Hope Republican, Volume 1, Number 10, Hope, Bartholomew County, 7 July 1892 — Page 6

IN LONDON. Dr. Talmage Warmly Received in the English Metropolis. An Almost Breathless Multitude l isten to His Sermon on “The Immense Cost”~Sensational Scenes. l)r. Talmage preached by special invitation of Rev. Joseph Parker, the celebrated English divine, in the City Temple, London, Sunday. Long before the opening hour a dense mass of people besieged the doors of the temple. The crowd was so tightly wedged that women fainted during the a truggle for entrance. Dr. Parker introduced Dr. Talmage to the audience and greeted him 1b loving cordiality. Talrnage’s sermon moved the auditory to tears. At the conclusion Parker took the platform and, addressing the audience with much feeling, said: “That is the most solemn, pathetic and impressive appeal I ever listened to. It has kindled the fire of enthusiasm in our souls that will burn on forever. It has unfolded the possibilities of the pulpit never before reached. It has stirred all hearts with holiest ambition.” Then, lifting his eyes heavenward, he added, impressively: “I thank God for Dr. TaI mage’s life and ministry, and I despise the man who can not appreciate his services to Christianity. [Great applause.] May he preach in this pulpit again.” After the service, and as the congregation was being dismissed, Dr. Parker embraced the American preacher in his study, and fervently invited him to make the City Temple his headquarters When Dr. Talmage left the church ha found that a great audience remained outside, and an almost impassable crowd blocked the street, lie wa« immediately surrounded by the crowd, which was kept back by tn* police, while the Doctor, guarded by policemen, made a brief address, standing in a carriage when bespoke. In the coach were Miss- Maude Talmage and Dr. and Mrs. Louis Klopsch, of New York City, who are with the Talmage party. After his remarks there was a season of handshaking. At last the police succeeded ia clearing a path,and the carriage passed through the multitude, many running after it to get a glimpse of the Tabernacle preacher. Dr. Taltnage’s stay in London is uncertain, as he leaves soon for St. Petersburg to distribute the cargo of the Christian HeraM Russian relief steamer Leo, Dr. Talmage entities hia sermon,, a he Immense Cost,” from the text 1 Cor. vi: 21. “Ye are bought with a price.” Your friend takes you through his valuable bouse. You examine the arches, the frescoes, the grass plots, the tisb ponds, the conservatories, the park# of deer, and you say within yourseif or you say aloud: ‘‘What did all this cost ?” You see a cosily diamond flashing in an ear-ring, or you hear a costly dress rustling ■across the drawing-room, or you see ■a high-mettled span of horses harnessed with silver and gold, and you begin to make an estimate of the value. The man who owns a large estate can not instantly tell you all it is 'worth. He says; “I will estimate so much for the house, so much for the furniture, so much for laying out the grounds, so much for the stock, so much for the barn, so much for the equipage—adding up in all making this aggregate.” Well, my friends, I hear so much about owr mansion in heaven, about ■its furnitureand the grand surroundings, that I want to know how much It is ail worth, and what has actually seen paid for it. I can not complete In a month, nor in a year, the magnificent calculation, but before I get through today 1 hope to give you the figures. ‘Ye are bought with a price.” The first, installment paid for the clearance of our souls was the ignominious birth of Christ in Bethlehem. Though we may never be carefully looked after afterward, our advent into the world is carefully guarded. We come into the world amid kindly attentions. Privacy and silence are afforded when God launches an immortal soul into the word. Even the roughest of men know enough to stand back. But I have to tell you that in the village on the Side of the hill there was a very bedlam of uproar wher Jesus was born. In .. village capable of accommodating only a few hundred people, many thoueaad poopi s were crowded, and, art;id hostlers and muleteers and camel-dri vers yelling at stupid beasts of burden, the Messiah appeared. No silence. No privacy. A better adepteo place hath the eagle in the eyrie—Loth the whelp in the lion’s lair. The Exile of heaven lieth down upon straw. The first night out from the palace of heaven spent in an outhouse! One hour after laying aside the robes of heaven dressed in a wrapper of coarse linen. One would have supposed that Christ would have made a more gradual deBC'At, coming from heaven to a half-

way world of great magnitude, then to Caesar’s palace, then to a merchant's castle in Galilee, then to a private home in Bethany, then to a fisherman’s hut, and last of all to a stable. No! It was one leap from the top to the bottom. Glory be to God that Jesus came from throne to manger, that we might rise from manger to throne, and that all the gates are open, and that the door of heaven, that once swung this way to let Jesus out, now swings the other way to let us in. Let all the bellmen’of heaven lay hold the rope and ring out the news, “Behold, I bring you glad tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people; for today is born in the city of DavM a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord!” The second installment paid for our soul's clearance was the scene in Quarantania, a mountainous region, full of caverns, where there are to this day panthers and wild beasts of all sorts, so that you must now go there armed with knife or gun or pistol. It was there that Jesus went to think and to pray, and it was there that this monster of hell —more sly, more terrific than anything that prowled in that country—satan himself, met Christ. The rose in the cheek of Christ — ; that Publius Lentullus, in his letter to the Roman senate, ascribed to Jesus —that rose had scattered its petals. Abstinence from food had thrown him into emaciation. A long abstinence from food recorded in profane history is that of the crew of the ship Juno; for twenty-three days they had nothing to eat. But this sufferer had fasted a month and ten days before he broke fast. Hunger must have agonized every fiber of the body and gnawed on stomach with teeth of death. The thought of a morsel of bread or meat must have thrilled the body with something like ferocity. Turn out a pack of men hungry as Christ was a hungered, and if they had strength, with one yell they would devour you as a lion a kid.' It was in that pang of hunger that Jesus was accosted, and acted said. “Now change these stones, which look like bread, into an actual supply of bread. ” Had the temptation come to you and me under these circumstances, we would have cried, “Bread it shall be!” and been almost impatient at the time taken for mastication. But Christ with one hand beat back the hunger, and with the other hand beat back the monarch of darkness. Oh, ye tempted ones! Christ was tempted. “But,” says satan still further to Jesus, “come, and I will show you something worth looking at;” and after a half a day’s journey they came to Jerusalem, and to the top of the temple. Just as one might go up in the tower of Antwerp and look off upon Belgium, so satan brought Christ to the top of the temple. “Now,” says satan, “I’ll make a bargain with you. Just jump off. I know it is a great way from the top of the temple to the valley, but if you are divine you can fly. Jump off. It won’t hurt you. Angels will catch you. Your father will hold you. Besides, I’ll make you a large present if you will. I’ll give you Asia Minor, I’ll give you China, I’ll give you Ethiopia, I'll give you Italy, I’ll give you Spain, I’ll give you Germany, I’ll give you Britain, I’ll give you all the world.” What a temptation it must have been! Go to-morrow morning and get in an altercation with some wretch crawling up from a gin cellar in the lowest part of your city. “No,” you say, “I would not bemean myself by getting into such a contest.” Then think of what the King of heaven and earth endured when he came down and fought the great wretch of hell, and fought him in the wilderness and on top of the temple. But I bless God that in the triumph over temptation Christ gives us the asurance that we also shall triumph. Having himself been tempted, he is able to succor all those who are tempted. I care not how great the height or how vast the depth, with Christ within us and Christ beneath us and Christ above us and Christ all around us nothing can befall us in the way of harm. Christ himself having been in the tempest will deliver all those who put their trust in him. Blessed be his glorious name forever. The third installment paid for our redemption was the Saviour’s sham trial. I call it a sham trial —there has never been anything so indecent or unfair in any criminal court as was witnessed at the trial of Christ. Why they hustled him into the courtroom at 2 o’clock in the morning. They gave him no time for counsel. They gave him no opportunity for subpoenaing witnesses. The ruffians who were wandering around through the midnight of course they saw the arrest and went into the courtroom. ] But Jesus’ friends were sober men, were respectable men, and at that hour, 2 o’clock in the morning, of course they were at home asleep. Consequently Christ entered the courtroom with the ruffians. Oh, look at him ! No one to speak a word for him. 1 lift the lantern until I can look into his face, and as my heart beats in sympathy for this j

the best friend the world ever had, himself now utterly friendless, an officer of the courtroom comes up and smites him in the mouth, and I see the blood stealing from pum and lio. Oh! it was a farce of a trial, lasting only perhaps an hour, and then the judge rises for sentence. Stop! It is against the law to give sentence unless therehas been an adjournment of the court between condemnation and sentence: but what cares the judge for the law? “The man has no friends—let him die,” says the judge; and the ruffians outside the rail cry: “Aha! aha! that’s what we want. Pass him out here to us! Away with him! Away with him!” Oh! I bless God that amid all the injustice that may have been inflicted upon us in this world we have a divine sympathizer. The world cannot lie about you nor abuse you as they did Christ, and Jesus stands today in every court room, in every house, in every store, and says: “Courage! By all my hours of maltreatment and abuse, I will protect those who are trampled upon.” And when Christ forgets that two o’clock morning scene, and the howling of the unwashed crowds then he will forget you and me in the injustices of life that may be inflicted upon us. Further, I remark: The last great installment paid for our redemption was the demise of Christ. The world has seen many dark days. Many summers ago there was a very dark day when the sun was eclipsed. The fowl at noonday went to their perch, and we felt a gloom as we looked at the astronomical wonder. It was a dark day in London when the plague was at its height, and the dead with uncovered faces were taken in open carts and dumped in the trenches. It was a dark day when the earth opened and Lisbon sank, but the darkest day since the beginning of the world was when the carnage of Calvary was enacted. It was about noon when the curtain began to be drawn. It was not the coming on of a night that soothes and refreshes; it was the swinging of a great gloom all around the heavens. God hung it. As when there is a dead one in the house you bow the shutters or turn the lattice, so God in the afternoon shut the windows of the world. As it is appropriate to throw a black pall upon the coffin as it passes along, so it was appropriate that everything should be somber that day as the great hearse of the earth rolled on, bearing the corpse of the King. The waves of man’s hatred and of hell’s vengeance dash up against the mangled feet, and the hands of sin and pain and torture clutch for his holy heart. Had he not been thoroughly fastened to the cross they would have torn him down and trampled him with both feet. How the cavalry horses arched their necks and champed their bits, and reared and snuffed at the blood ! Had a Roman officer called out for a light his voice would not have been heard in the tumult; but louder than the clash of spears, and the wailing of womanhood, and the neighing of the chargers, and the bellowing of the crucifiers there comes a voice crashing through —loud, clear, overwhelming, terrific. It is the groaning of the dying son of God ! Look ! what a scene ! Look, world, at what you have done! I lift the covering from the maltreated Christ to let you count the wounds and estimate the cost. Oh, when the nails went through Christ’s right hand and through Christ’s left hand, that bought both your hands with all their power to work and lift and write! When the nails went through Christ’s right foot and Christ's left foot, that both your feet, with all their power to walk or run or climb. When the thorn went into Christ’s temple, that bought your brain, with all its power to think and plan. When the spear cleft Christ’s side, that bought your heart, with all its power to love and repent and pray. Oh, sinners come, come back. SOMEWHAT CCRIOCS, When terrified an ostrich travels at the rate of about twenty-five miles an hour. In India the native barber will shave you when asleep without waking you, so light is his touch. More than twenty-six thousand persons have been divorced in the State of Connecticut since 1860. The total value of matches made annually throughout the world represents a value of $185,000,000. Europe consumes upward of $30,000,000 worth of gold and silver annually for plate, jewelry and ornaments. Headache almost always yielde to the simultaneous application of hot water to the feet and the back of the head. The license law of Sweeden forbids any person buying drink without purchasing something to, eat at the same time. A Florida boy is making a map of his State, each county being a separate piece of native wood, for tho World’s Fair. _

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. Oats win harvest eighty-five bushels to the acre In Illinois, says tho State Board of Agriculture, Maude Wards, of Rockford, 111., kindled a fire with kerosene Thursday. She was twelve years old. The street car strike at Cleveland, O., came to an end on the 9th, by both sides making concessions. Four men were killed and four fatally Injured in a railroad accident at AltherIne, Ark., on the 30th. The Stillwater, Minn., board of education has rejected the application of five Sisters of Charity who desired to be retained as teachers. The Supremo Court of Michigan upholds the Miner electoral bill, whereby members of the electoral college are elected bv congressional districts. The steamer, Trave, collided in mid ocean with the BrilRh ship Fred B. Taylor. The Taylor sunk, and of her crow of twenty-five, but two were saved.

Clerk Stewart, aged ninety-two, the oldest resident in Miami county, Ohio, was attacked by hogs, while walking through the barnyard, and killed. The engagement is announced of Mr. Edwin Gould, one of Jay Gould’s son’s, to Miss Sarah Cantine Shrady, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Shrady, of New York city. Tho number of miles of railway built in the United States the first half of this year was 1,190 miles, five hundred miles less than for the same period of last year. Over five thousand people left for Europe on the 29th on outgoing steamers The Inman liners City of Paris and City of Chester alone carried 2,038 cabin passengers. Joseph Brandon, janitor of the Second Presbyterian church, Dubuque, la., has been notified of the death of his uncle, James Greyburg, who leaves him $7,000,000, with the exception of a small part, which is given to charities. At Wllkesharre, Pa,, on the 1st, Thomas Coulon fell from the hoisting tower of the Woodward breaker to the ground, a distance of 153 feet, and is still alive with a hope of his ultimate recovery. The only bones broken were in bis right arm,but be was badly bruised about the body. Internal revenue agents at San Francisco found in an underground cellar in the Chinese quarter au opium factory large enough to supply half the Chinese population of that city with prepared opium. The factory was hidden In an almost inaccessible cave under a joss house. A telegram from the City of Mexico announceds the safe arrival thereof Otto Praeger, the young newspaper reporter, who set out to make the journey from San Antonio, Texas, to the Mexican capital on a bicyle. He made the trip of eighteen hundred miles in eighty-seven days. The contest in the Carnegie steel works at Homestead, Pa., came to a climax on the 30th, when every department was shut down, and 3,800 men received notice of discharge. This action on the part of the mill officials did not surprise the men, who had expected it. Their contract under tho old wage scale expired on that date, and they had stoutly declared an intention to refuse to go to work unless a new scale were signed. As the mill owners were just as determined in their refusal to sign the scale, a strike would have been inevitable. The men received their notices quietly, and went to their homes in good humor, No disturbances of any kind took place.

Kansas farmers are having great trouble in securing sufficient men to harvest the enormous crop of wheat in this State, moat of which is now ready for cutting. There is an alarming scarcity of farm hands, and the farmers are offering high wages to secure sufficient help. At all the stations along the Santa Fe railroad the trains are all besieged by the farmers, hoping to get hands to help during harvest. Last year’s wheat crop was 54,055,000 bushels, and the yield this year will probably exceed that of any previous year in the history of the State. In the central and northern portions of the State at least twenty thousand farm hands can find employment at wages ranging from $3 to $3 a ( day, with board, during the present harvest. Jesse Musaer, who was reported to have been hanged by a mob Aug. 31 last, appeared on the streets of his native town of Houstonia, Mo., Wednesday. On the date mentioned two men entered the bank at Casder and with drawn revolvers secured *600 from the cashier. A posse was quickly organized. One of the men was overtaken, half the money was found in his possession and he was hanged to a tree. The dead man was said to be Jesse Musser, who disappeared from his home a few days before. After the burial the remains were disinterred by Musser’s father and mother and recognized as their son. Musser told that he had known all along of the sensation he was supposed’ to have caused and rather enjoyed it, but preferred to keep quiet. He had been working near Gallatin, Mo., as a farm hand. Who the man was who was lynched is now a complete mystery. ( The question raised at Plano, HI., as to the right of a voter, under the Australian ballot iaw, to scratch his ticket and vote for some person whose name is not printed on the ticket, is likely to be carried to the Supreme Court. At any rate, legal opinions disagree, and no authority short of the Supreme Court can settle the important point. There are those who hold that ’no candidate can be voted for whose name is not on the ticket; that, although a voter may scratch his ticket, ho must make a choice of candidates from those whose I names are regularly printed on the ticket.

Eoed Green, chairman of thefji mlttee on elections, who fradT tralian ballot law, is undersk V this view. Gen. Hunt, howeve V tl the law does not forbid the scratV,. ticket In this way, and he holds thu,, voter has a right for any one whom ho , chooses no matter whether the name ot such person is printed on tho ticket or not. SECRETARY OF STATE. John W. Foster, of Indiana, Named by the President. The Nomination Immediately Confirmed by the Senate and tho Commission Signed. The President on the 28th sent to the Senate tho following nomination; John W, Foster, of Indiana, to bo Secretary of State. The Senate, in executive session, shortly afternoon confirmed tho nomination. The President signed the commission of the new Secretary of Stale in a short time after receiving word of the confirmation of tho appointment by the Senate. John Watson Foster was born in Pike county, Indiana, March 2, 1836. He graduated at the State University in 1S55, and after one year at Harvard Law School was admitted to the bar and began practice at

HON. JOHN W. FOSTEB.

Evansville. He entered the national ser-, vice in 1861 as a major of the Twentyfifth Indiana Infantrv. After the captura of Ft. Donelson he was promoted to a lieu-5 tenant colonelcy, and was subsequently made Colonel of the Sixty-lifth (mounted) Infantry. Later he was appointed colonel of ‘the One-Hundred-and-Thirty-sixth Indiana Regiment. During his entire service he was connected with the Western army of Grant and Sherman. He was commander of the advance brigade of cavalry in Burnside’s expedition to East Tennessee, and was the first to occupy Knoxville in 1863. After the war he became editor of the Evansville Daily Journal, and lu 1869 he was appointed postmaster of that city. He was sent as United States Minister to Mexico by President Grant in 1873, and was reappointed by President Hays In 1880. In March of that year he was transferred to Russia, and held that mission until November, 1881, when he resigned to attend to private business. On his return to this country Col. Foster established himself in practice in international cases at Washington, acting as counsel for foreign legations, before courts of commission, in arbitration, etc. President Arthur appointed him minister to Spain, and he served from February 1883, to March 17, 1885, when he resigned and returned to the United States, having negotiated an important commercial treaty with the Spanish Government. This treaty elicited general discussion, and was strongly opposed in the Senate. That body failed to confirm it, and it was afterward withdrawn by President Cleveland for reconsideration, Some weeks later Col. Foster was instructed to return to Spain to reopen negotiations for a modified treaty. This mission, however, was unsuccessful, and Col. Foster remained abroad but a few months. Since Col. Foster’s retirement from the diplomatic service ho has from time to time represensed the interests of Mexico in the United States, ana has been connected in a semi-official way with the State Department. Ho was recently appointed to represent the interests of the United States before the Bering Sea board of arbitration.

FREE SHYER. The Senate Passes Stewart’s Bill by 29 to 25. Full Text of the Bill and the Vote by Which it Was Passed, The Senate on the 1st pulled and hauled for a long time upon the silver bill and when a vote was reached it was passed by the following vote : Yeas—Allen, Bate. Berry, Blackburn, Blodgett, Butler, Cameron, Cockerell, Dubois, Faulkner, George, Harris, Hill,Jones (Nev.) Kenna, Kyle, Mills, Mitchell, Mor, gan, Peffer, Ransom, Sanders, Shoup, Squire, Stewart, Teller, Turpie, Vest, Wolcott—29. Nays—Allison, Brice, Carey, Carlisle, Cullom, Davis, Dawes, Dixon, Dolph, Felton, Gallinger, Gorman, Gray, Hale, Hawley, McPherson, Manderson, Palmer Perkins, Proctor, Sawyer, Stockbridge, Warren, Washburn, White —25. Yeas—Republicans, 11; Democrats. 16: Independents, 1; Alliance, 1. Nays—Republicans, 18; Democrats, 7. The bill reads as follows: That the owner of silver bullion may deposit the same at any mintof the United States, to be coined for his benefit, and it si',all be the duty of the proper officers, upon the terms and conditions which are proyided by law for the deposit and coinage of gold, to coin such bullion into the standard dollars authorized by the act of Feb. 28, 1878, entitled: An act to authorize the coinage of the standard silver dollar and to restore its legal tender character. and such coin shall bo a legal tender for all debts and dues, public and private. The act of July 14,1890, entitled: An act directing the purchaseof silver bullion and the issue of treasury notes thereon, and for other purposes,is hereby repealed, provided that the secretary of the treasury shall have coined all the silver bullion in the treasury purchased with silver or coin certificates.