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r oubee.0. ~~. Pees even --vwVwy be wall ~ ewe rVwuvuwvevevvVvGeGT? ) A Sede foe Ay J fotos fm bee fo Po" eS Rev. Dr. Talmage Draws Practical Lessons From His Own Observation--Unlike the Democratic Principle of the Gospel of Christ. yy PIII FIT yee Washington, March 26.--In_ dis- ceurse Dr. Talmage, who has lived the most ef his 'life in cities, draws prac- tical lessons from his own observa- tfon. . Text, Proverbs i., 20% "Wisdom crieth without. She uttereth her voice im the streets. We are«all sigity to listen voices of nature--the voices of the mountain, the voices of the sea, the Veices of the storm, the voices of the tstar.* As in some of the cathedrals of urepe there is an organ at either end of the building, and the one instru- Tacnt responds musically to the other, s0 in the great cathedral of nature day responds to day, and night to might, and flower to flower, and star to wv to the Star_in the great-harmonies of the uni- | The springtime is an evangelist verse, in blossoms preaching of God's love, and the winter is a prophet--white bearded--denouncing woe against our sins, voices of nature. But how few of learn anything from the voices of the noisy and dustry street. your mechanism, and to and to your merchandise, come back again--and often. with how different a heart you pass through Are there no things for from these pavements over which we pass? Are there no tufts of truth growing up between cebblestones, beaten with the teil and pain and pleasure, tread of old i and the quick step ef childhood? ANS; ' harvests to be ped im the sickle because Tipe. "Wisdom crieth without. uttereth her voice in the streets.' Ta the first. place-the street impresses sxe the c ity. shuffling We are all ready to listen to the} us | meet on the street, The glittering coach wheel clashes against the scav- enger's cart. e robes run against the peddler's pack. Robust health meets wan = sickness. Honesty -- confronts fraud. Every class of people meets every other class. Impudence and mod- t pride and humility, purity and beastliness, frankness and hypocrisy, meeting on the same block, in the same street, in the same city. Oh, that is what Solomon meant when he said: "The rich and the poor met together. The Lord is the Maker of them all." I like this democratic principle of the gospel of Jesus Christ which recog- nises the fact that we stand before God on one and the same platform. Do not take on any airs, whatever position you have gained in society; you are nothing but man, born of the same par- ent, regenerated by the same Spirit, cleansed in the same blood, to lie down in the same dust, to get up in the same resurrection. It is high time that we all acknowledge not only the Father- j hood of God, but the brotherhood of man Again, the street Impresses me with , the fact that it is a very hard thing for | a-man to keep his heart right and get j to heaven, Infinite temptations spring | upon us from these places of public concourse, Amid _ 80 much affluence, how much t to and to be higcuireenten with our humble lot! Amid so many opportunities for overreaching, what temptation tortion! Amid so much display, temptation to vanity! Amid so many saloons of strong drink, what allure- ment to dissipation! In the maelstroms and hell gates of the street, how*many make quick and eternal shipwreck! If a man-of-war comes back from a bat- tle and is towed into the navy yard, we go. down to look at the splintered spars and count the bullet holies an look with patriotic admiration on thé flag that need victory from the h. of traffickers. Once in aman going along with and with leisurely step, as theugh he had nothing to do,. but, x as you find men streets 'on the w ay to J in their faces, as though they had some errand which must be executed at the first wessible moment. rou are jostled. by those who have bargains to make and Up this ladder with a 'Ss, out of this bank with a , on this dray with a load -Of geods, digging a cellar, or shingling 2 roof, or shoeing a horse, or building t wall, or mending a watch, mills drum it and the §tedm whi stlées @fe it. All this is not "because men Teve toil. Someone remarked, "Every yean . as lazy as he can afford to be." t is because necessity, with stern and uplifted whip. stands over 1enever you relax your your shoulders ©an it be that passing up and down these streets on your way to work and Husiness you do not learn anything of the world's toil and anxiety and strug- gle? drooping hearts, watch, how many miles traveled, Vv many burd- ems carried, how many losses suffered, hew many battles fought, how many victeries gained, how many defeats exasperations: en- . What hunger, what what dis- y, what despair! Some- dene I have stopped at the corner of the street as the multitudes we - hith- er and yon, and it has seemed to be a = pauhorstnie, and as I looked upon heart broke. This great tide of human life that goes down the street is a rapid tossed and turned aside and decked" ahead and driven back--beau- t#fu} im its confusion.and confused in w ith a tempest, is place to study God, but in the is tl Geing down to cur place of business et coming home again I charge you to Teok about--see the signs of poverty, of alee i of hunger, of sin, of you go through the streets and 'come back through the Streets, gather up in the arms of your prayer all the sorrow, all the Jossés, all the sufferings, all the bereavements of those whom you pass and present them im prayer before an'all sympathetic Ged. In the great day of eternity there wiht be thousands of persons with whom you in this world never exchanged one werd who will rise and call you b be a thousand tin sers pointed at you in, heaven, say- imc. "That is the man, tHat is the wo- mean, who helped me when I was hun- gry and sick and wandering and lost and heartbroken. is the man, that is the woman."" And the blessing down upon i Shris if lid it to these aap waifs of he stre note, ye dfd it to in. the street impresses me with tie fact that all classes and conditions y must commingle. We some- tffmes culture a wicked exclusiveness. YmteNect despises ignorance. Refine- ment will have nothing to do with boor: ishmess. Gloves hate the sunburned hard. and 'the high forehead despises the flat head, and the trim hedgerow wil have nothing to do with the wild copse , and Athens hates Nazareth. This ought not so to be. The astrono- wrer must come down from his starry wevelry and help us in our navigation. sting | t that man is more of a wurlonite who has gone through thirty years of the sharpshooting of business life and yet sails on; victor over the temptations of the street. Oh, how many have gone down under the pres- Sure, leaving not so much as the patch of canvas to tell where they perished! They never had any peace. Their dis- honesties kept tolling in their ears. If had an ax and could split open the beams of that fine h In his very best wine there is a smack of poor man's sweat. Oh, is it strange that when a man has de- voured widows' houses, he is disturbed with indigestion? All the forces nature are against -him. The floods are ready to drown him. and , guake to swallow Aim an consume him and the Rehtniies smite him. But the children of Go are on every street, and in the day when the crowns of heaven are distri- buted some of the brightest of them will be given to those men who were faithful to God and faithful to the souls of others arhid the marts of busi- ness, proving themselves the heroes of the street. Mighty were their tempta- tions, mighty was their deliverance and mighty shall be their triumph. Again, the street impresses me with the fact that life is and sham. What. subterfuge, double dex uling, what two facedness! Do all people who wish you good moening really hope for you a happy day? who shake hands ove Are all 16se anxious abonst your health who inquire concern- ing it? want to see you who ask you to call? Does all the world know half us much as it pretends to know? Is there not many a wretched stock of goods with a brilliant show window? 'assing~ up and down the streets to your business and your work, are you ee with the fact that so- ; hollow and that there are sub- terfyges and pretensions? Oh, how many there are who swagger and strut and how few people who are natural and walk! While fops simper and fools chuckle and simpletons giggle, how few people are natural and The courtesan and libertine go down the street in beautiful apparel, while with- in the heart there are volcanoes of pas- sion consuming their life away. I say these things not ta°create in you in- credulity or misanthropy, nor do I for- wet there are thousands of people a great deal better than they seem, but I do not think any man is prepared for the conflict of this life until he knows this particular peril. Ehud comes pre- tending to pay his tax to King Eglon, and while he stands in front of the king stabs him through with a dagger until the haft went in after the blade. Judas Iscariot kissed Christ. , the street impresses that it is a grea t fleld for Chris tian charity. There are hunger and suffering and want anh wretched- ness-in the country, but these. evils chistiy congregate in our great cities. On every street crime prowls and drunkenness staggers and shame winks and pauperism thrusts out its hand asking for alms. Here want is most squalid and hunger is most lean. A Christian man going along a street if~} lad, of es me with i the question twice you read and write?" and boy answered with a tear '@plashing on the back of his hand. He said in defi- nce: "No, sir; I can't read nor write neither. God, sir, don't want me to read and write. Didn't he take away my father so long ago I never remem- ber to have seen him, and haven't I had to go along the streets to get semething to fetch home to eat for the folks, and didn't.I, as soon as I | could carry a basket, have to go out and pick up einders and never have no schooling, sir? -God don't want me read, sir. can't read nor write neither." Oh, these poor wanderers! y have no chance. *Born in degra- as they get up from their hands and knees to walk, they take their first ae on the road to despair. Lord Jesus Christ to rescu em. us ministers not be afrald of solling # our black clothes while we go down nm that mission. ile we ae aus an elaborate knot oo our while we are in the study sentine off pei period Picnic we might be avi eath, and oalrehinad risti are not willing to go forth Souter then give of your means, and if you are too lazy to go and if you are too stingy to heip, then get out of the way and hide yourself in the dens caves of the earth, trample you into the mire. Beware lest the thousands of the destitute of yore city, in the last great day, rise u nd curse your stupidity and your naslect. Down to work! Lift them | One cold winter's day, as a Chris- tlan man was going along the battery in New York, he saw a little girl seat- ed at the gate, shivering in the cold. He said to her, ' , child, sit there for this cold ? "Oh," she replied, "I am waiting--I am paling for somebody to come and tak are of me." "Why." said the aan: "what makes you think anybody will come and take care of 5 cad "Oh," she said, "my mother died last was crying very said on't cry, dear. am gone and your father is e Lord will send somebody to ie care of you." My mother never sa He. She said someone would come and take care waiting for them to come.' they are waiting for you. have money, men who have influence, men of churches, men of great hearts, | gather them in, gather them in. It is i not' the will of your Heavenly Father one of these little ones should Lastly, the street impresses m I the fact that all the people ar ; forward. I see expectancy almost every face I meet. find a thousand people straight on, you only find stooping and: looking back. is, God made us all iook ahead, be- ause we are immortal. In this*tramp oF the multitude on the streets I hear the tramp of a great host marching and marching for eternity. the office, the store, the sho street, there is a world, populous : tremendous, Through God's grace, may you reach that blessed place. A Cat throng fills those boulevards, and the streets are a-rush with the chariots of conquerors. The inhabit- ants go up and down, but they never weep and they never toil. river flows through that city, with rounded and luxurious banks, and the trees of Nfe, laden with everlasting fruitage, bend their branches into the crystal. No plumed hearse rattles over the pavements, for they are never sick. With immortal health glowing in évery vein, they know not "how to die. Those towers of strength, those pal- aces of beauty, gleam in the light of a Sun that never sets beautiful heaven! Heaven, friends are! They take : that city, for it is inhabited multitude which no man can number.' Rank above rank. Host above host. Gallery above gallery around .the heavens thousands, millions of millions. . ME! who enter in through the se + Oh, ough tke great. skGtifice of the-Son of God "take up your march to heaven. "The spirit and 'the bride say, Come, and whoso- ever will let him come and take Water @f life freely." Join this throng marching heavenward. doors of invitation are open. Saw twelve gates, and the tw Were twelve ,.pearls." with fookinise Suritten on Rom She Didn't Call Out, A lady from the country was suing her ex-sweetheart for breach of rromise, and yers ; as usual, making all sorts of inquisitive inquiries. "You say,"' remarked one, 'that the war = hong sat very close to you?" Yes, sir," was the reply, with a ws Bal o "Close enough so's, ond chair was all the settin' room we needed. "And you say he put around you ?" "No, didn't." | Ri, "What did you_say, then ? 'YT said he put both 1 2nms. iii me,' "Then what? "He hugged me. "Very ha "Yes, he ata # 8G aa art I come purty near holgrin' Sa "Why didn'ttyou, bate te: his' arm explicit, ©'d stop." Fbench,. and "get under the resuscita- e court fell 6 had to be sane pump for thie tation.- "Golds on al im Liguter 'Moods. "Queer eaboat Carns wedding with that plumber ?" Aebat w welgaucer r?? "Why he came te get marr at the very day and hour tie said he would." Househuntér--How about the peo- ple in the flat above--have they any children ? Agent--Mercy, nos The general secretary of the Mothers' Mutual Experience Association lives there. , "I told ler my soul was wWrilppéd 'Ww me to be more care- ful or I'd be making love to her be- fore He--Gire me one kiss that I may cherish it forever. - She--ts. that all you car say in proof of ,your Jove F--that if I you, you won't give it away? "The Judge changed his mind and de- clared her insane." "Any new evi- dence "Yes; it was proved that the aon which she had on was three years behind the styles." "Did you hear why the Smiths quarrelled?" 'I understand Smith insisted that the cost of their sit- ting in church should come out of Mrs. Smith's allowance fer clothes." Husband--What! hun- dred dollar gown? ] you that you must-keep within your allowance? Wife (triumphantly) -- You said uniess in case of nbsolute necessity ! : ane, Another and | lest when Christ's | chariot comes along the thorses' hoofs Me at did she say? aaa i SUNDAY SCHOOL Seaman INTERNATION aE LESSON APRIL 2, lsuy. no. L The Raising of Lazarus.--John 11: 32 A. D. 2 45. Tinhe,--vauuary, ow, Place.-- Bethany. Persous.--J esus. Lazarus. The Jews. Lommentary, -- Counect.ng | (Read Litrouuetiou,) between parable of the Good Shepherd hone raising of Lazurus, 2 perio Martha. three mouitiis, we must place the hhise oki 17; X.3 ineludiug some tr tary of Mavt. xi, 20-80 aud xix ' Luke ix. the nuracles, and D [ Jesus. Lazarus' home was in Bethany, on the Mount or Olives, uear Jerusa.em. Jesus waited two uays ufter rece: ving the news of the da.gerous lliness o1 Lazarus before sturvlug to Bethany. Lazarus weuns God is his help We kuow nothing of his history aside this narrative. When Mary was come--Martha heard that Jesus wus coming, without notifying Mary, slie went to meet Jesus just ontside the village. She greeted Him with those words of sorrowful despair--Lord, if thou hadst deni here my brother had not died." But even then tiiere was a dawn of hope In her heart, [rom her experience of the power of Jesus. Jesus replied with the assurance that He was "the resurrection and the life," aud prepared her for the great | work He was about to do. When Jesus therefore caw her weeping--"The tears of devout affec- tion, have a loud,-prevailing volce in the ears of Christ." He groaned in the splrit--Moved with inciguation. The word trauslatel "groied" occurs five times in the N. T. Jesus wept--Here Jesus shows hunself to be a trul man; and a man, too, who, notwith- standing His amazing dignity and ex- cellence, did not feel it beneath Him to sympath.ze with the distressed atid to weep with those who wept. Alter this example of our Lord shall we say that it is weakness, folly and sin to weep for the loss of reintives? --Dr. A. Clarke. Jesus wept, 1. Out of sympathy with the affliction fi rier 2. To gi an eternal proof ae 'He can feel with us and for us.--Ryle. 3. The needs of the whole world rose up before His eyes; all its mourners and all its graves were present to Him.--Trench. 4. He corrowed that they should think it better for Lazarus to live again here. --Gray With these feelings there mingled the certainty of His own bit- ter death, the peeare of the unbe- lieving Jews, a fallen race, hasten ing on to a death which has no end, and all that first moved Him to pity min, and come down to save him. ~Ha we the sarin pt "e ow, 36. How He loved bim--A ROBYN: eous testimony from those .« tenderness of the Son Could not this man--The of the blind man was referred to because it was of recent occur- rence, and in the mnmediate neigh- borhood, while the two previous mir- aces of raising the dead (Luke vi -17; viii, 41-56, were performer distant Galilee, about one year a0 a half before. 3. Again groauning--Because of tite unbelief! of the Jews. We never find Him in as much grief over ow sufferings as over the sins mem Cometh to the gra as became = thes ot Ja id indie cemetery, win private tomb in'a ome --pro Eat a gar- den, oe favémite placé of interment. » Take ye away the 1e--That n hands sming to u i £ said to her when she met Him, Martha now thinks only of the condition of her Bro- I 1 jects. If thon wouldst beliévé, ete.-- Great things come throug! faith. Hold on to this and blessed vision are sure Jo come. If faith holds Him as the surrection and the Life, then why bt when He is near? Then they took away the stone a's faith apr have ra! > wave way to Jesus' ecient lad accomplished all in their 'when, the Stone was removed. gan His part. Jesus lifted An outward expression of of His mind, and to shaw Stecd by from whence He power. He lifted up His Bing beyond the grave and wr the difficulties that arose A. Com. J 'up His es the eley. , F mst sent me--Not to de- lives, but to save them. waniow that God sent him. Meath open and swallow men up. Nam. xvi. 29, 30. For the law was mn dispensation of terror. But Christ nroves His mision by raising toiife one that was dead.--Com. Com. 43. Loud voice--He did not whisper nor muttér as dd the ningicians.-- 8, It was the type of that ae » the sour 1d of many waters (Rev. that the same individual per- "Ged shall rise ngain at the . Com. him--Christ nr to do to recall them ream tholk speechless, dazed astonishment to ath too great and dangerous revulsion of feeling.--A bbott. Man roils rae the stone. God gives life. Man removed the bandages. Man placed the stone. Man puts on the bandages. In the quickening of dead sonls mueh of man's work is undoing oa man has previously done.--Sandha 45. Many. believed--Their visit to the bereaved sisters the means of their conversion. miracle was convincing. Teachings.--We should carry all our ief to Jesus. We should make our petitions to Him. We Pee in Him for all things. To be Chr we must show pica te and gives them "frlaniity became This lieve like sym- Mury. | | Ite stands by itself, yj of Mines, has practically pathy for the sorrowing. We should beeen thd journey, weep, pray, groan y aloud for souls whom we may a "We should remember in pra to call God Father, and to draw to Him witi: humble reverence. our prayers we and as we ask f thanks for former Each ne' ayes -- Should strengthen our faith n God PRACTICAL SURVEY. The journey from Perea (Bethabara) to Betiiany is estimated at ten hours --a day's journey. To account for the four days that Lazarus had been dead We count one day for the messenger to reach Jesus, two days' delay be- fore Jesus starts, and ane for His journey to Bethany. Lazarus must therefore have died on the day when the messenger Was on his way to Jesus, and, according to Jewish cus- tom, was buried on the same day of death. This being so, the sisters did nov, attribute the death of Lazaruse to the two days' delay of the Mas ter, more likely, they. reproached themselves for not sending sooner: "Christ the esurrection of -- the dead and the Life of the pe: is the ert: i this cha Th Re-urre tion is Life iteel! with, and victory over deith; it ts the Death of de.th; the psec over de- cay and dissolution "ause is the this absolute sense.' cyte wept. "This 1s the shortest aud nrost eloquent verse in the unconnected hy any it# le wih what preee les or wliat follows. [t describes what was seen, and mtimutes wha Jesus knew He would shart&y raigo Lazirus, but tn true sympa ly He opened His heart to tha pr esent griet, which opsned to 4 a ptcvwre of the Sanrerwed Cesolitions of bate of terrors; and with a syngpithiziage heart He raied His Bienes Ife agruin. Lazirus, come forth! A-roysl evm- mand, befittinr the Mnjesty of Ged. Jesus had wept as a nian; Be sow resol as Godt The simple er: aan: bre ity am? force of this beswreec Call Corresponds with the abe er: ef- fect, aur miy compirel, to 1s8 ge in Geno w--Let 'Bere be tt cht! Ani t itself more of Christ tee did omm's a. fidelity. ONTARIO MINERAL OUTPUT. Yield for 1898 Represents a Million and a Half, life in to ENICKEL THE Mr. LFADING METAL. Archibald Blue, of the Bureau completed his tables of returns in connection with Ontario's mineral production for 1898 Nickel is stil] her most ex- tensively developed industry. The cop- Ser and nickel mines of the Sudbury country gave employment to an av- erage of 610 men anelie 1898, and the wages paid to them amounted to $815,500; as against $258,256 in 1897, and $240,151 in 1896. All the ore produced was smelted, reduced to matte, and then exported to the Uni- ted States to be refined. Eight mil- lion three hundred and seventy-three thousand five hundre pad ged pounds of refined copper we duced, valued -at $268,080, aut ate produce of fine nickel was 5,567,690 pounds, valued at $514,220. These Valuations are based on the selling price of the matte, which is figured 'to be one-third of the market price of the refined metal. The total value of both m,etals produced in 1898 was $782,800, and in 1897 was but $559,710. In 1896 it stood at $247,151. SOLD PRODUCTION. The gold bullion produced during 1898 was 16,075 ounces, valeed at $271,906, but this does not inelude the product of one mine on the Seine 1 In 1897 the bullion was 11,412 ounces; in ounces; and in 1895 O88 ounces. It is enepeece Lay the present year will 5 heavier increase, both Polativels nee positively than the past four years. THE IRON INDUSTRY. The tron product during 1898 was as follows: Pig n, 48,253 short tons, BACs oy the welling Sis at $530, The industry employed 180 men, ber the total wages paid was $61,476. During the present year the product will be increased by the recent establishment of the Deser- onto smelter, no returns from which are included in the above figures. Union Difficulties in 'America, When the-Civil War led tt fully expected that the S preane terian Churches of the north and Bsns would anite, and overtures have more than onee been made in bara direction. -- nothing has come o © approaches, and we bave naturally béen curlous to learn sag ejesease: answers was and sped the conduct of active interest in disa