Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 14, Number 32, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 27 October 1892 — Page 2

ME NAPPANEE NEWS. BY Q. X. HURRA v. ■APPANEE, ii INDIANA The News Condensed. Important Intelligence From All Parts. DOMESTIC. Ons Crete and H. H. Finley skipped from New York after swindling many persons ont of SIOO,OOO in a Florida land deal. The centennial celebration in Buffalo of New York's canals was largely attended, delegates coming from nearly a hundred organizations along the Erie canal. Chief of Pomce O’Mara, of Pittsburgh, was indicted for kidnaping by a New Jersey grand jury for taking Frank Molliek out of the state on suspicion that lie was an accomplice of the anarchist Bergman. The bureau of statistics at Washington says that the exports for the twelve months ended September 30 were $998,$64,674. Imports for the twelve months, $854,631,894. TnE general manager of a New York life insurance company fled from the City of Mexico after embezzling 880,000 of the company's money. Nearly the entire town of Plain City, 0., was destroyed by fire. Seventy-five pounds of dynamite exploded on a government dredge boat near Chattanooga, Tenn., and three men were killed. The steamer City of Paris arrived at New York from Queenstown, having made the quickest time on record—s days, 14 hours and 24 minutes. Br the collapse of a stand where a rehearsal was taking place in West Winsted, Conn., 100 children were injured. The great stallion Rayon d'Or, belonging to the estate of the late W. L. Scott, was sold at public auction in New York to August Belmont for 832,000.

In the third of the nine games between the Cleveland and Boston baseball clubs for the national league championship, played at Cleveland, the score was: Boston, 3; Cleveland, 2. Tom Bailev shot and probably fatally wounded two girls in a house of illrepute at Des Moines, la, and then killed himself. Three distinct earthquake shocks were felt at Martinsville, Ind., which caused a rattling of windows and shaking up of crockery that alarmed housekeepers generally. William McPherson was arrested in Detroit, Mich., on the charge of having twelve living wives. The annual report of Gen. John M. Schofield, major general commanding the United States army, says the state of discipline and military instruction throughout the army is highly satisfactory and earnestly recommends that the regular troops and state militia be supplied with improved small arms. The national guards, he says/are better disciplined and more reliable than ever before. In the fourth of the nine games between the Cleveland and Boston baseball clubs for the National league championship, played at Boston, the score was Boston, 4; Cleveland, 0. The world's fair buildings in Chicago were dedicated on the 21st. Vice-Presi-dent Morton accepted and dedicated the structures, Henry Watterson, of Kentucky, delivered the dedicatory oration, and Chauncey M. Depew, of New York, was the Columbian orator. The Louisville, Evansville & St. Louis pay car was bnrned near Decature, 111., together with $3,000 in cash. A convention of delegates from various states was held in Chicago and an organization perfected to be known as “The National League for Good Roads.” The object is to awaken general interest in the improvement of roads. •' During a fireworks exhibition at Los Angeles, Cal., a 6-inch gas pipe loaded with gunpowder exploded, killing twelve people and wounding many others. The Stewart stucco and cement works at Colorado City, Col., were destroyed by an incendiary fire, the loss being SIOO,OOO. A hurricane near Sterling, Kan., wrecked many buildings and injured several persons. Mr. and Mrs. John Sells were found dead in their home at Swedesburg, la, they having been suffocated by gas from a coal cooking stove. C. Burkhalter St Cos., wholesale grocers in New York city, failed for $700,006. An incendirary fire destroyed M. 8. Williams’ barn at Leadville, Col., and five valuable horses, wagons and an immense quanity of hay and grain were burned. The four children of Joseph Matthews, living near Claremont, S. C.,were burned to a crisp during the absence of their parents. Mrs. Edward Neunlist was instantly killed in Louisville, Ky., by the discharge of a gun trap which her son Edward had set to kill a chicken thief. The house of Michael Kansas, a mall carrier at Manannah, Minn., was burned, and two of his children perished. Non-union men in Carnegie’s mill at Pittsburgh were set upon and terribly beaten by strikers, a man named Smith being fatally injured. Daniel Graves, of Salt Lake City, was buried in a casket for which he planted and raised two walnut trees. A fire at Altoona, Pa., resulted in the destruction of a dozen buildings and causing a loss of SIOO,OOO. In a six days walking contest in Chicago the score at the close was: Hart, 470 miles 7 laps; Moore, 476 miles 14 laps; Conners, 475 miles 13 laps; Guerrero, 459 miles 5 laps; Campana, 451 miles 1 lap; Dean, 408 miles 10 laps. Tee piano playing contest in New York between James M. Waterbary and Mise Ada Melville resulted in victory for the former, he playing the inatrnment for seventeen consecutive boors.

Mr and Mrs. Thomas Cole were found dead in bed in Chicago. Gas asphyxiation was the cause of their death. The Danville express on the Chicago A Eastern Illinois railroad was wrecked at Forty-ninth street, Chicago, and twenty-two persons were injured and Mrs. William McDonald was killed. Two farmers named Zimmerman and Strittmatter were killed by the cars near La Crosse, Wis. Bob Williams and Bob Cook became involved in a quarrel near Bonham, Tex., and killed each other. IN the fifth of the nine games between the Cleveland and Boston baseball clubs for the national league championship, played at Boston, the score was: Boston, 12; Cleveland, 7. Th& -Santis Point hotel at Roslyn, N. Y., owned by George Ehret, the brewer, was destroyed by fire, the loss being SIOO,OOO. Ax old grudge between James Patterson and Joseph Haines resulted in a duel at Greenwood, Ky., aDd both men were killed. James Mason and a comrade unknown were fatally injured by a fall of slate in a coal mine near Macon. Mo.

James Corbett, the pugilist, was arrested in Cincinnati charged with participating in a theatrical performance on Sunday. An express train on the Chicago ft Erie road was wrecked by an open switch at Leiters, Ind., and Engineer David Frederick and Fireman John Metz were fatally injured. Edwin Booth has positively decided not to appear again upon the stage. He has a fortune of $750,000, which he does not appear ambitious to increase. In a head-end collision on the Reading road at Allenwood, Pa, three men were fatally injured and twelve cars wrecked. Mrs. Marie Dellis, aged 63 years, was found murdered on the old state road near McKeesport, Pa. / The steamers Jamestown and City of Erie and a private naptha launch were burned at Jamestown, N. Y. Forest fires in Atlantic county, N. J., have done damage to the extent of 8100,000 and are still raging. Commander in Chief Weissert, of the Grand Army of the Republic, announces the following staff appointments: Adjutant general, E. B. Gray, Milwaukee; quartermaster general, John Taylor, Philadelphia; inspector general, George L. Goodale, Boston; assistant adjutant general, J. L. Bennett, Chicago; senior aid de camp, Ford 11. Rogers, Detroit. The body of Emma Healey, ofFrcdonia, N. Y., 18 years old, missing since January 1 last, was found in a tree stump, where, it is supposed, she took refuge during a storm and was frozen to death. A general fight occurred at Hogtown, Ky., between the Tollivers and the Howards, in which Cal and Wiley Tolliver and Sam Howard were fatally wounded. A collision between a freight and work train on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paut road near Plymouth, Wis., resulted in the death of Thomas Fitzgerald and N. Ringle aDd the injury of eight others. In the sixth of the nine games between the Cleveland and Boston baseball clubs for the National league championship, played at Boston, the score was: Boston, 8; Cleveland, 3. Boston having won five of the games secures the championship. An accident on the construction line of the Great Northern road near Spokane, Wash., resulted in the death of seven men and eleven others were injured, five fatally. The criminal charge of destroying public documents against Labor Commissioner Charles F. Peck was dismissed by Justice Guttman in the police court at Albany, N. Y. The cotton compress at Temple, Tex., with 5,000 bales of cotton, were burned, the loss being $215,000. A collision occurred on the Reading railroad at WestManayunk, Pa., which resulted in seven persons being killed and fifteen others being injured. In a quarrel over a roadway near Grayson, Ky., Sylvester Adams was shot and killed and his nephew, Oscar Adams, fatally wounded by J. D. Bennet

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL Maj. David E. Caldwell, a wellknown newspaper man, died at Lexington, Ky. Tne republicans have nominated Daniel Butterfield for congress in the Twelfth New York district and C. C. Shane in the Fourteenth. Dennis F. Hanks, the early tutor and lifelong friend of the martyred president. Abraham Lincoln, died at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Nancy ShoaiT, in Paris, 111., aged 93 years, 5 months and 6 days. Gen. B. F. Partridge died at his home near Bay City, Mich. He served during the war with Michigan troops. John Gaines, who was the oldest man bora in Indiana, died suddenly at Crawfordsville, aged 90 years. The 20th was the thirty-ninth anniversary of the wedding of President Harrison and wife. Emil Dreier, aged 63, the Danish consul to Chicago, died suddenly while on his way from Denmark to that city. George Howland, for eleven years superintendent of Chicago public schools, died suddenly in his chair, aged 68 years. He had been connected with Chicago schools over thirty years. Edward J. Denning, senior partner of the retail dry goods house of E. Denning & Cos., successors to A. T. Stewart & Cos., died suddenly in his bathroom in New York. Caroline Lavinia Scott Harrison, the wife of President,Harrison, died in Washington at 1:40 a. m. on the 26th, aged nearly 57 years. Mrs. Harrison met death with the patience and resignation of a devout Christian, and her last hours were comparatively free from pain. Consumption was the cause of her death. Mr. Harrison and other members of the family were at her bedside when the end came. “Aunty” Baldt, Indiana’s oldest woman, celebrated her 103d birthday at her home in Terre Haute, where she has lived since 1119. ►>

Asabel Thornburg died near Manetc, Ind., aged $9 years, 10 months end $ days. He bad resided in one voting precinct since 1825 and was a republican. FOREIGN. The total number of deaths from cholera in France since April is 8.184. Br the caving in of a sewer at Hamburg, Germany, fourteen workmen were buried alive, and it was thought that all of them had perished. A revolution has broken ont at Santiago del Estro, the capital of the province of the same name—the central province of the Argentine republic, and the insurgents have captured the governor of the province. During the late riots which have taken place in Crete four Christians were killed and twenty wounded. Fourteen Turkish soldiers also lost their lives. Official statistics show that the barley crop of France this year will amount to 17.626,483 hectolitres, against 26,528,873 hectolitres last year. Nearly three-fourths of all the cases of cholera in southern Russia, or in the region between the Caspian sea and the Black, proved fatal. A storm in Sardinia destroyed onethird of the town of Assemini and over 100 houses at Elmas. Several persons were killed. The present tea crop in the Asam valley in India is the shortest on record, and the decrease in the outturn, compared with that of 1891, is 3,000,000 pounds. In a railway wreck near Pensa, Russia, twenty persons were killed. Many vessels were wrecked and over a dozen lives lost in wrecks caused by storms on the Spanish coast. It was estimated that the total catch of the Canadian sealers this year would reach about 45,000 skins, which, as compared with the catch of last year, ■hows falling off of 15 per cent. Five villages near Kutais, in TransCaucasia, were destroyed by an earthquake and many lives were lost. The bodies of twenty-seven persons had been recovered. The greatest land (leal ever made in northern Mexico was consummated at Monterey, tiie celebrated Cedros hacienda, embracing 1,200,000 acres of land, being sold to a syndicate. Later advices from the floods in Cagliari, in Sardinia, show that hundreds of lives were lost and hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of property was destroyed. Prof. Adolph Soetbeeb, of Goettingen, Germany, died at the age of 78 years. Prof. Soetbeer was the foremost authority of the world on ilic subject of monemetalism. The new German military hill gives that country on a peace footing an army of 402,000 men. W. M. Conway, an English mountaineer, has succeeded in climbing to the top of one of the peaks of the Hindu Kush range, on the borders of Kashmir, to the height of 23,000 feet. Advices from Chinan Fu, in China, say that in a recent flood over 50,000 persons were drowned and that 1,000,000 would starve to death unless the Chinese government furnished them food from now till next spring. The two Rodique brothers and a man named Moloi, South sea pirates, were beheaded at Manila for murdering the crew of a vessel. A large portion of the village of Sainte Anne de Beanpre, Que., was destroyed by fire. A bookkeeper of the Deutsche bank in Berlin was arrested on a charge of embezzling $25,000. Cnoi.ERA has made its appearance for the first time in Vienna, Austria.

LATER. The Ind iana supreme court rendered a decision declaring unconstitutional the registration law which was made to apply chiefly to commercial travelers and residents of the state absent in the employ of the government. The city of Ashland, Ky., was flooded with counterfeit quarters of the design of 1892. Vital Reche, of Rochester, N. Y., celebrated his 98th birthday. lie was born in Nicolet, Can., October 25, 1794. The death of Mrs. Harrison is the thirteenth in President Harrison’s private and official household since the beginning of his administration. S. J. Zkioleh, a prominent New Orleans merchant, failed for 9119,090; assets. 8800.000. The railroad record was broken by the empire express on the New York Central. The run from Rochester to Buffalo, sixtv-nine miles, was made in seventy-one minutes, and for ten minutes a speed of ninety miles per hour was attained. Ai.len .Spinks, a colored man, died in Hamilton county, lnd., aged 105 years. Prof. William Swinton, aged 60, the well-known author of school books, dropped dead at his home in New York city of apoplexy. Gen. James W. Tuttle, the hero of Fort Donelson, died at Casa Grande, A. TANARUS., of paralysis, aged 69 years. Arthur L. Thomas, the governor of Utah, in his annual report to the secretary of the interior says that polygamy in the territory is on the decline. The stockholders of the Western Union Telegraph Company in session in New York unanimously voted to increase the capital stock 913,800,000, making a total of 9100,000,000. Clement M. Cumming, a New York stock broker, failed for 9200,000; assets, 930,000. TnE west-bound passenger train on the 'Frisco road was wrecked by a broken rail 1 mile east of Phlllipsburg, Mo., and Baggageman Albert Dickerson and News Agent Fioyd Harwood were killed and twenty persons were injured. A fire which started from cigarettes thrown by boys destroyed many buildings in Uumrnclstown, I’a. The rules adopted by the national commission of the world's fair say that the exposition shall be open for the admission of visitors during the six months commencing May 1 and ending October 80, 1898, on each day of the week except Sunday, and that the gates shall be opened to the public at $ o’clock a. m. and closed at 7 p. m.

THE FINGER OF GOD. It May be Seen 18 very where and la Everything. Follow the Pointing of the Divine Flaftr no Yon See It Yonrself-It Points to the Straight Rond Through Sunshine mud Shndow. The "Finger of .God” furnished the subject for a recent sermon delivered by Rev. T. DeWltt Talmage in Brooklyn tabernacle. His text was: Tbs Finger of God.—Exodns lx., 10. Pharaoh was sulking in his marble throne room at Memphis Plague after plages had come, and sometimes the Egyptian monarch was disposed to do better, but at the lifting of each plague he was as bad as before. The necromancers of the palace, however, were compeled to recognize the Divine movement, and after one of the most exasperating plagnes of all the series they cried out in the words of my text: “This is the finger of God”—not the first nor the last time when bad people said a good thing. An old Philadelphia friend visiting me the other day asked me if I had ever noticed this passage of# Scripture from which I to-day speak. I told him no. and I said right away: “That is a good text for a sermon.”

We nil recognize the hand of God and know it is a mighty hand. Yon have seen a man keep two or three rubber balls flying in the air, catching and pitching them so that none of them fell to the floor, and do this for several minutes. and you have admired his dexterity. But have you thought how the hand of God keeps millions and millions of round worlds vastly larger than our world flying for ceaturics without letting one fall? Wondrous power and skill of God’s hand! But about that I am not to discourse. My text leads me to speak of less than a fifth of the Divine hand. “This is the finger of God.” Only in two other places docs the Bible refer to this division of the Omnipotent hand. The rocks on Mount Sinai are basalt and very hard stone. Do you imagine it was a chisel that cut the ten commandments in that basalt? No, in Exodus we rend that the tables of stones were “written with the linger of God.” Christ says that He cast out the devils with “the finger of God.” The only instance that Christ wrote a word, lie wrote not with pen on parchment, hut with His finger on the ground. Yet though so seldom reference is made in the Bible to a part of God’s hand, if you, and I keep our eyes open and our heart right, we will be compeled often to cry out: "This is the finger of God.” It is my intention before long to begin a series of sermons on “The Astronomy of the Bible, or God Among the Sta-s;” “The. Ornithology of the Bible, or God Among the Birds;” “The Pomology of the Bible, or God Among the Orchards;” “The Ichthyology of the Bible, or God Among the Fishes;” “The Geology of the Bible, or Gojl Among the Rocks;” “The Waters ofthe Bible, or God Among the. Seas;” “The Znoly" ogy of the Bible, or God Among (lie Beasts;” “The Precious Stones of jfhe Bible, or God Among the Amethysts;” “The Conchology of the Bible, or God Among the Shells!” “The Botany of the Bible, or God Among the Flowers;” “The Chronology of the Bible, or God Among the Centuries,” and I want this coming winter to get you and get myself into the habit of seeing the finger of God everywhere and in everything; but this morning I want to induce you to look for the finger of God in your personal affairs. To most of us gesticulation is natural. If a stranger accost you on the street and ask you the way to some place, it is as natural as to breathe for you to level your forefinger this way or that. Not one out of a thousand of you would stand with your hands by your side and make no motion with your finger. Whatever you may say with your lips is emphasized and re-cnforccd and translated by your finger. Now, God in the dear old book, says to us innumerable things by the way of direction. He plainly tells us the way to go. Butin every exigency of our life, if we will only look, we will find a providential gesture and a providential pointing, so that we may confidently say: “This is the finger of God.” Two or three times in my life, when perplexed on questions of duty after earnest prayer, I have cast lots as to what I should do. In olden times, the Lord’s people cast lots. The land of Canaan was divided by lot. The cities were divided among the priests and Levites by lot. Matthias was chosen to the apostieship by lot. Now, casting lots is about the most solemn thing you can do. It should never be done except with a solemnity like that of the last judgment. It is a direct appeal to the (Almighty. If, after earnest prayer you do not seem to get the Divine direction, I think you might, without sin, write upon one slip of paper “Yes,” and upon another “No,” or some other decisive words appropriate to the case, and then obliterating from your mind the identity of the slips of paper, draw the decision and act upon it. In that case I think you have a right to take that indication as the finger of God. But do mot do that except as the last resort, and with a devoutness that leaves absolutely all with God. For much that concerns us we have no responsibility, and we need not make appeal to the Lord for direction. We are not responsible for most of our surroundings. We are not responsible for the country of our birth, nor for whether we are Americans, or Norwegians, or Scotchmen, or Irishmen, or Englishmen. We are not responsible for the age in which we live. We are not responsible for our temperament, be it nervous or phlegmatic, bilious or sanguine. We are not responsible for our features, be they homely or beautiful. Ws are not responsible for the helghtb or smallness of our stature. We are not responsible for the fact that we are mentally dull or brilliant. For the meet of our environments we km a# mare responsibility than we

have for the mollnsks at the bottom of the Atlantic ocean. Oh, I an ao glad that there are about five hundred thousand things that we are not responsible for. Do not blame ns for being in our manner cold as an iceberg, or nervous as a cat amid a pack of Fourth of July fire-crackers. If you are determined to blame somebody, blame our great grandfathers or great grandmothers, who died before the revolutionary war, and who may have had habits depressing and ruinous. There are wrong things about us all, which make me think that one hundred and fifty years ago there was some terrible crank in our ancestral line. Realize that, and it will be a relief semi-in-finite. Let us take ourselves as we are this moment, and then ask “which way?” Get all the direction you can from careful and constant study of the Bible, and look up and look out and look around, and see if you can find the finger of God. It is a remarkable thing that sometimes no one can see that finger but yourself. A year before Abraham Lincoln signed the Proclamation of Emancipation, the White House was thronged witli committees and associations, ministers and laymen, advising the president to make that proclamation. But he waited and waited, atiid scoff and anathema, because he did not himself see the finger of God. After awhile, and at just the right time he saw the Divine pointing and signed the proclamation. The distinguished confederates, Mason and Slidell, were taken off an English vessel by the United States government. “Don’t give them up,” shouted all the northern states. “Let us have war with England rather than surder them,” was the almost unanimous cry of the north. But William 11. Seward saw the finger of God leading in just the opposite direction, and the confederates were given up, and we avoided a war with England, which at that time would have been the demolition of the United States government. In other words, the finger of God. as it directs you, may be invisible to everybody. Follow the. Divine pointing, as you sec it, although the world may call you a Tool. There has never been a' man or a woman who amounted to anything that has not sometimes been called a fool. Nearly all the mistakes that yon and I have made have come from our following the pointing of some other finger instead of the finger of God.

But now, suppose all forms of disease close in upon a man. Suppose his business collapses. Suppose he buys goods and can not sell them. Suppose, by anew invention, others can furnish the same goods at less price. Suppose a cold spring or a iate autumn or the coming of an epidemic corners a man, and his notes come due and he can not meet them, and his rent must be paid, and there is nothing with which to pay it, and the wages of the employes are due and there is nothing with which to meet that obligation, and the bank will not direount, and the business friends to whom he goes for accommodation are in the same and he bears up and struggles on, uiQil, after awhile, crash goes the whole concern. He stands wondering and saying:"*i’do not see the meaning of all this. I have done the best I could. God knows I would’ pay my debts if I could, but here I am hedged In and stopped.” What should the man do in that case? Go to the Scriptures and read the promise about all things working together for good and kindred passages? That is well. Bnt he needs do something beside reading the Scriptures. He needs to look for the finger of God that is pointing toward better treasures, that is pointing toward eternal release, that is urging him to higher realms. No human finger ever pointed to the cast or west or north so certainly as the finger of God is pointing that troubled man to higher and better spiritual resources that He has ever enjoyed. There are men of vast wealth who are as rich for Heaven as they are for thia world, bnt they are exceptions. If a man grows in grace, it is generally before he gets ode hundred thousand dollars or after he loses it. If a man have plenty of railroad securities and has implied to his banker for more; if the he bought have gone up fifty per cent, in value; if he had hard work to get the door of his fireproof safe shut because of anew roll of securities he put in there just before locking up at night; if he be speculating in a falling market or a rising market, and things take for him a right turn, he does not grow in grace very much that week. Do you know what mode the great revival of 1857, when more people were converted to God, probably, than in any year since Christ was bon? It was the defalcation and bankruptcy that swept American prosperity so fiat that it could fall no flatter. lam speaking of whole-souled men. Such men are so broken by calamity that they are humbled and fly to God for relief. Men who have no spirit and never expect anything are not mnch affected by financial changes. They are as apt to go into the kingdom under one set of circumstances as another. The only way to get rid of them is to lend them a dollar and yon will never see them again. I have tried that plan and it works well But I am speaking of the effect of misfortune on highspirited men. Nothing but trial will turn such from earth to Heaven. It is only through clouds and darkness and whirlwind of disaster such a man can see the finger of God. A most interesting, as well as a most useful, study is to watch the pointing of the finger of God. In the seventeenth century South Carolina was yielding rosin and and tar is her chief productions. But Thom is Smith noticed that the ground near his house In Charleston was very much like the places in Madagascar where he had raised rice, and some of the Madagascar rice was sown there, and*grew so rapidly that South Carolina was led to make rice her chief production. Can you not see he finger of God in that incident? itzv. John Fletcher, of England, many will know, was one of the most useful ministers of the Gospel who ever preached. Before •ouverelou he joined the army

end had bought Ms ticket on the ship for South America. The morning he was to sail some ons spilled on him a kettle of water, and he was so scalded he'could not go. He was very much disappointed, but the ship he was going to sail on went out and was never heard of again. Who can doubt that God was arranging the life of John Fletcher? Was it merely accidental that Richard Rodda, a Cornish miner, who was on his knees praying, remained anhurt, though hssvy stones fell before him and behind him and on either side of him, and another fell on the top of these, so aa to make a roof over him? A missionary in Jamaica lost hia way, and in the night was wandering about when a fire-fly flashed tmd revealed a precipice over which in a moment more ho would have been dashed. F. W. Robertson, the great preacher of Brighton, England, hud his life-work decidedt by the barking of his dog. A neighbor, whose daighter was ill, was disturbed by the barking of that dog one night. Thia brought the neighbor into communication with Robertson. That acquaintanceship kept him from joining the dragoons and going to India, and spending his life in military service, and reserved him for a pulpit, the influence of which for gospelization will resound for time and all eternity. Why did not Cblnmbus sink when in early manhood he was afloat six milea from the beach, with nothing to sustain him till he could Bwim to land but n boat’s oar? I wonder if his preservation had anything to do with America?' Had the storm that diverted the Mayflower fiom the mouth of the Hndson for which it was sailing, and sent it ashore at Cape Cod, no Divine supervlsal? Does anarchy rule this world, or God?

St. Felix escaped martyrdom by crawling through a hole in the wall across which the spiders immediately afterward wove a web. His persecutors saw the hole in the wall, but the spider’s web put them off the track. A boy was lost by his drunken father and could not for years find his way home. Nearly grown he went into a Fulton street prayer-meeting and asked for prayers that he might find his parents. llis mother was in the room, and rose and recognized her long-lost son. Do you say that these things “only happened so.” Tell that to those who do not believe in a God and have no faith in the Bible. Do not tell it to me. I said to an aged minister of much experience. "All the events of my life seem to have been divinely connected. Do you suppose it is so in all lives?” He answered: “Yes, but most people do not notice the Divine leadings.” j stand here this morning to say from my own experiense that the safest thing in all the new world to do is to trust to the Lord. I never had a misfortune or a persecution or a trial or a disappointment however excruciating at the time God did not make uirn out for my good. My one wish is to follow the Divine leading. I want to watch the finger of God. My friends, I do not know how we* are going to stand it—l mean the full inrush of that splendor. Last summer I saw Moscow, in some respects the most splendid city under the sun. The emperor afterward asked me if I had seen it, for Moscow is the pride of Russia. I told him yes, and that I had seen Moscow burn. I will tell you what I meant. After examining nine hundred brass cannons which were picked out of the snow after Napoleon retreated from Moscow, each cannon deep cut with letter “N.,” I ascended a tower of some two hundred and fifty feet, just before sunset, and on each platform there were bells, large and small, and I climbed up among the bells, and then as I reached the top, all the bells underneath me began to ring, and they were joined by the bells of fourteen hundred towers and domes and turrets. ? Some of the hells sent out a fainttfnkl© of sound, a sweet tintinnabulation that seemed to bubble in the air. and others thundered forth boom after boom, boom after boom, until it seemed to shake the earth and fill the heaves—sounds so weird, sosweet, so awful, so gran d.so charming, so tremendous, so soft, so rippling, so reverberating—and they seemed to wreathe and whirl and rise and sink burst and roll and mount and die. When Napolean saw Moscow burn it conld not have been more brilliant than when I saw ail the one thousand four hundred turrets aflame with the sunset, roots of gold, and walls of malachite, and architecture of all colors, mingling the brown ol autumnal forests, and the blue of summer heavens, and the conflagration of morning skies, and the green of rich meadows, and the foam of tossing seas The mingling of so many colors with so many sounds was an entrancement almost too much for human nerves or human eyes or human ears. I expect to see nothing to equal it until you and I see Heaven, But that will surpass it and make the memory of what I saw that July evening in Moscow almost tame and Insipid. All Heaven aglow and all Heaven a-rlng, not in the sunset, but in the sunrise. Voices of our own kindred mingling with the doxologles of empires Organs of eternal Worship responding to the trumpets that hare wakened the dead. Nations in white. Centuries in coronation. Anthems like the voice of many waters. Circle of martyrs. Circle of apostles. Circle of prophets. “Thrones of cherubim. Thrones of seraph m. Throne of Archangel. ; Throne of Christ. Throne of God. Thrones! Thrones! Thrones! The finger of God points that way. Stop not until you reach the place. Through the atoning Christ, all I speak of and more may he yours and mine. Do yon not now hear the chime of the bells of that metropolis of the universe? Do yon not see the shimmering of the towers? Good morning; —According to the census the If. B. church hsd 2,220,281 communicants la 1890, as against 1,707,000 In 1880. This increase is tar in advance of the growth of tb population of the eonntir la the im