' J y A. I - a y V L AITS iM ( ) LJT 1 1 WEKk-,t .tfih.i,, mUKSUAV, AUGUST 23, .a 18SS. iwii m mm mum mi 3UBLE ON BOTH SIDES. N DR. TALMAGE RETURNS TO THE TABERNACLE. I Combined Shadow of IuvalUlintn and y nunclul Emburraiutnicnt Tlio World r Uttecs tko Ilorito It Wants to DtiUi oino Trouble Outnlde Persecution. Brooklyn, Au. 19. Tho Rev. Dr. T. Witt .Xalmripe's subject today was f-oublo oa Both Sides," and his text iiero was n sharp rock on tho ono bide, rl a sharp rock on tho other tide," i am., xiv, 4. i.'he cruel army of tho Philistines must S taken and scattered. Thero a just i ) man, accompanied by his bodyguard, ;tlo that thing. Jonathan is tho hero tho tscene. I know that David icked tho fckull of tho Riant with a ' v pebbles well slung, and that COO jf.lconites scattered 10,000 Amalekites j tho crash of broken crockery; t hero is a moro wonderful con l it. Yonder aro tho l'liilistines on the .cks. Hero is Jonathan with his body iard in tho valley. On tho one le is a rock called Bozez; on the other le is a rock called Seneh. These two ere as famous in olden times as in ' odern times are Plymouth Rock and abraltar. They were precipitous, un salable and sharp. Between these two )ck3 Jonathan must make his ascent. ho day comes for tho scaling of tho i eight. Jonathan, on his hands and feet, tcgLns the ascent. With strain, and up, and bruise, I suppose, but Btill on nd up, first goes Jonathan, and then .oes his bodyguard. Bozez on one ide, Seneh on tho other. After . sharp tug, and push, and cling ng, I eee tho head of Jonathan '.bovo tho hole, in tho mountain; and . here is a challenge, and a fight, and a Supernatural consternation. These two ;iien, Jonathan and his bodyguard, drive ('jack and drive down the Philistines over :,he rocks, and open a campaign which lemolishes the enemiss of Israel. I sup 'pose that tho overhanging and over shadowing rocks on either side did not balk or dishearten Jonathan or his body guard, but only roused and filled them with Bthusiasm as they went up. "Tliere was a sharp rock on tho ono side, and a sharp roelf on the other side." Jly friends, you hava been, or are now, Eomt" of you, in tliis crisis of tho text. If a maii meets one trouble, ha cu go through wlt.Ii it. Ho 'gathers all his en ergies, concentrates them upon ono point, ,and in the strength of God, or by his own natural determination, goes through it. i But tho man who has trouble to tho right "of him and trouble to the left of him is ; to be. pitied. Did either trouble come 'alone, he might endure it, but two I troubles, two disasters, two overshadow !dng misfortunes, are Bozcz and Seneh. God pity him! "There is a sharp rock on tho ono side, and a sharp rock on tho other side." In this crisis of the text is that mail whose fortune and health fail him at the same time. Nine-tenths of all our mer chants capsize in business before they come to forty-five years of age. There is Borne collision In commercial circles, and they stop payment. It seems as if every man must put his name on the back of a note before he learns what a fool a man is who risks all his own prop erty on the prospect tliat some man will tell tho truth. It seems as if a man must have a large amount of unsalable goodo on his own shelf before ho leams how much easier it is to buy than to sell. It seems as if every man must be completely burned out before lie learns the import ance of alwaj3 keeping fully insured. It seems as if every man must be wrecked in a financial tempest before he learns to keep things snug in case of a sudden euroclydon. When tho calamity does come, it is awful. The man goes home in despair, and he tells liis family: "We'll have to go to the poorhouse." He takes a dolorous view of everything. It seems as if he never could rise. But a littlo time passes, and he says: "Why, I am not so badly off after all; I have my family left." Before the Lord turned Adam out of Paradise he gave him Eve, so that when he lost Paradise he could stand it. Per mit ono who has never read but a few novels in all liis life, and who has not a great deal of romance in hi3 composition, to say, that if, when a man's fortunes fail, he has a good wife a good Chris tian jvif e--he ought not to be despondent. "Oh," you say, "that only increases the embarrassment, sinco you have her also to take care of." You aro an ingrate, for the woman as often supports the man as the man supports tho woman. The man may bring all the uollai's, but the woman generally brings the courage and the faith in God. Well, this man of whom I am speak ing looks around, and he finds his family is left, and he rallies, and the light comes to his eyes, and the 6mile to his face," and the courage to his heart. In two years he is quite over it. He makes his finan cial calamity the first chapter in a new era of prosperity. He met that one trouble conquered it. He sat down for a little while under the grim shadow of the rock Bozez, yet he soon rose, and be gan, like Jonathan, to climb. But how often it is that physical ailment comes with financial embarrassment. When the fortune failed it broke tho man's spirit. His nerves -were shattered. His brain was stunned. I can show you hundreds of men in New York whose fortune and health failed at the same time. They came prematurely to the staff. Their hand trembled with incipient paralysis. They never eaw a well day since the hour when they called their creditors to gether for a compromise. If such men aro impatient, and peculiar, and irrita ble, excuse them. They had two troubles, either one of which they could have met successfully. If, when tho health went, the fortune had been retained, it would not have been so bad. The man could have bought the very best medical advice and he could have had the very best at tendance, and long lines of carriages WOuld have stopped at the front door to inquire as to hid -welfare. Bat poverty on the one side and sickness on the other are Bozez and Seneh, and they interlock their shadows and drop them y.voathe poor man's way. God help him "There is a sharp rock oa the one side, and a sharp rock on the other side. , . Now, what is euch a man to do? " ! tho name of Almighty' Cod,' I will tell him what to do. Do ns Jonathan did rlimb; climb up ipto the sunlight of (iod'a favor and consolation. I can go through the churches and hhow you men who lobt fortune and health at tho same time, and j-et who nng all day and dream of heaven all night. If you havo any idea that sound digestion, and steady nerves, and clear eyesight, and good hearing, and plenty of friends aro neces sary to make a man happy, you have miscalculated. I kuoho that theso over hanging rocks only made Jonathan scramble tho harder and tho faster to p;et up and out into the sunlight; and t'nia combined shadow of invalidism and linancial embarrassment has often sent a man up the quicker into the sunlight of God's favor and the noonday of his glorious promises. It is a dilficult thing for a man to fef-1 his dependence upon God when ho has $10,000 in the bank, and $."0,000 in government securi ties, and a block of stores and three ships. "Well," the man says to him self, "it is silly for mo to pray, 'Give mo this day my daily bread,' when my pan try is full, and tho canals from the west are crowded with breadstuff destined for my storehouses." Oh, my friends, if tho combined misfortunes and disasters of lifo havo made you climb up into the arms of a sympathetic and compassionate God, through all eternity you will bless him that in this world "there was a sharp rock on tho ono side, and a sharp rock on the other side." Again, that man is in tho crisis of the text who has homo troubles and outside persecution at tho same time. Tho world treats a man well just a3 long as it pays best to treat him well. As long as it can manufacture success out of his bone, and brain, and muscle, it favors him. The world fattens the horse it wants to drive But let a man sec it his duty to cross the track of the world, then every bush is full of horns and tusks thrust at lum. They will belittle him. They will cari cature him. They will call his generos ity self aggrandizement, and his piety sanctimoniousness, 'f he very worst per secution will some time come upon him from thoso who profess to be Chnsti&nj. John Milton great and good John Milton so forgot himself as to pray, in so many words, that his enemies might oo eternally thrown down into tuo uarK est and deepest gulf of hell, and bo the undermost and most dejected and th lowest down vassals of perdition! And Martin Luther so far forgot himself as to say, in regard to his theological oppon ents: "Put them in whatever sauce you please, -,vWted. or fried, or baked, or stewed, oe boiled, .or hashed, they are nothing" but neses!" Aj, uy friends, if John Milton or Martin Luther coUi como down to such scurrility, what may you not expect from less elevated opponents? Now, tho world sometimes takes after them; the newspapers tako aflr f hem; public opinion takes after them; and the unfor tunate man is bed about until all the dictionary of Billingsgate is exhausted on him. You often see a man whom you know to bo good, and pure, and honest, set upon by tho world, and mauled by whole communities, while vicious men take on a supercilious air in condemnation of him; as though Lord Jeffreys bhciifd write an essay on gentle ness, or Henry VIII tolk about purity, or Herod take to blessing httlo .L;Jdren. Now, a certain amount of persecution rouse3 a man's defiance, stirs his blood for magnificeufc battle, and makes him fifty times more a man ihan he would have been without the persecution, go it was with the great reformer when he said: "I will not be put down; I will be heard." And so it was with Millard, tho preacher, in the timo of Louis XI. When Louis XI sent word to him that unless he stopped preaching in that style he would throw him into the river, he replied: "Tell the king that I will reach heaven sooner by water than he will reach it by fast horses," A certain amount of persecution is a tonic and in spiration, but too much of it, and too long continued, becomes tho rock Bozez, throwing a dark shadow over a man's life. What is he to do then? Go home, you say. Good advice, that. That is just the place for a man to go when thtf world abuses him. Go home. Blessed be God for pur quiet and sympathetic homes. But there is many a man who lias the reputation of having a homo when he has none. Through un thinkingness or precipitation there are many matches made ihat ought never to have been made. An officiating priest cannot alono unite a couple. The Lord Almighty must proclaim banns. There is many a home in which thero is no sympathy and no happiness and no good cheer. The clamor of the battle may not have been heard outside, but God knows, notwithstanding all the playing of the "Wedding " March" and all the odor of the orange blossoms and the benediction of the officiating pastor, there has been no marriage. Sometimes men have awakened to find on one side of them the rock of persecu tion, and on the other side the rock of domestic infelicity. What shall such an one do? Do as Jonathan did climb. Get up the heights of God's consolation, from which we may look down in tri umph upon outside persecution and home trouble. While good and great John Wesley was being silenced by the magis trates, and having his name written on the board fences of London in doggerel, at that very time his wife was making him as miserable as she could acting as though she were possessed of the devil, as I suppose she was; . never doing him a kindness until the day she ran away, so that he wrote in his diary these words: "I did not for sako her; I have not dismissed her; I will not recall her." Planting one foot, John Wesley did, upon outside persecu tion, and the other foot on home trouble, he climbed up into the heights of Christian joy, and after preaching forty thousand sermons, and traveling two hundred and seventy thousand miles, reached the heights of lieaven, though in this world he had it hard enough "a sharp rock on tho one side, and a sharp rock on tho other. " Again, that woman stands in the crisis of the text who ha3 bereavement and a struggle for a livelihood at the same time. Without mentioning names, I speak from observation. Ah, it is a hard thing for a woman to make an honest living, even when her heart is not troubled, and Bhe has a fair cheek and the magnetism of an exquisite presence. But now the hus band, or the father, Is dead- The ex penses of the obsequies have absorbed all hat was left in tho eavipgs bans; ana . 1 . 1 wan ana wasted wun weeping uni watching, 6he goes forth a grave, a hearse, a coffin, behind her to contend for her existence and the existence of her children. When I see such a battle as that open I shut my ryes at tho ghastliness of the spectacle. Men sit with embroidered slippers ana write heartless essays about women's wages; but that question is made up of tears and blood, and thero is more blood than tears. Oh, give women free access to all the realms where she can get a live lihood, from the telegraph office to the pulpit. Let men's wages bo cut down I fore hers aro cut down. Men have iron in their souls and can stand it. Make the way freo to her of the broken heart. May God put into my hand tho cold, bitter cup of privation, and give me nothing but a windowless hut for shelter for many years, rather than that after I am dead there should go out from my homo into the pitiless world a woman's arm to Oght the Gettysburg, the Auster litz, the Waterloo of life, for bread. And yet how many women there are seated between the rock of bereavement on the ono side, and the rock of destitu tion on tho other, Bozez and Seneh in terlocking their shadow and dropping them upon her miserable way. "There is a sharp rock on the one side, and a bharp rock on the other side." What aro sucli to do? Somehow, let them climb up into the heights of the glorious promiso : "Leave thy fatherless children ; I will preserve them alive, and let thy "widows trust in me. " Or get up into the heights of that other glorious promise: "Tho Lord preserveth the stranger and relieveth the widow and the fatherles3.'' O! ye sewing woman on starving wages. O! ye widows turned out from the once beautiful home. O! ye female teachers, kept on niggardly stipend. O! ye despairing woman, seeking in vain for work, wandering along the docks, and thinking to throw yourself into the river last night. O! ye women of weak nerves and aching sides, and short breath and broken heart, you need something more than human sympathy; you need the sympathy of God. Climb up into his arms. He knows it all, arid he loyca you more than father, or mother,' 'or husband ever could or ever did ; and instead of sit ting down, wringing your hands in des pair, you had Letter begin to climb. Tl'ei'9 are heights o consolation fpr you, though now tiioio 13 ft sharp rock on the one side, and a sharp rock on tld other side." Again, that man is in the crisis of tho text who has a wasted life on the one sido 2nd an unillumined eternity on tho Dthei:. Though man may all his life have cultured deliberaUon'nd'snlj r:C.js.0 if he gets Into that position all his eif possession is gone. There are all tho wrong thoughts of his existence, all the wrong deeds, all the wrong words strata s.bcy strata, granitic, ponderous, overshadowing. "That rock I call Bozez. On the other side are all the retribuiiona of tho future, tho thrones of' judgment, the eternal ages, angry with his long de Qance. That rock I call Sensh. Between theso two rocks Lord Byron perished, and Alcibiades perished, and Herod perished, and ten thousand times ten thousand iiave perished. O! man immortal, man redeemed, man blood-bought, climb up out of those shadows. Climb up by the way of the cioss, Ppve your wasted lifo forgiven; have yoit'r' eternai hiG in sured. This morning just take one look to the past and see what it has been, 'and take one Jock fo the future and see what it tlireatens to be. You can afford o lose your health, you' can afford to lose your property, you can afford to lose your reputation; LuJ; you cannot afford to lose your soul. That i bright, gleam ing, glorious, precious, eternal possession you must carry aloft in the day when the earth burns up and the heavens burst. You see from my subject that when a man goes into the safety and peace of the Gospel, lie does not .demean Vimse'l'' There is nothing in religion that leads to meanness or uumanliness. The Gos pel of Jesus Christ only asks you to climb as Jonathan did climb toward God, climb toward heaven, climb into the sunshine of God's favor. To become a Christian is not to go meanly down; it is to com gioilpuily up up into the communion of saints, up into' the peace that passeth all understanding, up into the companionship of angels. He lives up; lie dies up. O! then, accept the wholesale invita tion which I make this morning to "all the people. Come up from between your invalidism and financial embarrassments. Come up from between your bereave ments and your destitution, pome up from between a wasted life and an unil lumined eternity. Like Jonathan, climb with all your might, instead of sitting down to wring your hands in the shadow and in the darkness "a sharp rock on the one side, and a sharp rock on the other side." The Mystery Vaa Solved, Back in 1SS2 they had an epidemic of typhoid at Auxerre. No one could tell why. The disease appeared suddenly. There was no evidence of contagion, llow about the water? Formerly the in habitants used river water from the Yonne. But the town would modernize itself. A new quarter was built, and all the well to do folk combined to insure a supply of "pure water" by the aqueduct of Valand. The poorer people, as of old, went to the river. Now, the typhoid at tacked only those who drunk the "pure water." Dr. de Carrieres, a specialist and expert, was chosen to make a study of the case, and, if possible, to determine the cause of the epidemic. The doctor proceeded to examine the Yaland waters at its source. Arrived there ho found a farm house close at hand, and, of course, he found that neces sary and more or less charming ornament of a farmyard, a manure heap. Inquir ing at the house he learned they had a patient who had lately come from Paris ill with typhoid. The plot thickens ! The doctor suspected the big manure heap. ' He would try. So he took a quantity of rosalinine, a powerful red coloring mat- ! ter, and distributed it freely over the j mass. Next morning when the surviy- ing "best people" of Auxerre turned on the taps, what was their surprise to find tho beautiful Yaland water as red as blood! The mystery was solved. I Cathoho World. SELLING BABIES. GLIMPSE AT THE DARK SIDE OP "ADVANCED CIVILIZATION." Xlio Common Practice of Cnmotherly "Wet Jfore Farmlnjj Ont Tlielr Own Chil dren and Rentlos Theinelve to Wealthy I'olk A Source of DUease. The fact that hundreds of foundlings aro annually eared for at the expense of tho city and by our numerous private charitable in stitutions is very generally taken as at least : u suggestion of tho prevalence of gross im ' morality in Xev York. IJecauso tho census of tho ehilii asylums and nurseries is con stantly increasing tho deduction is likewise mac lu that the metropolitan morale is not of so high a standard as in years past. How much truth there may bo in tho latter as gumptiou is a question that must Le deter mined from other data. In short, tho gen eral tielief that tho tiny wards that eyiry ! vear liecomo public charges are, a a rule, the offspring or unfortunate or immoral mothers is not correct On tho authority of those whoso position gives them tho best chance for investigation it i stated that a very large proportion of tbo waifs picked up on tho streets or discovered in put of the way places are tho children of woraea who abandon them solely for the purpose of mak ing money by nurturing other ioople'3 ba bies. WHAT TH3 OF7ICULS SAY. "There is no question but that women neg lect their young babes for tho sake of the wages they can earn in nursing the children of others," said tho superintendent of the in fants' asylum on Itandall's Island, where over 1,000 foundlings aro cared for at the city's expenso in the course of a year. "It has been found by investigation that tho majority of abandonments aro made from sordid motives. Of course there are cases where mothers are obliged to abandon their babes through poverty or fear the shame of their maternity should become known. But a large proportion of the in mates of the institution aro dependent on the city's charity because pf their mother's greed for money. At one time in the hospital's history wet nurses were hired, but tho em ployment agencies In the city, where the number of maternities is so high per week, gave the management much trouble by send ing scouts here to tho island to entice them away. We cannot afford to pay tho prices private faniilies will e-ive," At the headquarters oi' tho department ot charities and correction Jii Blake, who has held tho position of superintendent of put door poor, and is ono of the best posted men in ho city on the subject paid; h-iTon'jrpjF f hV chil Jren two. or. mora months tld hava boon abandoned twice before they aro brought here to be cared for by the city. A woman with a child only a few days old finds some one with whom she can board it. Sometimes a month's board is paid in ad vance, which insures good care for it But the poor women who expect to add ?3 or (5 to theft saeagvt ninthly income seldom see the mother of the child aftop iho first month. Finally, after waiting a while, tho nurses abandon them." Thero are certain institutions in New York where a premium is practically put on this heartless abandonment of babies by merce nary mothers. Certain restrictions are im posed as to the adfftiion oi patients in the maternity wards, but there : are, notwith standing this, loopholes by which such women aro permitted a leavo their young to the tepder mercies of these institutions. I'he, cus tom, or practice, is winked at, because tho city pays a bounty, as It were, for the in fants thus adopted, for tho funds received depend upon tho number of children cared for. In some cases mothers are bound to as sume ome slight responsibility or even tech nical titlo to motherhood. But at least ono institution not only grants but actually ex acts a release of all claim to children of which it assumes the care. ryifOTHKRI.T MOTHERS. "I know froin personal experience and ob servation thnt a very large proportion of the wet nurses employed in New York have been abls tQ Phtiq thss places solely through fha abandonment of their own flesh and blood," was the statement made by a well known physician of this city iu discussing the sub ject "1 have been astounded and shocked by the growing tendency on the part of American women to leave tho care of their Infants to others almost from the timo of birth. You might regard it as a general rnl among the wealthy classes, and especially so in pases where mothers are what are termed society Indies.' Jn tho United States th most favored classes, so far as worldly poa sessions are concerned, seem to regard it as a disgrace to hava more than two children. It is not many years ago that a how noted illustrated paper made a tremendous hit and first commenced to boom by e timely cartoon apropos of tho suicide oJ the notorious JIme. RestelL She wai reputed to have had among her patients in yer nefarious malpractice business, womeq of the ffirst' families of New York, or what Ward McAllister is pleased to term the select 400. This cartoon gavo a prophetic scene, as it were, of what Fifth avenue would present iu a year or 'two now that Mme. Restell's services were no longer to be secured. It was tho aptness of the illustration which brought home to the publio a realization of the enormity of what may bo termed a great national sin that set everybody talking about the paper that had exhibited the courage to preach so powerful a sermon. Thero may be other Restells here today, but hardly less a crime than is practiced by them is the fotal abandonment of babies or tho shirking of the responsibilities of motherhood by theso wet nurses. "Tho temptations to shiftless and mercen ary females duo to the system are very great and few can resist them. Wet nurses are usually engaged by the year, and their wages range from $20 or $25 a month to f 40 or f 30 and even higher in soma instances. A woman gets a good home, all her ex penses are paid, and is fed on the best of everything. Practically it is a life of ease and perhaps luxury for the term of their en gagement Their deserted children can be put out to board for $10 or $13 a month, and a great majority of them are either adopted or become public charges. If the parents of babies realized the risks they run in taking this cla-ss of women to nurse their little ones there might be less of this sort of thing dona There is great danger of chronic diseases and various complaints being contracted by the babies. The private nurseries in which the children of wet nurses are cared for are not what they ought to bo by any means. In the first place, the babie3 of necessity are bottle fed and are more or less neglected. They are puny ""and weak, and if they are nursed through the various infantile complaints are, for many reasons, unlikely to become useful or desirable members of society." New York World. Contented wltu UU Lot. Visitor (to convict) What are you in for, friend I Convict Bigamy, air four wives. Visitor Your life must be very sad. Convict It isn't a sad aa the life I led be fore I came here. The Epoch. A PERFECT COMBINATION Sn. Paine's Celery Compound is THIS PERFECT COMBINATION. 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