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REV. DR. TALHAGB. The Eminent Brooklyn Divine's Sun- : day Sermon. Subject t "In Jerusalem.' - Text: "If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning." IWm cxxxyii., 5. " i Paralysis of his best hand, the withering of Its muscles and nerves, is, here invoked if the author allows to pass out of mind the gran deurs of the Holy Citj where.onee he dwelt. Jeremiah, seated by the river Euphrates, wrote this psalm, and not David. Afraid I tm of anything that approaches imprecation, and yet I can understand how any one who -has ever been at Jerusalem should in enthu siasm of soul cry out, whether he be sitting ' by the Euphrates, or the Hudson, or tha ' Thames, 4If I forget theo, O Jerusalem, let my riht hand forget her cunning H' You see it is a city unlike all others for " topog raphy, for history, for significance, for style " of population,- for water works, for rums, for towers, for domea. for ramparts; lor lit erature. for tragedies, for memorable birth places, for sepulchers, for conflagrations and" famines, for victories and defeats. I am here at last in this very Jerusalem, . and on a housetop, just after "the dawn of the morning of December 3, with an old in habitant to point out the salient features of the scenery. "Now," I said, "where is Mount Zion?" "Hereatyourright.n",WhereisAIount Olivet?" 'In fro'at of where you stand?' Where is the Garden of Gethsemane?" "In yonder valley. "Where is Mount Calvary?" Before he answered I saw it. No unpreju diced mind can have a moment's doubt as to where it is. Yonder 1 seo a hill in the shape of a human skull, and the Bible says that Calvary was tne "place of 'a skull." Not only is it skull shaped, but just be- Death the forehead of the hill is a cavern that looks like eyeless sockets. Within the grotto under it is the sliapa of the in side of a skull. Then the Bible says that Christ was crucified outside the gate, and this is cutside the gate, while the site form erly selected was inside . the gate. Besides s that, this, skull hill was for ages the place where malefactors were put to death, and Christ was slain as a malefactor. The Saviour's assassination took place be side a thoroughfare along which people went , "wagging their heads," and there is the an- cient tho. onghfaro. I saw at Cairo, Egypt, I a clay mould of that skull hill, made by the i late General Gordon, the arbiter of nations. While Empress llelsna, eighty years o ago, and imposed upon by having three crosses exhumed before her dim eve they : wwxilT ii'iV selected another travelers agree th you was without terrifc and oven planet ever witnesse JThre were a thousand to sio that third day of December. drartman proposed this " and that and othef journey, but I said: "First of all show us Calvary. Something might happen if we went elsewhere, and 6ickness or accident might hinder our, seeing the sacred mount. If we see nothing else we must see that, and see It this morning." Some of us in carriage and some on, mule back, we were soon on the way tj the most sacred spot that the world has ever seen or ever will see. Coming to the base of the hill we first went inside the skull' of rocks. 1 1 is called Jeraar' all's grotto, for there the prophet wrote his book of Lamentations. The grottojs thirty-flve feet -high, and its top and side are malacbita, green, brown, black, white, red and gray. -Coming forth from thoe pictured subter raneous passages wei begin to climb the steep sides of Calvary. - As we go up we see cracka and crevices in the rocks, which 1 think were tnade by the convulsions of nature when Jesus died. 4)n the hill lay a limestone rook, white, tut tinged with crimson, ths white so 1 - suggestive b! purity and the crimson of sao rifice that I $aid, ''That 6tone would be beau tifully appropriate for a memorial wall in my church now building in America; and - the stone npw being brought on camel's back from Sinaf across the desert, when put under It, how significant of the Ia,w and the gospel 1 Aud these Jipsof (stone5atinue to speak of justice and mwejjg a f ter?TTtj4iyipS lips haveutt aeir, last message." aoirol own the hill and trans- portedi that day comes lor which 1 the dedication jLiva THuernacle, the third im- Tusg structure we have reared in this city, and that makes it somewhat difficult. being the third structure, a work such as no other Church was ever called on to un dertake we invite you in the main en trance of that building to look upon a me morial wall containing the niost suggest ive and solemn and tremendoiis antiquities evr brought together this, rent wita the CHi thquake at the giving of ,'tbe law at Hnai, the other reLt at the crucifixion on Caivary. . 1 ; It is impossible for you to' realize what pur emotions were as we gathered a group of men and women, all saved by the tlood af the Lamb, on a bluff of Cavalry, just wide enough-to 7 contain three crosses. I f aid; to my family and friends: "I think here is where stood the cross of the impeni tent burglar, and there the cross of the iniscreant, andhere between, I think, stood As I opened the nineteenth chapter of John . to read a chill blast struck the hill and a cioud hovered, the natural solemnity im- fTessingihe spiritual solemnity. I read a ittle, tut broke down. - I defy any emo tional Christian man fitting upon Gol gotha to read aloud and with unbroken voice, or with auy voice at all. the whole of that cccount fn Luko and John, of - which thP33 sentences are a fragment: "Theytoo'.t Jesus and led Him away, and Upbearing His cross, went forth into a place called the plaoe of a skull, where they crucified Him and two oth ers with Him, on either side one, and Jesus In the midst;" "Behold thy mother 1" "I thir&t;""This 'day shalt thou be with Me in Paratiis;n Father, forgive them, they know cot what tbey do;" "If it bo possible, let this cup pass from Mo." What sighs, what sobs, what tears, what tempests of sorrow,. what surging oceans of agony in those utterances! While we sat there the whole scene came before us. All around the toe and the sides and the foot Of the hill a mob raged. They rna&h their teeth and shak their clinched xihts at Him. Here the cavalry horses champ their bits and paw the earth and snort at the tmell of the carnage. Yonder a group of pamblers are pitching up as to who shall have the coat of the dying Saviour. There are vroraen almost dead with grief among the crowd His mother and His aunt, and some whose sorrows He had pardoned. Here a roan dips a sponge into sour wine, and by a stick lifts it to the hot and cracked hps. ' The hemorrhage of the five wounds hasdone its work. The atmospheric conditions are such as ths the world saw never before or since. It was not a solar eclipse, such as astronomers cord or we ourselves have seen, it was a iuc nmrr vi ma 'irn nrrTT 1 1 1 n -nr vi n- . til iIia iirrriinriins hills dis- C appeared. Darker! until tha inscription I above the middle cross becomes illegible. Darker! until the chin pf the dying Lord falls upon the breast, and He sighed with this last sizh the words. "It is finished r : jl 1L. A- M . k v . u.. ... " - " ' ft As we sat there a silenca toolc possesilon of of, and we thought, this is the centre from which continents have been touched, and all the world shall vet be moved. Toward this -iri&vthe prophets pointed forward. Toward this hill " the apostles and martyrs pomtea backward . To this all heaven pointed down ward. To this with roaming execrations perdition pointed upward. Round it circles all history, all time, all .eternity, and with this scene painters have covered the might iest canvas, and sculptors cut the richest marble, and orchestras rolled their grandest oratorios and churches lifted their greatest doxologies and heaven builf, its highest thrones. ' , , Unable longer to endure the pressure of this scene we moved on and into a garden of olives, a garden which in the rfcjh season is lull of flowers, and here is tha. reputed tomo of Christ.. You know the Book says. "In the midst of the garden was a sepulchre." I think this was the garden and this the -sepulchre. It is shattered, of course. About four steps down we went injo this, which seemed a family tomb. There is room in it for about five bodies. We measured it and found it about eight feet high and nine feet wide and fourteen ft lcnr. The crypt where I think our Lord slept was seven feet long. I think that there once Jay the Kinz wrapped In His last slumber. On some o: these rocks the Roman government set its Bead. At tho gate of this mausoleum on the on the first Easter morning the angels rolie.1 steps walked th lacerated feat ol th3 Ca oueror, and from these heights He looked o2 tne StOUa luuuuwMift - At 1 J. .T" T ratted V upon the world He had coma to r.am , atheavens through fflS Si wSaff-Sj - But wa must hast3n back to 'fas" citv had lifted. Stop here an 1 - V,t,M- been asking. Were those a?hes put Into tm prophecy to fill np? Nor Tae meaning h been recently discovered. Jerusalem is now being built out in a certain direction waera the ground has been submitted to che mical analysis, and it has been found to be th9 ashes cast out from the sacrifices of tha an-int temple ashes of wood and ashas of bon-M of animals. There are great mounds of asaei. accumulation of centuries, of sacr:fic3J. It has taken all these thousands of years to dis" Z eremialJ, meant when ha, said. wi?'1 th Tf come, saith the Lord, ' that the city shall be built to the Lord fronl the tower of Hananeel to the gate of the cor ner, and th whole Valley of the dead bodies and of the ashes.' Tne psxrple 0f Jerusalem are at this very time fulfilling that proph-cr. One handful of that ashes on which they ara buildmg is enough to. prove i' divinity of tha Scriptures I Pass by the place where th corner stone of tha ancient temole was laid threo thousand years ago by S lomoa. Explorers have bem diggin?, and they found that cornar stone seventy-five feet be neath the surface. It is fourteen feet lon and three feet eight inches high, and beauti fully cut and suaped, and near it was an earthen jar that was supposed to have con tained the oil of consecration usad at tha ceremony of laying the corner stone. Yon der, from a depth of forty feet, a shraetriu? lias been brought up inscribsJ with tha words -Haggai, tha Son of- Shebnaiah," showing- it belonged to tha Prophet Haggai, and to that seal ring he refers la his prop phecy. saying, "I will make thee as a signet." I .walk further on far under ground, and I ; find myself in Solomon's stables, and see the places worn in thj stone pillars by the bai ters of some of his twelve thousand horses. Further oh; look ut ihe pillars oa which Mount Moriah was. built. You know that tha mountain was too small for the temple, and so they built the mountain out oa pil lars, and 1 saw eight of thos pillars, each one strong enough to hold a mountain. Here we enter the mosqae of Omar, & throne of Mohammedanism, where we are met at the door by officials who bring slip pers that we-must Dut oa before we tike a fctep further, lest our-feet pollute th9 sacred places: A man attempting to go in without these slippsrs would be struck dead oa tha por. Thesa awkward sandals adjusted as well as we could, we are led to where we see a rock with an opening in it, through whica. ao aouDt, tne Diooi or sacrinea in tha ancient down and away. At vast ex- ue has been bunt, but sosam- I am glad to get through It, eumurous sappers and step of stona which is part-o a reached from Mount uion, and over it David prayers in tha temple. laca of th9 Jews, where perpetually, during taa da stood puttS. wall of whatVr tioa? of the Jews have d or lips against tha 1 flnln nnn'a farrmlo It was one of the saddest. ani m03t 81 and impressive scenes 1 witnessedtose, scores of these descendants K. Abrahan, With tearsrolhng down their cheal &nd u m. blmg with emotion, a booi r . ,fl before them, bswaiiing the rP3 cient temple and the captivity or t,air raCf, and crying to God for the. restora! Qj. tQ' temple in all its original splahor Mosfc affecting scene ! And such a J?rafyev ag tha century Vaf tor century, I amswira Godwin answer, and in soma way-tho depsr eran. deur will return, or something to-, ... JJ unci LIAS Duuuiuyi a owuw tilQm and saw that thay were rsadinz from tha mournful psalms ot David, while I h, vo D3en told that this is the litauy which 3onca chant: For the teinplc that lies desolate .. ; We sit in solitud'3 and mourn . For tho palace that is djsjfvi We nit hi solitade and moarn . ' For the waUs that are ovtrlt!rWCi Wa sit In solitude and nn-n . For oat majasty; tJiaHTdeparted, . Wert in eoiufl anj mourn; 1 Vot onr gjeft men that lie dead, . -We sit ifi solitude and monrn; ' "For prJeats who havostatnViei, ii v Duin so imae anamoura. I tLiuK at isalem will come again to more than ii it may not be precious f.tone?' tural majesty. Due m a moral spienaoi ehall jeclipse forever all that David or Solo mon saw. . But I must get back to the l ou3etop where 1 stood early this morning, and before the sun sets, that I may catch a wider vision of what the city now is and once was. Stand ing hereon the housetop I see that tho city was. built for military safety. Some old warrior, ! warrant, selected the spot. It stands on a hill 2o00 feet above tho . level of tho sea, and deep ravines on threa sides do the work of military trenches. Compact as no other city was compact. Only three miles journey round, and the three ancient towers, Hippicus, Phasaelus, Mariamne, frowning death upon the approach or all enemies. As I stood there on the housetop in the midst of the city I said, "O Lord, reveal to me this metropolis of the world that I may see it as it once appeared." I?o one was with me, for there are some things you can sea more vividly with no one but God and your self present. Imaiedialely the mosque of Omar, which has stood for ages on Mount Moriah, the site of the ancient temple, disap peared, and the most honored structure of all the ages lifted itself in the light, and I saw it the temp!e, the ancient temple! Not Solomon's temple, but something grander than that. Not Z3rubba'bel's temple, bu6 Bimething more gorgeous than that. It was Herod's temple, built for the one purpose of eclipsing all its architectural predecessors. There it stood, covering nineteen acres, ar.a ten-thousand workmen had been forty six years in building it. Blaze of magnifi cence! Bewildering range of porticos aad ten gateways and doub'.e arches and Corin thian capitals chiseled into lilies and acan thus. Masonry beveled and grooved into T5uch delicate forms that it S3amed to tremble in the light. Cloisters with two rows of Cor inthian columns, royal arches, marble steps pure as though made out of frozen snow, carving that seemed like a panel of the door of heaven let down and set in, the facade of the building on shoulders at ach end lifting the glory higher and higher, and walls, wherein gold put out the silver, ' and the carbuncle put out the gold, aad the jasper put put the carbuncle, until in the changing light they would all seem to come back agaiu into a chorus ot harmonious color. Tne temple I The temple! Doxology in stone! Anthems soaring in raft ers of Lebanon cedar! From Side to Sld and from foundation to gilded pinnacls- rozen prayer of all ages! m From this housetop on themj. after noon we look out in anor direction, and I sea the king's palacyvering a hundred and sixty thousaniuare ft, three rows of windows' Jii.ii'niTiiner tha inside brilliance. Cwav wainscoted w Uh styles of colored marbles surmounted by arabesque, vermilion and gold, looking down on mosaics, music of waterfalls in the garden outside answering the music of the harps thrummed by deft j fingers inside; banisters over which princes j and princesses leaned, and talked to kings ; and queens ascending the stairway. O Jern . salem, Jerusalem! Mountain cityl City of ; God! Jov of the whole earth! Stronger than Gibraltar and SebastopoL, surely it never could have been captured! But while standing t here on the housetop that December afternoon I hear the crash of the twenty-three mighty sieges which, have come ajainst Jerusalem in the ages past. Yohderis the pool of Hezekiah and Sfloani, but again ani a;ain were those waters red dened with human gore. Yonder are ths towers, but again and again thev felt - Yon der are the high walls, but again and again they are leveled. To rob the treasures fro.n. her temple and palace and dethrone this Sueea city of the earth all nations plotted . (arid taking the throne at Hebron decides that be must have Jerusalem for his capital, and coming up from the south at the bead of two .hundred and eighty thousand troops he captures it. Look, here comes another siege of Jerusalem ! Tha Assyrians under Sennacherih ea- ntivea nations nc ms caanos Travel, bavins take.i two hundred thousand captives in his oua campaign ; Phoenician cities knaaling at his feet, Egyp trembling at the flasb o his sword, comes upon Jerusalem. -Look, an other siege! -. The armies of Babylon under Nebuchadn'jznr come down and take oluuder from Jerusalem suchas no other city ever had to yield, and ten thousand of bar citizans trudge off into Babylonian boa i aa. Look, another siaje! ani Nebuchad nezzar and his hosts by night go througa a breach of ths Jerusalem wall, aad taa morning finds soma of theai seatei tri utnoaant in tho temple, and what th?y coal 1 uot take away because too heavy they brea up the brazen sea, and the two wreathel pillars, Jachin andBoaz. h "Ifge 0 Jerusalem, anl roomer with the battering rams whica a hundred men would roll bacs, and then, at fall run forward, would bang against t2 wall of tha Tt catapults hurling tha rocks uponthe people, left twelve thousand dead and the city m tha clutch of the Eomaa war sag r2.. a more dsjparate siege of Je rusalem! Titus with his tenth, fcgion on Mount of pUves and balhsta arranged oa the principle of the pandnlum to swinggreat bowsers against th walls and towerV and miners diggmg under the city making eal 5iel,0rm8 underground which, sst on tire, tumbled great misses f houses and hu man beings into destruction and death; Ail Is taken now but tha tsfmole, and Titus, tbs conquerr, wants to save that unharmai. put a soldier, contrary to orders, hurls a torch into the temple and it is -coasu:nd. Many strangers were in the city at tha timj and ninety-seven thousand, caotives were taien. and Josaphus says one million on 3 hundred thousand lay dead. ' tBut looking from this housa top, the sisga that mot absorbs us is that of the Crusader. England and Franca and all Chnstndoni wanted to capture the Holy S?pu!chre and Jerusalem, then in possession of tbe Moham- meaaca, unaer the command of m of tha love iest, bravest and mightiest mea thatevr lived; for justice must be done Mm though , nMs as a Aiohammedan glorious- Saladin! 4 I Against mm came the armi of Eurooe, under Richard Cceur de Lion, Kinz of England; ; Philip Augustus. King of France;' Tancred, ; Raymond, Godfrey and other valiant men, 1 marching on through fevers and plagues aad j battle cawgai aud suifn a3 inteos ai t.tha world ever saw. Baladia in Jeruslem, i bearing of tha sioknass of Kin? Richard, his chief cn3oiy4 sands him his own physician, and from the walls of Jerusalem, seeing King P.icbard afoot, sends him a horsa. With all the world looking on tha araiies of Europe come within sight of Jerusalem. At the first glimpsa of the city they fall oa their faces in reverencs and then lift anthems of praisa. Feuds and hatreds among them selves were eiven un. and Siven nn and Pnvmnn'l o n J rncrad, the bitterest rivals, embracad while the armies looked on. Then tha battering rams rolled, and the catapults swung, aad the swords thrust, and tha carnage raged. God frey of Bouillon, is tha first to mount the wail, and tha Crusaders, a cross on every shoulder or breast, having taken the city, march bareheaded and barefooted to what they suppose to be the Holy Sepulcher, and kis3 the tomb. Jerusalem the possession of Christendom . But Saladin retook the city, and for the last four hundred years it ha been ia possession of cruel and polluted Mohammedanism ! Another crusaao is needed to start for Jerusalem, a crusade in this Nineteenth Century greater than ail those of the past centuries j put together. A crusade ia which you and I will march. A crusade without lweapon3 of death, but only tha sword of the Spirit. A crusada that will make not a single wound, nor start ona 'tear of distress, nor incendiariza one home stead. A crusade of Gospsl Peace! And tha Cross again ba lifted on Calvary, not as once an instrument of pain, but a signal of invitation, and tha mosque of Omar shall give place to a church of Christ, and Mount Zion becomo the dwelling place not of David, but of David's Lord, and Jerusa lem, purified of all its idolatries, and taking back the Christ she once cast out. shall ba made a worthy type of that heaving city which Paul styled r'the mother of us all,"and which St. John saw, "the holy Jerusalem descending out of heaven from God." Through its gates may we all Bor when our work is done, andttirc::,i?Ereaterthan all the earthirttfmpies piled iii"ftfl& m7 "rn worship Russian pilgrims Haed all the roads around thwerusalem we visited last winter. They walked hundreds of mile?, and their feet on tne way' to Jerusalem. Many of thenTha4i?nc their last farthing to get there, andthey had left some of those who started with them dying or dead by the road side! An aged woman, exhausted with the long way,, begged her fellow pilgrims not to let her die until she had seen the Holy City. As she came to the gate of the city she could not take another step, but sha was carried in, and then said, "Now hold my head up till I can look upon Jerusalem," and hor head lifted, she took one look, ani said: "Now I die con- tent; I have been it! I have sean it!" Some j mer0(Mtt) of us before we reach the heavenly JenLialSuTndeeXlhey i may be as tired a3 that, but aasisor mercv tures 'of eter may oe as ureu as mat, dui bagels of. mercv will help usinMkmpseof the temple of God and tner' mh nd one croo 1 look at the "king in - his beauty," will more than 0r all the toils and tears and . "I " TT 1 a I tne pngrimage. naueiujanj Remarkable Somnambulism. ' . A remarkable somnambulistic feat was performed a few nights ago by Christo pher Medway, of Cave City," Ky.j Mr. Medway is a prominent lawyer and a Bcion of one of Kentucky's - oldest famil ies. In ltd, at the breaking out of the war, bis father -packed up .his silver plate, which was very valuable, and hid it in the Mammoth Cave. This was done in the midst of great hurry and,confusion, and owing to some oversightthe place was left unmarked, and whciT, in 1863, the Med ways wished to dig tho silver up no one could recol lect with any- certainty the spot, and though it was sought for, off and on, for years it was never located, aud the nu merous excavations resulting in no dis covery it was finally believed that some one had stolen the box and refilled tho hole. , . Mr. Medway 's father died convinced that it was so, and for more than ten years no one gave further thought to the matter; But recently Mrs. Medway re vived the subject by relating the story to some friends in her husbands hearing, nnd that gentleman says he went to bed . wondering if his Vather's belief in the theft of the box was correct, and that, on falling to sleep he rc-enactcd-the scene of the removal and burial of the silver at which he was present, though only a boy of fourteen. ' When he awoke he found himself lying on the ground close to a larjre rock and in DlacK aarKness, except faint l . ...... . - r- gleam oi light inthC' ljdistancc. At i. first -he experejd, some difficulty in realixiujjScrehe was, but when he did conceded, on remembering bis dream, nat he had managed to slip by the night watchman, into the cave, and, his memfry, singularly aroused in his slumbers, had found his way to the spot where he had seen the silver buried twenty-nine years before. After marking the rock, he .made his way to the gate through which he saw the.morniug light stealing, and as he was in his night dress, called to the watch man and despatched ' him after his clothes. He then hired workmen to dig in the spot where hs had found him self on awakening, and soon had the sat isfaction otsceinr' them lift.-out the.case of silver, which being- - opened. -. was found intact. New York Telegram. 1 - OldAgaad Horse Flash. ! . . . ,- - v?r- c t mi i ' h m " It is doubtless true that e have "no ruch collection of old" men" eminent in public life as England -can boast,- but we bave some horsey men of advanced ae Mr. Frang Work, who was upset the other day while drivingTa 'faff of slut tish colts, and who pl'uckilj 'held onl to the lines till something, bijoke, is three score and ten.' Mr. . ,llam?in, ol Buffalo, who . lately! accomplished ,th wonderful feat of driving two horses, bred by himself, a nifte in.p.i; is in his seventieth year. Thei-e is a profes sional trotting horsedrivcr in Vermont still in active service who has seen eighty-three suicmwr?; andtn citizen of New York of preciscty the-iecasst Kvas arrested on Monday last for stealing a horse and wagen. These fa'ctk " gpak. for themselves andv prove. cjDnclusively that even an American can live to be old and vigorous jrovided that he hi a ast for horseflesh. Boston Po&t ; ,j REUGIOUS READING. IT WE KJTEW. Could we but draw back the enrtafna That surround each other's lives. See the naked heatt and spirit, . Knew whst spur the sction gives, Often we should find it Iwtter. Purer than we judge we should We shrfukl Jove each o: befheiter If we only understood. " Could we judge all deeds by motives. See the good and bad within. Often we should love the Mnntr All the while we loathe the sin. Could we know the powers working To o'erthrow integrity. "We should judge each other's errorf With more patient charity. If we knew the care and trials, Knew the effort all in vain, , . . And the bitter disappointment, Understood the loss and gam,- -Would the grim, eternal roughness Seem. I wonder, just the same? Would we help where now we hinder? Would' we pity where we blamef Ah! we judge each other harshly, Knowing not life's hidden force; Knowin not the fount of action Is less turbid at its source, Seeing not amid the evil All the goldm grains of good ; O! we'd love each other better If we only understood. Woman's Work. TIIE STUDY OF THE BIBLE. It Is wholly out of my power to renlv to your letter in the manner which its purpose would recommend and its object requires.' Bnt I am unwilling altogether to withhold a few word which may, at any rate, serve as an indication of sympathy with your de sire to profit by the treasures of the divine Word I will not. dwell on the need of a light from above, or the duty of seeking it; or being vigilaut against the excuse of the slothful spirit; of cultivating bum'rity ; of bearing iii mind that God has, through all the long ags, had a teop!e whom he has led ; that we are not the tirst who come to the wells of salvation opened by Christ and His apostles. I will af-sume that vou are strict adherent of method in this great study, so as to make j'our results compre hensive. In this view I recommend you to consider whether the tabic cf lessons, "old or new, may not be of much use. Two things, however, especially I com mend to jour thoughts. The lirstis this: Christianity is Christ and nearness to Him snd His image is the end of all your efforts. Thus the Gospels, which continually pre dit to us one pattern, have a kind of precedence among the books of Holy Scripture. I ad vise your remembering that the Scriptures have two purposes one to "feed the people of God on green pastures, the other to serve for proof of doctrine. These are not di vided by a sharp line from one another, yet thev are provinces, on the whole, distinct, and in some ways different. We are .vari ously called to various works; but we all require to feed in the pastures and to drink at the wells. . For this purpose the Scriptures are Incom parably simple to all those willing to be fed. The same cannot be aid in regard to the Sroof or construction of doctrine. This is a esir-ivork, but not for us all. It re- ip-i1res to be pof sessed with more of external rnelps, more learning and good guides, more knowledge of the historical development of our religion, which development is one of the most wonderful parts of all human history, and, in my opinion, affords, also one of the strongest demonstrations of its truth and the power and goodness of God. Mr. Gladstone to a Leader of a Men's Bible Class In Manchester. BIBLICAL EMBI.EM$ OF BETBIBUTI0N. The Scriptural emblems of the endless death have a secret burden of significance. An abys of meaning yawns behind and be neath them. They do" not mean what we mean when wo Aid them l.ke peppercorns into the air with flie fio-Hy.. '"TnTy are all ' -Figures of speech, are; but n?ures that is, pic tures of eternal verities, the most fearfully tragic of all that we know in the history of ' the univer-e. They are prriphccies. Thr-y are heavy-laden with God's iniinite indigna tion. They mean what inspired men saw in awe-st:uek vision, of the cycles of dura tion in which the hitinitely holy seusibilihes ot God shall express themselves in undying wrath against undying wrong. . " Those which, our Lord originated mean what He foresaw when His mission as the Judire of the living and the dead dawned up on His trembling consciousness. They mean what they stem when weighed with the re tributive enginery of the spiritual body. "If any man shall take away from the word? of the Jiook of this prophecy. God shall tike away his art out of the Book of Life." The modern pulpit needs the biblical emblems in retributive discourse to arrest an alarming decadence of the popular laith irt the reality of retributive inflictions. Of the lact of such decadence I am compelled to judge, not from personal hearing, but from corres pondence. ' This source of information hss brought to my heritage evidence of such signs of the times as these, namely, that many of our preachers, with no avowal, and probably with no consciousness of unbelief, do not preach the doctrine of endless punishment at all i that many more preach it only by implication in the discussion of collateral truths; that in many pulpits it is taught more by censure of its extnmes and abuses than- by the elm, balmced, compas sionate, yet bold, presentation of its bibli cal forms; that it is seldom proved as a fundamental element of evangelical faith; that often its proofs arc so weighted by its dinicultips that the impression,' as a whole, is that of a negative; that. to a very considerable extent, it is evaded in the .Vistructions of our Sunday schools and Bible classes ; and that the more amiaMe features of the divine povernment arc ob truded in such disproportion that the biblical equipoise of truth is hopelessly broken. The retribuMve sentiment is, to a large extent, dropped ut of the popular conception of the character of God. In short, many of our pupils arc practising the perilous experiment of preaching law without its underground of penalty, and love without its underground of fear. The change which has come upon the n i 1 1 1 T ill ii rArrfrt!nor nm m in.fArn uea-C OI 1 " ' ' r-yr xw.m.m.. , discourse is revolutionary. FortyyfTf the doctrine of endless punishment rf preached without compromise or reserva tion. Bv argument, by illustration, by ex postulation, by appeal, it was planted deep in the popular faith. It lived in the poy u lar conscience. Men are still living in wlioe memory the echo reverberates of the imperi tl tones of President Finney, in which he pictured the end!essns of "hell t irments" in that apostrophe wbtcb men sprang to Ibeir feet "Eternity, O eternity 1" Men still live who heard the wailing con fessions of Albert Barnes, from which they caught some conceptions of the crushed spirit of our Lord in His anticipations of the day of doom. Where can we hearsueh. preaching no w? Prof. Phels. - THE PEOMlSES 0 GOD. "The promises of God are the motive power of prayer. Who could pray without the assurance of a prayer-bearing God? And who t-oulil expect answers to prayer if there were no pronnses to plead at the, throne of grace? Asf soon as great need or emergency isnponusrwe Isjl hold on some promise 6nted to our ca?-e. Happily therj are ex ceeding great and precious promises' snd we are encouraged to accept snd lean upon them." So-speaks the Christian Inquirer. And we are led to think of how few C'hri t ians really venture upoa the greatest of God's promise." We do not measure thir heizht and depth fully. If we did there would be more inspiration to pray, aad more power in our prating. A XOTABLE DOLLAR. 44 TMs U a very remarkable coin, GUroj, producing a dollar. 44 1 low ao r asked Larkin. 'said ,i'riT in the last twelve .rears the GoTcrnmeilt his coined just 319,038,001 of them." - "Well 5' . . 'Well. ikUh tire odd mct A FIXED HABIT- Mr. Glum I res!!? belkre your nosa turns up. I never noticed it befors. Mrs Glum I-Dresume it has cot turnin? up since I married you. New York Weekly. - X LET Eli HEAD. The Advaatar ! Preaeae af SIIa4 fa aa atercacr. During the late 6trike oa th New York Central Railroad, the militia wnre ordered to be in readiness in case of rkit, bat tho wrre not called out. , In an interview Gov. Hill sal 1 the troops' were not to be called upon except in case of an emergency. The emergency, had not arisen, liutretora they would not be ordered out. Hs remarket that this was the first great strike w.ta which he bad had experi ence, and he did not i ropose to lose his head; the only point at which there had bean serious trouble was at Syracuse, and there a deputy she rifT had lost his head and precipitated aa encounter. The strike continued, several weeks ani there was riotous action at various points along tho road, but the civil authorities were able to cope with it without, calling on the militia. The test of a man's real ability comes when an emergency arises which makes a hasty call cn his good judgment and discretion. The man who retains his presence of mind, retains his equipoise and exercises sound discretion at suen critical junctures is to be relied on and will be put to the front. Men with level heads have the stajin; qualities which do not falter in the face of danger. Otis A. Cole, of Kinsman, O., June 10, ltfcO, writes: "In the fall of lsS3 I was feeling very ill. ' 1 consulted a doctor and be said 1 had bright' disease of the kidneys and that he would not stand in my shoes tor the State of Ohio." But he did not Jose courage or give up; he says: "I saw the testimbmal of Air. Jonn Coleman, Gregory 8t.,!New Haven, Conn., and I wrota to him. Li dne time I received an answer, stating that, the testimonial that he gave was genuine and not overdrawn in any particular. I took a good many bottles of Warner's Safe Cure; have not taken any for ono year." . Gov. Hill is accounted a very successful man; he is cool and calculating and belong to tne class that do not lose their heads when emergencies arise. Paving for Presents. . Belle Swain was well-meaning and innocent, pretty, and she knew it. She was poor also, and could not afford to buy the ornaments with, which riche girls Bet off their beauty. The boys who went with her to school discovered that Belle would accept pretty gifts, 'even cheap jewelry, from them, which they would hesitate tc offer to the other girls. ' "I know you are my friend, just like a brother!" the would say to Tom oi Joe or Ben oa the cae' might be, . when she slipped a new ring on her finger oi pinned a brooch in her dress. She never told Ben Paull that 6he took gift? from tho others. Ben was a manly, honest fellow with a profonnd respect for all women. When he left Dinsport to go into business ia Cincinnati ho thought Belle the purest and most mod eat woman living. . During that summer James Pollard, a traveling agent for a sewing-machine firm, came to the village. Ho was a married man ' with a wife and child whom he neglected: his habits were bad and his manners coarse. But the village girls thought him a model ol manly beauty, and he said nothings about his wife. He took Belle to picnics, walked with her, drove out alone with her. The man knew that no girl of respectable parentage in the city would admit a stranger to such intimacy, and did not give the village girl credit for the mod esty and purity which she really poa sessed. At heart Belle disliked him. She saw that hefjyas vulgar and feared thai he was not good man. But he sent her oritS daya-neck-chain and pendant, set with sham rubie3. It was just .what she wanted to Fet off her white throat. It wa3 a great temptation, and after e little hesitation she took the chain and wore it to a picnic the next day. As Pollard came toward her, his eye lighted with triumph. His voice had e jeeriug tone when he spoke to her which was new to it. He had now a hold" upon her. The chain was like a yoke upon her neck. Belle had heaped all of her gaudy little .ornaments upon her person that afternoon. There were the ear-rings that Tom hl given her, and Joe's pin,, and Daye's Mracfc!et. Ben Paull was to be at ""the. picnic and she wished to look her best in his eyes. Presently the stranger. Pollard, fol lowed her to the spring where she had gono for water. The other young men happened to be standing together, and saw them exchange a few words. Then Pollard kissed her. He boasted of it when- he came back. "She objected," he said. "But she had not thanked me for my necklace. It was worth a kis?.; She had to pay." "A good idea!" exclaimed Dave. "She'll pay me for my bracelet." ' "And me for the ear-rings 1 cried Tom. "And me for the pin she wears," said another. Ben looked at them with scorn and rage ' in his heart. The jokers were vulgar. But what was the girl ,whc had subjected herself to their coarse joke3? When ehe came up, pale with mortification, he avoided her. The girl who was hung with the offerings of other men could Dever be his wife. Belle has her poor rings and neck lace still, aD(l a Fense of shame and mortification that . time will hardly efface. ' No young girl should accept gift from any man. The girl who does it betrays the fact that she is not carAfnll v Jj?uarded by parental training, and thai cpr uwu inunci is not nne enough tc w:'Xn her of danger. Matte Happy. A day or WQgo. jmo jsho-Iivea forty or fifty nnle3vest of Detroit hang about the T hirdstreet depot in a way to arofe Officer Bntton'a curiosity, and lie finally approached the stranger ana asfced: "Waiting for anv particular tram? "I'm in a fix," responded the man. aI t Al. came m on a intie ousmes, om nave lost mv return ticket and haven t a cent to buy another." Ag it was plain that ne-naa been drinking considerably the officer advi-ed him to "look around lor the missing ticket, - . . . About an hour later, being a gocd deal drunker than belcre he approached the officer and aid : Tm all right now. . Found the ticket, eh?" "Yea. I hadn't lost it." "In your wallet, it V "Xo." I jeaa remembered fivo minntes ago that I sold her to a broker np 'er street and am haTing'a - of a time trith er proceedi! Hooray fr" G'go Wa&h'ton an liberty." White Swelling t. itarr bit aa. aerea searo o ba4 a wkte awo Uucomc oa hla r rtt Irtc w no, eouuacted tUo maaclea a that h a iei wa drawn a at rlht. aaslca, Ic-oaat4ered am aeo flrwJerp-pj- I wa: atrXEt tat him to Ciodno XI 1 aa t peVailoa, aad bejaa glTiag hta B i rl 1 t r- BP J 1 melicto woke j h J appea - P were ah from tbo aore. We eootlaaed ltft Ho" Svra parfiia aad la a few me .Uj bo bid pfoct naeol biateg. Bo aow ana reerywhere, aad apparaat J li u wet a er." 5os U McXcaiUT, Sotarj Paic,aaawkiI,'W.V-. " , .r-' Hood's Sarsaoarill 6oblDTaUdrm;rta t : mix tar JV lrepara I by C L HOOD CO Lowell, Xaaav. IXlflJ?-QseaQnaLPolJar. to TATLOR--T really do feor you -will etlle this little account to-dav, sir. I have a heavy bin to: pay inr cloth merchant. Captain (calrnlv) Con found your impudence, you go and con tract debU aud come dunning me to ray them. Get out; or I'll send for the po- ice." Ita ExeeTleat QaaMtlM . 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Perquiman’s Record (Hertford, N.C.)
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