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Th« Eminent Divine’s Sunday
Disoovse.
Shore It Will Come to Transport the
Faithful to Eternal Life.
tcoarriauusoo.i
WASHINGTON,D.C.—From an unnoticed
incident of olden time Dr. Talniage in this
discourse draws some comforting and rap
It U David, £*s*yid the exiled king. He has T de
£ at ^ume e hrSla R n d ‘ G^l^aW.
to resume ins paiace. c . goooi 1 '
Idee to see David come out ahead . n But . u be
tween him and his home there 1 a the oele
brated orateo xsiver River uoraan, Jordan which "men haa naa to 10 be pe
passed. The king is accompanied to the
Dank hank of ot the tne river meroy hv an an aristocratic aristocratic 01 old a
gentleman of eighty years, Banillai by
name who owned a fine country seat at
Rogelirn. Besides that David has hi. fam
lly Jro., with lum. But how shall they .^V get
th. While th,e „e
mg there I see fe ferryboat coming from
the other side and as it cuts through the
water 1 see the faces of David and his
household brighten up at the thought of
so soon getting home No sooner hid the
ferryboat struck the shore than David and
his family and his old friend Bamllai, boat!
from Rogelirn, get on board the
Either with splashing oars at the side or
with one oar sculling at the stern of the
boat they leave the eastern bank of the
Jordan and start for the western bank.
That western bank is black with crowds
of people, who are waving and shouting at
the approach of the lung and his family. tho^e
The military are all out Some of
who have been David’s worst enemies now
shout until had'the thev are hoarte at hi* return.
No sooner boat struck the shore
on the western gide than the earth quakes
and the heavens ring with cheers of wel
come and congratulation. David and his
family and Barzillai from Rogelirn step
ashore. King David asks his old friend
to go with him and live at the palace, hut
Baraillai apologues and intimates that he
is infirm with age and too deaf to appre
date the mus.c and has a delicate appe
tite that would soon be cloyed with luiu
nous living, and so he begs that David
would let him go back to hii country seat.
I once heard the father of a President
of the United States say that he had just
been to Washington to see his son in the
White House, and he told me of the won
derful Daniel thing, that occurred there, him^ and of
what Webster aa!d to but he
declared: “I was glad to thtre get home. There
was too much going on for me.” My
father, an aged Philadelphia, mam made his last visit
at my house in kniTwe and after the
church sendee was pver went
home some one in the house asked the
tjed “Well, man I enjoyed how he the enjoyed service, the hut service. there
were troubled too many head people there much.” for me. It
my very The fact
is that old people do not like excitement.
If King David had asked Bamllai thirty
years before to go to the palace, the prob
ability but is that Barnllai would have gone,
bye, not now. They kiss each other good
a custom among men Oriental, but
in vogue yet where two brothers part or
an aged father and a son go awjiy from
each other never to meet again. No wort
der that their lips met as King David and
old Bamllai, at the prow of the ferryboat,
parted forever River'
. This Jordan, in all ages and
all languages, has been the sym
bol of the bounaary line between eartn
ftnd heaven, yet when, on a former Jordaniq occ$
gion, I preached to you about the
passage I have no doub C-t that of you
despondingly divided Jordan said: for ‘‘Th Joshua, fP Lord but might not have for
Q fe oor that me.” there Cheer is a up! way I over want Jordan to show
as through it. My text says, “And
there went over a ferryboat to carry over
the king’s household.”
All our cities are familiar with the ferry
boat. It goes from San Francisco to Oak
land, and from Liverpool to Birkenhead,
and twice every secular day of the w’eek
multitudes are on the ferryboats of our
great cities, so that you will not need to
bunt up a classical dictionary to find out
what I mean while I am speaking to you
about the passage of David and his family
across the River Jordan.
My subject, in the first place, impresses
me with the fact that when we cross over
from this world to the next the boat will
have to come from the other side. The
trioe of Judah, we are informed, sent this
ferryboat across to get David and his
household. I stand on the eastern side of
the River Jordan, and I find no shipping
at all, but while I am standing there I
see a boat plowing through the river, and
as I hear the swirl of the waters, and
the boat comes to the eastern side of the
Jordan, and David and his family and his
Old friend step on board that boat, I am
mightily impressed with the fact that
when we cross over from this world to the
next the boat will have to come from the
opposite shore.
Every day I find people trying to ex
temporize a way from earth to heaven,
They gather up their good works and some
sentimental theories, and they make a
raft, and they go down. The fact is that
skepticism and infidelity never yet helped
one man to die. I invite all the ship
carpenters of worldly philosophy to come
in cl build one boat that can safely cross
this river. I invite them all to unite their
skill, and Bolingbroke shall lift the stan
chions, and Tyndall shall shape the bow
sprit, and Spinoza shall make the main
topgallant braces, and Renan shall go to
tacking and wearing and boxing the ship,
All together in 10,000 years they will never
be able to make a boat that can cross this
Jordan. Why was it that Spinoza and
Blount and Shaftesbury lost their souls?
It was because they tried to cross the
stream in a boat of their own construe
tion. What miserable work they made of
dying! Diodorus died of mortification be
cause he could not guess a conundrum
which had been proposed to him at a
public dinner; Zeuxis, the philosopher,
died of mirth, laughing at a caricature
of an aged woman, a caricature made by
his own hand; while another of their
company and of their kind died saying:
“Must I leave all these beautiful pic
tures?” and then asked that he might he
bolstered up in the bed in his last mo
ments and be shaved and painted all
rouged. Of all the unbelievers of ages
not one died well. Some of them sneaked
out and of life, some blasphemed and raved
tore their bed covers to tatters. This
is the way worldly philosophy helps a
man to die.
A guide at Niagara Falls said to me,
“Do you see that rock down in the rap
ids?” I said. “Yes.” “Well.” he said
’some and years ago a man got into tne rap
ids floated down until he caine to
on.
*® d held on, and, with a shriek louder
than the thunder of the cataract,
went over. \vheu a man puts ‘ out fni*
the Hhore of thi8 world on the rivQr
death in a boat of his own construction, that-*h£
he has worse disaster than
wreck, eternal shipwreck.
rasa ‘ ^ J
m fr m he other ihore ; pity hom th
other shore; power ^7 to work ° f V* miracles ‘T’V* from
th e otber shore “'fhis . Jc8Ug christ from the
other 0 shore 18 18 is a a faithful aavina “*“?
, worthy of all acceptation that Christ
Jesu t-...,, ®, came c , ma into into the tne world world to to un sin. MB*
nert an d from a foreign shore I see the
ferryboat coming, and it rolls with the
Bu Ves of – Saviour’s suffering, but as it
Btri the earth the mountains rock and
dead adiu*t their ann*rel S^ISS eo «W they
the earth, and g i orioUB Thomas Walsh
u into it in his expiring {* moment, say
^ Tov Jp. * (tTT d ’ 9 has , mine come! and , He T 1 , an has J g*; come! , ^ My od
'
^ rah W *? ley , * ot int ° th f boa ‘> nnd f
ft? 8 . ho '. ed ofT f ” m the shore sue cned: -
?pen n the gates! f I bless Cod that as
f] th e boat came from the other shore to
take f . Dftvld and h ‘ 8 man f ro “ •?. wbeu
?' e ar * about ta die the
from the same direction . God forbid that
\ Bb< ™ ld e ^ r trast to anytlun « that
e Y 8 rom 1 18 if
A ? ain - my Buh J e 7 8 V g *T , ,, , whe , "
, * e cro f °'' ar at th « the Km f wdl
fee ■on board the . boat. , Ship can>eufry in
Blble t,Iaes “ lts The boats
wer f n ot s klllf , ully made, and T I can very
^ asl y imagme . that the women and chil
dren of the ^ 9 household might have
been nervous about going on that boat,
that th ? or the helmsman
.O ° Ut th€ b ° at ? lght
das,hed „ °, n tock *’ “ ■J®.tiiMj
boat9 we f dasbed ln the dordan ’ and
tbe ". T 1 coaul bave ^ a gmed the boat
8ta f 8 d r ° ckmg a d CTymg ° Ut ’
° h v ' e a f, G ^ ing * to w arC g(>
! . nB G I 0 ?, 11 ' ^, ot 90 J he km « was on
^" d th ® . ;
? hl]d ™! and a11 the household of the king
*hat wry care was taken to have
th e km ®’ the head of the l>aaa m
tf, f t
B ed , , 1)6 « God , that . ^ hen . we kav , ? thl ... !
*
wor \ d we are not f ta bave a ,« reat and
Pencil, enterprise of getting into heaven;
? ot a dan ® er 0 ua “n expedition to
. the nor , t^est , passage among me
bergs, omy , a ferry. That accoutus for
9 °T t fe ing >' ou have nevCT b ««n able 1 «
under8tand , - Y and v °u nem d c hn9t, supposed that le
ver y n « rvous Um ' “ pao P
could be so unexcited and J placid m . the
down , hour. the The bank fact and is, they they Were there clear
°n saw
wa8 nothing to be frightened about, such
ear a 8ho the L rt y ^stance—only heard the funeral a ferry. psalm With in their one
memory, and with the other ear they
be a rd the song of heavenly salutation,
The willows on this side the Jordan and
e Lebanon cedars on the other almost
interlocked , their branches—only ferry,
a
- subject also suggests the fact that
?' , h ? n we " 08S °, ver at J, he last we sha11
find a sobd landm g- Tb e ferryboat, as
spoken of in my text, means land. a David place and to
ftart from and a place to
h ’ s ,P eop la dld not find the ebo r ®
J T 0 rdai1 an J more so.id thar| ... ,
western shore i where he landed, and yzv
to a great many heaven is not a real place,
To you heaven is a fog bank in the dig
tance. After the resurrection has come
Fou wil l have a resurrects® foot and some
thing to tread on and a resurrected eye
and colors to see with it and a resurrected
ear and music to regale it.
Smart men in this day are making a
great deal of fun about St. John’s mate
rialistic descriptions of heaven. Well,
now > my friends, if you will tell me what
will be the use of a resurrected body in
heaven with nothing to tread on and noth
i Q 8 to hear and nothing to handle and
nothing to taste then I will laugh, too.
-Are you going to float about in ether
forever, swinging about your hands and
^ ee t through the air indiscriminately, one
moment sweltering in the centre of th 0 sun
and the next moment shivering in the
mountains of the moon?
That is not my heaven, Dissatisfied
with John’s materialistic heaven, theologi
cal tinkers are trying to patch up a heav
en that will do for them at last. I never
heard of any heaven I want to go to ex
ce Pt St. John’s heaven,
I believe I shall hear Mr. Toplady sing
F e t »nd Isaac Watts recite hymns
and Mozart play. “Oh,” you say, “where
would you get the organ?” The Lord
will provide the organ. Don’t you bother
about the organ. I believe I shall yet see
David with a harp, and I will ask him to
8 ^ n K ona of the songs of Zion,
I believe after the resurrection I shall
see Massillon, the great Fx-ench pulpit or
ator, and I shall hear from his own lips
how he felt on that day when he preached
the king’s funeral sermon and flung his
whole audience into a paroxysm of grief
an ” solemnity.
-A 80 y° u ai }d I w>" he met at the
landing. . Our arrival will not Constantinople be like step
P' n l? ashore at Antwerp or
among a crowd of strangers. It will be
"wiong friends, good friends, those who
ar e warm hearted friends, and all their
friends. . We know people whom have
we
never seen by hearing somebody talk about
them very much. We know them almost
as well as if we had seen them.
And do you not suppose that our par
pots and brothers and sisters and children
^ heaven have been talking about us all
£“ ese y ear » and talking to their friends?
®,° that, I suppose, when we cross the
viver at the last we shall not only be met
pF a ^* those Christian friends whom we
k, ? ew on earth, but by all their friends,
d * ie F Your come down to the landing to
meet us. departed friends love you
no Jf more than they ever did.
You will be surprised at the last to find
" ow f. ke y kr >°w about all the affairs of
your ferry, life. and Why, they are only across the
^he the boat is coming this way,
and boat is going that way. I do not
knfJ ' v bllt they have already asked the
Lord the day, the hour, the moment when
you are coming across and that they know
n PYi’ do k ^ w tbafc you W1 ^ met
R - the landing. j The poet Southey said he
thought he should know Bishop Heber in
heaven by the portraits he had seen of
h.m in London, and Dr. Randolph said he
thought lie would know William Cowper,
the poet, in heaven from the pictures he
had seen of him in England, but wc wili
know our departed kindred by the por-
traits hung In the throne room of our
hearts.
lisp!
We k nfm n6 t just where theirtrorld of
joy nut They know where we are.
tu™ 3 .“[AgK i. « .l.*
the 1 Z„«},oldv tJ*!* 1 yoo, the
u-., “5*^hL hwJ v
STkE* ™c" wS me” He iS'tt d^ He d^
Hear * ba from the
Jons a father to them and lifh thev K h«n TPnd h- \r„ %
and daughtere uaugntersesitn the the Lord AC
mighty.” ■ u » “Him that oometh unto Me.”
Christ “> save 8 > "I 1 will win in m nn>i« nowise cast out.
Come into the Kmjfs household. Rit
down at the Kind’s table Kin.V t- w.^f
ake * your annarel weddinJ from the o? ChTbS
rightiusne^ b e even the aament ^d inL^ lh!
ngrueouBnesfl Come vome in in and inherit the
* Zn'Lt®”* ° “ " 4 **»
LABOR WORLD.
The German Empire in 1899 had 1330
strikes.
A settlement of the woodworkers'
strike in Chicago is said to be assured
In Toledo, Ohio, all of the city de
partments are working under the eight
hour rule.
Miners at the Simpson coal mine®,
at Lafayette, Col., have struck for
higher wages.
The International Jewelry Workers’
Union has organized a branch with TOO
members at Philadelphia.
The Cigar Makers’ International
Union now has a membership of over
34,000. and is growing rapidly.
The servant girls of Minneapolis,
Minn., are being organized into a union
by the trades and labor council of the
city.
The products of American work
shops exported during the nine months
ended September 30 last, were valued
at $338,678,243.
So great is the boom in the pattern
making branch of the iron-working in
dustry that employers literally have
had to hunt for workmen.
Common laborers in Spain get from
thirty to forty cents per day in the
larger towns and from twenty to tliir«
ty cents in the rural districts.
The employes of the New Castle
(Penn.) Engineering Works have been
asked to accept a wage reduction of
twenty-five to thirty-five cents a day
Sixty lace finishers employed in the
corset factory o*. I. Newman <fc Sons,
at New Haven, Conn., struck a few
days ago against a twenty-five pc?
cent, reduction of wages.
Shipping firms at Portland and Bath,
Me., are unable to find crews for their
vessels, a number of which are lying
at the wharves unable to leave i’or
the reason given. The cause of the
scarcity is that a great number of men
have shipped on transports for Man
ila and China.
NEWSY CLEANING?.
There is a coal famine in Norwnv,
the price having risen forty per cent.
The New South Wales Legislative
Council passed the Old Age Pensions
hill.
The internal revenue collections for
Cuba during the mouth of August last
were $59,509.
Canadian royalty returns indicate
that the Klondike output for 1900 was
only $9,000,000.
The Government of New Zealand is
importing sixty modern railway car
riages from the United States.
An Aztec altar, where thousands of
prisoners of war were slain, has been
unearthed in the City of Mexico.
Lucilio-Grolm-Young, the dancer,
whose husband is an American, has
given $100,000 to charity in Berlin.
Johannesburg lias been fenced round
with barbed wire to prevent the In
habitants front sending fcod to the
Boers.
The sum of 150,000 marks, hereto
fore annually voted in Germany for
the support of German schools abroad,
has been doubled.
If expectations are realized, the out
put of copper for 1900 will reach 325.
000,000 pounds, valued at $12,250,000,
the largest on record.
A model lodging house, suggested
by Mayor Harrison, is to be erected
by the Aid and Relief Society at Chi
cago at a cost of $40,000.
Birmingham, Ala., is making a
strong big for the Rogers Locomotive
Works, of Paterson, N. .T. Bonus of a
site is offered as an inducement.
The Nansen fund, which was raised
in Norway to promote scientific ex
ploratiofl, amounts to $250,000, and 11 c
further collections will be made.
The Children's Aid Society, at New
York City, reported that it had given
assistance to 38.232 poor persons dur
ing the year. The old officers weru re
elected.
MAIL CAR BOBBED.
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H ’ f ' 1 < ’ n *‘
A speotal from lexarkana, Ark.,
says: A bold robbery on the Cotton
]3 e l t railway occurred Thursday at
Bassetts Texas fhirtv ^ ou 'ii of f
texarkana, tlio train coming . north,
on
in which Postal Clerk John N. Den
ms was almost, killed and the mail
] ' nf h , u ‘ ' 0 ,aeu con
‘
eul3 , J- 110 amount stolen not
- is
known.
TREATY A STUMBLING BLOCK
Little Prospect of Ship Subsidy
or Canal Bill Passing at Pres
ent Session of Congress.
A Washington special says: There is
little prospect that the Hanna-Pnyno
ship subsidy bill and the Nicaragua
canal bill will pasa at this session of
congress.
The amendment cf the Hay-Panncs>
fote treaty has put a damper on the
canal bill so far as the administration
is concerned, and it was semi-offlcially
announced Friday that Mr. McKinley
will oppose any effort to pass the canal
bill until a satisfactory arrangement is
made with Great Britain.
With the strong opposition of the
administration forces in the senate the
canal bill will go over despite the en
treaties of Senator Morgan.
The shipping bill will be talked to
death, and strange as it may seem, this
will be done by Republican senators.
Six or eight senators who bear enmity
to Senator Hanna have agreed to fight
the shipping bill, and they will talk
on it until March 4.
Senator Pettigrew is determined to
defeat the bill, and if necessary he will
adopt the dilatory tactics to delay ac
tion when the regular appropriation
bills reach the senate.
They will take precedence over the
shipping and canal bills, and the lat
ter will be sidetracked indefinitely,
being discussed only at intervals.
The Republicans who will oppose
the shipping bill are the personal
friends of former Senator Matt Quay,
of Pennsylvania, who has inspired
them to kill Hanna’s pet measure be
cause the Ohio boss desert id Quay at
a critical point in his conte )t for a sen
ate seat, his vote throwing Quay out.
Hanna made many enemies by this
vote.
GEORGIA TO EXHIBIT.
State Will Be Itepi«*ente<l Both at Buffalo
and Charleston Kxpositlons.
Georgia will have an exhibit at the
Buffalo and Charleston expositions.
The display that was on exhibition at
the Cotton States and International
exposition in Atlanta in 1895, and
which has been on exhibition on the
third floor of the capitol since then,
will be sent to these iwo cities.
It is proposed under the bill of
Senator Howell, which passed the
house of representatives Friday morn
ing, that this exhibition be transport
ed and displayed at Buffalo and later
at Charleston.
As under the constitution no appro
priation can be made for this purpose,
the state is relieved of all liability in
transporting and arranging said ex
hibit.
The exhibit, will be in charge of a
commission of three, one to be named
by the governor and the commissioner
of agriculture and state geol-pgist to
constitute the other two.
JAMES SWAN.VS LIBERALITY
Assures Handsome Appropriation For the
Georgia Technological School.
President Lyman Hall, of the Geor
gia Technological school, has announc
ed that Mr. James Swann, of New
York, formerly of Atlanta, will give
the Tech 820,000.
Ibis rich gift is made to enable the
Tech to get the $16,000 provisional
appropriation made by the legislature
fc. a textile equipment and electrical
building, which was not to be availa
ble until $25,000 was raised by private
subscription.
This fund haa been raised, or, at
least promised. Five thousand dol
lars has been promised from various
sources and Mr. Swann’s contribution
completes the fund.
This cinches the appropriation and
the Tech gets this year in total, a sum
of $81,000 which will be used for the
maintenance of the institution and the
proposed improvements.
BILLS PASSED IN HOUSE.
Various Measure* Are Acted Upon In
Georgia General Assembly.
The following bills were passed in
the Georgia house of representatives
Friday:
To amend section 4786 of the civil
code; To provide for the registration
of voters for the year succeeding that
of a general election; To permit the
convicts at the state farm at Milledgo
ville to grade and improve the grounds
of the Georgia Normal and industrial
college; To amend section 115 of vol
ume 1 of the codo to prevent any one,
managers or others, from examining
the ballots of primaries after they have
been cast; To provide for a state ex
hibit at the Buffalo and Charles
ton expositions; To fix the license
for selling whisky in Morgan couti
iy at $15,000 per annurn ; To
relieve all tloufederate soldiers
from the payment of professional
tax; To pay the pension of W. P.
Fannin to his widow.
Company Increases Its Capital.
The Chattanoegn, Tenn., Light and
Power compauy has applied for an
amendment to its charter, increasing
f . S 0 .dtnt „tn»L- f 81*)°,000 *1 ,-o non to
82o0,000. ,« t The additional ,, funds nro
to be used for improvement of the
system
BIG DAY AT CAPITAL
First Century of Onr Government
Is Fittingly Celebrated.
PROGRAM AN ELABORATE ONE
All Branches of the Public Ser
vice, Governors of States and
Civilians Take Part.
A Washington Bpecial says: The
national capital was in gala attire
Wednesday in celebration of the one
hundredth anniversary of the estab
lishment of federal government at
Washington, and the wheels of gov
ernment ceased revolving for the tim 0
being. Business, public and private,
was suspended, while the president
and his cabinet, the senate and house
of representatives, tho federal judici
ary, the governors of many states and
a great concourse of citizens and visi
tors joined in the elaborate festivities
of the day.
As congress had declared the day a
national holiday for the District of
Columbia, the whole city presented a
holiday aspeot and the public turned
out en masse.|
Perhaps never again will this gen
eration witness such a significant gath
ering of the executive heads of the
states and of the chief executive of the
nation.
One hundred years ago the transfer
of the seat of government was made
from Philadelphia to Washington, and
the site previously selected by Presi
dent Washington was taken possession
of by the various branches of govern
ment, President and Mrs. Adams
driving over from Philadelphia, the
senate and the house holding their
sessions here for the first time.
The programme of the day began
with a reception at 10 o’clock by Pres
ident McKinley and the members of
his cabinet to the governors of the
states and territories at the executive
mansion. This was followed by the
unvailing in the east room of the
model of the proposed enlargement of
the executive mnnBioD, which is to be
a lasting memorial of the day’s cele
bration.
In the afternoon a great military,
naval aud civic parade, commanded by
General Nelson A. Miles, moved
through the principal streets and ave
nues, starting from the executive man
sion. The president reviewed the
parade from a staud at the east front
of the capitol.
After the paradt'commemorative ex
ercises were held in the hall of the
house of representatives, participated
in by the members of the senate and
house, supreme court and other high
■officials, these exercises being in hon
or of the anniversary of the first ses
sion of congress in the permanent
capitol.
From 8 until 11 o’clock p. m., there
was a reception in honor of the gov<
ernors of states and territories at the
the Corcoran art gallery, after whiofe
Mr. McKinley entertained at dinner.
BON TONS OUSTED.
Wealthy Parishioners Refuse to WorsMj
With "Common Herd.”
Chattanooga is now entertaining
quite a sensation in high up church
circles.
In the St. Paul Episcopal church
there has been a split among the mem
bers and now another church is to be
started. At this church a majority of
the wealthiest people of tho city
worship. built the
Ever since the church was
vestrymen have been selected from
only the wealthy men of the church.
At a recent election some of the less
wealthy ones got together and packed of
the meeting and elected a number
their own crowd to the offices of ves
trymen. This did not suit the bon
tons and they made application to the
bishop for the privilege of establishing
another parish.
Cotton Mills Begin Operations.
The Knoxville, Tenu., cotton mills
have begun operations. The capacity
is 10,000 spindles. 0. M. MeOtbee,
foimcrly receiver of the East Tennes
Virginia and Georgia railway, 18
see,
the chief owner.
FIERCE CONFLICT RAWING*
lloers and Briton* Are Still Having LI'*
)y Time In South Africa.
Lord Kitchener cables the Lond" 11
office from Pretoria, under d» te td
war
December 12, that General Knox,
ports from Helvetica that lie is engUo
ed in a running fight with Genera
Dewet, and that the enemy is m ° viug
toward Reddersburg, where there is a
column ready to co operate w ith him
Lord Kitchener in-this dispatch Jl> 8, ‘. t* l *
attacked the post near 1
the Boers killed,
tou. The casualties were three is*
five wounded and thirteen taken P r
oners on the British side. The cap
lured men have since been relca' •