Pike County Democrat, Volume 28, Number 17, Petersburg, Pike County, 3 September 1897 — Page 6

TALMAGE’8 SERMON. Mo Matter Bow Hard the Storm Christ is in Command. tfcili WWwV«m« of Uf* la T«ap«tf mi Mm«I4 Always Taka Christ la «ka skip aad Port WU1 ka Safa); Keackad. Bat. T. DeWitt Talmage. in the following aermon, designs to gif© comfort to those who find life beset with trials aad troubles. The text is: Aad there were also with Him other tittle whips, aad there arose a great storm of wind. ....Aad the wiad ceased and there was a great eelm.—Mark It.. »-» Tiberias. Galilee, Gennesaret—three names for the same lake. No other gem erer had so beautiful a setting. It lay in a scene of great luxuriance; the •earrounding hills, terraced, sloped, g roved, so many hanging gardens of beauty; the waters rumbling down between rocks of gray and red limestone, flashing from the hills, and bonuding into the sea. On the shore were castles. armed towers, Roman baths, j everything attractive and beautiful; j all styles of vegetation in shorter apace than in almost any other space j in the world, from the palm tree of the ] forest to the treesof a rigorous climate, j It seemed as if the Lord had launched j one wave of beauty on ail the scene, nnd it hung and swung from rock and hill and oleander. Roman gentlemen in pleasure boats sailing the lake, and ' countrymen in fish smacks coming j down to drop their nets, pass each other with nod and shout and laughter, or i ewingiug idly at their moorings. Oh. | what a wonderful, what a beautiful | lake!' It seems as if we shall have a quiet j Might. Not a leaf winked in the air; not a ripple disturbed the face of Gen- i nesaret; but there seems to be a little \ excitement up the beach, and we hasten j to see what it is, and we find it an em- j

barkation. From the western shore a flotilla pushing out, not a squadron, or dead* 4y armament, norclipper with valuable merchandise, nor piratic vessels ready 4o destroy everything they could seise; •but a flotilla, bearing messengers of life, and light, and peace. Christ is iu the front boat. His disciples are in a smaller boat. Jesus, weary with much apeaking to large multitudes, is put into somnolence by the rocking of the wavea. If there was any motion at all. the ahip was easily righted; if the wind passed from one side, from starboard to larboard, anti from the larboard to starboard, the boat would Cock, and by the gentleness of the motion pultiug the Master asleep. And they extemporised a pillow made out ■of a fisherman’s coat- 1 think no auoner is Christ prostrate, and His head touching the pillow, than He is sound asleep. The breezes of -the lake run j 4hcir fiugers through the locks of the : worn sleeper, and the boat rises and > falls like a sleeping child ou the l»osom I of a sleeping mother. Calm night, starry night, beautiful night. Run up all the sails. ply all the oars, and let the large boat and the small boat glide over gentle tieuuesareU But the sailors say there is going to be a change of weather. And even the passengers can hear the tuoauing of the storm, as it comes on-with long -stride, with all the terrors of hurricane | -and darkness. The large boat trembles ! like a deer at bay trembling among the ! •clangor of the hounds; great patches ! Of foam are flung into the air; the sails j of the vessel loosen, and the sharp J winds crack like pistols; the smaller i boats, like petrels, poise on the cliff of waves and then plunge. Overboard go j cargo, tackliug and masts, and the i drenched disciples rush into the back ! part of the boat, aud lay hold of Christ, .-and say unto Han; "Master, carest «ot that we perish?” That great per- j son age lifts Ilia luad from the j pillow of the t fisherman's coat, walks to the front of the vessel J and looks out into the storm. : All around Him are the smaller boats. | driven iu tin* tempest, aud through it | comes the cry of drowning nu n. By the flash of the lightning 1 see the calm brow of Curist as the spray disqjped from 11.- iW-ard. H.e has one word for the sky and another word for the waves. Looking upward, lie cries: “IVacel" L <okiug downward, Ik says; •*B« still." The waves fell flat on their faces, the foam metis, the extinguished stars relight their torches. The tempest falls dead, and Christ stand- with ills foot on the neck of the storm. And j while the sailors arc bailing out the boats, and while they are trying to untangle the coni age, the disciples stand io amazement, now looking into the •Calm sea, then into the calm sky, then into the calm pf the Saviour's countenance, and they cry out; "What manner of man is this, that even the winds And the sea obey Him?”

The subject in the first place im presses me with the fact that it is very important to hare Christ in the ship; for all those boats would hare gone to the bottom of Uenuesart if Christ had not been present. Oh, what a lesson for you and for me to learu! What-, ever voyage we undertake, into what- I •rer enterprise we start, let us always bare Christ in the ship. Many of you in these days of rerlred commerce are starting out in new financial enterprises I bid you good cheer. Do all you can do. Do it on as high a plane as possible. You hare no right to be a stoker in the ship if yon can be an admiral of the navy. You have no right to be a colonel of a region*nt if you cau command a brigade; you have no right to be an ongineer of a boat on river banks, or near the coast, if you can take the ocean ateamer from New York to Liverpool. All yon can do. with utmost tension of body, mind and soul, you are bound to 4o; but. oh. hare Christ in every enterprise. Christ in every voyage, Christ In every ship * There are men who ask God to help them at the start of great enterprises. Be has been with them in the past, co . trouble can overthrow them; the[ atorms might oome dowa from the top |

■' 'f 1 ... ‘‘i1 - ■■■■■■ of Mount Herman, and lash Genneaaret into fonm and into agony, hut it eould not hurt them. But there is another man who starts out in worldly enterprise. and he depends upon the uncertainties of this life. He has no God to help him. After awhile the storm comes and tosses off the masts of the ship; he puts out his lifeboat; the sheriff and the auctioneer try to help him off; they can’t help him off; he must go down; no Christ in the ship. Here are young men just starting out in life. Your life will be made up of sunshine and shadow. There may be in it arctic blasts or tropical tornadoes; 1 know not whatsis before you, but 1 know if you hare Christ with you all shall be well, y You mar seem to get along without the religion of Christ while erery thing goes smoothly, but after awhile, when sorrow borers over the soul, when the wares of trial dash clear orer the hurricane deck, and the bowsprit is shivered, and the halliards are swept into the sea, and the gangway is crowded with piratical disasters—oh, what would you then do without Christ in the ship? Young man, take God for your portion. God for your guide, God j for your help; then all is well; all is well for time; all shall be well forerer. Blessed is that man who puts in the Lord his trust. He shall never be confounded. But my subject also impresses me with the fact that when people start to follow Christ they must not expect smooth sailing. Those disciples got into the small boats, and 1 hare no doubt they said: vWhat a beautiful day this is! What a smooth sea!. What bright sky this is! ilow delightful is sailing in this boat; and as for the wares under the keel of the boat, why, they only make the motion of our little boat the more delightful.” But when the wind swept down, and the sea was tossed into wrath, then they found that following Christ was not smooth sailing. So you hare found it, so 1

have found it. Did you ever notice the end of the life of the apostles of Jesus Christ? You would say that if ever men ought to have had a smooth life, a smooth departure, then those men, disciples of Jesus Christ, ought to have had such a departure and such a life. St. James lost his head. SL Philip was hung to death on a pillar. St. Matthew had his life dashed out with a halbert. St. Mark was dragged to death through the streets. St James the Less was beaten to death with a fuller’s club. St Thomas was struek through with a spear. They did not hud following Christ smooth sailing. Oh, how they were all tossed in the tempest! John lluss in the fire; Hugh McKaii in the hour of martyrdom; the Albigeuses, the Waldenses, the Scotch covenanters—did they tiud it smooth sailing? But why go to history when I cau find all around me a score of illustrations of the truth of this subject? That young man in the store trying to serve tiod, while his employer scoffs at Christianity, the young men in the same store antagonistic to the Christian religions leasing him, tormenting him about his religion, trying to get him mud. They succeed in getting him mad, saying: “You're a pretty Christian.” Does this young man fiud it smooth sailing when he tries to follow Christ? Here is a Christian girl. Her father despies the Christian religion; her brothers and sisters scoff at the Christian religion; she can hardly find a quiet place in which to say her prayers. Did she fiud it smooth sailing when she tried to follow Jesus Christ? Oh, m>; all who would live the life of the Christian religion must suffer persecution; if you do not find it in one way. you will get it iu another way. The question was asked: “Who are those nearest the throne?” aud the answer came back: “These are they who came up out of great tribulation;” — “great flailing” as the original has it; great flailing, great pounding—“aud had their robes washed aud made white in the blood of the Lauib.” Oh, do not be disheartened. Oh, child of God! take courage. You are in glorious companionship. God will see you through ail these trials, aud He will deliver you. My subject also impresses me with the fact tiial good people sometimes get very much frightcued. In the tones of these disciples, as they rushed to the back part of the boat. 1 fiud they are frightened almost to death. They say: “Master, earest Thou not that we perish?” They had no reason to be frightened, for Christ was in the boat. 1 suppose if we had been there we would have been just as much affrighted. Perhaps more. C. lu all ages very good people get very much affrighted. It is often so in our day. and men say: “Why, look at the bad lectures; look at the spiritualistic societies; look at the various errors going over the Church of God; we are going to founder; the church is going to perish, she is going down.” Oh, how many good people are affrighted by triumphant iniquity in our dayk and think the church of Jesus Christ and the cause of righteousness are guing to be overthrown, and are just as much affrighted as the disciples of my text were affrighted? Don't worry, don't fret, as though iniquity were going to triumph over righteousness. A lion goes to a cavern to sleep. He lies down, with his shaggv mane cover

iug the paw*. Meanwhile the spiders spin a web across the mouth of the carern, ami say: “We hare captured him." liovvauier thread after gossamer thread is spun until the whole front of the careru is covered with the spiders' web, and the spiders say: “The lion is doue; the lion is fast,*’ After awhile the lion has got through sleeping; he rouses himself, he shakes his mane, he jralksout into the sunlight; he does not even know the spiders’ web is spun, and with his voice he shakes the ! mountain. So men come, spinning their sophistries and skepticism about Jesns Christ; lie seems to be sleeping. They say; “We have captured the Lord; He will never come forth again upon the nation; Christ is captured, and captured forever. His religion will never make any conquest among men.* But after

awhile the Lion of the tribe of Judah will rouse Himself and come forth to shake mightily th^ nation*. Oh, that these gales from Hearen might sweep through all our churches! Oh, for such days as Richard Baxter saw in England and Robert McCheyne saw in Dundee! Oh! for snch days as Jonathan Edwards saw in Northampton! 1 hare of ten heard my father tell of the fact that in the early part of the century a re viral broke out in Somerville, N. J., and some people were very much agitated about it. They said: “Oh, you are going to bring too many people into the church at once;” and they sent down to New Brunswick to get John Livingston to stop the revival. Well, there was no better soul in all the world than John Livingston. He went up; he looked at the revival; they wanted him to stop it. He stood in the pulpit on the Sabbath, and looking over the solemn auditory, he said: “This, brethren, is in reality the work of God; beware how you try to stop it.” And he was an old man. leaning heavily on his staff—a very old man. And he lifted that st^ff. and took hold of the small end of the staff, and began to let it fall very slowly through, between the finger and the thumb, and he said: “Oh. thou impend tent, thou art falling now—falling away from life, falling away from peace and Heaven, falling as certainly as that cane is falling through my handfalling certainly, though perhans falling very slowly.” And the cane kept on falling through John Livingston’s band. The religious emotion in the audience was overpowering, and men saw a type of their doom as the cane kept falling and falling until the knob of the cane struck Mr. Livingston's hand, and he clasped it stoutly and said, “But the grace of God can stop you as 1 stopped that cane;” and then there was gladness all through the house at the fact of pardon and peace and salvation. “Well,” said the people after the service, “I guess you had

better send Livingston home; he is making the revival worse.” Oh, for the gales from Heaven and Christ on board the ship. The danger of the church of God is not in revivals. Again, my subject impresses me with the fact that Jesus was God and man in the same being. Here He is in the back part of the boat. Oh, how tired He looks; what sad dreams He must have! Look at His countenance; He must be thinkiug of the cross to come. Look at Him; lie is a man—bone of our bone, flesh of our flesh. Tired, He falls asleep; He is a man. But then I tin d Christ at the prow of the boat. I h ear Him say: “Peace. be still;” and 1 see the storm kneeling at His feet, and the tempests folding their wiuga in His presence; He is a God. If 1 have sorrow and trouble, and want sympathy, I go and kneel down ,at the back' part of the boat, and say: “Oh, Christ! weary one of Genuesaret, sympathize with all my sorrows; man of Nazareth, man of the cross.” A man, a man. But if I want to conquer my spiritual foe; if 1 want to get the victory over sin, death and hell, 1 come to the front of the boat, aud I knee) down* aud 1 say: “Oh. Lord, Jesus Christ, thou who dust hush the tempest, hush ail my grief; hush all my temptation, hush all my sin:” A man, a man; a God, a God. I learn once more from this subject that Christ can hush a tempest. It did seem as if everything must go to ruin. The disciples had given up the idea of managing the ship; the crew were entirely demoralized; yet Christ rises, and He puts His foot on the storm, and it crouches at ills feet. Oh, yes! Christ can hush the tempest. You have had trouble. Perhaps it was the little child taken away from you—the sweetest child of the household; the oue who asked the most curious questions, and stood around you with the greatest fondness, aud the spade cut down through your bleediug heart. Perhaps it was au only son, and your heart has ever siuee been like j a desolated castle, the owls of the j night hooting among the falling rafters and the crmnbliug stairway. Perhaps it was an aged mother. You always went to her with your troubles, j She was in your home to welcome your children Into life, and when they died she was there to pity you; that old hand will do you no more kindness; that white lock of hair you put away iu the casket, or in the locket, did not look as well as it usually did when she brushed it away from her wrinkled brow in the home circle or in thfe country church. Ur vour property gone, ! you said; “1 have so much bauk stock, \ 1 have so many government securities, j l have so many houses, I have so many j farms”—all gone, all gone. Why, all the storms that ever trampled with their thunders, ail the shipwrecks, have not been worse than this to you. Yet you have not been completely overthrown. Why? Christ hushed the tempest. Your little one. was taken away. Christ says: “I have ! that little oue; I can take care of him j as well as you can, better than you can. O bereaved mother!” Hushing the tempest. When your property went away, God said: “There are treasures iu Heaven, in banks that never break.” There is due storm into which we will all have to run the moment when we let go of this life and try to take hold of the next,-when we will want all the grace we can have—we will

want it^sh. lander I see a Christian soul rocking on the surges of j death; all the powers of darkness seem let ont against that soul—the swirling ware, the thunder of the sky, the screaming wind, all seem to unite together; but that soul is not troubled; there is no sighing. there are no tears; plenty of tears in the room at the departure, hut he weeps no tears, calm, satisfied, peaceful; all is welL Jesus hushed the tempest. By the flash of the storm you see the harbor just ahead, and you are making for that harbor. Strike eight bells. All is well. Into the harbor of Heaven now we gilds; We're home at last, home at last. Softly we drift on its bright. ailr’ry tilde. We're home at last, homo at last. Glory to Qod, all our dangers are o'er. We stead secure os the glorided shore; Glory to God. we will shout evermore. We're hosm at last, home at last.

TROUBLE WILL FOLLOW Tk« Ctowdlag of ImpMmalouAdTMtWHl Iota Alwka, Who Hop* to Got to th« Klondike Coanlrj, Cannot Help Hot He•alt io Trouble—Already Many Are Da> pendent on Charity far Subsistence. WA8HIN6TOS, Aug. 28.—Several com* plaints hare reached the treasury do* partment recently that large numbers of men bound for the Klondike country, but without provisions or money, are now being landed at St. Michaels, Alaska. None of the regular lines of steamers, it is said, will book parties for the Klondike who are not provided with a sufficient amount of provisions and money to maintain themselves for a reasonaole time without danger of sufering. Some of the tramp lines of steamers, however, are said to ship any one who can pay for his passage, without regard to the future. The result is said to be that a considerable crowd is accumulating in the vftinity of St. Michaels, who already j are becoming dependent upon the! charity of others for their food. This j unexpected situation it is feared, will lead to trouble before the winter is over and the treasury department has i been asked $6 interfere to prevent ves- j sels from taking to Alaska persons not | | properly provided with subsistence. No way of exercising any federal au- ; thority in the premises has yet been | discovered, and it is altogether un- j ! likely that in the absence of action on j the part of the states whence the vesaels sail any restraint whatever can be ; exercised. — A RAPID-FIRE MAXIM GUN. Protection For the Gold of Returning Klondike ra from Kobbera or Mutineers. Chicaqo, Aug. 2a.—A rapid-fire Maxim gun for the protection of the gold of returning Klondikers was received at Chicago yesterday. It is en route for Seattle, Wash., where it will be placed in position on the steamer Portland. Fifty rounds of ammunition accompanied the gun. It will be placed in a position on the vesse, where it can be med? on a possible pirating vessel, or to sweep the decks of the Portland in case of mutiny. “We do not expect either of these uses for the gun,” said W. W. Weft-, of the North American Transportation company; “but it is just as well to be prepared, and' ifien who have washed the yellow stuff out of the ice and snow in Alaska will feel more safe in having a gun aboard.”

MINISTER WOODFORD. 11* Will be Received by the Queen Recent at.Sen Sebastian. Washington*, Aug. 28.—Recent reports from Spain said that the queen regent would not receive Minister Woodford until she returned to Mad rid, but the state department has beeu aware for some time that Gen. Woodford would be received at San Sebastian, unless the queen contemplated returning to Madrid very soon after his arrival in Spain. It has been unusual to receive foreign ministers where courts have not been established, and no court has been maintained at San Sebastian. Ministers Cushing and Lowell were received at resorts outside of Madrid, but royal courts had been established at these resorts. While there has been no apparent hurry by Gen, Woodford to reacii his destination, yet the fact is apparent that he could not go to San Sebastian to be received out of the ordinary custom uuless it was felt he ought to soon begin to carry out his instructions as to the policy of the United States regarding Cuba. As soon as Gen. Woodford is received he will be in a position to open negotiations with the Spanish minister of foreign affairs, who could not recognize him as minister until he had been received by the sovereign.

SENOR SAGASTA Tells Some Truths About the Coudltlon o. Affairs lu Spain. Madrid, August 2$.—Senor Sagasta, the liberal leader, has made a fresh declaration ou the political situat on. He says it is daily growing worse in Cuba and continues serious in the Phil* ippine islands. Seuor Sagasta is ready to apply autonomy to Cuba and expresses the belief that the liberals will assume power earlier than expected. Referring to the possibililty of a rising in favor of Don Carlos, the pretendei to the Spanish throne, Senor Sagasta asserts that the Cariists are already prepared for a rising and are only awaiting a false step upon the part ol the government or a favorable opportunity to take up arms. PRACTICALLY A THREAT, The Catted States Challenged to Make • Demoaetratloa ta Cuba's Behalf. Madrid, Aug. 2$.—Gen. Azcarraga, the Spanish premier, at the cabinet council over which he presided Thursday night, declared the government would follow in the footsteps of the late Premier Senor Canovas del Castillo. Continuing, Gen. Azcarraga announced that the government had fall confidence in Cap t.-Gen. Weyler's political and military conduct of affairs in Cuba. Personally the premier was aware that the insurrection in Cuba was approaching an end, and if the United States made any demonstration, which he hoped would not be the case, Spaip would do her duty.

WAGES IN RUSSIA. The l'*e of MachShory 11m Ctoud a raillas OS la the Rate. WASHCfOTUX, Aug. ‘28.—Cousul-Gtc-eral Karel, at St. Petersburg, in a report to the state department, gives some information concerning wages in Russia. It appears, according to the report, that the use of machinery has caused a falling off in the wage rate. ▲ workman with a horse is paid one rouble and sixty copeeks per day. The rouble is valued at 81-4 cehta and the copeck is the one-hundredth part of a rouble.

BLOODY CLOTHING. A Clew to Um Harder of Kay M Wtrt Peok-OoruenU Sold to Ban Belonged to Edmunds, the Suspect In J»U nt Kenans City—A Warrant for the Arreat of Edmonds Reeetreo Proas Colorado. Colorado Springs, CoL, Aug. 39.—A young man discovered a bundle of blood-stained underclothes and a flannel negligee shirt in a crevice in the rocks just below the cog-road track, and j about 500 feet above the Manitou & Pike’s Peak railroad depot. The front of the shirt and the lower part of the underclothing were saturated with blood. The clothes are believed to belong to the man who murdered Kay, and answer in every detail to the description of the clothes which John B. Edmunds was known to have been wearing when he was last seen in this city a few days prior to the murder. The blood stains are accounted for by the supposition that the murderer held the body in his arms, the head against his breast and the feet trailing on the ground, when he dragged it to the culvert where it was found. Kay was struck in the back of the head, and the nature of the stain on these clothes is exactly that which might be expected from handling a man bleeding from such a wound. A Warrant for Edmunds* Arrest. Kansas Citt, Mo., Aug. 39.—When shown the Colorado dispatch telling of the finding of a bundle of clothes supposed to belong to Johnnie B. Edmunds, the Pike's Peak murder suspect iu jail here. Chief of Police llayes said that when arrrested the prisoner wore a bran-new suit of underclothing. A warrant for Edmunds’ arrest has been received from the sheriff of Colorado Springs. the“grand army.

Mention of Some Business of Importance Transacted In Executive Session. Buffalo, X. Y„ Aug. '29.—Among other business transacted in the executive session of t e Grand Army of the Republic encampment Friday, was the following: A resolution was adopted urging the government to enforce the law relative to the employment in government work of soldiers who were wounded during the war. and recommending all citizens who have occasion to give employment to discriminate wherever possible in favor of such veterans. The committee reported in favor of urging cougress to pass a bill setting apart (MO acres of timber land in the Indiau territory for the use of the inmates of the soldiers’ home of Oklahoma. The report was adopted. The communication from the Lincoln Monument association of California, recommending that a monument to Lincoln be erected in every city in the land, was indorsed, and the National Monument association will be asked to take favorable action. The encampment urged the passage of the bill in congress appropriating monei* to build a sanitarium on the site of Castle Pinckney, in Charleston harbor. as a memorial to Maj. Anderson of Fort Sumter fame. A resolution was adopted than icing the common council and the Young Men’s

Business association of Richmond, for the iuvitation to the encampment tc visit that city in 1$9S, and recommending that the next encampment take favorable action. Resolutions indorsing the acts of the outgoing administration, the introduction of military instruction in the public schools, and urging the reduction of expenses in the encampment were adopted. * An invitation was read from the mayor and common council of Toronto. Can., asking the encampment to visit that city. The commander-in-chief was instructed to telegyaph the thanks of the encampment, and its regret at finding it impossible to accept the invitation. The uew officers were installed by Gen. Wagner, of Pennsylvania, the oldest surviving ex-commander-in- ; chief. Commander-in-chief Gobin has three appointments to make, quarter-master-general, adjutant-general and inspector-general. The first two are salaried offices, the positiou of quarter-master-general paying SI.'500 a year. Gen. Gobin will not make these ap* pointmeuts tor several days. A BAD FIRE. Entire South Side of the Square at Virginia, lit.. Wiped OuI-Limm, 8‘tOO.OOO; ! lusurauce, 963,000. Springfield, 111., Aug. 29.—The entire south side square at Virginia, 111., was destroyed by fire early to-day. The loss is about $200,000, with $05, 000 insurance. The buildings were destroyed: Farmers' national bank, Robinson & Taylor, proprietors. Joseph C. Conner, dry goods, boots and shoes. Phillips dfc Wilson, dry goods. J. Kexroath, grocer. Dunaway Bros. & Cordley, grocery firm. W. Woods, drags. Crocher, bakery and restaurant. Wm. Barkely, drugs. Taylor «fc King, furniture aud undertaking. Black Bros., groceries. Centennial national bank. Clark & Co., restaurant and bakery. Win. Martin, tailor. About three years ago the entire west side of the square was destroyed J>y fire.

COSTLY FLAMES. A Six-Story Factory Gattod-Narrow Call kto r Flw I’ulnU Mlatou. Nkw York, Aug. SO.—Twenty steam-ers—one-third of the number belong ing to the fire department of this city— were kept busy for over two hours yesterday afternoon pumping water into the six-story factory building at 478 and 480 Peart street, which had taken fire from some unknown cause, and was threatening to ignite the Five Points Mission home, on Park streeL After a stubborn fight the flames were aonfined to the Pearl street building,

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