OR. TALMAGE'S [SUNDAY SERMON.
Subject: “God’s Second Giff’’=The World
is Too Much With Us—The Better
Life and the Advantages of Religion—
The Story of Caleb and Othniel.
Text: “Thou hast given me a south land;
give me also springs of water, And he
gave her the upper springs and the nether
_springs.”—Joshua xv., 19,
The city of Débir was the Bostun of an-
tiquity—a great place for brain and books.
Caleb wanted it, and he offered his daugh-
ter Achsah as a prize to any one who would
capture tbat city. It was a strange thing
for Caleb to do, and yet the man who could
take the city would have, at any rate, two
olements of manhood—bravery and patriot-
ism. Besides, I do not think that Caleb
was as foolish in offering his" daughter to
the conqueror of Debir as thousands in
this day who seek alliances for their chil-
dren with those who have large means
without any reference to moral or mental
acquirements, Of two evil I would rather
measure happiness by the length of the
sword than by the length of the pocket-
book. In one case there is sure to be one
good element of character; in the other
there may be none at all. With Caleb’s
daughter as a prize to fight for, General
Othniel rode into the battle. The gates of
Debir were thundered into the dust, and
the city of books lay at the feet of the con-
querors. The work done, Othniel comes
back to claim his bride. Having conquered
the city, it is no great job for him to con-
quer the girl’s heart, for however faint-
hearted a woman herself may be she al-
ways loves -¢éourage in a man. I neversaw
an exception to that.
The wedding festivity having gone by,
Othniel and Achsah are akout to go to
their own home. However loudly the cym-
bals may clash and the laughter ring, par-
ents are always sad when a fondly cher-
ished daughter goes off‘to stay, and Ach-
sah, the daughter of Caleb, knows that now
is the time to ask almost anything she
wants of her father. It seems that Caleb,
the good old man, had given as a wedding
present a piece of land that was mountain-
ous, and, sloping southward toward the
deserts of Arabia, swept with some very
hot winds. It was called “a south land.”
But Achsah wants an addition of property:
she want a piece of land that is well
watered and fertile. Now it is no wonder
that Caleb, standing amid the bridal party,
his eyes so full of tears because she was
going away that that he could hardly see
her at all, gives her more than she asks.
She said to him: ‘Thou hast given me a
south land; give me aiso springs of water.
And he gave her the upper springs and tho
nether springs.”
The fact is that as Caleb, the father,
gave Achsah, the daughter, a south land,
Bo God gives to us His world. I am very
thankful He has given it to us. But I am
like Achsah in the fact that I am not satis-
fied with the portion. Trees and flowers
and grass and blue skies are very well in
their places, but he who has nothing but
this world for a portion has no portion at
all. It is a mountainous land, sloping off
toward the desert of sorrow, swept by
flery siroccos; it is ‘‘a south land,” a poor
portion for any man that tries to put his
trust in it. What has heen your experi-
ence? What has been the experience of
every man, of every woman, that has tried
this world for a portion? Queen Elizabeth,
amid the surroundings of pomp, isunhappy
because the painter sketches too minutely
the wrinkles on her face, and she indig-
nantly cries out, “You must strike off my
likeness without any shadows!” Hogarth,
at the very height of his artistic triumph,
is stung almost to death with chagrin be-
cause the painting he had dedicated to the
king does not seem to be acceptable, for
George II. cries ont: “Who is this Ho-
garth? Take his trumpery out of my pres-
ence.”
Brinsley Sheridan thrilled the earth with
his eloquence, but had for his last words,
“TI am absolutely undone.” Walter Scott,
fumbling around the inkstand, trying to
write, says to his daughter: ‘Oh, take me
back to my room! There is no rest for Sir
‘Walter but in the grave!’ Stephen Girard,
the wealthiest man in his day, or at any
rate only second in wealth, says: “I live
thelife of a galley slave. When I arise in
the morning, my one effort is to work so
hard that I can sleep when it gets to be
night.” Charles Lamb, applauded of all
the world, in the very midst of his literary
triumph says: “Do you remember, Bridget,
when we used to laugh from the shilling
gallery at the play? There are now no
good plays to laugh at from the boxes.”
But why go so far as that? I need to go no
farther than your street to find an illustra-
tion of what I am saying.
Pick me out ten successful worldlings—
and you know what I mean by thoroughly
successful worldlings—pick me out ten
successful worldlings and you cannot find
more than ono that looks happy. Care
drags him to business; care drags him back.
Take your stand at 2 o’clock at the corner
of the streets and see the agonized physiog-
nomies. Your high officials, your bankers,
your insurance men, your importers, your
wholesalers and your retailers as a class—
_ as a class, arethey happy? No. Care dogs
their steps, and making no appeal to God
for help or comfort many of them are tossed
every whither. How has it been Tigo
my hearer? Are you more content in
the house of fourteen rooms than you were
in the two rooms you had in a house when
you started? Have you not had more care
and worriment since you won that $50,000
than you did before? Some of the poorest
men I bave ever known have been those of
great fortune. A man of small means may
be put in great business straits, but the
ghastliest of all embarrassments is that of
the man who has large estates. The men
who commit suicide because of monetary
losses are those who cannot bear the bur-
den any more because they have only §50,-
000 left.
On Bowling Green, New York, there is a
house where Talleyrand used to go. He was
a favored man. All the world knew him,
and he had wealth almost unlimited. Yet at
the close of his life he says: ‘‘Behold,
eighty-three years have passed without
any practical result, save fatigue of body
and fatigue of mind, great discouragement
for the future and great disgust for the
past.” Oh, my friends, this is a ‘‘south
land,” and it slopes off toward deserts of
sorrows, and the prayer which Achsah
made to her father Caleb we make this
day to our Father God: “Thou hast given
me a south land: give me also springs of
water. Ana he gave her the upper springs
and the nether springs.”
Blessed be God, we have more advan-
tages given us than we can really appre-
ciate! We have spiritual blessings offered
us in this world which I shall call the
nether springs and glories in the world to
come which I shall call the upper springs.
Where shall I find words enough
threaded with lig.:.t to set forth the
pleasure of religion. David, unable to
describe it in words, played it on a harp.
Mrs. Hemans, not finding enough power in
prose, sings that praise in a canto. Chris-
topher Wren, unable to describe it in lan-
guage, sprung it into the arches of St.
Paul's. John Bunyan, unable to present it
in ordinary phraseology, takes all the fas-
cination of allegory. Handel, with ordi-
nary music unable to reach the height of
the theme, rouses it up to an oratorio. Oh,
there is no life on earth so happy as a
really Christian life! I do not mean a
sham Christian life, but a real Christian
‘1ife. Where there is a thorn there is a
whole garland of roses. Where there is
one groan there are three doxologies.
Where there is one day of cloud there is
a whole season of sunshine. Take mathe
bumblest Christian man that you know—
angels of God canopy him with their
white wings; the lightnings of heaven
are his armed allies; the Lord is his Shep
herd, picking out for him green pastures
by still waters. If he walk forth, heaven
is Ms bodyguard. If he lie down to sleep,
ladders of light, angsl blossoming, are let
into his dreams. f. he be thirsty, the
potentiates of heaven are his cupbearers.
f he sit down to food, his plain table
blooms into the King's banquet. Men say:
“Look at that odd fellow with the wornout
coat. The angels of God ery ‘‘Lift up
your heads, ye everlasting gates, and let
him come in!” Fastidious people cry,
‘‘Get off my front steps!” Thedoorkeepers
of heaven cry, ‘Come, yo blessed of my
Father, inherit the kingdom!” When he
comes to die, though he may be carried out
in a pine box to that potter's field, to that
potter’s fleld the chariots of Christ will
come down, and the cavalcade will crowd
all the boulevards of heaven.
I bless Christ for the present satisfaction
of religion. It makes a man all right with
reference to the past; it makes a man all
right with reference to the future. Oh,
these nether springs of comfort! They are
perennial. The foundation of God standeth
sure having this seal, ‘The Lord knoweth
them that are His,” *‘The mountains shall
depart and the hills be removed, but My
kindness shall not depart from thee,
neither shall the covenant of My peace be
removed, saith the Lord, who hath mercy
upon thee.” Oh, cluster of diamonds set
in burnished gold! Oh, nether springs of
comfort bursting through all the valleys of
trial and tribulation! When you see, you
of the world, what satisfaction there is
on earth in religion, do you not thirst after
it as the daughter of Caleb thirsted after
the water springs? Itis no stagnant pond,
scummed over with malaria, but springs of
water leaping from the Rock of Ages!
Take up one cup of that spring water and
across the top of the chalice will float the
delicate shadows of the heavenly wall, the
yellow of jasper; the green of emerald,
the blue of sardonyx, the fireof jacinth.
I wish I could make you understand the
joy religion is to some of us. It makes a
man happy while he lives and glad when
he dies. With two feet upon a chair and
bursting with dropsies, I heard an old man
in the poerhouse ery out, “Bless the Lord,
oh, my soul!” I looked around and said,
“What has this man gottothank God for?’
It makes the lame man leap as a hart, and
the dumb sing. They say that the old
Puritan religion is a juiceless and joyless
religion, but I remember reading of Dr.
Goodwin, the celebrated Puritan, who in
his last moment said: ‘““Isthis dying? Why,
my bow abides in strength! I am swal-
lowed up in God!” ‘‘Her ways are ways of
pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.”
Oh, you who have been trying to satisfy
yourselves with the “south land” of this
world, do you not feel that you would, this
morning, like to have access to the nether
springs of spiritual comfort? Would you
not like to have Jesus Christ bend over your
cradle and bless your table and heal your
wounds and strew flowers of consolation
all up and down the graves of your dead?
’Tis religion that can zive
Sweetest pleasures while we live.
Tis reiigion can supply
‘Sweetest comfort when we die.
Jut I have something better to tell you,
suggested by this text. It seems that old
Father Caleb on the wedding day of his
daughter wanted to make her just as happy
as possible. Though Othniel was taking
her away and his heart was almost broken
beeause she was going, yet he gives her a
‘‘south land;” not only that, but the nether
springs; not only that, but the upper
springs. O God, my Father, Ithank Thee
that Thou bast given me a ‘‘south land” in
this world and the nether springs of-spir-
itual comfort in this world; but, more than
all, I thank Thee for the upper springs in
heaven!
It is very fortunate that we cannot see
heaven until we get into it. OO Chris-
tian man, if you could see what a place
it is we would never get you back again
to the office, or store, or shop and the
duties you ought to perform wouid go ne-
glected! Iam glad I shall not see that
world until I enter it. Suppose we
were allowed to go on an excursion in-
to that good land with the idea of re-
turning. When we got there and heard
the song and looked at their raptured
faces ald mingled in the supernal socie-
ty, we ‘would cry out; “Let us stay!
We are coming here anyhow. Why take
the trouble of going back again to that
oid world? We are hers now. Let us
stay!” And it would take angelic vio-
lence to put us out of that world it once
we got there, but as people who cannot
afford to pay for an entertainment some-
times come around it and look through
the door ajar, or through the openings
in the fence, so we come and look through
the crevices into that good land which
God has provided for wus. We can just
catch a glimpse of it. We come near
enough to hear the rumbling of the eter-
nal orchestra, though not near enough to
know who blows the cornet or who fingers
the harp. My soulspreads out both wings
and claps them in triumph at the thought
of those upper springs. One of them
breaks from beneath the throne. Another
breaks forth from beneath the altar of the
temple. Another at the door of ‘the
house of many mansions.” Upper springs
of gladness! Upper springs of light!
Upper springs of love! It is no faney of
mine. ‘The Lamb which is in the midst of
the throne shall lead them to living foun-
tains of water.”
O Saviour divine, roll in upon our souls
one of those anticipated raptures! Pour
around the roots of the parched tongue one
drop of that liquid life! Toss before our
vision those fountains of God, rainbowed
with eternal victory! Hear it! They are
never sick there; not so much as a headache
or twinge rheumatic or thrust mneuralgic.
The inhabitant never says, ‘I am siek.””
They are never tired there. Flight to
farthest world is only the play of a holiday.
They never sin there. It is as easy for
them to be holy as it is for us to sin: They
never die there. You might go through
all the outskirts of this great city and find
not one place where the ground was broken
for a grave. The eyesight of the redeemed
is never blurred with tears. There is health
in every cheek. There is spring in every foot.
There i3 majesty on every brow. There is
joy in every heart. There is hosanna on every
lip. How they must pity us as they look
over and look down and see us and say:
“Poor things away down in that world!”
And when some Christian is hurled into a
fatal accident, they ery: ‘Good!’ He is
coming!” And when we stand around the
couch of some loved one whose strength is
going away and we shake our heads fore-
bodingly they cry: *‘I'm glad he is worse.
He has been down there long enough.
There, he is dead! Come home! Come
home!” Ob, if we could only get our ideas
about that future world untwisted, our
thought of transfer from here to there
would be as pleasant to us as it- was to a
little child that was dying. She said:
“Papa, when will I go home?’ Aud he
said: ‘To-day, Florence.” ‘To-day? So
soon? Iam so glad!"
I wish I could stimulate you with these
thoughts, O Christian man, to the highest
possible exhilaration! The day of your
deliverance is coming—is coming, rolling
on with the shining wheels of the day, and
the jet wheels of the night. Every thump
of the heart is only a bammer stroke
striking off another chain of clay. Better
scour the deck and coil the rope, for
harbor is only sixmiles away. Jesus will
come down the Narrows to meet you.
“Now is your salvation nearer than when
you believed.”
Man of the world, will you not to-day
make a choice between these two portions,
_between the ‘‘south land” of this world,
which slopes to the desert, and this glori-
ous land which thy Father offers thee, run-
ning with eternal watercourses? Why let
your tongue be consumed of thirst when
there are the nether springs and the up-
per springs—comfort here and glory here-
after?
Utility of Diamond Circular Saw.
The use of the diamond circular saw for
cutting stone is facilitating the erection ot
the Paris Exposition buildings. The dia-
monds which form the cutting teeth of the
saw are worth about %3 a karat, and are
fixed in a steel disc over six feet in diame-
ter,
(EVTONE STATE NENS CONDESE
MOTHER INTERFERED.
A of Lover 45 Attempts Suicide Because His
Parents Would Not Permit Him to Bring
Home His Prospective Bride.
William Mong, aged 45 years, resid-
ing at Centerville, was engaged to a
young lady of that section, but his
mother, with whom he makes his home
on a farm, objected and refused to al-
low him to bring home his prospective
bride. William brooded over the mat-
ter and the other day went across the
road to the barn of Samuel Anderson
and hanged himself. A neighbor dis-
covered what Mong had done and cut
the rope. Mong cannot recover.
The state superior court Monday
granted a new trial to Rev. Dr. Silas
C. Swallow in the criminal libel action
brought against him by John C. De-
laney, state superintendent of public
buildings and grounds. Dr. Swallow,
in his paper, the Pensylvania Metho-
dist, had accused Delaney of corrup-
tion and malfeasance in office in con-
nection with the purchase of materials
and supplies for the fitting up of
Grace church, Harrisburg, for the use
of the state legislature, after the burn-
ing of the capitol. At the trial Dr.
Swallow was convicted and sentenced
to pay a fine of $500. Judge Smith, who
delivers the opinion of the superior
court reversing this verdict and sen-
tence, says the defendant has been
convicted of a libel on the superin-
tendent of grounds and buildings and
the state officers who are by law com-
missioners of public grounds and
buildings, in their official character as
such. The alleged libel was contained
in an article published in a newspaper
cf which the defendant was editor.
The jury at Washington trying the
ccse aganst James Altiere of New
Castle - for the murder of John. V.
Stuckrath returned a verdict of not
guilty the other day after having de-
liberated half an hour. Young Altiere
will be recommitted to Morganza re-
form school, to serve out his unexpired
term. Harry Fisher of Allegheny, who
pleaded guilty to murder in the second
degree, was called for sentence. C. L.
V. Acheson made an eloquent appeal
for a light sentence, on account of his
extreme youth. . Judge Taylor, how-
ever, thought a severe sentence should
be imposed, the crime having been
committed in a house of correction;
where young criminals are given a
chance to reform. Fisher was sen-
tenced to the Western penitentiary for
tifteen years and six months and to
ray a fine of $500. The trial was a
very short one, consuming less than a
day.
The following pensions were granted
last week: Thomas L. Phillips, Pitts-
burg, $8; Hugh Bales, Pittsburg, $6;
John T. McCurry, Allegheny, $8; Rich-
ard Williams, Johnstown, $8; Sarah
Bothel, Creekside, $8; Martha New-
hard, Meadville, $8; Lizzetta Michael,
Industry, $8; John H. Larimer, Turtle
Creek, $6; John Fisher, Jennerstown,
$8 to $12; Adam Bowser, Quincy,
Franklin, $12; minor of Luther Hart-
son, Putnamville, Warren, $8: Margret
Shaffer, Apollo, $8; Samuel Wertz,
Conemaugh, $12; Thomas McKee, New
Castle, $6; Mansa Shaw, Waynesburg,
$8 to $10; David Campbell, Indiana, $5
to $10; Perry Jarrett, Selins Grove, $8
to $10; Walter® Lowry, Pittsburg, $6;
Mena Spigelmyer, McClure, $8: Susan-
nah Houts, Greensburg, $8.
A meeting of the board of pardons
was held at Harrisburg last week at
which pardons were recommended for
Herbert John of Philadelphia, fortune
telling; John Hathaza, Westmoreland,
assault; George Wilson Barrett, alias
James J. McGunigle, = Huntingdon,
burglary; J. Bert Davidson, Alle-
gheny, robbery, and Amazie Miller,
Lackawanna, statutory burglary. The
case of Zenas Anderson of Allegheny,
first degree murder, was continued. No
action was taken in the other cases on
the calendar.
Mrs. Pauline Poiza, of Mt. Carmel, a
few days ago, concluded to kill her in-
fant son and herself. She hurled the
child down a flight of stairs, and then
swallowed a lot of corrosive sublimate.
She went into canvulsions. When a
floctor arrived he found = her throat
horribly eaten by the poison. Tle lab-
ored all night with her, but she couli
not recover. The child escaped with a
few scratches.
George Henry, aged 40, a well-to-do
resident of Buena Vista, Salisbury
township, was found dead thz other
morning about a mile from Gay, where
he had spent a convivial evening with
friends. There is every reason to be-
lieve that he fell exhausted in the
snow while on his way home and froze
to death. A widow and several chil-
dren survive. :
The Luzerne county court, at an ex-
pense of $100, met in special session
last week for the purpose of counting
the soldier vote. Only one vote was
received, that ot Charles B. Knecht, a
member of the Fourth Pennsylvaniy
regiment, organized at Allentown. He
voted the straight Democratic tickat
with the exception of Sowden for lieu-
tenant governor.
For the second time within a month
the general store of Lott & Son and KF.
A. Weber and the postoffice at Trout-
ville were entered by burglars last
week. The thieves carried off mer-
chandise, looted the money drawers in
the stores and carried off all the loose
money at the postoffice. A reward will
be offered for their capture.
Mrs. Valentine Krantz, 76 years old,
died of a mysterious illness at Katon
a few days ago. She took dinner at
her son’s residence, from the effects of
which she, her son and her daughter-
ir-law and their children were taken
violently ill. All recovered except the
older woman. The police are investi-
gating.
It is reported at Grove City that a
panther is roaming the woods north of
there, his cries being plainly heard by
a number of farmers. A number of
domestic animals have lately been
badly tern in some manner, it is sup-
posed by its attacks. A hunting pariy
will likely be organized to run it down.
While cn his way to the poor house.
Homer Wilson, an. octogenarian of
tochester township, was overcome by
exposure and exhaustion and sank to
the ground, where he was found dead
last Saturday morning. His body was
identified by committment pap2rs iss
sued by Squire Douds of Vanoort
William Keefer has returned to Five
Points, Mercer county, after a 14-
months’ absence in the Klondike, with
$9,000 in gold dust. He says the region
is not fit for a dog to live in. Dawson
City is a lawless place, life being held
in small account if a dollar is at stake.
He will not return.
It was unanimously decided by the
several classes «of the Pennsylvania
State College, at meetings held during
the past week, to abolish hazing of all
kinds in order to prevent the spread-
ing of such exaggerated reports as
have been circulated in the past in re-
gard to hazing at State.
A squash grown by Dr. A. B. Clark
of Wilmington, weighs 51 pounds. It
was raised from seed brought from
Armenia by a refugee,
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TE SHBBNTH SCHOOL ESSN
INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS
FOR DECEMBER 4.
Lesson Text: “The Book of the Law,”
II Kings xxii., 8-20-=Golden Text:
Psalms cxix., 2—=Commentary an the
Lesson by the Rev. D. M. Stearns.
8. “I have found the book of the law in
the house of the Lord.” By comparing IT
Chron. xxxiv., 14, it looks as if it might
have been an original copy of the law.
Josiah was the last good king of Judah;
and he reigned thirty-one years. In the
thirteenth year of his reign Jeremiah be-
gan to prophesy and continued a prophet
of the Lord for forty years (Jer. i., 2, 3).
It is written of Josiah in II Kings xxiii.,
25, that there was no king either before or
after him who like him turned to the Lord
with all his heart and soul and might.
Hezekiah excelled all others in his trust
in the Lord (II Kings xviii., 5). Josiah be-
gan to reign at the age of eight years.:
When he was sixteen, he began to seek
God. When he was twenty, he began to
cleanse the land of idols. When he was
twenty-six, he repaired and cleansed the
temple, and kept the greatest passover
that had been kept since the days of
Samuel (IT Chron. xxxiv., 3, 8; xxxv., 18,
19). It was while they were working at
jue tomple that they found this book of the
aw.
9. S8haphan the soribe reported to tha
king that the money which had been gath-
ered in the house of the Lord had been de-
livered to the overseers of the work, and
it is said that they were so faithfui that
no reckoning was made with them of the
money (verses 4-7). We do not read of
any lack of funds for.the work, for the
blessing of Elshaddai (the mighty God
who is all sufficient) was upon His faithful
people.
10, 11. Shaphan told the king of the book
that had been found, and read it to him,
and when he heard it he rent his clothes.
Joslah was possessed of a poor and con-
trite spirit and trembled at God’s word
(Isa. 1xvi., 2; lvii., 15). It is written in Ex.
ix., 4, “Then were assembled every one
that trembled at the words of the God of
Israel because of the transgression.”
Many are indifferent to the word of God
and never read it or hear it read. Many
who read it do not give heed to it. Many,
even of those who are supposed to be
preachers of the word, dishonor it by
doubting it and questioning it, while but
few comparatively tremble at it like Josiah.
12, 13. *‘Go yo, inquire of the Tord for
me and for the people, and {or all Judah,
concerning the words of this book that is
found.” {The priest and scribe and others
were thus commissioned by the king. It
may have been such passages as Deut.
xxviii., 15-37; Lev. xxvi., 14-46, that so
stirred Josiah, but whatever portions speec-
ially effected him he evidently believed
what many professing Christians do not to-
day believe, that there is such a thing as
the wrath of God and that it is a very seri-
ous matter not to believe and obey the
words of the Lord. To set one’s heart
upon and observe to do the words of the
law was said to be their life, but if one
would not hearken God had said that He
would require it of him (Deut. xxxli., 46,
47; xviii, 19). A common form of unbelief
now is that God is too good to punish any-
one and that there is no place of fire and
brimstone either for the devil or his fol
lowers.
14. “They went to Huldah the prophetess
who dwelt in Jerusalem, and they coms
muned with her.” So there were at other
times a Deborah and an Annu who knew
the Lord better than others (Judg. iv., 4;
Luke ii., 36). God has His hidden ones to
whom He reveals Himself and whom He
uses to instruct others when His time
comes. It may be a Joseph in a prison, or
a Daniel who has been crowded out by a
younger and more progressive party, an
Elijah at some cherith, or a Stephen or a
Philip ready for any manner of service.
Wherever you are be sure that you are
learning to know God, for in due time He
will call you.
15, “Thus saith the Lord God of Israel,
Tell the man that sent you to me.” She
had no words of her own for them, no
opinions or suggessions, no words of peace-
ful flattery, but only a faithful message
from the Lord, regardless of what they
might think of it or of her. When God has
a messenger whom He can use, He always
glves a message. He said to Moses, “I will
be with thy mouth and teach thee what
thou shalt say.”
16. “Behold I will bring evil upon this
place—all the words of the book which the
king of Judah hath read.” Every purpose
of the Lord shall be performed, for hath
He sald and shall He not do it? Or hath
He spoken and shall He not make it good?
(Jer. li., 29; Num. xxiii.. 19). All that God
purposes to do is as good as done, for He is
able to carry out all His plans; there is
nothing too hard or wonderful for Him.
He cannot err, neither can He (fail nor be
discouraged. He did not fail to lay upon
His dear Son all our sins. He will not fail
to let His wrath fall upon all who despise
His Son and His love.
17. “My wrath shall be kindled against
this Jlase and shall not be quenched.’’
ecause they forsook God -and wor
shiped the works of their own hands. They
forsook the fountain of living water and
made themselves cisterns which could hold
{ no water (Jer. il., 13). We think it strange
that Israel could possibly turn from the
living God to worship idols of wood and
stone. Yet in the so-called service of God
among us there is a great turning from
the simple worship of God in spirit and
truth to that which is possibly worse than
the idols of Israel.
18. 19. ‘‘Because thine heart was ten-
der, and thou hast humbled thyself before
the Lord, when thou heardest what I
spake.” Although wrath would surely
fall upon the nation, yet upon Josiah and
such as humbled themselves before God
there would be mercy. At one time the
Lord said that though Noah, Daniel and
Job were in the sity, they would deliver
but their own souls by their righteousness,
Again He said that, though Moses and
Samuel stoodsbefore Him, His mind could
not be toward Israel (Ezek. xiv., 14; Jer.
xv.; 1). There came a time when all that
certain righteous ones could do was to
sigh and ory because of the sins which
they loathed, but could not prevent. On
them God set His mark of approval (Ezek.
ix., 4). We cannot rectify the wrong
things that are all about us, we cannot
bring righteousness everywhere to be mani-
fested, but we can, each one for himself
and herself, be right with God through
Jesus Christ our Lord, and He will then
use us to hless others as far as He can, and
it shall be well with us.
20. “Thine eyes shall not see all the evil
which I will bring upon this place.” When
the time comes for us to be called out of
these mortal bodies, we ourselves are in-
stantly in glory (Phil. i., 21, 23; II Cor. v.,
8), but our bodies rest in peace and under
His care whose temples they were until the
resurrection.—Lesson Helpor.
Trom the Depths of Despalr.
Tn all seasons and moods we are to do our
work with unflinching courage; we are to be
loyal to the highest truthsthough our hearts
are lead within us; we are to inspire and
lead though we cannot see the way for the
darkness. A man o'ten does his noblest
work in the deepest depression; he often
speaks the greatest word which ia given him
out of the depths of something very like to
despair. It is our part to sail courageously
and unhesitatingly on in the blackest night
or the dreariest day. The same power that
made the sea made the weather.—Outlook.
En ——— —— ——
Pedro Perca, New Mexico's newly-
elected Congressional delegate, is of
pure Spanish lineage, being able to
trace his family back to Castile be-
fore, 250 years ago, they first came to
the New World.
.ing a fine
THE MARKETS.
PITTSBURG.
Grain, Flour and Feed.
WHEAT—No. 1lred......... J
No. 2 red
CORN—No. 2 yeilow, ear.......
No.“2 yellow, shelled. ........
OATS—No.
No. 8 white
FLOUR—Winter patents
Fancy straight winter
Rye flour
HAY No. 1 timothy
Clover, No. 1...
FEED—No. 1 whit
Brown middlings
Bran, bulk
Oat sie ye
BEEDS—Clover, 60 Ibs,
Timothy, prime
Dairy Froducts
BUTTER—EIlgin creamery.
Ohio creamery
Fancy country roll
CHEESE—Ohio, new
New York, new
Fruits and Vegetables,
BEANS—Lima®qt............8
POTATOES—Fancy White, ® bu
CABBAGE—Per bbl
ONIONS—Choice yellow, # bu.
Poultry, Etc,
CHICKENS—Per pair, smail ..$
TURKEYS—Per Ib
EGGS—Pa. and Ohio, fresh....
CINCINNATI,
CORN —Mixed
OATS .
EGGS... ..
BUTTER—Ohio creamery. .
PHILADELPHIA,
OATS—No. 2 white
BUTTER Creamery, extra.... i
EGGS—Pennsylvania firsts. ... 21
NEW YORK.
FLOUR—Patents..............3 3 95@ 4
WHEAT-—No. 2 red 77 7
CORN—No. 2
BUTTER Creamery.....
EGGS—State of Penn
LIVE STOCK.
Central Stock Yards, East Liberty, Pa.
CATTLE.
Prime, 1300 to 1400 Ibs....
Good, 1200 to 1300 Ibs
Tidy, 1000t01150 tbs. ........
Fair light steers, 900 to 1000 Ibs
Common, 700 to 900 Is.... ...
4 8)@ 5
460 4
43) 450
8:70. 4
3 37
Medium
Roughs and stags..............
SHEEP,
Prime, 95 to 105 ihs
Good; 85:t0%0:1hs.. ............
Fair, 70 to 80 ibs. ....
“TCE Ha He
Springer, extra
Springer, good to choice
Common to fair
Extra yearlings, light.
Good to choice yearlings
Medium
common...
TRADE REVIEW.
Thanksgiving Week Witnessed Prosperity
Among Many of the Industries.
R. G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review ot
trade reports as follows for last week:
Thanksgiving in 1898 means more
than for thirty years. The ‘harvest
home” has never recognized larger
crops on the whole in this country, the
general prosperity is attested by the
largest volume of business ever rec-
orded, the people's verdict has given
reason to hope that the nation’s honor
will not again be in peril, and a war
not matched in history for swiftness
of success with smallness of loss has
brought more perfect union than ever
between North and South, and closer
bonds than ever with ‘kin beyond the
sea,” ending with the most important
increase of territory since California
was added to the union.
There has been more liberal buying
of cotton goods in part because of last
week's reductions in bleached goods,
and the curtailment of production in
print cloths has caused an advance of
a sixteenth, while the export demand
supports heavy brown goods, and all
are helped by the feeling that cotton
has probably seen its worst. There is
slight improvement in reorders for
men’s spring woolens, though neither
jobbers nor clothiers have yet been
buying freely. The bulk, of the de-
mand is for medium plain fabrics, es-
pecially serges and clays, but high
grade goods are quiet. Mgqre is doing
in dress goods, but not enodgh for pro-
ducers. Sales of wool have been 35,-
975,000 pounds for four weeks, includ-
ing about 5,000,009 for export,
but mostly at concessions which have
been this week a little increased on
fine unwashed fleeces.
When the steel rail contract was
ready for final signature, withdrawal
of one large company Killed it, but a
working compact is nevertheless said
to have been made, apparently a sort
of “gentiemen’s agreement,” in which
more confidence is perhaps expres:=ed
than is felt. The market for bessemer
grows stronger at Pittsburg and gray
forge advances to $925; billets at
Pittsburg are in heavy demand at
$15 25 and steel bars at $16; the Edgar
Thomson works have started on rails
with three to four months’ orders
ahead: Chicago works have booked
turther orders for plates, including one
for 1,500 tons, and statements made by
the Iron Age shows that bids for the
75,000 tons needed -in the Coolgardie
pipe lines, with other heavy export
contracts, are hindered only by an
ocean freight syndicate.
Wheat has again advanced a shade,
though for spot only 3c during the
week, while western receipts are
y; for four weeks have been 38,-
291 bushels, against 29,119,104 bush-
last year. The Atlantic exports,
flour included, have been 3,957,87
bushels last year. Pacific exports,
371,185 bushels, against 1,626,959 bushels
last year, making for three weeks of
November 13,642,066 bushels, against
15,195,209 bushels last year. While At-
lantic shipments exceed lats year’s, a
decrease from the Pacific affects this
market but little. Moreover, corn ex-
ports continue heavy, in four weeks
10,583,218 bushels, against 9 328,788
bushels last year, lifting the price 7%e¢
and showing a continued demand for
nearly five months almost equal to the
unprecedented demand of last year.
Failures for the week have been 188
in the United States, against 236 last
year, and 21 in Canada, against 25 last
year.
Ha Hh Gr C1 Ot
els
Gen. Wood Prevents Cock Fights.
Gen. Wood at Santiago has given his
approval to a scheme for a school for
the higher education of women similar
to the American normal school.
Last week he issued a notice impos-
of $1,000 upon any person
promoting a bull fight and a fine of $50
upon any promoter of a .cock fight. In
the case of a cock fight the fine will
fall upon witnesses as well as pro-
maters,
PEARLS OF THOUGHT.
If cheerfulness knocks for admis-
sion, we should open our hearts wide
to receive it, for it never comes inop-
portunely.
A thoughtful observer remarks that
there are two classes of persons whom
it is hard to convince against their
will—women and men.
Temperance and labor ave the two
best physicians of men; labor sharp-
ens the appetite, and temperance pre-
vents him from indnlging in excess.
Learning is either good or bad ac-
cording to him that has it—an excel-
lent weapon, if well used; otherwise,
like a sharp razor in the hands of a
child.
Life is no idle dream, but a solemn
ceality based on and encompassed by
eternity. Find out your work, and
stand to it; the night cometh when no
man can work.
All brave men are brave in initiative,
but the courage which enables them
to succeed where others dare not even
attempt is never so potent as when it
leads to entire selt-forgetfulness.
Not unremembered is the hour when
first friends met. Friends, but friends
on earth, and therefore dear; sought
oft, and sought almost as oft in vain,
vet always sought, so native to the
heart, so much desired and coveted by
all.
Those who despise fame seldom de-
Serve it. We are apt to undervalue
the purchase we cannot reach, to con-
ceal our poverty the better. It is a
spark which kindles upon the best
fuel, and burns brightest in the brav-
est breast.
“Laying Jane Seymour's Ghost.
In England Hampton Court Palace
has long enjoyed the reputation of
being haunted by the ghost of one or
the other of the numerous wives of
King Hénry VIII. Indeed, tle
official records of the corporation of
the city of London show that the
lord mayor and aldermen ordered
during the reign of King James II
twelve thousand masses to be said
for the repose of the soul of Queen
Jane Seymour, with the object of
“laying’’ her ghost, which was wont,
according to popular belief, to wander
about the corridor near the room
where Queen Anne Boleyn caught her
sitting on the king’s knee. I'ifteen
years ago the inhabitants of the palace,
which is now used as a residence for
the widows of distinguished officers
of the army and navy, as well as of
members: of the Queen’s household,
were alarmed almost out of their wits
by the sound of the whirring of a
spinning-wheel at night, and in de-
ference to their urgent entreaties the
government office of works instituted
an invesiigation, which resulted in the
discovery of a bricked-up and until
then unsuspected chamber containing
an ancient spinning-wheel showing
marks of recent use, Reference to
the old records of the palace showed
this room to have formed one of the
private apartments of Queen June. —
New York Tribune.
Luecchini’s Fate.
Apropos of Austrian Empress’s mur-
der, it is gratifying to hear that sol-
itary confinement for life is the sen-
tence of the Swiss courts for murders
of exceptional ferocity. Tris sen-
tence, it is believed, will be the fate
of Lucchini. He will pass the rest of
his existence in an underground dun-
geon in which noray of sunshine can
penetrate. He will not be givena bed
or anything else in the shape of fur-
niture. At night-time he will have to
stretch himself on the ground. Books
will be denied him, and his food will
be the plainest and consist principally
of bread and water. Once a week he
will be permitted to take exercise in
a yard adjacent to his dungeon, but
during that time he will not gaze on
the face of a living creature. Other-
wise the remainder of his life will be
passed in the awful solitude and idle-
ness which, it is related, was suffered
by prisoners who were immured in
medieval days. Surely death a dozen
times over were preferable to such
punishment as this; but the wretched
destroyer of the gifted Empress will
have no sympathy. —New York Mail
and Express.
Thomas Carlyle’s Recipe for Shirts,
Here is an extract from a letter of
Thomas Carlyle, in which he asks his
sister to make some shirts and sends
the measurements. How many women
could make a shirt after them?
“My dear Jenny—. .. In the
meanwhile I want you to make ma
some flannel things, too—three flannel
shirts especially ; you ean get the
flannel from Alick, if he have any
that he can well recommend. You
can readily have them made before
the other shirts go off. I have taken
the measure today, and now send you
the dimensions, together with. a
measuring strap which I bought some
weeks ago (at one penny) for the pur.
pose!
‘“You are to be careful to scour ths
flannel first, after which process the
dimensions are these: Width (when
the shirt is laid on its back) 22 1-2
inches, extent from wrist button to
wrist button 61 inches, length in the
back 35 inches, length in the front
25 1-2 inches. Do you understand all
that? I dare say you will make it out,
and this measuring band will enable
you to be exact enough.” —Atlantic
Monthly.
2 en
A Curious Boiler.
The boiler of a cleverly-constrneted
small working engine, is a quarter-
pound coffee tin; the wheels, quarter
and half-pound tin lids; the chimney,
an umbrella top; the steam pipe, an
India rubber tube; and other parts
consist of a knitting needle, a bicycle
spoke, a piece of brass lamp, some
gas piping, a cartridge end and the
screw stopper of an oil tin.