Pike County Democrat, Volume 30, Number 35, Petersburg, Pike County, 5 January 1900 — Page 3

PAST EXPERIENCES. Ojr. Talmage Says They Should Be Our jguides for the Future. f ’ ? . ' ! V' ' —- •ante rradical and Timely Sagges* Una* a* to Right Living—Oar l.ife as “a Tale That . is Told.” (ICopyright. 1809. by Louts Klopscb | Washington. Dec. 31 In thin holiday-discourse Dr. Talinage takes the opportunity of offering some very practical and useful suggestions; text. Psalms, xc. 9: “We spend our years us a tale that is told.” The Israelites were 40 years in the wilderness, and during 38 .years ot\*e 40 nothing Is recorded of them, and^f suppose no other emigrants had a duller or more uninteresting time than they had. So they got to telling stories — stories concerning Jhem- ’ selves or concerning others; stories . about the brick kilns Egypt, where they had toiled in slavery; stories about bow the waters of the Red* sea piled up into palisades at their crossing; story of how the lantern hung in the heavens to guide them by night; story of ibises destroying the reptiles ~of the wilderness; stories of personal •encounter. It must have been an awful thing to have bad nothing to do in 3S years except to get lost every iRj time they tried to escape from the ■wilderness. So they whiled away the time in story telling. IntTeed. there ■were persons whose One business was to narrate stories, and they were paid by such trifles as they could pick up from the surrounding listeners. To euch instances our text refers when it cays: “We spend our years as a tale

tnat is told. At this tremendous passage • from •the year 1899 to the year 1900 it wdl ■do us all good to consider that our ■whole life is story told—a good story or a bad story; a'tragic story or a mirthful story; a wise story or a foolish story; a cl.ean story or a filthy Story; a story of success or a story, of failure. “We spend our years as a tale that is told.” In the first place I remark that •every person’s life is a very interesting story. My text does not depreciate “a tale that is told.” We pave all of us been entertained by the story teller when snow bound in the rail train; or in_t|n^ group a winter’s night in thf farmhouse; o£gathered around a blazing hearth with some hunters at the mountain inn. Indeed, it is a praiseworthy art to impersonate a good story well. If you doubt the practical and healthful and inspiring use of such a story, take down from the library Washington Irving’s '"Tales of a Traveler,” or Nathaniel Hawthorne’s "Twice Told Tales.” Bat as interesting as any of these would be the story of many an obscure life, if the tale were as well told. Why do we all like biographies and autobiographies? Because tbey are stories of eminent human lives. But the story of the life of a backwoodsman, of a man who Idoks stupid, of one about whom you never heard^aword.must be just as thrilling on a small scale aa on a ^larger scald is the life of a Cyrus, or aVaesar, or a Pizarro, or a Mark Antony, or a Charlemagne, or the late Gen. Gordon, who was upon a parapet leading his soldiers with nothing but a stick in his hand, and his troops cried: “Cordryu, come down. You will be killed.” But he did hot come down, and one of the soldiers said: “It is all right. He don’t mind being that killed. Ele is one of those blessed , Christians." — If 3’ou get- the confidence of very plain man just come out of the backwoods and can induce him to give the stirring experiences of his life, he will tell you that which, will make , yonr-blood curdle and your hair stand on end. That night; when a pantbeti disputed his pathway on the Way home; that landslide when the mountains seemed about to come down on his cabin: that accident to his honse- / hold, and no surgeon within 15 miles; / that long storm that shut them in and lihe food was exhausted; that contest ' at bis doorway with bandits who thought there might be within something worth taking; th^t deathbed, with no one but himself to count the fluttering pulses.

as vainer LroTHweu on tne anniversary of his greatest victory followed his darling daughter to the grave, so in the humblest and most unpretending life there has been a commingling of gladness and gloom, of triumph and despair. Nothing that David Garrick ever enacted at Drury Lane theater in tne way of tragedy or Charles MaG thews ever played in Covent Garden in the’way of comedy excelled things which ou a small scale have been seen in the life of obscure men and women. -Many a profound and learned sermon has put the audience to sleep, while some man whose phraseology could not be parsed and whose attire was cut and fitted and made up by plainest housewife has told the story.of his life in a way ftat melted the prayer circle into tears as easily as a warm April sun dissolves the snow of the previous'nigbt. Oh. yes, while “we spend our years as a tale that is told” it is an interesting story. It is the story of an immortal, -and that makes it interesting. Be is launched on an ocean of eternal years, in a voyage that will never terminate. Be is striking the keynote of an anthem or a dirge that will never come to its last bar. That is what^makes the devotiohal meetings of modern times so u-ucb more interesting than they used f<l| They are filled not with discount-:- hy laymen on the subject of just ideation and sanctification, which lay d.'vconrs»s administer more to the facetious than to the edifying, but with stories of what God has done for the. sen! — How everything suddenly the- prCmisea became

balsamic in times of' laceration; how he* was personally helped out and helped tip and helped on. Nothing can stand before socb a story of personal rescue, per^mal < transformation. personal illumination. The mightiest and most skillful argtrtfifpt against Christianity collapses under the ungrammatical but sincere statement. The atheistic professor of natural philosophy goes down under the story of that backwoodsman's conversion. The New Testament suggests the power of the '‘tale that is told.” Christ was the most effective story teller of all the ages. The parables are only tales wcftl told. Matchless stories: That of the traveler cut up by the thieves and the Samaritan paying bis board bill at the tavern; that of the big dinner, to which the invited guests sent In fictitious regrets; that of the shepherd .answering the bleat of the lost sheep and all the rural neighbors that night helping him celebrate the fast that it was safe in the barnyard; that of the bad boy. reduced to the swines' trough, greeted borne with snch banqueting and jewelry that U stuffed the older son with jealousy ancFtfisgruntlement: that of the Pharisee full of braggadocio and the publican smiting bis breast with a stroke that brought down the heavens in'commiseration; stories about leprosy, about paralysis, about catalepsy, about iJropsy. aboutophtbai-mia^-stories that be so well told that they have rolled down to the present and will roll down through the entire future.

me most ot tne um lest ament is made up of inspired anecdotes' about Adiam and Eve. about Jacob, about Esau, about Abab and Jezebel, about Jonah, about Daniel, about Deborah^ about Vasbti, about men apd women of whom the story gave an accurate photograph long before human photography was borm Let all Christian workers, prayer meeting talkers, Sunday schoolteachers and preachers know ihe power of that which my text calls the “tale tbat'is told.” If you have had experiences of‘pardon and comfort and disentbrallment. tell of it. Tfell it in'lbe most pointed and dramatic way you can manage. Tell it soon, or you may never tell it at all. Oh. the power of “the tale that is told!” Ah hour’s discourse about the fact that blasphemous behavior is. sometimes punished in this world would not impress us as much as the simple story that in a town of New York state, at the close of the last century, 36 profane men formed themselves into a club, calling themselves “Society of the Druids.” They met regularly to deride and damage Christianity.. One night in their awful meeting they burned a Bible and administered the sacrament to a dog. Two of them died that night. Within three dnys three were dVowned. In five.years all the 36 came to a bad end. Before justices of the peace it was sworn that two were starved to death, seven were drowned, eight were shot, five committed suicide, seven died on the gallows, one was frozen to death, and three died accidentally. Incidents like that, sworn to^ would balk any proposed irreverent tind blasphemous behavior. /

Id what way cbuld.the fact that infidelity will not. help anyone die well be so powerfully presented as by the incident concerning a man falling ill in Paris just after the death of Voltaire, when a professional nurse was called in and she asked: Hs the gentleman a Christian?” “Why do you ask that?” said the messenger. “1 am the nurse who attended Voltaire in his last illness. and for all the wealth of Europe, I would never see another infidel die.1? What discourse in its moral and spiritual effect could equal a tale like that? You might, argue upon the fact that those fallen are our brothers and sisters, but could we impress anyone with such a truth so well as by the scene near Victoria park. London, where men were digging a deep drain and the shoring gave way and a great pile of earth fell upon the workmen. A man stood there with his .hapds in his pockets looking at those who were trying to shovel away the earth from those who were buried, but when some one said to the spectator: “Bill, yqur brother is down there,” then the spectator threw off his coat and went to work with an agony of earnestness to, fetch up his brother. What course of argument could so well as that iOr# cident set forth that when we toil for the salvation of a soul it is a brother whom we are trying to save? A second reading of my text reminds me that life is not only a story told, but that it is aTtrief story. A long narrative stretched out indefinitely Joses its interest. It is generally, the story that takes only a minute or half a minute to rehearse that arrests' the attention. And that gives additional interest to the story of our life. It is a short story. Subtract from our lives all the hours of necessary sleep, all the hours of incapacity through fatigue or illness, all the hours of childhood and youth before we get fairly to work, and you have abbreviated the story of lffe so much that you can appreciate the Apostle James’ expression when he compares life to “a vapdr that appeareth for a little season find then vanishes away.” It does not take long to tell all the vicissitudes of life—the gladness and th§„ griefs, the arrivals and the departures, the successes and the failures, the victories and the defeats, the ups and the downs. The longer we live the shorter the years. We hardly get Over tl\p bewildering fatigue of selecting gifts for children and friends and see that the presents get off in time to arrive on the appropriate day than we see another advancing group of holidays. Antumnal fruit So sharply chases the summer harvest, ad the snow of the white blossoms of springtime come so soon afteT the snows of winter. It is a remark so often made that it fails to make any impression and the piati- * ■" ' ! : :

lode that call* forth no reply: “How rapidly time goes.” A third reading of my test remind* me that life is not only a story told, but a story listened to. There is nothing more vexatious to anyone than to tell a story when people are not altendiog. They tnay whisper on sotneorber sub* ject. or they are preoccupied. One cab not tell a story effectually unless there are good listeners. Well, that which in my test is called tbe“taletbat is told” has plenty of listeners. There is no such thing as solitude, no such thing as being alone, liod listens, and tbe air is full of spiritual intelligences all listening, ahd tbe world listens to the story of our life, some hoping it will be successful, others hoping it will be a failure. We talk about public life and private ■life, but there is no private life. The story of our life, however insignificant iitvmay seem to be. will win the applause or niss of a great multitude that no man can •number. As a “tale that is told” among admirers or antagonists, celestial or pancemoniafs, the universe is full of listening ears as welf as of gleaming eyes. If we say or do the j right thing, lb at is known. I suppose

me population of tbe intelligences in ; the air is more numerous than the pop- ! uiation of intelligences on the earth. ‘ Aye, all the world will yet listen to and be redeemed by a “tale that is told.” We are all telling it, each in his own way—some by voice, some by pen, some by artist's pencil., some by harp and some by song; mother telling it to child, teacher telling it.^to Sabbath class, reformer telling it to outcast, ' "'preacher telling it to assemblage, ‘lbe story of the Loveliest of Heaven coming down to this scarred and blasted island of a world. He was ordered back from its shores and struck through with lances of human h$te as soon as he landed. Shepherd’s dog baying on the bills that Christmas night was better treated than this rescuer of a race, yet | keeping right on, brambles on brow. • feet on spikes, flagellated with whips that had lumps of letd fastened to thecb, through midnight without laor terns, through .storms without a shelter, through years that got blanker until they ended in a noonday with the sun blotted out.. 4Mightiest tale ever told, and keep on -Jelling it unlil the last sorrow is assuaged and the last animosity is quenched and the last desert is whit? with the lily and golden with the e^vslip and blue with the gentian and crimson with the rose. My text, in referring to the years, re- ' minds me that in 12 hours this year will forever have gone away. Ninety-nine out of the hundred year>of this century will have disappeared^ We have only one year of the century left, “there , ought to be something especially suggestive in the last year of a century. It ought to be a yearof unparalleled industries, of unheard of consecration. Not a person in any of our audiences this day can remember 'the first 3 ear of this century. Not a person in any of out audiences to-day will e ver again see

me mst year or a century. Through medical science the world’s longevity jnay be greatly improved in the futureTas it has been in'the past, but it would- not be well for people to live too long; Some of them would. : through their skill at acquisitiveness, j gather too much, and' some multi* j millionaires would become billionaires and trillionaires, and some one would after awhile pocket a hemisphere. No, . Death is useful in its financial limita- j tions, and then all have enough sorrows l and annoyances and sufferings by the time they become nonagenarians or centenarians to make it desirable to quit. Besides that, it would not be fair so long to keep so many good old people out of Heaven. So it is well ar- ! ranged that those who stand bv the I deathbed of the nineteenth century ' will not be called to stand by t he deathbed of the twentieth century. Oh. crowd this last year with prayers, with hosannas, with kind words, with helpfulness. Make the peroration of the century the climax of Christiike deeds. Close up the ranks of God and j during this remaining 12 months charge mightily against the host of , Abaddon. Have no reserve corps. Let swiftest gospel cavalry gallop, and heaviest moral artillery roil, and mightiest evangelistic batteries thunder on the scene. Let ministers of the Gospel quit-all controversy with each j other, and in solid phalanx march out • for the world’s disinthrallment. Let j ‘printing presses, secular and religious, i make combined movement to instruct and emancipate the world. T)n all the hills let theretbe Elijah, praying for “a great rain.” and on every contested field Joshuas to $ee that final victory is gained before the sun goes; down, and.. every mountain become a transfiguration and every Galilee a walking place for the world’s disenthrallment. Let us be jealous of every month, of every ! week, of every day that passes without something significant and glorious wrought for God and this sin cursed world. Let our churches be thronged with devout assemblages. Let the chorals be more like grand- marches than requiems. Let this cjuaiiog year see the last wound of Transvaal and Philippine conflict, and the earth quake with the grounding arms of the last regiment ever to be marshaled, and the furnaces of the foundries blaze with the fires that shall turn the last swords into plowshares. * ■ And may all those whose lives shall go out In this lastyear of a century, as many will, meet In the Heavenly world those who in the morning and noonday of this 100 years toiled and suffered for the world’s salvation, to tell them bow much has been accomplished for the glory of Him whose march through the last 19 centuries and through ail the coming centuries the Scriptures describe as going forth “conquering and to conquer.’* Gh. the contrast between that uplifted spectacle of e ternal triumph ha the presence of Upd uod the Lamb and these earthly scenes, where “we spend one tw.t SA a tote that is told:

TARIFF FOR TRUSTS ONLY. Republican Legislation Looks Toward the I'pbulldla* of Monopolies. In a pamphlet- entitled “The United States Merchant -Marine on the Oceana*” issued by the Marine Review of Cleveland, O., Mr. E. T. Chamberlain, United States commissioner of navigation, reviews the progress of the world's maritime nations. This review is especially interesting as containing^a frank republican confession of the truth that there is now no good reason why a high protective tariff should be maintained by this country. In speaking of the marked increase of interest in the establishment of an American merchant marine, Mr. Chamberlain attests to the necessity for such a marinejservice by stating that it is demanded for the carfying of American goods abroatf ‘HDur manufactures have developed sf> rapidly,” he says, “that the place the home market filled in the political discussions of 15 or 20 years ago is now filled by the foreign markets.”

Jv Save as a factor m the further strengthening and fostering of the trust system it is difficult to see, in the light of this authoritative republican utterance, why the tax of a high protective" tariff should he imposed on the American people. It certainly is not needed for the protection of American manufacturers from foreign competition, since American manufacturers thus so successfully compete in foreign markets that their home trade has become of secondary importance. And surely the foreign manufacturer, thus undersold in his own markets, cannot underselhAmericans in American markets, with freight, insurance and otiler legitimate and unavoidable changes added to the cost of his production. It will be interesting to hear a republican plea for the Dingiey tariff under these acknowledged conditions that shall indicate anything beyond a determination to uphold the trust control of American markets by making exorbitant prices for trust goods possible. Already, thanks t<^ the tariff, Americans pay more for American manufactures than the same American goods are sold for in foreign markets. If this means anything but a wrongful tax on American consumers for the sole benefit of ^American trust organizations its, further meaning is not apparent on the face' of the figures. . The American people will be blind indeed if they now fail to see that the present protective tariff is nothing more nor less than an arbitrary levy for trust benefit at their expense, upheld by the republican party at trust dictation. — St. Louis Republic.

• EXPANSION EXPENSIVE. Harare Bill* of Expense Will Follow the Republican Policy- of Imperialism. Economy and expansion are not companions. This fact is demonstrated,by Secretary Gage,.who estimates that the expenses of the present congress will be about $1,250,000,000. Expansion has a large and magnificent sound when the word is spoken by a typical imperialist like Mark Hanna, but it also implies a large and magnificent bill of expense. One of Hanna’s pet schemes of expanding commerce is to subsidize American ships. That means that a business which don’t pay under nominal conditions cap be made profitable if the government will only furnish the money to make the profit. Republican editors are not unanimously in favor of this kind of expansion and the Philadelphia Ledger, a sound republican newspaper, takes occasion to say: - “A determined and persistent effort, sustained by a powerful combination, is about to be made in behalf of granting ship subsidies of $9,000,000 to rich (corporations, which seem to look upon a raid* on the treasury as a simple and easy method of making money. Senator Lodge has introduced a bill appropriating $11,000,000 for a Pacific cable; the Nicaragua canal project is waiting a favorably opportunity, and. Senator Cullom, not satisfied with the enormous yearly expenditures of $145,000,000 for pensions, has fathered a bill for removing the disabilities of soldiers who deserted. or were dishonorably discharged, on the ground that the time has arrived when the government can be magnanimous and forgive any little indiscretion of the soldiers of the civil war. \ n, “In the grand rush of imperialism there seems danger that some of our legislators will lose not only their sense of dignity in prying open the treasury, but the sense of ordinary integrity.’* , These, words are timely and should*be carefully considered by the advocates of expansion. But it remains for the people to cast out of power the party which favors,expansion at the expense of the people who pay the taxes.—Chicago Democrat. ' Trait* Protect**. It is certain that the prevalence of irusts in the United States is due in large measure to an undue tariff protection given certain American manufacturers. There is reason to believe that one of the most effective blows which .could be leveled against a trust com-, bination would be to permit the entrance into the United States, on equal terms with the trust product, of the similar product of foreign manufacturers. This would tend to restore the competition which the formation of Hie trust has ended and to break the monopoly the trust has created. This fact alone raises tmsts to the dimensions of a national issue. So it will remain unless the present congress takes i drastic action to end the abuse. Thera : are ways a-plenty for those who seek I them and willing hands can find their too!*.—St. Louis Republic

TROUBLE BETWEEN fi [ENDS Am Open Rapture Between vZ • Allied -«■ Force* of Boodle ait Baaieoube. ■ If there was any one thing vhich the tariff protectees felt entitled to count upon it was the full and uni emitting care of their interests by the 2 IcKinley administration. Mr. McKinley was the great panjandrum of the tarif system and Mr.. Hanna was his prop],at. And both of them assured^the beneficiaries di that system that never—i o, never —would ” there be any acti^i. on the part of the administration wLi :h would tend to weaken the right of the tariff barons to plunder the rest of the population. It was precisely u pon the strength of this representation that Mr. Hanna, in the summer of 1896 took his trusty skillet in his hand and [ roeeeded to extract from the protected : manufacturers grease sufficient to lubi icate the machinery of the republican pi>rty—the results being made evident at the election in. November. The fain >us “fatfrying” tour was successful only because the tariff barons repo: ed confidence in the firm ed Me & Mae. It appears that that confidence Jti ill requited. „ 1

At all events there is much d ssension over reciprocity biLs, asl well; as over the proposed measure v|hich vould establish free trade, between th e United States and our new colonial p >ssession of Puerto Rico. Ti e views o f the administration respecting the l eauty of a prohibitive tariff have undergone some change during the last 11 months, owing to the expansion policy which is now dearest to the heart of be president and Mr. Hfinna. The views of the,tariff beneficiaries are naturally unchanged, and there the issue a joined. The administration desires to let down the bars a trifle so that trade can “follow the flag.” The contributors to the fat fund of 1896 demand the ft ifillment of their contract. The result is much bitterness on both sides. It is amusing, indeed, to listen to some of the recriminations.! “Selfishness,” plaintively declares the ' Vashington correspondent of an ad ninistraction organ, “jumps to the frc nt in an effort to defeat every reciproc ty measure proposed* fyy tbe governme it.” That is, the administration seeks t > wriggle out of its contract with the protected manufacturers, and those g rntlemen respond by lobbying to defeat such a consummation. And Mrt Kasson, the reciprocity commissioner, wail ^bitterly that “if there be 49 articles ii a treaty' in which the United States have the advantage and oiie in which s< imething is given to the other fellow, nothing is said in this country about the 49, but all the people interested in The other one—whether it be rice or sugar or to-.'

bacco or files or hoes or sausa^ es—raise a bowl and. pelt the senate with appeals to reject the whole thii g.T This is very saa, indeed, but it was to. have been expected. How cai the administration make fish of cne tariff beneficiary and flesh of another? Was it not nominated imthe bond ihat a wall should be built around the entire country which should keep out coiajSetition absolutely ? And of what valuta is a w|lIT which contains a gate through which foreign rice or sugar or tobacco or files or hoes or sausages may enter to the i great injury of honest gentlemen who I paid large sums to elect Mr. 'iIcKinley president? How can that statesman defend his course in seeking to.repudiate his contract? i He may try to do it, but he will fail. rWhat is more to the purpose,! is efforts l toward a measure of commercial freedom are also likely to fail. Far. as the j disconsolate correspondent i already | quoted admits, the tariff bartns sWing j the senate about as they phase, and, j though the sovereign may command, j he cannot execute. The firm of Me & Mac will be forced to carry on its con■tract willy nilly, and, as it trill do so j under compulsion, it can claim no J credit for the proceeding. The cheerful feature of the situation is the open rupture between tile hitherto allied forces of boodle and b meombe. When certain people fall ofct certain other people are likely to get t heir own —Chicago Chronicle., _ ■' The End of Quay has seemed an irresistible power in Pennsylvania poll :ies, but persistent fighting on the part of a determined opposition has li; id its effect. < Apparently the downfall of Pennsylvania’s “boss” is now in sight. Press dispatches from Washington indicate that Quay will not be seated as senator. In that event he is not likely to recover the prestige he lost” when he failed of reelectkra at the hands of the last Pennsylvania legislature. The opposition, encouraged by results already achieved, will be greatly strengthened for furiher»contests with Quay. The success of the movement- against Quay in Pennsylvania, undertaken with little real hope of accomplishing results, is full of eneourageme&t for the ei emies of “bossism” everywhere. No ‘boss” is invulnerable, no matter how strongly he ma\r seem to be intrench ed.—Chicago Record (Ind.). \-It needs no proloocred m editation on. the part of president or congressmen to determine the power tbst may be exercised to “check the mo aopolies” which deal in articles protected under the MeKinley-Wilson-Dinglt y tariff system. It needs only the courage promptly to assert the power of removing the tariffs upon the produetsof *he trusts. It is evident that President McKinley is lacking in thus sort of courage. He has run away from his opportunity to strike an effective blow at the root of the trust evil, preferring to shift the entire responsibility tb the shoulders of congress, which means that no legislation whatever in restraint of trust formation a: id operation is to be looked for at tie hands of the congress now beginningj* t« labor*. —Rochester Herald,

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