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ST. LOUIS’ NOT LI) GUESTS.
SERVICES TTENDED AT THE PRES
BYTERIAN CHURCH.
No Demonstration Made by the People
Out of Deference to the Day-The
Botanical Gardens Visited in the
Afternoon -The Evening Spent at
Home.
Bt. Louis, Oct. 2. —At, Vendovarter place,
before the mansion of Mayor Francis,
where President and Mrs. Cleveland are
quietly resting, a crowd collected early this
morning to catch the first glimpse Of the
city’s guests. Shortly after 10 o’clock Mr.
Cleveland and his wife, accompanied by
Mayor Francis and wife, appeared and were
driven to the Washington Avenue Presby
terian church. In the street and near the
church many people had assembled, hut
a way was easily made through
the crowd, and as the party
passed to the door of the church the specta
tors uncovered their heads, but. made no
other demonstration. The auditorium of
the church was crowded. As the Pr%ident
passed down the aisle many of the congre
gation rose. A pew in the front centre of
the auditorium was accorded the Presiden
tial party.
SOUTHERN SYMPATHIZERS.
The churrli is situated on the corner of
Washington and Compton avenues. The
society of the church was formed in 1804 by
Dr. J. H. Brooks, D. D., the present pastor.
The congregation had strong Southern sym
pathies, and a rupture with the Northern
assembly sufficed to give the church the
name of the Southern church, but the char
acter of the members has gradually
changed, and the church's affiliation is now'
distinctly with the Northern Presbytery.
There were no special arrangements and the
usual service was conducted without change.
The musical programme was noted for its
simplicity, and was given by the regular
choir. After a few preliminary announce
ments Rev. Dr. Brooks read his text from
the eighth chapter of the Epistle of St.
Paul to the Romans, 31st verse: “Whatshall
we then sav to these thihgs, if God be
for us who can lie against us.” The pastor
confined himself strictly to his text, and
alluded in no manner to the President ex
cept in his closing prayer, when he invoked
the usual divine messing on the chief exec
utive of the country. At the close of the
service the President was escorted from the
church immediately, the congregation re
maining in their seats to allow easy egress.
The party were driven to Mayor Francis’
residence, where dined, and at
3 o’clock took a drive to
Henry Shaw’s famous botanical garden,
returning early. The evening was passed
quietly at the Mayor’s home. The Presi
dent and Mrs. Cleveland appeared consid
erably fatigued from the trip, but are rap
idly recuperating. The splendid weather
and warm atmosphere was marred for a
little while to-night by a heavy shower, but
during the day the sun shone brightly most
of thp time, and the prospect for fine
weather is good.
EX-CONFEDERATES TO TURN OUT.
Chicago, Oct. ‘A—The ex-Confederate
Association of Chicago, has unanimously
decided to participate in the escort tendered
to the President on Wednesday next. They
will turn out 150 men.
IN BEECHER’S PULPIT.
Rev. Dr. Joseph Parker Delivers a
Memorial Discourse.
New York Sept. 3. —The Rev. Dr
Joseph Parker, of the City Temple, who is
to pronounce the eulogy of Henry Ward
Beecher in the Brooklyn Academy of Music
Monday night, preached to-day in Ply
mouth Church, Brooklyn, in the pulpit
where his friend stood for forty years. The
subject was “Not Here, but Risen.” The
sermon,which was delivered without manu
script, was largely a memorial discourse,
several sympathetic references being made
to the dead pastor. Telegrams were re
ceived by Dr. Parker while he was in the
pulpit from his people in London, sending
t heir good wishes.
With Dr. Parker in the pulpit was Dr.
Beecher's former helper, the present acting
pastor. Rev. S. B. Halliday, 1). D. The
church was never more crowded. Every
inch of space was occupied. Had it been
twice as large it would have been tilled.
The people were formed iu line
on the street by policemen and
admitted only as fast as the ushers could
seat them. Long before the bell ceased its
call to worship, the church was filled. In
the pastor’s pew. No. 91, three seats from
the pulpit, sat Mrs. Beecher and Mrs. Par
ker.
COAL MINERS STRIKE.
They Demand an Advance in Wages
of 12 1-2 Cents Per Ton.
Springfield, 111., Oct. 2.—-The miners
in the Springfield district are out on a
strike for an advance of wages to H7W cents
per ton. Their wages have been about 55
cents per ton. Over 1,500 men are now out.
Tia miners at Pittsburgh have also struck.
No reports have been received from Barclay
and Dawson, but the miners say the men at
those towns will follow tho lead of those at
Riverton, who are out. Two organizers have
gone to the southern part of the State to
bring on a strike there if the Columbus scale
is not granted, and they expect to make the
stoppage of work general. The miners
claim that the wages do not afford them
support for themselves and their families,
and that the operators are selling coal to
the railroads and other large consumers at
ruinous prices, ami cutting wages to the
verge of starvation to make up the losses.
RETURN OF THE BEAR.
A Murderer Rnd Seized Sealer3 Given
Into Custody.
San Francisco, Oct.. 2.— The United
States revenue cutter Bear arrived from
Alaska last night. She arrived at Oun
alaska from St. Michaels Aug. 24, and gave
Frank Fuller, the murderer of Archbishop
Seghers, into the custody of the United
States Marshal. On the same date the Bear
seized the British sealing schooner Ada with
1,1100 skins, and the American schooner
Allie T. Alger, with 1,00 skins.
A few days later the American
schooner Handy with 1,700 skins was
seized. All of the vessels were turned over
to the United States Marshal at Ounalaska.
The report from the Arctic a month ago
that the Bear was leaking badly appears to
have had some foundation, as it was neces
sary to have men at the pumps nearly all
the time during the trip down from Oun
alaska. _
Saloons Close on Sunday.
Chattanooga. Oct. 2. —Asa result of the
prohibition agitation and the close vote at
the recent, election the saloons of this city
have taken a voluntary pledge to refrain
from doing business on Sunday, and have
invited the authorities to aid them in carry
ing out the provisions of the law. Not a
aloon was open in the city to-clav.
She JUofiiinij ffeug>.
CLIMATE AND CROPS.
The Agricultural Bulletin of the Sig
nal Office
Washington, Oct. A—Following is the
weather crop bulletin issued by the signal
office:
During the week ending Oct. 1 the weather
has been cooler titan usual in all theagricul
tural districts east of the Rocky Mountains,
the average daily temperature ranging from
3' to 6" below normal in the central valleys
except from Virginia to Florida, where the
temperature was but slightly below the
normal. The temperature for the season
from Jan 1 to Oct. 1 was slightly below the
normal on the Atlantic const and from New
England westward to the Missouri valley,
and it was slightly warmer than usual in
the Ohio and Central Mississippi valleys, and
generally throughout the Southern States,
the average dally excess or deficiency, gen
erally amounting to less than 3°.
the rainfall.
The rainfall for the week has been in ex
cess throughout the greater portions of the
cotton and tobacco regions, and over the
whole region from Ohio westward to Mis
souri and lowa. In the regions that have
suffered most from drought, covering the
greater portion of Illinois, Southern In
diana. Eastern lowa and the greater por
tion of Missouri, the rainfall for the week
has been largely in excess. Less than the
usual amount of rain fell along
the South Atlantic coast, in
Northern New England Western
New York, Nebraska and the northwestern
portions of lowa. A large deficiency in
rainfal 1 for the season continues in the cen
tral valleys, but this deficiency has been re
duced during the week in the wheat and
corn regions of the Northern States. Over
the greater portion of the cotton region the
deficiency has exceeded ten inches. In the
tobacco regions of Virginia, Kentucky and
Tennessee the deficiency in the rainfall for
the season generally amounts to less than
five inches, except in the extreme
western portion of Tennessee and
Kentucky, where the deficiency in rain for
the season exceeds 10 inches. The only
States reporting an excess of rainfall for
the season are Pennsylvania, Maine, South
ern New York, the Western portion of
Kansas and Nebraska, Northern Texas and
Colorado.
COTTON PICKING.
During the week the weather has been
favorable for harvesting cotton in the States
west of the Mississippi and in the extreme
eastern portion of the cotton region, while
cool weather and heavy rains have affected
this ami other growing crops unfavorably
in Mississippi.
Freshets occurred in the northern portion
of the tobacco region of the Ohio valley and
along the Atlantic coast as far south as Vir
ginia, which probably resulted in some
injury to the crops. These freshets were
announced and warnings were issued by this
office, giving timely notice of their ceour
rence.
The rains which have occurred during the
week in the winter wheat regions will prove
of special value, as the sowing of wheat was
delayed in that section, owing to the contin
uance of the drought.
This bulletin is discontinued, with this
issue, until the beginning of the next crop
year.
BOND PURCHASES.
The Old Adage of Money Makes Money
Practically Illustrated.
Washington, Oct. 3.—The statement
prepared at the Treasury Department in re
gard to the purchase of bonds under the cir
cular of August, inviting proposals for the
sale of four and a half per cent, bonds, and
under the circular of Sept. *33 offering to
buy four anil four and a half per cent,
bonds at a fixed price, shows that the total
amount of bonds purchased under the
first named circular was $11,585,300, on
which a premium, including accrued inter
est, of $994,978 was pa id. Had the bonds
been allowed to run to the date of maturity,
interest to the amount of $3,153,(530 would
have accrued thereon. The redemption re
sulted in a saving to the government of
$1,157,053.
The total amount of bonds purchased un
der the September circular up to the i-lo.se
of business yesterday, was $9,850,950, of
which $4,070,400 were 4's per cents., and
$5,180,550 4 pel’ cents. The premiums paid
on those bonds, including accrued interest,
was $1,088,951, which is $3,300,901 less than
would have been paid out as interest
had they been allowed to ma
ture. The interest to accrue to
the maturity of the loan on the bonds pur
chased is stated at $4,989,913, of which
$840,073 is credited to four and a halfs, and
$4,149,340 to the fours. The statement is
summarized as follows: Total amount of
bonds purchased (face value) $31,433,300;
total amount of premium paid thereon,
$2,083,939: total amount of savings to ma
turity of loans $4,458,013.
PULPIT THUNDER.
Rev. John P. Newman Thinks the An
archists Have Lived Too Long.
Washington, Oct. 2. —An unusual scene
occured as the Metropolitan Methodist Epis
copal church to-night when Rev.
John P. Newman, in a sermon
on “Infidelity,” referred, in se
vere terms, to the Anarchists. “Could any
American citizen,” he said, “ten years ago
have imagined the circulation of a petition
to pardon those whose hands are red with
the blood of the defenders of the pub
lic peace and safty. What is
back of this Anarchy, this dare
devil movement on the part of those villains
who ought to have been hung long ago?”
At this point many of the audience rose to
their feet, dapped their hands and with a
loud demonstration announced their ap
proval of the minister’s words.
HORSEWHIPPED AT A DEPOT.
A Negro Editor of Chattanooga As
saulted by a Mail Carrier.
Atlanta, <4a., Oct. 2. —R. H. Carter
horsewhipped Henry Wilson, editor of a
newspaper publised in Chattanooga, in the
dejxit to-day. A short time ago Wilson pub
lished an article in his paper charging
Carter, who is a mail carrier of the Atlanta
post office, with having criminal relation*
with Mary Hunt of the Hunt-Gnrdner
scandal. Carter wrote Wilson asking for a
retraction which letter Wilson paid no al
teiition to. To day while Wilson was in the
depot enroute to Augusta for the purpose
of getting married Carter assaulted
him with a horse-whip, injuring him badly.
Wilson received several gashes in his face
and had his heaver newly cut in two by a
blow from the whip. Both parties were
wrested, but gave bond. Wilson left later
in the day for Augusta, where he will meet
his intended bride. The participants in the
difficulty are colored and stand high where
they are known.
Bell Willing to Race Again.
New York, Oct. 2.—Mr. Bell, represen
tative owner of the Thistle, to-day stated
that he would he glad to enter the Thistle in
anv regatta in which the Volunteer was
entered, as he thought it would be a sat is
faction to both Gen. F'aine and himself to
see the two boats pitted against each other
once more.
SAVANNAH, GA., MONDAY, OC TOBER 1887.
THE PRINCE OF HEAVEN.
HOW HE LEFT HIS BRIGHT REALM
TO SAVE A FALLEN WORLD.
Rev. Dr. Talmage Thinks There Are
Many Inhabited Worlds Among the
Stars A Vivid Picture of His Idea
of Heaven Christ’s Great Sacrifice
in Descending to Earth.
Brooklyn, Oct. 3. —The capacity for a
still larger audience has been made at the
Brooklyn Tabernacle An adjoined lecture
r<H>m has been built so that during the week
it is used by itself, hut on the Sabbath it is
thrown into the main auditorium and filled
by those sitting or standing. Notwithstand
ing the enlargement the crowds that go
away not able to get inside the building are
greater this fall than ever before. To-day
the pastor explained appropriate passages
of Scripture. Prof. Browne rendered upon
the organ the First Sonata in D Minor, Rit
ter. The text of the sermon was from 11.
Corinthians, viiL, 9: “Ye know the
grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though
He was rich, yet for your sakes He became
poor.” Dr. Talmage said:
That all the worlds which on a cold win
tor’s night make the heavens one great glit
ter are inhabitantless, is an absurdity.
Philosophers tell us that many of these
worlds are too hot, or too cold, or too rare
fied of atmosphere for residence. But, if
not fit for human abode, they may lie fit for
beings different from and superior to our
selves. We are told that the world of
Jupiter is changing until it is almost fit for
creatures like tne human race, and that
Mars would do for the human family with a
little change in the structure of the respira
tory organs. But that there is a great
world swung somewhere, vast beyond im
agination, and that it is the headquarters of
the universe, and the metropolis of immen
sity, and has a population in numbers vast
beyond all statistics, and appointments of
splendor beyond the capacity of canvas,
or poem, or angel to describe, is as certain
as the Bible is authentic. Perhaps some of
the astronomers, with their big telescopes,
have already caught a glimpse of it, not
knowing what it is. We spell it with six
letters ami pronounce it Heaven.
That is where Prince Jesus lived nineteen
centuries ago. He was the King’s son. It
was the old homestead of eternity, and all
its castles were as old as God. Not a frost
hail ever chilled the air. Not a tear had
ever rolled down the cheek of one of its in
habitants. There had never been in it a
headache, or a sideache, or a heartache.
There had not lieen a funeral in the memory
of the oldest inhabitant. There had never
in all the land been woven a black veil, for
there had never been anything to mourn
over. The passage of millions of years had
not wrinkled or crippled or bedimmed any
of its citizens. All the people there were in
a state of eternal adolescence. What floral
and pomonic richness! Gardens of tier
petual bloom and orchards in unending
fruitage. Hail some spirit from another
world entered and asked, what is sin ' what
is bereavement I what is sorrow* what is
death' the brightest of the intelli
gences would have failed to give
definition, though to study the ques
tion there were silence in Heaven for half
an hour. The Prince of whom I speak had
honors, emoluments, acclamations, such as
no other prince, celestial or terrestrial,
ever enjoyed. As He passed the street the
inhabitants took off from their brows gar
lands of white lilies and threw them in the
way. He never entered any of the temples
without all the worshipers rising up and
bowing in obeisance. In all the processions
of the high days He was the one who evoked
the loudest welcome. Sometimes on foot,
walking in loving talk with the humblest of
the land, but at other times He took chariot
and among the twenty thousand that David
spoke of His was the swiftest and most
flaming: or, as when John described
Him, He took white palfrey with what
prance of foot, and arch of neck, and roll of
mane, and gleam of eye is only dimly sug
gested in the Apocalypse. He was not like
other princes, w aiting for the Father to die
to take the throne. When a few years ago
an artist in Germany made a picture for the
Royal Gallery representing Emperor Wil
liam on the throne, and the Crown Prince
as having one foot on the step of the throne,
Empero. William ordered the picture
changed, and said: “Let the Prince keep
his foot off the throne till I leave it. ”
Already enthroned was the heavenly
Prince side by side with the Father, What
a circle of dominion! What myrmidons of
admirers! What unending round of glo
ries! All the towers chimed the Pritire's
praises. Of all the inhabitants, from th<w
centre of the city, on over the hills and clear
down to the beach against which the ocean
of immensity rolls its billows, the Prince
was the acknowledged favorite. No won
der my text says that “He was rich.” Set
all the diamonds of the earth in one sceptre,
build all the palaces of the earth in one Al
hambra, gather all the pearls of the sea in
one diadem, put all the values of the earth
in one coin, the aggregate w ould not ex
press his affluence. Yes. Paul was right.
Solomon had in gold six hundred and eignty
million pounds, and in silver one billion,
twenty-nine million three hundred and
seventy-seven pounds sterling. But a greater
than Solomon is here. Not the millionaire,
but the quadrillionaire of heaven. To de
scribe his celestial surroundings the Bible
uses all colors, gathering them in rainbow
over the throne and setting them as agate
in the temple window, and hoisting twelve
of them into a wall from striped jasper at
the base to transparent amethyst in the
capstone, while between are green of
emerald, and snow of pearl, and blue of
sapphire, and yellow of topaz, gray of
chrysoprasus, and flame of jacinth. All
the loveliness of landscape in foliage, and
river, and rill, and all enchantment aqua
marine, the sea of glass mingled with tire
as when the sun sinks in the Mediterranean.
All the thrill of music, instrumental and
vocal, harps, tmm|>ets, doxologies. There
stood the Prince, surrounded by those who
had under their wings the velocity of mil
lions of miles in a second, ricii in love, rich
in adoration, rich in power, rich in worship,
rich in holiness, rich as God.
But one day there was a big disaster In a
department of God’s universe. A race
fallen! A world in ruins! Our planet the
scene of catastrophe! A globe swinging
out into darkness, with mountains, and seas,
and islands, an awful centrifugal of sin
seeming to overpower the beautiful cen
tripetal of righteousness, and from it a groan
reached heaven. Such a sound had never
been heard there. Plenty of sweet sounds,
but never an outcry of distress, or an echo
of agony. At that onegroan the Princerose
from ail the blissful Oircumjacence, and
started for the outer gate, and descended
into the night of this world. Out of what a
bright harbor into what a rough
sea! “Stay with us,” cried angel
after angel, and potentate .after poten
tate. “No,” said the Prince; "I cannot
Btnv; I must be off for that wreck of a
world. I must stop that groan. I must
hush that distress. I must fathom that way.
I must redeem those nations. Farewell,
thrones and temples, companions cherubic,
seraphic, archangelic! Excuse this absence,
for 1 will come I wok again, carrying on my
shoulder a ransomed world. Till this
done 1 choose earthly scoff to heavenly ac
clamation. hikl a cattle-Den to a Vines
palace, frigid zone of earth to atmosphere
of celestial radiance. 1 have no time to* lose,
for hark ye to the groan that grows might
ier while I wait. Farewell! Farewell!”
“Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus
Christ, that, though he was rich, .yet for
your sakes He became poor.”
Was there ever a contrast so overpower
ing as that between the noonday of Christ's
celestial departure and the midnight of his
earthly arrival? Sure enough, the angels
were out that night in the sky. and especial
meteor* acted as escort, but all that was from
other worlds, and not from this world. The
earth made no demonstration of welcome.
If one of the great princes of this world
steps out at a depot cheers resound, and the
hands play, and the flags wave. But for
the arrival of this missionary Prince of the
skies not a torch flared, not a trumpet blew,
not a plume fluttered. All the music and
the pomp were overhead. Our world opened
for Him nothing better than a barn door.
The Rajah of Cashmere sent to Victoria a
bedstead of carved gold and a canopy that
cost seven hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars, hut the world had for the Prince
of heaven anil earth only a litter
of straw. The crown jewels in
the Tower of London amount to
fifteen million dollars, but this member of
eternal royalty had nowhere to lay His
head. To know how poor He was, ask the
camel drivers, ask the shepherds, ask Mary,
ask the three wise men of the East who
afterward came there, young Casper and
middle-aged Balhasar and old Melchoir. To
know how poor He was examine all the
records of real estate in all that Oriental
country, and see what vineyard, or what
house, or what field he owned. Not one.
Of what mortgage was He the mortgagee (
Of what tenement was He the landlord ? Of
what lease was He the lessee* Who ever
paid Him rent* Not owning the boat on
which He sailed, or the beast on which He
rode, or the pillow on which He slept. He
had so little estate that in ordered pay His
tax He had to perform a miracle, putting
the amount of the assessment in a fish’s
mouth and having it hauled ashore. And
after His death the world rushed iu to take
an inventory of His goods, and the entire
aggregate was the garments He had worn,
sleeping in them by night and traveling in
them by day, bearing on them the dust of
the highway and the saturation of the sea,
Paul in my text did not go far from Pitting
the mark, did he, when he said of the mis
sionary Prince: “For your sakes He became
poor ?”
The world could have treated him better
if it had chosen. It bad all the means for
making his earthly condition comfortable.
Only a few years before when Pompey, the
General, arrived at Brindisi he was greeted
with arches and • costly column which cele
brated the twelve million people whom he
bad killed or conquered, and he was allowed
to wear his triumphal robe in the Senate.
The world had applause for imperial butch
ers, but buffeting for the Prince of Peace.
Plenty of golden chalices for the favored to
drink out of, but our Prince must put His
lips to the bucket of the well by the road
side after He had begged for a drink. Poor*
Born in another man’s barn and eating at
another man’s table, and cruising the lake
in another man's fishing smack, anil buried
in another man’s mausoleum. Four inspired
authors wrote of His biography, and innum
erable lives of Christ have lieen
published, but He composed His auto
biography in most compress way.
He said: “l have trodden the wine-press
alone.'’ Poor in the estimation of nearly
all the prosperous classes. They called Him
Sabbath-breaker, wine-bibber, traitor,
blasphemer, and ransacked the dictionary
of opprobrium from lid to lid to express
their detestation. I can think now of only
two well-to-do-men who espoused His cause,
Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea. His
friends for the most part were people who,
in that climate, where ophthalmy or inflam
mation of the eyeball sweeps ever and anon
as a scourge, had become blind, sick people
who were anxious to get well, and troubled
people in whose family there was someone
dead or dying. If Ho had a purse at all it
was empty, or we would have heard what
w as done with the contents at the post mor
tem. Poor? The pigeon in the uove-cote,
the rabbit in its burrow, the silk worm in
its cocoon, the bee in its hive is better pro
vided for, better off, better sheltered. Aye,
the brute creation has a home on earth,
which Christ has not.
If on windy days the raven
Gambol ilk** a dancing skiff,
Not the less he loves his haven
On the bosom of the cliff,
if almost with eagle pinion
O'er the Alps the chamois roam,
Yet he has some small dominion
Which no doubt he calls his home.
But the Crown Prince of all heavenly do
minion had less than the raven, less than the
chamois, for he was homeless. Aye, in the
history of the universe there is no other in
stance of such coming down. . IVho can
count the miles from the top of the throne
to the bottom of the cross? Cleopatra, giv
ing a banquet to Antony, took a pearl worth
a hundred thousand dollars, and dissolved it
in vinegar nnd swallowed it. But when our
Prince, according to the evangelist, in His
last hours took the vinegar, in it had been
dissolved all the pearls of His heavenly roy
alty. Down until there was no other depth for
Him to touch, troubled until there waste
other harassment to suffer, poor until there
was no other pauperism to torture. Billions
of dollars spent in wars to destroy men, who
will furnish the statistics of the value of that
precious blond that was shed to save us*
“Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus
Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for
your sakes Ho became poor.”
Only those who study this text in two
places can fully reach its power, the holy
land of Asia Minor nnd the holy land of
heaven. How 1 should like some day to
taken drink out of Jacob’s well, and take a
sail on Galilee, anil read the Sermon on the
Mount while standing on Olivet, and sec the
wilderness where Christ was tempted, and
be sonic afternoon on Calvary at about 3
o'clock, the hour at which closed the cruci
fixion, and sit under the sycamores and by
the side of brooks, and think and pray at xmt
the poverty of Him who came our souls to
save. But you and I will probably be denied
that, and so here, in another continent and
in another hemisphere, nnd in scenes as
different as possible, we recount as well we
may how poor our heavenly Prince became.
And in the other holy land above wo may
all study the riches that He left
behind when He stai-ted for earthly
expedition. Come, let us bui gain
to meet each other at the door
of the Father’s mansion, ci* on the bank of
the river just where it rolls from under the
throne, or at the outside gate. Jesus got
the contrast by exchanging that world for
this; we will'get tt by exchanging this
world for that. There and then you will
understand more of the wondeiN of ths
grace of our Lord Jesus Christ who, “though
lie was rich, yet for your sakes became
poor.”
Yes, grace, free grace, sovereign grace,
omnipotent grace. Among the thousands
of words in the language there is no more
queenly word. It means fi-ce and unmer
ited kindness. My text has no monopoly of
the word. One hundred nnd twenty-nine
times does the Bible eulogize grace. It is a
door swung wide open to let into the pardon
of God all the millions who choose to enter it.
John Newton sang of it when he wrote:
“Amazing grace, how sweet, the sound
Thai saved a wretch like me!"
Philip Doddridge put it Into all hymnolo
tv when he wrote:
•'Grace, 'f is a charming sound,
Harmonious to the car:
Heaven with the echo shall resound.
And all Hie world shall hear.'’
One of John Runyan's great books is en
titled “Alwnmding Grace." “It is all of
grace that I am saved” has been on the lips
of hundreds of dying Christians. The boy
Sammy was right when, being examined
for admission into church membership, he
was asked: “Whose work ivos your salva
tion .'"and he answered: “Part mine and
part God's.” Then the examiner asked:
"What, part did you do, Sammy?" and the
answer was: “I opposed God all 1 could,
and he did the rest!” O the height of it,
the depth of it, the length of it. the breadth
of it, the grace of God! Mr. Fletcher hav
ing written a pamphlet that pleased the
king, the king offered to compensate
him, and Fletcher answered; “There
is only thing 1 want and that
is more grace.” Yes, my blood-bought
hearers, grace to live by and graco to die
by. Grace that saved the publican, that
saved Lydia, that saved the dying thief,
that saved the jailer, that saved mo. But
the riches of that grace will not he fully un
derstood until heaven breaks in upon the
soul. An old Scotchman, who had been a
soldier in one of the European wars, was
sick and dying in one of our American hos
pitals His one desire was to see Scotland
and his old home, and once again walk the
heather of tho Highlands, and hear the hag
pipes of the Scotch regiments. The night
that the old Scotch soldier died, a young
man, somewhat reckless but kind hearted,
got a company of musicans to come and
play under the old soldier’s window, and
among the instruments there was a bag
pipe. The instant that the musi
cians began the dying old man in delirium
said: “What’s that, what’s that? Why its
the regiments coming home. That’s the
tune, yes, that’s the tune. Thank God, I
have got home once more!” “Bonny Scot
land and Bonny Doon,” were the last words
he uttered as he passed up to the Highlands
of the better country. And there are here
to-day hundreds homesick for Heaven, some
because you have so many bereavements,
some because you have so many tempta
tions, some because you have so many ail
ments, homesick, very homesick, for the
fatherland of Heaven, and the music that
you want to hear now is the song of free
grace, and the music you want to hear
when you die is free grace, and forever be
fore the throne of God you will sing of the
“grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, who,
though he was rich, for your sakes became
poor!”
Yes, yes; for your sakes! It was not on
pleasure excursion that He came, for it
was all pain. It was not on astronomical
exploration, for He know this world as well
before He alighted as afterward. It was
not because He was compelled to come, for
He volunteered. It was not because it was
easy, for He knew that it would be thorn,
and spike, and hunger, and thirst, and vo
ciferation of angry mobs. For your sakes!
Wipe away your tears To forgive your
wrongdoing, to companionship your loneli
ness, to soothe your sorrows, to sit with you
by the new-made grave, to hind up your
wounds in the u£lv battle with the world
and bring yon homo at last, kindling up the
mists that fall on your dying vision with
the sunlight, of a glorious morn. For your
srlies! No; 1 will change that. Paul will
not care, and Christ will not cure if I change
it. for I must get into the blessedness of the
text myself, and so Isay: “For our sakes!”
For we all have our teniptations, and be
reavements,and conflicts. For our sakes! We
who deserve for our sins to he expatriated
into a world as much poorer than this earth
was poorer than heaven. For our sakes!
Bui what a fruitful coining down to take us
gloriously up. When Artaxerxes was hunt
ing, Tirebazus who was attending him
showed the king a rent in his garment.
The king said: “How shall I mend it?”
"By giving it to me,” said Tirebazus. Then
the king gave him the robe, butcommanded
him never to wear it, as it would lie inap
propriate. See the startling and comfort
ing fact, while our Prince throws off the
habit he not only allows us to wear it, but
commends us to, wear it,, anil it will become
uk well, and for the poverties of our spirit
ual state we may put on the splendors of
heavenly regalement. For our sakes! O,
the personality of this religion! Not
an abstraction, not an arch under
which we walk to behold elaborate
masonry, not an ice-castle like
that which Empress Elizabeth, of Russia,
over a hundred years ago ordered con
structed, winter with its trowel of crystal
cementing the huge blocks that had been
quarried from tin’ frozen rivers j>f the
north, but a father’s house with a wide
hearth, crackling a hearty welcome. A re
ligion of warmth and inspiration, ami light,
and cheer, something we can take into our
heart s, and homes, and business, recreations,
and joys ami sorrows. Not an unmanage
able gilt like the galley presented to Ptole
my. which required four thousand men to
row, and its draught or water was so great,
that it could not come near the shore, but
something you can run up any stream of
annoyance,"however shallow. Enrichment
now, enrichment forever!
Right about face, for you are going in the
wrong direction. While you are in a fa
vorable mood for it, enter into life. Here
and just now decide everything that makes
for peace and heaven. Agassiz says that he
has stood at one place ih the Alps where he
could throw a chip into the waters in one
direction, and it would roll on into the Ger
man ocean, or he could throw a chip into
the water in another direction, and it would
reach the Black Sea by the Danube, or lm
could throw a chip in another direction and
it would enter the Mediterranean by
the Rhone. How far apart tho Medi
terranean, and the Blac-k Sea,
and the German Ocean I Standing to
day on this Alps of Gosiiel privilege,
you can project your soul into right cur
r nts, and it will roll on into the ocean of
1 jlt, or project it in the wrong direction,
and’it will roll into the sea of death. But
how far apurt the two distances! May God
help us to appreciate more and more the mo
mentous meaning of our text! The seven
wise men of Greece were chiefly known
each for one aiiothegm; Solon for the say
ing: “ Know thyselfPerimider lor the say
ing: “Nothing is impossible to industry;"
Chilo for the saying: "Consider the end;”
Thales for the saying: "Suretyship is the
precursor <>f ruin.” And Paul, distinguished
for a thousand utterances, might, well afford
to tie memorable for the saying: "You know
the grace of our 1 /Oj’ii Jesus Christ, that,,
Hi-.ugh he was rich, yet for your sakes be
came poor, that ye through His poverty
might be rich.”
Cardinal Gibbons at St. Paul.
St. Paul, Oct. 3.— Hundreds were una
ble to gain admission to the cathedral this
morning when Cardinal Gibbons preached
upon "Charity.” The Cardinal left for
Portland, Ore.’ this aftrrnoon, accompanied
•bv Bishop Brandet, of Montana, Bishop
Marty, of Dakota, and Dr. Chapelis, of
Washington^
Labor’s Political Successes.
Cincinnati, Oct. 3.—The Workingmen’s
party, at the election yesterday, elected the
Treasurer in Covington and most of their
ticket in Newiiort. In Covington the Demo
crats elected their nominees with two ex
ceptions.
An Earthquake at Smyrna.
Smyrna, Oct. 2.—Another earthquake
was felt here last evening. No damage was
done.
ALICE FREEMAN.
Her Resignation of the Presidency of
Wellesley Female College.
New York, Oct. I.— Mias Alice Freeman,
whose resignation from the Presidency of
Wellesley is giving the trustee - ' of that in
stitution so much disturbance, is a woman
of 22, more than ordinarily endowed with
good looks and with an unfailing charm of
manner. She is somewhat above medium
height, with a very graceful figure. She
Ims an abundance of dark brown hair, a
forehead broad rather than high, a clear
complexion with a glow of red under the
healthy skin; regular features, ami large,
brown, steady eyes that are, perhaps, the
secret of her charm. She dresses quietly
always, but with a great deal of taste, her
dresses seeming, though without apparent
effort, aforiginaiity, to belong to her and
not to be imagined on anyone else. Miss
Freeman is a woman in earnest or she
wouldn't suit New England, lmt she is not
in earnest in exactly the over eager New
England way. She has a Western bree/.iness
and poise about her that has carried her
easily through more work than is comforta
ble for the nervous Boston type. ,
Miss Freeman entered Michigan Uni
versity when she was a girl of 17. The
strong institution at Ann Arbor has always
been liberal to women, but it was less so
then than now. She had something like a
dozen or fifteen classmates of tile sox
feminine, who had some difficulty in mak
ing themselves feel quit'* at home in the
class room with more than ItSO men. The
handful of girls felt themselves on trial as
it were. Faculty and students alike were
divided upon the question of their welcome.
Nobody eared to go the length of insisting
on the exclusion or women, but a good por
tion of the young men would have liked the
college bettor with no gowns about and felt
some encouragement in their position from
the attitude of the Eastern men among the
professors. Olney, the mathematician;
Winchell, the geologist; the President, and
some others were sturdily on the side of the
girls, however, who—-conscious of tbe
sentiment for and against them—were put
on their mettle to prove their right to the
place their title to which was in such dis
pute. They worked hard ono and all, keep
ing each other up to concert pitch and
looking out for one another’s health, w ith a
solicitude born of the importance they
attached to it. There was an esprit de corps
among them that kept their ranks solid,
their courage high, t hat insisted on the liest
work each was capable of, but made oxer
eiseand plenty of sleep to keep them in
working trim a prime duty. ()f course the
girls took honors. Miss Freeman ranking
high in mathematics especially Of course
they made friends and helped forward
co-education in Michigan University where
the presence of women is now so much a
matter of course that when the school
celebrated its fiftieth anniversary this
summer all the doctors of the medical
alumni cheered when Dr. Lucy M. Hall,
recently resident physician at V assar, took
her seat as presiding officer of their semi
centennial gathering.
Miss Freeman’s father, who helped his
daughter through school cordially, was not
a wealthy man,and during the latter part of
her course she taught preparatory classes in
Greek and Latin to pay her bills. After
graduation she continued to teach, first in a
high school, afterward in the preparatory
school of the college She was 124 when she
went to Wellesley a: professor of history.
She was a close student and already widely
read in political science. She brought life
and energy to the young school, and to
those who knew her and it, it was no sur
prise when, two years later, now six years
ago, she was ask ixl to be its President. She
was a young woman for such a place, 'lb
only, but the difference her regime effected
in Wellesley was perceptible atone. Beef
steak for breakfast was the Hi st of her rules,
and beefsteak was only one of the innova
tions that made what had been a hotbed of
invalids one of the healthiest schools in the
country. She did away with the constant
gong ringing that, made the girl students
nervous, she simplified the housework re
quired of them, and was able to exact more
study and a higher grade of scholarship,
while yet making rosy cheeks and bright
eyes almost universal where break-downs
had been common before. It is not too
much to say that the spirit of the school
became entirely change''. There used to be
a tale that Mr. Durant lectuied a student
for buying a nosegay for a teacher instead
of sending the pennies it cost to the foreign
missions. Under Miss Freeman the atmos
phere became healthily clear, though the
girls were never wanting in good works,
organizing entertainments for the inmates
of the Woman's Reformatory at Hherburn,
when such diversions were permitted on
holidays.
Alice Freeman was an ambitious student.
.She is a strong woman, witli a well
balanced head, a rare administrative faculty
and a singular womanly ebartn. As Prof.
Palmer’s wife, she will not hide her light
under a bushel, but it will shine as brightly
as before.
SOCIALISTS ON TOP.
Chicago Sends a Fire-eating Delegation
to Minneapolis.
Chicago, Oct. 2.— “ We are in the hands
of the Socialists,” said a prominent Knight
of Labor delegate to the Trade Assembly to
day. The Morgan resolution which was
carried in the assembly to-tlay, was a fair
test of the Conservative and Socialistic
strength. The complexion of the Chicago
delegation to the Minneapolis convention is
decidedly Socialistic. District 24 sends four
delegates, George Schilling, Charles Stib,
Robert Nelson and John Muhoney. The
first three are ultra-Socialists, and Reib
lias in his possession a set of resolu
tions condoning the crime of the
Anarchists mid demanding commutation of
sentence. These resolutions will be sprung
upon the convention at the eleventh hour.
Master Workman Quinn, of New York As
sembly No. 41*, has been enlisted in support
of th> Seib-Schilling-'Nelson resolution.
The Morgnn resolution referred to was a
resolution introduced by Thomas Morgan
in the Trades Assembly to-day asking that
20,000 copies of the extract from last year’s
almanac be printed. The extract conveys
the idea that all wealth is produced by
latior.
Hillsborough’s Official Vote.
Tampa, Fla., Oct. 2.— Hillsborough voted
Sept. MO on the prohibition question. The
county is wet by a very small majority.
Right. precincts give an aggregate wet ma
jority of M 44, and twelve precincts gave an
aggregate dry majority of 312. No election
in the county was over more bitterly con
tested by botnparties. Ladies worked hard
at the polls. Their influence was certainly
felt, and hut for the fact that the colored
and Cuban vote of Tampa went to the Anti-
Prohibitionists, success would have crowned
their efforts.
Fell From a Lofty Window.
New Yokk, Oct. 2.—Mis. W. W. Wool
soy, wife of a wealthy planter of Aiken, 8.
C., fell from a third-story window of Dr.
Spier’s Medical Institute, in Brooklyn, this
morning, and died a few hours later.
Death of a Legislator.
West Point, C4 a., Oct. 2.— -Hon. M. H.
Hart, Representative of Troup county,
died last night at his home five miles north
of West Point
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STANLEY IS STILL SAFE.
THE NATIVES HAVE NOT OPPOSED
THE EXPEDITION.
Only the Difficulties Natural to the
Exploration of a New Country Im
peding Hia Progress—Tippoo Tib'a
Revlctuaiing Expedition Not Yeß
Started at Last Accounts.
Ht. Paul tie Loan no, Oct. 2.—Accord
ing to the last news received at Boma from
the Upper Congo Stanley was pushing for
ward and the only difficulties he met with
were the natural olwtaclesof the country.
getting on high land.
Aliout July 125 the expedition
had ascended the Aruwhimi to
the elevated country lielonging to
the Mabodi District. The river becoming
too narrow, they left the rafts, and the men
for several days had to carry a double
burden of provisions. The steel whale boat
was carried past the narrows and agaia
launched.
TO TAKE A REST.
Stanley calculated that upon arriving at
the summit of the table lands giving shape
to the basin of the Aruwhimi, the expedi
tion would halt two days for rest and would
establish a camp there, to be garrisoned
by twenty men, with a European
officer. ’The districts traversed were
tranquil and little difficulty was experi
enced in obtaining provisions from the •
natives. The progress of the expedition
averaged twenty kilometres daily. Tippoo
Tib, in his last message, wrote that, he was
still at his post at Stanley Falls awaiting
reinforcements.
ERIENDLV CHIEFS.
He had gained the good-will of several
neighlioring chiefs. Owing to the dist orbed
state of tbe country Tippoo Tib could not,
as he had agreed to, organize a revictualing
caravan to dispatch direct to Albert, Nianza,
but he intended to do so as soon as possible.
Disquiet continued between Stanley Falls
and the confluence of the Arawhimi and
the Congo and many villages had been pil
laged. It is believed that the garrison
which Stanley left at Yalhunga has been
forced to interfere to maintain order in the
neighborhood.
BISMARCK AND THE POPE.
An Effort to bo Made to Strengthen the -
Peace of Europe.
Paris, Oct. 2.— The Obsermteur says it
believi* that Prince Bismarck has submitted
to the Vatican and Quirinal proposals re
garding the Roman question, which will
shortly ho carried into effect, and that it is
in consequence of these proposals that
Hig Crisni has gone to Freidrichsruhe.
The interview, it says, will hoof great inter
state importance.
NOT TO PREPARE KOR WAR.
Rome, Oct. 2. — The Tribune says that
Prince Bismarck’s invitation to Sig. Crisp!
for a conference at, Freidrichsruhe was
couched in terms that were friendly to the
former Minister and flattering to Italy.
Sig. Crispi had a conference with King
Humbert and then accented the invitation.
IH i journey, th< Tribune says, affords
much satisfaction to Italian statesmen. The
Italic says the interview is important,
hut not unexpected, as Italy has
lately entered into an alliance with Austria
and Germany on an equal footing with tbe
two empires, and in view of Count Kal
nokv'h meeting with Prim e Bismarck it is
only natural that Sig. Crispi should confer
with the Chancellor in turn. The Italic
believes that the interview is intended to
strengthen the peace of Europe and not to
prepare for war.
The fie forma denies that the obiect of
Sig. Crispi’* viUt to Prince Bismarck is to
conciliate the Vatican.
TORIES DENOUNCED.
10,000 People at Tower Hill Denounc®
the Coercion of Ireland.
London, Oct. 2.—A mass meeting which
was attended by 10,000 persons was held to
day at, Tower Hill. The police seized the
placards announcing (he meeting, and de
manded the names of the promoters of the
demonstration. Speeches were made from
six platforms. The shakers condemned the
government’s Irish poliey and the conduct
of the police at Mitchellstown. Appropri
ate resolutions were put and carried, A
strong force of police were present, but their
services were not needed, as the proceedings
were orderly throughout
Turkey’s Proposal to Russia.
Constantinople, Oc|. 2.— The Porte, in
its note to Russia, suggested that Turkey
and Russia each appoint a commissioner of
princely rank to govern Bulgaria for three
months and to convoke anew Sobranje for
the election of a Prince. It is reported t’iat
the Russian government will not reply to
the note until the Czar returns toSt. Peters
burg, but that Russia will not disfavor the
proposal, because, while waiting, events
may change the situation.
A Curate Murders a Vicar.
London, Oct. 2.— At midnight last night
Rev. Mr. Cooper, curate or CretinghaiM,
Suffolk, murdered Vicar Farley. He en
tered the Vicar’s bedroom and cut his
throat with a razor. He then fled, hut sub
sequently returned and was arrested. Mr.
Cooper has been quite unpopular in Creting
ham, and this fact, it is believed, unsettled
his mind.
Morocco’s Sultan Dead.
Madrid, Oct. 2.—Advices from Tangier
say that, the Sultan of Morocco is (lead.
The Ibf ria announces that Spain will send
troops to the Spanish jjossessions in Morocco
to enforce the status quo in the event of
any of the powers intervening.
A Diplomat’s Life Attempted.
Athens, Oct,. 2. —An attempt, was made
to-day to murder the Turkish Minister.
Federal Point’s Wife Murderer.
FalatKA. Fla., Oct. 2.—lsaac Brown,
the Federal Point, wife murderer, was sent
this morning to the Chattahoochee Insane
Asylum on order of Judge Finley. Drs.
Stransz and Cowgill examined Brown
Wednesday, and pronounced him insane.
Brown talks rationally on all subjects, ex
cept about his wife. He says her murder
was righteous, rle made some resistance
to accompanying the asylum attendant,
saying he was as sane as the Sheriff.
Criminal Carelessness.
West Point, Ga., Oct. 2. -To-day an in
quest was held over the remains of “Doc”
Heard (colored) who died last night, from the
effects a pistol shot tired Friday afternoon
by Perry Davidson (white). The shooting
was unintentional and the verdict was
criminal carelessness. It is reported that
Davidson lias left the county.
Shenandoah Collieries.
Shenandoah, Pa., Oct. I.—All the col
lieries in this run, made their first pay to
day under the two weeks pay Uw, At
each of the Reading collieries S per cent,
was collected for the benefit of the striking
miners of the Lehigh region*.