RT | i EI rowan ETI i i : BIRDS IN THE BIBLE. je fave, *'] am hunted as a paririage on the mountains.” Speaking of his forlorn condition, he says, *‘l am like a pelican in the wilderness.” Describ'nz his loneliness, ee lf. REV. DR. .TALMAGE’S SERMON. he says, “I am a swallow alone on the house- ete Behold the Fowls of the Air, Scriptures. Lessons of Their Flights. The Spirit of God a Gentle Dove. — TEXT: Matthew vi., 26. There is silence now in all our January forests, except as the winds whistle through “he bare branches. Our northern woods are deserted concert halls, - The organ lofts in the temple of natures are hymnless. Trees which were full of carol and chirp and chant are now waiting for the cominz back of rich plumes and warbling voices, solos, duets, quartetes, cantatas and Te Deums. But the Bible is fu!l of birds at all seasons, and pronhets and patriots and apostles, and Christ Himself, employ them for moral and religious purposes. My text is an extract from the sermon on the moun*, and perhaps it was at a moment when a flock of birds few past that Christ waved His hand toward ‘bem and said, ‘*Behold the fowls of the air!” And so in this course of sermons on God everywhere I preach to you this thir 1 ser- mon concerring the Ornithology of the Bible: or, Gqd Among the Birds. Most of the other :ciences you may study or not study as you please. Use your own judgment, exercise your own taste. But tbout this science of ornithology we have 30 option. The divine command is positive when it says in my text, *‘Benold the fowls of the air!” That is, stulv their habits, Examine their colors. Notice their speed. See the hand of God in their construction. It is easy for me to obey the command of the text, for I was brought up among the race of wings and from boyhood heard their matins at sunrise and their vespers at sun- set. Their nests have been to ma a fascination, and my satisfaction is that [ never robbed one of them any more than [ would steal a child from a cradle, for a bird isa child of the sky, and its nest is the cradle. Taey are almost puman, for they have taoeir loves and hates, affinities and antipathies, understand oy and grief, have conjugal and riaternal nstinct, wage warsand entertain jealousies, have a lanzuage of their own and powers of association. Thank God for birds and skies fullof them! 1tis useless to ex ect to un- derstand the Bibie unless we study natural aistory. Five hundred and ninety-three times does the Bible allude to the fcets of natural his- ory, and I do not wender that it makes so nany allusions ornithological. The skies ind the caverns of Palestine are friendly to ibe winged creatures, and so many fly and roost and nest and hatch in that region that nspired writers do not have far to go toget irnithologzical illustration of divine truth, Chere are over forty species of birds recoz- rized in the Scriptures, Ob, what a variety of wings in Palestine! Che aove, the robin, the eagle, tha cormo- rant or piunging bird, hurling itself from ky to wave and with long beak clutching ts prey; the thrush, which especialiy dis- ikes a crowd, the partridges; ths hawk, sold and ruthless, hovering head to wind- ward while watching for prey; the swan, at ome among the marshes and with feet so :onstructed itcan walk on the leaves of wa- jer plants; the raven, the lapwing, malodor. »us and in the Bible dencunced as inedible, though it has extraordinary headdress; she stork; the ossifrage, that, always 1ad a habit of dropping on a stone the turtle it had lifted and zo killing it for food, and om ope occasion mistoo't the bald head of Alschylus, the Greek poet,for a white stone, and dropped a turtle upon it, killinz toe famons Greek; the cuckoo, with crested pead and crimson throat and wings snow lipped, but tooslazy to build its own nest, ind so baving the habit of depositing its 1ggs in nests belonging to other birds; the buejay, the grouse, the piover, the magpie, the kingfisher, the pelican, which is the cari- :ature of all the teathered creation; tha owl, the goldfinch, the bittern, the harrier, the bulbul, the osprey; the vulture, that king of feavengers, wit neck covered with rapulsive down instead of attractive feathers;the quar- relsome starling; the swallow flying a milea minute and sometimes ten hours in succes- sion; the heron, the quail, the peacock, the os- trich, the lark, the crow, the kite, the bat, the blackbird and many others, with all solors, all sounds, sll styles of flight, all habits, all architecture of nests, leaving nothing wanting in suggestiveness. They were at the creation p:aced all around on the rocks and in the trees and on the ground io serenade Adam's arriva'. Taey took their places on Friday, as tae first nian was made on Saturday. Whatever elses he had or did not have, he should have music. The first sound that struck the human ear was a bird’s voice. Yea, Christian geology—for you know there 1s a Christian geology as well as an in- fidel geology—Christian geology comes in and helps the Bible show what we owe to the bird creation. Before the human race same into this world the worid was occupied by reptiles and by all sorts of destructive monsters—millions of creatures, loathsome and hideous. God sent huge birds to clear the earth of these creatures before Adam and Eve were created. The remains of thess birds have been found imbedded in the rocks. The skeleton of one eagle has been found twenty feet in height and fifty feet trom tip of wing to tip of wing. Many ar- mies of beaks and claws were necessai'y to ciear the earth of creatures that would have destroyed the human race with one clip. like to find this harmony of revelation and science, and to have demonstrated that the God who made the world made the Bible, Moses, the greatest lawyer of all time and a great man for facts, had enough senti- ment and poetry and musical taste to wel- come the illuminated wings anl the voices divinely drilled into the first chapter of Genises. How should Noah, the old ship- carpenter, 600 years of age, find out when the world was fit again for human residence after the universal freshet? A bird will tell, and nothing else can. No man can come down from the mountain to invite Noah and his family cut to terra firma, for the mountains were submerged. As a bird first heralded the human race into the world, now a bird will help the human racs back to the world that had shipped a sea that whelmed everything. Noah stands on Sunday morning at the window of the ark, in his hand a cooing dove, so gentle, soinnocent., so affectionate, and be said: “Now, my little dove, fly away over these waters, explore and come back and tell us whether it is safe to land.” After a long flight it returned hungry and weary and wet, and by its looks and manners said to Noah and his family: *‘The world is not fit for you to disembark.” Noah waited a week, and next Sunday morning he let the dove fly again for a second exploration, and Bunday evening it came back with a leat that nad the sign of just having been plucked from a living fruit tree, and the bird reported the world would do tolerably well for a bird to live in, but not yet suffi- ciently recovered for human residence. Noah waited another week, ahd next Sun- day morning he sent out the dove on the third exploration, but iv returned not, for it tound the world so attractive now it did not want to be caged again, and then the emigrants from the antediluvian world lanaed. It was a bird that told them when to take possession of the resuscitated planet. So the human race were ‘saved by a bird's wing, for, attempting to land too soon, they woula have perished. Aye, here comes a whole flock of doves— rock doves, ring doves, stock doves—and they make Isaiah think of great revivals and great awakenings when souls fly for shelter like a flock of pigeons swooping to the opening of a pigeon coop, and he cries out, ‘*Who are these that fly as doves to their windows?’ David, with Saul after him, and flying from cavern to cavern, com- pres himself to a desert partridge, a bird wisich especially baunts rocky vlaces, and boys and hunters to this day take after it with sticks, for the partridge runs rather than flies, Davia, chased and clubhad and harriad af — “Bekold the fowls of the air!— {ton.” Hezekiah, in the emsaciation of bis Says the|sickness, compares himself to a crane, thin and wasted. Job had so much trouble he could not sleep nights. and he describes his insomnis bv caving, “Iam a companion to owls.” Isaiah compares the desolations of banished Israel to an owl and bittern and cormorant among a city’s ruins. Jeremiab, describing the cruelty of pa- rents toward children, compares them to the ostrich, who leaves its egg3 in the sand un- cared for, crying, *‘The daughter of mv peo- ple i= become like the ostriches of the wilder- ness.” Ameoeng the provisions piled on Solo- mon’s bountiful table he speaks of ‘‘fatted fowl.” The Israelites in the desert got tired of manna and they had quails—quails for breakfast. quails for dinner, gnails for sup- per, and thev died of quails. The Bible re- fers to the migratory habits of the birds and says, “The stork knoweth her appointed time and the turtle and the crane and the swallow the time of their going, but my peo- ple know not the julizments of the Lori.” Would the prophet illustrate the fate of frand, he points to a failura at incubation and says, ‘‘As a partridge sitteth on ezzs and hatcheth them not, so he that getteth riches and not by right shall leave them in the midst of his days and at his end shall be a fool.” The partridge, the most caraless of all birds in choice of its place of nest, build- ing it on the ground and often near a fre- quented road or in a slight ‘depression of ground, without raferenca to safetv, and soon a hoof or a seythe or a cart wheel ends all. So says the prophet, a man who gathers under him dishonest dollars will hatch out of them no peace, no satisfaction, no happi- ness, no security. What vivid similitude! The quickest way to amass a fortuneis by Imguiy, but the trouble is about keeping it. Avery hour of every day some such partridge is driven off the nest. Panics are onlv a flutter otf partridges. It is too tedious work to become rich in the old fashioned way, and if a man can by one falsehood make as much as bv ten vears of hara labor, why not tell it? And if one counterfeit chec’s will bring the dollars as easily as genuine issue, why not make it? One year’s fraud will be equal to a half a lifetime's sweat. Why not live solely by one’s wits? A fortuns thus built will be firm and everlasting, Will it? Ha! build your house on a volcano's crater; 0 to sleep on the hosom of an avalanche. The volcano will blaz2, and tha avalanche will thunder. There are estates which have been coming together from age to age. Many years ago that estate started in a husband's industry and a wife's economy. It grew from gen- eration to generation by cood habits and high minded enterprise. Old fashioned in- dustry was the mine trom which that gold was dug, and God will keep the dee is of such an estate in His rvuckler, Foreclose your morigage, spring your snap judgments, plot with acutest intrigus against a family pro »- erty like that and you cannot do it a per- manent damage, Bestter than warrantee deed and better than fire insurance is the defense which God’s own hand will give it. But here is a man to-day as poor as Job after ho was robbed by satan of everythin but his boils, yet suddenly to-morrow he is arciman. ‘There isno accounting for his sudden afflusnce. He has not yet failed often enouzh to bacoms wealthy. No one pretends to account for his prine:ly ward robe, or the chased silver, or the full curbei steeas that rear and neiga like Bucaphalus in the grasp of his coachman. Did he come toa sudden inheritance? No. Did be make a fortune on purchase and sale? No. Every- body asks where did that partridge hath. The devil suddenly threw him up, and the devil will suideniy let him coms' down. That hidden scheme Gol saw from the first concaption of the plot. That partridge, swift disaster will shoot it down, and the higher it flies the harder it falls. I'he proph- etsaw, as you and Ihave often seen, the awful mistake of partridges. But from the top of a Bible fir tree I hear the shrill cry of tne strork. Joo, Ezzkiel, Jeremiah, speak of it, David cries out, "As for the stors, the fir tre2 is her house.” This large white Bible bird is suppose], without alighting sometimes to wing its way from the region oi the Raine to Africa. As winter comesall the storks fly to warmer climes and the last one of their number that arrives at the spot to whica they migrate is killed by them. What havoc it would make in our species if thoss men wera killel wao are always behind! In oriental cities the stork is domesticated and walks about on the street and wll follow its keeper, In the city of Ephesus Isaw a lonz row of pillars, on the top of each pillar a stork’s nest. But the word ‘stork’ ordinarily means mercy and affection, from the fact that this bird was distinzuisne {i for its great love for its parents. It never forsakes them, and even after they become fecble protects and provides for them. In migrating the old storks lean their necss oa the young storks, and when the old onss give out tae young ones carry them on their baczs, God forbid that a dumb stork should have more heart than we, Blessed is that table at which an old father and mother sit; blessed that altar at which an old father and mother kneal! What it is to have a mother they know best who have lost her. God only knows the agony she suffered for us, the times she wapt over our cradle and the anxious sighs her bosom heaved as we lay upon it, the sick nights when she watchei us long after every one was tired out but God and herself. Her lifeblood beats in our hearts, and her image lives in ourface. ‘T'hat man is grace- less 2s a cannibal who ill treats his parents, and he who begrudges them daily bread and clothes them but shabbily, may God havepa- tience with him; I cannot. I heard a man once say, ‘I now have my old mother on my hands.” Ye storks on your way with food to your aged parents, shame him! But yonder in this Bible sky flies a bird that is speckled. The prophet describing the church cries out, *‘Mine heritage is unto me as a speckled bird; the birds round about are against her.” So it was then: so it is now. Holiness pickel at. Conszcra- tion picked at. Benevolence picked at. Usefulness picked at. A spzcilad bird is a peculiar bird; and that arouses the antip- athy of all the beaks of the forest. The church of God is a peculiar institu- tion, and that is enouzh to evoke attack of of the world, for it is a spzckled bird to be picked at. The inconsistencies of Christians are a banquet on which multitudes get fat. They ascribe everything you do to wrong motives. Put a dollar in the poor box and they will say that you dropped it there only that you might hear it ring, lnvite them to Christ and they will call you a fanatic. Let there be contention among Christians, and they will say: “Hurrah! The church is in decadence.” Christ intendel that His church should always remaina speckled bird. Let birds of another feather pick at her, but they cannot rob her of a single plume. Like the albatross, she can sleep on the bosom of a tempest. She has gone through the fires of Nebuchadnezzar’s furnace and not gob burned; through the waters of the Red sea and not been drowned; throuzh the ship- wreck on the breakers of Melitia and not been foundered. Let all earth and hell try to hunt down this speckled bird, but farabove human scorn and infernal assault it shall sing over every mountain top and fly over every nation, and her triumphant son shall be: “The church of God! ‘The pillar and ground of the truth. The gates of hell shall not prevail against her.” But we cannot stop here. From a tall cliff hanging over the sea I hear the eagle calling unto the tempest and lifting its wings to smite the whirlwind. Moses, Jere- miah, Hosea and Habakkuk at times in their writings take their pen from the eagle's wing. Itisa bird with fierceness 1n its eye, its teet armed with claws of iron and its head with a dreadiul beak. Two or three of them can fill the heavens with clangor. But generally this mouster of the air is alone and unaccompanied, for the reason that its habits are so predaczous it requires five or | ten miles of ‘aerial or earthly dominion all | for itself. 9 ‘The black brown o® itz bac™ ani the white of its Jower feathers, and tha fire of its eve, and tha lonz flap of its wing make glimpse of it as it swinzs down into the val- lev to pick un a rabhit, or a lamb, or a child and then swings back to ite throne on the rock something never to he forzotten. Scat. tered about its evrieof altitudinons solitnde are the bones of its conauests. Bat while the beak and the claws of the eazle are the terror of all the travalers of the air, the mother eagle is most kin{ and gentle to her young, God compares Histraatment of His peonle to the eazle’s care of the eaglets. Deuteronomy xxvii. 11, "As an eazle stir. reth uo her nest, fintterath over her youne, spreadinz abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings, so the Lord alone did lead.” . The old eagle first shoves the youn~ ons ont of the n=st in order to make it fiv, ani then takes it on her back and fliez with it and shakes it off in tha air, and if it seams like falling quicklv flies under it and takes it on her wine azain. So God doas with us, Disaster, failare in busin2ss, disap»oint- ment, bereavement, is oaly God's wav of shakin us out of or co nfortabla na2st in orier that we mav learn ho# to fly. Yon who are comnlaininz that vou hava no faith or courage of Christian zal have had it too easy. You never will leara to fly in that comfortable nest. Like an eagle, Christ has earriai us on His back. At times we hava baan shi'ten off, and when wa were about ty fall Ha came under us again ani brouzht us out of tha gloomy valley to the sunny mountau. Never an eagle broo led with such love and care over her vounz as Gols winzs have been over us. Acros: what oc2ansof troubia we have gone in safety upon the Almighty winzs! From what mountains of sin wa have bzen carried ani at times have besa borne un far above the gunshot of the world and the arrow ot th devil! When our time on earth is closed on thesa oreat wings of God we shall sp2ad with ig- finite quickness from earth’s mountains to heaven's hills, anl as {rom th» eazle's cir- cuit nader the sun men on ths ground sesm small and insignificant as lizir Is on a rocy, so all earthly things shall dwindle into a speck, and ths razing river o! dzath so far beneath will seem smooth ani glassy as a Swiss lake. It was thouzht in ancient times that an eagle could not only molt its feathers in old ace, but that after arriving to great age it would renew its strength and become en- tireiy young again. To this Isaiah alludes when he savs: ‘‘They that wait on ths Lord shall renew their streazth. Taev shall mount up with winzs of eagles.” Even sc the Christian in old aza will renew his spirit ual strength. He shall be young in arlot and enthusiasm for Carist, and as tae body fails the soul will grow in elasticity till at death it will sprinz up like a gladdenel child into the bosom of God. Yea, in this oranitholozical stuily I ses that Job says, ‘dis davs fly as an eagle that hasteth to his prey.” T'ha sp2ed of a huazry eagle when it saw its pray a score of miles distant was unimazinable. It want lize a thunderbolt for spaai ani powar. So fly our days. Sixty minutss, eaca worth a heaven, sinca we assemblel in this placa hava shot like lightning into etaraitv. Tne old earth is rent and cracked under the swift rush of days and months and years and ages. ‘‘Swift as an eazle that hastath to his prey.” Bzhold the fowls of the air! Have you considersd that thay have, as you and 1 have not, the power to change their eyes so that one minuta’ they may ba tele- scopic ani the next microszopie, now sasiny something a mile away anl by telescopic eyesight, an | then dropping to its food on the ground, able to see it closs by ani witu microscopic eyesight? But what a senssless passnze of Scripture that is, until you know the fact, waica says, ““The sparrow hath found a hous? and the swallow a nest for herself, waare sae may lay her young, evan thine a'tars, O Lordof Hosts, my King and my G21!” What has the swallow to do wit the altars of the temple at Jerusalem? Ab, you know that swallows are all the worli over very tam» and in summer tims they usel to fly into ths wir dows and doors of the temple at Jerusilem and build a n:st on the altar waere the priests were offering sacrifices. Thesa sprallows brought leaves and sticks and fashionad nests on ths altars of the tem- ple and hatchad the young sparrows in those nests, and David had sean tae youog birds picziny their way out of ths suell waile the oid swallows watche!, and no ons in thas temple was cruel enouzh to disturo eitaer the old swallows or the young swallows, and David burst ous in rhapsoly, saying, ‘‘The swallow hati tound a nest for harszlf, whara she may lay her young, even Lhins altars, O Lord of Hosts, my Kiog anal my God!” What carpenters, what masons, what weavers, what spinners the birds are! Out of what small resources they make so ex- quisite a home, curved, pillarad, wreathed. Out of mosses, out of sticks, ous of lichens, out of horszhair, out of spiders’ wao, out ot threads swapf from the door by the house- wife, out of the wool of the ske2p from the pasture field. Upholsterad by leaves actually sewed together by its own sharp bill. Cush- joned with feathers from its own breast. Mortared tozetaner with tne gum of trees and the saliva of its own tiny bill, Such symmetry, such adaptation, suca conveni- ence, such geometry ot Structure. Surely thess nests ware built by soma lan. They did not happen just so. Who drafted tae plan for the bird's nest? God! And do you not think tnat if Hs plans such a house for a <haffinch, for an oriole, for a bobolink, for a sparrow, Ho will ses to it that you always have a hone? “Ye are of more valuas than many sparrows.” Waat- ever elsa surrounds you, you can have what the Bible calls “ths feathers of ths A's mighty.” Just think of a nest like that, the warmth of it, the softness of it, the safety of it—*‘the feathers of the Almighty.” No flamingo outflashing the tropical sun- set ever had such orilliancy of pinion; no robin redbreast ever had plumage dashed with such erimsoa ani purple anl oranga and gold—*‘the feathers of the Almighty.” Do you not feel ths touca of them now on forehead and cheek and spirit, and was there ever such tenderness of brooding—‘‘the feathers of the Almigaty?’ So also in this ornithology of the Bible Gol keeps im- pressing us with the anatomy of a birds wing. Over fifty timas does the old Book alluie to the wing—* Wings of a dove,” “Wings of the morning,” “Wings of the wind,” “Sun of righteousn2ss with healing in his wings,” “Wings of tha Almighty,” “All fowl of every wing.” What" does it all mean? It suggests uplifting. It tells you ot flight upward. It means to remind you that you yourself have wings. David cried out, “Oa, that I had wings lice a dove, that I might ly away and be at rest!” Thank’ God that you have better wings than any dove of longest or swiitest flignt. Caged now in bars of flesh are those wings, but tha day comes when they will be liberated. Get ready for ascension. Take the words of the old hymn, and to the tuns unto waich that hymn is married sings Rise, my soul and stretch thy wing; Thy better portion trace. Up out of these lowlands into the heavens of higher experience anl wider prospect. But how shall wa rise? Only as God's holy spirit gives us strength. But that iscoming now. Not as a condor from a Chimboraz) peak, swooping upon the affrighted valley, put at a dove like that which put its soft brown wings over the wet locks of Christ at the baptism in the Jordon. Dove of gentle- ness! Dove of peace! Come, holy spirit, heavenly dove, With all thy quickeniaz powars; Come shed abroad a Saviour’s love, And thas shall kindle ours. John Cultice, the . postmaster of Red- key, Ind., who has kept the place for ten years, is totally blind. —————RR ren It is not once 1n every four hundred years that a fifty-cent piece worth $10,- 000 comes along. SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON FORSUNDAY ,JAN.22, Joshua the High Priest,” Zech. iii., 1-10, Golden Text: Hebrews IV. 14. Commentary. By comparing verses 14 and 15 with verse lof Hag. i. it will be seen that in about three weeks after his first message the work was re-umed. Then he bad other messages for them in the seventn and ninth months of tue same year (Haz ii, 1, 1), 2%. Tae first message cams to Z:caarish mm tha eighth month of the same year (Zech. i,, 1), and on tue night of the twontv-tourth day of the eleventh month he receives a seriasof seven or eignt visions whicn are racorded in chapter i. 7, to vi, 13. Our lesson is ths fourth of taese visions, the first tires teich- ing that the hosts of heaven act on behalf of God’s people; that for every destroyer thers isa repairer, and that God, having chosan Jerusalem, will surely perfor.n all His pleas. ure concerning her. 1. “And he showed ma Joshua, the hizh Tiest, standing before the angel of the or’, and satan standing at his right hanl to resist him.” A prophet represents Goi to the people, while a priest resresants the people before Goi. Tais hizh priest ranve- sents the nation of Israel as appearin 1 befora God for a blessing, and ths ereat adversry is there aiso to prevent this blessing if he possibly can. I suppose tnat no individual or nation ever cams to (od without know- ing something of tue ;esistanceo! th2 adver- sary. ‘ 3 “And the Lord sail unto satan: The Lord rebuke taee, O satan: even tae Lord tnat hath cuosen Jerusaiem reouse thee, Is not thisa brand piucked out of the fire?’ See chanter ii., 12; Pa. exxxii., 13. Gol had chosen Israel aud Jerusaiem, and taat set- tled it. Ananias thouzat that Saul of Tar- Sus was too desperately wicsed to expact anything gooi Irom. tut God's ‘‘Go thv way, tor he is a cnosen vassel unto Me,” settied all that (Acts 1x., 15). God knows Bis instruments vefore He chooses then, and is prepared to cieans> ani qualify tor His service at any cost, : 3. “Now Josnua was clothe] with filth garments and stood before the ange.” Here 1s the grcund of satan’s resistance. Israel conid not deny her filthy garments; no more can we. We must cry out with Isaiah, **Woe is me, for I am a man of un- clean tips,” (Isa. vi., 5), and with Jou, “I ab- hor myseif” (Job xui., 6), for “ali ourright- eousnesses (our ver; best things) are as filthy rags” (Isa. Ixiv.. 6), Every mouth must be stopped and all the world piead “‘emilty” before God (Roa. iii., 19). 4. “Take away the filthy garments from him, And unto him He said, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and 1 will clothe taee with change of raiment.” Tous He will yet remove the mn iquity ot that land ant of that pzople in one day (verse 9), and they shall be all righteous (Isa. ix., 21), Tous He now torgives sins and says to every true penitent wio con- fesses ull and hides notnine, “Son, dauzhter, thy sins are forgiven thee’ (Math, ix., 2, 22). All our efforts at goodness are lice Adam and Eve's fig leat aprons compared witn the garments ot light waich they lost, But the Lord God provides garments of salvation, and wa have only to drop our fig leat aprons, cast aside all our own righteousness and gladly accept God's provision, and then sing Iso, Ixi,, 10, 5. *%30 tney set a fair miter uson his head and clothed him with garments, and the angel of tne Lord stood by.” ‘I'he miter was the linen headdress worn by the priest, the most conspicuous part of whica was the golden plate or crown, upon which was in- scribed, “Holiness Uato the Lori” (Ex. XXviii., 36-38). Inthe days of Israel's res- toration ana salvation Jesus, their king, will be “A Priest Upon His Tarone’ (chap- ter vi., 13), a priest king atter the oraer of Melchizsace, The courch will reign with Him as priests and kings, for such are we sven now by faith in Him (Rev. v,, 9, 10; i., ). 6, 7. ‘‘And the angel of the Lorl protested unto Joshua, saying, C'hus saita the Lord of Hosts, If thou wilt walk in My ways, and if thou wiit keep My charge.” Salvation from bezinning vo end is of the Lord. He alone is the author and the finisher, and we are therecipients. But being plucked from the burning and cleansed anu separated unto God, lsrael isto walk with Him and suow tortn His power and glory. So with the be- lever, e is saved not simply to escape the wrath of God and reach heaven at death, but to abide here 1n a mortal body amid conflict and trial as long as it please tae Lord, show- ing forth the lite of Jesus in His mortal tlesh (I1 Cor. iv.: 10, 11). Tais is to ths natural man impossible; but wat Christ has done in a mortal body ie can surely do again, and one of the Christian's mottoes is, ‘Not I, but Charist, woo livetn in me” (Gal, ii, 20), 8. “dear, now, O Joshua, the high priest, Behold 1 will bring forta My servant, The Branco.” While tue words of the Book have to co with the time when the words wera spoken, there is always a looking forward to tne grand consummation when Jesus shail come in power and glory for the complete overthrow of all enemies and the permanent establishment of His kindom on toe earch. In connection with tis name, The Branco, 1 hope you will look up chapters vi., 12; Isa. iv., 2; Jer. xxiii, 5; xxxiii,, 15. Here He is the servant fully seen in Mark's Gospel; in Jer. xxiii., 5, He 1s the King of Matthew’s Gospel; in Zech. vi., He is the man of Luke's Gospel, while in Isa. iv., 2, He is the beauty ana glory of John’s Gospes. He is alpha and omega, the altogethel’ lovely one, in whom dwelleth ail the fuliness of the Godhead bodily. 9. “For behold the stone that I have laid before Joshua: upon one stone shall be seven eyes.” He is the stone of Israel, de- spised by the builders and rejected, and yet to be head cornerstone. He is the stone cut out without hands who shall break in ieces all kingdoms and fill the earth with is glory (Gen. xlix., 24; Ps. xxviii., 2; Isa, vii., 14; xxviii.,, 16; I Pet. ii.,, 6-8; Math, xxi., 42: Dan, ii., 44, 45), The seven eyes suggests omniscience, as the seven horns and eyes of Rev. v., 6, suggests both omnipo- tence and omniscience. The engraving sug- gests the righteousness of the law graven by God upon tables of stone, and which was fulfilled in Him and soall’ be in Israel when their iniquity shall be taken away. 10. “In that day, saith the Lord of Hosts, shall ye call every man his neigh- bor under the vine and under the fig tree.” In I Kings iv., 25, this language describes the peace and prosperity of the kingdom under Solomon. Here and in Mic. iv., 4, it describes the tranquil prosperity and millennial blessedness of the coming king- dom under a greater man than Solomon, of the increase of whoss government and peace there shall be no end upon the throne of David and upon his kingdom, to order it and to establish it with judgment and with justice, from henceforth even foraver. The seal of the Lord of Hosts will perform this Usa. ix., 7).—Lesson Helper. ts —Tnre grand jury of Santa Clara, Cal, places Senator Sanford’s taxable property at $1.700,000, instead of $143,000, as assessed in 1892. ER a A Cold Weather Phenomenon. The Montmorency fails at Quebec are frozen solid. This has neven bcen known to occur before. EE —TuE “Enquirer” is breaking up fancy coal prices in Cincinnati, selling the fuel ay $3 50 a bushel. et PRESIDENT HARRISON has extended the classification of the Civil Service so as to include all free delivery offizes, 601 in num- ber, sixty-thres of whica are at present classified; also by an amendment to the classification of the Agricultural Depart- ment employes of the Weather Bureaus, elsewhere than in Washington, are included. These tw) changes bring within the classi- fied service something over 7000 places, mak- | ing the total number of places within that service 43.00) LALER NEWS WALFS, CAPITAL, LAROR AND INDUSTRIAL. The Carnegie mills in Beaver Falls, Pa, are now running full in ever department. ‘Saturday the company paid out $14,400 to its etnployes. . a el 4 2 FIRES. * ‘At Kaneas City, Mo., the four-story front building 102 and 104 Walnut street, occupi- ed by the Jaccard Jewelry Company, the Foster Woolen Company and the Kansas City art school. Loss, $220,000; covered by insurance. ae SANITARY. The record of the typhus cases in New York City, since November 30 is 135 cases, 10 deaths, 6 discharges, 89 patients, on North Brother Island, 22 suspects in quar- antine there, and 19 suspects at 23 Bayard street.. No new cases were reported Mon day. — ioe MISCELLANEOUS. The heavy snow bas obliged the discon tinuing of mail routes in the mountain dis- tricts of Kentucky and Tennessee. Four Chinese crossed over on the ice from Sandwich, Ont., Friday night, to Detroit. They were accompanied by a white man who acted as a guide. More are expected to cross in this way. The customs otlicials are on the lookout for them. or i PERSONAL President-elect Cleveland arrived at Lake wood, N. J. He wasaccompanied by Mrs. Cieveland and Baby Ruth. They were driven to the Little White House, as their cottage is calied. With the possible excep- tion of a few days in the latter part of Feb- raary, the family will remain here until they start for Washington. Mr. C.eveland, it is said, will not receive political callers here, but attend to them at his New Yo:k office. REAR 0 FOREIGN. The emigrants who left Germen ports fot the United States in 1892 numbered 108,820 At Mascow the body of a woman, cut in 178 pieces was found in a coffee sack in the street Sunday morning. Nothing has been learned as to the identity of the murderer. A car of dynamite exploded on the Con- go railroad at Paul de l.oanda, "Africa, yes- terday, killing 50 people, among them M, Lequene, head of the Sociele Anonyme Belge. ill LEGISLATIVE. UxtoxtsM Nor 10 BAR EMPLOYMENT. Chairman Derrick, of the Committee on Labor,at Indianapolis.Ind. reported in favor of the passage of the House bill which males it a misdemeanor for any emplover to dis- charge an employe because he belongs to a labor organization. The report was adopted. The same committee reported in favor of the bill which makes it unlawful to em- ploy child labor and the report was adopt Mrs. M. M. Anderson, of Pulaski, was clacted sergeant-at-arms of the Arkansas House. This is the first time a woman has been elected to that position. The committee on judiciary decided to make a favorable report to the North Caro- lina Legislature on a bill intending to put a stop to lynching. 1tis important as the (irst ever introduced in this State. It im- poses a fine of $300 and imprisonment of uny person engaged in a lynching. It alse, holds the authorities of a county responsi ble if a lynching occurs. i { WASHINGTON. The establishment of a commission on the subject of social evils is contemplated in a bill introduced by Senator Frye. A com- mittee of five persons is to be created whose duty it shall be to investigate the social vice in all its phases, its relations to labor and wages, to marriage and divorce, its connec- tion with pauperism, crime ,etc., and also to inquire into the practical results of l=gis- lation for the suppression of theevil in var- ious State. Senator Cullom of Illinois is lying ill at his residence in this city from the effects of a heavy cold. The complete returns will sho. that there wes a gain of $7.000,000 in the collections of internal revenue for the first six months of the present fiscal year over the receipts for the corresponding period of the last fiscal year. THE WHITE HOUSE STILL QUARANTINED.— Little Marthena Harrison continues to im- prove and danger from infection is believed to have been removed from the White House. In conformity with the law, how- ever, the signs containing the information that scarlet fever exists within will not be removed from the private entrances to the mansion until January 26, a month from the day they were placed there. — DISASTERS, ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES An eastbound passenger train was derail. de while crossing a trestle 60 feet high near Morning Sun, Ia., and fell from the track. ‘I'wo passengers were killed and several oth ers were badly injured. At Chicago an accommodation train on* the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad was telescoped at Fifty-fifth street by a Chi- cago and Erie train to New York. The ac: commodation was just leaving Fifty-fifth street station when the express. which had been badly delayed by a blockade in the freight yards, crashed into it. John Red- mond,a private of Company N, Seventeenth Infantry, U.S. A., on his way home to Brooklyn, was probably fatally injured. About a dozen Chicago passengers were bad- ly injured. Patrick Curtin, aged 16 months, was fatally burned at the Kome of his parents, Pitts burg. The child was playing near a stoye in a wash house when its clothing took fire, The mother had only gone into gthe house for a few minutes, but ;when she returned the fire had done its work. An old lady named Martha Wagner, who lived with her son in Pittsburg, was fatally burned by a lamp explosion Monday after- noon. The steamer Costa Rica reports at San Francisco that on Jan. 13 the schooner Vo- lante, which sailed in ballast December 18 from San Pedro for Eureka, was seen float- ing bottom up off Gorderock. Nothing has been heard of the Volante's crew of nine men. The boiler of the steamer Warren blew ap at Chattanooga. Two deck hands were blown into the river and drowned, and i: ether employes were scalded. All colored. ese |KILLED BOTH HIS PARENTS ir A CHESTER SCAPEGRACE —————— Mortally Wounds Both and Shoots His Sister, reefer At Chester, Pa., on Saturday a tragedy was enacted which will probably result in the loss of two lives and the conviction of Thomas Rodgers as a parricide and matri- cide: Rodgers is 24 years old. = His victims are his father, Thomas Rodgers, 60 years old; his mother, Martha Ann Rodgers, of about the same age, and his married sister, Mrs. William Kildey. The old gentleman had reprimanded him for his laziness. Thomas went up stairs and secured a revol- ver. The wife and daughter attempted to save Mr. Rodgers, but the young villain pushed them aside and deliberately fired two bullets into his father at short range. The first entered the thigh and the second iodged in the heart. After his father had fallen to the floor, young Rodgers kicked him in the face. The mother tried to escape by the cellar door, but a bullet struck her in the back and penetrated her lung, -The sister, Mrs. Kildey, fled {rom the liouse by the front door and her brother pursued her and shot her while she ran. The bullet glanced on the shoulder blade. The would- be murderer ran up to an alderman’s office #wo blocks distant, and entering locked the door against a large crowd. The police fol- lowed and Rodgers was locked up. The three victims were taken to the hospital, where Mr. Rodgers died. an BLAINE’S GREAT VITALITY. His Recuperative Powers so {Wonderful That the Physicians, Can Make No Predictions. Tuesday midnight Mr. Blaine had suffer. ed no further relapse, and is said by his physicians to be no worse than he was last Saturday, be‘ore the series of relapses attrac- ted public attention again to [his condition. They acknowledge that he has an enor- mous stock of reserve vitality, which excels anything in their professional experience and for this reason they have stopped prophesying. MARKETS. PITTSBURG. = "THE WHOLESALE PRICES ABE GIVEN BELOW. GRAIN, FLOUR AND FEED. WHEAT—No. 2 Red....... $ T4@% 70 0.3 Bed............ HE 7 75 CORN—No. 2 Yellow ear... 52 50 High Mixed ear,......a.4 47 45 Mixed ear.........» i 47 45 Shelled Mixed , 46 41 OATS—No. 1 White..... doit 30 43 No. 2White...... ....... 33 39 No. 3 White 37 33 Mixed 5... . 35 37 AY E—No. 1 Pa & Ohio.... 62 63 No. 2 Western, New ...... 60 60 FLOUR—Fancy winter pat’ 4 50 475 Fancy Spring patents..... 4 50 475 Fancy Straight winter.... 400 425 XXX Bakers............. 380 377 RyeFlour...:........, 3 50 378 HAY--Baled No. 1 Tim’ 1375 14 03 Baled No. 2 Timothy . 1200 1300 Mixed Clover. ....... . 13 00 13 89 Timothy from country... 16 00 18 03 STRAW — Wheat...... .... 6 00 6 50 6 50 7 00 18 00 19 Oy 15 00 17 00 14 50 15 00 . 14 50 17 Ov DAIRY PRODUCTS, BUTTER—EIgin Creamery 33 3 Faney Creamery......... 31 31 Fancy country roll. . . 23 28 Choice country roll. . % 12 = 14 Low grade & cooking.... 8 12 CHEESE—O New cr'm il 11 12 New York Goshen..... ‘ee 1 12 Wisconsin Swiss bricks. . 14 13 ‘Wisconsin Sweitzer. ...... 13 14 Limburger. ......... 3: 10 11 ; FRUIT AND VEGETABLES. APPLES—Fancy, bbl... 350 Fairdo choice, @ bbl.... BEANS—Select, # bu..... Pa & O Beans, § bbl.... Lima Beans,......... ONIONS— 1) 1 10 Co Co o <@ Yellow danvers bu... 1 00 Yellow onion, @ bbl..... 150 115 Spanish, 7 crate...... s 20 125 CABBAGE—New @ bbl..... 225 2 50 POTATOES— Fancy White per bu...... 70 75 Choice Red per bu......... 63 70 POULTRY EITC. DRESSED CHICKENS— Bs hen aa 10 12 Dressed ducks $b ....... 14 15 Dressed turkeys @ h..... 15 16 LIVE CHICKENS— Live Spring chickens pr 60 65 Live Ducks ® pr......... 60 65 Live Geese # pr.......... 100 125 Live Turkeys @th........ 10 11 EGGS—Pa & Ohio fresh... ‘4 25 FEATHERS— Extra live Geese ® T..... 50 60 No 1 Extra live geese Ib 48 50 Mixed, 0 onan 25 35 I SUELLANLIOUS, TALLOW—Country, #1... 4 Oity..... BEE EEE 5 BEEDS—West Med'm clo’er 8 60 Mammoth Clover........ 8 70 Timothy prime.... el E1908 Timothy choice...... 2.3 Blue grass........... 1 50 175 Orchard grass. 175 > Millet...... 100 Buckwheat............. 20140 150 RAGS—Country mixed .... 1 HONEY—White clover.... 16 17 Buckwheat. ..... 12 15 BIOUR—... oui. b2 80@ $3 53 WHEAT—No. 2 I : 700 ¥ pt RYE—No. 2 rin 51 CORN—Mixed vasa 43 44 OAUS ....... 34 35 EGGS..... 3 UTTER .. Ps 20 33 FLOUR RE Vacs OUR viii i $3 40@ $- WHEAT—No. 2 Red....... 0 Bg 5 CORN—No. 2, Mixed... 48 a0 OATS—No. 2, White........ 40 41 BUTTER—Creamery Extra. 24 31 EGGS—Pa., Firsts.... SR 21 FOLD NEW YOR TT LOTUUR—Patents...... . 4 50 5 00 WHEAT—No, 2 Red........ 79 2 > BYF-Western.............. 58 60 CORN—Ungraded Mixed...,. 49 5 OATS—Mixed Western... .. 35 33 BUTTER—Creamery........ 20 31 EGGS—State and P . 92 27 PORT. fi BURG STOCK YARDS. Prime CATTLE, rime Steers..... mete esins $ 450 5 Fairto Good. ........ eon: sl Common... ov... 0. ol 300to 3 85 Bullsand dry. cows......... 1 50 to 5 ( Veal Calves. ................ 3 50 to 8 id Heavy rough calves. . 3 50to. 4 00 Fresh cows, per head. 50 00 to 45 0) SI : Prime 95 to 100-b sheep....$ 4 7510 5 25 Common 70 to75 1 sheep... 2 00to 5 50 Lambs............... 59) to 6 10 HOGS TE Philadelphia hoos 64 Corn Yorkers........ 8 6 00 0 3 a yas, BEB ra ss cri sine, J 0 bd Roughs....., teltesnsnsns 5 00to 5 50 — TEE ia, I co and ac] surely all.” ( HOO ing the suffered ANNE G Sent price, §! BRA
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