DOOR OF MERCY. Rev. Dr. Tilcuxe Say* There Will Be Salvation lor the Morally Shipwrecked. Yield Not t* t»e Forte si Immoral Qrsvlta-rtoa-HelphUacta si Cetfrlaa.

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is not a but only

late*, the ice broke and his 1 -as bruught un. And in all mat temptation ami allurement it is

prolongation that is proposed, bu. **Our libraries are adorned with elegant

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a have heard

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sail a own scream, toe hoc carrying you

TOW it?’As long js^we^yield^to^the^. babits we are sailing down stream, but thtf moment we try to turn we put our boat in the rapids just above Niagara and try “a^ESTSiI. bis patient that be must quit tbc use of tobacco, as it is destroying bis health. The man replies, "I can atop that mbit easy enough. He

sen.' are cannot add up o coyono oa rara5dtis^’Ssi‘ ™ He feels his burdnrss is going to nun. mere he was kind and obliging be is •eolding and fretfuK The composure that characterised him has given way to a fretful restlessness, and he has become, a complete fidget. Whit power i; it that has tolled a wave of woe over the earth and ;S'X^£,‘^.p4- k “ am going to do as I please; the doctor

es its usual composure. — . .ms to brighten. The ■world'becomes, an attractive plae* to live &1 the**retunvof 'thrir wadtkm. mat wave of color has dashed to the sky snd, greennias isto the sto lifted a world of beasty and joy on 1 soul? He has resumed tobaoeo. Tbs faet is w« all hat habit

-.-i ship cable and thrown into the track of bone breaking Juggernauts. In Paris there is a sculptured repn

bat that he is riding a tnonsler wild and Heodthirstv snd going at a death leap. I baie also to ssy if a man want* to

pteple underw is in a good, ,. Sometimes when you have left the need of encouragement and some Christian man has taken you heartily by the band have you not felt thrilling through every fiber of your body, mind and soul an rnoouragement that waa just what you needed? The prodigal, waiting to get into good society, enters a prayer meeting. Some good man without much sense greets him by saying: "Why are you heref You are about the last person that I expected to see in a prayer meeting. Well, the dying thief was saved, and there is hope for you." You do not know anything about this, unless you have learned that When a man tries to return from evil courses of conduct ho runs against repulsions innu-

merable.

We say of some man, "He lives a block or two from the church, or half a mile from the church.” In all our great cities there are men who are 8000 miles from church—vast deserts of indifference

between them and the house of God.

The fset is we must keep our respectability though thousands perish. Christ sat with publicans and ainners, but if nere.come to the house of God a man ith marks of dissipation upon him people w almost sure to put up their hands in _arror, as much as to aiy, "la it not ahockingT' **._,_,•

heaven I do not know unless

-i.i -—i- of cars

‘ns's; ■ “ “-“ISV” lip -U;

you might have hcea e. crouching wretch in stablc'.or ditch covered with hlth and

abomination!

It is not because we are naturally any better, but because the mercy of God has protected us. Those that are brought up in Christian parentage should not be so hard on the fallen. I think also that men are often hindered from returning by the fact that churches are anxious about their membership, too anxious about their denominatinna, and they rush out when they see a man about to give up sin and return to God and ask him how he is going to be baptized, whether by sprinkling or immersion, and what kind of a church he is

going to join.

Oh, despise not parental anxiety! The time will come when you will have neither

father nor mother, a

h you and find them gone e_and gone from the fie!d_

—I neighborhood.]—

and gone Cry as Iona for

may over the mound , they cannot answer.

nor mother, and you trill go the place ^where they ^used to

from the neigl

forgiveness as yon in the churchysrd.

Dead! Dead!

God pity the young man who has brought disgrste on his fathers name! God pity the young man who has. broken his mother's heart! Better that he had never been born. Better if in the first hour of bis life, instead of bring laid against the warm bosom of maternal tenderness, he had been coffined and sepulehered. There is no balm powerful enough to -heal the heart of one who haa brought parents to a sorrowful grave, and who wanders about through ti e dismal cemetery rending the air and wringing the hands and crying: “Mother! Mother!" Oh, that to-day, bv all the memories of the {last and hr at) the hopes of the future, you would yield your heart to God! aur father’* r '~- ' ‘ ‘

i your God

This hour the door of mercy swings wide open. Hesitate not a moment. & many a cate hesitation is thq lots of all.

~ of a street I saw a tragedy.

doubted as to

God be your God forever!

This hour the < de open, w—*-

A -ycfur^lnsn evidently i which direction he had better take. bat was lifted high enough eo you could ace he had an intelligent forehead. He had a stout chest and a robust development. Splendid young man! Cultured young man! Honored young man! Why did be stop there while so many were going up and down? The fact is that every young man has a good angel and a bad angel contending for the mastery of his spirit, and there were a good angel and a bad angel struggling with that young man's soul at :he corner of the street. "Come along with me,” said the good angel; “I will take yon home. I will spread my wings over your pillow. I will lovingly escort you all through life under supernatural protection. I will bless every cup you drink out of, every couch you rest on, every doorway you enter. I will consecrate your tears when yon weep, tout sweat when you toil, and at the last 1 will hand over your grave into the hand of the bright angel of a Christian resurrection. I hare been sent of the Lord to be your guardian spirit. Come with me" said the good angel in a voice of unearthly symphony. It was music like that whien drops from a lute of bcavan when a ser-

aph breathes on it.

"Oh./no/' said the bad angel, "come srith me. I have something better to of-

indulgence. — the temples of

* Italia

wjmre I

through meadow* daisied and primrose

Come with me."

e I worship. T paths I {read s

The young man hesitated at a time when caitaiion waa ruin, and the bad angel -mote the good angel until it departed, spreading wmga through the starlight, upward and away until a door swung open in the aky, and forever the wing* van-

m the aky, and forever the srinn vanished. That was the tnrnins point in that young nuTn’s hi«torr, for, the good angel Sown, he ^hesitated ha loiter, wit started

v.!

THE SABBATH SCHOOL

PEARLS OF THO JGHT.

November 17. Subject: The CbIMbood of Moms. Ex. 1L, 1-18 —Goldco Text, Prov. xxU., d—Memory Verses, 7-10—Commestary oo tbc Day's Lesson. 1. “A man." His name w»» Amrem and hia wife'* name sraa Jochebed. E*. fi: 20; Hum. 28: 80. "House of Leri." Thus Moses's parent* were both of the tnbe of H*' - “A •on.’’ Therewere^ two ^children

nes mar nr wa» noi oni>- a pcncvi. formed child, but that he .waa very beautiful. This very circumstance was wisely ordained by the kind providenee of God to be one means of his preservation. rresta the heart more

HU beauty.wronld induce even hi* parent* double their exertions to save him, snd lUbly the sol* motive which led

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ineral tar.

. Nil* mt Ife. U JSrV STS SaSEBTire

storr, for,

tatrd ha lancer, . thway which U beautiful at the but blasted at the last. The bad

opening, but blasted at the last. The bad angel led the way through gate after gate, and at each gate the road became rougher and the sky more lurid, and what was pw culiar. as-the gate slammed shut it came, to with a jar'that indicated it would never 1 open. Pa it each portal there were a grinding of locks and o shoring of bolts, and the scepery on each side of the road changed from gardens to desert*, and the .June air became a cutting December blast, and the bright .wings of the bad angei turned to sackcloth, and the fnnntaip* that at the start had tossed with wine poured forth bubbling tears of foaming blood. And on the right rids of the road there was a serpent, and the man' said to the bad angel, “What is that eerpant?" And the answer waa. “That i* the serpent of stinging remorse.” On the left side of the road there was a lion, and the man a.ked the bad angel. "What U that lion?” The answer was. “That ia the lion of all devouring despair.” A vulture flew. answer wa*. 'That ia the vulture waiting

for the carcaase* of the •!*«.’'

And then the man said to the had angel, “What does all this mean? I treatedin whgt yon said at the street comer;.! treated it all. Why have you thus <ie-

tied that night at t_ gamed my triumph. Now Ha, b*! You are here! Come, now, let a* fill the chalice and drink to darkness and wo* and death! HaH. hail!” Oh, young man, will the good angel sent ferth by Christ or the bad angal sent forth Ire sin get th* victory over rpur sool?- Their wing, are interlocked Ibis $£££*«!

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60. “Alar off.” So ss not to show, her anxiety. ‘To wit." "To know.” R. V. It was her duty to see whether Pharaoh's daughter found him, and whether he was in dancer from any cause. 5. “Daughter of Pharaoh." It lias been estimated that the waa about sixteen years of age at thii time, and that Mo*es waa born in the sixth year of the reign of Ramese* II. 'To bathe” (R. V.) The women of Egypt are now kept jealously secluded in harems, and it is not customary for them to bathe in the Nile. But it baa been shown that the

rient Egypt were quit had liberties, such " • lands do now, — •

was a e

time.

itrained. and

i as women in Christian id bathing in the river practice with them at that

— the

there fenced off as a protect

lib*.

The water sraa

and doabtleas the princes* had

an enclosure reserved for her own use, the road to which seems to have been known to Joebebed. "Walked along."

Hence the discovery of the ark made by them, but by the prin

self, a providential circumstances, as it led her to s personal interest in the babe. “Sent her handmaid" (R. V.) Her imme-

she saw

ie of the w mothchild in

” T

diate attendant. 6. “Saw the child,

the child she knew that it arts one Hebrew children, for only a Hebrew

er would hare need f this manner. ‘The

«r. I tuy babe wept.” The sight of a beautiful babe in distress could not fail to make the impression here mentioned. See v. 2. It has been conjectured that the cruel edict of the Egyptian king did not eontinne long in force. See chap. J: 22. “Had compeasion." Thus the babe found a protector in the very family of

the king who decreed its death.

“Save the boys.” Our great cities are filled with children who are expoaed to a worse Tate than Pharaoh’s decree or crocodile* in the river. Legislation is too stern and severe, and will destroy instead of save. Only recently two six-year-old boys were arraigned in the Chicago police c ‘

ity is also too rough to be trusted with the little life that must b« lifted out of the slum. Tender hands are needed to dry the tears of these "weeping babies.” We must look to Christian women. They should use their eyes to see the facte, and not be so busy about their own luxury and comfort that they pass the poor pitch-covered box unnoticed, and they should conquer the prejudices of race and the fear of lowering themselves. 7. “His sister." Miriam had drawn near enough to see and hear everything. No doubt the child had been carefully instructed by her mother. But God's hand was directing matters snd to Him, rather then to any hua*-- — ; - J — *■

praise be given. 9. “Nurse it."

the mother became

cr.. ^^d her*

Him. rather i, must the

By. thus taking-the child me from this time in Moqnired servant of the

doubly i whien

r safe as the servant of the royal —. but she had the infinitely better ys of seeing her son safe, and having privilege of caring for him and train-

ing him. 'Took the child." No doubt this God-fearing mother trained her child.

a ring mother trained her

very carefully. Children should be very thankful when they hav* Christian parents who bring them up in the knowledge “l0. '““Unto ' Pharaoh’s daughter." Though it must have been nearly as ae- . eere a trial for Jochebed to part with him the second time as the first, she was. Joubtle**, reconciled to it by her belief in hit high destination as the future delivcrfwof Israel. “He became her son.” Bv adoption, and the high rank afforded him advantages in education which, in the providenee uf God, ware made aulwervient to far different purpoea* from what hia royal patroness intended. We can obtain tn Idea of what hi* education was fromActs 7: 22. But Moses had not only a moral and an intellectual training, but, recording to Josephus, he had also a precUcal preparation for the greaf'work that ra* before him. It appears that the Ethiopians came into Egypt and routed the irmy that was senttq resist them, where-

had f.

the moat

. “ChBad h_

at ta tha name givan to him by th*

of Egypt.

Bier helm pa lac* waa built by th- ' British for the great dak* of Mar) borough, at a coat of £100.000-, In thdays of Queen Anna. IA th* groandi are a triumphal arch and a oolumi 130 faet high, with a atato# of Marl borough on the top. Th* magnlflcem park surrounding the palace comprise! 2,700 acres and hia a circuit of twe’

miles.

! all good government.-

Self love la not so vile a sin aa selfneglecting.—Shakespeare. Memory la the receptacle and sheath of all knowledge.—Cicero. Impartiality la the life of juatlce, a*

justice la of

Reed.

Bad habits arc as infectious by ample os the plague Itself la by contact.

—Fielding.

The world ia full of hopeful analogie*

and handsome dubh albilltiea.—George

Passion often makes fools of the ablest men, and able men of the foolish.—Rochefoucauld. In this world it Is not what we take up, but what we'glve up, that makes us rich.—H. W. Beecher. Nobility of character manifests Itself at loop-holes when It la not pro with laige door*.—Mary E. Wllkl

ivc read everythin

iblous 9 Elio

eggs called pos-

under* land everything, too;

so. Reading only

furnishes the mind with material of

TTiey who havi thought to nnden

hut it is not always so. Real with

knowledge; It ia thinking that mokes

what wo read oura.—Channlng.

Cheerful temper, Joined with Innocence, will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful and wit good natured.. It will lighten sickness, poverty and affliction, convert Ignorance Into an amiable simplicity and render deformity Itself agreeable.—Joseph Ad-

dison.

For safety and for swiftness, clear light and successful labor, there Is nothing like the present Practically speaking. the moment that is fly-

ing hoi

-Ids more of eternity than all

lulds pahle

Is manufactured piece meal

past; and the future h-

and only becomes capable of holi

any aa It Is manufacture! Into the present—Faber.

WHY DUMMY WATCHES SAY BilB

Th* first Raported Hoar at

cola Wk» Shot.

It may be noticed that most of the hands on the old wooden watches and

o'clock. The cause dates back to the day of Abraham Lincoln's death, the year 1863 W. L. Washburn, ^ was considered the pioneer Tn making emblamatic signs, opened a shop at No. 1 Bower}'. The elder Mr. Washbnrn is not living, but bis son, E. G Washburn of No. 46 Cortlandt street said that his father once said: VWhen I first began to make these clocks back in ’G3. I fixed the hands In any way that my fancy dlctati some at one time and some at another. The first watch sign was for Barnum'i old store on Cortlandt street, which was then the Jerome Clock company, and which has long since passed out of existence. I don't know what the hands said on that and I never cared

t the news was flashed that Lincoln had been

snot fn Ford's theatre. I was working

the top I in the n

deed .may nevei

ment. since ft veil, and left

on & sign for a jeweler named Adams, who used to be in Broadway, opposite Stewart's, now Wanamakeris. Adams came running in while I waa-at work. Ho was a strong Lincoln man.

sald:

“ 'Point those hands at the hour Lin-

coln was shot that the d<

be forgotten.'

T pointed th* hands, therefore, at 18 minutes after 8. When I came tc look at the effect I found It was the most convenient arrangcmi displayed Doth hands well, and

half

name of the .

sired. So I threw all my stencils aw

and made new ones for that hoar,

have never varied from the system since, and that's the reason the clock signs point as they do. The Chicago and Cincinnati people. I find, are doing the same thlag They don't know the atory, but they were probably won to my plan by the capability of that particular arrangement for artistic dis-

play in painting."

Besides wooden clocks there

great den

tncles, eye glasses and opci the annual output of which is estimated at over 2000 pieces. Returning tc the protest that 8.18 o' the hour of Lincoln’s assassination Mr. Washburn said he never knew whe to blame for the mistake. Lincoln was inch later ip the even-

demand for large wooden spec-

lug. or a few minutes after 10 o'clock The mistake, though, was never corrected on the wooden elocka.—New

Futrlotli

The man who repairs typewriter? had finished tinkering with the mech anism of the machine and sat down tc' try it. Five or si* times successively

he wrote this line: "Now is the tim

to come to the aid of their The machine, he then aaldr satisfactory working shap£.

Three monttiB later another man who had been sent to repair a typewriter In the same office finished his labors by

writing the identical line,

gested a query-

low does it

people express such patriotic

testing typewriters?''

was asked.

-«Qh t you see, it'a this way " said the icchanlra, “ that sentence cclla for the use of all the finger movement* used in typewriting., and it has become a steak one. Almost every man who

.repairs typewriters makes use of it in

testing the result of his work.” The man’s statement waa borne oat by subsequent observation, for in a

That eug

“How does it happen that all ol you people express such patriotic sen

tlments when

the machine* the pbrnse * used" In the final test-

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