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presidents and people.
The following Is taken from the Bos
ton Herald, and famishes some inter
esting political information:
Now, as ever, the silver men talk big.
They want the earth, and claim that
they can get it. We frankly admit that
if they fail It will not be for lack of try
ing. All the same we see no reason for
dlsconragement on the right Eide. If the
President holds tine to his professions,
and the supporters of honest money
back him up by organized efforts at all
commensurate with the interests that
are at stake and the peril that threatens
them, the defeat of t he silver scheme is
assured. The contest will turn on two
pivoted points: First, the soundness of
the President’s views, and the firmness
with which he will maintain them; sec
ondly, the correct direction of public
opinion. If the President goes wrong
everything is lost. That looks like a
ticklish situation, but it ought not to be
precarious. There is nothing new in it.
The country is well need to trusting to
the President for protection from the
folly of Congress. Till HarriEon Eigt ed
the abominable silver bill of 1890, the
trust was never betrayed. For 20 years
the ruling President, Republican or
Democratic, was the main bulwark of
the currency. But for Grant the infla
tionists would have won an easy victory.
But for Hayes, the resumption act would
have been a broken pledge. Bo, too,
with Arthur and Cleveland, if either of
them had surrendered to the silver plot
ters free coinage would have come on us
With a rush, Remembering the noble
record made by his predece esors, the
country should be able to turn to Mr.
Harrison with full assurance of finding
in him a sturdy champion against all
debasers of the currency. But is he to
be depended upon? We hope so, most
fervently; yet we cannot be sure, for he
is a politician first, and a financier long
afterward. Well, the lesson of the sit'
nation appears easy to read. In dealing
with the President on this question, the
honest money men must look rather to
political than to financial arguments.
They must make it plain to him that he
has more to lose by playing them false
than he can possibly gain at the hands
of the silver schemers. They must or.
ganize and show their strength. With
the business men of the country ranked
solidly in defence of sound money, the
President will see that his interest lies
in standing beside them, and there will
be no danger of the passage of perni
clous legislation.
Here it is in a nut shell; all the plutcc
racy of the East want is the President.
With him and plenty of money no meas
ure can be passed that this privileged
class object to. While the above ex
tract is to be commended for its frank
ness, it should be carefully considered
in view of its dangerous admissions.—
National Economist.
“We point to Great Britain and we
denounce aristocracy and privileged and
titled classes and landed estates. We
thought when we abolished primogeni
ture and entail that we had forever
forbidden and prevented these enormous
and dangerous accumulations; but, sir,
we had forgotten that capital could com
bine; we were unaware of the yet unde
veloped capacity of corporations; and
so, as I eay, it happens upon the
threshold and in the vestibule of cur
second century, with all this magnificent
record behind us, with this tremendous
achievement in the way of wealth, pop
ulation, invention, opportunity for
happiness, we are in a condition com
pared with which the scccmnlatcd for
tunes of Great Britain are puerile and
insignificant.
UPepulair $GienGe,
MISSISSIPPI POLITICS.
Doubtless one of the most vindictive,
bitter political campaigns ever witness
ed in this country is now being carried
on in Mississippi. The political manip
ulators who have so long controlled the
politics of the State have awakened to a
realizing sense of their danger and are
making desperate efforts to retain their
present pc sltion. In doing so nothing
that canning or malice conld suggest
baa been omitted. The most bitter in
vectives have been hnried at the Alli
ance and its sympathizers, and a general
abandonment of truth, justice and fair
play seems to have been made by the
greater portion of the opposition press.
Such intemperate methods are to be de-
preoated by all good citizens, and bode
no good for the future. The Alliance is
largely made np in this State of the in
teillgent portion of Democracy. As in
all other sections where it is organ iz sd,
It takes the best, most Intelligent and
conservative of any and all political par-
tier, This is an admitted truth by all
^ho have given the matter even acasual
consideration. In view of this, and in
connection with the further fact that
they are American citizens, and both by
pature and education are led to resent
dictation, it does seem as though the
leaders of Democracy who have con
sented to snoh a course are now “sowing
to the winds,” and in the near fature
will “reap the whirlwind,” which such
methods are sure to bring.
The initial declaration that the cam
paign should be one of education and
discussion his been abandoned by the
party leaders and a course of vitupera
tion and abuse instituted instead. Every
Democrat has been called into the State
who haa ever lived there, and when Polk,
Livingston and Willets went there to
assist in a legitimate campaign of edu
cation they were called invaders and
abused without stint. Such methods
are unfortunate and deserve the severest
condemnation of ail true oitlzens. They
disclose a political condition that will
prove an effective weapon In the hands
of snch unscrupulous polltloiana as
Hoar, Lodge, and others, and will bring
Incalculable barm to all. Thla kind of
intolerance la certain to be met with a
spirit of independence that will result in
nothing short of a square contest between
blind partisan domination and intelli
gent progrees. The first may snccied
for a time, bat in the end mnst hive way
and be relegated to the rear among the
abandoned rubbish of a past age. The
Democratic party is neglecting the op
portunity of a century, not because of
the nnn iilingness or the rank and file of
the party, but through the egotism, love
of office, and fatal partisanism of its
leaders.—National Economist.
Vegetation in the Alps recedes from
year to year. Alpine roses were at one
time found at an altitude of 7.600 feet;
now they are seldom found higher than
6,500 feet, and are stunted at that. Va
rious species of email fruit which used
to be gathered 7,500 feet above sea level
now are rarely found beyond two thirds
that height.
In excavating at Nimroud a number
of drains were fonnd covered over with
pointed and elliptical arches, each layer
being bnilt slanting, so that it rested on
the one immediately beneath it. This
method of bnilding renders a timber
centre or scaffolding unnecessary to
support the stones until the keystone
is in place. Experiments with this plan
are now in progress in this conntry.
The following are some results of
study of 197 thunderstorms in Russia in
1888, with reference to their speed of
travel. The author (Herr Schonrock)
obtained as mean velocity about 28.5
miles an honr, with variation frem thir
teen to fifty miles. In the hot season
the velooity was less than in the cold
(twenty-eight miles, against thirty-two
miles). It was least In the early morn
lng, then increaEed, at first slowly, then
faster, reaching a maximum between 9
and 10 p, m. Thunderstorms travel
most qnickly from south to west, west
and northwest. An interesting geo
graphical difference was observed. From
west to east the velocity increased at
first; bat about 30° to 35° east longitude
a maxim was reached, and farther east
the speed.deelined.
WORDS FROM INGALLS.
“The entire industry of this conntry is
passing under the control of organized
and confederated capital More than
fifty of the necessaries of life to-day,
without which the cabin of the farmer
and the miner cannot be lighted or his
children fed or clothed, have passed
absolutely under the control of syndi
cates and trusts and corporations com
posed of speculators, and by meanB of
these combinations and confederations
competition is destroyed; small dealings
are rendered impossible; competence can
no longer be acquired; tor It is Bnpe; flu-
ous and unnecessary to say that If, under
a system where the accumulations dis
tributed per capita would be less than a
thousand dollars, 31,000 obtained pos
session of more than half’of the accu
Ululated wealth of the country, it is
Impossible that other would have a com
petence or an independence.
“So it happens, Mr. President, that
onr society Is becomingrapldlys tratitled
almost hopelessly stratified, into a con
dition of enpeiflaonsly rich and helpless
ly poor. We are accustomed to speak of
this as the land of the free and the home
of the brave. It will soon be the boms
of the ilob and the land of the slave.
WOMAN AS A POLITICAL FACTOR.
In Monday’s Dally Evening News that
close observer of political currents,
Hinry George, Jr., graphically pictured
the political power of women in Eng
land through their independent leagues.
The observations of this American critic
correspond with the views of English
writers as to the certain signs of a po
litlcal revolution with woman as a lead
ing factor therein.
It cannot fail to be noted that women
already possess in conservative England
greater privileges of franchise than in
any other conntry on the globe. In all
except parliamentary elections the votes
of widows and spinsters who are tax
payers are counted. Within a conple of
decades England has practically revolu
tionized her methods of holding elec
tions, and there are, many predictions
that before a score of years more there
will be practically universal suffrage-
women included.
There are certain valuable lessons to
be gleaned from England’s growing re
cognition of women as a political factor.
In the United States, although woman
suffrage has been demanded in strident
tones from a hundred platforms for
more than a generation, it cannot be
said to have become a live political is
sue. Various states have conferred
suffrage on women at micor elections,
but there the movement has apparently
been checked.
is it not possible that American wo
man suffragists have taken a less sensi
ble view of the case than their English
sisters, and have demanded as a right
what Englishwomen are content to win
by slow gradations, as their political
power becomes recognized?
Contrast, for instance, the methods of
the politically inspired women of the
two countries. In England they have
formed themselves into two leagues—
conservative and liberal—and are most
active auxiliaries of the two great par
ties through the length and breadth of
the empire. These English women
throw themselves into the thickest of
election contests and, undoubtedly help
to decide many a close struggle. This
they do as auxiliary workers, not as
voters.
Supposing American women were thns
active in national politics and studied
national issues with a view to taking in
telligent part therein as election work
ers. What would be the probable result?
Such a course would mean the forma
tion of Republican and Democratic wo
men’s le agues, after the pattern of the
Primrose League and the Women’s Lib
eral Federation of England.
Whether American women would read
ily adapt themselves to this active par
ticipation in national affairs, without
being themselves voters, may safely be
left to their own judgment to decide.
The point is clear that snch participa
tion wonld bring them nearer the goal
of female suffrage, just as it is breaking
down English traditions and bringing
the women of that oountry nearer the
same ultimate goal.—Chicago News.
MIDDLESBOROUGH NOTES.
The Electric Light, Heat and Power
company is enlarging its boiler hoase
preparatory to adding 410 incandescent
I gilts to the 1,400 now in use.
Tho Middlesboroueh Lumber company
is putting in a new 85 horse power engine
and 100 horse pewer boiler, and when
contemplated changes are made, the ca
pacity of the mill will be more than
doubled.
The owners of the new steel works,
now nearly ready to run, claim that they
will make steel at a less price than it
costs at Pittsburg to make pig iron!
Work has been began under the direc
tion of W. P. Hunt president of the
South Boston Iron Works, Boston, on
the buildings for the plant of the compa
ny, which is to be removed to this place
from B iston. The South Boston Iron
Works is one of the oldest concerns in
ths conntry, and Is largely engaged in
making mortars, cannon up to 12 inches
in diameter, etc., as well as other lines
of heavy iron work. Its capital will be
so increased upon its removal that it will
be about |6Ct,C00 and 50G men will be em
ployed.—Tradesman.
That shortness of breath is dyspepsia.
Take Simmons Liver Regulator.
— OUR —
]§efctei[ gexeifs
The snn shone very bright and warm this
morning. So beautiful i t was, it seemed a day
in which there should be no sadness. Not un
til afternoon did the clouds gather and the
storm burst. It is over now. Alone in my
room I hear the gentle drip, drip, of the rain
drops without. It all reminds me of a human
liie. How olten we look at yonng lives which
soem to be filled with bright snnlight only.
What evil can befall them? Yet even now the
clouds begin to gather, the storm bursts. How
furiously the wind of temptation blowBl Will
they be able t stand firm, in spite of it? How
vivid are the flashes of lightning. Only lor a
moment is seen the lurid glare, but it shows to
youthful ones the pleasures oi this world and
so they eagerly pursue them groping their way
till they become lost in eternal darkness. There
is warning in the voice of the thunder il they
will but heed it. It is a terrible storm, this
storm oi temptation and shame, bat it does not
last always. The storm is oTer, but the sun
shine has not returned. The rain is falling,
the ej es are weeping, the heart is bleeding!
Some great sorrow lies upon the heart. Neither
storm nor rain can harm me nqw for I am in
my father's house, I am prepared. Oh! dear
on:s this is what we all need to be able to saj!
“Neither temptation nor sorrow can oveicome
me now because my Father will protect me
have placed mysed in his care.” You cannot
claim His protection too scon. O'er each the
storm must burst, “sooner or later.” Oh! be
prepared. Do you ever think that by your
daily words and actions you are making histo
History over which you will in alter years
look back and pei haps long to change. Live
now as you will wish you hadlived. Form an
ideal and as nearly as possible become like it
They are so short, these happy days of youth
so Eoon over, these careless, joyous hours.
“’Tis the joys the most prized that are fleetest
And that quickest creep out from the heart,
As perfumes that are richest and sweetest
Are the earliest ones to depart:
Tints that of all are the rarest,
Fade as upon them we gaze
And tbe houis that are brightest andfairest
Soon are hid with the lost yesterdays.”
Auntie, won’t you give us a chat soon? I'm
sure we are all longing to hear from you.
Lovingly, Opal.
Deak Adnt Jcdy: Do any of you remember
Lassie Jean? No. Well I’m sorry; but after
thinking I know I wrote the L. B ODly one or
two letters. If the cousins will admit me once
more into their circle i will do my best to be
agreeable at least.
Not any oi your interesting letters bav? es
caped me, 1 have read them all though there
area great many new iaceE,and only a lew of
the old ones, and I miss them all so much.
I think it would be awful, nice il Auut Judy
would have the Letter Boxers photos printed in
theS. S. so we could get a glimpse of each
other.
Hyacinth, I am in love with you, your letter
was splencld. You expressed my sentiments
adzactly in speaking on the subject of friend
ship. No one doubts its existence, but as you
said, it is so hard for us to tell just who our
friends are. We often find in our supposed bit
terest ioe cur best friend. How I do love
bosom friend, one whom I can go to and tell
my troubles and trials, ups and downs, but
alas! they are few and far between.
Hyacinth, I too have been deprived oi the
love and prayers oi a mother, my heart goes out
in sympathy to the orphan, hut we should bow
iu submission to tbe will oi our Heavenly
Father, and say tby will be done, not miner.
Earnest Willie, please write us one oi your
beautiful letters in the near luture, won’t you?
I would so much like to know you. How pa
tiently you bear your a dictions. May you yet
be restored to health aud strength is my,prayer.
Welcome, Peach Blossom, I wish I knew your
old non de plume.
Dear me, what has become of Bed Head, Grey
Eyes, Grace Darling, Clair and ail the old mem
bers too numerous to mention? I think it is
time you were rousing from your Kip Van
Winkle nap and favoring us with letters.
Auntie, please don’t look at me so cross, I'm
going now, I didn’t intend staying so long, hut
I had such a pleasant visit I really couldn't
help it.
1 am going to change my nom to the one
given me at school.
If this letter escapes the waste basket I’ll call
again some sweet day, provided I receive a wel
come. Yours till the red leaves fall,
Kinggold, Ga. “Feixy.”
Deab Auntie; It is twilight hour; without
the evening shades are last appearing, and as I
sit by the open window gazing ont into the
gloom, it occurred to me that I will arise aud
softly knock at the portals oi your Letter Box
gates as king for admittance within.
Many months past have I been an ardent read
er oi the dear old S. S. The giris ana boy’s col
umn have been the source oi much amusement
to me. a pleasure loving Kentucky school girl.
So dear Aunt Judy, with yours and the cousins’
permission, I will gladly file in the rauks among
your lively band. I take it for granted that one
and all have given little Miss me a pleasing
welcome.
Dearie! me, now that I am amongst you what
shall I say? Its awfully embarrassing to be a
new comer. You all
“Must view me not with a critic’s eye
But pass my imperfections by.”
Who of all the cousins love novel reading?
Some one please answer iu the affirmatiue, ior
I'm passionately fond cf light literature. After
the tedious routine oi the school io< m there is
nothing so refreshing to my miud, as a pleasant
room, through which the cool zephyrs are softly
blowiug, an interesting book, an easy chair by
tbe open window and silence throughout the
house reigniDg supreme. In such moments as
these I feel content.
What do you Dixie Lassies find to do such
warm weather? I endeavor to practice my mu
sic but find it rather trying.
My letter has proven so very leDgthy that I
will close in haste, fearing you will never let me
come again.
Dearest Aunt Judy, cousins one and all, an
affectionate good night, from Keine.
I ear Aunt Judy: Although I have been a
diligent reader of your worthy paper for some
time, I could scarcely summon courage to write
to you and the dear cousins.
My lather has b< en taking your paper for the
last three years, and thinkB it one oi the most
chaste and pure sheets published in the South.
I enjoy so much the perusal of its columns, and
especially that of the L. B.
I will try to give you a short description of
our little town. I live in the town oi Norwoodi
which contains about three hundred inhabi
tants, and is located between two rivers, Kocky
and Peedee, and about five miles from tbe con
fluence of the same. TheB. & D., R. K. has just
been completed at this point, and our town is
beginnihg to build up. We have three churches
viz; Baptist, Methodist and Presbyterian, have
preaching three times a month and Sunday
school in each every Sabbath. We have a! large
newly painted hotel, and also a “High School”
conducted by Prof. R. L. Smith, one music and
one art teacher. Have seven large stores, a
steam mil), cabinet and furniture shop and
several other industries which I will not men
tion.
If I am so fortunate as to escape the waste
basket, perhaps you may hear from me again
soon.
Would like to correspond with Florida Girl
and Hyacinth, il they will send me their ad
dresses. Think their letters very interesting.
With much love to Aunt Judy and the cous
ins. I am your niece, ONiDa.
Norwood, N. C.
Dear Aunt Judy: Is a letter from a little
Florida girl worth a pi see in the Letter Box?
Mama says I may write you if I want to, but I
told her I did not know what to write about
and she said I could tell you how I am learning
to sew. May be you don’t care, but then I will
tell you just tbe same, and mind I want you to
listen. I am learning to sew by piecing quilts;
the one I am piecing now is called the Road to
California and back; aud it is just as easy as
can be and very pretty too; but I do not think
it is half so long as tbe real rnpu to California,
say nothing of coming baclfl^Bhen after this
is done I am going to piece Broten Dishes. I
wish all the little giris would piece a quilt too;
if you want both of my patterns send a stamp
to pay the postage on them and I will send
them to you; and with each pattern I will make
aud send a paper block so you can see how it
looks before you commence it.
Inez Briggs.
Jacksonville, F!a.
TALMAGE’S SERMON.
“Peter Piper Picked a Peek of Plckl.ed
Peppers,” was a line of alliterative non
sense that the children nsed to say.
Nowadays they can practice on the Per
fect, Painless, Powerful Properties of
Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pellets. It
will impress a fact which will be useful
to know. These Pellets cure sick head
ache, billions attacks, indigestion, con
stipation and all stomach, liver and
bowel troubles. They are tiny, sugar-
coated pills, easy to take, and, as a laxa
tive, one is sufficient for. a dose. No
more groans and gripes from the old
drastic remedies! Pierce’s Purgative
Pellets are as painless as they are perfect
in their effects.
Lakeside, O., -Inly 19.—For many years
peGple have gathered in multitudes at this
season of tho year for a great outdoor as
sembly. The grounds are a short sail
from Sandusky; the place beautiful be
yond description. Dr. Talmage preached
this morning in this delightful place to a
vast multitude. His subject was the “Va
cant Chair,” and his text, I Satunel xx, 18,
“Thou shait he missed, because thy seat
will be empty.” *
Set on the table the cutlery aud the
chased silverware of the palace, for King
Saul will give a state dinner today. A dis
tinguished place is kept at the table for his
son-in-law, a celebrated warrior, David by
name. The guests, jeweled ami plumed,
come in and take their places. When peo
ple are invited to asking's banquet they
are very apt to go. But before the covers
are lifted from the feast Saul looks around
and finds a vacant seat at the table. He
says within himself, perhaps audibly;
What does this mean? Where is my son-
in-law? Where is David, the great war
rior? I invited him. I expected him. What!
a vacaut chair at the king’s banquet!’
The fact was that David, the warrior,
had been seated for the last time at his
father-in-law’s table. The day before Jon
athnn had coaxed David to go and occupy
that place at the table, saying to David in
the words of my text, “Thou shait be
missed, because thy seat will be empty.”
The prediction was fulfilled. David was
missed. His scat was empty. That one
vacant chair spoke louder than all the oc
cupied chairs at the banquet.
In almost every house the articles of fur
niture take a living personality. That
picture—a stranger would not see anything
remarkable either in its design or execu
tion, but it is more to you than all the
pictures of the Louvre and the Luxem
bourg. You remember who bought it, and
who admired it. And that hymn book—
you remember who sang out of it. And
that cradle—you remember who rocked it.
And that Bible—you remember who read
out of it. And that bed—you remember
who slept in it. And that room—you re
member who died in it. But there is
nothing in all your house so eloquent and
so mighty voiced as the vacant chair. I
suppose that before Saul and his guests got
up from this banquet there was a great
clatter of wine pitchers, but all that racket
was drowned out by the voice that came up
from the vacant chair at the table.
Millions have gazed and wept at John
Quincy Adams’ vacant chair in the house
of representatives, and at Henry Wilson’s
vacaut chair in tbe vice presidency, and at
Henry Clay’s vacant chair in the American
senate, and at Prince Albert’s vacant chair
in Windsor castle, and at Thiers’ vacant
chair in the councils of the French nation.
But all these chairs are unimportant to
you as compared with the vacant chairs in
your own household. Have these chairs
any lesson for ns to learn? Are we any
better men and women than when they
first addressed us?
FATHER'S CHAIR.
First I point out to you the father’s va
cant chair. Old men always like to sit
in the same place and in the same chair.
They somehow feel more at home, and
sometimes when you are in their place and
they come into the room you jump np sud
denly and say, “Here, father, here’s vour
chair.” The probability is it is an arm
chair, for he is not so strong as he once
was, and he needs a little upholding. His
hair is a (fjfcle frosty, his gums a little de
pressed, fi'.tjin his early days there was not
much dentistry. Perhaps a cane chair
and old fashioned apparel, for though you
may have suggested some improvement,
father does not want any of your nonsense.
Grandfather never had much admiration
for new faugled notions.
I sat at the table of one of my parish
ioners in a former congregation; an aged
man was at the table, and the son was pre
siding, and tbn father somewhat abruptly
addressed the son and said, “My son. don’t
now try to show off because the minister
is here!” Your father never liked any new
customs or manners; he preferred the old
way of doing things, and he never looked
so happy as when, with his eyes closed, he
sat in the armchair in the corner. From
the wrinkled brow to the tip of the slippers,
what placidity I The wave of the past years
of his life broke at the foot of that chair.
Perhaps sometimes he was a little impa
tient, and sometimes told the same story
twice; but over that old chair how many
blessed memories hover! I hope you did
not crowd that old chair, and that it did
not get very much in the way.
Sometimes the old man’s chair gets very
much in the way, especially if lie has been
so unwise as to make over all his property
to his children, with the undemanding
that they are to take care of him. I have
seen iu snch cases children crowd the old
man’s chair to the door, and then crowd it
clear into the street, aud then crowd it
into the poorliouse, aud keep on crowding
it until the old mau fell out of it into his
grave.
But your father’s chair was a sacred
place. The children used to climb up on
the rungs of it for a good nigh't kiss, and
the longer he stayed the better you liked it.
But that chair has been vacaut now for
some time. The furniture dealer would
not give you fifty cents for it, but it fe a
throne of inlltience in your domestic circle.
I saw in the French palace, aDd in the
throne room, the chair that Napoleon used
to occupy. It was a beautiful chair, but
the most significant part of it was the letter
“N” embroidered into the back of the
chair in purple and gold. And your fath
er’s old chair sits in the throne room of
your heart, and your affections have em
broidered into the back of that old chairin
purple and gold the letter “F.” Have all
the prayers of that old chair been answer
ed? Have all the counsels of that old chair.
been practiced? Speak out! old armchair.
History tells us of an old man whose
three sons were victors in the Olympic
games, and when they came hack these
three sons, with their garlands, put them
on the father’s brow, aud the old man was
so rejoiced at the victories of his three
children that he fell dead in their arms.
And are you, oh, man, going to bring a
wreatli of joy and, Christian usefulness
and put it on your father’s brow, or on the
vacant chair, or on the memory of the one
departed? Speak out,old armchair! With
reference to your father, the words of my
text have been fulfilled, “Thou shait be
missed, because thy seat will he empty.”
MOTHER’S CHAIR.
I go a little further on in your house and
I find the mother's chair. It is very apt to
be a rocking chair. She had so many
cares aud troubles to soothe that it must
have rockers. I remember it well; it was
an old chair, and the rockers were almost
Worn out. for I was the vnnmrest. and the
chair had rocked the whole family. It
made a creaking noise as it moved; but
there was music in the sound. It was jnst
high enough to allow us children to put
our heads into her lap. That was the bank
where we deposited all our hurts and wor
ries. Ah! what a chair that was. It was
different from the father’s chair: it was en
tirely different. You ask me lion ? I can
not tell: but we all felt it was differ
ent. Perhaps there was about this chair
more gentleness, more tenderness, more
grief when we had done wrong. When we
were wayward father scolded, - but mother
cried. It was a very wakeful chair. In
the sick days of children other chairs
could not keep awake; that chair .always
kept awake—kept easily awake. The chair
knew all the old lullabies and all those
wordless songs which mothers sing to their
■iclr children—songs in which all Ditv and
compassion ana sympatneticmnuences ora
combined.
That old chair has stopped rocking for a
good many years. It may be set up in the
loft or the garret, but it holds a queenly
power yet. When at midnight you went
intp that grog shop to get the intoxicating
draught, did you not hear a voice that said,
“My son, why go in there?” And louder
than the boisterous encore of the place of
sinful amusement, a voice saying, “My
son, what do you do here?” And when
you went into the house of abandonment,
a voice saying, “What would your mother
do if she knew you were here?” And you
were provoked with yourself, and you
charged yourself with superstition and fa
naticism and your head got hot with your
own thoughts, and you went home and
yon went to bed, and no sooner had you
touched the bed than a voice said: “What!
a prayerless pillow? Manl what is the
matter?” This, You are too near your
mother’s rocking chair.
“Oh, pshawl” you say. “There’s noth
ing in that. I’m five hundred miles off
from where I was born. I’m three thou
sand miles off from the church whose bell
was the first music I ever heard.” I can
not help that. You are too near your
mothers rocking chair. “Oh,” you say,
“there can’t be anything iu that. That
chair has been vacant a great while.” I
cannot help that. It is all the mightier for
that. It is omnipotent, that vacant moth
er’s chair. It whispers, it speaks, it weeps, it
carols, it mourns, it prays, it warns, it
thunders. A young man went off and
broke his mother’s heart, and while he was
away from home his mother died, and the
telegraph brought .the son, and he came
into the room where she lay and looked
upon her face, and he cried out: “Oh
mother, mother, what your life could not
do your death shall effect! This moment
give my heart to God.” And he kept his
promise. Another victory for the vacant
chair. With reference to your mother the
w.ords of my text were fulfilled, “Thou
shait be missed, because thy seat will be
empty.”
TIIE INVALID'S CHAIR.
I go on a little further, and I come to the
invalid’s chair. What! How long have
you been sick? “Oh! I have been siek ten
twenty, thirty years.” Is it possible!.
What a story of endurance. There are in
many of the families of my congregation
these invalids’ chairs. The occupants o(
them think they are doing no good in the
world, but that invalid’s chair is the mighty
pulpit from which they have been preach-
all these years, trust in God. The first
time I preached here at Lakeside, Ohio,
amid the throngs present, there was noth
ing that so much impressed me as the spec
tacle of just one face—the face of an in
valid who was wheeled in on her chair,
said to her afterward, “Madam, how long
have you been prostrated?” for she was
lying flat in the chair. “Oh!” she replied,
“I have beenthi3 way fifteen years.” I said,
“Do you suffer very much?” “Oh, yes,’
she said, “I suffer very much; I suffer all
the time; part of the time I was blind,
always suffer.” "Well,” I said, “can you
keep your courage up?” “Oh, yes,” she
said, “lam happy, very happy indeed.” Her
face showed it. She looked the happiest oi
any one on the ground.
Oh, what a means of grace to the world,
these invalid chairs. On that field of hu
man suffering the grace of God gets its
victory. Edward Payson, the invalid,
and Richard Baxter, the invalid, and
Robert Hall, the invalid, and the ten thou
sand of whom the world has never heard,
but of whom all heaven is cognizant. The
most conspicuous thing on earth for God’s
eye and the eye of angels to rest on, is not
a throne of earthly power, but it is the in
valid’s chair. Oh, these men and women
who are always suffering but never com
plaining—these victims of spinal disease,
and neuralgic torture, and rheumatic ex
cruciation will answer to the roll call of
the martyrs, aud rise to the martyr’s
throne, and will wave the martyr’s palm.
But when one of these invalids’ chairs
becomes vacant how suggestive it isl No
more bolstering up of the weary head. No
more changing from side to side to get an
easy position. No more use of the band
age and the cataplasm and the prescrip
tion. That invalid’s chair may be folded
up or taken apart or set away, but it will
never lose its queenly power; it will al
ways preach of trust in God and cheerful
submission. Suffering all ended now.
With respect to that invalid the words of
my text have -been fulfilled, “Thou shait
be missed, because thy seat will he empty.
THAT EVPTY HIGH CHAIR.
I pass on and I find one more vacant
chair. It is a high chair. It is the child’s
chair. If that chair be occupied I think it
is the most potent chair in all the house
hold. All the chairs wait on it; all the
chairs are turned toward it. It means more
thaa David’s chair at Saul’s banquet. At
any rate it makes more racket. That is a
strange house that can be dull with a child
in it. How that child breaks up the hard
worldliness of the place aud keeps you
young to sixty, seventy and eighty years of
age. If you have no child of your own
adopt one; it will open heaven to your
soul. It will pay its way. Its crowing in
the morning will give the day a cheerful
starting, and its glee at night will give the
day a cheerful close. You do not like chil
dren? Then you had better stay out of
heaven, for there are so many there they
would fairly make, you crazy. Only about
five hundred millions of them. The old
crusty Pharisees told the mothers to keep
the children away from Christ. “You
Dottier him,” they said; "you trouoie tne
Master.” Trouble him! Ha has filled
heaven with that kind of trouble.
A pioneer in California says that for the
first year or two after his residence in
Sierra Nevada county there was not a
single child in all the reach of a hundred
miles. But-the Fourth of July came, and
the miners were gathered together and
they were celebrating the Fourth with ora
tion and poem aud a boisterous brass band,
and while the band was playing an infant’s
voice was heard crying, and all the miners
were startled, and the swarthy men began
to think of their homes on the eastern
coast, and of their wives aud children far
away, and their hearts were thrilled with
homesickness as they heard the babe cry.
But the music went on, and the child cried
louder and louder, and the brass band
played louder aud louder, trying to drown
out the iufautile interruption, when a
•wartny miner, tne tears rolling down his
face, got up and shook his fist aud said,
‘Stop that noisy band, and give the baby a
chance.” Oh, there was patho3 in it, as
well as good cheer in it. There is nothing
to arouse and melt and subdue the soul
like a child’s voice. But when it goes away
from you the high chair becomes a higher
chair and there is desolation all about you.
In three-fourths of the homes of this con
gregation there is a vacant high chair.
Somehow you never get over it. There is
no one to put to bed at night; no one to ask
strange questions about God and heaven.
Oh, what is the useof that high chair? It is
to call you higher. What a drawing up
ward it is to have children in heaven! And
then it is such a preventive against sin. If
a father is going away into sin he leaves
his living children with their mother; but
a father is going away into sin what is
he going to do with his dead children float
ing about him and hovering over his every
wayward step. Oh, speak out, vacant
high chair, and say: “Father, come back
from sin; mother, come hack from world
liness. I am watching you. I am waiting
for you.” With respect to your child the
words of my text have been fulfilled,
‘Thou shale be missed, because thy seat
will be empty.”
AN INVITATION UPWARD.
Mv hearers, 1 have gathered up the
voices of your departed friends and tried
to intone them into one invitation upward.
set in array all. the vacant chairs or your
homes and of your social circle, and I hid
them cry out this morning: “Time isshort.
Eternity is near. Take my Saviour. Be at
peace with my God. Come up where I am.
We lived together on earth: come let us
live together in heaven.” We .answer that
invitation. We come. Keep a seat for us,
as Saul kept a seat for David, but that seat
shall not he empty. And oh! when we are
all through with this world, and we have
shaken bauds all around for tjje last time,
and all our chairs in the home circle and in
the outside world shall he vacant, may we
be worshiping God. iu that place from
which we shall go out no more forever.
I thank. God there will be no vacant
chairs in heaven.' There we shall meet
again and talk over our earthly heart
breaks. How much you have been through
since you saw them last? On the shining
shore you eyill talk it all over. The heart
aches. The loneliness. The sleepless
nights. The weeping until you had no
more power to weep, because the heart was
withered and dried np. Story of empty
cradle and little shoe only half worn out
never to be worn algain, jnst the shape of
the foot that once pressed It. And dreams
when you thought the departed had come
back again, and the room seemed bright
with their faces, and yon started up to
greet them and In the effort the dream
broke and you found yourself standing
amid room in the midnight—alone.
Talking it all over, and then, hand In
hand, walking up and down in the light.
No sorrow, no tears, no death. Oh, heavenl
beautiful heavenl Heaven where our
friends are. Heaven where we expect to
be. In the east they take a cage of birds
and bring it to the tomb of the dead, and
then they open the door of the cage, and
the birds, flying out, sing. And I would
today bring a cage of Christian consola
tions to the grave of your loved ones, and
I would open the door and let them fill all
tbe air with the music of their voices.
Oh, how they bound in these spirits be
fore the thronel Some shout with glad
ness. Some break forth into uncontrolla
ble weeping for joy. Some stand speech
less in their shock cf delight. They sing.
They quiver with excessive gladness. They
gaze on the temples, on the palaces, on the
waters, on each other. They weave their
joy into garlands, they spring it into tri
umphal arches, they strike in on timbrels,
and then all the loved ones gather in a
great circle around the throne of God—fa
thers, mothers, brothers, sisters, sons and
daughters, lovers and friends, hand to
hand around about the throne of God—the
circle ever widening—hand to hand, joy to
joy, jubilee to jubilee, victory to victory,
“until the day break and the shadows flee
away. Turn thou, my beloved, and be
like a roe or a young hart upon the moun
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