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GOOD FOR TEN DAYS.
1/>TT WARREN. Agt
fnthwe new times and moods of oun
To foreign plants give room;
So the sweet faiths of former days,
Dev^-rooted in the heart, **
Beseem no more our fickle wavs
And with eld flowers depart*’
N TL d 2ES! “ 4 new d ?? bta
JPwM. lljLt with Inn, wre«thS!^
■‘wra.^sisr 1 "'
No greenhouse gives me half the lov
. Some old-time garden yieldsT
And love I still, as when a boy,
The wild flowers of the fields.
And mine shall be the faiths of old,
In God and Christ in heaven:
rth depart ’
rt C. Rlckm
*nd after a controversy
than gracious decided it, and
through all Christendom in som
the first Sunday after the full
which happens upon or next after
March 21 is filled with Easter rejoic
ing. The royal court of the Sabbaths
is made up of fifty-two. Fifty-one
are prinoes in the royal household, bnt
Easter in queen. She wears a richer
diadem and Bwaya a more jewelled
sceptre, find in her smile nations are
irradiated. Unusually welcome this
year because of the harsh winter and
the late spring, she seems to step oat
of the snowbank rather than the con
servatory, and oat of the north instead
of the south out of the arctic rather
than the tropics, dismounting from the
icy equinox; bnt welcome this queenly
day, holding high up ia her right
hand the wrenched-off bolt of Christ’s
sepulchre, and holding high up in her
left hand the key to all the cemeteries
" Christendom.
My text is as ejaculation. If is
mo out of hallelujahs. Panl wrote
right on in tis argument about the
resurrection and observed al! the laws
of logic; but when he came to write the
words of the text his fingers and his
pen and the parchment on which he
Trote took he cried out.
Death ia < *w»tt<ppg4'(fip in victory!”
t is an excitin^ thing 'to see an army
routed and flying. They ran each
other down. They scatter everything
valuable in the traok. Un wheeled ar
tillery. Hoof of- horse on breast of
wounded anddying - man. You have
read of the French falling • hack from
Sedan, or Napoleon's track of 60,000
corpses in the snowbanks of Russia,
or the retreat of our own armies from
Manassas, or of the five kings tum
bling over the rocks of Bethoran with
their armies while the hailstorms of
heaven and the swords of Joshes'
host struck them with their fury. I
my text is a worse discomfiture. 1.
seems that a black ■ giant proposed to
conquer the earth. He gathered for
his host all the aches and pains and
maladies and cancers and distempers
and epidemics of the ages. He march
ed them down, drilling them in the
northeast wind and amid the slash of
tempests. He throw up barricades of
grave mound. He pitched tent of char
nel house. Some of the troops march
ed with slow tread, commanded by con
sumptions; some in donble-qnick, com
manded by pneumonias. Some he
*c by long besiegemeat of evil habit
■ome by one stroke of the .battle-
of casualty. With bony hand he
pounded at the doors of hospitals and
sick rooms, and won all the victories
in all the great battlefields of all the
five continents. Forward march! the
conqueror of eonqnerora, and all the
generals and comssanders-in-chief, and
all presidents and kings and snltaas
and czars, drop under the feet of his
war charger. But one Christmas night
his antagonist wan bora. As most of
ths plagues and steksMes and despo-
xzzwBzEt
out of the tame quarter. Power is
given H* to nwaken all the fallen of
all the centuries and of-aR lands, and
marshal them against the black giant.
Fields have already been won, hat the
last day of the world’s existence will
see the decisive battle. When Christ
shall lend forth His two brigades, ths
brigade of the risen dead and the bri
gade of the celestial boat, the black
giant will fall back, and the brigade
from tbs riven sepulchres will take
him from beneath and the brigade of
descending immortals will take him
from above, and death ehal! be swal
lowed up in victory. The old hrag-
gart that threatened the conquest and
demolition of the planet has lost Ms
took 1
sceptrv.hM lost his palace, has lost
prestige, and the one
rail the gates of ma
catacomb and necropolis, on cenotaph
and saroophagus. on the lonely cairn
of the Arctic explorer, and on the cata
falque of great cathedral, written in
capitals of aaalea and calls lily, writ
ten in musical cadenoe,written indoxol-
logy of great assemblages, written on
the sculptured door of the family
vault, is “Victory.” Coronal word,
embaanered word, apocalyptic word,
chief word of triumphal areh'under
which conquerors return; - J Victory!
War shouted nt Bslaklava -and Blen
heim; at Megeddo and Solflrinc^ at
Marathon, where the Athenians
back the Medes; af Posctisrs,i
Charles Martel broke the rank* of the
Saracens; at Salamis, where Themis-
toclee, id the great sea-fight, confound-
ed the Persians, and at the door *f the
Eastern cavern of chiselled rock, where should raise the dead!’ 1
him back in the niche from which the
celestial Conqueror had just emerged.
Aha! when the jawa of the Eastern
mausoleum took down the black giant
“death was swallowed up in victory.”
I proclaim the abolition of death. The
old antagonist is driven back into my
thology with all the lore abont Sty
gian ferry and Charon with oar and
boat. Melrose Abbey and Kenilworth
Castle are no more than is the sepul
chre. We shall have no more to do
with death than we have with the
cloak room at a Governor’s or Presi
dent’s levee. We stop at snch cloak
room and leave in charge of a servant
our overcoat, our overshoes, our out
ward apparel, that we may not he im
peded in the brilliant ronnd of he draw
ing-room. .Well, my friends when we
go ont of this world we are going to a
king’s banquet, and to a reoeption of
monarchs, and at the door of the tomb
we leave the cloak of flesh and the
wrappings with which we meet the.
storms of the world. At the close of
our caithly reception, under the brash
and broom of the porter, the cost or hat
may be handed to us better than when
we resigned it, and the cloak of hu
manity will finally be returned to us
improved and brightened and porified
and glorified. You and I do not want
bodies returned as they are now.
i want to get rid of all their weak
nesses, and all their susceptibilities to
fatigue, and all their slowness of loco
motion. They will be put through a
chemistry of soil and heal and cold
and chaging seasons out of which God
will reconstruct them as much better
than they are now as the body of the
rosiest and healthiest child that bounds
over the lawn at Prospect Park is bet
ter than the richest patient in Bellevue
Hospital.
_ But as to our soul, we will cross
right over, not waiting for obsequies,
independent of obituary,
every way better, with wider room and
velocities beyond computation; the dul
lest of ns into companionship with the
very best spirits in their very best
mood, in the very parlor ot the universe,
the four walls furnished end panelled
and pictured and glorified with all the
splendors that the infinite God in all
the ages has been able to invent. Vic
tory! This view, or course, makes it
of but little importance whether we
are cremated or sepultured. If the
Inter is dust to dust, the former is
ashes to ashes. If any prefer incinera
tion let them have it without carica
ture. The world may become so
crowded that cremation may be uni
versally adopted by law as well as by
general consent. Many of the might
iest and best spirits have gone through
this process. Thousands and tens of
thousands of God's chfldna have been
cremated. P. P. Bliss and wife, the
evangelistic singers, cremated by ac
cident at Ashtabula bridge. John
Rogers cremated by persecution, Lati
mer and Ridley cremated at Oxford,
Pothinus, and Blondina, a slave and
Alexander, a physician, and their eom-
rades. cremated at the order of Marcns
Aurelias. At least a hundred thou
sand of Christ's diidplet cremated,
and there can be no ■ doubt about the
resurrection of their bodies. If the
world lasts as much longer as it has
already been built, there perhaps may
be no room for the large acreage set
apart for resting places, bnt that time
has not come. Plenty of room yet,and
the race need not pass that bridge o!
fire until it comes to It. The most of ds
prefer the old way. But whether out
of natural disintegration or cremation
we shall get that luminous, bouyant,
gladsome, transcendent, magnifioent,
inexplicable structure called the re
surrection body, you will have it,I will
have it. I say to you to-day as Paul
id to Agrippa: “Why should it he
thought a thing incrediblt with you,
that God shall raise the dead.” That
far up cloud, higher than the hawk
fliee, higher than the eagle flies, what
is it made of? Drops of water from
tho Hudson, other drops from the East
river, other drope from a stagnant pool
out on Newark flats. Up yonder there,
embodied in a cloud and the sun kin-
If God can make such a lus
trous cloud out of water drops, many
of them soiled and impure, and frtfhed
from miles away, can lie not transport
the fragments of a human body from
the earth, and out of them build a ra
diant body? Cannot God, who owns
all the material out of which bones and
muscle and flesh are mads, set them up
again if they have fallen? If a manu
facturer of telescopes drop a telescope
on the floor and it breaks, can be not
mend it again so you can tea through
it? And if God drops the human eye
into the dust, ths eye which he origin
ally fashioned, can be not restore it?
Aye, if the manufacturer of the tele
scope, by a change of the glass and a
change of focus, can make a better
glass than that which waa originally
constructed, and actually improve it,
do you not think the fashioner of the
hn«« . 7 . n. r juprov. it.iight.nd
multiply the ham an eye by the thou
sandfold additional forces of the resur
rection eye? “Why should it bethought
an incredible thing that God should
raise the dead?” Things all around
ue suggest it. Ont of what grew all
these flowers? Out of the mold and
«rth. Bemmctwl. RmmcUd.
Th. radiut batttrflj-, whm did it
com, from? The htawm cttwpil-
ltr. Th, slbttros, th.t imitea th,
tompMt with it, wing, whin did it
AhukIm, ihcll. Near
fergme. Francs, in , Coltic tomb,ns-
dert block, wet. fotmd flowsr wed,
tUt hod bwn buried 2,000 jmra. The
explorer took th, flower Med ud plant
'dttd it sum up, it bloowd iu
heliotrope and bluebell. Two thou-
Mud pout ago buried, jet iMUnuctod.
A traveller mj, iu . msmmj pitiu
■ad than 3,000 •uutuufK He brought
them out,end ou tho 4th of Juno. 1844
ho planted them, and ia thirty daja
they epraag up. Buried 3,000 yea re
yet looumotod. "Why abould it bo
thought u thing incredible -with you
that God should raiae tho daodr-
Where did atlthie tflk ooma from? the
SSff^SSSSRtt:
Greek missionary brought froaa China
to Europe the pregwitere ef those
worms that now supply the ellkmar-
kete of many nations. Ths pageantry
of bannered host and the luxurious ar-
tieles of commercial emporium blazing
out from the silk worm*. And who
shall be surprised If out of this fnsig
nificaat earthly lift our bodies
into something worthy of the earning
eternities. Put saver into diluted ni
tre anJ it dissolves, another force reoi
gamines. ‘‘Why should it bethought _
thing incredible with you that God
, . .. - The insects
have taken no food, they want™.
They lie dormant and insensible, but
soon the Sooth wind will blow the
resurrection trumpet, and tho air and
the earth will befall of them. Do yon
not think that God can do as much for
our bodies ee He does for the wasps
and the spiders and the snails? This
aorniagat 4:40' o’clock there was a
xection. Out of the night the day.
i few weeks there will be a resur
rection in all our gardens. Why not
dey a resurrection amid ell the
graves? Ever and anon there are in
stances of men and women entranced.
A trance is death, followed by resurrec
tion afur a lew days. Total suspen
sion of mental power aad voluntary ac
tion. Rer. William Tensest—a great
evangelist of the last generation, of
whom Dr. Archibald Alexanders man
far from being sentimental, wrote in
most eulogistic terms—Rev. William
Tsnnent seemed to die. Hie spirit
departed*. People came in day after
day and said: “He is dead; he is dead.”
Bnt the soul that fled returned, aid
William Tsnnent lived to
experiences of what be had seen while
his soul was gone. It msy be found
some time that what is called suspend
ed animation or comatose state is brief
death, giving the soul an excursion in
to the next world, from which it comes
back, a furlough of a few hours grant
ed from the eonfiiet ot life to which it
most return. Does not this waking up
of men from trance, and this waking
up of grains buried three thousand
▼ears ago, make it easier for you to
believe that your body and mine, after
the vacation of the grave, shall roues
and rally, though there be three thous
and yean between our last breath and
the sounding of the archangelic
ills! Physiologists tell ns
while the most of our bodies are built
with such wonderful economy that we
can spare nothing, and the loss of a fin
ger ia a hindrance, and theininryofa
toe joint makes us lame, still that wa
have two or three useless physical ap-
parati, and no anatomist or physiolo
gist has ever been able to tell what
they are good for. They are no doubt
the foundation of the resurrection body,
worth nothing to ns ia thisVtate, or be
indispensably valuable in the next
state. The Jewish rabbis had only a
hint of this suggestion when they said
that in the human frame there waa a
•mall bone which was to be the basis
of the resurrection body. Perhaps
that may have been a delu
sion. But this thing ia certain, the
Christian scientists of our day have
found ont that there are two or three su
perfluities of body that are something
gloriously suggestive of another state.
I called at my triend’s boose one sum-
r dav. I found the yard all piled
with rubbish of carpenter's and
aon’a work. The door was off. The
plumbers had torn up the floor. The
roof was being lifted in cupola. All
the pictures were gone aad the paper-
hangers were doing their work. All
the modem improvement! were being
introduced into that dwelling. There
was not n room ia the house that was
fit to live ia at that time, although a
month before whan I visited that bourn
everything was so beautiful I could
not have suggested an improvement.
My friend had gone with kia family to
the Holy Land, expecting to come
hack at the end of six months, when
the buiUiag was to be done. And oh,
what was his joy when at the end of
six months he returned and the old
house was enlarged and improved and
glorified. That is your body. It looks
well now. All the rooms filled with
L we ' could hardly make a
suggestion. Bat after a while your
soul will go to the Holy Land, and
while you are gone the old house of
your tabernacle will o* entirely reoon-
structed from cellar to attie, every
insole and bone aad tissue and
ntery must he hauled over, and
the old structure will be burnished
and i adorned and raised aad
cupalosd and enlarged, sod all the im
provements of Heaven iatrodaoed, aad
you wUl move into it on resurrection
day. Now. we know that, if our earth
ly house of this tabernacle were di
solved, “we have a building of God, _
house not made with hands, eternal in
the heavens.” Oh, what a day when
body and soul meet again ! They Hn
very fond of eaeh other. Did your
body ever have a pain and your soul
not fe-echo it 1 Or changing the qi
tion, did your soul ever have I
trouble and your body not sympathuie
with it ? growing wan and wenk under
the depressing influence. Or.didyour
soul ever have a gladness hot your
body celebrated it with kindled eye and
cheek and elastic step. Sorely, God
■ever intended turn euch good friends
to he vary long asperated. .And so
when the world's lest. Easter i morning
shall come, the eoul will deemud tty
i®g: “Wheraiemy body fraud?the
body will second saying “Wham is my
soul?” ud the Lord ofthu resurrection
will hong them together. anditwilLV
n perfect soul inn ferfect body, fatro-
doead by a perfect Christ into a perfect
Leaven. Victory I Do yuo woodor
that to-day we swathe this house with
garlands? Do you wonder we cele
brate it with the most consecrated voice
song that wo fun invite, and with
■ deieest fingers on organ and comet,
and with doxologies that boat these
arches with the billows of sound as the
am smites the basalt at Giant’s Cause
way. Only the bad disapprove of tho
imansetion. A cruel heathen warrior
heard Mr. Moffat, the missionary,
prsaeh about the resurrection, end he
said to the missionary: “Will m
father rise iu the last day?” “Yes,'
said the missionary. «WU1 all th.
dead in battle rise?”? raid the cruel
-ptied gravee, they will be the
abandoned sepulchres, with rough
ground tossed on either side of them,
and slabs will lie uneven on- tl
hillroeks, and there will be fallen
meats and cenotaphs, and then for the
first you will appreciate the fullexbilv
ration of the text, “Death is swallowed
op in victory.”
6* Lo" 1 of Keith and Heaven.
ESrSssz&ts?
Hall the resurrection Thou.
Th© Object of Prayer as Seen by
the Light of Benson, Scrip
ture and Experience,
It is clearly seen by the light of reas
on and revelation, why a vile and wick
ed Pope, would sell an indulgence to
sin for a price in gold, bnt I fail to see
how God, the fonntsin of all good and
tlw author of the religion of Christ.ean
be in harmony with llis own nature,
and for the mere asking, grant to mai
the privilege to sin with impunity.
Sin with its consequences, stand iu
relation to each other as cause and ef
fect, consequently tho Bible reader, to
understand the object of prayer, musl
make a distinction between the forgiv-
ness of sin and that of punishment.
By the light ot the Scriptures, we see
no evidence that the object of the ad
vent of Christ, was the exemption of
from the consequences of crime it-
“Behold the Lamb of God, that
taketh away the sins of the world.” We
are told, that his pamo shall be called
Jeans, for He ehall save His people
from their sins, and from the same
source, ws learn that God will by no
means clear the guilty.
To harmonize the above quotations,
b are forced to assume that by prayer
eu may be ptatified and their sior “
moved by leading them to a purer
and yet the penalty of the violated
remain, be its dnratiou and its nature
what it may. Let ns illustrate this
idea. The volcanic fires of Vesnvins
may die ont, and lava cease to flow
from its’ crater, while the effects of
past eruptions may be seen in the seams
and scars that mark and disfigure the
mountain that once stood in nnnvalsd
beauty and grandeur, chalenging the
admiration of min. whil*
chieftain. “Yea,” said the missionary.
“Than,” said the warrior, “Ira ms
hear ao_moro about the resurrection
day. Thera m» be no resurrection,
thora shall be no resurrection. I have
■lain thousands ia battle. Will they
rise?” Ah, there will be more “
on that day than thora wax
whoso crimes haveasver been
of. But for all others, who
Christ to be their life aad their nisut-
motion, it will he a day of victc
The thunders of the last day will
the salve that greets you into hart
The lightnings will be only the tore
of triumphal procession marching do
to escort, yoa home. The burning
worlds flashing through immensity wifi
he the rockets celebrating yeur corona
tion on thrones where you will reign
forever and forever and forever. Whm
is death? What have we to do with
death? As your reunited body and
aoul awing off from this planet on that
ltit day you will see deep gashes all
i in every age of the world h
i search of happiness and t__
misery, and I am forced to the eoncln-
sion that nothing short of a false con
ception of the object and nature of prey ■
er and its reputed power to save man
from the result of crime, oould lead to
life of criminal indulgence. This is
s age of reason, and the Christian
should he taugh. to know himself as a
physical and intellectual being as well
as a moral, and that the laws institut
ed for his government as an organic
and intellectual being are as impera
tive as tint of a moral. He should be
taught to know the consequences of
the violation of the omiiTSu
the other. From the violation of the
organic and mental, come pain,deform
ity, mental imbecility and death, from
admiration of
heights point
ot the great first cause.
So I conceive it to be with man be
fore and after the regenerating influ
ence of prayer. The fires of sensual
ism that horned so fiercely in yonth,
and those passions, that in the vigor
of manhood, invited to crime, may no
longer barn. The tempest may have
■wept over and defiled the noblest work
of God, and the purifying influence of
prayer, may have in its turn accom
plished its work of lovo in purifying
the soul, but the repulsive effects of
the past still live in the memory ot
man and stand recorded on the pages
of history, and like an incabas, fastens
itself upon the house-hold to the third
and fourth generations. “The father
hath eaten soar grapes, and the chil
drens teeth are on edge.” The Chris
tian house-hold msy be likened to the
great body of humanity it it is oom-
pact and fitly framed together, so that
one member thereof cannot err without
all of its members suffering the result.
The erring member may have long
since realized the redeeming power of
prayer and may sleep in Christ, vet
the dark and damning effects of his
■ins, whether it be the resnlt of a vio
lation of the physical, mental or moral
law, is by the undeviating laws ofonr
being fastened opon the unoffending
of the honse-hold. Tk.jn.MJ
live apd writhe under the pangs that
God, ia his wisdom, has ordained shall
follow the violation of the law. This
* i clearly conveyed by the paalm-
the 99th. Psalm. “Thou for-
giveth them, O Lord, and puniabeth
their inventions.”
There can be no deliverance then por
emption from She- consequences of a
violation of the laws of God, whether
the sin be perpetuated by an individ
ual membra of a family, by a city or a
nation. The violation of the law of
God once perpetuated the result like
that of the sin of Sodom, fastens ever
upon the locality, until it becomes i
stench iu the nostrils of society. “Ca:
any thug good oome out of Nazareth?'
vibrates upon ths ear when the locality
ia named. History, both sacred and
profane, bears me ont ia assuming that
the effects of sin, when ordained or per
mitted by tho Chief Ruler of a nation,
as in the case of the crucifixion of
Chris; or the kidnapping and binding
in slavery. Bias and women becomes
historio and national in its effects. The
house of Israel lost its nationality an,l
now exists as a scattered and a peeled
people, a hissing and a bye word among
the nationa of the earth; while we as a
people, lie bleediag and crashed. Not
a Mar of hope shines upon the Ameri
can continent. There ie no hope of a
deliverance from the accursed evil. Its
dark and damning tida of moral and
national degeneracy rolls on gathering
strength as it goes. The bouse of Is
rael and the American Republic
thomaolvee in sackcloth and ashes,
their prayers may go up to God, hut
his laws are eternal and unvarying in
their operation. As Nations they have
tinned and as nations they must suffer
the penalty of a violated lew. It God
le eternal and unvarying, so are the
laws which he has ordained, aad the
consequences of their violation must he
coexisting therewith. And wherever,
and so long as the laws are operative,
there trill he the sting of Its violation.
There ia no evading the force of the
reasoning ia support of the truth of the
doctrine herein advanced. Evidence of
its correctness looms up from every
page of the history of man, both an
cient and modern. Every city has its
unwritten history of its past brought
to light in the character of the people
of the present. The vulgarism aad
profanity of the anoeetor* flow from the
lips of our prattling babes as a sure in
heritance transmitted to them through
the unvarying laws of our being. The
moral deformity and mental imbecility
of the thoughtless inebriate fasten H-
stff upon the brain aad heart of the un
born child and characterizes his pro
clivities and habits through Hie. -Tbs
meontenance of the father attaches to
the eon, and the mantle of the mother,
whether soiled by the filth of moral
imparity, or sprinkled with incense
from the alter of virtue^ falls upon the
the violation of the moral law,
remorse, dishonor, shame and moral
degeneracy. Spiritual death and pray
er, was never intended as a power, by
which man may violate either with im
punity. God, in hie wisdom, ordained
the result as an incentive to obedience
and virtue. If God by virtue of tho
sacrifice of Christ,provided a means by
which man may sin with imparity,
where is the moralizing power of the
gospel? qut bo no f
One more idea I would here advance
against the assumption that prayer is
* means of escape from the consequenc-
of sin that has been committed. It
i fact that the forgivness of punish-
nt in the acceptation of the term as
understood by the various branches of
the Christian church, creates a necessi
ty for the suspension of two or more
lews for each sin that goes unpunished.
By way of illustration, I that
B. violates the moral law, “Thou shalt
not kill.” Evidently for thia sin he is
subject to its penalty be it what it may
whether to be inflicted hare or iu the
future, and yet for the same offence, ha
is amsaiable to the laws of the state in
which he livee and to the laws of socie-
ty in which he moves. We have here
a violation of three laws in a single
act aad each law has a penalty attach
ed thereto. Which then of the three
does ht, or can he, by virtue of the
death of Christ, escape? We know
that the criminal law ofthe state tehee
iti course, for we see that it has been
executed, and B.^ has been punished
, WP $2
I hautkanaaldifMiaMaf tWasa
S i of b j tka older mMaWra of ao-
and nfaronkU umpaikou
between th. preaest and th. paat.
I am reminded of lb. aatneeprr, wko
claimed to k. tk. iortnaat. discover of
akagt monater in tki.iu.kut
mck kamklad. rekaa a krother ail
np and down tha knia, deep gaakta all omer ahowed him that It waa nothing
through the valleja, and Iltej will tie I bnt a tl j upon biaglaac and waa fear*
fullj near him. Tha child ic hat tha
mirror of the parent which reflects his
tru image and eitabliaheahia account-
ability for the organic, the mental and
moral evils that exists in the child.
Really, society of the present, is but a
polished surface upon whieh every ac
tion, word an 1 secret thought ofthe
past is by virtue of the organic and in
tellectual laws of our being indelibly
photographed on mar to beautify or
adorn the history of man.
When we consider the fearful
quence of the violation of the laws of
God by the preseat generation, whieh
must fall upon the society of the future
and which must give direction to the
actions, laws and institutions of future
ages, we fail to find a single argument
upon which to rest the hypothesis that
God has ordained a means by whieh to
evade the legitimate resnlt of a criminal
do we see one motive to justify
t nations in being so false to the
best interest of society, as to ignore the
dictates of reason and the voice of rev
elation and live ia violation of the laws
i realise the fact, that be has
aped the penalty so wisely and
justly attached to the social law. for
his position in society is forever lost.
Shame and dishonor and the frown of
contempt rest upon him through life,
and at death it passes down as a sure
:_v._-a-—-ini— M( J jjj^
bear.' Your chill and mine realize the
blessings that flow from our virtues
[thee and groans under the scor
pion stings that comes from our guilt.
As hy the laws of physiology they in
herit our own features, our form and
mental peculiarities. So by tho wise
and judicious laws of society, they foal
the lash that is justly doe a parents
crime. Here I am told that the salva
tion from the penalty of the moral law
was the object of tho advent of Christ,
and not that of the criminal and the
social laws ot the people. The crimi
nal and social laws of a Christian na
tion are founded upon the moral law
of God, and the Christina whose life
is each as will save him from the pen
alty of the one, wtll exempt him from
the other. Bnt it is well here to re-
■anrk, that wo sea by tha light of reve
lation that wi are saved fxom4he con
sequences of neither, by the offering of
Christ, after the crime has bean com
mitted, for Christ shall oome in the
glory of his father with the holy an-
gels, and shall reward every man ac
cording to his works; and we are most
clearly informed, in tha 20th chapter
of Joha, aad in the 20th chapter of
Revelations. “That in the Resurrection
the dead shell come forth, they that
have done good to the Tesurroedoa of
life, and they that done evil to the re
surrection of damnation.”
If this he admitted then te »
justly, we are forced to the ooecli
that B. having done evil, will
forth to the reennection of damnation
at the last tramp and realise tho fact
of his condemnation, in tho abasaee of
that fall fruition of blue that ha might
have obtained by living a higher Ufe.
Hera I maybe met with the language
of job, “What ie the Almighty that
we should fear Urn. or what should we
he profited if weahonld pray unto
Him?” Seek a question is truly char
acteristic of the ago ia whieh Job liv
ed for their oode of morale was bnt a
nose, bnt it is not in harmony with
Christian piety. The question of Job
fanpHoo that prayer is the pries effaced
to God for an indulgenee la su.whOs
God ordained it the pries of virtue, in
tegrity, honor, wisdom and mental
power. The virtues and moral exoel-
1—rise of tho Christian church are bat'
rich jewels given ia exchange fox the
effenag ef prayer at the altar of God.
Keep Irfmhlng Young.
This is the age of young men.
Ottar tkisgi kting equal tWj ara
ererjwkere preferred, Sar. jour jom,
look,. It Mall position ud reonqr.
Is your koir falling off—dry or httre-
Woo? Presorts ond kosntify it ky
ttoiog P,rktr*o Hob Balaaao. Not os
oi>. ■<* « djfc^ore to work, okoo.
karat Ism.
aplSlm
DESTROYED BY WORKS. CAN
w, imagine a mom korrikW deotk:
On.wing—pa.ing-pa.iag night
ond day QBtii tko ritolo ore ooton away,
flkrinat'i India, Tonmfnpwilldootroy
pad eject tkoao dirgniting c roster.,
rom tko intMtinoo. Ask lorSkrinor’o
ndisa Vennifng*.
PIATPD1 PRANKS.
pi**!? afternoon the elev»
Bobolink boys surrounded and caught
an enormous, shaggy, strong-smelling
C oftk. reoteaba. geader.tnre»d
loose iu Burdock's garden, nailed
np tk. got., and tkra want kome aad
jWtUaadtMrdrrsa liul.noMa.gaiart
* ^aok windows to watch for coniag
.Before kia goolakip kod a pent tkroe
tninutoo ia tko garden, ko kid managed
2 k.a»,pall;
od down tkoelotU Iho' SddSKS
two lace collars,;! pair of uudersleeves,
anda atnped stocking, belonging to
Mrs. Bunfock, and was busily ennnd
sampling one of Bardock's shirts.when
*he servant girl came rushing out with
basket of clothes to hang np.
“The saints preserve us!” she ex
claimed. coming to a «W1 halt, aad
gazing open-mouthed at the goat, who
was calmly munching away at the shirt.
“Shew, shew, shew, there!”acreamad
the mrl, setting down the basket, tak
ing bra skirts in both hands, and ehak
iug them violently towards the intru
der.
Then the goat who evidently consid
ered her movements in the light of a
challenge, suddenly dropped his wicked
old bend, and darted at her with the
force of as Erie looouotive; and just
one minute later by the city hall cloek
that girl had tumbled a back summer
sault over the clothes basket, an? was
crawling away on bra hands and. knees
in search of a place to die, aaoompsnfed
by the goat, who was butting bra on
the bustle ground every third eeoond.
It is likely he would have kept on
butting h« for the next two weeks, if
Mrs. Burdock, who had bean a witness
of the unfortunate affair, had not armed
herself with the family poker, and hur
ried to the rescue.
“Merciful goodness. Annie! do get
up on your feetV’ahe exclaimed .aiming
a blow at the beast's head, and miss
ing it by a few of the shortest kind of
inches. It was not repeated, owing to
the goat suddenly rising up on his hind
feet,waltzing towards her, and striking
brain the small of the back, hard
enough to loosen her finger nails, and
destroy her faith in the blessed immor
tality.
When Mrs. Bardock returned to her
consciousness,she crawled out from be
hind the grindstone where she had been
teased, aad made for the house; step
ping only onos, when the goat
tra, and butted her, head fii
the grape arbor.
Once inside the house, the door was
locked, and the unfortunates sought tha
solitude of their own rooms, and such
comfort as they oould extract from rub
bing and growling; while the goat
wandered around the garden like Satan
in the Book of Job, seeking what he
might devour; and tha eleven Bobolink
boys fairly hugged themselves with
pleasure over the performance.
Bj the time Bardock returned horns
that evening, and learned all the partic
ulars from his arnica-soaked wife, the
goat had eaten nearly all the week'e
waahing, half the grape-vine and one
aide oat of the clothes-basket.
“Why in thunder didn’t you put him
oat, and not leave him there to destroy
evraything?” he demanded angrily.
“Because he wouldn’t go, and I was
not going to stay thereto be killed;
tkat's why,” answered his wife excited-
fy-
“Wouldn’t fiddlesticks!” he exclaim
ed as be came into the garden, and
caught of the shaggy and highly per
fumed visitors.
The goat bit off another mouthful of
the basket, and regarded him with a
mischievous twinkle of his eye.
“You won’t go, hey?” exclaimed
Burdock, trying to kick a hole ia the
enemy's ribs. I’ll show you whetk—’
Ths sentence wae left unfinished, as
the goat dropped his head just then on
Burdock's shirt-bosom; and, before he
eould reoorra his equilibrium, he had
t times ia ee van fresh spots.
first, into
■ down on his knees, and c
mg around in a very undignified j
nor, to the horror of the family aad the
infinite glee ot the eleven young Bobo
link’s next door.
Look out he don't hurt you!”
■creamed Mrs Bardock as the goat sent
him into a sand-pile.
When Bardock had got his bald
led out of the land, he was mud all
over hie clothes, aad tried to catch the
brute bv the horns, but desisted after
lm had foot two front teeth and bees
rolled la the mud.
Don't make a living show of your-
self before the neighbors!” advised hU
in, pa, aad let Him be!” beg
ged hie daughter.
“Golly, dad, look out! he ie cornin'
agin!”shouted his son eatkmffsstfealfy.
Mr. Bardook waxed profane, and
■wore three story oaths in such rapid
sueceseioo that hi* family held their
breaths; and n pious old lady,
lived ia a house ia the rear, shiu _ r
her windows and seat out the cook for
olioeman or a missionarv
Run for it, dadrXJSd the son _
moment later, when the goat’s attention
omed to be turned away.
Bardook sprang to his foot, and fol
lowed his offspring's suggestion. Hi
b style, and the
the hones seem-
fragrant brute
suddenly clapped on more steam,gained
rapidly, and, darting between his legs,
xowea ou ouspnng s sngi
was legging it in superb m
chances of hie reaching th
ed excellent, when tha fix
capsized Mm into the ash-box.
His family dragged him inside, an
ker candidate for robbing with arnica
id a blessed heaven of rest.
The beck of the house has been her
metically sealed; aad Bardock now pro
poses extending an invitation to the
THE MIDGETS XARBIED.
A ***** cuowd winzes na kcptuls
of comrr xaom xxd iu. tqx rnraz.
. Nmt YoMaApril 7.—Sid waa tin
crush in front of the Church ofthe Ho-
hrtta catnip. It tool tU tin.
BNabica af th. bridal part j Ma mia-
QtM to grt froai tba caaria^a door to tba
Mrianctprioa room hlS. ooaajdor.
Nobod j wan admitted to tba okaicb
without a card.
At-balt-paat tlnoa tba bridal pertj
aiowlj antartd. Tbej:looted tfio'o
groom's boat man. with Mies Lucie
Adams, the tiny bridesmaid, leaning on
kfean. The CountMagri, witk his
•d next- The bride ~
dreseed as •fegxntly as she was on
February 10,1803, whan dm walked
amid a similar throng in Grace church
to be married to General Tom Thumb.
Her robust little form was eavoloMd
in a lavender satin, brocaded in undut
velvet. It had n court train na knit
again as the bride. The front ite
decked with lace, beaded with pearts!
The neck waa low and the sleeves were
Short. Cindemlla slippras of lavender
•atm adorned her feet, which loosely fit
a No. 6 infant shoe. The slippers *
were buttoned over handsome lace
A oomb that blazed with
teck «f
ss^vna
at ter wriata aad lanmdw kid (Ion,
that reached aearlj to ter atenSn
eovored ter atepoly whit, haada aad
•rate. The (lorea were of the ^e
known as “foor-aad-a-half infants,”
and they wrae made on a special block.
In her left hand she earriMhrpiakLn
trance rose that waa mash bigger
than her bead.
The Cooat Magri was ia evening
dress. A big solitaire diamond irlt
the bosom or Ue gloaej ekfat lamia-
oaa and a gold-linked chain daarlod at '
tho waiatooat aa te walked, rca.
SiS. H 2l23d h 2f!lE^
white satin.
Rector M. F. Watkins steed amid
the mass of Easter flowers at the ehaa-
“I in flowing white surplice, smiling-
awahing the party. William
ighby^flwdgjp^ho i. execu
tor of General Tom Thumb's estate
under his will, took the hride'e
in his own big, white gloved palm and
gave her away to the Count. Miss
Lucie Adams picked the tiny wedding
ring from the pocket of her gown had
the Count daintily fined £ w the
" Va finger. Then he imprinted a
on his bride's red tips, aad loll
Recter Watkins, stooping away ovjn
until it seemed to those in the beck
pews tkat be touched the ground. Boo
ed the little woman, too. The Count
and Countess will go to Europe in May
end eventually to Itily. Count Ma-
-i’a present to his bride ia aa estate ia
aly near Bologna.
A Crushed Bore. >
Onn West-bound Michigan Central
train the other day were n delicate ap-
young woman and an intelH-
bind tte conplo rat tte maa-to te
found on ererj train—wko woald' di.
if not permitted to tear tte oooad of
buowa roic. at ail Haw la all plaom.
The jonng ladr bad a tronbftaoma
conga, a fact walcb aeomad to hotter
the talking machine behind ter great-
l?-"At tact be leaned forward aad
addmeod ter oeeort:
"That gal'e gat a bad aoagb.--
-Erar trj catnip toa?"
“She baaa't drank anjtbiag eiae for
more than two hnndred non. Bte
canghta Mrera cold ia Jeraaedoot ia
1888. I ted fiftj bamlaof catnip taa
pot into tte baggago ear far ter o-
between ten and Chicago." Poore.
Lange?"
'No, buaione. Tkat'a parelj a
baoien coagb, jon will aotioe, if .on
watch bra cloralr.”
. “Alan the draught n lectio strong
from that window?” after a loagtr
inse.
“Ne, she has to have it. It takes
15,000 pounds of air to make her s
respectable breath! We haves patent
breath inenbator which the usee at
home. It oovers 17,000 acres of val
uable land;
yen any eke was yew wife?”
I didn't say anything of the
ihe’e one of there new foshiou-
ed tnfernal machines that I'm taking
over to England to blow np the qnren.
The only trouble is that I'm subject
to fits, and when 1 get one of them I "
break things up terribly!”
“What brings them on te you?”
“Talking! Why. it was raly yee-
terdsy that 1 killed three men, • wo
man and a pair of twins before I oould
be got nudra control. I feel very queer
about the head now- I—”
“I reckon I’ll go fate the smokin'
ear.” pU the bora, sidling out of the
-ati “I don’t feel very well my sell!”
“Don't hurra away!” shouted the
young man, while a general titter ran
through tha ear.—Zfeninrftfe Counter-
Journal.
"No. I
Don't be afraid te pralra her
lag. ud ter .kill ia Irebireii
l).n’l fail to git. ter word, of ,p.
probation wbeneror yoo can coaoeion-
tiooalj approro.
Haitian tire and coorteoaa to ter.
'feMtearM wtea yoa rater' poor
, Don’t b. afraid to pcoire tte oral
practice marfamsatkip off tte roof, ■“* “* Mgkt fire,
proraieiag to faraiak a lira goat for a .
target, aad a ail rer napkin ring aa tte
firat prize.
The Atlanta (kmetltutlon,
la a long article relating to tte
. B. of that eitj. rare:
Tte Blood Burn Company attrtod
one year ago with 1182.08, bat today
tte bo are are cannot te hragkt foe
I50.000.00i
Tte demand ate tte ezti.fzolio.gir.
oa io oaU tote witboata parallel, ae
tte aetloa in prononaced wonderfnl.
We ere glad to aaaooaeo th.t
aggiorateoealready aecared ae
ply. aad we tepasnr leaden wiUt
ply tboMoolTMCt onto.
It it Mid tote tte only aptody ud
pocMaaaat blood poieoa nmady offend,
ginag entire eatUfaction in all cam
Man OMbottl. tea teem aa«L For
Blood Dieaoaoe, Kidney TronbUa,
Berofala. Catarrh, old Glcera aad Skin
DioeaM,. try oao bottle of B. B.B.
Ujyoarraterwtb. .neb tkot bte
will bo proodofyoo.
Be ao opright that ate will bo happy
*• “rMg yoar children to hoaor yra
^Garayoor family .on. of yoor «t-
Tell them of the amarine tbiass
tet ten brighurad yra, dayVffi'
Speak kindly to yoor ckildrea
Pky **d tofk with item . fro..,.
wan alter aoppor.
latotort yooreelf ia yoar wUb-a ma-
ptovmeat.
teartod^ B. glad With ter wtea bte
Don’t wait to tell tte world epoa
mmblo tbat which will bo eo gntefhl
Wterlonag heart to beer from yoor
Jss^&TCr te.
change.