Pike County Democrat, Volume 28, Number 33, Petersburg, Pike County, 24 December 1897 — Page 2

ITS FINANCIAL PLAN. Formulated by the Secretary of the Treasury. Si Vm'TnmiMI to sad Kxplmlstd bjr ths WAMuaeTOH, Dee. IT.—Secretary dtaft appeared before the committee -cm banking and currency of the house -saC representatives to present a bill emItodyiag his views for a review of the —rrnncy, to explain and urge its provisions, and. to meet any objections ereieed by the committee. The secretary was aoeompained by Judge O’Connell, valid I or of the treasnry. Copies of the

' \\xx XX X " x Xi II SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY GAGE. secretary's bill wore handed to memIters of the committee and were scanned with (Treat interest. After being in- ■ trod need to the various gentlemen of WMarailtee, Mr. Gage began his statenaent, speaking in an easy conversational manner, and following notea He said in opening: “The objects I hs«e in mind iu the series of provisions offered by me are four in number. First—To commit the country more thoroughly to the gold standard; remove. so far as possible, doubts and fears on that point, and tbusstrengthen the credibof the United States both tot home and abroad. Second—To strengthen the treasury la relation to its demand liabilities, in which are included greenbacks, treasury notes, and the incidental obligation to maintain ou a parity, through inter changeability with gold, so far as may he accessary, the present large volume of silver certificates and silver dollars. Third—To do this in such a way as mot to coutruct the volume of circulation in the bauds of the people. Fourth—To take an initial step toward a system of bauk-note issues without the conditional deposit of public bonds as security therefor. If we prosper as a people the rcveuue of the government ought to be somewhat iu mdtranoe of iu expenditures, and the public debt of the United States gradually reduced, aud finally extinguished. Looking at the questiou widely.from any beet point of knowledge and experience, l feel that if these could be seenred the condition of the government im its relation to the currency would hs much safer and stronger than now, and that through the operatiou of national bank note currency the commercial and industrial interests of the United States would be greatly advantaged." After this initial statement, the secretary's bill was read in detail and discerned section by section. Secretary Gtic'i Hill. Secretary Gage’s bill is as follows: A MU to provide for the refunding of the naflhntl debt, for establishing s redemption fund, wad a division of ix*ue sad redemption in the treasury of the United Slate*, and to modify existing Uw« respecting national banks; and tor other purposes.

it umtkd. xtu. Tuai mere oe es’aolUhed in lh» trex'.ury deparui.- nt, u< a par. of Uu-uffineo' lin* treasure'of the United Stales, « division to be designated acul known a* the EUvimvii of issue and redemption, to which shad %• assigned. under such regulations ns the seontiary of the treasury may approve nil records and account* relating to the butte. redemption •mI exchange ns hereiunfter provided of the ■wrrsl tl»es of United States paper money. TPbeee shall be transferred from the general r>«t in the treasury of the United Slates and CnfsAa «p on the books of said division ns n redemption fund the sum of tl&.OiMMM) in United ptaus (old cole nnd bullion, nnd sa h further of standard sliver dollars and silver bulUna purchased under the act of congress. approved July H. irS.>. ns shall equal the silver cartiIrate* outside the treasury, nnd treasury awte> of !*.«.» out-trading on the date when Phis set shall take eSect: and thereafter the malt and stiver com and bullion hereby Iran— ami from the (enerwi fund in the treasury as ipaala provided; shall be increased or diminflahed. as the case ouy be. tn accordance with tab* BtstvbUoos of this act. and tn no other way. .NSC S. That ail United State* notes, treasaiy asM of 1-uOund silver certificates presentat fur redemption, shad Jbe redeemed from the wadecoptkm fund herein provided in accord an oe with the term* of existing laws, but the notes •s i ert.ncao-s so redeemed shall be held in ml owa-titut# a part of said fund, and shall not hr withdrawn from -atdj fund nor disbursal ex«no4 n excoang- for no equivalent amount of •win fwimmed but to enable the secretary of PS* treasury more thoroughly to carry out the prwri'ion» xintain sl n this act. he i- hereby Authorize 1 to esc ha . rv any of the fut.-is tn tin•ivtaloa of issue and redemption'tor any other Can.is which mav be in the general fund in the Sream ry d-;<»riu»rat. Provided, that •nothing Ew this a«t niiali be construed of repealing the ■vwviaioa of the act approved Ju y U. iww, which provide* that there shall be outstanding Wt any Uto* no m ore and no lews of the treasury •Mai authorised by said act than the surer EsEUss and Standard stiver dollars coined •herefrom then held in the treasury purchased with said aotas SBC- k That the secretary of the treasury ba «la hereby authorised to receive at the tr>-as-say of the outstanding bond- knows as the • per centum boa is >f list, and the 4 per oeatM 00*9*01 s Of liW.', Issued, respectively. under •he sot approved January 14 W3&. and the acts ivad July 14. UCO and January ju. ts?i, and la exchange therefor coupon or regisida of the United States tn such form prescribe, in denominations of ®o. ■mitipic of that sum bearing interest the rat*.of i -* per centum per annum, paysI* wwjl-antiua. \ and redeemable at the pleaa- • of the United States., after ten y«ars from >dat of their issue; and the bonds hereby ue; shall be payable, principal and Inis United States gold coin of the prwnMkudard value, and shall be exempt from ! taxation bv or under state municipal or lo1 authority: provided, that none of the outlading bond* shall be received at n valuation later than thair present worth to yield an ini of 2-y per centum per annum, nnd that the hereby authorized shall be Issued at not _ ^hat the bonds authorised by this not __any other beads of the United Staten may We deposited with the treasurer of the Uhltea •cate- an security for the circulation notes of —I inn si banking association*, and any national haskiiu association which may deposit the herein authorized to be deposited as *ewortty Mr Its circulating notes shall be entitled •a receive from the eompux* ler of the currency ■nf to l*-ue such notes to an amount equal to •he faoe value of such bonds; Provided, that amount of bonds deposited by

any national banking association under any lan •hall not exceed the amount of its capital, and provided, further, that nothin* herein con* mined shall be construed to modify or repen. the provisions of section M« and section 6,111 of the revised statutes, authorising the comptroller of the currency to require additional deposit of bonds or of lawful money in case the market value of the bonds held to secure the circulating notes shall fail below fee par value of the circulating notes outstanding, tor which such bands may be deposited as security. Sxc. &. That any national banking association, whose deposit of bonds is less than the amaunt of its capital, may deposit with the treasures

ax la© united Slates:, under such regulations at (be secretary of the treasury may approve, United States notes, treasury notes of isyo and silvercertificates, and shall be entitled tore* oeive from the comptroller of the currency and to Issue an equal amount of its circulating notes; but the aggregate am unt of bonds. United States notes, treasury notes of 18* > and silver certificates, deposited by any national banking association, shall not exceed the amount of its capital; provided, that the total amount of United States notes, treasury notes of l&M and silver certificates deposited with the treasurer of the United States, under authority of this section, shall not exceed the sum of ftou.uoo, oa Sue. & That the secretary of the treasury shall lssuse fro u time to time, in his discretion, bonds of the same class and character as those described in the third section of this act. and shall substitute the same with the treasurer of the United State* tor equal amounts of United States notes.treasury notes of ltvu and silver certificates deposited by national banking associations and the bonds so issued anu substituted shall be charged to the respective national bauktag assoe.aWoas and be accounted for by them, at such prices, not less than par. as shall represent the market value of such bonds; and the United States notes, treasury notes of and silver certificates released as herein provided, shall becom* a part of the general redemption fund; and ih« secretary of the treasury is hereby authorized to exchange any of said treasury notes of 1st* and said stiver certificates for a like amount oi United States notes; provided that the amount of bounds issued under the authority of this section shall norexoeed the sum of itioO.uuo.d U s*ct «. When auy national bank now existing or hereafter organized shall have deposited such United States bonds. United States notes, treasury notes of lsso or silver certificates to an amount of not less than 50 per centum of its capital it shall be entitled to receive from the comptroller of the currency and to issue national bank notes, in addition to the 50 per centum thus provided to the amount of (< per cent ot such deposits; but the circulation issued by any national banking association shall never be 10 excess of its paid-up capital stock, and the additional notes so issued shall not be secured by said deposit, but shall constitute a fir-t iein upon all the remaining assets of the associatioi issuing such notes. Upon the failure of any association to redeem its circulating notes aW« provided, whether the same are issued against deposited security or general assets, the sam« shall be promptly redeemed by the treasurer el the United States. To secure the United Statet against any loss arising from its guaranty to pay and redeem such additional circulating notes u shall be the duty of the comptroller ol the currency to levy upon and collect from every national banking association issuing such unsecured circulation a lax rate ofper cent. per annum on such unsecured circulation; which saul tax of 2 per cent- per anuum shall Ik- paid to the treasurer of ihe United States in e^uai seml-annuai payments in January and July- ol each year, and when so codec tod it shall constitnl a safety fund, out of which the United States shau Br reimbursed for any red •mptioa of said unsecured circulation it may make as herein provided. This safety fund thus creat-ed-shaii be invested by the secretary of me treasury in such government bonds as he may consider advisable. Saul tax of l* per cent, pox anuum shall be ui addition to the i*> uf onehalf one per centum per annum on circulating notes hereinafter authorized Sac. it That each uatioua! banking association shall deposit and maintain In the treasury of the United States a sum of money aggregating 10 pr centum of its aggregate circulation, said -urn to bo th lieu of tue a per centum induction fund now required by section 3 of the act approved June 2u, is*4. to be maintained and to be subject to all the provisions of existing laws respecting said redemption fund not inconsistent w.th the provisions of this act. And m cousideratiou of the deposits of bonds. United State - notes, treasury notes of 19V • and silver cert .cates ana Ui© tax of 2 per centum on the unsecured circulating uotesuf national banking associations and of vne depost of lawful money provided in this section the faith oi the United States is heresy pledged to the redempt'oa in lawful money of the United Mutes of ail the cireiuatiug notes of said national banking associations. Sec. i*. That the comptroller of tne currency shall not is-ue to auy national banking association, after tue date when this act shall take effect. any of the circulating notes of such association of less denomination than tea dollars; and whenever any circulating notes of less denom r.atiou than tea dollars shall be redeem'd or received into the treasury of the United States they shad be canceled and destroyed, and other notes of la wfui denominations shad be issued in their place. sac. Id That on and after the date when thi* act shall take efiect the circulating notes of th* national bansing associations shall l*e redeemed al the office of tue United-States assistanttreasurer m the city of sew York, and also at such other sub-treasury offices as may be designated by the comptroller of tue currency wua the approval of ;he secretary of the treasury and the circulating notes of which National irfauk association so redeemed shall be charged to the lu per centum redempuoa ot the association un .er sucu rules a> may be pn%cribed by the comptroller of the currency witu the up- : provut of the secretary of the treasury. Svc. 11. That in lieu of all existing taxes ! every national banking association issuing botes s all pay to the treasury of the United States m the mouth- of January and J uly of each year a tax of onefourth of 1 per centum for each half year upon the average amount of its notes in circulation: Provided, however, that during all the period of time intervening between the deposit of United States notes, treasury notes

dUiU irtWiUV«iV». ».UU LUV .>UUMUUUUU U1 boaJs by the x*crvuu\v of the treasury us m this act provided, the clrculaUag notes specifically issutsi therefore anl secured by said CnlM hurtesi notes, treasury notes or silver certificates shall be exempt' from taxation under the provisions of this act S*c. ti Section alfsi of the Revised Statute* Khali be amended to read a> follows: No association aliaU be organized with .u less capital than f iuu.uoc, except taut bunas with a capital of not toss than a>o,.Ak* may. with the approval of the secretary of the treasury, be organized in any place, the papulation of which does not exceed O.kOO inhubliants; and except that banks with a capital of not ness than fcS.WV may. wi u tno approval of tae sec euxry of the treasury be organized in aa* place, the popfolatlon of which does not exceed i.iOj inhatuuntA. No association shall be orcunixcd m a city, tue population of w .tch ex;«us &U.1M1 persons, with a less capital than >>•. ruts act shall take effect on and after the —— lay of-. 1-.*-. and ail acts and parts of sets inconsistent with the provisions of tat* act irs hereby repealed. it ademption of 1'nelBc Railroad i'urrtitcy Slice to be Made by Checks. Washing rox. Dec. l&—At the treasury department yesterday it was said that the redemption of the Pacific railroad currency sixes would be made by checks scut out from the department jn the 34th. It was expected that these check* would be offset by deposits by the Union Pacific reorganise tiou committee, so that no disturbance it the money market would result from the large operations involved. The :hecks will go through the New York :learingbouse. Weylec Mramied an KwbuiUr. 1 Hava.\a. Dec. 17.—The Diario de la Mariua publishes a letter accusing ien. Weyler of having embexxied flfi,- j WO from a fund which was started in Havana for the relief of the familiea >f a number of soldiers who perished ls the result of a railroad accident. A Lunatic'* Victim. Oakland, Cal., Dec. 18.— The police tre convinced that Patrick Murphy, of remescal, who was assassin ted on Wednesday, was killed by Frederick Uhl. n maniac, who, Thursday night, httetnpled to kill Edward Kearney sue Constable Gas Koch. The lnnatie it uow at large. —Gov. Jones has commissioned Mist Emma Whittington, of Uot Springs, sa an honorary colonel in the Arkan sas reserve militia This is the first appointment of the kind ever made in the state and the second in the south

6E0LO8Y OF TEE BIBLE Rev. Dr Talmage Discourses on - “God Among the Rooks.** --- Mmm Swtm to Confirm the Tmtlmonj of Uto Book of Book*—1)1 Tine Do* liberation—A ThouMtud Year* oa • Boy.

In the following sermon Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage discusses a subject of interest to all: “The Geology of the Bible, or, God Among the Rocks.” It is based on the text: And when they came to Naohoa's threshing floor, Unab put forth his hand to the ark of God. and took head of it; forth© oxen shook it. And the anger o f the Lord was kindled against Uzzah. and God smote him there for his error; and there he died by tue arkof God.—II Samuel, vi, S-7. A baud of music is coming down the road, cornets blown, timbrels struck, harps thrummed, and cymbals clapped, all led on by David, who was himself a musician. They are ahead of a wagon on wbieh is the sacred box called the “Ark.” The yoke of oxen drawing th e wagon imperiled it. Some critics say that the oxeu kicked, being struck with the driver’s goad, but my knowledge of oxen leads me to say that if on a Irot day they see a shadow of a tree or wall, they are apt to suddenly shy off to get the coolness of the shadow. 1 thiuk these oxen so suddenly turned that the sacred box seemed about to upset aud be throwu to the ground. Uzzah rushed forward aud laid hold of the ark to keep it upright. But he had uo right to do so. A special commaud had been given by the Lord that uo one, save the priest, uuder any circumstances, should touch that box. Nervous and excited, aud irrevercul, Uzzah disobt‘3*ed when he took .hold of the ark, sud he died as a consequence. In ail ages, and never more so than in our own day, there are good people all the time afraid that the Holy Bible, which is the sacred ark of our time, will be upset, aud they have beeu a long while afraid thab science, aud especially geology, would overthrow it. W hilo we are not forbidden to touch the Holy Book, and, ou the contrary, are urged ; to fondle aud study it, anyone who is afraid of the overthrow of the book is greatlv offending the Lord with his j unbelief. The oxen have not yet been ; yoked which can upset that ark of the j world's salvation. Written by the j Lord Almighty. He is going to protect j it until its mission is fulfilled and : there shall be no more need of a Bible, because all its prophecies wilt have been fulfilled aud the human race will have exchanged worlds. A trumpet and a violin or very different instrument, but they may be piayed in perfect accord. So the Bible HCoouut of the creation of the world and the geological account are different. One story written ou parchment and th© other on the rocks, aud yet in perfect and eternal accord. The word • day” repeated in the first chapter of Geuesis. has thrown into paroxysms of criticism mau v exegetes. The Hebrew word "vom" of the Bible means sometimes what we call a day, and sometimes it means ages; it may mean twenty-four or a hundred million years. The order of creation as written in.the Book of Genesis is the order of creatiou discovered by geologists' crowbar. Some many Uzzahs have been nervious y rushiug about for fear the strong oxen of scientific discovery would upset the Bible that 1 went somewhat apprehensively to look into the matter, when 1 found that the Bible aud geology agree iu saying that first were built tue rocks; theu the plants greened the earth; then marine creatures were created, from minnow to whale; then the wings and throats of aerial choirs were colored and turned, and then quadrupeds began to bleat, aud bellow, and ueigh. What is ail this fuss that has beeu filling the church and the world, con

cermng a ngm oevneen muses auu Agassiz? There U uo fight at alt. But is not the geological impression that the world was millions of years buildiug antagonistic to the theory of one week's creation in Genesis? No. A great house is to be butt. A man takes years to draw to the spot the foundation stone and the heavy timbers. The house is about done, but it is uot finished for comfortable reside nee. Suddenly the owner eails in upholsterers, plumbers, gas-fi iters, paper-hangers, aud in one week it is ready for occupancy. Now, it requires no stretch of imagination to realise that God could have taken millions of years for the bringing of the rocks and the timbers of this world together, yet only one week more to make it inhabitable aud to furnish it for human residence. Remember, also, that allupand down*the Bible the language of the times was used—common par.auce—aud it was not always to be taken literally. Just as we say every day that the world is round, when it is not round. It is spheroidal-flattened at the poles and protuberant at the equator. Prof.Snell, with his chain of triangles, and Prof. Vann, with the shortened pendulum of his clock, found it was not round; but we do not become critical of anyone who says the world is round. Let us deal fairly with Moses or Job as we do with each other. But for many tears good people feared geology, and, without any imploration on their part, apprehended that the rocks and mouutains would fall on them, until Uugh Milter, the elder of St. John's Presbyterian church in Edinburgh, and parishioner of Dr. Guthrie, came forth and told the world that there was no contradiction between the mountains and the church, and (X M. Mitchell, a brilliant lecturer before he became brigadier general, dying at Beaufort, S. C., during our civil war, took the platform aud spread his map of the strata of rock in the presence of great audiences, and Prof. Alexander Wincheli, of Michigan gmiversity, and Prof. Taylor Lewis, of Union college, showed that the “without form and void" of the first chapter of Genesis was the very chaos out of which the world was formulated, the hands of God packing together the land, and

tossing up the moua tarns mto great heights, and fliugiug down the seas into their great depths.' Before God gets throngh with this world there will hardly be a book of the Bible that will not find confirmation, either in archaeology or geology. Exhumed Babylon, Ninevah, Jerusalem, Tyre and Egyptian hieroglyphics are crying out in the ears of the world: "The

Bible is right! All right! Everlastingly right!” Geology is saying the same thing, not ouly confirming the truth about The original creation, but confirming so many passages ol the Scriptures that 1 can only slightly refer to them. But you do not really believe that story of the deluge and the sinking of the mountains under the wave? Tell us something we can believe. “Believe that,” says geology, “for how do you account for those sea shells and sea weeds aud skeletons of sea auitnals found on the top of some of the highest mountains? If the waters did not sometimes rise about the mountains, how did those sea shells aud sea weeds and skeletous of sea animals get there? Did you put them there?” But, uow, you do not really believe that story about the storm of fire and brimstone whelming Sodom and Gomorrah, aud eu wrapping Lot's wife in such saline eucrustatious that she halted a sack of salt? For the confirmation of that story the geologist goes to that region, aud after tryiug in vain to take a swim in the lake, so thick with salt he can not swim it^-the lake beneath which Sodom and Gomorrah lie buried—one drop of water so full of sulphur and brimstone that it stings your tougue, and for hours you can not get rid of the nauseating drop—the scientist theu digging down and finding sulphur on top of sulphur, brimstone on top of brimstoue. while all round there are jets aud erags and peaks of salt, aud if one of them did not become the sarcophagus of Lot's wife they show you how a human be-, ing might in that tempest have been batten and packed into a white monument that would defy the ages. But, uow, you do not really believe that New Testament story aboutthe^urthquake at the time Christ was crucified, do you? Geology digs down iuto .Mount Calvary and tiuds the rocks ruptured aud aslant, Jshowiug the work as au especial eart quake for that mountain, aud an earthquake which did uot touch the surrounding region. Go aud look for yourseif, and see there a dip aud clevage of rocks as nowhere else ou the planet. Geology thus auuouuciug an especial earthquake for the greatest tragedy of all the centuries—the assinalion of the Sou of God. But you do not really telieve that story of the burning of our world at | the last day? Geology digs dowu and tiuds that the world is already on fire, aud that the ceu ter of this globe is incandescent, molten,- volcanic, a burning coal, buruiug out toward the surface, and the internal fires have so far reached the outside rim that 1 do not see how the world is to keep from complete eontiagratiouuutil theprophecies concerning it are fulfilled. The lava poured forth from the mouths of Vesuvius. Nlouut Ltua and Cotopaxi, and Kilauea, is ouly the regurgitation from au awful iufiammatiou thousands of miles deep. There are mines iu Pennsylvania and iu several parts of the world that have been on fire for many years. These coal mines buruiug down and the iuternal fires of the earth buruiug up, after awhile these two fires, the descending and the ascendiug, will meet, and then will occur the universal conflagration of which the Bible speaks, when it says: “The elements shall melt with ferveut heat; the earth also, add the works that are therein shall be burned up.” lustead of disbelieving the Bible story about the fiual conflagration, since 1 have looked a little iuto geology, finding that its explorations are all in the

line of continuation of that prophecy, 1 wonder how this old craft of a world cau keep sailiug on much longer. It is like a ship on tire at sea, the fact that the hatches are kept down the only reason that it does not become one complete blaze—masts on fire, ratlines on fire, everything from cutwater to i taffrail on tire. After geology has told j us how near the internal fires hare already burned their way toward the J surface, it ought not to be a surprise to us at anytime to hear the ringing of the fire bells of a universal contiagration. 0. 1 am so glad that geology has beeu borul Astronomy is grand, because it tells us about other worlds; but I must say that l am more*interested in our world than in any otiier world, and geology tells us all about what it was, its cradle, and wuat will be its grave. And this glorious geology is provtug itself mr*e aud more the frieud of theology. Thauk tiod for the testimony of the rocks; the Ten Commanumeuts anuouuced among the split rocks of Siuai; the greatest sermon of Christ preached on the basaltic rocks of the Mount of Beatitudes; the Saviour dying on the rocks of tiol- j gotha. and buried amid the limestone j rocks of Joseph’s sepulcher; the last day to be ushered in with a rending of rocks, and our blessed Lord suggestively entitled the “Rock of Ages.” 1 this day proclaim the bauns of marriage between geology and theology, the rugged bridegroom aud the fairest of brides. Let them join their hands, and “whom tkxl hath joiued together, let not man put asunder.” If anything in the history or eondi- j tion of the earth seems for the time contradictory of anything in geology, you must remember that geology is all j the time correcting itaelf, and more and more coming to harmonizatiou with the great book. In the last cen- j tury the “French Scintific association” priuted a list of t>3 theories of geology which had been adopted and afterward rejected. Leyell, the scientist, announced 50 theories of geology that hail been believed in and afterward thrown overboard. Meanwhile the story of the Bible has not changed at all. and if geology hascast out between . 100 and 3J0 theories, which it once considered established, we can afford to wait until the last tneory of geology

antagonizing Divine revelation shall have been given up. Now, in this discourse upon the geology of the Bible, or God among the Bocks, 1 charge agitated and affrighted Uszaha to calm their pulses about the upsetting of the Scripture. Let me seel For several hundred years the oxen have been jerking the ark this way and that, and pulling it over rough places

trying to stick it m the mud of decisiou, and kicking with all the power of their hoofs against the sharp goads, and trying to pull it in the cool shade, away from the heats of retribution from a God “who will by no means clear the guilty.” Yet, have you not noticed that the book has never been up* set? The only changes made in it were by its learned friends in the revision of the Scriptures. The Book of Genesis has been thundered against by the mightiest batteries, yet you can not to-day find in all the earth a copy of the Bible which has not the fifty chapters of the first copy of the Book of Genesis ever printed, starting with the words, “In the beginning God,” and closing with Joseph’s coltiu. Fierce attack on the Book of Exodus has been made because they said it was cruel to drown Pharaoh, and the story of Mount Sinai was improbable. But the Book of Exodus remains intact, and not one of us, considering the cruelties which he would have continued among the brick kilns of Egypt, would have thrown Pharaoh a plank if we had seen him drowning. And Mount Sinai is to-day a pile of tossed aud tumbled basalt, recalling the cataclysm of that mountain when the law was given. And, as to those Ten Commandments, all Roman law, all German law, all English law, all American law worth anything are squarely founded on them. So mighty assault for centuries has been made on the Book of Joshua. It was said that the story of the detained sun and moon is an insult to modern astronomy, but that Book of Joshua may be found to-day in the chapel of every university in America, indefiance'of any telescope projected from the roof of that university. The Book of Jonah has been the target of ridicule for the small wit of ages; but there it stands, with its four chapters inviolate, while geology puts up in its museums remains of sea moustera capable of doing more thau the one which swallowed the recreaut prophet. There stands the 1,089 chapters of the Bible, notwithstanding all the attacks of ages, aud there they will stand until they shrivel up in the final tires, which geologists say are already kindled and glow hotter than the furnaces of au ocean steamer , as it puts out from New York Narrows for Hamburg or Southampton. I should not wouder if from the crypt of aucient cities the inspired manuscripts of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, in their own chirography, would be taken, aud the epistles which Paul dictated to his atuauueusis, as well as the one iu the apostle’s own handwriting. At the same ratio of archaeological and geological confirmation of the Scriptures, the time will come when the truth of the Bible will no more be doubted than the common almanac, which tells you the days and the months of the year, aud the unbelievers will be accounted harmless lunatics. Forward the telescope aud the spectroscope and the chemical batteries. aud critically examine the ostracods of the ocean depths and the bones of the great mammals on the gravelly hill tops! Aud the mightier, and the grander, aud the deeper and the higher the explorations, the bettor for our cause. As sure arf*the thunderbolts of the Almighty are stronger than the steel pens of agnostics, the ark of God will ride on uuhurt, and Uzzah need not fear any disasters upsettiug. The apocalyptic angel dying through the midst of Heaven, proclaiming to all nations, and kindred, aud people, and tongues the , unsearch

able riches of Jesus Lunst are mightier than the shying off of ; a yoke of oxen. flow* much the rocks have had to do with the cause of God in all agesl In the wilderness God’s Israel were fed with houey out of the rock. How the rock of Horeb paid Moses back in gushiug, rippling, sparkling water for the two stout strokes with which he struck it! And there stauds the rock with name—I guess the longest word in the Bible—sela-hammahlekotu. aud it was worthy of a resoundiug. sesquipedalian nomenclature, for at that rock Saul was compelled to quit his pursuit of David aud go home and look after the Philistiues, who were making a dank movemeut. There were the rocks of Boxes aud Seuch. between which Jonatuau climbed up and sent dying in retreat me garrisou of the uncircumcised. And yonder see David and his men hidden in the rock of Aduilam and Eugeni 1 Aud now for your solace and your safety. I as* you to come under the the shelter, and into the deep clefts, and the almighty defeuseof a rock that is higher tbau you. higher than auy Gibraltar, higner tue Himalayas—the ••Hock of Ages’ —that will shelter you from storm, tnat will hide from your enemies, that will stand when the eartquakes of the last day get their pry under the mountains and hurl them into seas boiling with the fires which are already burning their way out from red-hot centers toward the surfaces which are already here aud there spouting with fire amid the quaking of t£e mountains, under the look aud touch of Him. of whom it is said in the sublimest sentence ever written: -•‘He looketh upon the mountains, and they tremble; He toucheth the hills and they smoker* Hie you one and all to the Rock of Agea! And, now, as before this sermon on the rocks I gave out the significant and appropriate hymn. “How firm a foundation ye saints of the Lord,” 1 will give out after this sermoa on the rocks the significant and appropriate hymn: Sock of axes, cleft for ms. Let me hide myself la tbee! Some men who are really lions hare been •based so much that they act like rabbit*. —Atchison Globe.

GLANCE AT YOUR EYEBROWS* The nearer the eyebrows are to the eyes the firmer and the more earnest the character, while the more remote the more volatile and flighty is the nature of their owner. An energetic and easily irritated nature is shown by the hair growing in different directions; while short, closelying hair growing in one direction indicates a firm mind and good perceptions. Sensitiveness and tenderness are indicated by slightly-arched, eyebrows, and firmness of purpose and kindness of. heart by those who are straight at the beginning and are rather arched at the temples. An ardent but tender nature is known by the hair being soft and fine. When the hair of the eyebrows has a downward droop so that it almost meets the lashes when the eyes are widely opened tenderness and melancholy are betrayed. Straight eyebrows, forming a firmlydefined line close to the eyes., denote great determination and will power. Those which begin nather strongly and terminate abruptly without passing beyond the eyes show an impatient and irascible nature. Eyebrows of the same color as the hair show constancy, firmness and resI olution; if lighter than the hair they I denote indecision and weakness, while ! if darker we may probably be right | In our surmise that there owner is of an ardent, passionate and. inconstant disposition. The eyebrows of people utterly devoid of . mathematical power are raised at the termination, leaving a wide space ! between them and the corners of the I eyes. On the other hand, if they are ' close to the eyes at the end. mathematI ical talent may generally be safely assumed. —

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