“DR TALMACE'S SERMON THE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUN- DAY SERMON. ————— the Ages Gone. God Among Past and TEXT: “Cons’'der the years of many gen- erations.” —Deuteronomy xxxii., 7. At 12 o'clock last night, while so many good reovle wera watching, an old friend passed out of our homes and a stranger en- tered. The old friend making wvaledictory was 1892; the stranzer arriviny is 1393. The old frien1 was garrulous with the occur- rences o. many days, but the stranger put his finger over his lip and sail nothing and seemed charged with many secrets and mys- teries. I did not see either the departure or the arrival, but was sound asleep, thinking that was for m= the best wav to be wide awake now. Goodby, 1892! Welcome, 1893! As an army is divided into brigades and regiments and companies, an 1. they observe this order in their marcia and their trsad is majestic, so the time of the world’s exist- ence is divided into an army divinely com- manded; the eras are the briga ies, the cen- turies are the regiments, and the years are the companies. Forward into the eternity st, out of the eternity to come! Forward s the command, and nothing can halt them, even though the world should die. While obeying my text, “Consider the years of manv generations,” I propose to speak of the ‘‘Chronology of the Bible,or God Among the Centuries.” We make a distirction between time and eternity, but time is only a piece of eternity, and chronology has been engaged in the sublime work of dividing up this portion of eternity that we call time into compart- ments snd putting events in their right compartment. Itis as much an injuastica against the past to wronzly arranze its events as it would be an injustice if, through neglect of chronological accuracy, it should in the far distant future be said that Ameri- ca was discovered in 1773, and the Declara- tion of Indepenrience was signed in 1492, end Washington bornon the 221 of Marca, and the Civil War of the United States was fought in 1849. As God puts all the events of time in the right place, let us be careful that we do not put them in the wrong place. The chron- ology of the Bible takes six steps, but they ere steps so long it makes us hold our breath as we watch the movem:nt. From Adam to Abraham. From Abraham to the exodus out of Egypt. From tL3 exodus to the foundation of Solomon's temple. From the foundation of Solomon's temple to the de- struction of that temple. From the destruc- tion of the temple to the return from Bany- lonish captivity. From Babylonish cap- tivity to the birta of Christ. Chronology takes pen and pencil, and call- ing astronomy and history to help says: “Let us fix one ev>nt from which to calcu- late everything. Let it bs a star, the Bsta- lehem star, the Christmas star.” And from that we go bacz and see the world was created 4004 years befora Christ; the deluge came 2348 years befora Christ; the exodus out of Egypt occurred 1491 years before Christ, and Solomon’s temple was destroyed 586 years beiora Christ. Chronoiozy enters the first chapter of Genesis and says the day mentioned there is not a day of twenty-four hours, but of ages, the word there translated as ‘‘day” in other places meaning ages, and so the Bible ac- count of the creation and ths geologists’ ac- rount of the creation are completely har- 1 monious.. Chronology enters the book of i Daniel and says that the words *‘time and { p half” mean a year and a half. Chronology enters at another point and thows us that the seasons of the year were then only two—summer and winter. We find that th2 Bible year was 36) days instead at 363; that the day was calculatad from 6 o'cleck in the morning to 6 o'clock at night; that the night was divided into four watches —npamely, the late watch, the midnight, the sock crowinz, the early watch. Ths clock ind watch were invented so lonz after the worid began their mission that the day was not very sharply divided in Bible times. A haz had a sundial, or a flight of stairs with # column at the top, and the shadow which that coiumn threw on the steps beneath in- dicated the hour, the shadow lengthening or withdrawing trom step to step. . But the events of life and the events of the world moved so slowly for th2 most part in Bible times that they had no need of such timepieces as we stand on our mantels or carry in our pockets in an age when a man may have a half doz:nora dozen engagements for one day and needs to know the exact minute for each one of them. The earth itself in Bible times was the chief timepiece, and it turned once on ts axisand that wasa day, and once arouni she sun and that was a year. It was not until the Fourteenth Century that the almanac was born, the almanac that we toss carelessiy about, not raatizing taat it took the accumulated ingenuity ot nore than 5000 years to make ons. Chron- slogy bad to bring into its service the monu- ments of Egvpt and the cylinders of Assyria, and the bricks of Babylon and the pottery of Nineveh, and the metals struck at An- tioch for the battle of Actium, and all the pieroglyphics that could be deciphered, and tad to go into the extremely delicate Lusi- ness of asking the ages of Adam and Seth 1nd Enoza and Methuseiab, who after their 300th year wanted to be thouzht young. I think it must bava been in recognition of the stupendous work of making an alma- pac that all the days of the week are named after the gods. Sunday, after the sun, which was of old worshiped as & god. Mon- fay, after the moon, which was also wor- niped as a god. Tuesday, after Tuesco, the rod of war. Wednesday, after Woden, the shief god of the Scandinavians. Taursday, 1fter Thor, the god of thunder. Friday, after Frea, the goddess of marriage. Aud Saturday after Saturn. ‘I'he old Bible year began with the 25th of March. Not until 1752 did the first of the montk of January pet the honor in legal-docamentsin England #¢ being called the first day of the year. Improvements all along bave been made m chronology until the calendar and the 1lmanac, and the clock, and the watch sesm to have reached perfection, aud all the Na- tions of Christendom have similarity of time salculations and have adopted what is salled “new style,” excapt Russia, which keeps what is called the ‘old style” and is “ twelve days diffzrent, so that, writing from | there. if you wish to be accurate, you date | tour letter January 1 and January 13, or December 10 and Dacember 22. It is some- thing to thank God for that the modes are so complete for calcuiating the cycles, the centuries, the decades, the years, the months, the days, the hours, ths seconds. ‘Think of making appointments as in the E. Bible days for the time of the new moon. : Think of making one of the watc hes of the night in Bible times a rooster crowing. The Bible says: ‘‘Befora the cock crow thou shalt deny me thrice,” *'If the Master com- sth at the cockerowing,” and that was the way the midnight watch wes indicated. The crowing of that barayard bird has al- ways been most uncertain. The crowing is at the lowest temperature of the night, and the amount of dew and the direction of the wind may bring the lowest temperature a“ 11 o'ciockat night or 2 o'clock in the morn- ¥ ing, and at any one of six hours. Just be- fore a rain the crowing of chanticleer in the might is almost perpetual. . Compare these modes of marking time ith our modes of marking time, when 12 oclozk is 12 o'clock, and 6 o'clock is 6 o'clock, and 10 o'clock is 10 o'clock, and ir- dependent of all weathers, and then thank God that you live now. But notwithstand- CER ip A ETRE a TE SIT ne Sr: somsathing in quite another place, you gain the victory, and infidelity has tried to prove an 8libi by contending that events and cir- cumstances in the Bible ascribed to certain timos must have taken place af/some other time, if they took place at all. But this boolz’s chronology has never heen caught at fault. It has oroved that when the Hekrews went into Ezypt there werzs only seventy of them, and that when they came out there were 3,070,000 of them. “Now,” says infidelity. with a guffaw that it cannot suppress, *‘what an absurdity! They went down into Egypt seventy and came out 3,000,000, That is a falsshood on the face of it. Nations do not increase in that; ratio.” But, my skeptleal friend, hold a moment, The Bible says that the Jews were 430 years in Egypt, and that explains the increase from seventy persons to 3,000,~ 000, for it is no more, but rather less, than the ordinary increase of nations. The Pil- grin Fathers came to America in the May- flower, one small shipload of passengers, less than 300 years ago, and now we have a nation of 66,000,000. Where, then, is so called impossibility that the seventy Jews who went into Egypt in 430 years became 3,000,000? Infidelity wrong and Bible chron- ology right. Now stop and reflect. Why is it that this sublime subject of Bible chronolozy has been so nezlected, and that the most of you have never given ten minutes to ths consideration of it, and that this is the first sermon ever preachad on this stupendous and overwhelming theme? We have stood by the half day or the whole day at grand reviews and seen armies pass. Azain and again and again on the Champs Elysees Frenchmen by the hun- dreds of thousands have stood and watched the bannered armies go by, and the huzza has been three miles long and until the populace were so hoarse they could huzza no longer. Again and again and again the Germans by hundreds of thousands have stood on the palaced and statued Under den Linden, Berlin, and strewn garlands under the feet of uniformed hosts led on by Von Moltke or Biucher or Frederick the Great. When Wellington and Ponsonby and the Scots Grays cams back from Waterloo, or Wolszley from E zypt, or Marlborough from Blenheim what miiitary processions through Roagent street and along by the palaces of Loadon and over the bridges of the Thames! What almost interminable lines of military on the streets of our American capitals, while Mayorsand Governors and Presidents, with uncovered heads, looked on! But put all those grand reviews together, and they are tame comparel with the review which on New Year's day you from the pew and I from the pulpit witness. Hear them passin chronological order— all the years before the flood; all the years since the flood: decades abreast; centuries abreast; epocus abreast; millenniums abreast; Ezyptian civilization, Babylonian populations, Assyrian dominions; armies of Persian, Grecian, Peloponnesian and Roman wars, Byzantine empire, Saracenic hosts, crusaders of the first, the second, third and the last avalanche of men; Dark Ages in somber epaulets and brighter ages with shields of silver and helmets of gold; Italy, Spain, France, Russia, Germany, England and America, past and present; dynasties, feudal domains, despotisms, monarchies, re- public: ages on azes, ages on ages, passing to-day in a chronological review, until one has no more powear to look upon the ad- vancing columns, now brilliant, now squalid, now gariandel with peace, now crimson with slaughter, now horrid’ with ghastliness, now radiant with love and joy. ‘his chronological study affords, among other practical tnougnts, especially two— the one encouraging to the last degres and tho other startling. The encouraging thouzht is that ths main drift of the cen- turies has been toward betterment, with only here and thera a stout reversal. Crecian civilization was a vast improve- ment on Egyptian civilization, and Roman civilization a vast improvement on Grecian civilization, and Christian civilization is a vast improvement on Roman civilization. What was the boasted age of Pericles compared with the age of Longfellow and Teanyson? What was Que>n Elizabeth as a specimen of moral wou.manhooi compared with Queen Victoria? VW hat were the cruel warriors of olden times compared with toe most distinguishe? warriors of tne last half century, all of them as much distinguished for kindness and good morals as for prowess —the two military leaders of our Civil War on northern and southern side communicant memoers of Christian churches, and their home lif2 as pura as their public life? Nothing impresses me in this chronologi- cal review more than the fact that the ragi- ments of years are batter and better regi- ments as the troops move on. I thank God that you ani I wera not born any sooner than we were born. How could we have endured the disaster of being born in the Eighteenth or Seventeenth or Sixteenth Century? Glad am I that wa are in theregi- ment now passing the reviewing stand, and that our children will pass the stand in a till better 1egiment. Gol did not build this world for a slaughter house or a den of infamy. A good deal of cleaning houss will be necessary betore this world becomes as clean and sweet as is ought to be, but the brooms and the scrubbing brusaes, and the upholsterers apd plumbers are already busy, and when tae world gets fixed up, as it will be, if Adam and Eve ever visit if, as 1 ex~ pect they will, they will say to each other, ‘‘Well, this beats paradise when =e lived there, and the pears and plums are better than we plucked from the first trees, and the wardrobes are more complete and the climate is better.” Since Isettled in my own mind the fact that God was stronger than the devil I have never lost faith in the emparadisation of this planet. With the excaption of a retro- gression in the Dark Ages, the movement of he world has been on and on, and up and ap. and I have two jubilant hosannas—one tor the closing year and the other for tht new year. But the other thought coming out of this suoject is that Biblical chronology, and in- deel all chronology, is urginz the world to more punctuality and immediateness, What an unsatisfactory and indefinite thing it must have been for two business men in ths time of Ahaz to make an appointment, say- ing, “We will settle that business matter to- morrow when the shadow on the dial of Ahaz reaches the tenth step from ths fon,” or “i will meet you in the street called Straight in Damascus in the time of the new moon,” or waen asked in a courtroom what time an occurranca took placa sho uld answer, “*[t was during the time of the latter rain,” or “It was at the tims of the third crowing of the barnyard!” : You and I remember when ministers of the Gospel in the country, giving out a mno- tice of an evening service, instead of saying at 6 or 7 or 8 o'clock, would siy: “The ser- vica will begin at early candle light.” Thank God for chronological achievements which have ushered in calendars and al- manacs and clocks and watches, and at so cheap a rate all may possess them! Chron- ology, beginning by appreciating the valus of years and the value of days, has kept on until it cries out: ‘Man, immortal; woman, immortal: look out for that minute; look out for that second!” We talk a great deal about the value of time, but will never fully appreciate its value uatil the last fragment of it has passed out of our possession forever. “The greatest fraud a man can commit is to rob another of his time, Hear it, ye laggards and re- pent! All the fingers ot chronology pointto punctuality as one of the graces. ‘fhe min- ister or the lecturer or business man who comes to his placa ten minutes atter the ap- pointed time commits a crime the enormity of which car only bs estimated by multiply - ing the number of persons present by ten. if the engagement bs made with five per- ing all the imperfect modes of marking szy never trips up, never falters, never con- radicts itself, and here is one of the bast ar uments for the authenticity of the Scrip- res. if you can prove an alibi in the courts, and you can prove beyoad doubt that you § were in some particular place at the time wou were charged with doing oF saying hours or years or centuries Bible caronol- | sons, he has stolen fifty minutes, for he is | ten minutes too late, and he has robbed each | of the five persons of ten minutes apiece, | and ten times five are fifty. | 1f there be 500 persons present and he be | ten minutes too late, he has committed a | robbery of 5300 minutes, for ten time 500 are 5000, and 5000 minutes are eighty-three | hours, which make more than three days. bills, iz not half so bad as the thief of time, Dr. Rush, the greatest and busiest phy- sician of his day, appreciated the value of time, and when asked how he had been able to gather so much information for his books and lectures he replied: ‘I have been able todo it by economizing my time. I have not spent one hour in amusement in thirty years.” And takinga blankbook from his pocket he said, *I fill a book like this every week with thoughts that occur to me and facts collected in the rooms of my patients.” Napoleon appreciated the valus of time when the sun was sinking upon Waserloo, and he thought that a little more time would retrieve his fortunes, and he pointed to the sinking sun ana said, “What would I not give to be this day ad of the power of Joshua and enabled to retard thy march for two hours!” The good old woman appreciated the value of time waen at ninety-three years of age she said, ‘The Judge of all the earth does not mean that [ shall have anv excuse for not being prepared to meet Him.” Voltaire, the blatant infidel. appreciated the value of time when in his dying mo- ments he said to his docto~, *‘I will give you half of what I am worth if you will give mb six months of life,” and when told that he could not live six weeks ‘he burst into tears and said, “Then I shall go to hell!” John Wesley appreciated the value of time when he stood on his steps watching for a delayed carriage to take him to an appointment, saying, ‘I have lost ten minutes forever.” Inrd Nelson appreciated the value of time when ha said, “I owe everything in the world to being always a quarter of an hour beforehand.” A clockmaker in ons of the old English towns appreciated the value of time when he put on the front of the town clock the words, “Now or when?’ Mitchell, the as- tronomer, appreciated the value of time when he said, *‘I have heen in the habit of calculating the value of a thousandth part of a second.” That minister of the Gospel aid not appreciate the value of time who, during a season of illness, instead of employ- ing his time in useful reading or writing, wrote a silly religious romance, which in some unknown way cams into the possession of the famous Jo» Smith, who introduced the book as a divine revelation, which be- came the founiation of Mormonism, the most beastly aboinination of all time. They best appreciate the values of time whose Sabbaths have been wasted ‘and whose opportunities of repentance and use- fulness are all gone, and who have nothing left but memories, baleful and elegiac. They stand in the bleak September, with bare fest, on the sharp stubble of a reaped wheat field, crying, ‘The harvest is past! And the sough of an autumal equinox moans forth in echo, * Lhe harvest is past? But do not let us getan impression from chronology that becauss the vears of time have been so long in procession they ars to go on forever. Matter is not eternal. No, no! If you watch half a day, or a whole day or two days, as I once did to see a mili- tary. procession, you remember the last brigade, and the last regiment, and the last company finally pissed on, and as werose to go we said to each other, “Ii is all over.” So this mighty procession of eartaly years will terminate. Just when 1 have no power to prognosticate, but science confirms the Bible prophecy tuat the earth cannot always last. Indeed there has been a fatality of worlds, The moon is merely the corpse of what it once was, and scientists have again an again gone up in their observatories to attend the deathbed of dying worlds, and have seen them cremated. So I am certain, both from the Word of God and sciencs, that the world’s chronology will sooner or later come to its last chapter. The final century will arrive and pass o and then will come the final decade, and then the final year, and the final month, and the final day. ‘The last spring will swing its censar of apple blossoms and the last winter bank its snows. The last sunset will burn iike Moscow and the last morning radiate the hills. The clocks will strike their last hour, and toe watches will tick their last second. No incendiaries will be needed to run hither and yon wita torches to set the world on fire. : : Chemistry teaches us that thereis a very inflammable element in water. While oxy- gen makes up a part of the water, the other part of the wateris hydrogen, and that is very combustible, The oxygen drawn out from the water, the inflammable hydrogen will put instantly into conflagration the Hudsonsand Savannahs and Mississippis and Rhinesand Uralsand Danubes, and Atlantic and Pacific and Indian and Mediterranean seas. And then the angel of God, de- scanding from the throne, might put one foot on the surf of the ssa and the other on the beaca and cry to the four winds of heaven, “Ttme was, but time shall be no longer!” Yet, found in Christ, pardoned and sanctified, we shall welcome the day with more gladness than you ever wei- comed a Caristmas or New Year's morn. When wrapt in fire the rea'm3 of ether glow And neaven’s last thunder shaszes the earch bee ow, : Thou, undismayed, shalt o'er th? ruin smile And light tay torca at nature's funeral pile. _—— ER ———— Nose ant Throat.. In a recent lecture before the Chem- ists’ Assistants’ Association, London, by William Hill, M.D., London, the throat was described in detail, and the pharynx and the larynx pointed out as the two most important parts. The nose nes a very important connection with the throat and }s disorders. It contains a series of bones called the turbinated bones, which expose a large surface of to be warmed ready for the lungs; more- over, the cilia of the nose cause the se- cretion to move and reject the solid par- ticles it has collected. The nose is the proper organ for breathing, not the mouth. The larynx, which is the air passage, is bounded at its upper ex- tremity by the vocal cords, and has, therefore, the double function of breath- ing and phonation. The epiglottis, by altering its form, causes the food to pass down the pharynx, and keeps it from the larynx. In speaking of proper breathing, the author pointed out that diaphragmatic breathing was the proper method, and not clavicular. It was re- ported that Rubini had broken his clavicle during singing, by persisting in this method of breathing. Throat dis- eases are often caused by germs, by in- halation of sewer gas, etc. Fortunately, there are other organisms in the throat always ready to attack these germs. The throat was well provided with tonsils, both faucial and lingual. The tonsils produce phagocytes or leucocytes, amae- boid corpuscles which actually swallow up the germs. Why, then, should ton- sils be cut out? Because, when they be- come enlarged and horny, they lose this function, and by removing the horny surface, the newly exposed portion can go on producing the corpuscles. The decay of teeth is largely due to germs. This shows the importance of keeping the teeth in order. Obstruction in the pose is the cause of many throat dis- orders. People liable to throat disorders should be very chary of eating piquaut or hot dishes. Irritating remedies, too, such as cayenne and (except in special cases) tannin lozenges or nitrate of sil- ver, should be avoided. Hot tea, too, is bad.—Scientific American. —e ee More than 700 lives of Columbus have | The thief of dry goods, the thief of bank bean written in various languages. warm blood, and cause the air inhaled SABBATH SCHOOL LESSON FOR SUNDAY JAN. 15. “Encouraging the People,” Haggai ii, 1-8 Golden Text: Psalm exxvii, 1. Com-~ mentary. The prophecies of Haggai and Z>chariah should be read in connection with the his- torical books of Ezra and Nehemiab, for these prophets were specially commissioned to encourage the people torecuild the temple and thecity. After the foundation of the temple was laid, as we learned in last lesson, enemies hindersd the work, and 1b ceasea until the second year of Darius, Where our present lesson begins (Ez. iv., oh. +4 “Inthe second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word of tha Lord by Haggai the prophet.” Haggai, like every true prophet, was simply the Lord’s messen- ger with the Lord’s message (verse 13). 2. ‘‘a2uus speaketh the Lord of Hosts, saying, ‘Lhis people say, The time is not come—the time thatthe Lord's house should be built.” This phrase ‘‘speaketh or saith the Lord of Hosts” 1s found thirteen times in this short prophecy and ‘‘saith the Lord” is found seven times, while the name ‘‘Lord” in capitals (which is always Jehovah) is found altogether in the thirty-eight verses of this prophecy at least thirty-four times. So we are not to see Haggai, whose name 1s mentioned buv nine times tand that is an unusual number for so short a prophecv), but only Jehovah, and Haggai as His spokesman. Notice that the Lord observes what people say, and also what they think (Ezek. xi., 5, xxxiii., 20; Jer. xi., 18, 19). 3. **I'hen came the Word of tne Lord by Haggai the prophet, saying, The words of the people are wronz woras;” they indica- ted a lack of sympathy wita God ih His purposes. ‘Lhe house of the Lord now being uilt is the church, which is His body (Heb. ill. €; 1 Pet. ii., 5; 1Cor. iii., 9; Epb. ii. 19-22), and there 1s much inaifference to it on the part of the Lord's people asthers was to the temple in the days of Haggai. The Word of the Lord was sent to correct the people and bring them into sympathy with God and His purposes, See Isa. viii, 20, R. VY. margin. 4. “ls it time for you, O ye, to dwell in sour ceiled houses, and this house lie waste!” They were neglecting the temple, the house of Jehovah, and attending to their own houses. The church is a spiritual building to be gathered out of all Nations and pre- sented to Christ as His Bride in order that He mey return with her to establish His Kingdom on earth and fill the earth with His glory, but the Lori might well say to the various denominations whica make up the visible church: ‘Is it time for you to ba so cccupied with ycnr own little company instead of working earnestly to completa My body?’ “Isit time for you to be spending hundreds of thousands of dollars wpon church buildings instead of sending the Gos- pel to the heathen?’ 5. “Now, thererore, thus saith the Lord of Hosts, Consiuer your ways.”” Bzcause of the neglected condition of his house He would have them stop and consider. He would have them lcok at things from His stanapoint— like Jeremiah when he said, ‘Is it nothing toyou all ye that pass by? Behold and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow which is done unto me, wherewith the Lord bath afflicted me in the day of His tieres anger” (Lam. i., 12), When we think of Jesus waiting and longing for the com- pletion of His cuurch, that He may come again for the conversion of His people Israel and of the world, may we not hear Him say- ing, ‘Is it nothing to you?’ ‘‘Consider your ways,” and see that as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways than yocur ways (Isa. 1v., 9. 6. “Ye have sown inuch, and bring in lit- tle; ye eat, but ye have not enough.” Count the seventola disappointment in this and the ninth verse, ana compare Isa, lv., 2, **Wheretore do ye spend money for that which is not bread and your labor for that which satistieth not?” Men labor in vain and spend their strength for naught (Isa. xlix., 4) when they are out of harmony with God; but when God is working in us, though it ay sometimes seem thag our laocor is in vain, 1t is never really so. His word may not accomplish what we please, but it will accomplish what He pleases (Isa. lv., 11), and our work is nos in vain in the Lora (I Cor. xv., 58). Wages in a bag with holes make us think of the treasures on earth which the Saviour contrasted with toe treasure in heaven (Luke xii., 33). 7. “Thus sath the Lord of Hosts, Consid- er your ways.” Tne Holy Spirit never re- peats needlessly. The fiftn verse was in connection with the desolation and neglaco of the Lorad’s house, but thisis in connection with their own desolation or fruitless toil. In this an 1 the next verse, with verses 4and 5 of the next chapter, there is an interesting sevenfold commana (Consider. Go up. Bring wood, Build the house. Be strong. Work. Fear not) each pact of which we may well take to ourselves in reference to our part in completing the church, ‘There will be nothing Lut failure in our lives as long as we neglect the Lord’s work, and even though one should amass the wealth of Babylon, in ome hour it shall come to naught (Rev, xviii, 17). 8. ‘Go up to tue mountain, and bring wood, and build the house, anu I will take pleasure in it,‘and | will be glorified, saith the Lora.” We nave nothing to do "its difficul- ties, either real or apparent. 11 is ours to obey; resuits are with God. Lis pieasure and His glcry are everything. Even Christ pleased not Himself, and one of His last joy- ful testimonies was ‘‘I have glorified Thee on the earth” (Rom. xv., 3, John xvii., 4). Let us take as our daily mottoes, “For Thy Pleasure,” “For Jesus’ Sake,” *‘Glority Go.” (Rev. iv., 11, II Cor. iv., 11; I Cor. vi., 20), and live to build the house. 9. “Why? saith the Lord of Hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man into his own house.” If we seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness we have the promise that all else will be added (Math. vi., 33): whereas if we seek first our own interests there is the probability that whatever we may accumulate, God will blow it away or suldenly take us away from it. This seems a strange place to close the lesson. I trust teachers will go on to con- sider the threefold assurance of i., 13; ii., 4, 5. 8, concerning His presence, His Spiritand His wealth. Note also thrice “Bs strong” of chapter ii., 4 and compare Josh. i, 6-9; II Chron. xxxii., 7, 8; xv., 7: but be warned by IT Chron. xxvi., 15, 17. Kail not to note the great shaking of chapter ii., 6, 7, and com- pare Heb. xii., 23-20; x., 35-37. Ere that great shaking comes tae caurch will be gath- ered in and out of the storm, and the elect remnant of Israel will also be safely hidden (Ps. 1. 1-6; Isa. xxvi., 19-21; Luke xxi.. 36; Rev. iii., 10). Then will all thrones against Christ be destroyed and He shall reign fore ever.—Lesson Helper. One of Emperor William's Toys. The Emperor of Germany has just placed upon the wall of his study a large photograph of which he is very prond. It is a portrait, balf life size, of the largest and smallest soldier of the Prussian army standing side by side. The former is Private Pritz- chan of the First Regiment of the Prussian guard. He stands 6 feet 73 inches in his boots, and when he pre- sented himself at Dusseldorf for ex- amination a special apparatus had to be provided with which to take his waist measure. His breadth is in proportion to his height. The small- est soldier is the hereditary prince. The picture is a unique one, showing a veritable giant, quite egqual to any that figare in “Grimm’s Tales” or other books of fables, and by his side a soldierly Liliputian. — New York World. err en PROMINENT PEOPLE. GLADSTONE is becoming quite deaf. SPEAKER CRISP is in favor of an extra cession of Congress. MoxtacU WILLIAMS, the eminent London barrister, aied a rew days ago. Zora, the French novelist, has made $40,000 by his pen mn twenty years. Jacop HENRICI, the leader of the famous Economite Society of Pennsylvania, 1s dead. CONGRESSMAN JERRY SIMPSON says he is a canuidate ior tne United States Senate trom Kansas. Troxas SETTLY, of North Carolina, only twenty-eight years of aze, is tie youngest member-elect of the new Congress. =-MINISTER TO-ENGLAND PHELPS, on account of his connection with the Bering Sea arbitration, will ssmporarjly give up bis proiessorial uutiesat Yale, Mes. GLADSTONE, wife of the British Premier, 1s a voter in Canaila, ani owns property at Niagara Falls, Canada. She owns three acres of land worth avous $5000 an acre. J. D. ROCKEFELLER, the Standari Oil millionaire, nas jus: prssental $1,000,000 in bonrs to the Umversity of Chicago, waking $5,600,0.0 in ail which he has given to that insatution. A CLEVER man was Bismarck's late private secretary, Lotaar Bucaer, whose demise the ex-Chaacelor muca deplores. In a tew hours Bucher drew up the Imperial German Constitution. Emin THOMAS, a German actor now play- ing at Amberg’s Theatre ia New Yorx City, has no less than 2500 roles in his reper- tore, which he has learned during a stage career ot thirty-seven years. CHAUNCEY M, Depew is a believer in scrap Looks. He has eight or ten of them which contain ciippings iro n newspapers and p:riodicals relating to himself. All his printed speeches are preserved in this way. Svat Or CARLISLE, of Kantucky, per- sonally keeps a list 'of ali applicauts for offices from his State in a book. Every time he receives a letter from a new applicant he writes his name and address in the book ander the heading of the office to waich he aspires. James WaircomB RILEY, the Hoosier poet, owns up to .eirz tuirty-eight years old. He says he was a painter by trade, and worked at sign writing a long time. Hs served an apprentic:ship also as a hous? painter, but was never strong enouzh to follow the occupation steadily. JonN A. MORRIS, the Louisiana million. sire, has one of the finest country estates in America in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana. 1t embraces 6 ‘0 acres of good land, in which are preserved hundreds of deer and bear, and numberless conveys of game birds, while the four lakes on the place are black with mallard duck. GEORGE GovrLD at twenty-eight is the youngest Amer.can who has inherited an estate that gives employmont to 100,000 men. The three successive Astors have each been over forty before they inherited their fathers fortunes. William H, Vanderbilt was nearly fifty and his sons were forty- two and thirty-six when he died. Lovtis PASTEUR was on his seventieth birthday presented with the gold medal of the Academy of Sciences in the amphi- theatre of the Sorbonne, Paris. President Carnot, of France, walked arm-in arm with the disvinguished scientist, to his seat, fol lowed Ly the ministers, diplomats, scientists and litterateurs. Asthe medal was handed _to hinu M. Pasteur embracad tbe President and tae audience cheered wildly, , NEWSY GLEANINGS. HAMBURG fears another cholera epidemic. a THE poor are suffering terribly in Lon- on. ; THE plague is devastating Russian Pe- land. A GENUINE revolution is now feared in Mexico. PATENT flour in Minneapolis is $1 cheaper than a year ago. THE year’s flour output promises to be the greatest ever known. THERE is a decline in flax cuniture both in America and Europe. THE curse of hard times is everywhere prevalent in Germany. THE German hoo crop for 1832 has been estimated at 45,000,000 pounds. Tug Eastern railroads are soort of cars— the aggrezate estimated at 10,000. TrE Ohio River, at Bellaire, was frozan over this winter for the tirst time since 1885. THERE is still great suffering in portions of Mexico, where ths three years’ drought continues, Ox account of famine and cholera peas- ants in some sections of Russia are ‘dying like flies.” THE cranberry crop for 1892 is estimated at 700.000 barrels, 5,000 barrels less taan last year’s output. THE decrease in the packing of hogs at Chicago is over forty-seven pei cent. sinca the opening of the s2ason. = Paris is ripe for a revolution in conse- uence of the Panama scandal revelations. FS is now said that 104 Deputies accepted bribes. . IT will cost £16.26 to buy a complete set of the Columbian postage stamps, and $L.4t more for a full line of samples of the stamped envelopes. THE trade statistics for 1892 show unex. ampled activity and pros) ty in almost every branch of industry throughout the United States. THE popular vo r President, as com- piled by the New k Post, exhibits the following aggregate: Cleveland, 5,567,990; Harrison, 5,176,611; Weaver, 1,025,060; Bid- well, 258.347. Cleveland’s plurality, 391,- 870 How Nature Makes Silver. The process by which nature forms interesting. It must be remembered that the earth’s crust is full of water, which percolates everywhere through the rocks, making solu- tions of elements obtained from them. These chemical solutions take up small particles of the precious metal which they find scat- tered here and there. Sometimes the solutions in question are hot, the water having got so far down as to be set a-boiling by the internal heat of the globe. Then they rush up- ward, picking up the bits of metal as they go. Naturally, heat assists the performance of this operation. Now and then the streams thus formed, perpetually flowing hither and thither below ground, pass through cracks or cavities in the rocks, where they deposit their loads of silver. This is kept up for a great length of time, perhaps thou- sands of years, until the fissure or pocket, is filled up. Crannies per- meating the stony mass in every di- rection may become filled with the metal, or occasionally a chamber may be stored full of it, as if a myriad hands were fetching the treasure from all sides and hiding away a future bonanza for some lucky prospector to discover ip such accumulations of silver are very, THE ELECTORAL VOTE. The Final Figures Showing Cleveland's Large Majority. The settlement cf the Oregon contest makes it possible to give an accurate table o the votes ior president as it shou'd be east by the electoral college, as follows: H STATES. ‘uosuae | ! ** 3DAED AL Alabama... Arkansas .. California. . Colorado. .. Connecticut Delaware .. Floris oro eorgia.... 1daho...... i 3 Illinois. .... Indiana.... - | PUB[AAJ) WW wr — fo = 1D Or a= P- ® © ww ow Kentucky... Louisiana. . Maine. .... Maryland... Mass ..... . Mchigan .. Minnesota. Mississippi. Missouri... Montana... 3 Nebraska ... a8 Nevada .... N. Hamp... 4 New Jersey 10 | New York.. 38 i N. Carolina 11 N. Dakota. . ; 3 Ohio ....... i 22 Oregon. .... 3 Penn. .... a2 R. Island.,.. 2 4 pe ~1 Ww 8. Carolina. 9 8S. Dakota... Tennessee. . 12 Texas...... 15 Vermont. .. 4 Virginia, ... 12 \ Wisconsin . 1: Wyoming.. : 3 Totals. .. 276 144 24 Total number of votes....... vs swe asin. 444 Necessary for a choice. .223 Cleveland's majority Piii.ud 108 an — As tHE last legislature failed to make an appropriation for the Maryland presiden- tial electors they wiil have to pay their own expens s and obtain the money from the next legislature. MARKETS. PITTSBURG. THE WHOLESALE PRICES ARE GIVEN BELOW. GRAIN, FLOUR AND FEED. —— WHEAT—No. 2 Red.......$ 74@3 0 No.3 Red....:......... $4 7 KB CORN—No. 2 Yellow ear... 2 30 High Mixed ear.......... 47 45 Mixedear..........s 47 45 Shelled Mixed...... 46 41 OATS—No. 1 White. 39 43 No. 2 White...... 33 39 No.3 White......... 37 33 Mixed...... ales gue ead 25 7 RYE—No. 1 Pa & Ohio.... 62 68 No. 2 Western, New...... 6) 60 FLOUR—Fancy winter pat’ 4 50 475 Fancy Spring patents..... 4 50 4 75 Fancy Straight winter.... 4 00 4 25 A Be veas B80 317 Rye Flour.... ..... rian : 3450 378 HAY--Baled No. 1 Tim'y.. 1375 14 03 Baled No. 2 Timothy..... 1200 13 00 Mixed Clover. ...»........ 13 00 13 5) Timothy from country... 16 00 18 00 STRAW — Wheat...... .... 600 6 50 BES... oben iiss eens 7 0 FEED—No.1 WhMd® T 19 00 Brown Middlings 17 00 FAH. ,.a- css sven 15 00 Chop =.xece vec vis ciihines 17 00 DAIRY PRODUCTS. BUTTER—EIgin Creamery 33 > Fancy Creamery 30 31 Fancy country roll. ..... 23 28 Choice country roll... 12 i4 Low grade & cooking.... 8 12 CHEESE—O New cr'm mild 11 12 New York Goshen........ 11 12 Wisconsin Swiss bricks.. 14 15 ‘Wisconsin Sweitzer. ..... . 13 14 Limburger. ......... fe 10 he : FRUIT AND VEGETABLES, APPLES—Fancy, §# bbl... = 37D Fair to choice, ® bbl.... 275 3 60 BEANS—Select, ¥ bu..... 195 2 00 Pa & O Beans, @® bbl..... 150. ‘375 Lima Beans,..... Me bedere 4 ONIONS— : Yellow danvers bu.... 100 Yellow onion, ® bbl..... 1 50 15 Spanish, # crate......... 120 123. CABBAGE—New # bbl..... 225 2 50 POTATOES— Fancy White per bu...... 70 75 Choice Red per bu......... 63 POULTRY ETC. DRESSED CHICKENS-— H... Saeeiiee Nie aie ee 10 12 Dressed ducks #th..... - 14 15 Dressed turkeys # ..... 15 16 LIVE CHICKENS— live Spring chickens @ pr 60 65 Live Ducks @ pr......... 60 3 Live Geese § pr.......... 100 12 Live Turkeys #h........ 10 11 EGGS—Pa & Ohio fresh.... _ 4 25 FEATHERS— Extra live Geese 8 T..... 50 60 No 1 Extra live geese@1h 48 50 Mixed... .. rl a 25 35 MISCELLANIOUS. TALLOW—-Country, @1b... 4 v OLY... acter, 5 SEEDS—West Med'm clo'er 8 60 Mammoth Clover........ 870 Timothy prime.......... 225 Timothy choice..... cesses 285 Blue grass............... «ii 1:50 178 Orchard grass........... «175 Millet........ AAR Buckwheast............... 140 150 RAGS—Country mixed... i HONEY —White clover.... 16 17 Buckwheat . 12 15 CINCINNATI. $2 50@ 33 55 70 70 0. RYE—No. 2.... 54 CORN—Mixed 43 44 OATS : 84 35 EGGS 23 BUTTER rain 20 33 FLOUR— $3 40@ $1 60 WHEAT . 6 i CORN—No. 2, Mixed........ 48 50 OATS—No. 2, White........ 40 41 BUTTER—Creamery Extra. 24 31 EGGS—Pa., Firsts.......... 21 NEW YORK. FLOUR—Patents..... FEA 4 50 5 00 WHEAT—No, 2 Red........ 79 ¢0 RYE—Western.............. 58 60 CORN—Ungraded Mixed...,. 49 51 OATS—Mixed Western..... 36 33 BUTTER—Creamery........ 20 31 EGGS—State and Penn. 29 27 LIVE-STOCK REPORT, WAST LIBERTY, PITTSBURG STOCK YARDS. CATT, Prime Steers..... ia $ 450to 500 Fair to Good... 3 7 to 450 Common...... 300to 3 8 Bulls and dry cows......... 150to 3 00 veal Calvesi............00 0 550to 675 Heavy rough calves........ 250to 400 Fresh cows, per head, > SHEEP. Prime 95 to 100-1 sheep....$ ve 30 00 to 45 0) another age.—Minerals, p 47t0 52 Common 70 to 75 Tb sheep... 200to 3 50 Jambs..................... 590 to 610 HOGS. Philadelphia hogs.... 6 40to 6 90 Corn Yorkers............... 6 00 to 6 50 RoOUgNSa......ivavatves.. un 5 00to 5 50 ] ; nd i. i Tr Irafilic son's Ey “First faint fe eat, the make 1 Of cou rapidly, My wif much a pected vould friend a Hood's soon m back, I. out dist pounds Barsapa Ho Tc day ‘parilla grocer, HOO] Indigesti
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