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REV. DR. TALMAGE PREACHES UPON
MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.
He Says the Castles or Sin Are An Game
to Ite captured by the stateless or the
nospet Focussed meet 'wickedness—Ile
}expects to Live to see It.
Waehington, Sept. 26.—So much that
is depressing is said about the wick-
edness of the cities that it will cheer
us to read what Dr. Talmage has to
say in this sermon about their com-
ing xedemption. The text is Zechar-
iah', viii. 5, "Ana the streets of the
city shall be full of boys 2,nd girls
playing in the streets thereof."
Glimpses of our cities xedeemed I Now
boys micl girls who play in the streets
run such risks that multitudes of
them end. in ruin. But in the coming
time oaken of our cities will be so
eafe in the public thoroughfares as in
• a. tee nursery.
Pulpit and. printing press for the
most part in bur day are busy in dis-
oussieg the condition of the cities at
this time, bu.t evould it not be health-
fully encouraging to all Clixistian
worlaers, and to all who are toiling to
make the wcaid better if we should
for a little while Mak forward to the
time when ow: cities shall be revolu-
tionized by the gospel of the Son
.o.od, and all the darkness of sin
and trou.ble and crime and suffering
shall be gone from the world?
Every ma,n ilea a pride in the city
at bis nativity or residence, if it be
a city distinguished for any dignity
or prowess. ()smear beaked et his na-
tive Rome, Virgil of Mantua, Lynergus
of Sperta„ Deraosthenes of thens,
Archimedes of Syracuse and Paul of
Tereus. I should, have suspicion of
base heartedness in a man who had
no special interest in the city of his
birth or residenee—no exhilaration at
the evidence of its prosperity or its
artistic embellishments, or its intel-
lectual advancement.
:have noticed that a, man never
likes a city where he has not behaved
well. People who have had a free
ride in the prison van never like the
city that furnishes the vehicle. When
1 find Argos and Rhodes and Smyrna
trying to prove themselves the birth-
place of Romer, 1 conclude at once
that Homer behaved well. He liked
them, and they liked him. Ve naust
not war on laudible dty pride, or,
with the idea of building ourselves up
ah a,ny time, try to pull others down
Boston Lutist continue to point to its
Fkneuil gall and to its Common and
'vie its superior educational advantages.
Philadelphia, must continue to point
to its independ.ence Hall land its Jaaint
and its Girard College. Washington
must cantinue to point to its woudrous
capitoliae buildings. if I should find
einne men coming from any city, having
no pride in that city, that city having
been the place of his nativity, or now
being the place of his residence, I
would feel like asking: " Whitt mean
thing have you. done there? Wlaitt out-
rageous thing have you been guilty of
teat you do not like the place?"
1 think we ouglat—and 1 take it for
granted you. are interested in this
great work of evangelizing the eines
and saving the world—we ought to
toil witia the sunlight in our faces. We
are not fighting in a miserable Bull
Run of defeat. We axe on our way
to final victory. We are not follow-
ing the rider anthe black horse, lead-
ing us down to death and darkness
and doom, Pu.t the rider on the white
. horse, with the moon under his feet
and the stars of heaven for his tiara.
Hail, Canquerer, •hail!
I know there are sorrows and there
are sins, and there are sufferings all
around about us and in the dark winter
night we look up and see the northern
lights, the windows of heaven illum-
inated by some great victory, just
so we look up from the night of suf-
fering and sorrow and wretchedness
in our cities, and we see a light
streaaning through from the other side,
and we know we are on the way to
morning—more than that, on the way
to "a mot:ming wit.hout clouds."
I want you to understand, all you
who are toiling for Christ, that the
castles of sin are all going to be cap-
tured. The victory for Christ in these
great towns is going to be so complete
that slot a man on earth or an angel
in 'heaven or a devil in hell will dis-
pute it. How do I know? I know
just as ceitabaly as Goci lives and that
this Ls holy • truth. The old. Bible is
full of it. If the nation is to be saved,
of course all the cities are to be saved.
It makes a great difference with you
and with me whether we are toiling
on toward a defeat or toiling on toward
a victory.
Now, in this municipal elevation of
which I speak, These to remark there
win be greater financial prosperity
than our oities have ever seen. Sorae
people seem to have a m,orbid idea of
the millenium, and they think when
• the better time comes to our cities and
• the world people will give their time
up to psalm singing, and the relating
of their religious experience, and as all
social life will be purified there will
be rio bilarity, and as all business will
be purified there win be no enterprise.
There is no ground forsuch an absurd
anticipation. In the time of which I
speak where now one fortune is made
there will be a buindred fortunes made.
The great bueiness disasters a this
country lave tome from the work of
godless speenlators and infamous stock
go mblers. The great foe to business is
.rim. When the right sheet have
Misled back- the wrong, and shall have
u rifled the canamermal code, and. :shall
eme thundered down fraudulent es-
nblishinents, and shall have put into
he hands of honest men the keys of
•nnsiness, blessed time for the bargain
eskers. 1 era not talkieg abstrac-
•, on. I ani not making a guess. I am
•evIling you. Gods eternal truth.
.En that day of which I speak taxes
vent be a mere nothing. Now our
buebless men ere" taxed for everything.
City taxes, abunty taxes, state taxes,
United States taxes, stamp taxes, li-
Meese taxee, manufacturing taxes—
cense taxes, manulacturing. taxes—
taxes, taxes, taxes! Our business men
have .to make a small fortune every
‘year to pay their taxes.. What fas-
tens on our great industries this awful
load t Crime, dedividual. • and official.
We have to pay the boards of the vil-
lains who are incarcerated in our psis -
ons. • We have to take care of the
orphaes, of those who plunged into
their graves through sensual .indue
gencen We have to support the muni-
cipal g.overalmente which are vast and
expensive just in proportion as the
criminal proclivities are vast and tre-
mendous. 1Vho support the alms-
houses and police stations and all the
machinery of municipal 'government?
The taxpayers.
But in the glorioue time of which I
sneak grievous taxation will all have
ceased.. There will be no need of sup-
porting criminals, there will be no
criminals. Virtue will have taken the
place of vice. There will be no orphan
asylums, for parents will be able to
leave a competence to their children.
There will be no votingof large suras
of money for some municipal =preve-
nient, which money, before they get
to the improvements, drops into Usa.
pockets of those who voted it. No
oyer and terminer kept up at vast ex-
pense to the people.No eznpaneling
' of juries to try theft and arson and
murder and slander and blackmail.
' Better factories. Grander architecture.
Finer equipage. Larger fortunes.
Richer opulence. Better 'churches.
• In that better time also, coming to
those cities, Christ's cJaurches will be
more numerous, and they will be
larger, and they win be more devoted.
to the gospel of Jesus Christ, and they
will accomplish greater influences Lor
good. Now it is often the case that
churches are envious of each other,
and denominations collide with eaclr
other, and even ministers of Christ
sometimes forget the bond of brother-
hood. But m the time of which I
speak, while there will be just as many
differences of opinionas there are now,
there will be no acerbity, no hyper-
criticism, no exclusiveness.
In our great cities the churches are
not to -day large enough to hold more
than a fourth of the popalationa The
churches that are built—comparatively
few of them are fuely oceumed. The
average attendance in the churches of
the United States to -day is not 400.
Now, ia the grorious time of which
I speak, there are goingto be vast
churches, and they are going to be all
thronged with worshipers. Oh, what
rousing songs they will sing! Oh,
what earnest sermons they will preach!
Oh, what fervent prayers theYewill of-
fer! Now, in our time, what is called
a fashionable church is a place where
a few people, having attended very
carefully to their toiiet, come and sit
down—tiaey do not want to be crowded
like a whole seat to themselves—
and then, if they have any Lune left
from, thinking of their store, and from
examining the style of the hat in front
of them, they sit and listen to a ser-
mon warranted to hit no man's sins,
and listen to music which is rendered,
by a choir warranted to sing tunes
that nobody knows/ And then after
an hour and a half of indolent yawn-
ing they go home refreshed. .Every
man feels better after he has had a
sleep.
In many of the churchee of Christ
in our day the music is simply a mock-
ery. I have not a cultivated ear, nor
a cultivated volee, yet no man can do
my singingfor me. 1 have nothing
to soy against artistic mu.sic, Salle
$2 or §5 1 pay to hear any of the great
queens of song is a good investment.
But when the people ensemble in re-
ligious convocation and the hymn is
read, and the angels of God step from
their throne to catch the music on
their wings, do not let us drive them
away byour indifference. I have
preaclated in churches where vast sums
of money were employed to keep up
the music, and it was as exquisite as
any heard on earth, but I thought at
the same time that for all matters
practical I would prefer the hearty,
outbreaking song of a backwoods
Methodist; camp meeting,.
Let one of these starveling fancy
songs sung in church get up before
the throne of God—how would it seem
standing amid the great, doxologies of
the redeemed? Let the eineet operatic
air that ever went up from the church
of• Christ get many hours the start;
it will be caught and passed by the
hosanna of the Sabbath eehool chil-
dren. I know it churoh where the choir
did all the singing save one Christian
man, who, through "perseverance of
the saints," went right on, and after-
ward a committee was appointed to
wait on him and ask him IC he would
not please stop singing, as he notbered
the choir,
Let those refuse to sing,
• Who never knew our God,
taut children of the heavenly King
Should speak their joys abroad.
"Praise ye the Lord, Let everything
with breath praise the Lord." In the
glorious time coming in our cities and
in the world hosanna will meet ho-
sanna and halleluiah, halleluiah.
In that time also of whicle I speak all
the haunts of iniquity and crime and
squalor will be cleansed and will be
illuminated. How is it to be done?
You say perhaps by one influence. Per-
haps I say by another: I will tell you
what is my idea, and 1 know I ani
right in it. The gospel of the Son of
God is the only agency that will ever
accomplish this.
A gentleman in England had a
theory that if the natural forces of
wind and tide and sunshine .and 'wave
were rightly applied and rightly de-
veloped it would make this whole earth
a paradise. In a book of great genius
and which rushed from edition to edi-
tion, he said: "Fellow men, I promise
to show the means of tweeting a para-
dise within ten years where everything
desirable for human Life may be had
by every man in saperabundame,e with-
out labor and without pay; wbere the
whole face of nature shall be changed
to the most beautiful farms and man
may live in the most magnificent pal-
aces, in all imaginable refinements
of luxury and in the most delightful
gardens; where he may accomplish
without labor in one year more than
hitherto could be done in thousands
of years. From the houses to be built
will be afforded the most cultured
views that can be fancied. From the
galleries, from the roof and from the
turrets may be seen gardens as far as
the eye can see full of fruits and
flowers arranged in the most beauti-
ful order, with walks, colonnades,
aqueducts, camels, ponds, plains, am-
phitheatres, terrace,s, fountains, sculp-
tored weeks, pavilions, gondolas, pla,ces
of popular anautsentent to lure the
eye and fancy, all this to be done by
urging the water, the wind and the
sunshine to their full development."
He goes on and. gives plates of the
machinery by which thits work is to
be done, and he says he only needs at
the start a company in which the
eheres shall be e20 cede and $100,000
or $200,000 shalt be raised just to make
a specimen community, and then, this
being formed, the world will see the
practicability, and very soon $2,000,000
or $8,000,000 can be obtained, and in
ten veins the whole earth will be
empaea,disied. The plan is not, so pee-
pestereas as some I have heard of. But
E will take no stock in that company.
I do not believe that it will ever be
done in that way, by any mechanical •
force or by any machinery that 'the
human mind eau put into play. It is
to be done by the gospel of the Son
of God—the omnipotent inachineey of
THE
EXETER
Love and grace and paedon and salva-
tion. This; is to emparadise the ilae
tions. Archimedes destroyed a fleet, of
ships coming up the harbor. You
know thaw he did. it. He lifted a great
sungLess, history tells us, •and when the
fleet ef ships came up the harbor
el Syracuse lee brought to bear this
sunless, and lie fooused the eun's
rays Lepon those ships. Now the sails
are wings.of fire, the masts fall, the
vessels sink, Oh, my friends, by the
sunglass of the gospel converging the
rare of the sun of rtgliteousnese upon
tee sins, the wickedness of the world;
we will make them blaze and expire;
le that day of whkli I speak do you
believe teem will be any midnight
of the rooms oecupieet by politicians and
off nem lee maxele steps of shivering
naendicants? Will there be any un-
washed, tented, • untombed children?
Will there be any bla,sohemie,s in the
streets? Will there be any dnebriates
staggering past? No. No wine stores.
No lager beer ealoons. No distilleries,
where they make the three X's. No
bloodshot eye. No bloated cheek. No
instruments of ruin and destruction.
No fist pounded forehead. The grand-
children of that woman who goes down
the street with a cerse, stoned by the
boys thee follow her, will be the re-
formers and philanthropists and the
cChharuiettsiaont oxonernoiatineds. the honest mer -
Ah, we do well to punish small
criraes, but I have sometimes thought
it would be, better in same of our cities
if the officials would only turn out
from the jails the petty eliminate the
little offenders, $10 desperadoes, and
put in their places some of the monst-
ers of iniquity who • drive their roan
Span through the streets so swiftly that
honest men have to .leap to get out
of the way of being ru.n over. 05,
the damiaabae schemes that professed
Christian men will sometimes engage
in untilGod puts the fingers of His
retribution into the collar et their robe
of hypocrisy and rips it dear to the
bottonal But all these weengs will be
righted. 0 expect to live to eea the
day. I tbink I hear in the distance
the rumbling of the King's chariot.
Not always in the minority is the
church of God going to be or are good
raen going to be. Tlae streets are go-
ing to be filled with regenerated pepu-
la,tion.s. Three bundred and ,sixty
bells rangin Mosoow when one prince
was married, but when righteousness
and peace kiss each other In all the
earth, ten thousand times ten thou-
sand bells shall strike the jubilee.
Poverty enriched. Hunger fed. Crime
banished. Ignorance enlightened. All
the cities saved. Is ,not this a cense
worth working in?
Then what, municipal governments,
too, we will have in all the cities. Some
cities are worse than others; but in
many of our cities you just walk down
by the any halls, and look in at some
of the rooms occupied by politicians
eee to what a seneual, loathsome, ignor-
ant, besotted crew oity polities is often
abandoned. Or they stand around the
city hell picking their teeth, waning
Lor some emoluments of crumbs to
fall to their feet, waiting all day long
and waiting all night long.
Who are those wretehed women
taken up for drunkenness and carried
up to the courts and put in prison, of
course? What will you do with
the grogsbone thet makte them (Irina?
Nothing. Who are those prisoners in
jail? One of thern stole a pair of shoes.
That boy stole a dollar. This girl
snatched a 'purse. All of them crimes
damaging society less than $20 or $30.
But whet will you do with the gamb-
ler who last night robbed the young
man of $1,000? Nothing. What shall
be done with that one who breaks
through and destroys the purity of a
Christian home ami with an adroit-
ness and perfidy that beat the strategy
of hell, flings a shrinking, shrieking
soul to ruin? Nothing. Whet will you
do with those, who fleeced that young
man, getting hira to purloin large
sums of money tram his ernpaoyer—the
young man who came to an offic,er of
ray church anti told the story and
frantically asked what be should dot
Nothing.
Oh, you think sometimes it does not
amount to much 1 You eon on in your
different spheres, sometimes with
great discouragement. People have no
faith and. say: "It does not amount to
anything. You may as well quit that."
Why, when Moses stretched his hand
over the Red bea it did not seem to
mean anything especially. People
came out, I suppose, and say, "Alia!"
Some of them found nut what he
wanted to do. He wanted the sea part-
ed. It did not amount to anything,
this stretching out of his hand over
the sea. But after a while the wind
blew all night. from the east, and the
waters were gathered into a glittering
palisade on either side, and the bil-
lows reared a.s God pulled back on
their crystal. bits. Wheel into line, 0
Israel, IVIarchl Mardi! Pearls crashed
under feet. Flying spray gathers into
rainbow arch of victory for tbe con-
querers to march under. Shout of
hosts an the beech answering the shout
of hosts amid sea. And when the last
line of Israelites reach tlae beach the
cymbals clap, and the shields clang,
and the waters rush over the pursuers,
and the swift -fingered winds on the
white kens of the foam play the grand
march of Israel delivered- and the
a.wful dirge of Egyptian overthrow.
So you and I go forth, mad all the
people of God go forth, and they
stretch forte their hand over the sea,
the boiling sea of clime and sin and
wretchedness. "It doesn't amount to
anything," people say. •—Doesn't it?
God's wmds of help will after a while
begin to blow. A patch will be cleared.
for the army of Christian philanthrop-
ists. The path will be lined with the
treasures oe Christian beneficence, and
we shall be greeted to the other beach
by the clapping of all heaven's cym-
bals, while those who pursued us and
tried to destroy us will go clown under
the sea, and all that will be left of
them will be east high and dry upon
the beach, the splintered wheel of a
chariot, tee thrust out from the foam,
the breathless nostril of a riderless
charger.
l3ORROWING HER WORD.
I have a piece of news foe you, he
remarked, as he sat dow.n at the table.
Miss De Billion is going to be married.
I knew that two weeks ago, replied
his wife.
I saw her future husband to -day.
Is he iaandsonie ?
• Ilm—er—he's not what you'd can
handsome. He looks artistic.
What do you mean?
I mean what you evomen mean when
you say ainything is artietic.
What do yeti understand by our use
of the word?
Why, whenever anything looks very
old and very outla,ndieht you almost in-
variably say it's artistic.
,
INFANT SLATJGrHTER IN LONDON.
During 1895 7,527 inquests were held
in London, an increase of 14 per cent.
on the number in 1894. One hundred
and seven persons of the "subjects"
died from "want, cold and expoeure."
Hive hundred and seventy-two children
were suffocated during the year by
drunken or careless parents in bed.
TIMES
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THE SUNDAY SC1100L.
INTERNATIONAL LESSON, OCT. 4.
Solomon Anointed liiitg." x Kings, 1.23
39. •Golden Text.
GENERAL STATEMENT.
Our last lesson was from the Book
of Proverbs, a large portion of wands
hes, in all ages, been reedited to the
Pen of Solomon. The le.sson before it
was from tee famous psalm in which
David suininaxizes 'his career as God's
servant, supposed to have been writ-
ten-, in the dawn of his triumphs as
king, and rewritten at life's close. The
lesson of September 6 gave us Davide
charge to Solomon to build a house for
the God of Israel—a charge which was
madin the old age of David., but after
Solomon had been enthroned. Oux les-
son to -day concerns the enthronement
of Solomon, and therfore antedates Les-
son .X of tee last Quarter (Seineraber
6); if we would be as nearly eh renological
as possible we must link it to Lessons
VIII and 1X, tbe accounts of Absa-
lom's attempted usurption of the throne,
and of his violent death. Between those
sad events and the incidents • of this
lessen hardly more than nine years past-
ed. But now anothex of Devid's sons,
Adonijah, the eldest living son after
Absalom's death, conspixed to make him-
self king. In some regards this Leo -
cod rebellion was more dangerous than
that of Absalom, for, uailed with sadon-
ijah, were Joab, the great general, and
Abiatear, tbe chief priest. David, wbo
mstillP
anitoOssesdms°-hd4 go
enAbosdhe
alsomcvrreboforelvleidg,lioatis
ti
now complete/y leroken down, and lay
helpless in his old. age. 'Yet when Na-
theu informed hine of the conspiracy
he acted with a promptitude worthy of
his prime. Nathan, clearly saw that
Bathsheba, mere impressively than
anyone else, could break the news to
the king. She held a place a distin-
guished honor in come as David's fav-
orite wife anti as mother oh the clies.en
heir to the throne, aud if s.a.donijah sue-
ceeded he would doubtless put both
Solomon and Solomon's mother out of
the way. The prophet promptly sec-
onded the queen's words, The c,onspir-
acy was succeesful at the outset, and
already a coronation feast was premix-
ed at Enrage]. But while the echoes of
the trumpets of Acionljales followers
are still ringing in the eers oi his guests
another .pxoceeseen imprint:nes, a pro-
cession of the king's butlygmerd led by
&Auk the. prieet, Natlete the prophet,
and Ben•dah the warner. They pro-
claim Suleiman keg in 1.11V, 11a11121 of Uav-
id, and so great AN.1S the psever of tliat
name that A denijah's gut sts proximity
dispersed and souglit thau own suety,
and he fled to tn. idler and legged
for Ins ltfe, white the erowd. shouted,
"God save laing Solumon."
1-)RatentiCAL NOTES.
Verae. 2e. King David answered and
said. To Nathan tett prophet, who was
an accomplished man oe affairs, as well
as it seer. So soon as he understood
Adenijah's plans, and noted his fel-
low -conspirators and e leen he had ig-
Jewett, lie sent Bathsheba, the mother
of Solumon to remind laavid of his prom -
lee anti oath cencerning Solomon. To
heighten the dramatic elfect " while she
yet, talked witla the king" Nathan him-
eelf came in, und assuming that Atloni-
jah was acting according to David's
plans, modestly r4proachcal the king for
not having told the prophet of the Lord
his.plans tor euccesnon. Bathsheba had
retired, doubtless, when Nathan enter-
etl, and, instead of directly answering,
Nathan, David anseers and, says,
Call me Beinsheba. The quickness and
firmness of his decision, shows that,
Ill spite of wealmess of body, his nimel
and will were working well. (l) Wath -
out promptitude and vigor no success
ean be secured, either secular or spir-
.
29. As the Lord liveth. This was the
commonest form of oath among the
asraelites. That hath redeemed my
soul out of all distress is added to in-
terisily it To (het God wbo had been
So true to him David would now be
true. *Ilis deliverances out of straits
and dangers were wonderful and they
were coustantly in his mind as causes
ot gratitude. (2) Ilas not God redeemed
our souls, also, out of all distress? It
seems to have been customary at that
time for the king to choose his success-
or from among; his sons.
30. Even as 1 swam unto the. We
have no record of this earlier oath, but
it was distieotly remembered hy Na-
than, by Bathsheba, and. by David.
Tbie day. In this little phrase of
promptitude is hidden a large part of
the secret of David's lifelong success.
So soon as he determined he acted.
81. Bowed with her face to the earth.
In accordance with the elaborate cere-
mon.y of the court. Let my lord, king
David live forever. Hyperbole and ex-
aggeration are in constant use through-
out the East. Bat there was special
fitness in this phrase now, for Bathshe-
ba's earnest, desire that Solomon should
reign might readily be interpreted by.
her enemies as a desire for David's
death.
32. Call me. David demands the pre-
,it/6 of the three men who henceforth
were to stand. respectively at, the bead
of the three great departments of the
theocracy—the chief of the priests,
Zadok, for Abiathar had gone over to
the enemy; the chief of the warriors,
Benaiab, for Joale was also in league
with Adoiaijah; and the chief of the
prophets, Nathan. Note that as Bath-
sheba, had withdrawn when Nathan
entered, so Nathan retired when Bath-
sheba, entered.
33. The servants ea your lord. The
king's bodyguard, which, in accordance
vith Asiatic custom, seems to have been
made up of foreigners mercenary sol-
diers, or, more likely, slaves. Similar
was the origin of the aramelultes and
the Janissaries. From verse 38 we in-
fer that this guard was divided into
Cberathites and Pelethites, names
which are interpreted by Gesertius to
mean respectively "execationers" and
"couriers; it seems more probable teat
they were foreign tribal nanaen The
Pelethites we know to have been a peo-
ple who lived south of the Philistines.
It was not for mere ostentation that
these soldiers were thus • mustered
around young Solomon; joab was on
the other side, ansi there.never seemed
greater need to be prepared for hard
fighting. Mine own mule. To use any-
thing eet aside for the king's use was
regarded alatoet as an assumption of
royalty. When Pharaoh would, honor
J'aseph he made him "ride in the sec-
ond chariot which he had," When Ah-
asuerus would honor iVlordecal he was
set on "the hczrse tee king ridetla upon,"
Bain taint down to Gihon. Gilaort was
a Pleee in the low ground on the east
side of ,Terusalein. It has been stip-
posed, as we have already intimated,
to be about oneeleandred yards from the
place where Adonijait and his friends
wo-
sersehofuleaesatiwneg: (3) While trusting,
God. David used. his utmost discretion;
34. Let Zadole the priest aead • Nathan
the prophet anoint him. Anointing was
the second part oa the coronation eere-
mony. It was epablemetic of tbe div-
ine nistallation, the outpouring of gifts
from above upon the new king. And
that is why the chief of the prieste and
the chief of the prophets together per-
formed the ceremony, while the Least of
the military forces, thougb himself a
priest by birth, had no part. (4) Isa all
thy ways acknowledge lilan, and be
shall direct thy paths, Blow ye with
the trumpet. The formal announce-
ment of tee great event. Trumpets
were used for similar purposes by Ab-
salom, by Jelm, by Joashi and by others.
3$. To come up after him. To march in
stately fashion, the young king at the
head of the procession. Sit upon my
throne. Not so much as David's
cessor as David's partner in royalty. 1
have appointed hum Under divine di-
rection. Ruler over Israel and over
Judah. "Ruler" should be "prince."
Israel" and 'Judah" were like two
monarchies united under the sway of
one monarch. Neither of these great
divisions
ever lost its identity.
8d. The Lord God of my lord the king
say so. A i*autifut prayer. (5) The
vraftiest statestueai andthtdeobrn.avest eta-
diers cannot bring te pees teat weigh
is contrary to the will oi;
37, Make the throne greater than the
throne of ray lord king David. This
prayer was fulfilled (1 eings 8. 11, 12).
Such a prayer could never arouse the
jealousy of an affectionate father.
38. :the Cheretlates, and the Pele-
tvhiertsetls.,33.1tead carefully the note on
39. A nom of oil, The, Hebrew bas
the horn. There was sacred oil pre-
served with other holy things in the
tabereatele for occasions suce as this.
All the people said, God save King Sol-
omon. So now Solomon was confirmed
in his office by the suffrages of hie
people. lie was first selected by David
under divine direction, than anointed by
the priest and prophet, then "ratified"
by tee citizens of Jerusalem.
441,.
ERIN'S BURIED TOWNS.
Toe Green Isle contains it etuttoer or
Toon.
Slumbering beneath many a peatieful
cornfield in Ireland are buried villages
where 0110i stood in tea beirt of the
primeval forest, engirdied by the waters
of soma stagna,nt peaty lake. The Irish
farmer of to -day turns up with hie
plow tee wooden pins Ltima wince these
lake dwellings rested; they ere Wave
with age, but Tote can yet trace the
mortise bolee whia.ia late anuient Celt
made with the primitive ehiere
Tee archaeologiet, :miffing each a
find, 'brings along bi naviee, with their
spades and presently the buried "twain,
nog" is expeeed 50 delight. There is
a circlts in the .staraitalte oi piles, which
kept the artificial iisr together. Insiae
are layers of cross beams, nurdle more,
Lrush work, day, peat, anl other mat-
ters, which formed the suzueseive flours
of thedwelhixxg continuilly renewed,
perhaps,. as they siowly subsided into
the peaty bottom 01. 1,11.1 lake.
To -day the lain: ansi its waters are
representes iie a layer of peat, in tvintee
these reties lie well preserved, urge-
ther witis b2111.11.1;$ 01. Ina ancient Irina -
men's knives, elesele and axes—se/ea,
14'61.12:0, or iron, aecordiug to tee pealed
of his deideatien. inc 'lash -exalt-
nog" was a, 'muttitteatioti of the lake
,uwelling 01 tentral. Europe.
Upon the Limn at tee Jake dwelling
ages—which weee quite erehistorio ages,
being practieally tee. eame ae the ages
of stone and oronee—eat. Ammo, me
secretary oi the enotten Staiete of An-
tiquaries, ie .a proaoutil autherity.
Listi peopie who thus elected, to ke.ep
themselves aloof from their enemies
were, according, to Dr. Lunro, pastoral
farmer immigrants from the far east
of .europe. ihey were of high degree
of civilization, for, though their wee -
pews and touts were but of stone or
bronze, they could use them well Alto-
gether, so far as we can glean any
idea of the life led by these pre-hiee
tone inhamtants oi central Europa, it
must have Leen a fairly .quiet and
pen.c,efei one, comparing very faxerably
with modern peasant life. The lake
age came to an end when iron fouled
iits way, says Dr. elunro, far surpa,ssing
in its nfluence on human life any de-
velopment that either steam or elec-
trieity has brought about or ie like-
ly to do.
ANCIENT TOOLS.
Those 'Used ln r011Illen EXitellY SIsnUar to
modern Instruments.
Prof. Goodman has collected. some
most interesting facts as to the tools
of the ancient Romans. 11 is a max -
vel how some of the instruments and
tools they were in the habit ea ueing
could possibly have been made With-
out such maceinery as we now possess.
Prof. Goodman said the thing that most
impressed him, when visiting Pompeii,
was the resemblance between many of
the ixapleraents of 1800 years ago and
those of to -day. On looking at the
iron tools groupea. together in an old
factory there he could almost imagime
he was gazing into a raodern tool shop,
except fox the fact that there •was it
bevy coating of rust on the iron. Sick-
les, bill-hootks, rakes, forks, axes, spades,
blacksmith's tongs, hanamers, solder-
ing irons, planes, shovels, nc., are
mucle like those used. to -day; but the
most marvelous instruments found are
those far surgery, beautifully extent-
ecl. and of design exactly similar to some
recently patentedand reinvented. in-
credible as it may appear, the Pampei-
ions had wire ropes of perfect construc-
tion. Their bronzes reveal great skill
and artistic talent. The bronzc braz-
ier and kitchener had boilers at the
side, aead taps for running off the hot
water, Ewers and urns have been dis-
covered with interior tubes and fur-
naces precisely. like the arrangement
now in vague 111 steam boilers. Metal
safes had su.bstantial locks, Many of
the leeks ;end keys are most ingenious
and some veryconaplex. The water sup-
ply of Pompeii was distributed by
means of lead. pipes laid under the
streets. Tb.ere were many public think -
leg fountains, and most of the large
houses were provided with fountains,
malty of them being of very beautiful
design.
BROOM HAVE TRADE.
TROUBLES IN THE SOUDAN LIVER
UP THE UNHOLY TRAFFIC.
Auction Soles Almost itleery boy in Cities
of Morocco-1110st or tiie Trading Is itt
Toting ileitis, Who etre Now doinelalog
ot' is oita, on the mareet.
Those persons who take a pintail-
thropic interest in the affairs or otlier
nations are deeply excited just now by
the tales brought here frora Morocco
Englishrcten who Save been traveling
about the (amain of the young Sultan.
about the dantain of the young Sultan,
Abdul Azzlz. It seems that slave deal-
ers are more active aracmg the Moors
some e tail aut ribiu°tre t hnle a innYoreYaelrsofptas, hettra:fa-
fic to tha disturbanees in the Soudan,
where, the Angio -Egyptian troops are
now waging war against tee Mahdists.
.Nearly all of the slaves sold in Moroc-
co are stolen from the tribes which in-
fest the Soudan, and of these slaves 90
per cent are young girls ranging in
age from 8 years to 25 years. The ex-
planation of this is that the men of the
tribes are away fighting under the ban-
ner of the Menai, leaving their womea
tinlivredealers,eee
dagainst the raids of the
sia
The latter, from all accouaats, are
taking full advantage of tild tmfortue
nate condition or affairs, and, owing to
the abundant :supply, staves are now
*ening in the prinelpel cities of Mo -
reed) at
.01.1EA.PER, PRICES
than ever before. An unattractive wo-
reale of 24 or 25 years atm now be bought
for the, Moorish equivalent of $35, but
it handsome little girl et 9 or lo years
brings as high as $04.
'Iliesa women of the Soudan mature
very early and are old at 3.). Cluldren
of 9 and 10 are ae well developed as
the average girl of 15 or 16. The
isuudanes aoxjiau ni mete blavic anti
ulleaulis us appearatatte with all tile
Lumbar characieris,ies of usa. Atrican
negro.
rocclao,vearitYliSni°11eivaiach113e.freteitgnilozregtiinecialtiet);
..re is it epataal slave mareete enere
the wares 011.110 deine,re are sold at ano-
n= at regular intervals. ehette °sane
are always cuuducted with great de-
corum, but t.he dealers reeort to many
ric,ss 50 getims. big
lialti.1"11:tinsaretortiktaiiteetenud
in the xnerkets, giving perlicatare of
the next, sale, and. alese 11.211 closely stu-
died 1sa advanee by prospective buyers.
The, slave market, at t'ez is one of
the mosimportant in the eingiium of
Atoroeco. It is situated. in the miter
ot the city, being nothing mere than ,
a large ope,n seture surrounded by a
knad. of. arcade, tu whitei tne Layers and
LePeetatons as. Oxi 0110 side te. the
open Si1.11.41'0 15 it niunnenteit, mosques
a tine ten: at ettenesh armlet:mm.1e, mice
many o- th.., people who come. to the
s.ite iu. Vlsi tut =segue aud send. up
a prayer to Allab.
THE SLAVE SALES
luvariably Luke place in the evening,
ior the pargese of 4:04u/thug, in tee
aim ugh.. any unpe.rieetione winch tile
untortunates may possess. .Uuring the
S.115 Lb.:, slaves are kept together in.
one oe the recesses of tae arcade. Tbey
toe alwaya euxrounued by a group of
nein—preepect e buy ere—w ho look
teem veer xis a women 'inspeete huuse-
hold turniture itt au auction SA3.0.
*The aselage age ot the save girls
is auout 14 yeare, bus the raiders do
net earuple to steal children, who
woule annest Si etanitiered babies
other comexies. dealers, who in
leo*: cams are prospezeus,
Le011, leek over 1.11,11: viteimit evert:tally
tenet inay ere ssla, feeding them gen-
crouely ant trying tu ninete them ieel
centettiet se thee they will present an
faugivrevithir jaiiRtieeralaned
e eheu plaite
slaves are led out, separately by
the metier, who cries out their many
adsan,ages in Arabic,. The usual ClIehS
of the stave is a suige4 gaiment of
calico. The dealer marches her around
isa the ring of open spaoe while the
bidders rate?. 0112 another. When there
is no possttaaty of getting a ingter
bi51 the girt is handed to tha purch-
aser, the to.oney is paid. over and the
ne.1., slave is orought out, to go through
precisely, the same performance. As
the auctions take place every few days,
there are not many slaves put up at
one sale. Twelve or fefteen is the av-
erage number, but ixi some eases, where
au exceptionally fruitful rant has been
inane, isa nuinoer run.s as high its fifty
orAsbldIutY!•Azziz, the young Sultan, who
looks ten years older than he really
is, encourages the slave traffic, but he
is very jealous of tha details concern-
ing it reaching European ears. For
this reason nearly- all of the sales take
place in the towns rarely visited by
oreigners, but should any of the latter
post-
poned. . at a sale it is at once post -
Most of the eities of Morocco are
well protected against tourists, for the
reason that the whole country is over-
run by companies of brigands. To
make a safe journey to the interio.:
it is necessary to be accompanied by
A FORMIDA.BLE CARAVAN,
and the average tourist can not af-
ford the expanse. These brigands are
respecters of no one. They would as
soon attack the Sultan as any one else,
providing there wee a chance of over-
coming his escort. The inland cities
are, therefore, well protected against
tile prying eyes of lauxemetwas, and news
of the happenings there seldcen reach
t,heit zsutkilerol.eset
mafhdo.,we
ver, that ever since
his ascension to the throne Sultan Ab-
dul Azziz hes been busily engaged as
a means of effectually squelching all
ambitions they might have to reign in
his stead. Hive hundred years ago one
of the Sultans of Turkey .discovereei
that the Koran permitted the killing
of all male relatives of royalty, togeth-
er with their harems and the proge-
ny of the harems, and the young Sul-
tan of Morocco has taken full advantage
• Qrthlis
is youngi)receu
detti
Ttan has a greater
number of wives than any other of the
Oriental potentates The Sultan of
Turkey is creclited with 1,000, but the
Sultan of Morocco is seed to have 1,200.
When any of the slave dealers capture
an exceptionally handsome girl she is
at once sent to the imperial palace, and
if she is deemed fitting for a. place iu
the harem the rec,onapense Of the slay-
er is large. All of the courtiers end
royal parasites ..attenept to imitate 'the.
Sultan m the size of their harems, and
the, merchants imitate the coartiets.
The ceaseless raids in the Soudan more
than txteet the demand, which as now
largerathan at any time in the history
of the ancient country.
AN ICELAND
iroinon's Notes on 000 of
the Litand
In approaching an loeland ferm ee
tain formalities must be obettee4
maites a correspondent. 'You. OVA
not descend from the pony, even then
You. know quite well that you ere to
remain; nor thould the paoke be tak
off. The proper thing is to wait un-
til your guide finds seine one in mi-
nority and proffers a request for shel-
ter. For a single night this ca,u not
be refused, though the farmer May, 11
he *bootees, decline to neep you, for sev-
eral day, Perrahedon haying ewe
granted, you, can alight send enter teei
gneet room, !which is rarely absent,
even in the poorest farms.
Opposite the c)aurela stand. the hone°
buildings. Facing the, path axe five
smaal wooden gables, connected byl
neck walls a tuxf and, stone. The we- e
tml one is the •entranee to the Malik(
body of the house, and the others serve
aa Peatefficeguest room, wool and store
room, and for hernees, and tools. Wes
pass under the low entrance, awl
through a hong, dark passage, with!
earth floors ansi walls; on either side ot
tins tuenel open storerocane for railli
end provisions a,nd t,he eldhlie, Where.
000king, washing and, churn'aeg are
done. Thie room is lighted only by al
hole in the roof, winch serves also as et
chitniee,y for the central fireplace. Quite
at the mid of the message the badstofar
or general living room, isz usually f011nd4
Wh142'0 men, women and children
SLEEP IN OPEN BUNKS
around the, room. But this fax= has
overate rooms for the Men and woe
men servants a small lettehen and.
chambers overhead for the pastor and
his faintly; ansi in addition is a oOPY
little xoora, half library, half dietner
room, io.r guests, whein I saw a book-
case, well filled. with Icelaudic sagas,
German and Danish bootee aud, traps -
tenons from standard .English worets.
Above all is tne turfy roof, with ma
many curves anti peaks. Little wind0Wit
peep out. from, among the grasses, and
otten the earthen walls slope so grad,- •
int.ily to the, ground that it, is hard to
tell where the house leads and the tun,
or home grass lands, begin, liede.edt
one starer is told of a traveler who
rode up esu top of a house, one dark
night, anti onm dissov ve.ned his mistake
by his horse eventing a, leg down one
of the chimneys. Darap• these housee
tenuity are; but tea temperaeure 18
equanle like that of a cave, and they
are certainly -well adapted to resist the
sudden, tierce storms whittle sweep over
the country..
This farm is an exceptionally fine one;
you will hardly find a 'wore like it
Iceland. :there was an Mx of life and
bust1e. about the place, and. the farm
work went on wite a swing and energy
not often wen in these leisurely Ice-
landers. Night and. morning 120 sheep
trotted down from their rocky pa -stares
to bet miiked, and the. In,aktalg of &Tx
went on duligeuUy. Skyr is one of talte
staples et Icelanaio toed; it is made 1st
heating the rank slowly, curdling it
with rennet and drawing off the whey.
'When done it is stored away in hog*e
heads for use during the year.
I had come tsa a lau.v time for the
farm peop:e; notonly was tlaere the
SET.R. AND BUTTER MAKING,
bus the wool had to be cleaned and
sent 011 ponies to market, and then the
haying began. 'Iles is a long two
months' eifair. From the, grandfath-
er in tea babies, all were at -work; first
the tun was mowed, then the "out hay,"
ar distant meadows, then the walls,
roofs—every pace that afforded a
wisp pf hay; for on the scanty grass
crop the, lives of the flocks depe,nd, arid
they are the Icelander's otuef de-
pendence. From the wool clothes for
men and woman ant made, blankets,
harness, rcvs, gloves, stockings and
beevy marls, while the surplus wool is
bartered for groceries end other neces-
saries.
'The Icelandic pastor is really a farm-
er, and roust work hard on the lend
which aceompanies every church
in order to eke out his small stipend.
Usually he has three churches in his
charge, the head church and two "an -
flexes," and ha holds mac noonday see -
vice in each onee in three weeks.,
Everywhe,re isa Iceland I was treat-
ed with the greatest courtesy axed kind-
ness, and not once did I meet with Aia-
honesty or overcharging of any lend.
Sometimes one member of a peasant's
family would speak a little English, and
almost every one understood Danish, of
which I ha.d a smattering. The cur-
iosity of the people was sometimes an-
noying, but it was very natural. Many
had never seen an American -vvoman,
mid all had mach interest in America,
encl.-wished to know if I had met their
relatives in Manitoba and on the Pa-
cilic Coast.
I found that many Iceaanders return
to their old homes; they usually ex-
plain this by, "The old folks needed
me," and often add: "And I did not
like the climate," the great heat of our
Northern summers being very trying to
a people accustoroe,d to cool, damp sum-
mers and comparatively mild winters.
TE411 WHISTLING TREE.
The musical or whistling tree Is
found in the West Indian Island, in
Nubia, and the Soudan. It has a pe -
oilier shaved leaf, and pods with a
split or open edge. The wind passing
through these sends out the sound
which gives the tree its peculiar name.
Isa Ba,rbadoes, these is a valley • filled
with these trees, and -when the trade
winds blow aeross the islands a can
-
stent moaning, deep -toned whistle is
heard from it, which in the still hours
of the night, has a very.weird and un-
pleasant effect. A species Of acacia,
which grows very abundantly in ehe
Soudan, is also called the whistling
tree by the natives. Its shoots are very
frequently, by the agency of the lar-
vae of insects, distorted in shape, and
swollen into a globular bladder from
0020 or two inches in ammeter, After
the insect has emerged from a eirculax
halo in tee side ot this swelling, the
opening, played upon by tbe wend, be-
comes it musical mstrumeet, equal in
sound to a sweet -toned flute.
IKINI:) FATTIER.
Doting Father—Phat's the matter.
Mielteyt
• Little Mike—The teaeher guy Johnn
Snout a xeward-a,venerit pictur' eansi
fur knowin' his lessons, and. 01 didn't
get nane—boo-hoo.,
Doting Father—Never moind, Mic
key. Come mid mo to the enore we
dies an' show me phai, keied av a ear.
red it was, an' Orli bay ye a renee
wag.