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THE LAie DR. T ALMAGE Memorial Sermon by His Son, Rev. Frank De Witt Talmage. ftal«rM teeer4Iav to Act of th« Ptrlttacnt of CaoAd». In th« /car 09m ThsuK^nd Kin* liuQ- drad wid Two. tj WllMm IIiIIt. of Toraiitc. at tb« l>«p«rtB«ot of Afrtoulture, Ottawt.) A despatch from Chicago says: â€" On Sunday morning In the Jeflerson Park Presbyterian Church the Kov. FVank Ta Image, D.D., delivered a •ernioii in which he paid a touching •fid timely tribute to his late dis- tinguished father. The text was I. Kings xix, 20, "Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father." Affection's most sacred form of sal- utation is a kiss. We how to an ac- quaintance, we shake hands with a friend, but we press the lip against the lip of one wliona we love. This statement is especially true when ap- plied to Elisha, the son of Shaphat, ^ho was about to leave home and go forth into the great wide world. Blisha was summoned to carry on ji ke work of Elijah. Already the Worses were being harnessed to the chariot of flre for the old prophet's famous Journey from earthly strug- gle to heavenly triunn)h. His siicces- â- or, starting out on his arduous task, desires first to imprint on his father's face the kiss of fareweU. The salutation of the ki.ss Is even more sacred when u.sed by one wlio l8 standing by the open casket of a father whose eloquent tonjjuo has of- ten spoken the golden words of the gospel to countless throngs â€" who With a pen guided by a spirit sprink- led with the blood of the Lamb, has every week proclaimed the divine jnes.sagre lo millions upon millions of readers who were wearied with sin and heavy with trouble. My father's â- Work for nearly twenty years has been the pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night to guide great multitudes thiough the dork •wilderness of earth toward the brightness of THE PROMISED I, AND. Many pens arc writing eulogies up- on the lllework of liev. T. De Witt Talmage. Porh.ips a few words may be welcome from hi.s son. I speuk as one having autlioiity. For over twen- ty years I was hi.s constant com- panion. When he was at home, 1 rarely left his study until alter the midnight hour. Twice with him I visited the Kuropcsin cities. Once wo circled the glolw. Together we sailed forth from the Golden Cate of the Pacific. Side by side we have seen the light at the entrance of New York harbor beckon us into the Nar- . rows, welcome to us as wns the Star of Bethlehem to the three astrologers Wandering over the sea of sand, liut no more will we have sweet compan- ionship. The world becomes instant- : ly changed to the son â- who is com- pelled to let his parent sleep among the flowers and who bears a sum- mons to more strenuous service. Be- fore I start fortli ane^v for my life'.s work T would, with filial emo- tion, ask ft moment for the tribute of personal afloction ns Klisha spake to Elijah ifi reference to Shaphiit: "Let me, I pray thee, kiss my fath- er. Then I will follow thee." My father was the most original «ind yet the most natural man 1 aver knew. Original in the sense that he always did everything in a way dif- ferent f 1 oni a.nyune else. lie wrote dilTerently, he lectured differently, he preached dilTerently. 11 two persons stood before him at the nuptial al- tar, his marriage ceremony was un- ique. â-  It was impossible to compare him to anyone else. The mold used for the foiuiation of his character was a special one. There has never been another like unto it since he lay in his humble cradle in the BOUND IJROOK FAnMIIOUSK. ' Yet my father was natural in the â- enso that he never strove to be ori- ginal and difl'erent from every cine else. It was in his |)ersonality that he was dilTercnt. He was tliesniiie in the homo as in tlio pulpit, oti the street ns upon the lecture platform, lie TiVii.s the same original and yot natural character when willing to one of his childreu ns he was when penning an article for the press, lie utt(H("(l the message which was given to him as naturally and yet witii the dissimilarity that characterizes the notes of the birds of the foi'cst. As the brown winged thrush lifts his treble note when he is awakened by the rising sun, as agol illnch chir- rups when Itopping between the gar- den rows, ns a Ilaltiinore oriole sings When ho swings backward and for- ward upon the tree branch which overhangs the brook, each bird is melodious In his own way, yet each Hinging a different song. lie was so different from other men that for many years the American pulpit could not understand him. Under the scrutinizing eye of the theologi- cal critic there could be found no heretical flaw in his scrnioii.«i. When he arose to preach, a solemn still- ness like the expectant hush of the coming judgment day silenced his auditors. Kvery eye was focused \>]t- OB that tall, straight form and tifoad, fnn.ssivc brow. Pach ci : was alert to catch the first wor.i which fell from those wondciin â-  iips 13ut thoi,'jh the i.'i.niings In which he ^reaeiiPf' in our own ai .? .-:'ii«r .iruids wero iilwnys crowded U» l.f»r him, t.*ioupli groat Tnultitudcfl v:3ra l>roiufh* to decision for Christ under Hb pnachlrg' In the Brooklyn Taber- nacle, wharff tie passed the most ac- tive years of his life's ministry, yet for years he was a misunderstood man, WITH ONE WAVE OF HIS HAND he swept awa>y all thq cobwebs which had accumulated around the tradi- tional methods of sernionic oratory. With his mighty original personality he broke the shackles of ecclesiasti- cal slavery. He proved to the world that the ministers of the twentieth century could plead with sinners to come to Christ with the energy and enthusiasm and intensity with which the lawyer could plead for the life of a defendant falsely charged with murder. He proved to the religious world that it was not so Important what kind of a white linen operating gown the gospel surgeon wore as it was that the nerve of the operator be firm and the hand steady that held the keen, sacred blade with which he cut at the cancer of sin. He dispensed with the ministerial gowr. and hurled from the church the old fashioned pulpit, but he still clung to the old truths. He spoke the gospel message in its simplicity. Be- cause the story was so simply told it was told with originality. He was a genius ,but hu doveloped every one of his ton talents by the hardest kind of mental and physical application. No labor for him was too full of drudgery. Morning, noon and night found him in his study. He took physical exercise not for pleasu'-e, but to fit himself for the pulpit. He lived not to eat, but he ate so that he could live. He placed his standard very high, and Into ev- ery sermon he put his host thought. He used to say to me: "Frank, do not make the mistake of many liter- ary men. They say to themselves, I will save that thought and put it into another speech or article. Give to the world THE BEST YOU HAVE. Crowd everything In that strength- ens an argUinent, but always strive for quality and not for quantity." When a theological student, I want- ed to occupy for some weeks the pulpit of a .small country church. He uttered his protest, saying, "You ought to spend at least three months ui)on your first aermon, writing upon it from six to ten hours a day." What a testimony is this to his own careful work, coming from the cold lips which are now closed in the casket. What a homilctic lec- ture it is for the young ministers, for the young lawyers and budding statesmon who maintain that the oratorical art is a divine gift which has no need for struggling upon the rough mountain side of drudgery- What a clarlion note it i.f, sunuuon- ing all men and women to do their best under all conditions. The les- son is as powerful for the niorchafit of ten talents as for the clerk of two talents. To him that hath not sRall bo taken away even that which he hath. There Is, however, a warning that comes from my father's intense ap- plication to work which deserves the attention of all tliose who are bcmling their physical, nnnitnl and spiritual energies to accomplish something in life's struggle. About twenly-fivo years ago the first dan- ger signal Was lifted when insomnia, liko a hideous spectre, snt at the foot of his 1)0(1 and refused to let him sleep. Night after night he would be up four and live times walking the lloor. After uwhilo the children bociuno used to It. We would greet him at breakfast, say- ing, "Father, how did you .sleep '?" and when ho onswered, "Not very well," ho would look' so fresh and vigorous that we, too, were deceiv- ed, and we would hope that he had slept bettor than ho thought ho did. Hut ho could not be iiit^uccd to S'paro himself. Jlo overestimated his reserve of strength. My father ought to have lived with that niug- nilicent body at least fifteen ynnrs longer. Had he economized his strength the best years of his life might have been those last fifteen years. HE DIED FIIOM OVKnWOUK. Domestic bereavement fell upon him, and pe(i])le who saw only his outward cheerfulness had no con- ceiition how deeply the iron had en- tered hi.s soul. When my father was dying he continuiilly talked about the boy who had been his pride, his oiliest son, who is now sleeping by his side as he once sat at his feet. Ho was a noble lad, a brilliant young lawyer. We carriid him out one cold winter day and laid him away to rest under a soft quilt of snow. My father went back to his Work. He said, "1 dare not lay it down even for an hour lest the ellort to take It up again should bo too groat for me." He took up his cross ill the same cheerful, hopeful spirit as before, though the wound in his heart never healed. He always Ciirriod a scar which was cut by tho gravedigger'B spafle. Yes, he had his troubles, but he always main- tained a brave heart and made the most out of .Mfo by being cheerful. My father's best sermon was the dally lift, which he lived in his own home. I bear my testimony to tho fact that from my boyhood until the tifue <!;;•.» I entered my own parson- age and was ordained by him for my own pulpit I had before me the example and upon me the sweet in- fluence of a Christian home. There never was in America a haffffler or more prayerful home than that of which bo was tho bead. Tho child- ren Idolized him. 1'he example be set before them was that of a con- secrated Christian gentlcm.in always anxious to do what Christ would have him do. There was no bitter- ness in the nursery. From him we learned how to forget as well as to forgive. Among all the men I have known In various walks of life I never knew a human being who was like him in the characteristic that he could never bear a grudge against any one. An enemy might do every- thing In his power to destroy him, but my father never struck back. If he could, ho would not only for- give, but he would go any distance to SERVE AED HEU AN ENEMY It was becaust, my father's ser- mons wero the products of u Spirit IJlled life that tho millions were able to find comfort in him. Whenever be would tako a lecture trip the people would crowd about him by tho thou- sands, uttering such greetings as "I read your sermon upon 'Recognition of Friends in Heaven' to my mother when sho was dying;" "I read this or that when I was In a, certain trouble, and the sermo.i brought light to my soul." Let no hearer or reader of this sermon think for one instant that my lather's work was a man made work. My father's work was a divinely inspired work. He was called as certainly to do his work as Paul and Peter and John wero called to do theirs. He Was inspired by prayer and communion with God, and just as certainly may we in our work be inspired if we plead for the gift of the Holy Spirit. Would yo ; go with me into the death chamber ? His passing away was as he himsell' would have had it if his own wish had been consulted. He practically died in the harness. Otio Sunday ho was preaching in Mexico, the next on his deathbed. For live long weeks he lingered, but God mercifully benumbed. the worn- out and tired brain. He suffered not at all. He awoke long enough to recognize and at limes call for his wife and children. But conversation was an impossibility Ijctween him and the members of his family dur- ing tho weary days and nights he was sick. We were all there ; all except those of the family who had preceded him to the other side and who were waiting to give him a welcome. We repeated the old verse so often spoken by his own lips : When round my dying bed assemble those I love. A dear old family friend uttered a sweet prayer. That was all. We watched and waited until his mortal life was lifted into the heavenly life. 'Hiere were a few tears, a few call- ings of goodhy. He slipped away so quietly we could not toll when he was gone. He was asleep. Tho tir- ed heart ceased to beat. Tho old fiweet restful look came back to the lovinf; face. We laid him away for a little while in the family plot in beautiful Greenwood. As T lifted m.v hand over the open grave to pronounce the benediction, I said to myself, "So may wo all live and labor, that when our work is done we may go to our rest in tho full conviction that when we awako it will lie like this glorified spirit in the likeness of his Lord." LEIon SUIUT WAIST. Tho Leigh Shirt Waist is the r.iodel waist of the season. It is quite plain and has three forward turning plaits on the neckband. There is no yoke or other trimming or complications about it. As a pattern it is most desirable because from it all waisTs may be modelled and no end of tucking and decora- tions may be wrought i pon it before placing the pattern on the cloth. Quantities of material required: 32 and (14 bust measure will rc(iuire three and one-half yards of goods twenty-seven Inches wide. 86 bust measure will require three and three-fourtha yards of goods twenty-Boven inches wide. 88 and 40 bust measure will re- quire four yards of good.<i twenty- seven inches wide. THE S. S. LESSON. IWIEEMTATIOITAL LESSON MAY 11. Text of the Lesson, Acts xii., 1-19. Golden Text, Ps. zxziv, 7. 1, 2. Now, about that time Herod the k.'ng stretched forth his hands to v^x cxctain c! the church, and he killed JomeF, tho brother of John, wilii the sword. From the time that the devil, the murderer and liar (John viii, 44), put it into the heart of Cain to kill Abel ho hat/ ever shown his hati-e^ of God and the people of God by using his worst weapon, death (Heb. ii, 14), and that oven against the Sou of God Himsell. It was a good day for James, for he was instantly with the Lord in the enjoyment of the very far better. 3-5. And because he saw it pleased the Jews he proceeded further to take Peter also. Being Passover time, he kept Peter in prison under the care of four com- panies of soldiers, int"nding after that sjoason to kill him also to still further please the Jews â€" some of the same Jews, no doubt, who were pleased to crucify the Lord Jesus and stone Stephen and all the while profess to be doing God service. Yet God Uvea, the only living and true God, and all power is His, and Ho permits these things to be, and Ho is not discouraged, and the king- doms of this world shall yet be the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ (Rev. xi, 15). We can do what the church did for Peter, earn- estly and unceasingly cry unto God and bo ready to lay down our lives for Clirist. 6. Peter was sleeping between two soldiers bound with two chains. A double guard, a strong prison, chains, gates, and, as far as human vision could see, death for Peter on the morrow, yet Peter slept, and doubtless quietly, for he was in Christ and Chrisrt in God. The wall of lire was round about him, and with him all was well whether he re- mained in tho mortal S6dy or not (Col. iii, 3; Zech. ii, 5, 8; Iso.. iii, 10). It is grand to see God and not circumstances nor people ; to see circumstances and pixiple only through God and be still and know that Ho is God (Ps. xlvi, 10; Horn, viii, 28, 29.) 7-9. And, behold, the angel of the Lord came upon him, and a light shined in tho prison. Before Peter could realize it his chainsi wero olT, his sandals were on, his garment about him, and he was following the angel out of the pris- on, the soldiers sitill soundly sleep- ing, but Peter thought it was all a beautiful vision which God had granted him. How gi-eat and glor- ious is the minisitry of angels who minister unto the heirs of salvation! (Hob. i, 14.) 10, 11. When Peter was come to himself, ho said. Now I know of « surety that the Lord hath sent His angel and hath delivered nio out of the hand of llcrod and from all the expectation of the people of the Jews. On they w^cnt past the first watch and the second, and the iron gate opened of its own accord â€" perhaps other angels swung it open at the approach of the angel followed by Peter â€" and still on they went through one street, well away from the prison, before the angel left Peter. Then, being left alone and finding himself in the night out on a street of the city, he bcgnii to real- ize that it was no dream, but that he was actually a free man by the mighty power of an angel of God. 12. Ho came to the hou.so of Mary the mother of John, whose surname wa.s Mark, whore many wore gather- ed together praying. This he did a.s soon as. having come to himself, he considered the matter. He know ju.st where to go, for on a previous occasion when he nnd John hud been rehnsorl I'loni prison and from the power of the ruk'is, it is written that "being let go they went to their own com- pany" (Acts iv, 23). 13-15. Thou art mad. It is his angel . What strange words for a com- pany of praying believers when they are told that their prayers are an- swered and Peter is at the door knocking icii- admission. Ithodn was so glad that she forgot to open the door for him, and they were so ama/od that they could not believe ber. We might not wonder lo have Iho world count tho believer mad (!sa. lix, 15, margin; Ifoa. ix, 7; John X, 2\l), but for believers, and such n.s these, to count each other mad is more strange. May we not be so slow to act upon Jer. xxxiii, 3, or to live in Ps. Ixii, 5. 16, 17. (!o show these things un- to James and to the brethren. Peter continued knocking, the on- ly thing he could do, for doors did not open to hinx as prison gates to the angel, and in due time th(\v oi>- (mcd to him and were astonished to see him. He, i|uietiiig them told them all that the Lord luid done for him and bade them tell James and till! others. This is the James of chnptee xv, 18. who seems to bavo been president of tno council at .lerusalom, James the brother of John having boiyn slain (verse 3). Every redeemed soul has been deliv- ered from prison and death far worse than any Herod could afflict vvilh, nnd how gladly we should loll of the deUvciance God has wrought for us (Ps xl, 1-8), but how few seem glad to tall It to His glory that He may bo raagnlAcd. 18, 11). Herod's solflleivi pvi to death, and Herod himself dylae siucb an a.wlul death (verse 23), while P?ter was delivered from their hands, reminds ua of that morn-ng when Daniel canao forth from the den ol lions, but his enemies were put into the same den never to come forth. It makes us think of the glorious morning of our Lord's appearing (Ps. xlix, 14; XXX, 5; xlvi, 5 margin; cxxx, 6, etc.) for the deliverance of His peojile and of the unbelievers for whom there shall be no morning, but only the outer darkness forever (Isa. viii, 20, R.V.). « aiEADISTG C.A.HFS. Of Grreat Benefit to the Lumber- men of tbe Country. The promoters of the Canadiaa Reading Camp movement have just' published another pamphlet on "Li-' brary Extension in Ontario Heading Camps and Club Houses," including the second annual report of the move- ment. The pamphlet is prefaced with an extract from Oarlyle's Sartor Resartus on "The Dillusion of Educa^ tion"; "Two men I honor, nnd i-'> tliird. First the toil-worn Crafts- man that with earth-made imple- ment laboriously conquers the earth, and makes her uaan's. Venerable to nie is the hard hand; crooked, coarse; wherein notwithstanding lies a cun- ning virtue, indefeasibly royal, as of the Sceptre of this Planet. Vener- able too is tho rugged face, all wea- ther-tanned, besoiled, with its rude intelligence; for it is the face of a man living manlike. J^or »us was tliy back so bent, for us were thy straight limbs and fingers so de- formed; thou were our Conscript, on whom the lot fell and fighting our battles were so marred. For in thee, too, lay a God-created Form, but it was not to be unfolded; in- crusted must it stand -with tlio thick adhesions and defacements of Labor; and thy body like thy soul was not to know freedom," etc. Free books are but one factor ol the scheme. The separate buildings to serve for the purpose of reading and recreation rooms are the princi- pal feature. The avowed q.in:i of the friends of this work is to induce the Provincial Government to place two or three reading camps under the di- rect supervision of a duly ciualified' teacher who would sui-prise and conduct evenin,g classes in these camps and adapt them to local con- ditions. Mr. Alfred Fitzpatrick, of Nairn Centre, secretary of this movement, stated in last year's report that se- veral ilien had learned to read with comparatively little assistance; fur- ther experiments this season, he .says, have fully demonstrated the practicability of instruction. If eve- ning classes are desirable in towns and cities whore there are SO MANY PRIVLLEGES, they cannot fail, he argues, to be helpful where there are no social lit- erary or religious opportunities. Mr. Fitzpatrick claims that pictures, music, reading aloud from tho best authors, innocent games and tho use ol magic lanterns will counteract the benumbing influence of hard la- bor, and awaken the necessary en- thusiasm. That the employers in the lumbering and mining industries are themselves tbe principal promot- ers of this work is enough to prove its â-  feasibility. Over one-third of tho revenue of the Province is derived from the woods and forests alone, lo say nothing of that from the mineial resources of the country. It is all ri;fht to en- dow libraries and schools in the old- er parts of tho Province, says Mr. Fitzpatrick, but why should tho men who play so prominent a part in the exploitation of this wealth not share In the direct benedts as well ns others? The free reading camp, with duly qualified instructors, would he a most useliil adjunct to the free school, and free public library. The Ontario Library A.ssociation and the Ontario Teachers' Associa- tion, at their recent sessions, both passed strong resolutions urging uii- on the Department of Kducation th« oxteii.«ion of this important p'lase ol public education. Until adequate provi.sinn is made by the Ontario (lovernment for this impoi'tant iMancli of public education, the pro motors should receive the most mali- cious support of tho public. Froo copies of the above-raentionec pamphlet may be had on npplicatiot to John Oougal & Son. Montreal. PUNISHED FOR FINDING GOLD. .Not all the old documents and re- cords relating to tho early history of Australia have been destroyed, a» ninny suppose, nnd in a recent search uiuong sorao family papers o curious item was brought to light healing upon the discovery of gold at the antipodes, says tho London Chronicle. Accoi ding to this, gold WHS lli'st found by a convict near I'arrmnatta in 1789. The unfortun- ate fellow was at once charged with having stolen ij, watch and "boiled it down," and being convicted by the rude court, of those early days, was given laO lashes for his pains. In later years tho record of this ini*- dent wns closely e.\iuiiinod by an un- doubtedly competent authority, who was rpiite conxinccd of tlio geiiuiiie- ni<ra of tbe convict's sitory. lu the early '.lait of the lust> century tho pri5?onei» working on tho roads to- war<l y>o iUne mountains often cam^ acrtiss the yellow metal, but the re- ports were always suppret-sed pur- posely by tho authorities, I