TALM AGE’S SERMON. •TOHV OF THE HEROIC RESCUE OF ISAAC. Ilalir. Tell: It.beM Ik* Fir* and Ik* «wd. Hal W bar* I* tba «m 11 1 Akrabaai’* kai>r*ia* Trial— Stall ..red 0*U IS. IS**. ERE art Abraham and laaac: the on* a kind, old, gra cious, affcctloual# father; tbo other a brave, obedient, religious son. From bla broosed appearance you ■ an tell Hist ibis son baa been much In the field*, and from hi* Hhaggy drew* you know that be ha* been watching the herd*. Tbo mountain air has painted hla cltoek rubicund, lie fa twenty, or twenty five, or, as *ontc suppo**, thirty-three years of nge; neveriheli** u hoy, con sidering I he length of life to which people lived In those times, and the fad that a aon never la anything but a boy lo a father, I remember that my father used to come Into tba house when the children were home on *om« festival occasion, and say; "Where ara tba hoy*?" although "the hoy*" wera twenty five, and thirty, and thir ty-five year* of age, Ho thfat Inssc I* only a hoy to Abr*hMm, end III* father'a heart la in him. It la Issue here and laaac Hi ara. If there fa any festivity around the father's tent, Isaac must enjoy It, H Is Isaac's walk, and Isaac's apparel, and Isaac's manner*, and imh' n nn'i lly, The father'* ticrt-airlng* are all wrapped around that hoy, and wrapped again, until nln«-t«ntha of the old man 'a life la In laaar, I ran Juat Imagine how lovingly and proudly he looked at hla only aon. Well, the dear old man had borne a graat deal of trouble, and It had left Ita mark upon him. In hieroglyphic of wrinkle tha atory waa written from forehead to rhln. Hut now hla trouble aeema all gone, and we are glad (hat he la vary anon to real forever. If the old man ahall get drrreplt, laaar la atrong enough to wg|t on him. If the father get dim of eyealght, laaao will lead him by tba hand, If the father heroine de finite, laaar will earn him bread, How glad we are that the ehlp that he* been In *urh a atormy ara la rooting at la*t Into the harbor, Are you not rejolcd that glorloua old Abranam la through with hla trouble? No! no! A tbuu derbolt! From that clear eaatern aky tbar# drop* Into tba* father'* tent a .voice with an announcement enough y> turn blaek hair white, and to atun the patriarch into Inaiant annihilation. Hod aald "Abraham!" The old man anawered: “Here I am." (lod aald lo him: "Take thy aon, thy only aon laaar, whom thou ioveat, and get thee into the land of Moriah, and olfer him there ae a burnt offering," In other word*, eley him! eon, laaac, here I am," The aon eald “llehold the Are ami the wood, hill where la the lamb'''1 The lather • 111 quivered, and bla heart fainted, and hli kticca knocked together, and lilt eutlrt body, mind and »oul ahlvered In alek entng augulah ae he airngfl** to g><|i equipoise; for It* does not want w break down, Aud than lie looke Inti bla Holl a fate, with a ibouaand rualilm tenderneaaoa, and aays My eon, Hot will provide bitiiaclf a lamb " The twain are now at lbs foot pi 1 the hilt, the place which Is to be famous for a moat transcendent oecnrrenco. They gather aom-* stone* out of tba field, and build an attar of three or four feel high Then they take this wood off Isaac'a back and aprlnkle It over the atones, so as to help and In vite the flame The altar la done—It ta all done, laaae has helped to build It. With hla father he has discussed whether Ihe top of the table la even, and whether the wood la properly pre pared. Then there la a pause The eon looks around to see if there la not some living animal that ran be raugnt and butchered foe the offering Abra ham trlea to choke down hla fatherly feelings and suppress hla grief. In ol der that he may break to hla aon the terrific news that he la to tie ihe victim. Ah! lease never looked more beauti ful thun on that day fo hla father, Aa ^ the old man ran hla emaciated finger* through hla sou's hair, be aald to him self. "How shall I give him up? What will hla mother aay whon I come back without my boy? I thought he would have been the comfort of my de clining days. I thought be would have been the hope of ngos to come. Beau tiful and loving, and yet to die under my own hand. Ob, Ood! la there not some other sacrifice that will do? Take my life, and spam hla! I'our out my bipod, and save Isaac for hla mother and the world!" But this waa an In ward struggle. The father controls hla feelings, and looka Into hla son's face, and says: "Isaac, must 1 tell you all?" Hla aon said: "Yea, father. I thought you had something on your mind; letl It," The father said: "My aon, Isaac, thou art the lamb!" -Oh," you aay. "why didn’t that young man, If h« woe twenty or thirty years of age, i. si... -1_s LI- Is.tks.w4 ■IMHO Mlllfl- Mip Mini HI ' ’ lie could have dona II." Ah I Inmuc knew by this time that the scene wus typical of a Messiah who was to come, and ao he made no struggle. They fell on each other's necks, and walled out the parting. Awful and matchless scene of ths wilderness. The rocks echo hack the breaking of their hearts, Tha cry: "My son! my son!" The an* awer: "My father! my father!" Do not compare this, sa some peopla have, to Agamemnon, willing to offer up his daughter, Iphlgenla, to please the gods. Thera Is nothing comparable to this wonderful obedience to th* true Ood. You know that victims for sac* rlflcn were always hound, so that they might not struggle sway. Kawllnga, the martyr, when ha waa dying for Christ's aske, aald to the him ksmlth who held the manacles: "Fasten those chain* tight now, for my flesh may atruggle mightily." Ho Isaac's arms srs fastened, his feel arc tied, The old man, rallying all his strength, lifts him on to a pile of wood Fastening s | thong on one side of the altar, he mukea It. upun the body of Isaac, and fastens the thong at tho other aids ths altur, and another thong, and another thong. There |u th* lamp flickering In the wind, ready to he pul under tho brush wood of the altar, There Is th* knlfa, sharp and keen, Abraham, struggling with his mortal feelings on tha ono side, and the commands of (tod on the other takes that knife, rubs Ihe flat of It on Ihe palm of his hand, cries to Ood for help, comes up to the side of the altur, put* a purling klus on tha brow of Ills hoy, lake* a message from him for mother and home, and than, lifting the glittering weapon for the plunge of Ihe death stroke his muscles knitting for the work Ihe hand begin* to descend, It falls! Not on the heart of Isaac, hut on the arm of Ood, who arrests tha stroke, making III' wilderness rptake with the cry: "Abraham! Abraham! lay not thy hand upon the lad, nor do him any harm!" u/tiui Is Oils sound back In the wood*! It U « crackling a* of tree branch**, n bleating and a atrugglo, do, Abraham, and aon what It la. Oh. It waa a ram that, going through the wood*, haa lt« crooked horna faatenad and entangled In the brunliwood, and could not gel luoa«; and Abraham aelxea It gludly, and quickly unlooaen* Ieaiic from the altar, pula the r*m on In III* place, acta th* lamp under th* bruahwood of the altar, and u* the deuae atnoke of tbo aacrlflcc licgli.a to rl*c, the blood rolla down the aide* of th* altar, and drop* hlaalng Into the Are, and I hear llie word*, "liehold the Dumb of Ood who taken away the ulna of tlic world." Well, what are you going to get out of thle? There la an aged tiiliilalcr of the Oonpel. He aayai "I ahould get out of It that when (lod tellu you to do a thing, whether It aeama raaaonabl* to you or not, go ahead and do It. Hero Abraham couldn't have been mlutuken. (lod didn't apeak an InitialInclly that it waa not iattain whether he called Harali, or Ablmelech, m aoinebody elan; hut with divine articulation, divine In tonatlon, divine erupltaala, he *ald 'AbrahamI' Abraham mailed blindly ahead to do hla dot), knowing that thing* would come out right Dike wlae do ao youraeha*. , Ther# I* a myatnry of your life There I* annie burden you have to carry, Yon don't know why (toil ha* put It on you There I* eome perkerutlun, *otne trial, and you don't know why Hod alluwa It Thera la a work fur you lo do, and you have not enough grace, you think, to do It Do aa Abraham did Advance, and du your wholu duty He willing lc glv* up laaatt, and perhap* you will not have to glva up anythin* "Jehovah Jireh I lei laird will pravld*." A cap Hal leaaon thla old mlnlaler give* o» Dut yonder. In thla hnnae, la an ageii wautan; the light nf heaven in her fan ah* la half way thiough th* door, aht ha* her band on the pearl of I he gate Mother, wlial would you gel out nf thl* •object? "Ok," aha a*y», '*1 would lean that II la In (he la»t pinch that Hot i leum»a to th* relief. You *e« the altai Waa ready, and leaac Waa faatened in and the knife waa lifted, and )u* *\ the l**t moment Uod brok* In am 1T ... in my life of aevenly year* Why, air, there wea a lima when the flour waa all out of the boner, and I art the table at noon and had nothing to put on It hut five minute* of one o'clock a loaf of bread came. The l>ord will pro*Ida M> son waa very sirk. and I said 'Hear lx>rd. you don't mean to takt him away from me. do you? Please, I/.#d, don't taka him aaay. Why, there are ueigh bor* who have three and four boss, thla la my only aon; thi* I* my Isaac la>rd, you won't taka him away from me. will you?' Hut I mw be waa get ting wor*e and wor*e all the time, and I turned round and prayed, until after awhile I felt aubmlaalve, and I could *«>: 'Thy will, O !»rd, be done? The doctors gave him up. And, aa waa tho ruatom In tho»e tlmea. wa bad made tha grave-clothes, and we were whispering about the last exercises when I looked, and I aaw oonie perspiration on hla brow, ahowlng that tha fever hud broken, and be *pok« to na ao naturally, that I knew that he waa going to get well. Ha did get well, and roy aon l*aac, whom f thought wa* going to lie alaln and conaumcd of dlaeaae, waa loos ened from ihnt altar,! And bleaa your souls, Unit’* been *u for »eventy year*; and If my volco wcr« not ao weak, and If t could aee better, f could preach to you younger people a sermon; for ihough I can't see much, I ran *«e thla; whenever you get Into a tough placa, and your heart I* breaking, If you will look a little farther Into the wood*, you will *ee, caught In the branehra, a substitute and a de||v«ranea, 'My aon, tlod will provide himself a lamb,'" Thank you, mother, for that short sermon, I could preach hack to yon for a minute or two and say, never do you fear, I wish I had half aa good hope of heaven aa you have. Do not fear, mother; whatever happens, no harm will ever happen to you I waa going up a long flight of stairs; and I aaw an »geo woman, very fleirepit, ann with a cane, creeping on up. Hhe ma<1« but very little progreaa, and I felt very exuberant; and I aald to her; "Why, mother, that la no way to ro up-atalra;" and 1 threw my arma around her and ( carried her up and put her down on the landing at the lop ut the atMlra, Hha aald: "Thank you, thank you; I am very thankful," « mother, when you get through thla life'* work «nd you want to go up-atalra and real In tho good place that Hod haa provided for you, you will not have to climb up - you will not have to crawl up painfully. Tho two arma that were atreiched on the croaa will he Hung around you, and you will he holated with a glorloua lift heyond all wearltmaa and all alruggle. May the Hod of Abraham and lauac be with you until you aee the latrnb on tba hlll-topa. Now, that aged mlnlaler hae made a euggeatlon, and thla agr-d woman baa made a enggcatlon, I will make a aug geetIon: laaac going up tho hill make* me think of the great aacrlflco, laaac, Die only eon of Abraham. Jeena, tho only Hun of Ood. On thoae two "cnlye" I build a tearful emphnele, O laaac' O Jeaua! Hut thla leal aacrlflco waa m moat tremendoua one. When the knife waa lifted over Calvary, there waa no voico that cried "Htop!" and no hand arreated It. Hharp, keen, and tremen doua. It cut down through nerve and artery until the blood aprayed the facea of the executlonera, and the mid-day nun dropped a veil of cloud over Ita face becaueo It could not endure tho apectaclo. 0 laaac, of Mount Moriah! O Jeaua, of Mount Calvary! Metier could Ood have thrown away Into an nihilation a thoueund world* than to have aacrlflced hie only Hon. It WMe not one of ten aona It waa hla only Hon. If ha had not given up h'm, you nod I would have perlahed. "Ood ao loved t»i« world that he gave hla only 1 atop there, not becuuaa 1 have forgotten the quotation, but bacauao : I want to think. “Hod ao loved tha world that he gave Ilia only b«u, Cor you. Cor me Cor me, Would (hat all the teara that we hate ever wept over our aorrowa had bean enved until thll morning, and that we might now pour * them out on the .iterated hack and feet and heart of the Mon of Ood, I "" i ft. M I'hwlp* ami lleury lltpileu of Ottawa, III , wet e klllail by attain neat 1 that place fhrlatoohar Dalton died In jail at Mavatla, fan., of euntumpiloa A liaptl»ii•( farming and stoi k raising Is the taking and reading uf our agrlcullural sml live stock Journals with h are print id ht Ihs thousand ami spread broad cast aval Ilia face of our whole country, anti at sin h reasonable prices thut al ! me d m ery farmer can afford In lake one or more The day la certainly not 1 far distant when our farmers will ml lake ami read the papers and petlmll 1 cals pertaining In their calling with as 1 lunch Intuesl aa the professional mail, merchant nr manutarlurer look* sf er on every clock farm will make a prolU* alile crop. A potato digger among several farm era facltltatoa the work of digging, and atortd nway In the hum and well pro (acted hy atrnw from the front, pro* vldea a good rellah for the atook, and a few wagon londa can ulwayn he aold In advantage In IHtM, 8,002,673 Imahela of potatoe* were Imported Into the United Ktataa, valued at f1,277.11**; while III the aanm year gull,(M2 buxhrlaof potato**, valued al 1688,2*3, were exported to varlooa connirle* from the I tilled Hint**, Our potato crop uf lam amounted to 170,7X7,833 tuna, valued at 881,626,7*7, grown upon 2,737.873 acre*, The aver Hge haa not largely Ini reaaed during the |iaal live year*, u* lu IXXX lliere were 2,631,2X0 acre*, whoae crop wax 202,868,1100 Imahela, valued at INI,till, 5*0 Iu IXX6 there wen 2,26fi.X23 acre*, which produced l76,U2li,iaa> lm*h>'l*, Wealeru Agl'IeiilturUt. Not Too Much Coin t'lilckcn* foil on an exclualvc corn diet will not make a natural lory devciopiiieni, particular ly of feather* The houaa of chlekotu fed on a wUrogettoug rnllim are 60 per rent al longer than thiine fed on a car' honaieoll* latino liru* fed Oil • orit while In guod health, ten nine MinggUli and lUpOXll Urge inaane* of fat In (hr Internal organ* The lt«*h of nltro geuoua-fed fowl* coutnlu* more altm mlnold* and It** flit than Vhoae fed on a mule i irluiiiMi eoiia ration, U dark*) i olioed, juicier and tcgdcrcl Thayer's H»rr» Malleila. Kor October, IMS. Winter prelection le en absolute Ree realty for growing •mall fruit* lOfMW fully In a northern climate. It should tie practiced In every locality »hne the temperature reache* *tro or below. With the high cultivation now prac ticed, a large and lender growth I* •timulated. hence the greater n»ce» •Ity to maintain a* uniform a temper ature a* po«*ible throughout the a In ter. Kvrn In localities where plants show no Injury, and among those considered moat hardy, the vitality la often af fected, and the succeeding crop very much reduced. The best winter protection for blai k berrles, raspberries and grape*, con* hIni* In laying them down and covering lightly with dirt. All old cane* and weak new growth Mhould Ire cut out and burned *0011 after fruiting, leaving only atrong vigorous plant*. If plant* have been well mulched In summer with green clover, dean strew or coarse manure, a* they should l><, le»* dirt I* required by ualng this mulching. In laying plants down, the row* rim ing north and south, commence «t ti.c north end, remove the dill from the north side of lh« hill about four Inches deep, gut her Hie branches In close form with a wide fork, raising It to ward the top of the bush and pies* gently to the north, at the «am« time placing the tool firmly on the ba>.< of the hill, and press bard toward the north. If the ground I* bard, or bushes old, a second man may use a potato forkw Instead of the foot. Inserting raiwJ deeply, close to south side of hill, arm ( preaa over alowl>, bonding the tiihh In i lie root until nearly flat, on the ground. The buah la then held down with a wide fork unill properly covered. Tin fop of aucceedlng bill ahould real near lhe baae of preceedlng hill, tbu* mak ing a conllnuoua covering. Thfa proceaa la an important one, hut la really acquired with a little prac tice. In the rprlng remove the dirt care fully, with a fork, and rlowly rah' the buah. With hardy varieties, and In mild winter*, auflicient protection may he had by laying down and covering the tlpa only, (Jrapea, being more flexible are laid down without removal of dirt near the vine, There la no more Important work on the fruit farm, or garden, than winter protection, and there la no work more generally neglected, lau It he done thoroughly, after froala have come, and before winter Bela In, Hirawherrlea grow rapidly In Octo ber, and make many weak planta, lie move all runner* atartlng tbla month, allowing four or live Inctiea aquaro apace for each plant. Tbla I* necea* vary for beat fruit. >1. A Thayer, Hparta, Wla. ttfhi* of Hlu t'it in Uruthif About the moat profit, aecured from abeep la by the aervlce they perform In eonaumlng planta that ure of no value. Home wceda are luxurb a to abe< p, arid are nipped off aa aoon na they appear above ground, Many of the poloonotia wee da are harmleae when young, e« peclttlly to boga and aheep, and aa abeep crop off the graaa when It la very abort they do not allow anything in tho ahapa of green food to he wanted, Vermont la credited with the lurgeet wool clip, per aheep, eaat of the Mlaala alppl river, which la aeven and one-half pounda, with other alaloa much lower. It la almoat aurprlalng that farmera I will depend upon wool for profit In tho I face of Mich light IIeecea. When they < #B do much better by filming to produce mutton end limib um apeclaltle* limlcnd of wool, The licet mutton breed* me capable of yielding fleece* much above the average. Massachnsatt* I'lough* man. Pruning frequently, One trouble In pruning I* that, In many eaaei, the work I* put off from time to time end then too much I* done at once, arid h considerable Injury to the tree la the reatilt, It would be much better In every way lo do a little at a time end do the wotk oftener, altortening back or cutting off a branch here and there wherever It aeeni* needful, The and moat Important pruning mu*t i4 given when the tree I* first transplant • ed. Then the top* must be cut back In proportion lo the roots and It Is at Oils lime that lbe general shape or form of the tree should tie decided. Ho far as the natural growth of the tree will per mit a spreading, open head that will admit air and sunshine all through the tree Is licet, In securing this another benefit Is derived, that is, the trunk of the tree I* shaded and this offers a good protection, and, to some extent at least, lessens Ilia liability to their be ing Infested with the borer, This pest largely depends upon the warm sun to hatch out ibelr eggs, and shielding the tree thoroughly will in a great meas ure avoid ihla, Journal of Agriculture. fire fiTuii FrlcflorT *A rather “’un usual occurrence took place ou the farm of A. A. Hartshorn, In Wool stock township on Tuesday afternoon. A crew of bunds were stacking bay by mean* of a patent stacker when the friction caused by the rapid passage of 1 m tops over a small pulley sot the bay J i on fire and III less than half a inlnuie ; It spread over tile entire slack. Home ! forty tons of tame hay, a granary j stuudlng near by, the bay ataukar and 1 about 100 bushels of lists wen, m ! slroyed In a very fMw mluules, There was lllile or no Insurance (‘lurton iluwai Monitor II |* (he opinion of most tiorilcnltur* tuts ihai lu mis old orchard Is mil the place lo S«I yonug trees owing lo the exhausted coltdllloh of the soil, |t l,< belief to start a new urohartl in a new • place,