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THE CLEVELAND PROGRESS.
By W. W. PRICE.
VOL. IV
DEVOTED TO THE MINING, AOJUCUBTURA I, AND EDUCATIONAL INTERESTS OF CLEVELAND, WHITE COUNTY AND NORTH EAST GEORGIA.
CLEVELAND, WHITE COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, ISDN.
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NORTH CAROLINA MUXS.
Remarkable Progress in Cotton Man
ufacturing In the State.
The North Carolina statu agrienl
tural department has issued valuable
special bulletins giving a list of manu
facturing enterprises in North Cnr«>*
linn. That portion of it which in of
greatest interest is in regard to cotton
mills. This shows that cloven mills
arc now in course of construction ;
that the stock in eight more lms been
subscribed and that 100 arc now in
operation, spinning or weaving, be
sides these, there avo twelve knitting
mills, one silk mill, one towel mill,
four bag nulls and manufactory of
sash cord and cording. There are
thirteen woolen mills in operation.
The total of all is 102.
Alamance county leads, having
twenty-two cotton mills, tListon haa
twenty-one, Randolph fifteen and
Mecklenburg thirteen. There are
mills in forty-one of the ninety-six
counties. There’are reported 19,000
looms and 750,00 ) spindles.
Henry CL Hester, secretary of the
New Orleans cotton exchange, lias
sent Governor Carr the following tel
egram :
“1 congratulate you and the people
of North Carolina on her remarkable
progress in cotton manufactures. She
is now practically equal to South C ar
olina, the largest cotlon consumer in
the South. By the actual census of
mills North Carolina h is consumed of
this year’s crop 227,000 bales, an in
crease of 55,000 over \*^t year. She li is
new spindles which may be brought into
play in 1 895 00 which, with f.iir trade
conditions, should increase her total to
at least 250,000. In 1890 North Car
olina consumed 111,000 bales. So
your slate Ins practically doubled her
cotton manufactures within the past
live vears.”
SMALL ( IT FROM TIIE WEST.
In October the Western Lines May Do
More for Rutes.
At the meeting of Western Das
senger Association at Chicago Tn*-sday
a resolution was adopted providing I
that special rates to tho Atlanta expo- i
sitiou should be based on 75 per cent. ;
of tho regular fare each way, the 'bites j
of sale and return limits to be Fixed by j
the chairman. It was agreed that no
lower rat* s should be made in advance
of another meeting, which will beheld
early in October. It is then cxp« ct< <1
that a further reduction will be made.
The western lints believe that they
have done all that is safe and reasona
ble fer this month.
Nihilists Arrested.
The United States government, it is
authoritatively announced at tho state
department,has decided to enter forth- j up pendm ;
with upon an independent investiga
tion of the Cheng Tu riots, with the
co-operation of a Chiuoso representa
tive. As at first arranged, the inquiry
was to have been made in co-opera
tion with England, but th**re has been
a change of plan within the last few
days occasioned by the fact licit the
British consul at Chung King Inis been
detained at his post, and it is said will
not be able to begin tho inquiry for a
month or more.
Mr. Walter E. Faison, chief of the
consular bureau, will bo detailed as
acting solicitor at tho state depart
partmont pending the appointment of
a successor lo Mr. Waller D. Dabney,
who has accepted the position of pro
fessor of law at the University of Vir
ginia. The legal requirements of the
office of solicitor are very high and
considerable care is always exorcised
in the selection. Mr. Faison is be
lieved to bo thoroughly equipped for
llio place, and Mr. Adeo, tho acting
secretary of state, regards the depart
ment us fortunate ill so readily Had
ing a man of so much legal ability.
Gold Reserve Dropping Lower.
At the close of business Wednesday
llio treasury gold reserve stood id
$100,115,172. This Figure was reached
just before tho ond of tho day’s busi
ness by the syndicate depositing $2,-
500,000 gold. Prior to 3 o’clock Assist
ant Treasurer Jordan reported $1,700,-
000 in gold withdrawn at New
York for export to Europe.
When tlmt. report was received
the gold reserve had fallen be
low tho $100,000,000 mark, standing
at $07,015,172. On the treasurer’s
books it stood ubovo tho reserve limit,
but tho withdrawals ou Monday had
not been taken tip. Tuesday the gold
reserve was all day below the limit to
the amount of $1,000,000. This fact
was not known at the treasury, how
ever, as it was generally understood,
though not officially reported, that
Iho $2,000,000 in gold deposited by
the Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company
ha<l been ou tho syndicate account.
Did Not Die of Cholera.
Hnrgonrj General 'Wyman, of the ma-
rino hospital service, has instituted a
rigid investigation into tho facts in re
gard to tho arrival of tho steamer Bel-
gic at San Francisco. This is the
steamer that is supposed to have
brought cholera infected Chinese and
Japanese to Honolulu and then to have
proceeded to San Francisco, whero her
steerage passengers passed the quaran
tine officials and were landed. Press
reports stated that the Belgic landed
at San Francisco with three dead Chi
nese in tho steerage, all of whom had
died from cholera August 51 at.
Surgeon General Wyman wired Dr.
Godfrey, in charge of tho marine hos
pital nt San Francisco, giving him an
abstract of tho press dispatches and
directing him to investigate them. A
reply was received from Mr. Godfrey
slating that these Chinese did not die
from cholera. No evidence has been
adduced tending to show that there
was cholera on the Belgio at any time
cither before or after leaving China,
but the marine hospital service,taking
the worst view and acting upon the
supposition that cholera did exist, is
looking into tho whole matter thor
oughly, and within a few' days all the
steerage passengers will be located.
Must Walt Sixty J ays.
The postoffice department has been
I mi t to considerable trouble lately by
the issuance of duplicate money orders
for those alleged to have been lost,
misdirected or possibly stolon by dis
honest clerks. All duplicates have to
he issued by the department at Wash
ington and last year applications were
made for tho issuance of more than
50,000 such orders. Tho department
fiuds that in many cases both original
and the duplicate have been paid,
and in some cases suit has
had to bo brought to recover the
money. In order to obviate such en
tanglements in the future, Fir.it As
sistant Postmaster General Jones, at
tho solicitation of tho auditor, lias
adopted a rule not to issue duplicates
in the future until the ixpirutionof
s xty days from the date of the orig-
al money order, thereby affording time
for the the receipt nt tho auditor’s of
fice of the money order stnternehts
of paying postmasters and an oppor
tunity to examine such statements to
ascertain wliethi r the original orders
have been paid.
This may work a hardship in some
cases among those who can ill afford
to wait the period of sixty days on ac
count of the mistakes of their corres
pondents, but it is held at the post-
office department that tho general
good of the whole service demands the
enforcement of the new regulations.
Goes to the Supreme Court.
There seems to be no doubt that the
Oxnard sugar bounty question, which
was decided by Comptroller JJowlcr
adversely to tho Oxnard company on
constitutional grounds, will go to the
supreme court of the United States
for final determination. Within tho
next few days Secretary Carlisle will
certify the case to the court of claims
under section 1005 of 4ho revised
of claims, will be under tho charge of
Assistant Attorney General J. E.
Dodge, who iH especially charged with
the de euse of the government in all
chh«h before that court. Mr. Dodge
very likely will ask to have the case
advMiict d, and it is probable, in view
of the interests involved, that tho
court will consent to try it n’most im
mediately after it reconvenes on Octo
ber 28th, unless the clainmtils should
usU lint her time for presentation. In
tho meantime all claims lor bounty
limb r t lie appropriation " ill be held
Fund determination by
,.f t (ju- Mtton of
tho constitutionality of the appropria
tion.
Testing Armor Flute.
Tho naval ordinance board conduct
ed a most important and successful
test at Indian Head proving grounds
Wednesday. Urimarially it was a test
of steel armor plate, but really one of
great importance, as it was a trial of
tho strength of tho frames of modern
warships, which, it has been claimed,
would not withstand tho shock caus
ed by heavy projectiles against the
armor covering them some author
ities even going so far as to as
sort that the armor, if not shat
tered or penetrated by tho shot,
would be driven through the vessel by
the crushing of the frames. This was
tho First frame test ever made of dis
tinctly modern warships, though tho
English government some years ago
did fire at an antiquated armored ves
sel for the purpose of observing the ef
fects of the shot. Wednesday’s expor-
ments demonstrated tho fact that tho
frames of our warships are perfectly*
able to meet all ordinary demands. It
was also demoust rated t hat t he now four
teen-inch armor with which the new
battleships will be protected can, under
ordinary oireustanees, receive tho fire
of any naval vessel afloat without seri
ous damage. A test was also made of
a new armor bolt designed by tho or-
linaneo board to replace the bolts
now used in fastening armor ships,
which are weighty, cumbersome and
expensive. Each of tho threo tests
was entirely satisfactory. The armor
plato far exceeded tho proscribed re
quirements; tho counterfeit frames
bore the shocks without impairment,
and the holts were entirely satisfac
tory.
MINERS ENTOMBED.
TIIIUTY-FIVK MICN AUK lU’HIKl)
,AUVK IN A III KNINK MINK.
LKTTICR < All HI KR&’ OONVKNTION
Sixth Alumni >l,*rtill|j at I'lillaclrlpltla.
Largo Kopi’PHRii tilt loll.
Tho mxtli annual convention of llio
National Association of Letter Car
riers was formally begun in tho Bourne
building at J’hiladclphiu Tuesday
morning. It was iho first gathering
in the new structure aud Georgo A.
Bartel, president of tho Bourse; Julia
T. Bailey, tho vieo president, and
William It. Tucker, iho secretary;
made addresses of welcome to the del
egatee.
The convention was called to order
at ]() o'clock by President Oowdou, of
Cleveland. Tho committee on creden
tials reported a representation of f.QS
out of f>2H votes in tho convention.
Delegate Atkinson offered a resolution
requesting the committee on legible
tion to prepare a law for presentation
to congrtss providing for the increase
of salaries of second-class carries from
$8151) a year to $1,000.
WIIARF AN I) FRICIGHT BURNHD-
Valuable Merchandise Destroyed by
Klro in Boston.
The Boston and Albany extension
wharf and freight sheds in East Bos
ton, known as pier 1, Grand junction
docks, were destroyed by lire Wednes
day morning. The sheds were filled
with freight of various kinds, none of
which could bo saved. In the sheds de
stroyed were stored about 15,000 hales
of sisal grass, fifteen to twenty ear
loads of hay in bales, nearly fifty car
loads of flour in sacks, a large quantity
of wool and hemp, sixteen carloads of
merchandise, and a large amount of
general merchandise all valued at about
$300,000. Tho wharf and buildings
destroyed were worth $'200,000. Tho
losses on freight will fall upon the
consignees and shippers, who, it is
stated, have their goods insured.
WORMS HATING TUB COTTON
In the Mississippi Delta—Planters Or
dering Paris Green.
Reports received at New Orleans in
dicate that the worms in myriads arc
eating up tho cotton, from Missis
sippi in all parts of the Yazoo and
Mississippi delta, tho greatest cotton
producing country in the world, the
cry is for paris green and londou pur-
i pie. From tho Red river country in
) Louisiana clear on up to Shreveport
and from Vicksburg to Monroe and
i throughout that section of tho country
tho accounts of cotton worms is dis*
i heartening. A canvass of the loading
drug houses shows that the orders for
paris green aud loudon purple have
been so numerous from the worm-in
fested cotton districts that it has lieun
impossible to fill them.
BLOWN INTO KTKRMTY.
Five Persons Killed and Threo Injured
by a Dynamite Kxploslon.
Five persons were blown to instant
death aud three injured try an explo
sion of dynamite at Hpooht’s ferry, ten
miles from Dubuque, Iowa, Sunday
morning.
Hank’s Books Missing.
Tho bank of Tacoms, Wash., which
failed lately, having $229,000 of the
city’s money in its prksession, is prov
ing an enigma to judges, receiver# and
All tiro Thought to l>e Dead— Little
Hope of Rescue.
Saturday itftornoon lire was discov
ered by timbormoif at the thirty-hoy-
entli leveo of tlio Osceola copper mine
at Houghton, Mich. Tho timbermon
at once rusheM to the shaft and when
brought to tlio surface in tiny big
bucket gave tho alarm. Thirty-six
miners were at work at tho time, ami
up to a late hour but one person lmd
been rescued, a pump boy, and ho
died shortly after reaching tho open
air.
Smoke poured in dense volumes
from tho moutji of every shaft in tho
mine and escape through these open
ings was impossible. Tho lire gained
rapidly.
Gathered about tho shafts of tlio
Osceola wore tho wives, mothers and
children of tho unfortunate men, anx
iously waiting further nows from their
loved ones. The scene was very pa
thetic. Every effort is being put forth
to rescue the unfortunate men, but
hope is not high.
A Later Account.
Another ami a later dispatch from
the scene of tUo disaster is to tlie’effeot
that it is now positively known that
thirty-five doomed men arc entombed
in tlio Osceola mine, with no possibil
ity of reoitvaring their bodies until the
fire is extinguished, which may not bo
for months. It is the opinion of some
of the oldest employes of llio mine 1 hat
the fire was the work of tin incoudi-
ii UT
AH of tlifi) doomed miners might
have escaped had thoyhoCded warning,
as Captain Edwards, who was the itrwt
to detect the Fire, dispatched messen
gers to every, Hippo where tlio miners
were known to bo working.
Captain White descended with Anton
Ecysk, who said no left his father in a
lower level, but Eoysk lost his head,
and finding hint uhmanngeuble, Cap
tain White abandoned him to his fate,
pushed toward tho south workings of
the mine aud reached the ‘’surface in
safety, tho only one of the party in
No. d shaft- to escape. He reported
that tram meti had offerod to carry one
of tho drill boVs to tho surface, but
the boy was so frightened that ho re
fused to move tind was. left.
Twenty of thirty-live are mar*
riod men and jqostiU 1 them have largo
families.
REFUSED TO WORK ON SUNDAY
Mexican Lyuotype Operators Strike
Against. Coitliniu us Labor.
A special from tho City of Mexico
says Tho Mexican Herald, the English
daily which made its appearance hist
Sunday, had a strike Monday. Mexi
can operators who had worked Sunday
to get out Monday morning’s paper
rebelled against the loss of their ac
customed holiday. Tho paper will ap
pear, according to present intention,
ovory day in the year, but it remains
to bo seen if it will bo possible to se
cure operators willing to work so con
tinuously.
TELEGRAPHIC TICKS.
President Geo. C. Smith, of tho
Western and Atlantic and West Point
railroads was ro-eloctod at tlio annual
meeting of directors iu Montgomery.
Georgo Augusta Sala, the famous
journalist, is critically ill at his home
in London.
Wednesday the Union Goal company
of Slmmokin, Pa., began working
3,000 men sixty hours per week.
Reports received in New Orleans in
dicate that cotton worms are destroy
ing tlio crop in adjoining states.
A Chattanooga family named Scnn-
lau ate toadstools, believing them to
be mushrooms and are critically ill.
Tlio announcement comes from
Montgomery that Secretary Herbert
will bo a candidate for tho United
States senate.
Home Secretary Ridley has an
nounced in tho British parliament that
his office had no power to order an in
quiry in Mrs. Muybrick’s cuse.
Middletown, ()., people are satisfied
that Dr. H. H. Holmes was once su
perintendent of public schools at that
place and was known as C. W. Hatch.
Two Oklahoma farmers, Oiler and
William Knapp, fought with hatchets
and pitchforks about a load of hay.
Both men wero badly wounded and
will die.
Samuel Gompcrs, <x-president of
the American Federation of Trades,
was accorded an ovation by the Trades-
Union Congress at Cardiff, Wales.
Tho thirteenth Ohio senatorial con
vention met at Marysville and in
dorsed Governor McKinley for presi
dent and Joseph B. Foruker for United
States senator.
Tho organization of tlio Ohio demo
cratic state executive committee lias
been completed. 11 was decided to open
the campaign on September 28th, in the
evening. Ex-Governor Campbell will
1)0 the principal speaker.
The eighth annual convention of
the republican league of the state of
New York met in session at Bingham
ton, N. Y., Wednesday. It is esti
mated thut five thousand delegates
aud visitors are in attendance.
HEIRS TO A FORTUNE.
General Holt’s Will Sent, Through tho
Malls to the Register of Wills.
What purports to ho the lust, will ]
of the late General Joseph Holt, of j
Kentucky, who died over a year ago, I
was made public at Washington Mon- !
day in a sensational manner. In the ■
mail delivered to the office of the reg
ister of wills on Saturday were two or
three envelopes which were not open
ed until Monday morning by Colonel
Wright, the register. Among them
was one addressed, in crude letters
printed in ink, which when opened
was found to contain a half-sheet of
foolscap paper, tho left end of which
was burned, but not enough to make
the writing illegible. Several small
holes were burned in the sides and cen
ter of the shoot, but scarcely a word
was eliminated. The text of the docu
ment was ns follows:
"I do hereby doviseend bequeath nil
ol my property, both personal and real,
to Lizzie Ilynds, cousin of my first
wife, and to Josephine Holt Throck
morton, who iu my godchild, and to
their heirs and assigns forever. I do
hereby direct that at my death all of
my properly be divided equally be
tween them.
"Lizzie Ilynds is to inherit hers at
my death; Josephine at the age of
twenty-one. Her father, Major Charles
B. Throckmorton, will hold her share
in trust. I appoint Mr. Luke Devlin,
of Washington, executor.
“Signed and sealed in tho presence
of tho witnesses at Washington Feb
ruary 7, 1878. “J. Ilonr.
“Witnesses: Ellon E. E. Sherman,
U. S. Grant, W. T. Sherman.’ 1
Not ->no word of explanation accom
panied tho will and the officials of the
register’s office are at a loss to account
for its appearance. No ono who is
fntnilliar with the handwriting of Gen
eral Holt and with the signature of
Grant and Sherman doubt iho uuthen-
ticily of tlio document.
I’LV. DILTALMAdli
VIIK NOTED DIVINE’S SUNDAY
DISCOURSE
Subject: “ The Chieftain.’
FAVORABLE TO FIGHTERS.
Dallas County Attorney I’ublishos an
Opinion.
A dispaton from Dallas, Texas, says:
County Attorney John Gillespie pub
lishes a legal opion on the status of
the law touching upon pugilistic) en
counters in Texas. The opinion is
not in accord with Attorney General
Crane’s views and contains cold com
fort for those who are opposed to the
approaching fight between Corbett and
Fitzsimmons.
GilloHpio holds that tho club canmr
be enjoined froth erecting the buildinj
or go jug on with arrangoiuout,H, 0 nH t
injunction law with*regard to felony
or misdemeanor eases bus bqeu re
pealed.
Ho holds further that the laws now
on the books, one making pugilism a
misdemeanor and tho other licensing
the same, make affairs complicated.
The misdemeanor law, lie says, iH con
flicting, vague and indefinite, and no
man can tell just what tlio law is until
the eourts paHs upon tlio same.
Attorney Gillespie closes by saying
that if at any time in the future a rep
utable citizen will make affidavit that
llio law Iiiih been violated, then he will
prosecute, but that lie cannot antici
pate violations of the law.
Tho opinion of tlio county attorney
may not give satisfaction in official
circles at tlio state capital, but the cit
izens of Dallas who favor Iho glove
carnival are delighted beyond meas
ure. %
The Collins and Cavanaugh glove
contest, which was “pulled off” Mon
day night and which will form Hie
basis of a test case under habeas cor
pus proceedings, was stopped by tho
police in the twenty-first round.
AFTER RO THSCHILD AGAIN.
A Hoinb-’Tlirawer’s Designs Nipped in :
tho Hud.
A Paris dispath says that a bold nt- i
tempt was made Thursday to explode J
a bomb in Rothschild's bank iu the
Hue La Ditto. While Iho busihess of
the day was at its height a man walk
ed into the bank carrying under his
arm a bornb to which was attached a
lighted fuse. One of the detectives
employed in the bank was standing
near, and sprang upon tho man, seized
the bomb aud extinguished the fuse in
time to prevent an explosion. The
would-Le bomb thrower was arrested
and taken to the police station.
This attempt to blow up tlio Roth*
scliildh’s banking establishment, taken
iu connection with the recent sending
of an infernal machine through the
mails to the office of Huron Alphonse
do Rothschild, signifies a persistent
purpose on the part of tho anarchistic
lenient to inflict injury upon the
Advices lit,vo been received from i htntutcs, stating to tlie oonrt that it is ] everyone having anytbiiiK: to do with
Moscow and Kt. Petersburg stating ! alleged by the claimants that a right
that 900 persons, known or suspected under the constitution has been denied
to be nihilists, have been arristtd tty [ them and asking lliat, as great public
the police of those citieB and large ; interests ale involved, the court pass
quantities of bombs, firearms aud dyn- : upon the matter at an early day.
amitc seized in their lodging- „od The ctec, when it rcaebc. the 8«url
haunt.; . i
Tho books of the institution have
disappeared and tho most diligent
seal eh lias failed to find th»-m. They
are supposed to have been I urned.
It is said that apple, will core dy«-
pep.ia,
Masonic Temple Burned.
Masonic Temple, at Boston, Mass.,
one of the finest Masonic buildings iu
tho United States, was almost entirely
destroyed by tiro Saturday. Tho
building was magnificently, furnished
and iho loss will probably reach $♦•)<),■
900, The building eost $730,000;
heads aud employes of tho Rothschilds j glorious lIn
house.
IIOI.MKS TO BK TRIED AT LAST.
lie XVIII lie Drought llcforo Court in
Philadelphia.
Tho Toronto authorities have been
notified that II. H. Holmes, the multi
murderer, will be placed on trial at
Philadelphia shortly for the murdir
of Benjamin F. I’ietzel, father of tlio
two little girls whom Holmes is alleged
to have murdered in Iho St. Vincent
street collage ill 1'hiliidelphhi. In
event of failure to conviot Holmes ho
will be banded over to the Indianapo
lis millionth s and will be carried to
Canada only after all attempts to con
vict him in tho United States of a cap
ital t IT •mo hive proved abortive.
To (^uarautlno Portland.
The city board qf health of Port
land, Oregon, has taken steps to quar
antine that poifc from a threatened in
vasion of cholera now epidemic in
Honolulu. Every precaution will ho
taken to prevent the disease being
brought to this port by both tramp
steamers aud those iu direct connec
tion with tho orioufc, Home recent ar-
rivali have brought suspicioufl
Tf.xt: “The chlnfest among ton lliou-
•nml.”—Canticles v., 10.
Tho most conspicuous character of history
♦tops out upon the platform. The linger
Which, diamond with light, poinled down t<»
Him from tho Bethlehem skv was only a rat i-
lleation of the linger of prophecy, the finger
of genealogy, iho finger of chronology, Iho
linger of events—all fivo fingers pointing in
nno direction. Christ Is the overtopping
figure of all time. He is the “vox humana”
In all tousle, the grneofulest lino in all
sculpture, the most exquisite mingling of
lights and shades in all painting, tho acme
of all climaxes, the dome of all cathodraled
grandeur and the peroration of all language.
The f:roek alphabet is made up of twenty-
four loiters, and when Christ compared Him-
seir to the first lotlor and (heIasi letter.the Al
pha aud the Omega, He appropriated to Him
self all the splendors that you can spell out
either with those two letters or all the let
ters between them. “I am the Alpha and
tin' Omega, the beginning anil the ond.”
AVIial does (hat Scripture mean which savs
of Christ. “He tlmt eomelh from above is
above all?” It mean- (hat a'toryou have piled
up all Alpine and Uim ihiyan altitudes, the
glory of Christ would have lo sprea 1 Its
wings and descend a thousand leagues to
touch those summits. Pelion. a high moun
tain of Thessaly: Ossa, a high mountain,
and Olympus, a high mountain; but mythol
ogy tells 11s wlii'n the giants warred against
the gods they piled up those three moun
tains, and from the top of them proposed to
scale the heavens; but the height was not
great enough, and there was a complete fail
ure. And after all the giunts--lsninh and
Paul, prophetic and apostolic giants; Itupii-
ael and Mtchfiel Angulo, artistic giants;
cherubim and seraphim and archangel, ce
lestial giants—have failed to climb tothotop
of Christ’s glory they might all well unite in
tho words of Paul, and cry out, “Above
all!” “Above till!” Hut Hohmion iu mv
text prefers to call Christ “the Chieftain,”
and so to-dav I hull Him.
First, Christ must he chief in our preach
ing. Thorn are so many books on homile
tics scattered through the country that all
laymen, as well as all clergymen, imvomado
up I hoir minds what sermons ought to lie.
That sermon, is the most effectual which
most pointedly puts forth Christ as the par
don of nil sin and the correction of all evil—
Individual, social.political, national, There
Is no reason why wo should ring the
endless changes on a few phrases.
There are those who think that if an exhor
tation or a discourse lmvo frequent mention
of justification, sanctification, covenant of
works and covenant of grace, therefore it
must be profoundly evangelical, while they
are suspiolous of a dlsoomse which presents
the same truth, but under different phrase
ology. Now, 1 say there is nothing in all
tlie opulent realm of Anglo-Baxonism; of all
tho word treasures that wo inherited from
th-i Latin and the (lreek and tho Indo-Euro
pean. hut wo have a right to marshal it in
religious discussion. Christ sots tho exam
ple. Ills illustrations wero from tho grass,
tho fiowors, tho barnyard fowl, tho crystals
of salt, as well as from tho seas and the stars;
and wo do not propose in our Hunday-suhool
teaching and in our pulpit address to bo put
on the limits.
I know tlmt tlioro Is a great deal said in
our day against words, ns though they wero
nothing. They may bo misused, but they
lmvo an imperial power. They are tho
bridge between soul and soul, botwoon
Almighty God and the human race. Wlmt
did Gou write upon tho Tables of stone?
Words. What did Christ utter on Mount
Olivet? Words. Out of what did Christ
strike the spark for tho illumination of tlio.
universe? Out of words. “Lot them be
light.” and light was. Of course thought
Is the cargo and words are only the
ship, but how fast would your cargo got
on without the ship? What you need, my
friends, in all your work, in your Sab
bath-school class, in your reformatory insti
tutions, and what wo all need, is to enlarge
our vocabulary when we come to speak
about God and Christ and hoavon. Wo ride
a few old words to death, when there is such
inimitable resource. Hhakespearo employed
15,000 different words for dramatic purposes;
Milton employed. M)00 different words for
pootlo purposes; Itufus Choate employed
over 11,000 different words for legal pur
poses, but the most of us have loss than
thousand words that we can manage, ai
that makes us so stupid.
When wo como to set forth t.io love of
Christ, wo are going to take the teuderest
phraseology wherever we find R, and if It
lias never been used in that direction before
all the more shall wo use it. When we como
lo speak of Iho glory of Christ tho conquer
or, avo are going to draw our slmllies from
triumphal arch and oratorio and everything
grand and stupendous. Tho French navy
have eighteen (lags by which they give sig
nal, bill llm-G eighteen (lags they can put i
Into 0(1,000 different combinations. Audi
have t.t tell you that tIim.-» » standard< of tho
cross may lie lifted Into combinations infinite
and varietias everlasting. And let me.say to
the young men who como from the theologi
cal seminar.'es into our services, and are after
awhile going to preach .Tesus Chris', you will
have the largest liberty and unlimited re
source. You only have to present Christ in
your own way.
Brighter than the light, fresher than tho
fountains, deeper than the sinus, are all these
gospel themes. Song lias no melody, (low
ers no sweetness, sunset sky no color com
pared with tl'.oso glorious themes. Tliosp
harvests of grace spring up quicker than we
can sickle them. Kindling pulpits with
their (Ire, ami producing revolutions with
their power, lighting up dying beds with
their glory, they are llio sweetest thought
for the poet, and they are the most thrilling
illuslratb»n for the orator, and they offer the
most intense scene for the artist, and they
are to the embassador of the sky all enthu
siasm. Complete portion f >r direst guilt.
Sweetest comfort for ghasilio.st agony.
Brightest hope for grimmest dintli. Grand
est resurrection for darkest sepulcher. Oh,
what a gospel to preach! Christ the
Chief. His birth, His suffering, Mil mir
acles, His parables, His sweat, II • tears, His
blood, His atonement .His intercession -wind
j dent of eireams:nners if we lmvo ILs grace.
Why, Ho made Paul sing in the dungeon,
and under that grace St. John from dcs data
Patinos board the blast <»f the apocalytio
trumpets. Afl«*r all oilmc candles have
been snuffed out, this is the light that gets
brighter and brighter unto the perfect day,
and after, under the hard boo's of calamity,
all the pools of worldly eiiDymont Imvi*.
bcnii trampled into deep mire at tho foot of
the eternal rock the Christian, from cups of
granite lily-rimmed, pats out tho thirst oi
his souk
Again, f remark that Christ is chief in liv
ing alleviations. I have not any sympathy
with the morbidity a road about our demise.
The lint purer «»f Constantin >;»ln nrrnngoil
Unit on tlio tiny of his cor mathm th * stonc-
mason should come un i coif-iiU him ah mt
the tombstone thut after awhile he would
nct'd. And thero are in *;» who an mono-
maniacal on the mihjn.rt of departure from
this life bv death, an I the m w > limy think
of it the Iihs they ar«» prep.md to go. Tills
is an unmanline, s not worthy of you, not
worthy of me.
Sala lin, the great conqueror of hit day,
While dying, order-* l that the tunic, !n ha t
on lliin be carrie 1 a r l"r his death on Ids
spear at the head of his army, and that then
the s-d.Her, ever and nnon, n'eml I slop and
say: “Behold all that is hdt of Sal idin, the
emperor and conqueror! (L* all the stab's
he conquered, of all tho wealth he accumu
lated, nothing did lie retain but this
shroud.” I have no sympathy with such b°-
liavior, or such absurd demonstration, or
with much that we hear uttered in r. gar l to
departure from this life to the ne\J. There
is a coinmonsunslenl idea on this subject
that you need to consider :Imre are only
two styles of depart urn. A thousand, feet
underground, by light of torch, tolling
in a miner’s shaft, a lc lg * of r> , .'tnny fall
y die a miner's death,
j from th" slippery rat
lines and broken on the halliards, wc may
tilt' n sailor’s death. On mission of mercy
in hospital, amid broken bones and recking
leprosies and raging fever-', wo may die a
philanthropist's death. On the field of
battle, serving God aud our country, slugs
through the heart, the gnu carriage may
roll over us, and we may die a patriot's
death. But. after all, there are onlv tw»
stylus of departure—the death of tho righteous
ami tho death of the wicku I—and wo all
want to die the former.
God grant that when that hour comes you
may be at home. You want tho hand of
your kindred in your hand. You want your
children to surround you. You want the
light on your pillow from eyes that have
long reliooiod your love. You want your
room still. You do not want any curious
strangers standing around watching you.
You want your kindred from afar to hear
your last prayer, l think that is the wish
of all of its. But is that all? Can earthly
friends hold us up when the billows of death
como up to tho girdle?
human voice
harm * open heaven’s gate? Can human
hand pilot us through tho narrows of death
into heaven's harbor? Can any carl li
ly friendship shield us from tlio
arrows of death and in the
hour when satan shall practice upon us his
infernal archery? No, no, no, nof Alas,
poor soul, if that Is all! letter die iu the
wilderness far from treo shadow and from
fountain, alone, vultures circling through
tho air watting for our body, unknown to
men, and to lmvo no burial, if only Christ
could say through the solitudes, “I will
never leave thoo, I will never forsnko thee.”
From that pillow of stone a la Idee would
soar heavenward, angels coming and going,
and across tho solitude and the bairimnosa
would come tlio sweet notes of heavenly
minstrelsy. , , , ,",
Gordon Hall, far from home, dying In door
of a heathen teinplo, said: “Glory to Tliee,
0 God!” Wlmt did dying Wilborforcu say to
his wife? “Come and sit beside me. and lot
us talk of heaven. I never knew wlmt hap
piness was until i found Christ.” What did
dying Hannah More say? “To go to heaven,
think wlmt that is! Togo to Christ, who
died tlmt 1 might liv •! Oh. glorious gravel
Oh, wlmt ft glorious thing It is to die! Oh,
tho love of Christ, the love of Christ!” What
did Mr. Toplftdy, the great hymn maker, say
in his last hours? “Who can measure the
depths of the third heaven? Oh, the sun
shine that Ill's my soul! I shall soon be
gone, for surely no one can liv in ibis
world after such glories us God has mani
fested to my soul!”
What did the dying Janeway say? “I can
as easily die as close my eyes or turn my
hand In sleep. Before a few hours have
passed I shall stand on Mount Zion with the
one hundred and forty and fourthousnndand
with llio just men mad*) perfect, and we shall
ascribe riches, and honor, mi l glory, aud
majesty, and dominion unto (Sod and Iho
Lamb/’ Dr. Taylor, condemned to burn at
the stake, on his way thither broke away
from the guardsmen, an 1 went hounding
and leaping and jumping toward the fire,
glad to go to Jems, mi l to die for Him.
Sir Charles Hare, in his last moments,
lmd such rapturous vision tlmt he cried,
“Upward, upward, upward!” And so
great was tho peace of ono of Christs
disciples that he put his finger upon tho
pulso in his wrist and counted it and ob
served it; and so great was his placidity Hint
after awhile lie said, “.Stopped! ’ an l his life
had ended here to begin iu heaven. Bit
grander than that was the testimony of tho
worn out first mi-si-niary, when, iu tan
Mainertlne dungeon, lm cried, “1 am n <w
ready to he oflhred, and tho time of my de
part urn Is at hau i; I lmvo foug.it too goo 1
light, I lmvo finished my <■ mrs<\ L have kept
the faith; henceforth there is laid up for me
a crown of right" m-m -a wni"h the Lord,
the righteous Judge, will give ms in that
• lay, and not t• * only, but to a'dtliem teat
His appearing! ’ Do you not see that
Christ is chief in dying alleviations?
Stand on su m* high It'll of he.ivmi
).| in ail the radiant sw mp tho most
glorious obJ".?t will be Jnsu-. Myriads
gay,lug on the scars of His suffering, in
sioiifH first, afterward breaking, forth
into acclamation. Tim martyrs, all the
pure: for tin Him ) throug'i which they
passed, will say, “This is the Jems for whom
we did.” Tim apoMtl'-s, all tho happier lor
the shipwreck ami tho vmrging through
which they wen!, will say. “ 1’ais istli" Jesus
whom we preache l at Corinth, and Cappu*
doeiu, and at Antioch, and at .Tjru-mhmi.
Little cnildr m ela l in wnito will say, ’•d’iiis
is the Jesus Who look us in His urns and
blessed us, aud when the storms of the w odd
Do
Christ is its object.
oil Jesus. Have wo a roiuliiess Tor llio
church? Jl is because Christ die 1 f.»r it.
Have wo a hope of heaven? It is because
Jesus went there, the herald and the loro-
runner. The royal robe of Demetrius was
so costly, so beautiful, that after he had put
It off no one ever dared to put it on, but this
robe of Christ, richer than that, the poorest
and the weakest, and tho worst may wear,
“Where sin abounded, grace may much
more abound."
“Oh, my sins, my sins!” said Martin Luther
to Ktuupitz, “my sin*, my sins!” The fact is
tlmt the brawny German student had found
a Latin Bible that made him quake, and
nothing else ever did make him quake, and
when lie found how, through Christ, he was
pardoned and saved lie wrote to a friend,
Haying, “Como over uml join us great and
awful sinners saved by the grace of God.
You secm to bo only a slender sinner, amt
you don’t much extol the mercy of God, but
we that have been such very awful sinners
praise His Gr/vo tho more now tlmt we
have been redeemed.” Can It be that you
are so desperately egotistical that you
feel yourself in first rate spiritual trim,
and thut from the root of the hair to tho
tip of the toe you are scarings uml Im
maculate? What you need is a looking
glass, and here it is in the Bible. Boor
xml wretched and miserable and blind ami
naked Jrom the crown of the head to the
sole of the foot, full of wounds and putrefy
ing acres. No health in us. And then take
the fact that Christ gathered up all the
i I lo j l bn
I ehu
•old i
be lUtifill pla
bereft will s:i)
farted us i
who wand-
plunged into vngab •
by grace, will say: *
pardoned u c We we
talus, and He broug
guilty, and II • hut m
At erey boumllosq gr.
than, a ft*)
I'lltitU lo
marts broke.” Many
off friii Go l au l
nlism, but were save l
rids is the Je ms who
i*o lost on til 5 moil li
lt us home. We wero
t lo iu white as su >w.”
,eo unparallelu l. And
me has recited his p •"iilla
deliverances and pe Miliar merei".-', i " :tel
them as by solo, all the voices will com ' to
gether into great chorus, which will m uo
tin' arches echo and n- • -ho with th ? eternal
reverberation of triumph.
Edward I was so anxims to go to tho
Holy Land that wlmn lie w. s about to expire
he bequeathe 1 fltiJ.Oin l< have his heart,
after his deceas**, t:i mu *o the if by Lm t in
Asia Minor, and his rc pmst w u complied
With. But there are bun Iru la to-day wuose
hearts are already in tho Holy Ban l of
Heaven. Where y mr treasures are, there
are your hearts also. Quaint John Bunyaa
caught a glimpse of that place, and in
his quaint way i e said: “And 1 heard in my
dream, and, lo! tho bolls of the city rang
again for joy, a .<1 us they opened tho gates
to let in the men I looko 1 ill after them, and
lo! the city shone like the sun, and there were
streets or gold, an t men walked on thorn,
harps in their hands, to ring praises with all,
and after tlmt they shut up tho gales, which,
when 1 had uecu, 1 wished myself among
them!”
Photographs Taken From a Kite.
W. A. Eddy, of New Jersey, experimented
successfully with (lying kites iu a high wind
the fact that Christ gathered up all the at Blue Hill Observatory, Milton. Mass. He
notes against us ami paid them and then of- also took photographs with plates which
fered us the receipt I And how much we were sent up kites k&O Icct abevo th9
u»o»d Him In our surrow.it Wo nr# tndopen* 1 gruunck