FREE GRACE DIVINE SERVICES IN THE BROOK LYN TABERNACLE Kev. Ilr. Tulinugo'n Hrriaon I.at Sunday Monilii Otlier World Tliuu Oiii-h In lia'oital.ie Tlie lU'Ilcloti of Ctirint 'ot an Altnit lou. 15IVK.KLYN, Oct. 2. The capacity for a Flill I:ngT 'ui.Ii(.in-i Ix-cu mado-at the JJiooklyn taU i !ia-Ic. An aljtiwl lee turc room has Im-i-ii huili w tliat tlui ;nj Ibo wwk it is 11 . ly itself, hut :i the Bobhath it is thrown into the mam auii torium and filled ly those Kitting or landing. Notwithstanding the t.nlure-ijR-nt tho rrowdd that p away not ahle to Ret iiihidu the huililiii an; Creator this fall than ovtr hcfure. To-ch-y the ia.-t5r C'Xjilaincil ar jiriate passages of Scrij.t ure. Professor Urowne rendered upon the organ the linst sonata in I) minor, Uittor. The lest of the hi tiiioii was from II Corinthians, chapter viii, verso : "Ye know thu jrru'--c of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though lie was rich, yet for your Bakes ho Im am-; jKior. Dr. Talmao Kaid: That all the world.-! which .n a coM winter's Jiiht inak; the licavens 0110 Kreat glilt-r are inhahitmitli'ss is an ul Mirdity. Philosophers tell us that many of these worIi"U are too hot or too cold or too rarefied of atmosphere fur residence. 15ut, if not lit for human aliode, they may he lit for I icings different from and Superior to our.-clves. We are toIl that the world of Jupiter is chanjjin until it is almost lit for creatures like the human race, and that Mars would do for the human family with a little change in the fctructuro of the respirator organs. But that there is a great world swung some where, vast lx'yond imagination, and that it is the headquarters of the universe and the metropolis of immensity, and has a population 'in iiumlors vast hcyond all statistics and npioinlments of splendor lioyond the capacity of canvas or poem or angel to desi ril?, is as certain as the 3 !ible authentic, l'erhaps some of the astronomers with their big telescopes have already caught a glimpse of it, not knowing what it is. We spell it with bix letters and pronounce it heaven. That is where Prince Jisus lived nine teen centuries ago. He was the King's son. It was the old homestead of eter nity, and all its castles were as old as God. Not a frost had ever chilled the air. Not a tear had ever rolled down the cheek of one of its inhabitants. There had never been in it a headache, or a 6ideache, or a heartache. There had not ljoen a funeral in the memory of the oldest inhabitant. There had never in all the land ln-en woven a black veil, for there had never been anything to mourn over. The passage of millions of years had not wrinkled or crippled or bedimmed any of its citizens. All the people there were in n state of eternal adolescence. "What floral and omomc brightness! Gardens of perpetual bloom and orchards in un ending fruitage. Had some spirit from another world entered and asked, what is sin? what is bereavement? what is sorrow? what is death? the brightest of the intelli gences would have failed to give defini tion, though to study the question there, were silence in heaven for half an hour. The Prince of whom I speak had honors, emoluments, acclamations, such as no other prince, celestial or terrestrial, ever enjoyed. As he passed the street. tli8 inhabitants took off from their brows gar lands of white lilies and threw them in the way. He never entered any of the temples without all the worshipers rising up and bowing in o!eisance. In all the processions of the high days he was the one who evoked the loudest welcome. Sometimes on foot, walking in loving talk with the humblest of the land, but at other times lie took chariot, ami among the 20.000 that David spoke of his was the swiftest and most tlaming: or, as when John described him, he took white pal frey with what prance of fool, and arch of neck, and roil of mane, and gk am eye is only dimly suggested in the Ar calypse. He was not like other princes, waiting for the father to die and then take the throne. When a few years ago an artist in Genuany made a picture for the royal pallery representing Emperor William on the throne, and the crown prince as hav ing one foot on the step of the throne, Emperor William ordered the picture changed, and f-aid: "Let the prince keep his foot off the throne till I leave it." Already enthroned was the heavenly prince side by side with the Father. What a circle of dominion! What myr midons of admirers! What unending round of glories! All the towers chimed the prince's praises. Of all the inhabit ants, from the center of the city, on over the hills and clear down to the beach against which the ocean of immensity rolls its billows, the Prince was the ac knowledged favorite. No wonder my text eays that "Jle was rich." Set a!l the diamonds of the earth in one scepter, build all the palaces of the earth in one Alhambra. gather all the pearls of the sea in one diadem, pat all the values of the earth in one coin, the aggregate would not express his affluence. Yes, Paul was right. Solomon hail in gold 080.000,000 pounds and in silver l,O"2l.O0O,:-77 pounds sterling. But a greater than Solomon is here. Not the millionaire, but the quad rillionaire of heaven. To descrilx? his celestial surroundings the Bible uses all colors, gathering them in rainliow over the throne and setting them as agate in the temple window, ami hoisting twelve of them into a wall from strijx'd jasper at the lase to transparent amethyst in the capstone, while between are green cf emerald, and snow of jiearl, and blue of sapphire, and yellow of topaz, gray of chrysoprasus. and llame of jacinth. All the loveliness of landscape in foliage, and river, and rill, and all enchantment aquamarine, the sea of glass mingled with fire as when the sun sinks in the Mediterranean. All the thrill of music, instrumental and vocal, harps, trumpets, doxologies. There stood the Prince, sur rounded by those who had under their wings the "velocity of millions of miles in a second, rich in love, rich in adoration, rich in power, rich in worship, rich in holiness, rich as God. But one day there was a big disaster in a department" of God's universe. A race fallen! A world in ruins! Our planet the seen of catastrophe! A globe swing ing out into darkness, with mountains, and seal and islands, an awful centri fugal of sin seeming to overpower the beautiful centripetal of righteousness, and from it a groan reached heaven. Such a sound had novel been heard there. I lenty of sweet Rounds, but never an out cry of distress, or an. echo of agony. Vt that on groan the Priuc j rose from all the blist.ful t ircum jacence, and started for the outer gate, and de-cended into the night of this world. Out of what a bright harbor into what a rough sea! "Stay with us," cried angel al ter angul, and ioteiitato alter potentate. "No," Kaid 1 Iks Prince; "I cannot f-tay; I must be ofT for that wreck of a world. I must stop that groan. I must hush that dis tress. I ic.uh.t fathom that way. I must redeem those nations. Farewell, thrones and temple:, companions cherubic, ser aphic, archaugelic! Kxeiise tins aliM-nce, for 1 will come back again, carrying on my r.houldt.r a ransomed world. Till this iri done I choose earthly scoff to heavenly acclamation, and a cattle ien to U king's palace, frigid '.oii' of earth to atmosphere of cel-.-tial radiance. I have no time to lose, for hark ye to the groan that grows mightier while I wait. Fare well! fart well!" "Ye know the grace of our Tord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sake-, he hi-'-amc poor." Was there ver a contrast so overpower ing ;is that I hI v"' li the noonday of Christ 'd celestial departure ami the midnight of his earthly arrival? Sure; enough, the angels were out that night in the sky, and special mi teor acted as escort, but all that was from other world:;, and not from this world. The earth made no demonstration of welcome. If one of the great princes of this world steps out at a depot cheers resound, and the hands play, and th Hags wave. But for the arrival of this missionary Princo of the skies not a torch flared, not a trumpet blew, not a plume fluttered. All the music ami pomp were overhead. Our world opened for him nothing letter than a barn door. The rajah of Cash mere sent to Victoria a liodstead of carved gold and canopy that cost seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars, but the world had for the Prince of heaven and earth only a litter of straw. The crown jewels in the Tower of London amount to fifteen million dollars, but this member of eter nal royalty had nowhere to lay his head. To know how poor he was, ask tho camel drivers, ask the shepherds, ask Mary, ask the three wise men of the East who afterward came there, young Caspar and middle-aged Balhasar and old Mclchior. To know how poor he was examine all tho records of real tate in all that Oriental country, anc . what vineyard, or what house, or what field hi; owned. Not one. Of what III..: -. - - . -.r.r- V Of what teliem.. .... .. - . . ? Of what lease was he the lessee? W no ever paid him rent? Not owning the boat on which he sailed, or the beast on which l;e rode, or the pillow on which he t-lept. He had so little estate that in or der to pay his tax he had to perform a miracle, putting the amount of the as sessment in a fish's mouth and having it hauled ashore. And after his death the world rushed in to take an inventory of of his goods, and the entire aggregate was the garments he had worn, sleeping in thetn by night and traveling in them by day, bearing on them the dust of tho highway and the saturation of the sea. Paid in my text did not go far from hit ting the mark, did he, when he said of the missionary Prince: "For your sakes he became ioor?" The world could have treated him lx:t tcr if it had chosen. . It had all the moans for making hi? earthly condition com fortable. Only a few years lief ore, when ;r.pry, the general, arrived at Brindisi iie was greeted with arches and a costly column, which celebrated the 12,000,000 people whom he had killed or conquered, and ho was allowed to wear his triumphal rol-e in the senate. The world had ap plause for imperial butchers, but buffet ing for the Prince of Peace. Tlenty of golden chalices for the favored to drink out of. but our Prince must put his lips tii the bucket of the well by the roadside after he had lagged for a drink. Poor? ! Born in another man's him and eating at another man's table, and cruising the lake in another man's fishing smack, and buried in another man's mausoleum. Four inspired writers wrote of his 'biog raphy . and innumerable lives of Christ have lieen published, but he composed his autobiography in a most compressed way. He said: "I have trodden the wine press alone." Ptxr in the estimation of nearly all the J resperous classes. They called him Sabbath breaker, wine bibber, traitor, blasphemer, and ransacked the dictionary of opprobrium from lid to lid to express their detestation. I can think now of only two well to do men who espoused his cause Nicodomus and Joseph of Ari niathea. His friond3 for the most part were people "who in that climate where ophthahny or inflammation of the eye ball sweeps ever and anon as a scourge, had become blind: sick people who were anxious to get well, and troubled people in whose family there was some one dead or dying. If he had a purse at all it was empty, or we would have heard what was done with the contents at the post mortem. Poor? The pigeon in the dove cote, the rabbit in its burrow, the silk worm in its cocoon, the bee in its hive is better provided for, better off, lietter sheltered. Aye, the brute creation has a home on earth, winch Canst has not. I If on vrir.dv (lavs tho raveu Gambol like iv dancing skiff. Not the It loves his haven Oil the bosom of tlie cliff. If almost with eajrle pinion O'er the Alps the chamois roam. Yet he lir.s some small dominion Which no di-uht he culls his home. 1 But the Crown Frince of all heavenly dominion has less than the raven, less than the chamois, for he was homeless. Aye, in the history of the universe there is no other instance of such coming down. Who can count the miles from the top of the throne to the bottom tf the cross' Cleojiatra, giving a banquet to Antony, took a pearl worth a hundred thousand dollars and dissolved it in vinegar and swallowed it. But when our Prince, ac cording to the evangelist, in his last hours took the vinegar, in it had been dissolved all the pearls cf his heavenly royalty. Down until there was no other depth for him to touch, troubled until there was no other harassment to suffer, poor until there was no other pauperism to torture. Billions cf dollars spent in wars to destroy men, who will furnish the statistics of the value cf that precious blood that was shed to save us? "Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your Bakes he became poor." j . ... .. - - - 1 Only those who study this text in two places can fully reach it. jxwor, tho Holy Iiind of Asia Minor arid the holy land of heaven. How I bhould liko some day to take a drink out of Jacob's well, and take a s;iil on Galileo, and read tho Sfrmon on tho Mount while standing on Olivet, and see tho wilderness where Christ was tempted, and be some afternoon on Cal vary at aliout S o"clx:k, the hour at which closed the crucifixion, and sit tinder tho sycamores and by the hide of brooks, and think and dream and pray alioul the txyvcrty of him who came, our souls to save. But you and I will prob ably be denied that, and so here, in another continent and in another hemi hphere, and in scenes as different as os silae, we recount as well we may how jioor our heavenly Princo lufaine. And in tin; other holy land alxive, we may all study the riches that he left Im-IucJ when he started for earthly e-xpedition. Come, h't us bargain to meet each other at the door of the Father's mansion, or on the bank of the river just where it rolls from under the throne, or at the outside gate. Jesus got the contrast by exchanging that world for this; we will get it by exchang ing this world for that. There and then you will understand more of the wonders of the gra-e of our lyird Jesus Christ who, "though he was rich, yet for your sakes lx-came jioor." Yes, grace, free grace, sovereign grace, omnipotent grace. Among tho thous ands of words in the language there is no more queenly word. It means free and unmerited kindness. My text has no monopoly of the word. One hundred and twenty-nine times does the Bible eulogize grace. It is a door swung wide open to let into the pardon of God all the millions who choose to enter it. John Newton sang of it when he wrote: Amazing grace, how F.weet tno sound Thut saved a wretch like me! Philip Doddridge 'put it into all hym nology when he wrote: Gracel 'tis a charming sound, Harmonious to the ear; Heaven with the echo shall resound, And all the world shall hear. One of John Uunyan's great !ooks is entitled "Abounding Grace." "It is all of grace that I am saved" has Ix eii tn the lips of hundreds of dying Christians. The l.ioy Sammy was right when, leing examined for admission into church meni lership, ho was asked: "Whose work was your salvation?" and he answered: "Pari mine and part God's." Then thu exam La' asked: "What part did you do, Sammy?" and the answer was: "I p- -sed God all I could, and he did the rc-iT' Gh, the height of it, the depth of it, the length of it, the breadth of it, the grace cf God! Mr. Fletcher having writ ten a pamphlet that pleased the king, the king cifered to compensate lam, and Fletcher answered: "'ihere is only one thing I want, and tliat is more grace." Yes, my blood bought hearers, grace to live by and grace to die by. Grace that saved tho publican, that saved Lydia, that saved the dying thief, that saved the jailer, that saved me. But the riches of that grace will not be fully understood until heaven breaks in upon the soul. An old Scotchman, who had been a soldier in one of the European wars, was sick and dying in one of our American hospitals. His one desire was to see Scotland and his old home, ami once again walk the heather cf tho Highlands, and hear the bagpipes of the Scotch regiments. The night that the old Scotch soldier dienl a young man, somewhat reckless but kindhearted, got a company of musicians to come and play under the old soldier's window, tind among the instruments there was a bag- The instant that the musicians be- i'o.n e dying old man in delirium said: "Wi. it's that, what's that? Yvhy it's tho regi'.ient? coming home. That s the tune; yes, that's the tune. Thank God, I have got homo once more." "Bonny Scot land" and "Bonny Doon" were the last words he uttered as he passed up to the Highlands of the better country. And there are here today hundreds who are homesick for heaven, some because you have so many bereavements, some be cause you have so many temptations, some because you have so many ailments, homesick, very homesick for the father land of heaven ; and the music that you want to hear now is the song of free grace, and the music you want to hear when you die is free grace; and forever before the throne of God you will sing of the "grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, though he was rich, for your sakes be came poor." Yes, yes; for your sakes! It was not on pleasure excursions that ho came, for it was all pain. It was not on astrono mical exploration, for he knew this world as well before he alighted as afterward. It was not because he was compelled to come, for he volunteered. It was not because it was easy, for he knew that it would be thorn and spike, and hunger anil thirst, and vociferation of angry mobs. For your sakes! Wipe away your tears. To forgive your wrongdoing, to companionship your lone liness, to soothe your sorrows, to bit with you by the new made grave, to bind up your wounds' in the ugly battle with the world and bring you home at last, kindling up the mists that fall on your dying vision with the sunlight of a glorious morn. For your sakes! No; I will change that: Paul will not care, and Christ will not care if I change it, for I must get into the bless edness of the text myself, and so I say; "For our cakes!" For wo all have our temptations, and bereavements, and con flicts. For our sakes! Y'e who deserve for our sins to be expatriated into a world as much poorer than tins than this earth was poorer than heaven. For our sakes! But what a fruitful coming down to take us gloriously tip. When Artaxcrxes was hunting, Tirebazus. who was attend ing him, showed the king a rent in his garment. The king said: "How shall I mend it?" "By giving it to me," said Tirebazus. Then the king gave liim the robe, but commanded him never to wear it, as it would be inappropriate. See the startling and comforting fact, while our Prince throws off the habit he not only rdlows us to wear it but commands us to wear it, ami it will become us well, and for the poverties of our spiritual state we may put on the splendors of heavenly re galement. For our sakes! O, the per sonality of this religion! Not an abstrac tion, not an arch under which we walk to behold elaljorate masenry, not an ico castle like that which Empress Elizabeth, of Ka?sia. over a hundred years ago or dered constructed, wir.ter with its trowel of crystal cementing tho huge blocks that had lecn quamed from tho frozen rivers , . 1 it 1 T-V .1 1 oi mo norui, out i amor s nouse wnu u i wide hearth crackling a hearty welcome, j A religion of warmth and inspiration, and light, and cheer, something we can I take into our hearts, and homes, and business, recreations, and joys and sor rows. Not an unmanageable gift like tho galley presents! to Ptolemy, which re quired four thousand men to row, ami its draught of wafer was no great that it could not come near the shore, but some thing you can run up any stream of an noyance, however shallow. Enrichment now, enrichment forever! Bight about face! for you are going in the wrong direction. While you are in a favorable mood for it enter into life. Hero and just now dee ide everything that makes for eace and heaven. Agassi: says that he has stood at one plaeo in the Alps where he could throw a chip into tho water in one direction and it would roll on into the German ocean, or he could throw a chip into the water in an other direction and it would reach tho Black sea by the Danulx, or he could throw a chip in another direction and it would enter the Mediterranean by the Khone. How far apart the Mediterra nean and the Black s a ami the German ocean! Standing t lay on this Alps of Gospel privilege you can project your soul into right currents, and it will roll on into the ocean of life, or project it in the wrong direction and it will roll into the sea cZ death. But how far apart tip two distances! May God help us to ap preciate more and more the momentous meaning of our text! The seven wise men of Greece were chiefly known each for one apophthegm; Solon for the saying, "Know thyself;" IVriandrr for the say ing. "Nothing is imiossible to industry;" Chilo for th.; wiving, "Consider the end;" Thales for the saying, "Suretyship is the precursor of ruin;" and Paul, distin guished for a thousand utterances, might well anord to lc memorable for the say ing, "You know the grace of our Iird Jeans Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes became ior, that ye through his poverty might be rich." MEN WITH MARVELOUS MEMORIES. I'coplo 'Whose Uraiiis JCevcr Forgot iiii;ioii:. 1 IoM-er of llecollection. Parsons, tho Greek scholar, could re peat Milton's "Paradise Lost" back wards. A monk who resided in Moscow in the Fifteenth century could repeat the whole of the New Testament. George III of England, though deficient in education, never forgot a name once heard or a face once seen. It is said of Themistocles that he could call by their names the people of Athens, wliich city then numbered 20,000 inhab itants. It has been written of the Bourbons thai they never forgot a man's name nor his face, and this has been sometimes considered as a true sign of their royal natures. A school teacher cf London, whose name was Dawson, possessed a rc-marka- ; ble memory. He could repeat the book of Job and the Psalms, and on a wager of 200 lie repeated, without the aid of a book, Spenser's "Fairie Queene."a poem of nearly -1,000 stanzas of nine lines each. Houdin was once, invited with his son to a gentleman's house to give a private seance, and as they went up stairs they pas.-ed the library door, which was par tially open. In thai single moment 3"oung Charles Houdin read all the names I of twelve volumes and recognized the po sition of two busts. Boone, the blind negro pianist, who has given performances through several states, has a most wonderful memory in connection with his art. From once hearing it he was abb to play Ti nt's cele brated "Hungarian ih'.apsody" without missing a note. Blind Tom also per formed similar feats. Mozart, when only 12 years old, played a new opera from one hearing, which had been composed expressly to test his skill. A writer, referring to this inci dent, says: "He not only reproduced tho opera from memory which was a very difficult piece without missing a single note, but on a second playing threw in variations in such a manner that all who heard him were speechless with astonish ment." MeKcnzie tells us a most interesting story about Carolan, a blind Irish harper and composer, who once challenged a famous Italian violinist to a trial of skill. The Italian played the fifth concerto cf Vivaldi on his violin; then, to the aston ishment of all present, Carolan, who had never before heard the concerto, took his harp and plajx-d it through from begin ning to end without missing a single note. Strata of a. Urooklyn Street. They are digging for foundations of the elevated railroad on the made ground at the foot of Fulton street, Brooklyn. Just in front of the Annex ferry house is a Hole which has historical interest. At a depth of two feet a brick pavement was reached resting immediately upon a layer of cob ble stones. This was the grade of Ful ton street at that point twenty-three years ago. when turntables were used to reverse the street cars. Four feet below the surface is a pavement of rough round stones, and this was in use fifty years ago when the old stage line halted there. Eight feet down is a deep black stratum showing the high water mark of the old landing used in colonial times. The piles will probably have to go very deep to olv tain a firm hold, for all the old maps show that less thani0 years back a little bay ran up Fulton street as far as Front s treet, and Jewell's mill was out on a point. New Y'ork Sun. Hawk and Coyote. A coyote in Walla Walla was attacked ' by an immense hawk that hit him fair on the back of the head. The coyote would duck his head, then make a snap at the hawk, but could not reach it, and at the end of twenty minutes was literally , pecked to death. New York Sun. i 1 ! . Costa Rica'a Mineral Springs. 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