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the weekly constitution 6 1886 Entered et'ttoAUama foK-OOoeM*"®"' 1 -^ Ukll matter, November lt« 1X7*. SSyi^rS^Srelnb. if tec 11.00 MCb and a eopy lo gettoMP <rf Oj* A WORD WITH YOU. If Ton are not • nbicrtUr to Tho Oonutl- ttttfon, till* copy l» jo" as * ""P’** witha r^oort that joo “ff 1 "* ”•?, whether or aot you want to toko It. You peed * rood paper for IMP. Wo think Tho Confutation I* tho be.t paper yon '*"*•*- n>a**Hinntlnegt oorofoUr. Baad It, oo. par* It with other paper*. and «"'• " F«o» subscription. It wttl be the boat Investment wv aver mads. Try It one jrar and you will ntn gait ft. A PRESENT FOR OUR FRIENDS. One of the ino»t ateftil thing* a roan can have Is a stamp, and with which ho can print hla name and address. He can print It on envelopes, on card*, on letters, on circulars, on papers, oo boxes— anywhere he wants. Wo haro fitted up a splendid stamp, which prints as follows: Mr. A. J. ABERCROMBIE, Tallapoosa, Florida. With tbli Hemp pie* • Portland a botllo ol Ink which will last a year. With It a man can print hla name too time* ■ mtnnlo by almply stamping the paper. IhcoulOt cotta 79 cants. Tlila la oar offer t We will rend this stamp, with your namo and Address cut Into It, a full outfit, postpaid to every one w ho sends us a dub of firo subscribers during the month of April. This l<open to everybody, but la only open during April, as we haro only bought a limited number of stamps. Itemember-Krery one who send os a club of lire subscribers will.gat a stamp and outfit free. You can haro “Agent of Constitution” put on stamp If you desire. You can havo anything that will fill three lines, two inches long. Write your name plainly, ro we will make no mlstako. Re* sncmlx r, a club of five subscriber! in April got* this outfit without any cost to you. With It you can print your own Icttcrhoads and ourolopos. Get up a club of five subscribers at oaoe and get the stamp. Offer No. 9. Fora club of ton subscriber! we will send a business stamp such as the following. C. K. BUZBE3B3, * M.A Ll.lt IN Staple and Fancy Groceries, 102 PEACHTREE 8T., ATLANTA, OA. This ran be mini with anything yon desire, and icakee * splendid business card. With Ihla you can print your own business card., ttc., and uro money. Got ten subscriber* and you will haro thla No. 2 stamp lent you froo and postpaid, Now thaao are liberal offer,. We oan only bold (ham open for April. Oat yonr oluba at once, and eecuri these useful entries. Fora Club of ten wo will lend two of the amallor also of stamp, with dlghrentnamaaoa them, or ono of tho Ko. 2. whlchoror the club-raiser prefers. > be ATLANTA, OA, TUESDAY, AI'RII.O. Utt. Talking Thisg* Orer. If we canid print one out of it handrod Irtlrra we get praising Tiik Constitution, we abonld Dll every column on this page. Wo print jnat enough to let onr friend* oee what other frlenda tire doing, und to giro anggcatloo* for faturc work. Mosere. 0. R. and R. L. TiioMAkmin, of Murfreesboro, Ark. enclose a club and aay: “ Wo wonld not bo wilbont Tint CoNirmt’TitiN for |.1 a year. Many other* hare promianl to anbacrllie when their time to the Coiirier-Jonrnal I* cat.” These gentlemen are on tho right track, looking alter enbacrlboni to other pa- ptra and giving them Tint Constitution to examine. Mu. Wai.tkb Huttox, of Han bnry, (In., semis a club and wrllee : “Tiik Conhtiti'Tiox It gaining rapidly, and I will work for it at long a. I live." Thera 1* no computing what an earntat friend like thti can do. He ran revolution Iro hla wholo county. Mk. James M. Hunt, of Hew< bery, 8. C., aendt a club and writes: “ I will tlonbla my list by April 10th. Tho bent way to let n man know how good TllK Cox hthttion la, It to tbow it to him. Thla alwaya gate him.” What a good thing it would bo If every agent wonltl "double hit Hat,” at Mr. Hunt la going to do. Mr. F. F. Tolan, of Clinton, N. C., nendt a club and writes: "EverybodypralteaTiikCox* kthttiox, and I will ernd another'club next week.” It 1* n pleasure to canvass for a paper that everybody like*, and wo will do onr best to keep Tiik Coxntitltiox np to tbs standard. Onr hopes for March hove been realised. We already have over 8,1100 new enlMeribera enrolled, with throe daya more to boar Irani. We will gohondaomely over 10,000, which is a gnat result when other papers are losing subscribers steadily. Now, what shall April bring ni? Shall we beat 10,000 ? It Isull with yon. We will print tlio paper if yon will get the subocribere. Let no nil poll to gether and roll up a big April record. Wo are goiog to surprise yon all when we roach 100,000, with a big treat! Shall wo hare U by Christmas? Tne senate yesterday consented to resume ite constitutional function of ronflrmlng Dominations. Several of the confirmations were accompanied by the explanation that the oOcer suspended was guilty of being a republican. The nomination of the colored man, J. C. Mathews, to be recorder of deads for the district, was referred back to the committee. c The Crisis In Irish Affair A At Thursday of this week approaches, the interval in Mr. Gladstone's programme be- comes more interne. On that day he will ask the home of commons to permit him to present hfo home-rulo measure, and hla en emies will thru end there endeavor to de feat him. Whether they will 1>c able to do ao depend* upon the tire of the Chamber- latn-TrcTclyan defection. The liberals in the house nntuber .TCI, and the FarmHites SC—making tin vote* all told. There are SSI conservative voice. Tbe majority of the liberate and Parnellitee over the conserva tives la, therefore, 168. lim the two bolt ers from tbe cabinet clsim they wilt carry along with them in opposition to Mr. GUI- Stone's entire acheme tk) whig* and to radi cal*. If they can, they will beat the fol lowers of Mr. Parnell and of Mr. (ibulatons thirty-four votes. No doubt then it great hesitation and doubt owt the proposition to give Ireland a heme parliament to handle home aflairj. The Scotch members are said to be very averse to the proposition; hot when rlonbtenr consider tho situation carefully, they will be apt to see that, if tbe pacifica tion of Ireland is desirable, nothing is to bo gained by overthrowing Mr. Gladstone. Ad ditional delay, trouble and weakness, and probably bloodshed, are Invoiced in the de feat of .Mr. Gladstone’s plan. It seemi, therefore, safe to aay that the anticipated de fect ion of one hnndred votes la an overesti mate. Mr. Gladstone has Dread a hnndred critical votes in bis lifetime, and be is good condition to meet the coming one, and the general belief la that be will come out of it as be boa generally come ont of hla no- metona battles. The home-rule proposition necessarily pre cede* tho land-purchase acheme. The latter has no donbt been ridiculously misstated, In the nkaense of tbe land bill Itself—which will not bo presented until tha fifteenth day of this month—wa may safely accept the version of the Freeman’s Journal. Accord ing to the information of tbe Dublin paper, the hill will involve neither oompolaory purchase, nor the advance of any special sum from the imperial treasory. What tbe measure will enact will be the right of any owner of Innd in Ireland to claim from tbe govt tnroent of Ireland, after homo rale has been granted, the privilege of being bought cut at a sum regulated by law. This sum, the Jonrnul Boy*, will he arrived at by mul tiply lng the amount of tha rent, where It' judicially fixed, or of a fair rent, when it not rated judicially, by a term of yean to rgrerd upon by parliament. In all cases where tbe owners pnt In snclr claims to bo Iwughtout the imperial exchequer is to pro vide the purchase money. Tho Irish government is to gusrantoc re payment and is to attend to tbe basineos of irfinhnndng the empire for nil those outlays by disposing of tha purchased lands to occu pier* and collecting in the shape of pay- rut nls therefor saelt rents as will covsrtbe whole sum back in forty-nino years. A* at present framed Mr. Gladstone’s bill, accord ing to the Journal, fixes the rents to be paid by thijtcuuuls nt four per cent per annum on tho nnionnt ofthc purchase. When the ton- A bill ao just, withal, so gradual in ibiop- erallon, and so wise in its nltlmato effects, will not lie hastily rejected, especially when there are nmny stiongcombinntions interest ed in its adoption. Tho landlords want to get ont oi Ireland as much as tho Irish peo ple want them to go. The holders of Irish mortgages vronlil he glad to regnin their money. It is altogether too early, therefore, to accept tho London predictions that Mr. Glndstonc despairs of success, anil la already defeated. Theveteran statesman has n hab it of overcoming obstacles at tha last mo ment, ond be will not bo apt to accept do feat In tho approaching contest without n supremo effort to avert it. Hite Found Him. It was dnnbtlcaa some lazy, good-for-noth ing man who first compared n difficult un dertaking to “looking for a needle in a hay stack.” Tlio average man, infirm of pnrposo mid unable to see beyond the end of bis noeo, considers a needle In a haystack as good as lost, and gives it op without an ellbrt to re gain It. Hut women accomplish more dif ficult feats every day. Tako the cose of the bravo country woman whotrempetl all the way from Ohio notU the reached Rhernien's army, then on its march to AtlantA “I want to soo my hns- baiid, Jim Smith,” shesald to tho general She did not know wliat regiment, brigodo or corps Jim was In, lint aha wus determined to find him. Ofllcers, soldier* anil camp fol lower* first sneered, then laughed and final ly the word went through eighty thousand men that Jim Smith, of Ohio, had to bo found if ho wns still olive and kicking. Ho was found,and tho plucky little woman was happy. Rhe had found the lost needle in the bayatack. A more recent Inatnncc shows that a true hearted loving woman docs not know the meaning of the word Impatsible. Christine Olsen’s lover, llanseo, leftherin Sweden logo to America, where be proposed toruskaablg lortnna. For sixteen months hs wrote toher regularly from New York. Then ho got ont of work anil left tho city, and tha girl heard nothing more from him. After waiting sev eral months her father died, and as she bod a few hundred dollars aba started for this ronutry to hunt among sixty million peo ple for Hansen. In New York a man who hail known Hansen told Christine that he thought he had gone toRan Francisco. She bought a ticket (hr that city. At Chicago a confidence man induced her to sell her tick et and bny one to Omaha, telling her that he knew Ilanaen well and knew him to be in Omeha. Christine accepted tho advice, and the ticket sharper rolihed her of all her mon ey except five dollar*. Of course disappoint ment met her at Omaha, anil the had to go to work. She saved her wage i, ond two weekt ago learned that Hansen was in Kan- City. Rhe at once net out for that place, fonnd her lover, married him, nml now tho writes to her friend* that the it very happy. It may he a very hard matter togflnd a needle in a haystack,bnt lfanybody ie equal to the task it is a woman. Secretary Manning's Illness. There will be general regret among but- in era men in all partsof the country, if the sudden stroke that hat disabled Mr. Man ning compels his retirement from office. In n year's service ha lias gntuad tha confidence of intelligent men. No matter how mnoh a holiness man disagree* with him a* to the silver quution or the tariff or tho proper limit of the gold reserve, he neveriheleat consider* him n safe man, end hit retention at the head of the most important depart ment of tho government is by him consid ered very desirable. The efficiency ofhlt department was largely dne to a mattery of it* details. He had a powerful constitution, and ho nmlertook to familiarize himself with tho work of the treasury office, in all its branches. He has Btudicdtbc laws and the decisions relating ti the financial policy of tbe government, and he ho* given much time to tho consiitaration of pending legislation. Ills reports und pinipns esme from his own pen, and he has alwaya 1-cert ready lo fhrntsli information that could elsewhere be use,I. The labn in volved baa told upon him, robust as he was when he nnwillingly accepted office; and if he becomes incapacitated, the work be lus done must he considered the cause of it. Mr. Msnning no doubt felt a double re sponsibility in accepting office; tor he mere then any other man wo* instrumental in procuring Mr. Cleveland's nomination to the presidency. He had both a party and a per sonal interest in tho success of the adminis tration, and this led him, it is to be pre- tamed, to asm me the labor thst haa resulted In a very dangerous attack. He has certainly dona all he could to promote the efficiency of tho administration. He kept hisdepartment free of blenders and wealmwe*. Afewdays will show whether he will be able to reanme the work that be has so promisingly began, or whether be must seek quieter and lore responsible duties. Prison Itefbrms and Reformers. The approaching seaslon of tho prison re form asKeiatlon in this city will be apt to call attention to many subjects relating to Crimea and criminals. There are few ques tions connected with the criminal oode mors interesting, however, than the ratio between the free and tha imprisoned population. The drift, if nnchecked, will lead tostarUing re- salts. In 1850 there were 6,737 prisoners in confinement in the United States. Tbo ratio was then one criminal in every 3,442 Inhabitants. In 1800 the prisoners number ed 10,086, and the ratio was one in every 1,047. In 1870 the number hod risen to 32,- 801, and the ratio was one in 1,021. In 1880 the nnmber of criminals reached the total of SO,208, and tho ratio was one convict to ev ery 830 free men. Wo need not stop to determine when this rate of increase will place in jail the entire population, less, of coarse, tbe necessary number of persons to put them there. Hucb speculations are useless even though tho demonstration be convincing and over whelming. That is not necessarily the case is shown in places where prison reform has been vig orously applied. In England and her colo nic* in 1870 the nnmber of sentences to pe nal servitude was 11,800. Five years later it was 10,70.7, and in 188.1 it waa only 8,700. In Gloucestershire, where priaon reform has Ism tested longer than elsewhere in Eng. land, the nnmber of prisoners has (alien off over 00 per cent In thirty year*. This Brit ish system classifies offenders and promotes them from one grade to another for good behavior. It tries every kind of moral, re ligions and secular influence to create re fer m. It provides that every short sentence and the beginning of every long sentence shall 1st on tho separate system. It requires long-sentenced convict to be subjected to thorough industrial training nnder supervi sion while nt lnlior, bnt to bo kept separate at all other times. Under It thoao who are disposed to reform are discharged before their termarxpirc, and are given situations where self support is possible, bnt whore they are still nnder the eye of the author ities, to whom they report at intervals. Lit tle trouble has been found in England in se curing situations for these discharged con victs. At tho Elmira reformatory it la said that 80 per cent of those discharged have since led rcpntable lives. THE GREAT EVANGELISTS BEGIN THEIR WORK. Tho B*U Knot Compm# toe Sen. of sB.BsrX.Mo Solfslou. OatMrlna-Nearlr rivo Tbooooas People st too Flret aorvloo—Wh.t Hooey Sold oad txe Hymo OoaX«y Sons. The Hcody and Sankey meetings opened Friday at the Roll-si rest compress. The scene ss the meeting opened war one long to be remembered. In one corner of the warehouse was the great compress, capsble of crashing a hale of cotton with more esse than a small boy bites a gam drop. Tho immense iron arms were still, and the massive steam cheat* were cold and powerleaa. Jolt back of j tbe pulpit tn iron exbsast plpo ten or twelve feet in circumference passed up through t 1 -" roof. In every available foot or space, note eupied by this machinery, the sea of huauoi- fersiven, but he will have to reap the tare* just the same. Go ask the convicts in prison. Tht-v are reaping! A moment and the saeas are sown that it will take yosra and year, to harvest. It become* u* to look well to the 8t JIr. Mocdy told an experience he had with a man in Chicago, who e*me to him in private tad toid that h* wo* a fugitive from Justice, travelling under an. assumed name. Re wa* DEEPLY PKlftTBNT for hit sins, and Mr. Moody advised him to_ back, Stand hit trial and free the law. The man did ro, and reached hi* home a* night, keeping himself hid from hi* children lest the little thing! should reveal hi* presence before be was reedy to eurrendet to tho officer*. The wretched father wonld slip out of his hiding place after the children h!d gone toeloop. »u«l At- treat shot last AnrnA nnt AVflll sgoss to whether .yon woulf cot. or keep him iO, and tha 1 in favor or the devil. Yon c” votes for Christ Every P vote to keep him <jut. Every rum-eeller wonld . living 1 . ... No adulterer shall Inherit the kingdom of God. There is not s town or city on the 'face ’ of the earth that wonld vote to havo him comeback. They don’t.wont him. Yon colored people wonld like to have -him corat? Yon think yon wonld? Are yon sure about I,? - Mend, think! There tttrald be a-t Come, my l , . ... overwhelming majority against him. There la no room in thla world for tho Son of Qod, If there woe he woald be bock here to day. Bat he is coming baek! Than kGod tho time It cofu- wttcb hi* little ones that he dared not even kiss. At lest he gave up, was tried end sent to the penitentiary. He bed to reap— Mr. Moody urged these present that if they died in their sine they could not go into the ^InYkepuljdtset a very large, heavy «et man, with iron gray hair, whfekOT that cov- preaence of the Savior. There wa* once landslide on a railroad and a man went out t motion down a train with a lantern. He fell and the lamp broke and went ont. He had no light, bnt at the engine pooled, he hurled SId'hil freebrown eyea’i* black suit with the broken lantern at the engineer whoun- ** _ li.l mIU* ?li«r. I ^Avtf/uid (hft hmkftii ftivnnl Ana tha (mMmlini cutaway coat, and a high standing collar that deretood the broken drool and the Impending cuiawny , * , , . I A.nonr wMAvrrtnl. “Dear frlenda. I throw •bon. ^ If it ’was just from a Chiume foundry IffS? Ono wonld have taken him for a rich maa of the broken lantern at yon tonight, told Mr. business. There wa* a rettlesa look in his | Moody. . May God help yon. brown eyes and an expression of unspeakable earnestness In his face. That wts Moody. A I,lib For a Joke. Tbe flood* tn this part of the country had depressing effect upon the April fool joker. But hi* inventive genlns, his malice, and hi* capacity for lying were not wholly para lyzed. Already the reports of the first of April cnnndtles are beginning to reach ni from re mote sections. Onefef there tragedies de serve* a posting notice. Yonng Mr. Tom Rogers, at Kanfinan, Texas, was itching to get off n first-class April fool joke. He went to Dr. Mosley’s office and wrote an order on the slate for the doctor to go three miles In the country to see a young lady who was critically 111. Of comae the doctor suspected nothing when bo read hla slate. never occurred to him that anyone wonld trick him abont such a serious matter. Ho rode out to see his patient and fonnd that ho had been made the victim Of a cruel hoax. When ho returned to Kanfman he was boil ing with rags. He ascertained that Rogers was responsible for tha Joke, and meeting the yonng man he at ones attacked him with a knife. Tbe doctor waa ftirions and showed no merry. He stabbed Rogers re peatedly in tbe ftcc, nock and body, and did not let up nntil he had inflicted several fatal wonnda. 1 Hack a hatchery was not jnstified by the provocation, bnt Rogers brought his punish, meat upon himself. His Idiotic lltU-r joke was wall calculated to provoke wrath, and tho man who without just cause makes hi* neighbor angry should stand the cenwqnen- ces. If Kaufman could get rid of all its foolbh April fool jokers tbe community wonld he better off. Wild I toga at l'tn'i Point* Com*i*>nd»nc© New York Tints. Prgg’! Point Is % prominent point of rock* slung U>c line of the We#t Shore rtllrot-J, project ing nearly to (ho water’s edge of theiltulaon river, about half o mile north of Marlborough. When tho West Shore road waa being built many men were employed drilling and blasting at IYgg’a Point, m waa one of the worst "cuts” on the Une. One of laborers wsa known as “Yank.” He w. Frenchman who had a fondness for dog*. When he went away from tho Point one day In IMl, he left two ftill bloodcd fit, Bernard* In charge of a Mr* Horan, whot ran tho big boarding- home shanty there. When that nart of tha.We<t 8hore road was completed, nearly four years ago, the 8t. Bernards and other dogs, for reasons un valued, were left behind on tbe promontory. Tho deg* mutlplied, and in some instance* paired with foxes. At various place* along the Central Hud son the animals are now known as ' the wild dog* of Pegg'a rolnt.” Several attempt* have been m*do lately to capture young specimen*, but without suc cess. Five or sU months ago a Marlborough man trapped a young pup. It has grown to be a large, line dog. though it still retains a liking for ro na and food that foxcsarc fond of generally. It 1* sta ted that the town authorities mean to get rid of the grotesque, and, it may prove, dangerous quadru peds In the near foture. If that la dono lluda m river boatmen will miss the dogs, for on very dark nights or In extreme foggy weather tho howls of the canines servo as a lighthouse and a foghorn combined, locating Pegg's Point as effectually as if lights and a eonoroos Mil were used there. Pas sengers on West Bbore trains occasionally see tbo timbered piece of unbroken land. Ovar Three Regimenta of April Hen. There are 5,300 Constitution men whose sub scriptions expire In April. This Is three foil regi me nu and a battalion. Drawn up in Uue they would make a line army. How ntsny ol thus* lo'dlm w 111 re onlUt? Will any of them be mustered out finally? Won't every man, every fqnad. every company, every regiment me marching up shoulder to shoulder, re-enllsied thewarf We hate to tee any of the old vet ersns fall out. Potter than all. won’t every Cox- STITVT105 koldter bring up a now recruit, so tint every company and every regiment mif be doubled, and tha April regiments grow into an April brigade? Let us bmi the Lrlgade, and the man who brings in the most recruits during April shall be published as the brigadier-general, and will rend his wife one of our sewing machlua*. Now, ell foil In and go to work, and let ns see who will be briradler-generalof the 4prtl brigade will have hla uniform made oo the sewing machine we will present to hla wife. Ladles, get your husbands to cuter for thU competition. Just back of the pulpit ant a man of extra ordinary statue, tail, broad shouldered, and with strongly outlined features. He haa buck •ido whisker* and mustache, ira<bald nearly back to his neck and bis face boro a pleasant expression somewhat in contrast to tho flinty earnritncu of Mr. Moody. Ho too <v*3 attired in a dark bniins.* suit. Thst vrs* Sankey. Mr. Moody aroas nnd glanced at tho congre gation with hla pisreing, earncit eyes. Ont of a littlo Bildo ho resd hi, toxt in tho gf,th chapter of Exodn*. in which Uosc* i* di nted to speak to tho children of lame), direct ing that they bring offering* for tho building of tho tabernacle—'"Gold and illver and bran, and biao nnd parnlo and scarlet and flno liaon •nd goat’s hair," etc. All must bring something, Mid the preacher. It they could not bring gold, thsy could bring silver, and if they could not bring silver, tboy could bring brass, and if thsy could bring none of tbtis, then the other things, evon to goat’s hair. So a man brings the boat ho can mud There is a tendency to dll- credit tome part* of the Blue. It is tha fash ionable thing. A man says "well, you know I believe tbs Bible, that la, I believe moat of It. I do not believe ail tho Old Testament. Thors are somo thing* I cannot believe.’’ "Whst arc they?” The very things that men aro caviling abont are the very things God set his teal to. A man says, “I don’t be lieve tho story of Noah.’’ Chrla’t said “as it waa in the days of Noah.’’ The man saya, “I don’t believe about Lot and Sodom.” Christ says. “As it was in tho days of Lot," etc., and "remember Lot’s wife.” Man says, lng! God haa decreed thatrJesus Christ shall wield his sceptre from tho riveretotheenda of the earth: There le one thing la theBible that is especially touching to mo. It is la tho seventh chapter of John. “Every man went to hi* own bouse end Jeans went to the Mount of Olives." Jesus went to the Mountof Olives because he had no home to go- to. There wsa hardly a home in Jerusalem that received him. Mutha received him Into her house. She Invited him to her house and he always 8 oes where he i* invited. Tired and weaiy, a always found welcome at Bethany. He loved to go to Betheny. One day a dark cloud settled down over that beau tiful home and there wsa sorrow there. Per haps you think you caw get aloka without Jesus. Listen I The time is coming when you will need him 1 Every soul in the round of my voice will need him some day. Little did Martha *ud Mary think they would need him to soon. I see Lazarus come in with one bend on hit forehead. A bod headache. He is afraid he be* some fever. I see Mutha end Maty minister unto him.' A doctor is called. Lazarus grows worse. At last the doctor tolls tho end story. gives it willingly it is acceptable to God. Every child of God has tbe privllego of work ing for God. None are to weak or ao small thst they cannot do something. God does not choose the strong things ef this earth for His purposes. Man wants tho strong things. God chooses the weak and foolish things that no flesh may glory in Ills sight." John fomented thst there wo* none In heaven worthy to open the book. But tho lion of the tribe of Judah prevailed, and thst lion wa* tbe tlnln lamb. If we have tho heart, Godwin qualify ne. You have read of tho wondorful rod of Moses. It was a stick, sim- unui iuuui a* hh ■ (tick, sim ply. He could havo found a hundred hotter, out f iut God told him to uee.lt for the deliverenco of the children of Israel. That rod turned water into blood. When Holes wanted to bring the frogs up, all ho had to do was to itrotch out the rod and they cams. Egyp never saw SO DAISY FROGS before. Y’ou couldn’t stop for them; they got into tho kneading troughs, and they conldn't cook bread without tbe frogs got Into it. “Take them away” cried tho king. Plsgni after plague did the rod bring, nntil tho king told Moses to take hla people away, for he was in;., uuu AtAAitJuuLA ijuk a fflio, UKU M/D, 'I don’t believe the three million people were fed with manna from heaves.” Christ says, “Yonr fathendid eat manna in the desert and they aro dead. I am tho bread that ho* come down from heaven.'’ Mon rays, 'Tdon’tbe- Beve tho story of the brazen sorvent.” Christ ■ays “As Moses lifted up tho serpent la tbo wilderness, even so must tho Boa of maa be lifted up.’’You don't believe the story of Jonah and tho whale? Christ says "tho only sign shall he Jonah and the whale.” sciKtenric mew My tho whale could not havo awallowed Jo nah. Bead tho book: “God prepared a great fish to swallow Jonah.” Gad could create a fish large enough to swallow this world. It fo *11 one book interwoven. It la impossible to throw ont one portj'wlthout throwing out tho other. When I throw ont ono pert I will throw it all sway. When a man gets to pick ing the Bib!* to pieces, it only take* him about fivo yean to pick everything away ex cept the coven. When a man bring!me spoilage that l can 1 explain, I don’t try to explain it, for this is supernatural Bible; but I believe it, although I cannot nndentand it. You cannot under stand tho winds. Would you dare to My there aro no winds? Do you believe what was Hid of Christ? Death, disease anddevlli obeyod Him. Every day something supernatural too* place. When He died tbo sun refused to look upon the scene. Creation know its God nnd recognised Him. Let us take the things we can explain and praiso God for that. You will have no trouble with the Biblo it your heart is right. Man living in Bin al ways bos trouble with the Bible, for it con- Tho brother cannot livo. Whoro le Jesus? A messenger Is sent and eome* back. Jesus said the sickness wss not unto death. How could that be? Lazarus woe by that time already deed and they buried him. Faith be gan to waiver. Tho fourth day thn tua 1s go ing down behind Moaut Olivet. A little boy runs in to Mary and Martha, raying: "The MHter 1s just outside the wall of the city.” Mattha went ant to meet him, and says: “It thou badst been here Lauras would not havo died.” “Thy brother shall rise again.” My friends, did the world over hear any tiling like that? “I know bo will rise at the resurrec tion," seyt Martha. “1 tm thn resurrection and the life. Hethat believeth In me, though he wore dead, yet shell he live!” says tho Saviour. Thank God for the glorious morning thst Is fhere havo you fold him?” Thoy toll him. Jesu* wept. I am glad Jesus wept in that journey to the •ctin!clirc,I am glad I have a Saviour who can SYMPATHIZE WITH ME. He went to tho grave and said: "Take away - the stone,” and when the stone was rolled awey he cried. “Lezarut! como forth!” and Lazarus came right ont. “Loose him and lot him got” I tell you my friend* these gnve yards will blossom eome day. There will be life there. Did Martha make a mistake in receiving Christ into her home ? If yon get Christ you get something death cannot tonoh. Death may get this body, bnt I’ll get a better one. It »V1U UVSCB Ml MHO HID {IWPID UFf»/t sw uo •,«* | demns him. Christians should read all the glsd to get rid of them. The rod aid IDs work Bible. They should not neglect any part of will bo like changing a cabin for a beautiful palace. Everything before the ' well. When they come to the Rod sea all Hoses htd to do was to stretch out the rod and they passed over on dry land. When they were thirsty, tbe rod brought from tho rock a beautiful stream of crystal water. God was simply’ using an old dried np stick. He can use you. Take whst yon have got and go abont yonr work' If you eon’t preach you can sing, if —. —v I,—,, -hildr yon can't sing you can teach little children the way to Goo’* kingdom. Look at Ramson! He did not go oat with a Damascus blade, or s rifle. Look at |D*vld and Goliath: look at. ■ fflUOe Jswa ■» |V«TIU turn uviwtu, iwb t»» Gideon! Let the cry be, “The sword of the Lord and Gideon!” The God of Gideon, and David and Sami in and Moses still lives! I havo beard of zeal without knowledge, bnt I would rather have zeal without knowledge-than knowledge without zeal. Boms men are top heavy—^wo want a heart with a hood. Yon should ray: “Here I am, God, take me and me me.” I nevereaw amen or woman effi cient In God'eservico that did not begin in a •moll trey. A man who wm always waiting nntil he could do something great droamed he died and went to heaven end was shown a temple completed except that one little stone wee left out. "Why is thir?” ho asked. “That,” wts tbe reply, "us intended for yon, but I ron wanted something bigger nnd yon wero eft out.” Lead the little children to God, It tin woddeiful thing to bo the instrument ct leading one little boy to God. Tho boy may be como the means of sayitto nvKnuim and thousands. Mother*, yonr work isnot small. 8ee whst tho mother of the Weeleye did. Mother, tasks np yonr mind to iMd yonr family to the laird Jesus Christ, Sabbeth school tescher, reconsecrate yourself to God; Sunday school superintendent mako np yonr mind that yon Trill take a coal from the attar of God and rekindle the fire In yonr school. Preachers, make np yonr mind to hove souls nr die! Re member everyone that “fle thst watereth shall himself be watered.” Mr. Moody then told a beautiful story of * friend who hod taken consumption and wa« nearing death’s door, bat who could not recall that he had iron a soul to Christ. The friend wm deeply troubled and the two men went earnestly to work together end the entire Sunday school clou of the friend wm eon' verted. Tk* services at 7:30 lost night were for men onl^ bntjscvcral ladies were present with the Mr. Moody sold a man cenlddncelve himself, his friends and the people, bathe coaid not de ceive God. Men expects to reap when ho sows. II* expect* to nap more than he sow*. He expects to reap tho same sort of seed as ho sows. Ignorance of the kind of oced he fo sow ing will make no difference. The mechanic who learns a trade expects to reap. The mer chant who hays goods expects to reap. All men are looking to tbe harvest time. It It eo in the spiritual world. There 1* seed time and harmt, and the harvest time Is coming. Yon do sot sow wheat and reap watermel ons. Yon do not sow encum ber* and nap turnips. You can't plant potatoes and get cabbage*. A man who [cams the blacksmith trade don’t expect to be t tailor. God mokes men reap the some kind of seed they sow. If yon teach your eon to lie to other people he will soon lie to yon. Atido from tho question of religion, man cannot afford to sell liquor. Ho who does It will bring down the rune on hi* own family, OOD MADE ADAM HEAP whet he lowed. God mode Cain reap whst he sowed. God made Jacob re ip what he sowed, and hfo sin of deception came beck to him ten fold, for ten eona lied to him. “Bo ears that yonr sin will find yon out.” David fell into thesm of adultery and then into the sin of mnider, and hla heart was torn and hs wailel in despair. Tho reaping time came to him. If on reduce some man's daughter and destroy :r soul auil body, some bfockheated villain ill ruin jours. I would like to pass over ti ls sin of adultery, but the timo has come to spisk of it. I don’t know of a quicker way down to kill tlauhy adultery. The guilty rti will lie to his wife, will lie to hii author, luau by hit fair pnnmsca rums a woman, la lu rot her virtue, destroys hersoul and it. Think how tbo prophecies were fulfilled. Every Jowls a walking monument of God’s covenant with Abraham. God never broke bis word. There wonld bo a Jubilee in hell today If it could lie fonnd that God had broken hltwoid. Christ Hid “heaven and earth •hall pasi away, bnt my word shall not pass awsy.’’ What would » modern Freethinker havo thought or such words foiling from tho lips of w Jewish peasant? There were no shorthand reporters then to take down hie words, and no printing presses, and yet hfo words have i been translated into three hundred and fifty different langusgces, and there have been more Bibles priuted in tho fost eight years, than in tho first 1800. INFIDEL* TELL US the Biblo fo going out of date. Thank God, It Is jntt coming in. Two hundred million Bibles have been issued in the lMt fifty years. A little boy asked his mother what thn moon did when tho dog barked at it. ‘ My child,” wm tbe reply, "it just keeps on shining.” In fidels bark sway at tbe Bible, but it keeps on •hiniuy. Somo peoplo My they don’t bellevo in sudden conversion. I suppose if a man stole a thousand dollar* last year and ha wanted religion you wonld tell him to steal only five hundred next yttr, two hundred and fifty tho year after, a hundred the next year, and if tn tbe meantime hb employers caught him he could toll them be was getting con verted gradually. If a man gote drunk and heate hfo wife every week, ho ought to first get revesare aa.re ntaw wilij ffwa.UU VUgUlt IV USDtr Kills drank And boat nil wife only once in two weeks, then once a month, then once In two months, and if In tho meantime ho did not kill her, ho wonld gat converted after awhile. The cbnreh wants more Bible preaching. It la getting tired of spread-eagle oratory, where the preacher gives hla flock a littlo geology, a little botany, little metaphysica and allttlo ac:anca, and onder* why the people don’t feed on the wonders Bible. The text wu a part of the 7th verse of tho second chapter of Luke: “Bccauso there wh no room for them in the inn.’’ The preacher sold they laid him In the manger because there wm no room for them in the inn. The heart fo very much like the inn st Batbsny—no room for Chrlat. For four thousand yean the prophets hod been prophe- ; forward tying and the people hod been looking ft for tho Bavlor, and whan he come there wm so room for him. The first thing we hear was that there was no room for him. Same My If they hod known it was him they woald have prepend for him. Don't believe that. When thewfoe men followed the star to where the trno believer Is glorious. I expect when I got to heaven to ting tweeter than Mr. Rsnkey sings now. I can’t make it go new, but I will after a while. A voice—“Me too." My frail body will be fashioned like my Saviour’s. Many voice*—"Yee, yea, yes.” Paul says, “Sown In corruption, raised in la- corruption; sown In weakness, raised in power; •own in dishonor, tailed in glory; sown In a natural body, raised a spiritual body.” I’m jotng to moke something oat of death. “Oh, death, where is thy sting?” "Oh; grave, where 1s thy victory?” Make room for Christ now. Listen! "Beheld I stand at the door and knock! If any man hears my voico and opon tha door, I will como in to him. and anp with him and ha with mo. Open the door of yonr heart, dear friend, and w, “Welcome thrice, welcome eon of God, into this heart.” To illustrate • motbor's love for her child, Mr. Moody told of a boy who had been brought np by hfo father In vices of different kinds,hfo father being a very wicked man. Tha father died, and the son ran awsy from hfo widowed mother and led a wild, roving life. The son wu afterward arrested and tried for murder in Vermont, where bis mother lived. In the trial it developed that he hod killed five other men besides tho ono for which he waa on trial. When the trial wu progressing a poor old lady was to bo seen near the prisoner. Sho wu not ashamed to stood before tho wholo world and My that this criminal wm hor son, and when the jury aworo his life sway her •creams and anguish were heartrending to witncee, and when the verdirt wsa rendered pronouncing hfo death-kuell the feinted. All tho while that thla poor mother's heart wu being wrenched tho crowd around wero joor- log and hooting at the prisoner, and she alone tried toahleld him. Sire used every effort to J ;et him pardoned by the governor,nnd, felling n this, asked as a last favor that whoa the law had token Its course, and the only being she loved WM dud, to please let her have him buried In her little graveyard, where obe could plant flowers over hfo grave and care for him whom all tha world baa despised. When, a year later, this poor old lady died of a broken heart, aha requested ou her deathbed that her body might bo placed betide her boy. This story thowahow true a mother can love her child. "Reek the Lord while he may be found.” Lots of men think they seek it but they don't It don’t take an anxious sinner and an anx- lona Saviour long to get together. They don’t >uld find. God never Instead of the holla ringing and bands playing and cannon boom ing to tbink tho promfoed Messiah had come, there wu not even room for him. Didn’t wont him! You can’t find a place thst wanted him, while he wu In this world. There wu not a city or town or hardly a family that wanted him. If he went bock to Nazareth to preach there wu no zoom for him. He came to preach the goapel to the poor. Yon may live toboahuudredyeanola, bat yon will never bear better newt than the goapel of Joans Chrlat Many people bear it as if It wu bad sews. The gospel is the best news that ever came from earth to huven. It It the OLAD TIDINGS OF OBEAT JOY, for nnto yon fo born s Savior. Will the world ever beer better news than thst? He came to proclaim liberty. Yon all know what liberty is. Wm there ever a town exalted so quickly as Nsz'.retb? Jorusalem looked down upon her end thought there conld not bo a greater •tigms pot npon tbe Savior than to coll him “Jcsns of Nazareth.” What mast have been the 8tvtor’e feelings to think there wm no ono in hfo own town that wonted him! A few years ego the pnnee of Woles came to this country, and everybody went wild over him. There was nothing good enough for him; bat when the Prince of Heaven came to (urtb. there wm nothing bed enough for him. Xo hoods of music, no shouts of wel- rrnie, but blurs went op frem earth to heaven: ” We dc n’t want him! ” He had como to save tbe li ft, to give sight to the blind, and to save peer sinners like yon and me. Yet not a city or town wanted hint. Do you think tho world try to utk or they aoolt converted two people joat alike, and He nev er will. God never reposts himself. There are no two people alike. They may look alike but they don’t think alike. There fo variety in God’s kingdom. I knew a man la my town who wu converted in the meadow on a mowing machine. He advised all the people to go there and find the Lord. Another one wee converted on a bridge, and he advised his friends to go to tho bridge and find tbo Lord. TUX C1ADLE TO THE OBAVE. Lift yonr eyu to tho great city-—a city with out night, s city without a cemetery, a city with > “‘6“*) nwt/ wiMiuutaa mhuliwj. DUtT niu hearse* dragging alowly along tho streets, l city with no gray hair*, but whom all U per petual youth; a city where there i* no sickness, no death, no weeping, where life la eternal. Can yon spam inch gift? Will you do It?" W1U you go out and uy yon don’t want it? Think of God taking np the poor drunkard and lifting high above the angels, archangels, cherubim* and Seraphima, np beyond all thoao and to the throne with Blnuelf! Can yon afford to go ont.wlthont this gift? Yon can receive It here. Don’t yon believe it, Dr. Eddy!" "Yee.” "Don’t yon, Dr. Hawthorne?” dV«. »» "Yu,” The text Implies that the time fo coming when He can’t be found. When Gad shuts the door, there fo no hope. Cell npon nim while He la near. Say ‘God, bo merciful to me a sinner.’ That U the prayer. Prey it IT.’ll h body Nnd sho goes to death, white hepronlly has improved any ? Do you think they want elks dqwu the able with bis pure wife Iran- him today ? Do you Udow of any town or city g on h's atm. IL- you thick God i* going to low such a thing in Ilfs kingdom? The litre hss come for men to -ouk o:lt. It the n.-'-tdevilish iniquity in this country, is a twin sitter tn whisky. I hope tho time ill ccmc when the nut t who is impure will be tkronu cut of society ["Amen,” araco,” amen” from the preachers and great applause from the congregation.] Mr. Moody Mid he didn’t like applause. If a man sows tare* he will reap tana If he sews tares with bis wheat he will nap tores with hla wheat- He easy be oorty, he any be way I . that wruid like to have him come aod reign inj-ertru- If ycu think you do you are greatly miataken. There Is Dot a town er city on the face uf the earth that wants tbe Son of Gtd. aud it would be shewn hy popular vote. If that vote could be taker. There is net a solitary place in this country that has room for him. Eogland claims to be a Christian country. Does E-tg- land want him? If the did, • good deal of hor boainsM would be clootd np-. DOBS AMERICA WANT HIM ? - I BBderotand yon had a to* here net tong now, while I tm preaching. He’ll hear yon. He is here tonight. He fo ready to uva yon. There is NO MUSIC BO SWEET the cry of a penitent. God help yon to make It. "Sctk first the kingdom of God sad Hii rifbteonsnrES, and all tbuo things shall be eedtd nnto you.” There are fifteen hundred ordinary sermons in that. The reason so many lives are failures fo because they don’t obey Gcd. With rich and poor there is no differ ence. The Bible mother gave yon hM yonr name cn the fly-Ieafand the text Matthew vL, 33. You havn’t looked at it! Go to your home and read it. Mather wrote it there for yon.” Mr. Mccdy went on to relate a teaching •tcry abont a man who lived near him. ana who fonght against the holy gbostuntil ha wm crasy and tent to tbe asylum. The text wm written in hfo Bible. HU Mather gvrt It .to him, bnt be sold that ha wonld net aeek nntB he was settled in p* died a manioc. . .