WOMEN TAUGHT TO SPAR.
It IfflnnrmTliclr llenltli, nnd Olvos
Tlwa a Crncofttl Cnrrlnuo Tlio
Xxcrctse Hccomliijj Very
J'opulnr.
Tlio credit of intcrostins: the fair sex
of Urn city in nthlotio exorcises, says
3Tic X&v Tori: Mail aud Express, is
ilua, wrilbont doubt, to Mr. William It.
Trarera. and to no ono of tho.hcnlth-
fririnr snorts aro tlio vomit: ladies of
New York more devoted tiiau that of
sparring. Several schools whero
-women nrc daily taught the use of tho
xnmt;-&arca flourish in this city nnd
vicin ir. and physicians aro beginning
to recommend tho oxcrciso as second
only in importance to that of walking.
Tlio prejudice against sparring conso
qncutnpon tlio vulgar and inhuman
practice of those who formerly repre
sented the sport, aro gradually being
bvoroomc ami a ono ou thusiaslic
Jcnchcrof Ibo scioticn roinarkod, it is
not at nil nnl kcly that the instruction
of joun women in tho methods of
lending trowa-counter, and uppi-r cuts
-mil in the near future form an import
tint part of tho curriculum of study
pursued At orcry pnvalo and public
school. I sidviso every young woman
who necks my advice nowadays, who
complains of dyspepsia, insomnia, or
feeling of lassitude to try her hand at
punching the bag, and find when they
follow jd advicb thoy invariably im
prove." "Tli b was a well-known phy
sic an siaswcr to tho writer's ques
tioning coaecrniiig tho matter, and ho
further Touclisafed tlio information
lhat for women incl.nod to-embonpoint
nothing 'Jid thoin moro sorvico than a
few niinnles' exorcise onco a day in a
buuttriLh tho glove.
Another opinion in support of the ef
ficacy of ilws exoro flo comos from ono
of tho leading uctrussos of tho day,
who tfcui speak of sparring by la
dies: "1I a lady engaged in theatrical
or opsnUvc work could select but ono
of the many aocoiuiili.shmuntH to which
vreasu rlasa are devoted, I should re
coramu'tid aparring. Tho stately car
riage, willy Kit which nono of us can
liop-j to Kuccocd, is made tho more
easy by a knowledge of tho principles
of boxing; ami it comes, too, without
amy wjcuiinr: effort. Tho grace of mo
tion Uialftoxno boliuvocomos onlv after
baring spent days and wouks with tho
foils or under tho tutelage of a dancing
master in just as easily acquired by
parrinv. and 1 think in a much less
time. Our mast successful actors and
nclmnvjE aro those that include among
their other accomplishments that of
tho pnuciploa of sull'-dofenso. Lantry,
Modjcaka. Fanny Davunport, Mary An
derson, and ithors aro all adopts in
tho urU and I am glad to know that
Ihoyoungwr monitions of tho profession
aro licjrinaimr to dovolo some attention
to tho tunlter.
Sparring Is not a now exorciso for
Aromcu. though up to tho present time
it hns had hut few apostles hero. Hilly
Kdwiurdj, tho well known pugilist, has
for soino limo instructed Now York so
c otr girl in tlio nrt, grown womanly,
of clJ-liifense, and l'rof. 1'indluy and a
Mins -Autonio have done like sorvico for
voung ladicM ot I'hiladolphiu, while
Kilty Clark for some time had a largo
cliusi in Bmlon. To-day, however, tlio
qaurt, crorciso, or pastime by whloh
uvur uatun ono may bo pleased to call
it. it not indulged in by society's fair
daughter nlono, but tho shop-girls,
women lvhositall day at a typo-writer,
and orcn by women who aro mothers
snd havo tlio duties and oaros of a
home upon thoin. At a well-known
dry goods palace in this city tho room
given tip to its fomalo employes for
luncheon purposes is transformed al
altnost every day at tho noon hour into
a bovin school, whoro tho girls moot
in fricudly contest or spend a brief peri
od in pounding u huge football. Such
oxcrciso is rendered dilllcult and to
soiiio extent undesirable by tho fact
that tho young women tiro not properly
dressed for tho sport. At tho regular
school, howovor, a dross soniotiiing
like a bathing suit is worn, which, to
gether with canvas shoos with rubber
soles, complete tho attiro. Tho gloves
used nru the sumo as thono used by tho
sturnirr mix. nod, while soiihi of ihom
aro miniature feather pillows, others
ivroHullieioutly hard to bring down an
injunction from tho Law ami Order so
ciety's pot ornament from the bench.
lunionid oncountors aro tho exception
rather than tho rule, nnd wheu indulg
ed In nro usually between the teacher
and pupils, and rarely between two
pupils. A tightly-blown foot-ball, fast
ened pendant from a hook in tho cell
ing by a pioco of hemp ropo is general
ly tho object of attack, nnd around this
thu fair young girls daueo like so
many Comauoho Indians, striking out
first with tho loft, catching tho leather
sphere squarely in the centnr, then ou
tlio recoil ttonding It spinning again
Willi & olovor uopor-out or a cross-counter,
each timo (lucking so as toavo d a
blow in tho faeo as it comes back to its
original jm.sllion.
Consequent upon gtho 'little uso to
which lad usually nut their left hand,
they experience considerable trouble in
mastering some of tho feints, guards,
nnd loads, but what they lack in this
particular is largoly mudo up In tho r
snpplcnosa of limb, and when onco the
"olutinate left hand" becomes educat
ed, tho points made by tho female
sparrer are moro deft, clearer, nnd
certain than those usually made by
man. Tlio reverse guard and retreat,
however, lutom to come natural to wo
men; but their greatest trouble is in
breathing. Ono minute's exero so will
send a young lady to her comer pull
ing aud blowing as if she had run a
half-tu to, and it takes n long limo for
tltora to learn how to breathe, Thu
double guard la another, thing that
omaerf almost instinct ivolyio women,
bat fer all that thoy develop a'i a rule
into "ruahors" and seldom deserve tho
reputation of boaig cant otts sparrors.
Om the whole, thoy am unthusiastio
uud pentarcring and aro quick to no
ipialBttbenwolros w.th pugil flt o points,
mid best ol rill aro voryiIow to ongago
in exlidiitloti. Thoy tuko to
tho njtort for tho plu .sioal gooil It dous
them nml for the development of mind
mid miioli that itiiivimlily follow a
i iri i uu.fcjr n conso uniJoiui and uitna
4i j .lutructor.
ROMAN ARCHITECTURE.
Skill Shown by Jlnnonn In tlio Cut-
tine nnd I'ollslilnu of Mnrble.
Mr. J. II. Middleton, M. A., Sladi
professorof line art at Cambridge, deliv
crcd his second lecture on nrchitccttin
at the Hoyal acadomy tho other day
taking for his subject "Methods o
Decoration as Applied to Roman Build
ing3." Sir Frederick Lclghton was it
tho chair. Frof. Middleton began bj
remarking that sinco tho early "feu
did" poriod of Greece thoro was no agi
of anything like equal splendor in tin
decoration of houses until the early year,
of tho Roman empire woro reached
In tho most nourishing poriod of Grcel
art, architectural splendor was devotee
to sacred purposes, nnd tho samo was
tho caso thoughout the republican pe
nod of ancient Homo. Even as Into a.
tho days of Julius Ciesar anything lik
magnificence in a private house wa.
viewed with extreme jealousy by tin
Roman people. But lifty years Intel
all was changed. Augustus encour
aged the uso of marbles and tho erec
tion of splendid buildings of even
kind, and in his roign tho house of af
most every rich citizen began to b
decorated in tho most costly and clabo
rato way. Tlio lecturor then proceed
cd to speak of tho skill
shown by tho Roman niasom
in cutting . and polishing, nol
only of slabs and columns, but of doll'
cato moldings in tho very hard red por
phyry of Egypt and tho green porphyry
of Sparta, which a modern marble
mason would declaro to ho unworkable.
Tho skill of tho Romans In this work
appeared to have been derived from the
EirvDtians, bv whom tho tubular drill
set witli ruby, corundum, or other hard
stones, was in uso, as hau boon shown
by Mr. Fctrio, as far back as 4,000 B.C.,
so that tho diamond rock-boring drills
introduced of late years for mining anil
othor operations were by no means a
now thing. Marks ot such jowolcd
drdls woro to bo soon on tho hard gran
ites and pornhysles used in Koine, ana
such refractory materials wero cut with
comparative rapidity by saws set with
similar jewels or li,ard stones into slabs
of wonderful thinness and ovomiess.
Tho Romans had always a strong incli
nation to mako tho "groatost possible
display at a givon cost, and voncors ol
porphyry only onc-otgiitu oi an men m
thickness wero otlon usou uy mom. jo
known oxamplo of a Roman room ex
isted with its marblo lining still com
plete, but tho abundauco of broken
fragments which woro ofton found, aid
ed by tho print ot tho maroio
lining on its cemont backing, holped
us to mako out tho usual scheme
of tho decoration, which, supposing
tho marblo to havo covered tho whole
wall, Bcomod to havo boon vory much
like tho design of tho wood panollngs
which woro used by Wren and hi
pupils iu tho first half of the Ins!
century. Thoro was a dado witii mold
ed skirtings below it, tho lattor being
f i om twelve to fourtuon inches high!
while tho capping of tho dado was
from threo to four foot nbovo tho lloor.
At tho coiling lino thoro was a door
cornice, and tho Intormoiliato wall
space was d vided into panels. Mar
bios of various colors woro used to
stromrthon tho oflect of each lino and
molding. Having described tin
methods adopted for attaching the
marblo linings to tho concrete- walls ol
the buildings, tho lecturor described the
design and exoeution of Roman mosaic
work, and thou passed on to notice the
stucco reliefs, which wore used for the
decoration of walls and coilmsrs. The
best of those reliefs, ho said, woro bv
far tho most artistio among tho moth
ods of decoration usod in ancionl
Rome. Tho finest examples had roalli
nothinir that was Roman in thoir do
sign or troatmout, but wero roally pure
UrooK work, such as wouiit not nave
disgraced tho school of 1'raxitoles oi
Scopas. Finally, tho lecture treated
of tempera, fresco, and encaustic paint
ing, as used at l'ompoii and olsowhoro.
London Times.
A Now Version.
"Mother may I go out ami tobogl"
"Vcs, my darling Ulnlre,
Hunt up a heavy linrd wood log
To hold down your Imlr,"
Whitehall Time.
Finished It tit Lust.
"What do you suppose my wlfo did
yesterday P" asked u Lisbon stroot man
of mysteries. "Don t know," was the
replv; "perhaps sho got up and bull I
tho tiro." "No, sir! But I'll toll yoi
what sho did do. Sho finished i
patchwork nullt ye storday that she bo
gau forty yours ago this winter, when
sho was it "little girl of four years. Tin
sowing is in contrast, but not nion
than would bo oxpoctod. V hat Is alsi
strange, her mother started her t
making it forty years ago and cut ou
the squares for nor, mid her mollioi
helped hor to draw it In yesterday,"
licioistm (Me.) journal.
Tim C Iris in Bine.
Tho young ladies of tho high school
admiring tho miliary oxorclsos by the
boys, have organ. zed a battalion of foui
companies, nnd drills have roplaeoc
calisthenics exercises. Tho uniform i
a navy blue llauuol short skirt nm
blouse, with a felt hat nnd scarlu
feather, although tho headgear is no
fully decided ou. The four companloi
liavo boon thoroughly drilled in tin
school of tho soldier and go tltrougl
their fauiuirs like veterans. Thoy wd
next try battalion movements, am
meanwhile arises the question: Shal
the battalion bo armed with woodei
guns? Itoslon lludycl,
A Cow.Ciitehor Wearing u Watch.
In tho case of thu mangled remain
recently found ou the front of ti For
Win no locomotive, n verdict was rcn
dored of killing on the railroad. Tin
mnn's Identity is still undiscovered. I
watuh of the victim of tho disaster wtt
found on the cow-uutohor, still running
U had boon thrown out of his pocko
nml tho chain lind caught nnd wotiui
around ono of the bars, holding It so
uriily. Pitt slum Dispatch,
IR BEECHER'S LAST SERMON.
IT YAS DELIVERED AT PLYMOUTH CHURCH
SUNDAY EVENING, FEB. 27.
tie Talked of Resolution and the Necessity
for Firmly Adhering to Certain Fixed
Principles The Mooda that Govern Us
Should bo Subordinated to Our Better
Solves If "We Would Succeed Here and
Hereafter.
Mr. Ilccelicr's last Bermon was delivered In
Plymouth Church Sunday night, Feb. 27. II.
Wlinun reported it ns follow?, for The Sew
York Woiltl:
"And he said unto his disciples. There was .
certain rich man which bad a servant, and the
same as accused unto him. No ser
vant can teivu two masters; for cither he will
hate the one ami love the other, or else he will
hold to the one and dcsplsu the other. You
cannot serve God nnd Mammon."
Text. I,iile, xvl. chap., iv. verse, the first
clauEC! "I am resolved what to do"
"I read In your hcaili'K this narrative, this
parable of our Lord. The unjust steward has
been accused, ami rightfully, of betraying his
trust and uastlng that committed to lilm. Ills
master called him to an account, and he was
satnfled that tlie cud had come; and lie com
muned with himself, acd as the result of that,
and looking over all tho circumstances, he
laid, "I am resolved what to do."
"What he resolved to do whs not very hon
est, hut it was very Bhrewd. He resolved to
make friends of all the debtors of his lord. He
called them up and settled with them In such
& way as to lay them under obligations grati
tude to Him. And so, although he and they
cheated the master, he made his own nest
warm and the master praibcd him not Jesus,
but the man that owned the property Is the one.
When he heard of lthesaldtohimsclf: "Well,
that Is shrewd; that Is cunnlnir; that Is wise,"
and the comment on It Is: "Children of this
world arc wiser than the children ot light;
that Is to say, men who arc acting in worldly
reasons, for worldly reasons, are very much
wiser than the men becoming good trom the
highest moral considerations. Hut that that
they have selected is simply this: "I am resolv
ed what to do."
"What then Is the nature of a resolution
what is the scope of It, the potency? And
what are the drawbacksl The self-consideration
of these questions may throw light upon
the path of many of us. Now, our long effort
of making up our mind Is equivalent to form
hur a purpose. When a man resolves, he
means, or he should mean, to do something;
and all resolutions carry, or should carry, not
simply tho end sought, but aUo the capable
and necessary means by which tho end Is
toilght. I am resolved to cross the river, by
tlie'tirklge, by boat or by swimming. To stand
on one side and to resolve to be on the other,
without any intermediate means of doing It,
would be folly Indeed. I am resolved to-morrow
togo to market. All the Intermediate
and Implied steps by which that resolution
could be carried out lire Included lu the res
olution Itself. A resolution is a purpose In
so far as simple things, uucomxmuded, In
eomplcx, are concerned. A retolutlon may bo
executed immediately, without loss of time;
Indeed, the greatest number of resolutions
are those which like the stroke of the ham
mer or the explosion of a gun, are almost with
out auy appreciable lnterlapse of time. 'I am
resolved what to do.' Natural resolutions:
At the crv of fire the man Instantly looks out
to sec what to do; at the call of a man to step
to the door and see stranger or a friend ; ho
retolves to do It; although thu resolution Is
latent In such a scn$c by repetition, he is not
conscious of making up his mind.
"In regard to a great many of the acts of a
man's lile, cerebration that Is to say, the
action of tho brain has become so common
that It takes place without any appreciable
appearance of taking place. A multitude of
things If one gets In a crowd, and a man
would strike lilm, his defense Is not the result
of reflection, and yet It was In him as a re
sult of experience to protect himself; and, !f It
bo n shadow, It Is just the same, for a shadow
seems like a substance, and be puts himself
lu a ludicrous attitude of defense: he smiles,
and goes on, but tho action of the mind, the
uucoucloiis cerebration, Is there. As, for In
stance, in things that apply to the now, that
nie uncompoiindcd and simple, a man resolves
and executes almost at the same moment.
The child calls from above, 'Father', and In
cldently there Is no thought whether he shall
or not answer, yet the train goes on within
him, and he replies, '.My son, what!' Or the
call has come to him for help, aud he In
stantly, before the last echo of the sound dies
out of his car, he Is on his feet, on his way.
Hut these arc very simple things; they are tho
primary forms, which afterwards becoming
more and more complicated, runuiog through
longer periods of time, imply a great many
Intermediate steps. For a man can resolve
that he will go to bed it doesn't take long
either he resolves that to-morrow morning
lie will get up and go 'cruising,' but to-morrow
Is ilark and 6tormv, and tho resolution Is
not hull so strong when ho wakes up as It
was when he went to bed. There arc a great
many considerations that come. Or the man
resolves that to-morrow lie will go to market;
neighbors come hi; ho waits; it Is noon, and
then tune Is tot) little to go. 'And come again.'
Aud ho puts It oil until next morning. So
between the resolution and thu night for
one takes hold upon the other thcro li a
delay und the Intermediate history.
"Now, as ou go on In this life, assoclety
Itself becomes more complex civilization Is
growth lu complexity as thu things that
you resolve to door not to do are largely In their
times, and are clustered together by cause
and effect, resolutions spreading over solong
spaces and so much interiucdiatl'Un Is some
what different from the tlrst resolve.
"Resolution, then, means a purpose, the
will Itself; and It lucludes lu it, also, all hulls
pcnalblu Intermediate steps; and some resolu
tions execute themselves Immediately; some
with some delay; some with long delay; some,
through many subordinate resolutions, that
carrv out Ute primary one. Aud a man may
resolve at a critical moment that which will
determine the whole character of his life: yea,
ho mav determine In imr ono single, tlual mo
ment 'that which will tako tho whole of hie
life to carry luto effect. This Is tho case ot
ten thousand men. Whcu my father was
yours:, a hid (ho was brought up bv, substan
tially, an uncle), he had In him all that was
necessary to make him what he was In his
professional life. Hut ho didn't It; ho was
carrions; ho was heedless; ho was forgetful of
tilings external; and so Uncle Lot lleutoa one
morning, going out, found that being out
late with the horses the nlcht before, visiting
some youug company, tho bridle was placed
over the water-trough and the saddle was
thrown down behind the stable door, and the
horses turned In without a halter, and ho said,
'Oh, well, Lvman will never make a farmer;
he Is not tilted for IL' And so talking In the
orchaid with lilm one day, he says: "Lymau,
how would you like to go to college!" No
answer. They went on working all day. Next
day about the same hour, as thev were worklug
together hi the orchard, Lymau says: 'I would
like to go, sir.1 That settled it. In that be
ginning was a purpose that shaped differently
his whole life; It never gave out; It brauch
td in every direction; he made what ho was;
that was owing to tho parting; by not, ho
would havo been a miserable farmer: ho made
a tolably good mluUter and a tolerably good
father. , , ,
"So, then, a man may form a resolution
without noise, without parade, but that with
lnihilte sequences lu IU development. It may
Include in Itself a short proces nml an Inter
mediate; It may Include in Ibelf a louger pro
cess; It may Include lu Itself the whole scope
of a man's life, aud tbrlce ten thousand reso
lutions will be formed success vol v to carrv out
the great primary resolution which a man
makes. Thus, If a man Is to be a lawyer he u
not going to be a blacksmith, nor u sailor, nor
a soldier, so that there U the roolutlon of ex
clusion; It turns him away fiom those tbtuus
Inconsistent with tho tlret element. If he It
to be a lawyer there must Ik) the question ot
education, and a prof ess Ion al education, and
all the conditions which aro prerequisite to
tho presenting himself to the court aud hU
license to plead and the beginning of praotlce.
All of Uiote am wramvd un lu the tlrst de
termination, 'I will lc a lawyer;' but that de
termination don't make lilm one; It starts lilm
on a long train of events that arc necesviry Ic
makcblm a Iawer. And so In regard to morali
ty, a young man mat stand on the thrcshhold
of life; he may resolve that he will see the
world; and the man that means to see every
thing in the world will probably sec a good
deal under the world, by aud by, that he wont
care about seeing. A inan who resolves, on
the other hand, 'I (relieve In honesty; it is the
best principle' (but It Is better than nothing to
say). That Is the best policy; It Is good poli
cy; all good policy Is a principle; all good
principles carry with them a policy. And a
young man, he sat a, 'I am determined to he
an honest and upright man;' that at once
spreads to other men; he won't associate with
certain ones, he will associate with certain
others; he won't follow c rtaui things; he "111
seek other paths; the resolution sifts life for
li I m out'of Its discipline, and another resolu
tion Is a growing, crude thing. Now. there
are a good many icoplc who don't seem ever
to have a resolution: thev are like sleevs. a II
their thoughts run through and arc wasted:
there In a great difference about them: there
are some men wlio;e thoughts are like thu
ratchet wheel, the wlieel that has, notch by
notch, to hold what It lia got; and there are
a great many whose thoughts are like thistle
downs that are going everywhere, nnd don't
know that they are going everywhere, und
arc subject to the mutations of the wind.
There Is u great deal of difference need to
be to wiu men to form resolutions, some
times, of a strong nature and of a sterling
strong purose; when once they have resolved
never to illnch, they never know hi any hour
a donnslidlug: they mav be less active at
one time than another, but tney don't turn
back. Once linvlntr put their hand to the
plough they don't look back again. Hut
then there arc those that have the same policy
resolution, but they are made of different
stuff; It slides away; they forget It; they are
not stiff enough to stand up against the
wind, It may be, that shall come uponthcci.
"The general qualities of the resolutions
which men make are of every grade; even a
frail woman, walking In the boisterous March
wind, may llnd that all the sail she carries she
cannot make headway against It, and sup
ports herself by a fence that Is stiff enough to
hold her until the wind lulls. And as It Is in
the community so It is In regard to the In
dividuals there are so many persons who,
left to themselves, waver; they do so some
times from good reasons, sometimes from
those not so good, sometimes tho purposes
were formed in a moment of excitement and
have nothing left of them when the excite
ment cools. There Is Instability also arising
from disability of oriraiilziitlon: that is to sav.
a man mav be susceptible while one class of
effects Is being produced, and In that mood
he mav form a resolution, but to-morrow
someother blessed, beautiful thing may come
up, and he Is just as susceptible of that, and
secondary state of mind obliterates the first.
A man Is under the unfluence of music, aud
all his purposes run under that power or In-
fltienee, but, by and by, the outbreak of pol
itics brings up patriotism, as it is called, and
his moods change, and those early sensations
at first arc no longer operative upon him;
another powerful influence causes di pres
slou. There arc many men who have such
ancillary elements brought to bear upon
their wills and upon their temperaments that
thev arc almost persuaded to be Christians,
and think they will be, but, going home in a
liHrry, fall in with company, and the day fol
lowing business Instincts und Interests. It Is
like another scene that day. So that there is
this chanecublcness In men. Then tho de
crease of the power came from tho nature of
the mind. There Is, however,, this Idea not to
be neglected the distinction between the
man's willing aud his wishing. A great many
people think that a wish Is a resolution. Oh",
it has gone Into a proverb, 'If wishes were
horses then becgars might ride.' A man
wishes he were ileli. but he Is too lazy, and he
never will be; and man wishes that he knew
more; probably never will; he Is lazy: a man
wishes that ho could havo entrance into cer
tain circles in society, but tho steps requslte
he never will have patience or wisdom to take.
Vou might just as well carry n candle aioiiud
the Held aud think it is agriculture, because
It Is light shining on crops. Thousands of
people think thev wish to be Christians; they
don't. That is tho Interpretation given much
of the Instruction of Jesus. .Men came to him
and said: 'Lord, wo will follow thee whither
soever thou goest." 'No, you won't; you
don't know that I am destined to suffering,
poverty, persecution, death; you thiuk that I
am going to bo a royal personage and shower
honors and gold.' 'Ah,' sas one. 'I will fol
low thee, but suffer me first.' Ah, there Is
that if and 'but' in life. Ten thousand peo
ple say, 'I would be a Christian If,' and that
settles it. 'I want to be a Christian, but'
yes, and that settles it again. And so Christ
was surroumicu uy swarms ot persons, ioiiow
lntr him around, wishiuir and wishing, with
various degrees of excitability lu them, and he
put them all on; lie would nave noining to uo
with them. 'Let him take up his cross and
follow me. whosoever wouhf be my disciples.'
There Is something to do, something to prove,
and to wisli. lucre is a great distinction ue
tweeu wishing, then, and willing; for when a
man wills the purpose carries with It the In
strument to effect itself. You wish to be a
Christian; do you will to be one! Your wish
ing Is tatitallzatlou if will be accomplishment.
"Now, Christian life is the only reasonable
otic, whether you regard 1 1 as a duty or as a
means of the greatest satlsfact ou; tout is to
say, we were made to be Christians, and being
a Christian Is simply putting yourself lu those,
relations to yourself, to your" fellow-meu and
to your God for which you were created. Did
voii ever undertake to take apart a watch!
That Is very easy. Did you ever undertake to
nut It together" again! That Is not so easy.
Vou don't know which screw goes In which
hole; vou don't know exactly which wheel
noes In first: but one thlnir is perfectly certalu.
aud that Is that nothing else will lit together
but that of which the watch was made, and
each wheel was dlstmed to ono place and to
one avocation, and If vou cau bring them to
rri
other, according to tlio Intent oi tiiemaucr,
V. ...Ml .. ml nOinn.'lA If V,' 1 1 1 1W,I Villi'
a man was bulit with a great deal more care
ti, r n wntrii w. Hn 1ms definite rela-
tlous to himself. A man was mado to live
with men, and there Is only one way and one
principle on which men can live together
kindness, love. Justice means love; justice
Is not something else; and we may bae a test;
an example, a revelation In Jesus, In the Old
Testament as well as the New, hut lu the New
with clearer emphasis and linger light, seeing
there how we have got to live towards our fel
low men, what are the Interlacing relations
and what are the predominant spirit lu which
wo are to treat them. "Thou shall love thy
neighbor as thyself." Self-love Is made tobe
thu" very model and type of that affection which
you are to give to all people. Then we know
perfectly well that we are atliaoced to yet
higher beings than man and to the Invisible
compos as well as to the visible; and we cau
not live when we are out of ioiut with any nt
these relations In ourselves and to our neigh- !
liors and to our God. Now, I sav It Is reason- ,
able that wo snouiu endeavor to live alter tills
type upon which wo were created. This Is
reasonable. A great many men can, but, to
the weak, Christianity Is nothing but priest
craft, and It Is not reasonable for a man to be
damned because he could not believe, and, es
pecially, because he could not gulp aud swal
low all the doirmas aud all tho forms. Hut
that Is wide of tho mark, True Christianity I
means living in those uiat ons for which wo
were created harmonization of ourelv
res,
harmonization of our relations to our fellow
men, hainiouizstlon of our relation to thu In
visible future. And I say that It
reasnuable; I sav more than that, that It has
In It the Inherent, the greatest amount of
happiness. For although, for temporary rea
sons, a man may deler to his passions, taking
the average and the whole life, bo loses rather
thau he is tho loser uon,but sutlers then. A
man mav think, because he runs through a
dhslpated period aud tueu reforms, that the
dissipation is all over. No, no. no; the causes
sink uuder and ruu subterraueously, as it
were; and there Is manr a man that has grum
bled at forty live year of age from the mis
conduct of twenty years. You know that
thero aro the seventeen-year locusts; they lay
their eggs, and those eg; lie Incubating la
the ground for seventeen years; then thev
hatch and come forth. A man mar by evil
deeds lay the eggs that will hatch tweutv
years after that, and as u geue-rsl truth 1
think It U demonstrable hy actual observation
learning
MIlll MTIUrillllld I nil lllu t Ituiii.l........ . .
i. ''. "?iv"" u my neiguoor a a prohotn
manlier bt sclf-coutrol. la that virtue, la mean to do with Owl;
lliat liitniTriiv li tli.it l..f.. .... i. .... ... .
..... ..... j, ... "";i"ii ouiui is youu aner tueir iwssions
the ubstauco of rallgkm iiself. It Is not i In mlddlH air afifirtlmir u
learuluir vour catechism, ft U not
your verses of faith, it Is not going througt
ecclesiastical achievements. " Thou shalt lovi
the Lord thy (J od ond thy nclghtor as thy
self." Therefore toil must lilt wiursc.f, unc
he that lifts bluif elf shows, not by partiallti
towards the loner and worst features lu lilm
"self, but towards his whole self the regent
understanding, the moral power anil clement
ntid splritunl In him. Now, when a man has
this presented to him, and he Is urged to enter
uxm n Christian life as the only honorable
one. iliconivone mat lias uic gic.-ucsi satis
faction lu It." the only one that earrles In It
the Idea of dutv and cratltude towards (jod.
how thoughtlessly men heed that. To-night
ho-many are there of ion that say In thus
looklnir over the sphere of life -life to come
"I am resolved what to do." Hearing In mind
what a resolution means and what It Includes,
how mauv men can say to-night, "ies 1 am
resolved what to do." Tlieie are very few ol
you that would say, "I am resolved not to be
a mrisllnti." loans n very nazaruous win;?,
which verv few men care
to resolve. .Men
, mav sav. on the other hand. "1 hope some-
' time to be a Christian; I feel as II I would
like to be one; I wish I was one; just as n
lazy man wishes he had the produces of in
dustry. Hut how many men are there here
to night that can can say, "I am rcso.vcd
what to do," "I am resolved what to do."
"Are you then resolved at once to become a
Christian J Can I be a Christian at once I In
one sense, no; In another sense, cs. Nobody
ever learned a trarie at a Plow, out lie can lie
gin this day, no man ever became a scholar by
a resolution, but he never can become one
without a resolution; It Is a complex one and
a constantly repeating one, ancillary resolu
tlons uoholdlutr the main one. Are you re
solved to be a Christian to this extent I a ill
begin to-ulghti 'I urn resolved as far as I have
ngnt aim as tar as l Know my way. i am lie
termlncd, G'od knows I am determined, to
square my life hcreafteron Christian principles.
I am resolved to be a Christian man.' Now,
this may include churches. I mav be a Roman
Catholic and resolve It or a Protestant aud
stay out of that church, and stay out of auy
other church. This resolution doesn't mean
I will be a Christian like to thU scheme or
that schmc, according to this church or that
church; It simply means In its simplest form,
Its primary condition. 'I will regulate mv life.
both inside and out,accordlng to the principles
laid down for me by the Lord Jesus Christ.' Is
not mat a very simple iningi nut wnai noes
it carry with Hi It carries, in the first place,
this: 'I will therefore beglu by excluding
everything that I know will hinder this reso
lution; from a consciously wicked way. I will
becin as a part of the imminent ot tuts reso
lution, I will stop.' That is the meaning of
the repenlauce John began and Christ took up.
J Hepeut, for the kingdom of heaven Is at hatid.
that is to sav, I will get over every known
wrong that is inconsistent with this purxse
that I have formed; I am going to live as a
Christian man, as a Christian woman; and if
there be that which I know to be fundamental
i ly wrong I shall carry out my resolution
' hy repenting or turning away from that. And
men, hi uic nexL piuee, u reyuuiuou iu ut;
a Christian applies Immediately; It is
not that I will be a Christian next year, or by
and by, or long time death, but it is going
nu, bediming ut once to live, us far as I know
how, righteous. Do you mean, then, to tako
the steps that aro necessary Arc you ready
to begin j our attempt to live a Christian life
by saying In sincerity, 'God, show me the way;
dive me thy helpf Are you willing! Not "to
say your prayers; there are a great many
prayers said; a great. many too few prayers
that are felt and not true. Is there sincerity
In you! I would to God that you have spirit
ual refilling and the sustaining power of the
whole spirit, that you have the certainty that
he was working In me to will and to do his
;ood pleasure. Are you ready to begin your
Christian life then by opening tho word of
God and reading, not a chapter, nor a verse
or two everyday, hut to make It the line of
your counsel! "When any great combination,
scheme, is being formed in New York any
syndicate there Is always the lawyer, nnd
thoy will never take a single step until they
consult him, and he is about all t lie while; lie
Is the man of the counsel; it is a complicated
thing, and a great deal depends upon it, and
they cannot afford to go wrong. Arc ou
willing to take the New Testament as the line
of your counsel i Sec what It says about
lusts, about appetites, what It savs about crime
and envy anil Jealousy and all 111 will and
evil speaking and all selfishness lu Its grasping
moods. Arc you willing to look through the
New Testament to see what the law of the
Lord is! Not by discussion. God will take
care of his own defense and doesn't thank
you for any help; nor has ho any occasion to
thank anybody. Are you willing to take the
Hlble just as the shipmaster takes the chart!
When iio leaves the last shore light and takes
bis dliection he never says, 'Head
me a direction or two of the sailing
directions, aud then road me the draughting
Inside again and then again.' Tiiey have no
relation at all to his course, to his actual sail
ing; hut he is not going to read so many parts
of' his chart aud of his sailing directions.
Why. No; he lays out his voyage from the be
ginning and every day he takes observations,
and then he checks down ou the chart just
where ho Is. At noon to-morrow he takes an
other observation; not because there Is any
need of reading his chart, hi reading any book
on navigation; not because he Is studying as
tronomy for the sake of anything that Is In
astronomy. He lias got a definite purpose in
life; after which he sells his astronomy, and
after which he sells his books, or thoso which
lay his course. Aro you willing to begin a
Christian course aud voyage by going ti) the
word of God to ascertain exactly what is ex
pexeted of you, both what you are to reject
and what you are to adopt! "That is sensible,
that is right resolving, according to a practi
cal basis aud resolution. Or, ou the other
baud, are you, while you are weighing, that
Is. In yourself, are you saying to yourself:
'My other people of "God got on the best way.
i There Is rav father and mother. If there
were ever any l uristians tney were sucn. 1
believe they were real Chrls'tlans.' Now, a
man's mother Is Infinitely more to him than
the Virgin -Mary Is to auy devout Catholic
"You come Into the church because you find
1 sympa hy theie and k ndlv help there. Ar
ou willing to take advantage of all thes
Are
6
kindly helps, so that you may ho able to keep
your purpose and yp.ur will! Arc von willlug
to begin it now! lou don't need any more
knowledge. You have been brought up iu
Ciiristaln knowledge from the very cradle; you
havo no bad associations; you have necessari
ly none by the average, but what Christian
life was and Christian duty, Is there there is
not a uiHii here that ueeds'to have additional
Instruction; he knows lhat ho Is bound to live
obediently to God aud lu love with Jesus
Christ, lint can a man come Into a state of
emotion! Can u mau by simply sayiug I will,
teell No: no; hut by i-aymi; 1 will" feel he
can take the steps to feel. A man shivers and
savs, 'Chills and fever arc not acrceable; I am
determined to get over them,' Well, ou can
not get over them by determining ft, but If you
will take quinine enough you can. Now, let
your purpose be not simply this, 'I am resolved
to be a Christian,' but i am resolved so un
ostentatiously. I am going to feel mayself for
all the help 1 can and all tho Christian Insti
tutions that aro necessary for my weal.' Now,
that is practical, and that Is common sense as
well as moral sense. Or are you going to say,
'Well, 1 will see about It' No, you won't;
you know it. Aud that thing we have In our
limes, w lieu a lot ti debtor, lie lias given a note
for the sake of paxliur a debt but for the sake
of gettlug rid of paying It they put It off for
lour moutiis, ami tueu tney trlve anotu
nothcr note.
It is the irreenback biislues&ln which they nav
one uote by civlng another. There are multi
tudes of people that form a resolution for tlio
sake of not fulfilling a duty, and a man says
"Well, I have made up my mlud I am going
to be a Christian as soon as I got ready.'
When are you going to get ready t It bai
clouded your conscience aud clouded your
reason now hy promising to do that, by and
by, when the convenient timo comes; und the
devil will see to it that It never comes. It Is
a resolution that simply means the feeling ot
havmg done your duty. And I think the
most scandalous meannesses and dishonor
ablencss that cau very well be Imagined, when
the parties concerned are regarded, Is that
resolution that people form to be a Christian,
when thev have wasted themselves In the ser
vice of seltlshneks, and when they have come
Into old age and he on their dnalli-bed. 1
should think my-elf verv moan If, In the sum
mer time, 1 should gather a peck of pens and
shell nut the peas, aud send the jkhIs over to
, '1 tiat u wuav iiu-u
they mean to hvo iu
; tuev mean 10 live
uibltlou: they mcau
to1ivnluollatruafiereii.se. aud before thnv
die they mean to whip on the right side and
get Into heaven When you come to examine1
such conduct In relations to men. thero Is not
a avage that would not feci that was Infam-otis-to
npav protection, divine bcowtle
tlou, the ministration of God through'
all the channels of ntnre arid tho
kindness of God through Jesus Christ for the
m nlstratlon of the gospel; aud the man'
deliberately savs, we will seek all the money
out of these things ond all the rest
that Is In life, anil when we aro no
longer use to ourselves we are going we will
repent so as to get Into heaven. Two Dutch
elders had been warm friends and yet ouc day
they fell out with each other and the fire grevr
Oercer until thev came positively to bate each
other, and one Sunday morning the dominie
going behind one of the elders heard lilm mut
ter to himself, "Van Alstyne is a hypcrlt;
he will go to hell, he will go to hel rhe
old dominie spoke up to him and said: On,
oh, mv brother, he won't go to bell." "ies.
he will go to hell." "Well, but my dear fel
low, he mav repent." "No-well, ho Is just
mcau enough to do lu" Hut this It Is, cxn-did!-
the condition In which some of you are.
You mean to live hatefully, disobediently, dis
honorably, and yet In the last estate you.
mean to "whip up and get Into heaven you
are "just mean enough to do It."
"Now, on the other hand, pleased be God,
he Is long suffering, and he Is patient, and as
we would pay a debt, bv Installments, little by
little, showing all the time that wo cudeavor
to doit, he respects your endeavor to live, to
repent and to live a Christian life, by Instal
ments." "If you make up vour mind honestly to do
It, he'will bear with your Incompetence and
your Ignorance and your endearments; he
will bear patleutly with you, and help you
from day to day, and from month to mouth,
and from year to year, 'growing brighter and
and brighter unto the perfect day.' Is there
any man here that cau say In regard to the
past, I am resolved that I will cut loose from
everything that has been a detriment to me,
dishonorable to Godl Is there any man that
will say In regard to the future, 'I am resolved
what to do? 1 am resolved to take a higher
life, the nobler Ideal; I am determined, by the
help of God, that I will live in such a way
that I should live. And if there Is, don't wait
until to-morrow morning; read just your life
to-ulght; go home and tell God of It; go home
md tell your wife of It. That
Is the very thing you don't dare
to do because when a man has once
committed himself he Is ashamed to go back;
aud If you are ashamed to tell any bod v 'I have,
made up my mlud to live like a Christian
man.' It Is because you have not made un 'our
mind. When a man has determined that he
will live a Christian life he will be willing
to show to nil that are around about him, 'I
am going to try. I havo made un mv mind to
try.' If you have mind jou will enter upon
rour iournev. "The time Is past in which I
have served the will of the flesh, aud now, to
nltrht, I have determined that I will begin,
with the help of God, to live a Christian life,'
Aro there any of you that are willing to make
that resolve! God help you. For a little
niillc It will be a troublesome thing, for a
little while, but then easier and easier, with
cmuneratlon and exhilaration aud joy ana'
iual victory."
FINNED TO HIS SEAT.
Dlscovertiijr n Itctnedy Aunlnnt Cock
tails lletwecn tlio Acts.
It is a very good story which a gen
ivl friend of ours tells about a young
man of his acquaintance, says The Bal-
imorc American. The young man, it
seems, is good looking, of a nice fam
ily, and a good deal of a favorite with
the ladies. Hut he is altogether too
fond of a little rod liquor neatly
trimmed with lemon and things amli
served in cut glass s fond, indeed,
;hat some of the moro careful girls'
nave of late fought shy of his escort
:o places of amusement. One day last
(veek ho invited a young lady to go and
ieo "'1 he Harbor Light. She wanted
;o sco the play, and, tho truth is, rather
iked iom wo will call the young
oian Tom for short but she hesitated
ibout accepting the invitation, Her
friends adv sed her to decline, and'
ivarned her that if sho accepted Tom
tvould leave her alono a few minutes
ifter every act while ho was out inter
viewing the nearest barkeeper.
"Oh no, ho woulden t do that," said
;ho young lady.
"ies, but he would, tlio advisersi
replied: "Ho took Em Johnson week
before last, and went out threo times,
ind came in chewing cloves and coffee,
imlEmwas so mortified that she says"--
'lint he wouldn t leave mo alone m
,ho theater, I know," tho young lady
retorted conlidently; "and to provo it L
tvill accept his invitation,"
Un the way to tlio tiieator lorn was.
ill gallantry, and the curtain onco up
ae was greatly interested iu the drama.
But nt the end of tho lirst act ho made
i brief apology to tho ollVet that ho
wished to speak with a friend whom ho
saw stauding in tho foyer, and rose to
;o. But ho didn't go. Somothing
lecmcd to tako hold of his coat-tails
md pull him back into his seaL Imag-
iio poor iom's chagrin and surprise
ivhen a second's investigation showed
him that his fair compaii.on, who sat
with such an innocent look in her
orown eye's had pinned his coat to the
upholstering of the seat w th a good.
strong safety-pin. loin s lace felt as
t it was on a broiler, anil a cold wave
Dr two ran up ami down ins spmai
?olumn, but ho didn't say a word.
Nor did ho leavo his scat until tho cur
tain fell on the happy denouement in
tho play. The end of tho llttlo drama
in tho dross-circlo seats was equally
igrceablo, for on their wav out To mi
smil ugly confessed that the joko was
on him and the reproof a mer.ted one.
Ho also promised that if again given
tho pleasure of escorting his charming
companion to tho theater no safety-pins
wotitu oe neciicu to Kcop mm in nor
seat.
"1 hope ho'H marrv that girl. "added
our genial friend, "because f ho does
ihe'll reform him and mako a man out
af him as sure as guns."
A Negro Melody.
Doan' hurry me; I alii' tor blame;
I has to tako my timo;
Unless you tumbles to tho game
An' tips mo with a d mo.
I treated like it's mos' a sin
Bokaso Ps brack; dat's strange!
Still of I cannot chango mv skin
I'll skin j-ou ob your change.
Texas Sifti
ngs.
Tlio Extreme of Wretchedness.
At the club Upon my soul, Dobson,
rou
u aro tho dismalest company i Know
sinco that Brown girl gavo you tho
nan. 1 never saw a fellow tako tho
of
con
mitten so wretchedly.
Wotchod! Haw! Wotchesl wa t a
name faw it You can, aw. fawncoy
wotched I am when I toll you u
how mv. aw
bweetches fit mo. Town Topics.
aubject for a debating society-Which U
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