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tJ*tiefoie ?> lie ueo ,<
• Jlta, much sirens is
«'>at , men and , not .
rare . are aesneu desired for lor the me kind t
merateu.
riau congress, which has
held iu London, brought
at that there have been
tcetarian bears. One in
:l
| been changed to m-at.
■kMichigau, ^K. lost all Ivis
mortals ■ . upon ..
lefore killed and ate a
l%esa dog.
■ I I the , Republic r> , of Mex- . T
I ST u factories producing ’ "
J T and , prints. . r „, these
( » dill,! 13 s|iiii(l!eH »u,l
and they employ 2!!,7.'ll
pu[. w , ^ T ? . J
JJttou. d ’ JS "’ A 77 ‘>7-0
rf'^ces They produced
'-.mis of cotton goods and
7 of van, "(«Wb The value
1 va -■ »** • 1
and they pay into the
Inel ixos $2,000,000 aunu
' from figures furnished
Bee Depart ment, at Wash
„ mo average „ pcisou in
h Ipends including men,women
, 82.;>0 , on postage
Wew York comes second ’
oditure of ,S2.27. aud the
nlninlnn plumlua tliini tlm d,with»-.!(). witli 1 g
Hourtll, I with $1,911, and
fifth, with $1.80. The
bg n<r lowest lowest in in this Ins regard recrard
orolina, with ‘2o cents per
lssippi, with :?4 cents; Ala
U cents; Arkauas, with 37
North ............ with U
[t R. H. Jesse, of Missour
Imade a somewhat unusual
* the opening of that iu.
:enllS every student should
tlieart if he could get one’
Id Uin!no upon soltv the refilling in
temmiuo soon ty. lie It. be be- j
laid, fa that young men are
made better by the com
^>f good young women. A
a ievoted President ’ Jesse’s dis
to football, lie
entfl to pray foi tho team,
Rfrm iu this / 1 he said, “if
1 team is a clean, honorable
>n it’s worthy of your pray
is remembered that tlie
Kioa is greater than that of
[continent ftimates except Asia, the
being 11,784,000
[es, and that it embraces a
m of natural resources that
L: responded to the touch of
It, it is amazing that the
ktions of the globe should
lonlya paltry $400,000,000
Hoods to its people in a year,
J fcieth century, with the uni
■ jgtitnent of commercial ex
a »at promises to mark its
[a years in all the trading na
e globe, will surely witness
is commercial development]
continent.
■ity of human beings must
lives within . the bounds
fe been drawn by the experi
ke fa past, and must maintain
and do their work iu the
, informing , . . . t .. , no . , .
o la w i las
vered,tested,aud accepted as
utnan society, philosophizes ,
fctian Register. Before auy i
Fhava original opinions upon
Iject whioh will be useful, he
immonly have mastered tbe re
ithe knowledge whioh lias been
Rting since tho world began,
ra genius, endowed a» geniuses
i the gift of insight, he may al
aglanoe see how the matter
Ind where the needed improve
it begin. :
ism of the Amorieau woman
too often hoars from the
observant foreigner is that
much of a faddist. Perhaps
- , ,, ,, , . ,,
ore truth ttiau poetry tu tue
^Nevertheless, a well -known ;
^ ■Lm. ( sician, the late Mary;
’ was much inclined
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85 A NARRAT1V5 OF ADVENTURE.
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Ry SKWAItir W. HOl’KINS. IS
(Cofthiotit WW nv Boss UK's Sons.) 11
CHAPTER V.
[continued.]
lOouiu I could not iiOTgiveup. Five ud
With the most scrupulous care
Inspected the roeky walls around me,
ttoiinr ’ over every inch of surface both
with Mth eje and and huger, fiiu. r and mwi m.Ii. make sine .nr# nf of
t£ST y ‘ Pn “ 8, “
. . ,, . f
uo ' "7 ooun at rue very
tom, , I found a small niche that was
| ca t from under so that it was hidden
1 from view view. I 1 ten felt inside maiue tlie the nicne. niche
j xueie seemed 10 ue a small tvooueu
ball or button iu it.'
I had had so many disappointments
^ . 1 , . Vope r «„* Su diiowy. £
ot I
*
peeled nothing from it.
*-““"’'J®:J* side U jJ7he rU SdiJ. J-'liv >r?»" if
ngim Ls each from the —
it u crack, it was so close as to cr c
..edwHv ^ wnter-ticrht ? and ..ir-tirrhl 0
I r placed 1 1 my huger on the ,i ru little .1
wooden button and pressed it I ex
wn wood 6 ] a without iin,f,,t Kt ev«n even t \n knowing 0 owi^ t i what l !,t 0 1 T
expeotod 4. it to do.
, f tt . “
* lo, Hl> a *7 tho reauh lesult. the great wall
In front ot me opened. J he rock
rolle.l Im* ..4 away from » 11
ami rt.pp.4. It
presented, ou its under side, aflat,
f mOHth 8 ,U i faCe - Be -Y; Dd % W f, S “
huge chamber , or vault, evidently a
natural one, running deep into the
stone island I walked into it and
0He,ui: y mttde ^ arouad - Jt
ww^Fiy... pit But now
I was convinced that the labor and
expense of the mechanism that moved
the rock were for something greater
than appeared in in ill# the ,liv,.„r»vr discovery of ni n<>
emp.y cavern.
I groped along the walls, for the
only light 7 came from the mysterious
•
door 1 I . had , opened, 1 feeling, v r as I , had , 1
done iu the pit, for another niche.
Near the farther end I found a pas
sage, and . found - i tiiat it ended, as
everything else seemed to end there,
in solid rock. But I was now thor
oughlv ^ convinced that something else
lay 1 beyond. , hi 1 the passage it > was
pitch-dark, aud I was not sure of my
Noting, hence the work of searching
* or a b£dden 8 P r ing simply by
g0118e of touoh was difficult «d
tedious. After what seemed like
hours of fingering, in which my
knuckles aud finger-ends had been
jo«4e acre by contact pth the rock, 1
hatl the gratification of finding a but
ton similar to the first. I exerted my
strength once more and pressed this
new button.
Ihe end of the passage rolled
open.
I was blinded by a glare of light.
My eyes could not stand the suddeii
rush of sunlight in my weakened con
ditio “’
lt was 80lne minutes before Ire
covered my sight, but when I did I
was bewildered by what I saw.
A most beautiful vision was spread
before me.
I was in an oriental garden. To the
to the left and before me were ;
blooming trees aud shrubs.
plants, that in America
o uld be priceless, grew in metbodi
cal, well-arranged profusion on every
side. The musical play of silvery j
from a dozen fountains sounded
the tinkling music of an orchestra
of heaven in my ears. i
True, the bottom of this Elysiau
field was below the level of the sea,
but high walls of solid rook surrounded
it on every side, and protected
the waters, btraigbt above me
blue sky smiled down upon the
scene.
Through the center of this garden
wide wall extended, the floor of
which was alabaster or porcelain. On
either side gretv fragrant flowers and
beautifully colored plants.
I wandered through this wonderful
place, gazing at the work of human
hands with awe. The like J had
never seen before. Nor had I ever
dreamed of the beauties with which 1
now found myself surrounded.
At first I thought it was all a
phantasmagora. I believed my mind
had given way aud these beautiful
visions were but the symptoms of on
coming madness.
I pinched myself to make sure that
I was awake. I was awake, most de
cidedly so, and my hunger was as
acute as ever. The beautiful scene
could not satisfy my craving for food,
ip bere wae ao j ru j t growing there.
There might, I thought hopefully, be
fish in the waters surrounding the
fountains.
Eaob fountain jutted from a basin
tf dazzling whiteness. I leaned over
#ne and peered down into the spark
licg water. There was no sign of an
imai life.
With a sigh, I wandered on.
I tiaversed the garden, and found
at tbe farther end of the porcelain
avenue an archway hewn in the rock,
Curtains of heavy damask and silk
in the archway and these
pushed cautiously aside. I peered
through and looked around. I saw
no person. I went in.
Now I was iu wha must be 21 tem
pie. It was much smaller than the
garden, aud was lighted by sev
eral perfumed lamps clustered
about a large fountain in the
^ tbe ebamber. These
| ampB ] lad n0 wioks, but the oil itself
that thev contained burned with a
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steady glow that was very brilliant
ot tbo fuming oil were heavy and
tokening. For a few minutes it
8eetne( i a ,, s though I J would V0U l suffocate rtUtl0C ^ te
V, imt gradually , 1 t t became accustomed to >
pungency, and the sense of
orodnoed bv the heavy ' perfumes ’
If this was a place of worship, the
of dg wftB liberal i n< J ee d.
rj 1 a raised dais of mailile marble there tneie
wa;l a h'reat Chinese god, or Joss,
made of precious woods inlai(1 iu
. Tliis ido'l hnllnw
whs ‘ ’,
vlthll bis . stomach , there
' \ capacious
burned a lamp. lor eyes, he had
windows of aumthyst winch were so
vefy liHlHanL ' ^
Tho mouth of this idol was open as
H to devour, and his teeth w.ue pre-
7 .“’^ stone ?‘, Eubl es - emeralds
diamonds and sapphires . were set
around the ugly b y mouth iu tooth-like
-
,
A tongue of coral, reflected upon which the
!i « bt of'the lamp strongly,
m myriads ^ " of bright n ravs " 1 of color
from the . gems tint , , surrounded , it.
The nails of this idol were of
ished mica i| e m a crouching
““ ... ‘ff u,iii, n r 11 a extended {ZnihU a-, Z* if to
^”7“^ o, dl
,
To one side of the temple, in an al
’ h ^ j “ with eves and
t ue aflu g i a e dat me as at an
This with°wings dragon was lf made of
mli hed one beaten
. . ,
'
Untlie sule ot , the ,, , iaige lcioi ... oppo
site the dragon, was a huge and hide
ous Buddha>
„
ere ’ 8
1 ' e£l ,. ff lon3 - Here could come the
Buddhist and learn his artificial wor
. . , . , , , ,
Ul U 8 " teaoUin S a muititiuie.
ihe ,n Taoist • could come, aud his toy ,
c , mld not he snr passed. His idol was
. ■, t the ugliest the largest •
Confucianism , t is . not f. represented • , ” , by
idols or images, but the Philosophy bf j
_ . , . ,, , mav easi i v be
? . ° ’_ , .' , 1
°
temples
... thing's I was not h! Ions in
^ m shoi fc I was
T t F o r the er' ht that
, hopJof J lift t b t fast bLin and sent :
solid^olTet into my was Le a
8 ot | bofore
idol ’ contaitsi g ° cooked rice.
^ templeB thoug / I 8houldf here _
were life and sustenance for a time at
^hopsticL. Across the to ? D of the dish were
golden ^ ]
I ate mjTll ’
Then I made a profound bow to the
frowning idol who had so considerately
come to my timely relief, and shared
with me the offerings ' of his worship
era
Revived, sustained by the meal I
eaten, I became a new man. I was
ready for further adventures, and
n „ pr to continue the exnloration of
e submarine palace I had so miracu
0U slv discoveied.
From what seemed to be tho rear of
temple, another arch, hung like
first with rich curtains, led into a
room carpe ted with velvet,
was but Httle furniture in the
It se emed like an antechamber
the temple. Across this room still
tb er arch could be seen, and,
pushing the curtains in this to one
B j de If’l i Dassed through it
had been surprised before I was
0 unde d now. This inner room
not i arge —not more than thirty J
feet square—but fortunes bung upon
its walls. There were panels of gold
other panels of silver. Between
them tbe walls were covered with in
laid precious wood, studded with
choicest gems. No rock could be
seen. Heavy Turkish rugs covered
tho floor. Richly upholstered chairs,
divans aud ottomans were scattered
A golden lamp, in which
the perfumed oil, was sus
from the ceiling which
was covered with silk, draped and fes
It was a place enchanted,
I saw no exit from this room save
the arch through which I had come.
On one side of the chamber in an al
cove, nearly bidden by a swirging
of etched bronze, I found abed,
It was undisturbed. There were
pipes and tobacco lying upon a small
table.
I had evidently seen everything in
tbe rock palace.
“But where,” I asked myself, “were
the human inhabitants of this magnifi
cent palace? Were they absent or
were they in hiding, and perhaps
watching me from their place of con
eealment?”
I closelv inspected this last disc«v
ered room, but found nothing to indi
cate that any person had been there
recently. Aud yet it was uumistaka
bly the abiding-place of some one of
vast wealth, eccentricity and luxuri
ous tastes.
I had become accustomed to the
strangeness of the place.
My condition was so much improved
over the preaicamenfc I had been in,
that I was disposed to accept the situa
tiou as at least fortunate. I would
make myselt comfortable here until
the owner came---that is, if he came
before tbe rice gave out—aud, after a
suitable explanation, I had no doubt
be would assist me to Hong Kong.
^ 41
V
RS-S
tier the influence of th* stuff X wa*
" moklu • ?; ti n was no ; i tobac^oMf i . •<
it was, it was prepared with drugs. I
am inclined to think it was opium.
But whatever it was, it was luxurious.
Fim » .lolirioM ...» of f.tisue .....
over me; not weariness, but that calm,
dreamy sense of rest that sometime#
accomnanies the use of narcotics lM ;
r I i began to sec bright visions. . . I was
no longer a castaway in an unknown
one in an enchanted land. Leauttftn
creatures floated about me. Blight
colors plaved across my vision. Then
a j, “■ be oeeanie a blank—forgetfulness bianic forgetfulness— —
ur »conaciousness.
How long I remained in this stumor
r do not know. It n.jt h.T. b...,
according to my calculations, winch
1 wer(s bused lar g el y ou ui? appetite,
i and, later, ou the position of the sun,
. . , .. . , w} T
uo, “ 010 tu *J TO TJle 1 n }
awoke J. was very hungry. But this
time, owing.to the bountiful provision
made hjnf for tie f^od idol I was not compelled P
00 nuuo for xoi ioou.
J ^ repaired^ 01^0 the temp 16 and
From the temple l wandered out
through the garden, the air of which
^ce ^ / " dm i "hi Ty na^ge* "before
svent m CD stou stone o Passage,
crossed the bare, avem-lme o chain
her and climbed up the steps out of
tbe "ell. I i« d ? ed b 7 tbe position of
the sun that , it was yet early in the
da y -
[ stood drinking ‘ 0 in the revivifying J
. when , I chanced . , to . turn. , Across .
the water, perhaps not more than a
.vi<l.atl/ mile away, was a small sailing-vessel, I
a plmmaot-oraft. It «.
f?M diIy m.ki„ s it, way i„ tie direc
tion ot the rock, and I had no doubt,
directness of its course that
the island was the proposed landing
P la «® o£ whoever was on the yacht.
1 do Iiot know what prompted me
»o quickly conceal myself. Proba
J»J- in 3 ti.ctiv» f..« o, .... .n- j
known danger, although all my hope
vested upon * the coming of some per- ! |
e ld fc away v.y from rummy my
luxurious prison. It this Was tho
owner of the island who was coming,
natural and proper course would i
b f - £o oieet mm i,; m upo 1 , 1 , «nival, ex- _ ]
plain my presence in his _ ciomain, hum
bly ^ ask his pardon for the intrusion
al -' 1 ,.J upon u generosity n eue,usiby
£o f. rehet - Lut 1
China Sea. Mysteries , of which I had
only a faint knowled 0,6 were all about
d • . t tail- 1
7 e ’ uas noc gbiu-, m any 1
chances until I saw what manner of
man my host might be.
There was no place inside that I
cou£d think of, where 1 could hide
^- d b « safe. I could get inside
the big idol and not be seen; but
wbat tben if the worshiper should ; !
a eek to fill the tamp? I studied the
-itootiou noictlj. There w» oo tim. (
*o waste. The persons ou the yacht
might at any moment turn a glass on
the island and discover me.
I looked around. j
I found, crag! just back of the enough pit, a jut- 1
ting It was large to
completely hide my body from view
,
from the side on which the little in
let was. And yet it was so jagged !
and rough that I could obtain full j !
vlew ot what was going on without
bringing my head beyond the broken
outline of the rock
I hastily crawled around the rock,
and fixed myself in as comfortable a j
position as possible, to wait.
The little yacht was very fast, yet
it . seemed before it.reached the
an age
islancl * But at last I had the pleasure
of seeing the sails furled the helm
put down, and the little boat glided
into the smooth water of- the little
ba .?
M y heart was m my mouth. ;
The first persons visible were two i I
Chinese sailors, who lifted a com
panion-ladder and hung it on the two i
u ' on rings ri ngs I I have have before before mentioned, mentioned,
They chattered ..... incessantly, ‘ but in i
£b eir own language. Having care
frtU y adjusted the bidder, they stood
back, respectfully waiting as if for the
passing of a superior officer. ;
There now appeared on the deck of
the yacht a Chinaman of more than
ordinary military costume size! He of the was Chinese clad in the j
army, !
and to judge from the magnificence |
of his uniform he was of <*reat ‘’He im
portance nortance atul ana of oi mguranic. hi Hi rank He wore wore
dangling from his belt a handsome
gold-hilted sword. On his cap was a
gold button. The significance of this
I did not know at the time, but after¬
ward learned that it betokened his
exalted rank. His face was not a
pleasing one. It wsfs not the face of
a man to whom one would like to ap¬
peal for aid. With a dignified step
he ascended the companion-ladder. :
xleacfiing the top ne turned, , !
anu
gave a sharp oommand.
Two Chinamen appeared, ‘
more
oarrvincr Ca m7 lDg l»etw«en t)e 7®f Q them a ®. burden raen ‘ I !
They carefully made their .
way up
the ladder, and turned to go to the
nit. " The harden thev ^ carried was I
*
unmistakably . , . and
a woniau, sue was
bonnd. In my surprise and in my
eagerness to see the woman’s face I
almost almost discovered disunereu mvseif my,.eit io lo the tlie
Chinamen. I stretched my neck to
8 * a better glimpse. I heard her cry
°“ t > a ® l£ cab '“g upon some one for
* ld ' I beard the words father and
d- I judged iter to be an Eng
“Sli , or an American woman. Th»
vome sonnde young.
[iu oum . .u.j
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M. Paul Cam bon the sew Frencl
Ambassador to J^nglana, was in his
youth devoted to theatricals. He w**
highly successful in private perform- ;
ances.
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Only two-sevenths of the people 01
the United States are church mem
here.
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Subject: A Heavenly Guard—Ml mi ton of
the Angels—Have Much to J><> with
tlie ETety-day Affair* cf Life—A Guard
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lOopyriRht, Louli Kiofid,. i 8 #».i
Washington, D. G.—The brilliant beings
supposed by sotno to be in aginary uro by
Dr. Tulmage in tills sermon shown to be real
aud to have much to Judges do with our every-day 19, “And
life. The text is, xili.,
w j( a p (i d there kindled the flames toe sac
rlflce in the praise ot God and in honor of
a guest whom they supposed higher to and be a bigber man.
But as the flame rose
their stranger guest stepped into the flame
and by one r ,-,i leap ascended into the
skies. Then they knew that be was an
•«-««"• *»*• "**• — «*»
Two'hundred and forty-eight times does
the Bible refer to the angels, yet I never
board or read a sermon relegated on angelolosy.
The whole subject is spectral and to the
realm mythical, weird, uu
known. Suoh adjournment is un-Scriptural character,
and wicked. Of their life, their
their iinbits, their actions, thoir velocities,
Bible gives us full length portraits and
why this prolonged and absolute silence
concerning them? Angclologyis my
There are two nations of angels, and
^^ood^ugeO Vml'the twi'&SSS^* naVion of “hid m“
& tlmlV grand The^eSr ren.lezvous. is heiven but
their empire is the universe. They are bo- a
distinct race of creatures. No human
lug can ever join their confraternity. The
hum child ‘ _ |,' who in ( theSahbatl,^school
w is gratiiled. They are super
human, but tliey are of different grades
and ranks, ’ not nil on tho same level or the
«»» ^ hpi )lt . aiTequlu. Thfiv i 1M vn iheir “HroX qmmriors wo
guessing 0 n this subject, but take the Bible
tor my nil only authority. Plato, »,.* the phlloso
P>«. »4 —4 Mf
SSffSSI"f!,'.'fSStSff .'."STS
divided them into three classes tiie su
preme the ^ ld ^ 11 ^ ‘he lost aud each
t t ee !
,-dated to* God, as the rays to the sun. ]
Eulgehtlus body said that they Clement were composed |
of and spirit said they
E” tT'ZTli
now are beyond being tempted. But the
only authority on this subject that I re- ,
apeet says they are divided into cherubim,
seraphim, nie^ thrones, dominations, principal
powers. Their commander in chief
is Michael. Daniel sailed him Michael.
St. John called him Michael. These
supernal beings are more thoroughly or
ganiaed than any army that ever marched.
They are swifter than any cyclone that
ever swept the sea. They are more radiant
than any morning that ever came down
tlio sky. Tiiov liuvo more to do with your
destiny and mine God. than May any tho being Angel in the
universe except of
the Njew Covenant, who is the Lord Jesus,
open our eyes and touch our tongue and
rouge oux . sou ( w ], ji 0 we speak of their
deatblessuess, their intelligence, their
numbers, their strength, their achieve
«
.^ e8 > deathless. They had a cradle, but
^ “Xn’^7 sfee^the^eveoitiuguishedo? feT Jn^buf “e*
shall ever
their momentum slow up or their existence
Sleor* a decriXde X «,S?» findrince*
their first hour. Christ said of the good
deathlefs ^ thly l ’are Ire equa to theYes' Ireaiares
these wonderful of
whom I speak. They will see world after
wor.d go out, but there shall be no lading
^Bdl,awakenKst circuit fll«V hevwlll*be
ready for the widest through im
mensity, taking a quadrillion of miles in
dSvecot^They n14r 011
^v^r cxhaust^ aw Tirey siefe They Te7 are Tot
need no S P ,
they are never tired. At God’s command
they smote with death iu one night 185,000
smUe^thmn. Awake,’ agile,° muUlpMenG
deathless, immortal!
4 a^arncteristio of these nidiant
f
the*wisdom o“f an angel. We^mortals take
in what little wo know through eye and
u' r !J n d n nhviica? d 0 U C em^ b
v n 0 ,[ y ‘ en c a 8 houce
thpy are u gen 3es . A wall five feet thick
is uoi solid to them TlirougU it they go
without snrar’KWfss * a ‘ur»»«nflr flake 10 mortar
them. them. Theytake They take it it in in at at all all points. points. They They
absorb absorb it. it. they They gather gather it it up up without without any any
hindermeut. Wndermwnt . No No need need oi.literature of literature for for
them. The letters of their books are stars.
The dashes of t hoir books are constellations; meteors. The
WO words rds of of their their books books are are constellations,
Tho The paragraphs paragraphs of of their their books books are arc gaiax- galas
^ ies. The ^ be pictures P ,0 ^J of and^rnffirnghf their books'are ammas* sun
d
and the Conqueror on the white horse with
the moon under his feet. Their library is
an open universe. No need of telescope to
fnsVmUv'the? it? a^ /ue^Vto fi^T/d ex
piore All astronomies, nil geologies,.ill
botanies, all philosophies, at their feet.
)E“*v.° and^knowlng P t P ? ,t n?H i^rigld Y 1°' ^‘“telUgeace aw°ay! BS e ' 6r> is '
thing
There is only one thing that puts them
to their wits’end, and the Bible says they
ba vo to study that They have been study
ijxg lt a) , throuf(tl the aff0S , and yet i vvar .
rant they have not fully grasped it—the
wondors ol redemption. These wonders
are so high, so deep, so grand, so stupon
dons, so magulttcent, that even the in
telllgence of iingelliood is confounded be
fore it. Tbe apostle says, “Which things
the angels desire to look into.” Tkat is a
subject that excites inquisitiveness on their
part. That is a theme that strains their
fuculties to the utmost. That is higher
than they can have'a climb, deeper than they can
dive. They desire for something
too big for their comprehension. “Which
things the angels desire to look into.”
that does not discredit their intelll
Secce. No one but God Himself can fully
« a <le«tand tbe wonders of redemption.
If all heaven should study it for lifty
eternities, they would get no further than
the ABC of" that ineAhaustible suhjeot.
But nearly all other realms of knowledge
they have ransacked aud explored and
compassed. No one but God can tell
them anything they do not know. Tliey
have rend to the Jast word of tho last lino
of the ,nst P°B e of tho )(lst volum8 of in
vestigation, aud what delights me most is
that all their intelligence is to be at our
disposal, S*-™*******™'*
wo can learu by l0Q years ot earthly sur
mislng. .
A further characteristic of these iramor
tals is their velocity. This the Bible puts
?®m«® unter"^ Sur| U of °a flowing gn
ment, sometimes under the figure ot naked
fe®t. As these superbuinans are without
a ° a u*’ meaTl wiftn?ss! Th^BIMa
tells us that Daniel whs praying and Gab
riel flew trom heaven and touched him bo
then ^ditf°the AugeT Gabrirrhave^o fly in
j u t bogo moments of Daniel’s prayer?
Heaven is thought to be the center of the
our sun and its planets only the
Hi™AngeTJiibrie^flew'from * that'centar*to
this periphery. Jesus told Peter ho could
called instantly have CO,COO angels present if he
for them.
What foot of antelope or wing »f alba¬
tross could equal that velocity? Law oi
gravitation, influence which grips ail things else,
has no upon angelic momentum.
Immensities before them open and shut
like a fan. That they are here is no reason
why they should not be a quintilliou of
miles hence the next minute. Our hodies
hinder us, but our minds can circle the
earth, in a minute. Angelic beings are
no limitation. God may
J 0 some world
are multitudinous. Tlie r cen-ushas never
iipnn taken and XlO one but God knows
how many they are, but nil the Bible no
countg suggest their immense numbers—
companies of them, regi i.ents of them,
armies of them, mountain tops haloed by
S5WKT«S? wS rS.S
t)l0 t ij rone „ g ten thousand times ten tliou
sand. Now according to my calculation,
ten tbousund times ten thousand are 1»0 •
000,0 0. But these are only tbs angels them in
one place. David counted 20.000 ot
.roPingdowu tlie sty fn chariots, wnon
S^SOT.™.* 1 ^
companionship of 10,000 angels. I tblalc
they aro in every battle, m. pillow, ever,/-exigency, dyery
at every birth, at every at
hour, at every moment, the earth full of
them, the heavens full of them.
They outnumbor tlio human raee in
this world. They outnumber ransomed
Iff ,,'ly stroke, orying. “Abra
who arrested the
bam, Abraham!” It was a stairway of
angels that Jacob We saw told while pillowed angel led in
the wilderness. are an
the hosts ot Israelites out ot Egyptian showed
serfdom. It was an angel that
Hngnr the fountain where she filled the
bottle for the lad. It was an angel that
took Lot out of doomed Sodom. It was an
nnasil that shut up tho mouth of the hun
wlienPaniel wa^Jirown in
^^VnnVun^d 01 l^kJy the*aT
proachiug nativity They were angels that
a»Wh«r«?enX^^^^^ angel that encouraged
»«ouy. It was an
B ' ul1 m thfi Mediteiruneiin shipwieok.
It was an angel that burst open the prison,
gate after gute, until Peter was 1 liberated
"e» be«!e°d. It
was an angel thbt John saw flying through
the midst of hearen, and an angel with
foot planted on the sea, and an angel that
opened the boob, and an anaei that sound
the trumpet and an angel that thrust
in the sickle and an angel that poured out
the vials, and an augel standing in the sun.
“
r ? H ?. e F s llre ffl ” ffn' an S aI I S- S tFkV1 lea > tlie Bord
« bal ‘, be >g”^ d Sier^ , "a^ihe “Jmgnf
0
and the glory of these wuperuals-fleets of
^•^“^“0 rLl-^ults^Tm 7'!,'
T.,« oftMcMcof
these supernals. To defend, to cheer, to
rescue, to escort, to givo victory to the
fight their business—just and overthrow ns tue alert wrong-tkat to-day and is
efficient ns when iu Bible times they spread
wing or unsheatbed sword or rocked down
penitentiaries or lilled the mountains with
horses of ilro hitc.iod to chariots oi fire und
driven by reinsmen ot lire. 1 liey have
turned your steps a hundred times, and
you know it not. You were on the way to
uo some wrong thing, and they changed
your course. They brougm. some thought
Christian parentage or of loyalty to
your own home ana that arrested you.
They nnanged that some one should meet
you at that crisis and propose something
honorable and elevating, or they took
from y° ur pocket some ticket to evil
^musement, a ticket that you never fouud.
v^y oneVhafguide^you^to ?,Xs?rVict
and that now waits to msdS report some you? noly
'mpression to to upon
7™ ) n p WI ^ ILS
8 | Jt lud the other foot lifted
ior ascent into the skies. By some prayer
^ time borne down with tffleTb”
^^erneut, dtaso^ persecution bankruptcy, sick
S uV- 7y™ bearTandfife^You
fonger. <r f ive You said: “I cannot stand it any
WhLI'is I believe IraiLYtLe^ep I will take my w?vcor life
the rafi
enrth^^^nce’’^ 111 ^ suddenlv^vonr
miad pHghtenecl.' Courage came 6 urgin<»
ijJ to your heart like oceanic tides. You
dittos 7 0 Hu*“u D ^.U d0 'tur & P "out'for adS m?
„ 00d suddenh- you felta peace
,, etteH) the peacJof God that passeth nfi
U ‘ a
, g * 1U °
°
the Lord met gua/dian you That was iU)
Yes, a angel for each one of
u - Tut yourself now in accord with
^“iyh^n He w^Su^g^inM frorn'oodtohelp the wrong
shun it Sentforth you
in this great battle against sin and death,
aj.-Jonriate “°Siu - feeling onhn^nes^^d'dtohUSeS^t of loneliness tSe and disheartenment, “Tht anu^l 0
appropriate ti.i encLpeth tbe promise promise, uroW “The angel 8 of of
Lord about tl.em •%*
; bilt fear Him and deiivereth them.” Oh,
[“7 a ®d 8 hJvm are *^S?h
tbose SU pe ru aturals taking tidings
hoir '°> briD S‘ u K mesSa f?e 8 here, roiling
ba ”, k ®„*i“ ol ,® s f £ , “!,? ur P 3 1 11 ^ givi ? g
„ r a , ,
good ,iT sn n « t h«
angels is on our side the nation of
bad angels is on the other. Paul had it
v „i!L t Yesh and ^ Wood iltJ^nl!*
^ ot ’ spiritual & darlSesa iviekeMuess of ‘this torid!
Iu that awful light iu_ liigU
may God send
tliekfvings ou ou^S^ll th^?
swor our side. '} 3 on our side, all their chariots on
Thunk God Unit those who are for us arc
mightier than those who are against us!
And that thought makes me jubilant as to
dual triumph. Belgium, you know,was the
battleground of England and France. Yes,
Belgium more than once was the battle
ground of opposing nations. It so happens
that this world is the Belgium or battle
ground between tho angelic nations, good
and bad. Michael, the commander-in-chief
on one side; Lucifer, as Byron cnlte him,
or Mephistopheies, Bible as Goethe calls him; or
Satan, as the calls him, the ootn
lunnder-in-ohief ou the other side. Ail pure
angelhood undertho one leadership andall
abandoned angelhood under the other load
ership. Many a skirmish have the two arin
ies iiad, but the great and decisive bnt:le is
yet to be fought. Either from our earthly
homes or down from our supernal resi
deuces may we come in on the right side.
ior ou that side are God and heaven and
Victory. Meanwhile the battle is being set
iu array, and the forces celestial and
demoniacal ate confronting each other,
Hear the b om of the great cannonade al
r.-udy opened! Cherubim, principalities' seraphim,
thrones, dominations, and
Powers and, are beginning to ride down their
toes, until the work is completed,
“Sun. stand thou still upon Gibeou, and
tbou ’ 11100a ’ iQ tho va,ley of A i alo ' l! ”
FOR A NEGRO EXHIBIT.
Frogress of Colored People to Be Shown
at Purls Exposition.
Thomas J. Calloway, who has just
been appointed by Commissioner Gen¬
eral Peck a special commissioner to
the Paris exposition for the purpose of
preparing and managing a negro ex¬
hibit, lias already begun bis work and
will start in a few days upon a tour of
collection of the exhibits. He has
given out the following outline of his
plans: its indi¬
The negro exhibit, as name
cates, is to show as far as possible the
actual status of the colored people, as
shown in their homes, schools, farms,
stores, churohes, professions and
other pursuits. The amount of space
is limited, but sufficient to prove the
negro’s valne as a laborer, a producer
and n citizen.
Baby Left In Burning House.
The home of Rev. W. A. MacDonald,
out seven miles from Colquitt, Ga..
3
Explained By Presitti
pine Comma
ANY INTERFERENCE IS
Mr. Scliunnan Thinks Th*
Which Have Been M(|
For All Coiicen
A Washington dispatci
view of tho current discusi
military agreement between"
Bates and the sultan of Sulu i
of President Schurmau, of th
piue commission, on the su
interesting.
Mr. Schurman was one of
Americans to visit Jolo, th
Spanish government in the Si
pelago, and had an extended
with the sultan before the j
General Batss. The arrange*
tered into between General B
the by sultan was considerably |
this meeting.
Although the full agreemi
the Sultan has not been mad
be by the stated Washington authority f
that it practically
to the previous convention]*
between the Sultan and the*
government. In this agreemfl
never claimed anything more*
external protectorate o.ver tq
group, the right to suppress *
its waters and to prevent the * i
migrations of the oathbound
medans wbo went to the ni
islands under a vow to kill Clri
aud thus secure an entrance int
adise.
Professor Schurman said whe
tioned about the probable co b ti
of poly /amy and slavery in th^
after they came under the Aj
dominion that this was dea9 a t
which would have to he
ths> most careful fashion to b
ultimately satisfactory solutici
raid:
“It ^ seems to ^ me that
,
*orine ignorance atspiayeo, *
ent hue and cry about poly gal
slavery in these islauds takincrS tvmuldB
solutelv 0 ‘uuiiy criminal criminal, Tn in taking
Hulu group we have acquired m
ot napnfiprl any sort usliv there ‘Irwin except «u thfi
L t>y w her agreement am eemen f wBh with the n « sj
. to interfere with the religion!-* ifcAJ
toms of the islands and itdomrMi
m most na urniiso unwise for fn» n« us In to attempt
force H when ^ ed Iu ^ can be ultimg| J
C ?“? tBe slowet A*
civilization and education. .fl
“Th* Sulu group proper
about 100 ,000 inhabitants, >!
all Mohammedans, as are :, 0
000 of the residents ot
i‘T W,th the re I 1 P°“ *“•”»* of tbes
^nld ., precipitate . . . one of the
,™ b^n oonntry cliffer.[.
engaged They areu
physically dents and mentally from
of the Yiscayan
men and religious fanatics of t'i,F
pronounced type, who care noth,.
death and believe the road Ch^ to J
^ be flttalned by killing
Polygamy is a part of their
and slavery, about which so -t,
being said just now, is a mild 4d
bondage.
The sultan believes from v
. has of Americans that
seen
ready to be friendly and deal
^ ^ ur 80 *“ lers an d offif
ready travel into the interior e
P erfect impunity
! ards never da red to set foot. ir
been suggested indirectly to
tan that he should maintain an£
C * n oI g °° d standin g as a conf »f
ad viser at his court to aid hin s
work of material developm<
which the beautiful group
is ready, and which is bound >,
when they are thrown in
the civilized. I believe that
take kindly to this
STRAGGLERS
-
Member* of Ill-Fated Regiment a I
Of Battery Return.
A * special dispatch reoieved .
uon from Pietermaritzburg,
dated Tuesday morning says:
“Stragglers from the
re£ 1 agimeni , imen t arft are arriving ar . r i v i ne . at Hadys
A number of mules with a
the mountain battery are al #0
ju >>
K9ep aoreast oj tnese stirrvng
by subscribing for your home
The price is little, and you
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DON'T WANT
Chattanooga Telephone Company
dy to Reduce Rate*.
It has been announced in
nooga on good authority that
Tennessee Telephone company,
der to circumvent the new
now applying for fracchises
streets of the city, has made a
sition to the city council that
new company is denied a
will reduce rates on business
phones to $36 and private
to $18 per year.
SOUTHERN MULES
England Contract* With South
For 1,500.
A Charleston dispatch says;,
Carolina mules will probably 1
in tho South African war. Ge<
Douglas of Charleston has jui
given a contract by H. B. M.
Coetlogau to furnish 1,500 mul
delivered either in Charlesto
vannah. The work of securinf
number of mules at this seas^
year is not an easy task, as the. f
in the state is Bhort on mules,
COLLAPSE OF BIG BUi
Causes the Death of Three
Three Others Are fit!
ished Three and men threei are other®! knowmjJ
of missing six-story as the Sktijm. issaljJHf
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