Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 34, Number 15, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 May 1888 — Page 2

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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 1883.

THE BALANCE SIIEET OF LIFE

AS CIPHERED OUT BY OR. TALMAGE. A Carfal Estimate and Comparison of the Respective Values of HeaTenly and TTorldly Property Tit al ' Interests nt Stake. DE. Talmago announced as the subject of the sermon "Loss and Gain,' and his text was: "What Shall it profit a nan, if he altal! train the whole world, and lose his own soul!" Mark viii, 36. I am accustomed, SaLbath after Sabbath, to 6tand before an audienco of bargainmakers. There may be men in all occupations sitting before mo, yet the vast majority of them, I am well aware, are enp2 jed from Monday morning to Saturday nicht in the store. In many of the families in my congregation, across the breakfast table and the tea table are discussed questions of loss and gain. You are every Iav asking yourself: "What is the value of this? What is the value ofthat? You rould not think of giving something ot greater value for that which is of lesser vain?. You would not think of selling that which cotst you $10 for ?". If you had . property that was worth $lo,000 you would not fcell it for $4,000. You are intelligent in all matters of bargain-making. Are you as wise in the thiugs that pertain fn the matters of the soul? Christ adapted His instructions to the circumstances of thoße to whom He Fpoke. When He talked to tbo fishermen lie spoke of th? poppel net. "Whn He talked to the farmers He said: "A power went forth to row' When IT talked to the shepherds He told the parable of the lost hecp. And am I not right when speaking this morning to an audience nuuU" iip of bargainmakers, that I address them in the words of my text, asking: "What shall it profit s man if he shall gnin the whole world and loc his own soul?" I propose, as far as possible, to estimate and compare the value of two properties. First, I have to say that the world is a very grand property. Its flowers are God's thoughts in bloom. Its rocks are God's thoughts in stone. Its dewdrons are God's thoughts in pearl. This world is God's child a wayward child indeed; it has wandered off through the heavens. Hut about eighteen hundred and eightyeight years ago, one Christmas night, God pent out a sister world to call that wanderer back, and it huri? over IJothleheioi only long enough to get the promise of the wanderer's return, and now that lost world, with soft feet of light, comes treading back through the heavens. The hills, how beautiful they billow up, the c'go of the wave white with the foam of crocuses! How beautiful the rainbow, the arched bridge on which heaven and earth come and talk to each other in tears after the jtonn is over! How nimble the feet of the lamp-lighters that in a few minutes set all the dome of the night ablaze with brackets of lire! How bright the oar of the saffron cloud that rows across the deep sea of heaven ! How boautitul the spring, with bridal blossoms in her hair! 1 wonder who it is that beats time on a June morning for the bird orchestra? How gently the harebell tolls its fragrance on the air! There may be grander worlds, swarthier worlds, larger worlds than this, but I think that this is a most exquisite world a mignonette on the bosom of immensity ! t-Oh," you say, "take my soul ! frive me that world ! 1 am willing to take it in exchange. I am ready now for the bargain. It is so beautiful a world, so grand a world!" But let us look more minutely into the value of the world. You will not buy property unless you can get a good title to It. After you have looked at the property and find out that it suits you you send an attorney to the public otiice, and he examines the book of deeds and the book of mortgages and the book of judgments and the book of liens, and he decides w hether the title ia good before you will have anything to do with it. "There might be a splendid property, and in everyway exactly suited to "yur want, but if" you cannot Ret a good title you w ill not take it. Isow. I am here this morning to say that it is impossible to et a good title in this world. If I settle down upon it, in the very year I so settle down upon it as a permanent possession, I may be driven away from it. Aye, in live minutes after I give up my eoul for the world, I may have to part with the world; and what kind' of a title do you call that? There is only one way I crn hold an earthly possession, and that b through the senses. All beautiful eights through the eve, but the eye may be blotted out; all captivating Bouifris through the car, but my ear may b deafened; all lusciousness of fruits and viands through my ta.ste, but my taste may be destroyed; ail appreciation uf culture and of art through my mind, but I may lose my mind. What a frail bold, then, I have upon any earthly possession. In court (A law, it you want to get a man on" a property, you must serve upon him a writ of ejectment, giving him a certain time to vacate the premises; but when Death comes to us and serves a writ of ejectment, he does not give us one second of warning. He frays: ''OIF of this place! Yon have no right any longer in the possession !" We might cry out, "I gave $100,(J00 for that property;" the pica would be of no avail. Wo might say: "We have a warranty deed of that property ;" the plea would be of no avail. Y e might say: ''Wo have a lien on that storelione ;" that would do us no good. Jeatb U blind and he cannot see a peal and cannot read an indenture. S that, first and last, I w ant to tell you that when vou pro-jrf-f e that I give up my soul for tfie world you cannot give me the tirt item of title. Having examined the title of a property, vour nxt question is atwut insurance. You would not bo silly enough to buy a large warehouse that could not jKs,siblv"be insured. You would not have anything to do with fiich a proj-rty. Now, I ask vou what a..-urancu can you give mo tL 'it this world is not ifoing; to be ; burned ! p? A1oInteIy none. G'oloifi.it tell j U6 that it i3 already on tire; that the Lcryt J

of the world is one great living coal; that it is just like a ship on fire at sea, the flames not bursting out because the hatches are kept down. And yet you propose to palm off on me, in return for my soul, a w;orld for which, in the first place, you give no title, and in the second place," for which 3ou can give no iasurance. "Oh!" you say, "the water of the oceans will wash over all the land and put out the fire." Oh, no. There are inflammable elements in the water, hydrogen and oxygen. Call off the hydrogen, and then the Atlantic and Pacific oceans would blaze like heaps of shavings. You want me to take this world, for which you can give no possible insurance. Astronomers have swepttheirtelescones through the sky and have found out that there have been thirteen worlds in the last two centuries that have disappeared. At first they looked iustliko other worlds. Then they got deeply red they were on fire. Then they got äshen, showing they were burned "down. Then they disappeared, showing that even the ashes were scattered. And if the geologist be right in his prophecy, then our world is to go in the same way. And yet you want me to exchange my soul for it. Ah, no; it is a world that is burning now. Suppose j-ou brought an insurance agent to look at your property for the purpose of giving; yoü a policy upon it, and w hile he stood m front of the house ho should say: "That house is on fire now in the basement," you could not get any insurance upon it. Yet j-ou talk about this world as though it were a safe investment, as though you could get some insurance upon it, when down in the basement it is on fire. I remark, also, that this world is a property w ith which everybody who has taken it as a possession has had trouble. Now, I know a large reach of land that is not built on. 1 ask what is the matter, and they reply that everybody who has had anything to do with that property got into trouble about it. It is just so with this world ; everybody that has had anything to do with it as a possession hafi been in perplexity. How was it with Lord Byron? Iid he not sell his immortal soul for the purpose of getting the world? "Wan he satisfied with the possession ? Alas ! alas ! the poem graphicall describes his case when it says: Prank every cup of joy. Hoard every trump of fame; Prank early, deeply drank. Drank draughts n il ich common million might have juenched. Then died of thirst hecaus there was no more to driuk. Oh. yes, he had trouble with it; and so did Napoleon. After conquering nations by the force of the sword, he lies down to die, his entire possession the. military boots that he insisted on having on his feet while he was dying.. Fo it has been with men who had better ambition. Thackeray, one of the most genial and lovable souiSj after he had won the applause of all intelligent land.s through his wonderful genius, sits down in a restaurant in Paris, looks to the other end of the room, and w onders w hose that forlorn and wretched face is; rising up after awhile he finds that it is Thackeray in the minor. Oh, yes, this world is a cheat. Talk about a man gaining the world! Who ever gained half of the world? Who ever owned a hemisphere? Whoever gained a continent? Who ever owned Brooklyn? Talk about gaining the world! 'o man ever gained it, or the hundred-thousandth part of it. You a-e demanding that I sell my soul, not for the world, but for a fragment of it. Here is a man who has had a large estate fr forty or fifty years. He lies down to die. You say: "That man in worth millions and millions of dollars." Is he? You call up a surveyor wiih hisconipass and chains, and you sav: "There is a property extended three miles in one direction and three miles in another direction." Is that the way to measure that man's property? "o! You do not want any surveyor w ith his compassand chains. That is not the w ay you want to measure that man's property now. It is an undertaker that you need, w ho w ill come and put his finger in his vest pocket sind take out a tare-Iiue, and he will measure live feet nine inches one way and two feet and a halt the other wav. That is the? man's property. Oh, no; X forgot ; not so much as that," for lie docs not own even the place in w hich he lies in the cemetery. The deed to that lielongs to the executors and the heirs. Oh, what is a property you propose to give me for my soul! If you ell a bill of goods, you go into the counting-room and say to your partner: "Io you think that man is good for this bill? Can he give proper security ? "Will he meet this payment ?" "ow, when you arc otl'ered this world as a possession I want you to test the matter. I do not want you to go into this bargain blindly. I want you to ask about the title, about the insurance, about whether men have ever had any trouble with it, about whether you can keep it, about whether youVan get all, or the ten thousandth, or one hundred thousandth part of it. There is the world now. I sjiall say no more about it. Make up your mind for yourself, as I shall, lefore (Jod, have to make up my mind for myself, about the value of this world. I cannot afford to make a mistake for my soul, and you cannot afford to make a mistake for your soul. Now, let us look at the other property the soul. We cannot make a bargain without seeing the comparative value. The soul ! How shall I estimate the value of it? Well, by its exquisite organization. It is the most wonderful piece of mechanism ever put together. Machinery is of value in proportion as it is mighty and silent at the same time. You look at the engine and the machinery in the Philadelphia mint, and as you see it orfonning its wonderful work, you will be surprised to find how silently it goes. Machine that roars and tears soon destroys itself, but silent machinery is often most effective. ow, so it is with the soul of man, with all its tremendous faculties it moves in silence. Judgment, without any racket, lifting its valves; memory, without any noise, bringing down all its treasures; conscience taking its judgment seat without any excitement; the understanding and the will all doing their work. Velocity, majesty, might; but silence silence. lou listen at the door of your heart. You can hear no sound. The soul is all quiet. It is bo delicate an instrument that no human hand can touch it. You break a bone, and with splinters and handajres the surgeon bets it; the eye becomes inflamed, the apothecary's was h'cocls it ; but a soul off the track, unbalanced, no human power can readjust it. "With one sweep of its wing it circles the universe, and overvaults the throno of God. Why, in the hour of death the soul is so mighty it throw aside the body as though it was a toy. It drives back medical skill as impotent. It breaks through the circle of loved ones who fand around the dying couch. With one leap it springs beyond star and moon and sun and chasms of immensity. Oh, it is a soul superior to all material things 1 No fire can consume it; no Hoods can drown it; no rocks cancrushit;no walls can impede it; no time can exhaust it. It wants no bridge on which to cross a chasm. It wants no plummet w ith which to sound a depth. A swul no mighty, so swift, so silent, must be a priceless soul. I calculate the value of the soul, also, by its capacity for happiness. How much joy it can get in this world out of friendship, out of Ix-ioks, out of clouds, out of the sea. out of tho flowers, out of ten thousand things; and yet all the joy it has here does not test its capacity. You are in a concert before the curtain "hoists and vou hear tho instruments preparing the sharp snap of the broken string, the scraping of tho bow across the viol. "Tbere is music in that," you say. It is only getting ready for tho music. And nil the enjoyment of the eoul

in this world, the enjoyment we think is real enjoyment, is only preparative ; it is only anticipative ; it is only the first stages of the thing; it is only the entrance, the beginning of. which shall be the orchestral harmonies and splendors of the redeemed. You cannot test the full power of the soul for happiness in this world. How much power the soul has here to find enjoyment in friendships! but, oh! the grander friendships for the soul in the skies! How sweet the flowers here, but how much sweeter they will be there. I do not think that when flowers die on earth they die forever. I think that tho fragrance of the flowers is the spirit being waited away into glory. God says there are palm trees in heaven and fruits in heaven. If so, why not the spirits of dead flowers? In the sunny valleys of heaven shall not the marigold creep? On the hills of heaven, will not the amaranth bloom? On the amethystine walls of heaven, will not the jasmine twine ? "My beloved has come down in his garden to gather lilies." 2o flowers in heaven? Where, then, do they get their garlands for the brows of the righteous? Christ is glorious in our souls now, but how much grander our appreciation after a while! Aconquerorreturnsafter the battle. He has been fighting fonts. He comes upon the platform. lie has one arm in a sling, and the other arm holds a crutch. As he mounts the platform, oh, the enthusiasm of the audience. They say: "That man fought or us, and imperiled his life for us ;" and how wild the huzza that follows huzza! When the Lord Jesus Christ shall at last stand out before the multitudes of the redeemed of heaven, and we meet Him faco to face and feel that He was wounded in the head and wounded in the hands and wounded in the feet and wounded irl the side for us, methinks we will be overwhelmed. We will sit some time gazing in silence, until some leader arni I the white-robed choir shall lift the baton of light and give the signal that it is time to wake the song of jubileCj and all heaven will then break forth into: "Hosanna! hosanna! hosanna! Worthy is the Lamb that was slain!" I calculate further tho value of the soul by the price that has been paid for it. In M. Petersburg there is a diamond that tho government paid $00,000 for. "Well," you say, "it must have been very valuable or the government would not have paid S-W.OOO for it." I want to see what my soul is worth, and what j our soul is worth, by seeing what has been paid for it. For that immortal soul, the richest blood that was ever shed, the deepest groan that was ever uttered, all the griefs of earth compressed into one tear, ail the sufferings of earth gathered into one rapier of pain and struck through His hol v heart. Does it not imply tremendous value? I argue, also, the value of the soul from the home that had been fitted up for it in the future. One would have thought that a street of adamant would have done. No; it is a street of gold. One would have thought that a wail of granite would have done. No; it is the flame of sardonyx mingling with the green of emerald. One would have thought that an occasional doxology would have done. No; it is a perpetual song. If the ages cf heaven marched in a straight line, some day the last regiment, perhaps, might pass put of sight; but no, the ages ot" heaven do not march in a straight line, but. in a circle around about the throne of God; forever, forever, tramp, tramp. A soul so bought, so equipped, so provided for, must be a priceless soul, a tremendous sfiil. Now you have seen the two properties the world, the soul. One perishable, the other immortal. One unsatisfying, the other capable of ever-increasing felicity. Will you trade? Will you trade even? Kernend er, it is the only investment you can make. If a man sell a bill of goods w orth 0,000 and he is cheated out .of it, he may get $5,000 somew here else; but a man who invests his soul invests all. Losing that, he lo:es all. Saving that, he saves all. In the light of my text, it seems to me as if you this morning were offering your soul to the highest bidder, and I hear you say: "What is hid for it. mv deathles,- spirit? What is bid for it?" Satan says: "I'll bid the world.'. You say, "Begone! that is no equivalent. Sell my soul for the world? No! Begone!" But there is someone else in the audience not so wise as that. Hesavs: "What is bid for mv immortal soul?" Satan says: "I'll bid the world." "The world? Going at that, going at that, going at that, gone! Gone!" Gone forever! Whnt Is the thine of preatt price, The whole creation round? That which was lost iu Pa-u'Iie, That wlikh in Christ is found. Thon let u Rather round the cros?, That knowledge to obtain ; Not by tho soul's eternal loss. rut "everlasting gain. Well, there are a great many people in tho house w ho sav: "I will not sell my sotd for the world. I find the world is an unsatisfying portion." What, then, will you do with vour soul? Someone whispers here : "1 will give my soul to Christ." Will you? That is the "wisest resolution vou ever made. Will you give it to Christ? When? To-morrow? No, now. I congratulate you if vou have come to such a decision. O, if this morning the eternal spirit of God would come down upon this audience, and show you the vanity of this world, and the immense importance of Christ's religion, and the infinite value of your own immortal souls, what a house this would be! what an hour this would be! what a momenthis would be! Do yoa know that Christ has bought your soul? Do you know that He has paid an infinite price for it? Do you know that He is worthy of it? Will you give it to Him now? I was reading of a sailor who had just got ashore and M-as telling about his last experience at sea. He said: The last time I crossed the ocean was a terrific time. After we had been out three or four days the machinery got disarranged and the etesim bopran to escape, and the captain, gathering the people and the crew on deck, sai'd: "'Inless someone shall go down and shut off the steam and arrange the machinery at the peril of his life we must all be destroyed." He was not w illing to go down himself. No one seemed willing to go. The passengers gathered at one end cf the steamer waiting for their fate. The captain said: "I give you a lat warning. If there is no one here willing to imperil his life and go down and fix that machinery wo must all be lost." A plain sailor siiid: "I'll go, Mr I" and he wrapped himself in a coarse piece of canvas and went down, and was gone but a few moments when the escajing feteam stooped and the machinery was corrected. Tne captain cried out to the Cassengers : "All saved ! Iet us go dow n elow and sec what has become of tho poor fellow." They went down. There ho lavdead! Vicarious suffering!. Died for all ! Oh, do you suppose that those people on the ship ever forgot, or ever can forget that poor fellow? "No!" they sav; "it was thfough his sacrifice I got ashore." The time came when our whole race must die unless some one should endure torture and sorrow and shame. Who shall come to the rescue ? Shall it be one of the seraphim? Not one. Shi 11 it be one of the cherubim? Not one. Shall it be an inhabitantof some pure and Unfällen world? Not one. Then Christ said: "lio! 1 como to do Thy will, O God;" and He went down through tho dark stairs of our sin, and wretchedness, and misery, and woe. and He stopjwd the peril, and He died that you and I might 1 free. Oh, tho love! Oh, the endurance! Oh, tho horrors of the sacrifice ! Shall riot our souls this morning go out toward I lim. saying: "Iord Jesus Christ, take my soul. Thou

art worthy to have it. Thou hast died to save it?" God help you this morning to cipher out this sum in gospel arithmetic. "What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?" rlffent Way of Spending Sunday. . Christian Advocate. There may be two extremes in the manner of spending the Sabbath day. There is the ascetic, the Pharisaical way, and the other that converts Sunday into a dav of special diversion and pleasure-taking, whether in town, city or country. But by the light of the scriptures it seem3 to me that a marked difference should be made between Sunday and all other days, in its sanctity, its complete rest, and "in everything pertaining to it. One day in seven is a small proportion to be demanded by our Maker to spend particularly in His service and according to His command: "Kemember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work." But does this commandment the longest one in tho Decalogue belong to, a dispensation which should be regarded obsolete in this progressive age? The non-observance of the Sabbath the not setting it apart for special, sanctified purposes is to deluge the land with a myriad of evil influences. Out from the home. circle co various tendencies, either for good or evil, which continue to widen until the whole world is more or less affected by them. Hence it is of vital importance that things should start there right, and in obedience to divine law. The Christian Idea of Labor. The Rev. W. T. Moretnn, in Christian World Pulpit, London, j If nations recognize the true dignity of labor, and insist on its recognition, the burdens and horrors of w ar will soon be abolished, and a new era of peace, prosperity, and brotherhood will dawn upon mankind. The welfare of a nation can only be brought about by all men recognizing that their dignity" consists, not in war or mere accumulation of wealth, but in the honest work of every man and woman in their appointed spheres, und in the general diffusion of knowledge, culture and the comforts of life i. e., not in theological or canting repetition of divine laws, but in practical olx-dience to-a God who loves a just measure and accurate weights and scales, who has forbidden land-grabbing and money-grabbing as the worst forms of sin, and to a Savior, who asserted forever the dignity of toil by working at a carpenter's bench at Nazareth. Here mid Hereafter. The Indcpiodcat. The God of the Dible is not equally pleased with wrong-doing and right-doing, with wickedness and holiness, w ith obedience and disobedience to his la-; and when we meet Ii im in the w orld of spirits, we shall find it true that lie has not there appointed the same situation, the same condition, and the same destiny for the righteous and the w icked. There is a moral difference between them here, and there will be a corresponding difference between them hereafter.

The Christianity That Wins. The Examiner-Bape. If we would see the cause of Christ prosper, let us who are His followers place the emphasis right. In our daily lives we may imitate His gentleness and "self-sacrifice, in our teaching w e may make prominent the love and mercy "of God. We need not be sentimental or morally weakkneed to do this. When the' duty is laid upon us we may speak bravely against wrong-doing; we. need in an v case make no compromise with evil. True Christianity wins; it does not rtpel. Keligiou Note. There are 702 pastors in th? Reformprlhiirr-h of France, of whom oil helonfj to the evnncro'ical party and liU to the liberal -o.ctien. Th Churchmen. The total receipts of the American home missionary society from 'Y2 to 1S7 was 11, fiS;,.'!. 'ukI the total receipts of 21 societies were $l00,0iy,3u3. The late Mrs. Ellery Kills, of Hartford, boqieathed $.V" to the American niissioimry association, and $V0 to IJrrca collecc, Ky., on the death of Caroline 11. Uli., of Springfield, Mass. The subscriptions ff"" the new building for Plymouth church, Milwaukee, amounting to S1.j0,0O, have been secured. Great enthusiasm is manifested by young and old in the enterprise. The building permit of the Catholic university at Washington, D. C, tails for a struc ture of stone and briek of four htori, 22" feet by 4i. It will he heated by steam, ana will cost 175,0110. The L'a!hAic J'cn'ew. The presbyterian board of home missions received during the closing year $78.V'-7.30, or within $17,0110 of the frsOO.OOO recommended last year by the general assembly, and 130,000 more than in any previous year. The Itev. William Taylor, bishop of Africa, reports thirty-six stations started, and that out of 140 missionaries only six men and six women have died. The missions are self-supporting, being across between the method nysisions and that of colonization. In one of his recent lectures Prof. Felix Adler denounced the project of building a great cathedral in New York by the episcopalians, declaring that the money could be more profitably devoted to the saving of lives in the tenement-house districts. Christian Union. Ihiring the forty-eight years of the existence of the foreign board of the presbyterian church 4.53 missionaries have been engaged in the missions east and west of the Mississippi river. The foreign board has expended $2."n,000, the free gift of the churches, besides $."-0,00 entrusted to it by the government for educational work. The will of the late Caleb Wheeler, Rending, Pa., has public bequests as follows: To the IVesbytenan board of foreign missions. $ 10,0i0; to the Board of home missions, 10,1100; to the Lincoln university at Oxford, Chester county, for the education of colored men, $J,0O0; to the Board of. ministerial relief of the presbyterian church, $.3,0U0. At one of the little mission chapels in the Charlotte islands no less than 10U blankets, Valued at $1.23 each, were contributed on one Sunday by the native congregation toward the erection of a new church. Measured by the meaner resources of these poor Christians, they furnished a mngniäcent example. Christian Adiocütr, Xashiillr. , CoL F.lliott F. Shepnrd, the new proprietor of the New York Mail and j'xnr'M, prints at the hend of the editorial page, daily, a verse of scripture, Riving hj his reasan that "men who are neeestarily . much absorbed in business should be reminded of the words of the Heavenly Father." Ue is undaunted by fneers, and aays: "It is Ool they ridietile, not me;" and declares that he shall continue the practice as long as he owns the paper. Prof. William Y. Sherwin Jied recently at JBoKton, Mas. Iiis name was widely known in connection w ith the Chautauqua Sunday-school assembly, of which he had been musical di rector ami associate manager. He was u lending jSun day-school worker "the greater portion of his life. His name is associated with several popular musical collections. lie was very successful as A conductor and trainer of choruses, und had lately been a professor in the New England conservatory of music. The Iiev. Dr. Ball has closed his pastorate of the lludson-st, baptist church, liult'alo. lie will give his attention to the founding of a summer school, college, etc., after the Chautauqua plan of the uiethodiitK, on the iM acres of land recently purchned by the baptists at Muff Point on keuka lake, below Hammondsport. Ilouse are now building there, and a short railroad between the place and 11amniondsnort is one of the features contemplated. The college for the education of young men for the ministry, it is understood, will be an imposing edifice. The college will le on the plan of the colleges at Oherliu and Hillsdale, in both of which Dr. Ball has for some years been interested, find to which he has given considerable time Christian at Work. Serlptiirully Ignorant. Sunday-School Teacher( reprovingly V "Now, Tommy, yii must pav closer attention to the lesson. AVho killed Abel?" Tommy (in a surprised tone of voice) "Why, I didn't know he was dead."

THE GIRLS WHO USE SLAA'G.

MRS. BEECHER'S WORDS OF WISDOM. Free and Easy Expressions Used by the Miss of the Period Masculine Manners In. becoming in Vonng Women How Men Regard the Slangy Girl. THE necessity of shielding children from the contamination of low assodates, and from the habits which 6uch companionship will surely bring, is of the utmost importance. Lotv expressions "slang phrase?," as they are termed will ho one of the first fruits. A "free-and-easy" w ay of talking and acting among strangers in the streets or stores, and at last ventured upon at home, will be the next. These two most offensive habits usually go hand-in-hand, and very strangely, unless w o look . at it as an evidence of natural depravity, are eagerly caught up by the young. With girls, especially, if they are allowed to use such low phrases, other unfeminine traits will soon follow; often a coarse, swaggering manner, instead of the graceful, ladylike carriage, that indicates refinement and modesty. When girls or young ladies ( ?) are seen Avith their hands thrust deep into the ulster pocket or surtout, as is now the term, and the derby tipped on one side, talking and laughing loudly, walking with masculine strides, they have no cause of complaint if the rude, ragged little gamins in the street take infinite satisfaction in running after such nondescripts and calling: 'I say, mister!" They cannot but think that the attire and manner of such girls mark them as lawful victims for their insults and ribaldry. Those reprehensible and olfensive habits of speech and manner have crept into vontliful society with amazing rapidity of late, ami are so closely allied to unsafe and immoral license, that parents cannot be too quic k or peremptory in restraining the least approach to any 'such liberties. If left unrcbuked at first, under the impression that, if apparently unnoticed, their children w ill soon see the folly of it and correct it themselves, they will find they have made a sad mistake. Once allowed to take root, the evil will soon be beyond parental control, ripening into fixed habits that will be a blot on their children during their whole lives. This kind of vulgarity carries with it a seductive fascination to the youthful, unbalanced mind, artd tends to moral deformity, even if it leads to nothing worse. Nich evils, like sin, are at first repulsive and disgusting, but ;svn too oft, familiar with its face, We first cudure, then pity, then embrace. " Boys are enticed more easily into the use of vu'gar and low expressions from coming in contact with coarse, rough boys, as they are naturally outdoors or in the streets more than girls, and often less under their mother's influence and supervision. They are, therefore, in danger of having the babit fixed before it is suspected at home. When temptations are not resisted and repelled at the beginning, they find easy victims. If a boy is tempted to indulge in low conversation, and yields, he will find that profanity is near of kin. tiirls seldom fall into habits of profanity; but, from lack of proper restraint at home, too often indulge in speech and actions which are far from lady-like or refined, and not many years ago would not have been tolerated in good society. But of lnte, at home, making or receiving calls, on the streets or in the cars, this loud, boisterous, free-and-easy behavior is painfully noticeable. If seen in little girls, who should be as sweet and gentle as the birds or flowers, one cannot avoid thinking that their mothers have not guarded their jewels as they r.re in duty bound to do when such priceless treasures are committed to their charge. If our little girls greet their brothers and sisters, and perhaps even their parents, boisterously ; ii instead of "Good-morning," they cry, "Halloo, papa!" or, "Halloo, mammal" and call to phu-mates in the street in the same rough manner, who will be surprised if this style follows them as they grow up and appear as voting ladies? Referring to this unlady-like manner and mode of address, a "gentleman writes that passing two pretty, well-dressed, stylish-looking young ladies iu the public streets, he was surprised to hear one meet the other with "Halloo, Sid!" and the other respond, "Halloo, Tude !" to her friend's greeting; and be remarks: "It was just what two lounging young men might have said, or stable boys, for that matter. It might not have been so much out of the way for the. latter, but I confess it sounded very odd and offensive in what I supiosed to be two well-bred young ladies; as much so as if I had heard two beautiful gray and rosecolored birds legin to swear. It was so unnatural, so out of place. It maybe 'the style' for young girls or ladies" to greet eäth other with an Halloo!' but I can't like it or get used to it. These things may seem but a trifle, but they make all the difference between nice things and very common things. We usually prefer sweet, gentle, refined girls to those who are coarse and hoydenish. Girls may fall into this unladylike habit through their brothers' example; but sisters were given to refine and soften the coarser nature of their brothers. If they fail to do this we shall no longer find in our sisters refined and refining companions, but the coarse ways and rough sjiccch of young men in liounccs. Is it not just as easy to imitate the graceful manners and rehned speech of a lady as those of a rude, uncultivated boy?" The same general rules of correct and pleasant behavior are safe for boys and irls, or ladies and gentlemen. A pentleiuan may entertain the highest respect for a lady, and be on the most friendly and intimate terms, but, if a true gentleman, his respect will withhold him from carelessness or roughness in speech or actiou. And no lady who is truly refined will brook anything approaching a too familiar tone. It is, however, but just to acknowledge that a lady's manner will always fix the metes and bounds of tho liberty V hick mav be offered. When boys and girls, young men and maidens, are allowed to" fall into the absurdities of low, foolish, meaningless talk, it seems to dwarf them intellectually ; they can find .nothing of interest or importance to say, and therefore make up for sense by filling every sentence with needles exclamations, exaggerations, or mis-used adjectives. It rcnuires much patience to bo compelled to listen to half u dozen young people, and hear the strange, inappropriate use of language They will assure each other that it is "awful warm, or the concert was "awful" nice; the sermon "horrid" dull; a young lady is "awful pretty," but her dress "horrid ugly;" tho teacher "horrid strict ;" such a young gentleman who had chilled had an "awful swell" team of fast liorses. If young people could now and then be placed where (themselves unseen) they were obliged to listen to a half-hour's conversation about nothing at all, and hear these poor adjectives forced into a conspicuous position in every sentence and on every topic of conversation their real meaning and legitimate use being entirely disregarded it might result in their own reformat ion, ami they might feel, like the, poet Ht Pclmonieo's, vho listened to the conversation of a charmirjg little lady

and her dapper little beau, where every other word was "awful :" 'I confess it sorely puzzles me to think what ther could ay. If something really 'awful' were to happen in their way; For I'm tare with simple English they could nerer b content, But their thoughts in foreign expletives would have to find a vent. "While musing in this fashion (feeling rather cross and old), I forgot about my dinner, which was getting 'awful' cold ; And the adjeetiTe kept dropping from the lips of either ehild, TiU with 'awful,' 'awful,' 'awful,' I was driren fairly vilrl M do ITrvpv W t r It rr vr-MV r I

" v M A II Alii Ui.bVUi.Wi GOOD GAMES OF WHIST. Some Styles of Tlay Contrasted Do Tou Follow Pole or Cavendish? Among the many things a woman is supf osed to be unable to do is to play whist, n direct contradiction to that statement comes the announcement that Milwaukee, Boston and New York have women teachers of this game who receive a dollar lesson for their instruction. These Kastern teachers wend their way to Bar Harbor and Newport in thesumnier time and contin ue their teaching among the gavest of our land. Americans play a different game from the English in quite a number of points, as, lor example, not counting honors and playing games of seven points instead of five points each. Indeed, a great many modern American players do not count games at all, but play a certain length of time decided upon before beginning, and count every point won, thus making a sort of highly intelligent, intellectual scientific game of laps and slams. The reason for this is obvious, as in the ordinary game, the score standing at, say five even, one side wins four points of which they get credit for but two since seven is the game. It seems singular that since the recognized authorities are English and found fully half their laws, and somewhat of the theory, on the honor and five-point game, that we do not adopt the entire English system or establish a code wholly our own. It would probably be useless to attempt to induce them to come over to our views, although we think in this ca3e. as well as in many others, the new country has improved on" the old, and the English have been brought to acknowledge and to practice some of our leads through the important controversy started in 1SS4 by .Mr. Trist of New Orleans, but it would be much better if the two parts of the same race played exactly the ame game. There are a number of books published in America, the best of which are "Whist Development," "American Whist," and "Universal Whist" these two last by the same author, the latter issued only last year. However, these Iwoks are only known when the players have Income students of the game. Those which are universally known are 1'ole, Cavendish and "The Correct Card," or the old Hoyle game, although the followers of don't play Pole or any of your new fangled rules. I play Smith, Brown or Jones," as their own names may b?, when if the real truth be known, careful, earnest players though they may be, their game can be directly traced through Bumblepuppy to Hoyle. If beginners persons who have mastered the old fundamental rules embodied in Ilovle of the third had high, second hand low, and the like; in other words, have gotten through their "primer" would take Tele as their "first reader," Cavendish as the "second reader," "The Correct Card" as a reference book, and an occasional chapter of Proctor as n commentary, their whist education would proceed to a most satisfactory point. It is not an unusual thing to see two persons sit down to play whist as partners for the lirst time, each having heard that the other plays well, each having a bright look of anticipation. One, in a preparatory sort of was, remarks: "Io vou plav Pole or Cavendish?" "Cavendish" is-the response. Straightway the face of the questioner falls, all his bright anticipation ruthlessly crushed by one fell blow. Cavendish is an unknown land ; Pole his own familiar pasture. Nor does he recover his spirits as the game goes on enough to fully appreciate that his partner is playing his game exactly, except with a few more recent developments about which he knows nothing, and which his intelligent partner may discontinue when he, too, comes to realize that his finer play is unappreciated, or go on with it, for the practice, at his pleasure. Again, a player who has mastered the signal is completely discouraged with Cavendish's penultimate when an hour's practice will show him that this is merely the signal over again, made this time in the lead, not in the play, and showing just as the signal shows one has five or more trumps, that one has live or more of the suit led. It may not le possible to complete the penultimate in the second round any more than the signal, but when ultimately it is done the information is conveyed". The echo, another of Cavendish's originations, is perfectly simple to any one who has practiced enough to get the signal, which should have been done when studying the " First Header " recommended Pole. Now, when learning the leads in either one of these authorities, if Bichard Proctor's first chapter, headed "The Lead," be studied, half the battle is won, for he has been particularly happy in simplifying this exhausting subject. Indeed, the two following chapters on the play of second and third hand are almost as good. In fact, these three authorities advocate almost invariably the same thing, only each has leen a little more fortunate than the other in explaining some particular points or elaborating certain details. If a beginner hears some old players holding forth about Maj. Campbell Walker's "Correct Card," and thereupon rushes off" to buy and study it, he becomes simply dazed over the idea that the first thing'he must do is to commit to memory and to practice seventy-six distinct leads, and is naturally in tlcppair. "The Correct Card" is not a whist grammar; it is the best of reference books ; if one wants to know, when a thing is done or why it is done or what to do, there is the answer, ready and waiting. It is a mistake to advise students to tick to one authority after a certain degree of excellence in play is attained. An interest in whist, in the modern scientific gnnic, has been aroused all over the country and Bumblepuppy has 1een a perfect missionary. There was a movement on the part of some of the staid, thoughtful, earnest players of the old school to Slippress the modern innovations, but the iiniotiis was too Strong in the other -direction. The cases of ail those who argue against it are so Meli treated without gloves by Uumblepuppv that Ave leave them to" him. So popular has the game become in the last year that that very modern development, the progressive game of cards, played for prizes, has embodied whist into its being. It is then called "drive whist." A partner whom one keeps throughout the evening is chosen by lot. One hand is played at each table, the losers are driven nwav each time, the Miltners sitting still. A. record is kept of each couples' losses and Eains; at tho end of a certain number of ands the ones who kavo won the most points are victorious. S. S. E. M. A Credit to the. Ntat. Terr Haut Eipre. Uuder its new management TlIE SENTINEL Is worth picking up und rendintr aoruethinj; that hut few persons hud the hardihood to undertake during the past few years. There it now pennine newnnnper ability nt the helm and the J'rrM is gltid to the. täte organ of the democratic pajty a credit to the 6tatc.

the last good old. autnoritv are f seldom willing to give him credit for their play, usually stating with much swagger, "Ko, I

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