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OLD TIMES RECALLED.
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THE BLESSINGS OF MEMORY
—_——
Rev.Dr.Talmage SaysWe ShouldIndulge
More in Reminiscences. The Dear
Old Home and Mother.
—_—
TexT: “While I was musing the fire
burned.” —Psalm xxxix., 3. 3 A
Here is David, the psalmist, with the fore-
finger of his right hand against his temple,
the door shut against the world, engaged in
contemplation. And it would be well for us
to-take the same posture often, closing the
door against the world while we sit down in
sweet solitude to contemplate.
In a small island off the coast I once passed
a Sabbath in delightful solitude, for I had
resolved that I would have one day of entire
quiet before I entered upon autumnal work.
I thought to have spent the day in laying out
plans for Christian work, but instead of that
it became a day of tender reminiscence. I
reviewed my pastorate. I shook hands with
an old departed iriend, whom I shall greet
again when the curtains of life are lifted.
The days of my boyhood came back, and I
was 10 years of age, and I was 8, and I was
5. There was but one house on the island,
and yet from Sabbath daybreak, when the
bird chant woke me. untilthe evening melted
into the bay, from shore to shore thers were
10,000 memories, and the groves were a-hum
with voices that had long ago ceased.
_ Youth is apt too much to spend all its time
in looking forward. Old age is apt too much
to spend all its time in looking backward.
People in midlife and on the apex look both
ways. It would be well for us, I think, how-
ever, to spend more time in reminiscence.
By the constitution of our nature we spend
most of the time looking forward. And the
vast majority of people live not so much in
the present as in the future. I find that you
mean to make a reputation. You mean to
establish yourself, and the advantages that
you expect to achieve absorb a great deal
of your time. But I see no harm in this if
it does not make you discontended with the
present or disqualify you fcr existing duties.
It is a useful thing sometimes to look back
and to see the dangers we have escaped, and
to see the sorrows we have suffered, and the
trials and wanderings of our earthly pil-
grimage, and to sum up our enjoyments. I
mean to-day, so far as God may help me, to
stir up your memory of the past, so that in
the review you may be encouraged and hum-
bled and urged to pray.
There is a chapel in Fiorence with a fresco
by Guido. It was covered up with two
inches of stucco until our American and
European artists went there and after long
toil removed the covering and retraced the
fresco. And I am aware that the memory of
the past, with many of you, is all covered up
with 10,000 obliterations, and I propose this
morning, so far asthe Lord may help me, to
take away the covering, that the old picture
may shine out again.
I want to bind in one sheaf all your past
advantages, and I want to bind in another
sheaf all your past adversities. Itisa preec-
ious harvest, and I must be cautious how I
swing the scythe.
Among the gredtest advantages of your
past life was an early home and its surround-
ings. The bad men of the day, for the most
part, dip their heated passions out of the
boiling spring of an unhappy home. We
are not surprised that Byron’s heart was a
concentration of sin when we hear that his
mother was abandoned and that she made
sport of his infirmity and often called him
‘the lame brat.” He who has vicious parents
has to fight every inch of his way if he
would maintain his integrity and at last
reachthe home of the good in heaven.
Perhaps your early home was in the city.
It may have been in the days when Canal
street, New York, was far up town. That old
house in the city may have been demolished
or changed into stores, and it seemed like
sacrilege to you, forthere was more meaning
in that plain house, in that small house, than
there is in a granite mansion or a turreted
cathedral. Looking back this morning, you
see it as though it were yesterday—the sit-
ting room, where the loved ones sat by the
plain lamplight, the mother at the evening
stand, the brothers and sisters, perhaps long
ago gathered into the skies, then plotting
mischief on the floor or underthe table ; your
father with a firm voice commanding silence,
that lasted half a minute.
Oh, those were good days! Tf you had
your foot hurt, your mother always had a
soothing salve to heal it. If you were
wronged in the street, your father was always
ready to protect you. The year was one
round of frolic and mirth. Your greatest
trouble was an April shower, more sunshine
than shower. The heart had not been ran-
sacked by troubles, nor had sickness broken
- it, and no lamb had a warmer sheepfold
than the home in which your childhood
nestled.
Perhaps you were brought up in the coun-
try. You stand now to-day in memory under
the old tree. You clubbed it for fruit that
was not quite ripe because you could not
wait any longer. You hear the brook rumb-
ling along over the pebbles. You step again
into the furrow where your father in his
shirt sleeves shouted to the lazy oxen. You
frighten the swallows from the rafters of the
barn and take just one egg and silence your
conscience by saying they will not miss it.
You take a drink again out of the very bucket
that the old well fetehed up. You go forthe
cows at night and find them wagging their
heads through the bars. Ofttimes in the
dusty and busy streets you wish you were
home again on that cool grass or in the hall
of the farmhouse, through which there was
the breath of new mown hay or the blossom
of buckwheat.
You may have in your windows now beauti-
ful plants and flowers brought from across
the seas, but not one of them stirs in your
soul so much charm and memory as the old
ivy and the yellow sunflower that stood
sentinel along the gardsn walk and the for-
getmenots playing hide and seek mid the
long grass. The father, who used to come
in sunburned from the flelds and sit down on
the doorsill and wipe the sweat from his
brow, may have gone to his everlasting rest.
The mother who used to sit at the door a
little bent over, cap and spectacles on, her
face mellowing with the vicissitudes of many
years, may have put down her gray head on
the pillow in the valley, but forget that home
you never will.
Have you thanked God for it? Have you
rehearsed all these blessed reminiscences?
Ch, thank God for a Christian father. Thank
God for a Christian mother. Thank God for
an early Christian altar at which you were
taught to kneel. Thank God for an early
Christian home.
T bring to mind another passage ir he his-
tory of your life. The day came when you
set up your own houshold. The days passed
along in quiet blessedness. Your twain sat at
the table morning and night and talked over
your plans for the future. The most signifi-
cant affair in your life became the subject of
mutual consultation and advisement. You
were so happy you felt you never could be
any happier.
One day a dark cloud hovered over your
» dwelling, and it got darker and darker. But
out cf that cloud the shining messenger of
God descended to incarnate an immortal
spirit. Two little feet started on an eternal
journey, and you were to lead t A gem
¢o flash in heaven’s coronet, and you to
polish it. Eternal ages of light and dark-
pess watching the starting out of a newly
created being.
You rejoiced and you trembled at the re-
sponsibility that in your possession an im-
mortal treasure was placed. You prayedand
rejoiced, and wept and wondered, and prayed
and rejoiced, and wept and wondered. You
were earnest in supplication that you might
lead it through life into the kingdom of God.
There was a tremor in your earnestness.
There was a double interest about that home.
There was an additional interest why you
should stay there and be faithful, and when
in a few months your house was filled with
the music of the child's laughter you were
struck through with the fact that you had a
stupendous mission.
"ave you kept that vow? Have you ne-
| You said, ‘I cannot bear it, [ cannot bear
glected any of these duties? Isyourhome as}
much to you as it used to be? Have thosa
anticipations been gratified? God help you
to-day in your solemn reminiscence and let
His mercy fall upon your soul if your kind-
ness has been ill requited! God -have mercy
on the parent on the wrinkles of whose face
is written the story of a child's sin! God
have mercy on the mother who in addition to
her own pangs has the pang of a child’s in-
iquity! Oh, there are many, many sad
sounds in this sad world, but the saddest
sound that is ever heard is the breaking of a
mother’s heart! Are thereany here who re-
member that in that home they were unfaith-
ful? Are there those who wandered off from
that early home and left the mother to die
with a broken heart? Oh, I stir that rem-
iniscence to-day !
I find another point in your life history.
You found one day you were in the wrong
road ; you could not sleep at night. There
was just one word that seemed to sob through
your banking house, or through your office,
or your shop, or your bedroom, and that
word was “‘eternity.” Yousaid: ‘I am not
ready for it. O God, have mercy!” The
Lord heard. Peace came to your heart. You
remember how your hand trembled as you
took tha cup of the holy’ communion. You
remember the old minister who consecrated
it, and you remember the church officials
who carried it through the aisle. You re-
member the old people who at the close of
the service took your hand iu taeirs in con-
gratulating sympathy, as much as to say,
“Welcome home, you lost prodigal,” and
though those hands have all withersd away
that communion Sabbath is resurrected to-
day. It is resurrected with all its prayers
and songs and tears and sermons and trans-
figuration. Have you kept those vows?
Have you been a backslider? God help you!
This day kneel at the foot of mercy and start
again for heaven. Start to-day as you
started then. I rouse your soul by that
reminiscence.
But I must not spend any more of my time
in going over the advantages of your life. I
just put them all in one great sheaf, and I
bind them up in your memory with one loud
harvest song, such as reapers sing. Praise
the Lord, ye blood bought mortals on earth!
Praise the Lord, ye crowned spirits of heav-
en!
But some of you have not always had a
smooth life. Some of you are now in the
shadow. Others had their troubles years ago ;
you are a mere wreck of what you once were.
I must gather up the sorrows of your past
life, but how shall I do it? You say that is
impossible, as you have had so many troubles
and adversities. Then I will just take two,
the first trouble and the last trouble.
And when you are walking along the street
and there has been music in the distance
you unconsciously find yourselves keeping
step to the music, so when you started life
your very life was a musical timebeat. The
air was full of joy and hilarity. With the
bright, clear oar, you made the boat skip.
You went on, and life grew brighter, until
after awhile suddenly a voice from heaven
said, “Halt!” And you halted. You grew
pale. You confronted your first sorrow.
You had no idea that the flush on your
child’s cheek was an unhealthy flush. You
sald it cannot be anything serious. Death
in slippersd feet walked round about the
cradle. You did not hear the tread, but
after awhile the truth flashed on you. You
walked the floor. Oh, it you could, with
your strong, stout hand, have wrenched the
child from the destroyer!
You went to your room, and you said:
“God, save my child! God, save my child!”
The world seemed going out in darkness,
it!” You felt as if you could not put the
lashes over the bright eyes never to see them
again sparkle. Oh, if you could have taken
that little one in your arms and with it
leaped into the grave, how gladly you would
have done it! Oh, if you could let your
property go, your houses, your land and
your storehouse go, how gladly you would
have allowed them to depart if you could
only have kept that one treasure!
But one day there aross from the heavens
a chill blast that swept over the bedroom,
and instantly all the light went out, and
there was darkness—thick, murky, impene-
trable, shuddering darkness. But God did
not leave you there. Mercy spoke. As you
were about to put that eup to your lips God
said, ‘“Let it pass,” and forthwith as by the
hand of angels, another cup was put into
your hands. It was the cup of God's conso-
lation. And as you have sometimes lifted
the head of a wounded soldier and poured
wine into his lips, so God puts His left arm
under your head, and with His right hand
He pours into your lips the wine of His com-
fort and His consolation, and you looked at
the empty cradle and looked at your broken
heart, and you looked at the Lord's chas-
tisement, and you said, ‘‘Even so, Father,
for so it seemeth good in Thy sight.”
Ah, it is your first trouble. How did you
get over it? God comforted you. You have
been a better man eversince. You have been
a better woman ever since. In the jar of the
closing gate of the sepulcher you heard the
clanging of the opening gate of heaven and
you felt an irresistable drawing heavenward.
You have been purer and holier of heart ever
since that night when the little one for the
last time pus its arms around your neck and
said: ‘‘Good night, papa. Good night,
mamma. Meet mein heaven.”
But I must come on down to your later
sorrow. What was it? Perhaps it was sick-
ness. The child’s tread on the stair or the |
tick of the watch on the stand disturos you.
Through the long, weary days you counted
the figures on the carpet or the flowers in
the wall paper. Oh, the weariness and ex-
haustion! Oh, the burning pangs! Would
God it were morning, would God it were
night, were your frequent cry. But you are
better—perhaps even well. Have youthanked
God that to-day you can come out in the fresh
air ; that you are in this place to hear God's
name, and to sing God's praise, and to im-
plore God's help, and to ask God's forgive-
ness? Bless the Lord who healeth all our
diseases and redeemeth our lives from de-
struction.
Perhaps your last sorrcwy was a financial
embarrassment. I congratulate some of you
on your lucrative profession or occupation,
on ornate apparel, on a commodious resi-
dence—everything you put your hand to
seems to turn to gold. But there are others
of you who are likethe ship on which Paul
sailed where two seas met, and you are
broken by the violence of the waves. By an
unadvised indorsement, or by a conjunction
of unforeseen events, or by fire or storm, ora
senseless panic, you have been flung head-
long, and where you once dispensed great
charities now you have hard work to make
the two ends meet.
Have you forgotten to thank God for your
days of prosperity, and that through your
trials some of you have made investments
whieh will continue after the last bank of
this world has exploded and the silver and
gold are molten in fires of a burning world?
Have you, amid all your losses and discour-
agements, forgot that there was bread on
your table this morning and that there shall
be a shelter tor your head from the storm,
and there is air for your lungs and blood for
your heart and light for your ays and a glad
and glorious and triumphant religion for
your soul?
Perhaps your last trouble was a bereave-
ment. ‘That heart which in childhood was
your refuge, the parental heart, and which
has been a source of the quickest sympathy
ever since, has suddenly become silent for-
ever. And now sometimes whenever in sud-
den annoyance and without deliberation you
say, “I will go and tell mother,” the thought
flashes on you, ‘I haveno mother.” Or the
father, with voice less tender, but at heart as
earnest and loving—watchful of all your
ways, exultant over your Sudaccess without
saying much, although the old people do
talk it over by themselves—is taken away
forever.
Or there was your companion in lire,
sharer of your joys and sorrows, taken, leay-
ing the heart an old ruin, where the ill winds
blow over a wide wilderness of desolation,
the sands of the desert driving across the
place which once bloomed like the garden of
God. And Abraham mourns for Sarah at
the cave of Machpelah. Going along your
path in life, suddenly, right before you was
an open grave.
People looked down, and they saw it was
only a few feet deep and a few feet wide, but
to you it was a chasm down which went all
your hopes and all your expectations.
* But cheer up in the name of the Lord Jesus
Christ, the comforter.
forsake you. Did the Lord take that child
out of your arms? Why, He is going to
shelter it better than you could. He is going
to array it in a white robe and give it a palm
branch and have it all ready to greet you at
your coming home, Blessed the broken
heart that Jesus heals, Blessed the im-
portunate cry that Jesus compassionates.
Blessed the weeping eye from which the soft
hand of Jesus wipes away the tear.
Some years ago I was sailing down the St.
John river, which is the Rhine and the Hud-
son commingled in one scene of beauty and
grandeur, and while I was on the deck of the
steamer a gentleman pointed out to me the
places of interest, and he said, ‘‘All this is
interval land, and it is the richest land in all
the provinces of New Brunswick and Nova
Scotia.”
“What,” said I. “do you mean by interval
land?” “Well,” he said, ‘‘this land is sub-
merged for a part of the year. Spring
freshets come down, and ali thes» plains are
overflowed with the water, and the water
leaves a rich deposit, and when the waters
are gone the harvast springs up, and there iy
the grandest harvest that was ever reaped.”
And I instantly thought, “It is not the
heights of the church and it isnot the heights
of this world that are the scenes of the graat-
est prosperity, but the soul over which the
floods of sorrow have gone, the soul over
which the freshets of tribulation have torn
their way, that yields the greatest fruits of
righteousness, and the largest harvest for
time, and the richest for eternity.” Bless
God that your soul is interval land.
But these reminiscences reach only to this
morning. There is only one more point of
tremendous reminiscences, and that is the
last hour of life, when we have to look over
all our past existence. What a moment that
will be! I place Napoleon's dying rem-
iniscence on St. Helena beside Mrs. Judson’s
dying reminiscence in the harbor of St.
Helena—the same island—20 years aftor,
Napoleon's dying reminiscence was one ot
delirium as he exclaimed, ‘Head of the
army!” Mrs. Judson’s dying reminiscence,
as she came home from her missionary toil
and her life of self sacrifice for God, dying
in the cabin of the ship in the harbor of St.
Helena, was, ‘‘I always did love the Lord
Jesus Christ.” And, then, the historian says,
she fell into a sound sleep for an hour and
woke amid the songs of angels.
I place the dying reminiscence of Augustus
Cmsar against the dying reminiscence of the
Apostle Paul. The dying reminiscence of
Augustus Cesar was, addressing his atten-
dants, ‘*Have I played my purt well on the
stage of life?” and they answered in the ai-
firmative, and he said: “Why, then, don’t
you applaud me?” The dying reminiscence
of Paul the Apostle was: “I have foushta
good fight, I have finished my course, I havo
kept the faith. Henceforth there is laid up
for me a crown of righteousness, which the
Lord, the righteous Judge, will give me in
that day, and not to me only, but to all them
that love His appearing.”
Augustus Cesar died amid pomp and great
surroundings. Paul uttered his dying
reminiscence looking up through the roof of
a dungeon. God grant that our dying
pillow may be the closing of a useful life and
the opening of a glorious eternity.
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An Emperor at the Flow.
In order to emphasize the imyori-
ance of the cultivation of the soil and
to encourage his subjects to follow
agricultural pursuits, the Emperor of
China sometimes performs certain
rites at the ‘‘Emperor’s Field” and
goes through the form of plowing and
other work of the husbandman. One
day recently the Emperor set out af
daybreak from his palace, with a nu-
merous and magnificent train of
courtiers and others. Before breakfast
the Emperor arrived at the shrines of
the deity presiding over agriculture,
and his,majesty stopped to offer up his
thanksgiving and sacrifices. After
changing his dress, the morning re-
past was served, at the end of which
the Emperor proceeded to the field, at
the four corners of which were erected
four pavilions, where the seeds of
wheat and other cereals were placed.
In the center were numbers of mag-
nificently attired courtiers, each hold-
ing aloft a many-colored flag, while on
Hs is not going to |
the sidé of the passage were scores of
aged end white-haired farmers, each
having in his hand some agricultural
implement. Placing his left hand on
the plow and holding the whip in his
right hand the Emperor began the
ceremony of the occasion. By prear-
rangement the officers did their al-
lotted share, some wielding the agri-
cultural implements, while others scat-
tered seeds ont of the baskets as if
sowing, while the Emperor tvas busied
with the plow, which was hitched to a
richly caperisoned bullock draped in
yellow and led by two of the Emper-
or’s body guards. On the Emperor
finishing his round at the plow the
three princes were ordered to go
through the performonce, and =fter
them nine high courtiers had their
turn. —Pall Mall Budget.
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Hardships of Life in the Polar Region,
The whole region is one of severe
cold, ard the sea is frozen for the
greater part of the year, land and
water becoming almost indistinguish-
able, but for the incessant movement
and drift of the sea ice, says McClue's
Magazine. In summer the sea ice
breaks up into floes which may drift
away by the wind against the shores
of continents or islands, leaving lanes
of open water which a shift of wind
may change and close in an hour.
Icebergs launched from the glaciers
of the land also drift with the tide,
current and wind through the more or
or less open water. Possibly at some
times the pack may open and a clear
waterway run through to the pole, and
old whalers tell of many a year, when
they believed that a few days’ steam-
ing would carry them to the end of
the world, if they could have seized
the opportunity.
At other times routes traversed in
safety time after time may be effect-
ively closed for years, and all ad-
vance barred.
Food in the form of seals or walrus
in the open water, reindeer, musk ox,
polar bears or birds on the land, may
often be procured, but these sources
cannot be relied upon. Advance
northward may be made by water in a
ship, or by dog-sledge, or on foot, over
the frozen snow orice.
Each method has great drawbacks.
Advance by sea is stopped when the
young ice forms in autumn, and land
advance is hampered by the long
Arctic night which enforces months
of inaction, more trying to health and
apirits than the severest exertion.
: the man and his teaching.
SUNDAY SCHOOL
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LESSON FOR SUNDAY, AUGUST 20
rien
“Paul Befors Felix,” Acts xxiv., 10-25
Golden Text: I Cor. xvi. 13.
Commentary.
10. “Then Paul, after that the governor
had Beckoned unto him tospeak, answered.” .
Last week we left Paul about to address the
people from the castle stairs just after his
arrest. The next day he is brought before
the Jewish council, butboth the addresa from
the stairs and his words before the eouncil
caused such an uproar that the chief captain
had to rescue and care for him. The next
night the Lord stood by him and strength-
ened him (chapter xxiii., 11). Then because
of a plot to kill him he is sent under a strong
escort to Caesarea. In this lesson he is be
fore the governor Felix, and also the high
priest and elders who have come from Jeru-
salem to appear against him. They have
just accused him, and now ha is about to
answer for himse'f,
11. “There are yet but twelve Jays since I
went up to Jerusalem for to worship.” The
story of this book then from chapter xxi., 15,
to this event occupied but 12 days, but how
full they were for Paul? Consider the last
12 hours of the Lord Jesus ere He was nailed
to the cross, how much they meant to Him,
and how large a portion of each gospel is
taken up with the record. Whether our
bours or days mean much or little let all be
for Him.
12. ‘‘And they neither found me in the
temple disputing with any man, neither
raising up the people, neither in the syna-
gogues, nor in the city.” So that their accu-
sations, even though made by Orator Ter-
tullus, were all lies. It is very trying to be
publicly accused of things of which you are
perfectly innocent, but it is very glorifying
to God if one can be patient under such cir-
cumstances (I Pet, ii., 19-21 ; iv., 14).
13 “Neither can they prove the things
whereof they now accuse me.” Only liesand
not a particle of foundation. But so it was
with Jesus Himself, and He answered noth-
ing (Mark xv., 3-5), giving us an example as
to how we ought to act. It is well sometimes
to be as deaf and dumb (Ps. xxxviii., 13, 14).
14. ‘‘So worship I the God of- my fathers,
believing all things which are written in the
law and in the prophets.” And yet that was
eounted heresy because he believed the word
of God rather than man’s interpretation of
that word. In some quarters it is counted a
kind cof heresy to so believe in these days,
but we are surely safe in following Him who
said, *‘All things must be fulfilled which
were written in the law of Moses, and in the
prophets, and in the Psalms concerning Me.”
15. ‘And have hope toward God, which
they themselves also allow, that there shall
be a resurrection of the dead, both ot the
just and unjust.” Some of the most im-
portant Old Testament texts on the resur-
rection are Job xix., 25-27, margin ; Isa. xxvi.,
19 ; Hos. vi., 2, and Dan. xii., 2.
16. ‘And herein do I exercise myself, to
have always a conscience void of offense to-
ward God and toward men.” Believing and
teaching that afl the saints shall meet the
Lord in the air and be at the judgment seat
of Christ (I Thess. iv., 16, 17 ; Rom. xiv., 10;
II Cor. v., 10) to be judged for their works.
Paul sought so tu live that in that day his
works might not be burned up or disap-
proved (1 Cor. iii., 15 ;ix., 27, R. V).
17. “Now after many years [ came to bring
alms to my Nation and offerings.” As from
Antioch (chapter xi., 29, 30), so from other
places the saints sent thank offerings to Jer-
usalem, for if Jerusalem sent them the good
news ot Jesus, the Messiah, it was but right
that they should remember the saints there
in temporal gifts.
18. “Whereupon certain Jews from Asia
found me purified in the temple, neither with
multitude nor with tumult.” There was nc
ground for his arrest except their hatred ol
His teaching was
strictly Seriptural and heartily indorsed by
the Lord Jesus Himself (chapters xviii., 9,
10 ; xxiii., 11), so that their hatred was really
a Imtred of God and His truth. Our com:
fort is that, if faithful to Him, we must ex
pect fellowship in His sufferings (Luke x,
16 ; Jobn xv.. 20).
14 «Who ought to have been here befor!
thee and object if they had aught agains!
me.’ Knowing they could prove nothing
they thought best not to appear. In view of
eternity and the judgment seat, what solid
comfort there is in the words, ‘If God be for
us, who can be against us?” ‘Who shall lay
anything to the charge of God’s elect” (Rom.
viii. 81, 33)?
20 “Or else let these same here say if they
have found any evil doing in me whilel
stood before the council.” His appearance
, before the council and the happenings there
are recorded in chapter xxiii., 1-10. It was
that same night that the Lord appeared to
him and strengthened him (verse 11) so there
could have been nothing displeasing to the
Lord in his conduct.
21 *‘Except it be for this one voice, that 1
cried, standing among them. Touching the
resurrection of the dead I am called in ques-
tion by you this day.” See chapter xxiii., 6.
It was this saying before the council which set
Pharisees and Sadducees against each other,
30 that the chief captain had to rescue Paul
from them. How a great truth like the two
resurrections or the coming of the Lord will
set religious people against each other.
29. “When Lysias, the chief captain, shall
some down, I will know the uttermost of
your matters.” It is a greai comfort to the
true child of God to know that God is thor-
oughly acquainted with the uttermost of all
His matters. He knows us even to the imag-
inations of the thoughts of our hearts (Gen.
vi., 5; I Chron, xxviii, 9). He also sees the
and from the beginning and wili perfect all
that concerneth us (Isa. xlvi., 10; Ps.
axxxvili. 8).
93. ‘And he commanded a centurion to
geep Paul and to let him have liberty.” So
It was with Paul repeatedly (chapters xxvii.,
3. xxviii., 10). See in this the power of
God that His servant might have greater op-
portunity to testify of Him. ‘““The eyes of
the Lord run to and fro throughout the
whole earth to show Himself strong on be-
half of those whose hearts are perfect toward
Him.”
24. ‘He sent for Paul and heard him con-
earning the faith in Christ.” ‘This opportu
wity was perhaps given for the sake of Dru
silla, but acyway Paul must have rejoiced in
the privilege of telling again the story of the
Christ who met hin on the way to Damas-
ous and pave him forgiveness of sins and
éternal redemption (Acts xiii., 38, 39; Heb.
ix., 12).
95. ‘He reasoned of righteousness, tem-
perance and judgment to come.” In the
power of the spirit Paul spoke of Jesus asthe
ohly righteousness for the sinner (Rom. X.,
3. 4) the manifestation of that righteousness
in tho life of the believer ( pm. viii., 4; Titus
ii., 12), and the certainty of our appearing
boro desus Christ as our Judge (Acts xvii.)
81). Felix was evidently moved, but said:
“Net now.’ --- Lesson Helper
“The Difference.
The son of a former slave-owner
ately met one of the colored “boys”
pf the old plantation, and stopped
to have a chat about “matters and
things.” “Well, John,” said he, “and
vhat are you.doing these days?”
«I'se a zorter, Massa Bob.”
“An exhorter, you mean?”
“Yas, sir, a zorter; dat’s it!”
«1 thought you were a preacher.
What is the difference between a
preacher an exhorter?”
«Diff'rence 'twixt a zorter an’ a
preacher is zackly this: preacher he
stick to de tex’, but zorter he hit all
round!”
ea
THE government of Russia has ex-
cluded “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” from the
theaters ol that country, yet they call
it despotic and inconsiderate."
KEYSTONE STATE CULLINGS
SHEEP-KILLING DOGS.
O1L Ciry—Two dogs killed eight sheep
outright and mangled twenty-three morein
less than an hour in Canal towuship Satur
day night. These dogs trayel together only
at night. and then only on sheep killing
raids, never having been seen together in
the day time. They have cost the farmers
of this part of the county hundreds of dol
lars. The sheep !ast killed belonged
James Singleton and Sherman Deets.
RC
MORE COKE OVENS SLUT DOWN,
UnroNtowN—Seventy more ovens ware
closed down at the Redstone works of the
H.C. Frick Coke Company. Two montis ago
the entire 40 ovens at this works were
in
blast Now but 200 are burning, and
these are liable to be blown out at any
time.
SoME time ago the Bellefonte council !
decided that cows cou d no longer roam the .
streets. Since then, according to the
“Watchman.” pedoestrianism is much
pleasanter. The only troubl» now is that
persons can hardlv get along on account of
the crowds of pretty girls. The intimation
is plain that the girls were afraid of the
COWS.
A HoMESTEAD man drew his savings $690
from the First National Bank of Home:
stead when a rin was started there by so e
Hungarians. He kept th- money at home
until a thi«f found it, ‘The thief bas it now
and {ne bank 13 still sound.
. CaturriNe SHANNON was buried last week
in Bo'd Eagle cemetery, Blair county. She
passed her Y0th birthday about two months
ago. For vearsshe had been using her
third set of teetn.
Near Huntingdon, ateam ran a way with
areaper after striking a hornets’ nest. The
aged driver, John G. Smith, was thrown in
front of the machine, beheaded and hor-
ribly mutilate 1.
FraAxk MILLER, a young farmer of Brush
Valley townshin. Indiana county, was kiil-
ed by the explosion of a gun while he was
lying in wait for some dogs which had kill-
ed hissheep.
. Turre is any amount of building goingon
in Johnstown this summnier, and among
other structures are four handsome busi-
ness blocks that will cost $200,000.
Canviy HarMiy and Reuben Campbell, of
Stahlstown, Westmoreland county, claim to
have the record on cradling oats. They cut
a 10-acre field in one day.
James THorpPE, an employe of the Lee-
tonia Rolling mill. Greensburg, was grind-
ing a link, when the emery wheel burst,
killing him instantly.
Eraer Jones, aged 11 years, was drowned
in Pymatuniong creek, at Orangeville, near |
Sharon, while bathing with some young |
girl companions.
Ix digging a well at Connellsville, em-
ployes ot the Columbia Brick Company,
discovered a human body and a canoe both
petrified.
Ronrerr ATKINsON's barn near West Over-
ton, was burned with all big crop, aggregat.
ing a loss of $1,500 with no insurance,
BrreLars broke into the home of Fred-
erick Long in Mechanicsburg and after
ransacking burned it to the ground.
Trw mother of negro West, who murdered
the Crouch family in Washington county,
was found dead in bed.
The Lebanon Trust and Safe Derosit
Bank failed. It is a State institution’ with
a capital of ¥50,000.
Tne Scranton lace factory has tempor-
arily stispended operations, throwing out
about 400 people.
rere er
OFFICIAL CROP REPORT.
Condition of All Cereals, Potatoes,
Tobacco and Fruit.
The August report of the Statistician ol
the Department of Agriculture shows that
the condition of corn has declined a little
over six points during tho past month, the
average for the entire breadth being 87 as
against 93.2 for the month of Juiy. This de-
cline is due in the main to the drought,
which has proved both extensive and per-
sistent. While in some partsof the country
the continued dry weather has injursdthe
crop beyond recovery, it is nevertheless true,
as to the larger portion of the area devoted
thereto, that improvement is not only pos-
sible.but with a sufficient rainfall through tho
month of August, will be assured. The av-
erages in the principal States are: Ohio, 85;
Indiana. 79, Illinois, 81: Iowa, 102; DMis-
souri, 95: Kansas, 82: Nebraska, 84.
There has been a. considerable talling off
in the condition of spring wheat since last
month, amounting to something oy 10
points, the average condition the present
month being 67, as awainst 77.4 for the month
The condition by
of July.
5: Wisconsin, 70: Minnssota,
87 : Nebraska, 78; South Dakota.
States is as fol-
Dakota, 66. ‘This decline of 10 points is the
result of the too high temperature and cefi-
cient rainfall in the spring wheat States,
The condition of spring rye in August is
78.5 as against 89 in the month of July. The
condition of oats has fallen 10 points sinee
the July report, being 78.2 2s comparad with
88.8 last month, waiile Ar st, 1892, it
stood at 86.2. It is tie lowest condition re-
ported in August for many years, and is due
| to a cold, wet spring, succeeded by coutinu-
ous dry. hot weather, durin the latter part
of June and the whole of July.
The August returns for barley show a
slight decline in condition from that of last
month. being 84.6 against 85.3 in July, and
precisely the same as it was in the month of
June.
The acreage of buckwheat is reported at
96.3 as compared with 1892, and condition at
88.8.
The condition of potatoes has deelined
nearly nine points in the last month, and now
stands at 86. Condition in August has only
been lower twice in the last decads, The
general drought has been the cause of this
falling off, and rain is needed badly to pre-
vent further disastrous losses.
The condition of the timothy crop is 80.86,
as compared with 93.2 in 1892. The hay
crop on the whole is large, and has generally
been secured in good condition, although in
some important regions unfavorable condi-
tion caused a reduction of the crop.
The general average of tobacco fell from
93 on July 1 to 82.2 on August 1.
A still further deciine in the condition of
apples is made evident by the returns of
August. The indication that the commercial
crop would be very light is confirmed at this
date. In many of the States a complete
failure is reported.
The drought has done some damage to
peaches in the Atlantic peach belt. Com-
plaints are frequent of premature ripening.
The conditions still point to a large crop in
this section. however, and local showers have
benefited some localities. A further decline
is noted in Michigan, where truit has
dropped severely. California has a good
crop of excellent quality. An abundant crop
of grapes is promised at this date.
The percentages of July have been gener-
ally well maintained. Dry weather has
tended to check the spread of rot and mil-
der.
LADY CouLiN CAMPBELL says that
kissing ruins the complexion. Lady
| Colin ought to try shellac on her
complexion, and then it wouldn’t
come off when kissed.
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THE LABOR WORLD.
Xew York cigar
| persons.
NATIoNAZ shoe workers mot recently at
Lynn, Mass.
Boston hotel
eents a day.
Toroxro (Canada) unemployed teamsters
keld a parade.
Brizoive trades workers in Michigan
average £1.50 per day.
I¥ Germany during 1892 there were 830
men killed in the mines.
IzarniaN laborers at Portland, Me.,
from %1.40 to %£1.75 a day.
A NEwakxk (N. J.) mucilage and ink house
has adopted profit sharing.
CiscinyaTr tin roofers say the slaters are
crowding them out of work.
ReapING (Penn.) bricklayers have heen
granted $3.25 and ten hours.
A You~Ne woman printer is State organizer
of the Federation in Indiana.
Ax Indianapolis brakesman got $103)
rom the union for a lost arm.
St. Pavrn (Minn.) tailors will be assessed
fifty cents per capita to aid strikers in other
cities.
AT Lowell, Mass.. men who did not join
a strike were granted seven per cent. in
wages.
Prrrssure orzanizations have called a
conference to discuss a proposition to build
a labor temple.
Exerisz coal miners to the number of 350,-
090 are striking against a twenty-five per
cent. cut in their wages.
STRIKING bricklayers at Lowell, Mass., have
organized a stock company with $5000, and
are ready to take contracts.
TrE Mount Pleasant Working Girls’ Asso-
ciation in Rhode Island has a membership of
250. It also owns a $3000 club house.
At the help bureaus it is asserted that
there are over 50,000 unemployed men in
New York who are willing to work at almost
anything.
THE Attorney-General of Montana has de-
cided in favor of the City Council of Butte
City. which ordered city employes to boyecot:
Chbinamen.
factories employ 20,000
porters get eighty-three
get
An Anzsesthetic Made from Frogs.
A curious anesthetic used in China
has recently been made known. It is
obtained by placing a frog in a jar of
flour and irritating it by prodding. Un~
der these circumstances it exudes a
liquid which forms a paste with the
flour. This paste, when dissolved in
water, has well-marked anzsthetio
properties. After the finger has been
immersed in the liquid for a few mia-
utes it can be cut to the bone without
any pain being felt.
| WIAREETS.
PITTSBURG.
THE WHOLESALE PRICES ARE GIVEN BELOW.
GRAIN, FLOUR AND FEED.
WHEAT—No.1 Red....... $ 3
No=2 Bed i i... .....o....
CORN—No. 2 Yellow ear...
High Mixed ear..........
No. 2 Yellow Shelled...
Shelled Mixed...........
OATS—No. 1 White........
No. 2 White: ....iciivnevn
No. 3 Whi
RYE—No. 1 ceet.o.
No. 2 Western. New
FLOUR—Fancy winter pat’
Fancy Spring patents.....
Fancy Straight winter....
XXX Bakers......v..--
Rye Flour,....v..... x...»
HAY —Baled No. 1 Timy..
Baled No. 2 Timothy.....
Mixed Clover
Timorhy from country...
STRAW — Wheat...... ..
T
Brown Middlings........
Bran, bulk...,....
DAIRY PRODU
BUTTER—Elgin Creamery
Fancy Creamery.........
Fancy country roll.......
Low grade & cooking....
CHEESLE—Omo tall ake..
New York Goshen........
Wisconsin Swiss....... ..
Limbureger (Fali make)...
FRUIT AND VEGETABL
APPLES—Fancy, # bbl
Tair to choice, § bbl....
PLACHES, per bu— ......
PEARS perbbl.............
BEANS—
NY & M(new)Beansi3bbl 200 210
Lima Beans..:........... 4
POTATOES—
Fancy Rose................ 2 90 ad
Choice Rose. ........... 2 00 22
Sweet, per bb.... .. 4 50 5 00
POULTRY
DRESSED CHICKIENS—
Spring chickens # lb..... 16 17
Dressed ducks ®¥ib....... 10 11
Dr 15 16
LIVE CHICKE
Spring chickens 30 50
Live chickens # pr...... 70 5
Jive Ducks B pr..... a 45 50
live Turkeys #b........ 6 .
EGGS—Pa & Ohio fresh. .. 13 14
F THIERS—
Extra live Geese 8 ..... 55 60
Nol Extra live geese@ lb 48 50
Mixed . z 35
City Lo 4
SEEDS—Clover. 3925
Timothy prime 210
Blnelgrass, ...........0., 1 40 170
RAGS—Country mixed .... 1
dONEY—White clover.... 17 18
Buckwheas..:....... Sai, 10 12
MAPLE SYRUP. new crop 60 100
CIDER—country sweet@bbl 5 00 5 50
BER R1ES—per quart
Biackberries ......... 10
Huck!eberries 11
2 20@ $3 10
55 56
49 oe
44 45
24 25
&
9 23
270@ $4 2
65> 66
47 43
33 35
BUTTER—Creamery Extra. 21 22
BGGS—Pa., Mirsts.......... 15 16
NEW YORK. :
FLOUR —Pateuts,.......c:. 2 00 4 60
WHEAT—No 2 Red.... 67 48
RYE—Western......cecee.. 55 56
CORN—Na. 2........ ... 47 48
DATS—Mixed Western. 31 32
BUTTER—Creamery........ 14 22
EGGS—>state und Penn...... 15 16
LIV E-STOCK REPORT. 7
EAST LIBERTY, PITTSBURG STOCK YARDS.
CATTLE.
Prime Steers L203 £730 POR
Good butcher .............. 37 to 435
Common....... . 3000 350
Bulls and dry cows........ 200to 3 50
Veal Calves................. 4 50to 6 59
Fresh cows, per head. . 20 00 to 40 99
SHERP.
Prime 95 to 100-1b sheep....$3 450to 4 75
dood mixed........... PL 400to 4 25
Jommon 70 to 75 Ib sheep... 200to 250
Jhoice lambs. ......... 3 to 5M
HOGS. = 3 =
Jond Yorkers.,..,..... 6 00 to 6 25
jy ommon Yorkers.......... 4 75 t0 5 00
| Roughy seniny mine seein 4 50 to 5 00
Pigs Ries Cian 450to 550
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