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MYRON \Y. REED AT DENVER. His First Sermon Attracts a Large Audience Despite a Driving Storm. A Beautifully Decorated Cliureli and a Well Pleased Andience—Text of the Discourse Delivered by Mr. Keed. THE CHURCH AND THE SERVICE. Beautiful Decorations, Fine Music, and a Barge Audience. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Denver, Col., April 6. —Rev. Myron W. Reed 4elivered his first sermon at the First Congregational Church this morning. A driving snow storm prevailed, but notwithstanding the bad weather the church, which is one of the largest in the city, was well filled. The pulpit and the platform surrounding it were elaborately and handsomely decorated with flowers, potted flowering plants and ferns. At the front of the sabred desk was a cluster of brightly-colored blossoms. red and yellow roses, geraniums and calia lilies. Foremost among the other decorations was a handsome panel of ivy and fern, entwined with ealla lilies, passion flowers and arbutus. The ■ixercises opened with singing, “Praise God from Whom all Blessings Flow,” and brief invocation by the new pastor followed. The choir, consisting of Miss Callie Brinker, soporano; Mrs. Mills, contralto; Mr. Vickers, basso, and Mr. Gnswold, basso, rendered a Te Deum anthem. Mr. Frank Dgmrosch, a son of the great musical director, presided at the organ. The first Scripture lesson of the morning was the twentyShird Psalm, “The Lord is my nhepherd,” and the second, the first chapter of St. John, “In the beginning was the word." Among the hymns sung by the choir and congregation united were, “Nearer, my God, to Thee” and “In the Cross of Christ I glory.” The sermon was closely listened to, and produced a fine impression. At the close of the sermon, and after the singing of the grand old hymn, “Coronation,” Mr. Reed made a few remarks, thanking his people for coming out in such large numbers on such a stormy morning, and expressing the hope that, as they became better acquainted, the work would go on pleasantly. He had regretted leaving Indianapolis, where he worked so long, to come among strangers. He chould do all that was possible on his part to make the new relations pleasant ones. The winning manner of the new pastor, and his originality and his broad culture greatly pleased those who heard him. He preached to a crowded house in the evening, and has pi-ospects of a very successful ministry. THE SERMON. I'lte Inferences To Be Drawn from the I.ife of Bezaleel, the Inspired Mechanic. Exodus, chapter xxxv—verses 30 to 34. And Moses said unto the children of Israel. “See. the Lord hath -lalled by name Bezaleel, the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, and He hath filled him with the spirit of God in wisdom and in understand/ng, and m knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship to devise cunning works; to work in gold and in silver, and in brass and ill the cutting of stones to net them, and in carving of wood, to make all manner of cunning work.” I have chosen as a subject the history of this humble mechanic because, though brief, it admits of a long inference. This Bezaleel of the tribe of Judah was not a poet, a prophet nor a priest, but a workingman—a carpenter and joiner, a gold and silversmith. He could carve wood or he could cut diamonds. He could make any manner of cunning work of the engraver or of the embroiderer, in blue and in purple and in scarlet. He was a genius; had the use of his fingers and had the use of his eyes. The point of notice, the emphatic thing is this: that the spirit of God was in him to devise and to do handiwork. That is, lie was filled with wisdom that he might carve ivood and mold brass. We say of such a man he has a gift. Moses tells us who gave it. The inference is that his fellow-craftsmen have been, and are, divinely su Eerintended equipped of God, inspired. His istory is a foundation for saying that God is in art —art, coarse and fiuo—arts of use and beauty. Moses says God was in art at one time, and I in fer that He is m art at all times. I will now go on to strengthen, as best I can, the inference drawn. If we classify our thoughts they will be found in three divisions. Some wo have gained from others. These we remember; lay them aside by themselves. Some we have labored for, and they are ours by mental effort—bought by our labor. They smell of midnight oil; .■jet them asido. There still remain thoughts which cannot be accounted for—thoughts that corn,' like a flash They are not children of the mind, born in weakness, to be slowly reared to strength. They come not from long meditation, being brooded over while the lamp burned low. They are uninvited visitors. Sitting at ease in the iloor of our tent at the close of day they came across the plain. If we judge these thoughts by their quality we shall see that, as the angels came to Abraham, so our best thoughts come to us down from above. You say a thought strikes you, and thereby express the sense that it is from without. It is not a child needing reflection to bring it on. It needs no molding. It is well grown, well-defined and vivid as is the sun. I must believe that a great deal of our wisdom is sent to us. The door opens from without, and in the guest walks. It is self-conceit to call it our child. If we i u.nk so, and tell the neighbors so, we deceive ourselves and them. Consider how many apples fell, seen by howmany eyes, before tiie fall of that famous one which enlightened Newton as to the law of gravitation. What is an illustration of a law good for unless the teacher stands by to appl v it? How long the livers ran and the seas rolled before the steam engine? How- many times was the lid of a hot teakettle lifted in vain? The paralfle was always being spoken, but nobody likened it to anythinguntil the interpreter came. The pupils sat stupid and looked out of eyes that saw not Jacob loved his Rachel as much as Robert Hargrave did his Jenny, but he invented no spinning Rachel that the yarn for a coat of many colors might be quickly drawn out. Invention waits God’s time. The children will always wonder at the dullness of the fathers. They ought not to wonder. The children will not have any more wisdom than they need to ase. God gives not to man's importunity, but always to man’s need. When the family is become large and the home narrow. Columbus is born. Whence came the impulse that sent him across an unknown sea to an unknown shore? The labor of man accounts for the voyage, but whence came the faith to set sail? Columbus must beg seven years for ships and a crew, hut before all this there must have been something to set him a-begging. If the impulse which thus hurries him to widen the world is not the pressure of the finger of God. what is it? I think that Columbus must have divined the riddle. God said of him as of Cyrus, ‘ ‘For this cause I have raised thee up.” Think of the steadfast faith that in the long voyage from morning to'evening looked right on to the west for the world that must be. A faith that stood lonely amid the mutiny of all the crew. No one in the wide world believed with him, except one woman. “One faith against a world's unbelief; oue soul against the flesh of all mankind. ” Ho had laid his hand to the plow, his keel turned a straight furrow, ho did not look back. Think of the stress upon him in that last day, when he had promised if land was not found ho would turn back. It was one day, hut it was time enough. It was due time; it was the day God had set. Not only we can not account for Columbus, Galileo and Watt and the host of civilizers, sailors and soldiors, priests and poets, by whom the world lias boon widened and cleared, and lifted up, but thoy can not account for themselves. Livingstone, in the Dark Continent, feels Jiimself held to his errand by a power not his

own. All this kind of men have acted like men fossessed. It is reasonable to suppose they were, t was borne in upon them to do as they did. The opinion of the world has said that there was no sense in the reformer and the discoverer and the inventor; and the world was right—they had something better than sense. It does not disturb this doctrine that the men who discover truth are often weak and wicked. Treasure may be carried in an earthen vessel. The message of Jonah was better than ho was—so much better that he tried to run away from it or lose it in the sea. But to Jonah there is no road that does not lead to Nineveh. Embarked in any water-craft, to Nineveh he must go. What God cares for is the message. It must be delivered. The tact that these men used by God are often exceedingly human in their quality confirms the doctrine that the truth they utter is not theirs, but His who sent them. The message is so much purer than they are that they must be only the channel, the medium, the urn for heaven’s lighting. Trace back the poems and find the poets. They are of the earth, earthy. These lines were not written from themselves —on the low mortal level of their daily lives—but from some mount of vision, in some happy hour, when the eye was unclouded and beauty passed by. The true worker is lifted up above himself as a witness, and reports a panorama that the unseen hand unrolls. So it is that we can account for sweet poems from bitter poets; words of love and duty from men hateful in life. What they give to us was given to them. The saintly song, “Come, Ye Disconsolate,” was written by the careless sinner, Tom Moore, in an hour when the gospel found him. It sings like a redeemed one, because a redeemed one sung it to him. He was good enough not to suppress it; he was not good enough to tell us whence he received it. How do you account for the pages of Christian experience in the Wilhelm Meister? Read the poems of Burns and then look at him worn and wasted; dead at thirty-seven. You see there the source of some of them; but the other, the immortal ones, those must have a higher source than that. The breath that is breathed in the ballad was not made out of common air. Here is the daguerreotype, the photograph. The sun has been in the heavens a long time. All the materials were ready for the man to use them. One day he comes, sees what the sun is willing and waiting to do. What was done only for tiie rich now the sun does, and has an opportunity to meet the poorest at every village. Is it a little thing? There is a world of comfort in the invention —the face of mother, and wife, and child went with the soldier in camp, and march, and battle.and now that he is in his grave these, sitting by a lonesome hearth, have the comfort of his face. Now, shall the sum of consolation that springs from this invention be credited to the poor sinner of a Frenchman who let us know about it? Upon this point the New Testament is a great help. In it I read the promise of tiie gift of a spirit that shall lead men into all truth. Since I read that, whenever I see men led to bless the world, I am bound to confess that I think I know who their leader is. Whenever I see good done, I believe I know that God is not very far off; especially when the man who does good does not mean to do it. It seems to me a mistake to divide truth into sacred and profane. If only some truth is God’s, whose name is on the rest? By the Southern planters’ etiquette, the master of the house was forbidden to enter his own kitchen. By some such notion of what is proper, we have been led to tliink of God as always in the temple and never in the world. The work-sliOp inis been, suffered to be too dusty. We have taken bits of earth here and there and consecrated them to be thereafter holy ground. We have taken certain men, and witli various ceremonies set them apart to be holy men, a priesthood. One building in a thousand is dedicated to bo henceforth God's house, subject to a mortgage of an insurance company, and per haps a mechanic's lieu. Certain days of the year are decreed to bo holy. So, in effect, the Lord Jesus Christ is shut within certain limits, allowed the freedom of certain days and places and men. Now, we see the effect of this. A man walks into a church, and walks softly, with head uncovered, for it is “God’s house.” So in a cemetery, for it is “Gods acre.” But once off God’s premises, as his foot strikes the world’s pavement. just so much as the others were holy, in a special sfense, the outside world is profane. It seems to you that the Lord is not on the pavement, nor in the market, nor about at all on Monday. You would not know the man for him you saw on Sunday. Sett ing apart a territory in which God especially is tends to make the Christian commonly seen in the Middle Ages, or the South American Christian, devout in the church nnd riotous at the fandango. It makes religion have the relation to the whole life as a priest to the census, a church to the buildings of a city or a holy day to the year. A religion that only touches a man here and there—now and then. The history of the Jews being sacred history, all other history is called profane. The history of the English race—that is profane. Moses leading out the slaves of Egypt under the cloud and through the sea—that is sacred history. Abraham Lincoln signing the emancipation proclamation, and so leading out the slaves of America—that is profane history. The war of the covenant, the voyage of the Mayflower, the successive steps toward liberty of body and spirit—the history of these is still called profane. Now. what is the effect upon people who are not Christians? They see where the churchmen have drawn the lines, and set up the cross, and entered into possession in the name of the Lord, and they proceed to claim all outside of these boundaries—that is the most of the earth, the chief part of its dwellings, all its business and most of the population, all unbaptized persons, all shops, markets, railroads, factories, schools not parochial, ail books not the Bible, the whole course and movement of history that is not classed as sacred, every invention that lessons toil or that spreads the light,, the art of printing, the loom, the swift ships, all that is done by steam or lightning. That is admitting freely all ttiat the church of the past claimed, allowing the Lord all the bits and corners which the church said were his, disputing no mark or sign of ownership. They have taken the mighty remnant and nave entered it in the name of civilization, and now they are very willing to compare results. You, they say to the church, with your Bible and your priest, and your Christ, and your Lord—you, working only on holidays, have not done very much —converted here and there a man, baptized now and then an infant, built a few new churches, nunneries, theological schools. But you really have had very little to do with the world. Civilization—human, unbaptized, unregeuerate —has wrought all around you, done a great deal even to bring you along; and then they point to the triumphs of steam commerce. It is our merchant ship that is kind enough to carry your missionary to the islands of the sea that we discovered, that we are civilizing. If the missionary gets into trouble our cannon will speak for him, not because he is a Christian, Dut because he is a citizen. John Stuart Mill makes Christianity a foundling. Having had our grounds chosen for us by some old monk or other, these men insist that we keep on it. For instance, I see the inventors of the art of printing and the wonderful power of the press. Forth from that iron threshold go the thoughts that have been in prison. It releases the chained Bible, sends abroad to every creature a copy for thirty ceuts. And if lie lias not thirty cents by him, why then a copy for nothing, and in the tongue in which he was born. It is a greater woik than that of the Day of Pentecost, but if as a Christian I put out my hand to claim the invention of printing as given by inspiration of God, I am warned off by Draper and by Buckle. So with the spinning jenny--how it lias enabled tiie naked to he clothed. But, if I say ‘hat the poor weaver, Richard Hargrave, who made it and named it after his wife, and rolled on the floor in delight that he had thereby lessened her toil—if I say this poor man wrought better than he knew, being moved by an impulse from the God w-ho has given commandment that the naked be clothed, being quickened in mind to see what was wanted, and helped in faculty to express in wood and iron the thought that came to him in the night, God taking his thoughtfulness for his poor wife’s weaving that her toil might be lightened, and blessing it that it might bless all her sisters and sisters’ children, in all the earth and throughout all the ages—if I say that God helped him about that thing in the same manner as Moses says that the Lord helped Bezaleel and Aholiab about making the tabernacle, putting a spirit in them to carve in wood and brass and gold, I shall have to ho very careful how I say it, or I shall be beset by the apostles of civilization, who don’t want me to preach on their manor. I see what the age of steam is doing; making a highway in the desert for our God, ventilating

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the regions hitherto shut up, letting a draft from Boston in on Utah, bearing light and life to the dark and the dead, joining the worlds to gether by a ligature so that men shall have one pulse. When I see the prophecy of God being thus fulfilled I would like to put out my hands and feel the machinery by which it is fulfilled, and see if I cannot find His iuitials on it. But I am told that it came from a godless machine shop. It is a, work of civilization. Again. I see a swamp drained, and the land redeemed from the curse, and see a piece of new earth lifting a harvest to the sun—bread for the children, instead of typhoid fever. But I am shut out from claiming this for the Lord's work. And then the work that is being done toward the time when there shall be neither sorrow nor crime, neither shall there be any more pain, the work of good physicians smoothing the path of children along the road that has been so cruel —the whole treatment of the insane, of the sick, of the feeble-minded, of all losers by the accidents of life—it is something like what Christ did, is it not? It seems like the outcome of His spirit and mind, does it not? If the native human spirit, without any prompting, does this kind of work, why did the native human spirit in Sparta kill all the deformed and feeble minded children—killed them for the welfare of the state? Apart from the New Testament it is the policy to kill all these unfortunates. Apart from the New Testament they are a burden. Even with the New Testament some advocate the taking of their lives. . If what once was a wonder of healing is now common, it is because the great physiciau condescends to walk this hospital. The asylums for the lost, the homes for the friendless are footprints of Him as plain as any seen by Galilee. Was chloroform merely a lucky thought? Has the pitying God nothing to do with the equipment of a surgeon? The name of the Sisters’ hospital in New Orleans is the Hotel Dieu. It seems so. 1 am willing to give liberal leagues and the free religious society their due, but where is their hospital? Where is their House of the Good Shepherd? They make some provision for the righteous, for the well, for tlio strong-minded, the survivors, the fittest, those who progress, but where is their ambulance? Let those men who snuffed out the light, 3ed out the morning star, bring in at least a e. By their fruits ye shall know them. I hear none of them sing, “I go to the desert to seek my sheep.” My friends, wo pray “Thy kingdom come.” We believe it will come. Is the answer to that prayer and the reason of that belief only to be seen in the membership of this visible church of ours? Are the battles of Christ all fought on Sundays and in protracted meetings? And is the world entitled to all that is done on week days? There was no sacred and profane with Christ. He was just as much Christ making a little bread go a great way, or telling the fishermen where to cast the net, or paying taxes, as when ho was preaching. I want to stretch forth my hand and claim every good thing that is done under the sun as done by impulse of the Lord. On every new shore that is discovered, by every river kneel with Columbus and Do Soto and plant the cross. Ido it. I widen the definition of God’s work. With St. James, I make it include eveiy good thought and every perfect thought. There was no nature in the supernatural with David. Heaven is my throne and the earth is my footstool. What house will you build for mes saith the Lord. Is civilization and the glory of it the work of man? So many men say; so many Christians admit. So it does not seem to me. It is time to resurvey the kingdom of God on earth. Pull up the stakes at the four corners of the church and reset them at tho four corners of the world. All men are sons by birth. There is neither Jew nor Greek, bond nor free Monday isa day of the Lord. The Most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands. To make peace with the Seminoles, Congress invited their chief to visit the States,showed him the waving harvest, the army and navy that once we had, tho arsenal at Springfield, the wealth and the power of the nation. He did not know what he was fighting. He saw that his strife was hut the revolt of a sick baby against a strong father. He saw it and hushed and allowed himself to be carried in quiet to the reserve. Power enforces respect. The mighty works draw attention to the sermon. So this proud world, complacent with the progress it calls its own, needs to be taken and led around and shown that Christ is in the world; that all things were made by Him, and without Him was not anytliiug made that is made. There are two New Testaments; this and one other. This is tho printed programme; tho other is the performance before our eyes; the will and the execution of the will. The two agree. The needful thing is to know this other when we see it unfold in history according to the bill. Not to do this is to make the old saying still true: “He was in the world, and the world was mado by Him, and the world knew Him not” POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS. A Banquet at Brooklyn in the Interest of the Morrison Rill. New York, April s.— Tho assembly rooms of the Academy of Music, Brooklyn, were * ablaze with lights to-night, the occasion being a dinner given by the Young Men’s Democratic Club of that city. Nearly every Democrat of local note was present. Among those from a distance were United States Senator Pendleton, who sat at the right of the chairman, while on his loft was United States Senator Bayard. With these at the main table were United Statos Senatorelect Blackburn. Congressman Hurd, and Slocum, and Andrew McLean, editor of tho Brooklyn Eagle, and a few other gentlemen of the city. Letters were received from many distinguished Democrats, regretting their inability to attend. Congressman Morrison writes: “We are trying here to make the burdens of the people of the great State of New York a little lighter and her commerce a little freer. If we fail it will be because her chosen Democratic representatives, forgetful of Democratic principles, shall unite with Republican protectionists in voting to maintain war-tariff taxes.” Speaker Carlisle, in his letter, writes: “If it were possible for me to do so, it would afford me great pleasure to meet the Democrats of Brooklyn, especially at this time, when the whole country is looking to our party for some relief from the excessive taxation imposed by the general government. You can safely assure our Democratic frionds that a great majority of their representatives in Congress arc determined to make an earnest and honest effort, during the present session, to inaugurate the policy of tariff reform to which we have been so long committed as a political party. The time for resolutions and declarations has passed, and a time for action has come. We may not at this time be able to accomplish all that ought to bo done, but we can do something to give an assurance to tho country that we have been sincere in our profession, and that it is our fixed purpose to reduce and equalize the burden of taxation as rapidly as circumstances will permit.” Ex Governor English, of Connecticut, writes: “I am in full sympathy with tho object of your meeting.” Horatio Seymour sends wishes of success. Joseph Pulitzer, and others, sent letters of regret. Tho menu exhausted. Chairman Shepard invited the attention of the company. lie said: “We are here to learn whether a Democratic House wall pass a Democratic bill, or rather, we are here to learn whether the House of Representatives be a Democratic or a Republican House.” After further remarks be introduced Senator Bayard. Mr. Bayard responded to the sentiment, “The Supreme Law of the Land.” Tho Senator began with an earnest plea for obedience to the Constitution, maintainyig that only by such obedience could liberty be maintained and prosperity secured. He then said: Gentlemen, a sense of unbridled power in the majority is illustrated almost every day. The power of taxation, tho most sovereign that can be given into the hands of any ruler, no matter what may he the form of government—the of taxation is now openly proclaimed not t< 1 ' used only for purposes of the public, to provide re necessary to maintain this government, but it niav > <• further, and ought to go further, should ‘.he ii! • ! the majority decree it, and cover the entire lie!! •!' taxation, and with the agencies of the federal p • uoent raise all the money that, the States may need : .r their local purposes. But it doesn't stop here. Such a system is a gross invasion. a conclusion of ideas, an overthrow of every intent ot' this supreme law of the land. But it goes further, it, declares whether tho federal government

needs it or no, or whether the State governments shall need it or no, it shall be laid for the purpose of transferring the property of many into the pockets of the few; that the hand of government shall be laid to adjust, in the direction of the majority of Congress, inequalities of fortune, or of ability, or skill, or worth of various citizens over which that government rules. Why, gentlemen, what is tariff law*, or any other law arranged upon such u basis, but a system of legalized communism? Gentlemen, let me earnestly and most respectfully adjure you here, so near the groat commercial center and great commercial heart of the Union, in your great, strong, rich, prosperous city, let me adjure you to consider that the safety of property lies in obedience to law. 1 know that in years gone by, for reasons it were not necessary to go far to find, the doctrine of State rights, the doctrine of strict construction of the Constitution, met with disfavor in Northern minds, because it was most vigorously asserted for the defense of an institution than was imbedded in the letter and substance of the federal Constitution. Gentlemen, there is no doubt about the fact that there was a feoling of odium in the Northern mind when State rights or a strict construction was maintained; when they were called in scorn “Virginian abstractions, or thedike. They thought, they were right in the defense of the system of African slavery, and that was against the moral sense of the Northern people. Now tnat slavery has gone, and, thank God, it has gone forever. the South and North sing alike in chorus and in harmony their hymn of thanksgiving that slavery is dead. Gentlemen, that reasoning, that rule of the construction, that strict insistance upon rights of local self-government, of maintaining the harmony of federal and State authority and yet not permitting either to overrun and destroy others, that conscientious regard for the supreme law of the land which exf.its today—need for it is here, and I beg of you to take it up, to insist upon it, to make it part of your political action if you would secure the blessings of liberty to yourselves and your posterity. Senator Hawley Struck Dumb. New York, April s.—Senator Joseph R. Hawley, of Connecticut, was asked who was his candidate for the presidency. He looked wise a moment, stroked his handsome mustache and goatee, and replied: “Ahem.” “Are you for Arthur?” Again an affable expression stole over the General's face, as he hesitated a moment and answered: “Oh, ahem.” “For Logan?” A slight shake of the head, a slight wave of a jeweled hand, and once more was heard that mysterous sound: “Ah —a —ahem.” Further than this at the time the choice of the General could not bo learned; but the light has since dawned on the announcement that Mr. Hawley himself is in the field, and is to have a ratifying Union League Club dinner on Saturday night. _ George TV. Curtis for Edmunds. New York, April s.—George William Curtis has been elected a delegate to the Richmond county convention, and an effort will bo made to send him to the congressional conventi\i and thence to Chicago. Curtis says his personal preference is for Edmunds for President, anu he is opposed to instructing delegates to conventions, as that doctrine converted man from a delegate into a mere agent. Low Fares for Politicians. New York, April 5. —The trunk lines have agreed to carry delegates and visitors to the Republican and Democratic national conventions in Chicago at an unlimited fare for the round trip from principal points in trunk-line territory. The New York city fare will be $23.25 for the round trip. Kentucky Republicans for Arthur. Louisville, April s.—The Republicans of Simpson county, Kentucky, held a convention to-day. They will send delegates uninstructed to the national convention, though indorsing Arthur’s administration and favoring his nomination. Mr. Payne Is a Candidate. Cleveland, April G. —In an interview with a reporter of a local paper, Senator-elect Henry B. Payne announces that he is a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the presidency. NORTH INDIANA M. E. CONFERENCE. Messrs. Disbro, Skinner and Welch Elected Delegates to the General Conference. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Peru, April s.—The missionary anniversary was held last night in the Baptist Church, addressed by Bishop Bowman and Miss Lucy liobinsou. The following collections were reported for missions from tho several districts: Fort Wavne district $1,000.41 Goshen district 1,517.75 Warsaw district 1.524.01 Kokomo district 955.47 Muncie district 1,207.00 Richmond district 1,470.05 Total $7,747.89 At the same hour Rev. W. Ilauimond, of the Lexington conference, preached an eloquent sermon at tho M. E. Church, which was filled to overflowing. The Saturday morning session of the conference was opened with Bishop Foss in the chair. After devotional services, conducted by tho Bishop' M. Mahon asked leave for the withdrawal of tho triers of appeal. Granted. Dr. Ridgway, of the Garrett Biblical Institute; Dr. Stowe, book agent: W. P. Hargrave, of Northwestern Indiana Conference, and J. G. Chafee, of the Southeastern Indiana Conference, were introduced. The following persons were elected to elders orders; Joseph 11. Slack, Madison Swadener, Newton Wray and Charles E. White. W. R. Jordan, W. H. Pierce, E. S. Preston, A. G. McCarter, S. C. Miller, R. F. Brewington, A. H. Kistler and J. M. Woolpert were continued in the supernumerary relation. H. A. Barnes, J. Moffit, J. Whitman, J. C. Medsker, G. W. Bowers, B. Smith, O. V. Lemon, W. Wilson, A. M. Kernwood, L. Roberts, R. I). Spellman, R. A. Newton, J. C. Mahin, J. Colclazer, George Havens, J. P. Nash. J. Cooper, J. W. Smith, J. Johnson, J. H. McMahon, I. N. Rhodes, N. Gillman, 1?. Tobey, L. TV. Munson, and E. M. Baker, were continued in the superannuated relation, F. M. Stone, G. B. Work, P. Garland. E. S. Freeman and J. TV. Lowellen were placed on the supernumerary list. A third ballot for delegates to General Conference was taken, and there was no election. The committee on education submitted their report The fourth ballot for Genoral Conference delegates resulted in the of C. E. Disbro, Clark Skinner, and J. W. Welch. Y. B. Meredith was elected reserve delegate. Dr. Stowe addressed the conference on the publishing interests of the church. J. Leonard presented the report on temperance. Resolutions were adopted condemning the license system, and in favor of constitutional prohibition, and requesting the appointment of R. D. Spellman as temperance agent of the conference A resolution was adopted in regard to tho use of tobacco on the part of some members who came into tho conference under pledge that they would abstain from sucli use. The offense is declared to be such as to warrant the arrest of the passage of their character, if persisted in by them in the future. New Castle was selected as tho place for the next meeting of tho conference. The committee on the centenary of the church reported in favor of a conference agent, whose principal work shall be to solicit funds for Fort Wayne College. It is understood that hi. S. Metts is to he appointed agent. Tile following additional statistics are given in tho aggregate: Church extension $881.38 Bible Society 524.13 Tract Society 129.30 Superannuated teachers 2,735.73 Sunday's Services. Special to tho Indianapolis Journal. Peru, April G.—The M. E. conference lovefeast occurred at 9 o'clock, at the Baptist Church, after which Bishop Foss preached an eloquent sermon on the theme: “The Life and Death of Christ and Paul Contrasted." He began by saying: Paul wanted to die. writing from his Roman dungoon, “I am now ready to bo offered;” and again: “To dio is gain.” Jesus recoiled from death, crying out: “If it be possible; let this cup pass.” Why was this? Paul’s friends would have plucked out their eves for him. Jesus had low friends, and these all forsook

him. Paul’s death is not even mentioned in the sirred record. Jesus’ death is minutely described. The church lost less and gained more by the death of Jesus than by that of Paul. By it was gained, first, the atonement. Let others tell his moral worth, but cling we to the atonement. Second, the git‘l or the Holy Ghost, the enduement of power; third, his intercession; fourth, his omnipresence: fifth, our hope of the future. At tho close of the Bishop's sermon, C. H. Murray, S. Light, F. Stone, D. Kivet, L. A. Beeks. O. V. Harbor, J. TV. Bowen, and A. Cook were ordained elders. At 3 o’clock p. m. memorials of Revs. Maynard and Payton, deceased, were read. J. If. Slack, M. Swadener, N. Wray and C. E. White were ordained elders. A National Polo League. Dayton. 0., April 5. — Tho Gem City Polo Club closed the season by defeating the Indianapolis club twice, making its fourth successive victory over them. This leaves the Gem City the national champions for the second season, they having won fifty-three games out of fiftysix with Chicago, Louisville, Cincinnati, Indianapolis and St. Louis. The result of this sport has been a well-formed movement to organize a national league of polo cubs for the summer, taking in New York, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore, Indianapolis, Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Louisville, Dayton, and probably Providence. Washington and New Orleans. Brooks & Dickson, it is understood, are at the bead of the movement, and are associated with other well-known caterers. Dr. Newman will Resign. New York. April 6.— Rev. Dr. J. P. Newman occupied his pulpit to-day in Madison’-avenue Congregational Church, despite the notice he received from a portion of his congregation disf tensing with his services. Dr. Corry, of Brooklyn, was with him in the pulpit. After the services Dr. Newman said lie had been approached by a representative of the Ranney faction with a proposition that lie should be regularly installed as pastor. This he refused to entertain, and lie stated that he should formally tender his resignation on Tuesday evening next. Adherents of Dr. Ranney say they regard the proposed resignation as unnecessary, because thoy claim Dr. Newman's office expired March 31. Oil Failure. Pittsburg. April 5.—A dispatch from Oil City, Pa., says S. Chalk, of New York, failed to make his contracts good, this morning, and the president of the exchange sold 100,000 barrels under the rule for his account. Confederate Decoration Day. New Orleans, April G.— Confederate Decoration Day was observed in the usual manner. Joseph A. Mower Post, Grand Array of the Republic, participated in the ceremonies. The Saturday Herald. The last Herald was alive with fresh local matter. Moreover the quantity and quality of original literature in The Saturday Herald aiways commend it to the public. Tornadoes and Wind-Storms, Indianapolis has received its semi annual wind storm, and we have escaped with slighter losses than heretofore. Neighboring villages have been less fortunate, having suffered not only loss of property, but loss of human lives. The Indiana Insurance Company seeks to protect property from those dread visitations, and* save loss and damage to householders. It is now issuing about twenty-five policies a day on this class of hazard, at its offices Nos. G 2 and G 4 East Market street. Call and see them. Do Not Forget That when any article by its own merits has acquired public confidence and patronage it is at once imitated, and the greater the sale of the genuine article the more the imitations. Take, for instance, tho host of so-called porous plasters: every one of them is endeavoring to trade on the reputation of Allcock’s Porous Plasters. The only safe way for purchasers is to insist on having the genuine article, and not allow themselves to bo swindled by having plasters said to be “just as good,” or “containing superior ingredients” imposed upon them. These are only tricks to sell inferior goods that no more compare with Allcock’s Porous Plasters than copper docs with gold. One trial of Allcock's Porous Plasters will convince you that they are the best external remedy ever made: they cure without causing blisters, abrasions of skin, or the slighest inconvenience. Durkee’s Salad Dressing is composed of the freshest, purest and choicest condiments money will buy. It surpasses any that can be made at home, is cheaper, saves labor and all anxiety. Advice to Mothers. Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup should always be used when children are cutting teeth. It relieves the little sufferer at once; it produces natural, quiet sleep, by relieving the child from pain, and the little cherub awakes as “bright as a button.” It is very pleasant to taste. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays all pain, relieves wind, regulates the bowels, and is the best known remedy for diarrhoea, whether arising from teething or other causes. Twenty-five cents a bottle. THE ONLY GENUINE JOHAM HOFFS BIALT EXTRACT IS the BEST HEALTH BEVERAGE. Tonic and Nutritive known. Tho Genuine CONTAINS ONE-TmiCl* MORE to the bottle than tho imitation, and is SUPERIOR in quality. ‘ I hare used Johann Hoff’s Genuine aLli Malt Exti-act during the last 5 years in ■ jib *y medical practice, and have found Wf/niM it an admirable food and Tonic in convalescence, in cases of l>ype-iNia, for the weak and dchliltutcd, ospeFtISVeA Cially Nursing Mother*, Won! ly Children, Lung and Throat I>l* M JgpjSL -O. STILLMAN, A.H.,M.1>., Phi la. jKfß&wHWgaßh I have brought suit against Messrs. Eg? Tarrant A Cos. for bottling and sell■HHffigßH another preparation upon tiie reputation of my Genuine Malt ExIfor —TsTfl —tract, for which I have received **S BOB) (qua Medals from Exhibitions, Medical uT raga societies, etc, etc. Beware of Imitations! None genuine without signature of HOft j “Johann lloff"A- “Moritz Eisner,*’ BiS::•”rf;::::' 31 on tiie neck of every bottle. johann jiofv, Berlin, Germany, tlsy KK MENMSLSON, Sole A yent* for the U. S., 318 820 Jiace St., l*/tila€Ulphiu, l*u.

CARPETS. MOQUETTES—AII tlie different designs of the best manufacturers. WILTONS—AII the preferred styles. BODY BRUSSELS—The largest line ever shown in this city. TAPESTRY—Eight different leading makes; Tapestry Velvets in elegant designs. INGRAINS—AII qualities, from the lowest in price to the choicest makes in standards, extra-supers and three-plys. I control in this market the famous ART KIDDERMINSTER INGRAINS. WALL PAPERS and DECORATIONS—My purchases in this department this spring were unusually large and complete. I offer the largest stock to select from in the State and the lowest prices. In WINDOW SHADES I show full widths and lengths. My goods are from the best factories, and I have all the latest patterns. ALBERT GALL.

JOH. HOFFS MALT EXTRACT TIIE GREAT NUTRITIVE TOXIC. GET THE GEXTIX'E. TTi: arhly reccommended ]>y the Medical Profession ft’ '■% mm in all wasting diseases, fILOU such as fr-yjjfr Tjiir^iy Consumption, : : "J| General Debility, IF and if !> :.a N~ r ■ g 1: 9 < jff i Is not a medicine, but a ? Sj:l 111 fife. ill nutritive food, building up - l JL. the system by its own tonic M) J&Ofr' powers, and by its aid in fffr' assimilating all other food, p; Beware of counterfeits. The genuine is always put b-*" rig ! JJT"\ j: up in style of bottle as in and/ j • iC/ cut. and hears the name of RFSMAUSffI ® j TAKRANT & CO., ip<tn | Sole Agents for the United ".i •ffljj.ii States and British Previn- KlisSSsEffl iii;i j! ces of North America, 278 fj(F —;j Greenwich street, New Hi: ot* | isl York. Price, $4 per loz. ™ jgj CAUTION! Secure the Genuine and Avoid Diappointment. Pending legal measures to restrain the use of our name in connection with a so-called Mult Extract, pur porting to be made by a party who has assumed tho name of Johann Hoff, physicians and consumers aid cautioned against fraudulent imitations of our goods, and are informed that all GENUINE JOHANN HOFF’S MALT EXTRACT, for which we are and have been the SOLE AGENTS and IMPORTERS since 18G9. and upon which the reputation of this article is based, is sold only in ons SPECIAL BOTTLE, and bears upon its label tho name of TARRANT & CO., 278 Greenwich street. New York, Established 1834. Sole Agents for the sale of tho GENUINE JOHANN Hoff’s Malt Extract for the United States and | British Provinces of North America. See our adv’t running in this paper. AMUSEMENTS. DICK S ON 9 ' S Grand Opera-House. Thursday April 10, Tenth Annual Coutest in O R A. T O Ul Y Under management of Indiana State Oratorical Association. Following colleges represented: Butler University, Hanover College, Do Pan w University, State University, Franklin College, Wabash College. Prices. 25, 50 and 75c. Seats on sale at box office DICKSON’S Grand Opera-House. SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT. THE FAVORITE COMEDIAN, ROLAND REED, In Fred. Marsden’s “O IT TC_IC IC." Three nights and Saturday Matinee, commend irig Thursday, April 17. ft Lit lifclry Roller Ii 0 ti t MASONIC HALL. Good Music. New Floor. New Skates. Qf ’LADIES FREE. ™rs Theatre MS* ITsi and double ilnrssL Olio Week, Monday, April 7, Matinees Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. John C. Lech, Howard and Alton, Sheehan and Hulmes. Retlaw and Alton, Mast Kissel, Deyie Garland, Baker and Gardner, Lew Tatum and others. PARK KINK. TO-NIGHT, CAKE WALK. Lookout for the Leap-Year Party raid Carnival ou \Vednesday night. Usual prices. WIGWAM RINK. The management reserves the right to refuse admission and use of skates to all objectionable parties. BRUSH ELECTRIC LIGHTS Are fast taking tho place of all others in factories, foundries, machine shops and mills. Parties having their own power can procure an Electric Generator and obtain much more light at much less cost than by any other mode. The incandescent and storage system has been perfected, making small lights for houses and stores hung wherever needed, and lighted at will, day or night. Parties desiring Generators or to form companies for lighting cities and towns, can send to the Brush Electric Cos., Cleveland, 0., or to the undersigned at Indianapolis. J* CAVEN. MANKATO, MINN., WITH SEVEN RATLroads, is the great manufacturing and jobbing center for all southern Minnesota and Dakota and northern lowa, which is the best section west of the Mississippi for dairying, stock raising and general farming combined. >Ye. have 7,500 people, twenty thriving manufactories, six prosperous jobbing houses; inexhaustible quarries of cement, building, and cut stone: vast beds of tiro, pottery, tile and brick. clays, and glass and molding sand; the best water, timber, schools and society. We want more capitalists, manufacturers, wholesalers, 100 new dwellings for rent and first-class hotel, fwiircrs meaning business address M. G. WILLARD, Secretary Board of Trade.

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