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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!