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"How riiuch docs it obst to ride into town, coachman?" "Eighteen penco, sir. Will yon got in?" "I only wanted to know what I should Bave by walking."

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THE STORY OF A SHIP

IT HAD NO PROW OR SAIL OR STEAM

OR HELM.

But Rev. Dr. Talmage Says It Eclipsed All Modern Steamships—An Eloquent Sermon by the Great Divine on the Gospel Invitation.

NEW YORK, March 31.—Although his oratory is at times magnetic and eloquent, there is one theme with which, whenever he makes it the groundwork of his sermon, Dr. Talmage never fails to communicate to his auditors the enthusiasm he himself feels. That theme is the gospel invitation, and when this afternoon ho took for his subject "The Gospel Ship" the great audicnco that crowded the Academy was in full sympathy. The text selected was Genesis vi, 18, "Thou shalt come into the ark, thou and thy sons and thy wife and thy sons' wives with thee."

In this day of tho steamships Lucania and Majestic and tho Paris I will show you a ship that in some respects eclipsed them all, and which sailed out, an ocean underneath and another ocean falling upon it. Infidel scientists ask us to believe that in tho formation of the earth there have been a half dozen deluges, and yet they aro not willing to believe the Bible story of one deluge.

the hand of God, ax between tho horns earth staggered. To meet tho catastrophe God ordered a groat ship built. It was to be without prow, for it was to sail to no shore. It was to bo without helm, for no human hand should guide it. It was a vast structure, probably as large as two or three modern steamers. It was the Great Eastern of olden time.

The ship is done. The door is open. The lizards crawl in. Tho cattle walk in. The grasshoppers hop in. The birds fly in. The invitation goes forth to Noah, "Como thou and all thy house into tho ark. Just one human family embark on the strange voyage, and I hear the door slam shut. A great storm sweeps along the hills and bends tho cedars until all the branches snap in the gale. There is a moan in the wind like unto the moan of a dying world. The blackness of the heavens is shattered by the flaro of tho lightnings, that look down into the waters and throw a ghastliness on the face of tho mountains. How strango it looks I How suffocating tho air seems 1 The big drops of rain begin to plash upon the upturned faces of those who are watching the tempest. Crash! go tho rocks in convulsion. Boom! go tho bursting heavens. Tho inhabitants of tho earth, instead of flying to house top and mountain top, as men liavo fancied, sit down in dumb, white horror to die. For when God grinds mountains to pieces and lets the ocean slip its cable there is noplace for men to fly to. See the ark pitch and tumble in tho surf, while from its windows the passengers look out upon the shipwreck of a race and the carcasses of a dead world. Woe to the mountains! Woe to tho sea!

A Terrible Storm.

I am no alarmist. When on tho 20th of September, after the wind has for three days been blowing from tho northeast, you prophesy that the equinoctial storm is coming, you simply state a fact not to bo disputed. Neither am I an alarmist when I say that a storm is coming, comparod with which Noah's deluge was but an April shower, and that it is wisest and safest for you and for me to get safely housed for eternity. The invitation that went forth to Noah sounds in our ears, "Come thou and all thy house into tho ark.

Well, how dirt Noah and his family como into tho ark? Did they climb in at the window, or come down tho roof? No they went through the door. And just so, if wo get into tho ark of God's mercy, it will be through Christ, the door. Tho entrance to tho ark of old must havo been a very largo entrance. We know that it was from the fact that there were monster animals in the earlier ages, and in order to got them into th» ark, two and two, according to tho Bible statement, the door must have been very wide and very high. So tho door into tho mercy of God is a large door. Wo go in, not two and two, but by hundreds, and by thousands and by millions. Yea, all the nations of the earth may go in, 10,000,000 abreast!

The door of the ancient ark was in the sida. So now it is through the side of Christ—tho pierced side, the wide open side, the heart side—that we enter. Aha, tho Roman soldier, thrusting his spear into the Saviour's side, expected only to let the blood out, but he opened the way to let all the world in I Oh, what a broad gospel to preach! If a man is about to give, an entertainment, he issues 200 or #J0 invitations, carefully put up and directed to the particular persons whom he wishes to entertain. But God, our father, makes a banquet and goes out to the front door of heaven and stretches out his hands over land and sea, and with a voice that penetrates the Hindoo jungle, and the Greenland ice castle, and Brazilian grove, and English factory, and American home, cries out, "Come, for all things are now ready!" It is a wide door! The old cross has been taken apart, and its two pieces aro stood up for the doorposts, so far apart that all the world can come in. Kings scatter treasures on days of great rejoicing. So Christ, our king, comes and scatters the jewels of heaven.

Rowland Hill said that ho hopod to get into heaven through the crevices of the door. But ho was not obliged thus to go in. After having preached the gospel in Surrey chapol, going up toward hoaven, the gatekeeper cried, "Lift up your heads, ye everlasting gates, and let this man come in!" The dying thief went in. Richard Baxter and Robert Newton went in. Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America may yet go through

In what way tho catastrophe came we know not—whether by tho stroke of a comet, or by flashes of lightning, cliang- ings. ing the air into water, or by a stroke of Lord like the stroke of the bulwarks or doors would not be a safe of the ox, the I vessel to go in. When Noah and his family heard the fastening of tho door of the ark, they wero very glad. Unless

this wide door without crowding. Ho! every one—all conditions, all ranks, all people! Luther said that this truth was worth carrying on one's knees from Rome to Jerusalem, but I think it worth carrying all around the globe and all around the heavens, that "God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Whosoever will, let him come through the l^rge door. Archimedes wanted a fulcrum on which to place his lover, and then he said lie could move tho world Calvary is the fulcrum, and the cross of Christ is the lever, and by that power all nations shall yet bo lifted.

Tlio Swinging Door.

Further, it is a door that swings both ways. I do not know whether the door of the ancient ark was lifted or rolled on hinges, but this door of Christ opens both ways. It swings out toward all our woes it swings in toward the raptures of heaven. It swings in to let us in it swings out to let our ministering ones come out. All aro onoin Christ—Christians on earth and saints in heaven.

One army of the living God, At his command we bow. Fart of the host have crossed the flood,

And part are crossing now.

Swing in, O blessed door, until all the earth shall go in and live. Swing out until all the heavens come forth to celebrate the victory.

But, further, it is a door with fastenThe Bible says of Noah, "The Lord shut him in." A vessel without

these doors wero fastened the first heavy surge of the sea would have whelmed them, aiul they might as well have perished outside the ark as inside the ark. "The Lord shut him in." Oh, the perfect safety of the ark! Tho surf of the sea and the lightnings of the sky may be twisted into a garland of snow and fire—deep to deep, storm to storm, darkness to darkness—but once in tho ark all is well. "God shut him in." There comes upon the good man a deluge of financial trouble. Ho had his thousands to lend. Now ho cannot borrow a dollar. He once owned a store in New York and had branch houses in Boston, Philadelphia and New Orleans. Ho owned four horses and employed a man to keep the dust off his coach, phaeton, carriage and curricle now he has hard work to get shoes in which to walk. The great deep of commercial disaster was broken up, and fore and aft and across the hurricane deck tho waves struck him. But ho was safely sheltered from the storm. "Tho Lord shut him in!" A flood of domestic troubles fell on him." Sickness and bereavement came. Tho rain pelted the winds blew. The heavens are aflame. All the gardens of earthly delight are washed away. The mountains of joy are buried 15 cubits deep. But, standing by the I empty crib and in the desolated nursery and in the doleful hall, once a-ring with merry voices, now silent forover, ho cried, "Tho Lord gave, the Lord hath taken away blessed be the name of tho

Lord." "The Lord shut him in." All the sins of a lifetime clamored for his overthrow. Tho broken vows, the dishonored Sabbaths, the outrageous proI fanities, tho misdemeanors of 20 years, reached up their hands to the door of the ark to pull him out. The boundless ocean of his sin surrounded his soul, howling like a simoom, raving liko an euroclydon. But, looking out of tho window, he saw his sin sink like lead into the depths of tho sea. Thedovoof heaven brought an olive branch to tho ark.

Tho wrath of the billow only pushed him toward Jieaven. "Tho Lord shut him in!"

The Heavenly House.

Tho same door fastenings that kept Noan in keep the troubles out. I am glad to know that when a man roaches heaven all earthly troubles aro done with him. Here he may havo had it hard to get broad for his family there ho will never hunger any more. Here he may have wept bitterly there "the Lamb that is in the midst of tho throno will lead him to living fountains of water, and God will wipe away all tears from his eyes." Here he may havo hard work to get a house but in my Father's house are many mansions, and rent day never comes. Here there are deathbeds and coffins and graves there no sickness, no weary watching, no choking cough, no consuming fever, no chattering chill, no tolling bell, no grave. The sorrows of life shall come up and knock at the door, but no admittance. The perplexities of life shall come up and knock on the door, but no admittance. Safe forever! All the agony of earth in one wave dashing against the bulwarks of the ship of celestial light shall not break them down. Howl on, ye winds, and rage, ye seas! The Lord—"the Lord Bhut him in!"

Oh, what a grand old door! So wide, BO easily swung both ways and with such sure fastenings. No .burglar's key can pick that lock. No swarthy arm of hell can shove back that bolt. I rejoice that I do not ask you to cdme aboard a crazy craft'with leaking hulk and broken helm and unfastened door, but an ark 50 cubits wide and 300 cubits long and a door so large that the round earth, without grazing the post, might be bowled in.

Now, if the ark of Christ is so grand a place in which to live and die and triumph, come into tho ark. Know well that the door that shut Noah in shut others out, and though, when the pitiless storm came pelting on their heads, they beat upon the door, saying: "Let me in! Let me in!" the door did not open. For 120 years they were invited. They expected to come in, but the antediluvians said: "We must cultivate these fields we must be worth more flocks of sheep and herds of cattlo we will wait until we get a little older we will enjoy our old farm a litfcto longer. But meanwhile the storm was browing. The fountains of heaven were filling up. The pry Was being placed beneath the foundations of the great deep. The last year

had come, the last month, the last week, the last clay, the last hour, the last moment. In an awful dash an ocean dropped from tho sky and another rolled up from beneath, and God rolled the earth and sky into one wavo of universal destruction.

Outside tlie Ark..

So men now put off going into tho ark. They say they will wait 20 years first. They will have a little longer time with their worldly associates. They will wait until they get older. They say: "You cannot expect a man of my attainments and of my position to surrender myself just now. But before the storm comes I will go in. Yes, I will. I know what I am about. Trust me!' After awhile, one night about 12 o'clock, going home, ho passes a scaffolding just as a gust of wind strikes it, and a plank falls. Dead, and outsido the ark! Or, riding in the park, a reckless vehiclo crashes into him, and his horse becomes unmanageable, and ho shouts, "Whoa, I whoa!" and takes another twist in tho reins and plants his feet against tho dashboard and pulls back. But no use.

It is not so much down the avenue that ho flies as on tho way to eternity. Out of tho wreck of tho crash his body is drawn, but his soul is not picked up. It fled behind a swifter courser into tho great future. Dead, and outside tho ark! Or somo night ho wakes up with a distress that momentarily increases until he shrieks out with pain. The doctors come in, and they givo him 20 drops, but no rolief 40 drops, 50 drops, 00 drops, but no relief. No time for prayer. No time to read cno of the promises. No timo to get a singl»^I in pardoned. The whole house is aroused in alarm. The children scream. Tho wifo faints. Tho pulses fail. Tho heart stops. The soul flies. Doad, and outside tho ark!

I have no doubt that derision kept many people out of the ark The world laughed to seo a man go in and said: "Hero is ^a man starting for tho ark. Why, there will be no deluge. If there is ono, that miserable ship will not weather it. Aha, going into tho ark! Well, that is too good to keep. Hero, fellows, havo you heard the news? This man is going into tho ark!" Under this artillery of scorn the man's good resolution perished.

And so there aro hundreds kept out by the fear of derision. The young man asks himself: "What would they say at tho store tomorrow morning if I should become a Christian? When I go down to the clubhouse, they will shout, 'Here comes that now Christian. Suppose you will not havo anything to do with us now. Suppose you are praying now. Get down on your knees, and let us hoar you pray. Come, now, give us a touch. Will not do it, eh? Pretty Christian, you aro!' Isitnot tho fear of being laughed at that keeps you out of tho kingdom of God? Which of theso scorners will help you at tho last? When you lie down on a dying pillow, which of them will bo there? In tho day of eternity will they bail 3'ou out?

An Invitation.

My friends and neighbors, come in right away. Como in through Christ, tho wide door—tho door that swings out toward you. Como in, and bo saved. Como and bo happy. "Tho Spirit and the Bride say, Como." Room in the ark! Room in tho ark!

But do not come alono. Tho text invites you to bring your family. It says, "Thou and thy sons and thy wifo. You cannot drive them in. If Noah had tried to drive the pigeons and tho doves into tho ark, ho would only have scattered them. Somo parents aro not wiso about these things. They make iron rules about Sabbaths, and they force the catechism down the throat as they would hold the child's noso and force down a doso of rhubarb and calomel. You cannot drive your children into tho ark. You can draw your children to Christ, but you cannot coerce them. Tho cross was lifted not to drive, but to draw. "If I bo lifted up, I will draw all men unto me." As tho sun draws up the drops of the morning dew so tho sun of righteousness exhales the tears of repentance.

Be sure that you bring your husband and wifo with you. How would Noah havefelt if, when heheardthe rain pattering on the roof of the ark, he knew that his wife was outside in the storm? No she went with him. And yet some of you are on the ship "outward bound" for heaven. But your companion is unsheltered. You remember the day when tho marriage ring was sot. Nothing has yet been able to break it. Sickness came, and tho finger shrank, but the ring staid on. The twain stood alone above the child's grave, and the dark mouth of the tomb swallowed up a thousand hopes, but the ring dropped not into the open grave. Days of poverty came, and tho hand did many a hard day's work, but the rubbing of the work against the ring only made it shine brighter. Shall that ring ever be lost? Will the iron clang of the sepulcher gate crush it forever? I

pray God that you who have been married on earth may be tog9ther in heaven. Oh, by the quiet bliss of your earthly home, by the babe's cradle, by all the vows of that day when you started life together. 1 begyou to see to it that you both get into the ark.

For the Whole Family.

Come in, and bring your wife or your husband with you—not by fretting about religion or dingdonging them about religion, but by a consistent lifo and by a compelling prayer that shall bring tho throne of God down into your room. Go home and take up the Bible and read it together, .'and then kneel down and commend your souls to him who has watched you all these years, and before you rise there will be a fluttering of wings over your head, angel crying to angel, "Behold, they pray!"

But this does not include all your family. Bring the children too. God bless the dear children! What would our homes be without them? We may have done much for them. They have done more for us. What a salvo for a wounded heart there is in the soft palm of a child's hand!' Did harp or flute ever have such music as there is in a child's "good night?" From our ooarse,

rough life the angels of God are often driven back. But who comes into the nursery without feeling that angels are hovering around. They who die in infancy go straight into glory, but you aro expecting your children to grow up in this world. Is it not a question, then, that rings through all tho corridors and windings and heights and depths of your soul, what is to become of your sons and daughters for time and for eternity? "Oh," you say, "I mean to see that they havo good manners." Very well. "I mean to dress them well, if I have myself to go shabby. Very good. "I shall give them an education I shall leavo them a fortune." Very well. But is that all? Don't you mean to tako them into tho ark? Doirt you know that the storm is coming, and that out of Christ there is no safety, no pardon, no hope, no heaven?

How to get them in? Go in yourself! If Noah had staid out, do you not suppose that his sons—Shorn, Ham and Japhoth—would havo staid out? Your sons and daughters will bo apt to do just as von do. Reject Christ yourself, and tho probability is that your children will reject him.

The Family Altar.

An account was taken of tho religious condition of families in a certain-dis-trict. In tho families of pious parents two-thirds of the children wero Christians. In tho families whero tho parents were ungodly only one-twelfth of the children were Christians. Which way will you tako your children? Out into the deluge or into tho ark? Havo you ever made one earnest prayer for their immortal souls? What will you say in the judgment when God asks, "Whero is Goorgo or Henry or Frank or Mary or Anna? Whero are those precious souls whoso interosts I committed into your hands?"

A dying son said to his father, "Father, you gave me an education and good manners and everything that the world could do for me, but, father, you never told me how to die, and now my soul is going out in the darkness."

Oh, ye who havo taught your children how to live, havo you also taught them how to die? Lifo hero is not so important as the great hereafter. It is not so much tho few furlongs this side of tho grave as it is tho unending leagues beyond. O eternity, eternity! Thy locks white with the ages, thy voice announcing stupendous destiny, thy arms reaching across all tho past and all tho future! O eternity, eternity!

Go homo and erect a family altar. You may break down in your prayer. But never mind, God will take what you moan, whether you express it intelligibly or not. Bring all your house into thu ark. Is there one sou whom you havo given up? Is ho so dissipated that you havo stopped counseling and praying? Givo him up? How dare you give him up? Did God over givo you up? While you have a singlo articulation of speech left, cease not to pray for the return of that prodigal. Ho may oven now bo standing on the beach at Hongkong or Madras, meditating a return to his father's house. Givo him up? Never give him up! Has God promised to hear thy prayer only to mock thee? It is not too late.

Tlio Open Door.

In St. Paul's, London, there is a whispering gallery. A voico uttered most feebly at ono sido of the gallery is heard distinctly at tho opposite side, a great distanc-o oft". So every word of earnest prayer goes all around tho earth and makes heaven a whispering gallery. Go into tho ark—not to sit down, but to stand in tho door and call until all the family come in. Aged Noah, whoro is Japheth? David, whero is Absalom? Hannah, whero is Samuol?

On one of tho lake steamers thero were a father and two daughters journeying. They seemed extremely po*r. A benevolent gentleman stepped up to the poor man to proffer some form of relief and said, "Youseom to bo very poor, sir." "Poor, sir, "replied tho man, "ifthero's a poorer man than me a-troublin the world, God pity both of us!" "I will take ono of your children and adopt it, if you say so. I think it would be a great relief to you." "A what?" said tho poor man. "A relief! Would it be a relief to havo tho hands chopped off from the body, or the heart torn from the breast? A rolief indeed! God bo good to us! What do you moan, sir?" However many children we havo, we havo none to give up. Which of our families can we afford to spare out of heaven? Will it be the oldest? Will it be the youngest? Will it bo that one that was sick some time ago? Will it be the husband? Will it be the wife? No, no! We must have them all in. Let us tako the children's hands and start now. Leavo not one behind. Come, father come, mother come, son come, daughter come, brother come, sister! Only one stop and we are -in. Christ, the door, swings out to admit us. And it is not the hoarseness of a stormy blast that you hear, but tho voice of a loving and patient God that addresses you, saying, "Come, thou and all thy house, into the ark." And there may the Lord shut us int

A Modest Vagrant.

"Excuse a poor man out of work.

want a few more coppers to pay for my night's lodging." "How much more do you want?" "Twopence halfpenny." "Here's the money. Now don't you beg any more." "Much obliged, but, you see, sir,

must go round to the other gentlemen, elso they'll imagine I've grown proud, and I wouldn't have that said of me on any account"—Fliegendo Blatter.

What Culture Is.

There is a mistaken idea that "culture* means to paint a little, to sing a little, to dance a little and to quote passages from late popular books. As a matter of fact, culture means nothing of the kind. Culture means mastery over self—politeness, charity, fairness, good temper, good conduct Culture is not a thing to make a display of. It is something to use so modestly that people do not discover all at once that you have it—Atchison Globe.

BISMARCK BIRTHDAY

Germany's Old Chancellor is Eighty Years Old Today.

THE DAY IS BEING CELEBRATED.

Truinloiids of Presents aiul Thousands ®f

L«ttcrs and Telegrams lieceivefi at l-'ricdrielisiMihe—The Old Chancellor

Enjoying the ISest of Health Just at Present—Events of tlie Day. FKIKDUICIISKUHE, April 1.—Tlie Bismarck celebration is in full swing over the yOtli anniversary of the birth of thee old chancellor. Every train arriving afc Friedrichsrulie is loaded with presents for the aged statesman, and every post brings hundreds of congratulatory letters. not only from people in Germany, but from Germans and others through--out the civilized world. I Thousands upon thousands of special

Bismarck post cards have been sold, and a great number have been mailed to the United States. Those in Germany who have received them have puttiiem carefully away to be preserved as*" mementoes of tlie iron chancellor and tho great outpouring of the public, heart ill his honor.

According to the estimate of the postal officials over 1,000 parcels and 200,000 letters and post cards have already arrived for Prince Bismarck,

Every preparation lias been made afc Friedrichsruhe to accommodate vast-'-crowds. The decoration of tho station, has been concluded, and tho roadway from the station to the Schloss has been transformed by willing hands into averitable triumphal arcade.

The first time since the beginning of the celebrations in his honor. Prince* Bismarck, on Saturday, was somewhat fatigued and indisposed, his old trouble* neuralgia, troubling him slightly, but he lias since then been restored to his health and spirits, and now is as bright as ever. The prince still dresses and undresses without assistance. His weight is about 200 pounds, but this fluctuates somewhat. He looks much better and younger than he did after hi9 illness in 189o. He seems to be rather stimulated than wearied by his birthday celebration.

Among the interesting presents that he has received is a lock of Washington's iiair.

A beautiful work of art, the gift of in-' habitants of Anhalt, who took tip a sub--scription for the purpose, has been: erected in afield overlooking the prince's home. The work, which is in bronze, represents a large stag keeping two dogs at bay.

Most of the presents are valuable* works of industrial art. It is surprising" to find that so far all the gifts are different. Among the curious is a tablet in the shape of a Prussian iron cross, consisting of

squares the size of a-

postage stamp, on which Bismarck's name is written 20,220 times, the number of days he has lived. Tlie center' piece is a miniature of the old emperor in the act of giving his hand to Prince Bismarck. This is surmounted by a, statue of Germania. This gift is from an army major.

Head Forester Lang has sent from Friedrichsruhe 'if) young oaks to be planted in various places throughout the country in honor of the day.

Celebrated All Over Germany.

BERLIN,

April 1. Telegrams are-

pouring in from all parts of the empireaiiiiouncing that the Bisniarckian fetes are being celebrated ith great spirit all over (J-erniauy. Among those present were representatives of cities in. the Rliinish district. Professor Auckea of Giessen university delivered an oration at the foot of the monument. In Munich, the Bavarian capital, a musicale in honor of the occasion was giveain the Odeon.

Throughout Germany last night joy fires were burned on the highest mountain peaks and hills from the Baltic and the iS ortli seas on the north to the Swiss and Austrian frontiers on the south, from the Russian frontier on the east to the frontiers of France, Belgium and the Netherlands on the west. Never before in the history of the empire has there been such a heartfelt and spontaneous exhibition of love by the Germaa people.

All the schools and most of the civic and state offices are closed in honor of him to whom the empire owes its existence.

With few exceptions the newspapers publish leaders on Prince Bismarck, accompanied by poetical effusions. They carefully refrain from any utterances calculated to injure the feelings of the German people. Even the critic Vorwaertz, the organ of the social Democracy, has the good taste to keep silent.

Emperor William intends to personally christen the new German warship' "Bismarck."

OHIO OFFICES FILLED.

The President Makes Four Important Appointments. WASHINGTON, April 1.—Four Ohio of

fices were filled Saturday by the president making the following appointments:

Charles Edgar Brown postmaster at Cincinnati, vice John Zumstein, commission expired.

John C. Hutchins, postmaster at Cleveland, vice A. T. Anderson, commission expired.

Michael Devanney of Ohio marshal of the United States for the southern district of Ohio.

Samuel D. Dodge of Ohio attorney of tho United States for the northern district of Ohio.

Aft«r IIIm With llloodhotuids. NASHVILLE, April 1.—Friday night

Ed Vest, a horsethief, was discovered" on tho train at Huutland, on the edge of Franklin and Lincoln counties, aiiA taken in churge. While his captors with hiin were getting off the train. Vest escaped with a large crowd running after him. He turned and fired* into the crowd, mortally wounding boy named Powers, and pursuit abandoned. Bloodhounts were sent for to be placed on his trail.

Quiet on the Keservntion.

PENDKR, Neb., April 1.—All is quie# on the reservation. No trouble is anticipated until the court, in accordance with Judge Sanborn's decision, shall compel the whites to leave tlie reservation April 22. Then some individuals may resist eviction, especially if they find Indian police are employed for that purpose.