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TALMAGE’S SERMON
New York* March 3 . I’ublic int r**s
in the service* at the Academy of Mu ic
is something pin-nominal. Although the
arrangement i* an innovation In lelg oun
methods in New York, Isith as to time
and pCnee, there is no chtiroh in the city
to which so many people go or wince *"
mruch eagerness to secure admiaaion is
di*i(]ayed. The usual immense audieti'e
wn* present tlii* afternoon to hear the
famotia preacher. Dr. Tnlmnge auhjed
was “New Ground” and his text Romans
xv, 20, “Lest 1 shotr’d build upon an¬
other man’s foundation ”
After with the help of others, I had
built three churches in tlie same city,
and not feeling called to undertake the
superhuman toil of building a fourth
church I’rovidenoe seem* to point to this
place as the field in which I could cnlarg'-
my work, and I feel a sense of reiicf
nmounting to exultation. WTheceunlo thi<
work will grow I cannot prophes.t It. is
inviting and promising beyond anything
I hare ever touched- Tie s dm relies are
the grandest inatilutions tiiis svcvlJ ever
saw, and their pastor* have no wqteri'irs
this side of hea ven, but there is a work
which must he done outside the churches,
and to that work I join myself forawhVe
‘ILest I build on another man’s founds
t ion. ”
The church is a fortress divinely
built, and for storing ammunition, but
a(n n.rmy must sometimes lie on the
campaign of conquering this world for
Christ the time lin* come for an advance
movement for a '‘general engitgemt nt.”
for massing the troops, for an invasion
of the enemies' country. Confident that
the forts an- -well! manned by the eldest
ministry that ever bleat the ehurch. I
propose, with other* for a while to join
the cavalry and move out and on for ser
vice In the open fh<d.
NEW RECRUITS.
In laying out the plan for his mission¬
ary tour Paul, with more brain than any
of his eontemporn ric* or prcdect s-ors
or successor, sought, out towns and citi 's
which had not yet been preached to. He
goes to Cornith. a city mentioned for
Bplemlor ami vice, where the priesthood
and sanherdm were ready to Iea.|t with
iKith feet upon the Christian religion.
He feels he has a spe ial work to do, an I
he means to do it. 'What was the re¬
sult? The gmiidewt life of usefulness
that man ever lived. We modern
Christ,inn workers ure not apt to Imitate
Until. Wp build on other people's foun¬
dations. If we erect a ehurch, wc pre
fer to have It. filled -with families nil of
wlunti have been piou*. Do we gntlmr a
Sunday soIbhiI cIiinh. we want good boys
and girls, dinir cotmibed, faces .waslnst,
mnnnors attractive. So a church I tils
march far outside the fortress. In the
day Is apt to be built :ut of other cjiurche*.
Some ministers spend a’l their time in
fishing in other peojile’s pontls, and they
thrmv their Hue into that ehtirc.li ]suid
nn'd jerk out a Methodist, and throw
the line into another ehurch pond mud
bring out a Presbyterian, or there is a
religions row In s(itn<> neighilsring ehurch
and tilm whole school of fisii swim off
from that pond and we Like them all in
with one sweep of the net, What is
gained? AJ««diiteC,v tin tiling l for the
getM>ral cause of Christ. It. is only as in
an array, when a regiment Is transfirrcd
from one division to another or from the
Fourteenth regiment to the Sixty ninth
regiment. What strengthens tho army
!« now recruits .
’Hie fact is, Hits is a big world. When
* in our school-Ixiy days we learned the
diameter and cireumference of this plan¬
et. wo did not half learn. It is ihe lat¬
itude and longtitiide and diameter and
elreumfereneo of want and woe mid sin
ttiat no figures enti calculate, The one
spiritual continent of wretihedness
reaches across all zones, and If I were
culled to glvi> it* gcorgriiphioft! boundry
I would say it is t>oitiul»sl North and
South atnl East and West by the great
heart of Cod's sympathy and love. (Vh,
it i« a great world. Since six o’clock
this morning nt least SI 1 , 01)0 have been
iHirn, and In all these luiiCtiplted pojtula
tions are to he reached of the*gos]tel. In
England or in Eastern America an acre
of ground is of great value, lint out West
fWO nitre* is a small farm, and 20,000
acres is no unusual pa*ac«slon.
GLOSSY SINNERS.
There is a vast field here and every-
where unoccupied, plenty of room more,
not building on another man’s founda-
tton. We needs 11s churches to stop
hirharding tlie old ironclad sinners that
have lieen proof against .30 years of
Christian assault and aim for tiie salva¬
tion of those who have never yet had
one warm hearted and point blank |n-
vitntlon There are churches whose
building* might be worth $'200,000 who
are not a average five new convert* 11
year and doing less ginsi than m i tty a
kog cabin meeting house with a tallow
candle stuck in wooden socket and a
mints tor who lias never seen a college
or know the difference l*ot ween
taw. We need churches to go into st m
path.v with the great outside world and
Greek and UhiK’taw. Wv ne d
ch nrvdiiis to go into sympathy
with the great outside world and
lot (Item know none are so bio
ken hearted or hardly bestead
that they will not Ik weCcomed
“N o,” says some fastidious Christian.
"I don’t like to lie crowded in church.
Don’t put any one in my pew.” My
brother, what will you do in heaven?
When a groat multitude that nc man
can number assembles, they will put 60
in your pew. M’hut are the select few
today assembled hi Christian church,*.
compared with the nitghter millions out
side of them? At least , 3 , 000 ,( 1)0 in this
cluster of setilsiard cities and not more
than 200,000 in tlie ch niches. Matty of
the churches are like a hospital that
should advertise that it* patients must
have nothing worse than toothache, er
“run-arounds,” but tio broken heads, no
crushed ankles, or 110 fractured thlgtlis.
Give us for treat enter t moderate sinners,
velvet coated sinners and sinner* with a
gloss on. It is as though a man had
a farm of . 3.000 acres and put gill his
work on one acre He may raise ever
so large ears of corn never so big ears
of wheat, he would remain jionr. Tie
church of God has te'stowod its chief
care on one acre and has raised splen¬
did men ami women in that small lttelo-
sure, but the field Is the world. That
moan* North and South America Eti-
roi>e. Asia and Africa and all the islands
of the sea.
It is os though after a great battle
there were left 6(1,000 wounded ami dy¬
ing on the field and three surgeon* gave
all the time to three pnfienta under their
charge. The major general comes in
ami saya to tlie doctor "Come out here
and look a,t the nearly 60,000 dying for
lack of surgical attendance. No, stty the
three doctors standing tend fanning
their patient*, “we have more important
cases here, and wo are attending to
them, and we are not positively busy
wi1.li their wound* it takes all our time
to keep the flit* o IT." In this awful bat¬
tle of *in and sorrow, where millions
have fallen on millions, do not let 11s
stix-nd nil our time in taking care of a
few people, and when the command
cornea, “go into the world,” say practi¬
cally, “No, I cannot go, I have here a
few choice cases, and I am busy keeping
off the flies.” There are multitudes to¬
day who have never had any Christian
worker look them in the eye, and wiUt
earnrsdnietw in Ihe accentuation *ay,
“wine,” or they would long ago have
been In the kingdom. My friends, re¬
ligion i* either a sham or a tremen¬
dous reality. If it is to be sham let us
cease to have anything to do with
Christian association. If It he a reality,
then great, populations are on their ordeal way
to the bar of God unfitted for Ihe
and what are we doing?
JUSTIFICATION DEFINED.
In order to reach the multitude of otft-
aider* we must drop all technticdlitia* <mt
of our religion. When we talk t.o peo¬
ple alKiiit the hy-postatio union/ and
French eneydois’tl'iaatn and eartitmiam.
and (omidiitensiHJiiMm. we are ns im-
politic and little understood us if a pity
sit'.’in should talk to tut ordinary patient
about the pericardium symptonms Many
of us came out of the theefogieul setmi-
tMiriea so loadotl up 1hat we take the
first ten years to show our jKopIc ltow
much we know and the bext
IO yea i s to get our peo¬
ple to know as much as we know and at
the end find that, neither of us know
anything as we ought to know, 11 ere
are hundr(*ds of thousands of sitiitting,
st niggling a mi dying pm;tie who need to
realize jii/st one thing—that Jesus Christ
came to stive them and will save them
now,
But. we go into profound and elohrnte
definition of -whait justification is, and
after all the work there lire not, outside
of the learned professor, b.lKilt people in
In tin* Untttsl States that can tell what
justification is. I will read you the de¬
finition: “Justification is purely a forett
sic net, in which the Supreme Uuicr and
Judge, who is accountable to none, and
who alone knows the manner in which
the ends of his universal government
can beat, he attained, reckons tha/l which
was 1 lone by the substitute, and not on
account of any of this graciuos met tori
of reckoning, grants them the full rem-
issona of their sins.”
Now, what is justification? 1 "ill tell
you what justification is. When a sin
tier believes, God lots him off. One sum
liter in Connectietit, I went to a large
factory, and I saw over the door writ¬
ten the words, “No admittance.” 1 en¬
tered and saw over the next door. ‘'No
adiuittanee.” Of course i entered. I
gt/tl inside arid found a pin factory, and
they were making pins, vary servirnible,
fine and useful pin*. So the spirit of
exclusiveness has practically wirtten
over the outside door of tniany a church
“No admittance,” and if lie goes in over
aW the pow (Ilsurs seem written, “No ad¬
mittance.” While ithe minister stands in
tlie pulpit hammering out. his ilittle iii-r-
esslth* of belief, poundintg out the lecli
ldeiv'.itie* of religion innkiug pins. it
is tlie most practical, common sense way,
and laying aside the nonesaeutlals and
the hard definition* of religion, go out in
the Cod given mission, telling the peo¬
ple what they need and when ami how
they can got it.
SAVED IN' ONE INTERVIEW.
Conumralively little effort it* yet has
been made to save the large class of per¬
sons iu our midst called skeptics, and lie
who goes to work here will not be build¬
ing upon another im|an’9 foundation;.
There is a great mini tit tide of them.
They are afraid of us and our churches,
for the reason we do not know lmw to
treat them, line of this class met
Christ, and hoar with what tenderness
and pathos and beauty and success
Christ dealt with them: "Thou shalt love
the 1 awiI thy God with nil thy heart, and
with all thy soul, and with a'J they
mind, and with all thy strength. This
la the first eoiiumuKlnieut, and tlie
second is like to this —namely, thou sluilt
love thy netgldvor as thyself. There is
no oilier commandment greater than
this: "Well, Master, thou hast said the
truth, for there is one God, and to love
him with all thy heart, and all! the un¬
derstanding, and all the soul and all tho
strength, is more than whole hiirut of¬
ferings and sacrifices." And when
Jesus saw that lie answered dis reftiy he
said unto him, "Thou are not far from
tho kingdom of God.” So a skeptic was
saved iu one interview, list few Christ¬
ian people treat, the skeptic tin that. way.
Instead of taking hold of li nt with the
gentle hand of love, wo arc apt to Snko
him with the iron pinchers of o.xitsiasti-
oism.
You would not be so rough on that
man if you knew by what pro ess lie had
lost his faith in Christianity. 1 have
known men skeptical from the fact that
they grow up in houses where religion
was overdone. Sunday was tho most
awful day of the week. They had re¬
ligion driven unto them with a trip ham¬
mer. They were stuffed and choked
with catechisms. They were often told
they were the worst lx>ys the parents
ever knew, because they liked to ride
down hill hotter than to read Runyan's
"PiJgram'.t Progress.” Whenever father
and mother talked of religion, they drew
down the comers ,>f their mouth and
rolleil up their eyes, if any one thing
will vend a boy or g rl to ruin sooner tha 1
another, that is it. If I had had such a
father and mother 1 fear l should have
been an infidel. IVhen l was a boy in
Sunday school, at one time wc had a
teacher who, when we were not atten¬
tive, struck us over the head with a
New Testament, and there is a way of
eVt>n . «'» Hl, 'c «o as to make it
offensive, .
TRIPPED UP BY PROFESSED
OHR-tSTEANS.
Other* wore tripped up of skepticism
from Rung previously wronged by some
man who professed to be a Christian,
They had a partner iu business who
turned out to be a first class scoundrel,
tliough a professed Christiaa.i Many
years ago they had loot all faith by what
happened in an oil company which was
formed amidst the pratralmim excif, nu nt
The company owned no land, or if they
did there was no sign of oil produced
'but tho president of the company was •
Presbyterian elder, and the treasurer
was an Episcopal veestrmatn, and one di¬
rector was a Methodist class Radar an one
of the directors were prominent mem-
bensof the Baptist Congressional ehttr-
ehes, circulars were gotten out te'lin what
fabulous prospects opened Itofore this
company. Innocent men and women,
who had a little money to invest, and
that little their all, said “I don't know
anything about this company, but eo
many good rnen aro at the head of it that
it must be excellent, and taking stock
in it must Ikj almost as good as joining
the ehurch.” So they Ik, tight the stock
and perhaps received one dividend so as
to keep them still, but after awhile they
found that the comjeiny had reorganized
and had a different, president, and differ¬
ent treasurer and different directors.
Other engagements or ill health had
caused the former officers of the com¬
pany, with many regrets, to resign. And
all that the subscribers of the sto k had
to show for their investment was a
beautifully ornamented certificate. Some¬
times that man, looking over his old pa¬
lters, comes across that certificate, and
It is so suggestive that he vows he wants
none of the religion that the presidents
and trustees and directors of that oil
company professed. Of course their re¬
jection of religion on such grounds was
unphlloAOphical and unwise. I a m
told that many of tha United States army
deserts every year, and hat there are
thousands of court inartials every year.
Is that anything against the United
-UhtesV
And if a soldier of Jesus Christ dee -rts,
is that anything against the Christianity
which he swore to supiKirt and defend.
How do you judge of the currency of a
country? By n counterfeit bill? Oh.
States Government that, swore them in?
you must have patience with those who
have been swindled lty religious preten¬
ders. Live in the presence of others a
frank, honest, earnest Christian life, that
they may Ik, attracted by the Saviour
upon whom your hopes depend.
Remember skepticism always has some
reason, good or bad for exiting. Goeth's
irreligion started, when tlie news came
to Germany of the earthquake at Lisbon,
Nov. 1 . 17 ir>- That 1 , 0,000 peopie should
have perished in that earthquake and in
tiie after rising of the Tagus si stirred
itis sympathies that be threw up his be¬
lief in tlie goodness of God.
A DARK LAND.
Others have gone inito skepticism front
a natural persistence in asking the rea¬
son why. They have been fearfully
stsJbbed of the interrogation point. There
arc ®o many things they cannot get ex¬
plained . They cannot understand the
Trinity of how God can lie soverign and
yet a man free agent. Neither can I.
They say, "I don’t understand why a
good God should have let sin come into
litis world.” Neither do I. You say,
“why was that child started in life with
such disadvantages, while others have
all physical and tnenlail equipment?” I
cannot tell. They go out of church on
Easier morning amt say, "that doctrine
of the .reserrcction confounded me." So
So it is to me a mystery Ibeyond tinraveC-
ment- 1 understand all the processes by
which men get into Ihe dark. I know
them all. Ihavo traveled with burning
feet that blistered way. The first word
which most children learn to utter is
"Papo or "Momma.” but f think the
first word I ever uttered was “why?” T
know what, it is to have a hundred mid¬
nights pour out. their darkness into one
hour. Such men are not, to bo scoffed,
(but helped. Turn your back upon «,
drowning man when you have the roi>e
with which to pull him ashore and let
that woman in the third story perish
in the tin nice when you have a ladder
with which to help her out and help er
down, rather than turn your back scoff-
ingly on a skeptic, whose sou! is ji(
more peril than the holies of those other
endangered ones possibly can be. Oh.
skepticism is a dark land There are men
in this house who would give a thousand
worlds, if they possessed them, to get
back to their placid faith of their fa¬
thers and mothers, and it teuour place to
help them, and wo may help them, never
■through their heads, but always through
their hearts. Those skeptics, when
brought (o Jesus, will be mightily , ffer-
tivo, far more than those who never ex-
nmined the evidences of Christianity.
Thomas Chalmers was once a skeptic,
Robert Hall a skeptic. Robert Newton,
a skeptic, Christmas Evans, a skeptic.
But when once, with strong hand, they
took hold of tlie chariot of the gospel,
they rolled it on with what momentum!
If I address such men and women today,
1 throw out no scoff. I implead them by
the memory of the good old days when
at their mother's knee they said, "Now
1 lay me down to sleep,” and by those
days and nights of scarlet fever in which
she watched you, giving you Ihe tiled cine
at just the right time and turning your
pillow when it was hot, and with hands
that many years ago turned to dust,
soothed away your pain, and with that
you will never hear again, unless you
join her in the better country, told you
to never mind, for you would feet better
by and by, and by that dying conch,
where she looked so pale and talked so
slowly catching her breath between each
word, and you tfeit an awful loneliness
coming over your soul—by all that 1 beg
you to come back and take the same re¬
ligion. It was good enough for her. It
is good enough for you. Nay. 1 have
a 1 tetter plea than that. I plead by till
the wounds and tears and blood and
groans and agonies and death throes of
the Son of God, who approaches you
this moment with torn brow and la (ra¬
ted hand and whipped back and say¬
ing, “come unto 111 e v all ye who are
weary and heavy laden and 1 will give
you rest.
GKT TO WORK.
Furthermore, tlie destitute children of
tlie streets offer a field of work eompara-
tive’.y unoccupied. The uncared for chil¬
dren are in the majority in most of our
cities. There condition was well illus¬
trated by what a boy in this city said
when he was found under a cart gnaw-
ing a bone ml some one said to him.
“where do you live?” and he answered,
"Don't live nowhere, sir!” Seventy thous¬
and of the children of New York city
nan neither read nor write. Whim they
grow up, if unreformed, they w ill outvote
your children, and they will govern your
children. The whiskey ring will hatch
out other whiskey rings and grogshops
will kill with their horrid stench public
sobriety, unless (lie church of God rise,
up with outstretched arras and enfold
this dying population to his bosom, iPub-
can not ‘do* 11? " Aimbouses ^nnotlloTc
New York Tombs cannot do it. Sing
Sing eannotd o it. People of 0*1 wake
up to your inaguificlent mission! You
cun do it. Get somewhere, somehow to
work.
The Prussian calvary mount by put-
ting their right foot into the stirrup,
while the American cavalry mount by
putting their left boot into the stirrup. I
don’t care how you mount your war
chargerif you only get into this battle
for God , and get there soon, right stir¬
rup, left stirrup, or no stirrup at all. The,
unoccupied field are a.M aroundus, ami
why should we build on another man’s
foundation.
I have heard of what was called the
"thundering legion.” It was in 1751 , a
part of the Roman army to which some
Christian belonged, and their prayers, it
was said, were answered by thunder and
and lightning and hail and tempest,
which overthrew tin invading army and
saved the empire. And I would to God
that you could be so mighty in prayer
and work that you would become a thun¬
dering legion, before which the forces of
sin might is routed and the gates of
hell made to tremble. Aril aboard on the
gospel slap! If you cannot be a captain
or a firstmate, Ixi a stoker or a deck¬
hand, or ready at command to climb the
ratlines. Ileave away now, lads! Shake
out the reefs in the foretopsail! Gome,
O heavenly wind, and fid the canvas!
•Testis on the sea will beckon us forward.
Jesus aboard will assure our aUety. Jes¬
us on the shining shore will welcome u«
into harbor. “And so it came to pass
tliut they all escaped safe to land.”
Tlie? in the World.
How many people in Chicago know that
with all her other great industry s i .ere
is also found here the larg - *st soap and
washing powder business in the world,
The N. K. Fairbank Company, with their
factories in Chicago, S>t. Fouls and Cut-
tenberg, being, without doubt, the .'largest,
producers of soap products in the United
•Stal s. This great business is not or
mushroom growth, but the result of per¬
sistent effort, broad business methods
and intelligent and discriminating ad¬
vertising.
Many brands of soap are made in those
factories, but Chicago is best acquainted
with Santa Claus which long ago found
favor with thos • who care for our homes.
Gold Dust Washing Powder is known in
every h-amlet of the United Stat< s, it be¬
ing everywhere recognized as the leading
product of its kind.
Announcem nt is now made that The
W K. Fairbank Company are about to
take another step forward to turn an¬
other page in their history of progress
by introducing another new soap. 1 his
will shortly be advertised in a most sink¬
ing and original manner.
For twenty-five y ars this company was
likewise the leading lard nroducer of the
work!, anil abandoned lard merely be¬
cause a new world was to be* conquered.
With keen business perception, they saw
in cotton seed ofi the basis for a still
larger business in a more healthful, more
economical and in every way more de¬
sirable food product than lard. When
this new product was perfected and their
plans carefully arranged they turned
their attention from the lard business,
and with a courage born of the confi¬
dence that they had produced what the
world had so long demanded, viz., a sub¬
stitute for 'lard, they launched “Cotfo-
lene.” The quick acceptance by the
public of this really meritorious article
attracted the attention of the ever-reatty
Imitator and the market was soon flood¬
ed with imitations, sailing under colors
of all descriptions. But Cottolene was
first, in the heart of the people and those
who use it are not all likely to go back
to lard or accept an imitation.
Th ■ N. K. Fairbank Company attri¬
bute their success to the merit of tne
articles they produce; to the fact that
their products are staple necessities of
life, not luxuries, and to careful, thought¬
ful, persistent newspaper advertising,
which they continue through all seasons,
In hard times and in good. Surely this
is a far wiser plan than the occasional
blast of triumpets and spasmodic efforts
often characteristic of others.
In the advertising branch of the busi¬
ness they are r presented by the well
known firm of N. W. Ayer & Son of
Philadelphia, who purchase al*l their ad¬
vertising space.
Another fact that may not lx* generally
known Is that The N. K. Fairbank Com¬
pany is conducted as one of the d part-
ments of The American Cotton Oil Com¬
pany. This fusion of business forces was
consummated for the sake of the greater
facilities that ensue from a ciiivict con¬
nection with the cotton seed mills to sup¬
ply the public with the purest article
at so much less cost.
Surely* no Chicago industry has achiev¬
ed greater success than The N. K. Fair-
bank Company. Chicago Inter Ocean.
Limits of Human Intelligence.
M. Flournoy, of Geneva, recently d ■-
\ sed a nov.l experiment for testing
ihc limits of human intelligence. He
an waged a s t’les of common ar ivies
o: nil sizes, and requested his class to
put them in order , f wi ig'ht. The we ght
-, i 1 was really exactly the same,
but only tne student discovered li is
f let. Tin ii a.ioriti pi i ' d a small lead¬
en weight first, and a large wooden
as n lest. The o’ dinary tndad, ap¬
parently. ranges the weight of objec.s
in prop, n’t ion to their size. Un-
l.v i the eys are shut does a true
ipnn‘<*i,ui’>n heroine possible, snowing
tlm tlie s usurious of innervation, by
which w< slit;uld be era led to tell
when lit- support f different objects
•alls for ii tlie same expenditure of
energy do rot properly exis Ball
Mall Gaze!t .
Mnjoycd Great Shooting.
Norfolk. A’a . March 14 .- Capt. John
son, of the steamer Harbinger, which
reached Norfolk tonight form North
Carolina says that he saw tile Violet and
President Cleveland about Lookout, N.
C.. This morning: that the President is
well and had enjoyed great shooting- He
asked for Norfolk, Washington and New
York papers. The Violet is on her re¬
turn trip and will pass Norfolk tumor-
row morning.
lty Southern Associated Press.
l.cti ion, March 11 .- t he Globe sorts
that the Intimation has been conveyed
to certain members c.f the opposition that
Sir William Harrourt, f’hanceilor of the
Exchequer, will accept the bpoakersh p
of the House of Commons if his candi¬
dature is not opposed. If this is settlt i.
Right Eon. H. Campbell-Bannerman will
succeed Sir William Harcourt as Govern¬
ment leader In ihe House.
• Experiments in Georgia
show that the best cotton fertilizer should contain not less than from
I j 3 to 4 % Actual Potash.
| in Any the failures fertilizers to this used. crop can be traced to a deficiency of Potash
j will gladly send pamphlets the Use of Potash.
We you our on '
They are sent free. It will cost you nothing to read them, and they will save you
dollars. HICKMAN KALI WORKS, 93 Nassau Street, New York.,
Tafne'm CriticM.
Th - reception of M. Albert Sore! at
the V-iidernin Francaise lias taken
place, and his "eloge” of Taine Is eius-
ng the rtvk! d’seussion always pro-
vok’ d !y a thorough, eapable piece ot
work wit!,'out insp iration or epigram;
though Taine is not badly hit off as
"a man of s-1 nee who saw na ure with
th eye of a painter, a dialectician who
■'■rote like a poeb" All through his dis-
* mice M. Por’d rcv( aled a keen ap¬
preciation ef his subj-et, and what he
had to say has intrinsic value; yet it
must lie confessed that the occasion re-
vines more interest in Taine than in
h.s eulogst. M. Sorel ive know as an
■xecllent wri.er whom the Academy
has at last distinguished. Taine must
be remembered as a man who dstin-
guixhed tlie Academy, as the master ot
a critical method which commands in¬
creased admiration as time gc >es on.
To lie sure he preaiied a gospel which
Sa.nte-Hctive preached before brm, and
as a lit“rary critic the author of "Cans
erics” surpassed, on tlie whole, the man
w ho wrote "De 1’Inteliigence,”
and the author of one of the most
curious histories of English literature
we have. But Taine gave a new sig-
nifivanee tu the “petits faits” of which
he made so much, and lie lent such a
charm to his oivn handling of them that
future writers are bound to be tempted
into following his lead.
It was Mr. Andrew Lang, we believe,
who said that when M. Taine had
found out all he could about English
watersheds and other matters of sta¬
tistical knowledge, he was prepared to
pass a judgment upon Shakespeare or
Kents. Tills sounds well, but as a mat¬
ter of fact, Taine often went ,o the
roots of tilings in. liis patient study of
facts, in his reeoustrue j on of a writer
or a movement by a process of nccumu.
latiou not unlike that which the mo¬
saic worker given you in his completed
pavement; and you tread upon vh • basis
that he gives you with something of the
same confidence that the artisan afore¬
said i.uvi es. He makes for sobriety of
judgment and a sane, well-considered
method. Tlie man who tries to ,-->py his
rhetoric or his style will fail, but tin¬
man who emulates his zeal for exact
knowledge, an ardor never concealed
from his sympathy,i;- readers by his
color and his vivacity, will ground him-
iself well in literary erticism.—New
York Tribune.
Neglected Books.
A Lundoti bookseller has cite,! a
symposium on ucglcc.ed books. He
uslud a lium ;er ot men each io name
i wo or I.: i" o itooks which the reading
pm li • iv mid like to know more about.
Sir John Lubbock answered that the
..uoks "most unaccountably neglected”
were he great masterpieces of anti¬
quity. Not so, says Mr. Grant Alien.
"My ficiing is that good books of old
date have got quite enough or too
much appreciation, and that i is the
new men and the new books that are in
want of prophets.” And forthwith the
prophet appears, Mr. Richard Le Gal-
litinne re prorates .lie plea for llu-
work of the new men by including in
his list of books undeservedly neglect¬
ed Mr. Grant Allen’s "Post-Prandial
Philosophy.” Thus do the brethren
dwell together in unity. And who shall
say it is IKK easy to float in air pro-
vlded only wo tako hold of each other’s
bootstraps?
Hr. Warro, tlie head master of Eton,
fears that Dickens and Thackeray are
not re :,d much as he could wish, but he
is qul ? convinced that Scott is holding
his own, which suggests that much ed¬
ucational work remains to he done.by
tlie realists before their dearest enemy
is supplanted. Another person wonders
it' "Den Quixote,” “undoubtedly the
greatest pure hook in tlie world” is re¬
gularly and universally read in Eng¬
land. Tlie sa ne question might lie rais¬
ed in America. We cannot but believe
that tlie .public libraries would answer
with an empha ic "Yes”; for every
schoolboy must lie told of it, and he
made to read the few extracts which
must leave him unsatisfied until the
whole has been enjoyed.—New York
Tribune.
Grades in Society.
The grades of society are illustrated by
the following incidents of a ivc nt ac¬
tual occurrence. The first was at a fash¬
ionable masquerade ball in the city:
He—Am I mistaken In addressing you
as Miss Linguist?
She—I plead guilty to the name, Mr.
Argus, hut am surprised that you so
easily penetrated my disguise.
He—Pardon me, there is a grace about
Miss Linguist's movements no costume
can disguise.
At a recent masquerade ball in Whlte-
stone the following conversation was
overheardr
He Ah, there, Sue! 1 knowed you as
soon as I seen you.
She—Law, Tom! Ho’.v'd ye teil me?
He—I’y your 1 - gs. laong Island Sound.
Collector—"You say that you tare not
liable to income tax V Why. you must
he spending $ 25 . 0 GG tt year !”
Jack Dasher—“Very likely; hut what
lias that to do with my income ?”—New
York Bun.
A 11 Einlieazlpr Looked l|».
Hartford. Conn.. March 13 .—Louis A.
Tracey, secretary and toiler of the S-fti-
rrty Company, was am'sted this morn¬
ing charged with having einlaezzled
7 <h» front the company. lie v'as locked
up and will lie put to plead in the Police
Court tomorrow. It is claimed that by
bog-tta chocks and momoraiida he has
emlK’zzlcd nearly Tru y Ims
been secretary for the company for
several years.
The Middle Georgia and Atlantic rail¬
road is getting out a great many oak
crossties along tlie line, which are to l be
used as fast as they are needed for re¬
placing the old ones.
How Crawford Write** a Aovei
”W hat,” 1 asked, "is the germ of a
novel for you?”
"It is a Character and nut a situation
which generally suggests a novel to me.,
I think in most cases my characters are
portraits of real people in imaginary
situations; that is why they cannot be
recognized by the originals, because
they arc out of their usual environ,
meat. There arc two exceptions to tins
way of conceiving a novel; as I have
already told you, ‘The Tale of a Lonely
ParVdi’ and ‘MarzVs Crucifix’ were
suggested to me by the real back-
ground.’
"Won't you tell me,” 1 asked, "how
you go to work to construct one of your
novels; do you sea the end from the be-
giiivi...;. and work towards it?”
"Since my first .novel or two, I always
sic the end of the story from the start.
WImui I have thought it over in this
way. [ take a large sheet of paper,
and, having decided on the size of the
book, 1 make up my mind that it shall
uave, say, twenty-four chapters. Along
tlie lift margin I mark the numbers ot
these chapters, one under the other, a
lino for each. If it is to be in three
volumes, as most of my novels are in
England, I place a horizontal mark
after each eight chapter numbers- That
indicates the volume. Then, after the
manner of a playwright Chosstng what
lie calls Ills ‘curtain situation,’ I decide
on tln> culminating incident in each vol¬
ume, and also decide in which chaptci
it shall fall, and place a catch word
indicating that situation on tlie line
with tiie chapter number. Then I fill in
for the other chapters a catch word or
phrase, which indicates the minor inci¬
dents in succession that culminate in
the major incident. Of course all these
things do not come at once, and I may
tin in, from time to time, after I have
begun the novel. But when the skeleton
is comparatively complete, I begin to
work. Along the right -hand margin 1
writs: down the calendar of the novel, as
it may be called from (“lay to day. If it
is a novel in which the action takes
1*1 in a very short time, 1 write down
not only the day of the month and
w; el-., but the hour of the day, so that
he act;,,a of the story may move logi¬
cally. W.lh til s skeleton of the uovel
before n.e I write with great rapidity.
Indeed. X have found that if I write a
uov.-l slowly, my conception of the lead-
• ug characters may change from week
to week, so that in the end the novel is
not artist.tally s i forcible or so corn-
plot ■ ; s ile s - writ! n rapidly. You will
understand, of course, ,that after the
novel is begun I may have to shift the
position of the leading incidents, and
alter the general arrangement.”
“Do you ever dictate?" J asked.
"i dufated one novtl under stress of
circumstances, and I do not consider
that 1 shall ever dictate another, for 1
consider it a relative failure.”
Honor for lllsniiirrk.
Berlin, March U.—The Prussian Gov¬
ernment has ordered that all schools be
closed on April 1 , Bismarck’s birthday.
Special prayers will be offered in all tne
evangelical church for Bismarck on
Sunday, March 31 .
A new papi r that lias made its ap-
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Herald. Tr is edited by Mr. E. L. Ted-
ford, with Mr. M. Massengale as business
manager.
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