Pike County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 39, Petersburg, Pike County, 17 February 1892 — Page 1

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-*—•*" PIKE COUNTY DEMOCRAT ISSUED EVES IT W£S 3KESDAY. TERMS OR SUBSCRIPTION: For one mr.f: ....... mm »tof three mo a lbs..,» INVARIABL Y IN ADVANCE. aovkjitL liHG um, One square {«lines), one Insertion.,ji « Bneb additional inter Uon.. go A liberal redoeuon anade on advertisements vanning three, six and twelve months. Legal and Transient adverttaamanU meet be tald lor la advenes. {

rnormsioKivt cards. ‘ ~~~ ^TtTkOIU*, M. D, Physician and Surgeon, PETERSBURG, WO. •rofflcc In Bank building* Brat floor. ' be found at oftlco day orul/hv. Francis b. Posst. Ppmt ^ CBlPMtt*. POSEY A ^PPJU^ Attorneys at Law, ^ JBBWBrtJRU, IND. tentloip1*^ **» U>« courts. Special atPubllo co® 2? *u business. A Notary nS flrat^ A**a«tly In the office. «g-Offlcc— °n Prat Joor Bank Building. K‘ A' €LX. g, Q. DAVENPORT. ELY & DAVENPORT, LAWYER, Petersburg, Ind. . iWOfflce orer J. R. Adams A Son’s drug retore. Prompt attention given to all busirueee. E. P. Richardson. *. a. H. Tatdor , JRICHARDSON & TAYLOR, Attorneys at Law, Petersburg, Ind. Prompt attention given to'all business. A Votary Public constantly in the office. Office 4n Carpenter Building, Eighth and Main. ££l. dentistry. WOODRY,

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THE WORLD AT LARGE 8umtt,Ary Of tbo Dally News Washington notes. It was reported that the president end Secretary Noble had agreed to *ecoht*»end to congress the ratification t>l the Cherokee atrip agreement. J. W. Laboun and John G. Hazard, representing the New Orleans ootton exchange, hare expressed themselves on the anti-option bill before the house agricultural committee. It is reported that the course of the United States towards Chili has alienated allot the South American nations The treasury department has purchased 874,000 ounces of silver at from *.905 to 8.9075. Formal Invitations have been issued to members of the house and senate to visit Chicago February 38 and inspect the world’s fair work. General Consul Cowan, of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co., has appeared before the senate commerce committee in/ opposition to granting judicial powers to the inter-state commerce commission. Thb first volume of the blue book for 1891 shows that there are employed in the postal service of the United States, in all capacities, 184,431 persons, and in all other departments of the government 89,865 persona, making a total of 847,894. The military academy appropriation bill has passed the house at Washing* ton. The secretary of state is negotiating anew treaty of extradition wit French government, the presen being antiquated. Orders have been sent to Mont by the secretary of the navy au| ing Adm. Gherardl to return West Indies with the Philadelplj the Concord. Col. Charles IX Morton, one most extensive farmers of Non kota; has protested vigorously - the passage of Washburn)* anti-option bill The merchante^of Memphis, Term., have also protested. Titles of bena fide purchasers ol lots in El Reno are absolutely safe. Secretary Noble has taken steps to permit residents of El Reno to make their titles so lately disturbed by his decision perfect and at no added cost The department has moved with promptness and vigor to correct the troubles and make certain and suae the titles of those who have settled there. The ways and committee of the house will be petitioned to prepare a hill invoking the paternal condemnation of the government upon the cigarette habit. THE EAST. President Beers, of the New York Lite Insurance Co., baa resigned and has been voted a pension of $25,000 per year for life. He was al^p retained In an advisory capacity. The total number of bodies brought - to the morgue from the ruins of the Hotel Royal, at New York, up to the 9th was seventeen. Of this number eleven were women and six men. The Reading Railroad Co. has secured control of the Lehigh Valley and Jersey Central roads and eutered into a contract with the Lackawana which will have a vast effect on the anthracite coal trade of the country. All the officers of the Louisiana Lottery Ca have been indicted by the grand jury in the United States circuit court in Boston, and warrants have been issued for their arrest John J. Knox died at New York on the 9th of pneumonia. A meeting of democrats was held in New York on the Uth to protest agaizist holding the state'convention February 38.

in If. The dealings on wau street on the UtK were the heaviest on recoid. Reading and Kew England were o«nspieuons features of the bull movement. Bears were given a terrible drubbing. The Mexican government is negotiating with a New York newspaper to publish a Mexican edition. • The New York grand jury has returned an indictment for forgery the second degree against Edward Field Five hundred Russians arrived at New York January SO. and eighty of them were sent to the tedginghouse of the United Hebrew charities and others went to lodging houses in other parts of the city, fifteen of those at the lodging house of the United Hebrew charities were taken with typhus fever on the 11th. Fifty-seven other cases have been found. The Mercantile Trust Co. of New York has begun suit against the Missouri, Kansas <fc Texas railway for the enforcement of the payment of Febi-u-ary 1, 1891, coupons on the second mortgage bonds of the defendant company, upon which they defaulted. The anti-early convention democrats of Brooklyn held a mass meeting on the 19th and were addressed by Congressman John D. Warner and others. Strong resolutions were passed. A. J. Cassatt, of the Pennsylvania road, believes the coal combine will not be allowed to stvfS in that state Baron Hsksch is said to have visited New York in disguise and found that his Jewish relief funds were not used rightly. « Three trains were wrecked on road near Pittsburgh the other nigi but no one was hurt. The trial of the Delamaters, broh bankers of MeadvUle, Pa., has beei| progress. Assignee Haskins made bad showing for the firm. Ex-Matoe Richard P. Pearson, Allegheny, Pa., who was charged wi embezzlement while in office, was quitted, the prosecution falling to mil out a case, the county. The cost was placed le couuijP^^^™ Ah order has been issued by 11 Pennsylvania Railroad Co. instruct! their agents to sell ticketaf include round trip at one-half rate to ui istera. This is s considerable oonte ston, as two-third rates prevailed tofore. S The Massachusetts G A. R. . unanimous vots has indorsed the ga oral ordar of Command* Palmar protesting against the use of the confederate Bag on any occasion /

*Thk Russian government has officially notified Chief of Police Farley, of Denver, CoL, through Its consular agent at San Francisco that one of its treasury vaults in Siberia was despoiled of gold roubles valued at 9306,000 December 1, the perpetrators escaping at once across Silteria. . Two stablemen lost their lives by a firetn a coal mine at Lehigh, T. T. A scheme is on foot which may result in the shipment of grain from St. Louis to European ports without transshipment The success of the new steamers, known as the “whalebacks,” in making the voyage from Dnlnth to Liverpool has attracted the attention both of local exporters and eastern capitalists, and it is believed that vessels of this class can ba sent to Europe by way of the Mississippi river and the Gulf of Mexico. The main problem to be solved is whether these vessels can be built with sufficiently light draught to cross the l<axs and still retain the stability required to make the ocean voyage. Lot jumpers were reported running things to suit themselves at El Reno, Ok. The3 Chicago Inter Ocean declares that the National Union Ca, the alliance store corporation, is backed by the national cordage trust and has subsidised alliance leaders. Tub Greyatone club gave a banquet in Denver, CoL, on the night of the 9th. Gov. Boles, of Iowa, and ex-Gov. Crittenden, of Missouri, were the leading speakers. Letters from ex-Presi-dent Cleveland, Senator Vest and others were read. Chablks E. McConnell, a banker of Montrose, CoL. declares that the silver i—m—^Athe country is under the con

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The order hail not yet readied the point when strikes were unnecessary. Marion Hxdspeth, the notorious trtdn robber leader, was arrested in the San Francisco post Office the other day. He was completely surprised. The Navajoe Indians were reported causing grave alarm in’jtbe neighborhood of Chavez, New Mexico. Everything is agahi quiet at El Reno, Ok., Setretary Coble having notified lot-jumpers thalffthey must reA call has been issudff or a national furniture dealers' convention to be held in Grand Rapids, Mich.|gfjily 13, to correct abuses in the busufl|jh. E. F.,Murphy, of th^Mnteroational Artificial Rain Ca, of JRansat \and A. Borders, of the firm oH'Linder <& Borders, of Tulare, CaL, have made a contract with the farmers of Huron, CaL, and vicinity for rain for the season’s crop A fire in Cincinnati caused loss to two firms to the extent of $250,00!). Gen. Barrios Carrillo, commanding the troops which were sent to fight the Yaqui Indians, died the other day in Sonora Four and a half million pounds of flour have been shipped from Minneapolis, Minn., to relieve the distress in Russia The United States grand jury has indicted eleven Chinamen at Deadwood, S. Dl, for using the mails for transmission of lottery tickets and literature. The governor of North £akota is trying to get 15,000 men for spring work in his state. While 100 Sandusky, O., school children were having a skate on the bay the ice broke up and they began to drift toward the laka A steamer went to their rescue and overtook them, about two miles from shore. No lives were lost Gov. Mellettxx, of South Dakota,, has decided to appoint by proclamation a state relief oommittee to receive and forward contributions of wheat, clothes, etc., to Russia. The Marquette club of Chicago celebrated Lincoln's birthday by a banquet on the 12th. Senator Cullom was the principal speaker. Regrets were numerous. "_ THU SOUTH. Dr. W. B. Galbrbath, of Lexingtou, Ky., sold the great Ralph Wilkes (3 years old, 2:18) the other dar to George Leavitt, of Boston, for a fancy price. He states that the price was larger than that paid for Constantine, who' sold for $27,000 It is understood that it was $30,000 John Hughes, the pioneer shipbuilder of New Orleans died there on the 9th aged 87 years. He built the confederate ram Manassas, which was burned when Farragnts’s fleet passed the fort, and a number of other vessels for the defense of New Orleans. . A colored editor in North Carolina is running for congress on the platform of compensation for ex-slaves. The Foster anti-lottery democratic faction of Louisiana has rejected the proposition of the other branch for a new deal all around. Bench warrants have been ordered by Judge Nelson, of the United States court, for the arrest of all the principals in the Mississippi Valley Lumbermen’s association, the corporation inifauuiciliaiiiiiBii

and the other two were rescued by the steamer. ■ ■■ : Intelligence has reached Paris of the capture by brigands of M. Vidal, the French explorer who was traveling with a caravan of Yrghis merchants to Yarkand, in Chinese Turkestan. Eight thousand coal porters in London have gone on a strike in consequence of a dispute with a firm regarding the wages to be paid the men in their employ. Rumors were current in London and Liverpool of impending difficulties in the corn and cotton trade owing to seriouB declines in prices. Immense avalanches of snow have recently fallen on the railways between Obertraun and Aussee and between Windhofel and Rosenau in Austria It will take several weeks to repair the damage. The Cluny museum of Paris has been robbed of some ancient gold coins. The thief escaped by a rope from a window bnt was later captured. At the funeral of Rev. Mr. Spurgeon, the eminent Baptist divine of London, thousands were in ( procession and mourning tokens were general. Rumors are current in Vienna that a revolution has broken out in Servia Black smallpox and typhus fever are epidemio on the Russian frontier. The religious marriage of Mias Mattie Mitchell, daughter of Senator Mitchell, of Oregon, and the Duke de la Rochefoucauld, of France, occurred in Paris recently. Fresh disturbances in'Brazil are regarded as not improbable. The people in several provinces are very uneasy. Gen. Tchen Kitono, of China, has been executed because of his conversion to Christianity and his work for the Catholica The empress of Germany was reported on the 11th as suffering from influenza. The official statement is to the effect that the attack is only slight, nevertheless the empress is compelled to keep her chamber. In a conflict between Russian gendarmes and emigrants three of the latter were killed. Thousands cf workmen in Vienna have been reported in danger of starvation because of lack of work. A large section of India is also suffering. Reports from Russia are as dark as ever. The Paris police have disproved the rumor that Gen. Von Hafsord, of Russia, who committed suicide was the victim of a nihilist Mrs. Capt. Osborne has had her examination for perjury in London and h^s been held for trial. The spectacle she presented was pitiful. The Spanish aubrehists are apparently not overawed by the quadruple execution. Lawlessness continues. Mr. Balfour's home rule scheme for Ireland is declared too complicated to be a success. The British house of commons rejected the amendment in favor of releasing Dynamiters Egan and Daly. *Dun & Co. report staples falling in price, but the trade of the principal cities excellent The Bussian government has granted the further snm of 60,000,000 roubles, to be expended for the relief of the-suffer-ers in tne famine districts. Clubs having for their object the advocacy of the re-election of President Diaz are being organized throughout the Mexican republic.

William ttNKBRTON Claims inecrean; of fooling Train Robber Hedspeth by a bogus telegram. ^ The fiercest snowstorm experienced for years set in in Halifax .the other night The snowfall was the heaviest of the season, and the furions gale caused a veritable blizzard. A dynamite bomb was exploded at the Spanish consulate in Lisbon the other day. The noise of the explosion was terriflc,'but no damage beyond the smashing of the windows in the consulate and in a few houses hear by was done. Nobody was injured. THK LATEST. * The senate was not in session on the 13tb.In the house the speaker announced as a special committee to investigate the pension bureau. Messrs. Wheeler (Mich.), Little (N. Y.). Dungal (O.), Linn (Minn.), and Broeius (Pa.) A bill was passed granting an honorable discharge to William W. Wedgewood. A resolution providing for an investigation of the effect of the socalled “sweating" system of tenementhouse labor upon the manufacture of clothing and other manufactures, and upon wages and priees on such manufactures, was passed. The bill for the better control of and to promote the safety of national banka was also passed, as was a bill abolishing the minimum penalty for internal revenue offenses. Sabah Althea Terry, who gained such notoriety by her divorce suit against ex-Senator Sharon and her subsequent marriage with Judge Terry, has become insane over spiritualism, and on the morning of the 14th she suddenly and mysteriously disappeared from the residence of Editor Calbreatb, of the San Francisco City Argus. The most thorough ■ search failed to reveal her whereabout*, and it is feared that she has drowned herself in the bay. Secret Service Officer John Webb, of Dayton, O., has confiscated about fifty automatic cash registers manufactured at Syracuse, N. Y., and in use in Dayton. Uis objection to them is that their outahfif guard bears the likeness of a silver quarter, though merely as an indication of tlie uses of jthe register, which he says is in violation of the law. The cases against the fourteen Chinamen who were charged with illegally entering the United States, were called, on tbe 13th, in the United States court at San Francisco. Each principal had two Chinese sureties on his bond, the gross sum amounting to 9810,000. As neither principals nor sureties appeared in court, Judge Morrow ordered the oases defaulted and the bonds forfeited. An extraordinarily brilliant display of the aurora borealis was witnessed, oh the evening of thd 13th, .at all points between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans as far south, as Virginia and Tennessee, where clouds did not intervene to obscure tbe illumination. The senate committee on commerce hah agreed to make a favorable report Senator Gibbons’ bill “to improve Hon

STATE NEWS. has a ladies' amateur Minded institute at Ft a library. have a line of elec fci#h school . , _ woman named Mrs. Wilkins is the mother of twenty-two children. A bio animal supposed to be a wildcat was killed by hunters near Spencer. John W. Smith, of Vincennes, deliberately threw himself under a train and was killed. George Cassadt, of Kokomo, is jailed for robbing the girl he ruined of the money she earned at the washtub. Bvshviixe has a mutual lire stock insurance company. Thbbk were over one hundred deaths In Grant county during January. Mbn found a rich vein of lead while digging a well near Bichmond A woman near Huntington has what is believed to be a case of leprosy. Infant Sullivan was scalded to death with boiling water at Markleville. V Amos P. Harland, of Lafayette, has just remarried his divorced wife after she had spent 82,300 alimony decreed her by the court. The Jeffersonville car works has dosed a contract to build twenty-five passenger coaches for the P.t C., C. & St. L. The Monon has purchased of this company 300 bos and 250 fiat cars. John O'Habren, of Mrccie, who was known by all as "Hamilton Tweedy,” for twenty years employed by the Hemingray glass manufacturers, fell into a vault and died soon after being rescued. Dave Isenhour killed a bald eagle near Lebanon. It measured eight feet from tip to tipi A supposed counterfeiter, giving his name as James Walker, is under arrest at Indianapolis. John Bbtant, a colored Franklin county man, went to the pen two years for stealing a quarter. Llotd Smith, while assisting in tearing down a building at the old fair grounds at Indianapolis, fell sixty feet and fractured his skull Mrs. John Fi.eetwood, of Tipton, refused to give two tramps their dinner and out of revenge the tramps set the barn afire. At Mooresville the schools are all closed and children are kept off the streets on account of diphtheria. Lillie Stevens, . the Indianapolis murderess, kicked up her heels and raised old Ned when she was declared insane. Bloomington is haring a series of revival meetings, and the churches H« billing their attractions like a circu^ Apboba has an epidemic of scarlet fever. - -- — A window glhsa factory will be opened at Elwood. The colored enthusiasts of- Columbia City have founded a new religions* sect known as the ‘‘Evening Lights.” During the services the congregation all comes forward and kisses the preacher. The grip’s ravages in Southern Indiana are the worst of any part of the state. . Fire at Indianapolis destroyed the main portion of the Hough iron works the other day. Loss, $150,000; insurance, $78,000.

incendiaries early me omer morning set fire to the storage house ol Allred Burdsal’s paint factory, Indianapolis, cansing $5,000 loss, which is covered by insurance. It develops non that incendiaries were the cause oi the great fire in the Hough, Ketcham & Co’s iron works, and the company is seriously considering the advisability of relocating else where. Michigan City is to have a charity ball. Frankfort’s electric light plant is in operation. A company has been formed to build a railroad from La Porte to Hammond. Josh Norton, of Kokomo, dropped dead while playing checkers with his wife. Marion electricity grave out recently, stopping the cars, and people had to walk. John Clark, of Franklin, has donated $20,000 to Hanover college. The proposed Frankfort opera house will cost $60,0001 . Madison saddle tree factories are forming a trust. Thk Ft Wayne Driving club will hold two meetings this year. A nkw window, glass factory will be established at Anderson. Spurious silver dollars of 1877, are in circulation at South Bend. Flora Barth, a handsome young woman and a stranger in Seymour, was detected in the act of stealing $13. The other day she was sentenced to serve eighteen months in the female reformatory. While hunting, Alex Yealy shot and killed Simon tiuthl-ie, near La. Gjrange. Both men were prominent farmers. Vealy claims that the shooting was accidental. G. Marsirano, a fruit dealer at Evansville, was bitten by a tarantula. He may recover. Yobkton will soon have a nail-mill and a new novelty works concern. Fifty-three Chestertonjiquor dealers were arrested in one day for selling to minora "' The Church of God, of Anderson, is seriously divided on the question of the selection of a pastor. A movement is on foot to organise a mutual live-stock iflSttrance company, whose field of operations will be confined to Rush county. It is thought that the rate charged on this kind of insurance is much too high, and the enterprise is being pushed by influential stock-raisem , - E. T. Bouchard, of Napoleon, committed suicide by shooting himself in the head. His wife, who is seventy years old, is on her death bed, and the old man said he didn’t want her to die and leave him alona Milo England, of Goshen, described as a poor man, had his pockets rifled of $800 in cash by a boarder. Char Morgan, tho latest Marsh murder suspect, beihg released on the charge of murder, was arrested for ‘blackmail. The preliminary trial of Charles Morgan, accused of the murder of L. W. Marsh, took place at Seymour, and the prisoner was acquitted. Not biA of evidence was i “ him. Bnt the evidence i wife was anxious to get i The entire business i

TALMAGE’S SERMON. Doctrinal Theories the Bane of True Christianity. To Trait, Love ud Obey God the ReI* on the Plain Not In the Mountains. fiev. T. DeWitt Talmage delivered the following discourse' in the Brooklyn'tabernacle, taking for his text: And He came down with them and stood In the-(dain.—Lnke vt, IT. Christ on the mountains is a frequent study. We have seen Him on the Mount of Olives, Mount of Beatitudes, Mount Moriah, Mount Calvary, Mount of Ascension, and it is glorious to study Him on these great natural elevations But, how is it that never before we have noticed Him on the plain? Amid the rocks, high on the*mountain, Christ had passed the night, but now, at early dawn, He is coming down with some especial friends, stepping from shelving to shelving, hue and there a loosened stone rolling clown the steep sides ahead of Him, until He gets in a level place, so that He can be approached without climbing from all sides. He is on the level. My text says: "He came down with them and stood in the plain.’’ Now, that is what the world wants to-day more than anything else—a Christ on the level, easy to get att no ascending, no descending, approachable from all sides—Christ on the plain. The question among all consecrated people to-day is, what is the matter with the ministers? Many of them are engaged in picking holes in the Bible and apologizing for this and apologizing for that. In an age when the whole tendency is to pay too little reverence to the Bible, they are fighting against bibliolatry, or too much reverence for the Bible. They are building a fence on the wrong side of the road; not on the side where the precipice is and off which multitudes are falling, but on the upper side of the road, so that people will not fall uphill, of which there is no danger. There is no more danger of bibliolatry, or too much reverence for the Scriptures, than there is that astrology will take the place of astronomy, or alchemy the place of chemistry, or the canal boat the. place of the limited express rail train. What a theological farce it is; ministers fighting apnnst too much reverence for the Scriptures; ministers making apology for the Scriptures: ministers pretending to be friends ci the Bible, yet doing the book more damage than all the blatant infidels on all the earth. The trouble our theologians are up in thempountain in a flight above the cloucm about things which the^do not understand. Come down on the plain and stand beside Christ, who never preifehed a technicality or a didacticism. What do you, O Wise-headed Ecclesiastic know about the decrees of God? Who cares a fig about your sublapsarianism or yottr supralapsarianism. Wbat a spectacle we have in our denomination to-day; committees trying to patch up an old creed made two or three hundred years ago, so that it will fit on the nineteenth century. Why do not our millinery establishments take out of the garrets the coalscuttle bonnets which your greatgrandmothers wore and try to fit them on the head of the modern maiden? You can not fix up a three hundred-year-old creed so as to fit our time.

Princeton will sew on a little piece, and Union Seminary will sew on a little piece, and Allegheny seminary and Danville seminary will sew on other pieces, and by the time creed is done it will he as variegated as Joseph’s coat of many colors. Think of having to change an old creed to make it clear that all infants dying go to .Heaven! I am so glad that the committees are going to let the babies in. Thank you. So many of them are already in that all the hills of Heaven look like a Sun-day-school anniversary. Now, what is the use of fixing up a creed which left any doubt on that subject? No man has ever doubted that all infants dying go to Heaven, unless he be a Herod or a Charles Guiteau. I was opposed to overhauling the old creed at all, but now that it has been lifted up and its imperfections set up in the sight of the world, I say overboard with it and make a new creed. There are to-day in our denomination five hundred men who could make a better one. I could make a better one myself. As we are now in progress of changing, the ereed and no one knows what we are expected to believe, or will two or three years hence be expected to believe, I could not wait and so I have a creed of my own, which I Intend to observe the rest of my life. I wrote it down in my memorandum book some six months ago, and it reads as follows: **My creed: The glorious Lord. To trust Him, love Him, and obey Him is all that is required. To that creed I invite all mankind. T. De Witt Talmuge.” The Christian church will have to change its tack, or it will run on the rocks of demolition. The world’s population annually increased fifteen million. No one pretends that half that number of people are converted to God. There are more than twice as many Buddhists as Protestants; more than twice as many Buddhists as Homan Catholics. Protestants, one hundred and thirty-five million; Catholics, one hundred and ninety-five million; Buddhists, four hundred million. There arc one hundred and seventy-five million Mohammedans and two hundred and twenty million Brahmins. Meanwhile, many of the churches are only religious club houses, where a few people go on Sunday morning, averaging one persob to a pew or one person to a half dozen pews, and leaving the minister at night to sweat through a sermon with here and there a lone traveler, unless, by a Sunday evening sacred concert, he can get out an audience of respectable size. The vast majority of the church membership round the world put forth no direct effort for the salvation of men. Did I say there would have to be a change? I qbrrect that and say, there will be a (change. It there be fifteen million every year to the world’s then, there will be thirty to the chnrch and forty fifty million and sixty million. How will it be done. It will be done when the ehurch will meet Christ on the plain. Come down out of the mountain of exclusiveness. Come,down out of the mountain of pride. Copie out of the added ipnlstion, lion added ill ion and

change. I *) aot know what is the best way of doing things in the churches, hot I know the way we are doing now is not the beat way, or the world would be nearer its salvation than it seeaoa t;> be." So I feel; so we all feel, that there needs «to .be a change. The point at which we all eosne short i* not presenting Christ on the plain, Christ on the level with all the world’s woes ana wants and necessities. The foil change will have to come from the rising ministry. We now in the haul are too set in onr ways. We are lumbered up with technicalities. We have %oo many concordances, and dictionaries, and encyclopedias, and systems ortheialogy in oar head to get down on the plain. Onr vocabulary is too frosted. We are too much under the dornishtbn of customs yegnant for many centuries. The universal trouble of the world is bereavement One may escape all the other troubles, bnt that no soul escapes Out of that bitter cup «everyone must take « drink. For instance, in order that all might know how He sympathizes with those who have lest a daughter, Christ comes to the house Of Jairas- There is such a big crowd around the door, He and Bis disciples have to push their way in. From the throng of people 1 conclude that the girl must have been very popular; she was one of those children whom everybody likes. After Christ got in the house there was such a loud weeping that the ordinary tones of voice could not be heard. I >do not wonder. The dead daughter was twelve years of age. It is about the happiest time in most lives. Very little children suffer many injustices because they are children, and childhood is not a desirable part of human existence—they get whacked or set on. Brit, at twelve years of age, the child has come to self-assertion and is apt to make her wants known. And, then, twelve years' of age is too early for the cares and anxieties of life. ;So this girl was, 1 think, the merriment of tke household. She furnished for them the mimicry, and the harmless mischief, and roused the guffaw that often rang through that happy home. But, now she is dead, and the grief at her depar ture is as violent as her presence had been vivacious and inspiring. Oh! the bereavement was so sharp, so overwhelming! How could they give her- cp! I 'suspect that they blamed themselves for this or for that. Oh! if they had had some . other doctor, or taken some other medicine, or bad been move careful of her health, or if they had not given her . that reproof some time when she had not really deserved it Oh,' if they had been more patient with her hilarities and, instead of hushing her. had: participated in it! Yon know there are so many things that parents always blame themselves for at such times. Only twelve years of age! So fair, so promising, so full of life a

lew uays »au uuw bu uu, what it is to have a daughter dead! The room is foil of folks, bat yonder is the room where the young sleeper is. The crowd can not go in there. Only six persons enter—fire besides Christthree friends and. of course, the father and mother. They have the first right to go in. The heaviest part of the grief waa theirs. Ail eyes in that room are on the face of this girl. There lay the beautiful haul, white and finely shapen, but it was not lifted in greeting to any of the group. Christ-stepped forward and took hold of that hand and said, with a tone and accentuation charged with tenderness and command: “Damsel, I say unto thee, arise!” And, without a moment s delay, she aros-e , he>- ' "»es wide open, Iter eheeks turning from white lily to red rose, and the parents cry: “She lives! she lives!” and in the next room they take up the sound: “She lives! she lives!” and the throng in front of the doorway repeat it: “She lives! she lives!” Will not alt those who have lost a d:rughter«ieel that such a Christ as that can sy mpathise? On another occasion,He showed how He felt about the loss of a 3on. Here are the obsequies. A long procession; a widowed mother following her only son. I know not how tong, the husband and father had been gone, hut upon this son, who had now come to be a young man, the leadership of that houshqld had fallen. I think he had got to be the bread winner. He was proud of his mother, and she should never lack anything as long as he lived. And there is no grander spectacle on earth than a young man standing between want and a widowed mother. But that young man had fallen lifeless under accident or disaster, and he was being carried out Duly a very few hours in that land are allowed to pass between decease and burial. It is the same day or the next And there they move on. Christ meets the procession. His eye picks out the chief mourner. He puts bis hand on the bier, as much aa to say to the pall- bearers: “Stop! There will be uo burial to-day. That broken heart must 1m healed. That mother, must have her home, rebuilt" And then looking into the face of the young (for in those lands the face is always exposed in such a procession), Christ speaks one sentence, before which death fell prostrate under the bier: “Young man, I say unto thee, ai He sat~ up, while the overjoymother wrapped him in her arms, and well-nigh smothered him with her earessee, and the air was rent with congratulations. Can anyone who has ever lost a son doubt that Christ sympathizes with such wee? fi nd how many there are who need that particular comfort It was not hollow sentiment when, after Edmund Burke, the greatest orator of his time, had lost his son, and the bereaved father, crossing the pasture field; met the horse that had belonged to that accessed son, that the orator threw bis arms around the horse’s neck kissed the dumb brute. It was not w sentiment when David, the cried out at the news of his iV. death, Although he had been a ' - oad boy: “Oh. Absalom. t M*J would God 1 had died fo- thee! Oil,- Absalom, my son! my But for such

or liar* prompt 3 impedim comma ii could s x fingers i pannm. Is 1 the def sctive circulat muscle i of a use of hand “Stretch for _ _ and ne -ves and mu offices, and though joints may hare disuse, and there may strong sensation from tip, he stretch it forth! is the matter with you, appeal to the sympathetic if yon feel yourself to he ner, heir what He said to ing Ma gdalen.while with aarcasti He^dashedher pursue -s. And 1 see how He made i liturgy out of the' put “God jje merciful to me prayer so short that the whelmed offender can utter it, s long enough to win celestial < It was well put by a man v conversed, and who ren in his c'iissolute days he to get occupation, present; a certificate forf In commending Christ to the ] said: “Bless God, I have fou that J«su8 will tahe a character!” Christ on a lev suffering humanity. My tea “He ci me down with then in the plain.” No climbing up 1 attribt tes you can not under ascending of the -heights of rhetor c of prayer. No strains elevations you can not hunting for a God that yon find. But going right straight and lo iking into Hit face and His hs nd and asking for His { His comfort, His grace. His i Chri.it on the level. When the siege of Sebastobol an ofl commanded a private Boldiert on the wall exposed to the ene receivo the ammunition as it 1 ed up, while he, the officer, i place , .heltered from the ene Gen. Gordon leaped upon help, and commanded t follow him, and then do “Never order a

anyth ng that yon are afraid yourstlf.” Glory be to God, the ' tain of our salvation has gone through all the exp in whch He commands ns to be ageotti. He has been through antHu>w offers His sympathy in i strugg le. One of the kings of T one night in disguise street.of London, and not count of himself, was arrested i in a miserable prison. When and getting back to the pala dered thirty tons of coal and supply of food for the night] of London. Out of his own < that night he did this. And the King aforetime endn sick, tnd hungry, and slain, out of His own ready to help all, and comfort all, and rescue all. Oh! join Him in the as yov stay up in the i pride you will get no help*, reasoi so many never find tion o : the Gospel. They sit h in tho Mont Blanc of their stiver ess, and they have their < about God, and their opinion i" soul, und their opinion about < Have 'you any idea that will lave any effect uj treme adous facts—that _ ner, : nd that Christ is ready i earne it prayer to save you? ' day o accounts, how much opinit n be worth? Your not bf of much importance blast of the archangel’! When the life of this threshed out with the ! bolts, nobody will ask ab ions. Come down out of 1 of op. nionativeness and i the p ain, where you must! never meet Him at all, < meet Him on the judgment t A Christ easy to geS at! j sentinel to challenge you. office • to scrutinize the ; sent Immediate ate forgiveness. Ir Through what a struggle j _ to get a pardon from worldly £ By wiiat petition, by what nervous i what adroitness. A was condemned to death at Milan. The lg of . the to Vienna to seek his death warrant was al itess, arriving in hastened to the adant* fori ‘ ~ especially at them with empress was s pleaded life her hus emperor was same plea. tenc<j wtas — overtake with the « be tqo 1 by what 1 t forbade her« niffk