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KEY. DR. TALMA.GE. SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY TIIE NOTED DIVINE. Subject: "Surpassing Splendor." Text: "Eye hath not seen nor ear heard." ?I Corinthians ii.. 9. "I am coiner to heaven! I am joiner to heaven! Heaven! Heaven! Heaven!" These rvrere the last 'words uttered a few days ago by my precious wife as she ascended to be With God forever, and is it not natural as well as Christianly appropriate that our thoughts be much directed toward the glorious residence of which St. Paul speaks in the text I have chosen? /tU?f rvf r\-winth Vin<a hppn prIIa^ tho Taris of antiquity. Indeed for splendor the world holds no.such wonder to-day. It stood on an isthmus washed by two seas, the one sea brinsrin? the commerce of Europe, the other the commerce of Asia. From her wharves, in the construction of which whole kingdoms had been absorbed, war galleys with three banks of oars pushed out and confounded the navy yards of all the world. Huge handed machinery, such as modern invention cannot equal, lifted ships from the Bea on one side ami transported them on trucks across the isthmus and set them down In the sea on the other side. The revenue officers of the city went down through the olive groves that lined the beach to collect a tariff from all Nations. The mirth of all people sported in her Isthmian srames, and the beauty of all lands sat in her theatres, walked h<?r porticoes and threw itself on the altar of her stupendous dissipations. Column and statue and temple bewildered the beholder. There were white marblo fountains into which, from apertures at the side, there rushed waters everywhere Vioniffo cHtHnff finalities. Around these basins, twisted into wreaths of stone, there were all the beauties of sculpture and architecture, white standing, as if to guard the costly display, was a 9tatue of Hercules of burnished Corinthian brass. Vases of terra cotta adorned the cemeteries of the dead?vases so costly that Julius Cresar was not satisfied until he had captured them for Borne. Armed officials, the "Corinthiarii," paced up and down to see that no statue was defaced, no pedestal overthrown, no bas relief touched. From the edge of the city a hill arose, with its magnificent burden of columns and towers and temples (1000 slaves awaiting at one shrine), and a citadel so thoroushly impregnable that Gibraltar is a heap of sand compared with it. Amid all that strength and macrniflcence Corinth stood and defied the world. ? V- ?AMA. Ob, it wa? not to rustics won u&u uc eeen anything grand that St. Paul uttered this text. They had heard the best music that had come from the best instruments in all the world. They had heard songs floating from morning porticoes and melting in I evening proves. They had passed their Vhole lives away among pictures and sculpture and architecture and Corinthian brass, which had been molded and shaped, Until there was no chariot wheel in which it had not sped, and no tower in which it had not glittered, and no gateway that it had not adorned. Ah, it was a bold thing for Paul to stand there amid all that and say: "All this is nothing. These sounds that come from the temple of Neptune are not music compared with the harmony of which I speak. These waters rushing in the basin of Pyreneare not pure. These statues of Bacchus and Mercury are not exquisite. Yon citadel of Acrocorintbus is not strong compared with that which I offer to the poorest slave that ?uts down his burden at that brazen gate, ou, Corinthians, think this is a splendid city. You think you have heard all sweet Bounds and seen all beautiful sights, but I tell you "eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into tne neart oi man < the things which God hath prepared forthem L that love Him.'" e You see my text sets forth the idea that, K however exalted our ideas maybe of heaven, they come far short of the reality. Some wise men have been calculating how many furloncs Ions and wide is heaven, and they have calculated how many inhabitants there are on the earth: how long the earth will probably stand, and then they come to this estimate?that after all the nations had been gathered to heaven there will be a room for each soul, a room 16 feet long and 15 feet wide. It would not be large enough for me. I am srlad to know that no human es.imate Is sufficient to take the dimensions. '-Eye halh not seen, nor ear heard" nor arithmetic calculated. I first remark that we can in this world get no idea of the health of heaven. When you were a child and you went out in the morning, how you bounded along the road or street?you had never felt sorrow or sickness! Perhaps later?perhaps in thene very ?w/in fAlf n. plow ill vour cheek, and a spring in your step, and an exuberance of spirits, and a clearness of eye, that made you thank God you were permitted to live. The nerves were harp strings, and the sunlight was a doxology, and the rustling leaves were the rustling of the robes of a great crowd rising up to praise the v Lord. You thought that you knew what it was to be well, butthere is no perfect health on earth. The diseases of Dast generations ' come down to us. The aire that float now on the earth are unlike those which floated above paradise. They are charged with impurities and distempers. The most elastic and robust health of earth, compared with that which those experience before whom the Kates have been opened, Is nothing but sickness and emaciation. Look at that soul etanding before the throne. On earth she was a lifelong invalid. See her step now and hear her voice now! Catch, if you can. one breath of that celestial air. Health in all the pulses! Health of vision. Health of spirits. Immortal health. No racking cough, no sharp pleurisies, no consuming fevers, no exhausting pains, no hospitals of wounded ? * *1 J- TT,.?UU I men. Health swinging in looair. ucnuu flowing in all the streams. Health blooming on the banks. No headaches, no sideaches, no backaches. That ohild that died in the agonies of croup, hear her voice now ringing | * In the anthem! That old man that went I- bowed down with the infirmities of age, see him walk now with the step of an immortal athlete?forever young aga'n! That night when the needlewoman fairued away in the garret, a wave of the heavenly air resuscitated her forever. For everlasting vears, to have neither ache nor pain nor weakness nor fatigue. "Eye hath not seen it, ear hath not heard it." I remark further that we can in this world Iget no just idea of the splendor of heaven. 8t. John tries to describe it. He says, "The twelve gates are tivelve pearls," and that 4'tha foundations of the walls are garnished with all manner of precious stones." As we stand looking through ihe telescope of St. John we see a blaze of amethyst anl pearl and emerald and sardonyx and chrysoprasus and sapphire, a mountain of light, a cataract of color, a sea of glass and a city like the sun. St. John bids us look again, and we see thrones-thrones of the prophets, thrones of the patriarchs, thrones of the angels, thronps of the apostles, thrones of the martyrs, throne of Jesus, throne of God! And we turn round to see the glory, and it is?thrones! Thrones! Thrones! r oc. jona dhjus us iuuk. ana we see [ the great procession of the redeemed passing. ; Jesus, on a white horse, leads the march, i and all the armies of salvation following on i white horses. Infinite cavalcade passing, passing; empires pressing into line, ages following ages. Dispensation tramping on after dispensation. Glory in the track of glory. Europe. Asia, Africa and North and South America pressing iuto lines. Islands of the sea shoulder to shoulder. Generations before the ilood following generations after the flood, and as Jesus risesat the heal of that great host and waves His sword in signal of victory all crowns are lifted, au 1 all ensigns flung out. and all chimes rung, 1? and all halleluiahs chanted, and some cry, ' Glory to God most high!" and some, ' flosanna to tlio Son of David!" and some, *'Worthy Is the Lamb that was slain!" till all the exclamations of endearment and homage in the vocabulary of heaven are exhausted. and there come up surge alter surge oi "Amen! Amen! Amca'1' "Eye huth not seen it, ear hath nrtf heard it." Skim fro:n the summer waters the brightest sparkles, and you will get no idea of the sheen of the everlasting sea. Pile up the splendors of earthly cities, and they ^ would not make a stepping stone by which you might mount to the city of God. Every house is a palace. Every step a triumph. Every covering of the head a coronation. Every meal is a banquet. Every stroke from the tower is a wedding bell. Every day is a jubilee, every hour a rapture aud every moment an ecstasy. "Eye hath not seen It, oar hath not heard it." I remark further we can get no idea on earth of tbn reunions of heaven. If you I hav? ever been across the sea and met a friend, or even an acquaintance, in soma strange clly, you remember how your blood \ thrilled and how glad you were to see him. What, then, will be our joy, after we have passed the seas of death, to meet in the bright city of the sun those from whom we t have long been separated! After we have , been away from our friends ten or fifteen years, and we come upon them, we see how 1 differently they look. The hair has turned, t and wrinkles have come in their faces, and c we say, "How you have changed!" But, oh, when we stand"before the throne, all cares I gone from the face, all marks of sorrow dis- I appeared, and feeling the joy of that blessed ] land, methinks we will say to each other, t with an exultation wo cannot now im- ( acine. "How you hnvo changed!" In c this world we only meet to part. It is ( goodby, troodby. Farewells floating in the i air. We hear it at the rail car window and t at the steamboat wharf. Goodby! Children lisp it; and old aso answers it. Sometimes J we say it in a light way, "Goodby!" and l sometimes with ancuish in which the soul ; breaks down. Goodby! Ah, that is the word j that ends the thanksgiving banquet; that is ( the word that comes in to close the Christmas chant. Goodby! Goodby! i But not so in heaven. Wolcomes in the wftlAAmAB at t-ViCL r?ofna TPflloAmPfl ftt thrt J fill, VYCIUUIUU-I ?l 11IO nv.vvM.^ ? house of many mansions?but no goodby. i That group is constantly being augmented. ] They are going up from our circles of earth to join it?little voices to join the anthem, < little hands to take hold of it in the great i home circle,little feet to dance in the eternal i glee, little crowns to be cast down before the I feet of Jesus. Our friends are in two groups I ?a group this side of the river and a group i on the other side of the river. Now there i coes ono from this to that, and another from ] this to that, and soon we will all be gone j over. How many of your loved ones have i already entered upon that blessed place! If i I should take paper and pencil, do you think i I could put them all down? Ah, my friends, the waves of Jordan roar so hoarsely we cannot hear the joy on the other side where their group is augmented. It is graves here and coffins and hearses here. A little child's mother had died, and they comforted her. They said: "Your mother has gone to heaven. Don't cry," and the next day they went to the graveyard, and they laid tho body of the mother down into j ground, and the iittle girl came up to the verge of the grave, and looking down at the body of her mother said, "Is this heaven?" Oh, we have no idea what heaven is. It is the grave here. It is darkness here, but there ( is merry leaking yonder. Methinks when a j soul arrives some angel takes it around to show it the wonders of that blessed Dlace. j The usher angel says to the newly arrived: "These are the martyrs that periahed at 1 Piedmont; these were torn to pieces at the 1 inquisition; this is the throne of the great Jehovah; this is Jesus!" "I am going to see 1 Jesus," said a dying negro boy. "I am go- 1 ing to see Jesus," and the missionary said, i i i.v? ? nimr1 <?nh JLUU aio ouio juu mil isw yes. That's what I want to go to heaven < for." "But," said the mlsssonary, "suppose that Jesus should go away from heaven, 1 what then?" "I should follow him." said I the dytnpr negro boy. "But if Jesus went 1 down to hell, what then?" The dying boy thought for a moment, and then he said, t "Mnssa, where Jesu9 is there can be no hell!" 1 Oh, to stand in His presence! That will be heaven! Oh, to put our hand in that hand which was wounded for us on the cross ?to go around amid all the groups of the ] redeemed and shake hands with prophets and apostles and martyrs and with our own dear, beloved ones! That will be the great reunion. We cannot imagine it now, our ] loved ones seem so far away. When we are 1 in trouble and lonesome, they don't seem to come to us. We go on the banks of the Jor- 1 dan and call across to them, but they 1 don't seem to hear. We say: "Is it well t with the child? Is it well with the loved J - OH 3 ?- 11.4A. 4.^ (I UUB^r ttUU WO 1ISICU IU uuaj. li cuajt voice comes back over the water. None! None! Unbelief says, "They are dead and extinct forever," but, blessed be God, we have a Bible that tells us different. We open it and And that they are neither dead nor extinct; that they never were so much alive as now; that they are only waiting for our coming, and that we shall join them on the other side of the river. Oh, glorious reunion, we cannot grasp it now! "Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him." I remark again, we can in this world get no idea of the song of heaven. You know there i3 nothing more inspiriting than music. In the battle of Waterloo the Highlanders were giving way. and Wellington found out that the bands of music had ceased playing. He sent a quick dispatch, telling them to play with utmost spirit a battle march. The music started, the Highlanders were ( rallied, and they dashed on till the day was won. We appreciate the power of secular music, but ao we appreciate the power of sacred song? There is nothing more inspire r ing to me than a whole congregation lifted up on the wave of holy melody. When we 1 sing some of those dear old psalms and ? tunes they rouse all the memories of the { past. Why, some of them were cradle songs { 1n our father's house. They are all spark- j linsr with the morning dew of a thousand 4 Christian Sabbaths. 5 They were sung by brothers and sisters gone now, by voices that were aged and , broken in the music, voices none the less j sweet because they did tremble and break. ] When I hear these old songs sung it seems as s if all the old countrv meeting homes joined J in the chorus, and Scotch kirk and sailor's ] ( Bethel and Western cabins, until the whole ? continent lifts the doxologv and the scepters 1 . of eternity beat time to the music. Away j ? then with your starveling tunes that chill j the devotion of the sanctuary and make the j ? people sit silent when Jesos is coming to hosanna. But. my friends, If music on earth is so sweet, what will it bo in heaven? They all know the tune there. Methinks the tuue of ] heaven will be made up partly from the songs of earth, the best parts of all our hymns and tunes going to add to the song of Moses and the Lamb. All the best singers of t all the ages will join it?choirs of white ,( robed children. Choirs of patriarchs! Choirs - * * -A -1 I ( oi apostles: morning siiir* ciuppiug meir cymbals! Harpers with their harps! Great anthems of God roll on, roll! on! Other empires joining the harmony till the thrones are full of it and the Nations all Baved. Anthem shall toucn anthem, chorus join chorus, and all the sweet sounds of earth and heaven be poured into the ear of Christ. David of the harp will be there. Gabriel of the trumpet will be there. Germany redeemed will pour its deep bass voice into the song, and Africa will add to the music with her matchless voices. I wish we could anticipate that song. I wish in the closing hymns of the churches to-day we might catch an echo that slips from the gates. Who knows but that when the heavenly door opens to-day to let some soul through there may come forth the strain of the jubilant voices until we catch it? OH, that as the sons: drops down from heaven it might meet half way a sdng coming up from earth! IS DEFENDER DOOMED? Navy Department Exprrts Say Tha* Aluminum Cannot Last Long. The Bureau of Construction and Repairs of the Uuitod States Navy Department hava ! for the past two years been conducting a line i of experiments which may prove interesting, but not assuring, to the builders and backers <if DufonrlHr The bureau has been testing aluminum for use in naval vessels, particularly where the 1 metal would be affected by salt water aud f 3alt air. They regret to flud thai salt rots it i aud destroys its usefulness. At best it has i proved wealc and unreliable, incapable of i standing severe straius and extremely shortj lived. Naval constructors fear that, unless many changes are made in those portions of Defender and her rigging now built of aluminum before the cup races, some serious ac- ' cideut due to the treacherous metal may lose < | the cup. < The experiments have shown that the life of aluminum subjected to the action of salt 1 air and salt water is certainly not more than one year From this it Is deduced that, if by luck and great cart) Defender gets through the cup races unscathed, a year from now she would be apt to fall apart. A slight collision would wrench her badly. These deductions are general In their character as applied to Defender, as the Navy Department officials do not desire to go Into details regarding their investigation of the properties of aluminum. The results of that invesiigation as embodied in official reports are held in the confidential archives of tne Department. Tuberculosis In Cattle Not Hereditary. The State Veterinary Department of Iowa has conducted an exhaustive series of experiments to determine whether tuberculosis in cattle is hereditary. They conclude that it is not. [ WOULD LOWER THE LAKES. 'That the Board of Engineers Say of the Chicago Drainage Canal. Tho report of tho Board of Engineers do";l"' ?"? iinAn fVin nrnhflhlfl pffSCt Slid (peratioa of tho Chicago drainage canal lpon the lake and harbor levels and upon he navigation of the great lakes and tlieir ionnecting waterways was made public. There is nothing to show, the report says, that the consent of Congress has been askod For this enterprise, and it is certain that it has not been treated as an inter-State or international affair. With this established 'act it is impossible to think that supervision >f the United States will not extend to the ianal in due time. This will become necestary as 9oon as it becomes.a part of the sys:em of navigation waterways. If the now outlet reduces the levels of Lakes Michigan and Huron about six inches, :hat effect will be produced in about two rears, it not being a question of many years, is some suppose. The Board feel very sure, iherefore. that: First?The drainage canal is not solely a State affair, but a National one. Second?The tapping of the lakes must iffect their levels. If the level of the lakes >hould be reduced, vessels would have to ,oad accordingly. The trustees of the drainage company now Bontemplate the abstraction of only 300,000 :ubic feet,but after the canal is opened it is assumed that 600,000 cubic feet per minute will t>e drawn from Lake Michigan. This would lower the levels of all the lakes of the system, axcept Lake Superior. The navigable capailty of all harbors and channels on the great lakes below St. Mary's Falls would be injuriously affected by the proposed canal, and the navigability of the inner harbor of Chi- ? jago would be diminished also by the introduction of a current therein. CRUSHED UNDER A PRESS FRAME. Heroic KflTorta of Prea* RiggrerR to Sav? the Life of Their Foreman. Foreman David P. Williams and two press riggers of the Cottrell Printing Manufacturing Company were at work removing an old press from the Knickerbocker Press Company's building. New Rochelle, N. Y. A large iron frame that they were taking from the Blevator tipped over on Williams. The men and 'Williams used their united strength in holding the frame up, but they soon became exhausted, and the frame gradually pinioned Williams to the floor. The men shouted for help. There was no response, as everybody had left the establishment. Williams and the men were worn out by their exertions. Seeing that there was no help for him, Williams called to his companions: "God help me! Let it drop and put mo out of my agonv!" The two men were in a fainting condition from supporting the frame. They withdrew ;heir hands and the mass of iron fell upon tVilliams, crushing him to death. Williams was fifty years of age, and lived it Spuyten Duyvil. He leaves a widow and ihree children. HE DIED ON THE MOUNT. Kev. I. T. Miller Wanted to Preach 14,444 Feet Above the Sea. Rev. Ichabod T. Miller, pastor of the Fower Methodist Episcopal Church, of Tacoma, Wash., was a member of a mountain climbng party that started out a week agotwenty:wo strong to hold religious services on the :op of Mount Tacoma at a height of 14,444 feet above the sea level. One minister. Rev. William M. Jefferies, ector of the Episcopal Church of the Holy Communion, of Tacoma. and six followers eachedthesummic.where JefTeries preached, selecting as his text "The Sermon on the Mount." Rev/Mr. Mlllerand another Metholist preacher became exhausted at the 11,000 feet level and retraced their footsteps, but svere lost in a fog. A courier had to travel seventy-five miles :o get a physician to attend Mr. iililler. The sarty remained over night huddled in snow ind ice behind a rock known as Camp Misery. Blood poisoning set in, and Miller died in jreat agony. Rev. Mr. Miller was sixty-three years old. During the war he was Chaplain of the S'inety-fourth Illinois Regiment. TREASURY DEFICIT FOR 1895. Corrected Figures of Receipt* ami Expenditure* Placed at 843,941,539. The corrected official statement of Governnent receipts and expenditures for the past Iscal year was made public at the United itates Treasury Department. It places the crtal receipts at $313,390,075.11, delved from these source.?: Customs, &152,158,615; internal revenue, $143,121,672: sales of public lands, ill. 103,347; miscellaneous, $16,706,438. Expenditures are stated at $356,195,298, of vhich $141,395,227 went for pensions. Imong the expenditures is an item of $1,136,306 which was placed to the credit 6f the | sinking fund. During the past three yeara ibout $8.C00,000 has been placed to the credt of this fund. Prior to 1893 the least imountfor any one year for a number of rears back placed to the credit of this fund ixceeded $37,000,00!). The exact deficit for i895 is stated at *43,941,58!).<jl. xnis is iaa i imount which will go on record. HANDSOME SILVER VASES. How Act# of Heroiflm Will Hereafter Be Rewarded. Hereafter tho Government will recognize lets of heroism on the high seas in behalf of litizens of the United States by the award >f handsome silver vases instead of sold patches, compasses, etc., as has been the sustom in the past. It has frequently happened that these watches, fine though they ire, have been bestowed upon mariners possessing chronometers of a much superior juality. The same is true of other navigatng apparatus which it has been customary :o give in acknowledgment of yaluable leroio service to American seamen. The Jtate Department officials who have charge )f this matter have decided to substitute rases for other articles as an experiment, md, if it proves successful, that style of iward will be adopted as the standard. The lesign most favored is a tall v<ise, embossed it the base in imitation of dashing waves, tvith an American eagle surmounting a shield inscribed with the American coat-ofirms. Two Fatal Cloudburst*. In Algeria, a cloudburst destroyed an krab village in Side-Aich District. Fourteen persons were killed and sixteen severely Injured, have been rescued from the ruins. In Mexico many houses in the village of Huatingo were washed away by a waterspout and eight persons were drowned and ill the crona in the vallev were ruined. Fastest Train in the World. The London ami Nortnwestern Railway Company's new fast train, which loft Euston station, London, at 8 p. in., a few days ago, irrivndat Aberdeen, Scotland, at 4.58 next morning, having covered the distance ol 540 miles in the shortest time on record. Lust of tli* Shlnnrcoclcn. With the death of John Bunn the noble race of Shinnecoek Indians ends. The old man lied with his face to the sun, which, as he died, roo over the Shinnecoek Hills on Lout; Island, the ancient hotne of this once powerful race. Dulse of Orleans Gives l"j?. The Duke of Orleans, who upon the death last year of his father, tho Count of Paris, became tho head of the Royalist party in France and claimant to the throne, hits become convinced of the futility of further fighting tho republic. He has, therefore, decided to abandon the Royalist propaganda in France, cease the payment of subsidies to Rovalist newspapers, and abandon the offices in taris occupied by thoKoyalist Committee. Lightning Kills a Flock of Sheep. Lightning struck a tree on the farm of Austin Emmons, of Peapack, N. J., and instantly killed twelve sheep, twenty lambs, and two cows that were huadled beneath it. RELIGIOUS READING. I S. God's work. inti When God strengthens the soul or intensifies its life. He does ft higher, more tremendous work than if He merely wrought some change in the outward things to accomodate I7essi thom to our weakness. Take the extremest J case?say such a case as that of old Bishop Hooper, wbo, in Queen Mary's time in 1555, was burned at Gloucester for his Protestantism. All the time ho was burning at the stake there was a box before him with his pardon in it il'he would recant. Now, when # l.J he cried out to. God for help, what ins." would have been the nob'cst answer? wu f Had the Lord put cut the fire by Moa? providential interposition, every one would throu 6ay that was a good, real answer. Or it the throu Lord had suspended the law by which flre ("Heb. burns, and made it that it had climbed and A'oral wreathed about him without scorching him, ?Son,f that, too, would be reckoned a good, real tlw c answer. But I tell you that when that old ofth# man. by his praying, was strengthened so 18) that through the long three-quarters of an His 3 hour that his torture lasted he never flinched, 3'ime never stretched out his hand to tho box with w>rd the pardon in it: and that when the shriveled 13:1. life at last ebbed outof him,it went not out in 2. ' mad shreiks of incoherent asony, but in Appo broken gasps of faith and trust?I tell you I spa! that there was a mora tremendous mani- cjmrr festatlon of the power of prayer than there are fc Vini'O l>oan in oni? Aiitwof/1 llftln flfTllinQt till 1 I the flames. That is just how the answer to refer* Paul's prayer came in. Not the "thorn in the flesh" removed, but his heart strengthened, d^Alii Paul came to feel at last that that answer to the fr his prayer was the noblest answer. He came n?*rs < to glory in it at last, even as he gloried in his of sn revelations and exalted spiritual experiences. 3. ' Instead of his faith in prayer being weak- ^on ened, it was strengthened! And so it has thith* been all life through. The strongest believers the a in prayer have not been those to whom it has here 1 seemed to bring a loaf in their want, or de- used liverance in some danger. No ! The a ro< strongest believers in prayer have been those who. though they have asked a score of out- ''This ward gifts in vain, have yet felt its power as r^fug the sweetener and strengthener of life.? VH?< Brooke Hereford, D. D., in "Sermons o' Lord Courage and Cheer." Ruilt; way i have MUSIC TU OUR LIVES. 4. ' A visitor to Amsterdam wished to hear the wonderful music of the chimes of St. Nicholas, and went up into the tower of the church tnem to hear it. There he found a man with trans wooden gloves on his hands, pounding on a J?i^ keyboard. All he could hear wa3 the clang- ' ing of the keys when struck by the wooden gloves, and the harsh, deafening noise of the lyif bells close over his head. He wondered why the people talked of the marvelous chimes of St. Nicholas. To his ear there was no musio ar>l( in them, nothing but terrible clatter and clanging. Yet, all tne wnue, mere uoateu . --out over and beyond the city the moat en- siaye trancinc music. Men in the fields paused in their work to listen, and were made . * glad. People' in their homes and travelers on the highway, were thrilled by the marvelous bell-note9 that fell from the tower. There are many lives which to those who dwell close beside them sejm to make j?r~* no music. They pour out their strength in ' hard toil. They are shut up in narrow spheres. They dwell amid the noise and r ' clatter of common task-work. They think 1 themselves that they are not of any use, that no blessing goes out from their life. They . never dream that sweet music is made anywUere in the world by their noisy hammering. J. But out over the world, where the influence . goes from their work and character, human 5 lives are blessed, and weary ones hear, with ? , gladness, sweet, comforting music. Then . * away off in heaven, where angels listen to , earth's melody, ent-ancing strains are heard. . -J. SL Miller, D. D. Our deat! POWEB TO THIXK. oyer Among the most important furnishings of the mind are capacity to observe and power com( to think. In some sense every person is able He li to observe and think: but, in reality a small (J?h part only of mankind is accomplished in al)id such exercises. To attain this grand end,the Him original endowments of nature must be sup- 7. plemented by the generous offices of educa- M tion. According to Emerson, few grown Ephi people see nature, even though her handi- t works lie everywhere about them. They *hre< have eyes, which see not because they were 8U88 never opened to the marvels of the great tt?n) world in which they live. To see to any purpo9e is the result of education, occasionally secured by tbo person himself, but more gen- J"?'111 erallv by the intervention of a gifted teacher **apl found possibly in the school, or may be in the bolii Jmrent or friend. To see the world about us are 1 s even more important than to see what some us* . > ?- - .l. fmit man centuries ago wrote aown in a uook, luo printed book is a matter of tbe past, while ^"rea the colors are being constantly ronewed or Iji?0}1 the pages of Nature's great volume. kirji Hebi Judf TEMPLE OF THE DOLT OHOST. ? ' Know ye not that your body is the temple the g of the Holy Ghost?" This body which we unto dress and cherish with such care and which unto we are prone to treat as something apart refu. from our soul life. As soon as we have g asked and received that new, eternal life mo[\ which is to make us like the risen Lord, the out ( Holy Spirit rejoices over a new medium of the t touch with other lives and is eager to very bring in new revelations from the Word and gt'r0I from riches in glory. He has conveyed to prec the sin-crushed world his uplifting and ra- ?0 r, dlant teachings through such as were apar his own especially annointed ones, in fuuE whom ho dwelt and whom he could trust to 14 1 receive and then to give. How he cherishes moti and adorns and honors such as know his ra- trooi diant, indwellinc presence aud are ready on the j the instant for His use, by step, hand, word refU] or unconscious influence ! What a loss is then ours when we thwart Him aud grieve Him they nnrl .it li??t pan bo seldom used !?S. B. C. with comt TEMPLE OF OOD. Q0la Slowly, through all tho universe, that tem- Mam pie of God is being built. Wherever, in auy com] world, a soul, by free-willed obedience, of H catches the fire of God's likeness, it is set will into the growing wall9, a living stone our i In what strange quarries and stone-yards the that stones for that celestial wall are being hewn! see t Out of the hillsides of humiliated pride; time deep in the darkness of crushed despair; in glon the fretting and dusty atmosphere of little sares; in tht hard, cruel contacts that man thee has with man; wherever souls are being tried that and ripened, in whatever commonplace and was I homely ways?there God is hewing out the soovi pillars for His temple. Oh, if the stone can he ni only have some vision of the temple of which even it is to be n part forever, what patience must 43: G fill it as it feels the blows of tho hammer,and Whft' knows that success for it is simply to let it- knov self be wrought iuto what shape the Master Unov wills!?Phillips Brooks. Heli> When a man conquers his adversaries and his difficulties, it i3 not a3 if he never had intei encountered them. Their power, still kept, is in all his future life. They are not only m. events in his.past history, they are elements in all his present character. His victory is IP? colored with the hard struggle that won it. His sea of glass is always mingled with fire, * ? . just aa this peaceful crust. \i*it curei The cause of the Christian's unrest is you 0 have not yet "received Jesus iuto your ship." Th You have give n your heart to him, but you Uniti have not whol ly grasped him by laith. As wus suranro comes only from the abiding pres- *kat ence in your soul of a personal living Jesus.- whic ?A. E. Kittredge. threi whic T.?i ? nsuino. mi [ enou iif'ilU VM'-ir A>1 a <441 JUIIl W1IUIO OU1410 lUHt * witU t:i? thought of Christ; make of him not y^, onlv a Redeemer, bat a brother?not only a cja.. Saviour, but a friend.?Carmou Farrar. ttt ,45 protl The failures in Christian life aro not duo to Stale lack of power, but to tin; failure to us-o tbo cent, power that is in u-.?(J. E. IViitecost. s P* IM| dian cent. KUlctl in a l'ecnliar Manner. Cent. Twenty-five cattlo were killed by lightning 2 P*' In a most remarkable wayjin Finney County, Kansas. Eight hundred head were being re- ^t10 ? moved to another picture, aud for a part of , , the distance were driven through a narrow P 1' lane, hedged in by a wire fence. While in this narrow passage a thunderstorm over- 'he 1 took them. The lightning struck a fence *353, post, following the wire for 200 yards. Every ?oj head of cattle crowded against the wire ^ was killed. The herd belonged to George Ingee. John Stevens and John Mitchell. The loss is $800. W50U A Short Pe*nnt Crop. 17,, A short peanut crop i3 aaaounooJ for this rea.1i year. name A.BBATH SCHOOL. SRNATlOXAli LESSON FOR ' SEPTEMBER 15. oriText: "The Refuse of Cities," oshua xx., 1-9?Golden Text: Hebrews vl.. 18?Com- i mentary. ] 1 The Lord also spake unto Joshua, sayThere was a time when God spake to 1 'ace to faro as with Adam. Abraham. ] ? and Joshua. Ho afterward spoke q;h tho prophets, but Ho last spoke >?h His Son. our Lord Jesus Christ 1 i., 1. 2). Even IHs communications to mm and the others wore through tho or, ''No man hath seen God at any time, miv T.,>r?ntfun Snn who is in the bosom s Father. He hath declared Him" (John i. Whether through the prophets or on it was always by the Spirit, and tho Holv Spirit now speaks to us In His (I Pdt. i.,11: II Pet. i., 21; John xvi., John ii., 27). 'Speak to tha children of Israel, saying: int out for you cities of refuge, whereof fee unto you by the hand of Moses." The lands concerning the "cities of refuge" >und in Ex. xxL, 13: Num. xxxv., 11-15, )*ut. six., 2-0. Our lesson Is the fourth snce to them, and the number four is tstive of completeness concerning God's ags with the earth. The four gospels, >ur faces of tho cherubim, for four corjf the earth?all suggest God's purposes ice in Christ Jesus for the whole earth. That the slayer that killeth any perunawares and unwittingly may flee ur, and they shall be your refuge from vcnger of blood." The word "miglat" Initiated "refuse" is a word which is on y of the cities of refuge. It is from )t which signifies "to receive" and s us think of Him of whom it is said. 4 man receiveth sinners." The cities of ;e were only for the innocent who had 1 accidentally and without malice; the Jesus is a Saviour and a refuge for the y, and yet the cities of refuge were God's Df saving those who otherwise would rmrished. They shall take him into the cityunto and give him a place that he may 1 among them." His dwelling among calls to mind another word which is lated "refuse" onlv once. It is in the ige, "The eternal God is thy refuse" t. xxxiii., 271, and is in the Ninetieth Ninety-first Psalms and elsewhere trans"dwelling place" ami "habitation." i we have fled to Jesus, our refuge, He naes our dwelling place, and we may ie in Him." "And if the avenger of blood pursue him, then they shall not deliver the ir up into his hand." The way to the was prepared (Deut. xix., 8) and every: made as plain and easy for the unwilllayer a.s possible, but he had to flee to :??. i flaa Prt* Kio Ufa laaf fKa a H.J nu. I U<J*J 1Ul U.O | Id overtake him. TharH is always a I ;er of the sinner's being cat off In his j Then there is no possibility of redemp- | for it is written: "Because there is h, beware lest He take thee away with itroke. Then j^xreat ransom cannot dethee" (Job xxxvi.. 18). d is not willing that any should perish, He has made every possible provision very sinner who will come, so that the is either upon the sinner who has heard will not oome, or upon those who.knowof the refuge, have not informed those know it. "And he shall dwell in'that city until and before the congregation for judgand until the death of the high priest shall be in those days." His liberty deed upon the death of the high priest. High Priest has died and risen from the h aud is alive forevermore. Because He liveth He Is able to save evermore all come unto God by Him. None who ever } to Him will be cast out, and because ives all who come to Him shall live also n vi., 37; xiv.. 19). We have only to e in Him, live unto Him and rejoice in who has made us free. "And they appointed Kedesh in Galilee ouut Naphtali, and Shechem in Mount raim, and Kirjath-arba, which is Hebron ho mountain of Judah." There were 3 cities on each side of Jordan. Three is estlve of the Trinity and ofresurrecand these names are all suggestive of who reveals the Father by the Spirit, by His death and resurrection becomes a ?e for us. Kedesh means holiness, and itali means wrestling. He becomes our less when we yield to His wrestling and villing to acknowledge no good thing in Shechem is shoulder, aud Ephraim is ful. It is only when we cease from our tlings against Him and rest quiet on His liler that He can make us fruitful, ith-arba is the city of Arba, or of four, on is a company, or fellowship, and ih is praise. Besting from our wrestling im who is our holiness we become fruithrough fellowship with the Father and Jon by the Spirit and are thus a praise God. It all comes through coming and abiding in Him who la our only je. "Bezer, out of the tribe of Beuben: Bai, out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan. )f the tribe of Manasseh." These were hree on the east Jordan and are also suggestive of Him. Bezer signifies lg, and also gold or silver, or something ious, Reuben is "see a son." There is sal strength or wealth or preciousness t from the Son in whom dwelleth all the tess of Godhead bodily (See Prov. iii., 5; I Pet. ii., 7; Isa. xli, 2; xl? 29). Balis height or exaltation, and Gad is a p or company. This makes us think of lost of exalted onea who have fled for to lay hold upon the hope set before i. Bedeemed by His precious blood are now by faith sealed with Him in the eulies?in due time shall be actually Him, spirit, soul and body, and shall i with Him among the armies of heaven. _? a- onH II ill UifJlOj Ul JVI icjvitiu*,, nuvt asseh is forgetting. When the circle Is pleted and we become manifestly a part im from whom our new life bearan, then our joy be full and we shall forget all Miseries and remember them as waters pass away (Job xi., 16). Then shall wa hat all the sufferings of this present are not worthy to be compared with the 7 that shall be revealed (lUna. viii., 18). "Tha-e were the cities appointed for all hildren of Israel and for the stranger sojournoth among them." The benellt for all, Jew or gentile. I was for " who5r" killuthany person at unawares that lght not perish. Consider the whosoi of John iii., 16; iv., 13; xi.. 26; Acts x., om x.. 11; I John v., 1; Rev; xxii., 17. t a responsibility rests upon all who ? of this refugo for sinners to make Him rn to all as spec lily as possible.?Lesson nr. CLAY-WORKING INDUSTRIES. resting Statistic* Presented In the Geo, logical Survey Keport. e statistics of the clay-working indusof the United States ara reviewed in eport of the Geological Survey. It is first time that this subject has been Idered in an annual survey report. A of over 14,000 operators has been pro1, and information obtained from nearly f them. e total value of the clay products of the ad Statos for 1894. excluding pottery, over 465,000,000. The oniy comparison can be made is with the census of 1890, h placed the value at f 67,000,001 Fiftyj per cent, of this value was in bricks, h numbered 6.152,000.01)0. There were -u ?(.i ma.,, vv..,a-over eleven ^Ll \Jl IUOU1 *.KJ uiniav ? wide all around the globe. io stands at the head of the States in manufacture, its products being valued 10.608,000, or over 1C percent, of the uet ot the whole country. The other !3 follow in this order: Illinois, 13 per ; Pennsylvania, 11 percent.; New York, tr cent.; New Jersey, (J per ceut.; Inti, 5 percent.; Missouri and Iowa. 4 per ; Massachusetts and Michigan. 3J-X per ; Maryland, Wisconsin and Minnesota, cent. jcussin? asphaltum, the review says that argest deposits are found in California, i, Oklahoma, Texas aud Montana. Astum is also found in Kentucky and Ohio. from Utah is the purest in the world, total product in lht)4 being valued at 000. upstone is found in all the Atlantic !5. the principal deposits being in New aud North Carolina. The product for was valued at $401,000, an increase of t 60 per cent, over 1893. Largest of Sailing: Ships. 9 largest sailing ship ever built fs now r f<->~ her maiden voyaire. The vessel is id Fotoai, and is owned in Hamburg. AGRICULTURAL. ? pli rOPICSs OF INTEREST RELATIVE th< TO FARM AND GARDEN. dr cli trc GBT7B IK THE HEAD OP SHEEP. ^ Now is the time when the hateful th parent of the injurious grub which in- th< Fests the heads of sheep is to be looked ro< for and provided against. One way d0 Df circumventing this pest is to keep be a few salting troughs in the pasture we made in the shape of a V and smear- pr, ing both sides inside with tar. The <iii sheep licking the salt take up some of ty the tar on their noses, and this deters the fly from, laying eggs on the sheep at this place, which is its natural habit. A few fresh furrows turned in the pasture in which the sheep plunge their noses are also very useful.? qtJ Farm, Field and Fireside. he of SHADES FOB TREELESS PASTURES. BC Where pastures contain no trees for aB shade in the strong heat of snmmer. ve it ia cruel not to afford some artificial shade for the stock. Such shelter should be provided on humane grounds, but there is a question of th TEMPORAKY SHADE FOB STOCK. . *" CC dollars and cents in it as well. Dis- nl comfort of any kind lessens produo- 63 tiveness and growth. A rough shed of boards, or even a rough framework covered with green boughs, will answer the purpose very well, but *r where lumber is expensive and green di boughs are not at hand, oheap ootton re cloth can be used very effectively, hi and economically. Such cloth oan be bought for five cents or less a yard, and cm be stretched over a frame- n< work set up against the pasture fence. P< ?JNew JBingiana nomesieaa. w THE VALUE OP T.TMTt AS A FEBXTLiIZEB. As lime is largely contained in the ash of all kinds of crops, it follows that when there ia a deficiency of it in the soil an application of it mnst be nsefal. Bat it has another effect on the soil besides contributing plant 80 food. It dissolves the soil to. a large ^ extent and in this way adds to the j1? fertility of the land by increasing the ^ available supply of other elements of plants, as potash, phosphorio acid, magnesia and so on; and what is of 1 greater u^e yet, it causes the quick Wl decomposition of any vegetable matter, 01 such as the roots of former crops, or j" mannre that may be in the soil as yet * undecomposed. Thus the old praotice ,a of applying lime to the land once in five or six years is good now, as it was w then, and it always will be a good practice. It is mostly used at the j1' present season when the land is pre- ' pared for wheat; twenty or thirty & bnshels to the acre, air slacked, is the usual quantity.?New York Times. WATERING HONEY BEES. 8. . <*< All oDsprving persons musi nave noticed that bees are very fond of ^ water, and daring the hot, dry weath- ^ er in summer may be sipping from jj little pools by the roadside, or where 0j there is a drip from buckets and ^ pnmps in country wells and watering 8Q trough?, and yet with all these daily m hints as to the desires and needs of the little honey gatherers, we doubt aT if one bee keeper in fifty ever thinks QI of providing a convenient drinking ^ vessel for these useful insects. We are ' remindec^of this omission, which is ^ far too general, by a correspondent of the American Bee Journal, who describes a watering trough that he uses for his bees. He selects any small box tight enough to hold water, and then makes a float of a thin piece g* of board bored full of holes with a gimlet. If the float becomes heavy be through being soaked, small strips or pieces of cork are tacked on the under or side as Ithey are required. The bees are at first attracted to this watering trough with a little sweetened water, after which the pure article is substituted. These receptacles should be refilled at least twice a day duriDg very hot weather, and when the bees P* find that they can always get pure water at one place they will not trou- te ble the troughs where the cattle and la horses go for drink.?New York Sun. sw IMPROVED FEED THOUGH FOR POULTRY. 8h Soft poultry food thrown on the ki gTound or on a board is quickly tram- bi pled and befouled so that it is unfit to le eat. Placing it in a shallow pan or th trough helps the matter little, if any. _?__ J\ v I? TBOCGH FOB SMALL CHICKS. ci The best way of feeding chicks is to use covered pans or troughs which nermit poultry to obtain the food and _ at the same time keep them oat of it uu with their feet. e8 For small chicks, a doable trough w' is made of tin, as shown in Fig. 1. It is twenty-eight inches long and four inches wide, each half being two inches wide and one and one-half lei inches deep, with 6quare ends sol- an D jijPllflp1 * fe EOX FOR TBOCGHS. gt dered on. Tin is best, as it is easiest ? washed and kept clean. This trough m is set inside of the box, seen in Fig. ar 2, the same in width and length, in- di side, and eight inches high. It has a I ca binged cover fastened down with a J wi i ' - J ok and handle to lift by. Each aida open and fitted with wire barb# iced two 'inches apart, each end of ese wires being bent at right angles, iven through the strips of wood and nched. The food is placed in the )ngh by raising the cover of the box. tight cover is necessary to protect 9 food from their droppings when sy jump on the box and make a . ost of it, which they are certain to . Feed at one time only what will eaten clean, and keep the trough ill washed out. Nothing is more oductive of mouth, throat and bowel * seaee in chicks than soured and musfood or a filthy feed trough.? xm and Home. LAW!? MAKCTOf. To make a good stretoh of lawn re* lires considerable practice and skill isides a pretty thorough knowledge the nature of grass seeds. The ience of making properly drained id fertilized lawns is one that has deloped within late years in this coun* y, but many are in existence to-day at are a thing of beauty to look >on. T? T Va?A xu &ujr v/nu va|/w*a?uvu j. uutw at the foundation [of all good lawns thorough under-draining. We can* >t ezpeot to have lawns that will nofc ' ) washed out by water unless the soil ider the grass sod is properly drained that all surplus water is carried ray. The drainage is necessary, o. Stone will give only fair reIts. The soil will settle in places, id after the dirt ouce works between ,e stones an uneven, spotted lawn ill be the result. These hollows may 5 tilled in, but they are apt to settle ore, and in other plaoes, after eaoh javy storm. A stone-drained lawn tnsequently keeps one busy fixing it p. It is much better to go to the :tra expense at first and tile drain ie land. Grading should be done so that all | ' the water will be conducted away om the house. If the natural ungating surface of the lawn is to be itained, the grading will be znuob irder, for the slope of the land will nd to collect the water in the hoiws. During heavy storms this will }t flow away, even through the most srfectly underdrained soil. Tha :ade must be arranged so that the ater will follow the hollows, and col* ot in tile drains arranged for it la lis way the water will be run off the wn without doing any damage to the ass sod. We do not, as a rule, fertilize our wns sufficiently. To begin with, the il should be made extremely rich, id then every fall the grasa should i7e a top-ooat of manure to proteofc e roots in winter, and to enrich em for early spring growth. The il should be made very mellow and le on top, and stable manure then arked into it to the depth of a foot more. Thoroughly composted ma* ire must be used for this. Manure iat is perfectly rotted will not conin weed seeds, and there will be no mger of introducing them in this ay. Sow the seeds either in the spring jfore May 25, or in the fall not later tan September 25. If hand sowed, ) over the field once and harrow tern in thoroughly, and then go over ;ain with more seed, and harrow ? ^ 11 A J ?L 11 Z gntly. xtou nrm aua even uner tuti icond sowing. A grass seeder will > the work much quicker and proice a more even stand of grass, altough a good sower oan do the work j hand and produce excellent result?. sown in the spring apply comraeral fertilizers at the time of sowing, sing rich in potash and nitrate of da. If the grass is sown in the fall, ake this application in the spring, ' the winter storms are apt to wash ray the soda. Do not sow timothy i a lawn. Although some advise it, ,e resnlts are always bad. Blue ass, red-top and white clover make e best mixture for lawns.?German* wn Telegraph. |j M FABM AND GARDEN NOTES. Wood ashes is the best fertilizer for apes. The fall is usually the'best time to iy sheep. Cabbage cannot have too rioli a soil be cultivated too often. To catch a sheep by the fleece is a uelty; take them by the hind leg or .nk. When the orchard begins bearing it onld receive an annual dressing of loaphorio acid and potash. Shearing off a little wool aroand the at will often prevent the loss of a oib from indigestion consequent oa > fallowing a look of wool. The best poultry keeper is a woman; e has more patienoe and a better lack for the details of the business; it when this duty is left to the wife nd a hand at the hard work, for Lere is hard work about it. Disease and disaster are reasonably ire to follow when foods, partiou* rly soft stuffs, are thrown dow* ? nong the dirt and filth of the floor. soon sours, and it absorbs a portion the surrounding filth; on general 'inciples it is a bad practice. A well bred fowl will lay more ecrjn id grow to marketable size sooner, aerefore, there is more profit froia , and it is the fowl for you to hivet rade up your stock with good males, least, and hare a better lot of ickens in the next generation. Sharp grit, meat soraps and greea od mast be incladed in the diet of I poultry confined to runs. Withit those articles hens cannot make gs. Feed all scraps to the fowls lile they are strictly fresh; nothing ill more quickly cause disease than icomposinc food. Geese are more hardy and much 3s trouble than chickens and turkeys, id the profits are very much larger, uring the summer all they ueeJ is a >od pasture. They begin layinglien a year old and lay from thirty forty eggs in the season. Three iese are enough'for the company of le gander. During the rapid growth of wing others and other plumage when >out two or three weeks old is a dansrous period for wee ohiekens; but more risky time comes four or live onths later, when the young fowls e changing their coats. A great aught seems to be made upon the nstitution, and this must be met :th nourishing foods.