Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 25 September 1897 — Page 6

ETERNAL GLORY.

A KURMMX RKWARO AWAITS AIAJ FAITIlKrii CHKISTIAX AYO KK KHS.

They Shall Shim* Through All Etortiliy— Klghteousn^«» !••, Prayer, lvvamplo and Admonition Ir. Talmagc'tt Seriuon.

This discourse 'lashed 'a bright light into the life of Christian workers :.nd offers a sublime hope for all those who are discouraged in their attempts to do good. Dr. Talmage's tcM is Daniel xii. o: "i'hey I hat turn many to

righteousness shine..as the stars forever and ever." It would be absurd lur me. by elabvk orate argument, to prove that the world W-.-is off the track. You might a* well istand at the foot m" an embankment, amid the wreck oi a capsized rail train, proving by elaborate argument that something is out of order. Adam tumbled over the embankment sixty centuncs ago, and the whoie race in on? long 'train has gone tumbling in the same direction. Crash! crash! The only ques"lion now is by what leverage can the vrushed thing be lifted. By what ham'nrer may the fragments be reconstruct'?d? I want tn show you how we may turn many to righteousness, and what swill be our future pay for so doing.

First, we may turn them by the charm of a right example. A child coming from a filthy home was taught at school to wash its face. It went home so much improved in appearance that its mother washed her face. And when the father of the household came home and saw the improvement in domestic appearance he washed, his iacc. The neighbors, 'happening in. saw the change and tried ihc same experiment, until all that street •was purified, and the next street copied its example, and the wfiolc city felt the result of one schoolboy washing his face. This is a fable by which we set forth that the best way to get the world ashed of its sins and pollution is to have our own heart ami life cleaned anl purified. A man with grace in his heart and Chritian cheerfulness in his face and holy consistency in his behavior is a perpetual sermon, and the sermon differs lrom others in that it has but one head, and the longer it runs the better.

There are honest men who walk down Wall street, making the teeth of iniquity chatter. There are happy men who go into a sickroom and by a look help the broken bone to knit and the excited nerves drop to a calm beating. There are pure men whose presence silences the tongue of uncleanness. The mightiest agent of good 011 earth is a consistent Christian.

Again, we may turn many to righteousness by prayer. There is no such dctectivc as prayer, for no one can hide away from it. It puts its hand on the -shoulder of a man 10,000 miles off. It alights on a ship midatlantie. The little child can not understand the law of electricity or how the telegraph operator by touching the instrument here may dart a message under the sea to another continent. Nor can we, with our small intellect, understand how the touch of a Christian's prayer shall instantly strike a soul on the other side uf the earth. "You take ship and go to some other country and get there at 11 o'clock in the morning. You telegraph to America and the message gets here at 6 o'clock the same morning. In other words, it seems to arrive here liv„• hours •before it started. Like that is prayer. •God says: "Before they call I will hear."

We have all yet to try the ftiil power of prayer. The time will come when the American church will pray with its face toward the West and all the prairies and inland cities will surrender 10 God. and will pray with their face toward the sea, and all the islands and ships will become Chri-tian. Parents who have wayward sons will get down 011 their knees and say, "Lord, send my boy home." and the boy 111 Canton shall get ••right up from the gaming table and go lown to find out which ship starts first 'to America.

We may turn many to righteousness by Christian admonition. Do not wait until you can make a formal speech. Address the one next to you. You wil not go home alone to-day. Between this and your place of stopping you may decide the eternal destiny of an immortal •spirit. Just cue sentence may do the work, just on. question, just one look.

The formal talk that begins with a sigh and ends with a canting snuffle is not what is wanted, but the heart throb of a jnan in dead earnest. There is not a 'soul on earth that you may not bring to

God it you rightly go at it. They said Gibraltar could not be taken. It is a rock 1.800 feet high and three miles long, but the English and Dutch did take it. Artillery and sappers and miners. and fleets pouring out volleys of death, and thousands of men reckless of •danger can do anything. The stoutest heart of sin, though it be rock and surrounded by an ocean of transgression, under Christian bombardment may hoist the flag of redemption. 1 But is all this admonition and prayer and Christian work for nothing? My -text promises to all the faithful eternal luster. "They that turn many to righteousness shall slime as the stars forever. As stars the redeemed have a borrowed light. What makes Mars and

Venus and Jupiter so luminous? When the sun throws^ down his torclj in the heavens, the stars, pick up the scattered "brands and hold them,in proccssion as

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queen of the night advances, so.all"Christian workers, standing arotmd the throne, win shine in the light borrowed irom the Sun of Righteousness—Jesus

in their face, Jesus in their songs, Jesus in their triumph.

Again, Christian workers shall be like the stars in the fact that they have a light independent of each other. Look at the night and see each world show its distinct glory. It is not like the conflagration in which you cannot tell where one flame stops and another begins. Neptune, Herschel and Mercury are as distinct as ii each one of them were the only star. So our individualism will not be lost in heaven. A great multitude, yet each one as observable, as distinctly recognized, as greatly celebrated, as if in all the space, from gate to gate, and from hill to hill, we were the only inhabitant. No mixing up, no mob, no indiscriminate rush each Chris::. worker standing out illustrious, all the story of earthly achievement adhering to each one, his selt-dc-nials and pains and services and victories published.

Again. Christian workers shall shine like the stars in clusters. In looking up you find the world in family circles. Brothers and sisters—they take hold of each other hands and dance in groups. Orion in a group. Pleiades in a group. The solar system is only a company of children with bright faces gathered around one great fireplace. The worlds do not straggle off. They go in squadrons and fleets sailing through immensity. So Christian workers in heaven will dwell in neighborhoods and clusters. 1 am sure that some people 1 will like in heaven a great deal better than others. Yonder is a constellation of stately Christians. They lived on earth by rigid rule. They never laughed. They walked every hottf anxious lest they should lose their dignity, but they loved God, and yonder they shine in brilliant constellations. et I shall not long to get in that particular group. Yonder is a constellation of small-hearted Christians—asteroids in the eternal astronomy. While some souls go up from Christian battle and blaze like Mars, these asteroids dart a feeble ray like esta. Yonder is a constellation of martyrs, of apostles, of patriarchs. ,Our souls as they go up to heaven will seek out the most congenial societv.

Again, Christian workers will shine like the stars in swiftness of motion. The worlds do not stop to shine. There are 110 fixed stars save as to relative position. The star apparently most thoroughly fixed flies thousands of miles a minute. The astronomer, using his telescope for an alpenstock, leaps from world crag to world crag and finds 110 star standing still. The chamois hunter to fly to catch his prey, but not so swift is his game as that which the scientist tries to shoot through the lower observatory. Like petrels midatlantie that seem to come lrom 110 shore and be bound to 110 landing place, flying, so these great flocks of worlds rest not as they go, wing after wing, age after age. forever and ever. The eagle hastes to its prey, but we shall in speed beat the eagle. You have noticed the velocity of the swift horse, under whose foot the miles slip 'ike a smooth ribbon, and as lie passes the four hoofs strike the earth in such quick beat your pulses take the same vibration. But all these things are not swift in comparison with the motion of which I speak. The rnoon moves 54.000 mi:es in a day. Yonder Neptune flashes 011 11,000 miles in an hour. onder Mercury goes 109.000 miles an hour. So, like the stars, the. Christian shall shine in swiftness of motion.

011 hear now of father or mother or child sick. 1.000 miles away, and it takes you two days to get to them. You heaof some case oi suffering that demands your immediate attention, but it takes I you an hour to get there Oh, the joy I when you shall, in fulfillment of the text, take starry speed and be equal to 100.000 miles an hour! Having on earth got used to Christian worC you \s|ill not quit when death strikes you You will only take on more velocity. There is a dying child in London, and its spirit must be taken up to God. You are there at an instant to do it. There is a young man in New York to be arrested from going to that gate of sin. You are there in that instant to arrest him. Whether with spring of foot or stroke of wing or by the force of some law that shall luirl vou to the spot where you would go I know not, but my text suggests velocity. A' space open before you. with nothing to hinder you in mission oi light and love and joy. you shall shine in swiftness of motion as the stars forever and ever.

Again. Christian workers, like the stars, shine in magnitude. The most illiterate man knows that these things in the sky. looking like gilt buttons,, are great masses o! mattiT. To weigh them one would think that it would require scales with a pillar hundreds of thousands miles high and chains hundreds of thousands of miles long, and at the bottom of the chains basins on either side hundreds of thousands of miles wide, and then Omnipotence alone could put the mountains into the scales and the hills into the balance, but puny man lias been equal to the undertaking and has set a little balance on his geometry and weighed world against world. Yea, liehas pulled out his measuring line and announced that Ilerschel is 36.000 miles in diameter. Saturn 70,000 miles in diameter, and Jupiter 89,000 miles in diameter. and that the smallest pearl on the beach of heaven is immense beyond all imagination. So all they who have toiled for Christ on earth shall rise up to a magnitude of privilege, and a mag nitude of strength, and a magnitude of holiness, and a magnitude of joy, and the weakesj saint in ,glory become greater than all that we can imagine of an archangel.

Brethren, "it doth not yet appear what we shall be." Wisdom that shall know everything, wealth that shall possess everything. strength that shall do everything, glory that shall circumscribe everything! We shall r.ot be like a taper set in a sick man's window or a bundle of sticks kindled on the beach to warm a shivering crew, but you must take the diameter and the cjreumfercticc- of a world if you would get any idea of the greatness of our estate when we siiall shine, asjhe stars forever and "eveC

Last—and comnif^to. this point my mind almost breaks down under the contemplation—like the stars, all Chris-

tian workers shall shine in duration. The same stars that look down upon us looked down upon the Chaldean shepherds. The meteor that 1 saw flashing across the sky the other night, 1 wonder if it was not tne same one that pointed down to where Jesus lay in the manger, and, if having pointed out his birthplace, it has even since been wandering through the heavens, watching to see how the world wotvld treat him. When Adam awoke in the garden in the cool of the day, he saw coming ouf through the dusk of the evening the same worlds that greeted us last night.

In Independence Hall is an old cracked bell that sounded the signature of the Declaration of Independence. You cannot ring it now, but this great chime of silver bells that strike in the dome of night ring out as sweet a tone as when God swung them at the creation. Look up at the night and, know that the white lilies that bloom in all he .hanging gardens of our King are century plants, not blooming once in 100 years, but through all the centuries. The star at which the mariner looks tonight was the light by which the ships of Tarshish were guided-across the Mediterranean and the Venetian flotilla found its way into Lepanto. Their armor is as bright to-night as when in ancient battle the stars in their courses fought against Sisera.

To the ancients the stars were symbols of eternity, but here the figure of my text breaks down, not in defeat, but in the majesties of the judgment. The stars shall not shine forever. The Bible says they shall fall like autumnal leaves. As when the connecting factory band s4ips at nightfall from the main wheel all the smaller wheels slacken their speed, and with slower and slower motion they turn until they come to a full stop, so this great machinery of the universe, wheel within wheel, making a revolution of appalling speed, shall by the touch of God's hand slip the band of present law and slacken and stop. That is what will be the matter with the mountains. The chariots in which they ride shall halt so suddenly that the kings shall be thrown out. Star after star shall be carried out to burial amid funeral torches of burning worlds. Constellations shall throw ashes on their heads, and all up and down the highways of space there shall be mourning,, mourning, mourning, because the worlds are dead. But the Christian workers shall never quit their thrones. They shall rergn forever and ever.

There ne (Jare Himself Array.

Sir Edwin Arnold, among1 some other very pleasantly spoken criticisms of the biggest land on earth, censured our "snake fences," the crooked old rail fence, which, he says "wastes land and tortures the eye of an artist" That was a bad break, to use ail inartistic expression, says Bob Burdette. Sir Edwin has followed Hamilton Gibson to little purpose along "The Highway of the Squirrel"—indeed, he hasn't followed him at all—or be would never have made such a statement. Some of the prettiest daintiest, most charming pictures that can be found in all out of doors Gibson has found for us in the corners of this very old rail fence. More than that—he has taught us where to look foe them. The snake fence may waste land—that doesn't matter when wo have the land to waste —but it is a feature of the landscape. A trim and closely-cropped hedge can no more replace it. can no more be compared to its endless variety, its angular willfulness, its weather beaten ruegedness, it sheltering nooks for weed and wild flowers, its ready convenience as a perch upon which to climb and talk politics or look for the cows, than English caricature of a horse, with mutilated mane and abbreviated tail can be compared with a real horse with plumy tail sweeping his fetlocks and a flowing mane that is tossed upon the wind like a banner. Nature with her hair combed looks neat and trim and clean, I grant you. So does a turkey when he is plucked and dressed—or rather undressed, and made ready for the oven. But, ho doesn't look much like a turkey.

A Serenade.

If the sun cares to rise, let him riso, And if not, let him ever lie hid For the light from my ludy-love3 rvos

Shines forth as the sun never did. If the mooD care to shine, let her shine, Buth'ir priory is duller b.v far Than the dream of a face that is mine—

Of a face that beams bright as a star.

fame to flrief.

The suit of '.he Widow Gibbs against us for the breach of promise, damages $15,000, came up in court last Friday, This suit was instituted six months ago by the court house ring, which iias sought our downfall ever since tho first issue of this paper. Tnat is, they put the widow up to sue us, and have advanced the money as it was needed.

When the widow was put on the stand she testified that on the night of i'ebuary 21, 1887, we asked her to marry us. Sho insisted that thed.tn was correct, and that nothing could change her mind about it. We then exhibited the record" of the jail to prove that on that day and night, and 011 all the next day and next ni»ht, we were a prisoner, having, as some of our readers may remember, departed from the line of virtue, and a gone on a bender. This exhibit knocked the widow out on the first round, and confounded her supporters, and we don't believe they will taeklc us again after that fashion.

As for the widow, she was only a rat's-paw, and we have sent 10 her house a basket of groceries, a clothes line, a set of cups and saucers and a «aclt of flour to prove that we have no tnalicc. Arizona Kicker.

Second Nature.

No, George, you cannot chide a baked potato because, it smokes any more than you can chide a locomotive ,for leading a f.-ist.^ife. Tnoy are built ••hat. way. and you will observe that tho "bilked potato, "ttrltess ordered otherwise, will appear suitably clad in a umoking jacfceU —N. Y, Com. Ad.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Copper coins aie not in use at JohannesbuV^' at all, the lowest piece of money being the threepenny-bit—caJled "tickey."

The hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board in London have 3,800 beds set apart for scarlet fever and only 70 for diphtheria.

In the New York directory for 1813 is the entry, "Peter Cooper, machinist, 98 Elm street." Elm street was then one of the poorer localities. ^The famous steer Jumbo, of Wichita, Kas., which attained the weight oi 5,000 pounds, was killed the other day, and will be mounted ior exhibition purposes.

A correspondent of the London Lancet writes that scarlet lever in the East is not only not the scourge it is in Europe, but is extremely rare in both Asi.q and Africa.

At the last congress of German vineyardists Professor Wortmann reported that he had found living bacteria in wine which had been bottled twenty-fire to thirty years.

The hotel-keepers of Wo:rishofen arq bewailing the death of Father Sebastian Kneipp, the priest of Wocrishofen, whose fame as a healer of disease was so wide-spread that it attracted to the little town 10,000 invalids a year. The hotelkeepers, who fear that his death will be their ruin, have pointed out that it was not Father Kneipp who cured, but his system.

Cashiers of banks and corporations who handle large sums of money daily are to be protected by means of a newlypatented window on pulleys, with the ropes reaching down to the floor, where they connect with a lever which can be sprung by the foot to drop the window instantly whenever there is danger without the action being seeo by an outsider.

An Atchison (Kas.) woman bemoaned the fact that she had no flowaps to decorate the table for a dinner party. Her servant giri didn't say anything, but when the guests arrived and were taken out to dinner the hostess found the table burdened with geranium blossoms. She discovered after the guests had gone that the servant stole them from the lawn of a neighbor, and that neighbot was among the guests invited.

Prosecutions are expected to begin soon under the new Massachusetts law which forbids the wearing of the body or feathers of any undomesticated bird. Every offender will be fined $10 and tne prosecuting witness will be paid a reward of $5.

Among the new words called into existence in London by the jubilee arc "jubiletti," a confection "jubility," the Berrous excitement caused by the approach of the celebration, and "jubriii*int," one who solicited funds for the festal occasion.

The Bulgarians do not go into athletic sports enthusiastically, and, with the exception of "horo," the national dance, wrestling is about the only diversion they allow themselves. It is said that at some of the best matches the Bulgarians ivHl stand around the ring without a tound of applause.

Human perspiration, if injected into T.ogs or rabbits, acts fike a deadly poicon, according to M. Arloing's experiments. Perspiration secreted during 1tard muscular work has more toxic power than the ordinary kind, while that obtained from subjects whose secretion has been checked by cold is very poisonous.

Some Instances of Bad Luck. A captain in the Indian army, says a writer in an English periodical, while at home on leave, became engaged to a young lady, whose father refused to sanction the marriage till the offioeT was in a position to settle $25,000 on his wife. The captain returned to his regiment in India, and contrived, by hard scraping, to get together the require amount in eight years. He returned to England to claim his bride, &nd the first news he heard on landing was the failure of the bank in which his savings were plaeed. The father was inexorable, and the lover had to go back to India and begin all over again. He was a major by this time, and had a good staff appoinfment. So it did not take him long to save the money. At the end of five years he was again the possessor of $25,000 and as he was unable to leave his post to fetch his bride it was arranged that she should go out to him and be married at Bombay. She was kilted in a railway accident on her way to join a steamer at Liverpool.

A young fellow was cast off b" his father, a very wealthy man, for marrying a respectable girl who was poor. The father, in course of time, found himself dying, and repented, to a certain extent, of his harshness. He wrote to his son, saying that if he would come to him at once he would forgive him and reinstate him in his will. The son did not come, and the fath'er allowed his existing will to stand, leaving all his money to charities. The letter proposing reconciliation was never received by his son, but was found months afterward by the police when searching the lodgings of a dishonest postman.

A struggling would-be literary man had experienced all the disappointments which beset so many votaries of the art of letters. At kngth, by means of special knowledge and great enterprise, he got hold of a subject which pleased the editor of a widely circulated magazine. His article was accepted and was to appear in the next issue. On the eve of going to press one of the compositors dropped the form containing the article, and the type was scattered in hopeless confusion. There was no time to reset the article, and another that happened to be in stock was used in its place By the time the first issue appeared the subject was stale, so the article never appealed. The author lost his chance.— New York Ledger.

liiglit Sort ofJol).

Odious Oliver—Lt 1 had dc right sort of 10b I'd go to work. Moldy Mike—You s'prise me. Ollie. Wot sort o' job would you work at?

Odious Oliver—I'd like to be in one o' dent placcs where dey 'do de rest* for anunytoor photographers. N. Y. World.

FASHION'S FIBLD.

Grmy is the color of the moment, and this fail will be signalized by the reign of the silver gray.

To be at all proper, your hat, gloves, gown, and all accessories must match the coming season. Such vivid shades will be worn that the contrasting bright stock and girdle will not be raecessarv to relieve somber effects.

Nine out of every ten of the suits designed for early fall wear will have a double-breasted Eton jacket with sleeve epaulets cut in one piece with the body portions, and with a full jaquette blouse '6f fancy silk underneath. Many will have the sleeves of .silk to match the blouse, whiile others will have sleeves of the cloth like the jacket.

Satin cloth is one of the newest and

most desirable fabr'cs 1. —j equally well in a plain the more elaborate arc)

FOR SUMMER WEAR.

PEOPLE.

Dickens left $5°o,ooo to his children, out all of his descendants are said to be aoor. Not a writer of first-clu^.-, ability las appeared among them.

Alphonse Daudet has decided to keep back a realistic novel drawn lrom life, ivhioh he has just finished, until the original of the hero dies.

Walter Kennedy, a yonng Indiana nan, who went to China with an Amercan railroad building syndicate, has »een appointed chief raining engineer of

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number of soft shark's of aM'Vu*

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looks a little passe after a sum wear ribbons, and.

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they will be in great de.nai'd cling dresses upon the _r Q[ feminine army of summerioionr Collarettes, nichcs, vests r:,a,i so-called harnesses will all ribbons of all color, and of alU^

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with a narrow velvet edge,

tircly out ot date.

the Chinese Empire, with a large salaryl

Ex-President Guzman Blanco, Venezuela, is said to be the richest'mal in the woild, owning 6,000,000 square! miles of land, 2,600,000 virtual slaves! and enjoying an annual income of $37,4 000,000.

Hall Caine has, it is said, receiyrfl from the publishers of his new book,! "The Christian," a check for $50,000 u| advance on royalty sales. The bookl will yield a very large sum and the drj-l matic version will also bring hand»om»| returns.

The Clown Steps Back to Admire His Artistic Work With Bad Kesulta.