Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1889 — Page 3

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

- :.... ....: Gen. Black fe now living in Chicago. White Cape demolished a saloon at Leipsic, 0. A heavy frost visited northern Illinois, Thursday morning. , 2 . TheGhl&gd diainage bill passed the Illinois Senate, Tuesday. A Confederate monument was unveiled at Paris, Ky., Saturday. Many Mormons are traveling to Northwest Canada for location. A disease supposed to be hydrophobia, is epidemic in Trimbell, Wis. Frost in Northern Ohio Wednesday night seriously damaged fruit and growing crops. Mrs. Caroline A. Brough, widow of John Brough, Ohio’s noted war governor, died in Cincinnati. Internal Be venue Collector Webster says that the prohibitory law has increased the sale of liquor in lowa. Daniel Buth was instantly killed near Three Oaks, Mich., by failing headlong against a rapidly revolving buzz saw. The Confederate monument at Alexandria, V a., was unveiled Friday. Gen. Lee, R. T. Daniel and others made addresses. John 0. Bradley, cashier of the Merchants’ bank at New Haven, is a defaulter to the amount of SIOO,OOO. He was arrested Fi iday. William Hemker, of Dundee, and a boy named Frank Hintz, were instantly killed at Elgin, 111., Wednesday afternoon, by the collapse of a barn they were moving. It appears in the post mortem over Mind-reader Bishop that the hypothesis of a cataleptic trance and not death may be correct, and that he was killed by the doctors. Two children of John Bolter, of Fort Arkinson, Wis., were drowned in Bark River, Thursday, while returning from a fishing excursion. The children were a boy and girl, aged eleven and nine years. The American Starch Manufacturing Co., of Columbus, Ind., one of the largest concerns of the kind in the country, made an assignment Monday. Liabilities SIOO,OOO, assets about the same or more. Clifford W. Sanders, a well-known St. Louis newspaper reporter, attempted suicide at his home at an early hour Thursday morning, by hanging. His wife discovered him in time to cut him down and save his life. The residence of Rev. F. C. Clarke, near Virginia Beach, Va., was burned Wednesday night at about 12 o’clock. His two daughters and next to the oldest son and a neice visiting him were consumed by the flames. Information comes from New York that Henry W. Moore, formerly managing editor of the St. Louis Post Dispatch, and Mrs. John W. Norton, the wife of the well-known theatrical manager, with whom Moore eloped, have parted. Two enormous bombs have been found in Odessa, beneath streets along which royal visitors usually pass on their way to the palace. It is supposed that the bombs had lain for some years in the position in which they were found. While Anthony Zesnhold. Henry Wiltholder and James Dolan were at work in Otto colliery at Brancedale, Pa., Friday, they were overcome by a sudden outburst of gas and suffocated. Their bodies were not recovered for six hours. The Mayor of West Superior, Wis., has closed all the saloons in the city in anticipation of trouble between the striking coal heavers and the new men imported to fill their places. The new men are working under a strong police protection. Laura D. Bridgman, deaf, dumb and blind from two years of age, made widely famous by Charles Dickens in his “American Notes,” also, by many public references to her wonderful .intelligence, died Friday at the South Boston Asylum, where she has long dwelt, agea sixty. ■ - Dwight W. Lord, cashier of one of the Omaha National Banks, who arrived at Pomona, Cal., Saturday, on the Santa Fe train, claims that on the road, somewhere between the Needles and San Bernaraina, he was robbed of $1,300 in paper, besides promissory notes of the value of $5,000. A single-tax party has been organized in South Dakota, with the ultimate view of incorporating the single-tax Srinciples into the State Constitution, he advocates of the new theory maintain that all public revenues should ultimately be raised by a single tax on the value of bare land. The Oh io Supreme Court has decided in the contempt case of Allen O. Meyers, sentenced by Judge Pugh to jr ay a fine of S2OO and serve ninety days in the county jail, that Movers was in contempt, but that the fine and sentence were excessive. The case was remanded for further proceedings. Lorenza Lopez, sheriff of San Miguel county, N. M., arrived at Trinidad. Col., from Folsom, N. M., Saturdav afternoon, with six prisoners who stole five hundred horses horn ranches in the above county. Three hundred and fifty were found in their possession, and the herd was being driven toward Montana. The Cumberland Presbyterian general assembly adjourned Thursday sine die at five after being in session eight days. The Rev. H. D. Johnson of Topeka, Kas., offered a resolution that no young man who uses tobacco in any form shall be aided financially by the boaid of education in his studies for the ministry. This was carried with no debate. The Kansas State Sabbath-school Association which was in session last week, passed resolutions declaring that prohibition in Kansas was a success; that in-Btead-of impeding the growth and prosperity of Kansas it had stimulated it; that it was the- only solation of the liquor problem, and expressing the hope that for these reasons the Prohibitionists of Pennsylvania may be victorious in their coming struggle, Ac Port Huron, Mich., at 2 o’clock, Monday morning, about twenty masked men forced the countv jail open and took the mulatto, Martin, out and hanged him from the Seventh street bridge. They dragged him down the street, not an officer being in sight. Martin wn a tramp who entered the farm house of John Gillis, four miles

and brutally assaulted hfe wile, has been in a precarious condition ever since and is not expected to live. Ambrose Vantassel, aged thirty-five, dropped dead at the funeral of his #tfe Tuesday at Elizabeth, N. J. The family moved into a house /Friday last. The next day Mrs. Vautassel was taken small children. 7 Mr. VaptasseTs grief wWnntense, and while the funeral service was in he utter ed a cry and fell forward, dying almost immediately. The Rev. Mrs. Ellen Rinkle,a regularly ordained minister of the United Brethren Church at Wooster, 0., is probably the first woman ever authorized to perform marriage ceremonies. The Rev. Mrs. Rinkle made application to the probate judge of Wayne county a short time since for a license to perform marriages. The judge refused to grant it until he had consulted the AttorneyGeneral of the State. That official refused to give an opinion, and the judge, being unable to find any law prohibiting the issuing of a license, proceeded to grant one. Mrs. Rinkle will tie her first nuptial knot within a few days. A Brownsville (Maine) special says: Those gray caterpillars which stopped atrain on the Canadian Pacific’s new line in the wilderness Sunday, are still dome; business at the old stand. It is impossible to run trains on a regular schedule, and in announcing their train service the Canadian Pacific managers have to put in the clause “caterpillars permitting.” Every train is delayed from two to five hours. Two hundred men have been hired to spread out over the line and fight the little greasers. In the meantime scientists cheer tne railroad men by telling them that in a few days the caterpillars will develop into beautiful winged things and fly away. The first freight train run over a new branch of the Canadian Pacific in Maine Tuesday was blockaded for hours by an army of gray caterpillars,which swarmed upon the tracks on a slight grade. The wheels of the locomotive erushed the caterpillar, thus greasing the rails. Sand was used to no purpose. A hundred railroad laborers with alder brushes tried to sweep them from the tracks, but the supply was inexhaustible. Mosquitoes in swarms set the men to swearing and brandishing the brushes about their heads. The freight train finally made a run of fifteen miles in ten hours. Railroad officials are hunting through the cyclopedias to find out when the caterpillars will move on and allow the trains to run over the new road. FOREIGN. Queen Victoria was 70 years old on the 24th. One hundred people were drowned in a flood at Vienna. "Whitelaw Reid presented his credentials to President Carnot Tuesday. The striking miners in the Kladno district of Bohemia now number 17,000. Seventeen anarchists are said to have been arrested at Milan, Wednesday, for inciting tumults at Gallarat. Eliza Duxbury, London, a leading member of Wesley Church and astrong Conservative, who died recently, has left in her will SIO,OOO to Mr. Parhell for his private use. Thirt y people perished by the collision, Tuesday, off Goodwin Sands, between the English steamships German Emperor, from London to Balbora, and the Beresford, from Hartlepool to Brubay. Humphrey Keller, seventy years of age, was found dead outside* of his shanty near Rapid River, Rainy river district, in Manitoba. When discovered by tne neighbors a large dog was found standing guard over his body. It is stated that in the Samoan conference Germany claimed indemnity for losses caused by Mataafa, and the American commissioners disputed the claim, averring that Mataafa had acted in self defense, and the natives were too f oor to pay indemnity. Forty-five persons lost their lives through the floods in Bohemia. The details of the floods in Bohemia, now coming in, confirm the worst reports hitherto received. The country in the vicinity of Pilsen is one vast lake, and the crops are hopelessly ruined. Thousands of persons are thus reduced to the verge of starvation, and many must die if help is not immediately forthcoming. A serious hitch has occurred in the negotiations between the commissioners to the conference on Samoan affairs. The United States Government insists that Malietoa be restored as King. This is the chief point at issue. The German Government is reluctant to agree to that proposition. Its representatives Stint out that Germany has pardoned alietoa and declare that they think that is the best their Government can do as far as he is concerned. The work of evicting tenants was continued on the Olphert estate Friday. The evictors met with a desperate resistance. During the struggle Inspector Duff was badly wounded. The tenants had erected barricades around their homes, and from behind these defenses they hurled stones and other missiles at the attacking party. Boiling water was also thrown upon the evictors, and a number of policemen and bailiffs were badlJT scalded. The police arrested fourteen persons. An immense crowd of sympathizers with the tenants had gathered at the scene of the evictions, and when Mr. Ritchie, the agent for the estate, appeared on the ground he was vigorously hooted. The attitude of the crowd finally became so threatening that Mr. Ritchie, fearing personal Violence, hastily took his departure. The chiefs in the last Zulu revolt have been tried by the British Government and sentenced with a severity which is denounced by the entire press. After the departure of Cetywayo, his son, Diniznlu, who succeeded him, being stopped in his operations against his hereditary enemy, Usibepu, drifted into hostilities with the English, and soon, upon the advice of Bishop Colenso and his daughter, surrendered himself to the Cape authorities. He has now been sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment. Hfe uncle, Undabuko, is sent up for fifteen years, and another ringleader, Tshingand, for twelve years. The London press almost unanimously asks for abatement of the sentences.

PLUNGED IN THE D. TCH.

A SINFUL WORLD AfD A PLAN jpv purification. The Soul Cannot be Cleansed by Apologies, Nor by the Belief that Your Sins Might Be Worse —Grace Weeded: Rev. Dr. Talmage preached at the Brooklyn tabernacle last Sunday. Text Job ix., 30 31. He said: I remark, in the first place, that some people try to cleanse theif 'soul of sin in the snow water of fine apologies. Here is one man who says: “I am a sinner; I confess that; but I inherited this. My father was a sinner, my grandfather,my great-great-grandfather, and all the way back to Adam, and I couldn’t help myself,” My brother, have you not, every day in your life, added something to the original state of sin that was ed to you? Are you not brave enough to confess that you have sometimes surrendered to sin which ydfl ought to have conquered? I ask you whether it is fair play to put upon our ancestry things for which we ourselves are personally responsible?!!your nature was askew when you got it, have you not sometimes given it an additional twist? Will all tne tombstones of those who have preceded us make a barricade high enough for eternal defenses? I know a devout man who had blasphemous parentage. I know an Honest man whose father was a thief. I know a pure man whose mother was a waif of the street. The hereditary tide may be very strong, but there is such a thing as stemming it. The fact that I have a corrupt nature is no reason why I should yield to it. Tne deep stains o four soul can never be washed out by the snow water of such insufficient apology. Still further, says some’" one, “If I have gone into sin it has been through my companions, my comrades and associates; they ruined me. They taught me to drink. They took ma to the gambling hell. They plunged me into the house of sin. They ruined my soul.” I do not believe it. God gave to no one the power to destroy you or me. If a man is destroyed, he is self-destroyed, and that is always so. Why did you not break away from them? If they had tried to steal your purse you would have knocked them down. If they had tried to purloin your gold watch you would have riddled them with shot, but when they triedtosteal yourimmorta! soul you placidly submitted to it. Those bad fellows have a cup of fire to drink; do not pour your cup into it. In this matter ofthe soul, every man for himself. That those persons are not fully responsible for your sin I prove by the lact that you still consort with them. You cannot get off by blaming them. Though you gather up all these apologies; though they were a great flood of them; though they should come down with the force of melting snows irom Lebanon, they could not wash out one stain of your immortal soul. Still further, some persons apologize for their sins by saying. “We are a ?eat deal better than some people, ou see people all around about us that are a great deal-worse than we.” You stand up columnar in your integrity ana look down upon those who are prostrate in their habits and crimes. What of that, my brother? If I failed through recklessness and wicked imprudence for $10,01)0, is the matter alleviated at all by the fact that somebody else has failed for SIOO,OOO, and somebody else for $700,000? Oh, no. I! I have the neuralgia, shall I refuse medical attendance because my neighbor has virulent typhoid fever? The fact that his disease is worse than mine—does that cure mine? If I, through mjr foolhardiness, leap off into ruin, does it break the fall to know that others leap off a higher cliff into deeper darkness? When the Hudson River rail train went through the bridge at Spuyten Duyvil, did it alleviate the matter at all that, instead of two or three people being hurt, there were seventy-five mangled and crushed? Because others are depraved, is that any excuse for my depravity? Am I better than they? Perhaps they had worse temptations than I have had. Perhaps their surroundings in life were more overpowering. Perhaps, oh, man, if you had been under the same stress of temptation, instead of sitting here to-day you would have been looking through the bark* of a penitentiary, Perhaps, oh, woman, if you had been under the same power of temptation, instead of sitting here today vou would be tramping the street, the laughing-stock of men and the grief of the angels of God, dungeoned, body, mind and soul in the blackness of despair. Ab, do not let us solace ourselves with the thought that other people are worse than we. Perhaps in the. future, when our fortunes may change, unless God prevents it, we may be worse than they are. Many a man after thirty years, after forty years, after fifty years, after sixty years, has gone to pieces on the sand bars. Ohl instead of , wasting our time in hypercriticfem about others, let us ask ourselves the questions, where do we stand? What are our sins? What are our deficits? What are our perils? What are our hopes? Let each one say to himself: “Where will I be? Shall I range in summery fields, or grind in the mills of a great night? Where? Where?” Some winter morning you go out and see a snow-bank in graceful drifts, as though by some heavenly compass it had been curved; and as the sun glints it the luster is almost insufferable, and seems as if God had wrapped the earth in a shroud with white plaits woven in looms celestial. And you say; “Was there ever anything so pure as the snow, so beautiful as the snow?” But you brought a pail of that snow and pat it upon the stove and melted it; and you found that there was a sediment at the bottom, and every drop of that snow water was riled; and you found that the snow-bank had gathered up the impurity of the field, and that after all it was not fit to wash in. And so I say it will be if you try to gather nn these contrasts and comparisons with others, and with these apologies attempt to wash out the sins of your heart and life. It will be an unsuccessful ablution. Such snowwater will never wash away a single stain of an immortal soul. But I hear some one say; “I will try something better than that I will try the force of a good resolution. That will be more pungent, more caustic, more extirpating, more cleansing. The snow-water has failed, and now I will try the alkali of the good, strong resolution. My dear brother, have yon

any idea that a resolution about the fixture will liquidate the past? Suppose I owed you $5,0)0 and I should come to, you tomorrow and pay: “Sir, I will never run in debt to you again; if I should live thirty years, I will never run in debt to you azain;” will you turn tome and say: “If you will not run in the $5,000.” Will’you do that? No! Nor will God. We have been running up a long score of indebtedness with God. If in the future we should abstain from sin, that would be no defrayment of past indebtedness. Though ®you should live from this time forth pure as an archangel before the throne, that would not redeem the past God, in the Bible, distinctly declares that He “will require that which is past”—past opportunities, past neglects, past wicked words, past impure imaginations, past everything. The past is a great cemetery, and every day is buried in it And here is a long row of three hundred and sixty-five graves. They are the dead days of 1888. Here is a long row of three hundred and sixty-five more graves, and they are the dead days of 1887. And here fe a long row of three hundred and sixty-five more graves, and they are the dead days of 1886. It is a vast cemetery of the past. But God will raise them all up with re&urrectionary blast and as the prisoner stands face to face with juror and Judge, so you and I will have to come up and look upon these departed days face to face, exulting in their smile or cowering in their frown. “Marder will out” fe a proverb that stops too short. Every sin, however small, as well as great, will out In hard times in England, years ago, it is authentically stated that a manufacturer was on the way, with a bag of money, to pay off his hands. A man infuriated with hunger met him on the road and took a rail with a nail in it from a paling fence and struck him down. Thirty years after the murderer went back to that place. He passed into the grave yard, where the sexton was digging a grave, and while he stood there the spade of the sexton turned up a skull, and, lo! “the murderer saw a nail protruding from the back part of the skull; and as the sexton turned the skull, it seemed with hollow eyes to glare on the murderer; and he, first petrified with horror, stood in silence, but soon cried out, “Guiity! guilty! O, God!” The mystery of the crime was over. The man was tried and executed. My friends, all the unpardoned sins of our lives, though we may think they are buried out of sight and gone into a mere skeleton of memory, will turn up in the cemetery of the past, and glower upon us with their misdoings. I say all opr unpardoned sins. Oh, have you done the preposterous thing of supposing that good resolutions for the future will wipe out the past? Good resolutions, though pungent and caustic as alkali, have no power to neutralize a sin, have no power to wash away a transgression. It wants something more than earthly chemistry to do this. Yea, yea, though “I wash myself with snow water, and should I cleanse my hands in alkali, yet shalt Thon plung me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor _ You see from the last part of this text that Job’s idea of sin was very different from that of Eugene Sue, or George Sand, or M. 8. Michelet, or any of the hundreds of writers who have done up iniquity in mezzotint, and garlanded the wine cup with eglantine and rosemary, and made the path of the libertine end in bowers of ease instead of on the het flagging of eternal torture. You see that Job thinks that sin is not a flowery parterre; that it is not a tableland of fine prospects; that it fe not music, dulcimer, violoncello, castanet and Pandean pipes, all making music together. No. He says it is a ditch, long, deep, loathsome, stenchful, ana we are all plunged into it, and there we wallow and sink and struggle, not able to get out. Our robes of propriety and robes of worldly profession are saturated in the slime and abomination, and our soul, covered over with transgression, hates its covering; and the covering hates the soul until we are plunged into the ditch, and our own clothes abhor us. - I know that some modern religionists j carricature sorrow for sin, and they* make out an easier path than the “pilgrim’s progress” that John Bunyan dreamed of. The road they travel does not stop where John’s did, at the City of Destruction, but at the gate of the university; and I am very certain that it will hot come out where John’s did, under the shining ramparts of the celestial city. No repentance, no pardon. If yon do not, my brother, feel that you are down in the ditch, what do you want of Christ to lift yen out? If you have no appreciation of the fact that you are astray, what dtyyou want of Him who came to seek and save that which was lost? Yonder is the City of Paris, the swiftest of the Inmans,* coming across the Atlantic. The wind fe abaft, so that she has not only her engines at work, but all sails up. I am on board the Umbria, of the Canard Line, The boatdavits are swung around. The boat fe lowbred. I get into it with a red flag and cross over to where the City of Paris fe coming and wave the red flag. The captain looks off from the bridge and says: “What do you want?” I reply: “I come to take some of your passengers across to the other vessel: I think they will be safer and happier there.” The captain would look down in indignation and say: “Get out of the way or I will run von down.” And then I would back oars amid the jeering of two or three hundred people looking oyer the taffrail. But the Umbria and City of Paris meet under different circumstances after a while. The City of Paris fe coming out of a cyclone; the life-boats are smashed; the bulwarks gone; the vessel rapidly going down. The boatswain gives hfe last whistle of despairing command. The passengers run up and down the deck, and some pray, and,all make a great outcry. The captain says: “You have about fifteen minutesjnow to prepare for the next , world.” “No hope!” sounds trom stern to stern and from the rat lines down to the cabin. I see the distress. lam let down by the side of the Umbria. I push on as fast as I can toward the sinking city pt Paris. Before I come up people are leaping into the water in their anxiety to get to the boat, and when I have swnpg up under the side of the City ot Paris the frenzied passengers rash through the gangway until the officers, with ax and clubs and pistols, trv to keep back the crowd, each wanting his turn to come next. There fe but one life-boat and they all want to get into it, and the cry is: “Me next!” “me nextl” You see the application before I make it As long as a

xaan going in hfe sin feels that all is well, that he fe coming ontata beautiful port, and has all sail set, he wants no Christ, he wants no help, he wants no rescue; but if under the flash of God's convictingspirit he ehall see that -by reason of sin he fe dismasted and water logged, and going down into the trough »ea wbere be caBBOt live, hew - soon he puts thesea-glass to his eye and sweeps the horizon, and attire first sight of help cries out: “I want to be saved. I want to be saved now. 1 want to be saved forever.” No sense of danger, no application for rescue. Oh,-that God’s eternal spirit would flash Upon us a sense of our sinfulnest! The Bible tells the story in letters vs a fire, but we get used to it, We joke about sin. We make merry over it. What is sin? Is it a trifling thing? Sin Is a vampire that fe sucking out the lite blood of your immortal nature. Sin? It is a bastile that no earthly key ever unlocked. Sin? It fe expatriation from God and Heaven. Sin? It is grand larceny against the Almighty, for tho Bible asks the question: “Will a man rob God?” answering it in the affirmarive. This Gospel is a writ of replevin to recover property unlawfully detained from God. ■•— In the Shetland Islands there is a man with leprosy. The hollow of the foot has swollen until it fe flat on the ground. The joints begin to fall away. The ankle thickens until it looks like the foot of a w ild beast.- A stare unnatural comes to the eye. The nostril fe constricted. The voice drops to an almost inaudible hoarseness. Tubercles blotch the whole body, and from them there comes an exudation that fe unbearable to the beholder. That is leprosy, and we have all got it unless cleansed by the grace of God. See Leviticus. See II Kings. See Mark. See Luke. See fifty Bi ole allusions and confirmations. The Bible fe not complimentary in its language. It does not speak mincingly about our sins. It does not talk apologetically. There is no vermilion in its style. It does not cover up our transgressions with blooming metaphor. It does not sing about them in weak falsetto; but it thunders out: “The imagination of man’s heart is evil from his' youth.” “Every one has gone back. He has altogether become filthy. - He fe abominable and filthy, and drinketh in iniquity like water.” . And then the Lord Jesus Christ flings down at our feet this humiliating catalogue: “Out of the heart of men proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornication, murders, thefts, blashemy.” There fe a text for your rationalists to preach from. —Oh, the dignity of human nature! There is au element of your science of man that the authropologfet never has had the courage yet to touch; and the Bible, in all the ins and outs of the most forceful style, sets forth our natural pollution, and represents iniquity as a frightful thing, as an exhausting thing, as a loathesome thing. It is not a mere bemiring of the feet, it fe not a mere befouling of the hands; it is going down, head and ears under, in a ditch, until our clothes abhor us. My brethren, shall we stav down where sin has thrust us? I shall not, if you do. We can not afford to. T have to day to tell you that there is something purer than snowwater, something more pungent than alkali, and that fe the blood of Jesus Christ that cleanseth from all sin. Ay, the river of salvation, bright, cry. tailine and heaven born, rnsqes thieugh this audience with a bil owy tide strong enough to wash your sins completely and forever away. Uh, Jesus, let the dam that holds ’it back now break, and the floods of sal va tion roll over us. Let us get down on both kneee and ba he in tD<it flood of merev, Ay strike out with both hands and try to swim to the other shore of this river of God’s grace. To you is the word of this salvation sent. Take this largess of the divine bounty. Though you havegone down in the deepest ditch of libidinous desire and corrupt behavior, though you have sworn all blasphemies until there is not one sinful word left for you to speak,though you have been submerged by the transgressions of a lifetime, though you are so far down in your sin that no earthly help can touch your case the Lord Jesus Christ bends over you to-day and offers you Hfe right hand, proposing to lift you up. first making you whiter than snow, and then t 0, 1 J lg ,? rrout o . t 0 B lorieß that never die. ‘Billy, eaid a Christian bootblack to another, “when we come op to Heaven it won t make anv difference that we’ve been bootblacks here, for we shall get in, not somehow or other, but Billy We shall get in straight through the gate.” Oh, if you only knew how full and free and tender fe the effort of Chnst this day, you would all take Him without one single and if all the doors of this bouse were locked save one, and you were compelled to make egress by only one door, and I stood there and questioned you, and the Gospel of Christ had made the right impression upon your heart to-day, you would answer me as you went out, one and all: “Jesus is mine and I am His!” Oh that this might be the hour when you would receive Him! It is not a Gospel merely for footpads and vagrants and buccaneers, it is for the highly polished and the educated and refined as well. “Except a man be born again, he can not see the kingdom of God.” Whatever may be your associations, and whatever your worldly refinements I must tell you, as before God I expect to answer in the last day, that if you are not changed by the grace of God, you are still down in the ditch of sin, in the ditch of sorrow, in the ditch of condemnation; a ditch that empties into a deeper ditch, the ditch of the lost. But blessed be God for the lifting, Cleansing, lustrating power of His Gospel Central Asia, and more particularly Central Western Asia, has undergone a revolution during the past quarter of a century. Railroads are being built and telegraph lines connect all important towns. Reads are being macadamized and European costumes and customs are adopted. Education, especially,' fe fostered where it was unknown; and there are ten times the schools there were, besides colleges established by (•feigners. Religious freedom fe quite general in the place of bitter fanaticism; and all clauses are waking up to new intellectual and moral life. The lower classr-s look up. Asia, at the present I rate Of progress, will be regenerated during tl.e twentieth century to colooerate with Europe and America.

WRECKED BY ROBBERS.

Cars Throws P<nr»u ■■ yrt Piuaenger K'capea V injured. The west-bound passenger train on •he St. Louis end San Francisco railroad was wrecked three miles werfMJglJjv r u j i Ji t jt m»uy n passenger escaped unhurt, and farryfive are kndxn to ha\e teen seriously injured, though no deaths are yet reported. "The train was running at a high rate of speed , when suddenly , and without warning, the track gave way and the locomotive, baggage-car and five coaches went over the embankment. The train men and the only slightly injured at once set to work to prevent he additional horror of fire, in which they succeeded, and then turned their attention to the more unfortunately injured, and in a very short time forty-five passengers, all badly hurt, had been released irom the debris. A temporary hospital was improvised at Sullivan and the most seriously injured were taken there while others were taken to St. Louis on the relief train which was hurried to the scene of the disaster. When the accident occurred the train was traveling at a high rate of speed, and most of the passengers had already gone to sleep, while the few remaining awake were about to do so. There is a curve in the road about three miles west of Suhivan, and when this point was reached a sudden jolt and jar was felt all over the train. Everybody felt it, and the people in the rear cars could hear the forward coaches rattling and rumbling over the ties and the crashing noise of cars being demolished. A creek is crossed by the road at that point, and there is a steep embankment, thirty feet high. Moet of the passengers thought the train was going through the bridge, and a feeling of honor chilled their bleod. In an instant all the coaches, except the two sleeping cars had bten thrown from the rails. People were thrown about in the cars in all directions, and some of them were thrown from the coaches and down the embankment. One man, Walter Davidson, who travels for the Westinghouse air brake, was thrown right out of a window on the Opposite siae of the coach from which he was sitting, and sent rolling down the embankment to the edge of the creek. His feet were in the water. Another passenger on the same coach was thrown from the rear end, and in fact men, women and children were thrown ' about promiscuously. The train was made up of a mail car and express car, a baggage car, a smoker, a ladies’ coach, a reclining chair car and two Pullman sleepers. Back of these sleepers were hitched five empty coaches of the San Antonio & Arkansas Pass road, which bad been picked up at some way station. The front truck of first sleeper jumped the track, but the rest of the car remained on and the rear sleeper and empty coaches behind it never left the track. Fortunately there were no fires in any of the cars, and the jolt extinguished the lights immediately. Otherwise a conflagration would have been and there fe no telling how many lives might have been lost. As it was, most of the forward cars were smashed into smithereens and the debris thrown on both sides of the track. It was the worst wreck that- occurred in this section for a long time. The explanation given of it by the train men to the passengers was that the spikes and fish plates bad been removed from the rail at the curve, thus leaving the rail loose on the ties. The forward portion of the locomotive passed the place all right, but the tender jumped the track, and was thrown part of the way down the embankment. It probably would have gone the entire distance had not the forward end held it up. Whoever moved the spikes and plates fe not known, but the supposition is the work was done by train robbers who wanted to hold up the train. Btill, no robbers put in an appearance, and if the accident was caused by them they must have either weakened in thei purpose or throwfi the wrong train, and were not prepared to do their werk at that time. The road officials claim it is a clear case of train wrecking. On the train was a large body of physicians returning from Springfield, where the State medical convention is being held, and they rendered valuable assistance in caring for the injured. Among the latter was Dr. Russell, mentioned in the official report, who received very serious hurts. He had both ears taken off and was otherwise injured, bo badly that he could not be brought home and is new at Bollivan. A weapon fe anything that cap serve to wound; and sentiments are perhans the most cruel weapons man can employ to wound hfe fellow man.—Balzac.

BASE BALL.

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THE MARKETS.

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