Decatur Eagle, Volume 13, Number 16, Decatur, Adams County, 23 July 1869 — Page 1

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' OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. District Officers. lion. Rob'd Lowry Circuit Judge. J. S. Daily, Circuit Prosecutor, lion. 1). Studabaker. Com. Pleas Judge. B. F. Ibach Com. Pleas Prosecutor. County Officers. Seymour 'Warden . Auditor. A..J. Hill Clerk. Jesse Nibliik Treasurer. M. V. B. Simcoke Recorder. James Stoops, Jr Sheriff. H. C. Peterson Surveyor. Sam. C. Bollma,n . . .School Examiner. Josiah Crawford, ] - v Jacob Sarff, 1 Commissioner. George Luckey, J Town Officers. Harrison B. Knoff . . A’lerk. Tobasco Burt Treasurer x ‘Marshall. Herman Bosse, ] - David 1 King, 1 Trustees. David Showers, J Township Officers.

UniAn.—Trustee, J. IL Blakey; Justice of the Peace, E. B. Looker; Constables, Joseph C. Walters and William Cellars. ' Root.—Trustee, John Christen; Justices of the Pence, Jeremiah Archbold, Lyman H irtand Henry D. Filling; Constables, John Schurgcr, Martin Lord ami Henry Luttmnn. Preble.—Trustee, F. W. Gallmeyer: Justices of the Pence, A. Mangold and John Archbold; Constables, —vacant. Kiiikhnii.—-Trustee, Jonathan Bowers; Justices of the Pence, S, 1). Beavers and James 11. Ward; Constable, John T. Baker. Washington.—Trustee, O.inrad Brake; Justices of the Peace, J.W. Grim and Samuel Merryman; Constables, Frederick Meitz and Elias Crist. St. Mart's.--Trustee, Ed. McLeod; Justices of the Peace, Samuel Smith, S. B. Merris and William Comer; Constables, George W. Teeple, S. B. Fordyce and J. W. Andrews. Bluecreek.—Trustee, John Emery; Justice of the Peace, Lemuel Williams; Constables, William I. Danner and William Danner. Monroe.—Trustee. Thos. Harris; Justice of the Peace, Lojcnzo D. Hughes; ■Constable, John T. Martz. French.—Trustee, Solomon Shull; Justices of the Ptace, Lot French and V. D. Bell; Constable, Joshua Sarff, Hartford.—Trustee, Peter Huffman; Justices of the Peace, Benj. Bunyan and Martin Kizer, sen.; Constables, Davi<| Eckrote and John Simison. Wabash.—Trustee, Henry Miller; Justices of the Peace, A. Stndabaker and James Nelson; Constables, Jacob Butcher.and A. G. Thompson. Jefferson.—Trustee, Charles Kelly; Justices of the Peace, Justus Kelly and John Fetters; Constables, vacant.

Time or Holding Courts. Circuit Court.—On the third Monday in April, and the first Monday in No-, vember, of each year. Common Pleas Court.—On the second Monday in January, the second Monday in May, and the second Monday in September, of each year. Commissioner’s Court.—On the first Monday in March, the first Monday in June, the first Monday in September, and the first Monday in December, of each year. CHURCH DIRECTORY. St. Mart's (Catholic). —Services every Sabbath at 8 and 10 o’clock, A. M., Sabbath School or instruction in Catechism, at 1} o’clock, P. M.; Vespers at 21 a clock, P. SI. Rev. J. Wemhoff, Pastor. Methodist.—Services every Sabbath at 10| o’clock, A. M., and 7 o'clock, P. M. Sabbath School at 9 o'clock P. SI." Rev. D. N. Shackleford, Pastor. ' Pmesrtteriam.—No Pastor. Prayer Meeting every Sabbath at 1 o'clock, and Sabbath School at 2 o’clock, P. M.

BLANKS. Blank deeds, blank notes. Justices Blanks, Constables Blanks, etc. etc., printed and for sale at the JIAGI.E OFFICE.

The Decatur Eagle.

Vol. 13.

ATTORNEYS. JAOS R. 8080, Attornoy a,t Law, DECATUR, INDIANA. DRAWS Deeds, Mortgages and Contracts. Redeems Land and pays Taxes. OFFICE--Opposite the Auditor’s Office. vlOnfitf R. S. PETERSON, A-ttorncy a,t Law, DECATUR, INDIANA. I)ROMPT attention paid to all busiI ness entrusted to his care. Is a Notary Public, and draws De,eds, Mortgages, and other instruments in writing. OFFICE —In D. Studabakef’s Law Office. vl2n33tf BAXIEL D. HELLER, -/Attorney a,t Law, DECATUR, INDIANA. WILL practice his Profession anywheie in Indiana or Ohio. OFFlCE—Opposite the Recorder’s Office? vlOns2tf

PHYSICIANS. F.A.JKLLEFF. W. 11. BCniIOVK. JELLEFF & SCHROCK, Physicians and Surgeons, DECATUR, INDIANA. OFFICE—On Second Street, opposite the Public Square. vßnlstf. CHARLES L. CURTISS, Physician and Surgeon, DECATUR, INDIANA. HAVING permanently located in this place, offers his professional services tothc people of Decatur and vicinity. OFFICE—At the Burt House. 11-36 AAISR “E W SOR G , Physician and Surgeon, DECATUR, INDIANA. ' OFFICE —On Second Street, over IV. G. Spencer & Brother’s Hard ware Store. vßn42tf. A. J. ERWIN, M. D., • • Surgeon. Dispensary, Avclinc Block, vlln‘2s FORT WAYNE, IND. S. C. AYERS, .11. D., RESIDENT Ear. and. Eye Surgeon, FORT WAYNE, INDIANA. OFFICE—South west corner Main 5; Calhoun streets, over Drug Store. Eyes inserted. 12-44

DENTISTRY. ill. .11. ~IIcC6A AEL L, Surgeon Dentist, DECATUR, INDIANA. feH’/.ggAi All work neatly executed" M&Ljgskaiid warranted to give sat--1 T XJ i s faction. Call and .examine specimens. OFFICE—-Opposite the Public Square, over Heller’s Law office. vllu4'J

REALJiSTATE ACENTS. JAII E * R . iG O B O', LICENSED REAL ESTATE AGENT. DECATUR,. INDIANA. rpHREE THOUSAND ACRES of good 1 farming land, several Town Lots, and a large quantity of wild land for sale. If you want to buy a good farm lie will sell it to you. If you want your land sold he will sell it fur you. No sale, no charge. vlOnG A U CTIO MEER. UH ARL FS 11. ERA AUF, JY-uctioncer, DECATUR, INDIANA. VNNOUNCES to the public that he is a regularly Licensed Auctioneer, and will attend all Public Sales when requested. OFFICE—In J. R. Bobo’s Law office.

_ HOTELS. MIESSE HOUSE, I. J. MIESSE, Proprietor. Third St., Opposite the Court House, DECATUR, INDIANA. rjAHE traveling public will find this JL House a desirable stopping place. Good sample rooms. vllnO MAIN STREET EXCHANGE. A. FREEMAN, Proprietor, H’rst Main Street, near the Public Square, FORT WANYE, INDIANA, vllnll If MAYER HOUSE. J. IV. BULL, Proprietor, Corner of Calhoun and Wapne Streets, FORT YYAYNE, INDIANA. vl2n7 ts HFDEKIA HOUSE, A. J. 11. MILLS, Proprietor, On Barr, between Columbia and .Vain FORT WAY'NE, INDIANA. / A ENERAL Stage Office. Good V I blcingin connection with this house. v12n25 . ts

HARDWAgE &C. McCULLOCH & RICHEY Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Hardware, Tinners' Stock AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS, Mechanics’ Tools, STOVES, <tc., No. ST Columbia Street, r h mculloch. y FORT WAYNE. IND AMO« BTCIIEt. f VpJnlSyl

DECATUB, IND.. FRIDAY, JULY 23,1869.

DEATH. REV. A. J. RYAN. Out of the shadow of sadness, Into the sunshine of gladness, Into the light of the blest; Out of the land ve. y dreary, Out of the world of the weary", Into the rapture of rest. Out of to-day’s sin and sorrow Into a blissful to-morrow, Into a day- without gloom; Out of a land filled with sighing— Land of the dead and the dying— Into a land without tomb. Out of a land of commotion, Tempest-swept oft as the ocean, Dark with the wreck drifting o’er; Into a land calm and quiet; Never a storm cometh nigh it; Never a wreck on its shore. Out of the land, in whose bowers Perish and fade all the flowers— Out of the land of decay— Into the Eden, where fairest Os flowerets, and sweetest and rarest, Never shall wither away. Out of the world of the wailing, Throng’d with the anguished and ailing Oiit of the world of the sad; Into the world that rejoices—World of bright visions and voices, Into the world of the glad. Out of a life ever lornful, Out of a lund ever mournful, Where in bleak exile we roam; - Into a joy-land above us, Where there’s a Father to love us— Into “our Home—sweet Home.”

How Cheese is Made. The IKesfer/i Hural contains an account of a visit to an extensive cheese factory, near Elgin, 111. At the time of the visit the milk of about 400 cows, blunging to twenty fanners, was used. This factory system of cheese-making i is rapidly coining into favor in the | West, as it has in the Eastern States, there now being at least 8,00 such factories in New York alone. The followihg description of the details of making cheese will probably be of internest to many readers; At the factory the wagons are driven under cover and. the «cans emptied into the tin receiving can which holds about eighty gallons. After being weighed in this, the milk is run, by means of a faucet near the bottom and a tini con ductor, into the cheese vats, which hold 600 gallons each. At the end of the conductor is a big strainer so that the milk is a se cond time strained. The vats have a plain tin surface with spaces between the bottom, sides and ends and the outsides wood coveringThese spaces are partly filled with water, and as the vats are filled this water is heated by means of steam brought in pipes from the generator in an adjoining room. By this means the milk is gradually heated until the temperature of 80 degrees is reached. Then rennet is applied in such quantity as will coagulate the milk iw from twenty to thirty minutes. It seems a little singular that chemistry has found no good substitute for the “inner membrane of the fourth stomach of a calf’ as a means for coagulating milk. These rennets, after being cleaned and dried, are soifked in whey and this solution is what is used. The quantity neccssar}- is quite small. It is at this stage that the coloring matter is applied. Dealers know, and all consumers of cheese ought to know, that the rich yellowcolor in cheese which is often so much admired is not natural color. It is produced by ading a prepar-1 ation of annatto, a dyeing materi-; al prepared from the seeds of a tree found in the American tropical regions. Consumers of cheese want cheese of an unnatural color, dealers insist on it, and the maker, makes it. There is this consola j tion, that the preparation docs no | perceptible harm, and but a small quantity ft applied. In fifty minutes from the time of applying the rennet, the curd is i cut by means of Young's gang knife, with fourteen steel blades. two feet long, and set a half Inch apart. The curd is cut both ways, leaving it in long pieces about a half inch square. It is then allowed to stand untill the curd has settled, and the whey separated so as to stand to the debth of three or foui inches on top of the enrd. It is then carefully stirred with the hands, and again heated gradually, untill the mass stands at 100 deg., the stirring being continued. About one and a half hours are required to so heat it. During this process, the curd is so cut with the knife that the pieces are about the size of a kernel of corn. As a matter of convenience in working, one-third of the whey is drawn off The heat is kept at

100 deg. until the proper degree of acidity is developed to secure the necessary firmness to the cheese and a free exit of the whey. This is one of the critical points in cheese making—one where experience is absolutely necessary. The whey is now allowed to drain oil, and the curd cooled to 70 deg., when two and a half pounds of salt are put in for each 100 gallons of milk used. It is then put in zinc hoops sixteen inches in diameter, and placed in a simple screw press. After an hour or two the now part-ly-developed cheese is taken out, a bandage put raund it, and a cloth over one end, end and again returned to the press, where it remain until morning. Heavier pressure is than applied for a short time, when the cheese is taken out of the hoop, greased, and taken to the shelves of the curing room. Each diiy while here it is turned, and by the eighteenth day, at the earliest, is ready for shipments. The average weight of the cheese when cured, is about fifty pounds. The milk cans are thorougly cleansed as soon as emptied—instead of being left until the cheese is ready for shipment, as we have left them in our description. They are first washed in warm water, and then held over a strong jet of steam, which, of course,, fills-, the interior and cleanses better than water. A jet of cold water is then turned on, and the cans, when drained, are ready for the farmer. So, through every part of the pro cess of manufacture, great pains are taken to secure ; cleanlines®. The vats and other machinery are all bright and clean. The whey, as drawn off runs through a pipe to a whey-vat situated some little distance from the factory. Some of the farmers take the whey home with them ; others baing hogs which are kept ; in a large pen by the side of which the whey-vat is placed. We found about fifty- hogs in the pen, all ap pearing to be in good health and condition, although they received no other food than whev.

There are employed at the factory, in addition to the hardworking Superintendent, two young men and two girls, both of the latter being Germans, and presenting fine pictures of health and strength. We noticed that one of ‘hem, who probably has troubled her mind very little about•• Woman's rights,” was clothed in a slfght modification of what is known as the “Ajneriean costume, which was well adapted to her work. In one thing, this factory and. the other one under the same management differs somewhat from, whether Eastern or Western factories. No cheese is made here on Sunday. Mr. Wanzer informed us that not one pound of the 700,000 manufactured by him in the past three years has been made on Sunday, and that this course gives perfect satisfaction to both patrons and owners of the factor ies. The milk drawn Saturday evening is brought to the faytery and manufactured the same everting, the work being finished by midnight. This leaves only Sunday morning’s milk to be arranged for. .It is found that where there are good facilities for keeping the milk cool, it can be kept without injury, even in hot weather, until taken to the factor}- Monday morning. IVhere-such facilities cannot be had, Mr. Wanzer advises, and the farmers have,adopted the plan of keeping this one milking for the use of their families—making butter from it. and also getting from it cream and sour milk. Mr. Wanzer thinks the manufacture of cheese on Sunday at a factory is demoralizing to the neighborhood in which it is situatad, and as the other cqurse can be pursued without pecuniary loss and with satisfaction to all parties, he thinks it should be generally adopted.

—■ " — ——— — A gentleman in Calfornia has in, possession a surveyor’s instrument i on the front lens of which there is I plginly to be seen a beautiful land-1 scape, with all the varied hues of nature. The owner of the instrument vouches to the date when this painting, by some unknown law of nature, was done. Some fiftcen y ears ago it had been in use and was left standing for a time on the plain, ma scorching mid day’s sun, fronting a woodlaud. When again useff. a correct picture of the fronting woodland, with all the various colors of the landscape, was photographed on the lens and has remained unchanged to this day. “My dear,” said an affectionate spouse to her husband, “am I not your only treasure ?’’ “Yes,” was the cool reply, “and I would willingly lay it up in heaven.”

A Western Cheese Factory. There is, perhaps, no one branch of American farming in which so marked a revolution has recently been made, as that made in cheese making bj- the factory system. This system may be said to have originated in 1851. when Mr. Williams, of Herkimer county New York, made cheese from the dairy of his son, as well as his own. In 1860 there were, however, but 17 cheese factories in the State of New York; now there are over 800. We believe there are at least 50 in Illinois and Wisconsin, and the number is rapidly being increased. The essential principle of a cheese factory is that a number of dairy farmers bring their milk together to be made into cheese by one man instead of each manufacturing the product of his own cows. By- this method improved process can be used, and the expenses of manufacture reduced. The cheese produc ed is generally of better quality, and has, at least, the merit of uniform quality, thus being able to command a better price and secure a final reputation.

The Hanover Cheese Manufacturing Company have two cheese factories in active operation—A two and B five miles from Elgin, 111. Both are under the superintendence of I. 11. Wanzer, Esq one of the proprietors and a cheese maker of much experience, and of deserved reputation. In the last three years, lig has 700,000 pounds of cheese, and the products of his factories are often sold, by dealers, as New York factory cheese. Factory A is a plain, two story wood building, 70 by 28 feet, eost-1 ing, with the apparatus used, 84. i 000. It is neatly painted, and the ; proprietors havg been thoughtful! enough to plant a considerable ■ number of evergreen and other or-. namental trees around it. At the time of our visit the two factories : were making from 1,800 to 1.900 ; pounds of green cheese per day. ■ and expect to average 2,000 pounds per day during the season. On the morning of May 20 milk was received at factory A, from twenty farmers,-living from half a mile to seven miles from the factory, and in all milking 403 cows, and having 547 cows from which milk will be brought during the summer. Usually, or at least frequently, at cheese factories, the cheese is made for the farmers, they paying the maker a fixed price for each pound made. At these factories, however, all the milk is bought from the farmers, and the cheese belongs to the company. It is. claimed for this plan that it is much j less liable to cause misunderstandings. The milk is weighed as de livered each morning, and each farmer receives a ticket with the number of pounds delivered marked on it. Accepting this ticket is evidence of satisfaction with the weighing. Once a month these tickets are returned, and payments made. During April the price paid was fourteen cents per gallon; from May to October, inclusive, ten cents per gallon is paid, the farmers furnishing the cans and delivering the milk at the factory door. To those who pay. in cities, seven or eight cents a quart- for milk this may seem a small price, but it should be remembered that there are several profits to be made before milk in the latter case reaches the consumer, with considerable additional expense. Thus at least three sets of cans are needed, instead of one, as when the milk is taken to the factory; the charge for transportation is not ordinarily less than two cents per gallon, and ■ then must be added the expenses i and profits of the city retailer, i The farmers find it pays, at least. Within a comparatively few years the region about Elgin, and so with other vicinities, has been changed from a grain-growing to a milkproducting district, and rarely if at all has any one left the f latter i buisness. It is remarkable ’within how short a time this now vast buisness has grown up. We had the pleasure of meeting Mr. P. H. Smith, still a haie and not very old man. who claims the credit of having, sixteen years ago' shipped the first milk by railaoad to Chicago. — B 'i stern Itttral.

A wealthy gentlemen who owns a country seat nearly lost bis wife, who fell into a river which flows through his estate. lie announcad the narrow escape to his friends expecting their congratulations. One of them—an old bachelor—wrote as follows : “I always told you that river was too shallow.” An old lady being asked by her minister what she thought of the doctrine of ‘‘total depravity,” replied that she thought it a very good doctrine if men would onlv live up to it.

A Story oftlie war. A correspondent of the Boston Tranter writes from the battle ground of Port Hudson, Louisiana : Many of the boys of the 52d Massachusetts regiment, who were with Weitzel's brigade when the charge was made on the works at Post Hudson, will remember well the gallant defense which three or four men made at the salient point which it was expected this brigade would take and hold until Paine’s division could come up. One of those men, so a native of Port Hudson told us, resided on a plantation about nine miles from the landing, near a farm owned by Moody Brothers, from Massachsetts. None of the men who saw him with his musket clubbed, that day, will doubt his being a very brave man. He was* afterward captured at Chattanooga and taken to Camp Douglas Chicago, where he remained nearly six months. About a year before his capture he had been among a party who seized a supply train of the Federate near Corinth, Mississippi. In a box of stores belonging to the Sanitary Commission he found a pair of blue cotton socks, and when he drew them on he discovered the following note inside: “Soldier —Whosoever thou art, [ wear these socks, with the comforting assurance that the fingers that knit them were supplied with life from a warm and sympathetic heart.

“Lizzie V. Gee, Chicago.” This short letter (which was printed in the Louisiana papers at the time) was called to mind one day at Camp Douglas when he was putting on the stockings, and .he resolved for the fun of it to write to her and tell her the history of j the pair of socks. This he did. ■ and soon after received a call at I his quarters from Gee and her [ father. He did not see or hear ' from her afterwards until he was again in the Southern army and stationed at Harper's Ferry. There the company in which lie "tvas a Lieutenant captured a squad of cav airy, and among the number was the only brother of Miss Lizzie V. Gee - Every kindness which could be done for the prisoner was done for young Gee by his new acquaintance, and when, soon after Gee was paroled, he was the sworn friend of the Confederate Lieutenant. When the war closed they had some correspondence, -and the Confederate soldier was invited up . to Chicago to attend the wedding of young Gee’s sister. When he i’got there, much to his surprise, the ex Confederate found that Gee had two sisters, and that the one a bout to be married was not the one he had seen. The rest of the story is told in a twinkling. He married the sister that knit the stockings. For the details of the latter part of the romance, see “everybody's experience,” such as sighs, palpitating hearts, a little moonlight ' and silly resolves “to die or win ' her.” The matters which eonI corn lovers were not told us to reiterate. But the story itself. Iwe are satisfied, is a true one, as ■ the address of the firm in Chicago, of which the bridegoom is a metn- ! ber, lies before us in our diary as ■ we write.

A Sitbmnrhie Xavy. War steamers are fast disappearing from the face of the ocean. Or in other words, they arc striking deeper and deeper into the sea. until at last we have a German plan for a regular submarine navy to fight beneath the’water. The onlv thing wanting to complete the arrangement is to obtain * enough mermen and tritons tb act as sailors- The idea is stated Jjv the German papers as follows: “Otto Vogel pro|K)ses to construct a submarine steamship, and the Berlin Borsemeitung asserts that the Prussian admiralty has approved of the plans submitted Tor inspection. The vessel, covered with strong plating, is entirely below the surface of the sea with the exception of the neck, which is surmounted by a vaulted iron roof of immense strenth. Beneath this covering heavy guns are placed, so that the whole greatly resembles a first rate iron clad. It is said, however, that besides all the advantages of such men of war, the new ship may be entirely submerged, and in this position is so complety under command that it can out-weather a storm or attack an enemy with submarine cannon and torpedoes. Mr. Vogel is now cn gaged in constructing a large model, 24 feet in length, which will soon be finished.

Why is a mouse like a load of hay ?—Because the cat’ll cat it.

Toasts and Sentiment. May the honest never know distress. May we be slaves to nothing but our residence. May care be a stranger where virtue resides. May hemp bind those whom honor cannot. May our prudence secure us friends, but enable us to live without assitance. May sentiment never be sacrified by the tongue ofdeciet. May our happiness be sincere and our joys lasting. May the smiles of conjdal felicity compensate the frowns of fortune May the tear of sensibity never cease to flow. May the road to preferment bo found by none but those who deserve it. * May avarice lose his purse and benevolence find it. May the liberal hand have free access to the purse of plenty. May the impulse of generosity never be checked by the power of necessity. May we ever keep the whiphand of our enemies. May we learn to be frugal before we are obliged to be so. Maw we treat our friends wijh kindness and our enemies with generosity. May reason be the pilot when passion blows the gale. May the feeling heart possess the fortune the miser abuses. May we draw upon content for the deficiencies of fortune. May we hope.to be the physcian when calamity is the disease. May the single be marrried, and the married happy. May we always look forward to better thing, but never be disconi tented with the present.

No. 16.

Tlie Great Lessons. The first great lesson a young mrn should learn is that be knows nothing. The earlier and the more thoroughly this lesson is learned the better. A home-bred youth, growing up in the light of ; parental admiration, with everything to foster his vanity and self esteem, is surprised to find, and- ’ often unwilling to acknowledge, ’ the superiority of other people. But he. is compelled to learn his own insignificance; his airs fire ridiculed, his blunders exposed, Iris wishes disregarded, and he is made to cut a sorry figure, until his selfconceit is abased, and he feels that l he knows nothing. young man has thoroughly 'Mcomperhcnded the fact that he knows nothing, and that, intrinsically,'he ft butoflittle value, the next lesson is that the world cares nothing about Jriin. He is the subject of no man’s overwhelming admiration; neithef petted by the one sex. nor envied by the other, he has to take care of himself. He will not be noticed till becomes noticeable; he will not become noticeable untH he does something to prove that he is of some use to society. No roopnimendatious or introduction will give him this, or ought to give him this; he must do something to be recognized as somebody. The next lesson is that of patience. A man must learn to wait as well as to work, and to be content with those means of advance meat in life which he may use with integrity Und honor. Patience is oue of the most difficult lessons to • learn. It is natural for the mind to look for immediate results. i Let this, then, be understood fit starting: that the patient con- ' quest of difficulties which rise in the regular and legitimate cennncls of business and enterprise is not only essential in securing the success which a young man seeks in life, but essential also co that preparation of the mind requiste for the enjoyment of sucess, and for retaining it when gained. It is the general rule, in all the world and in all time, that unlearned success is a curse.

i * Trial and Temptation. To be.tempted is to be tried. Trial developes strength and matures principle. Christ forwarned * his disciples of the trials they would be necessitated to bear, and called such ones blessed. The apostle James says “Blessed is the i man that endureth temptation.” The blessedness is not in the endurance of trials, but in the final results thereby secured ; “for when he is tried he shall receive the crown ■of life.” Such things are inevitable. None are exempt. Christians meet them calmly,- believingly. submissively, heroically, Christ like. Are the robes made white without the great tribulation?— The blessed ones above, whose voices are ever uttering joy, gain'ed the promised crown only by j bearing the cross. No cross, no crown. No action, -ijo reward The one is a sure guarantee of the other. The battle fonght, the faith (kept, makes certain the reserved glory and immortality