Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1887 — Dr. Talmage and the Gas. [ARTICLE]

Dr. Talmage and the Gas.

Over 600 hills and petitions were introduced in the Renate on the first real working dayol the session. Good. Now how shall we prevent the passage of a tenth of them? Thi Ihlianapoiis Journal has named the following as a desirable Republican ticket for tndianians: For President, Gen. Ben- Harrison; for ▼ice-President, Gen. Hawley; of-Connecticut; for Governor, Albert G. Portei; for Lieutenant Governor, Col. Robertson. ImniAN-APOLis has bad an experience in new newspaper enterprises during the year, all of which went, up the flume. If the government wants to get rid of the •mrplns why not start a daily paper in Indianapolis. So far such ventures have required more “surplus ’ than was at eeaamand.^_^_______^_ Rwti.iTan, the slugger, Is a bigger man . than “old” Buffalo Bi.l. The Prince of Wales will soon present the slugger a gold watch, and all England bows down and worships him. On this side of the water Sullivan is not regarded as a model sailing for adulation, notwithstanding his capacity to strike from the shoulder.

Braaklya F-agi*. I began the ministry by writing ou| my sermons with great care and taking my manuscript into the pulpit and eonfining myself strictly to it. But coming out of a theological seminary with bat little preparation in the way •f sermon material, I found the preparation of two sermons and a lecture a week a complete physical exhaustion, so I retracted from that habit and used no Botes at all. My first experience in this asw departure was marked, and unusual. It was in my village church at Belleville, N. J. Finding that I must stop the exhaustive work of preparation I resolved on a certain Sunday night to extemporise. The church had ordinarily been lighted by lamps, as there was uogasinthe village, but the trustees had built a gas-house in the rear of the church, and the new mode of lighting* the edifice was to be tested the very Bight I had decided to begin my extemporaneous speaking. The chnrchwas thronged wit» people who had some to see the new mode of lighting. I had about ten minutes of inv sermon in manuscript and put it down on the Bible, intending when the manuscript gave out to launch out on the great sea es externporaneousness. Although it was a cool night it was a very hot one lor me, and the thermometer seemed to be about up to ISO degrees. At a yery slow rate I went on with my sermon, Employers are quietly suggesting aasong themselves the possibility of a reduction in the price of labor next fSpring. The influences which favor this possibility are not very apparent, and yet there is a feeling that organised labor may find it more difficult to keep the high stapdard next year than they have this year. Much incompetent or inferior labor has been paid the highest wages this year, and this evil has been borne with as much grace as possible.