Pike County Democrat, Volume 25, Number 50, Petersburg, Pike County, 26 April 1895 — Page 2

i————■—Am TALMAGE’S SERMON. Th.o Stripping of the Slain by the Philistines. n« Rubbery of the Dnd Seel ud HI* Army lmltilcd by tbe World ToDay—Tb® Reward® of an Ill-Spent LUe. Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage delivered the following sermon in the Academy of music. New York city, on the subject: “After the Battle,” basing it on the 'text: And It came to pass off tbe morrow, when •*bo Philistines came to strip the slain, that * -they found Saul and his three sons fallen in Mount Gilboa.—I. Samuel.’zxzL. A Some of you were at South Mountain, or Shiloh, or Ball’s Bluff, or Gettysburg, on northern or southern side, and I ask you if there is any sadder sight than a battle-field after the guns have stopped firing? I walked across the field of Antietam just after the conflict. The scene was so sickening I shall not describe it. Every valuable thing had been taken from tbe bodies of the dead, for there are always vultures hoveling over and around an army, and they pick up the watches and the memorandum books, and the letters, and the daguerreotypes, and ithe hats and the coats, applying them to their own uses. The dead make no •resistance. So there’are always campfollowers going on and after an army, as when Scott went down into Mexico, as when Napoleon marched up toward Moscow, as when Von Moltke went to Sedan. There is a similar scene in my text: Saul and h'u> army had been horribly cut to 1 pieces. Mount Gilboa was ghastly with the dead. On the morrow * the stragglers, came on to the field, and \ they lifted the late he t of the helmet % * from tinder the [chin of the dead, and they picked up the swords and bent them on their knee to test the temper of the metal, and they opened the wallets and counted the coin. Saul lay dead along the ground, eight or nine feet in length, and 1 suppose the cowardly Philistines, to show their bravery, leaped upon the trunk of his carcass, and jeered at the fallen slain, -.and whistled through the mouth of his helmet. Before night those cormorants had taken everything valuaV -ble from the field: “And it came, to pass on the morrow, when the Phili- • fit iues came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his three sons fallen in Mount Gilboa.” Before I get through to-dayl will show yob that the same process is going on all the world over, and everyday, and that when men have fallen, Satan and the world, so far from pitying them or helping them, go to work remorse--lessly to take what little there is left, thus stripping the slain. * There are Urns of thousands of young men every year coming from the country to our great cities. They cowe with brave hearts and grand expectations. The country lads sit dowu in the village grocery, with their feet on the ijron rod around the red-liot stove, iu the evening, talking over the prospects of the young man who has gone off to the city. Two or three of them think that perhaps he might get along well and succeed, but the most of them prophesy failure, for it is very hard to thiuk that those whom we knew in boyhood will ever make any great success iu the world. But our young man has a fine position in a dry goods store. The month is over, lie gets his wages, lie is not - accustomed to have so much money belonging to himself, lie is a little ex- • cited, and does not kuow-exactly what to do with it, and he spends it in some places where lie ought not Soon tliera

■ come up ne w coinpauions and acquaintances from the bar rooms aud the sa.loousof the city. Soon that young man begins to waver in the battle of teinptatiou, and soup his soul goes down. In a few months, or few years, Iks has fallen. Ue is morally dead. He is a mere corpse of what he once was. The harpies of sin snuff up the taint and come on the field. His garments gradually give out. lie has ^ pawned his watch. His lidalth is failing him. His credit perishes. He is to6 poor to stay in the city, and he is too poor to pay his way home to the • country. Down! down! Why do the « tow fellows of the city now stick to vhim so closely? Is it to help him back to a moral and spiritual life? Oh, no! 1 will tell you why they stay; they are Philistines stripping the slain. ° - • There is another way, however, of •■doing that same work. Here is a man who, through his sin, is prostrate. He / -acknowledges that he has done wrong. Now is the time for you to go to that man and say: ''Thousands of people have been as far astray as you are aud Lgot back.” Now is the time for you to go to that man and tell him of the omnipotent grace of God, that is sufficient for any poor soul. Now is the time to •go tell him how swearing John Bun* yau, through the grace of God, afterward came to the celestial city. Now is the time to go to that man and tell jititn llow profligate Newton came, /• through conversion, to be a world-re- ^ apvvned preacher of righteousness. Now is the time to tell that mat^ that * . multitudes who have been pounded with all the flails of sin and dragged through all the sewers of pollution, at last have risen to positive dominion of moral pgwpr. You do not tell him that. t do you? No. You say to him: “Loan yon " money? No. You are down. You •will have to go to the dogs. Lend you »Mol!ar? I would not lend you five cents to keep you from the gallows. You are debauched! Get out of my sight, now! Down; you will have to stay down!” And thus those bruised •ad battered men are sometimes ac- * costed by those who ought to lift them ■ap. Thus the last vestige of hope is taken from them. Thus those who ought to go and lift and save them, are guilty of stripping the slain. The point I want to make is this: Sin is hard, cruel and relentless. Instead - of helping a man up, it helps him down; anil when, like Saul and his •comrades, you lie on the field, it will

come and steal jour sword and helmet and shield, leaving you to the jackal and the crow. Bnt the world and Satan do not do all their work with the outcast and abandoned. A respec table impenitent man comes to die. He is flat on his back. He could not ge t up if the house was on fire. Adroitest medical skill and gentlest nursing have been a failure. He has come to his last hour. What does Satan do for such a man? Why, he fetches up all the inapt, disagreeable and harrowing things in his life. He says: “Do you remember those chances you had for Heaven, and missed them? Do you remember all those lapses in conduct? Do you remember all those opprobrious words and thoughts and actions? Don't remember them, eh? ill make yon remember them.” And then he takes all the past and empties it on that deathbed, as the mail bags are emptied on the post-ofBcc floor. ' The man is sick. He can not get away from them. Then the man says to Satan: | “You have deceived me. You told me that all would be well. You said there would be no trouble at the last. You told me if I did so and so, you would do so and so. Now you corner me, and hedge' me up, and submerge me in everything evil.” “Ha! Ifa!” says Satan, “1 was only fooling you. It is mirth for me to see you suffer. I have been for thirty years plotting to get you just where you are. It is hard for you now, it will be worse for you after awhile. It pleases me. Lie still, sir. Don’t flinch or shudder. Come, now, I will tear off from you the last rag of expectation. I will rend away from your soul the last hope. I will leave you bare for the beating of the storm. It is my business to strip the slain. gJA man who had rejected Christianity and thought it all trash, came to die. He was in the sweat of a great agony, and his wife said: ‘^Ve had better have some prayer.*’ .“Mary, not a breath of that,” he said. “The lightest word of prayer would roll back on me like rocks on a drowning man. I have come to the hour of test. I had a chance, but I forfeited it. I believed in a liar, and he has left me in the lurch. Mary, bring me Tom Paine, that book that I swore by and lived by, and pitch it into the fire, and let it burn and burn as I myself shall soon burn.” And then, with thefoam on his lips and his hands tossing wildly in the air, ho cried out: “Blackness of darkness! Oh, my God, too late!” And the spirits of darkness whistled up from the depth, and wheeled around and around him. stripping the slain. While men are in robust health, and their digestion is good, and their nerves are strong, they think their physical strength will get them safely f through the last exigency. They say it is only cowardly women who are afraid at the last, and cry out for God. “Wait till I come to die. I will show you. You won’t hear me pray, nor call for a minister, nor want a chapter.read me from the Bible.” But after the man has been three weeks in a sick room his nerves are not so steady, and his worldly companions are not anywhere near to cheer him up, and he is persuaded that he must quit life; his physical courage is all gone. lie jumps at the fail of a teaspoon in a saucer. He shivers at the idea of going away. He says: “Wife, I don’t think my infidelity is going to take me through. For God’s sake, don’t bring up the children to do as I have I done. If you feel like it, I wish you would read a verse or two out of Fannie’s Sabbath-school hymn-book, or New Testament.” But Satan breaks in and says: “You have always thought religion trash and a lie; don’t give up at the last. Besides that, you can.not, in the hour you have to live, get off on that track. Die as you lived. With my great black wings I shut out that light. Die in darkness. I rend away from you that last vestige of hope. It is my business to strip the slain.” Sin is luxury now; it is exhilaration

now; it is victory now. But after awhile it is collision; it is defeat; it is extermination; it is jackalism; it is robbing the dead; it is stripping the slain. Give it up to-day—give it up! Oh, how you have 'been cheated on. my brother, from one thing to another! All these years you have been under an evil mastery that you understood not. What have your companions done for your health? Nearly ruined it by carousal. What have they done for your fortune? Almost scattered it by spendthrift behavior. What have they done for your reputation? Almost ruined it with good men. What have they done for your immortal soul? Almost insured its overthrow. You are hastening on toward the consummation of all that is sad. Today you stop and think, but it is only for a moment, and then you will tramp on, and at the close of this service you will go out, and the question will be: “How did you like the sermon?” And one man will say: “I liked it very well,” and another man will say: “I | didn’t like ,it at all;” but neither of the answers will touch the tremendous j fact, that if impenitent, you are going atathirty knots an hour toward j shipwreck! Yea, you are in a battle where! you will fall; and while your surviving, relatives will take voUr remaining estate, and the cemetery will take your body, the messengers of darkness will take your soul, and come and go about you stripping the slain. Many are crying out: “I admit I am slain. I admit it!” On what battlefield, my brothers? By what weapon? “Polluted imagination/’ says one man; “Intoxicating liquor,” says another man; “My own hard heart,” says another man. Do you jrealize this? Then I come to bell you that the omnipotent, \ Christ is ready to walk across the battlefield and revive, and resuscitate I and resurrect your dead soul. Let Him l take your hand and rub away the numbness; your head, jsnd bathe off the aching; your heart and stop its wild throb. He brought Lazarus to life: He brought Jairus’ daughter to life; He brought the young man of Nain to life, and these are three proofs j anyhow that he can bring you to life.'} VYhfcu the Philistines came down on j the tie'l l they stepped between the |

corpses, and they rolled over the dead, and they took away everything? that was valuable; and so It was with the people that followed after the armies at Chancellorsville, and at Pittsburg? Landing?, and at Stone River, and at Atlanta, stripping the slain, but the northern and southern women—Clod bless them—came on the field with basins, and pads, and towels, and lint, and cordials, and Christian encouragement, and the poor fellows that lay there lifted up their arms and said: “Oh, how good that does feel since yon dressed it!” and fliers looked up and said: “Oh, how you make me think of my mother!” and others said: “Tell the folks at home I died thinking abont them!” and another looked up and said: “Miss, won’t you sing me a verse of ’Home, Sweet, Home,’ before I die?” And then the tattoo was sounded, then the hats were off, and the service was read: “I am the resurrection and the life;” and in honor of the departed the muskets were loaded and the command given. “Present— fire!” And there was a shingle set up at the head of the grave, with the epitaph of “Lieut, -, in the Fourteenth Massachusetts Regulars,” or “Capt.-, in the Fifteenth Regiment of South Carolina Volunteers.” And so now, across the great field of moral and spiritual battle, the angels of God come walking among the slain, and there are voices of comfort, and voices of hope, and voices of resurrection, and voices of Heaven. One night I saw a tragedy on the corner of Broadway and Houston street A young man, evidently doubting as to which direction he had better take, his hat lifted high enough so that you could see he had an intelligent forehead, stout chest; he had a robust development. Splendid young man. Cultured young man. Honored young man. Why did he stop there while so many were going up and down? The fact is that every man has a good angel and a bad angel contending for the mastery of his spirit, and there was a good angel and a bad angel struggling with that young man's soul at the corner of Broadway and Houston street. “Come with me,*” said the good angel; “I will take you home; 1 will spread my wings over your pillow; I will lovingly escort you all through life UDder supernatural protection; I will bless every cup you drink out of, every couch you rest on, every doorway you enter; I will consecrate your tears when you weep, your sweat when you toil, and at the last 1 will hand over your grave into the hand of the bright angel of a Christian resurrection. In answer to your father’s petition and your mother’s prayer, 1 have been sent of the Lord, out of Heaven to be your guardian spirit. “Come with me,” said the good angel in a voice of unearthly Symphony. It was music like that which drops from a lute of Heaven when a seraph breathes on it. “No, no,” said tlfe bad angel, “come with me; I have something better to offer; the wines I pour are from chalices of bewitching carousal: the dance I lead is over floor tessellated with unstrained indulgences; there is no God to frown on the temples of sin where I worship. The skies are Italian. The paths I tread are through meadows, daisied and primrosed. Come with me.” The young man- hesitated at a time when hesitation was ruin, and the bad angel smote the good angel until it departed, spreading wings through the starlight upward and away until a $oor flashed open in the sky and forever the wings vanished. That was the turning point in that young man's history; for, ' the good angel flown. he hesitated no longer, but started on a pathway which is beautiful at the opening, but blasted at the last. The bad angel, leading the way,

upeueu pate wiser gate, ana as eacn gate the road became rougher and the sky more lurid, and what was peculiar, as the gate slammed shut it came to with a jar that indicated that it would never open. Passed each portal, there was a grinding of locks and a shoving of bolts; and the scenery on either side of the road changed from gardens to | deserts; and the June air became a cutting December blast, and the bright wings of the bad angel turned to sackcloth, and the eyes of light became hollow with hopeless grief, and the fountains, that at the start had tossed with wine, poured forth bubbling tears and foaming blood, and on the right side of the road there was a serpent, and the man said to the bad angel: “What' is that serpent?” and the answer was: “That is the serpent of the stinging remorse.” On the left side the road there was a lion, and the man asked the bad angel: “What is that lion?” and the answer was: “That is the lion of all-devour-ing despair." A vulture flew through the sky, and the man asked the°bad angel: “What is that vulture?” and the answer was: “That is the vulture waiting for the carcasses of the slain.” And then the man began to try to pull off him the folds of something that had wound him round and round, and he said to the bad angel: “What is it that twists me in this awful convulsion?” and the answer was: “That is the worm that never dies.” And then the man said to the bad angel: “What does all this mean? I trusted in what you said at the corner of Broadway and Houston street; I trusted it all, and why have you thus deceived me?” Then the last deception fell off the charmer, and it said: “I was sent from the pit to destroy your soul; I watched my chance for many a long year; when you hesitated that night on Broadway I gained my triumph'; now you are here. Ha! ha! You are here. Come, now, let us fill these two chalices of fire, and drink together to darkness and woe and death. Hail! Hail!” Oh! young man, will the good angel sent forth by Christ, or the bad angel sent forth by sin, get the victory over your soul? Their wings are interlock ed this moment above you, contending for your destiny, as above the Apennines eagle and condor fight in mid-sky. This hour may decide your destiny.

ALTGELD DISPLEASED. fl* Don Sot like me Beceot DeeUloa of the Sepreme Coart In lb* Income-Tax Com, and Smjru It U Radically Uefectire In a Xtimber of Fartleolnn—Tbc Coart to the Rosetta of the Oil Elut* and Rich Mecwanpe. SPBixariKiD, IIL, April lA—Goa. Alt|f«ld does not approve of the decision of the United States supreme ccurt in regard to the income tax bill. He says that the decision was based on the interests of the so-called (fold bugs and Wall street millionaires. The governor was asked what he thought of the decision. . He replied that the people understood the decision thoroughly, and said that he had already talked too much and did not believe the people eared to hear any more from him. When pressed for an answer, however, the governor consented to reduce his views to writing and gave out the following for publication: “The court has held the law to be void in so far as it affects the Urge real estate owners, such os the Astors. of New York, and has also held it to be void in so far as it affects the rich bondholders of the east. But the remainder is sustained, the court holding that the business and producing classes must pay an Income tax. It is all a question of constitutional construction, and as this depends on opinion or prejudice, one Is reminded of the distinguished Englishman who. in speaking of the court of chancery, said that the proceedings were ail a matter of conscience, and as the consciences of the different chancellors varied os much as the size of their feet, so did their decisions on any question. Now. the constitution of the United States has been construed in more different ways than all the judges together had feet, but always in harmony with what was the controlling influence of pow er of the times. Before the war the slave power and the south dominated the court. Since the war concentrated wealth and the east has dominated the court, and the time will come when justice and the great Mississippi volley will dominate the court. 4 “This particular decision recognizes the divinity of wealth by exempting it from taxa tion, and it breathes a curse against enterprise by making it bear all the burdens of government. But it is in harmony with that passage of Scripture which says that -for he that hath, to him shall be given; and he that hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he hath.” And it is in perfect accord with the repub lican and mug wump theory of government now being applied in this country, and, as this decisi on is in favor of New England and a few eastern cities, and against the rest of America, it is also in harmony with that which will so in be recognized as the sixteenth amendment t :> the constitution, which declares that a gilder vestibule is more Important than the rema inder of the house: that the interests of the e* t are paramount to the interests of the rest < f the country. It also shows tfiat at least two of the co-ordinate branches of our government receive their inspiration at the same altar. “You remember that the president op;;»sed the income tax and would not sign the tariff bill, and Mr. Wilson, who represented him in congress, opposed the income tax. Congress, however, knowing that almost every civilized country had an income tax, and believing it to ho the just form of taxation, and having no doubt about its constitutionality, passed the measure, both republicans and democrats supporting it. For a time there was bitterness in 1 the camp of Mammon, but the supreme court has come to the rescue and now the Standard Oil kings, the Wall street people, as well as the rich mugwumps, are again happy. ■ To be sure, the great business and producing classes are not relieved: their burden' is made a little heavier, and the whip has made a new welt on their baeks, but whut of it? In fact, what are they there for, if not to bear the burdens and to be lashed? "“But this decision is radically defective in a number of particulars. (1) It should contain a panegyric on the majesty of the law and the exalted character of eternal justice, fi) It should have contained a stinging rebuke to the growing discontent of the times. (3) It should contain a declaration in favor of gold, for if the interest on bonds is divine and so sacred that not a cent of it can be used to help bear the burdens of government, then the court should see to it that this sacred household god of the cast shall never stiffer profanation by having the rim of its eyes made silvery. But it would be unreasonable to expect the court to think of everything. Besides, it will have other opportunities from time to time to solidify our insitltutions and to teach patriotism by coming down with terrific force on some wretch whose vulgarity and unpatriotic characterwiil be proven by the fact that he is poor. „ “The decision, however, suggests a more important question i o the American people. You know that the judges of the supreme court when in session wear large black gowns, such as were worn in the Middle Ages. In other countries and in other times this was done to make little men seem great. In this country it is done to impress ths populace with the in fallibility of the court. Now, as these growns are not very thick, and as some people might be able to see through them, and as some of our business people may be unpatriotic enough to question the justice of having to pay a large income tax while the rich pay nothing, ami as there is danger that some of those men may doubt the infallibility of the court, would it not be well to have each judge wear two gowns for awhile, until the storm blows over?”

SENSATIONAL TROUBLE At the Royal Mines at Coal Creek, Kear Kuoxvillo, Tenn. Knoxvilee, Team, April 18.—Serious trouble arose this morning- at Coal. Creek. The proprietors of the Royal mines recentlj’ put in electrical machinery for bringing coal out of the mines at a cost of $50,000. Ten skilled workmen were brought from Ohio and Pennsylvania to operate the machinery. The old employes at the mines objected to the employment of these mfen and bad feeling arose. This morning three of the old employes, with one Hendricks as their leader,, met three of the new men at the company’s store by chance. Some ho£ word were spoken, when Hendricks drew a revolver and shot one of the party named Morgan. Morgan returned the fire, killing Hendricks. Morgan and the other two left, and soon after were pursued by a party of thirty-five miners, who were swearing vengeance against them if caught. , At 6 o’clock this afternoon nothing had been heard of them, and the supposition is that they escaped. All the miners went out of the mines, quitting work. There are about 300 of them. Further trouble is feared, and the superintendent of the mines was in Knoxville this afternoon to make arrangements for the protection of his property. SUDDEN DEATH Of One of the Heirs to the Famous Fisher Kstate la Germanjr. Independence, Mo., April 19.—Geo. F. Fisher, aged 75 years dropped dead at the house of his daughter, Mrs. Sallie Crenshaw, in this city Wednesday. Mr. Fisher has resided in this county sixty-five years. He is one of the heirs to the famous Fisher estate in Germany, which amounts to several millious of dollars. The estate has been in litigation for several years. His death was caused by heart failure, attributed to the excessive of tobacco

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