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V- REV. DR. TALMAGK, SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THI NOTED DIVINE. Subject: "The All Seeing." 't Text: "He that formed the eye, shall II Hot 9. The imperial ox-Ran of the human systec Is the eye.

All un and down the Bible extols it. illustrates it or arraicn Five hundred and thirty-four times it i V' in the Bible. Omnipresencem eyes of the Lord are in every Divine the apple of the eye." Th I eyelids of the Ir eye that mocketh at it lather." how lofty are thei pyes!" fool's eye in th T3ULL3 UL HI" cnuu full of eyes." th twinkling of an eye at the last trump." 01 ivetio light of the body is th eye." This morning's text: that formei the eye, shall He not see?" The surgeons, th docfors, the anatomists and the phystolo Kists understand much of the glories of th two great lights of the human faoe, but th' vast multitudes go on from cradle to grav without any appreciation of the two grea masterpieces of the Lord God Almighty. I God had lacked anything of infinite wisdom He would have failed in creating the humai eye. We wander through th? earth tryin) to see wonderful sights, bat the most won oerful sight that we ever see is not so won derful as the instruments through which eelt.

It has been a strange thing to me for fort years that some soientlst witn enougn eio quence and-magnetism did not go tnrougl the country frith frustrated lectures on can vas thirty feet square to startle and thrill overwhelm Christendom with the marvels the human eye. We want the eye taken fron all ltateehhnlciklltles, and someone who shal lay aside all talk about the pteryRomaxillar: fissures, and ths sclerotica, and the of the optle neiTe, and In common parlano which you and I and everybody can under present the subject. We have learnec men who have been telling us what our ori gin is and we were. Ob, if some should come forth from the dissecting tabh and from the classroom of the university anc take platform, and asking the help of Creator, demonstrate the wonders of what we If I refer to the physiological facts bust gested by the former part of my text It ii only to bring out in a plainer way the theological lessons at the latter part of my text, "He that formed the eye. shall He not see?" A suppose my text referred to the human since it exoels all others in structure and in adaptation.

The eyes of fish and reptiles and moles and bats are very simple things, because they hare not much to do. There are insects with 100 eyes, but the 100 eyes have less faculty than the human eyes. The black beetle swimming the summer pond has two eyes under water and two eyes above the water, but the four insecttle are not equal to the two human. Man, plnoed at the head of all livinsr creatures, must have supreme equipment, while the blind fish In the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky have only an undeveloped organ of sight, an apology for the eye, which, if through some crevice of the mountain they should get into the sunlight, might be developed into positive Byestgnt. in tae nrstcaapter ui ueumis wo And that God, without any oonsultation, created the light, created the trees, created the fish, oreated the fowl, but when he was about to make man he called a convention of divinity, as though to imply that all the powers of Godhead were to be enlisted in the achievement.

"Let us make man." Put a whole ton of emphasis on that word "us." "Let us make man." And if God called a ealled a convention of divinity to create man I think the two great questions in that conference were how to create a soul and how to make an appropriate window for that emfperor to look out of. 8eo how God honored the eye before He created it. He cried, until ohaos was irradiated with the utterance, "Let there be light!" In other words, before He introduced man into this temple of the world He Illuminated it. prepared it for the eyesight. Ajid so, after the last human eye has been destroyed in the final' demolition of the world, stars are to fall, and the sun is to cease its shining, and the moon is to turn Into blood.

In other words, after the hu man eyes are no more to be profited by their phining, the chandeliers of heaven are to be turned out. God, to educate and to bless and to help the human eye, set In the mantel of heaven two gold lamp and a Silver one for the day and the other for the nljfht. To show how God honors the eye, look at the two halls built for the residence of the eyes, seven bones making the wall for each eye. the seven bones curiously wrought together. Kingly palase of Ivory is considered rich, but the halls for the reeidenoe of the human eye are richer by go much as human bone Is more sacred than elephantine tusk.

8ee how God honored the eyes when He made a roof for them, so that the sweat of toil should not smart them and the rain dashing against the forehead should not drip into them. The eyebrows not bending over the eye. but reaching to 1 iKof fflln and vuo tigui auu IU iuo mil, ou iuuw the sweat should be compelled to drop upon the cheek, instead of falling into this divinely protected human eyesight. See how God honored the eye in the fact presented by anatomists and physiologists that there are 800 contrivances In every eye. For window shutters, the eyelids opening and closing 00 times a day.

The eyelashes so constructed that they have their selection as to I what shall be admitted, saying to the dust, "Stay out," and saying to the light, "Come In." For inside curtains the iris, or pupil of the eye, according as the light is greater or less, contracting or dilatinar. The eye of the owl Is blind in the daytime. the eyes of some creatures are blind at night, but the human eye so marvelously constructed can see both by day and by night. Many of the other creatures of God can move the eye only from side to side, but the human eye so marvelously constructed has one muscle to lift the eye, and another muscle to lower the eye, and another muscle to roll it to the right, and another muscle to roll it to the left, and another muscle passing through a pulley to turn it round and elaborate gearing of six muscles as perfect as God could make them. There also is the retina, gathering the rays of light and passing the visual impression along the optic nerve, about the thickness of the the visual impression on to the senorism and on into the soul.

What a delicate lens, what an exquisite screen, what soft cushions, what wonderful chemistry or the Human eye! The eye, washed by a slow stream ol moisture whether we sleep or wake, rollinp imperceptibly over the pebble of the eye and emptying into a bone of the nostril. A eontrivance so wonderful that it can see the sun, 95,000,000 miles awav, and the point ol a pin. Telescope and microscope "in the same contrivance. The astronomer swings and moves this way and that and adjusts anc readjusts the telescope until he gets it to the right foous. The mlcroscopist moves way and that and adjusts and readjusts magnifying glass until it Is prepared to dc Its work, but the human eye.

without touch, beholds the star and the smallest in sect. The traveler among the Alps, with glance taking In Mont Blano and the face his watch to see whether he has time t( climb it. Oh, this wonderful camera obscura whicl you and I carry about with us, so to-day wi can take in our friends, so from the top Mount Washington we can take in New Eng land, so at night we can sweep into our vis Ion the constellations from horizon to hor izon. So delicate, so semi-infinite, and ye the light coming 95,000,000 of miles at AAA AAA An A 4a AKHoaH JTOIU UI LU11C9 a bait at the of the eye, waiting for ad mission until the portcullis be lifted. Some thing hurled 95,000,090 of miles and strik idg an instrument which has not the agita tion of even winking under the power the stroke! There also is tho merciful ar ranpem'-'nt of the tear gland, by which tin eye is washed, and from which rolls the which brings the relief that comes in tear when some bereavement or great loss strike us.

The tear not an augmentation of sor row, but the breaking up of the arctio frozen grief in the warm gulf stream of con eolation. Incapacity to weep is madness death. Thank God for the tear glands, that the crystal gates are so easily opened Oh, tho wonderful hydraulio apparatus the human oye! Divinely constructed vis Ion! Two lighthouses at the harbor of th immortal soul, under the shining of whicl the world sails in and drops anchor! Wha an anthem of praise to God is the humai eye! The tongue is speechless and a clums' I Instrument of expression as compared witl it. Have you not seen it flash with tion, or kindlo with enthusiasm, or expam with devotion, or melt with sympathy, itare with fright, or leer with villain v. i i droop with sadness, or pale with enw, oi fire with revenee, or twinkle with mirth, or bpam with love? It is tragedy and comedy and pastoral and lyric in turn.

Have you not its uplifed brow of surprise, or its frown of wrath, or its contraction of pain? If the eye say one thinsr and the lips say another thing, vou believe the eye rather than thf lips. dm nf ArMiihnld AleTanler and Charles G. Finnoy were the mightiest part of thoir sermon. George enq thralled assemblages with his eyes, 3 though they were cripnled with strabismus. Many a military chieftain has with a look hurled a regiment to victory or to death.

Martin Luther turned his great eye on an as" sassin who came to take his life, and the vile lain fled. Under the trlance of the humin evethefiger, with Ave times a man's strength. 3 snarls hack into the African jungle. But those best appreciate the value of the eye who have lost it. The Emperor Adrian by accident put out the eye of his servant, and he said to his sen-ant "What shall I pay you in, money or in lands? Anything you ask me.

I am so sorry I put vour eye out." i But the servant refused to put any financial estimate on the value of the eye, and when the Emperor urged and urged again the mate ter he said, "Oh. Emperor, I want nothing but my lost eye!" Alas for those for whom a thlok and impenetrable veil is drawn across the face of the heavens aa4 the face of one's own kindred. That wal pathetlo scene when a blind man lighted a torch at night and was found passing along the highway, and some one said, "Why do you carry that torch, when you can't see?" "Ah." said he, "I can't see, but I carry this torch thM others 5 may see me and pity my helplessness, and not ran me down." Samson, the giant, with his eyes put out by the Phil? istines, is more helpless than the smallest i dwarf with vision undamaged. All the sympathies of Christ were stirred when I He saw Bartimeus with darkened retina, and the only salve He ever made that i we read of was a mixture of dust and saliva I and a prayer, with whioh He oured the eyes of a man blind from his nativity. The value i of the eye Is 9hown is mnch by Its catastro5 phe as by Its healthful notion.

Ask the man who for twenty years has not 9een the sun I rise. Ask the man who for half a century has not seen the faoe of a friend. Ask In the hospital the victim of ophthalmia. Ask the i man whose eyesight perished In a powder blast Ask the Bartimens who never met Christ or the man born blind who Is to die blind. Ask him.

This morning, In my imperfect way. 1 have only hinted at the SDlendora, the rlea. the wonders, the divine revelations, the apocalypses of the human eye, and I stagger baok from the awful portals of the physidl1 ogioal miracle whioh must have taxed the ingenuity of a God, to cry out In your ears i the words of my text. "He that formed the eye, shall He not see?" Shall Herschel not know as much as his telescope? Shall i Fraunhofer not Jcnow as much as his speci troscope? 8hall 8wammerdan not know as much a3 his microscope? 8hall Dr. Hooke not know as much as his micrometer? Shall the thing formed know more than its master? "He that formed the eye, shall He not see?" The recoil of this question is tremendous.

We stand at the center of a vast circumference of oDservation. No privacy. On U3, eyes of cherubim, eyes of seraphim, eyes of arohangel, eyes of God. We may not be able to see the habitants of other worlds, but perhaps they may be able to see us. We have not optical instruments enough to descry them: perhaps they have optical in 0MUIUOU13 OWiVUm mole cannot see the eagle mid sky, but the eagle mid sky can see the mole mid grass.

We are able to see mountains and caverns of another world, but perhaps the inhabitants of other worlds can see the towers of our oities, the flash of our seas, the marching of our procosslons, the white of our weddings, the black scarfs of our obsequies. It passes out from the guess into the positive when we are told in the Bible that the inhabitants of other worlds do come a3 convoy to this. Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth to minister to those who shall be heirs of salvation? But human inspection, and angelic inspection, and stellar inspection, and lunar inspection, and solar inspection are tame compared with the thoueht of divine inspection. "You converted me twenty years said a blaok man to my father. "How so?" said my father.

"Twenty years ago." said the other, "in the old schoolhouse prayer meeting at Bound Brook you said in your prayer, Thou, God, seest and I had no peaoe under the eye of God until I became a Christian." Hear it. "The eyes of the Lord are In every place." "His eyelids try the children of men." "His eyes were as a flame of fire." "I will guide thee with Mine eye." Oh, the eye of God, so full of pity, so full of power, so full of love, so full of Indignation. so full of compassion, so full of mercy! How it peers through the darkness! How it outshines the day! How it glares upon the offender! How it beams on the penitent soul! Talk about the human eye as being lnaescrtoaDiy wonaeriui: now uiuuu mum wonderful the ereat, searohing, overwhelming eye of God! All eternity past and all eternity to come on that retina. The eyes with which we look into each other's face to-day suggest it. It stands written twice on your face and twice on mine, unless through casualty one or both have been obliterated.

"He that formedthe eye, shall He not see?" Oh, the eye of God! It sees our sorrows to assuage them, sees our perplexities to disentangle them, sees our wants to sympathize with them. If we fight Him back, the eye of an antagonist. If we ask His grace, the eye of an everlasting friend- You often find in a book or manuscript a star calling your attention to a footnote or That star the printer calls an asterisk. But all the stars of the night are asterisks calling your attention to all observing God. Our every nerve a divine handwriting.

Our every muscle a pulley divinely swung. Our every bone sculptured with divine suggestion. Our every eye a reflection of the divine eye. God oKnira 11a anrl (InA hftnflftth and GtOll be fore us, and God behind us, and God within us. What a stupendous thing to live! What a stupendous thing to die! No such thinpr as hidden trangression.

A dramatic advocate in olden times, at night in a courtroom, persuaded of the innocence of his client charged with murder and of the guilt of the witness who was trying to swear the poor man's life advocate took up two bright lamps and thrust them close up to the face of the witness and cried, it please the court and gentlemen of the jury, behold the murderer!" and the mau, practically under i that awful glare, confessed that he was the criminal instead of the man arraigned at tho bar. Oh. my friends, our most hidden sin is under a brighter light than that, It is under the burning eye of God. He is not a blind giant stumbling through the I heavens. He is not a blind monarch feeling for the step of His chariot.

Are you wronged? He sees it. Are you poor? He sees it. Have you domestic perturbation of which the world knows mthing? He sees it. ''Oh," you say, "my affairs are so insignificant I I can't realize that God sees me and sees my affairs." Can you see the point of pin? Can you see the eye of a needle? Cau you see a mote in the sunbeam? And has God given you that power of minute observation, i and does He not possess It Himself? "He that formed the eye, shall He not see?" 3 But you say: "God is in one world and I am in another world. He seems so far off from me I don't really think He sees what Is going on in my life." Can you see the sun 1 95,000,00 miles awav, and do you not think God has as prolonged vision? But you say, "There are phases of my life and there are of my annoyances and my vexations that I don't think God can understand." Does not God gather up all (he colors and all the shades of color in the 3 rainbow? And do you suppose there is any onualnHo in vniir life nof VI WUJ gathered up in His own heart? Besides that I want to tell you it will soon all be over, this struggle.

That eye of yours, so exquisitely fashioned and strung, said hinged ami roofed, will before long be closed in the last slumber. Loving hands will smooth 9 down the silken fringes. So He giveth His beloved sleep. A legend of St. Frotobert is that his mother was blind, and he was so 3 sorely pitiful for the misfortune that one day in sympathy he kissed her eyes, and by miraf cleshe saw everytning.

But it is not a legend when I tell you that all the blind eyes of the Christian dead under the kiss of the resuri rection morn shall gloriously open. Oh, what a day that will be for those who went this world under perpetual obscuration, or were dependent on the hand of a friend, or with an uncertain stall felt 4 their way, and for the aged of dim sight about whom it may be said that "they which i look out of the windows are darkened" when eternal daybreak comes in! What a beautii ful epitaph that was for a tombstone in a European cemetery: "Here reposes in Go1, I Katrina, a saint, eighty-live years of age ami blind. Tha light was restored to her May 10. ISiO." REV. EDWARD BEECHER DEAD Qe Was the Oldest Member of the Distinguished Family.

Rev. Dr. Edward Beecher, brother ol Henry Ward Beecher, died at his home, No. 182 Macon street, Brooklyn. He was ainetvtwo years old.

His death was duo to old I age. KIT. EDWARD BZZCHXB. Dr. Beeeher was bora at Easthampton, L.

August 27.1893. He entered Tale at flf- tt teen'and was. gratuated four yean later. He al then took a course In Andover Theological Seminar and after serving a tutorship at ec Yale at the age of twenty-seven became the first President of the Illinois College at Jacksonville, I1L. He remained at the head of Id the oollege for twelve years.

He then ao- dJ cepted a call to the Salem Congregational Church, in Boston. He preaohea In several fe other churches. When seventy years of age se he came to Brooklyn at the solicitation of tb his Ward. He became an ao dl tive member of Plymouth Church and ed much of his time to writing. St After his brother's death Dr.

Beeeher ri accepted a call to the Congregational Church of Parkviile, a suburb of Brooklyn. While returning from a seivioe at that church five vftam iuro he from the Dlatform of th the Culver station. His left leg was crushed by a car wheel and had to be amputated. re lire. Beecher, who survivea him, la eighty- 26 eight years old.

01 GRAVEYARD INSURANCE SCHEME jj Tea CltLxeni of Beaufort, If. C.f Arretted for Complicity In It. 11 Ten citizens of Beaufort, N. CM all prominent in business and social circles, have tb been arrested on warrants Issued on the af- sii fldavit of J. W.

Aiken, special agent of the n( Mutual Reserve Fund Life Association, of 300 Broadway, New York City, for de- tQ frauding six insurance companies. Theac- cused are: Dr. T. B. Delamar.

ex-Treas- fi urer of Beaufort and Justice of the Peace; Medical Examiner Charles R. Hassell, 8el- den Delawar, ex-Mayor of Beaufort; Jacob C. Delamar, general insurance agent; the Rev. Stephen I. Turner, William H.

Turner, David W. Parker, William Fisher, Albert Wigfall, and Levi T. Noe. 0. D.

Baldwin, Superintendent of the Deaih Claim Department for the Mutual Reservs, said: "This swindle, while by no means new, presents some features of interest. Early in 1894 a Mrs. Roundtree, who, according to the application ar forwarded to us by our local agent in Beau- jj fort, was a white woman in perfect health, insured with us for 82000. In six or seven ge months we received notification of her death, backed by a number of affidavits. On In- vestigation we found that claims had been presented to numerous other companies on this same death.

The affair seemed so peculiar that we Instructed Mr. Aiken to make further Investigations. "We learned that Mrs. Roundtree was a th colored woman who has been for many months In poor health. Her husband knew nothing of her insurance.

Her brother was named as beneficiary. On the strength of these facts, all the companies refused to pay, and the claim never has been pressed. The evidence f0 has been presented to the District Attorney, who Is prosecuting the matter for the local yf authorities, and the arrests followed." Charles W. Camp. Secretary of the Mutual fr Reserve, said: "I do not recall the details it of the case, but we were at once convinced that It was a fraudulent claim.

At the time th we seriously considered withdrawing all our business from Beaufort. Our agent at that Soint was changed. This Is but one of many audulent claims which we, In common with other companies, have been called upon t'" cl pay in the Southern States." th TAILORS ON STRIKE Nearly 20.000 Coatmakers in New York City, Brooklyn and Brownsville Out. Is Nearly 20,000 tailors went on a strike In New York City, Brooklyn and Brownsville, a suburb of Brooklyn, to prevent a return to the sweating system. In New York City more than 8000 tailors laid down their work in protest agaln3t an 11) alleged effort to force them back into the al conditions of labor under which they tolled until a year ago.

Four thousand men and women struck in Brooklyn and Browns- sli Tille. and about 1000 In New- si: ark, N. J. Besides these there were about 8000 persons in New York and 1000 in Brook- vr lvn and Brownsville who were idle because oould not work without those who were aj on strike, so that the total of those affected amounted to nearly 20,000 persons. Jt The principal cause of the strike, accord- ai ing to Schoenfleld, its leader, is the refusal ai of the contractors to renew last year's agree- bi ment, which provides that flfty-nine hours shall constitute a week's work, and the min- imum rate of wages shall be a3 follows: Basters, $13 a week and upward; pressors, pi 810 a week and upward; bushellers, 813 and upward; trimmers, 813 and upward; ki and finishers 89 and upward.

None but members of the union are to be employed, and permission Is given bv it to representatives of the Brotherhood to examine the cards of members; it abolishes the tenement- so work system, and permits no settlement with any contractor who employs men in tene- ments or sweat shops. ct Sweethearts Die Together. Edward Knevln, of Dayton, fatally shot Mary Schneer, of Alexandria, and then shot and killed himself. The girl came to Cincinnati some weeks ago and went to live with a family in Clifton. She had no company except Knevln, and, tiring of him, notinea aim noi 10 can iwy muia no pwuou, but she would not relent.

This ia the cause of the tragedy. He left a lote Identifying himself, and sayings "It does not do to fool a person." The 0j murderer and his viotim were each about twenty-five years old. ti( Three Boys Killed by the Expresa. al Waters Blundon, aged thirteen; J. Guy of Brown, fifteen, and Charles E.

Lynch, n( thirteen years old, were killed near River- dale Park Station, seven miles from Wash- tb injrton, on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, The boys were walking on the northbound of track. To avoid an approaching train they tb stepped on to the soutnOounct track, directly in in front of a fast moving Royal Blue Espresa tb train. All tnree were instantly killed. iD tb SOOO Deaths From Cholera in Japan. Siuco the outbreak of cholera in Japan there have been 9000 cases of the ami 5000 deaths.

The disease is raging iu Korea gj and on the Kiao Tung. 'm Tarade of Trolley Cars. th There was an unusual parade at Philadel- ht phia a few nights ago. Fifty trolley oars P( one immediately behind tho other, and all highly decorated with colored lights and flags skimmed around the city. Seats were wl reserved as in theatre, and every car car- it ried sixty people.

The parade of cars cov- th ered about twenty tniies, and the streets wi were as crowded as during tho festivities o) co the New Year's shooters. A uniquo feature so of tho parade was that tho money proceed." qi will bo given to the German Hospital. in Insurrection In China. The Dunganis, a MahommoJan tribe in North went China, have risen in rebellion eayiurou a town. SABBATH SCHOOL N'TERXATIOXATj lesson AUGUST 18.

wesson Text: "The New Home Canaan," Deut. vlM en Text: Deut. 10? Commentary. 8. "Hoar, therefore.

0 Israel, and do it, that it may be well with thee 1 in the land that floweth with milk oney." Compare verse 18 and chanter 3. 33, on obedience in order to bless hen 25, "It shall be our ess if we observe to do all these commt icnts before the Lord our God," Wen 5memberthat God pave them no commr lents to keep until He had redeemed tl om Esrvpt by the blood of the passover ad by His mighty power. The sinner ccept Christ as the end of the law for susness (Rom. 4) before the rightec ess of the law can be fulfilled in Him (R 111., 3. 4).

On hearing and doing comj Iso Math, 24-27; Jas. 22; I John I Rev. 8. R. V.

4. "Hear. 0 Israel, the Lord our Goc ae Lord." The Lord Jesns quoted tt xrnrdn. as recorded in Mark x-H. 2S jnnectiou with a summary of the Ten andmeots.

We might read It DVRh. our Elohim, Is one Jehovah." plurnl word likeserapJ id cherubim and Is at least suggestive lurality of persons, Father, Son and plrlt (MHth. 19). The oneaea ie three is seen in John 30 and bo by comparing verses 3 and 4 of Act his Jehovah shall yet be king over all irth (Zech. 9).

5. "And thou shalt ldve the Lord thy ith all thine heart" We feel perfectly i i saving that only one man ever lived id this thoroughly and always. Even an Christ Jesus, the God man, God mt 6t in the flesh. None but He could ty, "I do-always those things that pl? ie father" (John 29). But He ve: love God with all His heart and soul i ight If we have received Him as iviour and Lord, He in us will fulfill ghteouaness of the law, and love ia the ling of the law, such love as is om.

xiii, 10; I Cor. 4-7. 6. "And these words whioh I comnn tee this day shall be in mine heart" erely in our heads that we may be peat them, like the lawyer of Luke who answered right, but In the ir being, affecting our whole life. One id, "Thy word have I hid in minehei at I might not sin against Thee" (Ps.

Ezekiel was commanded to receive ords In his heart and then go and spi to the children of Israel (Ezek. 7. "And thou shalt teach them dlligei lto thy children." See a repetition is verse in chapter 19. What God red of Israel He still desires, for He chan )t. But what a peculiar household OUld De wnere ice worn ui uua iuiu orks of God were the one and contin pic of conversation! What a pecu he or she would be who would be ays talking of the word of God! Wo like to be so very peculiar for Jesi ke, at any cost? 8, 9.

As prominent as if on hand and fc and door or crateposts. A heart full im and His woTd and His service, a he holly and only for Him. of whom it isss When thou goest, He shall lead thee. W1 iou sleepesr, He shall keep thee, and wl iOU awakest He shall talk with th 22). A heart that delights in ord of God and meditates there in day ght (Ps.

2). A heart out of the abu ioo of which the Spirit can freely talk 1m whom Ho delights to glorify (Math. 3 John 14). Paul was a onosen a 1 to bear His name (Acts 15), and ust be as manifestly His at all times a had His name written on our forehe lev. 4).

Where we would ce to bear that name we may not go. 10. "And it shall be when the Lord od shall have brought thee unto the Ian i in verse 23 He brought them out of Egj at He might bring them into the hat He purposes is sure to be accomplisl sa. 24). These purposes may se U-.

i oe aeiuyeu uv mau uuuouvi, cvuu meration may have to be raised up, jvery purpose of the Lord shall be rmed" (Jer. 29). 11. Cities and houses and wells and vi irds and olive trees, which they neit lilt, nor duff, nor planted; all a free om God to them. He gave, they receiv is even so with us who now believe in ord Jesus.

Salvation full and free is rough Him who loved us, apart from i orks of ours. 12. "Beware lest thou forget the Lc hich brought thee forth out of the land from the house of bondage" (so lapter 11). And yet that was the they did, They forgot His works i is wonders, and remembered not His hi 's. 11, 42).

When we have a 1 st we may lack some good thing, or pon an arm of flesh rather than upon are guilty of forgetting Him of whom written, "He that spared not His own it delivered Him up for us all, how si not with Him also freely give us ingsV" (Rom. 32). IS. "Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God rve Him, and shalt swear by His Naui le this more fully stated in chapter I. The fear of the Lord is a fountain fe; therefore be thou in the fear of the 1 the dav lonir fProv.

27; 1 who lives in the fear of the Lord will aught that is not right and good in ght (verse 18). He who serves the Lore ncenty and truth (Joshua 14) 1 sver think of man's frown or favor, 111 seek only to please Him in all thir is motto will be, "Study to shew thy jproved unto God." 14. "Ye shall not go after other Goc shovah is the true God. the living id King of eternity (Jer. 10, margi id other so CRlled gods are but vanity, ought them out of Egypt (Deut.

alone is worthy to be praised. ere chosen to be a special people im above all people (Deut. 6), a for His own possession, that they mi ake Him a Name. Yet after all His lov ndness. they had to confess, "Oh Lord od, other lords beside Thee have had inion over 18).

15. "For the Lord thy God is a jeal od among you." Just 9even times is to be jealous (Ex. eut. 24; 15; Joshua ah. 2).

The same word is transla sealous," and also "bought." or msed." It is surely a resonable thing le should use as he pleases and possess is own use that wnich he nos purohai Ex. 16; Ps. 2. and comp 14, R. and Jas.

5., R. artrin. Let us acknowledge that we 1 HlsforHis Helper. WACE WAR ON GRASSHOPPERS innesota Authorities Exterminate Th With a Peculiar Machine. Professor Lugger, the State Entomoloj Minnesota, has in operation in the 1 iver Yalley and in Chicago and Pine Co 33 400 The "hopj )ser" is a machine about eight feet 1( id two feet wide.

It is made on the a dust pan, is of tin and sits on three srs, on which it is pulled over the stub a team of horses. At the rear of the iere is a trough the entire length of achine, in which there is an inferior gr 1 coal oil, while at the back of the maeb iere is a sheet of canvas. The hoppers to the pan to get out of its way. Th lat fall into the kerosene and are immer the fluid die at once, while the iat are merely touched by the oil may ro or three minutes before they succumi sort of a paralysis that is more deadly ectrocution. It costs the State ake each of these machines.

They ven to the fanners in hopper invested unities in order to encourage them in i ag rid of the pest. Professor Lugger cla iat with 400 he kills ofl of 800 to 1200 bushels of grassh every day. l'oe's Homestead is Bought. The cottage in Fordham, New York Ci lieh was made famous by the residence of Edgar Allan I'oe has been purchased New York Shakespeare Society, wh ill maintain it as nearly as possible in ndition it was during the life of I'oe. 1 ciety will use the cottage as its he lariers, ana win always uo opuu ior spectiou of visitors.

Vesuvius Active. Mount is of turrifl eruptions in its historv. i flocking to look at it. RELIGIOUS READING OR REALITY OF LIFE. The reality of life consists iu God, nor ca p.uy one tlinl any reality in bis life until has lound God.

And the sentimental life one of the chief obstacles to real life. Illi I- sions about self and the world and our reli tion to it are constantly active in turning i from God and preventing us trom really lr ing in Him. We often know sentimentalit we see other people. But definition is difficult. We would probabl all agree to this: a sentimentalist is or who recognizes the need of forming rigl and and real relations to truth or man or v-? In morality the sentimentalist ing.

over the novel or the pla; ous- anj has neither help nor sympatli ind- for the want and sorrow next door. I aust politics he makes or applauds speeches md- patriotic devotion and subscribes to corrup lem Jve funds, or tells lies about his antagonist imb t0 jret his party into power. In religion tb lust sentimentalist goes to church because likes the delivery or the style of his favoril 5us- preacher, listens with moistened eyes whi om. (T IUO UUW SKJIKJJ3C iiUOU, U1UU1J l.Jgui{ )are to think about God when the shado of trouble or fear falls over him, and the calmly and continuously negleots every du1 13 of makes the slishtest saor leae flce for his church or the smallest real effoi In to follow the precepts of Christ in his dall Paul Van Dyke. 'Jerhe iitn a flea roa justice.

a We are quite sure that most we mean moat church Go 9 unjustly in the distribution of their fundi 16: Doubtless with most 'there is no set purpot 8 7' to defraud Him. It is but a following of a the mottt universal custom, a thoughtless babl But we fear in many this passes lnt something a refusal to think lei reflection increase responsibility and coinp self-denial. How can one who looks tfc tbf matter over calmly, refuse to establish som ial" fixed rule about his expenditures, some rigl iver eous proportion between his outgoes for ael and his outgoes for that of unselfishness Does he not know that in the absence of sue lnd proportion, all experience shows very little really laid out in a way to benefit the worl or from a single eye to glorify God? 8elf ha J111" an enormous advantage where temporar 1111 feeling is allowed to have constant sway. In pulse is not to be trusted in a thing of th sort. It is too Important, has too close a coi nectlon with one's own deliverance from ni( gardllness and with the salvation of tt world, to be left to the whim of the momen or the chance state of tbe treasury.

ever is at all wise will treat God at least jus lyin this matter. Whoever is wisest, wl VIOUb UlUi gOUUl Bak 10, INTEBC0UB8E WITH JESUS. Intercourse with Jesus does not mean hal: lUy an-hour or an hour In your closet. A ma may study his Bible or bis commentary ae" lully; he may look up all the parallel pai sages in the chapter; when ho comes out his closet he may be able to tell you all aboi I it, and yet he has never met Jesus that mon ing at all. You have prayed for Ave or te minutes, and you have never met Jesui And so we must remember that though th Bible is most precious, and the readin 13 9 of it most blessed dnd needful, yet prayt and Bible reading are not fellowshl with Jesus.

What we need every mornin is to meet Jesus and to say, "Lord, here i the day again, and I am just as weak in mj self as ever I was; do thou come and fee me this morning with thyself and speak my soul." It is not your faith that will kee you standing, but it is a living Jesus, ind every dav in fellowship and worship an love." Wait in His presence, however col and faithless you feel. Wait before Him an say: "Lord, helpless as I am, I believe an rest in the blessed assurance that what Tho wilt do for Andrew Murray. 3 if WHERE WE ABE LED. not We cannot see into the future, to knoi thv whither the subtle tendencies of our life ai r. leading us.

We do many things which our eyes appear innocent and harmless, bi which have in them the hidden evil we car 3e(j not see. We indulge ourselves in many thing iem which to us do not appear sinful, but whic iew leave on our soul a touch of blight, a soilin but of purity, of which we do not dream. permit ourselves many little habits i which wo seek no danger, but which are si n6. lently entwining their invisible inti her a cable, which some day shall bind us and foot. We spare ourselves self-denial ecj and sacrifices, thinking there is no reaso the why we should make them, unaware the ura we are lowering our standard of living, an inv permitting the subtle beginnings of self-ir dulgence to creep into our B.ili irdj ler, D.

D. of tls0 FAMILY WOBSHTP. ery Let the households that wish to keep family worship but find it impossible to to low ihe protracted customs of their father ear try the method which is now adopted in few busy homes of which we have know edge. Some of the members are obliged take early morning trains and therefore th father makes the blessing at the table prayer for the day, and each repeats a vers a11 of Scripture in turn. Sunday mornings thi act of worship follows the breakfast and i more formal and extended.

But if we erently and truly acknowledge God as ou Creator and the Giver of all our mercies nee we be so strenous as to the form? And i not some recognition of him in the home bet ter than none at all? We are not heard fc EL9' our much SDeakine. but it certainly fs de sirable, especially in home with 1 there be some speaking aloud to the but enly Father. OUB DATS OUB LIFE. Our days are like beautiful summer fields la," as God Rives them to us. The minutes ar lovely blooming flowers and silvery grass blades, and stalks of wheat with their germ He of golden foliage, or vines with their bloa of coming purple clusters bey Ob, the fair possibilities of the days ac nto hours and minutes as they come to us frou God's hands! But what did you do wit ght yesterday? How does the little acre of thn ing one day look to you now? Is it waving wit our beauty? Are there no waste spots in it do- What did you do with the seven days of las week? How does that seven-acre field ap oua pear to you as you view It from the hilltop Jod the holy Sabbath? Are thero no wasted miD 14; utes.

no squandered J. R. Mil 19! ler, D. D. tted iur- HEALTHY OBOWTH.

Every healthy growth creates the condition of new growth, makes new growth possible sed. rpjje illustrations are numberless everywhere Every ray of sunlight that gives ripeness an apple makes the apple opener to mor are sunlight, which shall ripen it still more Every summer is also a springtime. we may make this a test of growth. Ever ray of sun which does not open the grouni to new sunlight, is not feeding it, but bakim em it. This Is the true test of growing force.

I opens the beautiful reactions between itsel and the growing thing, and creates an open jjst ness for yet more of Brooks 8T0BT or A 60CL. The parable of the prodigal is the story 0 Ian many a soul. A man takes the portion un- goods that falls to him, his heritage of ible powers, inwrought intuitions and acquirei pan culture, goes into the far country and wastei the his mental substance in riotous thinking.thei ad? he comes to himself and thinks his way bacl ine again to his point of departure. If ileutl imp overtakes him prematurely he dies an agues tic, a skeptir, or an infidel; if he lives lonj, sed enough to think clearly he seeks and finds God 0. P.

Gifford. live 310 God knows a thousand "might have beens' lian where we know one: He can look at them al to patiently, is the Ho knows a thousand "iuuv i-e's" jm- D. T. Whitney. Died to Earn Ten Cents.

Daniel Smith, a nine-year-old boy, at Witchita. being in ill-health, his father got a medicine to recuperate him. The boy had an aversion to medicine, and his fathei jtv promised to give him a cent for every dose j'n he would take. The boy went to where the medicine was and in Ills innocence took tec jch teaspoonfuls of it in order to get a dime. He died before medical attendance could be secured.

mlHank Officers Arrested. Directors Tliorburn. Harvey, Grieve nnc Donnelly and Manager F.nsent of the funet Uuiou Hank of St John, N. wn arrested and afterward admitted to bail. Tin Vvi I't-ini? arreste upon two distinc u'Ji charges, wero held in bonds.

VI TEMPERANCE. I THE DRIXKIXO 1724. In 172-1 Kin drinking began to affect the masses, aud Mr. Lecky, in his of Eighteenth Century." a terriblo 13 picture of the way in which "the fatal pas- aion for drink was at once and irrevocably in the Nation." On that account he 13 fixes on that year as one of the blackest and imost fatal epoch in Enerlish history. And are we now to be told that drink in those 1.

8 days did not cause crime? One may suppose the Grand Jury of Middlesex were un- 0 der no such utter delusion, for soon after tl i' 1724 they sent in a powerful presentment, in which they declared that ''much of the )S greatest part of the poverty, the robberies and the murders of London might be attrib- ti uted to drink." In 1750 the London phy- sicians also drew up a memorial, and said a( there werethen 14,000 cases of fatal illness due to gin alone. At the same time Bishop Benson, of Gloucester, one of the best bishops on the bench, used these words so diametrically the opposite of Mr. Walker's insinuation. "Our people," he said, "have become what they never Were and Inhuman, These accursed liquors which, to the shame of our Govern- a ment, are so easily to be had, have changed their very nature." At the same time the whole bench of bishops interposed the unsul- tl purity of their lawn between the Nation and the curse of the drink traffic, as, in these days, our have interposed "the stainless sanctity of their ermine." They against the Gin act as "foundea on the indulgence of debauchery, the agement of crime, and the destruction of the. a human race." Lastly, John Wesley was far 'O from tMnklng of those days, as Mr.

now 'thinks, that "it would" have been a palpable absurdity to speak of a relationship of oauae and effect between drink and orime. jj? He said: ir "But all who sell drams or spirituous 01 liquors in the common way to any that will 10 buy are poisoners general. They drive men 11 to hell like sheep. A curse is In the midst of them." tl TBOTBTT7L FOBTTWE-TKLLME. Is Even in this intelligent age of the world 01 there are too many people who believe in the ls humbuggery of "fortune-telling," but if all (T so-called fortune-tellers were as frank as the l- one mentioned In the following story, whloh fc Is is borrowed from the Detroit Free Press, and l- may or may not be true, they would have fewer patrons than they now have.

le A man was having his fortune told. "I see," said the "seventh daughter of the a seventh daughter," contracting her eyebrows, t- see the name of John." 11 "Yes," said the sitter, indicating that he had heard the name before. 8i "The name seems to have given you a great deal of trouble." "It has." SJ f- "This John is an intimate friend. aj "That's so," he said, wonderingly. "And often leads you to do things you are sorry for." 8)f "True; every si "His influence over you Is bad.

it t- nn.n(n rr "But you will soon have a serious quarrel, s. when you will become estranged." "I'm glad of that. Nowspell out his whole it name." The fortune-toller opened one eye and 1 carefully studied the face of the visitor, Then she wrote some cabalistic message, Is and handed it to him in exchange for her fee. "Do not read it until you are at home." st she said, solemnly. "It is your friend's whole name." 8j it When he reached home he lit the gas and gravely examined the paper.

There he read, in picket-fence characters, the name of his friend: "Demi-John." pi 5 ci A TERRIBLE DEAIV. Few people have any correct idea of the ec terrible drain which alcoholic liquors make upon the working man's wages. According 1 to Archbishop Ireland, who has given the ,0 matter close attention, in this country alone, hi 0 the cost of such liquors to the consumers has mounted in a single year as high as $1,000,000.000, or an averasrn of more than $16 to C1 every man. woman and child in this country. Cl In Britain, the cost in one year has been or an avere age of more than 820 to every person of population.

It is difficult for the mind, CI without some term of comparison, to com- b( 0 prehend these figures. The sum spent in four years for alcoholic drinks in Great 3 Britain would purchase all the railroads in the country, and the sum spent in six years ct lt would pay off the national debt. The aggro- prate of wages paid by all the mechanical L. dustries during the year 1880 was only S947.000.000-a sum bnt slightly in excess of the drink-bill for the same year. The total value of all church property in the country in 1870 was $354,483,000.

Six months' abstin- ence from drink would buy it out. 1C f- THI EXPEBIIIEN'T 8T7CCEEDED. "I a In 1983, Mr. A. L.

Foster, together with a I. others, formed a corporation and established 0 a saw-mill plant at a place called Foster 88 City, in Menominee County, Michigan. They a employed 150 men. The pay-roll is about S8000 to 35000 per month. There are forty- hi Ave families, all having comfortable homes.

Thev have a school, town hall, library and r. reading room. Mr. Foster determined to exr cludo the saloons from the location. He was told by several experienced lumbermen that 3 he could not keep men to work for him with- aj out saloons.

He determined to try the ex- periment. Never since the organization of A the company has it been compelled to send away for employes. The nearest saloon is at r. Metropolitan, five miles distant. Mr.

Foster writes that he has never spent a dollar in railway fares or time to get an- cl swerlng letters is all the expense to which he has been put. They have never had occa'? slon to use one single dollar for the poor 0 fund, either town or county. The mill has; p( been running for about ten' ton Messenger. i 6C OJiLT A GLASS IX THE JIOBNIJTO. Youth is the formlncr-time of habits, and these, unless carefully watched, will grow lt until they bind like ropes and ta There are few young men who are awakened is to the evils of a bad habit in time to conlt auer as did a certain young man who had thoughtlessly formed the habit of taking a in giass of liquor every morning before break- ai nl An older friend advised him to quit before UnKU oKahH atrnnc IIf Oh, there's no danger.

It's a mere notion. I can quit any time," replied the Irinker. 3 you try it to-morrow morning," aj snstrestod the friend. 01 "Very well; to please you I'll do so, but I 0 assure you there's no cause for alarm." MOST POTENT CAUSE OF IXSANITT. jjj 1 In 1855 the number of insane paupers Jn England and Wales was uuder 21,000: in' 1 1895 it has risen to nearly 83,000.

Says Dr. Watm3ley, of Darenth "The most la potent causes insanity are hereditary trans1 and alcoholic intemperance. No than one-half of all occurring eases of insanity are due to inherited taint, one- a fourth of alt occurring cases of insanity are due to drink." ifi SCXDAr OLOSIXO IX SEW TORE. That the present effort to close the saloons on Sunday is beneficial to somebody, the fol3 lowing statement goes a long way to prove: Under the old system every Monday morning witnessed scores of male and female "drunks" 3 beforo the magistrate at the Jefferson Market Ol Court. Last Monday morning there wad not in nlno .1 wuumu ynuuuoi, ivi mc moi 3 years.

Ouly six men were arraigned for in- toxicaliou. This, too, was very unusual, as the Monday morning return for intoxication have hitherto been the heaviest of the week. In plain language, no woman was deprived ai of her "libHrty" for five or ten days. Keep it up, Mr. York Witness.

Sp TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES. Judge Logue. of Cleveland, declares that of the forty thousand cases which El have come horore him as judge of the police court during the four years, were the result of intoxication. The Masons of Mississippi have drawn tho 0, i Hue against liquor sellers, enacting the general rule that. "No either as prin- lc eipal.

a cent. employe or iu any other capac- 8C ity, sen iutoxieariug liquors to dp used jv as hewrage. -m the penalty therefor shall aj Ill The saioon begets the drunkard, the 6V 1 .1 rimkard begets ruukenness. and drunken- iic-js begets th wii'jlt) shameless progeny of and under which icietv stag- cc ers F- M. Ellb.

ftl 1. a HOUSEHOLD MATTERS, QUiiXELLES OP PISH. Take three ponndsof white fish and! oil, cooking a trifle less than for jrving as boiled fish. Divide the, sh, remove all the bones and rub tirough a sieve. Then pound the fish 1 a mortar with a quarter of a pound butter and an equal quantity of; read crumbs; add half a teaspoonful salt, a little cayenne pepper, onejird of a nutmeg grated and three ell-beaten eggs; mix well together nd add a tablespoonful of cream and ie juice of a lemon.

Sprinkle floor the board and roll out the ading sufficient flour to thicken it. Then smooth divide the paste into ieces about two and a half inches by two inohes wide; roll these lto cigar-like shapes, but not too ointed, and fry in very hot butter ntil a light brown. This disli makes handsome entree, and may may be sed with a centre of mushrooms or Cultivator. aw ummintfTg unn To preserve watermelon rind, first are off the green skin and the soft hiie inner rind, and ont into strips shapes. Allow a pound and" Quarter of sugar to eaoh pound oI ind.

Line jour kettle with Tina tares and fill with the rind, scatterig a little pulverised alum over iver. Coyer with Tine loaves, iiok; pour on water enough to reach ad wet these, and lay a olose lid on ie top of the kettle. Let all steam jgether for three hours, but the ater must not actually boil. Takes at the should be well reened by this throw at noe into very cold water. It should allowed to soak, ohanging the water rery hour, for four hours.

For the rrnp, allow two cups of water to ound and a quarter of sugar. Boil ad skim until no more scum oomes put in the rind, simmer gently early an hour. Take it out and jread upon dishes in the sun until rm and almost cooL Simmer in tha rrup for half an hour; spread out gain, and when firm put into a large owl and pour orer it the scalding rrnp. Twelve hours later put the prop again over the fire, adding th? lice of a lemon and a tiny strip of inger root for every pound of rind. oil down until thiok; pack the rind i jars and pour the syrup over it.

Til when cooL 'I A VEAL LOAF. One of the best forms in which to irte veal for luncheon or tea is as loaf. A tested recipe for it sts of three and a half ponnda from to leg, chopped very fine, mixed ith a quarter of a pound of fat salt Drk, also chopped, fine. If one looses, a quarter of a pound of ham chicken chopped fine may be add1. Season the mixture with a tablejoonful of salt, a teaspoonful of hite pepper, a teaspoonf.il of sweet arbs, and the juice of a large lemon, thoroughly, then add six large 'ackers rolled to a powder (sods ackers are best), three well beaten jg8, a piece of butter the size of an jg, and four tablespoonfuls of sweet earn.

Make into a loaf, brush with egg, and sprinkle Well with ae bread crumbs. Bake about two aurs in a moderate oven, basting ooisionally so that it will not be dry. srve cold, cut in very i thin slices. arnish the dish with cresses, parsy, or the hearts of lettuce-heada. he dish is made quite elegant for a igh tea by laying the'slices in the ittuce leaves and using very cold toiato jelly and yellow or green mayonaise, so thick that it oan be out with knife, as a garnish.

This is an cold meat for picnics; not in a ilad form, however, for salads and fruits, and all other foods thai ave a tendency to spill and run and Elapse, have ruined the appetite at ore than one picnio. Meats are best iken in sandwiohes kept from drying being well wrapped in waxed paper id put in a box by themselves. ork Post. HOUSEHOLD HINT3. Soft newspaper is excellent to eanse windows or any glassware.

Spirits of tarpentine is tbe thing ith which to cleanse and brighten itent leather. Cold tea cleanses paint better than ap and water unless the paint is bite, when milk is better. Moderately strong salt and water ken by the teaspoonful at intervals a cure for catarrhal oold. One of the best mosquito poisons use is a preparation of pennyroyal id kerosene. The odor is a bit uneasant, but the little pests don't get ied to it.

If meat is tough, or if you have any jubt of its tenderness, put a of vinegar over it when pul 1 to cook; you will find it very teajr when done. A level teaspoonful of boraoio acid issolved in a pint of freshly boiled ater and applied cool is the best ash for inflamed sore eyes or granuLtad lids and an excellent gargle for iflamed sore throat. Housewives would save themselves vast amount of trouble if they would ark all pillow cases in pairs. Anyle who has tried to match them lows how difficult it lb, and yet the arking is generally neglected. If the hair is thin and dry rub well ro or three times a week with a mixire of sixty grains of quinine to aa ince of vaseline.

For cleanliness ash it once or twice a month with )od tar soap, and wipe occasionally ith a damp towel. Sweetmeats, such as jellies, jams id pound for pound preserves, must i saved for luncheon or dinner, and fruits, as a rule, do not belong 1 the breakfast table; but a glass of fruit juice is refreshing iu the orning, and decoys one through tha jubtful pleasure of eating bread and eak. Ti. nna should hftVA J.I 13 ItUVlOaUiW ie petticoat to be used exclusively walking, ami this may be faced for me distance from the bottom with a aterpr of cloth. There will then be most perfect protection for the feet id ankles in wet weather.

It is the wishing of damp clothes about th? et that constitutes most of the juit'ort of a rainy day expedition, id the waterproof lining does away this..