Pike County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 38, Petersburg, Pike County, 10 February 1892 — Page 4

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traveler, only in I length and with the He was a of his f, and* bnilt a city k in circumference* I and twenty feet deep. seventy-five say .to please Amuhia, who had been born among the hills, and others say to get a pleasure ground free from mosquitoes which afflict the levels. I think,from hlsehamcter, the latter reason may haveinapeled him us much as the former. When he conquered King Zedekiah, so as to have no nape trouble with him he put his eyes but—^ most barbarous way of incapacitating an enemy. Bat Babylon was a great place; the houses surrounded by gardeus and the house-tops were connected with each other by bridges; and one day Nebuchadnezzar walked out on these suspension bridges and showed, perhaps to a royal visitor, the vastness of his realm as the ann kindles the domes with glisterings almost insufferable, and the great streets thunder up their pomp into the ear of the monarch, and armed towers stand around adorned with spoils of conquered empires. Nebuchadnezzar waves his hand above the stupendous scene and exclaims: “Is not this great Babylon that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power and for the honor of my majesty?” In other words: “What a great ntfuM am. Babylon was not anything until I adorned it See those water works; see those gardens; see those forts I did all this. I shall never be forgotten. .Why, my name is on every brick in all those walla Just look at I am more than a man.” But in me. an instant all that splendor is gone from his vision, for a voice falls from the heavens, saying: “O, King Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken; the kingdom is departed from thee, and they shall drive thee from men and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field; they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and seven times shall pass over thee, until thou know that the Most High ruleth in the kingdom of men and giveth it to whomsoever He will.” One hour from the time he made the boast he is on his way to the fields a maniac, and, rushing into the forests he becomes as one of the beasts, and is after awhile covered with eagles' feathers for protection from the cold, and his nails grow to look like birds' claws in order that he may dig the earth for roots and climb the trees for nuts. The mental disaster that seized him was what the Greeks called lycanthropy, by which a man imagines himself a beast and prefers to go out and mingle with brutes. He who had been eating pomegranates and apricots off of plates of gold inlaid with amethyst and diamond, and drinking the richest wines from the royal vats, now browsingen grass, and struck by the horn of the ox as he contends for a better tuft of the pasturage, and instead of an orchestra on benches of ivory playing the national airs, now listening to the moan and bellow and grant of the beasts. This is not bard for me to believe, for the i(forms of dementia are innumerable. A few years ago, arriving in a city on a summer afternoon, while waiting for my engagement in the evening, I sauntered forth into what | seemed to be a park in front of a large | public building, the use of which l knew not I met a gentleman with whom I fell into delightful conversation, and he seemed intelligent on all subjects. After awhile, 1 said: “Let us sit down dn this bench and rest awhile and enjoy the scene of verdure and fountains.” “No,” said he. “You* sit down, hut I can not 1 am made ,of glass, and if I should sit down I would break to pieces.” Then I saw that he was insane, and belonged to the large building just behind us. After such an interview as that I can easily believe this

aeeount of my text Here is Nebuchadnezzar on all fonra. He once prided himself of being more than a man. and now he tarns oat less than a man. The courtiers look out of the windows upon him as he mores among the royal herds, and cry: ‘‘A’ beast I” Seven years pass, when suddenly his reason returns, and he comes hpok to Babylon a humble worshiper of the God of Heaven. What must have been the excitement in the royal court as this restored maniac emperor walks into the palace. What a time they had cutting his nails and his hair, which lied grown for seven years without being interfered with by any shears. What a scrubbing down must have taken place in the imperial baths. What a transformation necessary in order that he who bad been herding with camels and goats and swine may be made fit to associate with princes. When I see a man of regal nature mode to role in realms of thought, capable of all moral elevation, besotting his faculties, attempting out of low sensualities to satisfy his immortal energies, coming down off his throne of power into brutalities, sacrificing his higher nature to his lower nature, stooping and stooping, coming down and coming down until all his influence for good is gone, I cry out: “There is a king eating grass like an ox!” And there are tens of thousands of such .Nebuchadnezzar*. So there are queens who dedicate themselves to the same humiliation. What power for good God give tlfat woman. Magnetism of personal presence. Influence imperial. By her intelliteuderness, by her charm r, capable of sootbnd reforming so and wielding so , yet at the call of out of the throne i Hod down

I long ago. I away so long!”' My has been ready _ while. With more than , tenderness God will take They arc. waiting for yon the palace. Nebuchadnezzar was he son of Nabopollaaar, who ruled behim, and you are the child of a next thought that presses into my mind from the contemplation of this incident is that conviction is hot conversion. Who is that monarch that makes the boast about Babylon? The very man who, under the revelation of dreams that Daniel made from Heaven, deeply humbled himself, while he confessed that GoJl is a God of gods and a Lord of lords, yet, behdd that humbling and arousing which he before felt not result in a radical change. is no mistake more frequent of supposing conviction a synonym conversion. Conviction is merely a it of sin; conversion is a view pardon. Conviction is merely an. alarm; conversion is confidence. Conviction fa dissatisfaction with depravity; conversion fa a turning away from it Conviction is sword wound; conversion is the healing. Conviction is the fever of thirst; conversion is the sinking of tkat thirst Conviction is the pain; conversion fa the medicine that cures it Thousands have experienced the former and never experienced the latter. There are multitudes who think that as soon as a man is serious he fa fit for profession of religion. What if a man should only think seriously of being a merchant; would that make him a merchant? What if a man should only think seriously of being a lawyer; would that make him a lawyer? What if a man should only think serionsly of being a Christian; would that make him a Christian? Felix was convicted, bnt not converted. The jailer was convicted liefore he got out of bed, but not_ converted until at the advice of Paul he believed in Christ Are yon convicted, hut not converted? I tell you what you make me think of. You have made up voor mind for proper consideration to deed away a property. You have drawn the deed. The seal is affixed opposite where yon are to write your name. The commissioner of deeds fa present to witness. Yon have your pen in hand. There is ink in the pen. There is only one thing for yon tb do, and that is to sign your name. Suppose you stop now without singing your name, what docs it all amount to? Nothing. So you have resolved to give yourself np to God. You propose to sign off to Him your body, yonV mind, yonr sonl. You have all things necessary for the transfer. The angels of God are here to witness the eternal tmnfer. Why do yon not now with yonr will complete the work? Halt where yon are and all goes for nothing. Learn also from my subject that pride is the precursor of overthrow. Pride fa a commander well plumed and caparisoned, but it leads forth a dork and frowning host “Pride goeth befoire destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.” The arrows from the Almighty's quiver are apt to strike a man when on the wing. Goliath shakes liis great spear in defiance, bnt the smooth stones from the brook make him stagger and fall like an ox uuder a butcher’s bludgeon. He who fa down can not falL Vessels sendding under Usje poles do not feel the force of the storm. What are those throe sieds that have just gone into the yard of a miserable hotel in Warsaw, Poland, on the cold night of December 10, 1812? Who are they? Who from these sleds have entered? and the servant is trying to build -for them a fire with some green wood? Napoleon, with six attendants, on retreat from Moscow. The fire amid the green wood has gone out, and the emperor is walking the floor to keep from freezing. Then bounding into his Bled, the thermometer twenty-six (degrees below zero, he disappears in the darkness. He, who a little before had an army under his command, together with troops offered by other nations, in all 1.187,000 men, now retreating through that December night with three sleds, and those of his army not dead under Gie snow reduced for food to a handful of rye dough, seasoned with gunpowder for lack of salt, and a mouthful of horse

ntssii. irom wuat s ueipi w wuiw depth! Nebuchadnezzar in the palace; Nebuchadnezzar forsaken in the fields. Again, learn from the misfortune of the king of Babylon what a terrible tiling is the loss of reason. There is no calamity that can possibly befell us in this world so great as the derangement ol! intellect—to have the body of a man and yet to fall even below the instinct ol! a brute. In this world of sad sights, the saddest is the idiot’s stare. In this world of awful sounds, the most awful is the maniac’s laugh. A vessel on the rocks, when hundreds go down never to rise, and other hundreds drag their mangled and quivering bodies up the wintry beach, is nothing compared to the foundering of intellects full of vast hopes and attainments and capacities. Christ's heart went out to those who were epileptic, falling into the fire, or maniacs cutting themselves among the tombs. We are accustomed to be more girateful for physical health than fsr the proper working of our mind. We are apt to take it for granted that the intellect which has served us so well will always be faithful. We forget that an engine with such tremendous power, when the Wheels have such vastness of circle and such swiftness of motion and the least impediment might put it out of gear, could only be kept in proper balance by a Divine hand. No human power could engineer this train of immortal facilities. Bow sti ange it is that our memory on whose shoulders all the successes and misfortunes and occurrences of a lifetime are pi acedl should nipt oftener bleak down, and that tbe scales of judgment, wbieh have been weighing sc> much and so long, should not lose their adjustment, and that fancy, which holds a dangerous wand, should not sometimes maliciously wave it, bringing into the heart forebodings Is it not strange that the expectations of this Intellect should not be dashed tb pieces on Mil disappointments? many fine intellects are being by anodynes and anaesthetics.

■_I_._ HPff of the people to take tbe _ __ their torn at admiration and the spoils of office. Oh, how quickly the *vheel tarns! Ballot boxes are the steps on which men come down as often as they go up. Of those who were a few years ago successful in the accumulation of property, how few hare not met with reverses of fortune, whilo many of those who then were straitened in circumstances now hold the bonds and the bank keys of the nation, and win the most bows on the exchange. Of all fickle people in the world Fortune Is the most fickle. Every day cHungca her mind, and woe to that man who puts any confidence in what she promises or proposes. She cheers when you go up, and she laughs when you dbtne down. 6h, trust not a moment your heart's affections to this changeable world. Anchor your soul in God. From Christ’s love gather your joy. Then come sorrow or gladness, success or defeat, riches or poverty, honor or disgrace, health or sickness, life or death, time or eternity, all are yours, and ye are Christ's and Christ is God's. Again, learn from my subject that connected with the most distressing ■ judgments of God there are displays of Divine mercy. God might justly have left Nebuchadneasar in the field, but Infinite compassion brought him back to the palace. No sooner was Eden blasted than a blessing followed on the curse, promising the coming of one Who would destroy sin and make the whole world a paradise. The deluge descends, but not until Noah had invited the people into the ark. The ! destroying angel comes upon ! Egypt for the smiting of the firstborn, but left unmolested every house whose door was sprinkled with the blood of sacrifice. Fiery tempests hear down upon Sodom, but not until two angels have warned Dot and his family to flee from the destruction. Jerusalem was utterly destroyed, hut not until Jeremiah had sounded an alarm, bidding them turn from their abominations. On the darkest cloud of wrath there is a rainbow of mercy. Zechariah in his prophetic vision beheld four chariots, symbolical of God’s government. The first chariot was drawn by red horses. They indicated tMe wars that were coming. The second chariot was drawn by black horses. They indicated the coming of a famine and pestilence. The third chariot was drawn by white horses. They indicated the spotless purity of his conquests. But mark well that the fourth chariot was drawn by horses “grisled and bay,” denoting that mercy was mixed with all the desolating judgments of God. Sinai cun not thundwp so loud as to drown the invitations of Calvary. The Dord utters the admonition: J “The wages of sin is death,” but exhaustless mercy responds: “Deliver him from going down to the pit, for I have found a ransom.” Hide thee quick j| the rock, Christ Jesus. Let not thkftnsignificant “Now” absorb the more than the great “Hereafter.” The path lead, ing to, this side of the grave is only a few furlongs, but the path which com. mences at the other side of it is with, out end. The powers of darkness gather about your head, and the temptations of an evil heart, and the allurements of the world I know are trying to drown the voice of the preacher, hut taking hold of the silver trumpet of the Gospel which made Felix tremble and at the Pentecost brought three thousand souls out of their sepulcher, I would blow one long, loud blast, crying: “Whosoever will, let him come.’’ Take this goodly relieion which has done so much for me that I can commend it to ail. Without it I should have gone the whole downward career. Stolid and phlegmatic natures going astray do not go so far, but natures like mine—sanguine, intense, emotional, optimistic, social to the last degree, and echoing to all the heights and depths' of mirth if they get off the track they go with one wild leap to hell. As to the restraining power of this religion upon a mercurial temperament,’ I testify. This is not abstraction or something gotten from hooks. I speak of what I know. Go out and ask all who have tried this religion and ask them how it works. Three young men in a factory came out on the Lord’s side, but two of them, overcome by tha jeers of their comrades, went back and joined the scoffers. The one held on to his Christian hope, and one day, when they pressed him hard and were telling how much infidelity had done for the world and that Christianity had done notiring, the persecuted Christian turned upon them, and, pointing

to nenry anu ureorge, who nau for a little while followed Christ and then turned back, he said? “You have tried your principles on them, and know what they have done for them. When they tried to serve Christ they were civil, good-tempered, kind husbands and fathers. They were cheerful, industrious and ready to oblige. What have you made them? Look and see. They are cast down and cross; their mouths are full of cursing and filthiness; they are drunk every week; their children half clothed, their wives broken-hearted, their homes wretched. That is what your principles have done. Now, 1 have tried Christ and His religion, and what has it done for me? You know well, what 1 used to be. There was none of you that could drink so much, swear so desperately and fight so masterly. 1 had no money, and nobody ‘would trust me. My wife was illused. I was ill-humored, hateful and hating. What has religion done for me? Thank God I am not afraid to put It to yOu. Am 1 not a happier man than I was? Am I not a better workman and a kinder companion? Would I once have put up with what I now bear from you? 1 could beat any of you as easily now as ever. Why fion’t I? Do yon ever hear a foul word from my mouth? Do you catch me at a public house? Has anybody a score against me? Gq and ask my neighbors if I am not altered for the better. Go and ask my wife. Let my house bear witness. God be praised, here is what Christianity has done for me; there is what infidelity has done for Henry and George.” Out of this audience I could gathers thousand men and women who could tell you as thrilling a story as that as to what religion has done for them. Yea, if times of persecution should come as of old, and they may comet there are a 'thousand here who would for Christ’s sake ns cheerfully walk into the furnace of fire as though it were an arbor of thyme and honey suckel, and face the. lions as though they were lambs frisking on the hillside, and wade “ down into the deep waters which are to anbmerge them t happily as ever at Narragausett b •* - ° ^ " at a summer l

oHhe Com* ~*-'A «n latestory thett the Salt Lake HefalA flpris H 6s “0M at the principal owners of the Gibson mine, at Aspen, Col., had a daughter who tFaa married a few years ago. Shortly after her return from her wedding trip she went to her «>ther and told him she wanted a house. The old gentleman, after a few moments* deliberation, said: ‘My girl, I’ll tell ydo what I’ll do; give you one day's work of any two men in the mine yon may select’ The bride thought this was rather a slim allowance from Cue who could well afford to be generous, and was not slow to express the disappointment which she felt The young lady was very popular with the miners, and when they heard of the proposition which ttyiir chief had made to his daughter they held a meeting and selected the two best workmen from among their number. These two, worthies presented themselves before the young lady, and after a vast amount of preliminary bowing and scraping the spokesman addressed her as follows: ’Say, miss, if yon will only choose ns two fellers you’ll never be sorry for it We’ll ‘git on everlastin* rustle ou us and we’ll stick the old man like - for you. You can just bet your sweet life we will.' She selected these two men. and on the appointed day they did git an everlastin’ rustle on them.' to the full extent of their promise. Ore to tho value of thirty-one thousand dollars was taken out by those two miners in one day, and one of the very 4nest mansions in Aspen was the result of their toil and the selection made by the young bride REPORTERS' FADS. One Who Has a Mania for Collecting Ghastly Mementoes. In an>article on. "Men with Fads” Cassoll-’s Saturday Journal says: “The most unique collection of autographsprobably is that which is owned by a journalist who has treasured up a number of interesting mementoes of public eveuts. Thus, when a leading orator of the day addresses a huge meeting and the newspapers require verbatim reports. It is customary to send a note to the orator to ask how long he intends to speak, and the answer is scribbled: ‘An hour’ or ’Fifty minutes,’ as the case may bo. The bulk of these notes furnish a veritable museum of good intentions whicb have not been fulfilled, for few public men can resist the temptation of exceeding their own selfimposed time allowance. Another journalist stores up menus of the different banquets he attends;- and a third preserves the tickets of invitation also. A well-known ‘penny-o-lincr,’ who in his (time has had a strange and intimate 'connection with the unraveling of London mysteries, got together a truly horrible collection of odds and ends which derived their interest from their association with notorious criminal cases. These objectAsosscsscd such ghastly significance tt^ one day the ‘liner,’ in order to be rid of their depressing influence, for each'relic had a painful story attached to its acquisition, determinedly threw them in the Ore, and since that day he has never indulged a taste for the morbid." NOT RELIABLE. A Historical picture That Is Not Gntftoty Correct. The writer went into a Wabash avenue house, says the Chicago Tribune, where pictures are made a specialty and asked for Carpenter’s picture of tho deathbed scene of Abraham Lincoln, it was shown, and then followed the conversation below. "This does not contain tho figure of Andrew Johnson." “No; that was left out." "Was Johnson not present at the time of the death of Lincoln?” "Yes." "The figure of Colfax appears in the group; is it not a fact that Colfax was not present on that occasion?” “I understand it so." "Then why is it that Johnson is left out, when it is certain that he was there, and Colfax is put in, when It is certain that he was not present?” "I am told that when Carpenter was painting the picture he put in Johnson. As the picture neared its finishing touches the feeling against Johnson increased, and the enemies of the old man, as he was calledf made a demand on the artist to have Jnidy left off the canvas. So the figure was painted out and that of Colfax substituted. I have been told that the artist simply painted out the head of Johnlion and put on Johnson's body the head of Colfax. 1 ' do not vouch for that part of the story." —Col. jlngersoll, in his recent address before the New York State Bar association, said: "As long as children are raised in tenement and gutters the prisons will be full; the gulf between the rich and poor will grow Wider. One will depend on cunning, the other oa force. It isi a great question whether tlmse who live in luxury can afford to allow others to exist in want”

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dnwsmtic scenes of 1881 which it portrays, wteu home® were rent w»d anxioos hearts were ovdr-strained. The story appeals to all. So, too, though in s different way, does the Arabian story oi pluck and ea durance, “The Lance of Kananv” thrill its leaders month by month. The camel race orer the desert described in the February number is full of A force and fire that stirs the Wood of every reader. Among the important contribution* to the February Wipe Awazb is the last story, “The Sign of the Prophet Jonah,” ever written by Eliot McCormick. one of New York's promising newspaper fitiSOj SEtimely out off by death scarcely sis* months since. Airs. Harriet Maxwell-Converse has another of her interesting Indian articles "With Seventy Chiefs at Ohswekau;” Mrs. Maud Howe Elliott talks delightfully about "Some Horses that 1 have known;” Mrs. Jane (3. Austin gives the charming story of “Lora dtandish’s Sampler,” of which ail readers of “Sfc&Sidish of Stundish” and “Betty Alden” will be glad to know more. Lovers of adventure will enjoy Lieut:- Col. Thorndike’s thnlling experience* "In the Straits of Cape Horn;” Harriet Pickney Hose's sketch of a storm "On a Florida ilwf.' and Henry Cleveland Wood's Kentucky pioneer story "Under Five.” Dorothy Holcomb’s “Writ-inga-down” about “The Night of the Fire” will raise the ready smile. "The First Steamboat” and "A Pet Steal” are abort instructive papers, and the department “Men and Things” is fnll of readable, items. The poetry of the number is excellent. The pictares in the number are illustrative and characteristic, and the feeling that the children of this generation who have the possibilities of regularly reading so helpful and elevating a magazine as Wmis Awake are blessed indeed, is emphasized again by a perusal of the Febhisr,- issue. Wide Awakk is published at 80 cenw per number, $3.40 per year. B. Lothbcp Co., Publishers, Boston, Mass.

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