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PLACE FOR EVERY ONE.

What our churches need most-next to
the baptism OF the Holy Ghost, is the de-
yelopmcnt of all the members. So much Is
thrown upon the ministry that some Of us
can hardly catch spare hour for our own
family and freside. A city pastor is often
expected to prepare three sermons or
lectures, to visit the flock, to see the sick, to
bury the dead, to act on a dozen committees
and to make two or three speeches, all in
single week! The church becomes Doctor
rs church. or Mr.. BIS church, or
Doctor C-'s church, or some other mans
church, instead of being the peoples church,
with some gifted man as its overseer and
pastor.
Now, love to work. exceedingly. but not
one whit more than I love to sec my congre-
cation work. And no man in my flock has
any more right to turn his spiritual work
over upon me than he has o right to send
her for him. He needs his work as much as
l need mine. In revival times the whole
church is alive and busy. But where and
when did the Master ever give "furlough"
10 three-fourths Of our people to quit the
ranks just as soon as revival campaign ls
over?
A Christian who is keen for work will
soon find his place. If he is "apt to teach,"
be or she WILSON gather the Sabbath school
CIuSSS duu W III Oc llCIC, olUIO ia hohN3 S'SAJ
Sunday, even though the rain is patterng on
the payements. Commend me to the teacher
who wears waterproof" and always con-
suits conscience sooner than barometer.
Whoever has the gift of song should join
Gods great choir, and sing at every religious
service. The owner Of good voice must
give account for that voice at the day Of
Judgment. We never shall have genuine
congregational singing until every redeemed
child OF Christ sings from duty and conse-
crates the gift Of music to the Lord. Those
who expect TO sing in heaven would better
practice here.
Tract distribution is going too much out
of fashion. 1t is blessed and heaven.hon-
ored agency for doing good. Every one
who has scme spare time and o tongue and
little pious tact can 60 out with bundle
of tracts to the abodes Of ignorance and ir-
religion.
Those who cannot eXhort, or teach In 8
Sundsy-school. or distribute tracts, can at
least i've for Jesus at home and come and
Join in the prayers Of the prayer-meet1ng.
The Oldest the timidest, the least gifted, can
surely do as much as this. Every one, too,
Can give something when the contribution
box Is passed. The gift Of ''cup OF cold
water' In Christs name has Its reward.
Every one whom Jesus saves has place as
signed to him in the vineyard. An idle
| Christian Is monster. Friend, have you
found the place?-[Dr. T. L. Cuyier, In
"Newly Enlisted"
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GOOD SEED TO SOW.

"The seed is the word of God" It is good
seed to sow in your family. And he is
wise man who daily gathers his loved ones
about the home altar and sowS this precious
sce,l in his family. It will bring untold
blessings, both spiritual and temporal, to
himself and his dear ones. The harvest VIII
be rich.
And it is happy community where this
word of God is faithfully studied and
preached and taught. Life is safe in that
community. property is more valuable,
business more profitable, schools better,
children more intelligent, and homes and
hearts happier in that community. The
harvest Is very rich. 1t costs less and pays
better than constabes, police officers. and
iails, and the fruit is infinitely better. :,
1t is good seed to SOW i'll the nation. Ana
"happv is the nation whose God Is the
Lord; where Gods word is believed and
taught and lived 1t is the only sure cure
for anarchy and Sc cialism. communism and
crime: better than standing armies; better
than mnSketry and powder: better than
courts anl prisons, is the harvest that comes
from sowing this seed. 1t Is making the tree
good in order to have the fruit goou. 1t is
cleansing the fountain to make the stream
pure. II is the ounce Of preventive worth
tie pounds of cure. 1t is that wisest of STRAIT
cgy by pre-occupation - possessing the
ground with good, and so keeping out the
evil. The harvest is rich and abundant.
This seed has life in itself. You only need
to scatter it and it will grow. There shall
be an handful of corn in the earth, upon the
top of the mountains; the fruit thereof shall
shake like Lebanon" This is the seed
which, il sown. THE wilderness and the
solitary pace shall be glad, and the desert
rejoice and blossom as the rose" Its BIOS
som is beautiful, like the lily of the valley or
The rose of Sharon: its fruit is satisfying
like mamma from heaven or the "bread Of
life"
The harvest is not only rich. hut sure.
DO you want good, reliable see! to SOW!
Then here it is-thc word Of God. The
word OF the Lord is tried and stauds the
test of both reason and experiment. II
you have reliable, we'l,te;tsd ICED, then thaI
seed is this word Of God. For seeu anu
sowing. Towering and fruitage, in IL none
have ever been disappointed nor eve: Snail
be- Presbyterian Banner.
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THE EVILS OF INrEMPERANcE.

From the excellent address delivered re-
Gently by Rev. Ferdinand Kttle, OF Loretto,
Penn, we clip the following extract:
"rhe general physical effects Of alcohol on
the individual may be briefly summarized
thus: The general tendency Of alcohol on
nerve matter is to paralyze it, so that all
mental action becomes disordered. Hence
all the variety of hallucinations and aberra-
tions, moods and erratic impulses, which
lead 70 crimes of all kinds, without COM
prehensible bases. The digestive apparatus
becomes impaired. the digestive organs grac-
uaiiy deterlorated. the circuiatory system
more lax, caiorifcation lowered, Tire blood
poisoned, and exertion clogged. 1t Is the
eagerness of alcohol for Saruration, and its
consequent exhaustion Of much of the normal
water supply in the body which makes the
alcohol drinker so thirsty, and 1t is his re-
sort, not to water, but to alcoholic liquor,
to quench the thirst it provokes, which leads
to the drink crave. But it is observed that
these effects of general physical degerera.
ton do not, as q rule, manifest themselves
in any great degree until after the higher
functions of the brain and spirit have been
severely impaired.
The effects upon society and State follow
almost like corollaries to the problem to the
effects Of alcohol upon the individual; for
as alcohol dilns and impairs, in the first
place, those functions of love, modesty, ten
derness, and loyalty which form the basis Of
all true family life, and as the family is the
basis of society and State, we find that the
alcoholic habit in any form is subversive Of
the foundations of society and State. But
the most appalling factor in the entire drink
problem is that Of alcoholic heredity; it is
proven that alcoholic degeneration descends
through the second and third, yes, the
fourth generations. And thus we find that
by means of this poison the spiritual and
mental growth of the race is almost stopped,
while the physical powers ara stunted and
weakened and impaired; and hence as the
years roll on we get moral and spiritual in
ertia in increasing ration; more and more
rf mental impotence and insanity, more and
more Of wiIl-lees creatures ready to fall vic
Tins to all kinds OF temptation and allure
ments, thus furnishing steadily growing
class OF criminals and detectives. Such
tendencies Of body and mind every person
who drinks may, and in many cases does
bequeath to his helpless progeny"
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"He backad up ag'ln the tree and
riz up on his ha'nches. That was jist
what ST wanted, an he sa'ntered up
and put the pint of his auger ag'in the
bars chist. The auger was five foot
long, an ez the bar spared an spat.
ted at 81. tryin' to git clip in ag lin
his head, 81 jist quietly went to borin'
inter the bars chist. The auger
worked so smooth that ol' bruin didn't
know what was goin' on. an when he
did wake up to the situation it want
no use. 81 had bored clean through
the bar an a foot inter the tree, an
thar the bar was, pinned to the tree
ez snug ez shootin' match bill to
barn door. He cuddn'c git away, an
ST went over to Bills camp an got
gun an cane back an stopped the
bars howlin' by putin few sluga
inter his brain. burned if It didn't
make me shedder all over to hear 81
kill that bar
"Wull, Pete Fletcher he killed
couple o. bar tina: night, too. His'n
was slaughtered up on Injun Knob,
jist beyent here piece. Pete ne was
ou. lookin' fer bar. an had his gun
with him to use in case he got in close
quarters. He had got on the pint O.
the knob when two slambas bars
Jumped out O. the brush not more than
two rod ahead Of him. Pete was after
bar skins more than bar meat an
seein' that these two had coats on
worth sullpin' like $40 pervidin' they
Want all rlddlsd with bullets an cut
an slashed with knives, he decided to
pether the two bruins in with hull
pelts by strategy.
"Pete said the bars must a ben
strangers in these parts, fer they didn't
seem to reco'nize him, an std O.
irwin to ct away, they squared off
fer fight. Pete laid down his gun, an
took his knife out Of his belt and laid
that down, fer fear he mowt fcrgit his
self an use it on the bars an damage
their skin. One bar was bigger'n
t'other un, an the biggest un stepped
out to try what there was in Pete. The
bar riz up on It's hinders, an Pete he
trotted straight fer him, actin ez If he
was gointer ketch him by the neck.
That fooled the par, an he waited te.
Pete to pitch in an grab him.
"But Pete know'd u trick worth two
o. that, an jist ez he got within reach
O. the bar he give suddent duck
with his head an shot forrid to'ard
the ground. head fust. He ketched the
bar full tilt betwixt the faEks with
his head. an the bar was h'lsted over
on his snoot on the ground quicker'n
a flash O. lightnin'. He fell like
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1T MAKES ALL WRONG.

"please. father. is it wrong to go pleasur-
ing on the Lords day? NV teacher says
why, child, perhaps it is not exactly
"Then it il wrong, isn't it fathcr?"
"Oh. don't know tbat-if it is once in
WHILE
Father, you know how fond 1 am OF
Yes John. arm glad you are; .! want
YOU to do them well, and bequick and clever
at figures. But why do you talk of sums
"Because, father, il there is one little
fqure put wrong in the sum it makes all
wrong, however large the amount is"
s.To be sure, child, 1t does"
"Then. please, father, don't you think
that ii Gods day is put wrong now and then
it makes all wrong2'
."Put wrong, child-how?"
II mean, father, put to wrong use,
That brings IL very close, said the father,
AZ II speaking to himself. and then added,
TJohn, it is wrong to break Gods holy SAB
bath. He has f Ridden il, and your teacher
WIS qnite right" ~ , ,oo 3.
'Rpmer. er the Saboath ia! 10 Keep IL
holv."-[Eird W"-'-
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Color in the Hunan Voice.

A novel entertainment was held at the
Drexel Institute, Philadelphia, few
evenings since for the benefit of the
childreu's fresh air fund. Professor D.
s. Holman delivereda lecture on "Some
Effects of Light and Sound Waves"
demonstrating with the aid of an instru-
nent known as the phonsi1oscope the
lights and shadows of musical sounds,
assisted by the vocal talent OF Miss N.
Virginia Peck, Miss Charlotte Mswson,
Miss Kate Sheain, A. q. Darby and
Charles Giraffe. Professor Holman pre-
faced his lecture with the statement
that color exists alone in the eye Of the
seer. After few experiments in chang
ing the colors of objects under power
full liglt composed Of carbonate OF soda,
Professor Holman started in to prove,
with the aid of the phoneidoscope, that
the sound waves produced by the voice
possess motion aud color. When this
announcement was made the audience
held It's breath N expectation.
A sheet similar to that use1 in stere-
opticon entertainments was stretched
across the stage, and what Professor
Holman termed the mirror, upon which
the effects Of the voice were pictured,
was adjusted in the instrument and mag
nihed upon the sheet. In color it was
dull, leaden gray, showing in bold re-
lief upon the white canvas. Then four
OF the voices struc6 up quartet, while
Miss Sheain placed her pretty lips to q
mouth piece and sang through what
looked very muca like speaSin, tube.
The other end of the tube was connected
with the phcneidoscops, and her voice,
coming in intact with the mirrors, was
transmitted to tho canvas, forming into
the most delicate shapes imaginable, al
the same time taking all the variegated
tints of the rainbow. As her voice rose or
sank in volume the waves rippled across
the surface of the mirror in the most as
tonishing manner, while the auiience
applauded to the echo. Tlis was re-
peated several times.
After the lecture Professor Holman
explained to IL Record reporter the ap-
parent miracle by saying that the So
called mirror was merely film composed
of soap suls. Tie voice, coming in
contact with this surface, causel 1t to
vibrate, while she varicyatei colors
were formed by the decomposition Of
| the sOap film
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BREWERS AT THE FAIR.

The brewers of the United States claim
the right to have their business represented
at the Columbian Exposition, and intend to
set forth 'the development OF the American
brewing industry; the status OF brewing by
States; the extent to whicn American
agriculture is benefited by brewing;. the
effects OF the increasing consumption OF beer
upon the health and morals OF COM
niunities," etc. In fact they propose to open
at.the 1air great school for the education
Of the American people in regard to temper
ance, good morals and material prosperity
as affected by the manufacture and coz
sumption Of beer In this country. We only
wish they would set forth all the facts IN
their true light. .,
Then the w. C. T. U. might with ad-
vantage give them room in their building,
stlpulating, of course, that there should be
no original packages opened there! One
other condition would be eminently fttlng
for the women to exact, viz, the privilege
of seating upon few OF the beer kegs as
object lessons some samples OF the finished
work actually turned out by. the brewers
some of the men, women and children upon
whom this "brewing industry" has had its
full effect financially, physically, and
morally ly.-Minneapolis Congregationalist.
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A MISTAKEN IDEA.

There Is general impression that Moham..
medans are very sbste-Iious In the use o.
intoxicating liquors. A communlcation IN
the Independent from Rev: w r. Engnsn'
OF Sivas. Turkey, dispals this rataer pleas.
ing Illusion. 1t appears that in Constanti-
NOBLE the follower OF the prophet often
makes q spectacle Of himself. He drinks By
night, in seclusiou and inordinstely. Gases
OF deiirium tremens are frequent. He re-
CARDS wine as an inidel beverage, ana
chooses q much stronger drinS. Many OH
GERS OF the Government are habitual drunk
ards and often untitled TO perform their
duties. According to this account. the scoi-
ting remark not unfrequentiy made ABOUT
the temperate u tammedan and the drunken
Christian is deprived OF any bass OF ract-
though the drunkenness OF the Monanus'
dan IS none the less to be deplored.
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TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.

TEhPERASCE NEWS AMI MULES.
There are IL, 400 saloons in New York and
Brooklyn.
England spends ninety-nine times more
money for intoxicants than for education.
The moderate drinker is simply a mod
crate drunkard. Think it over and see il he
isn't.
If the corn crop proves short, stop making
so much Of it into whisky, and there will be
enough and to spare.
One salocn in a town is oil the devil ever
asks for to begin with. Give him that and
be won't worry about not being able to de-
stroy boys enough.
Lady Henry Somerset will visit India ere
long, as delegate of the Worlds Women's
Christian Temperance Union, and will
preach total abstinence to natives and for
eign residents in that part of the world
Sir Wilfred Lawson, in recalling the hard
names that have been and still are hurled at
temperance reformers, reminds them. in his
usual happy style, that fanatics are earn
est men in minority, and faddlst is ons
who knows something more than the rest OF
people"
Germany is not giving up the beer drink
ing habit. The President OF the German
Brewers Exhibition in Hamburg announced
that last year Germany drank 81, SH, ,OOJ
hectolitres Of beer, an increase OF 7,b62, 4oO
hestolitres over the consumption OF The pre-
vious year-thst is, fifteen per cent. III.
crease.
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himself and howl, and to give my
ears the delectable duty of listening to
them as they told their tales Of valor
and daring in chase and battle.
After getting tolerably well &C.
ouainted with the landlord of the
dingy little tavern at the Hollow 1
said to him: "This is famous spot for
bear killing and bear killers, isn't ita"
The landlord, bewhiskered little
old man in hickory oyeralls and shirt,
and with merry twinkle in his gray
eye, threw up his hands and said:
WANTED TO HEAR BEAR KILLED.
"B'ars! Why up to two weeks ago
the bars that had been killed an was
bein' killed around here would druv
YOU wild. I've heerd more bar killed
an fit with fer the past five year than
you could heap IN a ten-acrc lot. I'd
heerd so many killed that I got han
kerin' 80 to see one mummixed around
and rasseled an choked to death by
some O. the bar killers that I couldn't
hardly hold myself
"Wull, one night couple O. weeks
ago, 81 Ainsley an Joe Barns an Pete
Fletcher an Josh Mullln an Josh Null
Inns dog Tiger was settin' here KILN
an clutchin' an chokin' bar till it
looked terrible skeery the way the
bar howled an the blood run. All o.
them fellers is great bar killers, an so
is the dog. 81 Ainsley he tod how he
met big bar wunst up along the
headwaters, an had nothin' with him
but raftin' auger. The bar see 81
and know'd him, an tried his best to
git away. But 81 scooted around an
headed him off, an KEEP headin' him
off till he run the bar up against big
oak tree, with ledge O. rocks on both
sides of it, an the unfort'nit bruin had
to stop an taks his medicine.
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RELIGIOUS READING.
THE CUP OF PLEASURE.

THE CUP OF PLEASURE.
Peter and Christ one morn did go
From Salem unto Jericho;
And when his eager feet he sat
On the road to Olivet,
Down which troubled brooks did glide,
Peter rusty horseshoe spied.
"Pck up.' the Master. No reply.
Peter passed and let it lie.
The wiser Saviour. stopping there,
With the morning in his hair,
Picked it up, like a cup OF pleasure,
And exchanged it for measure
OF cherries, black md white and red,
Like the thorns that were to crown his
head,
And in the bosom folds Of his robe
That girdled the rolling. whirIing globe.
Put them, as up the hills they went,
Wherever the sun bis arrows sent,
AS Oh the cruel and The just,
Blazing on stones, and rocks, and dust;
When Peter with laggard mind.
Sauntering slowly. dropped behind,
So great his thirst was. Seeing all,
The Teacher cherry then let fall,
And soon another, ripe as the sun;
Peter stopped and ate them every one.
To whom our gracious. glorious King,
Greater than David. King Of kings:
"Who stoops not for u little thing,
Shall bend his back for lesser things"
-[Richard Henry Stoddard, IN the Inde-
pendent.
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There seems to be popular i'm.
preston that a man who wants
money has only to threaten bank
cashier with a pistol. 1t is remark.
able that the fallacy should exist so
long, as its results have so far been
far more annoying to the would-bs-
desperadoes than to the cashiers or
the depositors.
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N the whole length
and breadth of the
lumber regions of
Northern Pennsyl-
vania, so they told
me, there is no
place which has
had such a repu-
tation for intere-
pid and unrelent-
ing bear hunters
as Bruin Hollow.
happening re-
Gently to be with
in Is miles of that
famous bear-hunt-
ing center, I drove
to the hollow to
feast my eyes on
some of the stall
vert sons of the
forest whose recre-
alton it was to
make bruin hump
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DRUNKENNESS AMONG LONDON WOMEN.

There is 8 marked increase III drunkenness
among women in England. DR.. Norman
Kerr, President of the Society for the Study
of Inebriety, declares that never within his
recollection had he seen so many drunken
women about the streets OF London as dur
ing the Whitsuntide holidays. He had fire.
ouersly seen groups of four or five, some
Quite young, all in a more or less intoxicated
condition. One of the coroners of London
asserts that he has held OF late an increas
ingly large number of inquests upon women,
many comparatively young whose death
was clearly due to alcoholic excess. A medi
cal committee is now sitting in London to
devise more effectual means Of dealing With
drunkards than treating them as criminals,
Sending them repeatedly to prison has nc
reformatory effect. A case is cited Of g
woman who recently died in Marylebone
Workhouse at the age of forty-eignt who
had been convicted of drunkenness 2D0 times
1t is proposed to put chronic cases under
compulsory detention and to treat drunken
nessas disease rather than vice. Special
provision will be made for those who are
not able to pay for treatment a:ld mainte-
nance. Chicago Times.
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rakin' holt o. the bar, which was
tame yearlln' I had borried from Jim
Plunket, led him back to his coop.
"Since that night concluded the
landlord, his gray eyes twinkling, II
hain't heerd bar slaughtered any
whar ir Bruin Holler."-ED HoTT, in
Pittsburg (Pa.) Dispatch.
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HIRAM DALY-Mrs. Grant imports
all her servants. Biddles Kip
Doesn't that infringe the law?
Hiram Daly-I don't know. She
probably thinks they should come in
free, as raw materials.-Puck
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WHAT has become Of that parasite
which killed the pestiferous house fly?
A good deal was said about him at
odd times last winter, when the flies
had retired to that mysterious bourne
whittier they seek seclusion in cold
weather. A parasite that declines
to get in It's work when needed is O
good deal of q nuisance itself
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TEMPERANCE.
ALCOHOL A NARCOTIC.

Alcohol is not a stimulant; it is narcotic,
a soother of irritable nerves, or it may act
as an irritant to cerebral nerve cells. BY
giving alcohol we put out the danger signal
which nature is showing us: we lull our pa
tients and their friends into dangerous
lethargy, and give them hopes that the pa
tient is recovering, whilst, in realty, the
disease is rapidly advancing. ALFRED Car
nenter M D.
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CABBY, what's the shortest way to
get to Oxford street," Tue cabman,
pointing to his vehicle, "Shere it is,
sir."-Tid-
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QUEEN VICTORIA wants but year
Of equaling her grandfather's record
of the longest reign Of an English
monarch. Perhaps Canada will help
her to another parallel by making her
reign the epoch Of another great CO.
lonial independent rising.
The total fire losses in this country
and Canada for the first half Of the
year 1892 foot up s65, 100000 Fire
IS more costly than strikes.
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SOME BEAR KILLINGS
A CHOICE SPIRIT OF BRU1N HoL-
LOW TELLS OF TERRIFIC FIoHTs.

Dsa.h at the End Of an Augsr. Fisticsf'
in Which Big Beast was Drowned in
His Own Gore. Valor that Suddenly
Vanished.