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"What a pity ha la going there," aald my friend, a most distinguished gen eral of the army, When ha Was told that the reason for my not being present on a celebrated day In Brooklyn, was that on that day I had sailed for the Holy Land. "Why do von say that?" in quired some one. My military friend replied: "O, he will be disillusioned when he gets amid the squalor and commonplace scenes of Palestine, and his faith will be shaken In Christianity,' for that is often the result." The great general misjudged the case. I went to the Holy Land for the one purpose of having my faith strengthened, and that was the result which came of it In all our journeying, In all our read ing, in all our associations, in all our plans, augmentation, rather than the depletion of our faith, should be our thief desire. It Is easy enough to have our faith destroyed. I can give you a recipe lor Its obliteration. Read Infidel books, have long and frequent conver sation with skeptics, attend the lec tures of those antagonistic: to re ligion, give full swing to some bad habit, and your faith will be so completely gone that you will laugh at the Idea that you ever had try. If you want to ruin your faith, you can do It more easily than you can do anything else. After believing the Bible all my life, I can see a plain way by which, In six weeks, I could enlist my voice, and pen, and heart, and head, A 42 A 60 8 .65 7 05 7 25 7 25 7 35! 1 Qr.' 7 Aflj 11 35 J ,f 11 40 !p. m 8 20 12 04 8 4.5 12 25 9 40' 1 20 Not. 1 . 2. 8 and 9 run dully; Nos. 11, 12, 30 and 31 ounnay only. HURON DIVISION. From Norwalk..,. No Lli'No 15;No.l7JISo.l9t Norwalk Lv Milan llurou Ar rom Huron. ITiiron '.Lv Milan Norwalk Ar a. m. A 66 7 20 7 60 No 14 p. m. 3 36 4 16 4 46 a. m. 8 Ml 20 9 40 No 16 p. m. 6 30 A 03 A 26 a. m. 8 05 JS 20 145 0. m 2 U5 2 25 2 45 no.ih:Ino.j: p. m. 12 01 12 26 12 41 p. m 7 l 7 13 7 45 Dally except Sunday, t Sunday only. A. O. BLAIR. Uen'l Manager. JAMES M. HALL. tlen'l Pans. Ant. vdSII ft HM9 MlffS HMD:? fcct'l 1NV1SII1I.U TURUIAH IA (UliHIOax, WhUnen b.-ni. Com- furUIJo. buarwufulwh'rrnllKenwIletPAlt.. Jll.tico1:4 &QoU If, Addrw f. HUM ox, 063 batnr, talk. OrtklMrrt Entia vuma mna. Dnufltt tor Ckickur'B MnalUk iiev. mmJ 8rmn4 la lUd ud QoU 8JUlllo' I hI4M. eJ4 wlU blM rlobo. Tk Uon4 and imUtUn. At Drtt mr m44. - rr In II.UM lot butlmlM. IMtlBMUia tttd Kllrr for farflaa," Ulur, bj r-tara M-U- fO.HITUBMltll. JhHhNA PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM Clftiin and brttuufiM th balr. PronioUf Imuiiftul pirtri. Ntt Falla to Bettor Ony Hair ta Ita Tauthful Color. Th Consumptive and Feetio wa HINDERCORNS. Th.0f.l7 mmfor Conu. ttolM aOl ptUU, JaUktW WftikiHJ Mlf. iKU, M AiriatTJWA. When at the WORLD'S FAIR Chicago, be lure to call at the unique exhibit of LIEBIG COMPANY'S EXTRACT OF BEEF In the northeast nart ef the AGRICULTURAL llUILDlNU. nortu aiile, iu tbe Urunuay De partment, and Keta Free Gup of delldoui. refrenhlnff Beef Tea made from the world-known Lmaiu COMPANY'S ExTSARror Bmrr, J jt Sclentiflo American U) TJr TRADI MARKS. tl':P OiaiOM PATINT.! OAVIATS. TRADI MARKS. OISION PATINT. OOrVRIQHTS, etoJ or fnformatloB aV Handbook write to MDNS a CO.. V 4uiuwir, M Yoaa. inwt Dorana ir rery pwww IV on ur mm tm nnnifnt ntiiuiv pubiio or auouoe iitid iree ox ooaria u w I otrantatloa of any wlantlSe paper m the vorid Cplmdldlf llluusud. Ho lstalllrant n ihnuid tx wlthtwi It. Weaklr.as.aO a , T"nri tlutls montht. Addrau tlCNN k 00, i-taLuymu, 31 Droadwar. Mew I ocx City. , Vurlnf patDta In Amtirkn, ; .fttSfi- t I pvuwuviv PIT ESI PIXESI ' Dr.fflllla "'ndlaiPlleOlntiBentwIlleore blind, blvcdl i and Itehlnc Dllea when all other ol n lm have failed. Itabaorbithe .tumors, allay Itcblns at enee. aeta as a Emiii t ce. a vet nunt relief. ir. Williams' nniaa Pile oannent is prepares enly for I'IIpi and Itehlns of private parts, and noth- lnir cIm. Kvery bos la warranted. Sold by I menial, or sent ny man on receipt or pno, "i. and 11.00 per bos. for tale by S. W. Ad. FAITH STRENGTHENED. Is Eaey to Banish Respect for the Bible it We Try. i .!' In? "Memolra" which wens charged and aurcharged with defamations and ln delicacies. The "Memolra" were read and pond ered, and the decision came that they ' mnst be burned, and not until the last word of those "Memoirs" went to ashes did the literary company separate. But, suppose now all the best spirits of all ages were assembled to decide the fate of the Bible, which Is the last WU1 and Testament of our Heavenly Father, and these Memolra of our Lord Jesus, what would be the yerdlct? Shall they burn or shall they live? The nnant mous verdict of all Is, "Let it live, though all else burn." Then put to gether on the other hand all the de bauchees and profligates and assassins of the age, and the unanimous verdict concerning the Bible would be, "Let it burn." Mind you, I do not say that all infidels are immoral, but I do say that all the scapegraces and scoundrels of the universe agree with them about the Bible. Let me rote with those who believe In the Holy Scriptures. Men believe other things with half the evi dence required to believe the Bible. The distinguished Abner Kneel and rejected the Scriptures, and then put all his money into an enterprise for the recovery of that hocus-pocus "Captain Kldd's Treas ures," Kneeland'a faith for doing so being founded on a man's statement that he could tell where thoae treas ures were burled from the looks of a glass of water dipped from the Hudson River. Tho internal evidence of the authenticity of the Scriptures is so ex act and so vivid that no man, honest and sane, can thoroughly and continu ously and prayerfully read them with out entering their discipleship. So I put that internal evidence paramount How are you led to believe In a letter you receive from husband or wife or child or friend? You know the hand writing. Vou know the style. You recognize the sentiment When' the letter comes you do not summon the postmaster who stamped it and the postmaster who received it and the letter-carrier who brought it to your ana enure nature in tne Domonramen . . ,. . .i. i. of the Scrlpturos and tho Church, and i . ,,',. , 1 1 n. u -ii r v i j i rrt. . ii. i ter. Tho Internal evidence settles It, all I now hold sacred. That It Is easy can fof. r t,"1 Td "TV, TF. 1 ' settle the fact that the Bible Is the lomXKdonTir VhVS , hanawritingandeommunlcationof th. particularly brainy, nor had especial . nnnlte uoa. force of will, but they so thoroughly accompllshed the overthrow of their tiraated, we may increase our faith by faith that they have no more Idea that the Bible is true, or that Christianity amounts to anything, than they have in the truth of the "Arabian Nights' Entertainments," or the existence of Don Quixote's "windmills." They have destroyed their faith so thoroughly that they never will have a return of it Fifty revivals of religion may sweep over the city, the town, the neighbor hood where they live, and they will feel nothing but a silent or expressed disgust There are persons in this house to-day, who, twenty years ago, gave up their faith and they will never resume it The black and deep-toned bell pf doom hangs over their head, and I take tho hammer of that bell, and I strike It three times with all my might, and it sounds, Woe! Wool Woe! But my wish, and the wish of most of you, is the prayer expressed by the disciples to Jesus Christ, in the words of my text, "Lord, Increase our faith." ' The first mode of accomplishing this is to study the Bible itself. I do not believe there is an infidel now alive who has read the Bible through. But as so Important a document needs to be read at least twice through In order that it may be thoroughly understood, and read in course, I now offer one hundred dollars reward to any infidel who has read the Bible through twice and read It In course. But I cannot take such a man'a own word for it for there ia no foundation for Integrity, except the Bible, and the man who re jects the source of truth, how can I ac cept his truVhfulncss? So I must have another witness in the case before I give the reward. I must have the tes timony of some one who has seen him read it all through twice. Infidels fish in this Bible for incoherences and con tradictions and absurdities, and if you find their Bible, you will see inter lineations In the Book of Jonah and some of the chapters of that unfortu nate prophet, nearly worn out by much use, and some parts of Second Samuel or First Kings, you will find dim with fingermarks, but the page which con tains the ten commandments and the Psalms of David and the Sermon on the Mount and the Book of John the Evan gelist will not have a single lead pen cil stroke on the margin, nor any fingermarks showing frequent perusaL The father of one of the Presidents of the United States was a pronounced infidel. I knew It when many years ago I aceepted his invitation to spend the night in his home. Just before re tiring at night he said, in a jocose way: "I suppose you are accustomed to read the Bible before going to bed, and here Is my Bible from which to read." ' He then told me what portions he would like, to have me read, and he only asked for those persons on which he could easily be facetious. " ' You know you can make fun about anything. . I suppose you could take the last letter your father or mother ever wrote and find something in the grammar or the spelling, or the tremor of the penmanship about which to be derisively critical The internal evi dence of the truthfulness of the Bible la so mighty that no one man out of the sixteen hundred million of the world's present population, or the taster mil. lions of the paat aver read the Bible in course, and read it prayerfully and carefully hut waf led to believe it John Murray, the famoua hook pub ,Usher of Edinburgh and the Intimate ' friend of Southey, Coleridge, Walter Scott, Canning and Washington Irving, bought of 'Moor, th poet tha "Me moirs of Lord Byron," and they were' to be published after Byron's death. But they were net fit to be published, although i Murray had paid for them 10,000. That was a solemn eonelavs when eight of the prominent literary people of thoae times assembled la Al bemarle street after Byron' death to tUeld what , should be done with tat the testimony of others. Terhaps we of lesser brain may have been over come by superstition or cajoled Into an acceptance of a hollow pretension. So I will, this morning, turn this house into a court room and summon wit nesses, and you shall be the jury, and I now enpanel you for that purpose, and I will put upon the witness stand men whom all the world acknowledge to be stronir intellectually and whose evl dence In any other court room would be Incontrovertible. I will not call to the witness stand any minister of the gospel, for he might be prejudiced. There are two ways of taking an oath in a court room. One is by putting the lips to the Bible and the other is by holding up the right hand toward heaven. Now, aa In thla case, it la the Bible that is on trial, we will not ask the witness to put the book to his lips, for that would imply that the sanctity and divinity of the book Is settled, and that would be begging the question. So I shall ask each witness to lift his hand toward heaven in afllrmation. Salmon P. Chase, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, appointed by President Lincoln, will take the witness stand. "Chief Jus tice Chase, npon your oath, please to state what you have to say about the book commonly called the Bible." The witness replies: "There came a time in my life when I doubted the divinity of the scriptures, and I resolved, as a lawyer and Juilgo, I would try the book as I would try anything in the court room, taking evi dence for and against It was a long and serious and profound study, and using the same principles of evidence in this religious matter as I always do In secular matters, I have come to the decision that the Bible Is a supernat ural book, that It has come from Ood, and that the only safety "r tne human race is to follow its teachings." "Judge, that will do. do back again to your pillow of dust on tho banks of the Ohio." Next I put upon the witness stand a president of the United States John Quincy Adams. "President Adams what have you to say about the Bible and Christianity?" The presi dent replies: "I have for many years made it a practice to read through the Bible once a year. My custom is to read four of five chapters every morn ing Immediately after arising from my bed. It employes about an hour of my time and seems to me the most suita ble manner of beginning the day. In what light soever we regard the Bible, whether with reference to revelation, to history, or to morality, it is an in valuable and inexhaustible mine ol knowledge and virtue." Next I put upon the witness stand Sir Isaae New ton, the author of the "Princlpla," and the greatest natural philosopher the world haa ever seen. "Sir Isaac, what have you to say concerning the Bible?" The philosopher' reply is: We account the Scriptures of Ood to be the most sublime philosophy." . Next I put upon the witness stand the enchantment of letters, Sir Walter Scott! and when I ask him what h thlnka of the place that our great book ought to take among other books, he replies'. "There is but one hook and that la the Bible." Next I put upon the stand the most famous geologist of all time, Hugh Miller, an alder of Dr. Guthrie's Presbyterian church. In Ed inburg, and Faraday, and Keppler, and they all testify' to the same thing. They all say the Bible la from God and that the mightieat influence for good that aver touched our world ia Christi anity. 'Chancellor Kent! What do you think of the Bible?" Answer: "No other book ever addressed itself so ' authoritatively " and so pathet loallT to the Judgment and moral sense of mankind." "Kdmnad Barks! What oo yots stusuc 01 ins jJipir,- Answer! . "I have read the Bible Ing, noon, and night, and have ever since been the happier and better man for such reading." Next I put upon the stand William E. Gladstone, the bead of the English Government and I hear him saying what ho said to me In January of 1890, when, in reply to his telegram, "Pray come to Hawarden to morrow," I visited him. Then and there I asked him as to whether In the passage of years his faith in the Holy Scriptures and Christianity waa on the increase or decrease, and he turned npon me with an emphasis and enthu siasm such as no one who has not con versed with him can fully appreciate, and expressed by voice and gesture, and Illumined countenance his ever in creasing faith in God and the Bible and Christianity as the only hope of our ru ined world. "That is all, Mr. Glad stone, we will take of your tlma now, for, from the reports of what is going on in England just now, I think you are very busy." The next man I put upon the witness stand is the lato Earl of Klntore, and I ask him what he thinks of Christian ity, and he replies: "Why do yon ask me that? Did you not hear me preach Christ In the Midnight Mission of Lon don?" "Oh, yesl I remember!" But I see many witnesses present to-day in the court room, and I call you to the witness stand, but I have only a second of time for any one of you. As you pass along just give one sentence In re gard to Christianity. "Under God it had changed my entire nature," says one, "It brought me from drunkeness and poverty to sobriety and a good, home," says another. "It solaced me when I lost my child," says another. "It gave me a hope of future treasures when my property was swept off by the last panic," says another. "It has given me a peace and a satisfaction more to me than all the world beside," says another. "It has been to me licrht and muslo and frairranca and radiant anticipation," says another. Ah I stop the procession of witnesses. Enough) Enough! All those voices of the past and the present have mightily increased our faith. Again, our belief is reinforeed by archaeological exploration. We must confess that good men at one time were afraid of geologist's hammer and chemist's crucible and archaeologist's investigation, but now intelligent Christiana are receiving and still ex pecting nothing but confirmation from all such sources. What supports the "Palestine Exploration Society?" Con tributions from churches and Christian benefactors. I saw the marks of the ahovels of that exploring society amid the ruina of ancient Jericho, and all up and down from the Dead Sea to Ces aria PhlUppl. "Dig caway," aays the Church of God, "and the deeper you dig the better I like." ,The discovered monuments of Ep-ypt have chlsselcd on them the story of the sufferings of the Israelites in Egyptian bondage, as we find it In the Bible! there, in imperltih able stone, representations of the slave, of the whips, and of the task-masters who compelled the making of bricks without straw. Exhumed Nineveh and Babylon, with their dusty lips, declare the Bible true. Napoleon's soldiers in the Egyptian campaign pried up a stone, which you may find in the British museum, a stone, as I remember, presenting perhaps two feet of lettered surfuco. It contains words in throe languages. That Btoue was tho key that unlocked the mean ing of all the hieroglyphics of tombs and obelisks, and tells over and over again the same events which Moses re corded. The sulphurous graves of Sodom and Gomorrah have been Iden tified The remains of tho Tower of Babel have been foifnd. Assyrian documents lifted from the fnnd and Behlstun inscription, hundreds of fi-et high up on the rock, echo and re-echo the truth of Bible history. The sl'ns of the time Indicate that almobt every fact of the Bible from lid to lid will find its corroboration in ancient city disentombed, or ancient wall, cli-ared from the dust of ages, or ancient document unrolled by archu-olo-gists. Before the world rolls on as fur into the twentieth century as it has already rolled Into the ninctccth an infidel will be a mau who does not believe his own senses, and tho vol umes now critical and denunciatory of the Bible, If not entirely devastated by the book worms, will bo taken down from the shelf as curiosities of Ignor ance or idiocy. All success to the pick axes and crowbars and powder-blasting of those apostles of archmologlcal ex ploration. I like the ringing defiance of the old Hugcnots to the assailants of Christianity: "Pound away, you reb els! Your hammers break, but the an vil of God'a Word stands." now won derfully the old Book hangs together. It is a library mado up of sixty-six books and written by at least thirty nine authors. It la a supernatural thing that they have Stuck together. Take the writings of any other thirty nine authors, or any ten authors, or any five authors, and put them to gether, and how long would they stay togethor? Books of "elegant extracts" compiled from many authors are pro verbially short-lived. I never knew one such book, which, to use the pub lisher's pftVsae, "had Ufa In it" for five years. .Why Is it that the Bible, made np of writings of at least thirty-nine authors, haa kept together for a long line of centuries when the natural tendency would have been to fly apart like loose sheets of paper when a gust of wind blows npon them? It la be cause God stuck them together and keens them together. But for that Joshua would have wandered off in one direction, and Paul into another, and Ezeklel Into another, and Luke Into another, and Uabbakuk lato an other, and the thirty-nine authors into thlrty-nlns directions. Put the writ ing of Shakespeare, and .Tennyson and Lone-fallow, or aar part of them, tore ther; bow long would, they stay together? No book bindery could keep them together, i Bat the eannoa - of Scripture la loaded how with the same ammunition with whloh prophet and aposU' loaded It Bring me all the Bibles vt th sarth Into one pile, and blindfold me so that I cannot tall the difference between day and night, and put into my hand any one of all that Alpine mountain of sacred books, ana put my finger on the last page of Gene sis, and let me know it and I oan tell you what la on the next page, namely, the first chapter - of Exodus, ' or, while thus blindfolded, - pat my finger on the last chapter of Matthew, and let me know it and I will tell you what is on the next page, namely, the first chapter of Mark. In the pile of five hundred million Bibles there will be no exception. In other words, the Book gives ma confidence by its supernatural adhesion of writing to writing. Even the stoutest ship some times shifts it cariro. and that is what made our peril the greater in the ship Greece, of the National line, when the cyclone struck us off the coast of New foundland, aud the cargo of Iron had shifted as the ship swung from lar board to starboard and from starboard to larboard. But thanks be to Ood, this old Bible ship, though it has been in thousands of years of tempest, has kept it cargo of gold and precious stones compact and sure, and in all the centuries nothing about it haa shifted. There they stand, shoulder to shoulder, David and Solomon, and lsalan ana Jeremiah, and Ezekiel and Daniel, and nosea and Joel, and Amos and Obadiah, and Jonah and Ml cah, and Nahum and Habbakuk, and Zcphanlah and Haggal, and Zach arlah and Malachi, and Matthew and Mark, and Luke and John, and Paul and Peter, all there, and with a certainty of beinir there until the heavens and the earth, the creation of which is described In the first book of the Bible, shall have collapsed, and the white horse of the Conqueror desorlbed in the last book of the Bible shall paw the dust in universal demolition. By that tremendous fact my faith is rein forced. The discussion is abroad as to who wrote those books of the Bible called tho Pentateuch, whether Moses or Hilklah or Ezra, of Samuel, or Jere miah or another irroup of ancient. None of them wrote It God wrote the Pentateuch, and-In this day of sten ography and typewriting that ought nut to be a difficult thing to under stand. Tho great merchants and lawyers and editors and business men of our towns and cities dictate nearly all their letters; they only sign them after they are dictated. The prophet and evangelist and apostle were Jehovah's stenotrraphers or- typewriters. They put down only what Ood dictated; he signed it afterward. He has been writ ing his name upon it all through the vicissitudes of ceturies. But I come to the height of my sub ject when I sny the way to reinforce our faith is to pray for it So the dis ciples In my text got their abonndlng faith: "Lord, Increase our laltn. Someone suggests: "Do you really think that prayer amounta to any thlnir?" I miirht as well ask you there a line of telegraphic poles from New York to Washington, is there line of telcpraphlc wires from Man chester to London, from Cologne to Berlin. All the people who have sent and received messagos on thoso lines know of their existence, ho there are millions of souls who have been In con stant communication with the aapital of the universe, with the throne of the Almlehtv. with the ereat God himself, for vears and vestrs and years. Thcro has not been a day when supplications did not flash up and blessings did not flash down. Will some ignorumus, who has never received a telegram or sent one, come and tell us that there Is no such thing as tolegraplilo communica tion? Will some one who has never of fered a prayer that was heard and answered, come and toll us that there is nothing in prayer? It may not come as we expect it but as sure as an hon est prayer goes up, a merciful answer will come down. During the blizzard of four or five years ago, you know that many of the telegraph wires were pros trated, and I telegraphed to Chicago by the way of Liverpool, Euglitnd, and the answer, after awhile, came round by another wide circuit so the prayer we oiler may come back in a way we never Imagined, and it wo ask to have our faith increased, although It may come by a widely umerent process than that which we expected, our con fidence will surely be augmented. O, put It In every prayer you ever make between your next breath and your last t'asn: "Lioru, increase our iuun. raitn In Christ as our personal ransom from present guilt and eternal castas- trophe: Faith In the omnipotent Holy Ghost: Faith In the bible, the truest volume ever dictated or writ ten or printed or read: Faith in adverse providence, harmonized for our best welfare: Faith In a judgment day that will set all things right which have for ages been wrong. Increase our faith, not by a fragile audition, but by an infinitude of recuperation. Let ua do aa we saw It done in the country while we were yet in our teens, at the old farmhouse, after a long drought, and the well had been dried, and the cattle moaned with thirst at the bars, and the meadow brook had ceased to run, and the grass withered and the corn waa shriveled up, and one day there was a growl of thunder, and then a congregation of clouds on the aky, and then a startling flash, and then a drenching rain, and father and mother put barrels under every spout at the corners of the house, and set pails and bucketa and tub and pans and pitcher to catch aa much a they eould of the shower. For In many of our souls there haa been a long drought of confidence and in many no faith at alL Let us set out all our affections, all our hopes, all our contemplations, all our p ravers to catch a mighty shower. "Lord, lnoreaa our faith." I Ilk the way that the minister' widow did In Ellaha's time, when, after the family being very anfortanaU, her twe aoaa were about to be aoia tor aept, ana ah had nothing in the house hat a pot of oil. and at Ellaha's direction she borrowed from he neighbors all th veaeels she eould borrow, atfd then be gan to pour out th oil into those merchant with more assets than lia bilities, and when she cried, "Bring me yet a vessel," the answer came, There is not a Teasel more. So let us take what oil of faith we have and . use it until the supply shall be miracu lously multiplied. Bring on your empty vessels, and by the power of the Lord God of Elisha they shall be tilled until they can hold no more of jubilant all- inspiring and triumphant "tilth. What a frightful time we had a few days ago down on the coast of Long Island, where I have been stopping. That archangel of tempest which, with . its awful wingATj wept the AUantio Coast from Florida to Newfoundland, did not spar our region. A - few miles away, at Southampton, I saw the bodies . of four men, whom the storm had slain - and the sea had cast up. As I stood ther among the dead bodies, 1 said to myself, and I said aloud: "These men represent homes. What will mother and father and wife and children say when they know this?" Sume of tho victims were unknown, only the first name of two of them was founa out Charley and William. I won dered then, and I wonder now. they will remain unknown, and If some kindred far away may be wait ing for their coming, and neverh ear of the rough way of their going. I saw also one of the three who had come in alive, but more dead than alive. The ship had become helpless six miles out and as one wave swept the deck and went down on the furnaces till they hissed and went out the cry waa, "0, my Ood, we are lost!" Then the crew put on life preservers, one of the sailors saying to the other, "We will meet again on the shore, and if not well, we must all go sometime." Of the twenty-three men who put on the life preservers, only three lived to reach the beach. But what a soene u was as the good and kind people of South- -amnion, led on by Dr. Thomas, the great and good surgeon of New York, stood watching the sailors struggling in the breakers. "Are you still alive?" shouted Dr. Thomas to one of them out In the breakers, and he signalled yes, and then went into unconsciousness. Who should do the most for the pool fellows, and how to resuscitate them, .wero the questions that ran up and down the beach at Southampton, now the men and women on the shore stood wringing their hands impatiently wait ing for the sufferers to come within reach, and then they were lifted up and carried Indoors and waited on with as much kindness and wrapped as warmly as though they hud been the princes of the earth. "Are they alive?" "Are they breathing?" "Do you think they will live?" "What can we do foi them?" wore the rapid and Intense questions asked, and so much money was sent for the clothing and equip ment of the unfortunates that Dn Thomas had to inako a proclamation that no more money was needed. In other words, all that day it was resu citation. And that is the approprloto word fol us this morning, as we stand and look oil upon this sea of doubt and unliollel on which hundreds aro this monienl being wrecked. Some of them were launched by Christian parentage on smooth seas, and with promise tot prosperous voyage, but a Voltalr oyclone struck them on one side and 0 Tom Paine cyclone struck them on the other side, and a bad habit cy clono struok them on all sides, and thoy have foundered far away from shore, far away from God, and they have gone down or are washed ashore with no spiritual life left In them. But, thank God, there are many here to-uay with enough faith left to encourage us in the effort at their resuscitation. All hands to the beach! With a confidence in God that takes no denial, let us lay hold of them! Fetch them out of the breukers! Bring Gospel warmth, and Gospel stimulus, and Gospel life to their freezing souls! llesusciiationi imj-suaciUtioul A METEOR'S FLIGHT. now It Is Influenced by the Bart h i At- tnoaphrre. Once In awhile a meteor plunging into the atmosphere of the earth is neither consumed by the heat devel oped through friction nor precipitated upon the surface of the globe, but pur sues It way out Into open space again. Its brief career within nuuian Ken may be compared to that of a comet traveling In a parabolic orbit, whloh, as If yielding to a headlong curiosity, almost plunges Into the sun and then hastens away again, never to return. In Julv. 18l. one of these escaping meteora was seen in Austria and Italy. Careful computations based upon th observations whloh were made in vari ous places have shown that it was visi ble along a track, in the upper air, about six hundred and eighty miles lb length. When at It nearest point to the earth It waa elevated forty-two miles above the surface. From this point it receded from th earth, its elevation when last seen be ing no less than ninety-eight miles. Although the resistance of the at mosphere wa not sufficient to destroy the motion of this strange visitor, which contented Itself with so brief a glimpse of our globe, yet It carriel the effects of that resistance out Into space with it and can never shake them off. No matter what its previous course may have been, the retardation that It suffered during lbs passage through the air sufficed to turn it into a differ ent direction, and to send It along an other path than that which it had been following. Youth' Companion. Frog and toad lay number of mall gg. They are dropped in thl water like fish spawn, in long duster or strings. Th Surfman toad earriae her egg soldered together like a hon-ey-oomb on her hack. Th Allphe earriea then between it legs rolled up in a bunch. Willi waa Tery-meeh Interested while the choir sang the anthem b church last Sunday. ' 11 Its aonclusloa he turned to hi another, and, in el and kept on pouring until they I tage-whiaper, aakb'-"8y, xoamma, war all full, and ah became aa u wuon oeair- , ,