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TALMAGE. Won) Cvicratnlatory Letters thf Kvnt of Dr. ThN Hinte' Birthday.
mere effigy of evangelism to shoot at. They Lord, give us all more of the temporary
emotion mat lasted Alaune w Simpson ana
Evangelical
Oil
Krfatttlon of Glanders
Against Christianity bj Inlldal Speakers From Pulpit and Platform.
False Charges Tnat Are Made Scoffers and Disbelievers Against All Churches.
All Thing la Nature and In the Clrcnm lUuce of Ltr Point to the Truth of fUllgjteu ChrUt the Wey of Eternal Life.
mis state and f:i!iifv the
churches. Thev t&ke orue of the irospel Bishop Janes a half century, keeping then
theories and set them in hareh and repu!- on fire for God till their bodies burned out slye way and pat them oat cf asstc'at'on in His service.
with other truths. They are like a mad anat- All tne aenorninations are misrepresented
oniist. who, wishing to demonstrate what a and belied as to their belief. The leading
man is, dissects a human body and hangs up uoctrinesoi me Lvangeuc cnurcnes are imsa heart in onejplace and a pair of lungs in represented as dry and dull and impossible. -n , - - .4 . in ..-.- . 1 I Th Infi. (! nr nnnniiprtail mlnlit in
Uiiereui-T1H ari .nvii.hnn im mnthjf r.lca . n nnl niL b.iv net nn a lauh at the Trinltv.
csuva via saumawwuv a nuvtuvi a a m ia i f r - - --i - g- o j l says: "That is a man." They are only fraj- one God bat three pe-uons. They say if He
mentsof a man and wrenched from their is one uoa, he can not De mree.anu ii xnree, God-aDDointed places. Evangelical religion they can not be one. Bat we have trinity
is a healthy. symmetrical, wel'-jointed, all around us. Trinity in ourselves, body,
roseate, bounding life, and you can not by the scalpel and dlssecting-knife of infidelity
discover what it is. It is no more what its
enemies represent it than the scarecrow,
which the farmer puts in his coru-field to
keep off the ravens, is the farmer himself
they say for instance that the Presbyterians
believe that God
by
mind and soul. Body by which we walk,
mind by which we calculate, soulpy which we love, bat all three one man. Trinity in the air, heat, light and mosture, but one atmosphere Trinity in the court-room, three judges on the beDch making but one Court Trinities all around us in nature and in earthly government. Why not trinity in God-head. Of courte
Brooklyn, N. Feb. 15. Another in
stallmentof complimentary letters on Dr. TaliHage'e birthday comes through the
Brooklyn Magazine. Among the more re.
markable are the letters of Senator Colquitt,
Ex Governor Blackburn and Dr. Spear. Sen
ator Colquitt writes as fellows:
Senate Chamber, Washington. Rev. T. De
Witt Talma, D. D. My Dear Sir: I be?
to tender yoa my sincere congratulations on
the event of your birthday anniversary:
dav that gave the world a preacher of the
Christian fa th, whote eloquence is anri
vaied. whose weekly congregations em
brace the people of an entire continent, with
whom every sentiment ana religious preju
dice are subordinated to Christian iove for
the human race whose highest ministerial
ambition is to make men better, and to com
pel them to love one another; such a day de
serves a cordial recognition from every good
iuan in the land and with all my heart I
" teTidrr jou my card. A, H. Iolquitt
Ex Governor Luke P. Blackburn, of Ken
tucay, writes to the editor of tne Brooklyn
Magazine as follows: "I sympathise most
heartily with the friends and admirers of
Dr. Tal mage in their desire to make his 53d
A SAVAGE SOVEREIGN,
whoroadesome men just to damn them; ulisimuum umis, that there are infanta in hell a span Ion '. because the natural can not fully Illustrate
There is not an infidel en earth, thousth he the spiritual. But suppose an ignorant man
had a retainer of a thousand dollars a day. should meet a chemist and fay: "lou tell
who could manage in the coarse of ten jea-s me that the air is composed of diuereat eie
to make an honest, fair and accurate repr-- ments, and that water is composed of diller-
sentation of what the Presbyterian Church nt elements, i know Detter; tne air is one,
believes. It believes that God is a loviig 'or I constantly breathing it, and the and just ecyereign, and that man is a frte water is one, for I every day drink it." The agent. "No, no," says the antagonist who chemist would fay to the ignorant man:
has chewed up the little book of creeds an d uorue into my laoora'ory ana i win uemon-
has the consequent embittered t torn 3 c a. if träte all these subjects." me objector goes
God is a sovereign we can not 08 lite m ana comes ioriuirom tne laooratory canagents." But we acknowledge that possibil- vinced. Aman says: "This Trinity is beitv everywhere else. I. DaWitt Talmaea. yond my comprehension." God says: "Come
am a free citizen of Brooalyn. That is, I ko op into my heavens after your death and in
where I plesvetod when I please. Yes. but second you will see for yourself;
have four sovereigns over me. The highest
court of my denomination is my ecclesiastical sovereign. The Mayor of the city is my
municipal sovereign. The Governor of
New York is my Slate sovereign. The Pres
identoithe United States is my national
sovereign. Yet with these four sovereigLs.
in every faculty of body, mind and soul I
am a free man.
If I would to-morrow walk icto the com-
aor oi lercantiie library ana improve ny mind, or go through the conservatory of my
see for yourself: under-
etand it all." As the one iran could not
understand the composition of the atmosphere and the water outside the chemist's laboratory, we can not understand the Trinity outside of Heaven. "Justification by faith," they say, is an
other dry and inexplicable technicality. Bat
that means as soon as a man conhdes in Jesus Christ as the Savior from sin, God lts the oöender on". Anything mysterious about that? "Regeneration' they say, is another
inexplicable word. Well, regeneration is
mother, she writes back in a congratulatory
letter and says: "If through giving up your
business you get out of means, come home.
You will always hnd me "ready to re&cue
give eatifcfaction It was protably her own
fault. After being unable to eet any other
employment f he ended her life by suicide
upon investigation it was found that oat of her email earnings she had supported a father eighty years of age and wss support ing a brother in college. For that reason she
wore toe shabby dress and had gone without
blankets on her bed and without any fire in her room all winter. When this was found out, the people wbobai f corned her gathered at one of the largest fanerals ever held
in that place and gazed with interest upon the face of the martvr. but it was too late.
Vicarious sacrifice! Anybody who has a heart is
GOTHAM GOSSIP.
Glane at 8om of the Notable Men of the Tlni'.i.
How to Preserve Health Aire.
In Hipp Old
Field Brothers, Iteecher, Winston Other New York IVkiü Vlub
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Mew York Letter to Boston Herald.
Twenty five years ago tj day, when, little more than a lad, I was passing a few wej.ks in Boston, I read with great interest in the Herald and other papers reports of a leng
and continued strike among the shoemakers in Lynn and adjacent places. At this time it was believed violence would attend the strikers' deroonetraticns,ard haviDg nothing else to do, I determined to Heml a niht in that pretty eastern town and study hp the
situation. In a eat immediately in front of me in the car, and a horrid old car it was, bat a man with loag iron gray hair, lie wore
friend at Ja naica who has blooming und 0hlJ made 0Ter. a3am- " 18 aaotter the arches of glass rlowtrs from all rones and name for reconstruction. The old Consud-
acquarlum8 Hsquirm with trout and goidl1"00- Ta mao or war, lay at tne urooKiyn
fish, at.d I wish to pluck ripe oranges and pavJ iaru -ramiue caaie in iremuu, auu
bananas from the branches, I may do so. t"e old Constellation, that urmeriy cir-
And if I want to co nn to the fnrnarn nf th ned ballets and cannon balls and gun-
anniversary an occasion of congratulation, oil factories in Hoboken and jump into the powder, carried bread to Ireland. So a sinand I Hladlv embrace the ODDortuniiv of ex- flames, or lean off the nlatform of a Philadel- ner, loaded down with sin, is retitted and
tenilmtr to him mv most cordial ereetimr. nhia emrRK ti n. nr from thAiintr nf a iioauea ud witn tne oreaa oi me. nenamea
The day of hia nativity was one fraught in- Fulton-street ferryboat, I caa do so. If I lean down one nag and he put up another.
deed with the rich bounty of God 10 this I into the Hoboken furnace, who 4s to blame?! üe came into tnia cnurcn mree weers ago
eeneration and Dreznant with Inteliec- Mv friend out at Jamaica who offers me hi aruna ana eat Dacs: Dy tne aoor ana repnea
tnal and moral forcps and newer destined to cfinaervainrv? That n all there in in Prhtr. in a BUDaueo. tone to me preacDer, -lnaiiaa
staoip iralf npon succeeding agea. Among terianism about God's sovereignty and man's Be." Bat a church Ubher heard him and
the moat Dromment to-day upon the watch- free a:encv. God rules and reiirns ai. d hai wia mm 10 De suent or goout. xiecauietne
- o n - wi . t -k
towers of ion stands he whom we delight cnnsnrvainriFii and TT Mau fnmi neit nignt sober ana was regeneratea. .be-
to honor, iltfhtins for the faith of the fathers If von want to waiklu the craideL a von mtv. ing in tne liquor trade he sent back ail the
aealnit fanaticism and bteotrv withm and ai.il if von want t.i Una ir.tn ih rari hnt samples of rum sent him the day before he
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tne evil aid blasphemous tendencies of the caldrona von mav. If von choo the ai. reaignea mat ousiness ana loves me religion
are, without. Whenever and wherever sken- drom rather than the rnnatrvnt irv. hn ia he wnce hated. 1 baptized him last Bunday
ticism and eclence, falsely, so-called, have to blame? Of course, the one who made the morning liarge Baiary nas Deen onerea nim reared their sacrilegious heads, the sword of conservatory and snt yoa a written invitu be would go back to his old businesj No;
the Lord and of Talmace has smitten and tion to come and soend your life amont the "e WU1 never go DacK. writing nonie tne
driven them to confusion and shaoie. I es- carma and ntlm trM W aimniv u.Mn news of his conversion to his Christian
teem it a high privilege to knew him and that the empire of the future will 'have a
call him my friend Would that I could pals.ee and a penitentiary.
pay a fitting tribute to his genius and godli- All our cities eave their penltf ntiaries nesa. the embodiment of all that is elevatinz. finnnose some one had a charmed bnv ho
m&nlv and enobline in life. I nrav that his I which he rvmid thrnnoh the iTnitri you." ne tola one oi ms aissoiute com
life mav lonz be spared as an ornament to 8 atu and ooen Kavmond sirftt iaii and panions the story of his conversion. Oh,"
his prresion and a blessing and an honor to New York Tors bs and Moyamenaiug prison 8aia n18 aiswjiuie companion, n you nave
biarace." Of fhiladelph a and all the dungeons and oecome a iuruusn jrou uguv w Ko auu
Dr.S.T. Spear says: "Though not an ha- penitentiaries, what would becoma of this J a Jvln ßlr.iin yonder house aboat
bitual attendant upon his church, I have, country m tnree weeks7 yow, the empire of " :T " , 7,Kh "'lTT" within the last five years, heard him preach the future has its peciteuitiary. Suppose Vn- . He was led to her bedside. She was
aa many aa a hundred sermons; and hence I 'he culprits or that penitentiary should J-ng m a ruom wuere ui arouuu were uwV ' . ... I l t j i . i t r I art In ta II. tnlH nor that I .nrifit a'Anlil su ira
think I know what he is in the pulpit as iei ou. auu euver iua ew j erusaiem. i " t'. ; " " T C . k .V "-
well as oat of it. My judgment la that, Ahe arst morning tne gate M pearl would be "" ,1UB" Juu illiU U,V1, ftam taken all in all, he is the most remarkable, Uund off its hli ges, the liLCh-pina would the dying girl. The new convert took out
irapresnive.attractive and profitable preacher oe out " o J aocse oi "T" r.ST- ' -' 7 h""
many xuansiuus wouiu oe Durgiarizeu: an- M v" - " "
gels of God would be insulted on the street
Assault and battery and libertinism and
ssjassicauon in the capital of the skies!
Heaven will be a failure if there be not some where a great lockup. If all grt to Htaven without reference to what their character was when they left the earth. I wondt-r if in the heavenly temple Charles Guiteau and John Wilkes Bxlh occupied the same pew. I saw a photograph in Arlaneus of A CAPSIZED RAIL TRAIN. Some villiaDs had taken up the track rear a railroad bridge, and the train had gone
TLIRILLKD WITH SUCH A 8 TORT
as that; bat, they tell us, it is a dry and absurd doctrine when Christ phIs forth His
poverty to purchase our eternal riches, and His self abnegation to secure our enthronement, and He kneels on the sharp edge of humiliation to let us climb over Hi3 lacerated
shoulder into life and Heaven. Men admire
Emperor Trajan, because, when mounted for battle, be got off his hone to do justice to a poor woman by the wayside, but c;in not ste any beauty in the fact that the conqueror of earth and Heaven dismounted from the white horse of heavenly triumph to appease our spiritual beggary. They are thrilled at the valor of the Horatii and the
Onratii, who went out, three champions for
rhA I: imtni Ann Ihru. (hamninng frw tho
Albans, to decide the fate of a nation, bat spectacle, and looked brght a? a dollar and have no quickened pulse as they see our sharp as a brier. 1 ventured to ask him
Cn&cipion, Jems, go out alone gaißst all the aboat the hotels in Lynn, and accented his allied forces of earth and hell to battle for.- 4 :.u v
the emancipation o, the human race. They ... b . , can even appreciate the spirit of Bacpphalus. of them. He rfgiatered his na;te upon the Alexander's war horse, which, after being bcok, 'S. R. Glenn, New York Herald'and, gashed and fatally wounded, until ail 'his on the Inspiration and impuise of the moarteries seemed opened, kept a staggering on ment 1 registered my naoie immediately beunti! he got his imperial ridei clear oac of E,etb Howard. Jr., New ork peril, and then with one gran expired. Times." Mr. Glenn will be remembered by More appreciation for the bravery ot a brute lhe older riders of the BoUoa Heral 1 as in behalf cf his master than for Him. tlie one of the brightest and most capable ssr-divicely-human, who tiut:g Himself from vants in years gone by, as he was. Kibsethe highest Heaven into the raging seas of qüently, one of the New icr Heralds death to save all those who would lay hold alIeat and moat loyal workers, down to the
of His right arm of deliverance. Be it ours nonr.01 1x19 nuttmeiy ueata. inat evening a
to admire and adore those magnificent doc- meuuß 01 women employes was ui o? ueio, irinm nf Christ whil nthr nff n. i.or la company of a uuuiber ot Boston re-
For all those who on infidel p:atformor Porters, Mr. Glenn for tsoine rea?oa remainin unconverted pulpits deride evangelism, I mS behind, I rode to the hall in an omnibus, have nothing but prayer for their recovery. As 1 remember it, the Boston boys had made When during the last century the plague a 800(i deal offan of tne strikers In general, was racing in London there was a hotel near ftnd the women in particular, so that when the cemetery which excited much comment we "aoed the place our progress to the door The NaMon waj in an agony of frieht and fas barred bJ aJarJ1e a,Qd excited crowd of bereavement; wagons were driven through fathers and husbanda, lovers and brothers, the sireets, and the bell rang and the people Leaving the Boston men to get along as best brooghtout their dead; twenty or thirty they could, I eluded the crowd and persuacorpses in a cart would pass by: not in a ded old,mftn at the door to llow me to grave, but in great pits or trenches, they P11?8 ni Tbere waa .bul one maB m thre were buried; 1,114 were buried lu one pit; Hl3AameVI mmk', fas A1??Z) K. churches were open day aad niRht for Draper.and he subsequently became Mayor of prayers, aid all England was in woe. But e cit-. appearaace excited a storm of at the wayside inn, near by the greatest hissing indignation, but, having in a few hnri.i r.i. ..ritpp nrmin? vri. worda explained to them J that I waa not one
e led men sat blaspheming aud imitating the P(tnf bold bad boys from Boston, but a ,r?f tti.,.i na.nnfi th Kn genuine angel from the metropolis of the
whn 11 nmn ntriv Hm.nti hir h. riä.th country, that my intentions were entirely
nf hia ontire fiiv tnnnad t ih Wui n honorable, and that what I should write
his way from the grave-trench they ridieuled wpnld appeal to the influence of the women him and taunted him with want of courage of ,the. te$ cit7,?f w York, I was permitin not leaping into the pit into which the ted to remain. After the meeting,! returned to
cart had tossed the bodies of his household. H16 nPiei Eeni a wo-comxun letter to tne
Thor ihv f dT Aftp . v 1 nioht .(f New YOfK 11 TO 68, WlUCn WS3 pUDHSnQ Dy
nUhfxnmnn.m.n.nri .Änffin. Am.n nr. ruivmoiia. woo bent me. inrouga uu
uig u gvuiiia) v uicu c aa va dvu laa kJ as n v mcu I - -
and scoffine at God. After awhile the Tl.ine!unJ luiwr, auiuius aioYsuBicHuwi, w
.irnnVnn.nfthom r, Srhfn remain there daring the strike, in the inter
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they had
dropped into the trench, near the mouth of which ihey had indulged their ribaldry. My frie:. ds, the plague ot sin has iavaeed our world. Millions have died under its power. While consecrated men and women all
of the Gospel to whom I ever listened. He
is indeed a marvelous man when standing before a popular c3ngregation, and his history in this city proves that fact beyond the poesib.lity of reasonable doubt. He is, by the constitution of his mind, a genius of the Highest order, being a poet and a dramatist at the tame time; and his great powers in both respects he utilizes for the glory of God ar.d the good of mankind, alike in the pulpit and elsewhere." THE S1KYH ES OF Till DAT. At the Brooklyn Tabernacle Dr. Talmage publioy announced the receipt ef $20 sent him in an anonymous letter for charitable objects, and said thai half had been given to the reformatory for Convicts, Houston
street. New York, and the other half through
the descons to buy winter coal for a poor
woman. The opening hymn in the services was: "Salvation, oh, the joyful sound. ' 'Tis pleasure to our ears; A sovereign balm for every wound, A coril for our fears." The subject of the sermon was a reply to slanders against evaogelical chnrches recently uttered by intidel pulpits and plat-
forma. The text was from Kevelations x., 0 11: "I took the little book out of the angel's hand and ate it up, and it was in my mouth swtet as honey, and as soon as I had eaten it my belly was bitter, and he aaid nr. to me, 'Ibou must prophesy again before many peoples " Dr Talmage said: Domitian, the Roman Emperor, had in his realm a troubhsome clergyman who would keep preaching, ana he exiled him to a rocky island, used for punishment, as Russia sends c jnvicts to Siberia and England sends convicts t Australia. That island, now called Pat mos. is so rocky and barren that the inhabitants live by fishing But one 8unday while the ex'led clergyman of whom I speak sat at the mouth of a cavern in the bill side.
perhaps hummed half asleep by the drone of the sea, he had a supernatural dream, and time and eteruity passed in panorama before
him. Among ether strange spectacles he
drenmt he saw an augel with a little book, and he asked the angel if he might have it.
Well, jou know that things are sometimes iocontrtou in a dream, and so the angel gave the little book to him and said tfcawhil?
it would be luscious to his taste, alter ne got it down he would suffer from indigestion.
Obeying the angel, the evangelist in his
drt am devoured the little book and, as had beeu foretold, it was sweet while being mas
ticated, bat afterward a physical distress and
biitemeee. Who the ancl waa. and what
the little book that he rave was. iuncertair
to commentators, and so I take no responsi
bility of interpretation, but will ay that it
suggests to me the creed of the Erat gelicsl
churches, which skeptics in our time fiid
aweet to chew up, but never can digest. The little b Kt of evangstijm which the angel cf
the caorcb. hand oat in tu them a lutclous
Hior.sl of witticism, but lies in them after ward a dry dyspepsia.
All intelligent people have creeds, either
written or unwritten, that is, a class of theo
ries which you have adopted political creeds, that is, beliefs about tariffs, about
carreucy. about ctvil service, about govern
cients; social creeds, that is, opinions about
manners and customs and good neighbor
hood; as:he tic creeds, that is, belief about tapestries and ornamentation; aye, religious
credf, thU is a group of tent) men ta a be a
deity and about the soul and about the un
sen future. The only being woo fits no
cread about anything is an idiot. Recently
tha beliefs of tvangtlical churches have been
under a fusilade of caricature and misrepresentation. Men in pul pita or on platforms bate'etup certain things as the orthodox
faith aad then have leveled at them all their
musketry of aenuncia tion , They put up a
girl, lhe new cjn vert saia: "I .nave neglected this book myself all my life until a few days ago and I can not find the place, but I know it is somewhere between the lids of this bcok." Then he began to leaf over the book, and, strange and beantiful to Bay, his eye -fell upon the words of Christ: ''Neither do I condemn theo. Go and sin no more." She said: "It is not possible that that is there. Let me see it for my sei f.' ' The New Testament was handed her and she said: "Yes, 3 es; I see it for myself, and I accept tne promise: "Neither da I condemn thee; go and sin no more.'" In a few hours her spirit had tied.
weeks, and from that hour to this 1 have
earned my bread and batter in the pracice
of the profession into vhich I was so sad denly, so unexpected, pitchforked.
THE CHANGED LN JOURNALISM
through Chrittendom are attempting to stay during this long and eventful period have the plague, there are those who have noth- been quite as marked, and significant, and
ing out aension ior tne aiiempt, and tney progressive, as in any Tcaim of art, science.
scoff at evangelism and tcoff at the church literature or mechanics. Two generations of
and scon at liou. L.et them remember the newananer men have risen, flourished mid
ate of those who sat at the wayside inn docaved. Tne irreat l?aderi wha made the
when the London plague spread out Its two progress of iournaliu: possible, whose brains
DiacK wings oi destruction, "liiessea is the nlanned the trcerdiame for the futujv.
roan mat waicem not in tne counsel oi tne whose tireless industry and indomitable nor
ungodly nor stanaeta in me way of sinners
nor Bitteth in the seat of the scornful."
ham Lincoln's visit to Richmond find eager the horizon visible to mortal eyes, and wer
thirty feet down and killed about tnty and hr funeial bermon was prea ihtd by the
ueopic, uiisu) wuuieu u'i cunuren. w nen new convert who only a few days before had
tne aesperaaoes wno puuea up mat trac get been a blasphemer and a drunkard, hating
readers in the old soldiers of the country,
to Heaven, 1 wonder if their throned will toe
any wnere near the people they slew. If a murderer breakinto a house aiid massacre a whole family, and the police, hearing the disturbance, rush upon the scene aud put a bullet through the skull of the ruffian, will they all, the slain and (heir s'ayer, arrive in glory about the eame time? You all see that it is only common sense that there should be two destinies. And as. to infanta in hell a
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God aud ail that id good. Tnat was regener
ation. If you can find any dry husks of technicality in that show them to me. Regeutratlou! By the pardoning grace of God all made over again.
A ship Captain two or three years ago
came and sat in yonder gallery. He did not
believe in cauichts,and he had a special du
like for Talniage. lhe Gospel arrow struck
tobe suddenly panted in their old time
n r t n m a an rrnn Tided l"i V tha Annliftnr thnt
and one f them-Captain Z. C. Warren, of are &t the hand and in constant use by then
this city adds a picturesque incident to the successors, they would be amazed, astounded
srnrv A drawn hv Aimiri Pnrt uaDDergasiea oeyor.u conception, xi ere a
j j i i , a. - .1. .v .
oox. tue leiiuiuus ui a uu ixiiuiii; iuue
him in the heart. He arose fiir ir.tr
pan long, that is a falsehood thht comes Over six feet in height, when he arose there
down from the past, and there is no sun ra4 no doubt about the fact that he had
hat its longevity will ever fail. If you will rin. Before he left the nous h m a
bring me a Presbyterian in soncd mind aad Christian. He went out among ship owners
of eood morals who btlievts that mere bus
ever been a baby, or ever vuil ba a b-ibr, in
the lost world, X will make over to thit man
a deed of all the property I have, and he can
take possession to morrow.
The antagonists of evangelical re.igion say
hat the Episcopal Church tubaiitntes foru-sl
and ceremonies for heart religion, and it is
a'la matter of liturgy and genuflections.
False again. All genuine Episcoj alians will
ell you that the forms and ceremouies of
their church are nothing unless the heart be
and hip Captains and told them what change had been wrought When on the sea aud off Cape Hatteras in a long-contin
ued log and he aid the crew were at their wii's end, he went to his room and prayed
for the salvation of his ship and all on board.
and came out saying, "All right, lojs; at such an hour the fog will lift. God to d me
so in prayer." A man on deck laughed to scorn such an idea. At the time he said the
fog would lift A FLASH OF MGHTKINO
in them, l never nave been raoro over
whelmed with religions feelings than when struck through the fog a flash that sent th
l beard at bharon öpnngs cur neighbor. Dr. scoffer stunned to the deck. The Cape Ht
Schenck, with a voice like a baad of music, teras light-house suddenly appeared and the
read mat passage from tne praver-book. shin was Dut on her course Into safety. On
than which nothing sublimer tas ever been I the land the Captain spends much of his
time ameng the sick, and he kneels by those
who have, by their illness, been on their
beds for months, and they lise up restored. And he kneels by the side of those long de
crepit and they walk without crutches, and in answer to his supplications blind eyes,
that for ten years have not been able to read,
read the Scriptures. Physical agonies the
written: "By the mysry of Thy holy in
carnation; by Thy holy nativity and cir
cumcision;by Thy baptism, fasting and
temptation; by Tnine agony aud bloody sweat; by Thy cross and passion; by Thy
precious death and burial; by Thy glorious
resurrection and ascension, aad by tne coming of the Holy Ghost. In all time of our
tr; halation; in all time of our prosperity ; in sight of which was appalling have left their
the hour of death and in the day of iudg sufferers to soeedv convalescence. No sec
ment. Good Lord deliver us." I ond-hand evidence about this. I have seen
The antagonists of the Baptist Church say the restored patients and heard the test!
that they believe only those will ge' to mony from their own lips. The scoffing tea
heaven wo ars baptized by immersion. False captain who came here with heart full cf
again. They belieye that all who accept hatred ai d contempt for the Gospel now de
Christ, whether they be baptized by one voting all his time to evangelicsl labors.
drop on the forehead or by pluLge out of That is regeneration! No far off story about
stgnt in unio or buiqnenanca, win reach msn in some other land. They are both o
Heaven, although the latter mode ia the them here this morning. Subjects of re-
only gate into their particular society in generation.
this world. 1 have already made arrange- Then the doctrine of vicarious suffering is
men is oi communion witn me ciose com- said to be a dry and absurd and useless tech
munion Baptists on the other side of the mcality Christ suffering ior others. Why
Jordan, and I shall be glad if the chalice my hearers, you don't scoff at it when you
passes to me directly from the lip and hand see it in other directions. You can see its
of my glorified friend, John Dow ling, the I beauty when a mother suffers for her chil
hing of Baptist ministers in a former gener- dren, when a patriot suffers for his country
ation: when a friend gives up everything for
The antagonists cf the Methodist tnurcb friend. Why should you not appreciate
say that they believe a man can convert Christ's suffering for us as well as the ins tan
himself, and that conversion in that church Ices of vicarious suffering all about us? Ob
Is a matter of temporary emotion, and that how many spend their time carrying other
a man kneels at the anxious bene a and feels people's deaths! In one of the literary in
Daa ana men me minister pats mm on tne i amotions or mis country a young lady was back aad tells him he is all right and that is employed as a teacher. She waa a stranger
ail mere is of it. raise again. They be- and of eucn retired and reticent habits tta
lieve that the Holy Ghost alone can convert she formed no acquaintanceships. Her dress
a man. and conversion in mat church la by was eo shabby that she was dismissed lrom
LINCOLN'S VISIT TO RICHMOND.
tu
by an
Interesting Incident Ittcalled
Old Veteran. ISpringfleld Republican.!
Admiral Porter's reminiscences of Abra
severance conquered physical obstacles
which are absolutely unknown to the news
paper rs and conductor of to day, long
since pa d trom the tage of mundane ex
istence into the dim realm, obscure and on
explored by travelers willing or able to
return. It is a fair assumption that if any
one of thoöe great men, great intellectually,
judged by the present standard, were to be
brought back: lrom their hazy homes beyond
scenes of Lincoln's passage from the wharf
at Richmond, where the gunboat Malvern
eft theru together, to General Weitzei's
headquarters in the house vacated two days before by Jeff Davis, are picturesque in
their portrayal of the feelings of the ne
groea.
It was hardly to be expected that the
whites, even if Onion men, with their more
reserved temperaments, would give wav to
any such transports of emotion. But Cap
tain Warren relates an incident, which epit
omizes the joy and relief felt by the Union
men who had liver at the
South during the war. Captain Warren,
whose gunners had been the first artillery
. a a . -n a. i r
men to enter tne evacuated city, as omcsr
of the day, was early among the visitors at
reception wmcn iir. Lincoln neid tore
c oup'.e of hours in the parlor cf the old Davis
house for the soldiers and Jojal Richmond
people.
The fresiaent was bearing tne journey
well, though his inevitable black: frock coat
and "stovepipe hat were a bit the worse for
which, with the rapidity of a swallow's
flight, brings the literal physical mes age
from a distant office; here a bit of median
ism which instantly summons a messenger
there a box with ear piece and tube, by
which telephonic communication is had
with people miles and miles aay; here a
knob which, touched, aanimona this, that or the other employe, here a key which, turned, illumines, with brilliant flash, the most spacious apartments; stenographers at the right; type-writers at the left; elevators
which carry tons of matter from cellar to
roof: perfecting presses, turning out a score cf thousand completed, folded.
stitched and pasted pa peps every hour; in
stantaneous communication with continents
beyond the sea. Happy, indeed, aro we who have actively lived and conscientiously
employed faculties during the pau twenty-
nve years, the most signihcant quarter of a
century that must forever stand monumental among its fellows. I think every reader
must be astonished when, looking about
plainly a man of prominence. Leading him ,1 If fh?aS7f 5 up to Mr. Lincoln, the General introduced S!n4lJ ? '11 t0!!!4 ui . i2a t, n t.. for information or intellectual
UIU1 BO o I ICLIU Xßm. S ULI U dllUUt UUIM I
JVUIcpifB "Oli nuo a Ulk lUC nuiao IUI I li K An), m nnkllnvl. . ,
travel. A few officers had been introduced "m.hu w Vn- - Vf7 . ... ...... . . I nld cmard left. How nianv mn nvor nftv
anu some ot tnem stood chatting about me l" " , r ".7T "77 Sr 1
if lirxc a. i o ma uicu we nuew l w eii l y -ii v e
or young searching stimulus?
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and a Union man whose loyalty the jast few A . ; u-' r' i a o.t him PnnHAr, clergymen, the great leaders, who sangaloud
Ah the President turned to ereet the atran. " . r:j -r, J '
ger a great throb of emotion shook the oldI, "i fh. La. OI"tBe man's frame, aud ouicklv steonine forward "alms the men who worked twenty-hve
he flung his aims about Mr. Lincoln's neck Jf ??J!iiu?: ?iL10nK 8nce! ß0ne' i
a the most trazic manner. "Tbank God. i r""" u.a,B ttlsu UBC
Th. .m.ll .nrti.n In nltV tnn.h.it I CCDttODB WCr6 iT.D in tbl8 City lMt Dipllt.
ifa.ri ..0. Th- iit. lueuuis eignuetn Dinnaay: me
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cr n fAot tv, Pe.n k,-. uuierm ugaoroi Denawr-eiect r.varts. do
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ever quick to see the humorous side of any! f" " 8 w? 01 10iÄ Wüü "K1.
ing I saw in the private odce of Knox, the hatter, who, by the way, is as much an institation in New York as Trinity Church or
the Postomce, a lithograph printed In 143,
picturing liroadway as it would be when a
then contemplated sptemof elevated railroad was put into practical operation. Many years after that, ai.d several years before Field and his associate got into the company, a man by the came of Gilbert devised a scheme for elevated travel, but nobody made it a success nut 1 Field and hia friends put not only their heads ti work, but shouideistothe wheel and their money with which to grease the axles. As at preeent managed, the elevated roads of New York are a delusion and a snare, an abominable traverse of tbe decencies of life, an apt illustration of what cheek, audacity ani wealth harr essed together can accomplish as against the right of mankind. That a hundred murders are not conmitt&d upon the rail every hour in every day is a matter of wouder, and I look for some terrible catastrophe there, just as certainly as I expect the eun to rise on each succeeding morning. That the time will come when Field and some of the more conspicuous directors will be rooghly handled by an outraged public
and an infuriated gang of defrauded patrons.
I believe to be one of the certainties of the future. All this, however, has nothing to
do with the fact that ICyrns W. Field is a
great man. Another brotner, Stephen J.
Field, sits with dignity, and, many think, with lofty mental attribute and rare moral
courage, upon tne Denen 01 me nignest court known to the lai d, and prior to the dstcovery of Grover Cleveland the name of Stephen Field was upon many serious Democratic lips as that of a iuan fitted to occupy the chair once honored by a Washington, an Adams and a Jackson. David Dudley Field is reputed ta be hard in business affairs, but the clarity of his mental vision, the tremendous energy of his nature, the far rtachings of his intellect, the sound con
clusion of his judgment have never been
doubted or denied. H a is indeed the. Nestor of the New York br, which is simply another way of haying he is the ablest lawyer
in the country. ii s fellow-cuizens did
fibt in honoring mm. ana in tne asseiu
blbge which gathered in the hospitable par-
ors of his brother, I saw men eminent in . m . -v .
in every canir g uur. leading journalists and writers, our foremost doctors of medicine and divinity, the best citizens known
in every walk and realm of life, gladly ao-
cepted the invitation of the younger Field,
to extend to his brother a courteous recog
nition of the occasion. The chief point of
nterest in this matter, however, so far
as my communication to yon is con cerned, is that, in his 80th year.
David Dadly F.eld stands as straight as ever, with a head as cea, a mind as bright, an intellect as alert, a phisique as sturdy, and an entire nature as absolutely rounded in
health and general fitness for accustomed
duty
AS AT ANY TIME IN ALL HI8 LIFE.
A similar record is presented in the person
of the historian Bancroft, who, in his very
ripe old age, sits serenely in his library.
where, in the consummation of a contract
made with Robert Bonner of this city, he is
preparing a series of articles on Washington aud kindred subjects for publication in the
Ledger. The article on Washington is en
titled 'The Twenty first of February, 1835." and will be published in the Ledger Feb. 23.
Where are hi 1 route niporanes 7 Long since
gone. Where the friends of Us youth, the
companions ot his middle age, the men of
wit and wijdom. the women of character
and beauty, who gayly disported along the
vale of time with this venerable American
citizen? Long since cone, never to return
There muet be some reason, some secret.
somethlDg out of the common, which en
ables thebe two men, who etand like soli
tary trern in the mid t of a forest long since
overthrown, they alone pregnant, potent,
time-defying. I don't kLow how it may be
with Mr. Bancroft, but I don't doubt his
experience parallels that of Mr. Fiald, wh
tells ue that while be has never denied him
self the pleasures of life, while he has been
no aLchorite. while he has never been
professional purist or absurd in temperance, ..."
as 11 is oruinarny misunuerstooa, ne nas ev
er been mindful to the laws of health, has
consulted th peculiar phys'qne and tern
perament given him at the start, and has
done what in his power lay to conserve his
energies, and to save, rather than waste, his vital forces In a single word, the secret of
his long enduring vitality and vigor is ex
ercise. Not the Idiotic surplusage of phys
ical waste, which ultimately killed Charles
Dickeus. Not the silly dumbbell practice
and terrible straining walks that wore Will
iam Gullen Bryant to a shadow, but a sens!
ble U6e of all his faculties, and a judicious
exeicising of his physique on suitable ec
casions. The old couplet says: Early to bed. early to rise. Makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise,"
and this rule teems to have been the govern
lDg principle 01 Mr. ritlds existence. He
savs. ior instance, tnat ne goes to bed on an
average at 10 o clock at niht, and rises on
an average at 7 in the morning. His favorite modes ot exercise are, and have been for
maoy years, horseback: riding and walking
He lives up town, not far from the park, and
keeps a giod saddle horse, not a hard trotter
but a spirited animal, who is as fond cf his
master as he of it. Together they tempt tbe breezes of the early tuornirg, and pasä an hour pleasantly and profitably on the bridle paths that twine and intertwine through Central Park, like threads of gold in the warp and woof of velvet cloth. After breakfan he walks frjm his house to his iflice, a distance of about three miles, and it is a pleasure te see his erect, sturdy Agare pushing its way through the crowds on Broadway, and to know that ther is real enjoy
ment and neaitntui inspiration In the intentional exercise to which he subjects himself, day in and day out, until he reaches his workshop, where, as the world well knows, he delves and toils as no ordinary man can, with a subsoil plough that reaches to the very bottom of any principle it is well f ,r him to thoroughly master and absolutely comprehend His day's work done, he walks
thing, interposed. With a kindly smile 1 ass-
ing over his angular features, he gently re
leased himself trom the grasp of Mr. Bo tta' friend, remarking, 'About how tail are you.
strr'
counsellor the right hand of regard, as well
as a few phrases of felicitation.
DAVID DUDLXT FIILD IS A MARKED MAN
in a remarkable familv. His brothers, each
The sound of his voice awoke the old man I in their peculiar wav. have made themselves
from his reflection and quickly turned the felt upon their day nd generation. Withcurrent of his thoughts. Recollecting him- out Cyrus the day of cable communication
self at once, the tall stranger replied, stating with our brethren acroes the water would
a 1 i a tjä-T 1 a 1 . . I. . . .
nis neigut, wnicu Liccom ueciarea 10 oe two have been long postponed. Mie intet intui
inches ltbs than his own The old man ttons. his rare faculty of combination, his stepped aside, evidently quite unconscious tireless industry, his ambition and his selfof the mingled pathos and numor of the little will did more to secure the formation of
god until 9 or 10 in the morning. Jay Goull Is an illustration of the good ejects of sleen and regular hours. He makes it a point to be in bed at 10 o'clock, whenever it is possible for him so to do. He is a small man. of ex6eeding!y nervous temperament. His movements are quick and agile; his fingers nervously move and twitch, his eyes are rarely fixed for any
Qtn-th cf time upon any firgla object not
that tbere is anything funtive in nis giance, not that tbe quick darting of his eye from point to point indicates a baepicious r.ature at all, but the mars is obviously a bundle of nerves pulled to their utmost tension, demanding constant thought, incessant care, ceaseless watching. I met him this corning on the HtrreL He laughed at the idea, conveyed in recent reports of his iilntas, mat he was in any etuse under the weather, and siid that nothing more serious than a trifling cold bad troubled him for many yeais. His habits are systematic to a dtb''-' Ui cr' tions are those of a man of mind, with refined tatte8, in tcho'arly directions. I have nodeobt tha to dav he is mote proud of the work he did ;u an hu.nb.e civil engineer aud surveyor ia the interior of New York State, than of any great financial scheme born in his fertile brain aad manipulat d by his facile hnKers. lie, tOJ, takes exercise, not to the full extent indulged in by Mr. Fif li, for that would be absurd, but, up to the limit of his normal endurance, Mr.
Gouldisasdevottd to the preservation 01 hia pny-ique as Mr. Field is to the conservation cf his. Two other names of men who
may be called old, but upon whose brod
shou. deis rest to-day empires of labor, rise
before we, and your permisron 1 win can
your attention to mem. kjuv j cmjr
Ward lieecher, paster 01 riyiuouu
Chuicb, the other i-reüenc 8. ineton, president of the Mutual Life Insur
ance Company cf fcew lore ui air. ivecntr
I will say that among the gaests waornoos Dudley Field's nervoue baud cordially last night none bore his years more grscffully
than he. Tne snows 01 seveuiy-iwo winters have not made his hair entirely white, but his long gray locks rest ukju his stout
ehouldeis, turnib little by little Iioiu the
iron "ray to the silver tuen. amoug me many gentlemen present, all of whom wore
he dress coat of fashion, the cneery iace.
the bright, quick, loving ey the taurdy physique, draped in the conventional frock
coat of ordinary life, were contpicuoue, and
necessarily so, so lar as we wno Know, re-
Dect and love and follow mm, are con
cerned, Henry Ward Beecher is as mentally great, as physically strong, as morally potent
o-day as he was thirty years ago, wnen ne
ed me. a little bay. through the streets ot
Brooklyn by the baud from Sunday school
to home. Mr. mston is one ct
THE EXTRAORDINARY MEN OF TUE COVXIKT,
He has been president cf his company for
a little over thirty years, and has increased
ts asset from $2,000,ouo in i;3 to 5iu,wu,-
000 in lSs5. But it isn't of him as president
of the greatest financial institution in the
world 1 wish to speak, but as an apt type ot
a class of men, who, by rigM adherence to
prescribed rules of living, carry themselves, in ripe old age. with cheery face, and happy heart, and useful hand log after their fei lows have been laid with face and heart and hand deep iu the grave of Greenwood ce en
try. Mr. Winston rises every morning aDout
6, and can be found in his offioe every day at 8 o'clock. Although considerably over seventy, and very
rieb, aad the unquestioned autocrat of the great concern, over whose details even, he exercises cautious and carefol su
pervision, he is as attentive to duty, ana as wrapped up in affairs now as he was 30
years ago, when necessity laid a heayy hand
upon his eturdy enouiaer, ana 11 was nip
and tuck between great institutions, stru
ng for popularity and success. He starts
noon a iourney to the wilds of Mexico as
jauntily and as freely as he would go to hia
country pi ace in rew jertey. xn.er:ise auu regularity of retiring and rising are the se
crets, in his judgment, oi his conttcuea, in fact, his almost never interrupted, good health. There are, of course, in the acquaintanceship of all ot us, a few of these conspicuous' illustrations, but among the puolic men of the conntry we find very,
very few, nothing like the numer.cal propontons to be found in Europe, and especially among Knglish statesmen. It seems to
me that the realm of letters is particularly trying to men and women. There are very few old women in literature, and very few old men. Mrs. Etowe, whose beaming face I saw a few weeks since, ia about the only
notable illustration, among the women wri
ters cf America, of longevity. She must be
over 70. If I remember aright, she is older
than her brother Henry, but, in any event, tbere can be but a few years' difference in their ages. She was Deyer very strong, perperhaps I 6honld say rugged, but she certainly talks as well, and with as much vivacity, and enjoys a clear head, and as comfortable a physique, as she has had at any time during tbe past forty or fifty yean. I met an old gentleman on the cars day before yesterday, and we were talking about Dudley Field's marvellous vitality, when the old gentleman said to me: 'Well, I am eightytwo years old, I don't know why I shouldn't live to be a hundred. I seem perfectly welL I don't expect to die to-day, why should I
die tomorrow? If I am careful of myself,
obey tbe laws of health, am not imprudent, don't expose myself unnecessarily, why
should I die to day, and what is to morrow bat to-day when we get to it?" The New York Press Club, nnder the presidency of Amos J. Cum min 3 tf the New York Sun, has taken a bound upward. For the first time in the history cf the club, we have a
representative journalist at its hand, a man
who is a force in himself, whose acquaintance in the upper realms cf journalism en
ables him to bring personal influence upon
his friends and acquaintances in the interest of the club. The reception on Thursday night was notable for its guests, its entertainment, its sapper, its decorum and 'its dignity.
tcene in which be played sd prominent a part Captain Warren remained in Rich iuond about ten dajs longer, and, returning after a short march South, was mustered out there in June, still wearing on his sword the knot of crape which the officers were or
dered to place there for sixty days in mem
10 anr 11 at
a- earthquake cf conviction and a sunburst her position ana In reply to the letter dis- ory of the maityr President. He has neverIn any sense the Inventor or the original tug- night, enjoy better health than those who go 1 01 pardon. And as to temporary emotion, xnissingher she wrote that ii she tailed to 'taken it oX f garter of that great enterprise, Thia morn-' to bed I after midnight and court the drowsy
the original cable company and the laying of the earlier iron bands, and a communication between the two great nations, than all o'her influences put together. To him also more than to any other man. is this city indebted for its present system or elevated
railroad travel. Not that Cyrus rieldwas
home again, and after a hearty dinner, with
a glase cf enjoyable wine, he reads or talks or entertains until his
REQCLlR HOUR FOR KKTIRI5Ö ARRIVES. There is a little too much cast ironness about these rigid lines to suit a man of my temperament, but I should think that 00 men in every 100 might find it to their advantage to utilize the two elements of regularity and exercise. Professional men, outside of the lawyer's office, can not perhaps control so absolutely their hours as Mr. Field seems to have done, certainly no writer and no doctor can, but even they can insist upon a specified amount of daily exercise, without which the full measure ot health can, by no possibility, be attained. We were told in our youth it was a great thing to get our "beauty sleep" that is, to get to bed. before 12 o'clock and there used to be a superstition
against breathirg "night air.' I don't know exactly what kind of air we would breathe in the night, except night air, and personally 1 find it makes very little difference whether I go to bad at 12. 10 or 2, so long as I get a needed amouLt of sleep, but
as a rule, it is doubtless wise to retire not
later than 11 o'clock at night and the ex
perience cf the human family shows that
men and women who rise by 7 In the morn
iing. haviLg retired between 10 anc
Written for tbe Sunday StnUnel. CALLED HACK,
You go'n wayT" she sweetij asked In accents slightly broken, He stood and gazei with thoughtful eyes, Cut not a word hid spoken. Was any duty left undone? He named them over by numbtr. Ile'd ordered co&i and paid all bills rrom cashier up to plumber. But all at once he started back And up tbe steps then hastened, My Göll I have been blind!" he cried 'The coach nan Is not fastened." WEIiiKaV.
Five Health Uinta. Ladies' Ilome Journal 1 Protect your ankles with thick hose and high shoes. Damp clothing and moist drafts invite you to take a cold. Never sit on a damp cushion, moist ground or a marble or stone step if you wish to avoid a sore throat Let your doctor do all your prescribing, and not yourself, your dru?iOt. or your ousim, or their mothers, or t-ir aunta or all the tr hosts of friends. The bst lung protec:ors are dry feet and
warm, comfortable body clothing, no expo
