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.
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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.
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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. ,
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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.
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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.
