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T&mtt Dnwi Some Stlrrlnc; Ltmodi From tb Story of IIrr ud Iihsuwl Id tbm Drt Flndlus and Keeping; Oar Fro per Stations In Life. ICopyria-ht. 1S3S. by American Press Asso- ciatlon. " WAsnncGTOX, March 20. This dis course cf1 Dr. Talmase draws from an oriental scene some stirring lessons and point to well of comfort in uneipected place; text, Genesis xxi, 19, "And God opened her eyes,' and she saw a well of water, and she went and filled tne hot tie with water and gave the lad drink." Morning breaks upon Ecersheba. There la an early stir in v the house of old Abraham. There hasvbeen trouble among the domestics. Ha gar, an assist ant Lb the 'household, and her son, a brisk lad of 16 years, have become im pudent and insolent, and Sarah, the distress of the household, puts her foot down very hard and says that they will hare to leave the : premises. They are packing tip now. Abraham, knowing that the journey before his servant and ijer sop will be very long and across desolate places, In the kindness of his heart sets about putting up some bread and a bottle with water in it It is a very plain lunch that Abraham pro vides, but I warrant you there would have been enough of it had they not lost their way. "God be with you," said old Abraham as he gave the lunch to Hagar and a good many charges as to how she should conduct the journey. Ishmael, the boy, I suppose, bounded away in the morning light. Roys al ways like a change. . Poor Ishmael 1 He has no idea of the disasters that are ahead of him. Hagar gives one long, lingering look on the familiar place where she had spent so many happy days, each scene associated with the pride and joy of her heart, young Ish mael. : ; . The scorching noon comes on. The air is stifling and moves across the desert with inrafferahle suffocation. Ishmael, the . boy, begins to complain and lies down, but lit gar rouses him up, saying nothing about her own weariness or the sweltering heat, for' mothers can endure anything. Trudge, trudge, trudge. Crossing the dead level of the desert, how wearily and slowly the miles slip! A tamarind that seemed hours ago to stand only just a little ahead, inviting the travelers to come under its shadow, now is as far oil as ever, or seemingly so. Night drops upon the desert, and the travelers are pillowless. Ishmael, very weary, I suppose, instantly falls asleep. Hagar ca the shadows of tbc night begin to lap over each other Hagar hugs her weary boy to her bosom and thinks of the fact that it is her fault that they are in the desert. A star looks 'out, and every falling tear it kisses with a sparkle. A wing of wind comes over the hot earth and lifts the locks from the fevered brow of the boy. Hagar sleeps fitfully and in her dreams travels over the weary day and half awakes her son by crying out in her sleep: "Ishmael I Ismaell" ' XxMt Id the Desert. And so .they go on day after day and night after night, for they 'have lost their way. No path in the shifting sands, no sign in the burning sky. The sack empty of the flour, the water gone from tbo bottle. What shall she do? As she puts her fainting Ithmael under a stunted shrub of the arid plain she sees the bloodshot eye and feels the hot hand and watches the blood bursting from the cracked tongue, and there is a shriek in the desert cf Beersheba":"" We shall diel. Wo shall diel" Now,' no mother was ever made strong enough to hear her eon cry in vain for a drink. Heretofore she had cheered her hoy by promising a speedy end of the journey and even smiled upon him when she felt desperately enough. Now there is nothing to do but place him under a shrub and let him die. She had thought that she would sit there and watch nn- til the spirit of her boy would go away forever, and then she would breathe out her own life on his silent heart. But as the boy begins to claw his tongue' in agony of thirst and struggle in distor tion and begs his' mother to slay him she cannot endure the spectacle. She puts him tinder a shrub and goes off a bowshot and begins to weep until all the desert seems sobbing, and her cry strikes clear through the' heavens, and an an eel of God comes out on a cloud and looks down upon the appalling grief and cries, "Hagar, what aileth thee?" She looks up and she sees the angel pointing to a well of water, where she fills the bottle for the lad. Thank God I Thank God I I learn from this oriental scene, in the first place, what a sad thing it is when people do not know their place and get too proud for their business. laear was an assistant In that house hold, but she wanted to rulejbgre. She ridiculed and jeered until her son Ish mael got the same tricks. She dashed out her own happiness and threw Sarah into a great fret, and if she had staid much longer In that household she would have upset calm Abraham s equilibrium. My friends, one-half of the trouble In the world today comes from the fact that people do not know their place, or, finding their place, will not stay in it! When we come into the World,' there is always a place ready for ns. A-place for Abraham. - A place for Sarah. A place for Hagar. A place for Ishmael- A place . fcr you and a place for me. t Find Tour Sphere. Our first doty ia to find our sphere, our second is to keep it We may he born in a sphere far off from the one for which God finally intends us. Six tus V was born on the low ground and was a swineherd; God called him up to wave a scepter. Ferguson spent his early days in. looking after sheep; God called him up to look after stars and be a shepherd watching the flocks of lights on th hillsides of heaven. Hoaarth be gan by 'engraving pewter pots; God raised him to stand in the enchanted realm of a painter. The shoemaker's bench held Bloomfield for a little while, but God raided him to sit in the chair cf a philosopher and Christian scholar. The scap boiler of London could not keep his eon in that business, for God had decided that Hawlcy was to be one of the greatest astronomers of England.. On the other hand, we may he bom in a sphere a little higher than that for which God intends us. We may be born in a castle, and play in a costly con servatory, and feed high bred pointers, and angle for goldfish in artificial ponds, and be familiar with princes, yet God may better have fitted us for a carpen ter's shop, or dentist's forceps, or a weaver's shuttle,! or a blacksmith's forge. : The gret thJng is to find just the sphere for which God intended us, and then," to occupy that sphere and oc cupy it forever. -Here is a ma"n God. fashioned to make a plow. There is a man God'fasbioned to make a constitu tion. The man who- makes the plow is just as honorable as the man who makes the constitution. There is a woman who was made to fashion a robe, and yonder is one intended to be a queen and wear it It seems to me that in the one case as in the other God appoints the sphere, and the needle is just as respectable in his sight as the scepter. I do not know but that the world would long ago have been saved if some of the men, out of the ministry were in it and 'some of those who are in it were out of -it. I really think that one-half the world may be divided into two quarters those who have not found their sphere and those who having found it are not will ing to stay there. How many are strug cling for a position a little higher than that which God intended theml The bondswoman wants to be mistress. Ha gar keeps crowding Sarah. The small wheel of a " watch which beautifully went treading its golden pathway wants to be the balance wheel, and the spar row with chagrin drops into the brook because it cannot, like the eagle, cut a circle under the sun. ; Too Many Leaders. In the Lord's army we all want to be brigadier j generals. . The sloop says "More mast, more tonnage, more can vas. Oh, that I were a topsail schooner or a full rigged brig or a (Junard steam erl" And so the world is filled-with cries of discontent, because we are not willing- to stay in the place where God nut us and intended us to be. My friends, be not too proud to do anything God tells you to do. i or tne lacs ol richt disposition in this respect the world is strewn with wandering Hagars and Ishmaels. God has given each one of us a work to do. i You carry a scuttle of coal no that dark alley. You distrib ute that Christian tract. You give $10, 000 to the missionary cause. You for 15 years sit with chronic rheumatism, dis playing the beauty of Christian submis sicn. Whatever uoa cans you io, wnem pr it win hissinff or huzza, whether to walk under triumphal arch or . lift the sot out of the ditch, whether it be to preach on a Pentecost or tell some wan derer of the street of the mercy of the Christ of Mary Magdalene, whether it be to weave a garland for a laughing rhild nn a snrinff moraine and call her a May queen or to comb out the tangled locks of a waif of the street and cut up one of your old dresses to fit her out for the sanctuary, do It, and do it right away.' Whether it ;be a crown or yoke, do not fidget. Everlasting honors upon those who do their work and do their whole work and are contented in the sphere in which God has put them, while there are wandering and exile and desolation ."'and wilderness for discon tented Hagar and Ishmael I Again, I find In' this oriental scene a lesson of sympathy with woman when she goes forth trudging in the desert. What a great change it was for this Hagar I There were the tent and all the surroundings of Abraham's house, beau tiful and luxurious,' no doubt. Now she is going put into the hot sands of the desert. On, what a Change it wasl And in our day we often see the wheel of fortune turn. Here is some one who lived in the very bright home of her father. She had everything possible to administer to her .happiness plenty at the table,! musio in the drawing room, welcome at the door. She is led forth Into life py some one who cannot ap preciate hr. A dissipated soul comes and takes her out in the desert. Cruel ties blot out all the lights of that home circle. Harsh words wear out her spir its. The high hope that shone out over the marriage altar while the ring was being set and the vows given and the benediction pronounced have all faded with the orange blossoms, and there she. is today, broken hearted, thinking of past joys an"d present desolation and coming anguish, Hagar in the wilder nessl - Here i3 a beautiful home. You cannot think of anything that can be added to it For years there has not been the suggestion, of a single trouble. Bright and happy children fill the house with laughter and song. Books to read. Pic turea to look at Lounges to rest on. Cup of domestic joy full and running over. Dark night drops. Pillow hot. Pulses flutter. Eyes close. And the foot whose well known steps on the doorsill brought the whole household out at eventide crying, "Father's coming!" will never sound on the doorsill again. A long, deep grief plowed through all that brightness of domestic life. Para dise lost.. Widowhood. Hagar in the wilderness. " How often is it we see the veak arm sf woman conscripted fcr this battle with the rough world. Who is she, go ing down the street in the early light of the morning," pale with exhausting work not half slept out with the slum bers of last night, tragedies of suffering written all over her face, her lusterless eyes looking far ahead, as though for the coming of some other trouble? Her parents called her Mary, or Bertha, or Agnes on the day when they held her up to the font and the Christian minis ter sprinkled on the infant's face the frashimz of a holy baptism.. Her name MARCH 25, 1898. ) Is changed now. I hear it in the sheffia ! . A I i At ci me wornous snoes. x see it ia we figure of the faded calico. I find it in the lineaments of the woe begone coun tenance. Not Mary, I nor Bertha, nor Agnes, but Hagar in the asrilderness. May God have mercy upon woman In her toils, her strugglesTher hardships, her desolation, and may the great heart cf divine sympathy inclose her forever .Responsibility of Motherhood. Again, I find in this oriental scene the fact that every mother leads forth tremendous destinies, j j You say, "That isn't an unusua scene a mother leading herjchild by the hand." Who is it that she is lead ing? Ishmael, you say. .. Who is Ish mael? A great nation is to be founded a nation so strong that it is to stand for-thousands of years agninst all the armies of the world. Egypt and Assyria thunder against it, but .in vain. Gaxtfus brings up his army, and his army is smitten. Alexander decides upon a cam paign, brings up his hosts and dies. For a long while that nation monopo lizes the learning of the world. It Is the nation of the Arabs. Who founded it? Ishmael, the lad that Hagar led into the wilderness. She had no idea she was leading forth such destinies. Neither does any mother. You pass along the street and see and pass boys and girls who will yet make the earth quake with their influence. f Who is that boy at Sutton pool, Plym buth, England, barefooted, wading down into the slush and slime until his bare foot comes upon a piece of glass, and he lifts it bleeding and pain 6truck? That wound in the foot decides that he be sedentary in his life; decides that he be a student. That wound by the glass' in the foot decides that he shall be John Kit to, who shall provide the best reli gious encyclopedia the world has ever had provided and, With his other writ incs as well, throwing a light upon the word of God such as' has come from : no other man in this century.. Oh, mother, mother,' 'that little hand that wanders over your face may yet be lifted to hurl thunderbolts of war of drop benedic tions! That little voice may blaspheme God ia the grog saep or cty '.'For ward I" to the Lord's hosts. as. they go out for their last victory. My mind this morning leaps 80 years ahead and I see a merchant prince of . New York One stroke of his pen brings a ship out of Canton. Another stroke of his pen brings a ship into Madras. He is mighty in all the money markets of the world. Who is he? He sits on Sabbaths beside. you in church. My mind leaps 30 years forward from this time, and I find my self in a relief association. A great mul titude of Christian women have met to gether for a generous purpose. There is one woman in that crowd who seems to have the confidence of all the others. and they all look up to . her for her counsel and for her prayers. WhQ is she? This afternoon you will find 'her in the Sabbath school, while ,ther teacher tells her of that Christ who clothed the naked arid fed the hungry and healed the sick. Mv mind leans forward 80 years from now, and I find myself in an African jungle, and there is a mis sionary cf the cross addressing the na tives, and their dusky countenances are irradiated with the glad tidings of great joy and salvation. Who is he? Did you not hear his voice today in the opening song of your church service? My mind leaps forward 80 years from now, and I find myself looking through the wickets of a prison. I see a face scarred with every crime. His chin on his open palm, his elbow on his knee; a picture of despair. As I open the wicket he starts, and I hear his chain clank. The jailkeeper tells me that; he has been in there now three times first for theft, then for arson, now for murder. He steps upon the trapdoor, the rope is fastened to his neck, the plank falls, his body swings into the air, his soul swings off into eternity. Who is he and where is he? This afternoon playing kite on the city common. Mother, you are now hoisting a throne or forging a chain, you are kindling a star or dig ging a dungeon I I A Christian mother a good many years ago sat teaching lessons of religion to her child, and he drank in those lies sons. She never knew that Lamphier would come forth and establish the Ful ton street prayer meeting, and by one meeting revolutionize; the devotions, of the whole earth and thrill the eternities with his Christian influence. Lamphier said it was his mother who brought him to Jesus Christ JShe never had Jan idea that she was leading forth such destinies. But, oh, when I see a mother reckless of her influence, rattling on toward destruction, garlanded for the sacrifice with unseemly mirth and god lessness, dancing on down to perdition, taking her! children in the same direc tion, preparing them for a life of frivoli ty, a death of shame and an eternity of. disaster, I cannot help but say i "There they go I There they go; Hagar and Ish mael r I tell you there are wilder des-. erU than Betrahaba ua many of the fashionable circles of thla day. Dissi pated parents leading dissipated cbil-1 dren. Avaricious parents leading avari' cious children. Prayerless parents lead ins craverless children. They gd throrigh every street, up every dark alley, into every cellar, along every highway. Ma- gar and Ishmael I Arid while I pronounce their names it seems like the moaning of "the desert wind, "Hagar' and Ish maell" . . i . ' f 1 v.-'" A Well In Every Wilderness. I learn one more lesson from this oriental scene, and that is that every wilderness has a well in it. Hjagar and Ishmael gave up to die. Hagar's heart sank within her as she heard her child crying: "Water! Water! Water!" "Ah." sh nays, "my darling, jtnere: is no water. 3his'is a desert. " And then God's angel said from the cloud, "What aileth thee, Hagar?", And she looked up and saw him pointing to a well of water, where she filled the bottle for the lad. Blessed be God, thai there ia in every wilderness a welLj if you only know how to find it fountains for all these thirsty souls,. On that la?) day, ca mat great cay or tne icasv -csra mxvv and cried, "If any man thirst let hira come io me anaarinK." ah these ether fountains yon find are mere mirages of the drt Paracelsus, yon know, spent his tL25t in trying to find out the elixir of life a liquid which if taken would keep one perpetually young in this world and would change the aged back again to youth. Of course be was dis appointed. He found not the elixir. But here I tell yon of the elixir of ever- j lasting life bursting from the "Rock of Ages," and that drinking that water yon shall never get old, and you will never be sick, and you will never die. "Ho, every one that thirsteth, como ye to the waters." Ah, here is a man who says, "I have been looking for that fountain a great while, hut can't find it. " And here is some one else who says "I believe all you say, but I have been trudging along in the wilderness and can't find the fountain. " Do yon know the reason? I will tell you!. You never looked in the right direction. "Oh," you say, "I have looked every where. I have looked ncrth, south, east and west, and I haven't found the foun tain." Why, you are not looking in the right direction at all. ' " j . Look up, where Hagar looked. She never would have found the fountain at all, but when she heard the voice of the angel she looked up, and she saw the finger pointing to the supply. And, O oul, if today with one earnest, intense prayer you would only look up to Christ he would point you down to the supply in the wilderness, "Look unto me, all ye ends of the earth, and bo ye saved, for I am God, and there is none elsel" Look! Look, as Hagar looked! Yes, there is a well for every jdesert of bereavement Looking over any audi ence I notice signs of mourning and woe. Have, you found consolation? Ob, man bereft, oh, woman bereft, hate you found consolation? Hearse after hearse. Wo step from one grave hillock to an other grave hillock. We follow corpses, ourselves soon to be like them. The world is in mourning for its; dead. Every heart has become the sepulcsher of some buried joy. But sing ye to God! Every wilderness has a well in it, and I come to that well today, and I (begin to draw water for you from that well. U you have lived in the country you have sometimes taken hold of the, rope of the old well sweep, and you know how the bucket came up dripping with bright, cool water. And I lay, h'Ud of the rope. of God's mercy, and I begin to draw on that gospel well sweep, fend I see the buckets coming up. Thirsty soul, here is one bucket of life! Come and drink of it. "Whosoever will, let him come and take of the water of . life freely-" I. pull away, again at the rope, and another bucket comes up It is this prom ise, "Weeping may enduro for a night, but joy cometh in the morning." I lay hold of the rope again, and I pull, away with all my strength, and the Bucket comjes up bright and beautiful and cool. Here is the promise, "Come unto me, all ye who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest." , A New Astrology. j The old astrologers used to cheat the neoDle with the idea that they could tell from the position of the stars; what would occur in the future, and, if a cluster of stars stood in one relation, why, that would be a prophecy of evil. If a cluster of stars stood in another re lation, that would be a prophecy of good. What superstition I But here is a new astrology in which I put ail my faith. By looking up to the. star of Ja cob, the morning star of the Redeemer, I can make this prophecy in regard to those who put their trust in Uod,; All things work together for good to lthose who love God."j Do you love him? : Have vou seen the nyctanthes?? It is a beautiful flower, but it gives very lit tie fragrance until after sunset I Then it Dours its richness cn the air. And this grace of the gospel that I ccnlmend to vou now. while it may be veryfsweet during the day of prosperity, it pours forth its richest aroma alter sunpown. And it will be sundown with you and me after awhile. 'When you come to go out cf the world, will it be a desert inarch or will it be drinking at a fountain? A converted Hindoo was dying, and his heathen comrades came around him and tried to comfort him by reading some of the pages of their theology, but be waved his hand, as much as to say, "I don't want to hear it. " Theh they called In a heathen priest, and he said, II you win. oniy recne . me uqmira, ; will deliver you from hell.!' He waved his hand, as much as to siy, "I don't want to hear that." Then they said, "Call on Juggernaut." He :shook is head, as much as to say, "l can't do that " Then they thought perhaps he was too weary to speak, and they said, Now, if you. can't say Juggernaut- think of him." He shook his -head again, as rruch as to say, "No, n4 no." Then tbtv bent down to his pillow, and they bv. :rf. "In what will you trust?" His face l-bted up witn tne very glo ries of the celestial sphere, as he cried out, rail lug all his dying energies, Jesus!" !Uh. come this hour to the fountain 1 I will tell you the whole story in two or three sentences. Pardon rcr all sin. Comfort for all trouble. Light or all darkness. And every wilderness has a well in it Italians For Vcnernlsw An Italian named Dotti has entered into an agreement with the Venezuelan government to colonize in Venezuela 1,000 ItaliarTfamilies per annum J to es tablish a bank for the benefit of agricul turists with a capital of $3,750,0CH) and to maintain a line oi steamships oe- tween the colonies . ana itaiy. io en- rrmracra the , scheme the government errant larca rebates of taxation and; other privileges and assures io the new colonists generous welcome and protec tion. ' ! Abandoned. j "The doctors have given him np." "No!" Yea. his case baffles the highest bill nllecting skill.' y-Detroit .Journal. KO. 52. Tn v wnvrkT,no ,.r rr,Tr,...,t. TIIL U OF SCIENCE , LUNG TROUBLES AND CONSUMP- I ION CAN Be CURED. An Eminent New York;Chemist and , Scientist Makes a Free Offer ; - to Our Readers. The dttingnihel New York chem ist, T. A. Sloe um, demonstrating his discovery of a reliable and absolute cure for Consumption (Pulmonary Tuberculosis) and all bronchial, throat, 'ung and rhest dieam, stubborn coughs, catarrhal affection, general decline anil weakneN, his of llh, and all condition rr wasting away, will send THIt EE TREK BOTTLES (all different) of his New Dim-over ir to any Afflicted reader of the Economist writing for tbem. - -r j His "New Hcien title Treatment" has cured thousands jK'Tmaueiitlj by ti timely use, and he considers it a simple professional duty to .sobering human ity to donate a trial of. hi infallible cure.' ... .(' Science daily develops new wonders,' 'and this jrreat chemUt. ftatientlj ex perimenting for years, has produced results ' as leuetcial to -humanity iis can be claimed by any modern geniu?. Hi assertion that lung troubles and consumption are curable in any climate In prov en by ' heartfelt . letters of prati-. tude," filed in his American and Euro lean laboratories in thousands from those cured in all parts of the world. Medical experts concede that bron chial, chest and lung troubles lead to Consumption, which, uninterrupted, means "speedy and certain death. Simply w rite to T. A . H!oeum, M. C, 98 Pine street, New York, giving st ollice and express jiddres, and the free rriedicine.will be promptly sent. Suf Cerers should taHe iiwtant advantage of his generous proposition. . Please tell tlio Doctor that you saw 1 his offer in tJ.e Economist. , Prospective bhortf of OxygYa. Persons who happen to ho incon venienced by dearth of anxieties are invited to agitata their spirits by. contemplation of the prospect of n 'shortage of oxygen in tho atmos phere. It Beeuis that thero arc well informed persona, Lord Kelvin among them, who find ronton to bo lievo that this calamity in impend-i ing. Tho figures (cfitimatod) in tho case are that tho world ute.i annual ly 6,500,000,000 tons of oxygen for breathing purposes and noarly hhlf as much for firea. This is u big con eumption. To repair it we rely on vegetation, which we aro pretty con-j etantly restricting. JBo woieo mora and more oxygen all th6 time and make lens and loss. I No wonder Lord Kelvin Hays the earth is undergoing "n "steady loss of oxygen. " Aa-yet, though, the nt moephere docs not ehow it, and it may bo a few thousand yearn yet be fore tho difference will be measur able. To tho shortsighted the proa pectmay not seem distressing, but folks who need anxieties should not neglect this one, since, after all, in anxieties and ancestry and such things a little remoteness docs no ' harm. Harper's Weekly. others--London Spectator. : 1 Solder Lbs Aluminium. AV T. Stanton tells jn Nature of his process of eoldering aluminium: "If cadmium iodide bo fused on an aluminium plate, decompoeition of the salt occufs long before the melt- ing point of tho aluminium is reach-; "ed. The result is generally the vio-j ' lent evolution of iodino vapor, and the formation of tin alloy of cad. mium and aluminium on theeurfacf of the metal. The addition to tho cadmium iodide of tho two chlorides of zinc and ammonium; previously t fused together, results in n flux, ' which readily enables tin (or other soldering alloy) to unite perfectly with aluminium." j George's Inequality to the Occasion. i . "How do you know it is all over between George and Clara!" "I know it is if she's a girl of spirit. Ho took her to a restaurant last evening for a lunchedn, and after it was over he let a big colored waiter tuck her sleeves in for her When she put on her fur jacket. V-i Chicago Tribune. 1 Bound farthings were not coined until tho year 1210. 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