Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 34, Number 16, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 May 1888 — Page 2

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 1885.

INFIDELITY AND ATHEISM.

THEY WOULD WORK ABSOLUTE RUIN. Ji Orcpuie Picture by Dr. Talmaje of the Lefitlmat End of Infidelity The Retrogression of T(imn to Slarery Wort Tfcau Any Slie lias Ever Known. PEAKING to the text: "The sun fhall be turned into darkness," from Acts ii, v. 20, Dr. Talrmjre said : Sokr eclip?e is here prophesied to take place abont the time of the de struction of Jerusalem. Joscpbus, tbe historian, says that the prophecy was fulfilled, and that about that timo there were strange appearances in the heavens. Tha sun was not destroyed, but for a little while hidden. Christianity is the rising sun of our time, and men have tried with the uprolling vapors of skepticism and the smoke of their blasphemy to turn the sun into darkness. Suppose the archangels of malice and horror should be let loose a little while and be allowed to estinuish end destroy the sun in the natural heavens. They would take the oceans from other worlds cud pour them on this luminary of the planetary system, snd the 'waters go hissing down amid the ravines and the caverns, and there is explosion after explosion until there are only a few peaks of fire left in the sun, and these are cooling down and going out until the vast continents of flame jire reduced to a small acreage of fire, and that whitens and coo's oT until there are only a few coals left, and these are whitenin? and going out until there h not a spark left in all the mountains of ashes and the valleys of ashes and the chasms of ashes. .An extinguished sun ; a dead sun ; a buried sun. Let all worlds waii at the stupendous obsequies. Of course, this withdrawal of the solar light and heat throws our earth into a universal chill, and the tropics become the temperate and the temperate becomes the arctic, and there are frozen rivers and frozen lakes and frozen oceans. From arctic and antarctic regions the inhabitants gather in toward the center and find the equator as the poles. The fclain forests are piled up into a great bonlire, and around them gather the chivcrm;' lillaes and cities. The wealth of the coal mines is hastily poured into the fr.rriaot'5 and stirred into xz.? of combustion, but soon the bonfires lgin to lower, and the furnaces begin to po out, and the nations be'zin to (üc. Cotopaxi, Vesuvius, TJtn.i, Strom boli, Caliiornian geysers, cease to enioke, and the ice of hail-slornte remains unmeitodin their craters. All the flowers have breathed their last breath. Ships with sailors frozen at the mast and htlmsruen frozon at the wheel and passengers frozen in the cabin ; all nations dying, first at the north and then at the eouth. Child frosted and died in the cradle. Oeto'?nam!i fronted and dead at the hearth. 'orktrif n with frozen hand cn the hammer ami frozen foot on the shuttle. "Winter from fea to K3. A1Irongealinpr winter. Perpetual winter. Globe of trigidity. Hemisphere shackled to hemisphere by chains of ice. Universal Xova Zembla. The earth and ice-tloe grinding against other icc-fiocs. The archangels of malice and horror have done their work, and now they may take their hhrones of glacier and look tLov. n upon the fain they have wrought. What the destruction of the sun in the natural heavens would be to our physical earth, the destruction of Christianity would be to the moral world. The sun iurned into darkness. Infidelity in our lime is considered a great joke. There are people who rejoice to hear Christianity rarieatured, and to hear Christ assahed with quibble and quirk and misrepresentation and badinage and harlequinade. I propose this morning to take infidelity and atheism out of the realm of jocularity Into one of traaredy, and show you what they propose and what, if they are successful, they will accomplish. There are those in all our communities who would like to see the Christian religion overthrown, Vid whosay the world would be 1 ictt'-r without it. I want to fhow you t hat is the pud of this road, and what is the terminus of this crusade, and what this world will be when athei?m and iniidelity have triumphed over it, if they can. 1 say, if they can. I reiterate it, if they can. In the first place it will bo the complete end unutterable degredatioa of womantood. I wiil prove it by facta and arguments which no honest man will dispute. In all coininur ifies snd cities and Kates izid nations where the Christian rclidou has been dominant, woman's condition lias been ameliorated and improved, and i the is deferred to ind honored in a thous- ' nd things, and every gentleman takes off his hat before her. It your associations have been good, yon know that the name of wife, mother, daughter, sugcest gracious enrronndings. You know there are no better schools and seminaries in Erooklvn cr in any city of this country than the echools and seminaries for our young ladies. You know that while woman may suffer injustice, in England and the United Ffatfef, fehe has more of her rights in Christendom than the has anywhere else. 'ow, compare this with woman's condition in hncU v. here Christianity ha3 made little or no advance in China, in Barbara, in Borneo, in Tartrry, in Kgypt, jn Hindcstan. The Burmese fell their wives and daughters as fo many sheep. The Hindoo bib.e makes it disgraceful and an outrage for a woman to listen to music cr look out of the window i:i the a!senee of her husband, and gires as a lawful ground for d.vorce a woman's beginning to eat before her hushnnd has finiched his meal. V.'h lhc? white bundles on the rn Is and rivers in China in the morning? inianticide following infanticide. leraaie childen destroyed tim ly because they are female. Woman harnessed to a plow nn an ox. Yv'oman veiled and barricaded, end in ad styles of cruel seclusion. Her birth a inisfoitune. ,11er life a torture. Ilf-.r death a horror. The missionary of fue cross to-day in the heathen landa

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preaches generally to two groups a grqiip of men who do as they please and sit where- they please; the other group women , hidden and carefully secluded in a side apartment, where they may hear the voice of the preacher, but may not be Ken. So refinement. So liberty. No hope for this life. No hope for the life to come. Kinged no.e. Cramped foot. Disfigured face. Embruited soul. Now compare these two conditions. How far toward this latter condition that I speak of would woman go if Christian inthu mes were withdrawn and Christianity were destroyed? It is only a question of dynamics. "If an object be 'lifted to a certain point and not fastened there, and the liftini power be withdrawn, bow long lefore that object - ill fall down to the point from which it started? It will fall down, and it will co still further than the point from which it started. Christianity hn3 lifted woman up from the very depth? of degradation almost to the skies, if that liftiug power lc withdrawn ehe fal.'s clear back to the depth from which she was resurrected, not going any lower because there is no lower depth. And yet, notwithstanding the fact that tho onlv salvation of woman from degradation and woe is the Christian religion, and the only influence that has ever lilted her in the social scale is Christianity I have read that there are women who reject Christianity. I make no remark in regard to thos2 persons. I maKe no remark in regard to them. In the silence of your soul make tout observations. If infidelity triumph and Christianity be overthrown It means the demoralization of society. The one idea in the bible that atheists and inlidels most hate is the idea of retribution. Take awav the idea of retribution and punishment trom society and it will begin very eoon to disintegrate and take away from thousands of men the fear of hell, and there are a erent many of them who would soon turn this world into a hell. The majority of those who are indignant against the bible because of the punishment are men whose lives are bad

or whose hearts are' impure, and who hate the bible because of the idea, of future punishment for the same reason that criminals hate the penitentiary. Oh, I have heard this brave talk about people fearing nothing of the consequences of sin inwfhe next world, and I have made up my mind it is merely a row-mi's whistling to keep his courage up. I have seen men flaunt their immoralities direct in the face of the community, and I have heard them defy the jiugment day and scoff at the idea of any future consequence of their sin; but when they came to die they shrieked until you could hear them for neatly two blocks, ami in the summer nicrht the neighbors got up to put the windows down becau.se they could not endure the horror. I would not want to ec a rail train with 500 Christian people on board go down through a drawbridge into a watery grave. I would not want to see 500 Christian people go into such a disaster, but I teil you plainly that I could more easily s?e that than L could for any protracted time stand and see an infidel die, though his pillow were of eider-down and under a canony of vcrmillion. I have never been aVlc to brace up my nerve for such a spectacle. There is t-omuthing at such a time ko indescribable in the countenance. I just looked in upon it for a minute or two, but the clutch of his list was so diabolic, and the strength of voice was po unnatural, I could not endure it. "There is no hell! there is no hell! there is no bell!" the man had said for sixty years ; but that night when I looked in the dying room of my infidel neighbor, there "was something on bis countenance which Seemed to say: '"There is, there is, there is, there is." " The mightiest restraints to-daj against theft, aszaiust immorality, against libertinism, against crime of all sorts the mightiest restraints are the retributions of eternity. Tden know that they can escape the law, but down in the odendor's 0ul there is th realization of the fact that they cannot escape God. He stands at the end of the mad of profligacy, and He will n't clear the guilty. Take' all idea of retribution and punishment out of the hearts and minds of men, and it would not bo long before Urooklyn and New York and Ioston ard Charleston and Chicago became Sodonis. The only restraints against the evil passions of the world to-day are bible restraints. Suppose now these generals of atheism and infidelity ;ot the victory, and suppose they marshaled a great arm' made up of the majority of the world. They are in companies, in regiments, in brigades the whole army. Forward, march ye host of inlidels and atheists, banners flying before, banners flying behind, banners inscribed with the words: 'No God! No Christ! No punishment! No restraints ! Down with the bible ! Do as vou please!" The sun., turned into darkness. Forward, march ! ye great army of infidels and atheists. And first of all" vou will attack the churches. Away with those houses of worship! They have, been standing there so long deluding the people with consolation in their bereavements and sorrows. All those churches ought to be extirpated; they have done so much to relieve the lost and bring home the wandering, and they have so long held up the idea of eternal rest after the paroxysm of this life is over. Turn the M. Peters and St. Pauls and the temples and the tabernacles into club-houses. Away with those churches! Forward, march! ye great army of infidels and atheists, and next of all they scatter the Sabbath-schools the Sabbatlischools filled with bright-eyed, brightcheeked little ones who arc singing songs on Sunday afternoon and getting instruction when thf y ought to be on the street corners playing marbles, or swearing on the commons. Away w ith them ! Forward, march ! ve great army of infidels and atheists; and next of all they will attack Christian asylums the institutions of mercy supported by Christian philanthropies. Never mind the blind eyes and the deaf ears and the crippled limbs and the weakened intellects. Let paralvzed old age pick up its own food and orphans fight their own way, and the halt reformed go back to their evil habits. Forward, march! ye great army of infidels and atheists, and with your battle-axes hew down the cross and solit up the manger of Iiethlehem. On, ve great army of infidels and atheists and now they come to the graveyards and cemeteries of the earth. Pull down the sculpture above Greenwood's gate, for it means the resurrection. Tear away at the entrance of Laurel Hill the figure of Old Mortality and the chisel. Oh, ye great army of infi'dels and atheists, into the grave-yards and cemeteries, and where you see" "Asleep in Jesus" cut it away, and where you find a marble story of heaven blast ft, and where you find over a little child's crave, "Suller little children to come unto Me," substitute the words "delusion" and "sham," and where you tind an angel in marble strike off the wine?, and when vou come to a family vault chisel on the door : "Dead once, dead forever." Dut on ! ye great army of infidels and atheists, on ! They will "attempt to wale Leaven. There are heights to be taken. Pile bill on hill and Pelion on Ossa, and then they hoist the ladders against the wall of heaven. On and on until they biow pp the foundations of jasper and the gates of pearl. They charge up the steep. Now they aim foe tue throne r.f Him who l.vetli forever and ever. Thev wculd take clown from their hijrh nlace the Father, the Son, the Holy Ghost. "Down with them," they eay. "Down foreve r I Vov, u out of 'gh'u "He is not God. He

has no right to sit there. Down with Him 1 Down with Christ!" A world without a bead a universe without a king orphan constellationsfatherless galaxies anarchy supreme a dethroned Jehovah an assassinated God parricide, regicide, deicidci That is

what they mean. That is what they will have if they can if they can if they can. Civilization hurled back into semi-barbarism and scmi-barbarisra driven back into Hottentot tavasrery '. The wheels of progress turned the" other way and turned toward the dark ages. The clock of the centuries put back two thousand years. Go back, you Sandwich islanders from your schools and from your colleges and irom vour reformed condition to what you were in 1S20, when the missionaries first came. Call home the five hundred missionaries from India and overthrow their two thousand schools, where they are trying to educate the heathen, and scatter the 140,000 little children that thev have gathered out of barbarism into civilization. Obliterate all the work of Dr. Duff in India, of David Aheel in China, of Dr. King in Greece, of Judson in Iurmah, of David Erainard amid the American aborigines, and send home the .".000 missionaries of the cross who are toiling in foreign lands, toiling for Christ's sake, toiling themselves into the crave. Tell these 3,000 men of God that they are of no use. tend home tnemeaicai missionaries who are doctoring the bodies as well as the souls of the dying nations. Go home, London missionary society. Go home, American board of foreign missions. Go home, ye Moravians, and relinquish back into darkness and squalor and tilth and death the nations whom ye have begun to lift. Oh, my friend, there has never been such a "nefarious plot on earth as that which infidelity and atheism have planned. We w ere shocked a few years ago because of the attempt to blow r the parliament house in London ; but if infidelity and atheism succeed in their attempt thev will dvnamite a world. Let them have their füll way and this world will be a habitation of three rooms a habitation of just three rooms the one a maddiouse, another a lazaretto, the other a pandemonium. These infidel bands of music have only just begun their concert yea, they have onlv been stringing up their instruments. 1 tc-day put before you their whole programme from beginning unto close. In the theater the tragedy comes first and the farce afterward. And in the former athcMs and infidels laugh ami mock, but in the latter God Himself will laugh and mock. He says so. "I will laugh at their calamity and mock when the fear comcth." From such a chasm of individual, national, world-like ruin stand back. Oh, young men, stand back from that chasm! Vou see the practical drift of my sermon. I want you to know w here that road leads. Stand back from that chasm of ruin. The time is going to come ( you and I may not live to see it but it will" come, just as certainly as there is a God, it will come) when the infidel3 and the atheists who openly and out and out and above board preach and practice infidelity and athe-l.-m w ill be considered as criminals against society, as they are now criminals against God. Society will push out the leper, and the wretch, with soul gangrened and ichorous and vermin-covered and rotting apart with his beastiality will be left to die in the ditch and be denied decent burial, and men will come w ith spades and cover np the carcass where it falls, that it poison not the air, and the only text in all the bible appropriate for the funeral sermon will be Jeremiah xxii, 19: "lie shall be buried w ith the burial of an ass." A thousand voices came up to me this morning saying: "Do you really think infidelity will succeed? Has Christianity received it death blow? and will the bible become obsolete?" Yes, when the smoke of the citv chimney arrests and de&troys the noonday sun." Josephus says about about the "time of the destruction of Jerusalem the sun was turne! into darkness ; but only the cloudo rolled between the sun and the earth. The sun went right on. It is the sann sun, the same luminary as w hen at the beginning it shot out like "an electric spark from God's finger, and to-day it is warming the nations, and to-da it is gilding the sea, and to-day it is filling the earth w ith light. The same old sun, not at all worn out, thousrh its light steps lf;,rKn),000 miles a second, though its pul: ationsare 4 )0,fXJ,00),000,000 undulations in a second the same sun with beautiful white light made up of the violet, and the indigo, and the blue, and the green, and the yellow, and the orange the same beautiful colors now just as when the solar spectrum first divided them. At the beginning God said : "Let there be light," and light was, and light is, and light shall be. So Christianity is rolling o:i, and it is going to warm all nations, and all nations are to "bask in its light. Men may shut the window-blinds so they can not see it. or they may smoke the pipe of speculation until they are shadowed under their own vaporing, but the Lord God is a sun! This white light of the gospel made up of all the beautiful colors of earth and heaven violet plucked from amid the spring grass and the indigo of the southern jungles, and the blue of the skies, and the green of the foliage, and the yellow of the autumnal woods, and the orange of the soli therm groves, and the red of the sunsets. All the beauties of the earth and heaven brought out by this spiritual spectrum. G reat Britain is going to take all Europe for ( ?od. The United States is coing to take all America forGcnl. Both of them together will take all Asia for God. "Who art thou, oh great mountain? before Zerubbabclthou shalt become a plain." The mouth of the Lord hath spoken it. Hallelujah, amen! Ingcrnoll Versa .Gladstone. St. Loul Catholic World. Ingersoll in the bands of Gladstone is a pigmy in the grasp of a giant. The statesman shows that IngcrsoH's argument against Christianity is nothing more than a tissue of slimy assumptions, founded utK:i a belief in his ow n infallibility. The main merit of the great statesman's paper is to lift the controversy out of the low grounds of particular and often misleading details, which have served Ingrsoll with so much ambiguous ammunition, into the highlands of principles and reason. Ingersoll can no more live in this keen atmosphere than a watersnake can in the brilliant and arid skies of mountain peaks. He may wriggle ajid hide in the murky fens of his native swamps amidst the rank growth of decay, where buh and log and scummv pool serve as hiding places, but here in the full light of reason, where no subterfuge may serve as shelter for his deformity, he s scotched and killed. Scrot I'raycr. The Universale. Prayer in some form is common to all religions. It is a universal expression of man's religious nature and wants. At certain times and undur certain circumstances, all men pray. . Prayer is a revelation of man's dependence and failh. It in the cry of the finite child to the Infinite j "IV- At t 1 1 TA J11- - " I rawier ior neip. it pracucaiiy recognizes man's weakness and Gobi's strength, and manifests God's goodness and man's gratitude. It is neccssiry to the development of the Christian character and life. Secret prayer emphasizes personal religion. Be- j ligion and religious worship is a personal j matter. It has itsoricrin in man's spiritual personality, it grow.s out ot our personal relations and personal wants. Its very essence is personal faith in, personal love for, personal obedience to, and personal communion with God. Secret prayer is personal. The world is shut out, and

man is alone with his God. In this secret soul-worship, no eye sees him but the eye of God, and no ear hears but the ear of God. The spiritual child comes alone into communion with the Divine Father. We should pray in secret because we cannot make our secret sins, sorrows and neels the subject of public pr.iycr. u these the outside world has no interest. ;".d of them they should have no knowledge. They are "personal matters between man and his God. They concern the Divine Father and His human, erring, suffering and sorrowing child, and them alcne. Th Mtholiftt Confer?iir. ?.w York Mail end Express. It is a most notable Christian congress, with able representatives from all parts of Christendom ; with divines whose learning and oratory whould give them prominence in any parliamentary body; with lay members who arc masters of ecclesiastical and parliamentary law, as well as successful lawyers, bankers, physicians and school teachers, and editors, and with fervid and apostolically earnest exhorters w ho understand every phase of "church politics" in short, men of all professions and pursuits w ho variously pfui altogether represent ably and well that marvelous, elastic and effective organization which has made methodism the pioneer of Christian progress on the frontiers and among the bumble and lowly, while it has captured the cultured and liberally directs much of the "sanctified wealth" of the great cities of the land. General Church 'otes. Ths seventh session of the baptist congress will be held in Kichmond, Va., Dec. 4-6. In the diocese of London, with a population of 3,WO,000, there were S1.S94 baptisms the last year. The prrsbyten'an board of foreign missions closed its books May 3, liaving received during the fiscal year Xl,is0.S0 for'its current work. Pubscript ion i amounting to $0,000 were taken at the Torapkins-ave church Brooklyn, Dr. It. K. Meredith s, fcr the now edifice, which is to have a seating capacity of 2,0n0, The Cumberland presbyteri:m church' has located a college at Marshall, Mo., with an opening endowment of .UX),' X and ample funds for building purposes. The work commences at once. The pope has ujsued an encyclical in which he expresses the hope that "all nations and all peoples, united in the faith by the bond r.f charity, may soou form one flock under one shepherd." The general conference of the methodist episcopal chun-h, in session at the Metropolitan opera-house, New York, is a notable boily of men. There are L'5i clergymen, representing 111 annual conferences, and 175 1 yrnen, representing a church membership of about 2,000,000. The ninth renn ion of the V. S. Christian commission, Sanitary commission, nnny chapLui: (North and .south), and CJood S:unaritans or the late war, the Red Cross, White Cross, and other Christian benevolent organizations, are to meet at ltnuml Lake, Saratoga county, New York. Aug. b", lSi. Of the 1 7,7 l-'i Fijian inhabiting the Fiii islandr, more th;iu nine-tenths attend church with fair regularity: where fifty years siuee there was not a single Christian, to-day there is not a single avowed heathen; all the Fiji children are in the pchools; the schools and churches have wholly displaced the heathen temples. ThebcFt way to understand the bible, is to begin to put into pivctiee those thimrs w hich we do nt understand. If you want to know what faith is, just begin to walk by faith; if you want to know what repentance is, begin to give God's thoughts of you a place in your heart, instead of your thoughts about yourself. Words anl Weapons. Of the thirty-seven presbytcrian churches in New England, eighteen, or n?arly half, are in Masnchusetts. Connecticut and New Hampshire have seven each, Rhode Island three, and Vermont and Maine one each. Though a uunir ber of these chnvelics are of recent planting, others ere of considerable age, the one in Londonderry, X. II., being now I.jO years old. The yeprly meeiii.r of "Friemls" at Glens Falls, N. Y., the 24lh, will' bring together the leadinc; Quakers of the country. Several hundred lelgates will be present, and, contrary to custom in most other oenominaiiori", they will pay their own board. The "Friends'' have met at Glens Falls for several years, and the place i said to have become more a Junker town than Philadelphia itself. The will of the iate Rev. George J. Tillotson devices, in addition to fandly bequests. J.-tOo to the A. M. A., for the Tillotson collegiate and normal institute of Austin, Tex., to he nKed in the erection of a second dormitory bnil.llng; ?O00 to ail in building .houses of worship lor young and weak cougrcgational churches anymg the freedmen ; ;1X) each to the home missionary and American tract societies; and $2'J0 to the American hoard. After discussing the subject for nearly a week, the methodist general conference, by a votcof24'Jto 173, refused to seat the women delegates at the present session, adopting the amendment of Dr. Xeely of this city, rcfeniug the question to a vote of the annual conferences between now and the meeting of the next general conference, in 18'.)-'. The ablest delegates, lay and clerical, participated in the discttsMon, ami, while the women did not lack for champions among the orators, it turned out, as often before, that good speeches are not alone convincing enough to make votes. Philadelphia Tiuits, Joy 3. Though the Parsers do not number more than ninety thousand souls, and half f them are in iJombay, they are w ielding a decided influence in the modern civilization of the Last. Ing a persecuted race, they were finally driven from their native country, eleven hundred years ago, by the Moslems, and settled in Sugat, and from that point have become scattered through India. I5y their frnit.s they are making themselves known as worthy and elficient members of society. The queen of England has no more honorable and patriotic subjects in England. They must have a d-il of that nohlc blood of the ancient Fersian coursing through their veins. They own and occupy some of the best residences iu llombay. I,iUrior. Why I'isli is Cheap In Maine. Not long since a. party of young men went from Hosten to a country town down in Maine, says the Roston Herold, for a few davs' fishing. They had a full outfit of "tackl.;" and -gear' and upon arrival at their destination stood in need of but one thing bait After consulting their local adviser they secured the services of an ancient resident, who started out to dig the needed worms. lie was gone three or four hours, but to good purpose, for when he returned he bad a water bucket even full of a w rigIing mass of earth-worms. Now this was more than tlte boys had bargained for, and thoughts of what such an unheard of wtalth of bait would cost began to tmuhle them. To cad the. suspense, they appointl one of their rjuruhor spokesman, with plenary powers, but with instructions t make the best bargain possiMe. "How much do wa owe you?'' he asked, approaching the venerable bait-digger and taking out his wallet. "Well, I don't rightly know," rejoined the old man; "the ground is kinder solid and the worms is fur down, and it's been hard on my back to d;g 'cm. Rut I've half a notion to go tishin' myself to-morrow, and if you'll give mc half the bait we'll call it square." ot Keeping Fnith. "John, clear," said a young w ife, "you know w e agreed never to have any secrets from each other." "Yes, darling." replied John unenily. "And ymi know that last night, when I asked you for a little money, yon said that all you had was a pluuged tweuty-ctnt piece and a bunch of keys." "Yes, love.' "Well, I found 15 in one of yonr inside pockets this morning, John." A Itrearh of the Code. Drake's Majsz'.ne. Dr. Curium "Are you going to the medical congress to-night?" lr Killum "1 think not. Anything important?" Dr. C. "I believe .Johson is to be investigated for unprofessional conduct." Ir. K. "Indeed! Wim is his offense?'' lr, C "I haven't heard; but (darkly) I saw ashes enrinkled on his pavement this

worum; IT ' An I neUt!i Life. Masher (to Mile. Bouquet, the famous coryphee)-" Yon must aw tind the cay and aw pliiterinp life of adulation you live in a very aw pleasant one, Mile. Rouqnct." Mile. iJouquct "Un zc coutrarie, Monsieur, eet is most ongplaizong; but I Lave ze lcetle CrandchiMreu to theenk of."

KAM-cnusA-cnroi returns

A LEARNED PERSIAN ON INDIANA. The Marvelous Natural Resource of the Great Hoosier State Move Him to Elo-qnfuff-WhtrUa Indiana lient All Creation A Grand Commonwealth. I HAD been stayingat Borschneck'e hotel at Bethlehem for a week with a party of geologists who were inspecting the Marble Hill quarries and the old Stone Fort, and had just returned, tired and weary, from a jaunt to the hospitable hooie of the faniou peach-growing Deans, when mine host informed me that the Cincinnati mail-boat had just brought him a new guest, the like of whom he had never seen before. "He looks like the picture of the Caliph Harou AI-Raschid in the "Arabian Nights,' " he said. "Just as Eastern-fashioned and prince-like; only he is dressed in the swell stvle of a rich American. Do come and look at his funny name on my register." I stepped to the table which did duty for an office at Borochneck's, touched with the same curiosity which Eve's daughters exhibit in the examination of the hotel registers at Cape May or Saratoga, and there I read the stranger's name and address, Ram-Chusa-Chuin, Teheran, Persia. "Gracious, goodness," I said to myself, "has the shah sent my old friend of the Stone Fort back again to the United States on another literary mission to weary Tun So'tixel's readers, or does he desire to have Persia, annexed to the federal union?" As I turned from the register the Persian envoy suddenly confronted me, and exclaimed, as if reading my thought; "It is pleasant to meet you again. You are surprised to see me after a year's absence. I have not, however, been in Persia, as you suppose. My master, the shah, commanded me to travel incog, over the Uuitcd States, to examine Into the resources, condition find advantage of each; to note the customs, manners and habits of the people; to visit the iorrati; to inspect the churches and inquire into the various modes of worship ;to see how justice is administered, taxes apportioned and collected and how the people live and what freedom they enjoy. And so I have been everywhere, from Alaska to Maine, from Minnesota to Florida, and while I slutfl probably remain in your country during the life of the present shah, I shall sojourn at this quiet and comfortable hostelry on the banks of the Ohio until my report to his highness is completed." "And what state of the union do you like best?" I exclaimed. "Which of them has the most reason to be proud of her children and her resources? For my part, I think that our own crow is the whitest of all of them, although I have known some citizens of Indiana who were ashamed of their birthplace." "Ashamed of their birth place! Ashamed of Indiana! How can that be?" said the Persian. "Why, Indiana is praised and eulogized everywhere. In whatever town or city of your great union I entered during my travels, to say 'I am from Indiana' insured me a hearty welcome. "Why, sir, don't vour people realize that your state is leading all the others in population, wealth, generally diffused intelligence, and educational facilities?" "I haven't given the matter much thought," I said. "You see, I was raised here in what our early poet, .John Finley, called 'a Hoosier'a ne'bt,' and if you'll allow me, I'll quote his words to describe the Indiana settler, as I first knew him: 'The emigrant is oon located u HoosiiT life initiated; Krects a cabin In the ootls, Wherein he stows his household (roods. At first, round loss and clapboard roof. With puncheon floor, quite carpet proof. And i.ier windows, oiled and neat, Iiis editiee Is then complete When fourclar balls, in form of plummet. Adorn his wooden chimney's summit.' "Pray tell mc what you have found out in vour travels and researches about the Hoösier state?" "The solid facts about your state," said the Persian, "are these: "To illustrate your growth I will givo the figures as to population from 1S30. In that year the population was 343,031 ; in 140, o5,8od; in 1S"A ySS,416; in 18M, l,3.Vf4-J3; in 1S70, l,GS0,aT7;in 1SS0, V7S,3'5'J, and in 1WX) you may safely call it at the very leat 2,5O0,00O, judging from the way in which capital and immigration are pouring into your state. "Your people live in aperfcct parallelogram in the region of cereals and in that vast area of fertility known as the valley of the Ohio. Indiana is the first wheat state in the union. The crop amounted in 1SS0 to 57,2$8,0S9 bushels. She is one of the first great corn states. That crop in Indiana amounted in 1880 to 117,121,915 bushels. Such ligures are hard to beat. As far as excellence of soil is concerned no state possesses superior resources. It is now pretty well understood abroad that Indiana is the best 6tate to settle in. Of course as long as there were government lands and cheap railroad lands farther west tho enticing and delusive railroad advertisements would draw people thither. But these are nearly exhausted, and Indiana with her low-priced good lands, is now the most attractive state for foreiimers. In 1837 the celebrated pomologist, Downing, prophesied that the groat peach growing district of the United States would one day be the valley of the Ohio, and it is fast becoming so. The largest peach orchards in the union, except perhaps one in Georgia, are to be found in Clark county, and the fruit finds a ready market both East and West. Thero is no better region for producing small fruits than Southern Indiana. The cultivators of strawberries, raspberries and blackberries in Floyd and adjacent counties are reaping handsome yearly prolits. The building stone of Lawrence, Harrison, "Washington and Dubois counties is unsurpassed for beauty and durability. It is used iu the most elegant mansions and finest public buildings, state and national. Manutacturers say that no wool is more highly prized by them than the me1iura wool of Northern and Central Indiana. The cement rock underlying Clark county is worth more than the Wst gold mine in Colorado. It's the finest and cheapest cement in the market and Indiana contains enough to supply the world. . "Her lands are diversified with prairies, hill-sides,' beautiful meadows and rich dales. Therein lies the attractive feature to the sensible farmer. Her fertile valleys and deep-soiled bottom lands stand so thick with corn that thev laugh and sing. It will not le long ere the beautiful hills, extending along the Ohio river from Madison to New Albanyand still furtherdown, and far back into tho interior loth in Kentucky and Indiana, will be covered with the vineyards and orchards of the industrious Germans, French, English and Swiss; and magnificent residences will crown the summits of many of them. Indiana seems to be protected by a kind Providence from the cvclones,"the blizzards, the fearful hot and cold winds, and the grasshopper and insect scourtres, which atllict the residents of tho West and Northwest. The climate of Indiana is the finest, most healthful and most equable in the world. The spring is delightful; the summer is warm, hut salubrious; the fall is bright and sunnv, cheering the people with the fruits of the earth in abundance, and the winter is not long and cold. The coal mines of Indiana are becoming famous for the good quality and cheapness

of thtir product. Out of the depths of the earth comes forth natural gas to warm, to heat and to furnish cheap fuel for the poor and the rich. Supplying tho sand and other material from lier own Foil, and the coal from her own mines, and aided hy the skilled labor of her inhabitants, Indiana is the formidable and successful competitor of three of the richest and most powerful nations of Europe in the manufacture at New Albany of the finest plate glass. "And there are her railroads. Why, there's no state in the. union presenting so symmetrical a system of railroads as Indiana. They nearly all radiate from Indianapolis, the geographical center an'd capital of the state, and reallv the center of population of the United States. By means of them the productions of the state find a ready market and the farmers' profits are not consumed in heavy freight charges. Nearlv every county in the state can be reached from the capital by railroad and the traveler can return home on the same day. That's an advantage which the people in other states do not have. The idea is becoming prevalent everywhere that Indiana is the place to come to and stay in. She occupies the central place in the grand galaxy oi states. Whenever the great power of the West asserts itself politically in the union, Indianapolis will become (what it ought now to be) the capital of the United States. It will ere long become one of the chief cities of this great country in population and business. It is the Mecca now of all scientific, political and religious conventions. Thither the tribes go up. This great state of 3ours i marching grandly on to pre-eminence. She has already "taken the front rank among her sisters in population and material resources. "Come and see me next week and I will tell you what I shall report to the shah of Persia concerning her educational resources and intellectual development." And Ram-Chusa-Chum left me wondering why people run away to California and Florida, expecting to live on climate and oranges only, when they can get these and many better things in our own beautiful state. PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

Senator Sherman ii said to be a capital hand j at playing tenpins. , j Archbishop Benson of Canterbury is a wann advocate ot the use ot bicycles by the clergy. Senator Butler of South Carolina is a lineal descendant of the duke of Ormonde, of Ireland. The ameer of Afghanistan is scM to be meditating a journey to England to call on the empress of India this summer. Dr. James Newton Matthews, the young Illinois pott, is to be given a hanouet at Mason on the '3d of this month by James Whitcomb lliley, the Hoosier poet; Robert Melntyre, the The oldest methodist preacher in Indiana is tin; ltev. (leorge Schwartz of Jcilersonville. He was licensed to preach in l22, when twenty vears old. He is vigorous, ment:dly and physically. He was married the year he was ordained, and his wife is still living. It is stated that Robert Jxmis Stevenson is to make his home in New York. Why does not Chicago otter this brilliant man of letters a bonus of $20,000 to come here to live, as it would if Mr. Stevenson were a distingui.-hed base-ball pitcher? Vhkago Amtrica, u Mr. Herbert Spencer has been staying at Bournemouth. His health is im proving, but he still suffers from insomnia and nervous exhaustion. Since 187t he has been a victim of sleeplessness. He is now doing very little work, and never expects to do much more, though his doctors are more hopeful. Dr. M. E. Wadsworth, who has recently been j appointed state geologist oi Jiieniu'au, is a native of Maine and a graduate of Bowdoin college, class of 1603. For a dozen years he has been connected with the Agassiz museum at Harvard, and from that university, in 187:, received the degree of doctor of philosophy. Andrew Carnegie wa recently elected one of the directors of New York s cremation society. Since the organization of the society, three years ago, 156 bodies have been incinerated here, 12'J males and fifty-seven females. Interested people deelare tli8t cremation is gaining ground, and this New York society has now begun to pay expenses. Gov. Hamilton of Maryland makes Iiis home at Ilagerstown, w here he was born and w here he made his earlv reputation as a lawyer and a politician. He has a fortune of $l,0et,0Ot, nnd many fine farms in the country around Hasrerstown are his. He recently built in that city a hotel, which bears his name, and which was erected at a cost of $160,000. It is said that the primrose was not Lord Beaeonsfield's favorite flower at ail, and that the story that it was arose from the fact tluit the queen sent to grace Ids colli n a w reath of those flowers with a card benring the inscription, in her own liandwritinir, "Iiis favorite flower." But she meant the iavorite of her own husband, Prince Albert, int of Beaconsfield. 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