Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 July 1894 — Page 12

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TIIE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING. JULY 4, 1894-TWELYETP1GE&

THE ROYAL GARDEN.

T1IK RKV. IJR. TAIiMlfiK TALKS Ol THL' I'LOWKItS OK Tili: CHI HC1I. From ii I'jir l.anil the (rent Divine Send Ilia Conception of (he Work of the tirent tinrdener An OasU In n Desert of Sin. BROOKLYN, July 1. The Itev. Dr. Talmage, who is now nearing Australia on his round the world journey, has se . lected as the subject for his sermon through the press today, "The Royal Garden," the text being taken from Solo mon's Song1 v, 1, "I am come, into my garden." The world has had a great many beau tlfu! gardens. Charlemagne added to the glory of his reign by decreeing that thty be established all through the realm de creeing even the names of the flowers to be planted there. Henry IV, at Montpellier, established gardens of bewitch ing beauty and luxuriance, gathering into them Alpine, Pyrenean and French plants. One of the sweetest spots on earth was the. garden of Shen-tone, the poet. His writings have made but little Impression on the world, but his garden, "The Leasowes," will be immortal. To the natural advantage of that place was brought the perfection of art. Arbor and terrace and slope and rustic temple and reservoir and urn and fountain here had their crowning. Oak and yew and hazel put forth their richest foliage. 'there was no life more diligent, no soul more ingenious than that of Shenstone, and all that diligence and genius were brought to the adornment of that one traasured snot. He gave 300 for it. He sold it for flT.OOO. The Garden of the Chnroh. And yet I am to tell you of a richer garden than any I have mentioned. It is the garden spoken of In my text, the garden of the church, which belongs to Christ, for my text says so. lie bought it, he planted it. Walter Scott, in his outlay at Abbtsford, rulned his fortune. And r.ow in the crimson flowers of those gardens you can almost think or imagine that you see the blood of that old man's broken heart. The payi-nt of the las: 10uoo sacrificed him. Rut I have to tell you that Christ's life and Christ's dMth were the outlay of this beautiful garden of the church of which my text speaks. Oh, how many sighs ar.d tears and pangs and agonies! Tell nr, ye women who kiw Rim hang! Tell me. ye executioners wh lifted Him and let Him down! Tell me. thou sun that didst hide ye r. cks that fell! "Christ loved th church and give Himself for it." If, then, the garden of the church belongs to Christ, certainly He has a right to walk in it. Come, then, () blessed Jesus, this morning, walk up and down these aisles and pluck what thou wilt of sweetness for thyeslf. The church, in my text, is appropriately compared to a garden, because it is a place of choice flowers, of select fruits and of thorough Irrigation. Christ, the Gardener. That would be a strange garden in which there were no flowers. If nowhere else, they will be along the borders or at the gateway. The homeliest taste will dictate something, if it be the old fashioned hollyhock or dahlia or daffodil tr coreopsis, but if there be larger means then you will Und the Mexican cactus and d irk veined arbutellon and tdazing azalea and clustering ol?ander. "Well. now. Christ coms to His garden, and H plants thre som of the brightest spirits that ever towered upon the vorld. Some of them are violets, unconsptcuous. but sweet In heaven. You have to search for such spirits to find them. You do not see thm very often perhaps, but you find where they have been by th- brightening face of the Invalid, and the sprig of geranium on the stand, and the window curtains keeping mit the glare r the sunlight. Thfy are perhaps more like the ranunculus, creeping sweetly along amid the thorns and briers of life, giving kiss for sting. and many a man who has had In his way some great black rock of trouble has found that they have covered it all over with flowering jasmine running in and out amid the crevices. These Christians in Christ's garden are not like the sunflower, gaudy in the light, but whenever darkness hovers over a soul that needs to be comforted there they stand, night blooming cereuses. Rut in Christ's garden there are plants that may be better compared to the Mexican cactus thorns without, loveliness within men with sharp points of character. They wound almost every one that touchy them. They are hard to handle. Mien pronounce them nothing but thorns, but Christ loves Them, notwithstanding all their sharpnesses. Many a man has had very hard ground to culture, and It has only been through severe tMl he has raised even the smallest crop of grace. Concerning Temper. A very harsh minister was talking with a very placid elder, and the placid elder said to the harsh minister, "Doctor, I do wish you would control your temper." "Ah," raid the minister to the elder, 'I control more temper in five minutes than you do in five years." It h harder for seme men to do right than for others to do right. The tjra.ee that would elevate you to the seventh heaven might not keep your brother from knocking a man down. I had a friend who came to me end said. "I dare not join the church." I said, "Why?" "Oh," he said, "I have such a violent temper. Yesterday morning I waji crossing very early at the Jersey City ferry. And I saw a milkman pour a large amount of water Into the milk can, and I said to him, 'I think that will do, and he Insulted me, and I knocked him down. "Do you thins? I ought to Join the church?" Nevertheless that very same man, who was so harsh In fcla behavior, loved Christ and could not speak of sacred thingä without tear3 of emotion and affection. Thorns without, but sweetness w!th,n best specimen of Mexican cactus I ever saw. There are others planted in Christ's garden who are always ardent, always radiant, always impressive more like the roses of deep hue that we occasionally find called "giants of battle" the Martin Luthers, St. Pauls, Chrysostoms, Wyklifs, Latimers and Samuel Rutherfords. What in other men Is a spark, in them is a conflagration. When they sweat, they sweat great drops of blood. When they pray, their prayer takes fire. When they preach, it is a. Pentecost. When they fight. It Is a Thermopylae. When they die. It Is a martyrdom. Tou find a great many roses in the gardens, but onlv a few "giants of battle." Men say, "Why don't you have more of them In the church?" I say, "Why don't you have in the world more Napoleons and Humboldts and Wellingtons?" God give to semi ten talents to another one. The Snowdrop of Christians. In this garden of the church, which Christ has planted, I al3o find the snowdrops, beautiful but cold looking, seemingly another phase of the winter. I mean those Christians who are precise In their tastes, unlmpassioned, pure as snowdrops and as cold. They never shed any tears; they never get excited; they never say anything rashly, they never do anything precipitately. Their pulses never flutter; their nerves never twitch; their indignation never boils over. They live longer than most people, but their life is In a minor key. They never run up to "C" above the staff. In the music of their life they have no taccato passages. ChrUt planted them In the church, and they must be of some service, or they would not be there. Snowdrops, always enowdrops. But I have not told you of the most teautiful flower In all this garden spoken

of in the text. If you see a "century plant," your emotions are started. You say, "Why, this flower has been a hundred years gathering up for one bloom, and it will be a hundred years more before other petals will come out." Rut I have to tell you of a plant that was gathering up from all .eternity, and that 1,000 years ago put forth its bloom never to wither. It is the passion flower of the cross! Prophets foretold it. Bethlehem shepherds looked upon it in the bvd; the rocks shook at its bursting, and the dead got up in their winding sheets to see its full bloom. It Is a crimson ilower blood at the roots, blood on the branches, blood on all the leaves. Its perfume H to fill all the nations. Its touch is life. Its breath Is heaven. Come O winds, from the north and winds from the south and winds from the east and winds from the west, and bear to all the earth the sweet smelling savor of Christ, my Lord. His worth, if all the nations knew, Sure the whole earth would love him, too. Again, the church may be appropriately compared to a garden, because it is a place of select fruits. That wouM be a strange garden which had in it no berries, no plums, no peaches or apricote. The coarser fruits are planted in the orchard or they are set out on the Funny hillside, but the choicest fruits are kept in the garden. The Choicest Frnttw. So in the world outside the church Christ has planted a great many beautiful things patience, charity, generosity, integrity but he intends the choicest fruits to be in the garden, and if they are not there then shame on the church. Religion is not a mere Uo.weri.ng sentimentally. It is a practical, life-giving, healthful fruit not posies, but apples. "Oh." says somebody. "I don't see what your garden- of the church has yielded." Where did your asylums come from, and your hospitals, and your Institutions of mercy? Christ planted every one of them. He planted them in His garden. When Christ gave fight to Dariimeu. he laid the cornerstone of evrry Mind asylum that has ever been built. When Chlrst soothed the demoniac of clalik'o, he laid the cornerstone of cwry lunatic asylum that has ever been established. When Christ said to the sick man, "Take up thy bed and walk," he laid the cornerstone of every hospital the world has ever seen. When Christ said. "I

was In prison, and ye visited me," He laid the cornerstone of every prison reform association that has ever been formed. The church of Christ is a glorious garden, and it is full of fruit. I know there is some poor fruit in it. I know there are some crab-apple trees that ought to be cut down. I know there are some wild grapes that ought to be Uprooted, but are you going to destroy the whole garden because of a little gnarled fruit? You will find wormeaten leaves in Fontaineble.au and insects that sting in the fairy groves of the Champs Klysees. You do not tear down and destroy the whole garden because there are a few specimens of gnarled fruit. J admit there are men and women in the church who ought not to be ther. but let us be just as frank and admit .the fact that there are hundreds and thousands and tens of thousands of gloiious Christian men and women holy, blessed, useful, consecrated and triumphant. There is no grander collection in ail th-? earth than the collection of Christians. omr Motleru .M:rtjr. There are Christian men in the church wliose religion is not a matter of psalmsinging and church-going. Tomorrow morning that religion will keep them just as consistent and consecrated on "exchange" as it ever kept them at the communion table. There are women in the church of a higher type of character than Mary of Rethany. They not only sit at the feet of Christ, but they go out into the kitchen to help Martha in her work, that she may sit there, too. There is a woman who has a drunken husband, who has exhibited more faith and patience and courage than Hugh Latimer in the lire. He was consumed in twenty minutes. Hers has b"en a twenty-years' martyrdom. Yonder is a man who has lain iifteen years on his back, unable to feed himself, yet calm and peaceful as though he lay on one of the green banks of heaven, watching the oarsmen dip their paddles in the crystal river! Why, it seems to me this mument as if Paul threw to us a pomologlst's catalogue of the fruits growing in this great garden of Christ love, joy, peace, patience. charity, brotherly kindness, gentleness, mercy glorious fruit, enough to fill all the baskets of earth and heaven. I have not told you of the better tree in this garden and of the better fruit. It was planted just outside Jerusalem a jood while ago. When that tree was planted it was so split and bruised and birked men said nothing would ever grow upon it, but no sooner had that tree been planted than it budded and blossomed and fruited, and the soldiers' spears were only the clubs that struck down that fruit, and it fell into the lap of the nations, and men began to pick it up and eat it, and. they found in it an antidote to all thirst, to all poison, to all sin, to all death the smallest cluster larger than the famous one of Eshcol, which two men carried on a staff between them. If the one apple in Kden killed the race, this one cluster of mercy shall restore it. A Well Watrrnl (inrilrn. Again, the church in my text Is appropriately called a garden because it Is thoroughly irrigated. No garden could prosper long without plenty of water. I have seen a. garden In the midst of a desert, yet blooming and luxuriant. All around was dearth and barrenness, but there were pipes, aqueducts reaching from thi3 garden up to the mountains, and through thost aqueducts the water came streaming down and tossing up Into beautiful fountains until every root and leaf and flower was saturated. That Is like the church. The church is a garden In the midst of a great desert of sin and suffering. It is well irrigated, for "our ayes are unto tht? hills, from whunce com?th our help." 1'rom the mountains of God's strength there flow down rivers of gladness. There Is a river the stream whereof shall make glal the city of our God. Preaching the gospel Is one of these aqueducts. The bible is another. Rapt ism and the Lord's supper are aqueducts. Water to slake the thirst, water to restore the faint, water to wash the unclean, water tossed high up in the light of the sun of righteousness, showing us the rainbow around the throne. Oh, was there ever a garden so thoroughly Irrigated? You know the beauty of Versailles and Chatsworth depends very much upon the great supply of water. I came to the latter place (Chatsworth) one day when strangers are not to be admitted, but by an Inducement, which always seemed as applicable to an Englishman as an American, I got in, and then the gardener went far up above the stairs of stone and turned on the water. I saw it gleaming on the dry pavement, coming down from step to step, until It came so near I could hear the musical rush, and all over the high, broad stairs it came foaming, flashing, roaring down until sunlight and wave in gleesome wrestle tumbled at my feet. So it Is with the church of God. Everything comes from above pardon from above, sanctiflcatlon from above. Oh, that now God would turn on the waters of salvation that they might flow down through his heritage and that thi3 day we might each find ur places to be "Elims," with twelve wells of water and three-score and ten palm trees. The Gardener Come. Hark, I hear the latch at the garden gate, and I look to sea who Is coming! I hear the voice of Christ, "I am come Into my garden." I say: "Come In, O Jesus; we have been waiting for thee. Walk all through these paths. Look at the flowers; look at the fruit. Pluck that which thou wilt for thyself." Jesus comes Into the garden and up to that old man and touches him and says; "Almost home, father. Not many more aches for thee. I will never leave thee. I will never forsake thee. Take courage a little longer, and I will soothe thy

tottering steps, and I will soothe thy troubles and give thee rest. Courage, old man." Then Christ goes up another garden path, and he comes to a soul in trouble and says: "Peace; all is well! I have seen thy tears; I have heard thy rrayer. The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by light. He wdll preserve thy soul. Courage, O troubled spirit !" Then I see Jesus going up another garden path, and I see great excitement among the leaves, and I hasten up that garden path to see what Jesus is doing there, and, lo, he is breaking off flowers, sharp ar.d clean, from the stem, and I say, "Stop, Jesus; don't kill those beautiful flowers." He turns to me and says: "I have come Into my garden to gather lilies, and I mean to take tljese up to a higher terrace and for the garden around my palace, and there I will plant them and in better soil and in better air. They shall put forth brighter leaves and sweeter redolence, and no frost shall touch them forever." And I looked up Into his face and said: "Well, it is his garden, and he has a right to do w hat he will with it. Thy will be done" the hardest prayer a man ever made. I notice that the fine gardens sometimes have high fences around them, and I cannot get in. It Is so with the king's garden. The only glimpses you ever get of such a garden is when the king rides out in his splendid carriage. It is not so with this garden the king's garden. I throw wide open the gate and tell you all to come in. No monopoly in religion. Whosoever will. may. Choose now between a desert and a garden. Many of you have tried the garden of this world's delight. You have found it has been a chagrin. So it was with Theodore Hook. He made all the world laugh. He makes us laugh now when we read his poems, but he could not make his own heart laugh. While in the midst of his festivities, he confronted a looking gla?s, and he saw himself and said: "There, that is true. I look Just as I am, done up in body, mind and purse." So it was with Shcnstone, of whose garden I told you at the beginning of my sermon. Save Me et." He sat down amid those bowers and said: "I have lost my road to happiness. I am angry and envious and frantic and despise everything around me, just as it becomes a madman to do." Oh, ye weary souls, come into Christ's garden today and pluck ;l little heartsease! Christ Is the only rest and the only pardon for a perturl J spirit. Do you not think your chance has almost come? You men and women who have been

waiting year and after year for some good opportunity in which to accept Christ, but have postponed It five. ten. twenty, thirty, years, do you not feel as If now your hour of deliverance and pardon and salvation had come? Oh, man, what grudge hast thou against thy poor soul that thou wilt not let it be saved? I feel as if salvation must come now to some of your hearts. Some years ago a vessel struck on the rocks. They had only one lifeboat. In that lifeboat the passengers and crew were getting ashore. The vessel had foundered and was sinking deeper and deeper, and that one boat could not take the passengers very swiftly. A little girl stood on the deck, waiting for her turn to get into the boat. The boat came- and went came and went but her turn did not seem to come. After awhile she could wait no longer, and she leaped on the taffrail and then sprang into the sea, crying to the boatman: "Save me next! Save me next!" Oh, how many have gone ashore into God's mercy, and yet you are clinging to the wreck of sin! Others have accepted the pardon of Christ, but you are in ieril. Why not this morning make a rush for your immortal rescue, crying until Jesus shall hear you and heaven and earth ring with the cry: "Save me next! Save me next!" Anrrtlotm of Parrot. Why parrots have been fated to be made the heroes of so many strange tales it is puzzling to say. but the fact remains. We all remember the cheeky bird at the parrot show, who, uncovered last of all among the competitors, placed his head knowingly on one side and ejaculated: "My eye! What a lot of parrots!" of course, securing the prize. I knew of a parrot once who affected modesty and bashfulness, who put his claw before his face and shyly informed his audience: "Polly had a letter this morning offer of marriage for Polly;" and there was another gray friend of my youth who would entreat the cook for dinner In the tenderest terms, and swear like a hundred troopers if not attended to. We have all heard the tale of the publican's parrot, who was pumped on for proclaiming that the beer had gone sour, and remarked to the cat, on seeing that quadruped march in dripping wet, "Your beer's gone sour!" The last of the series of parrot stories that has reached me is that of a large green bird, who seemed somewhat slow of speech, and who provoked his master by his stupidity that that young gentleman, who was trying to teach hia bird to welcome a rich relative with the words, "Good morning, uncle," lost all patience, and shook the poor wretch from side to side, grasping its throat the while, and reiterating, "Say 'Good morning, uncle,' you devil! Say 'Good morning, uncle,' you devil" A few days later this impatient young man heard a terrible noise in the fowl house. On making his way there, he found the bodiea of three hens prone upon the clay floor, while on a perch in the corner was the parrot, holding a fourth fowl by the throat and shrieking with rage, "Say 'Good morning, uncle. you devil!" London Sketch. A Sailor's Experince with Disease. A veteran seaman no.v residing at Portland is a promising candidate for the honors of having survived the most epidemics of any man In Maine. When but sixteen years old he caught the smallpox and was very sick, but four years later had fully recovered and shipped from Portland for Savannah. There he contracted the swamp fever and for two weeks hovered between life and death In a Savannah hospital. He finally was sent to New York by the hospital surgeon and from there got to Roston as a stowaway, and thence home on a boat where he had friends. It took him a year to recover from this experience. In 1S64. when twenty-eight years old, he reached Cuba Just as the yellow fever was raging and, of course, took the disease. The man in the bunk next to him died, but he recovered. Three years later, while in New Orleans, he caught the cholera and was In acute distress for several hours, but hla strong constitution pulled him through. Even with all this experience he is yet strong and vigorous at fifty-eight years, and ready for whatever comes next. Four years ago he left off using tobacco, a habit which he began in boyhood. Lewiston Journal. IlnntlnHT TPoxes vith Dynamite. A fox hunt with dynamite was the novel sport of farmers near Point Pleasant, Bucks county, a few days ago. For a long time the farmers had suffered from the incursions of some adroit thief upon their poultry reserves. The theft9 were so daring, yet so mysterious, that it was decided to set a watch. So, when John Swope heard a racket in his hennery, he ran out. He was just in time to see a big fox, with a nice fat pullet in his mouth, scamper away. The alarm was spread, and a number of farmer Swope's nelgnbors assisted him tracking the fox. They trailed him to his den, under a huge rock, and were then confronted with the problem of routing him. They got some dynamite, fired It and in a few minutes out came, not one, but four foxes, half stunned and blinded. The animals were killed as fast as they appeared, and then the den was walled up. Philadelphia Record. Not a Lady, Little Miss Mugg (haughtily) "Your mother an't no la.dy." Little Miss Frcckles"Why an't she?" Little Miss Muggs "I've seen her pouring hot water from the kettle Into a big pan. and she had an apron on, too. She's no lady. A lady would rather eat off dirty plates than wash dishes, so there!" Street & Smith's Good News.

SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON.

LESSO II, THIRD QrAItTKIt, INTEIl2VATIOXAL SEI11E5, Jl'LY Ö. Test of the Lesson. Luke II, "..-.-.t Memory Verses, JIT-U Golden Test, Lake II, 3:i Commentary by the Rev. 1). M. Stearns. 2Z. "And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon, and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel. And the Holy Ghost was upon him." Even In the darkest days God has always His faithful ones, even though they be few, such as Abel, Enoch and Noah before the deluge; In later days a Caleb and Joshua, a Gideon, and a Samuel, and an Elijah; in the time of our lesson His Simeons and Annas. See In Simeon, whose name signifies "hearing" or "obedient," an illustration of our threefold salvation. He was Just, or righteous, as to his standing; devout as to his life, and waiting or looking for the hope of Israel. Compare Titus 11, 11-13; Rom. v, 1. 2. 26. "And it was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost that he should not see death before he had seen the Lord's Christ." The Holy Spirit is the great and only teacher, and He is given unto us that we may know the things that are freely given to us of God (I Cor. 11, 11, 12). Jesus said that He would guide us into all truth and show us things to come (John xvi, 13). 27. "And he came by the Spirit into the temple. And when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for Him after the custom of the law." In these three successive verses we see Simeon, with the Spirit upon him, taught by the Spirit, and led by the Spirit, and the child of God can desire nothing greater than to be always filled and controlled by the Holy Spirit. Thus we would always speak right, act right and be in the right place at the right time. The child Jesus would now be about six weeks old, and the special law they were fullilüng at this time is found in Lev. xii. 2S. "Then took he Ilim up in his arms and blessed God and said." He believed the scriptures that God would raise up a prophet like unto Moses; that the prophet would lx? born of a virgin, and that he would be -born in Rethlehem (Deut, xviii, 1.',, IS; Isa. 11. 14; Mic. v, 2). Reing taught by the Spirit, he would also be familiar with Gabriel's word to Daniel concerning the time of Messiah's coming (Dan. ix, 2r) and was d ubtkvs thinking ho might possibly see it, when the Spirit told him that he surely would, and now he actually holds in bis arms the seed of the woman, the Deliverer promised 4.000 years before. 2:. "Lord, now leitest Thou Thy servant depart in peace, according to Thy word." Only Availing to. be called, ready at any time to go, glad to wait to welcome the Savior, and now longing to be at rest. Xo four nor doubt concerning the future, for he knew whom he believed (II Tim. I, 12), and he knew that "absent from the body" meant "present with the Lord" (II Cor. v. S). and that "to die would be gain" (Phil, i, 21). SO. "For mine eyes have scm Thy salvation." Jesus Himself i.s that salvation, even as the Spirit, through Isaiah, said, "Rc-hold. God is my salvation" (Isa. xii, 2). "Salvation is of the Lord" (Jonah ii, !)). for He alone is its author. God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son. "Salvation is of the Jews" (John iv, 22), for of them came Jesus as the seed of David, and as a nation they are destined under Jesus, their King, to fill the earth with His glory. Jacob said by the Spirit, "I have waited for Thy salvation, O Lord" (Gen. xlix, IS), but he still waits to see it. 31. "Which Thou hast prepared before the face of all people." When there was none to help and n ne to uphold. His own arm brought salvation (Isa. lxiii, 5). He says, "I, even I, am the Lord, and beside Me there is no Savior" (Isa. xliii, 11). Just as in the garden of Eden, He. without any help from Adam or Eve, prepared the coats of skins which clothed them and taught them the way of redemption (Jen. iii, 21). so in all things, from first to last. He is the author and finisher. Ü. "A lisrht to lihtn the gentiles, anil the glory of Thy peaple Lraei." First as the glory of Israel, for He says, "I will place salvation in Zlon for Israel, mv glory" (Isa. xlvi, 13. Thea the gentiles shall come to her light, and kings to the brightness of her rising (Isa lx, .'!). Thus He shall in due time prove to be for a covenant of the people, and for a light of the gentiles. 3:. "And Joseph and hi mother marveled at those things which were spoken of Him." In verse 19 we are told that Mary kept the worls of the shepherds and pondered them in her heart. See alsj (verse 61) as ta His own words at the asie of two. We may well marvel at the wonderful things said of us who h-lieve in Him. but let us firmly believe them and ponder them daily in our hearts. For example, eat and meditate upon John xl, 1, 20 xv 1' xvii 1h ,-'i 31. "B.'hold 'this chili Is set for the fall and rising again of many in Israel, and fir a s!n whieh shall be spoken against." Thus spake Simeon to Mary rs he blessed her an.l Joseph. He was only repeating by the spirit the worjs of Isa. viii, 14, lö, xxviii, lt. both of whih passages Peter quotes in I Pet. ii. -8. Those who reject Him stumble over Him, while those who accept Rim build upon Him as their sure foundation. T. "Yea, a sword sha.ll t'eree through thy own soul also, that tt ef thoughts of many hearts may be revealed." The last cluus? taken with th previous verse makes Him the revealer of heirts, for He Is indeed the word of Und. discerning" the thoughts and intents of the hearts (Reh. Iv, 12). 35. "And there was one Anna, a prophetetR." Think of Miriam and Ut-borah and Ruldah anJ Philip's daughters, and the promise yet to be fulfilled. (Kx. xv, 2'); Judg. iv. 4; 11 Chron. xxxiv. 22; Acts xxl. 9; Joel ii, A prophet Is one who sfwaks for Ood, the Lord's spokesman. Compare Ex. vit. 1, and iv, 15, Hi. 37. "She departed not from the temple, but served Uoif with fastiriK-s and prayers nicht and day." Like Kll and Samuel'she made the house of (Jod her dwelling place. We cannot all do. that, but'we can all make Uod Himself our dwelling place (I's. xc, 1). 3S. "And she, coming in that Instant, gave thanks likewise unto the Lord and spake of Him to all them that looked for redemption in Israel." Here is another spirit-controllil person who finds herself in the right place .at the right time. She enters into His gates with thanksgiving and into His courts with praise (I's. c, 4. We see that others were looking for Him besicvH Simeon and Anna, and they loved, when they met. to speak of Him. It waul.l be well if in the places of public worships today all the speakers would speak only of Rim. Wmnan'R Wron II. C. lOO. "Most pifted dramatist." said the noble Roman matron, "did not the audience that listened to your play at the theater yesterday night cheer rapturously when one of the characters said: 'I am a man. and nothing that pertains to man can b a matter of indifference to me,' or words of like import?" "Most noble lady," replied Publlus Terentlus. bowing low. "so loud and long-continued, was the applause that the performance was Interrupted for the space of fully five minutes." "And ?et," rejoined the patrician matron, "If perchance it had been one of my sex, and she had paid: 'I am a woman, and nothing that pertains to women can be a matter of indifference to me,' there would have been a howl of derision and the unseemly youths cracking peanuts in the gallery would have shouted: "Git onto her gossiping nibs! She likes to tattle, same as all de rest!' " And Publius Terentlus scratched his ear thoughtfully and said nothing. Chicago Tribune. eil on Sight. Peddler "Have you any daughters, mum?" Housekeeper "Sir!" "Please, mum. I don't ask out of vulgar curiosity, muni. I am selling resonators." "What are they?" "You hang one in the hall, mum, and it so magnifies every sound that a goodnight kiss sounds like a cannon-shot." "Give me thaee." M. Y. Weekly. .

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M.VHTI KTTI'S MOKKV STOKY. The Imitative Anthropoid it n Fuctor In ' trill Amrrirnn Kcviiluliou. A reporter met a rare story-teller the other day, one Giuseppe Martinetti, up from Honduras with twenty-three trained monkeys. Mr. Martinetti had entered the service of Gen. Vasquez as against Gen. ilonilla, and had taken with him a pet monkey that had become skillful in military drill. At this point we may a 1vantuKeously take up Mr. Martinetti's narrative. Mr. Martinetti said: "I was in Tegucigalpa when news of a serious engagement was received in the interior, near Olanchito. Vasquez pot the worst of the battle, and it was reported at the time that he had been defeated, and a bMly of troops was hastily assembled and sent to hl.s help, myself forming a part of it. Jake, the monkey, went with the column. Between Tegucigalpa and Clanchito we reached a hamlet called Santa Maria de Flores, wlvre the ascent of the mountains had to be undertaken. A very dense underbrush clothes all this section of country, and the animals thpre are very numerous. "At this place the column was divided, and while a portion pushed on at once a small squad, numbering eighty men, was left under my command with instructions to press on as rapidly as the country permitted, but by another route, which led through the lower fpuw of the range, and, while not s direct, was not so likely to lead into the foe. This was done in order that if one section of the force was demoralized by meeting the rebel forces the other might reach Vasqiuz in good time. After leaving Santa Maria the party under my command preyed forward. We bivouacked in the eoning in a pretty jr--ade, with the Sierras juft in front. Jake, who was still with me, took great interest in the expedition and seemed to be aware that others of his kfyd were numerous in the vicinity. "On awakening in the morning I failed to tind Jake, and on further search also failed to find the rifles with which the poldiers had been armed. I did not connect these losses with each other, but concluded that the monkey had decamped with his friends, and that the villagers from Santa Maria must have followed and robbed ns under cover of darkness. We were, however, In a serious situation, but determined to continue our advance, especially as rumors very encouraging- to our army had been brought In about the recent battle. "On the morning of the fourth day following we were awakened by the sound of heavy flrlnpr some distance away, and, as we had been approaching the "camp of the army, judged, and rightly, that a second engagement was taking place. After the battle of Olanchito there was no regular fighting between the two forces, but Gen. Vasquez In conducting his retreat toward Tegucigalpa, was frequently In active skirmishing with the enemy. It was one of these encounters In which we participated In a novel fashion. "A small number of the command volunteered to go with me In the direction of the firing in order to ascertain what was taking place. We pushed through the underwood in the direction from which the tiring proceeded, and made slow progress, arriving about 1 o'clock in the afternoon on the brow of an elevation which commanded a clear view of a broken country.where the two armies were firing at each other. Immediately in front, at a distance of about a half mile, was established a battery of howitzers, and, as we watched, a strong force of the rebel troops was formed In column and began a furious assault upon It. It was clearly going against the loyal .soldiers, and as we watched they were driven back, end eventually made a stand within less than a hundred yards of our position. Almost before we were aware of what was taking place I found myself and my command mixed In the fight, and, forgetting entirely that my men were unarmed, I gave the word to fire. "The artillerymen were at the moment preparing their guns for a general discharge, and on our side there was a lull in the uproar. Hut. as I uttered the word 'Fire! a rapid discharge of musketry broke from the treetops and with telling effect, decimating the enemy's ranks. The diversion came so unexpectedly that the rebels were easily broken and driven off. "Knowing the unarmed situation of my men, the firing from their direction surprised me greatly, and, forgetting the battle, I glanced toward the place from which It seemed to proceed. Judge of my astonishment when I saw the trees fairly alive with monkeys, my own Jake prominent among them, all armed with my stolen rifles, wearing my soldiers' belts, but all firing with the steadiness of veterans. And Jake was giving the motions of command as he had been taught to do long before. "Now. this statement seems odd, but on my honor, it Is strictly true. When tho brief conflict ended, Jake, perceiving me, returned readily to nis master and did not leave me during the campaign. We joined the main body during the same day, but the corps of monkeys, twenty-two ia number, were faithful to Jak, Thex wera

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easily induced to com among the men. and from that time till the close of the war acted regularly as a portion cf the army. They became so well trained eventually in the use of firearms that it was possible for a man to lead them, and during the siege of Tegucigalpa, I, accompanied by them and Jake, made frequent reconnoissances on the enemy, thereby securing much valuable information and doing much to prolong the resistance of the loyal tr-xps." Mr. Martinetti on the close of active hostilities took refuge in Puerto Cortez, hidine; in (the outskirts with his monkey FOldiei'S. A reward was offered for his capture, and on the arrival of the Clearwater, with whose captain Mr. Martinetti has some acquaintance, ha arranged for transportation to the United States. But it was found impossible to persuadtj Jake to quit his companions, and, realizing the value of his acquisitions, Mr. Martinetti, at considerable risk and expense, succeeded in getting the whole number on the ship, on board of which they have been brought successfully to the city. Xew Orleans Picayune. 1 v 31 r . Ileiiry Irvintr. "" Mrs. Henry Irving has suddenly become a celebrity in England. Very few people knew that the wife of the great actor was living until an American agent, who was publishing a series of articles upon the obscure wives of famous men, got upon Mrs. Irving's track and brought her forth into the light, lie is a smooth and plausible agent and has called upon Mrs. Irving and talked sympathetically with her a number of times. She finally agreed to write for him. He got a number of her photographs and began to turn out a bewildering series of articles upon the wife of the most famous actor in the English tongue. He starts in by calling her a recluse. Both of her sons denied this in different papers, the agent answered them, and there was altogether a very extraordinaryamount of publicity over the subject. The fact seems to be that Mrs. Irving i.3 not a recluse, but for many years she has felt an aversion for the stage. She lived quietly in a little house in the west end of London with her two sons, both of whom bear a close resemblance to their father. Mr. Irving does not live there, his time being devoted almost entirely to his theaters. He gives his wife an allowance of fl.f'OO a year. She Is tall, exceedingly thin, was a Miss O'Callahan before her marriage and is said to have a good share of Irish wit. She affects an aesthetic etyle of dress and seldom goes out Into society. Publicity has its attractions, though, for it is noted that since Mrs. Irving began to figure in the newspapers as the unknown wife of a well known man she has been going out very generally In London society and has astonished her oldest freinda by appearing four times in amateur theatricals. London Correspondent. Oiih I .amp ns Wenllier 1'ruphrtR. "I beg leave to explain to you and the public generally a method of 'weather forecasting,' which I discovered about eight or ton years ago, and have since elaborated daily. It is done by closely observing and understanding the various shapes and shades of the gas flame as visible in a street lamp about a hundred yards off. The following prognostics will speak for themselves: "Prognostic for snow A clean, bright light, with center bright as silver. And, a.s there is generally frost when snow oomes, it is indicated a 'tail' from the bottom of the light, resembling a wine bottle turned jpsid down. The size of 'tail will show the degree of frost. "Prognostic for sunshine The 'frost tall Is solid, but for sunshine it is made of rays closely pressed together. There is a very particular point to be observed here. The moment the 'ray tail is seen, a similar 'tail Is to be observed at certain stars, and is not to be seen if there is to be no sunshine next day. "Prognostic for rain Itays out from the sides and bottom of the light (cajidle flame shade). The rain will be in proportion to the rays. "Prognostic for haze or fog Haze has the white flame, and the fog the same shade toned down nearly as the candle flame. 'Cloudy and dull' is Indicated by the presure of the atmosphere. "Prognostic for thunder A very small flame, but bright as silver, with the slightest touch of a mauve tone. "Prognostic for wind The reflection around this light, and in proportion will be the wind or storm. "The prognostic for heat A haze fur around the light. The light must bj about a hundred yards distant from you." William Elliott in Invention. A Long Awnlted Fool. Killer. Inventor "I have It now just what a suffering world is waiting for. It's a new patent gun." Gun Dealer "What's the improvement?" Inventor "Whenever It Is pointed around by fools who don't know It Is loaded. It will shoot backward." Street & Smith's Good News. How Thry Differ. "I understand that Paris and New Tork are very much alike." "Well, In a way they are. New Yorkers, however, ppealc a very different French than Is spoken by the Parisians." Harper's Bazar.

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SKXATOn 11V rOPl'LAR VOTE. noth Partien In Michignn Likely to Adopt This 11 nil. It has not escaped attention, we trust, that the call for a state convention of the democracy of Michigan embraces among the purposes the nomination of two candidates for the United States senate. As is well understood, the peopla have now no voire In the choice of senator?. The constitution provides that they shall be chosen by the legislatures of the several states, and the only way in which the people can be heard in tha matter is through their representatives in the legislature. The constitution can, of course, be amended at least there It a way provided for amendment; but tha. process is a tedious one, and It Is very doubtful if an amendment could be secured in years covering this very necessary reform. There is a way, however, in which the purpose can be effected Indirectly; and the call referred to Is th initial step In carrying it out. If th& conventions of all pirtles would nominate their candidates for the senate their representatives In th legislature would feel bound to vote for the party nominees; or if they should decline on any ground to obey the party's Instructions they would do so only once. The party would not tolerate any such disloyalty. It is intimated that the republican, party will follow the example of the democracy in this regard when its convention is called; and it is to be hoped that the intimation is well founded. The senate, as at present constituted, is not la any case representative of the people. It is doubtful if it can ever be made fully representative without a radical change in its constitution; and it is qultar as doubtful whether the best thing that can be done with it Is not Its abolition. But so long as it exists everything should be done that can be to compel a recognition by it of the fact that this is a popular government; and certainly the election of senators by the people even Indirectly will go a long way toward insuring that result. The non-representation or misrepresentation of the people by the senate la not the enly perhaps not the worst evil of the existing system. I'nder it the whole business interests of the state ar neglected or sacrificed whenever a senator is to be chosen. The legislature, which should always be chosen with express reference t the needs of th itate and of the several sections thereof. Is actually chosen every senatorial year with reference almost exclusively to th ambition of one man. It is not asked whether the candidate for state senator or representative will look out for tiha interests cf his section or of the entira state or whether he is capable of so doing; but whether he will vote for a certain candidate for the United States senate. He is selected by the senatorial aspirant or his henchmen with express reference to conferring upon tha former the coveted prize; and when he haa registered his vote' on that question his duty as a legislator Is accomplished. He may remain at the capital and participate formally in ih business of legislation, but the work for which he was chosen Is done and those who sent him have no further us for him. Kar too often, moreover, there 1? strong suspicion that the members of the legislature are influenced in making their choice for senator by pecuniary considerations. It has passed into a proverb that a poor min cannot be chosen to the senate; and that body has come to be called by common consent the millionaires club. It is well understood that wealth is not always accompanied by ability, and still better understood, perhaps, that the possessors of great wealth are not usually in sympathy with the people, but with the controllers of wealth. Yet It is the man of money who always In recent vears takes the senatorial prize; and it is not surprising that the belief should be current that he owes It not merely to his possession of money, but to a shrewd use of it to putting it where It will do the most good. There have been very few senatorial elections in recent years where the charge was not made of corruption on the part of the legislature; and if the evidence has not been sufficient to carry conviction In a court of Justice it has often been sufficient to convince the unprejudiced mind. There have been some experiments In the direction of change In the system and a choice by the people ir. the indirect way pointed out; and they have been very successful. Let Michigan try Jt this year and let the state for once be represented in the United States senate by men of the people's choice. Detroit Free Press. Holding: a CnMomer. Antique Furniture Dealer "Was anybody in while I was out?" Doy "Only one lady. I showed her the table that came over In the Mayflowr. and tha Louis XIV writing-desk, and everything, but she didn't seem to be satisfied. She said she couldn't find and worm hole in any of 'em. She said they weren't old enough." "Hum! you let her gx, did you?" "Y-e-s; but she'll be back. I told her if she'd com in this afternoon you'd show her a folding bod that cara( over In thg ark'Good News,