REV. DR. TALMAGE.
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[THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUNDAY
SERMON.
.Subject: "Heaven's Redeemed Multitude.
" (i'reaclied in Londoo).
Text: "After this I beheld, and lo! a
Great multitude which no man could num
oer, of all nations and kindreds and people
and tongues, stood before the throne.
<mid before the Lamb, clothed with white
robes and nalms in their hands. and cried
with a loudvoice, saying, Salvation to our
Cod rvhich sitteth upon the throne, and
*into the Lamb."?Revelation viL, 9, 10
It is impossible to come ia contact with i
anything grand or beautiful in art, nature
or religion without being profited and elevated.
We go into the Hrt gallery and our
soul meets the soul of the painter, and we
hear the hum of his forests and the clash of
hi3 conflicts and see the cloud blossoming of
the sky and the loam blossoming of the
ocean, and we come out from the gallery
better men than when we went in. We go
into the concert of music and are lifted into
enchantment; for days after our soul seems
to rock with a very tumult of joy, as the sea,
after a long stress of weather, rolls and
rocks and surges a great while before it
comes back to its ordinary calm.
On the same principle it is profitable to
think of heaven, and look off upon that landscape
of joy and light which St. John depicts?the
rivers of gladness, the trees of
life, the thrones of power, the comminglings
of everlasting love. I wish this morning
that I could bring heaven from the list of intangibles
and make it seem to you as it
,,really is?the groat fact in all history, the
:j depot of all ages, the parlor of God's unipjvfSChis
account in my text gives a picture of
*-$mvem as it is on a holiday. Now, if a man
??une to New York for the first time on the
;hat Kossuth arrived from Hungary,
and he saw the arches lifted, and the flowers
flung in the streets, and he heard th9
sons booming, he would have been very
foolish to suppose that that was the ordinary I
appearance of the city. While heaven is
always grana ana always oeauuim, jl tnicut
my text speaks of a gala day in heaven.
it is a time of great celebration?perhaps
of the birth or the resurrection of Jesus,
perhaps of the downfall of some despotism,
perhaps because of the rushing in
of the millennium. I know not
what, but it does seem to me in reading this
passage as if it were a holiday in heaven:
''After this I beheld, and lot a great multitude
which no man could number, of all
nations and kindreds and people and tongues,
stood before the throne, and before the
Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms
in their hands, and cried with a loud voice,
saying. Salvation to our Qod which sitteth
upon the throne, and unto the Lamb."
I shall speak to you of the glorified in
heaven?their number, their antecedents,
their drees, their symbols and their song.
But how sball I begin by telling you of the
numbers of those in heaven? I have seen a
curious estimate by an ingenious man who
calculates how long the world was going to
last, and how many people there are in each
generation, and then sums up the whole
matter, and says he thinks there will be
twenty-seven trillions of souls in glory. I
have no faith in his estimate. I simply take
the plain announcement of the text?it is
"a great multitude, which no man can
number."
One of the most impressive things 1 have
looked upon is an army. Standing upon a
v hillside you see forty thousand or fifty thou[,
sand men pass along. You can hardly
imagine the impression if you have not actu
ally felt it. But you may take all the
armies that the earth has ever seen?tha
legions of 8ennacherib and Cyrus and
Caesar, Xerxes and Alexander and Napoleon,
and all or modern forces and put them in
[ one great array, and then on some swift
steea you may ride along the line and
' review the troops; and that accumulated
1 host from all ages seems like a half formed
f regiment compared with the great array of
the redeemed.
I stood one day at Williamsport, and saw
on the opposite side of the Potomac the forces
coming down, regiment after regiment, and
brigade after brigade. It seemed as though
tbare was no end to the procession. Bub
I now let me take the field glass of St. John
and look off upon the hosts of heaven?
thousands upon thousands, ten thousand
times tea thousand, one hundred and forty*
L and four thousand, and thousands of thousands.
until I put down the field glass and
k say, "I cannot estimate it?a great multi1
fcude that no man can number."
} You may tax your imagination and torture
your ingenuity and break down your
I' powers of calculation in attempting to express
the multitudes of the released from
earth aud the enraptured of heaven, and
talk of hundreds of hundreds of hundreds,
of thousands of thousands of thousands, of
millions of millions of millions, until your
head aches and your heart faints, ana exhausted
and overburdened you exclaim: "I
cannot count them?a great multitude that
no man can number."
But my subject advance, and tells you of
their antecedents, "of all nations and kindreds
aud tongues." Some of them 3ooke
Scotch, lrisD, German, English, Italian,
Spanisn, Tamil, Choctaw, Burmese. After
men have been long in the land you can tell
by their accentuation from what nationality
they came, and 1 suppose in the great throng
arc una the throne it will not be difficult to
tell lrom what part of the earth they came.
The*? reaped Sicilian wheat fields and
I those picked cottcn from the pods. These
under blistering skies gathered tamarinds
ana yarns, i nose crossea iua uesgrt. on
camels, and those glanced over the snow,
' drawn bj Siberian (logs, and these milked
the goats far up on the Swiss crags. Tbesa
fought the walrus and white bear in regions
of everlasting snow, and those beard the
song of fiery-winged birds in African thickets.
They were white. They were black.
I They were red. They were copoer color.
From all lands, from all ages. They wera
. plunged into Austrian dungeons. They
"v passed through Spanish inquisitions. They
were confined in London Tower. They
follght with beasts in the amphitheater.
They were Moravians. They were
Waldenses. They were Albigenses. They
were Scotch Covenanters. They were
Sandwich Islander.'.
In tbis world men prefer different kinds of
government. The United States wants a
republic. The British Government nee?*? to
1 be a constitutional monarchy. Austria
wants absolutism. But when they come up
from earth from different nationalities they
wiU prefer one great monarchy ?King Jesus
ruler oyer it. And if that monarchy were
[disbanded and it were submitted to an tne
hosts of heaven who would rule, then by the
nmnimous suffrages of all the redeems i
Christ would become the president of the
whole universe. Magna Cnartis, bills of
right, bouses of burgesses, triumvirate*,
congresses, parliaments?nothing in the
Sresence of Christ's scepter swaying over all
tie people who have entered upon the great
glory. Oh I can you imagine it? What a
strange conmingling of tastes, of histories,
of nationalities, "of all Nations anl kindreds
and people and tongue*."
My subject advancjs and talis vou of
the dress of tbos# in heaven. Th9 object of
drass in this world is not only to veil thi
body but to adorn it. The God woo dreeses
up the spring morning with blue ribbon of
8kv around the brow and earnings of dew
drops hung from tree branch and mantle ol
crimson cloud flung over the shoulder and thi
rioletted slipp?rs of the grass for her feet?i
know that God does not despisi beau tit ii
apparel. Well, what shall we wear io
heaven? "I saw a great multitude clothed
in white robes." It is white! In this world
we had sometimes to have on working ap
parol. Bright and lustrous jaraiaats would
D0 ridiculously out of placa sweltering amid
| forges, or mixing paints, or plastering ceil
lags, or binding books.
I In this world we must have the workin;
day apparel sometimes, and we care nothon
coarse it is. It is appropriate: but wh?n all
the toil of earth is past and there is no moro
drudgery and no more weariness, we shall
stand before the throne robed in whit?. Oc
earth we sometimes had to wear mourning
apparel?black scarf for the arai, black veil
for the fas-?, black gloves for th9 hands,
black band for the hat. Abraham mourning
for Sarah; Isaac mourning for R?b?cca,
Rachel mourning for her children; David
mourning for Absalom; Mary mourning for
Lazarus. Every second of every minute of
every hour of every day a heart breaks.
i The earth from zona to zone and from
pole to pole is cleft with sepulchral rent, and
the earth can easily afifocd to bloom and
blossom when it is so rich with molderinz
life. GravesJ graves 1 graves.! But when
th?se bereavements have all passed, and
there are no more grayes to dig, and no
aacre cofiku to mata and no more sorrow
to suffer, we shall pull off this mournin; and
be robed in white. I sea a soul going right
up from all this scene of sin aui trouble into
glory. I seem to hear him say
I journey forth rejoicing
From this dark val? of teari
To heavenly joy aod t reedom,
ifrom earthly care and feirs.
When Christ my Lord shall gather
All His redeemed again.
His kingdom to inherit?
Good-night till then.
I hear my Uavlonr caning:
The joyful hour has come:
Toe angel guards are ready
To galde me to oar home.
^ hen Christ oar Lord sii&i gather
All His redeemed again,
His kingdom to inherit?
Good-night till then.
My subject advancas, and tells you of the
symbols they carry. If my text had repre
seated the good ia Leaven as carrying
cypress branches, that would have meant
sorrow. If my text had represented the
good in heaven as carrying nightshade, that
would have meant sin. But it is a palm
branch they carry, and that is victory.
When the peoplo came home from war in
olden times the conqueror rode at the head
of his troop?, and there were triumphal
arches, and people would come out with
branches of tue palm tree and wave them
all along the host. What a significant type
this of the greeting and of the joy of the
redeemed in heaven! On earth they were
condemned, and were put out of polite circles.
They had infamous hands strike them
on both cheeks. Infernal spite spat in their
faces. Their back ached with sorrow.
Tneir brow reaked with unalleviatad toil.
How weary they were! Sometimes they
broke the heart of the midnight in the midst
of all their anguish, crying out,"OGodin
But hark now to the shout of the delivered
captives, as thev lift their arms from the
shackles and they cry out, "Free! free!"
T&ey look back upon all the trials through
which they have passed, the battles they
have fought, the burdens they carried, the
misrepresentations they sufferad, and because
they are delivered from all these they
stand before God waving their palms. They
come to the feet of Christ, and they look
up into His face, and they remember Hi3
sorrows, and they remember His pain, and
they remember His groan*, and they say:
' Why, I was saved by that Christ. He
pardoned my sins, He soothed my sorrows,"
and standing there they shall be exultant,
waving cneir paims.
That hand once held the implement of toll
or wielded the swor 1 of war, bat now it
plucks down branches frfxn the tree of life
as they staud before the throne waving their
palms. Once he was a pilgrim on earth;
he crunched the hard crusts?he walked the
weary way, but it is all gone now; the sin
j gone, the weariness gone, the sickness gone,
the sorrow gone. As Christ stands up before
the great array of the saved and re
counts His victories it will be like the rocking
and tossing of a forest in a tempest, as all
the redeemed rise up, host beyond host, rank
beyond rank, waving their palms.
My subject makes another advancement,
and speaks of the song th9y sing.
Dr. Dick, in a very learned work, says
that among other things ia heaven he thinks
they will give a great deal of time to the
study of arithmetic and th9 higher branches
of mathematics. I do not believe it. It
would upset my idea of heaven if I thought
so; I never liked mathematics; and I would
rather take the representation of my text,
which describes the occupatian of heaven as
being joyful psalmody. '"They cried with
a loud voice, saying, Salvation unto our
God." In this world we have secular songs,
nursery songs, boatmen's songs, harvest
songs, sentimental songs; but la heaven we
will have taste for only one song, and that
will be the song of salvation from an eternal
death to an eternal heaven through the
kl/v%f4 r\f fho T.QmK f.hof. wag Qltiin
In this world we have plaintive songs?
songs tremulous with sorrow, gongs dirgeful
for the dead; but in heaven there will be no
aighinz oE winds, no wailing of anguish, no
weeping symphony. The tamest song will
be balleluiah?the dullest tune a triumphal
march. Joy amonc the cherubim! Joy
among the seraphim! Joy among the ransomed!
Joy forever!
On earth the music in churches is often
poor, because there is no interest in it or bej
cause there is no barmcfay. Some would not
sing, some could not sing, some sang too
high, some sang too low, some sang by fits
and starts, but in the great audience
of the redeemed on high
all voices will be accordant, and
the man who on earth could not tell a plantation
melody from the "Dead March in
Saul" will lift an anthem that the Mendelssohns
and BeethovensandtheSchumanns of
earth never imagined, and you may stand
through all eternity and listen and there will
not be one discord in the great anthem that
forever rolls up against the great heart of
. God. It will not be a solo, it will not be a
duet, it will not be a quintet, but an innumerable
host before the throne, crying, ''Salvation
unto our God and unto the Lamb."
They crowd all the temples, they bend over
the battlements, they fill all the heights and
depths and lengths and breadths of heaven
with their ho3annas.
When people were taken into the Temple
of Diana it was such a brilliant room coat
they were always put 011 their guard. Some
people had lost their sight by just looking
on the brilliancy of that room, and so the
janitor when he brought a stranger to the
door and let him in would always charge
him, "Take heed of your eyes."
Oh! when I think of the s6ng that goes up
around the thrwie of God, so jubilant, many
voiced, multitudinous, 1 feel like saying,
"Take heed of your ears." It is so loud a
song. It is so blessed an anthem. They
sing a rock song, saying, "Who is He that
sheltered us in the wilderness, and shadow^
us in a weary land?' And the chorus comes
in, "Christ the shadow of a rock in a weary
land."
They sing a stur song saying, "Who i3 He
that guided us through the thick night, and
when all other lights went out arose in the
sky the morning star, pouring light on the
soul's darkness?" And the chorus will come
in, "Christ, the morning star,shining on the
soul's darkness." They will sing a flower
song, saying, "Who is He that brightened |
all our way, and breathe i sweetness u-jon
our soul, and bloomed through frost and
tempest?" And the chorus will come in,
"Christ, the lily of the vallev, blooming
through frost and tempest." "Thay sing a
water song:, saying, "Who is He that
gleamed to us from the frowning crag, and
lightened the darkest ravine of trouble, and
brought cooling to the temples and rafreshment
to the lip, and was a fountain in the
midst of the wilderness!1" and then the
chorus will come in, "Christ,the fountain in
the midst of the wilderness."
My friends, will you join that anthem?
Shall we make rehearsal this morning? If
we cannot sing that song on earth we will
not be able to sing it in heaven. Can it be
that our good triends in that land will walk
all through that great throng of which I
speak looking for us and not finding us.
Will they come down to the gate and ask if
we have passed through, and not find us reported
as having come? Will they look
through the folios of eternal light and find
our names unrecorded? Is all this a representation
or a land we shall never see^ of a
song we shall never 3ini* ?
Rough on the Bovine.
During the reccnt cyclone in Kanjas
a cow was lifted from the ground,
carried to the top of a house and deposited
on the angle of the roof, where
jhe could neither fall nor be taken
*nwn So t.hfiv had to co un on th?
roof and kill her.
Give New York due honor?she
has raised the full amount required
to build the Grant Motiument. She
has been sharply criticised for her
tardiness, but, having accomplished
the task, only expressions of commendation
are in order.
Almost every one in the world is
foolish enough at times to dream of
receiving a vast amount of money
from some unkown friend. When a
man sits and smiles to himself, he is
thinking of how he will spend il
when he gets it.
Work and play are seeming antipodes,
yet without play work will
be unprofitable, and without work
play will be unpleasurable. .... ,
TEMPERANCE.
CHURCH 3ALOOX3.
The agitation caused by Dr. Riins ford's
advocacy of the church establishing saloons
for toe sale of intoxicating liquor, calls to
mind an incident related of Dr. John Pierpoint's
church in Boston, some fifty years
ago. In the basement was stored a large
number of barrels of liquor, and some wag,
passing by the church, wrote th9 following
lines upon the door:
"There is a spirit above and a spirit below,
There is a spirit of love and a spirit of woe;
The spirit above is the spirit divine.
The spirit below is the spirit of wine."
TTinMMOin I
THE rnam.-'? uajs
A young shorthand writer was once told
to report a speech by Sir John McDonald.
Now it happened that the Caandian premier
had com? to the House from a dinner party,
and his speech in matter and form was of a
docideiiy' postprandial character. Tha
youthful reporter, however, could not believe
*'t possible that Sir John should want
editing, and took down every word. His
editor, on seeing the copy, told him it would
not do. and as it was not wanted for the next
morning he was advisod to go and see Sir
John and get him t?> correct it. The reporter,
on bein? shown in, found Sir John as usual,
exceedingly affable. Having explained the
object of his visit, the reporter was desired
to read his notes aloud. This he did, while
Sir John lay on a sofa listening with a face
of extreme solemnity to his own Incoherencies
and correcting them as occasion required.
When the notes were finished the
premier rose, laid his hand on the young
man's shoulder, and began in the most
fatherly of tones;
"I see exactly what has happened. Now,
my dear young friend, I am an old man and
>? <?? TminT mnn and vou will there- |
fore not mind if I give you a piece of advica
as to tlie practice of your profession. My
advice is this: Never attempt to report a
speech uoless you are perfectly sure that you
are sober."
With this Sir John bowed out his visitor.
?Spare Moments.
THE ALCOHOLIC APPETITE.
A Philadelphia medical journal, the
Times and Register,recently devoted almost
an entire number to the discussion of the
alcoholic question, including the Keeley
Cure, and other methods of dealing with
inebriety. The contributors to this medical
symposium are well,, known physicians.
Among the suggestive and valuable articles
is one by Dr. L. Chenery,o? Boston,entitled
"Thoughts on the Alconal Disease," from
which we quote the following:
"This magazine of appetite in the humau
breast will not explode unless strucic by the
lightning of alcohol,and then it is as sure to
go off as a keg of powder with live coal
thrown into it.
"Therefore the whole natureof the thiug,
whether in Incipiency or in actual development,
makes for the exclusion of liquor.
There is no such thing as the two being
brought together without the effect; they
must be separated. And which is the most
reasonable to do, which is most consistent
with ethical and Christian consideration, to
jug the man or to jug the rum? We can tax
t.h? rwmle and build asvlums, aad put the
inebriates in and keep them there, or we can
do what is infinitely better, we can put their
bane far from them and let them go about
as good and useful citizens, to be a blessing
to their home and friends, anl not a perpetual
curse. Moreover, this latter course
has the advantage over all others; it will
cure and permanently cure three-tairds of
such cases, aud in generations to come, will
weed out the chief inherited proclivities tor
this, as almost to every other craz*. Wha*.
child does not know better than to try tc
cure a burnt finger, while that finger is still
held in the fire? What makes drunkenness
is rum. What will cure drunkenness is net
the learned disquisitions about the effects ul
alcohol?the alcohol disease?but the stamp
ingout of the cause, the putting away of the
liquor itself."
it is an encouraginz sign of the times that
an influential medical journal of the standing
of the Times and Register is disposed to
devote so much of its space to the scientific
consideration of the alcohol problem.
A 8AL00M KEEPER'S ADVERTI3EHEVT.
A saloon keeper of Lima, Ohio, not desiring
to deceive anybody as to the quality of
the goods he handles, put out the lotlowing
card as an advertisement 01 ms uiuiutas, I
"Friends and Neighbors:
"Grateful for past patronage, and having
a new stock of choice wines, spirits and
lager beer, i continue to make drunkards
and beggars out of sober, industrious people.
My liquors excite riot, robbery and bloodshed,
diminish comforts, increase expenses,
shorten lives, are sure to multiply fatal accidents
and distressing diseases, and liable to
render these latter incurable.
"They will cost soim of you life, some of
you reason, many of you character and all
of you peace; will mane fathers and mothers
fiends, wives widows, children orphans, and
all poor. I train the young to ignorance,
infidelity, dissipation, lewdness and every
vfbe; corrupt the ministers of religion and
members of the church, hinder the gospel
and send huudrkls to temporal and spiritual
death. I will accommodate the public even
at a cost of my soul, for I have a family to
support, and the trade pays, for the public
encourages it.
"I have a license; my traffic it therefore
lawful and Christians even countenance it,
and if I do not sell drink somebody else will.
1 know the Bible says 'Thou sbalt not kill.'
'Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor
drink,' and not to 'put a stumbling block in
a hrr,t-.Viar>a WAV1 I also read that 'no drunk
ard shall enter the Kingdom of God,' and X
suppose a drunkard maker will not shara
any better fate; but I want a lazy living,
and have made up my mind tnat my ini?
quity pays very good wages. I shall therelore
carry on my trade and do my best to decrease
the wealth, impair thb health aad
endanger the safety or the people.
As my traffic flourishes in proportion to
your ignorance and indulgence, i must do
all I can to pre7ent your mental culture,
moral purity, social happiness and eternal
welfare.
"For proof of my ability I refer you to the
pawnshops, the polica office, the hospital,
lunatic asylum, jail and the gallows,
whither many of my customers have gone.
"I teach young and old to drink and
charge only for the materials.
"A very few lessons are enough.
'Yours till dead."?New York Herald.
TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES,
f'anorlo Tamiarftnna Aefc is nOW iu
force in thirty-three countioa in the Dominion.
During the last fiscal year there were produced
in the United States 117,lot/, 114 gallons
of distilled spirits.
There are now upwards of 500 churches in
Scotland where unfermented wine alone is
us?d for the communion.
Franca had, in 1891, 4,311,300 acres of
vineyard?, which yieldeid an average of loi
gallons of wine per acre of land.
At Elgin, 111., twenty-nine saloon keepers
have taken out license for the coining year,
paying $101)0 each fcr the privilege.
Father Nugent, of Liverpoo!, a pronounced
temperance advocate, has been appointed
Domestic Prelate to the Pope.
The Boston representative of Bonfort's
Wine and Spirit Circular says the demand
for New England rum is "increasing."
Half a million persons it is said, are in one
way or another employed on the Sabbath in
j connection with the drink traffic, anl 200,000
of these are young womec.
Sir Wilfrid Lawson, in recalling the hard
names that have been and still are hurled at
*amivrnnpA raformers. reminds them, in his
?>ual happy style, that "/fanatics are earnest
men in a minority, and a fad.Jist is one w ;o
knows something uiore than the rest of the
people. t
Arcubishop Ireland says: "He is ignorant
of human nature who does not see that a
thousand will drink when temptation presses
upou them for the hundred who will put
themselves to some difficulty to seek out
liquor. Our working classes are, we might
say, compelled to driuk and became drunkards,
so strong are the temptations with
which we are beset."
Charles Lamb, looking back upon his
childhood, wrote this as a warning to others:
"Could the youth to whom the flavor
of bis first glass was delicious look into my
desolation and be made to understand what
a dreary thing it is when a man feels himself
going down a precipice, with open eye
and a passive will, to see his destruction aud
not to have power of will to stop it, and yet
to feel it all the way emanating from himself.
to perceive all goodness emptied out of
him, and yet not be able to forget the time
when it. was otherwise?how li9 would avoid
the first temptation to drinK."
;
KiiLtWUL'S KMD1WG.I
HT3 N'AMK.
Pint, the promise in the calyx,
And then the pink breaks through th?
areen,
And next, the sepals curve away,
And then the folded rose is sfeen;
Then down the outer petals curl,
And there the bud in blushes grows,
Until the pink leaves, one by one,
Have turned the bud into the rose.
Then sweet, as ever flower waa sweet,
And heavy all about your hand,
The perfume of the rose, and aweet
Acr&ss the path of summer land.
O, thoughts of him unfold and grow,
Expand unto one matchless whole,
That finds expression but in this,
"Jesus!' breathed by the longing soul.
Ah, never yet could one of bis
Tell half the Spirit shows of him,
Nor all the change he works within
Rv Iava. his frrpftt name's svnonvm.
J w "7 O ?? " ? J
We cannot?yet, how much we tell
Who speak his name and speak no more!
In "Jesu9l" 0. what loft^ power,
What earnest of the things in store!
He knows bis own and will receive
All tiat we would, but cannot sayHe
will-accept his name from us,
The cry with which our hearts give way.
And sweeter far than we may know
Is that to him from whom it camels
that we feel, but cannot tell,
Those thoughts that burst into his name.
? [Clara A. Sands.
"SAVED."
"I wish my son to be educated and his
character developed;" "I desire him to be
trained;" "I am striving for his reformation,
and want to keep him from bad ways
"I am aiming at the right moulding of my
dauguter's life;" "I wish my children
rightly started in life"?such aspirations we
often hear uttered more or less articulately
by parents and friends concerning others,
or by the aspirants themselves. They are
laudable; but they are all included as to their
cssence in one word not so often employed.
That word is "saved"?in the Bible sense,
no merely from ignorance, bad habits, failure
in life, and the like, but ''saved," body
and spirit, for time and eternity.
To be saved Is to be freed from an accusing
conscience, the dominion of sin, its ill consequences
and the fear of them; to be content,
at peace, even full ot nope as to me great unknown
future. It is to have the day of
judgment divested of terror. It is to have
positive gain and peact of conscience, freedom
from the mastery of the world, an abiding,
elevating, purifying motive toward
well-doing, which acts within, and is not dependent
on human observation, and a hope
which offsets present limitations like grief,
poverty and pain, and actually converts
them into benefits. It is to have a hope,
realized in due time, of all that is involved?
and how,much that is eternitycan disclose?in
"eternal life."
The ordinary mind can see how much this
heart-believing implies. was sinful,
gniltv; God's law was broken by me, and 1
was under its penalty. Christ bore it and
brought in righteousness. It is a free gift to
me. I love God, who pitied me. I love
Jeaus who saved me. I know his work is
ftnrttiL h fnr fJod raised him from the dead.
I will be grateful as long as I live. I will
try to please him, to honor him. I can never
repay him, but in every way that he desfrss
and shows me I will try to please him."
Now. one of the ways in which he can bo
pleased and honored is the owning of him before
men. When the Bulgarian intriguers
got Prince Alexander out
of the way, the soldiers and
subjects who were loyal to him felt bound to
acknowledge him, stand up for him, call bim
their prince, and respect his government.
What else could they do and be honest, manly,
and true to theirconvictions? When the
Son of Man is cast out. rejected, disowned
by men in this world, and rivals are set up
in his place, what should, what could his
friends do but confess bim? The believing
with the heart is the privilege grace gives;
the open confession is the duty inseparable
from it. The two are put together. "With
the heart man believeth unto righteousness,
and with the m^uth confession is made?
unto salvation." Having accepted the grace
he assumes the duty. The duty is the
evidence and the heart has accepted the
grace. They are together in the prescription,
but on different grounds. No special genius is
necessary to the understanding of this.
"Here," s-?ys the doctor to a patient shaking
in disease, "is the specific for yonr malady.
Take it and keep as quiet as possible." The
fjuitt may not be perfect, is not specific. So
it is with the confession. Hence the strong
language of the Master: "Whoever shall
confess before men him, will I confess also
before my father which is in heaven."
ncaaer, ure jou uumg m?c htw ? .
believing and confessing? He who cannot '
lie says that they who do these things?two
and yet one?do them "unto salvation."
This means never fails of the end. The investment
is never a failure. The remedy is
never without the hoped-for relief. The being
saved is not, therefore, a mere sentiment.
hope, or line of religious conduct; it
carries the very man along, and makes right
with God, and it brings, therefore, in its
train the present well-doing.?fRev. J. Hall,
D. D., in Congregationalism
The following quotation from Dr. Norman
McLeod will be instructive and helpful to
not a few souls: "My life is not what I
would have chosen. "I often long for quiet,
for reading and for thought. It seems to
me a very paradise to be able to read, to
think,go deep into things,gather the glorious
riches of intellectual culture. . . . God
has forbidden it in bis providence. I must
8[>end hours iu receiving people who wish to
npeak to me about all manner ottrifles; must
reply to letters about nothing; must engage
in public work on everything; employ my
life on what seems uncongenial, vanishing,
temporary, waste. Yet God knows
me better than I know mysplf. He
knows my gifts, my powers, my failings,
and my weaknesses; what canl do and what
not do. So I desire to be led and not to lead.
And I am quite sure that he has thus enabled
me to do a great deal more in ways
which seemed to me almost a waste of life,
in advancing his kingdom, that I would
have done in any other way. I am sure of
that." It is a great mistake for a m^n who
thus gives himself up to a life of service, in
the doing of little things, in performing the
numerous small duties of life, to suppose
that he is sacrificing anything either in hap
piness or usefulness. The aggregate of results
in such service may be very great, and
ot incalculable benefit to the world.
The followers of Christ will notonly share
In His triumph, but it is their privilege to
assist it. Sometimes we feel like asking why
Christ did not convert men by a miracle as
He raised the dead. Why does He put on us
the coSt of preachintr His truth, of going as
missionaries, of enormous sacrifices for His
sake? Why did He not do it all Himself,
and give us victory of His kingdom -ill won?
Apart from the conclusive reason that power
does not convert men to glad allegiance to
Christ, we can see how much our effort
for His cause does to make us rpal sharers in
His final triumph. The citizens who witnessed
the final review of the Union army in
Washington before disbandment, on the 23d,
24th and 2.1th of May. 1805, fe.t the exaltation
of the triumph, but to the soldiers, who
had borne the Ion? marches, the shock of
battle, the experience of the hospital, that
victory had entered their souls, they felt it
and shared it in their inner lift*. The sacrifices
we make for Christ's kingdom are making
the "crowning day," towanls which the
world hastens, full of srlory for us.?[Watch.
Itlver Depth*.
An ingenious apparatus for ascertaining
the depth of rivers and
smaller streams has recently been
successfully tried on the Kibe. It
consists of a curved arm, hinged at
its upper extremity, and of a length
sufficient for the lower curved por
tion to trail on the bed of the stream.
The greater the depth of the stream
the more will the arm be inclined,
and hence, by suitable recording
mechanism, the depth can be automatically
registered.
SABBATH SCHOOL.
INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR
JULY 31.
Lesson Text: "Peter and John Before
the Council," Acts ir., 1-18
?Golden Text:, Acts i*.t
IS?Commentary.
1. "And asthey'spako unto the people,
the priests and the captain of the temple,
and the Sadducees came upon' them." Peter
was preaohing to the people who came together
because of the healing of the lame
mau, that Jesus whom they had crucified
was indeed the Christ, and that God had
borne witness to the fact by raising Him
from the dead, and that therefore they
should receive Him, obtain forgiveneas and
wait for His return to restore all thiags of
which the prophets have spoken (chapter iii.,
19, 21).
2. "Being grieved that they taught the
people and preached tbrouzh Jesus the resurrection
Irom the dead." The Sadducees did
not believe in a resurrection (Math, xxii., 23;
Acts xxiii, 8). but observe here the expression
"from the dead," and compare Phil, iii.,
11, R. V. As the resurrection of Jesus and
those who rose with Him (Math, xxvii., 52,
F\'\\ traa a racii
"-<* ? '""'".""U <-" M'UW, UIUJ iroriuj
others still asleep as to their bodies, so shall
it beat Hjs coming (I Thess. iv., 1c-1S; Rev.
*x., 5).
3. "And they laid hands on them, and put
them in bold unto the next day, for it was
now eventide." Jesus hai told them th*t it
would be even so (John xv., 20; xvi., 2)
therefore it is probable that they were not
surprised at this treatment. Compare Jer.
xxxviii., 6; Heb. xi.. 36, 37.
4. "Howbeit many of them which heard
the word believed, and the numbar of the
men was about five thousand." As it was,
so it will be in all this age; some believe and
some believe not (Acts xxviii., 34), but His
word will accomplish His pleasure and God
will be glorified (Isa. lv? 12; II Cor. ii., 15,
16.) Put this 5000 -with the 3000 of ii., 41,
and consider the work o? the Spirit as loretold
in John xvi., 8. Notice that all these
converts were Jews, Where is this power
to-daj ?
5-7. "And it came to pass on the morrow
that their rulers and elders and scribes,
when they had set them in the midst, they
asked, By what power or by what name
have ye done this? So also they, asked Jesus
in Math, xxi., 23, not that they wanted
such power for themselves, but they hated
all that proceeded not from themselves.
There are many such in the church to-day
who cannot tolerate anything that does not
Kill- if ia I
U? iuoio t? uu mom, uuv av nou ws i o
member ibat all that does not originate
with God shall come to naught.
8, 9. "Then Peter, filled with the Holy
Ghost, said unto them. Ye rulerSot the people
and elders of Israel." Mark now the
lulfUlment of that great promise in Math,
z., 19, 20, and remember also such encouragements
as Jer. i., 17, 19; Ezk. ii., 6, 7.
See bow a man filled with the Spirit fears
not the face of rulers or elders, eveu though
the man be one who had not long before
basely denied his Master.
10. "Be it known unto you all, and to all
the people of Israel, that by the name of
Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified,
whom God raised from the dead, even
by Him doth this man stand before you
whole." This is the whole story briefly and
yet in full: Jesus died, Jesus lives, Jesus
has all power to forgive sins and also to heal
bodies, and He is ready to manifest that
power on behalf of those who are willing to
be His faithful witnesses, for II Chron. xvi.,
9, is as true to-day as ever, and I do not know
any hindrance to the manifestation of the
power of Christ so great as our lack of faith
and consecration (Mai. iii., 10; Eph. iii., 20).
11. "This is the stone which was set at
nought of you builders, which is become the
head of the corner." Read here Gen. xlix.,
24; Isa. viii., 14; xxviii., 16; Ps. cxviii., 22;
Zech. iii., 9; iv,, 7< I Pet. ii., 4-8, and see
what a fruitful simile you have in tais stone,
which so wondroufly speaks of Christ Fail
not 1o read also Dan. iL, 44, 45. And see
D?i. frrtm I
mail yuu Ol C IU uuo &vuva auu UJ iuaiUg ? V?M
it (Ex. xxxlii., 22; Isa. xxvi., 4, margin; I
Cor. x., 4).
12. "Neither is there salvation ia any
other, for there is none other name under
heaven given among men whereby we must
ce saved." Other foundation can no man
lav than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ
(I Cor. iii.. 11), and be who builds on aught
else is building on the sand. Israel's mistake
was that, being ignorant of God's righteousness,
they sought to establish their own,
which was only filthy rags in God's sight
(Horn, x., 3, 4; Isa. lxiv., 6; Math, vii., 2427*.
13. "They took knowledge of them that
they had been with Jesus." Like their master
they had not been taught in the schools;
they bad not the wisdom of man, but they
had the power of God which made itself
manifest in them. God uses the weak
things and reveals Himself to babes.
14. "And beholding the man wnich was
healed standing with them, they could say
?il-; ,> ? THrt nower of Christ
UUILUU? agaiuov r __ __
manifest in us is the strongest kind of preach- I
ing, and when they saw it not only in the I
apostles hut in this poor helpless beggar, |
their mouths were shut. As God was glori- i
fled in these and in Paul, so He desires to be'
in us (GaL i., 24; iCor. vi., 19, 20).
15, ltt. "What shall we do to these men."
The apostles being sent aside that the council
might confer together, we can fancy bow
in their hearts, at least, it not yet aloud because
of their keepers, they rejoiced in
Christ who had so honored them; and it
would not be strange if they continued
preacaing Jesus to those wao had them in
charge. As to the council they could not
deny the miracle, but they thought possibly
they might put a stop to any more such
manifestations. How they did love the poor
and the suffering (?) these lovely righteous
people, who have still so many followers.
What will become of theji (Matt, vti., 2123)?
17. "But that it spread no further among
the people, let us straitly threaten them,
that they speak henceforth to no man in this
name." As well stand by a river and tell it
to stop flowing. Why do the people imagine
a vain thing and the rulers take counsel
against the Lord? He that sitteth in
the Heavens shall laugh, the Lord shall, have
them in derision (Ps. ii., 1-4; Isa. viii., % 10).
Whatever is of God cannot be stopped, yet
there are many who fight against Him.
18. "And they called them, and commanded
them not to speak at all nor teach
*' -' " dnH t.ha?4 were tho
in iae aiiiuu ul u nm. --?
foremost religious people of the day with
the high priest of Israel at their head (verse
6); the priest whose lips should keep knowledge,
and who ought to have been the messenger
of the Lard of Hosts (Mil. ii.. 7).
Let any one now preach the wholo truth
concerning Jesus and the resurrection as
these apostles did and he will not fail to find
Erominent religious rulers who will if possilestop
that kind of teaching. But let all
faithful preach?rs and teachers eat lEzak.
:i., 6-7) and "dimimsa not a word" {Jer.
xxvi., 2).?L;sson Helper.
General Miles is becoming an enthusiast
on the subject of the bicycle
for army use. He has followed up
his experiment of sending a message
by relay riders to New Yoflc by another
trial of the wheel, iu which
regular soldiers were sent out, carrying
covering, provisions and cooking
implements in addition to their arms
and accouterments. The ride from
Pullman to Chicago seems to have
been more of a success from a practi:al
standpoint than that from ChiJago
to New York. The ten soldiers
made the trip from Pullman in one
and one-half hours, a distance for
which the regular infantry would require
tlve hours. Apparently the
only obstacle to the use of the bicycle
by the army in this country is the
villainous condition of the roads. It
must be admitted, however, that iu
the two trials already made much
mud and sand were encountered and
passed through without serious delay.
General Miles' championship of
the bicycle is sure to have practical
tralue in one way. An attempt to
use the whcii* "or a serious purpose is
^ure to cause more or leas' agitation
iq favor q? better country roads. 1
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TROOPS AT HOMESTEAD.
Ttto Brigades of Militia Guard
Carnegie's Mills.
The Townspeople Give the Soldiers
a Peaceful Welcome.
Governor Pattison, being convinced that
Sheriff MctJleary was unable to restore order
at Hoibestead, ordered out the entire
National Guard?3500 man?all the available
military force of the State, to Homestead
for service.
The action of the Governor was taken up
on receipt of the following despatch;
Pittsbixro^ Penn., July 10.
To Robert E. Pattison, Governor, Harrisburg,
Penn.;
The situation at Homestead has not improved.
While all is quiet there, the strikers
are in control and openly express to me and
to the public their determination that the
works shall not be operated unless by themselves.
After making all efforts in my power I
have failed to secure a. posse respectable
enough in numbers to accomplish anything,
and i am satisfied that no posse raised by
civil authority can do anything to change
the condition of affairs, and tnat any attempt
by an inadequate force to restore the
right of law will only result in further
armed resistance and consequent loss of life.
Only a large military force will enable me
to control matters. I believe if such foroe
is sent the disorderly element will be overawed
and order will ba restored. I there- I
fore call upon you'to furnish me such assistance.
' !
Willi am EL itcCLBA.Br. Sheriff.
Governor Patterson, as Commander-inChief
of the National Guard, at once issued
the following order:
George R. Snowden, Major-General Commanding
National Guard of Pennsylvania;
Put the division under arm3 and move at
once with ammunition to the support of the
Sheriff of Allegheny County at Homestead.
Maintain the peace, protect all persons in
their rights under the Constitution and law^
of the State. Communicate with me.
Robsrt E. Pattison, Governor.
The following telegram was sent to tha
Sheriff:
William H. McCleary, Sheriff of Alleghany
County, Pittsburg:
I have ordered Major-General Georga R.
Snowden with the division of tha Nations 1
Guard of Pennsylvania to your support at
once. Put yourself in communication with
him. Communicate with me further particulars.
Kobert E. Pattison", Governor.
General Snowden, with the Ad jutant-General
and Quartermaster General, at once
proceeded to formulate the orders for the
mobilization of the Guard.
The National Guard is splendidly
equipped, and a3 preparations have been ia
progress for seven weeks for the annual encampments
of the different commands, they
are in admirable shape to go into the field.
The Guard consists of .three brigades of
infantry, three troow of cavalry, and three
batteries of artillery, .making a well disciplined
army of S500 men.
There are sir gatling guns in the three
batteries, and the troops are all armed with
the latest improved Springfield rifles, 1
breech loaders, 45-calibre, and each man
can carry 100 rounds of ammunition.
The National Guard of lata baa bsen
devoting a great deal of attention to sharpshooting,
and thera is not a company in
which the majority of members are not
qualified marksmen, many of them having
won sharpshooters' medals.
Troops on Guard.
The five-million-dollar mills of the Carnegie
Company (Limited) have been formally
turnel over in writing to their owner3
by the Sheriff of Allegheny County, to do
with them as thev please, an i 7000 soldiers
nf th? Kevstone State, under General George
P. Sno wdeo, encamped on either bank of the
Monon?ahela, armed with Getting guns and
Springfield rides, to keep them in possession.
Shortly after 9 o'clock a. st the PennsyiI
vania Militia marched into Homestead. The
oldiers were well received, by the strikers.
The troops arrived uaexpactediy from the
East via special trains on the Pittsburg,
McKeesport and YoughiogJi9ny Railroad,
and left the cars at the station closa by the
fence of the steel works. Major-General
Snowden and Adjutant Greenland were in
command.
The Eighteenth Regiment was the first to I
arrive. There were two trains containing i
the Fifth, Tenth, Twelfth and Eighteenth
Regiments, a number of freight trains with
sixty horse?, and two gondola cars with
three Gatling guns and two cannon.
There were few persons in the station
when the train arrived. They were nearly
all locked out' men. They watched the
soldiers sullenly while they unloaded their
arms and cannon. In a few minutes the
1 * ?J flnrtbuhd Ahnnfc
news spreau aua
the station and remained there while the
troops went into camp.
Several companies wero placed on guard
over the works, and Eighth avenue from
City Farm Jans to Munhall was closed to
civilians. The Advisory Committee of the
locked-out men met and decided to wait upon
tbe officers in charge of the troops, in order
to ascertain what restrictions would be
placed upon private citizens.
Captain Coon, an ex-military officer, acting
as spokesman, told tho General that the
delegation represented the citizens of Home|
stead and the Amalgamated Association,
who wished to assure the State authority of
their desire to co-operate with it in main!
taining order.
General Snowden Interrupted Captain
Coon to say that he did not recognize the
j Amalgamated Association, or any other au!
thonty, except that of the Governor of Pennj
sylvania and the Sheriff of Allegheny County.
Tbe people of Homestead, he said, could
best co-operate with the State troop3 by behaving
themselves.
The position of the troops on Munhall was
strong. They held the sides and the top of
a broad bill tbat rises at quite a steep angle
from the edge of the town. The town was
ffat at their feet and they could almost
count every roof in it. The Carnegie Steel
Works lay near the base of the hill, and the
* * *--t- -1 - ?nninf fhait*
soldiers coma iook uuwu uu ??..
rifles into the big deserted yards.
Simultaneously with the placing of troops
at Homestead a camo wasestablisned on the
opposite shore of the Monongahela River
consisting of the Tenth and Fourteenth
Regiments and Battery C, forming a provisional
brigade, under the command of
Colonel HawkiD?, of the Tenth.
Major-General Snowden established his division
headquarters in the large Carnegij
school building on the crest of Carnegie Hill,
on a point overlooking the town and valley,
from which nearly every portion of the vast
iron-work* is in plain view. Ha gave the
name to the encampment of Camp Colonel
Sam Black, in honor of th9 soldier who fell
in the late war while commanding the Sixtysecond
Pennsylvania Volunteers. The site,
apart from its picturesquenesa, is admirably
selected as it completely commands the
rtwn and the mills and every Dossjble ap
proach to them by land or water. 'I'bo preparations
all indicated the purpo3e of a protracted
occupation of Homestead.
The Homestead expedition of the militia
was an expensive undertaking, and cost
the State a good round sura of money. The
National Guard of Pennsylvania consists of
8470 members, of which fully 8003 responded
to the Governor's calL Of thesa 600 were
commissioned officers. It was thought that
it would cost the State about $22,000 per day
until the troops were recalled.
The House Committee appointed to investigate
the present labor troubles and outbreak
at Homestead arrived in Pittsburg
and went direcMv to tha Monongahela
House. CheArman Dates said that it was the
committee's desire to get down to work as
soon as possible.
H. C. Frick was the first witness called.
The committee visited the scene of ihe
riot.
Coroner McDowell began tho icqueat on
the death of J. W. Kline, the Pinkerton
detective, and other victims of the tijnt at
Homestead.
Chicago's new water tunnel is completed.
It is eight feet in diameter, thirty feet
low the surface of the Jake and begins to
take watt r four miles out. It cost over a
million dollars, and will supply one hundred
And thirty million gallons per day to the
city, thus bringing Chicago's daily water
upply up to three hundred million gallons*
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POPULAR SCIENCE.
Many of the animals in the deep sea
have no eyes.
German railway officials are experimenting
with rails made of paper.
An unsuccessful attempt was lately
made to cultivate oysters in the Baltic.
| By adopting the basic process of making
stael castings there is leas phosphorus.
Microscopists recently showed that a
drop of milk contained several million
animalculse.
The best road, acrording to Parisian
experts, for hardness and unwearable
service is made of volcanic scoria.
The incandescent electric light is
claimed by authorities to be the most
satisfactory artificial- light known to
science.
The Interstate Elevated Railway of
Kansas City is to be changed from a
steam to an electric system at a cost of
1500,000.
Ligh'.ning flashed into an Eastern Pennsylvania
coal mine the other day and
shocked a man who was 1200 feet below
the surface.
American lifeboats are to be furnished
with an electric motor and. propeller,
which will provide not only power but a
search light. ' " <$'&
According to Sappy, the famous physiologist,
the stomach contains*5,000,000
glands, which are constantly secreting
gastric juice.
instead of the alloy of zinc and silver
which was first chosen for the production
of "Areas plating," one containing cadmium
is now preferred.
In testing the conditions of the atmoe.'
phere inside a petroleum tank, if the air
at the bottom is found not inflammable
or explosive, the air above is sure nofto ?
be so.
Scientists estimate that every year a
layer equal to fourteen feet deep of the
aiii*faoA r\f oil A^arfno an/1 Vi or Kn^ioa nf
wut a taw' vi an \j\*\3Ckiu auu vvuvi wuivv v*
water is taken up into the atmosphere as
vapor.
A new cure for hydrophobia was successfully
tried in the Pasteur Institute
at Milan, Italy. It consisted of a subcutaneous
injection of the virus in its
' fixed form."
There are said to be 13,972 artesian ^
wells west of the ninety-seventh meridian,
which irrigate more than 100,000 acres
of land;; 2,000,000 gallons of water often
flow from a single well.
M. le Chatelier states that by means of
his pyrometer he ha3 discovered that tha
temperatures which occur in melting
steel and in other industrial operations
have been overestimated.
A new combination washer and nut- |
lock for railroad use has recently proved
* itself very useful. The nut can be released
or tightened up with the greatest
ease, and the washer can be rinsed frequently.
(
Some experiments in connection with
the artificial production of clouds by
burning cases of resinous matter were
lately mado in Paris, but were only partially
successful, on account of the wind
carrying the clouds away as soon a*
formed.
A Curious Tar Forest.
Seated at the Grand Hotel the other
night was George E. Mitchell, now of
Port Angele^ but who was born in Manilla,
and who has had a varied experience
in many parts of the world. Hi*
father was the British CodsuI at Manilla,
and in the lapse of time became interit!
lnvna onfornriiM TTo inM rrnnsia
WWU 1U idlgw Vutvi|/twwHi MV ww?w gvvwr
in many different parts of Europe and
Asia, where he had agencies established.
j: The son succeeded to this business,
but at length in one of the financial depressions
be lost his fortune, by that
time large. He came to San Francisco,
married a California young lady, tiia
daughter of D. Milton Jones, Sheriff for
many years of Siskiyou County.
A year or two ago he went to the moet
northern part of the State of Washington, '
overlooking the Straits of Fuca. There
he secured quite an area of land, built
him a cabin and settled down. When
his friends savfr him at the Grand they
asked him what on earth he was going
to do in that country, since they understood
it was a wilderness. He surprised
them by what he said.
'"1" fa* " rpnlifld he.
"uruiu^j bur UJUikv -
"You needn't look skeptical. There
are acres and acres of magnificent trees
there, too much permeated with tho tar
to be of any use for wood. Cut one of
those forest giants down, and the next
day you can go to the stump and with a
small board rake off inches and inches of
tho thick amber-colored ooze. Como
back a little while afterward and you
can do it again.
"Cut a tree half of! and sot your cant
properly so as to catch this, and.you get
gallons upon gallons, not to say barrels,
of it in a short time. Then you can put
up your works and go into the tar business
and make a fortune, the same as
they do in the Carolinas and elsewhere
in the world.
'You have got your pitch, your resin,
tar. turpentine and everything else that
comes from a tar forest. It'a a novel
industry, I know, for within thousands
of miles it has dot been developed, but
with prices high for tar, turpentine, resin
and pitch, and with freights to keep
them so for some time, no such a tield
for money-making is offered as this. I
am going to stay by it."?San Francisco
Examiner.
When Insects Plaj.
It fa well known that several of our
notable as well as notorious human,
social, and civic customs find their prehistoric
prototypes in the insect kingdom.
The monarchical institution sees
its singular prophecy in the domestic
economy of the bees. War and slavery
have always been carriad on systematically
and effectually by ants, and,according
to Huber and other authorities,agriculture,
gardening, and an industry very
fni-minnr haul hppn time-llOn
liuc uuii j iniiuiu^ uwi v
ored customs among this same wise and
thrifty insect tribe, whose claim to
thoughtful consideration was so long ago
voiced by Solomon of proverbial fame.
Thevenot mentions "Solomon's ant'' as
.among the "beasts which shall enter
paradise." Iudeed, the human saint a*
well as sluggard may "go to the ant"
for many suggestive hints and commentaries.
Wiiliam Hamilton Gibson believes
that insects also have their merrymakings,
their garden parties, and their
picnics, and he is going to attempt to
prove it in a forthcoming article.?New
York Witness.
It is estimated that twenty-five tons of
gold are mined every week throughout
the world.
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