“TIE IKON DID SWIM.” In. Hr. T»l»it< Telit ol So»e el the Wonder* of Divloe Power. fcprtor M Erery Uw of Nntare Wkkk He Dm Made for Muklod.

»r of an oc~ bu peldom

Wauuxotox, D. C-—In thii dlaeourae

Dr. Talmage make* practical u»c

correoce in ' i attraotrd |

Kins* vi, 8, A tbeoloi

palms pear Hi . — ao popularAn the lime of Elixba,

corrmee in the Orient whicl

phel. that more nccom . needed fon the atudenta. The claasroom ' '» mult be enlarged c

thia undertakms? Will they! aeud out anon and marble from the quarriea where

.iff y

propose to build it themaeleea. They were rueged boy*, who had been brought of lumber to Lfcoi; region* along the Jordan. The aycamore is a atont. strong tree and good tor timber. Mr. Gladatone aaked me if I had seen in Paleatme any

now attac

thej nluat hare logical aeminary. atudenU mr J

I m. r _-

made an awkward * extemporised

the new thaoaome of the atroke. and

i. Stand

a nnder! Craah goes one of the another and another. But aome

D tax il wonderful that

happened able to 01 , .Yon muat

aome thing the occttr-

lappena ao u wiU tax the credulity of the ages. ‘ ' still think it ne

“oK:!.!.'™

.ffiiJbErjrbrsi

t , s.Tir& l 2r£r^!:

"irihftkS

» moment he nude his first

"'El'vu, ■ n ' r t!

axe against one ol it was at the m atroke and the el had cut the tree that it was ready

ea ao deep t not tola,'

t wat ready to fall ,, but the axe head and the handle parted.. Being near the riarmide, the axe -head ''’-dropped into river and sank to the muddy

bottom. Great was the student*! dismay. Tf it had been his own axe, it would hare: been bad .enough, but the axe did not belong to him. He had no means, to buy another for the kind man who had loaned it to him. but God helps through Some good and svinpatbetic soul, and in this case it was Elisns who was in the woods and on the river bank at the time. He did not Be* the axe bead fly off. and ao he asked - the student where it dropped. He was shown the place where it went down into the river. Then Elisha broke off a branch of a tree and threw it into the water, and the axe haad rose from the depths of the " rirar and .floated to the bank, ao that the student had just to stoop don and take' up th* restored property. Now you Bee the meaning of my text, "The iron : Suppooe .a hundred yean ago some bad told people the time would come w hundreds of thousands of tons of iron would float on the Atlantic and Pacific— iron ships from New York to Southampton, from London to Calcutta, from Ban Traccieco to Clinton. The man making aueh a prophecy would have been sent to an asylum or MJVfuIly Watched as int peteni to go alone. We have all in — day seen iren swim. Now, if mad can ^.BUtke hundreds of tons of metal float, 1 am disposed to think that the Almighty

could make an axe head float.

■ "What," rays aome one, ‘‘would be the use, of aueh a miracle!". Of vast, of infinite. of eternal -importance. Those atn-

handle. The body is the handle of th* soul. *: Do not feel lonely because your nearest neighbor may be miles a Way, because the width of the continent may separate you from the place where your cradle was rocked and your father's grave was due.' Weakened though you may be by lion's roar or panther's scream. God will help you, whether at the tune the forest around you raves in the midnight hurricane or you suffer, from something quite insignificant, like the loss of an axe bead. Take your Bible out under the trees, if the weather will permit, and after you have listened to the solo of a bird in the tree tops or the long meter psalm of the thunder, read those words of the Bible, w hich must have been written out of doors: "The trees of the Lord are - full of sap, the cedars of Lebanon which He hath plantad, where tbo birds make thtir neats; as .for the stork, the fir trees are her house. The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats and ks for tba; conies. The

imployed in

eiernsi imponance. j dents were preparing for the

They had joined the theological , to get all its advantages. They needed to

have their’faifh atrei

to be thing;

’.reagthened; they nee that God can oe'"ev

ifJtSisuft,

that God

axe head bad their faith re-enforced, and

enlrw.rsl seminaries of one

e of the

. think that the Garden of Eden is. an aile gory, and that Moses did not write the Bantaieuca. and that toe book of Job is • only a draa-.a. and that the book of Jonah is an unreliable fish storr^gnd that water was no* turned into wine, although the bartender now by large dilutk>n_turn* wine into water, and that most of tbe'aocaflcd fairseles of the Old and the New . Testaments were wrought by natural causes. 'When those infidels graduate from thr theologies! seminary and take the pulpits of America as expounders of . the Holy Scripture*, what advocates they witf be of that go .pel for the truth of

which the martyrs died.

Hail the Polycarps and Hugh Latimers and John Knoxes .of the twentieth century. believing the Bible is true in spots! Would to God that some great revir*l of . •grMgioo might sweep through all the ’ topem! seaimarie* of this land, o the faith of^ the coming expounders ol an ^Fjwthermore, ; n tint scene of the text

, v.——. ■—a. —forth

, . borrowing and sets f the importance of returning. I do think inert would have been any mil performed if the young man had owned theaxe thatdippedtfjj’helve. Tbey&UBg

borrow, but it is a duty to borrow. There are tim*. when ae ought to -end. for Christ to- Hi* sermon on the mount declared, *Trom him that would'borrow oi the* turn ■ot thou away." It is right that one borrow the means of getting an education, a* the young student of my text borrowed the axe. It is right to borrow means lor the for war din* of commercial ends. Most of the vaat fortune. that now overshadow the Had ware batched out of a borrowed dollar. ~

asent need brawn as well as ££=£." sss-sxTai's Ipisp

young bona roar ...... their meat from God. The sun ariseth, they gather themselves together and lay them down in their dens. Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labor until the evening. O Lord, how manifold are Thy works! In wisdom hast Thou mtda all. The earth is full of Thy riebas." How

do you like that sublime pastoral!

My subject also reminds us of the importance of keeping our chief implement for work in good oraer. I think that young theological student on tba banks of Jordan was to blame for not eismii.ing th* sx* before he lifted it that day against a tree.' He could in a moment have found out whether the helve and the head e firmly fastened. The simple fact was t,— the axe was not in good order or the strongest stroke that sent the edge into the hard sycamore would not hava left the implement headless. So God has riven ex®y on* of ns an axe with which to hew. Set ns keep it in good order, having been sharpened by Bible stndy and

strengthened by prayer. The aometimee fail in our work is hav* a doll axe or we do not aright to swing it. Ths l —*•* — on the handle. At the — _. most skill for work and perfett brium we lose our head. We exp

useless excitement tl we ought to have

straightforward work. _• Yocr axe may be a pen or a type or a yardstick or a scales or a tongn* which in legislative hall or buainaaa circle* or Bib* bath dan or pulpit it to speak for God and righteousness, but the axe will Pot

be -worth ranch until it I ' ened on the grindstone of i

Go right through the world and go right through all the past ages, and show me one man or women who has done anything for the world worth (peaking of whose sxe was not ground on the revolving wheel of mighty trouble. It was not David, for be naa dethroned and '—

by trafilisl Absalom. Surely it Paul, for he was ship wrecked and —

with thirty-nine stripes from rod* of dm-

wood on his way to behesdment.

Sorely it was not Abraham Lincoln, called by every vile name that human and satanic twtpstude could invent and depicted by cartoonists with more meanness than any other man ever suffered, on the way to meet a bullet crashing through his

temple*.

Bat I have come to the foot of the Alp*, which we must climb before we can eee the wide reach of my subject. See in all this theme how the impotoibilities may be turned into possibilities. That axa hsad wat sunken in the muddiast river that could be found. The alarmoo student gif Elisha may know where it went down aad may dive for it and perhaps fetch it up. but can the sunken axe bead be lifted witESM t hand throat deep into the mod at the bottom of the river! No; that is impossible. I admit, ao far as human power is concerned, it is impossible, bat with God sfl things are possible. After ths tree branch was thrown upon the surface

of Jordan "the iron did *wim."

Some one asks me, •‘Did yon ever see iron swim!" Yes, yes; many a time. I saw a soul hardened until nothing could make it harder. All styles of un had plied that soul. It wsa petrified as to all fine feeling. It had bean hardening for thirty years. It had gone into the deepest depths. It tad been given np as loet.

The father had given it np. The

prayer." 1 sf prayer—th •wering to 8

the last to one day in < of the dial

ine roomer. do so, had givsa it np. But ,newer to some prayer a branch

disfoliaged tree of Calvary wu thrown into the dark and sullen stream, and the sunken soul responded to its power and rose into the light, and, to the astonishment of the church end the world, ‘the iron did swim." I have seen hundreds of cases like that. When the dying bandit on the cross beside Christ wss conrerted. When Jerry-McAuley, —

metion'-of wandinng men and women that the merchant princes of New York established for him the Wster street and Oremorne mi swims and mourned at his burial, amid the dsmentationa of a city. When Newton, the blaspheming sailor, under the power of the truth was brought to Christ and became one of the mightiest preachers of the gospel that England ever saw. When John Bunyan, whose curses shocked even the prolabs of the fish market, waa so changed in heart and hfe that he could write that wonderful dream, "The Pilgrim’s Progress," in.sneh a way that uncounted thousands have found through it the void from the "city of *—<•*—" »«

the "celestial city.” In all 1-think iron waa made to i the God who can do the il You have a wayward

s how you have cried tried everything for his reforiuation. yon Sir,’"! do not know where/he is. He went away in the. sulks and did not my where ha was going." Yon bave/about made np your mind that yon will never bear from him again. Pretty hard pay bs gives yon for all your kindness and the nights vou sit np with him when he wss 3 '* r Perhaps be struck Z ‘

sick. Perhaps be struck you* one dsy w you were trying to persuade him to do batter. How different wss the feeling ofthet hard fist against your fee* from nis little hand in infancy patting your cheeck! Father! Mother! That is an impossible that I would like to see God take hold pL the conversion of that boy, for b* win years of age. Did you say his heart la hard! How bard! Hard as stone! "Yes," yon say. "harder than that. Hard as iron.” Bat hare Is a God who can lift the soul that has been deepest down. Here is a God who can raiat a soul out of the blackest depth* ot tin and wretch-

edness.* Here is a God who awim,*tbe God of -

ka of the Jordan at axe haad. Lay hold of er that srill take nh '

o can maJ Elisha, the God-of ths stood is dismay on the

THE SABBATH SCHOOL International Lesion Comments For

Jannary 21

Ssbiccf. The Lane Mao Healed. Acts 111, l-lt —(Widen Text, Ex^xv., 2—Memory Verses, 6-ft—CommcsUry os

the Day's Lessen.

»’srlSiS partner* in fishing on Galilee. Luke 5: 1°. Now partners in fishing for men. Different in many ways, alike in principle, in devotion and in pnrpc^e. "The hour of

The Jess had daily three hours —the third, sixth and ninth, an-

iwW'AS-.Si 'i £."4.! S i”, temple apart from the others; perhaps to seek an opportunity of preaching to the

Bftta.TLr “ •*'"""

2- “Latne,” etc. Now above forty year* old, a confirmed cripple, not able to walk with crutches, bnt carried like a :hild into the pablic places where he might

bre; incurable except by divine power.

3. Into the temple. From the outer soart of the Gentilee into the court of the women and the other court* of the temple. "An alma.” The giving of alms wu a u"Td duty, inaistod upon in connection P^ut.St: a’^TlS: 7dl^? U, b U t * ,nPle ' 4. •‘Fastening his eyes." Not a mere glance, but sazans upon him with all that •ympathy which love teaches the heart to feel, for Christ’! aake. "With John."

lont interchange of words F-eter knew and John were of one mind and - “.f** { P T ‘k* cnr * of t h'* nipple. ing him that their prayer would be

j - **ed. "look pc ns." His words SFefi, intended to aid Abe unfortunate man in collecting his thoughts, and in looking upward. to tbs apostles with hope and confi- «• “Gsra heed.” Obeyed Peter s direction to look, which gave evidence of frith m its beginning, according to his knowifi "Silver—none.” This wu after the citato* ware atfid (Acta 2: 45;. and ahows how far the apostle* were from enriching themselves by the treasure* which psasad through their hand*. "Such as I nave. With this power irotu Christ to heal, bt accomplished far more than if Christ had assigned him the revenue of a kingdom. "Nazareth." Jesus wu still bringand performing the same works He did when in the flesh. This title had been attached in derision to Jesus, and in thus using it Peter embraced the humiliation

of Christ in the condition of

well u His power and glory. ’’ " ‘It’* "■an felt thf~‘

Withi_. - that he ai agreed to

ru no mockery in the o

the command. Its

woros were interpreted to him by the look and touch of Peter, by the rush of new Hfe through him, and perhaps by some memory of Jesus. The command wu to do the thing; not merely to try, or to laflk around for some means to assist in tralking. So God commands the sinner to re-

pant and believe and lead a holy life.

7. “By the right hand." As Jesus had done with others. Not so much <o strengthen his limbs u his faith. "Lifted him up." A sign intimating the supernatural >elp be would receive if he exerted

himself u he wu commanded.

8. ‘‘Into the temple." Hi* first act wu to join the worshipers. "Walking." etc. He walked in obedience to the command -of the aputle;,leaped to try the strength

convinced of the

oony of praising

. jnder and amaxement." Strong emotion of awe, admiration or utoniahmeat. They uw no reason why such an event should take place in that man‘a life, at hi* advanced age, for surely there wu no merit in him now more than before. 11. "Held Peter and John." He felt

"Walking.

10. "Wonder and

the strongest affection for them, as t instrument* by which the divine influei uMaflfceMed; * "~

a conveyed to [ether." To tl

body. "Ran int of attrac-

togetl ..

tie*. On ( — — Spirit wu poured out upon the disciple* in the upper room, the attention wq* drawn from the temple service to the disciples’, so now the mirxcle'-wroagbt called tha attention of all thou who had entered the temple at the hour of nriyer. "Porch —Solomon’s." Thia porch, 900 feet in length and seventy-five in width, overhung the south wall of Jerusalem; it was open Aowsrd the temple, bnt closed by a

wall toward the conn try. 12. "Men of L * " ’

-»en wrought for vou, u a nation, in multiplied instances from age to age. "Why marvel." Why do you wonder at what hu now happened, when ao much greater miyariea have lately been performed “13.“* "God of Abraham." After the error had been exposed, the truth is set forth, u in chapter 2: JS. Peter presents bo new religion, no new I *—* —

ras-ais for their ancestor*. The

New. ”

tU, tat-t Hi. b,pti_

SSi.'S.-s-w

r

d?h^l£d“ rre£l -° n *

d deem

was add tossing some of the very people who had clamored for the blood of Christ. "To let Him go." Pilate knew Jesus wu innocent and "had determined to releue Him" (R. V.), but the Jews demanded that He be crucified and

_ jw* den _ Pilate yielded to them. 14., “Holy One." J been agpjicc ^to^Chriat

, ffes^io

ATHLETIC FEATS OF PLANTS.

Osa Ipvelss 1

p!.i

One apcclei the power of lot ce on a rlvt inds, says the stems of the cres* grow rootllke fibres which, when of a length, drop to the

ter and dually 1

r V.'alerers** Tarns Com-

• Somorsaalta.

of watercress possesses locomotion, changing Its place on a river bank by leaps and bounds, says the GoldeiTPenny. From

rop to t

there take root The plar ;Ues upon ite new footln

1 Its new rooting s lose their hold perforata a sotn

settles upon

vuch.that the old ones and the tuft of creas pci

orsault. In time the old root* die away, fresh ones are developed and the cress

dances merrily on Ha way.

There Is a upecies of bearded oat which will separate Itself from the glum or husk. This Is no new discovery. Linnaeus, the great Swedish botanist. In the course of a joufacy

! Dalec

mist, In tl

of scientific exploration In a province of bis native country,

irda the

:orda the Interesting fact that ind the Dalecarllans taking fall ad-

■ of'this

re co 1

found the Dglecarllans taking ft vantage of 'this valuable quality In their oats. After being duly reaped the crop was left to Its own devices the barns until such time as the

In the hnsks e

r extended In

the atmosphere, and when the beard contracts It drags the oat along with It; when It expands the oat does not go back to Its original position, the roughness of the beard the contrary way preventing IL Another species of bearded oat, t Avcna Stciills, has earned for itself the name of “Animal Oat,'’ from the eccentric fashion In which it crawls backward and forward when ripe, and when facing from the husk propelling Itself by the twletlng and untwisting of the beard. A seed of this oat Is sometimes used Instead of an artificial fly for trout fishing. A still more startling effect Is produced by the stiff black down on the seed of the Centanrea Cruplna, a plant of the cornflower species, found wild in Italy. If one of these seeds be placed between the foot and the stocking. It will In a short time travel over the body and creep out at the sleeve or neckband. The name Cuplna Is derived from a Dutch word signify-

ing to creep.

Many plants have the power of motion, though not of locomotion. The -Sensitive Plant, which “goes to sleep" at a touch, is well known.' A plant of a similar gentis. the Hedysaiiim Gyrans. is found on the shores of the Ganges. It Is a biennial shrubby plant, bearing long spikes of particolored flowers, and its leaves, which grow In pairs, have a peculiar spontaneous motion. Both will move together from a. pendant to an erect posltlonTo^ the reverse, with considerable rapidity, or one. will move by ■tarts while the other h» stationary. This movement does not take place in all the leaves of one plant or one branch at one time. It Is apparently

it requires a warm, close atmosphere. Young plants exhibit these movements best, and they seem to prefer shade to light—It is seen to perfection In a

close room by candle HghL

Another species of the same genus,

un Gyrans. has acquired

the Desmcdlutr

e significant name of the Telegraph ant. because, the small lateral leaf-

1 down, 1 to the

Hlant. because, the email lateral

lets of It* triollate leaves in a warm,

moist atmosphere jerk up and sometimes a* many as 180 til

minute, suggesting the signalling apparatus of a telegraphic Instrument. These leaflets also rotate on their axes, another charming accomplishment which It Is Interesting to /ralch.

Ing,"

who Is fond of watching bird life, "a

red-headed woodpeckers

tuple of

started to build a nest In a telegraph pole near my home. The pSTe was an old one, having been spliced, and the birds started to dig out-a hole at this poinL I think that they thought when they sounded the spot that tho

_ Jaw. “A murderer? Barebbas. .’Matt, 27: 21; Mark 15: 7; Luka 23: IS. 15. "Prince of life." The word dered prince denote*, properly a military leader or commander.' In Hebrews 2:10 it is translated captain. "Hath raised.” They were fighting against God and coult not but be defeated; Jesus was olive froa the dead. "Witney." The distiplet had seen Christ after His resurrection, and they (poke what they knew to be the w M ‘ "His name." There waa no efficacy In the.mere, name of Jeans, but the healing

See Chan. 1: 15; 4: 12; _ r _ 3: 4. “Through kith." The eonlink between this deed and iU divine Author was their faith. "Perfect aoundnaas." This word is not used elsewhere in the New Testament. It denote* freedom from any defect. The cart Was a perfect one. "Of you all.” Yon are all witnams* of this and can judge for your•j*2 , k Xf j tU* man is seand, Jesus is the

rids planet of to science. It b Invisible to the 1 in the telescope, appt the eighth magnitude, la 1844. Revolves about

icy sounded the spot rotteh place within would be easy work making a nesL But they, were doomed to be disappointed, f>?r the pole was a firm one, and the building of their home progressed slowly. They were gritty, however, and relieved each other it Intervals, and the ‘tap tap' of ills went on steadily from sun-

b inset.

■rsevcrance won out at last, and they, had a home that they might flail their own. For the first time In several weeks they left the spot together, probsWy-to celebrate the finishing of the nest While they were away, a sparrow chanced to discover the hole

bralug-

peckers' returned from their celeb! tlon they discovered the sparrow It glng straw Into their home as faat it could be carried. If bird* can swear, those two woodpeckers did when they want for that sparrow with blood In thsir eyes. From their actions 1 rather gained the Idea that they tried to impreee him with the fact that they hadn't been working on tnat hole for a month foi; the fun of the thing. I think under the situation that the Inrtruder waa lucky to escape with IU

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