.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.