Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1893 — DIVINE SCIENCE [ARTICLE]

DIVINE SCIENCE

The Mexican silver dollar contains more silver than the standard United States coin of that denomination. This does not increase its value in the least as a medium of exctenge, the coin having been quoted on the New York market at 58 cents far some time pa&L 'Glass brick arc made in numerous colors "‘without straw” in this Columbian year, and are said to be so cheap that they can be profitably used fora variety of purposes. They possess the very great advantage of being water-proof 'and practically indestructible. Police.max Perkins of New York, has achieved notoriety—if not greatness and fame —by arresting his own wife and escorting her to the station house.. His gentle sjxnise had attacked him with a- knife on his leaving home to report for night duty, and afterwards followed him to his post and assaulted him with an umbrella. The infuriated Amazon weighed 225 pounds and her beloved husband found it necessary to. blow for assistance to take her to the lockup. __________ Stories come from, Berlin that Kaiser Wilmhelm is given to nocturnal promenades about the capital in disguise. He arrays himself iu some outlandish toggery and strolls about the poorer quarters of the city, mShgles with the crowds and talks with the loungers in the beer lialls. He is anxious to hear what the common people will say about him. He craves popularity, it is said, more than any sovereign of Europe. This is all well enough for a young man like the Kaiser, but our Grover at present would have some difficulty in carrying out such an idea. A man of such proportions could hardly be disguised. The unanimity with which the officers of the British fleqt in the Mediterranean lay the blame upon Admiral Tryon for the sinking of the Victoria is a sad commentary upon the fleeting character'of fame. Admiral Tryon had~the ■ reputation of being the most accomplished officer in the British navy, and that fie erred in an order that cost him his own life, together xyith the Jives of hundreds of his brayte Seamen, Seems improbable, although it may be possible. The abuse and censure that has been indulged in against a map of such spotless reputation and phenomenal talents, now that he is dead and unable to defend himself, is not complimentary to the generosity and manliness of the officials of the British fleet. It is safe to malign a man when he is dead. 4 «r— ■ .■? The mythical Mrs. Topdies has materialized ip the person of one Mrs. Kleihberg, of New York, who has a mania for collecting pots, pans, kettles, dishes, and every other article of kitchen furniture which she can buy at a bargain. Peddlers find a constant and reliable customer in Mrs. Kleinberg, and the auction rooms are drawn upon to satisfy her cravings for useless utensils. Mr. Kleinberg recently gave nis wife money to buy household necessities and take the children on a little excursion, but the dear woman bought six dozen plates instead, and added largely to her assortment of pans and covers. Kleinberg, starving and desperate, recently began to smash up the household gods of his loving ‘"helpmeet,” but she swore out a warrant for his arrest and “held the fort”. Electricity is now applied to a new war machine that will lay the galling gun in piles of old iron if reports of its deadly capabilities are sustained by further trials. Mr. Turpin is the inventor, " and his device can be worked by four men on ships, and can be transported by two horses when used in the field. It can discharge 25,000 missills of death at intervals of fif.een minutes, in every direction or angle desired. Ordinary ships and fishing boats, armed with this machine, become valuable for offence or defence without any alternation or important change in their equipment. It is even claimed that the projectiles will pierce the heaviest armor now in use. The inventor hopes to present his perfected plans to the French Ministry in a short time, and has not patented the idea, as he fears that other mechanics will seize upon the invention and patent it in ,other countries before he has had an atojooramity th protect his rights. of Creede, Colo., recentfcabeld a masg-meetwig and

ing their loyalty to the Republic but demanded a new deal all around. They want a Department of the West and a Department of the East, each with a separate President add Congress. Thej’ consider that th 4 financial interests of the two sections are ofsuch an antagonistic nature that legislation by a composite body drawn from the opposing sections . must necessarily result in an injury to one or both. There was a body of talented men something over thirty years ago who became infatuated with the same idea and staked their lives and fortunes in an effort to give practical effect to their views. The result was very disastrous to the conspirators and a vast amount of damage was done on both sides, as many ean testify. The Colorado secesssion idea is in the sapiedine but cap hardly {have the same disastrous effects upon the country at large.* Modern methods of architectural construction, especially in large buildings, possess great advantages from an economical point of view, although in many cases robbing the structures of 1 the impressiveness that old-time idea*; gave to lofty edifices by way Of ponderous foundations and lower walls of stone work of tremendous weight and thickness. This change in builder's ideas has Terentiy been of very valuable advantage to Mr. W. D. Manice, of New York, who for years has owned a piece of ground 16 feet 3 inches by 56 feet 5 inches at the corner of Pine and William street in that city. The owner was disposed to sell the lot, as its size seemed to prohibit the construction of a building that would be at all profitable in so valuable a location, but adjoining property hdlders thinking the same—refused to make any adequate offer. Accordingly Mr. Maniee let the contract for an eleven-story office building,' now nearly completed, that will tower above the sidewalk 135 feet, being the tallest building on the narrowest lot in the world. The lower walls are but 20 inches in thickness, tapering to six inches at the top, yet by means of iron and steel girders and beams the safety and solidity of the building is insured. The metal skeleton is completely hidden by brick work. The apartments are roomy, light and airy, and easj’ access is had to them by means of an electric elevator. .The building is fitted with all modern conveniences, and will prove a profitable investment for its owner. Just as we expected, Carlisle Harris, the electrocuted murderer, has been located in the “glorious hence.” A down east medium gives to the world the impressions of that versatile young man on various subjects. Carlisle made the trip with out any misadventure and went by the sleeping car route. At least he awoke to consciousness and in the full possession of his liberty and faculties after what seemed to him a brief nap* and speedily got his bearings by the aid of two companions—Rbhle and’PaHister, the murderers who escaped from Sing Sing, and whose bodies were found in the Hudson. Curiously enough, the medium is silent on the important point of the manner of their death, and does not attempt to clear up that mystery. Harris, however, made a complete statement. He avers that he was not injured in the least by’ the electrocution, and felt no pain whatever. He has not seen Helen Potts and will not, as he has no desire to see her, and disembod- , ied spirits, so, he says, have the power to repel all other spirits . whose company is not desirable. Communication with the Great Beyond is being rapidly opened up.and it would seem from these heavenly interviews, that have of late been cast upon the credulous and patient public,’ that a reliable line of intercommunication will soon be established. Whether this is a desirable consummation or not, is not for us to determine. We must accept the facts (?) as they are given to us by these superior and supersensitive agents of an occult power denied to the common herd. In the meantime the World’s Fair is going on. the price of wheat is very low, the silver question is up for adjustment, and the. teeming millions seem more than ever intent on the pursuit of the omnipotent dollar and are more than ever indifferent to these vapid emanations from mediums and dreamers, who, in many cases are doubtless sincere, but are so compassed about with fraud and trickery that it is not given to the average I mind the ability to discern the truth —to separate the genuine wheat from the ocean of chaff in which it is engulfed. if Wss the fire caused by incendiaries or ” “Well—-er —just mention some of the otter nations tha to are on U*». *W****wMj

Talmage Regrets That He Is Not a Blacksmith. Tbe Modern Chnrch Should Avail Itself of Modern Progress in the Arts and Seduces Dr. Talmage preached at Monona Lake, near Madison. Wis.. Sunday. Subject—“ Sharpened Axes. 1 Text—- “ Now there was no smith nd through all the land of Israel.” He said: My loving and glad salutation to this uncounted host. Chautauquans. Christian Endeavorers, gospel work 1 ers and their friends from all parts of Wisconsin and 'America, saints and sinners! My text is gloriously appropriate. What a galling subjugation the Israeliees were suffering! The Philistines had carried off all the blacksmiths and torn down all the blacksmith shops and abolished the blacksmith’s trade in the land of Israel. These Philistines had a particular grudge against blacksmiths, although 1 have always admired them find have sometimes thought I ought to have been one myself. The Philistines would not even allow these parties to work their valuable mines of brass and iron, nor iplght they make any swords or : spears. There were only two swords left in all the land. Yea. these Phil- | istines went on until they had taken ; all the grindstones from the land of Israel, so that if an Israelitish farmi er wanted to sharpen his plow or ax ; he had to go over to the garrison of j the Philistines to get it done. There ; was only one sharpening instrument left in the land, and that was a file. The farmers and mechanics having nothing to whet up the colter and ; the goad and the pickax save a simple file, industry was hindered and work practically disgraced. I learn first from this subject how dangerous it is for the church of God to allow its weapons to stay in the hands of its enemies. These Israelites might again have obtained a supply of swords and weapons, as, for instance, when they took the spoils of the Ammonites? but these Israelites seemed'content to have no swords, no spears, no blacksmiths, no grindstones, no active iron mines, until it was too late for them to make any resistance. So it is in the church of Christ to-day. We are all too willing to give up our weapons to the enemy. The world boasts that it has gobbled up the schools and the colleges, and the arts and the sciences, and the literature and the printing press. Infidelity is making a mighty attempt to get all our weapons in its hand, and then to keep them. We want to send out against Schenkel and Strauss and g'enaq of the past men like the , late Theodore Ghristlieb of Bonn and against tbe infidel scientists a God-worshiping Silliman and. Hitchcock and Agassiz. We want to capture all the philosophical apparatus and swing around the telescopes on the swivel until through them we can see the morning star as the Redeemer, and with mineralogical hammer discover the “Rock of Ages,” and amid the flora of the realms find the “Rose of Sharon and the Lily of the Valley.” And we want some one able to expound the first chapter of Genesis, bringing to it the geology and astronomv of the world until, as Job suggested, “the stones of the field shall be in league” with-the truth and “the stars in their courses shall fight against Sisera.” Oh church of God, go,out and recapture these weapons. Let men of God go out and take possession of the platform. Again, I learn from this subject what a large amount of the church’s resources is actually hidden and buried and undeveloped. The bible intimates that that was a very rich land, this land of Israel. It says. “The stones are iron, and out of the hills thou shalt dig brass,” and yet hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of this metal was kept under the hills. Well, that is the difftqul■ty with the church of God at this day. Its talent is not developed. If one-half of its energy could be brought out, it might take the public iniquities of the day by the throat and make them bite the dust. If human eloquence were consecrated to the Lord Jesus Christ;, it could in a few years pursuade this whole earth to surrender to God. Again, I learn from this subject that we sometimes do well to take advantage of the world’s sharpening instruments. These Israelites were reduced to a file, and so they went over to the garrison of the' Philistines to get their axes and their goads and their plows sharpened. The Bible distinctly states in the context that they had no other instruments now with which to do this work, and the Israelites did right when they went over to the Philistines to use their grindstones. My friends, is it not right for us to employ the world’s grindstones? If there be art, if there be logic, if there be business faculty on the other side, let us go over and employ it for Christ’s sake. That was what made Paul such a master in his day. He not only got all the learning he could get of Dr. Gamaliel, but afterward, standing'on Mars Hill and in a crowded thoroughfare, quoted their poetry, and grasped their logic, and wielded their eloquence, and employed their mythology until Dionysius, the Areopagite, learned in the schools of Athena and Heliopolis, went down under bis tremendous powers. That was what gave to Jonathan Edwards his in-

lit into the service of God until not only the old meeting ' house in Northampton, Mass., but all Christendom felt thrilled, by his Christian power. Again, my subject teaches us on what a small allowance Philistine iniquity puts a man.. Yes, these Philistines shut up the mines, and then they took the spears and the swords, then they took the. blacksmiths, then they took the grindstones. and they took everything but a file. ’ Oh. that is the way sin works. It grabs everything. It begins with robbery. History tells us that when Rome was“ fbimded, on that dav there were twelve vultures flying through the air. but when a transgressor dies the sky is black with whole flocks of them. Vultures! When I see sin robbing so many people, and I see them going down day by day and week by week, I must give a plain warning. I dare not keep it back lest I risk the salvation of my own soul. Rover the pirate pulled down, the warning bell on Inchcape rock, thinking that he would have a chance to despoil vessels that were crushed on the rocks, but one night his own ship crashed down on this very rock, and he went down with all his cargo. God declares, “When I say to the wicked, thou shaft surely die, and thou givest him not warning, that same man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood will 1 require at" thy hands.” The church of God to-day wants more backbone, more defiance, more consecrated bravery, more metal. How often you see a man «tart out

in some good enterprise, and at the blast of newspaperdom he has collapsed and all his courage gone, forgetful of the fact that if a man be right all the newspapers of the earth, with all their columns pounding away at him, cannot do him any permanent damage. It is only when a man is wrong that he can be damaged; God is going to vindicate his truth and he is going-to stand by you, my.friends, in every effort you make for Christ’s cause and the salvation of men. We want something of the determination of ? the. general who went in to the war, and as he entered his first battle his knees knocked together. his physical courage not quite up to his moral courage, and he looked down at his knees and said: “Ah, if you knew where I was going to take you, you would shake worse than that!” There is only one question for you to ask and for me to ask. What does God want me todo? Where is die field? Where is the work? Where is the anvil? Where is the prayer meeting? Where is the pulpit? And finding out what God wants us to do, go ahead and do it —all the energies of our body, mind and soul enlisted in the undertaking. we have but littletime in which to fight for God. You will be dead soon. Put in the Christian cause every energy that God gives you. “W T hat thy hand findeth to do, do it with all thy might, for there is neither wisdom , nor device in the grave whither we are all hastening.” Oh, is it not high time that we waked out of our sleep? Church of God, lift up your head at the coming victory! The Philistines will go down and the Israelites will go up. We are on the winning side. Hear that—on the winning side. I think just now the king’s horses are being hooked up to the chariot, and when he does ride down the sky there will be such a hosanna among his friends and such a wailing among his enemies as will make the earth tremble and ’the heavens sing. I see how the plumes of the Lord’s cavalrymen tossing in the air. The archangel before the throne has already burnished his trumpet, and then he will put its golden lips to his own and he will blow the long, loud blast that will make all nations free. Clap your hands, all ye people? Hark! I hear the falling thrones and the dashing down of demolished, iniquities.