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[REV. DR. TALMAGE. j SUNDAY'S SERMON IN THE NEW t [. YORK ACADEMV OF MUSIC. * k I iW r.nonnl Shin." 8 )!* X AAV. -?r?(T / J Tsrr: "Thou ahalt i-ome into the ark. 8 thou an I thy sons and thy wife and thy sons E wives with thee."?Genesis vi., 18. ? ft- In this day of tho steamships Lucania and n " Majestic and tho Paris I will show you a ship p that in some respects ^-iipsod thorn all, and t which sailed out. an ocean underneath and A another ocean falling i:j?ou it. Infidel scien- a tists ask us to believe that in the formation li of the earth there hav>> been a half dozen de- y luges, and yet they are not willing to be- <( Hove the Bible story of '">ne deluge. In what way the 'atastropheeame we know e not?whether by tho stroke of a comet, or by fi flashes of lightning, ^hanging the air into 1< water, or by d stroke of the hand of God, like b the stroke of the ax between the horns of the y ox, the earth staggered. To meet tho catas- ii trophe God ordered a srreat ship built. It d was to be without prow, for it wa3 to sail to c no shore. It was to be without helm, for no r human hand should guide it. It was a vast n structure, probably as large as two or three modern steamers. It wa.- the Great Eastern a ' of olden time. d ' The ship is done. The door is open. The C , lizartlf crawl id. xn-cactie want in. idb grasshoppers hop in. The birds fly in. The ii Invitation goes forth to Noah, "Come thou and all thy house into the ark." Just one y human family embark on the strange voy- a age, and I hear the door slam shut. A great d storm sweeps along the hills and bends tl thecedars until all the branches snap in the y gale. There is a moan in the wind like e unto the moan of a dying world.- The n blackness of the heavens is shattered by f( the flare of lightnings, that look down into y the waters and throw a gbastliness on the a lace of the mountains. Howstrange it looks! q How suffocating the air seems! The big c drops of rain begin to pla3h upon the up- c turned faces of those who are watching the n tempest. Crash! go the rocks in convulsion. I Boom! go the bursting heavens. Theinhabi- d tants of the earth, instead of flying to house tl top and mountain top, a3 men have fancied, r flit down in dumb, white horror to die. For when God grinds mountains to pieces and y lets the ooean slip its cable there is no place u lor men to fly to. See the ark pitch and turn- r ,l)le in the surf, while from its windows the o ? ?-?-_ ? akinmM/ilr A# U JKUWUIlgVra iuua.uut. UJJUU luu suiprnvva v> u u race and the carcasses of a dead world. Woe " to the mountains! Woe to the sea! o I am no alarmist. When on the 20th of tl September, after the wind has for three days ji been blowing from the northeast, you propli- n eay that the equinoctial storm is coming, you r simply state a fact not to be disputed, t Neither am I an, alarmist when I say that a t< storm Is coming/compared with which Noah's tl deluge was but an April shower, and that it is I Wisest and safest for you and for me to get n safely housed for eternity. The invitation tl that went forth to Noah sounds in our ears, b "Comi thou and all thy house into the ark." tl WeH how did Noah and his family come f Into the ark? Did they climb in at the win- b dow, or come down the roof? No,- they went h through the door. . And just so. if we get in- h to the ark of God's niorey, it will be through o Christ, the door. Tho entrance to the ark of b old must have been a very large entrance, tl We know that it was from the faot that there were monster animals in the earlier ages, b and in order to get them into the ark, two i( and two, according to the Bible statement, b the door must have been very wide and very tl high. So the door into the mercy of God is a y large door. We go in, not two and two, but a by hundreds, and by thousands and by mill- a ions. Yea. all the Nations of the earth may v go in, 10,000,000 abreast! r The door of the ancient ark was in the y Aide. So now it is through tne side of Christ t ?the pierced side, the wide open side^the *v heart side?that we enter. Aha, the Roman I / soldier, thrusting his spear into the Saviour's o j side, expectcd only to let the blood out, but o he opened the war to let all the world in ! tl Oh, what a broad gospel to preach! If a a man is about to give an entertainment, he & issues 200 or 300 invitations, carefully put up fl and directed to the particular persons whom c he wishes to entertain. But God, our Father, p makes a banquet and goes out to the front b door of heaven and stretches out His hands o over land and sea, and with a voice that 1 penetrates the Hindoo jungle, and the Green- g land ice castle, and Brazilian grove, and Eng- t< iish factory, and American home, cries out, ti ' Come, tor all things are now ready!" It d Is a wide door! The old cross has been y taken apart, and its two pieces are stood up a for the doorposts, far apart that all the " wuriu Lttu uuiuo m. xvmgn auauui Lioasui.cs ^ on daj's of great rejoicing. So Christ, our d King, comes and scatters the jewels of heaven. V Rowland Hill said that he hoped to get ti Into heaven through the crevices of the y door. But ho was not obliged thus to go in. ti After having preached the gospel in Surrey tl Chapel, going up toward heaven, the gate- c keeper cried, "Lift up your heads, ye ever- n lasting gates, and let this man come in!" The dying thief went in. Richard Baxter N and Robert Newton went in. Europe, Asia, h Africa, North and South America may yet h go through this wide door without crowd- v lng. Ho! every one?all conditions, all c ranks, all people! Luther said that this y truth was worth carrying on one's knees from Rome to Jerusalem, but I think it worth c carrying all around the globe and all around I the heavens, that "God so loved the world tl that He gave His only begotten Son, that y, whosoever believeth in Him should not t' perish, but have everlasting life." Whosoever v m will, let him come through the large door, j] ? Archimedes wanted a fulcrum on which to e F place his lever, and then he said he could n move the world. Calvary is the fulcrum, j, and the cross of Christ is the lever, and by o fhnt- nowflr nil \Tn.Hnna shall vfif. h? Hf+nri. o Further, it is a door that swings both c ways. I do not know whether the door of the ancient ark was lifted or rolled on y iinges, but this door of .Christ opens both H wa^s. It swings out toward all our woes; it n swings in toward the raptures of heaven. It d swings in to let us in; it swings out to let our d ministering ones comes out. All are one in Christ?Christians on earth and saints in h heaven. t( One army of the living God, K At His command w? bow. f, Part of the host "have crossed the flood, u And part are crossing now. e Swing in, 0 blessed door, until all the v earth shall go in and live. Swing out until a all the heavens com* forth to celebrate the fi viatory. But, further, it is a rioor with fastenings, b Tiio Bible says of Noah. "The Lord shut him n in." A vessel without bulwarks or doors y would not be a safe vessel to go in. When y Noah and his family heard the fastening of w the door of the ark, they were very glad, e Unless these doors wer? fastened the first p heavy surge of the sea would have whelmed h them, anil they might as well have per- y ished outside the ark as insido the ark. c fs "The Lord shut him in." Ob. the per- i( feet safety of the ark! The surf of the b sea and the lightnings of the sky may be r twisted into a garland of snow and lire? j ^ deep to deep, storm to storm, darkness to L . darkness?but once in the ark all is well, t "God shut him in." There comes upon the good man a deluge of financial trouble. He i had his thousands to lend. Now ho cannot c borrow a dollar. He once owned a store in t New York and had branch houses in Boston, e Philadelphia and New Orleans. He owned t lour horses and employed a man to keep the dust off his coach, phaeton, carriage and cur- t riole; now he has hard work to get shoes in f which to walk. The great deep of commercial e disaster was broken up. and fore and aft and ^ across the hurricane deck the waves struck him. But he was safe!v sheltered from the f etorm. "The Lord.shut"him in!" A flood of s domestic troubles fell on him." Sickness t and bereavement came. The rain pelted; f the winds blew. The heavens are aflame, t All the gardens of earthly delight are washed t away. The mountains of joy are buried flf- ;i teen cubits deep. But, standing by the empty crib and in the desolated nursery and i in the doleful hal!, once a-ring with merry i voices, now silent forever, ho cried, "The r Lord gave, the Lord hath taken away; t blessed lx? the namo of the Lord." "The ] juuru hiiut iiiiu in. i All the niuLj of a lifetime clamored for bis s overthrow. The broken vows, the dis- 1 honored Sabbaths, the outrageous profani- ( ties, the misdemeanors of twenty years, I reached up their hands to the door of the j rftrk to pull him out. The boundless ocean of 1 his sin surrounded his soul, howling like a ] simoom, raving liico an euroclydon. But, t looking out of the window, he saw his sin ] sink like lead into the depths of the sea. The i dove of heaven brought an olive branch to } the ark. The wrath of the billow"*only t rushed him toward heaven. '-TheLord shut i him in!" I The same door fastenings that kept Noah ? in keep the troubles out. I am glad to know 4 that wnen a man reaches heaven all earthly < ? [V roubles are done with him. Here he may lave had hard work to Ret bread for hla amily; there he will Jnever hunger any* uore. Here he may have wopt bitterly; here "the Lamb that la in the midst of the hrone will lead him to living fountains of vater, and God will wipe away all tears from lis eyes." Here he may have hard work to ;et a house; but in my Father's house are nany mansions, and rent day never comes, lere there are deathbeds and coffins and ;raves; there no sickness, no weary watohing, 10 choking cough, no consuming fever, no | hattering chill, no tolling bell, no grave. | ?he sorrows of life shall come up and knock t the door, but no admittance. The perilexities of life shall como up and knock on he door, but no admittance. Safe forever! Lll the agony of earth in one wave dashing gainst the bulwarks of the ship of celestial ight shall not break them down. Howl on, e, winds, and rage, ye seas! The Lord? the Lord shut him in!" Oh, what a grand old door! 80 wide, so aslly swung both ways and with suoh sure istenings. No burglar's key oan pick that ink. NVi swarthv arm of holl can shove ack that bolt. I rejoice that I do not ask ou to come aboard a crazy oraft with leakig hulk and broken helm and unfastened oor, but an ark fifty cubits wide and 300 ubits long and a door so large that the ound- earth, without grazing the post, light be bowled in. My friends; and neighbors, come in right way. Come in through Christ, the wide oor?the door that swings out toward you. lome in and be saved. Come and be happy. The Spirit and the Bride say, Come." Room 1 the ark! Room in the ark! But do not come alone. The text invites ou to bring your family. It says, "Thou nd thy sons and thy wife." You cannot rive them in. If Noah had tried to drive tie pigeons and the doves into the ark he, rould only have scattered them. Some par-, uts are not wise about these things. They, lake iron rules about 8abbaths, and they >roe the catechism down the throat as they rould hold the child's nose and force down, dose of rhubarb and calomel. You canot drive your children into the ark. You an draw your children to Christ, bat you annot ooqrce them. The cross was lifted ot to drive, but to draw. "If I be lifted up will draw all men unto Me." As tbe sun raws up the drops of the morning dew so tie sun of righteousness exhales the tears of epentence. Be sure that yon bring your husband ana rife with you. How would Noah have felt f, when he heard the rain pattering on the oof of the ark, he knew that his wife was utside in the storm? No; she went with itn. And yet some of you are on the ship outward bound" for heaven. But your ompanion is unsheltered. You remember hie day when the marriage ring was set Tothing has yet been able to break it. Sickess came, and the finger shrank, but the ing staid on. The twain stood alone above he child's grave, and the dark mouth of tho amb swallowed up a thousand hopes, but lie ring dropped not Lnto the open grave. )ays of poverty came, and the hand did lany a hard day's work, but the rubbing of Pie work against the ring only made it shine righter. Shall that ring ever be lost? Will tie iron clang of the sepulcher gate crush it orever? I pray God that you who have een married on earth may be together in f\V% Ktt flia /iiiiflf KUaa rAnr flfirthlu C0? VJAA. vut Uj luv VJU4WK v* j v\?? ww. -?-j ome, by the babe's cradle, by all the vowa f that day when you started life together, I eg you to see to it that you both get into h# ark. Come in, and bring your wife or your hus? and with you?not by fretting about religin or dingdonging them about religion, but y a consistent life and by a compelling prayer hat shall bring the throne of God down into our room. Go home and take up the Bible ad read it together, and then^kneel down nd commend your souls to Him who has ratched you all these years, and > before you ise there will be a fluttering of wings over pur head, angel crying to angel, "Behold, bey pray!" But this does not include all your family, tring the children too. God bless the dear hildren! What would our homes be withut them? We may have done much for hem. They have done more for us. What salve for a wounded heart there is in the oft palm of a child's hand! Did harp or ute ever have such music as there is in a hild's "good nightir" From our coarse, ough life the angels of God are often driven ack. But who comes into the nursery withut feeling that angels are hovering around, 'hey who die in infancy go straight into lory, but you are expecting your children > grow up in this world. Is it not a queslon, then, that rings through all the oorriors and windings and heights and depths of our soul, what is to become of your sons nd daughters for time and for eternity? Oh," you bay; "I mean to ?ee that they have ood manners." Very well.. '*1 mean to ress them well, if I have myself to go shabby." erygood. "I shall give them an educaion; I shall leave them a fortune." Very rell. But is that all? Don't you mean to *1"* -irttz-k Ilia oolr? TiAn'f TTA11 IfrtAW tiat the storm is coming, and that out of ihrist there is no safety, no pardon, no hope, o heaven? How to get them in? Go in yourself! If 'oah had staid out, do you not suppose that is sons?Shem, Ham and Japheth?would ave staid out? Your sons and daughters rill be apt to do just as you do. Reject ihrist yourself, and the probability is that our children will reject Him. An account was taken of the religious ondition of families in a certain district, n the families of pious parents twp-thirds of lie children were Christians. In the families rhere the parents were ungodly only onesvelfth of the children were Christians. Vhicli way will you take your children? Out lto the deluge or into the ark? Have you ver made ono earnest prayer for their imlortal souls? What will you say In the idijment when God asks, "Where is George r Henry or Frank or Mary or Anna? Where re those precious souls whose Interests I ommitted into your hands?" A dying son said to his father, '''Father, on crave mo an education and pood manner* ad everything that the world could do for le, but, father, you never told me how to ie, and now my soul is going out in the arknes9." Oh, ye who have taught your children ow to live, have you also taught them how o die? Life here is not so important as the teat hereafter. It is not so much the few urlongs thi9 side of the grave as it is the nending leagues beyond. O eternity, ternity! Thy looks white with the ages, thy oice announcing stupendous destiny, thy rms reaching across all the past and all the ixturet O eternity, eternity! Go home and erect a family altar. You may reak down in your prayer. But never lind, God will take what you mean, whether ou express it intelligibly or not. Bring all cuir house, into the ark. Is there one son rhomyou have given up? Is he so diasipatd that you have stopped counseling and iraying? Give him up? How dare you give iim up? Did God ever give you up? While ou have a single articulation of speech left, ease not to pray for the return of that prodigal. He may even now be Btanding on the ieach at Hong Kong or Madras, meditating a etum to his father's house. Give him up? lever give him up! Has God promised to tear thy prayer only to mock thee? It is not oo late. In St. Paul's, London, there is a'whisperng gallery. A voice uttered most feebly at >ne side of the gallery is heard distinctly at he opposite side, a great distance off. 80 ivery word of earnest prayer goes all around he earth and makes heaven a whispenag :allery. Go into the ark?not to sit down, ?ut to stand in the door and call until all the amily come in. Aged Noah, where is Japhith? David, where is Absalom? Hannah, Sr, J i>iictc i? nauiuci; On one of the lake steamers there were a ather and two daughtnrs journeying. They eemed extremely poor. A benevolent Renlemon stopped tip to the poor man to profer some form of relief aud said, "You seem o he very poor, sir." "Poor, sir," replied he man. "if there's a poorer man than me i-troublin the world, God pity both of us!" 'I will take one of your children and adopt t, if you say so. I think it would be a great elief to you." "A what?" said the poor nan. "A relief! Would it be a relief to have ho hands chopped off from the body, or the leart torn from the breast? A relief indeed! lod be good to us! What do you jnean, iir?" However many children we have, we lave none to give up. Which of our families :m we afford to spare out of heaven? Will it >e the oldest? Will it be the youngest? Will t i>e tnat one tnat was sicic sometime a^or >Vill it be the husband? Will it be the wife? (Jo, 110! We must have them all in. Let us ake the children's hands and start now. Leave not one behind. Come, father; oome, nother; come, son; come, daughter; oome, >rother; come, sister! Only one step and we ire in Christ, the door, swings out to admit is. And it is not the hoarseness of a stormy jlast that you hear, but the voice of a loving ind patient God that addresses you, saying, 'Come, thou and all thy house, into the irk." And there mav the Lord ghat us in! RELIGIOUS READING. THE BURDEN OK IN-DWFIXISO flr*. ''Under the aamo burden a New Testament saint was groaning all bis days. He had a hard conflict between the flesh and the spirit, and he has left the account of it upon record. Ulessed bo God fortbo seventh chapter of the Romans. Wo there read of the inward cross, with which all the children of God are exercised. In the very same Paul there was delight in the law of God, after the Inward man; while be found another law in his members, rebelling agaiDSt the law of God? the flesh, in which dwelleth no good thing, nover c?ased to assault the spirit with its vile thoughts, legal workings, and rebellious inclinations: when he had a will to do good he could not do it so perfectly aa he desired?his best moments were never free from the inroad of indwelling sin; therefore in the bitterness of his soul,hecried out, '0 wretched man that I am?' 0, that sigh came from the bottom of his heart. I know what he felt; he groaned, being burdened. Weary and tired with this continual conilict he looked for deliverance: 'Who shall deliver me from the body of this death?" He saw, by faith, hi? Almigty Saviour, and in Him expected everlastiug victory. I thank God, through Jesus Christ our Lord.' He relied upon Christ in the battle, and through Him waited for deliverance, knowing that one day he should be made more than conqueror. "Well, then, 0 my soul! here is comfort If the corruption of nature bo thy cross, so it was to David, and so it was to" PauL Thy case is not singular. It is common to every soldier who is fighting under the banner of Christ. This cross is unavoidable, because it is in thy bosom. It is thine inmost self, thy whole nature, which is corrupt, according to the deceitful lusts. Thou hast not an atom of thy body, nor the least motion nor stirring of any faculty in thine (animal) soul, but sin is in it; and therefore it is capable of being a plague to the new man. . . . These two are contrary as life and death, and they are always in action: every moment the one hit ting airainst the other; so that no believer can do tbo things which he would so perfectly as the law requires."?Romalne. THE TBT7E OBOUND OF INTEBEST. A great writer, speaking of the effort to convert the Jews, said that interest in such a mission cannot be strong enough to stand the strain unless it is founded on the love of Of God. "It is not love for the sheep that will sustain Peter in feeding them; it is the fact that they are Christ's sheep. It ia not because they are loveable that his interest in them will continue, it is because Christ is loveable.'' And the application is made, "Unlete you believe that Israel is God'a nation ycur effort to evangelize among Israel will soon languish." This rule applies to all work. Martineau says that the ground of all charitable work is not the needs of the people but the lovo of God, and although we cannot accept all of Martineau's teachings, in this he is surely right. We must very often grow weary in well doing when we see how little results from our work, how unthankful and .evil are those for whom we a:e spending our strength and using the very best that is in us, unless we are doing this work directly and consciously for love of God. It will not suffice to sus'aln us that in a general way we recognize the fact that our Saviour accepts all that 'i'-' f rw Atliora na Hr.no fnr him. The sentiment must bo turned the other way around. Love for him must be so strong in our bf arts that we cannot help doing good to others, because our love must find a way of expression and this is the most natural and satisfactory way. God loves these wretched, needy, sinning neighbors of ours. He loved them "well enough to give his Son to die for them: how can we help wanting to do something for them for his sake? This is the secret of perseverance in good works, and of efficiency in them. We may not see our reward. No matter; we shall not weary in well-doing for that. We have all the time the inestimable reward of working together with God for those whom he loves and we for his sake love also. Let us apply this thought to our Chrisvmas benevolences and it will make all the year that follows a tfme of true Christian charity.?American Sl:~:cnger. HEI.IOION PUT IN PRACTICE. I had gone into my butcher's shop one Sat? urday night and wns waiting for my steak. While doing so, a man black with dust and toil of machinery came in. He was old and homely and meanly dressed, and I never should have looked upon him as a divine agent of consolation had not & littlegirl come in and revealed him to me. "How's father to-day, Polly?" he asked. "He's worse today, and mother's down too; and the weary little thing began crying softly to herself. Then the man stooped and said something in a low voice, to which she only shook her head and cried more bitterly. So he took the basket from her saying, "Run away home Polly, or that baby he'll be in mischief. I'll bring the basket." She offered him twenty-five cent9,but he hurried her away and would not tou? h it Then he chose some good beef, a piece of bacon and plenty of vegetables, and having paid for them walked off toward a large tenement U uuuao in sjgub. I gave hiin silent reverence as he passed me for I knew him then as one of God's mes8engers,unconsciously,but oh! how blessedly taking a share in the ministry of angels! Opportunities like these are constantly thrown in our way by the angel who jvatcheth for our souls: but, "if a brother or sister be naked and destitute of daily food, and one of you say unto him, depart in peace, be ye warned and filled, notwithstanding yo give him not those things which are needful to the body, what doth it profit."?Christian at Work. GOD'S FLOWER OARDEN. I have sometimes thought, when looking on a church full of children, there is nothing more beautiful in the sight of God. A beautiful garden full of roses, lilies and lovely flowers, is sweet find beautiful to the eye. The hnnd of man guards and watches over it so that no harm can enter. Sometimes a storm of wind or hail breaks the lilies, destroys the roses and makes ruin where before all was sweet and orderly. The wicked and malicious man comes in to wreck and ruin his neighbor's garden, and when he sees this, everybody is touched to the heart. Everything lovely and sweet, trampled down and wrecked, makes one grieved; but in the sight of God, not tho most beautiful garden fashioned by the band of man, not even Paradise, the Garden of Eden in all its glory and beauty of flowers and fruit, was so no n wo thn CAU IC r\f lift It* urj^lll UIJU J^iunuu^, HO uiv HiV OUUw x/1 ki.iw children in whom the Holy Ghost dwells. Such r scene is sweeter and brighter in the sight of God than any garden ui:.u over formed.?Cardinal Manning. THE BEAS0N WI77. Infldels should never talk of our giving up Christianity till thoy can propose something superior. Loid Chesterfield's answer, therelore, was very just. When at Bru^sells he invited by Voltaire to sup with him and Madame C . The eonversat'on happened to tjum upon the affairs of England. "I think, my lord,"said Madam C , '-that the Parliament of England consists of live or six hundred of the best informed and tho most sensible men in tho kingdom." "True, madame. tliev are generally supposed to bo so." "What, then, my lord, can bo tho reason they tolerate so gn at an absurdity as the Christian religion?" "I suppose, madame." replied his lordship, "it is because they have uot been alile to establish anything better in its stead. When they can. I do not doubt that In their wisdom they will readily adopt it." When a man says amen riirht it always menus that In- is willing to Lo put down lot his share of the expense. Small evils hatch quick.?Ham's Horn. Oueer I.uwhuUh. In Sail Francisco: A man fined $40 foi sneezing in a theatre and refusing to go out. In Madison County, Ky. Three juries, sixty witnesses, $200 court costs, in a casf about a $5 calf. Ohio Supreme Court: A decision which adds eleven square miles and 20,000 inhabitants to Cincinnati. Chippewa Fall, Wis.* Suit for $20,00C damages by Alfred Thomas, who was hurt by a stick with which a fellow workman was poking sawdust away frcm a saw. In Appleton, Wis.: Suit for $2500 damage? brought by a young man against the origins tor of a story that ho was engaged to a girl, in consequence of which his really truly girl gave him the marble heart. i SABBATH SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOB APRIL 31. Lesson Text: "Watchfulness," Matt, xxiv., 42-51 ? Golden 'i ext; Mark xlli., 33?Commentary. 42. "Watch, therefore, for yo know not Whac hour your Lord doth come." During this eventful week, upon which we entered two or three lessons ago. He taught them many things from day to day in the temple, the record of which, with the events of th?> week, occupies nearly a third of each or the gospels. One of these days, as He departed from the temple, His disciples called His attention to the great stones and buildings, upon which, to their great amazement, He told thtjm that the whole thing was to be thrown down. They then inquired somewhat confusedly as to when this should be and what would be the sign of Hi* coming and of the end of the age. In Mark xiii.. 3, we find that it was four of the disciples who asked Him privately of these things as He sat upon the mount of Olives. If, in reading the ; three parallel accounts in Math, xxiv., Mark xiii., and Luke xxi., we distinguish between the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple 1 and the end of the age at His coming, all will be quite plain. The Old Testament everywhere teaches that He will come to build up, not destroy, Jerusalem, as in Ps. cii., 16;Isa. 1 xv., 9. 10; Ixii., 11; Zech. xiv., 3, 4. 8,9, so < that we must never confound the Lord'scom- < ing with the destruction of Jerusalem, but 1 always associate it with the rebuilding of < Zion. ; 43. '"But know this?that if the good man ' of the house had known in what watch the thief would come he would have watched ' and would not have suffered his house to be f broken up." The coming of the Lord Is as- ' sociated with vengeance upon His enemies, and the redemption of His people Israel, as in Isa. xxxlv., 8; xxxv., 4; Ixiii., 4, and He will come upon those enemies as a thief, sud- ] denly and unexpectedly, for their deatruc- < tion (IIThess. i.. 7-9), but children of light [ will not be thus overtaken, for they are sup- { posed to be continually watching for Him , L - 1 J 4.1 1 Kir Via W LIU 1UVCU LilUlll UUU ICUCOL11CU Uiom Kfj xxin blood that they might reigu with Him (Rev. v., 9, 10; I Thess. v.. 4-6). 44. "Therefore be ye also ready, for in such aii hour 03 ye think not the Son of Man cometh." We only wait for the completion oi the elect body, the church, before that body shall meet Him in the air (I Thess. iv., 16-18), and inasmuch as He only knows when the last member of that body shall be gath- , ered we keep on bearing testimony, expect- j lng any hour to be gone to meet our Lord. ? saved by His blood, serving in the power of the Spirit and waiting for Himself. 45. "Who, then, is a faithful and wise servant whom his Lord hath made rule* over his household, to give them meat in due sea- 1 son?" The virgins of the next chapter tell 1 us how to be wise, and the parable of the 1 talents teaches us how to be faithful. Re- < suits and success He will see to. Wise and J faithful is our part. The oulv good and ' nourishing meat and bread for the house- ' hold is found only in the King's larder, the 1 "all 8cripture," which is all sufficient for { all His people (II Tim. iii., 16.17.) . 46. "Blessed is that servant whom His Lord, 1 when He cometh, shall find so doing." 1 Blessed Is the man who has learnea ror mmself to dwell continually in Jerusalem and eat at the King's table (II Sam. ix.. 13). Even though he be lame on both feet, happy and peaceful and satisfied shall he be. He will be sure to be telling others or the adundant j and invigorating food which the King supplies day by day without fail (Jer. lii.. 33, 34; Ez. vi., 9), and thus He shall minister meat in due season to the glory of the King and t the joy of His people. I can testify that the i people are hungry for and receive greedily < j the food which the King provides without t any of the accom paniments ot the fixings and i devisings of man. i 47. "Verily I say unto you that He shall i make him ruler over all His goods." As < Eiiezer had control of all the goods of Isaac, s which his father had given unto him, that he 1 might obtain a bride for Isaac, so the Father, j having given all things unto the Son. has t sent the 8pirit with full control over all to f complete the bride of Christ, and he who is r filled with the Spirit has control of all as the j human instrument through whom the Spirit i works. ?A11 are yours, and ye are Christ's, ] and Christ is God'9" (I Cor. iii., 22.23). 1 48. "But and if that evil, servant shall say ] in his heart, My Lord delayeth His coming." i If not wise, with lamps filled and brightly < burning and vessels full also and faithfully i using the talents and the pounds, occupying i till He come, then it looks as if we must be j evil servants. If not constantly expecting i Him. but saying or acting as we said. He will c .not come in my d^\ He cannot come for a t long time yet, sucn and such things must c happen before He can come, is there not a <j danger of being classed with the evil ser- r vants? r 49. "And shall begin to smite his fellow ? servants and to eat and drink with the \ dninken." To eat and driijk with tho drunken is suggestive of all those, professedly the Lord's, who find their joys and satisfying portions with the people of the world, who are intoxicated with its pleasures and t pursuits, its aims and ambitions, its fashions aud follies. They may be moral -and temperate in the eyes of the world?yes, even teetotalers, so called?yet in the eyes of tho ? Lord drunken and blinded with the transient vanities of this present life. 50. 'The Lord of that servant shall come * in a day when he looketh not for Him and in an hour that he is not aware of." Let all *; tremble to say, "Where is the promise of His { coming?" (II Peter iii., 4) le3t'sudden de- ; struction come, from which there shall be J no escape (I Thess. v.. 3). Rather let us 3ee ; tn it thjif wh an nhidfi in Him that when He shall appear we may have confidence acd f not bo ashamed before Him at His coming (I Johnii.. 28). 51. "And shall cut him asunder and ap- j point him his portion with the hypocrites. There shall be weeping and gnashing of . teeth." It is impossible for any of Christ's J sheep to bo lost (John x., '27-29), for any true servant of His to perish. Such may have 1 tbeir work burned up and they themselves c saved as by fire (I Cor. iii., 14, 15). But ' there are many both in the pulpit and in tho f ptwswho, being hypocrites, shall have to share the hypocrites' portion. The Lord ( or ly knows who they are. It is not for us to . judge each other, but rather to judge nothing before the time uutii tho Lord come (I ( ,Cor. iv., 5). If we judge ourselves as in His * sight, it will leave us neither time nor inclination to judge others. Our business is to * be wise and faithful servants, and by tho J Spirit help others to be the same. Wherever weeping or wailing and gnashing of teeth is 1 mentioned it is always for those who profess ' to be what thevare nor.?lwoii iit'iper. KILLED IN AN EXPLOSION. Boilera of a Leathor Factory in Woburn, Mass., Burst With Fatal Hesaltg. The residents of Woburn Highlands, Mass., were startled by an explosion in Loring Jb Jones's leather factory. The men in the factory were preparing for work when the boilers in the engine room at the northeast corner of the building exploded, tearing out the end of the building and burying in the ruins at least a doztn men. The chimney, which was over eighty feet high, came down with a crash. The force of the explosion was such that ^ one of the boilers was thrown clear through a heavv Dartiticn into the main part of the ? building. These men were killed: Austin Clements, foreman; Patrick Lally, Patrick McGonigle, ' Frank McMaUon. ? Patterson. ( The injured are Patrick Kelley, John Kenney, John Tracey, Patrick O'Keefe ?.nd 1 Octuvio Saunders (colored). i The ruins did not take Are. The big timbers of the structure were piled on top of c the unfortunate men. About fifty men wore employed in the buiiding. There were four boilers in fho building, two of which were t new. PIERCED BABY'S BRAIN. i V A Flying Piece of a Sewing Machine Xcedle ' Killed Her Where Site Sat. 3irs. .lamffl Yaupuwi w;w aswiu;^ on nur | machine at Viniia. Indian Territory, when a necdlo snapped and a part of it stuck in the , table. She put in a now needle and con? [ tinued her work. About ten minutes later she noticed that her two-year-old daughter sat rather quietly on the floor and called to s her, but received no answer. c She picked the child up and found to her ,s horror that it was dead. A physician found ; that the cause of death was a small part of 1 j the needle, which had struck the eye and 11 penetrated the brain. J TEMPERANCE. THE BUM8ELLEB BOLLS IK GOLD. Men starve as they toil in the black ? mines, Girls freeze as they stitch in the cold; But in every land where the moonii( shines. The rumseller rolls in gold. The laborer laboreth all his youth J For the poorhouse when he is old, A.nd many the farmer's toils and fears; But the rumseller rolls in gold. Jack drinks his wages and staggers away To his wife, the story is old, 3fou may read the police reports next da; While the rumseller rolls in gold. In a coffin of pine lies the drunkard, dead Under the pauper mold, And his orphans beg their daily bread? While the rumseller rolls in gold. ?Mary Kyle Dallas, in Demorest A. MOCKEtt. Fermented wine is indeed a mocker, promises us strength and mocks us w weakness; it promises us substance a mocks us with shadows; it promises us h< and mocks us with cold; it promises us life a mooks us with premature death; it promii us Intelligence and wit and covers us w visions of happiness and plunges us into t depths of despair.?Norman Kerr, M. D. FIGHT THE DHINK. We are told that nearly everybody deploi the evils of the saloon, and for any one argue the question would be to be cons Bred "a back number." A great majori however,* who deplore the evils of the" saloc io not deplore the evil of the drink. But t avil is in the drink and not in the salo< rhe drink "dispensed" by the State, or b; "club of gentlemen," or by a company "best citizens," is the same old "devil solution." Fight the drink.?National A yocate. HOW TO PAY 11ENT. A blacksmith was one day complaining bis iron merchant that such was the scarc af monev he could not possibly pay his rei rhe merchant asked him how much whis sr beer was used in his family in the com Df a week, or even for one day. The blac jmith told him, whereupon the merchs took out pencil and paper and made a calc latton, ana snowea tne oiacKsmitn tnat t jost of drink amounted to considerably mt In the year than his house rent. The calculation so astonished the blue jmith that he determined from that d leither to buy nor to flrink intoxicaii liquors of any kind. In the course of t (rear following he not only paid his rent a :he iron merchant too, but had enough ipare for a new suit of clothes. TOTAL ABSTAINERS ONLY. Very few persons take a deep, const: ind self-sacrificing interest in temporal reform except total abstainers. We do r ;vish to underestimate the kindly sympat )f moderate drinkers, who sincerely des ;o abate the ravages of intemperance. I :hey are amateurs. Their sympathy is ve insettled. They are willing neither to gi lor receive hard blows in this great stri ;le between heaven and hell. The wh< jurden of the temperance movement li ilways been borne by men and women w vere willing to make what, after all, is mltry sacrifice of this particular form lelf-indulgence. It has always been inco irehensible to us that any man should he ate for one moment to do this small thi or the sake of his church and his country, Jacred Heart Review. THE LIQCOB TRAFFIC. To-night it enters a humble home to stri ;he roses from a woman's cheek, and 1 norrow it challenges this republic in the ha >f Congress. To-day it strikes a crust ?rc ;he lips of a starving child, and to-morr< t levies from the Government itself. Th( s no cottage in this city humble enough jscape, no palace strong enough to shut >ut. It defies the law when it cannot coei tuffrage. It is flexible to cajole, but mer ess in victory. It is the moral enemy )eaoe and order, the despoiler of men, t error of women, the cloui that shadows t aces of children, the demon that has d nore graves and sent more souls unsaved udgment than all the pestilences that ha vasted life since God sent the. plagues igypt, and all the wars since Joshua sto \cinn A Tavl/i'hn Tf min Anil if ah: Pfoflt mainly by the ruin of your sons a nine. It comes to mislead human souls a ;o crush human hearts under its rumbli wheels-. It comes to bring grny-hair nothers down in shame and sorrow to th craves. It comes to change the wife's 1c nto despair, und her nride into shame, lomes to still the laughter on the lips of 1 le children. It comes to stifle all the mu >f the home, and. fit it with silence a lesolation. It comes to ruin your body a nind, to wreck your home, and it knows nust measure its prosperity by the swiftn< ind certainty with which it wrecks tl vorld?Hon. Henry W. Grady. ALCOHOLIC HEREDITY. Norman Kerr, M. D., in the third edit! >f his "Inebriety of Narcomnia,'" referring ho stages of inebriety and alcoholic heredil lays: "The operation of no natural law is mc mtent than is the operation of the law of i :oholic heredity. A drunken mother. Ijnmkeu father, a drunken grandparent m land down to their descendants an alcoho tain which not even a lifetime of entire i itinence from intoxieatine drinks can erai :ate. I have known men and women, of t righest culture and the most irreproachal norals, of strong will and deep thought, maffected piety and exalted aim, who ha )een compelled by bitter experience icknowledge to themselves the sobering fa hat they could never daro to dally wi itrong drink. The continuous and victorlo itruggle of such heroic souls with th lereditary enemy?an enemy tho more po irful because ever lending its treachero ife within their breasts, presents to my mil inch a glorious conflict, such an augi ipectacle, as should evoke the highest effo )f the painter ami the sculptor. Eeforo protracted and so lofty a combat, tho i nortal group of Laocoon contending wi ;he serpents, grand though that great wo >f art is, must pale its inoffjctual fires. "In this comprehensive group of cases labitual drunkenness with an inherited pi lisposition, inebriety has also a physical 1 rinnine. "It has been pleaded that to concede i >briety to be a physical disease will result :he inebriate believing that his conduct jeyond his control, that he is irresponsil !orhis inebriate indulgence, and that the s no chance of his deliverance from a caro )f drunkenness. This plea, even if w ,'ounded, cannot be allowed, as recognition ruth ought not to be depcudent on t )leasantness of the consequences. A fait lot invalidated by the character of the effe< esulting from its acknowledgment. T ilea, too, is itself unsound. So far from ri sting the chains of inebrioty on the inherit )f the disease, a knowledge of his actual co litlon will indicate the adoption of such egimen and mode o; life as will promc >hysical, intellectual .tnd moral health, ,vill decrease the morbid derangement wh ncreasing the power cf resistance and co ;rol." TEMPE1UNCE NEWS A.VD NOTES. Drunkenness is very rare among Japan? vomen. Keep the devil away from the child m IT..1 1,? ,trill crtnn ll'Hi' In L'ive 111) tlie KlIoO Look into the drunkard's homo, if y< vould so;* traoks tliat have been made by t sloven hoof. When ;i physician in Arkansas become* iabit.unl drunkard the Statu Doard of Ural ? by law on joined to revoke hid license. Six woman's colleges have temperance.? ioties organized under the name of ".Souk et Y" in honor of Lady Henry Somerset. Tho St. Louis Post-Dispatch states th lie great majority of saloons in that eitv ai twned by brewers, or that brewers ho nortgages upon tlioni, so that tho saloi :eepers are the political v.issals of t rowers. Th-j London Tempor.mco Hospital has ha 0.000 patients in its wards. ' Stimulant lave boon used only suveuteon times. Du iik the past two yjars no alcohol has been i owed at all, nor has any substitute for >een admitted. A onlnnn L-nnnur to rnnnr+n,l JX AWIUUIU aying that the introduction of the eleetr are in that city has largely diminished tl ales in saloons, 03 workmen who previous yalked home in companies of from live wenty and stopped at the saloons on tl pay for a social drink, now ride home an mce there, spend the evenings with the amiiies. . . JAPM STAYS EGR Ell onl An Armistice With China Proclaimed During Peace Negotiations. 1 THE WAR PRACTICALLY OVER. fliroughont the Conferences at Shimon* osekl AH Movements of War Will Be Suspended?The Wound Received by f LI Hung Chang the Cause of the Temporary Ending of Hostilities. A cable dispatch from Yokohoma says that the Japanese Government will suspend all war movements as long as the peace negotlations last. Admiral Ito has been rejth Jailed from Formosa to Japan. ma tat ;U. EMPEBOB OF JAPAIT. * JjQ 111 i)r0 In consequence of the armistice voluntarily granted by the Japanese Government, ''* all aggressive operations will be abandoned . during the whole term of the peace conferee ence. nd m The declaration of an armistice is believed to to be entirely the result of the attack on LI Hung Chang. A special despatch, from Shimonoseki says the three weeks' armistice agreed to betweea int Japan and China applies only to the localil0? ties of Moukden, the Gulf of Pechill and the Lot Shantung Peninsula. .ay A despatch from Hong Kong says the Japanr? eso bombarded the oityof Tai-Wau-Foo, the ut capital of Formosa. The State Department at Washington heard lV0 \from Its own representative concerning the Armistice Just proclaimed by the Emperor of ,le Japan. A brief cablegram received from ^ Minister Dunn at Toklo confirms without no giving particulars the advices received by lL. Minister Kurino and transmitted to the State 01 Department. The qrmiatice now being an established sl" fact, the chief interest hinges for the time bellg lng on the condition of Ll Hung Chang, the Chinese pea:e commissioner, who was wounded by a Japanese fanatic In Bhlmonosekl. At the Japanese Legation It 1b assumed that the peace negotiate* tlons cannot be resumed until Li Hung Chang to- has recovered or his condition becomes such lis as to make it necessary for China to appoint >m a new envoy. As far as can be learned, >w nothing has been received at either the )re Japanese or Chinese legations or the State to Department concerning his condition, it ? nd 911^ on " to ' ty, v EXPEBOB 07 CHINA. >re It continues to be the general opinion al- among Administration officials and diplo a mats that the declaration of an ay armistice practically means an ending of the lie war. This is based not so much on the theory ib- that Japan will be likely to grant concescli sions, which she would not have done had it he not been for the assault upon the Chinese jle Envoy, as the belief that China Is now of sincere in her desire to bring an end to hosve tillties upon almost any terms. It is thought to ' not unlikely that European powers vfll take ict advantage of the present suspension of negoth tiations to shape matters in such a way as to us practically force an agreement when the eir negotiations are resumed. w- According to the terms of the armistice the us movement of troops and the transportation id of articles contraband of war by sea is forist . bidden. New distribution of troops,not inrts tended to augment the armies in the field is so allowed. m- Koyama Rokunosuki, the young Japanese th who attempted to assassinate Li Hung rk Chang, has been sentenced to penal servitude for life. of re- Killed in a Trolley Runaway. )e" A trolley car on the mountain tracks of the in. Lehigh Traction Company, at Jeanesville, in Penn., ran away down the incline, and three is persons were killed outright, two were )le mortally injured, and several others were >ro seriously hurt. Mrs. John Early, of Beaver ior Meadow; her son Edward, nged eight years, ell and Mr. Watkln T. Williams, of Hazelton, of were killed. Mrs. Joseph Evans and Mrs. he John Wier, both of Coloraine, were mortally is hurt. ;ta he Eight Hundred Per Cent, in Five Years. v* The Wassermann-Sloss suit being tried at San Francisco, Cal., for the return of stock a In the sealskin syndicate has revealed the ,te fact that dividends amounting to $800, on as every $100 per stock of the Alaska Commeri|(? cial Company, has been paid in the last Ave m. years. TELEPHONES AT A DOLLAR A YEAR. The Supreme Court Decision Gives an Impetus to the Business. n, The recent United States Supreme Court " decision that set free the telephone patents, m among other things, has given an impetus to 'J" the telephone industry throughout the a j- country- In the West the competition is esi pecially close. | One small town has opened an exchange u | in opposition to the 13ell Telephone Cotn! ! nnnv nn.i r>f?Vrs its fiu'ilities to subscribers at r" the ridiculous rate of $1 a year. Saved From Suicide With a Hone. re Id Andrew Bidua, a prisoner in Bridgeport )a (Conn.) Jail, went insane aud escaped from officers while being conveyed to an asylum. I He was found at Norwallc and locked up. id | He set his clothing on lire. No one dared s'" 1 go uoijr him. and a hose was used to save r? his life. il it Sunflowers Surplaut Wheat. Several of the farmers nround Oarflelt! and jy ,jc Palouse, Wash., are going to plant from one io to twenty acres each of sunflowers this sealy son. They say they can beat wheat raising to at present prices. It will produco about flfty he Dushelfl of seed to the acre, and tho stalks d, can be used for fuel. ilr ' r:e f - "M TEN LIVES LOST AT SEA. Disaster Overtook the Elm Steamer GU| or Haverhill Off Barnejjat. - ' The stern-wheel river steamboat City ol Haverhill, which sailed from South Brooklyn. N. Y., for Key West, Fla., has been'lost with all hands off Barnegat. The news of the disaster was brought to New fork' by a pilot of the pilot-boat James Gordon Bennett, which picked up the \;':i body of the Haverhill's skipper. Captain Warren P. Watrous. of Key West, a boot . twenty-four miles off Barnegat. The Captain's body was enoiroled by a cork life buoy, bearing the name of the * steamboat. The Impression of the skipper of the smasfe is that there was an explosion aboard the Haver-| , . :j hill, which rendered her unseaworthy and 1 . ; forced her offlcors and orew to trust to the life belts. The fact that the smack picked up the metallio lifeboat Intact indicates that the Haverhill men did not have time to launch It or that it was blown from the davits. There were aboard the Haverhill, besides . * the skipper, Pilot William D. Van Wycke, Chief Engineer Sam Brown, Assistant EnT 17^ T o nonhm ij giuuui w. x xcu jjuuiLOuunuu. a uvjmoir wu the ocean tug owner; Steward Fred Probst; W. B. Watrous, son of the Captain, a college student; Deckhand W. Lawson, andFlrema* George Davis. All were lost. The Haverhill was bought by the Key Weak Steamship Company In New Haven, brought to Brooklyn, and there refitted. It was Intended to take her to Key West for service in the waters thereabouts. The vessel was in-) 4 v. 5 $5 eared for $10,000. ; > > s,' hp3| WEATHER CROP BULLETIN. V Government Report on the Conditions for March. 1 The Weather Bureau has resumed the ia- v-j] sue of the weather crop bulletin. Following 1 Is a synopsis of the reports for some of the States, oovering the crop conditions for March: New England?No initirv to arrass and * grain roots or to fruit buds and small frults,l except to roots along the immediate coast,} . where freezing and thawing have done littlej, damage; Massachusetts reports slight injury! to peach buds. New York?Fruits and grains seem to havei wintered well; Bnow gone, except along! v//?] fences and in woods. New Jersey?Winter cereals, early sown, are in good condition, but late sown are very backward, owing to continued cold; the fruit . I1buds are not only in splendid condition, bat. , are very abundant, with all fawcatioM > favorable; the 8an Jose scale has appeared it ; In several orchards in Burlington Countyj small fruits, except strawberries, have been ' ,V:. badly winter-killed, especially blaokberrles. Pennsylvania?The season is somewhat / I backward, with few evidences of growth; wheat appears in good condition; mapta ; sugar making in progress. Maryland?Fruit buds have for the most part been kept from early development; y-S wheat is said to te in fair condition; very good reports of the wheat crop have also > been received from eastern portion, but leal t favorable reports' come fron: northern, central and southern portions; the outlook foi large yields of peaches and other fruits is ex4 cellent. PUBLIC DEBT STATEMENT. " 1 ' \ near it flnfl nnn AHHAd Dtirlnsr the Mont of March. The monthly United States Treasury statement of the public debt shows that on March 30, 1895, the public debt, leas oash in the Treasury, amounted to $908,730,040, an inorease for the month of $18,817,105w The amount of the new 4 per cent. bonds issued .durlug the month waa; V,^J $28,807,900. Following is a recapitulation of the debt: Interest? bearing debt. 5)713,851,960; ; inorease during the month, $28,808,100; debt on whioh interest has ceased since maturity; $1,770,250; decrease during the month, $9060; debt bearing no interest, $381,787,366; do- ' .; # crease during the month, $762,270; total debt, $1,664,591,749, of whioh $57,944,442 are certificates and Treasury note* offset by an equal amount of cash in \VaB the Treasury. The Treasury cash is olassl-) ' ? fled as follows: Gold, $149,486,496: silver. . ,jSj $510,259,879; paper, $131,267,047. General account, disbursing officers' balance, etc., - , $16,224,166; total, $797,237,589, against which there are demand liabilities amounting to $609,320,328, leaving a cash balance of $187,917,261, ol whlon $90,643,307 is gold reserves KILLED IN AN EXPLOSION. . >' '? . ... ,2a Boilers or a Leather Factory In Woburaj Man., Burst With Fatal Karaite. The residents of Wobum Highlands, Mass.,; v? 1 were startled by an explosion in Loring &t Jones's leather factory. The men in thefao-{ tory were preparing for work when thej. boilers in the engine room at the northeast* j v corner of the building exploded, tearing out! the end of the building and burying in thai ruins at least a dozen men. The ohimneyfj which was over eighty feet high, came downj with a crash. The force of the explosion was snoh tha# one of the boilers was thrown clear throughi i heavy partition into the mam part of tha? '\ building. These men were killed: Austin Clements,; ^ foreman; Patrick Lally, Patrick McGonigle* Frank SIcMahon, ? Patterson. The injured are Patrick Keljey, John; Kenney, John Tracey, rnnoic u iitwio tuxu Octavio Saunders (colored). The ruins did not take fire. The big! Umbers of the structure were piled on top off the unfortunate men. About fifty men were} employed In the building. There were fourj boilers In the building, two of which werw D9W. ' Now York's Huge Debt. Mayor Strong, of New York City, sent at < message to the Board of Aldermen in regard: to the financial methods of the city government under Tammany Hall. He said that} the people were led to believe by the report* from the Comptroller's office that that debt of New York City was $105,J 777,854, while in reality to that 4 amount should be added $7,020,616, toi /.j'. which amount bonds were prepared and noti 'k Issued, and also $19,879,660 for improvement^ which the city is pledged to undertake, thuak making the actual total debt not $105,777,854, but $132,678,130. Bred Wolves for Bo'iaty. The bounty of $10 a piece on wolves, in force for twenty years In Buren County, Illinois, has been repealed. It haa been learned that many persons have been breeding th* animals for the sake of the bounties, whicl* at times have exceeded $1100 a year. f / The Cotton King Dead. William Steenstrand, of Liverpool, Eng? I land, the Cotton Xing, who exploited th? great corner in cotton of 1890, which caused.^, such a sensation and which resulted in his ' [ losing $5,000,000, is dead. | The March Treasury Statement. The official Treasury statement just issued. shows that in the month of March the excea? of expenditures over receipts was $246,382. The rcceipt* were $637,777 greater than ia March, 18M, and the expenditures $5,420,003less than in last March. I A "Woman Voter Dies at the l'oll*. While Mrs. Thomas Jonas was preparingher ballot at a polllng-placn at Newcastle, Col., she fainted ami fell, striking her lieadi heavily against the Uoor. She tlioil in ?. short time, having ruptured a blood vessel. BIBLE IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Reailing the Scriptures Declared to be Illegal in I'e-uiHylvanla. Judge Guuster in docidiag the Waverly borough school ease at Scranton, Penn.. d? cluros that th" rending of the Bible in public. schools oi Pennsylvania is illegal. In hisruling, Judge Gunster said: '-The only question for consideration is simply and purely; one of law, and on this there is r>- room fori doubt. It istoo plain for argument that denominational religious exercises and instruo-j tion fn sectarian doctrine have 110 place ial our system of common-school education. They are not only not authorized by any law, common .or statutory, but are expressly prohibited and forbidden by our constiturtow, the fundamental law of the commonwealth.'*' x . - \ Y ' s*?\