REV DR. TALMAGE.
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THE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUNDAY
SERMON.
Text: “H7*o maketh the clouds His
'Chariot.*— l'-alm civ., .‘t
Hrutcijnro constructed so as to look down.
Thos* eirth.lv creatures that have
when they n.se from the earth still look
down, and the eagle searches for mice in the
grass and the raven for carcasses in the Held.
Sian alone is made to look up. To induce
him to 100 t up God makes tho sky a picture
f;a!!ery. a Dusseldorf, a Louvre, a Luxem
>our'*'. a Vatican that eclipses all that Ger
man. « r French, or Italian art ever accom
plished. Hut God has failed so far to attract
tho attention of most of us by the scenery of
tho sky. We go into raptures flover owers
In the soil, but have little or no appreciation
of the “morning glories” that bloom on the
wall of the sky at sunrise or tho dahlias in
tho clouds at sunset. We are in ecstasies
over a gobelin tapestry or a bridal veil of
rare fabric, or u snowbank of exquisite curve,
but see not at all, or see without emotion,
the bridal veil or mist that covers the face of
tho Catskills, or the swaying upholstery
around the couch of the dying day, or the
mow banks of vapor piled up in the heavens.
My text bids us lift our chin three or four
inches and open the two telescop s which
under the forehead ure put on swivel easily
turned upward, and see that the clouds are
not merely uninteresting signs of wet or dry
weather, but that they are embroidered
canopies of shade, that they are the con
servatories of the sky, that they are thrones
•of pomp, that they are crystalline bars, that
they are paintings in water color, teat they
are tho angels of the mist, that they are
great < alheurals of light with broad aisles
for angelic feet to walk through and bow at
altars of amber and alabaster, that
they are the mothers of tbfe dew,
that they are ladders for ascending
and descending glories, Cotopaxis of
belching flame. Niagaras of color, that thev
are the masterpieces of the Lord God Al
mighty. 'lhe clouds are a fa\orito Bible
simile and tho sacred writers have made
much use of them. After the deluge God
hung on a cloud in concentric bands the
colors of the spectrum, saying: “I do set my
bow in the clouds.” As a mountain is some
times entirely hidden by vapors, so, says
God, "I have blotted out as a thick cloud
thy transgressions.” David measured the
divine goodness and found it so high he
apostrophized: “Tby faith fulness roaches unto
the clouds. * As sometimes there are thou
sands of fleeces of vapor scurrying across the
heavens, so, says Isaiah, will be the converts
in the millcniuin, “as clouds and as doves.”
As in the wet season no sooner
does the sky clear than there comes
another obscuration, so, saj*s Solomon,
ono ‘ache or ailment of old folks has no more
than gone than another pain comes “as
clouds return in the rain.” A column of
illumined cloud led tho Israelites across tho
wilderness. In tho book of Job. Elihu, watch
ing the clouds, could not understand why
they did not fall or why they did not all roll
together, tho laws of evaporation and con
densation then not being understood, and he
cries out: ‘Dost thou know the balancing of
the clouds'i” When I read my text it sug
gests to mo that the clouds are tho Creators
equipage, and their whirling masses are the
w heels, and the tongue of tiie cloud is the
pole of the celestial vehicle, and the winds
are the harnessed steeds, and God is lhe
Royal occupant and driver “who maketh
tho clouds His chariot”
To understand the psalmist's moaning in
the text you must know that the chariot of
old was sometimes a sculptured brilliancy
■made out of ivory, sometimes of solid silver,
and rolled on two wheels which wore
fastened to the axle by stout pais, and the
awful defeat of Oeuornaus by Pelops was
caused by tho fact that a traitorous charioteer
had inserted a lim b pin of wax instead of a
I inch pin of iron. All of the six hundred
chariots of Pharaoh lost their linch pins in
the ped Sea, for the Bible says: “The Lord
took ofT their wheels.” Look at the long
flash of Solomons fourteen hundred chario s,
and the thirty thousand chariots of the
Philistines. If you have ever visited the
buildings where a king or queen keeps the
coaches of state, as I have, you know that
king-! and queens have great varieties of
turnout. The keeper tells you: “This is the
state carriage, and used only on great
occasions.” “This is the coronation
carriage, and in it the king rode
on the day he took tlie throne.” “In this the
Gueen went to open Parliament.” “This is
tlr 1 coach in which tho Czar and the Sultan
rode on the occasion of their visit.” All
costly and tesselated and enriched and em
blazoned are they, and when the driver takes
the reins of the ten white horses in his hands,
and amid mounted troops and bands in full
force sounding the national air. the splendor
starts ami rolls on under arches entwined
with banners, and amid tlio huzza of hun
dreds of thousands of spectators the sc* na is
memorab'e. But my text puts all such oc
casions into insi/nificance. as it represents
the King of the Universe coming to the door
of his palace, and the gilded vapors of the
heavens rolling up to His feet, and He stop
ping in and taking tho reins of tho galloping
winds in II s ban 1 starts in triumphal ride
under the arch s o': twnplrre. and over the
atmospheric high w ays of opal and chrysolite,
tho clouds Ills chariot.
My hearers, do no 1 think that God belit
tles Hims df when he takes r.icii conveyance.
Do you know that the clouds are among the
most wondrous and rnunstic things in the
whole universe? Do you know that they are
flying lakes and rivers and oceans? God
waved His hand over them and said: “Come
tip higher!” and they obeyed the mandate.
Thn* flood iesfead of being, as it seems, a
small gathering ot vapor a few yards wide
and high is ready seven or eight miles across,
and is a mountain, from its base to its top,
15,000 feet, 18,000 feet, 20.000 feet, and cut
through with ravines 5000 feet deep. No.
David did not make a fragile or unworthy
representation of God in the text when ho
epoke of the clouds os His chariot. But as I
suggested in the caso of an earthly king. He
has His morning cloud chariot and evening
cloud chariot—the cloud chariot in which
He rode down to Kinai to oj ton the jaw, and
the cloud chariot in w hich he rode down to
Tabor to honor the gospel, ami the cloud
chariot in which He will come to ju Igment.
When He rides out in His morning chariot
at th n aiy«i( s * oY‘o ■«, h« put; go'-
den oronet*on th** dome of ci'i.-s. and sil
vers the rivers, and out of tho dew makes a
diamond ring for th<* finger of every irraHs
blade, and bids good cheer to invalids who in
the night said: “IVoiiM Go lit were morn
ing.” From this morning cloud chariot He
distributes light, light tor toe earth and light
for the heaven#, light for the land an I light
for the w»a. great bars of it. great wreathes
of it. treat columns of it. a world full of it.
Hail Him in worship as every moraing He
drives out *n Hu chariot of morning cloud,
and ftj‘ with David:
“My voice s ialt. Thou hear in tho morning:
in the morning will 1 direct mv prayer unto
Th»e end look up ’ I rejo’co in these Hcrip
turo ejaculations: “Joy coitHdli in the morn
ing.” “My wml w iitoth for Th w more than
they that watch forth • n.ornhi “If I take
the «:ug of th** morning.* “The eyelid *of
the morning.” “The morning cometh/’ “Who
is die tint loo’*»e!h forth hn the mom ng ”
• !ii- - ''.jit f fli is ire | trad as thaino.n
log. “A* »be morning spread on the mount
j :*,»ii V 11( h ini .htv thing the King
throw * iron) lint chariot when He t a rows ut ;
tbemoning! j
Y*-n H * las his evening cloud "hariot. It
is ui i.i • owt of Ua tilTnin and the gold and
the fm* pV an i the ora nze mil the v. million
and up hot flame of the suns L Tout is tli* j
place wher-j the splendors that have marched j
through the day. Having ended the proces
**on, throw down the torches and set the
he *x m i or» Are. That i« the only hour of the
day when the atmosphere is* clear enough to
let in mu the wall of the heavenly city with
It* twe vo manner of prec.ous stones, from
foundation of jasper to middle strata j
of sardius and on up to the co
ping of arosthy«t At that honr with*
out any of Eiiehns supernatural vis on
■wc is« ur-St of flr? on ! vliarok of Ore an i
banners of fire and ships of lire and cities of
fire, seas of fire, and it seems as if the last
conflagration had begun and there is a world
on fire. When God makes these clouds His
chariot let us all kneel. Another day past,
what have we done with it? Another day
dead and this is its gorgeous catafalque.
Now is the tim* for what David called the
“evening sacrifice,” or Daniel called the
“evening oblation.” Oh! oh! what a chariot
made out of evening cloud! Have you
hung over the tafFrail on the ocean
»nd seen this cloudy vehicle roll over
the pavements of a calm summer
tea, tho wheels dripping with the magnifi
cence? Have you from th6 top of Ben
Lomond or the Cordilleras or the Berkshire
hills seen the day pillowed for the night, and
yet had no aspiration of praise and homage?
Uh, what a rich God we have that He can
put on ono evening sky pictures that
excel Michael Angelo's “Last Judg
ment” and Ghiilandjo's “Adoration of
the Magi” and whole galleries of
Madonnas, and for only an hour, and then
away, arid the next evening put on tho same
sky something that excels all that the
Raphaels and the Titans and the Rembrandts
and the Corregios ami the Leonardo da Vincis
ever executed, and then draw a curtain of
mist over them never again to be exhibited!
How rich God must be to have a new chariot
of clouds every evening!
But the Bible tells us that our King also
has a black chariot. “Clouds and darkness. *'
wo are told, “are round about him.” That
chariot is cloven out of night, and that night
is trouble. When He rides forth in that
black chariot pestilence and earthquake and
famine and hurricane ami woe attend Him.
Then let the earth tremble. Then let ga
llons pray. Again and aga : n Ho has ridden
forth in that char ot of black clouds, across
England. France, Italy. Russia, and America,
and over all nations. That which men took
for the sound of cannonading at He has top 01,
it Sedan, at Gettysburg, at Tel-el-Kebir. at
Bunker Hill, were only the rumblings of the
slack chariot of the* Almighty. Ave, it is
;he chariot of stormcloud armed with tliun
derbolts. and neither man nor angel nor devil
nor eirth nor hell nor heaven can resist Him.
bn those boulewards of blue this chariot
sever turns out for anything. Aye. no one
ilse drives there Under one who* l ! of
/wit chariot Babylon was crush°d and Baal
oeek fell dead and the Roman Empire was
prostrated and Atlantis, a who’e continent
;hat once connected Europe with America,
tank clear out of sight so that the longest
mehor of ocean steamer cannot touch the top
>f its highest mountains. The throne of tne
”a*sars was less than a pebble under the
ughfc wheel of this chariot, an l the Austrian
lesnntism less than a snowflake under the left
wheel. And over destroyed worlds on worlds
ihat chariot has rolled without a jar or jolt.
This black chariot of war clou la rolled up
o the northwest of Europe in 1*1 ! and four
iundred thousand men marched to take Mos
cow, but that chariot of clouds rolled back,
ind only twenty-five thousand out of the four
iundred thousand troops lived to return. No
rival snow storm like that had ever before or
ias ever since visited Russia. Ave, the chariot
if the Lord is irresistible. There is
inly one thing that can halt or turn any of
Ris chariots, ami that is prayer. Again and
igain it has stopped it. wheeled it around,
ind the chariot of black clouds under that
lanetifie 1 human breath has blossomed into
tuch brightness and color that men and
ingels had to veil their faces from its bright*
less. Mark vou. the ancient chariot which
David uses as a svmbol in my text had only
:wo wheels.and that was that they might turn
luickly, two wheels taking less than hal.
the time to turn that four wheels would
have taken. And our Lord’s chariot has
only two wheels, and that means instant re
versal, and instant help, and instant deliver
ance. While the combined forces of the
universe in battle array could not stop his
black chariot a second or diverge it an inch,
the driver of that chariot says: “(.‘all upon
Me in the day of trouble and I will de
liver thee,” “While they are yet
speaking I will hear.” Two wheeled
chariot, one wheel justice and the other
wheel mercy. Aye. they are swift wheels.
A cloud, whether it belongs to the cirrhus,
tho clouds that float the highest; or belongs
to the stratus, the central ranges; or to the
cumulus, the lowest ranges, seems to move
slowly along the sky if it moves at all. But
many clouds go at a speed that would make
a vestibule limited lightning express train
seem lethargic, so swift is the chariot of our
God; yea. swifter than the storm, swifter
than the light. Yet a child ten yearn old has
been known to reach up, and with the hand
of prayer take the courser of that chariot
by the bit and slow it up, or stop it, or turn
it aside, or turn it back. The boy Samuel
stopped it. Elijah stopped it Hezekiah
! stopped it Daniel stopped it. Joshua
stopped it. Esther stopped it. Ruth stopped
it. Hannah stopped it. Mary stopped it.
My father stopped it My mother stopped it
11 y s’ster stoppe lit He have in our Kab
vath-aciioois children who again ami again
ind again have stopped it.
Notice that, these old time chariots, which
ny text uses for symbol, h id what we would
•all a high dash board at the front’, but were
/pen behind. Ami the king would stand at
-he dash-board and drive with his own hands,
And I am glad that He, whose chariot tlie
;!ouds are, dnves Himielf. He does not let
aatural law drive, for natural law is deaf. He
loes not let fate drive, for late is merciless.
But our Father King drives Himself,
ind He puts His loving hand on the reins of
die flying courser*, and He lias a loving ear
/pen to the cry ot all who want to catch His
ittcution. Oh, lam so glad that my Father
lrives ami never drives too fast, and never
1 rives t>» slow, and never drives off the
jrecipic?, and that He controls,by a bit that
saver breaks, the wildest and most raging
.-ironinstances. I heard of a ship captain
who put out with bis vessel with a large
cumber of passengers from Buffalo on Luke
Erie, very early in the season and while
ihcre was much ice. When they were we 1
out the captain saw to hi* horror that the ice
was closing in on him from all sides, and he
saw no way out from destruction an i death,
lie ealied into the cabin tlie passengers and
*!1 the crew that could lie spare 1 from thrir
posts, and told (hem that th .-sli pmust I-e lost
Unless Gol interposel, and although he was
not a Ghr.stian nun lie said: “tat us pray.”
and they all knelt asking God to come for
Iheir deliverance. They went back to the
deck, and th • man at tho wheel shouted: “All
right, capo. it’s blowing nor by nor’ west
1.0 . v.” Wh ie tho prayer was going on in the
cabin the wind chang •d and blew tho ice out of
th'i wav. '1 he mate asked:‘Shall I put on m >r«#
sail, cap’ll?* ••No!’* responded the captain.
”DonMouc!i her. Kern-oneelse is managing
this ship ’
Oh. men ond worn *n.shut in on all sides
, by icy I rouble* a*.d misfortunes, m earnest
j | raver put all your affairs in tho hands of
IGo 1. You wiil come out all right. Rome ono
j»•se is managing the ship! It did not merely
j happen so that when Leyden was lieselgen,
j nud the Duke of Alva felt sure of his tri-
I umph, suddenly the wind turned, and the
swollen waters compelled him to Mop
| tho tioge. and tlie City was save:.
I God that night drove along the
I coast of the Netherlands in n black chariot
of st*irrn cloud. Itdid not merely happen *0
that Luther ros? from the place wh/re he
was silting in t nr* to k -ep from lieing
rrisahe 1 by a st lie that the instant alter leit
on the very np.it. Had lie not <scaped where
would have i»ceu the Reformation/ itdid not
in-rely iiappu s<* that Co!um >us
was waved from drowniug by an oar
that was floating on the waters. Other
wise. who won d have unvei tri America?
It d»il not vne«vlv hnp;»en so t'uit w‘i 11
Geor. e Wntninglou was »n RruokHti agrciit
fog ho tied down overall the place where Imw
< hufeu klanos, nud over ad thix end ot' Long
I#mu l. and that under that fog he and h<>»
army escaped from the dutche-i of Generals
liowe and Clinton, in a chariot of mist and
cloud the God of Ameri'-ari Independent**
ro<ie a long here. Oil t hat pillow of coiiso'at ion
i put down my head to a eep at nig.it.
On that solid foundation 1 build when i h*m»
th s nation in political paroxysm every four
years, not because they care two cent* about
whether it is high tariff, or low tariff, or no
tariff at all. but only whether tlie Derbo
(rats or the Republicans shsd havo
the salaried offices. Yea. whin Eu
ropean nations are holding their b>eitn,
wondering whether Russia or Germany wiil
launch a war that will incarnadine a con
tinent. I fail Iwk on the faith that my
Father drives. Yes. 1 cast this a< an no* hor,
Xul E .V. ’d iki A) 4 ;o.u.ai ol sei
lift this as a telescops, and build this os a
fortress, and propose without any perturba
tion to launch upon an unknown future trium
phant in the fact that my Father drives. Yes.
Ho drives very near. I know that many of
the clouds that you see in summer are far
off, the bases of some of them five miles
above tho earth. High on the highest peaks
of the Andos travelers have seen clouds far
higher than where they were standing.
Gay Lussac. after he had risen in a
balloon twenty-three thousand ieet, still
saw clouds above him.
But there are clouds that touch the earth
and discharge their rain, and, though the
clouds out of which God's chariot is made
may sometimes be far away, otten they are
close by, and they touch our shoulders, and
they touch our homes, and they touch as all
over. 1 have read of two rides that the
Ijord took in two different chariots
of clouds, and of another that He
will take. Une day, in a chariot of
clouds that were a mingling of fog and
smoko and fire. God drove down to the top
of a terrible crag fifteen hundred feet high,
now called Jebel-Musa, then called Mount
Kinai, and He stepped out of His chariot
among the split sbelvings of rock. Tho
mountai) s shook a« with an ague, and there
were ten volleys of thunder, each of tho ten
emphasizing a tremendous “Thou shait.” or
“‘Thou shaic not.” 'Then the Lord resumed
His chariot of cloud and drove up
the hilLs of heaven. Tlioy were
dark and portentou-. clouds that nmdo that
chariot at the giving of the law. But one
day He took another ride, and tais t mo down
to Mount Tabor, the clouds out of which His
chariot was made.were bright clouds, roseate
clouds, illumined clouds, and music rained
from all of them, and the music was a ming
ling of carol ami chant and triumphal
march: “This i.s My helo.ed Hon. in whom I
am well pleased.” Transfiguration chariot!
“Oh, * say hundreds of you, “I wish I could
have se/n those chariots —the black one that
brought the Lord to Jebel-Musa ut the giving
of the law, and the white one that brought
Him down to Tabor.” Never mind, you will
see something grander than that, and it will
l»e a mightier mingling of th sombre and
the radiant, and the pomp of it will
be such that the chariots in which
Trajan, and Diocletian, and Zenobia,
and Caesar, and Alexander, and
all the conquerors of all the ages rode will
be unworthy of mention; and what stirs me
the most is that when he corues in that
chariot of clou i and goes back, He will ask
vou and me to ride with Him both ways,
idow do 1 know that tue judgment
chariot will be mado out of clouds?
Revelation L, 7: “Beho.d He comoth with
clouds.” Oh, He will not then ride through the
heavens alone as He does now. He is going
to bring along with Him escort of ten full
regiments. Inspiration says: “Behold the
Lord cometh with ten thousand of his saints.”
But these figures simply mean that there
will boa great throng. And as we shall
probably through the atonement of Christ
ne in heaven before that, I hope
that we can come down in that es
cort of chariots. Christ in the centre
chariot, but churiots before Him to clear the
way, and chariots behind Him, and chariots
on either side of Him. Perhaps the proph
ets and patriarchs lof the old dispensation
may ride ahead each one charioted—Abraham
and Moses and Ezekiel and Day id and Joshua,
who foretold his first coming. On either side
of the central chariot apostles and martyrs
who in the same or approximate centuries
suffered for Hun—Paul, Stephen, and Igna
tius, and Polycarp, and Justiu Martyr, and
multitudes who went up in chariot of fire
now coining in chariot of cloud, whiie in the
rear of the central chariot shall be the multi
tudes of latter days and of our own time who
have tried to serve the Lord, ourselves I hope
among them. “B**hold the Jx/rd cometh with
ten thousand of His saints.” Ye?, although
all unworthy of such companionship we
want to come with Him on that day to see
the last of this old world which was our resi
dence. Coming through tho skies myriads of
chariots rolling on and rolling down. By
that time how changed this world will be.
Its deserts all flowers, its rocks ail mossed
and lichened, its poor houses all places,
its sorrows all joys, its sins all virtues,
and in the same pasture field lion and calf,
and on the same perch hawk and dove. Now
the chariots of cloud strike the earth, filling
all the valleys, and covering all the mount
ain s.’des, and halting in all the cemeteries
and graveyards and over tho waters deep
where the dead sleep in coral sarcophagus.
A loud blast of the resurrection
trumpet is given and the bodies of the dead
rise and join the spirits from which they havo
long been separated. Then Christ, our King,
rising in the center chariot of cloud, with his
scarred hands waves the signal, and the
chariots wheel and come into line for glor ous
ascent. Drive on! Drive up l Chariots of
cloud ahead of the King, chariots of
cloud on either side of the King,
chariots of cloud following the King. Up
ward and apast starry hosts, and through
immensities, and across infinitudes, higher,
higher, higher, unto the gates, the shining
gates. Lift up your heads, ye Everlasting
1 Gates, for Him who maketh the clouds HU
chariot, and who through condescending an 1
unl.fting grace invites us to mount and ride
with Him!
Under Full Sail.
:|k
— Bcuar.
Strained Relation-.
Brown (to Robinson) —“Why, I
:I»«»i gbtyosi knew I)omley, that gentle*
man J vii*t bowed to ”
i.obiuson —known him for years,
but he never speaks to ine now as we
pans by.”
Brown—“ Had a quarrel?”
Robinson —“No; he owes* me a little
borrowed money.”— ltyntch,
ll**r Estimate.
Mrs. Hard. —“Do ha e some more
cream, Mias Hweettooth f”
Miss Sweettootb (hesitating).—‘‘Well,
list a little, Mrs. Hard. Only u mouth
ful ”
Mrs. Hard.—“ Bridget, fill Miss Sweet
tooth's plate up agaiu."— lSuur.
A CITY WITHIN A CITY.
INTERESTING TREASURES AND
FEATURES OF MOSCOW.
The* Krcmlin’a Throe Cathedral*—
Peculiar Pictures—A Hussion's
Fondness for Horses nml Boots.
Moscow, says a writer in the Detroit
Free Pres*, is a lively, bustling city of
nearly 1,000,000 of people, and one
charm of it consists in the commingling
of tho new and the old. It is a city
within a city, and this latter is sur
rounded by a city greater still. Fdr
there is the Kremlin, with its moat and
its wall, and its many towers and gates.
At some distance outside of this stands
another wall, pierced by gates here and
there, while further out still is the greater
part of the businc-s and residence portion
of the city. Like Rome, it is built
upon seven hills, but here the likeness j
ends. To an American, of course, the
greatest interest centers in the Kremlin,
and doubtless to the Russian, too, for
everything connected with it to him is
of the most sacred character. One of
the main approaches is through the
“Redeemer’s Gate,” so called because,
Napoleon endeavored to destroy it in
vain, and the Russians believe that
it was the direct interposition of
Christ himself that drove him back
and saved the citadel. From that day
to this no cne, Czar or peasant, Asiatic,
European or Americau, goes through
without uncovering his head.
Inside the Kremlin are three cathe
drals; the Cathedral of the Annuncia
tion, where ali the Czars are baptized,
the Cathedral of the Assumption, where
all arc crowned, and the Cathedral of
the Archangel Michael, where all the
Emperors were buried up to the time of
Peter the Great. These are all, an are
most ot the churches in Moscow, built
in the Moorish style of architecture and
most elaborate y decorated. Recently,
in the Church of the Assumption, which
was being renovated, several very ancient
pictures were brought to 1 ght on the
walls, and these have been carefully pre
served. One of them represents several
scenes from the life of Jonah, and is
very unique in its way. On one side the
prophet is being thrown overboard from
an exceedingly rickety-looking ship.
Then a creature with big eyes and a big
mouth and a tail (in all about Jonah’s
size) is doing his best to “take him in.”
But the crowning masterpiece of the
whole picture is where Jonah—now safe
on land—is bidding the whale good-bye
in the most elaborate and polite Russian
manner.
Near by these churches is the Tower
Oi Ivan the Great, very lofty and con
taining some fifty-two bells, many of
them of very large size. At the foot of
the tower i.s the “Tsar Kolokoi,” or the;
“King Bell,” “the great bell of Moscow,”)
of which we have heard all our lives. It|
is immense, there is no doubt of that! It
is twenty feet high and sixty feet in cir
cumference, and is about two feet
through in the th'ckest part.
Bc'tdfes these cathedrals and towers
and this bell, there are also the palace,
the treasury, where are many valuable
c;owns and jewels and other articles of
interest, the ar.-enal and other buildings,
all inside the Kremlin, end forming a
part of its wall. But the finest modern
church in all Russia, and. it is claimed,
in Europe, is the Church of St. Hav our,?
or “the New Church,” as they call it.
It was built to commemorate the defeat
of the French in Tri”, and has only*
recently been completed. Every archi-i
tect, every builder, every workman and
every artist employed upon it was a
Russian. More than forty year."’ con
tinuous labor, aud over 40,00t’.U0i) of
roubles, they say. were spent upon it.
and the result is magnificent. It is well
worth a journey from St. Petersburg to
Moscow to ?ec this one building alone.
The frescoes are by Russia's two most
celebrated painter-, and will not suffer
by comparison with any, be they ancient
or modern.
Near by is the Cathedral of St. Basil,
which was built iu l.Vri by Ivan the
Terrible. It is a very unique, mosque
like looking structure, and the story
, goes that Ivan was so anxious that no
other should over be erected like it. that.
as soon as it was completed, he destroyed
the plans and put out the
eves—a little pleasantry which, it seems,
he often indulged in with his"7ricnds,' k
and wh ch is certainly in keeping with
his character. But he need have had no
fears that anyone would have copied*
his old church, for it is hideous in the
extreme.
In Moscow, as well as everywhere in
Russia, the horses are very tine and very
fast. They have the build of racehortC9,
with their slim legs and far reaching
necks. Even some of the droskics have
full blooded horses, and their drivers are
able toobtaiu a fancy price for their use..
Horses and boots are the two thingaj
that Russians seem to pride themselveij
upon. They rimy not have any stock
ings—and few of the lower classes wear
them at all—but boots ihey m«»it aud
will have* Roots with high morocco
tops, and worn with the pantnlooim
lucke l into the top*, so that every inch
shows; and then, like the Mexican with
his spurs, they arc dressed. They arc a
very jiolite people, even down to the
children. 1 saw one little fellow in Mos -
cow, not over six or eight years old. tuket
ofT hu hat to another hoy of about the
same age and then shake hands with
bin*.
Tha “Punnet" of Old England.
The word “punnet” is given in Eng
lish markets to various si cs of what wo
would call small measures or baskets.
For instance, a radish punnet, if in
tended to hold “six hands,” is eight
inches in diameter aud one inch deep,
and a twelve hand punnet is nine inches
by one inch, un«i a sea kale punnet is
eight inches diameter at the top, and
seven and a half at tho bottom, and two
inches deep. Fruits and vegetable! A e
sold by the sieve, hand, bunch, bundle,
bushel and pottle; the latter i* used for
straw tarries, and is a long tapering bas
ket, supposed to hold half a gallon, but
rarely holding more than one quart. The
system of measuring, practised in our
markets is most absurd and unsatisfac
tory to purchasers, but that in general
use in the English market* is no bettor.
—A'.* IVrl &.'*•
Log Cabin Y^ogic.
Brawn and Brain! .
Thu powerful engine, with its wonaerfu
propelling power, coupled to the trail
lull freighted with the richest fabrics o
the inte.iectual looms of the centuries—wn»
obstacles can stay tho progress of this mighty
force, when once under full steam along
life’s highway? _ . . ,
The American with brawn and brain aoei
not sue tho necessity for titles of nobility,
does not care for elevation by descent, he can
reach out and pluck the stars.
But with brawn or brain impaired, a man
is badly handicapped in the mad race for suc
cess which is tho marked characteristic of
the present a je.
Tuo physical system < a most intricate
piece ot machinery. ight to be kept well
regulated, so thee ft * ■ work harmoniously
in all it? pa .is capable of an
immense am** . , ,
It is sai i •..’ •-4 i. If expected to keep
perfect ti daily. It will
not kea» a ‘t “runs regular.
More 1 o a because they don t
“run reg or any ottier ren* >n.
It is c •« b> physicians that few men
arc killo.i by hard work. It is to the ir
regularities of modern social life that the
high death rate is due. Men burn their
candle at both ends, then wonder why it
burns out so quickly.
The main tiling in keeping the human
ma -iiino in good order is to keep the
regulator all right. “The bloo lis the life,
and sound heilth is assured so long ns the
blood flows through the veins a limpid stream
I?egulate the regulator with Warner’s Log
Cabin sarsaparilla, the old-fashioned blood
purifier, prepared alter the best formula in
use by our ancestors in good old Log Cabin
days, and with the vigor of brawn ami brain
which must ensue, in your lifu’s lexicon you
will find no such word as fail.
A Fleet Mim-ot-War.
The fastest armed cruiser in the world
is said to be the German vessel Greif,
which has a displacement of 2000 tons,
and is fitted with engines of 5400 indi
cated horse power. On the voyage from
Kiel t) Wilhelmshafen a speed of twen
ty-three knots, or almost twenty-sevoa
miles, an hour was obtained.
For Rickets. VlnraNiniiw, nnil \Va«iine Ills
orrfcrN oi’ children.
Scott’s Emulsion of Pure Cod Liver Oil with
Hypophosphites is uncqualed. The rapidity
with which children gain flesh and strength
upon it is very wonderful. Read the follow
ing: “1 hove used Scott’s Emulsion in casts
of Rickets ami Marasmus of long standing,
and have been more thin pleased with the re
sults, as in every case the improvement was
marked.”—J. M. Main, M. IX. New York.
President Carnot, of France, has sent
over 2000 portraits of him-elf to the
Mayors whom he recently entertained in
the Champ de Mars.
Bronchitis i.s cured by frequent small doses
of Piso’s Cure for Consumption.
n <ps are quoted as rising. This 1-
the natural end and aim *>f the hop.
A Drenni ot Fair Women.
Tennyson in his exquisite poem, dreams of
a long procession of lovely women of ages
past. This is all very well, but the ’aureate
would have done the wo* Id a greater service
if he had only told tlie women of tin* present
how thev could improve their health and en
hance their charms. This he might easily
have done by recommendin'? the use of Dr.
Pierces Favorite Prescription. Health is
the best friend of beauty, and the innumera
ble ills to which women are peculiarly sub
ject, its worst enemies. Long experience has
proven that the health of womankind and
the “Favorite Prescription’ walk hand in
hand, ami are inseparable. It is the only
medicine for women, sold by druggist*, under
a positive guarantee from the manufactur
ers, that it will give satisfaction iu everv
case, or ironey will Ik* ref un led. This guar
antee has been printed on tne bottle-wrapper,
and faithfullv carried out. for many yt*ai>.
Dante is the only foreigner who Ins a
statue in Paris. Shakespeare is to havo
one. though.
Leave ti«n<e in-nino.
All ye who enter h re!
So rau the one warning Daut- read * n the
portals of the Ilift ruo. Ho runs the cruel vei
diet of your mends if you are overtaken by
th* first symptoms of that terrible disease,
consumption. "Leave hope behind! Your
days a e numbered!! Aid the struggle
agsinst death is g veu up in despair But
while thera is life, there i» ho|ie! Dr. Pierce's
Golden Meiicdl Di-cowry has cure 1 hun
dreds ot c ses worse than yours: and it will
cure you, if taken in time But delay is dan
gerous. No power can r s-,orc a wasted
lung; the "Golden Medical Disrov rv. ‘ How
ever, can ami wilt arrest, the*l***ase
The Milwaukee Sentinel estimates that
city’s Polishj3opulation at 20,000.
•» in-*«r.
A few HAMBURG FiGK will nire the
worst cases of constipation and indig»stion,
ami their occasional iiv? wilt orevent the re<-
enrrenco of th*w; trouble* jr, cents. Du»e
one Fig. Mack Dm-rC « . N. Y
For time past the effigy cf Eng
land’s ex-Prime Minister has been used
;n a Dumfries pawushop to display un
: edeemed pledges.
SLoci Uauinp, liickin" ele
gance, were yet comfortable j
homes. Health and happi
ness were tound in them.
The best of the simple rem
edies used are given to the
world in Warners Log
Cabin Remedies made by
Warner of Safe Cure fame. Regulate
the regulator with Warner’s Log Cabin
Sarsaparilla.
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Letter from the Ex-HberifTo# Chautauqua
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Mayville, N. Y., Dec. 2 1885.
lam glad to say, from a long personal ex
perience with Allcock"s Porous Pi.ahtkiw,
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I have used them at one time for rheumatism,
on other for backache, ngain for bronchitis,
always with the same result—« speedv cure.
T. T. Harrington.
Chicago proposes to have a crematory
in running order within six months.
The Health officers favor it, aud there is
r'enty of money to back it.
Offensive breath vanishes with tho use of
Dr. Wage's Catarrh Remedy.
IfijJlbl
Podscsses many Important Advantages over a ;
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BABIES CRY FOR IT.
INVALIDS RELISH IT
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Regulates the Stomach end Bowels,
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