GOD IS LOOKING ON. THE SLIGHTEST SERVICE TO MANKIND WILL GET REWARD. It Kd Not Be Done In Public Second Washington Sermon by Dr. Talmage -Another Large Oadlence Heart the Great Preacher. ASHINGTON. D. C, Nov. 3, 1895. Dr. Talniage to-day preached his second sermon since com ing to the National Capital. If possible the audience was even larger than last Sunday. The subject was "The Disabled." the text elected being: 1. Sam. 30:24, "As his part Is that goeth down to the battle, o shall his part be that tarrieth by the tuff." If you have never seen an army change Quarters, you have no Idea of the amount of baggage twenty loads, fifty load3, a hundred loads of baggage. David and his army were about to start on a double-quick march for the recov ery of their captured families from the Amalekites. So they left by the brook Besor their blankets, their knapsacks, their baggage, and their carriages.' Who shall be detailed to watch this stuff? There are sick soldiers, and wounded oldiers, and aged soldiers who are not able to go on swift military expedi tions, but who are able to do some work, and so they are detailed to watch the baggage. There is many a soldier who is not strong enough to march thirty miles In a day and then plunge Into a ten hours fight, who Is able with lrawn sword lifted against his shoulder to pace up and down as a sentinel to keep off an enemy who might put the torch to the baggage. There are two hundred of those crippled and aged and wounded soldiers detailed to watch the baggage. Some of them, I suppose, Lai bandages across the brow, and tome of them had their arm In a sling, and some of them walked on crutches. They were not cowards shirking duty. They had fought in many a fierce bat tle for their country and their God. They are now part of the time in hos pital, and part of the time on. garrison duty. They almost cry because they cannot go with the other troops to the front. While these sentinels watch the baggage, the Lord watches the sentinels There is quite a different scene being enacted in the distance. The Amale kites, having ravaged and ransacked end robbed whole countries, are cele brating their success in a roaring ca rousal. Some of them are dancing on the lawn with wonderful gyration of heel and toe, and some of them are ex amining the spoils of victory the finger-rings and ear-rings, the necklaces, the wristlets, the headbands, diamond Btarred, and the coffers with coronets, and carnelians, and pearls, and sap phires, and emeralds, and all the wealth of plate, and jewels, and decanters, and the silver and the gold banked up on the earth in princely profusion, and the embroideries, and the robes, and the turban3, and the cloaks of an imperial wardrobe. The banquet has gone on until the banqueters are maudlin and weak and stupid and Indecent and loathsomely drunk. What a time it is now for David and his men to sweep on them. So the English lost the bat tle of Bannockburn, because the night before they were in wassail and bibu lous celebration, while the Scotch were In prayer. So the Syrians were over thrown In their carousal by the Israel ites. So Cherdorlaomer and his army were overthrown in their carousal by Abraham and his men. So, in our Civil War, more than once the battle was lost because one of the generals was drunk. Now is the time for David and his men to swoop upon these carousing Amale kites. Some of the Amalekites are Lacked to pieces on the spot, some of them are Just able to go staggering and hiccoughing off the field, some of them crawl on camels and speed off in the distance. David and his men gather to gether the wardrobes, the jewels, and put them upon the back of camels, and Into wagons, and they gather together the sheep and cattle that had been stolen, and start back toward the gar rison. Yonder they come, yonder they come. The limping men of the garri son come out and greet them with wild huzza. The Bible says David saluted them. That is, he asked them how they all were, "How Is your broken arm?" "How is your fractured Jaw?" "Has the stiffened limb been unlimbered?'.' "Have you had another chill?" "Are you getting better?" He saluted them. But now came a very diffifcult thing, the distribution of the spoils of vic tory. Drive up those laden camels now. Who shall have the spoils? Well, some eelfish soul suggests that these treas ures ought all to belong to those who had been out In active service. "We did all the fighting while these men stayed at home in the garrison, and we ought to have all the treasures." But David looked Into the worn faces of these vet erans who had stayed In the garrison, and he looked around and saw how eleanly everything had been kept, and he saw that the baggage was all safe, and he knew that these wounded and crippled men would gladly enough have been at the front if they had been able, and the little general looks up from un der his helmet and says: "No, no, let us have fair play;" and he rushes up to one of these men and he says, "Hold your hands together," and the hands ere held together, and he fills them with silver. And he rushes up to an other man who was sitting away back anc? had no idea of getting any of the epoils, and throws a Babylonish gar ment over him and fills his hand -with, gold. And he rushes up to another man who had lost all his property in serving Qod and hi country years btfore, and he drives up some of the cattle and some of the sheep that they had brought back from the Amalekites, and he gives two or three of the cattle and three or four of the sheep to this poor man, so he shall always be fed and clothed. He sees a man so emaciated and worn out and 6ick he needs stimulants, and he gives him a little of the wine that he brought from the Amalekites. Yonder Is a man who has no appetite for the rough rations of the army, and he gives him a rare morsel from the Amalekit ish banquet, and the two hundred crip pled and maimed and aged soldiers who tarried on garrison duty get Just as much of the spoils of battle as any of the two hundred men that went to the front, "As his part i3 that goeth down to the battle, so shall his part be that tarrieth by the stuff." The impression is abroad that the Christian rewards are for those who do conspicuous service in distinguished places great patriots, great preachers, great philanthropists. But my text sets forth the idea that there is just as much reward for a man that stays at home and minds his own business, and who, crippled and unable to go forth and lead in great movements and In the high places of the earth, does his whole duty Just where he is. Garrison duty is as important and as remunerative as serv ice at the front. "As his part is that goeth down to the battle, so shall his part be that tarrieth by the stuff." The Earl of Kintore said to me in an English railway, "Mr. Talmage, when you get back to America I want you to preach a sermon on the discharge of ordinary duty in ordinary places, and then send me a copy of it." Afterward an English clergyman coming to this land brought from the Earl of Kintore the same message! Alas! that before I got ready to do what he asked me to do, the good Earl of Kintore had departed this life. But that man, surrounded by all palatial surroundings, and in a dis tinguished sphere, felt sympathetic with those who had ordinary duties to perform in ordinary places and in or dinary ways. A great many people are discouraged when they hear the story of Moses, s-nd of Joshua, and of David, and of Luther, and of John Knox, and of Deborah, -and of Florence Nightin gale. They say: "Oh, that was all good and right for them, but I shall never be called to receive the law on Mount Si nai, I 6hall never be called to command the sun and moon to stand still, I shall never preach on Mars' Hill, I shall never defy the Diet of Worms, I shall never be called to make a queen trem ble for her crimes, I shall never pre side over a hospital." There are wom en who say, "If I had as brilliant a sphere as those people had, I should be as brave and as grand; but my busi ness is to get children off to school, and to hunt up things when they are lost, and to see that dinner is ready, and to keep account of the household expenses, and to hinder the children from being strangulated by the whooping cough, and to go through all the annoyances and vexations of housekeeping. Oh, my sphere is so infinitesimal, and so insig nificant, I am clear discouraged." Wom an, God places you on garrison duty, and your reward will be just as great as that of Florence Nightingale, who moving so often night by night with a light in her hand through the hospitals, was called by the wounded the "lady of the lamp." Your reward will be just as great as that of Mrs. Hertzog, who built and endowed theological seminary buildings. Your reward will be just as great as that of Hannah More, who by her excellent books won for her ad mirers Garrick and Edmund Burke and Joshua Reynolds. Rewards are not to be given according to the amount of noise you make in the world, nor even according to the amount of good you do, but according to whether or not you do your full duty in the sphere where God has placed you. Suppose you give to two of your chil dren errands, and they are to go off to make purchases, and to one you give one dollar and to the other you give twenty dollars. Do you reward the boy that you gave twenty dollars to for pur chasing more than that amount of money than the other boy purchased with one dollar? Of course not. If God give wealth or social position or elo quence or twenty times the faculty to a man that he gives to the ordinary man, is he going to give to the favored man a reward because he has more power and more influence? Oh, no. In other words, if you and I were to do our whole duty, and you have twenty times more talent than I have, you will get no more divine reward than I will. Is God going to reward you because he gave you more? That would not be fair, that would not be right. These two hundred men of the text who faint ed by the Brook Besor did their whole duty; they watched the baggage, they took care of the stuff; and they got as much of the spoils of victory as the men who went to the front. "As his part is that goeth down to the battle, so shall his part be that tarrieth by the stuff." There is high encouragement in this for all who have great responsibility and little credit for what they do. You know the names of the great commer cial houses of these cities. Do you know the names of the confidential clerks the men who have the key to the safe, the men who know the com bination lock? A distinguished mer chant goes forth at the summer water ing place, and he flashes past, and you say: "Who Is that?" "Oh," replies some one, "don't you know? That is the great importer, that is the great banker, that is the great manufactur er." The confidential clerk has his week off. Nobody knows him, and after awhile his week is done, and he sits down again at his desk. But God will reward his fidelity just as much as he recognizes the work of the merchant philanthropist whose investments this unknown clerk so carefully guarded. Hudson River Railroad. Pennsylvania Railroad, Erie Railroad, New York & New Haven Railroad business men know the names of the presidents of these roads and of the prominent di rectors; but they do not know the names of the engineers, the names of the switchmen, the names of the flagmen, the names of the brakemen. These men have awful responsibilities, and some times through the recklessness of an engineer, or the unfaithfulness of a switchman, It has brought to mind the faithfulness of nearly all the rest of them. Some men do not have recogni tion of their services. They hava small wages, and much complaint. I very often ride upon locomotives, and I very often ask the ques tion as we shoot around some curve, or under some ledge of rocks, "How much wages do you get?" And I am always surprised to find how little for such vast responsibility. Do you suppose God Is not going to recognize that fidelity? Thomas Scott, the presi dent of the Pennsylvania Railroad, going up at death to receive from God his destiny, was no better known in that hour than was known last night the brakeman who, on the Erie Rail road, was jammed to death amid the car couplings. "As his part is that goeth down to the battle, so shall his part be that tarrieth by the stuff." Once for thirty-six hours we expected every moment to go to the bottom of the ocean. The waves struck through the skylights, and rushed down into the hold of the ship, and hissed against the boilers. It was an awful time; butby the blessing of God, 'and the faithful ness of the men in charge, we came out of the cyclone, and we arrived at home. Each one before leaving the ship thanked Captain Andrews. I do not think there was a man or woman that went off that ship without thanking Captain Andrews, and when, years after, I heard of his death, I was com pelled to write a letter of condolence to his family in Liverpool. Everybody recognized the goodness, the courage, the kindness of Captain Andrews; but It occurs to me now that we never thanked the engineer. He stood away down in the darkness, amid the hissing furnaces, doing his whole duty. No body thanked the engineer, but God recognized his heroism and his con tinuance and his fidelity, and there will be Just as high reward for the engineer who worked out of sight, as the Captain, who stood on the bridge of the ship in the midst of the howling tempest. "As his part is that goeth down to the bettle, so shall his part be that tarrieth by the stuff." A Christian woman was seen going along the edge of a wood, every even tide, and the neighbors in the country did not understand how a mother with so many cares and anxieties should waste so much time as to be idly saun tering out evening by evening. It was found out afterward that she went there to pray for her household, and while there one evening, she wrote that beau tiful hymn, famous in all ages for cheering Christian hearts: I love to steal awhile away From every cumbering care, And spend the hours of setting day. In humble, grateful prayer. Shall there be no reward for such un pretending, yet everlasting service? Knew Jast How Others Felt. "I think the flavor of pure cod liver oil Is very pleasant," said a citizen, "but my wife can never see me take any without twisting up her face, and exclelmlng:"0h, the horrid stuff! How can you possibly like It?" A few days ago I was in a drug store when an old school physician came in and asked for a quart of castor oil. As the druggist poured the stuff into a measure the doctor thrust one of his fingers Into the stream of oil and transferred a spoon ful at least to his mouth. 'That's good oil, said he, smacking his lips. Then for a moment I knew Just how my wife feels when I smack my lips over cod liver oil." RELIGION AND REFORM. An Endeavor society has been organ ized in the Home of Incurables at Bal timore. The Christaln Endeavor Societies of Australia have sent seventeen of their members to foreign mission fields. Los Angeles has a Chinese Christian Endeavor Society of fifteen boys and girls who support a native helper in China. Christian Endeavor in Madagascar is not yet four years old. Nevertheless it now numbers ninety-one societies, with 3,377 members. The mosque whicL stands on Mount Horeb on the s'te of Aaron's grave Is being repaired by the Turkish govern ment at national cost. The Literary World asks a place in Westminster Abbey for a tablet to Mrs. Browning, calling her "the great est woman poet of all ages." The government of Canada has pro hibited the sale of Intoxicants among the Indians of Hudson Bay territory, and punishes severely any violation of this law. As an outcome of the late meeting of the Calvlnlstlc Methodists in London, a committee has been formed to mature a scheme for a missionary to labor among the Welsh in the great city. Lieutenant Greeley says of those who went with him to the North Pole, of the seventeen of his men who died, all were smokers but one, and he died last. Of the seven survivors none were smokers St Paul's American Institute at Tar sus, Asia Minor, a school founded by the late Elliott F. Shepard, was at tacked by a Turkish mob which mal treated the students and threatened the missionaries. The Duke of Marlborough Is thres Inches shorter than his prospective bride. But he will not be so "short" when ho gets her millions. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. LESSON VII SUNDAY. NOVEM BER 17 SAUL REJECTED- Golden Text: "To Obey I Better Than Sacrifice" 1 Samuel xv:23 The First Test of Saul The Second Test Ills Tain Excuses. NTRODUCTORY: The section in cludes chapters 13 to 15, together with a view of the clos ing period of Saul's life. Time: Per haps about B. C. 1065, at least ten years after the in auguration of Saul. Kiel. According to Usher, B. C. 1079. Place: Gilgal, in the Jordan valley, near Jericho. Sam uel was still prophet and priest of Israel, though now no longer judge. His official position, as well as his ex perience and age (now past 80), makes him even yet the chief personage in the councils of the nation. Saul was now about 50 years old, holding his court at Gibeah, four miles north of Jerusalem. His wife's name was Ahinoarn. The names of three sons and two daughters are given (1 Sam. xiv:49). The general of his army was his cousin Abner. His reign lasted till B. C. 1055. David was now a young man at Bethlehem. To day's lesson includes 1 Samuel xv:10-23. 10. Then came the word of the Lord unto Samuel, saying, 11. It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king: for he is turned back from following me, and hath not performed my commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the Lord all night. 12. And when Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning, it was told Samuel, saying, Saul came to Carmel, and, behold, he set him up a place, and is gone about, and passed on, and gone down to Gilgal. 13. And Samuel came to Saul: and Mosque and Tomb at Ramah.) Saul said unto him, Blessed be thou of the Lord: I have performed the com mandment of the Lord. 14. And Samuel said, What meaneth then this bleating of the sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear? 15. And Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites: for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice unto the Lord thy God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed. 16. Then Samuel said unto Saul, Stay, and I will tell thee what the Lord hath said to me this night. And he said unto him, Say on. 17. And Samuel said, When thou wast little In thine own sight, wast thou not made the head of the tribes of Israel, and the Lord anointed thee king over Israel? . 18. And the Lord sent thee on a jour ney, and said, Go and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they be consumed. 19. Wherefore then didst thou not obey the voice of the Lord, but didst fly upon the spoil, and didst evil in the sight of the Lord? 20. And Saul said unto Samuel, Yea, I have obeyed the voice of the Lord, and have gone the way which the Lord sent me, and have brought Agag, the king of Amalek, and have utterly de stroyed the Amalekites. 21. But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which should have been utterly de stroyed, to sacrifice unto the Lord thy God in Gilgal. 22. And Samuel said, Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as In obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams. 23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as in iquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the Lord, he hath also rejected thee from being king. Explanatory: 17. When thou wast little the Lord anointed thee king. All you have and are Is the gift of God. You did not even dream of the honor he has put upon you, much les3 gain It for yourself. Therefore, obe dience is doubly due from you. 18. The sinners the Amalekites. Here we see why they were to be destroyed. Big Folpwood Rafts. From the Milwaukee Wisconsin. The monster raft of pulpwood which has been expected at Long Tail Point recently has arrived in tow of the tugs Samson and Saugatuck. There are about 7,000 cords of pulpwood in the raft, which Is about one mile In circumfer ence and Is worth in round figures $40, 000. The raft was on the road eighteen days from Detour, Mich. There are 550 boom sticks around the raft, and these are worth $13,000 or $14,000. The tug A. J. Smith is on the way with another big raft. GUILLOTINED. The Way the "Widow" Wcrks In France. From the Epoch. The prisoner is informed when the Court oi Cassation rejects his appeal; but he always has the hope that the President will pardon him, and on the strength of this hope most of the con demned remain comparatively tran quil. When the final day arrives the convict is awakened by the warden about half an hour before the time is set for the exe?ution. The s,traight jacket is removed and his ordinary clothes given him. Then he is bound hand and foot by two of the heads man's aids and afterward lelt alone with the priest for a few moments, unless the services of this ecclesiastic are declined. From the condemned's cell he is taken to a dimly-lighted room called the toilette chamber; here, seated on a ntool, he listens to the prayers recited aloud by the priest, while one of the aids cuts the hair from the back of the neck and the collar irom the shirt. He is ready! Supported by two aids and accompanied by the executioner, the priest and the other officials, the con demned marches out, the two huge outside doors lly open, and the guil lotine, surrounded by the military and the police greets Ins eye. Arrived at the bascule the executioner and his aids push him against the swinging plank"; he falls so that his neck fits in to the lower hall oi the moon-shaped socket, the upper half of which is im mediately lowered; the executioner touches a spring, the knife lalls with a sharp sound, the head drop? into the tub, a little stream of blood gushes j out from the trunk and justice is sat- ; isfied! The whole operation takes less than half a minute. The headless body is slid into the willow basket, the head is placed between the leg and the basket is put into a wagon that has been waiting two hourH for its burden. Escorted by a squad of ! gendarmes and followed by a priest in a modest cab the train gal lons rff tr tli Tv-rv Ppmpfpru thrpn or four miles away, where a part ! e a i i li i . i 1 oi uie enclosure, caneu tne turnip field, is reserved for the burial of executed criminals. When the body is not claimed it is immediately ex humed and given to the medical school. Meanwhile the aids disman tle the guillotine, wash away the blood stains and return the "widow" (the criminal's namefor theguillotine) to her quarters in the Rue de la Folie Regnault. An hour later if you should pass along the Rue delaRoquette you would never suspect that you were crossing a spot where so short a while before this sinister machine had sent a soul into eternity. You would see the poor children oi the neighborhood playing about tasquare, chasingeach other in merry sport over the flag stones scarcely dry from the execu tioner's sponge, the soldiers of the guard loafing lazily about the prison door, while the birds flitting among the trees send forth their joyous morning carols. In the country the executions are not so rapidly per formed. Oftentimes the place of pun ishment is situated many miles from ! the prison, and the moral torture of the criminal is prolonged for hours by the long journey from one point to another. A ihinaman on American Life. Wong Chin Foo is the Chinaman wnose recent article on why he is a j heathen attracted wide attention. It seems, however, that he discourses upon other subjects which more close- j ly concerns the people among whom he has cast his lot. Here is an ex tract illustrating the way in .which he looks at ceitain features Df American life: If I were a young man, especially it I were handsome and had a generous "old man" at my back with a liberal pocketbook; I should prefer to live in America to any other place on earth. But I should take good enre not to Ret old, for this is a country where old men and women invariably take a back seat. Sometimes they are not even allowed the comfort of any seat at all. It is only here that I find old men and women are servants of the healthful youth of either sex. It seems to be a common law among the peo ple here to rise and support children as sumptuously as their means per mit, and continue to support them even long after they are able to earn their own living. But when it comes to the old people's turn, sentiment sems to dwindle down almost to zero. In society the young are the centre of attraction. They are the blooming flowers. The old people are shut up in the kitchen behind the doors. What a muss the people of this coun try make of their "love business! Are the understandings of the American youth obtuse? It frequently takes years of their valuable time to whis per ardent love to each other, and frequently, at the very last moment, they suddenlv find out that they did not love each other at all. "They were simply trying to find out each other's peculiarities.'1 Occasionally these courtings actually terminate in a marriage, but, as a rule, the love making business is then over. There fore, the only next interesting thing between them is a quarrel and a di vorce. Over one thousand people gathered in front of the Leicester, England, prison the other day to witness the ; release of William Smith, who had j been undergoing seven day's imprison ment for refusing to allow his child to , be vaccinated. Smith was welcomed j with loud cheering, and the meeting ! passed anti-vaccination resolutions j and denounced the authorities for sending a man to jail for conscience sake. ' Saved bv Her Corset. New York Press: Edward Kempton, young man employed forth last year year in this city, called at the home of Miss Laura Johonott to bid ier good bye before leaving- to accept a position in Brooklyn. While taking his leave he pulled'a revolver from his pocket and fired at the girl's heart, but the bullet struck a corset steel, glanced and did no harm. 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