Pike County Democrat, Volume 25, Number 36, Petersburg, Pike County, 18 January 1895 — Page 6

THE ISLE OF PALM& 'Bov. Dr. Talmage Talks About the Balmy Island of Ceylon. V n«re All the Nations Arc Represented And Mlaalonale* Are Battling Against Illndoolsm and Superstition. , ■ . __ ■ ? ' In contiuing his series of 'Bound the world sermons though the press. Rev. Dr. Talmage chose for this week's sub- . jeet “Ceylon, the Isle of Palms,” the -text being: * The ships of Tarshlsh first..—Isaiah lx.. 9. The Tarshish of my text by many commentators is supposed to be the island of Ceylon, upon which the seventh sermon of the ’Bound-the-world series lands ,us. Ceylon was ruled by the Roman Taprobanc. John Milton called it “GoldenChersonese.” Moderns have called Ceylon “The Isle of Palms;” “The Isle of Flowers;” “The Pearl Drop on the Brow of India;” ‘The Isle -of Jewels;” “The Island of Spice;” “The Show Place of the Universe;” “The Land of Hyacinth and Ruby.” In my eyes, for scenery it appeared to be n mixture of Yosemite and Yellowstone park. All Christian people want to know more of Ceylon, for they have a long while been contributing for its evangelization. As our ship from Australia approached the island, there hovered over it clouds thick and black as the superstitions which have hovered here for centuries; but the morning -sun was breaking through like' the Gospel light which is to scatter the last cloud of moral gloom. The sea lay along the coast calm as the eternal purposes of God toward all islands and continents. We swing into theharbor of Colombo, which is made by abreak6 water built at vast expense. As we floated into it the water is black with boats of all sizes, and manned by people of all colors, but chiefly Tamils and Cingalese. There are two things I went most to see on this island; a heathen temple with its devotees in idolatrous worship, ;and an audience of Cingalese addressed by a Christian missionary. The entomologist may have his capture of brilliant insects; and„the sportsman his tent adorned with antler of red deer “and tooth of wild boar; and the painter his portfolio of gorge three thousand feet down, and of days dying on evening pillows of purple cloud etched with Are; and the botanist his camp /«11 an/)

tians. and valerian, and lotus. I want most to find out the moral and religious triumphs, how many wounds have been healed; how many sorrows comforted; how many entombed nations resurrected. Sir William Baker, the famous explorer and geographer, did well for Ceylon after his eight years’ residence in this island, and Prof. Ernst Heckel, the professor from Jena, did well when he swept these waters, and rummaged these hills, and took home for future inspection the insects of this tropical air. And forever honored be such work; but let all that is sweet in rhythm, and graphic on canvas, and imposing in monument, and immortal in memory be brought to tell the deeds of those who were heroes and heroines for Christ’s sake. Many scholars have supposed that this island of Ceylon was the original Garden of Eden where the snake first appeared on reptilian mission. There are reasons for belief that this was the site where the first homestead was opened and destroyed. It is so near the equator that there are not more than twelve degrees of Fahrenheit difference all the year round. Perpetual foliage, perpetual fruit, and all styles of animal life prosper. What luxuriance, and abundance, and superabundance of life! What styles of plumage do not the birds sport! What syles of scale do not the fishes reveal! What styles of song do not the groves have- in their libretto! Here on the roadside and clear out on the beach of the sea stands the cocoanut tree, saying: 4“Take my leaves for shade. Take juice of my fruit for delectable drink. Take my saccharine for sugar. Take my fiber for the cordage of your ships. Take my oil to kindle your lamps. Take my wood to fashion your cups and pitch

ers. Take my leaves to thatch your roofs. Take my smooth surface on which to print your books. Take my thirty million trees covering five hundred thousand acres, and with the exportation enrich the world. I willJ wave in your fans, and spread abroad in your umbrellas. I will vibrate in your musical instruments. I will be the scrubbing brush on your floors.” Here also stands the palm tree, saying: “I am at your disposal. With these arms I fed your ancestors one hundred and fifty years ago, and with these same.arms I will feed your descendants one hundred and fifty years from. now. X defy centuries!” Here also stands the nutmeg tree, * saying: “I am ready to spice your beverages, and ehricb your puddings, and with my sweet dtfst make insipid things palatable.” Here also stands the coffee plant, saying: “With tahe liquid boiled from my berry I stimulate the nations morning by morning.” f \ Here stands the tea plant, saying: “Witli the liquid boiled from my leaf I soothe the world’s nerves and stimulate the world's conversation, evening by evening.” Here stands the cinchona, saying: -“I am the foe of malaria. In all climates my bitterness is the slaughter of levers.” What miracles of productiveness on -these islands! Enough sugar to sweet«n all the world’s beverages; enough bananas to pile all the world’s fruit 'baskets; enough rice to. mix all the world’s puddings; enough cocoanut to powder all the world’s cakes; enough Howers to garland all the world's beauty. But in the evening, riding through a cinnamon grove, 1 first tasted the leaves and bark of that condiment so -valuable and. delicate that transported on sh}ps the aroma of the cinnamon is

dispeled if placed near a rival bark. Of such great value is the cinnamon shrub that years, ago those who injured it in Ceylon were pat to death. But that which once was a jong!e of cinnamon is now a park of gentlemen's residences. The long, white dwelling houses are bounded with this slirob, and all other styles of growth congregated there make a botanical garden. Doves called cinnamon doves hop among the branches, and crows, more poetically styled ravens, which neper could sing, but think they can, fly across the road giving full test of their vocables. Birds which learned their chanting under the very eaves of Heaven overpower all with their grand march of the tropics. The hibiscus dapples the scenes with its scarlet clusters. All shades of brown and emerald, and saffron, and brilliance; melons, limes, magnosteens, cus-tard-apples, guavas, pineapples, jessamine so laden with aroma they j have to hold/ast to the wall, and begonias, gloriosas on fire, and orchids so delicate other lands must keep them under conservatory, but here defiant of ail weather, and flowers more or less akin to azaleas, and honeysuckles, and floxes, and fucbi&s, and chrysanthemums, and rhododendrons, and foxgloves, and pansies, which dye the plains and mountains of Ceylon with Heaven. The evening hour burns incense of all, .styles of aromatics. The convolvulus, blue as if the sky had fallen, and butterflies spangling the air, and arms of trees sleeved with blossoms, and rocks Upholstered of moss, commingling sounds, and sights, and odors, until eye, and ear, and nostril vie with each other as to which sense shall open the door to the most enchantment. A struggle between music, and per‘urae. arid irridescenee. Oleanders -eeling in intoxication of color. Great >anyan trees that have been changing 1 heir mind for centuries, each century carrying out a new plan of growth, attracted our attention, and saw us pass ip the year of 1894, as they saw pass the generations of 1794 and 1994. Colombo is so thorcughlyjembowered in foliage that if you go ihto one of its towers and look down upon the city of one hundred and thirty thousand people you can not see a house. Oh, the trees of Ceylon! May you $xve to behold the morning climbing dowp through your branches, or the evening tipping their leaves with amber and gold! 1 forgive the Buddhist for the worship of trees until they know of the ! God who made the trees. I wonder not

that there are some trees in Ceylon called sacred. To me all trees are sacred. 1 wonder not that before one of them they burn camphor flowers, and hang lamps around its branches, and one hundred (thousand people each year make pilgrimage to that tree. Worship something man must, and un-til-he hear of the only Being worthy of worship, what so elevating as a tree! What a majestic doxology speads out in its branches! What a voice when the tempests pass through it! How it looks down upon the cradle and the grave of centuries! As the fruit of one tree unlawfully eaten struck tneracewith woe',and the uplifting of another tree brings peace to the soul,; let the woodman spare the tree, and all nations honor it, if, through higher teaching, we do not, like the Ceylonese, worship it! How consolatory that when we no more walk under the tree branches on earth, we may see the “tree of life which bears twelve manner of fruit, and yields he> fruit every month, and the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations!’. Two processions I saw in Ceylon within one hour, the first led by a Hindoo priest, a huge pot of flowers on his head, his face disfigured with holy lacerations, and his unwashed followers beating as many discords from what are supposed to be musical instruments, as at one time can be induced to enter the human ear. The procession halted at the door of the huts. The occupants came out and made obeisance and presented small contributions. In return therefor the priest sprinkled ashes upon the children who came forward, this evidently a form of benediction. Then the procession, led by the priest, started again; more noise, more ashes, more genuflection. However keen one’s sense of the ludicrous, he could find nothing to excite even a smile in the movements of such a procession. Meaningless, oppressive, squalid,filthy, sad.

Returning to the carriage, we rode on for a few moments, and we came on another procession, a kindly lady leading groups of native children all clean, bright, happy, laughing. There seemed as much intelligence, refinement and happiness in that regiment of young Cingalese, as you would find in the ranks of any young ladies’ seminary being chaperoned on their afternoon walk through Central park, New York, or Hyde park, London. The H indoo procession illustrated^ on a . small scale something of what Hindooism can do for the world. The Christian procession illustrated on a small, scale something of what Christianity can do for the world. But those two processions were only fragments of two great processions ever marching across our world; the procession blasted of superstition and the procession blessed of Gospel light. I saw them in one afternoon in Ceylon. They are to be seen in all nations. Noth ing is of more thrilling interest than the Christian achievements in this island. The Episcopal church was here the National church, but disestablishment has taken place, and since Mr. Gladstone’s accomplishment' of that faot in 1880 all denominations are on equal platform, and all are doing mighty, work. . America is second to no other nation$Jji what has been done for <3eylon. Th (^Spauldings, the Howlands, the Doctor^ Poor, the Saunders and others just as good and strong have lieen fighting back monsters of sujjerstition and cruelty greater than a ny that ever swung the tusk or roared in the jungles. . Among t be first places I visited was a Buddhist college,about one hundred men studying to become priests gath

{ •red around the teachers. Stepping I Into the building where the high priest was instructing the class, we were apologetic and told him we wen! Americans, and would like to see his mode of teaching if he had no objecj tions; whereupon he began, double*! j as be was on a lounge, with j his right hand playing with his foot. In his left hand he held a package of bamboo leaves on which were written the words .of the lesson,' each student holding a similar package of bamboo leaves. The high pnjlajC first read and then one of the students lead. A group of as finely-formed young men as I ever _s«fw surrounded the venerable f instructor. , The las* word of each sentence j was intoned. There was in the whole scene an earnestness which impressed me. Not able to understand a word of what was said, there is a look of language and intonation that is the same among all races. That the Buddhists have full faith in their religion no one can doubt. That is, in their opinion, the way to Heaven. What Mohammed is to the Mohammedan, and what Christ is to- the Christian, Buddha is to the Buddhist. We waited for a pause in the recitation, and then, expressing our thanks, retired. Near by is a Buddhist temple, on the altar of which before the image of Buddha are offerings of flowers. As night was coming on we came up to -a Hindoo temple. First we were prohibited going further than the outside steps, but we gradually advanced until we could bee all that was going on inside. The worshipers were making obeisance. The tom-toms were wildly beaten, and the shrill pipes were blown, and several other instruments were in full bang and blare, and there was an indescribable hubbub, and the most laborious style of worship I had ever seen or heard. The dim lights, and the jargon, and the gloom, and the flitting figures mingled for eye and ear a horror which it is difficult to shake off. All this was only suggestive of what would there transpire after the toilers of the day had eeased work, and had time to appear at the temple. That such things should be supposed to please the Lord, or have any power to console or help the worshipers, is only another mystery- in this world -of mysteries. But we came away saddened with the spectacle, a sadness which did not leave us until we arrived at a place where a Christian missionary was preaching in the streets to a group of natives.

But passing'up and down the streets of Ceylon you find all styles of people within five minutes; Afghans, Kaffirs, Portuguese. Moormen, Dutch, English, Scotch, Irish, Americans; all classes, all dialects, all manners and customs, all styles of salaam. The most inter* esting thing on earth is the human race, and specimens of all branches of it confront you in Ceylon. The > island of the present is a quiet and inconspicuous affair com pared with what it once was. The dead cities of Ceylon were larger and more imposing than are the living cities. On this. island are dead New Yorks, and dead Fekins, and dead Edinburghs, and dead Londons. Ever and anpp, at the stroke of the archaeolog ist’s'hammer the tomb of some great municipality flies open, amt there are buried cities that will yet respond to the explorers pickax. The Pompeii and Hercalaneum underneath Italy are small compared with the Pompeiis and Herculaneums underneath Ceylon. Yonder is. an exhumed city which was founded five hundred years before Christ, standing in pomp and splendor for twelve hundred years. Stairways up which fifty men might pass side oy side. Carved pillars, some of them fallen, some of them aslant, some of them erect. Phidiases and Christopher Wrens nearer heard of here performed the marvels of sculpture and architecture. Aisles through which royal processions marched. Arches under which kings were carried. City with reservoir twenty miles in circumference. Extemporized lakes that did their cooling and refre|hing for twelve centuries. Ruins mote suggestive than Melrose and Kenilworth. Ceylonian Karnaks and Luxors. Ruins retaining much of grandeur, through wars bombarded them, and Timeout his chisel on every block, and more than all, vegetation in all the crevices. Dagobas, or

places where relics of« saints or deities are kept. Dagobas four hundred feet high, and their fallen material burying precious things for the sight of which modern curiosity has digged and blasted in vain. Procession of elephants in imitation, wrought into lustrous marble. Troops of horses in full run. Shrines, chapels, cathedrals wrecked on the mountain side. Stairs of moonstone Exquisite scrolls rolling up more mysteries than will ever be enrolled. Over sixteen square miles, the ruins of one city strew n. Throne rooms cm which at different times sat one hundred and sixty-five kings, reigning in authority they inherited. Walls that witnessed coronations, assassinations, subjugations, triumphs. Altars at which millions bowed ages liefore the orchestras celestial woke the shepherds with midnight overture. Preposterous! says some one, to think that any of our American or European ciities which have stood so long can ever come through vice to extinction. But New York and London have not. stood as long as those Ceylonese cities stood. Where is the throne outside of Ceylon on which one hundred and sixty-five successive kings reigned for a lifetime. Cities and nations have lived far longer than our present cities, or nation, have been sepulehered. Let all the great municipalities of this and other lands ponder. It is as iruC' now as when the Psalmist wrote it, and as true of cities and nations as of individuals: “The Lord knoweth the way of the righteous; but the way of the ungodly shall perish.” __ —The furbelow was at first separate from the dress, and a distinct article of apparel.

SENATOR JONES’ BIUL Introduced bjr Rim 1m the Sntnte M« iday— It Mnjr litre the President'* Approval; end Is Believed to be the Only Cu -rencv Bill that It Will be Possible tu^nst Into Low nt this besslsn of Congress. Washington, Jab. 14.—A new financial bill will be introduced to-day by Senator Jones, of Arkansas, which, it is said, gives what the g6)d-stan Jard men insist shall be gi^en them, and gives the silver men. in a degree, what they have been asking. It is claimed that Mr. Jones has secured some assurances that the measure he will propose will have the sanction of the treasury department and of the president himself. Its principal features are these: The secretary of the treasury will be authorized to issue $.*>00,000,000 of coupon or registered bonds, interest and principal payable in gold at not exceeding ix4 or 3 per cent., the lx>otis to run thirty years, but -redeemable at the option of the government after twenty years. The proceeds of these bonds are to be used for the current expenses of the treasury, and the redemption of -the greenbacks and the' treasury notes issued under the Sherman act. The bonds will be of the denominations of $20. $50, $100, $600, $1,000, 85,000 and $10,000, all exempt from taxations etc- and subscriptions for them are to oe received at the treasury, or at any sub treasury or any bank where United States funds are deposited, it being the intention of the act to give full and free opportunity for general subscriptions. The loan is to be made as popular as possible. National banks will be permitted to issue notes to the par value of this bonds they deposit to secure their circulation, and an inducement will be offered the banks to increase their circulation by reducing the tax on circulation from 1 pey cent, to one-quarter of one per cent. An effort will also be made to prevent the reduction of circulation by making it illegal for any bank to retire -its circulation without the consent in writing of the secretary of the treasury, and the act will be repealed which prohibits banks from increasing their circulation for a period of six months alter the withdrawal of circulation^

An increase of the use of salver is created in two sections which will nomination of $20 shall be silver certificates. These sections will provide that no najtional bank note shall be issued of a denomination less t aan $20, and all nptes of national banks now outstanding-, of a denomination less than $20, shall, as rapidly as {possible, be taken up, redeemed and cancelled and notes of $20 or higher denominations issued in their stead. The secretary of the treasury will be authorized and directed,out of the proceeds of the sale of bonds authorized, to cancel and destroy all greenbacks and treasury notes issued u ider the Sherman act of denominations less than $20, and to issue silver certificates in their stead, but not to a greater aggregate amount than the greenbacks and treasury notes and national bank notes, Jrae withdrawal aqi cancellation of which are authorized, these silver certificates to be in denominations of $1. $2, $.» and $10, and be payable in silver. It is the intention under this proposed act that neither the treasury nor the national banks shall issue or keep in circulation any notes other than silver certificates of a less denomination than $20. ' The secretary of th treasury is authorized, at the request of any holder of treasury notes or gn anbacks, to issue in lieu thereof silver certificates of a<fi&s denomination than 1 2C. Another section of the bil authorizes and directs the secretar y of th treasury, out?;6f the proceeds of the sale of bonds and from ji; y surplus revenues, to'redeem and < an cel, and not re-issue, the greenbacks und treasury notes, as fast as the -aggregate amount of greenbacks, treasury notes, silver certificates under and national bank notes shall be in excess, of the aggregate amount of greenbacks, treasury notes and national bank notes in circulation at the passage of f hn Vkill notes under the de

The unlimited coinage of silver is provided for in a section -which will read practically as follows: ■» “The secretary of the treasury is authorized and directed to receive at' any mint from any cit zen of the United States, silver ullion, the product of the mines o the United States, of standard weij at, etc., and coin the same into standa -d silve r dollars, and the seigniorage for the said coinage shall be the differ nee between the coinage value and .the bullion value in London on the d;i.y of deposit, and the secretary of the treasury shall deliver to the owner of said bullion the silver dollars so ec ined, and the amount received from tl a seigniorage of said coinage shall be covered into the treasury. The absence of Mr. ones from the meeting of the finance t unmittee Saturday morning was i gnificant. It transpires that Mr. J< les, accompanied by Mr. Camden, of West Virginia, a gold-standard man, called, at the treasury and had a »ng conference with the secretary, and thence went to the president hims If. They were given an immediate a tlience, and for a long time the preside it and the two senators, representing opposing elements in the party, die ussed the situation from various poii ;s of view. MACHINE SHOPS BURNED. Fir* at Bhenej Bros’ Si c Mills at Manchester, C DO. v Manchester, Conn. Jan. 14.—At 5 p. m., yesterday, a fire was discovered in the machine shops at Cheney Bro.'s silk mills at South fanches’ter. Its origin is unknown. The machine shops and dyeing an; engine rooms were gutted. Estim; ted loss, from 960,000 to 975,000, full covered by insurance. During the fire 6t rdon Dunn fell from the roof of the 1: uQding and had his thigh bone and ski 11 fractured. , MS%-Mt ££3’

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