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GORDON OF GEORGIA.
THE GRttAT RELIBF MEETING IN
NEW YORK,
A M??eriflaenl Drmromtrsttoa ol Nortll.ro Friend-
iblp oward Souin.rn 8oMI.ra-ara.ral Gor
don'. Spetctl-Romraki by General
BborM.n-Southern Progrco., ktr,
New Yobk, April 9.???Fifteen hundred
people gathered in the large halt of Cooper
union to-night, to take part in the inaugural
publia ceremonies relating to the establish
ment ot a homo for disabled ex-confederate
soldiers at Rlchmund, Va. The pletform was
neatly draped in American and foreign Sage
and banners and shields, and
a band played patriotic music
at appropriate Ume3 during the meeting,
The opening strains of ???Dixie??? exited forth
loud applauae..Colonel James R.O'Beine called
the convention to order, and named the well,
known veteran, Corporal Tanner, of Brooklyn,
oschairman, in the forced ahsenceof our great
captain, General Grant. (Applause.) Corpo
ral Tanner, who bad both legs shot away in
battle, and walks on two wooden legs,
came forward with cheers, and began his
opening address by saying that ho was with
the movement with his heart and soal and
from the crown of his head as fsr down os he
went. He did not forget General Grant's
word to General Leo at Appomattox, when
he said to the great confederate general to
n-ll ills men to take their horoee homo;
as they would need them for tho spring
ptoughing,aud then distributed 100,000 rations
among tbe defeated army. Grant, in (his,
epitomised the feeling of every man who is
willing to give credit to those who hava
stood the knocks of the battle field in tho
cause that they believed to be just. The corpo
ral went on: "f have thought this thing over
and see that those of the other side have not
the same piotnres to look back on that we
have. The great majority wont out to fight
for what they thought wts right, jast as we
went out to fight for what we knew to be
right. I know that the old bitterness is
dying out. If we are men we will see
to it that the sufferers who differed with ns
will find oat that humanity still lives.
[Applause ] France gathers up the honored
remains ot the great men who fought for
the kingdom, the empire or tbe republlo.
We are bound to take up this thing, and carry
it to a euccetsfnl end. [Applause ] We
can do it, and we will. [Great applause.]
The speaker told how it wee frequently his
mission to go to Washington to procure pen
sions hr our soldiers, and bow the southern
members of congress, without exception,
were alwsy* to be relied upon for tbelr sup
port of such relief measures for their old
enemies. He said that the building of this
asylum wonld be another bond between the
north and south. Tanner told an anecdote
of a little eon of his and tbe child [Laughter.]
of an ex-confederate who lived next door to
hint. One Sunday evening he and bis
friend were sitting on his front
porch, where tbe little ones had
taken up a position on tbs "p ckst fence" in
front. Presently a kiss passed between the
youngsters.
"John,??? said the corporal to bis neighbor,
???I guess the union will be all right in the
next .generation." (Load laughter and ep
platue.)
Lima rami obsebal orikt.
MoJor Quincy, of Maryland, received letters
of regret from several distinguished persona.
General Grant wrote: 1 am in keariy eymt
pathy with the movement, and yon can
rely upon me for doing all I nan in carrying
oat the purpose of the meeting. I promise
apport, financial and otherwi.e.
Genera
eneral Hancock wrote: ???Yon have the
assurance of my beat wishes and efforts for
roar success in tbe accomplishment of this
long deferred benevolent enterprise.??? 1
General U. H. Bristow salt! in his letter,
that it woe appropriate to hold each a meet-
ingin a house founded in true philanthropy,
and promised his support.
Senator Hawley, Lev. T. DeWItt Taira age,
C. T. Christensen, General Sam W. Crawford,
C. P. Huntingdon, and General Roger A.
1'ryor, General P. Wilcox and Lilly and
others also wrote letters of regret.
ua.vEoaL a iincx umoBOcan
Then the chairman introduced General
J. B. Gordon, one of the inauguraton
of tbe movement, who was warmly wel
comed when he took the platform and many
timea interrupted by applause. General
Gordon spoke sa follows: ???Mr. Chairman,
Ladies and Gentlemen: Ax an ex-confederate
soldier who surrendered hie arms and forces
to your great captain a Appomattox C. H.,
Va., I greet yon tonight with pleasures,
sincere and profound. Nearly twenty
years have passed since the war
ended, end it ft fitting on an occasion like
this to recall a fe v facts connected with that
conflict, which in the lost analysis, was in no
sense a conflict of forms of
government, bnt a conflict of construction.
On one side at tbe eon tii
were the long entertained end inherited
theories of consiitnticnal constructions ordor
born cf tbe spirit of self defense, devotion
to one's own fireeide, people end kindred,
which is one of the most exalted ot virtues,
which lifts by Its intrinsic power
the humblest sonl into a file of unsel
fish heroism, and which stretched across
the southern border a cordon of as brave
breasts as were ever faced to tbe storm* of
battle, On the side of tb* north was the
purpose to maintain this union, high, manly,
inflexible resolve, that America
should be] the abiding place ot but
one great free republic. Two grand
motives inspired the anion soldiers, nerving
them to high thoughts and great achieve
ments. These two grand motives which
throbbed through every fibre of tbe
anion soldiers' being, and whispered in
thrilling accents in the hoar of battle were
the Indissolubility of the American nnion
and the universality of American freedom.
Both armies were patriotic. Both were re
publican, and devoted to lue principles of a
republican government Both were marshaled
under constitutions which incorporated
all the great cardinal princi
ples of the equality of states,
the habeas corpus, trial by jury, the freedom
of the press, religious liberty, and tbe su
premacy of the central constitution, and
there was not a moment during the conflict
when either army would have hesitated to
put down any attempt to found
a monarchy or an order o:
nobility, or a privileged priesthood
in this fair land, consecrated by their com
mon ancestry to freedom and equal rights
and devotion to liberty. To constitutional
liberty was tbe fountain from which both
drank in tbe inspiration for the mighty con
flict. and every soldier who fell
in the strife on either side turned
his death pale face to heaven a glorious
martyr for the right, es he understood it.
Though foes in fact they were| comrades at
heart, in ultimate purpose, and now they
mean to be comrades in fact. The canse
which brings us here is worthy ot men whose
heroism in the late war thrilled ibe world
with astonishment and admiration. It is a
movement by brave and magnanimous vie
tors to protect, shelter and befriend the dis
abled and suffering of their hott-
orabel and valiant, though vanquished,
brothers. It is to mske practical, to give
form and direction and scope, to an impulse
conceived in tbe noblest minds, born of
brave and generous hearts, inspired by God.
like charity, and which is destined to exert
a power for good on the future .of this
reunited country, resistless, measureless,
enduring, this movement, my countrymen,
in its effects upon those now living and those
who come after us, is worth more to this
conntry than all the resolutions of
political platforms or parties, more than
all appeals by elcqnent lips for
a restoration of sectional concord and Ameri
can fraternity, for it is the northern hearts'
own eloquence addressed to the southern
hearts??? own sensibilities. It is a brotherhood
accomplished, filtobliterates passion, touches
softens and unites tbe heartsof allcnrpeopla
and will bind them together in a bond
of brotherly affeotlsn, sincere, strong and
immortal. To understand the significance
of this movement, unsolicited end spontane
ous, is not exaggerated, It is sufficient to
know that it receives the sanction and co
operation of the bravo men of tbe federal
army, from its great ex-commander, whose
fame fills continents down to tbe humblest
private who, himself maimed and poor, is
ready to contribute to this canse from the
???mall pension paid by the federal
government, end tt remains only to
add that among the blessings which have
resnlted from our great conflict, which arc
common to all, is tho courage and discipline
of the soldier citizenship, the chivalry ami
martial spirit, love end glory, and
appreciation of honorable, truth
ful and Intrepid character,
the scorn of meanness and baseness end
cowattilBO, tbe courage to elrlko a braver
blow for right then any power dare strike for
wrong, assured greatness end beaofletnco o
our common country, south nad,??Mk, as
one great army matching to a coniSSBWcmiae
and under a common flag, tbe omblem of the
nnion, ??????one and inseparable.???
The next speaker was General P. H.
Sheridan, who msd i the humorous speech
of the evening. Ho said he believed in fight
ing at the proper time and only then. He
thought that if we could remember something
of the south beside tbs war it would be
ajpretty good thing SThcre were enumerable,
heroic and noble things about tbe snath that
could easily be recalled.??? He continued: "I
sometimes think it well to remember
that when a war la over
It i* done. Wo sent out
brigades, divisions, reetraenta, os far as ws
could, nnd Ate south did only the ssme tbfui
as well as they could (laughter), ant
I thank God they didn't keop
it up much longer. (Laughter.) I know
I had enough of it several times. (Langhtsr.)
We fought and they fit; wo won and they
didn't, and it is a mighty mean usan who
will remind tbera of it. except under some
such circumstances. (Laughter.) Sheridan
hoped the good work wontd go on, and
promised to help it with his purse and in
every other way he could.
The meeting was highly inccesafut and
arrangements were perfected for ntinuing
the work in hand.
consumed at home instead of seeking an out
side market.
LABsa ItOBTH AMD SOUTH. 1 ,
???What ot the colored population?"
"I have no hositstion In ssying. sir, that
the colored man to-day in tho south is, take
it all in atl, much better paid for his labor
and mneb better fed and housed than tbe
laboring man in any part of tho world.
Colored labor is chiefly on tho cotton planta
tions. A laborer gets on an average $10 a
month, nnd bis hoars of labor are at no sea
???on of tho year excessive.
???Compare the condition of the laborer up
here who receives bis 130 or $40 or even (30
a month with that of the negro laborer on
the plantation. What with rent end cloth
ing, food and fuel, it is much harder for the
laborer here to save money, while ho does
not livs nearly so well as the man on the
plantation; and Isay again oar people de
serve great praise for the system wnich so
arranges lanor as to produce this condition of
things."
advakcs or ms mono.
???Are tbe negroes alive to their advan
tages?"
"V?????
TALMAGE???S SERMON.
IMP^lESStVK EASTER SERVICES IN
BROOKLYN TABERNACLE.
Yes, sir; and os a race they are advancing
swiftly and materially in the south. Speak
ing generally, they are eager to selxo their
opportunities and mike tho mast of them
Under the system of labor that I have de-
Ecribed to yon those who care at all to do so
are making money, saving it and ndding to it
year after year. Vety many now own their
little plantations and work to their own in
dividual profit, or they own part of a planta
tion, or they invest in real estate in the towns
or villages. Then it must be remembered
that their expeases and wants are always eon
siderably less than those of the whites whose
means would correspond with theirs.???
"Are they advancing in educationT"
???Very largely.???
"Are the schools mixed in the south????
???No; nor is education compulsory; but it
is being pushed forward with great onergy.
And in this again our people show their good
will to tbe negroes. In Atlanta there is a
college for the higher education of tbenegro,
and the state ol Georgia devotes to that every
year precisely the situs mm that it devotes
to the old state university.???
"is the colored college well attended?"
"It is always filled."
"Whet does it turn oat????
???A large number of graduates every year
who take to law or medicine???to teaching
more especially???or other parsaits to which
they could not hope to aspire without the
training that just each an institution af
fords.???
???Whom do these politicians, lawyers and
teachers serve????
"Their own people.???
"What of their moral condition????
"They are a religions people, but it is a re
ligion largely of emotion and sentiment.
Tue Methodists and Baptists work extensively
nmong them. They are moral in their own
fashion, though without that strict regard for
the marital tie, for Instance, that ptevalts
among tbo whites.???
???How long a time would yon give the
EOttth, tinder tho present favorable aspect, to
recover, general????
???Well, tbatlsadiIBcaitqaestlon to answer.
To bring back the wealth that has gone, I do
not think that either this generation or the
next will see it. We shall not have so many
millionaires, but wo shall have more thou
sands wldelv distributed, and the general
condition of'botb people and country will bo
vastly Improved."
BECOMCILIATIOS.
???Do tbe old hard msmorlea still linger?"
???Well, practically, no. They have gone
out. 01 course there Is a deep respect still
fur those who fought and suffered lntH??? "AT . -DC
but there Is ntliuoia leclitig n(W hclv,ui.ir**Vf+u
southerner and a northerner than there is be- Am
tween a Scotchman and an Englishman,
because one is Scotch and tbe other English.
And if anything did remain?????? here General
Preacher Picture- Our Saviour at an
Sv try Dny Carl>t-Wbv Onr Iitrd appeared to
Mtry MuSslon n isulKd es ??? Oardeuer
-a -A New burr Iwuon.
Bn ??Ki.Yit| April 13.???Tbe Easter service in
rite 1 v/oklyn Tabernacle was very beautiful.
Tbe vide platform, which la thischurch takes
the p???aoe of pnlpit, there being no desk, was|
cov .-rod with flowers, and even tbe galleries
and the pillars of the church were wreathed.
Thttjne c was of a most jnbllant character,
the gimeral congregational singing interspers
ed With selections from the aid German and
Ita'.iuo masters, given by the regular church
artU&Bix thousand people crowded the
churCB and tunny/others were unable to gain
admittance. One of the opening hymns .was;
ir "Hark, the sonu.l of JuMice,
- Londdsmlsbty thunder* roar.???
???J'.. flfi&ags's theme was "Now Enter Los-
sor.V'Jpd his text was taken from John
xx. : I: ???She supposing him to be the garde
ner." Following is a full report of the ser-
OSXUAL 00BD1W lMTXaYIIWS
General Gordon gave an encouraging bnt
carefully shaded picture of the present
condition or affairs commercially, financially
and politically in the south. "The aid life is,
of coarse, brtoten up," he said, "and is not
likely to return. But there has been a great
change, and onr people have come to realixs
the changes. Wnileslavery existed theiouth
looked only to cotton ??? ad slaves far wealth
Emancipation swept away slave labor, and
this, with the war, brought ruin. Those who
witlted to live had to iojk around for new
meane and new methods. They have done
so. They have learned labia of thrift and
economy. Many are going info manufttc-
lures, whichurebeing wonderfully developed
in the sontb.
tus rffseoan or einKuiA.
???I speak more particularly ot Georgia, with
which state I am naturally more personally
familiar, bnt tuy remarks m-y be taken to
apply in a general sense to the whole south.
Northern capital now see* an opening down
that way, is being rapidly poured in and is
welcomed. Nowaday! we manufacture
good deal of our own cotton into tue coarser
fabrics. These find a ready market
through all tbe country, and in this
matter we are already able to compete
???uaceaefally with New England, the cost of
labor bting' eo much cheaper in the south.
The increase of railroads, too, is altering tbe
pace ot the country, bringing in trade, for
warding building and converting trade into
new channels. Formerly such railroads as
were bnilt were built around the large cotton
es???ates, cotton being the main industry and
???ourae of wealth. They thus avoided sections
of the country that team with mineral
wealth, which previous to the war lay latent
because there was no person and no coll to
work it.
Why, sir, Alabama, West Virginia, South
and North Carolina sod Tennessee have tbe
finest coal and Iron fields la the country, and
the future of our coat and iron industry lies
right there. We are already predating and
shipping pig iron at a cheaper rate than they
can in Pittsburg, and for the same reason that
we can manufactureourcotton goods cheaper
than they can be manufactured in New Eng
land. There ore many other industries also
developing or still to be developed, end those
who formerly looked to cotton alone now
turn their eyes and energise profitably in
other directions, while at the same time, os I
said, your capital is coming down to es.
OOTtOX XAYUrACTUBBS
"Not that the cotton is neglected. That
still continues to be, and is likely to contin-
Gordon spoke with deep feeling and impress-
iveness???"1 should look confidently to this
new movoment so generously taken up by
the Grand Army for tbe erection of s boms
for disabled confederate soldiers. Tbe G rand
Army has behaved nobly, nobly, and this ac
tion will go to the very heart of all the
south.???
"Are there many disabled Midlers south?"
"Yes; a great many. Simstwithoae arm,
???onto with one leg, others tonftwlth ballets or
with shells. They esn???t wottr.'end tbe states
we.e too btrassed to do anything for them
They need a home sadly where they msy rest
to the end of their days, and when they are
gon'e the institution or institutions might be
turned over to educational purposes for their
children.???
PaiSIBStCTIAL CHOICE.
???Weil, general, to come to the inevitable
climax, now do you think tbe southern vote
will turn in the coming presidential, elec,
lion????
???Mr. Tilden'e name would rally tbe south
ton man. I don't care to discuss any other
democrat???s chances.???
"And wbst does the south think of Presi
dent Arthur????
???The south has great respeot for President
Arthur; and Mr. Blaine has a peat many
personal friends there among those who
setved with him."
ACROSS THE WATER-
Prince Bismarck by advice of his phyei.
dans relinquishes csatrol of Prussian home
affairs, and will devote himself to foreign
matters.
At Madrid the. director and editor of El
Poveoier have been sentenced to eight years
Imprisonment for abusing King Alfonso.
In Paris Miss Ely-Goddard was married to
Prince Poniatowaki,
The Irish bishops will convene in Rome
in September.
A riot occurred at Kiddexmlnster, England,
on account of tbe employment of female
labor.
Five French missionaries have been mur
dered in Tonqain.
The merchants of Mexico protest against
tbe stamp set. Easiness is disergsnlzsd and
riots are ImninenL
Tbe Hayden republic has issued an addl-
tional $100,000 of paper money. Business is
greatly depressed.
General Gordon writes from Khartoum
that if not relieved immediately evacuation
will be necessary.
Cuba is very much excited over tbe land
ing there ol General Aguero and fillbaatera
from tbe United State*. Great diaconlent
meat exists, and troops are befog distributed
all over Cuba.
Charles Keade, one of the meet distin
guished novelists of England, la dead.
It Is reported at Berlin that the German
minister at Washington will bt recalled.
A plot to blowup tbe Canadian parliament
hut.dings baa been discovered.
A serious political crisis is reported from
Pekin.
Ilaak tulienl.
ksw Yoax, April 12 ???The following Is the state,
not ol tb* associated banks tor tb* week:
increase I K2QM0
wsjssuus# to/ GUj nuts M ??? a*G WItonflfilll Inermsa
at, ow great staple production and source of nnflTrrZii
wealth. It is helped instead of being bln-1 itcwm AecnumiZ-L
dered by tbe new flux of industry. By the I To* banks now hold jafill.Vi la
manufacture of coarse fabric* much of it it >*(*1 requirements.
ii- re are Mary Magdalen and Christ just
after h# resurrection. For 1,000 years a pale
old tyrant had been killing people nnd carry
ing 1 hem into his cold palace. He bade pas
sion for human skulls. He bad been gather
ing them lor forty centuries unhindered. He
had taken into the rooms of tbat great palace
all the kingsaud queens and conquerors, si
well as all those without fame. There were
shelves qf skulls and pyramids of skulls end
nltnrsnf skulls nod beds of skulls end even
the dial ices nt tho table were bleached skulls.
He hud taken down nil the generation*. Be-
ginhirg with tbe skeleton of Abel, he had
ttddfd ell the skeletons of ell the sges nnd
uod?? disputed his right. But one Good Fri
day >t (tout 1831 years ago eel calculate it, a
??? My stranger shoved back the door of that
I palace nnd went in end seised tbe old
it and threw hint flat on the marble pavo-
. and put the heel ou tbe neck of the
ktoe. Tbe mighty etranger explored
Mtly furniture of tba palace, walked
???Kgu tho labyrinths and opened all the
cellar*, nnd having tarried under that
roof whose ribs were human bone two uights
and a day, the nights vory dark and the day
very dismal, lie seised the two chief pillars of
tin. prince and rocked them till they begin to
fall nnd then lifting tbe ponderous front gate
front its hinges lio.carrled it off, crying: ???I
ant the . resurrection and the life,??? That
scene we celebrate this morning; Handelian
and Brothovcen miracles of sound added to
floral.decoration* that have turned pulpit and
gallery feta blooming parterre.
There arc four or live things about this
resurrection ot Christ tbat none seams to
havo noticed. "First???Our Lord in gardener???s
dieguleq, Mary Magdalen, grief struck at the
rilled tsscophHgus of Christ looks around to
see if el^ can And tile tracks of tlip sacrile
gious icsugreeflonlst and )o, tho toes some
one rimt lookfl u* if ho had come out to water
thq/ jjvf s Oyootout the weeds of the gar
den or ajluptho reoltuing and fallen Vine.
Ho I* nraroUgh working drees and pcrltar*
turbed sail adhering to bis
rking his garments. Mnry
!uc?? all covered with the rain
vctmiurachargcs on Iki
irtun Iflr MnCrrrilon of til
dead and this person incognito respondajby
flinging his soul into just one word that
trembled with all the sweetest rythn of earth
and heaven saying???'???Mary!??? Through that
peculiar accentuation the disguise fell off nnd
she found that instead of being an humble
gardner of Asia Miner, be bad charge of tlio
hanging gardens of heaven abloom with
worlds, constellations tbe clusters of forget-
me-nots, tbe sunflower chief ol all, while
morning iky end midnight aurora aro the
trellis ablaze like a summer wall with carna
tion rose and giants of battle. Blessed end
glorious mistake of Mary Magdalen recorded in
my text: "Supposing him to be the
gardener.??? Ob, that means that Chriitl* an
every-day Christ for everydsy work end In
every-day fatigue, in our moit seemly ap
parel on S&bbalb morning no more liaviug
ills sympathy and compassion than when iu
our every-day apparel attending to our
merchandise or smiting our anvil or plough-
lng our fields or preparing food for our fami
lies or mending garmentaJAour household
or standing at our flying Wriles or engineer-
ing our rati trains or setting up appointed
eras ol typo or composing with our weary
brain or cutting with our tired chisel or
sketching with our exhaust pencil. Christ
In workman's dress ready to help us in our
working drees: Lifted to the highest strain
of this Easter authem; "Supposing him to
be a gordgfser."
Had ho appeared to Mery in a king???s
crown, that wovld have suggested especial
sympathy for monarebs. Had he appeared
in chains of gold and robe diamonded, that
would have suggested especial sympathy lor
the affluent. Had he appeared with sword
dangling from soldler'i sash, that would have
suggested sympathy with warriors. But iu
gardentn, habit, btsoiled of his occupuion
that mesne, ss I spell it out to-day, a pathetic
understanding on his purt of tbe hard work
of life. And today ought to roll down com
fort through all these aisles and toll up com
fort through all these galleries. Let the
minets in darkest underground corridor of
the mountain hear it, and factory tnaid amid
the moat unventilatea factory of Lowell or
Lancaster, and clearer of lougheec new ground
amid western wilderness,and all tbe worn-out
sewing women who have a illicit In the aide
for every etitcb they give the cloth, some of
their cruel employers having no more chance
of going through the doors ut heaven than of
going tbrongh tbe eye of tbat broken needle,
which hoi jail fallen on the bare floor from
the picked aud bleeding flogera of tb* con
sumptive sewing girl. Away with all your
aksurd talk about "hypostatic .union??? and
"steriology of tbe council ol Trent,??? aud your
metaphysics of religion which hava well nigh
driven religion out of Ibe world end pass
along tbit gardener's coat till all nations may
touch the hem of it and feel the thrill of
Cbriatly brotherhood! Not euppotiog him
to be a Clear. Not supposing him to be a
flocraus bnt supposing him to be a gardener.
Tbat is woat helps Jneleli Wedg*wood, atrug-
gling on amid the dust end heal of the pot
teries until he can make for (Jmen Charlotte,
the first royal table service of Eogllsb man
ufacture. That help* James Watt amid de
rision and tcorn until he can put ou wheels
that Ibnnderbolt of power that roars by day
and night in the furnace of every locomotive
engine of Christendom. That help* Hugh
Miller amid tbe qaarries of Cromarty until
be make* the rocks so many volnmeaof tbe
world'! biography and finds the footsteps of
tb* Creator In tbe "Old Red Sandstone.???
What the world wants fa a Christ for the
printer's office end a Christ for tbs cotton
mill and a Christ for the kitchen and a Christ
tor the artists??? studio and a Christ for the
gardener while spading and planting and Irri
gating bis parterre. We want some day to see
Christ in royal robe and diademed, ejheaven*
ly equestrian mounting the white bone. Rut
from this Easter of 1881 to oar last Euter on
earth, we want to see him as Manr MW him
at the daybreak, ???aoppotoog him to be a
gardener."
Another thing that bu not been noticed in
rids resurrection of Christ is tbat he made his
first postmortem appearance to her who had
once been the seven devilled Magdalen. One
would,'have) thonghtjthat Christs first posthum
ous appearance would have been to some one
illastrions for goodness. There are saintly
women who always were eaintly, saintly in
the cradle, saintly in their girlhood, saintly
in womanhood, At models for a madonna.
Almost every fantely circle lies bad a saintly
aunt. In my family circle it was a satutly
aunt Pbrebe. In yours it wu
a saintly Aunt Martha or Aunt Ruth. Bat
not so this one ot the text. White we are
not to confound her with the repentant cour
tesan who worshipfully made her long locks
do tbe work of a towel at Christ???s foot-wash*
ing, we nevertheless must remember thatsha
hail been exorcised of seven devils. Wnat a
capital cf demonology she must have been
Whata chorus of diabolism. Seven dev.lri
Two for the eyes, two for the hands, two for
tbe feet, and one tor the tongue, list all of
them extirpated, and now she is as goad as
ouce she was bad; and loi she is tbe first wit
ness of the resurrection. What does that
mean? That Christ can out of tbe greatest
tinners make the greatest saints. That thoce
lowest down may bs lifted higheit up. That
the clock tbat strikes J2 at midnight may yet
strike 12 at noon. That grace is seven times
stronger than sin. Magdalen tbe seven-dev
iled becomes Magdalen the seven angeled. It
means tbat when the Lord meets us at last
He will not throw up to tti what we have
been. All that Christ said was; "Mary!???
If lie had been like some people He would
have said: "Let me see, how mauy devil*
did you ouce have. One, two, three, four,
fire, six, acveu! What a terrible piece you
was wbeu I first met you!??? Most srorneu of
our day would have ateered clear of her.
The ouly thing I have to say against women
is that they are so merciless upon their fallen
sisters, and show so little of the spirit of
C.irlst toward Mary Magdalen.
Bat this supposed gardener put all remlnis
eence aud all anticipation, aud all pace*, and
nil imttiOB, and all heaven into a word of foir
syllables, when he said ???Marti" Hie tint
appearance after mortuary silence, not to
some Hlelo Elizabeth or Bible Either or Bible
Hannah, but to Mery. Not to tho Marys
against whom we read nothing advene. Not
Mary the mother of Jeans, or Mary tho
mother of James, or Mary the sister of Martha,
but to the aeven devliled Mery. Not only
pardon but highest revelation tor the worst
ot folks. There is a man of seven devils???
devil of avarice, devil of hate, devil of pride,
devil of strong drink, devil of Impurity, devil
of falsehood, devil of indolence. Christ can
drive them all out, seven or seventy I A few
days ego 1 crossed the new cant lever bridge
whioh spans the Niagara bridge, 000 feet long
over a chasm of 850 test from bluff to bluff,
but had no foar becauto, at the tesiiugot that
bridge feat December, tht 20tli, 22 locomo
tives and 22 loaded gravel cars went smoothly
overir, tcus of thousand* of ceople ou the
Canadian and American banks applauding
spectators. And however long the train of
our uio.tal necessities we are to remember
that tbe bridge of Gad???s merry, spanning the
awful chasm of sin has been successfully
tested by the full tonnage of tho pardoned
crimes of all ages,churoh militant waictitng
from one bank and church triumphant
watching from the other bauk. It was tbe
sevea-devllled Mary who supposed Christ to
be the gardener.
Another thing not noticed about this
scene of tits (ext is that it was in tbe morn
ing twilight, if chonometera had been in
vented so early und Mary Magodaten had
owned as good a watch as some of. tho Marys
of our time she would havo taken It out and
fuuud It to bCLAPont half pot 5 u. m. Mat-
thnW, rl *reilfragtoic hour, says: ???A* it be
gan to dawn ??? Mark says, ???at tho rising of
the sun.??? Luke says, "very early in the
morning.??? John says, "when it was yet
dark.??? In other words it was twilight. That
eo. Why, before we get out of this world
the most of us will be scars all over. f{ riven
will not be a bay into which summer picas*
use yachts float with gay bunting and em
broidered sells as fair at when they were first
unfurled, but a navy yard Into which shall
come to lay at anchor mon-of-war from Tra
falgar and Lepauto, ail sidet atruik of 74-
pounders, and decksscratcbed with bunting
shell and masts twisted off of cyclone. Old
??????ConstitutiODe??? and ???Constellations??? of hard
service discharged forever from work On
reeurrection day Christ was identified aad
credentrailed by His scars, and we shill at
lost know Him by the scars aad know each
other by the scars. You have thought of
them as disfigurements or badges of endur
ance. Now 1 tell you they are to bo msaus
of recognition.
Once more. You have not noticed that
after Christ had lain from Friday to Sunday
lifeless in a hot climate where sanitary oru-
dence compels burial tbe next day; where
there is no ice to retard dissolution, he is not
only exhumated but positively, obostna one
who Is bronzed of outdoor work, Mary not
taking Him for an Invalid just got out of a
hospital ora corps*risen from the tomb, but
???supposing Him to be a gardener," healthy
by the upturning of tbe toll aad a lit??? fn the
euniblue. After His Interment, every cel
lular tissue bed broken d iwn, and artery and
nerve and brain were a wreck phyilolagicil.
Just here He is roseate and swarthy and
complete. Well, if God could turn snch a
mortuary stale into such a radiant animation
tbat settles it that whatever may have be
come of the bodies of onr Christian friends,
they can be rcconslructcd. all tbe nerves
strung, all tho bone* jointed, the optlo nerve
re-lumod, the ear drum vibrating and all the
body set up except its Impeifections and
worldly uses for which we need no resurrec
tion. Cornel Cornel It Is almost time for
us to get ready and go out and meet oar re
animated dead. This body of Christ coming
up healthy after all its lacerations shows me
that all the gravo can keep i* our woandsaad
physical defects and weaknesses. Chris???, had
been put Into tbe tomb exhausted and biosd-
leso from His wounds. All the lifo currents
had boon poured out. After a life of fatigue
and hunger and suffering he h*d died a lin
gering death, hli whole weight buag on four
spl kes and no invalid after ten years of suffer
ing went into his grave so emaciated and
ghastly aa Christ ana yet here he is 3 tlayi
after, so free from ill wounds and so rubi
cund of cheek that Mery supposes him to bs
tbe gardener.
So we well leave our side-aches and head
aches nnd bick-acbes and leg-aches and heart
aches where Christ left bie. Your ear will
come up without its heaviness. Your eye
without itsdlmnew. Your step without iht
rheumatic halt, your luugi without oppressed
respiration. What rjees we will run when
we become immortal athletes! Wlrat circuits
we will take when with all oar physical im-
icrfections subtracted and all celestial veloo-
ties added we shall eat up our new residence
In the capital of the universal, In whioh, with
more Inhabitants than all our earthly titles
combined, wo shall not for all eternity be
called to observe one obsequy. Standing this
Easter morning amid the shattered Masonry
of a Savior's sepulchre and point you to a
world without hearse or muHiri drum or
tamulusar cairn oroatafatque or tear. Amid
all thecathedrale ot the blessed, not one ten
dering of dead March la soul, hut whole li*
bretio* of hallelujah chorus. Oh, put trum
pet (o lip and Huger to organ and knee to
altar and loving forehead against the warm
bosom of tbe risen Christ I Htlleiujibi
Ament Uallolujihl Amen I
THE WEEK IN'CONGRESS
In the senato the Blair dducationai bill was
amended and passed by 33 to 11. Under the
bill $7,000,000 will be distributed among tbe
i ,nii ,i, states on the basis of ilUUncy tb* filst yMH
watts' T z. n d. y rVf r'tri tb8
mean? It moi.:s that there are shadows y car > ^e sums diminishing $100,000 en-
about tho tomb, unlifted, myeterloas, hover- 1 nually until the eighth year, wbeu tbe appro-
fng, unexplained, Easter twilight bat not
Eisternoon. Mary stooped dowu and looked
until her eyesight was strained lo sea the
other end of the crypt and gave an hysteric
outcry. Do not let|u<be worried beesueo we
cannot ??ee dear through to the other aide of
our own grave or to the other aide of tbe
graves of our dead. We ought not to expect
to have it brighter a;ound our family lol than
it wss about that ol Joseph of Arimathea.
prlatloue cease. The bill to establlshagovern-
mout postal telegraph system was* reported
favorably. Tbe naval appropriation bill baa
been under discussson several days. The
house adopted a motion declaring it unwise
to abolish or reduce the tax on spirits dis
tilled from grain. The bill passed autboriz-
_ ??? . ,,,, , , - , ??? log the president to appoint a committee to
??? ioa to bo 8p ,-
??? * ??? ??? pointed by the governor ol Texas to mark
tbe boundary line between the Indian Terri-
graves. Twilight of unanswered questions!
Why were they takt n from us? Why were
they given at all if ao soon lo be taken?
Why wets they enstohod away ao suddenly ?
Why could we not hares few farewell words?
Why? Ho short a word and yet in it such
crucifixions of sgutiy. Why? Bbadows on
tbe graves of good men and women who
beemed to die before their work was done.
Bhadows on the graves of all tbe children be
came we cannot understand wbysuoba beau
tiful craft ahould have heen launched to be
wrecked ono mile outside tbo barbon
But wbat had Mary to do in order to see
clear through the stauiuleum? Only to wait.
The tun rolled up through the heavens, aud
tho tunio wus flooded with light. Don't let
US got morbid because of the present twilight
that hovers over our family sepulchres or
over our own expected pillow ot dead leaves.
Charles the Fifth, ol Spain, took a torch and
went in the vaults of the Necropolis, where
Ills ancestors were burled and Where he him-
self wm to lie down. Deeper and further
going with his servants till be came to a cru
cifix around which were the casket# of hi*
ancestors, and he hod opened the bronze
chest in which some of his kindred lay, anil
came upon Ibe torm of oue of bis household
by enibaluier'sart kept perfect M eighteen
years bttore at her burial. But bla body and
mind perished as the result of this explora
tion. Do not let ns in onr morbidity struggle
with tbe sepulchral shadows, tor rememner
it is not an eveumg twilight to gat darker
and darker, but a morning twilight to melt
Into an ocean of day. Roll on aud roll up
thou Jtaater tun, till we shall gel back our
dead. I preach It???sunrise over the IVih la
Chaise. BunriaeoverGrayfriar'scburcbyard.
Buurise over Wuodlawo, Bunrise over Green
wood. Sunrise over Laurel llill. Sunrise
over cataoombi and villaga graves and coral
depths of theses. Oa J nail past 5 o???clock
now among tbe tombs; it U going to be nigh
noou of explanation aud beatituds. It wm
16 t!ie morning twilight that Mary Magdalen
???aw tbe supposed ga deuer.
Another thing unnoticed in this resurrec
tion of Christ, is bis pathetic credentials.
How do you know but that Ha was ouly an
earthly gardener? Hie clothes said be wm.
The Hikes of ground upon him Mlsl ba was.
How are w* aura that this wm tht Cbirst in
stead of a gardener? Ah, before tbat day
had gone, he had showed to hiKditciplei his
hands and tide. The three scars were hi, ere
dentlals. Three paragraphs written in ridged
or depressed cuticle???on* on tbtirigbt palm,
Ibeothtron the left palm, tb* other amid
the rib* Beers! Bears! They scattered the
incognito. Thai is tba way they koew Him.
Thu is the way we shall recognize Him when
we meet. Bi-ars all over Him, tor that Enter
He showed to His dittiplsa only a part of Hit
credentials. Wbat does tbat mean? That
we will all, among other things, recognize
ea:h other in heaven by tbe old tear* of
earth. Bears of accident; scare of bereave
ment; acaraof persecution; scare of betrayal;
scon of battle; aeon of bard work; score of
ticknea; ecara of old eg*. Our bodies ate
going to be remodelled and gtorifiad but we
are going lo keeptbe scars. Christ???s resurrec
ted body with the Kars all on make me think
tory and Taxes. Tbe blllappropriatlngllUO,-
000 for a public building at Waco, Texts, was
passed, l???ubllc buildings were agreed upon
at Aahsville, N. C. to coat $30,000 and at
Jacksonville, Fie., to coat $100,000.
Wouldn???t Ntay.
lie wm Lem ibe country, but the clerk assigned
him to a nice room, u be Msmel to bt rather
"flush.???
After adcal of pitaver end qaw-iotu About the
piloea of cotton end grain, hi wai shown to bis
apartment,and began to retire.
About on hour after, the hotel clerk, was rudely
awakaned from adellglitful slumber, by sterriOo
nolao overhead.
Ills lint thought was lo yell tre,bat thinking an
investigation best, ran qnlotlv up stain, and
pauicd In front ol tho country min???s door, just m
bo tailed out, half dressed, and the remainder of
hi* clothes In baod.
"What???s the matter?" gasped the clerk.
"Ualterl" howltd the staring rattle, "matter?
Why, yon onrey caw, ter ex ms tech a qaevUlun;
???liar treatin??? a man Ilka I've been Insulted."
"Wbat do yon meonF'again asked the Aston-
bbed dork.
"I mean, 8Ir Smart/, that I'm too old a bird lev
try enny tricks on; ou* that 1 don't pnrpcso ter
stay ennywhar, whar they put teeb ding Mailed
atlnkln??? candles In my bedroom; so Mar now, git
outan my way, for I???m a goto??? ter a decent place."
He bad exUngnlsbtd the gat Jot, Instead ot turn
ing It off, and gave Me clerk a quarter to keep
quiet, after ho had been shown the proper way of
putting oat "Mem ding bleated candles.???
FARM TOPICS.
From Me Gainesville, Ut., Southron.
Tbe fruit crop Is more promklug Ml* season than
In several years. Owing to Me lato iprlag Mere Is
no poariblecbtnctof blight, and If tbo yield Is
snob M Me numerous healthy Icoklug bud, and
blossom. Indicate, pear*, peaches, apple*, etc , wilt
be p.euitlul in Ml* rtglon.
From the Sandetirllle, Oa, Herald.
The people generally are Mrough planting com
at last after a bard straggle aad ate now preparing
to plaatoollon. bat ft wfU ba soma Urn* yet before
ttmj between'"dVao.**???* 111111 * lon * et
From Mo Dewem.Ueorgta, Journal.
Jimmie Lowery ebowed us, last Saturday, nearly
aqusrto! cutworms tbitbe picked off of a small
patch of cabbages. Profewor Lowery Mlnke Mo
cilef canes of Me nnmerou* quantity of this fa
tal pest la tb e Iraeuteol chip, or woodpile ma
nure, aa other parts of too garden, where It wm
not used, li not nearly sobadiy Infested. Be this
m It may, It 1* ??? .uiethin* quite uuutual, so eaittr,
and wo are afraid, ootwitnataading iae very cola
winter, and Mo prediction* of *o many peupta
that MU would be a duo year for garden*, MU
dt.play of cut-worm* Ldlcues a coutrary scow-
fag.
From Me Cutbbert On, Enterprise.
Tho outlook ol Me oat crop la not aa promising aa
wo would Uze to record, edit we soya there will
be very cou-lderable Improvement lu tht* cereal.