Pike County Democrat, Volume 27, Number 39, Petersburg, Pike County, 5 February 1897 — Page 6

TALMAGE S SERMON. T<x>h-ing «t the Midnight Heavens Through Ancient Eyes. Wkal Amo* th« Farmer Prophet tew— OoFi Low of Order ud Light— The (JaehangeabUlty of HU Loro. Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage delivered the fallowing sermon before his Wash* ington congregation, taking for his text: Seek him that maketh the seven stars sad Orton.—Amos A A country farmer wrote this text— Amos of Tekoa. He plowed the earth and threshed the grain by a new threshing machine just invented, as formerly the cattle trod out the grain, lie gathered Jthe fruit of the sycamore tree and scarified it with an iron comb just before it was getting ripe, as it waa necessary and customary in that way to take from it its bitterness. He was the son of a poor shepherd, and stuttered; but before the stammering rustic the Philistines, and Syrians, and Phoenicians, and Moabites, and Ammonites, and Edomites, and Israelites trembled. Moses was a law-giver, Daniel was a prinoe, Isaiah a courtier, and David a king; but Amos, the author of my text, waa a peasant, aud, as might be supposed, nearly all his parallelisms are pastoral, his prophecy full of the odor of new-mown hay, and the rattle of locusts, and the rumble of carts Frith sliceves and the roar of wild beasts devouring the flock while the shepherd came out in their defense. % He watched the herds by day. and by night inhabited S booth made out of .bushes, so that through these branches he could sec the stars all night long, and was more familiar with them than we who have tight roofs to our houses, and hardly ever see the stars except among the tall brick chimneys of the great towns. But at seasons of the year when the herds were in special danger, lie would stay out in the open field all through the darkness, his ouly shelter the curtain of the night-heaven, with the stellar embroideries aud silvered tassels of lunar light. What a life of solitude, all alone with his herds! Poor Amos! And at 12 o'clock at night; hark to the wolf's bark, and the lion's roar, and the bear's growl, aud the owl’s te-whit-te-who, and the serpent’s hiss, as he unwittingly steps too near while moving through the thickets! So Amos, like other herdsmen, got the habit of studying the map of the heavens, because it was so much of the time soread out before him. He noticed some stars advancing and others receding, lie associated their dawn and setting with certain seasons of the year, lie had a poetic nature, and he read night by night, and month by mouth, and year by year, the poem ol the constellations, divinely rhythmic. But two rosseltes of stars especially attracted his attention while seated ou the ground, or lying on his back under the opeu scroll of the midnight heaveu—the Pleiades, or Seven Stars, and Orion. The former group this rustic prophet associated with the spring, as it rises about the

first of May. 1 he .alter he associated with the vvinter, as It comes to the meridian in January. The Pieiades, or Seveu Starn, connected with aii sweetness and joy; Orion, the herald of the tempest. The ancients were the more apt to study the physiognomy and juxtaposition of the heavenly bodies, because they* thought they had a special influence upon the earth; and perhaps they were right. If the moon, every few hour, lifts and ieta down the tides of the Atlantic ocean, and the electric storms iu the tun, by at! scientic admisaiou, affected the earth, why not the stars have proportionate effect? Aud there are some things which make me think that it may not have been all superstition\ which connected the movements and appearance of the heavenly bodies with great moral events on earth.' D»d not a meteor ruu ou evangelistic errand uu the first Curistmas night, and designate the rough cradle of our Lord? Did not theaters iu their courses tight aga.ust Sisera? Was it merely coincidental that before the destruction of Jerusalem the moon was hidden for twelve consecutive nights? Did it merely happen so that a new star appeared in constitution Cassiopeia, aud theu disappeared just before Charies IX. of France, who was responsible for St. Bartholomew massacre, died? Was it without siguiticauce that iu the days of the Roman Emperor Justinian war aud fainiue were preceded by the dimness of the sun, which for nearly a year gave no more Light than the moon, although there were no clouds to obscure it? Astrology, after all, may hare been iwmethiug more than a brilliant heathenism. Xo wonder that Amos of the text, having heard these two anthems of the stars, but down the stout, rough staff of the herdsman, and took into his brown hand and cut aud knotted fiugers the pen of a prophet, and advised the recreaut people of his time to mbrn to God, saying: “Geek Him that maweth the Seven Mars aud Orto.” This command, which Amos gave TU years, U. C, is just as appropriate for ua 16V7 A. D. In the first place. Amos saw, as we must see, that the God who made the Pleiades and Orion must be the God of order. It was not so much a star here and a star there that impressed the inspired herdsman, but seven in one group, and seven in the other group lie saw that night after night, and sea&ou after season, and decade after decade, they had kept step of light, each" one in its own place, a sisterhood never dashing jfnd never contesting precedence. From the time Hesiod called the Pleiades the “seven daughters of Atlas'* and Vi rgU wrote in his Aeueid of “Stormy Orion” until now, they have observed the order established for their coming aud going; order written not in manuscript that may be pigeon-holed, but with the Juuid of the Almighty on the dome1 of

the sky. so that all nations may read it. Order. Persistent order. Sublime order. Omnipotent order. What a sedative to you and me, to whom communities and nations some* times seem going pell-mell, and the world ruled by some fiend at haphazard, and in all directions maladminis- j tration! The God who keeps seven worlds in right circuit for 6,000 years ban certainly keep all the affairs of individuals and nations and continents | in adjustment. We had not better fret much, for the peasant's argument of the text was right. If God can take care of the seven worlds of the Pleiades and the four ehief worlds of Orion, He can probably take care of the one world we inhabit. So 1 feel very much as my father felt one day when we were going to the country mill to get a grist ground, and I. a boy of 7 years, sat in the back par,t of the wagon, and our yoke of oxen ran away with us and along a labyrinthine road through the woods, so that 1 thought every moment we would be dashed to pieces, and 1 made a terrible outcry of fright, and my father turned to me with a face perfectly calm and* said: “DeWitt, what are you crying about? I guess we can ride as fast as the oxen can run.” And, my hearers, why should we be affrighted and lose oar equilibrium in ; the swift moTementof worldly events, | especially when we are assured that this is not a yoke of unbroken steers that are drawing us on, but that order and wise government are in the yoke? Again, Amos saw, as we must see, that the God who made these two groups of the text was the God of light. Amos saw that God was not satisfied with making one star or two or three stars, but He makes seven; and, having finished that group of worlds, makes another group—group after group. To the Pleiades He adds Orion.. It seems tfiat God likes light so well that He keeps making it Only one being in the universe knows the statistics of solar, lunar, stellar, meteoric creations, and that is the Creator Himself. And they have all been lov- ; ingly christened, each one a name as ■ distinct as the names of your children. | “He lelleth the number of the stars; j He cmlleth them all by their names." The seven Pleiades had names given to them, and they arc Alcoyne, j Merope, Celaeno, Electro, Sterope, Taygete and Maia. But think of the billions and trillions of daughters of starry light that God calls by name as they sweep by Him with beaming brow and lustrous robe! ! So fond is God of light—natural light, ' moral light, spiritual light. Again and again is light harnessed for symbolization — Christ, the bright and morning star; evangelisation, the daybreak; the redemption of nations, sun of righteousness rising with healing > in liis wings. Oh, men and women,. with so many sorrows and sins and i perplexities, if you want light of comfort, light of pardon, light of goodness, in earnest prayer throuph Christ: “Seek Him that maketh' the Seven SLars and Orion."

Again, Amos saw*as we must see, j that the God who made these two j archipelagoes of stars must be au un- j changing God. There has been no j change in the stellar appearance in j this herdsman's life-time, and his fa* ther. a shepherd, reported to him that there had been no change in his life* time. And these two clusters hang I over the Celestial arbor now just as they were the first night that they ! shone on the Edenic lowers, the same | as when the Egyptians built the pyramids from the top of which to | watch them, the suras as when the j Chaldeans calculated the eclipses, the I same as when Etihu, according to the j llook of Job, went out to study the au- i rora borealis, the same under Ptolemaic system and Coperuican system, ! the same from Calistheues to Pytliag- j oras, and from Pythagoras to Her- j schel. Surely, a changeless God must j have fashioned the Pleiades aftd Oriou! j Oh, what an anodyne amid the ups ; aud downs of life, and the flux and j reflux of the tides of prosperity, to ] kuow that we have sf changeless God, “the same yesterday, to-day aud for-j ever. " Xerxes garlanded and knighted the I ; steersman of his boat in the morning, j aud hanged him in the evening of the j same day. Fifty thousand people stood j around the columns of the national capitol, shouting themselves hoarse at the presidential inaugural, and in four ! months so great were the autipalhies j that a ruflian'spiytQl in Washington depot expressed the^entimeni of many a disappointed offiee-seeker. The world sits in its chariot and drives tandem, and the horse ahead is Huzza, and the horse behind is Auathema. Lord Cobham, in King James’ time was applauded. and had $35.nuO a year, but was afterward execrated, and lived on scraps stolen from the royal kitchen. Alexander the Great after death remained unburied for 30 days because no one would do i the honor of shoveling him under. The duke of Wellington, refused to have his iron fence mended because it had been broken by an infuriated populace in some hour of political excite- i meut, and be left it in ruins that men might learn what a fickle thing is human favor. “But the mercy of thdn Lord is from everlasting to everlasting to them that fear Him, and His righteousness unto the children's children of such as keep His covenant, and | to those who remember His commandments to do them.'* This moment; “Seek Him that maketh the Seven Stars and Orion." Again, Amos saw, as we must see, j that the God who made these two bea- i cons of the oriental night sky must be a God of love and kindly warning. The j Pleiades rising in midsky said to all j the herdsmen and shepherds and hus- j band men; “Come out and enjoy the i mild weather, and cultivate your gar-! dens and fields." Orton, coming in winter, warned them to prepare for tempest. AU navigation was regulated by these two constellations. The one said to shipmaster and crew: “Hoist sail for the sea, and gather merchandise from other lands." But Orion was the storm-signal, and said: “Beef •ail, make things snug, or pat into •- v .

harbor, for the hurricane* are getting their wings out” A* the Pleiades were the sweet evangels of the spring, Orion was the warning prophet of the winter. Oh, now I get the best view of God I ever had! There are two sermons I never want to preach—the one that presents God so kind, so indulgent, so lenient, so imbecile that men may do what they will against Him, and fracture His every law, a^d put the pry of their impertinence slid rebellion under His throne, and while they are spitting in His face and stabbing at His heart. He takes them up in His arms and kisses their infuriated brow and cheek, saying: *Of such is the Kingdom of Heaven.” The other kind of sermon I never want to preaeh is the one that represents God as all fire and torture and thunder cloud, and with red-hot pitchfork tossing the human race into paroxysms of infinite agony. The sermon that I am now preaching believes in a God of loving, kindly warning, the God of spring and winter, the God of the Pleiades and Orion. Yon must remember that the winter is just as important as the spring. Let Nine winter pass without frost to kill vegetation and ice to bind the rivers mnd snow to enrich oar fields, and then yon will have to enlarge your hospitals and your cemeteries. “A green Christmas makes a fat graveyard” was the old proverb. Storms to purify the air. Thermometer at three degrees below zero to tone up the system. December and January just as important as May and June. 1 tell you we need the storms of life as much as we do the sunshine. There are more men rained by prosperity than by adversity. If we had our owu way in life, before this we would have been impersonations of selfishness and wordliness and disgusting sin, and puffed up until ire would have beeu like Julius Cesar, who was made by'Sycophants to believe that he was divine, and the freckles on his face were said to be as the stars of the firmament When I read, “In my Fathers house are many mansions,” I do not know but that each world is a room, and as many rooms as there are worlds, stellar stairs, stellar galleries, stellar hallways, stellar windows, stellar domes. How are departed friends must pity us shut up in these cramped apartments, tired if we walk fifteeu miles, when they some mornings by one stroke of wing, can make circuit of the whole stellar system and be back in time for matins! Perhaps yonder twinkling constellation is the residence of the martyrs; that group of twelve luminaries may be the celestial home of the apostles. Perhaps that steep of light is the dwelling-place of angels cherubic, seraphic, archangelic. A mansion with asnlany rooms as worlds, and all their w indows illuminated for festivity.

Oh, how this widens and lifts and stimulates our expectation! ilow little it makes the present, and how stupendous it makes the future! How it consoles us about our pious dead, that instead of beiug boxed up and under tae ground have the range of as many rooms as there are worlds, and welcome everywhere, for it is the Father’s house, in which there are many mansions! Oh, Lord Hod of the Seven Stars aud Orion, how can I endure the transport, the ecstasy; of such a vision! 1 must obey my text and seek Him. 1 will seek Him. I seek Him now, for I call to mind that it is not the material universe that is most valuable, but the spiritual, and that each of us has a soul worth more than all the worlds which the iuspired herdsmen saw from, his booth on the hills of Tekoa. I had studied it before, but the cathedral of Cologne, Germany, uever •impressed me as it did one summer. It is admittedly the grandest Gothic structure iu the world, its foundation laid iu 124S, only a few years ago completed. More than 6<K> years in building. All Europe taxed for its construction. Its chapel of the Magi, with precious stones enough to purchase a kingdom. its chapel of St." Agnes with masterpieces of painting. Its spire springing 511 feet into the heavens. Its stained giass the chorus of ail rich colors. Statues encircling the pillars and encircling aiL Statues above statues, until sculpture can do no more, but faints and fails back against carved stalls aud down on pavements over which the kings and queens of the earth have walked to confessional. Mave and aisles and transept and portals combining tbe splendors of sunrise and sunset. Interlaced, interfoliated, intercolumned grandeur. As I stood outside, locking at the double range of flying buttresses aud the forest of pinnacle*, higher and higher aud higher, until 1 almost reeled from dizziuess; I exclaimed: “Great doxology in stone! Frozen prayer of many nations!” . : ^ But while standing there 1 saw a poor man enter and put down his pack and kneel beside his burdeu on the hard floor of that cathedral. And tears of deep emotion came into my eyes, as I said to myself: “There is a soul worth more than all the material sur roundings. That man will live, after the last pinnacle has fallen, and not one stone of all that cathedral glory shall remain uncrumbled. He is now n Lazarus in rags and poverty and weariness, but immortal, and n son of the Lord God Almighty; and the prayer he now of fers, though amid n any superstitions, 1 believe God will hear; and among the spostles whose sculptured forma stand in the surrounding niches he will at last be lifted, and into the presence of that Christ Whose sufferings are represented by the crucifix before which He bows; and be raised in due time out of all His poverties into the glorious home bnilt for Him and bnilt for us by 'Him who maketh the Seven Stars and Or ion.*" t A good many folks will stop you to teO you some great story, and when you have listened a little white, you find It Is merely a scheme to tail something about than* selvas. i..Uteki,4'Av..

SPANISH REPOETS That the Cuban Insurgents are Demoralised. • ——- ' Weakened end Ready to Surrender Die* proved by Intelligence from the Seat of War—OlBeiaU bead a Messenger to Gomel to Sue for r«M«. Kbt West, Fla., Feb. 1.—Advices from Havana state that, in flat contradiction of all ratnors lately circulated that the rebels are demoralized and weakened and ready to surrender, especially in Piuar province, where Weyler made the assertion that only 500 remained in straggling bands, word reached Havana Friday that the insurgents had dynamited a train, causing great damage and loss of life. Although the ceusor, for state reasons, maintains the oflicial pacification and suppressed the information j in the papers, the news rapidly spread, | and all were soon familiar with the ! details. The affair created a great im- | pressioo and was widely commented | on. Investigation disclosed the fact that ! on the morning of the 23th, as a mili* ! tary train was crossiug a culvert at a place named Oceguera, between Can* del aria and Mangos, tremendous dyua* mite explosions occurred, ditching the engine and tender. The armored cat | was completely wrecked, and other cars were also more or less damaged. ! The engineer, fireman and 13 soldiers | were killed. The surgeon, 20 soldiers, ; conductor and b akeman were wound- ! ed. Assistance was hurriedly seat, I and the dead bodies brought to Ha- | vana. The wouuded were left at CanI delaria. The above is not the sole instance ol ! rebel activity in that province. Th« official reports daily announced numI erous encouuters in different sections I of the country. In order to dimiuisb j the importance they are always reI ported as skirmishes with considerable rebel losses and trifling on the i Spanish side. Wheu the affair assumes undue proportions, as Malguizo’s rerecent defeat, the whole details are suppressed. i Advices from Pinar announce the k change of leadership in the rebel forces. Mayia Rodriguez, after successfully crossiug the trocha with a strong body guard has assumed com* maud aud Rais Rivera, who was designated to take charge of the Cubau forces iu Havana province, mauaged to pass the celebrated line on Friday j and is near Mariel now at the head of ; the insurgents of this section. Another striking illustration of the ! Spanish misrepresentation is the assertion that three western provinces are practically pacified, which was given Friday night, wheu late stragglers witnessed all the eastern heavi yus illuminated as if Uuunubacoa was ; ou fire. That town is not burnt, bat i reports received next day stated'tbat I Aranguin had struck another blow in ! the vicinity of Havana, sacking and ! burning the hamlets of Cruse, Piedra and Bacurauoa, uear Guanabacos. Wednesday last the rebels burnt the most of the town of Nueva Paz, in Havana proviuce, despite the fact that the town is protected by ten forts with a garrison of 300 meu. All were taken by surprise when they saw the rebels | in the. place. All the stores were ' looted aud then burnt.

Making Overtures to Gen. Gomes. Kkx West, Fla., Jan. 3L — Advices received by the steamer Olivette say: A secret meeting was held in the palace recently in which Ahumada, Weyier's substitute; Palinerel, secrei tary of the government; . Montoro, Caivez and Cueto, for tue autonomist party, and Rubell and Rivero, for the reformists, took part, and it is hinted a representative of the firm of Haupmauu «fc Co., Rothschilds’ agents at Havana, assisted. The object of the meeting was to discuss the proposed reforms soon to be granted to Cuba. Somebody was required to make overtures to Gomez, who is the remaining, so they believed, or visible head of the revolution, and Maroos Garcia, a Cuban, was designated. He accepted the proposal at once. He will start to-day for Sancti Spiritus, and from there will proceed for Gomez' camp, which is said to be in that vicinity. Doubts are entertained as to whether Gomez will receive him or enter into any negotiations with the Spanish,government. It is reported that Gomez has warned Garcia that if he catches him^he will hang him as a traitor to his country.. The insurgents have captured the ; town of Palmas lAtian, near Manzanillo, sacking all yhe stores. Five generals j have asked leave of | absence to return to Spain. They are: Pin, Bernal. Alonzo, Lozas and Foguero. Gen. Luque has asked for reinforcements hurriedly. Gen. Gon- | zalez Muuoz has requested leave' to march to the field, being displeased with certain dealings in the general j staff, of which he has charge. A German Commission to Investigate thi lluboulc Plague. Bkrlis, Feb. X.—The government is about to send a special commission to Bombay to investigate the bubonic : plague which is raging there with a view of adopting precautionary meas1 ures against the introduction of the ; disease into Europe. Dr. Kock, the | eminent German bacteriologist, has | been summoned from South Africa to head the commission. ALLEN GRACE’S DISCOVERY Lmuto to tlu) Killing of His Wife and His Own Arrest. Cambridge,. Md., Jan. 3L—Allen Grace, 33 years old, went to his home unexpectedly yesterday and fonnd Ralph Pond in his wife's room. Pond fled from the house, pursued by the ' enraged husband. Grace fired several shots after the fleeing man, bat none took effect. Returning to the house, Grace sent the two remaining bullets into his wife’s head. The woman wilt die. Grace was captured and lodned in Jail.

TAYLOR RECAPTURED. Tfe* Xvrdmr of Ik* Kooks Family Foond lo California, UtI*( la Seclusion oa a Ranch—The Crto* for Which tho Taylor Brothers wore Sentenced to Hasfi Which Penalty Uao of Thom Has Already Paid. Harford, CaL, Jan. —George Taylor, under sentence of death for participating in the murder of the Meeks family near Carrollton, Ma, and who escaped from the Carrollton Jail several months ago, was captured on the Jacob ranch, near Hanford, by

Sheriff Buckner and a posse and brought to town. Ta'ylor was taken by surprise and made no resistance whatever. He had been domiciled in a small cabin on the ranch, and apparently lelt secure that his identity was unknown. A strong guard was placed over the prisoner in the city jail, aud the governor will |be applied to for extradition papers. George and William Taylor, farmers, were contieted of the brutal murder of Mr. and Mrs. Meeks and the at tempted assassination of their little daughter, who survived to tell the tale of the crime. Both brothers attempted an escape from the jail and George succeeded, and no trace has since been found of him until now. WAS PLAYING CARDS While III* Wife aud Children were Horned to Death—Seveu JVruons Horned iu Ho. i bokru aud Thirtv Families Keudered j Houirlen. Hobos.ex, N. J., Feb. 1.—This city j was visited by two disastrous fires be- j tween 11:30 Saturday night aud 3 ; oYloek yesterday morning. Seven i persons were burned to death and 30 j families were made homeless. * The Saturday night tire started in the three-story frame building at 410 j Newark street. Here six persons lost their lives. The father of the family, Charles Sehroeder, was in a nearby saloon piaving cards while his wife and children were dying.

xuc aeuuuu uru aiai icu at a u ciwk . yesterday morning in the five-story double deck tenement at 157 Fourteenth street, over a mile from :ne scene of the first. In this fife three tenements, 155. 157 aud 159 were entirely wrecked and 153 was damaged badly by water. One child was burned to death on the fourth floor of No. 157. She was Mabel Mangles, 3 years old As near as can be determined the fire at 410 Newark street started in a defective flue in Schaeffer's wheelwright shop on the ground floor of a three-story frame building. Schaeffer occupied the second floor asjiviug apartments. The front rooms on the third floor were occupied by Charles Schroeder and his family, while James Blanchard and family occupied the ! rooms in the rear. The Blanchard family was first to discover the fire, j which had gained such headway that 1 they barely made their escape by way ! of the roofs of adjoiniug buildings. It was impossible to discover the fate i of the Schroeder family uutii the fire ; hail subsided. When the police entered the build- j iitg little save the shell remaiued, and j they wiere obliged to exercise great l care in climbing about the place. j They finally reached the top floor and made their way into the front room. Stretched across the bed, blackened aud charred, lay the mother, aud clasped tightly in her arms was the little baby, Willie. Beside the mother aud baby, in the same bed, lay the charred bodies of the girls. Maggie and Kate. It is likely that they were suffocated in their sleep. On a mattress on the floor near the window lay the body of the boy, John, but the bvdy of Henry, the oldest boy, was now..ere to be seen. Upon further search being made the boy’s body was found under a mass of debris in the hall, bn rued almost to a crisp. It is believed that the boy was aroused during the fire, and in his efforts to escape ran into the halL GOV. BRADLEY’S DILEMMA. Dire PaaUhMBt If lie Don and a Terrible Tate If He Uoeen’t. Frasxfort, Ky., Feb. 1.—Gov. Bradley has received the following letter: Jacksonville. Fla.. Jan. 26. Gov. Bradley, Fraakfort, Ky. Sir: It would be unjust to banc Scott Jacksoa and Walling on my account, for I am alive and well, and my mrents will never be Able to and me. Respectfully, Pkaxl Bar an. P. S. —1 leave here this afternoon. The governor has received numerous tetters threatening him with dire punishment if he does not commute the sentences of Jackson and Walling. Others say he will meet with a terrible fate should he show mercy. LaatsvUte Policeman Who Refuse to bs I>t •charged. Louisville, Ky., Jan. 31.—Thirtyfive policemen enjoined the board ol safety from discharging them yester- , day afternoon. Some days ago Mayor Todd decided that there was no funds for the payment of the salaries of these men. The board of safety maintained that unexpended balances ol former years were availab le, bnt gave way to the mayor. Upon seenrin g the injunction the polieemen pat on their nniforma and reported for duty. T hey were given beats and will remain on dntv until Saturday at least.

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