About The sunny South. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1875-1907 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 12, 1887)
6 THE SUNNY SOUTH, ATLANTA, GA* SATURDAY MORNING. FEBEUARY 12, 1887, Inter-State Convention of AbHcui- tu lists. An Inter-State Convention in the interest of stock raising, dairying, fruit growing and gen eral agriculture, to be held at Lake Charles, Louisians, on the 22nd, 26rd, and 24th, of Feb ruary, instant, has been called by Governor McEnery. This is an important meeting, atd every State—especially every Southern State, should be ably represented. There are many grievances to which farmers and planters are subjected which should be remedied. One of the weightiest of these is the matter of freight—especially on perishable fruits. Fiuit growers need better facilities, cheaper rates and more rapid transit. Individual complaint amounts to nothing; but the complaint of an Inter-State Convention composed of influential men from each State, whose demand shall be followed up by the direct personal efforts of an energetic Sub, or Executive ( otnmitlee will cause Congress to give heed and exact reme died legislation. Let this convention speak—and speak in no uncertain tone; and then act. 1 he far mers and planters—the producers of llie country c f ail avocations, seem not to know their power. If they realized it, and wtuid exercise it at the ballot box it would not be long before many grievous wrongs would be permanently righted. Profit of Poultry Raising. We are aware that there exists a great diver sity of opinion in regard to the profits of poul try farming. The affirmative testimony how ever is largely preponderating; but its profita bleness depends on the conditions of feed, care ful attention, cleanliness, etc. And w’uat bus iness does succeed with out these necessary conditions? None! Poultry raising ought to be one of the most pleasant and profitable branches of Southern husbandry, and can be made so if the parties engaging in it would be careful to select good stock to begin with, in troduce new biood at proper intervals, and give the business good attention. We have a goodly number of facts, the re sult of practical experiments on which we pro pose to draw in support of our position, with the hope of stimulating our people to give more attention to domestic poultry, for home consumption and for market. Iu passing we will remark that the lowest estimate is, for a yard of one hundred head of hens, with a proper complement of (say ten or twelve' ioos- ters, two dollars, net, per hen a yea.. As lay ers the Langshangs and Leghorns seem to bear the palm—as layers and sitters, the Plymouth Kock. Ho-.' ;o Have Plenty of Roses. eS Of CIlS >'&<*-* eh- manure p«v --ere paure . It o^*-3he times during the season into ill h'■'?, ^kiadr with a sharp stick four or inchef&fom young rose plants set in clay , and the surface stirred with a hoe the fol- ing day, and the result, according to the ral = New-Yorker, was a “wonderlul” show doom, continuing through the summer into ober. I'e would add that liquid manure may he applied to all plants with the most satisfactory- results, and what is better it can be obtained with little trouble from the waste of the back yard. Take a large barrel or hogshead, such as bottles and c rockery are packed in for trans portation, and put it on a staud as good old house wives did ash-hoppers. Put some straw in the bottom, and then till it with the sweep ing of the back yard, the half-rotted chips from the wood-pile, house waste, ashes, &c. When full enough pour on water, and set un der the stand a vessel to catch the drippings. This supplies a line fertilizer, and being in a liquid state, is at once taken up by the roots of the growing plant. Wild Flowers In Cordons. We transfer the following from an exchange to this column to remark that all around us in the woods are many beautiful and delicate flowers, passed unnoticed, but which—trans ferred to a richer soil and cared for—would far surpass many exotics introduced at high cost and preserved with difficulty. We know of no reason why the common vegetable garden should not be beautified and enlivened by beautiful flowering plants. Says our contem porary : There are many real lovers of flowers who have the first requisite for a garden, the land, who let the surroundings of the house fall into neglect merely because they cannot afford to buy plants with which to ornament them. It is possible, in most parts of the country, to make a beautiful garden without the outlay of a dollar for plants. Could the persons referred to visit European gardens, or even see Euro pean catalogues, they would find that the com mon plants around them are elsewhere highly valued. Aside from the trees, there are aiany shrubs that may find a place in the garden, and a host of herbaceous plants from which a proper selection will keep a garden gay the whole growing season. Take our common lilies for example. Aside from the far West, there are three common in the States East of the Mississippi. Two of them arc low, not over three feet high, and common in meadows, while the taller “Superb Lily,’’ in rich, swampy places, is six or eight feet high ard bears a pyramid of ten to thirty or more flowers. If one should make a collec tion of these native lilies, he would be sur prised at the great variety they present among ihcm.selves, not only in the size and number of the flowers, hut especially in their coloring. One could make a collection of these native lil ies and by careful selection find a great variety among them. So with many other native plants, which will amply repay the care that may be given to them, and one can easily stock a garden from the woods and fields. It is late now to take up most wild plants, hut it is well to mark all attractive specimens for future removal. For marking shrubs for removal to the garden it is well to carry in the pocket a piece of cotton cloth and lie a strip to any desirable plant. When the leaves have fallen, the ends of the strip of cloth may be seen at a long distance and indicate the plant. Sacredness of Seeds. A visitor in El Cajon Valley saw lying be fore him two very simple objects. One was a peach-pit, slowly blackening on the surface of the ground. Tue other, not far distant, was the first leaf let of a peach tree, just sprung from a pit which had become buried. Doubtless the ob jects were minute ones—especially minute when compared witli many others in that lo cality ; compared, for example, with the inter minable area of the valley, with the rugged heights of El Cajon mountain, or even with the formidable masonry of the old padres river dam; but few objects could he more sug- ges ive. “The buried seeds represents thrift; the un buried one shiftlessness. More particularly these seeds rem-esent i*a»ly iUnc tor oi thrift and TUriftlessuess whicli have i n most common in California. The little— ’W I has been an object of especial coutempt u Ibis land of big trees and the Yosewiie. To husband the smaller resources of his locility— this has entered into the plans of the laborer in the States, but scarcely in California. More over, the buried seed and the unburied also represent respectively the care and the care lessness of posterity. George Peabody sent lo a public dinner the toast: “Education— the debt of the present generation to the fu ture.” But the same may be said of orchards, trees, vineyards, etc.—they are the debt due from the men that now are lo the men that are to be. The wasted seed stands for the repudiation of that debt; the covered and sproutr ing seed represents its noble discharge. •‘To come down to the practical, however, the season of fruits and seeds is now coming. Wisdom will be carefui not to waste the pre cious germs of vegetation. We are told that, in some country, no man thinks of eating a peach without crushing its pit into the ground with his heel. The custom is worth copying. Our merchants tiud as ready a sale for decayed oranges as for fresh; they are bought for their seeds. This is as it ought to be. In place or out of place, let the seed—whatever it is—be put in the way to become aseedliug a—tree.” Sunflower Seed for Poultry. A writer in the poultry World says that he has tried sunflower seed as food for his poultry with success. At first they refused them, but soon they learned to remove the hull when they eat the kernel with a relish, lie stated, also, that the effect was to add materially to the glossiness of their plumage. The cultiva tion of a clump of suuflower plants, besides supplying food on maturity of the seed, would while growing afford protection to chicks from the sudden hard showers and the hot sun dur ing summer. It has been stated that the fiber of the matured plant is excellent material for paper—we doubt not it is, ani if generally cultivated, and in sufficient quantities, would prove a valuable and profitable addition to the productions of the farm. Wine From the Sour Orange. An enthusiastic correspondent writing not long since from “The Laud of Flowers,” thus rhapsodizes eveu a glass of sour orange wine, bestowed upon him by.a fair Hebe near As- talula: “Directly the hostess says from the diLing- roern: ‘Gentlemen, will you taste some wine I have made from the sour orange?’ (Among my New Year’s resolutions, one reads like this: If anybody says ‘take something?’ be po lite and say ‘thanks.) The iuvilation wassirn- ply irresistible; we entered a dining-room so quiet, so cool and tidy, it looked like a sacri lege to drink there. It was a part of my duty to scrape off the wax and draw the cork. I know I did it bunglingly, not being used to such work, but I got it into the glasses—and such wine it was! I’ve drank Munm’s, Mort’s, and all the crack vintages, but none like that. I wish I could be an aqueduct through which to draw an Amazon of such. For delicacy of liavor and bouquet it surpasses all; I can scent it on my mustache even to this day.’’ (!) Antl*Malarial Plants. A notter plant possessing anti-malarial prop erties, as alleged, is receiving public attention. This is the jussiua grandiflora, or floating plant of the bayous and the lower lakes of Louisiana, which has been long observed to prevent development of malaria in regions peculiarly adapted to its generation. The claim is put forth for it that it purifies all stag nant water in which it grows, that the lakes and bayous inhabited by it are singularly pure to the sight, taste, and smell, and that to its pres ence and its undoubted hygienic or health pre serving qualities is to be attributed the remark able exemption of the people of lowt r Lou isiana from malarious or miasmatic diseases. It is also stated that in the region thus reput edly preserved from such diseases there are more stagnant waters and swamps than in any other part of the country. An Excellent Fertilizer. As a top-dressing for fruit tress, vines, grain crops or garden cr< ps of any sort, on ground that has been somewhat exhausted by cultiva tion, the preparation descri ed below will be found very useful. It would improve the mix ture, however, to add to the ashes about a peck of good, newly slacked lime, which would bring the potash of the ashes to a caus tic state and enable it more speedily to soften and dissolve the bones, which, when lime is thus used, need not be necessary in the ab sence of quicklime. With its use in this way, and with a sufficiency of good unleached wood ashes, the bones, which have merely been cracked up with the hammer, may easily be softened. Take one burr 1 of pure, finely ground bone, and mix with it a barrel of good wood ashes; during the mixing, add gradually three pails- fnl of water. The heap may be made upon the floor of an out-building, or upon the barn floor; and, by the use of the hoe, the bone aud ashes must be thoroughly blended together. The water added is just sufficient to liberate the caustic alkali* s, potash and soda; and these react upon the gelatine of the bone, dissolving the little atoms, forming a kind of soap, and fitting i, for plant aliment. It must be used in small quantities, or in about the same way as the so-called super-phosphates. A barrel of this mixture is worth two of any of the commercial fertilizers, and the cost will be but about half as much. If the bone meal and ashes are very dry, four pailsful of water may be required, but care must be exercised not to have it inconveniently moist. It ■ may be ready for use in a week after it is made. Pure, raw, finely ground bone and the best of ashes should be employed.—Journal of Chemistry. The Southern Foreetry Congress. The second annual session of this body will meet at DeFuniak Springs, Florida (the Flor ida Chatauqua), next week, February loth to 19th, inclusive. Delegates have been ap pointed by the governors of nearly all the Southern States. United States Commissioter Colman lias been invited and is expected. Among the speakers announced are Hon. J. Sterling Morton, of Nebraska; Hon. B. G. Northrop, of Connecticut; Hon. C R. Pringle, of Georgia; Mr. James Byars, of Tennessee; Prof. A. H. Curtiss, of the Florida Farmer and Fruit Gro »er. Mrs. Ellen Call Long, of Tallahassee, will welcome the delegates to Florida. Music will be furnished under the direction of Prof. C. C. Case, of Cleveland, Ohio, assislei by a local chorus and a fine cor net band. During the session there will be a “Tree planting,” when trees will be planted to the memory of distinguished Americans. (Governor Gordon has suggested that the tree for Georgia be planted in memory of Governor Alexander H. Stephens.) The opening servi ces connected with the third annual session of the Florida Chautauqua will take place on the third day of the session and on the fourth day delegates will have the pleasure of listening to a lecture by ltev. Samuel P. Jones. To Cure a Felon. Shave the finger so as to nearly start the blood, then apply a poultice made of linseed oil and white lead. It will kill the felon within twenty-four hours, without the additional pain caused by other remedies. Measurement by Boxes. Sometimes common measures may not be at hand; in such cases the following may be of service : A box 24x16 iuches, 22 deep, con tains one barrel; a box 16x16 and a half in ches, 8 deep, contains one bushel; a box 8x8 and a half inches, 8 deep, contains one peck. <£jettxs of thought. There is not yet any inventory of a man’s faculties. Who shall set a limit to the influ ence of a human being? There are men who, by their sympathetic attractions, parry nations with them, and lead the activity of the human race. A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others.—Goethe. It is the glorious prerogative of the empire of knowledge that what it gains it never loses. On the contrary it increases by the multiple of its own power; all its ends become means; all its attainments help to new conquests.—Daniel Webster. In loye, as in everything else, experience is a physician who never comes until after the disorder is cured.—Mme. de la Tour. Old men’s eyes are like old men’s memories; they are strongest lor things a long way off.— George Eliot. Winter is here in earnest! How the old churl whistles and threshes the snow! Sleet and rain are falling, too. Already the trees are bea. led with icicles; and the two broad blanches of yonder pine look like the white moustache of some old German baron.—Long fellow. The inhabitants of cities suppose that the country landscape is pleasant only half the year. I please myself with the graces of the Winter scenery, and believe that we are as much touched by the genial influences of Sum mer.—Emerson. Learn from the earliest days to inure your principles against the perils of ridicule; you can no more exercise your reason if you live in the constant dread of laughter, than you can enjoy your life if you are in the constant' terror of death.—Sidney Smith. We mistake the gratuitous blessings of Heaven for the fruits of our own industry.— L' Estrange. historical. Brandt, an alchemist discovered phosphorus in 1677. The Roman Empire may be said to begin with the year B. C. 27, when Octavius assum ed the title of Augustus. Charlemagne at a very advanced age acquir ed the art of writing, an unusual accomplish ment, except among churchmen, in those days. Corneille, the great French dramatist, was born ai Rouen in lt>06, and died in 1684. The tragedy of “The Cid” is his most famous work. Cardinal de Richelieu, the famous prime minister of France during the reign of Louis XIII., died in 1642, after twenty years reign as the real head of the country, the king be ing little better than an imbecile. England, the land of the Angles, takes its name from one of the chief tribes of low Ger man invaders, and the term Anglo-Saxon as applied to the language represents the union of dialects of the Angles and Saxons. The name France comes front Francia, the land of Franks. Frank, the generic name of the people, is derived from an old German word signifying a battle-axe. The period commonly known as “The Dark Ages” embraces the first six centuries of the Middle Ages, that is, from the close of the fifth to the close of the eleventli century. The Middle Ages comprise the 1000 years com mencing with tile close of the fifth and ending with the close of the fifteenth centuries. The memorable assembly known in English history as the Long Parliament is so called be cause its sessions continued for thirteen years. This was the parliament that arrayed itself against Charles I., precipitating the civil war between the Cavaliers and Roundheads, and eventually bringing the monarch to the block. <£urmus £ acts. In Germany the microphoue is now used for tracing leaks in water pipes, the slightest trickling of the water heir g made distinctly audible when the apparatus is brought nearest. l ne present cost of operating the railroads of the country witli steam power is iu round numbers 8502,000,000 per annum; but to carry on the same amount of work witli men and horses would cost the country $11,600,->00,060. Some one with a mathematical mind has fig ured it out that all the gold on earth today, in whatever shape—that is, mined gold, or. to put it plainer, the gold in use in all nations and the product of all ages—if welded in one mass, would be contained iu a cube of less than thirty feet. The soil of the Nile delta has proven to be tlrcker than was supposec, borings by Royal Engineers having failed to reach a solid bottom at a depth of 200 feet. Specimens of the soil have been sent to London, and an appropria tion has been made for continuing the geolog ically important borings. A favorite prescription of Chinese physi cians for chronic indigestion is to cut up aud digest chicken gizards in ho: water until they are reduced to a pulp, and then add some spi ces. A tablespoonful or two of the resulting paste is taken at each meal until the patient has entirely recovered. The carrier-pigeon service in Paris is now most carefully organized, and the latest census shows that there are 2500 trained birds, which can take despatches in and out of the capital iu the roughest weather. Nome are taught to go to the neighboring forts and towns, others to distant parts of the provinces. At Middletown, Ct., the other evening, a company of friends called at a house, where they were asked to put their wraps on a bed where a babe was sleeping. The lit-le one was unusually quiet that evening, and it was found dead when the guests had gone, having been smothered by the garments piled upon it. A prominent life ii-surauae man tn Hart ford, Ct., is reported as saying that his expe rience and the records of life insurance have shown him that young men of twenty years of age who abstain entirely from all kinds of intoxicating drinks have a good prospect of living to be sixty-four years of age; while the moderate drinker at twenty years of age can only expect to live to be 65 years. Metal is now being substituted for card board in bookbinding. This novelty is known as the “British Pellisfort” binding, and it con sists in the use of thin sheet metal for covers. The metal is specially prepared, and the cover may be bent and straightened again without perceptible damage. It may, in fact, be safely subjected to such treatment as would (ii s’.roy ordinary covers. The metal is, of course, cov ered with the leather usually employed in bookbinding, and tte finished book presents no difference in appearance except in the greater thinness of the cover. A new industry has lately sprung up in Sweden, and promises shortly to become a most important one. Oil for illuminating purposes is now manufactured in that country from the stumps and roots that remain in the forests after the timber hag been cut. These are subjected to a procsss of dry distillation, and besides wood-oil many other products are obtained, amongst whicli are turpentine, creo sote, acetic acid, wood charcoal, tar, oils, etc. This oil cannot be used in ordinal y lamps, as containing a large proportion of carbon it gives off a great deal of smoke during combus tion. When mixed with bei vine, however, it may be used in ordinary benzine lamps; but when burnt alone a special lamp must be adopted. The trees that furnish the greatest amount of oil are the pine and fir. There are now about forty establishments enraged in this manufacture in Sweden. Remedy for Scratches. Take one pint of fish oil, one ounce of ver digris, one tablespoonful of salt, heat well and stir thoroughly, then add two ounces of white hellebore powder and three ounces of sulphur, stir as it cools, theu rub in with end of the fin gers aud fill all cracks. Afterja|day or so wash thoroughly with castiie soap, and rub nearly dry, wlieu fill all the ha r, as well as the sore, with dry sulphur. Use the sal re until all the scabs come off, when only the sulphur need be used. If scabs show again, or whenever the legs are wet, dry with the sulphur.—Coun try Gentleman. “Consumption Can Be Cured.” Dr. J. S. Combs Owensville, Ohio, says: I have given Scott's Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil with Hypophosphites, to four patients with better results than seemed possible with any remedy. All were hereditary cases of Lang disease, and advanced to that stage when Coughs, pain in the chest, frequent breathing, frequent pulse, fever and Emaciation. All these cases have in creased in weight from 16 to 28 lbs. , and are not now needing any medicine.” TALMAGE’S SERMON. treached in the Brooklyn Taber nacle. Pillars of Smoke. Brooklyn, February 6.—To-day was mov ing day in the Brooklyn tabernacle, as the an nual pew letting has just occurred and many have changed places. This church combines the two plans of pew rental and free church. The rental pews this year yield an advance on all previous years, so that the income will be about $32,000. But about 2,000 sittings are always kept free, so that no one may complain that he cannot worship here for lack of means. This morning Professor Browne rendered an organ solo, first sonata in D minor, by Ritter, and the congregation sang the hymn: “Our God. our help in ages past, Our hope f >r years to come.” The subject of the sermon was “Pillars of Smoke,” and the text was taken from Solo mon’s Song, Cliron. iii., v. 6: “Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke?” Dr. Talmage said: The architecture of the smoke is wondrous, whether God with his finger curls it into a cloud, or rounds it into a dome, or points it in a spire, or spreads it in a wing, or, as in the text, hoists it in a pillar. Watch it winding up from tile country farm-house in the early morning, showing that the pastoral industries have begun; or see it ascending from the chim neys of the city, telling of the homes fed, the factories turning out valuable fabric, the printing presses preparing book and newspa per, and ail the ten thousand wheels of work in motion. On a clear day this vapor spoken of mounts with such buoyancy, and spreads such a delicate veil across the sky, and traces such graceful lines of circle and semi circle, and wattes, and tosses, and sinks and soars, and scatters with such affluence of shape, and color, and suggestiveness, that if you have never noticed it you are like a man who has all his life lived in Paris and yet never seen the Luxembourg, and all his life in Rome, and never seen the Vatican, and ail his life at Lockpor,, and never seen Niagara. Forty- four times the Bible speaks of the smoke, and it is about time that somebody preaches a ser mon recognizing this strange, weird, beautiful, elastic, charming, terrific and fascinating vapor. Across the Bible sky floats the smoke of Sinai, the smoke of Sodom, the smoke of Ai, the smoke of the pit, the smoke of the vol canic bids when God touches them, and in my text the glorious church of God coming up out of the wildenuss like pillars of smoke. In the first place, these pillars of smoke in my text indicate the suffering the church of God lias endured. What do I mean by tt e church? I mean not a building, not a sect, but those who, in all ages and all lands, and of all beliefs, love God and are trying to do right. For many centuries the heavens have been black with the smoke of martyrdom. If set side by side you could girdle the earth with the fires of persecution. Rowland Taylor burned at Hadlt igb; Latimer burned at Ox ford; John Rogers burned at SmithfieJd; John Hooper burned at Gloucester; John Huss burned at Constance; Lawrence Saunders burned at Coventry; Joan of Arc, buniedat Rouen. Protesiants have sometimes pointed to the Catholics as .persecutors, but both l’ro- testaot. and. Cstiwjhr -ha 1 * practiced infamous cruelties. The CWidics, during the reign of Hunncric were by- the l’otestants put to the worst tortures, stripped of their clothing, hoisted in the air by pulleys with weights sus pending from their feet, then let down, and ears aud eyes, nose aud tongue were amputa ted, and red-hot plates of iron were put against the tenderest part ot their bodies. George Bancroft, the historian, says of the State of Maryland: “In the land which Cath olics had opened to Protestants mass might not be said publicly; no Catholic priest or bishop might utter liis faith in a voice of per suasion; no Catholic might teach the youi g. If a wayward child of a Papist would but be come an apostate the law wrested for him from li s parents a share of their property. Such were the methods adopted to prevent the growth of Popery.” Speaking of Ireland, Bancroft, the historian, says: “Such priests as were permitted to reside in Ireland were required to be registered, and were kept like prisoners at large within prescribed limits. All Papists exercising ecclesiastical jurisdic tion, all monks, friars and regular priests, and all priests not then actually in parishes and to be registered, were banished from Ireland un der pain of transportation, and, on return, of being hanged, drawn and quartered.” Catholicism as well as Protestantism has had its martyrs. It does seem as if when any one sect got complete dominancy in any land the devil of prosecution and cruelty took poses- sioin of that sect! Then see the Catholics after the Huguenots. See the Gentiles after the Jews in Touraipe, where a great pit was dug and fire lighted at the bottom of the pit, anil one hundred and sixty Jewish victims were consumed. See the Presbyterian parlia ment of England,' more tyrannical in their treatment of opponents than had been the criminal courts. Persecution against the Bap tists by l’edo Baptists. Persecutions of the established church against the Methodist church. Persecution againstthe (Juakers. Per secution against the Presbyterians. Under Emperor Diocletian one hundred and forty- four thousand Christians were massacred, and seven hundred thousand more of them died from banishment and exposure. Witness the sufferings of the Waldenses, of the Albigenses, of the Nestorians. Witness St. Ba t'tolomew’s massacre. Witless the Duke of Alva driving out of life eighteen thousand Christians. Wit ness Herod, and Nero and Deciu-q and Hilde brand, and Torquemala, and Earl of Montford, and Lord Clavtrhouse, who, when told that lie must give account for his cruelties, said : “I hav.e no n> ed 11 account to man, and as for God I >vi, 1 take Him in my own hands.” A red line runs through the church history of nineteen hundred years, a line of blood. Not by the hundreds of thousands, but by the millions must we count those slain for Christ’s sake. No wonder John Milton puts the groaus of the martyrs to an immortal tune, writing: “Avenge O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold.” The smoke of martyrs’ homes and martyrs’ bodies if rolling up all at once would have eclipsed the noonday sun and turned the brightest day the world ever saw into a mid night. “Who is she that cometh up out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke?” Has persecution ceased? Ask that young man who is trying to be a Christian in a store factory where from morning to night he ts the butt of all the mean witticisms of unbelieving employes. Ask that wife whose husband makes her fondness for the house of God and even her kneeling prat er by he bi dside a derision and is no more fit for her holy companionship than a filthy crow would be fit companion for a robin or a golden|orioIe. Compromise with the world and surrender to its conventionalities, and it may let you alone. But all who will live godly in Christ Jesus must suffer persecution. Be a theatre-going, card-playing, wine-drink ing, round-dancing Christian, and you may escape criticism and social pressure. But be an up and down, out and out follower of Christ, and worldling will wink to worldling as he speaks your name, and you w|ll be put in many a doggerel and stubbed by those not worthy to blacken your oldest shoes. When the bridge at Ashtabula broke and let down the most of the carload of passengers to instai t death, Mr. P. P. Bliss was seated on one side of the aisle of the car writing down a Chris tian song which he was composing, and on the other side a group of men were playing cards. Whose landing place in eternity would you prefer, that of P. P. Bliss, the gospel singer, or of the card players? A great complaint comes from the theatres about the ladies’ high hats because they ob struct the view of the stage, and a lady repor ter asked me the other day what I thought about it, and I told her that if the indecent pictures of actresses in the show windows of Brooklyn and New York were accurate pic tures of what goes on in many of the theatres night by night, then it would be well if the ladies' hats were a mile high so as to complete ly obstruct the vision. U professed Christians go to such places during the week no one will ever persecute them for their religion, for they have none and they are the joke of bell. But let them live a consecrated and Christian life and they will soon run against sneering oppo site n. For a compromise Christian character an easy time now, but for consecrated behavior grimace and caricature. For the body, thanks to the God of free America, there are now no swords or fiery stakes, but for the souls of thousands of the good, in a fugarative sense, rack and gibbet and Torquemada. The symbol of the domestic and social and private and public suffering of a great multitude of God’s dear children, pillars of smoke. What an exciting scene in India when dur ing the Sepoy rebellion a regiment of High landers came up and found the dead body of one of Genera] Wheeler’s daughters, who had been insulted and mauled and slain by the Sepoys. So great was the wrath against these murderers that the Scotch regiment Bat down, and cutting off the hair of this dead daughter of General Wheeler, they divided it among them, ana each one counted the number of the hairs given him, and each took an oath, which was executed, that for each hair of the murdered daughter they would dash out the life of a miserable Sepoy. But as we look over the story of those who in all ages have suffered for the truth, while we leave vengeance to the Lord, let os band together in one solemn vow, one tremendous oath, after having counted the host of martyrs, that for each one of those glorious men and women who died for the truth, an immortal soul shall live—live with God and live forever. But as I already hinted in the first sentence of th:s sermon, nothing can be more beautiful than the figures of smoke on a clear sky. You can see what you will in the contour of this volatile vapor—now enchanted castles, now troops of horsemen, now bannered procession, now winged couriers, now a black angel of wrath under a spear of the sunshine turned to an angel of light, and now from horizon to horizon the air is a picture gallery filled with masterpieces of which God is the artist, morn ing cl ;uds of smoke born in the sunrise, and evening clouds of smoke laid in the burnished sepulchres of the sunset. The beauty of the transfigured smoke is a divine symbol of the beauty of the church. The fairest of all the fair is she. Do not call those persecutors of whom I spoke, the church. They are the parasites of the church not the church itself. Her mission is to cover the earth with a supernatural gladness, to open all the prison doors, to balsam all the wounds, to moss all the graves, to burn up the night in the fire place of a great morning, to change iron handcuffs into diamonded wristlets, to turn the whole race around, and, whereas it faced death, commanding it, “Rightabout face, for heaven.” According to the number of the spires of the churches in all our cities, towns and neighborhoods, are the good homes, the worldly prosperities and the pure morals and the happy souls. Meet me at any depot the world over, and witli my eyes closed, take me by the hand and lead me so that my feet will not stumble, and without my once looking down, or looking on the level, take me to some high roof or tower and let me see the tops of the churches, and I will tell you the proportion of suicides; of ar sons, of murders, of thefts. According as the churches are numerous are the crimes few. According as the churches are few the crimes aie numerous. The most beautiful organiza tion the world ever saw or ever will see, is the much-maligned church, the friend of all good, the toe of ail evil, “lair as the moon and clear as the sun.” Beautiful in her author, beauti ful in her mission, the heroine of the centu ries, the bride of Christ, the queen of the na tions. There are hundreds of kindly institu tions, some caring for inebriates, some for the crippled, some for the imbecile, some for the misled, some for the blind, but the church is the mother of all these kindly institutions. There are asylums, American, or English, or Scotch, or Irish, or French, or German, or Ital ian, but the church spreads her mantle over all these, and will yet spread it over ail na tions. Her gates are beautiful, her songs are beautiful, her prayers are beautiful, her convo cations are heautiful, her work is beautiful. All kings and warriors will yet how down at her altars, all chains of serfdom be shattered against her doorstep, all nations will vet follow her leaatng. How amiable are thy tabernacles! llow sacred thy altars! How g'orious thy aud itoriums! So graceful, so aspiring, so grand, and rolling on, and rolling up, we cry out in regard to her: “Who is she’tbat cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke?” .Men may desecrate it, as Cromwell when lie stabled his cavalry horses iu St. Raul's cathe dral; or break off the image of Christ as did the iconoclasts in Yorkminster; or burl against it august literary antipathies, as did Gibson; or plot its overthrow, as do some in every com munity whose pride and hate and debauchery are reproved by the Ten Commandments which it thunders, and the Sermon on the Mount whicli it breathes. But it will stand as long as the earth stands, the same unique, and wonder-working, and beatific and miraculous thing for wuicn God decreed it. Small wits tax their brain to say things that will put her at disadvantage, but many of them will send for its condolence when dying, and their children will be gathered up under its benedictions af ter the parental curse has been removed. Through her gates will march all the influences for good that shall ever reach our world. Take her membership as a mass, not speaking of the acknowledt ed exceptions they are the no blest, grandest kindest, best men and women of the ages. But for them the earth would long ago have been a hurned-out volcano. They have been the salt that has kept the hu man race from putrefaction insufferable either to human or angelic olfactories. You lying and hypocritical world, shut up those slanders about the church of Christ, an institution which far from being what it ought to be and never pretending to be perfect, is five hundred times better than any other institution that the world ever saw or ever dreampt of. The highest honor I ever had, and the highest hon or I shall ever receive, and the highest honor I ever want, is to have my name on her records as a member. At her altars I repented. At her sacraments I believed. Iu her service let me die. From her doors let me be buried. Oh church of God 1 Thou hone of the right eous! Tiiou harbor from tempest! Thou ref uge for the weary 1 Thou lighthouse of many nations! Thou type of heaven! I could kiss thy very dust with ecstacy of affection. “For her my tears shall fall. For her my prayers ascend, To her my toils and cares be given Till toils and cares shall end.” “Perfumed smoke,” says Solomon, in the words following my text. Not like the fumes coughed up from the throat of a steam-pipe, or poisoned with the gases of chemical facto ries, or floating iu black wrath from the con- flagra ion of homesteads, or sulphurous from blazing batteries; but sweet as a burning grove ot cinnamon or juuge of sassafras, of tbs odors of a temple censer. “ Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke perfumed with myrrh and frankin cense?” Hear it, men and women everywkt re that the advance of the genuine Church of Christ means peice for all nations. Victor Hugo, in his book entitled “Ninety- three,” says: “Nothing calmer than smoke but nothing more startling. There are peace ful smokes and there are evil ones. The thick ness and color of a line of smoke make the whole difference between war and peace, be tween fraternity and hatred. The whole hap pineBs of man or his complete misery is some times expressed in this thin vapor which the wind scatters at will.” The great Frenchman was right, but I go further and say that as the kingdom of God advances like pillars of smoke, the black volumes belching from batteries of war and pouring out from portholes of ships will vanish from the sky. A distinguished gentleman of the late war told me recently that Abraham Lincoln pr )- posed to avoid our civil conflict by purchase of all the slaves of the south and setting them free. He calculated what would be a reasona ble price for them, and when the number of millions of dollars that would be required for such a purpose was announced, the proposi tion was scouted, and the north would not have made the offer and the south would not have accepted it if made. “But,” said my military friend, “the war went on and just the number of millions of dollars Mr. Lincoln cal culated would have been enough to make a reasonable purchase of all the slaves, were spent in war, besides ail the precious lives that were hurlei away in the two hundred and fifty battles.” In other words, there ought to be some other way for men to settle their con troversies without wholesale butchery. The church of God will yet become the arbi ter of nations. If the world would allow it, it could to-day step in between Germany and France and settle the trouble about Alsace and Lorraine, and between Russia and Bulgaria, and between England and her antagonists, and between all the other nations that are flying at each other’s throats, command peace and dis band armies, and harness for the plow the war horses now being hitched to ammunition wag ons or saddled for cavalry charge. That time must come, or through the increased facilities for shooting men and blowing up cities and whelming hosts to instant death, so that we can kill a regiment easier than we could once kill a company, and kill a brigade easier than we could once kill a regiment—the patent offices of the world more busy than ever in recognizing new enginery of destruction—the human race will after awhile go fighting with one arm, and hobbling with one foot, and stumbling along with one eye; and some ingenious inventor, in spired of the archangel of all mischief, will contrive a machine that will bore a hole to the earth’s center, and some desperate nation will throw into that hole enough dynamite to blow this hnik of a planet into fragments, dropping like meteoric stones on surrounding stellar habitations. But this shall not be; for whatever else I let go, I hang on to my Bible, which tells me that the blacksmith’s shop shall yet come to its grandest use when the warrior and the hus bandman shall enter it side by side, and the soldier shall throw into its bank of fires his sword, and the farmer shall pick it np a plough share, and the straightest spear shall be bent into a crook at each end and then cut in two, and what was one spear shall be two pruning forks. Down|with Moeoch and up with Christ! Let no more war horses eat out of the manger where Jesus was born. Peace! Forever roll off the sky the b’aek pillars of smoke from the Marengos, and Sala- mancas, and Borodinos, and Sedans, and Get- tysburgs of earth! And right after them roll into the heavens the peaceful vapors from the chimneys of farm houses, and asylums, and churches, and capitals of Christian nations; and as the sunlight strikes through these va pors they will write in letters of jet and gold all over the sky, from horizon to zenith, “Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace, good will to men!” Then let all the men-of-war fire a broadside, and ail the forts thunder forth a resounding volley, and the earth be girdled with the cannonade over the filial victory of the truth. While thinking of these things I looked out from my window, and the wind was violently- blowing. And I saw from many chimneys th» smoke tossed in the air and whirled in great velocity, volume after volume, fold after fold, and carried on the swift wind were the great pillars of smoke. And helped by Solomon in tile text, I saw the speed of the church symbol ized. I)o you realize the momentum the church of God is under? Why, tile smoke of a chimney on the top of Mount Washington when the wind is blowing sixty miles the hour, is slow as compared with the celerity of good influences. For fifty-nine centuries the devil had it his own way among the nations. Nearly all the great missionary movements have been started within the century, and. see what one century has done to recover the world fr&m fifty-nine centuries of devastation. Wliat great revivals! What mighty churches! What saved millions! Wliat advancing civilization! In all the United States, Great Britain, Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, full of freedom to worship God according to conscience. Along the coasts of China, Japan and Africa the bat teries are plan ed which are to take all these emp res for God and civilization. From the ruins of Babylon, and Assyria, and Nineveh, and the valleys of the Nile confirmations have been exhumed proving to all fair-minded men that the Bible is the truest book ever written. The mythologies of Egypt were found to have embodied in them the knowledge of man’s ex pulsion from paradise, aud the sacrifice of a great emancipator, Moses’ account of the cre ation, corroborated by the hammer of Chris tian geologists; the oldest profane writers like Hiromus, Helancius and Berosus, confirming the Bible account of ancient longevity; Tacitus and Pliny confirming the Bible accounts of destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah; Tacitus and Porphyry telling the same story of Christ as Matthew and Luke told; Macrobius telling of t he massacre of children in Bethlehem, and l’hlegon sketching the darkness at the cruci fixion. It is demonstrated to all honest men that it is not so certain that William Cullen Bryant wrote Thanatopsis or Longfellow wroie Hiawatha as that God by the head of prophet and apostle wrote the Bible. All the wise men in science, and law, aud medicine, and literature, and merchandise are gradually com ing to believe in Christianity, and soon there will be no people who disbelieve in it except those conspicuous for lack of brain, or men with two families whodo not like the Bible Decause it rebukes their swinish propensities. The time is hastening when there will be no infidels left except libertines and harlots and murderers. Millions of Christians were once there were thousands, and thousands where once there were hundreds. What a bright evening this the evening of the nine teenth century, and the twentieth century, which will dawn in thirteen years from now, will, in my opinion bring universal victory for Christ and the church, that now is marching on with step double-quick or, if you prefer the figure of the text, is being swept on in the mighty gales of blessing, imposing and grand and majestic and swift, like pillars of smoke. Oh, come into the church through Christ the door, a door more glorious than that of the temple of Hercules, which had two pillars, ar.d one was gold and the other emerald! Come in and be one of the eteraal victors! The world you leave behind is a poor world, and it will burn and pass off like pillars of smoke. Whether the final conflagration will start in the coal mines of Pennsylvania, which, in some places, has f >r many years been burning and eating into the heart of the mountains; or whether it shall begin near the California geysers, or whether from out the furnaces of Cotopaxi and Vesuvius and Stroinboli, it shall burst forth upon the astonished nations. I make no prophecy, but all geologists tell us that we stand on the lid of a world the heart of which is a raging, roaring, awful, flame, and some day God will let the red monsters out of their imprisonment of centuries and New York on fire in 1865, and Charleston on fire in 1805, and Chicago on fire in 1872, and Boston on fire in 1873, were only like one spark from a blacksmith’s forge as compared with that last universal blaze which will be seen iu other worlds. But gradually the flames will lessen, and the world will become a great living coal, and that will take on ashen hue, and then our ruined planet will begin to smoke, and the mountains will smoke, and the valleys will smoke, and the islands will smoke, and the seas will smoke, and the cities will smoke, and the five continents will be five pillars of smoke. But the black vapors will begin to lessen in height and density, and then will become hard ly visible to those who look upon it from the sky galleries, and after awhile from just one point there will curl up a thin solitary vapor, and then even that will vanish, and there will be nothing left except the charred ruins of a burnt out world, tiecorpse of a dead star, the ashes of ail extinguished planet., a fallen pillar of sun ke. But that will not interfere with your invest ments if you have taken Christ as your Sav iour. Secure heaven as your eternal home, you can look down upon a dismantled, dis rupted and demolished earth without any per turbation. * When wrsi ped in lire the realms of ether clow \i>d nei vru’a last thimuer snakes the earth below, T iou. undismayed, shall o*er the ruins smile. Am light thv luieli at nature’s funeral pile.” a?i$ttflancou0 MARDI-GMS, New Orleans, La., Feb. 22d 1887. 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