Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 34, Number 26, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 August 1888 — Page 2

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1. 1888.

tramping or committed suicide. You trill pass over a dozen of these ''stake towns" every day and fee nothing but stakes and raoti. There are at least 100,000 more people in Southern California than there were fi;.'hteen months ago. Thousands of acres have been planted in orange, olive, prunes and vine, upon the reliable assurance of the Agents that there was no need of irripntion, or that the projected ditches would be constructed in time; but there are 10 ditches and no rain and the trees are lead. With the exception of these lead trees there has been no development 9f the country. Everybody is waiting for another boom next winter to unload on "temlerfeet" and take leave of the glorious climate. One good result of the boom is the division of the land giants, which are all cut up. But what is the climate? For the kind the climate is good. It is neither tropic, sub-tropic or temperate. It is neither hot or cold, but a little of both. The days are dry and mild and the nights cool, damp and foggy. This climate, not being regulated by latitude.but by oceanic currents, deserts and mountains, has an evenness the whole year round. There is practically but one season. It is not a perpetual spring nor summer, but a cross between March and May in a Northern state. This sameness makes rne feel that he has been cheated out of pomethinsr, and soon tires of it. He misses the thunder, the snow, the cyclone and bed-bug due to redwood furniture but he wakes up in flies. He even gets tired of the flowers, and as for the birds, like the climate, they are lazy aud don't sing. It is a good place for the nervous; anyone troubled with insomonia will sleep twelve hours out of twenty-four here. But those having pulmonary trouble will do well to avoid the fogs and co to the Rocky mountain region. Southern California has not a great future. There is no coal, timber or iron, and manufacturing is out of the question. Agriculture is limited for want of water. There is nothing in the climate no one can appreciate a climate reSuiring the tame kind of clothing for anuary and July, and an overcoat after sundown 36-3 days in the year. There is nothing to the mind like a change, even in climate. Southern California, whila not being a land of milk and honey, can bo truthfully called a land of flowers and honey. The flowers are always in bloom,' and the bees work from New Years to Christmas. The mountains are full of wild bees, and colonies can be found everywhere in the cavities of the rocks. Honey, 2 cents a pound. This is the only item 6f export to this country. P. II. P.

DANIEL BOONE'S GUN. Queer Catch of a Lone Fisherman in the Ohio Iliver. John Moreland, while fishing on the Kentucky side of the Ohio river, near Irontcn, O., hooked some heavy object, and after considerable truble, landed an array nmsket. It was an old-fashioned flint-lock. The iron was nearly eaten up with rust, while the walnut tdoru was remarkably well preserved. Ou the stock was cut tlio letters "I. R," which ere- the initials of Daniel Boone. There was also a deep furrow plowed in the stock, evidently made by a bullet. It is supposed that the gun was actually the property of lioune, and that be lost it w hile tt-eaping across the river from the Indians, the bullet striking tho stock probably having knocked it out of his hand. The gun had evidently laid in the water for scores of years. It will probably be sent to the centennial. AFTER MORTON. He Dabbles Willi Contract Labor Matt Oet Left. New York Special.! The Evening World to-day publishes a LrondtsMe of charges against the lion. Levi P. Morton, the republican vice-presidential candidate, in which it is alleged that Mr. Morton imports contract laborers and pays tlicra much less than the current was;es here. The men said to Lave been imported by Mr. Morton ore a couple of gardeners, with whom the followingcontract is alleged to have been made: "We, the undersigned, hereby agree to give our services as nudergardeners to Levi P. Morton for the period of two yearä, begiuning March 1, 1Sn." The watres, $04 aud $'M, were mentioned, and Mr. Morton agreed to pay their expenses nd passage money out. It is stated by the World that the gardeners became dissatisfied, and when one informed Mr. Morton that he was going to leave, Mr. Morton declared that if he did he (Morton) would have him arreted, as there was a contract between them, liehlan Forbes is the name of the gardener in cjik-s-tion. lie said that Mr. Morton made him' refund his passage money before he left. "Meanwhile 1 had tried to get several places and had failed. I know that in one case he prevented me from getting a place I was after," aid Forbes. According to Gardener Forbes, during the months of April and May two grooms for the table, two footmen and six Hmale servants were sent over from England by Mr. Morton vnder contracts varying from one to two years. The stablemen aud footmen had not left when he went away, but they were on the point of doing so, for in every case they found that the wages they were getting were far below the average paid in this country for the same class of work. The female servants did not remain a week In the bouse after their arrival, but most of them bolted rfcht away the next day, either to New York, where it is supposed they obtained other employment or went back to England. Fashion For Dor In Paris. fParis Dispatch o the London Daily Telegraph. Every body knows that there is a dernier cri, er "latest fa.-b.ion" in Paris for canine pe s as well as for their fair owners. Family dogs are row, for instance, taken to the seaside or the Springs" in a neat traveling dress, which consists of a covering like a diminutive hors cloth, wiih a pelisse bordered with colored ribbons. tYhen the nets arrive at the summer resorts they are carefully draped in light little mantles or i erseys with receptacles in them for holding umps of sugar aud also poeket-handkerchiets wherewith canine snouts and eye3 are wiped. The favoritesare likewise bedecked with collars and even bracelets. The latest fashion in collars is a strip of reddish-brown leather with gold knobs aud garnished with little bells bearing on one side of them the efiigy of Jean qui pUure, and on the other that of Jean qui rit. There is to special pattern for the bracelets, which are prepared according to the whims or fancies of dog owners. Some of the poodles wear collars of nickel made to resemble pearl necklaces, while very doting dog fanciers go so far as to endow tht'ir eaniches with gold silver collars and bracelets, with real pearls and rubies thrown in. Begin To Look That TVay. .Nantucket letter in New York Evening Potl. Dropping that subject, bhe inquired if Miss Starbuck were not the woman who had the French spoliation claims. When I said that Miss Starbuck expected to have a share in those claims when they were adjusted and settled, the stranger clnred her hands and cried: '"Oh, I'm so glad! That's one reason why I wanted to come here, you know. It's as good as a chancery suit; like 'Bleak House,' don't yon think? Of course she'll never ret anything." Greatly to be Ieired. New York Herald. "Whenever, therefore, it is announced that somebody is "leaving his party," let us all be happy. He leaves it because he does not agree with it, and that is a good thing. The re-arrangement of parties has been needed for years. Crops Oomt in Minnesota. Chicago, July 26. A dispatch from "Winona, Minn., fays: Careful inquiry regarding the rrop situation in Southern Minnesota shows thatthe prospect are most eneouraging. Winter wheat is already harvested and will give an average yield in tins section of thirty Bushels per acre. Compliments of the Honeymoon. Puck. Bride-''Henry, do you know that yon Bnore?" Bridegroom "Xo; do I? Via verry sorry to tear it " . ride (dryly-o m L"

A TALMAGE SOLDIER TALK.

WHAT MAY BE DONE BY STRATEGY. How Joshna Captured the City of AI Some Retreats That are Victories Short Triumphs of the "VicketlOues, Etc. iVhaplain T. De Witt Tal mage I'W' preached last Sunday to the Thirteenth regiment of the New York state national guards now encamped there. The regiment assembled at 3 p. m., when people from the neighboring country, town and cities were present in immense numbers. A military band conducted the musical part of the service. Chaplain Talmage's sermon was based on 4,lT6es of Stratagem." Then ye shall ri.e up from the ambush, and seize upon tha city. IJoshua vliL 7. He paid: Men of the Thirteenth regiment, and their friends here gathered, of all occupations and professions, men of the city and men of the fields, here is a theme fit for all of us. One Sabbath evening with my family around me, w e were talking over the Eccne of the text. In the wide-open eyes and the quick interrogations and the blanched checks I realized what a thrilling drama it was. There is the old city, shorter by name than any other city in the ages, spelled with two letters A-i Ai. Joshua and his men want to take it. How to do it is the question. On a former occasion, in a straightforward, face to face fight, they had been defeated; but uuw tbey are p'ing t take it by ambuscade, den. Jo.-hua has two divisions in bis army the oue division the, battle-worn commander will lead himself, the other division he sen I o(F to encamp in r.n ambush ou the west side of the City of Ai. No torches, no lanterns, no Ktmd of heavy battalions, but :;.),0(h swarthy ".varri'-rs" moving in su-nee, spoaki'? onlv in a w hisper ; no clicking of swords agninst shields, b-st the watchmen of Ai discover it and the stratagem be a failure. If aroUtcriusr soldier in the I-ratliti.-h army forget himself, all along the line" the vid is "Hush!" Joshua takes the other division, the one with which be is to march, and puts it on the north side of the city of Ai. and then spends tho night in rccounoitcriug in tho vaiiey. There he is, thinking oserthe fortunes, of the coining day, wb'-n something of the feeling of Wellington the night before Waterloo, or of Meade and Lt-e the night before t lettysburg. There he stands in the night, and pavs to himself: ''Yonder is the division in ambush on the the west fide of Ai. Here i3 the division I have under my especial command on the north side of Ai. There is the old t ltv slumbering ia its sin. To-morrow willl the battle. Look! the morning already begins to tip the hills." The'miliiarv orlic; rs of Ai look out in the morning very arly, and while they do not eee the division in ambush, they behold the other division ot Joshua, and the cry.'To arms! to arms '."rings through all the streets of the old town, and every sword, whether hacked and bent or newly welded, is brought out, and all the inhabitants of the city of Ai pour through the gates, an infuriated torrent, and their crvis: "Come we'll make quick work with Joshua and his troops!" No sooner had these people of Ai come out again.-1 the troops of Joshua than Joshua gave such a command as he ecldom gave: "Fall back !" AVhy, thev could not believe their own ears. Is Joshua's courage failing him? The retreat is beaten and the Israelites are flying, throwing blankets and canteens on everv side under this worse than Bull Kun defeat. And you ought to hear the soldiers of Ai cheer, and cheer. But they huzza too soon. The men lying in ambush are straining their vision to get some signal from Joshua that they may know what time to drop upon the city. "Joshua takes his burnished spear, glittering in the sun like a shaft of doom, and points it toward the city, and when the men up vonder in the'ambush tsee it, with hawklike swoop they drop upon Ai, and without stroke of sword or 6tab of spear take the city and put it to the torch. Sso much for the division that was in ambush. How about the division under Joshua's command? No sooner does Joshua stop in the flight than all his men stop w ith him, and as he wheels they wheel, for in a voice of thunder he cried : '"Halt!" One strong arm driving back a torrent of flying troops. And then, as ho points his spear through the golden light toward that fatal city, his troops know that thev are to start for it. "What a scene it was when the division in ambush which had taken the city marched down against the men of Ai on the one eide and the troops under Joshua doubled up their enemies from the other side, and the men of Ai were caught between these two hurricanes of Israelitish courage, thrust before and behind, stabbed in breast and back, ground between the upper and nether millstones of God's indignation. "Woo to the city of Ai ! Cheer for the triumphs of Israel 1 Lesson the first: There is such a thing as victorious retreat. Joshua's falling back was the first chapter in his successful besiegment. And their are times in your life when the best thing you can do is to run. You were once the victim of strong drink. The demijohn and the decanter were your fierce foes. They came down upon you with greater fury than the men of Ai upon tho men of Joshua. Your only safety is to get away from them. Y'our dissipating companions will come around for your overthrow. Kun for your life! Fall back! Fall back from the drinking saloon. Fall back fiom the wine party. Your flight is your advance. Your retreat is your victory. Thero is a saloon down on the next street that has almost been the ruin of your soul. Then, why do you go along that street? Why do you not pass through some other street rather than by the place of your calamity? A spoonful of brandy taken for medicinal purposes by a man who twenty years before had Leen reformed from drunkenness, h uric 1

into inebriety and tha grave one of the best friends I ever had. Your retreat is your victory. Here is a converted infidel. He is so strong now in his faith in the gospel he says he caa- -read anything. What are you reading? Bolingbroke? Andrew Jackson Davis' tracts ? Tyndall's Glasgow university address? Drop them and run. You will be an infidel before you die unless yon quit that. These men of Ai will be too muc,h.for you. Turn vour back on the rank aad, file of unbelief. Fly before they cut you with their swords and transfix you with their javelins. There are people who -.have been well nigh ruined because they risked a foolhardy expedition in the presence of mighty and overwhelming temptations, and tho men of AI made a morning meal of them. 0 also there is such a thing as victorious retreat in the "religious world. Thousands of times the kingdom of Christ has seemed to fall back. J When the blood of the Scotch Covenanters gave a deeper dye to the heather of the Highlands, w hen tho Vaudois of France chose extermination rather than make an.unchristian surrender, when on ISt. Bartholomew's Day mounted assassins rode through the streets of Faris crying: "Kill! .iBlood-letting is good in August! Kill! Death to Huguenots! Kill! When Lady Jane Grey's head rolled from the executioner's block, when Calvin was imprisoned in the castle, when John Knoi died for the truth, w hen John Bunyan lay rotting in the Bedford jail, saying: "If God will help me and my physical life continues I will stay here until the mos3 grows on my eyebrows rather than give up my faith." The days of retreat for the church were days of victory. The pilgrim fathers fell back from the other side of the sea to Plymouth Rock but now are marshaling a continent for the Christianization of the world. The church of Christ falling back from Piedmont, falling back from .Kue St. Jacques, falling back from St. Denis, falling back Wurtemburg castles, falling back from Brussels market-place, yet all the time triumphing. Notwithstanding all the shocking reverses which the church of Christ sutlers, what do we see to-day? Three thousand missionaries of the cross on heathen ground; '0,000 ministers of Jesus Christ in this land ; at least 200.000,000 of Christians on the earth. All nations to-day kindling in a blaze of revival. Falling back, yet advancing until the old Weslcyan hymn will prove true: The lion of Judah shall break the chain, And gh'e us the victory Jgaiu and ag.iin! But there is a more marked illustration of victorious retreat in tho life of our Joshua, the Jesus of the ages. First falling back from an appa'.ing height to aft' appalling depth, falling from celestial hills to terrestrial valleys, from throne to manger; yet that did not seem to sutlice him as a retreat. Falling buck still further from Bethlehem to Nazaraeth, fiom Nazaraeth to Jerusalem, back, back from Jerusalem to Golgatha, back, back from Golgatha to the mausoleum in the rock, back down over the precipices of perdition until he walked amid the cavers of the eternal captive, and drank of tho w ino of the w rath of Almighty od amid tho Arabs and the Jazebclsand llelchazzars. Omen of the pulpit and men of the pew.Christ's descent from heaven to earth docs not measure hah the distance. It wns fromglorv to perdition. He descended into hell. All the records ef eart'dy retreat are as nothing compared with this f illir ; back. Santa Anna, with the fragments of his army, flying over the plateaux of Mexico, and Napoloou and his army retreating from "Moscow into the awful snows of Russia, are not worthy to be mentioned with this retreat, when all the powers or darkness seem to be pursuing Christ as he fell back, until the bodv of him who came, to do such wonderful things lay pulseless and stripped. Methinks that the City of Ai was not so emptied of its inhabitants when they went out to pursue Joshua n as perdition was emptied of devils when they started for the pursuit of Christ, i.t;.I he Uli but k ami back, down lower, down lower, rha 111 below chasm, pit below pit, until h- seemed t." strike the objurgation and scorn and torture. Oh, the long, loud, jubilant shout of hell at the defeat uf tho Lord God Almighty! But let not tho powers of darkness rejoice quite so soon. Do you hear that disturbance in the tomb of Arimatbea? I hear the sheet rending! What means that stone burled down the side of the hill? Who is this coming out? Push him back; the dead must not stalk in this open sunlight. Oh, it is our Joshua. Let him come out. He comes forth and starts for the city. He takes the spear of the Roman guard and points that way. Church militant marches up on one side and the church triumphant marches down on the other side. And the powers of darkivfS being caught between thesa ranks of celestial and terrestrial valor, nothing is left of them save just enough to illustrate tho direful overthrown of hell and our Joshua's eternal victory. On his bead be all the crowns. his hand be all the scepters. At his ie all the human hearts, and hero, Lorn, is one of them. Lesson the second : The triumph of the wicked is short. Did you ever see an army in a panic? There is nothing so uncontrollable. If you had 6tood at Long Bridge, Washington, during the opening of our civil war, you would know what it is to see an army run. And when those menjof Ai looked out and saw those men of Joshua in a stampede, they expected easy work. They would scatter them as the equinox the leaves. O, the gleeful and jubilant descent of the men of At upon the men of Joshua! But their exhilaration was brief, for the tide of battle turned and these quondam conouerors left their miserable carcasses in the wilderness of Bethaven. So it always is. The triumph of the wicked is short. You make $20,000 at the gaming table. Do you expect to keep it? You will die in the poor house. You made a fortune by iniquitous traffic. Do you expect to keep it? Your money will scatter, or it will stav long enough to curse your children after you are dead. Call over the roll of bad men who prospered and see how short was their prosperity. For awhile, like the j men of Ai, they went from conquest to conquest, . but after awhile disaster rolled back upon them and they were divided into three parts: Misfortune took their property, the grave took their body and the lost world took their soul. 1 am always interested in the building of theaters and the buildiug of dissipating saloons. 1 like to havo tüein built of the best granite and have the rooms made large and to havo. the pillars made verv lirm. God is going to conquer them, and they will be turned into asylums and art galleries and churches. The stores in which fraudulent men do business, tho splendid banking institutions where the president and cashier put all their property in their wives' hands and then fail for $200,000 all these institutions are to become the places where honest Christian men do business. How long will it take your boya to get through your ill-gotteh gains? The wicked do not live out half, their days. For awhile they swagger aud strut and make a great splash in the (.newspapers, but after awhile it all dwindles down into a brief paragraph : llcl anddr oly, July 22, 1SS. at fhlrtf-fly years of aze. ilatires and fricn.li of th family are iniUni 0 attfnd the funeral on Wednesday at 2 o'clock, from hi lat) residence on Madison-aquare. lourip'itatdreeiiwood. , Some of them jumped off the docks. Some of them took prussic acid. Some of them fell under the snap of ' a Derringer pistol. Some of them spent their last days in a lunatic asylum. Wherecare William Tweed and his associates? Where are Ketcham and Swartwout, 4 absconding

swindlers? "Where is James Fiske, the libertine? "Where is John Wilkes Booth the assassin, and all the other misdemeanants? The w icked do not live out half their days. Disembogue, O world of darkness! Come up, Hildebrand, and Henry II, and Robespierre, and with blistering and blaspheming and ashen lips hiss out: "The triumph of the wicked is short." Alas for men of Ai when Joshua stretches out his spear toward the city I Lesson the third: How much maybe accomplished by lying in ambush for opJortunities. Are you hypercritical of oshua's maneuver? Do you say that it was cheating for him to take that city by ambuscade? Was it wrong for Washington to kindle campfires on the New Jersey heights, giving the impression to the opposing force that a great army was encamped there when there was none at all? I answer, if the war was right then Joshau was right in his stratagem. He violated no flag or truce. He broke no treaty, but by a lawful ambuscade captured the city of Ai. Oh, that we knew how to lie in ambush for opportunities to serve God. The best of our opportunities do not lie on the surface, but are secreted; by tact, by stratagem, by Christian ambuscade, you may take almost any castle of sin for Christ. Come up toward men with a regular besiegement of argument and you will be defeated; but just wait until the door of their hearts is set ajar, or they are off their guard, or their severe caution is away trom home, and then drop in on them from a Christian ambuscade. Thero has been many a man up to his chin in scientific portfolios which proved there was no Christ and no divine revelation, his pen a scimetar flung into the heart of theological opponents, who, nevertheless, has been discomtitted and captured for God by some little 3-year-old child who has got up and put her snowv arms around his sinewy neck, and asked" some simple question about God and heaven. Oh, make a flank movement; steal a march on the devil; cheat that man into heaven. A $5 treatise that will stand all tho laws of homiletics may fail to do that which a penny tract of Christian entreaty may Accomplish. Oh, for more Christians in ambuscade; n t lying in idleness, but waiting for a quick spring; waiting until just the right time comes. Do not talk to a man of the vanity of this world on the day when he has bought something at "twelve" and is going to sei! it at ''fifteen." But talk to him about the vanity of this world on the day when he has bought .something at "fifteen" and is compellcel to sell at "twelve." Do not rub a man's disposition the wrong way. Do not take the .imperative mood when the subjunctive mood w ill do just as well. Do not talk in perfervid style to a phlegmatic nor try to tickle a torrid temperament with an icicle. You can take any man for Christ if vou knov,- how to get at him. Do not senl word tü him that to-morrow at 10 o'clock you proprusc to open your batteries upon him, but come on him by a skili ful, persevering, God-directed ambuscade. lesson the fourth: The importance of taking good aim. Thero is Jcohua, but bow are those people in ambush up yonder to know when they are to drop on the city? and how are theso men around Joshua to know when they are to stop their light and advance? Thero must be some signal a signal to stop the one division und to start the other. Joshua, with a spear on which wen ordinarily hung tho colors of battle, points toward tho city, lie stands in such a conspicuous position, and there is so much of the morning light dripping from that speartip that all around the horizon they see. It was much as to say: "There is the city. Take it. Take Ü now. Roll down from the west. Surgo'up from the north. It is ours. The city cf Ai." God knows aud we know that n ;-re.it d-al of Christian Mttack auiountJ'iolhijig, simply because we do not takevood aim. Nobody knows, and wj do not know ourselves, which pon we want to take, when we ought to make up our minds what God will have us to do, and Eoint our spear in that direction, and Mien url our body, mind, soul, time, eternity at that one target. In our pulpits and pews, nnel Sunday schools and prayer meetings, we want to get a reputation for saying pretty things, and so we point our spear toward the tbwers ; or we want a reputation for saying sublime things, and we point our spear toward the stars: or we want to get a reputation for historical knowledge and wo point our spear toward the past; or we want to get a reputation for great liberality, so we swing all around; and it strikes all points of tho horizon, and you can make out of it whatever you please; while there is the old world, proud, rebellious and armed against all righteousness; and instead of running any further away from its pursuit we ought to turn around! plant our foot in the strength of the eternal God, lift the old cross and point it in the direction of the world's conque-st till the redeemed of earth, marchiug up from one side and the glorified of heaven marching down from the other side, the last battlement of sin is compelled to swing out the streamers of Emanuel. Oh, church of God, take aim and conquer. I have heard it said: "Look out for a man who has only one idea ; he is irresistible." I say: Look out for the man who has one idea, and that a determination for soul-saving. I believe that God would strike me dead if I dared to point the spear in any other direction. Oh, for some ot the courago and enthusiasm of Joshua! He flung two armies from the tip of that spear. It is sinful for us to rest, unless it is to get stronger muscle and fresher brain and purer hearts for God"s work. I feel on my head the hands of Christ in a new ordination. Do you feel the same omnipotent pressure ? "There is a work for all of us. Oh, that we might stand up side by fide and point the spear toward the city ! t ought to be taken. It will be taken. Our cities are drifting off toward loose religion or what is called "liberal Christianity," which is so liberal that it gives up all the cardinal doctrines of the bible; so liberal that it surrenders the rectitude of the throne of the Almighty. That is liberality with a vengeance. Let us decide upon the work which we, as Christian men, have to do, and, in the strength of God, go to work and do it. It is comparatively easv to keep on a Earade amid a shower of bouquets and and-clapping and the whole street full of huzzas, but it is not so easy to stanel up in the day of battle, the iace blackened w ith smoke, the uniform covered with the earth plowed up by whizzing bullets and bursting shells, half the regiment cut to pieces, and yet the commander crying, "Forward," march 1" Then it requires oldfashioned valor. My friends, the great trouble of the kingdom of God in this day is the cowards. They do splendidly on a parade day, and at the communion, w hen they have on their best clothes of Christian profession ; but put them out in the great battle of life, at the first sharpshooting of skepticism they dodge, they fall back, tbey break ranks. We confront the enemy, we open the battle against fraud, and lo! we find on our side a great many people that do not try to pay their tlebts. And we open the battle against intemperence, and we find on our own side a great many people who drink too much. And we open the battle against profanity, and we find on our own side a great many men who make hard speeches. And we open the battle on infidelity, and lo! we find on our own side a great many men w ho are not quite sure about the Book of Jonah. And whilo we ought to be massing our troops , and bringing forth more than the united courage of Austcrlitz and Waterloo and Get

tysburg, we have to be spending our time hunting up ambuscades. There are a great many in the Lord's army who like to go but on a campaign with satin slipEers and holding umbrellas over their eads to keep off the dew, and having rations of canvas-backed ducks and lemon custards. If they cannot have them, they want to go home. They think fit unhealthy among so many bullets ! I believe that the next twelve months will be the most stupendous year that heaven ever saw. The nations are quaking now with the coming of God. It will be a jfear of successes for the men cf Joshua,; but of doom for the men of Ai. You put your ear to the rail-track and you hear th& train coming miles away. So I put my. ear to the ground and I hear the thundering on of the lightning train of God's mercies and judgments. The mercv of God is first to be tried upon this nation. It will bo preached in the pul-. pits, in theaters, on the streets, everywhere. Teople will be invited to accept the mercy of the gospel and the story, and the song and the prayer, will be "mercy." But suppose they do not accepl : the offer of mercy what then? Then God will come with his judgments, and the grasshoppers will eat the crops, and the freshets will devastate the valleys, and the defalcations will swallow the money markets, and the fires will burn the cities, and the earth will quake from pole to pole. Year of mercies and of judgments. Year of invitation and of warning. Y'ear of jubilee and of woe. Which 6ide are you going to be on? With the men of Ai or the men of Joshua? Tass over this Sabbath into the ranks of Israel. I would clap mv hands at the joy of your coming. You will have a poor chance for this world and the world to come without Jesus. You cannot stand what is to come upon you and upon the world unless you have the pardon and the comfort and the help of Christ. Come over. On this side is j-our happiness and safety, on the other side is disquietude and despair. Eternal defeat to the men of Ai! Eternal victory to the men of Joshua ! THE PREACHER'S VACATION.

Tho old ruan went to mcetin', for the day was bright and lair, Tho' his Mep ras slow and totter in' and 'twan hard to travel there; But ha bun gored for the gospel, bo be trudged the woary way On the ron.l so rough and dusty, 'neath the sun's hut buruing ray. Fj-and-br he reached the building, to his soul a hrily place; Then h paused and wiped the sweat-drops from oil hit wrinkled f.ico; Cut he looked around, bewildered, for the old bell did nt toll, Aud ttic door were shut and bolted, and he did not brc a soul. So ho leaned upon h!i pilgrim-staff", and said; "What doos It ninn?" And he lookcrl this and that way, till it seemed to l.::u a dream. . lie had walked th dustj highway (and ho breathed a heavy irh) Just to (t dee more to incetin ere tho summons mine to ilie. Sion ho smf x littlo notice, tacked oa the mcetln'Uoor, And he limjx'd along to read it, and bo read it o'er mill Vr; Then lu wiped hii dusty glasynw, and ho read it o'er unin, Till his limbi begau to tremble, and his eyes were lull of paiu. As the old man read tho notice, how It made hlj spirit burn : Tastor aWnt on vacation church is closed till bis return !" Then ho stasreit slowly backward, and sat him low n to think, For his soul wa stirred within him til! he thought bis heart would eiuk. So he inovr d nlon:, and wondered ; to himself soliloqui.tl "I havo li vimI till aliuost eighty, and was nner so Mirp'ivd. A 1 re.:d hat oddest notice stuck on the nieetia' li"r: 'Tailor abieiU oh tacaiion' ncTcr heard the like before. "Why, her. I first joined tbe meetin', very manj K-rrs nifo, Preacher truiolcj on 'the circuit, in tho beat an J tlir inch the mow; If they it ilit'ies and .Itta!s ('twas hut little cash tli- y pit , They fid nothing 'bout Tata. loo, but wrr happy iu ;ht ir lot. "Would the farmer leave bin cattle, or the shepherd leavo hi h ep? Who would ei"'' th in eare and shelter, or provide them i.iod to eat? So it stri! e tno very bing'lar, when aiuanef holy hand Thiukt he uefdt to have vacation, and forsakes bis tender Iambs. "Iid St. Taul git such a notion? Did a Wesley or a Knox'.' Iid they, ia th heat of summer, turn from their ticeuv flocks? Iid they Abut up their meetin' just go and lounge about? Why, surely then, if thus thy did, Satan would rai.su a shout. "Do the taverns close their doors, just to take a little reM : Why, 'twould b the height of nonsense, for their trade wouid be d:tresf, Did you over know it happen, or hear anybody tell Sataii nWnt on vacation, and closed tho doors of hell? "And shall preachers of the gospel pack their trunks and away, Leaving .vim ts and dying sinners to get along as best tiiey may .' Are the vmls of saints and siuncrs valued less than sellius t ?r? Or do preachers lire quicker than the rest of mortals here? "Why it is I cannot answer; but my feelings they are tiirrfl. Here I've dragged nay tottering footsteps to hear the ftospcl word ; But the preacher is a travelin' and the meetin' -house is closed; I confess it's very trying hard indeed to keep compotKid. "Ten me, when I tread the valley, and go up the shinin height. Will I hear no angels singm' will I eee nogleamin' light? Will the golden harps be silentl Will I meet no welcome there? Why the thought is roost distressin', 'twould be more than I could bear. "Tell me, when I reach the city, over on the other shore, Will I find a little notice tacked upon the golden door. Telling nie, 'mid dreadful rilence, writ in words that cut and burn "Jetut absent on vacation Heaven closed till ki$ return f The Methodist. CHRISTIANS IN POLITICS. Their riace at the Polls The Views of the Rev. A. C. Dixon. Baltimore Sun. There are three divinely-appointed institutionsthe home, the church and the government. At first, the home was also the church and the government. In patriarchal time the father was the hiijh priest. He was the king also, aud as in tho case of Abraham, had the right of life and death. When the tabernacle was built the home and the church became in a sense distinct. The father was no longer the high priest, hut the home continued to exist.1 God's design was that in the tabernacle government should rest, that lie should bo the invisible king. When Christ came He made all three of these institutions distinct, but by doing so He did not abolish any of them. The home comes first. I believe it is first. I believe it is first in importance. It should be pure. I would rather bring things that are vile into the church Ifhan into the home. Government is ordained by God. He does not say what 'kind it shall be, whether an arisolute monarchy, a limited monarchy or a republic. It is brought about in different ways. In Europ' it is by the line of descent. In this country the instrument of ordination is the Dopuiar vote. To the United States the ballot-box is what the ark of the covenant was to Israel. When the ark went beforeHho Hebrew people they conquered. As loif tr as the good people of "this country have control of the ballot-box, tho country itself will prosper. It follows then that every Christiau man should vote. Is that worth arguing? I think it is. For five years I did not vote myself. If a bad man sits in the governor's or president's chair, or oa tho

judge's bench, somebody else will be led to imitate what there is" bad in him, on account of his exaltation. It is your duty to put Godly rulers into the places of power. If the rulers are good, men are more apt to be saved. The greatest enemy God's church has ever had has been bad government. If satan ever smiles, he does so when his own principles and his own men are put in higli places. The influence of bad men in office is like the garment of Nessus, poisoning the lody politic, and if we trv to tear it off, we tear the flesh with it ''One of the reasons why good men often do not vote is the thought that their citizenship is in heaven; that they are simply living here for a time as pilgrims. Paul was proud of his citizenship iu the world, and used it for the glory of God. When assailed bv the mob he defended himself with the declaration, 'I am a Itoman citizen.' He used the shield of Kornau citizenship to protect him as a Christian preacher. I believe just as firmly that American citizenship is now one öf the grandest means of evangelization in the world. But for it there would-be a clanking of chains over the water now unheard. Faul used his Koman citizenship to pay his fare to Rome by appealing to Caesar. It is your duty to use j ours for the glory of Göd and the advancement of good." My vote is a small matter, and it is often urged that it is a great deal of trouble to get registered. I once heard of a senator from North Carolina who was elected by one vote, and I have heard that the war of 1S12 was caused by one vote. The ballot is to be valued nöt for what it is, but for what it can do. You have in your hands the possibility of the destruction or the reconstruction of this government. The only people who refuse to vote are good Christian people and anarchists. Every time I neglect to vote I give the man who would kill the country a sort of hand-shake. If a bad man's vote counts for as much as yours, your vote will counteract the evil that" his would do. Rcligioua Notes. The great fact i?, that life is a service; the only question is: Whom will we serve? Faber. Since 1376 thirty-six church buildings have been erected in the episcopal diocese of Chicazo. The officers of the Italinn army actively favor the circulation of the bible aaiong the eoldicrs of the army. "I would give little for a man's rcüvrion," said an English wit, "if his dog and cat are not the better tor it." Every man lias three characters that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which be thiukä ho has. Harold Broof of Newport, It. I., has given "tl'Xi.OOO for the tnivMouary work in the protestant episcopal church. Cardinal Gib'ions is the youngest cardinal of them all. lie was a bifhop at ikirty-cight aad on archbishop at forty-seven. There is a Oirlic provcrh: "If the best man's fault's were written oa his forehead, it would make him pull his hat over his eyes." The Ilev. Mr. Jenkins, a Massachusetts clcrtryiuan, says that there arc in that .state 3 needless churches "wasting the Lord s money." I'.ccent statistics show a total of about lfj church members within the walls of l'ckintr, connected with the live Protestant mü-sions in that city. Berlin has a population of l,0.K',0oO, only 2 per cent, of which go to public worshio. With nearly -iOO.OOU people iu Hamburg only x) attend worship. Earnestness commands tha respect of mankind. A wavering, vacillating, dead and alive Christian docs not get the respect of the church or the world. John Jlull. The man who sits down and waits to 1 appreciated, will lind himself among: uncalledfor baiigaije after the limited express train Las Konc hy. Wi itchall Times. It is menial to undertake anything you think beneath you for the sake of money; it is sol! more menial, having undertaken it, not to do it as well as possible. George McDojuiLK July 17 was the seventy-fifth annhersary of the founding of the Burmah mission by Adoairam Jud.xon. There wer then in this country about 70,000 baptists; now about 3,0u,OA'. Th lütefet returns of the various branches of the international Stinday-scltool union make the number of Sunday-school tfn-hers in the w orld to be l,5('4,jl3, "and the scholars 12,'lM) Morality without religion is on a kind of dead rcconuiug an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy day by measuring the distance we have to run, without anv o'iservation of the heavenly botlies. Longfellow GAYE THEM POISON. 1

A Dauffht-tr Toisons Her I'atlier and Three I.rotliers, Two of Whom Die. Xew OniXAXS, La., July 2 5. This morning near Bcntoria, the daughter of Adolph Miles poisoned her father aud three brothers. Two brothers arc already dead.and the third brother and father are not expected to recover. The mother was at church and thus missed her portion of the poison. Family trouble was the cause. SIX TRAMPS KILLED. They Steal n Ride in a Car of Corn and Go Down an Kuibankmmt. Maua, Neb., July 2t. An accident occurred to an castrbound Union Pacific freight, near Vallev, Neb., at 11 o'clock last night. A boscar loaded with shelled corn was thrown down an embankment und stood on end. Six tramps were buried in the lower end of the car and smothered to death. m No one else was injured A Bare Delicacy. Lowell Citizen. Butcher "Well, madam, what can we do for you to-day? A nice piece of spring lamb, perhaps?" Mrs. Guileless "Xo. thank yon. We are going to have a game dinner, and I would like to have you send up some of that canoe meet I've heard so much about." njtKn Pa txTAtrAELs roa BUSKS, SXnrBTTRKS, DIASRHCEA, CHAFings, 8Tnra3 or insects, piles, SOKE EYES, E0SE FEET. THE WOHOSR OF HEALING! For Piles, Blind, Bleedlne or Itching, It ia tho greatest known remedy. For Dnrni, ScaM, WonnilB, Brnlse and Sprains, it is unequalled stopping pal a and healing in a marvellous manner. For Inflamed ami Sore Kj-en. Its effect upon theso delicate organs is eimply marvellous. It 1 the I.acltrs' FrUnd-All female complaints yield to its wondrous power. For fleers. Old Sores, or Open Wounds, Toothach, Faceachc, Biles of Insects, Sore Feet, its action upon tbesa la most remarkable. jtrcojf MEXDED by miTSici.txs: USED JA" nOSriTAES! Caution. POXir 3 EXTRA CT ha been imitated. The genuin has Vie vord "PO.XVS EX Tit A 7r" blown in the yla, and our picture trade mark on tumuntiino bvJT xrrepper. Xon ethr U gerwine. Altcayt tntüt on hartng rOXD'S EXTRA CT. Take no other preparation. It is Mter told in bulk or by ineature. IT IS XniBArX TO rSK AXT rREPA.BATJ.OX kxcept ths Cknutne with our "directions. Vsed ErternaHy and Internal' y. Prices, 50e.,fl, $1.75. Sold everywhere. COc Nw PAsrm.trr itb Histost or oc PusrARATioiu Sua f UEE ov ArrucAnoi to , POND'S EXTRACT CO., 78 Fifth ATtfauo. Ifew York.

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