Pike County Democrat, Volume 24, Number 38, Petersburg, Pike County, 2 February 1894 — Page 6

A STORY OF FESTIVITY. Rev. Dr. Talmage Repeats the Divine Invitation. ••Come, For All Things Are Now Keady” —A Bidding to the Great and Glorious Feast of Jesus’ Unbounded Lore. t 'The following- sermon on the subject •of “Festivity” was delivered by Rev. “T. DeWitt TaImage in the Blooklyn 'tabernacle, being based on the text: Come, for all things are now ready.—Luke, adv. 17. ; It was one of the most exciting times Jn English history when Queen Eliza;beth visited Lord Leicester at Kenilworth castle. The^moment of her arrival was considered so important that all the clocks of the castle were stopped, so that the hands might point fto that one moment as being the most •significant of all. She was greeted to the gate with floating islands, and torches, and the thunder of cannon, -and fireworks that set the night ablaze, and a great burst of music that lifted the whole scene into a perfect ■enchantment. Then she was introduced in a dining-hall, the luxuries of which astonished the world; four hundred servants waited upon the guests; the entertainment cost five thousand .dollars each day. Lord Leicester made ‘that great supper in Kenilworth castle. Cardinal Wolsey entertained the French ambassadors at Hampton •court. The best cooks in all the land prepared for the banquet; purveyors went out and traveled all the kingdom •o^er to find spoils for the table. The time came. The guestjs were kept during the day hunting in the king’s park, so that theiy appetites might be keen; and then, in the evening, to the sound of the trumpeters, they were introduced into a hall hung with silk and ^cloth of gold, and there were tables aIflittei* with imperial plate, and laden with the rarest of meats, and a-blush with the costliest wines; and when the second course of the feast came, it I was found that the articles of food had l»een fashioned into the shape of men.

birds and beasts, and groups dancing, and jousting parties riding against ieach other with lances. Lords, stud princes, and ambassadors, out of the cups filled to the brim, drank the health, first of the king of England, and uext £>f the king of France. Cardinal W'olsey prepared that great supper in Hampton Court. Hut I have to tell you of a grander entertainment. My Lord, the Kingf, is the banqueter»' Angels are the cuphearers. All the redeemed are the guests. The halls of eternal love, frescoed with light, and paved with joy, and curtained with unfading beauty, are the banqueting place. The harmonies of eternity are the music. The chalices of Heaven are the plate, and I am one of the servants coming out with both hands filled with invitations, scattering them everywhere; and, Oh! that for yourselves, you might break the seal of the invitation and read the words written in red ^plc of blood by the tremulous hand of a dying Christ: “Come now, for all things are ready. * There have been grand entertainments where w’as a taking off—-the wine gave out, or the servants were rebellious, or the lights failed. But I have gone all arotind about this subject and looked at the redemption which /•Ohrist has provided, and I come here 1 to tell you it is complete, and I swing open the door of the feast, telling you that “all things are now ready.” In tht first place I have to announce that the Lord Jesus Christ himself is ready. Cardinal Wolsey came into the feast after the first course; he came in booted and spurred, and the guests arose - and cheered him. But Christ comes in at the very beginning of the feast; aye, He has been waiting eighteen hundred and ninety-four 3'ears for His guests. He has been standing on. His mangled feet; He has had His sore hand on His jfuntured side, or He has been pressing His lacerated temples— waiting, waiting. It is wonderful that He has not been impatient and that He has not said: “Shut the dodr and let the laggard stay out,” but He has been waiting. No banqueter ever waited for his guests so patiently as Christ has waited for us. To prove how willing He is to receive us, I gather all the tears that rolled tlown His cheeks in sympathy for your sorrows, I gather all the drops of blood that channeled His brow, and His back, and His hands and feet in trying to purchase your redemption; I gather all the groans that He uttered in midnight

chill, and m mountain hunger, and in desert loneliness, and twist them into one cry—bitter, agonizing, overwhelming- I gather all the pains that shot from speaf\ and spike, and cross. Jolting into one pang—remorseless, grinding, excruciating. I take that •one drop of sweat on Bis brow, and under the Gospel glass that drop enlarges until I see in it lakes of sorrow and an ocean of agony. That Being standing before you now, emaciated, and gasped, and gory, coaxes for your ~love°with a pathos in which every word is a heartbreak and every sentence a martyrdom. How can you think He trifles! Ahasueras prepared a feast for one fltundred and eighty days; but this least is for nil eternity. Lords and •princes were invited to that, you, and 'l. and all our world are invited to this, ■^ehrist is ready. You know that the banqueters of olden time used to wrap themselves, id robes prepared for the occasion; so, my ®Lord Jesus hath wrapped Himself in all that is beauti/lul. See how fair He is! His eye. His /brow, His cheek, so radiant that the 'Stars have no gleam, and the morning no brilliancy compared with it. His* lace reflecting all the joys of the redeemed. His hand having the omnipotent surgery with which He opened blind eyes, and straightened crooked limbs, and hoisted the pillars of Heaven, and swung the twelve gates which are twelve pearls. There are not enough eupa in Heaven to dip up the ocean of beauty There are not ladders enough

1 to scale t his height of love. There are not enough cymbals to clflip, or harps to thrum, or trumpets to peal forth the praises of this One altogether fair. Oh, thou flower W eternity, thy breath is the perfume of Heaven! Oh, blissful daybreak:, let all people clap their hands in thy radiance! Chorus! Come, men. and saints, and cherubim, and seraphim, and arcahangel—all heights, all depths, all immensities. Chorus! Roll Him through the heavens in a chariot of universal acclaim, over bridges of hosannas, under arches of coronation, along by the great towers chiming with eternal jubilee. Chorus! “Unto Him who hath loved us, and washed us from our sins in H?s own blood, to Hina be glory, world without end!” I have'a word of five letters, but no sheet white enough on which to write it, and no pen good^enough with which to inscribe it. Give me the fairest leaf from the Heavenly records—give me the pencil with which the angel records His victory—and then, with my hand strung to supernatural ecstasy.and my pen dipped in the light of the morning, I will write out in capitals of love: “J-E-S-U-S.” It is this One, infinitely fair, to' whom you are invited. Christ is waiting for you; waiting as a banqueter waits for the delayed guest—the meats smoking, the beakers brimming, the minstrels with finger on the stiff string, -waiting for the clash of the hoofs at the gateway. Waiting for you as a mother waits for her son, who went off ten years ago, dragging her bleeding heart along with him. Waiting! O! give me a comparison intense enough, hot enough, importunate enough to express my meaning—something high as Heaven and deep as hell and long as eternity. Not hoping that you can help me with such a comparison, I will say: “He is waiting as only the all-sympathetic Christ can wait for the coming back of a lost soul.” Bow the knee and kiss the Son, Come, and welcome, sinner; come. Again, the Holy Spirit is ready. Why is it that so many sermons drop dead —that Christian stings do not get their wing under the people—that so often prayer goes no higher than a hunter's “helloa?” It is because there is a link wanting—the work of the Holy Spirit.

Lnless that spirit give grappling hooks to a serraen, and lift the prayer, and waft the song, everything is a dead failure. That spirit is willing to come at our call and lead you to eternal life; or ready to come with the same power, with whieh He unhorsed Saul on the Damascus turnpike, and broke down Lj’dia in her fine store, and lifted the three thousand from midnight into midnoon at the Pentecost. With that power the spirit of God now beats at the gate of your soul. Have you. not noticed what homely and insignificant instrumentality the spirit of God employs for man’s conversion? There was a man on a Hudson river boat to whom a tract was offered. With indignation he tore it up and threw it overboard. Hut one fragment lodged on his coatsleeve; and lie sa w, on it the word “eternity;*’ and he found no peace until lie was prepared for that great future. Do you know what passage it was that caused Martin Luther to see the truth? “The just shall live by faith.” Do you know there is one-just one—passage that brought Augustine from a life of dissipation? “Put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh to fulfill the lusts thereof.” It was just one passage that converted Hedley Vicars, the great soldier, to Christ: “The blood of Jesus Christ cleauseth from all sin.” Do you know that the Holy Spirit used one passage of Scripture to save Jonathan Ed-, wards? “Kow, unto the King, eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, our Saviour, be glory.” One year ago on Thanksgiving day, I read for my text: “O give thanks unto the Lord, for He' is good; for Ilis mercw endureth forever.” And there, is a young man in the house to whose heart the JHoly*' Spirit, took that text for His eternal redemption. I might speak of my own case. I will tell you I was brought to the peace of the Gospel through the Syro-Phoenician woman’s cry to Christ: “Even the dogs eat Of the crumbs that fall from the Master's table.” Do you know that, the holy spirit almost always uses insignificant means? Eloquent sermons never save anybody; metaphysical sermons never save anybody; philosophical'sermons never save an y body. But the minister comes some Sabbath to his pulpit, worn out with engagements and the jangling of a frenzied door-bell; he lias only a text and two*or three ideas, but he

says: “O Lord, help me. Here are a good many people I may never meet again. I have not much to say. Speak thou through my poor lips.” And before the service is done there are tearful eyes and a solemnity like the judgment. The great French orator, when the dead king lay before him, looked up and cried: “God only is great!” and the triumph of his eloqueuce has been told by the historians. But I have not heard that one soul was saved by the oratorical flourish. Worldly critics may think that the early preaching of Thomas Chalmers was a masterpiece. But Thomas Challhers says he never began to preach until he came out of the sick room, white and emaciated, and told men the simple story of Jesus. In the great day of eternity,.it will be found that the most souls have been brought to Christ, not-by the Bossuets and Massillons and Bourdaloues, but by humble men. who, in the strength of God, and believing in the eternal spirit, invited men to Jesus. There were wise salves—there were excellent ointments, I suppose, in the time of Christ, for blind or inflamed eyes. But Jesus turned His back upon them, and put the tip of His finger to His tongue, and then, with the spittle that adhered to the finger, He anointed the eyes of the blind man, and daylight poured into his blinded soul. So it is now that the spirit of God takes that'humble prayermeeting talk, which seems to be the very saliva of Christian in

fluence, and anoints the eyes of the blind, and poors the sunlight of pardon and peace upon the soul. Oh, my friend, I wish we could feel it more and morafthat if any good is done it is by the power of God’s omnipotent spirit. I do not know what hymn may bring you to Jesus. I' do not know wha words of the Scripture lesson I read may save your soul. Perhaps‘‘the spirit o God may hurl the very text into you heart: “Come, for all things are now ready.” Aghin, the angels of God are ready A great may Christians think that th » talk about angels is fanciful. You sa • it is a very good subject for theologip; i students who have just begun to sesmonize; but for older men it is improper. There is no more proof in Bible th; t there is a God than there are angelWhy, do not the^r swarm about J;v' cob's latter? Are we not told th; t they conducted Lazarus upward? th t they stand before the throne, th< .r faces covered up with their wing, wh; e they cry: “Holy, holy, is the Lc d God Almighty!” Did not David t >e thousands and thousands? Did not bne angel slay one hundred and eight yfive thousand men in Senacherib’s army? And shall they not be the Ch ef harvesters at the judgment? There is a line of loving, holy, mighty angels reaching to Heaven. I suppose they reach from here to t he very gate, and when an audience is assembled for the Christian worship he air is full of them. If each one of you have a guardian angel, how many celestials there are here. They cr wd the place, they hover, they .flit ah tut, they rejoice. Look, that spirit is nst come from the throne. A moment ago it stood before Christ and hoard the doxology of the glorified. I, xtk! Bright immortal, what news from the golden city!. Speak, spirit blest! The response corner melting on the air: “Come for all things are now reedy!” Angels ready to bear the tie ngs, angels ready to drop the benedi tion, angels ready to kindle they joy. They have stood in glory—they know all about it. They have felt the joy that is felt where there ; re no tears and no graves; immortal health, but no invalidism; songs, but no groans; wedding bells, but nof .meral torches—eyes that never weep— lands

that never blister—heads that never faint—hearts that never breakfriendships that are never wea xened. Ready, all of them!" Ready ti rones, principalities and' powers ready seraphim and cherubim! leady, Michael, the archangel! If I have shown you that “all things are ready,” that Christ is ready, that the Holy Spirit is ready, that the church is ready, that the angels in glory are ready, that your glorified kindred are ready\ then with all the concentrated ^emphasis of my soul, I ask you if you are ready? You see my subject throws the whole responsibility upon yours If. If you do not get into the King’s oanquet it is because you do not accep the invitation. You have the most, impor-, tunate invitation. Two arms s tretched down from the cross, soaked n blood from elbowH.o finger-tip: two lips quivering in mortal anguish; two eyes beaming with infinite love, saying: “Come, come, for all things are now ready.” I told you that when the queen came to Kenilworth Castle, they stopped all the clocks, that the finger of time might be pointed to that happy moment of her arrival. Oh! if the King would come to the castle of your soul, you might well afford * to stop all the clocks, that the hands might forever point to this moment as the one most bright, most blessed, most tremendous. Now, I wish I could go around from circle to circle and invite every one of you, according to the invitation of my text, saying: “Come!” I would like to take,every one of you by the hand and say: “Come”’ Old man, who hath been wandering seventy or eighty years, thy sun aim ost gone down, through the dust of the evening stretch out your withered hand to Christ He will not cast thee off, old man. Oh, that ont tear of repentance might trickle down thy wrinkled cheek. After Christ has fed thee all thy life long, do you think you qan afford to speak one word in His praise? ' Come, those of you who are the farthest away from God. Drunkard! Christ can put out the ire of thy thirst He can breax that shackle. He can restore thy blasted home. Go to Jesus. Libertine! Christ saw thee where thou wert last night He knows of thy sin. Yet, if thou will bring thy pol

luted soul to Him this moment, He will throw over it the n4a atle of His pardon and love. Mercy for thee, O! the chief of sinner. Harlot! thy feet foul with liell and thy laughter the^ horror of the street—oh. Mary Magdalen—look to Jesus, Mercy for thee, poor lost waif of . the street! Self-righteous man, thou must be born again, or thou canst see the kingdom^of God. Do you think you can get . into the fe: ->t with those rags? Why, the King’s servant would tear them off and leave you naked at the gate. You must bi born again. The day is far spen The cliffs begin to slide their long shadows across the plain. Do you know the. feast has already begun—-the feast to which you were invited- and the King sits with His guests, and the servant stands with his hand on the door of the banqueting room, a d he begins to swing it shut. It is alf-way shut! It is three-fourths aht ! Ii is only just a-jar. Soon it will >e shut. “Come,for all things, a ; now ready.” Have I missed one man? Who has not felt himself called this I our? Then I call him now. This is th 5 hour of thy redemption. While God invites, how£> st the,day, Ha# sweet the Gospel's harming sound! Come sinner, haste, oh, h ste away. While yet a pardoning ( id is found. —“Speak not evil ore of another, brethren.”—.Tames 4:11. If tliy brother trespass against thee, g< and tell him his fault, between thee ti id him alone.” —Earnest Christian.

THE TREASURY DEFICIT. (Protection and Republican Extravagance '* the Cause. The deficit now existing fa the United Stales treasury is 4he direct result of republican legislation and republican administration, not of one republican ail ministration, but as the legitimate result of the application of false economic theories applied year after year in more and more extreme form and of false ideas of the purpose and office of government. But even yet protection and paternalism has not borne its worst fruits. About two more republican administrations, without a democratic interval for repairs and reform, would have been required to undermine and destroy all the principles upon which the government of this republic was origi112,1 ly founded, and to bankrupt the nation and bring about revolution. □■The ways and means committee of the bouse of representatives is supposed to frame laws and devise methods for raising revenue to defray the public expenses of the nation, and the appropriations committee supervises the national expenditures, and both committees are supposed to give careful attention to the necessities of the government and to conform the revenues acd the appropriations thereto; but in the last republican eongress the needs of the government did not enter into the calculations or control the legislation planned and directed by either committee. The ways and means committee, presided over by Mr. McKinley, framed a bill bearing the name of its chairman, which was cunningly devised to operate in Restraint of trade by prohibiting, so far as possible, all foreign importations, and securing the control of American markets to domestic trusts anti monopolies organized to force down the prices of the farmer’s raw products in his hands, and increase the prices of food products to the consumer, and rob and tax for their own private gains the masses of the people upon all articles of manufacture whieh by aid of a prohibitive: tariff these trusts were enabled absolutely to control.

.tne nrst step m tno development ox the protective, or trade prohibitive, idea was based upon the constitutional right of the government to levy a tariff for1 revenues. If such a tariif afforded incidental protection to home manufacturers it could not be successfully •attacked as unconstitutional, because its chief object was to raise revenue for the support of the 'government. But gradually the trade monopolists grew bolder, and their political tools advanced and extended the doctrine of protection, pure and simple, intrenching it behind the revenue idea, but applying it in a manner to work restraint of trade and foster monopoly. Every “protected” industry demanded more, and so long as any importations whatever were possible under any tariff schedule, this fact was urged as a reason for increasing the tariff tax to a rate ^which should work absolute prohibition of imports. And as, under this doctrine, all articles which could not be grown or manufactured in this country' were placed on the free list and not taxed at all, the tendency was constantly to decrease the amount, of revenue while increasing the t'ibuto that the people were compelled to pay to private monopolies for all necessaries of life except those not produced at home in sufficient quantities; and even upon sugar, though freed from tariff taxation, they were compelled to pay a tax in the form of a bounty to the home producer. The crowning infamy in the development of this system was the McKinley bill, which, coupled with the extravagant appropriations of the Reed congress, is directly responsible for the present dangerous condition of the United States treasury. The McKinley bill is framed to prevent the accumulation of revenue, by prohibiting importations, and thus to vtoik restraint of trade. The people will remember that it is the McKinley lave, now in force, which fails by ten million dollars every month to provide the treasury with sufficient means to meet the obligations that were created at the same time by a republican congress; while the people, because of this same McKinley law, are forced to pay

millions into me couers oi trusts ana monopolies, which sums, if paid into the national treasury instead, would fill it constantly to overflowing and soon extinguish the national debt. At the common law, a contract in restraint of trade is void, as being against public policy and welfare; but republican legislation has legalized and encouraged restraint of trade to the injury of the public welfare. It is this condition of things, made almost impregnate by long success, with which the present democratic administration has to deal. It requires courage* and hard lighting to bring about reform, and it demands the exercise of patience on the part of the people*. Great reforms are accomplished gradually, and so it will be with tariff reform. We must patiently but persistently and steadily undo the wrongs that haVe been done to the people, in the name of specious, but false and vicious principles and doctrines. —Kansas City Times. Cause of the Deficit. Republican tariff legislation injured trade and reduced revenues Republican extravagance wiped out the surplus and substituted a deficit. Republican bullion buying made the'mass of idle bullion a menace to the silver market and to the stability of the currency. Hence the panic. Secretary Carlisle tells the senate committee on finance what the republican panic has done for th e treasury. Expenditures go on under republican laws, and revenues fall off as a consequence of other republican laws. Reed and McKinley tried to make tariff reform an impossibility. They did hot succeed, but they have* made a mess of tho fiscal affairs of the government—St Louis Republic. -Secretary Carlisle, finding that congress is not disposed to help him in maintaining the necessary gold reserve, has concluded to help himself. This is a very sane and satisfactory determination. —PhiladelpliiafEecord

WHAT IT MEANS. Diwycratlc LccM|atlon on the leni Question. The days of taxed sugar and a subsidized sugar trust are numbered. The day of ah un taxed breakfast table for the poor man is at hand. ' Though the republican and assistant republican obstructionists have matt* aged to involve the house in an un* seemly tangle, there is no obscurity in the; measure which was passed the other day in committee of the whole by a vole of 161 to SSt The bounty b abolished outright, and all sugar, raw and refined, is to be free. Such is the measure which a democratic congress will un doubtedly give to the country. How could a democratic congress do less? In a democratic tariff formed on the theory that all tariffs are evil, there is no plaee for a tax on an article wliieh appears first in the list of plain necessities of every household. In a scheme for the honest and economical administration of government there is no money to be taken from a depleted treasury to enrieh a robber trust, to burden the poor with an insidious and widely disseminated tax in the interest of a coteriepf millionaires—that is McIvinleyism; it has no place in democratic legislation. The sacrifice of revenue due to the abandonment of the tax on sugar will be very large, but from its total are to be subtracted the millions heretofore paid in bounties. The difference will still be larged but were it fourfold what it is the necessity fer the repeal would be no less urgent Indeed, the virtue of the new legislation is proved by the character of those who oppose | it. It is the plutocracy of both parties j that recoils from the proposition to lift j this burden from the common people, because at length the plutocrats, democratic as well as republican, realize that the deficit thus created must be ; made good by a tax upon their own superfluities. Free sugar is hateful to the heartless and , unpatriotic rich because it means taxed incomes. It means the unmasking of hidden wealth

which has neyer paid its own share to taxation, but compelled poverty to bear the unequal burden. Nc^ man whose income, is not far in excess of four thousand dollars will feel a feathers weight of the new burden. How many wage earners of America derive that sum trorn their labors? How many merchants, how many professional men? Count them and you will have the number of those whose taxes the poor man has been paying, but will shortly pay ° no more.—Chicago Times. TH5 PENSION FRAUDS. An Inevitable Outcome of Ruinous Republican methods. Following close upon the discovery of extensive pension frauds in West Virginia, Iowa, Nebraska and Baltimore comes the announcement that a single Buffalo pension agent has fraudulently secured for pensioners at least one million dollars and that “this, is only the beginning of the unearthing of the most gigantic fraudq ever perpetrated in the pension department.” These frauds are the natural, legitimate, inevitable outcome of the Tan-ner-Raum methods of “bus ting the surplus.” The profligacy of congress in the matter of pension legislation has almost justified pension agents and others in holding that any scheme for looting the treasury is justifiable provider it is in the name of the “old soldier;” and successive pec don commissioners have winked at “rulings” that have made petty retail fnuds seem almost respectable by comp orison. Commissioner Lochren will deserve well of his country if he will not only stop the wholesale frautfh perpetrate d through “rulings,” but chack the minor but still monstrous frauds that are the work of dishonest agents md perjured pension-grabbers. No or e desires to deprive the deserving vetc ran, disabled in the line of duty, of ais country’s bounty. But the bounty-jumpers, deserters, cheats and frauds must be stricken from the roll as fast as discovered. Only in this way can the pension roll be maintained as “a roll of hoaor.”—N. Y. VVorltU POINTS AND OPINIONS.

-Republican assertic is concerning1 the bond issue are not at all consistent with the facts. The first Cleveland ad* ministration turned over to the Harris son administration an overflowing treasury. The Fifty-firs i congress did the rest.—N. Y. World. -Gov. McKinley has been arraigned for not doing his duty in the matter of supervising the expendit ares of public institutions in his state, he result being a burdensome deflc it. The governor’s idea seems to be that the highest function of American Citizenship is to pay taxes.—Detroit Fr> e Press. ——The proceeds of these bonds will only tide over the prescat and most pressing needs of the gov trnment, and an incomparably large* sum will be needed to meet the gra ving deficit, provide a safe gold rese rve for the enormous issue of treasur ;r notes outstanding and furnish available working capitab—N.*Y. Herald. > ——A republican cont emporary ha made the discovery that the democrats propose to repeal the * McKinley bill simply because it was passed by the republican party. If onr contemporary believes that, he would be, if a democratic member of congress, just such a narrow and shallow partisan as to vote for the McKinley bill’s repeal solely on the ground that it was passed by republicans.—Louisville Courier-Journal. J --Sometimes the devil fish, in order to escape attack or observation, darkens the water ^bout him by the emission of an inky cloud in which he hides himself. At other times he pretends to be what he is not by assuming the color of the sand upon which he sprawls himself. .The republicans in the house of representatives are fighting the Wilson bill with devil-fish taotics. They sometimes darken counsel by words without knowledge dr bearing; and, again, refuse to answer when their names are called, hiding in the fog of their own argument and hoping to defeat their opponents by inaction. —Philadelphia Record

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