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-Ufa, DR. TALM AGE’S SERMON The Eminent Divine’s Sunday ! Discourse. Subject: “Life** Minor Clior«l”-»Trlala and Tribulations Are Necessary For the Proper Development of Character- Man’s Compensation For Suffering. Text: “I will open my dtirk saying upon theharp.”—Psalm xlix., 4. The world Is full of the inexplicable, the Impassable, the unfathomable, the insur mountable. We canuot go three steps in «my direction without coming up against # hard wall of mystery, riddles, paradoxes, profundities, labyrinths; problems that wo - cannot solve, hieroglyphics-that we cannot decipher, anagrams we cannot spell out, sphinxes that will not speak. For that reason David in my text proposed to take up gome of these somber and dark things and try to set them to sweet music. “I will open ray dark sayings on a harp.” So I look off upon society and And people in unhappy conjunction of circumstances, and they de not know what it means, nud they have a right to ask. Why is this? Why is that? and I think I will be doing n good worfc by trying to explain some of these strfinge things and make you more content with your lot, and I shall only be answer ing questions that havo often been asked me, or that we havo all asked oursolves; while I try to set those mysteries to mu9l<i and open mv dark savings on a harp’ Interrogation the first: Why does God take out of this world those who are use ful nud whom wo canuot spnre aucl leave alive and in good health so many who are only a nuisance to tho world? I thought I would begin with tho very toughest of all tho seeming inscrutables. Many of the most useful men and women die at thlrtv or forty years of age, while you often And useless people alive at sixty and seventy and eighty. John Careless wrote to Brad ford, who was soon to bo put to death, saying: “Why doth God suffer mo and such other caterpUllars to live, that cau do nothing but consume tho alms of the church, and take away so many worthy workmen in tho Lord’s vine yard?” Similar questions aro often asked. Here are two mou. Tho one is a noble character aud a Chrlstiau man. Ho chooses for a lifetime companion ono who 1ms boon tenderly roared, and she is worthy of him aud ho Is worthy of her. As merchant or farmer or professional man or mechanic or artist he toils to educate and rear his children. He is succeeding, but he has not yet established for his family a full competency. Ho seems indispensable to that household; but ono day. before he has paid off tho mortgage on his house, he is coining home through a strong north east wind and a chill strikes through him, nbd four days of pneumonia end his earthly career, and the wife aud children go Into a struggle for shelter and food. His next door neighbor is a man who though stropg and well, lets his ^[fe support him. Ho is around at the groOflpry store or some general loaflng place in the^Arenings while his wife sows. His boys areMmitating his example, and lounge apd swn«or and swear. All the use that '* * .hat house is to rave because tho cold when he comes to a late breakfast,%>r to say cutting things about his wife’s lAoks. when ho furnishes nothing for bor wa&lrobe. Tho best thing that could bappeft to that family would be that man’s funeral, but he declines to die. Ho . lives on and cAu and on. 80 wo have all qoticed that rmauy of the useful are early cut off, while thw parasites have great vlta’l tenacity. > \ v I take up this [dark saying on my harp \ndgtve three or\four thrums on the string >the way of surmising aud hopeful guess. - ijjmps the usefull man was takon out of thr’Iprld because! ho and his family wero sd cU|9tiuoted that they could not have endu Vd some grefit prosperity that might have been just ahtoud, and they altogether might have gone! down in tho vortex of worldlluess whichV every year swallows up 10,000 households. \ Aud so he went while hn wim humble nnd’ .consecrated. and tliev f' he was humble and'cousecrated, and they wero by the soveritias of life kept close to Christ and Atted for, usefulness here and high seats in heaven, /and when they meet at last before the throne they will ac knowledge that, though tho furnace was hot, it putiflod \ them and pre pared them for an external career of glory and reward for which no other kind of lire could have Atted them. On tho ofher hand, the useless in an lived on to Afty or sixty or seventy,years because nil the ease ho ever can have he must have in this world, and you ought not, therefore, begrudge him his eartbjy longevity. In all the-ages thero has not a single loafer ever entered heaven. There is no place for him thero to hang around; not even in the temples, for they are full of vigorous, alert and rapturous worship. If the good and useful go eaily, rejoice for them that they havo so soon got through with human life, which at best is a struggle. And if the useless nnd tho bad stay, rejoice that they may be out in the world’s fresh air a good many years before their Anal incar ceration. , Interrogation the second: Why do good S eople have so much trouble, sickness, ankruptcy, persecution, the ttyree black vultures sometimes putting their Aerce beaks into one set of jangled nerves? I think now of a good friend I once hud. He was a consecrated Christian man, an elder in the church, and as polished n Christian gentleman as ever walked Broadway. First his general health gave out and he hobbled around on a enuo, nn old man at forty. Aftor awhile paralysis struck him. Hnving by poor henlth'been compelled suddenly to quit business, he lost whnt property he had. Then hi9 beautiful daughter died; then a son became hopelessly demouted. Another son, splendid of mind and com manding of presence, resolved that bo would take care of his father’s household, but under the swoop of yellow fever at Fernandiua, Fla., he suddenly expired. So you know good men and womon who havo had enough troubles, you think, to crush Afty people. No worldly philosophy could take such a trouble and set it to music, or play it on violin or flute, but I dare to open that dark saying on a gospel harp. You wonder that very consecrated people have trouble? Did you ever know any very consecrated man or woniau who had not had great .trouble? Never! It was through their troubles sanctified thnt they were made very good. If you And any where in this city a man who has now, and always has had, perfect health, and never lost a child, and hns always been popular aud never had business struggle or misfor tune, who is distinguished for goodness, pull your wire for a telegraph messenger boyaudsencl me word, and I will drop everything and go right away to look at him. There never has been a man like that uud never will be. Who are those arro gant, self conceited creatures who move about without sympathy for others nnd who think more <5f a St. Bernard dos or an Alderney cow or a Southdown sheep or a Berkshire pig than of a man? They never had any trouble,-or tho trouble was never sanctifled. Who are those men who listen with moist eye as you tell them of suffering and who have a pathos in tlieJr voice and a kindness In their manner and nn excuse or an alleviation for those gone astray? Tliev are the men who have graduated at tho Royal Academy of Trou ble, and they have the diploma written in wrinkles on their own countenances. My, my! What heartaches they had! . What teurs they have wept! What injustice they have suffered! The mightiest influ ence for purification aud salvation is trouble. There are only three things that can break off a chain—a hammer, a tile or a Are —rand trouble is al! three of them. The greatest writers, orators aud reformers get much of their force from trouble. Yvhat gave to Washington Irving that exquisite tenderness and pntuos which will ina/ce his boohs fnv.*r,tes>v liluthe English lauiriH~n eou.iiiU.ii ..o writ.eu and spo-eu: al early heartbreak, that he never onoe mentioned, and when thirty years after the death of Matilda Hoffman, who was to have been his bride, her father picked uo a piece of embroidery and said. That is a piece of poor Matilda's workmanship.” Washington Irving sank from hilarity into silence and walked away. Out of that lifetime grief the great author dipped his pen’s mightiest re enforcement. Calvin’s “Institutes of Re ligion,” than which a moro wondorful book was never written by human hand was begun by the author at twenty-flve years of ago, because of tho persocutiou by Francis, king of France. Faraday toiled for all time on a salary or £80 a voar and candles. As every brick of tho wall of Babylon was stamped with tho letter N, stauding for Nebuoliadnezznr, so overv part ot tho temple ot Christian achieve ment is stamped with the letter T, stand ing for trouble. When in England a man is honored with knighthood, he is struck with the Ant of- tho sword. But thQso who havo come to knighthood in the kingdoms of God were first struck, not with the flat of the sword, but with the keeu edge of the soimeter. To build his maguiAceuco ot character Paul could not have spared ono lash, one prison, one stoning, one anathema, one poisonous viper from the hand, one shipwrook. What ^strue of individuals Is true bf nations. The horrors of the American Revolution gave this country this side ot the Mississ ippi River to independence nnd France gave the most of this couutry west of the Miss issippi to the United States. Franco owned it, but Napoleon, fearing that England would take it, practically made a present to the United States—ror he reooived ouly $15,000,000 for Louisiana, Missouri, Arkansas. Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, Colorado, Dakota, Mon tana, Wyoming and the Indian Territory. Out of the Are of the American Revolution cumo this country ea9t of the Mississippi, out of tho European war camo that wost of tho Mississippi River. The British em pire rose to its present overtowering grandeur through gunpowder plot and Guy Fawkes’ conspiracy and Northampton in surrection nnd Waiter Raleigh’s beheading and Bacon’s bribery and Cromwell’s disso lution of parliament and the battles of Edge Hill and tho vicissitudes of centuries. So the earth itself, boforo it could beoome au appropriate and beautiful residence for the human family, had, according to geol ogy, to be washed by universal deluge and scorched nnd made iucandescent by uni versal fires, aud pounded by sledge hammer of icebergs and wrenched by earthquakes that split continents, and shakon by vol canoes that tossed mountains and passed through the catastrophes ot thousands ot years before paradise became possible and the groves could shake out tjmlr green ban ners and the first garden pour its oarnage of color betwoen theGihon and the Hidde kel. Trouble—a good thing for the rocks, a good thing for nations, as well as a good thing for Individuals. So wheu you push against rae with a sharp interrogation point, Why do the good suffer? I open tho dark saying on a harp, aud, though I cau neither play au organ or cornet or hautboy or buglo or clarinet, I have'taken some lessons on tho gospol harp, nnd if you would like to hear me I will play you these: “All things work together for good to those who love God.” Interrogation thirJ: Why did the good God let sin or trouble como into*tne world when He might have kept them out? My reply Is, Ho had a good roason. He had reasons that He ha9 never giveu us. He had reasons whlah He could no moremnlce us understaud In our finite state than the father, starting out ou some great nnd elaborate enterprise, could make the two- year-old child in its armed chair compre hend it. One wa i to demonstrate what gran deur of character may be achieved ou earth by conquering evil. Had thero been no evil to conquer and no trouble to console, thou this universe would never have known an Abraham or a Moses or a Joshua or au Ezoldel or a Paul or a Christ or a Washington or a John Milton or a John Howard, and a minion victories which have been gained by the consecrated spirits of all ages would never have been gained. Had there been no battle, there would have boon no victory. Nine-tenths of the an thems of heaven would never havo been sung. Heaven could never have been a thousandth part of the heaven that it is. r will not say that I am glad that sin ana Borrow did outer, but I do say that I am glad that after God has given all His reasons to an nssltnbled universe He will bo more honored than if sin aud sorrow had never entered and that tho unfallen celestials will be outdone and will put down their trumpets to listen and it will be in heaven when those - who' have con quered sin and sorrow shall enter as it would be in a small singing school on enrtli if Thnlberg and Gottsctmlk and Wagner nnd Beethoven und Rhelnberger and Schumann should all at ouce enter. Tho immortals that have been chanting 10,000 years before the throne will say, as they close their librettos, “Oh, if we could only sing like thatl” But God will say totifoso who have never fallen and consequently have not been redeemed, “You must bo sllont now; you havo not the qualification forthls’nn- them.” So they sit with closed Ups and folded hands, nnd sinners saved bv grace take up the harmony, for the Bible says “no man could learn that song but the hun dred and forty and four thousand which were redeemed from the earth.” A great primn donna, who can now do auythlng with her voice, told me that when she first started in music her teacher in Berlin told her she could be a good singer, but a certain note she ctrald never reach. “And then,” she said, “ I went to work and studied and practiced for years uutll I did roach it.” But tho song of the singer re deemed, the Bible say9, the exalted har monists who have never sinned could not reach aud never will roach. Would you like to hear mo in a very poor way play a snatch of that tune? I can give you only one bar of the music on this gospel harp, “Unto Him that hath loved ua and washed us from our sins in His own blood and hath made us kings and priests unto God and tho Lamb, to Him be glory and dominion forever nud ever, amen.” But before leaving this intorrogatory, why God let sin come iuto the world, let me say that groat battles seem to be nothing but suffering nnd outrage at the time of their occurrence, yet after they have been n long while past wo can see that it was better for them to have been fought, namely, Sal- amis, Inkerraan, Toulouse, .‘Arbela, Agin- court, Trafalgar, Blenheim, Lexington, Sedan. But here I must slow up lest in trying to solve mysteries 1 add to tue mystery tuac wo have already wouderod at—namely, why preachers should keep on after all tho hearers are tired. So I gather up into one great armful all the whys aud hows and wherefores of ycur life and mine, which we have not had time or tho ability to an swer, aud write on them the words. “Ad journed to eternity.” I rejoice that we do not understand all tilings now. for if we did what would we learn in heaven? If wo knew it all down hero in tho freshman aud sophomore class, what would be the use of our going up to stand amid tho juniors and tho seniors? If we could put down one leg of tho compass and with the other sweep a circle clear around all the iuscrutubles, if wo could lift our littlo steelyards and weigh the throne of the Omnipotent, if we could with our seven-day clock measure eternity, what would bo left for heavenly revelation? So I move that wo cheer fully adjourn wliat is now beyond our comprehension, and as, according to Rol- lin, tho historian, Alexander the Great, having obtained the gold casket in which Darius had kept his rare perfume, used that aromatic cusket thereafter to keep bis favorite copy of Homer in and called the book, therefore, the “edition of the casket,” and at night put the casket and his sword under his pillow, so I put tbfs day into tho oerfumed casket of your richest affections and hopes, this promise worth more thau xlomer ever wrote or sword ever con quered. “What 1 do thou knowest not row, but thou shalt know hereafter,” and that I call the ‘ edition celestial.” ever Sec a snow Storm in Sommer? We never did; but we have seen, the clothing at this time of the year so covered with dandruff that it looked as if it had been out in a regular snow storm. No need of this snowstorm. 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They don’t know thnt well-regu lated mothers have started a cruflado against cradle rocking, and that there fs a stigma on the hand which per sists in Jogging the buhy. Apparently the electricians did not know this, either, for they have invented a cradle which can be rocked by electricity. All the fond mother has to do Is to put the plug In the switchboard, and tho cradle will rock until the baby grows up nnd pulls the plug out him self, if some one doesn’t do It boforo that. Consequently, the prospects are that if the cradles of the world do go on swinging, the hand that rocks them will be that of the electrician. In that case, may be tho hand that rocks the cradle will continue to be the one -that rules the world, but there will scarcely ho so much sentiment about it.—New York Sun. Don’t TobtccoSpit and £ moke Your Ufa Away. To quit tobacco easily ami forever, bo mag netic, full of life, nerve and vigor, take No-To- Bno, tho wonder-worker, that in.nkoH weak ir on strong. 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If wo may believe the evidence of these words, which were not care fully selected, but Jotted down at ran dom In the course of reading, almost every shade of thought or feeling is mirrored In gray eyes; and not only do the words Indicate groat variety In expression, hut many ot the qualities which they represent seem diametri cally opposed, (iray eyes are reserv ed and candid; cold nnd cordial; rjwnlsh and sad or pathetic; grave ami genial; sinister nnd go It Was; ear nest, true, amiable; proud yet tender; They uiny be keen, sharp, piercing, penetrating, but they are also soft, ■ereue, mild, pensive, dreamy, trust ful. They are often severe; yet ns Often, they a re' sweet, timid, wlptful, appealing or kindly, beaming, loving, sympathetic'. Now, when we turn to the deserli- Hops of blue, brown or black eyes, wo shall llnd that these are brief com pared with the long and elaborate de scriptions of gray eyes, and that they usually refer to some peculiarity of size, shape, coloring or light, rather than of expression. A good example Is tho description of l.onm Doolie's largo dark eyes, lull of a shadowy light, “l.lke a wood rayed through with sunset." Drown and black eyes are almost nlways represented as lus trous, while luminous Is moat fre quently used In connection with gray eyes. Pathetic Is perhaps the adjec tive of expression yiosl often applied to brown eyes; spiritual Is seldom used lo describe other than'blue uyos; but to these also belongs the bad em inence of being sldfty, while black eyes are distinguished In the satue way by the word beady, Gray eyes are perhaps oftenest characterized aa honest, and the worst that Is com monly said of them Is thnt they are cold or steely. Robed In While, They Bore Her. A touching sight was that witnessed In Burlington, N. ,1„ recently, when six young girls clad in spotless' white walked slowly through tho streets to tho cemetery, bearing upon' their shoulders a eoffln, covered with a pall of flowers. In the coffin rested the body of a young girl, a Sunday- school classmate of tho tourers. The procession moved through the middle •of the street with the ministers who hnd conducted the funeral service immediately behind tho eoltin. It was not a long march, and the girls mov ed stondlly with their burden, but there were tears on their faces nnd on those of tile spectators who lined the wnv. The dead girl was burned to death a. few days before while throw ing wnste paper on a ho nil re in -her father’s yard, and It wns one of .her Inst requests that her classmates, of whom she was extremely fond, should enrry her to her grave—New York Tribune. In Itloiiil Hasp. (’lean blool means a clean skin. No beauty without it. 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