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b >"I - * " : ' v; - - - >. - - .. . f . 1 REV. DR. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN' DIVINE'S SUNDAY SERMON. Subject: "Tlie'Ifs' of the Bible." I * Text : "If Thou wilt forpine their sin? and if not, blot me, I pray Thee, out of Thy book.'?Exodus xxxii., 32. There is in our English language a small conjunction which, I propose, by God's help, to haul out of its present' insignificancy and ?et upon the throne whero it belongs, and that is the conjunction "if." Though made of only two letters, it is the pivot on which everything turns. All time and all eternity are at its disposal. We slur it in our utterance, we ignore it iD our appreciation, and none of us recognize it as the most tremendous word in all the' vocabulary outside of those words which describe deity. WKv thn* WDPfi wn talis as a traiEO amontr words, now appearing here, now appearing there, but having no valtt9 of its own. when it really has a millionairedom of r, worlds, and in Its" train walk all planetary, stellar, lunar, so'.ar destinies. If the boat of leaves made watertight, in which the infant , Moses sailed the Nile, had sunk who would hav? led Israel out of Egypt? If the Red Sea had not parted for the escape of one ho3t and then come together for the submergence of another, would the book of Exodus ever have been written? .If the ship on which Columbas sailed for America had gone down in an Atlantic cyclone, how much longer would it have taken for the discov- . ^ ery of this continent? B It Grouchy had come up with reinforcep ments in time to give the French the victory r at Waterloo, what would have been the fate ) of Europe? If the Spanish Armada had- not been wrecked off the coast, how different would have been many chapters in English history! If the battle of Hastings or the Vot-tlo nf T>iilfr?tr-n or f-hn h?ttla of VaJmv. or I the battle of Mataurus, or the battle of Arbela, or the battle of Chalons, each one of which turned the world's destiny, h?d been decided the other way! If Shakespeare had never been born for the drama, or Handel had never been born for music, or Titian had never been born for painting, or Tborwaldsen had never been born for sculpture, or Edmund Burke had never been bom for eloquence, or Soorates had never been born for philosophy, or Blackstone had never been born for the law, or Copernicus bad nt,ver been born for astronomy. or Luther had never been born for the reformation! Ob, that conjunction "if!" How muoh has depended on it! The height of it, the depth of It, the kngth of it, the breadth of it, the immensity of it, the infinity of it?who can measure?" It would swamp anything but p omnipotence. But I must confine myself to* day to the "ifs" of the Bible, and in doing so I shall speak of the "if of overpowering earnestness, the "if" of Incredulity, the "it" of threat, the "if' of argumentation, tlje 'MP' of eternal significance, or so many of these "Us" as I can compass in the time that may be reasonably allotted to pulpit disoourse. First, the "if of overpowering earnestness. My text gives it. The Israelites have ? been worshiping an idol, notwithstanding all that God had done for them, and now Moses offers the most vehement prayer of all history, and It turns upon an "if." "If Thou wilt forgive their sins?and if not, blot me, I pray Thee, out of Thy book." Oh, what an overwhelming "if!" It was as much as to say. "If Thou wilt not pardon . them, do not pardon me. If Thou wilt not bring them to the promised land, let me . never see the promised land. If they must perish, let me perish with them. In that book when* Thou recordest their doom reoord my doom. If they are shut out of heaven, let me be shut out of heaven. If they go down into darkness, let me go down Into darkness." What vehemenoe and holy reoklessness of prayer! Yet there artj those here who, I have no 1???? ?ll aK?A*Mn<? fA uuuu; J uavc, iu lucu Oil auoviumg kv have others saved, risked the same prayer, for it is a risk. You most not makeit unless . yon are willing to balance your eternal salvation on such an '"if." Yet there have been oases where a mother has been so anxious (or the recovery of a wayward son that hef prayer has swung and trembled and poised on au "If' like that of the text. "It not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book. Write his name in the Lamb's Book of Life, or turn to the page where my name was written ten or twenty or forty or sixty years ago, and witn the biack ink of everlasting midnight erase my first name, and my last name, and ali my name. If he is to go into shipwreck, let me be tossed amid the same breakers. If be cannot be a partner in my bliss,let me be a par.nerin his woe. I have for many years loved Thee. O God, and it has been my expecta( ticn to sit with Christ and all the redeemed at the banquet of the skies but I now give up my promised place at the feast, and my promised robe, and my promised orown, and my promised throne unless John, unless George, unless Henry, unless my darling son can share them with me. Heaven will be no heaven without him. O God, save my boy, or count me among the lost!" That is a terrific prayer, and yet there is a voua2 man sitting in the pew on the main floor, or in the lower gallery, or in the top gallery, who has already crushed such a prayer from his mother's heart. He hardly ever writes home, or. living at home, what does he care how rtfuoh trouble he gives her; Her tears are no more to him than the rain that drops from the eaves on a dark night. The fact that she does not sleep because oT watching for his return late at night does not choke his laughter or hasten his step forward. She has tried coaxing and kindness and self sacrifice and all the ordinary prayers thai mothers make for their children, and all have failed. She is coming toward the vivid and venturesome and terrific prayer of my text. She is going to lift her own eternity and S9t it upon that one ''If,'4 by which she expects to decide whether you will go up with her or she down with you. She may be this moment looking heavenward and saying' '0 Lord reclaim him by thy grace," ana then adding that heart-rendering "If of my text "it not, blot me, I pray Thee, out of Thy book.\ i After three years of absence a son wrote his mother in one of the New England whaling villages that he was coming home in a certain ship. MotherUke, she stood watching, and the ship was in the offing, but a fearful storm struck it and dashed the ship on tho rocks that night. All thai night the mother prayed for the safety of the son. and just nt dawn there was a knock at the cottage door, and the son entered, crying out, "Mother, I knew you would pray me home!"' If I would ask all those in this assemblage who have been prayed home to God by pious mothers to stand up, there would be scores that would stand, and if I should ask them to give testimony it would be the testimony of that New England son coming ashore from the split timbers of the whaling ship, "My mother prayed me home !'" Another Bible "IP" Is the "If" ct incredulity. Satan used it when Christ's vitality was depressed by forty days' abstinence trom food, and the tempter pointed to some stones, In color and shape like loaves of brea I, and said, "If thou oe tho Son of. God, command that these stones be made bread." That was appropriate, for Satan is the father of that "it" of Incredulity. Peter used the same ''if" when, standing on the wet and slippery aecK ot a nsnint* smaos on iiane Galilee, he saw Christ walking on the sea as though it were as solid as a pavement of basalt from tho adjoining volcanic hills, and Teter cried, "If It be Thou, let me come to Thee on the water." What a preposterous "if!"' What human . foot was ever so constructed as to walk on water? In what part of the earth did law of gravitation make exception to the rule that a ? man will sink to the elbows when ho touches the wave oi river or iase ?au win siu*. ?ui farther unless he can swim? But here Peter looks out upon the form in tho shape of a man defying the mightiest law of the universe, the law of gravitation, and standing erect on the top of the liquid. Yet the incredulous Peter cries out to the Lord. "If Jt be Thou." Ala?. forthatincredulous "If!" It is workinc as powerfully in the latter part of this nineteenth Christian century as it did in the early part of the first Christian century. Though a small conjunction, it Is tho biggest block to-day in the way of the eospel chariot. "If!" "If We have tbeolojrical seminaries which spend most of their time and employ their learning and their genius in the manufacturing of "ifs." With that weaponry are assailed the Pentateuch, and the miracles, and the divinity of Jesu3 Christ. ATmost everybody is chewinsr on an "if." When many a man hows for prayer, he puts his knee on an "if." The door through which people pass into infidelity and atheism and all immoralities has two doorposts, and the one is made of the letter "i" and the other of the letter There are only iour stena b3tween strong faith and complete unbelief: First, surrender ' the Idea of the verbal Inspiration of the Scriptures and adopt the Idea that they were ] all generally supervised by the Lord. Sec- ' ond, surrender the idea that they were all ' generally supervised by the Lord and adopt | the theory that thev were not all, but partly. I supervised by the Lord. Third, believe that 1 they are the gradual evolution of the ages, and men wrote a^eordlnz to the wisdom of the times in which they Ilred. Fourth, believe that the Bible is a bud book and not only unworthy of credenoe, but pernicious and debasing and oruel. Only four steps from the stout faith In which the martyrs died to the blatant caricature of Christianity as the greatest sham of the centuries. But the door to all that precipitation and horror is made out of an "if The mother of unrests in the minds of cmrrsnnri'people ana to tnose vrno regard j sacred things is the ''if' of incredulity. In j 1879. in Scotland, I saw a letter which had been written many years ago by Thomas Carlyle to ThomasChalmers. Carlyle at the j time of writing the letter was a young man. The letter was not to he published until after the death of Carlyle. His death having taken j place, the letter ought to be published. It was a letter in which Thomas Carlyle t expresses the tortures of his own mind while , relaxing his faith in Christianity, while at t the same time expresses his admiration for ^ Dr. Chalmers, and in which Carlyle wishes r that he had the same faith that the great * Scotch minister evidently exeroised. Nothing g that Thomas Carlyle ever wrote in "Sartor a Resarus," or the "French Revolution," or . his "Life of Cromwell," or his immortal ? "Essays." had in it more wondrous power v than that letter which bewailed his own ( aouots ana extouea tne strong raittt or another. B I made an exact copy of that letter, with ?, the understanding that it should not be pub- e lished until after the death of Thomas a Carlyle, but returning to my hotel in Edin- i burgh I felt uneasy lest somehow that letter p should get out of my possession and be pub- c Jisnea Deiore 113 ume. 00 x iuut 11 u?u>. iu the person by whose permission I had 5 copied it. All reasons for its privacy having j Vanished, I wish it might be published. c Perhaps this sermon, finding its way into a Scottish home, may suggest its printing, j: for that letter shows more mightily than any- fe thinsr I have ever read the difference between 0 the "I know" of Paul, and the "I know" of E Job, and the "I know" of Thomas Chalmers, v and the "I know" of all those who hold with 8 a firm grip the gospel, on the one hand, and <j the unmooring, bestorming and torturing a "if' of incredulitv on the other. I like the |. positive faith or that sailor boy that Captai* t Judkins of the steamship Scotia picked up i n ~ a hurricane. "Go aloft," said Captain Jud- f kir* to his mate, "and look out for wrecks." ? Before the mate had gone far up the rat- f lines he shouted: "A wreok! A wreck!" I "Where away!" said Captain Judkins. "Off the port bow," was the answer. Lifeboats 7 were lowered, and forty men volunteered to p put out across the angry sea for the wreck. r They came back, with a dozen shipwrecked, h and among them a boy of twelve years. c 'Who are you?" said Captain Judkins. i The answer was - "I am a Scotch boy. My father and mother are dead, and I am on my t wav to America." "What have you here?' 8 saia uapiain juuum ua uo upcucu mo wj o jacket and took bold of a rope around the s boy's body. "It Is a rope," said the boy. ''But what is that tied by this rope under your arm?" "That, sir, is my mother's Blblq. She told me never to I039 that." "Could you not have saved something else?" "Not and saved that." "Did you expect to go down?" "Yes. sir, but I meant to take my mother's Bible down with me." "Bravo!" said Captain Judkins. "I will take care of you." That boy demonstrated a certainty and a confidence that I like. Just in proportion 8 as you have few "ifs" of incredulity In yoar a religion will you find it a comfortable religion. My full and unquestioned faith in it _ is founded on the fact th3t It sooths and sus- t tains in time of trouble. I do not believe . that any man who ever lived had more blessings and prosperity than I have received from God and the world. But I have had , trouble enough to allow me opportunity 'or t finding out whether our religion is of any use in such exigency. I have had fourteen great bereavements, to say nothing of lesser v bereavements, for I was the younger of a ^ large family. I have had as mooh persecu- I tion as comes to most people. I have had j all kin da of trial, except severe ana prolonged sickness, and I would have been dead . long ago bat for the consolatory power ot our religion. Any religion will do in time ot prosperity. ,, Buddhism will do. Confucianism will do. u Theosophy will do. No religion at all will do. But when the world gets after you and l defames your best deeds, when bankruptcy takes the place of large dividends, when yoa t] fold for the kst sleep, the still hands over the still heart of your old father, who has b been planning for your welfare all these years, or you close the eyes of your mother, who has lived in your life ever since before you were born, removing her spectacles because she will have clear vision In the home a to whioh she has gone, or you give the last f, kiss to the child reclining amid the flowers t. that pile the casket and looking as natural & and lifelike as she ever did reclining in the p cradle, then the only religion worth anything I is the old fashion religion ot the gospel of a Jesus Christ. , t I would give more in such a crisis for one * of the promises expressed in half a verse of <j the old book than for a whole library con- b taining all the productions of all the other t< religions of all the ages. The otherreligions are a sort ot cocaine to benumb and deaden the soul while bereavement and misfortune do their work, but our religion is inspiration, illumination, imparadisation. It is a mlontii of Oiinlinhf ?ml hallnluinh. Do not lUUlUiD VI Uuuiigut WMV* ^ ? adulterate it with one drop of the tincture of incredulity. Another Bible "if" is the "if o^ ^rnw significance. Solomon gives us that "it" i twice in one sentence when he says, "If thou be wise, thou shalt '00 wise for thyself, but if thou scornest thou alone shalt bear it."* i Christ gives us that "if' when he says, "If thou hadst known in this thv day the things which belong unto thy peace, but now they < are hidden from thine eyes." Paul gives us that "if when he says, "If they shall enter ( into my rest." All these "ifs" and a score more that I might recall put the whole responsibility of our salvation on ourselves. , Christ's willingness to pardon?no "if about 1 that. Realms of glory awaiting the right- J eoas?no "if" about that. The only '"ir in all the case worth a moment's consideration is the "it" that attaches Itself to the question as to whether we will < accept, whether we will repent, whether we will believe, whether we will rise forever. Is < it not time that wb take our eternal future 1 off that swivel',' Is it not time that we ex- 3 tirpate that <:if," that miserable "if," that | hazardous "if'.'" We would not allow this uncertain "if to stay long in anything else of importance. Let some one say in regard 1 to a railroad bridge, "I have reasons for ask- ( leg if that bridge is safe," and you would not ?rr>?a tt T ot tump one saw "I have reasons to ask if that steamer is trustworthy," and you would not take passage on it. Let some one suggest in regard to a prop- j ertv that you are about to purchase, "I have reason to ask if they can give a good title,"; and you would not pay a dollar down until 1 you had some skillful real estate lawyer ex- ' amine tne title. Bat I allowed for years ot my lifetime, and some of you have allowed for years ot your lifetime, an 'if' to Btand 1 tossing up and down questions of eternal ( destiny. Oh, decide! Perhaps your arrival j bereto.day may decide. Stranger things than that have put to flight forever the "if* 1 of uncertainty. A few Sabbath night3 ago in this church a . man passing at the foot of the pulpit said to ' me, "I am a miner from England,!' and then i he pushed back his coat sleeve and said, "Do ( you see that sc3r on my arm?" I said, "Yes ; , you must have had an awful wound them some time*" He said: "Yes ; it nearly cost ( me my life. I was in a mine in England 000 feet underground and three miles from the bhaft of the mine, and a rock fell on me, and ; my fellow laborer pried off the rock, and I was bleeding to death, and he took a news- ; paper from around his luncheon and bound, it around my wound and then helped me over , the three miles underground to the shaft, where I was lifted to the top, and irhen the nowunnnop txtuq nfT mv temirwl T rPftfl on it something that saved my bouI. and it ' was one or your sermons. Uooa night," he ( said as he passed on. leaving me transfixed ; with grateful emotion. . And who knows but the words I now speak, blessed of God, may reach some wounded ' soul deep down in the black mine of sin, and 1 that these words inay be blessed to the stanching of the wound and the eternal life of the soul? Settle thi3 matter instantly, positively 1 and forever. Slay the last "if." Bury deep the last'*if." How to do it? Fling body, ; mind and soul in a prayer as earnest as that of Moses in the text. Can you doubt the earnestness of this prayer of the text? It is so heavy with emotion that it breaks down in the middle. It was ?o earnest that the rrnnoriMtrrs in cno modern. COp.es OT ZD0 JHTDle ! were obliged to put a mark, a straight lino, % dash, for an omissloh that will never be filled up. 8uch nn abrupt pause.sueh a sudien snapping off ot the sentence! You cannot parse my text. It is an offense of grammatical construction. But ihatdash put in by the typesetters is mightily suggestive. "If thou wilt forgive their sin ;then comes the dash)?''and if not, blot iie, I pray Thee, out of Thy book.'' Some >f the most earnest nravers ever uttered :ould not be parsed and were poor specimens of language. They halted, they broke lown, they passed Into sobs or groans or silences. God cares nothing for the syntax >f prayers, nothing for the rhetoric of jrayers. Oh, the worldless prayers ! If they vere piled up, they would reaoh to tae rain>owtnat arches the throne of Go4. A deen ngn may mean more man a wnole liturgy. Dut of the 116,000 words of the English language there may not be a word enough expressive for the soul. The most effective prayers I have heard lave been prayers that broke down with 5motion?the young man for the first time rising in a prayer meeting and saying, "Oh, Lord Jesus!" and then sitting down, buryng his face in the handkerohief, the percent in the inquiry room kneeling and sayng. "God help me," and getting no further ; be broken prayer that started a great re 1 4 n , ?> DUjl^AlnK<n A 'ivai ju mj uuuiuu m ^ luiaucipuia, a >rayer may have in style the gracefulness of in Addison, and the sublimity of a Milton ind the epigrammatio force of an Emerson, nd yet be a failure, having a horizontal >ower but no perpendicular power, horlontnl power reachms the ear of man. but 10 perpendicular power reaching the ear ot Jod. Between the first and the last sentences of ay text there was a paroxysm of earnestness oo mighty for words. It will take half of an ternity to tell of ^11 the answers of earnest nd faithful prayer. In his vvst journal )avid Livingstone, in Africa, records the irayer so soon to be answered: "19 Marchay birthday. My Jesus, my God, my life, ay all, I again dedicate my whole self to'hee. Accept me, and grant. O gracious tether, that ere this year is gone I may finish ay task. In Jesus' name I ask it. Amen." When the du3ky servant looked into LivQgstone's tent and found him dead on his mees, he saw that the prayer had been anwered. But notwithstanding the earnestiess of the prayer of Moses In the text, it , ras a defeated prayer and was not anwered. I think the two "ifs" in the grayer lefeated it, and one "if' is enough to defeat ny prayer, whatever other good characterjtics it may have. "If Thou wilt forgive heir sins?and if not, blot me, I pray Thee, ut of Thy book." God did neither. As the ollowing verses show, He punished their ins. but I am sure did not blot out one let- ' er of the name of Moses from the Book of ' jife. There is only one kind of prayer in which ( ou need to put the "if," and that is the 1 irayer for temporal blessiiyjs. Pray for i ishes, and they may engulf us; or for fame,. < nd 'it may bewitch us; or for worldly sue- 1 ess, and it may destroy us. Better say, "If i t be best," "If I can make proper use of it," 1 'If Thou seest I need it" A wife praying for j he recovery of her husband from illness, tamped her foot and said with frightful 1 mphasis : "I will not have him die. God hall not take him." Her prayer was anwered. but in a few years after the comma- i ilty was shocked bj the fact that he had in a nomant of anger slain her. i A mother, praying for a son's recover from < llness, told the Lord he had no right to take i dm, and the boy recovered, but plunged ino all abominations and died a renegade. 1 i Setter in all such prayers and all prayers i ertainlngto our temporal welfare to put an i 'if," saying, "If It be Thy will. "But in pray- ] ng for spiritual good and the salvation of < >ur soul we need never insert an "if." Our i rviplhial nratfn*a 4a onf a Ka tha Kocf ^UilUUl TVVJ*AU>kVJ U JIUV IV WW 4V/4 IUU ISMJly j nd away with-the ''lis.1' Abraham's prayer for the rescue of Sodom i ras a grand prayer la some respects, bat here were six ' its" In it, or "peradveaares," which mean the same thing. "Perd venture there may be fifty righteoas in the ity, peradventure forty-five, peradventure j orty, peradventure thirty, - peradventure wenty, peradventure ten." Those six per.dventures, those si c ' 'ifa" killed the prayer, na Boaom went down and went under. r?arly all the prayers that were answered pd no "Ifs"'in them?the prayer of Elijah , kat changed dry weather to wet weather, le prayer that changed Hezekiah from a Ick'man to a well man, the prayer that | alted sun and moon without shaking the nlverse to pieces. Oh, rally your soul for a prayer with ao ifs" in it! Say in substance: "Lord, Thou ast promised pardon, and I take it. Here re my wouuds; heal them. Here is my lindness ; irradiate it. Here are my chains f bondaee; bv the kosdbI hammer strike bem off." I am fleeing to the City of Refuge, nd I am sure this is the right way. Thanks e to God, I am free ?" Oijcc. by the law, my hopes were slain. Bat now. In Christ, I lire m'n. tritn rne aiosat? earnestness or my tesrt nd without its Mosaic "ifs," let us cry out or God. Aye, if words fall us, let us take he suggestion of that printer's dash of the ext, and with a wordless silence implore ardon and comfort and life and heaven, 'or this assemblage, all of whom I shall aeet in the Ipst judgment, I dare not offer he prayer of n<y text, and so I change it and ay, "Lord God, forgive our sins and write ur names In the book of Thy loving rememrance, from which they shall never be blotsd our." CURIOUS FACTS. Soap is a legal tender in Braeretaro, Mexico. The population of Japan is about tO,000,000. Bohemia his nearly 140,000 separate manufactories. A Maine man recently ate thirty raw ;ggs in five minutes. There are carnivorous plants which japture and eats insects. The fashionable cat at the National show in London this year is blue and long-haired. At Indianapolis, Ind., recently a 3rayman had his jaw fractured by the jxplosion of a barrel of catsup. A bear, the hide of which measures ten feet wide and twelve feet long, was recently killed in the Big Horn [Wyoming) Basin. The name "Brazil" means "red ivood" or "land of the red wood." The original discoverer called it "the land ?f the holy cross." The most destructive epidemic that iae ever been was the "black death," which appeared in the fourteenth cen'.nrv ami in said to have destroyed TO, 000,000 people. Samuel and Simms Gammei, of Hickory Flats, Simpson County, Ky., ire probably the largest twin brothers in the United States. Their combined weight is 542 pounds. E. N. Hubbard, of Middletown? Uonn., has the finest collection of liv* ing birds in New England. It includes ipecies from almost every country in the world and is worth thousands of dollars. The mosaic copies in the Vatican at Rome of large pictures by Raphael, Domenichino and others occupied Pr Am tcilva t.n t.wAntv-fivfl veara to cxccute and required from 15,000 to 20,000 different shades of color. A ben laid an egg on the brickwork of a boiler in High Point, N. C., recently. One day a little chicken was noticed on the boiler, and it is claimed an examination showed that the chicken had been hatched by the heat of the boiler. Sponges are being propagated in a cheap way just now. About three years ago a 'cute German divided a few Imalfhtr onooimprm nf Hvft Htionces into "J a goodly number of parts and placed them in deep water, with the result that he now has a crop of 4000 at an initial expenditure of $20. FIERCE BRITISH SEAS. THE COAST SWEPT FROM JOHN O'GEOATS TO LAND'S END, British Shores Lashed by One of the Worst of Storms ? Wreckage Strewn on Every Beach?Many Lives Lost?Over 300 Seamen Drowned at Calais. One of the worst storms ever known in Great Britain raged for three days and nights and played havoc with the shipping as well ns destroyed scores of seaman. Stories of wreck and disaster poured in from all parts of the coast wliere wires remained standing. It was only with the greatest difficulty tha* communication was maintained with the American cable station on the Irish and Welsh coasts. The people of the Orkney Islands, off the north coast of Scotland, have suffered terribly. Many houses were unroofed, wnlls and barns were leveled, and .haystacks were lifted from the fields and blown out to sea. Six vessels were ashore nt>ar Holyhead, off the Welch coast. Four of them were breaking up. Six other vessels were making signals of distress. The Yorkshire coast is strewn thick with wreckage. Near Whitby three vessels went ashore in the night and were going to pieces at noon. The crews were saved. The excursion steamers Tern and Swan, which were at anchor in Windermere Lake, Lancaster, when the storm began, were torn loose before daylight, and both went to the bottom. Off Winterton, county of Norfolk, East England, a schooner foundered shortly before noon, and five of the crew were drowned. Trawlers, fishing smacks and small craft of other sorts nave ueen reported Dy tue score aa missiwj from every important point on the coast. The loss of life bos been great. At several points on the coast the thermometer has fallen rapidly and the high winds have piled up enormous snow drifts. Two soldiers were found frozen to death in a drift near Portsmouth. The British steamship Hampshire, 1593 tons, went down off Gurnard's Head, on the coast of Cornwall. All the crew took to the boats. One boat reached shore, but the other went down, and the twenty-three men which' It carried were lost. Reports of minor wrecks multiplied rapidly. The Norwegian schooner Arne sank off Filey, on the Yorkshire coast. Only one of the nine men aboard of her was saved. A trawler went ashore near Beay, on the Caithness coast, and seven of the eight in her crew were lost. The British steamshiD Princess. 1370 tons, plying between Sunderland and Bilbao, went to the bottom near Flamborough. Yorkshire, with all on board- A Scotch trawler capsized off Scarborough, Yorkshire, and eight men aboard her were lost. A Norweigan barx foundered off Malin Bead, county Donegal, Ireland, and the irew of eight were lost. ' The steamer Mayo, which plies between Dublin and Liverpool, arrived t-t the latter port. Forty head of Battle were killed tnd" thrown overboard during the voyage. Reports received from Havre and Calais jay that the storm along the Normandy coast is the worst experienced In the last fifty years. Wrecks are reported from every point along the coast. Innumerable ema'.l craft vanished from the waters along the coast. Vessels were dragged from their moorings and sank with all on board. The Channel steamer Foam had the greatest difficulty in entering Calais harbor. Her officers counted twenty-nine wrecks, principally fishing boats, in the twelvemile interval between Gravelines and Calais. They found the east pierhead at Calais and the lighthouse in Calais harbor swept away. More than 600 feet of the pier bad been swept away In the night. Tremendous seas were still piling up on the water front. The harborlooked as if it had been shaken byan earthquake. More than 300 persons weredrowned between noon and noon at Calais and in the immediate neighborhood. Fifty bodies were recovered. A forty-ton crane, used in completing the harbor at lynemoutb. was blown down and the harbor works were damaged to the extent of 50.000. A despatch from St. Ives, onthenorthooast -???l' thnf* fh? srnamnr filnfcra is UI UUlUnoiij oujg huuw ?Mv . _ ashoreat that place. Four persons onboard were taken off with ft breeche.s buoy by the Gt. Ives lifeboat crew. Eleven others were drowned. , The American bark A. C. Bean, from Newcastle, New Brunswick, for Bowling, was blown ashore and totally wrecked near Donegal, Ireland. All of the crew, excepting two, were drowned. At Darlington, forty-flve miles from York, the Springfield Steel Works were blown down, causing heavy loss. Despatches from various points to the north of England report extensive havoc. Hundreds upon hundres of trees were uprooted, fences and outhouses blown down, and residences damaged. At Betwick-on-Tweed the roof of the North British Railway station was blown off. Many boats in the harbor were swamped. Liieboats and tugs everywhere along the coast were kept busy and effected many rescues. Countless small craft have been portcd stranded. Piers, landings and ghora structures of all kinds have been greatly damaged. Many vessels were damaged by dragging thoir anchors and colliding with *\? K/m> fnuealu ' UlUvi BURNED IN A HOTEL. The Fire said to Have Been or Incendiary Origin. A hotel at Merrill Station, near Beaver, Penn., burned a few nights ago. It was 84x40 feet, tbrao stories high Each of its twenty-five sleeping rooms was occupied. The flr^ spread so quickly that escape was almost impossible. Many jumped from windows and were badly hurt. The following wnru burned to death : James Hughes. of Chartiers, Penn., engineer, ag?d thirty-three. John Kelly, of Woods Run, Penn., laborer, aged forty. Robert Htaniey, of i?ew Brighton, Penn., engineer. aged tbirty-ftve. Barney Wilkes, of Allegheny, Penn., stonemason, aged sixty. D;in. Wrenn, of Pittsburg, stonemason, aged twenly-foar. Jerry Wrenn, of Pittsburg. boss stonemason. ai?ed sixty; father of Dan. It is said the Are was of incendiary origin. Cnmw nf Mia mpn ImrnPil nnrl initir?.l li.aH been discharged on account of the near approach of winter and were staying at tlu> hotel, waiting for their money. They had been working on the Government dam. According to the statement of men who were aroused in time to escape, it was only forty minutes from the time the alarm was Kiven until the building collapse'. Then were thirty-five men sleeping on the Second and third floors. Jerry Wrenn. one of the victims, had escaped iu safely from the building, but being reminded that his sou Dan was still in the building, returned to And him and was lost. Night Watchman G:ifllck says he went up to the second floor and awoke one of the men to go to work. The man came down in about five minutes. From twelve to twenty minutes later the fire was discovered by the colored porter and the alarm was siren. Jl::G:?ftlck says the lire was then beyond control. the whole lower story bein< ablaz? and all chance 01" eseaiio by the stairway cut on". Frank J. Bra ('ley nnd Robert Keon?y, ol PitlSjurg, W(?r-> proprietors of ths hotel, FRIGHTFUL DEATH. Andrew Carman and Son Drive In Front of a Train. Andrew Cartnnn, of Valley Stream, andhi* sixteen-year-old son, William, were klUed by the Sag Harbor (N. Y.) express which reaches Rockville Centre at 5.20 p. m. Carman was driving toward Valley Stroarn. Tliern is a fl.tu: station at Itockville Centre. Flagman Jesso Brotherton, who was on duty, shouted to Carman and waved his fla? to warn him that the train was approaching, but to no purpose. Carman drove across tho rails immediately bofore the flying train. Both he and his son wore carried more than one hundred yards. The horsowas cut to pieces, and tho neavy spring wagon was crushed into splinters.^ ;:% LATER NEWS, : I Tlaafirrnnrl TarL- 'Mottt VrtrL- TMrAofnm tho king of trotting stallions, won the $5000 match race from A.lis, making the last of the three heats in 2.09. The Chamber of Commerce of New York City held its one hundred ani twenty-fifth annual dinner. Speeches were made by Secretary of the Trensury Carlisle, ex-llinistei to Germany William Walter Phelp3, Representative Outhwaito of Ohio. St. Clair Mo Kelway and President Patton, of Princeton College. The Nicthoroy, tho Brazilian dynamite cruiser, sailed southward from New York under sealed orders. Lewis Ghee* Steven-sox, son of TiceFresident Stevanson, married at Bioomlngton, 111., Helen Louis9 Davis, daughter ot a prominent Republican editor. Joseph M. Ebaft, a New Albftny (Ind.) merchant, shot and killed a man who was attempting to kidnap his twalve-year-old daughter for ransom. L. A. Thoestox, Hawaiian Minister af Washington, issued a statement in reply to Commissioner Blount's report. Air explosive enclosed in a copper cylindei was exploded in Valencia, Spain, doing considerable damage. The continuance ot such outrages has caused dismay among the populace of Valencia. Ax epidemic of influenza is reported la England and in Germany. It has assumed a severe form in the latter country, where it has caused a number of deaths. The greatest destitution prevails among tho Indians all over Canada, and from Labrador to British Columbia come continuous tales of iuftering. . More than 400 have already perished of hunger in tho Province oJ Quebea The American Casualty Insuranco and S?turity Company, of New York City, decided to close np its business and apply for a receiver. Its losses during the three years ot Its life amounted to $1,700,000, which is $200,000 more than its enliro capitaL Fibe In Springfield, Mass., destroyed seven blocks, Including the Hotol Glendower. Mhs. Ledecky, aged sixty-seven, and her daughter Fanny, agod thirty-five, comcittcd suicide together in New York City. The cause is unknown. C. M. Overman, formerly President of the Citizens' National Bank, Hillsboro, Ohio, which he wrecked, has been sentenced to ten years in the Penitentiary. Newberxe, Tenn., was visited by Are, resulting in the death of throe persons and the injury of five others. Four buildings were destroyed. William T. Coleman, of San Francisco, head of the famous California vigilance committee of 1856, is dead. He was born at Cynthiana, Ky.. February 29, the additional uay 01 me leap year 01 iom, ani was iu-us able to celebrate his birthday only once in four years. The President has removed rostmaatcr Thomas, of Topcka, Kan,, for violating the Civil-Service law. No further business will be transactor by the State Department with Minister Tliurston, representing the provisional Government of Hawaii.' The arched stone roof of St. Pierre Chapel, recently erected in Coarpu.ro, near Clermont-Ferrand,* Puy-de-Dome Department; France, fell while many Sisters of Mercy were at prayers. Several Sisters were killed, and others were injured severely. A nisrATCH dated at Rio de Janeiro, Uracil. says Tliero is heavy artillery Are daily. Many shots struck Villegagnon and Fort Laage, which wore much damaged. Ar* officer and seventeen men were killed in tho latter by the bursting of a shell. The flrs from machino guns now makes part of tha city dangerous M;?y casualties occur la the street. CHICAGO'S NEW MAYOR. Alderman Swift the Successor of th? T.ufn i lapfir Harrison. 1 1? george b. swift, Alderman George B. Swift is tho Actinq Mayor of Chicago, succeeding the late Carter Harrison. Mayor Swift is a Republican, and was chosen after a sharp struggle between contending factions in the Board of Aldermen He will act as Mayor until a new official is selected by popular election, SWALLOWED A CITY. An Earthquake Destroys the Town of Kuchan, in Persia. A special despatch from Meshed brings further details of the earthquake that o? curred at Kuclian. in the northern part o: tho province of Khorassan, Persia. The town was completely destroyed, and the los? of life was immense. Great crevasses were opened in the earth through which-* water flowed in torrents causing tho Atrok River to overflow its banks. The fertile region around the city was inuu dated, and the largo gardens and extensive vineyards w?t? sweot out of existence. The people of Kuchan had no chance to save anything. The shock was so severe that tho largest houses in the town, includinsr the residence of the Governor, were almost instantly toppled over, crushing hundreds ol poople to death. The town had a population of between 20,000 ami 25.000 persons, and it Is thought that at least 1000 porished. Many persons were carried away by the flood that flowed down the valley. A short time after the disturbance the enfire water supply of the town disappeared. The people who were not injured fled pauiostrlcken to tin Ala Dash Mountains, leaving the injured t> care for themselves as best they could. The district in which Kuchan situated is very populous, and it is feared that it has everywhere suffered from the earthquake and the flood. A Pin in Her Kye. Mrs. .\nna Swinarton, of Chicago, has sa onred a verdict of $10,000 damages in the New York Court of Common Pleas before Judge Giegerich and a jury against Georgo Le Boutillier, dry goods merchant. Sirs. Swinarton went into the storo on March 12, 1889. and was waiting for somo change after having made some purchases. ?She had her little boy with her. She declared that some one of the cash boys in the store throw a pin which struck her in the eye, injuring it so that it was removed to save the other eye. CI ^ ffcftn Af\1 Iti rr%o riaU 1 Olic SUxJU I'J ivvWTCVr OUUiUVV uwiua^vij, ^ ^ - ~ 7;^ ; * v j. " '* , j '.* RELIGIOUS READING. 8EKDINO* POBTIOS8. %T-u- :..i. M: *. u ~ TYllfLL rtUUttUlllill WiVJ gUlUllJX IU?5 of a grateful people, ami stillingtheir grief aa they mourned over their neglect and-sin, he said to them, "Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy unto our Lord, neither be ye 9orry. for the joy of your Lord is your strength." Neh. viii. 10, The sailor in the meeting said, "Pass the contribution box; I never get shouting happy till after I have given something." When Nehemiah sought to inspire rejoicing and banish sorrow from the hearts of his people, he bade them not only to be joyful themselves, but also to send joy into other homes. They were to enjoy the abundance of good things which God had bestowed upon them, and than they were to send portions to those for whom nothing was prepared. This is in accordance with thespirit both of the law and of the gospfcl: for the law of Moses was not only the embodiment of justice, but also the embodiment of love and mercy. It was that law which said what no other law ' ever said, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." Hence they were bidden to deal their bread to the hungry, to comfort those that mourn, to relieve the fatherless and the widow; and so, while gladdening other hearts, bring joy to their own. Among the precious words which the Lord Jesus spoke we are to remember these. "It is more blessed to give than to receiveand if we have not learned this fact, our Christian education is decidedly defective. It is not enough that we give a trifle to some impour tunatc begger. The most needy do not beg or parade their wants before us. It is our business to seek them out, and with a wise discretion to help them in time of need, or even before the need presses them t^ost sorely. Many times a little timely heip would save from the extremity of poverty and distress, and a little sending portions to those for whom nothing is prepared, would cause sad hearts to sing for joy. and save much losp and sorrow which comes when help is delayed too-long. Send portions; it will do you good to send them; it will do others good to carry them. Let your children, your servants, or your friends go to the homes oi the poor as the bearers of your bounty, and share with you the joy that comes to those who do good and relieve distress. "With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again," and into your own bosom men shall measure the good gifts of God. "pressed down, shaken together,and running over."?[The Christian. OKLY Alt EEL. All the trolley care in the annexed district were stopped the other night, and the thousands of people who depended upon them for means of transport were delayed or put to inconvenience. The cars stopped because the electric current had failed, and the electric curreut failed because the water supply had in some way been cut off from the big boilerein the power house where the electricity was generated. There was plenty of water in tne reservoir, and the taps were turned on: but the water did not reach the boilers, and without water it was impossible to make steam to drive the engines. What was the matter? Only an eel in the supply pipe, they said. It was a line illustration of the power of apparently insignificant things for good or for evil. There is an abundant supply of "living water" in the divine reservoir, and it is free to all comers, but how often an eel gets intothe supply pipe! How often our prayers which form the pipe or channel of communication between our souls and the "fountain of living waters" are blocked oy invoious, selfish or angry thoughts, or by sinful anxiety and worry! We are God's generators. Our business in this world is to drink deep of the water of life and then convert the spiritual energy which we derive from it into spiritual electricity by which dead souls can be galvanized into newness of life. We are called to be fellow-workers with Christ in saving men, but all our efforts to that end will be in vain; all the trolley cars which we might set in motion, carrying passengers to glory, will bo stopped if we allow a single eel to get into our supply pipes because it is only by living in constaut connection with the water supply that we can continue to generate the electrical current of divine love.?Sab. Reading. EARLY PIETY?HOICK. One of the great advantages of borne for the inculcation of religion, is, that its instru<rtions begin early. Long before the teacher or minister can gain access, the parent is in daily contact with God's immortal gift. A great deal can be done by early training to secure spiritual blessings. The promises of God, like the angels who welcomed the infant Redeemer, are a heavenly host, bright-shining and glorious witnesess of the fullllment of the covenant "* * *- ? ? ? ? 4?-J iUrt Mnnwa mUVi fko and ' LrOU Him CUIIIIUUIUU wo aicoii^ wnuvuu vuu. While the blessing is with His Spirit, the agency is with the people. That agency primarily consists in home nurture, early and piously at work, resting upon, divine promises, and therefore industrious ia elaborating the comprehensive and mysterious means. "I will be a God to thee, and to thy seed after thee." ''Train up a child in the way he should go. and when ho is old he will not depart from it." The raising of the seed is God's stipulation in the covenant, and the promise of tho man is in the training of the child. The early nurture of home i3 of unspeakable advantage in maturing the true ends of education. Tho mysterious power of a right beginning is never more clearly exemplified than in the great work of training the human 90ul for "glory, honor andimmortality."?Presbyterian Magazine. BELIGIOCS ENTHUSIASM. In the light of the larger and truer estimate of human facilities and powers that marks the thinking of today,the contempt of enthusiasm whica was once regarded as tho note of superior intel'igence. Is seen to be the fruit of ignorance and conceit. Genuine enthusiasm does not wax strong in the obscuration of reason and conscience; rather it is found just where the highest intelligence and the clearest mora! sense are being converted into action. As thought rises to loftier levels it passes into passionate conviction and seeks to express itself in universal forms, in poetry and song, in cries of wonder aud rapturous outbursts of love. As the call of duty becomes more imperious it lays its demands upon the whole man, his feelings and affections, his desires and imagination, till the very soul kindles into flame. A thought takes permanent hold on men till it is proclaimed with something of prophetic zeal that owns a divine necessity? ' Woo is me Jf I preach not the Gospel." "No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic." There is, of course, such a thing as irrational and debasing enthusiasm; but it is the counterfeit of the trenuine article, the shadow of the real. Now. if thi9' is true, then it will follow that wherever the moral dynamite of enthusiasm is found, it ought to be put to the most immediate and wisest use. The impulse should not end with the crowded assembly and the "great occasion;" it ought to go out in widening circles, to revive the drooping courage of lonely workers, to warm the hearts of those grown cold and indifferent, to stir the listless to action, and reinvigorate the whole body of the churchAll the peace and fa\or of the world can not calm a troubled heart ; but where the peace is which Christ gives, all the trouble and disquiet of the world connot disturb it. All outward distress to such a mind is but as the rattling of the hail upon the tiles to him thatsits within tho house at a sumptuous banquet.? Archbishop Leighton. A O'lianxe of I'rosr;unme. At E\'ff Harbor. N. J., a week ai?o a bride, surrounded by her friends, stood waiting lor fhe man she was to marry. A telegram came flaying that ho had been called to Philadelphia ou businoss, but would return in time forthe ueromouy, which had been set forhiirh noon. At uoon the bride t'.irued to the best mau. an ol>i lover. and it was quickly arranijoJ that they should wed. Just as the ceremony was concluded the disappointed man rusncd in ; his train had been late. The bride tainted in hur 'mwlmnd's arms. a rowvi'iUi .uiuiuig i'ress. A new hydraulic press for makin? medals has bean erected at the Philadelphia Mint at a cost of S7000. It can exert a pressure of 4000 pounds to the squ ire inch ana will take 1 the piace of tho old press. \ . "... ?** v.\ T v\* v '/ : ' "*'V ':\v& r?' / < . SABBATH SCHOOL '1 \ -J " INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOBS DECEMBER 10. Lesson Text: "The Heavenly In* herlbincft." 1 Peter i.. 1-12? Golden Text: Col. I., 12? , Commentary. ' isja 1. "Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, t<*> the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia. Cappadoela, Asia and Bithynia. The writers of the epistles know but on? master?they are either servants or apotfles of Jesus Christ?and being controlled by the Spirit they glorify Him (Math, xxiii., 8* Johnxvl., 14). Their aim is to help their fellow strangers to be holy in their live* and full of good works that God may be glorified. (chapter iiM 11, 12. 2. "Elect aoeording to the foreknowledge' of God the Father, through ^notification of the spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ. Grace unto you and peace be multiplied," Scriptural eieo tion is the choosing of some to bless others, \ "j these chosen ones being taken out from th? rest that they may be specially qualified for / iSl? special service ftp a L, 4;' Bom. viii., 29). The exceeding abundance of His grace and peace is given to such that through them it maybe multiplied to others. If you have received Him, you are one Oi His elect. If : -M you have not receive Him, you may do so at once (John vi.. 8l*.iil, 13: Bev. xxil., 3 'Blessed be the God and Father of our fl Lord Jesus Christ, which according to Hi? , ;M abundant mercy hath begotten us again onto a lively hope by the resurreotion of Jesus Christ from the dead." The significance ot . M the resurrection is fully stated Jn I Cor. xv.? . 13, 23. He who was dead is alive forevermore, and at the right hand ot God are the $! evidence of our justification and the assurance of our continued life (Bev. L, 18, Bom. .. riv 25;vili., 34). To be identified" wtth m risffn, living Christ, who has all power in heaven and on earth, andto be commissioned as His embassadors to proclaim His salvation is surely the highest honor that mortal man can enjoy on this earth (John xvli., IB; II Cor. y.. 20) 4. "To an inheritance incorruptible and undeflled and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you." All thing} here are perishable, but the word of the Lord and the / glory of the Lord endureth forever (verses 24. 25 I John U., 17 ;'#Heb. xiL, 28). ? Jesus ui iuo tijs'ui nuuu ui iroa M not omy oar righteousness and our life, but also the assurance that our bodies shall yet bo just like ' His and that ire shall reign with Him (I Cor. xv.. 23 ; Phil, lit., 21} Rsv. v., 9, 10). 5. ''Who are kept by th? power of God :-.y2jg through faith unto salvation, ready to be revealed fn the lastrtime." Jesus does the savin? and the keeping, and we do the trusting and obeying. See how we/?re kept in Jade 1; Bom. xiv., 4, Isa- xii., 13. Salvation Is ours now if we have received Christ. We are also day by day working it out. and yet we are waiting for it. tor it is every day nearer * V-'mj than when we believed (II Tim. i? 9; PhO. li., 12. IS: Jiom. xlii., 11). It is a threefold salvation. We have eternal life, we are manifesting that life, and we expect the glorified body and the joys of the kingdom. 6. "Wherein .ye greatly rejoice, though. now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptation." We will surely rejoice if we believe the facts, but not otherwise, for joy and peace come only by believing (Aom, xv., 13.) Jesus told us that we must expect tribulation,, but that we mar have peace fJohn xvi.. 38.) Paul teed flea that it'Js possible to be ioylul, yea, even exceeding joyful, in tribulation (Kohl v.. St gffl ncor.vrf.,4.) : r$JS| 7. 4 'That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be^ajod unto praise and honor and glory at thefc^^, pearing of Jesus Christ." It isa most profit-V V,}*' able study to meditate on the word "pre- i clous" in these two epistles (I Pet. i., 7,19; ii., 4, 7, II Pot. i., 4.) Faith tnat cannot endure is very questionable faith. We must I steadfastly believe and wait patiently till He come (Jus. v , 7. 8,1 Cor. iv., 5.) Then we shall see bow all our light afflictions have been working out for us a far more exceeding aad eternal weight of glory. (II Cor. ir., 8 "Whom having not seen ye love, in whom, though now ye see Him not, yet believing, yt rejoice in the joy unspeakable . and ful{ of glory " Some think that if they could only see Him they would love Him, but He said, -Blessed are they that have not seen and yet have believed" (John xr.. 29). To faith unseen things become very real and may be enjoyed almo3t as a present possession. The city which Abraham looked for, and the recompense of the reward which sustained Moses, and the glory to be revealed wbloh iJaui saw, ware wonaroua:y ro<*i ?.>? them and will be to us it we only believe (Heb. xi., 10. 25, 26: Roin. viii., 18) 9. ''Receiving the end of your fitltb, even the salvation of your soul?." Tilts Is not very clear unless it refers to the Joy which romts from the assurance of present salvation. which is an earnest and a pledge of the completed salvation at the revelation of Christ. The now"' of the previous versa . would'point that way. It is our privilege torejoice that we are the children of God and partakers of the glory to be revealed (II Tim. I, 2; I Pet. v.. I; I John tfi.f 2). 16. Of which salvation the prophets hava Inquired and searched diligently who prophesled of the grace that should come unto. vou.' See Dan. f., 2, 3 x.. 12, 21. To Search diligently seeaja to be tne sense of John v., 89, and not any careless reading or super* ttcial study, rath jr a constant day ai^night /J meditation as in Ps. i., 2?i prayerful and persevering compariug oI Scripture with Scripture in absolute dependence and reliance upon the Holy Spirit. 11. "Searching what orwhat manner olttnw* the Spirit of Christ which was in them-did signify wQen it testinea oeioreuauu ue #mferings of Christ and the glory that shooiu follow." Here ia the fact stated that the Spirit of Christ was in the prophets and may .give some light upon chapter ILL, 18-20, for the Spirit of Christ was in Noah. ."The te?timony of Jesus is the spirit of prophesy" (Rev. xix.. 10). Here is also the fact that the burden of prophecy is the sufferings of Christ and the glory yet to be revealed. 8e? this illustrated fully In Ps. xxiL andlsa. liil. as specimen chapters. By His suffering we are now redeemed, but we wait for the glory to be revealed. 12. "Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us, they did minister the things which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel' unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven, which things the angels desire to look into." Here are prophets and apofrtle?, in the power of the Holy^plrit, ministering unto others. Angels ulSv\(iro ministering spirits. Even the Son of Man aame not to be ministered unto, but to minister (Math. xx, 283, and if we are nnea wnn ai? spirit it will be our delight to live to be channels of blessing to others. Some things we,. like the prophets, may have to pass on to others without fully comprehending them,. . the full understanding being only for millennial or later days.?Leeson Helper. Canada's Mineral Resources. The report from the office of the geological Purvey on mineral statistics and mines for 1891 has just been issued, says the Toronto (Ont.) Globe. The returns, show that the value of the mineral products of {.'anada for * A the year was $20,500,000", ?n increase of t2,600,000 on that of the previous jear. The exports of minerals and mineral products manufactured in Canada amounted to $6,772, 693. The exports of products of the mine aggregated 45,748,143, of which $4,600,809 I went to the United StAtes, 8851,75?* to jsnjjJand, $141,692 to Newfoundland, and the remainder, $189,857, was distributed 001005 a dozen other countries. The minerals whose product shows steady and appreciitlilo increases in tbo last six years are copper, nickel, coal, asnsstos and petroleum. There was no production of nickel ic 1830. The first year that it appears amonpr the returns was in 1890, when the value ot the product wjis $933,232. Nickel production during 1X91 was very satisfactory. Even in the previous year, wiien the production or the metal was only 1,434,742 pounds, Canada was the greatest producer of the mAf.'il in thn world. The number of DOtindi turned out in 1891 was4.G2G,6i!7. whluh quadruples the aggregate production ?I all the re-it of the worW. ? Heavy Street Cur Trultlc. Chicago street cars carried 94.000,000 persons during the six months of t Lie existence of the World's Fair. On October 9, Caicago day, they carried 7G2.n00 people. Gcrmuuy's nop Crop. ? Germany's hop crop has averagod over 53,? I 000,000 pounds annually the last ten yean. N 1 This year it la lasa than 25,000,030.