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%EV, DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON AT
THE UTROPULITANS
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Irematations—ralun's Morrows.
• Washington, DeeeMber 8.--Toe1aYDr
Talmage those as. the sabjeet of his ser-
• mon "The Opening Winter," Altaough
• the cold comes earlier or leter, accord-
ing to the letitude, this sermon is goon-
er or Liter as appropelate everewhere
ae ft is in W'ashington. The text select-
ed will be found in Titus iii, 12. "
• have determined there to winter."
lea,u1 was not independeut of the sea -
BOWL Ile sent for his overcoat to
Troas on a ratunorable ocaasion, Pend
• caw in the text he is making arrange-
ments for the approaching cold weath-
ine, and makes an appointment with
Titus to meet him at Necopolis, say -
"1 have determined there to win-
ter." Well, this ft the 8.101 day of De-
cember and • the second Sabbath of
winter. This sesame is not only a test
• what". • We have heel a few shrill
sharp blasts already, forerunners of
Whole• regiments of storms and tem-
pests.. No One here needs to ae told
that we are in the opening gates of
of one's physical endurance, but in our
great eities is a teet of moral charac-
ter. A vast ntunber of people have
by one winter ef dissipation been de-
stroyed, and forever. Seated in oar
homes on some stormy night the winds
howling outside, we imagine the ship-
ping helplessly driven on the coast,
but any winter night if our ears were
good enough, we could hear the • crash
Igo thousand moral shipwrecks. There
are many people who came to the
cities on the let of September wbo will
be blasted by the let of March. At this
season of the year temptations are 88-
peoially rampant. Now that the long
• winter evenings have come, there are
many who will employ them in laigh
pursuits, intelligent 'socialities, in
elaristian work, in the stiangthening
and ennobling or moral character, and
• this winter to many. of you will be the
brightest and, the best of all your lives
and in anticipation I congratulate you.
• But to others it may not have 'such ef-
feat, and I charge you, my beloved,
look out where you spend your winter
• nights.
Io. the first place I have to remark
allurements are espeoially busy, There
is not very ranch temptation for. a anan
to plunge in on a hot night amid blitz-
jag-ie.-a:slights and to breathe the fetid
air 111. sue assemblage, hilt in the cold
eights satan gathers a great harvest.
• At such time the casinos are in full
blast. At such tines the grogshops in
one night make more than in four or
five nights in summer. At suoh times
aaaeedieileagelaybills of low places of entertain-
ment •seem especially attractive, and
the acting is especially impressive and
the applause especially bewitching.
Many a man who has kept
• right all the rest of the year
• will be ca,psized now, and though
. last autumn he came from.the country,
and there was 'raster in the eye, and
there were roses in the cheek and elas-
• ticity in the step, by the time the spring
hour has some you will pass him in the
• street and say to your friend: "'What's
the matter with that man? How dif-
ferently he looks from what he looked
• last September 1" .Slain of one win-
ter's dissipation. At this time of the
year there are many entertairunents.
If we rightly employ them and they
are of the right kind, they enlarge our
• socialities, allele us to make important
acquaintance, build us up in our morals
and help us m a thousand ways. I can
scarcely think of anything better than
good neighborhood. But there are those
entertainments from which others will
come besoilecl in character. There are
those who bythe spriogtirne will be
i
broken down n health, and, though at
the opening of the season their pros-
pects were bright, at the close of the
season they will be in the hands of the
doctors or sleeping in the cemetery.
The certificate of death will be made
out, and the physician, to save the feel-
ings of the family, will call the disease
by a, Latin name. But the doctor
knows, and everybody else knows, they
• died of too many levees. Away with all
these wine drinking convivialities. How
• dare you, the father of a family, tempt
the appetites of theyoung people? Per-
haps at the entertainment, to save the
• feeling's of the minister or some other
weak temperance man, you leave the
• decanter in a side room, and only a few
people are invited there • to partake,
but it is easy enough to know when
you come out by the glare of your eye
and the stench of your breath that you
bave been serving the devil. Men some-
times excuse themselves and say after
latesuppers it is necessary to take some
sort of stimulant to aid digestiori. My
este-• plain opinion is that if you have no more
• self-control than to stuff yourself un-
• til your digestive organs refuse their
office you had better not call yourself
a man, but •class yourself among the
beasts that perish. • At this season of
. the year the 'Young Men's Christian As-
• sociations of the land send out circul-
ars asking the pastors to speak a word
on this subject, and so I sound in your
ear the words of the Lord God Almighty,
"Wee unto him that pritteth the bottle
to his neighbor's lips." Rejoice that
you have come to the glad winter months
tbat remind you of the times when in
• your childhood you were shone on lay
the face of father, mother, brothers, sis-
ters, some of them alas ! no more to
• meet you with a "Happy New Year,"
or a "Merry Christmas." But again
and again have wo seen on New 'Year's
day the sone of some of the best families
• drunk, and young men have exeused
themselve-s by the fact that the wine
cup has been offered by the ladies, and
again and again it has been found out
that a lady's hand hag kindled the
young man's thirst for strong drink,
and long after all the attractions of
the holiday have .passed that same
• woman orouches in her rags, and het
• desolation, and her woe under the up-
lifted hand of the drunken monster to
• vvliona she had passed the faseinating
oup on New Year's day. If we want
• to go to ruin, letois go alone •and,not
take others with us. Can We not sac-
rifice our feelings if need be ? When
the goal ship London went down, the
eaptain was told that he might escapes
in one of the lifeboats. _"No," he re-
plied, "rn go down with the priesene
gerse* All the World applauded his te the owner ot the houee, ' Is is a
heroine, And MA we not sacrifiee our eidendid OM" He Paid in a whining
tastes and our appetites for the moue tone, "Yee, but it will fade:" I walked
ot othere ? Surely it ft not a very ' etround his garden and said, "Thal ft
great saorifice. Ole mix not with the a glorious garden you have." :"Yes"
innocent beverage of the holiday the • he said. " but it will perish" Thee'
poison of adders I Mix not with the he said, to my little ehild whams I Wag
white sugar of the cup the snow'ofthis lea -ding along, " °erne and kiee me."
awful leprosy 1 Mar not the elatter of . The child piatested. and turned away,
cutlery of the festal occasion with the ' II°. said, "Oh» the perversity of human
dank of a neadearin's elialu I • i nature 1" Who would want • to kiss
Pass down the street and look into 41rrd I was not surprised to find out
the pawnbroker's window., Elegant ehat his only son had. become a vaga-
watehes, elegant furs, elegant flute, ole- bond. You neaY green People out of
ant shoes, elegant retort elegant ;decency, but you care uever groari them
ooles, elegant mementos. yea some., into it, and. 1 deolare in tbe 'presence
of these men and women of . Gaon=
times see people with pleased eounte•-•
maces looking into such a weedow, 'sense that it is a most important thin
When 1 loole into a pawnbroker's win- for you. to Make your homes bright
dow, it seerole to me as if I had look- Yon want your sons and slaughters to
eel into the window of hell I. To whom I turn out well.
Alas, that old people ea much mis-
did that watch belong? To a drunk -e
understand young: folks I There was a
arch To whom did those furs belong? Sunday SO o1 anntstersaryo and
To a drunkard's wife. To whom did. great
there were thousands of •thildren pres-
those shoes belong? To a drunkard's
oldish I take the three brazen balls at aut.' indeed all the Sonda•Y sobools of
n were ,in the building, and it
the doorway of , a pawnbroker's shop the tow
f
and I clank them together, sounding was Very uproarious and. ull of die -
the knell f the drunkard's soul.
turhance, and the presiding officer on
o '
pawnbroker's shop is only one at the the occasion came forward and in a
;very loud tone shouted "Silence I" and
eddies in the great torrent a rau.ni-
eoeh, says some the more noise the ieresiding officer
cipal drunkenness. • 1 made the more noise the children.
one, "I don't patronize such things.
made, Someone else rose on the plat -
have destroyed no young man by such form and. came forward and with more
influences. I only thke ale, and it will teritorian voice shouted. "Silence I"
cate.es, but I tell you there
take,,a
a great amount of ale to intoxi- e
and the uproar rose to greater height,
Yis and it did seem as if there would be
not a drunkard in America, that did
not begin with ale. Three X's—I do alulast a riot and the police bave to be
called in when old Dr. Beaman, his
not know what they mean. Three X's the ' [hair white as, the driven snow, said,
on the brewer's draer, three X's or, Let me try my hand," So he came
door of the ginshop, three X's on the '
1 asked !forward with a slow step to the front
side of the., bottle. Three X's, platform, and. evhen the ehildren
a reale He could not tell. 1 asked'a the
saw the venerable man and the white
another what is the meaning of the hair they. thought they would hush up
three X's. He could not tell me. Then that in,stant and 'hear what the old
I made up my mind that the three X's ,
were an allegory, and that they meant:mad had to say. He said"Boys, I
make a bargain vvith you. If
00 heartbreaks, 30, agonies, 30 broken }youwant to will be still now while I speak,
uphousehold.% 30 prospeots of a drunkel when you get to be as old, es I am I
era's grave, 30 ways to perdition. Three ,
X's. f I were going to write astory be as still as a =ruse." There was
I, e,i;r
the first chapter I would call "Three T not another -whisper that afternoon. He
X's" and. the last ohapter I would callwas as ranch a boy as any of them.'
10h, in these approaching holidays let
"The Pawnbroker's Shop." Oh, be- us
ware of your influence. turn back our natures to what they
The winter season is especially full 1
were years ago and be boys again
and girLs again and make all our
of temptation, because of the long homes happy, God. will hold you. re -
evenings allowing. such full swing for t
ex- ,sponsible for the influence you • now
evil indulgences, You can scarcely exert, and. it will be very. bright and
peat a young Men to go into his TOOM !very pleasant if some winter aight
and it there from; '7ottolelyeso'onelln the,when we are sleeping under the blan-
evening reading M ''' 'kets of snow our alaildren shall ride
publio," or John Foster's essays. It ialong in the merry party, and. hushing
would be a very beautiful thing for i a moment into solemnity look off and
him to do, but he will not do it. The ssaY, 'There sleep the best father and
most of our young men are busy in 'mother that ever made a happy new
offices, in factories, in banking houses, , ....,. Arm yourself against these
in stores, in shops and when evenin ir--r,"
emptations of December, January and
comes they want the fresh air, an as...e.,, Temptations will come to
they want sightseeing, and. they must - --.11nrK•
you in t e form of an angel of light.
have it. Most of the men here assem- know that the poets represent sa-
bled will have three or four evenings tan as horned and hoofed. If I were
a poet and I were going to picture
satan, I would represent him as a
human being, with , manners polished
to the la.st perfection, hair falling in
graceful ringlets, eyes a little blood-
shot, but floating in bewitching lan-
guor, hand soft and diamoaded, foot
the temptattons should be mighty pa exquisitely shaped, voice mallow as a
dull times such as we have had, but flute, breath peel -tined as though =-
which, I believe, are gone, for I hear thing had ever touched the lips but
all over the land the prophecy of great balm of a thousand flowers, conver-
Prosnerity, and the railroad men and salon facile. carefully toned and
the merchants, they all tell me of the Frenchy. But I would have the heart
days of prosperity they think are com-
mg, and in manepartments they incased. with the scales of a monster,
y dand have it stuffed with all pride and
have already come, and they are going beastliness of desire and. hyprocrise, and
to come in., all departments, but
,.ng
death, and then I would have it touch -
dull times •through which we have ed with the rod. of disenchantment un -
passed have destroyed a _greet many til the eyes became the cold orbs of
men. The questioia of a livelihood. is the adder, and to the lips should come
with a vast multitude the great clues- the foam of raging intoxication, and to
tion. There are young men who ex- the foot the spring of the panther,
pected before this to set up their house- ancl to the soft hand the change that
;hold, but they have been disappomted would. make it the damy hand of
in tb.e gains they have made. They
cannot support themselves—how can the wasted skeleton, and. then I would
suddenly. have the heart break out m
they support others? And to the curse' untinenchable flames and the affected
of modern society the theory is abroad.lisp of the tongue became the hiss of the
that aernan retest not marry ante. he worm that never dies. But until rift-
encha-nted ringleted. and diamond.ed
and flute voiced, and conversation fa-
cile, carefully toned and Frenchy.
Oh, what a beautiful thing it ft' to
see a young man standing up ataid
these temptations of city life incorrupt
while hundreds are falling. I will tell
your history. You will move in respec-
table circles all your days, and. some
day a friend of your father will meet
you and say: "Good morning. Glacl to
see you. You seem to be prospering.
You look like your father for all the
world. / thought you would turn out
well when I used to hold. you on my
knee. If you ever want any help or
any advice come to me. As long as I
remember your father I'll remember
you, Good morning." That will be the
history of hundreds of these young
men. How do I know ? I know it by
the way you. start. But here's a young
of hundreds of men m this audience. man who takes the opposite route.
Then the winter has especial tenapta- yokes of sin °harm hire away. He
tions in the fact that many homes are reads pbad, books, eculiarly unattractive at this season. mingles he bad, so-
ciety. The glow has gone from his
In the summer months the young man cheek, and the sparkle from his eye,
can sit out on the steps, or be can bave and the purity from his soul. Down he
a bouquet in the vase on the mantel, gees, little by little. The people who
or the evenings being so short, soon saw him when he came to town while
after gaelight he wants to retire any- yet hovered over his bead the blessing
how. But there are many parents who of a pure mother'sprayer, and there
do not understand how to make the was on his lips the aew (de pure sis_
long vvinter evenings attractive to their eer,s kiss, now as they see him pass
• children. It is amazing to me that so cry, "What an awful wreck I" Cheek
many old people do not understand bruised in grogshop fight. Eye bleared
young people. To hear some of these with dissipation. Lig) swoolen With in -
parents talk you. would think they had dulgences. Be careful what you say
never themselves been young and had, to him; for a trifle he would take your
been born with speetacles on. Oh, it Hee.
is dolorous for youngpeople to sit in Lower down, lower down, until, out -
the house -from Pr to 11 o'clock at night cast of God and man, he lies in the
and to hear parents groan about their „triune, a blotch of loathsomeness and
ailments and. the nothinness- of the 4
moment he calls for God,
world. This nothingness ofgpam. One this world? and then he calls for rum. He prays;
Hove dare you talk such blasphemy? he curses; he laughs as a fiend laughs,
It took God six days to make this then bites his nails .into the quick,
world, and he has allowed_ it 6,000 years then .puts his hand through the hair
to hang upon his holy heart, and this eaa
world has shone on you and blessea hanging puts
his head like the
and caressed you for these 50 or
mane of a wild beast, then shivers un -
you
7O years, andeyet you dare talk aboutil. the cot shakes with unutterablet terror, then with his fists fights back
the nothingness ot this world I Why,
it is a. magnificent world. 1 do not be- the devils or clutches for serpents tbat
seem to wind around him their awful
lieve in the whole universe there is a folds,
Y
world equal to it except it be heaven. instantly consumed on his crackedthen asks for water, which is
ou eannot expect your children to stay lips. Some morning the surgeon going
in the house these long winter evenings, his rounds will find him dead. Do not
to hear you denounce this star lighted, try to comb out or brush back the
sun warmed, ,shovver baptized, flower matted locks. Straig.hten out the
strewn, angel watched, God inhabited
planet. mobs, w1.1
him in a abed, put him in
Oh, make your home bright! Bring a box, an let two men carry him
in tbe violin or the picture, it does not down to the wagon at the door. Witha
require a great salary, or a big house, piece of chalk yrite on top of the
boa the name of the destroyer and the
or chased. silver, or gorgeous uphol- destroyed. Who ft it ? It, ft you, 0
stery to make a happy bouse. All that man, If yielding to the teraptations of
is wanted is a father's heart, a ma- a dissipated life, you go out and
there) heart, in sympathy with young ,perish. There ft a way that seemeth
folks. I have known a man with $70 right • and. fair awl beautiful to a
salary, and he had no other income u
the snman, but the end thereof is death. Era -
but he had a home so happy and bright 3,.,..y. these /0xi g
n
Em -
that, threagli oe have gone out le ights of December,
.
and won large fortunes and. the daugrhe =nary and Februaryin high pur-
ters have gone out into splendid suits, in intelligent secialties, in Irmo-
____rn' , amusements ,
is winter for soon
spheres ance
d beeome princesses of so -in Christian work.
ciety, theDo not waste thy can never think of that you will have seen your hest snow
early home without tears of emotion.,
It was to them the vestibule of heaven, shower and have gone •up into the
a
and all their mansions now, n n otollanionship of lum whose raiment
their palaces now, cannot make them
' a , is w lie as snow, whiter than any full -
forget that early., place. Make Yr°11 er on earth could whiten it, For ell
homes happy. You go around your,
Christfto hearts the winter nights of
house growling about your rheum- earth Will end ie. the June mortieg of
tisms and acting the lagobrious, and heaven, The river of life from, under
plunges into diseipatiou They will a e of Mee fair tree is hovel. froste
The foie -
the throne never freezes over,
your sons will go into the world. and
have their own rhewalatiams after dtten. The festivities, the hilarities,
awhile. Do hot forestall their misfore the family greetings of earthly Christ-
tune,e. Yon were young once, olla you roap times will give wita to larger re-
lied your bright, mad Joyous times, New union and, brighter lights mod sweeter
lee the young folks have a good time. eareandal ,nd. mightier joy in the great,
olulay '.. hertven.
/ stood in front, of a house and 1 said h
of leisure on the winter nights. After
tea the man pats on hft hat and coat
and he goes out. -One terra of .allure-
ment says "Come in here." Satan says:
"It is best for pal to go in. You. ought
not to be so green. By this time you
ought to have seen everything," and
has achieved a fortune, when the twain
ought to start at the foot of the hill
and together climb to the top.
That is the old fashioned way, and
that will be the. new fashioned way if
society is ever redeemed. But during
the hard times, the dn1.1 times, so many
men were discouraged, so many men
had nothing to do—they could get no-
thing to do—a pirate bore down on
the ship when the sails were down and
the vessel was making no headway.
People say they want more tirae to
think. The trouble is too many people
have had too much time to think, and
if our merchants had. not had their
minds diverted many of them would
long before this have been within the
four walls of an insane asylum. These
long winter evenings, be careful where
you. spend them. This winter will de -
aide the temporal and eternal destiny
1,11DAY SCIIOOL.
INTERNATIONAL LESSON, DED.22,'9
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The boar long foretold has dawned
dawned at last, and Christ, the Shilob
of ./acoles propheeY, the Anointed of
David's psalm hag cones. It le an hoar
of peace throughout the world, for the
nations have been meted uuder the
ebaryoaelofwolIntsidooflaRtorMieee: wide =id the de -
God. While all earthaeVerelmoeoleligti'invrniit:1-
Yearning for some owrv o 0
norance, the eager eyes of angels watch
the carpenter and his wile in tbeir
journey from Naza,re
wthhee r ea nt he eesyt rare' e thoo mb bee ethno fr otlollhe uitdpll'oslenblietiThee,
census of the Roman empire. The 'khan
ft crowded with wealthier gueste, and
the Mother of earth's Redeeroor can
find no room, save in the pirice, allotted
to the beasts, In such lowly surround.-
ings her babe is born, and laid for his
first rest in a, manger, The first news
of the greatest event in all history ft
born by aogelio •messengers, not to
kings or philosophers or rabbis, but to
a company of shepherds wa,tehing their
flocks at night on the hillside. The
Song ethoe,s upon the startled air, pro-
claiming, "Peace on earth, good will to
men ;" and, as it dies away and, the vi-
sion of angels recedes, the believing
shepherds hasten to the manger at
Bethlehern. to feast their eyes upon the
eight of their Xing. The news which
they bear ft heard by others with won-
der, if not with faith; while the maid-
en mother, with thoughts too deep for
words, presses her babe to her bosom
and ponders over the wondrous events
that have attended his coming.
EXPLANATORY NOTES,
• Verse 8.. In the same country. Vi -
dolt/ or neighborhood is meant, for the
resfereric,e is to the pasture fields around
Bethlehem. Shepherds. The high,
honor of receiving the first new of the
Saviour'r birth is bestowe& not upon
those wham the world regards as noble,
but upon plain workingmen, plying their
vocation. (1) The distinctions of rank
and riches are as nothing in the eyes
of God. Abiding in the field. In orien-
tal countries shepherds remain with
their flocks all night, sometimes in tem-
porary huts or booths. Keeping watch.
"Watching- by sections," to guard their
flocks from robbers and wild beasts, and
keep them from straying.
9. The angel of the Lord. The life of
Obrist on earth began with angelic an-
nouncements of his coming, was attend-
ed with angelic comforters in his temp-
tation and his agony, and ended. with
angelic messengers of his rising and
ascension. (2) Even in his humiliation
the Son of God ft accompanied with
manifestations of his divine origin.
Came upon them. "Burst upon them,"
a sudden appearance, The Cory of the
Lord. A supernatural divine illum-
ination, such as • accompanied most
messages of God. (3) • Row glorious
must the Xine appear whose servants
are so bright r Sore afraid. "Feared a
great fear. So trembled Marioali and
Zacharias and Mary at the angel's com-
ing. (4) Even the purest hearts be-
come conscious of nafitne.ss when God's
messengers are before them, ..(5) If
saints tremble at the coming of an an-
gel, how will sinners quake when they
meet the Lord!
10. Fear not. The angel, like the Gos-
pel, first awakens fear -and then re-
raoves it. Good tidings. News of par-
don to sinners, salvation to men, the
coming of Israel's King, the bruising
of Satan's head, the universal estab-
lishment of Messiah's rule—surely these
are good tidings! To all people. In
the original, "the people;" referring
originally to Israel, yet through Israel
to the rest of the world.
11. Unto yob,. (6) He ft a Saviour to
us as surely as to the, shepherds. City
of David. A name given to Bethle-
• hem as the birthplace of King David,
and in the prophecy of Micah announc-
ed as the birthplace of the Messiah. A
Saviour. The most precious title of
Christ is that which announces his mis-
sion "to seek and to save that which
was lost." Christ the Lord. Christ is
the Greek word, the same as Messiah
in Hebrew, meaning "Aneinted." So
he is here called "the anointed Lord,"
at once proclaiming his royalty and, his
• divinity.
12. A sign unto you. Not a sign to
strengthen their faith, for none • was
needed, but a token to distinguish the
babe. Find the babe. Rather, "find a
babe." They were to behold in a help-
less newborn infant the world's Saviour
and God's Son. (7i See in all this the
humanity, the humility, and the sympa-
thy of our Saviour with us he every
stage of our being. Swaddling clothes.
Not garments, but bands wrapped olose-
ly around the body. Lying m man-
ger. The mangers from which cattle
feed in the East are generally made of
small stones and mortar in the shape of
an open box; and it ft not unusuarfor
little children to sleep in them still.
(8) The hearts of men are like the inn
of • Bethlehem, in which the Saviour,
crowded out of the highest place, is com-
pelled to Wee the lowest.
19,14. A multitude of the heavenly
host. That is, te throng of angels and
heavenly beings, of whore there may
be many orders (see Col. 1. 16). "An
angel choir in, the gallery of the firea-
ament."—'Whedon. Glory to God in
the highest. This may mean either;
(1) The highest measure of glory; (2)
From the highest order of creation
(angels)- (3) To God, the bighest over
a11; (4) In thehighest heaven, as eon-
trasted with ,the peace on earth. 011
earth peace. These angel choirsters
saw the ultimate result of the Gospel,
in bringing pease to men: (1) Peace be-
tween God and man, through the atone-
ment; (2) Peace between man and -man,
through a common love to Christ; (3)
Peace among nations, through the in-
fluence of the Gospel. Not without
significance is the feet that Christ was
born at the only time, for centurieS,
when there was peace thatnighout the
world. Good will toward men. Eith-
er meaning that the birth of Christ
is a token of God's love toward men;
eras home translate, "good. will =one
Men.'
15. The angels were gone. The vi
sioo &des, leaving the shepherds and
their flocks, (9) liours oe rapt glory are
occasional, and they leave tft with the
rugged realities of lite. Let us now go.
The latter douse of the verse shows
that this is nob the uttovance of a doubt,
desirous of testing the truth of the mes-
sage, but of ardent tab, eager to aee
that in whish it drawly believes. (10)
It 18 our privilege notanly to hear about
Bethle ad see 1118.miles 1 ge of • jndab, ix
of Jerusalem; fanious in
Old Testament history es the Jamie of
Boaz and ftutli and the birthplace of
David, It is now kneven seBeitlehan,
a viliage of three thoueaud intieleitaate,
mostly Greek Chrietianse A eaves, tia-
thtlonafly tie tbe Owe of
Clirist'e birth, is shown near the wall,
16. They eaMe Witil baste. Showing
their faith by tlie eagerness of their
works, and willing to leave their toots
to look upon their Saviour, (11), No
earthly plajeet is too dear to be forsaken
for Christ, Joseph, The husband of
Mary atv0-3±he reputed father of Jesus.
As histi,Ime is not mentioned after
Christ is twelve years old, he ft presum-
ed to have died before the public Min-
istry of our Lord began.
17, 18. Made known. abroad. Probab-
ly they related. the wonderful events
• only in their ewn oircle of aequaintence,
and to Joseph and Mary, as there is )20
indication that the news reached the
court or the capita'. (12) Those who
have seen, Christ should be his message -
bearers to others. The saying, That
is, the words of the arigel and the
throng of the celestial company. Heard
it wondered. There was a vast differ-
ence between the ea,ith of the shepherds
and the wonder of the hearers; one led
there to Christ, the other•probably eaoa
afald eau", evamy enint.to doubt or forgetfulness.
(18)1ffeartarest ft better then emotion.
19, 20. Kept all these Climes. Trea-
sured in her /clear!: all these significant
events, the angelio predictions, tbe heav-
enly song, and the midnight visit. Pon-
dered, "Weighed them," thought of
tacit, importance and the destiny of her
child. (14) How much thoughtful moth-
ers may influence the lives of their
children. Returned. They had accom-
plished their mission, and could serve
God among their sheep better than in
a more publics life. Perhaps some of
them lived long enough in after years
toiopireescaelfl othhreissetevente and become dis-
• THIEVES' VEHICLE&
Cabs With False Numbers One or the Traps
• In London.
Is the report true about there being
in London bogus cabs witli false num-
bers, and so on? asked a frequ.ent con-
tributor of one of the best-known de-
tective inspectors of Scotland Yard.'
It is quite true, and is done far often-
er than the public ever suppose, so that
following a cab clew where clever pro-
fessional thieves are concerned ft often
hopeless. An inconspicuous private
hansom is weed, and both cab and
driver's number displayed are false.
Often ,enough we receive the most
positive instructions, on the feith of
notes made by hotel porters and shop
commissionaires, that a certain man
left in a cab of a given number. We
seek out that cab, and find beyond a
doubt that the cab was never out at
the times in question, and we have a
regular list now of numbers whieh we
positively know have been counterfeited.
in one case where a swell shoplifter had
driven round from one jeweler's to an-
other, no fewer than nine distiact
badges and numbers were used in one
day.
Four -wheelers are regularly and con-
stantly used by thieves—the same sys-
tem of false numbers being one of the
precautions used—for such a vehicle is
a fine one for conveying stolen goods
that are not too heavy. Only recently
we had information of a four -wheeler
which is got up exactly like the vehi-
cles used by commercial travelers, as
they call from place to place. It drove
up dose behind the vehicle of a jew-
eler's traveler anastopped at the same
tradesman's door, a very smart travel-
er alighting and entering a shop near.
The driver of the bogus vehicle tried
to get into conversation with the driv-
er of the real one, pretending that
there was something wrong with the
horse of the latter. The genuine driv-
er got down and was examining his
horse, never doubting the character of
the other conveyance, when, happening
to glance up, he saw the swell traveler
entering vehicle No. I, the real thing,
in fact. The man made a hasty ex-
cuse, pleading that he had mistaken
the cabs—but we know that he has
made the same mistake many times and
successfully on two occasions.
Smart traps are generally the con-
veyances used by burglars and the gen-
erality of thieves other than swell ones.
It is most difficult to trace these—which
generally belong to some regular mem-
ber of a gang—because the name on
them is blacked out and another paint-
ed on in whitewash letters, or several
different pickings out ba paint are dope
at the quiet stages of the journey, and
the markings of the horse or pony are
changed by means of white and. other
washes. You may be surprised how oft-
en and how easily this is done, especial-
ly at night.
Perambulators are amazingly useful
vehicles to thieves, such as housebreak-
ers, burglars, and so on, and the appar-
ently innocent laundress,seen first thing
in the morning taking a "pram" full of
clothes, has often enough been to fetch
some " swag " or other.
Gass Dresses and Curtains.,
Articles of dress are now being ex-
tensively made of glass. A Venetian
manufacturer is turning out 'bonnets
by the thousand, the glass cloth of
whioh they are composed having the
same shimmer and. brilliancy of color
as silk, and, whet is a great advantage,
being impervious to water. In Russia
there has a long time existed a tissue
manufactured front the fiber of a pe-
culiar filamentous stone, from the Si-
berian mines, which by some secret pro-
cess is shredded and spun into a fabric
which, although soft to the touch and
pliable in the extreme, is of so durable
a nature that it never weers out. This
is probably wbat has given an enter-
prising firm the idea of producing spun -
glass dress lengths.
The Musoovite etuff is thrown into
the fire when dirty, like asbestos, by
which it is made absolutely dean again;
'bat the spun -glass silk ia simply brushed
with a lard brush and soap and water,
and is none the worse for being either
stained or soiled. The rea,terial is to
be had in white, green lilacs, pink and
yellow, and. bids fair !to become very
fa.shionable for evening dresses. An
Austrian is the inventor of this novel
fabrie, which ft rather costly. Table-
cloths, napkins and window eurteins are
also being -made of it. It bas also
been diseevered that glass is capable
of being turned into a fine cloth, whieh
can be worn next to the akin without
the elightese discomfort.
• --
•
Obeying Gliders.
Mistress—I told you that I did not
Want you to have so many Male call -
ere in the kitchen,
Pretty Doelestice-Yesen.
Mistress—Last night you were enter-
taining three policemen.
Doreestie—Yea'ra1 had them there
sons to keep the others outs
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stealer. Whenisnoatb°011nt dteekh° arekiswinn--
specting various parts of the vessel.
His thief business is to look after the
daily work of the crew. He takes 831
observation oa tbe bridge with the oth-
er officers every day at twenty min-
utes before noon, but with that excep-
tion is rarely seen there. The other
officers are seen only when one looks
up at the bridge. In the newer ships
their quarters are placed above the
shade deck. Not only do they do their
pswhaosarakenegr
neeteire:but
beixmeals
a
lbyaattof conetaaat three
served in a special mess room on the
dea
On all the large steamships there are
a Captain, Chief Officer, three second
officers, one third arid one fourth offi-
cer. The second officers are known as
senior second, junior wand, and extra
second. The general duty of the second
officers is the navigation of the ship
undertthofficersesetheeaptstands
ain'sdirections. Each
o
A FOUR HOURS' WATCH
on the bridge. The third and fourth
officers stand a watch of six hours, al -
or fourth officer on wateh on the
therefore, always a second and a third
tberrnidgaeti.ng with each other. There are.
The duties at sea are entirelydiffer-
ent from the duties on entering or
leaving port. In the case of the latter
every officer is on duty, and the work
is so subdivided that a ship glides up
to her pier or leaves it without confu-
sion, and almost as if there were no
one giving directions constantly by
means of two distinct systems of tele-
graph to various parts of the vessel.
On leaving port the Chief Officer is
stationed on the forward deck where
he ean be teen by the Captain on the
bridges. By a wave of the band the
Captain indicates just what he wants
tdhoenea,.fteTrhedeseekn.ior second officer is on
Orders to him are transmitted by a
docking. telegraph. The junior second
officer ft with the senior officer, aft,
assisting in the work there, The ex-
tra. second is stationed on the bridge
with the Captain. He has charge of
the engine -room telegraphs. He tran-
mits the Captain's ordera when to stop
or go at half speed or to reverse or
any of the often swiftly changing orders
whieh it is necessary to mad to the en-
igne room at the time of docking or
leaving port. The third officer has
charge of the forward gangway until
it is pulled ashore when the ship is
leaving, and then he hastens to the
bridge, where he has charge of the
docking telegraph and of sending sig-
nals to the second officers, who are 032
duty aft. The fourth officer remains
at the after gaineway until it is pulled
away, and then he hastens to the dock-
ing telegraph aft.
When the ship is dear and really
starts on the voyage a new set of du-
ties begins and lasts until the pilot is
dropped and sea routine begins.
THE CHIEF OFFICER
is busy about the deck seeing that the
vessel is put in, shipshape. The hatches
are made fast, tbe ropes are made taut,
the railings are lashed, and the entire
ship is made snug. The senior second
officer is in charge of the ship forward.
Anything special that needs attention
he looks after. The junior second has
charge of the storage of all the bag-
gage. The extra second remains on the
bridge attending to the engine tele-
graph. The third officer ft also on the
bridge. His special work ft to attend
to the whistle and to send signals aft
by the docking telegraph when signals
are to be made and the flag on the
taffrail is to be dipped. The fourth of-
ficer also is stationed on the bridge,
and his work before the pilot is dropped
is to pass the steering orders to the
quarter master at the wheel and to
note all the incidents of leaving port
in the log book. These eotries usually
consist of notes of the time of passing
certain landmarks.
The pilot dismissed, sea routine is
taken up promptly. To the Chief Offi-
cer belongs the duty of inspection and
of executive management. The senior
second officer stands his watch every
day from 4 p.m. to 8 pm. and from 4
aem. to 8 a.m. The junior seeend is on
watch from noon to 4 p.m. and from
midnight to 4 a.m. The extra second
is on watch from 8 a.m. to noon, and
from 8 p.m. mita midnight. The third
and fourth officers are on alternate
watehes from 6 to 12 o'clock and frora
12 to 6 o'clock. In addition to this
watch ths third officer has charge of
all the flags and signals by night and
day, and be also keeps the compass
book. The fourth officer has enaree of
the condition of the boats, be addition
to his work on the bridge
When a, vessel is in port there is
another routine. The Chief Officer
has supervision of all the work that is
going on. The senior second has gen-
eral ebarge of the ship's stores. The
junior second has oharge of loading
the forward holds and the ears of the
baggage and its stowage. The extra
serand looks after the lite connections
and the ship's glasses and other in-
struments. He has also charge of re-
ceiving the mails. The third and fourth
officers make themselves useful in as-
sisting the higher officers in looking
after delails. With the exception of
the Captain the work of the officers
is nearly as (trauma and almost es full
of responsibility in port as at sea.
The wOrk of strengthening. the forti-
ficatious of the Dardanelles is proceed -
lag night and day. Soldiers are at work
thrown:1g up free% defences, and. busy
e wijas ui et
ea Wal lOs
Print* Chrietiteu, Quos Vietonls/o
grandson, will follow the Prioee
perial's• 0114110M exti,Mple mo grei
Ashaeitl,
John Lietrigetouts, n brother et the
great African explorer, 86 years 01
age, is voitieg hie sea% who axe role
dents of the Pacifio mast.
Lady Sandherst ft the oray iady tsr
more than 300 yeere On 13/110r4
honor of the freedom of the eity
London has been conferred.
The Dachese of Albany lute ioveet
ed 8 school desk and seet tor veil:eh
the SaniterY Inetitexte hate awerded
her a gold medal at ite exporsitioo 18
London,
Lieutenant •Peary has lea -rued to
speak the Eskimo language with all
the eests of a iaative, Itt is almost as
easy to reach the north pole as to fee -
quire that tongue,
Countess Fritz Ilobenau, cousin to
Enaperor William of Germany, lute title
year introduced, the custom of iicling
astride, axicl, organized a club of aristo-
cratic women to lead their counteaanee
to the new. sey1e.
John Ruskin has so far regained hie
physical stremeth that be frequently
walks eight miles a day without seri-
ous fatigue. Els mind is dearer than
it was, but he says he can leaver de
any more writing.
Lord Bennet, the evangelist neer
who recently married Miss Van Mar,
ter, of Taconite Wash., ft said to have
been a sceptic up to four years ago,
when he became converted. ele is a.
successful leader in ahem work in Lon-
don,
President Diaz, of IVIezie0,, 18 a. Mau
of tremendous energy. At sixty-five he
possesses the bodily and mental activ-
ity pf a man twenty years younger.
He attributes his health to the eact
that he has been a great eater and a
good. deeper.
There are f30)Xle alliStriOUS names in
the new list of conscripts for the
French army, among them those of
the Duke of Itoche.foucauld-Dowleau-
ville and half a dozen others -with
titles. The sons of the Frerieh Ambas-
sadors to London and Madrid are aleo
among tbe new recruits.
Sir Henry James, who might have
been Lord Cheneellor had be liked,
wears the stablest elotlees, perhaps,
of the celebrity of the day. His tall
hats are, however, always conspicuous
for their immaculate glossiness. He
is a great favorite with the Prince of
Wales.
Following the exaraple set by the
late M. Carnot, M. Faure causes all
the game shot at the Presidential
chase to be sent to -tete Paris hospi-
tals. In M. Grevy's time some of the
game was distributed • among the
friends of the family at the Elysee, tbe
rest being disposed of at market rates
to the Parisian poulterers.
Sir William Vernon Harcourt, des-
pite his unwavering political attach -
went to Gladstone, was a close • per-.
sonal friend of Lord Beaconsfield, arid
one of the choicest treasures in his
home in New Forest is an original
miniature portrait of Byron that once
belonged to the great Tory leader.
leIr. David PIunket, member of
Parliament for Dublin University, who
has just been raised. to the peerage,
though not a wealthy man, has prob-
ably more money standing in his name
than any single private citizen in tha
world. He is trustee for many rich
people, including. the Guinnesses, and
generally holds m that capeeity from
$15o,000,000 to $200,000,0oo worth of se-
curities.
Additions to the list of vietime at
Monte Carlo continues to be made. The
other day the Countess .Tomdes, mem-
ber of a well-known noble family, and
her 16-yeax-old daughter were found
dead in one of the hotels of the city.
They had taken poison, it was found
upon investigation, after. losing 460,000
at the tables, practically becoming
penniless. They lad been in Monte
Carlo only a week.
Princess Maud, says the Lady's Pic-
torial, always looks well dressed, de-
spite the frequent simplicity of her
toilettes, and has been known. to
"sport" a single eyeglass with very
chic effect. Latterly, the Princess ,tuad
her sister have been more smartly
eastumed than was the case even two
or tbree years ago, when, if Dame
Gossip may be believed, Princess
Maud once got so tired of a particular
dress that one day she took ber
courage in both bands, a wax match
ID her fingers, and—the . garment in
question came to a, most mconsistent-
ly brilliant end.
Amputation Not in Favor.
Dr. A. Pearce Gould, he his oration
the other day before the Medical Society
of London, alluded to the fact that am-
putation has become much less frequent
In surgical practice. At best it is a
confession of failure. "We have to ad-
mit that at times it la an inevitable
sten, and may be a great boon to the
patient, saving lift life or health or
freeing him from the ineumbrance of a
painful and useless member; but, all
the same, it is a therapeutic tragedy,
an irreparable disaster. Now, not so
long ago, surgeons took a special in-
terest, even a wide, in their cases of.
amputation. To -day, I venture to say,
there are no operations in surgery that
excite less enthusiasm than ainputa-,
tions, none of which are felt to be more
opposed to the whole spirit of surgical
art; and a ;surgeon rarely approaches
one without not only a certain imager,-
ing, but a painful sense of disappoint-
ment, ff not et failure. The readiness
with whioh he resorts to amputation is
recognized to be a rough working test
of a surgeon's unfitness to practice his
art."
Masks for Soldiers in Warfare.
Masks for • soldiers engaged in war.
fare in the eolonies, .not as a elefense
against the.sword or the bullet of thd
enemy, but as a protection from the nb
less dangerous cohorts of fevers—such
is the original proposition which has
just been submitted to the Academy of
Nledieine. It emanates from Dr. 18u -
rob, professor at the Rheims Sahool. of
Medicme, who argues that the use of
this mask would prevent the' germs
from penetrating to the lungs of the
soldier en.geged in &denial vs -striate,
who, as he is not aeclimated, and la over-
worked, is nitteh more liable to rata&
from fever than 'other people, In short,
as he maintains, it would, place a bar-
rier between the deleterious atmosp-
here and the organs of respiratioe,
How Diamonds are Valued.
Thes prise of diamondis as involved
siebjeot end requires life-long study.
Tiie old rule was that the value et two
&monde of like quality is proportion-
ate to the square, of their weights. Thus,
if a one-oarat stone is worth $126, a
ieves-earat gem would be woxth $44.0,
a three -carat. $900.