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From the Text: “Who Touched Me?”—y««cn
You Touch the >avior lie Touche* ou.
The Woman who Faith that Healed.
Brooklyn. May 21—(Special.V-liev. Dr.
Talmage today ehose for the subjee of h s
discourse the inquiry address'd by th
Savior to those who surrounded hn.i uhtn,
the invalid woman having touched ins gar
incut, he asked. "Who Touched Me. -
Mark 5. 31. , ~
A Kreat erowd of excited people ebowm
each Other this way and that, and Chnst
in the midst of the commotion. they vote
on the wav to see him restore to complete
health a dying person. Some thong n io
could effect tin- cure, others Hia. he could
not. At any rate, it would be an interest
ing experiment. A very sick woman of
twelve years- invalidism is in tin- erowd.
Some sav her name was .Martha, others s:ty
it was Veronica. 1 do not know what her
name was. but, this is certain: she had tried
all styles of cure, livery shelf of her hum
ble home had medicines on it. She had em
ployed many of the doctors ot that time
when medical science was more rude and
rough and ignorant than we can imagine m
this time, when the word physician or sur
geon stands for potent and educated skill.
Professor Lightfoot gives a list ot what he
supposes may have been the remedies she
had applied. I slippost' she bad be.m blis
tered from head Io toot, and had tried the
compress, and had used all styles ot astrin
gent herbs, and she had been mauled and
hacked and cut and lacerated until life to
her was a plague. Besides that, the Bible
indicates her doctors bills had run up fright
fully. and she had paid money tor m«.i
cines and for surgical attendance and for
hygienic apparatus until her purse was as
exhausted as her body. .
What, poor, woman, are you doing m
that jostling erowd? Bettor go home and
to bed ami nurse your disorders. No. tyitl
and wasted and taint she stands there, net
face distorted with suffering and ever ami
anon biting her lip with some acute pain
ami sobbing until her tears tall from the
hollow eve upon the faded dress; only able
to stand' because the erowd is so dose to
her pushing her this way and that. ptand
back! Why do you crowd that poor body.
Have you no consideration lor a dying wo
man? 'But just, al that time the crowd
parts ami the invalid comes almost up to
Christ but she is behind him and Ins human
eye docs not take her in. She has heard
go much about, his kindness to the si< k
and she does feel so wretched, she Ihinss
if she can onlv just touch him once it will
do her good. She will not touch him on the
sacred head, for that might be irreverent.
She will not touch him on the hand tor that
might seem t<>,, familiar. She says: “I
will, 1 think, touch him on his coat, not on the
top of it or on thebottoni ot the main fabric,
},nt on the border, the blue border; the long
threads of the fringe of that bine border.! here
can be no harm in that. 1 don t. think he
will hurt me. 1 have heard so much about
him. Besides that. 1 can stand this no
longer. Twelve years of suffering have
worn me out. This is my last hope
And she presses through the erowd still
further and reaches for Christ, but cannot
Quite touch him. She pushes still further
throw'll the crowd and kneels awl puts her
linger to the edge of the blue fringe of the
bolder. She just touches it. Quick as
mi <1 -. trie shock there thrilled back into
her shattered nerves ami shrunken veins
amt exhausted arteries and panting lungs
and withered muscles, health, beautiful
health. rubicund health, God-given
urn! complete health. The twelve years
march of pain and pang ami suttering over
suspension bridge of nerve and through
tunnel of bone instantly halted.
Christ rceogniz.es somehow that magnetic
8: „j healthful fluence through the medium
of Ihe blue fringe of his garment had shot
out. lie ini' ami looks upon that, excited
crowd and turtles them with the itnerrog
axorj of in? text: “What touches nw?
Tim iiis'dc .pi 'Si ion You know we cannot
answer.’’ But the roseate and rejuvenated
woman came up and knelt in front of
Christ and told of tiie touch and told of
the restoration and Jesus said: “Daughter,
thy faith hath made thee whole. Go in
leace. So Mark gives us a dranietizn lion of
the gospel. Oh, what a doctor Christ is!
1 i every one of our households may he the
family physician.
Notice that there is no addition of help
to others without subtraction of power
from ourselves. The context says that as
soon as this woman was healed Jesus felt
that virtue or strength had gone out of
him. No addition of help to others without
subtraction of strength from ourselves. Did
you never get tired for others?
Have you never risked your health
for others? Have you never
preached a sermon or delivered an exhorta
tion, or offered a burning prayer, and then
felt afterward that strength had gone out
of you? Then you have never imitated
Christ.
Are you curious to know how that gar
ment of Christ should have wrought such
a cure for this suppliant invalid? 1 suppose
that Christ was urcharged with vitality.
You know that diseases may be conveyed
from city to city by ga.ment’s as in ease of
epidemic, and so 1 suppose that garments
may be surcharged with health. 1 suppose
that. Christ had such physical magnetism
that it permeated all his robe down to the
last thread on the border of the blue fringe.
But in addition to that there was a divine
thrill, there was a miraculous potency, there
was an omnipotent therapeutic:? without
which this twelve years’ invalid would not
have been instantly restored.
Now’, if omnipotence cannot, help others
without depletion, how can we ever ex
pect to bless the world without self-sacri
fice? A man who gives to some Christian
object until he feels it, a man who in his
occupation or profession overworks that he
may educate his children, a man who on
Sunday night goes home, all his nervous
energy wrung out by active service in
chtin h, or Sabbath school, or city evangel
ization, has Imitated Christ, and the
strength has gone out of him. A mother
who robs herself of sleep in behalf of a
sick cradle, a wife who bears up cheerfully
under domestic misfortune that she may
encourage her husband in the combat
against disaster, a woman who. by hard
saving and earnest prayer and good coun
sel, wisely given, and many years devoted
to rearing her family for God and useful
ness aiid heaven, and who has nothing to
show tor it but pr -mature gray hairs and
n profusion of deep '■ tinkles, is like Christ,
and strength has gone out of her. That
strength or virtue may have gone out
through a garment she has made for the
home, that strength may have gone out
through the sock you knit for the barefoot
destitute. that strength may go out through
the mantle hungup in some closet .after roti
are d".'d. Si a crippled child sat every
Tn irntng <-:i her fatC-tV; front step so that
when the kind Christian teacher passed bv
to school she might take hold of her dress I
nnd lei the dress slid, 'hroiigh her pale tin- '
gers. She said it helped h<T train so much I
nnd mad. her so happy all the day. Ave
have we not in all our dwelling garments
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of the departed, a touch of which thrills us
through and through, the life of those who
are gone thrilling through the life ol those
who stay? But mark you, the principle I
evolve from this subject. No addition of
health to others unkiss there be a subtrac
tion of strength from ourselves. He felt
that strength had gone out of him.
Notice also in this subject a Christ sen
sitive to human touch. We talk about
God on a vast scale so much we hardly
appreciate his accessibility, God in mag
nitude rather, than God in minutiae, God
in the infinitive rather than God in the in
finitesimal; but here in my text we have
a God arrested by a suffering touch. \) hen
in the sham trial <tf Christ they struck
him on the cheek wo can realize how that
cheek tingled with pain. M Hen under the
scourging ihe rod struck the shoulders
and back of Christ wo can realize how he
must have writhed under the lacerations.
But here there is a sick nmi nerveless
finiror Ibnt lust touches llie long threads
of the blue fringe of hise oat ami he Jooks
around and says: ‘’Who touched The?
We talk about sensitive people but
Christ was the impersonation of all sen
sitiveness. The slightest stroke of (lie
smallest finger of human disability' makes
all the nerves of his head and heart ami
hand and feet vibrate. It is not a stolid
Christ, not a phlegmatic Christ, not a
preoccupied Christ, not a hard ( lirist. not
an iron-eased Christ, but an exquisitely
sensitive Christ that my text unveils. All
Hip things that touch us touch him if by
the hand of prayer we make the connect
ing line between him and ourselves com
plete. Mark yon, this invalid of Ihe text
might nave walked through that crown
all day and cried about her suttering, ami
no relief would have come if she had not
touched him. When in your prayer you
lay your hand on Christ you touch till the
sympathies of an ardent ami glowing and
responsive nature.
Yon know that in telegraphy there are
two currents of electricity. So when you
put out your hand of prayer to Christ
there are two currents —a current of sor
row rolling up from your heart to Christ,
and a current of commiseration rolling
from Hie heart of Christ to you. Iwo cur
rents. Oh, why do you go unhelped?
Why do yon go wondering about this and
wondering about that? Alh, do you not
touch him?
Are you sick? I do not think you are
anv worse oil than this invalid of Hie text.
Have you had a long struggle? 1 do not
think it has been more than twelve years.
Is your ease hopeless? So was this of
which my text is the diagnosis and prog
nosis. “Oh.” you say, “there are so many
things between me and God. There was
a whole mob between this invalid amt
Christ. She pressed through and I guess
you can press through. .
Is vour trouble a home trouble? Christ
shows himself especially sympathetic with
questions of domesticity, as when at the
wedding in Cana ho alleviated a house
keeper’s predicament, as when tears rush
ed forth at t°Tie broken home of Mary and
Mm-tlia and Lazarus. Mon are sometimes
ashamed to weep. There are mon who if
the tears start will conceal them. They
think it is unmanly to cry.’ They do not
seem to understand it is manliness, and
evidence of a great heart. I am afraid of
a man who docs not know how to cry.
The Christ, of the text was not ashamed to
cry over human misfortune. Look at that
deep lake of tears opened by the two words
of the evangelist: "Jesus wept I" Behold
Christ on the only day of his early triumph
marching on Jerusalem, the glittering
domes obliterated by the blinding rain of
tears in his eves and on his cheek: for
when he behold the city b<» wept over it
O man of the many trials, O woman of
the heartbreak, why do you not touch
“(ill," savs some one, "Christ don t care
for me. Christ is lookiirg the oilier way.
Christ, has the vast affairs of his kingdom
to look after. He has the armies of sin
lo overthrow, and there are so many
worse cases of trouble than mine he doesn t
care about me. and his face is dimed the
other way.” So his back was turned to this
invalid of the text. He was on his way to
effect a cure which was famous ami pop
ular and wide-resounding. But the context
.. .vr-i.-, 1.1, nig t<> t ..Jf ’ o *vas
Hie west? What tiirneu Him about? 'Die
Bible says Ho has no shadow of turning.
He rides on in His chariot through the
eternities. Ho marches on crushing scep
ters as though they wore the crackling
alders on a brook's bank, ami tossing
thrones on either side of him without stop
ping to look which way they' fall. From
everlasting to everlasting “he turned him
about.” He whom nil the allied
armies of hell cannot stop a minute or divert
an inch, by the wan. sick, nerveless finger
of human suffering turned clear about.
Oh. vi hat comfort there is in this sub
ject for people who are called nervous. Os
course it is a misapplied word in that
case, but I use it in the ordinary parlance.
After twelve years of suffering, oh, what
nervous depression she must have 1 ad.
You all know that, a good deal of medi
cine taken if it does not cure leaves the
system exhausted, and in the Bible in so
many words she “had suffered many things
of many physicians, and was nothing bet
tered. but rather grew worse.” She was as
nervous as nervous could be. She knew all
about insomnia and about the awful afpre
hension of something going to happen, and
irritability' about little things that in health
would not have perturbed her. 1 warrant
you if was not a straight strike the gave
to the garment of Christ, hut a trembling
forearm, and an uncertain motion of the
hand, and a quivering finger with which
she missed the mark toward whirl she
aimed. She did not touch the garment just
where she expected to touch it.
W hen 1 see this nervous woman coming
to the Lord Jesus Christ, I say si.e is
making Hie way for till nervous pci pie.
Nervous people do not get muclj sympathy.
If a man breaks his arm everybody is sorry
and they talk about it all up and down the
street. If a woman has tin eye put out
by accident, they say: •‘That's’ a dreadful
thing.” Everybody' is asking about her con
valescence. But when a person is suffering
under the ailment of which I am now'
speaking, they say: “Oh, that's nothing,
she’s a little nervous, that’s all,” putting
a slight upon the most agonizing of suffer
ing.
Now. I have a new prescription to give
you. I do not ask you to discard hm. an
medicament. 1 beleive in it. When the
slightest thing occurs in the way of sick
ness in my household, we always run for
the doctor. I do not want to despise med
i'ine. If you cannot sleep jights do not
despise bromide of potassium, if you have
nervous paroxysm do not despise mor
phine. If you want, to stregthen up vour
system do not despise quinine as a tonic.
Use all right and proper medicines. But I
want you to bring your insomnia, ami bring
your irritability, ami bring all -our v.<ak
nesses, am! with them I<mch ( hrist. T..m-h.
Him not only on the hem of Ills g.-irments.
but touch Him on the shoulder where
he carries our burden, touch Him on the
head where Me remembers all our sor
rows. touch Him on" the heart, the center
of all Mis sympathies. Oh. yes, Paul was
right when he sain: "We have not a high
priest, who cannot bo touched.”
The fact is Christ Himself is nervous,
.All those nights out of doors in malarial
districts where an Englishman <>r tin Amer
ican dies if he goes at. certain seasons.
Sleeping nut of door* so many nights, as
Christ did. ami so hungry, and His feet
wet with the wash of the sea. and the wil
derness tramp and the persecution ami the
outrage must have broken down Ills ner
vous system: a fact proved by the state
ment that ho lived so short •: time <n the
er<iss. That is a lingering death or
dinarilv. ami manv a suTernr on tlm
cross has writhed in nain twenty-four hours,
forty-eisrht hours. Christ liv.f-1 only six'.
M by. Me was exhausted b fore he mounted
th<‘ bloody trey. Oh, is a worn-out Christ
sympathefie with all people worn out?
A Christian voman wont to the tract
bouse in New Ym-k and asked for true’s
for distribution. The first day she was out
on her Christian errand she saw a police
man taking an intoxicated woman to the
station house. After the woman was dis
charged from custody this Christian tract
distributor saw her coming away, all un
kempt and unlovely. The tract distributor
went up, threw her arms around her neck
and kissed her. The woman said, “O, my
God, whv do you Liss me?” “W ell. ’ re
plied the other, “I think Jesus Christ, told
me to.” “Oh, no,” the woman said, “don t
you kiss me; it. breaks my heart. Nobody
lias kissed mo since inv inot'hc’l' died. But
that sisterly kjss brought, her to Christ; start
ed her on the road t<> heaven. The world
wants sympathy, is dying for sym
pathy, large-hearted Christian sym
pathy. There is omnipotence in the
touch. Oh, I am so glad that when you
touch Christ, ('lirist touches us. The
knuckles and the limbs and the joints till
falling apart with that living death called
leprosy, a man is brought to Christ. A
hundred doctors could not cure him. The
wisest surgery would stand appalled before
that loathsome patient. W’hat did Christ
do? lie did not amputate, he did not. poul
tice, he did not scarify. He touched him
and be was well. The mother-in-law of the
Apostle Peter was in a raging fever; brain
fever, typhoid fever, or what 1 do not know.
Christ, was the physician. He offered no
febrifuge, he pres, ribed no drops, he did
not put her on plain diet, lie touched her
and she was perfectly well. Two blind men
come stumbling into a room where (’lirist
is. They are entirely' sightless. Christ did
not lift the eyelid lo see whether it was
cataract or ophthahny. He did not put
the men into a dark room for three or
four weeks. He touched them ami they
saw everything. A man came to ■Christ.
The drum of his ear had ceased to vibrate
and he had a stuttering tongue. Christ
touched the ear and he heard; touched his
tongue and he articulated. There is a
funeral coming out of that gate, a widow
following her only boy to the grave. Christ
cannot stand it and he puls his hand on
the hearse and the obsequies turn into a
resurrection day.
<>, my brother, I am so glad when we
touch <'lirist w ith our sorrows he touches
us. When out id’ your grief and vexation
you put your hand on Christ, it. wtikens all
human reminiscence. Are we tempted? He
was tempted. Are we sick? lie was sick.
Are we persecuted? He was persecuted.
Are we bereft? He was bereft.
St- Yoo, of Kermartin, one morning went
out a ill saw* a beggar asleep on his door
step. The beggar had been all night, in the
cold. The next night St. Yoo compelled
this beggar to come up in the house and
sleep in ihe saint’s bed, while St. Yoo
passed the night on the doorstep in the cold.
Somebody asked him why that eccentric
ity. He replied, “It isn’t an eccentricity;
1 want to know how the poor suffer. 1
want to know their agonies that I may
sympathize with them, and, therefore,
slept on this cold stop last night.” Thaqj
is the way Christ knows so much about out
sorrows- He slept on the cold doorstep o c ,
an inhospitable world that would not I<^ S
him in. He is sympathetic now with
the suffering and all the tried and all tl' u
perplexed. Oh, why do you not go ilI j (Ils
touch him? _ . ( . ln
You utter your voice in a mountain Pt*. lt
and there comes back ton echoes, twen“
echoes, thirty echoes, perhaps, weird echoe 1
Every voice of prayer, every' ascription o
praise, every groan of distress has divin g
response and celestial reverberation, and ab”
the galleries of'heaven are tilled with syne
pathetic echoes, and throngs of ministering 11
angels echo, and the temples of the re 1
deemed echo, and the hearts of f.od llu? 1 '
Father. God the Son. and God the Holy',
Ghost echo and re-echo. •
I preach a Christ so near you can toilers
him—touch him with your guilt and gean
pardon -touch him with your trouble niiov
get comfort—touch him with your bondagtri
and get. manumission. You have seen a 1
man take hold of an electric chain. Ass
man can with one hand take one end of thuo
chain and with the other hand he may taken
hold of tile other end of the chain. Therif
a hundred persons taking hold of that chain/
will altogether feel the electric power. Yoi;
have seen that experiment- Well, (Jirtsi'
with one wounded hand takes hold of one
end of Hie electric chain of love, and with
Ih< ¥ other wounded hand takes hold of
the other end of the electric chain of love o
and all earthly and angelic beings may lay
hold of that chain, and around and around/,
in sublime and everlasting circuit runs tin.,
thrill of terrestrial and celestial and broth-,
erlv and saintly and cherubic ami
and arehangelie ami divine sympathy, bo
that if this morning Christ should sw I QPf n
his hand over this audience and say.
touched me‘ > " 'here would be jj^iji'.Vtssf-s jh,.’
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TRACF.DY IN A COURTROOM. ,
Coley Brown Kills Samuel Wesner, at
Danville, Ind.
Danville, Ind., May' 20.—Coley- Brown,
president of the Lebanon Natural Gas Com
pany, shot Samuel Wesner, one of the most
jnominent lawyers in Indiana, at noon to
day, and Wesnep died almost instantly.
The shooting occurred in the courtroom
directly in front of the judge’s desk. For
several days a suit—Martin Hobe against
the Lebanon Gas Company'—for damages
has been on trial and has been bitterly con
tested on both sides. The argument had
been completed and court had adjourned,
and Wesner was laughing and talking,
pleased over the conduct of the case. Wes
ner was told that he must look out for
Brown, ami he replied that he heard that
Brown had a revolver last night, but he
was not afraid. Brown then came from
the sid® of the room, where he had been
standing, muttering threats against Wes
ner. 'riiiw. met ami Brown said: “My
reputation is as good as yours.” One word
led to another ami Wesner said:
"If you have a gun, pull it. I dare you
Brown meanwhile had his hands behind
him. and it is thought that he transferred
the revolver from his left to his right
pocket.
Upon the word Brown drew his revolver
and fired two shots. Almost instantly Wes
ner moved toward Brown and pulled a long
dagger, and just as he laid hands on
Brown, Brown fell and Wesner was taken
off and laid down. Brown was arrested
and his revolver taken away from him.
Wesner’s strength began to fail and he
died in a few minutes. Brown was taken
to jail and is not disposed to talk, although
be says Wesner provoked the matter.
Brown was badly cut across the palm of
his left hand by the dagger which Wesner
used.
The first ball fired struck Wesner in the
left forearm and came out near the elbow.
The second ball struck near the base of
the breast bone and ranged downward,
showing under the skin about four inches
from the base of the spinal column. The
weapon was a ,32-ealiber Smith & Wesson
self-acting revolver. It is a five chambered
weapon and now contains two loaded shells,
two empty ones and an empty chamber.
The trouble arose, over Wesner’s com
ments on Brown’s evidence in the trial.
You hardly realize that it is medicine, when
taking Carter’s Little Liver Pilis; (hey are
very small: no bad effects: all troubles from
torpid liver are relieved by their use.
KNOCKED INTO THE SEA.
Accident to Sailors While Encountering a
Hurricane.
Queenstown, May 2(l.—The British ship
Lord Templeton, commanded by Captain
Hawthorn, which sailed from London for
Philadelphia with Bombay as a further
desi ination, April 12th, arrived here today,
after the loss of a number of her crew in a
hurricane- The voyage appears to have
gone well until the first, of May. 'When
the vessel was in latitude -15 north, longi
tude 45 west, a hurricane broke so severe
ly on the vessel that sixteen men were sent
aloft to shorten said. The trust broke
on the yard and it fell to the deck. Eight
of those who had gone aloft were hurled
into the sea and drowned. One was killed
by th<‘ fall of the yard, and seven severely
injured. Among those who lost their Jives
were the first mate and boatswain. The
sea stove in the main hatch, and the vessel
lost her sails and yards in the terrible storm.
'Die ship ran before the wind until the
hurricane abated, when the survivors in
sisted upon the captain nialung the nearest
port, ami the vessel aceoiTlingly came to
Queenstown as fast as possible in her crip
pled condition.
Murder nnd Suicide.
Now York. May 15. Henry Gebhard, fore
man for S. F. IJollsley, furrier at SS!) Broad
way. was shot dead al 7:30 o’clock this
morning in front of 6(>7 Broadway by August
Wanner, a former employe of I 10l Isley's.
Wanner then shot himself in the right tem
ple and was taken to St. Vincent's hospital,
where be died.
ARPS LETTER.
THE GEORGIA T'H ILOSOTII ER VISITS
A STEAMBOAT
Whore He Finds :v Number of Mottos for
Christ—Ho Interviews ihe Cnptaiu.
Other Incidents of His Visit.
Nashville, Tenn., May 21—Who is Cap.-
tian By man? 1 have been his guest tor
a day and a night. His beautiful home is
on tile heights. It is embowered in shiioe
and surrounded by Howers —flowers '"ilh
out «ui<l flowers within —for nt the beautiful
table 1 found matrons and maidens and
school girls, all ready to give welcome to
the stranger—the Georgia cracker as they
call me. It is a large family, ami reminded
me of home, for as it is in all large fami
lies, there is more freedom, more compan
ionship, more talk, more music an 1 more
company.
Captain Hyman is waterman. He inns
the line of packets or steamboats from
Nashville to Evansville, 350 miles. '1 here
are eight boats and tuey average a round
trip in a week and so there is one io go
and one to come every day. There is noth
ing strange or peculiar about that. The
captain’s oflice is near the wharf ami I con
eluded lo visit the outgoing steamer an.u see
her outfit. Everthing aboard was lively. I
noticed a sign over the cabin door and got
ready' to throw away my cigar, for I sup
posed the sign said so, but it didn’t. It said:
“Trust, in the Lord ami Do Good.” On the
inside ami over the same door, it. said:
“'rhe Heavens Declare the Glory' of God,”
and at the far end of the cabin was an
other line of scripture, ami all about, were
gentle reminders that “in Him we Irve and
move ami have our being.
“is this a missionary boat,” said I.
“Yes,” said the captain, “ours are all
missionary boats. We have no bars nor
quick sands, no ilrinking pilots or deckhands,
no swearing men—-white or black, no gam
ing tables. We may carry a tough some
times but we don’t know it and don’t
throw anybody' overboard. Yes, you may
call them missionary boats if you choose,
for they haie converted some sinners that
1 know and have improved the morals of
i boatmen all along the line.”
1 learfied from others that the captain
.used to run his boat like everybody’
jclse, ami whisky and cards and a
good deal of swearing were considered part
of the furniture, but a few years ago Sam
Jones came along here and in one of his
, magnetic sermons shook the captain all up
and knocked out his props and put him lo
. thinking. He has a great big heart, and is
z full of sympathy for the poor and unfortu
nate, and so he suddenly "came to himself,”
as the scriptures say of the prodigal son,
and broke up his bar and forbade all gam
t ing or drinking or swearing on his boat,
and he had all that scripture put over the
doors and discharged’ every man who was
unwilling to work on the new schedule. It
was hard on him for a while and hard on
his boat, but after a while he whipped the
flight, and then Tie’bought out some of the
/other boats ami now he controls all the
boats on the river, and there is no liquor or
, cuss words on any of them, and it is said
that this is the only line of boats in the
wide world that is run by water and :i
Christian code of morality. You can tell
it from stem to stern, from the pilo tto HJi
fireman, from the \daiters to the deck hands.
Everything is sober and everybody polite
and well mannered.
Captain Ryman then began to play mis
sionary all over the town and started thr
great tabernacle movement and got he]]
everywhere, and Sam Jones put in hit
sledge-hammer licks and raised ,S22,OiK) ii
one night, and all this is a union bushiest
t and takes in all denominations, ami thi
I great tabernacle is a Nashville institution
, Vnd in it they have preachers and lecturer
nt %'>m all over the country, and its work i:
1 jig and elevating and has givm a hig)
■■ ....Momnng colleges. Sam Jone t
aptain Ryman have founded all the
,»..li<l the captain has besides a mission Iml
of his own down near the wharf for steam
boat men, and there has been preach
Ing or service there every night
( for seven years. Just think of
one man’s power, or say two men’s
power, lor good in a community. I confess
that 1 was amazed. Hundreds and perhaps
thousands of men have been saved from
ruin by it, and many a mother and “many
a wife made happy. “They who have called
many unto righteousness shall shine as The
stars forever ami ever.”
Os course f met my old friend Cunning
ham here. He pretends to live here, but
really lives everywhere— everywhere in the
south where he can find a dollar for The
Confederate Veteran, which he publishes,
or for the Jes! Davis monument fund. He
knows more people, especially more lonely
women, in Tennessee than any other man
and he always has their sympathy. lie is
the universal friend and the
great southern patriot. He travels
on free passes from the Potomac to the
Bio Grande and makes an acquaintance on
every train and scatters sample copies of
the Veteran. It is a beautiful monthly,
and costs only 50 cents a year, ami he is
making it a success. Cunningham will die
happy if be fives to see the monument that
he is working for. I heard a mutual friend
say that when Cunningham died and went
~to heaven's gate he would shake hands with
|St. Peter and say. “I'm delighted to meet
you, St. Peter. I knew your mother so
well. She was one of the noblest women
in the World,” and he would just walk right
in and inquire for the young ladies.
• Nashville is. perhaps, the greatest educa
tional center in the south- Iler great Van
derbilt college and female seminaries and
normal schools and public schools make a
grand system. The popular lectures at pop
ular prices at the great tabernacle have be
come an established feature of popular ed
ucation. That, building has already cost
$72,000, and is not finished, but it will bo if
Captain Ryman lives a few years longer.
Sam Jones comes here occasionally and
wakes everybody up. and the people surren
der whenever he comes, for Nashville is his
Mecca, his stronghold, ami the entire com
munity are his friends. They point, with
pride to his work nnd say. “Look at that
tabernacle: look at that Young Men’s Chris
tian Association building, and its splendid
corps of Christian workers; look at that
mission church ami that line of temperance
steamboat/*, and look at the good morals of
the young men till over the city. Seven
years ago we had none of these.” Tn haste,
Bill A up.
THOSE PRECIOUS REMAINS.
Preparations to Receive Mr. Davis’s Remain
at Raleigh.
Raleigh, N. C., May 21Special.)-_Yes
terday Chief Marshal Thomas S. Kenan
prepared the programme of ceremonies for
May the 30th, when Jefferson Davis's re
mains will be here. They will be met at
the union depot by Mayor Badger. The
procession will form there ami all will
march on foot to the eapitol, which is quite
near. At the entrance to Capitol square
Governor Carr will receive the remains. 'The
procession will be composed of police, the
Governor’s Guard, the body, on a funeral
car, drawn by four horses with James 11.
Jones, Mr. Davis's coachman during the
war, as driver- The funeral <ar will be fol
lowed by eight divisions, each in cmir-.-e of
veterans, these divisions being as follows:
North Carolina Veterans’ Association, ex
confederates in general, stale officers, es
cort: of honor from other states on the way
to Richmond with the remains, North Car
olina’s escort of honor, Ladies’ Memorial
Association, city and county officers and
citizens generally, schools and colleges. The
body will lie in state in the rotunda of the
eapitol three hours. Memorial services will
be held there. The exterior and interior of
the building will be decorated with the con
federate colors, red and white, and the bier
upon which the body will rest will be
draped with black and white. A guard of
veterans and the Governor's Guard will be
mounted. No other military will be on duty,
but at each town through which the train
passes military will be at the stations and
render proper honor.
RUSH OF THK WATERS.
Terrible Floods in the Ohifr null Pennsylva
nia Rivers—Great Dainrge Doni’-
Cleveland, 0., May IT.—The storm of
arin and wind which began at noon Monday,
and has continued almost without cessation
till this evening, has produced a flood un
precedented m the history of northeastern
Ohio stud northwestern I'cnnsyivania. 1 Ims
far fourteen lives have been lost, great dam
age has been done to shijiping and the loss
to other property will amount to hundreds
of thousands of dollars. Il had rained on
Saturday and Sunday but lightly. Sunday
night there was a heavy rainfall accompa
nied by' thunder ami lightning. At. noon
Monday the wind veered around to the
northwest and a steady downpour began
'lTie sky for fifty-six hours lias been ol a
dull leaden color am! the low hanging and
scurrying clouds, Which were buried along
b.v the northwest gale, seemed to have every'
drop of waler shaken out ol them, l.he wind,
which at times, reached a velocity of more
than fifty' miles an hour, drove the rain
horizontally and in sheets, making it al
most impossible for pedestrians to get along
in the streets Roofs, tiial never leaked be
fore, let the water through like sieves, and
the rain was driven between window sash
es until Hie people despaired of being able
to keep it out. . , ,
Tim entire life-saving crew, with the ex
ception of two men. has been drowned.
Their boat, capsized While they were m the
river. The crew had started out. into the
lake in their life-saving boat to rescue two
men in a skiff, when from some unknown
cause the lifeboat was capsized. I'm 1 ""'
ing is a list of the drowned: George Wilson,
Chester M. Symonds,, John Johnson, George
Lohr, Nicholas Sorvas, James Marks and
Albert Cuyher. ,
The Storm at Conneawt-
Conneaut, (>.. May 17.—The worst storm
ever known here visited this section last,
night. Communication east ami soiiiii is
entirely cut off by destruction of bridges.
The Niekel-l’late bridge at this place is
undermim'd ami has been eonaetnue!!. . o
trains are running on the road, ihe I eac.i
.street bridge at Erie went down shortly
after the passage of the i>assenger tram
last evening. . .
The Lake-Shore docks of Astabula are six
feet under water and sixteen vessels are
likely to lie driven into the lake.
A three-masted schooner was seen to
go down about two miles west of Hus
harbor this morning. 'Hie bodies of iir
of ten persons who were drowned at inis
harbor this morning have been recovered.
The tug Continental ami a scow were
washed out into the lake from Hie harbor
at 6 o’clock this morning am! foundered.
Seven men and two women on board were
drowned. Seven of the nine wore tn sight
when the boat went down. Five ol ihe
bodies have been recovered.
Jn Pennsylvania.
The Shenango creek Ims be-m transformed
into a mighty river and all lowhimls are
tinder waler. The residents have b<’en
compelled to seek shell er on liiglwr ground.
All traffic is suspended on
the Erie, Erie and f’itisburg,
and P S. and L. E. roads by
reason of bridges being destroyed. Lake
Shore trains from the west with a thousand
hungry passengers are at the union depot..
The'flood at New Castle is ihe greatest
ever known in Hie history of lh.e place.
The Pittsburg and Western is the only rail
road running trains out tonight.
Mnbonimr River two Milos Hille.
At. New Castle junction and at Mahon
ing. two miles south of here, the Shenango
river is two miles wide tonight. Raine. 's
flouring mills and many residences are in
danger of being swept away- The wrecks
of many bridges north of the city passed
down the Shenango river during the cay.
The water is four feet deep on the f’enn
sylvania lines near Pulaski, nine mnes
north. In the fifth ward more than a Hun
dred houses are filled with waler. In several
instances the water rose so rap’dly lasi
night the people were almost drowned m
their beds. A dozen Italian f.imiles residing
on the flats smith of town had to be taken
from the second stories in boats. ( tire.mt- s
of dead horses, cows, sheep ami hogs miye
frequently passed down among other debris.
If is thought the Shenango vill ri.-’> s' least
eighteen inches mere before it. begins to
ikdvn g
Washington. May IS The following is
the latest from the floods.
At Fairfield, Me. Ihe river is the highest
for ten years. The Fairfield bourn Ims
begun. The logs belong to Lawrence, New
hall A Co., whose loss is heavy.
At Augusta, Me., the Kennebec river is on
Hie rampage. 'Die wharves ar> covered
with from four to ten feet of water.
At Lockport, N. Y., the Eighteen Mile
creek has overflowed its banks and has
done much damage between that citv ami
Olcott.
At Tonawanda. N. Y., the heavy ’ai'i
has caused the canal and creek tn rise four
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ble to run from there to Penticton. All
the lowlands in this vicinity' are turned into
lakes. . ,
At Windom, N. A ~ the recent rains have
flooded all the lands about there. Farms
are all under water and great tlamage is
being done, although the farmers have few
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At Buffalo, N. Y., there was no cessa
tion in the rainfall last night and this morn
ing it was drizzling. The railroads are laid
up on account of breaks and
washouts but are _ slowly re
suming traffic. The first train since
midnight Tuesday on the Lake Shore came
in about 8 o’clock last kight ami was
followed by' a second sectiOi loaded down
with passengers. . _
'Hie work ot repairing the bridge at Har
bor creek, Pa., was completed at 8:30
o’clock last night when the first train
crossed it and through traffic was restored.
At noon, the condition of railroads affected
by tin’ flood had materially improved.
At Mount Morris. N. Y., Hie valley- is
nearly- all under water and farms are flooded
and much tlamage done.
At Montreal. the recent rains
caused a rise in tiic Ottawa river and tribu
taries. and much damage will follow if the
storm continues.
Meadeville, Pat., presentoil a sc»ry sight
this morning. 'lhe water had receded but
eight inches, and the entire western ami
northern portion of the city were still sub
merged. It is estimated that, including the
suburbs of Vallonio and Kerrtown, no less
than three thousand persons have been
driven from their homes. When the waler
subsides and the warm rays of the sun strike
the territory now covered by three or four
feet of water, diseases and epidemic are
sure to be the result. No trains run on
either of the railroads today, and it is
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frightful shape, and business is at a stand
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factory and oilier factories being nimble to
do business. The New 1 ork. Pennsylvania
and Ohio tracks are under water for several
miles, anti trains will be unable to run the
balance of the week.
H A1.1.S OF BLAZE.
The Horrible Fate of Ten .Men in Michigan
hv a I <>r»'.«t Fire.
Lake City, Mich., May 21.—The les* of
life in, the fire which destroyed Louis
Sands lumber camp, six miles northeast of
here yesterday afternoon, is greater than
supposed. Ten bodies have been r< 'overcd
and the whole crew is now accounted for.
The men were assembled at dinner and the
forest fire, which was burning all around,
entirely cut-off escape. Vv hen the men, real
izing lehir danger, rushed out oi the bund
ing in which they bail been sitting, iho
smoke so blinded them that they became
bewildered. They- ran hither and thither,
unable to find a means ol escape and their
horses stampeded, add'ng to the confusion.
Eigth nf ihe men jumped into a well to
escape the flames ami died of suffoe irian.
Their bodies were brought to the surface
today. Others of the meti rushed _to the
woods and some of them escaped, hut the
bodies of two of them were after.v;irds
toiin-l burned to a crisp. One man '■cach 'd
Lake City' terribly burned and there died
in fearful ag'my. Eight teams of horses were
cremated.
The bodies of the burned have been taken
1 to i .ake Cilv where they await Tmrial.
The dead are; Michael G. Pagen, single:
Charles Taylor, single; .lames i, tigh, single;
Edward Ibiiirabaeher. married: Samuel
C.impbeli. single, foreman of the camp;
John' Hill, single; Fred Sager, single: Hans
,: il( -,,b- n. ma -rii'd. w; low ami two ehildr-'il
living bore; Frank Sangreen, single; Mike
M :!hotlaml.
. :. n men. with Edward Sullivan,
were hemmed in at the camp b.v the fire.
A strong wind ent off all escape. Sulliypn
st-iriefl ’’orth in the face of the fire and by
some cl,a? a' escaped, lie is severely burned
but will live.
TO MARRY’ DR. BULL.
That 14 Ihe Rumor .'liiut Young Mrs
SUaiix*.
Tgew T<’i‘!<. stay -i. "ii • I frrald says:
Young .Mrs. Bl.line is to chang - her name.
I She is eeiiiy to be married :< Dr. William
| T. Bull. Ever -inee Dr. Bn!] was called
i in to attend to Mrs. Blaine, j.rofe sionally,
; when she was lying ill with rheumatism at
j the New York hotel, there has bren a. sug
■ gestion of romance about their associa
: Hon. They only recently became engaged.
I The wedding will not be long deferred,
i According to present arrangements it is
; liv'd for earl; in June. Mrs. Blaine oh-
I tainod a divorce from young Blaine a year
! ago hist February. She wont to Dakota
i for that ptirpo.;o and l.er husband put in