(Copyright 1901.)

WASHINGTON D.C. - In this discourse

Dr. Talmage calls for a more demonstrative religion and a hearty speaking cut on the right side of everything, text Mark ix. 25, "Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I charge then come out of him.

Here was a case of great domestic anguish. The sun of the household was possessed of an evil spirit, which among other things paralyzed his tongue and made him

speechless. When thew influence was on the patient he could not say a word - articulation was impossible. The spirit that captured this member of the household was a dumb spirit - so called by Christ - a spirit abroad today and as ugly and potent as in New Testament times. Yet, in all the realms of sermonology I cannot find a discourse concerning this devil which Christ charged upon in my text, saying, "Come out of him"

There has been much destrucive superstition abroad in the world concerning possession of evil spirits. Under the form of belief to witchcraft this delusion swept the continents. Persons were supposed to be possessed with some evil spirit which made them able to destroy others. In the sixteenth century in Genevt 1500 persons were burned to death as witches. Under one judge, in Lorraine, 900 persons were burred to death as witches. In one neighborhood of France 1000 persons were burned. In two centuries 200,000 persons were slain as witches. So mighty was the delusion that it included among its vic-

tims some of the greatest intellects of all time, such as Chief Justice Matthew Hale and Sir Edward Coke, and such renowned ministers of religion as Cotton Mather, one of whose books Benjamin Franklin said shaped his life - and Richard Barter and Archbishop Cranmer and Martin Luther, and among writers and philosophers Lord Bacon. That belief which has become the laughing stock of all sensible people counted its disciples among the wisest and best people of Sweden, Germany, England, France, Spain and New England. But while we reject witchcraft,

your large and extensive reading have you come across a lovelier character than Jesus

Christ? Will you please to name the triumphant deathbeds of infidels and atheists?

ual existence when standing before the afflicted one of the text He said. "Thou

to a spiritbefore the

Against this dumb devil of the text I put you on your guard. Do not think that this agent of evil has put his blight on; those who by omission of the vocal organs have had the golden gates of speech bolted and barred. Among those who have never spoken a word are the most gracious and lovely and talented souls that were ever incarnated. The chaplains of the asylums for the dumb can tell you enchanting stories of those who never called the name of father or mother or child, and many of the most devout and prayerful souls will never in this world

speak the name of God or Christ.

Many a deaf mute have I seen with the angel of intelligence seated at the window of the eye, who never came forth from the door of the mouth. What a miracle of loveliness and knowledge was Laura Bridgman, of New Hampshire, not only without faculty of speech, but without hearing

and without sight, all these faculties removed by sickness when two years of age, yet becoming a wonder at needlework, at

the piano, at the sewing machine and an intelligent student of the Scriptures and confounding philosophers who came from all parts of the world to study the phenomenon. Thanks to Christianity for what it has done for the amelioration of

the condition of the deaf and the dumb

Back in the ages they were put to death on having no right, with such peacity of equipment, to live, and for centuries they were chased among the idiotic and unsafe. But in the sixteenth century came Pedro Ponce, the Spanish monk, and in the seveenth century came Juan Pablo Bonet, another Spanish monk, with dactylology or the finger alphabet, and in our own century we have had John Braidwood and Drs. Mitchell and Ackerly and Peet and Uallandet, who have given to uncounted thousands of those whose tongues were forever silent the power to spell out on the air by a manual alphabet their thoughts about this world and their hopes for the next. We rejoice in the brilliant

inventions in behalf of those who were born dumb.

One of the most impressive audiences I ever addressed was in the Far West, an audience of about 600 persons, who had never heard a sound or spoken a word, an interpreter standing beside me while I addressed them. I congratulated that audience on two advantages they had over

the most of us - the one that they escaped

saying things they were sorry for afterward. Yet after all the alleviations of a

shackled tongue is an appealing limitation.

But we are not this morning speaking of congenial mutes. We mean those who are born with all the faculties of vocalization and yet have been struck by the evil one

mentioned in the text - the dumb devil to whom Christ called when He said, "Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I charge thee, come out of him." There has been apotheosization of silence. Some one has said silence is gold-

en, and sometimes the greatest triumph is to keep your mouth shut. But sometimes silence is a crime, and the direct result of the baleful influence of the dumb devil of our text. There is hardly a man

or woman who has not been present on

some occasion when the Christian religion became a target for raillery. Perhaps it goes over in the store some day when there was not much going on and the clerks

were in a group, or it was in the factory, at the noon spell, or it was out on the

arm under the trees while you were resting, or it was in the clubroom, or it was

in a social circle, or it was in the street on

the way home from business, or it was on

lence gives consent to the bombardment of your Father's house. You allow a slur

dared not face a sickly joke. Better load

up with a few questions, so that next time

up with a few questions, so that next time

to be cast on your mother's dying pillow. In behalf of Christ, who for you went through the agonies of assassination on the rocky bluff back of Jerusalem, you

What do you think of the sermon on the mount? How do you like the golden rule

17. "The first day of the feast." The 14th of Nisan was the day of preparation and hence railed the first day of the feast. "Where wilt thou." Jesus had no home of His own, and the disciples knew that some place must be chosen at once. "That we prepare." That which was required consisted of a room furnished with a table and couches; and for food, unleavened bread, bitter herbs, wine and a paschal lamb, which must be slain in the temple ween 3 and 5 o'clock, and cooked in a

Robert E. Lee

Stonewall Jackson, Admiral Foote, Ad-

miral Farragut, Ulysses S. Grant, John Milton, William Shakespeare, Chief Justice Marshall, John Adams, Daniel Webs-

ter. George Washington? How do you account for their rongness for the Christian religion? "Among the innumerable colleges and

put him on a rout compared with which our troops at Bull Run made no time at all.

the text? But then there are occasions when this particular spirit that Christ had exorcised

when He said, "I charge thee to come out of him" takes people by the wholesale. In the most responsive religious audience have you noticed how many people never sing at all? They have a book, and they hare a voice, and they know how to read. They know many of the tunes and yet are silent while the great raptures of music pass by. Among those who sing not one out of a hundred sings loud enough to hear his own voice. They him it. They

a voice strong enough to stop a street car

one block away, all they can afford in the praise of God is about half a whisper. With enough sopranos, enough altos, enough bassos to make a small heaven between the four walls, they let the opportunity go by unimproved. The volume of

voice that ascends from the largest audience that ever assembled ought to be multiplied two thousandfold. But the

minister rises and gives out the hymn, the organ begins, the choir or preceptor leads, the audience are standing so that the

lungs may have full expansion, and a mighty harmony is about to ascend when the evil spirit spoken of in any text - the dumb devil - spreads his two wings over

the lips of one-half of the audience, and the other wing over the lips of the other half of the audience, and the voices roll back into the throats from which they started, and only here and there anything is heard, and nine-tenths of the holy power is destroyed, and the dumb devil, as he flies away, says, "I could not keep lease Watts from writing that hymn, and I could not keep Lowell Mason from composing the tune to which it is set, but I smote into silence or half silence the lips from which it would have spread abroad to bless neighborhoods and cities and then mount the wide open heavens." Give the long meter doxology the full support of Christendom and those four lines would

This is the way I account for the fact that the stupidest places on earth are

some prayer meetings. I do not see how a man keeps any grace if he regularly attends them. They are spiritual refigers-

tors. Religion kept on ice. How many of us have lost occasions of usefulness! In a sculptor's studio stood a figure of

the good Opportunity. The sculptor had made the hair fall down over the face of

the statue so as to completely cover it,

and there were wings to the feet. When

asked why he so represented Opportunity

the sculptor answered, "The face of the statue is thus covered up because we do

not recognize Opportunity when it comes, and the wings of the feet show that Opportunity is swiftly gone. But do not let the world deride the church because of all this, for the dumb devil is just as conspicuous in the world. The great political parties assemble at the proper time to build platforms for the candidates to stand on. A committee of each party is appointed to make the platform. After proper deliberation the committees come in with a ringing report, "whereas" and "whereas" and "whereas." Pronunciamentos all shaped with the one

ideas of getting the most votes. All expression in regard to the great moral evils of the country ignored. No expression in behalf of temperate living, for that would lose the vote of the liquor traffic. No expression in regard to the universal attempt

at the demolition of the Lord's day. No recognition of God in the history of nations. for that would lose the vote of

Subject: The Lord's Supper, Matt XXVI, 17-30 -OwlJen Text, Luke XXII, 19- Memory Verses,

26-28 - Commentary on the Day's Lesson.

private house.

18. "Go into the city." Luke says that Peter and John were sent. They were now at Bethany and Jesus sends them to Jerusalem. "To such a man." It is probable that this meant some person with whom Christ was well acquainted, and who was known to the disciples. Mark and Luke state that they would meet a man bearing a pitcher of water, whom they were to follow. "Say unto him." Say unto the master of the house, "who was probably a disciple, but secretly, like many others, for fear of the Jews (John 12:42); and this may explain the suppression of his name." "The Master saith." The Teacher saith, "My time is at hand." The time of His death, elsewhere called

His hour. Jesus knew that in a few hours He would yield up His life. "At

thy house " This message seems stranger to us than it would to the man, even if he had little knowledge of Jesus. During

the week of Passover hospitality was recognized as a universal duty in Jerusalem.

10. "Did as Jesus had appointed them." They obeyed in every particular and

found everything as Jesus had foretold. 20. "The even was come." It was prob-

ably while the sun was beginning to decline in the horizon that Jesus and the dis-

ciples descended on once more over the Mount of Olives into the holy city. "Sat

down." Or reclined, according to the custom of that time. It was at this time that the disciples strove among themselves as to which should be accounted the greatest/ Luke 22:24. The strife probably began when they were talking their positions at the table. It is suggested that this contention is the probable reason for some of

the exhortations in John 13:1-20, and for the washing of the disciples' feet. Possibly those sought the places of honor at the table who had been especially honored on

other occasions. Let us remember that "the self-seeking spirit leads to Satan's kingdom, not to Christ's. "To be first or nothing leads to crimes and wars." He who does the humblest service in order to

relieve the wants of others, or cleanse their souls from sin, does to them as

Christ did to the disciples.

21. "As they did eat." The Passover not the Lord's supper. "He tasted first the unleavened bread and the bitter herbs before the lamb was served." The significance of the Passover: 1. It marked the beginning of the Jewish nation. 2. It reminded them of the mercy of God in pro tecting the first born. 3. It commemorated their deliverance from Egyptian bondage. 4. It reminded them of their sin and need of atonement. 5. Unleavened bread signified separation from sin. 6. Bitter herbs signified repentance. "One of you." How sad! One who is pledged to be faithful and true, Jesus was troubled in spirit. John 13:21. "Shall betray me." Judas bad already agreed to betray Him. The Saviour was not taken

by surprise.

22. "Exceeding sorrowful. Because He was to be betrayed, and because one of their number was about do perform the dastardly act. “Is it I?" They also asked themselves the question. Luke 22:23. 23. “He that dippeth" The thought of verse 21 is repeated. It was at this point that Peter beckoned to John who was leaning on Jesus's bosom, to ask Jesus who it should be (John 13:22-27); and Jesus gave them a sign by which they knew. 24. "Goeth." To the cross and to death. "As it is written." In such Scriptures as Isaiah 53. "Woe unto that man." “A sad statement of a terrible fact." Jesus had previously told of His betrayal and death, but it must be remembered that the betrayer acted voluntarily; the prophecy did not compel him to sin, but merely told that in the natural course of events he would sin. "Had not been born." This proves conclusively that for the lost soul there is no redemption. 25. "Is it I?" Judas tried to cover his hypocrisy and wickedness by asking this question. He knew that he was even now seeking an opportunity to do this very

thing, and if he had not been spiritually blind he would have known that Jesus knew all about it, too. "Thou hast said:" A Hebrew form of affirmation. 26. "Took bread." Took the loaf or thin cake of unleavened bread which was before Him. "Blessed it." Invoked the blessing of God upon it. "Broke it." The act was designed to shadow forth the wounding, piercing, and breaking of Christ's body on the cross. "This is My body." This bread represents My body. 27. "The cup." "The word "wine" is not used, but "cup," "the fruit of the vine" (v. 29), so that "unfermented grape juice was all thaw was used." "Gave thanks." It was like giving thanks over the shedding of His own blood. "Drink ye all." They were all to drink of this. Mark says, "They drank all of it." 28. "Is My blood." Represents My blood. "The sins of the world are put away, not merely through the influence of Christ's life, teachings, and example, but by His blood that was poured out for lost man." "Of the covenant" (R. V). It was an old covenant renewed, and thus a new promise to men that God would provide a great salvation, and use His infinite wisdom and love in seeking to save a lost world: "For many." For all mankind.

The American Boy of Today Has a Distinct Advancing. In his training for life the American boy of today has one distinct advan tage which his father lact. The me chanical toys of the time cannot come into a boy's possession without giving him a certain acquisition of mechanical ideas which may be of value to him in his future career. The present development in electricity has been made by men who knew practically nothing of electrical appliances in boyhood. With the manipulation of electrical toys, the work of the next generation will be taken up by men to whom many of the devices of today

have been familiar since early youth.The 20th century boy of 10 years is in a fair way to know more about the possibilities of electricity than the professor of natural philosophy under stood 50 years ago. The principles on which the modern

toys operate are practically the same those used in complicated machinery. The toy electric railway is now equipped down to the slightest detail. The power may be supplied from a battery or from a generator driving a small turbine connected with a running water, faucet. Steel rails are laid about the room from which the motor in the toy engine receives its supply of power. There are passenger and freight cars, signal towers and sidetracks from which the boy may learn about the operation of railroads. He is taught the use of positive and negative currents; how to connect electric light; how to manage a dynamo. In fact. If he knew how much he was learning he would probably rebel at the thought. There are other devices besides toy railroads to instill knowledge into youthful minds under the guise of play. Battleships and torpedo boats supplied with a wet-cell battery for motive power will cut through the waves of an ordinary pond with decks awash. Then there are automobiles operated by electricity and manifold games of similar sort. The steam engine has been in the toy department for years. Its principles have become familiar to children who have played with it in their homes. The possession of such a toy is a stimulus to the boy's Inventive capacity. He is Constantly tempted to build something for the engine to run. No intelligent young American owns a machine that ''goes" without trying to find out the principles on which it is built. His curiosity is stimulated and must be satisfied. Here is where his elders may find their opportunity. They may not care to bother with his questions, in which case they may be able to stifle his curiosity with evasive answers. Or they may encourage an intelligent study of the principles involved. There are plenty of good books on mechanics and electricity which boys can understand with a little explanation. These may be referred to in connection with the toys. Then, when the boy has become somewhat familiar with the habits of electricity, he may be encouraged to make various simple devices such as ere described in any elementary book on the subject. In this way Christmas toys may prove a valuable factor in educating the rising generation in the field in which the 20th century is expected to show marvelous development. - Kan sas City Star.

How the Burglar Was Caught. A rather curious method of burglar catching was resorted to by an ingenious maid servant recently in New York. As the Electrical Review tells the story, white in pursuit of her household duties - the maid noticed a man's foot inside the clothes closet. She did not scream, neither did she jump at the door, nor shut it with a bang; instead she took a broom and began to sweep that corner of the room near the closet. Her approach was gradual, and the sweeping was done so naturally that it would not have aroused the most suspicious burglar. At last the broom brushed the door gently but hard enough to close it to the fraction of an inch. With five or six more gentle sweeps that closet door was shut gnd almost latched, which she at length succeeded in doing by gently pressing her arm against it. As the telephone in her house was so near the closet that the burglar would not be able to hear her if she called for assistance, she bethought herself of another plan. In the back yard some telephone linemen were at the time making repairs on a wire that runs to another house in the block. She went out and spoke to them. They promptly tapped a wire, attached an instrument and called up one of the downtown exchanges, which, in turn, got the house owner, who, in his turn, called up police headquarters. From there the call was sent to the police station nearest the house and two policemen were sent around and got the man.

One of the curious and suggestive details in the latest report of the Swiss factory inspectors relates to the attitude of the operates in a certain factory in regard to an improved ventilating apparatus. They objected to it because it would breed rheumatism. Two years later the same laborers refused to go to another building because it lacked the ventilating apparatus.

POSTED AS LOST THE SHIP TURNS UP AFTER MINE MONTHS. One of the Most Remarkable Cases Ever Known in Marine History - A Gruesome Yarn of Storm and Calm and Sickness - Heroic Deeds of the Skipper's Wife. One of the most remarkable cases of a vessel being posted at Lloyd's as missing and then turning up was that of the sky sail clipper T. F. Oakes, the first American Iron square-rigger ever launched. She left the port of HongKong on July 4, 1896, for New York Her usual time frmo China to Sandy Hook was about 125 days. After she had been out about 250 days, and was not reinsurable, she was posted. Heagen's had given her up as lost, and the relatives of her skipper, Captain Edward W. Reed, and his wife, who accompanied him on the voyage had gone into mourning. The nautical world was startled when, on Monday, March 22, 1897, the old iron ship appeared in the port of New York, 260 days out of Hong Kong. She brought as grewsome a yard of storm and calm and sickness as was ever spun in forecastle or cabin. The missing ship came in tow of the oil-carrying steamship Kasbek, which sailed from Philadelphia on March 13 deep laden lor Flume. When she was about three hundred miles southeast of Sandy Hook one of her officers who was on the bridge, saw a blue light gleaming through the frosty air, thick siwh spoondrlft. The tank bore down toward the signal, and when she was within bailing distance of the Oakes, Captain Muir, who had been summoned from his cabin, shouted across the troubled sea 'Heave to, you are moving too fast for us." A feeble voice returned this strange answer. "We can't do it; send a boat to us" 'The Oakes was on the starboard tack, pitching into the swells with only her fore, main and mizzen lower topsails set. Captain Muir lowered a boat with three men, in charge of Chief Officer Heteham The scant sail of the clipper forced her barnacled hull through the seas at less than two knots, and the muscular oarsmen of the tank, by hard rowing, were able to overhaul her within half an hour. Before dawn Helsham was alongside. A voice from the ship said: "We want a tow." "What do you want to pay?" Helcham asked. Then the voice, which was that of Second Mate Abrams, responded, "We'll settle that by arbitration; six of our crew are dead, twelve are sick in the fok's'le and only two of us can move about ship.' Helsham returned to the Kasbek, reported the clipper's condition to Captain Muir, who shouted to the Oakes: 'We'll stand by you.' "The British sailors got out a nineinch manilla bawser and bent it on a two-and-a-half-inch line. The line was passed through a hawser pipe astern

and got afowl of the propeller. About 125 fathoms of it spun and slashed around the propeller blades, and the outboard part of the tail shaft. The propeller was jammed and the engine came to a stop before Chief Engineer Stevens could shut off steam. The tank was so windward of the squarerigger and drifted directly into her course. The chief engineer tried to start the ship again by using the auxiliary turning engine, which broke down. The iron prow of the Oakes would have pierced the hull of the Kasbek if her sailormen had not hoisted on her three pole masts fore-and-aft sails which she used in emergency. As it was, there was only a boat’s length between the two ships when the Kasbek backed out of the Oakes' course. The tank was helpless about eight hours. A westerly gale sprang up and the Oakes vanished below the horison. The chief engineer uncoupled the propeller shaft and forced it aft until the propeller boss was clear of the stern post. He and his men had been unable to free from the tail shaft the two and one-half inch line, which had been jammed about it. After uncoupling the propeller shaft there was a apace of about an inch between the separate flanges of the couplines, and into this space

so far

the chief engineer fitted pieces of tough oak; the shaft was thus made

an inch longer, and that inch was

wooden section to the shaft. The engines were started, and the Kasbek's captain decided to save the old clipper if he could. He came in sight of

her late in the afternoon. A gale permeated with snow was howling out of the north. It was too rough to launch a boar, and the Kasbek stood by the crippled ship nearly two days. The sea had subsided somewhat, and the port life boar was loaded with flour, taplocs, potatoes, lime juice, whisky and medicine. The Kasbek steward gave up all his provisions. Captain Muir had surmised that there was scurvy on the ship, and this prompted him to send the antidotes. As Chief Officer Helsham said later, 'The only able seaman I found aboard the Oakes was Mrs. Reed, the wife of the captain.' "Captain Reed said that every soul except his wife was sick with scurvy, of which five seamen had died

Twelve utterly eipious men lay in their bunks in various stages of delirium. Some had lost all their teeth. They were nursed by tba sailors of the Kasbek until the ship got into Sandy Hook. The Kasbek's able seaman furled the old clipper's sails, and she was taken in tow. After she got into quarantine Captain Reed, his

wife, and those of his men who were

able to talk, spun the yarn of the hapless ship's protracted voyage. When she sailed from Hong Kong her crew were in good health. The skipper was recovering from a paralytic stroke. This affected his tongue, and he was unable to talk so his men could readly understand him. He gave his orders to his wife, who has a good deep sea voice and she, in turn, gave them to the men. In the China sea the ship was struck by two typhoons which blew her out of her course. Captain Reed had intended to sail by way of Cape of Good Hope, but he was

so far off his course that he decided to

make for the Hera. He had very little lime juice and vegetables, but plenty of "salt horse." He had expected to make the whole voyage inside the time it took him to reach Cape Horn. Light airs and calms held him back. He lost his Chinese cook by pneumonia, and in December, 1896, scurvy broke out in the forecastle. Seaman Thomas King died to it on December 26. Thomas Olsen succumbed in January. Thomas J. died on February 17. He wrote a letter in his delirium, in which he said that he believed the captain was giving the seamen something to make them swell up, and he believed that the mate and the young Chinaman aft knew something about it. Mate Steven G. Bunker and Seaman George King also died in February. On March 1 only the skipper, his wife and the second and third mate were able to work. The wife kept the log, as neither of the mates were able to work because of swollen hands. A brisk gale sprang up, and the crippled mates went aicit to furl the main topsail. Captain Reed's wife said that at this period of the voyage she began her hardest work. The captain came to me, she said, in telling the marine reporters her experience, and asked me to take the wheel while he helped those on deck. I did so. It was bitter cold and I was not prepared for the weather, but I stuck to the wheel until my husband came aft and relieved me until I could go below and get a big ulster of his to wran myself in. I was steadily at it that day from 7 o'clock until noon. I was pretty tired before I was relieved. I went back to the wheel after I had a little

rest and something to eat.

''Mrs. Reed worked gallantly for the helpless sailors, making broths and gruels of oatmeal for them. They begged for salt meat, but, as that would hare added to their illness they were not allowed to have it. "Llodys' agent In New York read of the heroism of the skipper's wife and

found that the story ated. Lloyds decided that the heroism was worthy of recognition, so they authorized Captain Clark to send her a medal. - S. A. Wood, in Ainslee's

Magazine.

QUAINT AND CURIOUS. "An open door will tempt a saint." This rather unusual proverb was engraved on a key-ring, the property of a man found drowned in the Lea, England. The colors of a kingfisher become dull after death. No one who has seen only the stuffed bird can form any idea af the brilliance of its plumage. when alive. Professor Lewis of Berlin has found among 300 laborers who constantly handle copper, eight men whose hair had in consequence obtained a greenish tinge, which no washing would remove. The phenomena has been

More animals are lost to the singe through fear than visciousness. The show people dread a timid lion or leopard, not only because in its panic

it is likely to injure the trainer, but because it is unreliable, and may take fright and spoil a performance at any moment from the slightest causes.

A monster conger eel, measuring eight feet, eight inches in length, two feet four inches in girth, and weighing 148 pounds, has been caught on the beach at Shettisham, near Huntstanton, England. The fisherman's attention was attracted to it by some sea gulls hovering over shallow water, where the cel waa captured after a

long struggle.

with two brains is surely a

novelty, yet Dr. Charot, the French specialist, inclines to the idea that

lightning calculator and