Pike County Democrat, Volume 26, Number 42, Petersburg, Pike County, 28 February 1896 — Page 6

TALMAGETS SERMON. "Unto Him Bhall I5he Gathering of the People ©e." YtM auwlnfi of Chitofi Lowe—A Pie* for • Geaerml AwtkMiaf I* Rtll(loo -SbUdat SlmlUMud .Metaphor*. f Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage delivered the following' sermon before his Washington congregation, taking for his text: Onto him shall the gather In* ot the people be. —Genesis xlix., 10. Through a supernatural lens, or: what I might call a prophescope, dy- | ing Jacob looks down through the cor* j ridors of the centuries until he sees | Christ the center of all popular at-1 traction and the greatest being in all j the world, so everywhere aeknowl-! edged. It was not alway so. The ! world tried hard to put Him down and | to put Him out. In the year 1200, while j r excavating for antiquities 53 miles j northeast of Rome, a copper-plate tab- , f let was found containing the death j warrant of the Lord Jesus Christ, reading in this wise: “In the year 17 of the empire of Tiberius Cassar, and on the 25th of March, j I, Pontius Illate, governor of the | Fracture, condemn Jesus of Nazareth to die between two thieves, Quintius ; Cornelius to lead him forth to the place of execution/’ The death warrant was signed by several names. First, by Daniel, rabbi j Pharisee; secondly, by Johannes, rab- j bi; thirdly, by Raphael; fourthly, by Capet, a private citizen. The -capital ; punishment^was executed according to j law. The name of the thief crucified j on the right, hand side of Christ was Disrnas; the name of the thief crucified ' oti the left-hand side of Christ was ! Gestus. Pontius Pilate, describing the tragedy, says the whole world lighted j candles from noon until night. Thirty- : three years of maltreatment. They ascribe His birth to bastardy and His death to excruciation. A wall of the ; city, built about those times and recently exposed by archaeologists, shows j a caricature of .It sus Cnrist, evidenc- J Ing the contempt in which He was held by many in llis day—that caricature on the wall representing a cross and a donkey nailed to it, and under it the inscription: “This is the Christ whom the people worship." llut I rejoice that that day is gone by. Our Christ is coming out from undentin' world's abuse. The most popu-lar-name on earth today is the name of Christ- Where He had one friend Christ has a thousand friends. The scoffers have become the worshipers. Of the 20 most celebrated infidels in tireat Britain in our day. 16 have come back to Christ, trying to undo the blatant mischief of their lives 10 out of the 20. Every man who writes a letter or signs a document, wittingly or

unwittingly. Honors Jesus tiinsi. We date everything as R C. or A. D.—H. C,. before Christ; A. D., Anno Domini, in the year of our Lord. All the ages of history on the pivot of the upright beam of the cross o^the Non of God, R C , A. D. I do not care w hat you call Him—whether conqueror, or king, or morning star, or sun of righteousness, or baltn of. Dilead, or Lebanon cedar, or brother, or friend, or take the name used .in the verse ^from which I take my text, and call him Shiloh, which means his son. or the tranquilator, or the peacemaker, Shiloh. 1 only want to tell you that “linto Him shall the gathering of the people be.” In the sfirst place, the people are gathered 'around Christ for pardon. No sensible man or healthfully ambitious man is satisfied with his past life. A fool may think he is all right. A sensible man knows he is not-? -1 do not care who the thoughtful man is, the review of his lifetime behavior before God and man gives to him po especial satisfaction. “Oh," Jie says, “there nave lieen so many things I have done 1 ought not to have done, there, have been so many things 1 jhave said I ought never to have said, there hate been so many things I have written 1’ ought never to have written, there have been so many things 1 have thought I never ought to have thought. I mud somehow get things readjusted. I must somehow have the past reconstructed; there are days and months and years w hich cry out against me in horrible vociferation." A hi my brother. Christ , adjusts the past by obliterating It. He does not erase the record of our misdoing with a dash of ink froip a register's pen, but lifting His right hand, ^crushed, red at the palm. He puts it against His bleedifig brow, and then against His pierced side, and with the j crimson accumulation' of all those 1 'wounds 8He rubs out the * ate-' cusatorv chapter. blots out | our iniquities. Oh! never be ( anxious about the future: better be | anxious about the past. I put it not I at the end of my sermon; 1 put it at ti c front: Mercy and pardon through >iiiloh, the sin-pardoning Christ. **L'n- j to Him shall the gathering of the peo- j pie be." “Oh!” says jome man. *T Nave for 40 years been as bad as I could be, and is there any mercy for j me?" Mercy for you. “Oh!” says some-1 one here. “I had a grand-ancestry, tfie holiest of fathers, and the tenderest of i mothers, and for my perfidy there is1f no excuse. Do you think there is any mercy for ine?" Mercy for you. “Hut," says another man, “I fear I have committed what they call the unpardonable sin, and the Bible says if a man commit that sin, he is neither to be forgiven in this world nor the world to come. Do you think there is any mercy for me?"* The fact that you have any solicitude* about the matter at all proves positively that yon ^iave tu t committed the unpardonable sin. Mercy for you? O! the grace of God which bringeth salvation! But, I remark again, the people will gather around Christ as a sympathiser. Oh! we all want sympathy. I hear people talk as though the y were independent of it. None of us could live without sympathy. When parts 41

our family are away, how lonely the house seems until they all get home! But, alas! for those who never come home. Sometimes it seems as if it must be impossible. What, r ill theirfeet never again come over the threshold? Will they never again sit with ns at the table? Will they never again kneel with ns at the family prayer? Shall we never again look into their sunny faces? Shall we never again on earth take counsel with theta for onr work? Alas! me, who can stand under these griefs? Oh! Christ, Thou canst do more for a bereft soul than any else. It is He who stands beside us to tell of the resurrection. It is He that came to bid peace. It is He that comes to us and breathes into us the spirit of submission (until we can look up from the wreck* and ruin of our brightest expectations and say: “Father, not my will, but Thine be done.’* Oh, ye who are bereft, ye anguish-bitten, come into this refuge. The roll of those who came for relief to Christ is larger and larger. Unto this Shiloh of omnipotent sympathy the gathering of the people shall be. Oh, that Christ would stand by all these empty cradles, and all these desolated homesteads, and all these broken hearts, and persuade us it is well. The world can not offer you any help at such a time. Suppose the world comes and offers you money. You would rather live on a crust in a cellar and have your departed loved ones with you than live in9 palatial surroundings and they away. Suppose the world offers you its honors to con-' sole you. What is the presidency to Abraham Lincoln when little Willie Ik's * dead in the White Ilonse? Perhaps the world comes and says: “Time will cure it all." Ah, there are griefs that have raged on for 30 years and are raging yet. And yet hundreds have been comforted, thousands have been comforted, millions have been comforted, and Christ had done the work. Oh. what you want is sympathy. The world’s heart of sympathy Wats very irregularly. Plenty of sympathy when we do not want it, and often when we are in appalling need of it, no sympathy. There are multitudes of people dying for sympathy—sympathy iu their work, sympathy in their fatigues, sympathy in their bereavements, sympathy in their financial losses, sympathy in their physical ailments, sympathy in their spiritual anxieties, sympathy in the time of declining years—wide, deej>, high, everlasting, almighty sympathy. We must have it, and Christ gives it. This is the coni with which He is going to diraw all nations to Him. At the story of punishment a man's eye flashes and his teeth set and his fist clinches, and he prepares to do battle even though it W against the heavens: yet what heart so hard but will succumb to the story of eompas

sion: hven a man s sympatny is pleasant and helpful. When we have been in some hour of weakness, to have a brawny man stand beside us and promise to see us through, what courage it gives to our heart and what strength it gives to our arm. Still uiightier is a woman's sympathy. Let him tell the story who, when all his fortunes were gone aud all the world was against him, came home and found in that home a wife who could write on the top of the empty flour barrel: “The Lord will provide;” or write on the empty wardrobe: “Consider the lilies of the field; if God so clothed the grass of the field, will He not clothe us and ours?” Or let that young man tell the story who has gone the whole round of dissipation. The shadow of the penitentiary is upon him, and even his father says: “Be off! Never come home again!” The young man finds still his mother's arm- outstretched for him, and how she will stand at the wicket of the prison to whisper consolation, or get down on her kutes before the governor, begging for pardon. hoping on for her wayward boy after all others ai*e hopeless. Or let her tell the story who. under villainous allurement and impatient of parental restraint has wandered off from a home of which she was the idol into the murky and thunderous midnight of abandonment, away from God, and further away, tintil some time she is tossed on the beach of that early home a mere splinter of a wreck. Who will pity her now? Who will gather these dishonored locks into her lap? Who will wash off the blood from the gashed forehad? Who will tell her of that Christ who came to save the lost? Who will put that weary head upon the clean white pillow and watch by night until the hoarse Toice of the sufferer becomes the whisper, and the whisper becomes only a faint motion of the lips, and the faint motion of the lips is exchanged for a silent look, and the cut feet are still, and the weary eyes are still, and^ the frenzied heart iv still, and all is still? Who will have compassion on her when no others have compassion? Mother! Mother! Oh! th^rc is something beautiful in sympathy—in manly sympathy, wifely sympathy, motherly sympathy;, yea, and neighborly sympathy. Why was it that a city was aroused with excitement when a little child was kidnapped from one of the streets? Why were whole columns of the newspapers filled with the story of a litle child? Because we are all one in sympathy, and every parent said: “How if it had been \my Lizzie? How if it had been my Mary? How if it had been mv Maud? Hows if it had been my child? How if there had been one unoccupied gillow in our trundle bed tonight? How if my little one—bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh—were to-night carried captive into some den of vagabonds, never to come back to me? How if it had been my sorrow looking out of the window, watching and waiting—that sorrow worse than death?” Then when they found her why did we declare the news all through the households, and everybody that knew how to pray said: “Thank God?” Because we are all one, bound by ofe great golden chain of sympathy. Oh! yes, bat I have to tell yon that if you will aggregate all neighborly, manly, wifely, motherly

sympathy, it will be found only a poor starring thing compared to the sympathy of our great Shiloh, who has held in His lap the sorrows of the ages, and -who is ready to lay on His holy heart the woes of all who will come to Him. Oh! what a God, what a Sariour we hare! But in larger risknt see the nations in some kind of trouble ever since the world was derailed and hurled down the embankments. The demon of sin came to this world, but other demons bare gone through other worlds. The demon of conflagration, the demon of rolcanic disturbance, the demon of destruction. I hare thought that this particular age in which we lire may he gireu up to discorertes and inventions by which through quick and instantaneous communication all cities and all countries I and all lands will be brought together, and then in another period, perhaps, ; these inventions which have been used [for worldly purposes will be brought | out for Gospel invitation, and soma I great prophet of the. Lord will coma and snatch the mysterious, sublime and miraculous telephone from the .hand of commerce, and all hands and kingdoms connected by a wondrous wire, this ^prophet of the Lord may, ; through telephone communication, in an instant announce to all nations pardon and sympathy and life through Jesus Christ, and then, putting the j wondrous tube to the car of the Lord’s prophet, the response shall come back: *'I believe in God, the Father Almighty. Maker of Heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ, His only begotten Son.” You and I may not live to see the day. think those of us who are over forty years of age can scarcely expect to see the^kiy. I expect before that time our bodies will be sound asleep in the hammocks of the old Gospel ship as it goes sailing on. Hut Christ , will wake us up in | time to see the achievement. We who ! have sweated in the hot harvest-fields will he at he door of the garner when | the sheaves come in. The work for which in this world we toiled and wept, and struggled and wore ourselves out shall not come to consummation and vve be oblivious of the achievement. We will be allowed to come out anti shake hands with the visitors. We who fought in the earlier battles will have just as much right to rejoice as those who reddened their feet in the last-, APtnageddon. Ah! yea, those who could only give a cupful of cold , water in the name of a disciple, those who could only scrape a handful of lint for a wounded soldier!, those Who could only administer to old age in its decrepitude, those who could only coax a poor waif of the street to go back home . to her God, those who could only lift a little child in the arms of Christ, will have as much right to take part in the ovation to the Lord Jesus-Christ as a Chrysostom. It will be your victory and mine, as well as Christ’s. He the conqueror, we shouting in His train. Christ the victor will pick out the humblest of His

uisuipics m ine crowa, ana, turning half around on the white horse of Victory, He shall ^point her out for approval by the multitude as He says: *‘£>he did what she could.” 'Bheu, putting His hand on the head of some man who, bv his industry, made one talent do the work of ten, He will say: “Thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over ten cities.” Two different theories about the fulfillment of this promise. There §re people who think Christ will come in person and sit on a throne. Perhaps He may. I should like to see the scarred feet going up the stairs of a palace in which all glories of the Alhambra, and the Taj Mahal, and the St. Mark's, and the winter palace are gathered. 1 should like to see the world pay Christ in love for what it did to Him in maltreatment, I would like to be one of the grooms of the chargers, holding the stirrup as the King mounts. 0! what a : glorious time it would be oi^ earth if Christ would break through the heavens, and right h*-'re where He has suffered and died have this phopheey fulfilled: "Unto Him shall the gathering of the people be.” But failing in that, I bargain to meet yob at the ponderous gate of Heaven on the day when our Lord shall come back. Garlands of all nations on His brow—of the bronzed nations of Jhe south and the palid nations of the north —Europe, Asia. Africa, North and South America, and the other continents t hat may arise meantime from the sea, to ; take the place* of their sunken predecessors; Arch Of Trajan, Arch of Titus, Arch of Triumph in the Champs Elysees, all too poor to welcome the King of Kings, and Lord of Lords, and Conqueror of conquerors in His august arrival. Turn out all Heaven to meet Him. i Hang all along the route the flag’s of earthly dominion, whether decorated I with crescent, or star, or eagle, or lion, or cbronet. Hang out Heaven's brightest banner, with its one star of Bethlehem and blood-striped of the cross. I hear the procession now. Hark! the tramp of the feet, | the rumbling of the wheels, the clattering of the hoofs, and the shouts of the riders. Ten thousand | times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands. Put up in Heaven's library, right beside the-compiled volume of ! the world's ruin, the completed yolI ume of Shiloh's triumph. The old ! promise struggling through the ages I fulfilled at last: “Unto Him shall the j gathering of the people be.” While everlasting ages roll. Eternal love shall feast their soul. ’’And scenes of bliss forever new. Kiae to succession to their view. ^GcnemUwUoa The grandest generalization that the I human mind has reached is God. Evolution is only a part. We are going on i and on until the will of God is reached. —Rev. Samuel K. Calthrop, Syracuse N. V. * I believe that every right-mindvd man and woman will say that{ the saloon is a curse, and that the American people will not rest until the great evil is eradicated.—Rev. Dr.,, Dalton, Congregational iat, Portland, Me.

M’KINLEY'S "ffEST THINGS." Iketo Wkkk the Mejor Findetautlj Overlooks. McKinley's personal organ ii this city Sprint* in its loudest style “so n© of the best things" in that statesman.’s speech at the banquet of the Marquette club Wednesday night. We know that they were his “best things” becaus e his personal organ soys so, which is equivalent to saying that he says so himself. One of the “best things" was this: "The whole world knew a year in advance of its utterance what the republican platform of I860 would 1:>e and th*whole world knows now, and l as known for a year past, what the republican platform of 1896 will be. Then the battle was to arrest the spread of slave labor in America; now it is x> prevent the increase of illy paid and degraded free labor in America.” This serves to call attention to the difference between the republican party of I860 and the republican party of 1SG6 —a difference which William McKinley seems to be quite incapable .>f perceiving, In I860 the republican party stood for freedom; in 1S96 it is opposed to freedom. and its leaders and heroes do not hesitate to say so. In 1S96 the republican party is substantially what the whig party was before it gave up the ghost in 1852. Until after its defeat that year the whig party was the party of high tariff. Its leading doctrine was that prosperity 'was created by taxation and l>y enriching the people engaged in certain industries out of the earnings of people engaged in other industries. The democratic tariff of 1846 had exposed the falsity of that doctrine and in 1852 the people refused to be humbugged by it any longer and gave the whig party its quietus. In its place arose the republican party, which professed to be the party of freedom, and did not profess to be the party of the tariff made of slavery. Some of its representatives in congress in 1S57 reported as members of a house committee in favor of abolishing the whole tariff system apd raising revenue by direct taxation. This party has ceased to be the party of freedom. It is the party of slavery. What is slavery'.? It is involuntary servitude. That is what a protective tariff exacts from the ma2ss of the people. What is a slave? It is one who toils while another enjoys the fruit of his toil, He who is forced to pay out of his earnings 50 or 100 per cent, more for an article than its value as determined by free competition is as trulv a slave as ever was a negro in a Georgia cotton field, lie is rendering involuntary service to the man who is enabled by law to exact from him for the clothing he wears from 50 to 100 per cent, more than it is worth. The fact may be concealed from him by the devilish ingenuity of his master, but it is none the less a fact.

Another of Melvin ley s “best things was this: “The republican party would os soon think of lowering1 the flag of our country as to contemplate with patience and without protest and opposition any attempt to degrade or corrupt the medium of exchanges among the people. It can be relied upon in the future, as in the past, to supply the country with the best money ever known, gold, silver and paper, good the world ever.” “In the future as in the past” is particularly good. It serves 1m recall the* fact that the republican party supplied the country with greenbacks in 1S62 and the years following—a currency which drove out every dollar of specie and became so “degfadt$” and “corrupted” at one time that it was worth less than 40 cents on the dollar. And this same currency corrupted the thinking of the country; even that of the supreme eourtof the United States gave us an epidemic of fiat lunacy in place of sound money sanity. It serves also to recall 1:he fact that in ISTS the republican party forged the "endless chain” which for three years has been lifting gold out of the treasury—forged it by enacting that re deemed greenbacks should not stay redeemed and by enacting in another statute that Unele SanS should help ou,t the poor bonanza kings by buying ands coining their silver. It reninds us that -the republicans of the MiKinley congress went still further at the dictation of the mining-camp despots and passed a law which, by t e admission of their own leaders, brought on the panic of 1S93 jin.t as their greenback policy brought on the panic of 1873. So McKinley’s very best things serve to impress upon us the fact that the republican party is no longer the party of freedom, whatever it mi.y have been in the past, and that its policy with respect to the currency has always been rnwise save only when i‘» made prov tsion for the resumption of specie payments in 1875. Even the*; it did a vast amount of mischief by postponing resumption for four jrearsaiid providing that redemption should not redeem.— Chicago Chronicle. BMd StUl Tongue-Tied. Mr. Iieed continues to be a tonguetied candidate for the presidency. What he thinks about the currency, about the tariff, about foreign policy, the public does no*- have the faintest idea. We are compelled, therefore, to infer his views from what he does and from the character of the men who are fighting his battles. In Louisiana his “manager” is the notorious ex-Gov. Kellogg, and the convention which6 he controlled was in favor of sugar bounties, free silver, and the populist creed in general, Eight of the Louisiana delegates are reported to be certain for Eeed The question is, can he go on dumbly receiving and working for such snpj>ort without alarming -his friends-in the north and east? If this southern support were given him in the face ct open declarations against southern financial heresies, the case would be d’fferent. But Mr. Heed has not committed himself on a single point, except that he consumedly wants to he president.—N. Y. Post.

KILL THE DINGLEY BILL. ▲ Mmnn That Would DlmlmUh Bn> «4n«> The best thing that the house of representatives can do with the free-silver substitute that the senatfc adopted in place of the Dingley tariff bill is to Tote it down and let the whole matter drop. The Dingley tariff measure is not quite so mischievous as the free-silver*meas-ure would be, but it would do in&iite harm. It would disturb business, enhance prices, diminish revenues, embarrass manufacturing and restrict opportunities for employment. The Dingley measure is not at all necessary, even if it would accomplish what is claimed for it. If it would increase the revenue, instead of diminishing revenue, as it surely would do, still it would be unnecessary, because the present tariff law is producing a constantly-increasing quantity of revenue that will be'entirely sufficient for the government by the end of-the fiscal year. The customs receipts for January this year were $16,389, ^96, those from internal revenue $11,041,401 and from miscellaneous sources $1,815,473, making a total for the month of $29,237,670. This is greatly in excess of-$1,000,000 a day for the 26 business days in January.; It is also $1,000,000 more than the average receipts of the previous six months. The January figures are far more likely to be exceeded in the succeeding months of the fiscal year, because the bulk of the sugar importations are made in' the first half of the year, and also because the internal revenue taxes are just beginning to produce what wasexpectcd of them. There is every reason to believe that the total receipts for the present fiscal year will exceed $350,000,000, against $313,000,000 last year.- This would bring the deficiency on the 30th day of next June within $15,000,000 or $16,000,000, against $42,000,000 last year, and against $70,000,000 in 1S94, the last year of the* McKinley law. This is a pretty regular improvement. It keeps up with the business conditions. Revenues increase as business improves, which indicates that with all its faults the Wilson bill is in a general sens« framed to fit the requirements of the country. Next year the receipts will surely equal the expenditures, and in the succeeding years thAre will be an excess of revenue, sufficient to provide for the pay ment of the government obligations. This will be accomplished under the operation ,of the’ Wilson tariff, for no matter what the result of the election raay^be next fall, no party that will be in power in Washington will dare to change the Wilson bill in any material way. The principle of low taxes is fully established, and no party will be found in the future of the present generation to advdeate or to defend tlte imposition of high taxi's for favorites, either on the! pretense that it will benefit the people or that it is necessary for the requiremsnts of the government in time of peace.—Utica (N. Y.) Observer.

COMMENTS OF THE PRESS. -Will the admirers of McKinley let the chance go by? The throne of Na* poleon to be sold to the highest bid* tier.—Chicago Tribune (rep.). -Now that the excitement haa somewhat subsided, it is generally conceded that Mr. Harrison's withdrawal, did not settle the matter.—Washington Post. k ■-Favorite sons who are wise wilF attach themselves to the tail of the McKinley kite and be in a position to ask for a cabinet job after the nomination has been made.—St. Louii Republic. -Beyond all questioh McKinley is the logical candidate of jthe monopoly party. And he is just this sort of a candidate that the democratic party would be pleased to meet.—Chit ago Chronicle. --It is said that the republicans will trot out ten favorite sons at St. Louis. But the big four sit serene, apart and alone. The supporters of Morton. Reed, Allison and McKinley mean business, not complLments.—N. Y. Sun. -—-A cursory glance at Mr. McKinley's speech gives one the impression that Abraham Lincoln was the father cf the bill that piled the snow so deep 4over the graves of a number of republicans last presidential election.—Chicago News. —-The manufacturers are going on with their manufacturing and are selling more goods to outsiders than they' ever did before. They would not object to more tariff and more profit, but they are doing very well with the present average duty of 42 per cent. The lobbies at Washington are not full of tiriff fixers as usual this winter, and we imagine that there will be more difficulty in Trying the “fat” out of the protected interests than was experienced in the campaign of 1892. Things are different now.—Philadelphia Record. The Birthday Party. We gather from a valued contemporary that Maj. McKinley’s birthday was celebrated with great enthusiasm at the Marquette club. The major’s rise from obscurity to the pinnacle of re n awn, his prowess at rail-splitting, his liberation of the8slaves and his firm course in putting down the rebellion were duly lauded. It is an admirable, indeed a beautiful, feature of the account of the celebration that much praise is bestowed ou A. Lincoln, a sincere but unpolished patriot, since dead, whs lent valuable assistance to .the major in seeing to it that a government “of the people, by the people, for the people,” should not- perish from the earth. Indeed, Mr. Lincoln was worthy of much praise. He it was, we are privately informed, who first communicated to the. major the great truth that the foreigner pays the tax. It is a fine thing to see men in the plenitude of their own power and fame thus turn aside for a moment tc bestow praise on the humbler workers in the good cause.—Chicago Newt

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