Pike County Democrat, Volume 30, Number 50, Petersburg, Pike County, 20 April 1900 — Page 3

THE RESURBECTION. Dr. Talenagc’s Easter Sermon Rings All the Bells of Gladness. SlooatlaK Flower*, Emblematic at Paradise, Pit It Celebrate the Uar*tlae of I'lrUt’i Toab— „ A Season of Rejoicing.'

\ [Copyright, 1£KW, by Louis Klopsch.} Washington, April 15. This sermon of Hr. TaImage rings •all the bells of gladness, especially appropriate at this season, when all ■Christendom is celebrating Christ’s .resurrection; text, John 19:41, “In the .garden a new sepulcher.*’ Looking around the churches this morning, seeing flowers in wreaths and flowers in stars and flowers in crosses and flowers in crowns, billows of beauty, conflagration of beauty, you feel as if you stood in a small Heaven. You say these flowers will fade. Yes, but perhaps you may see them again. They may be immortal. The fragrance of the flower may be the spirit of the flower; the body of the flower dying on earth, its spirit may appear in better worlds. I do not say it will be so. I say it may be so. The ancestors of those tuberoses and cameras anti japenieas and jasmines and heliotropes were born in paradise. These apostles of beauty came down in the regular line of apostolic succession. Their ancestors during the flood, underground, afterward appeared. The world started with Edeuj'it will end with Eden. Heaven as called a paradise of (*od. Paradise means flowers. While theological geniuses in this day are trying to blot cut everything material from their idea of Heaven, and, so fur as I can tell, their future slate is to be a-floating around somewhere between the Great Hear and Cassiopeia. 1 .‘should not be surprised if at last 1 can pick up a daisy on the everlasting hills and hear it sa\: “I am one of the glorified flowers of earth. Don't you remember me? 1 worshiped with you on Easter morning in Ti>00." My tc.\| introduces us into a garden. If is a manor in the suburbs of Jerusalem owned by a wealthy gentleman by the name of Joseph. He belonged to the court of T.) who had condemned thrist, but he had voted in the negative, cr, being a timid man, had absented himself when the vote was to be taken. At great expense he laid out the garden. Jt being a hot climate, 1 suppose there - were trees broad branched, and there were paths winding under these trees, and here and there were waters .dripping dow n ovr N the rocks into fish ponds, and there were vines and flowers blooming from the wall, and all around the beauties •of kiosk and aborieulture. After the fatigues of the Jerusalem courtroom, how refreshing to come into this suburban'retreat, botanical and pomology ionl! Wandering in the garden, T behold some rocks which have on them the mark of the sculptor's chisel. J come nearer, and 1 find there is a Subterranean recess. 1 come down the marble steps, and 1 come to a portico, over which there is an architrave, by the •chisel cut into represent at ious of fruits and flowery, 1 enter the portico. On either side there are rooms—two or tour or six rooms of reek, the walls of these rooms having riches, each niche large enough to hold a dead bodv. H especially ere is cue room that is wealthy of sculpture. The fact is that Joseph realize he cannot always walk this garden, ami be has provided this place for his last slumber. Oh. what a beautiful spot in which to wait for the coming pf the resurrection! Mark well this Tomb, lor it is be the most celebrated tomb in all the ages. Catacombs of Egypt, tomb of Aapoleon, Mahal Taj. of India, nothing compared with it. Christ has just been murdered, and His body will be thrown to the (logs and the ravens, like other crucified bodies, unless thjere be prompt and efficient hindrance. Joseph, the owner of this mausoleum in the Yocks, begs for the body of Christ. He washes the poor, mutilated frame from the dust and blood, ihrouds it tlnd perfumes it. I think that regular ! embalmment ■was omitted. When in the olden time -a body was to be embalmed, the priest, with seme pretension of medical skill, would point out the place between the ribs where the incision must be made; -and then the operator, having made the incision, ran lest he be slain for a violation of the dead. Then the other priests would come with salt of niter •and cassia and wine of balm tree and •complete the embalmment. But i think this embalmment of the body of Christ was omitted. It would have Raised another contention and another

not. The funeral hastens on. Present, 1 think, Joseph, r he owner of the mausoleum; Xicodeinus, the wealthy man who had brought the spices, and the two * Alarys. Is'o organ dirge, no plumes, no catafalque. Heavy burden for two men as they carry Christ’s body down the marble stains and into the portico •and lift the dead weight to the level of - the niche in the rock and push the body of Christ into the only pleasant resting place it ever had. Coming forth from the portico, they close the door of rock •' *; against the recess. The government, afraid that the disciples may steal the body of Christ and play resurrection, order the seal of the sanhedrin to be put upon the door of the tomb, the violation of that seal, like the violation of tlm seal of the government of the United States or Oreat Britain, to be followed with great punishment. A company of sol4 f”?' idiers from the tower of Antonia is detailed to stand guard. At the door of the mausoleum a fight takes place which decides the question for aU graveyards aud cemeteries. SworcTof lightning against sword of cteel. Angel against military, hu

sea! of letter was ever more easily broken than that seal of the sanhedriu on the door of £he tomb. The dead body in the niche In the rock begins to move in its shroud of fi^e IInen. slides down upon the pavement, moves out of the portico,'appears in the doorway, advances into the open air. comes up the marble steps. Haring left Ills mortuary attire behind Him. He comes forth in workman’s garb, as 1 take it, from the fact that the women mistook Him for the gardefcor. That day the grave received such shattering it can never be rebuilt. All the trowels of earthly masonry can never mend it.; Forever and forever it is & broken tomb.' Death, taking side with the military in that fight, received a terrible ait from the angel’s spear of flame, so that he himself shall go down after awhile under it. The king of terrors retiring before the liTiug of Grace! The Lord is risen! Let earth and Heaven keep Easter today! Hosanna!

some tinners strike ^y observation while standing: in this garden with a new sepulcher. And. first, post mortem honors in contrast with ante mortem ignominies. If they could have afforded Christ such a costly sepulcher, why could not they have given Him an earthly residence? Will they give this j piece of marble to a dead Christ instead of a soft pillow for the living Jesus? If they, had expended half the value of that tomb to make Christ comfortable. it would not have been so sad a story, lie asked bread; they gave Him a stone. Christ, like most of the world's benefactors. whs appreciated better after He was dead. Westminster abbey and monumental Greenwood ! are the world's attempt to atone by honors to the dead for wrongs to the living. Poet's corner in Westminster abbey attempts to pay for the sufferings of Grub street. . » Go through ^hat Poet's corner in Westminster abbey. There is Ilandel. i the great musician, from whose muI sic you hear to-day; but whiled look of the discords with which his feTttfw musicians tried to destroy him. There is the tomb of John Dryden, a beautiful monument; but I cannot help but thing at 73 years of age he wrote of his being oppressed in fortune and of the contract that he had just made for a thousand verses at sixpence a line. And there, too, you find tHe monument of Samuel Butler, the1 jpithor of “Hudibras;” but while I look : at his monument in Poet’s corner I cannot but ask myselft where he died, in a garret. There l see the costly tablet in the Poet's corner—the costly j tablet to one of whom the celebrated \\aller wrote: “The'old blind schoolmaster. John Milton, has just issued a tedious poem on the fall of man. If the length of it be no yirtife. it has none.” There is'a beautiful monument to Sheridan. Poor Sheridan! If he could only have discounted that monument for a mutton chop! A. Oh. you unfllial children, do not give your parents so much tombstone, but a few more blankets—less funeral and more bedroom! If five per cent, of the money we now spend on Burns' banquets could have been expended in making the living Scotch poet comfortable, he would not have been harried with the drudgery of an exciseman. Horace Greeley, outrageously abused while living,When dead is followed toward Greenwood by the president of the United States and the leading men of the army and navy. -Massachusetts trips- W atone at the grave of Charles: Summer for the ignominious resolutions with which her legislature deourieed the living senator. Do yoi^hiuk that the tomb at Springfield can pay for Booth's bullet? Oh, do justice to tlt^Tirihg! All the justice yon do tleem *vou must do this side the gates of the Necropolis. They cannot wake up to count the number of carriages at the obsequies or to note the polish of the Aberdeen granite or to read epitaphal commemoration. Gentlttgan’s mausoleum in the suburbs of J'erTisalero cannot pay for Bethlehem manager and Oalvarean cross and Pilate’s ruffian judiciary. Post mortem honors cannot atone for ante mortem ignominies. Again, standing in this garden of the sepulcher, I am impressed with the fact that floral and arborescent decorations are appropriate for the place of the dead. We are glad that among flowers and sculptural adornments Christ spent the short time of His inhumation. at his statue I cannot

I c* xot understand what I sometime-., see in the newspapers where the obsequies are announced and the friends say in connection with it: “Send no flowers.*’ Bather, if the means allow—T sav if the means allow—strew the casket, with flowers, the hearse with flowers, the grave with flowers. Put them on the brow— it will suggest coronation; in their hand—it will mean victory. Christ was buried in a garden. Flowers mean resurrection. Death is? sad enough anyhow. Let conservatory and arboretum contribute to its alleviation. The harebell will-ring the victorythe passion flower will express the sympathy; the daffodil will kindle its lamp and illumine the dark- < ness. The cluster of asters will be the constellation. Your little child loved flowers when she was living. Put them in her hand now/that she can go forth no more and pluck them Tor herself. On sunshiny days^Likjtu fre3h garland and put it over the still heart. Brooklyn has no grander glory than | its Greenwood^ nor Bostoxi than its j Mount Auburn, nor Philadelphia than its Laurel Hill, nor Cincinnati than its Spring Grove, nor San Francisco than its Lone fountain. But what shall we say of those country graveyards, with the vines broken down and the slabs aslant and the mound caved in and the grass a pasture ground for the sexton’s

cattle? indeed, were your mother of so little worth not afford to take care of Some day turn out straighten the slab and mound and cut away the weeds plant the shrubs and flowers. Some day you will want to lie down to your last slumber. You cannot expect any respect for your bones if you have no deference for the bones of your ancestry. Do you think these relic* are of no iraportauee? You will see of how much importance they are in the day when the archangel takes out his trumpet. Turn all your cemeteries into gardens. Again, standing in this garden of the new sepulcher. 1 am impressed with the dignity of private and unpretending obsequies. Joseph was mourner, sexton, liveryman—had entire charge of everything. Only four people at 4he burial of the King of the Universe! Oh let this be consolatory to those who through lack of means or through Jack of acquaintance have but little demonstration of grief at the graves of their loved tones. Long line of glittering equipage, two rows of silver handles, casket of richest wood, pallbearers gloved and scarfed, are not necessary. If there be six at the grave, Christ looks down from Heaven and remembers that two more than were at llis obsequies. Not recognizing this idea, how many small properties are scattered and widowhood and orphanage go forth into cold charity! * The departed left a small property which would have been enough to keep the family together until they could take care of themselves, but the funeral expenses absorbed everything. That went for crape which ought to have gone for bread. A man of moderate means ean hardly aftord to die in any of the great cities. By all means, do honor to the departed, but do not consider funeral pageant as-neeessary. No cue w as ever more lovingly and tenderly put away to sepulcher than Christ our Lord, but >£thercy were only four people in the pro

ecssron. Again, standing in this garden with a new sepuleher. I am impressed with thefact that jon cannot keep the dead d'o\wn Seal of sanlie/lrin, company of soldiers from the tower of Antonia, floor of rock, roof cf rock, walls of rock, door of rock, cannot keep Christ in the crypts. Come out and come up He mint. Come oi^t and “borne up He did. I*refiguration. First fruits of them that slept. Just as certainly as we come down into the dust, just so certainly we will come up again. Though all the granite of the mountains were piled on us we will rise. Though buried amid the corals of the deepest cavern of the Atlantic ocean, we will come to the surface. With these eyes we may not look into the face, of the noonday sun, but we shall have stronger vision, because the lamest thing in the land to which we go will be brighter than the sun. We shall have bodies with the speed of the lightning. Our bodies improved, energized, swiftened, clarified — mortality, immortality. The door of the grave taken off its hinges and flung flat into the^lust. Oh,my brethren, death and the grave are not so much as they used to be; for while tvandering in this garden with the new sepulcher I find that the vines and fiowers of the garden have completely covered up the tomb. Instead of one garden there are fourgar'dens. opening into each other—garden of Eden, garden of the world's sepuleher, garden of the earth’s regeneration, garden of Heaven. Four gardens. Bloom, O earth! Bloom. O Heaven! Oh, rny friends, wake up to gladness on this Easter morning! This day. if I interpret it right, means joy —it means peace with Heaven, and it means peace with all the world. Oh, bring more fiowers! Wreathe them around the brazen throat of the cannon; plant them in the desert, that it may blossom like the rose; braid them into the mane of the returned war charger. No more rod dahlas of human blood. Give us white lilies of peace. All around the earth strew Easter flowers. And soon the rough voyage of the church militant will be ended, and she will sail up the Heavenly harbor, scarred with many a conflict, but the flag of triumph floating from her topgallants. All Heaven will come out to greet- her into port, and with a long reverberating shout of welcome will say: “There she comes up the bay, the glorious old ship Zion! After tempestuous voyage she drops anchor within the veil.”

Mall Shirt of a Dervish Warrior. The shirt is made of rings, every ring from a piece of steel wire 1*4 inches long and about one-sixteenth of an inch thick. The ends of the piece of wire are flattened out, holes are punched through them, one end is turned on to the other, and they are fastened together by a small rivet. jEvery ring connects four others. The ,Swire differs somewhat in thickness, not by design seemingly so as to make one part of the shirt stronger than another, but from material of uniform thickness running short. In parts where the rings are free to jingle together they are worn very thin. Hound the neck is a band of three thicknesses of red leather, stiff like the stock worn formerly in our army. It is 2% inches high, and on the outside is decorated with ornamental lines like toolings made by a bookbinder.—Notes and Queries. Great Star Photograph. At the Allegheny observatory recently Prof. Wadsworth made a photograph on a curved plate, including the whole constellation of Orion and adjacent regions of the sky, covering in all more than 1,000 square degrees. It is estimated that the plate contains the images of more than 50,000 stars whose positions can be measured.

What Is Going On in the Political Arena of the Nation’s Capital. OEMOCRATS ON ALERT FOR THE PEOPLE Ceadltloa •* Afalira ti tkc Philip* ptMa-Hoair Democrats Express Sympathy for the Beers—McKls. ley's Worries oad Other Mattero of laterest.

The war department is considerably worried because news comes from Luxori t-hat more troops are needed in the Philippines. Gen. Young;, commanding North Luzon, and Gen. Bell, commanding southern Luzon, are making strong appeals for reenforcements. They declare that their troops are exhausted by constant fighting, the present force is inadequate to; garrison the towns and the insurgents are cropping up all over Luzon and fighting with great vigor and effectiveness. It will be remembered that Gen; Otis claimed at the beginning of the trouble that he could subdue the “insurrection,‘ with 30,000 troops. Last fall he was given more than 00.000, .and'yet trie situation is practically jthe same as it was a year ago—except that hundreds of American soldiers have sacrificed their lives and hundreds of others have lost their health in the trying climate of the Philippines. Gen. Otis, on the eve of his return from the islands, admits that- “a large body of troops must be kept in the islands indefinitely.” If Luzon gives so much trouble it may be imagined that it will take a mighty army to subdue the rest of the Philippines. The news of the massacre of 11 Filipino prisoners by American soldiers also comes as one of the unpleasant things about the administration's “policy” which iuight bear investigation. There have been hints fi*om the war department for some time that it was considering the advisability of labeling the Filipinos “bandits” and shooting them down wherever found. While this report of a massacre comes from unofficial sources, it- causes an unpleasant suspicion ^hat things are happening in the islands which need investigating. This unpleasant news comes from the Philippines just when the Spooner bill is before the senate, providing that absolute control of the Philippines be vesi<_« in the administration until congress sees fit to take action in the matter. It is probable that the republican ‘majority will push the bill through both houses. The democratic minority can only register its protest and leave the country to decide whether it desires to perpetuate militarism and imperialism in the Philippines.; The democratic view is that the islands could have been pacified long ago if the administration had been willing to grant them self-government and protection from outside interference. Senator Jones, of Arkansas, remarked recently on this point: ‘‘The Filipinos might not evolve a government as good as ours, but they would manage one that would be sufficient for their own needs and their own state of civilization, and that is all that is necessary.” The administration policy of subjugation has not been in any degree successful, and yet the country is to be asked to send more troops and supply money indefinitely for this war of conquest. Sympathy for Boers. The house democrats are ready to express their sympathy for the Boers. Representative Richardson, the house democratic leader, has introduced a resolution declaring that the house ‘‘views with deep interest the heroic struggle of the republics of South Africa to maintain their independence arid hereby tenders them our most profound sympathy in their unequal but gallant struggle.” Judging from th$ number of republican congressmen who attended the mass meeting in Washington recently at which Webster Davis told his experiences in South Africa, there arc republican members who do feel sympathy "for the unequal struggle that is going on in South Africa.

Webster Davis* views. The Webster Davis Boer mass meeting1 was one of the most remarkable public meetings ever held in Washington. The Grand opera house, accommodating 4,009 people, was packed to the doors long before the time appointed for the meeting. Hundreds'were turned away unable to gain admission. Mr. Davis had just resigned as assistant secretary of the interior in order to be free to tell wliat he had seen and heard among the Boers. He struck the keynote of the whole trouble when he said: “If gold had not been discovered in the Transvaal the British would not be fighting to conquer the Boers to-day.” ~ Mr. Davis gave graphic tales of the heroism and courage and uprightness of the Boers and contrasted with those qualities the brutality and blundering of the British. All shades of political opinion were represented at this mass meeting, but there seamed to be no division of sentiment when it came to expressing Approval of the courage and patriotism of the Boers, Mr. Davis carefully refrained from making any direct criticism of the administration’s pro-Brit-ish attitude, but his eloquent plea for American sympathy for the Boers was even more forcible than a direct arraignment of the administration.

The republicans ar*> wmt htmyr&g t* get through all necessary legi&latio. and force an adjournment as early a | June 1. President McKinley haa a I sorts of worries on band—the greatet i one being the doubt of his renomiiu tion, and he haa privately assured son < of his followers that he would be gist to have congress off his hands aa soc as possible. Dewey** Caadltaey. Admiral Dewey’s announcement' oi his presidential aspirations has csasd to interest Washington. It* only e:l feet on the democrats was to emphasis their loyalty to Bryan. The admin * tration followers were worried enougl to indulge in sneering criticism of tftf brave admiral. Dewey’s naive si nouncement of his Cleveland brand “democracy,” coupled with his offical ‘.inreport as Philippine commissioner, dorsing imperialism, and his natui leaning toward militarism make It difficult to line him up where even in independent nomination would develop any^trength. Friends of the admiral regret that his ignorance of matters political should have fired him with *ri ambition which has no prospect of satisfaction.

For the Workingmen. Resolutions are pouring in on congress from the workingmen all over the country asking the passage of f:k|a Allen and Lentz resolutions for tjhit withdrawal of the United States troops from the Coeur D’Alene district. Tnu investigation of the mining troubles in Idaho is not finished|in the house military committee, butijthe wage work>?ru of the country protest against the continued use of the military in that ciistriet for the express purpose of terrorizing workmen into acceptance of tjhe ‘“permit” system, which is in vkjlation of the statute law of Idaho and ;he constitutional rights of citizenshiji > ADOLPH PATTERSCW|ri PROTEST OF PROCTOR. The Porta Rico Outrage as Viewed by a Rock-Ribbed Re- • publican. I submit, in parallel columns, tjhe statement o‘f the purpose of the measure taxing the colonies and the disposition of the proceeds; and that of our bills in regard to Porto Rico. r|ie statement of the act of King Georg e is an extract from Lord John Russell's “Life of Fox:” “The bill ‘Imposing duties on certain kinds of merchandise when imported into the colonies required the payment of such duties to be made in gold and sliver, and ordered them to be paid into the exchequer, where, with the produce of all former parliamentary duties, they were to be set apart as a separate fund to be applied under the disposition of parliament for defraying the future charges o f protecting, defending and securing the colonies.* "—Russell’s Life of Fox. Volume 1, Page 45. “Under our mea sures Porto Rico is to be taxed, and the island pays both ways on merchandise which they ship to "or (receive from this cointry. and WeUtave provided that the amohnt heretofore or hereafter so received 'shall be placed at the disposal of the president. to be used for the government now existing, or wh Ich may hereafter ha established. in Porto Rico, for the aid and relief of the people thereof, and for public education, public works and other governmental and public purposes therein,*j until otherwise pr.ofvlded by law.” | ■n Mark tlie resemblance in these two propositions, that the duties in. each case, both past and future, are to bq set aside for the benefit of the country taxed;. One difference is that, while our measure taxes merchandise going to and coming from Porto Rico, the British bill taxed only a limited number of articles coming into this country, did not tax our exports, and this difference is in favor of Rgjng George. But there .is another vast difference in the two chses—King George a id) his ministry undertook to impose a tax upon English people—people of the r pwn blood and race, who knew their rights and dared maintain them: who lfnew that the hearts of the English people were with them. We impose tj'hese taxes upon .a people, unused, to assert their rights in the pqst, and* povei'less to maintain them if they had; inon a people who welcomed our army when it landed on their island as their frtejnds, who had come to free them from the misrule of Spain, and who have conducted themselves in the most peaceable manner; upon a people to whom we had promised to bring “the immunities and blessings of the liberal -institutions of our government.” f.nd to whom we had said, -by the mouths of our highest officials, that to establish free trade was “our plain duty,’4 demanded by “the highest considerations of justice and good faith.”—Senator Redfield Proctor, of Vermont, n His Speech of March 30,

—-There are just two ways; -to get rid of the surplus that is so r igidly piling up in-the national treasury. One is bv repealing some of the! war taxes. The other is by authorizing the deepening of the sacks of the campaign contributors that now have access to the treasury and by licensing’ a few more contributors and a few mire ex A tra large sacks. Mr. McKinley’s! great heart beats warmly for the hirst [plan. It is, therefore, not unlikely that his perverse hand will push on the second plan.—N. Y. World. -Imperialism is very inspi ihg in blowing horns and beating dr ai ais, but when it epmes to setting down t lie cost in dollars and cents—every^ penny drained from the pockets ofthe people —it naturally weakens our jp go enthusiasm. The appropriations i>r next year by our congress amount:? [to between eight and nine dollars per capita, about one-half of which goe sjto pay for glory and imperialism in Meeting the expenses of our military es ablishment.—Pittsburgh Post. -In hia annual message gress in December last Presic Kinley said of Hawaii: “Tin of these islands are entithdi benefits and privileges of on tution.” H Hawaii, why n< Rico? How can thii repcb! fish of one of its possessions it of another?—X. Y. World. tjo conjnt Me* people to the constit Porto c make nd fowl

THE CONFESSION OF FAITH.

Dr. ParkHarst Yl*orow*l? Oemoram* tkr W. .t.i»hi.ter Crc«4 Whiek »« Declares Xofcerfy BrllcvN. New York. April 16.—Kev. Ehr Charles H. Parkhurst, speaking in hi# pulpit in Madison Square Presbyterian church yesterday, made a vigorous as* ssult on the Westminster Confession of Faidi. He said: Aa Ineakaa t poa the Churefe. “We ought to have a new Confersion of Faith. It is surprising that tk« Presbyterian church is able to do aj i* is doing with suck an incubus strapped upon its as we are-tottering under in our present Confession, in the first place, the thing wanted is not a system of theology, for that is what our present Confession is. but a simple, brief Saxon statement of a half-dozen, or so of the vital ingredients of, Jesus Christ's message to the world. I could get along with a Confession of Faith containing but the little that Jesus said when He was trying to make a Christian of Nieodemus: Chrlnt'H Simple treed. “ Tiod so loved the world that He gave llis only begotten son. that whosoever belie vet h in Him should not perish, but have eternal life:' "I hat gives to us the doctrine of :»God s unlimited love, human guilt, the diviuity of. Christ, salvation through Christ, faith in Christ, immortality; every word Saxon, three-quarters of the words monosyllable:, profound enough for anyone, simple enough for any four-year-old. Wunt a New Creed.“At any rate we wan l a new creed. Amending this one will not. meet the necessities of the case.: lletter give it ft dignified place in the museum for what it is, than hack it to pieces and revamp it for what it is not. Oppuaed to the Doctrine wTGud'a Love. "Artd then, once more, if there were among us the distinct feeling which' the Gospel so wonderfully guarantees, that everything in all this great Chrisj tian matter pivots bn the absolute ami unconditioned love of Ood. we* should be intolerant toward everything that states or even suggests anything like a partial or an arbitrary love on God's part, loving some because He chose* to and damning the rest in order to show what He could do and how just lie, was. , Dauinmt from AH Eternity. “Now, that is our book, the Presbyterian Confession of Faith, in the thin! chapter. If we are thorough Presby- | teriaus. and believe what our doctrinal prospectus advertises us as believing, we believe it probable that some of , the children in your homes, little children, perhaps the babe of your bosom, is damned, already damned, damned before it was born? damned from everlasting to everlasting, and then you art invited to come into church ami say ‘Our Father.’ Why, any man who should become a father for the sake of the 'joy' and “glory* he would have in burning anti nicking his own offspring. deliberately creating a child * with a view to the. agony into -widen' he was going to torture it. would be chased from the earth as a fiend and an ebullition. Hnrt* the Denomination. “It does not meet the case to say that it is only “in the book,' and that nobody preaches it. It is true that nobody preaches it. autl equally true, l doubt not. that nobody believes it: nevertheless it is printed ou tlie flag bei eath which the Presbyterian^army is marching, and it hurts us as a denomination. Men are staying out because it is there, .and men are going out because it is there.” TRAIN WRECKED BY A MULE. Eneinecr nml Fireman Killed and Five til 4lie Train Crew Injured— The Wreck on Fire. Chattanooga. Tenth, April 16.—A through train On the Southern railway struck a mute ant1 was wrecked w hile running at full speed neai Huntsville. Ala, The engineer, Percy Armstrong, and the fireman, Sandy Osborne, were hilled and five of lh« train's crew were seriously injured The engine plunged down a steep embankment and immediately caught fire. The freight ears crowded upon the overturned engine, and instantly suffocated and crushed to death in the cab both engineer ami fireman, whe had resolutely stuck to their post. The wreck caused a delay of 12 hours in the running of trains on the Memphis division.

CAUSES GREAT EXCITEMENT. Alleged Find of Valuable Quart* tinld Dl«fiia«* In the Galena , (Kan.) Zlatt Belt. Joplin, Mo.. April 15,—J. C. Mur* clock and others of Galena, lvas.. near here, claim to have found wold ia v quartz formation within two-miles ot that place that assays $49 to $89 a tou. The assays are said to have been made in Sf. Louis. An effort lease or buy the land, the exaet location of which is not disclosed, but which is said ta be included ip the great Galena zinc and lead belt, is being1 made. Excitement over the alleged find is intense. Destroyed »i H»r Dock. San Francisco, April 14.—A fire broke out in the hold of the bark K. P. Cheney at the Howard street wharf, Friday'. The firemen cut numerous holes through the deck and water was poured through them in such volume as to list the bark heavily to starboard and ultimately settle her in the soft mud at the bottom of tin* bay. The vessel belongs to the Nun Nek Packing Co. and had nearly completed loading with coal and other supplies for the company’s Alaskan cans n ieu,