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TALMAGES SERMON. “MANY ROOMS IN HEAVEN." SUNDAY’S SUBJECT. Prom John Chapter XIV, Vrrw 2, a. Follows:—“In My Father'. House Are Many Rooms"—A Untile of Meillelne That Is a Care-All. (Copyright 1899 by I»<j!s Klopsch.) Here Is a bottle of medicine that Is a cure-ail. The disciples were sad, and Christ offered heaven as an alterative, a stimulant and a tonic. He shows them that their sorrows are only a dark background of a bright picture of coming felicity. He lets them know that though now they live on the low lands, they shall yet have a house on the uplands. Nearly all ihe Ulble de scriptions of heaven may be figurative. 1 am not positive that in all heaven there is a literal crown or harp or pearly gate or throne or chariot. They may he only used to illustrate the glories of the place, but how well they do it! The favorite symbol by which the Dlhlo presents celestial happiness is a house, l’aul, who never owned a house, although he hired one for two years in Italy, speaks of heaven as a "house not made with hands," and Christ in our text, the translation of which Is a little changed, so as to give the more accurate meaning, says: "In my Father’s house are many rooms.” This divinely authorized comparison of heaven to a great homestead of large accommodations l propose to car ry out. lu some healthy neighbor hood a man builds a very commodious habitation. He must have room for all his children. The rooms come to be called after the different members of the family. That Is mother’s room; that Is George’s room; that Is Henry’s room; that is Flora's room; that Is Mary’s room, and the house Is all oc cupied. But time goes by, and the sons go out Into the world, and build their own homes; and the daughters are married, or have talents enough singly to go out and do a good work in the world. After a while the father and mother are almost alone In tho big house, and seated by the evening stand, they say: “Well, our family Is no larger now than when we started together forty years ago.’’ But time goes still further by, and some of the children are unfortunate, and return to the old homestead to live, and the grandchildren come with them, and perhaps great-grandchildren,and again the Hobse is full.* * , Millennia ago God built on the hills of heaven a great homestead for a family Innumerable, yet to be. At first he lived alone in that great house, but after awhile It was occupied by a very large family, cherubic, seraphic, an gelic. The eternities passed on, and many of the Inhabitants became way ward anil left, never to return, and many of the' apartments were vacated. I refer to the fallen angels. Now these apartments are filling up again. There are arrivals at the old home stead of God’s children every day, and the day will come when there will be no unoccupied room In all the bouse. As you and I expect to enter It and make there eternal residence, I thought you would like to get some more par ticulars about the many-roomed home stead. “In my Father’s house are many rooms." You see, the place is to be apportioned off Into apartments. We shall love all who are in heaven, but there are some very good people whom wc would not want to live with in the same room. They may be better than we are, but they are ef a divergent temperament. We would like to meet with them on the golden streets, and worship with them in the temple, and walk with them on the river banks, but I am glad to say that we shall live in different apartments. “In my Father’s house are many rooms.” You see, heaven will be so large that if one wants an entire room to himself or herself, it can be afforded. An ingenious statistician, taking the statement made in Revelation, twenty first chapter, that the heavenly Jeru salem was measured and found to be twelve thousand furlongs, and that the length and height and breadth of it are equal,says that would make heaven In size 948 scxtillion, 9SS quintillion cubic feet; and then reserving a cer tain portion for the court of heuven and the streets, uud estimating that the world may last a hundred thousand years, he ciphers out that there are over five trillion rooms, each room seventeen feet long, sixteen feet wide, fifteen feet high. Hut I have no faith In the accuracy of that calculation, lie 1 makes the rooms too small. From all 1 can read, the rooms will be palatial, and those who have not had enough room in this world will have plenty of loom at the last. The fact Is, that most people In tbla world are crowded, and though out on a vast prairie or lu a mountain district people may have j more room than they want, In must i cases It Is house built > lose to house, and the streets sre crowded, and the j c radle Is crowded by other cradles, and I the graves crowded in the cemetery by ! other graves, and one of the richest lusurtes of many people In getting on* of this world will be the gaining of unhindered and un> ramped room And I shou il not wonder if, ittute.oi of ih* room that the statistician ciphered out sc only seventeen feet by sixteen. It should he larger than any of the rooms at Heflin, (It James, or Winter Palace. | "In my Fathers house are many rooms, ** Carrying out still furthee the arm holism of the tv at, let via Join hands . and go op is this aMjsstls homestead and see It# ourselves As we attend . the golden step* an Invisible guards men swings open the front door, and we sis ushered to the right Into th» reception room of the eld homestead , Thai L tu |Sa g Vfigft *$ first MF l the welcome of heaven. There must be a place where the departed spirit enters and a place in which li con fronts the inhabitants celestial. The reception room of the newly arrived from this world-what scenes it must hate witnessed since the first guest arrived, the victim of the first fratri cide, pious Abel! In that room Christ lovingly greets all new-comers. He redeemed them, and he has the right to the first embrace on arrival. What a minute when the ascended spirit first sees the Lord! Better than all we ever read about him, or talked about him, or sang about him in all the churches and through all our earthly lifetimes, will It be, Just for one sec ond to see him. The most rapturous idea we ever had of him on sacramen tal days or at the height of some great revival, or under the uplifted baton of an oratorio are a bankruptcy of thought compared with the first flash of his appearance in that reception room. At that moment when you con front each other, Christ looking upon you, and you looking upou Christ,there will be an ecstatic thrill and surging of emotion that beggars all description. Look! They need no introduction. Long ago Christ chose that repentant sinner, and that repentant sinner chose Christ. Mightiest moment of an im mortal history—the first kiss of heav en! Jesus and the soul. The soul and Jesus. But now Into that reception room pour the glorified kinsfolk. Enough of earthly retention to let you know them, but without their wounds or their sickness or their troubles. See what heaven has done for them! So radiant, so gleeful, so transportingly lovely! They call you by name; they greet you with an ardor proportioned to the anguish of your parting and the length of your separation. Father! Mother! That is your child. Sisters! Brothers! Friends! I wish you Joy. For years apart, together again in the reception room of the old Homestead. You see, they will know you are com ing. There are so many immortals filling all the spaces between here and heaven that news like that flies like lightning. They will be there in an instant, though they were In some other world on errand from God, a sig nal would be thrown that would fetch them. Though you might at first feel dazed and overawed at their supernal splendor, all that feeling will be gone at their first touch of heavenly saluta tion, and we will say, '‘Oh, tny lost boy!” "fih, my lost companion?’ "Oh, my lost friend, are we here together?’ What scenes In that reception room of the old homestead have been wit nessed! There met Joseph and Jacob, finding it a brighter room than any thing they saw in Pharaoh's palace; David and the little child for whom he once fasted and wept; Mary and La zarus after the heartbreak of Bethany; Timothy and grandmother Lois; Isa bella Graham and her sailor son; Al ^ed and George Cookman, the mys tery or the sea at last made manifest; Luther and Magdalene, the daughter he bemoaned; John Howard and the prisoners whom he gospellzed; and multitudes without number who, once so weary and so sad, parted on earth but gloriously met in heaven. Among all the rooms of that house there is no one that more enraptures my soul than that reception room. "In my Father’s house are many rooms.” Another room in our Father’s house is the music room. St. John and other Bibie-writers talk so much about the music of heaven that there must be music there, perhaps not such as on earth was thrummed from trembling string or evoked by touch of ivory key, but if not that, then something better. There are so many Christian harpists and Christian composers and Christian organists and Christian choristers and Christian hymnologlsts that have gone up from earth, there must be for them some place of es pecial delectation. Shall we have music In this world of discords, and no music in the land of complete har mony? I cannot give you the notes of the first bar of the new song that 13 sung in heaven. I cannot imagine cither the solo or the doxology. But heaven means music, aud can mean nothing else. Occasionally that music has escaped the gate. Dr. Fuller, dy ing at Beaufort, M. C., suid; “Do you not hear?" “Hear what?" exclaimed the bystanders. "The music! Lift me up! Open the windows?" In that music room of our Father’s house, you will some day meet the old masters. Mozart und Handel aud Mendelssohn and Beethoven and Doddridge, whoso sacred poetry was as remarkable us his saend prose; and James Mont gomery, aud William Oowper, at last got rid of his spiritual melancholy; and Ulshop Heber, who sang of "Greenland’s icy mouiitaln* and In dia’s coral strand;" and Dr. Hallies, who wrote of ‘ High in yonder realms of light;" aud Isaac Watts, who went tu visit Mir Thomas Abney and wife 1 for a week, but proved himself so agreeable a guest that they made him slay thirty-six year*; and aide by side Augusta Toplady, who has got over his dislikes for Methodists, aud Charles Wesley, freed from hts dis like for t'ahiutmls. aud Oeoige W Uethiiuc, as sweet as a song maker as he was great as a preacher and the author of The Village llymas; and mauy who wrote In verse or song. In thureh or by eventide cradle; and many who wore |Ms**loaatrlp fond of music but eould make non* them selves Ike poor»*t singer there mure than any earthly prims donna, and the poor**! pla>*ts there nt<>re than any seiiMy lloitsrheik. on, that j tnasU room, the headquarter* of cn ' dears and rhythm, symphony and them, psalm and antiphon! Another room in our Father’s boas* • HI ts the family room, It may rot- | respund somawhat tank Iks family ! room on sarth At morning and awn ing you know, that la iba pises »• I !>■•* s-rv* f howgh e»*ty wewlise of j (ho household have a separate room, 1 In the family room they all gather, and Joys and sorrows and experience* of all *tyle8 arc there rehearsed. Sacred room In all our dwellings! whether It be luxurious with ottomans and divans, and books in Russian lids standing In mahogany case, or there be only a few plain chairs and a cradle. So the family room on high will be the place where the kins-folk ^ assemble and talk over the family ex periences of earth, the weddings the births, the burials, the festal days or Christmas and Thanksgiving reunion. Will the children departed remain children there? Will the aged remain aged there? Oh no; everything Is per fect there. The child will go ahead to glorified maturity, and the aged will go back to glorified maturity. The rising sun of the one will rise to meriuian, and the descending sun ot the other will return to meridian. However much wc love our children on earth we would consider it a domes tic disaster if they stayed children, and so we rejoice at their growth here. And when we meet In the family room of our Father's house, we will be glad that they have grandly and gloriously matured; while our parents, who were aged and Infirm here, we shall be glad to find restored to the most agile and vigorous Immortality there. If forty or forty-five or fifty years he the apex of physical and mental life on earth, then the heavenly childhood will ad vance to that, and the heavenly old age will retreat to that. When we Join them In that family room we shall have much to tell them. We shall want to know of them, right awRy, such things as these: Did you see us in this or that or the other struggle? Did you know when we lost our property, and sympathize with us? Did you know we had that awful sick ness? Were you hovering anywhere around us when we plunged into that memorable accident? Did you know of our backsliding? Did you know of that moral victory? \Vere you pleased when we started for heaven? Did you celebrate the hour of our conversion? And then, whether they know It or not, we will tell them all. But they will have more to tell us than we to tell them. Ten years on earth may be very eventful, but what must be the biography of ten years in heaven? They will have to tell us the story of coronations, story of news from all immensity, story of conquerors and hierarchs, story of wrecked or ran Ipjjied plants, sjory of angelic victory over diabolic 'revolts, o7 extinguished £una, of obliterated constellations, of new galaxies kindled and swung, of stranded comets, of worlds on Are, and story of Jehovah’s majestic reign. If in that family room of our Father’s house we have so much to tell them of what we have passed through since we parted, how much more thrilling and arousing that which they have to tell us of what they have passed through since we parted. Surely that family room will be one of the most favored rooms in all our Father’s house. What long lingering there, for we shall never again be in a hurry! ’Let me open a window,” said an humble Christian self up in a dark room, and refused of the death of her child, had shut her servant to Lady Rallies, who, because to see anyone. “You have been many days in this dark room. Are you not ashamed to grieve in this manner, when you ought to be thanking G<jc^ for having given you the most beau tiful child that ever was seen, and In stead of leaving him in this world till he should be worn with trouble, has not God taken him to heaven in all hia beauty! Leave off weeping, and let me open a window.” So today 1 ana trying to open upon the darkness of earthly separation the windows and doors and rooms of the heavenly homestead. “In my Father's house arc many rooms.” (Sun Fighting mr » Sclewcfl. "Gun fighting used to be no expert science in the West,” said a visitor from Texas, "and men became skilled in it. Just as they might In any of the handicrafts. The great point was to get ‘quick action,’ and the fellow who drew and fired first generally won the fight. That fact led to all sorts of schemes for pulling a gun with the least possible delay. One of the easiest was the 'shoulder holster,’ which con sisted of a strap suspending the pistol just over the left breast. Carrying a derringer In the pocket of a sack coat and firing through the cloth without drawing was a trick that cost many a man his life. At lust it became diffi cult for a man with his hands in his coat pocket to get near enough to a victim to make sure of hitting him, und a frontier genius Invented a variation. : He simply cut the right pocket out of an alpaca coat and carried his gun In a holster at his hip. Another trick was to carry the pistol up the *le» -e. j with the eud of the barrel resting I against the half bent palm.”- New Or- j leans Times Itemocrat. -- -... — Huintir n»:» Tress Ghostly forms of antique cowboys are said to !»■ seen dangling on moon- i light nights from th« lower branches of the great white oak known s.ncn revolutionary limes ns the ‘Cowboy Tree," which stands behind Tibbelt'a Hill in Spuyttn iHryvll Certain It is that the lower bram he* upon which many a marauding cow troy wraa hanged : during tbs revolutionary war ar« all dead, aa If to pro** the old belief that limb* upon which rriminala were *»#■ ruled always died, tttorm beaten and weather worn ita twisted linm h>«, Jagged roots and thuk harh tell uf • enturtes of storm and struggle, and attest Ita accredited age. Mo years - ' New York Tribune Ik* ur!|i»»l ownl iraftaUtatf a^utha nary to ifea UiU* la Uy a«<w« lutkarttiH to k* bitur liaatltiN by . yaifaatat. SCIENTIFIC TOPICS. CURRENT NOTES OF DISCOVERY AND INVENTION. Fountain Window llruvh — KvvrnllUr Eetter-Micct nuil Coin Carrier—Metal* Made 1'llaltle liy Taurlc Acid—I* tlie J’aclllc Mope Drying Up? Metal* Made I’llalile by Taurlc Acid. Another discovery Is announced that bids fair to give as important results in the world of gcience as any that has been made >a many years. It Is the result of experiments carried on by Theodore Olau, a Swedish chemist at Washington, and like many others It was found by the merest accident. Mr. Olan's discovery consists in “finding a new element which will soften steel, gold, silver, und many other metals, making them soft, pliable, and duc tile as a piece of putty, and quite as easily and safely handled, lie has nannd the new chemical agent taurlc acid, because it Is obtained from taurlc moss, a peculiar lichen, or fungus, which grows upon rocks and the roots of trees very generally In the rountry, hut It has never before been the sub ject of chemical investigation. The new acid has been tested by many em inent chemists In the country, who pronounced Mr. Olan's discovery to be one of the wonders of the world of chemistry, and It is believed that It has a great und important future be fore It In the arts und sciences. Jt is remarkable that the discoverer has given It gratuitously to the world when he might have acquired a fortune from Its sale. The process of making the arid Is very simple and expensive. Mr. Olan describes It as follows: "My plan for bringing out the acid from the taurlc acid is to put In a deep ves sel a layer of chloride of lime, then a layer of taurlc moss to the depth of two inches, and then a layer of chloride of potash of about the same thickness. This is saturated with water until the lime is slaked away. After the fire has gone out of the lime the liquid is drawn off. After this, ereoslte of tar Is added until a saturate solution re sults. The solution Is precipitated with a solution of sulphuric acid, one part in ten. After precipitation the su pernatent liquid Is decanted, and the residue Is found to consist of pure taurlc acid. Chicago Record. < -- ■ Evolution of Indian Corn. A surprising history Is presented In Bulletin No. 57 of the department of agriculture, of one of America's great est contributions to the food supply of the world, Indian corn. Under the effect of cultivation, the recognized varieties have increased from the few known by the early explorers to more than 500. The variations in size are interesting, especially as regards the height of the stalk. This runs from a foot and a half for some kinds of pop corn to 22 feet for a Tennessee variety, and 30 feet or more for varieties grown In the West Indies. Dr. Sturtevant. the author of the bulletin, describes one group In which "each kernel is surrounded by a husk, and the ear thus formed is Itself enveloped In husks.” Some classes of pop-corn have ears only one inch long, while the ears of common corn sometimes attain a length of 10 Inches. , _1 »'i ■* Fountain Window l(ru«ti. An ideal brush for washing windows and such purposes is one which has a flow of water through it. The fountain window brush shown herewith is the patent of an inventor of Still water, Minn., the feature of which i3 that the handle, being in two parts, is made to act as a pump to force the water to the brush, where it is deliv ered in such quantities and at such times as desired by the operator, its action being entirely under control. In this case the source of supply is a bucket, tub or any similar receptacle, but where it is convenient to make a connection under pressure, the piston can be fastened in an open position to permit the flow of water. Another feature of this patent is the soap cup on the handle. If soapy water is want ed It Is only necessary to press a spring and the water is caused to pass through 'fa in xo«i» holder, while *1 other itaee dear water U Mpirlled. A I ••••■ MmM. Major Jaw*. M ingalia a )><>>• au ikorltjr In ik* acient** of halt talk* l« r»» '<*tnr*i| in Karup* aa veil a* in tki* tounirp, r*U>*tale< ikal Ik* »alr*n»* rant" of tk* nan Ik ln*h gun, noar nearing e.»wpi*<lon nl ik* YYatartUel art*nal. aag nfctck l* lu fc* m#.l in d* f*mt»ng Near York harbor mill fee *)■ won* lanlr ear nail** Al It* maxi wan* *l*««llon ik* *fcut, naigking 1 il * ponaga, mil b* M.ftlk foal a but* iu • •an ng point, m tkat It votthl . i**r Ik* aawwil of Moat Kteraal, mtfc more than 1,500 feet to spare, even if that giant peak stood n the shore of the sea. The longest shot hitherto made was with a Krupp cannon, which 6ent its projectile 12% miles, the greatest height attained by It being 21, 456 feet. Kr*fr»ll>l« I.rttrr-Sh«wl anil Coin Carrier An exceedingly handy affair for storekeepers and other trades people who resort to the use of circulars and other mail matter for the purpose of announcing their wares Is the combi nation envelope, letter sheet and coin carrier, which was patented last week by a western man. This Inventor has striven to present in a very convenient form the means of making a business announcement and at the same time af ford the recipient of the circular the ready facilities of not only answering it, but of inclosing money for the pur pose of enabling him to readily take prompt advantage of any proposition offered by the sender without the trou ble and delay Incident to procuring sta tionery and accessories for transmu ting small sums of money. The letter, after It has been opened, has only to be reversed and the message or order written in the space provided, and In doing this the coin-carrying feature Is revealed. Different spaces are cut In a piece of stiff cardboard. A New Call-Fare Meter. A fare-meter that claims to possess several improvements upon the tax meter, has been recently Introduced. The apparatus has two dials which are Inside tlie vehicle, one of which shows the distance run In miles and yards, and the other the time which has elapsed since the hiring of the cab, both starting from zero when the hirer enters the vehicle. In addition, there are secret registers by which the proprietor can tell tlie exact dis tance run by the cab during the day, so as to check the driver's accounts. The connection between the wheels and the mechanism Is by a steel wire which receives a "to-and-fro” motion from a cab on the hub, and works a rachet wnetl In the fare-meter. Cliiingrii of Climate. Prof. Arrhenius, who has recently investigated the causes of secular vari ations in the temperature at the earth's surface, thinks that they are more probably due to changes In the amount of carbonic acid in the atmos phere than to variations in the heat of the sun. If the amount of carbonic acid that the air now contains were diminished a little more than one-half, the mean temperature all over the earth would drop about eight degrees, which would be sufficient to bring on another glacial period. On the other hand, an lncreuse of carbonic acid to between two and three times Its pres ent amount would raise the mean tem perature 15 degrees, and renew the hot times of the Eocene epoch. Gold III III* Philippines. It is said that there is not a stream rising in the mountains of Luzon — and the same is true of other islands of the Philippine group—which has not its goiu bearing sands. The allu vial deposits of the precious metal have been garnered for many years, hot no thorough explanation for gold at Us sources in the mountains has ever been made, because the Spaniards were unable to conquer the tribes in habiting the interior regions. Some of these tribes are said to look upon the digging up of the earth as a sac rilege, and they will not seek gold in that way. nor permit others to do It, lest the wratn of the gods should grow hot against them. In th* I’hcMIc Slope* Drying lTp? Two writers in the National Geo graphic Magazine, Messrs. (Jarre*, and l.elberg, offer evidence that there is a progressive drying of the climate on the Pacific coast. At no very remote period some of the arid plains of east ern Oregon were evidently covered with forests of trees resembling ex isting species nearer the coast. Mr. Garrett thinks that with the clearing away of I lie present forests, the end of the redwood ns a source of lumber will he at hand, because existing con ditions do not fivor Its growth. Itecrnt I it *en 1 Inns. A handy device for cleaning lamp l chimii*ya is formed of four wires i twisted together at one end, with a sliding ring attached to a rod leading | to the handle, to be pushed down over | the wiies and causes them to grip a | (.ponge or other material for cleaning ! the chimney, To prevent the tegs of furniture from tearing the carpet, a pad ha* been designed, ronsistlng of a spindle to be inserted in the end of the leg. with a < beaded portiun formed at the lower I ra<i. the latter being covered by n t «p | of leather or robber. t'oiumert lai traveler* will appreciate | a near tempi* taw designed for their li- r tiavilig evlenclb e frame* set ,c*i J, th* i a** to ope a ta oppoait* directions, t»id*a being carried by th* frame* to support a aeries of traye, which ar range the<n*ulv** in *t*p* when th* i sn Is opened. To a«*i»t In laying out road bed* • v*niy a wealerner ha* patented a M line marker which raa be attached la one sido of a band * ar to cut th* • >d paraSini to the rati, the cutter ion siding af n abarp whaai set at the end of a bar, to be d*preened by n btsi *w th* car. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. LESSON IX. NOV. 26 PROVERBS 73: 29-35. (■olden Text “Wine lx a Murker, Strunk Ilrink lx Maglug; uml VYtiunoever In I remixed Thereby lx Xot Wlxe”— Trov. -to: I. 2!>. "Who hath woe? who hath sor row?' The words corresponding to the two substantives are, strictly speaking, Interjections, as in the margin, Who hath Oh? who hath Alas? The woes are too great and too many to name separately. They are woes of hudy and woes of mind; woes lit one s self, woes In his family; pains, dlstases, poverty. A man nick on account of Ids sins suffers very different ly from one sli k In the providence of Ood. A prison, a cross, may he a glory, or ll may In u shame. ‘ Who hath con tentions?" may mean the conflict be tween desire and conscience; more prob ably, quarrels and bickerings. "Quarrel some when In his cups" Is an old saying, ll excites tongue and brain; and "when wine Is In, wll Is out," and every evil word is spoken that stirs up bad f i ling In others. "Who hath babbling?" Fool ish talking, vile conversation, noisy deni < list rations, revelation of secrets. Ills tongue Is "ret on lire of hell,” The It. V. translates. Who hath complaining? "The word Is now commonly regarded as mean ing ‘sorrowful complaint; for example, over the exhausted purse, the neglected work, the anticipated reproaches, the di minishing strength.' Delltxsch. Noth ing goes right with the drinker. lie com plains of God. he complains of society, lie complains of Ills family, of Ills cir cumstances, of everything. Nothing can be right to one who Is so wrong. “Who hath woundH without cause?" Wounds received in causeless or wholly unprofit able disputes, wounds and snipes such'as come of the brawls of drunken men. l-ange. "Without cause." lipon very slight provocation, which men Inflamed with wine are very apt to take.—Pool. The thought may go much farther than this. Drinking men are especially ex pos, ll (o accidents and diseases which temperance would have prevented. "Who hath redness of eyes?.flic word does not refer to the reddening, but the dim ming of the eyes, and the power of vis ion."— Delltstsch. The copper nose Is an other of the signs of the slave of strong drink, who “makes Ills nose blush for the sins of his mouth." 20. "They that tarry long at the wine." *n>e tendency of strong drink to continue drinking, to sp< lid hours, often the whole night, tn carousals. "They that go to seek mixed wine.” They go to the wins house, the place of revelry. Heptuaglni, those who hunt out where carousals am taking place. "Mixed wine undoubted ly here signifies spiced, drugged, medicat ed wine, the Intoxicating power of which <s Increased by the Infusion of drugs and spti'es."— Muenscher. 8m It men “drink the cup of a costly death.” Tennyson. 31. "Look not thou upon the wine.” Do not put yourself In the way of tempta tion. lie who goes freely Into tempta *1 Ion is already more than half fallen. “When It Is red." Red wines wire most esteemed tn the East. The wine of Lebanon Is said to be of a r) ’ll golden folor, like Malaga. "When It giveth Its color.” Literally, lls eye, the clear brightness, or the beaded bubbles on which l bo wlne-drlnker looks with com placency.— Rlumptre. "In the cup." Sparkles or bubbles when poured out or Shaken; “carries a head," which Is re garded to be an Indication of the strength and ipiultty of the liquor. Home wines are celebrated for their brilliant appear ance -W. Hunter. "When It moveth It self aright." Hitler us In It. V., when It gocth down smoothly. This does not re fer to the sparkling of the wine; tint rather It “describes the pellucid stream (lowing pleasantly from the wine-skin or Jug Into the goblet or the throat."— 1’lumptre. 32. “At the last tt bltcth like a ser pent." Like u serpent It will be brilliant of color, and glide with easy motion; and like a serpent It will bite. "Adder." The second word, "adder,” Is the more spe cific, and Is said to he the Cerastes, or ■horned snake, the first more generic.— Cook. The Cerastes Is exceedingly ve nomous. It lurks In the. sand, colled up perhaps In u camel's footprint, ready to dart ut any passing animal. The Set petit and the Adder. The East Is woefully cursed with poisonous lep tlles of all kinds. The special point to he observed lit the present Instance, how ever, Is that the comparison of wine to to the serpent begins Itt the thirty-first versa rattier than tn the thirty second. This may be seen belter In the follow ing rendering of the two verses: "Look not on the wine when It redd, neth, when It showeth its e>e In the cup glldeth t moot lily. After that, it bltcth like the serpent and stlngeth like the hissing ser pent.”—8. H. Times. "Hal see where the blazing grog-shop np pcS't», * As the red waves of wretchedness swell, How tt burns on the edge of tempestuous years. The horrible LHJUTIIOl.’SE OK HELL.” —McDonald Clarke. "At the first it is the wine of pleas ant fellowship; at the last it is the ‘wlno of the wrath of Almighty Mod, poured out without mixture.' Al the first It la the agrreublt excitement of an evening, at the last It Is the long-drawn agony of an endless perdition. At the tlrst It is the grateful stimulus of an hour; at the last It Is The worm that never dies, and the hie that never shut) be ipuiuii cd.' Tut k A I lousier genlu.t has Invented a rap for the neck t»f bottles containing poism The tap bristles with needles, which, even In the darkest night, will give the eart h ss a sultti lent plain warning that (In bottle holds poison We should I k > lt> arm In such porcupine fashion <-v« • v fail tie of strong drink Christian tin tivavor World. Wave < loud*. The atmospheric ocean surround ing the earth ts fregveully distorted Py gtgatitii warn. which are Invisible except Wash they tsrrjr parts of tbs air. t haiged with moisture, up into » iolder atmospheric stratum where sud den t ondcnasituu octurs. In this man uer long, parallel lines of clouds smut - Units make their appearance at u great height, marking the crests of u tipple if air *av*s, runulng miles above our heads. THK I kMININh OUnt.MVfcft. The Ih s> • ledllrd the eieve.v t are often the retciil at sec dent. the uo> i|uilii I* genera.!) heltetmt tu Is the originator of the cradle so ig No man eeer yet m ud«d hie own lig p *• who d. in t get Into trouble Memory la like death It soften* fault* and maun A** virtue*, says in* I'hlUd# phis limes fhe reason some ne« imagine the bad la tun short fur them is bavauaa they etav tv it Ion long.
