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^ _ EV _ _ # Dl\* /Vr « | L»/V| ■« -tv A\5F r- t • I 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. ,, )gta . cip-j. j»_ |, v Ie * 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' •