SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED DIVIMk. • ■! - - 7 tSrnJt StwuJZ. *BCTS "And th# ra»«M brought him bread MM tn the morning and The ocslthology of ths Bible Is * very In wresiwg Btuay~llfee store: wmeU uomtii her appointed time; tho oonuttoatpioon toasting lb* leeaoct of God’* providence; tb# ostriskss of the desert, towntali eabetion, illustrating the reaVussnsss of parent# who do not talcs enough peine with tteto ctitdreu; the c*«U symboltatag ikhee which take wtags end fly a war; the psttosa «mbl#mlslng solitude: the bat, e flake of the darkneee; the night hawk, the ossifrsgs, the cuckoo, the lapwing, the oe -ISS I would nkefco here been with Audubon ea he went through the woods, with gun end pencil, bringing down end eketehtag the lewis ol beared, hi* unfolded portfolio thrilling all Chrlatendoae. What wonder tat ereatoree of God the birds are. Some of them this morning, like the songs ol heeren let loose, bursting through tbs getes of heaven. Consider their feetheus, whlnh sre clothing sad conveyance at tho asms thna; ths nine v#*t#tas of the seek, the three eyelids to each eye, the third eyelid ea extra curtain for graduating the mgti of the sun. Some of these birds senv engem and some of them orchestra. Thank . Ood tar quad’s whistle, end lark’s enrol, ead the twitter of the wren, oslled by tbs saetoetstasking of birds, because when tbs fowls ol heaven want into s contest as to Who should fly the highest, sad the esgle swung nearest the son, e wron on book ot taoeagta, after the eagle wee exhausted, spang up much higher, and eo wasosllsd by the ancients ths king ol birds. Consider those of them that have golden crowns sad enate, showing them to be feetherwl Im perials. AndUiitea to the hummingbird's serenade In the ear ot the honeysuokle. Look at the betted kingfisher, striking s dart faom sky to water. Listen to the votes ot the owl. giving the keynote to all croakers. And behold tho condor among the Andes, battling with the reindeer. I do not know whether an aquarium or artery Is the best altar from which to worship God, . There is an Incident in my test that toßes all tbs ornithological wonders ot the world. The gists cron has been cut off. Famine was to the land. In e cere by the brock Cheritk eat a minister of Cod, Elijah, watting for something to eat. Why dM be not go to the neighbors? There were no neighbor*. It was e wilderness. Why did ho not pick some of the berries? Thine were none. If there had been, they weald base been dried up. Seated one morning at the mouth of the ease, ttbe only had an arrow with which to bring tain down! But as they oome nearer he dads that they ere not eo meet! blc, but m •teen, end ttm eating of them would be spiritual death. The etrength of their beak, the length of their wingvtas blackness of their color, their loud, harsh, "crock, cruckJ” prove them to be raven*. They whir around about the prophet's head, sad then they come on flattering wing and pause on the level of hli lipe, and «MOf tasrerensbrings bread and another tom brings meat, end after they base dls ebugsd their tiny 001*0 they wheel poet, and others oome, untfi after awhile the prophet has enough, end these tteckssr vsnia ot the wilderness table ate gone. For •fat months, and asms say a whole year, SSru&safti hsrss/si; ont on the sir their "otuck, ©ruck!" Guess whom they got the food from. The old “bWne any they got it from the kitchen of say that the ravens brought the food to taetr young lathe trues, and that Big eh had omy tooUmb up and gat it. Soma say that the whole story is improbable, for these warn earatrOMus birds, and the food they parried was the tom flesh of faring art&i'WNs » lyre been it for tbs prophet. Some say they, were not reruns sisll, but that the word translated “raven#” In my teat -ought to tere been translated "Arabs,” eo It would ham read, “Tbs Arabs brought biuad sod flesh (n the morning, and bread SJSLSffilfffKi ****"*•' ®»wawuyst this mlinels until aU the tafraetotegon*. Go y Jhe In taafar ntetured study, wtth thair altooered |H( on | dAQBMUk Afid toy itlAt OAMf. BlSAiMtllS Os ikt itiM « (MtOTlflf AliffPf Hiilfnir botxiff j)( tbo |§tj4 would bt •j™ ill*' fNrhte maaMaa. aa nmSSRR lass, sgatrat' AaraJekitlth waulf wtdah comas down with Iron chariot to ontfhhsr aad ham. The greet question wtth the rest majority of people to-d*y is not home rule, but wnsthor there shelf he any horns to rule: sot one ot tariff, bat whether them shdl be anything to tax. The greet questions with the rest majority of the people ace: "Bow shall I support my family? How shell 1 meet my notes? How shell I pay my rent? How shell I give food, Clothing and education to those who am dependent upon met” Oh, It Ood would help me to-day to assist you ia tho solution of tank problem, the happiest men In this house would be your preaches l . I hers gone out on e ©old morning wtth expert sportsmen to hunt for pigeons. X hare gone out on the meadows to hunt for quail. X here gone ont on the marsh to aunt tor rood birds, but to-day I ea out tor rsvdns Xotiee, In the first place In tho story of my text, that these winged caterers oame to Elfish direct from Goa. •T here commended the reruns the! they teed the*,” we find God saying ih an ad joining passage. They did not oome out of some other cars. They did not lust hap pen to alight there. Ood freighted them, God launched them and God told them by what eerete swoop. That is the same God tastl* going to supply too. Ho is «mr Father. You would hereto make an. elab orate oeleuiaUoa before you eoald toll me' how many pounds of food sad how many yards ot clothing would be necessary for you and your family, but God knows with out say calculation. You bars a plate at his table, and you are going to be waited on, unless you act Uks a naughty child and Ktok and scramble aad pound saucily the plate sad try to upset things. God has a rest family, and everything!* methodised, and you are going to be served it yon will only watt your turn. God has already ordered all tho suits of clothes yoa will ever need, down to the lest suit In which voa will be laid out. God has already ordered all the food you will ever eat, down to the lest orumb that will be pat In your month la the dying seoament. It may not be jute the kind of food or apparel wo would peeler. The sensible parent depends on hi* own judgment as to what ought to be the apparel end the food of the minor In the family. Theehlld would say, "Give me sugars and confections.” "Oh, nol” says the parent. "You must have something plainer first." The child would aey, “Oh, give me these gnat blotches of color lathe garment!" "Ho ” says the parent; “that wouldn’t bo suitable/’ Row, God la our Father, and we am min ore, and He Is going to clothe us aad feed us, although He may sot always yield to ouk Infantile wish torus sweat sad gutter. These ravens ot the text did not taring pomegranates from the glittering platter ot King Ahab. They brought bread ead milk, uod bad all the heavens aad the earth before Him and under Him, and yet He sends this plain food, because it was beet for Elijah to have it. Oh, be strong, my hearer, in the feet that the same God la go ing to ottpplyyou. It is never “hard times” wtth Him. His ships never break on the rocks. His banks never fall He has the supply for you. aad He has the mesne tor ■ending It. He has not only the cargo, but the strip. It It were necessary, He would swing ont from the heavens a flock of ravens teaching from Els gate to your* un til the food would be flung down the aky from bank to beak aad from talon to taloo. Notice again in this story of the text that the ravens did not allow Elijah to hoard up n surplus. They did not bring enough on Monday last all the weekTrhey did not bring enough one morning to last until the next morning. They came twice e day and brought just enough tor one time. You known as wellae X that Urn great fret of the world ts that we went a surplus, we want the ravens to bring enough tor fifty years. You have more confidence in the Wash ington bank* or Bank of England than yon hate in the Bojal Bank of Heaven. You say: "All that is vary poetic, but you may bate the blaok ravens. Give me the gold eagles.” We had better be content with lust enough. If in the morning your fam ily eat up all the food there is in the house, do not su down aad cry and say, “X don’t know where tbe next meal is to oome from." About 5. or 8, or 7 o'clock in the morning just look up, and you will see two black spots on tha sky, and you will hearths flap ping ol wing, and Instead of Edgar A. Poen insane raven alight on tbe chamber door, "onto this aad nothing mom," you wUI find Elijah's two ravens, or two ravens of tha Lord, the one bringing bread and tha other bringing meet—phtmed butcher and God is infinite in msounte. When the city of BoehoUe was besieged and tha inhabi tants warn dying of the famine, tha tides washed up an tbe beech « never before, and aa never since, enough shellfish to teed tbe whole aJty. God it good. There is no mistake about that. History tails us that in UQ6 In England them was a great, drought. The arops failed, but in Essex, on the rooks, in a piaoe wham they had neither sown nor cultured, a great crop of pass grew until they flßadlOO measures, and than warn blossoming vines enough, promising ss much more. • But why go so tort I can give yon a family incident. Soma generations bank there was a great drought la Conneotleut, New England. Tha water disappeared from the hills, and the tarmacs living on tha hills drove their cattle down toward the valleys and had them supplied at the wells mad fountains of the neighbors. But these Otar awhile began to tail, aad tho neighbors said to Mr. Birdseye, of whom I shall speak: “You must not send your flocks aad herds down here any more. Our wells am giving 1 out." Mr. Birdseye, tho old Christian man, gathered his family at tha attar, and with hit family be gathered tha slaves of the homstitotar—joafbondagewasttamta vcyp^ God thaw aled for water, aad the family ; story is that thsce was warning aad great lobfafxur At that Altar that tho family might . not perish for lack of water, and that the hards and flocks might not perish. Tha tastily roes from the altar. Hr. Btataaye. the old man took Ita staff and walked out over the hills, tadtaaptaee ; where ha had man seotas of times, without < noticing anything particular, he saw the 1 ground was vary dark, and he took hie ; •toss aad turned up tas ground, the water , started, aad ha beokoosd to his servants. , aeser ais sowms Tawasws 1 and they cams aad brought pails and 1 baskets antll ail the family and all the ; flocks aad the herds wera eared for, and , than they made troughs 'reaching from : that place down to the house and bun; j aad tha water flowed, aad it is a living { fountain to-dsy. Howl sail that aid grandfather Elijah, and I sail that hinok That bman to roU than and te rolling still tas kraal Obsutah, sad tas Issson to me sad to all who hsawft i ito whan you are la gnat stress of’ohMum- t ! mercy, tha middle chapter about mercy, the last chapter about mercy. Tho many that boversd over your cradle. The mercy that will hover over your grave. The mercy that will oover all between. Again, this story ot the text imprassee me that relief cam* to this prophet with the most unexpected and with seemingly Im possible conveyance. If It had beta a robin redbreast, or a muslonl meadow lark, or a meek turtledove, or a sublime alba* tree# that bad brought the food to ElUab. It would not have been so surprising. But no. It was a bird soflarcaaud insnspioate that wa have fashioned an* of our most toraeful and repulsive words out of It— ravenous. That bird has a passion tar plotting out the ayag of man and of sal maSTit loves to maul the tick and tas dying. It swallows wtth vulturous guaile everything It can pat Its bask on, sad yet all tas food Xla]ah guts tar six months or a year Is from rnvsns. 80 your supply to from aa unexpected souroo. You think soma great-hearted, sonorous man will coma along sad fit* you us name on tha baok!o! your no*#, or be will go se curity for you In soma great enterprise. 80, he will not. God will open tha heart of soma Shylook toward you. Your relief will oome from tha most unexpected quarter. Tha providence which seemed ominous wUI be to you more than that wfctoh seemed auspicious. It will not b* a chaffinch with breast and wing dashed with white and brown aid ahasthnt. It will be a block raven. Hera to where ws til make our mlstattn and that is In regard to the oolor of God’s providence. A whit* providence oome# to us, and wa say, “Oh, it is mercy!'* Than a block providence com©# toward us, and w# say, “Oh, that ia disaster!” The white pro vidence comas to you, and you have great business encases, sad you have 6100,000, and you get proud, and you get Independent of God, and you begin to feel that the prayer, "Give mo this day my daily bread,” to In appropriate tor you, for you have mad* provimon for 100 year*. Then a black, providence comes, audit sweeps everything away, and them yon begin to pray, and yon begin to feel your dependence, and begin to be humbia before God, and you cry out tor treasures in heaven. Tha black provi dence brought you salvation. The white providence brought you ruin. That whlok seamed to be harsh aad flan* and disson ant wsr year greatest merer. It was a raven. Thera was a child bom In your house, AH logical. You aaiii—sftji you said truthfully —that a whJTo angel flew through the room and left tho little one there. That little one stood with Its two feet in the verysano tuory of your affection, and with its two hands It took hold of tha altar ot your soul.• But one day than oame one of tha three, scourges of children—eoariet fever, or, oroup, or diphtheria—and til that bright, scans vanished. The chattering, the strange questions, the pulling at tha dresses as you crossed tha floor—*B ceased. As the great friend of children stooped down ana leaned toward that cradle, and took tho little one in His *nas,and walked away with it into tho bower of otemal ran mm-, your eye began to follow Him, and you followed tbe treasure Ha carried, and you have been following them aver since, and instead of thinking of heaven only once a week, as formerly, you or© thinking of it all tha time, and you are more pore And tender hearted than you used to be, and you are patiently waiting tor tha daybreak. Itis not salt righteousness In you to ac knowledge that you are a better man than, you used to be—you are a better woman than you used to be. What was ft that brought you tha sanctifying blessing? Ob, It Vss the dark shadow on the nursery, It w*s the dork shadow on the soft grave, it was the dark shadow on your broken heart, it was tha brooding of a great blaok trouble, it was a raven—it was a raven! Bear Lord, teach this people tha* white providence# do not always mash advancement and that black provlfiancee do not always mean retrogression. Ohudren otQod, jut up out of your da sponde&oy. Tha Lord never had so many ravens as no has to-day. Fling your fra* aad worry to tho winds. Sometimes under the vexations of life yon feci like my little girl of four years, who said under some childish vexation, "Oh, I wish 1 could go to heaven sad see God and pick flowarsl” He will let you go when the right time oome* to pick flowers. Until than, whatever you want pray for. I snppoaa Elijah prayed pretty much all tha time. Tremendous Work behind him, tremendous work before trim. God has spared no rayons for idlers or tor people who are prsyertes*. Xputtt in tha boldest shape possible, aad I am willing to risk my menuty on it. Ask God in tha right way tor what you want aad you stmlf her# it U It is beet for you. XreTlone Pltbey, ot Chicago, a well known Christian woman, was/jett by her husband a widow with on* half dollar and a cottage. She wa* palsied and had a mother ninety years of ago to support: The widowed soul every day asked God for aU that was naadid tn the household, and tha servant even wa# astonished at the preettlaa with which God answered tha prarewof that woman, item by item, item DT ttem. One day, rising from the fomlly attar, tha servant said, “You have not asked for ooal, aad tha ooal is out.” Than they stood and prayed tor tha ooaL One hour utter that the servant thipw open tha door and told: "Tha coal has sputa," Agsswrouaman. whossnamsl could give yoa, has sent—ss never before and never , tinoa—a supply of eoaL You osnnot under stand It. Ido. Havens! Bavensl My Wend, you (have a right to ame from precedent that God is going to taka care of you. Has h* not dona It two or three time# every day? Thai la most mar velous. I look baok aad wondsr that God has given ma food tare* times a dayregu- Jut tost awry morning and that vary night [ n|| the nveoi. Ob, Uu Lord Ja Mjwod th.ll jU «B f,««sr‘uSsifa !^ss every tick of tn* watch aaderery stroke of tha clock Informs yon is approaching. Broad for your immortal soulooaas to-day- Sea. They alight on tha platform. Tbsjy alight on the beaks of til the pews. They ■wing among the arahas. Bavsnsl Havana! “Blsaaadfara they that hunger attar righteousness, tor they shall be flllod. To aU tbs slating, and tho sorrow ing, and the tempted, dell versa#* aomas tins hour. Look down, aad you aaa noth ing bet your spiritual dstorsoJtts*. Look bask, and you aaa nothing but wasted op lad fiary indignation which ektitdtavoat s&“ar{Spps?2£^s; •tefamOhrUt and UMtamti a pardoutag jSresa. Z bass the whir of their wta£m Pj.E™ WMOfrironyour ftn* nnjMllnn I wmnt to mV SSSfItH for taa^S^oTtarirltoSlS Sss»a?iSS%s tl te[ «wSur".r ■ *'V- • 7. ' . TEMPERANCE TOPICS. NOTES OF INTEREST TO THE ANTI-LIQUOR LEAGUERS. »r. Tairaage lands Out a Staling tori* Blass to Mia Mvaatean Mltttaa Chrts ttans of the United State* —tha Ocher The Hum Angela Trunk close upon each soul, takers crime abounds; Where love la dead, where home to but a neat Os filthy straw whore tollers crawl to 1^— * With tired feet, by might and God’s angola, uniformed In blue, find way To bring a word of cheer, ot lore and hope, and feed Tha hungry, clothe the naked to their need. And doubtless by their sides to us un seen. White angels Interpose a spotless screen. Above the pain-racked beds they calm ly bow . , So tenderly, aad smooth tha death dewed brow, And whisper words to cheer the part- Aad through the dark to heaven's goal. They fojd too tired bands on pulseless bre&su And place a rose to glorify who rests For the first time slno© first ha opened bis eyes - In poverty and shame, where never skies Os blue looked into cheer. In haunts V'barw shame Is found uamaaked. where harlotry to robes of flame And brasen frontary reigns -a quean, they tread These humble ones amidst the living mad the dead, But heaven baa taken note of all they do And will reward these angels uniformed In blue. Dr. Talraag* Sands Os* a Bugle Bloat. It seams to ma that It Is about time for tha 17,000,000 professors of religion In America to take sides. It Is going to be an out and out battle between drunkenness and sobriety, between heavpo anil hell, between God and tho devil Take tides before there to any further national decadence, take tides before your sons are sacrificed and the homes of toot daughters go down under the alcoholism of Imbruted hus bands. Take sides while your voice, your pen, your ptoyer, your vote, your have any Influence in arresting tha desolation of this nation. If tee, 17,- 000,000 professors of religion should take sides on tali subject, It would not be vary long before the destiny of this nation would be decided to the right direction.' X tell you what many of you may never have thought of— that today, not In the millennium, but today—the church holds the balance of power In America, and If Christian people, the men and women who pro fess to love the Lord Jesus Christ, and to love purity, and to be tho sworn enemies of til uncleanliness and de bauchery aad sto. If all such would march side by side and shoulder to shoulder, this evil would soon be over thrown. Think of the 60,000 churches ■nd Sunday sobooto In Christendom marching shoulder to shoulder! How vary short a time It would take them to put down this evil if all the churches of God. transatlantic and cisatlantic, were armed on this subject What a hell on earth a woman Uvea to who has a drunken husband? Ob death, bow lovely thou art to her, and hOw aoft and warm thy skeleton hand! The sepulcher at midnight In winter Is a king’s drawing roam oamparod to that Homan*! home. It to not so much the blow on the head that hurts as the blow on the heart. The ram fiend asms to tbe door of that beautiful home and opened the door and stood thore and said: M I cure# this dwelling with unrelenting cureea.” "I curse that father Into a maniac." “I curse that mother into a pauper.” "I curse tfaoee ions Into vagabonds.” *T curse thoe* daughters into profligacy.” "Caused he bread tray and cradle." “Cursed be couch and chair and family blble with records of marriage* and births aad deaths.” “Curse open cures.” Oh, how many wives there are waiting to ass If something can not ba done to shake ihcee frosts of the second death off the orange bloesoms. Tea, Ood to waiting—the Ood who works through human lnstramentalltles-walttog to see If this nation to going to overthrow this evil, aad if It refuse to do eo Ood will wipe out the asttkm ss he did- the Phoenicia, as he did Rome, as he dM Thebes, as he dM Baby km. Aye, he Is watting to see what the church of Ood wltt dm If the church win not do tic work, then be will wipe It out ac he dM the church of Rphssos, the churoh'of Thyatlra, the ohureih of Bar din The Protestant and Roman Cath olic ehuhftcs today stand tide by side wtth an Impotent look, gating on this aril, which scats this oouatry store than a billion dollars a year to take MIDST the Blame where filth and tin to rifa. Where direst souls I strive herd for * paltry life. Where every word’s a curse, where God’s great name ta wed with vilest words of crime and shame; Where poverty and dread disuses like hounds care of the 800,000 paupers aad 618,000 criminals and the 600,000 Idiots, and to bury the 76,000 drunkards.—T. DeWttt Tahnage. Tk* Other Sid#. A gentleman once said to us, “X do not favor prohibiting tha sale of liquor, it would he an Injustice to the men to business; betides, it would throw thou sands out of employment." We replied: “You do not look at the tome from the right tide. You take a contractor’s view.” "Just before the war closed a gov ernment contractor said to a ear, T hope the war will not close under two yean. I will lose thousands ot dollars; betides, many men will be turned out ot employment from the government work*.” "A lady passenger, dad to weeds of mourning, rose to her feet, and with, tearful voice, said, ’Sir, I have a brave boy and husband sleeping the sleep of death ta a soldiers’ cemetery. 1 have only one boy left, and be to to front of the toe. Oh, God! I wish the cruel war would close now.’ ” He saw the point. Do you? It may be your boy or girl that will tall the next victim to the drink “In dustry” (T) Would yon consider the “trade” worthy such a price? It not, for your own sake, and for the sake of other fathers aad mothers, stop tho murder ous traffic. Look out for flowers along ths way. And heed not the stinging thorn; There are stars above the darkest night. And sure to the coming mom. Let us scatter seeds of kindness for our reaping by and by. Tho right to always practicable. No man “can get any farther Into heaven than heaven gets into him.— Bx. Ltqsor Potions tha Blood. N The blood owes Its beautiful red tint to millions of mlseroscoplc discs. The red matter with which they are charged absorbs to pasting Into the lungs the air that haa been Inhaled, and trans ports It everywhere. But alcohol en cumber* this beneficial notion, end ao Intervenes that the dark blood In the veins Is not so completely changed as It ought to be Into arterial blood, red, and vivifying. But this to not aU. The blood contain* other globules which are of the greatest Interest. These are white globules, If a thorn penetrates the akin, Immediately they will flow to that place, surround It, form mat ter which detaches It, aad goto rid of It. If a microbe wandering about gets into our organism, Immediately the white globules In the vicinity hasten to meat It, struggle with it, and finish by swallowing it These few words In dicate the important role which tails to their lot to the protection of our health. Alcohol, continuing Its perversa action, does not leave them intact It eends them to sleep, it makes them drunk, and to delis era us without defense to the enemies which lie to wait for us. And, nevertheless, how many persona, ignoring all these things, believe they Increase their Immunity by resorting to gtn, brandy or rum to preserve them from Infection* maladies, cholera, ia- Onetua, typhus? They have recourse to this universal panacea, which pre tends to cure them, but causae other evils, and finally kills more than the meet destructive wars.—Dr. A. Bian talt, of Liege, Belgium. i ■ -a Unkind Friend*. National Advocate: It wae hi a cell of the Tombs where we sat—the con demned call, where we found one who had formerly been a church member waiting tha hour of his execution for the murder of hto wife. He was a drunkard. Who made him ao? Did hto enemies bate him, and as tha moot cruel revenge they could take make - him a drunkard? No, he never had aa enemy to his life. Ha was genial and kind hearted, a friend to every body; even the stioanlsfcs who sold him drink loved him as much aa they could love anybody. Kind friends who loVed him made him a drunkard. His mother gave It to him when a boiby. Hia fotber to kindness (?) taught him to drink a health. Hto a totem and the very wife he loved, yet murdered, often passed' and pledged the cup with him. Hto fa ther's friend must drink with the son of their old friend. His companions; every one of whom would have risked their lives to mve him, pressed him to tho party, tho sang and the bowL At wedding and dinners hto frtoods pessed to him the glass. They even laughed at him when drat intoxicated, tad invited* him’to‘ drink again. Ofc. he had many friends. But while he could have been saved, kindness rer strained the wanting voice. He »*#"** on friends nt every stop, until he lost hto all, and died 6 drunkard and, a murderer. Kind friends did Btf "We talk of the gladiatorial ittowA” says Dean ftirrar.' “Mon Bnglish youths aad nun, by many thousands, are killed every year fay the tempta tions of ths glfi ohqp than ware ever' ’botohered ■te auks a MpMtt holi day.*- • • . i The Bureau «f Rthuotogy to WMtoj lottos has at jfrwpt, »W *M9 uxuea on acthreppdogy.