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TiiK M'KLIMITON KllKK FUhSS. Till KMMY. FKMUARY T, IMM. tVT IMIIC TARE UN AGfiK. "LIGHTNING OF THE SEA" THE SUB JECT OF DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON. lie l.lkrtm Mini's Jiiiii nvy '! Iircmcli I.I fo lo a Ship' CoimoTliruiiRli tlio Ocean Our Worth Ii Known hy tlio HimmI Ilt-ciU Thiit Lite After V. Uhooki.yk, Feb. 18. In 1 lie Hrooklyn rahernacle this forenoon Hew Dr. Tulmanu preached an utiitnuilly attractive and elo quent Rospel sermon ton crow tied audience, trho listened with rapt Interest. The stili jeet was "The I.lKhltiiiiK of tile Sivi," the Isxt select ed being .Tub xll.fW. "llu inakelh k path to liiue after him." If for the next thousand eaM minister.'! Sf religion should iireach from thin Illhle, Micro will yet be texts unexpouiided and un explained and unappreciated. What little has been said eouceriiin;; this eliapter in if jh from which my text il taken beais mi he eontrovetsy as to what win really the leviathan described as disturbing the se.i. What creu'ure it was 1 know not. Pome my it was n whale. Soma say it was n croon i'lc. My own opinion is it was a sea uioti- r now extinct. Xo creature now lloatiuu' m Mediterranean or Atlantic waffs eoire p ponds to .lob's ttcsct iptioli. What most interest- me is that n it aiovcd on through the di ep i lift thu wn ers Hushing and rcsph ndeiit. In the words of the text, "llu maketh a path to hluu lifter hitn." What, was that Illumined pi.th? It was phosphorpsf-enee. You tlr.d it in the c 'ike cf a hlp in thenisht. especially n't'T l llih weather. I'linsphoresceiici in Mie 1 elituing nt thesea. That till- llmirc f speech is correct in desciibiiiKits nppeai Miee I mn certilled by an Incidi i' After ros-inu the At lantic the first time and wii' iiik ri om llasle, Switzerland, tn tin Alticr eaiimtiKazine an accoiitr of m; voyayc, In whh h n ithitu; more fascinate ", me than the phosphorescence in tho ship's wake, ' railed it t lit? liuhtniiiK of these.i. llcttiru 'n t i my hotel, I tound a book of .lolic. Hu-kin, and the lir-t sentence my eyes fell 'ipnn was his description of phn-phnrcs-( nee, in which he called it "thu liulituim; if the sea." Down lo the pusttiffieo i hastened timet tie- manuscript, and with ureal, labor and n 'ine expense not possession of I lie ina'a.'.ine nriicle and put quotation marks around hat one sentence, although it was as orin li.il with me as with John Uiiskin. 1 sup nisctli': nine-tenths of you livint; so near lie se.w oast have watched this marine ap ii rauce called phosphorescence, ami I hope. Iiial the other one-tenth may some day ba co li.ippy as to witness ii. It is the waves of the sea diamonded. It is the itiflores I'liee of the billows the waves of thesea 'Tunsoned, as was the lleei alter the sea 5Jt of J.epanto the wa es ot the sea on There aie times when from horizon to boiimn t lie enure ocean seems in confla gration witli this sUangu splendor as it hanges every moment lo tamer or mote il'iv.llng color o-i all sides ot you. You sit looking over the tall' rail of the yacht or jeean steamer, watching and waitiui: to see svliat new tiling the God of beauty will do ivith the Atlantic. It is the ocean in tian figuration: it is the marine world casting Its garments of glory in the pathway of the Almighty as he walks Uie deep; it is an in reited tinuarneiit with all its stars gone llownwithit. Xo picture can ptesent it, for photographer's camera cannot be. . suc cessfully trained to catch it, anil before it the hand of the painter drops its pencil, jverawed and powerle. This phosphorescence is the appearance of myriads of the animal kingdom rising, falling, plaving, Hashing, living, dying. These luminous animalcules for nearly IM years have been the study of natural ists unc1 the fascination and solemnization of all who have brain enough to think. Xow, God, who puts in his Hible nothing trivial or tt-eles, calls the attention of Job, the gtcatest scientist of his day, to tins phosphorescence, and as the leviathan of the deep sweeps pa it points out the fact that "he tnnketh a path to shine alter hitn.'' WHAT WAKl- U1I.1, VOt. I.l.AM.r Is that tine of us now and will it be true of us when we hae gone? Will there bu liibsi quent light or darkness:' Will tlieie be a trail of gloom or good cheer 'an any one between now and the next 101) j ears lay of us truthfully as the texi sajs of the lev iatlian of the tieep, "lit niakttli a path to shine after him!'' For we are moving nn. While we live in the same liou-., and transact business in the same store, und Write on the same table, atrl chisel in the ime studio, anil thrash in the same barn, Hid worship in the same chinch, wuaie in motion and ait it.- unity respects moving on, and we are not where we wete 10 yea is Sgo, nor where we will be 10 years hence. Moving on! Loo), at the family record, or the alma- I nac, or into t lie mirror, and see if tiny o"'. 9f you is where j ou were. Ali in mntioti Other feet may trip and stumble and halt, but the feet of not one moment lot the last f,0 centuries has tripped or stumbled oi halted. Moving on! Society mining on' The world moving on! Heaven nun ing ou! Tiiciiniverse moving on! Time moving on! Eternity moving on! Therefoie it is absurd to think that we ouiselves can stop, as we must move, with all the test. Arc we. like tie creature of tho text, milking our path to eliitte after lis? It mai he a peculiar guestlon, but my text suggests it What influence, will we le.ivc in this world after we have, gone through it r "None," answer hundreds of voices; "we re not one of tbu immortals. 1'ifty years after we tire out of the woild it will be as though we never inhabited it." You are wrong in saying that. I pass down through tins audience and up through tliese galler les, and 1 am looking tor some on whom I ran not find. 1 am looking for one who will have no in fluence in this world 100 years I rout now. lint I have iound the limn who has tho least influence, and I inquire into his histo tj, and I find that by u yes or a no he decided Milne one's eternity. In time of temptation he gave an airirmatlveoru ucgailvetosomo temptation which another, hearing of, wii Induced to decide in the same way. Clear ou the other side of the next mil lion years may be the lirst you hear of the long reaching influence of that jesorno, l.iil hear of it you will. Will that father make a path to shine aft-r hliii? Will that mother make a path to shine after hfvi You will be walking along these .streets or ulong that country road, 'jot I years from now in the character of jour descendants. They will be affected hy your courage or jAiur cowardice, your purity or your de pravity, jour holiness or your sin. You will make the path to shine after you or blacken after jou, Why should they mint out to us on some mountain two rlvulns.ont! of whirlt passes down into thu rivers which pour out into tho Paclllu ocean, and the other tivtilel, flowing down into thu rivers which passottt into the Atluntlc oceau!' Kvetj man, ev ery womuu, stands at u point where ,ord tillered, or deeds done, or prajer otl'i-ied, decide opposite destinies ami opposite cler- nltlrv We see n man pbtnlltiK n tree : ' I tteadliiK the sod firmly on either side of It and watering it In dry weather and taking it (treat care in its culture, and he tieet pliicksany fruit from itsbounh.biithlachi'i- well win. no ate an plaining tiees tout will leld fruit hundrpdstjf years nfur v are dead orchardsof Hidden fruit or wove of deadly upas, 1 am o fa'cljiated with the phosphor-e-cence in the ti'ek of a ship that I have sometimes watched for u luuii while and have seen nulhlnn on the fitco of the ilceo but blackness. '1 he mouth of wnter chmms that looked like gaping jaws ol hell. Not a spark as bin as thu lirclly; not a white scroll of surf; not u tnperto illumi nate the mighty sepulchers of dead ship?: darkness ll.OflO feet deep and mine thou sands of feet Iuiik and wide. ThCf. Is llu kind of wal.o that, n bud man leaves behind him as he plows through the ocean of tht life toward the vaster ocean of the great future. I'ATt: or Tin: sr ori'T.n. Xow, suppose a man stated in a couiei grocery or business olliee among clerk gives hinnclf to jolly skepticism. Hi laughs at the llilile, makes sport of the miracles, speaks of perdition in jokes and laughs at revivals as a frolic, and at the passage of a luneral procession, which al ways solemnizes sensible people. say-i. "I'oys, let's take a drink.'' There i-s In that group a young man who Is making a giv.it struggle against temptation, and prnj night and morning, und lead. his lli'ile. and i.s asking (.iod for help day by daj. lint that gull'aw against Christianity make him lose his gtlp of sacred thing , anil In gives up Hahhalh and church and morals, and goes from bad to worse, till he falls un der dissipation, dies in it lazar house and is buried in the potter's. Held. Another joung man w ho heard that jolly skepticism made up his mind that "it makes no difTcicnce what we do or say, fin we will alt come out, at last at inn rign pliKe," and began as a consequence to pur loin. Some money that came into his hands formheis heapplicd lo his own uses, think ing perhaps he would make it stiaiglitouu other tune, and all would lie well even il he did not make it straight, lie ends in tin- penitentiary. That scoffer who uttered thu i iokes against Chtistianitv never leallzed what hud work he was doing, and he passed ou through life and out of it, mid into a fu ture ttiat, I am not now going to depict. I do not propose with a 'earehlighl to show the breakers of the awful coast on which that ship is wrecked, for iiiylin-i-, hess now is to watch the sea after the keel has plowed it. Xo phosphorescence in the j wake of that ship, but behind iul wo soul-1 snuggling in the wave; two young men de sttoyed by teck less skepticism, an niilllu mined octiin beneath and ou all sides oi them. Illackness of daikness. You know what a glorious good man Ilev. John Xewton was the most of his life, but befoiu his conversion he was a very wiekrl sailor, and on boatd the ship Hat wit h in stilled itilidelity and vice in the mii.il of a joung man, principles which deslrojed hitn. Afterward the two met, and Xewton tried to undo his bad work, but in vain. The joung man became worse, and wor-o and tlied a profligate, horrifying with his tut) fantties those w ho stood by him in his last moments. Heller look out what bad influence you start, lor jou may not be able to stop il. It does not require very great force to ruin others. Whj-was it that niauy jeaid ago a great flood nearly destroyed Xcw Ot leans? A crawtisli had burrowed into the bunks of the liver until thu ground was saturated, and the banks weakened until thu flood burst. Tilt; I'ATH THAT SHIM'S. Hut I find here a man who starts out in life with the determination liiat he will never see .sutt'ering but he will try to alle viate it, and never see discoutagenieut, but he will try to cheer it, and never meet with anybody but he will try to do him good. Getting his strength from God, he starts from home witli high purpose of doing all the good he can possibly do in one day. Whether standing behind the counter, ot talking in the business olliee w ith a pen be hind his ear, or making a bataiti with a fellow trader, or out in llie fields dl-ciising with his next neighbor t In- w is(-.-t. totation of crops, or in the shoemaker's shop pound ing tlie sole leather, there j. something in his face, and, in his pliaseoo'y. and in his manner that demonstrates the grace of Ged in Ids heart. He can talk ou religion with out awkwardly dragging it in by the ears. He loves God and loves the souls of all whom he meets and is ititeiestt-tt in their piiv.ent and eternal destiny. For .10 or 00 jcars he lives that kind oi life and then gets through w itli it and goes into heaven a ransomed soul. Hut I am not going to describe t lie port into which that ship has entered. I am not going to describe the Pilot who met him outside at tin "lightship." I am not going to say anj thing about the ctowds of fi lends who met him on thechrys tallilie wharves up which he goes on step of chrysopriises. For God in his words to .Job calls me to look at I lie path of foam in tin; wake of that ship, anil 1 tell you it is all agleam with splcndris of kindness done and tolling with illumined tears that were wiped away and adash with congrat ulations, and clear out to the horizon in all directions is the sparkling, flashing, billow ing phosphorescence of u Christian life. "He niftketh u. path to shine after him." And here I cot reel one of the mean no tions which at Home lime, lakes possession of all of us, and that is as to the brevity of human life. When I bury some very use lul man, clerical or lay, in his thirtieth or fortieth year, I nay: "What a waste of en ergies! it was hardly worth while for hitn lo get, ready lot Christian work, for lie had so soon to quit it," Hut the fact is that 1 may Insuie at y man or woman who does any good on a large or small scale for a life on caith as long as the world lasts. Sick ness, trolley car accidents death itself, can no more destroy his life than they can tear down one of tho rings of Saturn, You can start one good wotd, one kind act, one cheer ful smile, on a mission that will last until tho world becomes a bonfire, and out of that blaze it will pass into tlm heavens nuver to halt, as long as God lives. intluknct: op 1.0011 ih:i.h.s. Thero were in the seventeenth century men and women whose naines you nevtr heard ot who are today iiilliieiicingschools, colleges, churches, nations. You can no mote measure the gracious results of their lifetime, than you could measure the length and breadth and depth ot the phosphores cencu hist night following the ship of the While Star line l.MW miles out atseii, How the courage und constciation of others in spire us to tollow, as a general in the A met lean army, cool amid the flying bul lets, inspire il 11 1 reinhling soldier, who said afterward, "I was nearly scared to death, but I saw tho old man's white mustache over his shoulder and went on. Aye, we urn all following homebody either in right or wrong directions. A lew tin ys ago I stood beside tho garland ed casket of a gospel minister and In my re inui'ks had occasion to tecall a snowy night III it fuimhousp when I was u boy and mi evangelist bptniUing a night at my fathers house who said something so tender and bcuiiliful and iiuptessne thui it led me Into tlc kingdom of (!od mid d Med m 1 liny for ihii. world and the ncM. Yon will befote Ut hours iro bytneit some man or woman with a big pack of care and trou ble, and you may ay something to him oi lier that will endure until thlsworld shall have bei n mi far lost in the past that, noth ing hut the stteich of angelic memory will be able to realize that it ier existed at all. I am noi. talking of remarkable men and wnniin, but or what ordinary folks can do. I am not speaking of the phophoresrcuci! in tlie wake of n Campania, but of the phosphorescence In the track of a New foundland llshing smack, flod makes thun derbolts out of sparks, and out of t he small words and deeds of a small llle lie can launch a power t hat will flash and burn and thunder through the eternities. How do you like this prolongation of your earthly life by deathless inllueiice? Slimy a babe that, died at ti months of iil'c by the anxiety cieated in tin- parent's heart to meet that child in lealms seraphic is living jet, in the tratisforined heait and life, of those patents and will lheou forever in the history of that family. If thi-s be thu opportunity nl oidinary nmK what is the oppoitunil of thos.who hae ( spi cial in tellectual or social or monetary equipment? I lave j on any am litnclic capable of esti mating "the intlueiK e of our good and gra cious friend whoa few days ago went up to rest (ii-orue W. Chllds of I'liiladelplilay I'roui a newspap'-r that was printed for "0 years without one word of defamation or currility or scandal and putting chief em phn-is on viitue and charity and clean In telligetice lie I eapi d n lot tune for himself andUieu distributed a vast amount of il among the poor and struggling, putting his invalid and aged repot lets on pensions, un til his name stands everywhere for large heart edness and sympathy and help and highest style of t'ln istiiin gentleman. In uti era which had in the chairs of its journalism a Horace Greeley, and a Uenrv .T. Hayinond. and u .fumes Gordon Heunett, and an Krastus 15rcok, and a George Wil liam Curtis, and an Iienaeits I'ritne, notio of them will be longer icmcinhered than George W. Chi&s. .Staying away from the unveiling of tlm monument he had reared at large expense in our Gteenwood in mem m-y ot I'i ofesor 1'roctor. the astronomer, lest I should say something in praise ot tho man who had paid for the monument. Hy all acknowledge1 tepretcntative of tho highest Ainerieai 4.j utiiism. If jou would ti. .ate his influence for good, you must count how many sheets of his newspapers have lit en published in tho last quarter of a centiirj , and how many people have read them, end the effect 111, t only upon those readers, but upon all whom thej shall influence for all time, while you add to all that the work of the chun.he.s his helped build, and of thu institutions of mercy lie helped found. Hetter give up b'-fore you start the measuring of the phos phoieseence in tile wake of that ship of thu Celestial line. Who can tell the post mor tem influence of u Savonarola, a Wlnkle reid, .1 Gutenberg, a Marlborough, a Deca tur, a Toiissaint, a Holivar, a Clarkson, a Hubert Haikcs a Harlan Pa-c, who hud l'i"i Snlvttth scholars, S4 of whom became Christians and six of them ministers of the gospel. With gratitude and penitence and wor ship 1 mention the grandest life that was ever lived. That ship of light was launched from thu heavens nearly 3 ,000 years ago, an gelic liostb chanting, und from the celestial wharves the ship sprang into the roughest sea that ever tossed. Its billows were made up of the wrath of men and devils, Hcrodic and sanhedrinic persecutions stilting tin deep witli red wrath, and all the hurricanes of woe smote it. until on the rocks of Gol gotlia that life struck with a resound of agony that appallid the earth and the heav ens, lint 111 the wake ot Hint life what phosphorescence of smiles on the cheek of souls pardoned, ttntl lives retormetl.anil na tions redeemed. The millennium itself is only one roll of that iitatliated wave of gladness and benediction. In the sublimest of all senses it may bu said of him, "lie maketh a path to shine a'ter him." (,nl) is not A llAltsii tunic. Hut 1 cannot look upon that luminosity that follows ship- without realizing how fond the Lord is of life. That, tiro of thu deep is life, myriads of creatures all a-swiin and 11-play and a-romp in parks of marine beauty laid out and parteried and ro-eattd and blossomed by omnipotence. What is tlio u-i' of tho-e creatures called by the nat uralists "mistuctans" and "eopepods,': not mote than one out of hundreds of bil lions, of which are ever seen by human eje! God created them for the salmi reason that he fieates flow ers in phut s whet e 110 human foot ever makes them trouble, und no hu man nostril ever inhales their redolence, and no human eje ever sees their charm. In the botanical world they prove that God loves flowers, as in the marine world the phosphor! pi ove thut he loves life, and he loves lif in play, life in brilliancy ot glnd- ness, lile in cxubciunce And so I am led to belicvu thut bu loves our life if we fulfill our mission as fully te the phosphor! fullill theirs. The Son of God came "that we might linve life, and have it more abundantly." Hut Iain glad to tell vou that our God is iiot-the. God sometimes described as a harsh criticatthv head of the universe, or an ltillnite scold or a God that loves funerals better than weddings, or a God that prefers tears to laughter, an omnipotent X'ero, a ferocious Xaua Sahib, but the loveliest Hfing in tin universe, loving flowers and lifu and play whether ot phosphor! in thu wakti of the .Majestic or of the human race keeptn, holiday. ma.!' Tin: vxfoktcx.yte. Hut mark you that the phosphorescence has 11 glow that the night monopolizes, and 1 usk you not only what kind of iiillucucu you are going to leave in the world as you pass through it, but what light aro you go ing to throw across the world's night of sin and sorrow? J'eopiu who are sailing- on smooth sea und at noon do not need much sympathy, but what are you going to do for people in the nlghtof misfortune? Will you drop on them shadow, or will you kiu tile for them phosphorescence? At this moment there are more peopl crying than laughing; mote people, 011 thu round wot Id this moment hungry than well fed; moru households beiett than homesutl broken. What ate you going to do about it? "Well," saj's yonder soul, "I would like to tlo something toward illumining thu great ocean of human wiclchcduess, but I , cannot do much." Can you tlo as much as one of the phos t priori in the middle ot tho Atlantic ocean 1 creatures smaller than Hie point of a shar ! pin? "Oh, yes," you say. Then do that Shine! Stand before the looking glass and experiment to see if you cannot get that beuw 1 oil your forelieud, that peevish loul out of jour lips. Have at least one bright ribbon in your bonnet. Kmbrulderat least oiiu white cottl suinewhiro in the midnight of your apparel. Do not any longer ituper sonate a tiineial. blime! Ho say some thing cheerful about society and about thu world, I'ut a few diups of heaven Into jour disposition. Once In awhile sulMi tuto a sweet orange for u sour lemon Hemember thut pessimism is blasphemy and that optimism is Christianity. Throw koine light 011 the night ocean. If ton can- tint nc a intern swinging in tho rlsging, be one if tie t my phosphori back of t lie hie). Shine) "Het your light so shlno lie fore tm 11 that other', reeing your p.ood works, may glorify your Fivther which Is in l.tawti."' Make one pen on happy every day and do that for U) jiiim, and yon will have made i!S'.0 happy, ou know u man who has lost alibis ptoprrty by an unfortunate Invest ment, i r by putting his name on the back of n friend's note? After you have taken a brief nap, which every inp.ti and woman Is entitled to ou a Simdny afternoon, go and diet r rp that man. You can, if God helps you, say Miinethlng that will do htm good 1 ft er both of jou have lit en dead u thou land years. Shine! You know of a family w Ith a bad hoy who has run away from home. Co be fore nlghl, and tell that father mid mother I he parable of the prodigal son, and that mine of the illustrious and iiselnl men now In church ami slate had a silly passage in their lives antl ran away front home. Shine! You know ot a family that has lost n child, and the silence, of the nursery glooni.-i the whole house from cellar to garret. Go he roic night and t.'ll them how much that child has happily e.-caped, since tho most prosperous life on earth Is a struggle. Shine! You know of sonie invalid who is dying for lack of an appetite. She. cannot get w ell because she cannot eat. Hroll a chick en and take it ty her before night, and cheat her poor appetita into keen relish. Shine! You know of some one who likes jou, and you like him, and ho ought to be u Chris tian. Go tell hitn what religion has done for you, ami ask hint if you ran pray for hitn. Shine' Oh, for a disposition so charged w ith sweetness and light that wo cannot help but shine1 Remember if you cannot be n levlnthan lashing tlie ocean into fury you can be one of the phosphori, doing your part toward making a path of phosphorescence. 1 lien I will tell you what impression you will leave as you pass thtough this lifu and after you ate gone, twill tell you to your lace ami not leave it for the minister who olhciates at your obsequies. Thu failure in all eulogium of tho depart ed is that thev cannot hear it. All hear it xcept the one most interested. This, in tlbtauce, is what 1 or some one else will say of jou 011 sticL an occasion: "We gntlier for olllct s of itspect to this departed one. It is impossible to tell how many tears he wiped away, how many burdens he lifled, or how manv souls tie was, titiiler ttou, in strumental in saving. His influence will never cease. We are all better for having i.ii'v u him. "That pillow of flowcrson the casket was presented by his Sabbath school clas, all of whom ho brought to (.-In 1st. 1 hat cross of flowers at the he id wa.s prc'ented hy the orphan asylum winch he befriended. Those three single flower one wus sent by u poor woman for whom h" bought a ton of coal. mil one was by a wail of the street whom he rescued throuch the midnight mission, unl tlie oilier was 1,0111 a prison cell which he hud often visitKi 'encourage .-ppi'iitance in a young man who had done wrong. " Those three lote flowers mean quite as much as the on'.tlv mi-lands now breathing their aroma through the saddened home ciowdtd with sympathizers. 'Hlessed arc the dead who die in tlie Lord. They rest frot.i their labors, and their works do fol low them.' " Or if it should he the more solemn burial ;t seu let it iiea'.n illie sun has gone down, md ,the caiili.in I ,.s read the approptiute liti'igy, and the -"Lip's bell has tolled, atio you are let down from the stern or the ves sel into the i t splei, uent phosphorescence at thewakuof thu s)np, 'J hen let some one ay in the vuiu of my text, "Ho maketh a path to shine utter him." An Amusing Plro. Harnttm's museum, destroyed July 13, lsi;."i, wus one of the most nniuing fire that ever occurred in X'ew York city. It occurred in tlie daytime. Chief John Decker wus in charge, assisted by Orr. Units, Lamb. Clean-. Kveiett. and Sulli in. Th'iu-niiils crowded Ilroadway clear up to Park placu as well as Park row, while the pa.k in front was black witli people. It was fun to see the boys at the outset of the lire bringing out Htirnum's old sinned images and wax figures, (rue lellow run out with Henry Clay under one arm and General Winlleld Srntt under tlie other. Queen Victoria wus drugged out hy the liuirof her head. -Mary, queen of Scots, was tossed out of the second story win tlow, followed bv Hicks tlie pirate. Head Carpenter Wulktr of the theater, who wus also u member of Lngine Xo. :ts, that lay ill Ann street, got so exeited that lie fell headlong dim 11 the main entrance stair wuj w ith Napoleon in one hand and Walk- lllihtister, in the other. Andy Pur ten, the old foreman ot Lngino Xo. 1-1 brought out two monkeys, one that gavo him a mark that, ho carries to this day. Tho hatip faintlv that attraeteil so much attention in those ilu.vs were deter mined not to lenxe, the cage door wast inrown wmo open aniline, niriis aim ani mals puuchrd with sticks to drive them out, but tew would accept their liberty ami were burned to death. Allot the 100, 000 curiosities were destroyed. Western Fireman. A Coward. "Have vou had your, new house insured, Mrs. Dv.-iylit '' "Yes.." "Your husband is afraid of file, then?" "Meicy, ye: He will leave the house any time befotc he will make one." Chicago inter Ocean. An Aurlcultural Surrru. "How is Uyivitih uetlitiK alonn with the (aim hehoimhi:-" "Pretty well. lie ;ells mo he wived money on it lust year." "How?" "Kented it to another man." Washing ton Star. Wm. Ali t'arllit. 12" K. Mh !-t Cincinnati, Ohio, riles: "1 iim-iI llr. Itull's IiiiikIi syrup In m fiiinlh Willi 1:1 unl lesiills. We reruns inellil it In all In .ills of families ll- the best." Tried & True may well be said of the Superior Medicine, Hie standard blooil-pui'ilier, SARSAPARBLLA Its long record assures you that what has eiiri'il others will cure you THK SUNDAY SCHOOL. LESSON VIII, FIRST QUARTER, INTER NATIONAL SERIES, FED. 25. Text of tlio l.eimiii, (ten. 1 -in Mem ory Verses, 1 l-lll (ioldeli Text, Ileh. l, 17 Cniiiniontitry hy the Hnv. II. 31. Stearin. 1. "And It I'limo to pass after these things that God did tempt Abraham and said unto Hint, Abtuhatii. And ho said, Heboid, hero I am!" Ill duo time thu promised son was given and was named Isaac as God had commanded (xvll, 10). Abraham was now living at Heersheba In thu extreme, south, and Isaac had grown to boyhood when this proving (It. V.) or trying cattle upon him. Consider how God proved Israel (Dent, viil, U, Hi). These arc the trials that, lire precious und in which mi art) bv grace to rejoice (.las. i, 'J, Vi; Il'et. I, '-,). Abraham's "Heboid me!'' (margin) is tho same word twitl by Sam uel ami Isaiah (I Sam. iil, 4; Isa. vi, S). , 'J. "And Ho said, Tako now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou Invest, and get tiiee into thu land ot Moriali and oiler him there for it burnt offering upon oneof tliemountaiiis which I will tell theu of.'' It Abraham's heart, centered In Isaac, then this would crush him, but if in God, who gao Isaac, then he would see God andMilllive. lleb. xi, 1T-Ifl, tellsthcstory. Thu ability of God is the resl lug place. Compare. Horn, iv, 21. On this mountain the Lord nflerward appeared to David, and there S ilomou built thu temple (II Chron. ill, 1). H. " V111I Uirnham ioo up early in tho morning and .saddled his ass and took two of his young men with him und Isaac, his son, und went unto thu place of which God had told him." Hern is the prompt obe dience ot faith. Trials aru God's vote of conllilence in us and arc our opportunities for liianitesting Christ. Abraham's lifu was from one trial to another, lesser ones preparing for greater, und trom one sepa ration to another until he was separated from earth to heaven, there to rest und wait, for the complete fulllllment ot! every proml-u in God's good time. A "Then on the third day Abraham lifted up hisejesaud saw the plnco nfur oil'.'' It was 011 this sumo day that he re ceived It i tn from tho dead in 11 figure, mid In 1111 the third day of tlm rival ion story when the laud ro-u up out of thu waters and became covered with grass, herbs and trees the third day seems to speak of resurrection. Think of Jonah und thu Lord Jesus. The third day marriage in Ciinu (John 1i, D, suggesting another when all ril s ot wat. r service shnll bu clnnged to tlie wlneof the kingdom at the marriage of tlie Lamb. See aho llos.vt, :,. "And Abraham said unto hi.s youiiK leu, Abide ye her' with the ass, and I tin and the lad will mi yonder and worship nnil come aKain to you." Seu his faith he and the lad ill come aain. That it. true worship which carries with it an it .1.... .. . ...11 Ti....:.l iHicilieilcu mill, costs MiincilllUK. w;im t-aid he would not offer unto tint Lord th'it I which cost hitn nothitu; (II Sam. xiv, 'JI), but David's was nothing as compared witli this, and what is this when compared with (!od KivinK hia only begotten? 0. "And Abraham took the wood ot thu burnt olTcrine; and laid it upon Isaac, his sou, and ho took tho lire in his hand and ti knife, and they went, both of them to gether." This father and son wtro perfect ly agreed (verse 8 and Ainiw iil, H).. (Ja-" upon this picture until it becomes real lo you, and you can enter somewhat into their feelimis. Then look forever ou that other Son bearing Ills cross, whom it pleased His Father to bruise lor our hakes (Isa. liii, 10 1. 7. "And Isaac, spake unto Abraham, his father, and haul, "Sly fat her. And he said, Jlere am 1, my son. And lie .said, Heboid 1i.. Ui, . mii.I 11. r. M ik. it l.ii' ln.ri. lu tlw. lamb fnraburntou'criiiK"" What a sword -'i 1 1111 i.itiitr s lit 111 1 . , u;ii, k1'"" tti t-u- able him to answer as he does in tlio ne.t terse! Was ever a father brought so near .o tho heart of tiod as this father? H. "And Abraham said, My son, flod will proviilo himself u lamb for 11 burnt nfl'erine;. So they went both of them to gether." And lie has provided thu cost-: iiesf, in tlio universe, even Ills own Son, of whom John theHaptist said, "Heboid the I.ainb of (Jod" (John i, 20), and w hum the beloved John saw in fdory "11 I.ainb as it had been slain" (I'm-, v, C). When tiod provides. He does so abundantly. Aru you siitislicd with His provi-don" 0. "And they canii! to the placo which Cod had told him of, and Abraham built an altar thero and laid tho wood in order anil bound Isaac, bis sou, and laid him on tho altar upon the woil." Isaac now un derstands about the I.ainb, but ho mur murs not -he is n willine; saerlllce. Won drous son of a wonderful father! Hut turn to Him wlio.se tiaiiiu is Wonderful and hear Him. "I dclinht to do Thv will, O my find." "I lay down My life that, I illicit take it again. Xo man taketh it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself" iPs. -1, S; John x, IT, Is 1. 10. "And Abraham stretched forth his hand and took the knife, to slay his son." The promise, centered in Isaac (.wii, 10), and through him was tho nation to come, mid it was (hid's part, to see it through. It was Abraham's part to obey and let tiod arrange the dilliett'.ties. It wits for Abra ham to see tiod anil not Isaac tho giver rather than the gift. Until our Isaac is on thu altar wo cannot know Ood as fully as wo might. 11. "And the angel of the Lord called unto him out of heaven and said, Abra ham, Abraham. And he said, Heroam I." Hvcry movement had been watched in heaven, every heart pang and siglt had been noted there. The limit had been reached; it is enough. Why down not be lieve t lint every step and act and word and thought is seen by Him who understand eth even thoiinuginntionsof the thoughts? 1!.'. "And Ho said, Lay not thitiu hand upon the lad, neither do thou anything unto him, for now I know that thou l'ear est tiod, seeing thou hast not withheld thy noil, thine only sou, from Me." The Hiblu hns much to say about tlio fe-ir of the Lord. Is this, then, the meauing of it' Such unbounded confidence, in Him that wo fear not to do anything Ho tells us, sure that lie will keep His promises though ovtrytliing may seem against it. Such an entire surrender to lliiu of all His gifts to us that we enjoy tlie (liver in tho gift and not tlio gift, upurt from Hitn. 1!!. "Awl Abraham lilted 1111 his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him, a runt caught in ti thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram and offered hitn up for a burnt offering in thu stend of his son." Isaac was spared, but (iod spared not Hisown Son, hut delivered Him up for its all (Horn, viil, :W). Just as truly as the uun died in tlie stead of Isaac so Jesus died in my stead, llu was delheied for my otleuses mid raised again for my justification (Horn. i,!i."n. Aud the gift of Himself to us must include all else. Therefore my soul should ever sing Jehovah jiieh. See margin of ersu 11. Farmsrs, Laborers, Teamsters, C .M firifl no better slide than the It is trniiir t- li.illt, lionet, atid manufactured crpre-'lytngivr ALL OUT-HOOK ttOKK liltS tht Stt-Hl .ieri lets lor the Least MoneT. , Mntlr f ir Men and ltoyE. from soft, pliable Mork; in ',w, ,lf., se iml llalmoral and Congrcs;.,--vith ,ntd t )tnout tat) olc. AMOS P. TAPLEY & CO., BOSTON. MASO. Tlie Berlin Iron Brito Co. tnv mid Iron e.tool and Iron Vwtccl and Iron ISridg-os, Buildings, Hoofs. EAST BERLIN, - - CONN. ,i,f owUln .US 1 KTrVTiJ i7 COMFORT, jrr' haUMWHI I), 1 L. Jta ' 'M til- M., w J .Tf ARE WORTH INVESTIGATING- -RVv ''K ' ' ",tl. , A Q i 1 1 A M V X. Pf) Ao-fo D. Il 1 UO LA 1 J U (Ji IjV, rtglS iiuitiii -toil, Vf Jtt.eodAw FISTULA- treateil witli- ,nit llu ll-e in knife ot iletea- thin trnni I It.-, fin. lti: n. '.i niont s.tr .semi ,ii l-iui'-. also nil tit her diseases of Mm- iranr.intced. HOM1.KT M. h I!iii-,inl. is. Hi. 1 He liiistmi, ('otisiiltiitiini tiee. pun.niiict. niti.-i- lean -. II . Ml. IO 1 ind lioli- 1. III. is(ltii!l' (hi sc( i-i'teil. it cm W. II. lEintec, President of g.n art?i Flutter Co.. of El gin. Ills., says of English Salt, in 1S92: "The butter salted with it is its best recommendation. Every pound proclaims its superiority , 11 ,Atl,,.,, K,.,. Ill fill tltllV.1 III uiiti.-, and there are more p o u n d s m a k i n it proclamations this year than ever be fore." For sale everywhere. a I'HANOIS 1) MiU'LTON' k CO U'J llroudv,a . Kew Yoik. A? -h Price f.nl 1 11 ! rll,rr lTllrtn. Itlrjr'tN, 'lill.i,liiii, hdI l'Slnl. tnrt. llutffi.s lla?"n. I arrUrr. safe, SIMtfh,. llnnie-s I'irt Ui.,sLI,l, 4 Kpwlne )lnfilui-3. t or. Iran., llliw, ei.inn., I TO r J s tn.li 1'luMir. li-r-t 'Hill,, semi's Klilt' I..H11- Jll.11, Jirk serf,,,, 'Irnrl., tnOS, llnjmmr., lapTlMi, IS". ITIU-. 1:1 llo, I otf Hill., I allip. Ili-mtf rs I'moi-I nrli, IUii,l Curl., iwet. Mrir.MIf ,rln-ur.. Imrt. Saw,. stpplslnl,, It-lli-r l'lf.l-, I'rcs. Mjllid.. ,i,H II 3lilrr, ti.rti Sl,flli-r., 1,11.1, lU Mill-. 'i,u i'iiiiiii. ii," ',' - - ,,,, Ita,. Ml, l.lonti.r. llllro.i(t, rtlhrmt'l I "''' ,u I run nr. Hullir.. fool.. Hit Hr"'Jj Si-11,1 ffir li-ro ltnlni- ttiKI w-i- ""Jl. ""r--' .,, 1M Eo. JeScmou St., CUI0AU0 SCALE CO., Cticaso. HI 1MJL IFK.JA.s v. THIS ttAJfl 1 i?, v flM mm 7 il1, I SIX bottles a year kei , - vou in per- t noattii. it to.Ks f' i-,'i-ves atu 5 bio blood, strengthen- e . i-w m tiw bodv. Aft,r aco t r. u trom a severe att.-i.-i? of f, i,.r it v.,11 'ore vour astrenihtiui.-kertli. t. ' ..tiierknowni r.'ittiMv. its ettt. t is 1 ,1 ,i 1'i.sv, b l3o Suro You Get BURNHAWl'O. 1 ,-,,,i4 .ji. i i. ..I.,, i,t,l ti ,-it forfrl.oO, Si -ut -lump f rloL 11, u..fl,' illtml'' , 1 e. m,llMIAMrOl'.'0l.in. v n n..i. '- Don't Lose Heart. plant ifi:itif.vs siir.lis this yeur, unci mnke up for In' liuie.i i errj'ieeil Anmiiiiinr i-viniu i give ou many viiiuuihu nuns . uiiniH wnal to rainuuiui " u, . . rulseu. Itennluliiiiuitoriiiu- i (Ion tu Iw lm,l from no oiutrj rysourii'. I'ree m nil. JV D.M. Ferry & Co.. Detroit. Mich. sVl 1 h r.urtLK a ' &' nNiSALT f " QAiilTiVrASllUSl ' F. Cm turn l - ' A ; 1 n M 4 .1 Ilk J-vrKlcl4'tali, si I I a ffllfi 1 "A 'I r. h i,j rv us R II. W. Allen & 0. MID-WINTER SAL To-day wc put on sale th following lots of mer chandise at prices hardly worth Bress n One lot Fancy Braids, Gimps and Trimmings, i ct. a yard. 1 lot Gimps, Jet Trim mings and fancy trimmings, 5 cents a yard. 1 lot great variety Gimps, Fancy Trimmings, Fringes, Chenille Fringes, Moss Trimmings, etc., at o cents a yard. The great demand for these Trimmings the past two days induces us to increase the of fering and to make up two new lots. 100 gross, more or less, handsome Dress Buttons, Pearl Buttons and every description, Buttons of a,t 9 cts. a dozen. Larg'i Buttons. Pearl and Fancies, i S ceits a dozen. These Buttons are all of the finer qualities, One lot Jet Ornaments, Tassels, i cent each. 1 lot Jet Ornaments, Tas sels, etc., 5 cents each. 1 lot Jet Passimenterie and other ornaments 9 cents each i lot Braid Sets. Jet Sets, and Passimentencs Sets, 25c each. Feather Boas. Were $2, $3. $4, your choice for lot at $1. each. The lot at 25 cents a yard is nearly exhausted. A tew good bargains to-day. I he lot at 50 cents, Dress Lencths and Goods by the yard, 50 inches wide, worth more than double the money, Lots of them to-day. Fancy Velvets. Small lots to-day at 25 cts. a yard, small lots at ;o cents. Th,ey will not last through the day. 50 pieces Crepe Lissc Ruching, handsome goods, 9 cents per yard. 50 pieces first quality Fcath erstonfc, all colors, 5 cts. a yard. Drebs Shields, largo lot, sev ersl makes to close 0 cts. a pair. Dotted Muslins, Curtain Mas lins, etc., short lengths and odda and ends from our stock. 200 or 300 yards at 25 cents. J, JK ALLEN & Ca Ornaments Bress Goods Remnants.