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the weekly constitution
6 1886
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A PRESENT FOR OUR FRIENDS.
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Is a stamp, and with which ho can print hla name
and address. He can print It on envelopes, on
card*, on letters, on circulars, on papers, oo boxes—
anywhere he wants. Wo haro fitted up a splendid
stamp, which prints as follows:
Mr. A. J. ABERCROMBIE,
Tallapoosa,
Florida.
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which will last a year. With It a man can print
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one w ho sends us a dub of firo subscribers during
the month of April. This l<open to everybody, but
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ATLANTA, OA, TUESDAY, AI'RII.O. Utt.
Talking Thisg* Orer.
If we canid print one out of it handrod
Irtlrra we get praising Tiik Constitution,
we abonld Dll every column on this page.
Wo print jnat enough to let onr friend* oee
what other frlenda tire doing, und to giro
anggcatloo* for faturc work. Mosere. 0. R.
and R. L. TiioMAkmin, of Murfreesboro, Ark.
enclose a club and aay: “ Wo wonld not bo
wilbont Tint CoNirmt’TitiN for |.1 a year.
Many other* hare promianl to anbacrllie
when their time to the Coiirier-Jonrnal I*
cat.” These gentlemen are on tho right
track, looking alter enbacrlboni to other pa-
ptra and giving them Tint Constitution to
examine. Mu. Wai.tkb Huttox, of Han
bnry, (In., semis a club and wrllee : “Tiik
Conhtiti'Tiox It gaining rapidly, and I will
work for it at long a. I live." Thera 1* no
computing what an earntat friend like thti
can do. He ran revolution Iro hla wholo
county. Mk. James M. Hunt, of Hew<
bery, 8. C., aendt a club and writes: “ I
will tlonbla my list by April 10th. Tho bent
way to let n man know how good TllK Cox
hthttion la, It to tbow it to him. Thla
alwaya gate him.” What a good thing it
would bo If every agent wonltl "double hit
Hat,” at Mr. Hunt la going to do. Mr. F.
F. Tolan, of Clinton, N. C., nendt a club
and writes: "EverybodypralteaTiikCox*
kthttiox, and I will ernd another'club
next week.” It 1* n pleasure to canvass for
a paper that everybody like*, and wo will do
onr best to keep Tiik Coxntitltiox np to
tbs standard.
Onr hopes for March hove been realised.
We already have over 8,1100 new enlMeribera
enrolled, with throe daya more to boar Irani.
We will gohondaomely over 10,000, which is
a gnat result when other papers are losing
subscribers steadily. Now, what shall April
bring ni? Shall we beat 10,000 ? It Isull
with yon. We will print tlio paper if yon
will get the subocribere. Let no nil poll to
gether and roll up a big April record. Wo
are goiog to surprise yon all when we roach
100,000, with a big treat! Shall wo hare U
by Christmas?
Tne senate yesterday consented to resume
ite constitutional function of ronflrmlng
Dominations. Several of the confirmations
were accompanied by the explanation that
the oOcer suspended was guilty of being a
republican. The nomination of the colored
man, J. C. Mathews, to be recorder of deads
for the district, was referred back to the
committee.
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The Crisis In Irish Affair A
At Thursday of this week approaches, the
interval in Mr. Gladstone's programme be-
comes more interne. On that day he will
ask the home of commons to permit him to
present hfo home-rulo measure, and hla en
emies will thru end there endeavor to de
feat him. Whether they will 1>c able to do
ao depend* upon the tire of the Chamber-
latn-TrcTclyan defection. The liberals in
the house nntuber .TCI, and the FarmHites
SC—making tin vote* all told. There are
SSI conservative voice. Tbe majority of the
liberate and Parnellitee over the conserva
tives la, therefore, 168. lim the two bolt
ers from tbe cabinet clsim they wilt carry
along with them in opposition to Mr. GUI-
Stone's entire acheme tk) whig* and to radi
cal*. If they can, they will beat the fol
lowers of Mr. Parnell and of Mr. (ibulatons
thirty-four votes.
No doubt then it great hesitation and
doubt owt the proposition to give Ireland a
heme parliament to handle home aflairj.
The Scotch members are said to be very
averse to the proposition; hot when
rlonbtenr consider tho situation carefully,
they will be apt to see that, if tbe pacifica
tion of Ireland is desirable, nothing is to bo
gained by overthrowing Mr. Gladstone. Ad
ditional delay, trouble and weakness, and
probably bloodshed, are Invoiced in the de
feat of .Mr. Gladstone’s plan. It seemi,
therefore, safe to aay that the anticipated de
fect ion of one hnndred votes la an overesti
mate. Mr. Gladstone has Dread a hnndred
critical votes in bis lifetime, and be is
good condition to meet the coming one, and
the general belief la that be will come out of
it as be boa generally come ont of hla no-
metona battles.
The home-rule proposition necessarily pre
cede* tho land-purchase acheme. The latter
has no donbt been ridiculously misstated,
In the nkaense of tbe land bill Itself—which
will not bo presented until tha fifteenth day
of this month—wa may safely accept the
version of the Freeman’s Journal. Accord
ing to the information of tbe Dublin paper,
the hill will involve neither oompolaory
purchase, nor the advance of any special
sum from the imperial treasory. What tbe
measure will enact will be the right of any
owner of Innd in Ireland to claim from tbe
govt tnroent of Ireland, after homo rale has
been granted, the privilege of being bought
cut at a sum regulated by law. This sum,
the Jonrnul Boy*, will he arrived at by mul
tiply lng the amount of tha rent, where It'
judicially fixed, or of a fair rent, when it
not rated judicially, by a term of yean to
rgrerd upon by parliament. In all cases
where tbe owners pnt In snclr claims to bo
Iwughtout the imperial exchequer is to pro
vide the purchase money.
Tho Irish government is to gusrantoc re
payment and is to attend to tbe basineos of
irfinhnndng the empire for nil those outlays
by disposing of tha purchased lands to occu
pier* and collecting in the shape of pay-
rut nls therefor saelt rents as will covsrtbe
whole sum back in forty-nino years. A* at
present framed Mr. Gladstone’s bill, accord
ing to the Journal, fixes the rents to be paid
by thijtcuuuls nt four per cent per annum on
tho nnionnt ofthc purchase. When the ton-
A bill ao just, withal, so gradual in ibiop-
erallon, and so wise in its nltlmato effects,
will not lie hastily rejected, especially when
there are nmny stiongcombinntions interest
ed in its adoption. Tho landlords want to
get ont oi Ireland as much as tho Irish peo
ple want them to go. The holders of Irish
mortgages vronlil he glad to regnin their
money. It is altogether too early, therefore,
to accept tho London predictions that Mr.
Glndstonc despairs of success, anil la already
defeated. Theveteran statesman has n hab
it of overcoming obstacles at tha last mo
ment, ond be will not bo apt to accept do
feat In tho approaching contest without n
supremo effort to avert it.
Hite Found Him.
It was dnnbtlcaa some lazy, good-for-noth
ing man who first compared n difficult un
dertaking to “looking for a needle in a hay
stack.” Tlio average man, infirm of pnrposo
mid unable to see beyond the end of bis noeo,
considers a needle In a haystack as good as
lost, and gives it op without an ellbrt to re
gain It. Hut women accomplish more dif
ficult feats every day.
Tako the cose of the bravo country woman
whotrempetl all the way from Ohio notU
the reached Rhernien's army, then on its
march to AtlantA “I want to soo my hns-
baiid, Jim Smith,” shesald to tho general
She did not know wliat regiment, brigodo
or corps Jim was In, lint aha wus determined
to find him. Ofllcers, soldier* anil camp fol
lower* first sneered, then laughed and final
ly the word went through eighty thousand
men that Jim Smith, of Ohio, had to bo
found if ho wns still olive and kicking. Ho
was found,and tho plucky little woman was
happy. Rhe had found the lost needle in
the bayatack.
A more recent Inatnncc shows that a true
hearted loving woman docs not know the
meaning of the word Impatsible. Christine
Olsen’s lover, llanseo, leftherin Sweden logo
to America, where be proposed toruskaablg
lortnna. For sixteen months hs wrote toher
regularly from New York. Then ho got ont
of work anil left tho city, and tha girl heard
nothing more from him. After waiting sev
eral months her father died, and as she bod
a few hundred dollars aba started for this
ronutry to hunt among sixty million peo
ple for Hansen. In New York a man who
hail known Hansen told Christine that he
thought he had gone toRan Francisco. She
bought a ticket (hr that city. At Chicago a
confidence man induced her to sell her tick
et and bny one to Omaha, telling her that he
knew Ilanaen well and knew him to be in
Omeha. Christine accepted tho advice, and
the ticket sharper rolihed her of all her mon
ey except five dollar*. Of course disappoint
ment met her at Omaha, anil the had to go
to work. She saved her wage i, ond two
weekt ago learned that Hansen was in Kan-
City. Rhe at once net out for that place,
fonnd her lover, married him, nml now tho
writes to her friend* that the it very happy.
It may he a very hard matter togflnd a
needle in a haystack,bnt lfanybody ie equal
to the task it is a woman.
Secretary Manning's Illness.
There will be general regret among but-
in era men in all partsof the country, if the
sudden stroke that hat disabled Mr. Man
ning compels his retirement from office. In
n year's service ha lias gntuad tha confidence
of intelligent men. No matter how mnoh a
holiness man disagree* with him a* to the
silver quution or the tariff or tho proper
limit of the gold reserve, he neveriheleat
consider* him n safe man, end hit retention
at the head of the most important depart
ment of tho government is by him consid
ered very desirable.
The efficiency ofhlt department was largely
dne to a mattery of it* details. He had a
powerful constitution, and ho nmlertook to
familiarize himself with tho work of the
treasury office, in all its branches. He has
Btudicdtbc laws and the decisions relating ti
the financial policy of tbe government, and
he ho* given much time to tho consiitaration
of pending legislation. Ills reports und
pinipns esme from his own pen, and he has
alwaya 1-cert ready lo fhrntsli information
that could elsewhere be use,I. The labn in
volved baa told upon him, robust as he was
when he nnwillingly accepted office; and if
he becomes incapacitated, the work be lus
done must he considered the cause of it.
Mr. Msnning no doubt felt a double re
sponsibility in accepting office; tor he mere
then any other man wo* instrumental in
procuring Mr. Cleveland's nomination to the
presidency. He had both a party and a per
sonal interest in tho success of the adminis
tration, and this led him, it is to be pre-
tamed, to asm me the labor thst haa resulted
In a very dangerous attack. He has certainly
dona all he could to promote the efficiency of
tho administration. He kept hisdepartment
free of blenders and wealmwe*. Afewdays
will show whether he will be able to reanme
the work that be has so promisingly began,
or whether be must seek quieter and lore
responsible duties.
Prison Itefbrms and Reformers.
The approaching seaslon of tho prison re
form asKeiatlon in this city will be apt to
call attention to many subjects relating to
Crimea and criminals. There are few ques
tions connected with the criminal oode mors
interesting, however, than the ratio between
the free and tha imprisoned population. The
drift, if nnchecked, will lead tostarUing re-
salts. In 1850 there were 6,737 prisoners
in confinement in the United States. Tbo
ratio was then one criminal in every 3,442
Inhabitants. In 1800 the prisoners number
ed 10,086, and the ratio was one in every
1,047. In 1870 the number hod risen to 32,-
801, and the ratio was one in 1,021. In 1880
the nnmber of criminals reached the total of
SO,208, and tho ratio was one convict to ev
ery 830 free men.
Wo need not stop to determine when this
rate of increase will place in jail the entire
population, less, of coarse, tbe necessary
number of persons to put them there. Hucb
speculations are useless even though tho
demonstration be convincing and over
whelming.
That is not necessarily the case is shown
in places where prison reform has been vig
orously applied. In England and her colo
nic* in 1870 the nnmber of sentences to pe
nal servitude was 11,800. Five years later
it was 10,70.7, and in 188.1 it waa only 8,700.
In Gloucestershire, where priaon reform has
Ism tested longer than elsewhere in Eng.
land, the nnmber of prisoners has (alien off
over 00 per cent In thirty year*. This Brit
ish system classifies offenders and promotes
them from one grade to another for good
behavior. It tries every kind of moral, re
ligions and secular influence to create re
fer m. It provides that every short sentence
and the beginning of every long sentence
shall 1st on tho separate system. It requires
long-sentenced convict to be subjected to
thorough industrial training nnder supervi
sion while nt lnlior, bnt to bo kept separate
at all other times. Under It thoao who are
disposed to reform are discharged before
their termarxpirc, and are given situations
where self support is possible, bnt whore
they are still nnder the eye of the author
ities, to whom they report at intervals. Lit
tle trouble has been found in England in se
curing situations for these discharged con
victs. At tho Elmira reformatory it la said
that 80 per cent of those discharged have
since led rcpntable lives.
THE GREAT EVANGELISTS BEGIN
THEIR WORK.
Tho B*U Knot Compm# toe Sen. of sB.BsrX.Mo
Solfslou. OatMrlna-Nearlr rivo Tbooooas
People st too Flret aorvloo—Wh.t Hooey
Sold oad txe Hymo OoaX«y Sons.
The Hcody and Sankey meetings opened
Friday at the Roll-si rest compress.
The scene ss the meeting opened war one
long to be remembered. In one corner of the
warehouse was the great compress, capsble of
crashing a hale of cotton with more esse than
a small boy bites a gam drop. Tho immense
iron arms were still, and the massive steam
cheat* were cold and powerleaa. Jolt back of j
tbe pulpit tn iron exbsast plpo ten or twelve
feet in circumference passed up through t 1 -"
roof. In every available foot or space, note
eupied by this machinery, the sea of huauoi-
fersiven, but he will have to reap the tare*
just the same. Go ask the convicts in prison.
Tht-v are reaping! A moment and the saeas
are sown that it will take yosra and year, to
harvest. It become* u* to look well to the
8t JIr. Mocdy told an experience he had with
a man in Chicago, who e*me to him in private
tad toid that h* wo* a fugitive from Justice,
travelling under an. assumed name. Re wa*
DEEPLY PKlftTBNT
for hit sins, and Mr. Moody advised him to_
back, Stand hit trial and free the law. The
man did ro, and reached hi* home a* night,
keeping himself hid from hi* children lest the
little thing! should reveal hi* presence before
be was reedy to eurrendet to tho officer*. The
wretched father wonld slip out of his hiding
place after the children h!d gone toeloop. »u«l
At- treat shot last AnrnA nnt AVflll
sgoss to whether .yon woulf
cot. or keep him iO, and tha 1
in favor or the devil. Yon c”
votes for Christ Every P
vote to keep him <jut. Every rum-eeller wonld .
living 1 . ...
No adulterer shall Inherit the kingdom of
God. There is not s town or city on the 'face ’
of the earth that wonld vote to havo
him comeback. They don’t.wont him. Yon
colored people wonld like to have -him corat?
Yon think yon wonld? Are yon sure about I,?
- Mend, think! There tttrald be a-t
Come, my l , . ...
overwhelming majority against him. There
la no room in thla world for tho Son of Qod, If
there woe he woald be bock here to day. Bat
he is coming baek! Than kGod tho time It cofu-
wttcb hi* little ones that he dared not even
kiss. At lest he gave up, was tried end sent
to the penitentiary. He bed to reap—
Mr. Moody urged these present that if they
died in their sine they could not go into the
^InYkepuljdtset a very large, heavy «et
man, with iron gray hair, whfekOT that cov-
preaence of the Savior. There wa* once
landslide on a railroad and a man went out t
motion down a train with a lantern. He fell
and the lamp broke and went ont. He had
no light, bnt at the engine pooled, he hurled
SId'hil freebrown eyea’i* black suit with the broken lantern at the engineer whoun-
** _ li.l mIU* ?li«r. I ^Avtf/uid (hft hmkftii ftivnnl Ana tha (mMmlini
cutaway coat, and a high standing collar that deretood the broken drool and the Impending
cuiawny , * , , . I A.nonr wMAvrrtnl. “Dear frlenda. I throw
•bon. ^ If it ’was just from a Chiume foundry IffS?
Ono wonld have taken him for a rich maa of the broken lantern at yon tonight, told Mr.
business. There wa* a rettlesa look in his | Moody. . May God help yon.
brown eyes and an expression of unspeakable
earnestness In his face. That wts Moody.
A I,lib For a Joke.
Tbe flood* tn this part of the country had
depressing effect upon the April fool joker.
But hi* inventive genlns, his malice, and hi*
capacity for lying were not wholly para
lyzed.
Already the reports of the first of April
cnnndtles are beginning to reach ni from re
mote sections. Onefef there tragedies de
serve* a posting notice. Yonng Mr. Tom
Rogers, at Kanfinan, Texas, was itching
to get off n first-class April fool joke. He
went to Dr. Mosley’s office and wrote an
order on the slate for the doctor to go three
miles In the country to see a young lady
who was critically 111. Of comae the doctor
suspected nothing when bo read hla slate.
never occurred to him that anyone wonld
trick him abont such a serious matter. Ho
rode out to see his patient and fonnd that ho
had been made the victim Of a cruel hoax.
When ho returned to Kanfman he was boil
ing with rags. He ascertained that Rogers
was responsible for tha Joke, and meeting
the yonng man he at ones attacked him
with a knife. Tbe doctor waa ftirions and
showed no merry. He stabbed Rogers re
peatedly in tbe ftcc, nock and body, and
did not let up nntil he had inflicted several
fatal wonnda. 1
Hack a hatchery was not jnstified by the
provocation, bnt Rogers brought his punish,
meat upon himself. His Idiotic lltU-r joke
was wall calculated to provoke wrath, and
tho man who without just cause makes hi*
neighbor angry should stand the cenwqnen-
ces. If Kaufman could get rid of all its
foolbh April fool jokers tbe community
wonld he better off.
Wild I toga at l'tn'i Point*
Com*i*>nd»nc© New York Tints.
Prgg’! Point Is % prominent point of rock*
slung U>c line of the We#t Shore rtllrot-J, project
ing nearly to (ho water’s edge of theiltulaon river,
about half o mile north of Marlborough. When tho
West Shore road waa being built many men were
employed drilling and blasting at IYgg’a Point, m
waa one of the worst "cuts” on the Une. One of
laborers wsa known as “Yank.” He w.
Frenchman who had a fondness for dog*. When
he went away from tho Point one day In IMl, he
left two ftill bloodcd fit, Bernard* In charge
of a Mr* Horan, whot ran tho big boarding-
home shanty there. When that nart of tha.We<t
8hore road was completed, nearly four years ago,
the 8t. Bernards and other dogs, for reasons un
valued, were left behind on tbe promontory. Tho
deg* mutlplied, and in some instance* paired with
foxes. At various place* along the Central Hud
son the animals are now known as ' the wild dog*
of Pegg'a rolnt.” Several attempt* have been m*do
lately to capture young specimen*, but without suc
cess. Five or sU months ago a Marlborough man
trapped a young pup. It has grown to be a large,
line dog. though it still retains a liking for ro na
and food that foxcsarc fond of generally. It 1* sta
ted that the town authorities mean to get rid of the
grotesque, and, it may prove, dangerous quadru
peds In the near foture. If that la dono lluda m
river boatmen will miss the dogs, for on very dark
nights or In extreme foggy weather tho howls of
the canines servo as a lighthouse and a foghorn
combined, locating Pegg's Point as effectually as if
lights and a eonoroos Mil were used there. Pas
sengers on West Bbore trains occasionally see tbo
timbered piece of unbroken land.
Ovar Three Regimenta of April Hen.
There are 5,300 Constitution men whose sub
scriptions expire In April. This Is three foil regi
me nu and a battalion. Drawn up in Uue they
would make a line army.
How ntsny ol thus* lo'dlm w 111 re onlUt? Will
any of them be mustered out finally? Won't every
man, every fqnad. every company, every regiment
me marching up shoulder to shoulder, re-enllsied
thewarf We hate to tee any of the old vet
ersns fall out. Potter than all. won’t every Cox-
STITVT105 koldter bring up a now recruit, so tint
every company and every regiment mif be
doubled, and tha April regiments grow into an
April brigade? Let us bmi the Lrlgade, and the
man who brings in the most recruits during April
shall be published as the brigadier-general, and
will rend his wife one of our sewing machlua*.
Now, ell foil In and go to work, and let ns see
who will be briradler-generalof the 4prtl brigade
will have hla uniform made oo the sewing
machine we will present to hla wife. Ladles, get
your husbands to cuter for thU competition.
Just back of the pulpit ant a man of extra
ordinary statue, tail, broad shouldered, and
with strongly outlined features. He haa buck
•ido whisker* and mustache, ira<bald nearly
back to his neck and bis face boro a pleasant
expression somewhat in contrast to tho flinty
earnritncu of Mr. Moody. Ho too <v*3 attired
in a dark bniins.* suit. Thst vrs* Sankey.
Mr. Moody aroas nnd glanced at tho congre
gation with hla pisreing, earncit eyes.
Ont of a littlo Bildo ho resd hi, toxt in tho
gf,th chapter of Exodn*. in which Uosc* i* di
nted to speak to tho children of lame), direct
ing that they bring offering* for tho building of
tho tabernacle—'"Gold and illver and bran,
and biao nnd parnlo and scarlet and flno liaon
•nd goat’s hair," etc.
All must bring something, Mid the preacher.
It they could not bring gold, thsy could bring
silver, and if they could not bring silver, tboy
could bring brass, and if thsy could bring none
of tbtis, then the other things, evon to goat’s
hair. So a man brings the boat ho can mud
There is a tendency to dll- credit
tome part* of the Blue. It is tha fash
ionable thing. A man says "well, you know I
believe tbs Bible, that la, I believe moat of It.
I do not believe ail tho Old Testament. Thors
are somo thing* I cannot believe.’’
"Whst arc they?” The very things that
men aro caviling abont are the very things
God set his teal to. A man says, “I don’t be
lieve tho story of Noah.’’ Chrla’t said “as it
waa in the days of Noah.’’ The man saya, “I
don’t believe about Lot and Sodom.”
Christ says. “As it was in tho days of Lot,"
etc., and "remember Lot’s wife.” Man says,
lng! God haa decreed thatrJesus Christ shall
wield his sceptre from tho riveretotheenda of
the earth: There le one thing la theBible that
is especially touching to mo. It is la tho
seventh chapter of John. “Every man went
to hi* own bouse end Jeans went to the Mount
of Olives." Jesus went to the Mountof Olives
because he had no home to go- to. There
wsa hardly a home in Jerusalem that received
him. Mutha received him Into her house.
She Invited him to her house and he always
8 oes where he i* invited. Tired and weaiy,
a always found welcome at Bethany.
He loved to go to Betheny. One
day a dark cloud settled down over that beau
tiful home and there wsa sorrow there. Per
haps you think you
caw get aloka
without Jesus. Listen I The time is coming
when you will need him 1 Every soul in the
round of my voice will need him some day.
Little did Martha *ud Mary think they would
need him to soon. I see Lazarus come in with
one bend on hit forehead. A bod headache.
He is afraid he be* some fever. I see Mutha
end Maty minister unto him.' A doctor is
called. Lazarus grows worse. At last the
doctor tolls tho end story.
gives it willingly it is acceptable to God.
Every child of God has tbe privllego of work
ing for God. None are to weak or ao small
thst they cannot do something. God does not
choose the strong things ef this earth for His
purposes. Man wants tho strong things.
God chooses the weak and foolish
things that no flesh may glory in Ills
sight." John fomented thst there wo* none
In heaven worthy to open the book. But tho
lion of the tribe of Judah prevailed, and thst
lion wa* tbe tlnln lamb. If we have tho heart,
Godwin qualify ne. You have read of tho
wondorful rod of Moses. It was a stick, sim-
unui iuuui a* hh ■ (tick, sim
ply. He could havo found a hundred hotter,
out f
iut God told him to uee.lt for the deliverenco
of the children of Israel. That rod turned
water into blood. When Holes wanted to
bring the frogs up, all ho had to do was to
itrotch out the rod and they cams. Egyp
never saw
SO DAISY FROGS
before. Y’ou couldn’t stop for them; they got
into tho kneading troughs, and they conldn't
cook bread without tbe frogs got Into it.
“Take them away” cried tho king. Plsgni
after plague did the rod bring, nntil tho king
told Moses to take hla people away, for he was
in;., uuu AtAAitJuuLA ijuk a fflio, UKU M/D,
'I don’t believe the three million people were
fed with manna from heaves.” Christ says,
“Yonr fathendid eat manna in the desert and
they aro dead. I am tho bread that ho* come
down from heaven.'’ Mon rays, 'Tdon’tbe-
Beve tho story of the brazen sorvent.” Christ
■ays “As Moses lifted up tho serpent la tbo
wilderness, even so must tho Boa of maa be
lifted up.’’You don't believe the story of Jonah
and tho whale? Christ says "tho only sign
shall he Jonah and the whale.”
sciKtenric mew
My tho whale could not havo awallowed Jo
nah. Bead tho book: “God prepared a great
fish to swallow Jonah.” Gad could create a
fish large enough to swallow this world. It fo
*11 one book interwoven. It la impossible to
throw ont one portj'wlthout throwing out tho
other. When I throw ont ono pert I will
throw it all sway. When a man gets to pick
ing the Bib!* to pieces, it only take* him
about fivo yean to pick everything away ex
cept the coven.
When a man bring!me spoilage that l can 1
explain, I don’t try to explain it, for this is
supernatural Bible; but I believe it, although
I cannot nndentand it. You cannot under
stand tho winds. Would you dare to My there
aro no winds? Do you believe what was Hid
of Christ? Death, disease anddevlli obeyod
Him. Every day something supernatural
too* place. When He died tbo sun refused to
look upon the scene. Creation know its God
nnd recognised Him. Let us take the things
we can explain and praiso God for that. You
will have no trouble with the Biblo
it your heart is right. Man living in Bin al
ways bos trouble with the Bible, for it con-
Tho brother cannot livo. Whoro le
Jesus? A messenger Is sent and eome* back.
Jesus said the sickness wss not unto death.
How could that be? Lazarus woe by that time
already deed and they buried him. Faith be
gan to waiver. Tho fourth day thn tua 1s go
ing down behind Moaut Olivet. A little boy
runs in to Mary and Martha, raying: "The
MHter 1s just outside the wall of the city.”
Mattha went ant to meet him, and says: “It
thou badst been here Lauras would not havo
died.” “Thy brother shall rise again.” My
friends, did the world over hear any tiling like
that? “I know bo will rise at the resurrec
tion," seyt Martha.
“1 tm thn resurrection and the life. Hethat
believeth In me, though he wore dead, yet
shell he live!” says tho Saviour.
Thank God for the glorious morning thst Is
fhere havo you fold him?” Thoy toll
him.
Jesu* wept.
I am glad Jesus wept in that journey to the
•ctin!clirc,I am glad I have a Saviour who can
SYMPATHIZE WITH ME.
He went to tho grave and said: "Take away -
the stone,” and when the stone was rolled
awey he cried.
“Lezarut! como forth!” and Lazarus came
right ont.
“Loose him and lot him got”
I tell you my friend* these gnve yards will
blossom eome day. There will be life there.
Did Martha make a mistake in receiving
Christ into her home ? If yon get Christ you
get something death cannot tonoh. Death
may get this body, bnt I’ll get a better one. It
»V1U UVSCB Ml MHO HID {IWPID UFf»/t sw uo •,«* | demns him. Christians should read all the
glsd to get rid of them. The rod aid IDs work Bible. They should not neglect any part of
will bo like changing a cabin for a beautiful
palace. Everything before the '
well. When they come to the Rod sea all
Hoses htd to do was to stretch out the
rod and they passed over on dry
land. When they were thirsty,
tbe rod brought from tho rock a beautiful
stream of crystal water. God was simply’
using an old dried np stick. He can use you.
Take whst yon have got and go abont yonr
work' If you eon’t preach you can sing, if
—. —v I,—,, -hildr
yon can't sing you can teach little children
the way to Goo’* kingdom. Look at Ramson!
He did not go oat with a Damascus blade, or
s rifle. Look at |D*vld and Goliath: look at.
■ fflUOe Jswa ■» |V«TIU turn uviwtu, iwb t»»
Gideon! Let the cry be, “The sword of the
Lord and Gideon!” The God of
Gideon, and David and Sami in
and Moses still lives! I havo
beard of zeal without knowledge, bnt I would
rather have zeal without knowledge-than
knowledge without zeal. Boms men are top
heavy—^wo want a heart with a hood. Yon
should ray: “Here I am, God, take me and
me me.” I nevereaw amen or woman effi
cient In God'eservico that did not begin in a
•moll trey. A man who wm always waiting
nntil he could do something great droamed
he died and went to heaven end was shown a
temple completed except that one little stone
wee left out. "Why is thir?” ho asked. “That,”
wts tbe reply, "us intended for yon, but
I ron wanted something bigger nnd yon wero
eft out.” Lead the little children to God, It
tin woddeiful thing to bo the instrument ct
leading one little boy to God. Tho boy
may be como the means of
sayitto nvKnuim and thousands.
Mother*, yonr work isnot small. 8ee whst
tho mother of the Weeleye did. Mother, tasks
np yonr mind to iMd yonr family to the
laird Jesus Christ, Sabbeth school
tescher, reconsecrate yourself to God; Sunday
school superintendent mako np yonr mind that
yon Trill take a coal from the attar of God and
rekindle the fire In yonr school. Preachers,
make np yonr mind to hove souls nr die! Re
member everyone that “fle thst watereth shall
himself be watered.”
Mr. Moody then told a beautiful story of *
friend who hod taken consumption and wa«
nearing death’s door, bat who could not recall
that he had iron a soul to Christ. The friend
wm deeply troubled and the two men went
earnestly to work together end the entire
Sunday school clou of the friend wm eon'
verted.
Tk* services at 7:30 lost night were for men
onl^ bntjscvcral ladies were present with the
Mr. Moody sold a man cenlddncelve himself,
his friends and the people, bathe coaid not de
ceive God. Men expects to reap when ho sows.
II* expect* to nap more than he sow*. He
expects to reap tho same sort of seed as ho
sows. Ignorance of the kind of oced he fo sow
ing will make no difference. The mechanic
who learns a trade expects to reap. The mer
chant who hays goods expects to reap. All
men are looking to tbe harvest time. It It eo
in the spiritual world. There 1* seed time and
harmt, and the harvest time Is coming. Yon
do sot sow wheat and reap watermel
ons. Yon do not sow encum
ber* and nap turnips. You can't
plant potatoes and get cabbage*. A man who
[cams the blacksmith trade don’t expect to be
t tailor. God mokes men reap the some kind
of seed they sow. If yon teach your eon to lie
to other people he will soon lie to yon. Atido
from tho question of religion, man cannot
afford to sell liquor. Ho who does It will
bring down the rune on hi* own family,
OOD MADE ADAM HEAP
whet he lowed. God mode Cain reap whst he
sowed. God made Jacob re ip what he sowed,
and hfo sin of deception came beck to him ten
fold, for ten eona lied to him. “Bo ears that
yonr sin will find yon out.” David fell into
thesm of adultery and then into the sin of
mnider, and hla heart was torn and hs wailel
in despair. Tho reaping time came to him. If
on reduce some man's daughter and destroy
:r soul auil body, some bfockheated villain
ill ruin jours. I would like to pass over
ti ls sin of adultery, but the timo has come to
spisk of it. I don’t know of a quicker way
down to kill tlauhy adultery. The guilty
rti will lie to his wife, will lie to hii author,
luau by hit fair pnnmsca rums a woman,
la lu rot her virtue, destroys hersoul and
it. Think how tbo prophecies were fulfilled.
Every Jowls a walking monument of God’s
covenant with Abraham. God never broke
bis word. There wonld bo a Jubilee in hell
today If it could lie fonnd that God had broken
hltwoid. Christ Hid “heaven and earth
•hall pasi away, bnt my word shall not pass
awsy.’’ What would » modern Freethinker
havo thought or such words foiling from tho
lips of w Jewish peasant? There were no
shorthand reporters then to take down hie
words, and no printing presses, and yet hfo
words have i been translated
into three hundred and fifty
different langusgces, and there have been
more Bibles priuted in tho fost eight years,
than in tho first 1800.
INFIDEL* TELL US
the Biblo fo going out of date. Thank God, It
Is jntt coming in. Two hundred million Bibles
have been issued in the lMt fifty years. A
little boy asked his mother what thn moon
did when tho dog barked at it. ‘ My child,”
wm tbe reply, "it just keeps on shining.” In
fidels bark sway at tbe Bible, but it keeps on
•hiniuy. Somo peoplo My they don’t
bellevo in sudden conversion. I suppose
if a man stole a thousand dollar* last year and
ha wanted religion you wonld tell him to steal
only five hundred next yttr, two hundred and
fifty tho year after, a hundred the next year,
and if tn tbe meantime hb employers caught
him he could toll them be was getting con
verted gradually. If a man gote drunk and
heate hfo wife every week, ho ought to first get
revesare aa.re ntaw wilij ffwa.UU VUgUlt IV USDtr Kills
drank And boat nil wife only once in two
weeks, then once a month, then once
In two months, and if In tho
meantime ho did not kill her, ho
wonld gat converted after awhile. The cbnreh
wants more Bible preaching. It la getting tired
of spread-eagle oratory, where the preacher
gives hla flock a littlo geology, a little botany,
little metaphysica and allttlo ac:anca, and
onder* why the people don’t feed on the
wonders
Bible.
The text wu a part of the 7th verse of tho
second chapter of Luke: “Bccauso there wh
no room for them in the inn.’’
The preacher sold they laid him In the
manger because there wm no room for them in
the inn. The heart fo very much like the inn
st Batbsny—no room for Chrlat. For four
thousand yean the prophets hod been prophe-
; forward
tying and the people hod been looking ft
for tho Bavlor, and whan he come there wm
so room for him. The first thing we hear was
that there was no room for him. Same My If
they hod known it was him they woald have
prepend for him. Don't believe that. When
thewfoe men followed the star to where the
trno believer
Is glorious. I expect when I got to heaven to
ting tweeter than Mr. Rsnkey sings now. I
can’t make it go new, but I will after a while.
A voice—“Me too."
My frail body will be fashioned like my
Saviour’s.
Many voice*—"Yee, yea, yes.”
Paul says, “Sown In corruption, raised in la-
corruption; sown In weakness, raised in power;
•own in dishonor, tailed in glory; sown In a
natural body, raised a spiritual body.” I’m
jotng to moke something oat of death. “Oh,
death, where is thy sting?” "Oh; grave, where
1s thy victory?” Make room for Christ now.
Listen! "Beheld I stand at the door and
knock! If any man hears my voico and opon
tha door, I will como in to him. and anp with
him and ha with mo. Open the door of yonr
heart, dear friend, and w, “Welcome thrice,
welcome eon of God, into this heart.”
To illustrate • motbor's love for her child,
Mr. Moody told of a boy who had been brought
np by hfo father In vices of different kinds,hfo
father being a very wicked man. Tha father
died, and the son ran awsy from hfo widowed
mother and led a wild, roving life. The son
wu afterward arrested and tried for murder
in Vermont, where bis mother lived. In the
trial it developed that he hod killed five other
men besides tho ono for which he waa on
trial. When the trial wu progressing a poor
old lady was to bo seen near the prisoner.
Sho wu not ashamed to stood before tho wholo
world and My that this criminal wm hor son,
and when the jury aworo his life sway her
•creams and anguish were heartrending to
witncee, and when the verdirt wsa rendered
pronouncing hfo death-kuell the feinted. All
tho while that thla poor mother's heart wu
being wrenched tho crowd around wero joor-
log and hooting at the prisoner, and she alone
tried toahleld him. Sire used every effort to
J ;et him pardoned by the governor,nnd, felling
n this, asked as a last favor that whoa the
law had token Its course, and the only being
she loved WM dud, to please let her have him
buried In her little graveyard, where obe
could plant flowers over hfo grave and care for
him whom all tha world baa despised. When,
a year later, this poor old lady died of a
broken heart, aha requested ou her deathbed
that her body might bo placed betide her boy.
This story thowahow true a mother can love
her child.
"Reek the Lord while he may be found.”
Lots of men think they seek it but they don't
It don’t take an anxious sinner and an anx-
lona Saviour long to get together. They don’t
>uld find. God never
Instead of the holla
ringing and bands playing and cannon boom
ing to tbink tho promfoed Messiah had come,
there wu not even room for him. Didn’t
wont him! You can’t find a place thst wanted
him, while he wu In this world. There wu
not a city or town or hardly a family that
wanted him. If he went bock to Nazareth to
preach there wu no zoom for him. He came to
preach the goapel to the poor. Yon may live
toboahuudredyeanola, bat yon will never
bear better newt than the goapel of Joans
Chrlat Many people bear it as if It wu bad
sews. The gospel is the best news that ever
came from earth to huven. It It the
OLAD TIDINGS OF OBEAT JOY,
for nnto yon fo born s Savior. Will the world
ever beer better news than thst? He came to
proclaim liberty. Yon all know what liberty
is. Wm there ever a town exalted so quickly
as Nsz'.retb? Jorusalem looked down upon
her end thought there conld not bo a greater
•tigms pot npon tbe Savior than to coll him
“Jcsns of Nazareth.” What mast have been
the 8tvtor’e feelings to think there wm no ono
in hfo own town that wonted him!
A few years ego the pnnee of Woles came to
this country, and everybody went wild over
him. There was nothing good enough for
him; bat when the Prince of Heaven came
to (urtb. there wm nothing bed enough for
him. Xo hoods of music, no shouts of wel-
rrnie, but blurs went op frem earth to heaven:
” We dc n’t want him! ” He had como to save
tbe li ft, to give sight to the blind, and to save
peer sinners like yon and me. Yet not a city
or town wanted hint. Do you think tho world
try to utk or they aoolt
converted two people joat alike, and He nev
er will. God never reposts himself. There are
no two people alike. They may look alike
but they don’t think alike. There fo variety
in God’s kingdom. I knew a man la my
town who wu converted in the meadow on a
mowing machine. He advised all the people
to go there and find the Lord. Another one
wee converted on a bridge, and he advised his
friends to go to tho bridge and find tbo Lord.
TUX C1ADLE TO THE OBAVE.
Lift yonr eyu to tho great city-—a city with
out night, s city without a cemetery, a city with
> “‘6“*) nwt/ wiMiuutaa mhuliwj. DUtT niu
hearse* dragging alowly along tho streets, l
city with no gray hair*, but whom all U per
petual youth; a city where there i* no sickness,
no death, no weeping, where life
la eternal. Can yon spam inch
gift? Will you do It?" W1U you
go out and uy yon don’t want it? Think of
God taking np the poor drunkard and lifting
high above the angels, archangels, cherubim*
and Seraphima, np beyond all thoao and to the
throne with Blnuelf! Can yon afford to go
ont.wlthont this gift? Yon can receive It here.
Don’t yon believe it, Dr. Eddy!"
"Yee.”
"Don’t yon, Dr. Hawthorne?”
dV«. »»
"Yu,”
The text Implies that the time fo coming
when He can’t be found. When Gad shuts
the door, there fo no hope. Cell npon nim
while He la near. Say ‘God, bo merciful to
me a sinner.’ That U the prayer. Prey it
IT.’ll h
body Nnd sho goes to death, white hepronlly has improved any ? Do you think they want
elks dqwu the able with bis pure wife Iran- him today ? Do you Udow of any town or city
g on h's atm. IL- you thick God i* going to
low such a thing in Ilfs kingdom?
The litre hss come for men to -ouk o:lt. It
the n.-'-tdevilish iniquity in this country,
is a twin sitter tn whisky. I hope tho time
ill ccmc when the nut t who is impure will
be tkronu cut of society ["Amen,” araco,”
amen” from the preachers and great applause
from the congregation.]
Mr. Moody Mid he didn’t like applause.
If a man sows tare* he will reap tana If
he sews tares with bis wheat he will nap tores
with hla wheat- He easy be oorty, he any be
way I .
that wruid like to have him come aod reign
inj-ertru- If ycu think you do you are
greatly miataken. There Is Dot a town
er city on the face uf the earth that
wants tbe Son of Gtd. aud it would
be shewn hy popular vote. If that vote could
be taker. There is net a solitary place in this
country that has room for him. Eogland
claims to be a Christian country. Does E-tg-
land want him? If the did, • good deal of hor
boainsM would be clootd np-.
DOBS AMERICA WANT HIM ? -
I BBderotand yon had a to* here net tong
now, while I tm preaching. He’ll hear yon.
He is here tonight. He fo ready to uva yon.
There is
NO MUSIC BO SWEET
the cry of a penitent. God help yon to
make It.
"Sctk first the kingdom of God sad Hii
rifbteonsnrES, and all tbuo things shall be
eedtd nnto you.” There are fifteen hundred
ordinary sermons in that. The reason so many
lives are failures fo because they don’t obey
Gcd. With rich and poor there is no differ
ence. The Bible mother gave yon hM yonr
name cn the fly-Ieafand the text Matthew vL,
33. You havn’t looked at it! Go to your home
and read it. Mather wrote it there for yon.”
Mr. Mccdy went on to relate a teaching
•tcry abont a man who lived near him. ana
who fonght against the holy gbostuntil ha wm
crasy and tent to tbe asylum. The text wm
written in hfo Bible. HU Mather gvrt It .to
him, bnt be sold that ha wonld net aeek nntB
he was settled in p* died a manioc. . .