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DIVINE’S SUNDAY
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DISCOURSE.
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ibr8 eiag. ■ i itatin£ .
■ B/t^.P -s* Pses does the Bible speak
wind. ' Mose^ describes th a
east T h a
,r: ^tribes the tn breaking o' the ships
The locus’s
were born in on the east
i‘” T Pf jeJF Phat ee"t Weltered and Jonah in all was the
d b ? ’!t,,'mn= wind, springs of
15 L” winters, wiDd that
BW- ' ‘ the worst
ea=t wind. Now. if God
P km 1 jre US a Climate kind of and perpetual placid
venial and would all be.
i EfdmiRbtv in-Christians we be what we
(trace to
fr«aSwet istnf the world’s L wingof villainies. the
Urte PlKs. suieides and murders have
Ki out. I histone think if of you the days should oi
Ueorolopical fXnt rivht beside it the criminal
SWrv best days vou for would public find morals that
pre "wider the north west wind.
the or for pub
It those were the worst days wiud.
Us which were under the east
U of the compass have more to do
World's morals and the church’s
Lvnu e suspected. Rev. Dr.
have ret
\lmnder. whpr eminent asked for by learning one of
U*s eouseeration. whether he always
at Princeton replied, Te*.
|j Assurance of faith,
U pn the wind blows from the east.
Lia dictator of Paraguay, made oppressive when the
Lfrom the east, people, but when the en
[s fchanged for the of eruel
repented him the
healed the enactments and was in
cnor with all the world,
ti overtake the main thought of my
[want to tell Christirn people they
ibe observant of climatlcal chancres,
tur ruard when the wind blows from
i There are certain styles of tempt h
[t von cannot endum the under wind certain blows
I weather. When
s east, if you are of a nervoustem
It.gonotaiDon? exasperating people,
to settle bad debts, do not try to
idisputes, ion, do not talk with a bigot
do not ?o amonsr those people
ight [to in saving irritating thines, do
colleer" funds for a charitable
on, do not try to answer an insulting
(thesethings must be done, do them
je wind is from the north, or the
rthe west, but not when the wind is
•Ti-t.
ly that men and women ought not to
(skive and nervous. I admit it, but
talking about what the.world ousrht
I am talkiner about what the world is.
(ere are persons whose disposition
[ (sphere, seem to be affected by changes in
nine out of ten are mightily
kder ponby such influences. O Christian
such circumstances do not write
ps rit against yourself, do not get wor¬
bomber your fluctuating experience. You
that the barometer in your
ply I Instead answering of sitting the barometer down and of being the
feed and saying, “lam not a Chris
iu. : e I don’t ieel eibilarant,” get up
k out of the window and see the
vane pointing in the wrong quarter,
tsav-, “Get thee behind me, satan,
bee of the power of the air; get out
base; get out of my heart, thou de
iUrkness horsed on the east winck
However good and great you may
iChristian life, your soul will never
pendent of physical condition. I
t uttering a most practical, useful
to, one that may give relief to a great
hnstians who are worried and de
t at times.
•ri) a monarch in medicine, after
uidreds of gases of mental depres
sc.f felt sick and lost his religious
he would not believe his pastor
' pastor told him that his spiritual
* was only a conseouence of physi
■ Andrew Fuller. Thomas
mmm Cowper, Thomas Boston,
< Philipp but Mulanchthon were
all of them illus
Z his a man’s soul is not
physical health. An emi
SiVe us his opinion that no
. eked a great triumphant death
,1„^ as below the diaphragm.
C' , 6 b-‘crned Christian commen
hvDfinf^ vid nl-fv 8 har P ® bttfore aal was him insane but
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sveb koi er> . Ob, how many good
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® of Carlisle, one of the best
‘ -u. and of men
tSlf °ne the most useful.
: " Thou -b I have en
Dd my ^ well as I
^ lA’and aS, f ”i crea IEelan « e upon '- , boly oi heart I tell
EhlconSn but i ^ Ucil suak me.
,bave the relief ln d«ed,
Itn . of weeping
"■Si5 \r., kT
are exceedingly dark
:■ His if,/, face, 2 a word. and I Almighty intrust the God
Lofifbeing. se
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oddea i 1 of K me ' ^bere is doubt
it y fflict5 ? a mic - !ed
.that 7 neri 20 4 a n so T bless God,
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II n Redeemer’s merits, I
shall ha? utfiis f Pet I will
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I saw in a foreign journal a report of one
of George Whitefieid’s sermons—a sermon
preached a hundred and twenty or thirty
years ago. It seemed that the reporter stood
to take tbe sermon, and his chief idea was to
caricature it, and these are some of the re
portorial iuterliniugs of the sermon of
George Whit,-field. After calling him by a
nickname indicative of a physical defect in
the eye, it goes on to say: “Heratne preacher
clasps his chin on the pulpit cushion. Here
be elevates his voice. Here he lowers- his
voice. Holds Ir.s arms extended. Bawls
aloud. Stands trembling. Makes a fright¬
ful face. Turns up the whites of his eyes.
Ciasps his hands behind him. himself. Clasps his
arms around him and hugs Boars
aloud. Halloos, jumps, cries. Changes from
crying. Halloos and jumps again.” Weil,
rev brother, if that good man went through
all that process, in your occupation, in your
profession, in your store, in your editorial shop, at
the bar, in the sick room, in the
chair, somewhere, you will have to go
through a similar process. You cannot
escape it.
Keats wrote his famous poem, and the
hard criticism of the poem killed him—lit¬
erally killed him. Tasso wrote his poem,
entitled, “Jerusalem Delivered,” aud it had
such a cola reception it turned him into a
raving maniac. Stillingfleet was slain by
his literary enemies. The frown of Henry
YIII. slew Cardinal Wolsey. Tho Duke of
Wellington refused to have the fence around
his house, which had been destroyed by the
excited mob, rebuilt, because he wanted the
fence to remain as it was, a reminder of the
mutability and uncertainty of the populat
favor.
And you will have trial of some sort. You
have had it already. Why need I prophesy;
I might better mention an historical fact in
your history. You are a merchant. What a
time you had with that old business partner;
How hard it was to get rid of him! Before
you bought him out, or he ruined both o!
you, what magnitude of annoyance! Then
after you had paid him down a^ certain sum
of money to have him go out and to promise
he would not open a store of the same kind
of business in your street, did he not
open the very same kind of busi¬
ness as near to you as possible and take
all your customers as far as he could take
them? And then, knowing all your frailties
and weaknesses, after being in your business
firm for so many in'making years, is he not now spend¬
ing his time a commentary on
what you furnished as a text? You are a
physician, and in your sickness, or doctor in your to
absence, you get a neighboring
take your place in the sick room, and he in¬
gratiates himself into the favor of that fam¬
ily, so that you forever lose their patronage. ■
Or. you take a patient through the serious
stages of a fever, and someday the impatient
father or husband of the sick one rushes
out and gets another medical practi¬ the
tioner, who comes in just in time to get
credit of the care. Or, you are a lawyer,
and you come in contact with a trickster in
your profession, and in your absence, and
contrary to agreement, he moves a nonsuit
or the dismissal of the case. Or the judge
on the bench, remembering an old political gets
grudge, rules against you every time he
a chance, and savs with a snarl. “If you
don’t like mv decision, take an exception. stings
Or, you are a farmer and the curculio
the fruit, or the weevil gets Into the wb“at
or the drought stunts the corn, or the_ long
continued rains give you no opoortuuity gets tor
gathering the harvest. Your best cow
the hollow horn; your best horse gets foun¬
dered. A French proverb said that trouble
comes on horseback and goes away on foot.
So trouble dashed iu on vou suddenly: but,
ob. how lopg it was in getting away! Came
on horseback, goes away on foot. Rapid in
coming, slow in going. That is the history
of nearly all vour troubles. Again and
again and again you have experienced the
powej the east wind. It may be blowing
from that direction now. troubles
Mv friends, God intended these
and trials for some particular purpose. promise: They
do not come at random. Here is the
“He stave,th His rough wind in the day of
the east’wlnd.” In the tower ot Londonthe
swords and the guns of other ages are burn¬
ished and arranged into huge passion flow¬
ers and sunflowers and bridal cakes, aud you
wonder how anything so hard as sleel could
be put into such floral shapes. I have to tell
you that the hardest, sharpest, mpst cutting
most piercing sorrows of this life may be
made to blcom and b'os3om and put on
bridal festivity. The Bible says they shall
be mitigated, they shall be assuaged, they
snail be graduated. God is not going to al¬
low you to be overthrown. A Christian wo¬
man. verv much despondent, was holding
her child in her arms, an I the pastor, trying
to console the woman in her spiritual depres¬
sion. said. “There, vou will let your child
drop.” “Oh, no,” she said. “I couldn’t let
the child drop.” He said, “You will let the
child drop.” “Why.” she said, “if I should
drop tbe child here, it would dash his life
out!” “Well, now.” said the Christian min¬
ister, “don’t you think God is a» good as
you are? Won’t God. your Father, take as
good care of vou. His child, as you take care
of your child? God won’t let you drop.” blow just
I suppose God lets the east wind
hard enough to drive us into the harbor of
God’s protection. We nil feel we can man¬
age our own affairs. We have helm and
compass and chart and quadrant. Give us
plenty of sea room and we sail on and sail
on: but after a while there comes a Caribbean
whirlwind up the coast, and we are helpless All
in the gale, and w» cry out for harbor.
our calculations upset, we say with the poet:
Change and decay on all around I see.
Oh, Thou who changest not, abide with me!
The south wind of mild Providence makes
us throw off the cloak of Christian charac¬
ter aud we catch cold, but the sharp east
wind of trouble makes us wrap around us
tbe warm promises. The best thing that
ever happens to us is trouble. That is a
hard thing perhaps to say; but I repeat it,
for God announces it again and again, the
best thing that, happens to U3 is trouble.
When the French army went down into
Egypt under Napoleon, an engineer, in dig¬
ging for a fortress, came across a tablet
which has been called the Rosetta stone.
There were inscriptions in three or four
languages on that Rosetta stone. Scholars
studying out the aiphao<-t of hieroglyphics
fr^m that stone were enabled to read ancient
inscriptions on monuments and on tomb¬
stones. Well, many of the handwitinsrs of
God in our life are indecipherable hierogly¬
phics. We cannot understand them until we
take up the Rosetta stone of divine inspira¬
tion. and the explanation all comes out. and
the mysteries all vanish, and wbar was be¬
fore beyond our understanding now is plain
in its meaning, as we read, “All things
work together for good to those who love
God.” So we decipher the hieroglyphics. calculat¬
Oh, my friends, have you ever It made
ed what trouble did for David?
him the sacred minstrel for all ages.
What did trouble do for Joseph? Made
him the keeper of the corncribs of
Evypt. What did it do for Paul? Made him
the great apostle to the gentiles. What did
it do for Samuei Rutherford? Made his in¬
validism more illustrious than robust health.
What did it do for Richard Baxter? Gave
him capacity to write of the “Saint’s Ever¬
lasting Rest*” What did it do for John Run¬
yan? Showed him the shining gates of the
city. What has it done for you? Since the
loss of that child vour spirit has been purer.
Since the Joss of that property you have
found out that that earthly investments are
Insecure. Since you lost your health you
feel as ever before a rapt anticipation of
eternal release. Trouble has humbled you,
has eularged you. has multiplied your re¬
sources, has equipped you, has loosened
your grasp from this world and tightened
your grip on the next. Oh, bless God for
the east wind! Ic has driven you into the
harbor of God’s sympathy.
Nothing like trouble to show us that this
world is an insufficient portion. Hogarth
was about done with life, and he wanted to
paint the end ot' all things. He put on canvas
a shattered bottle, a cracked bell, an un¬
strung harp, a sign board of a tavern called
"The World’s End” falling down, a ship¬
wreck, the horses of Phoebus lying dead in
the clouds, the moon in her last quarter, and
the world on Are. “One thing more,” said
Hogarth, “and my picture is done.” Then
he added the Droken palette of a painter.
Then he died. But trouble, with hand
mightier and more skillful than Hogarth’s,
pictures the falling, failing, moldering,
dying world. And we want something per¬
manent to lay hold of, and we grasp with
both hands after God. and say, “The Lofd
is my fortress, light, the Lord is my love, the Lord is
my the Lord is my sacrifice, the
Lord, the Lord is my God.”
Bless God for your trials. Oh, my Chris¬
tian friend, keep your spirits up by the
power of Christ’s gospel. Do not surrend¬
er. Do you not know that when you give
up, others wiil give up ? You have courage,
aud others will have courage. The Romans
went into the battle, and by some accident
there was an inclination of the standard.
The standard upright meant forward march;
tne inclination of the standard meant sur¬
render. Through the negligence of the man
wfyo carried the standard, and the inclina¬
tion of it. the aimy surrendered. Ob, let us
keep the standard up, whether it be blown
down by the east wind or the north wind or
the south wind. No inclination to sur¬
render. Forward into the conflict.
There is near Bombay a tree that they call
the “sorrowing tree,” the peculiarity of
which is it never puts forth any bloom in the
daytime, but in tne night puts out all it3
bloom aud all its redolence. And I haye to
tell you that through Christian character
puts forth its sweetest blossoms in the dark¬
ness of sickness, the darkness of financial
distress, the darkness of bereavement, the
darkness of death, “weeping may endure for
a night, but joy cometh in the morning.”
Across the harsn discords of this world rolls
the music of the skies—music that breaks
from the lips, music that breaks from the
harps aud rustles from tne palms, music like
falling water over rocks, music like wander¬
ing winds among leaves, music like caroling
birds among forests, music like ocean bil¬
lows storming the Atlantic beach. “They
shall hunger no more, neither thirst any
more, neither shall the sun light on
them nor any heat, for the Lamb which
is in the midst of the throne shall lead them
to living fountains of watet, and God shall
wipe away all tears from their eyes.” I see
a great Cnristian fleet approaching that har¬
bor. Some of the ships come in with sails
rent and bulwarks kuooked away, but still
afloat. Nearer and nearer the shining shore.
Nearer aud nearer the eternal anchorage.
Haul away, my lads; haul away! Some of
the ships had mighty tonnage, and others
were shallops easily listed of the wiud and
wave. Some were* men-of-war and armed
of the thunders of Christian battle, aud
others were unpretending tugs taking others
through the Narrows, and some were coasters
that never ventured out into the deep seas
of Christian experience; but they are all
coming nearer the wharf—brigantine, gal¬
leon, line of battle ship, longboat, pinnace,
war frigate—and as they come into the har¬
bor I find that they are driven by the long,
loud, terrific blast of the east wind. It is
through much tribulation that you are to
enter into the kingdom of God.
You have blessed God for the north wind,
and blessed Him for the south wind, and
blessed Him for the west wind; can you not
in the light of this subject bless Him for the
east wind ?
Nearer, my God, to Thee,
Nearer to Thee,
E’en though it be a cress
That raiaeth me,
Still all my song shall be,
Nearer, my God, to Thee,
Nearer to Tiiee.
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
Potatoes cost one cent a bushel at Toledo,
Ohio.
Myriads of army worms are consuming
crops near Areola, ill.
Russia has about $30,000,000 of American
gold locked up in her vaults.
There is a London firm that issues a
phatnplet containing a list of over 6000 “un¬
claimed fortunes” m this country.
Fatal bicycle accidents are now of almost
daily occurence in Great Britain. The
Whitsuntide holiday was signalized by
three.
Application was trade to the Sinking
Fund Commissioners by the New York Zoo¬
logical Society for the allotment of 261 acres
in South Bronx Park for a zoological gar¬
den.
Several excellent deposits of anthracite
coal have been discovered recently in the
Rainy Lake region of Minnesota, near the
Canadian border, by surveyors and prospec¬
tor?.
A record of train accidents in the United
States during April places the number at 04.
which included*21 collisions, 72 derailments
and 1 other accident. The number of per¬
sons killed was 23 and 104 injured.
In the Supreme Court an opinion was
banded down by Justice Brown to the effect
that bequests made to the United States for
West Point Military Academy in New York,
are taxable under the State laws of the
State.
Because of some poison gathered by the
honey bees iD Wayne County. Pennsylvania,
during the long drought of last summer, it
has been discovered that the greater num¬
ber of hives owned by the farmers have been
destroyed. ,
The Woman’s Relief Corps of Blue Ridge.
Eau., decided that if Decoration Day is to
be desecrated * by horse races, baseball
games, cock fights and fishing picnics they
will p.bandon the day to the unfeeling and
K oorting element and will decorate graves on
May 29 instead of May 30.
The Colima volcano in Mexico, after
several month? of quiet, is again in a state of
active eruption. Lava and ashes are being
be ched forth from the crater, and the grow¬
ing crops and considerable other valuable
property at the base of the mountain have
been completely destroyed. Tbe eruption is
attended with severe earthquake shocks.
It wa* decided by the United States Su¬
preme Court teat the Bannock Indians are
not entitled to hunt on “unoccupied lands”
of Wyoming, notwithstanding that in their
treaty with the Government they were
guaranteed that privilege. The State law
for the preservation of game must, it is main¬
tained by the Court, prevail. Justice Brown
gave a dissenting opinion.
The interesting intel igenee comes from
Washington that Professor Langley, of the
Smithsonian Institution, has invented a fly¬
ing machine which behaved very wall on its
trial trip. The t’escription of its working
savs that at the end of a trial, when the steam
which worked the of propellers tumbling down gave “settled out, the
machine instead
as sloxly and grace!ally as a bird.”
BUILT A HOUSE.
AN OHIO WOMAN PLANS AND
BUILDS HER OWN HOME.
Her Husband a Cripple—From Foun¬
dation to Roof the Building
Shows the Brave Wo¬
man’s Handiwork.
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YTIFE of forty-nine who has
proved herself a helpmate
indeed is Mrs. Elizabeth
A. Foster, of Portsmouth,
Ohio. Mr. Foster has but one hand.
They are hard working people. Hav¬
ing no children, by saving their earn¬
ings they accumulated enough to buy
a lot on Walnut Hills, a suburb of
Portsmouth, They soon found their
accumulations would buy the lumber,
but were not sufficient to build a
house. Air, Foster’s father was a car-
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penter, and he had learned the art of
drawing plans for buildings, but be¬
ing minus one hand and crippled in
the other he could not do any work.
Mrs. Foster’s father was also a carpen¬
ter, and in her younger days she had
spent many hours watching him in the
erection of buildings.
$he was above the average in intel¬
ligence, and had gained such a thor¬
ough knowledge of the general mech¬
anism of the trade that she concluded
she could build a house that would
afford them a comfortable home in
which to spend the declining years of
life. They together formulated the
plans and ordered the material. Mrs.
Foster then staked off the ground and
went to woik laying the brick founda¬
tion. While thi3 was new work for
her, her general knowledge of how
things ought to be served her well, and
she hewed to the lines closely. When
the chips had all fallen she found that
she had a foundation that would have
been a credit to any mechanic. Then
with the little assistance her husband
could give her, such as holding tim¬
bers and lines, she erected the frame¬
work, nailed on the weather boarding,
and was soon interesting the passers
by in her work of nailing on the
shingle roof.
Mrs. Foster is very modest, and felt
somewhat embarrassed to have people
who happened to pass that way stop
and stand for several minutes watch¬
ing her drive the nails, saw and plane,
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yet she says it is consoling to her to
Know that when clone she had a house
and owed no mechanic for building it,
“and then, you know,” she says,
“that when persons are working for
themselves they will do much better
work, and I think I have a better
house than any man would have built
for me.”
Mrs. Foster was born in Perry
County in 1847. She moved to Ports¬
mouth in 1886, and was married to
Frank Foster shortly afterward.
A Curious Lake.
A curious lake has been found in the
island of Kildine, in the North Sea.
It is separated from the ocean by a
narrow strip of land, in which
sponges, codfish and other marine an
irnals flourish, The surface of the
water, however, is perfectly fresh,
and suports daphnias and other fresh
water creatures.
The soil of Cuba has no rival, espec¬
ially for tobacco and sugar.
COTTON BOLL WEEVIL.
A Pest Which Recently Appeared in
the United States.
The Agricultural Department of tho
United States Government considers
the cotton boil weevil, a picture of
which is here shown, to be one of the
most dangerous pests that has ever
made its appearance in the United
States. It has so far confined its oper¬
ations to Northern Mexico and a lim¬
ited area in Texas. It has in some lo¬
calities shown a tendency to spread
rapidly, while in others it is said to
have been at work for years in very
small areas, and shown little signs of
extending operations. Department
experts have been at work investigat¬
ing his bugship for some months past
in the neighborhood of Brownsville on
ths Rio Grande. So far no cure has
been discovered, and many acres of
cotton have been abandoned in conse¬
quence. .
An extraordinary thing about this
creature is that it will live in a cotton
boil and nowhere else, and once secrot
ed inside of these shells it is safe from
enemies and snug and comfortable in
a bed of softest down. The-appearance
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of this insect is dreaded later in tha
year.
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Finest Church Organ,
What is said to bo the finest church
organ in the country has just been set
up in the South Congregational
Church, of New Britain, Conn. It cost
$20,000, and includes every possible
modern improvement. Its bank of
keys is movable, and electrically con¬
nected with the organ, so that the in¬
strument can be played from any park
of the church.
Two Thousand Earthquake Shocks.
The recent eruptions of Hawaiian
volcanoes recall the fact that during
the last eruption of Mauua Loa, in
1868, there were ever 2000 earthquake
shocks in twelve days. The steam
from the crater rose to a height of
about 20,000 feet.—New York Post.
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chap, how are you getting on?”
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not badly ; bnt I find I can get off bet¬
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