Pike County Democrat, Volume 26, Number 51, Petersburg, Pike County, 1 May 1896 — Page 6

TALMAGE’S SERMON. Season of Flowers Suggests the Garden of God. ltautlM of Um Florol Kingdom Ul> »mI to y» ftlefcaoM Of God's Realm —The Choreh Compared to O Watered Garden. Bev. T. De Witt Talraage delivered the following sermon, apropos of the advent of spring flowers, before his Washington congregation, taking for his text: Thou than be like s watered garden.-Isaiah MM.. U. The Bible is a great poem. We have In it fh«title8s rhythm and bold imagery and atartling antithesis and ''“Klituroaa lyric and sweet pastoral and instructive narrative and devotional^ psalm; thoughts expressed in style'* more sole am/than that of Montgomery, more bold than that of Milton, mOre terrible than that of Dante, more natural than that of Wordsworth, more impassioned than that of Pollock, more tender than that of Cowper. more weired than that of Spenser. This great poem brings all the gems of the earth into its coronet, and it weaves the flames of judgment into its garlands, and pours eternal harmonies in its rhythm. Everything this book touches it makes beautiful, from the plain stones of the summer threshing floor to the daughters of Nahor tilling the trough for the< camels; from the fish-pools of Ileshbou up to the psalmist praising God with the diapason of storm and whirlwind, and Job’s imagery of Orion, Arcturus and the Pleiad**. My text leads us iuto a seue of summer rodolenee. The world has had a great many beautiful gardens. Charlemagne added to the glory of his reign by decreeing that they be established nil through the realm—deciding even the names of the flowers to be planted there. Henry IV., at Montpelier, established gardens of bewitching beauty and luxuriance, gathering into them Alpine. Pyreneau and French plants. One of the sweetest spots on earth was the garden of Shenstone, the poet, Ilis writings have made but little impression on the world; but his garden, "The Leaaowes,”. will be im

mortal. lU lUt? .linvurjii of that place was brought the perfection of art. Arbor oud terrace and alope. and rustic temple, and reservoir, and urn, and fountain here had their crowning. Oak and yew and hazel put , forth richest foliage. There was no life more diligent, no soul more ingenious, than that .'of Shenstone, and all that diligence aud genius be brought to the adornment of that one treasured spot. He gave 4300 for it; ha sold it for £17,000. And yet I am to tell you to-day of a richer garden than any I have mentioned. It is the garden of the church, which belonga to Christ. He bought it. He plauted It, He owns it, and U«* shall have it. Walter Scott, in his outlay at Abbotsford, ruined his fortune; and now, in the crotnson flowers of those gardens, you can almost think or imagine that you see the blobd of that bid man's broken heart. The payment of the last 4100,000 sacrificed him. But I have to tell you that Christ's death were the outlay of this beautiful garden of the church, of which my text speaks, Oh, how many sigh and tears and {Stags and agonies! Tell me, ye women who saw Him hang! Tell me ye executioners who lifted Him and let Him down! Tell me, thou sun that didst hide; ye rocks that fell! Christ loved the church and gave II imaelf for it. If the garden of the church belongs to Christ, certainly lie ' has a right to walk in it. Come, then, | O hlespM'd Jesus, to-day; walk up and dows these aisles, and pluck what Thou wilt of sweetness for Thyself, t- The church in my text, is appropriately compared to a garden, because it 1 is the place of choice flowers, of select fruits, and of thorough irrigation. That would be a 'strange garden in which there were no flowers. If nowhere else, they i would be along the i borders or at the gateway. The homeliest taste will dictate something, if it

be only the old-fashioned holly hock, or dahlia, or daffodil; but if ^there be lar-fer means, then you will tind the Mexican cactus, aud biasing azalea, and clustering’ oleander. Well, now, Christ comes to His garden and lie plants there some of the brightest spirits that ever flowered upon the world. Some of them are riolets. inconspicuous, hut as sweet as Heaven. You have to search aud find them. You do not see them verv often. perhaps, . but you find where they have been by the brightl coed face of the invalid, and the sprig of geranium on the stand, and the new window curtains keeping out tliegiare of the sunlight. They are, perhaps, more like the ranunculus, creeping sweetly along ainid the thorns and briars of life, giving kiss for sting; <Uid many a man who has had in his <way some great black rock of trouble, baa found that they have covered it all over with flowery jasmine, running in Sud out amid the crevices. These flow* •rs in Christ's garden are not. like the sunflower, gaudy in the light, but wherecrer darkness hovers over a soul “ thafc needs to be comforted, there they Stand, night-blooming ce reuses. But lin Christ's garden there are plant* that may be better compared to the Mexican cactus—thorns without, loveliness within; men prith sharp points of character. They wound almost everyone that touches them. They arc nard to handle. Men pronounowthem nothing but thorns, but Christ loVii* them notwithstanding all their sharpness. Many a man has had a very hard ground to cultivate, and it t»*« only been through severe trial he has raised even the smallest crop of grace. A very harsh minister was talking to a very placid elder, and the placid elder said to the harsh minister: “Doctor, I do wish you would control your temper.*' "Ah," said the minister to the elder: “I control more temper in five minutes than too | do in five years."

— It is harder for some men todo right than for other men to do right. The grace that would elevate you to the seventh heaven might not keep your brother from knocking a man down. 1 had a friend who came to me and said; “I dare not join the church.” 1 said: “Why?" “Oh,” he said. “I have 'such a violent temper. Yesterday morning I was crossing very early at the Jersey City ferry, and I savr a milkman pour a large quantity of water Into the milk can, and I said to him: ‘I think that will do,’ and he insulted me and I knocked him down. Do you think I ought to join the church?” Nevertheless, that very same man, who was so harsh in ?his behavior, loved Christ, and oouldr not speak of sacred things without tears of emotion and affection. Thorns without, sweetness within—the best specimen of the Mexican cactus I ever saw. There are others planted in Christ’s garden who are always radiant, always impressive—more like the roses of deep hue that we occasionally find, called “Giants of Battle,” the Martin Luthers, St Pauls, Chrysostoms,Wickliffes, La timers and Samuel Rutherfords. What in other men is a spark ! in them is a conflagration. When) • they sweat, they sweat great drops of j blood. When they pray, their prayer | takes fire. When they preach, it is a J Pentecost When they fight, it is a j Thermopylae When theydie. it is a martyrdom. You find a great many ri>st's in the gardens, but only a few ‘'Giants of the Battle.” Men say: J “Why don't you have more of them in j the church?” I say: “Why don’t you j have in the world more Humboldtsand i Wellingtons?” God gives to some ten j talents, to another one. In this garden of the church which | Christ has planted 1 also find the snow- j drops, beautiful, but cold-looking, | seemingly another phase ot winter. I j mean those Christians who are precise i in their tastes, unimpassioned, pure as snowdrop^ and as cold. They never shed any tears, they never get excited, j they never say anything rashly, they never do anything precipitately. Their pulses never flutter, their nerves never twitch, their indignation never boils I over. They live longer than most peo- j pie, but their life is in a minor key. j They never run up to “C" above the j staff. In their music of life they have j no staccato passages. Christ planted j them in the church, and they must be : of some service or they would uot be j there; snowdrops, always snowdrops;

But I hare not told you of the most beautiful flower of all this garden spoken of in the text. If you see a century plant your emotions are started. You .say: “Why, this flower has] been a hundred years gathering up for I one bloom, and it will be a hundred years more before other petals will come out.” But I hare to tell you of a plant that was gathering up from all eternity, and that 1,900 years ago put fprth its bloom nerer to wither. It is the passion plant of the Cross! Prophets foretold it; Bethlehem shepherds looked upon it in the bud; rocks shook at its bursting, and the dead got up in their winding-sheets to see'its full bloom. It is a crimson flower—blood at the roots, blood on the branches, blood on all the leaves. Its perfume is to fill all the nations, i Its breath is -in Heaven. Come, O winds from the norjh and winds from I the south and winds from the east and winds from the west, and bear to all the earth the sweet-smelling savor of Christ, my Lord! His worth If all the nations knew. Sure the whole earth would lore Him. tooAgaia. the Church in my text is appropriately called a garden, because it ! is thoroughly irrigated. No garden | could prosper long without plenty of | water. I hare seen a garden in the midst of a desert, yet blooming, and luxuriant All around us was dearth and bairenness; but there were pipes, | aqueducts, reaqjiing from this garden up to the mountains, and through [ these aqueducts the water came stream-’ ' ing down and tossing up into beautiful | fountains, until every root and leaf and flower was saturated. That is like ! the church. The church is a garden in \ the midst of a great desert of sin and suffering; but It is well irrigated; for ! “our eyes are unto the hills from j whence eometh our help/" From the mountains of God’s strength there flowdown rivers of gladne.-s. “There is a i •_. 1 . _ _1_t .L.II 1. —

triad the city of our God. ” 1‘reaching the Gospel is one" of the aqueducts. ’ The Bible is another. Baptism and the | Lord’s Supper are aqueduets. Water | to slake the thirst, water to wash the | unclean, water tossed high up in the ! light of ,the sun of righteousness, show- ! ing us the rainbow around tfie throne. - Oh, was there ever a garden so thor- | oughly irrigated! You know that' the beauty of Versailles and Chatsworth | depends very much upon the great supply of water. 1 came to the latter place, Chatsworth, one day when strangers are not to be admitted; but, by an inducement which always seemed as potent with an Englishman j as with an American, I got in, and then the garnener went far above ' the stairs of stone and turned on the water. I saw it gleaming i on the dry pavement, coming down from step to step, until it came so near ; I could hear the musical rush, and all ‘ over the high, broad stairs it Came foaming, flashing,, roaring down, until sunlight and wave in glee some wrestle tumbled at my feet So it is withthe church of God. Everything comes from above; pardon from above, joy from above, adoption from above, sanctification from above. Hark! I hear the latch of the garden gate, and 1 look to see who is coming. 1 hear the voice of Christ: “I am coming Into my garden.” 1 say, “Come in. i O Jesus! we have been waiting for thee; walk all through the paths. Look at the flowers; look at the fruit; pluck that which thou wilt for Thyself." Jesus comes Into the garden and up to that old man, and touches him, and says, “almost hoaae, father; not many * more aches tor thee; I will never leave time; take courage a little longer and 1-will steady thy tottering steps, and I will soothe thy troubles and give thee

rest. Courage, old man." Then Christgoes up another garden path, and He comes to a soul in trouble, and* says: “Peace! all is weLL I hare seen thy tears. I hare heard thy prayer. The sun shall not smite thee by day nor the moon by night. The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil; He will preserve thysoul. Courage, O troubled spirit!” Then I see Jesus going up another garden path, and I see great excitement among the leaves, and I hasten up that garden path to see what Jesus is doing there, and lo! He is breaking off flowers, sharp and clean from the stem, and 1 say: “Stop, Jesus, don’t kilt those beautiful flowers.” He turns to me and says: “1 have come into my garden to gather lilies, and I mean to take these up to a higher terrace, for the garden around my palace; and there 1 will plant them; and in better soil and in better air they shall put forth brighter leaves and sweeter redolence, and. no frost shall touch them forever.” and I looked up into His face aud said: “Well, it is-His garden, and He has a right to do what He will with it. Thy will be done!" the hardest prayer ever man made. It has seemed as if Jesus Christ took the best; from many of your households the best one is gone. You know that she was too good for this world; she was the gentlesfin her ways, the deepest in her affections; and when at ^ast the sickness came von had no faith in medicines. You knew that the hour of parting had come, and when, through the rich grace of th?’ Lord Jesus Christ, you surrendered that treasure, you said: ‘‘Lord Jesus, take it—it is the best we have; take it. Tbou art worthy!" The others in the household may have been of grosser mold. She was of the finest. The Heaven of your little ones will not be fairly begun you get there. All the kindness shown them by immortals will not make them forget you. There they are. the radiant throngs that went out from your homes. I throw a kiss to the sweet darlings. They are all well now in the palace. The crippled child has a sound foot now. A little lame child says: ‘*>!a. will I be lame in Heaven?” “No. my darling, you won’t be lame in Heaven.” A little sick child says: "Ms, will I be siek in Heaven?" “No, my dear, you won’t be sick in Heaven.” A little blind child says: “Ma. will I be blind in Heaven?” “No. my dear, you won’t be blind in? Heaven. They are all well there ”

I notice that the fine gardens sometimes have high fences around them amt you can not get in. It is so with a king's garden. The only glimpse you ever get of such a garden is when the king rides out in his splendid carriage. It is not so with this garden— ! this King’s garden. I throw wide open the gate and tell you all to come in. No monopoly in religion. Whosoever will, maj*. Choose now between a desert and a garden. Many of you have tried the garden of this world’s I delight. You have found it has been a chagrin. Sol it was with Theodore Hook. He made all the world laugh. He makes us laugh now when we read his poems; but he could, not make his own heart laugh. While in the midst of his festivities he confronted a looking-glass, and he saw himself and said: “There, that is true. I look just as I am; done up in body, mind and purse.” So it was of Shenstpne, of whose garden I told you at the beginning of my sermon. He sat down amid those bowers and said: “I have lost my road to happiness. I am angry and envious and frantic, and despise everything around ine just as it becomes a madman to do. ” XI, ye weary souls! come into Christ’s garden to-day dud pluck a little heartsease. Christ is the only rest and the only pardon for a perturbed spirit. Do you not think your chance I has almost come? You men and women who have been waiting year after year-f or some good opportunity in which to accept Christ, but have postponed it, five, ten. twenty, thirty years —do not feel as if now your hour of deliverance and pardon and salvation had come? 0, man. what grudge hast thou against thy poor -soul that thon wilt not let i| be saved? I feel as if salvation must come tonlay in some of your hearts.

Ok/mc jCAto «)(u »va-'ri .tu uv.iv uu the rocks. They had only one lifeboat. In that lifeWat the passengers and crew were getting ashore. The vessel had foundered, and was sinking deeper and deeper, and that one boat l could not take the passengers very | swiftly. A little girl stood on the deck waiting her turn to get into the | beat- The boat came and went, came ; and went, but her turn did not seem to ; come. After awhile she could wait no longer, and she leaped on the traffrail and then sprang into the sea. saying to | the boatman: “Save me next! Save me ' next!” Oh, how many have gone ! ashore into God’s mercy, and yet j you are clinging to the wreck of sin! j Others have accepted the parti on of i Christ, but you are in peril. Why not i this moment, make a rush for your immortal rescue, crying until Jesus shall hear you, and Heaven and earth j ring with the cry: “Save me next! Save me next!” Now is the day of | salvation! Now! Now! This Sabbath is the last for some ot | yon. It is about to sail away forever. | Her i>ell toils. The planks thunder j back in the gangway. She shoves off. j She floats out toward the great ! ocean of eternity. Wave farewell | bo your last chance lor Heaven. “Oh. Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how Often i would 1 have gathered thee as a hen ( gathereth her brood under her wings, ! and ye wonld not! Behold yonr house is left unto yen desolate.” Invited to revel in the garden, you die In a desert! May God Almighty, before it is too lirte, break that infatuation. Hwaoajr. The great need of the world Is a religion which can harmonize the in. terest of the Individual with the Interests of society, which can make the desire of the individual and the desire of wMtotj one and the same thing.

A COURTESAN'S ANGER Km alts In Un Almost Total Destruction of Cripple Creek-Damages Reselling a Million with Insurance of Oae-Fourtk tint Amount—The Prepress of the Flames Stayed at Last fcjr the Lavish Use of Dynamite. Cripple Creek, CoL, April 26.—The main portion of the business section of the city is in ashes; charred timbers and crumbling trails now mark the sites of what were the best business | blocks of the town. One million doli tars is considered by some to be a aoaJ servative estimate* of the damage; I while others place the loss as high as [ two millions. As near as can be estimated the .insurance will not exceed 1250,000. if - At one o'clock yesterday afternoon fire broke out in Cary’s second-hand store, caused by an angry courtesan throwing a lamp at her lorer. The lamp hit the store, igniting the oil which caused the flames to spread quickly in all directions. The firemen responded quickly and the blaze was not thought to be* serious, but a sudden change in the wind occurred and the flames quickly spread to adjoining buildings. Then it was coneeded half a dozen buildings on the corner of Meyer and Third streets would be destroyed and the occupants made hasty preparation for the removal of their goods to places of safety, y Every Jmomeht added fnry to the flames, and as they spread rapidly from house to house, the people be. gan to realize that an enormous con* Bagration was about [to take place. Every vehicle in town was pressed into service by merchants, anxious to save the contents of the-ir stores, and great confusion existed, during which a nunjber of casualties occurred fron{ runaway teams. The merchants wero not successful in recovering theisgoods; the flames spreading with such, rapidity that not more than 6ne-\entli of their wares were saved. When the post office caught it became evident that desperate measures must be adopted to stop the spread of the flames and, the water supply beih|very poor, the firemen decided to re sort to the use, of dynamite, aud j number of buildings were thus sacrificed before the fire had reached them. During the progress of the explosions a fireman, whose name can not b«, learned, was probably fatally injured by one of his legs being blown off.

L.aie-iasi evening me nro was uuauy gotten under eontrol, after having destroyed the entire districts surrounded by Warren. Eaton, Third and Fourth streets, comprising four entire blocks. The buildings included in the burned district are the First national, the Hold and Stock exchange, the post office, the Topic and Central theaters, the city jail and several large rooming houses and hotels. It is reported that all the mails in the post office were destroyed. THE COCKING MURDERS The Crime Lal<l at the Door of the Hat* baud and Brother-In-Law. La Plata, Md., April 26.—The rourdmrer who took the lives of Mrs. Joseph Cocking- and her sister. Miss Daisy Miller, on Thursday night, is believed by the citizens of the vicinity to be none other than the husband and the brother-in-law, Joseph Cocking, who was himself found in the cellar after the tragedy, apparentlyTialf unconscious. This belief has become so strong in the minds of the neighbors and the citizens of the surrounding towns that threats of lynching are being freely made. He is virtually under arrest. The fact that no clew whatsoever has been unearthed whereby any other than the occupants of the Cocking store and dwelling could be connected with the crime, is telling against the quasi prisoner. A number of extra deputy sheriffs are stationed in and about the Cocking residence, with a View of guarding against any surprise on the part of those who believe in Cocking’s guilt. Corking Locked and Guarded to Prevent Lynching. La Plata, Md.. April 27.—Joseph Cooking, husband of Mrs. Fannie Clicking and brother-in-law of Miss dJai^.y Miller, who were murdered in their home at Hill Top Thursday night, was arrested yesterday afternoon after a jury of inquest rendered a verdict charging' him with the double murder. Cocking is locked np in a room at Smoot's hotel in this place. With him is a strong guard of deputy sheriffs. To-day he trill be removed to Baltimore, as the authorities here fear mob violence, and Cocking himself has expressed a desire to be taken to Baltimore.

ASSAILED by a mob. Two Nonunion -Mon Brutally Boston and Philadelphia, April 27.—D. J. Keenan, a nonunion motorm&n employed by the fmou Traction Co., was assaulted at the Beimout-a venue depot In West Philadelphia by a gang of union car men and badly injured, ii. I* Hull, another nonunion mo tor man, who went to Keenan's assistance, was also severely beaten. The two men were taken to a hospital, where it was found that two of Keenanrs ribs were broken and he was badly bruised and cut Hull escaped without broken bones -and was not so badly injured. Warrants were sworn out for two of the ringleaders of the gang that assaulted Keenan. Of a Boiler In a Portable Saw XUL AlTooxa, Pa., April 27.—The boiler in the portable saw mill operated by J. B. Burgoon, at Clinton, Cambria county, exploded. Three men, including the proprietor, were killed. They were: Matthew Gough, a sawyer: S. S. Neal Gates, a helper, and J. B. Burgoon, propriet or of the miLL Several employes were badly injured. The mill was completely destroyed by the explosion. It is believed that smte of the in inrod wfldie. Scat to tba Hospital. ■FATAL EXPLOSION

IN MEMORY OF GRANT. The Union League Club of Brooklyn UnwU» Its Statue of the Renowned Anierlena—HI* Little Urandton Lifted The Tell—The Statue Is Sixteen Feet Blgb, of Brooae, *ud Weighs One Hundred and Ten Tons. Brooklyn, April 26.—The fine equestrian statue of Ulysses Simpson Grant, which the Union League club of Brooklyn had bought for presentation to the city, was unveiled with imposing ceremonies. The veil was lifted from the statue about three o’clock by the hand of little Ulysses Gtant, grandchild of(the general and third sou of Col. Fred Dent Grant, of New York. The statue stands on Bedford avenue, at the corner of Dean street, just in front of the main entrance to the Union League dub house. It makes ; an imposing spectacle. The statue, reputed judges say, is a beauty of its kind. It is of heroic size, i 16 feet high, made of bronze and j weighs 110 tons. William Ordway ■ Partridge was the sculptor. Its base j is a square granite block, 32 tons in weight, supporting three smaller blocks,. The general is represented in soldier dress, his slouch hat drawn j well down on his head and his over- ; coat on. The horse stands with his four feet firmly planted on the pedestal, head up, ears alert. On the front of the base of the statue, in eight-inch raised letters, is j the word: GRANT. ; On ths reverse side is this inscription: i 1 PRESENTED TO TKE CITY I : BT THE : iUNION LEAGUE CLUB OF BROOKLYN: j Artur, 27. IS8& : .'.*. Aside from the unveiling the great feature of the celebration was the military parade. About 6,000 men were j in line. . The veterans of Grant post, G. A . R., j constituted the guard of honor about | the statue. The guests of the club I were gathered on the grand stand j built especially for the occasion.! Many distinguished men. were on the j stand. The presentation exercises ' Fre begun with a prayer by Rev. Dr. j J. F. Behrends.

Then. Gen. Stewart L V\ oodford made a short speech, presenting the I statue to the city. Mayor Wurster accepted the statue on behalf of the city.' At this point the veil was lifted. Bishop John P. Newman delivered the dedicatory prayer. Gen. Horace Porter delivered an eulogy on Gen. Grunt, and Bishop McDonnel pronounced the benediction. The original plan was to unveil the statue on April 27, the general's birth- j day. The committee on arrangements learned, however, that Col. Grant had promised to be present at a Grant i statue unveiling in Philadelphia on that day so they decided on April 2a. SALVATIOfTARMY AFFAIRS. Items That Will Interest the Hallelujah Lads and Lasses and Those Who Admire ’ Their Work. New York, April 26.—Col. j£dw. Hig- j gins, who is to replace Col. Eadie as ! chief secretary to Commander BoothTucker, and who will be next , in command of the Salvation army in the United States, has arrived. CoL Higgins said that Gen. ;Booth had not yet accepted as final the defection of his son Ballington. The colonel denied that he had brought j any cdtnmunication for Ballington Booth. The colonel will be sworn in under the American flag at the Fourteenth street headquarters to-morrow night. At the same time Commissioner Eva Booth will say her farewell. She will sail for England next week for final instructions before taking command > of'the Canadian forces. Commissioner Booth-Tucker made , ‘ another tour last night of the slum i f post's of the Salvation army ani| con- ' tinued his investigation of the seamy j | side of life in the metropolis. He addressed meetings in the Albany street and Cherrv street mission houses. Between meetings he looked in on some of the alleys and rookeries of the First j and Fourth wards. A big sign in front of the Fourteenth street headquarters yesterday attracted much attenti<m. On one sides in big letters, was the notices ‘‘The Devil Would Rather You Would Not Look Ox the Other Side of This Board.’ Of course everyone looked on the other ; side, and found an announcement there of Sunday's programme.

CAPT. gAMbo T. LWRWUUU. He Rescued the Crew of the Kearwrci j at Roncndor Reef—Buried Near Ran. New Yore, April 3d.—There has been filed in the marine division of the customhouse a report from Victor Vifquian. United States consul at Panama, of the death of Capt. James T. i Lockwood of the Pacific Mail Co.'a | I. steamship City of Para. He died sud- ; denly on his vessel in the bay of Panama on March 26, while preparing to j go to Colon to take the steamship | Finance for New York td> obtain j medical treatment. [ He rescued the crew of the United j States man-of-war Kearsarge, when it j was wrecked on Roncador reef, and ! on that occasion contracted a cold j which develope d in consumption. _ I Against the Evansville A Terre Haute j New York, April 2d.—The sheriff re- i feived an attachment for 8139,415 against the Evansville & Terre Haute ! Railroad Co. of Indiana, in favor of John DmtFAn, of this city. The claim is for principal and interest dne on 133 first mortgage bonds,of 81,000 each of the Evansville & Richmond Railroad Co., which were guaranteed by the Evansville & Terre Hante Rail toad Co., on which the interest has been in default since March 1, 18&4- The attachment was served on the Farmers* Loan and Trust Co. and the National City bank.

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