Pike County Democrat, Volume 31, Number 31, Petersburg, Pike County, 7 December 1900 — Page 3

PATIENCE A VIRTUE. Dr. Talmage Says We Are All Slidly in Need of It. We Should Bxeretie It la the Affaire of Dally Life—Taras Discord la. to Harmooy—Final Reward of Patience. [Copyright, 1900, by Douis Klopsch.] Washington, Dec. & This discourse of Dr. Talmage is a full-length portrait of a virtue which all admire, $nd the lessons taught are very helpful. Text, Hebrews 10:36: “Ye have need of patience.” Yes, we are in awful need of it. Some of us have a little of it, and some of us have none at all. There is less of this grace in the world than of almost any other. Faith, hope and charity are all abloom in hundreds of souls where you , find one specimen of patience. Paul, the authqr of the text, on a conspicuous occasion lost his patience with a coworker, and from the way he urges this virtue upon the Hebrews, upon the Corinthians, upon the Thessalonians, upon the Homans, upon the Colossians, upon the young theological student Timothy, l4fconclude he was speaking out of his own need of more of this excellence. And I only wonder that Paul had any nerves left. Imprisonment, flagellation, Mediterranean cyclone, arrest for treason and conspiracy, the wear and tear of preaching to angry mobs, those at the door of a theater and those on the rocks of Mars hill, left him emaciated and invalid and with a broken voice and sore eyes and nerves a-jangle. He gives us a snap shot of himself when he describes his appearance and his sermonic delivery by saying: “In bodily presence, weak and in Speech contemptible,” and refers to his inflamed eyelids when speaking of the ardent friendship of the Galatians he says: “If it had tfeen possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes

ana nave given them to me. We admire most that which we have least of. Those of us with unimpressive visage most admire beauty uthose of us with discordant voices most extol musical cadence; those of us with stammering speech most wonder at eloquence; those of us who get provoked at trifles and are naturally irascible appreciate in others the equipoise and the calm endurance of patience. So Paul, with hands tremulous with the agitations of a lifetime, writes of the “God of patience.*’ and of “ministers of God in much patience,” and of “patience of hope,” and tells them to “follow aftep patience,” and wants them to “run with patience,” and speaks of those “strengthened with all might to all patience,” and looks us all full in the face as he makes the startling charge; “Ye have need of patience.” Do not boast that you ore placid and optimistic and free from the spirit af scold. If those who are unfortunate eould change lots with you they would be just as sunshiny. It is not religion that makes you so happy, but capacity to digest your food in three hours and enough coupons cut off to meet all your expenses, and complimentary mention, and capacity to leave your horses in a stable because you need a brisk walk down the avenue. The recording angel making a pen out of some plume of a bird of paradise is not getting ready to write opposite your name anything applaudatory. All your sublime equilibrium of temperament is the result of worldly success. But suppose things mightily change with you, as they sometimes do change. You begin to go downhill, and it isi&mazing how manv there are to help you down when you begin to go in tha-Tdirection. A great investment fails. The Colorado silver mine ceases to yield. You get land poor. Your mills, that yielded marvels of wealth, are eclipsed by mills with newly-invented machinery. You get under the feet of the bears "of Wall street. For the first time in your life you need to borrow- money, and no one is willing to lend. Under the harrowing worriment you get a distressful feeling at the base of your brain. Insomnia and nervous dyspepsia lay hold of you. Your health goes down with your fortune. Your circle of acquaintances narrows, and where once you were oppressed by the fact that you had not time enough to return one-half of the social calls made upon you, now the card basket in your hallway is empty, and your chief callers are your creditors and the family physician, who comes to learn the effect of the lastprescription.

Now you understand how people can become pessimistic and cynical and despairful. You have reached that stage yourself. Now you need something that you have not. But 1 know of a reenforcement that you can have if you will accept it. Yonder comes up the road or the sidewalk a messenger of God. Her attire is unpretending. She has no wings, for she is not an angel, but there is something in her countenance that implies rescue and deliverance. She comes ufc the steps that once were populous with the affluent and into the hallway wherfe the tapestry is getting faded and frayed, the place now all empty of worldly admirers. I will HeH you her name if you would like to know it. Paul baptized her and gave her the right name. She is not brilliant, but strong. There is a deep quiethood in her manner and a firmness in her tread, and in her hand is a scroll revealing her mission. She comes from Heaven. She was born in the throneroom of the King. This is Patience. “Ye hare need of patience." Many of the nations of the earth have put their admiration of this virtue into proverb or epigram. One of those eastern proverbs says: “With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes satin." A Spanish ^proverb says: “If I have lost the rings, here

an the fingers still.*’ The Italian proverb says: “The world is his whe has patience.” The English proverb declares: “When one door shuts, another opens.” All these proverbs only put in another way Paul’s terseness when he says: “Ye have need of patience.” First, patience with the faults of others. No one keeps the Ten Commandments equally well. One’s temperament decides which commandments he shall oome nearest to keeping. If we break some of the commandments ourselves, why be so hard on those who break others of the tent If you and I run against one verse of the twentieth chapter of Exodus, why should we so severely excoriate those whq run against another verse of the same chapter? Until we are perfect ourselves we ought to be lenient with our neighbor’s imperfections.^ Yet it is often the case that the man most vulnerable is the most hypercritical. Perhaps he is profane, and yet has no tolerance for theft, when profanity is worse than theft, for while the lartter is robbery of a man, the former is robbery of God. Perhaps he is given to defamation and detraction, and yet feels himself better than some one who is guilty of manslaughter, not realizing that the assassination of character is the worst kind of assassination. The laver for washing in the ancient tabernacle was at its" side burnished like a looking glass, so that those that approached that laver might see their need of washing, and if by the Gospel looking glass we discovered our own need of moral cleansing we would be more economic of denunciation. Again, this grace is needed to help in time of physical ailments. What vast multitudes are in perpetual'pftin while others are subject to occasional paroxysm! Almost everyone has some disorder to which he is occasionally subjected. It is rheumatism or neuralgia or sick headache or indigestion. A draft from an open window _ or hasty mastication or overwork brings on that old spell, and you think you would father have almost anything

else, but that is because you have pot tried the other. Almost everyone has something which he wishes he had not. There are scores of diseases ever ready to attack the human frame. They have been~in pursuit of our race ever since Adam* and Eve resigned their innocence as well as the world’s health. It is amazing how persistent and methodic those disorders are in their attack on the world and how regular is the harvest which with the sharp scythe of pain they mow down for the grave. No such disciplined and courageous army ever marched as the army of physical suffering. They do their work in the order I name, and you may depend upon their keeping on in that same order for a,good while yet; first of all tuberculosis, next organic heart disease, next pneumonia, next in number, of its victims is apoplexy, next Bright’s disease, next capcer, next typhoid fever, next paralysis. Those eight diseases are the worst despoilers of human life. The doctors with solutions and lancets and anodynes and cataplasms are in a brave fight against the physiological devils that try to possess th^human race. But after all the scientists can do there is a demand for patience. Nothing can take the place of that. It is needed this moment in every sick room and along the streets and in business places and shops where breadwinners are compelled to toil when physically incompetent to move a pen or calculate a column of figures or control a shovel. But every pastor could show you instances of complete happiness under physical suffering. He could take you to that garret or to that hospital or to some room in his parish where sits in rocking chair or lies upon a pillow some one who has not seen a well day in ten years and yet has never been heard to utter a word of complaint. The grace of God has triumphed in her soul as it never triumphs in the soul of one who is vigorous and athletic. That grace helped the soldier during the American civil war. His arm had been amputated, and he said to a delegate of the Christian commission: “It seems to me I cannot be grateful enough fqr losing my arm. It made me thoughtful and opened the way for your delegates to visit me.** This grace was well demonstrated by a prominent Christian man who was laid aside by a severe illness during a revival when his services were most needed, and when some one deplored this he said,, cheerfully: “My part is to lie here and cough.” My friend, do not give up useful activities be

cause you are m pain. Some of the world’s best work has been done while in physical distress. Walter Scott was in agony of pain while writing “Ivanhoe.” Oh, beautiful grace of patience! It takes discords and turns them info harmony. It smooths the chopped sea. It kindles gloom into glow. It turns requiem into grand march. It trusts when it cannot understand. It forgives before forgiveness is asked. Gracious God! Give it to us, give it to us now, give it to us in abundance. Now, let us this hour turn over a new leaf and banish worriment and care out of all our lives. Just see how these perversities have1 multiplied wrinkles in your face and acidulated your disposition and torn your nerves. You are ten years older than you ought to be. Do two things, one for the betterment of your spiritual condition and the other for the safety of your worldly interests. First, get your heart right with God by being pardoned through the atonement of Jesus Christ. That will give security for your soul’s welfare. Then get your life insured in some well-estab-lished life insurance company. That will take from you all anxiety about the welfare of your household in ease of your sudden demise. The salutary,

Influence of each insurance in not aufficiently understood. Many a bread winner long since deceased, would now bare been alive and well but for the reason that when he was prostrated he saw that in case of his decease his family would go to the poorhouse or have an awful struggle for daily bread. But for that anxiety he would have got well. That anxiety defied all that the best physicians could do. Supposing these two duties attended to, the one for the| safety of your soul in this world snff the next, and the other for the safety of your family if you pass out of this life, make a new start, j If possible, have your family sitting-room where you can let in the sunlight. Have a musical instrument if you can afford it, harp or piano or bass viol or parlor organ. Learn how to play it yourself or have your children learn how to play oa it. Let bright colors dominate in your room. If there are pictures on the wall, let them not be suggestive of battlefields which are always cruel, of deathbeds which are always sad, or partings which are always heartbreaking. There are enough present woes in the $world without the perpetual commemoration of past miseries. If you sing in your home or your church do not alwayschdose tunes of long meter. Far better^to have your patience augmented by the consideration that the misfortunes of this life must soon terminate. Hardly anyone lives to l^O years, but few live to 80, while the majority quit this life before 50. You ought to be able, God helping you, to stand it as long as that, for then by the grace of God you will move into an improved residence and be composed by all benign and excellent surroundings, into an atmosphere e^ery breath of which is balmy, and a\egion where every sound is music and every emotion rapture. A land without, one tear, without one part

mg', ■without one grief. This laH. summer I stood on Sparrow hill, four miles from Moscow. It was the place where Napoleon stood ahd looked upon the city which he was about to capture. His army had been in long marches and awful fights and fearful exhaustions, and when they came to Sparrow hill the shout went up from tens of thousands of voices: “Moscow, Moscow!” I do not wonder at the transport. A ridge of hills sweeps round the city. A river semicircles it with brilliance. It is a spectacle that you place in your memory as one of three or four most beautiful scenes in all the earth. Napoleon’s army marched on it in four divisions, four overwhelming torrents of valor and pomp. Down Sparrow hill and through the beautiful valley and across the bridges and into the palaces which surrounded without one shot of resistance, because the avalanche of troops was irresistible. There is the room in which Napoleon slept, and his pillow, which must have been very uneasy, for, oh, how short his stay. Fires kindled in all parts of the city simultaneously drove out that army into .the snowstorms under which 95,000 men perished. How soon did triumphal march turn into horrible demolition. To-day, while I speak, we come on a high hill, a glorious hill of Christian anticipation. These hosts of God have had a long march, and fearful battles and defeats have again and again mingled with the victories, but to-day we come in sight of the great city, the capital of the universe, the residence of the King and the home of those who are to reign with Him for ever and ever. Look at the towers and hear them ring with eternal jubilee. Look at the house of many mansions, where many of our loved ones are. Behold the streets of burnished gold and hear the rumble of the, chariots of those who are more than conquerors. So far from being driven back, all tlje 12 gates are wide open for our entrance. We are marching on and marching on, and our every step brings us nearer to the city.

At what hour we shall enter we have no power to foretell, but once enlisted amid the blood-washed host our entrance is centain. It may be in the bright noonday or the dark midnight. It may be when the air is laden with springtime fragrance or chilled with falling snows. But enter we must, and enter we will through the grace offered us as-the chief of sinners. Higher hills than any I have spd|hn of will guard that city. More radiant waters than I saw in the Russian valley will pour through that great metropolis. No raging conflagration shall drive us forth, for the only fires kindled in that city will be the fires Of splendor that shall ever hoist and never die. Reaching that shining gate, there will be agjprting, but no tears at the parting!* There will be an eternal farewell, but no sadness in the utterance. Then and there we will part with one of the best friends we ever had. No place for her in Heaven, for she needs no Heaven. While love and joy and other graces enter Heaven, she will stay out. Patience, beautiful Patience, long suffering Patience, will at that gate say: “Good-byl I helped you in the battle of life, but now that you have gained the triumph you need me no more. I bound up your wounds, but now they are all healed. I soothed your bereavements, but you pass now into the reunions of Heaven. I can do no more for you, and there is nothing for me to do in a city where there are no burdens to carry. Good-by! I go back into the world from which you came up,. to resume my tour among hospitals, and sickrooms, and bereft households, and almshouses. The cry of the world’s sorrow reaches my ears, and.I must descend. Up and down that poor suffering world I will go to assuage and comfort and sustain, until the world itself expires, and on all its mountains, and in all its valleys, and on all its plains, there is not one soul left that has need of patience-”

A MEXICAN CENTRAL WRECK. A 8mn mt Persons Killed and About Sixty Injured by a HwdJted Collision. San Antonio, Tex., Dec. 3.—A terri- > We wreck, in which a score of persona | were killed and about s.xty hurt, oo- , curred on the Mexican4 Central railway, between Tamanacha and Symon, f 50 miles south of Jumilico. Tae first Aews of the disaster reached here Westerday. Edward Rische, a citizen of San Antonio, was at the scene 20 minute* after the engines crashed together. The* place where the wreck occurred is in a Talley at the foot of two immense hills. At the time both trains were running 30 miles an hour. One of the trains had on ooard a construction crew numbering 150 men. The other was a freight train of 55 empty cars. Three engines and about forty cars were piled up 30 feet high. Two Americans, train employes, were forced to flee to avoid £>eing lynched. The names of the killed and injured are not obtainable. This is said to be I the most serious wreck that has ever occurred in Mexico.

WANT TO BE AMERICANS, 1 Delernte Degetav Say a Porto Ricaaa Are Begtaniiig to Realise Their Proud Destiny. New York, Dec. 3.—Porto Rico’s first delegate to congress, Frederick [ Degetau, is in this city. He arrived <n the steamer San Juan, Saturday night, and will stay here to visit friends for a few days before he goes • to Washington. He has a great desire to study the English language. “My people want to become, root and branch, American,” he said yesterday. “We can not do it too quickly. We recognize that we are naturally Americans and that our future is part of the future of this country. After centuries of sleep, Porto Rico is ‘getting there’ with great alacrity. The first sign is the development of the natural resources of the island. The evolution of the people, their development, their education and their enrichment will follow. The only question now in Porto Rico is between the federalists, who want to hurry up and l*e made a state with an autonomous government at once, and the republicans, who want to go slow and first be made a territory with a terriJ toriall government, and later gradu- ■ ate into full statehood.” ! Sector Degetau is a republican, and was chosen by a large majority over his federal opponent. He is about forty-three years old. His home is in Ponce, where he formerly edited La Isla de Porto Rico.

THE RURAL GUARDS OF CUBA. ! - The Separate Organizations to b« United Under One Head for General Duty. Havana, Dec. a.—To-day Gen. Wood ' will issue a decree providing for the | union of the separate organizations of provincial rural guards under one head. Hereafter they will be known as “Rural Guards of the Island of Cuba.,” and will be subject to the orders of the central government. It it intended that this body shall preserve the future peace of the island. Hitherto the provincial officers have never gone outside their respective provinces. From this time the guards can be sent to any part of"the island to meet any emergency. The plan is to concentrate as many as possible in the vicinity of the sugar estates during the grinding season. SHROUDED IN MYSTERY, Body o* an Old New Yorlc Policeman Found Floating in East River.

New York, Dec, 3.—Mystery sur- ! rounds the finding, yesterday, of j the dead body of Policeman Patrick McGloin, which was floating in the { East river at the foot of Ninety-fifth ; street. McGloin, who was regularly detailed to duty in the house oi the ■ Good Shepherd, answered, eight ! o’clock roll call as usual, yesterday | morning, at .his police station, and i then left to go, it was believed, to the house of th^Good Snepherd. Timothy : Callahan, captain of a canal boat, at 9:50 o’clock, discovered .the body of . the policeman in the water. | McGloin had been on the force about twenty-five years, and was 64 years of age. __ ALL THREE WERE KILLED. . Two Brot tiers Attack, a Railway Station Agent With Fatal Results to All, Alexandria, La., Dec. 3.—News reached here yesterday of a triple killing at Parkdale, Ark. The Killian brothers, after falling out with Station Agent Phillips about railroad business, last night at 11 o’clock, went to the station, smashed every window and then went in search of Phillips, who was at his boardinghouse. They called him out and after exchanging a fev/ words with him, all drew pistols and the three men were dead almost instantly. THE CASTLE MURDER CASE. ■toy bo to the Jmrjr t«A a Decision he Reached by the Rod of, the Present Week. Eldorado, Kas., Nov. 3.—Jessie Morrison may know her fate before another week has passed. The leading attorney for the prosecution in the murder case yesterday announced that the defense would occupy but two days in examining its witnesses. With two days given to arguments it will be possible to give the case to thft jury on Friday or Saturday next.

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