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S11OULI MAKE A BONFIRE
OF BMi BOOKS AND PAPERS
Low. Down Literatui-e Leads the People
Into Licentious Living, Says Tal-
mage the Preacher.
Waehington, repoet: Dr. Talmage,
who has been spending a few days in
St. Petersburg, sends the following re -
poet of a discourse which will be help-
ful to those who have an appetite for
literature and would like ,some rules
to guide them in the selection of books
and newspapers. Text: Acts xfx., 19:
"Many of them also which used curi-
ous arts broueht their books together
and burned them before all men, and
they counted the price of them and
found it 50,000 pieces of silver."
Paul had been stirring up Ephesus
with s.ome lively sermons gbout the
sins of that place. Among the more
Important results was the tact that
the citizens brought out their bad
• books and in a aublic place made a
bonfire of them. I see the people
corning. out with their arms full of
E.phesian literature and tossing it into
the flames. I hear an econorrlist who is
standing by saying: "Stop this waste.
Here are $7,500 worth of books. Do you
propose to burn them all up? If you
don't want to read them yourselves,
sell them and let somebody else read
them." "No," said the people; "if these
embahned than in the writings of Wal-
ter Scott. Cooper's novels are health-
fully redolent with the breath of the
seaweed and the air of the American
forest. Charles Kingsley has smitten
the morbidity of the world and led a
great many to appreciate the poetry
of sound health, strong muscles and
fresh air. Thackeray did a geand
*ark in caricaturing the pretenders of
gentility and high blood. Dickens lhas
built his own Monument in his books,
which are a plea for the poor and the
anathema. of injustice, and there are
a score of novelistic pens to -day doing
mighty work for God and righteous-
ness. .;
Now, I say, books like these, read
at right times and read in right pro-
portion with other books, cannot help
but be enobling and purifying; but,
alas, for the loathsome and impure
literature that has come in the shape
of novels, like a freshet overflowing
all the banks of decency and common
serise! They are coming from some of
the Most celebrated publishing houses.
They are coming with recommenda-
tion of some of our religious newspa-
pers. They lie on your center table to
books' are not good for us, they are curse your children and blast with
pot good for anybody else, and we their infernal fires generations un -
shall stand and watch until the last born. e
leaf has burned to ashes. They have I shall take all the world's Mere. -
done us a world of harm, and they ture-good novels and bad, travels
shall never do others harm." Hear true and false, histories faithful and
the flames crackle and roar. inconrect, legends beautiful and mon-
Well, my friends, one of the wants strolls, all tracts, all chronicles, all
of the cities Is a great bonfire of bad poems, all family; city, state and na-
books and newspapers. We have tienal libraries -and pile •them up in
enough fuel to rnake a blaze 200 feet a pyramid of literature, and then I
high. Many of the publishing houses shall bring to bear upon it some
would do well to throw into the grand, glorious, infallible, unmis-
blaze their entire stock of goods. takable Christian principles. God
Bring forth the insufferable trash help me to speak whit reference to my
and put It ento the fire and let it be ' last account and help you to listen.
known in the presence of God and I charge you in •the first place to
angels and men that you are going stand aloof from all books that give
to rld your homes of the overtopping false pictures of life. Life is neither
and underlying curse of profligate a tragedy nor a farce. Men are not
literature. • • all either kneves or heroes. Women
The printing press Is the ,mightiest are neither angels nor furies. And
agency on earth for good and for yet if you depended on much ef the
evil. The minister of the gospel. literature of the day you would get
standing in a pulpit, ha.s a responsl- 1 the idea that life instead of being
ble position, but I do not think it something earnest, 'something practi-
is as responsible as the positiern of eat, is e a fitful and fantastic and
an editor or a publisher. At what extravagant thing. How poorly pre -
distant point of time, at what far- pared are that young man and wo-
but cycle of eternity, will cease the man for the duties ot to -clay who
influence of a Henry J. Raymond, or ; spent last night wandering ;through
a Horace Greeley, or a James dor- brilliant pasages descriptive of mag -
don Bennett, or a Watson Webb, er , nificent knavery and wickedness: The
an Erastus Brooks, or a Thomas Kin- man will be looking all day lung for
sella? Take the overwhelming statis- • his heroine in the office, by the forge,
tics of the circulation of the daily and in •the factory, in the couelting room,
weekly newspapers and then cipher if and he will not find her, and he will
..-4eelettleheieerli'VerUn'eatele tie influences himself up to the indiscriminate read -
of the American printing press.
, ing .of novels will be nerveless, .
in -
What is to be the issue of all this: • ane and a nuisance. He will be fit
believe the Leeha d intends tprime neither for the store, nor tile shop,
ing press to be the chief meens for nor the field. A woman who gives
the world's rescue and evangelise- herself up to the indiscriminate read -
tion, and think that the great lest Ing 02 novels will be unfit nor the
battle of the world will not be fought Ydueles of wife, mother, sister, daugh-
with swords and guns, but with types ter. There she is, hair disheveled,
and presses, a purified and gospel lit- countenance vacant, cheeks pale,
' -.mature triumphing over, trampling hands trembling., bursting into tears
down and crushing forever that which et midnight over the fate of some
is depraved. The only way to over- , unfortunate lover; in the daytime,
come unclean literature is by scatter- when she ought to be busy, staring
ing abroad that which is healthful. by the half hour at nothing, ening
May God speed the cylinders of an her finger nails into the quick. The
honest, intelligent, aggrestve, Christian carpet that was plain bellere will be
printing press.
you can how far up and how far down be dissatisfied. A man who gives
I plainerafter having wandered
I have to tell you that the greatest through a romance all night long in
blessing that ever came to the nations tessellated halls of castles. And our
is that of an elevated literature, and Industrious companion evIll be more
the greatest scourge hats been that of unattractive tha.n ever, now that
unclean literature. This last has its you have walked in the romance
victims In all occupations and depart- through parks with plumed prin-
ments. It has helped to fill insane asy- eesses OT lounged in the parlor with
lums and penitentiaries and alms- the polished desperado.
houses and dem of shame. The bodies Again, abstain from all those books
of this infection lie in the hospitals Which, while they have some good
and in the graves, while their souls things, have alsio an admixture of
are being tossed over into a lost eter- evil. You have read books that had
)1
nity, an avalanche of horror and des- . two elements in them -the good and
pair! The London plague was nothing the bad. Whick stuck to you? The
to it. That counted its victims by bad! The heart of moet people is
thousands, but this modern pest has like a sieve, which lets the small
already shoveled its millions into the particles of gold fall through, but
charnel house ot the morally dead. ; keeps the great cinders. tence in
The longest railway train that ever run a while there is a mind like a load -
over the tracks was not long enough stone which, plunged amid steel and
or large enough to carry the beastle brass filings, gathers up ethe steel
ness and the putrefaction which have and repels the brass. But it is gen-
been gathered up in bad books and erally exactly the opposite. It you
'newspapers in the east 20 years. abterrept to plunge through a hedge of
Now, it is amid such circumstances burrs 'to get one blackberry, you will
that I put a question of overmaster- get more burrs than blackberries. You
Ing importance to you 8nd your fam- cannot afford tlo ,read a Pad book,
ilies. What books and newspapers however good you are. You say,
shall we read? You see I group them "The influence is insignificant." I
together. A newsaper Is only a book tell you that the ecratch of a pin
In a swifter and more portable shape, has sometimes produced lockjaw.
and the same rules which will apply to Alas, if through curiosity, as many
book reading' will apply to newspaper do, you pry into an evil book, your
reading. What shall we read? Shall curioeity is as dangerous as 'that of
OUr minds be the receptable of every- ! .the man who would 'take a torch
thing that an author has a mind to into a, gunpowder mill merely to see
write? Shell there be no distinction whether it would really blow up or
between the tree of liee and the tree I not.
of cleate? Shall we 'stoop down and ; Again, I charge you to atand oft
drink out of the trough evhich the from All those books which eorrupt
wickedness of men has filled with pole ; •the iinagination and inflame the pas-
lution and shame? Shall we mire in 1 sions. I do not refer now to that
impurity and chase fantastic will-o'I kind of book which the villain has
the -wisps .across the swamps, when we tinder his coat, 'waiting for the
might walk in the blooming gardens sohool to get out, and then, looking
of God? 0e, no! For the sake of our ; both ways to se that 'there is no
present and everlasting welfare wo policeman around the block, offers
must make an intelligent and Chris- the book to your son on his way
tan choice. home. I do not speak 08 that kind
Standing, as we do, ehin deep in of literature, but that which evades
feeltiotts literature, the question that the law and comes out in ponshed
young people are asking is: "Shall 'etyle, and with acute plot sounds -
we vcad novels? I reply, There are the 'tocsin that rouses up ell the
novels that are . pure, good, Christian, baser passions of the sot I. , To -day,
elevating to the heart and enobling uncler the imstrils of the people,
• to the nee. But I levee Still further to there is a fetid, reeking, -unwashed
say that I believe that 75 out of the literature, enough to poison all the
100 novel e in this day are balefue and fountains ea public: virtue. and sinito
destructive to the last degree. Apure Your sons and clatigheme, as with the
• work of fiction is history a.nd poetry wing of a destroyina angel, and it
combined. It is a haftere ef things is thne that the rameters of the gos-
around me With the licensee andeelle Pel blew the trumpet afal rallied the
'assumed names oe poetry. The ' world , forces of righteousness, armee
can never pay the debt whith It owes 'to, this great battle a,galeiSt a depraved
to such writers of Action as I/ewe-Lorne literature.
and McKenzie end Landen, epee Hunt i Again, abstain tem those books
and Arthur and others whoge namee whichare apologetie er crime. et Is
etre familleg to all, The. PoIllee of lege a sad thing" that eome tee the beet end
life were never better eXposed thee meat beatieful booktenaery and some
Miele'Edgeerertle. The Memories oe, of the finest rhetoric have been brought
the past Were; teem" More ettithetelly to reeke aft 'attractive. Vies Is a hore
rible thing anyhow, It Is born in
shame, and it dies howling in the
darkness, In this world It is (soourged
with a whip of scorpion% 'out after-
ward the thunders of God's wrath pur-
sue it across a boundless desert, beat-
ing it with ruin and woe. When you
come to paint carnality, do not paint
It as looking from behind embroidered
curtains or through lattice of royal
seraglio, but as weith•ling in the
agonle.s of a city hospital. Cursed be
the books that try to make impurtty
decent and crime attractive and hy-
pocrisy noble! Cursed be the books
that swarm with libertines and des-
peradoes, who make the brain of the
young people whirl with villainy! Ye
authors who write them, ye publishers
who print them, ye booksellers video
distribute them, shall be cut to pieces,
if not by an aroused oommunity, then
at last by the hall of divine vengeance,
which shall sweep to the lowest pit of
perdition all ye murderers of aouls.
tel lyou, though you may escape in
this world, you will be ground at last
under the hoof of eternal calamities,
and you will be chained to the rock,
and you will have the vultures of de-
spair clawing at your soul, and those
whom you have destroyed will come
around to torment •you, and to pour
htter coals of fury upn your head, and
rejoice eternally M the outery of your
pain, and the howl of your damnation.
"God shall wound the hairy seeep of
him that goeth on in his trespasses."
The clock strikes midnight. A. falr
form bends over a romance. The eyes
flash fire. The breath is quick and Ir -
reel passea out into the city, where
regular. Occasionally the oolor dashes
to the cheek and then dies out. 1
He was joined by His disciples. Saw
- a roan -Jesus MIA most observant,
nil
hands tremble as though e guardian, He also knew where to look to find
spirit were trying to shake the deadly those who needed His help. Blind
book out of the grasp. Hot teats fell. from his birth -Of the six miracles
She laughs with a shrill voice that connected with blindness recorded in
drops dead at its own sound. The the gospelethie is the only case dee
sweat on her brow Is the spray dashed seribed as blindness from birth.
up front the river of death. The clork 2. Who did sin -Scripture teaches
strikes 4, and the rosy dawn eoon after that 1111 disease, and even dem h, is
begins to look through the lattice upon the result of sin. The jewish error
the Dale form that looks like a detained consisted in believing, that all spe-
specter of the night. Soon in a mad. vial afflictions were divine visite-
house she will mistake her ringlets for Mons for spevial sins. This entor
curling serpents, and thrust he white
hands through the bars of the prison
and smite her head, rubbing it back as
though to push the scalp from the
skull, shrieking: "My brain! My
brale!" Oh, stand off from that! Why
will you go sounding your way aenid
the reefs when there is such, a vast
ocean in which you may voyage, ael
sail set?
Much of the impure pictoral litera-
ture is most tremendous for ram.
There is no one who can like gond
pictures better than I do. The quick-
est and most condensed way of Im-
pressing the public mend Is by picture.
What the painter does by his brush
for a few favorites, Me engraver does
by his knife for the million. Wha:
the author accomplishes by 50 pages
the &rest does by a flash. The best
Dart of a painting that costs $10,000
you may buy for 10 cents. Fine paint-
ings belong to the aristocracy .of art.
Engravings belong to the democracy
of art. You do well to gather good
oictures in your homes.
But what shall I say to the prostitu- 0. As long ne I am In the world-, ti1 a comparison with China, makes
tion of art to purposes of iniquity?Chrtst was tim light of the worla oth.lino Appear rural. Here are the fige
These death warrants of the soul are at when He wee Imre, a' e has on-
every street corner. They smite the vi- thmee to be the lightmHcet of the world • (sq. miles.)33,:t1I5o}111:
The Apple Crop.
SUNDAY SCHOOL
,011,1,••••=•••••••
INTERNATIONAL, LESSON NO.VIII.
AUGUST 19, 1900.
The Man Born Band. -John 9 :
Supte-What its the Golden Text?
School. -One thing I know, that,
where.* I was blind, nowt ,see. John
ix. 25.
What Is the Central Truth? Christ
is the .light of the world.
What is the Topic? Opening blind
eyes.
Whitt is the Outline? I. A blind
mau, II. A. .diseussion, III. The cure.
IV. A stir among the neighbors. V.
Opextsition of the Pharisees.
When Was the Time? A Sabbath
day in Oretober, A. D. 29.
Where was the Place? jerusalem.
Who were the Persons? Jesus. The
diseiples. A. blind man.
What are the Special Readings?
Matt. ix. 27-31; Mark x. 46-52 ;
Mark vile e2-26 ; John i. 9 ; Isa.
xxle. 18.
Commentary.' - Connecting Links.
Leaving Capernaum -eesus journeyed
towards Jeruselern, passing through
eetmaria, where He was rejected by
the Samaritans. Luke ix. 52.5.3. At
Jerusalem lee attended the feast of
the Tabernacles :Ind soon after heal-
ed the 'Wine man.
1. As Jeses linseed by -When the
Jews took up etonee to stone Him
((eine!. vie. 59) Jesus eluded them
he beeteme very bold, mate finally he
aeked thein to be Chriet's dieciples.
PRA C TICA.I.: SURVEY.
.The mate's conditioa-It Was sad,
and, feora a littman standpoint, hope.
lees. He was born blind, .and thee no
use of thinking of any treatment for
les reeovery. Generally eliose" born
: blind are not aware of their. loss. or
condition., not having seen the thIngs
of tees world and thus -knovving but
little about there, :Such he man's
moral blindnetes. His ease out of
Christ lehopelesa and sad,
' The cure. .Teeus saw bine came to
him, and while -the disciples were -ques-
tioning as to vrho was to blame for his
blindness, anointed his eves and made
the condltioes of: receiving his sight
known to him, and he went and wash -
o11 and was made whole. Titere are yet
multitudes; who are tryieg to rea,son
Out the cause of our, fallen condition,
and are hoping to receive; a dere by
reform, church membership, etc.;
while a few. bumble, obeellent souls
like the blind man go, wash, and come
• seeing.
Queetioned and critieleecl. The neigh -
bore were then eery emelt as they are
now -divided in their opinion tie to the
reel work of God, and eeeking to at-.
tribute the came of the Christian's
coneition to eome. other source rather
than to Jests. Great spiritual blind-
ness prevails to -day its a result of pub-
lic opinion and what the neighbors
will say. Coeseerations are made only
in part, and there^ is an unwillingnises
'to take the way oe the cross awl be -
coma a "gazing etteek," subject to the
talk of tee communieve
A definite teetimony. Thre restored
mnn bore definite testimony to what
had been done and who did it. The
neighbore reeognized a change In Ille
conelition and queetioned him es to the
remedy, or who perforined tile mirac-
Ieons cleed, His answer wee definite :le
•ro. what had been done, me ours :411ould
r. We should all seek to have epirit-
Wel sight, ane have it so elear that We
cen stand a thorough questioning as
to the geneineneee of our peppier:nee
A goele- influence. To bear teetimony
a a show by your life that the T.ord
el. • deliveeee you from the powers of
etteknees, covetonseese, idle worde.
Jesus corrected.-Abboti. This men evil speaking, anger. mile luses of the
-If this man had Maned before his fleeh tine pyre. and that lie en netifiee
birth it must have been in a " pre- yon wholly, will tell for GM a nel mnke:
existent" Stilt)'. -rho doctrine of a stir in your neiehborhool. Then let
transmigration of souls was quite tie not stop ehert ree obtainine, all the
general both among the Greeks and fullnee,s of Goe in onr hearts.
Asiatice."
11. Neither -Our Lord dOeti not aesert CII iNArS 3111,1dONS.
-
tit: einlreeness of the mane' parents,
ror lee own, be' elreseevorde: Ile tieniee Popniation of Chinese Empire is
that les calamity sprang from the
sin of vele:ie.-Moorehead. •Worke of Abott 300 Per Square Mile.
man wee lorn lend for the eole pur- tion of 'um Chlieeee pee -Diem and the
A. comparison between the popnla-
Go 1 ... ... ... manliest -Not that this
log:levet a melee]: might be wrought, populatiou of equal ate a e he th : tede d
we:talon for Jeeue to perform the etatee, which luta 'b NM. going the
hut that his Min( Mess furnished the
Arhus work of healinte Wm.-Bin:my. lion,mis 01 the press re:meetly, gives a
yiyea tent of how d: nee the populatioti
1. We meet work, etc. IR. V.)-I3y ld 1.11 that corn:tree where the boil
the plural "we," eve given. In the 11. yleete four crops every year.
en, jeetie neeereates "Iie apostles with In the eloeteet comparison, that be -
fent in the work. It, le encouraeing to
think thet "wee" role, weak men, yen
he "workere together with Christ."
Whee it is day -elle:: day of Illeos op-
eortunity le rapelly pa'-'ing the night
of death will soon, be here and our
work wel be ended. 'Whet we do meet
he done quickly.
esoveNesno^,
MARKET REPORTS
-OF-
The N"Veek,
LwviDevive,e1Amw.ivveil
Leading Wheat Markets.
important wheat centres to -day:
Following are the closing pifIrolo7753a-st
Chleagot 8e9t.
New. York ... 080 5-8
Milwaukee ... 0 76 --
Se. Louis ............072 1-4 0 72 3-4
Toledo ..............078 1-4 0 7878
Detroit, red .........078 1-2 0 79 3-8
Detroit, white ... 0 78 1-2 _
Deluth, No. 1 north. 077 1-8 .:() 7e..fee8
Duluth, No. 1 hard.. 0 79 7-8 - •
Minneapolis, No. 1
northern .. ......075 1-8 0 74 1-2
elinumapolie, No. 1 '
herd 0 77 1-8 --
Toront o Farmers, 31 a rket.
The local receipts of grain on the
street market here so -day were very
small. Oats were scarce and higher;
prices were generally" unchanged. One
load of spring wheat sold at 71e, tine
one load of inferior red at 69c. One
load of oats brought 33e. The offer-
ings of butter, eggs, potatoes And
poultry were small and prices for them
were generally the same. The receipts
of hay and otraw were small, eight
loncts of hay selling at $10.50 to elite
lead two loads of straw at $10.50 to.
$11. The Deteelpts of dressed hogs were
hInftil and the market was steadier,
,with sales at $7.75 to $8.,
Toronto Fruit Market.
The market to -day was without
any special feature, save the heal
and priees ranged as follows : Beep -
berries, 6 to 71,le ; gooseberries. 30
to 40:: for small varieties, and 50
tj .e()e for large ; red currants, 25
te ; black currants, 70 tee 85c ;
tom:Et/yes, t2,0 2.5e ; cucumbers, 6
te 10, ; harvest peara, 10 to 20c
bneket ; apples, 1(e to 20e -pe
baaket ; green cern, 6 to 7e pe„
tioZ011 pCrtutue.4, :35c per busear;
Canadian peaelies, white, 15 to 25ce
red, 20 to eth. ; yellow, 50 to 75e
per baeket ; ree peppers, e0 45r;
onions, 25 te 1,0e per basket : Law-
ton berries, 5 to 7c per basket ;
plume, 05 to e0e, and bananas, $1.25
to $2 per banch.
Toronto Live Stock Market.
Mika. cowe. eaMi 330 00 to $15 00
Export male, choice. por cat1 85 to 5 12'
Export cattle, light, per cwt4 59 to 75
Duteiler,: cattle, ph kaa 4 35 to I 05
Bluchers' etude, dunce '4 10 to 35
Hutch eN. eatt le. good 3 75 to 4 oe
do. in od iunt 3 ei to 3 75
Butchers common, per cwt. 3 00 to 3 25
Bule, export, heavy, per owl4 25 to
Bulls, export, light. per t3 10 to
Foolo: s. MO to 1,0751b.,owt 3 75 to
do. ea 10 9091bs 3 25 to
Stook steers, 400 to 700 lbs. per
do. otr-colors and helfer4 3 00 to
twerm Kweienow and the of owt
0 05 to
Virginet ami W'et' Virginia, it will be leeteene ems, pee tee 2 50 to
acee that the disparity is more than bight stock bulls, per cat 2 00 to
,3 to 1, while In the eaere of Kwan-' eheoepegeTrt ewes, per ewe3 75 to
0 7e to
tung and Kansas the ratio rises ite equive.:p°, bugtehers , each e 50 to
higli as 21 to 1. `Chip thinke of New spring lembs, each 2 5.0 to
England, New York, Ohio. Mince:4 and do. per era 4 50 to
the other States as thickly es, per head
settled un- ode
Hogs, choice, nor cwt
Hogs, light. Per eWt-
Hogs, heavy, fat, per owt
Hogs, corn fed
Sows
Stage
GO
4,15
4 09
3 7r.,
3 25
2511
31)11
e 50
4 sir
3011
3 50
oci,
5 00 '
50)) to Ott
623 to 0011
525 to 000 !
5 37) to 003
5 50 to 0 00
3(10 to 000
225 to 000 I
sion of the young man with Poll:Aeon. since He went into glory.
Many a young man buying.,a coer h.$ 0 mnfie (.111, ..• ...... a..!,ited-.3-0.
:chow; His power by prom:dine in He, Hupch .............. 70,450
Ohio tine hi:liana 76,070
bought his eternal discomfiture. There 1, 1 ..,.
may be enough poison in one bad pi- own. \NM:7, to heal the man. , Taman ...... ... ..... 6:1,10e
I efieentri
ture to poison one soul, and that soul 7. (40. weieh-liere Wae a test of 1de • ''' ••• ••• ••• 68,7415
' Al e• 0. '''') 1 el)
Area.
may poison ten, and ten, fifty and. fifty
hundreds, and the hundreds thousands,
until nothing but the measuring line of
eternity can tell the height a.nd depth
faith and obedience. Silemen-" A foun-
tain. under tir walla of Jerumleta Li)-
. I Kentucky 40,000
Kianget ......... 72,170
ward the enet, epteverm the city tend Kentheity and Ten -
the Bioek Kidron." Ily interpretation, neeseeee 81,750
Sent -The roe]. Iry its very name wa.e I
iewelehow ... ... ... 64,554
Virg:net a au I W'e't
Virginia
Yunnan ......... ... 107,969
see:mg-The c are wee . instantaneous. '
, eliehigan and 'tele -
What a wonderful deliverance! C011411 ............111,Se0
was an !immediate .stir among the name ,e, ,,, ,„ „.., 58,9,10
Fultkien... ... ... e. 38,180
8. Wheat before bad 50P11 Min -There th000 o o o m 40,700
neigheors; they notieed the . great „oogooe o e e :50,080
teeing:: in the man. The sanie es true '-
And begged-Thie le the first mention Shan:tune: ... ... ... 65,104.
wlym Chriet gives spirituel eyesight.
of thee fact that he was a beggar. eletutst ... ... ... ... 56.e08
New 'el:pt.-land .., ... 6.:,000
He: must 11,11,0 been well known. Illinois... .:. ... .... 56,000
...4 67,100
9. I axe Hire - Jesus had met and. i N000tekeo e e m eedeo,
healed -the man on Frienee night, , at
lane), and the neighbore had not seen '
I IC:insult- ... ... ... 125,450
the beginniug of the Sabbath eMennr- 1 coneoreto e e ..., ere-oeea
him go to the pool, so that on the
next morning thee" were hardly able
to believe their senses. But the man
himself gave a positive testimony.
:10. How ... opened -Ili e neighbore
gathered around lain alt ti asked for
an explanation. elany are anxious to
know how things are done, even leenneylvanie, ...... 44,085 0 -08. 4,
though. they have no -faith. Kwantunge .,. ... 79,4e6 20706,240
and ghastliness and horror of the great re type' of Christ. Ile went
undoing. The work of death that the washed. He believed and obeyed. We
wicked author does in a whole book, a frequently lose Gode best gifts be -
bad engraver may do on the hale side muse we fail to act in time. Came,
of a pictorial. Under the guise of pure
mirth the young man buys one of these
sheets. He unrolls it before his com-
rades amid roars of langhter, but long
after the paper is gone the result Inv,
perhaps, be seen in the blasted imag-
inations of those who saw It. The
queen of death holds a banquet every
night, and these periodicals are the in-
vitation to her guests.
Cherish good books and newspa-
pers. Beware of bad ones. The assass-
in of Lord Russell declared that he was
led to go into crime by reading one viv-
Id romance. The consecrated John An-
gell James, than whom England never
producee a better man, declared in his
old age that he had never yet got over
the evil effects of having for 15 minutes
once read a bad book. But I need not
go so far off. I could tell you of a com-
rade who was great hearted, noble and
generous. He woe studying for an
honorable profession, but he had an in-
fidel book in his trunk, and he said to
me one day, "De Witt, would you like
to read it?" I said "Yes, I would." I
took the book and read it only for a
few minutes. I was really startled
with whet I saw there, and I handed
the book to him and said, "You
had better destroy that book." No, he
kept it. He read it. He re -read it. Af-
ter awhile he gave up religion as a
myth. He gave up God as a nonentity.
He gave up the bible as a fable. He
gave up the church of Christ as a use -
less institution. He gave up good mor-
als as being unnecessary stringent. I
have heaed of Min but twice in many
years. The time before the last I heard
of him he was a confirmed inebriate.
The last I heard of him he was coming
out of an insane asylum -in body, soul
and mind an awful wreck. I believe
that infidel book killed him for two
worlds.
Go home to -day and look through
your library, and then, having looked
through your library, look on the stand
• where you keep your pictorials and
newspapers and apply the Christian
principles I have laid down this hour.
If there is anything in your home that
'cannot stand the test do not give it
away, for it might spoil an immortal
soul; do not sell it, for the money you
would get would be the price of blood;
but rather kindle a fire on your kitchen
hearth or hi your back yard and then
drop the poison in It, and the bonfire in
your city shall be as consuming as that
one lie Ephesus.
Tetley.
It is first -a nemination, over which
Ito has to fret,
And uext it's on eleetimi that his .ar:
cleMit 110,1)0:71 .are eet,
And when he gate elected, and there's.
nowhere elece to climb,
iro huAtIos to ho ohoson for the place
another time. •
In the melee or all theso duties which
a statesman cannot 8111rk
Yolt WotrXiier.,W110 geee tie:time to
do his office :
e-Weelangten Star.
04,770
ezechnan... ..1613,800
Ohio, Incliana, Mi-
na.> and Ken-
tucky... ...173,4410
Ngan Hwuy ... 48,-1 0.1 -
'New Yorke. 47,6e0
Kiel:gene .. 41,500
• etee
5,8(34,720 ; Elem. ;lames, rent teeielesieg ta9
20,115,827 (Ad . rella hie f inn of Woodall Se Co.,
112,548:80:6118ri
2.11,855e8411:1185
3,62(3,2e2
7,1;69,181
2,118.774
Livereool, has ,;uet been through the
Amutpulie valley, and preeent indiea-
terns point to an average crop. S'inte
Nertions are rather light in Graven-
sevine and Nonpariel. The seaeen has
liepa dry, :Ind the crop -WU in need oe
rain, but, elvevere were pretty general.
lest 'Thureday, witielt should help mat-
ters very ma teria II v.
117221,57(3From reports lately to hand regard-
. ing the, Ontario Prop, most seetionee
3,7e0,761) stent to have a fair eupply, with the
23,000.000 exceptiou of Ihe Georgian Bay dis-
3,672.816 trict, wheel reports a ehort yield.
17,087,000 The Englieh crop ie said to be large
837.1358 by parties in the trade ;net arrieed
from the other side, which of eourse
will be against the shipment of the
early varieties of tipples from Can-
ada, as the Fatglish fruit is very eimi-
Jar In quality, And is marketed about
.the same time that our first ship'
mente arrive on the other side, and
brings about same prices.
Manitoba Wheat Markets,
Wennipeg RePoietThe Governmentas
August crop ballet:et is now in the
11 ,0)O,-.0 hand e of the printers, and showe that
20,506,288 348,819 acree of wheat, 413,842 aerel
5,997'813 of mita and 23,e14 acres of barley
20,005,171 I have been completely destroyed *ter
36,248,000
4,700,945
12,211.453
3,826,8511
8,432,193
1,0e8,910
0,285,377
1.208,138)
67,712,807
answered -He had never seen Ka149118 '" "' 81,7Q° 1,41'1006
his neighbors before, but no, look- Kwangsi ... ... ... 78',250 5,,•151 327
,
w
lag right at them, he delivers the.: elieneetota... ... .., 70,e105 11,301,826
wonderful testimony to the power of Clangkiang ... ... 43,000 6e000,000
Chriet. It is short, clear, positis'e. Louisiana, ... ... ... 45,000 1,101,569
A. man - First he knew Him only as The population of the 1'))1t041 States
"the 10:10." (K. V.) celled Jesus, than ae a whole mileis about 2() peopulation rsons per The first new timothy seed arrive.
as n. prophet, v. 17, then as a 111811
'
, Chinese Empire is about 300 per
equare . The pof the
.eci at Chicago a fete days ago. It
with whom Ood wee,vs. 31-33, thee'
was reported to be a 1 in e lot of
no:ntenea(emtee eon of God. Vs. 35-38. - square mile -Literary Digest.
Taney from Iowa, and brought $3.60
CHINESE CRUEL leee NATURE. Per 100 Pounds.
' e2, I know net - Had he known Bradstreet's 00 Trade.
vvhere Chriet was, he wouldno
, dei"saf F
oubt. ere ooreigners in Keeping Teoee, ee mootoeto .syrn.
ar. ThIte
a
bave gone t onceto see his Deliverer..
With Their Past History. is a between -season's period when
The alleged massacre of missionaries maii,V pnople are away on bolidaye
and defeeseless women reeently La from ths centres of trade, and it ib-
(?.N1),Peted that busineas at thie
only n, very recent proof of the un- . not
changing mood of oenturiee ana the time will :Mow unuseal activety, Trade
la up. It is not a. matter of re- this time of the year. There is a
habit of thc: oriental when his blood I in dry -goods is as brisk as ustail . toe
drought, wind% etc:. The remaining
crop of wheat, 1,451,806 acres, will
give au estimated yield of 7 1-2' 'melt
els per acre, or it total, of 10,936,$13
bushel.: for the province. The report in
dotall will be published to-moreove or
Wednesday:0.
Seeds.
e1e3, Ierought to t he Pharieees-The
neighbors, finding the case involved in
mystery, took the nian to the Phar-
isees, perhaps to. the eanliedrin, who
proceeded. to investigate the miracle
by questioning the man and by call-
ing his parent.% to testify. vonge upon 'WM European only, bu.t good deal of complaint a.bole pay_
14. The Sabbath day -They hated -
mereey one way et treating an enc.- 01)1111') and 415 Tnneh paper mattered
Jesus, 11/141 •cvero continmelly treing to
my of whatever nationelity. tele week there Lq naturally soar
find 'something, 41.gnInst Ilim. Ihneag the Taming tvar we have anxiety abortt the manner. he Whin
15. Then open -They were CTOSS-
rynestionhig him and trying to get , . '. ,,, f Ci 'tie a du eivitv in it will be taken np. !
- • • ". - '
ldm 'eon tn.9ed, but he knows what has
been. done, end is able to tele R. etteteeted a severe en erste alit the been nuxierately active, thla week f
werfere. '111:3 Taeplege In May, 186'21, 'easiness circles et Tprolfto bey
holidaye. Orders from- travell
6. Keepeth not - emu; kept the CM111111g, Chung Wang, the rebel leader, the
41,e:term:lied to rreort. to strategme. tied by Intel have been tep to t 1
eablettlt according to the, epirlt and
'two thou:mild of his men shaved their It'Sernfot for thee .tiepte Of the summer..
letter of the hew, but Ile did not and
114'41cl:4e:eel pm:ten:le:I to desert; to the . Business at Hamilton this •
" weeek
would not keep It according 10 their .
. . e imperialists. Whoa the battle was Te-
ttra .tioue, .:. c i V newed at :lawn the iw:xt morning los
. .
will elevnye be ; Christ causee a sele band thew 418410 their assumed
aration betwc:en time: who receive anti
character and turned 09011 the royal
those who rejeet Him. troops. A dreadful slaughter foi-
l?. Ile: 18 n, propleet -Ho [100113('1 that
Id -
11)5 =et bo a prophet or he could not lowed nna te the 7,000 Donate braves
arel the rleirtave from Shanghai. 5,000
have. opeenoti leis eyes; This did not
ee ,
eittisfy the Pleiriseee, They try fell on the field
discredit the favte and to prove that Again in April, 1863, Taltsen wets
the 81101(0 of another sampee of orien-
the cure was hupossible, beetiuse on - tal wnrienee The rebel commandant
the Sabbath. et) that place feigner:Al a desire to stir -
Teach in ge-T1115 blind m n 11 was n,
spiritull render the place. ana the leiperialbels,
stilglirt.e.c.enieS8,1111elif t1.11:: rlei;(hlt,vilg:
Vil themselves to be enizapped into
deceive:1 by Ids representa,teens, allow -
the world
adliecilectisartitcliceoine111:111111,teillinilitigoti Lot
einh)olgislut(IT., a., false position, when the rebels, cone,
shine of his love flood the soul, We Lag down upon them in overwhelming
lose a great deal by t..jt obeying Clod
at oitee.
Thotighte-e00 Vs. 18418. After the
Pharisees- had questioned the man
ivho had been hand they ealled 1)38
parents and .asked them concerning.
h' The •retiM folred the .Tows
umnbere slaughtered 1,500 of the
loyal troeps.
Theao are oney it cameo of Distances
of the Way 351 wheel the Chineae (1&1.r-
0 )1 war among themselves, and no
ono will over know how many 'hoxt.
dreds ot thousands of defenceless •cap.
has been of it fair average for this
season. A good many neerthante
through the country are „leek:laying
and ahnt has a tiandeney to leseett
thee buelneee being done..by travellers.
Considerable shipments are being made
by jobbers. 'The out:1°0k for leleittegs
Is good. Paymetets letere been :Mee
fair. ' I •
Trade at the Coast 'clans has boon.
disturbed eomewhat by the etrike iri
the fishery ieduetry. 'The cOal trade
is very etetive. There la also marked
activity in theeltinebet ilidastry,
• In Loudon thp tgrospects tor irt0e
for the fen need veltiter 11.50 Very,
bright, owing to the la.reee bouteital
crops nee the spientliel condition elf
the grade being Out 411ti threshed.. ,
• Treide has ,been a little quiet ebbe
the close of the texhIbition. In Winn);
peg. A. good many country Inet44
nwtweit tl
cltYhat%o=tortbi:airaaltP,Ilhaseer$
Uses wore deliberatav butchered at- few,er buyens in tie
continued 'to question the mat and holds.
tittlitgd oxotiv hats ltmhaeln-
ter the capture of somo of the strong- 'mock. Money igrathee
t
Pueleeente might bo mor