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STEADILY IMPROVES DR. TALMAOE'S SUNDAY SERMON. Argues That the World Grows Better Day By Day-- Many Opportunities! For Improvement. ' WASHINGTON,. D. C.-In this niacouree Dr. Talraage recites nomo great events and shows that the world is advancing in the right direction; text. Joel ii, 30, "I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth." Dr. Cumming-great and good man would have told us the exact time of the fulfillment of this prophecy. As I stepped into his r/udy in London on my arrival from Paris just after the French had sur rendered at Sedan the good doctor said to me: "It is just what? I had told you about France. People laughed ut mc because I talked about the seven horns and the vials, but I foresaw all this from the book of Daniel and tho book of Revelation." Not ta?; in; any such responsibility in the in terpretation of thc passage, I simply ns ecrt that there are in it suggestions of many things in our time. ' Oar eyes dilate and our heart quickens in its pulsations as wc read oi event* in the third century, the sixth century, the eighth century, the fourteenth century, Lut there wive more far-reaching eveuts crowded int.vthe nineteenth century than into any otktr, and the lase twenty years eclipse any preceding twenty. We read in the daily newspaper?? of events announced ia one paragraph and without any special emphasis-events which a Herodotus, a Josephus, a Xenophon, a Gibbon, would have taken whole chapters or whole vol umes to elaborate. Looking out upon our time, wa must cry out in the words of the text. "Wonders in the heavens and in the earth." I propose to ?how you that the tims in which we live is wonderful for disaster and wonderful for blessing, for there muct he lights and ?hades in this picture as in nil others. Need I argue that our lime is wonderful for disaster? Our world has had a rough time since by the hand of God it was bowled out into ?pace. It is an epileptic earth-convulsion after convul sion ; frosts pounding it with -.?lodge ham mer of icebergs and lires melting it with furnaces seven times heated. It is a won der to me it has lasted so long. Meteors choosing hy on this side and grazing it and me,rora shooting hy 0.1 thc other side and grabing it, none o? them slowing up for safety. Whole (leets and navies and argo Kosic3 and flotillas of worlds sweeping all ahout us. Om" earth like a helling smack .oft the bank? of Newfoundland, whi'e the Majestic and tito St. Paul and the Kaiser Wilhelm der^ Crosse rush by. Insides that, oar T.'or.d has hy sin been damaged in its internal machinery, and ever and anon the furnaces have hurst, and thc walking Leann of the mountains have broken, nnd the islands have shipped a Bea, and thc great hulk o? thc world has been jarred with accidents that ever and anon threatened immediate demolition. But it seems to us as ii the last hundred years were especially characterized bv dis* usier-voVanic, oceanic, epidemic. ? say volcanic because an earthquake is only a volcano hushed up. When Stromboli and <^otooaxi and Vesuvius ston breathing, let the foundations of the earth beware! Sev en thousand earthquakes in two centuries recorded in the catalogue of thc British as sociation! -Trojan, the v emperor, goes to ancient Antioch, and amid the sp endors of- his reception is met by ?TV'cari-.hpuakel tlfiSc nearly'dcatroya the emporor'a life. . Lisbon, fair nnd beautiful, efl o'clock .on thc 1st of November, 1755, itt six min ti''.'; C0,Cp0 have perished, and Voltaire ynrMr.i o? them, "For that region it was ,thi lust judgment; nothing wanting but a tri'.mnet!" Eurone and America foiling tho throb-1500 chimneys in Boston partly or. fully destroyed! 1 But U12 dfcasters of other timos have ;hid their counterpart in later times. In . 1812 Carneas was caught in the grip of an earthquake, in 1882 in Chile 100,000 6quare miles of land by volcanic force upheaved to four and seven feet of permanent ele vation, in 1854 Japan felt the geological agony: Naples shaken in 1857, Mexico in 1353; Mendoza, the catii tal of tho Argentine Republic, in 1861; Manila terrorized in 1863: the Hawaiian Islands by such force .uplifted and let down in 1871; Nevada shaken in 1871, Antioch in 1872: Califor nia in 1S72, San Salvador in. 1873, while 1833 what subterranean excitement! Is .chia, an island of the Mediterranean, a ^beautiful Italian watering place, vineyard clad, surrouudtd by all natural charm ana .historical reminiscence; yonder Capri, the [summer resort of the Ilorir.n emperors; ^yonder Naples, the paradise of art-this ?.beautiful is nr.d suddenly toppled into the trough of the earth. 8000 merrymakers ?menin?, and come of them HO far down eneath the reach of hr.man obsequies that ,it nay be said of many a one of them, as .it rrj paid of Moses, "The Lord burled :Iiun." Italy, all Euro-ie weeping, all Chris .tendom weeping where there wore hearts .to sympathize and Christians to pray. But iwh?e thc nations wcro measuring that 'magnitude of disaster, measuring io i.ot rwilh golden rod like that with wrich the an^el measured heaven, but with the black rule of f'eath, Java, of thn Indian archi pelago, the rroat fertile irlanrl of all the .earth, is caught in the grip of the earth ouaku, and mountain after mountain goes .down, and city after city until that island, which produces the bpst beverage of ali tthe world, produced the ghastliest catasr ;trophe. One hundred thousand people . dying, dead! Coming nearer honie, on {AugUfct 31. I8S5, the great earthquake which prostrated one-half of Charleston, !?. C. j But loo?: at the disasters cyclonic. At ?thc mouth of thc Ganges are three islands, ?thc flattiah, the Sundeep and the Dakin (Shabuzpore. In thc midnight of October, p877, on all those threes islands thc cry war, "Tic waters!" A cyclone arose and troted the sci ox er those three islands, jand of a population of 340,000, 215,000 were j drowned. Only those saved who had .climbed to the top of tlie highest "trees!. (Did yoii ererbte a cyclone? No? Then' tl pray God you muy never see one. I EIW Ja cyclone ou thc ocean, and it swept us 'SOO niles back from our course, and for {thirty-six hours during the. cyclone ?.nd 'after it we expected every moment to go . to the bottom. They to'd it? before we re jtircd at 0 o'clock that the barometer had 'fallen, but at ll o'clock at night wo were awakened with thc shoL-k of thc waves. 'All the Hehts out! Crash went all the life jbnat?. Waters rushing through the sky lights down into U13 cabin and down on |the furnaces until they hissed aud smoked ?in U12 dshisn. Seven hundred people praying, shrieking. Our great ship poised 'a moment on the ton o? a mountain of phosphorescent fire and then plunged ?down, down, down until it seemed as if 'she never weuid again be righted. Ah, you never want to ftc a cyclone at sea! . i But I wi>i in Minnesota, where there wes o-.vo cf those cyclones on land that .swept the city-of^Rochester from its foun? dations aud took dwelling houses, barna, men, women, children, horses, cattle and tossed them into indiscriminate ruin and lifted a rail train and dashed it ?own, a mightier hand thau that of engineer on the airbrake. Cyclone in Kansas, cyclone in Missouri, cyclone in Wisconsin, cyc.ono in Illinois, cyclone in Iowa! Satan, prince of the power of the air, never made such cyclonic disturbances as he has in our day. And am I not right in saying that one of tho characteristics of the time ia which we live is disaster .cyclonic? But look at the disasters oceanic. Shall I call the roll of the dead shipping? Ye monsters of the deep, answer w:ien I call your names. The Ville de Havre, the Schiller, the City of Boston, the Melville, the President, th?? Cimbria, the Oregon, the Mohegan. But why should I go on calling the roll when noue of them an swers, and the roll is as long UH the white scroll of the Atlantic surf at Cape Hat teras breakers? If the oceanic cables could report all the scattered life and nil the bleached boues that they rub against in thc ocean, what a message of pathos aud tragedy for both beaches! In one ?torin eighty fishermen perished off thc coast of Newfoundland and whole fleets of them off the coast of Eugland. God help the non.- fellows ct sea and give high scats in heaven to thc Grace Darlings and Ida Lewises and the lifeboat men hovering around Goodwin sands and the Skerries! Tho sea, owning three-fourths of the earth, proposes to capturo the other fourth, and 13 bombarding " the land all around the earth. The moviug o" the hotels at Brigh ton Beach backward 100 yard? from where they once stood, a trpe o? what is going on all around the world and on every coast. The Dead Sea rolls to-day where ancient cities stood. So I rejoice day by day. Work for all to do, and we may turu the crank of the Christian machinery this way or that, for we are free agents. But there is the track laid so long ago no one remembers it-laid by the hand of the Almighty God in sock ets that no terrestrial or satanic pressura can ever affect. And along the track the car of the world's redemption will roll and roll to the Grand Central depot of the millen nium. I have no anxiety about ths track. I am only afraid that for our indolence and unfaithfulness God will discharge us and get some otljcr stoker and some other engineer. The traiu is going through with us or without us. There is a house in London wher^ Peter the Great of Russia lived awhile when he was moving through thc land incognito and in workman's dress, that he might learn ship carpentry, by which he could iiupply thc needs of his people. A stran ger was visiting nt that house, "What's in tfcnt box?" The owner enid: "I don't know. That box was there wheu I got the house, and it was there when ir.y father got it. We havn't had any curiosity ta look afc it. I guess there's nothing in it." '"Well," said thc stranger. 'Til give vou ?2 for it." "Well, done." The ?2 was paid, and the contents of that box were sold to thc Czar of Russia for ?.10.01)0. In it thc lathing machine ot Peter the Great, his private letters and documents of value beyond all monetary consideration. And here are the events that seem very insig nificant and unimportant, but they incala treasures of Divine Providence and eterni ties of meaning which after awhile Cod will demonstrate before the ngC3 as being of stupendous value. When Titans play lr;uojt? they pitch mountains, but who u'.v;w tk.iso gi?mtie natural forces we a?fl . ' readtr.i about? Whose hand - valve of the volcano*:. \ den'y planted on tac t V.stoo ..... .l.V or continents ouiver: God! ? imwi; b? at peace with Him. Through thc Lord Jesu* Christ this Cod is mine and Ke is yours. 1 ? ? t"ie earth quake that shook Palest t o the cruci fixion against all the down rocking? of the centuries. This God on our side, we may challenge all the centuries of time and a.l the cyTc.cs of eternity. Those of you who arc in midlife may well thank God that you have seen so many wondrous things, but there arc people alive to-day who may live to sec the shim mering veil between the material and tho spiritual world lifted. Magnetism, a word with which wc cover up our ignorance, will yet be n:i explored realm. Electricity, the fiery courser of the sky, that Benjamin Franklin lassoed aud Morse and Bell and Edison hr.vc brought under complete control, has grpater wonders to reveal. Whether here or departed this life, we will sec these things, lt docs uoi make mjch difference whore we stand, but the higher the standpoint thu larger the pros pect. We will see them from heaven if we do noe seo them from earth. Years ago I was at Fire ls'and, Long Island, and I went up in thc cunara from which they telegranh to New York tin approach of vesse's hours before the;, coma into port. There is an opening in the wal1, and the operator puts hie teleecope through that opening and loo":* out and sees ves sels far out at sea. While I was talking with him he went un and looked cut. Ke raid, "We are expecting lha Arizona to night." I said: "Is ic possible you know all those vessels? Do you know them as you kno-/ a man's facer" He said: "Yes. C never make a mistake. Before I see tin hulls I oiten know them by the masts. I kno>' them all-I have watclx 1 them co long." Oh, what a j-v.-.nd thing it is to have ships telegraphed and heralded lcog before they come to port, that friends may come down to the wharf and welcome their long absent ones! So to-day wc take, our stand in the walch tower, andjthrough thc glass of inspiration wc look off and ssc a whole fleet of ships coining in. That is thc shin of peace, flag with one 6tnr of Bethlehem floating above the topgallants. That is tlie ship of the church, mark of salt water high upon thc smokestack, showing she hus had rough weather, but the Captain of Salvation commands her, and all ia* well with her. The ship of heaven, mightiest craft ever launched, millions of passengers waiting for' millions more, prophets and apostles and martyrs in the cabin, con querors at the foot of the mast, while from the rigging hands arc waving tim way as if they knew us, and we wave back again, for they are burs. They went out from our own households. Onrs! Hail, ha.l! Put off the black and put on thc white. Stop tolling the iuncral bell nnd ring the wedding anthem. Shut up the hearse and take the chariot. Now the ship comes around the great headland. Soon she will striae thc wharf and we will go aboard her. Tcat-3 for ships going ont. Laughter for shipJ cam in?; in. Now she touches the wharf. Throw out the planks. Elock not un that (gangway with embracing long lc it friends, tor yo.t will have eternity of ratraion. Stand back and give way until other mill ions come aboard her. Farewell to Kin! Farewell to struggle! Farewell to sick ness! Farewell to death! "Blessed ave r'l who enter in through tba ga isa Lita the city." ICoryriAht, lwj, h. Klopsen. 1 ern cpu. All those trollable appetites th? Irma: oxrtprierj onh' thoee AV'th nq ability of resistant is. therefore, in final temperance raees onlv nmone THE G|p^ESTRQYER SOME ST?fyr?MO FACTS ABOUT THE VICE ;OF IJkflT^flPERANCE.? The nionrl of tim I Nation-Moat Kxe?ii In th? Use of Alcohol f? Kot Tine to Primitivo Appetite - The Power of Bad Influence. President David Starr Jordan, of trie Leland Stanford University, ria* nub liBhed in the Popular Roionee Mnntblv R Berieu of articles entitled "The "Blood of the ion: A Study of the Deoav of "Naces Through the Survival of the Unfit." That olnss of philosophers who are en deavnrinj- to establish the theory that, drunkenness and its attending vices and miseries are clearly ft nart of ibo progress of the human mee will find little comfort in Dr. Jordan's article. Conceding i to those gentlemen a jvgrtnin nmouni-. of truth which it would he extremely difficult to nrove in behalf of their theories, Dr. Jor dan onys: "The effect nf alcoholic drink on race progress should bn considered in this con* nrctinn. Authorities dn not agree ns to the final result of alcohol in race selec tion. Doubtless, '.in the 'ons run. the drunkard mil jsUminnted. and nerhnps certain aiitho^jl^Hglfr in rcgnrdinp" this asa piiin to th*\ rece. On the oilier "md there ia errent forci in Dr. Arnos G. War ner's reYnnrh, that [pf all catties panTcnc is the roost oSf^x?wr?. The people of Southern Euro?e,ar6)jrelatively temperate. Thev have t'sedJjpnjfejinr centuries, and it is thought by 3t?cbiftTl Reid and others that the cau?e of their temperance is to be found ?n this U itr use of alcoholic hev pith vitiated or linrnn nave been destroved in ;e with wine, leaving ..mal lnst.es and normal The free use of wine ?this yiew, a CAiise of while intemnerance ^bose rac?a which have not lo"<r known ahoho'. nnd have not be come by s?lection resistant to it. The savRTe races whieft-have never known al cohol are even leesjresistant, and are soon er destroved bv it J "In all this then must be a certain ele ment of truth. 'I he vien-, however, ig nores *he evil effijet on the nervous sys tem of lon^-cont'uned poiooninp. even if the noison be ?nb* in rooHe-rite amounts. Tho temperate Italian, with his daily F"mi Rfttnration. IP no rriore a normal man than the Sco^h farmer with his occasional snr-ecs. The ner**e disturbance wlv'ch wine effects is an wi1, whether carried to ex cess in rcm'irity or ?rr?p*ularitjr. We know ton little of its final result on the race to orive certainty to our snccn'ntiops. Tt is mor-o-'er tm? that most excess in the i,c? of alcohol is not rloc to primitiva annctite. It is dri?t whi"b causes appe tite, aw' not nnnr^tite which seeks for drink. In n eiv?>n number of drunkards, but a ven' few become stich thronen in born afcnctite. It s influence of hid ex nmnle, lack of rnn?iw. fn'se idea of man liness, o" some defect in character or mis fortune in environ rr ct which lc^s to tbc first stens -in drunkenness. The taste on?A established takes care of itse'f. Tn ear?**r times, when1 the nature of alcohol teas unknown and tai al .abstinence was un dreamed of. it was th" strone, the boister ous, the energetic*! th? . snost'e of 'the strenuous life/ wh ri parried all things to evces". The wa*saP/bow', the bumper of a'e. the flacos of wine.-al' tiiese were the attribute of the strong. We cannot pay ?.bat tnose who"-sank in' aVnho'ism t!h?M*?-h-? "."'isttatad'tKe. Nwls^oL'tHe JLttesr \V)-,o -nn Bay that as'" the T<?'Hn races i , ttionerat'e- thev din* not also become ?b?il; and "weak? In other words, considering the influence of n'cohol u'one. unchecked by nu educated conscience, we must ad mit that it is the strone and vigorous, not the weak and perverted, that are de stroyed hy it. Afc the best, we can only say that, a'eoho'ie se'ection is a conmlex force. wb>ch makes foe temperance-if at n'l. nt a fearful cost of Hf? which without alcoholic temptation would be well worth preserving." Dr. Jordan, it is to be presumed, would not care to be understood as indorsing the . idea that the winc-drinkinp countries of Europe hare bcpo mede temperate by their wine-drinkinc. He is nrobably mneh too wei' acouninted with the current history of France and the other so-called "wine countries" to be in ignorance of the .true state of affairs there.-New Voice. Dancers nt Alcoholism. It is needless to enter into details as to the conseouences entailed by overindul gence in the u?e of alcohol. Most of us arc familiar with cases of ruined lives and wretched homes as the result of the fatal habit, and in these days of high-pressure living it. is becoming more and more com mon. Mental worry, overwork, ill-health, want of sufficient, nourishment and cloth inc tend to swell thc number of chronic alcohol ists, nnd the habit so easily ac quired is extremely difficult to relinquish. Tito real danger t-> the race, however, lies in the fact that the great majority of inebriates need no incentive to acquire the habit: they ate born with the tendency, and it is to this cause chiefly that we must ascribe the increase in the number of deaths from chronic alcoholism during tne last twenty-three yon&s. A reference to the table of statistics shows that in 1S75 twenty-seven persons in i.000.000 died as the result of chronic alcoholism : tn 1S03 thffsa limtro? J*ad meo? ?un doubjcii tlis^ni se.vcs. tile nimmer men oeiug returned as sixty-five per 1,000,000 of population. The following quotations point to the conclusions arrived at, by some of the c".:_ej?* xczT, sf thc day: "Heredity ns a causation is estimated to he present in nearly si*cty per cent, of all esses of chronic a'coho?ism. ' "There are not a few human beings so saturated with the taint or alcoholic he redity that-they could as soon 'turn back a flowing river from the sea' as arrest the march of on attack of alcoholism." Much that'has been said respecting in sanity applies equally to inebriety. Both belong to the group of diseases of the ner vous system, chowing a marked tendency to degeneration, and both ore liable to bo transmitted hereditarily. - Westminster Review. Porhlil UrinUln? limpiones. Thc iaws of l?verai o? the o?ales add prescriptions of intemperance to the rifes ot the railroad companies. For example, Michigan forbids the employment o? a drink'ng man in any responsible capacity connected with the operating of a rail road, and even Xew York provides Tor the punishment of any railroad corporation thai retains in its service as engineer, nre man, conductor, switchman, train-dis patcher or telegrapher, or in any capacity where by hi. ncg.ecc ol duty the sa?ciy and security of die, person or properly tnay be imperiled, any man of known in temperate habits. These rules aud^ laws have been adopted, ..ot because of any agitation or pressure hf ought to bear upon the railroad companicj, but because year* of experience hare demonstrated their necessity. NEGRO SUPERSTITION* tonie of Them Are Jost I.Ike the Ones Held hy Their White Urethren. Many of the negro superstitions In Kentucky are quite interesting. An old philosopher told me with rreat gravity: "If you waut peppeib to grow, you must git mad. My old 'oman an' me had a spat, un' I went right out an' planted my peppers, an' they came right up." Still another saying ls that peppers, to prosper, must Iva planted by a red-headed or by a high-tempered person. Thc negro also Bays that one never seen a Jailbird on Friday, for the bird visits his satanic majesty to "pack kindling" on that day. The three Bigns in which the ne groes place Implicit trust are tho well known ones of tho ground hog appear ing above ground on the 2d of febru ary; that a hoe must not be carrlod through a boase or a death will fol low, and that potatoes must be plant ed in the dark of the moon, as well aa all vegetables that ripen in the ground, ami that corn must, be planted in the light of the moon. Feed gunpowder to doga and it will, make them fierce. A negro will not burn the wood of a tree that has been struck by lightning, for fear that his house will burn or be struck by lightning. If a bird files Into a house it brings luck. If a craw fish or a turtle catches your toes lt will hold on till it thunders. When a child I was told by a black nurse that If a bat alights on one's head it will stay there till it thunders. This was so terrifying that, even now I have an unnecessary" fear of being clutched by n bat. To make soap, stir lt with a sassafras stick in thc dark of the moon. HU Royal Hlghtieim. A good story 1B told of England's heir apparent, who rccentlj' made the grand imperial tour. He was riding on a London 'bas incog, not many months ago. and, being of an inquiring turn of mind, asked the driver, beside whom he sat, his reason for exclaiming, whenever he whipped up one of the horses, "Como up, your royal high ness, will you?" "Why do you call him royal highness?" asked the duke. "Well, sir," he replied civilly, " 'cause he's so 'orly and lazy, and good for nothing! See?" 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