Pike County Democrat, Volume 28, Number 34, Petersburg, Pike County, 31 December 1897 — Page 6

WINTER IN ALASKA. Reports from the Far North by Returning Miners. Aetna! Starvation la Threntanad-Reporti •f Plenty at Port Yukuu Not Credited -“UodJInuwa How I Am to Keep Body and So at Together.1* Skaguat, Alaska, Dec. 17. via Seattle. Wash., Dec. 37.—John Lindsay, of Olympia, Wash., who has just arrived from Dawson City, says there will i surely be starvation there this winter, j Be examined into the food situation in j K thorough manner, he says, and after j satisfying himself that there would be j starvation, he sold his outfit, and in j company with Frank Badaine, of Olympia, Wash.; Tom Story, of Vie- j tor in, B. CL, and Bob Glynn, of Seat- ' tie, started out on foot, each man drawing a sled, carryiug about 14U pounds of provision. Lindsay says the Dawsou people believe that there is no great amount of food at Fort Vukou, as has been alleged. The river rose sufficiently and remained open long enough to enable food supplies to hare been t iken from Fort Yukon had there beeu any there.

Ihe people of Dawson, believing that there were not ample food supplies at Fort Yukon, refused to go there, preferring to remain iu Dawson. ; No more than 300 or 400 people took 5 ■advantage of the transporta lion com* j panics' offer to take the people to Fort Yukon free of charge. When the miners at Daw ton found that no more provisions would reach the town by the river route, they announced that a meeting would be held I to take steps for apportiouiug the provisions in’ tue town. Ttio&e that had plenty, they said, must share with those who had none. Capt. Coustautine.of the Northwest Mounted police, interfered uud told the tniuers that uo auch thing would be permitted. The meeting was not held. Lindsay says the output of the miues will be greatly curtailed this wiuter because of the scarcity of food aud light. Coal oil sold for $45 a gallon and caudles are as high as $150 a box of 10U. Kvon if men were able to work their claims they cannot get light tc do so. These statements are borne out by all returning KUmuikers, quite a number of whom have reached hero the past week. Few of them, however, take a gloomier view of the siluatiou than does Mr. Liudsay. Dr. li. L. Bradley, of lioseburg. Ore., •ays that food is scarce, but he does not think that there will Iks actual starvation. Neither does W. 11. King, of Merced, Cat, 1*. J. ilollaud, of llutto, Thomas Story, of Victoria, or Hubert Glynn. of Seattle, all of whom reached here last week from Dawson, the most of them haviug left there on November 2. As an instance of the scarcity of food In Dawson. Lindsay relates the case of Dr. Vauzaudls, formerly of Spokaue, Wash. YanzaudU is au elderly mau, j and being without provisions or money, ] ■offered a gold watch for a sack of flour, lie could not get it. aud remarked ui Lindsay: ‘tiod only knows how 1 am to keep body aud soul together." Lindsay says '£oo or more miners are prospectiug at the mouth of btewrta river, but uotlung is known us yet what success they achieved.

lleudcrsou creek, live miles below Stewart river. Hint 40 miles (rum Dawsou, is a promising stream. uud it is being developed this winter. The weather about the Stewart and Big Salmon rivers has been bitterly cold. To degrees below being recorded at .Muj Watsb's camp. 12 miles below j the Big Sahuou, on November 30. The Yukon river, between Dawson wad Fort -IVlly, froze completely over j November 1st. The river is piled full of ice in great ridges as high as au or* j, dioary house, und a roadway vvili have j to be cut through «t before dog or horse team, can ojierate upou it. 1 ne outlook, therefore for taking supplies down the Yukon in the immediate future is not govk1. ‘Inspector of Mines Metiregur left here a week ago with a number of tlog teams and horses to make the attempt to reach Daw sou witu about twenty-: tous of provisions, but uolliiug has since been heard of him. NO INDEMNITY DEMANDED, tubUal H<-cr«i«ry l»,y u K<>*pibt Tab on Cnimi for t-'uture tis. Washington, Dec. 27.—Secretary of State Sheriuau was seeu last night regarding a story cabled from Madrid to the effect that the United Stales had demanded of Spain 0S,tH)O.Ubb iudeuiuity to American traders for damages sustained through there bell ion in Cuba. The secretary stated that if any such demand jhad beeu made he had nut heard oLi!. Judge Day, assistant secretary of .state, said: “So far as I know there is absolutely" 'no truth in the story. 1 have not attempted to foot up all the individual claims that have beeu tiled, but even on that supposiliou 1 should not attempt to say their estimate w as correct." At the Spanish legation uo information had beeu received of such a claim. Heretofore the legation lias beeu notified of the tiling of ail individual claims, but it was thought improbable that any claim in bulk wou>d be made. HELD UP A TROLLEY CAR. Oae Man, Refusing to tiiv* l> Ills .Money, abut Ursit. Norristown, Pa.. Dec. 27.—A trolley car oa the Schuylkill Yatley T faction ■Co. was held up by four highwaymen at Swede laud, near here, about ten o'clock last uighL Conductor Charles Calloway, of Norristown, refused to gfive up his money aud was shot dead. Three shots were tired at Motorinan Matthias, but none took effect. After rifliug the body of the conductor of the tnouey aud a gold watch and chain **»• robbers escaned.

CHICAGO COLISEUM uURNED. Thi Omt llrMtm CoMUMd In n Short Tin# After the Flam## 8tnrte«i—Only One Life Lent, Bat n Score of People Injured—Hie to ry of the BalMlaf, in Which the Democrats Held Their Lnte National Convention. Chicago, Dec. di. —Fire destroyed the Coliseum building at Sixty-third street and Stony Island avenue, this evening, in which the Democratic national convention was held last year. The fire was one of the quickest ever seen in Chicago. From the time when the fire originated. at5:3Q, by the crossing of two electric-light wires uutil the Coliseum was a pile of twisted iron and hot bricks was not over twenty minutes. Strange as it may seem, only oue life was lust, that of X. 11. Johnson, a fireman engaged in the building. Quite a number were severely iujured. The building had been reuted for an exhibition of a manufacturers' ex ositiou, and was filled from eud to end with booths, all of which were destroyed with all of their coutents. The fire originated in a booth which was used for an exhibition of X rays, the Booth being managed by M. J. Morley aud Wui. llobertsou. The two men were examining their Rotengen machine, wheu they were startled by

a sizzling noise belli mi them and. upon luruiug. saw a part of their exhibit ablaze. Crossed electric light wires, which were over the exhibit, caused the llames. They at first tried to smother the dames, but before they secured water and cloth the lire had spread throughout the entire booth. About 3 *0 persons were in the buildiug at the time of the fire, and at the first alarm there was a rush for safety. Fortunately the aisles were wide, and owing to the comparatively small number of people in the buiidiug. there was little difficulty in reachiug the doors. Most of those endeavoring to escape ran to a large door on the east side of the buiidiug. which is wide enough to admit a team of horses and a wagou. A crowd of fully 200 persons gathered before the door, vvnich was Sound to be locked, and as the fire was roaring through the buiidiug with great speed, it seemed for a few iuin-_ utes as though none of those would be aoie to escape. \Y. J. Wheeler, a watchman, saw the trouble and rau to open the door, but the crowd was packed in front of it so closely that he had the greatest difficulty iu opeuing it. Uuoe it swuug wide, however, the crowd was m the opeu air iu a few seconds. During the j jaiu at this point several people were j badly crushed, but uoue were seriously ! injured. The balance of the people ; made their way through the other doors aud several who were caught iu j the balcony were compelled to jump to i the grouud from the roof. The firemen were at hand before all the people were out aud before they made auy effort to fight the flames j they devoted their attention to clearing the hail of the people. Kll.LKl>. N. H. Johnson, iireman employed in the build! os'. INJURED. Peter Foots, watchman, burned about face and bands. Harry Parker, New York city, slightly burn .si (j A. Lyons, New York city, slightly burned. Mrs. U. A- Lyons, severely burned. M. J. Morley. lacerated by explosion of Crook’s tubes and burned about head. W liliam Robertson, face an 1 nanus burned. M. J. Wuee.er watenman. bands burned. James Maher, tir. man. burned w.iUc cuiiio* , live wire witn a pa.r of shears. Robert Harley, unman, severely bruised by debris during the collapse of a wail of the build

lag. Aiisis Helen Coaler, shocked by live wire anil severely burned about tne right arm. uieoi.ee Ui nreKf. propr. t jr of me "Streets of Cairo Exhibit, jumjte from a window oi the .burning tmiUUa.it auu »»> severely bruised. Louis Weiss, jamtor; burned about face uaJ bunds. Frank Murphy. St. Louis; severely burned. Harry Hamilton, burned about lace., W. U. Wrigat. burned about arms. William Aliaby, a.eman. thrown front a tin env.ne in a cold .ion with a Lase -.bore iratn at i ouag •• Grove avenue-sad Forty-first street. AUk rt Chamberiain. burned and cut on' face and tiund'. r.ugea Duggua. burned about left side. {The Coliseum cost itou.iKM. and was twice as la: •• a - the Madison S-jualre garden bui.uiug of N. •• Y«-rk It ha space ot se ven acres, me. i the ground ana gallery floors.- was oW feet long by ikw a . .e. and contained 'd,i> o.csio ; pounds of-steel, i.goo.twu. feet of timber and 3,-1 uhuo bru its. ton au- us til. lsai, the first coliseum, then in i Ure course of eons:ruction, was wrecked, rota iius a loss of fii> .*• >. ’l'he e»u-e of the col* } lapa.- ba- never been known, but it was thought lii t the last arch was not placed In position j correctly. Tbe budding wa- to have been ! opened .September - of that tear by tae Uaruum j A (daliey circus, and the on tractors were rushing the worn in oruer u> nave it eomp.eted in time. Six hundred men had been working on the build* lug up to half an hour before the crash came, winch was 11.10 o’c.ock at night. Fifty thou* saud feel of green lumber, which was to have been used for roofing, was on the roof of the building at tne time, and the wetgnt of this w as supposed to have bad something to do with the accident. The original coliseum was designed by Sv S. K< m .u iu ilai.an Kenaissance stylj. In the center of one side rase a campanile '.'SO feet high and *# feet square. After the collapse of th. first building. Architect Keman at once drew piaus for a new budding, and it was constructed and opened to th« public June 1. UMi Tfie details of the mass* m* building snow a composition of « enormous arvhev to feet at the uprx above tfie ground, ana w ith a span of £lo reel in the clear. 1 ht bunding was mcirvied on the inside oy a gallery A> feet wide and J3 feel above tfie Boor. Tfie arena was only equalled in extent by that of the Human coliseum. Tne total loss on th * building and content* is said to be MhMNtt or this am >un; hi o.odu was the value of the buituiag. and »ld»,0oj me estimated cost of the exhioits and material in the exposition in tne bunding. Insurance to me amount of eiSJ, .a) was i-arried on me coliseum, but of this amount MUU.OUO win go to the adder. of outstanding bonds to pay these obi g»t; ns m full. Tae owners of tne building will get but t£.>.uuO out of the insurance. Col. John i Dickinson- presi ient of me Coliseum cum* pony said that no effort would be made to re* store the budding] Escaped From the Alliance la Iron*. Ntw York, Dec. 35.- Three seamen in irons escaped from the Corvette Al* j liauce. now lyiug off Touipkiusviile. They spent several hours on a sand schooner near by, and at daybreak made their way to the ferry and thus to freedom. Street Car Haas# aad Ninety Cara Baraad BvjcKKrr.M ta*.. Dec. 35.—The Ferry street car house of the West Dad street railway was destroyed by fire, together with 90 electric cars. Tbe loss on tne building is estimated at $30,009, and on the ears at >120.000.

SCULPTURE OF THE DEEP. Rev. Dr. Talmage Talks About God Amid the Coral Reefs. Tha Wonder fat Masonry of th» Minato Marino Inooeto—l»« ooono From the Coral—God'* Lore of the Ueaultrul. ——— In the following sermon Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage leads his auditors through a rare channel of contemplation of God’s wonders. The text is: No meutioQ shall be made of coral.—Job xxviiL, IS. Why do you say that, inspired dramatist? When you wanted to set forth the superior value of our religion, you tossed aside the onyx, which is used for making exquisite eameoe, aud the sapphire, sky-blue, and topaz of rhotn- | hie prism, and the ruby of frozeu biood, and here you say that the coral, whieh j is a miracle of shape and a transport j of color to those who have studied it, j is not worthy of meution in comparison with our holy religion. “No mention shall be made of coral.” At St. Johnsbury, Yt., in a museum built by the chief citizen, as 1 examined a speci- j meu on the shelf, I first realized what a holy of holies God can build aud has built iu the temple of one piece of , coral. 1 do not wonder that Erust j lleekel, the great scientist, while in Ceylon, was so entranced with the specimens which some Cingalese divers had brought up for his iuspeetiou that he himself plunged iuto the sea, and went clear under the waves at the risk of his life, agaiu, aud again, and agaiu, that he might know more of the coral, the beauty of which he indicates cau uot even be guessed by those who have only seen it abbve water, aud after the polyps, which ar% its sculptors aud architects, have died aud the chief glories of these submarine flowers have expired. Job, in my text, did not mean to deprecate this divine sculp- j lure in the coral- reefs aloug the sea coasts. No oue cau afford to depre

ciate these white palaces of the deep, built uuder God's direction. lie never changes His plans for the building of the islands and shores; and for uncounted thousands of years the coral gardens, and the coral castles, and the coral battlements go ou and up. i charge you that you will please God and please yourself if you will go into the miuute examination of the corals—their foundations, their piunacles, their aisles, their pillars, their curves, their cleavages, their reticulation, their grouping—-families of them, towus of them, cities of them, and continents of them. ludeed, you can not appreciate the meauiug of my text uuless you know something of the coral. Labyrinthiau, stellar, columnar, floral, dented like shields from battle, spotted like leopards, embroidered line lace, hung like upholstery— twilight aud auroras aud sunbursts of beauty! From deep crimson to milk-white are its colors. You may find this work of God through the animalcules eighty fathoms down, or amid the breakers, where the sea dashes the wildest, and beats the mightiest, aud bellows the loudest. These sea creatures are ever busy. Now they build islands iu the

center of the Pacific ocean. Now they lift barriers around the continent. lu- ' dian ocean. lied sea and coast of Zanzibar have speeiuieus of their infinitesimal but sublime masonry. At the recession of the tides you may in some places see the top of their Alpine elevatious, while elsewhere uothiug but the deep-sea soundings from the decks of the Challenger, the Porcupine and the Lightning of the British expedition can anuounce them. The ancient Gauis employed the coral to adorn their helmets and the hiltsof swords. In muuyiaud, it has been used as amulets. The Algerian reefs iu one year (1STS) had at work amid the coral 811 vessels, with 8,15J sailors, yielding in profit SoOo.OOO. But the secular and worldly value of the Coral is nothing as compared with the moral and religions, as when, in uiy text. Job employes it in comparison. 1 do not know how anyone eau examine a coral the size of the thumbnail without bethinking himself of God ami worshipping Him. aud feeling the opposite of the great infidel surgeon, lecturing to the medical students in the dissecting room upon a human e3-e which lie held in bis hand, showing its wonders of architecture and adaptation. when the idea of God dashed upon him so powerfully heeried out to the studeuls. ■•Gentlemen, there is a God; but 1 hate liim.” Pickiug up a coral, 1 feel like crying out: “There is a God. and 1 adore Him.” Nothing so impresses me with the fact that our God loves the beautiful. The most beautiful coral of the world never comes to human observation. Sunrises aud suusets He hangs up for nalious to look at; He may green the grass, aud round the dew into pearl, aud set on fire autumnal foliage to please mortal sight, but those thousands of m.les of coral achievement I thiuk lie has had bnilt for His own delight. In those galleries He aioue can walk. The music of those keys played j on by the fingers of the wave lie only j can hear. The snow of that white and | the bloom of that crimson He alone ! can see. Having garnilured this world ( to please the hurnau race, and lifted a ! glorious Heaven to please the angelic ! intelligences, I am glad that lie has i plauled these gardens of the deep to 1 please Himself. But here and there ’ God allows specimens of submarine glory to be brought up aud set before us for sublime contemplation. While I speak, these great nations of zoophytes, meandriuas, aud madrepores, with tentacles for trowel, arc building just such coral as we find in our text. The diamond may be more rare, the crystal may bef more sparkling, the chrysoprase may be more ablaze, but the coral is the long, deep, everlasting blush of the sea. Yet Job, who understook all kinds of precious stones, declares that the beauty aud value of the coral are nothing compared with our holy religion, and he picks up this coralline formation and

looks at it. and flings it aside with all the other beautiful things he has ever heard of. and cries out iu ecstacy of admiration for the superior qualities of our religion: “No mention shall be made of coral. Take my hand, and we will walk through this bower of the sea, while I show you that even exquisite coral is not worthy of being compared with the richer jewels of a Christian soul. The first thing that strikes me in look' ing at the coral is its long-continued accumulation. It is not turned up like Cotopaxi, but is an outbuttiug and an outbranching of ages. In Polynesia there are reefs hundreds of feet deep aud l.duO miles long. Who built these reefs, these islands? The zoophytes, the corallines. They were not such workers who built the pyramids as were these masons, these creatures of the sea. What small creations amounting to what vast aggregation? Who can estimate the ages between the time when the madrepores laid the foundation of the islands aud the time when the madrepores put ou the capstone of a completed work? It puzzles all the scientists to guess through how many years the corallines were buildiug the Sandwich and Society islands aud the Marshall and Gilbert groups. But more slow ly and wonderfully accumulative is grace in the heart. You sometimes get discouraged because the upbuilding by the soul does not go on more rapidly. Why, you have all eternity to build in! The little uunoyanees of life are z Kjphite builders, aud there will be small layer ou top of small layer, aud fossilized grief on the top of fossilized grief. Grace does not go up rapidly in your soul, but. bUssed be God. it goes up. Teu thousaud miiiiou ages will uot finish you. You will never be finished. Ou forever! Up forever! Out of the sea of earthly disquietude will gradually rise the reefs, the islands, the continents, the hemispheres of grandeur aud glory. Men talk as though in this life we only had time to build; but

what we build in this life, as compared with what we shall build iu the next life, is as a striped shell to Australia. You go iuto au architect’s study and there you see the sketch of a temple, the corner-stone of which hasuotyet been laid. O, that I Could have an architectural sketch of what you will be alter eternity has wrought uuon you! What pillars of strength! What altars of supernal worship! What pinnacles thrustiug their glitteriug spikes into the sun that uever sets! You do not scold the corallines because they can not buiid an is aud iu a day. Why should you scold yourself because you can not complete a temple of holiness for the heart in this short tifetime? You tell me we do not amouut to much now, but try us after a thousand million ages of hallelujah. Let us hear the angels chant for a milliou centuries. Live us an eternity with Clod, and theu see if we do not amouut to something. More slowly and marvelously accumulative is the grace iu the soul than any thing 1 can think of. "No mention shall be made of coral.”

Lord, help us to learn that which most of us are deficient in—patieuee. If Thou caust take, through the seaauemones, millions of years to build oue bank of coral, ought we not to be willing to do work through ten years or 50 years without complaint, without restlessness, without chaffing of spirit? Patience with the erring; patience that we cau uot have the millennium in a few weeks; patieuee with assault of antagonists; patience at what seems slow fulfillment of Biblepromises; patience with physical ailments; patience uuder delays of Providence. Grand, glorious, ull-enduriug, allconquering patience! Patience like that which tuy lately ascended friend. Dr. Abel Stevens, describes when writiug of oue of Wesley’s preachers, John Nelson, who, when a man had him put in prison by false charges, and being for a long time tormented by his enemy, said: “The Lord lifted up a standard when the auger was coming on like a fio rd, else I should have wruug his neck to the ground and set my fo »t upon it."’ Patience like that of Pericles, the Athenian statesman, who. when a man pursued him to lus own door, hurled at him epithets, and arriving there when it had become dura, seat his servant with a torch to light his enemy back to his home. Patience like that eulogized by the Spanish proverb when it says; *T have lost the rings, but here are the fingers still.” Patience! The sweetest sugar for the sourest cup; the balancewheel for all mental and moral machinery; the foot that treads iuto placidity stormiest lake; the bridle for otherwise rash tougues; the sublime silence that conquers the boisterous and blataut. Patience like that of the most illustrious example of all the ages —Jesus Christ; patieul under betrayal; patieut uuder the treatment of Pilate’s oyer and terminer; patient uuder the expectoratiou of iiisa.v>ailants; patient uuder fiagellation; patieut under the charging spears of the Roman cavalry; patieut unto death. Under all exasperations employ it. Whatever comes, stand it; hold on; wail, bear up. Take my baud again, and we will go a little further into this garden of the sea, aud we shall find that iu proportion as the climate is hot the coral is wealthy. Draw two isothermal lines at 60 degrees north aud south of the equator, aud you will find the favorite home of the coral. Go to the hottest part of the Pacific seas and you find the fluest specimens of coraL Coral is a child of the fire. But more wonderfully do the heats and fires of trouble bring out the jewels of the Christiau souk These arc uot the stalwart ulcu i who are asleep on the shaded lawn, but those who are pounding amid the furnaces. i do not kuow of any other way of getting a thorough Christiau character. I will show you a picture. Here are a father aud a mother 30 or 35 years of age, their family around them. It is Sabbath morning. They have prayers. They hear the children’s catechism. Thev have pravers every day of the week. They are la humble circum

stances. Bat, after awhile the wheel of fortune turns up, and the man (fete his 820.000. Now he has prayers on the Sabbath and every day of the week, but he has dropped the catechism. The wheel of fortune turns up again, and he gets his $80,000. Now he has prayers on Sabbath morning alone. The wheel of fortune keeps turning up, and he has $200,000. *and now he lists prayers on Sabbath morning when he feels like it and there is no company. The wheel of fortuue keeps on turning up, and he has his $300,000 aud no prayers at all. Four-leaf clover in a pasture field is not so rare as family prayers in the houses of people who have more than 5S00.090. But uow the wheel of fortune turns down, aud the man loses $200,000 out of the $300,000. Now on Sabbath morning he is on a stepladder looking for a Bible under the old uewspapers ou the'bookcase, lie is going to have prayers. His affairs are more aud more complicated.and after awhile, crash goes his last dollar. Now he has

praters every morning, aud he hears his grandchildren the catechism. Prosperity took hitu away froui God; adversity drove him back to God. Uot climate to make the coral; hot and scalding trouble to make the jewels of grace in the soul. We all hate trouble, aud.veb it does a great deal tor us. You have heard, perhaps, of that painter who wished to get an expression of great distress for his canvas. and who had his servant lash a man fast and put him to great torture, and then the artist caught the look on the victim's face and immediately transferred it to the canvas. Then he said to the servant, “More torture.” and under more torture there was a more thorough expression of paiu, aud the artist said: “Stop there; wait till I catch that expression. There! Now I have it upon the canvas. Let loose the victim. 1 have a work that will last forever.” “Oh,” you say, “he was an inhuman painter.” No doubt about it. Trouble is cruel aud inhuman; but he is a great painter, aud out of our tears aud blood ou his palette, he makes colors that never die. Ou, tu it i,t might be a picture of Christian fortitude, of skiuiug hope! Ou the day I was licensed to preach [ the Gospel au old Christian mau took my hand aud said: “My son, wheu you get in a tight corner on Saturday night, without any sermon, send for me, and 1 will preach for you.” Well, it was a great encouragement to be backed up by suoh a good old miuister, and it was uot long before I got into a tight corner ou Saturday night, without any sermon, and I sent for the old minister, aud he earne aud preached, aud it was the last sermou he ever preached. All the tears 1 eried at his funeral could uot express my affection for that mau, who was willing to help me out of a light corner. Ah! my friends, that is what we all waut—somebody to help us out of a tight corner. You are iu one now. How do I know it?

i aui useu to judging' oi innuaa couuieuauces, and 1 see beyond the smile and beyond the courageous look with which you hide your feelings from others. 1 know you are in a tight corner. What to do? Do as I did when I sent for old Dr. Scott. Do better than I did —send for the Lord God of Daniel, and of Joshua, and of every other man whc got into a tight corner. “O,” say* some oue, “why eau not God develop me through prosperity instead ol through adversity?’’ I will answer your question by asking another. Why does not God dye our northern and temperate seas with the coral? You say: “The water is not hot enough." There! In answering my question you have answered your own. iiot climate for richest specimens of coral; hot -trouble for the jewels of the soul. Tue coral-fishers gotug out from Torre del Ureeeo never brought ashore such tiue specimens as are brought out of the scalding surges of misfortune. I look down into the tropical sea, and there is something that looks like blood, aud Isay: “lias there been a great battle down there? ’ Seeming bioo-i scattered all up and down the reefs. It is the blood of the coral, and it makes me think of those who come out of great tribulation and have their robes washed white iu the Blood of the Lamb. But these gems of earth are nothing to the gems of Heaven. “Mo mention shall be made of coral.’’ One specim en of coral is called the deudropnilia. because i t is like a tree ; another is called the. astrara, because it is like a star; another is called the brain coral. because it is like the convolutions of the human brain; auother is called fan coral, because it is like the iusirnment with which you cool yourself on a hot day; auother specimen is called the organ pipe coral, because it resembles the king of musical instruments. All the flowers and all the shrubs in the gardens of the land have their correspondencies in this garden of the sea. Corailum lit is a synonym for beauty. And vet there is no beauty in the coral compared with our religion. It gives physiognomic beauty. It does not cuauge the features; it does not give features with which the person was uot originally endowed, but it sets be hind the features of the homeliest person a Heaven that shines clear through. So that often, on first acquaintance, you said of a man: “He is the homel est persou I ever saw,” when, after you came to understand him and his nobility of soul shining through his countenance, you said: “He is the loveliest person I ever saw.” No one ever had a homely Christian mother. Whatever the world may have thought of her, there were two who thought well—your father, who had admired her for 50 years, and you, over whom she bent with so many tender ministrations. When you thick of the augels of God. and your mother among them, she outshines them all. Oh. that our young people could understand that there is nothing that so much beautifies the human countenance as the religion of Jesus Christ! It makes everything beautiful Trouble beautiful. Sickness beautiful. Disappointment beautiful, hi very thing beautiful.

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