Indianapolis Journal, Volume 51, Number 315, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 November 1901 — Page 3

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XXX The marvelous Merrills, three comic and skillful bicycle, riders, lead the bill of vaudeville that begins at the Grand Opera House this afternoon. Julie Kingsley will present a sketch, and there will be several singers and story tellers. C X X "The Ramblers." who will furnish the variety entertainment at the Empire Theater the first half of the week, are under the direction of James Fennessy, general manager of the People's Theater, of Cincinnati, and the Empire, in this city. This is the econd season for "The Ramblers." They give two burlesques and an intervening olio. Francis "Wilson says he will not again be Been In comic opera, but will devote his attention entirely to musical comedy. Under the management of George W. Lederer, the producer of the Casino shows, he is touring in "The Strollers." He might have paid that the public was tired of him as "the whole thing." and that it is more profitable for him to give other and as clever players a chance to help him create amusement. XXX The comically bunglesome dress of thirty years ao will be worn by Ethel Rarrymore and her assistants in "Captain Jinks, of the Horse Marines." at Kngllsh's to-night and to-morrow night. The story is that of Mme. Trentoni. a young operatic singer that came to this country after having been trained abroad. Her home was in Trenton. N. J., but she returned to Amer ica with a foreign name to make her fame A young man named Captain Jinks fell in love with her. . The comedy Is largely a satire on theatrical life. xxx "Yvette," by J?aul Berton, who wrote "Zaza," has been produced In Faris. It Is a study of on innocent girl surrounded by vil influences and not affected by them. Guy De Maupassant treated this themo In a masterly way in his "Messallnu's Daugh ter. Charles t rohman says he will pre pent "Yvette" In this country. If he should It Is tu be hoped that it will be adapted for the American stage by some person of sufficient ability. David Belasco made over Zaza for Leslie Carter's use and so man gled it that M. Horton, when he saw it in liondon, remarked grimly that he did not recognize it until he had been watching It an nour. XXX Charles Frohman has laid out his win ter's campaign in New York definitely. Maude Adams will begin to present J. M. Barrie's new play. "Quality Street." at the Knickerbocker Theater to-night. Next .Monday night Augustus Thomas s new play. "Colorado." will be produced at Wallaces. Wilton Lackaye will have the prin cipal roie. 'lhe story is of life in the min ins camps. Virginia Harned will have her ilrst chance at metropolitan1 favor as a tdar on Dec. 2 at the Garden Theater in "Alice of Old Vlncer.:its." John Drew will continue to play "The Second in Command" at the Empire Theater until Christmas week, when he will begin his tour, and the Empire stock company, which is traveling now, win go into its home. Martr iret An glln. who was seen here as Roxane in Richard Manstleld's production of "Cyrano De Bergerac." is the leading woman of the i-.mr-lre company, and the leading man is Charles Rlchman, who was with Annie Russell when she played "Miss Hobbs" in this city, season before last. The com pany will present H. V. Esmond's "The Wilderness." Mr. Esmond is an Englishman, and he wrote "When We Were Twenty-one." which N. C. Goodwin and Maxine Elliott are now playing in London. Charles Jlawtrey. an English comedian, will con tlnue to pl.ty "A Message from Mars" at the oarnck Theater until the end of January, when he will give way to a company acting Mty rami, a new drama. 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TWO SERMONS ON LIVING

IIY Tili: HI1V. It. S. OSGOOD AMI THE REV. VIRGIL W. TEVIS. Love of Vanity Tumi Glory Into Dimhonor -Miiti May Return n Cultivated Soul to Its Mnker. The Rev. R. S. Osgood, at the Mayflower Congregational Church, preached yesterday morning upon the vanity of man and the love of sinful things, taking his text from Psalms, iv, 2: "Oh. ye sons of men, how long will ye turn my glory into dishonor? How long will ye love vanity and seek after falsehood?" He said in part: "This Is the cry of a desperate man who felt himself misjudged. It indicates very clearly how every department of a man's life may be won over to evil and permeated with sin; how his thoughts may be misled, his affections perverted, and his will depraved. The first cry of the text can only refer to wrong judgment. Here Is a man who is conscious that he has something In his life for which he should be praised, but who realizes that he is receiving censure for this very thing. That is, his glory is turned into dishonor. We might illustrate it in this way. Only a few days ago one of the Chicago papers printed an article severely criticising the Hull House and the Chicago Commons for having anything to do with persons avowing themselves to be Anarchists, when, as a matter of fact. It Is the glory of the social settlement that It can reach with its uplifting influence to just such people. One might as well condemn the Rescue Mission for allowing vicious women and criminal men within its doors. The man who condemned Christ as a gluttonous man and a wine bibber was guilty of turning His glory Into dishonor. We are all in danger of doing this very thing blaming a man for doing that thing for which we should praise him, and praising him for that for which he should be condemned. "The second step Is shown In the ques tion, 'How long will ye love vanity?' It is a serious matter in the development of character when a man begins to find pleas ure in things that are low and debasing. The vilest thing3 in this world are the prostitutions of the most beautiful and the most sacred. The abuse of the most glo rious creates the most shameful. e see this sinister development of a man's de sires very largely in the uses to which he puts his leisure time; that is. in the amusements which he seeks. The great power for good which dramatic representations might be is largely destroyed by virtue of the degrading spectacles which they are made to present. The glory of the theater 13 turned into shame because of man's love for vanity. "But the third thought of the text takes us to still deeper development In the question, 'How long will ye seek for falsehood?' Wherever people who delight in low amuse ments are found there wm also De iouna men and women who are willing to sell their very souls to provide those low amusements. If congregations prefer to listen to diverting addresses rather than to spiritual sermons ministers will be found who are willing to furnish the sensations. But whenever the kingdom of God la to come upon the earth and His will be done on earth as it is in heaven men must learn that their ordinary business must be so prosecuted that it shall uplift the morals of the community as well as line their pockets. It 13 as much the physician's business to teach physical hygiene as It is the preacher's business to inculcate spiritual soundness. It is as much the lawyer's business to inspire in the people a respect and love of the civil law as it is the preacher's business to Inspire in his auditors a love and respect for divine law. The business man is as much under obligation to create in his patrons a demand for really worthy things as the preacher Is under obligation to stimulate in his hearers a hunger and thirst after righteousness. "This may be a visionary presentation, but 'where there Is no vision the people perish. Whatever real failure any one of us makes In life is solely due to the fact that we are making wrong use3 of things that are good in themselves, or. in the words of the text, we are turning the glory of our fellows and our own glory Into that which is dishonor. We are loving vanity and seeking deliberately after falsehood. This is perversion of life, for all the creatures of God are good, and not one of them is to be refused, but let us learn how to use the world and not abuse it." THE HimiEIl EAHTII LIFE. Subject of Her. J. Cnmmlnff Smith Sermon t Tabernacle Clinrcli. Rev. J. Cumming Smith preached at Tabernacle Church yesterday morning on the theme, "The Higher Earth-llfe'Wohn Iii. 12. He said In part: "Jesus tells Nlcodemus that His preaching told of earthly things, and in this respect differed from most religious seers and prophets that sought to unfold heaven. They looked up. He looked up by looking down and around and sensing God everywhere. "An examination of His sermons and conversations will reveal a unique earthliness as their original characteristic. There is a singular lack of ecstasy or rapture in the ordinary use of those words. There is plenty of mystery to prompt the church to study for centuries, but even the mystery clings to earth as ivy to oak. What is the secret? It is simply that there is a glory waiting to be revealed in our earthly experiences: that heaven is an everpresent fact to those who have eyes to see, and that the music regaling God's high throne is a music whose main chords may be heard here by those who have ears to hear. Hence He unites, or rather unifies earth and heaven to the present and the future. "Look at His parables. The seed-sown field and fecund soils, the birds of the air and the lilies fair, the merchant and pearlgatherer and taxgatherer, the vine dresser and shepherd and housekeeper, the banker and insolent foreman and quizzical skeptic and lovable, rclentant millionaire from palace to ho-el, from chamber of commerce to tish market, from beasts prowling In the wood to birds of prey the whole gamut of business and pride and ambition He sounded. He belittled nothing and magnified everything because He saw the life and law of eternity at work everywhere. "An untaught savage sees little In the diamond until the expert shows its value and takes it from him! The ignorant, stumbling novice quarrels with the squeaking melodeon at home until the genius touches the keys and shows the possibilities of even the abused and criticised instrument. And in like manner, while religious speakers were wont to minimize or scandalize the world and chant the glory ineffable of the other world. Jesus appeared upon the calumniated world and opened up its hidden wealth of beauty and suggestion until our common life began to shine with the holiness unspeakable. THE NEW MESSAGE. "Now, what value was this? In the first place, the new message came by one who knew heaven to the last letter; one clothed with an omniscient Insight and warmth of view and who spoke with authority. It was no dream, no witching theory, no mere poetic vista or vision. The supernaturalnesss of Jesus is our banner truth. In the second place, this supernatural Jesus glori-ii-d the natural by making it the seed germ of the supernatural. If men doubted heaven He pointed them to earth; if men were skeptical about the new birth Jesus referred to the birth of the body and soul; if men hung back while He insisted on growth toward God He spoke a sentence of illumination em the Illy, the stalk or spiout of grain. "In otln r words, while other religionists attempt to make religion mystical, Jesus succeeded In making it reasonable, and this, not to philosophTs, but to plain people; and that. too. without speaking ilown to their level, but by lifting them up to His level. Nothing is so amusing as the assumption that the average man Is brainless or h artless, and that the best things are waited on him. A genius will take deepest mysteries and make them sparkle with simplicity. "Take the new Lirth. How many skeptic stagger at it as If it were a peculiarity of the religious life! Jesus said the birth of the body is as open to the change of mystery as the birth of the soul, and yet babes are born by the million in spite of all the InsolvaMe mystery, and ah! what is far more, souls are born to loe by the love of (Jod. millions of them, while the world stands aside or sneers. 'What 1 the doctrine that so disturbs? ' It Is that life comes Into a soul; 'Murvtd

not that ye must be born again. Does not life enter an embryo? Does not life enter the seed fern? Without life in each, is not each a collection of dead, inert atoms?

Does any science know what that secret life force Is. or how it was inbreathed, or how it quickens into growth? And yet, while we are stilled by the mystery, does it not grow while we gaze? The babe into the lltle, romping, overfull boy; the seed into the full wheat; the seed Into the rounding rose or drooping lily. "Setting all quibbles aside, is not each one of you conscious of a life in you higher than the life of the body? Are there not thirsts no spring of earth can slake? Are there not wants, are there not hopes, are there not possibilities no power of mere clay can meet and nurse and brighten? There lies your spiritual part, with its own resistless demands, which God is bound to recognize just as a seed has a life of its own needs which nature cannot ignore. Then men retort that we can see the orchards ripen before our very eyes, and the boys mature Into muscly vigor on our very streets in such an unmistakable way that no neighbor can question their reality and we admit that a real live boy can never be an interrogation point! And by their appeals to the realm of actual facts they seem to silence us all. But if the boy is a fact and the bough loaded with ruddy fruit Is a fact, are not growing men facts? Are not men of increasing wisdom facts In real life? Have you not known some men whose growth is so wondrous In patience, in steadiness, in unselfishness, in self-mastery, in knowledge of God's secret ways that you have looked on them as you have looked on the flower that feels the magic of springtime and blushes Into beauty? MANY DIFFICULTIES. "Then men retort that there are difficulties with men's spiritual development from vhich the blooms of the garden are set free, and for once the men of the world become poetic which they disdain! Here again the poet seer peeps down close to earth and reveals the struggle, the constant unvoiced struggle of every blade of grass and every lowly plant. Everything in na ture has Its opposition, its pests, its para sites, its fragile delicacy that shudders with every harsh breeze. In a word, Jesus brought heaven near forever. He taught that the spiritual life is as real and in vincible as any life, and that the laws of birth and growth and struggle and con quest are universal that to be skeptical in the one case is as wise as to be skeptical of life in all cases, and that he who grows in soul may look out on the flowers and birds, on government and trade, and teel the kinships of them all; that he who knows the love of God here knows the farthest heaven. "The ministers of Chicago appeared wor ried over the future fate of Li Hung Chang. Perhaps the worry should have begun long ago in more ardent missions to China. How ever, what do we ministers know more than others know on such a theme? If heaven Is a present possibility, if the spir itual qualities of God are transferable and can be wrought into the future of the soul, then the whole question is not what happens at death, but what happened before death. If God was at work in that great man's soul as he strove to emancipate China and fought with rare courage tho unyielding conservatism of Queen and court and If that man grew according to the dim. dusky light that reached him in a heathen land then the question settles it self and death means the chance of farther growth In that same direction. Death cuts little figure in any case. It is the openness of the soul to the light God lets down that is the critical matter. SER3IOX ON "THE CHRISTIAN." Rev. Dr. Stnnsfleltl'a Discourse at Me-rldinn-Street Church. The Rev. Joshua Stansfield of the Meridian-street M. E. Church Inaugurated several weeks ago a series of sermons with the general title of "On Some Essentials of Christian Doctrines." Last night the Rev. Dr. Stansfield delivered the fourth of the series of theological discourses on "The Christian." Next Sunday night the discussion of "Human Destiny" will finish the series. As a preface to the sermon Dr. Stansfield outlined his conception of the nature of God. He spoke of the graclousness, the mercy and the beneficence of the Deity, and dwelt with emphasis upon how good to humanity God is and how long suffering In the face of the violations of His laws From what we know of the character of God, he said, it Is reasonable to suppose that He would interest himself in the con dition of sinful men. All His laws are beneficent. Not alone the Sabbath law. but all are for the sake of man. The great benefit of God's laws are that they may disclose to man the true nature of his sinful condition; for by the law Is the true nature of sin shown. Sin Is not merely falling short, a failure, not merely a state of "not having yet arrived." it is rather according to the teachings of the Scripture our own moral sense, volitional violation of the law. God so loved the world that He gave his own Son. He so loved that He came and linked himself with humanity for the high purpose of redeeming it from sin and evil. "We have seen the man that was and is by nature." said Dr. Stansfield. "To-night we have to consider the Christian, or the man that Is to be. When I say Christian I do not mean Hall Caine's 'Christian.' I do not have reference to the character of John Strong. The spice of Hall Caine's Christian was in Glory Quayle, the glorious woman who came so near to moral annihilation and yet so gloriously and bravely held her own In the Insidious fight. There are certain New Testament terms which we must consider In obtaining an under standing of the real meaning of the word Christian. Some of these terms are 'jus tification.' reconciliation, 'adoption. If we are not prepared to accept their import as determined by the older theologians, we must examine them for ourselves and take from them or put into them sorue satisfactory meaning of our own. These terms are the expressions of the experiences of the first New Testament Christians, and we must surely see In the terms the truth that God did a great work for them and for the church. "Our acceptation of the terms must be a matter of personal consciousness. Would you forgive and receive an erring and wandering soul In a worthy spirit and in a manner to keep him from being hurt and humiliated by your forgivenness? "The term Christian is not to be ex plained by the terms of relative change. There is such a real change in the believ er's life by the touch and power of God that he becomes Indeed a new creature. The incarnation means this: The divine taking up of the human. No man grows from the natural into the spiritual, from the lower into the higher moral kingdoms. He Is rather birthed anew. 'He is born above.' This is Scriptural teaching and in perfect harmony with the law of life as we know it in every other realm. The in animate kingdom nor the physical into the moral except by the action, the downreaching of the higher as God came down for man. When man links his nature with God he becomes a new creature in Christ Jesus a perfect Christian. "Having thus by power of faith through Christ been brought into the heavenlv kingdom, the Christian becomes a disciple or Jesus, a learner of Christ. He becomes more than that, he becomes a coworker with God and a man may measure his Christianity by his sympathy with, and his appreciation of, the principles and the pro gramme of that divine kingdom on earth. "The true Christian is thoroughly cos mopolitan. He is a citizen of the worldGod s world. He is not so much an American, an Englishman, a German or a Frenchman as he is a God's man, a citizen of the kingdom of heaven. "To be a true Christian a man must not be afraid of danger, of suffering, of shame. of death, even. Even in this day and age all these conditions are still present to face the toiler in God's field. He must be a member of the militant church and prepare to fight its battles, not alone in his soul, but openly before thu world. He must take its burdens on his own shoulders. He must take up with God the toilsome labors of the world." nisi: of v. m. c. a. A DiNcourNe ly Rev. C. E. Ilncon at Robert! 1'nrk Church. In his sermon last night at Roberts Park Church the Rev. C. E. Bacon told of the rise of the Young Men's Christian Association and its beginning in London. It was started for the benefit of the apprentices in London shops. There were lcAGuO apprentices in London in the early '40's. They worked from early to late and slept in the shops. Thoir only time of recreation xx a after the close of the shops, and that time they spent mostly at the taverns. Religious men urged the organization of the "Society to lmprox-e the Condition of Young Men Engaged In the Drapery or Other Trades." The movement spread to America in 1S43. The Y. M. C. A. was an offspring of the church, said Mr. Bacon. Many persons, ha

said, did not realize what the church does through Its Sunday school and Bible study classes. To prosper in this work it should

make its services helpful and spiritual. It cannot compete with entertainments, and its services should be cheerful, but deeply spiritual. Social evenings should be pro vided, and an opportunity ror benevolent helpfulness given. The Epworth League does this. Young men. said the preacher, should realize that in being devoted to the church they are serving their greatest in terest, for Godliness is profitable, ine church, he said, offers far more than the saloon, the theater, the dance hall or the card table. It offers the truest, prosperity here and in heaven hereafter. "WHAT -MAY HE TAKEN OUT. Mr. Tevis DlMCtiKses n Plan's Progress ThrouKh This World. At the Fletcher-place Church yesterday morning the Rev. Virgil W. Tevis spoke from I Tim., vi. 7: "We brought nothing into this world, and it Is certain we can carry nothing out." In substance Dr. Tevis said: Two indisputable facts confront us. We came; we are going, and hence are only temporarily here. Like a traveler on his way home, pitching nis tents in a aengntful snot for a wniie. a splendid tenting ground is this. A lovely spot is this world, if we are in harmony with it. But we pass this way only once. e came uniquely. We were utterly dependent. Absolutely empty-handed. We had faculties, but knew not how to use tnem. jittie oy nttie we learned, and there was much to learn. Our process of schooling is still going on. The knowable, like an infinite range of mountain peaks, rises. One fact reveals another, and end there is none. We had a moral nature, but we had to learn the dif ference between right and wrong. This was a process involving wounds and leaving scars. We learned, however, that wrong hurt and that right brought glad ness, and so there has been instilled into the human heart the eternal principle of rectitude, which is the basis of all successful living. We woke up to the fact that we had a conscience, and that conscience gave us either a rack of torture or an angel song, as we pleased. We had a heart, but we had to learn the lesson of love and loss. Love dawned upon us and made this old world a paradise. Separation came and drew heaven into our orbit and made it very near ever since,. However, we Drought nothing material outside of ourselves. All the material things were here. Money was here, but we had to learn how to obtain it and then to properly use it. Honors were here, but we had to learn how to win them and then how to modestly bear them and not be spoiled by them. We brought somewhat of the splendor or a better country witn us. We had our Innocence, which we lost after a while. The fair page became blotted. While we slept the enemy sowed thistles. We brought an immortal spiritual nature with us. a nature which can never die, which must live forever, whether we wish it or not. We came as explorers and discoverers to a strange country. There was much to find out for ourselves. Hence some things we have learned while here. We have learned that the better part of life Is living like God. In freedom from sin. and In perfectly doing His will. We may be princes. We may have dominion. The first step in acquiring dominion is to conquer self. To conquer self Is to conquer sin. We have also discovered that we are in the arena of conflict. That good may triumph over evil, and that good triumphing over evil makes paradise. ve have also learned that the garden of the soul may bloom with fairest flowers, though the sky may be leaden and the winds of adversity bite. We have a conservatory of our own, if we will it, where the fires of religion keep out all frosts. W have found that there is a method by which we may not dread pulling up stakes and marching on to home. If it be home? Home is where the Father is. It is a place of congeniality; of perfect sym pathy between its members. The stingy and the mean are not there. The wicked and the unruly are not there. Home is a place where all are under loving discipline. We have round mat "there are some things we cannot carry with us. They would not fit the homeland If we did. Material accumulations are not needed there. The coin of this realm will not pass In that kingdom. The only process by which money can be exchanged for the currency of that country is to send it upon the wings of love, on errands of mercy for Christ's sake. We will leave our accumu lations when we go. YV e will not need money on the passage, for the pale boat man who ferries us across the river exacts no toll. A little worldly honor does not count. The only honor in that land comes to a meek disciple, who with heart surcharced with love becomes a soul winner and is enabled to cast nis iropnies at the Savior's feet. But there are some things we have trained here we may take with us. We may take an enriched memory. As an artist starting with many a blank canvas will in the progress of the years enrich them with the fruit of his toil, so we have many a canvas hung upon the walls of memory Here are some flashing scenes of divine manifestation. Here are some good deeds accomplished. Yonder some golden oppor tunities improved. Here are some splendid victories won. Just as the old warrior hangs his armor and his battle ax upon the walls of his home and rinds his pulses beating quicker at their contemplation, so upon the walls of memory hang the tro phies of a splendid warfare, at the contem platlon of which the soul rejoices. We may carry our affections with us. We may present a cultivated soul back to its Maker. Because of these facts let us use the commodities of this world only as com modlties. Let us cultivate love for man and love for God. This will enrich us both in time and In eternity. Let us treasure up those things which will carry over into the homeland. ELDER DARTLETT'S VIEWS. He Prenehes a Pessimistic Sermon In Adventlsts Church. Elder Bartlett, of the Adventists Church, last night preached upon the subject, "The Future of the United States Politically and Religiously." He said the tendency of the times was for the gradual reinstatement of the power of the Catholic Church -In civil government In the old country, and that a similar movement, although not Roman Catholic, is becoming apparent in the United States. He said the drift of events points to a union of church and state and that when that time comes, oppression and persecution will befall those who do not ac cept the religion of the government. I If said in the new insular possessions the policy of a government by the people has been overlooked, that It is government of Congress, by Congress and for Congress: that the Constitution is overreached and the Declaration of Independence seems to be worn out and not applicable. He said a movement is already on foot in this country to bring the churches together and estab lish a theocracy, and that it is the lirst step toward a religious image that all must worship. This undercurrent will gradually Increase. he said, until the Roman Catholic Church regains its former papal power in all the countries it once controlled and the United States Is dominated by almost an identica power. The enforcement of Sunday law, he said, is a prominent step in bringing these changes about and that It indicates what may follow when the state becomes Impregnated with religion. Another indication of the trend of events, ne said, is that min isters do not dare preach the truth because there are those in their congregations that cheat and are hypocrites. Meeting I Catholic Societies. William P. Congrove and P. J. Kelleher have been chosen by the members of Bcs Sonics Commandery, Knights of Father Mathew. as delegates to represent the so elety at the meeting of the Federation of Catholic Societies, to De neid in jincinnat Dec. 10. DEATH FROM A BLOW. . Mnck Rurnhnm Dies Without Giving? Clexv to Ills Assailants. Mack Burnham, a hack driver, who was assaulted at No. 224 West Chesapeake street early Wednesday morning by two mn, one of whom struck him over the head with a piece of wood which was used as a stove poker, died last night at 9:30 o'clock at the City Hospital. He became ii .-. ,o. r, ur-lnn Kortlv Jifter the iissanlt nn.l elid not recover. Yesterday morning he was taken to tne uny nospuai as tne only chance of saving his life. Burnham. if he lmnw Vil iis.iilants. was unable to tell their names. They were unknown to his wife, and she was able to give but a meager tlescrlptlon of them to the police. 1 . , I .-I c-. ,1 e . t .lii . . . . . .11 w no were nui ctuii .i. ukuut uuu T)i mn whii assaulted nurnham were drunk and' boisterous and entered the Ii . iLt- 1 . . . . house demanding inings us u iney owned the nlace. nurnham's xvife ordered them out and they threatened her. Burnham aa IM In hlt bed but he eot nn nnd trie lU pul IUC 1 ' w ivui f-, k a yrn the stick and struck him over the head with it-

YOUNG PREACHER HEARD

REV. OWEX DAVIESS OD ELL AT THE SECOND PRESBYTERIAN. He DellKhte! n Large CoiiRregnt ionIn Appearance He Resembles Rev. Joseph A. Milburn. The fine weather and the prospect of hearing a sermon from a prominent young minister brought to the Second Presby terian Church yesterday morning a congregation that quite tilled the auditorium. The quartet choir, brilliantly seconded by Organist Hansen, rendered an enjoyable musical programme. The pulpit was occupied by Rev. Owen Daviess Odell, of Du buque, la,, one of the youngest and most eloquent divines in the Presbyterian Church in the West. Mr. Odell, In voice and mannerisms, suggests Mr. Milburn, former pas tor of Second Church, and it was noticeable that the congregation was pro foundly affected by his discourse and" the method of its delivery. Mr. Odell took as his text Tsalms xxxvii, "Rest in the Lord and wait patiently for Him." The minister said, in part: "God could break mankind, but He pre fers to melt and remold it after the pat tern of Galilee and Calvary. Have you watched the methods of God's redeeming grace? Have you ever thought that to the sons of men He has given centuries and ages and all time? Have you realized that this book, which is the revelation of His will, was not written in a day; that it took centuries of ages before God could write at the close of it: 'If any man shall take away from the words of the prophecy of this book God shall take away his portion out of the book of life and close It forever?' "Have you ever thought of the progress of the divine disclosure In this book? In the earliest ages God was almost an ab straction to His people. What was His name? 'I am that I am.' There is no love in that, nothing to cling to, nothing to love, but step by step He revealed himself In experiences that created more divine and winsome men, and He was known soon as the sun, and the tower, and the rock, and the shield, and the shepherd. Put that next to the T Am,' and now you have a love that you can cling to, you have a heart that throbbed. But this is not all. One final step In the divine selfdisclosure was to come. No longer em bodied in beautiful and winsome names, but now the 'word becomes flesh and dwells with men.' They see His glory, God manifested in the flesh, not in a day nor in a century, but age upon age, and now we know. DIVINE REDEMPTION. "And have you watched also the progress of divine redemption from the time when man was not allowed so much as to touch the holy places to the time when the veil of the temple was rent from top to bottom and he could go with boldness into the holiest of holies? Have you watched that red stream, from the first sacrifice that was offered, small as it was, to the last sacrifice that was offered, great and everlasting as it is; that that river flowed on, not through one year, one century, one age, but through all ages and centuries, and still flows on the blood of Calvary's own prince? "We must remember also that we are too near to see how God is working. We appear and disappear; we do not catch the breath of eternal things, and yet how wise we are In our Judgments and how comprehensive in our thought! We have our petty nostrums and our well-spun theories, and sometimes we are tempted to think the millennium is just oxer the hilltop, and that we can reach it on tomorrow's express. Stand back! We have not found the everlasting point. of view; we are too near to see exactly how God is working. How very foolish and fallible we are. We say that evil is undiminishing and good is bathed and buffetetl as much as ever. Let us stand back. Men In St. Paul's day, not many noble, not many mighty, not many wise were called, and they could not see how in that Roman Empire, that sin-drenched empire, In Rome itself, that hell with the sun shining into itr the grace or Jesus Christ could prevail, but when one century, two centuries, three centuries passed by very many noble, very many mighty, very many wise are called to sustain the weight of Christian success. "To-day we do not know what divine forces are being created in our midst. If we could stand in the vantage ground of the txventy-rlrst century we should be startled and surprised to see what causes and motives and powers work at the present time. We would see that it is not the large things that are doing God's will so much as the small things. And at deith, to recall the words of a great poet, 'God forgive me if I am wrong, but I look forward to death with a deep and reverent curiosity,' at death shall we see all our past at once? To be able to overlook one's history, to divine its meaning In the gentle concert and in the divine harmony would indeed be the be-ginning of eternal happiness. We have seen nothing but our little packing of mist, but suddenly a marvelous panorama and marvelous distances will open up before our dazzled eyes. And when time has ceased and things are added "up we will know that not only the great movements but the small ones have done God's will, and that in the arithmetic of heaven not only the whole numbers are counted, but the fractions are considered as well! It is not Niagara that makes the world green, but the purling stream and the babbling brooks and the gently falling rain and the silent dew. NOT COMING FAST ENOUGH. "In our day men are not coming fast enough into the kingdom. Every day is not a day of pentecost. The kingdom of heaven does not suffer violence and the violent do not take it by the storm of their passion. We are tempted to let down the standard. We call sin a mistake and moral depravity hereditary weakness. We praise mechanical ethics until they take the place of conversion and the judgment day becomes a fiction. All this in our haste. We cannot wait for God, and in our sinfulness our sanctitication does not come fast enough. Old sins die hard and we have not that sense of triumph that we expected when we first followed the captain of our salvation. Why is it? 'Hast thou not known, hast thou not heard the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth? There is no searching of His understanding.' "There is one great, grand providence in which all things are Included and under which all things are controlled God's comprehensive plan for the world and your life, and not one atom of you is lost but goes infallibly into God's treasury, living and working throughout eternity there." Mr. Odell preached In the same church again last night. Although no definite statement was given out. it was understood that the committee having in charge the matter of selecting a new pastor for Second Church was favorably impressed by Mr. Odell's preaching. It is not known that he could be Induced to come to Indianapolis, since the subject has not as yet been broached cither to him or to any of his congregation In Dubuque. He came to Second Church yesterday in response to an invitation from members of the committee who heard him preach in his own church several Sundays ago. Roy Hurt nt Football. Tom Connor, a boy living at 517 West Norwood street, broke his collar bone yesterday afternoon during a football scrimmage on River avenue. He was taken by his companions to the City Dispensary, where the bone was set, and he was then sent home. Stole from Street Shotvease. A show case in front of M. BInzer's store, at 412 East Washington street, was broken open yesterday afternoon and a number of articles of the aggregate value of 525 taken. The thief was bold, doing his work while there were many people on the street. Call 11 1 in h Known Thier. Edward Smiley, of 121 Norwood street, was sent to police headquarters yesterday afternoon by Detectives Dugan and Mc Guff and slated as a known thief. lie has been many times In the workhouse for oetty thieving.

Good for Not Bad for Sozodont - Sozodont TootK Powder Large Liquid and Powder All stores or by mail for the price. Sample EARTH'S DOOR OF HOPE SERMON IIY 3IR. HAIXES, OF THE FIRST IR ES BYTE III AX CIIIRCH. Announced to Congregation In HIkIi School that Its vr Build hc Soon Will Be Ready. An unusually large congregation In tho assembly hall of the Shortrldge High School building heard a sermon on "Christian Optimism" yesterday morning by the Rev. M. L. Haines, of the First Presbyterian Church. Before his sermon, Mr. Haines announced that the new building of the First Fresbyterian congregation will bß ready for occupancy in four weeks cr less. The sermon yesterday morning was the third of a series of discourses by Dr. Haines. Its Inspiration was found In the gospel text: "Now the God of hope fill you with all Joy and peace In believing that ye may abound In hope." Its theme was "Hope" and Dr. Haines spoke of hope as a door leading to peace from the terrors and troubles of the valley of Achor trouble. "The instinct of hope, natural to man," said Mr. Haines, "Is taken up by the gospel of Christ and purified and developed until it becomes an abiding and powerful principle of living. It is not, as many suppose, primarily a matter of temperament, but rather of faith In God. Christianity, supremely among the religions of the world, is a religion of hope. Christian hope Is not an unproved theory. It Is thoroughly proved by the testing- experiences of life. As the gospel tells us, 'Experience maketh hope and hope maketh not ashame .' A Christian sailor once said In his last hours: 'The anchor holds.' While the anchor of hope does not quiet the storm, it holds the ship and enables it to ride out the tempest until the shadows flee away and day dawns. Christian hope, further, is morally purifying. This arises from its personal character, for it centers not in a place, but in a person. It arises from Jesus Christ. He is our hope and to see Him and be like Him is our highest anticipation. 'And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself even as he is pure.' We pitch our lives r.t the height of the good. We really anticipate. "Christian hope is more than the hope laid up for us in heaven, of what we snail be and enjoy there. It is also an expectation in regard to the experiences of ihis life that anticipates that they may and will be for good. It is the spirit that expects life in the world to be richer and better, not necessarily in natural comforts, but in moral and spiritual possessions. Whatever part hope has to play In the life beyond, there is no question of the value of it In this life. David Hume rightly called it 'real riches.' Here and there are men who have had such bitter experiences in the world that they have lost contidence in men and things. They Have been so misled and deceived and lisappointed that they have lost all hope of their fellow-men, of themselves, or of God. They have no outlook for the future, they simply hang on to existence. The well springs of their lives are dried up. They are like last year's mullein stalks. They have the Idea that their troubles and failures are caused hy a lack of good luck, of opportunity, of physical health. The real underlying ces of their weakness are two things i. ' of faith and lack of hope. THE DOOR OF HOPE. "To all genuine penitents Christ makes a glorious promise. 'I will give the valley of Achor for a door of hope. You and I need no map to tliscover the location of the valley of Achor meaning trouble and defeat because of sin for we have all been there. We have all sinned and felt the shame and the despondency that comes from It. But through genuine repentence the despondency has been lifted and we have passed through the door of hope opened by God's mercy into a life that expects larger and better things. "Fitly does one of our beneficient institutions place over its gateway the words, 'Door of Hope.' That Institution manifests in its sympathy and practical relief to the suffering and the fallen that message which is so near to the heart of the good news of the gospel of Christ. Everywhere sin abounds, God's prace and mercy may much more abound. How often have the doors of the institution to which I refer been to the sad. sin-burdened hearts as the valley of Achor changed by Jod's grace into a ioor of hope through which the forgiven one enters into a new life. The spirit of Christian hope is one that inspires us to patient endurance when the things of life go hard with us. Ancient stoic philosophy Inculcated the doctrine of endurance, but 5t Is the glory of Christianity that It teaches the patience of hope. That is much more than mere acquiescence in the Inevitable, with no outlook for the future. "Half of our work In the world and the hardest half is waiting, and hope is the inspiration of great waiting. Hope is not merely a sustaining power under trials, but an inspiring power under service. It is the hope sometimes of the seeming impossible that achieves most. It is Columbus, standing on the deck of his tossing ship, and day after day to the fear-smitten sailors urging him to turn back, saying. 'Sail on.' How often fear stands at the prow of the ship. and. looking out, says, 'The storm is rising and we never can weather lt. Fear lies, but weak souls believe the lie. The talk even of some Christian people is like the breath from an Iceberg. It is Mr. Despondency and Mr. Much Afraid come back to life with all their soul-chilling enunciations. It is the opposite of that spirit of every true man living in a world over which God reinns and which Christ died to redeem." VAN BUREN STAIRWALDT DEAD. He Had Reen Engaged In the ReaU Entate Riiftlnenn In Till City. Van Huren Stairwaldt. a real-estate dealer, who had offlces In the Raliwin blotk. died last night of exhaustion at his home, 671 East Pratt street, after an Illness of many months. He was sixty-four years of age. He was born on a f irm in Franklin county, near Columbus. O., and was the youngest of thirteen children. His parents died when he was five years old. and a few years later he became dissatisfied with Iiis home life and ran away. In 1M: ho started for California, and reached there on Sept. lo, the day after he was twelve yeujs of age. He remained in California for eight years, making his living by working with packtralns. He r--turned to Columbus, o., in li and remained there until the beginning of the civil war. when he enlisted with the First Ohio Hatte ry. with which ho serveel throughout the war. He returned again to Columbus and lived there until h7 when he came to Indianapolis. Here he entered the real-estate business, ami had charge of Dr. H. R. Allen's property. He was married at Richmond in l7u, and his widow survives him. He leaves one laughter, Mri. J. C. Hart. Who lived with him The funeral arrangement will be made Uttr.

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The new home of the Door of Hope will be at the southeast corner of Market and New Jersey streets, a location, in the opinion oC the officers of the institution, peculiarly fitted for the establishment of such a charity. The building Is to be cf three stories, of brick and stone, and will be completely furnished with nil modern conveniences. Its plans are now belnjr prepared and the other eletalls of the bulld'ng are still In course of cor.slderatlon by tne board of trustees. It will be erected next spring, and Is expected to be completed and ready for occupancy about June 1. Six months ago the institution purchased the site at Market and New Jersey Ft recta, paying for it J14,O0, and the work of tearing down the small buildings which now occupy the site will commence the first of next year. The buildin is to cost 15,ooo. The Door of Hope, according to the statements of ministers and offlcrM of promiscuous charities, is accomplishing a remarkable work in this city, and from an Insignificant little Fociety a few years ago has grown to such proportions that a magnificent structure is necessary for the carrying on of its work. On an average, dally thirty homeless, deserted, friendless women are cared for by the institution. Its force as a factor in the general scheme for the alleviation of human misery in Indianapolis is re cognize 1 by business me n, who yearly contribute large sums for its t-upport, and by ministers of the gospel, who come in dally contact with its work. The avt-rage annual cost of maintaining the institution Is about $1". and every cent of the amount is obtained by popular subscrirtion. With the comleiion of the nevr home and the enlarge merit of the Fcope and workings of the institution the cost of Its maintenance will be- larg-ly luorasl. find the officers of the soeiety are very anxious to arouse the interest of citzens generally In the nature and vahn- of the K""d accomplished. The money to pay for the new home will be obtained principally through private subscription. Church s will be asked to b-lp. business men will be called on for sums to aid in its completion and individuals generally will be asked to assist. I!y the time the structure is ready for occupancy the larger amount of the sum is expected to be obtained. The present orhcers of the Door of Hop Societv are: M. A. Totter, pre sident; John F. Wild, treasurer; John W. Wood, secretary; Dr. Wilmer Christian, director. The present superintendent of the institution is Lydia C. Rrumblay. The g nerous tinanci.il support and energy of the present managing board has made possible the new building and the consequent development of the society's work. O'CONNELL CLUB BALL. Affair to Re Held In Totnllnoti Hall Thl Week. The second annual ball of the O'Connell Club, the amusement feature of the Dessor.ies Commande-ry, Knights of Father Mathew, will be given r:cxt Thursday night In Tomlinson Hall. Mr. Harry Doyle and Miss Mayme Igan will lead the grand march. Following are the officers for the evening's ente rt.iir.mer.t : Officers Patrick C. Carney, president; Thorn. is H. (Jib-on. vice pre.-ld- nt: Tn.-nias F. Carson, tinunil.il s.rrtury: William A. lib-on. crr-sp.inilr.g s r tary: David 1. Newman, r e .rdii.g secn-tary; William 1. Co.-srove, treasurer. Floor Committee. Chief Harry I'. !'!. Assistant Chi ff William A. Cihson and Thomas F. Cill.-s ie. Aids Daniel J. Canuany. Arthur T. Cudworth. 1-Mward Doyle. i:njtnu:i F. Fiti, D-mis J. Criffin. Jerry (l in n. Harry J. Kalb. Patrick O'Connor. Janu s Tr. iton, Arthur Thi' le. D.n.i. 1 J. I..ftus. Patrick F. Mt h in. Janu s Mahra-y, D..iiil Mal 'i:, y, James J. Murphy, J rry F. Murphv. J. hra Morrison. Thon. .is F. Smith. John T. Welch. Patrick Mangan and J. F. Connor. .Money Molen In u Store. Karl Redpath. f Y'C Ashland avenue, complained ti toe police- trday that on Saturday afternoon, while" he was In a I nnsylvanl a-strt t e li.thh'g store, so.v.e one stole iVS irm bis troupers pocl.t t. lie was trying en a new ;.it .t vi left the money la his- old troiwr.s in a !rt .-!.".$ room. He- was ut f th rem for .:i.a time, and when tie lookt-.l for his ro iny discovered It Lad been taken during LU absence.

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