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Sermon,
Tf.xtv "Lord, increase our faith."—Luke
i xvli., 5. 1
“What a pity ho Is going there 1“ raid my
I friend, a most distinguished general Of the
army, when he was told that tlm reason for
my not being present on a celebrated day in
Brooklyn Was that on that day 1 had sailed
for the lloly Land. “Why do you say thatV”
inquired Bomo one. My military friend re-
I plied, “Oh. lie will ho disillusioned when h©
gets amidst the squalor find commonplace
I scenes of Palestine, and his faith will ho
| shaken in Christianity, for that is often tho
I result.” The great general misjudged the
' ease.
f went to tho Holy Land Tor tho one pur
pose of having my faith strengthened, aud
that was tho result which oume of it. In all
our journeying, in all our reading, in all our
associations, in all our plans, augmentation
rather than tho depletion or our faith should
ho our ohlef desire. It is easy enough to
have our faith destroyed, I can give you a
reoipo for its obliteration. Read infidel
hooks, have long amt frequent conversations
With skeptics, attend the lectures of those
antagonistic to religion* give full swing to
some bad habit, and your faith will ho so
completely gone that you will laugh at tho
idea that you over had any,
If you want to ruin your faith, you can do
it more easily than you can do anything else.
After believing the Bible all my life I cun see
a plain way by which, in six weeks* I could
enlist my voloo and pen and heart and head
and entire nature in the bombardment of the
Scriptures and the church and all I now hold
sacred. That it is easy to banish soon and
forever all respect for the Bible I prove by
the fact that so many have done it. They
wore not particularly brainy nor had special
force of will* but thoy so thoroughly accom
plished tho overthrow of their faith that they
have no more idea that the Bible is true, or
that Christianity amounts to anything, than
they have in the truth of tho “Arabian Nights’
Entertainments” or the existence of l>on
Quixote's “windmills.'* They have destroyed
their faith so thoroughly that they never will
have a return of It.
Fifty revivals of religion may sweep over
the city, the town, tho neighborhood whore
they live, and they will fool nothing but a
silent or expressed disgust. There are per
sons in this house to-dav who 20 years ago
gave Up their faith, and they will never re
sume it. Tho black and deep toiled boll of
doom hangs over their head, and I take the
hammer of that bell, and I strike it three
times with all my might, and it sounds,
Woe! woo ! woo! But my wish, ami the wish
of most of you, is the prayer expressed by
the disciples of Jesus Clitist in the words ol
my text, “Lord, Increase our faith.”
Tho first mode of accomplishing this is to
study tho Bible Itself. I do,»v>t beliovo there
Is an infidel now alive who has road the
Bible through. But as so important a docu
ment needs to bo read at least twice through
In order that it may bo thoroughly under
stood, and rend in course, l now offer ❖TOO
reward to any infidel who has read tho Bible
through twice and read it in course; But I
cannot take such a man’s own Word for it,
for there is no foundation for integrity ex
cept tho Bible, and the man who rejects the
source ol truth how can 1 accept his truth-
tulnessV
So 1 must have another witness in Hie ease
before I give thd reward. I must have the
testimony of some ono who has seen him
road it all through twice. Infidels fish in'
this Biblo for in coherencies and contradic
tions and absurdities, and if you find their
Bible you will soo interlineations ill the book
of Jonah and some of the chapters bf that
unfortunate prophot nearly worn out by much
uso, and Homo parts of II tiainuel or I Kings
you will find diin with finger marks, but the
pages which contain tho Ton Command
ments, and the Psalms of David, ahd tho ser
mon on tho mount, and tho book of John tho
Evangelist, will uot have a single load pencil
stroke in the margin, nor any finger marks
showing frequent perusal.
Tho father of ono of the Presidents of the
United States was a pronounced infidel. I
knew it when many years ago I accepted his
Invitation to spend tho night in his home.
Just before retiring at night he said in a
jocose way, “I suppose you aro accustomed
to read tho Bible before going to bod, and
hero is my Biblo from which to read.” Ho
then told me what portions lie would like to
^ave mo read, and lie only asked for those
| portions on which ho could easily bo fuce-
| lions.
You know you can make fun about nny-
I thing. I suppose you could take tho last lot-
l ter your father or mother over wrote and find
something in the grammar or the spelling
j or tho tremor of tho penmanship about
j which to bo derisively critical. The internal
j evidence of tho truthfulness ot the Bltdo is so
i mighty that no one man out of the 1,000,000,-
{ 000 oi the world’s present population or tho
vaster millions of the past ever read the
t Bible In course, and read it prayerfully and
; carefully, hut was led to believe it.
John Murray, the famous hook publisher
of Edinburgh, and the intimate friend of
Bouthey, Coleridge, Walter Scott, Canning
and Washington Irving, bought of Moore,
the poet, the “Memoirs of Lord Byron,” and
they were to ho published after Byron’s
death. But they were not fit to he pub
lished, although Murray hud paid for them
110,000. That was a solemn conclave when
eight of tho proinlnont literary people of
those times assembled In Albemarle street
after Byron’s doath to decide wlmt should he
done with tho “Memoirs,” which wore
charged aud surcharged with defamations
and indelicacies. Tho “Memoirs” wore road
and pondered, and the decision came that
they must he burned, and not until the last
word of those “Memoirs” went to ashes did
the literary company separate.
But suppose, now, ail tho best spirits of
all ages wore assembled to decide the fate of
the Bible, which is tho last will and testa
ment of our Heavonly Father, and these
memoirs of our Lord Jesus, what would be
the verdict? Shall they burn, or shall they
live? The unanimous verdict of all Is, “Let
Ibein live, though all else burn.” Then put
together on theotherhund all the debauchees
and profligates and assassins of the ages,
! and their unanimous verdict concerning the
Bible would ho. “Lot it burn.”
Mind you, I do not say that all infidels are
Immortal, hut I do say that nil the scrape-
graces and scoundrels of the universe agree
with them about the Biblo. Lot me vote with
those who believe in the Holy Hcripture. Men
believe other things with half the evidence
required to believe the Bible, The dis-
i tinguisbed Abner Kneel and rejected the
Scripture and them put all his money into an
enterprise for the recovery of that hocus
pocus “Captain Kidd’s treasures." Kneeland’s
Jaith for doing so being founded on a man’s
! statement that he could toll where those
; treasures were buried from the looks of a
g lass oi water dipped from tho Hudson
iver.
j The internal evidence of tho authenticity
of the Scriptures is so exact and so vivid that
1 no man, honest and sane, can thoroughly
I and continuously and prayerfully road them
1 without entering their disclpleship. Ho I
| put that internal evidence paramount. How
; are you led to believe in a letter you re
ceived from husband or wife or child or
| friend? You know the handwriting. You
l know the style. You recognize the senti-
j ment. When the letter comes, you do not
! summon the postmaster who stamped it, and
the postmaster who received it, and the let
ter carrier who brought it to your door to
prove that it is a genuine letter. Tho internal
tohsiort. Ho I Will this morning tdrtt this
house into a courtroom and summon wit
nesses, and you shall be the Jury, and I now
impanel you for that purpose^ and I Will put
Vipod tho Witness titninl men whom all the
World (ioknowlodgo to be strong intellectually
and whoso ovidenoe in any other courtroom
would bo incontrovertible. I will not call
to tlio witness stand any minister of the
Gospel, for ho might be prejudiced.
There nro two ways ; of taking an oath in a
courtroom. Ono Is by putting the lips to the
Biblo and tho otlior is by holding up tho
right hand tOWuril hOAvcii. NoW* as in this
case it is the Bible that is on trial, wo will
not ask the Witness to put tho book to Ills
lips, for that would Imply that tho sanctity
and divinity of the book is settled, and that
would be begging t lie finest,loth So I shall ask
each Witness to lift his Unitd toward heaven
in affirmation.
Salmon I*. Chase* ohiof justice of the su
premo court of the united States appointed
by President Lincoln, will take the witness
stand. “Chief Justice Uhase, Upon your
oath, please state what you havotos.ay about
the book commonly called the Bible." Tho
witness roplios • “There eame a time In my
life when I doubted tho divinity of the Scrip
tures, and I resolved, ns a lawyer and judge,
1 would try the hook as [ would try anything
in the courtroom, taking evidence for and
against. It was a long and serious and pro
found study, and using) tho same principles
of ovidonco In this religious matter ns 1 al
ways do in secular matters 1 have come to
tho decision that tho Bible Is n supernatural
book, that it has ooitao from God. and that
tho only safoty for the human raoo is to fol
low its teachings.” “Judge, that will do.
Go back again to your pillow or dust on tho
hanks of the Ohio.”
Next I put upon tho witness stand a Presi
dent of the united Slates—John Qtiluooy
Adams, President Adams, what have you to
say about tho Biblo and ChristianityV’ r Tho
President replies “I have for many years
inado it a practice to road through tho Bible
onoe a your. My custom is to read four or
chapters ovory morning Immediately
after arising from my bed. It employs about
nil hour of my time and seems lo mo tho
moBt suitable mnnnorof beginning the day.
In what light soovor wo regard tho Bible,
whether with reference to revelation, to his
tory or to morality, it is an invaluable and
inexhaustible mine of knowledge and virtue.”
Next I put upon the witness stand Sir
Isaac Newton, the author of the “Prlnoipla”
and the greatest natural philosopher tho
world has ever seen, “Sir Isaac, what liuYO
you to say concerning the Bible?” The
nltUOsophor’fl toply i«, “Wo account tho
Scriptures of God to bo tho most suhlimo
philosophy ”
Next I put upon tho witness stand tho en
chantment of lotters, Sir Walter Scott, and
when Insk him wlmt ho thinks of the place
that our groat book ought to take among
other books ho roplios, “Tliero is but one
book, and that is the Bible ”
Next I put upon tho stand the most famous
geologist of all time, Hugh Miller, mi elder
of Dr. Guthrie’s Presbyterian church in Ed
inburgh, and Faraday and Kepler, and they
all testily to tho same thing. They all say
Die Bible is from God, and that tho mightiest
influence for good that over touched our
world is Olirlotmhiiy*
“Chancellor Kent, what do you think of
llio Bible?” Answer: “No other hook over
addressed itself so authoritatively and bo
pathetically to tho judgment and moral souse
or mankind.”
“Edmund Burke, what do you think of tho
Biblel” Answer: “I have read tho Biblo
morning, noon and nighty and lmvo over
since boon the happier
J the bettor man
for such reading,
Next I put upon the land William E» Glad
stone, tho head Of to English government,
and I hoar him saying wlmt ho said to mo in
.January of 1800, whoii In reply to his tele
gram, “Prayoomo to HaWatdoiito-morrow,”
I visited hint* Then piid there I asked him
as to whether in tho passage of years his faith
in tho Holy Scriptures and Christianity was
on tho Inoroase or decrease, and ho turned
upon mo with an emphasis and enthusiasm
such ns no ono who has not conversed with
him can fully appreciate and expressed by
voice and gesture aud illumined countenance
his ever increasing faith in God and tho Bible
and Christianity as tho only hopo of our
ruined world. “That is all, Mr. Gladstone,
wo will take of your Vlino now, for, from the
reports of what is going on in England Just
now, I think you aro very busy.”
Tho sulphurous graves of Sodom and
Gomorrah have been identified. Tho re
mains of tho toweiirof Babel have been
found.* Assyrian documents lifted from the
sand and Bohistun inscription hundreds of
foot high up on tho rock echo and ro-ooho
the truth of Bible history. Tho signs of tho
time indicate that almost every fact of the
Biblo from lid to ltd will find Its corrobora
tion in ancient city disentombed, or ancient
wall cleared from the dust of ages, oranolont
document unrolled by arclunologist.
Before tho world rolls on as far into the
twentieth century as It has already rolled
Into tho nineteenth an infidel will bo a man
who dons not believe his own senses, umltlio
volumes now critical and denunciatory of
the Bible, If uot entirely devastated by the
hook-worms, will bo taken down from the
shelf as curiosities of ignorance or idiocy.
All success to tho pickaxes mid crowbars and
powder blasting of those apostles of archroo-
iogical exploration. I like the ringing de
fiance of tho old Huguenots to the assailants
of Christianity: “Pound away, you rebels!
Your hammers brealtijkbut tho anvil of God’s 1
word stands* ” Tr
How wonderful the old book hangs to
gether. It is a llbraxw made up of 00 hooka
and written by at least 80 authors. It is a
supernatural thing that they have stuck to
gether. Take the writings of any other 89
authors, or any 10 authors, or any 5 authors,
and put them together, and how long would
they stay together? Books of “elegant ex
tracts” compiled from many authors are
proverbially short lived. I never know one
such book which, to use the publisher’s
phrase, “h.«d life in it” for live years.
Why is it that the Bible, made up of the
writings of at least 89 authors, has kept to
gether fora long line of centuries when the
natural tendency would have been to fly
apart like loose sheets oi paper when a gust
of wind blows upon them? It is because God
stuck them together and keeps them to
gether. But for that Joshua would have
wandered off in o»6 direction, and Paul into
another, and Ezekiel into another, and Ha-
bakkuk into another, pud the 89 authors in
to 39 directions.
Put tho writings of Shakespeare and Ten
nyson and Longfolfow, or any part of them,
together. How Jong would they stay to
gether? No book bindery could keep them
together, But the cannon of tho Scripture
is loaded now with the same ammunition
with which prophet and apostle loaded it.
Bring me all the Bibles of the earth into
one pile, aud blindfold mo so that I cannot tell
the difference between day and night, and
put into inv hand any one of all that Alpine
mountain of sacred books, and put my finger
on the last page of Genesis and lot mo know
it, and I cun tell you wlmt is on the next page
—namely, the first chapter of Exodus; or
while thus blindfolded put my finger on tho
last chapter of Matthew and let me know it.
and I will tell you what is on the next page
namely, the first chapter of Mark. In the
pile of 500,000.000 Bibles there will he no
exception. In other words, the hook gives
me confidence by its supernatural adhesion
of writing to writing
Even the stout eat'ship sometimes shifts its
cargo, and that is what made our peril the
greater in the rihip Greece of the Notional
line when the cyclone struck us off th6
or Newloundlaud, ami the cargo of
shifted as the ship swung from larboar
starboard, and from starboard to larbo:
But, thanks bo to God, this old Bible ship,
though it has been in thousands of years of
tempest, lias kept its cargo of gold and pre
cious stones compact and sure, and in all the
centuries nothing about it has shifted. Thera
they stand, shoulder to shoulder, David and
and Peter, nil there, ntid with rt cflftaluty of
being thorn until tho heavens and tho earth, j
tho creation of which is described in tho first
hook of tlu^ Bible, shrill have tiollnpsed, and
tho White horse df tho conqueror/ described
In the hist book of tho Bible, shall paw tho ,
dust in universal demolition. By that tro* ;
mendous fact my faith is re-enforced.
Tho discussion is abroad as to who wrote
those books of tho Bible ended the Penta- (
teuch, whether Moses or Ililklah, or Ezra or j
Samuel, or Jeremiah, or another group of
ancients. None of them wrote it. God
wrote tho Pentateuch, and in this day of
stenography an.1 typewriting that ought not
to be a difficult tiling to understand. The j
groat merchants and lawyers, and editors
and business men of our towns and cities !
dictate nearly all their letters \ they only
sign thorn after they are dictated. Tho
prophet and evangelist and apostle were
Jehovah’s stenographers or typewriters.
They put down only what God dictated, ho
signed it afterward. He has bocu writing his
name Upon it all through the vicissitudes of
centuries.
But I come to tho height of my subject j
when I say tho way to re-enforoo our faith ia
to pray for it. So tho disciples In my text
got their abounding faith. “Lord, increase |
o n- faith.” Some one suggests, “Do you
really think that prayer amounts to any- i
thing?” I might as well ask you, is there a j
lino of telegraphic polos from Now York to i
Washington, is there a lino of telegraphic
wires from Manchester to London, from |
Cologne to Berlin? All the people who have |
sent and received messages on those lines
know of their existence. So there arc mill- !
ions of souls who have been iii constant com- i
ran ideation with the capital of the universe, 1
with the throne of the Almighty, with the
great God Himself, for years and years and
years.
There has not been a day when supplicn- 1
Rons’ did not flash up aud blessings
did not Hash down. Will some igno- .
ramus, who has never received a telegram or j
sent one, come and toll us that there is no j
such thing as telegraphic communication? ;
Will some one who ims never offered a prayer J
tlmt was heard and answered come and toll
us that 1 hero is nothing in prayer? It may |
not come as we expect it, but as sure as an
honest prayer goes up a merciful answer will
come down.
During the blizzard of four or five years
ago, you know that many of the telegraph
wires were prostrated, and I telegraphed to
Chicago by way of Liverpool, and the answer
after awhile came round by another wido
circuit, and so the prayer we offer may come
back in a way we never imagined, and if wo
ask to have our faith increased, although it
may come by a widely different process than
that Which We expected, our confidence will
surely bo augmented.
Oh, put it in every prayer you ovor malco
between your next oreath and your last gasp,
“Lord, Increase our faith”—faith in Christ
as our personal ransom from present guilt
(Hid (denial catastrophe; faith In thoomnlpo-
tent Holy Ghost ; faith in the Bible, tho truest
volume ever dictated or written or printed
or road : faith in adverse providonoos, har
monized for our best welfare; faith in a
judgment day that will set all things right
which have for ages been wrong.
lnero/tso our faith, not by a fragile ad
dition, but l>y an infinitude of recuperation.
Lot us do us wo saw it done ill tho country
while we wore yet ill our teens, at tho old
farmhouse after a long drought, and tho
well liud boon dried, and the cattle moaned
with thirst at the bars, and tho meadow
brook had ceased to run, and tho grass
wit bored, and the corn was shriveled up,
and ono day there was a growl of thunder,
and then a congregation of clouds on the
sky. and then u startling flash, and thon a
drenching ruin, and father and mother put
barrels under every spout at tho corners of
BUDGET 0E FUN.
1IUMOUOU8 SKETCHES KKOM
VARIOUS SOURCES.
A Seaside l.lyll— And Hi." Meshes Arc
Vine—Among Friend*—Didn’t
.Ml Speck at Onoe—Trans,
formation, Etc.
• 4.
They worn sitting In the twIllKhf.
Whore tho waves brook on tin. Hand,
And an arm wan wound around hnr,
Thoy wore clasping hand to hand ;
And aha bent a little closer,
Toward a face sun-kissed with tan,
And to guslo Mamie whispered:
“Don't you wish we'd see a man/"
—Now York World.
ANI) THE MESHES AID: KINK,
“Ho tlio Duke is casting his net for
nn American heiress?"
“You- liio coronet.
•Puck.
AMONG KIIIRNDH.
Willis—“Brown says he has a horse
for Hale.”
Wallace—“I don’t doubt it. I sold
him ono tho other day.”—Life.
didn't am, speak at once.
Elmore—“Did you ovor nee a com
pany of women perfectly silent?”
Decker—“Onoe. Homo one had
naked which was tho oldest."—Now
York Herald.
TRANSFORMATION.
“I hear that tho literary club made
quite n lion of Timmins on account of
bin latest poem."
“Yes; they kept it up till they made
an uhh of him."—Indianapolis Journal.
, one on nOSTON,
Englishman — “This is beastly
weather.”
Bostonian—“Beastly? Why, there’s
nothing animal about it, is thore?"
Englishman—“Certainly. Isn't, it
raining eats and dogs?”—Y'ankee
Blade.
A MODERN EMPLOYMENT.
"What ho,” cried the Viking, in
sour displeasuro, “whore aro my Halt
ing nets?”
“Hire,” replied the Prime Minister,
“tho Crown Prince has returned from
college and is using them for lawn
tenuis."—Dotroit Tribune.
the next morning ho came in again,
and was handed a dispatch—an affirm
ative reply. Tho operator expressed
his sympathy.
“ ’Twas a" little rough to keep you’
so long in suspense."
“Look here, young feller,” said tho
farmer, “I’ll stand all tho suspense.
A woman that'll hold hack her answer
to a proposal of marriage all day, so as
to send it by night rates, is jest; tho
economical woman that 1'vo been
a-wnitin' for?"—Jalappo Journal. 1
V
TESTIMONY OF ONE WHO KNEW. .
Stranger—“This is a beautiful part
of the city. Property must l>e very
high here. ”
Citizen—“No, sir, property isn’t
worth anything along bore."
“Not worth anything ! Why, every
house in this row is it palace, and
there's half a mile of them !"
"That doosu’t malco any diffetonco, I
They are owned by men that are suffer
ing for the necessaries of life.”
“I don’t sot' any indications that
the owners want to sell out.”
"They'ro too poor to be able ovon’
to buy ‘Eor Hale’ cards to put in tho
windows.”
“Huvo you got any property aloug
this row?" _ I
Haven't, a foot of dirt within a milo
of it." <
“Then how do you know all this?”
“I'm tho—” i
(Interrupting)—“Why, (treatScott 1
I ought to have known it at at onoo.l
Shake! I'm an assessor myself when 1
I’m nt home."—Ohioago Tribune. \
HUSBAND AND WfFE IN ACCORD.
“Women must consider it an awful
fate to bo nn old maid,” mused Mr.
Chugwater.
“They do, .Tosiah,” Httid Mrs. Chug-
water. “What terrible sticks thoy
Bometimos marry to escape it.”
And Josinh rubbed his chin and said
Barrels minor every spout at me cotuin ui i , : / .i : 'lv.
the house and Bet palls and huokots and j nothing.—Chicago tribune,
tubs nnd pans and pitchers to catch as j
mtleli as they could of the shower. For In j
many of our souls there 1ms been a long I
drought of donlldnneo add In many no faith j
at all. Lot us sot out all our ulfootlons, nil |
our hopus, all our ooutoinplntlous, all our j> nl afraid my children by my first
prayers, to onteh o mighty shower. 1 ,ori, ; w ;[ 0 w jll make a contest, and then tho
increase our faith. I lawyers will get it. ”
Young Wifo—“Don’t worry, my
BUSINESS HEAD.
Old Bullion (on his death bed)
“All my property is willed to you, but
t like tho way that tho minister's widow ]
did In Elisha’s ttmn, whon, after tho family I
being very unfortunate, her two sous were
about to lio sold for debt, and she had noth- ;
lag in the house but a pot of oil, and nt
Elisha's direction bIwi borrowed from hor |
neighbors all tho vessels she could borrow, 1
and then began to pour out the oil Into those j
vessels nnd kept on pouring until they wore ;
nil full, and she became nn oil merchant with
more assets than liabilities, nnd when she
cried, ”liring mo yet n vessel,” tho nnswei
eame. "There Is not n vessel more." Ho let
us take what oil of faith we have and user It
until the supply shall ho miraculously multi
plied. liring on your empty vessels, nnd by
the power of the Lord Uud of Elisha thoy |
lovo; 1 oan easily fix that. I’ll
marry ono of tho lawyers."—New York
Weekly.
A MIllAOLE.
“You know that beautiful blind girl
that I huvo loved so long?"
“Yes. ”
“Well, 1 think I have restored her
sight. ”
“You don’t say?”
“Yos, I proposed to her Inst night
shall he tilled until thoy can hold no more ol , ftn(1 attic ] thut h1i0 would
juhlhmf, all Inspiring and triumphant infill. M v • • Pl4AUU
\YJmt frightful time wo nml a .few day! | Now York I rcBB.
ago down on tho coast of Long Island, whort j
I lmvo been stopping. That archangel ol ( finally haw,
tempest which, with its awful wings, swopt _
the Atlantia oooat from Florida to Newfound- Professor Pottorby—“Dear lao.
the Atlantic ooaflt iron: Florida to Newiounu- uuiuhsui — jsuui uiu. j
land did not snare oar region. A few in lien ! do believe that young Freshly was
mer’nieu 1 tvilom theXmn hml^lnin amrthe mtlk ?, n K K ,im « o£ m0 y^rdny morn-
sen lmd oust up, As 1 stood theru among the | ing.
dead bodies I said to myself, and I said aloud ] Mth, Potterby—“Why so, Mocratos,
"These represent homos. Wlmt will j j 0(ir 9”
wheu Umy*know thi’s?" W *° blldreU ** j Professor Potterby-“Ho wanted to
Homo ot tho victims were unknown. Only ,
the llrst name of two of thorn was found out
—Oburleynnd William. I wondered then and ,
1 wonder now If they will remain unknown
and If some kindred far away may lie waiting
know if Paris green was not oftennsud
for dyeing purposes."—Indianapolis
Journal.
for their coming nnd never hoar of thu rough
way of their going. I saw nlso ono of thu
three who had nomo in alive, hut more dead
than alive. The ship had become helpless
six miles out, and as ono wave swept tho
doek and went down on the furnaces till
thoy hissed and went out the cry was, "Oh,
my (Tod, we aro lost! 1 Thun tho crow put
on life preservers, one of the sailors saving
to the Other, “We will meet again on the
shore, and, If not, well, wo must all go Homo
time.”
Of tho twenty-threo men who put on tho
life preservers, only throe lived to ranch the
bench. Hut what a scene it was as the good
amt kind people of Southampton, led on by
Jir. Thomas, the great and good surgeon of
New York, stood watching tho sailors strug
gling in the breakers. "Aro you still alive?”
shouted Dr. Thomas to one of them out In
the breakers, and ho signaled yes and thon
went Into unconsciousness. Who should do
the most for tho poor fellows and how to
HOW HE STAMMERED.
Hobbs and Dobbs were dismissing
men who stammer.
“The hardest job I evor had," said
Dobbs, “was to understand a deaf ttnd
dumb man who stammered."
“How can a deaf nnd dumb man
stammer?” asked Dobbs.
“Easily enough, "replied Dobbs, “ho
had rheumatism in his fingers."—Phil
adelphia Beeord.
HIS LAST EXPERIENCE.
Mr. Young Pop—“I’ll bo cook my
self, my dear, but I’m blessed if I’ll Bet
foot in an intelligence office again. I
picked out tho most respectable-look
ing woman in the room and stepping
.esusellate them were tho questions that ran , up to hor said : ‘Can yon fill tho posi-
up and down the beach at Houthnmpton. ! (j OI| 0 f cook V
wrmXgXTr^rhn^Bond; 0 ^ ! “She looked like our bantam fight-
for the sufferers to come within reach, nml iug-cook ns Bhe replied: 1 am trying
then they were lifted up and carried Indoors f Q j,], f hat 0 f our coachman. I think
you would Huit admirably.’ "—Life.
PEDUNCLE’S LITTLE INACCURACY.
Maud—“How do yon like that
young Mir. Peduncle?”
Irono—“I don’t like him at all. He’s
and watted on with as much kindness and
wrapped as warmly as though they had been
tlie princes of the earth. "Are they alive?”
"Are they breathing?” "Do you think they
will live?" "What can wo do tor them?"
were tho rapid and Inhume questions asked,
and so much money was sent for the oloth-
lag and equipment of the unfortunates that
Dr. Thomas had to makua proclamation that
no more money was noodod. In othor words,
all that day It was resuscitation.
And this Is tho appropriate word for us
this morning as we stand and look ofT upon
this awful sea of doubt uud unbelief on which
hundreds are this moment being wrecked. -
Home ot them were launched by Christian enough to eat.
parentage on smooth seas and with promise “Well, what of that?’
lor prosperous voyage, hut a Voltatrocydone
i struck thorn on one side, and n Tom Paine
Killed by Moccasin Snakes. i
Minnie Hightower, tho sixteeu-year-
ohl (laughter of Hirnm Hightower, n
trapper ami fisherman, who lives on
Horseshoe Lake, in the Ht. Francis
bottoms, Arkansas, was killed by moo-
ensin snakes the other day in a singular
nnd horrible manner. The story was
told by a man who saw her body, Tho
moccasin snake loses its vision almost
entirely during tho month of August,
just before it sheds its skiu. During
tho period of blindness tho reptilo is
very viciottH and strikes nt every noise.
Horseshoe Lake is noted for tho num
ber of snakes to tie found in its waters
and along the banks. Miss Hightower
had killed hundreds of tho Huakos dur
ing her life, which was spent on and
noar tho lake, nnd had little fenr of
them. Shu paddlod her ennoo to a
drift of logs in tho middlo of tho lake
for the purpose of fishing. There woh
no ono nt homo hut her brother, aged
six years, Hightower having gone to
tho head of tho lake with the only
other boat thoy had.
Whon Hightower returned at noon 1
he found tho boy running up and down
tho shore of tho lake crying. The child
snid Minnie got on the drift nnd fished
for a few minutes, thon began to beat
something with a polo and scream.'
Then she foil down. Hightower looked
toward tho drift aud could see his 1
daughter’s body. Ho paddled quickly,
to tho island of logs, which is not
more than 100 yards from tho bank.
Lying on tho logs was the girl, dead,
swollen and disoolored almost beyond
recognition. Hightower counted seven
large moccasins coiled on aud around
the body. 8ho was barefooted aud tho
marks of tho sorpents’ fangs were on
her foot, face nnd nook. It wasapparent
thnt tho girl had found a colony of
snakes on the drift pilo nnd that while
she was killing one others had bitten
her on tho foot. She fainted from pain
anil fright and the roptilos sank thoir
fangs into her fnco aud nook. The
snakoB showed do disposition to retreat
when tho agonized father approached.
Thoy coiled and struok at him ns soon
as he set foft on the logs. Ho dis
patched two with his paddle, then, as
the romnining five did not retreat, he
got a long pole and thrashed them to
death. It took him nearly an hour to
recover tho body of his child from tho
suakc-inlestod wood drift pile.—Chi
cago Herald.
The Rarest Plants, ■*.
Tho question which aro the rarest
plants on earth admits of two answers
—as to rarity of distribution and rarity
in tho numerical sense. There nro
some plants which grow in one small
spot and nowhere else.
Such arc tho Kerguolnn cabbage,'
whioh is found only on Kerguelan Isl
and, a remote island in the South Paci
fic, the spocies of harebell which grows
only on Mt. Pnrnnssus, and a yam
which is found only on tho Pyrenees.'
Tho palm of numorioal rarity is
divided among two hybrid orchids—
artificially produced crosses—laelin
bellu and laulia Medina, of each of
whioh only one specimen exists, a
unique (lower enllod odontoglossom
veeillarium. exhibited at tho last ex
hibition of tho Horticultural Sooiety,
in Temple Gardens, and a tiny Japan
ese plant, overweighted by the proten-
tious name schizocoden Holdanel-
lioides, whioh was brought from Japan
about two years ago by Oaptain Tor
rens.
So far us is known it is llio only one
in existence. —Boston Clobe.
The ({neon ol the Antilles.
either very stupid or he's an impudent Jamaica has perhaps made greater
upstart. I said to him ut tho party strides in tho way of progress than
lust night that 1 didn’t foci like eating | any of England’s smaller colonios dur-
anything and he said : “Why, Miss , ing tho past twenty-five years, and
Squires, you certainly look well :
ho 1(1.18. ! 0 „ 0 | 0n „ Btnlr .i< thorn on the othor side, and a
,, I had habit cyclone struck them on all sides,
Y ! and thoy huvo laundered faraway from shore,
riruo.tr-i. : f\ r .A mul Fihvg conn down
evidence settles It, and by thu same process
you can forever settle tbe fact that the Bible
Is the handwriting and communication of
tlio Infinite (rod.
Furthermore, as I have already intimated,
we may increase our faith by the testimony I Am , _
of otliers. Perhaps we of lesser brain may . Nahum nnd Habbaljkuk and Kephaumh nnd
have been overgomo by superstition or ; Haggnl and /jtchnT'Uh and Maluebl and Mnt-
gslaled lute «u cgrptaGes of a hollow ers- I thaw amt Msrw apd Luke end John and Paul
.Solomon and Isaiah and Jeremiah nnd Eze
kiel and Daniel uud Ifosea nnd Joel and
d Obadish and Jonah and Mleahand
tar away from God, aud thoy have gone down I
or are washed ashore with no spiritual life
ieft in them.
but, thank God, there nro many hero to
day with enough faith loft to encourage us
“Why, ho should have said I looked
good enough to oat.”—Chicago Tri
bune.
JUST WHAT 11E WANTED.
A farmer entered a telegraph office
in Central New York nnd sent this
:h lott to encouraKe ns message to n woman in Canada :
In the elTorl at their resuscitation. All hands 0 —
to tho beach I With a confidence In God that Will you be my wifo? Please
takes no denial, let in lay hold of them 1 answer nt onoe by telegraph.”
Fetch them out of tho breakers I Bring gos- Then he sat down and waitod. No
pel warmth and gospel stimulus nnd gospo . r_r till late in
life to thoir freezing souls I Rosuseltatlon 1 answer curm. tie waited till late III
ncsujcitatloul I too evening, still no nnswer, Early
has some right now to call horself
“the Queen of the Antilles.” Among
the evidences of improvement may be
citod the hotels whioh have sprung up
in tho island, for the building of ono
of whioh #1120,000 wus expended. Thon
tho Americans are laying linos of rail
way through the best part of the
island, and the fruit cultivation is
now as productive as that of sugar,
whilo the price of land has risen enor
mously. Carlyle’s shade would be
astonished to hear that the onoe thrift
less natives huvo managed to put by
nearly #2,500,000 in thoir snvings
hanks.- London World.