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% CUR FATHER'S HOME. Dr. Talmage Discourses on the Glories of Heaven. ROOM FOR ALL GOD'S CHILDREN. Th* K.iuou. Di.l.,. D-pi.l. tk* R.pcur. wuk Winch K...II. .11* rrlu*< WUI >lt In til. brent Herplli Kua> of Uu I'll* Mu.lr of I li n LMI! .1 ( ..tu|. l. ll^imo.r Wanhmgu>n, Nov. 5. In a unique way the heavenly world is discours- ed upon by Ur. Tuluiugt) in tins ->-r- iaon under the ligure of a home, text. John xiv, L*. 'in uiy t'alher s house aiu iiiuny rooms." Here is a buttle of medicine, that la a cure all. 'J'he disciples were sail. and Christ offered hcu\cn us an al- ternative, a stimulant and a tonic He shows them thut tlu-ir sorrow are only a dark background of u bright picturu of coming felicitj . lie lets them know that, though nou they live on the lowlands, thev yet have a house on the upi. Nearly nil the liibli: desci iptions heaven may be liijurative. I am not positive that in all heaven there i.s a literal crown or harp or pearl \ gate or throne or ciuiriot. Thev uia.\ be only used to illustrate the florins of the place, hul how well they do It! The favorite symbol by which the liilile presents celestial happi- ness is a hou.sc. I'.ml. who ne\ owned a house, although he h.i one for two venrs in Italv, speaks of heaven as a "house not made with hands," and Christ in our text, the tranalation of which is a little changed, BO as to give the more ac- curate meaning, sujs, "In my Fath- er's house .ire u.anv rooms " This divinely authorised compari- son of heaven to .1 i^n-at hum- - of large accommodat .101 s I pr to carry out. In soiae heulth.v neighborhood a man builds a i Comiiiodious habitannn. 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, thut la George's room, that is Henry's room, that is Flora's room, thut is Mary* room, and the house is all occupied But time HIH-S by, and the sons go out Into the world and build their own homes, and the daughters are married or have talents enough sin- gly to go out and do a good work in the world. And after awhile the father and mother are almost alone In the big house, and, seated by the evening stand, they say. "Well, our family Is no larger now than when we started together IO years ago." But time goes still farther by, and aome of tho children are unfortunate and return to the old homestead to live, and the grandchildren come with them and perhaps great-grandchil- dren, and again the house is full. millennia ago Cod 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 occu- pied by a very Inrge family, cherubic, seraphic, abgelic. The eternities) passed on, and many of the habitants passed on. and many of the inhabit- ants became wayward and left, nev- er to return, and many of the apart- ments were vacated. I refer to the soraphic, angelic. The eternities* are filling up again. There are ar- rivals at the old homestead of God's children every day, and the day will come when there vvill be no unoccu- pied room In all tliu house. As you and I expect to enter It and make there eternal residence, I thought ye-u would like to get some more particulars about the many roomed homestead. "In my Father's house are many rooms." You see. i the place is to be apportioned off in- to apartments. We shall love all who are in heaven, but there are some very good people whom we would not want to live with in the same room. They may be better than we are, but they are of u divergent tem- perament. We would like to meet with them on the golden streets and orship with them in the temple and walk with them on the river banks, bat I am glad to say that we shall live in different apartments. "In my Father's house are many rooms." You sue. heaven will be so large that If one wants an entire room to him- self or herself It can be afforded. An Ingenious statistician, taking the statement made in Revelation, twenty-fir .t chapter, that the hea- venly Jerusalem was measured and found to be 12.000 furlongs and that the length and height and breadth of It are equal, says that would make heaven in slzs '.Ms -evilhon <)H8 quintillion cubic feet. :u.d then, re- serving a certain port ion for the court of heaven and tin- sir.-cts and estimating that the world may lust a hundred thousand years, he 11 pliers out that thers are over .'.UOii.OiiO,- 000,000 rooms, each room 17 fet long, 16 feet wide, 15 feet high. But I have no faith in the accuracy of that calculation. He makes the rooms too small From all I can read, tho rooms will be palatial, and (those who have not had enough 'room In this world will have plenty jef room at the lust. Carrying out still further the sym- bolism of the te.M. let us join hands and go up to this majestic home- stead and see for ourselves. As we ascend the golden steps an Invisible 'guardsman swings i.p-n the front door, and we art ushered to the right in i o 'he reception room of the Id homoetead. That 1s the ulac* whero we first meet the welcome' of heaven. There must be a place where the departed spirit enters and a place in which It confronts the in- habitants celestial. The reception room of the newly arrived from this world what scenes it must have witnessed since the first guest ar- rived, i he vinim of the first fratri- eirt , pious Abel 1 IB that room Christ lovingly greets all new-comers. He redeemed them, ajid he has the ritht to i lie first embrace on arrival. What a minute when the ascended spirit lirst sees the Lord' Better than ali we ever read about him er talk-d Sjbout him or sang about him in all tho ihurrhes and through all iur eurtUy lifetime will it be, just for one second to see him The most rapturous idea we ever had of him on sacra-mental days or at the height of some greet rex rval or under tin uplifted baton of an oratorio is a bankruptcy of thought compared with the first Hash of his appearance in that reception room. At that mo- ment when ynu confront each other. Christ looking upon you and you looking upon Christ, there will bean ecstatic thrill and surging of miio- t.on that beggar all description, '.ok! The;, need no introduction. Lorn; nir<- Christ chose that repent- :u ' sinner, i nd that repentant sir- m r i-hos.- Christ. Muh'i.-st moment of on immortal history the first kiss of heaven' J.-siis and the soul! The soul and Jesus! Hut now into that reception room pour the irlorilied kinsfolk, enough of arthly r.-t.,-nt ion to l.-t you know them, but without their wounds or their sicknesses or their troubles see what heaven has done for them so radiant, so gleeful, so transp.irt- ingly lovely' Thev call you byname, They grift you with an ardor pro- portioned to the anguish of v our parting a.nd the length of your sepa- ration Father! Mother! 'Inhere Is your child. Sisters' Ilroi hers '. Friends! I wish you joy. For years apart, together again in the rerep tion room of the old homestead \ on *e\ they will know you ore coming There are so many immortals filling all the spaces between here and hea- ven that news like that flies like lightning. They will be there in an instant. Though they wore in some other world on errand from God, a signal would he thrown that would fetch them. Though you might at first feel dazed and overawed at their supernal splendor, all that feel- Ing will be gone at their first touch 04 heavenly salutation, and we will say: "Oh. my lost boy'" "Oh. my lost companion!" "Oh, my lost friend! Are we here togi'ther" 1 " 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 Pharoah's palace: David and the little child for whom he onco fasted and wept: Mary and Ijizarus after the heartbreak of Bethany: Timothy and grandmother Lois: Isabella Grnham and her sail- or son: Alfred and <;eorge Cookman, the mystery of the sen at Inst made manifest: I.uther and Magdalene, the daughter he bemoaned: John How- ard and the prisoners whom he K< _ pelized. and multitudes without num- ber who. once so weary and so sad. parted on earth, but gloriously met In heaven. Among all the rooms ol that house there is no on that more enraptutes my soul than that recep- tion room. "In my Father's house are many rooms." Another room in our Father's house Is the throne-room. We be- long to the royal family. The blood of King Jesus flows in our veins, so we ho,ve a right to enter the throne- room. It is no easy thing on earth to get through even the outside door of a king's residence. During the Franco-German war. one eventide in the summer of 1870. I stood study- ing the exquisite sculpturing of the gate of the Tulleries, 1'aris. Lost In admiration of the wonderful art of that gate. I knew not that I was SXCiting suspicion. Lowering rny eyes to the crowds of people, 1 found myself being closely inspected l>y the government officials, who. from my complexion, judged me to be a Ger- man and that for some belligerent purpose I might be examining the gates of the palace. My explanation in very poor French did not satisfy them, and they followed me long dis- tances until I reached my hotel and were not satisfied until from my landlord they found that I was only aa inoffensive American. The gates of earthly palaces are carefully- guarded, and. if so, how much more the throne-room! A dazzling paJace is It for mirrors and all costly art. No one who has ever saw the throne- room of the first and only Napoleon will ever forget ths letter N em- broidered in purple and gold on the upholstery of chair 'and window, the letter N irilded on the wall, the let- ter N chased on the chalices, the let- ter N lluimng from the ceiling. What a conflagration of brilliance the t'irmie-roiiiii of Charles Immanuel of iinlnia. of Ferdinand of Spain, of F.h/.ii belli of Kngl.i.-id, of llomface of Italy 1 Hut the throne-room of our Father ' house hath a glory eclips- ing all th throiii*-rotns tha' ever saw scepter wave or crown glitter or foreign embassy dir bow. idr our Father's throne is a throne of grace, a throntt of mercy . a ih.rone of holi- ness, a throne of iiistic.-. a Ihroiieof universal dominion x\.- i,e. d not stand shivering and cuxvermg before it, for our Father says wo may yet one day come up and sit on it be- side him. "To him that ovsrcomcth will I grant to sit with me In my throne." The erowns of the royal family of this world are tossed about from generation to generation, and from family to family. There are men. onjparatlvely young in berlln who have seen the crown on three emper- ors. But wherever the coronets of this world rise or fall they are des- tined to meet in one place. And I look and see them coming from north and south and cast and west, tho .Spanish croxvn, the Italian crown, the Kr.glish crown, the Turkish crown, the Russian crown, the Per- sian crown aye. all tha crowns from under the great archivolt of heaven and while I watch and won- der they are all flung in rain of dia- monds around the pierced feet. Jesus shall reign whert'er the sun Does his successive journeys run. His kingdom stretch from shore to shore rill sun shall rise and set no more. Another room in our Father's house is the music room. St. John and other Bible writers talk so much about tha music of heaven that there must be music tht,-re, perhaps not such as on earth was thrummed from trembling string or evoked by touch ef ivory key, but if not that, than something- better. There are so many Christian harpists and Christ- ian aomposers and Christian organ- ists and Christian choristers and Christian hytnnologists that have One up from earth, there must - some place of especial delectation. Sha.ll we have music in this world of discords and no music in ihe land of complete harmony? I cannot give you the notes of the first bar of the new song that ia sung in heaven. I cannot imagine either the solo or the doxology. But heaven means music, and can mean nothing else. Occa- sionally that music has escaped the gate. Dr. Fuller, dying at lleuufort. S.C., said, "Do you not hear?" "Hear what?" exclaimed the by- standers. "The music! Lift me up! Open the windows!" Another room in our Father's house will ba the family room. It may correspond somewhat with tha family room on earth. At morning and eveiiiug, you know, that is the place we uovv meet. Though every member of the household have a separate room, in the family room they ail gather, and joys and sor- rows ai.tl experiences of all styles are there rehearsed. >acred rooms in all our dwellings, whether it be lux- urious with ottomans and divans and books in Russian lids standing in mahogany case or there ba only a few plain chairs and a cradle. So the family room on high will be the place where the kinsfolk assemble and talk over the family experiences of earth, tho weddings, the births, tha burials, the festal days of Christmas and Thanksgiving reunion. Will tha children departed remain children there? Will the aged remain aged there 1 Oh, no! Everything ia per- fect there. The child will go ahead to glorified maturity, and the aged will go back to glornicd maturity. However much we love our children on earth, w* would consider It a. do- mestic disaster if they stayed chil- dren, and so we rejoice at their growth her*. And when we meet in the family room of our Father's bouse we will be glad that they have grandly and gloriously matur- ed, wbils our parents, who were aged and inlirm here, we shall be glad to find restored to the uiost agile and vigorous immortality there. If 40 or 45 or 50 years be the apex of physical and mental life on earth. then tha heavenly childhood will ad- vance to that, and tho heavenly old age retreat to that. When we join them In the family room, we shall have much to tell them. We shall want to know of them, right away, such things as these: Lud y ou see us in this or that or the other strug- gle? Did you know when we lost our property and sympathize with us? Wore you pleased when we starled 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. I hope none of us will ba disap- pointed about getting there. Then* is a room for us if we will go and take it. but in order to reach It it Is absolutely necessary that we taka tho right way. aid Christ is tho way, and we must enter at the right door, and Christ is the door, and v. must start in time, and the only hour you are sure of is tho hour the clock now strikes, and tho only sec- ond the one your watch is now tick- Ing. I hold in my hand a roll of let- ters Inviting you all to make that your home forover. The Xevv Testa- ment is only a roll of letters invit- ing you, as tho spirit of them prac- tically says: "My dying yet immor- tal child In earthly neighborhood, I have built for you a great residence. It Is full of rooms. I have lurnish- ad them aa no palace was ever fur- nished. Pearls are nothing, emeralds are nothing, chrysoprasus is nothing, illumined panels of sunrise and sun- set nothing, the aurora of northern heavens nothing, compared with the splendour with which I have gnrni- tured them. But you must ba clean before you an enter there, and so I have opened a fountain where yea may wash all our sina away. Come now I Put your weary but sleanaod feet OB the upward path- way. Do yeu not sea amid the thick foliage on the heavenly hill- tops tha old family homestead T" "In my father's house are uaaay reoaaa." Sneh m Skek to tke Boston Girl! Boston Maid I would be glad to hare you Hccompnn.T me to the meetioi of onr literary society. St. Louis Girl Oh, such things n k * weary! Boston Maid But we sre te here sa Teeing with Emerson. St. Louis Girl Indeed! Why. I though' Emerson wsi dtad. -Chicago News. ++ * If You Have SPRAIN or BRUISE 1 \ Ton Don't Take Chance* When Yon I'M St. Jacobs FOR TWEM Y-l IX> VK4R-* .<;<> IT BKIitN TO CURB PATH AND IUINO IT KVKR SI.VCK. COURAGE. COUNTRY QRL'S SLEEPING-ROOM. ;>* Bfliilll. K..,iM7 Blloltail In K.AIU Horn \'v t- i i.iupMii i i.*it. Courage Is sublime lath in heroic action, wherein fear and selt'.shness are lost in godly, consecrated soul- purpose and effort from the cause of truth and righteousness, l.'nduunted by obstacles, serene amidst alarum, scornful of policy, patient in tribula- tion. Duty's divinely inspired mo- tive power. An essential of true irter greatness. Mrs. W. M. flickers. Courage Ths innate fearlessness 'it iliu manly man i or the womanly woman) which enables him to meet life's vicissitudes calmly, millinchmg- l.v which uplifts the soul, hres the heart, nerves the arm and sends him forth to battle for his standard of riirh; to do, to dare, if need bs. to die. Mrs. H i -,,nkey. Courage is the spinal column of the soul. It gives symmetry to rharaf- It enables its possessor to face everv foe in carnal and spiritual xvarfare. Consistency is its right hand. It lives through adversity; .11 U hope and fidelity are its com- panions H. C. Johnson. Courage is that quality and quan- tity of mind which enables a man to s'.md firm to hia duty though he stand alone. It is "hut degree of in- trepidity which says: "I am going '> discharge my duty to myself. to my neighbor, to the state. to the church oJid to God. though the heav- ens fall while I am doing it." Hichard Hobbs. Courage is that Uod-given strength of mind and heart which enables a person to stand unmoved in the face of danger, ridicule, contempt . loss of friends, property and life: principles which he knows to bw right and us' C. H. Myers. Courage Strength measured >y neither Inches, age nor sex, that scorns an evil action, whether moral or physiciJ, that dares to do right despite opposition. Energy that val- iantly overcomes each obstacle and foe. and deems surrender and dis- grace synonymous. Combined faith .itut frankness. A moral heroism that triumphs over every weakness. Clifford E. Davis. Courage Is that which prompts one to lose sight of self, all consequences and surroundings, and movs for- ward, it may be either on the field of battle or to rescue helpless ones or to stand alone for the right, or it may be to proclaim a heavenly mes- sage to unwilling ears. A. F. Hart. Courage is loyal devotion nerved for action. It ia the dauntleasnesa of a God-inspired sense of duty. It is unfaltering faith calmly asserting itself the virility of hope and the sublime self-forgut fulness of love up- lifting the soul to an indifference alike to danger and to the endurance of suffering. 1I.I,,' ..[ M. .. "I know a dear little girl who ia sure that her room is everything to be deaired," writes Mrs. John B. Sims of "The .Sleeping-Idiom un tha Farm," in Thu l-udn-s' llouie Jour- nal. "It is 15 feet square and has two wardrobes. There is a north anA south window. The walls are covered with paper in a delicate shade of gray, with pink clover bloa- somii scattered over it, tiie witiduw curtains are of silkolme in the same shades: a malting in subdued colors covers the floor. The bedroom suit, however, did not please the little miss. It was old enough to be la fashion again, but it was of walnut, heavy and dark. Then her mot hen came to the rescue, and w hen a woman, a pair of brushes and two cans of ready-mixed paint get to- gether, sun-ess is sure to folio*. .: d so it proved in this wso That bod- r- om furniture chtngii! us color a* qu:ckl? and aa -jtv-f lively \s tha world-famod chanuleo.i of our sihool- days. Tha rule ."or doing kuch w uric always began with sir.ip the wo jvl thoroughly with glass and then sandpaper it,' and it always dis- couraged me. In this case, however, Ihis rule was found quite eo*y te> break, and it waa broken quickly. The solid wood was painted a very pale gray, almost silver white; tha scroll work was picked out In old rose. A cane. bottomed chair waa painted to match: a camp chair was covered with cretonne which har- monized. The washstand waa fitted out in whito. A shelf for choice books, a small h"me-made stand for the keepsakes ui... the Delft candle- stick, a few dainty pictures en tha walls, and the little maid waa satis- led." Tb i *rc.. t ir-,. i. Th* Warl4. The largest tree in the world la te be seen at Mascali. near tha foot of Mount Etna, and is called "The Chestnut Tree of a Hundred Hor- sea." Its name rose from tha report that Queen Anne, of Aragon, wltsi her principal nobility, took refuge from a violent storm under i's branches. The trunk is two hundred and four leet In circumference. The largest tree in the United .States, it is said, stands near Bear Creek, o* the north fork of the Dule Hlver. la California. It measures one hundred and forty feet In circumference. Tha giant redwood tree in Nevada is ona hundred and nineteen feet in circum- ference. Ladies' Horns Journal. Th <>U -UT. M.irt ml . In The Century there Is an article on "Life and Society in Old Cuba," mode up of extracts from the diary of Jonathan S. Jenkins, an American miniature painter, who lived in Ha- vana during the middle of the cen- tury. Mr. Jenkims A mile and a half out from Havana is a curious and painful sight the Slave-barracoons. where the newly- arrived barbarians are confined. Here were congregated not less than J.- OOO negroes, ready for sale. Some wore entirely naked, others nearly so. Their heads were close-shaved. and their bodies so emaciated by Ihe honors of the "middle passage" that they resembled Ivasts more than men. Certainly they did not ap- pear to be human beings as they gazed about wildly, with arvxlous countenances, as If bewildered. I have often been amused at the preliminary instruction they are put through after their arrival at the barracoons. They nre seated cross- legged on the ground in a row or circle, and the negro teacher passea gravely before them all. giving tha lesson. He moves his hands quickly to and from his mouth, as though putting something in it, saying "Yammy! Vammy!" all of the ne- groea imitating and repeating after him. This meant to eat. Tido-flno means something good, choppy-chop- py to work, yarry-yarry lo get sick. Tha teacher then goes around with a cup of native rum. and gives each a sip In token of approval. Thia i*- couth vocnbluary. when understood. Is enough to enable them to labor on the estates. Before buying a purchaser exam- ines them to ascertain their condi- tion of health. If this nppenrs sat- isfactory, he gives the negro a hard slap In the face, and If he displays no resentment. hut looks up and smiles, he is ho-r'hi. When these newly imported Africans are first taken, they an> ui.oi.- to work but very little for Mvorsj months, until. by observing the other negroes , they! are gradually trained to labor: for If they a-- , , ,1 by driving them at tirst. they are apt to com- mit suicide, in Die belief that they will thus return to A/nca. FROM OKAMQDE Correspondent Writes Tha* Dodd's Kidney Pills Have Cured Him of Kidney Disease. Daniel Boneher Experimented With Medicine* for Eighteen Venn Kin- ally Percuaded to Try Uold's Kidney Pllle Five Boxes Cared Him. Gananoque, Oct. 30. Mr. Daniel Boucher, of this town, suffered with Kidney Disease for eighteen years. And for the best part of that eighteen vears he bos been striving to get cured. Experiment ing with medi- cines and doctors all the time, he had never experienced the slightest relief. And now after eighteen years of it ha is cured by five boxes of Dodd's Kid- ney Pills. The question arises, why did he not try Dodd's Kidney Pills before? Th weapon has laid ready to his hand for the last ten years, why did he not us* it? Surely he must long have known that Dodd's Kidney Pills have cored hundreds of others right in his own town. It ia hard to understand. "Natural praversity is often the only explana- tion in such cases. Mr. Boneher may have been deceived by the pretensions of imitators of Dodd's Kidney Pills. Ha may hare been prejudiced by soma other means, but however it waa Mr. Boucher cama round to Dodd's Kidvey Pills at last and is a healthy man is He writes: "For eighteen years I have been troubled with Kidney Dis- ease. I have used all sorts of medi- cines but could get no relief. I wa> persuaded to try Doxld'g Kiduey Pills. I have finished five boxes and am com- pletely cured. I highly recommend them to all suffering as I did. I used to have to stop work for two or thret days in tha week on account of back- ache, but now I can do a day's work with anybody." .'<