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YORK. June 1 —In hi* Dr. Talmage diac heroic and picfuresqae char-

la ancient Jewish history, a man like many others who achieved iistxnrtiun, came from the sturdy rhifamT thr agriculturist* The t of the serxuun wai "Shamgar'n d," the text being. ''After him kiazngzr, which slew of the Philis-k>0 men with an oxgoad" (Judg** y day while Sbsmgar. the fanner, lowing with a yoke, of oxen, hi* md (if wh< a haw gee w w changed ih<JUt of battle, .Ph:li*t:n<*, al-eady to make trouble, march np rwurd and spear. Hhaiugar, the an, had no rwurd and wt*uld not ly hare known how to wield it it p o a w n d one. But tight he must

•own rxder t^e tftm\;<">t the Phil-fit* had an oxg<wd—a weapon

nrp: on the lazy team; a weap-o i eight feet k«ig. with a sharp ; one end to puncture the beast ride iron chisel or shovel at the sod with which to scrape the of soil from the plowshare. Tet ie iron prong at one end of the and the iron scraper at the oth-'as not such a weapon as one lesire to use in battle with armed nes. Bnt God helped the farmer, ring the oxen to look after them-re charged npon the inTaders of

of the commentaries to make it for Sbamgar, suggest that per-led a regiment of farmers into

mbet, his oxgoad only one of kxgoads. Bnt the Lord does not y of yon to help in making the •ea, and Sbamgar, with the Lord ide, was mightier than 600 Phil-rith the Lord against them. The

Sbamgar, with muscle by open air and plowman's

«r*s and thrasher's toil, nses the tpoo at hand, and he swings the a? ami exssra, and this way and w stahlshaj with the iron prong d of it and mm thrusting wHh

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in tag. Tx* second time Bab was wall clad for school. After eemia* oaoe or twice be again disappeared, and was found in rags, ooDseqoent npoa flatting. The

disposed to give him op» bnt the snperintendrat said, "Let as try bun again/* and the third suit of clothes was provided aim. Thereafter he until he was converted, and joined the church, and started for the gospel min­istry, and became a foreign missionary, preaching and translating the Scripture* Who was the boy called Bob! The illmv trioas Dr. Robert Morriaon, great on efsrth and greater in heaven, Who his teacher was I know not, bnt she the opportunity opened and great been her reward Yon may nut be able to load an Armstrong gun; yon may not be able to hurl a Botehkiss shell; yon may not be able to shoulder a glittering njuitket; but cute anything yam can lay your hand»on. Try a blacksmith's ham­mer or a njervhant's yardstick or a ma son'* trowel or a carpenter's plane or a housewife'• broom or a farmer's ox goad. One of the sorpriaw of beaten will be what grand rasalm name from how simple means. Matthias Joyce, the rile man, became a great apostle of righteooanesa, not from hearing John Wesley preach, bnt dons seeing him kiss a little child on the pulpit stairs.

TW Belp at <*•*. Again, my subject springs npon as

the thought that in calculating the pros­pects of religions attempt we must take omnipotence and omniscience and om­nipresence and all the other attributes of God into the calculation. Whom do yon see on that plowed field of mj text? One hearer says, "I see Hhamgar. " An­other hearer says, **I see 600 Philis­tines. " Jay hearer, yon hare missed the chief personage on that battlefield of plowed ground. I also see Sbamgar and 600 Philistine*^ but, more than all and mightier than all and more overwhelm­ing than all, I see God. Shamgar with his unaided arm, however muscular, and with that humble instrument made for agricultural purposes and never constructed for combat, could not have wrought such victory. It was omnipo­tence above and beneath and back of and at the point of the oxgoad. Before that battle was over the plowman realised this, and all the 600 Philistines realised it, and all who visited the battlefield afterward appreciated it. I want in heaven to bear the story, for it can nev­er be fairy told on earth—perhaps some day nan be set apart for the rehearsal, while %U heaven listens—the story of how Old blessed awkward and humble

Xanyan evangelist a town given ap to world-

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have help right away. 1 resorted te try L*4U AT. PtaTsaw'# Vegetable Caav pound. The reamhs wars inarveltoe** I have galaed ia every way, and am an*. tirel? cured." — Ma*. MABTIX H A U L / Oakdak, Mass. I w y druggist has Ik

day made of leaving out the head of the universe.

. Again, my subject springs npon as the thought that in God's service it ia best to use weapons that are particular­ly suited to us. Sbamgar had, like many of us, been brought up on a farm, fie knew nothing about javelins and boo* klers and helmets and breastplates and greaves of brass and catapults and bel-listse and iron scythes fastened to the axles of chariots. But he was familiar with the flail of the thrashing floor and knew bow to pound with that, and the ax of the woods and knew how to hew with that, and the oxgoad of the plow­man and knew how to thrust with that And you and I will do best to use those means that we can best handle; those weapons with which we can make the most execution. Some in God's service will do best with the pen; some with the voice; some by extemporaneous speech, for they have the whole vocabu­lary of the Eaglish language half way between their brain and tongue, and others will dp best with manuscript spread out before them. Some will serve God by the plow, raising wheat and corn and giving liberally of what they sell to churches' and nxlarions; some as merchants, and out of their profits will dedicate a tenth to the Lord; some as physician*, prescribing for the world's ailments; and some as attorneys, defending innocence and ob­taining rights that otherwise would not be recognised; and some as sailors, help-

the seas; and someaafaaflh-•stcr* The kingdom of 6od

is dreadfully retarded by so many of an arswiiattng to do that which wecssmot do; raaoaina; an for broadsword or fal-

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bat bless yoa

tnlaee on platform or pnlprt. I emanated at college, and there before

the best nniversi-

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reason was this n n i a W o r ^ a ^ aiiparaDeled victory^** S a d ^ " ^ l ^ a ^ * P W * m t W

pat into this Bible, 1 nariea, and one alipfcT r|a«roomforthe|n^amxaaiiimati^ wiU raaaH ha

'a gnn, while we with an oxgoad. ,1 tare tens of

them in the aajjh aanoas of beavea# i are now in a qaaata^yia ncaaesi schoolboases and in

me and to teach all past ages, at and to teach all ages to come ha war for God and against sin ttapottothebestusetheweap-sapaa to bmr^ on hand. Why

flharagar wait until he could r oaarger, with neck arched and perisoned and nostrils aniflmg la afar osT, or until he could get dmaant or could drill a regl-nd wheeling them into line ft a>em forward to the charge? lor that would have been defeat Esdlatksj. So he t. W« the b#*t he coaMlay hold i i , a n d t - t

L 'wearecaiied into the

. __ _ w ,_,_ 1 by sick beds and np « ^ I ! l S S l i 7 a i n ^ I «* •»«»»»*«*» wiU rasaH m a a a - 1 ^ esving word and doing- mal| and toe trnrial. pw^d.ftiggle. Anud the general S u l * * 4 * *ka aggregation of their caafsa «f Wnpiaa. 1 that pervades the house the unpretend-1 ^^rVwaUus; the most ambitions i

of all, to teach yon and | i"« evangelist^ opens his Bible and takes I tSm>

for his text, "Lord, that my eyes may I be opened. " Opera glasses in* the gal­lery curiously scrutinise the speaker. Be tells in a plain way the story of the blind man, tells two or three touching anecdotes, and the general chill gives way before a strange warmth.

A classical bearer who took the first honor at Yale and who is a prince of proprieties finds his spectacles becoming dim with a moisture suggestive of tears. A worldly mother who has been bring­ing np her sons and daughters in -utter godlesaness puts her handkerchief to her. eyes and begins to weep. Highly edu­cated men who came to criticise and pick to pieces and find fault bow on their gold headed canes. What is that soand from under the gallery? It is a sob, and sobs are catching, a/H all along the wall and all np and down the audi­ence there is deep emotion, so that when at the close of the service anxious souls are invited to especial seats or the inquiry room, they come up by and kneel and repent and rise up par­doned ; the whole town is shaken and places of evil amusement are sparsely attended and rum holes lose their pa­trons, and th* churches are thronged, and the whole community is cleansed and elevated and rejoiced. What power did the evangelist bring to bear to cap-tare that town for righteousness? Not one brilliant epigram did he utter. Kot one graceful gesture did he make. Kot one rhetorical climax did he pile up. Bnt there was something about him that people had not taken in the esti­mate when they prophesied the failure of that work. They had not taken into the calculation the onmipotence of the Hohr Ghost. It was not the fla*!» of a launasrus blade. It was God. before and behind and all arnund the oagoad. When people my that crime will tri­umph and the world will n*»ver be con­verted because of the seeming insuffi­ciency of the means employed, they count the 600 armed Philistines on one aide and Shamgsr. the farmer, awk* wardry equipped, on the other odX reabatag that the chariots of G«d ar* •0,000 and that aH heaven, cherubic,

irrheagvlic, deinc is <a what would be the weak nde. 5a-

the aether of the sayiaar. "God is on the sear of the heaviest' artillery.'

to mad oat hxt axtatake, for at Wa-1*0 gaas of the Engl*

W0 raas of the Preach, /sod woa the ssdr of the right, and one asm hi the right wiU evantaalhr be found

work do act a*ak* the —<L—it1—

r the right and aga:>t wrong, j of as have not just the kind m we would prefer. It may not rd of arguxoent It may not be m of sharp, thrusting wit. It be the battering ram of de­

an. • ere te something we can do and DOB we can wield. Do not wait yoa have not, bat aae what

a Perhaps yoa have not elo-mt yqa have a smile. Well, a encoarageinent has changed the of tens of thousands of wan* ad brought them back to God ironed tbem in heaven. Ton sake a persuasive appeal, but let an example, and a good ex­es saved more souls than yon Bit in a ymr it you counted all

You cannot give $10,000, bat give as much as the widow of 1, whose two mites, the small-of the Hebrew* werv bestowed spirit as to make her more f a-m aU the contributions that wed aH the hospitals and uni-e* all Qn^stendom, of aH time. • ̂ nry limited vocabulary, bnt a744yes" or 'Vacs' and a firm

no*' ha* trav-and will trams*

ry, with good inAaence. Ton to confront a

yoa can tell a bool dam of two—a boy and oar mxaaiaariat, and one of

i William Oarey. to wiU redeem India.

In the araad review at heaven when ^reg imentapas . OiaUmirf Hosm! there will be whole regiinenej of and Sabbath schoolteachers distributors and unpretending workers, before whom as they pass the kings and queens of God and the Lamb will lift flashing coronet and bow down in rec ognition and reverence. The most of the Christian work for the world's reclama­tion and salvation will be done by peo­ple of one talent and two talents, whils the ten talent people are up in the astro­nomical observatories studying other worlds, though they do little or nothing for the redemption of this world, or are np in the rarefied realms of "higher criticism" trying to find out that did not write the Pentateuch or to prove that the throat of the whale was not large enough to swallow the minister who declined the call to Nineveh and apologizing for the Almighty for certain inexplicable things they have found in the Scriptures. It will be found oat at the last that the Krupp guns have not done so much to capture this world for God as the oxgoada.

anta Years ago I was to summer in the

Adiroodaeks, and my wealthy friend, who was a great hunter

I am not going to the Adiroa-dacks this season, and you can take my equipment and I will send it up to Paul Smith'a " Well, it was there when I ar­rived in the Adirondacks, a splendid outfit, that cost many hundred* of dol­lars, a gorgeous tent, and such elabo­rate fishing apparatus; such guns of all styles of exn^mnte make and reels

and bait and torches an** lunch and many more things that 1

could not even gaess the ase of my friend of the big soul had tenon and engaged men who should

puny me into the forest the deer and the front IS

coald have seer it at the txase there

the fins through all the "John n o v a » Tract" Well, I am no eroebeek or a came fish did I

be-Gideoa's army? JEach one of the knew hoar much racket the break

ing of one pitcher would make. So 800 that Bight took ftOO pitchers and a

lamp inside the pitcher, and at a given the snaps were lifted and the

violently dashed down, tne flash of Ught and the racket of the tOO demoHahed fawjoers sent the enemy into wild flight Kot much of a weapon, yoa would aay, it a broken pitcher, bnt the Lord made that awful crash of crockery the mnam of triumph for his people. And there is yet to be a battle with the pitchers. The night of the world's dhadpaiine may get darker and darker, ami aiesr awhile, ia what watch of the night I know not, all the ale pitchers, and the wine pitchers, and the beer pitoaeta, and the whiaky pitchers of the earth will be hurled iatodemoti-tkm by eoarmrasd inebriates and Chris­tian reforasera, aad at that awfal crash of mfernal crockery the amaleHnsn

of panjmanii and karferdom and cruelty and aeaas-

sinatKm will fly the earth. Take the first weapon yoa earn lay your hands on. Why asd David choose the sling when he went at Gottath and Goliath went at him? Broaght np in the country, like

other boy, he knew how to man-a sling. JsmTs armor was first pot

on him, bat the giant's armor was too heavy. The helmet was clapped on him as an extinguisher, and David said, "I cannot go with these, for* I have not proved them." And the first wise thing David did after potting on Saul's armor was to put it oft. Then the brook Elah, the bed of which was dry when I saw it and one vast reach of pebbles, fur­nished the tnn smooth stones of the brook with which Goliath was prostrat­ed. Whether it be a boy's sling or a bro­ken pitcher or an oxgoad, take that which yoa can manage, and ask God for help, and no power on earth or in hell

before yon. •tssa ta O M mm tk* Armor.

. Go out, then, I charge yon, against the Philistines. We must admit the odds are against as 600 to one. In the mat­ter of dollars, those devoted to worldli-ness and sin and dissipation, when com­pared with the doners devoted to noli-neasand virtae---600toone, Tne houses set apart for viae and despoliation and rain, mm conxpared with those dedicated to good, 600 to one. Of printed news­paper sheets amassed abroad from day to day, with those ahusshiij are 600

the world the agencies for

aae *tox4 better, 600 to one, Moses ni'm.eong, chants, '•Bow at one elates a thoatead, and two 10,000 m U g h t r ' and ia my text

600 aphfted battle-of anitsmeal victory

at em*i»* waaw the Bible be a fabrioa-t and nil! nit J a myth and theohari-af Qodareanwbeeledon the golden flan* ansa aae mat rsajtmept of the ce-

» deed on the plains of as or without as the

w i H | s j alsaev Oh, get into the oaaahow; yoa

7^JF*&&9' ^ p m with • loaf .of bread for » s IdagU, yea with a vial of __ " " "

er. fie

feed aim on the aayr*

"Mr. Offloor, yoa don't know boras, or yoa wouldn't talk that way.

*'I don't know the horse, bat I ' that yoa ought to be ran in for working a starved beat* like that It's a case for t s t & P . C A Do yoa weigh oat hit food to him on an af>c4hecary's scales?"

MOfBcer, before yoa aay aay more do me a favor. Get in that drive around a block, and come back here tell me what to feed him. m do whatever yoa say."

The policeman got into the buggy and K. Be thought he was la a round driven by cyclone now-

his feet agaiaet the daah-on to the reins an til his tad there was a

of heels all over the road Turn slewed around oorners on one wheel, and when the horse finally handed a? against the hitching post with its front legs over the shafts the oflJcerwassc daaed that he couldn't apeak for a adn­ata. _ - • • . • • • -

"Well," queried the owner, "what do yoa think I 'd better feed the homer'

"II I owned him," answered the po-Uoeman sternly, "r*d feed him on some good reliable anewthetio, "—Chi-cago Tribune,

Bwitaerland. with its mixture of and tongues, is a sort of modern Babel, a fact which oaaaes much trouble in particular to the military aathoritiea, At Wallenstadt, the other day, at the recruiting station, there was a guard composed of five men, The chief was a lieutenant who spoke German only, the second a sergeant who spoke Italian only, the third a corporal who eoald speak French and Spanish, the fourth e private who eoald speak French and German, and the fifth a private who coald speak French and Italian, the Ueutenant had to transmit i to the sergeant, he had to get the last named man to interpret for him. Whan ne wanted to eonimaxaoate wtsn the oorporal, hehadtoreoaiaitkm

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