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PE.TAEM AGE'S SERMON The Eminent Divine’s Sunday Discourse. Subject: Everyday Religion—Tt Is flood In lJuslness nnd Politics—The Example of Daniel. Who Was Never Too Busy to Worship Clod-Advice to Christians. (Copyright lttOtf.1 Washington, D. C.—This discourse of Dr. Talmage is appropriate for all seasons, but especially in these times of great^agi tation tation. The text is Daniel vi, 16. “Then the king commanded, and they brought lions.’ Daniel and cast him into the den of DaHus was king of Babylon, and the voung man Daniel was so much a favorite with him that he made him But prime minis ter, or secretary of state. no man exciting could gain the such a and high jealousy position of the without peo envy demagogues in Babylon ple. There were who were so appreciative of their own abilities that they were affronted at the elevation of this young man. Old Baby lon was afraid of young Babylon. The tall er the cedar the more apt it is to be riven of the lightning. These demagogues asked the king to make a decree that anybody that made a petition to any one except cree. The demagogues have know accomplished all they want, because they sending that no one can keen Daniel from petitions Worn %o God for thirlv davs far from being afraid, Daniel goes on with supplications house three times making a day and is found on his top prayer. He is caught in the act. He is condemned to be devoured by the lions. Rough executioners of the law seize him and hasten him to the cavern. I hear the growl of the wild beasts, and I see them pawing the dust, and as they nut their moutlm to the ground the solid earth quakes with their bellowing. 1 see their eves roll and I almost hear the fiery eye balls st.p in the darkness. These mens ters approach Da c iel. They have an appe tite keen with b s nger. With one stroke of their paw or one snatch of their teeth, they may leave him dead at the bottom of the cavern. But what a strange welcome Daniel receives from these hungry mons ters. his hand, They fawn around feet him, they long lick That they bury his calm in sleep their manes. his head pillowed night he the has with of on warm necks the tamed lioni. » But not so well does Darius, the king, sleep. He He has an attack of terrific insom nia. loves Daniel, and hates this strategem by which he has been con demned. All night long the king w-alks the fioo-. He cannot sleep. At the least sound he starts and his llesh creeps with of horror. the a*e is impati.nt first for streak the dawning of the daylight morning. Darius At the hastens forth to see the fate of Daniel. The heavy palace doors open and clang shut long before the people of the city waken. Darius goec to the dec of the lions; he looks in. All is silent, His heart etops. lie feels that the very ■worst ha3 happened, but gathering all his strength, the rock, he “Oh, shouts Daniel, through thy the rifts whom of is God thou servest continually able to deliver thee?” There comes rolling up from the deep king, darkness a voice which says: “Ob, live forever. My God has sent His angel have to shut the lions’ mouths that they not hurt me.” Then Daniel is brought out hurled from the den. The dema gogues are into it, and no sooner have they struck the bottom of the den than their flesh was rent, and their bones cracked and their blood spurted through the rifts of the rock, and, as the lions make the rocks tremble with their roar, thev announce to all ages that while God will defend Hts people, the way of the '“ ungodly shall first from perish. v 4jearn cri—e that this subject that the the greatest* you commit in ££££ ii IWyJ? thi grime of success. What to baq the Daniel lions? done He that had become lie should prime be flung min "lifter. They could not forgive hinj for tbat, and behold in that a touch of un eanctificd human nature as seen in all ages of the world. So long as you are pinched in poverty, so long as you are running the gantlet between landlord and taxgatherer, so long as you find it hard work to educate vour children, there are people who will say, “Poor man, I am sorry man.” for But him; he ought do succeed, poor after awhile the tide turns in your favor. That was a profitable in vestment you made. You bought just at tha right time. Fortune becomes good hu mored and smiles upon you. Now you are in some department successful and your success chills some one. Those men who used to sympathize with you stand along the street, and they scowl at you from under the rim of their hats. You have more money or more influence than they at from have, under and the you rim ought of their to be hats. scowled You catch a word or two as you pass by them. “Stuck up,” says one “Got it dishonest; ly, says third. another. Will burst in soon, says a laid Every their hearts. stone Y'our your new house is on horee’s hoofs went over their nerves. Every item „£ your .uccos, l.a, been to thorn a„ Item of discomfiture and despair. Just as soon as in any respect you rise above your fel lows, if you are more virtuous, if you arc more wise, if you are more influential, you cast a shadow on the prospect of oth ers. The road to the^nemy’s honor and success jcalousv is with in reach of gums s-ivs “Rtnv down or i’ll knock von down ” “I do not hke you/’ says the snowflake to the snow-bird. “Why don’t you like me?” said the snowbird. “Oh,” said tlie snowflake “von nre o-oinir ® im * nnd 1 am coming down” Young merchants, young lawyers, young doctors, young mechanics, young artists, young farmers, at certain times there are those-to sympathize with you, but now particular that vou are becomimr a master of vonr it occupation or profession, hm.v is now, artists, young lawyers, young doctors, young now? The young farmers,—how is it greatest crime that you can “Kin tho'volue n*f ifedsion mo -ill, department. Daniel knew that if he con tinued his adherence to the religion of the Lord he would be hurled to the lions but, having set his compass well, he sailed right of decision on. For the lack of that element of character, so eminent in world, Daniel, many men are mined for this and ruined for the world to come A great many at forty years of age are not settled in any respect because they have not been able to make up their minds. Perhaps they will go west - per haps they will go east; will’ perhaps they will they not; perh ps they go north ' perhaps not; perhaps may go they south; perhaps th?v will ment in real may make that invest baps estate or in railroads' per that they will not. They are like a steam er should go out of New York liar hor, starting for Glasgow, and the next aav should change tot Havre de Grace, and the next for Charleston and the next These for Boston and the the next of life for everlasting- Liverpool. men on sea ly tacking shin and making no headway. Or they are like a man who starts to build a house in the Corinthian style and changes it to Doric, and then completes styles it in the Ionic, the curse of all right of architecture. Young man, start of character. and keep on. Have decision Character 1 1 like the 2 hiTe goldfinch of Tonquiru it is magnificent beauty w in flight, standing How firm, much but loses all its decision of character in order that these young men may be Christians! Their old associates make sarcastic flings at them. They go on excursions and they do not invite them. They prophesy that he will jive out. Thev wonder if he is not getting wings. As he passes, they grimace and wink and chuckle and say, T, Thcre goes a saint.” Oh, young man, have dec.sion of character. You can afford in this mat ter of religion to be laughed at. \V hat do you care for the scoffs of these men, who are affronted because you will net go to ruin with them!' When the grave cracks open under their feet, and and eternity grim messen gers push them into it, and comes down bard upon their spirit, ruin lifts them con science stings, and hopeless down, will they laugh V to hurl them in ® _ n .‘ . . - nW „i that men ** ■cason ol ti y , / J? 5j ame en . ar J £ J? occudv ?? men. All the affairs of state Rt „. p were ... prp in bis hands-questions of. finance questions ^ ar * P eac ?i a tions were for Ins foment or adjust- . ment - He mu.t have had en « vast beyond all computat on There wa3 n ° t a maa in all the earth V o ‘ more to do than Daniel, the secretary of ^ate, and. yet we find him three times a day bowing before God in prayer ,.^ ut *?. e religion g., right a ‘° a F bjr j^iem all through life,.to have re! g looking over their shoulder when they a making a bargain, to have religion take U P a bag o dishonest gold and shake it d Where d.d you get that, f a £ Bay. tbink that is an impertinent rc hfnon. They would like to have a religion to help them when they are sick and when the shadow- of death conies over them, they would like to have religion as a sort the of night key with which to open door of heaven, but religion under other circumstances they take to be imperti nence. Now-, my friends, religion never robbed a man 0 f a dollar. Other things being equal, a mason will build a better wall, a cabinet maker will make a better chair, a plumber will make a better pipe, a lawyer will will ma ke a better plea, a merchant 6e Jl a better bill of goods. I sav, other things being equal. Of course when re figion gives a man a new heart, it does no t propose to give him a new head or to intellectualize him or to change a man’s condition w-hen his ordinary state is an overthrow of the philosophical theory that a total vacuum is impossible, but the more letters you have to write, the more miles bur dens you have to carry, the more j- have oa have lift, to travel, the the more engagements burdens vou to more you have to meet, the more disputes you have to settle, the more opportunity you have 0 f being a Christian. If you have a thousand irons in the fire, you have a thousand more opportunities of serving God than if you only had one iron in the fj re . Who so busy as Christ? And yet who a millionth part as holy? The busi est men the best men. Aii the persons converted in Scripture busy at the time 0 f their being converted. Matttiew at tending to his custom house duties, sell- the prodigal { son feeding sw-ine, Lvdia n g purple Simon Peter hauling in the ngt from t Or e sea, Saul spurring his hors§ toward Damascus, ijusy, going down on his law business, busy Daniel with all the affairs of state weighing down upon his soul and yet three times a day worship ing the God of heaven. Again, I learn from this subject that a man may take religion into liis politics. Daniel had all the affairs of state on hapd. yet a servant of God. He could not less nave he had kept been his elevated thorough position politician, un a all and yet all the thrusts of officials and the danger of disgrace did not make him yield one iota of his high toned religious he principle. He stood before that age, stands before all ages, a specimen of a godly politician. So there have been in our day and in the days of our fathers men as eminent in the service of God as they have been eminent in the service of the state. Such was Benjamin F. Butler, attorney general of New York in the time of your fathers; such was John Me Lean, of the supreme court of the United States; such was George Briggs, Frelinghuy- of Massa chusetts: such was Theodore sen, of New Jersey—men faithful to the state, at the same time faithful to God. It is absurd to expect that men who have been immersed in political wickedness for thirty or forty years shall come to refor mation, and our hope is in the young men who are coming up. that they have patri otic by ,,Je principle .tan and they Christian principle the ballot side come to box and cast their first vote and that they swear heaven allegiance to the government of as well as to the government of the United States. We would have Bun ker Hill mean less to them than Calvary, and Lexington mean less to them than Bethlehem. But because there are bad ^ound the ballot box is no reason why Christian men should retreat ought from the arena. The last time you to g ive U P >our child or forsake your child ls n 1S sunounded by a company ! of c Choctaws, , and the last tone to sur i render the ballot box is when it is sur roi,nde(i b Y impurity and dishonesty and L \ ■ or t ? wickedness. Daniel . stood most, unpopular plat on a , form - He stood firmly, though the dema gogues of the day hissed at him and tried to overthrow him. We must carry cur religion into our politics. t,iere are a great many men who ,i° f tal cing inl; ' > nat .‘*' n “* ‘aSn* c°V“l–’TthoS 1 . 1° Wo 1, neighborhood ore inlolhgont about had the n elfaru !f and no concern atj ont Ins own home. siffqect a i 80 impresses me with the fact that llons cannot hurt a good man. man ever 8 ot into worse company than D anie l 8 ot ‘“to when he was thrown into tiie dcn - ' Vhat a rare morsel that fair >' oun K m: ’ w ? uld have been for the hun ? r Y monsters! If they had plunged at b ‘ m > be could not have climbed into a n ‘che beyond the reach of their paw or tbe 8natc h of their tooth. They came pleased all around about him, as hunters' hounds at the well known whistle come bounding to his feet. You need not go to Numidia to get many lions. You all have aad them after you—the lion of financial distress, the lion You of sickness, the lion °* P ersec ution. saw that lion of financial panic putting his mouth down to the earth, and he roared until nil the banks and all the insurance companies quaked. With his nostril he scattered the ashes on the domestic hearth. You have had trial after after trial, lion, misfortune and after th'ey misfortune, lion if yet trust have never hurt you you put your in God, and they never will hurt you. L'hcy did not hurt Daniel, and used they cannot think hurt you. The Persians to that would spring rain pearls, falling and into I have seashells tell turn into to you that the tears or sorrow turn into precious gems when they drop into God’s bottle. You need be afraid of nothing putting your trust in God. Even death, that monster lion whose den is the world's sepulcher and who puts his paw down amid thousands of millions of the dead, cannot affright you. When in old* en times a man was to get the honors of knighthood, he was compelled to go ful ly armed the dead night before among the tombs of the carrying a sort of spear, and then when the day broke he would come forth, and amid the sound of comet and great parade he would get fhe honors of knighthood. And so it will be with the Christian in the night before heaven as fully armed with spear and helmet of salvation he will wait and watch through the darkness until the morning dawns, and then lie will take the honors of heaven amid that great throng with -snowy robes streaming over seas of sap phire. NEWSY CLEANINGS. Some of (ho Western railroads art endeavoring to make Arizona a winter resort. Queen Victoria lias decorated nnd promoted twenty naval officers serving In South Africa. There were 111 deer killed in Ver mont during the open season, which ended November 1. The North German Lloyd Steamship Company has decided to rebuild its picrj in Hoboken, N. J. There are still about *300,000 worth of unredeemed Porto Rican money in circulation in the island. A regular monthly mail service be tween San Francisco, Cal., and Ta hiti, has been established. Jean de Bloch, the celebrated peace advocate, says that Russia will surely withdraw her troops from Manchuria. The Board of Health of Now York City has lecided to provide free scien tific treatment fdr those who suffer from hydrophobia. The Government will appropriate *10,000 for the plans for the arrange ment of the Cuban exhibit at the Pan American Exposition at Buffalo. Count Caserta, who styles himsolf the ‘‘heir to the Neapolitan crown,” has been obliged to sell the famous Palace Farnese, at Rome, Italy, in or der to pay his debts. The report of the geoglogical sur veyors appointed by the British Gov ernment declares that reefs have been discovered in two localities in Burmah containing payable gold. The Secretary of the Territory of Hawaii has submitted to the Secre tary of the Treasury, at Washington, bis estimate for Government improve ments in the erection, repair, preserva tion and furnishing of public build ings in the Hawaiian Islands. The estimated amount required is *1.200, 000. — LABOR WORLD. T gtrke at the Oak Hill (Penn.) colliery ... . has Wn been fl a '-laioa off on. The Cornwall Ore Company, of Leb auo n, Penn., has discharged all for 0 j„ nerg nIld j s employing only married 1UL yV • Bridgeton (N. J.) shirt niauuiactur ors cannot begin to get operators eoon g L f 0 gq the large orders that are , h j n The union printers . Oi Millville, N. J., have asked tlie City Council tlijjre f 0 j )asg an ordinance requiring the uu i ou 11 label on all the city’s printing, ’ A thousand , American eigarmakers . in TampFla., find themselves out 0 p employment because of a strike of Cu!)ans j n t be trade against American , v> 0 v Nearly 1,000,000 women in Spain work In tlie field as day laborers; 350, qqq women ‘ire registered as clay serv nts _ tliat ig> they „.*\ work for their food an(1 lodging. r in re . is no Suva ....., class , anywhere else. ^ rpi lf “ , An-crierm ?,, Fodo-nGnn of Labor Uarle (J „ lmiou „f book . keepers ^ m ( liiougo, ^ nnd ( cnoiis .ue to be made to start similar organizations in oilier cities. The purpose is to sc t . ul - c the eight-hour day. „„ 1 ll0 ... eigarmakers , , s.riko . m New York City has now been m progress for nearly forty weeks, and there are still about 2000 persons idle. They are being paid $3 a week each by the Cignnnakers’ ° International Union, The Police Department of Berlin, Germany, has undertaken a thorough revision of the bnkeskops, much to jj u> as tonislnnent of Hie Master Bak ' , asmiu.ii Association uii there, iuut, which ' had bc gun to ridicule tlie bakeshop law. At a meeting of the Board of Dele gates of Typographical Union No. G, New York City, it was decided to close «* ** "uwnploycd Hrlntcr*. wlllri. the un on lms boon supporting lor (lie past three years at Bound Brook, N. J. FIRST UNCENSOREI) DISPATCHES. Great Activity Witnessed the East Week In the Philippines. The first uncensored news from tbe Philippines shows that last week wit nessed considerable increase in rebel and American activity in the field. Many skirmishes occurred and several small engagements in north and south ern Luzon. The termination of the rains permits a resumption of the op eration on both sides. i 0 Legislative Melange * 0 0 Bryan Elected Presidint. In view of the fact that the members could not leave for their homes over tho stato to vote in the national elec tion, on acoount of the election foi eeuator, a resolution was providing for a call of the roll of the senate and house in order that the members might go on record as de siring the election of Mr. Bryan. The plan created n ripple of amusement in tl o two bodies, especially when two members of the house, Foster of Towns, and McKay (colored), of Lib erty, put themselves on record as fa voring the election of Mr. McKinley. The result of the roll call was that 102 votos were cast for Bryan and 2 for McKinley. “I therefore declare the Hon. William J. Bryan, of Nebras ka, elected president of the United States,” said Speaker Little, whereup on the house displayed its unbounded pleasure and appreciation of the joke of the speaker. * * * Hore Money For lech. Mr. Wright, of Dougherty, is a fast friend of the State Technological school, and will display all the energy at his command to increase the useful ness and efficiency of that institution. He has introduced a bill to give the school §16,000 for needed improve ments. Ten thousand of this is to be utilized in erecting an electrical build ing and the remaining §6,000 is to be applied to improvements in the textile department. The money is appropriated to the University of Georgia for use of the Technological school. Aimed at Soliciting Agents. Mr. HeudersoD, of Forsyth, is seek ing to repeal the emigrant law in foice in Georgia. This is of interest just at this time because of the case pend ing in the United States court against “Pegleg” Williams for a violation of this law. It is made a misdemeanor to solicit emigrants from this to other states without taking out a license for that purpose, which costs §500 for each county, and it was under this law that Williams was convicted. In a south Georgia county an emi grant agent was nearly lynched sever al years ago for plying his business, and a repeal of the law may cause mere such outbreaks. To Restore Trial By Jury. Mr. Hall of Bibb wants to restore the right of trial by jury, which he 6ays has beeu abridged, not by an specific act of the legislature, but by the Incorporation of a section in the code by the codifiers that had no right to be there. Mr. Hall’s bill seeks to repeal sec tion 5331, which confers the power on judges to direct verdicts when the evi dence overwhelmingly warrants such direction. This bill was stubbornly fought at tho last session and was defeated. Mr. Hall reintroduced it again, with more hopes of success. For County Reformatories. Mr. Wright of Floyd has introduced a measure in the house to provide for the establishment of juvenile reforma tories in any county iu the state upon the recommendation of the grand ju ries thereof. Mr. Wright’s bill provides that chil dren under 10 whose parents do not properly provide for them, either through inability or neglect, shall he taken into those, and they shall be open also to youtHul criminals under the age of 14. The home is to be established and maintained on the county poor farm, it being made specially incumbent on the management to instruct tlie in mates on the evil effects of whisky on the human system. They are to be taught useful avoca tions, and in every way so trained up as to make intelligent aud upright cit izens. Teachers’ Pay Overdue. The house has appointed another Blalock investigating committee with scope and power not as large as that given the former famous “Blalock Committee,” but it is going to find out the reason why tho common school teachers of the state have not beeu paid monthly as required by the act of 1898. Mr. Blalock says they have not been paid even quarterly. * * * Want Gilt Abrogated.J Representative Flynt, of Spalding county, will introduce a bill in the house at an early date requiring the state to give back the property donated the stito by the citizens of Griffin Borne time ago for the purpose of holding state encampments, if the military committee of the house does not so recommend. Valuable concessions were made by Griffin in 1892, when the camp ground was first laid out, and Mr. Flynt be lieves as there are going to bo no more state enenmpments, the property should be given back to its original owners. Uniform Text Books Wanted. Mr. Wright of Floyd has introduced a measure to create a school book coni mission. The purpose is to secure uniform text books in the public schools of the state. The state school commissioner is in structed to advertise for bids for books in tho common school branches, and there are to bo specially prepared books on the evil effects on the system by all aicoholio stimulants, and their general deleterious effect on the sys tem is to be taught. The public school teachers are for bidden to enroll any pupils who will not provide themselves with and use such books. To Reduce Pension List. To withhold pensions from persons owning §1,000 of property or whose incomes exceed §300 per annum, is the purport oC a bill introduced by Mr. Howard, of Dooly. If carried into effect it would materially reduce tho pension list of this state. Many persons in the state receive pensions whose income reach annually several thousand dollars and it has been charged in many instances that those were about the first to receive their pensions. The bill will restrict the payment of pensions to those absolutely needy, reducing the pension fund thousands of dollars. To Change Election Law. The committee on privileges and elections has indicated its purpose to report favorably the bill by Mr. Rawls of Effingham to allow tho polls at county precincts to open at the same hour as at the court b _>use. Mr. Franklin informed the commit tee that he intended to introduce a Measure allowing tbe polls to be kept open in towns of 1,000 aud over the same hours as at the courthouse. Messrs. Rawls and Franklin were appointed a sub-committee to prepare a substitute measure embracing the features of both, which the committee indicated it would report favorably. Individual Depot Bill. Mr. Wright, of Dougherty, did not wait for the joint legislative committee of 41 to frame a depot bill. He has introduced a bill of his own providing for the erection of a union passenger station on the state’s terminal prop erty in Atlanta. The bill provides for tho appropria tion of §432,750 or as much thereof as may be necessary for the construction of a building which will meet all de mands that may made upon it. It au thorizes aud directs the transfer of this sum of the money raised to meet the interest on the bonded debt of tho state maturing January, May, July and November, 1901, aud January, 1902. Obear For Brigadier General. In tho senate a resolut on lias been introduced by Hou. W. T. Smith, of the thirty-fourth, providing that Col. W. G. Obear, inspector general of Georgia state troops, be raised to the rauk of brigadier-general in recogni tion of his services to the state iu or ganization of the militia. First Bill Passed. The first bill of the session was pass ed iu the house last Saturday, receiv ing 116 votes. It was a local measure introduced by Mr. Frederick of Macon to charter the town qf Oglethorpe. MAY JOIN DEMOCRATS. Silver Republican National Committee Holds an Important Conference. Members of the silver Republican national committee have been in con ference at Minneapolis over the ques tion of the party’s future. Among those participating were Charles A. Towne, chairman of the oomtuittee; George H. Shibley, of Illinois, and E. S. Corser, treasurer of the committee. It is understood they have decided D issue an address in which they will express the belief that the time kns come for tho giving up of the party organization. All silver and Lincoln Republicans will be urged, it is un derstood, to become Democrats. GEORGIA VETS ADJOURN. Their Reunion nt Augusta Close.l " ’’ Mammoth Parade. The reunion and convention of tbo Georgia Division of United Ooufefici ate Veterans at Augusta, came to a close Friday when the great parade ( and tho local military i' 1 ' 1 ’ veterans dismissed by General Evans, " * u) commanded the march. The parade was the largest of i |S kind ever held iu the state, owing t° the fact that the South Carolina '>r vision had been invited very^accessible to participate 0 and Augusta being thousand the veterans of that state, • of them attended. Botha Asks For Terms. Commandant General Botha, cordJng to a dispatch to The Lon< “ Daily Mail from Pretoria, has sen Lord Roberta a statement of tDo tern ■ on which lie will surrender.
