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TliriitTHn DIVINE'S SUNDAY DU»-
COUKNK.
Subject: “Pray for Those In Author¬
ity."
Text: "I exhort, therefore, that, first of
all, supplications, prayers, Intercessions and
giving of thanks be made for all men. for
kings and for all that are in authority.”—I
Timothy, 11., 1.
That which Loudon is to Euglnnd, Paris to
France, Berlin to Germany, Rome to Italy,
Vienna to Austria, St. Petersburg to Russia,
Washington is to Mm United States republic.
The people who live hero see more of tho
chief men of the Nation than any who live
uuywhere else between Atlantic and Pacific
oceans. If a Senator or Member of the
House of Representatives or Supreme Court
Justice of Secretary of tho Cabinet or repre¬
sentative ot Foreign Nation enters a public
assembly in any other city, his coming and
going are remarked upon, and unusual de¬
ference is paid to him. In this capital there
are so many political chieftains in our
churches, our streets, our halts, that tltelr
coming and going make no excitement.
The Swiss seldom look ap to tlm Matter¬
horn or Jungfrau or Mont Blanc, because
those people arc used to the Alps. walk So wo at
this capital are so accustomed to among
mountains of official and political eminence novelty.
that they are not to us n great
Morning, noon and night we meet the giants.
But there is no place on earth where the
importance of the Pauline injunction to
prav for those in eminent place ought to
he better appreciated. At this time, when
ov.r public men have before them appalling the rescue
of our National Treasury from de¬
ficits, mid the Cuban question, and tho arbi¬
tration question, and in many departments
men are taking impv lut positions which
are to them new and untried, I would like to
quote my text with a whole touuago of em¬
phasis—words written by tho scarred mis¬
sionary to the young theologian Timothy.
“I exhort, therefore, that, first of all, sup¬
plications, prayers, intercessions and giving
of thanks be made for all men, for kings and
for all that are in authority.”
If I have the time and do not forget somo
of them before I get through, I will give you
four or five reasons why the people of the
United States ought to make earnest and
continuous prayor for those in eminent place.
First, because that will put us in proper
attitude toward the successful men of the
Nation. After you have prayed for a man
you will do him jnstice. There is a bad
streak in human nature that demands us to
assail those that are more successful than
ourselves. It shows Itself in boyhood, when
thelads, all running to get thoir rido on the
back of a carriage, and ono gets on, tboso
fa ' ng to get on shout oil the driver, "Out
I hind!" Unsuccessful men soldom like
those who in any department nro successful.
The cry Is, “He is a political accident,” or,
“Ho bought liis way up,” or, “It just hap¬
pened so,” and there is an impatient waiting
for him to come down more rapidly than he
Tho best cure for such cynicism is prayor.
Aft',- wo have risen from our knees wo will
bo wishing the official good instead of evil.
We will be hoping for him benediction
than malediction. If he makes a misiake,
wo will call it a mistake instead of
sance in office. And, oh, how much hap¬
pier we will bo. for wishing ono evil is dia¬
bolic, but wishing ono godlike! good When is saint¬ the
ly, is angelic, is
Lord drops a man into depths beyond which
there is no lower depth, he allows him to be
put on an investigating committee with the
or hope of finding something wrong. In
eral assemblies of the Presbyterian
/jtircli, church, in in conventions conferences of of the tho Methodist Episcopal
church, in House of Representatives fand
Senate of the United States, there are men
always glad to be appointed on tho commit¬
tee of malodors, while thorn are those who
are glad to tie put on the committee of
eulogiunis. After you have prayed, In tho
words of my text, for all that are in author¬
ity, you will say, “Brethren, gentlemen, Mr.
Chairman, excuse mo from serving on the
eommitteo of malodors, for last night, just
before I prayed for those in eminent posi¬
tions, I read that chapter in Corinthians
about ehurtty which ‘hopotli all things’ and
‘thinketh no evil.’" The committee of mal¬
odors is an important committee, but I hero
now declare that those are important for its
work who have, not in spirit of convention-
alty, but in spirit of ournest importunity,
prayed for those in high position. Bernard I cannot better
help it, but I do like a 8t.
than a bloodhound, and I would rather be a
humming bird among honeysuckles than a
crow swooping upon field carcasses.
Another reason why we should pray for
those in eminent place is because they huvo
sucb multiplied perplexities. This city at
this time holds hundreds of men who are
expectant of preferment, and United States
mail bags ns never before are full of ap¬
plications. Lot mo say I have no sympathy
with either the uttered seekers." or printed sneer If I had at
what aro called "office
not alreadj’ received appointment the high as court minis¬ of
ter plenipotcntuirv from of the gospel has
heaven—as every minister
—and I had at my back a family tor whom 1
wished to achieve a livelihood, would there is no
employer whose service I sooner seek
than city, State or United States Govern¬
ment. Those Governments are the promptest
in their payments, paving just as well in
bard times as in good times and during sum¬
mer vacation as during winter work. Bo-
sides that, many of us have been paying
taxes to city and State and Nation for years,
and while we are indebted for the protection
of Government the Government is indebted
to us for the honest support we have
rendered it. Ho I wish successto all earnest
and competent men who appeal to city or
Stale or Nation for a place to work.
But how many men in high place in
city and State and Nation are at their
wits’ end to know what to do, when for
somo places there are ten applicants and for
others a hundred. Perplexities petitions arise without from
the fact that citizens sign
reference to tho qualifications of the appli¬
cant for the places applied applicant for. You is sign
the application because the your
friend. People sometlJbes want that for
which they have “I no qualification, angel” as wo when hear
people sing want to bo an
they offer the poorest material possible for
angelhood. Boors waiting to be sont to
for' Ign palaces as embassadors, and men
without be any business qualification and illiterates, wanting
to consuls to foreign ports,
cnpable in one letter of wrecking all the laws
of orthography and syntax, desiring to be
put into positions where most of the work is
done by correspondence. If divine help is
needed in any place in the world, it is in
those places where patronage is distributed.
In years gone by awful mistakes have been
made. Only God, who made the world out
of ebaos. could out of the crowded pigeon¬
holes of public men develop symmetrical re¬
sults. For this reason pray Almighty God
for all those in authority.
Again, prayer to God for those in authority
Is our only way of being of any practical
service to them. Our personal advice would
be to them, for the most part, an impertin-
ence. They have all the facts as we cannot
have them, and they see the subject in all Its
bearings, and we can be of no help that to them
except through the supplication our
taxi advises. In that way wo may bo infinite
re-enforcement. Tho migbtest thing you
can do for a man Is to pray for him. it tho
old Bible be true—and it it is not true it lias
been the only Imposition that ever blessed
the world, turning barbarism Into civiliza¬
tion and tyrannies into republics—I say, if
the old Bible bo true, God answers prayer.
Yon may inek get a letter and through forgetful¬
ness or of time not answer it, but God
never gets a genu (no letter that he does not
child’s make reply. letter Every genuine prayer is a
to his Heavenly Father, and he
will answer It, and though you may get many
letters from your child before you respond
some day you say. “There! I have leocivcd
ten letters from my daughter, and I will an¬
swer them all now and at once, aud thougU
not in just the way that she hopes for I will
doit in the best way, and though she asked
me for a sheet or music 1 will not give it to
her. for I do like the music spoken of, hut I
will send her a deed to a house and lot, to
bo hers forever.” tto God does not in all
eases answer In the way those who sent the
wlmf prayer hoped asked for, but He In all eases gives
Is for or something bettor. So
prayers went up from the North and the
South at the time of our Civil War, and they
were nil answered at Gettysburg. You can¬
not make me believe that God answered
only the Northern prayers, for there were
just as devout prayers answered south of
Mason and Dixon's line as north of it. and
God gave what was asked for, or something
as much more valuable as a house and lot
are worth more than a sheet of music. There
is not n good an intelligent man between the
Gulf ot Mexico and the St. Lawrence River
who does not believe that God did the bos'
thing possible when He stood this Nation
down in 1865 a glorious unity, never to bo
rent until the waters of the Ohio aud the Sa¬
vannah, the Hudson and the Alabama, are
licked up by the long, red tongues of it world
on lire. Yen, Ood sometimes answers pray¬
ers on a large scale.
In worse predicament nation never was
than the Israeliiish nation on the batiks of
the Bod Sea, the rattling shields and the
clattering hoofs of an overwhelming host
close after them. An army could just ns
easily York wade through tho Atlantic Ocean from
New to Liverpool ns the Israelites
could have waded through tho Red Sea. You
need to sail on Us water to realize how big
tt is. How was the crossing effected? By
fraver. Exodus xlv.. 15: “Aud the Lord
said unto Moses; Wherefore crlest thou
unto Me? Speak unto tho children of Israel,
that they go forward”—that is, ".Stop pray¬
ing and take the answer." And then the
water began to be agitated and swung tills
way and that way, and tho ripple becamo a
tallow, and the billow climbed other billows,
and now they rise into walls of sapphire, mi l
Invisible trowels mason t'.em Into firmness,
and the walls become like mountains, topped
and (arreted and domed with crags of crys¬
tal, aud God throws an Invisible chain
around the feet of those mountains, so that
they are obliged to stnnd still, and there,
right before the Israolltish army, is a turn 1
pike road, with nil the emerald gates swung
wide open. The passing host did not even
get tlni’r fe-t wet. They passed drysho.l,
the bottom or tho sea as hard as tlm pave¬
ment of Pennsylvania avenue to Now York’s
Broadway or London’s Strand. Oh, wlmt a
God they had! Or 1 think I will change that
aud say, "Wlmt a God wo have 1 "
What power puis It hands upon astron¬
omy in Joshua’s time and made the sun an t
moon standstill? Joshua x., 12, “Thou spoke
Joshua unto the Lord." Prayer? As a giant
will taketwo or four great globes, an I In n<-
tounding way swing them Mils way or that,
or hold two of them at arm’s longih, so the
Omnipotent does as He will with constellations the great
orbs of worlds, with wheeling
and circling galaxies, swinging easily Star
around star, star tossed after star, or sun
anil moon held out at arm’s length and per¬
fectly still, as in answer to Joshua’s prayer.
To God the largest world is a pebble.
Another reason why we should obey the
Pauline injunction of the text and pray for
all thut are in authority is that so very
much of our own their prosperity and happiness
aro Involved In doings. A selfish rea¬
son, yen say. Yes, but a righteous selfish
ness, like that which leads you to take care
of your own health and preserve you
own lire. Prosperous government means a
prosperous people. Damaged government
means a damaged people. Wo all go up
together, or wo all go down together.
When we pray for our rulers, we easier pray for
ourselves, for our homes, for the gain¬
ing of a livelihood, for better prospects for
our children, for the hurling of these hard
times so far down the embankment they can
never climb up again. Do not look at any¬
thing that pertains to' pubito interest as hav¬
ing no relation to yourself. We are touched
hy all the events in our national hlslory, by
the signing of the compact in the cabin of
the Mayflower, by the small ship, the Halt
Moon, sailing up the Hudson; by the treaty
of William l’enn, by the hand that made the
“Liberty bell” sound Its first stroke, by Old
Ironsides plowing the high seas, and. If
touched by all tho events of past America,cer¬
tainly hy nil tho events of the present day.
Every prayer you make for our rulers, if the
prayer be of tho right stamp and worth any¬
thing, has a rebound of benediction for your
own body, rnind and soul. obedience text
Another reason for to my
is that the prosperity of this country Is com¬
ing, and we want a hand in helping on Its
coming. At any rate I do. ft Is a matter of
honest satisfaction to a soldier, after some
great battle has been fought and some great
victory won, to be able to say: "Yes, I was
there. I was in the brigade that stormed
those heights. I was in that bayonet charge
that put the enemy to flight.” Well.the day
will come when all tho financial, political
and moral foes of this republic will prosperities be driven
back and driven down by tho
that aro now on their way, but which come
with slow tread and in “fatigue dress” when
we want them to take “the double quick,’
By our prayers we may stand on the moun¬
tain top and beckonthem on and show them
a shorter cut. Yea, in answer to our pray¬
ers the Lord God ol Hosts may from the high
hoaveus command them forward, rwider
than mounted troops ever took tho field at
Eylau or Austerlitz.
In 1872 Holland was assailed. ships Her people
prayed mightily. The of her enemies
waited for the'high tides on which to come
in. In answer to the prayers offered the
tide, as nevor before, was detained twelve
hours, and before that twelve hours had
passed a hurricane swooped upon the
enemies’ ships and destroyed them, and
Holland was saved. If God delaine i the
high tide in answer to prayer, will He not
hasten it in answer to prayor? Hurelyit
has been low tide long enough. May the
Lord hasten the high tide of nationnl wel¬
fare. American citizens, our best hold Ison
God. We have all seen families In prayer
and church*. in prayer. Wlmt we want
yet to sen is tills whole Nation on its knees.
The most of them are dead—those who in
1851 moved in that procession of Washington that marched down
from the city hall
Louisiana avenue to Seventh street and then
through Pennsylvania avenue to the north
gate of yonder Capitol of to Cauitol. lay the cornerslone The presi¬
of the extension that
dent who that day presided and dedication solemnly
struck that stone three times in
long ago quit earthly scenes, and tho Ups of
the great orator of that hour are dust, and
the grand master of that occasion long ago
put down the square arid the level and 1he
plumb with which for the Jast time he pro-
uounced a cornerstone welt laid. But what
most interests mo now fs that inside that
cornerstone, in u glass jar, hermetically
VOL. V. NO. 116.
senleil, is n ilocumont of nationnl import,
thoiiL'h in poor poiim iishlp. It is the pan-
nniiisblp tho ot Daniel WVMur, which almost
ruinctl pmimnnship of this country for
many years, liee.iti.se umny thought If they
iuiil Daniel Woh ler’s poor penmanship it
might imlicato tltoy ha I Webster’s genius.
Tluulocuraent mails as follows:
‘‘If it .shall It reafier he the will of Ood
that tl;is struct tiro shall fall from its huso,
that poslt its foumlHliou brought he upturuo I ami thisiie-
tm to the eyes of men, bo it
then known that on this tiny tho Nation of
tho United States of America stands firm;
Unit their constitution still exists unim¬
paired ami with all its original usefulness
and glory, growing every day stronger and
stronger in the uITertiou ot the great body of
the American people and attracting more
ami more the a tmiration of the world, and
all hero assembled, whether belonging to
public, life or to private life, with hearts de¬
voutly thankful to Almighty (lod for the
preservation of the liberty and the happi¬
ness of tlm country, unite in .sincere and
fervent prayers that this deposit arid the
wal s and arches, the domes and towers, the
columns and entablature, now to be erected
over it may endure forever. Ood save tho
United States of America! Daniel Webster,
Secretary of State of file United States.”
That was beautiful ami appropriate at the
laying of the cornerstone ol the extension of
tin) Capitol ilfty-elght years after the coruer-
stoue of tlm old Capitol had been laid. Yet
the ooruorstouo ot our Republic was first
laid in 177li and at the ro-est dillshmont of
our National Government was laid again in
1885. But are wa not ready for the laying
of tlm cornerstone of a broader and higher
National life? Wo have as a Nation received
so much from Ood. Do w« not owo now
consecration? Are wo uot ready to become
a bettor Sabbath-koeplng, God-worshiping peace-loving Nation? vir-
itie-honoring, Are
we not ready for such a cornerstone laying?
Why not now lot it take place? With long
procession of prayers, moving from the north
and the south, tho oast and tho west, lot the
scene bo made august beyond comparison.
Tho God of nations, who hath dealt with
usas with no other people,will proside at lovol the
solemnization, liy tho sqtinrn and the
and tho plumb of tho everlasting right let
tho corner stone be adjusted. Let that of cor
nerstone be tho masoning together the
two granite tables on which tho law was
written when Sinai shook with tho oarth-
rptaku, and insldo that cornerstone put the
sermon on the mount and a scroll containing
the names of all the men and women who
have fought and prayed and tolled for tho
good of mis nation, from the ilrst martyr of
the American Revolution down to the last
woman who bound up a soldier’s wounds in
the Hold hospital. And let some one worthy the
to do so strike the stoiio three times with
gospel hammer in tho name of God the
Father, God the Sou and God the Holy wall
Gaost. Then lot tho building rise, one
laved by tlm I’aciMo ocean and tlm other
washed of the Atlantic, until its capstone
shall be laid amid Urn shouting of
all nations, by that time as tree as our own
divinely founded, divinely constructed, and
divinely protect!) I republic, the last throne
of oppression having fallen flat Into the dust
and tho last shackle of tyranny been liung up
in museum us a relic ol barbaric agos.
The prayer that tho great expounder wrote
to bo put in the cornerstone at the extension
ot the Capitol I ejaculate as United our own States suppli¬ of
cation, "God save tlm
America,” South only adding the close words Ills with which
Robert was apt to sermons,
whether delivered before the Court at
Christ-Ohurch chapel or in Westminster
Abbey, at anniversary of restoration of Oli¬
ver Cromwell ami It be worst tempest that
ever swept over England; "To God be ren¬
dered and ascribed, as is most due, all praise,
might, majesty and dominion, belli now and
forever. Amen.”
TRAPPED BY A LAWYER,
The Witness Was All Right, Only He For¬
got All About tho Almanac.
The story of Abraham Llnco'ln'8 con¬
founding an opposing witness with an
almanac record of the moon phases,
finds parallel in the case of Waterson,
recently acquitted on a charge of mur¬
der in an Iowa court. The main witness
against him was one Delafleld, who
swore he was working just outside the
window of the accused on the day of
the alleged crime, and saw Waterson
open a cupboard and take down a bot¬
tle, move about as if preparing a por¬
tion, and then administer the draught
to Mrs. Waterson, who died in great
agony later in the day.
A lawyer named Bradford, for the
defense, had asked the jurymen on ex¬
amination of them as to their compe¬
tence, if they had faith enough in the
weather bureau reports to attach cred¬
ence to them, and had found every man
on the panel believed the records were
fair and reliable. The state had not
understood the drift of these questions,
but had not objected.
When It came to cross-examining,
Bradford asked the witness, Delafleld,
what he was doing outside Waterson’s
window, and he said he was digging a
cistern.
“When did you oogin digging that
cistern?”
“November 11, the day Mrs. Waterson
died.”
“How much did you dig that day?”
“Oh, about three feet.”
“What tools did you use?”
“A shove)." |
“And a pick?”
“No, the ground was mellow.”
“Work in an overcoat?”
“No; in my shirt sleeves. The day
was warm.”
“Have anything to drink?”
“Had a little pail of water on the
ground within reach.”
“Didn’t it freeze?”
“No.” The witness smiled scorn¬
fully.
Then Bradford offered in evidence a
certified copy of the weather bureau re¬
port for November 10 and 11, and
showed that the temperature had been
below freezing the first day and below
zero the day of the alleged crime.
The jury accepted the official docu¬
ment, and to that extent regarded the
witness as impeached, for Waterson
was acquitted.—Chicago Times-Herald.
A cargo of coal was recently re¬
ceived at San Francisco from Ton¬
kin, China. Pacific freights being eh-no
enough to make the venture profitable.