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ML TALMAGE’S SERMON. the victory. **rxT- “And the streets of tbn city shall . Yji o f boys and girls playing in thu streets Zechariah, vni., 5. f limrie of ou- cities redtemed. Now, Loys d rirl* I laving ill the streets are exposed * r «) niu< h peril that multitudes of them end W Hiin but in the glorious time sjioken of D mv text tie cities are to be so completely ‘■’fol and evangelized that lads an I girls f lllx* nd as sale in the public thorough as they are in their own nurse y. Io r usethe I >eo i’ ,e the work bo:ore them 1 ’rwn b this sermon about the dark shadow’s of IhTcitv. The surgeon puts iu the probe Ithe very bottom of the wound l>e ore 0 p‘ uW on the healing salve. There is noise in our underrating the enemy. >o * ’general does that We w ant to count the ft** of dark lie s and admit (hat ihey tie courageous, and admit they are might,v, ind then come to the other truth, that the i rd G-d of Joshua is mightier than them jj and that He wilt make the sun and moon (thw Chri-tian dis; en sat ion stand still until the last evil is extirj a ed. Printing presses njd pulpits now are chiefly lusy in describing rheconditiou of the present time; but will it uotbe healtnful this morning for all' 'hristian w rkers and all men and women w h • are 1° make the world better—and there •re thousands of them here—if we look for w .rd to the time when our cities shall be oom oletelv revoluti >ni ed by the Gospel of the n <»f God and all s n and all sorrow and all ‘u-ering shall f rever be done away, “and ♦he streets of the city shall be lull of boys 3iid girls playing in the streets thereof.” ft er* man has a | ride in the city of his na tiv.tv. or of his present residence, if it be a ’d stiDguisbe l for dignity and j rowess. /sar I ousted of h s natve Rome, and Vir . , ; y ;i ’.a. and Lycurgus of Spartai. and )ein< sihenes <.f Athens, and Archimelesof Sira: use. ai d l aul of Tarsus. 1 should to * T p-v -uspeious of a man’s chai a'ter—l sbo’ald think there was in him a basehearted ifts if be had no jo. in the city of his birth, or the city of his adoption, no exhilaration at itsmoral progress or its commercial achieve ment 1 have noth ed that a man never thinks wed of a place w heie he has not be haved well. Swartout did not like Mew Y,rk. and I'rof. Webster did not like Bos ton, an I the people who take a free ride in thecity 'an never l.ke the city that furnishes the vehicle! When I find Argos and Rhodes ardSmyrna all c aiming the birthplace of H mer I co: elude tbar Homer behaved well. They liked him and he liked them. We O rght never to war on lau table city pride, or try to buil I ourselves up by trying to pud others down. Iho e Boston will continue to point to its Faneuil Hall and its Commons and it.'Mir eri r edu ational advantages. 1 ho| e lhatPbilad *l| hia w 11 continue to point to its Independence Hall an 1 its mint and its Girard Colle e. It is always a bad sign wh< n people have no pride of city. Now, New York is a beautiful city, a lovely < ity. It lies on both sides the river. The East Ki-. er isiheira n actor/ of this great throbbing life. In our time, or in the time of our chil dren. there will be two or three or four bridge-; across the East River. More and in. re we will be one, so that when 1 s eak of Near York I mean everything from.Spuyten Duvyil Creek to Gowanus, and I mean more than 2,000,000 poiu’ation. and what blesses that part of the city that is on the other side th- river will bless this; what curses that will curse this. Sin is gigantic, uii when it comes to the Hudson or the East River it steps across it as easily as vnustep across the figure in a carpet God’s tk-sing has two wings, and one wing it puts over that part of our city on the other side o! the river, and the other wing of b"easing it puts over us. In its infan y,the g r eat yie trpolis was let down on tho bank of the Hu 1- rn. It was as feeble as Moses in the ark of jullnrd es by the Nile, and,like Miriam th “re jur fathers came and watt ned it. The ro al tpiric of American commer e came down to jsttle, and she lifted it in her arms, and it pewinstrength.and f< r<ign shippingbrought jold and silver t > its feet, and it stret hed it self upint< j a great metropolis,looking up to the nountains aud off upon the sea.the mightiest in our American civilization. Cities al ways ft el the iinnres- of those who founded item. Romuhi- left his impress upon Ro ne, she Pilgrim Fathers will never release their pi: from New England. Will am Penn left his ipiiitof fair dealing and honesty in Phila ielp ia. an I any day on its streets you may «■ h«s manners, you n ay see hismora's. you nay see his hat and his wife’s ha% and his noting house. So the Hollanders who iuunded New York citv in which we live, rot their impress upon the city and it will I e er for all following generations. What outhern ej identic in whi h our physi ians >eve not thrown themselves in sacrifre? What f< reign land struck w th famine an 1 our ships have not put out with bread ruffs? Whit natioi al s niggle and our citizens have not poured their blood into th j tiem hes > What street of Dama-cus or Bay nut or Madras has not resounded with to iter of our mi-sionaries? What art gallery our painters have not hung in it their »i lures.' Wi at department of s deuce or iterator* in which our s?lv>lars have not made their contributions? I need not speak of our common schools in which the child • n o' the cord wainor an I the me hanic and the flassblower s t side by side with the favored jbildren of fortune; or of the insane asv tams or these islands where those who <ut ib(m«l es among tho tombs are Sotbed and in their right m nd. Or d the letrents for th** deaf an! the d’mb and tho ’amp and the blind and w-wi lows and the orphans an I the outcast s. Let us thank G d t< r the city of our rosi jewe. It, j s a goodly city. There a’e a ftcusar.d evils to be cured th ‘re a’e a tt'usiud wrongs tn be righted. I etusthank wi for wh t has boen nchi ved, and ’ ok frrward to a glorious future. Let us V>il Jith the sun ight in ou -fn e We are not k tin . a* a mi erab'e Bull R* n defeat, but -o which will b a -mp’ete vict rv. searen* t foil w ng ’he rider on the b’a -k i re Jown tn doom and <’arkre s and de th; J 'ire fol>w!ng ’he 1 ador on the white the morn under his feet and the stars i for his tiara. Hail conq ero ’. ■•'Jutas in a • <»ld winter when w tlir- w s about ns to koe’» ou ■ thumbs form T’e ing. tis > leasant to ih nk of the spring- nt is soon com*’g. a d ust r s <n a fciluintpy night vve look u’> a d see tho Bf.’- p-n ht .t' p windows of Hea en il- J’fi ned f O . ?omo great v.'ct >ry, Ju tso ro.n -d.nr ness nnd the suTeri- g and tho sin <»’ „ r ti'B, voionk n» to the gl >rious li ht ing T .em-rnngli :ht th • morn- Jp W| 'h- u‘ cl u Is. And I pa" t» all of ytji 'tee t ilinz in Snnda -s hooh, and ail . • l'° are doing re F rmatory work in J* . e a 1 ies and a 1 those who ar * nresch- 10 f ’!*’ c ’ in almshouses, and a’l th se fr’/> n . r ' ’ n ?inv WQ y trying to inn rove th • '■> i? people temporal y and sri5 ri ual'v—-I sav to the n. th“ last fortress i* i n aptnre l and will clra ised ’'ill bp The victorv <,f ft-?.i 111 s ’* s K' ’ n ' be so t ositi’ e Ji r wi | not be a man on earth noran m H av»n. nor a devil in hell that will .^ nw f b» I know? I know be *t kRd de l a re< t. Ynusay vou do -lievptl e B ble. Th n T have rot time t-' 01 ?? 11 ” b> areue about its authentic ty. tell ah »‘»t it ‘om<* othnr day B t bt’i ? tknt ' ast ma’critv of von d*> " * n the Bible, it »s high time to believe the complete salvation of all the Boes it not declare that the J® le Well, if nation'are t. * av “H. wouldn t thatin'du lethec ties? the kr er include the les<? Shall ‘-(‘ I I>p ed and not Lond >n? Shall v.. , nte l Stat“- lie saved and not New ■ The king loms of this world are go i^O ne th e kinglom* of our Lord >b?i The e is a great di Teren'-e a; *•' vou and I are toding on town 4 a t lin ' on towar I a victory. Now, e nri<r s time spoken of n rny text, r. will co > e is as certair lv as vou r ? am * 1 am h ere - n 0 j v d be larg r firan ial pr< s erities 8: rh & i the 'Tie; People bas ea . n 1 id -a about the millennium. ‘?iv“ ourselves un to n«nlm ringing, an I fr-ciety being purified, there will be no iiilaiity an as all business wi Ibo pnritie I. there will be n«> enterprise. My friend there isnofo nidation inco.nmon s?-.i e nori i the Bible for sn h an r.bs ird snti’ipotion. Where now one fortune is ma le there wi I I e •i hu idled fort ».ne< ma l\ You k iou ih i on Jen*e let"eon man and mm is tno -o .ii ’.ntiou of all sue essl.ii business. Nh.w. wl.ea a 1 dishonesty is cone, and nil <1 »üble d aling is gone, end all unfaiiniss is gone there will be c .mpleto coutideu'e • lie twee i man an 1 man. Doo* not that im ;ly larger business, ri her opulence, grander architecture, fir er equipped, g an I r and more magnificent pros|>*rities f i’o i know that business is iuinred by the inla ni .us stock gamblers a* d by the g< <ll ul at ci’s. Y< u know’ that the worst foe <»f business in Brooklyn an I New York and in every city i< crime, individual an I oil! ill crime. Now, when God shall purify th' commer'ial cod'', when God shall tlrmder down the lust fraudulent establishment, when G< d shall put the kevs of b mines; in the hands of th' hone t men what will a l th it imply? The purificatb'u of business and more business and grander b minew. 11 is a logical sequence. When that day comes—and lan iv t talking about some guesswor I am not dt a’in r in an abstraction, but in something podtitiveand as true as that there is a God and that He ever presented us the Bible—in that time in our cities all grievous taxation will 1 e cone. Now business men are taxed for everything—city tax, county tax. State tax. United States tax. license tax. manufacturing tax—taxes, taxes, taxes. A bu-iness man mnst make a small fortune to pay his taxes. We have to pay the boar lof all the villians in our penitentiaries We have to support the orphans of those who plunged into thei’’ graves through bea tly indulgence. Wo have to support all the machin »rv of city govern hient which is vast audand expensive just in proportion as the crimin il proclivities are vast and extensive. Whn nays for the stat ion houses? Who pays for the criminal cour.s ‘ The taxpayers. And I say to you Republi cans and you Demo rats who aresonietimes fattening on the public spoils w hile you are doing nothing for the pub'ic welfare.’ that if vou do not lessen taxes, and do not, let the peinlo up all over this land, we will after a while form a party anti-excessive taxation, anti-rum, anti-monopo]v, anti-abomi nation, and you who are living luxurious now at the public crib shall not have as much as the wage< of a street sweeper. Now’ in that time, that time which is coming in a’l our cities, t .e time of prosperity spoken of in my text, we will Dot have to support criminals, for there will ba no criminals, and virtue will take the pla eof vice. No more la' ge sums of money voted for city improvements, w’hich moneys often before they reach the improvements go down into the pockets of those who voted them. No more empaneling of juries to try ar-on and murder and theft and slander and bla'kmaiL Criminal courts abol ishel. Police stations abolished. Abn houses abolished. Ob, what prosper ity that will make for all the • itlo? and for all the land and for all the world In that time spoken of in my text the chur h s of Jesus Christ will be e certing a mightier influence for God. Now churches are some times envious of eich other and denomina tions collide with each other, and even min isters of religion sometimes forgot their bond of brotherhood. In tho time of which I speak 1h re will b * just as much difference o c opinion as there isnow.butno acerbitv.no bvp ivriticism, no exclusiveness. Why, the churches of our cities could not bol l one fourth of the population. The chur hes that are built, only a few of tho n are fully occupied, and th * average audience in A n’erica to-day is less than four hundred. But in the glorious ti ne of whv-h J s icak there will be vaster chur hes aud they will all l»e thronged with worshipers. < )h, what enthusiasti’’songs they will sing! Oh, what earnest nr avers they’will offer! Oh. what sermons they will prearh! Tn our cities now for the most part w hat is < ailed a sash Ona' le church is a place t<> w hich peoole come a t Q r very careful attention to toilet, and they sit down for a wh lo in a row where th *y want plenty of room, nobody beside them, and then if they have any time left from tho thinking of the store, or the st idv of the the apparel of the person seated before them thev listen to a sermon warranted to hit no man’s sins, or to music tho tune of which no body knows, and then, after an hour and a half of yawning, they go home refreshel! We all feel better after we have had a good sleen! Why, the music in many of the churches is a mockery. I have not a culti vated ear nor a cultivated voire, but n > man cun do my singing for me any more than ho can do my praying for me. I like artistic music. 1 think the dol'ar or five dollars that 1 pay to hoar some queen of song is a good invest cent but when on the Sabbath we are a-semi led in religious convocati n and tho hymn is given o it, an 1 the angels of God sten from tlie'r throne to cat h th ' music on their wings, do not 1 t u-; drive them back bv indifference. T have l>een in churches where vast sums of money were paid for the music, and it was exquis te. and it was ar tistic to the very last point, and yet for all religious purposes I would rather hive the outbreaking song of a backwoods Methodist camn-meetin r . Let one of those artistic son s that I have so netime; heard sung in church arrive in heaven, aud how mean it would look b‘side one of the ere it doxolozie; of the redeem'd. Whv. if one of those operatic ars that sometimes goes up from a church should get three hours’ start it wo i’d bo ovo-ta':en and p issed bv the hosanna of Sundav-scho >1 children. I know a < hnr- h where the choir did all tho singing save one man. who in perseverance of tho sa nts wen’s right on unt 1 a ■ ommitt/ e wa’ted on him aud told him he bothered the choir! Let those refuse to sing Who nevo:’ knew our God! But children of the H avenly King Should s eak His ioys abroad. The hill nf Zion yields A thonbgnd sabred sweats Before wer a *h the heavenly fields Or walk the golden streets. Nanoleon’s army got stuck in the Alp- and they came to him,and they said: ,k Vonr M<a - esty. wo can iot go any forth t. We can not get the ammunition wagons over the recks.” He sail: “Send me the bandmas ter.” Th“ loader of th < inusi t came and Na poleon took t e port olio and rolled over tho feiivcs. and after awhile be cme to an espe c’allv grand march “?<o'.v,‘* he ail. “let th“m i lav that.” With full band thev struck into the mnsi • and over the r >c s went th • ammun tio’i wagons. Oh. that the <hu • i <f God a!l over Amerca and nil over f’lvi tendmn understood the power of mnsi-. When all ou' churches shall arise and rally for this holy service, we will march right <>n from triumph to triumu’-h. There is no such sue-essul way of prea hiugthe gosp l as sing ng the g snel “Praise ye tio th it hath breath praise Hi.s nine’ In t y good ti ne conn; sp > cn of in my text, in Hie church an 1 t.i * world ho-anna willl me t hosanna and h.alielu ah hallel ijuh. Thai, in that time 1 am ‘•peaking of, al t!.e ha nt; of iniquity will I p hr »ken up, ail city ini u - ties will l»e b?.ni h'd an’ nbuMiel. You say. bv the p wer of e hvati n I will n>, lie <!o .e in that w iv. You say. by bu nan tarian e.fort It wid noth* done in that way. I will tell you how it will be done Bv the p wer of th? g><>el of the Son of God. M. Es hler, of En da iI, ail that in t-n years this whole world could l>e ma ie a naradis- i the rod’- w .u d f< 11 w out bi - idea He sai 1 th;P all that vas re i.iir-d w.-i.s the natural fore; of win Ia 1 1 • U’ohine an 1 wave rightly de/elo >ed and rightly ap!»li-«l, and n ten yea s this who e earth would b.• an Eden, and in a boot of great geni"*.. "Li li went fron eLri'.n t,<> e iition, he eet-i forth t'ie idea, in wh ch ho sai-s- . -Fellow-man, I promiseto snow the r- ran . of <Ti at:ng a ) ara 11-w within ten ye n;., e e 'yth>ng desirable f»r human lie will be ha I bye erv mau in supemb indane-, without labor and with ut pay. when the whole face of natme shall tx* change 1 int? the most bea tiful la-m. and man may live ;n the most magi.ificent -palaces in al iia inable refinements of In ury, ami in the most delightful garden, where he may accomplish in one year more than hitherto coul I be done in tuou ►ands of years, a.d may eel a con tiiient sink vaieys, create lakes, drain s aam .. i iters"' lain evcry\*«r»n» . wit > bea rifill <-aTils and roa is for trw is 1 porting lietvv I »uds of many thou-and tons, aud for ti a cling a tho sa <1 miles In twenty- i four h vus. Fr.mi the h >uw»s to be built will 1 b > .ifforde 1 the most b *a it.ful views fan 'ied. ! ti until' r-»of turret; may bo s*en gardens as far a; the eye can see. full of fruits and I flowers arrange i in them »st beautiful order, | with watas. colonnades, a iiiodii ts, canals, ponds, amphitheatres terran's, fountains, s ulptured works, g »n lola<, pla es of public am isvineut to tire the eve an I fancy. All this to te done by urging wa‘or, the wind an I the s inshine to their full development.” Aud then in his book he gives us the plates of the m ichinery showing how it is all to be done:and he says they want astook company, and it will be twenty dollars a share, an 1 there will lie one or two hundred thousand raised by which they ran establish a specimen ( Oinmun ty. And then all the world seeing th ‘ snecimon community, will see it is prac t cable aud there will be over two millions of dollars lurnisbed, and in ten years the whole earth will be turned ir.ti a para 4’se. And 1 must say it is not as preoosterous as many plans I have heard. But I shall take no stock in that company, and Ido not believe any human machinery will ever etfectany su h resu t. It wants om- , nhi itent ma'hinery organiz'd by the Is>rd Almighty, a machinery of pardon and peace and divine grace aud salvation. That is the only machinery that will d> it Ar him- 3 o-les burnel up a fleet of ships as it ad vanct'd to take a city. History’ savs ho lift si a great sunglass, and he converged the rays of the sun, on that fleet of shins. Now’ the sails are wing; of fire and t’m masts fall an I the ships sink. Oh, inv friends this world is to be saved by the power of thu (lospel, and wo are to lift a great sun glass, con verging the ravs of the Suu o’" Ri ;ht ‘ ms less on tho <ins an 1 the abominations an 1 the follies of tho world, and first they will blau» and than they will exp n». Do you think in tint lav there will be any carou al along I the street? Do you think in that I day there will be any kicking off from mar- ; Ile stops of shivering men di ants' Do vou think in that dny there will beany inebriates ' staggering pa<t? No.no. No wine collars, , no lager beer saloons, no distil eri *s wh ro th y make three X’s, no bloodshoteye.no i bloated cheek, no fist poun ied fo-olna I. Tho | grand hildren of t at woman who goes down , thestrci't with a curse, stoned by th-* boys that ! follow her, will bo the honest merchant; and I the reform“rs and the philanthropist; ami the Christians sixty years from now. In that lay of which my text speaks, what municipal gover clients! Now I know there is a great difference between municipal govern m nts. But in many of the cities you just go down and look a bound the City Hall, and then hist look into the rooms’ where the politi ian; reign an I seo to what a sensual, bo otted, loathsome accursed crew city politi‘S for the most part ha; been abandoned, and see them standing all <lav long around s mie of our City Halls, picking thew tooth and waiting for s ino crumbs of emoTime it t» fall at their feet. Who are those drunken women taken to the pol ee station and then of couso thru;t into the prison? What will bo done with the grogsho* s that male them drunk.' Noth ing. Look into that pri on. and s?o hero a woman who has stolen a pair of shoos, th ‘re a boy who stole a dollar, there a girl who snatched a purse. All the crimes less than twenty or thirty dollars. But what will be done with the gambler who last night took the young man's ssoo* N 'thing. What will they do with that man who broke through and destroyed the purif y of a Christian home wth an a lroitness an I a perfidv that beats tin strategy of hell, fling ing n shrieking s nil into bottomle;; nedition? Nothin?. What will they do with those men who indu el a young man to take sums of money from his emplover. whi h young man < ame to an o'llcer of this church and franti •- ally asked what h ? must do? No'hing. No mercy for small criminals. If a man steal; $lO send him to the Raymond Str et Jail. If a man steals $200,009 1 t him get to Canada We punish pe <p’.e loa S 3 they do not steal en ugh' H»wis it with the trials in the court rooms of th s country? What are they <1 >ing with these Coney Island gambler;? Wh ‘re i; tho genins iu the Ame i< an court room ’hit can a re;t, tyan 1 condemn such s ‘omdr >1;? Before tho trial is over, in some way, somehow, noho l v knowsexa t’y, but onoof tho jurors has had given to him a ‘'air of g »ld spectacles thr »ugh w hich hosee; things in adiffe out light. Pun ish the s nail criminals by all nv*ans, but I have sometim ‘s thought it might b • a good thing if the officers of the law wo il I t irn ut of the orisons some of the ten cent offenders and th' ten dollar de-meralo»s and » ettv criminals and put in their places s nne of the-e monsters of iniiuitv wh < ride throu h the street with their mett ed span going so swiftly that honest men have to leap to get out of the way of being run over. Oh, what dam nable scheme; even professors of religi n are sometime: engaged in, until the Lord puts th * finger of retribution in the collar of the robe of hynro n-isy and rips it cl -an to the bottom. Oh, my frien Is, all tho;e wrongs are going to be righto I. Tho Bible de clares it. I must either give up my Bible or I mist believe these statement;. The cities are going to be fill d w ith a regenerate ! p >pulation. Ido not know how soon th it dav will come. Something will «le en 1 ir»on yon and noon me aid upon all Chr stian pe >pl *. G>d is ready in auswa• to prayer t» <ut sheet ihi work in right)ousn si. A*o w.e alert? A e wo doing all our duty? Are we mu h on onr kne ?s before Go 1 supp i ating divine h *ln? Three hundred and si ty be Is chi ue I in mndc when a prin o w’is carried, but when Ri h> co is os; and Pea ‘0 shall kiss ea :h other in all thecacth ten thousand timo-tm th > sand !> .‘ils w II st ’i' eth 1 inbiiee Oh. is t d; not a cau;o wo th w »rki ig in ? H-w are you en a • I in it. my broth »r ? Ho var • you enraged in it mv sister ? Ara vou <l heart en'd. You are. Som** i nes the f-r es of iniquity scorn so mighty, y ».i are in deipair, aid whil* you ar* t illing in t'rss h«rj or that sphere so.nobody cornu an I nd Iressas to y<» i s >»no dish ■ irtmm; words. Take good h *art this ni > ’uin g. take th • promises of tho go;nel. take tie utter ance of the to it. tike a thoisau I p ■> a'.so; for the gool cheer <>f your soul () j, savs someone t > you, all vou do or Chrlsr w uft amount to anythin;. A l y »ur wire i of no avail.” I sunpo.s, when Mo;»s ‘tret-he I out his hand o\or the Re I Sea an I the people knew tint he ew t <1 to seo it part—l snpp >se they <a <l: “T ;u' is ave y foo i Ji. that is a • y weak th ng to do. What has ihe stretching >ut of the emd of Mose over th ?sea go tod » with th ; a t :ng of that great bo Ivof w iter? It ca it be done in that wa . ' But M>s *s keot s retch ing hi - han I over the Re I Sei t d if <j • a wh le the wnd began t» Mow from i h ca t and it kent bl >wing unt I the wnt *r r ath a re I u» into gliTer ng walls on »*ith side, ail the wav was cl a - . Tn* b : l »’oi ol ai God pulle i back o i their bits W i l into line, oh Israel! March Mar b' Path of I earl, flying s riy lilted int » a r rn' >o .v a-ch for tho • ti uerors to march in le . Sh >it ye tro >ps on the b n-h Answer ye t • op; ou t ;e sea and wh ?n th ’ last Im ->t" th<* Is-a* to; rei h?s the btach, tho cym >il; "Ito an 1 the uhields clan r an I th* vi ers r i;hun)i th) pursuers, and the >w!f -'ln ; • e l win is on he wh to kevs of tiefo im 'lay th gr.i 11 na -ch of Israel deßvem'l an I the awfu dirt? of Ervotan overth ’ »w. H» go forth oh. mv brother. g > forth an I stret h o it vo ir han 1 of faith and p a/er o’e -the 1 ea tho boiling s'.a of m ini ioal crime an 1 suf fering. ‘Oh *’ •as .»n • >no “it won’t anomtt >an thin.;.” You k e > right -»m, een stret-hing out y hi»- h i d of faith an 1 praver over the Re IHei of • m i ”<l crime and s i “•ring, ail ift • a whi * i d’; wi d; of help will blow aud the. “nth will b• • learn 1f >r the zr ‘ n . of ‘h us ia i reform r; aid Hu ah will b* - re.vn with the troosure; of f’hrstan a id we wi Ibo gree e I to ‘he » h »r b :a h < y toe ci a rjpi ri <r <,f all Heaven's cymbals, while those whop :r.;u°d us and tho;- who derided ns and thn? who mo k 1 it us will go down under th- s -a. and all th <t is left o them w.ll i-e a t h zh and Pry upon th • beach, the splinter -1 wheel of a Homan chariot, or t irust out from tho foam ff tie breithles; no<trii.< of a r-derleai chargor. “Blessed ba the Izir 1 God o' Is rael from ever a ting to everlasting, and let the whole earth be filled with his glory, Amen and Amon * avery V SWIFT SURE flOiiSs 'SSWM i SIMPLE -El I SILENT KU tU STRONG My ! 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