HE IS LORD OVER ALL

DR. TALMAGE ON THE DIVINITY AND POWER OF CHRIST. Does It Require More Faith to Be an Infidel than a Christian?--Verily It Seems So When One Considers the Wild Theories of Unbelief.

BROOKLYN, April 30.--In the Taber-

nacle this forenoon the large audience

listened with rapt attention to a powerful discourse by Rev. Dr. Talmage, who chose for his subject, "Over All For-

ever," the text selected being Romans ix,

5, "Christ came, who is over all." For 4,000 years the world had been waiting for a deliverer--waiting while empires rose and fell. Conquerors came and made the world worse instead of making it better--still the centuries watched and waited. They looked for him on thrones, looked for him in palaces, looked for him in imperial robes, looked for him at the head of armies.

At last they found him in a barn. The

cattle stood nearer to him than the an-

gels, for the former were in the adjoining stall, while the latter were in the clouds. A parentage of peasantry! No room for him in the inn because there was no one to pay the hotel expense. Yet the pointing star and the angelic cantata showed that heaven made up in appreciation of his worth what the world lacked: "Christ came, who is over all, God blessed forever. Amen." But who is this Christ who came? As to the difference between different denominations of evangelical Christians I have no concern. If I could by the turning over of my hand decide whether all the world shall at last be Baptist or Methodist or Congregational or Episco-

palian or Presbyterian, I would not turn my hand. But there are doctrines which are vital to the soul. If Christ be not a God, we are idolators. To this Christological question I devote myself this morning and pray God that we may think right and do aright in regard to a question in which mistake is infinite. THE FAITH OF THE INFIDEL. I suppose that the majority of those here today assembled believe the Bible. It requires as much faith to be an infidel as to be a Christian. It is faith in a different direction. The Christian has faith in the teachings of Matthew, Luke, John, Paul, Isaiah, Moses. The infidel has faith in the free thinkers. We have faith in one class of men. They have faith in another class of men. But as the majority of those, perhaps all of those here assembled, are willing to take the Bible for a standard in morals and in faith, I make this book my starting point. I suppose you are aware that the two generals who have marshaled the great armies against the deity of Jesus Christ are Strauss and Renan. The number of their slain will not be counted until the trumpet of the archangel sounds the roll call of the resurrection. Those men and their sympathizers saw that if they could destroy the fortress of the miracles they could destroy Christianity, and they were right. Surrender the miracles and you surrender Christianity. The great German exegete says that all the miracles were myths. The great French exegete says that all the miracles were legends. They propose to take everything supernatural from the life of Christ and everything supernatural from the Bible. They prefer the miracles of human non-

sense to the glorious miracles of Jesus Christ. They say there was no miraculous birth in Bethlehem, but that it is all a fanciful story, just like the story of Romulus said to have been born of Rhea Silvia and the god Mars. They say no star pointed to the manger; it was only the flash of a passing lantern. They say there was no miraculous making of bread, but that it is a corruption of the story that Elisha gave 20 loaves of bread to a hundred men. They say the water was ever turned into wine, but that it is a corruption of the story that the Egyptian plague turned the water into blood. They say it is no wonder that Christ sweat great drops of blood; he had been out in the night air and was taken suddenly ill. They say that there were no tongues of fire on the heads of the disciples at the Pentecost; that there was only a great thunder storm, and the air was full of electricity, which snapped and flew all around about the heads of the disciples. They say that Mary and Martha and Christ felt it important to get up an excitement for the forwarding of their religion, and so they dramatized a funeral and Lazarus played the corpse, and Mary and Martha played the weepers, and Christ was the tragedian. I put it in my own words, but this is the exact meaning of their statements. They say the Bible is a spurious book written by men who died for that which they did not believe. THE DIVINITY OF CHRIST. Now, I take back the limited statement which I made a few moments ago, when I said it requires as much faith to be an infidel as to be a Christian. It requires a thousandfold more faith to be an infidel than to be a Christian, for if Christianity demand that the whale swallowed Jonah, then skepticism demands that Jonah swallowed the whale! I can prove to you that Christ was God, not only by the supernatural appearances on that Christmas night, but by what inspired men said of him, by what he says of himself and by his wonderful achievements. "Christ came, who is over all." Ah, does that not prove too much? Not over the Caesars, not over Frederick, not over Alexander the Great, not over the Henrys, not over the Louises? Yes. Pile all the thrones of all the ages together, and my text overspans them as easily as a rainbow overspans a mountain. "Christ came, who is over all." Then he must be a God. The Bible says that all things were made by him. Does not that prove too much? Could it be that he made the Mediterranean, that he made the Black sea, that he made the Atlantic, the Pacific, that he made Mount Lebanon, that he made the Alps, the Sierra Nevadas, that he made the hemispheres, that he made the universe? Yes. The Bible says so, and lest we be too stupid to understand John winds up with a magnificent reiteration and says, "Without him was not anything made that was made." Then he was a God. The Bible says at the name of Jesus every knee shall bow. All heaven must

come down on its knees. Martyrs on their knees, apostles on their knees, confessors on their knees, the archangel on his knees. Before whom? A man? No, he is a God. The Bible says every tongue shall confess--Borin[?]an, Malavan, Mexican, Italian, Spanish, Persian, English. Every tongue shall confess. To whom? God. The Bible says Christ the same yesterday, today and forever. Is that characteristic of humanity? Do we not change? Does not the body entirely change in seven years? Does not the mind change? Does not the heart change? Christ the same yesterday, today and forever. He must be a God.

Philosophers say that the law of gravi-

k how much estate you are

tation decides everything and that the

centripetal and centrifugal forces keep

the world from clashing and from demolition. But Paul says that Christ's arm is the axle on which everything turns, and that Christ's hand is the socket in which everything is set. Mark the words. "Upholding--upholding all things by the word of his power." Then he must be a God. CHRIST'S OWN TESTIMONY.

Then look at what Christ says of him-

self. Now, certainly every one must understand himself better than any one else can understand him. If I ask you

where you were born and you tell me,

"I was born in Chester, England," or "I

was born in Glasgow, Scotland," or "I was born in Dublin, Ireland," or "I was born in New Orleans, the United States,"

you being a man of integrity, I should

believe you. If I asked you how many pounds you could lift and you should say you could lift 100 pounds or 200 pounds or 300 pounds, I should believe you. It is a matter personal to yourself. You know better than any one else can tell you. If I ask how much estate you are worth, and you say $10,000 or $100,000 or $500,000, I believe what you say. You

know better than any one else. Now, Christ must know better than any one

else who he is and what he is. When I ask him how old he is, he says, "Before Abraham was, I am." Abraham had been dead 2,028 years. Was Christ 2,028 years old? Yes, he says he is older than that. "Before Abraham was, I am." Then Christ says, "I am the Alpha." Alpha is the first letter of the Greek alphabet, and Christ in that utterance declared, "I am the A of the alphabet of the centuries." Then he must be a God. Can a man be in a thousand places at once? Christ says he is in a thousand places at once. "Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them." This everywhereativeness, is it characteristic of a man or of a God? And lest we might think this everywhereativeness would cease, he goes on, and he intimates that

he will be in all the cities of the earth--

he will be in Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America the day before the world burns up. "Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world." Why, then, he must be a God. Besides that, he takse divine honors. He declares himself Lord of men, angels and devils. Is he? If he is, he is a God. If he is not, he is an impostor. A man comes into your store tomorrow morning. He says: "I am the great shipbuilder of Liverpool. I have build hundreds of ships." He goes on to give his experience. You defer to him as a man of large ex-

perience and great possessions. But the

next day you find out that he is not the

great shipbuilder of Liverpool; that he

never built a ship; that he never built anything. What is he then? An impostor.

Christ says he built this world. He built

all things. Did he build them? If he did, he is a God. If he did not, he is an impostor. A GOD OR AN IMPOSTOR. A man comes into your place of business with Jewish countenance and a German accent and says: "I am Rothschild, the banker of London. I have the wealth of nations in my pocket. I loaned that large amount to Italy and Austria in their perplexity." But after awhile you find that he has never loaned any money to Italy or Austria; that he never had a large estate; that he is no banker at all; that he owns nothing. What is he? An imposter. Christ says he owns

the cattle on a thousand hills; he owns

this world; he owns the next world; he owns the universe; he is the banker of all nations. Is he? If he is, he is a God. If he is not? Then he is an impostor.

A man enters the White House at Washington. He says: "I am Emperor William of Germany. I am traveling incognito. I have come over here for recreation and pleasure. I own castles in Dresden and Berlin." But the president finds out the next day that he is not Emperor William; that he owns no castles at Berlin and Dresden; that he has no authority. What is he? An impostor. Christ says he is the king over all --the king immortal, invisible. If he is, he is a God. If he is not, he is an impostor. Strauss saw that alternative, and he tries to get out of it by saying that Christ was sinful in accepting adoration and worship. Renan tries to get out of it by saying that Christ--not through any fault of his own, but through the fault of others--lost his purity of conscience, and he slyly intimates that dishonorable women had damaged his soul. Anything but believe that Christ is God. Now you believe the Bible to be true. If you do not, you would hardly have appeared in this church. You would have gone over and joined the Broadway Infidel club, or you would go to Boston and kiss the foot of the statue of Thomas Paine. You

would hardly come into this church, where the most of us are the deluded souls who believe in a whole Bible and

take it all down as easily as you swallow a ripe strawberry.

I have shown you what inspired men said of Christ; I have shown you what Christ said of himself; now, if you believe the Bible, let us go out and see his wonderful achievements--surgical, alimentary, marine, mortuary. Surgical achievements! Where is the medical journal that gives an account of such exploits as Christ wrought? He used no knife. He carried no splints. He employed no compress. He made no patient squirm under cauterization. He tied no artery. Yet behold him! With a word he stuck fast Malchus' amputated ear. He stirred a little dust and spittle into a salve

and with it caused a man who was born blind and without optic nerve or cornea or crystalline lens to open his eyes

on the sunlight. He beat music on the

drum of the deaf ear. He straightened a woman who, through contraction of muscle had been bent almost double for well nigh two decades. He made a man who had no use of his limbs for 38 years shoulder his mattress and walk off. HE GIVES POWER TO THE ARM. Sir Astley Cooper, Abernethy, Valentine Mott, stood powerless before a withered arm, but this doctor of omnipotent surgery, comes in and he sees the para-

lytic arm useless and lifeless at the

man's side, and Christ says to him, "Stretch forth thine hand," and he stretched it forth whole as the other. He was a God. Alimentary achievements! He found a lad who had come out of the wilderness with five loaves of bread for a speculation. Perhaps the lad had paid 5 pennies for the five loaves and expected to sell them for 10 pennies, and so he would double his money. Christ took those loaves of bread and performed a miracle by which he fed 7,000 famishing people, and I warrant you the lad lost nothing, for there were 12 baskets of fragments taken up, and if the boy had five loaves at the start I warrant you he had at least 10 at the close. The Saviour's mother goes into a neighbor's house to help get up a wedding party. By calculation she finds out that the amount of wine is not sufficient for the guests. She calls in Christ for help, and Christ, not by the slow decay of

fermentation, but by a word, makes 130

gallons of pure wine. Marine achievements! He turns a whole school of fish into the net of men who were mourning over their poor luck, until the boat is so full they have to halloo to other boats, and the other boats come up, and they are laden to the wa-

ter's edge with the game, so that the

sailors have to be cautious in going from larboard to starboard lest they upset the ship. Then there comes a squall down through the mountain gorge, and Gennesaret, with long locks of white foam,

rises up to battle it, and the boat drops into a trough and ships a sea, and the loosened sails crack in the tornado, and Christ rises from the back part of the boat and comes walking across the staggering ship until he comes to the prow, and there he wipes the spray from his

brow and hushes the crying storm on the knee of his omnipotence. Who wrestled down that euroclydon? Whose feet trampled the rough Galilee into a smooth floor? LIFE OUT OF DEATH. Let philosophers and anatomists go to Westminster abbey and try to wake up

Queen Elizabeth or Henry VIII. No

human power ever wakened the dead. There is a dead girl in Capernaum. What does Christ do? Alas, that she should have died so young and when the world was so fair! Only 12 years of age. Feel

her cold brow and cold hands. Dead,

dead! The house is full of weeping,

Christ comes, and he takes hold of the hand of the dead girl, and instantly her eyes open, her heart starts. The white lily of death blushes into the rose of life and health. She rushes into the arms of her rejoicing kindred. Who woke up that death? Who restored her to life? A man? Tell that to the lunatics in Bloomingdale asylum. It was Christ the God. But there comes a test which more than anything else will show whether he was God or man. You remember that great passage which says, "We must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ." The earth will be stunned by a blow that will make it stagger in midheaven; the stars will circle like dry leaves in an equinox; the earth will unroll the bodies, and the sky will unroll

the spirits, and soul and flesh will come into incorruptible conjunction. Day of smoke and fire and darkness and tri-

umph. On one side, piled up in galleries of light, the one hundred and forty and four thousand--yea, the quintillions--of the saved. On the other side, piled up in the galleries of darkness, the frowning, the glaring multitude of those who rejected God. Between these two piled up galleries a throne, a high throne, a throne standing on two burnished pillars--justice, mercy--a throne so bright you had better hide your eye lest it be extinguished with excess of vision. But it is an empty throne. Who will come up and take it? Will you? "Ah, no!" you say, "I am but a child of dust. I would not dare to climb that throne." Would Gabriel climb it? He dare not. Who will ascend it? Here comes one. His back is to us. He goes up step above step, height above height, until he reaches the apex. Then he turns around and faces all the nations, and we all see who it is. It is Christ, the God, and all earth, and all heaven, and all hell kneel, crying: "It is a God! It is a God!" We must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ. ONLY THE DIVINE CAN RELIEVE SORROW. Oh, I am so glad that it is a divine being who comes to pardon all our sins, to comfort all our sorrows. Sometimes

our griefs are so great they are beyond

any human sympathy, and we want Almighty sympathy. Oh, ye who cried all last night because of bereavement or loneliness, I want to tell you it is an omnipotent Christ who is come. When the children are in the house and the mother is dead, the father has to be more gentle in the home, and he has to take the office of father and mother, and it seems to me Christ looks out upon your helplessness, and he propses to be father and mother to your soul. He comes in the strength of one, in the tenderness of the other. He says with one breath, "As a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him," and then with the next breath he says, "As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you." Do you not feel the hush of the divine lullaby? Oh, put your tired head down on the heaving bosom of divine compassion, while he puts his arms around you and says: "O widowed soul, I will be thy God. O orphaned soul, I will be thy protector. Do not cry." Then he touches your eyelids with his fingers and sweeps his fingers down your cheek and wipes away all the tears of loneliness and bereavement. Oh, what a tender and sympathetic God has come for us! I do not ask you to lay hold of him. Perhaps you are not strong enough for that. I do not ask you to pray. Perhaps you are too bewildered for that. I only ask you to let go and fall back into the arms of everlasting love. Soon you and I will hear the click of the latch of the door of the sepulcher. Strong men will take us in their arms and carry us down and lay us in the dust, and they cannot bring us back again. I should be scared with infinite fright if I thought I must stay in the grave, if even the body were to stay in the grave. But Christ will come with glorious iconoclasm and split and grind up the rocks and let us all come forth.

The Christ of the manger is the Christ of the throne. Don't place a large wooden pedestal with a group of statuary between the easel and the farther corner.

A woman in Almont, Mich., wears a pair of earrings which has been in the possession of her family 160 years. ODDS AND ENDS.

New Orleans made sugar in 1796.

A Pennsylvania woman keeps spiders as pets. Ingratitude is treason to mankind.--Thompson. The thermometer was the invention of Galilei in 1596. Franklin was the son of a soap boiler and was himself a printer. A woman may be poor in material possessions, yet rich in character.

A chained headline in the hand indi-

cates want of fixity of thought. Eighteen pounds of gun iron are needed to make a pair of 4-pound barrels. Family ties are the neckwear that Cholly's sister and little brother borrow. The Romans had saucepans, gridirons, colanders, dripping pans and toasting forks. It is said that in 86 of the 355 towns in Massachusetts there is no resident physician. An Italian proverb tells us, "Women, when they confess, tell what they have not done."

The wittiest man in the national house

of representatives is Thomas Brackett Reed of Maine. An Armenian nun who recently died at a Jerusalem convent is said to have been 115 years old. In 1858 the third attempt to lay the cable succeeded. Two thousand and fifty miles of cable were laid. Sir Walter Raleigh had a court suit of armor made of solid gold inlaid with jewels. A sign in Waynesville, Ga., bears this inscription, "Ax handles, ink, pens and cheese." Many people consider that fish are in the best condition for eating just before spawning. In a Whale's Belly. A correspondent who says that he once spent three-quarters of an hour in a whale's belly thus relates the strange adventure: The good ship Europa, on which I sailed as cabin boy, was anchored off the coast of Lower California. We had taken a number of whales and were at work trying the oil out of the blubber cut from the whales lying alongside. To get at the fat inside the whales we were cutting off the ends of two or three ribs and hoisting them up from the whale's body. This left an opening large enough for a person to crawl into the whale and strip off the fat, which was sent on deck in buckets. We were short handed, and the captain told me to go down into the whale and strip off the fat. Boylike, I jumped at the chance. I had not been at work long before I heard one of the sailors sing out: "Pull

the boy out of the whale. The tackle falls are stranding."

I had a small "monkey rope" tied around my waist. The other end was on the vessel's deck. At the sailor's cry

the captain jumped and grabbed it to pull me out, but it was too late. The tackle fall snapped in two, the ribs

closed together, and I, like Jonah of old,

was shut up in a whale's belly.

When the ribs came together, they

closed upon a toggle or pin used on the

tackle. This pin had come out and caught between the ribs. Through it a

small hole for reefing a rope had been

bored, and solely by means of this hole,

which enabled me to breathe, my life was saved.

All was confusion on the ship's deck. The men dared not use their sharp cutting spades to make another incision for fear of injuring me. The tears were rolling down old Captain C--'s face. One of the men jumped on the whale, and I shouted through the hole in the toggle that I was all right. Then there was great rejoicing. The old captain jumped on the whale himself, and with a small sheathknife cut away at the

flesh until he came to my body.

Great care had to be exercised not to disturb the toggle, for they knew I was breathing through it. At length the hole was large enough for me to crawl through, and I came on deck, sick and weak from my experience.--Youth's Companion. Attending "Teas" In Samoa. A woman recently home from Samoa tells of "teas" in that South Sea island. The Samoan tea is quite like any other tea so far as it is an informal festivity

to promote sociability over a sip of "something." The peculiar cordial brewed by the native women is usually the "something" offered, drunk out of a cocoa shell beautifully polished. At the king's pic-

nics, fetes of which the monarch is very

fond, it is imperative to drain your drinking vessel, and as the cordial is very exhilarating this, in the case of weak headed visiting women, is sometimes disastrous. "I went to a tea while there," said the woman in addition, "which Robert Louis Stevenson gave. He is thoroughly Samoanized, and we all sat on mats on his piazzas, he cross legged, exactly like the natives. When I returned the hospitality, I provided bamboo seats and little tables, but Mr. Stevenson would have none of them, choosing a mat instead,

though his courtesy is such that he apologized for adhering to a custom in my

house which I had not adopted. I saw him frequently, and he seemed well, ex-

cept for an ashen appearance of the face

at times that is quite startling. He is

charmed with that corner of the world."--New York Times.

New Gun For the British.

A new wire quick firing 6-inch gun has just been adopted for the British

naval service. It has successfully passed

exhaustive trials. It is a long gun of

about 40 calibers and weighs seven tons.

It carries an elongated shot of 100 pounds

a distance of 7,000 yards and will strike an enemy's ship or fortification four miles distant. It is so rapid in its action

that, fired with cordite at a long range, it has three or four shots in the air at the same time. Each weapon contains several miles of wire, it having been

found that a gun made up of this wire is stronger than when manufactured of homogeneous metal. Wire is also found to stand the first shock of the elastic

force of cordite or gunpowder better

than iron or steel, while the long bore enables the whole of the charge to be consumed.--Chicago Tribune. No Charge. Nervous Employer--I don't pay you for whistling. Office Boy--That's all right. I can't whistle well enough to charge extra for it yet.--Good News. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. LESSON VI, SECOND QUARTER, INTERNATIONAL SERIES, MAY 7. Text of the Lesson, Prov. iii, 11-24--Mem-ory Verses, 13-17--Golden Text, Prov. iii, 5--Commentary by the Rev. D. M. Stearns. 11. "My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord; neither be weary of His correction." The apostle, in his epistle to the Hebrews, quotes this and the next verse also in connection with his admonition to run with patience looking into Jesus, and to consider Him that endured such contra-

diction lest we be wearied, and faint in our minds. He tells us also that all God's

chastenings are to make us partakers of His holiness (Heb. xii, 5, 10). It is interesting to notice that the word translated "chasten" in these verses in Hebrews is in Eph. vi, 4, translated "nurture," and in II Tim. iii, 16, "instruction." 12. "For whom the Lord loveth he correcteth, even as a father the son in whom he delighteth." In Rev. iii, 19, we hear Jesus saying from heaven, "As many as I love I rebuke and chasten, and this also agrees with Heb. xii, 7, "If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons, for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?" But we must never forget the end in view, which is to make us more holy, more conformed to the image of God's dear Son (Rom. viii, 28, 29), whom some day we shall be like (I John iii, 2). 13. "Happy is the man that findeth wisdom and the man that getteth understanding." For she says again, "Whoso findeth me findeth life and shall obtain favor of the Lord" (viii, 35). Now it is also written, "He that hath the Son hath life, and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life" (I John v, 12). And again, "Christ our Life" (Col. iii, 4). So we see that wisdom and Christ the Son of God are synonymous,

as shown in the last lesson--Christ the wisdom of God (I Cor. i, 24).

14. "For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver and the gain

thereof than fine gold." Paul counted all things but loss for the excellency of the

the knowledge of Jesus Christ, and David says that his judgments are more to be de-

sired than gold--yea, than much fine gold (Phil. iii, 8, 9; Ps. xix, 10).

15. "She is more precious than rubies, and all the things thou canst desire are not

to be compared unto her." See almost the same words in chapter viii, 11, and compare

Job xxviii, 18, and the context. Then consider this wonder of wonders--that wisdom is God's gift to sinful man. "If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, and it shall be given him" (Jas. 1, 5). "The gift of God is eternal life" (Rom. vi, 23). Rubies must be left behind if we die, and all we can desire, even if we could obtain, would prove unsatisfying. The preacher says, "Whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them; I withheld not my heart from

any joy, and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit" (Eccl. ii, 10, 11). 16. "Length of days is in her right hand, and in her left hand riches and honor." Or,

as it is in chapter viii, 18, "Riches and honor are with me--yea, durable riches and

righteousness." Our Lord Jesus says from the glory, "I counsel thee to buy of me gold

tried in the fire that thou mayest be rich" (Rev. iii, 18). As to length of days we

shall have in these mortal bodies, all that He sees we can use for Him, and yonder it

is true that when we have been there ten thousand thousand years, bright shining as

the sun, we've no less days to sing His praise than when we first begun. Christ

Himself our Life, our wealth and our glory. 17. "Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace." Being paths of righteousness, they cannot be but paths of pleasantness and peace. All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep His covenant and His testimonies.

The path of the just is as the shining light that shineth more and more unto the per-

fect day (Ps. xxiii, 3; xxv, 10; Prov. iv, 18). The whole difficulty is in our ways and paths of our making or choosing. But if we follow closely and fully in wisdom's ways we shall find it as written. 18. "She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her, and happy is every one that retaineth her." To lay hold and hold fast is our part--or, in other words, to receive

and cleave unto, or enter and abide, or believe and continue. He does not force Him-

self upon any one, but offers Himself for

our acceptance and will increasingly re-

veal Himself where He sees a longing for

Him (Heb. vi, 18; Rev. ii, xxv; John i, xii; Acts xi, 23; Isa. ii, 10; John 2, xxviii; John v, 24; viii, 31).

19. "The Lord of Wisdom hath founded the earth. By understanding hath He es-

tablished the heavens." Hear Him in chapter viii, 12-14: "I wisdom dwell with prudence. I am understanding. I have strength." And in verses 27, 28: "When

He prepared the heavens, I was there. When He strengthened the fountains of the deep."

Compare John i, 3, "All things were made by Him, and without Him was not any-

thing made that was made." And also Col. i, xvi, and see how conclusive the proof

that Wisdom is none other than Jesus Himself. 20. "By His knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew." See the proof of this Gen. vii, 11; Job xxxvi, 27. Nothing in heaven or earth can be done without Him, and there is nothing too hard for Him (Jer. x, 12, 13; xxxii, 17; Job xiii, 2). See Him divide the Red sea before Israel, and the Jordan three times before Israel, Elijah and Elisha. He also can bring water from the rock and send or withhold rain at His pleasure. 21. "My son, let not them depart from thine eyes; keep sound wisdom and discretion." We need to pray, "Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity," and to obey the command, "Run with patience looking unto Jesus" (Ps. cxix, 37; Heb. xii, 1). Happy the people who see "Jesus only" and who can truly say, "One thing have I desired of the Lord; that will I seek after--to behold the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in

His temple."

22. "So shall they be life unto thy soul and grace to thy neck." Life within and beauty without. Moses taught the people, saying, "Love the Lord thy God, obey His voice, cleave unto Him, for He is thy life and the length of thy days" (Deut. xxx, 20). Paul's determination was that Christ should be magnified in his body, and he could say, "For me to live is Christ" (Phil. i, 20, 21). 23. "Then shalt thou walk in thy way safely, and thy foot shall not stumble." When our way is His way, it must be a safe way, and since He is able to guard us from stumbling (Jude 24, R. V.). He surely will if we let Him. That He will hold us by the hand (Isa. xii, 13) is surely an assurance that He will not let us fall, but that we need not even stumble goes beyond this. 24. "When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid. Yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet." Safety by day and by night, at home or abroad,

journeying or resting, and all because the

Lord is our keeper (Ps. cxxiv, 5-8). He Escaped. "Sir," questioned an irate female shopper as she pounced upon a small man who was pacing the story, "are you the floorwalker?" "N-n-no, ma'am," he gasped, "I-I'm o-o-only the p-p-proprietor."--Detroit Free Press.

The noblest art is that of making oth-

ers happy. The overcurious are not overwise.--Massinger. DESIRABLE COTTAGES FOR SALE OR RENT. If you intend visiting the seashore the coming season, communicate with R. CURTIS ROBINSON, Real Estate and Insurance Agent, 744 ASBURY AVENUE, OCEAN CITY, N. J. who has on hand a number of desirable furnished and unfurnished cottages. Full information furnished on application. Building lots for sale in every section of the city. I also have 150 lots near Thirty-eighth street, which I will offer to a syndicate, five lots to the share. Money to loan on Bond and Mortgage on improved property. SCUDDER LUMBER CO., PLANING MILL, SASH FACTORY AND LUMBER YARDS MANUFACTURERS OF Doors, Window Frames, Shutters, Sash, Moldings, Brackets Hot Bed Sash, Scroll Work, Turning, &c. ALSO DEALERS IN BUILDING LUMBER OF EVERY DESCRIPTION, OF WHICH A LARGE STOCK IS CONSTANTLY ON HAND, UNDER

COVER, WELL SEASONED AND

SOLD AT LOWEST MARKET PRICES.

FRONT AND FEDERAL STREETS, CAMDEN, N. J. Y. CORSON, REAL ESTATE AGENT, AND LICENSED AUCTIONEER, No. 721 Asbury Avenue, OCEAN CITY, N. J. Properties for sale. Boarding Houses and Cottages for Rent in all parts of the city. Correspondence solicited. WM. LAKE, C. E., REAL ESTATE AGENT, Surveying, Conveyancing, Commissioner of Deeds, Notary Public, Master in Chancery. Sec'y Ocean City Building and Loan Association.

Lots for Sale or Exchange. Homes to rent, furnished or unfurnished. Deeds, Bonds, Mort-

gages, Wills and Contracts carefully drawn. Abstracts of titles carefully prepared. Experience of more than twenty-five years. Office--Sixth Street and Asbury Avenue. P. O. Box 235. WM. LAKE. Honesty is the best policy.--B Franklin.

Therefore get the policies issued at the office of H. B. Adams & Co., by

HONEST, Sound, Liberal, Solid and Successful Fire Insurance Companies. Your choice of 18 of the best American and English Companies. LOTS FOR SALE in all parts of the city. Hotels and Cottages for Sale or Rent. Money to loan on mortgages. H. B. ADAMS & CO., Eighth Street, opposite W. J. R. R. Station, OCEAN CITY, N. J. E. B. LAKE, SUPERINTENDENT OF OCEAN CITY ASSOCIATION From its Organization, and also REAL ESTATE AGENT Having thousands of Building Lots for sale at various prices, Some very Cheap and located in all parts of Ocean City. Now is the time to purchase property before the second railroad comes, as then property will greatly advance. I have a good many Inquiries for Property between 6th and 12th streets. Any one having property for sale might do well to give me their prices. All persons desiring to Buy, or Sell, or Exchange property, would do well before closing any transaction to call on or address E. B. LAKE, Association Office, No. 601 Asbury Ave., Ocean City, N. J.

F. L. ARCHAMBAULT. I am offering Diamonds, Watches, Jewelery, Silver Plated and Solid Silver Ware Handsome Table and Banquet Lamps during this month at the very lowest prices, and my success has been owing just to such special

inducements.

I feel there is no excuse for one not to enjoy a good time-keeper, when prices are from $10 to $15 in coin silver cases.

Have a Watch, be on time.

FRANK L. ARCHAMBAULT, JEWELER.

No. 106 Market Street

PHILADELPHIA, PA.