Pike County Democrat, Volume 29, Number 21, Petersburg, Pike County, 30 September 1898 — Page 7

THE ENEMIES OF GOD. The Powers of Evil May Triumph Temporarily.

Mtii th» TtnikUtoi of BtaABiWiWIUi laoowr or Ut*r, Scatter Thooo Who Doty HD Omnlpotmt Power. Be?. T. DeWitt Talmage, in the following discourse, assails some of the present evils of the times, and suggests that God, in Bis anger, may visit terrible punishment. The text is: “Let God arise, let His enemies be scattered—Psalms, lxviii., 1. In the following discourse Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage assails some of the prevailing evils of the times, and suggests that God, in His anger, may visit terrible punishment. The text is: “Let God arise, let His enemies be scattered.”—Psalms, lxviii., 1. A procession was formed to carry the ark, a sacred box, which, though only 3 feet 9 inches in height and depth, was the symbol of God’s presence. As the leaders of the procession lifted this ornamented and brilliant box by two golden poles run through four golden rings, and started for Mount Zion, all the people chanted the battle hymn of my text: “Let God arise, let His enemies be scattered.” The Cameronians of Scotland, outraged by James L, who forced upon them religious forms that were offensive, and by the terrible persecution of Drummond, Dalziel and Turner, and by the oppressive laws of Charles L and Charles II., were driven to proclaim war against tyrants, and went forth to fight for religious liberty; and the mountain heather became red with carnage, and at Bothwell Bridge and Aird’s Moss and Drumclog the battle hymn and the battle shout of those glorious old Scotchmen was the text I have chosen: “Let.God arise, let His enemies be scattered.” V.'hat a whirlwind of power was Oliver,Cromwell,and bow with his soldiers, named the “Ironsides,” he went from victory to victory! Opposing enemies melted as he looked at them. He dismissed parliament as easy as a schoolmaster a school. He pointed his finger at Berkeley castle, and it was taken. He ordered Sir Ralph Hopton, the general, to dismount, and he dismounted. See Cromwell marching on with his army, and hear the battle cry of the “Ironsides,” loud as a storm and solemn as a death kneil, standards reel%efore it, and cavalry horses going back on their haunches, and armies! flying at Mafftton Moor, at Winceby Field, at Naseby. at Bridgewater and Dartmouth—“Let God arise, let His! enemies be scattered.” So you see my^text is not like a complimentary and tasseled sword that you some times see hung up in a parlor, and only to be used on general training day, but more like some weapon carefully hung up in your home, telling its story of battles, for my text hangs in the Scripture armory, telling of the holy wars of three thousand years in which it has been carried, but still as keen and mighty as when David first unsheathed it. It seems to me that in the Church of God, and in all styles of reformatory work, what we most need now is a battle cry. We raise our little standard. and put on it the name of some man who only a few years ago began to live and In a few years will cease to live. We go into contest against the armies of iniquity, depending too

niucn on nunmn agencies. *1 r use ior a battle cry the name of some Christian reformer, but after awhile that Teformer dies, or gets old, or loses his courage, and then we take another battle cry, and this time perhaps we put the rame of someone who betrays the cause and sells out to the enemy. What we want for a battle cry is the name of some leader who will never betray us, and will never surrender, and will never die. All respect have I for brave men and ■women, but If we are to get the victory all along the line we must take the hint of the Gideonites, who wiped cut the Bedouin Arabs, commonly called Midianites. These Gideonites had a glorious leader in Gideon, but what was the battle cry with which they flung their enemies into the worst defeat into which any army was ever tumbled? It was **The sword of the Lord and of Gideon.’* Put God first, whoever you put second. If the army j of the American revolution Is to free America it must be “The sword of the j ■Lord and of Washington.” If the Ger- j mans want to win the day at Sedan, it must be ‘‘The sword of the Lord and Von Moltke." Waterloo was won for the English because not only the armed men at the front, but the worshipers in the cathedrals at the rear, were crying: ‘‘The sword of the Lord and of Wellington.” The Methodists have gone in triumph across nation after nation with the cry: “The sword of the Lord and of Wesley." The Presbyterians have i gone from victory to victory with the j cry: “The sword of the Lord and of < John Knox." The Baptists have con- j •quered millions after millions for1 Christ with the cry: “The sword of the Ix>rd and of Jutlson." The Ameri- j can Episcopalians have wbn their mighty way with the cry: “The; •word of the Lord and of Bishop Me- , llvaina." The victory is to those who | put God first. But as we want a bat- j tie cry suited to all sects of religion* j 1st*. and to all lands, 1 nominate as j the battle cry of Christendom in the j approaching Armageddon the words of j my text, sounder! before the ark as it was carried to Mount Zion: "Let God j arise, let His enemies be scattered." As far as our finite min I can judge,! It seems about time for God to rise j Does it not seem to you that the abom- j inltions of this earth have gone far enough? Was there ever a time when •in was so defiant ? Were there ever

before so many fists lifted toward God Idling Him to come on it Ha dare? Look at the blasphemy abroad! What towering profanity! Would it be possible for anyone to calculate the numbers of times that the names of the Al mighty God and of Jesus Christ are every day irreverently on the lips? Profane swearing is as much forbidden by the law as theft, or arson, or murder, yet who executes it? Profanity is worse than theft, cr arson, or murder, for these crimes are an attack on humanity—that is an attack on God.

This country is pre-eminent lor blasphemy. A man traveling in Russia was supposed to be a clergymn. “Why do you take me to be a clergyman ?” said the man. “Oh,” said the Russian, “all other Americans swear.** The crime is multiplying in intensity. God very often shows what He thinks of it, but for the most part the fatality is hushed up. Among the Adirondacks I met the funeral procession of a man who two days before had fallen under a flash of lightning, while boasting, after a Sunday of work in the fields, that he had cheated God out of one day anyhow, and the man who worked with him on |he same Sabbath is still living, but a helpless invalid, under the same flash. Years ago, in a Pittsburgh prison, two men were talking about the Bible and Christianity, and one of them, Thompson by name, applied to Jesus Christ a very low and villainous epithet, and, as he was uttering it, he fell. A physician was called, but no help could be given. After a day’s lying with distended pupils and palsied tongue, he passed out of this world. In a cemetery in Sullivan county, in New York state, are eight headstones in a line and all alike, and these are the facts: In 1861 diphtheria raged in the village, and a physician was remarkably successful in curing his patients. So confident did he become that he boasted that no case of diphtheria could stand before him, and finally defied Almighty God to produce a ease of diphtheria that he could not cure. His youngest son soon after took the disease and died, and one child after another, until all the eight had died of diphtheria. The blasphemer challenged Almighty God, and God accepted the challenge. Do not think that because God has been silent in your case, O profane swearer! that He is dead. -Is there nothing now in the peculiar feeling of your tongue, or nothinginthe numbnessof your brain, that indicates that God may come to avenge your blasphemies, or is already avenging them? But these cases I have noticed, I believe, are only a few cases where there are hundred. Families keep them quiet to avoid the horrible conspicuity. Physicians suppress them through professional confidence. It is a very, very, very long roll that contains the names of those who died with blasphemies on their lips. Then look for a moment at the evil of drunkedness. Whether you live in Washington, or New York, or Chicago, or Cincinnati, of Sawannah, or Boston, or in any of the cities of this land, count up the saloons on that street as cornered with the saloons five years ago, and see they are growing far out of proportion of the increase of population. You people who are so precise and particular lest there should be some imprudence and rashness in attacking the rum traffic will have your son some night pitched into your front door dead drunk, or your daughter will come with her children because her husband has, by strong drink, been turned into a demoniac. The

drink fiend has despoiled whole streets of good homes in our cities. Fathers, brothers, sons on the funeral pyre of strong drink! Fasten tighter the victims!! Stir up the flames! Pile on the corpnes! More men, women and children for the sacrifice! Let us have whole generations on fire of evil liabit; and at the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sack'out, psaltery, and dulcimer let all the people fall down and worship King Alcohol, or you shall be cast into the fiery furnace under some political platform! I indict this evil as the tegicide, the fratricide, the patricide, the matricide,, the uxorcide'of the century. Yet under what innocent and delusive and mirthful names alcoholism deceives the people. It is a “cordial.” It is “bitters.” It is an “eye-opener.” It is an “appetiser." It is a "digester.” It is an “invigorator.” It is a “settler.” It is a “night-cap.” Why don’t they put on the right labels—“Essence of Perdition," “Conscience Stupetter," “Five Drachms of Heart-ache," “Tears of Orphanage,” “Blood of Souls,” “Scabs of an Eternal Leprosy," Venom of the Worm that Never Dies?” Only once in awhile is there anything in the title of liquors to even hint their atrocity, as in the case of “sour mash." That I see advertised all over. It is an honest name, and anyone can understand it. “Sour mash!” That is, it makes a man's disposition sour, and his associations sour, and his prospects sour; and then it is good to mash his body; and mash his soul, and mash his business, and mash his family, “Sour mash!” One honest name at last for sm intoxicant! But through lying labels of many of the apothecaries’ shop*, good people, who are only a little under tonFln health, and wanting some vigoration. have unwittingly got on their tongue the fangs of this cobra, that stings to death so large a ratio of the human race. Then look at the impurities of these great cities. Ever and anon there arq in the newspapers explosions of social life that make the story of Sodom quite respectable; “for such things,” Christ sava, “were more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah” than for the Chorazins and Bethsaidas of greater light It is no unusual thing In our cities to see men In high positions with two or three families, or refined ladies willing solemnly to marry the very swine of society, if they are wealthy. The Bible all aflame with denunciation

against an impure life,but many of the American ministry uttering not one point-blank word against this iniquity lest some old libertine throw up hia church pew. Machinery organized in all the cities of the United States and Canada by which to put yearly in the grinding mill of this iniquity thousands of the unsuspecting of the country farm houses, one procuress confessing in the courts that she had supplied the infernal market with 150 victims in six months. Oht for 500 newspapers in America to swing open the door of this lazar house of social corruption! Exposure must come before

extirpation. While the city van carries the scum of this sin from the prison to the police court morning by morning, it is full time, if we do not want high American life to become like that of the court of Louis XVM to put millionaire Lotharios and the Pompadours of your brown-stone palaces into a van of popular indignation, and drive them out of respectable associations. What prospect of social purification can there be, as long as at summer watering places it is usual to see a young woman of excellent raising stand and simper and giggle and roll up her eyes sideways before one of those first-class satyrs of fashionable life, and on the ball room floor join him in the dance, the maternal chaperon meanwhile beaming from the window on the scene? Matches are made in Heaven, they say. Not such matches; for the brimstone indicates the opposite region. The evil is overshadowing all our cities. By some these immortalities are called peccadillos, gallantries, eccentricities, and are relegated to the realms of jocularity, and few efforts are being made against them. God bless the “White Cross** movement, as it is called—an organization making a mighty assault on this evil! God forward the tracts bn this subject distributed by the religious tract societies of the land! * God help parents in the great work they are doing, in trying to start their children with pure principles! God help all legislators in their attepmt to prohibit this crime! Not only ere the affairs of this world so a-twist, a-jangle and racked, that there seems a need of the Divine appearance, but there is another reason. Have you not noticed that in the history of this planet God turns a leaf about every 2,000 years? God turned a leaf, and this world was fitted for human residence. About 2,000 more years passed along, and God turned another leaf, and it was the Deluge About 2,000 more years passed on, and it was the Nativity. Almost 2,000 more years passed by, and He will probably soon turn another leaf. It may be the demolition of all these monstrosities of turpitude, and the establishment of righteousness in all the earth. I am as confident os if it were already accomplished. How easily He can do it, my text suggests. It does not ask God to hurl a great thunderbolt of llis power, but just to rise from the throne on which He sits. Only that will be necessary. “Let God arise!**

it win ue no exeruuu ui omnipotence. It will be no bending or bracing for a mighty lift. It will be no sending down the sky of the white horse cavalry of Heaven or rumbling war chariots. He will only rise. Now He is setting in his majesty and patience of His reign. He is from His throne watching the mustering of all the forces of blasphemy and drunkenness* and impurity, and fraud, and Sabbath-breaking, and when they have done their worst, and are most surely organized, He will bestir Himself and say: “My enemies have denied me long enough, and their cup of iniquity is full. I have given them all opportunity for repentance. This dispensation of patience is ended, and the faith of the God shall be tried no longer.” And now God begins to rise, and what mountains give way under His right foot I know not; but, standing in the full radiance and grandeur of His nature, He looks this way and that, and His enemies are scattered! Blasphemers, white and dumb, reel down to their doom; and those who have trafficked in that which destroys the bodies and souls of men and families will fly with cut foot on the down | grade of broken decanters; and the polluters of society, that did their bad work with large fortunes and high social sphere, will overtake in their descent the degraded rabble of underground city life, as they tumble over the eternal precipices; apd the world shall be left clear and •''clean for the friends of humanity and the worshipers of Amighty God. The last thorn plucked off, the world will be left a blooming rose On that bosom of that Christ who came to gardenize it. The earth that stood snarling with its tigerish passion, thrusting out its raging claws, shall He down at the feet of the Lamb of God who took away the sins of the world. And now the best thing I can wish for you, and the best thing I can wish | for myself, is, that we may be found His warm and undisguised and enthusiastic friends in that hour when God shall rise and His enemies shall be scattered. Ovr Natures. If our nature were not deep we | would work like machines, "without j suffering and without aspiration.— I Rev. C. C. Hall, Presbyterian, New York City. There is nothing limited, nothing finite about salvation—there are no restrictions, no bounds to the Saviour’s, power.—Eer. Mr. Barbour, Baptist Columbus, O. Lot* ud Bely. To understand the meaning of work and love and duty i» to turn away from war and violence.—Rev. D. 8. Jordan, Unitarian, Fiio Alto, Cak,

THE OLD DASH CHURN. Bam It Cam B« Made to Do KxeeUea* SeiTtee tor Ordinary Farm Purposes. There is a proper way to emploj almost every implement mentionable, and a dash churn is not to be excepted. Aa ordinarily used, however, much dissatisfaction arises in that the butter is not good or will not keep well, and as a result the churn is soon thrown aside for a swing, barrel or box one. Now, albeit the dash churn is not as good as* those just mentioned, where one has an old-fashioned wooden dash churn that is in good condition it is hardly advisable in the majority of cases to incur extra expense by casting it aside tor one of later date. It can be made to do excellent service simply by boring a three-fourths-inch hole at the bottom, as shown in the accompanying cut, by which to draw off the buttermilk and washing water. This is the way to proceed: When tho batter reaches the granular stage I

THE OLD DASH CHURN. •ei the churn on the stool, pull out the plug1 and draw off the buttermilk, then pour in cold water, agitate slight* ly and draw off the water. In ao do* ing use a small horsehair sieve to catch any particles of butteT that escape with the water, and do likewise when drawing off the buttermilk. This greatly simplifies matters, for the butter can ; thus be drained, salted and partly worked in the churn, which tends to produce a much better article, other conditions being equal. But let those having a good dash churn try the experiment for themselves ere they sink hard cash in making any venturesome exchanges, since “a bird in hand is always worth two in the bush.”—Fred erick O. Sibley, in N. Y. Tribune. AMERICAN APPLE JELLY. It la 1'ied as the Base ot Nearly All tk« Various Jellies Pat oa the Market.

Apple jelly is used as the base nearly all the various jellies manu- ; factured. American apple jelly is ex* ported to every known part of the world. In all -ordinary jellies, sugar plays the principal part, but in apple jelly sugar is an unknown ingredient; Apples as the raw material are not used, but apple juice or cider is, and it must be treated immediately after it comes from the press. A moderate temperature is necessary for success, j for if the juice should begin to ferment , as it will very rapidly in warm weather, the keeping quality of the jelly is very materially injured, unless it .be mixed with a considerable quantity of sugar. A temperature of 41 degrees Fahr. is the most suitable: if it rises above 66 degrees the manufacture will at once stop. In manufacture, the juice runs from the press to the boiler, beneath which a strong, steady tire is kept so as to keep the juice at a boil. With the boiling commences the clarification, and the acid it contains is neutralized by the addition of a dram of elutriated chalk (a deposit of a mixture of water and chalk from which the liquid has been decanted) to each gallon of juiee. The chalk is mixed with the juice, and soon makes its appearance on the surface in the form of thick scum, which must be carefully removed. The juice is now boiled to the consistency of 30 to 32 degrees Eeaume, which upon cooling will be found to be the proper point for a perfect jelly. Each bushel of fruit will produce from four to five pounds of jelly. Late fruit is the most productive. Crab apples produce the finest jelly, while sour, ordinary fruit produces the best-look-ing article. A mixture of all varieties renders the most satisfactory results ar to flavor and quality.—Americai Gardening. XervoauieM la Caws. To most people the cow is the most placid and lea»t.t excitable animal in the world. When well fed and not disturbed about her calf she will lie and chew the cud of contentment for hours, and while thus undisturbed will secrete all: the milk possible from the flood she has eaten. Yet the domestic cow. if she be a good milker, has a capacity for becoming nervous and excitable such as the ox or spayed cow cannot rival. At all times the firstclass milch cow must be a hearty feeder. So long as she is given all she wants she may be quiet enough. But if placed in a pasture where the food is insufficient or too poor in quality the quiet cow will soon develop roving Instincts and will break through fences in order to get at what she likes. The cow that will not do this in ease of necessity is of little use for the dairy.—-American Cultivator. \ Don’t send it to market, wrapped in parte of cast-off eiothing. . . . ..

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RICHARDSON A TAYLOR, Attorneys at Law. Prompt attention given to all bustneea A Notary Public constantly In the office. Office In Carpenter building, Eighth and Maln-sts., Petersburg, Ind. ASHBY A COFFEY. O. B. Ashby, C. A. Coffey. Attorneys at law. Will practice In all courts. 8peclat attention given to all civil bustpesa. Notary Public constantly tu the office. Collections made and promptly remitted. Office over W. L. Barrett’s store, Petersburg, Ind. g G. DAVENPORT, Attorney at law. Prompt attention given to all business. Office over J. R. Adams A Son’s drug store, Petersburg, Indiana. g M. A C. L. HOLCOMB, Attorneys at law. Will practice In all courta Prompt attention given to all business. Office In Carpenter block, first floor on Eighth-st., Petersburg. E. WOOLSEY, Attorney at Law. All business promptly attended to. Collections promptly made and remitted. Abstracts of Title a specialty. Office In Frank’s building, opposite Press office, Petersburg, Ind. T#R.RICE. Physician and Surgeon. Chronic Diseases a specialty. Office over Citizens’ State Bank, Petersburg, Indiana

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