.1 4 God help hand, take the scepter ! Wounded ipoi, itp RELIGIOUS READING. them off the .coast of England. kingdom. "BUTTER REV. DR. TALMAGE the poor fellows at sea, and give high seats the throne ! "Thine is the WEEK." things say a wu, , in heaven to the Grace Darlings and tne iaa These I tausewatching all these Lewises and the lifeboat men hovering around be alert. I want you to be unrolling from the heavens and the Sanctified. Goodwin's Sands and the Sherries. The sea, wonders whether FESTIVAL WHICH PRECEDES three-fourt- proposes earth. God has classified them, in Christ Jesus." (I Cor. 1:2.) owning of the earth, pu "Sanctified LENT IN RUSSIA. to capture the other fourth, and is bombard calamitous or pleasing. The aivms r- - nrt-- of OoL beloved and chosen. earxn. harnessed in traces u BROOK SUNDAY ing the land all around the C lurch of Christ, for whom He died, rflE LIN DIYINE'S moving our hotels . at break. and in girths that cannot The of cannot loosen, and C la m thy gifts and praiss the Giver A Time of Unrestrained Feasting Brighton Beach backward one hundred md in buckles that washed an 1 sanctified," of by reins tney must; "Ye are and Frolic Scenes at the yards from where they once stood, a type am driven an. a Sanctified bv God the Father, on wona ana on preach no fatalism. A swarthy enguieer what is going ail around tne -- bv Jesus Christ His Son, "Balngan" or Car- to-aa- -- And every coast. The Dead Sea rous x one oi tne aepow m Holy Spirit, SERMON. locomotive and take a ride And by God, the nival Fair. where ancient cities stood. Pillars of tem vou get on the Holy, Holy, Three in One. stood on hills geologists now find With us?" "WelL" I said, "now if that ples that on one side the loco- three-quarte- rs under the water or altogether suits your So I got sanctifieth, a Methodist minister. Bv His will He The Russian festival of 'Maslenitza" " submerged. The sea, having wrecked so motive, and "By the Spjrit's power within; Text: rcill shmo wonders in th many and flotillas, wants to who was also invited, got on me Butter Week) is always a time of riotous heavens the earth." Joel ii., 30. merchantmen and the By the loving hand that chasteneth and in wreck continents, ana nence disasters and between us were the engineer to frolic and feasting, a time to eat as much the started. The engineer had Fruits of righteousness win; Dr. dimming great and good man-wo- uld oceanic stoker. The train by His promise, - ' Bv His truh and butter as possible before the coming of A MOUNTEBANK.'; have told us the exact time of the ful- his hand on the agitatea unpriced, epidemic. speak - "Bv the Word, His gift Lent, on the principle of the sick man mostly holiday-makin- g lovers are shoot- fillment of this prophecy. As I stepped into Look at the disasters J engine, ine stoer uucic i blood, and by union of plague Fourth century that a juuu . By His own who, having long been debarred of sal- ing on their toboggans with ringing shouts his study in London on my arrival from Paris not the in the shut tne aoorwiw swept by, With the risen life of Christ. Tust after the French had surrendered at ravaged Europe, and in Moscow and tne slipped under us and the hills mon by his doctor, no sooner heard the of glee. There swoops a dashing young of- hedan, N eapolitan dominions and Marseilles wrougnc aiui that srreat monster on which wa the good doctor said to me: "It is just and snorter Holines by faith in Jesus, doctor's reluctant admission that his case ficer, hardly more than a boy, whose dark as I told you about France; people laughed at such terror in the Eighteenth century, but I rode trembled and bounded of thine own, look yellow fevers, and the choleras, and raged as it hurled us on. I Not by effort was hopeless than he shouted to his serv- eyes dwell upon the fresh bright face of me because 1 talked about the seven at the on Sin's dominion crushed and broken vials, orsaw and the diphtherias and the scarlet fevers, said to the Methodist minister tne oiuw ant: "John, bring up some salmon, the young girl beside him with a look horns and the but I f all this from locomotive: 'My brother, why Bv the power of grace aloni the Book of Daniel and the Book of Revela and the typhoids of our own time. Hear the side the holiness within thee. quick!" But its most characteristic which there is no mistaking. Poor lad ! wailing of Memphis, and Shreveport, andXiew should Presbyterians and metnoaisi qnw God's own tion." Not taking any such responsibility in and free agency? You see His own beauty on thy brow. feature is the "Balagan," or Carnival he may well be happy while youth lasts. the interpretation of the passage, I simply Orleans and Jacksonville of the last few de about the decrees where every track, that firm track, that iron track; This shall be thy pilgrim brightness. enormous amphi- assert that there is in it suggestions of many cades. From Uurdwar, India, that blessed portion now. Fair, which, although common to all And now we enter an twelfth year three million devotees congre- that is the decree. You see this engineers This thy ter- things in our time. agency. How beautifully Russian towns alike, is seen to the best theatre, gay with staring picutures of gate, the caravans brought the -- cholera, and arm? That is free Our eyes dilate and our heart quickens its thpv together lhey are gu- - He will sanctify thee wholly; advantage on the Red Square at Moscow rific single combats and deadly battles, pulsations as we read of events in the Third that one disease slew eighteen thousand in work soul shall be Twelve ing to take us through. We could Bodv, spirit, or the Admirality Plain at St. Peters- above wliich some very rheumatic red century, the Sixth century, the Eighth cen eighteen days in Bossorah. thousand not Bl meless till thy Saviour's coming. tury, century, in one summer slam bv it in India and twenty-- not do without the track, and we could letters announce ' the ourteenth but there are So 1 day oy In His glorious majesty! burg. 'A Thrilling Melodrama, more reaching events crowded five thousand in Egypt. Disasters epi- do without the engineer. rejoice ,! far into the to do, ana we may He hath pet fected forever entitled 'The Russians in the Caucasus.' Nineteenth century than into any other. demic. Some of the finest monuments in day. Work for us all ium He sanctified; Lam-e- l Christian machinery this way Those whom hath I arrive just in time for the last act of a and the last quarter bids fair to Greenwood and Hill and Mount Au- the crank of the and holy burn are to doctors who lost their life bat or that, for we are free agents; but there is Spotless, glorious, pantomime in the most literal sense, the eclipse the preceding three quarters. ago no one Is the church. His chosen Bride. We read in the daily newsp pers of tling with Southern epidemic. the track laid so long rememueis whole business being done by gesture it, laid by the hand of Almighty God in sock- events announced in one paragraph and But now my subject, and pressure can dumb-sho- I turn the leaf in ets that no terrestrial or satanic and without a word spoken, without any special emphasis of events plant the white lilies and the palm tree the car of the Conquerors." which a Herodotus, a Josephus, a Xenophon, ever affect. And along that track "More Than and then . comes the 'thrilling melo- amid the night shade and the myrtle. This world's redemption will roll ana rou to me may compel subm s ion. hn a uibbon would nave tasen wnole chapters age no A conqueror drama" itself. more characterized by wonders of dis Grand Central Depot of the Millennium. I compel Jove. The conquered na- or whole volumes to elaborate. Looking out aster than by wonders of blessing. Blessing am only he cannot It is of the good old upon time, we cry have no anxiety about the track. I tion may be filled with hatred and thirst for traditional type, our must out in the words of longevity: the average of human life rap our indolence God will dis- of the text: "Wonders in the heavens and in afraid that for revenge. Christ is more than a conqueror, y ith the usual comic grenadier, the usual idly increasing. Forty years now worth four charge us and get some other stoker and some subdues H s people the earth." hundred years once. Now I can travel from through for He rot merely unW hvrs:c Captaa of hussars, and the usual propose you other engineer. The train is going sway, but He draws out their affpctirwis I to show that the time in Manitoba to New York in three days and us. ureuueu, His hysterical young lady, wrapped in gloom which we live is wonderful for disaster and with us or witnout do, uiy to Himself; His enemies are thus ehanl three nights. In other times it would have are going by. If frir-nds- . ana white muslin, on het wonderful for blessing, for there be watch all the events that into loving and devoted The with nothing must taken three months, in other words, three things seem to turn out right, give wings to mngs head save lights and shades in this picture as in all nights now are worth three SauL breathing out threat ni the curse of her hard days and three your joy. If things seem to turn out wrong, and making havoc of the church, others. Need I argue this day that our time months of other days. The average of human faith and hold fast. slaughter, hearted father. But the savage is wonderful for disaster? Our. has throw out the anchor of became the devoted apostle Paul, to whom world life practically greater now than when .Noah There is a house m London where xeter of the last scene is quite had a rough time since by the hand of God it lived 950 Methusaleh to live was Christ." The l hristian is "mor his years and lived his the Great of Russia lived awnue wnen n distr startling after such a tame commence was bowled out into space. It is an epileptic 969 years. Blessings of intelligence: The than a conqueror." The tribulation. moving through the land incognito persecution lead him all the closer ment. The sleeDinar camn in the5cold earth; convulsion after convulsion; frosts Salmon P. Chases and the Abraham Lmcolns dress, he nugnt and but pounding it with sledge hammer of and in workman's that to Christ; so that he not merely submits to A STREET MUSICIAN. ; and the Henry Wilsons of the coming time wants of the people. A stranger moonlight the sudden thunder of charg- iceberg, and fares meJtmg it with learn the these seeming ills, but he rejoics in tribula- s will not be required to learn to read by pine was visiting at that house recently, ana In winter the latter often serves as ing hoofs ; the wild yell and headlong furnaces seven hundred tunes heated. It is a knot lights, or seated on shoemaker's tion, and ac ually thanks Christ for sen lin? saw in a oara attic an oia dox, turn w wu out of the persecution, parade-groun- and it was here that ont rush of the Circassian horsemen; the wonder to me it has lasted so long. Meteors bench, nor will the Fergusons have house: "What's in it. The sfing is taken shooting by on side grazing to the owner of the rejoices that he is countel memorable December morning in 187J stubborn firmness of the gray.:clad Rus this and it. and to study astronomy while watching the cat that box?" 'The owner said, "I don't and the Christian meteors shooting by on the other side and tle. Knowledge rolls its tides along every got worthy to suffer for Christ's sake. Gorr) Count von Moltke's keen gray eyes sians behind hedcre of steel, from know; that box was there when I the their grazing it. none of them slowing up for poor man's door, and his children may eo house and it was there when my father got Jeffrey. looked down in quiet contempt, as he which bursts ever and anon the flash and safety. Whole fleets and navies and argosies down and bathe in them. If the philosophers it. We haven't had any curiosity to look at rode at the late Czar's right hand, upon crack of the fatal musketry; the scatter- and notiiias oi worlds sweeping all about us. of the last century were called up to recite it; I guess there's nothing in it." "WelL" Nae Strife Up Here. Our earth like a fashing smack off the banks in a class with our boys at the Polytechnic, the glittering array of 45,000 Russian ing of the mountaineers and their spectral said the stranger, "I'll give you two pounds is said that an old Scorch elder had onc-- a of Newfoundland, while, the Etruria and or our girls at the Packer, those old philoso for it." "Well, done." The two pounds are It guardsmen, outstretched from the pil- vanishing into the darkness are all Germanic and the Arizona and the City of phers would be sent down to serious dispute with his minister at an the foot of the paid, and recently the contents of that box meeting. He said some things thit lared front of the Senate House to the grimly New York rush by! Besides that, our class because they failed to answer the ques - elders' impressive in the highest degree. were sold to the Czar of Russia for fifty thou- 1 world has by sm been damaged m inter- important nearly broke the minister's heart. Afterwir vast granite monolith of the Alexandei As the last volley flashes in eyes its tions! Free libraries in all the tand dollars. In it the lathing machine of the of the nal machinery, and ever and anon the fur towns and cities of the land. Historical alcoves he went home, and the minister went hom, Column. But in Butter Week the Peter the Great, his private letters and docu- next morning the elder down, staggering assailants, a grizzed old soldiei naces have burst, and the walking beams of and poetical shelves and magazine tables for all ments of value beyond all momentary con too. The jrame golden spire of the Admiralty looks down (the scar on whose brown cheek may well the mountain have broken, and the islands that desire to walk through them or sit down and his wife said to him: "Ye look sad. sideration. And here are the events that is the matter with ye "Ah." upon a very different sight. Out of the be the token of a Circassian rubs have shipped a sea, and the great hulk of the at them, .blessings or quick information: seem very insignificant and unimportant, but John; what f sabre) world has been jarred with accidents that Newspapers falling all around us thick as he replied, "you would look sad, too, if von pure white snow rises like a fairy castle s his sinewy hands and growls approvingly: they increase treasures of Divine Providence as I have. I dreamed that ever and anon threatened immediate demon leaves in a September equinoctial. News and. eternities of meaning which after a while had such a dream long line of painted booths, gilt turrets, "Khorosho! tak i slaiduet!" (Goodl tiou. But it seems to us as if our century three days old, rancid and stale. We see the ages as being I had been at the elders' meeting, and bM God will demonstrate before the and gri-v- ed waving flags, quaintly carved balconies, that's the style!). Harper's Bazar were especially characterized by disaster. whole world twice a day through the news stupendous value. as I can said some hard things cyclonic, epidemic. of As near teu and when he went hom canvas screens daubed with rude pictures volcanic, oceanic, I say paper at the breakfast table, and through from what 1 see, there must be a uoa some the minister; volcanic, because an earthguake is only a newspaper table, an I thought he died and went to heaven: of strange beasts, birds, or reptiles, and A the at the tea with "ex where about. Celebrated Poem. voicano nusnea up. wnen rstromDOU tra" here and there between. When Titans play quoits they pitch moumV and when I eot to the gate of heaven out tents gay with ribbons and tinsel a per- David Everett was a distant relative of and Cotopaxi and Vesuvius stop breath Blessing of Gospel proclamation : "Do you ains: but who owns these eierantic iorces vou came the minister and put out his hand t fect miniature of Bunyan's 'Vanity the late Edward Everett. He was born ing, let the foundations of the earth not know that nearly all the missionary have been reading about the last two months? take me, saying : 'Come along, John ; there's beware. Seven thousand earthquakes in societies have been born in this century? nae- - strife up here; I'm happy to seeve." Fair." in Princeton, Mass., iu 1769. In the Whose hand is on the throttle valve of the two centuries recorded in the catalogue of and nearly all the Bible societies, and nearly volcanoes? Whose foot suddenly planted on The elder went to his minister directly, to Around this toy palace circles an ever-flowin- winter previous to entering Dartmouth the British association. Trajan, the all the great philanthropic movements? makes the continents quiver? hetr his nardon. and found he was dead. The the footstool Mow stream of handsome carriages anc College, in 1791, when a teacher in the Emperor, goes to ancient Antioch, and amid A secretary of one of the denominations God ! God ! He looketh upon the mountains elder was so stricken with the that twi spirited horses, freighted with the elite grammar school at New Ipswich, he pre- the splendors of his reception is met by an said to me the other day in Dakota: and they tremble. He toucheth the hills and weeks after he also departed. "And I shouM earthquake nearly destroys the h,mpe: were wrong wnen you our said he who related the inc- of Russian society. pared this little poem to be recited at an that lou said they icnoke. liod! trod! 1 must be at not wonder." academy style, or's life. Lisbon, fair and beautiful at one denomination averaged a new church every peace with mm. inrougn tne uora Jesus ident, if he met the minister at heaven's exhibition got up in the o'clock on the 1st of November. 1755. in six day of the year; thev established nine in gate, heard him say: 'Come along:. Far-ra- r, Uhnst this is mine ana is yours. 1 and fl. uod lie - - composed expressly for Ephraim minutes 60,000 have perished, and Voltaire one week, so you are far within the truth." put the earthquake that shook Palestine at John; there s nae stnie up nere.- xjmisi to be spoken by him on the occasion, writes of them: "For that region it was the A clergyman of our own denomination said the crucifixion against all the down rocking! Workman. when only seven years of age: last judgment, nothing wanting but a "I have just been out establishing five mis- of the centuries. This God on our side, we trumpet!" Europe and America feeling sion stations." I on You'd scarce expect one of my age the tell you Christianity is may challenge all the centuries of time and Denied, Answered. throb; 1500 chimneys in Boston partly or the march while infidelity is dwindling into all the cycles of eternity. Yet To speak in public on the stage; Augustine, in his home at Car below rully destroyed. imbecility. While infidelity is thus dwin- When And if I chance to fall im- Those of us who are in mid-lif- e may well olved to visit ltome, his mofeor Demosthenes or Cicero, But the disasters of other centuries have dling and drooping down into thage, res had their counterpart in our own. In 1812 becility and indecency, the wheel of thank God that we have seen so many won- wished either to prevent him from going, or Don't view me with a critic's eye, drous things: there people here to him. would listen to pass : Caraccas was caught in the grip of the earth Christianity is making about a thou but are to go with Ha ntn But my imperfections by day who will see century. ui Large streams from little fountains flow; quake; in lb'i, in Uhiii, 100,0(X) square miles sand revolutions in a minute. All the the Twentieth proposal, and resorted to a tricK to carrj of land by volcanic force upheaved to four copies of Shakespeare and Tennyson and Dis Things obscure to us will be plain to you yet. his plan. One evening he went to the sv lall oaks trom little acorns grow; The century will And though I now am small and young, and seven teet of permanent elevation; in raeli and of any ten of the most popular writ- Twentieth be as far ahead shcre, and his mother followed. inere 1854 Japan felt the geological agony; ers of the day, less in number than the copies of the Nineteenth as the Nineteenth is ahead worp two chanels dedicated to the memory Of judment weak, and feeole tongue, pressed her great men. like me, Naples shaken in 1857; Mexico in 1858; of the Bible going out from our printing of the Eighteenth, and as you cari- of the martyr Cyprian, and he Yet all learned ig- of the Once learned to read their ABC. Medosa, the capital of the Argentine presses. A few years ago, in six weeks, more cature the nabits and customs and to sp?nd one evening in the church But why may not Columbia's soil Republic, in 1861; Manilla terrorized in 1863; than two million copies of the New Testa norance of the past, others will cari- martyr, while he wodd accompany a friend isle-Ex- cature this age. Some of you may live to see ship, to say farewell. Rear men as great as Britain's ceed the Hawaiian islands by such force uplifted ment purchased, not given away, but pur on board a there what Greece and Rome have done, and let down in 1871 ; Nevada shaken in 1871 ; chased because the world will have it. the shimmering veil between the material Wh le she was there in tears praying Or any land beneath the sun? Antioch in 1872; California in 1872; San .More ciu'iatiau men ui high olhcial posi- and the spiritual world lifted. Magnetism, a and wrestling with G d to prevent tie Mayn't Massachusetts boast as great Salvador in 1873; while in 1883 what tion to-da-y in Great Britain and in the United word with which we cover up our ignorance, voyage, Augustine sailed for Italy, arm As any other sister State? subterranean excitement! Ischia, an isl- States than ever before. Stop that falsehood will yet be an explored realm. Electricity, bis deceived mother next morning found Or where's the town, go far and near, and of the Mediterranean, a beautiful going through the newspapers I have seen it the fiery courser of the sky, that Benjamin herself alone. In qu;et resignation she re That does not tind a rival here? Italian watering-plac- e, vineyard clad, sur- in twenty that the Judges of the Supreme rranKiin jassoea ana Morse and reu ana turned to t- - e city an I continual to pray I r TOBOGGANING. Or where's the boy but three feet high rounded by all natural charm and historical Court ot the united States are all infidels ex Edison have tried to control, will be the salvation of her son. Though meaning From one end of the ring to the othei Who's made improvement more than I? reminiscence; yonder, Capn, the summer re cept one. By personal acquaintance come completely manageable, and welL vet she erred in her praye s, for the locomotion will De swiftened, and Augustine means of h's you hear the ceaseless call of sellers oi These thoughts inspire my youthful mind sort of the Roman Emperors: yonder. know three of them to be journey of was the To be greatest mankind; NaDles. the naradise of art this hpautifiii evangelical Christians, sitting at the a world of practical knowledge thrown in The denial of the prayer was in the of upon salvation. "blinni" round flat cakes of wheal Great, not like Caesar, stained with blooi, island sudd?nly toppled into the trough of Holy Sacrament of our Lord Jesus the race. Whether we depart in this fact, the an-we- c f it. Instead of the century, we see open gates Hour, eaten with sour cream, butter 01 But only great as 1 am good. the earth, XX) merry-maker- s perishing, and Christ, and I suppose that the majority of or whether the of husk. Go granted rather the substance f caviare. They are delicacy of some of them so far down beneath the reach them are stanch believers in our Christian a more wonderful century, we will see these her petition in the conve sion of her son. "the th Farrar was writing master in 1813 in religion. things. It does not make much difference re season" during Week. The fail of human obsequies that it may be said of And then hear the dying words of "Therefore." said he. "O God, thou hast Butter the elementary school of Lawson Lyon, many a one of them as it was said of Moses: Judge Black, a man who had been Attorney where we stand, but the higher the stand gard to the aim and essence of her d stre, is foot-pa- s Chan-ning- see itself already crowded with located on the north side of Dr. 's "The Lord buried him." Italy weeping, all General of the United States, and who had point the larger the prospect. We will and didst not do wnat sne wen prayea ior. we not see con- sengers of every kind ; bearded mujiks church in Boston, where sons fit iMirope weeping, au Christendom weepini been secretary oi tne united states, no them from heaven if do tiat thou mightest do for me wbat she where there were hearts to sympathize an stronger lawyer of the century than them from earth. I was at Fire Island, tinually implored.' Sel. (peasants) in sheepskin, munching leath' the most distinguished familiei were dving, Lone Island, and I went up in the cupola ' Christians to pray. But while the nations Judge Black his aged wife kneel ery pancakes as heavy and tasteless as s educated. Ch ica,, o Uerald. were measuring that magnitude of disaster. ing by his side, and he uttering from which they telegraph to New York the fashionable novel; stalwart guardsmeE measuring it not with golden rod like that that sublime and tender prayer: "O approach of vessels hours before they come In Shad-o- port. is an opening wall, Ripeness Character. the gilded eagle on First of Spring". with which the angel measured heaven. Lord God. from whom I derived mv existence. into There in the il with their polished trusted, and the operator puts his telescope through Bv. Chsrles H. Spurgeon beautifully but with the black rule of death. Java. in whom I have alwavs take mv soirit marks of ripeness in Christian helmets, eyeing approvingly the deadlj of the Indian archipelago, the most fertile to Thyself and let Thy richest blessing come that opening and looks out and sees vessels lustrates the on Mary"." out at sea. 1 was talking character som jwhat as follows: One mark combats painted the temporary thea island of all the earth, is caught in the gnp down upon my The most popular far While with own perfect to-da-y Bible, him he went up and looked out. He said : is beauty. Rii fruit his its ters; pasty-face- d children, with cheeks of the earthquake, and mountain after book is the and the mightiest ti ts it goes down, institution is the church, the greatest "We are expecting the Arizona beauty. As the fruit ripens, the as colorless as a cup of boarding-hous- e mountain and city after city, and loveliness, and the co'orj until that island, which produces the health name among the nations, and more honored I said: "Is it possible you know all with surpassing tea, devouring with insatiable eyes the any those vessels? Do you know them as you deepen till tne of the fruit is equal to iest beverage of all the world, has produced than other. v.e name of Jesus. re- ? " of th blossom, and in som pernicious beauty of the sweet-meat- s on the ghastliest accident of the country. One know a man's face He said : " Yes, I never the beauy Wonders of self sacrifice: A clergyman make a mistake; before I see the hulks, I spects superior. There is in rip Christian the surrounding stalls ; English tourists, hundred thousand people dying, dying, dead, me sanctificaMon, whk-- dead. toia in tne jorinwest tnat lor six years often know them by the masts; I know them the beauty of realized guide-boo- k in hand, laboriously imbibing ne wa a uiiisMunary ai me extreme xsorin, all, have watched them so long." Oh, the Word of It.kI knows by the name or But look at the disasters cyclonic. At the 400 miles postoffice, I what a wrong impression of everything ; living from a and some a grand thing is to have ships tele- 'beauty of holiness." greasj mouth of thj Ganges are three islands the times he slept out of doors in the it gold-lace- winter, the graphed and heralded long before they Another mark of ripe fruit is tenderne? emock-- f rocks iostlinsr d uniforms. Hattiah, the Sundeep and the Dakin Shabaz- sixty-fiv- thermometer sixty and e degrees e: pore. In the midnight of October, 1877, on come to port, that friends may come The young, green fruit is hard and stone-lik- and French bonnets jumbled up with below zero, wrapped in rabbit skins down to the wharf and welcome e is soft, yields to the pres- all those three islands the cry was: "The woven together. their long but the ri fruit Finnish kerchiefs and Cossack topknots. waters, the waters!" A cyclone arose I said: "Is it rxssi absent loved ones. So to-da-y we take our sure can almost le moulded, retains th and ble? do sixty-fiv- e The .entertainment provided rolled sea You not mean sixty and stand in the watch tower and we look off of the fing r. S it is with the ma'ur'' for this the over those three islands. ' We mark degrees oeiow zero? said: "1 do. and and through the glass of inspiration or he is noted for tenderae?- - of motley throng is as varied as itself and of a population of 310.000. 215.000 was happy." All Christian; were drowned. Only those saved who for Christ. Where is there Providence we look off and see a whole fleet spirit. peep-show- s, any Theatres, circuses, dancing had climbed to the top of the highest trees. other being that will rally such enthus- of ships coming in. That is the shin of Another mark of ripeness is sweetnf?. Did No? iasm? Mothers sewing their fingers off to Peace, flag with one star of Bethlehem is p rhaps it ouzh you ever see a cyclone? Then I boys Gospel The unripe fruit sour.and pray God you may never see one. I saw one educate their for the ministry. floating above the top gallants. That is the to be, or el e we should rat all the fruit For nine years no luxury on . the table until ship wave v may, on the ocean, and it swept us eight hundred course of the church, mark of salt h ie they are yt green. It thief'-- miles tne through grammar school and col high up on the smoke stack, showing of grace a fit thing m back from our course, and for thirty ana com- be in the order that six hours during the cyclone and after lege tneoiogical seminary be she has had rough weather, but the Captain the youthful Chri tian somes arpnes- - sh ul we expected pleted. Poor widow putting her mite into of salvation commands her and all is well beremovel. it every moment to go the Lord's treasury, the face of Emperor or te f which will ultimttely to the bottom. They told us be- with her. The ship of heaven, mightiest As w grow in grace we ara sure to grow in we 9 President impressed upon the coin not so con- ever launched, millions of passengers fore retired at o'clock that the spicuous as blood craft charity, svmpatny and love: we fhall hav 11 the with which she earned waiting for millions more, barometer had fallen, but at o'clock Millions good prophets and greater and more intense affection for tb at night we were awakened with the shock of it. of men and womeOj but apostles and martyrs in the cabin, con-- ' more women than men, to whom Christ is person of Him whom having no seen. the waves. All the lights out ! Crash! went at the foot of the mast, while love;" we shall h ive greeter delight in th? all everything. Christ first and Christ last and ?uerers rigging hands are waving the life boats. Waters rushing through Christ forever. this preci :s of His gospel; the doctrine the skylights down into the cabin and down way as they knew us. and we wave which perhaps we did not understan I a on the hissed smoked Why, this age is not so characterized by back again, for they are ours; they went out furnaces until they and invention and scientific exploration as first will bee me marrow and fatness to us in the deluge. Seven hundred people pray- it from our own households. Ours! Hail! Hail! as w advance in grace. We s' all feel th ing, is by Gospel proclamation. You can get off blaspheming, shrieking. Our great ship o it, Put the black and put on the white. Stop there is honey dropping from the hone conib poised irtan of unless vou can ring all tolling the funeral bell To Build Up His System. a moment on the top of a mount- the churc'j belis in one chime, and and ring the wedding in the deep things of our religion ain of phosphorescent fire, and anthem. Shut up the hearse and take the We as we rip n in grac?, have sound all the organs in one diapason, and chariot. Now, comes shall then plunged down, down, down, gather all th? congregations of Christen the ship around the greater sweetness toward our f1' great headland. Soon she will Bitter-spirite- until it seemed as if she would never again G strike the d Christian dom in one oria in Excelsaa. go low Cnristians. mm be righted. Ah! vou never want to see a Mighty camp meetings. Might Ocean wharf and we will aboard her. Tears for may know a great deal, but they are invna-ture- . cyclone at sea. But I was in Minnesota, ships roinffout. Lauehter for shirjs comincr censure Groves. Mighty Chautauquas. Mighty con- in. Those w.io are qu ck to mv where there was one of those cyclones on ventions of Christian works. Mighty ger Now she touches the wharf. Throw on the be acute in judgment, but they ar? land that swept the city of Rochester from planks. Block not up that gangway with v?ry eral assemblies of the Presbyterian church. embracing yet immature in heart. I know we who its foundations, and took dwelling houses, Mighty con ferences of the Methodist church. lone lost friends, for vou will young beginners in grc think ourvl" barns, men, women, children, horses, cat- have eternity of reunion. Stand back and AROUND THE "SAMOVAR." Mighty associations of the Baptist church. way qualified to reform the whole Christian tle and tossed them into indiscriminate Mighty conventions of the tpiscopal church give until other millions come on. Fare church. We drag her before us and con white-bearde- d fortune-teller- s, ruin,-an- well to sm. dogs, and lifted a rail train and dashed it I think before long the best investments wil Farewell to struggle. Farewell demn her straightwav; but hen our vir- en- to sickness. who, while professing to read the future, down, a mightier hand than that of the not be iu railroad stock or Western Union, Farewell to death. All sixjard become more mature I trust we shall gineer on the air brake. Cyclone in Kan- lor heaven! tues keep a very sharp eye upon the present, but in trumjets rnd cymbals and not be more tolerant of evi', but we shall b sas, cyclone in Missouri, cyclone in Wiscon - hop-f- ul f r swarm on everv side. festal decorations, for we are on m re tolerant of firmity, more Here, a musician sin. cyclone in Illinois, cyclone in Iowa. eve of victories wide world A RISING TIDE FOR TEMPERANCE. G d, and certainly less arro- Satan, prince of the power of the air, never the and the people of is squeezing out of an accordion (or rather upinting. mere may be many years There can be no question that, as the years gant in our critici-m- s. made such cyclonic disturbances as he has in on, there is a very sure mark ot rtp?n- - discordion) a doleful tune which seems v. And in saving of card work vet before the consummation. ?o a rising tide for temperance Aiotier and our da am I not risht that but the signs are to me so encouraging that And for prohibition The number of people is a lose hold f earth. Ripe fruit eas lv to have only one note, and that a false one or tne characteristics of the time ia You the which we live is disaster cyclonic? 1 would not be unbelieving if 1 saw the wint who believe liquor selling a sin and a crime parts fro the bou?h. tr one. There, a msm who is teasing of the apocalyptic angel spread for its last is on the increase, and so the number who ind the r pe apples fall. If you wish to eat But look at the disasters oceanic. Shall I is to plu?k tame bear, by flipping its face with his i 1 ma--i a u u lave resolved must be stopped. The vou put out vour hi d call the roll of the dead shipping ? Ye mon- mini uiut in luia utt suuki, that it fres'i fruit feel new fur cap, suddenly sees cap of morning the ocean cables shoulc aloon and the saloon keeper are regarded it, and if it comes off with difTi ulty yoi the sters the deep, answer when I call vour alone a little longer, snatched shreds names. Ville de Havre, the Schiller. thrill us with the news that Christ the Lord vith an increased abhorrence, and the business you had better leave it from him and torn to by City of had alighted on Mount Olivet or Mount Ca s gradually passing into when drops into your hand, quite Boston, the Melville, Cim-bri- a. the hands of the but it the beast amid a roar of laughter from Dr. Schmerz ' trouble, Mr. the President, the class, tlie branch, ycu 'The Tyers, But why should I go on calling varv to proclaim universal dominion. owest nearly all of them foreigners, readv to be withdrawn from the crowd. A little farther on, an eager is that you don't take enough when none Oh. you dead churches, wake up! Throw ind men who will never leave it except on know it to be in goM condition. exercise." the roll of tnem answer, om group cluster round a huge Russian tea- - Mr. E. Z. Tyers confess and the roll is as long as the white back the shutters of stiff ecclesiasticism and pulsion. And this compulsion ought to "Aw I I let the light of the spring morning come in. receive a new impulse at the municipal elec-- (self-boiler- ), scroll of the Atlantic surf at Cape urn or samovar drinkinir ion't go in vewy heavy on athletics, Hatteras Morning for the land. Morning sea, jons now near nana. or When the wire is in connection with the breakers? If the oceanic cables could report for the at Many our cities T their tea out of tumblers in place of cups, ioctaw. What could yon wecommend Morning of emancipation. Morning of light "an be carried for prohibition, if the friends battery, you feel its tingling touc all the scattered life and all the bleached working tily, I, and nibbling the sugar instead of drop a mild exercise begin on?" that they rub against in the depths and love and peace. Morning of a day in if temperance will organize and put in the Christ in me is niig is to of , lif- chich tuerc thall be no chains to break, no iara wora mat has secured a no vote in uam-iridge- wire, may send - thrilling through ping it ID. Dr. Schmerz "H'm! You might the ocean what a message of pathos and wi.h tragedy for both beaches: In one storm sorrows to assuage, no despotism to shatter. Somerville and elsewhere. Congre whom I touch. Filled the 17 JtJevona tins rise tiie guttering "ice jtretch your arms over your head when no woes to compassionate. O descend jationalist. God, I m y minister of that thine? w eighty fishermen perished off the coast of Chnst, v hill," down which countless couples ;ou yawn "Piid - Newfoundland. and whole fl.r or Scarred temple, take the crown ! Bruised ouis. Dr. E. P.misi:n. y