wrists of the young people, when lo! after awhile the father found a maiden with a scar upon her wrist. She knew him not, but he knew her. And oh, the joy of the reunion! Bo it isnow. ‘Whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth.” He cutteth, He marketh and when He comes to ciaim own the Lord will know them that are His; know them by the scar of their trouble, know them by the stroke of their desolation. Oh, it is good that the Lord sometimes halts us. David says, *‘It is good that I have been afflicted. Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now have I kept Thy word.” In- deed, we must all soon stop. Heientists have im-roved human longevity, butnone of them have provosed to make terrene life perpetual. But the Gospel makes death a Selah between two beatitudes—between dying triumph on the one side of the grave and celestial es- cort on the other side of the grave. Going ont of this life to the unprepared is a great horror. “Give me more Jaudanum,” said dying Mirabeau; *‘give me more laudanum that 1 may not think of eternity and what is to come.” And dying Hobbes said, *l leave my body to the grave and my soul to the great perhaps.” It was the discord of an in- fidel’s life breaking down into the jargon of despair; but the Gospel makes the death of and enthronement. ‘‘Almost well,” said dy- ing Richard Baxter, “almost well.” “Play those notes over again—those notes which have been 8a great a delight and solace to me,” said the dying Christian Mozart. ‘None but Christ, none but Christ,” exclaimed dy- ing Lambert. ichard Cameron, the Scotch covenanter, went into the battle three times praying : “Lord, spare the green and take the rip>. This is the day: I have longed for. This is: the day I shall get my crown. Come, let us fight it to the last. Forward!” Bo you see there is only a short pause, a Selah of inter- mission, between dying consolations on the one side and overstopping raptures on the other. : My flesh shall slamber in the ground Till the last trumpet’s joyful sound; Then burst the chains with sweet surprise, And in my Saviour's imags rise. Inext speak of the Selah of emphasis. Ewald, the German orientalist ani theolo- gian, says that this word means to ascend; and wherever you find it, he says, you must look after the modulation of the voica and you must put more force into your utterance. It isa Selah of emphasis. ' Ah! my friends, ou and I need to correct our emphasis. Wey put too much emphasis on the world and not enough on God and the next world. People think these things around us are so import ant, the things of the next are not worthy of oar consideration. The first need for some of us is to change our emphasis, Look at wretchedness on a throne. Napoleon, while yet emperor of France, sat down dejected, his hands over hisface. A lad came in with a fray of food and said, ‘‘Eat, it will do J good.” The emperor looked up and said, “You are from the country?” The lad replied, ‘‘Yes.” “Your tather has a cottage and a few acres of ground?” “Yes. *‘There is happiness,” said the dejected emperor. Ah! Napoleon never put the emphasis in the right place until he was expiring at St. Helena. On the other hand, look at Satisfaction amid the worst earthly disadvantage, “I never saw nnatil I was blind,” said a Chris- tian man. “I never knew what content- ment was while I had my eyesight as I know what content is now that I have lost my eyesight. I affirm, though few would credit it, that I would not exchange my present position and circumstances for my circum- stances before I lost my eyesight.” That man put the emphasis in the right place. We want to put less stress upon this world and more stress upon our God as our ever- lasting portion. : Davia had found out the nothingness of this world and the all-sufficiency of God. Notice how he interjects the Selahs, ‘‘Trust in the Lord at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before Him, God is a refuge for us. Selah.” ‘Blessed be the Lord wha daily loads us with benefits, even the God of our salvation. Selah.” . “The Lord shall count, when He writeth up the people. that this man was born there. Selah.” Let the world have its honors, and its riches, and its pomp. Let me have the Lord for my light, my e, my fortress, my pardon, my hope, my heaven. ‘What sinners value I resign; Lord! ’tis enongh that Thou art mine. 1 shall behold Thy blissful ace, And stand complete in righteousness. This world is all an empty show, But the bright world to which I go Hath joys sabstantial and sincere; ‘When shall I wake and find me there? © glorious hour! O blest atode! 1 shall be near and like my God, And sin and sense no more contro! The endless pleasures of my sonl But when I speak of tha Selah of emphasis I must notice itis a startling, a dramatic emphasis. 1t hasin it the Hark; the Hist of the drama. That wakening and arousing emphasis we who preach or instruct need to use more frequently. The sleepiest audiences in the world are religious audiences. You Sabbath-school teachers ought to have more of the dramatic elemoant in your instructions. By graphic Scripture scene, by anecdote, by descriptive gesture, by im- ersonation urge your classes to right action. We want in all our schools ani colleges and 1 prayer meetings, and in all our attempts at reform, and in all our churches to have less of tho style didactic and more of the style dramatic. ” Fifty essays about the sorrows of the poor could not affect me as a little drama of acci- dent and suffering I saw one slippery morn- ing in the streets of Philadelphia. Just ahead of me was a lad, wretched in apparel, his limb amputated at the knee; from the allor of the boy’s cheek the amputation not se before. He had a package of ‘broken food under his arm—food he had béggel, I supposed, at the doors. As he passed on over the slippery pavement cautiously and carefully, I steadied him until his crusch slipped and he fell. I helped him up as wall io could, gathered up the fragments of the package as well as I could, put them under one arm and the crutca under the other arm: but when I saw the blood run down his pale cheek I was completely overcome. Fifty essays about the suffering of the poor could not touch one like that little drama of accident and suffering. Oh, we want in all our different depart- ments of usefulness—and I address hundreds of people who are trying to do good—we want more of the dramatic element ani less of the didactic. = The tendency in this way is to drone religion, to moan religion, to croak. religion, to sepulchriza religion, when we ought#o present it in animated and spec- tacular manner. Sabbath morning by Sabbath morning 1 address many theological students who are preparing for the ministry. They come in hers from the different institutions. I say to them this morning: If vou will go home and look over the history of 'the church you will find that thosa men have brought most souls to Christ who have been dramatic—Rowland Hill, dramatic; Thomas Chalmers, dramatic; Thomas Guthrie, dramatic; John Knox, dramatic; Robert McCheyne, dramatic; Christmas Evans, dramatic; George White field, dramatic: Robert Hall, dramatic; Robert; South, dramatic; Fenelon, dramatic: | Jobn Mason, dramatic: Dr. Nott, dramatic. When you get into the ministry, if you at- tempt to culture that element and try to ‘wield it for God you will meet with mighty rebuff and caricature, and ecclesiastical heir child i i counsel will take your case in charge, and | Waterloo was seventy-three years in the SE Sencar TER moro thy wil iey ou fon owt BE £3 fe.” zens ilakmont of year ox it it EE ait pe om we great will be tne eternal rewards for the as. | ceeded those of oll men of recent times ex child, for by that time she might be grown. | siduous and the plucky. copt Henry Jenkins and ¢Old Parr,” two The her was almost frenzied at the | hat A is English worthies, the former of whom tof lea! i our serm 2 : : ; thought of leaving the child, and shen, is our prayers out of the old rut. I see a lived to be 169 years old and the latter ] + drew his | great deal of discussion in the religous pa- 152.—8t. Louis Republic. ; z er x Ter, "Before they lett tho 1a and I in my sphere, is ple donot want in their sermons flowers bought at the millinery shop, but of past agss, but the living reind last August at the edge of Soh prosaic, and the tedious, blood red earnestness, and the fire ‘of religs | ious zeal and > 2 ay I eternal scale, not ‘strength of wing to flutters and drops like a could 1 whether the oil flows, one can guard ‘What we want to-day, you in your sphere to freshen up. Peo- h sham the japonicas wet with the morning dew: nor the heavy bones of extinct oes inerion esr caught 0 eX roon lake. wagt to drive out She grows’; and the and the humdru and introduce the brightness and I veciny. and the holy sarcasm, and the sanctified wit, and the epigrammatic power, and the We zeal I do not knowof any way of doing it ag well as throuczh the dramatic. Attention! Behold! Hark! Selah! i Next I'speak of the Selah of perpetuity. The Targum, which is the Bible in Chaldée, anders this word of my text “forever.” Many writers agrse in believing ahd stating that one meaning of this word is’ *forever.” In this very verse from which I take my text Selah means not only postic significance and intermission and emphasis, but it means reverberation — forever! = Gods government forever, God's goodness for- ever, the gladness of the righteous for- ever. Of course you and I have not surveyor’s chain ' with enough links to measure that domain of meaning. In this world we must build everything on a small A hundred years are a great while. A tower five hundred feet is a great height. A journey of four thousand miles is very long. But eternity! It the archangel has i across it, but round there is no need of our trying in the smal shallow of human thought to voyage across it. A skeptie, desiring to show his contempt for the passing years and to show’ that he build enduringly, had his own sepulcher made of the finest and the hardest marble, and then he had put on the door the words, “For time and for eternity,” but it so happened that the seed of a tree somehow go into an unseen crevice of the marble, hat seed grew and enlarged until it became a tree and split the marble to pieces, There can be no eternalization of anything earthly. But forever! Will you and I live as long as tbat? We ave apt to think of the grave as the terminus. e are apt to think of the hearse asour last vehicle. We are apt to think of seventy or eighty or ninety years, and then a cessation. Instead of that we find tae marble slab of the tomb is only a milestone, marking the first mile, and that the great journey is be- yond, world to put on the sandals and to clasp our girdle and to pick up ourstaff, We take our first step from cradle to grave, and then we open the door and start—great God, whither? The clock strikes the passing away of time, but not the passing away of eternity. Meas- ureless, measureless! This Selah of perpet- uity makes earthly inequalities so insignifi- cant, the difference between scepter and needle, between Alhambra and hut, between chariot and cart, between throne and curb- stone, between Axminster and bare floor, between satin and sackcloth, very trivial. ‘This Selah of perpetuity makes our getting ready so important. - For such prolongation of travel what outfit of guidebooks, of pass- ports and of escort? Are we putting out on a desert, simoom swept and ghoul hunted, or into regions of sun lighted and spray sprinkled gardens? Will it bs Elysium or Gehenna? Onca started in that world, we cannot stop. The current is so swift that once in no oaf can resist it, no helm can steer out of it, no herculean or titanic arm can baffle it. Hark to the long resounding echo, ‘‘forever!” Ob, wake up to the inter- est of your deathless spirit! Strike out for heaven. Rouse ye, men and women for whom Jesus died, Selah! Selah! Forever] Forever! Spices. Considerable confusion exists = in the minds of many people as to the nature of spices. Most of these possess a slightly stimulating effect and are actual aids to digestion. Of the common spices nut- meg is probably the most used. It is a native of the Molucca or Spice Islands and grows directly under the equator. Mage is the inner coat that lines the hull of the nutmeg. The nutmeg in its coat of mace, with the outer hull surrounding it, is often displayed as a curiosity in New York spice shops. There are two kinds of nutmegs, the long, slender shape, which is the wild, and the round, which is the cultivated nut. The latter is more oily and much - better than the wild nutmeg. By scraping the side of a nutmeg with the finger and noticing agamst the worst fraud in this spice— the ‘‘soaked nutmeg.” Tiarge quantities of nutmeg and other spifes which are brought to market are soaked in water to relieve them of their -oil.. These are afterward sold, of course, ata low price, but they have lost their efficacy as a spice in losing their oil, and are little better than the celebrated wooden nutmegs. Always begin grating at the flower end of the nutmeg, instead of the stem. The clove grows all ever the tropical world and the clove of commerce 1s the unexpanded flower bud of the tree, and is the most fragrant of any part of it. Cinnamon spice is the inner bark of the cinnamon tree. It grows in China and Ceylon, aud is cultivated in the West Indies and South America. A greatdeal of the heavier outer bark and of the coarse barlwof’ the cassia tree is sold as cinnamon, The best cinnamon is hardly thicker than paper and is of rather light color. Allspice, unlike all other spices, is a berry. It is gathered while it is still green and dried in the sun. Jamaica allspice is among the best, It is of a mild flavor, and is not very much used in the cookery of to-day. The flower buds of the cassia tree are imported in considerable quantity annually,” and. are used chiefly in cooking for flavoring sweet pickles, to which they impart a delicate yet pleasant and distinctive flavor, different from cinnamon. Ginger, as everyone knows, is a root which grows all. over the tropical world, in Asia, Africa and America. White ginger i8 composed of the best parts of the ;root, from which the outer skin has been taken off. = The ground ginger of commerce is largely adulterated with tumerie, flour and various cheaper materials.—Detroif Free Press. o A French Patriarch. Adolph Zemeri, who died April 2, in the district of Guizot, France, was in possession of documentary evidence which proved that he was born in 1742! When old Zemeri first saw the light of day Washington was a lad of but ten tender years. Wellington was not born until twenty-seven years later, and We have only time enough in this | 2¢ “Nebuchadneszar’s Dream,” Danisl 1ii., 26-49—Golden Text: Heb; ive, 13, Comm entary. 86. “This is the dream, and we will tell ihe interpretation thereot betors the kine.” Daniel offered to show the king:both the dream and the interpretation if he would give him time. Then Daniel and’ his com: panions gave themsslves to prayer, and the secret was revealed nnto Dauiel in a night vision (verses 16-14; after which Daniel stands before the king, and giving all the credit to the God of heaven, he tells the dream and is now about to give the inter- pretation (verses 21-85). . Consider Joseph in a siailar way glority:ng Gol (Hen. xli, 2, 10). 2nd as to Sreanis see Gen, xx., “8ixxxi, 94; xxxvii.; 5, 8: xt. 5; I Ki iii, 5: Dan. 1v», 5; ‘vil. 1; Math, 1, 803 Bey 12, 19, 22, 87. “The God of heaven hath given thes "a kingdom, power eal strength and glory.” Not hy His own might had He obtained it, Lut God had given itto him. One of the greatest facts ot this book is that *'The Most Hi¢h 1uleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsocever He will” (chapter iv, 17, 25, 82), 'lhers is nothing good which we possess which God has not given to us (Jas, i.. 17; and His gifts are bestowed upon us that thereby we may glorify. Him. We are expected to glorify the God in whose hands our breath is and whose are all our ways (chapter v., 23), Sf 38. ‘*And bath made the Ruler over them all. Tpou art this head of gold,” We are reminded of the original dominien given to Adam (Gen. i., 28) wnereby he was to mag- nify God; but as he \failel, so all his chil- dren bave failed, and shall fail till He come, the King who shall reign in righteousness, the last Adam who shall subdue all things unto Himself and be Xing over all the earth (Isa, xxxil., 1; I Cor. xv., 45, 25; Zech. xiv., 9; Rev. x7, 15). we Si. “Ani after these shall ‘arise another, and another, which shall bear rale over ail the carth.” One great peculiarity of the kingdoms designated by the metals of this image is that they were to haves dominion over the known world, Their authority was 1o be world wide. ~The two world powers to succeed the Bab Tonian were, without a possibility of mistake, the Medo- Persian, and then the Grecian. ‘This the Spire plainly states in chapters v., 28; viii, © 2 4. y 49, “And ths fourth kingdom shall be ¢ sirong as iron, forasmuch as iron bresdketh in pieces and subdueth all.” It is equally chiar that the next world ide dominion alter the-Grecian was the Roman (Luke ii., 1), under whose. principles of government all nations may besaid to continue, There has been no world wide dominion by any empira since the Roman, nor will there bes till the stone kingdom of the Lord Jesus is sestablished on earth. ; 41, 42. “And whereas thou ‘sawest the feet and toes part of potter’s clay and part of iron. the kingdom shall be divided; partly strong and partly broken.” _ 'Taere will be power mixed up with that which is wholly of man; power in the hands of the people . having no internal stability, though some- thing is left of the strengih of the iron, (Lregelles,) : 43. “And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the.seed of men.”” This seems to refer to Gen. vi., 2, where the marriages of the seed ot the godly Seth with the daughters of ungodly Cain are described in similar words. The reference, therefore, seems to be to the Blending of the Christianized Roman empire with the pagan nations, a deterioration being the result. Charlemagne and Napoleon made an effort to reunite the parts into one great empire, but in vain Christ alone shall effect that. (Fausset.) 44. **And in the days of thesa kings shall the God of heaven set up & kingdom which. ‘shall never be destroyed.” ‘These kings" signify the final state of the Roman empire, represented by the ten toes. They cannot mean the four successional monarchies, as they do not coexist as the holders of power. It the fourth had been meant, the singular, | not the piural, would be used, The falling of ‘the stone on the image must mean de- stroying judgment on the fourth Gentile power, not graduai evangelization of it by grace, and the destroying judgmens cannot be dealt by Christians, for they are tauzht to submit to the powers that be, so thit it must be dealt by Christ Himself at His coming again. (Lregelles.) 45. **The great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter; and the dream is cerfain and the interpreta~ tion sure,” That Christ shall break in pieces the kingdoms of this worid when He returns in power and glory is unmistakably clear from such passages as Ps. ii, 8, 9; exlix, 5-0; Rev. ii., 26, 27; xi., 15-18; xix,, 11-15, His kingdom will end and supersede all the oticers, and shall nof, like the Babylonian,’ Medo-Persian and Grecian pass to others, but it shall stand forever, hat the king- dom which was at hand when he came in His humiliation was not then set up, but postponed till His return, is evident fron 1 Luke xix., 11, 12. The establishment of His kingdom is sure because it ig the work of the Lord of Hosts, who hath sworn, saying, surely as I have thought, so shall it come té pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand (Isa, xiv, 24), : 46. “Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell apen his face and worshiped Daniel,” That baniel would not {plerate this we concluds trom the conduct of Paul and Barnabas when in a certain place the people woul? have sacrificed unto them (Acts xiv., 15) And also from the conduct of the angel waif John fell at bis feet to worship him (Rev, xxii., 8, 9. 47. *“fhe king answered unto Danijel and said.” This seems to imply that Daniel pro tested against the king’s worshiping him, and ‘hence the king honors Daniel's God, saying, “Of a truth itis that your God is a God of gods, and a Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrete, seeing thou couldst reveal this se cret,” Thus the king glorified God in Daniel (Gal. i., 24). 'L'o reject all praise of self, and seek not honor from man, but earnestly de- sire that God in all things may be glorified, this is the only true Christian life (LL Cor, v., 15; John v., 44; I Pet, iv., 11. 48, “Then the king made Daniel a great man, and gave him many great gifts, and made him ruler.” Thisis all in an earthly and apparent sense. Daniel was already great in ths sight of God and had received great gifts from Him (chapter i., 17; Lukei., 15). But Daniel no doubt recognized the hand of God in this earthly promotion and would glorify Cod there as well as in a more lowiy position, : 49. **Daniel sat in the gate of the king.” He did not forget his faithiul friends, but ob- tained positions of honor for them also, bub Daniel was overall, Very suggestive is this remarkable story of a Jew thus exalted by a Gentile world power. —Lesson Helper. Ea 3 ‘ BE REAL WITNESSES. Can yon fix upon a time when you have spoken tc a neighbor upon the subject of re- ligion? Padse a moment. Can you fix upon a time when you have shown to your uncon- verted neighbor that you had a thought about his soul? There are young men in every com- munity who need a friendly hand laid on bring them back. of congregation ; but the h kind appeal given alone. boy, 1 fear you are making a mistake. and think.” could be gat this work. eled in this way. Laymen, do et it lie on vour hearts. y LESSON FOR SUNDAY, MAY 20. | -| Pésarra and Longstreet, all lengths apart. them fo bring them into the church of God —hundreds of young men who nexd a friendly hand and the voice of a layman to Do it when alone with them. They may resist it in a public. place eart responds to a “John, my dear Stop Brethren, hundreds of sheaves Keep it in yourminds. Speak to him alone. The hand of friendship laid on the shoulder of a young man will:soften the way to his ‘heart for a friendly word. Take it to your hearts | and do it.—[Bishop Foster. That astute trainer, Green B. Morris, won the rich Brooklyn handicap at the Graves end track with his good horse, Judge Mor- row, who had behind him when the win- ning post was passed some of the best handi- cap horses in the country. : : | A more beautiful day for the running of the great Brooklyn handicap and the open- second division, half lapped by Raceland, Judge Morrow was right at their heels, the mile Russell had overhauled and Fairview who died as suddenly as he had one to the front, and Pesarra had passec -Raceland and Longstreet. At this point Judge Morrow Legan to make his move and McLaughlin endeavored to doso with the favorite, Longstreet, but failed, ands cry went up that the favorite was beaten. “A TERRIFIC STRUGGLE, Turning into the stretch Russell was lead ing by a length. Judge Morrow was second. lapped by Pesarra and Raceland. At the last furlong post Russell still had. his head in front of Judge Morrow, but the Morris horse was running well within himself, while Russell was laboring hard Te: ceiving punishment. . In the final sixteenth Russell gave it up, and it looked like “an easy victory for Judge Morrow. He was fated, however, not to win Without a terrify struggle, for Taral on Pesarra shot hi mount upon him almost at a bound. Then began a terrific struggle to the wire, during which the crowd satspellbound. Both the jockeys and the horses strained every nerves and it was’ uncertain which horse would ‘wir; so evenly did they appear to be matched at this exciting point in the race. But Pesarra’s wonderful burst of speed told on him, and just before the wire was reach- ed Judge Morrow's head showed in front and passed under the wire. Russell finished third, three lengths away, while Longstreet, the favorite, finished absolutely last. A. Covington, the clever little light-weight jockey, rode the winner in mas erly style. The fractional time of the race was as fol- lows: First quarter, 23 seconds; half, 47%; three-quarters, 1:14; mile, 1:42}, and mile and a quarter, 2:08%. ; Judge Morrow, the apple of Green B. Morris’ ey», isa five-year-old bay hor-e by Vagabond-Moonlight. He took “part in 28 races last year, and was first past the posi | eight times. His best record for the handi- cap distance is 2:08 4-5. Fhe other races resulted as follows: = First race,§ mile—Correction first, Bellevue sec-- ond, Dalsyrian third; time, 1:03. Second race, one mille—Coxswain first, Two Bits second, Actor third; time, 1:45%, Third race, 1 mile—Bettle first, Lidgerwond second, “Taura Gould third; time, 50%. Fifth race, 3 mile—Bonnie Lee first, Merriment second, Moderator third; time, 50+. Sixth race, mile—Bengal first, Rosa H second, Captain Brown third; time, 1:15. ¥ The races at Louisville resulted as follows. First race; 1 mile—Palmetto first, Powers second. Eugenie third; time 1.47. Second race, 5 furlongs—Goodwood first, Interior second, Edith Belmont third; time 1.06. Ti.ird race, the K entucky Oaks; 13 miles— Miss Dixie first, Unadilla second, Green. witch third; time 2.143. Fourth race, 7 fur- Jongs—Borealis first, Foxhall second, Hope- ful third; time 1.32, Fifth race. 1 mile and 20) yards—Ida Pickwick ‘first, Kincsem second, Ed shelby third; time, 1.47. Sixth race, 7 furlongs—Vashti first, Fakir second, Modjeska third; time, 1.32 Heavy Snowfall in May. Mixnearors, May 21—Snow began falling her E Advices from North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin and Min- ° nesota all report a heavy snow. At Pine City a blizzard has prevailed all day. Chip- pewa Falls reports a snow storm has been raging forthe pasteight hours. There was a blinding snowstorm in the southern, cen- tral and northwestern parts of Wisconsin this afternoon and gvehing. The storm approached to almost'a blizzard at Portage, and sleet and heavy snow fell ‘at Durand, Pepin and New Richmond. A correspon- dent at Humbolt, Wis., telegraphs: “The " heaviest snowstorm of the season began here at 2:30 this afternoon, and still continues.” KEENE, N. H., May 21—The ground here this morning was covered by an inch of snow. At Dublin three inches fell, and at Chesterfield six. MONTPELIER, VT.—Half an inch ' of snow fell here and in this vicinity. HANOVER, N. H. n this avanin C valid SVEDIDng. .—Tive inches of snow has fallen and the storm is still raging, with no sign of abatement. The temperature is not low enough to injure fruit, but many trees will bebroken Ly the accumulation of snow. FrrcaBure, Mass.—Thursday night was very cold here, the temperature dropping nearly to the freezing point, and early this morning there was a preceptible snowfall on the hilltops throughout this region. 2 FOUR WOMEN MURDERED, A Mysterious Assassin in Denison, : Texas, Slays Them. = Dexison, Tex., May 19.—Last night was a night of horror in Denison. An unknown assassin brutally killed four women, two of them the leading ladies of the city, and two members of the disreputable class. The victim was Mrs. Haynes, wife of a promi- nent doctor, who was assassinated either while alone in her home or else was forcibly taken from the same, and put to death near the house. A few hours later, in .the very heart of the city, Teen Hawley, a beautiful young woman, was shot and killed by some in a different part of the city two women, inmates of disreputable houses, were laid low by bullets of an assassin. The assassin fired through a window, of the residence of Mrs. Rivers, killing Maud Kramer, an in- mate, He then crossed the street to Lester's place, and in a similar manner shot and mortally wounded Rose Stewart as she was getting into bed. : All business is suspended and thousands of armed men are hunting for the crimi- nal. ' 3 1 ‘Three Negroes Lynched. ATLANTA, GA., May 18—At Clarksville this morning a mob of 200 men broke into jail and took therefrom three negroes charged with/the murder of Night Policeman Carte at Toccoa last week and hanged them all on There will be 900 delegates at the National Republican Convention which: meets at Minneapolison the 7th of next month. Conventions have been held in all the States and districts, Montana closing the list Mon- Jay. The result as to the Presidential can- didates is shown in the following table : : unknown person, At almost-the same hour | ing of the racing season in New York, could E a g : 2 gd not have been had, were such things granted 18 } eat > E forthe asking. The sun shown bright and 28128 § 5 iS warm, and a pleasant land breeze from the STATES ] £2 og Eig : west swept over the course, imparting a de T ad, : = 2 al: ; a lightful freshness to the = atmosphere. At oA ZA Pigs 9 o'clock the grounds were full to over: : : = : : ee flowing. It is hard to estimate the number a RB Et op present. - There were certainly 30,000 people Alabama... adel bs at the track and they filled the grand stand, | Alaska Terrjicry. he pe lawn and betting ring to overflowing. Arjona Tefritory..«. rade 2 There was quite a long delay at the post, TEANSAS poses vanes seaelresi fueron, but the ha were finally sent away with California’. venereal 2 E16 ir 0 Longstreet in the lead. After him came Colorado. ..svensennasfereels i iri. | Fairview, Pesarra, Raceland, Clarendon Connecticut a 5 ceailmanntii.. Banquet, Judge Morrow, Rtissel, Port Dist. of Columbia.... Zhoreoplines Chester, Madstone, Kingmaker) and George Delaware srernens evel Sle seasloves W in the order named, but well bunched.” | Florida ....... Cesees if 5 [tes oessfaraefuive Passing the stand Fairview ‘was leading Georgia... 26 Loos fovuatnagivi, by five lengths and was going ata tremend: {Idaho ........q. “es evil. ous clip with the evident tention of mak: Illinois ..... criipeses ing a runaway race of it. At the half mile Indiana..... = post he was ten lengths ahead and his back. ers were jubilant. Russell headed the Mississippl..cesceses Missouri .... Montana. oooh ceanalesasfes Nebraska...c... seans Nevada vas rixee New Hampshire New Jersev........ wan New Mexico Ter New York...... sudan North Carolina North Dakota Ohio ‘ “aage vases Pennsylvania ........ Rhode Island South Caroling....... South Dakota........ Tennessee. ... Texas Utah Territory. . Vermont...... ens Virginif.. case Washingto West Virginia Wisconsin cs. a Bed Bons > oe . . ta ow: t's HC 398 a1 8 136 & TO DISPLAY AT THE List of FAIR. Have Decided to Exhibit. The following table shows the foreign nations and colonies which thus far have determined to participate in the Exposition, and the amounts of their appropriations, made or officially proposed, so far as infor- mation concerning them has been received at headquarters: 2 Thirty States and two Territories have! : ‘made appropriations for their representation at the Exposition, as follows : : 2 Arizona......$ 30,000 New Hamps'e $ 23.000 California .... 300,000 New Jersey ... 70,000 Colorado. ..... 100,000/New Mexico.. £5,000 Michigan. ..... 100,000 West Virginia. 40,000 Minnesota... i 000 ‘Wisconsin.... g 3 Ga g Missouri... , Wyoming..... 30,000 Montana .. 50,000 rn Nebraska ..... 50,0000 Total..... $2,410,000 Nine States, which, owing to constitution- al restriction or other prohibitive reason, made no World's Fair appropriation, have held State conventions and formed organi- zations of the stock subscription sort for raising the amounts deemed necessary for - creditable representation. What Flouring Mills Are Doing. The Northwestern Miller says: The group “of mills which were shut down the first part - of last week did not do as much on closing by half as was expected, and the total out put showed a proportinate decrease. The || aggregate production for the week was 149,- 800 barrels averaging 24431 barrels daily, agains 178,050 the previous week: 141,750 740 barrels in 1890, Four of the five mills referred to also, given as being idle last week, have started again, and on Wednes- day 18 were in motion, producing at the rate of about 80,000 barrels per 24 hours. The flour market for a week back has been far from active. STRUCK THE WRONG GIRL, A Minister's Daughter Leaps Into Fame by Killing a Notorious Outlaw, _ Seventeen miles below Fayetteville, N. C,, Albert Gilmore, a notorious outlaw from South Carolina, entered the house of the Rey. William Brunt yesterday, and finding no one but Miss Brunt there, forced her to prepare dinner for him at the point of a pistol. After eating heartily, with an oath he leaped out of the window. Miss Brunt grabbed a gun and fired 13 buckshot, strik- ing Gilmore, from which he died in. a few minutes. A reward of ‘$300 was out for ero of the hour, I ——— I ———————— - American Pork Eatable Everywhere, WasnixeToN, May 21.—The = Cabinet meeting to-day was attended by all of the members except Secretary Noble. It was announced that the Spanish Government ‘had raised the embargo against American’ “one limb of a large oak tree. ~The negroes all protested innocence. ] : ports of the world. aw pork. Our porki§ now admitted at all To the Nations and Colonies Which 2 Argentine Re- Guatemala ....$120,000 public...... $100,000 Haiti.>........ 25,000 Austria........ 149,100/Hondaras:.... 20,000 Belgium...... 57,9001 Jamaica :..... 23,000 Bermuda. 5,000/Japan.......... 830,763 Bolivia 20,700/ Mexico, .......50,000 Brazil . 600,000) News’th Wales 150,000 Bulgaria. ..... 60.000 New Zealand.. 25.500 arbadoes:... 6,000 Netherlands... 15.000 British Guiana 25,000 Nicaragua 30,000 Brit. Honduras 7,500 Norway ....... 56,280 a... 05 ,0000range Free : Cape Colony... 50,000] State..c..... 7,500 lon.....« as ,500 Paraguay 100,000 Chile iy. iui. 100,000 Pern.... .... .. 140,000 Colombia ..... 100,000, 8alvador...... 12,000 Costa Rica. ... 150,000 Sweden , .. 53,600 Cuba iv. oi 25,000 Tasmania . 10,000 Denmark ..... 67,000 Trinidad...... 15,000 uador :....+ 125,000 UTURYAY arent 24.000 France ........ 675,500 Victoria ...... 100,000 Germany... ... 690,200] me mi Great Britain.. 300,000/ Total..... $5,249,045 TEECe. onan 00,000! Delaware...... 10,000/New York.... 300,000 Idaho......... 20,000 North Carol’a. 25,000 Illinois........ 800,000 North Dakota. 25.000 Indiana....... 75,000:0hi0 ....... vee 125,000 OWA Jl vi. 130,000: Pennsylvania. 800,000 ° Kentueky..... 100,000{Rhode Island.. 25,000 Maine .......q 40,000 Vermont ...... 15,000 Maryland..... 60,000 Virginia...... 25,000 * Massachusetts. 150,000, Washington ... 100,000 for the corresponding time in 1891, and 129, Gilmore, to which Migs Brunt becomes en- | titled, and she is the f 3 { Bree his team 0! Ringling ed near At were killed Nelson an old fish drowned ir Monday. riverand h and carrie ‘Woodward boat below but their b dashed to | By the ec place, Mer ed, four yw drowned. A destru western pa Wednesda trees were ously injur 1y destroye: One man, a named Cha named Jan An engin Zanesville, engineer. s fatally injt The fact company, } ~ people wer Sibley, pa; Tregunza a Two bodies © Capi At a mee tate last w or 60 days, numbering 1eason give ~ duction an One-of ti New Engla now in full trade, All their work mainly be consent to. 8 ployer and January 1, been the ct ~ places the: at 120,000. Quincy, M Mass.; Con ville, Clark Vi.; Weste The buil | completely granite wo timated th work. About 1! to help the "Philadel ~ against ha New Engle Two hur Philadelpl two-thirds “with the d . 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