Pike County Democrat, Volume 26, Number 38, Petersburg, Pike County, 31 January 1896 — Page 3

TALMAGE’S SERMON. "The Mighty Force Exerted by Human Example, The Captaincy of Ablmelech Before the Oates of Wiechem—Advantatre of Coaeerted Action—Danger of Falas RvfnfjM. Rev. T. DeWitt Ta Image took lor the (Subject of a recent sermon to his Wash- , ington congregation: “The Power of j Example,” basing his remarks on the - text: i ' And A bimelech took an ax In his hand, and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it ’and laid it on bis shoulder and said unto the people that were with him. What ye have seen me do. make haate and do as I hape done. And all the people likewise cut down every man his bough,—Judges lx, 48-40. Abimelech is a name malodorous in Bible history, and yet full of profitable suggestion. Buoys are black and uncomely, but they tell were the rocks are. The snake's rattle is hideous, but it gives timely warning. From fhe piazza, of my summer home, night by night,; I saw ;* lighthouse 15 miles away, not placed there for adornment, , but to tell mariners to stand off from 0 that dangerous point. So all the ironboun<f» coast of moral danger is marked with Saul, and Herod, and Rehoboam, and Jezebel, and Abimetech. These bad people are mentioned in the Bible not only as wari^ ings, but because there were sometimes flashes of good conduct in their lives worthy of imitation. Hod sometimes drives a very straight nail with

a very poor hammer. The city of Sheehem had tube taken, and Abimelech and his men were to do it. i see the dust rolling up from their excited march. I hear the shouting of the captains and the yell of the be* siegers. The swords cjlayk sharply on the parrying sliields, and the vocifera- j tion of two armies in death grapple is j horrible to hear. The battle goes ou all day; and as the sun is setting Abi- | melech and his a|rmv cry: “Surrender;'’ to the beaten foe. And, unable j longer to resist, the city of Sheehem falls: and there are pools.of blood, and j dissevered limbs.' and glazed eyes look- j ing up beggingly for mercy that war never shows, and dying soldiers with their head on the lap of mother, or wife, or sister, who have come out for the last offices of kindness and affection: and a groan rolls across the city, stopping not. because there is no spot for i|t to rest, so full is the place of otljer groans. A city wounded! A city dying! A city dead! Wail for Sheehem. all ye who know the horrors of a sacked town! As 1 look oyer the city. 1 can find only one .building standing, and that is the temple of the god lterith. Some soldiers outside of the city in a toper, finding that they Can no longer defend: Sheehem, now begin to look out for their ow'n personal safety, and they fly to this temple of lterith. They ; go within the door, shut it, and they say: “Now we are safe. Abimelech ! has taken the whole city, but he can i not take this temple of lterith. Here : w e shall 1m* under the protection of the gods." O lterith. the god! do your ln-st now for these refugees. If you ' have eyes, pity them. If you have j tuuak, help them. If you have thun- ' if -derholts'.strikc for them, ltut how shall ; i Abimelech and his army take this temple of lterith and the men who are 1 there fortified? Will they do it with sword'/ Nav? With battering- I I ram. rolled up by hundred-armed j strength, crashing against the walls? Nay. c Abimelech marches his men to a wood in Zalm.m. With his av he hews off n limb of a tree, and puts' that limb upon his own shoulder, ami then he says to his inen: “You do the same." They are obedient, to their Commander. There is a struggle as to i w h<> shall have a Ves. The whole wood . is full of bending hough*, and the crackling. *nd the hacking, and the cutting, until everyone of the host has ft limb of a Jree cut down, and not only that, but has put it on his shoul- i {' deras Abimelech* showed him hovvj. Are these men all armed with a 1 tree branch? The reply comes: “All ; armed." And they'march ou. Oh, what a strange army, with that strange Equipment! They come up to % the foot of the temple at fieri th, ami Abimelech takes his limb of a tree and throw** it down: and (pie first platoon of soldiers come up ami they throw : down their branches; and the second platoon, and the third platoon, until j all around About the temple of lterith j

there* i-> a pile of tree branches. I he j iSiWchcmites look out from the win-! dow of the temple upon what to-• them childish play on the part of their enemies. Hut soon the flints are struck, and the sparks begin to kindle the brush. and the flamy j comes up all through the j pile, and the red elements ] leap'to the casement, and the wood- j work begins to blaze, and one arm of] flame is thrown up on the right side of j the temple, and another arm of flame ] is thrown up on the left side of the'I temple, until they clasp their lurid j paims under the wild night sky. and j the cry of ‘•Fire!*’ within, and “Fire!" ! without, announces the terror, and strangulation, and the doom of the ’Shechemftes, and tin* complete overthrow of the tempie of the god Berith. Then there went up a shout, long and loud, from the stout lungs and swarthy chests of Abimelech and his men, as they stood amid the ashes and the dust crying: “Victory! victory!" Now I learn first from this subject the folly of -depending upon any one form of tactics in anything we have to do for this world or for God. Look oveif the weaponry of olden times— Javelins, battle axes, habergeons, and . show me a single weapon with which Abimelech and his men could have gained such complete triumph. It is no easy thing to take a temple thus armed. I have seen a honse where, during revolutionary times, a man and his wife kept back a whole regiment, hour after hour, because they were inaide the house, and the assaulting soldiers were outside the honse Yet Here

Abimelech and his army come up, they surround this temple, and they capture it without the loss of a single man on the part of Abimelech, although I suppose some of the old Israelitisb heroes told Abimeleh: “You are only going up there to be cut to pieces.” Yet you are, willing to testify to-day that by no other mode—certainly not by ordinary modes—could that temple so easily, so thoroughly, have been taken. Fathers and mothers, brethren' and sisters in Jssus Christ, what the Church most wants to learn, this day, is than any plan is right, is lawful, is -best, which helps to overthrow the temple of sin. and capture this world i for God. We are very apt to stick to the old modes of attack. We put on the old-style coat of mail. We come up with the sharp, keen, glittering steel spear of argument, ex- | pecting in that way to take the castle; but they have a thousand spears where we have ten. And so the castle of sin stands. Oh. my friends, we wijj never capture this world for God by any keen saber of sarcasm, by any glittering lances- of rhetoric, by any sapping and mining of profound disquisition, by any gunpowder explqsions of indignatic by sharpshootings of wit, by howitzers of mental strength made to swing shell five miles, by cavalry horses gorgeously eaparisoned-pawing the air. In- vain all the attempts on the part of these ecclesiastical foot soldiers, light horsemen and grenadiers. V My friends, I propose a different style of tactics. Let each one go to the forest©! God's promise and invitation. and hew down a branch, and put it on his shoulder, and let us come around these obstinate iniquities, and then with this pile, kiudied by the fires of a 1*Kly zeal and the tlaraes of a consecrated life, we will burn them out. i What steel can not do. fire may. And I announce myself in favor of any plan of religious attack, however radical, however odd, however unpopular,

however hostile to all the conventionnlities of church and state. If one style of prayer does not do the work, let us try another style; If the church music of to-day does not get the victory, then let us make the assault with a backwoods chorus. If a prayermeeting at 8:3(X in the evening does not succeed, let us'have one as early in the morning as when the angel foifnd wrestling Jacob too much for him. If a sermon with the three authorised heads does not do the work, then let us have a sermon with 2d heads, or no heads at all. We want more heart in our song, more heart in almsgiving.* more heart in <>ur prayer, more heart in our preaching. Oh. for less of Abimelech's sword and more of Abimeleeh's conflagration! 1- had often heard There Is a fountain filled with blood, sung artistically bv four birds perehed on their Sunday riHist in the gallery, until I thought of,Jenny Lind, and Nilsson, and Soutag, and all the other warblcrsf*but there came not one to my eye, nor one master emotion to ray heart. But one night I went down to the African Methodist meetihghouse in Philadelphia, and at the close of the service a black woman, in the middle of the audience, began to sing that hymn, and all the audience joined in, and we were floated sopac three or f ou'r miles nearer Heaven thaq I have ever been since. 1 saw with my own eyes that “fountain filled with blood” —red, agonizing, sacrificial, redemptive. and I heard the crimson plash of the wave as we all wenfdown under it. . For sinners plunged beneath that flood Lose all their guilty stains Oh, my friends,* the Gospel is not a syllogism: it is not casuistrv: it is not, polemics, or the science of squabbles. It is blood-red fact: it is warm-hearted invitation: it |s leaping, bounding fly-, ing good news; it is efflorescent with all light; it is rube-cent with all summery glow: it is arborescent with all sweet shade. I have aeon the sun rise on Mount Washington, and from the Tip-top house; but there was no beauty in that compared with, the day-spring from on high when Christ gives light to a soul. I have heard Parepa sing; but there was no music in that compared with the voice of Christ when he said: “Thy sins are forgiven thee: go in peace.” Good news! Let every one cut down a branch of this tree of life and wave it. Let him throw it down and kindle it. , Let all the way from Mount Zalmon to Shechem be tilled with the tossing joy. Good news! This bonfire of the Gospel shall consume the last temple of sin. and wip illumine the sky with apocalyptic joy, that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinnei A. Any new plan that makes a man quit his sin, an l that prostrates a wrong. I am as much in favor of as though all the doctors, and the bishops. and the archbishops, and the synods. and the. academical gownsmen of Christianity sanctioned it. The temple of Berith must comedown, and I do not care how it comes.

Mill further, i learn rr<»>n this subject the power of example. If Abimelech had sat down on the grass, a I told his men to go and get the boughs, and go out to tho battle, they would never have gone at all. or if they had it would have been without any spirit or effective result; l>ut when Albitnelech g<H>s with his own ax and hews down a branch, and with Abimeleeh’s arm puts it on Abimeleoh's shoulder, and marches on, then, my text says, all the people did the same. How natural that wasl. What made Garibaldi and Stonewall Jackson the most magnetic commanders of this century? They, always rode ahead. Oh, the overwhelming power of example! Here j. is a father on the wrong road. Here is a father who enlists for Chri^; his children enlist. I saw in some of the picture galleries of Europe that before many of the’ great works of the masters—the old masters—there would be sometimes four or five artists taking copies of the pictures. These copies they are going to carry with them, perhaps to distant lands; and 1 have thought that your life and character are a masterpiece, and it is being copied, and long after you are gone it will bloom or blast in the homes of those who knew

you, and be a Gorgon or a Madonna. Look out what you say. Look out* what you da Eternity will hear the echo. The best sermon ever preached is a holy life. The best music ever chanted is a consistent walk. If you want others to serve God, serve Him yourself. If you want others to do their duty, shoulder yours. Where Abimelech goes his troops' ga Oh, start out for Heaven to-day, and your family will come after you, and your business associates'will come-after you, and your social friends will join you. With one branch of the tree of life for | a baton., marshal just as many as you ! oan gather. Oh, the infinite, the semiI omnipotent power of a good or bad ex* j ample! I saw last summer, near the beach, a i wrecker^, machine. It was a cylinder with some holes at the side, made for the thrusting in of some long poles with strong leverage: and when there | is any vessel in trouble or going to j pieces in the offing, the wreckers shoot | a lope out to the suffering men. They grasp it, and the wreckers turn the ! cylinder, and the rope winds round the cylinder, and those who are shipwrecked are saved. So at your feet, j today, there is au influence with a tremendous leverage. The rope attached to it swings far out into the billowy future. Your children, your children's children, and all the generations that are to follow, will grip that influence, and feel the long-reaching pull long after the figures on your tombstone are so worn out that the visitor can not tell whether it was 1S96, 1798 or 161X5 that you died. Still further, I learn from this subject the advantage of concerted action. If Abinieleeh had merely gone out with a tree-branch the work would.not hate been accomplished, or if ten. 20 or 30 men had gone; but when all the axes are lifted and all the sharp edges fall, and ali these men carry each his tree

branch down and throw it about the temple, the victory is gained—the temple falls. My friends, where there is one man in the church of God at this day shouldering his whole duty, there are a great many who never lift an ax or swing a bough. It seems to me as if there were ten drones i»i every hive to one busy bee: as though there were 20 sailors sound asleep in the ship's hammock to four men on the stormy deck. It seems as if there were 50.000 men belonging to the reserve corps, and only 1.000 combatants. Oh. we all want our boats to get over to the golden sands; but the most of us areseated either in the prow or in the stern, wrapped in our striped shawl, holding a big-handled sunshade, while others are glistered in the heat, and pull until the oarloeks groan, and the •blades bend, till they snap. Oh, 3*011 religious sleety-heads, wake up! You have lain so long in one place that fhe ants anil caterpillars have begun to crawl over you! What do you know, my brother, about a living Gospel made to storm the world? Now, my idea of a Christian is. a man on fire with zeal for God; and if your pulse ordinarily beats t>0 times a minute when you think of other themes, and talk about other themes, if your pulse does not go up to 75 or 89 when we come to talk about Christ and Heaven, it is because you do not know the one. and have a poor ehanee of getting to the other. S^iliifurther 1 learn from this subject the dangers of \false refuges. As s.»on as these SeylWmites got into the temple thej* thought they were safe. They said: “Berith will take care of us. Ablmelejeb may batter down everything else; he can not batter down the temple where we are now hid." lint very sotm they he a yd the timbers crackling, and they were smothered with smoke, and they miserably died. I supnose every person in this audience this moment is stepping into some kind of refuge. Here you step in the tower of good works. You say: “I shall be safe in this refuge." The battlements are adorned: the steps are varnished: on the wall are pictures of all-the suffering you have alleviated, and all the schoqls you have established, and all the fine things you have ever done. Up in that tower you feel you are safe. Hut hear you not the tramp of your nnpardoued sins all around the tower? They each have a match. You are kindling the combustible material.. You feel the heat and the suffocation. OiC may you leap in time, the Gospe! declaring:- “By the deeds of the taw shall no flesh living be justified." ••’Well." you say, “I have been driven

out of that tower; where shall I go: Slop into this tower of indifference. You say: “If this tower is attacked, it will be a great while before it is taken." You feel at ease. Hut there is an Abituelech, with ruthless assault, coming on. I>eath anil his forces are gajtfVring around, and they demand that you surrender everything, and they clamor for your overthrow, and they throw their skeleton arms in the window, and with their iron lists they beat against the door, and while you are trying to keep them out you see the torches of judgment kindling, and every forest is a torch, and every mountain, a torch, and every seat a torch, and while the Alps, and Pyrenees, and Himalayas, turned into a live coal, blown redder and redder by*the whirlwind breath of a God omnipotent, what will become of your refuge of lies? "But," Bays some one, "you are engaged in a very mean business, driving us from, tower to tower." “Oh, no: I want to tell you of a Gibraltar that never has been and never will be taken; of a wall that no Satanic assault can • scale; of a bulwark . that the judgment earthquakes can net budge. The Bible refers to it when it says: “In God is thy refuge, and underneath thee are the everlasting arms." Oh! fling yourself into it. -Tread down unceremoniously everything that intercepts you. Wedge your way there. There are enough hounds of death and peril after you to make you hurry. Many a man has perished just outside the tower, with his foot on the step, with his hand on the latch. Oh! get inside. Not one surplus second have yon to spare. Quick, quick, quick* ,

THE DINGLEY BILL. 4 Htuon That It FaU of False Pretenses. The more the measure is examined the greater becomes the doubt whether the Dingley tariff bill is a revenue bill or not. There has never been any doubt that the assertion that it was intended to get rid of the deficit in the tre;isury was distinctly a faTse pretense. There is no deficit in the treasury, but on the contrary a surp lus of more than $100,- j 000,000. How it got there is imm iteriel to this inquiry, though it has'frequently been explained in these columns. It is surlicient that it is Ihere, and that it is likely to increase rather than diminish. But 'here are other reasons Dingley bill is not properly a bill. It was avowedly framed to increase the protec' ion" on cotnpetitive a rt icles. Besides*, it increases every existing tax except that on the best revenue commodity imported, naxqely, sugar. Senator Jones, of Nevada, cbjected to it Itecause there was no increase in, the duty on sugar. In doing this, he was not Ipokipg to revenue, but was solicitous to give furgher protection to beet sugar mills. Nevertheless, sugar gives a large amount of revenue to a small per cent, of protection, and this is one reason why the republicans wish to let ii alone. The chief reason, however, is because they dare not offend the sugar trust, butare alsoafrt id io grant it a ay additional favors. Being tyetween ae people on one side and the trust bn he other, they prefer to let sugar alon?. V why >1 he re’<%ue

It was pret«naeu wnen i.ne unngicy bill was first introduced: that it would afford $40,000,000 additional revenue. The mere the bill is studied the less probable this proposition appears. It is based in p i rt on the theory that the imports of wool will be as great when it is taxed as when it is free. The same mistake is made as to woolens, which are not now free, but upon which GO •per cent, of the McKinley rates are to lie imposed in addition to the rates of the Wilson bill. Both these eonten- ! tions are absurd* On all other axed commodities the Dtngley bill proposes |'to increase the ta< 15 per cent., and it is an open question whether this will not check importations to such an extent as to reduce rather than raise the revenue. The conclusion of several experts who have made estimates is to" the effect that the increase in revenue will at amo unt to half, or perhaps not a quarter, of $40,000,000. There ore other articles which could easily lie made to yield considerable revenue without causing the consumer tc pay any tribute to home'producers., There is tea, for example, many of the dealers in which desire to see taxed f0 or 15 cents a pound. Prior to 1870 it was taxed ::5 cents n pepnd. In that year the tax was reduced to 15 cents. In 1872 it wag piit on the free list, and has remained there ever since. In 1S95 we imported upward of 97,000,000 i pounds, whit h, at 10 cents a pound,. i would have yielded $0,700,000 in revenue; at 15 cen ts, $14,550,000. This is on the supposition that the tax would not decrease imports. As a rule, r tariff tax will reduce the volume of imports, but the tea dealers say that a tax of 10 cr 15 cents on tea would not hate that effect. The reason they assign for desiring a tax is that it would exclude the low-grade and spurious teas. Th • average import pries* of tea has decreased from 37j7 cents per pound in 187 1, the year after the tax was removed, to 14.6 cents in the fiscal year 1895. Consumers, however, have been aeeustojmed to paying 50 to 60 cents a pound, for good tea, and think; that when less is asked the article.is ! :ct good. Hence has grown, up the | practice of g ving crockery with tea, i which tha dealers say demoralizes tietrade; * This may 1 * true, but it is best not to put too much stress on the fine-spun theories of interested parties. The fact remains that tea Is an article on which $1%,000.000 or ;$15,000,000 of revenue may L% raised without increasing the burden of consumers seriously, if at all. If the senate wishes to raise revenue, it can amend the house bill by taxing a com piodity concerning whose revenue-rais-ing properties there is no doubt at j ill. It is a pretty safe guess, however, j that, this will not be done, because it would not turn any revenue info the | pc. kets of individuals, which is the pe- ; culiar characteristic of a tariff for protection.—Louisville Courier-Journal.

POINTS AND OPINIONS. -It is growing plainer every day that the McKinley element in congress s going to make it very hard sledding for Thomas B. Keed. without regard to what the result may be to the country. —Detroit Free ‘P ress. -It is now ex-Gov. MeK'nley, of Ohio. Mr. McKinley has put in the last two years legging for the presidency, and the results of his second administration cannot be summed up until the 1 last ballot has been taken at St. Lpps. —Kansas City Stir. -^—Speaker Re -d desires that house appropriations tx cut to the bone in the interest of economy. Objector Holman never cut deeper than the hone, yet he was reviled as a cheese-parer ind reminded thiit this was a billion dollar country. The country hasn’t shrunken any sinpe that valuation, ?but s presidential election is eoming on. and if Mr. Heed shall have his way the coming contest will be money in the | country’s pocket.—Philadelphia ltec- ! ord. -The unfathomable piety of the republican party has always been the first article of it i faith. It is taught from the pulpit by clergymen in its ranks, but it is chiefly insisted on by thugs.scoundrelsand thievea,who claim that their acts are holy, because done in what they assume to be a holy cause. Very early in its history the republican party voted to take the Almighty into partnership with them, subject, however, to the condition that they were to have all the offices and all the honor — Louisville Courier-Journal.

M’KINLEY PHILOSOPHY. Artful Sophistry of the Protectlaa Argntyer. Says & philosopher after the order of McKinley: “Ancient Tyre, Athens, Home, Damascus and other great seats of ancient science and art became such because . they supplied other nations with their products.” Without pausing to inquire as to the historical accuracy of the assumption that the cities named “supplied otherj nations with their products” to any great extent, one’s attention is irre-sistibly-drawn to the philosophical the- j orem that they became great seats of j science and art because “they supplied cither nations with their products. One can readily understand how a commercial people, trading extensively with other people, acquire more knowledge of men and things, and so acquire more materials of science, if \ not of art, than isolated people hold- : ing little or no communication with others. But how Hie mere sending. abroad of their products to supply the wants of others can advance a people imeither science or art passes understanding utterly. ;

The context of the theorem quoted shows that when its author used the word “products” he had in mindchiefly manufactured products, or products of mechanical or artistic skill, rather than the crude products of comparatively unskilled labor. But that docs j rot make the general proposition any ! more true, The mere supplying1 of foreigners with our products, whether crude or highly wrought, cannot make : us great in science and* art. The context serves only to show how the confusion of thought arises or to J expose an artful sophism intended to produce confusion of thought in careless minds. First attention is drawn to the almost self-evident fact that the products of skill in the world’s history have been supplied mostly by nations advanced in. science and art. Then the inference is artfully suggested that the supplying of such products has caused the advancement. • When the proposit-ibn is thus stated it becomes apparent at once that advancement is not consequence of supplying products of skill, but that the supplying of such products is a consequence of advancement in the arts and sciences. A people must have the knowledge, art and skill before they can turn out highly wrought and artistic products for exfkjrt. The export of «ich product is an evidence and a consequence, not a cause, of greatness in science and art. The McKinley philosopher might as truthfully have said that the sun become the great source jand center of light and heat in our system by supplying the earth and other planets with those forces or modes' of motion. It iis' characteristic of the protectionist fp transpose everything, putting antecedent fpr consequent and consequent for antecedent, cause for effect and effect for Cause. The great system of plunder under the shelter and with the aid of law does not admit of defense by honest and straight for* ward reasoning.—Chicago Chronicle.

HOW ABOUT REED? What Has'Become of the Great and Fear* less Czar? Where is the courage and* dash that ©nee made the lion. Thomas Reed a heroic figure In the republ;can party? When was Reed ever at a loss for words, ©r indeed, for ideas, until ambition for the presidency congealed his brain and spiked his Ipngue? Now he has nothing to saj\ The New York Journal asks him for au^opinion on the bond* question, and he replied that he doesn’t want to discuss it. He adds: *'I would not care to make any suggestion as to what might be done to make the loan a popular loan or bring it before the people in any different form. The matter Is being managed from the white house, and t vigno suggestions to make. I will say, however, that present difficulties so far as a solution of our financial troubles are concerned ludge in the white house and senate. If the people of this country want a remedy for the financial evils let them bring the pressure of popular influence to bear on the executive and the senate of the United States. The house of representatives stands ready to do its part, and has : from the opening of congress. The cure for money ills should be applied at the white house and the other end of the capitol. ’ Thomas B. Reed.’* J Is this like the fearless czar known to fame for his quorum counting abilities in the billion dollar congress? 13 this like the Reed that was in congress

only to do business : Is this ime the bold Reed who could ever be relied upon to say something to win the applaud of the most hide-bound of his partisan associates? Alas, no. It is Reed the presidential candidate, who is tremihlingiy hopeful of support in thesparse:ly settled silver states, and at the same time catch the delegates from the states whose votes are essential in the electoral college. But this isn’t the Reed that won the republican heart at all. It was the reckless, quorum-counting, billion-dollar-spending Reed that the republicans admired and proposed to make president. It was-not the timid, fearful, non-com-mittal Reed who now prcs'des over the do-nothing house of representatives, j and who refers inquirers on ^public I questions to the other end of the capItol or the white house. “Fear never yet a generous mind did gain.”—Utica Observer. , -Tg obtain possession of the com- i mittees and petty offices of the senate j the republicans affected a coalition j with the half dozen populists, and the j result is an infamous free coinage bill, | which has been prepared and agreed to ; by the free silver majotity of the j finance committee, all of whom were I appointed by the republicans. A viler i bargain and a more'natural sequence | cf such a bargain have seldom if ever j been in evidence, but fortunately for j the country the .bargain and its consequences will fail of the disastrous or ■» uihous effects their authors intended thejjr should have. No such bill can become law as long as Mr. Cleveland r»> mains president. —Pittsburgh Post.

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