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DR. TALKAGE'S SERMON. '
CCNGPEGATI9N AL SINGING.
Text: “It came even to pass, as the tram
r-tei's and sing >rs were as one, to make one
Lun 1 to be beard in praising and th inking
the Lord. ’ 11. Cbrvn. v. 1...
Tlie Tempi? was done. It was th? very
chorus of ail magnificence a id pomp. Splen
dor crowded against splen i< r. It was tin
d animd necklace < f the e irth. From tue
huge pillars crowned with leaves of Howers
an 1 rows of pcmegi anat > wrought out in
burn slid metal, down even to lhe tongs ai d
smith r- made out of pur.- g dd. everything
wa s as complete ns the God-dire, t d
architect could make it. It seemed
c . if a vision from heaven had
alighted on the mountains. The day for >
dedi- ation came. Tradition says that th.-re
were in and round about the temple on that
dav JtO.IWO silver trumpets, 40,000 harps,
4(i.i>oo timbrels and “OO.OJU singers: so that all
modern demonstrations at Hits Id «•' or ,
Boston seem nothing compared with that. I
As this great sound surged up amid
the precious stone: of the Temple, it must ,
have seemed like the river of life dashing i
against the amethyst of tl.e wall of Hi aven.
The sound arose and God, as if to show that
He was well p ea-ed with the music which
His children make in all ages, dropped into
the midst of the Temple a cl >ud of glory so
overp waring that theoJiciatingprie t? were
obliged to stop in the midst of the services.
There has teen much discussion as to where
music was born. I think that at the begin
ning, when the morning stars rang together
an fall the suns of trod shouted for joy. that
the earth heard the echo. The cloud on
which the angel stood to celebrate the crea
tion was the birthplace of song. The stars
that glitter at night are only so many keys
of celestial pearl on which God's fingers play
the musi ■of the spheres. Inanimate nature
is full of God’s stringed and wind instruments.
Silence itself—perfect silence —isonly a musi
cal rest in God’s great anthem of worship.
AVind among the 1 saves, insect humming in
the summer air, the rush of billow upon
beach, the o'can far out standing its ever
lasting psalm, the bobolink on the edge of the
forest, t :e quail whistling up from the grass,
are music. While visiting Blackwell’s Island
I heard coming from tie window of the
lunatic asylum, a very swe. t song. It was
sung by one who had lost her rca on: and I
have come to believe that even the deranged
and di-ordered elements of nature would
make music to ours ear, if we only had
acuteness enough to listen. I suppose that
even the sounds in nature that are discordant
and repulsive make harmony in God's ear.
You know that you may come so near to an
orchestra that the sounds are painful instead of
pleasurable; and Ithink that we stand so near
deva tating storm and frightful whirlwind
we cannot hear that which makes to God's
ear and the ear of the spirits above us a
music as complete as it is tremendous.
The Day of Judgment, which will be a day
of uprear and tumult, 1 suppose will bring
no dissonance to the ears of those who can
calmly listen; although it will be as when
some great performer is executing a boister
ous piece of music, he sometimes breaks 1
down the instrument on which he plays; so it
mav lie on that last dav that the grand march
of God. played by the fingers of thunder and
earthquake and conflagration may break
down the world upon which the music is
executed. Not only is inanimate nature fall
of music but God has wonderfully organized
the human voice, so that in the plainest j
throat and langs there are fourteen
direct mus-les which can make over sixteen
tuouemd different sounds! Now, there are
thirty indirect muscles which can make, it
has been estimate !, more than one hundred
and seventy-three millions of sounds. Now,
1 say, whenGodhas so constructed the human
voice and when he has filled the whole earth
with harmony, and whence recognized it in
the ancient Temple, I have a right to come to
the conclusion that God loves music.
I propose t his morning to speak about sacred
must -, first showing you its importance and
then stating some cf the obstacles to its ad
vancement.
I draw the first argument for the impor
tance of sacred music from the fact that God
commanded it. Through Paul He tells us to
admonish one another in psalms and hymns
and spiritual songs: through David He cries
out: “Sing ye to God all ye kingdoms of the
earth " And there are hundreds of other pas
sages I might name, proving that it is as
much a man's duty to sing as it is his duty to
pray. Indeed I think there are more com
mands in the Bible to sing than there are to
pray. God not only asks for the human voice
but for the instruments of music. He asks for
the cymbal and the harp and tho trumpet.
And I suppose that, in the last days of the
church, the harp, the lute, the trumpet, and
all the instruments of music that have given
their chief aid to the theatre and bacchanal,
will be brought by their masters and laid
down at the feet of Christ, and then sounded
in the church’s triumph on her way from
suffering into glory. “Praise ye the Lord!’’
Praise Him with your voices. Praise Him
with stringed instruments and with organs.
I draw another argument for the import- ■
anre of this exercise from the impressiveness :
of the exercise. You know something of ■
what secular music has achieved. You know
it has made its impression upon governments,
upon laws, upon literature, upon whole gene
rations. One inspiriting national air is worth
thirty thousand men as a standing army.
There comes a time in the battle w hen one
bugle is worth a thousand muskets. In the
earlier part of our civil war government pro
posed toeeonomize in bands of musieandmany
of them were sent home.: but the generals !
in the army sent word to Washington: “You
are making a very great mistake. We are
falling l ack and falling back. We have not
enough music.” Then the government
changed its mind: more bands of music
were sent to the field and the day of shame
ful defeat t -rmitated. I have to ted you
that no nation or church can afford to
severely economize in music.
"hy should we rob the programmes of
worldly gayety when we have so many ap
propriate songs and tunes composed in our
own day, as well as that magnificent inheri
tance ot church nsalmody which has come
down fragrant with the devotions of other
generations—tune Ino more worn out than
when cur great grandfathers climbed
U P on them from the church
to glory! Dear old souls, how
they used to sing! When they were cheerful
our grandfathers and giaudmofh ?rs u-e 1 to
sing 1-hester.” When they were very
meditative, then the meeting house rang with
>utls street” anil “St. Edmonds.” Were I
they struck through with great tenderness,
they sang “Woodstock.” Were they wrapperl
in visions of the glory of the church, they
sang “Zion.” Were they overborne with the
love and glory of Christ, they sang “Ariel.”
And in those days there were certain tunes
married to certain hymns, and they have
lived in peace a great while, these two old
People, and we la.e no right to divorce
them. "What God hath joined together let
no man nut asunder.” Boni as we have been
amid this great w ealth of church music, aug
mented by the compositions of artists in our
“■Y, we ought not to lie tempted out of the
sph re of Christian harmony and try to seek
unronse rated sounds. It is absurd for a
millionaire to steal.
Many of you are illustrations of what
aered song can do. Through it you were
nroucht into the kingdom of Jesus Christ.
oil stood out against the warning and the
1 gum* nt of the pulpit.but w hen in the sweet
Tni Char; «’ Wes'ey or John Newton or
opludv the lot e of Jesus was sung to your
th " n T° u si >rr ndered, asarm.-d castle
-a could not be taken by a host, liftsits
to listen to a harp's trill.
nJi re was afS otch soldier dying in New
a Sc< t?h minister came in to
K e him the consolation? of the Gospel. The
,an turn-d over on his pillow an I sad:
Rr»» n > ! la • • ,o ? R0 about religion.” Then the
Grn? “"“-'ter began to sing a familiar
ri' n , n , TV that was composed by
“1 Hi xenson, beginning with the words:
Oh mother, dear Jerusale n,
” h -n shall I come to thee?’
.** to the tune of Dundee, and
rvl olv m Scotland knows that; and as he
on* his t ' ls ’ol'iier turned over
ft' * ni ? said to ‘he minister:
re did you learn that!” “Why,” re-
1 plied the minister, "my mother rauglil ma
that.” “So did mine,” said the dying Scotch
soldier: and the very foundation of Lis
heart was upturned, and then aud there
he yielded himself to Christ Oh. it
has an irre-itible power! Luther's se inons
have been torgott'n but libs “Judgment
Hymn" siugs on through th? ages and will
leap on s wring tint 1 tho bla-'t of the areh
lan :e’? train- et shall bring nb nt* tint very
day wh ch tbe hvmn celebrates. I would tn
Go 1 that those who hear mo to-dav would
tile thi-s • so:usof salvat : onas me? :i res fn in
heaven: for, just as c -it-vnlv as tho bir s
br< light too I to Eli ah by the brook I herit’a.
so those winged hnrmon.e-'. Gol-sont. are
living tn your soul with ths bread of life. I
Op-n your mouth au 1 take it, O hungry Eli- 1
jah!
I have a’so noticed tie power of sacrel
! song to soothe perturbiti >n. You may have
come in hero with n great many worriment?
and anxieties, yet perhaps in the sing'ug of
the first hvniu you lost all those worrinwn s
and anxieties. You have read in the Bib o
of Saul, aud how he was sad and angry, awl
how the boy David came in aud played the
evil spirit out of him. A Spanish king wai
melancholy. Tae windows were all closed.
He sat in the dark less. Noth ng
1 c mid bring him forth until Fra-
neli came and discoursed music foi
three or four days to him. On th? fourth
day h" looked up and wept and rejoiced, and
the windows wore thrown open, aud that
which all the splendors of the court could
mt do, the power of song a-complished. If
you have anxieties and worriments try this
heavenly charm upon them. Do not sit down
on tho l ank of the hymn, but plunge in, that
the devil of care may be brought out of you.
It also arouses to action. Do you not know
that a singing church is always a triumphant
church! If a congregation is silent during the
exercise, or'partially silent, it is the silence of
death. If when the hymn is given out you
hear the faint hum of here and there a father
and mother in Israel while the vast majority
are silent, that minister of Christ who is pre
sidingnee Is to have a very stron?constit ution
if he doe? not get the chills. He ne -ds not only
the grace of God but nerves like whalebone. It
is amaiing how some people with voice
enough t? discharge all their duties in tho
world, wh >n they come into the house of God
have no voice to discharge this duty. I
really believe that if the church of Christ
could rise up and sing as it ought to sing,
that xvhere we have a hundred souls brought
into the kingdom of Christ there would be a
thousand- How was it in olden time!
Cajetan said: “Luther conquered us by hik
songs.”
But I must now speak of some of the ob
stacles in the way of the advancement of this
sacred music; and the first is, that it has
been impressed into the service of supersti
tion. lam far from believing that music
ought always to be positively religious. Re
fined art has opened places where music has
been secularized and lawfully so. The draw
ing-room, the musical club, the orchestra, the
concert, by the gratification of pure taste
and the production of harmless amusement
and the improvement cf talent, have become
, very forces in the advancement of our civili
zation. Music has as much right to laugh in
I Surrey Gardens as it has to pray in St. Paul's.
J In the kingdom of nature we have the glad
! filing of the winds as well as the long metre
I psalm of the thunder. But while all this
iis so, every observer has noticed that
! this art, which God intended for the im
nrovement of the ear and tho voice and the
head and the heart, has often been impressed
into the service of error. Tartini. tin? musi
-1 cal composer, dreamed one night that Satan
snatched from his hand an instrument and
played upon it something Very sweet —a
I dream that has often been fulfilled in our
day, the voice and the instruments that
ought to have been devoted to Christ, cap
tured from the church and applied to pur
poses of sin.
Another obstacle has been an inordinate
fear of criticism, The vast majority of peo
ple singing in church never want anybody
else to near them sing. Everybody is wait
; ing for somebody else to do his duty, I" we
all sing then the" inaccuracies thatare evident
when only a few sing would 1 e drowned out.
] Gcd asks you to do as well as you can, and
then, if you get th? wrong pitch or keep
wrong time, he will forgive any deficiency
of the ear and imperfections of the voice.
Angels will not laugh if you should
lose your place in the musical scale, or come
in at tho close a bar behind. There are three
schools of singing, lam told—the German
school, the Italian school and the French
school of singing. Now, I would like to ndd
a fourth school, and that is the school of
Christ. The votes of a contrite,broken heart,
although it may not be able to stand human
criticism, makes better music to God’s ear
than the most artistic performance when
, the heart is wanting. I know it is
easier to preach on this than it is
I to practice: but I sing for two reasons—
first, because I like it and next because I
?vant to encourage those Avho do not knoAV
how. I have but very little faculty in that
direction and no culture at all, yet I am re
solved to sing though every- note should go
off like a Chinese gong. God has commanded
it and I dare not be silent. He calls on the
1 beasts, on the cattle, on the dragons to
I praise him, and we ought not to be behind
the cattle and the dragons.
Another obstacle that has been in the Avay
! of the advancement of this holy art has been
so much angry discussion on ths subject of
music. There are those who would have this
exercise conducted by musical instruments.
In the same church there are those Avho do
not uke musical instruments, aud so it is or
gan and no organ, and there is a light. In
I another church it is a question whether the
| music shall be conducted by a precentor
or by a drilled choir. Some Avant a
drilled choir and some want a pre
centor, and there is a fight. Then there
are those Avho would like in the church to
have the organ played in a dull, lifeless,
droning Avay, while there are others Avho
Avould have it wreathed into fantasties.
branching out into jets and spangles of
sound, rolling an 1 tossing in marvcllotis con
volutions, as A'h -n in pyrotechnic display
you think a piece is exhau-ted it breaks out
in wheels, rockets, blue lights and serpentine
demonstrations. Some Avould have the organ
played in almost inaudible siveetmi s. and
others would have it full of staccato
passages that make the audience jump,
with great eves and hair onend,as though by
a vision of the Witch of Endor; and he who
tries to please all will sue-ee I in nothing.
Nevertheless you arc to a Imlt the fact that
this contest Avhich is going on in hundreds
of tbe churches of the United States to-day.
is a might? hindrance to the advancement of
this art. In way score? and s ore? of
churches are entirely cripple 1 as to all influ
ence and the music is a damage rather than
a praise.
Another obstacle in the advancement of
this art, has been the erroneous notion tha',
this part of tho se vice could tie conducted
by a delegation. Churches have said: “Oh.
what an easy time we shall have. Th?; minis
ter Avdl do the preaching and the < hole avill
do the singing and Ave will have 1: thing to
do,” And von know as well as I !hat‘there
are a gr. r.t inult.t :d? churches all through
this land where the people are not expected
to sing. The whole work is done by delega
tions of four or six or ten persons and the
audience is silent In such a church ia ,
Syracuse, an old elder persisted in
singing.and so th ? choir appointed a commit
tee to go and ask the squire if h? would not
stop. You know that in a great multitude
of churches the choir are ex ected and do all
the singing and the great masses of people <
are expected to be silent, an 1 if you utter
your voice you arc interfering. There they
stana, the four, xvith opera-glasses dauglin r
at their side, singing, “R6ck of Ages, cleft
for me,” with the same spirit that the night,
before, on tho stage, they took their | art in
tic- “Grand Du ■be?? "or -‘Don Giovanni ’
My Christian friends. Lave we a right to
delegate to ethers the disc harge ot this duty
which Gcd demands of us! Suppose that
four wood thrushes propose to do all the sing
ing some bright day when the woods are
ringing with bird voices. It is decided that
four wood thrushes shall do all the singing
of the forest Let all other voices keep
silent. How beautifully the four warbled!
It is really fine music. But how long will
you keep the forest still? Why Christ would
come into that forest and look up as he looked
through the olives, and h? would raise bls
hmian I say: “la?t everything that hath
breath praise tho Lord;" and keeping time
Avith the stroke of innumerable Avings there
av iuM be five thousand bird voic.s leaping
into th > h irmcnv. Suppoie this delegation
of musi al performeis ware tried in heaven;
s ipn is? that four choice spir.ts should try to
it ? the singing of the upper temple.
Huth ni.v. t iron?? and dominions and
pri:i i; abtle?. David, lx? still, though you
ivera the “s.veet singer of Israel.”
lail. ke-p quiet, though you have
co re to that crown oJ rejoicing. Richard
Baxt r, ke ?p still, though this is tae “Saints’
Everlistiug Re t, " Four spirit? now do aU
the si iging. Hut how long Avould heaven bo
culet! How long! “Hallelujah!” Avould cry
some glorified Methodist from under the altar.
"I’iaisethe I.or.1!" would sing tho martyrs
1 rom among the throne.?. "Thank? lie unto
God Avho I’iveth us th? victory!” a
great multitude of redeemed spirits
would cry—my ria is of voices com
ing into tho harmony aud tho one
him ire 1 and forty and four thousand break
ing forth into one acclamation. Stop that
loud singing! Stop! Oh, no; they cannot
hear mi'. You might as well try t J drown
the thun ier of the sky or lieat back the roar
of the sea, for every soul in heaven has re
solved to do it? own singing. Alas, that avo
should have tried on earth that which they
cannot do in h 'aven, and instead of joining
all our voices in tho praise of the M.est High
God, delegating pierhap? to unconsecrated
men and Avomen this most solemn and most
delightful service.
Now, in this church, we have resolved upon
the plan of conducting the music by a pre
centor. ive do it rortwo reasons: one is mat.
by throwing the whtle responsibility upon
the mass of ths people, making th? great
multitude the choir, ?ve might rouse more
heartiness. The groat congregation com
ing on the Sabbath day feel that
they cannot delegate this part, of the
great service to any one else, and
so they themselves assume it. We
have glorious congregational singing here.
People have come many miles to hoar it.
They are not sure about tbe preaching, but
they can always depend on the singing. We
have heard this sound coming up like “tho
A-oice of many Avatqrs,” but it will be done at
a better rate after a while, Avhen we shall
realize the height and tho depth, and the im
mensity of this privilege.
Another reason Avhy we adopted this plan:
We do not want aay choir quarrels. You
know very well that in scores of the churches
there has been perpetual contention in that
direction. The only church fight that ever
occurred under my ministry was over a
melodeon in my first settlement. Have you
never been in church on the Sabbath day
and heard the choir sing and you said: “That
is splendid music?’ The next Sabbath you
Avere in the church and there was no choir at
all! Why? The leader was mail or his assist
ants were, or they were all mad together.
Some of the choirs are male up of our
best Christian people! Some of the warmest
friends I have ever had have stood up in
them. Sabbath after Sabbath, conscientiously
and successfully leading the praises of God.
But the majority of the choirs throughout
the land are not made up of Christian peo
ple, and three-fourths of the church fights
originate in the organ loft. I take that back,
and say nine-tenths. Many of our churches
are dying of choirs.
Let us as a church give still more atten
tion to the music. If a man with voice
enough to sing keeps silent during this exor
cise, he commit? a crime against God and
insults ths Almighty.
Music ought to rush from the audience like
the Avater from a rock—clear, blight, spark
ling. If all the other part of the church ser
vice is dull do not have the music dull.
With so many thrilling thing? to sing about,
away Avith all draAvling and stupidity!
There is nothing that makes me so
nervous as to sit in a pulpit and
look off on an audience Avith their
eves three-fourths closed and their lips
almost shut, mumbling the praises of
Gcd. During ray recent absence I preached
to a large audience and all the music they
made together did not equal one skylark!
People do not sleep at a coronation Do not
let us sleep Avhen avo come to a Saviour’s
crowning. In order to a proper discharge of
this duty let us stand up, save as age or
weakness or fatigue excuse us. Seat'd in an
easy peAv we cannot do this duty half so Avell
as Avhen, upright, Ave throw our Avholejxidy
into it. Let our song be like an acclamation
of victory. You haA’e a right to sing. Do
not surrender your prerogative.
We Avant to rouse all our families upon
this subject. We aa ant each family of our
congregation to be a singing school. Child
ish petulance, obduracy and intractability
Avould be soo'hed if Ave had more singing in
the household, and then our little ones Avould
be prepared f ir the great congi egati >n on
Sabbath dav, thrir voice.? uniting with our
voice? in tho praises of the Lord. After a
shoAvey there aro scores of streams
that come down the mountain side with
voices rippling and silvery, pouring into
one river, and then rolling in unit ‘d
strength to the sea. So I Avould have all tho
families in my church send forth the voice
of prayer ana praise pouring it, into tho great
tide of public Avorship that rolls on and on to
empty into the great, wide heart of God.
Never can Ave have our church sing as it
ought until our families sing ns they ought.
There Avill be a gr< at, revolution on t'lis sub
ject in all our churche ?. God will come down
bv his snirit and ro ise up the old hvmns and
tunes that have not been more than half
awake since the time of our grandfathers.
The silent pews in tho chur h Avill break
forth inti musi', and when the conductor
takes his place on the Sabbath day,
there Avill b? a great host of voices
rushing into the harmony. My Christ'a'i
friends, if av? have no taste for this
service c.n earth. Avhat Avill avo do in Heaven
Avhere they all sing and sing forever! Let
me prophesy in regard to any one here who
has no delight in the worshin of Heaven—if
you do not sing the praises of God on < arth I
do not believe yoa Avill ever sing them in
glorv. I would that our singing to-dav
might bo like the Saturday night rehearsal
for the Sabbath morning in the skies, and
might begin now by tho strength and by tho
help of Go I. to discharga a duty which “uac
of g : Lave fully performed.
“Let those refuse to sing
Who never knew our God;
But <hil Iren of the Heavenly king
Should speak their joys abroad.
“The hill of Zion yields
A thousand saered sweets,
Before av<? reach the heavenly fields.
Or Avalk the golden streets.
“Tli»n let o ir songs aboun 1,
And every tear lie dry;
We're mar filing through Eoianufi's
ground
To fairer worlds on high.”
Come now, clear your kb cat? and get
ready f >r this duty or you will never heartbe
end of this. I never shall forget hearing a
Frenchman so-. ■ /*’ ■ il'ab'aHymii'in
the Champ Elysee?, Paris, just before the
battle of S dan. I never saw such enthu-i
--as n before or since, as he sang that national
air. Oh, how the Frenchmen shouted! Have
y hi ever in an English assemblage h< ai'd a band
plav “God Save the Que-nf’ If you have
you know something about the enthusiasm
of n national air. Now, I tell yon that th -so
s n;s Ave sing Sabbath by Sabbath are tho
rational airs of Jesus Christ and of th ■ king
dom of heaven. When Cromwell’s army
Avent into battle, hesto >d at the Ina'l of th in
one day and gave out Ihe long metre doxol
ogy to the tune of “Old Hundred," and
iliat great host, company bv company, regi
ment by regiment, battalion by battalion,
joined in the doxologv:
“Praise God from whom all blessing flow,
Praise him all creatures here below;
Praise Him above, ye heavenly host.
Prais? Father, Son and Holy Ghost.”
And while th y sang they man-lied, and
while they marched they fought, and while
thev fought they got the victory. O, men
and w ?men of Jesus Christ, let us go into all
our conflicts singing the praises of God, and
then, instead of falling ba<-k as ?ve often do,
from defeat to defeat, we will be marching
an from victory to victory.
CLIPPINGS FOR THE CURIOUS.
The hare was formerly esteemed a
melancholy animal, and its flesh was sup
posed to engender melancholy.
In Holland, the church doors arc
locked during the sermon, so that nobody
can interrupt by going in or out.
In old times ghosts were supposed to
maintain an obdurate silence till inter
rogated by the person to whom they
made their special appearance.
The first coinage made by authority of
the United States wns of copper and
bears date 1787. One of the inscriptions,
is “Mind Your Own Business.”
A glass bedstead has been made at a
Birmingham (England) factory for a Cal
cutta millionaire. It is of solid glass,
the legs, rails, etc., being richly cut.
The King of Burmah also has one.
The beautiful red plumage of a South
African species of birds has been chemi
cally examined anil found to be due to
copper. When the birds arc kept away
from food containing copper they entirely
lose the tint produced by that mineral.
A writer in a French medical treatise
says that refrigeration of the lobe of the
ear Avill stop hiccough, whatever its
cause may be. Very slight refrigeration,
such as a drop of cold water, is said to
be sufficient.
In Webster county, Georgia, lives Isaac
"Wilkinson, who has a daughter, aged
twenty-three, strangely deformed. Iler
head and body are well developed, but
her arms and legs are short, like a tur
tle’s flappers. She is twenty-six inches
in height when standing.
The first strike in this country of
which record can be found occurred
among factory girls at Dover, New
Hampshire, in 1827. Some oppressive
: exactions aroused the girls. They struck
and paraded the town with a band and
an American Hag. The mill authorities
came to terms quickly.
A Georgia Romance.
About tAVo years before the war, near a
pretty and substantial residence near a
prosperous little town, a beautiful young
lady, about fourteen, was sleeping in a
hammock swung from two stately oaks
j in a grove. She was a pretty picture of
innocence and grace, and won the adtni
! ration of the passers. In a meadow to
i the rear a fat, meek-eyed cow reclined in
1 the shade, ruminating the food she hail
i gathered in the cool of the morning.
! Across the road from the house, the girl,
; and the cow is a meadow, a branch run
ning through it, and coming up the
branch is a boy with a gun. When with
in one hundred yards of the girl, and
about one hundred and fifty yards from
the cow, a bird Hew up and sailed in the
air toward the c av; the boy flred at the
bird, Avhich flew on unhurt, but the cow
received a pretty strong dose of shot.
She immediately arose in fright, dashed
through the grove, caught the girl and
hammock on her horns, and rushed with
her shrieking victim about the lot. The
terrified girl became silent,and the crowd
of relatives and friends in pursuit thought
that she was dead. The Avild fury of
the cow as she rushed around soon tore
the netting loose, and the giv! dropped
unconsciously to the ground. She was
picked up and taken into the house, and
on examination only a few minor bruises
were found. The boy, thinking he was
the innocent cause of the killing of the
young girl, disappeared. It was thought
that he had perished by his own hand,
but about six years after the war a travel
stained stranger was in the town inquir
ing for persons, most of Avhoin had been
swept away by the Avar. After a long
search the stranger found an old man on
a load of wood, and in conversation with
him learned Avhere one of the parties he
was in search of lived, a fexv miles out of
town. lie went there, made himself
known, and turned out to be the boy of
the gun. The people he found were his
father and mother, who had mourned
him dead for eight years. The boy had
been in South America, got rich, and,
yearning for the love of the old folks, re
turned to the desolate home of his child
hood and made his loved ones comforta
ble. For the first time, then, hearing
that the girl was uninjured, he called on
her, found her pretty, good, and a first
class home woman. He put in Avith a
will, got her heart as his own, and the
old folks’ consent, and has been for the
last twelve or fourteen years one of the
leading men of his section. This is fact.
—Americut (G'«.) llecorder.
Misdirected Enthusiasm.
A gentleman who listened to Sam
Jones tells the following as illustrative of
the peculiar methods of the revivalist:
He was delivering an especially fervid
address, and a little oi l woman who sat
well up in front was constantly interrupt
ing him with shrill-voiced and ear-pierc
ing exclamations of “Bless the Lord 1”
and “Glory Hallelujah!” “Amen!” and
other campmeeting eccentricities. Jones
stood it for a time, but finally stopped his
address and turning to the woman said:
“Sister, enthusiasm is a good thing if it
is only genuine. But you remind me of
a little steamboat that used to run up a
stream down in the country where I
came from. It had a very small boilej
and a very big whistle, and every time
the pilot blew the whistle the boat stop
ped. Now let the boat go on.”
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