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THE ASHBURN ADVANCE.
H. D. SMITH, EDITOR.
REV. DR. TAI.MAbL
THE NOTED DIVINE’S SUNDAY D »-
COURSE.
Subject: “The Triumph of Sndrics
Txx”-*-“Then went I no la the night by
the brook and viewed tho wall, and turned
back, and entered by the gite of the vdlby,
and so returned.”—Nohemiah ii., 15.
A dead city is more suggestive than a liv¬
ing city—past Rome than present Ro n-i—
ruins rather than newly frescoed cathedrtl.
But the best time to visit a ruin is by moon¬
light. The Coliseum is far more taacinatiig
to the traveler after sundown than befo’e.
You may stand by daylight amd the monis¬ stuly
tic ruins of Melrose abbey, and
shafted oriel an l rosetted stone and mil¬
lion, but they throw their strongest WitcV'rv
by moonlight. Soma of you remember went
the enchanter of S -o land said in the “lay
of the Last Miustr ■!:”
“Woiildst tlion view fair M Arose arigu.*-
Go visit it I y the pale moon ight.”
Washington Irving describes thoAnldu-
sian moonlight upon the Alhambra rtlns
as amounting to an enchantment. My tfxt
presents you Jerusalem ia ruins. The tov-r
down. The gates down. The walls dovn.
Everything down. Neliemluh on liorsebaik.
by moonlight looking upon tha ruins. Wills
he rides there are some friends on foot jo-
ing with him, for they do not want :he
many horses to disturb the suspicions of -he
people. These people do not know tha
secret of Nehemiah’s heart, but they are (o-
ing as a sort of bo lyguard. horse
I hear the clicking Hoofs of the on
which Nehemiah rides, as he gui les it this
way and that, into this gate aud out of bat,
winding through that gate amid the denis
■of once great Jerusalem. Now the horse
comes to dead halt at the tu able I masonry
Where he cannot pass. Now ha shies of? at
the charred timbers. Now he comes aong
Where ihe water under the moonlight fl;is!ies
from the mouth of the brazen dragon after
which the gate was named. Heavy headed
Nehemiah, riding in and out, now by life ol t
home desolated, now by the defaced temple,
mow amid the scars of the city that had gone
down under battering ram an 1 eon Bagration!
‘The escorting party knows not what NViu-
■minh means. Is he getting crazy? Have
his own personal sorrows, added to the sor¬
rows of the nation, unbalanced his intellect?
Btill the midnight exploration goes on. the
Nehemiah on horseback rides through
llsh gate, by the tower of the furnaces, by
the king's pool, by the dragon well, completed, in an !
•out. until tho mi (night ride is
and Nehemiah dismounts from his horse,
•and to the amazed and confounded and in -
■credulous bodyguard, declares the dead
secret of his heart when he says,
"Come, now, let us build Jerusa¬
lem.” "What, Nehemiah. have you
any money?" "No.” "Have you any
kingly authority?” "No.” "Have you:mv lnRht,
■eloquence?” "No.” Yet that m'
moonlight ride of Nehemiah resulted iu the
glorious rebuilding of the city of JerusaA’
The people knew not how the thing wasyL
lie done, but with great enthusiasm tfeT
■cried out. "Let us rise up now and build lie
•city.” Some people laughed and said'it
■could not be done. Some people wore saying ii-
furiate and offered physical violeuce,
the thing should not be done. But the work¬
men went right on, standing on tho wall,
trowel iu one hand, sword in completed.! the other,un-
til the work was gloriously At
that very time iu Greece, Xenophon was
writing a history, and Plato was mating
iphllo^ophy, Ihis and Demosthenes was ratting
rhetorical thunder. But all of them
ttogother did not do so much for the wnrld
ais this midnight, moonlight ride of pay¬
ing, courageous, homesick, close mouthed
Nehemiah.
My subject first impresses me with the ilea
xvhat au intense thing is church affectioj.
Seise the bridle of that horse aud stop,
Nehemiah. Why are you risking your life
here in the night? Your horse will stumiUi
over these ruins and fall on you. Stop tits
useless exposure of your life. No; Nehemmh
Will not stop. Heat last tells us the whole
story, lie lets us kuow ho was an exilo in a
far distant land, and lie was a servant, a pop
bearer in the palace of Artaxerxes Lonigmn
bus, an l one day, while he was handing t V-
cup of wine to the king, the king said jo
him: “What Is the matter with you? Tcfu
lire not sic-k. .1 kuow you must have soar-
gr at trouble. What is the matter with yon’”
Then he told the king how that belovud his
Jerusalem was broken down, how that
father’s tomb had been desecrated, hop
that tiie temple haft been dishonored anti
defaced, how that the walls were scat¬
tered and broken. “what “Well,” do says want?!’ Kini.-
"Well.” Artaxerxes, said the you Nohoiniali.
homo. cupbearer, tlx
“I want to go I want to up the
grave of my father. I want to restore tin
beauty of tho temple, t want to rebuild will■ tv-
masonry of the city wall. Besides, I
pa.sports so that I shall not be hindered :iu
my journey, and besides that,” us you wdl
find iu the context, “I want no. or ter on the
man who keeps your need forest for just so raudi
timber as I may for the rebuilding o
the city.” “How long shall you bo goat)?”
■said the king. The time of absence is ar¬
ranged. In hot haste this seeming adven¬
turer comes to Jerusalem, and in my text tv •
find him on horseback, in the miduight, ri -
ing aroun I the ruins. It is through tte
spectacles of this scene that we discover the
ardent attachment of Nehemiah for sitcred
Jerusalem, which in all ages has been tie
type of the church just of God. our Jerusalem, Neheraii
which we love as much as i
loved his Jerusalem. The fact is lhat y■ i
love the church of God so much that there q
no spot on earth so sacred un’ess it be you
own fireside. The church has been to yon : >
much comfort and illumination that there :
nothing that makes you so iiate as to hav
It talked against. been have
If ther have times when you
been carried into captivity by sickness, you
longed for the church, our holy Jerusalem,
just as much as Nehemiah longed for his
Jerusalem, and the first day you came out
you came to the house of the Lord. When
the temple was in ruins, like Nehemiah, von
walked around and looked at it, and in the
moonlight yon stodd listening if you could
not hear the voice of the dead organ, the
psalm of the expired Sabbaths. What Jeru¬
salem was to Nehemiah th" church of God is
to you. Skepiics and infidels may scoff at
the church as an obsolete affair, as a relic of
the dark ages, ns a convention of goody
good'- people, but all the impression they
have ever made on your mind against the
ohnrch of God is absolutely nothing. Y’ou
would make more sacrifices for it to-day that
ally other institution, and if it were ueedfu)
you would die in its defense. Y’. u can take
Ihe’Words of the kingly poet as he said, "If
% forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right
band forget her cunning.” You understand
in your own experience the pathos, the home-
sickBBes,'ho courage, the holy enthusiasm
of Nehemiah in his midnight ride axjund
Ihe ruins of his beloved Jerusalem.
Again, my text impresses me w th the fact
that, before reconstruction, there must be an
exploration of ruins. Why was not Nelie-
miah asleep under the covers? Why was not
his horse stabied in the midnight? Let the
police of the city arrest this mi night rider,
out on some mischief. No. Nehemiah ia
$oing to rebuild the city, and be is making
ASH BURN. WORTH CO., GA., FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 1897.
the preliminary exploration. Ia this Rato,
out that irate, east, west, north, south. All
through the ruins. The ruins must bees-
plored before the work of reconstruction can
begin.
The reason that so many people in this day
apparently do not stay converted is because
they diil not llrst explore the ruins of their
own heart. The reasou that thero are so
many professed Christians who in this day
lie uud forge and steal and commit nbomlnn-
tions and go to the penitentiary is because
they (Ire do not learn the ruin of their own
heart. They have not found out that "the
heart is deceitful above all things and des-
peni ely wicked.” They ha 1 an id a that
they were almost right, and they built roll-
elon as a sort of extension, as an ornamental
ejpola. Thero was a superstructure of reli-
Hon built The trouble on a substratum good of deal uurepontod of mod-
sins. with a
era theology is that instead of building on
the right foun tation it builds on the dehrls
of an unr-generated nature, They attempt
to rebuild Jerusalem lv*fore, in the midnight
of eouvi -tiou, they have seen the ghastliness
o til- ruin. Thev have such a poor founda-
tiou for their religion that the flrst northeast
storm of temptation h o.ys the n down. I
have no faith in a man’s conversion if hois
aot eonv.rtel in the old fashioned wav-
To’in Banyan’s wav, John Wesley’s way,
John Calvin’s way, Paul’s way,Christ’s way,
God’s way.
A man comes to mo to talk about religion.
The llrst (ju ’sttou I ask him Is, ’’Do you
feel yourself to be a sinner?” If he says.
•‘Weil, I —yes,” the hesitancy makes Nehomiah’s me feel
’hat the mail wants a ride on
horse by midnight through the ruins—in by
the gam of his affections, out by the gate of
his will—and before he has got through with
that midnight ri le he will drop the reins hand on
the horse’s nock an t will take his right
an I smite on his heirt au I sav, “Got, bo
nero'ful to me, a sinner,” .and before ho
das «ta -led his horse he will take his feet
cut of the stirrups, and he wilt slide down
m the ground, and ho will kneel cryiug;
‘‘Have mercy on me, O God. according to
I’hy loving kindness, according unto the
eultitu 1« of Thy tender mercies! Blot out
ny transgressions, for I acknowledge my
ransgresslons, and my sins are ever before
rhoe.’’-
Again, my subject gives me a specimen of
>usy a nd triumphant sadness. If there was
my man in the world who ha la right to
cope aud give up everything as lost, it was
lohomlah. You say, "He was a cupbearer
'u tho palace of Shushan, and it was a grau l
ilaoe.” So it was. The hall of that palace
was 2D0 feet square, and the roof hovered
iver thirty-six marble pillars, each pillar
txfy feet high, and the intense blue of the
sky'au 1 the deep green of the forest all foliage, hung
md the white o ; the driven snow,
‘rumbling in the upholstery. But, mv
"rion is, you know very well that fine arehi-
'ec’ur' will not put down homesickness.
Yet N diemiah did not give up. Then,
when you saw him going among
hose desolated streets and by these
lismantled towers and by the torn
up grave of his father, you" would suppose and
hat lie would have been disheartened
hat he would have dismounted from his
horse and gone to his room and sai l: “Woe
’s ill"! Mv father's grave is torn up. Tho
remple is dishonored. The walls are broken
town. I have no money with which to re-
mild. I wish I ha l never been born. I wish
r were clutd.” Not so says Nehemiah.
Although ho ha 1 a grief so hitonse that it
excimd tho commentnrv of his king, yet that
penniless, expatriate 1 Nehemiah rouses him¬
self up to rebuild the city. He gets his per¬
mission of absence. He gets his passports.
He hastens away to Jerusalem, By night
on horseback he rides through the ruins,
lie ovo-comes the most ferocious opposition. the
Hearousesthe piety and patriotism of
people, and in less than two months—
namely, ’ fifty-two days—Jerusalem triumph¬ was re¬
built. That’s what I call busy and
ant sadness.
My friends, tho whole temptation is with
•■•ou when you have trouble to do just the
ipposite to the behavior of Nehemiah, an 1
that is to give up. You say, “1 have lost my
child and can never smile again.” You say,
“I have lost my property, and I never can
•■•pair my fortune.” You say, “Ihave fallen
iniosin, nnd I never can make start again form for that a
new life.” If Satan ean you he has
resolution and mike you keep it,
ruined you. Trouble is not sent to crush
you, but to arouse you. to animate you, to
nrooel you. The blacksmith does not thrust
the iron into the forge and then blow away
with the bellows and tuon bring the
hot iron out on the anvil and beat with
stroke after stroke to ruin tho iron, hut
to prepare it for a bettor use. Oh,
that tho Lord God of Nehemiah would
rouse up all broken heartel people sh’nwreckod, to r >-
build! Whipped, betrayed, The Italian
imprisoned, Paul went right on. writing
martyr Algerius sits in his dungeon
a letter, and he dates it, “From the deb-tra¬
de orchard of the Leonine prisou.” That
is what I call triumphant sadness. I knew
a mother who buried her babe on Friday and
on Sabbath appeared in the house of God
and said: “Give me a class; give me a Knb-
bath-school class. I have no ch’ld now left
-no. and I would like to havo a class of litile
children. Give me real poor children.
Give me a class off the back street.” That I
say is beautiful. That is triumphant sadness.
At 3 o’clock every Sabbath afternoon, for
years, in a beautiful parlor in Philadelphia—
a parlor pictured and slat netted—there were
from ten to twenty destitute children of the
street. Those destitute children received
religious instruction, concluding with cakes
and sandwiches. How do I know that that
was going on for sixteen years? .1 know it
in this way: That w:is tbe first home in Phil¬
adelphia where I was called to comfort, a
great sorrow. They had a splendid boy, and
be ha l been drowned at Long Branch. The
father and mother almost idolized the boy,
aud the sob and shriek of that father nnd
mother as they hung over the coffin resound
in my ears to-day. There seemed to be no
use of prating, for when I knelt down to
pray the outcry in the room drowned out al
the prayer. But the Lord comforted
that sorrow. They did not forgot their
trouble. If you should go any afternoon in¬
to Laurel Hill, you would find a monument
with the word “Walter” inscribed upon if
and a wreath of fresh flowers around the
name. X think there w r as not an tiour in
twenty Yoar.-i. winter or summer, when there
was not a wreath of fresh flowers around
Walter’s name. But the Christian mother
who sent those flowers there, having no child
left. Sabbath afternoons mothered tea or
twenty of tho lost ones of the street, it’hat
is beautiful. That is what I call busy ami
triumphant sadness. Here is a man who
has lost his property. He-does not go to
hard drinking. He does not destroy bis own
life. He comes and says: “Harness me for
Christian work. My money’s gone. I hav
no treasures on earth. I want treasures in
heaven. I have a voice and a heart to serv
■God." You say that that man has failed.
He has not faded—he lias triumphed!
Oh, I wish I could persuade trouble all the people givi-
who have any kind of never to
up. I wish they would look at the midnight
rider of the text and that tbe four hoofs o
that beast on which Nehemiah rode rnighi
cut to pieces all their discouragements an'
hardships and trials. Give up! Who God is go¬
ing to give no when ou too bosom of he
ctn have all his troubles hushed? Give up!
Never think of giving up. Are you borne
down With poverty? dead A littie hand child in was found dark¬
holding her mother’s the
ness oi a tenement houv, and some one com¬
ing ia the little girl looked up while holding
her dead mothoi’.i haul, nnd said. “Qn, T
do wish that God had made more light for
poor folks." My dear, God will be your
light, God will be your shelter, Go 1 will tie
your home. Are you borne down with
the bereavements of life? Is the
house lonely now that the child ts
gone? Do not give up. Think of what tho
old sexton said when the minister asked him
why he put so much oare on the little graves
in the oemetery—so much more onre than on
the larger graves—and the old sexton said,
"Sir, you know that 'of such is the king tom
of heaven,’ and I think the Saviour ia
pleased when he sees so Pinch white c over
growing around these little graves. ” Hut
when the minister pressed the old ' "xton
for a more satisfactory anew t the ol i sex-
ton said, •‘•Sir, about those larger graves, I
don’t know who are the Lord’s saints and
who are not hut you s!r it I c ean
d.ffaren with the bairns i V*
]»»■» that that coma;•fromithe keen, tender loss Ind of JTibtMs a cl sorrow do not
n ." ws'll , ' 1 ?- with .E,’",, the 0 ' , >alrt> s ," ft ' u < r y ’
. ,
sirmord, If Y°u have shine l «rl y. >
s nned until you have heeneast out by t le
church, smned until you have heen itast out
bysoaety ™y be tn -do this notguo house one up. that ['.''V, end truth- . 1 .
fully utter the lamentation or another:
Ouoe I was pure as the snow, but L fell —
Foil like n snowflake, from heaven to hell—
Fell to be trampled as filth in the street
Fell to be scoffed at, spit on and heat,
Praying, cursing, wishing to die,
Selling my sou! to whoever would buy.
Dealing in shamo for a morsel of brea 1,
Hating the living and fearing the dead,
Do not give up! Ouo like unto tho Son of
Go I comes to you to-d(jy, saying. "Go an 1
sin no more,” while he cries out to your as¬
sailants, “Let him that is without sin
cast the first stone at her.” Oh, there
is no reason why any one in this
house by reason of any trouble or
sin should give up. Are you a lorelgner
aud in a strange land? N hmntah was an
exile. Are you penniless? Nehemiah was
poor. Are you homesick? Nehemiah was
homesick. Are you broken hearted? Noho-
miali was broken hearted. But just see him
in the text, riding along the sayriiogod grave
of his father, and by tho dragon welt, and
through the llsh gate, and by the king’s
pool, in and out, in and out, the moonlight
falling on the broken masonry, which
throws a long shadow, at which the horse
shies, and nt the same time that moonlight
kindling up the features of this man till you
ve not only the mark of sad rotnlnls.mnce,
but the courage and hope, the enthusiasm
of a man who knows that Jerusalen will bo
robuilded. I pick you up to-day out of your
sins and out of your sorrow, and I put you
against the warm heart of Christ. "The
eternal Gol is thy refuge, and underneath
are the everlasting arms.”
A Remarkable 0’oration.
A remarkable operation has been per¬
formed in a New York hospital which
demonstrates that a depression in the
skull can be cured, which has always
heretofore been considered impossible
Edward Haicke, a circus performer
whose specialty was lifting heavy
weights, began to have epileptic tit:
about a year ago, and surgeons who ex
amined him found that a depression
had been caused in his skull. An in¬
cision was made and a section of h ;
skull sawed out, and the brain, whicl
had grown fast to the bone, was cut
away. A gold plate was then use
to line the remaining section to pre”cr '
the brain again knitting to it, : nd th*
piece replaced. T his worked for av/nile
but recently TIaicke had another fit
The surgeon removed the trap door it
his skull and found that the pressun
of the brain had broken the gold plate
•nd the brain had again become kn:tte>
,o the skull. As a final effort the gob
olate was removed and a thin sheet r
•elluloid, especially prepared for th<
uirpose, was substitiit.’l. Then th?
rap door was closed and the seal;
ewed up. Although this was near!;
bree weeks ago, there lias been m
rouble since, and the physicians an
confident that the celluloid will neve
■rack nor break, and that the operatioi
will prove a successful one. It is the
first time such an operation has eve
been performed, and it has attracted
much attention.—Detroit Free Press.
Death By a Mask.
Death has come to a happy home at
Muncy, Penn., just because a little
eight-year-old girl, Margaret Colley,
had a new mask hideous in the ex¬
treme, and was crazy to use it. She
frightened the children with it. They
screamed and ran away, and Margaret
jumped with delight.
“Boo!” she shrieked, dancing into
the home of William Priest, where he
and his young wife were romping with
their first born, their little two-year-old
baby boy, Walter.
The joke was a huge success. Wal¬
ter screamed. Mr. and Mrs. Priest
looked up. There was little Margaret
dancing in her false face. Walter sank
into his mother’s arms, hiding his face
and convulsed with fear. In another
minute he was in convulsionsand froth¬
ing at the mouth.
Little Margaret tore off her mask
and tried to caress and reassure the
little one. She failed utterly; Two
physicians were summoned.
All night long little Walter shrieked
in his delirium. Next morning he was
too weak to do anything but lie in his
tiny crib and sob convulsively. At
noon the baby died.—New York World.
NOTHING TO DO HUT I.OOK.
Old Lady—Boorman! How did you
lose the sight of your eye?
\\ eary Haggles—Lookin’ for work,
mem!
the proper thing.
Bellboy —Four hundred and four says
tbe steam pipes have burst in his room.
Clerk—Charge him for a Russian hath.
Louifffana claims to have the larg.-<*
farm in t'he worOd; it is one 'hundred
mi es lone 7>v twenty-five in”<*-- te—-t
Florida Diarrbsea cure ia guaranteed
to cure, or your money will be refund¬
ed. Sold by all druggist.
many towns in Mississippi vai*
LEY OVERFLOWED.
PEOPLE FLEEING FOR THEIR LIVES.
Latest Reports Show That tile Sit nut loll in
Flooded Districts is Rapidly
Growing Worse.
A special* of Thursday from Jackson,
Miss., states that thero is nothin;*
encouraging in the situation along the
river front, but the unbridled waters
are rusliiup along on their march to
the sea, and the people of tho greatest
cotton producing valley in the world
are fleeing for their lives.
Several refugees have arrived in
Jackson and report that the half has
not been told; but no pen can describe
the desolation, tho devastation and
ruin that is being visited upon the
planters in tho counties of Bolivar,
Washington, Sharkey, Issaquena and
Ten thousand people are now home¬
less in the Hooded districts. Three
hundred towns aud cities are submerg¬
ed and desolation reigns all over tho
valley. Railroad*
traffic has not been so de¬
moralized Jill the winter as it is at
present and the situation does not im¬
prove. The officials of the Iron Moun¬
tain road nave completely lost all track
of their trains between Greenville,
Miss., and Texarkana.
The city of Jackson is now an island,
situated in a wilderness of water,which
surrounds it on every side. As yet
the water is not in sight of the town,
but is at the Blanton gin, half a mile
north, and at the Montgomery place
two miles south. Black bayou, Wil¬
liam's hafrou, Deer creek and Fish
lake are all out of their banks.
A special from New Orleans says:
Up to the present time, as far as known
the line of Louisiana levees is intact,
but the strain against them is such
that a break at any moment is feared,
at almost uny point. Vigilance is the
price of safety and the constant watch
for weajc places has been the means of
avertiz*fktveral crevasses at dangerous
points. Family Drowned.
Whole
A special from Eddyville, Ky., says;
News has been received here of the
drowning in the Cumberland river
Wednesday night of William Flick and
his family of three. According to the
report, Flick was trying to move his
family of wife and two little cbildeen
from his flooded house on the Cumber-
land. The skiff overturned and in the
darkness all were drowned. The cur-
rent there is very swift and no small
boat could live in it.
THIS IS NO JOKE.
Girl. Wlio Observed “All Fools* Day’’
DiHiriiKHrid From College.
Eighteen of the young ladies who
attend the Lucy Cobb institute at
Athens, Ga., slipped out of the insti¬
tute grounds on “All Fools’ Day”
and began at once to enjoy tho novelty
of breaking in on the usual quiet of the
dignified and classic town.
They were in a careless, reckless,
sclioolgirlisl) mood, and they let their
mood lead them where it would. Some
had their hats on and some were bare¬
headed. All of them were bent on
having a good time, and while on the
business streets indulged in calling
out aud talking, and otherwise enjoy¬
ing themselves to their hearts’ content.
The young ladies who took part in
the joke violated the rules of the Lucy
Cobb institute and by so doing were
dismissed from the college and Rent
home. Ihey are very Horry of the re-
suit of their piece of fun.
TENNESSEE CENTENNIAL RATES.
Passenger Agents Meet in Nashville ami
Consider the Matter.
The Southern State Passenger asso¬
ciation met at Nashville to consider
rates to Centennial. The meeting was
spent in business, and a committee
was named to agree upon a basis.
The committee made their report,
in which the same basis of rates was
adopted as that of Atlanta during the
exposition, the only exception being
tlie limitation of time. The tickets
will be good for seven days, against
five days at Atlanta. Stopover privi-
leges will be granted at Chattanooga
for special parties.
WHOLE SETTLEMENT DESTROYED.
Additional Devastation of Oklahoma
Cyclone Reported.
The details of the Chandler, Okla.,
cyclone continue to come in and every
fresh bit of news furnishes further ev¬
idence of the awful fury of the storm.
A messenger who arrived at Guthrie
from the country southwest of Chand¬
ler reports that many farm houses
were demolished there; that two per¬
sons were killed and a number of
others badly injured.
It is reported that the little settle¬
ment known as Parkland was com-
pletely destroyed and that several
persons were injured there.
AID row Pool! IN INDIA.
Joint Resolution 1'umivh in Semite for
Their Belief.
Immediately after the journal of the
somite wan read at Thursday's session,
die tariff bill was received from tho
house and was referred to the com. nit-
loo on lihaiice.
Mr. Hale, republican, of Maine,
from tho committee on naval affairs,
reported a joint resolution authorizing
the secretary of the navy to transport
contributions for the relief of the suf¬
fering poor in India ami asked its
immediate consideration. The joint
resolution was read.
The preamble recites the existence
of a famine in India, ohm:, ing thous¬
ands of deaths, and the fact thai ;*;» n-
erous people in various states of tho
union have contributed wheat, flour
amt corn for the relief of the poor in
India and the joint resolution author¬
izes the secretary of the navy to place
at the disposes of the eol!e< tor of tho
port of Now York any ship or vessel
belonging to the navy that may be best
for snob service for the pur; IOHO of
transporting to the famishing poor of
India such contributions.
It appropriates the amount of money
Mr. Stewart, populist, of Nevada,
while favoring the joint resolution, de¬
clared that the evils caused by the
famine in India were trilling compared
with the evils caused by legislation in
destroying the value of silver.
The savings of the people of India
were in silver; and, therefore, they
could not meet the present emergency.
Mr. Morgan said that he was very
much impressed with the excellence of
the thought embodied in the joint rea-
lution. And he hoped that the senator
from Maine would not object if in the
course of a few days he (Mr. Morgan)
should find occasion to offer a similar
resolution for the purpose of taking
supplies to the island of Cuba to feed
“those poor miserable Americans pen¬
ned up in the villages and towns there
by command of Geue”al Weyler
aud exposed to starvation in or-
dej' to subdue their spirit and
make them loyal to Spain.”
He hoped also that if a resolution
was offered to relievo tho people of
Crete in the same way, by disregard¬
ing tlm blockade which Great Britain
and the powers were now enforcing to
starve the Cretans to death unless they
submitted to tyranical outrage, the
senator from Maine would support it.
“I will he very glad to meet those
gentlemen when they come naturally
before us,” said Mr. Hale. “This gilt
of the Amerioon people is not compli¬
cated with any politics or any political
conditi ns of the people to whom the
gift is sent. They are suffering untold
woes, and every little thing, or great
thing, that we can do to alleviate those
sufferings, every senator will, 1 am
sure, be willing to do.”
The joint resolution was then passed,
Mr. Allen, populist, of Nebraska,of¬
fered a resolution reciting the report
that the Cuban general, Rivera, is to
be tried by drumhead eourtmai tial and
shot, and in declaring that “in the
judgment of tho dentate it is the duty
of the United States government to
protest to the Spanish government
against such a violation of the rules of
civilized warfare’”
WHITE GOES TO GERMANY.
A Number of Important. MomlmitloiiH by
President. McKinley,
The president, Thursday, sent to
the senate the following nominations:
Andrew D. White, of New York, to he
ambassador extraordinary and pleni¬
potentiary of the United Stales to
Germany; William F. Draper, of Mas¬
sachusetts, to lie ambassador extraor¬
dinary and minister plenipotentiary of
the United States to Italy; Chandler
JIaU f Maine, to be secretary of the
BfU , m8Ky of tbe Unite d States at Rome,
j
Samuel L. Gracey, of Massachusetts,
consul of the United States at Fu
Chu, China; Anson Burlingame John-
non of Colorado, consul of the United
States at Amoy, China.
Oliver L. Spaulding, of Michigan,
to Vie assistant secretary of the treas¬
ury, William R. Howell, of New
Jersey, to be assistant secretary of the
treasury. is known chiefly
Andrew D. White
as an educator and contributed over
Come .
$100,000 to the equipment . of
university and endowed in that iusti-
tntion the new school of history and
political science, He has written a
number of works on historical and
political subjects. He was a member
of the famous Venezuelan commission
BIG SALE OF LUMBER.
A Michigan Company Dlipose* of Eighteen
Million Feet.
The largest lumber sale of the sea-
son bas just been closed at Menomi-
nee Mich. The Northern Supply corn-
pany, an auxiliary to the Wisconsin
and Michigan Railroad company, has
sold 18,000,000 feet of logs to the Kirk
Christy Lumber company, of Cleve¬
land, O.
The lumber is to be manufactured at
the mill of the first named company, at
Fisher.
The sale includes all the lumber in
j « to <* , at I )re8€nt . and the farst of the
year 8 cu ’
.
VOL. V. NO. 35.
sAMLvm school
INTKltNAT.'ON AD LESSON FOB
A1*HID It.
Lesson Text: “fionverslon of Coma-
f us,” Aota \-., 30 tt—(lotduo
Text: Vets x.. -I 5—Com¬
mentary.
!10. Pe’er an 1 -it men from Joppa ('chapter
xi., 12) have arrived at the house of Corne¬
lius, tho It > i un centurion in (’tesuren. Co--
n lius was a just and God f-ariug man, much
given to prayer and goo deeds nnd beloved
by all the Jews of til" city (verses 1, 2, 22),
yd not a saved m n fchapter xl.. 14 . But
God stuv Ills earnest de- ro. an l In tho way
here re orde i brought Simon Peter to biin
as lie had before brought Philip to the
euutpdi. Cornel us, with his kinsmen and
friends, welcome I Hun on Peter and tho
bretonm, and Peter, u ving oxolninod why
lie, a Jew, had Come to uueircumcised
gentiles, ask' for what Intent they had sent
lor him, uud Cornelius here begins his story.
31 ” Y man in origin clothing" is his
description him. of the angel who angel came to tho son
Tito uppe nance of tho at
sepulcher Was like lightning, au I his rai¬
ment wli to as >now (Math, xxvili,, 8). Soma
day, we too. shall satuo its the sun (Math, “Thy
xii'., 43). The angel’s message was,
prayer is heard and thine alms are had lu
rememhr r.ee in tl ■ sight of God.”
32. Heaven is interested in Simon Peter
also and knows just whore to tlnd hun and
how to make him willing to take this jour¬ "all
ney and do this wotk. Consider the
things working together” in tuts record—tha
Imu gry may, the delayed dinner, the trance,
ihe vision, the visitors, and everything just
at the right t ine. Be not afraid to behove
that heaven is interested in you, and have
laith iu God.
33. Immediately the centurion seat to
Joppa. Peter did well to come, and now
they are ready to hear the message from tho
(toil of heaven. They were assembled before
God to hoar the message from God through
Peter. They wanted none of Peter’s thoughts
or wisdom or eloquence, but only what God
had commanded him to speak. The Lord
Jesus Himself only spoke want the Father
commanded Him (John xli., 42), all and possible every
messenger of the Lord may take
comfort from Ex. iv., 12; Jer. i., (I !), etc.
34. "Of a truth I perceive that God is no
respecter of persons." took Thus pains Peter teach began him his
message. God great to
this (verses 11-1(1), and he never forgot it,
but long afterward referred to it In I Pet. i,
17. Bee also Pam’s reference to the same in
ltom. ii, 11. If necessary, God will give a
vision or sen t an angel to instruct us, Irat
b esse.i are the simple and tcachabl i. who,
like Mary, sit at Jesus’ feet and hear His
31)>.
35. "Hut in every nation he that fenreth
Hun mi i worketti righteousness is accepted
with Him.” Tins does not conflict with
chapter iv, 12. and the great truth that thero
is none other Saviour b sides Jesus Christ,
but wherever any one, Jew or gentile, earn¬
estly seeks li ter God, lie will regard them
and so reveal Himself to them that tney may
be saved. To conclude front this verse that
if we do the best w« kuow how we are safe
would be a perversion of Scripture, for by
the deeds of the law (and the law is holy)
no flesh om lie justified (ltom. by Jesus Ill, 20-24). Christ.”
80. "Preaenlng peace
Vaue nigh by ihe blood of Christ, for Ho is
our peace, having ma le peace through tho
blood of Ills cross, The work Of righteous-
mss shall be pea -e, un i the effect of right¬
eousness, quietness and assurance forever.
Th rel'ore, oetng jus ifind by faith, we have
peace with God through our Lord Jesus
Christ (ICpIl. it, 13, 14: Col. t, 20; l a. xx.xii.
17; ltom. v, 1). I liat which every soul needs
is pence, peace with God, and it cannot bo
lo.md iij art from Jesus Christ.
37. ‘’That word, 1 say, ye know which was
pu dish'd tliiougiiout alt Judm i." They had
heard of Jesus, they knew something of tho
way, i ut they needed clearer light. They
evidently knew something of the deeds of
Ihe diw.of prayer, ol almsgiving, of toe one
living aud true God and tile righteousness
which lie require i, but tlmy know not tho
way to get it. They were ignorant of God's
righteousness (Horn, x, 3). righteous and
33. Jesus of Na/.areta was
diil righteousness. He was God manifest in
the flesh and set foith before raon perfectly of
the rig deousness which God required
in.in. He never pleased Himself nor lived
auto Himself; Imt, being tilled wi h tho
Spirit, went about s t wing men by word
■ md deed the love nnd goodness of God.
He revealed God to inuo; Ho gloriiled
God. His
81 . peter was whh Him during all
public hie aud saw His acts and heard His
nor h and ns au eyewitness could test fy
nmt j[e was whin He piofijsse l to be, the
Son of 0 od. ih" M<‘s-ifah oi Israel, the
saviour of muuuro. Me s'w H m cleanse
the lop r, seal the sick, raise the dead and
mud the penitent sinner away w.th tli ■as¬
surance of ail sins forgiven. He ulso saw
Him (minified on Calvary. third day and
43. "Hiin God raised up 'he
shewed Him opemy.” and death All uud Scripture resurrection con-
■■ Tiling Itib lile
■ud been fulfilled, and that to ihe very
hater, an , as He in His lifetime iiad re¬
peatedly foretold, He rose from ihe dead on
he third day, taking out of the tomb the
very same body friat was put in the tomb,
naviug the unmistakable evidences of tho
nails tlirough His hands and feet and the
pear thrust into Hi# side.
■II. “Not to all the people, but unto wit¬
nesses chosen before of God.” Unbeliever#
have not seen Jesus since He was crucified,
ut ss muuy a- 5 0 of the disclp.es saw Him
at once after His resurrection(i Cor. xv., 6),
ur i He appeared not less than ten different
times, and Ho actuaTy ate with them, as
Peter says (Luke xxlv.. 41). God
42. “It Is He which was ordained of
to be the judge o quick and dead.” He will
ju ige His redeemed at His own judgment nd
seat (Rom. xiv., 10; II Cor. v., 10). Ho
His redeemed will judge the nntlons when
He shall come in glory, bringing His saints
with Him (Math, xxv., 31,32; I Cor. vi.. 2;
Col. iii 4), and then at the end of the thou¬
, the great white throne, He
sand years, at took part in
will judge the uugo ily who no
tiio first resurrection. prophets witness
43. “To Him give all the
that through Iiis name whoever relievedh in
Him shall receive remission of sins.” See
Isa. i., 18; xliii.,25; xlv., 22; Jer. iii., 14;
xxxi.,34; Mic. vli., 19; Ps. xxxii., 1, 2: cui.,
12 as some of the places where the prophets
testify that through Him is tho forgiveness
of sins as a fr. e gift without any works or
merit ou our part. spake these words
44. “While Peter yet lieurd
tho Holy Ghost fell on all them wmch
the word.” And thus on uncircumcised gen¬
tiles God wrought as He had done at Pente¬
cost on circumcise. Jews, and they were
there and then baptized (verses 45, 48.)—
Lesion Helper.
A NEW JOrn.N'AMSTlO CHHOJiK.
He (furiously)—It’s an outrage for that
paper to publish such statements about
111 !’
:?he ■ weeping) —And such a picture of
you! Oh, Henry! Such a picture of you!