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THE "WEEKLY CONSTITUTION, TUESDAY. MARCH 11. 1884- TWELVE PAGES.
OUR STORY CORNER.
SEALED UNTO HIM.
A STORY
???OF THE???
MELT DATS OF MOEMONISI
By JOAQUIN MILLER.
AUTHOR or ???SOHOS or TBS SIERRAS," ???THE
DAKITE8,??? ???MEMORIE ASD RIME,??? ETC.
CHAPTER I.
THE roUSDATIOH OF THR ORDER OF DANITES
.???Din ih??ll Judge hU people aaonsot the tilbee
ol Iirftel.
???Dan (hull be ?? serpent by the way, an adder !r
the path, that blteth the bone beets, so that bis
rider shall fall backward.???Gen. xl., 16,17.
Planted down in tbe heart of the continent,
and ???by the way,??? ???in the path,??? of the
weary pilgrims journeying to the remote
west, you can well see how the Mormon
elders put their fingers on this text, and told
their ignorant following that they were the
chosen people referred to here; that they
were the children of Dan; that they should
judge the people who came that way; that
they, the Mormons, as the children of Dan,
were ???the serpent by the way,??? ???an adder in
the path.???
In the large reading of the text, and a lib
eral view and look of it all, it seems plausible
almost, even to us. How certain then did It
seem to these ignorant and merciless follow
ers of the dread order of the Danites, estab
lished there "by the way" ???in the path,"
that they were, as they sat In the heart of the
desert, to be the "judges" of those who passed
by!
Back of this Bible text ley much bitterness,
induced by a sad history, much suffering and
persecution. The Mormons firmly believed
that the order of the Danites was necessary,
not only for the purpose of ???judging" the
earth, but for their own preservation.
More than thirty years ago I first encoun
tered these people. My father and his little
Sunday train-that Is, a train that would not
travel on Sunday in crossing the plains, be
cause ot religious scruples???pitched tent on
the banks of the Missouri at Council Bluffs,
right in their trails. We saw there thousands
of caves, little mud hats, hovels, all sorts of
miserable little habitations, where the whole
mass of Mormons had wintered a few seasons
before In their exodus from theVnited States
to what wna then supposed to be Mexico.
When onr train crossed tho Missonri and
pushed west 1o try to reaoh the Pacific, we
still were iu their trails, following the marks
their great moving caravan made as it drew
its mottled length like a shining serpent
across the great deserts to Salt Lake.
I was but a small lad at that time, not big
enongh to bear arms, or indeed to understand
lunch of anything. But this much I under
stood and understood so well that it became
a part of my life: that we were in peril. It
was not Indians we feared. My father was a
Quaker and he feared no man whom he could
look in the face. Bat he did fear the Dan
ites, whom no man might see till they did
their bloody work.
Not that be or bis had ever bad any part or
hand in their persecution; but this terror of
them was In the air, it was over all things.
We knew that our road ley through or by
Salt Lake. There was no escaping that. We
must follow on In their track till wo came in
our journey to where Dan, who judged hta
people, lay like a ???serpent by the way," ???an
adder In tne path.???
I forgot to mention that my father had done
a little something in his quiet Qnaker-llke
way to help, or try to help, a beautiful young
woman who had come in great distress to onr
camp one evening, while tented ia the old
Mormon winter quarters on the banka of the
Missonri. Bat surely he had no cause to fear
evil for good.
The facts were simply these. This beauti
ful, black eyed little lady was one of tbe ten
thousand emigrants starting oat In a long,
weary line toward the remoteat west. She
was with her people???her parents, brothers
and sisters, and some other relatives, if I re
member correctly. This young lady, a girl
n, Killed, graceful, good to her
Every night by some little stream we camped
amid new made graves.
But there was one conveyance, and one
traveler, too, in all this mass of moving,
struggling, dying hnmanlty, that was inde
scribable. This vehicle was not a carriage,
not a hand-cart, not a barrow. It was a tom
narrow, thin, black coffin set on two wheel
and pushed always by a tall, giant, snd
silent giant. And if there was anything
more terrible to ui children than the men
tion of the Danites, it was the sight of that
coffin on wheels, and the great bony face and
hollow eyes of the man who, silent and sal-
len, pushed it along. By and by, and by
what means or gradual steps I know not, we
began to associate him with that dreaded
order. Maybe it was because the Mormons
had made their great journey by the adroit
use of barrows of all kinds; maybe it was
because he looked, in his stern and severe
silence, as we thought a Danite should look,
that we came to suspect him to be a Danite.
I do not know how. I only know that, as
that long, slim, black coffin crawled alcng
the tawny saud in the sun, or crept stealthily
along in our track as the moon rose, that
great, gannt, hollowed-eyed and silent giant
pushing, plodding on after it, was the most
weird, ghostly and fascinating sight that ever
froze young blood.
One night it was noticed that this great,
gannt, leaning creature conld hardly reach
camp, He was seen to push his barrow with
effort to the bank of the stream a quarter of
a mile away from us, as was hie custom, then
to stand a stick under an end of it. Then he
rolled his heavy bag of books and provisions
ont of his singalar bed, and with great effort
got iu and lay down. He waa evidently very
111, and my father took me by the hand and
went to see him at once. As we came up be
reached out his great bony hand, and as it
fell into father's two hands, he said. ???I made
my barrow bed like a coffin, sir, because???
because I have had a greivousdisappointment
and fear it may be that I have done wrong in
m.v day. The monks of Borne sleep in their
coffins for penance, sir. I am doing penance.
Ind then, you see, it keep Idlers awav and
lives me time to think and to read books.
Jooks are bread???bread for body and soul,
sir. Sit down, and when I have a little
strength I will read you from the holy book
of Mormon, sir."
[TO BE CONTINUED.]
???Copyrighted by C. B. Miller.
POINTS ABOUT PEOPLE.
of eighteen, gifted, graceful, good to her
parents, fall of affection, waa suffering from
an uncontrollable fear of the Mormons. Her
people, she told my father In terrified whis
pers, were from the same settlement the
Mormons originally atarted from, and ahe
knew that her people would be ???judged??? by
the Danites when they came to Salt Lake on
their journey to California.
It subsequently appeared, however, that
she had nut told quite all tbe truth. There
really bad keen serious trouble between her
father and the Mormons nearly a year before.
And this was tbe nature of it. The Mor
mons had grown np in the settlement where
the girl???s people lived and were all mixed up
among the neighbors. It was not easy to say
who was a Mormon and who waa not. Con
verts were new and numerous. A. man
might be a ???Gentile" to-day and a Mormon
to-morrow. , ???
One ot the bnay women???one of tha med
dlesome and mischievous kind fonnd in all
camps???who knew this poor girl???s history
better perhaps than ahe suspected, told tbe
secret of her marriage to one of the new Mor
mon elders. It waa a forbidden marriage toe
???a marriage on discovery of which her
father had become very fnrionsand load with
threats to all Mormons. It waa true, this
busy anil meddlesome woman said, as ahe
gidaed about, as such busy women will when
tale in camp, that the Mormon elder to whom
ahe was "sealed" had never quite got posies-
sion of her; that her father even did not
know his daughter's pretended husband, bad
never seen him in fact. But for all that, the
girl had been married or ???sealed??? to a Mor
mon elder; and trouble was going to come
of 1L That was why her father was taking
her out of the country and away to Califor
nia, hissed this garrulous and meddlesome
woman; that was why ahe looked ao sad and
seemed ao frightened all the time, continued
tbe gadding and garrulous woman, mysteri-
oualy.
Now allib the world that my father did on
hearing the story of this beautiful and terri
fied girl, was to go to her per people, who were
camped close by oar tent, mad advise, even
protest, that they should take some other
ronte to tbe remote weet than this one that
lay by Salt Lake. Sorely this seas not much.
Yet it was enongb to pat onr little Bnndsy
train In perpetual terror cf ???judgment
from tbe Danites as we pnihed on across the
S 'ains, We did not see this Miss Lane, the
ormen elder???s ???wile,??? again for months.
Her father either did not see fit.tp t?? advised,
or, which ia more likely, found it impoeaible
then to tnrn aside and seek another route,
and so crossed the Missonri, as If It were a sort
of Rubicon, and poshed on ahead. As ha
had horses and we only oxen, and then, too,
as he traveled on Snndayi. his party had
soon left onr little Sunday train a long way
behind.
And ob I what a motly mass of weary peo
ple went itretchlng away, helpless, dazed,
dying, across tha sands toward tha setting
son! There were some men with bat a single
hone to carry their food and blankets. Some
men were oa foot and alone. There was a
?????n and his wife with a single ox between
the shafts of a cart. Many men had little
hand-carta which they poshed or drew along,
sad and silent, as some one of their nnraber
fell dead by the way. Some men had wheel-
???arrows. Every day we passed dead rattle,
eaerted wagons, carnages by tha roadside.
OaoBor IV. Childs la miking more money
than ever off tho Philadelphia Ledger.
Tiie l???rinccss Louise at a recent wedding
wore a muff and boa made of skunk far.
ElMahdi is so dark complexioned that
???charcoal would make a white mark on him."
Yobbo ladies are painting pictures of frogs.
They are so suggestive ol leap year.???Troy Times
General Grant saya he wishes be had
bought atomo In some locality where he could sco
the aun onco or twice dutlng tho winter.
Josh Billings has had a bequest of $5,000
left to him by a western lumber millionaire who
admired his spelling.???Lowell Courier.
The Capitol says that Fred Douglass lias all
bis children quartered on the public as dorks,
Fred Is certainly very uear to being a white man.
Mr, James A. Garfild, the oldest son of
the late president, visited the custom house yester
day to make a social call upon Collector RoberUoa.
Vooaniu, of Indiana, is the poorest sena
tor, the balances on bts lodger being all on tbe
wrong side. Bo never bad a knack of "standing
In.???
Mr. Edwin Booth???s new residence in Bos
ton Is nearly furnished In a most artistic style. Mr
T. B. Aldrich???s taste has frequently been consulted
regarding it.
Thr re-election of the prince of Wales as
grand muter of the Free Muons, which wilt occur
on thebth o! March, will bo the occasion ot a great
Muonic ceremonial.
A Bowery museum has among its wonders
a glass half filled with whisky labeled "Refused
by General Grant In ISIS.??? Tbo supposition la
that U wu very vile ituff. /??? .
Miss Julia, daughter of the late General
Stonewall Jackson, already Is consplcuoni u an
American belle la French and English ???beil???
society, and ahe threatens to eclipse Mbs Chamber
lain.
A Boston correspondent discovered that
William R. Morrison ???wears a coat which roflecta
the Images ol passing objects on Its shiny hack snd
elbowa, and his trousers are ablny and baggy al the
knees.??????
You are now one,?????? said the minister to
the happy pair he had Just tied together with a
knot that they nover could undo. "Which one????
asked the bride. "You will have to settle that for
yourselves," said the clergyman.
General Obant has not been much of a
reader. Be has books In plenty, but they were
rarely opened. Since hta Injury he hu bad an op-
irtuntty to get acquainted with bts library, and
> may yat become a literary fellow.
The prince of Wales has never been a sue.
ecu u an orator, though he la always ready to
makes speech at a banquet. Els rhetoric Is pe
culiar. Be apeaks with a heavy guttural accent,
like a Gorman who has learned English. -
???Beware of women with premature gray
hair,??? uya a Washington man. It la estimated that
In that city there are 6,000 ladles with snowy bangs
and curls, and tha whites headed a woman la the
nauehtltr and mere dangerous the is In that
locality.
The saltan of Morocco has just been hold
ing a millinery celebration In honor of bis marriage
with his 1,000th wife. To be aure there are only 600
of the 1,000 wives now alive, hut a man in America
wilhOOO wires would have a millinery celebration
every lime the style of bonnets changed.
A Japanese woman dresses her hair once
la every four days. The luxury of hearing one???
wife, with the ends of her hair In her teeth, end
her month fall of hair pins, talking about the
kitchen boiler In the morning before the mirror,
le never enjoyed by the Chinese husband more
than twice e week.
Mas. Mackay???i new Worth drees la to be or
namented by two or three hundred wings of rod-
bnasu, and tho Ups ot her shoes are to be finished
with tiny robins. This may do In Parle, but If Mre
Mackey ware to coma to New York she might be In
serious danger ol being Interior red with by Henry
llergh on behalf ol the aasodatlon lor the prevail
tlon of cruelty to animate.
Mr. Barton Grindrod, the great elephant
dealer, seys that In 1871 eleven elephants were
shipped lu the Nehemlah Gibson for New York, of
whom ten arrived safely and onedled on the pae-
ige to New York. The coat o! the eleven taels-
moltied,???cd?? Btxfeach.' On their arrival at the
dock Barnum offered 176,600 each for them, which
was refused, Be agrees with Professor Lenkester
led the other experts in pronouncing the white el
ephant a mockery, e delusion ana a snare.
Mas. Horace Gbeelet had an antipathy
lor kid gloves???sha would nevar put them on. A
correspondent remembers a bout she had with Mar
garet rul er on this subject. We all mat on tbe
???treat, and Instead of laying ???good morning*??? or
sons such tinman adulation. Mrs. Greeley touched
ont her hand. Margaret Just touched It and
dered. crying,"Entrails of a worm'. Entrails of a
warmt"
Maa. Goldtbwaite, wife of Judge Gold-
thwalte, a prominent lawyer of the western coast,
a woman who President Buchanan said wu tha
only one he ever loved well enongb to marry, and
tha ont of whom Alexander H. Stephens spoke u
being the most beautiful and accomplished thor
ough good woman he ever knew, and waa "worth
het weight In diamond*.??? ia now living In humble
retirement In Lead Tills. CoL She was one of the
meet celebrated women of her day. Men at fash
ionable watering pieces raved over her beamy and
veiled accomplishments. Onca, In 1S60. white Iht
prince of Wales wu In SL Louie ha saw this (Uted
women, and, taming, to Lord Lyons, exeUtmed:
"Isn't she exquisite.'??? Her husband la a eon of
???x-Cnlted Same Senator George Goldthwelte.
Alabama's moat noted and beloved loo, end la the
c rimlnal Judge ot lake county. Colorado.
TALMAGE???S SERMON
PREACHED AT BROOKLYN TABER
NACLE SUNDAY, MARCH 2, 1884,
The Immortsl TrsasCr Xnuted Upon the Summit ot
Calrary-'Thero la e Cross for Every One, sad
Thar ??? Is s t rose for Mo."
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
Brooklyn, N. Y??? March 2.???To-day was
sacramental day in the Brooklin tabernacle.
Dr. Talmoge gave the right band of fellow
ship to 134 new members, making the mem*
bersliip over 3,100. About thirty p^rson g
were baptized. The opening hymn was:
"Alas, and did my Saviour bleed, ???
And did my Sovereign diet???
The subject of the sermon was, "Tragedy
of Tragedies,??? and the text Mathew, xxvii (
30: "And sitting down they watched Him
there,
There is nothing, said Dr. Talmage, more
wild and ungovernable than a mob. Some
of the older people in the audience may re
member the excitement in New York during
the riot when the people went howling
through the streets at the time Macready
stood on the stage of the Astor Place opera
house. Those of you who have read history
may remember the excitement In Paris dar
ing tbe time of Louis XVI., and how the
mob rnshed np end down frantically.
There is a wild mob going through tho
streets of Jerusalem. As it pastes along it is
augnmented by tho multitudes that come out
from the lanes and the alleys to'joln the shoals
and the laughter and the lamentatlorf of the
rioters, whoibecome more and more ungov
ernable as they get towards the gates of the
city. Fishermen, vagabonds, rude women,
grave officials, merchant princes, beggars,
mingle in that crowd. They are passing out
now through the gates of tbe city. They
came to a hill white with the bleached skulls
of victims???a hill that was itself the shspo of
a skull, covered with aknlls, and called Gol
gotha, which means the place of a skull.
Three men are to be put to death???two for
theft, one for treason, having claimed to be
king of the Jews. Kach one carries hu own
cross, but one of them is so exhausted from
previous hardship that He faints under the
burden, and they compel Simon of Cyrene,
who is supposed! to be in sympathy with
the condemned man. to take hold of one
end of the cross end help Him carry it.
They reach the bill. The three men are
lifted in horrid crucifixion. While tho mob
id mocking and hurling scorn
object of their hate, the dark
ness hovers and scowls and swoops upon the
scene, and the rocks rend with terrillo clang,
and tbe choking wind and moaning cavern
end dropping sky and shuddering earthquake
declare in whisper, in groan, in shriek, "This
is the Son of God.???
I propose to speak of two kinds of specta
tors aronnd the cross???antagonists and adher
ents. Among tbe antagonists were tbe Ro
man soldiers. Now, it is a grand thing to
a is not an Ei
the name of Have
lock, brave for Christ and brave for the Brit
ish government. When there was a difficult
point to take the officers would say, "Bring
out the saints of old Havelock.??? I think ii
Paul hail gone into military servloe he would
have ecliped the heroism of the Cictars and
tho Alexanders and the Napoleons of tbe
world by his bravery and enthusiasm. Thera
is a time to be at peace, and there
la a time when a Christian has to
fight. I do not know of a graver or braver
thing than for a young man, when it ia de
manded of him. to turn his bask upon home
and qniet and lnxnry and In the service of
his country go forth to camp and field and
carnage and martyrdom. It was no mean
thing to be a Roman soldier; it was no idle
thing. Yon know what revolutions dashed
up against the walla of that empire. Yon
know to what conquest she devoted herself,
Hinging her war eagles against the proudest
ensigns. Bat the noblest army has in it
cafes, and these were the men who were de
tailed from that army to attend to tbo execu
tion of Christ. Their dastardly behavior puts
lie gleam of their spears and coven their
out the..
banner with obloquy. They were cowards.
They were ruffians. They were gamblers. No
noble soldier would treat a fallen foe oa they
but it goal down in the family wardrobe from
generation to generation. Now that Christ ia
to be disrobed, who shall have His coat?
Joseph of Arlmathea would have liked to
have had it. Mary, the mother of Jeeas.
would have - liked to have had it.
How fondly ahe would have hovered
over it, and whoa ahe must leave it, with
what tenderness abe would have bequeathed
it to her best friend! Itwasthe only cover
ing of Christ in darkness and storm. That
waa tbe very coat that the woman touched
when from it thero went out virtue for her
healing. That waa tha only wedding garment
He bail In the' marriage at Cana, and tbo
???tormi that awept Galilee had drenched It
again and again. And what did they do with
It? They rattled for it. We bare heard of
men who gambled away their own garments,
wbo gambled away their children*! shoes,
who gambled away the family Bible, who
gambled away their wife's last dress, bat it
adds to the ghastliness of a Bavtor???a humilia
tion and the horror of tbe crime when I hear
Jesus in Hia last momenta declaring: "They
parted my garment* among them, and for
ly vesture did they cast loti."
In tbia antagonistic group are
bo were the mien and theecril
aronnd the cross
also were the rnlere and the scribes, and tbe
chief prleste. Lawyers and judge*, *nd min
uter* of religion in this day ore expected to
have some respect for their offices. In tbU
land where the honoti of the judiciary some
times comes to besotted politician* and men
noted| far drunkenness???even in tbU land
where we live it Is *n unheard of thing that
a judge comes down from the bench and
???trikes a prisoner in tbe face. No minUter
ot religlonjwould scoff at or mock * con
demned criminal. And yet the great men of
that land seemed to be equal to any rufflan-
Um. They were vying with each other is to
how muohiscorn and billingsgate they could
cast into the teeth of the dying Christ. Why,
the worst felon when bU enemy baa fallen
refuses to strike him. Bat these men were
not tebimed to strike Jeans when he waa
down. So it haa been in all
ages of tho world, that there
have been men in high position who
detpiae Christ and UU Goapel. What ty
rants have issued their anathemas! Wbat
udgment seats have kindled their fires,
'What Inquisition* have sharpened their
awordat ???Not tbU man, bat Barebbas. Now!
Barabbaa wu a rohtrer." Against tha Chris
tian religion have been brought the histori
cal genius of Gibbon and the polish of Shat-
teebnry end the kingly authority of Frader-
trlc of Prussia and toe brilliancy of John
Earl of Rochester, and the atnpendona in
tellect of Voltaire- Innumerable pone have
???tabbed it and innumerable books Nave curs
ed it, and that mob that hounded Christ
from Jerusalem to ???The PUce of a Skull"
bu never been dispersed, bat ia augmenting
yet, u many of tha learned men of the
world and great men of the world come out
from their itudios and their iabratories and
and theb palaces and era: ???Away with
this man! Away with Him!??? The moat
bitter hostility which many of tha learned
men of tbia day exercUa in any direction
they exercise against June Christ, the Son of
God, tbe Savior of tbe world, without whom
we will die forever.
In thU group of enemies snrroanding the
cross I also find tbe railing thief. It seems
that be twisted himself an the epikes. he for
got hie own pain, in hie complete antipathy
to Jesus. I do not know what kind of a thief
ho was. 1 do not know whether lie bed been
a burglar, ora pick-pocket, or a highwayman,
but our idea of bis crimes is aggravated when
we hear him blaspheming tne Redeemer.
Oh, shame indescribable! Ob, ignominy
supportable! Hissed at by a tbieii In that
ridicule I find tbe fact that there is a hostility
between sin and holiness. There con not be,
there never has been, any sympathy between
honesty and theft, between purity and !os
clviousners, between zsat and indolence,.be
tween faith and nnbelief, between light end
darkness, between heaven and hell. And
when I see a good man going out to discharge
hia duty, and he is enthusiastic for Christ,
and I see persecution after him, and scorn
after him, and contempt after him, I say:
???Hark! another bias of the dying thief."
And when I see holineu going forth in her
white robes, and charity, with great heart and
open hand, to take care of the lick and
hel;
fin
ip the needy and restore the lost, and I
id her lashed with hypocrlticism, and jostled
of the world and pursued from point to point,
and caricatured with low witicisms, 1
???Aha! another hiss of the dying thiefi" __
ia s sad thing to know that this malefactor
died just oa he had lived. People nearly
always do. Haro you never remarked that?
There is bat one Instance mentioned in all the
Bible of a man repenting in tbe laat hour.
All the other men who lived livesof iniquity,
Bible,
as far aa we can understand from the
died deaths of iniquity. If you liveadrunk-
ard???a life, you will die a drunkard; tbe de
frauder dies a defrauder; the idler dies an
idler; tbe blasphemer dies a blasphemer;
the slanderer dies a slanderer; the debauchee
dies a debaucheo. As you lire, you will die,
In all probability. Do not, therefore, make
yonr soul believe 'that you can go on In a
course of ain, and then in tbe laat moment
repent. There la such a thing as deathbed re
pentance, bat I never saw one, I never sew
one. Gad In all this Bible presents us only
one-case of that kind, and It is not safe to
risk it, lest onr case should happen not to he
the one amidst ten thousand.
But there were rays of ligh
Into the crucifixion. Aa Christ was on the
cross and looked down on the crowd ot people
he saw some very warm friends there. And
that brings me to the remarking of the group
of adherents that were around tne cross. The
first In all that crowd was hia mother. Yon
need not point her out to me. I can ace by the
sorrow, the anguish, the woe, by the up-
thrown hands? That all means mother!
"Oh," you say, "why didn???t ahe go down to
the foot of the hill and sit with her back to
the scene? It wu too horrible for her to look
npon." Do yon not know when a child is In
anguish or trouble it always makes a hero
ine of a mother? Take her away, you soy,
from the cross. You can not drag her sway.
She will keep on loosing; as long as her ion
breathes ahe will stand there looking. What
a scene it is for a tender-hearted mother to
look upon! How gladly ahe would have
sprung to His relief 1 It was her son. Her
son! How gladly ahe would nave clambered
upon the cro3s and hung there herself if her
son would have been relieved I How strength-
euing she would have been lu Christ It she
might have come close by him anil soothed
him I There wnca good deal in what the lit
tle lick child slid upon whom .a surgical
operation muat be performed. Tbe doctor
said, ???That child won???t live through this
operation unless you encourage him. You go
in mid get hia consent.??? The father told him
all the noctor said and added, ???Now, John,
will you go through It? Will you consent to
It???? Ho looked very pale, and he thought a
minute, and said, "Yes, father' if you will
hold my hand I will.??? So tbe father held hia
hand and led him straight through the peril.
O, woman, in your hour of anguish, whom
do you waut with you? Mother. Young
man, in your hour of trouble whom do you
want to consolo you? Mother. If the mother
of Jesus could bavo only taken thoaer"??? J
ing feet into her lap! It ahe might
tukrti the dying head on her bosom! If she
might have said to him, ???It will soon be over,
Jesus; it will soon be over, end we will meet
sgaia-ond It will be all well." But no; sue
dared not come up so close. They would have
struck tier back with tneir hammers. They
would have kicked her down the hill. There
can be no alleviation at all. Jesus must
suffer and Mary must look. I suppose she
thought of the birth-hour in Betblenem. I
suppose she thought of that time when, with
her boy In her bosom, she hastened on in tbe
dark ness in the flight toward Egypt. I sup
pose she thought of bis boyboou when he was
[he joy of her heart. I suppose sho thought
of the thousand kindnesses no had done her,
not forsaking her or forgetting her. even In
hia last momenta-, but turning to John and
: ???There is mother; take her with
Jon. She Is old now. She cannot help her
self. Do for her last as I would
have done for her If I had lived. Be
very tender end gentle with her. Behold tby
ither!??? She thought it all over, and there
is no memory like a mother's memory, and
there la no woe like a mother???s woe.
There waa another friend in that group, and
that was Simon, the Cyrenlan. He was a
stranger in the land, but had been long
enough there to show hia isvorillam for
Chrlau I suppose he was one of thoee men
who can never see anybody Imposed upon
bat he wants to help him. ??????Well, Simon,??????
they cried out. ???you ore inch a friend to
Jesus help lum to carry the cross. You ass
him fainting under lb??? Be be did. A scene
for all tho ages of time and sll the cycles ot
eternity: a cross, with Jeans at the one end
of it and Simon at the other, suggesting tbe
Idea to yon, O, troubled aonl, that no one need
ever carry a whole crosil Yon have only half
a cross to carry. If yon are in poverty, Jeaua
waa poor, and he comes and takes the other
end of the cross. If yon are in persecution,
Jeans was persecuted, and He comes and takes
tbe other end of the croM. If yon are
ly kind of trouble you nave a
sympathizing Redeemer. Ob, bow tbe
truth lluhed upon my soul this morn
ing; Jesus at one end of the croas
and the seal st the other end of the crore;
and when I see Christ and Simon going m>
the hill tpgether, I say we ought to help each
other to curry our burdene, ???Bear ye one an
other's burdens, snd so fulfill tne lsw of
Christ." If you find a msn In persecution or
sickness or in business trouble, go right to
him snd ssy: ???My brother. I bsve corns to
help yon. Yon take hold of one end of the
eroaa snd I will tske bold of the other end cf
tho cross, and Jeans Christ will come In sml
tako hold of the middle of the Croat; snd
after awhile there will be no cress tt sll."
No; there Is s croee for every one,
And there le s crow for me.??????
Bat there was another marked personage in
that friendly group. That wss the penitent
malefactor. He wss a thief, or hsd beta???no
Isgttiilng that fact. What waa he to do?
Oh,??? he esys, ???what shall Ido with my sins
upon me?" snd he looksaround snd see* Jesus
snd sees compassion In his face, snd he says:
???Lord, remember me when tbon comeat into
thy kingdom.??? What did Jesus do? Did He
turnanu ssy: ???You thief! I have seen all
yonr crimes, snd yon bsve jeered snd scoffed
st me; now die forever???? Did he say thst?
Ob, no; Jesus could not ssy thsb He says:
TnU day ebslt thou be with ms in paradise.???
sing tbe song of mercy for tbe chief of sin
ners. Murderers have corns snd plunged
their red hands in this fountain snd they
have been made white ss snow. The prodigal
wss off for twenty years ha* come bock
eat at bis father???s table. The ship thst
has been tossed in a thousand storms Hosts
Into this harbor. The parched and annstruck
soul comes under the shadow of this rock.
Tens of thousand* who were ss bad as y
and I have ever been have pat down thi
??lr
hardens and their line st the feet of this
blessed Jesus.
???Ttisdi
That l
And there may I, as vile as he,
Wash ell my Mu sway."
Bat there was another group of adherents.
I don't know their names???we are not told;
but we are simply told there were many
aronnd the cross who sympathized with the
dying sufferer. Ob, the wall of woe that went
through that crowd when they saw Jesus die!
You know the Bible says if all tbe things
Jesus did were recorded the world would not
contain the books that would be written. It
implies that wbat we hare in the Bible are
merely speelmene of the Savior???s mercy. We
are iotd that one blind man got his eyesight.
I suppose he cured twenty mat we are not
told of. When he cured the one lepsr whose
story is recorded he might have cured twenty
lepers. Where be did one act of kindness
mentioned he must have done a thousand
we do not know about. I see tkoso
who received kindnesses from him stand
ing beneath the cross, and one saya: ???Why,
that is tbe Jesus who bound up my
broken heart." And another standing be
neath the eroea says: ???That ia the Jeaua that
restored my daughter to life," Another looks
up and says: ???Why, that la Jeaua, who gave
me my
and euys
up wlion I was sick. Oh, I can't bear to see
him diet??? Every poll of the hammer drove
aspike through their hearts. Every groan of
Christ opens a new fountain of sorrow. They
had better get on with that crucifixion quick
ly or it will never take place. These disciples
will eelze Christ and snatch Him from the
grasp of those bad men and take those ring
leaders of the persecution and put them up
in tbe very plnce. Be quick with those nails!
Be quick with that gall! Be quick with
those spikesl For I see in the aorrow and
tbe wrath ot these diaciples a storm brewing
that will buret on the heads of those persecu
tors.
To-day we come and join the crowd of ad
herents. Who wants to be on tbe wrong
aide? I cannot bear lo be among the antago
nist). I want to join the other group. We
come while they are bewailing and join their
lamentations. Wesee that brow bruised; we
hear that dying groan; and while the priests
and the devils rave, and the lightnings of
God???s wrath are twisted (nto a wreath for
that bloody mount,yon and I will join in the
try, the supplication of the penitent malefao-
tor: ???Lord, rememberniewnon Thou comest
Into Thy Kingdom!??? Oh, tbe pain,the igno-
iry.
who will reject this atonement made for the
people???not for one man here and one man
there, but for all who will accept it?
There wu a very touching acene among an
Indian tribe intbelut century. It seemed
that one of the chieftains had slain a man
belonging to an opposite tribe, and that tribe
came up and saiu: ???We will exterminate
you unieaa you surrender the man who com
mitted that crime." The chieftain who did
the crime stepped out from tho ranks and
said: ???I am not afraid to die; but I have a
wife and four children, and I have a father
aged and a mother aged whom I support by
hunting,end I aorrow toleavethem helpless.???
Just as he aaid that his old fatbor from be
hind stepped out and said: ???Ho ahall not
die. I tako his place. 1 am old and well
stricken in years. I can do no good. I might
os well die. Mydavsare almost over. He
cannot be spared. Take me." And they ac
cepted the sacrifice. Wonderful sacrifice,von
say. But not so wonderful u that found in
the Goepel; for we deserved to die, aye, we
were aeutenced, when Christ, not worn out
with years, but in the flush of His youth,said:
???Save that man from going down to the pit,
I am the ransom I l???ut his burdens on My
shoulders. Let hia atripea fall on My back.
Take My heart for ids heart. Let Me die that
he may live.?????? Shall it be told to-day in
Heaven that notwithstanding all those
wounds and all that blood and ail those tears
and all that agony, you would not accept
Him? Oh, Lord Jeans, we accept Theei We
accept Theo now I Thera Is no band in all
this audience lifted to smite Thee on the
check now. No one will spear Thee now. No
one will strike Thee now. Come in, Lord
Jesual Come quickly !
From n Clergyman Seventy-one Years
or Age.
A clergyman in Cleveland, O., aeventy-ono
years of nge, wba bad preached regularly
nearly ovory Sunday for over fifteen years,
says, in a letter dated Fobruary 8th, 1882, a
few wceksafter commencing tbe use of Com
pound Oxygen:
???My strength was equal to the work until
about a year ago, when I began to fall, and
had come to the conclusion that my work, if
not my life, was nearly at an end. But now
lam quite a new man; yea, the revltalizer
hu Introduced new life into my almoet dead
organa. I can say that I am well, with the
exception of a little soreneaa in my throat.
Allow me to give thanks, fltit to God, and
then to you, for this blessed hour of health.???
Our ???Treatise on Compound Oxygen." con
taining a history of the discovery and mole
of aotlon of this remarkable curative agent,
and a large record of surprising cures In
Consumption, Catarrh, Neuralgia, Bronchitis,
Asthma, ote., and a wide range of cbronlo
diseases, will be sent free. Address, Du.
Stabkst& Palin, 1109 and 1111 GlreirdBL,
1???hiladelphla.
In making a tranaferof real estate In Wash
ington the other dsjr It wu found necessary to
have tbe signature of Captain Howgate, the de
faulter, to ono of the papers. It wu taken in kind
by one of Howgate???e friends, and within twenty-
four hours It wu returned bssrieg tbe ceptsln'a
signature. Out the government officers cannot
find the criminal.
Letter From ??? Female Musician.
lot Sccoan Avsbds,
Nsw Yosk., May 1, 1883.
My epeclslty is dleuse* of women snd
children. I like Adcock's Forous Blasters
because they are so quiek snd eflletent, and
never irritate or mark tbe tendarat skin. I
have fonnd them moat useful in my practice,
snd they are certainly th* best plutere now
made. To illustrate; My son of ten years oi
age took a bad cold and coughed incessantly;
no medlolne would rellevs him; after soma
twelve hour* I applied an Alloock's Porous
Pluter to his throat snd npper cheat. Th*
cough ceaied sntlrely in an hour, snd the
next day ths boy wu well.
I told the com to a gentleman who suffered
In the same way; be too wu cured in twenty-
four boar* of his cough by Alloock's Porous
Plasters. Another pstlent tufferad from
pain in tbe small of the back???Adcock'e Po
rous Pluter was applied at night, and next
morning th# pain hsd ceased. Again, a
young lady suffering from neuralgic pains
around th* heart, by my advice used All-
cock's Porous Plutere,snd wu entirely cured
in three days. Finally s lady cams to me
with cold feet, which constantly recurred
night snd day???this sometime* is a syjnptom
of uterine congestion???I applied an Adcock'e
Poroai Pluter to the sole of escb foot, end
her feet got and continued warm. She wore
the plutere over a week.
Tima 1 have recently tried Adcock???s Par.
oar Plutere, and take great pleasure In bear
ing witness to their remarkable curative
power. Jabs M. Bakbs, M. D.
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