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mht ittontgomarg JttMtitor*.
D. C. SUTTON, Editor and Proprietor.
A wonderful mountain of slate has
been discovered in Blount County. Ten
nessee. It is described as “a solid wall
of slate, illimitable in extent and of very
superior quality.”
A per-on with a bad temper should
adopt a vegetarian diet. Meat makes
people of bad dispositions w.fnt to fight •
or quarrel upon slight provocation. Any
one addicted co drink can overcome the
dangerous (mbit much easier by adopting
a proper diet of vegetables, c reds and j
fruit, Meat eating, especially pork, ba
con and bam, has a tendency to lead to , ;
intemperate habits.
Carpenter, an American corre
spondent who lias been making a tour of ,
the British Isles, was much struck with 1
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this point that follows : The fact that ,
England is the workshop of the world 1
can onlyjbe appreciated by a ride tv. rough .
it, and by the thousands and tens of 1
thousands of factories which one sees j
during a trip across it in any direction.
There are about five persons here en
gaged in manufacturing to one engaged , •
in agriculture.
A newly married couple from the in
terior of Nevada, who had evidently
never before ventured upon a railroad
train, took the cars to go upon the ir i
wedding trip. When the conductor
came around to collect the tickets, the
bridegroom vtaa so flustrated by the !
novelty of the situation that he handed
cut his marriage certificate. The con
ductor looked at it approvingly and >
handed it back with the remark that it i '
was a highly useful document in its i
place, and one he had often contem- (
plated securing for himself, but that its I
possession did not entitle the holder to i J
free passage over that railroad. <
adern inventions hive kept pace « 1
with all the requirements of social life j
and made possible housekeeping ou an j t
appearance of elegance even in one room. J
The variety of folding beds an 1 other
articles of furniture is surprising. A j (
handsome parlor with bookcases, cabi- | 1
nets, easy chairs and lounges can be ; 1
transformed m a twinkling into a bed 1
chamber or dining room, or even a
kitchen. The novelties of this class
make possible tlie change of a pai l r to J
the nursery, and a child s bath tub and ■
other useful articles can be evolved from ,
ornamental and innocent appearing par
lor tables. It must be perplexing occ.i
sionally to the owners of a roomful of
this furniture how to prepare against
sudden changes.
Concerning Mr.'‘Miller’s discovery the i
New York World observes: In answer to |
the inquiry, “Why is it that we have no 1
old American ships engaged in the oil ,
trade between this country and Europe?”
an old sea captain in Philadelphia said :
“An American capitalist will invest any
where from $75,000 to SIOO,OOO in a line, j
hard wood clipper ship, and # will spare i
no extra expense in having her fitted out
with all the latest improvements known
to marine architects. He will put a
voung captain in her of little experience,
sis a general thing, and send her out on j
probably a dozen or more deep water
voyages. By the completion of these
voyages she will need probably a couple
of thousand dollars 1 worth of icpar- (
done, and sooner than this her owner will
sacrifice her to some one either in Ger
many or Nova Scotia at less than one
tenth of what she cost. These people
will put hor in the oil trade, and she
will, nine times out of ten. pay them ten
per cent, interest on iheir investment,
and pay for herself in less than three
year.” -
An interesting story is told of Geoffrey
Goodman,a wealthy farmer of Lawrence
burg, Indiana, who is now an insane
leper. The leprosy appeared several
months ago,and physicians recommended
a trip to Hot Springs, Arkansas. While
the steamer on which he, in company
with his brother an l sister, took passage
stopped at a small place along the river,
the latter escaped from his relatives and
ran ashore, where he was soon lost amid
the dense undergrowth. Continued
search failed to find him. Decently,
however, the people living in the vicinity
ha e been excited over stories of a wild
man who had been seen on a high clifi
waving his arms and bhouting incoher
ently. These stones met the eye o<
Goodman’s brother, who knew at once
that the wild man must be none otiiei
• than the demented leper, and he set out
to look for him Goodman was found ir
a cave, eating a piece of raw mutton.anc
he willingly submitted to be taxen home
He was destitute of clothing, and hi:
hair and bcird were long and matted. I
is a curious feature of the story t„ t tin
insane man’s instincts followed the oh
idea th t lepers mast be outcasts ivoi
society.
MT. VERNON, MONTGOMERY GO., GA„ WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 188(i.
REV. Dli. TALMAGE. |j
THE BROOKLYN mV INK’S SI X
DAY SEHMON. j 1
s
Subject ot Discourse: “The Proud In- ,
valid.”
T- . . \
lext: “/7e trttsrt leper.*' It. Kings, v., 1. t
Hers wo have a warrior si -k; not with 1
pleurisies or rheUmittisins or consumptions, j 1
lint with a rlier-a.se worse than all these put I
together, A ml mark has come out on tlio '
forehead, precursor of cemplete disfigure- 1
meut and dissolution I have something aw- 1
ful to til you. Genoral >'aa'nan, the Com- 1
mntulet'-iii-i’hief of all tie Assyrian forces i
Gks tbo leprosy! It is oil his hands, on his 1
luce, • n lus feet, no his entire i erson. The i
lopr. sy: < ivt otit of the way of the pestilence! j i
li hi* lo.viitli strikes you, you are ahead man.
' 1-onunandor-in-Chief of all fort es of j c
Assyria And yet lie tyoald be glad to ex- I j
change conditions with the boy a this stirrup, j 1
or the other tl<At blankets his charger. Tlio i
news goes li’„o wild Are all through the realm 1
an • .no j eoplc'are sympathetic and they cry 1
out: “Is it nossible that our great here who 1
hot Ahaiie, around whom wr came with t
sadi vociferation whenlift Returned from vie- !
tor ions battle—On it be possible that our j {
grand and pTorious Naumau has the 100- j ,
rosy' * J J
it's. Everybody has something ho wishes J 1
he ha I not David, an Absalom to disgrace 1
lain; l’aul, a thorn to sting him: .lob, oar- j j
onncles to plague him; Samson, a Delilah to |
rii'ur him; Ahab, a Naboth to deny him; 1 j
Hainan, Mordecai to irritate him: George i
Washington, childlessness to alliict him; j 1
John Wesley, a termagant wife to pester him; j .
1-cnli, weak eyes; Dope, a oroo od back; ; J
Byron, a club foot; John Milton, blind eves; j •
Charles Lauib, an insane sister, and you, and | '
.vou, ami you, anti you, something « hieh you ’
never bargained for and would like to got ]
rid of. Tlie reason of ibis is that (led does
not want this world to bo too bright; other
\v so, we would always want to stay and eat ‘
these fruits, and lie on those lounges aud 1
shake hands in this pica ant society. Wo are
only in the vestibule of a grand temple. God , ’
does not want us to stay oa the doorstep, and ■
t uereforo he sends ache- and annoyances and !
sorrowsandbeieavemeiitsandallsortstopush j :
u sou and push us up toward riper fruits and | 1
brighter society aud more radiant prosper!-
ties. God is only whipping us ahead. The I 1
reason that Edward Payson and Rob- ! ‘
ort Hall had more rapturous views of I
heaven than other people had was be- I f
cause, through their aches and pains, God 1
pushed them nearer up to it. If God dashes 1
oat one of your pictures it is only to show 1
you a brighter one. If Hosting your foot 1
with gout, your brain with neuralgia, your *
tongue with an inextinguishable thirst, it is 1
only, liecauso He is preparing to substitute a j 1
better body than you ever dreamed of, when \
the mortal shall put on immortality. It is to -
push you on and push you up toward some- ) '
thing grander, that God sends upon you as *
He did upon General Naaman something you ] 1
do not want. Seated in his Assyrian man- j £
sior— all the walls glittering with the shields
whi hbe had captured in battle; the corri- *
dors crowded with admiring visitors who just j 1
Banqueting filling ail the mansion, from t -s* | J
sainted floor to pictured ceiling—Naaman |
would have forgotten that there was any- I 1
thing better and would have been glad to i 1
stay there ten thousand years. But, oh, how i :
tlio shields dim and how the visitors fly from j
the hall and how the music drops dead from i
the string, and how the gates of tlio mansion j 1
slam shut with a sepulchral hang, as you '
read the closing wonts of the eulogium: “He j
was a leper! Ho was a leper!”
There was one person more sympathetic |
with General Naaman than any other person.
Naamau's wife walks the floor, avr.nging her j
hands and trying to think what she can do j
lo alleviate her hush mu’s suffering. All
ran edies have failed. The Surgeon-General ;
ami the doctors of the royal staff have mot, \
and they have shaken their heads as much as j
to say: “No cure; no cure.” I think that I
the office-seekers hail all folded up their
recommendations ai.d gone home. Probably
most of the employes of the establishment :
had dropped their work, and were thinking
of looking for some other situation. What
shall now become of poor Naatnan’s wife? j
She must have sympathy somewhere. In her j
despair she goes to a little Heb, ew captive, a
servant girl in her house, to whom she tells
th ■ whole story: as sometimes, when over
borne by the sorrows of the world, and find- '
ing no sympathy anywhere else, you huve
gone out. and found in the sympathy of some
humble domestic—Rose or Dinah or Bridget
—a help which the world could not give you.
What a scene it was! Ono of the grandest
women in all Assyria in cabinet council with
a waiting maid over the do lining health of
tlie mighty General! “I know something,” ;
says the little captive maid. “I know some
thing,” as she bounds to her bare feet. ‘' fn
the land from which I was stolen there is a.
certain prophet known by the name of
Elisha, who can cure almost everything, and j
i I shouldn’t wonder if ho could cure my mas- ;
1 ter. Pend for him right away.” “Ob.
hu-hl” you say. “If the highest medical i
1 alent in all the laud cannot cure that leper,
• there is no need of your listening to any talk
of a servant girl.” But do not scoff, do not
sneer. The finger of that little captive maid
is pointing in the right dire tion. Hhe might
have said: “This is a judgment on you for
st aling me from mv native land. Didn't
they snatc h me off in the night, breaking my
father and mother’s heart ! And many a time
I have laid and cried all night because I was
so homesick.” Then, flushing up into child
ish indignation, she might have said: “Good
for them; I’m glad Naaman's got the leprosy;
I wish all the Assyrians had the leprosy.
No Forgetting her own personal sorrows,
she’ sympathizes with the suffering of her
. I master aDd commends him to the famous
1 Hebrew prophet.
And how often it is that the finger of
! childhood has pointed grown persons in the
ri-dit direction. Oh Christian soul, how long
islt since you got rid of the leprosy of sm;
/ You say: “Let me see. It mast be five years
now.” “Five years. Who was it that, point.- -1
5 you to the Divine Physician:” “Oh, you
. say “it was my little Annie or Irel or
i Charley, that clambered up on m.vknc— aud
1 looked in my fa •■■■ and asked me why I dam l
I become a Christian aud all the time strox.ng
my cheek so I couldn’t get angry, ms s.
-* upon knowing why I didn t have family
■, prayers.’ There are grandparents here who
nave been brought to Christ by in* ir Rtt,
>' grandchildren. Tuere are many Christian
ri mothers here who had their attention first
,T called to Jesus by their little children. How
II did you get rid of the leprosy <>■ sin.' How
did you find your way to the Divine I bysi
f 1 cian? “Oh, you say, “my child, my dying
'* child, with wan and wasted finger pointej
:e that way. Oh, I shall neve r forget, y*
sav “that scene at the cradle and tue or ;
!r that awful night, it was hard, hard, vt
It bard: but if that little one on its dying j
_ ha/1 not point©! me to Christ, I don t
ever would nave got rid of rny leprosy, j
d into thf* Sabbath-school this
you will find hundreds of little fingers -
ing In the same direction, toward Jesus
an i toward heaven. that
T . Years ago the calculator n
* there must be a world hanging at war
ic r»oiDt in the heavens and a large p ttiat
, offered for some one who could dis'j. ob .
1 world. The telescope ; from tne a -j !
m servatories were pointed in vam ; *
at Nant&ucket, Mas«. ; fa-hioned iftt i
and looking thro<;?h it. drover*
“SUB DEO FACIO FORTITEft.”
and won flic prize, and adn’irHUou of all
the astronomical. A-orh! 'i sum.! ama .cd at '
her gi'Tiiu'. Ana so it is oft n the caso that
grown people see tho light, while
saine.ittle child beholds the star of panlon,
the star of hone, tho star of consolation, the j
star of Bethlehem,the morning star of Jesus.
“Not many mighty men. no* mftnV wise men
are calls!! hut God iintii ehoscu tho weak
things tlf the Worlil toconf uud tho.mighty;
Sn i Base tilings and things that are not. to
bring to naught things that are.” i ih, do not
despise the prattlo of little child On whoa -
they are six'aking about God and Christ aud
heaven. You see tho way your child! is point
pointing; will you take that pointing,or wait
until, in the wrouch of some awful bereave- 1
ment, Go,I shall lift that child to another
world and *hcu it will beckon you u iwardf ]
IVill you take the pointing, or will you wait
for tho beckoning? Blessed ho God that the <
littlo Hebrew captive pointed in tho right di- |
rection. Blessed l o God for the saving miu
istrj of Christian children.
No wonder the advice of tliislittle Hebrew j
captive throw all Naamau's mansion and
Ben-hadaTs pula -o into excitement. Good •
bye.Nanman! With face scarified and ridged ,
and inflamed by the pestilence and aided
by those who supported him ou cither sid\ '
hie staggered out to the cha iot. Hold fast
the fiery coursers of tho royal stable while
the poor sick man lifts his swollen feet and 1
pain-struck limbs into the vehicle. Bolster ,
him up with the pillows and let him take a ,
lingering look at his bright apartment, for ,
perhaps the Hebrew captive may be mistaken, .
and the next time Naaman comas to that ]
place lie may be a dead weight on th * shoul
ders of those who carry him an expired j
chieftnn seeking sepulture amid the lamenta
tions of an admiring natirfn. Good bye, Nna- (
maul
i.et the charioteer drive gently over tho (
hills of Hermon lest he jolt the invalid. Here ,
goes the bravest man cf all his day a captive
of a h irrible disease. As Ilia ambulanco
Winds through the streets of Damns-us tho
tears and prayers of all the people go after
the world-rauowne 1 invalid. Rerhaps you |
have had an invalid go out from your house |
on a health excursion. You know how the ,
neighbors stood around and said: “Ah, ha |
will never come back again alive.” Ob, ,
it was it solemn moment 1 tell you when |
tho .invalid had departed aud you went
into the room to make the bed,
and to remove the medicine ph'als from tlio j
shelf and to throw open the shutters so that,
the fresh air might rush iut i the lung-closed i
room. Good-bye, Naamau! There is only
one (heorful face looking at him, and that is
tho fare of the littlo Hebrew captive,who is
sure he will get cured and who is so glad slio
helped him. As the chariot winds out and
tho escort of mounted courtiers and the
mules ladened with sacks of gold and silver
and embroidered sniis of apparel went
through tho gates of Damascus and out <m
tho long way, the hills of Naphtali and Hph
raim look down ou tho pro o sion, and the
rotinuo goes right pa.->t the battlefields where
Naaman, in the days of his health, used to
rally his troops for fearful onset, and then
tho procession stops and reclines a while in
tlio groves of olives and oleander —and Gen
eral Naaman so sick; so very, very sick I
How the countrymen ga oil as the proces
sion passed' They bad seen Naaman go [last
like a whirlwind in days gone bv. and, b.-i/l
monts; uut nutv tn**v rOTdi?nisorauo linn.
Tiioy say: “i’oor man, tio will never get
home alive 1 i’oor man!” General Naaman
wakes up from a restless sleep in tho < liariot,
and he says to tho charioteer: “How long
before we shall reach this Prophet Eltsba s-
Tho charioteer says to a wavsiiler: ■‘How
far is it to Elisha’s house?” He says: Iwo
miles ” “Two miles.” Then they whip up
tho lathered and fagged out horses. The
whole procession brightens up at th i pros
pect of speedy arrival. They drive up to
the doer of the prophet. Iho charioteers
shout “whoa!” to the horsos. aud the t.rauiii
Ing hoofs and grinding wheels coaso shaking
the earth.
Come out, Elisha, come out; you have
company; the grandest company that ever
came to your house has come to it new. No
stir judde Elisha’s house. The fact was, the
Dord iiad informed Elisha that the sPk cap
tain was coming and just how to treat him
Indeed, when you are sick aril th . Herd
wants you to get well. Ho always tells tho
doctor how to treat you; and the reason we
have so many bungling doctors is because
they depend upon their own strength and in
structions and not on the Dord God, anil
that always makes malpractice. Come out,
Elisha, aud attend to your business. Do'i
ernl Nan inn and His retinue wait'd and
wait d anu waited. The fact was, Naaman
had two diseases—pride and leprosy; the one
was as hard to get rid of as tho other, Eli
sha sits uuietly iu his house and dries not go
oat. Alter a while, when he thinks ho has
I humbled this )>ro id man, he says to a ser
vant- “Go out and tell General Nunman to
bathe seven times in tho river Jordan, out ;
yonder five miles, anil he will get entirely j
well '* r
Tlio message comes out. “What!” says tho ’
Commander-in Chief of the Assyrian forces, 1
his eye kindling with animation which it had j
not shown lor weeks, aad his swollen foot
stamping on the bottom of tho chariot, re
gardless of pain. ‘ VVdnt! Isn’t he coming
out to soo mo! Why. I Bought certainly ho
i would come and utter anno cal nlistic words
over mo or make renf enigmatical passes
over mv wound/. V'iy, I don t think be 1
knows who I am; Isn ho . omn.g out? Why, b
when the Shunamitereman came to him, he J
rush'd out and cried I s we 1 with thee? Is f
1 it well with thy Im-and.' Is it well with the
| child?'and will hf treat a W™ unknown t
1 woman like that, nd let me, a titlwl person- ]
| age, sit here i, my chariot and wait and u
wait! I won’t pdure it any longer. Chariot- «
: . ,| rlvtj or Wash in the Jordan! Hat r
ha 1 ’ The slim-Jor lan—tho muddy Jordan— u
the monotoii'ij Jordan. 1 wouldn’t he i-een <'
waslnn" in z'' h a rlver us th,xt W hy, we '
w Unred or horses in a better river than ’
11 it on outlay here, the beautiful river| the u
, iasner pa'« river of Pharpar. Besides that, n
we ha'e our country another Damascene y
; with foliaged itank and torrent'l
> ever sw-and ever clear, under the flicker- d
ing sha'waof wcamorenndoleander. Areh
; rw q apa ami Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, i
better” 1 ' 1 all the waters of Israel!” (-
1 Isi (OSO Naaman felt very much as we
woii’leel if. i>y wav of me li'al pres-rir>- -
ti Nine ono should tell us to go and wash
\s Danube or the Rhine. We would an- <
' ' “Are not the Connecticut and the /
I jpson just as good!” Or. as un Englishman :i
'aid feel if he were told, byway of me li- ji
rj r pres ription, he must go and wasli in the '
uudssippl or the Ht. Lawrence, ile would '
II ry out: “Are not the Thames and the Bhan- I
z ,on just as well!’ The fact was,that haughty l<
,v Naaman ne/;de Ito learn what every Eng- n
H-hmen and every American niy:ds to learn ,
—that when God tells you to do a thing, yon j
f must go and doit, whether you understand,
the reason or not lake the prescription,
whether you like it or not. One thing is cer
, tain; unless haughty Naaman does as Elisha
J commands him, he will die of his awful sick- h
n'-ss. And unless you do as Christ com- r
mands you, you will I/O seized upon by an,
everlasting wasting way. Obey and live—
disobey and die. Thrilling, over-arching, ij
un'ler-girding, stupendous alternative! j.
Well, General Naaman could not stand the,
rest. The charioteer gives a jer s to the right”
line until the hit soaps in the horse’s month l(
and the whirr of the wheels and the flying,,
of the du t show indignation of the great- ,
commander. “He turned and went away iu,,
ara :e.’ So pouple now often get mad at re- 1(
, ligi m. T. ey vituperate against ministers, 0
i against churches, sgainst Christian people. r(
1 One would think from their irate behavior
thnt God had boon studying how to annoy
mid exasperate and demolish them. What
has 110 l>o li doing! Only trying to euro
their death-dealing l '|»ro>y. That is nil. Yet j
they whip up their horses, they dig in tho
spurs and they go away in a rage.
So, after ali, it teems that this health-ex
cursion of General Naaman is to lie a dead
failure. That littlo Hebrew captive might j
as well have not told him of tho prophet,and j
this long journey might ns well not have j
been taken. Poor, sick, dying Naaman!
Are yoti going away in high dudgeon and
wors > than when you came! As his chariot
halts a mom lit, li s servant; clamber lip iu
It and coax him to do ns Elisha said. They
sav “It's ea>y. If tho prophet had told
you re walk for n milo ou sharp spikes In or
der to get rid of this awful disease you would
havo done it. It if! ensv. Come, my lord,
just, get down and wash in the Jordan. Non
take a hath even- d.iy anyhow, and in Hurt
climate it is so hot it will do you good. Do
it on our no omit, and for tlio sake of Iho
armv you command, aud for tho sake of tho
nation that admires you. Como, my lord,
just, trv this Jordanie hath.” “Well,” lm
says, “to please you I will do as you sav.”’
The retinuo drive to tlio brink of .the Jor
dan. The horses paw and neigh to get into
the stream themselves and cool tlieir Hot
Hanks. General Naaman, assist’d by his
attendants, gets down out of the chariot and
puinftillv comes to tlio brink of tlio river and
steps in until tlio water comes to tho ankle,
and goes ou deeper until tho water comes to
the girdle, and now, standing so far down iu
the stream, just a little inclination of tli
bend will thoroughly iinnieiso him. II
bows once in tho flood and comes up and
shakos the water out of nostril aud eye; and
his attendant* look at him aud say: “Why, i
General, how much better von do look. ’ :
And lie hows a second time into tho flood j
and ho comes up and the wild st are is gone '
out, of his ovo. Ho bows tho third time into
the flood and comes tin and tlio shriveled ;
fiosli has got smooth again. He bows tlio i
fourth time into the flood and comes up and ,
Hie hair that hud fallen out is restored in
thick locks again all eve the brow. lie
bows tlio fifth time into tho i’ood aud comes
up and tho hoarseness lias gone out of li s
throat. Ho bows tho sixth ti.no and
conies up utld all tho soreness and an lush
have gouo out of tho limbs. “ Way,” li l says,
“1 am ulmo t uoll, hut i will make a com
plete cure, 'mi l l.c bows the so.cnt'i tune
into tho flood, and ho < oine up, and no so
much ils a foster, or a seulo, or a i eruption
as big as tho hea l of a pin is to bo so'ii ou
him. Ho stops out on the bank and s i vs;
“Is it possible!” mid the attendants look and
say: “Is it possibles” ami as, with tho health
of an athlete, lie hounds bad; into tlie
chariot and drives on, there goes up Iroin all
ids attendants a wild “Huzza! huzza!” (>£
zourso they go hack to pay and thank tho
man of God for his coun •; l so fraught with
wisdom. When they left the prophet’s houso
th- v went olf mat; they have come fia k
glad.
Deo do always think bettor of a minister ;
after ihoy are converted than they do before
con etsion. Now wo are to them an intoler
»blo nuisance because wo tell them to do
things that go against the gra in: hut some of
us have a groat many letters from those who
tell is that once they were angry at wlint we
p:-.*ao|H»<l, but afterward gla lly received the
*•«!■.. ■'* cViuin./i 'V-ueiiuos; nmV tlcy
■all u; friends. Yon Icr is u man—l sp: aka
litoral fact—who said that ho would never
coinemto tho, church again Ho said that
two years ago. Ho said: “My family shall
cover come hero again it such doctrines as j
that are preached.” But lie came again and I
his family came again. He is a Christian,
his wife a Christian, all his children Chris
tians, tho whole iioiisohold Christians, and 1
shall dwell with them in the house of the
Lord forever. Our undying coadjutors are
those who onco heard the gospel an t went
tway in a rage.
“ixow, my bearers, you notice that this
General Nnainan did two tilings in order to
;et well. Tho lir-il was—lie got out of his
diariot. 110 might have stayed there with !
jis swollen feet on the stuffed ottoman, !
seated on that embroidered cushion until his ;
ast gasp, ho would novel' havo got any relief. |
do had to get down out of tho chariot. And
'ou have got to get down o’lt of th ■ chariot of '
’our pride if you ever become a Christian,
sou cannot iii iv ■ up to the cro s with a j
each and four, and h i saved among all the I
punglcK. You seem to think tlmt the Isird
i going to beeomplimented by your coining, i
•h, no; you poor, uii-oruble, scaly, leprous !
inner, get down out of tlmt. Weullcome ;
i tho same haughty way. AVo export to
ide into the kingdom of God. Never until I
■e get down oti our knees will wo find mercy, j
he Dord has iinUor-ed us uueharioted us. i
Set down out of your pride. Get down out j
f your self right'Oiisiie s and your hyucr
riticism. VVe havo all got to do that. That !
sthe journey wo have got to make on our i
inees. It ts our infernal pride that keeps ns |
fri.m getting rid of the leprosy of sin. Dear
what ha; o we to bo proud of? I’roudof
our scale ;! Frond of our unejeannass? Frond
of this killing infc .dion' Bring us down at
Thy feet, weeping, prayin ;, penitent, bcliev ]
ing suppliants.
“For sinners, Lord, Thou earnest to bleed,
Arid I’m n -inner vile indeed;
Lord, I believe Thy grace is free,
Oh, magnify tlmt grace in me.”
But ho had not only to get down out of i
his chariot. Ho hud to wasli. “Oh!” you .
say. “I am very careful with rny ablutions, j
Every day 1 plunge into a bright and beaut,i
ful bath.” Ah, my hearers, there is a 11 od j
brighter than any other. It is the flood that
breaks from tho granite of the eternal hills. 1
It is the flood of pardon and peace and life
and heaven. That flood s aided in the tears
oi Christ and the sweat of <tetliemaiio and .
rolled on, a<- umulntin; 110 >d, until all earth 1
and heaven could bathe in it /.o Jiariuh
called it the “fountain open for sin and un- |
cleanness.” William C iwper called it the
“fountain filled with blood.' Your fathers
and mothers wnsheiall theirsinsand arrows
away in that fountain. Oh, iny hearers, d >
you not to-'lay feel like wading into it! Wade
down now into this glorious flood, deeper,
deeper, deeper. Blunge once, twice, thrice,
four times, five times, six times, seven times. ;
it will take as much as that tocure your soul.
Oh, wash, wash, wasli and hr clean.
J suppose that was a great time at / unins
pus when General Neuman got ba k. Tho
charioteers did not have to drive slowly any
longer, lest they jolt the invalid; but as the |
aorses dash' d through the streets of Damas
;u- I think the people rushed out to hail !
jack their c hieftari. Naamau’s wife hardly
•cognized herhusoaud: he was So wouder
'u)!y changed she had to look ut him two or , j
Jiree times before /he n ode out that it, was
ter restored UTishand. And the little captive 1
naid, she rushed out. clapping her hands i ,
aid shouting: “Did he cure you? Dili lie
nre you V' Then music woke up tho pala -e
,ud the tapestry of the windows was drawn
way, that, the multitude outside might rnin
•Je with the princely mirth inside, and the
eet went up and down in the dance and all i
he streets cf Damas'-us that night echoed ,
nd re-echoed with the news: “Naamau’s
ured! Naaman’s cured!”
But a gladder time t han that it would l>o in
li this pia'e or wherever this s rinon shall
e read, if the soul should get cure 1< f its f
jprosy. Tho swiftest white hor ex hit tied .
> the King's chariot would rush the news
ite the eternal city. Our loved ones before 1
je throne would welcome the giad tidings. t
'our children on earth wi h more emotion i j,
lan the little Hebrew rapt- <- would notice
ie change in your looks and the change in
our manner, arid would put tlx ir arms l
round your neck and say ‘.Mother, i guess t
J
you must, have baconw* a Christian. Father,
1 think you havo got rid of the loptosj. Oh,
Dord Gikl of Klislia, have liwrcy on us!
THE STORY OF A CARPET.
rtio Trtnls mill Tribulation* of u House,
wife nt Clrauing Time,
[From the Youth’s Companion.J-
A Indy gives the following account of
her experience with a negro man whom
she had engaged to take up and cleau a
carpet and put it down again:
He had told me that he would bo on
hand “bright an’ nil lv,” and even hinted
ut the possibility of iiis coming by day
light,
“If you arc here at half past seven,
it w ill do,” 1 said.
“lltt’-pas’ sehen. lady! Dntammon
s tous late fo’ a man to begin a day’s
wuk. Lso mo’ likely to be roun’ by ha’
past (i, lady.”
Half [Hist seven came and went the
next day, and no Jerry. Eight o’clock,
nnd no Jerry. At half pr.st eight he
came leisurely sauntering into my yard.
“llow is ibis, Jerry I” I asked. “You
said you would surely bo hero by hull’
past seven.”
“So I did, Indy bo I did; an’ how I
happened to oborslcep myse’f dis mnw
! nin’ is tie mos’ mazin’ circumstance,
j Mos’ gin’rally I’se up lo’ day. But I’ll
htib dnt kynrpet up an’ out’n de back
j ya’d ic.ss’n no time.”
I “It’s so late, you’ll have to hurry if
I you get il all done to-day,”
“Sho, Duly! Hit’s jess play fo’ me to 1
take tip a kynrpet like dat, clean hit an’
put hit down iu free hours.”
A little after nine l went into the
room. Jerry had tho tacks out ou threo
sides of tho*carpet, and was lying fiat
on his back staring up at the ceiling.
“I ’elnr’, lady,” ho said, “lint's ,de
pnttiest wuk on dat ceilin’ l eber saw 1
Esc try in’ an’ trvin’ to make out if hit
am recly painted on dnr, or if Hit am
only [tapered on.”
“You’d better let, tho coiling alone
and get this carpet out on tho line,” I
naid sharply.
“Don’ yo’ min’ ’bout dis kyarpet,
lady. Hit’ll be out o’ liyar in free
shakes ob a dead sheep’s tail,” he said.
At ten o’clock I lignin went into the
! room. Jerry had folded tho carpet up
in the middle of the room and was sit
j ting un it.
; “Takin’ up kyarpets is a kind o’ wn\-
| in’ wuk,” he said. “I mos’ ullus has
j some one to help me.”
i “You don’t, need any help in clo““‘“8
IW MMWf* £. . . .i*, •. <4 a
“J.a, no, lady! I could clean dis
( kyarpet wid ono hand tied behind mo ”
It was eleven o’clock when Jerry got
I the carpet on the lino. Ten minutes
I later he ha.l disappeared. My littlo boy
, found him two blocks away in a perfect
ccstacy over a hand organ aud a mon
key.
“I ’clar, ma’am, dat am de smartest
moiikey! Hit do beat sill Wundor if
. hit makes much money,” ho said, when
lie came back.
Ho gave the carpet a few listless
; strokes with an old l>room-lmndic and
! then laid himself down on tho grass
“cleau tired out.”
'Feu minutes later I found him initiat-
I ing iny littlo boy into tho mysteries of
; “Mumble the-peg.”
“Jerry,” I said, pointing majestically
, to the carpet
“Yes, lady, hit’s all cleaned. I’ll put
! li it down in ten minutes.”
“It is not half cleaned,” I said, “You
, have not beaten one-tenth of tho dust
out of it.”
“All right, lady, all right,” he said,
| ominously. “Hit’s yo’ kyarpet, an’ I j
reckon yo’ can stan’ do loss if I beats
, hit to rsgs. I’se pounded dat kyarpet ,
! ull hit’ll stan’, lady, but hit’s yo’ kyar
j pet.”
But why write more ( At five o’clock !
th t carpet was still on the line and
Jerry was leaning over the back fence
watching two boys playing a mar- le*
in the alley. At six o’clock lie dragged
the carpet into the house and wanted
his pay for that day, saying that he
would get a man to help him and “git
dat kyarpet down quieker’n wink the
next day.”
1 paid him for half a day’s work, bade
him good by forever, and put the car
pet down myself the next day.
*
Judicious Little Willie.
Little Willie, who live; in a suburb,in
district bordered by a region where very
many poor people live, was sitting at the
side door of his father’s house one
eating a big sugared piece of bread mid
butter which his mother had given him,
when a poor and u- ry hungry-looking
bov passed along outside the fence end
looked wistfully at Willie’s bread and
butter.
“Don’t you think, Willie, that it ,
would be nice to give that poor hoy half
your piece of bread and butter?” ,
“Half of it, mamma! ’
“lea, my boy; lie look-very hungry.’
“I'd like to give hint some, but don't
you think—he sso poor, you know I
that if f gave him as much as half of it ■
it’d make him kind of greedy?” —Han o i
lierorJ.
A Reckless Woman.
“If you don’t get out of tills alley
von il hear irogi nm 1” shouted a 8 pen cer
street woman to a couple of boys who
were pounding on the fence.
“How:’ queried one
‘‘l'll call for a policeman !”
“You will, eh? Jf you are t'le kind
of a woman that wants to sec two or
three policemen hammered to death by
two desperate boys, who will never Be
taken alive, blow vour whistle! AYe
w.h our hand-, of ail r ponsibility.”
Ihe sober second thought seemed to
prevail with her, as she retired and left
them masters of the field — Detroit Fret j
J'ren.
VOL. I. NO. 43.
ANOTHER YEAR',
Another year, ah mo! I’to passed
A mile'tone more, nnd now I cast
\ moment's glance behind to trwe
The journey to this resting place,
Where, if I could, I'd anchor fast
(treat love has hlossoil mo tirst and last—
The only fortune I've amassed.
U'hat greater could 1 ask to grace
Another year!
Olio day my skies were overcast
From out mysterious regions vast
Death came, and in her soft embrace j
A loved one took—my mother’s taco
Will smile upon me from tho past
Anotlior year!
William S. Lord, in, Current
PITH AM) POINT.
To pet, the full weight of a fish, weigh
it in its own senior. —Bouton Courier.
“You have no biekbono about you,”
as the angler remarked to the fishwortn.
— SI. Louis Whig.
“Ah! what would lif * ho without thn
nobility?” --nid an English l.idv, mu
singly. Peerless, madatn '.— Tid-Bits.
Life sa\n: “What wo need in fiction
is more beef.” 7w<, like the small l>oy,
wants “built” stories. —Norristown Her
ald. , .. .
Edison says tliat lie can do his best
work at night. Certainly that is when
his host work shows up tho brightest.
Boston rod.
I old Gentleman—“ And how old are
i you, niy little mini” kittle Freddie—
“l’m not old at all, sir; I'm ncnrly new.”
, Harper's Bazar.
A business man with no advertisement
in tho paper always reminds us of a
bumble bee without any stinger. He is
only half equipped for business. —Dane
I ville Bieczr.
TtK CAN’T TU". FOt ND.
Who U rich.' And who is lmppy'
Who coaid ho content with, loss?
let, us Hoo—lii.s name is—name is—
Pshaw, we’vo lost tho man s address.
Waxhinton Critic.
The state merit is hardly believable
that tenor singers arc becoming a rare
commodity. The voice of the young
man on tho other side of tliostrcet is still
in a condition of pernicious activity. -
Washington Hatchet.
Some one is said to have invented a
sub tiinec tlint, etui be seen through more
clearly than glass We don’tknow what
item he unless ii is a man’s excuse to
his wife for uot returning homo befora
. ti A. M.— -V> tli I TT Sr,, *.
A IIARA AVIS.
What makes that rnan thoro look so glad,
Ills fan, so cheery?
He’s scon a scientist who ne’er had
An earthquake theory.
—Boston Courier.
“You sny you were in Germany six
months, and in all that time you did not
seo a drunken man?” “Notone.” “That
is remarkable. In what part of Germany
were you all this time!” “In jail, pard,
in jail. Sav, stake a fellow for break
fast, can’t you I”— Burdette.
maki.no light ok liberty.
Wlier.co comrs tho light of Liberty?
Well, really, we should smile —
For while she holds the torch o’orhead
pile's standing on tho i(s)lo!
And see, tho maid is doubly docked
In manner quite an fait—
on has the laurel round her brow
Aud at her font tho liny.
—Cleveland Voice.
Sugar Statistics.
Tho ordinary sugar of commerce is
j made from sugar cane and beets. Thore
is very little difference in the quality of
the two varieties. The bulk of tho cane
! sugar is grown in the tropical regions of
North and South America, tho Fast and
West India Islands, British India and
Southern < hiua. The beet sugar is pro
duced chielly in Frame, Germany, Hus
sein Poland and Austria-Hungary. Tho
relative amount of cane and beet sugar
is very nearly e pial, the prospective crop
of nine s igar for the current year in
what are known as exporting countries,
being 3,44 5,000 tons, while the prospec
tive crop of beet sugar will not he far
from ii, olio, 000 tons, making a total
available supply fortheyearof 4,080,000
tons.
Statistics show, however, that sugar,
like some other good things in the world,
is not distributed evenly. Great Britein
consumes more sugar per capita than uuy
other country, and the United States
come next iri the list.
For tho year 1885 tho consumption of
sugar, so far us it can be traced by relia
ble figures, was as follows:
Too*. Tom.
rnited State*. ..lyftM'WjO Oih<*r Karopean
<in;u IJriUm.. ) countries... . 838,009
France ~.. 6»ft,000 Non - exporting
man Empire H2O/KH) countries 1,800,000
A nutria I*B,ooo
Holland 45,000 Total 5.432,000
This statement, allowing the last year’s
crop to have been as greet as the prospec
tive crop for 1880, would letve 1,141',000
tons on hand or to have gone into con
sumption unaccounted for. The per
capita consumption of Great Britain was
a trilie over CO pounds; that of the
United States, 49.3 pounds; that of
France was scarcely 30 pounds, and that
of Germany still less. The consumption
for the United States varies somewhat,
according to the condition of business.
While in 1885 it was 39.8 pounds per
capita, in 1861 it was 51 and in 1883 only
47.6. —Ph iladelph ia Times.
Two Ways.
B CRN’S WAY.
Then gently t-eau your brother man,
And gentler si3ter woman,
And if they gan a kennin wrang,
To step aside is human.
TUB MODERN WAY.
Then keenly s an your brother mail.
An 1 k*-ener sister woman,
Aral if they gang a kenniu wrang
t 'on d vii upon Hi.-m like a thousand of
J.trii md siiow that you have no sympathy
For anything savo yourself,that is human.
Boston Courier