The Exeter Advocate, 1895-2-7, Page 7THE FARM AND GARDEN,
ElINITS AND NEWS NOTES
For City and Country—Clippings and
OrlglnuL Articles which have been
Prepared for Our Ileadere.
EGGS R WINTER,
Years ago, says E. R. Davis in the
Poultry Monthly, the poultry business
was not as Iterative as it is at the pres-
ent time. During the winter months, a -
though our poultry was well sheltered
and ied and great eare used to keep the
• buildings clean, giving plenty of fresh
water, air, etc., we found at the opening
of the spring we had no remuneration
for our labor, as cost of grain, scraps,
potatoes, etc., far exceeded the income of
eggs.
We have now a better way of feeding,
and inost excellent results have followed.
del We feed cut green bones in fair quantity
'711 every other day, and some of the time
every day. They are inexpensive, and
with a good bone cutter they make when
out fresh every day so nice a food that we
can only liken it to a nice rare steak to a
hungry man. The fowls love it. They
thrive, and the chickens grow rapidly
when fed on it. The mineral part of this
food gives chickens material for their
growing bones, and for the laying hens
the shells, while the meat,gristle and
juices in those green bones give material
for the flesh to the growing chickens and i
interior of the egg n abundance.
So now oar fowls, instead of being over -
fat in winter, are giving us eggs. Instead
of being a sorry looking, dejeoted, unpro-
fitable lot during the molting period, they
are wide awake and strong, and many of
them go so far as to give us eggs regular-
ly at this time. The grain bill being
largely reduced, the egg yield being in-
creased and no loss from sickness, all aid
in making our winter and spring record
very encouraging, and no one could in-
duce us to neglect the feeding of green
bone freshly out at all seasons of the
year.
A GOOSE CAN COUNT.
Seashore gunners hold that the wild
goose can count two, but not three. Ac-
• cordingly it is customary in preparing to
shoot wild geese from a blind or some de-
tached ribbon of marsh for three men to
row over to the station together and for
two of them to return to the mainlp.nd.
The geese, being unable to count above
two, believe when they see the two men
• returning that no enemy has been left
upon the marsh and approach the spot
without fear. It is asserted that if two
men go out and only one returns the
geese will carefully avoid the region of
the blind.
nerERmeniEnneG POULTRY.
An English writer remarks, says a cor-
respondent of Farm Poultry, that he has
bred in and from almost all varieties of
pigeons, rabbits, pigs, canaries and num-
erous varieties of flowers and vegetables
In each and every case he found that for
the first few generations they improved
and. finally degenerated; in animals, in-
variably, diseases of the kead are promin-
ent; in flowers and vegetables it produced
general delicacy.
So long as man confines himself to the
species and does not breed too near akin
he will be successful in producing useful
animals. especially in the first cross, but
it is against nature to decrease the natur-
al size of any animal's head. It is against
nature also to see a four-year-old heifer
stending on four legs that would well be-
come a full bred yearling colt.
If all this is true in other stock, why
not in poultry? If judicious crossing will
give the farmer increased benefit, why
should he resort to inbred stock? We do
not wish to be understood that we con-
sider pure bred stock unfit for the farmer,
but we do say that a changeable standard
has compelled our fanciers to resort to
methods that have in a measure spoiled
the utility points of many of our best
breeds, driven them to the wall and scar-
ed. the farmer to such an. extent that he is
afraid of pure bred stock. The white
face of the Spanish, the huge crest of the
Polish and the lacing and barring and
other requirements have crippled and al-
most killed the worth of the noblest var-
ieties we have ever had. Rather than
farm with such stock the farmer had. bet-
ter use first crosses.
But we must not go beyond the original
cross. In other words, if we mate two
'Varieties of thoroughbreds, we must not
remate the progeny. It would be suicidal
and would dritt us on to mongrelism. The
dunghill is the result of haphazard cross-
ing. We can use three breeds if we wish
in our experiments—for instance, Min-
• orca or Plymouth Rock, and to the pul-
lets of the cross mate Langshan. In that
way we get a part benefit of the three
breeds in one.
• The prime reason for crossing is to get
better meat qualities. We do not believe
that any cross can be originated that will
give better egg records than the birds in
their purity—that is, we believe that the
best laying cross -bred hen will not lay
any more eggs than the le st laying pure
bred. But, on the other hand, we know
that a flock of cross -bred hens will give
more eggs during winter than a like flock
of thoroughbreds. The prime cause for
this is hardinees, the former being more
hardy than the latter. .
• LIVE STOOK NOTES
Feeding the hens so that they will fat-
ten increases their tendency to want to
sit.
Cockerels intended for breeding pur-
poses vrill make better growth if kept
apart from the rest of the flock until
,ri.e.;,4rly mature.
1)ff1th cultivated crops as your sole de-
pendence, there is a season when every-
thing stand still. In the winter it is a,
fine thing to go out to the barn and watch
the cattle contentedly feeding, and know
that they are making money for you
even if the earth is asleep under its white
blanket.
At an English sale of 'lassos cattle, a
cousin breed of the Devons, the bulls
made an average of $115 and a fraction.
Thirty °owe sold for an a- erage of 860.25,
bull calves, selling for $65. A noteworthy -
feature of the.sale, is noted in steers out-
selling thelk-Oedetes, bringing 875.
"I do not keep any account with my
hens, and it may be what eggs I get cost
ate more than they would. if I bought them
ab the store," mays an amateur, "but 1
have all X want When the hens lay well,
and oat go without them for a While when
they do not lay, and never ask the price
of them, so that they taste as well at one
season as another. A ncl my wife never
has to 'try' them when she breaks them
before cooking,. and if / want a boiled egg
for breakfast it never driems me away
from the table by its odor." There is a
comfort in keeping poultry in that way,
U there is not a profit.
Every breeder of rod horses should en-
deavor to breed as far as possible with a
view to matching up good road teams,
Here is a market that will never be over-
stocked, and it admits of variationin
size. 1 he man that breeds road horses
should never forget that appearances are
everything with him. A horse may sell
on pedigree in very ordinary condition,
but in a road horse everything must be
put forward to the best possible advant-
age. It is a gift to he able to hitch up a
horse or a pair of horses in the most at-
tractive manner and show them to the
best advantage, and if you have not this
gift is there not some business for which
you have more aeaptation and in which
you are more likely to succeed than to
engage in breeding trotters or road
horses?
To eure mange in a dog wash the dog
all over with warm water and 'soap to
remove scabs r ne dirt; when nearly dry
apply the following orn'-ment, rubbing it
well into the hair: Oil ed ta, 2 oz.; sul-
phur, 4 oz.; lard, 8 oz.; mix. In about
four days wash as before and apply the
ointment again. Continue to repeat the
application as long as there is any rub-
bing or scratching. The dog kennel
should be thoroughly scrubbed with boil-
ing water made strong with ley, and,
-when dry, the kennel should be saturated
with the following; Corrosive sublimate,
1 oz.; salt, 1 oz.; water, 1 gale mix. All
straw which has been. -used by the dog as
a bed should be learned, and rugs should
either be burned or thoroughly scalded.
Mange is often very difficult to get rid of,
and if every preoauticn is not taken in
cleaning up it is liable. to return as bad
as ever in a few weeks.
14:atTICULTLTRAL NoTEs.1
Never use strawberries from an old bed.
They should be selected from this new
beds on which no fruit was grown the
previous year.
tearnations do net make satistactcry
house plants, it is too dry for them; they
invariably succumb to the attacks of red
spider. Cyclamen perky re is a very good
window plant and lasts in flower a leng
time. Primulas are good window plants,
only don't let them get over wet, or too
dry, either.
Water only when a plant is dry. Do
not stand the plants in sancers of water.
After the water has soaked through the
soil empty what is in the saucers. This
same rule applies to plants in jardinieres.
While most •plants like plenty of water,
they don't like wet feet. Plants in a
room always draw towards the light, so
to keep the plants shapely they should be
turned frequently, or else they get one
sided.
One thing must be borne in mind, that
is, dornot feed a plant with stimulants
when sick.—give it a rest. When it is
unhealthy withhold water till it gets al -
moat dry, then turn out the put
and shake off the outside soil, repot
it in a nep pot, only using a pot large
enough to get a little fresh soil around
the 13all. Then give a good watering to
settle the soil, and don't water again un-
til it is dry, it won't take much water till
it makes new roots. Bear in mind that.
more plants are killed by over watering
and over feeding with patent plant foods
than by starvation. If any stimulant be
required use weak manure water made
from cow manure.
Paragraphs From Itam's Born. •
External possessions cannot enrich.
People who look down never lift up.
When God says, "Come," he always
means it.
Are you pleasing God in the company
you keep?
Just as surely as we follow Jesus Christ
we will lead men./
What we truly pray for we are willing
to live and die for.
Nothing God wants us to !clo is an un-
reasonable service.
Hell is as near to the palace as heaven
is to the death bed.
It is dangerous to follow any Ina II. who
does not follow Christ.7efe.
Every man who drinks a little drinks a
great deal too much.
While you are true to God nobody can
hurt you but yourself.
The servant of sin is always the bond
servant of the devil.
Fire is one thing th the gold, and quite
another th the dross.
The man who makes his own god al-
ways has a little one. '
Only by God's help can a selfish man
learn to say no to himself.
The road to heaven would be crowded
if it were carpeted with velvet.
God cannot be worshipped with any-
thing less than a whole heart.
A. sure way to find a better place is to
more than fill the present one.
Whenever two praying men come to-
gether God has a standing army.
Every life has unfinished towers that
were begun in opposition to God.
If you would keep the devil from hav-
ing an easy time in your neighbrrhood,
be true to God.
The Exhibitor.
Thirty thousand tons of "staff" mater-
ial were used in the walls of the World's
Fair buildings.
General Lew Wallace says of the
World's Fair, "Never in the history of
the world has there been anything like
it, in my judgment, and I doubt if ever
again,
for a hundred years at least, will
there be." .
One of the curious articles formingpart
of the colonial exhibit at the fair is a
carved'powder horn etehed with the map
of New York and the English coat of
arms. It was loaned by Mrs. °Fleinigke,
of Bay Ridge.
A Literary Conversation.
"I am mach impressed with the writ-
ings ot Kipling."
"Re is certainly a very forcible writer."
"Yes, and do you know I have discov-
ered that if the art of swearing should
suddenly become extinct all the oaths in
the English langiragescould be recovered
out of Kipling's works for the use of pos-
terity."
The sea horse is built upon a peouliag
plan. It has the head of a horse, the
wing of a bird and the tail of a smeke. In
swimming it assmares a vertical position,
and when wishing to test it attachee
sel f to m eonvenierit stalk of seaweed by
means of its tail.
The man who follows Christ in earneat
is always ready to do it at his own ex -
p0000.
METROPOLITAN PULPIT.
POINTS OF COMPASS. „
The hearty welcome accorded to Dr.
Talmage at the Academy of Music, New
York, Sunday before last on the oeoasion
of the eminent divine's introduction to
the Metropolitan pulpit, was additionally
emphasised by the immense throng that
greeted him last Sunday afternoon and
filled every seat from orchestra to top
gethry. The singing was led by Prof.
A,11's cornet, and the services opened at
precisely 4 o'clock with the singing of
the long meter Doxology. The subject of
Dr. Talmage's discourse was, "Points of
Compass," and the text, Luke 18, 29:
"There shall come from the east, and
from the west, and frorn the north, and
from the south, and shall sit down."
The man who -wrote this was at one
time a practising physician; at another
time a talented painteriat another time
a powerful preacher; at another time a
reporter—an inspired reporter. God bless
and help, and inspire all reporters! From
their pen erops the health or poison of
nations. The name of this reporter was
Lu.canus ; for short he was called Luke;
and in my text, although stenography
had not yet been barn, he reports ver-
batim a sermon of Christ, which in one
paragraph bowls the round world into
the light of the millennium. "They shall
oonie from the east, and from the west,
and from the north, and from the south
and shall sit down." Nothing mere in-
terested me in my recent journey around
the world than to see the ship captain
about noon, whether cn the Pacific, or
the Indian, or Bengal, or Mediterranean,
or Red Sea, Risking through a nautical
instrument to find just where we were
sailing; end it is well to kncw that
though the captain tells you there are
thirty-two points of division of the com-
pass card in the mariner's compass, there
are only four cardinal points, and my
text hails them, the north, the south, the
east, the west. So I spread out before us
the man of tbe world to see the extent of
the Gospel campaign. The hardest part
of the field to be' ie the north, be-
cause ourGospei taken ,motional GoF:pel,
and the nations of the ler north are a
cold-blooded race. They dwell amid ice-
bergs and eternal snows'and everlasting
winter. Greenlanders, Laplanders. Ice-
landers, Siberians—their vehicle is the
sledge drawn by reindeer. Their apparel
the thickest furs at all seasons. Their
existence a lifetime battle with the cold.
The winter charges upon them with
swords of icicle, and strikes them with
bullets of hail and pounds them with bat-
tering-rams of glacier.
But already the huts of the Arctic hear
the songs of Divine worship. Already
the snows fall on open New Testaments.
Already the warmth of the Sun of Right-
eousness begins to be felt through the
bodies, and minds, and souls of the Hy-
perboreans. Down from Nova Zembla ;
down from Spitzbergen Seas; down from
the Land of Midnight Sun; down from
the palaces of crystal; down over realms
of ice, and over dominions of snow, and
through hurricanes of sleet Christ's dis-
oiples are coming from the north. The
inhabitants of Hudson's Bay are gather-
ingto the Cross. The Church Missionary
Society in those polar climes has been
grandly successful in establishing twenty
four Gospel stations, and over twelve
thousand natives have believed. and been
baptized. The Moravians have kindled
the light of the Gospel all up and down
Labrador. The Danish Mission has ga-
thered disciples from among the shiver-
ing inhabitants of Greenland. 'William
Duncan preaches the Gospel rp in the
chill latitudes of Columbia, delivering one
sermon nine times in the same day to as
many different tribes who listen, and
then go forth to build school houses and
churches. Alaska, called at its annex-
ation William H. Seward's Illy, turns
out to be William H. Seward's triumph,
audit is hearing the voice of God through
the American raissionaries, men and wo-
men is defiant of Arctic hardships as the
old Scottish chief who, when camping out
in a winter's night knocked from under
his son's head a pilleve of snow, saying
that such indulgence in luxury would
weaken and disgrace the clan. The Jean-
nette went down in latitude 77°, while De
Long and his freezing and dying men
stood watching it from the crumbling
and crackling Polar pack; but the old
ship of the Gospel mils as unhurt in lati-
tude 77 as in our forty degrees, and the
one -starred flag floats above the top -gal-
lants in Baffin's Bay, and Hudson's
Strait, and Mellville Sound. The heroism
of Polar expedition, which have made the
names of Sebastian Cabot, and Scoresby,
and. Schwatka, and Henry Hudson im-
mortal, is to be eclipsed by the prowess
of the men and women who, amid the
frosts of highest latitudes, are this morn-
ingtaking the upper shores of Europe,
Asia and America for God. Scientists
have never been able to agree as to what
is the Aurora Borealis, or Northern
Lights. I can tell them. It is the ban-
ner of victory for Christ spread out in the
northern night heavens. Partially ful-
filled already the prophecy of my text, to
be completely fulfilled in the near future;
"They shall eome from the north."
But my text takes in the opposite point
of the compass. The far south has
through high temperature temptations to
lethargy, and indolence, and hot blood,
which tend toward. multiform evil. We
have through my text got the north in,
notwithstanding its frosts, and the same
text brings in the south, notwithstanding
its torridity. The fields of cactus, the
orange groves, and. the thiekets of mag-
nolia are to be surrendered to the Lord
Almighty. The South I That means
Mexico, and all the regions that William
H. Prescott and Lord Linsborough made
familiar in literature; Mexico in strange
dialect of the Aztecs; xico conquered
by Herman Cortes, to be more gloriously
conquered; Mexico with its capital more
than seven thousand feet above the sea
level lc okirg down upon the entrance-
ment of lake and valley and plain;
Mexico, the home of nations yet to be
born—all for Christ. The South! That
means Africa, which David Livingstone
consecrated to God when he dit d on his
knees in his tent of exploration. Already
about 750,000 converts to Christianity in
Africa, The South! That means all the
islands strewn by Otinipdtent }rend
through tropical seas. Malayan Poly-
nesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and other
islands more numerous than you can im-
agine unless you have voyaged around the
world. The South That Means Java
frr Gd; Sumatra for God; Borneo for
Gad; Siam for God.
A. shipwas wrecked near one of theFe
ielands and WO life -boats put out for
shore, btit those 'Who arrived in the first
boat were °bibbed to death by' the canei-
bats, and. the other loat put book and
was somehoW saved. Years primed on,
and ono of that very erew was wrecked
again with others on the same rooks,
Crawling up on the shore they proposed
to hide from the cannibals in one of the
ecveters, but meunting the rock, tiny
saw a church, and cried out ; "We se e
saved! A church ! A. chinch ! The
South ! That means Venezuela, Neve
Granada, Ecuador and Bolivia, The
South! That means the torrid zone, with
all its bloom, and all its fruitage,. snd all
its exuberance ; the redolence of Illimita-
ble gardens, the nr u sic of boundless
groves; the lands, the seas; that night
by night look up to .the Sol) them °roes,'
which In stars transfigula s the midnight
hem en, as you look up at it all the wey
fte m the Sandwich Islands to Australia.
"They shall come from the South.,"
But I must not forget that my text
takes in another cardinal point of the
compass. It takes in the East. I have
to report that in a journey around the
world there is nothing so much impresses
ene as the fact that the missionaries,
divinely blessed, are taking the world fc r
G ca. The horrible war between Japan
and Mrs still leave the last well of op-
positien fiat in the dust. War is barbar-
ism always air cl everyevhere. We hold up
our bands in amazement at the massacre
at Port Arthur, as though Christian na-
ticns could never go into such diabolism.
We forget Fort Pillow! 'We fr rget tbe
fact that during our war both North and
South rejoiced when there were 10,000
more wounded and slain on the opposite
side. War, whether in China or the
Ux.ited States, is bell let lose. But one
gocd esult will come from the Japanese -
Chinese conflict. Those regions will be
mor t open to civilization and Christi-
anity than ever before. When Missionary
Carey put before an assembly of ministers
at Northampton, England, his project for
the evangelizati.on c 1 India, they laughed
him out of the house. From Calcutta on
the est of India to Bombay on the west,
there is not a neighborhood but directly
or indirectly feele the Gospel power.
The Juggernant, which did its awful
work for centuries, a few 'weeks ago was
brought out from the place where it has for
years been kept under shed as a curiosity,
and there was no one reverentially to
Feet it. About three millions of Christ-
ian souls in India are the advance guard
that will lead cn the two hundred and
fifty million. 'The Christians of Amoy,
and Pekin, and Cantor are the advance
guard that will lead the three hundred
and forty million of Chins. "They shall
come fie m the East." The last mosque
of Mobaromedanirm will be turned into a
Christian church. The last Buddist
temple will beccrae a fortress of light.
TI e last idol of Rindooism will be pitched
into the fire. The Christ who came from
the East will yet bring all the East with
Him. Of course, there are high obstacles
to be overcome, and great ordeals must
be passed through before the consumma-
tion; as witness the Armenians under the
butchery of the Turk. May that throne
on the banks of the Bosphorus soon
crumble! The time has already come
when the United States Government and
Great Britain and Germany ought to in-
tone the indignation of all civilized
naticns. While it is not requisite that
arms le sent there to avenge the whole-
sale massacre of Arn enians, it is re-
quisite that by cable ender the seas, and
by protest that shall thrill the wires from
Washington, and London, and Berlin to
Constantinople, the nations anathematize
the diabolism for which the Sultan of
Turkey is responsible. Mohammedanism
is a curse whether in Turkey or New
York !"They Shall come from the East!"
And they will come at tbe call of the
loveliest, and grandest, and best women
of all time. I mean the missionaries.
Dissolute Americans and Englishmen
who have one to Caleutt, Bon bay and
Canton to make their fortunes, defeme
the missionaries because the holy lives
and the pure households of those missicn-
aries are a constant rebuke to the Ameri-
can and English libertines stopping therf ,
but the men and women of God there
stationed go on gloriously with their
work; people just as good and self-deny-
ing as the missionary Moffat, who, when
asked to write in an album, wrote these
words:
make men do right, not because they are
afraid of Ludlow Street Jail or $ing aing,
but 'because they love God and bate un -
righteousness. I have never heard, nor
have you heard, of anything except the
gospel that purposes to regenerete the
heart, and by the influence of that regen-
erated heart rectify the life. Eseeute the
law, most certainly, but preach the Cos-
pel byin
means—in churches, in the-
atres, n homes, in. prisons, on the land
and on the sea„ 1be Gost el is the only
power that can revolutionize soeiety and
revolutionise the world. All else is half
and half work, and will not work. In
New York it has allowed men who got by
police bribery their thousands and tens of
thousands, and perhaps hundreds of
thousands of dollars, to go scot free, while
some wno were merely the cat' e paw and
agents of bribery are struck with the
lightnings of the law. It reminds me of
a scene in Philadelphia 'when I was living
there. .A. poor woman had been arrested
and tried and imprisoned fcr Felling m -
lasses candy on Sunday. Other law-
breakers had been allo-wed to go undis-
turbed, and the grog shops were open on
the Lord's Day, and. the law with its
hands behind its back 'walked up and
down the streets declining to molest many
of the offenders; but we all rose up in
our righteous indignation, and calling on
all powers, visible and invisible, to help
us, we declared that though the heavens
fell no woraon should be allowed to sell
molasses candy on Sunday,
.A. few weeks ago, after I bad preached
in cne of the churches in this city, a man
staggered up on the pulpit stairs makdlin
drunk, saying, "I am one of the reform-
ers that was elected to high cffice at the
last election," I got rid of that "great
reformer" as soon as I could, but I did
not get rid of the impression that a man
like that would cure the abominations of
New York as soon as smallpox would cure
typhoid fever, or a buzz saw would ren-
der Haydn's "Creation." Politics in all
our cities have become so corrupt that the
only difference between the Republican
and Democratic parties is that each is
worse than the other, But what nothing
else in the universe can do. the Gospel
c an and will accomplish. "They shall
come from the West,' and for that pur-
pose the evangelist batteries are planted
all along the Pacific coast, as they are
planted all along the Atlantic coast. All
the prairies, all the mountains, all the
valleys, all the cities are under more or
less Gospel influence, and when we get
enough faith and consecration for the
work this whole American continent will
cry out for G od. "They shall c cme from
the West."
The work is not so difficult as many
suppose. You say, "There are the for-
eign populations." Yes, but many of
tiem are Hollanders, and they were
brought up to loye and worshiy God, and
it will take but little to persuade the Hol-
landers to adopt the religion of their fore-
fathers. Then there are among these for-
eigners so many of the Scotch. They or
theirancestors heard Thomas Chalmers
thunder and Robert McCheyne pra,y. The
breath of Gcd so often swept through the
heather of the Highlands, and the voice
of God has so often sounded through the
Trossachs, and they all know how to sing
Dundee, so that thy will not have often
to be invited to accept the God of Xohn
Rnox and Bothwell Bridge.
N.), album is in savage beasts
Where passion reigns and darkness rests
Without one ray of light.
To write the naive of Jesus there;
To point the worlds both bright and fair
And see the pagan bow in prayer,
Is all my soul's delight.
In all those regions are men and wo-
men with the consecration of Melville B.
Cox, who, embarking for thr missionary
work in Africa, said to a fellow -student:
"If I die in Africa, come and write any
epitaph." "What shall I write for your
epitaph ?" said the student. "Write,"
said he, "these wcrds : Let a thousand
fall before Africa be given up."
There is another point of the compass
that my text includes. "They shall come
from the West." That means America
red, emed. Everything between Atlantic
and Pacific Oceans to the brought within
the circle of holiness and rapture. 'Will
it be done by worldly reform or evangel-
ism? Will it be law or Gospel ? I am
glad that a wave of reform has swept
across the land, and all the citio are
feeling the advantage of the mighty move-
ment. Let tbe good work go cn until the
last municipal evil is extirpated. .About
fifteen years ago the distinguished editor
of a New York daily newspaper Fold to
me in his editorial room, "You ministers
talk about evils of which you know noth-
ing. Why don't you go with the officers
of the law and explore for yourself, so
that when you preach against sin you can
speak from what you have seen with your
own eyes !" I said, "I will." And in
company with a commissioner of police,
and a captain of police, and two elders of
my church, I explored the dens and bid-
ing -places of all styles of crime in New
Pork,. and preached a series of sermons
warneng young men, and setting forth
the work that must be done lest the judg-
ments of God whelm this city with more
awful submergment than the volcanic
deluge that buried Herculaneum and
Pcmpeii. I received, as nearly as I can
remember, several hundred columns of
newspaper abuse for undertaking that ex-
ploration. Editorials of demand, tion,
double -leaded, and with captiens in great
primer type, entitled, "The Fall of Tal-
mage," or 'Talmage Makes the Mistake
of His Life," or "Down With Talmage,"
but I still live, and am in full sympathy
with all movements for municiprd purifi.
cation. But a movement which ends
with crime exposed and law executed
stops 'half way. Nay, it stops Jong be-
fore it gets half way. The law never yet
saved anybody; never yet changed any-
body. Break up all the houses of in-
iquity in this city and you only aend
the ' occupants to other cities. Break
down all the policemen in Now York, and
while it changes their worldly fortunes,
it does not &env their heart or life. The
greatest Want in New York to -day is the
transforming power af the Gospel of Jesus
Christ to change the heare and life, and
uplift the tone of moral sentiment, and
Then there are among the foreigners so
many of the English. They Inherited
the same language as we inherited—the
Englishinwhich Shakespeare dramatized,
and Milton chimed his cantos, and. Henry
Melville Gospelized, and Oliver Cromwell
prorcgued Parliament, and 'Wellington
commanded his eager hosts. .A mong these
foreigners are the Swiss, and they were
rocked in a cradle under the shadow of
the Alps, that Cathedral of the Almighty
in whichall the elements, snow, and hail,
and tempest, and hurricane worship.
Among these fcreigners are a vast host of
Germans, and they feel centuries after-
ward the power of that 1 nr aralleled spir-
it who shook the earth when Be trod it
and the heavens when He prayed—Mar-
tin Luther. Frcm all nations our foreign
populations have come, and they are
homesick, far away from the homes of
their childhood and the groves of their
ancestors, and our glorious religion pre-
sented to them aright will meet their
needs and fill their souls and kindle
their enthusiasm. They shall come
from amid the wheat sheaves of Dakota,
and from the ore beds of Wyoming,
and from the silver mines of Nevada, and
from the golden gulches of Colorado, and
from the banks of the Platte, and the
Oregon, and the Sacramento, and the
Columbia. "They shall come from the
West."
But what will they do after they come?
Here is something gloriously consolatory
that you have never notited: "They
shall come frcm the east, and the west,
and the north, and the south, and shall
sit down." Oh, this is a tired world
U he most of people are kept on the run
all their lifetime. Business keeps them
on the run. Trouble keeps them on the
run. Rivalries of men keep them on the
run. They are running from disasMr.
They are running for reward, And those
who run the fastest and. run the longest
seem best to succeed. But my text sug-
gests a restful posture for all God's chil-
dren, for all those who for a lifetime have
been on the run. "They shall sit down !"
Why run any longer? When a man
gets heaven, what more can be get?
"They shall it down!" Not alone, but
in picked companionship ot the universe.
Not t rabarrassed, though a Feraph should
sit down on one side of you, and an arch-
angel on the other.
There is that mother who thongh all
the years of infancy and childhood was
kept runnir g amid sick trundle -beds,
now to shake up the p llow for that
Bs) en -I. sad, and n w to give a drink to
those parched lips, and now to hush the
frightened dream. tf a little one; and
when tht re wa,s one le` s of the children
because the great Lover of children had
lifted one °et of the croup into the easy
b t eatl. bag or cob stial atmosphere, t e
moth r putting all the more anxious eure
on those who were left ; so -greater of arm,
and foot, and back, and head, so often
erying out :—"I am so tired! I am so
tired I" Her work done she shall sit
down. And that business man for thirty,
forty, fifty year,/ has kept on the run, not
urged by selfishness,. but for the Pirrpose
of act ieving liVehhood for the house-
hold. On thc, run from store to store, or
from factory to factory; meeting this
loss and diseovering that inaco racy,
andsuffering. betrayal or disappointment;
never more to be cheated, or perplexed,
ttr errs sp re tea, he shall sit down. Not
in a great arm -chair of heaven, for the
rock rs of such a chair wottla limply one's
need of something, or changing to easy
posture, or 84 ; but a ihrone,
solid as et( to4ty and radiant as tilt morn-
ing after a night of storm. "They shall
sit clown,"
I notice that the Most of the stylea of
toil reqtrire an erect attitude, There are
the thousands of girls behind counters,
many sueersons, through the In-
humanity of employers, ocrupelhx1 to
stand, even when because of a lack of
customers, there is no need that they
stand. Then there are all the carpenters,
and the stonemasons, and the black-
smiths, and the farreers, and the engin-
eers, and the ticket agents, end the con-
ductors, In most trades, in most occupa-
tions, they must stand, But ahead of
all those who love and serve the Lord is a
resting place, a complete relaxation of
fatigued muscle, a something cushioned,
and upholstered, and embroidered, with
the very ease of Reaven, "They shall
sit down." Rest from toil. Rest from
pain. Rest from persecution. Rest from
uncertainty. Beautiful, joyous, trans-
porting, everlasting rest! Oh, men and
women of the frozen north, and the
blooming south, and frcre the realms of
the rising r setting sun. through Christ
get your sins forgiven and start for the
place where you may at last sit down in
blissful recovery from the fatigues of
earth, while there roll over you raptures
of heaven. Many of you have had such a
rough tussle in this world that if your
faculties were not perfect in heaven you
would sometimes forget yourself and say,
"Itis time for me to start on that jour-
ney," or, "It ronat be time fca• me to count
out the drops of that medicine," or "1
wonder what new attack there is on me
throegh the newspapers ?" or 'Do you
think 1 will save any of thom crops from
the grasshoppers, or the locusts, or the
drought ?" or "I wonder how mneh I
have lost in that last bargain?" or "I
must hurry lest I miss the train." No,
no. The last .volume of direful, earthly
experiences will be finished. Yea, the
last chapter, the last paragraph, the last
sentence, the last word. Finis !
Frederick the Great, notwithstanding
the might dcminion over which he reign-
ed et as so depressed at times he could not
speak without crying, and carried a
small bottle of quick poison with which
to end his misery. when he could stand
it no longer. But I give you this Email
vial of Gcspel ancdyne,one drop of which
not hurting eitber body or soul, ought to
soothe all unrest, and pet your pulses in-
to an eternal calm. "They sha'l ccme
from the east, and from the west, and
from the north. and from the south and
shall sit down."
TALMAGE IS A WONDER.
He is a Whole Denomination With a
Multitude of Congregations.
Dr. Talmage on Sunday last was great-
er than on either of the previous Sun-
days. The dotirs of the Academy of
Mosic were thrown °ten at 8,15 p.m.,
and there was a road rush of waiting
thousands. The crowd had been collect-
ing for half an hour, and the sidewalk
and half the street Were blocked. One
mcment the great theater was empty, the
next every seat was filled.
Just 'before the sermon the collection
was taken. "Now," said Dr. Talmage,
"we will have a collection to pay the
large expenses of these meetings. Think
how much you are going to give. Then
give twice as much.
The collection baskets, returning from
their search into all parts of the house,
wei e laden with silver and copper.
When the doors were thrown open and.
the crowd begen to pour into the street,
they found a small army of hawkers and
bill -passers awaiting them. Men with
loud voices were offering pictures of Dr.
Talmage and of the burred tabernacle.
"Here you are!" they shouted. "Pho-
tos of the Rev. Dr. Talmage !" "Tal-
mage's pictures !" "Pictures of the great
Brooklyn. divine !" "Only ten cents 1"
"Noev's your chance!" "Take home the
doctors features with you!"
Another phalanx was made up of bill -
passers for other religions meetings.
"Come to the — temperance meetings!
they cried. "You won't be crowded. out
there! There's plenty of room 1 Conie
and hear the great Murphy!" And fur-
ther along were the Salvaticn Army la-
dies who sell the War Cry. "Most inter-
esting nuralaer yet!" they promised. "Buy
the War Cry! Just out!'
The meetings of Talmage are held. un-
der the management of the qv ner of the
Christian Herald. He has been the Doc-
tor's manager for many years. There is
the Christian Herald, of which Dr. Tal-
mage is editor: there are the Talmage
books, tracts and sermons '• there is the
great serrron syndicate, by -which mil-
lions in all parts of the earth read the
Talmage sermon every week, and, lastly,
there is the A eademy of Music gospel
meeting.
Surely there never was on the face of
the earth a minister whose wort was so
vastly and variously ramified and so tra-
m, ndous a center of religious propaga-
tion. Bela a :whole denomination in him-
self. with a multitude of congrrgation.s.
It is a joy to al including Dr. Talmage
and the owner of the Herald, to see the
wide stream of revenue flow in as the
wide and gracious stream of religious
eloquence fiows out.
A. snail travels at the rate of a mile in
fourteen days.
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