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KEY. DR. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUN- DAY SERMON. Text: ’’And the Lord saifl unto rl/o.vrp. Take unto thee sweet spines, stacte and onyeha.’’— Exodus xxx.. 31. You may not have notice 1 tho shells of the Bible, although in this early part of the Bacred book God calls you to consider and nil 'Ploy them as He e - lied Moses to consider ana shell employ them. The onyeha of my text is a found on tho banks of tho Roil Ken. and Moses aud his armv must have crushe l many of them under foot as they crossed the bisected waters, onyeha on the beach and onyeha in the unfolded bed of tho deep. I shall speak of this shell as a beautiful and practical revelation of God, and as true as the first chapter of Genesis and the last chapter of Revelation or everything be¬ tween. this shell, the onyeha, found at the Red Sea, but in the waters of India. It not only delectates the eye with its convo¬ lutions of beauty, white and lustrous aud serrated, but blesses the nostril with a pun¬ gent aroma. This shellfish, accustomed to feed on spikenard, is redolent with that oaorous plant—redolent when alive and re¬ dolent when dead. Its shells when burned bewitch the air with fragrance. In my text God commands Moses to mix this onchya with the perfumes of the altar m the ancient tabernacle, and I propose to mix some of its perfumes at the altar of Brooklyn Tabernacle, for, having spoken to you on the “Astronomy of the Bible- or God Among the Stars;” the “Chronology of the Bible; or, God Among the Centuries ” the “Ornithology of the Bible; or, God Among the Birds;” the “Mineralogy of tho Bible; or, God Among the Amethysts;” the “Ichthyology of the Bible; or, God Among the Fishes,” I now como to speak of the “Conchology of the Bible; or, Go l Among It the Shells.” is a secret tjiat you may keap for me, for I have never before told it to any one, that in all the realms of the natural world there is nothing to mo so fascinating, so completely absorbing, so full of suggestive- ness, as a shell. What? More entertaining than a bird, which can sing, when a shell cannot sing? Well, there yon have made a great mistake. Pick up the onyeha from the banks of the Red Sea or pick up a bivalve from the beach of the Atlantic Ocean and listen, and you hear a whole choir of marine voices—bass, alto, soprano—in au unknown tongue, but seeming to chant, as I put them to my ear, ‘The sea is His and He made it;’’ others singing, “Thy way, O God, is in tae seaothers hymning, “He ruleth the raging of the sea.” “What,” says some ono else, “does the shell impress you more than the star?" In shell some respects, closely yes, because I can handle the and study the shell, while I cannot handle the star, and if 1 study it must study it at a distance of millions and millions of miles. “What,” says some one else, “are vou more flower?” ’ impressed \ by the shell than the es, for it has far greater varie¬ ties and far greater richness of color, as I could show you in thousands of specimens, and because the shell does not fade, as does the rose leaf, but maintains its beauty een- tury after century, so that the onyeha Which the hoof of Pharaoh’s horse knocked aside in the chase of the Israelites across the Red Sea may have kept its luster to this hour. Yes, they are so particolored ani many colored that you might pile them uo until you would have a wall with all the colors of the wall of heaven, from the jasper a; the bottom to the amethyst at the the The foam of the sea. Ob, the shells! The hardened bubbles of the deep. Ob, the shells, vt hich are the diadems thrown by the ocean to the feet of the continents. How the shells are ribbed, They grooved, cylindered, mottied, iridescent! were used as coin by some of the Na¬ tions. They were fastened in belts by others, aud made in handles of wooden im¬ plements by still others. Moliusks not only of the sea, but moliusks of the land. Do you know how much they have had to do with the world’s history? They saved the church .of God from extinguishment. The Israelites marched out of E rypt 3,COO,000 Bible strong, besides flbeks and herds, The says “the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading troughs being bound up in the clothes on their shoulders. They were thrust forth out of Egypt and could not tarry; neither had they Just prepared for thsmseves any victuals.” think of it? Forty years in the wilder¬ ness could they Infidelity live triumphantly asks. How without food? forty years in the wilderness You say manna fell. Oh, that was al ter a long while. They would have starved fifty times before the manna fell. The fact is, they were chiefly kept alive by the Mr. moliusks of tho land or shelled creatures. Fronton and Mr. SicarJ took the same route from Egypt toward Canaan that the Israelites toon, aud they give this as their testimony. have “Although tho children of Israel must consisted of about 2,000,000 souls, with baggage they aud innumerable flacks and herds, were not likely to experience any in¬ convenience in their march. Several thou¬ sand persons might walk abreast with the greatest ease in tae very narrowest part of the valley in which they first began to file off. It soon afterward expands to above three leagues in width. With respect to ground forage they would be at no loss. Tho is covered with tamarisk, broom, clover and saint foil), of which latte i- especially camels are passionately too i, ba - sides almost every variety of odoriferous plant and herb proper for pasturage. “The whole sides of the valiey through which the children of Israel marched are still tufted with brushwood, which doubt¬ less afforded toad for their beasts, together with many drier sorts for lighting fire, ’ ii which the Israelites could with the greatest ease bake thedough they brought with them on small iron plates, which form a constant appendage to the baggage of an oriental traveler. these trees Lastly, and shrubs the is Herbage completely underneath covered with snails of a prodigious size and of the best sort, and, however uninviting sued a repast ought appear to us, they are here es¬ teemed a great delicacy. They p.re so plenti¬ ful in this valjey that it may be literally said that it is difficult to take one step without treading So on shelled them.” the creatures save ! the host of Israelites on the march to the promised land, and the attack of infidelity at this point is defeated by the facts, as infidelity is always defeated by facts, since it is founded on iguorance. In writing and printing our interrogation point has at the bottom a mark like a period and over it a flourish like the swing of a teamster’s whip, and we put this interrogation Spauish poiDt at the end of a question, but in the language the interroga¬ tion point is twice U59d for each question. At the beginning point of presented the questio i the inter¬ rogation the close is of the question upside right down, and at side up. When infidelity puts a question about the Scriptures, as it always indicates igno¬ rance, interrogation the question ought to be printed with two points, one at the begin- ning and one at the close, but both upsi le down. Thank God for the wealth of moliusks all lipanddowu the earth, whether feeiiiv? the Israelites ou their way to the Jan 1 fl sw¬ ing with milk and honey, or, as we are bet¬ ter acquainted with the mollusk--, when flung to th8 beach of lake or sea. There are three great families of them. If 1 should ask you to name three of the great r.ival families of the earth, perhaps you won d re¬ spond, the house of .Stewart, the house of Hapsburg, the house of Bourbon, but the three royal families of moliusks are the uni¬ valve, or shell in one part, the bivalve, or shell of two parts, and I muitivalve, or shell in many parts, aud see Go 1 in their ever.; hinge, i« thair every tooth, in the.! ■ every cartilage, iu their every ligament, in their every spiral ridge, and in their ever/ color, prism on prism, and their adaptation of thin shells for still ponds and thick coat¬ ing the for boisterous thought seas. providential They all dash upon me of tho care oi God. VV hat is the use of all this architecture of the shel 1 , and why is it pictured from the outside lip clear down into its labvrinths of construction? radiance shell? Why the inflnitv of skill and in a What is the use of the color and exquisite curve of a thing so in¬ significant ai a shellfish? IVhy, when the conchologist by dredge or rake fetches the crustaceous find his feet specimens to tho shore, does ho at whole alliatnbras and coli- stums and pnrthenons and crystal palaces of only beauty in miniature, and these bring tolight an infinitesmal part of the opulence in the greet, subaqueous world. Liennann counted SaOOspecies of shells, but conchology had then only begun its achievements. While exploring tho bed of the Atlantic. Ocean in preparation for laving the cable shelled animals were brought up from depths of 100!) fathoms. When lifting the telegraph Re wire from the Mediterranean and I Sens, shelled creatures were brought up from depths of 3000 fathoms. The Eng¬ lish admiralty, exploring in behalf of fathoms, science, found inollusks at a depth of 240 awful or X 4,210 feetdeep. What a realm for vastness! As the shell is only the house and the wardrobe of insignificant animals of the deep, wbv all that wonder and beauty of construction. God’s care for them is the only reason. And if God provide so munifi¬ cently have for them, will He not see that you wardrobe and shelter? Wardrobe and shelter for a periwinkle! Shall there not be wardrobe and shelter for a man? Would God give a coat of mail for tlie defense of a nautilus and leave you no defense against (he storm? Does Ho build a stone house for a creature that lasts a season and leave with¬ out home a soul that takes hold on centuries and eons? Hugh Miller found “the Footprints of and the Creator in the old red sandstone,” I hear the harmonies of God in the tinkle of the sea shells when tho tides come in. The tial same Christ who drew a lesson of clothes providen¬ with care from the fact that God grass the field instructs me to draw the same lesson from the shells. In almost every man’s life, however well born and prosperous for years, and in al¬ most every woman’s life, there comes a very dark time, at least once. A conjunction of circumstances willthreateu bankruptcy and homelessness and starvation. It may be that these words will meet the ear or will meet the eye of those who are in such a state of foreboding. gives Come, then, and see how God an ivory palace to a water animal that you could cover with a ten-cent piece and clothes in armor against all attack a coral no that bigger thin a snowflake. I do not think God will take better c ire of a bivalve than of one of His own children. I rake to your feet with the gospel rake the most thorough evidences of God’s care lor His creatures. 1 pile aroun 1 you great mounds of shells that they may teach you a faith, most walk comforting theology. Oe, ye of little among these arbors of coraline and look at these bouquets of shell, fit to be banded a queen on her coronation day, and see these fallen rainbows of color, and ex¬ amine these lilies in stone, these primroses in stone, these holiotropes in stone, these cowslips in stone, these geraniums in stone, these in stone. O ye who have yourtelescopes ready look¬ ing out o.i ciear nights, trying to see woat is transpiringin Mars, Jupiter and Mercury, know that wit-iin a few hours’ walk or ride of where you nosv are there are whole worlds t'uatyou might explore, but of which vou beautiful are unconscious, an i among the most and suggestive of these worlds is theeonehological world. Take this ies 3 on of a providential care. How does that old hymn go? We may, like ships, by tempests be toisel Da perilous deep,, out cannot be lost. rtiougk Satan enrages the wind and the tide, Xho promise assures us the Lord wul provide. But while you get this pointed lesson of providential care from the shelled creatures of the God deep, help; notice in their construction that them to help themselves. This house of stone in which they live is not dropped The on them and is not built around them. material for it exu les from then- own bodies and is adorned with a colored fluid from the pores of their own neck. It is a most interesting thing to se j these crus¬ tacean animals fashion their own homes out of carbonate of lime and membrane. An 1 all of this is a mighty lesson to those who are waiting for otuers to build their fortunes When tney ought to go to worn and, like the moliusks, build their own fortunes out of tneir own brain, out of their ow,i sweat, out of their own industries. Not a moilusk on all the beaches of all the seas would have a nouse of shell if it had not itself built one. Do cot wait for others to shelter you or prosper you. AU the crustaceous creatures of the earth from every flake of their covering and from every ridge of their tiny castles ou Atlantic and Pacific an l Mediterranean coasts say, • Help yoursel”, while God helps you to help yourself.” Tnose people who waitiu; rieli are for then- father or old uncle to die an i leave them a fortune for are as siliy other as a mollusk would be to wait some mollusk to drop on it a shell equipment. It would kill the mol- lusk as in most cases it destroys a man. Not one person out of a hundred ever was strong enough to staud a large estate by inherit¬ ance dropped ou him in a chunk. Have great expectations yourself. from only two persons— God and Let the onyeha of my text become your preceptor. But the more I examine the shells the more 1 am impressed that Go i is a God of emotion. Many G scoff at emotion and seem to thins that jd is a God of cold geometry anil iron laws and eternal apathy and en¬ throned stoicism. No! No! The shells with overpowering emphasis deny it. While law and order-reign in the universe, you have but to see the luvisbuess of color on the Crustacea, ail shades of crimson from faint¬ est blush to blood of battlefield, ali shades of green, all shades of all colors from deepest black to whitest light just callei oat ou the shells with no more order than a mother premeditates or calculates how mauy kisses au 1 hugs she shall give her baba waking up in the morning sunlight. Yes, my God is au emotional God, and He say i--, "We must have colors andiet the sun paint all ot them on the scroll ot' that sael‘, and we must have music, aui here is aeiroi tor the robiD, and a psalm tor man, ani a doxolo^y for the seraphim, an I a resurrec¬ tion call for the archangel.” Aye, Ho showed Himself a Gel of sublime emotion when He flung Himself on this world in the personality of Christ to save it, without re¬ gard to the to irs it would take, or the blood it would exhaust, or the agonies it would eru-h cur. When I see the Louvres and the Luxem- fcourgs and the Vaticans of Divine painting strewn along th; 8'XK) mile3 of coast, and I hear in a forest on a summer morning mus¬ ical academies and Handel societies of fait orchestras, I say God is a God of emotion, and if He observes mathematics it is mathe¬ matics set to music.and His figures are writ¬ ten not. in white chalk on blacuboards, but written by a Unger of sunlight on wads o: jasmine and study trumpet the conchology creeper. of the Bi ble In my of this onyeha of the text also in presses me with the fact that religion is perfumed. What else coul I God have meant when He said to Moses, onyebny” “fake unto Moses thee took sweet tint spices, shall stacte an 1 of the onyeha, put it over th e fir?, an I as it crumbled into a^bes it exhale t au oior that bung in every curtain an 1 filled the ancient tabfrnnc e, ami its sweet smoka tstuet from the sacred precincts anl saturate l the outside air. Perfume! That is what religion is. But instead ot that some mike it a m tlodor. They serve God in a rou'h and actr i way. They box their child's Sunday ears instead becausi of ho making does not properly attractive keep Id could Sunday so the oh not help but difficult keep it. chapter 'fuey make mm learn Exo¬ by heart a in the book of dus, with all the hai-J names, because he has been people naughty. How many disagreeab.e good tuera are! No one dou its their piety, and they will reach heaven, but they will have to get fixed up before they calling go there or thev will make trouble by out to us: “Keep off that grass!” that flower?" •What do you mean by plucking “Show your tickets!” Oh, how many Christian people need to obey my text and take into their worship and their behavior and their consociations and presbyteries and general assemblies and conferences more onyeha! I have some¬ times gone in a very gala of spirit into the preseneo of some disagreeable Christians and in five minutes felt wretched, and at some other time I have gone depressed souls, into and the company of suave 1 and genial What in a few moments felt exbilarant. was the difference? It was the difference in what they burned on their censers. The one burned onyeha; the other burned asafetida. In this eoncbological study of the Bible I also notice that the moiusks or shelled ani¬ mals furnish the purple that you see richly darkening so many Scripture chapters. The purple stuff in the ancient tabernacle, the purple girdle of tho priests, the purple mantle of Homan Emperors, the apparel of Dives in purple and fine linen—aye, the purple Christ—were robe which in mockery was thrown upon colored by the purple of the shells on the shores of the Mediterra¬ nean. It was discovered by a shepherd's dog having stained his mouth by breaking one of the shells, and the purple aroused ad¬ miration. Costly purple! Six pounds of the purple liquor extracted from the shellfishes were used to prepare one pound of wool. Purple was also used on the pages of books. Bibles and prayer books appeared in purple vellum, which may still be found in some of the na¬ tional libraries of Europe. Plutarch speaks of the purple which kept his beauty for 19'J years. But after awhile the purple became easier to get, and that which had been a sign of imperial authority when worn in robe3 was adopted by many people, and so an the omperor, purple, jealous of this appropriation of made a law that any one except royalty wearing purple should be put to death. Then, as if to punish the world for that outrage the of exclusiveness, God obliterated color from the earth, as much as to say, “If all cannot have it, none shall have it." But though God has deprived the race of that shellfish whisk afforded the purple there are shells enough left to make us glad and hue and worshipful. stilt Oh, left tho entrancement of beaches of shape all the all up and down the continents! These creatures of the sea have what roofs of enameled por¬ celain! They dwell under what pavilions blue as the sky and fiery as a sunset and mysterious as an aurora! And am I not right in leading you for a few moments through lected this mighty realm of God so neg¬ It by human eye and human footstep? is said that the harp and lute were in¬ vented from the fact that in Egypt the Nile overflowed its banks, and when the waters retreated tortoises were left by the million on all the lands, and these tortoises died, and soon nothing was left, but the cartilages and gristle of these creatures, which tight¬ ened under the heat into musical strings that when touched by the wind or foot of man the world vibrated, making sweet sounds, and so took the hint and fashioned the harp, and am I not right in trying to make music out of the shells and lifting them as a harp, from which to thrum the jubilant praises of the Lord and the pathetic strains of human condolence? But I find the climax of this conchology ot the Bible in the pearl, which has this distinc¬ tion above all other gem^-that it requires no human hand to bring out its beauties. J ob speaks of it, and its sheen is in Christ’s sermon, and the Bible, closes which opens with the onyeha Of of my text, with the pearl. such value is this crustaceous product I do not wonder that for the exclusive right of fishing for it on the shores of C3ylon a man-paid to the English Government $900,- 000 for one season. So exquisive is the pearl Ido not wonder that Piiny thought it was made out of a drop of dew, the creature rising to the sur¬ face to take it and the chemistry of nature turning the liquid into a solid. You will see why the Bible makes so much of the pearl ill its similitudes if you know how much it costs to get it. Boats with divers sail out from the island of Ceylon, ten divers to each boat, Thirteen men guide and manage the boat, Do vn into tile dangerous depths, amid sharks that whirl around them, plunge the diver.-, while 04,010 people anxiously gaze on. After three or four minutes' absence from the air the diver ascends, nine-tenths strangulated and blood rushing from ears and nostrils, and flinging his pearly treasure on the sand falls into unconsciousness. Ob, it is an awful exposure and strain and peril 10 fish for pearls, and yet they do so, and is it not a wonder that to get that which the Bible calls the pearl of groat price, worth more than all other pearls put together, there should be so little anxiety, so little struggle, so little enthusiasm? Would God that we were all as wise as the merchantman Christ commended, “who, when he ha l found one pearl had of great price, it.” went and sold all that he and bought But what thrills me with suggestiveness is the material out oi: which all pearls are made. They are The fashioned from the woun 1 of the shellfish, exudation from thafc wound is fixed and hardened and enlarged into a pearl. The ruptured vessels of the water animals fashioned the gem that now adorns finger or earring or sword hilt or king’s crown. Bo out of the wounds of earth will come the pearls of heaven. the pearl Out of the wound Out of bereavement of solace. of the wound of loss the pearl of gain. Out of the deep wound of the grave the nearl of resur¬ rection joy. Out of the wounds of a Saviour's life and a Saviour’s death the rich, the ly radiant, the everlasting pearl of heaven¬ gladness. “And the Id gat es were 13 pearls.” Take the consolation, ail ye who nave been hurt, whether hurt in body, or hurt in mind, or hurt in soul. Get your troubles sanctified. If you suffer with Christ ou earth, you will reign with Him in glory. The tears of earth are the crystals of of pearl.” heaven. “Every several gate was one Gave Maria a Lcssou. Evidently there is no Servant Girls’ Protective Union in London, or if there is the yonng womau mentioned below did not belong to it. Trunk of such a thing happening to one of our own top¬ lofty servant girls! A German merchant in London has a servant who at first was very forgetful. This fault was especially annoying at meal times, when something esential was sure to be lacking from the table. Oae day the family were seated at the table, and the bell was rung as usual. Tae girl hurried to the dining room. “Maria,” said Herr B--, “just run and fetch the big step ladder down from the attic and bring it here.” Maria who had been disturbed at her dinner, gave a grunt of dissatisfaction, but rau up three flights of stairs to fetch the ladder. In about five minutes she returned to the room, panting with her exertion. "Now,” said Herr B-“put it up at the other end of the room and climb to the top." Maria did as she was told, and when she wa3 at tho top Herr B --quietly observed: “Maria, you have now a better view than we have; just look around and tell us if you can see any salt ou the table. My wife and I could not find it.” This settled the business. Maria has never forgotten the lesson.—EpwortU Herald. A tax on street organ grinders is pro¬ posed by two London vestries. OUR BUDGET OF FUN. HUMOROUS SAYINGS AND DO¬ INGS HERE AND THERE. Jokna and Jolreleta that Arm Soppoaed to Have Been Recently Born-Saying* and Doing* that Are Odd, Curious and Laughable.__ Selssorcil Smiles. The more liquid a man puts down his throat the less chance there seems to be of drowning his voice.—Yonkers Statesman. Some men are born wealthy; homo men are born great; But all men are kicking Forever at Cato. No man can stand a drain upon his resources so well as the farmer, provided the drain is on wet land.— Lowell Courier. It is running to extremes when prediction that the comet was going to make it hot for us is followed by a 6now storm.—Washington Star. Literary Aunt— Are you fond of Crabbe’s tales, Edna? Edna—I don’t know, aunty. I’ve never eaten them, but I love the meat in lobsters’ legs. 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It has been em¬ ployed in every stage of Consump¬ tion. In brief it has been used by millions and its the only true and reliable Consumption Remedy. (D fOUR Hi May depend upon HEALTH f lie way you treat the ™ warnings which nature gives. A few bottles of S. S. S. taken at the proper time may insure good health for a year or two. Therefore act at once, for it «• SS IMPORTANT• • That nature be assisted at the riglifc time. ■gwgBgBB Sever fails to relieve the system BJRJSiE &*&***^ of tonic impurities, also. and is an excellent HE WANTS TO ADD HIS NAME. “ Permit me to add my name to your many other certif- feates in commendation of the great curative propel rties contained in Sv/ift’s Specific (S. S. S.) It is certainly one of the be6t tonics I ever used." JOHN V/. DANIEL, Anderson. S.C. Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed free. iWlFT SPECIFIC CO., Atlanta, Ga. 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