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FOR <7IRI-S. DR. TALMAUE-S SUNDAY key. discourse. Anchors” is the Title of the Tliit (four Sermon in the >'evr York teenth Competitive Series—Dr. Tal Herald’s Sermon to Sisters mage Preaches a “They cast four anchors out of the Text: XXVll., ZJ. o.—n ' ”—Acts text is striking and mu The synib rm hoi ism of the sbip Singgestive. j; ves have been wrecked ^fJgtness. - ‘ d f anchors holding iliem to ste However deep we 6 through which.we ^’sailing we are often nearer the shoals fend reefs than is ^ fee throwa bxed ness of purpose. The inner put is L • ]i vos i s in the I fee 103 ' Son Paul of power “This along one certain thing de- I K hues says, do him rev ” and the Avorld will ever “This ® p pr, Hudson Taylor says, opened i,'jn a T do,” and China is as _ f one e; er J t hofore to higher ideals Shaftesbury and larger F IS10D . Vh The Earl of iowntobie s one thing I do,” and he goes Knd Holborn viaduct, in London the bootblacks and hucksters and street arabs and costermongers are trans¬ formed The great names in art, in science, n Philosophy and in finance are always identified with pain and Purpose Lite is power, but power undirected is lost. Only constant striking on the same spot makes an impression. Purpose connects and unifies our months and years and makes or them ail but parts of a single Avhole. Each day ought to be a link tempered and! welded into the chain of a completed life. be Three-fourths of men’s failures may attributed to the lack of purpose. The house can scarcely b# constructed without a plan; boAV much less can a human life be fashioned without a conception of what it will be wheD finished? Plan must precede realiza¬ construction; the ideal before the tion, the purpose before the accomplish¬ ment. Only the man Avho aims will strike the mark. Turn your life into a definite channel; let it not cover too much terri¬ tory, for it is the deeply flowing stream which cuts away the obstructions and at last reaches the sea, while the stream which spreads itself in shallowness goes silently into the swamp-land and its life is ended. The analysis of every completed life reveals a central point about which energy and emotion and devotion cluster themselves. But purpose to exert its influence must be accompanied by perseverance, so east out the second anchor. Here is a vast dif¬ ference between the aim and the accom¬ plishment. Perseverance bending of the bow to send the sha and the bow is the will, “I will fight it out on this line if it takes all summer,” says the great general. That is the spirit which conquers. No sooner have our plans been drafted or our purpose lixed than cir¬ cumstances and difficulties seem to con¬ spire to defeat and ruin them. Many a man has seen his star in the east, but ODly here and thero has one been possessed of the courage and devotion to follow it over an unbeaten path until it led him to his treas¬ ure. It is blood earnestness which tells. The man avIio is ever unconscious of defeat is he avIio some day will plant his standard upon the enemies’ ramparts and win the day. He who holds on in the face of the storm, in spite of discouragements, calmly suffering temporary delays, is he who final¬ ly secures his crown and his reward. Shall we complain of difficulties when a thou¬ sand ilDgors are pointing at wonderful achievements, made after overcoming tre¬ mendous obstacles? Helen Kellar, without sight, without hearing, without language, presses on until she passes the entrance examinations to Harvard University. John Bunyan, the drunken tinker of Bedford, rises to the authorship of “Pilgrim’s Prog¬ ress.” It is half-heartedness Avhieh fails, but the “doing with thy might” which suc¬ ceeds. Before a determined will and a passionate devotion men will stand aside and let you pass—they cannot help it; diffi¬ culties will vanish—they cannot withstand you; obstruction will be crushed—their puny Then, strength desepts them. in order to make perseverance possible, anchor the third, faith in one’s self. Too often the estimate of our power falls far short of what it really is. Emer¬ son’s word, “Trust thyself,” carries with it a true philosophy, for one may not achieve until there is a Arm belief in one’s own soul. If we rate our ideal at 100 and our power at fifty the accomplishment will be but one-half. The great crime men com¬ mit against themselves is not in overjudg¬ ing, but in -underjudging. My self-set limitations determine the extent of my achievement. And what right has man, born in the image of God, with unknown and undeveloped powers standing before a hidden future, to measure and to circum¬ scribe his capabilities and to limit his pos¬ sibilities of success in the construction of life? Only God may measure man, for only God knows the height the individual may reach. Men Avho to-day are almost meas¬ ureless in their intellectual sweep are they who have not dared Avith compass and rule to set tneir bounds. This is not conceit, hut a respect forthe untouched, undreamed of potency of your own soul, 80 then, believe not only in your ideal, but in the possibility And of realizing it. then the fourth anchor, faith in God. We may imagine Paul as the last anchor is tbroAvn out calling to the sailors, “Men, does it hold?” and the answer coming back, les; the rope is taut; we do not seethe ledge down below the waA'ej. but the anchor holds.” Ah! that is the blessed ex perience of life; this anchor always grasps w roc k, the unseen rock of God! c ®° neets lnan with Omnipotence. Faffh r -fK is . the conductor which places disposal divine at our the testimony grace and power. This is of every child of faith. “I can do all things through Him.” This is the power not our own which may be ap f l f?F nat e c Y And there are times when the Batety of , the . whole life depends upen this sili dislodged ? r - and flung an °hor high of purpose the may by be storm and tempest; upon shore the anchor of perse¬ verance may be worn away by the fretting cutting sands, the anchor of ... r snap in twain in some fearful crisis when the strain is great and the heart is sick, but awav down below the crashing Diilows of passion and temptation rests 1 anchor of faith embedded in the heart oruod. 80 let us live with a noble purpose worthy the patient endeavor and unfalter¬ ing devotion we bestow upon it, mindful of oup own undiscovered resources and hold¬ ing fast to the might of God.. r . Chakles Atwood Campbell, .rirstPresbyterian Church, Providence, R. I. f FOR GIRLS. Rev. Dr. Tclmage Preaches Directly to the Sisters. Text: ‘ And his sister stood afar off to ■witness what would be done to him.”—Ex¬ odus ii., 4 . roah, Princess. looking Thermutis, out through daughter of Pha bathing-house the lattice of her on the hanks of the Nile, saw a curious boat on the river. It had neither oar nor helm, and they would have been useless anyhow. There was The'boat only one passenger, and that a baby boy. was made of the broad leaves of papyrus,' tightened together by bitumen. “Kill all the Hebrew children born,” had been Pha roah’s order. To save her boy, Jochebed, the mother of little Moses, had put him in in that queer boat and launched him. His sister, Miriam, stood on the hank watching that precious craft. She was far enough off not to draw attention to the bent, but near enough to offer protection. There she stands on the bank—Miriam, the poet¬ ess: Miriam, the quick-witted; Miriam, the faithful; though very human, for in after time she demonstrated it. Oh, was not Miriam, the sister of Moses, (loins?a good tiling, an important thine, a glorious thing when she watched the boat woven of river plants and made water-tight .with asphaltum, carrying its one passen¬ ger? Did she not put all the ages of time and of a coming eternity under obligation when she defended her helpless brother from the perils aquatic, reptiliau and ravenous? She it was that brought that wonderful babe and its mother together, so that he was reared to betho deliverer of his Jla ti 0 n, Avhen otherwise, if saA-od at all from the rushes of the Nile, he would haA'e been only one more of the Clod-defying Pha roahs; for Princess Thermutis, of the bath ing-liouse, would have inherited the croivn of Egypt; and, as she had no child of her own, this adopted Had child would have come to coronation. there been no Miriam there would have been no Moses. What a garland for a faithful sisterhood! Miriam was the oldest of the family; Moses and Aaron, her brothers, Avere . younger. Oh the power of the elder sister to help decide the brother’s character for usefulness and for heaven! She can keep off from her brother more evils than Miriam could have driven back water-fowl or croco¬ dile from the ark of bulrushes. The older sister decides the direction in which the cradle boat shall sail. By gentleness, by good sense, by Christian principle she wicked can turn it toward the palace, not of a Pharaoh, but of a holy God; and a brighter princess than Thermutis should lift him out of peril, even religion, whose Avays are Avays of pleasantness and all her paths are peace. The older sister, how much the world owes her! Born Avhile yet the family was in limited circumstances, she had to hold and take care of her younger brothers. And if there is anything that excites my. sympathy, it is a little girl lugging around a great fat child and getting her ears boxed because she can not keep him quiet! By the time she gees to young Avomauhood she is pale and worn out, and her attrac¬ tiveness has been sacrificed on the altar of sisterly fidelity and -she is consigned by to celibacy, and society call her an unfair name; but in heaven they call her Miriam. Let sisters not begrudge the time and care destowed on a brother. It is hard to belieA'e that any boy that you know so well as your brother can ever turn out anything very useful. Well, he may not be a Moses. There is only one of that kind needed for six thousand years. But I tell Avhat your brother will be—either a blessing or a curse to society, and a candidate for happi¬ ness or wretchedness. He will, like Moses, have the choice between rubies and living coals, and your influence will have much to do with his decision. He may not, like Moses, be the deliverer of a nation, but he may, after your father and mother are gone, be the deliverer of a household. What thousands of homes to-day are piloted by brothers! There are properties now well inA’ested and yielding income for the support of sisters and younger brothers because the older brother rose to the leadership from the day the father lay down to die. Whatever you do for your brothers Avill come back to you again. Don’t snub him. Don’t depreciate his ability. Don’t talk discouragingly about his future. Don’t let Miriam get down off the bank of the Nile and wade out and upset the ark of bulrushes. Don’t tease him. Don’t let jealousy ever touch a sister’s soul, as it so often does, because her brother gets more honor or more means. Even Miriam, the heroine of the text, Avas struck possessed by that evil unlimited passion influence of jealousy. She Mo.?es, had over and now he marries, and not only so, but marries a black Avoman from Ethiopia; and Miriam is so disgusted and outraged at Moses,first because he(bad marriedat all ,and next because he had practiced miscegena¬ tion, [that she is drawn into a frenzy, and then begins to turn white, and gets white as a corpse, and then whiter than a corpse. Her complexion is like chalk, the fact is, she has the Egyptian leprosy. And nOAV the brother whom she had defended on the Nile comes to her rescue in a prayer that brings her restoration. Let there be no room in all your house for jealousy either to sit or stand. It is a leprous abomina¬ tion. Your brother’s success, O sisters, is your success. His victories will be your victories. If you only knew it, your interests are identical. Of all the families of the earth that ever stood together, perhaps the most conspicuous is the family of the Roths¬ childs. As Mayer Anselm Rothsehild was about to die, in 1812 , he gathered his chil¬ dren about him—Anselm, Solomon, Nathan, Charles and James—and made them promise that they would always be united on ’Change. Obeying that injunction, they have been the mightiest commercial power on earth, and at the raising or lowering of their scepter nations have risen or fallen. That illustrates hoAV much, on a large scale and for selfish purposes, a united family may achieve. But suppose that instead of a magnitude of dollars as the object, it be doing good, and making salutary impres¬ sion, and raising this sunken world, how much more ennobling! Sister, you do your part, and brother will do his part. If Miriam will lovingly Avatch the boat on the Nile, Moses will help her when leprous dis¬ asters strike. General Bauer, of the Russian cavalry, had in early life wandered off in the army, and the family supposed he was dead. Af¬ ter he gained a fortune he encamped one day in Husain, his native place, and made a banquet; and among the great military men who were to dine he in\ r ited a plain miller and his wife, Avho lived near by and who, affrighted, came, fearing some harm would be done them. The miller and his wife were placed one on each side of the General at the table. The General asked the miller all about his family, and the millersaid that he had two brothers and a sister. “No other brothers?” “My younger brother went off with the army many years ago, and no doubt was long ago killed.” Then the General said: “Soldiers, I am this man’s younger brother, whom he thought was dead.” And how loud was the cheer, and how warm was the embrace! Brother and sister, you need as much of an introduction to each other as they did. You do not know each other. You think your brother is grouty and cross and queer, and he thinks you are selfish and proud and unlovely. Both wrong! That brother will be a prince in some woman’s eyes, and that sister a queen in the estimation of some man. That brother is a magnificent fellow, and that sister is a morning in Juue. Come, let me introduce you; “ 3 Ioses, this is Miriam.” “Miriam, this is Moses.” Add seventv-flve per cent, to your present ap¬ preciation of each other, and when you kiss good morning do not stick up your cold cheek, wet from the recent washing, as though you hated to touch each others lips in affectionate caress. Let it have all tne fondness and cordiality of a loving sis¬ ter’s kiss. I read of a child in the country who was detained at a neighbor's house on a stormy night by some fascinating stories that were being told him, and then looked out and saw it was so dark be did not dare go home. The incident impressed me the tiiore be¬ cause in my childhood I had much the same experience. The boy asked his com¬ rades to sro with him, but they dared not. It got later and later —7 o’clock, 8 o’clock, 9 o’clock. “Oh,” he said, “I wish I were home!” As he opened the door the last time a blinding flash of lightning and a deafening roar overcame him. But after awhile he saw in the distance a lantern, and lo! his brother was coming to fetch him home, and the lad stepped out and with swift feet hastened ou to his brother, who took him home, where they were so glad to greet him, and for a long time sup¬ per had been waiting. So may it be when the night of death comes and our earthly friends can not go with us, and we dare not go alone; may our Brother, our elder Brother, our Friend closer than a brother, come out to meet us with the light of the promises, which shall be a lantern to our feet; and then we will go in to join our loved ones waiting for us, supper all ready, the marriage supper of the Lamb! San Jose Hug in Germany. Dr. Heinrich Dorhru, of Slettiu, writes that the Sau Jose bug has long been known in Germany as the unjustified. blut-laus and that the present scare is PENITENNT1ARY OFFICERS OUT. Governor Taylor, of Tennessee, Causes a Shake-Up Among Them. A Nasliville dispatch says: There Avas quite a shake-up of penitentiary officials Friday. Warden P. H. Rags¬ dale, of the old prison, and Warden Andrew McClelland,of the neAv prison, Avere both discharged. Ex-Sheriff G. W. Farris3, of Coffee county, succeeds Ragsdale, while Mc¬ Clelland is succeeded by M. H. Gam¬ mon, Avho has been Avarden at Inman. The vacancy at Inman has been offer¬ ed to John T. EdAvards, of Marshall county, but he has not yet signified his intention of accepting. nONEY FOR “REDSKINS.” Senate Passes Indian Appropriation Bill Carrying $8,000,000. A Washington dispatch says: Con¬ sideration of the Indian appropriation bill was resumed by the senate Friday and after being amended to some ex¬ tent the measure Avas passed. The most important amendment to the bill was that offered by Mr. Petti greAv, of South Dakota, Avhicli, if final¬ ly enacted, will restore the free home¬ stead Iuav so far as it relates to Indian lauds ceded to the United States, for which lands the settlers have been obliged to pay the purchase price paid to the Indians. The bill carries appro nriatinns amirecatiner &8.000.000. ANOTHER GULDENSUPPE CASB. Limbless and Denuded Body Found In East River at New York. The mutilated body of a man out a stitch of clothing on it Avas found in East > river at NeAv York Tuesday. Half of the head was missing, the right leg Avas cut off at the knee and both arms were gone, having been cut off. The police believe that another mur¬ der mystery of similar character to the recent Guldensuppe case has been earthed by this discovery. KELLY HEIRS CONTROL ROAD. A Decision Rendered In the East and West Alabama Railroad. Judge DoAvdell, of the chancery court at AsheA’ille, rendered a decree Saturday in the case of W. C. Brown¬ ing and other bondholders of the East and West Alabama railroad against the estate of the late Eugene Kelly, of New York, declaring that $625,000 of the receiver’s certificates bought by Kelly are prior to all other claims against the property. spaiNTswatchful. She Is flaking Additions to Her Navy In Case of Emergency. A dispatch to The Standard (Lon¬ don) from Glasgow says the Spanish government has requested the Clyde Bank Ship Building company to push Spanish work. The company, it is added, has de¬ spatched to Spain a high speed torpedo cruiser fully manned by Spaniards. In addition two torpedo boat destroy ers are being completed for Spain. NEW TELEPHONE COMPANY Organized at Portland, Maine, With Capital of Ten Millions. The Union Telephone Company has been organized in Portland, Me., for the purpose of acquiring and operating telephone lines. The papers of incorporation call for a $10,000,000 capital stock, of which $300,000 is paid in. The officers are: President, Frederick H. Gorman, of New York; treasurer, George A. Bea¬ ton, of Detroit. CARPET PLANT CLOSES DOWN And Hore Than Two Hundred Opera¬ tives Are Out of Work. A part of the plant of the Hartford Carpet company, at Thompsonville, Mass., has been closed for an indefi¬ nite period. More than 200 hands are affected. An unsatisfactory demand is said to have been the cause of the shutdown. A portion of the Westfield Plate company’s factory at Thompsonville also has closed its doors. JUDGE ATKINSON OUT FOR GOVERNOR. Makes Formal Announcement Of His Candidacy, CANDLER RESIGNS POST. Resignation Sent to Governor to Take Effect March 31. There Avere tAvo startling deA r elop ments in the Georgia gubernatorial arena Saturday. The first of these Avas the announce¬ ment of Judge Spencer K. Atkinson as a candidate in opposition to Hon. Allen D. Candler. The second Avas the resignation of Colonel Candler from the office of sec retary of state. The announcement of Judge Atkin¬ son that he av i 11 oppose Colonel Cand¬ ler is the logical result of the efforts of those opposed to Colonel Candler to bring out a candidate. As soon as Colonel Candler Avas in¬ formed of the announcement of Judge Atkinson, he Avrote out his resigna¬ tion as secretary of state. His resig¬ nation is based on the ground that he does not belieA’e that a man should hold one office Avliile making an active race for another. • Colonel Candler’s resignation is to take effect March 31. Judge Atkinson’s announcement. Avas gh-en out Saturday morning, and is as folloAvs: “I have decided to become a candi¬ date for the democratic nomination for governor. Within a feAv days I will state my views in regard to such matters as may be pertinent to the campaign. S. R. Atkinson.” The announcement Avas not a sur¬ prise, since it has been knoAvn for some time that Judge Atkinson was likely to take such a step. * Judge Atkinson is at present a member of the state railroad commis¬ sion. He resigned recently from the supreme bench, and several years ago Avas a superior court judge,from Avhieh position he resigned to make the race for congress against Hon. H. G. Tur¬ ner. Judge Atkinson is said to be one of the state’s best stuiiqo speakers, and as Colonel Candler also has a reputa¬ tion on the same line some lively times may be expected. Judge Atkinson’s friends believe the ‘Svire grass,” or south Georgia, Avill support him as solidly as will north Georgia take up for Candler. That the fight will be from now on a hot one is not doubted. Those Avho haA’e fought Colonel Candler Avill align themselves Avith the supporters of Judge Atkinson and the campaign for the democratic nomination Avill proceed with lines closely drawn and the promise of a fight to the finish. TO CONTEST EVANS WILL. Brother of the Celebrated Dentist Will Hold Up Bequests. Advices from Paris state that the will of the millionaire dentist, Thomas W. Evans, Avho attempted to bequeath the most of his fortune, amounting to something like $10,000,000, to the es¬ tablishment of a dental institute and museums named after himself, in Philadelphia, is to be contested. The matter came up in the Palais de Justice Saturday and a lawyer, representing Rudolf H.Evans, brother of the famous dentist, announced that he would contest the will, though by so doing he forfeits $10,000 left him by his brother, a clause iu the av i 11 disinheriting any legatee who shall attempt to contest. JUDGE TAYLOR ANNOUNCES His Candidacy For Gubernatorial Honors In Tennessee. Judge John M. Taylor,of Lexington, Tenn., announces that he will be a can¬ didate for the democratic nomination for governor. He declares for the Chi¬ cago platform, favors tariff for reve¬ nue only and opposes any increase in the state debt. Congressman McMillin has not yet decided whether he Avill enter the race, but is being strongly urged to do so. The race will be an exciting one, as there has been no contest for the nom¬ ination since 1890. INDICTMENT AOAINST CARTER. Merchant to Be Tried On Charge of Larceny After Trust. H. B. Carter, who was carried from Florida to Atlanta, Ga., to answer to the charge of cheating and swindling, has succeeded in giving bond, but has not yet seoured his release. The accused maD was taken to Ma con Wednesday afternoon to answer to the charge of larceny after trust. He has been indicted by the Bibb county grand jury. other charges In addition to the against Carter a Avarrant has been sAvorn out at Atlanta charging him with haA'ing committed arson in Wayne oonnty- HOUSE WANTS INFORfl ATION. Resolution Asking For Latest News On Cuban Situation. A Washington dispatch says: Con¬ siderable unnecessary excitement was caused among the members of the house Monday by the rumor broadly circulated before the house convened that, important action relative to Cuba was to he taken. It turned out to be simply a resolu¬ tion of inquiry unanimously reported by the foreign affairs committee last week calling on the state department for information as to the condition of the coneentrados in Cuba and the pro¬ gress made in Spain’s effort to induce the Cubans to accept autonomy. It was adopted without division. Mr.Quigg, republican, of New York, a member of the foreign affairs com¬ mittee,was recognized. He first called up a resolution reported from the for¬ eign affairs committee calling upon the secretary of state, if not incom¬ patible with public interest, to trans¬ mit to the house the correspondence relating to the discrimination of the German government against the im¬ portation of American beef, fruit or horses. It was adopted without divi¬ sion. Mr. Quigg followed this with the Cnban resolution. It Avas the resol u tion previously offered by Mr. Will¬ iams, slightly modified. Mr.Quigg stated that the resolution would put the house in complete pos¬ session of the facts. There was no effort on the part of the minority to contest the ordering of the previous question,and the resolution Avas adopt¬ ed without a dissenting voice. PETTIGREW ON ANNEXATION. Alabama Senator Closes His Long Speech In Opposition. The senate devoted about four hours in executive session Monday to the consideration of the Hawaiian treaty. The principal speech was made by Senator Pettigrew, this being the third installment of his remarks upon the subject. devoted himself Senator Pettigrew Presi¬ largely to the administration of dent Dole, showing how the govern¬ ment of Queen Liliuoknlani had been overthrown and to a presentation, of his views of this government’s partic¬ ipation in the revolution. He con¬ tended that the downfall of the queen’s government was due to a conspiracy oil the part of Minister Stevens, rep¬ resenting the United States and a few citizens of Honolulu, of whom Presi¬ dent Dole was one, who were backed by the marines from a United States battleship. Vermont, fol¬ Senator Proctor, of lowed with a brief speech m favor of annexation. He devoted himself ex clusively to the military phase of the question. He cited the fact that England has strongly fortified posts all along our Atlantic seaboard. Senator Davis simply stated that he could not at present say when the de¬ bate would cease or when the senate would be prepared to take a vote. BAILEY A CANDIDATE. Will Enter the Senatorial Race In Texas Against Senator Chilton. A Washington special says: Con¬ gressman Joe Bailey, of Texas, lias declared himself a candidate for the senate against Senator Chilton. Chil¬ ton’s term does not expire until 1901, but Bailey’s early announcement was forced by conditions in the Mills-Cul berson case, which is now Avaxiug hot. Mills is a candidate for re-election and is trying to force the tariff to the front as the main issue of the cam¬ paign. To do this lie attacks the position taken by Bailey against free raAv material, and to strengthen him¬ self, draws Senator Chilton into the controversy. CARTER CHARGED WITH FRAUD. Savannah Aldermen Testify That He Deceived the City. - A Savannah special says: The gov¬ ernment Monday morning continued to inA r estigate in the trial bycourtmar tial of Captain O. M. Carter on the charge that lie entered into an agree¬ ment Avith the Atlantic Contracting company to defraud the city of Savan¬ nah out of a large sum of money by forcing the city to sell at a sacrifice a large quantity of rock ballast at quar¬ antine. It Avas shown by old bills against the city that the rock in 1887 brought $1 per ton. It was sold for an insig¬ nificant amount in 1896, because Cap¬ tain Carter declared it must be moved at once. TRUST FALLS THROUGH. Effort of Sewer Pipe /Takers To Com¬ bine Fails. A dispateh from Akron, Ohio, says: The sewer pipe combination by which it was planned to organize an $11,% 000,000 corporation out of the compa¬ nies doing business in Ohio, West Virginia and PennsylAanin, seems to have gone the way of all previous at¬ tempts at similar combination. The committee appointed to obtain, the signatures to the agreement re¬ port that several large plants have failed to join the movement. As a consequence the formation of the pro¬ posed combination has been declared” off.
