Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 16, Number 9, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 16 May 1894 — Page 2

"A CHEERFUL CHURCH/’ j ■ Eev. Dr. Talmago Lays Down Some Excellent Precepts ' Am to ITow to Keep thfe Church Cheerful .and at the Same Time Preserve the Fear and Love of God —A Prayer for Mercy. The following 1 sermon was delivered by Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage to a congregation that filled every nook of the Brooklyn tabernacle, .and which had barely, been dismissed when fire once more 'deprived the church of a house of worship. * The subject was: “A Cheerful Church,” and the text: Behdld thpu art fair, my loVe.—Solomon's 'Son*;, hr.; l. . * ‘‘Higher criticism” says that this book of Song- is a love scene, a forlorn maiden sighing for her beau. If so, it is an unclean and debauched utterance inserted in the pure Word of God, and is not fit for common reading. My opinion is that'it is an inspired ode, getting forth the feeling of Christ to-, xvarft the Church and of the Churph toward Christy Clirist is the bridegroom, and the Church is the bride. The same vfrords we can uttyr to-day -'truthfully* whether in regard to the Church of God in general or this Church in particular: “Refold, thou art fair, my The past week has4been one of congratulation for that we have for twenty-five years been permitted to associate with each other in the relation of pastor and people. When 1 came to Brooklyn 1 foufcid a small band of Christian disciples who from yarious causes had become less and % Jess, until they stood upon the very verge of extinction as a church, anti the question w a slicing, agitated from tifne to time Whether it would be possible to maintain a church life l° n g&i\ Indeed, had not those men and women been consecrated and earnest, they would have surrenderd to the adverse circumstances. 'Drey mahsliales a congregational meeting, and, gatlfering up all the forces' possible, they east U! votes for a.pastor, all of which I am happy to have receipt'd. It was not through any spirit of personal courage or - reckless that led me, from one of the warmest and most congenial pastorates in Philadelphia that a man ever enjoyed, to this most uninviting field: but it was the feeling that God had called* die to the work, and I was'sure that He would see me through. I have thought that it might be profitable to us to state briefly what kind of a church we have been trying to establish in the first place, I remark that we have been trying to build here a Christian church; distinctively such; in oilier words, a church where we should preach the Lord .Jehus Christ and H'rtn crucified. Mv theology,is all gone into live letters— .Jesus, Jesus, tlie pardon of all offenses. Jesus.-the foundation of.all structures. Jesus, the balm of all wounds. Jesus, the eyesalve for all blindness. Jesus, the guide through all, perplexities. Jesus, the hope for all diseuragements. Jesus, the reform for all worngs. I have faith to be--1 ive that tlfere is more power in one the blood of Jesus Christ to cure the and woes of the world than in an ocean full of human quackery. Jesus is the grandest note in any He is the brightest gem in any crown. The center of every circumference. The circumference of every center. The pacifier of all turbulance. The umpire of nil disputes. Jesus! Jesus! At His table all nations are to sit. Around this throne all worlds are to revolve. He is to be the irradiation of the universe. Jesus! Jesus! It is that truth that we have tried to preach in this tabernacle. l)o you ask more minutely what we believe? I can tell you. We dry. withered, juiceless theology. We believe in God, the Father Almighty,, maker of Heaven and earth, the deliverer of the distressed, the home for the homeless, the friend for the friendless. We believe in Jesus Christ, able to save to the uttermost, pardoning the guilty, imputing the righteousness to the believer. We believe in the Holy Ghpst, the comforter, the sanctifier, cheering up the heart in life's ills, and kindling bright lights in every dark landing place. We believe that the whole race is so sunken in sin that nothing lmt the omnipotent arm of God can ever lift it out. We believe in graee—free grace, sovereign grace, triumphant grace, eternal grace. We believe in a Bible—authentic in its statements, immaculate in its teachings, glorious in its promises. We believe in Heaven, the abode of the righteous; and in hell, the residence of those who are soulsuicides—of their own free choice refusing the divine mercj f . We believe in the salvation of all men who accept Christ by faith, be they sprinkled or immersed, worship they in cathedral or in log cabin, believe they in Presbyterianism or Episcopacy, dwell they under Italian skies or in Siberian snow storms, be they Ethiopian of American. All one in Christ* one Lord, one faith. We built the tabernacle for the purpose of setting forth these great theories of the Gospel of the Son of God. Would that we had •been more in the pulpit! Would that we had been more faithful in the pew. I remark, further, that we have tried here to build a church distinctively unconventional. Instead of asking, as some people are disposed to do, how other people do it, we have asked the question how people do not do it. Imperious custom has decided that ■churches shall be angular, cheerless, gloomy, unsympathetic; forgetting that what men call a pious gloom is impious, and that that church has the best architecture where the people are the most comfortable, and that that is the most efficient Christian service where the people are made most sick of sin, and most anxious after Christ and Heaven. And so we called the architects together for one first church building and

said: “Give us ah amphitheater”— that is, a large family circle gathered around a fireplace. For many years we had felt that an amphitheater was the only proper shape for an audience room- The prominent architects of the country said: “It can not be done. Y.ou need a churchly building.” And so we had plan after plan of churchly buildings presented; but in* due time God sent a man who grasped our idea and executed it. So far from being a failure, it satisfied our want, and all our three chjirches were built on the amphitlieatrical plan, and scores of churches all over the country have adopted the same plan. And, my brethren and sisters, vve fail in our work just in proportion as we tr3*'to be like other churches, like every man* to be individual, gathering up all its peculiarities and idiosyncracies< and hurling them toward some good and grand object. In other words, no ttvo churches ought ever to be just alike.^ 1 ller..;'is a church, for instance, whqse object it is to prepare philosophers and artists and critics for Heaven. God speed them in the difficult work! Here is a church, on the *other hand, at propose to bring only the poor into the Kingdom of Jesus Christ, looking not after the rieji. G*bd speed such a church in its ? undertaking. Hut there is a larger idea thqtt a church ma3 T take—bringing in the rich and the poor, the wise an>l the ifnorant, Die high apd flrivd the low; so that kneeling beside feach other shall be the' mah faring sumptuous]\’ every day, and the man wh£ couhl not get his breakfast. Gdd speed such p, church. Oil! my friends, we need to break away from slavery to ecclesiastical customs. \Ve dare not sing if an3 T body bear us. AYe dare not preach unless wethave rounded off our sentences to suit the criticism of the world. We dare pot dress for church until we have examined the fashion-plates, and we would rather sta\' at home than appear with a coat or hat.nojb sanctioned I)3' custom. When will* the da3 f of deliverance come to the diurcli of God, when, instead of a laid out in state of catafalque-.of pomp and insincerity, we shall lfllve a- living, hounding, S3’inpatheffc, gl'owing Christianity? * * I remark, further, that we have tried here to build anti to conduct a cheerful church. While, as you know, we have not held back the terrors of tlie "law and tin; sterner doctrines of the Gos-: , pul, we have"tried in this bouse to present to this people the idea that the gladdest,.brightest, ltappiest thing in the universe is the Christian re-g ligion. -Thtire is so much trouble in the world; business .ificn have so •nuin3' fatigiws; orphans have so many desolations—for God's sa.ke, if there lie any bright place on earth, show it to them. Let the church of Jesus Christ be 4 the most cheerful spot on cart if. • Let me sa3' that I do not want anybod.v to come whining around me about the Christian religion. I have no faith in a religion made up of equal parts of wormwood, vinegar ami red pepper. If the religion that is presented to us be a depression, we will get along better without it. If it be a joy', kit it shine out from your face and from your conversation. If a man comes to my house to talk of religion with a lugubrious, countenance and manner full of sniffie and dolorousness, l feel like saying to my wife: “‘You had better Tock up tlie silver before he steals something.”' I have found it an'in variable rule thatinen who ..profess faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, priding themselves at the same.time on their sanctimoniousness, alwaj’s turn out badly. I never knew an exception. While those who are the most consistent, the most useful and tlie most, consecrated have perfume in their conversation and Heaven in their face.

The happiest Christians that I have ever known have been persons from sixty to \’ears of age. By that time people get over the shams and pretenses of society, and have no longer any patience with anything like imposture in religion. O Christian! how dare 3*oll be gloomy? Is not God yrmr Father? Is not Jesus Christ 3’our Saviour? Has not3'our path all through life been strewn witli mercies? Are you insensible to the fact that there are glories awaiting you in the better land —doxologies of celestial worship, eternal chorals, tearless eyes,songs that resound under arches of strength and hosannas that clap their hands at the foot of the throne? Is it nothing to 3'ou that all the liills of Heaven are radiant with the faces of those who have gone up from you, and who are waiting for your coming, ready to keep with 3'ou eternal holiday? Is there nothing in songs that never cease, in hearts that never ache, in splendors that never die, to make you glad? Then take no more mercy at the hand of thy God! Give back tlie marriage ring of love that Jesus put on your finger in the day of 3'our*espousal! Plant no more of tlie flowers of Heaven where there ought* tq be nothing but nettles and nightshade! We try to make this church a cheerful church. A man, on Saturday afternoon, stands in his store and says: “How shall I meet these obligations? How can I endure this new disaster that is coming upon me?” He goes home. Sabbath morning finds him in the house of God. Through the song, through the sermon, through the prayer, the Lord Jesus Christ says to that man: “O man! I have watched thee; I will see thee through; I will stand between thee and tliy creditors. I will make up in Heavenly treasures what you have lost in earthly treasures. Courage, man, courage! Angels of God, I command you to clear the track for that man; put your wings over his head; with .your golden scepters strike for his defense; throw around him all the defenses of eternity!” That business man is strengthening. He goes to tlie store next day feeling that God is with him npd ready to deliver. That same Sunday there is a poor old woman in the church hearing the Gospel. Oh! how shrunken she is!

She wears the same dress she wore twenty ago. How faded it is, and now out of date! She sits and listens as well as she can. Her eyes are so dim she can not see half way across the church. Her ear is so imperfect that she can only catch occasionally a note qf the psalm or a word of the preacher. Someone sitting next to her gives her . a book and finds the place for her. STie says: “Thank 3 r ou, miss, thank you!” She holds the book close up to her eyes, and, with a voice all full of tremors, sings: Jesus, lover of my soul. Let me to Thy bosom fly. While the blTlows near me roll, - While the tempest still is high; Hide me. O. my Saviour hide, Till the storm of life is past. Safe into the haven guide— Oh! receive iny soul at last. And Jesus sa3's to her: ‘’Mother, are you weary?.” and she says: “Yes, Jesus, I am very tired.” Jesus sa\ r s: “Mother, are >’ou poor!*’ And she sa>*s: “\ T es, Iam 1 Very poor. I can not sew any m‘ore. I can not knit any more. I am very poor.” Jesus sn3*s to her: “Mother, would you like to rest?” She says: “\"es, Lord, that is what I want —rest.” “Courage, mother,” sa.vs Jesus, “I will see thee through.” She goes home. The next morning, in tlie tenement hopse, someone dwelling on another floor comes to her room and knocks. No answer. The door is opened. She is dead! The night before the chariots of God halted at that pillow of straw, and Jesus kept His promise. , He said that He would give her rest, and He* has her rest. Glory be to God for tlie height, tlie depth, the length, and the breadth of such Christian coinfort! Oh! thtit we might have such joy as? tliab which inspired the men at the battle of Leuttoen. They were singing a Christian song went into battle. A general said to the king:' “Shall I stop those people sieging?” “Xo v ” said the king; “men that can sing like that can fight.” I would that we had a singing church, a joyful church, a juoilaift church, a comforting church, for then we,would have a triumphant church. I remark, further, ‘ that we have here tried to build a church abreast of the times. It is all folly for us to try to do things the way they <}id fifty or a hundred years ago. We might as well be plowing witli,, Elijah’s.crooked stick, or 'go into battle with Saul’s armor, or prefer a canal boat to an express train, as to be clinging to old things. ' Wli&t we most need now is a wide-awake church./ People ? who are out in the world air the week, jostled against this lightning-footed century, come into tlie church on thy Sabbath, and go right to sleep, unless they have a spirited ice. Meirengaged in lityrarv callings all reading sharp writings, can not lie expected to colive and hear our ecclesiastical humdrum. If a man stays at home on Sundays and* reads tlie newspapers, it is because the newspapers are more interesting. We need, my brethren, to rouse up, and stop hunting with blank cartridges. The church of God to be the leader, the interpreter, the inspirer of the age. It is all folly for us to be discussing old issues—arraigning Nero, hanging Absalom, striking the Philistines with Shanigfir’s ox-goad—wliep. all around about us are iniquities to be slain.

Did I say that the church ought to he abreast of the times? I take -that back. The church of God ought to be ahead of the times—as far iif advance as the cross of Christ is ahead of all human invention. Paul was a thousand years ahead of the day iyi which he lived. The swi,ft-footed years that have passed since Luther died have not yet come up to Luther’s Give iniquity four thousand years the start, and the feet of Christianity are so nimble that if you will but give it full swing, it will catch up and pass it in two bounds. The'church of God ought to be ahead of the times. I remark, further, that we have tried here, in the love and fear of God, to build a church that would be characterized by conversions. I have heard of very good people who could preach on for fifteen or twenty years, and see no conversions, but yet have faith. It takes a very good man to do that. I do not know how a man can keep his faith up if souls are not brought to the Lord Jesus Christ. That church that does not bring men and women to the feet of the Saviour is a failure. I cai;e not how fine the- building or how sweet the music, or how eloquei\t the preaching, or how elegant the surroundings—it is a failure. The church of God was made for just one thing—to get men out of the world into the kingdom of Heaven. The tendency in churches is to spend their time in giving fine touches to Christians already polished. We keep our religion too much indoors,and under shelter, when it ought to be climbing the rocks of hewing in the forests. Then it would be a stalwart religion, a robust religion, a religion able to digest the strong meat of the Word, instead of being kept on the pap and gruel of spiritual invalidism. It is high time that ‘tve threw off the Sunday clothes of sickly sentimentality and put on the work-day dress of an earnest, active Christianity. I thank you for all your kindness, for all your sympathy, for all your prayers for me as pastor. It is a sorrow to me that I am to be absent, even for a few months. I have worked to the full extent of physical, mental and spiritual endurance Tor this church. My closing prayer this morning is that God will have mercy on the dying population of our great cities, and that the whole earth will put on bridal array for the coming of her Lord. Hide on! of Jesus! Ride on! lilessed be Lord God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting, and let the whole earth be filled with Ilis glory! Amen! and Amen! —Wheil God says “come,” He goes out to meet us; when He says '"go,” lie goes with us.—E. A. Lawrence. —The devil sets no traps for the man who expects to go to Heaven by being religious a couple of hours a week.

TO A NOBIiE MATRON. Patriotic Women Pay Tribute to Washington’s Mother. Interesting Ceremonies at Fredericksburg, Va.—Eloquent Addresses Delivered by President Cleveland and Senator Daniel. THE DEDICATION. Fredericksburg, Va., May 12.—The monument to Mary Washington, mother of the first president, was unveiled here Thursday. The procession to the monument included various patriotic societies and benevolent orders, companies of the state militia, the governor’s staff, and representative ladies on horseback. The Ceremonies. Ceremonies began with prayer by Hey. James P. Smith, followed by a brief address by A. P. Rowe, mayor of Fredericksburg. Gov. O’Ferrall followed with an impassioned address of welcome on the part of the state of Virginia, and in an eloquent peroration presented the president of the United States. For several minutes the enthusiasm which greeted the president was without bounds. President Cleveland Speaks. When the cheering finally subsided President Cleveland said: “Nothing can be more Important to those who have assumed the responsibility of selfgovernment thnn the cultivation and stimulation among themselves of sentiments which ennoble and elevate and strengthen humanity.

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MONUMENT TO MART WASHINGTON.

Asa clear and wholesome stream must have Jts flow from a pure fountain head, so must a clean and beneficent popular government have its source in pure and morally healthy men. This purity and this moral' health are fn nothing bettor exemplified than in a love and reverence for motherhood. The man who said he cared not who made a people’s laws if he could write their son<?s, might have said with more truth that ho could fmuge the strength and honor of a people, and their fitness Tor self-governrneht, if he knew the’depths and steadfastness of Iholr love for their mothers. I believe that he who thinks it brave and manly to outgrow his earlier devotion to his mother is, more than he who has no music in hlinself, Utfor treason, stratagoms and spoils,and should not be trusted. * Let us recall to-day as conclusive proof of the close relation between American greatness and a lasting love and reverence for our mothers the proud declaration of George Washington: ‘All I am I owe to my mother:’ and let us not forget that when his glory was greatest and when the plaudits of his countrymen were loudest, he valued more than these the blessing and approval of hts aged mother.

"While those exercises cannot fail to inspire us anew with reverence for American motherhood, we will remember that wo are here to do honor to the woman who gave to our nation its greatest anil best citizen, anil that we have the privilege of participating In the dedication of a monument erected by the women of our land in loving and enduring testimony to the virtues of the mother of Washington. Let us bo proud to-day that the nobility of this woman exacted from a distinguished foreigner the admission: ‘lf such are the matrons of America, she may well boast of llusirious sons;’ and that Lafayette, who had fought with her son for American independence, declared after he had received her blessing; ‘I have seen the only Roman matron living at this day.’ "Remembering these things let us leave this place with our love of country strengthened, with a higher estimate of the value of American citizenship, and with a prayer to God that our people may hold fast to the sentiment that grows out of a love and reverence for American motherhood." An address in behalf of the descendants of the immortal George was 'delivered by Lawrence Washington. As the American flag which has veiled the monument was drawn aside, disclosing the shaft to view, the Marine band from Washington rendered the “Star Spangled banner” and the spectators cheered for several minutes. Senator Daniel’s Oration. The formal oration was delivered by United States Senator John W. Daniel, who reviewed eloquently the facts of history concerning l the mother of Washington, which are known, and discussed the spirit of the times in which George Washington was reared. Reception and ISanquet. Presideift Cleveland held a reception after the exercises at the Mary YVashngton house and shook hands with several thousand persons. While the president was holding his reception most of the other distinguished guests were entertained at a masonic banquet at the opera house by Fredericksburg lodge No. 4, the lodge in which George Washington Was made a mason. The president after the reception went to the banquet He was introduced to the gathering aDd. spoke briefly. lie said that while not being

a mason he had the “honor to belong to a great fraternity, one of which George Washington and Andrew Jackson were prominent members, a fraternity whose grip means a united stand for American interests, whose password is ‘the people’s cause under all circumstances;’ whose temple ia not as old as the temple of Solomon, but as old as American institutions; a fraternity that can never die, for its fruits will always be before the world. Would you know the name of this fraternity? It is the brotherhood of free and accepted and patriotic American citizens.’’ PUT OUT OF THE WAY. Fiends Murder Witnesses Who TVere to Have Appeared Against Them. Milan, Mo., May 14.— Gus Meeks, his wife and two children were murdered outright Thursday night near Browning, and another of the children —a girl of 7 years—was so injured that her recovery was doubtful. A number of criminal cases had been pending in Lynn and Sullivan counties against William F. and George Taylor, brothers. Meeks and others were also indicted. Meeks pleaded guilty at the last term and went to the penitentiary; but was later pardoned by the governor that he might testify against the Taylors. It is said the Taylors had arranged with Meeks to give the latter a wagon and team to get out of the county* so that he might not be present when the case against the Tay-

iors was called for trial. From Meeks’ mother it is ■ learned that on Thursday her son received a letter from the Taylors at Urowning, telling him to be ready at 10 o’clock that night to go away. Gus Meeks and children waited for Taylor until midnight, when two men whom Meeks said were George and Hill Taylor came to their home in a wagon. Meeks and his family got into the wagon,and started for Drowning. The details of the crime, as near as can be obtained, were told by the little 7-year-old girl, who was suffering greatly as she recited the story. It appears that when the Meeks family and the persons - accompanying them reached a point near the schoolhouse in Lynn county, a short distance east of Drowning, they were met by two other men who were lying in wait. Gtis Meeksw as first shot and Mrs. Meeks jumped. She also was killed. The murderers then took stones and beat the brains out of the two children and left the other for dead. The murderers then, it is supposed, loaded the whole family into the wagon and hauled them nearly 2 miles to the Taylor farm, where they were buried under a strawstack. A MURDERER LYNCHED. Taken from Jail at Cottonwood Falla, Kan., and Hanged to a Hrldge. Strong City, Ivan., May 15. —George Rose was lynched at midnight Saturday night for the murder of Karl Kuhl Friday. Kuhl was assistant postmaster at Cottonwood Falls, 22 miles west of Emporia. Rose was employed iD the Courant offloe, in the same building as the post office, whose owner and editor, W. E. TimmoDS, is postmaster. The murder is supposed to have been caused by jealousy, Rose having expected to receive the position given to Kuhl The murderer gave himself up to the sheriff. At 11 o’clock Saturday night Sheriff Hodge Murdock was conducted to the door of the cell, which he was forced to unlock. After securing the prisoner the masked men, about fifty in number, surrounded him and proceeded to a railroad bridge, where he was hanged. Stabbed to Death In Church. Lawrenckville, 111., May 14.—A the New Hope church, in Lukin township, southwest of this city. Sail Delt stabbed Ira Smith iu the abdomen with a pocketknife. Smith lived but a few minutes. Delt was captured and brought here by Sheriff Cochran. Belt claims that the cutting was, done in self-defense. Ten Buildings Burned. Red JrfrffET, Mich., May 14. Firebugs set fire\to the barn of John Dnnslan at 1 aY m. Friday, and before the flames wereNgotten under control ten business buildings were destroyed. Loss 130,000; partially insured. Several families lost all their household goods.

COXEY IS HEARD. Prenenti His Petition to the House Labor Committee. Washington, May 11.—Gen. Coxey appeared Wednesday before the house committee to speak on Representative McUann’s resolution for the appointment of a joint senate and house com mittee to investigate the prevailing industrial depression. Coxey supplemented the reading of bis petition with a brief statement and then answered questions put tojiim by members of the committee. There are, he. taid, billions of dollars* worth of improvements throughout the country 'to be made, and there are millions of men to make them. There is but one thing standing in the way and that is money. The passage of his two bills would solve the industrial depression and set all men at work. He asked for 99 per cent, of the people the same privileges as are enjoyed by 1 per cent. —the national banking class, who alone are represented in congress. Mr. Ryan (dem., N. Y.) pressed Mr. Coxey for proof of this assertion. “Have 3 T ou any showing to make, any proofs to offer that you represent 99 per cent, of the people?” asked Mr. Ryan. “No,” said Coxey, after thinking a moment; “I don’t claim that.” I. E. Dean, a member of tho executive committee of the Farmers’ Alliance, followed, with a recital of the depressed condition of labor. Representative Dunn (N. J.) asked Mr. Dean: “Do 3 T oti believe that the American people have reached a stage where they want threats and coercion used against their legislators by these moving bodies?” “No,” said Mr. Deart 4 , “threats are not intended.” “Then,” said Mr. Dunn, “what can be accomplished by these steps, equivalent to coercion.” “Y’ou have a habit in congress,” said Mr. Dean, “of consigning petitions to pigeon holes and*waste baskets. The object of Coxey was to present to you a petition that would be insured a hearing.” , r l he committee, by a vote of 8 to 2, adopted the McGann resolution, which Mr. McGann will offer in the house. Messrs. Dunn (N. J.) and Apsley (Mass.) voted nav.

Coxey Breaks Camp. Washington, May 15. — Tents wera struck at “CamnAfiyranny” Saturday and the army was soon on the march for the new camp near Jl3'attsville, Md. The new camp is :>.miles from the district, a pleasant spot, well wooded and well watered. There Coxey expects to maintain his headquarters all summer if needs be, or, as he says, until congress takes action on his bills. A BATH OF FIRE. The Blazing Liquid Showers Down Upon Firemen and a Crowd of Sightseers. Bradford, I*a., May 15.— The barrel house at Emery's* refinery in this city took fire Sunday afternoon, presumably by spontaneous combustion, and was destroyed. The loading racks and five oil tank cars standing on a sidetrack of the Buffalo,- Rochester & Pittsburgh roau were also destroyed. The fire was a fierce one, and attracted immense crowds of people. While the firemen were working and thousands of people were watching them there was a tremendous explosion. A tank car holding 4,100 gallons of benzine burst with a mighty roar. The burning benzine, which was flung into the air in sheets of liquid fire, nearly consumed itself before settling down over the crowd. The sightseers were within 100 feet of the tank when it exploded, but most of the firemen were massed within half that distance. The latter were covered by the first flash of the explosion, but the greater distance separating the front ranks of spectators from the exploding tank saved them. The explosion was followed by a panic. In the frantic rush to escape what seemed to threaten a horrible death men, women and children were thrown down and trampled upon. Thirty-five of the firemen were burned so that the skin peeled off their faces and hands and the hair was singed off* their heads and faces.

A TEMPLE GONE. Fire Destroys Rev. Dr. Tal mage's Brooklyn Tancrnaclc. Brooklyn, May 15.— Just after services at noon Sunday and while Dr. Talmage was shaking hands with members of his congregation fire burst out between the pipes of the organ and within ten minutes the big tabernacle was doomed to total destruction. Adjoining the church was the Hotel Regent, eight stories in height, with a frotaga of 90 feet on Clinton avenue and extending back 200 feet to Waverly avenue. The fire spread from the tabernacle to this hotel and then to tha dwelling houses on Greene and Waverly avenues, opposite the tabernacle. The wind carried the biasing cinders in such quantities in a southeasterly direction that dwelling houses in Washington avenue, two square* away, and also the ‘Summerfield Methodist church were set on fire by them; but the greatest loss on any one of these structures did not exceed $15,000. The total loss, however, reaches over $2,000,000. Dr. Talmage said that ha thought electric lights caused the fire, as it did that which destroyed the last tabernacle on Schermerhorn street. People Cry for Vengeance. Vienna, May 14. —The funeral of tha victims of the Troppau riot took place in secret at daybreak Friday. The cemetery was surrounded by a cordon of soldiers. The ten victims were buried in a common grave, tha coffins being carried to the cemetery and to the grave by soldiers. During the interment crowds of desperate people surrounded the cemetery vowing vengeanee for the murder of the miners. .The feeling of indignation against the authorities £as been further increased by the fact that the prefect has refused to allow the relatives of the many wounded to visit them in the hospital.