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AS.RAMED TO 1VIE T GOD
WI VII FEWER.
'Talking Agaiinst Revivals—The Sin
Against the 1tloiy Ghost—Religions
Excitement Salutary -Tho Great Re-
vivalist of the Past --The Stormy See
of Like
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Dr, Talmage chose for the subject of
;his s+•rmon through he press to -day the
Objections to Religious I evivals, from
the next, Luke 5: 6, "They inclosed a
,great multitude of fishes, and their net
broke."
Simon and his comrades had experienc-
ed the night before what fishermen call
"poor 1uok." Christ steps on board the
'fishing samesed tolls the sailors to pull
away front the beach, and directs them
.again to sink the net. Sure enough,
very soon the net is full of fishes, and
the sailors begin to haul in. So large a
school of fish. was taken that the hardy
men begin tolook red in the face they
as
pull, and hardly have they began to re -
vine at their success when snap goes a
thread of the net, and snap goes another
thread, so there is danger of not only
losing the fieh, but of losing the net.
Without much care as to how much
the bait tilts, or how much water is
.splashed on board, the fishermen rush
'about gathering up the broken meshes of
the net, Out yonder there is a ship
dancing on the wave, and they hail it.
"Ship ahoy ! bear down this way P' The
ship comes, and both boats, both fishing
smacks, are filled with the floundering
'treasures.
"Ah!" says some one, "how much bet-
. ter it would have been if they had stay-
ed on shore, and fished with a hook and
line, and taken one at a time, instead of
having this ,;treat excitement and the
'boat almost upset, and the net broken,
and having to call for help, and getting
sopping wet with the sea !' The church
is the boat, the Gospel is the net, society
is the sea, and a groat'lrevival is a whole
school brought in at one sweep of the net.
I have admiration for that man who goes
out with a hook and line to fish. I ad-
mire the way he unwinds the reel, and
adjusts the bait, and drops the hook in a
,quiet place on a still afternoon, and hero
,catches one and there one ; but I like also
a big boat, and a largo crew, and a net a
mile long; and swift oarx, and stout sails,
,and a stiff breeze, and a great multitude
--of souls brought—so great a multitude
that you have to get help to draw it
ashore straining the net to the utmost
until it breaks here and here, letting a
few escape, but bringing the great multi-
tude iuto eternal safety.
In other words, I believe in revivals.
'he great work of saving men began
ith three thousand people joining the
church in one day, and it will close with
forty or a hundred rn'illion people saved
in twenty-four hours' when nations shall
'be born in a day. :But there aro objec-
tions to revivals, People are opposed to
them because the net might get broken,
and if by the pressure of souls it does not
:get broken, then they take their own
penknives and slit the net. "They in-
closed a great multitude of fishes and the
net brake."
It is sometimes opposed to revivals of
religion that those who come into the
church at such times do not hold. out ; as
.`long as there is a gale of blessing they
:have their sails up; but as soon as strong
winds stop blowing, then they drop into
,a dead calm. But what are the faces in
the case? In all our churches, the vast
majority of the ,useful people are those
who are brought in under great awaken-
ings, and they hold out. Who are the
,ti prominent men in the United States in
-churches, in prayer meetings, in Sabbath
•schools? For the most part they are the
product of great awakenings.
I have noticed that those who are
brought into the Kingdon. of God through
revivals have 'more persistence and more
determination in the Christian life than
those who come in under a low state of
religion. People born in an icehouse
may live, but they will never get over
the cold they caught in the icehouse. .A.
•Dannon ball depends upon the impulse
with which it starts for bow far it shall
,go and how swiftly; and the greater the
revival force with which a soul is started
the more far-reaching add far -resound-
ing will be the execution.
But it is sometimes objected to revivals
that there is so much excitement that
people mistake hysteria for religion.
We must admit that in every revival
of religion there is either a suppressed or
a demonstrated excitement. Indeed, if a
man can go out of a state of condemna-
tion into a state of acceptance with God,
or see others go, without any agitation of
soul, he is in an unhealthy, morbid state,
and is as repulsive and absurd as a man
who should boast he saw a child snatched
out from under a horse's hoofs and felt
no agitation, or saw a man rescued from
:a fourth story of a house on fire and felt
no acceleration of the pulses.
Salvation :from sin and death and hell
into life and peace and heaven forever. is.
-such a tremendous thing, that if a man
'tells me he can look on it without any
.agitation, I doubt his Christianity. The
fact is, that sometines excitement is the
most important possible thing. In cases
-of resuscitation from drowning or freez-
ing, the one idea is to excite animation.
Before conversion we aro dead. It is the
`business of the Church to revive, arouse,
awaken, resuscitate, startle into life. Ex-
citement is bad or good according to what
it makes us do. If it makes us do that
which is bad, it is bad excitement; but if
fit makes us agitated about our eternal
welfare, if it makes us pray, if it make
ns cry unto God for mercy, then it is a
good excitement.
It is sometimes said that during reviv-
als of .religion, great multitudes of chil-
en and young people are brought into
t e Church and they do not know what
2ley are about. It has been my observe-
tibn that the earlier people come into
the Kingdom of God, the more useful
they are.
Robert Hall, the prince Of Baptist
preachers, was converted at twelve years
-'of age. It is supposed he knew what he
Matthew 'Henry,was about. the com-
mentator, who did more than any man
.. riicis
cent -Airy for increasing the interest
to the study of the Scriptures, was con -
vetted at eleven years, of age; Isabella
Graham, immortal in the Christian
Church, was converted at ten years of
•ago ; Dr. Watts, who hymns will be sung
•all down the ages, was converted at nine
years of age; Jonathan Edwards, perhaps
the mightiest intellect that the American
pulpit ever produced, was converted at
seven years of age ; and that father and
mother take an awful responsibility when
they tell their children at seven years of
• , " a are too Ours=' to be a Chris -
,age, 'Yo _ • yet=
*,ian," or 'Your aro too you to con -
nest yourself with the Church." That is
a mistake as long as eternity.
If dosing a revival two persons present
themselves as .candidates for the church,
and one is ten years of age and the other
is forty years of age, I will have more
confidence in the profession of religion of
the one ton years of age than the one.
forty years of age. Why? The one who
;professes at forty years of age has forty
years of impulse in the wrong direction
to0
c rreot rhoi
c,h ld has onlyYr
nl ten years
in the wrong direction to correct. Four
times ten are forty. Pour times the re-
ligious 1 ou.
i i 9 •Othat
prospect ect for the 1
6 p padcomps
into the kingdom of God, and into the
church at ten years of ago than the man
at forty.
I am very apt to look upon revivals as
connected with certain men who foster-
ed them. People who in this day do not
like revivals, nevertheless have not words
to express their admiration of the reviv-
alists of the past, for they were revival-
ists—Jonathan Edwards, John Wesley,
George Whitehead, Fletcher, Griffin,
Davis, Osborne, Knapp, Nettleton and
many others whose names come to my
mind. The strength of their intellect
and the holiness of their lives make me
think they would not have anything to
do with that which was ephemeral. Oh!
it is easy to talk against revivals.
A man said to Mr. Dawson : "I like
your sermons very much, but the after
meetings I despise. When the prayer -
meetings begin I always go up into the
gallery y a rid look down, and I am dis-
gusted." "Well," said Mr. Dawson,
"the reason is you go on the top of your
neighbor's house and look down his chim-
ney to examine his lire, and of course
you only get smoke in your oyes. Why
don't you come in the door and sit down
and warm?"
Oh ! I am afraid to say anything
against revivals of religion, or against
anything that looks like them, because I
think it may be a sin against the Holy
Ghost, and you know the Bible says that
a sin against the Holy Ghost shall never
be forgiven, neither in this world nor the
world to come. Now, if you are a painter,
and I speak against your picture, do I not
speak against you! If you are an archi-
tect, and I speak against a building you
put up, do I not speak against you? If a
revival be the work of the Holy Ghost,
and I speak against that revival, do I not
speak against the Holy Ghost. And who-
soever speaketh against the Holy Ghost,
says the Bible, he shall never be for-
given, neither in this world nor the world
to come. I think sometimes people have
made a fatal mistake in this direction.
Many' of you know the history of Aaron
Burr. He was one of the most brilliant
n10Il
f
o his day.I
suppose country
pp this .in ry
never produced a stronger intellect. He
was capable of doing anything good and
great for his country, or for the Church
of God had he been rightly disposed ;
but his name is associated with treason
against the United States Government,
which he tried to overthrow, and with
libertinism and public morality.
Do you know where Aaron Barr started
on the downward road. It was when he
was in college, and he became anxious
about his soul, and was about to put him-
self under the influences of a revival,
and a minister said : "Don't go there,
Aaron, don't go there ; that's a place of
wildfire and great excitement ; no religion
about that; don't go there." He tarried
away. His serious impressions departed.
He started on the downward road. And
who is responsible for his ruin? Was it
the minister who warned him against
that revival?
When I am speaking of excitement in
revivals, of course I do not mean tempo-
rary derangement of the nerves; I do
not mean the absurd things of which we
have read as transpiring in the Church
of Christ, but I mean an intelligent, in-
tonse, all -absorbing agitation of body,
mind and soul in the spiritual escape and
spiritual rescue.
Now I come to the real, genuine cause
of objection to revivals. That is the cold-
ness of the objector. It is the secret and
hidden but unmistakable cause in every
case—a low state of religion in the heart.
Wide-awake, consecrated, useful Chris-
tians are never afraid of revivals. It is
the spiritually dead who are afraid of
having their sepulchre molested. The
chief agents of the devil during a'great
awakening are always unconverted pro-
fessors of religion. As soon as Christ's
wort: begins, they begin to gossip against
it, and take a pail of water and try to
putout this spark of religious influence,
and they try to put out •;another spark.
Do they succeed? As well when Chicago
was on fire might some one have gone out
with a garden water -pot trying to extin-
guish it.
The difficulty is that when a revival
begins in a church it begins at so many
points, that while you have doused one
anxious soul with a pail of cold water,
there are five hundred other anxious souls
on fire. Oh ! how much better it would
be eo lay hold of the chariot of Christ's
Gospel and help pull it along rather than
to fling ourselves in front of the wheels,
trying to block their progress. We will
not stop the chariot, but we ourselves will
be ground to powder.
Did you ever hear that there was once
a convention held among the icebergs in
the Arctic? It seems that the summer
was coining on and the sun was getting
hotter and hotter. and there was danger
that the whole icefield would break up
and flow away ; so the tallest and the
coldest and the broadest of all the ice-
bergs, the very kingof the Arctics, stood
at the head of the convention, and with a
gavel of ice smote on a table of ice, call-
ing the convention to order. Bat the
sun kept growing in intensity of heat,
and the south wind blew stronger and
stronger, and soon all the icefield began
to grind up, iceberg against iceberg, and
to flow away. The first resolution passed
by the convention was—"Resolved, that
we abolish the sun."
But the sun would not be abolished.
The heat of the sun grew greater and
greater, until after a while the very king
of the icebergs began to perspire under
the glow, and the smaller icebergs fell
over, and the cry was, "Too much ex-
citement ! order ! order !" Then the
whole body, the whole field of ice, began
to ask, "Where are we going to now?
Where are we floating to 1 We will
break to pieces !"
By
this time the ice-
bergs
s -bergs had reached the Gulf Stream, and
they were melted into the bosom of the
Atlantic Ocean: The warm sun is the
eternal spirit. Tho icebergs are frigid
Christians. The warm Gulf Stream is a
great revival. The ocean into which
everything melted is the great, wide
heart of the pardoning and sympathizing
God.
But I think,after all, the greatest ob.
staple to revipals throughout Christen -
dont to -day is en unconverted ministry,
We must believe that the vas'. majority
of those who officiate at sacred altars ate
regenerated; but I suppose there may
float into the ministry of all the denomi-
nations, of Christians men whose hearts
have never been changed by the grace of
God, Of course they aro all antagonistic
to revivals, •
How did they get into the ministry?
Perhaps some of them chose it as a re-
spectable profession. Perhaps some chose
it as a means of livelihood. Perhaps
some of them were sincere, butwere mis-
taken. As Thomas Chalmers said he had
been many years preaching the Gospel
before his
heart had been n Chang o
,
d and
as many ministers of the Gospel declare
they were preaching and had been or-
dained to sacred orders years and years
before their hearts, were regenerated.
Gracious God, what a solemn thought
for those.of us who minister at the altar!
With the present ministry in the present
temperature of piety the world will never
be enveloped with revivals. While the
pews on one side of the altar cry for
mercy, the pulpits on the other side of
the altar must cry for mercy. Ministers
quarreling. Ministers trying to pull
each other down. Ministers struggling
for ecclesiasticalplace. Ministers lethar-
girt with whole congregations dying on
their hands. What a spectacle !
Aroused pulpits will make aroused
pews. Pulpits aflame will make pews
aflame. Everybody believes in a revival
in trade, everybody likes a revival in lit-
erature, everybody likes a revival in art;
yet a great multitude cannot understand
a revival in matters of religion. Depend
upon it, where you find a man antago-
nistic to revivals, whether he be in pul-
pit or pew, he needs to be regenerated by
the grace of God.
I could prove to a demonstration that
without revivals this world will never be
converted, and that in a hundred or two
hundred years without revivals Christi-
anity will be practically extinct. It is a
matter of astounding arithmetic. In
each of our modern generations there are
at least 32,000,000 children Now add
32,000,000 to the world's population, and
then have only one or two hundred
thousand converted every year, and how
long before the world will be saved?
Never—absolutely never !
Daring our war the President of the
United States made proclamation for
75,000 troops. Some of you remember
the big stir. But the King of the Uni-
verse to -day asks for 800,000,000 more
troops than are enlisted, and we want it
done softly, imperceptibly, gently, no
excitement, one by one.
You are a dry goods merchant on a
large scale, and I am a merchant on a
small scale, and I come to you and want
to buy a thousand yards of cloth. Do
you say : "Thank you, sir, I'll sell you a
thousand dyards of cloth, but I'll sell
you
twenty yards to -day, and twenty to -mor-
row, and twenty the next day, and if it
takes me six months I'll sell you the
whole thousand yards ; you'll want as
long as that to examine the goods, and
I'll want as long as that to examine
the credit ; and besides that, a thousand
yards of cloth are too much to sell all`at
once ? No, you do not say that. You
take me into the counting room and in
ten minutes the whole transaction is con-
summated. The fact is, we cannot afford.
to be fools in anything but religion.
The very merchant who on Saturday
afternoon sold me the thousand yards of
cloth at one stroke the next Sabbath in
church will stroke his beard and wonder
whether it would not be better for a
thousand souls to come straggling along
for ten years instead of bolting in at one
service.
We talk a good deal about the good
times that are coming, and about the
world's redemption. How long before
they will come? There is a man who
says five hundred years. Here is a man
who says five hundred years. Here is
some ono more confident whosays in fifty
years. What, fifty years ? Do you pro-
pose to let two generations pass off the
stage before the world is converted?
Suppose by some extra prolongation of
human life, at the next fifty years you
should walk around the world, you would
not in all that walk find one person that
you recognize. Why? All dead, or so
changed you would not know them. In
other words, if you postpone the redemp-
tion of this world for fifty years you ad-
mit that the majority of the two genera-
tions shall go off the stage unblessed and
unsaved. I tell you the ohurch of Jesus
Christ cannot consent to it. We must
pray and toil and have the revival spirit,
and we must struggle to have the whole
world saved before the men and women
now in middle life pass off.
"Oh," you say, "it is too vast an en-
terprise to be conducted in so short a
time." Do you know how long it would
take to save the whole world if each man
would bring another? It would take ten
years. By a calculation in compound in-
terest, each man bringing another, and
that one another, and that one another,
in ten years the whole world would be
saved. If the world is not saved in the
next ten years it will be the fault of the
Church of Christ.
Is it too much to expect each one to
bring one? Some of us must bring more
than one, for some will not do their duty.
I want to bring ton thousand souls. I
should be ashamed to meet my God in
judgment if with all my opportunities of
commending Christ to the people I could
not bring ten thousand souls. But i1 will
all depend upon the revival spirit. The
hook and line fishing will not do it.
It seems to me as if God is preparing
the world for same quick and universal
movement. .A. celebrated electrician
gave me a telegraph chart of the world.
On that chart the wires crossing the con-
tinents and the cables under the sea look-
ed like veins red with blood. On that
chart I see that the headquarters of the
lightnings are in Great Britain and the
United States. In . London and New
York the lightnings are stabled, waiting
to be harnessed for some quiek despatch.
That shows you that the telegraph is in
possession of Christianity.
It is a significant fact that the man
who invented the telegraph was an old-
fashioned Christian—Prof. Morse, and
that the man who put the telegraph un-
der the sea was an old-fashioned Christ-
ian -Cyrus W. Field; and that the presi-
dent of the most famous of the telegraph
companies of this country was an old-
fashioned Christian—William Orton, go-
ing from the communion table on earth
to his home in Heaven. What
straight
does all that mean?
I do not suppose that the telegraph was
invented merely to let us know whether
flour is op or' down, or which filly won
the race at the Derby, or which marks-
man beat at Dollymount. I suppose the
telegraph was invented and built to call
the world to God.
In some of the attributes of the Lord
we seem to share on a small scale. For
instance, in His love and in His kind-
ness. But until of late foreknowledge,
omniscience, omnipresence, omnipotence
semi to have been exclusively God's pos.
session., God, desiring to make the race
like Himself, gives us a stades of, fore -
Knowledge in the weather probabilities,
gives us a species of omniscience in tele-
graphy, gives us a species of omnipresence
in the telephone, gives as a speeies, of om-
nipotence in the steam power. Dis-
coveries .and inalroniil as, people are asking whatventions nextl? a
I will tell you ,chat next. Next, a stu-
pendous religious movement. Next, the
end of war. Next, the crash of despot-
isms. Next, the world's expurgation,
Next, the
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hri
stlike
dominion. 4 lel ext,
the Judgment. What becomes of th
world after that I care not. It will have
suffered' and achieved enough for on
world. Lay it up in the dry-docks of
eternity, like an old man-of-war gone out
of service. Or, fit it up like a ship of re-
lief to carry bread to some other suffer-
ing planet. Or, let it be demolished
Farewell, dear old world, that begs
with Paradise and ended with judgment
conflagration,
One summer, I stood on the Ise of
Wight, and I had pointed out to me the
place where the Eurydice sank with tw
or three hundred young men who were in
training for the British Navy. You re-
member when the training -ship went
down there was a thrill of horror all over
the world. 0 my friends, this world is
only a training -ship. On it we are train-
ing for heaven. The old ship sails up
and down the ocean of immensity, r4ow
through the dark wave of the midnight,
now through the golden -crested wave of
the morn, but sails on and sails on. After
a while her work will be done, and the
inhabitants of heaven will look out and
find a world missing. The cry will be :
"Where is that earth where Christ died
and the human race were emancipated?
Send out fleets of angels to find the miss-
ing craft." Let then:, sail up and down,
cruise up and down the ocean of eternity
and they will catch not one glimpse of
her mountain masts, or her top -gallants
of floating cloud. Gone down ! The
training -ship of a world perished in the
last tornado. Oh ! let it not be that she
goes down with all on board, but rather
may it be said of her passengers as it was
said of the drenched passengers of the
Alexandrian corn -ship that crashed into
the breakers of Melita : "They all es-
caped safe to land."
OR, EIT NS' O P +'N LETTER,
CARFFUI LY 1NY STi(ir .'rgi) it
THE CANADA' 'AESEgS' SU11,
Hiss 7 oeeter and Bl;or Parents Endorse
tit a Statements Contains,, lathe Open
Letter --The Rotator's Action, in m
Falt-
ing the Facts Pnblle loudly Justified.
From the Farmers' t
in Sun,.
e In an open letter published in the
d
Cana a
Farmers' mcis Sun of Sept, 19 over
o the signature of Dr. Evans, of Elmwood,
attention was called to the remarkable
ease of Miss Christina Koester. of North
Brant, who was attended by the doctor
in Mareh, 1892, when sutiering from in-
flammation of the left lung, which sub-
sequently developed all the Signs of eon.
sumption. In June of the sante year
she wasted to a skeleton, and was Buffer-
ing from an intense cough with profuse
expectoration of putrid matter, accom-
o panied by hectic fever. Her recovery
was despaired of until Dr. Evans, at a
stage when other remedies had 'proved
valueless, administered Dr. Williams'
Pink Pills. Within a week the symp-
toms had abated,and a month after t
change of medicine Miss Koester
able to drive to Elmwood, a distance
six miles, and was in good health, exc
for the weakness occasioned by so lo
an illness.
The publication of the doctor's sta
mont, of which the above is a conden
tion, created considerable interest, es
eially when it was rumored that
Evan's was likely to be disciplined by t
Medical Council for his action in certif
ing to the efficacy of an advertised re
edy. A representative of the Cana
Farmers' Sun was commissioned to ca
fully investigate the matter and as
tain how far the doctor's statements we
corroborated by the patient's family.
An interview with Christina Koest
her father and mother, was held at
homestead in the Township of No
Brant. Miss Koester is a well-devexope
healthy looking girl of eighteen years
ago. She stated that she was now in t
enjoyment of perfect health and able
do her part in the labors of the farm, a
had not since her cure had any see
Bence of her former trouble.
'.Gado Koester, father of Christina, sa`
that the statement as published in D
Evans' open letter as to his daughter
recovery was correct. She was fi
taken sick about the 15th of Marc
1893, of inflammation of the left .lun
and aft r treatment by Dr. Evans seeme
to recover after about
two weeks, U
a gain relapsed. psed with the apparently hop
less conditions described in the lette
She was terribly wasted. Every nig
she coughed up a large bowlful of feti
matter. The family had complete'
given up all hope.of her recovery, au
for two nights sat up with her, expectie
that she would die. After beginning th
Pink Pills a change for the better wa
speedily noticeable. The cough begs
to discontinue and in one month ha
entirely ceased, when, as stated in th
doctor's letter, she was sufficiently re
covered to drive to Elmwood. She con
tinned taking the pills until October
Christina had been quite well since, an
this fall had been pitching sheaves an
helping in the harvest field.
Mrs. Koester concurred with her hus
band's statements throughout, and wa
emphatic in testifying to Christina's r
diced and weakly condition at the tris
of the disease and the completeness o
her recovery.
In view of the corroboration by �1is
Koester and her parents of the stat
meats made in Dr, Evans' letter, a
doubts in the matter must be set at res
and the doctor's action in giving th
facts of this remarkable case to the publi
is fully justified.
Window Plants.
A writer in the New York Recorder
says that most window gardens are filled
with a miscellaneous selection of so-
called flowering plants, whose few poor,
scattering blossoms scarcely pay for their
care, and might with profit give place to
those without beauty of flower, but whose
foliageis
at least attractive. ,recti
vie. In
d
eed,.so
often is this the case that many house-
holders are banishing all flowering
plants, depending solely upon palms,
aspedistras, etc., for thole' window adorn-
ment. ,But if one prefers flowers to foli-
age—and most people do—this is all
wrong A few fine foliage plants are,
indeed, attractive, but they do not take
the place of fragrant blossoms, that
never seem half as lovely as when all out-
side nature is hidden beneath snow and
ice. It is not necessary for the window
to be flowerless, even with the poor facili-
ties of the common living room, if the
following rules are adhered to : ,
1 Select only such plants as are winter
bloomers.
2, Choose only those that will thrive in
the temperature at which you keep your
room. Select carefully to snit the
amount of sunshine or shade in your',
window.
3. Examine every plant to make sure lit
that it is entirely free from insects be-
fore bringing to the window in the au-
tumn..
4. Shower the leaves of your plants
once a week to keep down the dust and
insects. If insects appear, fight them at
once and never give up until they are
routed.
5. Keep flowering plants in small or
medium-sized pots. See that the soil is
rich, the drainage an inch deep at bot-
tom of pot, and a crust of hard earth is
never allowed to form at the top of the
pot.
6. Water only when dry, then give
sufficient water to wet to the bottom of
the pot. Be chary of water in severely
cold weather.
7. Turn the pots frequently, pinch off
withered flowers and faded leaves. Allow
all Holland bulbs to root six or eight
weeks in the dark before bringing to the
window.
8. Give weak, liquid manure once a
fortnight to all plants showing buds—
never to half-grown plants.
To comment a little on the rules : It is
useless to select summer blossomers for
the house in winter. A few begonias,
abuntilons and petunias are practically
ever bloomers, but mostplants must have
their season of rest. Few roses, geran-
iums or fuchias bloom well in winter'
but these few any florest can name. Al-
liums, agesatums, vannas cyclamen,
eineraris, petunias, eieotiana, Dallas, the
otalicite orange, hyacinths, paper -white
and double Roman narcisais and Chinese
sacred lily are among the surest bloomers
for the beginner. Nearly all plants can
be gro en in a moderately warm room,
but in either a very warm or quite cool
room the choice must be more restricted.
For instance, begonias, heliotropes, im-
patients, sultan, salvias and torentias
would soon come to grief in a low tem-
perature (unless protected well at night),
while they would flourish in the warm
room. The exact reverse would be the
case with carnations, ten -week stocks and
comedies. In the same way begonias,
primulas, nicotiana and a few other
plants will flower well in a shady window,
while roses, geraniums and„ heliotropes
must have sun, and plenty of it, to
bloom. It is the attention to the =no-
tice of plant culture that makes the suc-
cessful amateur. Yet these rules are not
burdensome to the true flower lover, for
it is not a task to minister to our friends'
reasonable wants, as our plants' wants
are. Clean, well-fed plants are always
ready to bloom if they have half a chance.
Liked I1'er himself.
There was a certain actress whose
charms and vivacity had long been nro-
verbial.
"Father," said a young man with en-
thu i
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s arm
she i
ran
angel 1
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and I love
her !" He was speaking ,of the lady,
whose name we have not given, and he
added, "Stop! Not a word! I believe
her to be an angel. I adore her, and I
won't allow you. to breathe a syllable
against her."
"Certainly not," said the father, "cer-
tainly not. Why, I adored her myself
when I was your age."; ,;fee,
Dr. ;John H. Dm -land president of the
Provident Bond and Investment Com-
pany,
of Philadelphia, hia
, p , has been found
guilty on the charge of . using the mails
to further a scheme to defraud.
Items of Interest.
There are fifty-one metals.
Europe has 3,477 lighthouses.
Castor oil, applied once a day for se
eral weeks, will never fail to remov
warts.
The lustre of morocco may be restore,
by applying the white of an egg with
sponge.
To shorten a roller for window with in
side shutters measure from the tip or
spring side and allow half an inch fo
roller end; it will then roll freely in the
brackets.
Horticultural Notes.
When the meat of the walnuts has be
come too dry, let the kernels stand it
milk and water over night. They wiT
then be as fresh as when new.
The Canadian Horticulturist says that
the Tolman sweet apple can be grown at
a food for stock much cheaper than th,
carrot, and is better than carrots fo
horses. We know that they, or almost
any other sweet apples, are better that
any root for feeding to mulch cows o
sows with pigs, and if grain is used wits
it hogs will fatten and make as swee
pork on them as 011 any food .we eve
used. That paper does not speak highly
of them as a market fruit, but they sel
well in this market, and the tree i
hardy, a , vigorous grower and very pro
ductive.
One reason for defective yields an
poor quality of apples is, we believe, th
decrease of mineral fertilizers in the soil
The stronger and more vigorous grow,
of the Baldwin and Greening trees en
abled their roots to gather more potash
phosphate and other material for per
fecting the fruit. But within two o
three years these varieties, especially th
Baldwin, have proven less reliable to pro
duce a crop than they used to be. O
the other hand, trees of the Spitzenber
variety, which were liberally manure
with wood ashes and phosphate, main-
tained a healthy dark green foliage un-
til fall and ripened large and finely col-
ored fruit. The deficiency of mineral
manures is seen first in the foliage, which
is easily injured by blight. Of course
wherever the foliage is destroyed the
fruit is poor or Mails entirely.
Considerate.
Watts—Do you always agree with
your wife when she makes an assertion ?
Potts -0f course I don't. Do you sup-
pose I want the poor woman to have no
amusement at all.
Mrs. Rainsford wife of the clergyman
of St. George's, New York, is an English
woman, the daughter of a wealthy ship-
builder of London. She is very English
in her manner, and although she assists
her husband by correcting and revising
his sermons and speeohos, would on no
account be heard outside her own home.
Although very charitable, she has refus
join
& ora itte m
o.l to loin each and 11 or,, ni d eve
merits among charitable women.
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