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Seemed voiced in the simple sfrafn™
{That filled the air with such sweetness
As the fields have, after rain,
‘His weary and toil- worn neigh
Heard, and was glad to hear, =
iit AAA.
And the music and its gladness
Brought a blessing, unaware.
We may all be singers, my brothers,
Of songs to help and cheer,
The strain may not be lofty;
There may be few to hear,
But into some life the music
Of the song we sing may fall,
Brave with its faith in the goodness
Of the God who is over all
Let the joy of our lives run over
' Ourlips in a cheerful song,
‘And the world may have more of sunshine;
-And the faint of heart grow strong:
Sing, for the joy of singing,
«And sing your cares away; .
And share with others the gladnéss
‘That comes to you, day by day.
Eben E, Rexford, in Detroit Free Press, °
A GHOST'S MARRIAGE.
to the front seat.
. , Here he found a good looking fellow
of his own age, and straightway the two
became great friends. At the end of an
‘hour they began exchanging confidences,
after the manner of youth.
The scion of noble stock was om his
way to Paris, to buy an officer’s brevet,
£0 88 to serve his country, as his ances-
tors had done before him; the other,who
was the son of a rich tradesman, was also
bound for Paris, for the purpose, how-
ever, of marrying an heiress, the daugh-
ter of zn old friend of his father.
' 443% is an even thing!” cried the young
baron laughingly. ‘A mere money mat-
‘ter for ‘each of us.
Cupid has no more concern in
iness than in mine!” :
“Thdre you mistake,” returned the
“I have never seen Sylvia, but
fell in love with her, once and forever,
the first time I laid eyes upon her por-
trait. Judge for yourself.’
He opened a tortoise shell case and
Baint-Andre exclaimed admiringly:
4+What an angel! Indeed, my dear
fellow, you are very fortunate to have
that charming, dainty creature picked
“T do not complain,’
greom-elect, ‘and now I am going to
slesp, if this miserable, jolting concern
I am expected to break
{esi at my future father-in-law’s as soon
as I reach Paris, and as I shall then be
presented to my betrothed, I
look as well as possible.”
At the end of three
nights the heavy stage-coach lumbered
into the metropolis, and the fwo travelers
went to the nearest hotel and engaged
two rooms, intendin,
; had just thrown
himself upon the bed, when he heard
deep groans in the next room, and on
rushing in, found his late companion
rolling on the floor in agonies of pain,
“The servants were summonéd,a physician
was brought in, and the latter declared
that the patient was suffering {rom acute
colic, which had probably. been con-
tracted before.he left home and had been
aggravated by the fatigue of the journey.
He pronounced the malady a very serious
one, and so it proved, for, in spite of
youth expired at the end
Saint-Andre was overwhelmed by the
catastrophe, and when he found that be
could do nothing more for his friend, he
.atood gazing sadly at the lifeless clay
which lay on the narrow bed in tho bare
Poor fellow! Bo young,
gay, looking forward to a bright fu-
tire, and now snatched away .without
warning! ‘What would the fi
elect say when she heard of this tragedy?
Saint-Andre dreaded the bearing of
the sad news to the family, but there
was no one else to perform the errand; |
and so he set off, carrying with him the
dead youth’s satchel. / :
‘When he reached th
the front door flew open, and two foot-
men in livery came to meet him.
relieved him of his satchel, the other
took his hat and cloak, and a voice was
heard exclaiming joyfully:
«Monsieur, here 18 your son-
cried a little, fat,
white-haired man, rushing into the hall,
“i]ot me embrace you)? and he clasped
the new-comer rapturously to his heart.
As soon as ‘he could get his breath
Saint-Andre said, hurriedly:
sPardon me, sir, but— :
+4] pardon you for being late,” inter.
shook; it 18 twelve
e stately mansion,
rupted ‘the other. ita
o'clock, and breakfast is’ growing c
Lome in and see my daughter.
little puss has been watching the clock
for hours, and 13 all impatience to meet
the young man into the
broakfast-room as he spoke, and with-
an instant added, ‘My wife,
Aunt Dolarice, here is the
fon-jliw at last; Bylvia, my child, bid
welcome—" ' j ;
mn beg on, gir,” cried ‘Saint.
Andre, but again his host interrupted
me you wish to draw back
at the last moment, my dear fellow!
Everything has been arranged
‘esteemed friend, your father,
' have any obiection to urge.
be mers. Bit by me, son-in-law, sad
ve me your opinion of this pigeon-
ne,"
visitor was young snd very hun.
gry, having fasted since Sidaight, The
shock of his companion's sudden death
had unnerved him somewhat, and so, for
the time being, he yielded to the force
of circumstances.
¢‘Come what will,” he said to him.
self, a Sunes i deg oo a gS ampang
upon the joy of ; al
least, not until they Navehad their prok:
fast. 5 4
‘He joined therefore in the general
merriment, smiled sweetly upon blushing
Bylvia, the bride-elect, and replied un-
hesitatiogly to his supposed future father.
in-law’s inquiries. : Ee
§ ‘How is your Aunt Armande, my |-
son?” agked the old man, suddenly. *¢¢
remember her'a charming young woman
when I was twenty, I came near falling
in love with her! We must keep in her
goed graces, for she will leave a snug
4 little fortune to her nephew.”
#‘Dear Aunt!” exclaimed the youth, in
4 tone of deep affection, ‘I hope she
will enjoy life for many, many years
longer,” and his prous wish was reward-
ed with a tender glance from Sylvia's
dark eyes. Aunt Dolarice also listened
to him with delight. :
‘He has the instincts, as well as the
bearing, of a born gentleman,” she whis-
pered to her brother, ‘‘Who would think
that his ancestors had always sold cinna-
mon and nutmegs!” :
Uncle Dorival, who read cyclopedias |
and was thought very learned, retorted
quickly: ib std
i And why should he not have as fine
sentiments as a nobleman? Away with
your abs tions, sister! All men are
equall” =. he
_ The clock struck two, and Saint-Andre
suddenly felt a pang of remorse for the
part he was playing, as he recollected
that he had to arrange for his friend's
burial and would be expected at the
hotel. He therefore rose from the table,
and announcing that he had important
business to attend to, prepared to leave.
His host protested in vain, Sylvia looked
up in blank amazement, and every one
eéntreated him to’ femain, ;
“I do not understand,” began the old
‘man, following his visitor to the front
door. The young man interrupted him,
saymng solemnly:
«I will explain. At eleven o'clock
this morning I died, after a short and
sudden attack of colic, and I gave the ho-
tel proprietor my word of honor that my
body should be removed this afternoon.
You see, therefore, that if I were to ab-
sent myself any longer it would be very |
awkward.” With these words he dis-
appeared, leaving the old father over-
whelmed with amazement.
When the rest of: the family heard
what had been said, they decided that
the youth was joking.
i g
¢He has humor,” said Uncle Dorival.
« shall congratulute him the next time
Isee him. He will be here in time for
supper,” = !
But supper time came and passed, and
there: was no signs of the son-in-law.
The family became anxious and alarmed,
and toward 8 o'clock they sent a mes-
senger to the hotel to inquiry for the
passenger who had arrived there by
coach that morning. The proprietor
sent back word that the gentle.
man named had died at 11 o'clock
of colic, and that the body had
been taken away for burial in the affer-
noon. This news was received with un-
bounded astonishment, and little Sylvia
burst into tears as she declared that she
would wear mourning as if she were a
widow. Go :
‘It was his ghost that came here,”
said the girl's mother ina tone of awe,
but Uncle Dorival shrugged his shoul-
ders. : ¥
“Do ghosts eat and drink‘as he did$”
he asked. ‘That fellow was merely
sonfe young seapegrace, who wanted to
play a trick on us, and get a good meal
at the same time." Nevertheless, the
ghost story went the round of the ser-
vant's-hall, and the footmen boasted of
having Seen a spirit in broad daylight.
‘The tale
ject of wonder in boudoirs and drawing-
rooms, and the fair young widow who
bad never been married wore a blatk
gown and veil, and shed passionate tears
for the affianced husband whom she had
seen but once.
pread, until it became a sub-
Two weeks later, she was wandering
about the garden one evening, listening
sadly to the songs of the nightingales.
The stars were shining brilliantly, but
the sight of their beauty only served to
increase her Sorrow.
Alas!” ghe mghed, *‘if he were but
here to stroll with me: along these path.
ways!”
As she spoke a cracking of boughs
near her made her start with terror, and
in another instant a man broke through
the flowering shrubs and knelt at her feet.
The stars were shining to some purpose
then, for by their light she recognized
the face for which she had been longing,
and, in a voice which betokened mingled
joy and dread, she cried:
“Then you are not dead?" :
No, indeed, sweetheart,” he answered
softly, “I am alive, and I hope to live
and love you for many.g long day yet.”
‘When the two young people entered.
the drawing-room the family were play-
ing backgammon. A look of amazement
greeted the appearance of Saint-Andre,
and every one. being dumbfounded the
young baron had no difficulty in telling
‘his story, which he concluded by asking
for Bylvia’s hand.
The marriage took place as soon as the
‘proper period of mourning had elapsed,
and Aunt Dolarice was triamphant,
¢Did I not tell. you he had the bear-
ing of a nobleman?” she cried. .
StAll's well that ends well, and a
baron ia as good as a grocer,” said Uncle
Donval.—From the French, in Ro-
Sixty-two boys have committed suicide
in Berlin, Germany, during the just
fourteen months.” Of these Beg our
were under fifteen and one bad not
reached the age of seven, rrbm Bu
x
A steel rail lasts, with average wear,
A cremated body leaves a residuum of
only eight ounces on an gverage.
‘German scientists are now making a1
explosive equal fo dynamite out of com
mon jute, :
: A London firm finds a windmill thi
most economical means of securing thy
motive power necessary to run a dynamo,
Fatigue caused by brainwork, says an
Italian scientist, acts as a poison, whick
affects all the organs, especially the mus
cular system. >
Recent experiments in France on thi
velocity of propagation of electric waves
give a mean velocity which is almost
exactly that of light.
: Hard ‘water contains too much lime:
stone, and that causes bread baked with
it to soon dry out. If you use soft wate:
to mix the dough you get a much better
article of bread, and one that will retaig
its freshness. :
« - Dr. Lauder Brunton declares that col
water is a valuable stimulant to many if
not all people. His own experience is
that sipping Ralf a wineplass of cold
water will raise his pulse from seventy-
six to over 100.
In distance the moon is 240,000 miles
away from our earth, around which she
gravitates like a satellite. Her diameter
is about 2153 miles; she has a solid sur-
face of 14,600,000 miles, and a solid con-
tent of about 10,000 of cubic miles.
A German engineer concludes that if
the speed instead of the load of freight
trains be increased from fourteen to
twenty-eight miles per hour the expenses
car mile at the higher speed would
one-fourth less for repairs and only
one-fifth more for fuel.
It is reported from England that a form
of ball-bearing has been applied to the
spindles of textile machinery, and by its
use the high relative s have become
possible. From 8000 revolutions per
minute is the speed nsually obtained, and
1t is claimed that speed as high as 16,000
can be reached. : ;
On the subject of the swaying of lofty
chimneys it is declared to be absurd to
hold that a chimney, say 400 feet hign,
would sway sixteen inghes. The slightest
vibration is felt when on a tall chimney,
and one inch and a balf is thought to be
about’ the extreme amount of swaying
that takes place.
The deep-sea explorations that have
been conducted by the Austrian Govern-
ment in the eastern part of the Mediter-
ranean show greater depths than any be-
fore recorded, and as a result the great
depression of this sea must be shifted
considerably east from its former central
position on the maps.
In sawmills using pneumatic pipes for
taking away the sawdust it is found that |
the back of the saw usually throws up a
good deal of fine dust in spite of the air
suction. This difficulty has now been
overcome in many instances by an inven.
“tion for admitting air in the saw hopper
in such a way as to cause-it to impinge
on the sides and teeth of the saw and
thus give if an air-blast washing.
If a man weighing 168 pounds were te
be transferred to the moon, the weight
of his body, measured, at least, by the
attraction which the moon would exercise
upon it, would be reduced to about
twenty-eight pounds. If his muscles and
‘hig frame remained the same it would
seem as if he would be able to jump over
a wall twelve feet high on the small
globe without any greater exertion than
would be ae oo clear a wall two
feet high on the earth.
IRIE SO apne,
Made His Blood Run Cold.
¢I've been in many tight quarters,”
said a well-known rounder the other
evening, ‘*but I never was scared but
once. Of course don’t mean to say that
I have not been frightened a littie at
times, but I have been scared-—thor:
oughly scared—just once. At the time
I was paralyzed by fright. I could not
have moved a muscle or have uttered a
| word to save my life. A few years age
1 went over to the grounds of the Chi:
cago Driving Park Association—now
Garfield Park-——one Sunday afternoon to
look at some horses stabled there. My
only companion was my four-year-old lit.
tle girl. At the park I met Phil Gilman,
the trainer for R. C. Pate, of St. Lows.
Gilman showed me the horses he was
handling; and at last took me over to see
Conkling, a man eating stallion that was
one of the most vicious animals I ever
saw. No one dared to enter his stall;
personally I would about as soon have
attempted to repeat Daniel’s lion-taming
experience as to have been forced into
close quasters with that stallion. I was
busily discussing turf matters with Gil:
man when I saw him suddenly grow pale,
gasp for breath and lean against a post
for support, Instantly I turned toward
Conkling’s stall. My little one had
-orawled under the bars and entered the
stall and when my eyes first beheld het:
she was patting the man-eater’s nose and
saying ‘P’itty horsey, pitty horsey,”
while the stallion was licking ‘her face
and rubbing his nose ggainst her,
If any man had offered the universe
if I would ask for it I cpuld not have |g
uttered a word. At the end of a half
minute, which seemed an age, the child
toddled back to the bars, crawled under
them and ran up to me. The next thing
1 remember was Gilman's throwing cold
water in my face.”—Chicago Mail.
I TH at,
A Bonguet of Irom. s
A curious, present recently given to
Prince Bismarck is a gigantic bouquet of
. flowers almost three feet in height. But
they were mgt real flowers with the per-
fume of the Zande and field upon them;
the thousands of little leaves aud blos-
soms, sprays and .were made of
the finest sheet iron, as fine and thin as
letter paper. It had been rolled in the
Bismarck Foundry in Upper Silesia and
formed into flower leaves and garlands
in the factory of Christian Jauck in Bres:
lau. Not one unnatural line disturbs
‘the eye; oak leaves and laurel branches,
the roses, pinks and all are as natural as
you please.—New York Dispatch, .
a ii. iii.
THE GLORIOUS MARCHE TO ZION.
The ' Sunday Sermon
the Eminent Brooklyn Divine.
—————
Texr: “Fair as the'moon, clear as the
sun and terrible as awn army with ban-
ners.”—Solomon's Bong vi., 10.
g to it. :
: ere are those who say that the church
of God isnot up to the spirit of the day in.
which we live; butd have to tell you.
notwith i
all the swift wh and the
ns,
Perrys and the Livingstones. She has owned
the best of the jars,
and while infidelity and atheism
ve
blindfolded among the most startling
dis-
coveries that were about to be developed the
edrth, and the air, and the sea have made
Christain
quick and magnificent responses to
The world will not be up to the Church of
Christ until the day when all merchan-
dise has become : honest rchandise,
k open by Ilion
voiced shout of nations born in a day. The
church that Nebuchadnezzar tried to burn
in the furnace, and Darius to tear to pieces
with the lions, and Lord Claverhouse to cut
with the sword, has e on, wading the
floods and enduring fire, until the deep-
est barbarism, and the fiercest cruelties,
and’ the blackest superstitions have been
sompell 3 ie east, ory! “Who
is she that looketh forth as the JROrning,
fair d
ed to look to the east,
as the moon, clear as the sun an
ble as an army with banners?’
‘Yet there are e who dare ashamed to
‘belong to the ch of Christ, and if you
ask them whether they are in such associa-
tions they say, '‘Yes, I sometimes attend
the church,” instead of realizing the fact
that there is no honor compared with the
honor of being a member of the church of
Bod. I look back with joy to the most
honored moment of my life, when in the old
house the
pountry of
Ohsise announced my name as a follower of
You who are floating about ‘in the world,
ing for better associations, why do you
not yourself to some of the churches?
An old sea captain was riding in the cars
toward Philadelphia, and a young man sat
down beside him. He said, ‘Young man,
where are you going?’ “I am going to Pnila-
delphis to live,” replied the
“Have
the y man,
you Jesters of intfoducticn * asked
the old captain. es,” said the young man,
and he pulled some of them out.
said the eld sea captain, ‘‘Haven't you a
I
oung man; you woul
Tot at that.” Yes” said the sea
captain, *‘I want to see that. As soon as you
geo to Philadelphia present it to some Chris-
n church, 1am an old sailor, and I have
been up and down in the world, and it's my
ca)
church certificate?’
rule as soon 8s 1 get into
port to fasten my
ship: fore and aft 10 the wharf, although it
may ost a little wharfage, rather than have
my shipout in the stream floating hither and
$Bithe with the tide.” i
h, men and women, by the tides of friv.
olity and worldliness swept this way and
swept that way, seeking for associations and
for satisfactions for the immortal soul, come
ast
into the church of Jesus Christ.
f
to her. She is the pillar and the nd of
truth. I propose to speak of the o2told
glory of the church as it is described in the
/ First—"Fair as the moon.” God, who
has determined” that everything shall be
beautiful in its season, has not left the night
without charm, The moon rules the night.
The stars are only set as gems in her tiara.
Sometimes, béfore the sun has gone down,
the moon mounts her throne, but itis after
nightfall that she sways her undisputed
sceptre over island and continegt, river and
sea. Under her shining
great tidegcome up ting upon the
ingling, TR re fo and fire
ngling, 2
Under the witchery of the moon the awfu
steeps lose their ruggedness and the chasms
i . ~ The poor man blesses God foi
throwing so cheap a light through the broker
window pane of his cabin, and to the siek i
seems like a light from the other shore thal
their terror. = Th
bounds this great deep of human pain
If the sun
ang
wae, be like a song, full and lou¢
and poured forth from brazen instrument
that fill heaven and earth with harmony
the moon is plaintive and sad, standing bee
neath the throne of God, sendin,
: g up her soft,
sweet voice of while the stars listen
and the seal No mother ever more jovingly
er
Waiched a sick cradle than this pale watc!
of he sky bends aver the weary, Beartsiok,
umberin g earth, glog to it a silv
mule while it is in the cradle of thio
spheres.
Now, says my text, "Who is she, fair as
the moon?" Our answer is the church,
Like the moon, she is a borrowed light. She
athers up the glory of a Savi s suffer-
gs, a SBaviour’s death, a Saviour’s resurrec-
Hone Saviour's asoansfon, and pours tat
on palace an ungeon, on squali
eathenism and elaborate pido on
widow's tears and martyr’s robe of flame, on
weeping penitence and loud mouthed scorn.
Si the only institution to-day that
‘gives any light to our world. Into her por-
tals the poor come and get she sympathy of
a once pillowless Ci th e bereaved come
and see the bottle in which God saves all our
tears, and the captives come, and on the
sharp corners of her altars dash off their
‘chaing, and the thirsty come and put their
cup under the “Rock of Ages,” which pours
orth from its smitten side living water,
sparkling water, crystalline water from
ander the throne of God and the Lamb.
Blessed the bell that calls her worshi to
prayer. Blessed the water in which her
members are baptized. Blessed be the wine
that glows in her sacramental cups. Blessed
the songs on which her devotions travel up
and the angels of God travel d
own,
As toe moon goes through the midst of the
roaring storm clouds unflushed and un-
aarmed, and comes out calm and beautiful
on the other side, so the church of God nas
gone through all the storms of this world’s
persecution and come out uninjured, no
worse for the fact that Robespierre cursed
it, and Voltaire caricatured it, and Tom
Paine sneered at it, and all the forcesof
derkness have bombarded it. Not like some
baleful comet shoo £ across the sky,
scat! terror and dismay a
nations, but above the long Bowling Sighs
edness the Ch
of the world's wretch
church has made her mild way, ‘Fair as
the moon.”
I take a step further in my subject—
. oar 8s the sun.” After a season of storm
or fog, how youare thrilled when the sun
comes out at noonday! The mists travel up
bill a , mountain above mountain,
until they are sky lost, he forests are’ full
of chirp and buzz and song; honey makers
i
Gd
as Delivered by
© est maple
leaves become shivering silver, the lakes
from shore to shore look like shining mir-
“rors, and the ocean, under her glance, wis
C
the gneen’s coronet and sewing girl's needl
“Let there be light.”
Now, says my text, “Who is she that
looketh forth clear as the sun!’ Our answess
is, the church. You have been going along ;
eo
a road before daybreak, and on one
you thought you saw a lion, and on the
other side you thought you saw a goblin of
the darkness, but when the sun came out
you found thess were harmless apparitions,
And it is the great mission of the church of
Jesus Christ to come forth “clear as the
sun,” to illumine all earthly darkness, to ex-
n, as far as possible, all m ry, and to
glatny the world radiant in Te brightness;
and that which you thought was an aroused
lion is found out to be a slumbering lamb;
and the sepulchral gates of your dead tury
out to be the opening gates of heaven; and
that which you supposed was a
sword to keep you out of paradiseis an
of light to beckon you in. 5
The lamps on her altars will cast their
glow on your darkest pathway and cheer
ou until, far beyond the need of lantern or
ighthouse, you are safely anchored within
the veil. Oh, sun of the church, shine on
until there is no sorrow to soothe, no tears to
wipe away, no shackles to break, no more
souls to be redeemed! Ten thousand hands
of sin have attempted to extinguish the
lamps on her altars, but they are quenchless,
and to silence her pulpits, but the thunder
do me would flame.
The church of God will yet come to full
meridian, and in that day all the mountains
of the world will -be sacred mountair
touched with the glory of Calvary, and all
streams will flow by the mount of tod like
ands of the sea be crowned with tic
8 5
, vision like Patmos, and all cities
Jerusalem, and all gardens 1
as Jer!
iataitise, with God walking in the ' cool
day. Then the shorals Tae
‘drown out all the ‘anthems
of earthly mystery hie th
het Ry ystery ng themselves to
the sun!”
Clear as the sun! Clear as
1 Further, “Terrible as an army with ban-
ners.” Take one more in this sub
andsay that if you a ced for Theda,
fenso of a fesble town, and a great army
were seen coming over the hills with flying
ensigns, then you would be able to get some
ides of the terror that will strike the hearts
of the enemies of God when the church at
last marches on like ‘an army with ban-
You know there is nothing that excites
! enthusiasm so much. as an old flag.
Many a man almost dead, catching a Himpse
of the national ensign, Ns rus to his eet
and started again into the battle. Now, my
friends, I don’t want you to think of the
church of Jesus Christ 2H a defeated institu-
tion, as the victim of infidel sarcasm--some=
thing to be kicked and cuffed and. trampled
on through all the ages of the world. it is
“an army with banners.” It has an in-
sorption and colors such as never stirred
the hearts of ‘an earthly soldiery. §
‘We have our banner of recruit, and on it
inscribed, “Who is on the Lords side
Our banner of defiance, and on it is in-
scribed, '‘fhe Sates of hell shall not prevail
tus!” Qur banner of triumph, and
on it 1s ‘inscribed, “Victory through our
Lord Jesus Christ? and we mean to plant
that banner on every hilltop and wave it at
she gate of heaven.
ith Christ to lead us we need not fear.
I will not underrate the enemy. They are a
tremendous host. They come on with acutest
Their weapons by all the inhab-
‘itants of darkness have been forged in fur-
naces of everlasting fire. We contend not
with flesh and blood, but with principalities
and powers and spiritual wickedness in
high places; but if God be for us who can be
against us? Come on, ye troops of the Lord!
Fall into line! Close “up the ranks! On,
ough burning sands and over frozen
mountain tops, until the whole earth sur-
renders to God! He made it; He red
it: He shall have it, They shall not be
trampled with hoofs, they shall not be
cut with sabers, they shall not be’ crushed
with wheels, they shall not be cloven with
battle axes, but the marching, and the onset,
and the victory jvill be none the less decisive
for that.
With Christ to lead us, and heaven to look
down upon us, and angels to guard us, and
martyr spirits to bend from their thrones,
and the voice of God to bid us forward into
the combat, our enemies shall fly like chaff
in the whirlwind, and all the towers of
heaven ring because the day is ours. I di-
vide this army with banners into two wings
—the American wing and the European
wing. The American wing will’ march on
across the wilds of the west, over the table-
lands, and come to the ocean, no more
stopped by the Pacific than the Israelites
were stopped by the Red sea; marching on
until the remaining walls of China will fall
before this army with banners, and cold 8i~
beria will be turned to the warm heart of
Christ. and over lofty Himalayan peaks
shall go this army witn banners until it halts
at Palestine. -
The European wing will march out to
meet it, and Spanish superstition shall be
overcome, and French infidelity shall be
conquered, and over the Al with more
than Hanuibal’s courage, shail march that
army with banners, and up through the
snows of Russia, vuster in multitude than
the hosts that tollowed Napoleon into’ the
conflict. And Hungary and Poland, by the
blood of their es and by the blood of
Christ, shall at last be free. And crossing
into Asia the law shall again be proclaim
on Hipai, and Christ in the person of His
ministers will again preach on Olivet and
pray in Gethsemane and exhibit His love on
Calvary, And then the army will halt in
front of the other wing, 2 Swain having
conquered all the earth for .
‘When the Prussian army came back from
their war they were received in 1866 at the
gates of Berlin, and a choir stood above the
gates, and_as the first regiment advanced
and came to the gates the choir, in music,
asked them what right they had to enter
there. And then the first regiment, in song,
replied, telling over the stories of their con
flicts ana victories, Then they marched in,
and all the city was full of dness and
triumph; Butoh! the great joy when the .
army with banners shall come up to the
gates of our King!
It will be choir to choir, music to music,
hosanna to hosanna, hallelniah to hallelpiah,
Lift up your heads, ye everlasting gates,
here will be spread
and let them come in. TI Ww
the banquet of eternal victory, and the un-
fallen ones of heaven will sit at it, and all
the ransomed of earth come in and cele-
adorned wil banners of God
shai ten EE dig hpi
$s ell to the n
conquerors wou their ‘and the church
wander: . over,
vi
Christ shall rise up to introduce her to al
the nations of heaven, and as 3 he pulls aside
AL into the face of her
her veil and looks up
i the King, Christ'shall
she that look:
the moon, clear as the gun and terrible as
‘as the moon, banners!’ an er the great cities.
an army with
them and thus
sincere with
xxviii, 13,
said, a8,
tan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost,
and keep back part of the price of the lana?®
God d truth even in the inward parts
(Ps. li., 6) and He bassaid, ‘'He that worketh
deceit shall not dwell within My house; be
that telleth 1 3s shall fiot tarry in My sight®
{Fn of. 7. $» rte :
an
indignation or envy” (chapter iv., 313 vi,
own? And after it was sold was it not in
thine own power? “Why hast thou conceived
this thing in thine heart? Thou bast not lied
unto men but unto God.” God does not need
but neither can fill us
i what of Ananias, the
of . ! :
7 “And it was about the space of three
hours alter when his wife, not knowing
what was done, came in.” Three a
widow, but ignorant of the fact. How }
would have been in vain. yo heart is so
desperately wicked and deceitful
| your wish, ¥rances?”
said Frances, promptly. She got
eth forth as the mor , fair
|
SUNDAY SCHOOL,
LESSON FOR SUNDAY, AUGUST 14, ;
‘“‘Ananias and Saphira,” Gal, v.; 1-1%
Golden Text, Gal: vi., Com-
: mentary.
1. “Buta certain man named
with
his wife, sold a
‘We have been reading of two.
ful followers of Jesus who w
a
thly possessions
valueless except as they might do;good with
lay £35 treanig in hea
(Math. vi., 20, 21; xviii, 22; 1
vi., 17, 18).
2. **And kept back part of the
an
: price, his
wife also being A it, and brought a
certain ‘and laid it at the apostles’ feet
There an old commaud to this :
alk before Me. and be Sheu, Sin,
. Xvif, I
: th’ md pu) God” fl 3
un). And it is also written,
be he that doeth the work of the
8. “But Peter said, Anani why hath sa
th satan!’ or
The only way for a believer isto be
19). ; ;
; 2 with he Kplrt and then all else willbe
De aon AIL. aud 5 Regio 3s
inding u an neglect
guilty of Dione
is command (Eph. v.,. 18)
Pp ove
4. “While it remained was it not thine
for **I'he earth is the Lord's
our
and the fullness thereof” (Ps. xxiv., 1), but
He is graciously pleased to accept that which
y and sincerely give unto i
we
and use it for His glory. All that we have.
He has ive Yous, and what, we give Him
for allowing satan to intru: is
opon hi There are two forces all :
working with ns—satan and the Holy 8 3
—one a liar, the other the Spirit of
except wi
them. 2 Li
5 ‘And Ananias hearing these words fell
down and gave u host; and fear
cameon ios ad these 2.
y any
people. When we consider that weare not
pur own, but that these bodies even have
been bought by His blood for His service (1
Car. vi. 19, 20), and
yl, 4 ther remember how we
keep back hands and fee} and eyes and ears
and voice for our own pleasure, and that all
this is simply lying unto God, why is it that
we are not afraid? :
6. "And the young men wound
him up and carried Ei out buried
him.” Thus dis; of
cupied that body? We know that thereis
such a thing as being barely saved, saved as
by fire (I Pet. iv., 18; I . dil, 15). Bub
when we read of the portion appoicted to
story,
tten to teach us to be sincere with God.
8. “And Peter answered unto her, Tell mo
whether yo sold theland for so much? And
she said, Yea for so much.” How one
wishes that Peter might have been led to en-
co! e her to tell the truth, but
Ess
above
things (Jer. xvii,, 9) that even in this en~
lightened age both men and women have
been known to swear before God and man to
tell the whole truth and nothing but the
truth, and then delibsrately lie. Yet God
in His suffering has wed
long ig graciously allo! =a
them to live on if perchance the
pent.
9. “Then Peter said unto her, How is it
| that ye havo together to tempt the
Bpirit of the f* Compare this verse
with verses 3 and 4 and see the unity of the
ly a clear proof
Trinity, but Ef that
i ne to the Holy
Spirit is called lying unto God.
‘Behold the feet of them which have
buried thy husband are at the door, and
shall carry thee out.” This is startline and
awful. The announcement of her husband's
death is for the first time made known to
her, and in the same. breath she is told that
she, too, shall instantly die, and she does.
Sentecs is pronounced ard executisn takes
place in the same moment, It is the haud
of God. Compare chapters xii., 28 and
appear before men to be very religious; but
etore night they are found out (Num.
xxxii;, 23) and are dead and buried. Two
liars in one grave, but their souls—
11. “And great fear came upon all the
church, and upon as many as heard these
things.” Such manifesta of God's hatred
of must have been n¢
to remem!
beginning of the formation of a
ma
earth, edo well ember that al«
Helper,
Frances Got It.
“I vant some more chicken,” said
4-year-old Frances at the dinner
table. :
* “I think you have had as much as
\1s good for you, dear,” replied Fran-
‘ces’ mamma. \ a
“l want more.” And Frances
pouted. : i
“You can’t have more now; buk
here is a wish-bone that you and
mamma ¢an pull. That will be fon.
You pull one side and I'll pull th
other, and whoever gets the longe
end can haye her wish come true.
Why, baby, you've got it! What
“1 wished for some more
this time. —Boston Beacon.
1t.costs Paris annually
utation of being 1 ¢ cleanest