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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. ATLANTA, GA-, TUESDAY APRIL 27 1886
TABERNACLE SERMON
PREACHED YESTbHUAY IN BROOK*
LYN TABKHNACLB.
■ A DiKsonrae by the arut OtTint on “EMUrtlia"-
abe TafccrnsoU Crowded to Orwflowing, and
Sc tat Kali r Dteorated—dome Beautiful
Tbotxgbta on the HeourrocUoa.
Brooklyn, N. Y, April 23.—[Special.]—'The
Brooklyn tabernacle waa elsborately decor* tod
today, both in platform and galleria. Within
the church a scene of rare beauty waa pro-
-tented, the platform being covered with flower*
arranged fn various device* and breathing
forth a delicate aroma. The building was so
crowded that the door* were held open by the
. premure, and many person, were turned away,
being unable to get forther than the iron gate*
on the atreet. In addition to the uaual artiste*
of the church, Mrs. Florence Blce-Koox sang
twice. The opening hymn, in which tlx thou-
(and voicea joined, waa:
•TTopralee Thee, O Ood, for the Son of thy lore,
Jot Jesus who died and la now gone above.”
• The subject of the sermon was “Eaatortldo.”
Dr. Talmage took his text from 1 Cor., xv 20:
“Now it Christ risen from tho dead, and be
come the first fruits of them that slept," Ho
Spoke as follows:
On this glorious Easter morning, amid the
tnnsic and the flowers, I give yon Christian
salutation. This morning Buaaian meeting
Russian on the streets of 8* Petersburg hails
him with the salutation, “Christ la risen,”
smd is answered by hit friend (in salutation,
“He Is risen ladeed." In tome parts of Eng
land and Ireland to this very day there it the
superstition that on Easter morning the ann
dances In the heavena; and well may we for
give such a superstition which illustrates the
foct that the natural world seems to sympa
thise with the spiritual.
Hail! Easter morning. Flowers! Flowers;
AH of them a voice, all of them a tongue, all
of them foil of speech today. I bend over one
of the lilies and I hear it say: “Consider the
lilies of tho field, buw they grow; they toil
not, neither do they spin, yot Solomon in all
his glory was not arrayed as one of these." I
bend over a rose and it seems to whisper: “I
am the rose of Sharon.” And then I stand and
listen. From all tides there come* the chorus
of flowers saying: “If God to clothe tho grass
of the field, which today is, and tomorrow It
cast into the oven, shall He not much more
clothe yon, o yo of little frith?”
Flowers! Flowers! Braid t
bride’s hair. Flowers! Flower*! Strew them
over the grave* of the day, tweet proph
ecy of the resurrection. Flowers I Flowers!
Twist them into a garland for my Lord Jesus
on Easter morning. “Glory be to the Father
and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost; as it
vraaln the beginning, is now and ever shall
Why, if a rainbow this morning had fallen
smd struck the galleries and struck the plat
form, the scene could not have been more
xmdiant. Oh! how bright and how besutifol
the flowers, and how mneb they make me
think of Christ and hi* religion, that bright
ens everything it touches, brlghtons
onr life, brightens onr cnaracter, brightens
society, brightens tbechurch, brightens every
thing. Yon who go with gloomy countenance
pretending yon are better than I am because
of your lugubrionaness, yon cannot cheat me.
Yon old hypocrite! I know yon. Pretty cate
yon arc for a man who professes to be more
than conqueror. It is not religion that makes
yon gloomy, it it the lack of it. There isjust
as much religion in a wedding aa in a burial,
Inst at much religion in a smile as in a tear.
Those gloomy Christians we sometimes see
are the people to whom I like to
lend money, for I never tee them
again! The women came to the Saviour's
tomb and they dropped spices all around the
tomb, and those spices were the teed that be
gan to grow, and from them came all' the
flowers of this Easter morn. The two angels
robed in white took hold of the stone at the
Barter's tomb and they hurltd it with such
forte down the hill that it crushed in the
door of tho world's sepulchre, and the stark
and tho dead most como forth*
I care not how labyrinthine tho mausoleum
or how costly the sarcophagus or however
beautifully parterred the family grounds, we
Want them all broken up by the Lord of tho
resurrection. They moat come out. Father
and mother—they most como out. Husband
and wife—they must come out. Brother
and sister—they must oome out. Onr dar
ling children—they must come ont.
•The eye* that wa close with
anch trembling finger* most open again in the
radiance of that morn. The arms we folded
in dust must join ours in an embrace of reun
ion. The voice that wu hushed in our dwel
ling must bo returned, O, how long some of
you seem to be waiting—waltiog for the resur
rection, waiting I And for thee* broken hearts
today I make a toft, cool bandagoontof Eastor
flowers.
Six years ago, the night before Easter, I re
ceived an Easter card on which there was a
representation of that exquisite flower, the
trumpet creeper, and under it the words:
“The trumpet shall sound and tho dead shall
rite." There was especial reason why at that
time I should have that card sent me, and I
present the tame consolation today to all in
this house; and who has escaped?
My friend*, this morning 1 find in the risen
Christ a prophecy of nur own resurrection,
tny text setting forth tb* Idea that as Christ
hat risen so His people will rite. He the
first sheaf of th* resurrection harvest; He “tbs
first fruits of them that slept." Before I get
through this morning, I wtlll walk through
all the cemeteries of tb* dead, through all the
country graveyards, where your loved ones
are buried, ana I will pluck off these flower*
and I will drops tweet promise of th* Gospel
—a rose of hope, a lllly of Joy on every tomli—
the cbUd'a tomb, the husband’s tomb, th* wife's
tomb, the father's grave, the mother’s grave:
smd while we oelebrate the resurrection of
Christ we wUl at the same time celebrate the
xetnrrection of all good. “Christ tho first
fruit* of them that slept ’’
If I should come to you this morning and ask
you for the name of the great conqueror of th*
world, you would say Alexsudor, Caesar, Phil
ip, Napoleon I. Ah, my friends, you havs for
gotten to mention th* name of a greater con
queror than all these—a cruel, a ghastly con
queror. He rod* on a black horse across Water
loo, Atlanta and Chalons, th* bloody hoob
crushing the hearts of nation* It is the oon-
queror Death. H* carries a black flag and h*
take* no pritonsr*. He dig* a trench across
the hemisphere* and fills It with the carcasses
af nation* Fifty timet would the world have
been depopulated bad not God kept making
new generations. Fifty times would the world
have swnng lifeless through the air—no man
on the mountain, no man on th* sea, an aban
doned ship ploughing through Immensity.
Again and again has he done this work with
all generation* Hs I* a monarch aa well at a
Conqueror: bit palace a sepulchre, his foun
tains th* foUing tear* of the world. Blessed
be Ood, in the light of this Easter morning I
teethe prophecy that bis sceptre shall he
broken and bis palace shall be demolished.
The hour is coming when all who are in their
wmre* shall come forth. Christ risen, we
Shall rise. Jeans “the first fruits of them that
NOW, around this doctrine of the resurrec
tion there are a great many mysteiie* You
com* to me thle morning and amy: “If the
bodies of the deed arc to be raised how is this
and bow is that?" sod yon ask me a thousand
notation* I am incompetent to answer; but
thin* are a great many tbinga von believe that
yon are not thle to explain, Yon would be a
very foolish man to say: “I won’t believe eny-
thing I can’t understand." Why, patting down
(me kind of Bower eerd comet there up this
flower of this color? Why, putting down an
other flower seed come* there op a flower of
this colot?—on* flower white, soother flower
yellow, another flower crimson. Why the dif
ference when the seed* look to be very much
alike—ere very much alike? Explain thee*
thing* Explain that wart on the
finger. Explain the difference
—why th* oak W U different from tke leaf
Oi the hickory. Tell me how the Lord Al
mighty can turn the chariot of Hie omnipot*
slice on a rose leaf. You ask ms questions
about the retorrection I cannot answer. I
will aak yon a thousand questions about every
day life you cannot answer.
1 find my strength in this passage: “AU who
are in their graven shall come forth." I do
not pretend to make the explanation. You go
OB and say: “Suppose a returned missionary
dies in Brooklyn; when ho sraa In China his
foot waa amputated; he lived years after in
England; ho is buried today fn Greenwood;
iu the resurrection wUl tho foot oome from
England and will the different parte of the
body bo reconstructed In the reeurrectiou?
How it that poaaible?"
You say that the human body changes every
reren years and by seventy years of age a man
has had ten bodies? Iu the resurrection which
will come up you sty: “A man will die and
hie body crumble into the dust and that dust
be taken np into the life of the vegetable; an
animal may eat the vegetable, men eat the
animal; in the resurrection that body, dis
tributed in so many direction* how shall it
bo gathered np?” Have yon any mom ques
tions of this style to ask? Como iu and ask
them. I do not protend to answer them, i
foil hack upon tho announcement of God’s
word: “AU who are in their graves shaU come
forth.”
fc-You have notioed, I suppose, in reading the
story of the reeurrectiou, that almost every
account of the Bible give* the idea that the
cberacteristio of that day wiU bo a great sound.
I do not know that it will be very loud, but I
know that it wUl be very ponotrating. In the
mausoleum whore silence has reigoed a thou
sand years that voice must penetrate. In the
coral cave of the deep that voloe mast pene
trate. Millions of spirits will oome through
tho gates of eternity, and they willcomoto
the tomb* of tho earth, and they will cry:
” Give ne back onr bodies; wo gave them to
yon in corruption, surrender them now in iu-
corruption.” Hundreds of spirits hovering
about the engs of Gettysburg, for there the
bodice are buried. A hundred thousand spirits
coming to Greenwood, for there tho bodies era
buried, waiting for the reunion of body and
soul.
All along the tea route from New York to
Liverpool, at every few mile* where a steam
er went down, deported spirits comiog back,
hovering over tho wave. There is whore the
city of Boston perished. Found at lost. There
is where tho President perished. Steamer
found st last. There is where the Central
America went down. Spirits havering, hum
d reds of spirit* hovering; waiting for there,
union of body and soul. Out on the prairie a
spirit alights. There is where a traveler died
id the snow. Crash goes Westminster Abbey,
and the poete and orators come forth. Won'
derful mingling of good and bad. Wilber,
force, the good; Queen Elizabeth, the bad.
Crash go the Pyramids of Egypt, and, the
monarch* come forth.
Who can sketch the acene? I suppose that
ono moment before that genera! rlslug there
will lie an eternal silence save as you hear the
grinding of a wheel, or tho clatter of tho hoofr
of a procession passing into tho cemotory.
Silence in all the caret of the earth. Silence on
the side of tbsrmountain. Silence down in the
valleys and far out into the sea. Silence. But
in » moment, in tho twinkling of sn eye, as
tho archangel's trumpet comet polling, tolling,
crashing across the mountain and sea, tho earth
will give ono terrific shudder and tho grave*
of the dead will heavo llko tho wavsa of tho
sea, and Oatend and Sebastopol and Chalons
will stalk forth In tho lurid air, and tho
drowned wUl come up and wring ont their wet
locka above the billow, and all the land and all
tho res become one moving man ot life—all
face* all ages and conditions gazing in ona di
rection and upon ono throne, tho throno of the
resurrection.
“All who are in their graves shall come
forth.”
“But,” you say, "if thladoctrlne of the res
urrection is true as prefigured by this Enter
morning, Christ, ’th* first fruits of them that
slept,’ Christ rising, a promise and a prophecy
of tho rising of all his people, can you tell ns
something about tho resurrected oody?” I
can There are mysterln about that,
but I shall tell yon three or fonr things in
regard to the resurrected body that are be
yond guesting and beyond mistake.
In the first place, I remark in regard to yonr
resurrected body, it wUl be a glorious body.
Tho body wo have now Is a mere skeleton of
what it would have bean if ain had not
marred and defaced it. Tako tho most
exquisite statne that was evar
made by an nrtlat and chip it here and chip it
there with a chisel, and batter and lira lie it
here and there end then stand it ont in the
storm of a hundred years, and tho beauty
would be gone. Well, the human body has
been chipped and battered end braised and
damaged with the storm of a thousand years—
the physical defects of other generation* com
ing down from generation to generation, wo
inheriting tho infelicities of pest generations;
but in the morning of the reearroctlon the
body will be adorned and beautified according
to tho original model, and there la no inch
difference between a gymnast and an emacia
ted wretch In m lazaretto aa there will be a
difference between onr bodies as they are now
and our resurrected form*
There you wiU see tho perfect eye after the
waters of death have weened out the stains of
tears and study. Than yon will seo tho per
fect hand after th* knot* of toll hsvo boon
untied from tho knuckle* There yon will
see the form erect and clastic after the bur
dens have gone off the ehoalder—the very life
of God in the body.
In thie world the moet impress!vo thing, tho
meat expressive thing, is tho human face; bnt
that face 1* veiled with the griefs of a thou*
•and year* In the resurrection morn that
veil will lw taken away from the face, and tha
noonday sun is dull and dim and stupid com
pared with the ootflamlog glories of the coun
tenances of tho saved. Whan thorn frees of
the righteous, those resurrected face* turn
toward tho gate or look np towurd the tbrono,
it will be like the dtwnlog of a now morning
on the lioaomof everlasting day! 0 glorious
resurrected body!
But I remark also in regard to that body
which yon are to get In the resurrection, it
will bo an Immortal body. These bodies are
wasting away. Homebody has said aa soon as
we begin to live wo begin to die. Uuleuwe
begin putting the fuel into the foresee the
foresee dies ont. Tho blood vessels are
canala taking the breadstnflb to all parte of tho
sj stem. We must be reconstructed hour by
hour, day by d*y. Sickness and death are au
the time trying to get their prey under the
tenement or to posh us offtb* embankment of
the grave; bnt, bleosed ho God! in
the reso reaction wo will get a
body immortal. No malaria In tbs
air, no congb, no nenralgte twinge; no rheu
matic pang, no fluttering of th* heart, no
shortness of breath, no ambulance, no dis
pensary. no hospital, no Invalid’s obalr, no
spectacles to improve tho dim vision; bnt
health, immortal health. O ye who havo
aches and pains Indcacribabla this morning;
O yo who are never wall; O ye who ere lacer-
etid with physical distrusts, 1st m* tell you
of tho resurrected body, free from aU disease!
Immortal! immortal!
I go farther and say In regard to that body
which yon are to get In the resurrection, It
will be a powerful body. Wo walk now eight
or ten miles and we are fetigned. W* lift a
few hundred pound* and we are exhausted;
unarmed we meet a wild beast and we most
run or fly or climb or dodge because we are
incompetent to meet it; wa will toil eight or
ten hours vigorously and then we are weary;
bnt in tbo resurrection wo are to havo a body
that never gets tired. Is it not a glorious
thought?
Plenty of occupation in heaven, I suppose,
and Broadway, New York, in the bmiest sea
son of the yea rat noonday, is not so busy as
heaven is all the time. Grand projects of
mercy for other worlds. Victories to he cel-
ebrated. Th* downfall of despotisms on earth
to be announced. Great songs to bo learned
and sung. Great crpeditlons|ou which God
shall scud forth His children. Plenty to
do bnt no fatigue. If yon are seated
oodcr the tree of life It will not be to rest, bat
to talk over with some old eomrade,oId times—
the battles where yon fought shoulder to
shoulder. Jacob and tb* sngol wrestled to
gether. Jacob waa not thrown because tho
angsl favored him. Bat one* gat your resur
rected body and tbo angsl eoud not wrestle
yon down. It is impossible to wreotls down
the giants of God oo high—strong, suppla, un
exhausted, mighty, Immortal. Oh, to It not a
glorious thought?
Sometimes In this world we feel wo would
like to havo inch a body as that. There is so
much work to be done for Christ, there are so
many tears to bo wiped away, there are so
many hardens to lift, there is so much to be
achieved for Christ, wo sometime* wish that
from the first of January to tho last of Decem
ber we could toil on without stopping to sloop
or take any recreation, or to rest or even to
tako food—that wo could toil right on without
stopping a moment in our work of commend-
log Christ and heaven to all the people; bnt
we all got tired.
It is a characteristic of the human body in
this condition. We must got tired. Ia it not a
glorious thought that after a while, in the
service of God, we are going to have a body
that will never get weary? O glorious resur
rection day I Gladly will I fling aside this poor
body of ain and fling it into the tomb if at
Thy bidding I shall have a body that novel
wearies That was a splendid resurreotion
hymn that was snog at my father’s burial:
“Bo Jcsos slept, God's dying Son
Passed through the grave and blessed the bed;
Best here, bleat saint, till from His throne
The morning breaks to pierce the shed*"
O, bleated resurrection I Speak out, sweet
flowers, beantlfol flowers! While yon toll of
a risen Christ, tell of the righteous who shall
rise. May God fill yon thle morning with an
ticipation I
I heard of a fothcr and son, who, among
other* were shipwrecked at sea. The father
and the son climbed into tho rigging. Tho
father held on, but tho son, nftor n while, lost
his bold in tho rigging and was dashed down.
Tho father supposed he had gone hopelessly un
der the wave. The next day the frtherwas
brought ashore from tho rigging in an
exhausted eteto and laid on a bed in a fisher
man’s but, and after many hoars had passed
he came to consciousness and saw, lying be
side him on the same bed, his boy. O, my
friends, wbat a glorioni thing it will be to
wako np at last to find onr lovod one* besido
os! Coming np from the same plot in the
same graveyard, coming up in the same morn
ing light—the father and son alive forever, all
tbo loved ones alive forever, nevermore to
weep, nevermore to part, nevermore to die.
. May the God of peace that brought again
from the dead onr Lord Jeans, that groat
Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of
tho everlasting covenant, make yon perfect
in every good work, to do ilia will; and
let this brilliant scone of the morning
transport onr thoughts to tho grander assem
blage before tho throne. This august sasem-
blape is nothing compared with it—tho one
hundred and forty and four thonsand and the
“great multitude no man can number," aonra of
our Iwst friends among them, wo, after a while
to join tho multitude. -Biassed anticipation t
did and sublime.
“My son! anticipates the day.
Would stretch her wines and soar away;
To aid tbo song, tho palm to bear,
And bow, the chief of sinner* there.”
THE CHURCH INUi HOUSE.
A Service or Home-Worship for Every Sunday [In
the Tsar.
By Bxv. Charles F. Dkkm, D. D.,
Pastor of the Church of the Stranger* New York.
FOURTH SUNDAY IN APRIL.
When the household shall have assembled, let
the head of the family, or somo other poraon ap
pointed by him lead th^sc^jcc 1 by * short
' [It will promote sttcnUc
the close of every prayer,
family repeat “Amen, 1 ]
THE LESSON PRO It THE OLD TESTAMENT.
[Tb* leader should announce the plaoe at leuoa.
so thstcsch worshipper may open the Bible and
follow tbe reeding:!
— 1 —HiL Hym *—
and the Gospel for eeoh day should
be announced, so that all the family may tom to
tbe pssasxo sod accompany the reading:]
The Epistle—col. Ui.,1-1?: Tho Gospel; St John
xx, M»; The Dlsooune. .
(Then may be read the following or any other
short dlsooorse. The reader may enter** upon any
sentence, or Introduce other matter. Th* para
graph divisions wUl assist.1
Text: “I will raiso him up at tho last
day.—"John vl., 40.
liow frequently our Lord alludes to the lait
day snd tbe resurrection ! How littlo account
He makes of dying! Life, lifa now, and life
hereafter, this to His theme. Ho calls Himself
the Beanrrectlon and the Life. Wo stand and
walk, that ia life; wa fall, that is death; we are
lifted up again, that is the resurrection. Death
ia but nn incident on tha lino of Ilfa.
But mark, wo shall not raise of onr own will
and on onr owd motion. Ho will raiso u* It
will be o special exertion of His own will to ac
complish this great thing for n* As the world
owas its redemption to Christ, oo will each ona
of ns owe his resurrection to Christ. Wo could
no more convert ourselves than raise onrselves;
snd we could no more raise ourseivas from the
rave than we could raiso ourselves from a
cathofalnuntoa life of righteousness. “He
uickeneth whom He will." He had power to
lay down and to take up Hlaown Ilf* Bnt no
other man ever had. “The dead shall hoar tho
Son of Ood and llvo.”
Everlasting lifa follow! the resurrection.
_ rum mortal lifs a Christian falls to temporary
death, from which he is raised to everlasting
life. He shall die no more. Ho is to bo like
hlsLord. “Death bath no more dominion over
Him."
Boo who hath this glorioni prospect: "Every
one that seeth [looketh on] tho Son and be-
lleveth on [In] Him.” Do not supposo that
spiritual osaltatlon from tha grave and in
eternity come* naturally. Wa shall not grow
out of tbo grave Into the bloom of immortal
spiritual glory aa a planted bulb shoot* up into
a flower. It will he * special exertion of Chri it’s
power He will raise each nun. The bad and
good shall have reeorrectlen, bnt the "raising
R ," the uplifting, tb* exaltation, shall be
rente those (1) who gaze on Christ, giving
im deserved consideration, and (2) who be
lieve "in" Christ, rest absolutely on Him. He
who was despised has all tbe reeerves of
glory. He who waa caused to die under a
crown of thorns has power to place crowns of
imperishable glory on whom He will.
[Alter this, or any other abort dlaooors* a hymn
or several bymns may ba sung, aa the family may
find sgrssab a and profitable. After which*!! may
unite In s prayer Including thanksgiving.]
[The Lord's Prayer should be used somewhere in
each service, end the service may be closed with
Ur* “Gloria" or other Doxotogy.J
AFTERNOONTALK.
[A service may be held end the following discount
POWER.
By Rev. Dr. Palmer, New Orlean*
Let ui again read Item, xv., 13: “Now tho
God of hope fill you with all Joy and peace in
helicvlng, that yo may abound in hope through
arcr of tho Holy Ghost."
that tho Apostlo prays for shall be
wrought through the power of tho Holy Ghost.
It is remarkable how much this Idas of power
is associated with salvation in tbe Holy Scrip
ture. (See Bom. I.. 13; I Cor.!., 13-21; Eph.
Ill ; II. The* I., 11) Is there not |»wer when
God blends all attributes in thagraclons recon
ciliation of tbe sinner to Himself? Is there
not power when the Holy Spirit Carrie* on ills
ork in tbe human soul, snd never at any
point infringes upon tho agency and responsi
bility of the creature ? lathers not power In
lifting the body from tbe tomb snd transform
ing it into the spiritual body moot to units
with the spirit again in tbe world of spirit?
And toll me, ye glorified one* how it Is yonr
finite nature is supported under tbe amazing
revelations of Heaven? Yet there never
ascended e spirit to that bright world, which
was not equal to ite “excoodiog weight of
i very sweet, usd we an tempted
to linger over it after the time of rest hs*
come. Let me help yon to port from the text
in a hopefol spirit, by Just taro suggestion*
One is, tbs precionsneee of onr experience,
whatever its defect* If It be e ten* experience,
it is worth more thee the gift of * kingdom.
With ell Ite defectives css, it nevsrthalaas
spring* ont of tb* Divine power, and contains
nil the element* of hope, peace snd Joy dis
closed in the text. . .
Realize next, that the beet form of Christian
experience la that which consist* of principle
Howevir sweet to tho teste you cannot live
upon joy ulone. It would bo too exhllaratlug;
you could not endure tbe perpetual excitomont
of inch delight. It wonld not discipline yon
for the ragged duties which belong to this life
of straggle and endurance. A religion of mere
emotion would effeminate us. Let ns leave to
the wisdom that Is higher than onr own, the
mingling of tho ingredients that enter Into onr
cup. Let ns strive to bo capable of duty; that
when we appear in the presence of onr King,
It tnnw ltn m “iham than AAnniHtfATI thrOUCtl
fAn appropriate poem la added, which.may be
commuted to memory by the young people.]
HOl-E IN DEATH.
MyLord, HU angeU shall
Their golden trumpets sound,
At whore sweet, welcome call
My grave shall ba unbound,
Sweet truth to mo I
I said, sometimes with tear*
“Ah, me I I'm loath to die!"
Lord, silence Thou those there,
My life’s with Thee on High.
Sweet truth to mo I
I shall arise,
And with these eyes
WORK OF TKE WATERS:
Montreal, April 10.—About 12 o'clock Sat
urday night the river again rote suddenly and
continued rising. The greater part of the
business district was under water. The whole
west end below St. 'Antoine, was also flooded.
ThowalUofHolaon’a rolling mill hsvo given
way. Victoria square and part* of Craig and
Juror streets,together with intersectlngptroeta,
erennder water. The whole country on the
south as for is 8b John* Is flooded ana
all communication stepped. Tho flooded dU
irict, is mostly in darkness, tho water having
entered the gas pipes snd thneleetrio works
being flooded. loo holds firm from Tochelags
to Boocbcrvili* Tho English newspaper
ofllccs are flooded and tho papers will havo to
pnblUh in the French office* At a late hour a
correspondent visited parte of tho flooded dis
tricts. In ordor to get to the western portion of
tho city ho had to makes long dotour, all the
low lying street* being covered by water. In
some places tbe water rose so rapidly that tbe
people bad no time to prepare for it and had
totakorefoge in upper ateric* whore many
arc wltbont Are and foei, and as yet with no
prospect of relief in the shape of provision*
In somo of tho streets the
water U six foot deep. Tho
merchant* say tho losses will amount to
millions of dollar* Thia is tho wont flood
that over visited Montreal. The nuns on 8b
James Island, opposite the city, are obliged to
take refuge In the attio of tho building. The
blockade of ice make* access to them Impos
sible. The island U a resting place for nuns.
’It is situated In a most romantto spob Tbe
city of Montreal ottered a very largo sum for
lb wUhlng to purchase It for a park, but tno
nnns refused to sell. The nans hold Island
by virtue of a grant from tho king of France
when Canada waa n French colony. Tho Mon
treal warehouse company’s large elevator and
Anthony Force’s warehouse are flooded. A
largo number of men are thus thrown out
unemployment for tho present. Seven thou
sand four handled and twenty-two families
have been flooded out, giving tho total popu
lation In tho district affected by tho flood
about thirty thonsand.
Fittsfield, Hass., April 20.—At 0 o'clock
thia morning tbo village of East Loo waa inun
dated and devastated by the breaking away of
tbe dam at Mud Pond reservoir, Mountain
lako, about two and a half mile* from tho vil
lage. The pond covered many acre* of swamp
and waa increased from its original limited alee
by exlentive dam* built by a club of mannfae-
terict at a storage piece for water. East Loo
village, where a half dozen paparmllla are alt-
tutted on tho atream, received ite first ntwi of
the accident when tbs flood came pouring
down the atreet* the water being
from fonr to six feet deep and bringing with it
trees, portions of honae* barn* fences, wagons
and ovary movable property. Th* pooplo fled
to the slope of tho valley, along which the
torrent wa* pouring and taw hornet moved
and toppled about like chips on tb* river. Th*
flood raised East Loo and wont on down the
road, destroying garden* lawn* fences and
moving smaller buildings. It had not tbe
E ower, however, to wreck utterly tha larger
onscs, though th* damage done will amount
to many thonsand dollar* As toon at possi
ble, the people went np tho line of the flood
toward tho pond and found tho rain wort*,
as they approaohod th* starting
point of torrenb Fortunately the track
of tho flood was ia a sparsely Inhabited conn-
try, bnt wbat destruction there was for it to
do, In wrecking three or fonr honsss along th*
way. waa thoroughly accomplished. Mach
stock, besides proporty, is lost. Thn scene is
one of terrible desolation, and tha town of Loo
It wild with excitement.
Nine bodies have been found, and it is ax
pected more will be dlaoororod.
George W. Tompkins, H. D., 78 Cumberland
street, Brooklyn, N. Y., write* June 1), 1883:
“1 take pleasure In reoemmending Allcook’
I’oroos Blasters in all cases of general debili
ty, especially where tb* paint are severs over
tho regions of tho Kidneys, Liver and Cheat;
marked Improvement occurs soon as relief
from loitering is obtained. For Lumbago
theso Blaaters surpasa soyffinlmonta, etc,”
I). Turain, a farmer living near Maryville, Mo.,
was shot snd killed by an officer st HL Louis.
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e winter rink*
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An old physician, retired from practice, hav
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bis suffering fellow* Actuated by this motive
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directions for preparing and using. Bent by
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THE LIVER DY8PEP8IA
Secretes tho bile and aett likea filter to Variable appetite; taint, ant
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hr its functions, the bile poisons the blood, tow spirits, general prostration. There, is
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-I have been for a namtwrof Da. Jornr 71ull.-t have no hsrttsuen in urine
huvynJSffSyTvVP'SS'^^rau
EVaffiSrxagav. m. more relist
LoolsrOle, Ky. in numbcrs.ot Ihs afisra com*
thepr* , JAMES MOORX, Loulsvtllt, By,
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wB ggsgsgasfl&s
“^“•^^SStCMtSi&.HomOsvs.Ey.
Heap.
/KIDNEYS. nr riz-vri
Art the great secretory organs cf
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Kidneys Bow the waste fluids eon- l,Z£ B LIFE ’
taining poisonous matter taken from tho sj
___ 80ROFULA
is a peculiar morbid condition ot
tho system, caused directly by
Impurities in the blood or by
tawing poisonous matter taken from the tys- the lack of sumcont nourishment furniehea
tern. It the Kidneys do not act property this to tho system through the blood, usually
matter is retained and poisons tho blood, affecting the glands, often resulting in
causing headache, weakness,pain intheemali swellings, enlarged joints, abteotsos, sore
of back and loins. Bushes of heat, chills, with eyes, blotchy eruptions on tho faco or nook,
disordered otomaeh and bowolo. BULL'S Erysipelas is akin to Handle often mistaken
SARSAPARILLA acts as a diuretic on tho for Scrofula at it comet from the same cause.
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Du.lt
impurities from tho blood and
cleanses th system through tho regular
channels.
Da. Jontr
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