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VOLUME XVII.
BUTLER,
GEORGIA, TUESDAY, MAY 2, 1898,
NUMBER. 28.
WITH MANY FLAGS FLYING
are
Up iii (rranfl Eeyiew.
Hundreds of Guns Belch Forth in Noisy
Salutes—A Grand Sight.
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All New York awoke Thursday morn
ing to find a steady down-pour of rain
ushering in the day of the great naval
pageant. In the night time a storm
that had its birth Wednesday away to
the Westward, hod stolen over the Jer
sey hills and wrapped the war squad
rons on the river, had settled down
upon the city and blotted out the dark
brow of the sea from the ken of people
ashore. Along the Hudson cloud and
Water became one. The chilly north
east wind added discomfort to some
Jed thousand people who had ar
to view the grandest marine
speckle ever presented on American
waters.
CBGWDINS TO NORTH B1VEB.
Although it was legal holiday in
town, the early morning crowds on the
elevated trains and surface cars, with
the crowds that poured into tho city
from the ferries and across the bridges,
did not look like holiday crowds. The
rain did not keep them all at home,
however. There was a steady stream
The double turreted monitor Mianto-
nomah, lying at the rear of the port
column, fired for the first time in port
one of her huge ten-inch gtinsj charged
with nearly 200 pounds of powder.
Almost before the reverberations of
this gun had died Away in the distant
echoesj the whole fleet was called to
quarters, yards were manned and every
preparation made to receive the presi
dent of the United States with becom
ing respect.
As the Dolphin’s bow came in line
with each man-of-war, “present arms”
was sounded on the bugle, the officers
and crew saluted; the bands struck up
the national air and a national salute
'of twenty-one guns was fired by each
ship. During the half hour or more
that the presidential progress lasted
this cannonading never ceased until
more than sixteen hundred guns had
been fired. Towards the close of their
booming the long separate identity had
been merged into a gigantic roar,
while flashes of red flame and dense
sulphurous clouds of smoke were all
the spectators on the shore could dis
tinguish.
The firing began With the German
flagship Kaisetin Augusta. It was
taken up in a more ponderous manrn1
by the Dutch von Speyk, and the
Spanish Infanta, Isabel. It was fat
lowed by the Argentine Neuva do Julio
and the Italian Etna. It was contin
ued by the American Charleston and
the French Arethuse, followed by the
SANTA MARIA, FLAGSHIP OF COLUMBUS.
toward North river all the morning
and hundreds of excursion boats, steam
yachts, tugs and other crufts which
had been pressed into service,
were filled up with sightseers who
v;ere not kept at home by Farmer
' Dunn’s disagreeable weather. Their '
patriotism
and their
enrried them through the wet,
BUNKING UP “old OLOBV-.
flagship Newark and Russian admiral’s
ship Dimitri Donskoi* and closed by
Admiral Gherardi in the Philadelphia
and Admiral Sir John Hopkilis* iu the
noble Blake. The .intervals between
the artillery exercises of the flagships
were filled Up by similar exercises on
enthusiasm the part of the other vessels of the
ed down pfi the Doipfiih and wiled
ashore* the guns dftile entire fleet
belched forth JamdltaneoiMy; Each
vessel fired twenty-one shots and the
Soar that ensued was deafening. "When
it subsided smoke hung in heavy clouds
over the river and . the Jersey shore
was invisible for some minutes.
The admirals turned to their ships;
the steamboats which still lingered
with passengers desirous of seeing all
of the naval pageant went to their
piers, and the ceremonies were over.
SALUTED BY PBIVATES.
As soon as the Dolphin passed out
from between the anchored fleet the
cordon wsb broken and private steam
ers and yachts rushed id-. When thd
smoke had partially cleared away they
squadron.
Following close in the wake of the
When 8 o’clock had arrived there Dolphin and getting the full benefit
were signs of activity on all of the ves- j of the salutes, came the army steamer
sels in the fleet from the flagships of j General Meigs, bearing the honored
• each nation which indicated that orders : foreign guest of thfe day, the Duke of
_>s ere being issued to the fleet. A mo- Veragna, attended by General S'elio-
“ ment later eililk vessel ran up a big • field, of the army, and Bear Admiral
American flag to the top of the main- ! Belknap; of the navy. The only ships-
mast and a big flag of lier country fore permitted within the sacred lines du-
and aft. The Spanish, French, Bra- [ ring the progress of the presidential
UN1TKD STATES STEAMSHIP BALTIMORE.
zilian and Argentine ships ran up lines
of streamers on tlieir yards. Uncle
Sam’s white navy floated big holiday
flags from each mast. All wore the
stars and stripes. At 10 o’clock the
United States vessels ran up bunting
and the British, Bussian, Italian Ger
man and Holland ships follow suit
until all were in holiday dress.
Just as everyone was expecting that
the programme would be carried out
despite the storm, the announcement
was made that the review had been
deferred.
At 10:30 o’clock the signal
boat Gushing started out from Thirty-
fourth street and running up along
side of each vessel in line, carried the
nformation that the review had been
review was the Monmouth, ttpoh Which
were senators and members of con
gress, governors of states, newspaper
representatives nnd other invited
guests.
When the Dolphin reached the end
of the line, in the neigborhood of
Ninety-fifth street, she dropped an
chor and made preparations to receive
the commanding officers of the foreign
sqadrons who were presented to the
president by their respective minis
ters.
Duly attired in full ceremonial uni
form, with cocked hats and swords,the
distinguished officers entered their
barges and pulled off for the presiden
tial vessel. Sir John Hopkins, the
British admiral, was the first received.
THE VESUVIUS, DYNAMITE CBUISEB.
postponed until 2 o’clock. When the
excursion steamers heard of this they
put back to their docks and there was
some grumbling among the passengers,
who had been getting damper and
chillier as the time passed.
WAITING FOB GBOVEB.
President Cleveland, accompanied
in a carriage by his wife and secre
tary, left the Victoria hotel at 1:05
o’clock p. m. Eight minutes later his
party arrived at the foot of West
Twenty-third street, where a thousand
men and women had stood in the rain
for hours, who cheered him enthusi
astically. The embarkation of the
presidential party on board of the re
viewing boat, Dolphin, was a gorgeous
affair.' A handsome special landing
place had been erected for the purpose
at the foot of Twenty-third street, the
approach to which was carpeted and
draped in bunting. _
FIRING THE BIG GUNS.
As soon as the president- steppi
j'board-tho "
fulfil
He was presented by Sir JulianPaunce-
fote, the British ambassador. Next
came Vice Admiral Xoznakoff, the
Russian admiral, who was introduced
by Prince Contakuzene, the Bussian
minister. Bear Admiral de Libran, of
France,was third, presented by M. Pa-
tenotre, the French ambassador. Then
followed Bear Admiral Magna-
ghi, of Italy, for whom Baron
Fava did the honors. The Span
ish admiral. Senor Y. Lono, though
an invalid, did not fail to pay this cer
emonial mark of respect to the chief
executive, and was followed by Bear
Admiral -Howard,- of.Argentine, Bear
Admiral Norhona, of the - Brazilian
fleet and the blonde-haired and blue
eyed captain of the German and Dutch
steamers. These visits formed one of
the most interesting features of the
day. As nearly all the fi
spoke or understood F~ '
monies were attended
nlities, but, it is said,
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j-.fay
cmvivi-
BEAB-ADMIBAL GHERARDI.
obtained a magnificent view of the
combined naval forces at close range.
The flagships of the squadron courte-,
ously returned the innumerable salutes
tendered by the private steantets; and
tbeil’ officers seethed to heartily appte 1
date the interest their appearance
'created.
SEARCH LIGHT DISPLAY.
Inky darkness veiled the Columbian
fleet at 8 o’clock, and not a sound was
heard by landsmen from the anchored
battleships. Suddenly a ray of light
shot upward from the Philadelphia.
It was long and dazzling, and seemed
to pierce the sky. For a moment it
remained stationary, and then disap
peared. That was the signal for the
scheduled display of the electrical
search lights with which the war Ves
sels are provided.
Quickly following the Philadelphia’s
lead the American ships showed the
many ways in which the lights are
iised itt active warfare to protect theni-
selves ffonl attacks 'of those marine
terrors-, torpedo boats. At times the
projecting rays were concentrated at
certain spots on the shore, then turned
far up the Hudson, making objects
•plainly visible at a distance of five
REV. DR. TALMAGE
THE BliOOKLYX 1)1 VIA E>S SUS
DAY SERMON,
TIIE CUSHING, TORPEDO BOAT,
miles. Following came another signal,
and simultaneously every light in the
fleet was turned toward the zeniths
Slowly the rays converged flntii they
formed the apeS of a brilliant silvery
pyramid of incalculable height. Ei-
pefts Say it could have, beeii seed
Seventy-fiVe iiiiles. ih aiiy direction. It
Was a Sight never before seen and never
to be forgotten by the land lubbers.
In conclusion, the operators gave some
examples of high art in ray projecting
and describing various figures in the
heavens.
THE COLUMBIAN BALL,
The Columbian bail at night at the
Madison Square Garden was iii respect
to magnificence of decoration and ai>
rangeliieht and Of the large number of
the world-famed guests present; the
most splendid evef given ih the new
world. ' Besides the president aiid hiS
advisetBj chief legislative body of tti,e
United States. find a Spanish
gtahdee-, Who is the namesake and
lihefii descendant of Chistopher Co
lumbus* there were the diplomatic
corps, the admirals and subordinate
officers of every great naval power in
the-world, governors of neighboring
states and famous army officers. It
was, in fact, a gathering of celebrities,
varied and so gloriously orraye'd that
the oldest and most traveled guest ac
knowledged that seldom or never be
fore had he seen a parallel to the gor
geous picture presented. The decora
tions of the garden were rich and elab
orate, eclipsing in their magnficence
and elegance anything ever before at
tempted in the great auditorium.
The large box on the center of the
Madison avenue end was occupied by
his honor, Mayor Gilroy and suite.
President Cleveland’s box was on the
right of the Mayor’s. It was lined
with white and gold, with delicate
maiden hair ferns, roseB and asparagus
in beautiful design covering.
The boxes occupied by the duke df
Veragua and his party were on the
left of the mayor’s. The other boxes
on the first tier and about the mayor’s
box were occupied by the members of
the United States supreme court, the
diplomatic correspondents and by
Governor Flower and staff. The
arena boxes were occupied by
the admirals of the foreign
and American fleets and their at
tendant officers. Two bands furnished,
the music in the ball-room. The doors
STEEL-rnOTEOTED CHUISEE PHILADELPHIA.
of the garden were thrown open at 9
o’clock and almost'immediately after
wards the guests began to arrive, May;
or Gilroy, as head of the municipality,
and his. wife, officially received the
guests of the evening. They stood
upon the reception dins arid just be
yond them were stationed the gommit-
t-ee of 100 ami ike honorary committee,
who escorted the more distinguished
ts from the entrance to their
TEXT: "AnctrouncC abdut the throne were
four and twenty seats, and upon the seati
I saw four and twenty elders?’—Revelation
iv., 4,
This text 1 choose Chiefly fop the numerals
It metltiOhs^-natttely, four and twenty; That
was the number of eldefs sefitgd aroUnd the
throne 61 Gods but that., is th<S ndnlbfSr bi
years seated around nly Brddklyii miflistry;
find fevery piilpit is h thrdm! 6f ..blgssiilg oi
blasting* a throne 6£ gddd or eVii And td-
day ?n this ifiy tfrenty-foiirth afiniVersai-y
sermdii 24 years 66me . afid sit around me
°P c i-. thfey speak out in a teminiseedca 8i
gladness add tears; Twenty-fodr yedrs,ago
Ini-rived in this city td shepherd Such a flock
as might cpme* mid that day I Harried id ori
my arms, the infant sod who id tw3 weeks
from to-day I will Help ordaid td the gospel
ministry,.hoping that hewilj. be pleaching
lone after my poor work is done.
We have received into our membership
over 5020 souls, but they, I think, are only a
small portion of the multitudes who, com-
mg from all parts of the earth, have in our
house of God been blessed and saved.
Although we have as a church raised 41,109,-
000 for religions purpose;* yet we are in the
strange position of not knowing whether
in two or three , months we shall nave any
church at all, and with audiences of 6000 or
7000 people crowned into this room and the
adjoining rooms we are confronted with
the question whether I shall go on with my
work here or go to some other field. What
an awful necessity that we should have
been obliged to build three immense
churches, two of them destroyed by fire.
A misapprehension' is abroad that the
financial exigency of this church is past.
Through journalistic and nersonal friends a
breathing spell has been afforded us, but be
fore Us yet are financial obligations which
must promptly be met, or speedily this house
of God will go into Worldly uses and become
a theater or a concert hall. The 413,000
raised cannot cancel a floating debtr oi
$140,000. Through the kindness of those td
whom we are indebted $00,000 wddld set us
foPeVeP free, lam glad to say that the case
is not hopeless; We afe daily in receipt di
tduSiing evidences, df ^practical .sympathy
from all classes df the community add ffoni
all sections of the country, and it was but
yesterday that by my own hand I sent for
contributions gratefully received nearly 50
acknowledgments east, west, north and
south.
Our trust is in the Lord who divided the
Bed Sea and "made the mountains skip like
lambs.” With this paragraph I dismiss the
financialsubject and return to the spiritual.
This morning the greatness of God’s kind
ness obliterates everything, and if I wanted
to build a groan I do not know in what for
est I would hew the timber, or from what
quarry I would dig the foundation stone, or
who would construct for me an organ with
a tfetiislo. for the Only stop. And So this
morning 16ccdpv. niy tinie id building One
great, massive, high, deep, brodi. Heated
piercing halleluiah. In the revietf df the
last 24 years I thiok it may Be useful td
consider some of the characteristics df d
BfidtiklyH pfistoratet
.. Ih thb first place.I remark that a Brook
lyn pastorate is always a difficult pastorate;
iNo city under the sun has a grander array
of pulpit talent than Brooklyn. The Method
dist, the Baptist* the Congregntionalist, the
Episcopalians, all the denominations send
their brightest lights here. He who stands
in any pulpit in Brooklyn preaching may
know that he stands within fifteen minuted
walk of sermons which a Baurin, and a
Bourdalone* and a John Iff. Mason and a
George Whitefleld would not be ashamed of.
No city under the sun where a poor sermon
is such a drug on the market.
For forty years Brooklyn has been sdr-
ehm-ged frith Hqjniletics, dd electricity fit
elqquedpe that struck every time it flashed
from the old pulpits which quaked with the
powers of a Bethune, and a Cox, and a
Spencer, and a Spear, and a VintOD, and a
Farley, and a Beecher, not mentioning the
magnificent men now manning the Brooklyn
pulpits. So during all th9 time there has
been something to appeal to every man’s
taste and to gratify every man's preference.
Now, let mo nay to all ministers of the
gospel Who are ambitious for a Brooklyn
tjtilpit thitt .it is alfrays a difficult, tiastdrite;
Bf a man shall come and stadd before any
audience id almost any church in Brooklyn
he will find before him men who have heard
the mightiest themes disenssed in the
mightiest way. You will have before you,
if you fail in an argument* fifty logicians in
a fidget. If yon make a slip in the use of a
commercial figure of speech, there will be
500 merchants who will notice it. If you
throw out an anchor or furl a sail in the
wrong way, there will be ship captains right
off who will wonder if you are as ignorant
of theology as you are of navigation! So
it will be a place of hard study. If you
are going to maintain ySUrself, ,ydu frill
find a Brooklyn pastorate a difficult pas-
tUfatfr, . ..
I remark Still fttrther, a Brooklyn pasto
rate is always a conspicuous pastorate. The
printing press of, the country has no greater
force thad on the seacoast; Every pulpit
Word* good or bad; wise or ignorant* kind
or mean; is watched,. The reportorial corps
bf these cities is an organized army. Many
of them have collegiate education and large
culture, and they are able to weigh oration
Or address or sermon. If you say a silly
thing* you will never hear the end of it* and
if you say a wise thing it wiil go Into per
petual multiplication. There, is no need of
decrying that fact. Men whose influence
has been built by the printing press spend
the rest of their lives in denouncing news
papers. The newspaper is the pulpit on the
wing. More preaching done on Monday
than on Sunday. The omnivorous, ail eyed
printing press is ever vigilant.
Besides that, a Brooklyn pastorate is
always conspicuous in the fact that every
body comes here. Brooklyn is New York
in its better mood. Strangers have not seen
New York until they have seen Brooklyn.
The East River is the chasm in Which our
merchants drop their cares, and their
anxieties, and their business troubles* and
by the time they have greeted their families
in the home circle they hwre forgotten all
about Wall street and Broadway and the
shambles* If they Commit business sins in
New York during the day, they come over
to Brooklyn to repeat of them.
Everybody Homes here. Stand at the
bridge entrance or at the ferry gates on
Sabbath, morning at 10 o’clock* or Sabbath
evening; at 7 o’cldck and you see north,
south, east, west—Europe, Asia* Africa,
New Zealand* Australia—coniiiig to Brook
lyn to spend the Sabbath* Or part of it in the
persons Of their representatives—some of
them frCsh from the sea. They have just
landed* and they want td seek the house of
God publicly to thank the Lord for their
deliverance from cyclones and fog hanks ofi
Newfoundland* Every song sung, every
prayer offered* every sermdn preached in
New York and Brooklyn and all along this
sea coast in some shape goe3 all round
the world. A Brooklyn pastorate is at
the greatest altitude of conspicuity.
Again I remark that a Brooklyn pastorate
Is characterized by brevity. I bethink my
self of but three ministers of the gospel now
preaching here who were preaohing when I
came to Brooklyn. Most of the pnlpits
around me have changed seven or eight
times since my arrival.
Sometimes the pastorate has been brief
for one reason and sometimes tor another
reason. Sometimes the ministers of the gos-
>el have been too good for this world, and
leaven has transplanted them. Sometimes
they changed places by the decree of their
denomination. Sometimes they came with
great blare.of trumpets* proposing to carry
everything before them, and got extin
guished before they were distinguished.
Some got preached out in two or three years
and told the people .all they knew. Some
with holy speed did in a short time work
Which it takes a great many years to do. ' -,
Whether for good or bai reasons a Brook
lyn pastorate' 1 is characterized by brevity,
not much of the old. plan by which a minis
ter of the gospel baptized an infant, then re-
ceived'him into the church, after lip had be
come an adult married liiru, baptized his
children, married them and lived on long
enough to bury almost everybody but him
self. Glorious old pastorates they were.
Sobs of us rem-vnber them—Dr. Soring..
W.T" ■ L ^j’ auen - r j D * mlnie Zabriskie* Daniel
When the snowmeltel from their fore
heads, it revealed the-flowers of anun r adiag
coronal. Pastorates of 30, 40, 50, 5q years’
_ Some of them had to be
pad into the pnlpit or into the carriage,
--’’-ifSeer " ’ - ' ^
they v.-^-e so old an 1 decrepit, but when the
a GUIUIUU3 UOIWII uuo uav IU J1UUU
the old parsonage ttiev steppei id ^vigorous
as an nthlete, and as wa saw the wheels' or
fire whirling through the gate? of the sun
set we all cried out • ‘My father, my father,
the chariots of Israel and the horsemen
thereof?’
I remark again, a Brooklyn pastorate is
characterized by its happiness.
No city finder the sun where people take
such, good care of their ministers. In pro*
portion as the world outside may curse a
congregation stands close up by the man
whom they believe in. Brooklyn sdSety
has for its foundation two elements—the
Fdntddia, Which always means a quiet Sab-
batb, arid the Hdilaiidisb, which means a
worshipful people, dd the top of this an
admixtiire df dll ndjiidndlitiSs—the brawny
Scot* the scjlid HaglisB; the vivaciods Irish,
the fiolite French: the philosophic Germad
—afid niall this iriternduigliag dc population
the iiniversal dd-ni--- i ■* —'
6dn dd as he please,
tdrb anybody else;
. A delightful climate. While it is Hard on
weak throats, for the most df u? it is
hracldg: ' Ndt dn flttdospHere. made uo of
tlie dischdrgqd gases df chemical faetdries dr
the miasms ,of swarrip;*.but comiag.oantiug
right pff 3000 miles df. Atlantic Ocean be
fore. anybody else has had a chance to
breathp it! All throiithe city, a society
bf kind; genial; .generous, sympathetic
people. How they fly td you when yod are
m trouble I How they watch over you when
you are sickl How tender they are with
von when you have buried your dead!
Brooklyn is a good place to live in, a good
place to die in, a good place to be buried in,
a good place from which to rise in the
beautiful resurrection.
In such a city I have been permitted to
have 24 years of pastorate. During these
years how many heartbreaks, how many
losses, how many bereavement? 1 Hardly a'
family of the church that bas not been
struck with sorrow. But God has sustained
you in the past, and He will sustain yon in
the futnre. I exhort you to be of good
cheer, Oh tbou df the broken heart. “Weep
ing may endure for a night, but joy Cometh
in the morning.” I wish over every door of
this church we might have written the
Word ‘•Sympathy 11 —sympathy for ail the
young*
We must crowd them iu here by thou
sands and propose a radiant gospel that
they will take oa the spot* We md3t make
this place So attractive fdr the young that a
yodng man Wifi dome here on Sabbata morn
ing* pfit doWii his hat; brdsU his Hair back
from His fdrehead; ufibuttdd. bis oVercaat
afid lddk dpofiad Wondering if He Has dot b'V
mistake got iUfo heated. He Will See in the
faces of the old people not the glob’d which
some people taka for religion, but the sun
shine of celestial peace, and h? will siy,
“Why, I wonder it that isn’t the same p?aoe
that shone out on the face of my father and
mother, when they lay dying?’’
And then there will come a dampness in
bis eyes through which he cau hardly see,
and he will close his eyes to imprison the
emotion, but the hot tear will break through
the fringes of eyelashes and drop upon ths
coat sleeve. Se will put his head on the
back of the pew in front and sob, “Lord
God of the old people, help me I” We ought
to lay a plot here for the religions capture
bf alltUe young people in Brooklyn,
Yes sympathy fdr thd old. They barfs
their acHes arid pdinS aril distresses, Tney
cadndt hear-Q'r Walk Or see as Well as they
fised to; We mrist be. reverential in their
presence; On dark days We mdst help them
throiigil the aisle and help 1 them find the
place in the hymn book. Some Sabbatb
morning we shall miss them from their place,
and wo shall say’ “Waere is Father So-and-
so to-dayf’,and" the answer will bei ‘‘iVhat.
haven’t you heard? The King’s wagons
have taken Jacob up to the palace where his
Joseph is yet alive.”
Sympathy for business men. Twenty-
four years of commercial life In New York
and Brooklyn are enough to tear one’s
nerves to pieces We want to make our
Sabbath service here a rescae for all these
martyrs of traffic, a foretaste of the t laud
Where they Have no rent* to pay, and there
are dd business rivalries, and Waere riohe3,
instead of tdkiiig Wings to fly afray, brood
over other riches.
Sympathy for the fallen, remember.ng
that they ought to be pitied as ranch as a
man run over with a rail train. The fact is
thatin the temptations and misfortunes of
life they get ran over. You and I in the
same circumstances would have done as
badly. We should have done worse perhaps.
If you and I had the same evil surroundings
and thd same eVd parentage that they had
and tHe same flatiVe horn proclivities to evil
that they Had* yod add I sHontd fidVo been
in the penitentiary or outcasts ,o£ Society.
“No,” says some self righteous man, “I
couldn’t have been overthrown in that way.”
You old hypocrite, you would have been the
first to fall!
Wo want in this church to have sympathy
for the worst man, remembering he is a
brother; sympathy for the worst woman,
remembering she is a sister. If that is not
the gospel, I do not know what the gospel
is. Ah, yes, sympathy for all the troubled,
for the orphans’ in their exposure, for
widowhood with its weak arm fighting for
bread, for the household which erst re-
souHded wiii’i ifierry. Voices and pattering
feet now aWfully Still—bfdad-Wiugdd sym
pathy; like tHe feathers ot the Afniighty:
warm-blooded sympathy; everlasting, sym
pathy; sympathy which shows itself in the
grasp of the band, in the glittering tear of
the eye, in the consoling word of the
mouth; sympathy of blankets for the cold,
of bread for the hungry, of medicine for the
sick, of rescue for the lost. Sympathy!
Let it thrill in every sermon. Let it
tremble in every song. Let it gleam in every
tear and in every light. Sympathy 1 Men
and women are sighing for sympathy,
groaning for sympathy, dying for sym
pathy, tumbling off into nncleanlines? an d
crime and perdition for lack of sympathy.
May God give it to usi Fill all this pulpit
with it from step to.step. Let the sweep of
these naileries suggest its encircling arms.
Fill all the house with it* from doer to
door, and from floor to ceiling, until there
is no more room for it, and it shall overflew
into the street* and passersby qn foot and in
carriage shall feel the throb of Its magnifi
cent benediction. |
Let that be our new departure as a
- church. Let that be my new departure as a
pastor. Sympathy? Gratitute to God de
mands that this morning I mention the
fact that during all these 3i years I haV-e
missed but One service through sickness.
When I entered the ministry I was so deli
cate I did nos think I would preach three
. months, biit preaching has agreed with me,
and I think the Healthiest thing lU all the
earth is the religion df Jesus Christ! Bless
the Lord* d my souli What iilgrates we
are in regard to oiir health!
I must* in gratitude to God, alsa mention
the multitudes to whom I have been per
mitted to preach. It is simply miraculous,
the attendance morning by morning, night
by night* and year by year, and long after
ithasgottobeanoldstory. I know soma
people are dainty an d exclusive in their
-tastes AS for myself; I like a big crowd.
I would like to see an andience large enough
to scare mel If this gospel is good, the more
that get it the better.
Many have received the gospel here, but
otherauave rejected it* Now, 1 tell you
what I am going to do with some of my
idearest friends who have hitherto rejected
the gospel. You are not afraid of me, ana l
am not afraid bf you, am*, some, day, O
brother, I wifi clasp your hands together,
and'I will turn your face the other way,
and I will take hold of your shoulder?^ and
while yon are helples3 in my grasp I will
give you one headlong posh into the king
dom of God. Christ says we must compel
you to come in. I wiil compel you to come
in. Can I consent to anything else with
these men, who are as dear to me as-my own
soul? I will compel you to come in.
Profiting by the-mistakes of the past, I
most do better work for you and better
work for God. Lest I might* through some
sudden illness or casualty, be snatched away
before I have the opportunity of doing so. I
take this occasion to declare my love for
'you as a people* It is. different work if a
pastor is placed ifi a church already, built
up, and he is' surrounded-by established rir*
cainstances. There ara not ten people in
this church .that have not been brought into
the church through ifiy ministry. You are
my family. ' I feel as much at home here as
I do in my residence on Oxford street. You
are my family—my father, my ifiother, my
sister, my son,' my daughter. You are my
jov and crown, the subject of my prayers. _
Your present and everlasting-welfare is
the object of my ambition. I have no
worldly ambition. I bad once. I have not
now. 1 know the world about as well as
any one knows it, ■ Ibava heard-the band-:
clapping of it? applause* and I have beard
the hiss of its opposition, and I declare
yofi that the former is not especially to
sought for, nor is the latter to b 0 feared.
The world has given me about all the com
fort and prosperity ip pan give a man, and I
■ r
' SSv*^
honsfiniliig atfibitiod to make full proof of
m’y ministry; td get to' heaven myself and
to take d great croyrfl with me. Upon yoar
table and cradle' and armchair and pillow
and lounge' and nursery find drawing room
and kitchen may the .blessing of the
Almighty God come down!
During these 24 years there is hardly a
family that has not been invaded by sorrow
or.death. Where are those grand, old meo,
those glorious Christian women, who used
to worship with us? Why, they went away
into the next world so gradually that they
bad concluded the second stanza or the
third stanza in heaven before yon knew they
Were gone. They had on the crown befor
you thought they had dropped the staff <
the earthly pilgrimage.
And then the dear children. Ob; how
Many Have gone out of this eburehl You
coUid dot keep them. You folded them in
jrodr arms and said! “O Goi, I cannot
giVe them upl Take fill eiae, take my prop
ertyj take my reputation," but let me keep
this treasure. Lord, I cannot bear this,”
Oh; if we c'odld all die together 1 If we
could keep ail tHe sheep and the lambs of
the family fdld together dntil Some bright
Spring day; the" birds a-ehafit, aril the
•waters a-glitter; and then we codld alto
gether hear the voice of t ,e good Shepherd
and band in hand passs through the flood!
No, no, no, no! Ob, if we only had notice
that we are all to depart together, ani we
coriid Say to ofir families! "The time has
come. THe Lord bids US dwdyAnd then
we could take otir littld Children to their
beds and siraighted out their limb; and sajr*
“Now sleep the last sleep: Gobd flight Un
til it is good morning.” And then fra could
go to our own couches and say: "Nofr,
altogether we are ready to go. Our chil
dren are gone; now let us depart.”
No, no! It is one by one. It may be in
the midnight. It may be in the winter and
in the snow coming down twenty inches
deep over onr grave. It may be in the
strange hotel and our arm too weak to pull
the bell for help. It may be so suddenly we
have no time even to say goodby. Death is
a bitter, crushing, tremendous curse.
I play you three tuoeeon the gospel harp
Ot Comfort. "Weeping may endure for a
night, bat joy oomsth in the morning."
That is one. “Alt things work together lor
good to those who love God.” That is the
second. “And the Lamb which is in the
midst of the throne shall lead taem to liv
ing fountains of Water, and God shall wipe
all tears from their eye;.” That is the
third.- During these St years 1 ha Vs tried
as far Us I codld 'ey argument, by illustra
tion arid by caridatrire co fill yofi With dis*
grist with much Of this modern religion
Which peo'ple are trying flow to substitute
for tile religion of Jesfi? Christ and the relig
ion of the" apostles:
. I have tried to’ persuade yofi that the worst
of all cant is tile carit of skepticism, and in-:
steadofyonr apologizing for Christianity
it was high time that those Who do riot be:
lieve in Christianity should apologise td you;
and I have tried to show that the biggest
villians in the universe are those who would
try to rob ns of this Bible, and that the
grandest mission of the chorea of Jesus
Christ is that of bringing souls to the Lord
—a soul saving church.
But now those years are gone. If you
have neglected your duty, if I have neg
lected my duty, it is neglected forever.
Bach year has its Work, if the work is
performed within tHe 13 months, it ie done
forever.- If neglected, it is neglect id for*
ever:
. WHeri a froaiari. Was dying she said,
“Call them back:” They did not knofr
what she meant. She had been a disciple"
of the world. She said, “Oh, call them
back?’ They said, “Who do you want us
td call back?” “Oh,” she said, "call them
Hack; thd dyySj the months, the years I have
wristed; Gall thend back ?* But you cannot
call thgm back- yod canndt call a year back,
or a month back; or a Week back, or an hour
back, or a second back: Gorie' once, it id
gone forever.
When a great battle was raging,- a Mes
senger came up and said to the general, who'
was talking-with an officer, “General, we
have taken a standard from the enemy.”
The general kept right on conversing with'
His fellow officer, and the messenger said
agairi; “General, we have taken a standard
rfo’m the fijeniy:" Still tue general kept
right on; arid the iriassenjfer lost flis patience,
not having his message Seemingly apprecia
ted, and said again, “General; fre Have takrid
a standard from the enemy.” Tbe' general
then looked at him and said, “Take another:’'
Ah, forgetting the things that are behind,
let us look to those that are before. Win
another castle; take another standard; gain
another victory.
' Boll Oil, sweet day of the yvorld’s emanci
pation; When “the mountains and the hills
shall bfes*k foftfi into singing, and all the
trees o'f the Woo'd shall Clap their hands,
arid insteid of tHe tHorri shall Come Up the
fir tree; arid instead 8f the brier frill Come
rip tbe myrtle tree,’ arid it shall be unto thd
tforifdr a name; for' firi everlasting sigti
that caririot be crit o Sr
RIOTOUS 0RANGEME&
Disgraceful Acts of a Mob in Belfast,
Ireland.
Orange riots broke out in Belfast,
ifelaiidj Saturday night and continued
iihtii late Stiildaj- morning. The
fighting Was especially Severe in the
iotpiioiis Siaiik Hill district; At
fill'dtiiglitan O.taiige ifiolj Ufit out tlie
etieei lights arid shortly afieiwaid at
tacked a tavefn . kept by tt Bqinafi
Catholip riamed Cbimbliy.- They
Smashed jfl the WiridoWS arid dobfs,-
looted the storerooms arid iiquof
vaults, drove out Connolly and, .his
family and endeavored to burn down
tbe building. Tbe police were out in
force before they could get the fire
well started, drove the mob off and ex
tinguished tbe flnmes.
The rioters then tried to invade the
Catholic quarter, where the nationalists
were celebrating the second reading of
the home rule bill by burning tar bar
rels. A strongline of policeheld them
back. A crowd of nationalists gathered
on tho other side of the line and the
two parties stoned each other. The
conflict became so hot eventually that
the police were obliged to strike out
on both sides with their clubs and
drive back the two mobs by repeated
charges.
The whole district was in such a riot
ous mood before 3 o’clock that a com
pany from the Dorsetshire regiment
was brought up. The police refused to
accept their assistance* as they con
tended they were able to cope with the
mob; The military marched away
and stioh after the mdb dispersed by
means of some heavy dliibbing; Fifty
or more rioters were arrested.
BEL ABF’S UTTER.
Bejarj to He Hop Problem,
And Diaiites Misguided Advisors for
Much, of the Race’s Troubles.
We see that there has been an anotber negro
burned—burned in Georgia—burned mainly by
hid own race. That last is a good sign—a sign
that they are beginning to appreciate tbe sin of
those horrible crimes tb^t almost every day are
committed somewhere by tbe rlllianons black
tramps who are to be found in almost every
community. When the negro, as a race, begins
to preach against thoso horrible crimes in bis
own pnlpit and to write against them in bis
own newspaper and to talk against them by the
fireside and in tbe field, these outrages will
oca 80s But all the negro papers X have seen
make large cipital out of the lynchings and
burnings and breathe out threats of retaliation,
but attach little importance to tbe crimes. In
this they hate the sympathy of northern fanat-
icfr arid itofthefn politicians who have for thirty
years encorirageufcbflir re tenge by fire, and as
sassination. In southern negro schools and
colleges that have been established with north
ern money tbe white imported teachers have
mado their pupils believe that they were an
oppressed race, and were kept nnder the ban of
persecution; that if they had their rights they
Would have social equality with the whites in
diUrchesand schools, and some of the northern
feiigicrtis papers'have openly advocated the set
tling df the negro problem by miscegenation.
Even so gfeat and good a man as Ber. John
Hall, D. D.. arid Lit. D., cams out in a two-
columnpbillipic agains t tbs “Horrible Tragedy”
at Paris, Texa*, and all along through his ar
ticle used the large typo headlines, such as
“BED-HOT IRONS—SOAKED WITH OUT
CAST INTO THE FLAMES,” and so forth,and
he appealed to the friends of the freedmen to
help them to avert these awful outrages. He
says the world’s fair is to be visited by all na-
tions f and how CJn we hold up the great ex
hibition and laud our civilization in tbe face of
the headlines, “TEXANS BUBN A NEGBO
MTJBDEBEB AT THE STAKE ?”
Wiil Dr. Hal] never learn to pnt himself in
our place? Will the northern people never let
ns and the negro alone? Are we to have no
credit for humanity or intelligence? Have we
not lived with the negro all onr lives, and do
we not know him better than those who see him
afar off? Shall we be penned up with them on
a limited space and under the most foolish and
maligriant federal laris and not be allowed to
fotect otirselt'es and our wives and daughters?
_ say it with all sincerity that the mistaken in
terference of our northern brethren with the
)grb prribieiri, has bsen the prime cause of all
.Je negro’s misfortunes, of a.l the ourrages and
all the lynchings atid burnings. Senator In
galls, pfeing at last out of a job, has laid aside
ms bbpby.arid says there will be do more poli
tics founded pn tlie negro*. He ought to kuow,
for he rodo that hofae for twenty-five years and
roweled his sides until the fibs were bare and
his friend Tourgee rpde behind Until his crup
per was sore, and it is a fit time to turn the old
rip out to die. Now let northern philanthrop
ists shinny on their own side and look after the
poor and wretched in their own cities.
If it could be done we would gladly put a
million of our poorest negroes against a mil
lion of their poorest whites on exhibition at
Chicago and let the world see tho difference
—the difference in flesh and health and con
tentment and hilarity. Here is the happiest
f.icfe tipcfn eafth and tho easiest to control if let
alone by thfc'if conceited or pretended northern
friends.
But what I was going to B&y to Dr. Hall and
all of his sort—your legislation has penned us
up with theso people and we aro going to pto*
tect ourselves.
If rie find a rattlesnake or a mad dog or
hji fla going about loose, shall we not kill him?
J hdve lived • in tho country for years
arid felt the ariful apprehension—the
apprehension Of some ariftll grief, and I
say now ihrit if it had come I would have joined
my neighbors and fftifhed the vile brute at the
stake with as much serenity as 1 Would kill a
gorilla. I have read Governor Hoggs
proclamation and Governor Nort hen’s
and the editorials in some of our £a-
■jers and have wondered what was thfl
: hatter with me. Why cau’t I feel that these
etchings and burnings aro horrible and bar-
__trous? Maybe lam like ths poor fellow ^at
O'amjf meetirig who said he would like to get
religion but he Couldn’t feeljbafc hejWas a sin-
THE PROCLAMATION. AWAITED
UNTIL THE FIRST OF MAY
Central Securities Will be Received on
Deposit—-An Important Order.
A New York special of Friday says:
The committee charged; frith the reor
ganization of the Central Railroad and
Banking Company and its allied lines,
announces that it now has frithin its
control and pledged to it so large an
amount of the securities covered by
the plan of reorganization as-to justify
the opinion that the proposed reorgan
ization frill be ‘perfected. In justice
to the interest' committed to it, the
committee has resolyod not to extend
the time for the deposit of securities
beyond May 1st next, except that it
reserves the right to receive securities
thereafter 'upon the imposition in its
"' rexion of a penalty of 3 per cent.
..Jy order of the committee (sighed)
William F. Wharton, secretary.
j Referring to the above, the under-
/signed is prepared to receive deposits
nor. I caift JSel that fray. If I Had been at
Paris where I could realize the awful brutality
of that negro’s crime upfln that poof little in
nocent child I should have joined the mob.
Yee, I could have seen the brute tern limb
from limb and liia flesh eaten by the dogs.
I felt jnst that way when the negro cut the
school girl’s throat near Madison in my own
sta<e, and threw her mangled body in the
d teli. Sticb a negro or such a white man is no
raofe to ifle than a wild beast that has no soul.
You May gall it revenge or barbarity if yon
please; fait to itiy inifld it is an evidence of tho
purest ioie ot helpless innocence and the deep-
yiflpathy for the snfferefk; I want no man
_Jgrie the matter with m6: I froflld not tol
erate disenssion over it with a northern man
who has had no experience nor with a southern
one who has never felt the apprehension. Let
he officers of tho law do or try to do their -
-worn duty, but when the cise io elear and the
proof positive or the crime confessed, it makes
no difference with me whether they Bhoot Him
or bum him. If the burning will better serve
the purpose of intimidating and preventing of
similar crimes by other brutes, then let them
bunt; In the olden times they stoned them
with stores, according to the scripture, and
thete fras vif trie lit tho remedy. But the mod
ern philanthropist cries educate them—educate'
them just SS if uiefo was any reform in educa
tion Without moral and religious training to go
airing frith it, side by side. There are loss
than twri htindrrid wbito convicts in our peni
tentiary and ovef two thousand negroes.
Most of these negroes nerfer Hnew anything of
slavery, for they are under forty years of age,
and a Urge majority hare had some school
ing, but they grow worse instead of bet
ter; Before the war there was not one
outrage to Where there are fifty now* and yet
onr northern friends, say it is from ignorance
of the law or from lack Of education. It .is
neither. It is became of their race trails
for indolence and stealing find the gratifica
tion of their passions and appetites. Before
tho war thtso traits were fettered by fear, bat
now they feel no restraint. The old-time ne
groes are still good citizens, made so by early
■raining, but tho average negro of to-day has
fallen back instead of advancing. Tho heathen
Chinee is a Christian compared with him.
How far, or how long this incarceration of no-
mo convicts shall go on, I know not, but I do
enow that the methods of modern civiliza
tion in the south will have to be changed,
'lhere is too much liberty in the yonih of the
negro and of the w ite race too. ParentB and
teachers are not respected and reverenced fay
the children as they used to be. The negro
used to fear the lash and it was a wholesome
and salfltary fear. Now it is the calaboose,
the jail, or the chaingang, which they'do net
fear. I Verily believe that a good whipping
will do a young negro more good and last
longer than ten years in the chaingang. ..There
would not be fivehundred negr es in our con
vict c imps today if all the misdimeanors had
been punished at the whipping post. But
modern philanthropy wonld cry ont, "Oh, hom-
bh! horrible!" 'I bo very men who permit the
poet and the wretched to starve or to freeze in
the miserable garrets and. lofts of the tene
ment houses wonld be tho first to riy out
against us. The very men who ship rum to
Africa every day to be bartered in the slave
trade would raise their sanctimonious eyes to
heaven and ask the friends of the poor down trod
den negro of the south to rally for his protec
tion. How long will these Catilines abuse our
patience? When I ruminate upon these things
it makes me tired—very tired,- and keeps me
from'being calm- and serene. - It .makes -both,
side? of my head ache and .1 -have to .take a
doub'e dose of my medicine. But I am get
ting better now, and cin stoop down and help
thelitile orphan piok strawberries every morn
ing. We have a gr at time together, but I am
like a hen with one ehioken. The children used
to follow me about, b it now I follow the chd-
dren.—Bill Aup. ih Atlanta Constitution.
THE LIBERTY BELL.
izution, cop
The Famous Old Belie of Independence
Shipped to Chicago.
The liberty hell was lowered from
its position in Independence hall at
Philadelphia, Saturday, and on Mon
day it was placed on a truck specially
constructed for the purpose and es-
,y be had at corted by Philadelphia’s contingent of
the Pennsylvania National Guard to
luthern Bank of the iho Pennsylvania
Savannah, April 21st,
life —
train bearing tl
‘icago T
d pepot. The
1 and escort left
That Will Put into Effect tho Bussian
Extradition Treaty.
A Washington special of Sunday says:
Only one more step remains to betaken
before the Bussian extradition treaty
goes into effect, and that is the issuance
of the president’s proclamation. All
efforts to obtain the text of the treaty
from the department of state have been
futile, but the following synopsis of its
provisions, obtained from a thoroughly
reliable source, contains the salient
points of the document:
Article 1. The high contracting par
ties reciprocally agree to surrender to
each other, upon mutual requisitions
and according to their respective regu
lations and procedure, persons who,
being charged -with or convicted of the
commission in the territory of one of
the contracting parties, of any of the
crimes and offenses specified in the fol
lowing article, who shall seek an asylum
or be found frithin the territory of the
other. This shall only be done upon
snch evidence of criminality as, ac
cording to the laws of the place where
the fugitive or person so charged shell
be found, would justify his or her ap
prehension and commitment for the
trial if the crime had been there com
mitted.
Article 2. Persons convicted or
charged with any of the following
crimes, as well as attempts to commit
or participation in the same, as an ac
cessory before the fact; provided such
an attempt or participation is punisha
ble by the laws of both countries, shall
be delivered up in virtue of the provis
ions of this convention: Murder and
manslaughter, when voluntary; for
gery and the utterance of forged pa
pers, including public, sovereign or
governmental acts; willful or unlaw
ful destruction or obstruction of rail
roads which endangers human life.
Article 3. An attempt against the
life of the head of either the goverment
or against that of any member of his
family,' when snch attempt comprises
the act, either of murder or assassina
tion, or of poisoning or of accessory-
ship thereto shall not be considered
a political offense or act connectfed
with snch an offense. •'
Article 4. In case the person whose
extradition is demanded nnder the
present convention is also claimed
by another government, preference
shall be given to the government whose
demand shall be earliest in point of
time; provided the government from
which extradition is sought is not
bound by treaty to give preference
otherwise.
HAZING AMONG GIRLS.
Ontrageons Performance of a Lot of
College Students.
A speeial of Friday from Delaware,
Ohio, says: The outrageous hazing
performance of the students of tho
Ohio Wesleyan University is assuming
proportions far greater than was antic
ipated. Some of the young students
at Monetts hall, belonging to the uni
versity, caught the hazing spirit from
the boys and fell upon some of their
sister schoolmates. About twenty
young women oh Thursday evening
got a strong solution of nitrate of sil
ver and proceeded to brand six or
seven of their school friends on the
neck, breast, arms and hands for the
purpose, it is claimed, of so disfiguring
them that they would be unable to
wear- evening dresses at the senior re
ception.
This occurence, coupled with the
outrage of the male students, has
added fuel to the excitement. Some
of the stndents set one of the
frame buildings in the college camp
us on fire, and it was entirely con
sumed.
HOW THE BOYS WEBE BRANDED.
The fact haB developed that the stu-
: dents who • did the branding of the
boys were not sophomores, but an ag
gregation of sluggers elected from the
lower classes. One of the number,
Mickey Harrold, is not a student at .
all, having graduated last year.
The six young men who were bound
with ropes, burned with red-hot shov
els on their backs, and on each cheek,
chin and forehead with the letters D. '•
O. A., with a strong solution of
nitrate of Bilver, pnt on after scratch
ing the flesh with a sharp-pointed,
stick, are Joe • B. Rogers, W. B.
Brown and P. C. Wilson, of Delaware,
Orlando C. Horn, of Dayton, O., and
Albert Maustin, of Chattanooga,
Tenn.
The students were arrested Friday
morning and taken before the mayor.
The cases were continued until April
27th, and they were released under
bond of $500 each. A civil suit was
commenced Friday evening by tho vic
tims of the branding for $100,000.
The faculty of the Ohio Wesleyan uni-,
versity will hold a session to investi
gate the outrage.
AN ARMORY BURNS '
And a Number of Persons Lose Their
Lives—Heavy Loss.
The magnificent armory of the First
regiment, Illinois National Guards, at
Chicago, was destroyed by fire Tues
day morning. Two men are known to
have perished in the flames and it is
supposed that six others sharetLtheir
fate. Two others were rescued from
immediate death by the heroism of the
firemen* but not until they were badly
injured.
The ‘loss to property is placed at S
about $215,000, which is very inade
quately covered by insurance. This
includes the loss of $150,000 oil the
building, the sceuery of. the TrocaiJet
ro concert troup and. .the. bgiiosome
furnishings of the various First regi
mental military companies. The fire
started in an unknown manner in the
kitchen of the armory.
LIQUIDATION IN SIGHT.
The Gate City National Bank!
; Re-0pened
A telegram-was received at At
Monday afternoon from Comptri
Hepburn indicating that the ft
Gate City National bank would pro
ably be able to liquidate its inde’
edness within the week, and re ™
for business.
All arrangements for opening
bank to pay the depositors in
havejieen made, except the sale of t
building. As soon ns that has be.„
done the depositors will all be paid.
Advise now, it will pay you. :