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FOR SUNDAY READING.
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TALMAGK ON ROLLER SKATING.
The Rev. Dr. Talmage said Sunday
that roller skating eclipsed coasting,
croquet, football, lawn tennis, and slid¬
ing by moonlight on a pond. It had an
advantage over the gymnasium in that
it was more exhilarating. It was good
for all men to take one hoar a day for
roller skating. It would bring back
light to the eye and strength to the
body. It drove away neuralgia and
nervousness.
“But let us have,” he continued, “no
more of the vulgarity and immodesty
of young girls alone on the streets.
They should be chaperoned by mother,
lather, brother, or one who has a right
to do it If a young man tips his hat
to a young lady in a rink and is not
acquainted with her the proprietor must
lead him to the front door. If those
well-dressed devils we see on the streets
and sometimes at church doors
get justice done them there would be
more honest amusements and purer
merriment. Let not brilliant lights and
exciting music tempt to prolonged exer¬
cise. At the door of every place of
amusement stands a group of pneumo¬
nias, waiting to esoort you to tho sepul¬
chre. Flirtation is damnation. When
in Broadway, New York, or in Fulton
street, Brooklyn, I see at the evening
hour daughters of respectable families,
whose conspicuous behavior is intended
to attract masculine observation, a hor¬
ror goes through my soul. If I had a
voice loud enougli to roach from the
Penobscot to the Rio Grande I would
say flirtation is damnation.
“Meati while let the old people remem¬
ber that they were ouoe young. Rheu¬
matism is incompetent to give law to
solid ankles. People who have the taste
of the old before they reach thirty
years bore the llte out of prayer meet¬
ings, and disgust the world with the
cant of religion. God made boys and
girls, and gave them tastes to be grati¬
fied. Their bodies need strengthen¬
ing.”
WHY THEY DON T GO TO OHUROH.
Rev. Charles H. Eaton took for the
subject of his Sunday’s sermon “Why
Do Not Young Men Go to Churoh?”
He said that, in answer to this question,
many explanations had been given by
yonng men who did hot attend services.
Some of the explanations were frivolons
or given in chaff, as, for instance, one
yonng man said that he did not go be¬
cause his sweetheart did not, and an¬
other that the ehuroh was too cold in
winter. The speaker then reviewed
some of the more seriouB objections.
Among them were that there was too
much caste in the ohnrohes, that Chris¬
tians were insincere and hypocritical and
that services were too lengthy and ser¬
mons too dull. Other yonng men
replied that they remained away from
church because they were skeptics or
out-and-out disbelievers in Christianity,
while others still olaimed Sunday as a
day for reoreation after a week’s hard
work, and believed ohnrohes to be plaoes
for women only.
The preaoher said there was not more
caste in the churoh than elsewhere; that
Christians, while not claiming perfee*
tion. were, as a rule, sincere; that the
services were not too lengthy; that the
majority cjrch of sermoas were not dull; that
attendance did not prevent
yonng men having rest and recreation
on Sundaya, and that if women did go
to church hi greater numbers than men
it did not prove that this performance
one’s duty to God was unmanly.
In speaking about those who assail re
ligion, he referred to Robert Ingersoll
as a wonderful word painter and elo
onent orator and as a shrewd politician
•nd Food Inwxer. bat daaied that
had received sufficient training id re*
ligiotui matters to set himself up as an
expert on the merits or demerits of
1 Christianity.
ood tbk spirit.
Oh, blntspd Bpirit ! let me feel
nssusms: thou thyself impart.
And wait till
To Tlwe my earth-dimmed spirit cries;
Change thou my bliuduess into sight.
°i2d“ HMve’ n 'i l por. light.
Thon cannt, to my weak thought unfold
The wonders of Christ’s matchless grace;
Canst bid faith’s ravished eyes behold
The glories of his unveiled face !
If hut thy quickening breath inspire,
This heart with fervent love shall glow;
And kindling as with Heaven’s own fire,
Heaven’s bliss, on earth begun, shall know.
Come, With Holy thy Spirit, fill this breast
sweet, soul-transforming power;
Bo thou my ever present guest,
My life, my joy, from hour to hour !
RELATING A STORY.
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The Christian Advocate thinks some
futile inquiries addressed to it concerning
mysteries may best be answered by quot¬
ing the following sentence from a negro
preacher: “My beloved brethren, sup¬
pose Eve had sinned and Adam had not.
Would Eve have gone out of the garden
and Adam stayed in ? And if so, would
Adam have had grace to bear the separa¬
tion? Brethren, I have often thought
of this. I am getting to be an old man,
and I don’t know any more about it
now than I did at the beginning. I
have oome to the conclusion, in my old
age, that the best thing a man can do is
to believe what is neoespary to his salva¬
tion and what will help him work the
works of righteousness, and leave Adam
and Eve to take care of themselves.”
INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY-tsOttoOL LESSONS.
May 10—Christ Our Example, Phil,
2 ; 5.16
May 17— Christian Contentment, Phil,
May 24—The Faithful Saying, 1 Tim.
1: 1-6. .
May 81—Paul’s Charge to Timothy,
2 Tim. It- 1-a.
June 7.—God s Message by His Son.
Heb. 1: 1-4.
June 14—The Priesthood . of,/I _
Hi'KWr i IQ k Pet:
Jane 21—Christian Progress, 2
1 - 11 .
Jane 28—Review: Service of Song,
Missionary, Temperance, or other Les¬
sons selected by the sob col
THE GRUMBLER.
In his fast day sermon the Rev. Mr.
Collyer tallied one—and a good one—
against the ohronio grumblers. Speak¬
ing on the question of taxes, he
said that last year there were a num¬
ber of taxpayers who, when the listers
called on them, were- ready to swear
that they hadn’t anything at all, and
these same individuals will this year
claim that their property has depre
eiated fearfully, and they are worse off
than they were last year.— St. Albans
( Vt.) Messenger.
The Christian Observer says: “The
Rev Phillip Brooks, in a reoent sermon,
severely reprimanded the press for the
lack of discrimination in commenting
upon the moral character of men who
have figured largely in the community
for their wealth or in publio stations.
If a Boston millionaire should die, he in¬
timated that the papers would extol
him for his wealth, aud make him out
tube a publio benefactor whether he
gained his wealth by fair means or foul,
Undoubtedly the press is in fault in this
matter. But is the pulpit so free from
fault as to be justified in casting stones
at the press. We trow not.”
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lha being still obdurate, he at length
1 I™ 3 , wounding her in the hip. Then
horrified, he threw himself from the
bird atorv, breaking one arm and twe
•ff 8 * Madame is ... likely ■ * to recover. It
M. only * rather long milliner. bill.
, Insanity Among Women.
••A oommlttee ot mediot! expert* on
nervous diseases and insanity would
make revelations which would scare
mothers, of growing girls especially, into
forming a ‘mothers’ protective union. f »
i a» *bov e &.u.«*■.
by Rev. Edward E. Hale in the opening
number of the Spectator. The reading
0 f the article has touched a chord of rec
| ollection of a certain vioit paid to an in
sane asylum some years ago. 1 was
amazed to see so many familiar faces of
persons whom I had missed from the
streets and other public places, and had
supposed were dead; and in one sense
they were. Many, and indeed I should
say the majority, of these were teachers
and overwrought scholars preparing to
be teachers. One who accompanied me,
and who had been at one time a patient
here and knew most of the histories of
these patients, told me much that was
ilfclly interesting. So many bright
women! So many fine scholars! Is
this the promised end for which they
toiled and studied? One especially 1
can never forget. “Which was the most
dreadful of all whom you saw ?” asked
my friend, and I described her. She
was a babbling idiot, full of grimaces,
of ceaseless talk and painful laughter.
“And did you not recognize her ?”
Recognize her 1 How was it possible ?
Then I was told that she was once the
brilliant and accomplished teacher who
taught in--’s school, formerly one of
the most fashionable in Boston. I bad
known her well. I had admired her
beautiful, serious face and her serene
and stately manner.
I desired to look again. I begged
permission to walk ;once more through
the gloomy gallery. And now, “as
through a glass darkly,” I could trace
Bomewhat the changed features. The
large, dark, serene eyes were there, but
the soul had fled; the features were as
if cast of plaster, the face was the same,
but ’fcwas like a face inverted, reversed,
^i s t or fc e< j- ’twas the face of an idiot.
Now, when I hear of “vacations over”
tturfog trie KOt days of September, and
reflect how little in the whole year is the
out-of-door life in New England and how
long a time we must be kept to the
houses and the schoolrooms, a picture
rises before me, a scene peopled with
human beings who were once scholars
and teachers in this same Boston, over¬
worked, over-studied, over-pushed, one
brain doing the work of three, till the
goal is reached and the Bastile over the
river is gained.
When 1 hear parents aud guardians of
youth speaking of their children’s work
in the school, the examinations and the
emulations and the “prostrations” that
follow, I sometimes feel inclined to ask,
To what insane asylum do you intend to
send your daughter when she is fin¬
ished ?—Boston Transcript.
An Unfortunate People.
A Honolulu letter to the St. Louis
Globe-Democrat says the charge so fre¬
quently made that the missionaries are
responsible for the rapid extinction of
the native race at the Sandwich Islands
is without any foundation. The seeds
of deadly disease were sown before
their arrival. The Hawaiian race is
doomed, and nothing but a miracle could
save them from certain extinction.
disease has made awful ravages among
them is due to their contact with for¬
eigners. Of late years leprosy has been
introduced by the Chinese, and it has
spread with alarmmg rapid.*. It >s
estimated by good observers that fully
one-fifth of all the native population is
infected with it, or with similar com¬
plaints in such an aggravated form as
! 8carcol - T J? d,stln8Qlslled . from the
I gennrne Aaiatio lgprw?^ ,
Knows Them. —A cow attached to
the gubernatorial mansion at Jefferson
City, Mo., having been milked for five
years by convicts, now refuses to allow
anybody in oitiaen’s dress to approach
hot.
A BATCH OF STRAY JOKES
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THE LOU 1 SV 1 LLR MAIDEN.
A Louisville girl who was visiting
here a short time ago scored a signal
triumph over a fresh young society man
of this city. They were sitting upon a
sofa together, and as the conversation
progressed he allowed his arm to grad¬
ually fall down until he had it around ■
her waist.
She arose very indignant, and he
made the following explanation and
apology: “I hope you will not think
anything of this. It is just a way I
have. All the Memphis boys act the
same way, and you will have to get
used to it. I hope you will not take
any offence at it, as it’s just my way.”
She left the room, but came back'in
a few minutes with a married friend and
sat down on the sofa again. Soon she
began to yawn and gave every ostensi¬
ble proof of being thoroughly bored.
Finally she said: “I’m dreadfully sleepy,
and I hope you’ll go home. You mustn’t
take any offence at this. Ail the Louis¬
ville girls act the same way. You are
exceedingly tiresome, and you had bet¬
ter go home at once. Don’t be offended
at this. It is simply a way I have 1”
He stood not upon the order of his
going .—Memphis Times.
HE MADE HIS WORD GOOD.
A passenger got off to walk around a
little. As the train began to move again
the passenger jumped aboard, but just
then he discovered that be had but one
overshoe. Thinking that he dropped
the other, he pulled off the remaining
shoe and threw it out on the platform,
exclaiming:
“There, that makes a good pair of
overshoes for somebody.”
Entering the car, there, to his great as¬
tonishment, was his other overshoe. A
look of intense disgust came upon his face,
but he did not hesitate. Quickly pick
ing up the lone arctic he hurried to the
platform, threw the shoe as far as he
could back toward the other one and
shouted:
“By jimminy, there is a pair of over¬
shoes for somebody !”—Chicago Herald.
AVOIDING A BEAT.
The editor of the Deadwood Roarer
atttended church for the first time last
Sunday. In about an hour he rushed
into the office and shouted:
“What the blazes are you fellows
doing? How about the news from the
seat of war ?”
“What news?”
• Why, all this about the Egyptian
army being drowned in the Red Sea.
Why, the Gospel sharp up at the church
was telling us about it just now, and not
a word of it in this morning’s paper.
Hustle round, you fe!!ow3, and get the
facts, or the Snap Shot will get a beat
on us. Look spry, there, and run an
extra edition, while I put on the bulle¬
tin board ‘Great English Victory in the
I Soudan, > »»
A TRAGEDY IN ONE ACT.
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geveral moments previous to the catastrophe,
(!!!) The catastrophe .--Pittsburgh Telegraph.
FOREIGN TRAVEL.
A Kentuckian gives the following
; glowing account of his trip abroad:
“I landed in Liverpool at night, went
to bed, had a good rest, got up in the
morning, found the bar, called for an
American cocktail, got it, took one taste
and—returned home in the next steamer
j This country is good enough for me. ’’