Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 August 1894 — Page 12

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TIIE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 1, 1894 -TWELVE PAGES.

A VERY NARROW ESCAPE.

WHAT JOII KKV AIIOIT m:.TISTHY ami tiii: i;vvmi:i, or ti:kth. Ilr. Tlmiisi ( hooara K Inlqaf Tril nail Cnnatrart a Sermon of Hure I'nnrr-Joli'a Earnne hjr (Ii Skin r III Trrlli"-rnimlar Thai rtrr Il. imoOKM'.N', July 29. The Hov. Dr. Tulrn.ige ho Keleeted us the subject for Ms sermon for today through the pre "Narrow LstjaiHt"." the text being: taken from Job xlx. 20, '"I am escaped with th kin of my teeth." Job had It, hard. What -with bolls and bcreAVtmients and Kinkruptcy and . fool of a wife he wUhed he wat dead, and I da Ti't blam Mm. Ills flesh was gone, and bin Ixjiics were dry. III teeth wasted a way until nothing but the enamel neenied left. He cries out, "I oju cscaj.ed -with th nkln. of my teeth." There Lu been some differene of opinion about this pas-tut ge. St. Jeromo and Schultons and lvt-. Good and I'oole and Harnes have all tried their forceps on Job's teeth. You deny my interpretation und say, "What did Jub know about the enamel of the teeth?" He knew evryt hi tiff almt It. I'ental surgery 1 almoin na old as the earth. The mummies of Egypt, thousands of years old. are funl today with gold filling In their teeth. OvlJ and llor.ve and Solomon, and Moros wrot fllxvjt thw Important factors of the body. To other provoking complaints Job, I think, ha. added nn exasperating toothache, and rutting his hand acalnst the inflame! f.vo he says, "1 am etaped with the skin of my teeth." A very narrow escape, you say, for Job' b dy and soul, but there are thousands of men who nuke Jut as narrow scapes frum their soul. There was a tinuj when the partition In-tween them and ruin was no thicker than a tooth's enamel, but an Job finally escaped so have they. Thank C 1! Thank Cod! Siitnl l l'lre. I'aul expresses the same Idea by a different figure when he says tint some people ait "saved as by fire." A vessel at s.i Is 1 1 v fla ues. Yoij to the stern i f tho vessel. The boats have choved off. The 11. tines advance. You can endure the heat no longer on your face. You slid down on the side of the vessel and hold i'ii with your finger until the forked tonguo- of the fire begin to lick the back of your hand, an 1 yuu feel that yuu must fall, when one of the llfebo.it collie lack, and the passengers say they think they have room for one more. The boat nwings under you; you drop into It; you :ire saved. So snio men are pursued by temptation until they are partially con-ume-1, but afUT all get off, "aved as by lire." Itut I like the figure of Job a little better than thit of I'.iul, because the pulpit ha not worn It out. and I want to Allow you, if ; d will help, tli.it sonie Iiomi mak" n.irrow escape for thi'lr ioiils and arc stvtd ;n "with the fkln of their te.lh." It is as easy for none- people to look to tic cross as for you to look to this pulpit. Mil l, k -title, tractable, loving, Vu cxp'ct tie in to beeorne t 'hrl.t la ris. You k oer to tin store and say, 'iranl!on Joined the church yesterday." Your f'iif!;u'fM i oiniM l.s 'a : "That Is Just what might have be-n ept-cted. He always n n of thai turn of mind." In youth this p-rso!) whom I describe was always gol. He n.-ver broke things. He tievr laughed when it was Improper to laugh. .U 7 h could sit nn h air In L'hur. !i perfectly uiet, looking neither to the litrlit huud nor to the left, but uralghi into th eyes of the minister, n though p uiiii m:i o. th whule dlsrnssi'tn about th fb-rnal decrees. Me never up.-'tn tliines in.r Ioil them. He floated lido th. kinpdoia f Iod fo gradually that it Is nn vertaln just when the tliattei Was iet-iil.cJ. Here is another one, who .starte,! in life with an uncontrollable spirit. He kMt th" nursery In nn uproar. His toother found hlrn walking on the edge of the house roof to .sc f iu. c.uld balano himself. There was no horse he iarr.l . t rMe; no t rw h could not limb. His boyhood was a long setie of predicaments. His manhood was ieckle.-is; his middife very wayward. Itut now h is converted, and you yt over to the More and say, "Arkwrlght Joined tho church yesterday." Your friends fay: "It is not possible You must be J kinj?."' You say: "No. I tell you the truth. He Joined the church." Then they reply. "Then? is hope for any of us if oi l .rkwrijfht has lfe.m a Christian.'" II y Ihe NU n of Your Teelh. In other words, we all admit that It is rure diniculi for some men- to accept the frrspel than for others. I may be addressing some who have cut loose from churches and bibles and Sundays, and who have at present no Intention of becoming Christians themselves, but just to seo what 1 Rolngr on, nnd yet you may find yourself escaping, before you hear the end. as "with the skin of your teeth." I do not expect to waste this hour. I have seen boats go off from Cap-? May r Ixhts Branch and drop their nets, and after awhile come höre, pullinj? in the nets without !uving caught a single fish. It -was not a pood day, or they hid not the right kind of a net. But we exftect no such excurBi n today. The water Is full of fish; the wind Is In the right direction; the kos pel net Is strong. O Thou who didst help Simon and Andrew to fish, show us today how to cast the net on1 the right Fide of the ship! Some of you in coming1 to Ood will have to run ainat skeptical notions. It 1 useless for people P pay Fharp and cut tins- things to those who reject the Chris'tlan n.-lixrlon. I cannot ?ay such things. By what process of temptation or trial or betrayal you have came to your present state I know not. There are two pates to your nature the gate of the head and the gate of the heart. The gate of your head Is locked with bolts and bars that an archangel could not break, but the gate of your heart swing easily on its hinges. If I assaulted your body with weapons, you would met me with weapons, and It would be sword stroke for sword stroke, and wound for wound, and blood for t.lood, but if I come and knock at the uor of your house you open It and give me the ?t seat in your parlor. If I fhould come at you today with an argument; If with sarcasm, you would answer me with sarcasm, blow for blow, ftroke for stroke, hut when I come anil knock at the door of your heart you open it and say. "Come In. my brother, und tell me all you know about Christ and heaven " Three Qnetlon. Listen to two or three quetttions: Are you as happy as you used to te when you 'believed In the truth of the Christian religion? Would you like to have your children travel on In the road In which you are now traveling? You had a relative who professed to be a Christian and was thoroughly consistent, living and dying in the faith of the gospel. Would you not like to live the tame quiet life and die the same peaceful death? I received a letter sent me by one who has rejected the Christian religion. It says. "I am old enough to know that the Joys and pleasures of life are evanescent, and fo reiüze the fact that It must be comfortable in old ape to believe in something relative to the future and to have a faith in some syatem that proposes to ave. I am free -,to confess that I would be happier If I could exercise the simple and beautiful faith that Ls possessed by many whom I know. I am not willingly put of the church or out of the faith. My I

state of uncertainty Is one of unrest. Sometimes, I doubt my Immorality anl look upon the deathbed as the closing scene, after which there Is nothlnjf. What shall I do that I have not done?" Ah. skepticism is a dark and doleful land! Let me ay that this blble is either true or false. If It be false, we are as well off as you. If It be true, then which of us Is safer? Let me also ask whether your trouble tias not "been that you confounded Christianity -with the Inconsistent character of some wtio profess It. You are a lawyer. In your profession there are mean and dishonest men. Is 'that anything against the law? You are a doctor. There are unskilled and contemptible mien In your profession. Is that anything: R-.uInst medicine? You are a merchant. Thera are thieves and defrauders In your business, ja that anything agalnat merchandUe? Hftliold. 'then, the unfalrne.m of charging upon Christianity the wickedness of Its disciples! We 'admit some of the charges agaln.it thoae who profess rellirlon. fcomo of the most jrlgintlc Hwlndlea of the present day iiave been carried n ty members of the church. Ther .re men In the church who would not "be trusted for j without good collaJter.il security. They leave their buslne dlhhonetdles In the ventlhule of the ohurcti is they k In and fit at the cunmunlon. Having concluded the sacrament, they Ket up, 'Wipe the wine from their -lips, ro out and takt up their sins where they left off. To ei ve the devil Is their regular work: to uerve Ud. a sort of play peil. With a unday sponge they expe-ct to wipe off from t he-ir l".i.lns flae all tlio past week's Inconsistencies. You 'have no more rliht to take Kuch a man's life as a sieclmen of religion than you have to take the twisted irons and split timbers, that He On t'h tjeach at Coney Island ns a ivoclmen of an American ship. It Is time that we drw a line between relUlon and the frailties of those who profess It. A Itliihfcoua Indluunlloii. Again, there may ho some of you who in the attempt after a Christian life -will have to run against powerful passions and ajpetites. Perhaps U In a disposition to anger that you have to contend against, and perhaps, while In a very wrlous mood, you hear of something that makes you feel thst you must swear or die. I know of a Christian man who was once go exasperated that he tsaid to a mean customer, "I cannot swear at you myself, for I am a motnVr of the cCnnvh. but If you will go down stairs my partner in tuislness will wear at you." All your good resolutions heretofore have been torn to tatters by explosions of temjxT. Now there Is no harm In Ketting mad If von only get mad nt stn. You need to bridle nnd paddle the(? hot breathed pisslotis. nnd with them ride down Injustice- and wrong. There are a thousand thin? In the world that we ought to be mad at. There Is no harm In getting redhot if you only bring to the forge that which ne hammering. A man who has no power of rlirhteous Indignation 1 nm Imbecile. Hut be sure It is a righteous indication and not a pendancy that blurs and unravel and depletes the soul. There Is a larjre t lass of person In midlife who have .still In thm appetites that were aroused in early manhoo l, at ;i time when they prided themselves on helntr i "little fat," "hU-h livers." "free and easy," "hall fellows well met." They nre now paying in compound Interest for trouble they collected twenty years ago. Sonie of you ar trylnp to escape, und you will yet very narrowly, "as with th? frkin of your teeth." Clod atvl your own pout only know what the xtruKle t. Omnipotent grace h.is pulled out many a soul that was deeper in th" mire than you are. They line the beach of heaven the multitude whom tjod has rescued from the thrall of Ptilddal htblts. If you this day turn your buk on the wrong and at irt anew (lod will help you. Oh. the weakness of human help! Men will s mp.ithlz' for awhile and then turn you off. If you ak for their pardon, they will Klve It and s ay they will try apaln: but. falling away again under the power of temptation, they cast vu off forever. Hut (Jod forgives seventy times seven; yea. seven hundred time; yea, thu?h this be the ten thousandth tlm He is more earnest, r.u ic synip.'tth; tic. tune

h'jeful this last time than when you took your first mis-r-p. If, with all th" lnlhionces favoniMe- for a npht life, men mtke so many mistake?, how much harder it is wh:n, for instance, some appetite thrusts It iron grapph i:it the root. of the tongue and pulls a man down with hands of destruction! If. tinder such c lreumstaires. he breik away, there will bo no sp'Tt in the und rtaklnu. no holiday enj yment. but a struggle In which i h wres'lers ti. ve fnm side to side anil bend and twist and watch for an opportunity to get In a heavier stroke, until with one final effort. In which the muscles are distended, and the veins stand out, and the blood start", the swarthy habit fills tinder the knee of the victor eseiped at last a.s with the skin of hi teeth. A Trial Anked. In the 1 st day it will b fount that Hugh Latimer and John Knox and Huss and Ridley were not the greatest martyrs, but Christian men who wem up incorrupt from the contaminations and perplexities of Wall-sd.. W.Uer-?t.. IVarl-st., I.ro.vi-st.. State-st., Third-st.. Lombard-st. and the bourse. On earth they were" called brokers or stockjobbers, or retailers or inipcrters, but in heaven Christian heroes. Xo fajfots were1 heaped about their feet, no Inquisition demanded from them recantation, no soldier aimed a spike at their heart, but they had mental torture. compared with which all physical consuming Is a.s the breath' of a spring morning. I find In the community a larsre class of men who have been so cheated, so lied about, so outrageously wronged that they have lost faith In everything. In a world where everything peem.s so topey turvy they do not see friow there can be any God. They are confounded and frenzied and misanthropic. Elaborate argument to prrve to thetn the truth of Christianity or the truth of anything else touches them nowhere. Hear me, all such men. I preach to you ivo rounded periods, n-1 ornamental discourse, but I put my friend on your shoulder anl invite you into the peace of the gospel. Here is a rock on which you may stand firm, though th? waves da.h against it harder thin the Atlantic pitching its surf clear above Eddystnna liRhtho-.se. Do not charge upTi Goxi all these troubles of the world. As long as the world stuck to God Cod stuck to the world, but the earth seceded from his government, and hence all these outrage and all these woes. Ood Is good. For many hundreds of years ha ha.s rwe-n coaxing the world to come back to Him. but the more he ha coaxed the more violent have men, boon In their reidstanc-e, and they have teppedi back and stepped back until they have dropped Into ruin. Try this God, ye who have had the bloodhounds after you. and who have thought that God had forgotten you. Try Him and see if He will not help. Try It lm tuvt ee if He will not pardon. Try Him and see if He will not save. The flower of spring havo no bloom so- sweet as fhe flowering of Christ's afTeetionp. The sun hath no warmth compared with the glow of His heart. The waters have no refreshment like the fountain that will slake the thirst of thy soul. At th moment the reindeer stands with his lip and nostril thrust into the cool mountain torrent the hunter may "be coming through thP thicket. Without crackling a tick under his foot, he comes close by the ftta&r, aim his gun, draws -thi trljrsrer, and the poor thing rear In Its death agony and falls backward, Its antlers crashing on the rocks, but the panting heart that drink from the water brooks of God's promise shall never be fatally wounded and fhal! never die. Londoner) t'nearth n Franil, Editor "Where did you work last?" Applicant "I was on a London paper." "What did you do?" "Wrote editorials on American affairs." "Why did you leave?" ' "Discharged." "What for?" "They found out that I had lived In the United States long enough to know something about lt." N. Y. Weekly.

DR. TALMAGE IN HAWAII,

Tin: i; tit: at divim: iMrni:sio.s op thi: m-:v itcrim.ic. AVImf MirUtlitnltr Una Done for the llawnlliina A I.nl Full of Ilenntlful l lowf r (imphlc Picture of the World' färcnleat Volcano, HONOLULU, June 7. Copyright, Louis Klopsch, 1S9I. It was 2 o'clock in tho afternoon when at Fan. Francisco I stepped aboard the Alameda of the Oceania tdeamshlp company, our captain, fore, one of the most genial, jopular end able (mnuuidrs who ever alled tho neaa. He and ih Pacific ocean are old acmtalntA.noe'i. He tin ben, In tteventeeii hurricanes and safely outrode them, l'rofuslon of flowers were Kent up the gangplank, and tho mastK-a of people- on the wharf w ho had come to see thHr friends off, waved handkerchiefs and threw kisses and cried and laughed aa la usual when an tean steamer Is alut to tdurt. The gong Hounded for the leaving of nil those- from the ship's dec-k who did not expect to accompany us. The whistle blew for loosening from tho wharf, and the scrtw leg-.m to whirl, nnd the phlp moved out toward the Golden Gate. Tin pacific ocean met us with waves hlKh enough to send many to thHr berths and to arouse In the rest f us the question why so rougrt a sea should be called the I'iu-ille. And for two days the roll, the Jerk, the rise, the fall, the lunge, the tremor, tin? quake, spoiled the appetite and 'hid from "ght the majority of the p.txsengers. Hut after the third day the fv.tn nnd hlp ceased their wrestling, and peace smoothed the weava ami hiiHhed 'the winds, for tha same Lord who took a short walk upon rough Galllee takes a longer walk upon Pacific seas. Different front most voyages, there seemed no disagreeable on board enough passengers to uvold loneliness, not so many as to be crowded. What different between a ea voyage now. with all comforts afforded and the table containing all the luxuries that can allure a weak appetite, and those days When the- missionaries crossed to Honolulu In vessels greasy and rude and with food rancid or stale and with sail full of whims, now full curbed, and now limp and Idle! Politics has never done much for the Handwich Island.. If a man have no expectations for these gems of the Pacific except that which comes from human legislation, I would think ho would l as despairful as was Kamehameha, the third king of the Sandwich Islands, when on his dying bed he paid: "What Is to become of my poor country? There is no one to follow me. Queen L'mma I do not trust, Lunalilo Is a drunkard and Kal.ihaua Is a fool." All that has been done for the Hawaiian islands has berr done by our praclous tjod and the missionaries. A foreign ship brought them the mosquitoes. The foreign sailors brought tiim the leprosy. American polities brought them the devil. Had it not been f. r the posnel those islands would have been putting to death women for eating bananas when forbidden to do so and bowl n r to . disgusting Idolatry, and In all the Islands It would have been a midnight of cruelty and abomination'. Hut the missionaries came, and In elht years U.OeO people gathered Info t Ii churches and L'tj.ocO children Into nch'X'ls pr.ioslng Christian civilization, which now holds f beautiful supremacy over the .Sandwich Islands. There ar? two great parties In the Hawaiian Islands royalists, who want the n,ueen, and annexationists, who want to come under our eagle s w ing. Neither of them will triumph. The final result will be a republic by Itself, of which the present government Is an ante-past. The Hawaiian nation is -trong enough to stand alone. Ilecause a nation is not Klsratrtle is no innre reason why it should not have self-control than a man with limited resources of physical or financial strength should be denied independence. If God had Intended Honolulu to belong to the Unites States, he would have planted It hundreds of miles nearer our American coast. The United States government Is not so hungry for more land that It needs to be fed on a few chunks of island brought from l.SOO miles away. No danger that some other foreign nation shall tako possession of the islands and give us trouble when we want to run into Hoirolulu for the coaling nnd v.r tering of our ships. With some ironsides from our new navy and the aid of our friends on the Islands we would knock into smithereens such foreign impertinence. Besides that, if we become ns a nation a great maritime power, and we will, none of the islands of the I'aciflc would decline us sheltering harbor or supply for our ships. What though they belonged to other nations, they would sell us all we want. II is not necessary to own a store in' order to purchase goods from it. Ilnwitlltm I'ruarraa, These are venerable islands. Those who can translate the language of rocks and the language of human bones say that these Islands have been inhabited 1,400 years at leist. When found, in 1778, they were old places of human habitation. The most unique illustration In all the world of what pure and simple Christianity can do is here. Before the supernatural force beijan infanticide was common, and not by milder forms of assassination, but burled alive. Demented people were murdered; old people were allowed to die of neglect. Polygamy In its worst form reigned, and it was as easy for a man to throw away his wife as to pitch an apple core into the sea. Superstition (blackened the earth and the heavens. Christianity found the Sandwich islands a -hell and turned them into a semiheaven. As In all other regions -where Christianity triumphed, it was maligned 'by those who came from other lands to preach their iniquities. Loose foreigners were angered because they were hindered in their dissoluteness by a new element they had never before confronted. "There is Honolulu." cried many voices this morning from the deck of the Alameda. These islands, called by many an archipelago. I call them the constellation of the Pacific, for they seem not o much to have grown up as alighted from the heavens. The bright, the redolent, the umbrageous, the floralized, the orchard?d, the forested, the picturesque Hawaiian Islands! They came In upon U3 as much as we came in upon -them In the morning. Capt. Cook no more discovered them In 1778 than we discovered them today. He saw them for the first time for himself. and we see them for the first time this morning for ourselves. tMore fortunate are we than Capt. Cook. He looked out upon them from a filthy boat and wound up tils experiences by furnishing his body as the .chops and steaks of a savage's "breakfast. We from a graceful ship alight amid herbage and ari oreseense and shall depart with the good wishes, and prayers from all the Islanders. HlKh Official Conrtrnle m. As you approach the harbor there Is In sight a long line of surf, rolling over reefs of coral. High mountains, hurricane cleft and lightning split, but their wounds bandaged with the green of perennial foliage. In a few minutes after landing a chamberlain of the queen called to invite us to her mansion, and Chief Justice Judd called with a lelegation to ask me to preach that afternoon. I accepted the Invitation brought by the dhamberlaln and was beautifully entertained by the queen. With President Dole of the provisional government and Chief Justice Judd I went to the executive buildings, which were formerly the palace. The council of the president were already assembled In what was originally

the throneroom, and tklng th chair on th platform he called for order and then arose, and all the councilor arose with tdm. and lie led them In prayer, saying, as near a.n I can remember: "(, Ird God of nations, we ask thy direction In the matters tha nhall come before us. Give us wisdom a-nd prudence and fidelity In tht discharge of our duties, and thou ahalt have all the praise, world without end. Amen." I have not been told whether most of the President of the United States have opened their cabinet meet!ngs In that way, but It certainly Is a good w ly. At 3 o'clock that afternoon the congregational church was packed to overflowing with a multitude, about one-half native Hawaiian, and the other half people of many lands. It waa amnlng to me that with such a short notice of a few hours puch a throng could be gathered. Hut the Honolulu paper have been publishing my nermons for vesrs. and It was really gathering of old friends. An Interpreter Htoo.1 besl.l mein the pulpit, nnd wdth jnsrvelous case translated what I aid into the Hawaiian language. It was such a scene as I never before witnessed, and I rhall never e It related. After shaking hands with thousands of people 1 went out in the most dellcl'uus atmo.sphr re i nnd sat down under tho palm trees. What a bewitchment of oenery! What heartiness of hospitality! The Hawaiian have no superior for geniality and kindness In all the world. In physical presence they are wondrous specimens of good health and stalwnrtness. One Hawaiian could wrest I down two of our nation. The I.nnd of Flower. Miracle of productiveness- these Islands. Unough sugar to sweeten all tho world'a beverages; enough bananas to Pile all the world's baskt'ts; enough rice to mLx all the world's pudding; enough covoanut to jMwder all tlu world's caket; enough flowers to garland all th world's beauty. Hanks of flowers white as anow, or blue a.s skl-?s, or yellow as funset, or tvtarry as November nights, or red aa battlefield. A heaven of florwera. Flowers entwined in maidens' hair, and twisted around bats, and hun on necks, and embroidered on raies and sacks. Tuberoses, gardenias, magnolias. las si floras, trumpet creepers, oleanders, geraniums, convolvuH. fuchsia, hibiscus red as fire, Jasmine, which we In America earef ally coax to climb the wall Just once, Iwre running up nnd down and Jumping over the other side and coming back Ruin to Jump down this fide. Night blooming cetcus, so rare in our northern latitudes we call in our neighbors to see it. nnd they must come right away or never see It all, hero in these islands scattering Its opuleneo of perfume on all the nights and not able to expend enough In darkness also flooding the day. Struggling to surpass each other nil kinds of 'tret", whether of fruit or of rich garniture, mnngo -and organ'e nnd bamloo and alligator pear and umbrella, trees and bread fruit und ulgalsira and tamarlne and all the South sea exotics. Houch cheek of pineapple against smooth cheek of melon, the tropics burning Incerse of aromatlcj to the high heavens. These Islands are volcanic results. The volcanoes are giants living in the cellars of the earth anil warming thems -Ives by subterraneous Pies, and when they come out to play they toss islands, and sometimes In their sport they sprinkle the sea with the Society Islands, and then th 'y to?s up the Navigation Islands, and then the FIJI Islands, and thn the Hawaiian Islands. They are Titans, and when they play quoits they pitch Islands. When the earth finally Roes, a.? It will, while it wilt be a very serious matter to us. It w-oj be only the work of volcanoes, which In their sport are apt to be careless with fire. While volcanoes are assigned to the destructive agencies, we see here what they do ns architects. See here what they have buildM. All up and down these Islands are dead volcanoes. Hocked in the cradle of earthquake, they grew up to an active life and tame to their last breath, and tho mounds under which th-y steep are decorated with tropical blooms. But the greatest living volcmo of all the earth is Hawaiian und n 'imed Kilaina. What a hissing, bellowing, tumlding. roring. thundering place Is Kllauea! Lake of unquenchable lire; Convolutions nii'l paroxysms of fame! Hlemcnts of nature in torture! Torridity nnd luildlty! Congregation of dreads! Molten horrors! Sulphurous abysms! Swirling mystery of all time! Infinite turbulence! Chimney of perdition! Wallowing terrors! Fifteen acres of threat! Glooms insufferable and Danterjue! Caldron stirred by the champion witch of pandemonium! Campfire of the nrmles of IM.ibolus! Wrath of the mountains in full bloom! Shimmering Incandescence! Pyrotechnics of the planet! Furnace blast of the ages Kllauea! Oiv.e upon a time all the geysers and 'boiling springs and volcanoes of the earth lie'.d a convention to elevt a king, and Etna was there, nnd H?cU was .there, and Str.nmboll was there, and Vesuvius was there, and Fusiyama was there, and Mauna Lo.i was there. The discuss-1' n In this convention of volcanoes was iheated. They all spouted lm-pasL-rioned sentiment. S.mic were candidates for the throne and crown because of one pre-eminence and others foroher superiorities. But when It was put to vote by unanimous aocluma'llon Kilauea was elected to be. king of volcanoes. All the natural forces of the earüh. all the vapors, all the eart'hquakes, all the hills, all the continents voted aye. And that night was the coronation. The throne was of lavo. The scepter was of wnoke. The coronet was of lire. And all the sublimities and grander ra and solemnities of the earth kneeling at the foot of the (burning hfone cried out, "Long live Kilauea of the Hawaiians!" And a voice from heaven added mightiness to the tfcene as it declared. "He toucheth the hills, and they smoke." I must leave to my next letter the ipolitica.1 aspects of the Hawaiian islands, and the story of my visit to the president and the ex-queen, and my opinion of fooih of them. T. DE WITT TALMAGE.

Distinctions with n Difference-. There were a knot of men standing on a street corner. One of them had Just finished relating some experiences of a hunting excursion which he had taken the day previous dowrr the river. "So you're a sporting man. are you. Jack? I never knew that before, really," said one of his companions. "Xo, sir." said the first speaker. "I am not a sporting man. I am a sportsman, but I am neither a Fportlng man nor a sport." "Indeed! And where, pray, Is the difference?" "The difference? Why, great Scott, man, there is aa much distinction between a sportsman, a sporting man and a sport as there Is between a doctor, a cannibal and a thief!" The speaker glared at the others, but the first man still looked blank. "Pray define it, then," he said after a pause. "To be sure. It's something that everybody ought to know, but unfortunately lots of folk never take the trouble to learn those things. A sportsman is a man who loves sport in its truest sense. At least I so consider It. He Is a man who enjoys hunting, fishing, camping out, and is commonly fond of other athletic amusements In the way of boating, swimmlm?. riding and the like. He Is, pardon my opinion, apt to be a man of gentlemanly Instincts and brains. A eportlng man' Is an entirely different sort of a fellow. He is one who takes an interest In sports of different sorts, although he may not engage In any of them at all. He probably plays the races, drinks hard, takes In1 all the prizefights and spends most of his evenings when there is nothing else on hand playInff cards and whooping things up. But a sport is on a still lower scale. He Is a fellow Who thinks lie's big: potatoes when he's really nothing but a runt. He need not know anything about sports or engage In them either. His reputation will be won chiefly by his loud dress, his flirtations with the girls, his hanging round saloons and his general worthlessness. No, sir; there are a good many persona who are prcud to be called sporting men or sports, but to call a true eportsman by such a term Is little short of aa InsiCt. Ta, ta!" Washington Pcwt

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SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON. Lrcssov vi, Timm ii aiiti:ii, iti:hXATI0 IL fiFdUHS AKi, 5. Teil of (lie Lenflon, Murk I, 1-1 1 Memory Vrraea, 1-1 1 (inldrn Tfl, .Mark. I, 11 ("oniiuentnry hy the Ilev. I). M. Mc-H run. 1. "The bcpinninic of the cofpel cf Jemis Christ, the Son of (tod." Thia In the gospel specially of service. In it we are reminded of the words, "Heboid. I will brlnj? forth my Servant, the Uranoh!" while "Behold, the Man whose name is the Hr.mch!" is Keen more cleat ly in Iuke's gospel Zerh. ill, 8; vl, 12). Here Jesus Is the patient servant and (sacrifice for others, spending and being: spent to nfrve the nons of men. This kos pel is written that the same life of unwearied cervlce may be In some measure reproduced In U8 (II Cor. lv. 11). but as we are In this first verse Introduced to the Son of tJod tto we must be sons of Ool b fore we can serve God. "Let my son go that he may serve me," said the Lord of Israel (Ex. lv. 2.1). 2. "As It Is written In the prophets, behold, I send my messenger before Thy face, which nhall prepare Thy way before Thee'" The whole story of His Bufferings and glory is written In the prophets (I Tet. I, 11; Luke xxiv. 23-27). They alo spake of the heralds who should precede Him, John the Baptist, In the spirit and power of Elijah before his necond comlnpr. Compare Mai. lv, D; Luke I. 17; Math, xvii, 10-13. As to preparing His way, every believer can, in a measure, be His messenger to do that. "What an honor to be sent of Him in His name! 3. "The voice of one crying in the wilderness, prepare ye the way of the Lord; make His paths straight." When John was asked if he waa the Christ or Elijah or the prophet, he said that he was neither, but only a voice proclaiming the Christ (John 1, 23). He sought no honors for himself, but rejoiced to decrease that Christ might increase (John III, 2D. 30). 4. "John did baptize in the wilderness and preach the. baptism of repentance for the remission of sins." A sample of his preaching may be found in Math. Hi, 7-12, and Luke ill, 7-18. He made It plain that unless their lives afterward manifested that they had beeo;"ne new creatures their baptism would amount to nothing-. One of the last commands of Christ was that repentance and remission1 of sins should tie preached In His name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem (Luke xxlv, 17). 5. "And there went out unto him all the land of Judea, and they of Jerusalem, and were all baptized of him In the river of Jordan, confessing their sins." There must be a sense of pin. a true conviction of sin, and the deeper the better, before any one will come to Christ, for He came not to call th righteous, but sinners, to repentance. This is the work of the Holy Spirit (John xvl. S, margin), and He uses the word and the lives of believers. In Acts v, 31; xl, 18. Christ is said to give or grant repentance. 6. "And John was clothed with camel's hair, and with a plrdle of a skin about his lions, and he did eat locusts and wild honey." Thus was Elijah clothed (II Kings I, 8), and. as to locusts, they were among the creatures which Ood had permitted Israel to eat (Lev. xl, 22). John was certainly not extravagant In the matter of food and raiment. What a contrast was Isaac, who loved Esau because of his venison and would bless him only in connection therewith (Gen. xxv. 28; xxvil, 3. 4). Jesus has taught us not to think too much about either food or raiment (Math, lv, 4; vl. 2.'). but haa assured us that if we make His kingdom and His righteousness our first concern He will see to all our need in that direction (Math. vi. 33). 7. "Ami preached, naylng. there cometh one mightier than I after me, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose." John nought not to attract people to himself, but to the Lamb of Ood. whom he came to herald. He had no ambition to- make himself a name, but only to honor Him of whom he said, "He must increase, but I must decrease" (John 111. 30). He ought not great things for himself (Jer. xlv. 5). but his watchword was "Not I" (Gal. 11, 20; I Cor. xv. 10). "I Indeed have baptized you with water, but He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost." Both Matthew and Luke add "and with fire" (Math. lit. 11; Luke HI. 16). which fire seems, from the context, to refer to the judgments of His second coming as King and Son of Marr. As the Servant, which He Is peculiarly In Mark, He does not speak of fire. But how much we do ned to hö fldled with, the Spirit ia fact, it Is.

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a command laid upon us, and as inui-h a command as not to ! drunkt-n l.'i'h. v, 1-). Their what a comfort to know that He. who Is our Saviour. Brother. Friend, is the one who baptizeth with the Holy Ghost (John I. 3.1). We tired not think we must beg and entreat Him, but simply ask Him (Luke xl. 13). i). "And it came to pass In those ilys that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baplU'.cd John in Jordan." In Luke ill. 2:5, it is written th.it He was about thirty years of age. In Math. Iii. li. 1.). it is sail that at first John forbade J I im because of John's cn-atcr need to be baptized of Him, but Jmis haid. "Suffer It to be so now. for thus It becometh us to fultill all rkhteousie'ss." He humbled Himself from heaven down j to the manger of Bethlehem, and the home In Nazareth, and the life of rejecI tlon. even to Gethsemane and GolRotha, I all for us. and surely It is bevoming In us to humble ourselves for Him, yet it seems ttrange to say so, for, whereas, He actually came down from great glory, we, being nothing. hav nothing to come ! down from but sinful pride. 10. "And straightway coming up out of th water He saw the heavens opened, and the Spirit like a dove depeending upon him." Here in this po-el we rnfi the first "immediately," used about eighty times in the new testemnt, and forty times In this go.-jel, an I eleven tnie in this chapter, sometimes translate! "anon" ,r "'forthwith." It is the word for a good servant. The open-'d htv.ns make us think of Ezek. I, Math, iii, John I, Aots vil and x. Rev. lv. and xlx. In each Of which chapter heaven is opened and always concerning Chris: or His church. The Spirit coming as a dove makes us think of the dove that found no rest except in the ark while the waters of Judgment were on the earth. Jesus, t-hi truo ark, i the only place where th-i Spirit ran rest fully. If we are filled with the Spirit, we will rest only in Jesus. 11. "And there came a voice from heaven, saying. Thou are my beloved S n In whom I am well ploafied." See also chapter ix, 7, where the same testimony was given at the transfiguration. In John vül, 2i, Jesus Kays, 'I do always those thing-? that please the Father," and In Rom. xv, 3. it is said. "Even Christ pleased not himself." Since the Father is well pleased with Jesus, when we are well pleased with Jesus and accept and ahii in Him, God is well pleased with us for Jesus's sake. Let us abide in Him (I John, 1!, 2S). TIIH DO HAU ILL HEALTH. Life Wan No Worth I.lvlntc and IT Com mil ted Suicide. A dog beloncing to James Nuthall. th engineer of No. 8 engine company of Louisville, deliebrately committed suicide recently, bystanders say. The dog was a fine setter and was highly prized by his owner. The animal had been sick f jr several days and acted queerly. A vacent lot adjoins the engine house, and about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, as Otllcer Collins was passing the lot. he noticed the dog running at the fence with great force. The dog would butt the fence with his head a great deal after the fashion of a goat. A crowd collected and watched the queer antics of the doij for some time. In a short time the dog's head was all bloody and bruised. Severil men started toward the animal to take him away from the fence. The doj? ran past the crowd and into the' street. A cart heavily loaded with brick was passing at the time. The cart belonged to Scott Xewmann. The dog started to run under the cart, but the colored driver lashed it with his whip. The dog refused to move, thouRh he was whipped severely, and the horses knocked him down and tramped on him and a wheel of the cart ran over his head. He died in about ten minutes. Ten ) r lienor. "The bride looked very well in a traveling dress, but all eyes were centered on the groom. Je wore a. dark eult tha.t fitted perfectly his manly form, a large bouquet decorated his coat lapel, and in his daintily gloved hand he carried a bouquet of American beauties. His hair was cut close, and a delicate odor of barber's oil floated down the aisle as he passed. The young people miss him now that he Is married. He is loved by all for his many accomplishments, his tender graces and his winning ways. The bride commands a good salary as a bookkeeper In St. Joe. and the groom will miss none of the luxuries to which he has been accustomed. A crowd of pretty young men saw him off at the depot." (A sample of the wedding notices of ten jears hence.) Atchison Globe. Snap Shots. The ambitious young radcate row goes forth to hunt up some tides to stem. Ignorance is sometime kj dense that you can not even stir it up. t'nles the truth hurts somebody a little It does not seem to do much good. There io a ladder of som klr.d in front of every young man. As soon as mftn marries the doctors begin to bow to him. Even patience Itself may be taxed too nuch. Caivestoa y-aws.

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WAi icn i irn:i: a i:us i on him. A Cnnmlian (.Irl' l'it 1 1 en er Itrw n rdrd In u Ma Sli.- IIikI oC i:rotcd. Life Iii' Butte ha-s Its romance now and then, and th st ry of Argus .McQueen related by th Cleveland I 'lain Deabt proves It. Fifteen years ago be waa plodding alonjj in n small Canadian' village, feeling constantly that in the uid world outsid-9 th.-rt was n field wheriv he could accomplish greater thing.. Hi tied hl3 bun II. s t.gcili' r and left tin Lome of LI l.il-Il.o . 1. This a.s not all. H-- bail f.illi ?i in love with it pretty, modi t littl" girl erd they were engage. i, to be mairled. but wit!, no time wt for the W'ddiug, for A i.ku: insisted that bui could not think of fahl ig Jiry girl from her home' until h" bad a h"me to öfter her In return. And thus were affair between them when be tdiook the duioj of Canada t:ff bis feet ;;icl came to tha 1'iiited Soit's. The yotii.g man drift tut out into Montana. Th-re was rh-nty ri work for willing bands. :4nd An: -us a no sluggard; he. worked hnrd, h" worked early and late, but link did ii"t attend him. KiK'it ji-ars f th" mihi dreary routine wont by, nnd during that tima Angus went Lack to his ill home twl.e. n both k easi r.s be had 1 .ng talks with, th girl, who was patiently watting for Mm, and f!ir.g at 'i'li vi.-it more and mure d-i -pond, nt he tried to convince her that fh'- w;.s waj-tlng her Ufa for fancy, told hf-r in j,o many words that, ht did not Klieve he t.r would ! rl-! enough to dare to marry; but th girl was braver than' lie and would not b relinquished. i Six years ago Ahkus reached the. end of hi lan and found the turn. He struck) pay dirt one day, and In a few week realized that be was worth '.m-thing! like $:,0.0no. Hi? did not telegraph th tx-0'i news home; lie did not take th first train home; he did not even wrlt to the dear ones there of his gI fortune. I'rosiverlty bad not fazed him lu the l-ant, but it caused him to wt a, mark hn shoidd strive to reach, and wheti that should be attained ho determined t go home, and if his promised wife wa still true he would marry her and mak her happy- Tl.t months rolled by and Angus McQueen bad got a foothold In Butte. Here h3 got track of a mine located in the centiT of the town that to him seemed able to realize all his hopes If he could secure It. He easily Primed the owner's name, but bis whereabouts was another matter. With the sam persistence, however, that had characterized his whole life, he bet,an to search for him. Fortun-, having once smiled upon him, now seemed lavish of hr favors, and he found his man. He told the owner many tliii;ps al-ut Rütte that h3 did not know, and offered htm $:..ooo In cash for his holding. The preposition, was accepted, the papers made out anl Angus became thei proprietor of a min th3t in less than three months proved to le in truth what in fancy he hai dreamed. Then btgan his little scheme for a ro maiK-'.i The excuse he soiirht for goinß suddenly home came upon him in a most unpleasant manner he re eived a dispatch that his mother was very ill. At a. moment's notice he started for Canada, and there, happily, found his mothei recovered II also found his girl waiting for him still. Again he went through, the arguments he had used bafore. but the girl said no; she did not care for money, and she said she would not b a drag upon him. She had confidence In bis ability to earn eiioush to live on and that was all she asked. Angus was o fpjoyed, but repressed all emotion. r emerely said: "Well, g?t ready and will get married and jro back west together." This they did. A quiet wed-i ding took place, and not until tnen did. the Montana miner tll his wife that hej had "struck It rich." The Maud Spiral. Make a small spiral of very fine Irorw wire and coat it slightly with oil. Plac this coil carefully in a basin of water and It will float on the surface. Take a stra.v or glis3 tube anl ln nierse the lower end for a few Inches ir a glass containing soapsuds. Before removing the tube p'.ace the Index finger over Its upper end so that som? drops of the uds w id by the air pressure remain in It. Hold this tuba over the center of th roil, and by quikiy removing or replao Ing the index finger allow a drop of sud to fall upon the water. Th? spiral will immediately make several revolutions in a most mysterious manner. The audience should have its attention attracted to the fact that the tube doei not come anywhere near the spiral anl that there is no force exercised to mov it. Another drop of the suds in the sams manner will produce a repititlon of tha peculiar action on the part of the wire. The action of the ypiral wire is due to the fact that the addition of a drop of soapsuds somewhJt modifies the surface water pi as to alter a force known aa "superficial tension." The science of thif change, however. Is rather too deep t permit of explanation here. N. Y. R carder.