Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 July 1893 — Page 5

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, "WEDNESDAY 3I0RN1NU, JÜL'i ö, 1803-TWELVE PAGES.

OFFICERS. President Will E. Strawn, Montpeller, Ind. First Vice-President Torrance M. Jackson. New Iancaster. Ind. Second Vice-President MI33 Sue C. Parker, Kalona, la. Recording Secretary Miss TVra Wenner, Fleasunt-ave.. Indianapolis, lnd. Corresponding Secretary Miss Emma L. Merker, Emerv. 111. Treasurer Miss Mary J. KeMy. CampbeUstown. O. Executive Commit toe A lonzo Finlev Jacobs, Greencastle. Ind.: William A. Clr-rk, Anthony, Ind.: W. S. KokendofTer. Motif1vallo, Mn.; J. C. McItonaM, Molina, Turn.; Mrs. J. P. Barnes, Eruceton Mills, W. Va. OBJECTS. Pectlon 2 of Article 1 of Constitution The object of the Howard Iiterary Club 13 to encourage pure literature, strengthen morality, establish sociability. Increase a desire for mind improvement and literary attainments and to extend the work of reformation. MEMBERS. Section 1 of Article 2 of Constitution All persons of pood moral character who are interested in the objects of this organization and are willing to work in accordance therewith are eligible to membersh.il. We most cordially Invite every one truly nd uncompromisingly interested in our Dbjects to Join our club. Letters of inquiry should lie addressed to the Corresponding Secretary with sta;ep. The Howard Literary has neither salaried officers nor contributors, and K-p n is wholly upon ltd merits and principles for Success. Members only are entitled to the rare benefits of our book catalogue. All letters for publication must le carefully written on one side of the paper only, accompanied by the writer's real name and address us wvl! as the r.om de plume, and plainly addressed to the editor. C. G. Stewart. Sentinel office. Indianapolis. Ind. Memlx-rs in renewing subscription for The Sentinel will please be sun.- to send II to the Howard Literary Treasurer, as the club is allowed a small commission. Due credit and prompt action guaranteed. Members, on sending their photos to the editor for reproduction on this pat',., must send nora de plume and also real name and address. The latt-r will not Ik? published except by request of the sender. SOT I CK. The eighth annual reunion of the Howard Literary Club will be held at Michigan City, Aug. 16 to 23, inclu.-ive. All numbers are earnestly requested to be present and all friends of the club are cordially Invited to be present. DORA DICKENS, Secretary. Gi'iinnii. An Eanay on One of the (Jreateat KvIIh of tlie Period. KIND HOWARD FRIENDS dancing through the many avenues of life and seeing the effect gambling iiroducos on society, we are led to assert that it ranks among the greatest evils prevalent among the human family, though notWithstanding It appears to Le the greatest opiosed. Singly it will be found in many forms, to iruit the particular occasion, but collectively they make up a mighty monster, going forth sapping the vital of society. Gambling, intemperance and kindred evils are closely connected. Where th-ir influences are tolerated virtue, Belf-respect and moral love are not known. They are like oil and water will not mix. Some seem to have adopted the strange idea that there can b no wrong in the indulgence in a harnlfss (?) game merely for pastim?. Alas! too often we mistake the "wolf In fht-ep's clothing" as harmless. There can be no particular harm in the sip from the wine glass, but it is the stepping stone leading to shame and disappointment. When we participate in those "harmless" pastime ;irnes who can tell. We may le sowing the seed for a harvest to be reaped In misery and remorst. When we are continually coming In contact with the rough edge of society we are apt to tc-omo of the same temperament. And this is the case when we frequent the gambling dens. We there become associated with the worst characters known to earth. When we are participating in a course that may lead us to the slums where tatan in all his hideousncss will be found. let us remember we are treading on the verge of an awful chasm. In most cases it is an avaricious tendency that actuates the tolerant to sacrifice self-respect and Jeopardize what they may already isEess; a desire t acquire wealth in opposition to all rules of right and justice. Man is ever seeking after gain, in most cases too much so. Where this is the main object that grand theme "Do unto others as we wish to be done by" Li sure to be lost sight of. In our accumulation of wealth we should be positive that our course of procedure is in strict conformity with the laws of God and man. We should be positive that the dollars and cents that Und their way into our purse are not taken wrongfully from some helpless, needy child. How can we do this and follow the course of the gambler? It is visible that If those who follow scheming and deception (for gambling Is such) were put under the standard they would come far short of what man in his exalted sphere should be. As I returned from our county seat not long since in an adjacent neighborhood to the one in which I live, I beheld the youths of the neighborhood gathered at a farmhouse gambling. I have since been told that even the small hours of the night will find thTn there gambling. As the sight was unusual. It put me to thinking hence thbj letter. When the characters of those who gather there from time to time are placed before the moral camera, they leave a dark impression; they are not strangers to the law. Hence we must be associated with the coarser element of society If we follow gambling. Our characters will be darkened by the shadows" reflected upon them, Garr.bling is wrong from three standpoints: First To engage in it. in most cases, wrecks the morai-of man. Second It robs the Innocent of what rightly belongs to them. To sustain this let me give you an example which came under my own ob-srvatlon. Some years ago, in a town in Indiar a. I was acquainted with 4 man, who was respected by all who knew himJ jle and his wife would indulge In a game of cards "Just for pasttlme," but er Ions this loat Its fascination for him. Oca P&iurdar Yi-Inx. after receiving

his wages for the week, he went with those who frepuented the gambling dens, and there squandered the living of his wife and three small children, and as he had violated the law he was put into prison. From a third standpoint it is wrong to gamble because the laws of God forbid it. My letter is growing .lengthy and I must desist, wishing success to the club and each other. "COMET." Montevallo, Mo., June 26. A DISTlItHED CONSCIENCE, Followed by a Plcaannt Letter on an Important Subject by Jeasle Clyde." H. L. C. FRIENDS: A disturbed conscience, the result of "Sunset's" rebuke, prompts me to write again, and if others similarly affected do likewise, our page will be more than fdled. Rut then "Sunset," you know, it Is so easy to ask questions and so difficult somest lines to answer them in an intelligent and satisfactory manner. At least it is so with me, for each day of life presents so many mysteries which we cannot penetrate, so many problems that we cannot solve, so many jerplexing thoughts which we cannot entirely banish from our minds much less explain their existence there, that at times our entire existence seems one towering, flaming, warning and threatening interrogation ioint. Overwhelming in the depth of its significance unless robbed of its power by that greater one of Faith, given to those who rest In sweet contentment and peace neath the shadow of the cross. Rut this is not answering your question. "Should a lady that is educated marry a gentleman that is less educated, or vice versa?" The question involves more and deeper thought and consideration from different points than one would at lirst suppose, so I answer "that depends." However well educated he or she may be, if they are of low birth, in an unguarded moment they will commit themselves in some way. For example, take an instance where a lady of refined and highly Intellectual parentage, has had every advantage that money could procure nd who has always been surrounded by well bred people, and should she meet and marry a man of more lowly birth, though his parents may have acquired sufficient wealth to give their son a good education and secure his entrance into a higher social grade, his natural Inherent qualities will assert themselves, at certain times making him unything but companionable to one of high sensibilities. Or were circumstances reversed, the result would be equally disastrous to mutual happiness. I consider equality of birth one of the essential elements of a happy married life. When I say equality of birth I do not mean equality of fortune. For there are marriages that have proved perfectly happy where the fortune has been either very unequally divided or not at all. at the commencement of the married life. To quote the words of Oliver Wendell Holmes: "I would not have a man marry above his level, so as to become the appendage of a powerful family connection; but I would not have him marry until h- knew his level." Nor do I think that husband and wife should be too nearly alike in disposition. But that the principles which form their respective characters be such that life's prosperities and adversities sJiall attune their hearts to sweetest harmony; that no cruel blast of doubt or distrust should chill their affections for each other, or awaken nto discord and strife that beautiful home life which was doubtless intended to represent our future life in the home above. I cannot conceive of a happier life than that of a christian man and woman happily married. Nor can I conceive of an existence more miserable than that of a man and woman, united by law only who tolerate each other's society for the sake of some benefit which may accrue, although every desire of the one is in direct opposition to the wishes of the other. If they have married for money, for the purpose of gratifying an ambition, they discover when too late, that they had mistaken the matrimonial millstone for a life preserver, and the happiness of two lives perhaps more than two must pay the forf.it. When woman will learn the value of self respect and strive each day fo.' a higher moral and mental development, and when man will forget that wealth and physical beauty are not the only desirable possessions in a wife, there may be a greater number of happy homes, a greater number of noble women and Ideal mothers, a greater number of manly and honest and honorable fathers. There Is much more that I might say upon this subject, but for fear of taxing your patience too long, will leave it for some one else to finish. I' miss the "noms" of some of our old members, .and why? surely it is not for lack of space on our page. With kindly greetings to all, sincerely, "JESSIE CLYDE." New York, June 23. SYMPATHY AM MESSAGES. Iven YV. Fern Send Some Pleasant Words to Several Members. DEAR II. L. C. FRIENDS I thought t would be on the page by the last issue of June, but I could not get my article ready in time. I cut two of my fingers on the right hand very severely and they are Just getting well, buj I shall be ready to send something in before long. There seems to be some space on the page, this week and some excellent letters also. "Aunt Sue" and "Romping Rose," you have my heartfelt sympathy in your loss, for It does seem very hard to part with those near and dear to us. Though I have never lost i.ny immediate friends, those that were associated with me In everyday life, yet the knowledge of deatlf arouses a Under feeling of sympathy. Though association and relation cause us to feel deep sorrow, yet we should remember that this relation is not broker? but even bound closer and firmer than before. "Hawkeye," my address stands second In the executive committee. Believe I wrote you once laat winter. I sea another "Fern" on the page.

Where has she been wandering to all thl3 time? Hope she won't stray away again. "Harper Living." please Bend me your address; would like to exchange photoes with you If you have them. I would like to speak with many others, but It Is time I was In bed and atleep. So good-night. June 27. "IVE.V W. FERN." AFTER A LONG AUSENCE.

Defending the rro It Ich t to Vote Severul Prrionul .Matter. DEAR HOWARD FRIENDS Once more I attempt to visit the II. L. C. quarters, but I suppose you have all forgotten me. What has become of many of the II. I C. members. "Little Nuisance," "Sunset," "Rabbling Brook" and many others. "Jay Mac," I believe that the negroes deserve the right of suffrage as well as the whites. I can't see why you think our forefathers made such a mistake in ; allowing the negro to vote. Is he not a i human being? Does he not have to pay I tax? Then why has he not got the right to help make the laws by which he Is governed? "Romping Rose," I offer you my symathy in your great loss. Be consoled 'by the beautiful poetn, "One more in heaven," and let the closing thought comfort you, that when your life is ended you may meet your mother in the land of eternal bliss. "Alzina Erne Winton," your photo was very familiar, but I knew who you were as soon as you moved your postoffice from Eminence to Wfibus. I met you several times during the past winter in our township institutes? How was our country Sundayschool conventional was sorry I did not attend, but I hope it was a success. With best wishes to all, I remain your Howard sister. "IRISH GIRL." Wakeland, Ind., June 29. SHE LIKES THE CLUD. Think Too Mach of It to Desert Several Personal Messages. DEAR II. L. C. FRIENDS Some one asked some time ago if I had deserted. Oh no. I think too much of the dear old club for that. "Teach Blossom," if you were to follow me for a week I really think you would quit scolding and help me. I am Just as busy as can be. "Romping Rose," It was with blinding eyes I read your sad letter. Yours Is the heaviest earthly loss which mortal can sustain, but your loss is her eternal gain; she has done with the sorrows and trials of this earth and now wears a glorious crown. Oh. how comforting when parting with one's friends to know that we may meet them again. God has forged one more link to the chain which binds your soul to heaven. To all other sorrowing and suffering ones I extend my sympathy. "Cyril," you have my very best wishes. May yours be a happy and prosperous life, ever promoting that which is good and noble In life. "Winnie West." come again with one of your god letters. I do not expect to get to the reunion this year, but hope all who can will attend, fr I know you will enjoy it. Your true II. L. C. sister. "LITTLE" NUISANCE." Hack Milliliters Wanted. HOWARD FRIENDS If any of you have May 31 and June 7 of the Weekly Sentinel that you do not care for, will you please send them to me? I missed those numbers. I see the place for holding the reunion has been changed, and I wish to say to those who have never been to Michigan City to be sure and go, for just seeing the penitentiary will pay them for their trouble. Address Lizzie Jacobs, Stockwell, Ind. SWKEI'KK THEOLOGY. A Gurions Sect in India Which Observes Strunsce Customs. Among the yet unsolved problems of Indian ethnology, and one that the census has only dealt with to make confusion worse confounded. Is the religion of the sweeper caste. It seems clear enough through all the confusion that the supreme deity of the Chuhras is Laljura or La I beg, "a good without form or dwelling place." A mound of earth surmounted by a piece of stick and a bit of cloth for a flag is this deity's shrine, and to it poojah Is made and a little sacrifice offered of ghee or grain. It needs no consecraton, this simple shrine, and wherever the sweeier may be. If sickness comes, or a gift is desired, the little shrine may be set up with Its quer bit of rag and stick, and the worshiper's prayer is made. It is curious to note how this primitive faith differs from Hlndooism, both ancient and modern, as well as from Ruddhism. The sweeper will have nothing to do, for instance, with the transmigration of souls. Once a sweeper, always a sweeper, ar.d even the Ideal sweeper, Pir Jhota, with his broom of gold and basket of silver, "cleans now the fourth heaven, the house of God. and sweeps the apartments of the Highest." The good sweeper goes to heaven,' however, after death, but in the heaven of the sweeper there is nothing .to do but bathe and sit at ease. The bad sweeper, on the other hand, goes to hell, where he is tormented with fire and wounds until the Deity is pleased to vouchsafe r-lief. Retween these two extremes there is a kind of purgatory, where the sweeper who. is not good enough for the one place and not bad enough for the other undergoes a sort of probation, which either kills or cures him. Of Balmik, the great leader of one sect of sweepers, and now himself, like Pir Jhota, a sweeper In the courts of heaven, the accounts differ so widely that it is difficult to identify him. It seems clear, however, that with the profession of sweeper he combined the recreation of loetry, and there Is some amount of evidence in favor of his having been the author of the "Itamayana." He is alternately represented as a low caste hunter of the Karnal Nardak, and as a Rhil highwayman, who was converted by a saint whom he was about to rob. There is a legend, too. that he lay down his life for the sweepers of Renaires, and Induced the people of that city to admit sweepers into their presence, as they had never done before. As for Lalbeg, the other great leader, he takes us back at once Into the days of Homeric myth. He was born from the coat cf Ealmik and suckled by a hare in proof whereof Chuhras to this day abstain from, eating hares. On the other hand, Iall-eg was also born from a pitcher, through the power of Abdul Kader Jilani. and when the Prophet Elias was turned into a sweeper for spitting on the saints in heaven it was Lalbeg who relieved him. Times of India. A INSPECTOR'S GOOD WORK. James K Stanrt In Trump Garb. Make a Catch. CHICAGO, July 3. Postofnse InspectorJamea E. Stuart of Chicago returned today from Port Huron with a great feather In his cap. So important was the case that the thanks of the Canadian government have been extended to the Inspector for his hard work. He did in seven days, dressed an a tramp, what the entire force of postofT.ee Inspectors of Canada., the police authorities of the Grand Trunk and thirty T. S. postofT.ce inspectors failed to do In two years. He saw Charles Kord, superintendent of repairs for the Grand Trunk at I'ort Huron, ex-member of the Ft. Gratiot council and ex-president of the town council, and for years one of the most trusted employes of the Grand Trunk, enter the car, remove the valuable letters from the pouches and reseal the touches. The railway official then withdrew, lockel the cor and walked toward his private office. He had gone but 2o yards when Stviart placed him under arrest. A crowd gathered and protested, but Stuart took his prisoner to a quiet place and discovered on Ford'a person 3 is letters. The official was pressed to make a statement but all he would say was: "You have me dead to rights, so what la the use of talking?" Simmons Liver Regulator cured me of , general debility and loss of appetite Mrs. Edmund r ltton, i rankiora, i'a.

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DR. TALMAGE OX THE LESSON OF THE l'UARJSEE AD rtULICAN. True Repentance Is s. Godly Sorrow j for Mn Hy the Deeds of the I.hvt . o Flesh Can De Justillrd, and So j the Self-Satisfied Are Condemned. ! BROOKLYN. July 2. The Rev. Dr. Talmage had selected as his subject for today a picture of contrasts, "Arrogance . and Humility," the text being Luke xviii, 13, "God be merciful to me, a sinner!" No mountain ever had a more brilliant coronet than Mt. Moriah. The glories of the ancient temple blazed there. The mountain top was not originally large enough to hold the temple, and so a wall GOO feet high was erected, and the mountain was built out into that wall. It was at that point that Satan met Christ and tried to persuade Him to cast himself j down the 660 feet. The nine gates of the temple flashed the light of silver and j gold and Corinthian brass, which Corinthian brass was mere precious stones melted and mixed and crystallzed. The temple itself was not so very large a structure, but the courts and the ad4uncts of the architecture made It half a mile In circumference. We stand and look off upon that wondrous structure. What's the matter? What strange appearance in the temple? Is it fire? Why, it seems as if it were a mansion all kindled into flame. What's the matter? Why, It's the hour of morning sacrifice, and the smoke on the altar rises and bursts out of the crevices and out of the door and wreathes the mountain top with" folds of smoke, through which glitter precious stones gathered and burnished by royal munificence. I see two men mounting the steps of the building. They go side by side; they are very unlike; no sympathy between them the one the pharisee, proud, arrogant, pompous, he goes up the steps of the building. He seems by his manner to say: "Clear the track! Never before came up these steps such goodness and consecration." - The Repentant Sinner. Beside him was the publican, bowed down seemingly with a load on his heart. They reach the Inclosure for worship in the midst of the temple. The Pharisee goes close up to the gate of the holy of holies. He feels he is worthy to stand there. He says practically: "I am so holy I want to go Into Jhe holy of holies. O Lord. I am a very good man. I'm a remarkably good man. Why, two days in the week I cat absolutely tiothing. I'm so good. I'm very generous in my conduct toward the p or. I have no sympathy with the common rabble; especlally have I none with this poor, miserable, commonplace, wretched publican who happened to come up the stairs beside me." The publican went clear to the other side of the inclosure, as far away from the gate of the holy of holies as he could get, for he felt unworthy to stand near the sacred place. And the bible says he stood afar off. Standing on the opposite side of this inclosure he bows his head, and as orientals when they have any trouble beat their breasts, so he begins to pound his breast as he cries, "God be merciful to me, a sinner!" Oh, was there ever a greater contrast? The incense that wafted that morning from the priest's censer was not so sweet as the publican's prayer floating into the opening heavens, while the prayer of the Pharisee died on his contemptuous lips and rolled down into his arrogant heart. Worshiping there the! join each other and go side by side "' n tnJ steps, the Pharisee cross, wretched, acrid, saturnine; the publican with his face shining with the very joys of heaven, for "I tell you that this man went clown to his house Justified rather than the other." Now, I put this publican's prayer under analysis, and I discover in the first place that he was persuaded of his sinfulness. He was an honest man. he was a taxgatherer, he wag an officer of the government. The publicans were taxgatherers, and Cicero says they were the adornment of the state. Of course they were somewhat unpopular, because people then did not like to pay their taxes any better than people now like to pay their taxes, and there were many who disliked them. Still. I suppose this publican, this taxgatherer, was an honorable man. He bad an office of trust. There were many hard things said about him, and yet, standing there In that inclosure of the temple amid the demonstrations of God's holiness and power, he cries out from the very depths of his stricken soul, "God be merciful to me a sinner!" By what process shall I prove that I am a sinner? By what process shall I prove that you are a sinner? Shall I ask you to weigh your motives, to scan your "actions, to estimate your behavior? I will do nothing of the kind. I will draw my argument rather from the plan" of the work that God has achieved for your salvation. The Imperiled Sonl. You go down in a storm to the beach, and you see wreckers put on their rough jackets and launch the lifeboat and then shoot the rockets to show that help is coming out into the breakers, and you Immediately cry. "A shipwreck!" And when I see the Lord Jesus Christ putting aside robe and crown and launch , out on the tossinpr sea of human suffering and satanlc hate, going out into the thundering surge of death, I cry, "A shipwreck!" I know that our souls are dreadfully lost by the work that God has done to save them. Are you a s'-'ner? Suppose you had a commercial agent in Charleston or San Francisco or Chicago, and you were paying him promptly his salary, and you found out, after awhile, that notwithstanding he had drawn the salary he had given nine-tenths of all the time to some- other commercial establishment. Why your indignation would know no bounds. And yet that Is Just the way we have treated the Lord. He sent us into this world to serve Hiin. He has taken good care of us He has clothed us. He has sheltered us, and He has surrounded us with 10,000 benefactions, and yet many of us have given nine-tenths of our lives to the service of the world, the flesh and the devil. Why, my friend, the bible is full of confession, and I do not find anybody Is pardoned until be has confessed. What did David say? "I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord." What did Isaiah say? "Woe is me, because I am a man of unclean lips." What did Ezra say? "Our iniquities are Increased over our head, and onr trespass Is grown up Into heaven." And among the millions before the throne of God tonight not one got there until he confessed. The coast of eternal sorrow Is strewn with the wreck of those who, not taking the 'warning, drove with the cargo of immortal hope into the white tangled foam of the breakers. Repent! the voice celestial cries. Nor lons'.T dare delay; The wretch that scorns the mandate dies And meets the riery day. But I analyze the publican's prayer a step further, and I find that he expected no relief except through God's mercy. Why did not he say. I am an honorable man. When I get $10 taxes, 1 pay them right over to the government. I give full permission to anybody to audit my accounts. I appeal to thy Justice, O God! He made no such plea. He threw himself flat on God's mercy. X Hope In Helf-Itla-hteoasiiess. Have you any Idea that a man by breaking off the scales of the leprosy can change the disease? Have you any idea that you can by changing your life change your heart, that you can purchase your way to beaveu? Come, try

it. Come, bring all the bread you ever gave to the hungry, all the medicine you ever gave to the sick, all the kind words you have ever uttered, all" the kind deeds that have ever distinguished you. Add them all up Into the tremendous aggregate of good weirds and works, and then you will see Paul sharpen bis knife as he cuts that spirit of self-satisfaction, as ne cries, "i'.y the deeds of the law there shall no llesh be justified." Well, say a thousand men in. this audience, if I am not to xcl anything In the way of pc?ace from God in good works, how am I to be saved? By mercy. Here I stand to tell the siory mercy, mercy, long-suffering mercy, sovereign mercy, iniinite mercy, omnipotent mercy, everlasting mercy. .Why it seems in the bible as if ail lanj.-uage were exhausted, as if it were stretched until it broke, as if all expression were struck dead at the feet of prophet and apostle and evangelist when it tries to describe God's mercy. Oh says some one, that is only adding to my crime if I come and confess before God and seek His mercy. No, no! The murderer has come, and while he was washing the blood of his victim from his hands looked Into the face of God and cried for mercy, and his soul has been white in God's pardoning love! And the soul that lias wandered off In the streets and down to the very gates of hell has come back to her father's house, throwing her arms around his r.eck and been save d by the mercy that saved Mary Magdalen. The Door of Mercy. But, says some one. you are throwing open that door of mercy too wide. No, I will throw it open wider. I will take the responsibility of saying that if all this audience, instead of being gathered in a semicircle, were placed side by side in one long line they could all march right through that wide open gate of mercy. "Whosoever," "whosoever." Oh, this mercy of God. There is no line long enough to fathom it; there is no ladder long enough to scale it; there is no arithmetic facile enough to calculate It; no angel's wing can fly across it. Heavenly harpers, aided by choirs with feet like the Fun, can not compass that harmony of mercy, mercy. It sounds in the rumbling of the celestial gate. I hear it in the chiming of the celestial towers. I see it flashing in the uplifted and downcast'eoronets of the saved. I bear It in the thundering tread of the bannered host round about the throne, and then it comes from the harps and crowns and thrones and processions to sit down, unexpressed, on a throne overtopping all heaven the throne of mercy. How I was affected when some one told me in regard to that accident on Long Island sound, when one poor woman came and got her hand on a raft as she tried to save herself, but those who were on the raft thought there was no room for her, and one man carr.e and most cruelly beat and bruised her hands until she fell off. oh. I bless God that this lifeboat of the gospel has room enough for the sixteen hundred millions of the race room for one, room for all, and yet there is room! I push this analysis of the publican's prayer a step further and find that he did not expect any mercy except by pleading for it. He did not fold Iiis Jiands together as some do, saying, "if I'm to be saved, I'll be saved; If I'm to be lost, I'll be lost, and there Is nothing for me to do." He knew what was worth having was worth asking for; hence this earnest cry of the text, "God be merciful to me, a sinner!" It was an earnest prayer, and it is characteristic of all bible prayers that they were answered. The blind man, "Lord, that 1 any receive my sight;" the leper, "Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean;" sinking Peter, "Lord save me;" the publican, "God be merciful to me, a sinner!" But if you come up with the tip ot your lingers and tap at the gate of mercy it will not open. You have got to have the earnestness of the warrior who, defeated and pursued, dismounts from his lathered steed and with gauntleted lists pounds at the palace gate. You have gut to have the earnestness of the man who at midnight in the fourth story has a sense of suffocation with the house in flames, goes to the window ami shouts to the firemen, "Help!" oh. unforgiven soul, if you were in full earnest I might have to command silence in the auditory, for your prayers woidd drown the voice of the speaker, and we would have to pause In the great service! It is because you do not realize your sin before God that you are not this moment crying mercy, mercy, mercy. He Wus Truly Kepentunt. This prayer of the publican was also an humble prayer. The Pharisee looked up, the publican looked down. You cannot be saved as a metaphysician or as a rhetorician; you cannot be saved as a scholar; you cannot be saved as an artist; you cannot be saved as an official. If you are ever saved at all, it will be as a sinner!" Another characteristic of the prayer of the publican was, it had a ring of confidence. It was not a cry of dispair. He knew he was going to get what he asked for. He wanted mercy. He asked for it. expecting it. And do you tell me, O man, that God has provided this salvation and is not going to let you have it? If a man builds a bridge across a river, will he not let people go over it? If a physician gives a prescription to a sick man, will he not let him take it? If an architect puts up a building, will he not let people ir it? If God provides salvation will he not let ynhave it? Oh, if there be a pharisee here, a man who says: I am all right. My past life has been right. I don't want the pardon of the gospel, for I have no sin to pardon, let me say that while that man is in that mood there is no peace for him. there is no pardon, no salvation, and the probability is he will go down and spend eternity with the lost pharisee of the text. Rut if there be here one who says, I want to be better; I want to quit my sins; my life has been a very imperfect life; bow many things have I said that I should not have said; how many things I have done I should not have done; I want to change my life; I want to begin now; let me say to such a soul, God Is waiting, God Is ready, and you are near the kipgdom, or rather you have entered it, fr no man says, I am determined to serve (Jod and surrender the sins of my life; here, now, I consecrate myself to the Ijonl Jesus Christ, who died to redeem me no man from the depth of his soul says that but he is already a Christian. A ltepeiitiiut egr. My uncle, the Rev. Samuel K Talmage of Augusta, Ga., was passing along the streets of Augusta one day and he saw a man, a black man, step from the sidewalk out into the street, take off his hat and bow very lowly. My uncle was not a man who demanded obsequiousness, and he said: "What do you do that for?" "Oh," says the man, "massa, the other night I was going along the street and I had a burden on my shoulder and I came to the door of your church, and you were preaching about "God be merciful to me, a sinner!' and I stood there at the door long enougb. to hear you say that if a man could utter that prayer from the depths of his soul (Jod would pardon him and finally take him to heaven. Then I put my burdon on ray shoulder and started home. I got to my home and I sat down and I said, 'God be merciful to me. a sinner!' but It got darker and darker, and. then, massa, I got down on my knees and 1 said, 'God be merciful to me, a sinner!' and the burden got heavier and It got darker and darker. I knew not what to do. Then I got down on my face and I cried, "God be me rciful to nie, a sinner!' and away off I saw a light coming and it came nearor and nearer and nearer until all was bright in my heart and I arose. I am happy now the burden is all gone and I said to myself if ever I met you in the street I would get clear crf the sidewalk and I would bow down ut.d take my hat off before you. I feel that I owe more to you than to any other man.. That is the reason I bow before you." Oh. are there not many now who can utter this prayer, the prayer of the black

man, the prayer of the publican, "God be merciful to me, a sinner!" While I halt In the sermon will you all utter It? I do not say audibly, but utter It down in the depths of your soul's consciousness. Yes, the sigh goes all through the galleries, it goes all through the pews, it goes all through these aisles, sigh after sigh God be merciful to me, a sinner! Have you all uttered It? No. there Is one soul that has not uttered It too proud to utter lt. O Holy Spirit, descend upon that one heart! Yes. he be

gins to breathe it now. No bowing oi the head yet, no starting tear yet, but the prayer is beginning it is born. God be merciful to me. a sinner! Have all uttered it? Then latter It myself, for no one in all the house needs to utter It more than my own soul God be merciful to me. a sinner! MAlUUAGi: OF FREAKS, When They Marry Each Other They Are Ilnitpy. "Do museum freaks as a rule marry happliy?" asked a Philadelphia Press mau of a purveyor of freaks. " cannot say. Where one natural curiosity marries another I believe they do us a rule. They have been in the business together, and they know what to expect. Theie is no stage glamour or tinsel attraction in it for them; it 13 business, perhaps, with a good deal of honest sentiment mixed up with it but they get married with their eyes open. "One of the most remarkable marriage" ever celebrated In this country was that of Pat O'Brien, the Irish giant, and a female giantess at Pittsburg, in 1SS2. It was a big affair eM accounts of it were telegraphed all oü the world. Col. George O. Starr, who Is now Barnum & Bailey's right-hand confidential man, engineered the affair. Starr was managing Harris' museum at the time and the giants were on exhibition at that house. O'Brien was Irish, while his bride was a German girl. Both were over seven feet in hight. "The wedding took place In the Lutheran church for the girl was of that denomination and would not agree to be married In the cathedral as her affianced desired. The results of that n.arrlage were very happy. Both were apparently satisfied with their choice. They went to Europe and while in Paris Mrs. O'Brien died. That was four or five years ago and O'Brien has never remarried, and. what is more, says that he never will. "As another example of freaks living happily together let me refer you to Mr. and Mrs. Tom Thumb. For over a quarter cf a century they lived In the utmost felicity. "It is when a museum freak marries some one outside of the profession, some fortune-hunter or love-sick sentimentalist, that trouble ensues. It doesn't take long for the infatuation to wear off and then come bickerings and recriminations and finally separation. "A number of years ago I knew a girl who traveled with a pretty big show as 'Kl-Kl, the Cannibal Princess. She was a pretty light mulatto that I had picked up in Buffalo. Her hair was Inclined to be straight, and that helped the deception, together with a few false tattoo marks and a necklace of human teeth which I had bought from a dentist. "We got out to a place called Connellsville, somewhere in the coke region of Pennsylvania, where a young fellow who saw the cannibal princess fedl in love with her. He followed the show for two weeks, until we got down into Ohio, and then he married the girl. She was honest eneugh not to deceive him; she told him that she was a bogus princess and that her home was in Buffalo. But It didn't make any difference to the coke country Jay and he married her. What was the result? Just as soon as the glamour of the honeymoon wore off he began to drink and his wife had to keep him. Then I took a hand in the business and told the 'princess that unless the 'prince consort' kept out of the tent I would not only fire him but her also. The upshot was that the woman left the show and I was out about $200 on printing. I heard of her about three years ago; she was running a laundry out in Chicago and her husband had disappeared." THE SHADOW OF DEATII. John Mclty Tells llnir It Feels to lie Sentenced to the Gallows. People who feel a morbid interest In the sensations experienced by persons condemned to death will doubtless find food for reflection In the following remarks by John McNulty. who recently heard for the fifth time a San Francisco judge order him to be hanged by the neck until he is dead: "A man gets used to waiting to be banged like everything else." he said. "They have fixed the day for my death feur times, and something has happened every time to save me. You think I talk flippantly about it. but it Isn't that, only I have become so accustomed to thinking over it that the horror is all gone. "When I first stod up in Judge Murphy's court and heard him order me to be hanged, it was awful. I can remember his very words. What worried me most even then was the attention of the people. Everybody was looking at me, of course, and nothing ever seemed so cruel. When I first came to the Jail, I couldn't sleep or eat or anything, but gradually I dropped into the Jail ways, and now the routine is as much part of my life as going to work useil to be. "People have more than once asked me if I wasn't afraid to be hung. Of course I don't want to be hung, but I don't think If the worst comes to the worst that I'd weaken. I've been close to It. Once they put up the gallows for me. I could hear them knocking the lumber together, and I knew what it meant. They had the death watch on me. and I had given up all hope. Don't you know that there was something of contentment about it? The suspense was over, I suppose, and It was something of a relief. The sheriff, though, refused to execute me while my case was still before the courts. Then the state supreme court decided against me, and they set the day again. "I thought that was the last of it, but Carroll Cook had taken hold of my case, and he got It Into the U. S. courts. Governor Markham respited me that time, and they removed the deathwatch and put the scaffold away again. I suppose I will be put in the condemned cell again with the deathwatch. That's the worst of it. You can realize how helpless a man fells." McNulty was a steamship fireman. The man he killed was a longshoreman named James Collins. He shot htm in the streets the day after they had a quarrel. He claims the shooting was done in self defense. Not In (he Directory. Judge Duffy (to tramp No. 1) "Where do you live?" Tramp No. 1 "I don't live nowhere." Duffv (to tramp No. 2) "And where do you live?" Tramp No. 2 "Two blocks above him." Texas Siftlngs. 3IISCKI.L.AXEOI S DISPATCHES. The 'reappearance of cholera in Europe does not cause any alarm among treasury officials. Tietro Euccierl, the murdorer, was hanged at Reading, Pa. The drop fell at 11:06. He was dead at 11:14. Richard Powell, who, on December 22, killed George W. Brown at Somervllle, Mass., and then burled the body and covered up the evidences of his crime so successfully that for three years it was not detected, has been sentenced to imprisonment for life. The Cnptnln Of good ship Storm King says: For the past five years I have used Sulphur Bitters on board my vessel, and have not loit a man. They are a sure preventive of contagious fevers so Incident to warm climates. Please send me at once two dozen bottles, end oblige, J. STARRET.

SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON.

TlIirtD QIARTKK, INTERNATIONAL SEKIES. JILY 'J. Text of the l.rixin, Act ivi, 1 f-3 1 Memory N crsea, -!-."I Golden Text, Acta 111 Commentary by the Ilev. Ii. M. Mrarui. 10. "They caught Paul and Silas and drew them into the market rlce unto the rulers." The pevlous three verses tell of the healing of a woman who had an evil spirit, by means of which the brought gain to her masters, but being healed the was of no more ui-e to them, and hence their rage among the apostles. What a Devil we have to contend with, to whom a sound mind in a t-ound body is something distasteful! Let us all the more bless the Lord, who hcaleta our diseases 20. "These men, being Jews, do exceedingly trouble our .city." It is all right to ruin people soul and body, but those who seek the welfare of soul and body are accounted troublors. It grieved Sanballat and Tobiah exceedingly that a man had come to seek tha welfare of Israel (Nch. ii, 10). It grieved the Jews that Jesus had come to heal the tick and raise the dead. And I have actually seen ministers grieved that a man thould in their town teach peopla to love the Bible more, and thus be saved from sin and folly. 21. "And teach customs which are not lawful for us to receive, neither to observe, being Romans." They did not know that the nun they were persecut ing were Romans also (verse 27) ao4 loyal citizens. If to honor God is contrary to Roman custom, then home is not on God's side. 22. "And the multitude rose up together against them." The whole world lieth in the wicKed one I John v, I'j, R. V.). Marvel not if the world hate you (Jokn xv, IS). If the world does not hate us, we cannot le very Uke our Master, but it was the religious world that hated Him. 23. "And when they had laid many stripes upon them they cast them into prison." This seemed like very por treatment from the man of Macedonia who said, "Come over and Lei, us." but Tuul understood it. having been told at the start that he was to suffer for Jesus' sake (chapter ix. 1C) and having already on his lirst tour had considerable experience of It. 2i. "Who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison and made their feet fast in the' stocks." And it is not at all likely that he used much tenderness in handling them. So with torn and bleeding backs they find themselves well under the power of the enemy. Without friendd and without inlluence they suffer this shanWul treatment I Tliess. il, it fclmply because they had ii.terferred In the unlawful gains. Men have lien murdered In our own day for the s;hul cause. The world changes not. 2.". "And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed and sang praises unto Cod, an,j the prisoners heard them." Truly they were putting into practice the words of the psalmist: "I will bb-ss the I.rd at all times. His praise shall continually be in my mouth" (I's. xxxiv, 1). They were filled with the spirit of Daniel and his companions, who went c heerfully to the lion's deri and to the fiery furnace for the sake of their God. 2t. "And suddenly there was a great earthquake, and every one's bonds were loosed." Their songs were heard in heaven as well as tarth. and though they had no influence in the city see the power they had in heaven. A ejuaking earth, open prison doors and all bonds loosed. Surely this is suggestive of ctmlng events and reminds us of His eleath and resurrection and the accompanying events of earthquake and resurrection of the saints. He came to proclaim liberty to the captives and the opening of the prison to them that are bound (Isa. lxi, 1). 27. "And the keeper -f the prison, awakening out of his sleep, would have killed himself." While the righteous, although in great suffering, were praising God, the ungodly, though perhaps ein the verge of eternal torment, were in health and asleep. What a mercy to awaken such ere it be too late" The'n In his blindness, not knowing of the hereaftey, the jailer would have rushed madly into it. only to find himself In hopeless despair. Real canfullv Luke xvi. 22. 23; Rev. xiv, S-ll; Job xxxvl, IS. . 2. "But Paul cried with a loud voic-, saying: 'Do thyself no harm, for we are all here.'" Here Is good for evil on the part of Paul In the true spirit of his Master (I Thess. v. 15. He could not rejoice to see the jailer suffer, nor permit him to injure himself, though hia own body must have been full of pain. If we endure grief, suffering wrongfully, or if we do well and suffer for It and take it patiently, God is well pleased (I Pet. 11. 1:. 2'). "Then he calb-d for a light tnd sprang in and came trembl ng and fell down Itfore Paul and Silas." How well he knew to whom to go! He had never seen prisoners like these, nor met with such conduct under such tre atment, and then had not Paul called out to him that he should do himself no harm? Paul . interest in him and in his welfar wrought upon him by the Spirit of God. 30. "And brought them out and said. Sirs, what must I do to be saved?" Whether he had before heard anythir" of Raul's preaching or had throng others received any light on thines eternal we are not told. But through a combination of marvelous events he Is now powerfully wrought upon for hia soul's good anei made to see his great danger. See how much God will do to save a soul from death. Read Job xxxiii, IS. 20, 20, and the context anj consider the sorrows of Jesus to savs us. 31. "And they, safd believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt le saved and thy house." This Is the teaching of all scripture a? to the work of salvation. His wofk is a finlshe-d work. It is impossible to add to it or Improve upon It. 32. "And they spake unto him th word of the Lord and to all that were In his house." No doubt they would show from the serlpture-s that Jesus was the Christ and "that the law cannot give life, but that Christ is the end of the law for; righteousness to every one that believeth , and that believing means receiving, for he that hath the Son hath life, and he that hath not the Son hath not life (Gal. ill. 21: Ii. 1R; Rom. x. 4; John 1. 12; I John v. 11, 12). COWS HIVE HVDHOPIIOIUA. Seven Die on n Con tied lent Furra John Powell bitten. BRIDGEPORT, Conn.. July 3. There Is great excitement in the vicinity of Easton. Within a day or two seven cows, some of them valuable stock, have died from hydrophobia. About a month ago a mad dog appeared In the vicinity. Before It disappeared it had bitten a farmer named John l'owell and a loy nameel Case. It is not known exactly how many cows were attacked. No terious results were noticed until a day or two ago, when e ne of the cows v. as attacked by hydrophobia in the niov,t violent form. Seven have since died. Some of the mad .animals, in their fienzy, dashed through the stre-ets and rented great alarm. The brutes died in groat agony. When the cows died Powell feariHl that he wou'd he attacked by the disease. He is confident, that the i-l.-on Is In his system and that :-oo!ier or biter he will fall a victim to the terrible disease. His fi lends fear that If be cannot soon be satisfied that there is no danger he will go insane. The Case boy is toi young to realize the danger and the f?ct have been kept fixm him.