Marshall County Independent, Volume 4, Number 41, Plymouth, Marshall County, 23 September 1898 — Page 2

TALMAOE'S SERMON.

"ENEMIES OVERTHROWN" LAST SUNDAY'S SUBJECT. 4l.et Mod Vri. Let Hi" I nemies Bm ;itt ercd" Itook of l';ilms. diopter Ixviii.. VIN 1 TlM -tru;gie of Hamm I. vi t,!wo. A i'iM'.-t --ion was formed to carry the ark, or sacred box. which, though truly three feet ni.ie laches in length ud four feel three inches in height aiui tenth wta the symbol of Godi presence Is the leaden of the procession lifted ti'is ornamented and brilliant bos by two golden poles run through four golden rings, and started for .Mount ZiOtt, all the people chanted the battle hymn of my text. Let CM arise, let hi? enemies be scattered." The Canaeraniana of Scotland, outraged by James L. who forced upon them religions terms that were offe&sfre. and by the terrible perseeotloa of Drummoml. Dafale and Turner, and hy the oppressive laws of Charles L and Charles II.. were driven to proclaim war against tyrants, and went forth to fight for religiös liberty; and the mountain heather became red with sarnsga. and at Botbwell Bridge and Aird's Moss and Drnmclog the battle hymn and the battle shout of those glorious old Scotchmen ffa the text I have chosen: "Let tlod arise, let his Sttemies be scattered." What a whirlwind of power was Oliver Cromwell, and how with hi.s soldiers, named the Ironsides.' he went from victory to victory! Opposing enemies melted as he looked at them. He dismissed parliament as easily is a schoolmaster a school. He pointed his finger at Berkeley Castle, and it wap taken. He ordered Sir Ralph Hopton, the general, to dismount, and he dismounted. See Cromwell march ins on with his army, and hear the battle en of the "Ironsides." loud as a storm end soipnin I death-knell, standards reeling before it. and cavalry horses going back on their haunches, and srmies flying at Bfarston Moor, at Wiaceby Field, at Naeeby. at BridgeWater and DuTtmootB '"Let God arise. .let his enemies bo Mattered!" So you see my text is not like a complimentary and tasseled sword "that yon sometimes see hung up in a parlor, a sword that was never in battle, anil only to be used on general taininü .lay, but more like some weapon carefully hung up in your home, teiling it story of battles, for my text hangs in the Scripture armory, telling of the holy wars of three thousand years in which it has been carried, but still as keen and mighty as when David first unsheathed it. It seems to me that in the church of God. and In all styles of reformatory work, what we meet need now is a battle-cry. We raise our little standard, and put an It the name of some man who onlv a few years agtj began to live and iE a ftv years Will cease to live. We go into contest against the armies of iniquity, depending too much on human agencies. We use for a battle-cry the xame of some brave Christian reformer, but after a while that reformer dies, or getc old. or loses his courage, and then we take another battle-cry. and thte time perhaps we put the name of Bome one who betrays ihe cause and e!ls out to the enemy. What we want for a battle-cry hi the name of some leader who will never betray us. ami will never surrender, and will never lie. All respect have I for brave men and women, but if we are to get the victory all along the line we must take the Aim of the Gideonites. who wiped out the Bedotiin Arabs, commonly called Midianites. These (Jideonites had a f lorious leader in Gideon, but what was tns battle-cry with which they flung their enemies into the worst defeat into which any army was ever tumbled? It was ' The sword of the Lord and of Gideon." Put God first, whoever you put second. If the army of the American revolution it to free America, it must be "The sword of the Lord and of Washington," If the Germans want to win the day at Sedan, it must be "The sword of 'he Lord and Von Mobile.'' Waterloo was won for the English, because not only the armed men at the front, but the worshipers in the tataedrall at the rear, were crying "The sword of the Lord and Wellington." The Methodist have gone in triumph across nation after nation with the cry, 'The sword of the Lord and of Wesley." Ths Presbyterians have j pone from victory to victory with the try, "The sword of the Lord and John ! Knox." The Baptists have conquered ' millions after millions for Christ with the cry. "The swocd of the Lord and of Jndsoa." The American Episcopa lians have won their mighty way with The word of the Lord and of tue cry Bishop M'llvaine." The victory is to those who put God first. But as we vant a battle-cry suited to all sects of religionists, and to all lands. I nominate as the battle-cry of Christen tum in the approaching Armageddon ords of my text, sounded before the n the ark as it was tarried to Mount Zion: "Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered " Ar far as our finite mind can judge, it sessas about time for God to rise. Does it nor Mem to you that the abominations of this earth have gone far enough? Was there ever a t i when sin was so defiant? Were there eve? before so many fists lifted towartl God telling him to come on if he dare? Look at the blasphemy abroad! Wha; towering profanity! Would it be possible for any one to calculate the number of times thai the name of the Almighty Qod and of Jesus Christ are every day taken irreverently on the lips? Profane swearing is as much forbidden by the law as theft, or arson, sr murder, yet who executes it? Pro

fanity is worse than theft, or arson, or murder, for these crimes are attacks on humanity that is an attack on God. Thil country is pre-eminent for blasphemy. A man traveling in Russia was supposed to be a clergyman. "Why do you take me to be a clergyman?" said the man. "Oh." said the Russian, "all other Americans swear." The crime is multiplying in intensity. God very often shows what he thinks of it. but for the most part the fatality is hushed up. Among the Adirondacks I met the funeral pi occasion of a man who two day? before had fallen under a Hash of lightning, while boasting after a Sunday of work in the fields, that he had (heated God out of one day. anyhow, and the man who worked with him on the same Sabbath is still living, but a helpless invalid, under the same Hash. I Indict ibis evil as the regicide, the fratricide, the patricide, the matricide, the uxoricide of the century. Yet tinder what innocent and delusive and mirthful names alcoholism deceives the people! It is a "cordial." It is "bitters." It is an "eye-opener." It is an appetizer." It is a "digester." It is an "invigoiator." It is a "settler." It is a "night tap." Why don't they put on the right labels Essence of Perdition.'' "Cons ience Stupefier." "Five Drachms erf Heart-ache, Fears of Orphanage." "Blood of Souls." "Scabs of an Eternal Leprosy." -Venom of the Worm that Never Dies?" Only once in a while is there anything in the title of liquors to even hint their atrocity, as in the case of "sour mash." That 1 see advertised all oer. It is an honest name, and anyone can understand it. "Sour mash!" That is. it makes a man's disposition sour, and his associations sour and his prospect sour: and then it is good to mash bid body, and mash his soul, and mash his business, and mash his family. "Sour mash!" One honest name at lasi for an intoxicant! But through lying labels of many of the apothecaries' shops, good people, who are only a little under tone in health, and wanting some in violation, have unwittingly got on their tongue the fangs of this cobra, that Sting to death so

large a ratio of the human race. Others are ruined by the common and all-destructive habit of treating customers. And it is a treat on their coming to town, and a treat while the bargaining progresses, and B treat when the purchase is made, and a treat as be leaes town. Others, to drown their troubles, submerge themselves With this worse trouble. Oh. the world is battered and bruised and blasted with this growing evil! It is more and more entrenched and fortified. They have millions of dollars subscribed to marshal and advance the alcoholic forces. They nominate and elect and govern the vast majority of the officeholders of this country. On their side they have enlisted the mightlest political power of the centuries. And behind them Stand all the myrmidons of the nether world. Satanic. Apollyonic and Diabolic. It is beyond all human effort to overthrow this bastile of decanters or capture this Gibraltar of rum jugs. And while I approve of all human agencies of reform, I would utterly despair if we I had nothing else. But what cheers me is that our best troops are yet to come. Our chief artillery is in reserve. Our greatest commander has not yet fully taken the field. If all hell is on their side, all heaven is on our side. Now "Let God arise, and let his enemies be scattered.'' Then look at the impurities of these great cities. Ever and anon there are in the newspapers exposures of social life that make the story of Sodom quite respectable; "for such things." Christ says, 'were more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah" than for the Chorazins and Bethsaidas of greater light. It is no unusual thing in our cities to see men in high positions with two or three families, or refined ladies willing solemnly to marry the very swine of society, if they be wealthy. The Bible all aflame with denunciations against an impure life, but many of the American ministry uttering not one point-blank word against this iniquity lest some old libertine throw tip his church pew. Machinery organized in all the cities of the United States and Canada by which to put yearly in the grinding-mill of this ; iniquity thousands of the unsuspecting J of the country farm-houses, one procuress confessing in the courts that '. she had supplied the infernal market ! with one hundred and fifty victims in six months, un: ior nve nunureti newspapers in America to swing open the door of this iazar-house of social corruption ! Exposure must come before extirpation. While the city van carries the scum of this sin from the prison to the polite court morning by morning, it is ! fnH time- if W do not want " AmeTm nan me to necoine UKe mat or tne court of Louis XV.. to put millionaire Lotharios and the Pompadours of your brown-Stone palaces into a van of popular Indignation, and drive them out of respectable associations. What ! I''0!"1 (,f "CW purification can there he as long as at summer watering plac es it is usual to see a young woman of excellent rearing stand and simper and giggle and roll up her eyes sideways before one of those first -class satyrs of fashionable life, and on the ball-room floor join him in the danc i, the Maternal chaperon meanwhile beaming from the window on the scene? Matt bes are made in beaven, they say. Not sueh matches; for the brimstone indicates the opposite region. The evil 'is overshadowing all our cities. My some these immorality are called peccadilloes, gallantries, eccentricities and are relegated to the realms of Jocularity, and few efforts are being made against them. God bless the "White Cross" movement, as it is call

edan organization making a mighty assault on this evil! God forward the tracts on this subject distributed by the religious tract societies of the land! God help parents in the great work they are doing, in trying to start their children with pure principles! But is this all? Then it is only a question of time when the last vestige of purity and home will vanish out of sight. Human arms, human pens, human voices, human talents are not sufficient. I begin to look up. I listen for artillery rumbling down the sapphire boulevards of heaven. I watch to see if in the morning light there be not the flash of descending scimitars. Oh, for God! Does it not seem time for his appearance? Is it not time for all lands to cry out: "Let God arise, and let his enemies be scattered?" Not only are the affairs of this world so a-twist. a-jangle and racked, that there seems a need of the Divine appearance, but there is another reason. Have you not noticed that in the history of this planet Ood turns a leaf about every two thousand years? God turned a leaf, and this world was fitted for human residence. About two thousand more years passed along and God turned another leaf, and it was the Deluge. About two thousand more years passed on, and it was the Nativity. Almost two thousand more years have passed, and he will probably soon turn another leaf. What it shall be I cannot say. It may be the demolition of all these monstrosities of turn pitude. and the establishment of righteousness In all the earth. He can do it, and he will do it. I am as confident as if it were already accomplished. How easily be can do it. my text suggests. It does not ask God to hurl a great thunderbolt of his power, but just to rise from the throne on which he sits. Only that will be necessary. "Let God arise!" It will be no exertion of omnipotence. It will be no bending or bracing for a mighty lift. It will be no sending down the sky of the white horse cavalry of heaven or rumbling war chariots. He will only rise. Now he is sitting in the majesty and patience of his reign. He is from his throne wait hing the mustering of all the forces of blasphemy and drunkenness and impurity and fraud and Sabbath-breaking, and when they have done their WO rat, ami are most surely organized. n will bestir himself and say: "My enemies have denied me long enough, and their cup of iniquity is full. I hare given them all opportunity for repentance. This dispensation of patience is ended, and the faith of the good shall be tried no longer." And now Cod begins to rise, and what mountains give way under Iiis right foot I know not; but. standing In the full radiance ai d grandeur of his nature, he looks this way and that, and how his enemies are scattered! Blasphemers, while and dumb, reel down to their doom: and those who have trafficked in that which destroys the bodies and souls ot men and families will By with cut foot on the down grade of broken decanters; and the polluters of society that did their bad work with large fortunes and high social sphere, will overtake in their descent the degraded rabble of underground city life, as they tumble over the eternal precipices: and the world shall be left clear and dean for

tue mentis oi in. inanity anu the worshipers of Almighty God. The last thorn plucked off, the world will be left a blooming rose on the bosom of that Christ who came to gardenize it. The earth that stood snarling with its tigerish passion, thrusting out its raging claws, shall lie down a lamb at the feet of the Lamb of God, who took away the sins of the world. And now the best thing I can wish for you. and the best thing 1 can wish for myself, is. that we may be tound his warm and undisguised and enthusiastic friends in that hour when God shall rise and his enemies shall be scattered. Karth H Oldest Flower. So great is the antiquity of the rose that all account of its origin has been lost. There seems every reason to believe that the national flower of England is the oldest of which there is any record; to Englishmen, at least, it seems a case of the survival of the fittest. It is not mentioned in the Biblical writings earlier than the reign of Solomon, but the allusion to it then made is such as to indicate that the ilower had already long been known. In Egypt the rose is depicted on a number of very early monuments, believed to date from 3000 to 3500 B. C, and in the tomb of an Egyptian princess, disinterred a year ago in southern Egypt, several hermetically sealed vials were found, which, when opened, contained genuine attar of roses, so that the modern claims for the discovery of this delicious perfume are vain. Rose water, or the essence of roses, is mentioned by Homer in the "Iliad." Both the Greeks and Hebrews probably borrowed bhs idea of its manufacture from the Egyptians, and these, for aught anybody can tell, may have had it from the Chinese. The rose in one of those flowers which are supposed by the people of every land to be so well known as to need no description and hardly mention, for it is a singular fact that every continent on the globe, with the solitary exception of Australia, produces wild roses. Even the frozen regions of the north, where the summer lasts but two or three months, and is at best a season which may be described as veiy late in the autumn, produce their wild roses and travelers through Greenland, Kamschatka and northern Siberia found, in the proper season, an abundance of blossoms, while the crews of whaling vessels which call at Spitzbergen usually come off shore with bouquets of the native Spitzbergen rose.

THE MAINE ELECTION.

The biennial state election was held In Maine last Monday. Governor PowI grs was re-elected by about 25.000 plu rality and Congressmen Keen, Dmgley. Burleigh and Boutelle will return to their scats with good majorities, but with great reductions over the vote of iwo and four years ago. The republican vote has fallen off 33 per cent, while the d mocrats have made small trains. Lewi-ton. the home of Senator Frye and Congressman 5)ing!ey. elects four democratic representatives to the legislature. Joseph H. Manky. chairman of the republican state committee and a member of the republican national executive committee, was elected to tlte legislature from Augusta, a district he repn sented some yars ago. Saco, the home of the democratic gubernatorial candidate. Samuel L. Lord, which it gen rally republican, went democratic. The democrats are elated. They say the republican vote has fallen off 35 per cent while the democratic vote ha.been increased by at least 12 per cent. The members of the First Maine infantrv. who are content rated here, were

NEW PRESIDENT OF WOMAN'S RELIEF CORPS.

Monticello. III.. Letter: Mrs. Flo .Tfimison Miller, the new president of the Woman's Relief Corps, is a native cf this city and one of the most popular women in this pari of the state. She is the youngest president the relief corps has ever had. Col. V. II. .Sarnieson. Mrs. Miller's father, was a member of the Twenty-first Illinois (Grant's old regiment) in the civil war, and was mustered out as its colonel. Mrs. Miller was educated in the schools of Monticello. She is a charter member of Franklin W. R. C. No. 04 of this allowed to go to their homes on furlough to vote. The democratic party at itß last state convention declared allegiance to the Ch-icago platform and the silver issue has been kept prominently to the front. The legislature is overwhelmingly republican, but the democrats have gained members over two years ago. The vote of the gold democrats and the prohibitionists w-as light. SILVER THE ISSUE. Gov. Tanner Opens I .iitn.il Campaign in IllinoU. Gov. Tanner opened the state campaign in Illinois at Golconda, Pope county. He placed the silver question as the first and most serious ifcsue to be discussed in this campaign. Soldier Are Doing Well. The sick of the One Hundred and Fifty-seventh Indiana regiment are improving, and the physicians believe there will be no more deaths. Four Dead, I ti I.tjurel. A passenger train .it Wichita, Kn.. ran into a wagon containing fifteen persons. Two are dead, two more will die and several are injured. William I. 1 1 im in Resign. William I). Hynum has resigned the chairmanship of the national gold democratic committee, tleorge foster Peabody of New York succeeds him. Itig Silveiivare Trust Formed. A silverware trust has been organized under the laws of New Jersey, with t capital stock of $30.000.000. Yellow Fever at l'once. There have been four eases of yellow fever at Ponce, Porto Rico, two of which were fatal. To Launch the Illinois. Everything is in readiness for the launching of the battleship Illinois at the Newport News ship yan! Oct. 4. KiMMln Munt Import Wheat. The famine in the Volga district will necessitate the importation by Russia of 80.000.000 bushels of wheat. Wants Keuiains llrought Home It is the desire of the duke of VeraSjua that the remains of Columbus be removed from Havana to Spain. Lakewood, N. Y. The twenty-sixth annual convention of the American Association of Traveling Passenger Ageats met here with about 200 delegates present. President Monett presided.

HISTORY IN A TAR1PT

Abraham Lincoln's nomination Cor the presidency of the United Srate-i is to be commemorated by a tablet that will be inserted in the ten-s-ory steelframe building now reaching sfcywar 1 at the southwest corner of Lake an t Market streets. Chicago. Or. this corner stood in the '(fa the b.g fr.ma structure known as the Wigwam, in which the memorable republican convention that nominated Lincoln was held. The Wigwam was built in i"S and was replaced about 1868 by a fo rstory brick building that lately 'Aas demolished to make room for ihe present building. The site of the new 1 nilding i- noteworthy apart from its connection with the birth of the republican party. It was occupied for many years by the Sauganash tavern, which is said to have been the first ir;;me boose built in Chicago. It was destroyed by tire in 1851. The tavern was built in 1831 by a Mark Beaubien. a French Canadian who came to Fort Dearborn in 1826 Beaubien was famous for his fiddling, and the violin with which he entertained his guests nightly ig in the city, .she was very active in the work of the corps and in 1894 she was elected to succeed Mrs. Emma R. Wallace as president of the Illinois department. It was through Mrs. Miller's efforts a president of the Illinois corps that file soldiers' home at Wilmington was 'built. She was re-elected and declined a third term in 189& She is a chart-r member of the local Woman's i bib and is widely interested in woman's w irk. Her husband is W. Scott Miller, the contractor. ! possession of the Cabinet club. A portrait of Chicago's tirst hote'.keeper hangs 00 the walls of the Chicago Historical society's home in Dearborn avenue. THE TRADE REVIEW, Dullness Conditioim Good in Spite of Iitl-ul ties. R. G. Dun & Co. a Weekly Review of Trade says: "Businests is passing through the difficulties that attend the winding up of a war. which are generally better than thos involved while war is in progress The rash of orders kept hark while war lasted by those who thought It shrewd not to take any chances baa lifted prices a little and "aused a larger demand for the time than an continue, but though it has passed there is an evidence that the consuming demand ivery large. "Failures for the week have ben IT I in the United States, against 204 last year, and 2: in Canada, against 40 last year." BARKER FOR PRESIDENT. PopulUtK XiMiiinate lVnu-tvI v;tuLi Mm for Htgti Oltlce. The populists' national convention nominated Wharton Barker of Pennsylvania for president by a vote of 128 4-5 as against 97 l-ä for gnatiua Donnelly of Minnesota. Donnelly was nominated for vice president by acclams1n. I mninsionerft Hare Salle!. Ti. an peace commissioners have ia.. 1 for Paris. They are not fully instructed as to the policy of the administration on the Philippine question. In Paris they will have i consultation with Gen. ICerritt Large Arui5' Not. Needed. Gen. ' 'heeler does not beliere that a large I adding army will be required either in Cuba or Porto Rico. Jen. Flthut;h I III. Gen. Fitzhttgfa Lee is ill and has taken apartments at a hotel in Jacksonville. Fla. President Will ViAit Indianapolis. President McKinley will visit Indianapolis on his way to Omaha and make a short political address Emporia. Kan Hog cholera has been prevalent in this and adjoining counties the last few weeks, it is estimated that not fewer than 20.000 animals have died in Lyou county.

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'RE AT ENGINEERING. BUILDING A RAILROAD UP A MOUNTAIN. Tlie Pursuit of Wealth Terminate !o One of the Mot Marvelou Structures Krciied Since the Dawn of UiMory. The boldest enterprise yet actually undertaken is the railway up the Jungfrau in the .vlps. This peak, in ihe range that lies between the caa- ; tons o: Yalais and Berne, is surround- ' ed by precipitous cliffs and is covered With eternal snow. I: is particularly difficult of ascent. But this vi:i not be true for more than four or live years. Herr Guyer Zelier. who is president ' of the Northeastern railway system of Switzerland, is behind the project. Jungfrau i. 13,679 feet above the sea, and lacks only 2,100 feet of Mont Blum 's elevation. Pike's Peak in the United States is. to be sure, a few hundred feet higher ihan the Jungfrau, and a railway ins been in operation to its top for several years. But the : Swiis road will start from a much ( lower level than the American, or ; about 7.000 feet above the sea. It will have nearly or quite 7.'"" feet more ' to rise. The steepest grades will bo the same as those on the Pik's Peak J line 25 per cent. There is already in operation a road i from Interlaken to Grindelwald, and ! thence along the Wengern Alp to the i Hamlet of Murren. The Jungfrau road diverges from the other at Little Schneidigg. and runs for a short distance in the open air. But the only way to avoid the avalanches of that locality is to go underground, and hence the new line on reaching the edge of the Eiger glacier enters a tunnel. Emerging at Monchjoch. at an eievatixn of 10.500 feet, the road will run along the side of the Monch, ascend 600 feet more and then enter the Jungfrau Itself, at a station called Jungfrau joch. The terminus will be situated about I'to feet below the summit, and an elevator will carry passengers the rest of the way. Work was begun on the read more than a year ago, and operations were actively conduc ted in the tunnel beside the Eiger glacier all through the winter. Of course if the route had been exposed to the rigors of the weather outside it would have been impossible to do any blasting or grading for more than two or three months of the year. Owing to the remarkable hardness of the rock progress has been slow, but it is hoped that the whole line will be completed within three or four years. Even before it is all done it is probable that the owners will operate it for a part of its length. The wonderful gümp.-. s to be had and the delightful air to be breathed long before reaching the summit will be inducement enough to many tourists to take advantage of the opportunity. There will be- galleries, reaching out sideways or else upward from the main tunnel into the open air. and balconies here will enable the tourists to get fine outlooks and obtain material refreshment. The possible effect of great change of altitude within a few hours upon the health and comfort of tourists has been carefully considered by the management of this line. Not only has a good deal of information been obtained from persona who have gone up in balloons, but a set of special experiments was conducted with airtight chambers, in which people were confined while the quantity of air inside was slowly but considerably reduced by means of a pump. The results of these investigations satisfy the backers of the railroad that no unpleasant consequences are to be anticipated from breathing the rarefied air of Alpine summits, if those heights are once reached without effort. Powers for operating the road will be secured from the Lutsehine. near Lauterbrunnen, with the aid of turbines and dynamos. Some of the older roads in the Alps are operated by steam, but all the new ones use electricity. iJkethe road on Mount Washington, this one will have a toothed rail, or rack, between the rails on which the train rides, and stout gearing on the engine will engage the rack, and thus pull the train. A quadruple set of brakes, part of them mechanical and part of them electrical, will be provided. lie Km tt the Rnpf. Editor "You wish to join our staff of proof reader.-0" Applicant "Yes. sir." "Do you understand the requirements of that responsible position?" "Perfectly, sir. Whenever you make any mistake? in the paper, just blame them on me, and I'll never say a word. Tit-Bits. 1 1 u mi '.t:it Ion. Jaggles - "Those gamblers were much chagrined that a mini.ster should have collected evidence against them." Waggles "No wonder. It showed that they didn't know a good thing when they sa whim." New York World. Power. God help you women to see your power and to use it for Him. and yours will be the honor not only of making home life sacred, but of making political life pure Rev. F. GoodthlM. Canght the Itoston ;irl. "I expect to be a student all my lif.' said the Boston girl. "Let's be classmates," he whispered, and so thoy matriculated In the school of experience together. Up to Date,