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I The PraokUo Club, »N»tlon«Ult con
cern at Cleveland, Ohio, demands that
the city shell assume control of ,11
cant lands within its limits aud cultivate
cabbages , . and , potatoes , , to , be given to the
poor. —
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1 United States Minister Phelps has
hopes of inducing Baron Krupp to ex¬
hibit some of his immense guns at the
Chicago Exposition. Baron Krupp hes¬
itates, for he says it will cost him $250,
000 to make an exhibit creditable to his
establishment.
A young woman in Cincinnati de¬
termined to die and made all of the es¬
sential preparations, including a letter of
instruction to a friend enclosing the
money for her burial. She then changed
her mind about the suicide and tried to
recover the money. The friend was
obdurate and insisted upon keeping it
until the specific purpose for which it
was given had been accomplished. The
courts decided that the friend must
return the money.
I The Canadian Pacific Railroad, an¬
nounces the New York Telegram, has
ordered fifty new locomotives and 1500
box cars. It will require ten trains daily
for seven months, it is said, to move this
season’s crops in Manitoba and the Cana¬
dian Northwest. With equally abund¬
ant crops on the American side of the
line the New World is prepared to keep
the Old Word from starving, notwith¬
standing the failure of the grain crojis in
(India and Russia.
The Russian press censorship is nol
I only very rigorous in regard to letters
posted in the country, but is extended
to letters in transit. An English corre¬
spondent complains that letters in course
of transit from Persia to Great Britain,
and vice versa, are frequently tampered
with while passing through Russian terri¬
tory, being sometimes cut open, some¬
times detained and sometimes destoyed.
The British Government has been re¬
quested to interfere. *
Over 30,000 head of neat cattle and
5000 horses and mules died of starva¬
tion and pestilence last year on the lower
Amazon, above the delta. The annual
floods were higher than usual, aud the
small farmers owning the animals could
not afford to hire tugboats and barges
to transport them from the narrow
ridges between the numerous channels of
the river, on which the stock was so un
expectedly imprisoned, to the upland
ten miles or more back from the valley
proper.
■ Three charitable ladies in Chicago
|have ises, predicts started a the movement San Francisco which Chronicle, prom
jto is be lunch of great in help fine to cafe, working all the girls. materials It
a a
jbeing furnished at cost, with a reading
room aud parlor attached. Although it
has been in existence only a few week 3 ,
it is crowded at the noon hour and the
membership is large. Ten cents a month
gives a girl all the privileges of the
rooms. Such a place for working girls
who live in cheap lodging or boarding
houses is both home and social club, and
the association will probably do more
real good than many pretentious chari¬
ties that spend a hundred-fold moie
money.
The absurdity of the German laws
against the importation of American
pork was shown in a recent issue of the
Allgemeine Reiehs Corresoondem. The
paper, after relating the vain attempts of
the merchants of Berlin to induce the
Government to withdraw the prohibition
against the American meat, declares that
the law is constantly evaded. American
meat is sent to Holland and Denmark
packed in ice. In those countries the
meat is smoked and forwarded to Ger¬
many as “Dutch” or “Danish” meat.
Recently more than 20,000 packages of
such American-Dutch meats were offered
for sale in the markets of the German
capital. The journal quoted above de¬
clares that the Americans have offered to
sell meats in the Berlin markets at forty
three to forty-five pfennigs, or ten to
eleven cents a pound. At present, adds
the New York Tribune, German meat is
much dearer than that.
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REV. DR. TALMAGE
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUN¬
DAY SERMON.
Subject: “Kindness.’'
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Text: “The barbarous people showed
us no little kindness.”— Acts xvviii., 2.
JS£Z£&li3£r has always been important £&&
an commer
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; Spain, to France, now belongs to England.
i The area of the island is about one hundred
square miles. It is in the Mediterranean s»a,
! 8UC ^ 1 clarity of atmosphere that
I ! Mount Etna, be one distinctly hundred and The thirty miles
away, can seen. island is
i gloriously Malta for memorable, long while because ruled the there, Knights but
of a
j most famous because of the apostolic ship¬
wreck.
The bestormed vessel on which Paul sailed
had “laid to” on the starboard tack, and the
wind was drifted blowing probably east-northeast, and the
vessel a mile and a half an
hour ere she struck at what is now called St.
Paul’s bay. Practical sailors have taken
up the Bible account and decided beyond
But controversy island the place which of has the shipwreck.
the so rough
a coast is for the most part a
garden. Richest fruit and a profusion of
honey characterized it in Paul’s time as well
as now. The finest oranges, figs and olives
grow there. When Paul and his comrades
crawled upon the beach, saturated with salt
water and hungry from long abstinence
from food and chilled to the bone, the
islanders, though called barbarians because
they could not speak Greek, opened their
doors to the shipwrecked unfortunates.
Everything and the had barefooted, gone to the bareheaded bottom of the
deep, and ship’s in oondition apos¬ to
tle crew were a
appreciate hosoitality. About twenty-five I
such men a few seasons ago found in
the life station near Easthampton, in Long
Island. They had got ashore the night
from the sea, and not a hat nor shoe had
they left. They found out, as Paul and his
fellow voyagers found out, that the sea is
the roughest of all robbers. My text finds
the ship’s crew ashore on Malta, and around
a hot fire drying themselves, and with the
best provision the islanders can offer them.
And they go into government quarters for
three days to recuperate, Publius, the ruler,
inviting them, house although that ha time—his had severe sick¬
ness in the at father
down with dysentery months and staid typhoid fever.
Yea, for three ship they and putting on the tha isl¬
and watching for islanders a hos¬
pitalities of the to a severe test.
But they endured the test satisfactorily, and
it is recorded for all the ages of time and
eternity to read and hear in regard to the
inhabitants of Malta, “The barbarous people
showed us no little kindness.”
Kindness! What a great word that is. It
would take a reed as long as that which the
apocalyptic angel the used breadth, to measure the height heaven of
to tell the length, It
that munificent word. is a favorite
Bible word, and it is early launched in the
book of Genesis, caught up in the book of
Joshua, embraced in the book of Ruth,
sworn by in the book of Samuel,
crowned in the book of Psalms, and en¬
throned in many places in the New Testa¬
ment. Kindness 1 A word no more gentle
than mighty. I expect it will wrestle me
down before I get through with it. It is
strong enough to throw an archangel. But
it will be well for us to stand around it.
and warm ourselves by its glow as Paul
and his fellow voyages stood around the fire
on the island of Malta, where the Maltese made
themselves immortal in my text by the way
they treated these victims of the sea. ‘The
barbarous people showed us no little kind¬
ness.”
Kindness 1 All definitions of that multi
potent word break down half way. Yow
say it is clemency, benignity, wishes, it is generosity; it
is made up of good an expres¬
sion of beneficence, it is a contribution to
the happiness of others. Some one else says:
“Why, I can give you a definition of kind¬
ness: It is sunshine of the soul, it is
affection perennial, it is a crowning grace, it
is the combination of all graces, it is compas¬
sion, it is the perfection of gentle manliness
and womanliness.” dead Are you all through? defi¬
You have made a failure iu your
nition. It cannot be defined. But
we all know what it is, for we all
felt its power. Some of you may have
felt it as Paul felt it, on some coast of rock
as the ship went to pieces, but awful more of us
have again and again from in some earth heaven stress
of life had either or
hand stretched out, which “showed us no
little kindness.”
There is a kindness of disposition, kind¬
ness of word, kindness of act, and there is
Jesus Christ, the impersonation cannot affect of all it, of
them. Kindness! You
you cannot play it as a part, you cannot
enact it, you cannot dramatize inside it. By the
grace of God you must have it you,
an everlasting summer, or rather a com¬
bination of June and October, the geniality
of the one and the tonic of the other. It can¬
not dwell with arrogance or spite or revenge In
or malevolence. At its first appearance
the soul all these Amalekites and-Gergishites and
and Hittites and Jebusites- must quit,
quit Kindness forever. wishes everybody well,
every child
man well, every woman well, every
well, every bird well, every horse well, this every spirit
dog well, every cat well. Give
full swing, and you would have no more
need of societies for prevention of cruelty
to animals, no more need of pro¬
tective sewing woman’s association, and it
would dull every sword until it would not
cut skin deep, and un wheel every battery till
it could not roll, and make gunpowder blaH of Bjl
more use in the world except for rock H
fog or pyrotechnic celebration. implanhS
Kindness is a spirit divinely H
and in answer to prayer, and then to
sedulously cultivated until it fills all
nature with than mignonette, a perfume richer and, and it youM mj
pungent tuft of that aromatic beauty as behiuefi
a col
clock on the mantel or in some piB
where nobody can see it, you find
walking about your room looking this ■ I
and that, and you ask them: ’ ‘What are
looking for?’’ And they answer: “WH
isthatflower?” Soif one has in his soul
infinite sweetness of disposition its
wdl welm < very thing.
But if you are waiting and hoping for some
one to be bankrupted or exposed or dis
eomfited, or in anyway overthrown, then
kindness has not taken possession of your
nature. You are wrecked on a Malta where
there are no oranges. You are entertain
ing a guest so unlike kindness that kindness
will not come and dwell under the
same roof. The most exhausting and
unhealthy and ruinous feeling on earth is
a revengeful spirit or retaliating spirit, asl
know by experience, for I have tried it five
or ten minutes at a time. When some mean
thing has been done me or said about me I
have felt “I will pay him in hisown com. I
will how him up. The ingraSo! The tra
tor! The liar! The villain!”
B it five or ten minutes of the feeling has
bee so unnerving and exhausting that 1
* and I cannot understand
ha T e abandoned it, torturing them
i he r people can go about
selves five or ten or twenty years,
trying only to get even with somebody. The
way you will ever triumph over your
enemies is by forgiving them and wishing
them all good and no evil. As malevolence
is the most uneasy and profitless and dan¬
gerous feeling, kindness is the most health¬
ful and delightful. And this is not an ab¬
straction. As I have tried a little of the
retaliation, so I have tried a little of the for¬
giving. I until I
do not want to leave this world
have taken vengeance upon every man that
over did me a wrong by doing him a kind¬
ness. In most of such cases I have already
succeeded but there are a few mallgnants
whom I am yet pursuing, and I shall not be
content until I have in some wise helped
them or benefited them or blessed them.
Let us all pray for this spirit «( kindness. It
will settle a thousand questions. It will
change the phase of everything. It will mel¬
low It through and through our entire nature.
will transform a lifetime. It is not a
feeling gotton up for occasions, butperen
That is the reason I like petunias.better
than morning glories. They look very
much alike, and if I should put in your
hand a petunia and a morning glory you
could hardly tell which is the petunia and
which the morning glory; but the morning
glory blooms only a few hours and then
shuts up for the day, while the petunia is
in as widespread a glow at twelve o’clock
at noon and six o’clock in the ,-eniug as at
sunrise. And the grace of kindness is not
spasmodic, is not intermittent, is not for a
little while, .but it irradiates the whole IU
turo, all through and clear oa till the sunset
of our earthly existence.
Kindness! I am resolved to get it. Are
you resolved to get it? It doe3 not come by
,haphazard, but through culture under the
divine help. Thistles grow without cul
tum Rocky mouutain sage grass grows
without culture. Mullen stalks grow
without culture. But that great red 1M-, >
in the conservatory, its leaves packed been ou
leaves, deep dyed as though it had
obliged still reeking to fight with for the its beauty and it were
carnage of the battle,
that rose needed to be cultured, and through
long years its floral ancestors were cultured.
O God, implant kindness in all our souls, and
then give us grace to watch it, to enrich it,
to develop it!
The king of Prussia had presented to him
by the empress and of Russia the root of gardens a rare
flower, it was put in the royal
on an island, and the head gardener, Herr
Fintelmann, was told to waten Three it. And one of
day it put forth its glory. admitted days
every week the people were to
these realizing gardens, and what a young man, probably he
not a wrong thing
was doing, plucking this flower and
put it in his buttonhole, and the gar¬
dener arrested him as he was crossing at the
ferry, and asked the king to thro w open no
more replied: his gardens “Shall I to deny the public. thousands The king of
the
good people of my country the privilege of
seeing this garden because one visitor has
done wrong? No, let them comeand see the
beautiful grounds.” give the
And when the gardener wished to taken
king the name of the offender who had
the royal flower, he said, “No, my memory have
is very tenacious and I do not want to
in my mind the name of the offender, lest it
should hinder me granting him a favor some
other time.” Now, I want you to know
that kindness is a royal dower aud
blessed be God, the King of
mercy and grace, that by a divine gift and
not flower by purloining, and we i' may the pluck outside this of royal
not wear on our
nature, but wear it o- our soul and wear it
forever, its radianct ud aroma not more
wonderful for time tmn wonderful for eter
nity. Still I of
further, When must speak kindness of
word. you meet anyone do you say
a pleasant thing or an unpleasant? Do you
tell him of agreeable disagreeable? things you have When heard he
about him, or the feel
leaves you does he better or does he feel
worse? Oh, the power of the tongue for the
production of happiness or misery 1 One
would think from the way the tongue is
saged in we might take the hint that it has
a dangerous power. First, it is
ahained to the back of the mouth bv
strong muscles. Tuen it is surrounded by
the teeth of the lower jaw so many ivory
bars, and then by the teeth of the upper
ssliiig they the beach of Malta with
crew as come up
to run on these rocks! Didn’t “ou know
better than to put out on the Mediterranean
this wintry month? It was not much of a
ship anyhow, or it would not have gone ^do to
pieces so soon as that. Well, what you
want? We have hard enough work to rnkke
a living for ourselves, without having thrust
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Not so, said the Maltese. I think they
said: “Come in! Sit down by the fire and
warm yourselves! Glad that yoCsefve/a you all got
off with your lives. Make
home. You are welcome to all we have
until some ship comes in sight and you re
sume bandage your voyage. forehead, Here, let me put a
on your for that is an
ag We sf'EMZZzsi ss»
will have a doctor come to attend to this
tracto.” And for toe.
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same block, a minute after
you weather meet to-day?” an optimist, and you say, “Wuaf
“Good weather this b
only a fog and will eoon scatter ” The
absence of umbrella and absence of water
proof overcoat show it is an honest utter
ance.
On your way at noon to luncheon you
meet an optimistic merchant and you nerd*] xav
“What do you think of the com
prospects?” and bring he says- “Glorious. Great
crops must great business We an
going to have such an autumn and winter
0 f prosperity as we have never seen ” Or
your way back to your store you meet a
pessimistic thecommercial merchant. prospects?” “What do yon think
of you know! ask. And
he answers: “Well, 1 don’t 8<
much grain will surfeit the country Farm
ers have more bushels but less prices, an ;
the grain gambler-: McKinley will get their fist in
There is toe bill, and the hay
crop is short in some places, and in Uue
southern part of Wisconsin they had a hail¬
storm, and ocr business is as dull as It ever
was." You will find the same difference in
judgment of character. A man of good
reputation is assailed and charged with some
evil deed. At the first story the pessimist said
will believe in guilt. "The paoers so,
and that's enough. Down with him.”
The optimist will say: “I don’t believes
word of it. I don’t think a man that has
been as useful and seemingly honest for
twenty years could have got off the track
like that. There are two sides to this story,
and I will wait to hear the other side before
I condemn him." My hearer, if you are by
nature a pessimist, make a special the effort dolorous by
the grace of God to extirpate disposition.
and Believe the nothing hypercritical against from anybody your until the
wrong is established by at least two wit¬
nesses of integrity. And if guilt be proved, if
find out the extenuating circunstances
there are any. that
And then commit to memory so you
can quote for yourself and quote for others
that exquisite thirteenth chapter of First
Corinthians about charity that suffers
long aud is kind, and bopeth all things and
enaurethall things. By pen, by voice, in
public and In private, says all the good about
people you can think of, and if there be
nothing good, then tighten the chain of
muscle on the back end of your tongue, and
keep the ivory bars of teeth on the lower jaw jaw
and the ivory bars of teeth on the upper tightly
locked and the gate of your lips
closed and your tongue shut up.
What a place Brooklyn would neighborhoods be to live in,
and all the other cities ana to
live In, if charity dominated! What if all
the young and old gossipers were dead! The
Lord hasten their funerals! What if tittle
tattle and whispering were out of fashion!
What if in cipering out the value of other
people’s character, in our moral arithmetic,
we stuck to addition instead of substraction!
Kindness 1 Let us morning, noon and night
pray for it until we get it. When you cau
speak a good word for sortie one speak it. If
you can conscientiously give letter of com¬
mendation, give it. Watch for opportuni¬
ties for doing good fifty years after you are
dead. affected by the letter
All my life has been
of introduction that the Rev. Dr. VanVran
ken, of New Brunswick Theological Semi¬
nary, wrote for me, a boy under him, when
I was seeking a settlement iu which to
preach the Gospel. The letter gave me my
first pulpit. Dr. Van Vranken has beon
dead more than thirty years, yet I feel the
touch of that magnificent old professor. I
Strange sensation was it when re¬
ceived a kind message from Rev. Thomas
Guard, of Baltimore, tha great Methodist
orator, six weeks after his death. By way
o. the eternal world? Oh, no, by way of
this world. I did not meet the friend to
whom he gave the message until nearly two
months after Thomas Guard had ascended.
So you can start a word about some one that
will b9 on its travels and vigorous long after
the funeral nsaltn has been sung at your
obsequies. Kindness! Why, if fifty men
all aglow with it should walk through the
lost world, methinks they would almost
abolish perdition. there is kindness of action.
Furthermore, Joseph showed to his out
That is what David
rageous brothers. That is what
showed to Maphibosheth for his father
Jonathan’s sake. That is what Onesip'aorus
sllovV0d to Paul in the Roman penitentiary,
That is what William Cowper recognized
when he said he would not trust a man who
would with his foot needlessly crash a worm,
That is what our assassinated Presi
d ent Lincoln demonstrated when his
private secretary found him in tha
Capitol grounds the trying to which get it had a
bird back to nest from
fallen, and which quality the illustrious mau
exhibited years before, when having with
some lawyers in the carriage^ oa the way to
court passed on the road a swine fast in the
mire > after awhile cried to his horses, “Ho!”
and said to the gentlemen, “I must go back
arul kelp that and hog out of the soli! mire.” ground Anl that he
dld go back put on
most uninteresting quadruped,
m. T “ at . was t!ie .. spint . .. that .. . was manifested ....
. m A d ® par ff d tri ® ad , Honorable Alexan
der ste P aea ?> of Georgia (and lovelier
maI1 n ?™ r 0lehaa g ed 681-111 for heaven),
A senator’s wife who
circumstances, said to
“» la th» poor Bung
aissaSrH jhSI.’!as
f yaQlastea JerI y as at the
first call
SZXdtlT underrirdm^l? fr/ 1 **** 3 °J. */!». er '
arching ? pervading
nrineinle Hon_lht of thrir f ’ 1 Uien carr J out the
frri’it “° Qths the waole
earti “Wh^t wouid t ‘People woffid , , say:
the world m ® that
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has wS^WThi, ° "W £ l° neighbor, r ? closar «
azaiast s/I aad keoauso he has had
much hive the “ho,’, , 8 family S°
fog relt to LLl t f° r one yeal
lawveF^fiw ““ J ia<,, F er la . that
ing young Sfo easL thSf’fo^v WW f ^ a<
fix up a whmh tss
SS’EK?il!8‘ aal^makin /out £Si$W- decisions ”””
rmil J
not’ \ yoong merchant coull
ZTkI went ir u °'‘l merchant
J, “il u r U>T hlm thv * J month.’ ex
tensHM^wMcn toe difference l for between tie young bankruptcy merchant is
and
an artist who had a fine picture of the
Iwipuis of Niagara,’ and he coaid not »/•)) it
ssrsya Z* r * «*<*■**< and they
the ‘ttli wit?™* r< " m Wali
“rc a
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that farmer
— "f——' ** th-r
thattteo
‘Now Iter# is a r<2.if * (m4 ?***. **7-' Ua “
vountrest son said it was his right because he
was the youngest, and Mary said it was her
right because she better understood father’s
vertigo and rheumatism and poor spells and
knew better how to nurse him, and the only
way the difficulty could be settled was divide by the the
old man’s promise that ha would
year into three parts, and spend a third of
his time with each one of them.
‘‘And neighboring storas in the same line
of goods on the same block are acting kindly
to each other, and when one is a little short
of a certain kind of good* his neighbor replenish says,
‘I will help you until you can words your of
shelves.’ It seems to me that those
Isaiah are being fulfilled when he says,
‘The carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, him
and he that smooths with the hammer,
that smote the anvil, saying it is ready for It
the soldering.’ What is the matter?
seems to me our old world is be picking coming up. in.
Why, the millennium must
Kindness has gotten the victory.” I know
My hearers, yon know and we are
far from that state at things. But why not
inaugurate a new, dispensation of geniality.
If we cannot yet have a millennium on a
large scale, let us hare it on a small scale,
and under our own investments. Kindness!
If this world is ever brcught to God that is
the thing that will do it. You cannot fret
the world up although you may] fret the
world down. You cannot scold it into ex¬
cellence or reformation the or godliness. wind
The east wind and west were
one day talking with each other, and the
east wind said to the west wind: “Don’t you
wish you had my power? Why, when I
start they hail me by storm signals all along
the coast. I can twist off a ship’s mast aider. as
easily as a cow’s hoof cracks an
With one sweep of my wing I have strewn
the coast from Newfoundland to I Key
West with parted ship timber. can
lift and have lifted the Atlantic Ocean. I
am the terror of all invalidism, and to fight
me back forests must be cut down for fires,
and the mines of continents are called on to
feed the furnaces. Under my breath the
nations crouch into sepulchres. Don’t you
wish you nad my power?” said the east
wind. made # but
The west wind no answer,
started on its mission, coming somewhere
out of the rosy bo wers of the sky, and all
the rivers and lakes and seas smiled at its
ooming. The gardens bloomed, and the
orchards ripened, and the wheat fields
turned their silver into gold, and health
slapped its hands, and joy shouted from
the hill tops, and the nations lifted their
foreheads into the light, and the earth had a
doxology for the sky, and the sky an an¬
them for the earth, and the warmth and the
sparkle, and the gladness, and the and foliage, the
and the flowers and the fruits,
beauty, and the life, were the only answer
toe west wind made to the insolence of the
east wind’s interrogation. ought
Kindness to all! Surely it not to
be a difficult grace to culture when we see
towering above the centuries such an ex¬
ample that one glimpse ought to melt and
transform all nations. Kindness brought
our Lord from heaven. Kindness to mis¬
creants, kindness to persecutors, kindness
to the crippled and the blind, and the cat¬
aleptic and the leprous, characterized and the dropsical, Him all
and the demoniacal
the wav, aDd on the cross, kindness to the
bandits suffering on the side of Him, and
kindness to the executioners while yet they
pushed the spear, aud hammered the spikes,
and howled the blasphemies.
All the stories of the John Howards and
the Florence Nightingales and the Grace
Darlings aud the Ida Lewises pale before this
transcendant example of Him whose birth
and life and death are the greatest-story that
the world ever heard, and the theme of the
mightiest hosanna that heaven ever lifted.
Yea, the very kindness that allowed both
hands to be nailed to the horizontal timber
of the cross with that cruel thump! thump!
now stretches down from the skies those
same hands filled with balm for all our
wounds, forgiveness for a'.l our crimes, res
cue for all our serfdoms.
And while we take this matchless kindness
from God, may it be found that wo have ut¬
tered our last bitter word, written our last
cutting paragraph, last done our last retaliatory
action, it felt our revengeful heart throb.
And would not be a bad epitaph for any
of us if by the grace of God from this time
forth we lived such beneficent lives that the
tombstone’s chisel could appropriately cut
upon the plain slab that marks our grave a
suggestion little kindness.” from the text: “He showed us no
But not until the last child of God has got
him ashore the from rocks the like earthly Mediterranean storm that drove
on Euro
clydons, mounted not until all the thrones of heaven
are and all the conquerora
crowned,and all the harps and trumpets and
organs of heaven are thrummed or blown or
sounded, and the ransomed of all climes
and ages are in full chorus under the
mbliant swing of angelic baton, and we
shall for thousands of years have seen
the river from under the throne rolling into
the “seaof glass mingled with fire,” and this
world we now inhabit shall be so far in the
past that only a stretch of celestial memory
can recall that it ever existed at all, not un¬
til then will ws understand what Nehemiah
calls “the great kindness,” what David calls
the marvelous kin iness,” and Isaiah calls
tne everlasting kindness” of God!
FOOD FOR SHARKS.
Horrible Fate of Natives of
Flentz Island.
A San Francisco dispatch of Saturday
says: The schooner General Banning
arrived from Flentz island Friday with
a cargo of cocoanuts. Her commander.
Captain Spring, reports that, while load¬
ing the cargo, his vessel was twice blown
out to sea by severe storms. On each
occasion there was about a hundred na¬
tives on board and they hastened ashore
in canoes. The second time several
canoes capsid and the occupants were
water. The water
with sharks and many natives
" f/t rn 1 " 3b fro ' - n limb before they
l ?i. P C ^ dupb , y the other canoes. v
Ont nf * were
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Th0 y a Sheriff Who Was
Tr y jn S to Arrest Them.
Alj0u a A . t 1 O'clock Somerset, Tuesday Ky., says:
, morsin. a
8 COufin ^ On the
1 to I*. u» thVkey.
*/?, ® “ *^ ort distance west of the citv
Md ' 1 ha T d N( * confession to°the could be
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