Greenfield Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 24 May 1894 — Page 6

TAUBAOE'S TOUR.

First Sermon of the G-reat Itinerary-

the Brooklyn Divine Stops at Little Rock and Preticlics to a Grout Audience.

Dr. Talmage, en route to California on his round the world journey, stopped at Little Rock, Ark., over Sunday, and preached to a large audience. Subject—"Recovered Families." The text chosen was I Samuel xxx, 4, 19: "Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept until they had no more power to weep. David recovered all.-' He said:

There is intense excitement in the village of Ziklag. David and his men are bidding good-by to their families and are otf lor the wars. In that little village of Zilclag the defenseless ones will be safe until the warriors, flushed with victory, come home. But will the defenseless ones be safe? The soft arms of the children are around the necks of the bronzed warriors until th _y shake themselves free and start, and handkerchiefs and flags are waved and kisses thrown unt 1 the armed men vanish beyond the hills. David and his men soon get through with their campaign and Start homeward.

Now they come up to the last hill that overlooks Ziklag, and they expect in a moment to see the dwelling places of their loved one-?. They look, and as they look their cheek turns pale, and their lip quivers, and -their hand involuntarily comes down tn the hilt of the sword. "W here is fciklag? Where are our homes?" they cry. Alas, the curling smoke fcbovet'ie ruin t.?lls the tragedy?

The Amalekites have come down knd consumed the village and carried the mothers and the wives and the children of David and his men Into captivity. The swarthy warriors stand for a few moments transfixed with horror. Then their eves plance to each other, and they burst into uncontrollable weeping, for when a strong warrior weeps the grief is appalling. It seems as if the emotion might tear him to pieces, they "wept until they had no more power to weep." But soon their lorrow turns into rage, and David, Swinging his sword high in the air, tries, "Pursue, for thou shalt overlake them and without fail recover »11."

Very soon David and his enraged Jompany come upon the Amalekitish Host- Yonder they see their own frives and children and mothers and under Amalekitish guard. Here are ihe officers of the Amalekitish army holding a banquet. The cups are lull tiie music is roused the dance begins. The Amalekitish host cheer Ind cheer and cheer over their victory. But without note of bt ^la Earning of trumpet David ana his 100 men burst upon the scene. David and his men look up, and one glance at their loved ones in captivity and under Amalekitish guard throws them into a very fury of determination. for you know how men

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fight when they fight for their •Irives and children. Ah, there are fightnings in their eye, and every Snger is a spear, and their voice is like the shout of the whirlwind!

Now they are coming home, David ind his men and the'r families—a iong procession. Men, women and ihildren, loaded with jewels and robes and with all kinds of trophies that the Amelekites had gathered ap in years of conquest- everything iow in the hands of David and his Hen. When they come by the brook Besor, where staid the men sick aud Incompetent to travel, the jewels ind tlu robes and all kinds of treasares are divided among the sick as {veil as among the well. Surely the iame and exhausted ought to have iornc of the treasures. Here is a robe for a pale-laced warrior. Here is a pillow for this dying mari. Here Is a handful of gold for the wasted trumpeter. Some mean fellows objected to the sick ones having any of Ihe spoils. The objectors said,' 'These tnen did not light."' David, with a tiagnanimous heart, replies, "As his part is that goeth down to the hattie, so shall his part be that tarrieth by the stutl."

This subject is practically sugestIve to me. Thank God, in these •times a r.ian can go off on a journey •and be gone weeks and months and Dome back and see his house untouched of incendiary and have his family on the step to greet him if by telegraph he has foretold the moment of his coming. But there are Amelekitish disasters, there are Amelekitish diseases that sometimes come upon one's home, making as devastating work as the day when Eiklag took fire. There are families you represent broken up. No tattering ram smote in the door, no Iconoclast crumbled the statues, no (lame leaped amid the curtains, but 80 far as all the joy and merriment that once belonged to that house the home has departed/ Armed disease came down upon the quietness of the scene—scarlet fevers or pleurisies or consumption or undefined disorders came and seized upon some members of that family and cariied them way. Ziklag in ashes!

Why these long shadows of bereavement across this audience? Why is it that in almost every assemblage black is the predominant color of the apparel? Is it because you do not like saffron or brown or gray or violet? "Oh, no!" you Bay, "The world is not so bright to us as it once was." and there is a Btory of silent voices and still feet .and of loved ones gone, and when

you look over the hills expecting only beauty and loveliness you find only devastation and woe. Ziklag in ashes!

I preach this sermon to-day because I want to rally you as David rallied his men, for the recovorv of the loved and lost. I want not only to win heaven, but I want all this congregation to go along with me.

I remark, in the first place, if you want to join your loved ones in glory, you must travel the same way they went. No sooner had the half dead Egyptian been resuscitated than he pointed the way the captors and the captives had gone, and David and his men followed after. So our Christian friends have gone into another country, and if we want to reach their companionship we must take the same road. They repented we must repent. They prayed we must pray. They trusted in Christ we must trust in Christ. They lived a religious life we must live a re hgious life. They were in some things like ourselves, know, now that they are gone, there is a halo around their names, but thev had their faults. They said and did things they ought never to have said or done. They were sometimes rebellious. sometimes cast down. So 1 suppose that when we have gone some things in us that are now only tolerable may be almost resplendent. But as they wore like us in deficiencies we ought to be like them in taking a supernal Christ to make up for the deficits. Had it not been for Jesus they would have all perished, but Christ confronted them and said, "I am the way," and they took it

I remark, again, if we want to win the society of our friends in heaven, we will not only have to travel a path of faith and a path of tribulation, but we will also have to positively battle for their companionship. David and his men never wanted sharp swords and

able shields and thick breastplates so much as they wanted them on the day when thev came down upon the Amalekites. If they had lost that battle, they never would have got their families back. I suppose that one glance of their loved ones in captivity hurled them into the battle with tenfold courage and energy. They said: ''Wemust win it. Everything depends upon it. Let each one take a man on point of spear or sword. We must win it." And I

If this morning while I speak you could hear the cannonade of a foreign enemy which was to despoil your city, and if they really should succeed in carrying your families away from you, how long would we take before we resolved, to go after them? Every weapon, whether fresh from the armory or old and rusty in the garret, would be brought out, aud we would urge on. and coming in front of the foe we would look at them and then look at our families, and the cry would be, "Victory or death!', and when the ammunition was gone we would take the captors on the point of the bayouet or under the breech of the gun.

If you would make such a struggle for the getting back of your earthly friends, will you not make as much struggle for the gaining of the eternal companionship of your heavenly friends? Oh, yes, we must join them.

You say that all this implies that our departed Christian friends are alive. Why, had you any idea that they were dead? They have only moved. If you should go on the 2d day of May to a house where one of your friends lived and find him gone, you would not think that he was dead. You would inquire next door where he had moved to. Our departed Christian friends have only taken another house. The secret is that they are richer now than they once were and can afford a better residence. They once drank out of earthenware, they now drink from the King's chalice. "Joseph is yet alive," and Jacob will go up and see him. Living, are they? Why, if a man can live in this damp, dark dungeon of earthly captivity, can he not live where he breathes the b-"icing atmosphere of the mouniiti of heaven? Oh, yes, thev are iiv.ug.

have to tell you that between us and cated but graceful gyrations, and coming into the companionship of her body assumes a variety of postour loved ones who havn departed there is an Austerlitz, therj is a Gettysburg, there is a Waterloo. War with the world, war with the flesh, war with the devil. We have either to conquer our troubles, or our troubles will conquer us. David will either slay the Amalekites, or the Amalekite will slay David. And yet is not the fort to be taken worth all the pain, all the peril, all the besiegement?

But I must not forget these two hundred men who fainted by the brook Besor. They could not take another .step farther. Their feet were sore their head ached their entire nature was exhausted. Besides that, they were broken-hearted because their homes were gone. Ziklag in ashes! And yet David, when he comes up to them, divides the spoils among them. He says they shall have some of the treasures. I look over this audience this morning, and I find at least two hundred who have fainted by the brook Besor —the brook of tears. You feel as if you could not take another step farther, as though you could never look up again. But I am going to imitate David and divide among you some glorious trophies. Here is a robe. "All things work together for good to those who love God." Wrap yourself in that glorious promise. Here is for your neck a string of pearls, made out of crystalized tear "Weeping may endure for a ni, but joy cometh in tha morninL Here is a coronet, "Be thou faith 1

unto death, and I will give thee crown of life." Oh, ye fainting ones by the brook of Besor, dip your blistered feet in the running stream of God's mercy. Bathe your brow at the well of salvation. Soothe your wounds with the balsam thai exudes from trees of life. God will not utterly cast you off, O brokenhearted woman, fainting by the brook Bezor.

A shepherd finds that his musical pipe is bruised. He says: ''I can't get any more music out of this in strument, so I will just break it, and I will throw this reed away. Then 1 will get another reed, and I will play music on that." But God says He will not cast you off because all the music has gone out of your soul. "The bruised reed He will not break." As far as 1 can tell the diagnosis of your disease, you want divine nursing, and it is promised you, "As one whom his mother comfort~!eth, so will I comfort you." God will see you all the way through, troubled' soul, and when you come down to the Jordan of death you will fin^ it to be as thin a brook as

Besor. May God Almighty, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, bring us into the companionship of our loved ones who have already entered the heavenly land and into the presence of Christ, whom, not having seen, we love, and so David shall recover all, "and as his part is that goeth down to the battle,so shall his part be that tarrieth by the stuff."

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A Simple and Ingenious Way oi Presenting an Aerial Ijadjr AVith No Visible Means ol' Support.

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attractions, a very effective illusion, accomplished by the use of a iriant mirror set at an angle upon the theater stage. The illusion is called "The Aerial Lady."

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a complete somersault in mid-air. The somersault is executed slowly, and puzzles the spectator, for it i: readily seen that the body of the performer has no support upon which to turn.

None of the spectators know that what he is looking at is not the agil.^ woman athlete, but a reflection of her in the giant mirror, which is set at an angle of nearly forty-five degrees over an open pit built in tho stage, at the bottom of which tho performer lies on her back upon a circular revolving platform. The platform is made of thick plate glastand revolving metal casters.

The platform fits into an opening in the side of the pit, and as it is slid through the opening into place, the illusion is produced of the woman coming into the view of the audience suddenly, and apparently floating upon air in defiance of all her natural laws. As the woman lies stretched on her back her image is reflected upon the mirror as if she were standing upright, and the positions are changed by simply revolving the glass platform one way or the other. The mysterious somersault illusion is effected by turning the mirror completely around.

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Albany Morning Express.

A west-bound train had just pulled out of the Union station, and the conductor was harvesting tickets. All the seats were taken, and several passengers were obliged to stand.

Among the latter was a diffidentlooking, mild-mannered man, who, much to the conductor's surprise, refused to give up a ticket. "When I get a seat you get a ticket," he remarked, mildly but firmly "you are probably aware that the company cannot collect fare from passengers whom it does not provide with seats." "Oh, come now-, that don't go I want your ticket, see?" Thus spoke the conductor, in a tone that indicated that he believed he would intimidate the mile-mannered man. "No seat, no ticket," laconically observed the latter. "We'll see about that," growled the conductor, who was becoming quite warm in the region of the collar, "I would if I were you." remarked the passenger, still mildly, smiling pleasantly.

Then the conductor hustled around and finally found a brother conductor who was going up the road a way, whom he induced to give up his seat to the mildly firm passenger. "There's a seat for you now give me that ticket," said the conductor in a ferocious tone. "Certainly, here it is!"

And the mild but firm passenger handed out a pass good to Chicago.

A Decoration-!)*/ i*ar«kde. STouth's Companion. "I've alius keered for children,H said Aunt Hannah, looking pensivedown the shady lane as she might aave looked back through the quiet thoroughfare of her past days. 'They're a sight of company, an' some has the wisdom of the angels, *n' them that knows children's lives ind ways won't call them no irreverence. "Tw.) years ago come the 1st of ApriJ the Baileys moved inter that jralltr house to the cross-roads. Bailey, he was misfortunate alius— naturally shiftless—an' Benny, the boy, 'bout eight years old, was one af them solemn-eyed, quiet an' not meddlin' children that a single woman, advanced in years, generally takes to. "Benny an' me was great friends, and he worritin' because I had no grandchildren, an' his gran'ma bein' dead, he adopted me, an' alius called me 'Gran.' "Two years ago come Decoration day I looked up from my knittin' an' there stood Benny in that very kitchen door. He had queer homecut trouters on, an' a gingham waist, an' little copper toed boots that he set great store by. Behind him was his sister Susie, six years old, an' Betty, the two year-old toddlin' along, an' two freckled boys that lived in the neighborhood. They all 'peared drefful solemn an' important. "Up to some mirchief, I'll be bound', I says. "No, Gran," says Benny, his lips, that had the baby curve to 'em vet, tremblin'. "It's Deeumration Day, an' there ain't no p'rade like there used ter be to Gardiner 'fore we moved—we alius moved—an' these boys says there ain't no Deeumration here't all. "Ain't nosoldiers' graves," I says, cheerful lik3, goin' to my cooky-box. "Oh, there is!" he

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less. "Over to the graveyard in the pine woods there's a Cap'n Dean that was a Union soldier, an' fit in the war. Johnny's mother knowed him, an' there's another grave, too— a old. old one that's got a funny face on the stone, an' that a revolutionary one. "Wanter know!" 1 says, giving each one a sugared cooky with a round hole in it, thatl knowed they'd appetite for it in spite of the excitement. "An' we're goin' to p'rade," cries Benny, "and I thought mebbe you'd make us flags, little miter ones that aint no trouble. Susy's got her apron full er Mayflowers we got yesterd'y4 an' Billy kin do 'Marchin' ^Through Georgy' on his mouth-organ beautiful! "With tremblin' fingers I made five little flags somehow and fastened them on sticks for the regiment. 'Couldn't we have,' says Benny, kind o' hesitatin' and lookin' with longin' eyes at my flower pots, 'some red geraniums, them that most wiltv? 'Cause they're growd flowers, an' our'n we jest found!' "Where's your manners?' says Susy, scoldin', woman fashion. 'They're for soldiers,' Benny insists, an' I cut him my choicest blossoms. Surely there wa'n't never a sweeter use for 'em. "Away went that p'rade, then, Benny ahead with the flag an' the bouquet, Billy with a mouth organ, an' Johnny, straight an' stately, with the biggest flag staff, an' Susy, with her apron full of sweet smellin1 May blossoms, an' the todlin' baby fetchin' up the rear, keepin' in line with the rest of 'em. "Wal. somethin' bright and beautiful bloomed on them two lone graves under the pines by the side of them little flags wavin' in the wind, an' the best was the little bud of patriotism in them children's .hearts. 'What's that fandango?' says Jason Mead, drivin' by while 1 watched the p'rade go over the hill to the pine woods. 'Wal. I swan!' he says when I told him. Both of us couldn't speak then. "Last Decoration Day I went to the graveyard alone. It was a solitary p'rade all to myself. The Baileys had moved away an' there wan't no one to remember the day. I carried three bouquets of my best flowers. No, I couldn't forget them soldiers' graves. My best blossoms I laid onto a little mound by that grave of the revolutionary soldier, who'd been at rest near a century. "The Baileys didn't take Benny away, for the Father wanted him. He lays in God's acre. I call it that 'cause them is such hopeful words to us all. He was alius an angel child. "I'd like to think that them dead soldiers knowed of that decoration p'rade an' that little act of reverence an' love as pure an' free as sweet wild roses onto a grave."

"Wore Some or Queen Cess's '/*ce, London Cor. Chicago Herald.It is not often that a woman is able to array herself in a fabric which three hundred years ago was the property of a Queen of England. The Countess of Pembroke had this privilege at Friday's drawing-room when her white and silver gown and light peach velvet train were trimmed with old Point de Flandre, which had once been worn by Queen Elizabeth. It was in admirable preservation, and consisted of deep flounces, partly of floral designs, and also displaying a terrace walk with birds on pedestals, most quaint and curious.

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