Practical Preaching.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 201, 30 April 1887, Page 9

Practical Preaching.

The following is a sample of the "live sermons preached in the pulpit of New York. The text (not 1 <>eessarily from the Bible) in this partitv lar instance is, " Try " : • My dear friends : When your prospects are beclouded, and the 'future looks as gloomy as a goose pasture in August, don't sit down and allow dread despondency to take possession of your spirits. Never come to the conclusion that you possess not the power to do this or that, but rouse up and say " I'll try." With the steam of perseverance and a decided determination you will work wonders perhaps to your utter astonishment. Place confidence in yourself, have faith like a grain of mustard seed ; and, if you don't actually remove mountains, you will demolish molehills, which seemed like mountains in your way. Off with your coats, ye lazy, mouldy, mildewed, moth-eaten sons of sloth, and try to do something. Spit upon your hands -lay hold of the rope of faith -let hope give you a roost - and you will climb farther up towards honourable distinction, prosperity, happiness, and heaven, by many hundreds of feet, than you could ever get by crying for help from your selfish brother mortals. Remember that Hercules will never assist those who do not try to help themselves. Not a bit of it. He is not quite so green.

Fruit Trees in California.— The nuins ber ot fruit trees in California is given as follows— Apple, 2j 700,000; peach, 1, 200,000 j pear, 500,000 j plum aud prune, 600,000 ; cherry, 400,000 > apriciot, 500,000 ; orange, 1,600,000; and lime and lemon, 500,000. It is estimated that there are 70,000 acres of grape vines.