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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. 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Incorporated In 1868 for 26 year*by tho Legislator* for Educational and CharlUblo purpose*???with a capital of 11.000,#00- to which a rceervo fund of orer 9660,009 lu*.* nlnco been added. By an overwhelming popular vote It* franehlat waa mado a part of tho present State Constitution adopted December 2d, A.D., 1879. The only Lottery ever volod on and oudorsod by the poorloof any State. It novar acaloi nr pootponM. Ita Oritml Nlnrlo Number Drawing* will take place monthly. A SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY TO WIN A FOR- PUNK. THIRD GRAND DRAWING. GLAH8 C t IN THR ACADEMY OF MUHIO, NKWORLKAN8. TUESDAY. March 11, 18N4-100tli Monthly Drawing. CAPITAL PRIZE, $75,000 100,000 TUfceta at Five UtUin Km he .FrMtleaa, I* Fifth* la proportU** lot or ritixx*. 1 CAPITAL FKIZE..MM.,...,., 975,000 'A (100 10,000 10 a FRIZES OF 96000 (I dO 2000 us: do 1000 ??0 600... MMMM . 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Aldreae UAYlllNOM 4* tO.. la ve Xiuuiu Ntreets Neiv Yvrhu OFFER AN IMMENSE STOCK OF NEW, BABE & BEDDING PLANTS 6KND FOB PRICE LIST TO ATLANTA FLORAL BAZAR, th su wky EDWARD WACHEXDORFF, Prop???r A CARD drew him at Fort WortbTTexaa