Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 October 1895 — Page 8

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, OCTOBER "11, 1895.

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Don't mistake u?. We don't hand you to much irold or currency, but we'll ave your p?:ketbook that much, at least. This is how re will do It: Monday and Tuesday TO PURCHASERS OF ELECTRIC SEAL HALF - SHEARED TLALV BLACK THIBET OR MARTEN TRIMMED (these are full sweep), marked $20, t22, 2Z, 7.30 and r. we will allow Just FIVE DOLLARS eff on earh garment. You understand the offer, do you? For Monday and TueMay ONLY. After that you can't buy them for a cent leas THAN the marked price. If -you pan It, you'll miss the biggest CAPE CHANCE of the season. L. S. Ay res 6: Co. EASTLIA1I, SCHLEICHER & LEE MONDAY WINDOW BARGAINS At T0MLINS0N HALL This Monday, Oct. 14 LrCO yards celebrated Figured Swiss, 36 inches wide, ' lO cents Came. 40 Inches wide, 31 cents. &1 fine Curly Birch Arm Rockers, with carred back panels, former price, $0.50; M. Y Bargain, G2.98. rASTMAN, . & LEE. The Tomllnaon Hall Emergency Sale ivlll eonllnae hl.iTeek. Up to Date and Yery Suell We are receiving: every day from the Eastern market a large variety of pretty designs for jewelry- It will pay you to examine them, as our prices are lowest and we are always In the lead. Finest line of Opera Glasses In the city at ... i 23 West Washington Street. ULOVK SALK MONDAY ONLY. COo DAY XTtnlay On selected lot Ladles Kid Glomes ( large ptarl bnttoruo 5Qr Oat mill lot Men's Kid GloTe Monday onljl.W" soc Pay 3 our Cllove tbj flrt of the week. Avoid Satcrdaj'tf rusii. THE OXLY GLOVE STORJS. 10 E. WASIIINQTON ST. 0 DALTON, ' $IIighClass Hotter . Bates House. j V p Sole Agent Knox's world-re-' . nowned llats, and Christy's ct Knglish Hats. DARN LEY BEAUFORT'S ARREST. Serious Chnrffen Acnlunt the Ex-Prlii-cIm1 of CiptliMemmie. Darnley Beaufort, whose experiences at Oethsema'ne College, Kentucky', furnished columns of newspaper articles, and who afterwards came to this city and remained for some time, has been arrested at Louisville. A dispatch from there ays: "Damley Beaufort, the deposed principal of Gethsemane College, near Bardstown, Ky.. was arrested in this city to-day and is nr w Irt -fail THa haIIa V,AnM - . for Beaufort for !me time, but were unable to locate him. He says he has been in Louisville and New Albany all the time, however. "The caue of Beaufort's arrest here was a warrant sworn out by Mr. J. L. Lepiea. a clothier, charging him with obtaining money under false pretenses. Beaufort in August last irave Mr. Deppen a check for J1CO on the Marion National Bank, which was protested. His case was called in the Police Court but was continued until Oct. ro. An officer from Bardstown arrived in the city to-day Ith two warrants for Beaufort's arresr. charging- him with committing narr.ele.s3 offenses upon two boys who atlended Gethsemane College. Beaufort refused to give bail in the Deppen case, claiming that he would be rearrested and takei to Bard?town. where he said he was afraid that he would be assassinated by hLs enemies, and he thought It was safer for him to remain In the Louisville jail. He claims that he will be able to flear himself of all the charges against him at the proper time. In the Bardstown cases the ball was lixed at 12,000. . AMUSEMENTS. Charles H. Hoyt's "A Milk Whit- Flag" will occupy the stage at English's to-night. This time It returns with a great many of the oil-time favorites of the cast, and wlh many new equipments. For the Information of those who have not seen this plav it may be saii that the comedy Is an inoffensive anrt good-natured satire on military companies. In the cast ar Lloyd Wilson, John Marble, Charles Stanley, Frank Lawton. Geore Beane, Clarlsse Agnew, Iee Lamor, Cora Tinnle and others. At the Fark this afternoon IMe Baker, the German comedian, opens a half-week's engagement in "Birds of a Feather." Whallen & Martelle's great production. The South Before the War." will open at the Empire this afternoon Xor three dayi. Yoqdk "Womnn. Take Ararnlr. Nellie Cavanaugh. aged twenty-two, rooming at No. 2 Erie street, attempted suicide yesterday afternoon by taking arsenic. The City Dispensary was notilied and physicians from there answered the rummons. They worked with the young woman for feveraL hours before she was pronounced out of danger. She refused to Kive any reason for the desire to end her life. Her parents live in Fort Wayne, but she has been working in this city for some time. Charles Kredile Mtsslnr. Charles Kredde is reported by his friends as having disappeared from his home, 43 r.-yd avenue. He has not been seen since faturdayv when he drew his wages, r-T-.cuntinr to about J 13. i C: CV.z c:.::ta ct Win. U Zllzfc.

CHUKCH AND CHRIST

SEIIMOV II V CV, 1). J. EI.LISOV ox ADVA.TAGES OF CJIHIVriAMT Y. The tlent of Society and IitfeltlKi m Is AlTrny Fonucl AYlthln tlie Church i and Little OnUlrie. The reopening services at the First Baptist Ciurch were hell yesterday morning. After extensive improvement and repairs the organ loft, organ, baptistry' and pulpit were rebuilt. A sermon ppropriate for the occasion was preached by the pastor, Rev. D. J. Ellison. The text was' Eph. v, 32, "Christ and the Church." He sail In substance: "And so the mo:to of the great Christian Endeavor was not originated by Father Enoeavor Clark. It is but the far off echo of the worcts of the great apostle In his letter to the church at Ephesus. What vague ideas many of us have of the character and surroundings of those primitive churches. Those Christian churches which sprang up in Antiocn, in Corintn and in Rome were absolutely new creations with a new life.. new spirit and new manners in the midst of the old and decaying society of paganism, and Just as in primeval fore?ts, where thick, and dark rises the growth of centuries through which lived wild beasts and wilder men, one sometimes comes upon a clearing which are all the signs of civilization, the hum of Industry, the little group of pretty cottages and the schoolhoue nestling among the trees. So there sprang up in the vast jungle of heathenism these little clearings of Christian brotherhood that by their sweetness and purity and light afforded a striking contrast to the foul and poisoned life prevalent in Corinth, in Ephesus and In Rome. "When you call to mind how feeble these churches were in the early days of Christianity and how they were surrounded and antagonized by the combined forces of heathenism, and how to-day they are conquering a world, you cannot but be surprised at their marvelous growth Illustrating the Scripture that 'the kingdom of heaven is like unto a grain of mustard seed, which Is the least of all seed. But when It Is grown It becomes a tree, deeprooted and wide-branched, in which tie birds build and find shelter, or like the leaven which a woman took and hid In three measures of meal until all was leavened. So we cennot Judge by beginnings.. The penny you gave that poor little boy may be the beginning of a great fortune; the love grasp you gave the orphan's cold hand may be the beginning of an animation laustin? an eternity. It i3 something Inspiring to be connected ' with the Christian church, which though to-day it bo like a handful of corn on the top of the mountains, in due time the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon. Do not associate yourself with Institutions that have the condemnation of death written upon them, but with a kingdom with a music that shall gatrter all other music into lis Infinite hallelujah. "I would have you consider this morning, first, the nature tf the Christian church; second, the Influence of the Christian church, and third, the destiny of the Christian church. To my mind the nature of the Christian church is strikingly set forth in those memorable words of the Lord Christ to the apostle Teter: Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church and the gate3 of hell shall not prevail against it. By this rock Christ meant not Himself, not the sublime confession that had Just been uttered, but the apostle Peter. Any attempt to mako this rock refer to anything else than the man Peter Is a mistake which we Baptists ought not to commit. It is our prcud boast that we take the Bible just as it reads, and we Justly condemn that subtle Ingeunlty which would twist the words of the Scripture away from their plain and logical meaning. Applying that principle to the case before us the Roman Catholics are right in their interpretation of this passage- though utterly wrong In the inferences they draw from it. We miss the entire beauty and significance of this pasrage. When we twist the meaning for fear of some dogmatic inference, Christ is hero indicating the material of which Illschurch is. to be composed, material that in and of Itself might seem imperfect, as Peter was imperfect, but Peter, rude, fickle and Impulsive as he was. had just risen to a raarvelously clear and accurate conception of Jesus as the Son of God. In that moment he seemed a transformed man, a radiant character, with the light of divine revelation streaming out from his entire personality, and Christ says thart such stuff, dull enough by nature, but luminous by grace, is built into the formation and rising walls of the Christian church. And hence, by the the regenerating power of His spirit, by the uplift of His presence, by the magnetism and enthronement of eternal truth, God is building men In that vast and peerless structure, the Church of God, and that which before was well nigh worthless, if not positively hurtful, is transformed Into power and light and beauty, as by the finger of God. There are Illustrations sometimes of such wonderful transformations in nature. "A remarkable account of an electric sunstorm is given by Lieut. J. P. Finley. one of our eminent meteorologists. It was while ascending Pike's peak that what seemed first a shower of fire occurred. At first each snowflake seemed to dircharge a tiny li.a:ht as it touched the clothing or settled on the snowy ground. As the storm increased in fury, however, each flake of snow seemed a drop of fire. Electric sparks were shaken in streams from the Lieutenant's finger tips, as from his ears, beard and nose, and a wave of his arm was like the sweeping of a flaming sword blade through the air; every point of snow touched gave out its little snap and flash of liKht. So charged with the power of a great truth and inspired hy contact with those who loyally arrange themselves about it. transforms a life that otherwise would be barren and soiitary untll it enlarges itself in wondrous beauty, in divine power, in infinite benefactions over all the spaces of human imagination and human service. "But especially Uo I want to speak of the lines of influence that radiate out from the Christian Church. It is a common thing in these days to depreciate Christian churches, to look upon them us possessing little if any Importance, attendance upon the services of which Is altogether a matter of indifference. We do not consider the priceless value and immeasurable Influence of thee churches, as we seldom do that of any other great and widespread blessing. When blessings degenerate into the commonplace their glory is hidden from us. Atmosphere and sunshine and water are so common that in naming over the blessing of the past week we would probably omit them altogether. So It Is with the Christian churches. If no sunshine the solar system would be enveloped in a vast night of terror: If no atmosphere we should die; if no water, at best we should have but a universe of ashes. So if the Christian churches were swept away, human life would be like a summer without the smell of flowers or the song of birds, or like a nijsht without a star and followed by no mornlni?: nothing but coldness, darkness and death. Consider the social advantages incident to association with God's people. This consideration deserves far more thought than is usually given t'v it. Let any one of us glance back over his .'!fe and he will be impressed with the fact that among the forces which have shaped his life most powerfully, whether for good or for evil, have been his social relations. Some part of our life is always In other men's keeping, and we find our own selves only when we find these other men. Each man is a fraction by himself, an only in addition finds unity and completeness. Tennyson was right when he said, "We are a part of all we have met," and to-day each one of us is very largely the sum total of those influences which have been brought to bear upon us in the home, in the church, and in the world. There is then a proper ambition In regard to our social relations, and no man. especially no young man. can afford to despise these relations. If possible, be always in the society of those who are wiser and better and more cultured than yourself, and remember that by the best society I do not refer to the foam and glitter and scum of a godless hollow-hearted social clique, but ti the best society In the best sense of the term, the society that has the promise of the world that now Is, and of that which is to come. I do not say , that all who attend the church of God are of this high order, but I do say that with hardly an exception, nearly all who are of this high order attend religious services. Here are found very largely the brain and heart and soul of humanity: the aristocracy of humanity by divine right. Said Chauncey M. Depew. 'Whenever it is possible, and I rarely find it impossible. I attend divine service on the Sabbath.' In conversation with the late Dr. Albert Loomls. of New York, the great specialist, he said to me, 'Busy as I am and at that moment there were twenty people awaiting to see him 'I generally manage to be in church once on Sunday. I absolutely need it.' Governor Northen. of Georgia, said. To lose church service on Sunday seems to me like losing a whole week.' The greatest position In the gift of any nation on earth Is the presidency of the United States, and it spoke volumes to me In regard to the Christian church when, last Thursday evening, there stepped off a. Pennsylvania car a man who had had placed upon him that crand and enduring honor, and who I was wcniii)2 his way to the weekly prayer

meeting, loung mn and women, when you make friends for life, be sure your friends are Christ's friends. Consider again the intellectual advantages of the Christian church. The Christian church is organized about the truths of the Bible, and no man can boast of even a liberal education who is ignorant of the contents of this book. For while its teachings are pre-eminently spiritual, they embrace, as well, the facts of history, a study of Jurisprudence, the science of medicine, and furnish the finest rhetorical examples to be found In the whole range of literature. Simply as a book It Is the raos.' wonderful and widely circulated of any in the world. In Russia, last year. although there the price of a Bible is unusually high, owin? to the fact that they mut all be bought of the I My Synod. fW,U) copies were sold ; and from l&SO to 181K more copies of the Bible were sold throughout the world than had been published previous to that time. The Bible has been translated into 351 dialects and languages. It has given to the world a religion and a civilization. Take out of Europe the buildings which Christianity has put up and those 'cities would, in many instances, lose their enly fame. If you tell me the great galleries of art would still be left I would ask you to take away every Christian painting and piece of statuary and then call for your estimate of the boundless vacancy. If you take away all Christian literature and music it would be impossible to state the stupendous and Irreparable loss. Shall we. the favored ones, standing at the dawn of the twentieth century, the heirs of all the ages, bend with eager haste to drink of the bright pure streams of literature, of art, of this highly progressive civilization round about us, and while we praise the streams shall we despise the fountain from which they flow? But the third line of Influence of which I would speak is the spiritual influence of the Christian church. The topmost nature of man is fplritual, and herein lies his true dignity. The object of the Christian church Is to lift men to the level of God's thought and to make them what God intends them to be. There Is no nobler inscription tn all the world than Is found upon General Gordon's tomb in St. Paul's Cathedral, London. I do not wonder the crowd that always seems to linger there, read it with reverent faces. These are the words descriptive of the Rreat General: 'Who at all times and anywhere gave his strength to the weak, his substance to the poor, his sympathy to the suffering and. his heart to God.' That should be the motto of every Christian. "Third, the future destiny of the Christian church. Every thinking man must have noticed that great changes have been taking place In our religious thought and work. The methods employed twenty years ago will soon be obsolete. The church of the future will be broader in thought and vastly wider and more varied in work. The church must reach out for the working people. The central thing is the gospel of Christ, but most of us have never realized how broad and universal is that gospel. It touches every relation of human life. If the pulpit is to. reach the next generation, it must deal with questions that are burning in the hearts of men. Pear friends, what have we done for the church of which we are members by the grace of God. I am rorry for the "man who loves the church in general so much that he has no hearty support for any church in particular, like one who loves everybody fo well that he has no time to provide for his own wife or children. As you entered the church this mornig, did you realize how deeply every one of us is indebted to those in whose places we stand to-day. God bless the men who have tolled and struggled for the good of his church. Many are over yonder but not far f ron here today is one snowy head, with trembling limbs that once were strong and elastic, waiting the coming of the boatman to carry him over, the river that hath no bridge. And they all, those here and those yonder, cry in the words of the Scottish chieftain, 'We are not dead; we are looking to see you do your duty.' Let ua answer back, 'With God's help, we will love, wc will work for, we will give to Christ and the church. " " DIt. CRAFTS O.V REFORMS. Speaks of Hie Xecds of the People on Sunday-Observance Kducntlon. Rev. Dr. W. F. Crafts, of Washington, D. C, superintendent, of the National Bureau of Reform, yesterday morning Fpoke on . "The Lord's Day and the Rest Day" at the Memorial Presbyterian Church. His address in the evening at the First Presbyterian Church was on "Nineteenth: Century Progress and Problems," and was in rart as follows: The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries have brought in a new social era, which really does not begin until the middle of the eighteenth century, and but feebly even then. The first words of the new time were Methodism and machinery, not a mere alliteration, for spiritual and industrial quickening have often been cause and effect. In 1776 there appeared three distinct periods of dawn, one of them not unmixed with shadows: (1) The completion of James Watts's Invention of the steam engine, which .was to revolutionize production; (2) Adam Smith's declaration of industry's independence, which was to revolutionize distribution, and (3) America's declaration of political independence, which was to revolutionize the relation of the leople to law, and so at last their relation to both production and distribution. About these were other streaks of dawn. In 1773 John Howard began his prison reform movement. In ! 1774 Benjamin Fsanklln founded the first American anti-slavery society. In 1780 Robert Italkes inaugurated the Sab-tath-school movement. In 1785 Dr. Benjamin Rush began the modern temperance movement. And in 1793 Carey sailed for India on the first modern missionary ship. "But when the eighteenth century closed these movements were all faint and feeble. The twilight continued for one-third of the nineteeth century, including 1S3L That first third of the century' was a time of awakening. It Tas everywhere felt that dawn was near. Lut there was as yet no permanent popular government in Europe. In 1S07 Napoleon had crushed the few republics of the old world and conquered all Europe except sea-girt Britain. Great Britain's magna charta had been secured long before by nobles for nobles only. The people were still politically powerless. Two-thirds of the so-called House of Commons were appointed by the lords from their 'pocket boroughs, so that Parliament really consisted of a House of Lords and a house of lackeys. "The legislation was by capitalists for capitalists. They put prices up and wages down, and suppressed opposition by means of the courts. There was little popular education, for the rich rulers thought ' education would beget aspiration, and so, make the poor less submissive to their hard lot, with Its hard bread and hard beds. Employers resisted all efforts to compel sanitation and the ue of safety aDDliances in mills and shorter hours for women and children. Royal courts still gave impurity such respectability in Christian lands as its place in the temples has always given it in heathen lands. I have described the condition of Great Britain, but the moral and social status was even worse on the continent in that first third of this century. DAWNING OF THE NEW ERA. "In 1S32 the new era dawned. Christ came to the world for thirty-four years of greater words and works than men could 'bear when he was upon earth'. That was the year of the reform bill in Great Britain, the people's magna charta, by which the House of Commons first became In realltj' what it was in name. Between that date and when British suffrage was broadened, popular government was established In gome form throughout Christendom, except in Russia. In that middle third of our century emancipation also swept the Christian world free of slavery, save Jn Brazil, which reached emancipation soon after. It was al?o tho period when American churches reached agreement on total abstinence and prohibition, under which last fifteen States enrolled during that period. In that same period Christian union movements began with the organization of the Y. M. C. A. in 1S1I; the Evangelical Alliance, in 1846, and the National Reform Association," in 1SGI. That middle third of this century was also the period of the greatest of Sabbath-reform conventions, which rallied. It is said, 1.7W delegates in Baltimore, in 1S14, under the presidency of John Qulncy Adams. 'The daybreak that came with that middle third of 'our century has already been overcast with heavy thunder clouds, especially in our own country. No doubt there has been moral progress since 18r In tho worli at large, but it would be hard to prove moral progress in the United States since that date. Three black threes stand out In our statistics of this third bf the century'. The consumption of liquors by gallons, the divorces and the murders have each multiplied about three times as fast as the population. To this third of the century also belongs the whole career of the Ioulslana lottery, not yet really suppressed. It I the period, also, of the Sunday paper, which In most Instances Is noi only a sin but a crime. It is also the period of labor Insurrections and of municipal corruption. It la the period also when Christian cations

have broken down in a measure the total abstinence customs of the Buddhism and Mohammedanism. One reason, in the judgment of many, why these evils have grown apace is because the church has not adequately recognized the promotion of personal and social ethics as an integral and Important part of its work. "As Columbus discovered a neglected hemisphere, so we are Just discovering a neglected hemisphere of church work the hemisphere of social ethics. This hemisphere is a nineteenth century development, and not recognized in the eighteenth century creeds and disciplines of our churches, but only in more recent resolutions, which are not law, but only advice. The ink on the Presbyterian General Assembly's resolution against admitting liquor dealers into church membership was hardly dry before a prominent Presbyterian church admitted a liquor dealer, taking the ground that assembly resolutions ere mere advice. The three great denominations the Methodist Episcopal, the Presbyterian and the United Presbyterian resolved that no Christian man should vote for a license party, immediately after which resolutions came the Democratic landslide of 1S92. The only large denomination having a specific and binding ethical creed In this respect to be commendedhas not adapted it to the nev ethioal developments of this century, but In pledging its new members to avoid specific "sins most frequently practiced." makes no mention of lotteries or Sunday papers, and In its temperance pledge, though a total-abstinence church in practice, includes only 'splrltous liquors,' a fossil phrase from the eighteenth centurj'i when fermented and malt liquors were considered temperance drinks. SABBATH REFORM IN THIS CENTURY. "We are told that 'the complicated civilization of the nineteenth century requires that Sabbath observance and Sabbath law3 should be relaxed. Nay, this is a new reason why they should be maintained and strengthened. Did Adam, to whom the Sabbath law of work and rest was given before the fall did he, who knew nothing of 'cut-throat competition and 'soulless corporations,' and 'hard masters, and wearying 'tricks of trade need a Sabbath' law more than we do . to-day, when sin

has put Its curse Into the Edenlc blessing' or labor? At Sinai, where the Sabbath law was reproclalmed, did those Hebrew herders, moving on at three miles per hour, need a law to protect them against the overstrain more than the engineers of today, who drive their iron dragons a mile a minute with hand on the throttle, eye on the track, every power alert? Did those dozen farmers, from whose social plowingbee Ellsha was called to be a prophet I have seen fn that region a modern plowingbee of eighteen did those farmers, gossiping together as they kept step with their slow oxen, need a Sabbath law more than the lumbermen in our Not th western saw mills, who saw one hundred thousand feet of lumber a day, and must watch the swlftmovlng circular saw with closest attention, lest it saw the lumberman in place of the log? Did the farm of Boaz, where the friendly co-operation of labor and capital left nothing to be desired did that and other such places of that age require a Sabbath law tor the protection' of servants more than It is required by the millions of employes to-day, whose master is 'neither mrn nor woman, neitner brute nor human but the ghoul with a soul we call corporation? Did Dorcas, Kitting out in "the sunlight beside her cottage, distaff in hand, leisurely spinning and weaving the coats and garments for the little orphans that played at her feet did she require the protection of a Sabbath law more than the young girl of fourteen in a modern mill, working a dozen hours per day In the close air and clanging noise", under a hard master? "Turning to the more recent times when the foundations of thl3 republic were laid on the Bible, the Sabbath being assigned a prominent place among American ' institutions, did our fathers, when they lived half a mile apart, curtained at night with the soft velvet of silence, need a day of protected quiet morer.than their sons 'in the tenements of to-day,' where going to bed at night is often -like the 'charge of the light brigade' noises in the flat above, noises In the flat at the right, noises in the flat at the left, noises in the flat below; the high fiddle-diddle of a midnight dance on the floor overhead: the crash of a family jar just beyond the wall on the right; a piano through the wall on the left making love on that side and hate on this side at midnight, while the flat below does its share in the torture by an early start on a fishing excursion to murder1 sleep in the morning? "When nearly all the work was In the open air, in forest and field, was there no need to protect the tollers-' right to one day's release from labor, than now when many thousands work at night and in the mint1, and thousands more in stifling shops? Is there more excuse for keeping thousands toiling on the Sunday mail now, when a letter Is carried from New York, to San Francisco in five days, than in our fathers' days when such a journey took five months? Was there less excuse for our fathers to issue Sunday papers when news crossed the Atlantic In two months, than there Is for us when the news of Europe reaches us by telegraph the day before it happens? "Every change In the world since the Sabbath was instituted has been a new reason why God's Sabbath laws and ours rhould not be changed. They came to the kingdom for such a time as this. More than ever before, we should see to it that neither ourselves nor others caure any Sunday work except of necessity or mercy." THE AVIlOLi: 11LTV OF 31 AX. Rev. Dr. Hobbs's Sermon nt SouthStreet Baptist Church. No church in the city has made more substantial progress than has the Southstreet Baptist Church under the ministry of Rev. C. 11 W. Dobbs, D. D., who became pastor last spring. The congregation has largely increased, and interest tnd vigor now characterize all services. Yesterday morning Dr. Dobbs delivered a sermon on "The Whole Duty of Man from the text In the eleventh and twelfth verses of the second chapter of Paul's epistle to Titus. He said the grace of God alone brings salvation to men. The primal promise given after tho sad lapse in Eden came from tho love of God, and all the development of that promise in the salvation of the race, as the generations passed away, was of grace. But the coming of Christ was the dawn of a brighter day; It was th rising of the "sun of righteousness with healing In his beams." Then the grace "appeared" indeed, was gloriously manifested, even as a sunburst In the midnight. And this grace appeared to all men, to all nations, all caste's and conditions of mankind. The gospel was wider than Jewish prejudices. The sun of rghteousncss belts the globe with the light of grace. "This grace," said the minister, "has a voice of instruction. It teaches us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lust, we should live soberly, righteuosly and godly. Here we have;the whole trinity of man's duty to himself,, to his fellow, to his GoJ. Self-denial is the first step in duty. .';esus sail: 'R" any man will be my disciple let him deny himself, take up his cross and follow me.' To live soberly one must exercise self-control. Every man has a dual being. He must bring the boJy under the dominion of the soul; the grosser into subjection to the spiritual. This is what our Lord reant when he spoke about plucking out the right eye and cutting off the right hand. Our bodies are part of the living sacrifice we must lay upon Christ's altar. Our bodies are to be kept pure for the indwelling of Christ and the Holy Spirit. Our highest interest demands this, for sin' is destructive even of our physical being. This fact is so patent that the mere reference suffices "to fix its truth. Selfinterest says live soberly. Then we must live righteously toward our fellows. This is to do justly and love mercy. It is following our Lord's golden rule the royal law of the grace of God. Thus Christianity strikes at the very root of 5elnsness; thus grace lifts us ur on -the higher plane of true altruism. Christ's parable of the"good Samaritan teaches us the sublime lesson of disinterested benevolence and universal beneficence. We see cur neighbor in every' suffering son of humanity. Out of this altruism of grace has grown the grand charities of the age. These are born of Christian thought and activity. Christianity inculcates good will to all. Its circle is larger than the grandest charity of earth-born institutions, for It is not bounJed by any circumference smaller than the needs of mankind. God's grace teaches us that 'one touch of humanity makej the whole world kin. Calamity or pestilence anywhere awakens Christian sympathy everywhere. Even unbelievers are moved to benevolence, bnt only because they breathe the atmosphere of Christian thought and feeling. "This living righteously Is the guarantee of exact Justice as between man andman. It is manifested In honest dealing In all things, worning the petty tricks of trade, even though sanctioned by current commercial standards. It does the right for the right's sake. Adopted by nations, it would stop the war drum's call to strife; would 'beat swords Into plowshares and spears Into pruning hooks.' and bring about Tennyson's drram of universal peace realized in the federation of mankind. It would make arbitration the invariable resort of civilization, and break down the systems of oppression any ty-nnnj everywhere. It would snap asunder the galling chain binding fair Cuba to despotic cruelty, and

would compel the murderous Turk to hd the piteous wall of down-trodden Armenians. But man's duty rises higher yet. The text forever dissipates the fond delusion which bases salvation on one's honesty and morality. (Many dream of salvation bycharacter Instead of by grace. That would reverse Gal's order. Gaol character Is the fruitage of saving grace. Benevolence Is grand, but reverence for God is grander, for it gives birth to ail true benevolence. We owe duty to our God as well as our fellows. We must walk humbly with our God' as well as 'do Justly and love mercy We should live godly no less than f oberly and righteously. This is the supreme duty this the crown of all virtue the pearl of all goodness. The fear of the Lord Is the beginning of wisdom-' John asked: 'How can a man love Gal and hate his brother? It may be asked with equal force, 'llow can a. man live righteously toward his fellow if he spurn tils God? Thus our selfinterest, our reason, our conscience, no less than the clarion call of the word of God, urge us to 'live soberly, rlghteously and godly In this present world "

AX OLD CITIZEX. ninetieth Anniversary of the; Dlrth day of Henry S. Itookcy. Rev. Mr. Dewhurst, of the Plymouth Church, yesterday gave his morning discourse a peculiar Interest by devoting some time to the fact that; the day was the ninetieth birthday of one of his congregation, Mr. Henry S. Rockey. The venerable gentleman, a pioneer in the growth and development of this city, was present in the congregation, of which he has for many years been a prominent member. It is said of Mr. Rockey that he Is as fresh In mind and body and as progressive in thought as most men In their prime. In speaking of him Mr. Dewhurst recalled that the initial end of Mr. Rockey's life began only fouryears after the death of Washington, and was cast in the administration of the second President of the United. States. It was also pointed out xhat Henry Ward Beecher, -whom Mr. Rockey knew in New England previous to ccmlng to thi9 city, was his junior only by eight years. Both came to this city at the same period. . Continuing Mr. Dewhurst said: "The immense material progress of the world falls within the period covered by the life of our contemporary. We have come to talk in such a nonchalant and matter-of-fact way of our greyhounds of the ocean, each one of which, as it was launched, has the ambition of beating its predecessor in the race across the sea by an hour or two, and we have so had our attention centered on our white equadron. swiftly cleaving the sea at the rate of twenty knots an hour, that It quite staggers us for the moment to consider that when Mr. Rockey was a little fellow about two years old his only chance of taking 'a steamboat ride would have been . In that queer craft of Fulton's, which., as it clattered up the North river, . must have frightened old Hendrlclc Hudson's followers from their hiding places in the Catskills once for all. "Then as for Indianapolis there mus be few people in this town, who have seen it grow so entirely from the beginning. I heard a little girl say the other day that she supposed the soldiers' monument was built Just to show strangers where the center of the city is. When Mr. Rockey came out here, prospecting In the interests of paper manufacturing. It was not difficult to find either the center or the circumference of the town, and as for the circumference, the city fathers had determined with that finality of wisdom which sometimes characterizes them Just how far in each direction the city -would go. "Moreover, in those days (I find a great difference of opinion on the question of the condition in this respect now), but In those days, I have it on the testimony of Mr. Rockey himself, there was malaria here. Ho wrote home to his wife that nothing could persuade him to take up his permanent residence here, and he is here to-day, a living witness to the fact, which the most of us can probably parallel In' our own experience, that we often do those things which we thought we could not do, and perhaps leave undone those things which we were sure we could do. Truly a divinity hedges us all about, both common men and kings. "If our friend here were not quite' so modest and so reluctant to speak I should ask him to stand up hereand tell you today about the things that he has seen, and felt and experienced; I would ask him to tell you about the growth and progress of the city in which you dwell; I would ask him to tell you something of the history and influence of this church. In whose organization he has been almost from the beginning; I would ask him to give you his thought about the spiritual movement of the time In which he has lived, and to tell you that he still believes that mankind is .on. the forward march, and that the future -will have still better days than the past. We must content ourselves with his presence with us here to-day, the recipient of all our heartiest congratulations, our good wishes, our love and our respect."' PLYMOUTH INSTITUTE WORK. Arrangement of the Classen for the Co mi ii ? Season. The Plymouth Institute work this year will consist of classes conducted at the institute, of branch classes and of open evenings. Mrs. L. G. Hufford will have charge of the children's class, -which will meet on alternate Tuesday afternoons, beginning tomorrow.. Ml?a Mary Nicholson will conduct a class in the history of art on Wednesday evenings. Miss Charity Dye will conduct the Lowell class on Thursday afternoons, and Miss Anna Taylor the Emerson Class. Other teachers and classes are as follows: Music study, Mrs. Ch5rles Brown and Mrs. Dewhurst; free drawing, Jesse Brown; Latin or German, Paul Gruman; Spanish, Miss Rosa, Dark; French, iMr. Newland; Interpretation of reading, George F. Bass; physical culture, Emily F. Parker. Miss Florence Fay will conduct a branch class at Brightwood in music, and also in literature. There will also be a branch. class on the South Side. The Lyceum League will meet on-alternate Wednesday evenings. The institute announces a lecture during the season by Hamilton W. Mabie. on "Literature and Life' and one by Miss Jane Addams, of the famous Hull House, Chicago.. The congregation of Plymouth Church will meet at 4:30 on Sunday afternoons for a vesper service. This will take the place of the purely devotional service of Sunday evenings, but lectures.-will be given on Sunday evenings twice a month. FORMER CITIZEN DEAD. Dun orh ter of Robert Goudy, Who Fnrmed on the tnlon Station Site. Information has been received of the death of Mrs. Eliza Goudy Gamble, wife of Dr. James Gamble, at Le Claire, la., on Oct. 6. Mrs. Gamble -was the daughter of Robert and Jane Ansley Goudy, pioneer settlers in Indianapolis. Mr. Goudy owned and lived on the block where the Union Station now stands. He had the block" planted in corn for the familycow. Although by trade a printer, Mr. Goudy worked at carpentry, and built the first Governor's mansion erected In Indianapolis. He moved to Jacksonville,-111., to faucate his large family of lx sons and three daughters. Five sons graduated at Illinois College and became eminent professional men. The daughters were educated at-the Illinois Female Seminary, and have all filled an honored place in society and church circles. The sons are all dead except the youngest one, who was born in Indianapolis in an old Methoiist churca which his father rente,! for a dwelling. Only one daughter survives, Mrs. Mary Goudy Chapman, who has been spending the summer at Sod East Washington street. Mrs. Gamble, when a young girl, was a schoolmate with many of the now old ladles of Indianapolis, among them Mrs. Zerelda Wallace. She was an intimate friend of .Mrs. Bishop Ames, then Mrs. Harrison. Mrs. Gamble's family consisted of a husband and an adopted daughter. Miss Lila J. Cnapman. Dr. J. A. No bit. Dr. J. A. Nesbit, seventy-five years of age, died at his home. In Allisonville, yes-' terday at noon. Dr, Nesbit was one of the plonctr physicians of this county, having moved here from Kentucky with his parents at the age of eight years. He and Dr. Wishard were the first physicians in the county and began to practice about the same time. The funeral will take place at Crown Hill to-morrow morning, in charge of Planner & Buchanan. Mr. Carrie Snntee. Mrs. Carrie Santee, daughter of Mrs. Luella Coleman, died at St. Vincent's Hospital at 7:30 o'clock yesterday morning, after an illness of six months. She was ased twentv-?even years, the funeral wici take place from 302 North Mississippi street at 10 a. m, Tuesday. Services at ,t. Bridget's Cfcurcb.

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MAYOR TACiCART . BESIEGED nv ' rOLITll'IAXS AM OF SI WDAY, Ronrd of Works Selected anil Nnmes M- He Annonneed To-Dny-John P. Frcnicl Calls nt the Grand. Mayor Taggart spent yesterday in deep meditation, except when Interrupted by some office weker or a man with a friend who is an office s.eeker. .He spent most of the day in hi? room at the Grand. Down in the corridorsv firmly planted in an easy chair, sat Martin Murphy and his diamond, patiently waiting for something to develop. Around Mr. Murphy there arose shadows of Michael Fltchey, Michael Burns and Jerre Kelley, either-o whom might be chosen to the coveted office of trret commissioner. Mr. Murphy andxhi diamond .were kept company by the politicians who came ever and anon. ;There were little politicians and big ones, ward statesmen and councihnen, who came to seC the Mayor, but Mr. Taggart was not receiving everybody, so the seekers had to sit around and speculate. Last night John P. Frer.zel, wearing a new silk hat and a nobby light overcoat, called to see Mr. Taggart and was shown up. The banker, so prominent in Democratic circles, created some little stir and many wanted to know what he was after. In times past it has been std that Mr. Taggart and Mr. Frenzel were not, as brothers, and there was some speculation as to what brought Mr. Frenzel to the hotel. The Mayor and the banker were closeted for some time together. Mr. Tagrart was seen after the conference, and before a word was spoken he said: "You want the boards? Well, get your pencil and begin." The politicians could be seen stretching their necka as if to get. thft first information from Mr. Taggart. Tht "latter said: "You may say that I have not appointed any one. Have a cigar?" Mr. Taggart then went on .to say that he had fixed in nis- mind jthe new Board of Works,, but he would have to consult the interested parties further befor making an official appointment. He did not care to mention any names. .'There is one thing, however," said the new Mayor. "I am selecting men who can give the office their entire attention. I ave been thinking and figuring on the Board of Works for some time that is. at times when I get a few minutes to mvself. I have made up my mind what to do. I am going to put men there who will be and can be present at the office and go and inspect public improvements. My board shall be a board of Inspectors who will know something of the work being done and be able to tell whether it is being done properly." . "Is the -work of improvement to continue?" was asked. "Well, not much will be done this fall. The city has under contract about all that can bo completed before cold weather. There Is no use denying that Improvements have made Indianapolis and . the work should proceed, - but not so extensively as to work hardships to the property ownsrs." "When will the announcements of the boards be made?" "I hope to have some appointments to announce to-morrow. There is no hurry, and I wish to proceed with care." Yesterday Mayor Taggart held a number of conferences with prominent members of his party. The appointments to be made were . considered. A leading politician remarked yesterday: "Taggart is all right.. He takes us fellows in there, asks our opinion., talks confidentially to us, don't say a word, but makes us think our adyice is greatly desired, and then he goes and puts in whoever he pleases. I ain't got no kick coming, though." Doard of Safety Meeting;. The Board of Safety met yesterday and considered the business of the department, but it Is said that no removals were considered. Dnnlap'a Celebrated Hats, And all the other new style hats at Seaton's hat store. Hardwood Mantels. Grates. Jno. M. Lilly. Insure your home In the Gens Falls. Rlch,old and mellow. A perfect Bye Whisky, Kleln'i Sliver Age lire, D. M on Dinger, exclusive agent. SOIIMER riANOS, Carlln A Lenor, 31 E. Marktt. SilYr Age Whisky l famous the world over aitbe finest FeniLpure Hye- D.Monnlngerauppllei the trade. For Fine Cigar. riEKSOVS.12 North Peon. ' self-Eielp ' You are weak, run-down' health is frail,strength gone. Doctors call your case anaemia thdre is a fat-famine in your blood. ScottV Emulsion of cod-liver "oil, witli liypophosphites, is the best food-means of getting your strength back yourx doctor will tell you that. He kndws also that when the digestion is weak it is better to break up cod-liver oil out of the body than to burden your tired digestion with it. Scott's Emulsion does that. Scott & Bowml, Chemist. New York. yx. and ti.oa

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