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SkTnator Stanford liis private
fccrctnry liis entire salary aiul tuiloa'"'e,
amounting to about $7,000.
Several German linns 'have given
notice-that they will adopt Volapnk in
corresponding with English manu
facturers.
Applications to the State of Georgia
for pensions under the act pensioning
Confederate soldiers who were wound
ed in the -service are pouring in at a
lively‘rate.
IHE I rtnee of Wales is said to be
furious over the publicity which has
been given by Sullivan and his friends
to the visit which he paid to the
champion’s boxing exhibition.
The cities and towns along the Ohio
river arc suffering from a coal famine.
They rely on the river as a transporta
tion line, and it being a treacherous
stream, often leaves them “out in the
cold.”
A Florida paper complains that
there are in that State “too many law
yers, doctors, preachers, editors and
tramps, and not enough men who earn
their living by tlm sweat of their
brow.”
'I he new French President belongs
O
to a family of Scotch origin. The or
iginal name was Cairn, the French
diminutive of w hich would be Cairnot,
or little eaihi. This was soon corrupt
ed into Carnot.
It is proposed to mark the 106th an
niversary of Daniel Webster’s birth,
January 18, bv the formation of a na
tional association of political scien
tists, for tlie non-partisan considera
tion of important economic questions.
The Angel of Death has been merci
ful among the great during the year
'IBB7. The year 1886 was one of extra
ordinary fatality among those whom
the world had delighted to honor; but
there are few shining marks among the
necrology of 1887.
Typhoid fever recently developed at
the Norristown (Pa.) insane asylum.
Like certain other medicinal measures,
it killed some, lmt it also cured several
patients who had suffered for soinp
time from insanity. Erysipelas has
been known to do the same tiling.
Tiik Uni toil States Postal Improve
nient association, which has just been
formed, desires tlio re-issue of frac
tional currency for use in the mails,
the abolition of postal notes, the issue
tot postal orders for small sums at re
duced rates and the passage of laws of
special interest to farmers and fruit
growers.
Though electric cars have come into
use there will still be a demand for
horses. It was thought the introduc
tion of steam cars would soon cause
the eouine race to become extinct; but
tho number of horses is greater than
ever, and prices are higher. The rail
roads have indeed enhanced the value
of horses.
Russia needs money sorely, and wants
Turkey to pay up the three or four mil
lion of dollars yet owing on the war in
demnity. But Turkey is even poorer
than Russia. She has nothing in her
treasury and can not borrow a cent. It
looks like a dead-lock. Russia would
like to take It out in territory, but Eu
rope will not let her.
Wiikx an analytical chemist sets to
work to hunt for typhoid fever germs
he usually succeeds. An Eastern pro
fessor ha s just discovered 2, Doll bacteria
in a quarter of a Ica-poouful of melted
ice, breaking the record. But it is
thought that consumption of ice of that
quality would not prove fatal, upon
the theory of its being an over-dose.
Thu statutes of South Carolina pro
vide that any one who shall ‘’break a
lock and enter a house in the night
tune to rob, shall, on conviction, suffer
life imprisonment.” Under this statute
two colored boys, aged respectively ten
and thirteen.! ears, have just received
a life sentence at Camden, in that
State. The Governor will be called
upon to mitigate tin severity of ‘lie
sentence.
Geskkal (iRKELY, the Chief of the
Signal Service Bureau, repot ts that in
1887 to oil displavs of the cold-ua\e
signal there were 116 misses, showing
<8.6 per cent, of the predictions to be
correct. There were 1,510 storm sig
nals, of w hich ■l7O were not verified
68J por rent of the total being si 'tain
t'd. Twenty to thirty of the loreea-ts
of ordinarv special weather conditions
. proved incorrect. The statistics indi
cate better results than heretofore, but
the General thinks that !tPT« ,; “« e
i room for hot tern ent.
SYSTEMATICALLY ROBBED.
Armour’s Trusted Men the Guilty
Ones.
Tile Great Pork Dealer Knocks tt»e Heads
of Departments Right and Left.
Chicago, 111, Jnn. 2.—Phil Armour was
on the war-path at the stock yards to-day,
and as a New Year’s present discharged
several heads of departments there and
Uansferred others. He had just unearth
ed a scheme whereby ho was beii g robbed
of thousands of dollars. For some time
past lie has been aware that he was being
robbed, and private detective* were put
to work. He employs about 5 000 men in
his houses and stock yards, where
the slaughtering and buying are
hone, and the heads of the departments
Diere are responsible men, receiving about
?ti.OOO per year each, and their opportuni
ties for theft are more or less excellent.
Bome of the department heads made a
practice, it is said, of enforcing a commis
ion from all purchasers and sellers, and
hey made money from both their em
loyer and customers. Then again some of
he men in charge of the pay-rolls were
found to be making money too fast.
They put names of men on the rod
■' ho never did a bit of work and
drew the money themselves. It is proba
ble Ai mour has lost thousands in ttiis way,
as one man who had charge of the pny
ioll at the International ] aeking-house
was brought up with a short turn after he
had n a!e away with about *B,OOO. Not
vei l long ago also one of the book-keepers
was discharged, lit being discovered that he
was some SB,OOO ahead of tho game, so to
i-peak. Experts are now at work
on the books, and until they re
port the exact losses will not be known, and
when they are known Armour will keep
them to himself. Armour’s business at the
stock-ya: ds is in a measure apart from that
down town, as he has little time to spendat
the yards. That is why tlie lnenatthe yards
are paid such good salaries and why their
positions are so responsible. They have
practically every thing their own way and
might steal hundreds of thousands of dol-
Inis before any one would be any the wiser.
Fifteen heads of departments were brought
up to-day with a short turn, bu 'he niim
ber discharged and the number transferred
fcas not Loen given out. Men from the
down-town offices were sent to the yards
to fill the vacancies. A thorough over
turn ing of the books and accounts at tho
yards Will fie miute, end it will bo l.,iig
before Armour knows to a cent how much
he is out by the peculations and schemes
of those lie trusted.
FELL IN LOVE WITH A NUN,
Anil at His Death He Left Her Two
Thousand Dollars.
Pittsburgh, Jan. 2.— The death of Joseph
Gibson at Lorttto a few days ago has
brought to light an infatuation for a beau
tiful nun, Sister Gertrude, at a convent
there. He met her six years ago'
while va king in the convent
grounds one summer morning and
fell madly in Jove. Bhe is extremely
handsome, lustrous big brown eyes,
clear pink and w hUe complexion and ex
quisite figure. Gibson's infatuation com
pelled her to seek close seclusion, for he
hounded the convent, 1 hough forbidden
the premises by Mother Superior. He said
he would run away with her if he could
get her out of the convent. His devotion
kept him from marrying, and at his death
he left an order.to which she belongs
12,000.
Tons of Foreign Mail.
New York Jan. 2. —Sunday and Satur
day were heavy foreign mail days in the
postoffice. A steamer from Queenstown
generally brings not more than four hun
dred or five hundred sacks of letters and
papers, but the Germanic on Saturday
brought 7-fl) sacks, and besides that
there were live other vessels from
foreign ports which brought mail
matter amounting altogether to 1,035
bags. Each bag will average about one
hundred pounds of letters. Yesterday the
Etruria brought 73) bags from London and
the Bretagna 13) from Havre. This makes
the total for the two days 1,895 savks of
foreign mail. The causa of these large
foreign mails “is found partly in the holi
day remembrances from abroad, and part
ly in the fact that business between Eng
land and the United States at this season
is especially active.
Wreck on the Southern Road.
Somerset, Kv., Jan. 2.—Tw o limited ex
presses on the Cincinnati Southern col
lided near Greenwood, seventeen miles
south of here, about one o’clock Saturday
afternoon. Among the killed were: Lee
Withrow, baggage-master,, Cincinnati;
Lawrence Collan, baggagmaster, Lud
low, K v.; Express Messenger Broell. and
one fireman and one■ passenger whose
remains were burned. James Severance,
jr., of Stanford, Kv., is fatally injured.
The mail and express cars were burned,
together wit it their contents, and the en
gines are wrecks. The train dispatcher
itad ordered the trains to pass at Summit,
but one of the engineers mistook the name
for Somers' t, hence the wreck. Eleven
persons are known to have been killed.
Availing lor a Clear Sky.
San Jose, Cal.. Jan. 2.—The great ob
jective, or thirty-six inch lens, of the Lick
telescope was successfully mounted yes
terday afternoon and would have been
turned on the heavens that evening had
the sky been clear, but having become ob
scured about sundown no observations
were made. Superintendent Floyd, Prof.
Keeler and Messrs. Swazy and Clark are
well pleased with the work. As soon as
an observation is made photographic i--ns
will be mounted and experimental photo
graphs taken to determine the work re
quired to finish it which Mr. Clark tierto
foie has beep unable lo do, \
TRENTON, DADE COUNTY. GA., FRIDA Y, JANUARY (i. 1888.
PROSPECT FOR COAL.
The Government Dam Tails to Perform Its
Functions, and the Boats Can Not I’ass.
PiTTsiiuitoii, Jan. 3.—About a half mil
lion bushels of coal will get out to-night
for Cincinnati and Louisville, and probably
as much more will lie shipped to-morrow
morning. This will be about the extent of
the river shipment on the present rise.
Over 7,000,000 bushels of coal were ready
for shipment, but the operators were un
able to get it below the Davis Island dam
on account, of the heavy ice, which pre
vented the lowering of the wickets. The
Governmen t officers at the dam worked in
cessantly for nearly forty-eight hours try
ing to lower the wickets, but were unsuc
cessful. The ice was carried in targe cakes
under the dam, and about thirty of
the wickets were thrown in tho
wrong direction, presenting a for
midable obstruction to the passage
of boats. Ihe dam is badly damaged, but
to what extent will not be known until
next summer, as no attempt will be made
to raise the wickets until that, time. This
was the first opportunity the coal men
have had to ship coal by the river for eight
mouths, and the failure of the wickets to
work has occasioned considerable grumb
ling.
Riot at a Christening.
Wilkesiurke, Pa., Jan. 3.—A riot be
tween forty or more drunken Poles took
place at Al ien this morning. Anthony
Shinsky was stabbed live times in the head,
tiis arm broken, two lingers were rut, off
and one eye gouged out. He was loft lying
unconscious on the roadway, and when
found he was removed to the nearest house
in a dying condition. Eight others were
seriously injured, and two of them are
likelydo die. The fracas resulted directly
from a christening, which lasted two days,
onthe participants becoming more
llirough drink.
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Gladstone in Italy.
Florence, Jan. 3.—The demonstration
which has taken place here in houor of Mr.
Gladstone was of the most interesting
character. More than a thousand mem
bers of the Garibaldian Association went
to the apartments occupied by the great
English statesman. They arrived just, as
he was leaving the house with his daugh
ter. Ho was at once surrounded by a large
crowd of sympathizers, who repeatedly
burst into or es “Long live Gladstone,”
“Long live Ireland.”
Sensy’s Bankruptcy Bill.
Washington’, Jan. 3.—Representative
Seney intends to re-introduce bis bank
ruptcy unt of last session. It proposes that
when a man makes an assignment in trust
in favor of his creditors, turning all of his
property over without reserve, he can ap
ply to a IT.l T . S. Court for release, which shall
be granted after it is shown that he has
actually turned over at! his pro; erty. The
settlement is theu to he made through the
State Courts.
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Keely, the Motor Man, Enjoined.
Philadelphia, Jan. 3. — Judge F.nletter,
in tiie court of common pleas, t o-day, on
complaint of Bennett C. Wilson, issue! a
preliminary injunction against John W.
Keely, tho inventor of the Keelv motor,
commanding him not to remove the motor
from the place where it now is, or vary the
construction and mode of operation of tho
machine, nor to sell, assign or in any man
ner incumber the invention.
Abolishing German in St. Louis.
(St. L n is, Jan. 3.—At a joint meeting of
the Course of Study and Wavs and Means
Committees of the Public School
Board tonight it uas decided that
the Germau language shall not lie
taught in the public schools of
this city after this month. There is no
doubt that the full Board will acquiesce in
this action, and that an order will be is
sued 'o the above effect.
Italy’s Foresight.
Washington, Jan. 3. —It is reported that
the Italian Government is endeavoring
through its Minister to this country, to
make arrangements with American man
ufacturers of steel for furnishing armor
plates for Italian war vessels, the inten
tion being to secure a source of a sleet
supply outside of Europe in the event of
ar.
First Degree.
Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 3. —In Hie Tol
lafson case the day was consumed bv At
torney William Erwin in his speech for t he
defense. AI the close of his address 1 lie
case was given to the jury. The jury
agreed upon a verdict at 7:31, finding Tim
othy Barrett guilty of murder in the first
degree for the killing of Thomas Tollafson.
Important Day for Michigan.
Detroit, Micii., Jan. 3.—The whole
question of the constitutionality of the
new prohibition liquor law will b? argued
before tbe Supreme Court to-morrow.
Several cases have been consolidited in
one and will be brought up on appeals.
Michigan will watch the outcome with
great interest.
Mississippi Legislature.
Jackson, Miss., Jan. 3. The Legislature
convened to-day. Both Houses were fully
organized and are ready to proceed with
business. J. P. Walker was elected Pres
ident pro tern, of the Senate, and C. B.
Mitchell was elected Speaker of t be House.
Czar Opposed to War.
Vienna, Jan. 3 — Official declarations of
a decided pacific character arc expected at
an early date. Colonel Zuteff, who has re
turned to his duties as Military Attache
to the Russian Embassy, says tie found
the Gear absolutely opposed to war. The
Emperor will receive Colonel ZuletT to
arrow.
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The Public Debt.
Washing r<>N. Jan. 3 The public debt
was decreased sl4 3'H.tvk) during I be month
of December. Tue deb' less cash ;n the
treasury January 1,1780, is (-1 22 > o,'S.4Wi
TALMAUE’S SERMON.
Something of the Glory and Ex
tent of the New Jerusalem.
Fite Up t lie Splendor* of Mart lily Cities
ami They VVoulil Not Make a Stepping-
Stone by tVliicli You Might Mount to the
City of God.
The subject of Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage’s
sermon Sunday morning whs: “The Coin
ing Glory;” hi text, 1 Corinthians, ii, 9:
“Eye hath not seen, ttor ear heard, neither
have entered into the heart of man the
things which God hath prepared for them
that loves Him.” He s'-id :
Eighteen eighty-eight! How strange it
looks, and how strange it sounds! Not
only is the past year dead, but the cen
tury is dying. Only twelve more long
breaths and the old giant will have ex
pired. None of the past centuries will be
present at the obsequies. Only Ihe Twen
tieth eeutury wil* see the Nineteenth
buried. As all the years are hastening
past, and all our lives on. earth will soon
be ended, 1 propose to cheer myself, and
cheer you with the glories to come, which
shall utterly eclipse all tbe glories past;
for mv text tells us that eye hath not seen,
nor ear heard, any’thing like the advanc
ing spleudors.
The city of Corinth has been called the
Paris of antiquity. Indeed, for splendor,
the world holds no such wonder to-day.
It stood on an isHunus washed by two
seas, the one sea bringing the commerce
of Europe, the other sea bringing the com
merce of Asia. From her wharves, in the
construction of which whole kingdoms bad
been absorbed, war galleys with ihree
banks of oars pushed out and confounded
the navy yards of ali the world. Huge
banded michincry, such as modern inven
tion can not equal, lifted ships from the
sea on one side and transported them on
trucks across the isthmus and sat them
down in the sea on the other side.
The revenue officers of the city went
down through the olive groves that lined
the beach to collect a tariff from all na
tions. The mirth of all people sported in
her Isthmian games, and the beauty of all
lands sat in her t heaters, walked tier por
ticos, threw itself on the allar of her stu
pendous dissipations. Column, and stat
ue, and temple bewildered the beholder.
There were white m arble fountains into
which, from apertures at the side, there
rushed waters everywhere known
for health-giving qualities. Around
. twislfMi into nrvnnt.Vics
of stone, there were all the beauties of
sculpture and architecture; while stand
ing, as if to guard the costy display,
was a statue of Hercules of bur
nished Corinthian brass. Vases of terra
cotta adorned the cemeteries of the dead
vases so costly that. Julius Caesar was not
satisfied until he had captured them for
Rome. Armed officials, the corintharii
paced up and down to see that, no statue
was defaced, no pedjgtal oVerthown, no
bas-relief touched. Worn the edge of the
city a hill arose, with its magnificent] bur
den of columns, and towers, and temples
(1.000 slaves waiting at one shrine), and a
citadel so thoroughly impregnable that
Gibraltar is a heap of sand compared with
it. Amid all that strength and inaguifi
fence Corinth stood and defied the world.
Oh! it was not to rustics who had never
seen anything grand that Paul uttered this
text. They had heard Mb best music that
had come from the bqst instruments in all
the world; they had heal’d songs floating
from morning porticos and melting in
evening groves; they had passed their
whole lives among pictures, and sculpture,
and architecture, and Corinthian brass,
which had been molded and shaped until
there was no chariot wheel in which it
had not sped, and no tower in which it
had not glittered, and no gateway that
it had not adorned. Ah, it was
a bold thing for Paul to stand
there amid ail that, and say: “All this is
nothing. These sounds that come from the
temple of Neptune are not music compared
With the harmonies of which 1 speak.
These waters rushing into the basin of Py
rene ere not pure. These statues of Bac
chus and Mercury are not exquisite. Your
citadel of Acrocorinthus is not strong com
pared with that which I offer to the poorest
slave that puts down his burden at that
brazen gate. You Corinthians think this
is a splendid city; you think you have
heard all sweet sounds, and seen all beau- i
tiful sights; but 1 tel! you eye hath, not
seen nor ear heard, neither have entered
into tho heart of man, the. tilings which
God hath prepared for them lhat love
Him.”
You see my text sets forth the bleu that,
however exaited our ideas mar he of
Heaven, they come far short of the reality.
iSome wise men have been calculating how
many furlongs long and wide is the New
Jerusalem; and they have calculate l bow
many inhabitants there are on the earth;
how long the earth will probably otaud;
and then they come to this estimate , that
after all tho nations have been gathered to
Heaven there will be room for reach soul—
a room sixteen feet long and fifteen feet
wide. It would not be large enough for me.
I am glad to know that no human estimate
is sufficient to take the dimensions. “Eye
hath not seen nor ear heard” nor.arithmc
ties calculated.
1 first remark that we can in this world
get no idea of the health of Heaven. AVhen
you were a child, and you went out in the
morning, how you bounded along the road
or street—you had never felt sorrow or
sickness. Perhaps later you felt a glow in
your check, and aspring in your step, and
an exuberanceof spirits and a clearness of
eye. that made you thank (tod you were
permitted to live. The nerves were harp
strings, and the sunlight was a doxologv,
ar.d the rustling leaves were the rustling
of the robes of a great crowd rising up to
praise tho Lord. You thought that you
knew what it was to be well, but there is
no perfect health on earth. The diseases
of past generations come down to us. The
airs that float now upon the earth are
not like those which floated above
paradise. They are charged with impuri
ties and distempers. Tue mote ernstm »ud
robust health of earth, compared with that
which those experience before whom the
gates have been opened, is nothing but
sickness and emaciation. Look at that soul
standing before the throne. On earth she
was a life long invalid See her step now,
and hear her voice now. Catch, if you can,
one breath of that celestial air. Health in
all the pulses—health of vist#n; health of
spirits; immortal health. No racking
cough, ns sharp plem-isies, no consuming
1 vers, no exhaust ing pains, no hospitals
of wounded men. Health swinging in the
aii-; health flowing in all the streams;
health blooming on the hanks. No head
aches, no sideaches. no backaches. That
obi Id wtio d ied in tlie agonies of croup,
hear her voice now ringing in the anthem.
That old man that went bowed down with
the infirmities of age, see him Walk
now with tlie step of an immortal athlete
for ever young again. That night when
the needto woman fainted away in the
garret a wave of the heavenly air resusci
tated her forever. For everlasting years
to have neither ache, nor pain, nor weak
ness, nor fatigue. “Eye hath not seen it,
ear hath not heard it.”
I remark, further, that we can, in this
world, get no jut idea of the splendors of
Heaven. John tries to describe them. He
says: “The twelve gates are twelve
pearls,” and that “the foundations of the
walls are garnished with alt manner of
precious stones.” As we stand looking
through the telescope of St. John we see
a blaze of amethyst, and pearl, and em
erald, and sardonyx, and chrysoprasas,
and sapphire, a mountain of light, a cat
aract of color, a sea of glass audacity like
the sun.
John bids us look again, and we see
thrones; thrones of the prophets, thrones
of the patriarchs, thrones of the angels,
throaics of the apostles, thrones of tho mar
tyrs, throne of Jesus—throne of God. And
we turn round to see the glory, and it is
thrones! thrones! thrones!
John bids us look again, and we see
the great procession of the redeemed
passing; Jesus, on a white horse, leads
the march, and all the armies of Heaven
following on white horses. Infinite cav
alcade passing, passing; empires pressing
into line, agei following ages. Dispen
sation tramping on after dispensation.
Glory in the track of glory. Europe,
Asia, Africa, North and South America
pressing into lines. Islands of the sea
shoulder to shoulder. Generations before
the flood following generations after the
flood, and as Jesus rises at the head of the
great host and waves his sword in signal
of victory, all crowns are lifted, and alt
ensigns slung out,, and all chimes rung,
•>nr) nil halleluiahs chanted, and some crv.
“Glory to God most high:” and some,
“Hosanna to the son of David;” and some,
“Worthy is the Lamb that was slain”—
till all exclamations of endearment and
homage in the vocabulary of Heaven are
exhausted, and there comes up surge after
surge of “Amen ! amen 1 and amen!”
“Eye hath not seen it, ear hath not heard
it.” Kkim from the summer waters the
brightest sparkle and you will get no idea
of sheen of the everlasting sea. Pile
up the splendors' of earthly cities and they
would not make a stepping stone by which
you might mount to the city of God.
Every house is a palace. Every step a
triumph. Every covering of the head a
coronation. Every meal is a banquet.
Every stroke from the tower is a wedding
bell. Every day is a jubilee, every hour a
rapture and every moment an ecstacy.
“Eye hath not seen it, ear hath not heard
•it.”
I remark further, we can get no idea on
earth of the re-unions of Heaven. If you
have ever across the seas, and met a
friend, or even an acquaintance, in some
strange city, you remember how your
blood thrilled, and how glad you were to
see him. What will be our joy, after we
have passed (be seas of death, to meet in
the bright city of tho suu those from whom
we have long been separated. After we
have been away from our friends ten or
fifteen years, and we come upon them, we
see how differently they look. The hair
has turned, and wrinkles have come in
their faces, and we say: “How you have
changed!”
But oh, when we stand before the throne
all cares gone from the face, all marks
of sorrow disappeared, and feeling the
joy of that. blessed land, metbinks we
will say to each other, with an exulta
tion we can not now imagine: “How you
have changed!” In this world we only
meet to part. It is good-bye, good-bye.
Farewells floating in the air. We hear it
at the rail car window and at the steam
boat wharf —good-bye. Children lisp it
and old age answers it. Sometimes we
say it in a light way—“good-bye;” and
sometimes with anguish in which the
soul breaks down. Good-bye! Ah! lhat
is tile word that ends the Thanksgiving
banquet; that is the word that comes in
to close the Christmas chant. Good-bye,
good-bye. But not so in Heaven. Wel
comes in the air, welcomes at the gates,
welcomes at the house of many mxusions
—but, no goodbye. That group is constant
ly being augmented. There are going up
from our circles of earth to join it—little
voices to join the anthem—little hands to
take hold in the great home circle—little
feet to dance in the eternal glee—little
crowns to be cast down before the feet of
Jesus. Our friends are in two groups—a
group this side of the river, and a group on
the other side of the river. Now there
goes one from this to that, and another
from this to that, and soon we will all be
gone over. How many of your loved ones
have already entered upon that blessed
place.
If I should take paper and pencil, do you
think I could put them all down! Ah, iny
friends, the waves of Jordan roar so
hoarseiy we can not hear the joy on the
other side when that group is augmented.
It is graves here, and coffins and hearses
here. A little child’s mother had died n:.d
they comforted her. They said: “Your
mother has gone to Heaven—don’t
cry;” and the next day they
went to the graveyard and they
laid the body of the mother down into
the ground; and the little girl came up to
the verge of t-he grave, nr.d, looking down
at the body of her mother, said: “Is this
HoaTeui" Obi v.o have no idea what
VOL. IV.—NO. -15.
Heaven is. It is the grave here—it is dark
ness here —but there is ui?rryma’:-
ing yonder. Methinks when a soul
arrives some angel takes it around to
show it the wonders of that blessed
place. The usher angel says to the newly
arrived: “These are the martyrs ttiat per
ished at Piedmont; these were torn to
pieces at the Inquisition; this is the throne
of the great Jehovah; this is Jesus.” “I
am going to see Jesus,” said a dying boy;
“I am going to see Jesus.”aThe missionary
said: “You are sure you will see him?”
“Oh! yes: that’s what I want to go to
Heaven for.” “But,” said the missionary,
“suppose Jesus should go away from
Heaven—what then;” “I should follow
Him,” said the dying boy. “But if Jesus
went down to hell—what theu?” The dying
boy thought for a moment and then said:
“Where Jesus is there can be no
bell!” Oh! to stand in His presence!
That will be Heaven! Oh! to put our
hand in that hand which was wounded
for us on the cross—t?o go ft round amid tho
groups of tlie redeemed, and shako hands
with the prophets, and apostles, and
martyrs, and with our own dear, beloved
ones! That will be the great reunion; we
can not imagine it now, our loved ones
seem so faraway. When we are in trouble
and lonesome, they don’t seem to come to
us. We go on the banks of the Jordan
and call across to them, but they don’t
seem to hear. We say: “Is it well with
the child! Is it well with tiie loved
ones!" and we listen to hear if any voics
comes back over the waters. Nonet
nonet Unbelief says: "They are
dead, and they are annihilated,
but, blessed be God, we have a Bible
that tells us different. We open it and we
find they are neither dead or annihilated—
that they never were so much alive as now
—that they are only wailing for our com
ing, and that wo shall join them on tlie
Other side of the river. Oh, glorious re
union! We can not grasp it now. “Eye
hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have
entered into the heart of man the things
which God hath prepared for them that
love him.” Oh, what a place of explana
tion it will be 1
1 see, every day, profound mysteries of
Providence. There is no question we ask
oftener than Why! There aro hundreds of
graves in O/eenwecd »)id Laurel Hill that
need to be explained Hospitals for the
blind and lame, asylums for the idiotic
and insane, almhouses for the destitute,
anda world of pain and misfortune that do
mand more than human solution. Ah! God
will clear it all up. In the light that pours
from the throne, no dark mystery can live.
Things now utterly inscrutable will be il
lumined as plainly as though the answer
were written »u uw
or sounded in the temple anthem.
Bartemius will thank God that he
was blind; tnm Lazarus that he was cov
ered with sores; and Joseph that be was
cast into the pit; and Daniel that he was
denned with lions; and Paul was hump
backed; and David that he was driven
from Jerusalem; and that invalid that for
twenty years he could not lift his head
from the pillow; and that widow that she
had such hard work to earn bread for her
children. The song will be all the grander
for earth’s weeping eyes, and
aching heads, and exhausted hands,
and scourged backs, and martyred
agonies. But we can get no idea of that
anthem here. We appreciate the power
of secular music, but do we appreciate
the power of sacred song! There is noth
ing more inspiriting to me than a whole
congregation lifted on the wave of
holy melody. When we sing some
of those dear old psalms and tunes
they rouse all the memories of the
past. Why some of them were cradle
songs in our father’s house. They are
all sparkling with the morning dew of a
thousand Christian Sabbaths. They were
sung by brothers and sisters gone now—
by voices that were aged and broken in
the music—voices none the less sweet
because they did tremble and break.
When I hear those old songs sung, it
seems as if all the old country meeting
homes joined in the chorus, and city
church, and sailors’ bethel and western
cabins, until the whole continent lifts the
doxology and the scepters of eternity beat
time in the music. Away then with you)
starveling limes thatchitl the devotions of
the sanctuary, and make the people sit
silent when Jesus is marching on to vic
tory. When Generals come back from
victorious wars, don’t we cheer them and
shout, “Huzza, huzza?” and when Jesus
passes along in the conquest of the earth,
shall wr not have for him one loud, ring
ing cheer?
All hail the power of Jesus’ name!
Let angels prostrate fall.
Bring forth Hie, royal diadem.
And crown him Lord of all.
But, my friends, if music on earth is so
sweet, what will it lie in Heaven! They
all know the tune there. All the best
singers of all the ages will join it —choirs
of white robed children, choirs of patri
archs, choirs of apostles. Morning stars
clapping their cymbals. Harpers with
their harps. Great anthems of God, roll
on! roll on!—other empires joining the
harmony until the thrones are all full,
and the nations all saved. Anthem shall
touch anthem, chorus join chorus, and ali
the sweet sounds of earth and Heaven be
poured into the ear of Christ. David of
the harp will be there. Gabriel of the
trumpet will be there. Germany, redeem
ed, will pour its deep bass voice into the
song, and Africa will add to the music
with her matchless voices.
I wish we could anticipate that song. I
wish in otir closing hymn to-day we might
catch an echo that slips from the gates.
AVho knows bift that when the heavenly
door open to-day to let some soul through
| there may come forth the strain of the
; jubilant voices until we catch it? Oh, that
as the song drops down from Heaven, it
I might meet half way a song coming up
i from earth.
They rise for the doxology, all the mul
; titndeof the blest! Let us rise with them ;
' and so at this hour the joys of the church
' on carih and the joys of the church in
Heaven will mingle with their chalices,
! and the dark apparel of our morning will
j ne m to whiten m o the spotless raiment
i of th: skies. Gou giant that through the
rich mercy of our Lqrl Jesus Christ we
. mall get tbeia.