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[ SEN AS A TASKMASTER.
HOW
I
THE WORLD’S
ARE BORNE BY
TROUBLES
MEN.
,"lined from the Brick Kiln*”—The Death-
| bed oT the Infidel—Mm Who Are i.ifl-
1 del* Are Hen Without Hope—What Be-
| Union Doe* for Man on Barth.
Brooklyn, Doc. 16.—The Rev. T.
Do Witt Talmajro’s discourse today
.was entitled. “Lifted from the Brick
kilns.” His text was: ••Though' ye
have lain among the pots, yet shall ye
be as the wings of a dove covered with
silver, and her feathers with yellow
gold.” Psalms lxviii, 13. He said:
1 suppose you know what the Israel
ites did down in Egyptian slavery.
They made bricks. Amid the uten
sils of tlie brick kiln there were also
other utensils of cookery—the kettles,
the pots, the pans, with which they
their daily food—and when
clown, no becomes sour, cross, queer,
misanthropic, blames the world,
blames society, blames the church,
blames everything, rushes perhaps to
the intoxicating cup to drown his
trouble, but instead of drowning his
trouble drowns his body and drowns
his soul.
THE£ART OP A CHRISTIAN.
But here is a Christian young man.
Trouble comes to him. Does he give
up? No. He throws himself back on
the resources of heaven. He says:
bo set his iron
quivering flesh of
grinding the wheels of his gun car
riages—m his dying moment asking his
attendants to put on his military boots
for him.
Spectacle the second: Voltaire,
bright and learned and witty and elo
quent, with tongue and voice and
stratagem infernal, warring against
God and poisoning whole kin;
rawu'vw ... with his infidelity, yet applauded bv
God is my father. Out of all these th,, clapping hands of thrones and
disasters I shall pluck advantage for ! prnn ; m rr „„d t ncf
into battle, how much more jubilantly
he can afford to shout “Huzza!” when
, and across the
which he went
ISAIAH V. WILLIAMSON.
HI* Noble Plan for tho Education of To
he has gained the victory I If reli,
is so good a thing to have here, bow
bright a thing it will bo in heaven! ‘ -1 r
want to see that young man when tho
glories of heaven have robed and
crowned him I 1 want to hear hint
sing when all huskinessof earthly colds
i is gone and he rises up with the
laudedhv E reat doxology. I want to know what
one of the interior villages of Japan,
if the wind is blowing; the town is'
practically gone. The roofs are in
of thatch. There are no
3.9
Men. many cases of thatch. A here are no
Parsimony has become ennobled In the I fire departments to speak of outside of
srs
work.
•mid
poor
layd
the
slavos, tired of the day’s
lown to rest, they lay down
implements of cookery
and the implements of liard work.
When they arose in the morning they
found their garments covered wiin
the clay and the smoke and the dust,
and besmirched and begrimed with the
utensils of cookery. But after a while
tho Lord broko up that slavery, and he
took these poor slaves into a land
where they nad better garb, bright
and clean and beautiful apparcL rio
more bricks for them to make. Let
Pharaoh mako his own bricks. When
David in my text comes to describe
tho transition of these poor Israelites
from their bondage among the brick
kilns into tho glorious emancipation
for which God had prepared them ho
says: "Though ye have laiu among the
pots, yet shall yo be os the wings of a
dove covered with silver, and her
feathers with yellow gold.”
Miss Whately, the author of a cele
brated book, “Lifo in Egypt,” said she
sometimes saw people in the east cook
ing their food on tno tops of houses,
and that sho had often seen, just be
fore sundown, pigeons, doves, which
had, during the neat of the day, been
hiding among tho kettles and pans
with which tho food was prepared
picking up the crumbs that they might
lind— fust about the hour of sunset
would spread their wings and fly
heavenward, entirely unsoiled by the
region in which they had moved, for
tlie pigeon is a very cleanly bird. And
as the pigeons flew away the setting
sun would throw silver on their wings
and f?old on their breast. So you see
it was not a far fetched simile, or an
unnatund comparison, when David in
my text says to these emancipated
Israelites, aud says to all those who
are brought out of: any kind of trouble
into any kind of spiritual joy:
•with yellow gold.
: HOUL SIN Vi’JtlQUS • UPON MAN’S BOUI^
' Sin is the hardest of all taskmasters.
Worse than Pharaoh, it keeps us
trudging, trudging in a most degrad
ing service; but after a while Carist
comes, and lie says: "Let my people
go.” and we pass out from among the
brick kilns of sin into the glorious
liberty of the Gospel; we put on the
clean robes of a Christian profession,
and when at lost wo soar away to the
•warn nost which God has provided for
ns in heaven, we shall go fairer than a
dove, its wings covered with silver,
and its feathers covered with yellow
gold.
I am going to preach something
•which some of you do not believe, and
that is that tho grandest passible adorn-
is tho religion of Jesus Christ There
, ... pluck advantage tor j empires*' and continents—his last
my soul. All the promises are mine. | words> in de i irium supposing Christ
Christ is mine. Christian compamon- ; stan ding by the bedside-his last
ship is mine, heaven is mine. What | words . *h(>ush that wretch.”
though my apparel be worn out? ( Spectacle the third: Paul-Paul in-
Christ gives me a robe of righteous- signilicant in person, thrust out from
ness. "What thougn my money bo a fl refined aviation, scourged, spat
gone? 1 have a title deed to the I on hounded like a wi]d
whole universe in the promise, ‘All dty ^ city yet to make ^
M and Leaven full; an-
resurrection to those who
barred gates of the
dead; speaking consolations which
... , , - , - . i light up the eyes of widowhood and
Oh, what a poor, shallow stream u ' orphanage and want with glow of cer-
orldly enjoyment compared with tain and eternal release: undaunted
fare be
1 sit at the
r and my bread be scant?
’s banquet”
the deep, broad, overflowing river of
God’s peace, rolling midway in the
Christian heart! Sometimes you have
S ine out on the iron bound beach of
e sea when there lias been a storm
*jn the ocean, and you have seen the
waves dash into white foam at your
feet They did not do you any harm.
While there, you thougnt of tlie chap-
psalmist,
before those .who could take his life,
his cheek flushed with transport, and
his eye on heaven; with one hand
shakiug defiance at all the foes of
earth and all the principalities of hell,
and with the other hand beckoning
messenger angels to come and bear
him away, as he says: "I am now
ready to be offered, and thotime of
ter written by the psalmist, and per- l m y departure is at hand; 1 have
haps you recited it to yourself while j fought the good fight, I have finished
—“ —ting commentary , my course, 1 * ’ ‘
God is our refuge 1 henceforth thi
f in 1
not
was makin
upon the passage
and strength, a very present hel
time of trouble. Thereforp will ]
fear though-the earth be removed, and
though tue mountains be carried into
the midst of the sea; though the waters
thereof roar and be troubled, though
the mountains shake with the swelling
thereof. Selahl” Oh, how indepen*
ligion of Christ makes a
man of worldly success and worldly
circumstances 1 Nelson, the night be
fore his last battle, said: ‘‘To-morrow
I shall win either a peerago or a grave
in Westminster Abbey.” And it does
not make much difference to the
Christian whether he rises or falls in
worldly matters; he has everlasting
renown any way. Other plumage may
be torn in the blasL but that soul
adorned with Christian grace is fairer
than tho dove, its wings covered with
silver, and its feathers with yellow
gold.
have kepi, the faith;
there is laid up for me a
crown of righteousness which the
Lord, the righteous Judge, will give
me.”
Which of tho three spectacles do
you most admire? When tho wind of
death struck the conqueror and the in
fidel they were tossed like sea gulls in
a tempest, drenched of the wave and
torn of the hurricane, their dismal
I voices heard through the everlasting
; storm; but wheu the wave and the
! wind of death struck Paul, like an
j albatross, be made a throne of the
tempest, and oueday floated away into
the calm, clear summer of heaven,
. brighter than the dove, its wings cov-
I ereu with silver, and its feathers with
yellow gold. Oh, are you not in love
with such a religion—a religion that
i can do so much for a man while ho
lives, and so much for a man when he
; comes to die? I suppose you may have
i noticed tho contrast between tbe de
standard be will carry when march
ing under arches of pearl in the army
of banners. I want to know what
company he will keep in a land where
they arc all kings and queens forever
ana ever. If I have induced one of
you this morning to begin a better
life, then I want to know it I may
not in this world clasp hands with you
in friendship, I may not bear from
your own lips the story of temptation
and sorrow, but 1 will clasp hands
with you when tbe sea is poked and
the gates are entered,
or MAN HAD BUT A FORETASTE OF
HEAVEN.
That I might woo you to a better
1 that I might show you the
which God clothes his
life, and
with
glories
dear children in heaveu, 1 wish I could
this morning swing back ouo of the
twelve gates that there might dash
at of t!
Eas given $5,000,000, with the promise of ! steam engines which form Tokio’s fire
$7,000,000 more, to found a training < d epartment would not weigh alto-
of Mr. Isaiah V. Williamson, who : large cities, and the six little
school in Philadelphia,
for many ye
make
Mr. \\ iiiiamson m0 re than two American steam-
«*«o i-1. toU’ iSer-bS a Cw-te-.
ogermrian, he places his
s m the har
You and I have found out that peo- ! parturo of a Christian and the depart-
plo who
pretend to bo
Look at
py are not
iat young
ipagm
floor, rolling the glasses from tho bar
room counter, laughing, shouting,
stamping the floor, shrieking, is he
happy? 1 will go to his midnight pil
low. I will see him turn the gas off.
I will ask myself if the pillow on which
he sleeps is as soft as the pillow on
which thatpuro young man sleeps.
Ah, no! When he opens his eyes in
tho morning, will the world be os
bright to him as to that young man
ure of an infidel. Deodorus, dying in
chagrin because he could not compose
I ke uttered
e. Zeuxis,
at tho sketch
of an aged womansketch made by
his own hand. Mazarin, dying play
ing cards, his friend holding his hands
because he was unable to bold them
himself. Ail that on one side, com-
with the departure of tho
>tch minister, who .said to his
friends: “I have no interest os to
whether I live or die; if I die I
shall be with the Lord, and if 1 live
tho Lord shall be with me." Or the
last words of Washington: “It is
who retired at night saying his prayers, j well ” Or the last word of McIntosh,
invoking God’s blessing upon his own the learned and the great, “Happy!”
soul and tho souls of his comrades, and Or the last word of Hannah More,
father and mother and brother and j the Christian poetess: “Joy!” Or
sister far away? No, no. His laughter j those thousands ofChristians who have
will ring out from the saloon so that j gone,
be-
the
really
men condemn tlie Bible is
cause they do not understand
Bihlo; they have not properly ex
amined it. Dr. Johnson said
thut l.iime told a minister in the bish
opric of Durliam that he had never
particularly examined the New Testa
ment, yet all his life warring against
iL Halley, the astronomer, announced
his skepticism to Sir Isaac Newton,
and Sir Isaac Newton said: “Now,sir,
I have examined tho subject and you
have not. and I am ashamed that you,
professing to be a philosopher, consent
to condemn a thing you never have
examined." And so men reject the
religion of Jesus Christ because they
really havo never investigated it.
They think it something impractical,
something that will not work, some
thing Pecitsniffian, something hypo
critical, something repulsive, when it
is so bright and-so beautiful you
might compare it to achalHnch, you
might compare it to a robin redbreast,
you might compare it to a dove, its
>wings covered with Bilver, and its
feathers with yellow gold.
But how is it if a young man be
comes a Christian? All through the
club rooms where he associates, all
through the business circles where ho
is kuown, there is commiseration.
They sav: “Wliat a pity that a young
man who hod »vch bright prospects,
should so have been despoiled by those
Christians, giving up all his worldly
prospects for something which is of
no particular present worth I” Here is
a young woman who becomes a Chris
tian, her voice, her face, her manners
the charm of the drawing room. Now
all through the fashionable circles the
•whisper goes: “What a pity that such
a bright Tight should have been extin
guished, that such a graceful gait
should be crippled, that such worldly
prospects should be obliterated I" Ah,
my friends, it can be shown that re-
Sigion’s ways are ways of pleasantness
and that all her paths are peace; that
religion, instead of being dark, and
doleful, and lachrymose, and repul
sive, is bright ana beautiful, fairer
Ithan a dove, its wings covered with
you hear it as you pass by, but it is
hollow laughter; in it is the snapping
of heart strings and the rattle or
prison gates. Happy! that young
man happy? Let mm fill high the
bowl; bo cannot drown an upbraiding
conscience. Let the balls roll through
tbe bowling alley: the deep rumble
and the sharp crack cannot overpower
the voices of condemnation. Let him
whirl in the dance of sin and tempta
tion and death. All tho brilliancy of
the scene cannot make him forget the
last look of his mother, as he left
home, when she said to him: “Now,
my son, you will do right; 1 am sure
you will do right; you will, won’t
you?” That young man happy? Why,
across every night there flits shadows
ua
coiled u
lures of despair’ striking their iron
beak into his heart; there are skeleton
fingers of grief pinching at the throat.
I come in amid the clicking of tho
glasses and under the flashing of the
chandeliers, and I cry: "Wool wool
The way of the ungoaly shall perish.
There is no peace, saith my Goa to the
wicked. The way of transgressors
hard.” Oh, my friends, there is m<
ne, saying: “Lord Jesus, receive
j spirit. Come, Lord Jesus, come
ickly.” “O death! where is thy
I gravel where is thy victory?”
the
my
quickly,
sting? O
Behold
contrast. Behold the
charm of the one, behold the darkness
of the other. Now, I know it is very
popular in this day for young men to
think there is something more charm
ing in skepticism than in religion.
They are ashamed of the old fashioned
religion of the cross, and they pride
themselves on their free thinking on
all these subjects. My young friends,
i I want to tell you what 1 know from
observation, that while skepticism is a
beautiful land at the start, it is tho
great Sahara desert at tho last.
A STORY WITH A MORAL.
iu in every cup j there are vul- j formed the acquaintance of
f despair stnkin
gates
upon your ear one shout oT the tri
umph, that there might flame upon
your eyes one blaze of the splendor.
Oh, when I speak of that good land,
you involuntarily think of some one
there that you loved—father, mother,
brother, sister or dear little child gar
nered already. You want to know
what they are doing this moraiug. I
will tell you what they are do
ing. Singing. You want to know
what they wear. I will tell you what
they wear. Coronets of triumph. You
wonder why oft they look to the gate
of the temple, and watch and wait
I will tell you why they watch and
wait and look to the gate of the tem
ple. For your coming. 1 shout up
ward the news today, for I am sure
some of you will repent and start for
heaven. Oh, ye bright ones before
tho throne, your earthly friends are
coming. Angels, posing mid air, cry
up tho name. Gatekeeper of heaven,
send forward the tidings. Watchman
on the battlements celestial, throw the
signal.
“Oh," you say, “religion I am going
to have; it is only a question of time.”
My brother, I am afraid that you may
lose heaven the way Louis Philippe
lost his empire. The Parisian mob
came around tho Tnilcries. Tho Na
tional Guard stood in defense of the
lace and tho commander said to
mis Philippe: “Shall I Ore now?
Shall I order tho troops to fire? With
one volley we can clear tho place.”
“No,” said Louis Philippe, “not yeL"
A few minutes passed on, and then
Louis Philippe, seeing the case was
hopeless, said to tlie general: “Now
is the time to fire.” “No,” said the
general, “it is too late now; don’t
you see that the soldiers are ex
changing arms with the citizens? It
is too late." Down went tbe throne
of Louis Philippe. Away from
tho earth went the house of Orleans,
and all because the king said: “Not
yet, not yeL" May Goa forbid that
any of you should adjourn this great
subject of religion, and should post
pone assailing your spiritual foes until
it is too late—too late, you losing a
throne in heaven the way that Louis
Philippe lost a throne on earth.
When the Judge descends iu might,
Clothed In majesty and light;
When the earth shall quake with fear,
Where, O where, wilt thou appear!
How Money Accumulates.
In Mulhall’s “Balance Sheet of the
World” the interesting fact is noted
that “every day that the sun rises
upon tho American people it sees an
addition of $2,500,000 to the accumu
lation of wealth in the United States,
which is equal to one-third of the
daily accumulation of all mankind
outside of the United States.”
now, an oct .
cumulations in the hands of trustees for
a great and noble purpose. Within a
few years the click of the hammer and
the clatter of machinery will be heard
within the walls of great buildings, from
which hundreds or thousands of boys
will emerge to make an honorable living.
Mr. Williamson was born In Bucks
county near Philadelphia in 1803. He
began his business career as a clerk in a
country store, but soon went to the city
to seek his fortune. He started in a
small dry goods business and developed
such a talent for trade that by the tune
he was SO he had amassed a fortune of
$200,000. It is almost impossible in these
days of colossal fortunes to understand
the relative value of $200,000 in 1833.
Any mm in America at that time who
would have desired more would have
been regarded as an unreasonable being.
Mr. Williamann concluded that he had
acquired sufficient means to keep him
for the rest of his life, went out of busi
ness and started out to see the world.
For two years he traveled in Europe as a
man of fortune and lived a gay life.
Suddenly he made a complete change
of front He cut his gay friends, sold
bis luxurious effects and began a lonely,
penurious life, which he has not changed
in fifty yearn. A close, shrewd man,
everything that he touched seemed to
turn to mouey.
But it has been
all money and
none of the com
forts and . luxu-
uries that render
money so desira
ble to many peo
ple. There has
been no wife, no
chick; no home.
It has been said
that this is tho
result of an un
fortunate love af
fair in early life,
but no one knows.
For years the
millionaire has
moved from one L wiij.tamson.
boarding house to another with as much
frequency as one who has a chronic
failure at paving board bills. He lias
blacked his own boots and walked in bad
weather to save the expense of car fare;
indeed, has never spent a cent for his
own comfort that he could avoid.
Mr. Williamson’s office is in a dingy
room in the warehouse of tlie Wflliman-
tic Spool Cotton company, in Bank street,
Philadelphia. In thi3 unornamented
place he conducts his business. He dis
likes to waste any time and will never
see a caller when he can help iL While
he has been practicing such rigid econ
omy he lias given away $1,500,000 in
charity, and now that the end is eo near
—for at 85 one cannot certainly expect
to live much longer—ho has begun to
turn his vast savings into an institution
which will make tens or hundreds of
thousands of good citizens out of mate
rial that might otherwise, for the most
be wasted.
SAWED OFF SHORT.
Clever News Telegram* Curtailed to Salt
the Hasty Reader.
Senator Beck is ill.
John Bridenburgh successfully stran
gled himself at Kenton, O.
Paul Grady, aged thirteen, was cut in
two by cars at Newark, O.
Toronto's new archbishop is Rev. Don
ald McDonald, of Harbor Grace, N. F.
'Frisco merchants are organizing
against the excessive rates of insurance
charged there. fi£S
The merchant marine and fisheries
committee will investigate alleged out
rages in Alaska.
The Miners’ Progressive Union elected
officers and selected Columbus as its
headquarters.
Harry Weldon, of Cincinnati, has been
elected president of the Base Ball Re
porters' association,
A gang of seventeen moonshiners were
captured in Wyoming county, West Vir
ginia, Friday.
On January 7th, the Indiana supreme
court will be republican for the first
time in eighteen years.
John 8ullivan ha3 depotited $5,000 for
feit, and issued his challenge for a fight
to a finish with Jake Kilrain.
At Memphis, Tenn., Frederick Hause,
a car repairer employed by the Kansas
City railroad, was crushed to death by
the cars. *
Denison, Ohio, saloon keepers are pre
paring to open up. The circuit court
lias declared the local option ordinance
in that state invalid.
Webb C. Willison, while working on
the new city building at Springfield, O.,
fell seventy feet to the ground and was
instantly killed.
Band Sears, a Hound Hollow, Ky. \ Cl
farmer, died of hydrophobia from the j f
effects of a bite received by a dog twen
ty-five years ago.
Roy Heelweg and Frank Middaugh,
jed ten and eight years respectively,
were drowned wuile skating on tbe rivir
a $
part,
JOHN B. HENDERSON.
>
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, . , t .. Years ago a minister's son went off
0 ^fh raa ^ darku( ** ;tber S are axlde ? from homo to college. At college he
acquaintance of a young
man whom 1 snail call Ellison. Elli
son was an infidel. Ellison scoffed
at religion, and the minister’s son
80011 learned from him the infidelity,
and when he went homo on his vaca
tion broke his father’s heart by his de
nunciations of Christianity. Time
passed on and vocation came, and the
minister's son went off to spend the
vacation, and was on a journey and
camo to a hotel. The hotel keeper
said: “I am sorry that to-night 1 shall
have to put you in a room adjoining
one where tiiore is a very sick and
dying nun. 1 can give you no other
accommodation.” “Oh, said the
young college student and minister’s
son. ‘“that will make nodifference tome
except the matter of sympathy with
anybody that is suffering." The young
man retired to his room, but could not
joy in one drop of Christian satisfac
tion than in whole rivers of sinful de
light Other wings may be drenched
of the storm and splashed of the tem
pest, but the dove that comes in
through tho window of this heavenly
ark has wings tike the dove covered , volin ~ college
with silver, and her feathers with yel- i “that will
low gold.
Again I remark, religion is an
adornment in the style of usefulness
sleep. All night long he heard the
into which it inducts a man. Here
ore two young men. The one has line groaning of tlTo sick ™n, or tho step
culture, exquisite wardrobe, plenty of of tho watchers, and his soul trembled,
friends, worl^success,^ut he He thought to himself: “Note, there
uy i
lives forhimself. Efis chief care is for
his own comfort. He lives uselessly.
He dies unregretted. Here is another
young man. His apparel may not be
so good, his education may not be so
thorough. He lives for others. His
happiness is to make others happy.
Ho a as self denying as that dying
soldier, falling in the ranks, when he
said: “Colonel, there is no need of
those boys tiring themselvds by carry
ing me to the hospital
where 1 am." So this young man
whom 1 speak loves God, wants all
the world to love him, is not ashamed
j is only a thin wall between mo and a
■ departing spirit! How if Ellison
should know how I feel? How if El-
i tison should find out how my heart
i flutters? What would Ellison say if
j he knew my skepticism gave way?"
j He slept not In tho morning, coming
: down, he said to the hotel keeper:
J “How is the sick man?” “Oh,” said
j the hotel keeper, “he is dead, poor fel-
. - I low! The doctors told ua he could not
mo to the hospital; let me die just j j ast through the nighL” “Well,” said
°* : the young man, “what was the sick
one's name; where is he from?”
, “Well " said the hotel keeper,” he is
to carry d bundle of clothes up that from Providence college. “Provi-
dark alley to tho* poor. Which of t dence college I what is his name?"
those young men do, you admire the j “Ellison.” ru, i
The Young Mon from College.
College bred young men are without
experience on the practical side of life.
Tho pushing, alert business man is not
particularly impressed with the value of
a college degree in forecasting the mar
ket or determining the value of “job
lots,” because ho knows business is not a
theory at all, but a hard facL Then,
too, collegians often give themselves su
perior airs, which do not go down with
their associates, the majority of whom
have received honorable scars in their
fight with circumstances, and have little
tenderness for carpet knights. More
over, the impressionable and formative
period of life having been spent in the
school room, they have not acquired that
alertness, that power to grasp a business
situation or problem ana instantly solve
it Nothing in their school books taught
them the shrewd, watchful readiness
impetition makes necessary.
Take the young fellow who left school
as soon as no had mastered the rale of
three, and entered upon the struggle for
existence. His mjnd was open to all
impressions—ho learned business with-
■ blowing he was learning, as a child
ms to talk. He has formed business
habits unconsciously. His mind was
molded to alertness, rapidity of thought,
promptitude of action, tho requirements
of-business character. Let us illustrate.
Take a little fellow of 8 or 9 years.
>ught up in a well regulated home,
and place him beside tlie street Arab,
bootblack or newsboy. On the score of
mental activity and practical knowledge
and shrewdness, the latter wall run him
to cover in two minutes. Docs not some
such difference exist between the edu
cated, young man and tho one to whom
business has been a matter of daily life
since early youth, which makes employ
ers prefer the latter?—Baldwin’s Textile
It X* Expected Be W1U Be Prominent in
the Next Administration.
John B. Henderson's prominence in
tho Republican party dates fully thirty
yeara back, he having been one of the
very few Republicans of any appreciable
influence in the state of Missouri before
the civil war. At that time, when the
state was one of the strongest of the
strongholds of the Democratic party,
Gratz Brown, John B. Henderson and Carl
Sburz were the recognized leaders of the
small minority which represented the
Republican party there. 8o far as po
litical position went, however, this promi
nence was before the war an idle distinc
tion, and there seemed no possible proe-
pect of the minority ever succeeding to
power.
The chance came, however, in a some
what curious maimer. Missouri being a
border state, a specially large proportion
of the voters were
in the army on
how cheerful a man may naturally be
before conversion, conversion brings
^iim up to a higher standard of cheer
fulness. I do not say he wall laugh
any louder, I do not say but bo may
ktond back from some forms of hilarity
iu which he once indulged; but there
comes into his soul an immense satis
faction. A yjung man. not a Chris
tian, depends upon worldlv successes
to keep his spirits up. Now he is
prospered, now ho has large salary,
Bow he-has a beautiful wardrobe,.
now be has pleasant friends, now
ho has more money than ho knows
how to spend; eve»-ything goes bright
and well with him. But trouble comes
—there are many young men in the
house this morning who can testify
out of their own experience that some
times to young men troublo docs comp
t. — his fnetltls are gone, bis salary is
gone, jjjfsharitb U .gone; ^oes down,
Ellison I” Oh, how the
: young man was stunned 1 It
• nis old college mate—dead without
! any hope. It was many hours before
■ the young man could leave that hotel.
» He got on his horse and started home-
ard, and all the way ho heard somo-
j eight
mianig
possit
tbe C
are
in
those young men do, you admire the
better? Tbe one a sham, the other a
prince imperiaL •
Oh, do you know of anything, my
hearer, that is more beautiful than to
see a young man start out for Christ?
Here is some one falling: be lifts him
up. Here is a vagabond boy; he in
troduces him to a mission school
Here is a family freezing to death; ho
carries them a scuttle of coaL There
it hundred millions perishing
ight heathen darkness; by aQ
ible means bo tries to send to them
Gospel. He may be laughed at,
and he may be sneered at, anuhe may
bo caricatured, but he is not asliamed Mighty on earth, mighty in heaven—
to go everywhere, saying: “I am not i Adoniram Judson. Which d
ashamed of tho Gospel of ChrisL Itis like the best, Judson’s skeptic
the power of God and tho wisdom of . Judson’s Christian-lifel Juasoi
Goa unto salvation." Such a young feriuj for Christ’s sake, Judso
man can go through everything. ; most martyrdom? Oh, young man,
There is no force on earth or in hell take your choice between these two
that can resist him. 1 kinds of lives. Your own heart tells
SIGNIFICANT SPECTACLES IN HISTORY. |
I show you three spectacles. Spec
tacle the first: Napoleon passes by
with tho host that went down with
him to Egypt, and up with him
tferougb Russia, nod crossed fbe soo
thing saying to him: “Dead,’ Lost!
! Dead I Lostr Ho came to nosatisfoc-
; tion until heentered the Christian life,
until he entered tho Christian mifiia-
; ti-y, until he became one of the most
i eminent missionaries of the cross, the
. greatest Baptist missionary tho world
has ever seen since the days of Paul—
! no superior to Adoniram Judson.
iticism or
in’s suf-
Judson’s al-
J. D. HENDERSON.
aged ten and eight years r
were drowned wuile skating
at Owatonna, Wis,
■ John W. Bovd, a painter of Columbus,
Go., who has been at Asheville, N. C.,
some time, was knocked from a trestle
at Black mountain and instantly killed.
Tbe members of the Ohio National
Guard have been assigned to the corri
dors of the war, state and naval depart
ments in Washington for inauguration
.headquarters.
!■ Wm. Mearselman, living near Peru,
Ind., while felling a tree was caught
among the limbs and had an arm and
several ribs broken, while he was badly
"bruised all over his body.
! Casimero Livar washung at Edinburg,
Texas for the murder of Theodore
Marks. Livar and two others waylaid
Marks. Livar shot him and then cut his
body up and burned it.
In Union county, Arkansas. Louis Gil
more aud Jesse Frisky, promim nt farm
ers. became invoi- ea in a difficulty at
the latter's house, md tlie former received
a load of buckshot in the breast and died
immediately.
! In the peerless oil refiner-- at I indl-y,
O., William Lightfo t descoa-lod into a
_Still and was overcome by gas. Ephraim
TWeivich followed to help him and fare
ithe same. Phil. GCouneil went third
'and succeeded in having Wei rich only,
and almost losing his own life in the
attempt.
1 Mahlon Wood, of Monlicello, Ind.
who conspired with Samuel Robinson to
put wooden pegs in corn aud afterwards
find them in Samuel McMullen's man
ger, in order to blackmail him out of
property, is condemned to utilize his
- igging practice one year in the penl-
ntial shoe shop.
Frank Robinson, colored, was arrested
for oontz playing at Louisville, Ky. He
jumped from a third-story window to
oscapo the officers, and was picked up
frightfully crushed and cut. While on
the way to the hospital he regained con
sciousness and jumped from the patrol
wagon and escaped.
The attempt to form a drug trust was
a failure.
Gen. Spinner's malady is said to be
cancer.
James Francis fell through a trap door
at-Akron, O., and was fatally injured:
John Garrotr felt from -a; train near
Hopkinsville, Ky., and broke his collar
bone.
Workmen emplaved on the stand Pi]
ELECTION NOTI-.E.
An election Will be held at the Courthouse of
irke county, Georgia, aud at the various pre-
cts of said county on tlie first Wednesday in
January, 1889, for the following county officer*
of said county, to-wlt: Clerk of tlie 8uoerlor
< ourt, Ordinary, Sheriff, oroner, Tax Collector
Tax Receiver, County Surveyor and Coun y
Treasurer. .... .
Given under my hand at office this 23d day of
November 1888. * «a M, .1 WN.
Ordinary.
I'VI'e-OP tiEOR -IA.—CoOOTY OF CwKKU -
To the Superior Court of said Conntv. The
petitlo . of Mrs. It, beeca V Hamilton, Miss M -ry
LlHmi'too, James S. Hamilton. Jr , ard G..y t:.
amiltoo re-poetfnlly shows that they togeiher
- i« h such oilier persons as may be essoal -ted with
them deal*e to b» Incorporated for the terra of
twenty years«pon ihe following firms, condl-
tions anil Ftipul.tfon , to-wlt:
irtrsi—Thi, name of said <orporatlnn ahal! Ira
The Princeton NTonnfaeturlng Coropanv. and Us
principal p »co of business to be lo Clarke couq-
t7 Second^-THe fapltid Stock of jail Cetnpan y
shall bn Fifty Thousand ($.10,000) Dollars, wltu
taa privilege of Increasing it to One bnndrfed
aud fifty Thousand ($15“ .000) dollars by a major
ity vote of the st-.ekholder*. . . ,
Third—This corporation *o engage in tbe busi
ness o f buying *ed selling cottoe and
wool nnd cotton snd woolen ■ oods. the
manufacture of cotton and woolen
goods and all textile fabrics; and io operate ooe
or more <ket-,riee aud suon other burlnera as may
be Incidental to and connected with thepurpos-j
of incorporation. ■ •
Fourth—The whole sraourt of fapital stock will
be sctuslly pall in at the time of organ aaiton
and before business Is commenced by raid corpo
ration. . . .
Fifth—oatd corporationtohsve'herowertobuy.
Inssi snd sell reel end personal property mees-
ssry snd usual for tbe conduct otjuch buriuoss,
to issue note,, bends and ether evweuces - f debt
snd to secure the hbi by a mortirMprur d ed or
trust upon assy of Its pro- erty. Also the power
to lease such otbor factories or property ea ut fi 7
be necessary and proper for conducting its bust
ers.
8lxth—Said corporation to have power lo rs-
of the Wi
have struck for
The minister’s wife sat on the front
porch mending the clothes of one of her
: basket, hi
the floor of the porch. After various re
marks of a goesipy nature, tho visitor
said: ;*
“You seem to be well supplied with
buttons, Mrs, Goodman.”
“Yes; very well indeed.”
“My gracious! If there ain’t two of
tho same buttons my husband bad on his
last winter suit. I’d know ’em
where.”
“Indeed!” said tho minister’s wifo,
calmly. “I am surprised to bear it, as
all these buttons were found in the con
tribution box. So I thought I might os
well put them to some use, so I—whatl
must you go? Well, be sure to call
'West
any
one Bide or the
other in the war,
and then came
an election, in
which, to tlie sur
prise of the coun
try, tho Republi
cans gained for
the first time the
control of the
; state legislature.
The result was
that in 1864 Hen
derson was sent
to the Unified
States senate. His election was for six
years, of course, and, as after the war
the Democrats, regained the control of
Missouri, Senator Henderson was in
power against the will of the majority
of his own constituents. As a matter of
course he served only a single term, but
during that term he enjoyed a very con
siderable degree of influence with the
administration at Washington by reason
of his being a southern senator, and was
able to secure a great many very import
ant appointments.
After that time ex-Senator Hender
son’s position, though he was strong in
party councils, has been practically,
among the “outs,” he not having a suffi
ciently strong following in his own state
to carry iL In 1878 there was a chance,
or aeemed to be one, that he might come
prominently .to the front, for his
nation to tlie vice presidency wi
urged by a certain contingency who
lieved that with him for a leader it
would be possible for the Republicans to
save Missouri and Kansas. A powerful
pressure was brought to bear in his
favor in tlie convention, but it was not
sufficient to counterbalance the claims of
Massachusetts, and Henry Wilson was
declared the nominee.
Even after that, though in the same
campaign, there was some talk of push
ing Henderson to the fronL Tho revolt
from tlie Republican party, headed by
Greeley, developed more apparent
strength early in the campaign than it
showed at the polls, and after Gratz
Brown had been nominated by tho Lib
eral Republicans and indorsed by the
Democrats, he was regarded as especi
dangerous in the two states Li wl
Henderson's strength lay. It was there-
fore proposed, and the proposition wus jn z to con
gravely considered, to withdraw Wilson Photuix nark murders,
and 6utztitu<.c Henderson as theRcpubli- during his examination that
can candidate for second place. As w, or agent ha -
course, well known, other counsels pre
vailed, and Yv’ilson got tho place.
i nomi-
again.
i Point Alliance.
What It Once Ecaak — i
A teacher writes: “One of mv pupils
who had been teaching during the sum
mer came to mo in despair over a sum,
you this morning the Christian life i. : dr^apaoS
more admirable, more peaceful, more ( fractions.’” (When we went to Bchool,
comfortable and more beautiful. _ [ years and years ago. “sympathizing frac-
[pipe
sub-water works
wages.
Eleven prisoners confined in the county
jail at Council Bluffs, Iowa, made their
escape. Four have been recaptured.
A number of forged checks oa the
American Exchange bank, of Chicago,
amouttiing to about $4,000, have been
It is now believed that tho Rev. W. L.
Parker, who disappeared from 0.-;wego,
N. Y.. last Friday, committed-suicide oy
drowning. ,;> .. ..
Dowe Bell pleaded gtulty, at Green
ville, O., to the charge of aiding and
abetting ex-Treasurer Simons in tobbing
the Darke —'
Fire* In Jitpxn.
The fire department is under tho
police, and Japanese fires burn down
moro houses than thoso of any other
nation in the world. The architecture
is such that when a fire breaks out
i county treasury.
The proDaoio reason why. horses, are
apparently satisfied with two kinds of
food may be found in the circum
stance that they seldom have an op
portunity to taste anything else. They
are veiy fond of apples, cabbages ana
most kind of garden vegetables. They
like sweet substances. They will eat
the leaves of corn, sugar cane and
sorghum in preference to hay. Be
cautious, but give your horses a va-
riety. _
The Parnell Trial.
London, Dec. 7.—[Special.]—In the
Parnell commission to-day Malloy denied
everything the Times people expected
him to testify, and swore he knew noth-
connect the Irish leaders with the
It transpired
, at the Times'
agent had invented charges to which
Malloy wa» expected/to testify. The
disclosure had a damaging- effect oa the
Times’
■ eive ntopnitr l%j*fmentor *ubM’Tli»tlot'* to the
capital stock, the valuu of such property to he
determined by the lnoorpor*lor& or Stockholm.
| Sev- nih—>*ld carpor»*iou to h*ve paver to
e'ec' (men officers *• -nay be preerearv snd to
pee* *u>:h by-law* fir hecood rc* of it* business
as msy not "be in conflict wnhttie law of this
sute or of the United etates.
Eighth—3aid corpor*l!on to hare the p-lvllcee
Of renewsl at the expiration of twenty (’JO) ye »r*
And yonr peti'Ioi.ers prav that they rosy
bo incorporated w th the power* above »ti lorth
BARROW A THOMAS
Petitioner*’ attorneys.
Filed In office November IB. t8‘8.
JOHN I. HUGGINS. * l'»k
I cettifv that the foresohig t* a true o py > t tho
petition of file and of record in n>y office
JOHN L HUOtilN-. cl’ r».
November 16. I88S. nora-w4t
CITATION.
Georgia— Clarke Co —To an whom It may
concern: Mrs • laude F. Thomas having ap
plied for permanent letters of administration on
he estate of John J Thomas, lato of said coun
tv, this is to cite all and singular the next of
kin and creditors to show cause at the regular
January term 1889 vf the court of Ordinary of
said county why permanent a'ministration
should not be granted to her on said estate.
Witness my hand and official slguature, Nov.
10th 1888. Asa M. Jackson, Ordinary.
N
Tb
OTICfc—OBQR ’IS, CLARKE COUwTY—To
. all whom it may concern, w rv Clsude V.
homos, widow of John J. Thomas, la’e of s*Id
canty deceased, h^» made her spj.lirotLn for
a years sup.ort from the«state of sa'd deceas'd
a nd the appraiser* appointed by me hove this
doy filed their r. port. Aflandaingnlorthecrcdlt-
or* and heir* at law of tell det ewod, and oil
person* Interested are hereby notified to file
their «blecUons. if any, to said report within
thirty doy*. This Nov. 19.188*.
ASA M. JACKSON.
1119-4t Ordinary,
tviOTI- E TO DEBTORS AN D CREDITORS^
I" Notice Is hereby glveu to allp rson* havluv
demands aga nst Dr. James S. Hamilton, lat of
said county decease , to present the same to the
undersign, within the time prescribed by 1 w,
and an pera ns Indebted to said deceased are
hereby required tom.ke immediate payment to
the undersigned.
MBS. REBECCA C HAMILTON.
JAS. S. HA MILTON, Jr,
C. HAM LTON
nov!3wGL
GUY l
Executors.
r DFI.HENLEVS .
Extract^*!
Every Lady ,
Her Own Physician.—A Lady who
for many years suffered from Uterine
Troubles.—Palling, Displacements, Leu-
corthcea and Irregularities^ finally found
houses fall like they did in the Chicago 1 remedies which completely cured.her.
Oh, if religion does so much for a I meant broken candy,
au oo earth, what will it do for him stood, but the teacher tlie
TTPU
in heaven?
conflagration, and I saw a statement -Any.Lady cm take .the remedies, and
in a newspaper last night of a fire in thus care herself without the aid of a
tho interior of Japan which burnt physical?: The Recipes with full direc-
2,600 houses. It is said that Tokio tions and advice securely sealed sent
rerv seven years, and P&ek to any sufferer. Address Mrs. M
100 to 500 houses are J. Brabib,252 So. 10th §t., Philadelphia
Ok n**i a m P* ll.L. T ** _
We under- turns down evi
dn’t. -i, Times fires of from _ __
tho thought that change, and we change with tham> - common. When a fire breaks out in H». Name thi* p4per. " ' -Iune5wnT.
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