Decatur Democrat, Volume 36, Number 38, Decatur, Adams County, 9 December 1892 — Page 2

THE PEOPLE’S DEMAND. SIMPLY ASK TO HAVE THE TAX BURDEN LIGHTENED. They Want n Tariff for Revenue Bill HnbStltuted for the Obuoxlou. McKinley Measure Jerry Rush** Report—Concerning an Extra Session. A Rational Programme. The demands of the people are simple and explicit. They ask to have their tax burdens lightened by the substitution for the obnoxious McKinley bill of a tariff for revenue bill without any intentional protection in it, because they have declared in unmistakable tones that “protection is a fraud" and is unconstitutional. The Democratic party has been commissioned to enact this new law. Let it act without unnecessary delay. What now will be a ratiohal course to pursue'? 1. Free raw materials. If the present Senate does not yield somewhat to the wishes of the people and pass the bills it has now pigeon-holed, giving us free wool, free tin-plate, free cotton ties, free binding twine, and the bills that the present Congress will quickly pass as soon as there is a prospect that they may pass the Senate, giving us free sugar, free lumber and free ores, an extra session should be called for this purpose. Any other course will be a disappointment to the people, who wish as soon as possible to obtain the benefits promised. This part of the programme has been practically settled by the Democratic leaders in Congress and upon the stump. The .pledges to the people must be redeemed. It is both politic and just that this be done at once. The benefits of free raw material are so great and the revenue derived from the present duty on them so small that no delay should be occasioned even for the important considerations of revenue. The politicians and the papers that advocate delay will incur the displeasure of the people. 2. The necessity of raising a revenue of about $300,000,000 a year—an amount that no administration, however economic, can greatly reduce—makes it essential that the Important revenue-bearing clauses of a new tariff bill receive considerable attention. But even in drafting a new bill, there is no necessity in the present case, if the proper men and methods are employed, of wasting six months or a year’s time in holding “tariff hearings.” Enough of these have already been held. The data at hand will enable tariff experts like Congressman Wm. L. Wilson, John DeWitt Warner, Wm. M. Springer, Benton McMillin, and Senators Roger Q. Mills and John G. Carlisle to frame a bill that will give the people the maximum amount of relief with the minimum amount of friction to business and at the same time produce the required revenue. These men not only have the confidence but know the needs of the people; they also know where and how to levy duties in each case to produce the desired effects. Such men as these can in a few weeks, or at most two or three months, prepare a bill that both In its revenue and administrative qualities Will be incomparably superior to the conglomerate McKinley bill confusedly thrown together by inexperienced tariff makers, after they had spent many months consulting the selfish and conflicting interests of their rich manufacturing constituents. Even if the McKinley tariff makers had consulted the welfare of the people and the bill had been founded on just principles, we want no more such confused and discordant bills patched up by tariff botches. Give us relief, and give it as soon as possible! Rusk’s Antediluvian Report. In his annual report, of which an abstract has been furnished by the Associated Press, Secretary Rusk prattles away as egotistically and as volubly as if a political revolution had not extinguished most of his familiar fads. He parades the enormous excess of last year’s exports over imports —exceeding $200,000,000 —and proudly claims for his department a large share of the credit for this “gratifying” result. It was his department that sent the sun and the rain that gave us bountiful harvests; and it was his department that caused the famished people of Europe to draw hence their needed bread. But the genial Secretary indirectly confesses that Providence had some little share with him in this matter in mentioning that the wheat exports from Russia this season have materially lessened the exports of that cereal from the United States. The Secretary finds a convincing proof of the wisdom of the policy of 4he Government, and of his department in particular, in the fact that of the exports from the United States last year 80 per cent, consisted of agricultural products. While the surplus products of the farm were sent abroad, the surplus products of the workshop and of the factory were kept at home. But the Secretary naively deplores the fact that 000,000 in hides, $40,000,000 in animal products, $67,000,000 in hemp, flax, jute, cotton and other fibers, . and $30,000,000 in fruits and wines, were imported last year. With proper encouragement and “protection” of the Government, he thinks, all these commodities could be produced in our own land. What gives him especial concern is the present annual importation of $25,000,00Q worth of raw silk, all of which could be produced here jf the paternal government should devote its attention to this branch of industry. But the good Secretary does ,pot say whether he would have American farmers’ wives adopt the tender umethod of the women in the interior Kjf China-4or nourishing and raising the silk cocoons. After the 4th of March Secretary Rusk may have leisure to develop at length the plans for the cheap production of raw silk; for raising hides in excess of the needed supplies of beef; for making champagne and Rhine wine, and for rearing tropical fruits under the auspices of the paternal government. But for the execution of these plans he will have to wait for a return of paternalism; and the late elections have given grandmotherly government a blow from which It is not likely to recover

i in this generation. — Philadelphia ; Record. ■ All Extra SfiMlon. I The Dry Goods Economist is taking I great pains to get the opinions of leading merchants, manufacturers, and business men in its line on the 1 “extra session” question. Its issue of I Nov. 19 contains replies from about | ninety of these prominent business ' men in New York, Philadelphia, | Chicago and other cities. Editorially the Economist says: “We find that thirty of the contributors defl- . nitely favor the calling of an extra session of Congress, forty definitely i oppose it. The rest fail to express themselves with sufficient positiveness to be ranged on either side of the controversy. These proportions would seem to indicate a very decided feeling against an early revision of the tariff, but when the reasons given for many of these negative votes are studied, the result does not seem so conclusive.” Then, after showing how flimsy are the reasons of those opposed to an extra session, it gets at the kernel of the question by saying that “there can be but one intelligible motive for putting off the consideration of the subject, and that is the natural desire of highly protected manufacturers to hold as long as possible the special advantages which the nation has ordered to be removed. It may fairly be urged, therefore, that there should not be any avoidable delay, even of a single day, in beginning the deliberate, careful work which in any case must be done.” The Economist, however, thinks that a tariff commission, arranged for by the present Congress, can prepare a bill which can be passed as soon as the Fifty-third Congress reassembles. The tariff commission plan is good; but why keep the people waiting fifteen months, when it is possible to stop the “protection fraud” in six months. If the same two-thirds of the American voters who voted against "protection” could have voted as to how much longer they would prefer to be robbed, is it likely that they would have said “until July, 1894?” The Danger of Delay. Any change in a tariff schedule necessarily affects different industries and businesses, some favorably and others unfavorably. The minimum of injury and the maximum of benefit occurs when, after a revision has been determined upon, it is without delay given definite form and made law. Uncertainty as to what changes will be made causes capitalists to hesitate to invest in new enterprises and is almost ruinous to business. Hence it is important that the pending revision be made as quickly as is consistent with thoroughness. Thousands of wage-earn-ers will suffer by unnecessarily prolonging the agony of business men. Party policy also. dbmands promptness. Immediately after putting a mew tatifl law in force, and before business has been adjusted to it, there cannot but be disturbances in business. To have these come on the eve of the Congressional election of 1894, as in the regular order of procedure, they would surely do, would be toj, isiur tlfc greatest, possible opposition and to invite defeat Partisan instinct therefore dictates that the shortest road to a revenue tariff be taken. On this subject the New York World says: “No necessary deliberation must be shirked, for no serious error must be made. But this deliberation in the preparation and in the necessary discussion of a drafted bill after it is reported must all be got through with as soon as practicable, for three commanding reasons: “1. The people are entitled to early relief from the hard conditions which the McKinley law imposes. “2. The business of the country has a right to know as soon as may be to what conditions its enterprises for the future must conform. “3. The law must have been in operation long enough before the next election to enable all the people to have palpable evidence of its advantages. “How these ends are to be attained without an early extra session of the new Congress we are unable to discover. ” Wind Up This Cordage Trust. W. C. Boone, Jr., a Brooklyn manufacturer of cordage and binder twine machinery, who has been subsidized for five years by the cordage trust, so that he could not sell machinery to outsiders, announces in the last Cordage Trade Journal that he can now again contract to supply machinery to equip new plants. Meanwhile the cordage trust is at its old tricks concerning the supply of manila and sisal fiber, hoping in this way to close up oppesition factories or to put them in a position which will enable the trust by shrewd management, as the Cordage Trade Journal says, “to exterminate a considerable arnount.of competition during the season following.” The trust must work quickly. The people have declared against it. As soon as the. machinery of a new administration can be put in motion, trusts, or at least tariff trusts like this one, can make no more raids on the American people. Cordage manufacturers will tjjen have free raw material; no other protection is necessary. They cannot, however, then expect to make profits of 10 per cent, and have $1,000,000 to add to “large surplus, ” as the trust expected to do in 1892, and, as judged by the high prices of cordage, it has fully accomplished. Bright Prospects for Wool. Following are some points obtained from bne of our leading wool merchants which are opportune and well describe the situation: “In the New York wool market there is a decided evidence of reaction from the disappointment and depression which immediately followed the election. Manufacturers are here in very large numbers, in the first place to consult with their commission houses, but also to take advantage of any weak soots that they can find. There seems to be an impression growing that the election means free wool, but duties retained on manufactured goods. If this proves to be the case, of course it will still further help every American manufacturer.” Manufacturers, one and all, seem

to be using the election as a lever to push down prices, but they show too great an anxiety to do this and not the indifference which indicates slow trade.—Dry Goods Economist, Nov. I 19th. Still Proscribing McKlnleyUm. McKinley has done pore for tariff I reform than almost any other living i man. His optimistic disposition, ' coupled with his reputation (not al- , together deserved) as a tariff maker and for oratory, enables him to draw a good house. Thousands of men, and women, too, who have given but i little attention to tariffs have at- ; tended McKinley’s meetings only to be disappointed with the Major’s absurd and Illogical foreigner-pays-the-tariff ideas of economics. The landslide that slid on Nov. 8 slid slickest in the wake of McKinley, where he had greased the track for it Most gratifying news comes from the post mortem conferences being held everywhere. Fully aware that the late Republican party met its death by an overdose of McKinleyIsm, the doctors nevertheless continue to inject the same medicine into the corpse and profess to believe that they will be able to resuscitate it by 1896. McKinley told the Executive Committee of the Ohio League of Republican Clubs the other day that “All that wo have to do, now that we have lost the election, is to get ready for the next tight. Our principles are just as clear for us as ever, and they are just as essential to prosperity and to the country.” This Ohio club renewed its allegiance to the principles of “protection” and resolved to continue to fight on these lines. The American Economist says it is going to continue its work of propagating the doctrine of protection. It is even more optimistic than Major McKinley. It says: “The election this year shows a gain in the popular vote for protection, a gain in Republican members of Congress, but not gain enough to overtop the canvass of two years ago. We are going up, not down.” It is most fortunate for this country that the Bourbons of the Republican party are going to dictate its future policy, and that they will continue to butt the almost brainless and conscienceless head of their party against a stone wall until life is extinct. The gods are doing their duty by the g. o. p. Its madness will lead it to certain destruction, and the sooner it reaches there the better for this nation. The Immigration Evil and Protection. The Mail and Express, of this city, a rabid protectionist organ, conducted in the interests of trusts and monopolies, in its issue of Nov. 8, on page 2, printed these glaring headlines, giving them particular prominence: “Heavy Decrease in Exports— Workmen Are Having Very Hard Times All Over Europe Just Now.” This tells the story of the adverse effects of protection, falsely so called, upon American industries and wageearners, in a most effective manner. The simplicity of the argument is its most striking feature. Protection enhances prices at home and decreases consumption abroad of those com-, modifies we would gladly sell to foreign nations. The logical result is that thousands of workmen in Europe are thrown out of employment, who later are driven by necessity to emigrate to the United States, and who, upon arrival, apply for work at wages one-third to one-half less than our own wage-earners. That the result is disastrous to native labor is so evident that it needs only be stated to be fully appreciated, and is exactly the view the wage-earners took of the matter on the Bth day of November. —American Industries. No Hysterics. The Iron Age does not take the hysterical view of apprehended changes in tariff on iron. The paragraphs quoted below read almost like extracts from the pages of the Record: Our transatlantic friends will make a serious mistake if they rely on the easy possession of any considerable portion of our markets through the J coming revision of tariff duties. The American manufacturers were never > before so well equipped for a successful contest, since they have for years encountered the fiercest domestic competition. Many of our manufacturing establishments are admittedly the finest in the world, and our engineers have succeeded in obtaining a larger output per man employed than was ’ deemed possible but a few years since. The national resources in raw mate- ' rial and skilled labor are beyond j those of any other country in the world, and American energy, enter- ' prise and pluck will forbid the surrender to outside competitors of any considerable part of the home market now under American control. — Philadelphia Record. Carpet Prices Advancing. Many large carpet manufacturers advanced prices before election. Since then several large corporations, by advancing prices, have expressed their belief that a general business depression will soon be upon us. S. | Sanford & Sons have advanced their ; entire line 2J cents per yard. The Lowell Company, the Roxbury Com- j pany, and Stinson Bros, have also . made advances. Perhaps these man- | ufacturers are simply getting a surplus ahead to tide them over the hard times sure to follow the introduction of free wool and other raw mateflalOor making carpets. The . days of McKinleyism are numbered. | When they are gone the people will • have cheaper and better carpets, and prices will not be fixed by the sweet will of oiir manufacturers. Taxation Defined. The professor of economics of the I Minnesota State University thus defines it: “It is the power that takes 1 your money, ydur labor, your goods, . and returns what it pleases.”. Under < despotic governments taxation at its ' best is a compulsory exchange and tribute to authority, which actually amounts to undisguised robbery and j often confiscation. Its operations < upon the industries are to crush . them, since it kills both labor and > capital. A government of the people, whose basic principle is equality, cannot afford a taxation which is a synonym for inequality, injustice and downright robbery.”—S.t. Louis i Courier.

Dll TALMAGE’S SERMON. A TALK ON THE DEEP TRAGEDY OF THE SONS OF SAUL. The Crime of Saul Destroyed Hi. Posterity as Well as Himself—The Agonies of Bereaved Mothers—The Heroines of History. Blspah on the Rock. The subject of the sermon was “Rizpah on the Rock,” tho text selected being II Shmuel xxl, 10, “And Rlzpah, the daughter of Atah, took sackcloth and spread it for her upon the rock, from tho beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of Heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by dav nor the beasts of the field by night.” Tragedy that boats anything Shakespearean or Victor Hugoton After returning from the Holy Land I briefly touched upon it, but 1 must have a whole sermon for that scene. The explosion and flash of gunpowder have driven nearly all the beasts and birds of prey from those regions, and now the shriek of the locomotive whistle which is dally hoard at Jerusalem will for many miles around clear Palestine of cruel claw and beak. But in the time of the text those regions were populous with multitudes of jackals and lions. Seven sous of Saul had been crucified on a hill. Rlzpah was mother to two and relative to five of the boys. What had these boys done that they should be crucified? Nothing except to have a bad fattier and grandfather. But now that the boys were dead why not take them down from tho gibbets? Na They are sentenced to hang there. So Rlzpah takes the sackcloth, a rough shawl with which in mourning for her dead she had wrapped herself, and spreads that sackcloth upon the rocks near the gibbets, and acts the part of a sentinel, watching and defending the dead. Vet livery other sentinel is relieved, and after being on guard for a tew hours some one else takes his place. But Rizpah is on guard both day and night for half a year. One hundred and eighty days and nights of obsequies. What nerves she must have had to stand that! Ah, do you not know that a mother can stand anything? Oh, if she might be allowed to hollow a place in the side of the hill and lay the bodies of her children to quiet rest! If in some cavern oi the mountains she might find for them Christian sepulture! Oh, if she might take them from the gibbet of disgrace and carry them still farther away from the haunts of men, and then lie beside them in the last, long sleep! Exhausted nature ever anon fails into slumber, but in a moment she breaks the snare, and chides herself as though she had been cruel, and leaps up on the rock, shouting at wild boast glaring from the thicket and at vulturous brood wheeling in the sky. The thrilling story of Rizpah reaches David, and he comes forth to hide the. indecency. The corpses had been chained to the trees. The chains are unlocked with horrid clank, and the skeletons are let down. All the seven are buried, and the story ends. But it hardly ends before you cry out, What a hard thing that those seven boys should suffer for the crimes of a father and grandfather! Yea But itis always so. Let every one who does wrong f now that he wars not only, as in this case, against two generations, children and gr andchildren, but against all the generations of coming time. That is what makes dissipation and uncleanness so awful. It reverberates .in other times. It may skip one generation, but it is apt to come up id the tnird generation, as is suggested in the Ten Commandments, which say, “Visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon the chjidren unto the third and fourth generation.” Mind you, it says nothing about the second generation, but mentions the third and fourth. That accounts for what you sometimes see—very good parents with very bad children. Go far enough back in the ancestral line and you find the source of all the turpitude. “Visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.” If when Saul died the consequences of his iniquity could have died with him it would not have been so bad. Alas, no! Look on that hill a few miles out from Jerusalem and see the ghastly burdens of those seven gibbets and the wan and wasted Rlzpah watching them. Go to-day through the wards and almshouses and the reformatory institutions where unfortunate children are kept and you will find that nine out of ten had drunken or vicious parents. Yea, day by day oq the streets of our cities you will find men and women wrecked of evil parentage. They are moral corpsea Like the seven sons of Saul, though dead, unburled. Alas for Rizpah, who not for six months, but for years and years, has watched them! She cannot keep the vultures and the jackals off. Furthermore, this strange Incident in Bible story shows that attractiveness of person and elevation of position are no security against trouble. Who is this Rlzpah sitting in desolation? One of Saul’s favorites. Her personal attractions had won his heart She had been caressed cf fortune. With a mother’s pride she looked on her princely children. But the scene changes. Behold her in banishment and bereavement—Rizpah on the rock! Some of the worst distresses have come to scenes of royalty and wealth. What porter at the mansion’s gate has not let in champing and lathered steed bringing evil dispatph? On what tessellated ball has there not stood the solemn bier? Under what exquisite iresco has there not been enacted a tragedy of disaster? What curtained couch hath heard no cry of pain? What harp hath never trilled with sorrow? What lordly nature hath never leaned against carved pillar and made utterance of woe? Gall is not less bitter when quaffed from a golden chalice than when taken from a pewter mug. Sorrow is often attended by running footmen and laced lackeys mounted behind. Queen Anne Boleyn is desolate in the palace of Henry VIII. Adolphus wept in German castles over the hypocrisy of friends. Pedro I among Brazilian diamonds shivered with fear of massacre. Stephen of England sat on a rocking throne. And every mast of pride has bent in the storm, and the highest mountains of honor and fame are covered with perpetual snow. Sickness will frost the rosiest cheek, wrinkle the smoothest brow and stiffen the sprightliest step. Rlzpah quits the courtly circle and sits on the rock. Perhans you look bacx upon scones different from these in which now from day to day you mingle. You have exchanged the plenty and luxuriance of yoiir father’s house for privation and trials known to God and your own heart. The morning of life was flushed with promise. Troops of calamities since then have made desperate charge upon you. Darkness has come. Sorrowshave swooped like carrion birds from the sky and barked like jackals from the thicket, j You stand amid your slain anguished ! and woe struck. Rizpah on the rock. ; Again the tragedy of the text displays the courage of woman amid great emergencies. What mother or sister or daughter would dare to go out to fight the cormorant and jackal? Rizpab-did IL And so would yon If ac emergency demanded. Woman is naturally timid and shrinks from exposure and depends on stronger arms for the achievement of great enter- ’ Kt j-

prises. And she Is often troubled lest there might be occasions demanding fortitude when she would fall. Not so Some of those who are afraid to look out of door after nightfall, and who quake in the darkness at the least uncertain sound, and who start at the slam of the door and torn pale In a thunderstorm, if the day of trial came, would be heroic and . invulnerable. God has arranged It so that woman needs the trumpet of some groat contest of principles or affection to rouse up her slumbering courage. Then she will stand under the cross fire of opposing hosts at Chalons to give wine to the wounded. Thon she will carry Into prison and dark lane the message of salvation. Then she will brave the pestilence. Deborah goes out to sound terror Into the heart of God’s enemies. Abigail throws herself between a raiding party of infuriated men and her husband's vineyards. Rizpah fights back the vVltures from the rock. Among the Orkney Islands an eagle swooped and lifted a child to its eyrie far up on the mountains. With the spring ot a panther the mother mounts hill above hill, crag above crag, height above helghtl The fire of her own eye outflashes the glare of the eagle’s, and with unmailod hand stronger than the Iron beak and the terrible claw she hurls the wild, bird down the rocks! In the French Revolution Cazotte was brought out to be executed, when his daughter threw •herself on tho body ot her father and said: “Strike, barbarians! You cannot reach my father but though my heart!” The crowd parted, and linking arms father and daughter walked out free. During the siege of Saragossa Augustina carried refreshments to the gates. Arriving at the battery of Portillo she found that all the garrlgon had been killed. She snatched a match from the hand of a dead artilleryman and fired off a twenty-six pounder, then leaped on It aud vowed she would not leave it alive. The soldiers looked in and saw her daring and rushed up and opened another tremendous tire on the enemy. You know how calmly Mme. Roland went to execution, and how cheerfully Johanna of Naples walked to the castle of Muro, and how fearlessly Mme. Grimaldi listened to her condemnation, and how Charlotte Corday smiled upon the frantic mob her to the guillotine. And there would be no end to the recital if 1 attempted to present all the historical incidents which show that woman’s courage will rouse itself for great emergency. But I need not go so far.' You have known some one who was considered a mere butterfly in society. Her hand had known no toll; her eye had wept no tear over misfortune. She moved among obsequious admirers as careless as an insect in a field of blossoming buckwheat But in eighteen hundred and sixty-seven financial tempest struck the busband’s estate. Before he had time to reef sail and make things snug the ship capsized and went down. Enemies cheered at the misfortune and wondered what would become of the butterfly. Good men pitied and said she would die of a broken heart “She will not work,” say they, “and she is too proud to beg.” But the prophecies have failed. Disaster has transformed the shining sluggard into a practical worker. Happy as a princess though compelled to hush her own child to sleep, and spread her own table, and answer the ringing of her own door-bell. Her arm had been muscled for the conflict against misfortune. Hunger and poverty and want and all the other jackals Rizpah scares from the rock. I saw one in a desolate home. Her merciless companion had pawned even the children’s shoes for rum. From honorable ancestry she had come down to this. The cruse of oil was empty and the last candle gone out Her faded frock was patched with fragments of antique silk that she had worn on the bright marriage day. Confident in God, she had a strong heart to which her children ran when they trembled at the staggering step and quailed under a father’s curse. Though the heavens were filled with fierce wings, and the thickets gnashed with rage, Rizpah watched faithfully day after day and year after year, and wolf and cormorant by her God strengthened.arm were hurled down the rock. You pass day by day along the streets where there are heroines greater than Joan of Arc. Upon that cellar floor there are conflicts as fierce as Sedan, and Heaven and hell mingle in the fight Lifted in that garret there are tribunals where more fortitude is demanded than was exhibited by Lady Jane Grey or Mary, queen of Scots. Now I ask, if mere natural courage can do much, what may we not expect of women who have gazed on the great sacrifice, and who are urged forward by all the voices of grace that sound from the Bible and all the notes of victory that speak from the sky? Many years ago the Forfarshire steamer started from Hull bound for Dundee. After the vessel had been out a little while the winds began to rave and billows rise until a tempest was upon them. The vessel leaked, and the fires went out, and though the sails were hoisted fore and aft she went speeding toward the breakers. She struck with her bows foremost on the rock. The vessel parted. Amid the whirlwind and the darkness all were lost but nine. These clung to the wreck on the beach. Sleeping that night In Longstone lighthouse was a girl of gentle spirit and comely countenance. As the morning dawns I see that girl standing amid the spray and tumult of contending elements looking through a glass upon the wreck and the nine wretched sufferers. She proposes to her father to take boat and put out across the wild sea to rescue them. The father says: “It cannot be done! Just look at the tumbling sunfl” But she persisted, and with her father bounds.into the boat Though never accustomed to plying the oar, she takes one and her father the other. Steady now! Pullawav! Pull away! Tho sea tossed up the boat as though it were a bubble, but amid the foam and the wrath of the sea the wreck was reached, the exhausted people picked up and saved. Humane societies tendered their thanks. Wealth poured into the lap of the poor girl. Visitors from all lands came to look on her sweet face, and when soon after she launched forth on a dark sea, and Death was the oarsman, dukes and duchesses and mighty men sat down In tears in Alnwick castle to think* that they never again might see the face of Grace Darling. No such deeds of daring will probably be asked of you, but hear you hot the howl of that awful storm of trouble and sin that hath tossed ten thousand shivered hulks into the breakers? Know you not that the whole earth is strewn with the shipwrecked—that there are wounds to be healed, and broken hearts to be bound, and drowning souls to be rescued? Some have gone down, and you come too late, but others are clingi ing to the wreck, are shivering with the cold, are strangling in the waves, are crying to you for deliverance. Will you not, oar in hand, put out to-day from the lighthouse. When the last ship’s timber shall have been rent,and the last Longstone beacon shall have been thundered down In the hurricane, and the last tempest shall have folded its wings, and the sea Itself shall have t een Hexed up by the tongue of all consuming fire, the crows of eternal reward shall be kindling Into brighter glory on the brow of the faithful And Christ, pointing to the in-

ebriate that you reformed, and !the dying sinner whom you taught to pray, and the outcast whom you pointed to God for shelter, will say: “You did it to them. You did It to mol” Again, tho scene of the text Impresses upon us tho strength of maternal attachment. Not many men would have had courage or endurance for the awful mission of Rizpah. To dare the rage of wild boasts, and sit from May to October unsheltered, and to watch the corpses of unburled children, was a work that nothing but the maternal heart could have accomplished. It needed more strength than to stand before opened batteries or to walk in calmness the deck of a foundering steamer. There Is no emotion so completely unselfish as maternal affection. Conjugal love expects the return of many kindnesses and attentions. Filial love expects parental care or is helped by the memory of past watchfulness. But the strength of a mother’s love is entirely Independent of the past and tho future, and is, of all emotions, the purest The child has done nothlngfln thopast to earn kindness, and In the future It may grow up to maltreat its parent; but still from the mother’s heart there goes forth Inconsumable affection. Abuse cannot offend it; neglectcannot chill it; time cannot efface it; death cannot destroy it For harsh words it has gentle chiding; for the blow it has beneficent ministry; for neglect it has increasing watchfulness. It weeps at the prison door over tho incarcerated prodigal. and pleads for pardon at tho governor’s feet and is forced away by compassionate friends from witnessing the struggles of the gallows. Other lights goouL but this burns on without extinguishment as in a gloom struck night you may see a single star —one of God’s pickets—with gleaming bayonet of light guarding tho outposts of Heaven. The marchioness of Spadara. when ths earthquake at Messina occurred, was carried out insensible from the falling houses. On coming to her senses she found that her infant had not been rescued. She went back and perished in the ruins. Illustration of ten thousand mothers who in as many different ways have sacrificed themselves tor their children. Oh, despise nqt a mother’s lovel If heretofore you have beeu negligent of silch an one and you still have opportunity for reparation, make haste. If you could only lust look in for an hour’s visit to her, you would rouse up in the aged one a whole world of blissful memories. What if she does sit without talking much? She watched you for when you knew not how to talk at all. What if she has many'ailments to tell about? During fifteen years you ran to her with every little scratch and bruise, and she doctored your little finger as carefully as a surgeon would bind the worst fracture. You say she is childish now. I wonder if she ever saw you when you were childish. You have no patience to walk with her on the street, she moves so slowly. I wonder if she remembers the time when you were glad enough to go slowly. You complain at the expense of providing for her now. 1 wonder what your financial Income was from one year to ten years of age. Do not oegrudge what you do for the old folks. I care not how much you did for them; they have done more for you. But from this weird text of the morning comes rushing in upon my soul a thought that overpowers me. This watching by Rizpah was an after death watching. I wonder if now there is an after death watching. I think there is. There are Rizpahs who have passed death, and who are still watching. They look down from their supernal and glorified state upon us, and is not that an after death watching? I cannot believe that those who before their death were interested in us have since their death became indifferent as to what happens to us. Not one hour of the six months during which Rizpah watched seated upon the rocks was she more alert or diligent or armed for us thqn our mother, if glorified, is alert and; diligent and armed for us. It is not now Rizpah on a rock, but Rlzpah on a throie. How long has your mother been dead? Do you think she has been dead loagenough to forget you? My mother has been dead twenty-nine years. I believe she knows more about me now than she did when I stood in her presence, and I zm no Spiritualist either. The Bible savs, “Are they not al) ministering spirits sort forth to minister to them that shall be heirs of salvation?” Young man, better look out what you do and where yoi go, for your glorified mother is looking at you. You sometimes say to yourself, “What would motaer say if she knew this?” She does know. You might cheat her once, but you cannot cheat her now. Does it embarrass us to think she knows all about us now? If she had to put up with so much when she was here, surely she will not be the less patient or excusatory now. Oh, this tremendous thought of my text —this after death watching! What an uplifting consideration! And what a comforting thought! Young mother, you who have just lost your babe, and who feels the need of a nearer solace than that which comes from ordinary sympathy, your mother knows all about it You cannot run in and talk It all over with her as you wonld if she were still a terrestrial resident, but it will comfort you some, I think —yea, it will comfort you a good deal —to know that she understands all. You see that the velocities of the heavenly conditions are so great that it would not take her a half second to come to your bereft heart. Oh, these mothers in Heavensl They can do more for us now than before they went away. The bridge between this world and the next is not broken down. They approach the bridge from both ways, departing spirits and coming spirits, disimprisoned spirits and sympathizing spirits. And so let us walk as to be worthy of the supernal companionships, and if to any of us life on earth is a hard grind, let us understand that if we watch faithfully and trust fully our blessed Lord there will be a corresponlng reward tn tho laud of peace, andthat Rlzpah, who once wept on a rock, now reigns on a throne. A Snow Storm in Wales. In Wales, during a snow storm which covered Great Britain, a train was lost and was sought for by bodies ofmen on horseback. Finally the top of it was discovered protruding through a snowdrift sixteen foet deep. The imprisoned passengers had suffered from hunger and cold in the un heated cars for eighteen hours. It took a day and a half to dig out the train. The passengers suffered fearfully from the exposure. The lack of appliances for clearing the roads involves- an extraordinary expense, of which some idea may be cont veyed by the fact that to reach one train it was necessary to shovel away snow from six to eighteen feet deep for a distance of over five miles. In spite of experience the English railway authorities seem to leave snow storms out of their calculations. A snow storm appears to strike the ordinary Englishman at home as something not to be resisted or handled by anything less primitive than a broom or hand-shovel. No man who lounges around the house on Sunday fai.s to hear of bls wife's cousin's husband who was good about going to churoh .• ■ ’ i- • “ / •f . r-f

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