Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1893 — Page 3

A ROYAL DRUNK.

Thirty-Throe Intoxicated Kings In One TentSciontlsfs Disagree lu Tlteir Attack* on the Christian Kcllglun—Dr. Taliuage’s Sermon. Rev. Dr. Tat mage -preached at Brooklyn, last Sunday. Subject: “The Battle Ours.” Text: I Kings xx, 27.—“ And the children of Israel pitched before them like two flocks of kids.” : * | With thirty-three kinT's druhk tn one tent this chapter opens. They were allies plotting for the overthrow of the Lord's Israel. You know that if a lion roar a flock of kids will shiver and huddle together. One lion could conquer a thousand kids. The battle opens. There are a great multitude of Syrians under Gen. Ben-hadad, strong as lions. The Israelites ai‘e few and weak,

like two little flocks of kids. Who beat? The lion, of course. Oh, no; the kids, for it ail depends whether <plod is on the side of the lion or the kids. After the battle 100,U00 Syrians lay dead on the field, and 27,000 Attempting to fly, came along by a great wall, which toppled and •crushed them to death. Which was the stronger weapon--great Goliath's sword or little David’s sling? David had five smooth stones from the brook. He only used one in striking down Goliath. ‘He had a surplus of ammunition; he had enough to take down four more giants if they had appeared in the way. It all depends upon whether God is on the side of the shepherd bov or on the side of the giant. fgo through the court rooms of the country. Wherever I find a judge’s bench or a clerk’s desk I find a bible. By what other book would they take solemn oath? What is very apt to be among the bride’s presents? The bible. What is very apt to.be put in the trunk of the young man when he starts for city life? The bible. Voltaire predicted that the bible during the nineteenth

century would become an obsolete book. Well, we are pretty near through the nineteenth century; the bible is not obsolete yet. There is not much prospect of its becoming obsolete, but 1 have to tell you that that room —the very room in which Voltaire wrote that prediction—some time ago was crowded from the floor to the ceiling with biblcs for Switzerland. Suppose the Congress of the United States t should pass a law that no bibles should be printed in the United States. If there are thirty million grown men and women in the country then there would be thirty million people armed against sueh a law. But suppose the Congress of the United States should pass a law that Maoauley’s history or Charles Readers novels should not be read. Could you get half as large an army or the fourth of as large an army? “But,” say those who areantagon-, stic, is falling back from the fact that the church is not as much respected as it used to be and is notas influential." I reply toothat with the statistic that one denomination —the methodist church—-ac-

cording to a statistic given me by ane of their bishops, dedicates on an average a new church every Hay of the year. Three hundred and sixty-five new churches in one denomination in a year, and over a thousand now Churches built every year in this country. Does that look as though the church were failing in its power and were becoming a worn-out institution? Around which . institution in our communities gather the most ardent affections? —the postoffice, the hotel, the court house, the city hall or the churches? But our antagonists go on and say that Christianity is falling back, in the fatt that infidelity is bolder now and more blatant than it ever was. I deny the statement. Infidelity is not near so bold now as it was in the days of our fathers and grandfathers. There were times in this country when men who were openly and above board infidel and antagonistic to Christianity could be elected to high office. Now let -ome man wish a high position in the State proclaim himself the foe of Christianity and an infidel, how many States of the Union will he carry; how many counties; how many ovards in Brooklyn? Not one. Do you suppose such things could be enacted now as were enacted in the days of Robespierre, when a shameless woman was elected to be goddess, and she was carried on a golden chair to. a cathedral, and the people bowed down to her as to a divine being and burned incense before her—she to take the place of the Bible, and of Christianity, and of the Lord Almighty? And while that ceremony was going on in the cathedral, in the chapels and in the corridors adjoining the cathedral scenes of drunkenness and debauchery and obscenity were enacted such as the world had never seen. Could suph a thing as that transpire now?' No, sir. Tho police would swoop on it, whether in Paris or New York. Infidelity is not half as bold now as it used to be.

Do you suppose that this Bible theory about the origin of life is .going to be overthrown by inen who have different theories—fifty different theories about the origin of life? And when Agasaia comes out and puts both feet on the doctrine of evolution and says in regard to many scientists. “I notice that these young naturalists are adopting Os the theories in science things that have not passed under observation:" Agassiz taw what we *ll see—that there are

men who talk very wisely who know but very little, and that just as soon as a young scientist finds out the difference between the feelers of a wasp and the horns of a beetle he begins to patronize the Almighty and go about talking about culture as though if were spelled c-u-l-c-h-a-t culchar! It makes me Sick to see these literary fops going down the street with a copy of Darwin under one: arm and a case of transfixed grasshoppers and butterflies under the other arm, talking about the “survival of the fittest,” and Huxiey's “protoplasm,” and the “nebular hypothesis,” &nd talking to us common men as thmtgh we were fools. If they agreed in their theories and came solid front against Christianity, I say perhaps they might make some impression, but they do not agree. Darwin charges upon Lamarck, Wallace upon Cope. Herschel even charged upon Ferguson. They do not agree upon the gradation of the species; they do not agree upon embryology. What do they agree about? Even mathematicians do not agree. Taylor’s logarithms are found to have faults The French metric system has wrong calcula-. tions. Talk about exact sciences: Thev are inexact. As far as with

my little knowledge I have been able to explore the only exact science is Christianity. There is nothing under which you can so appropriately write, “Quad erat demonstrandum.” But ray subject shall no longer be defensive —.it must be aggressive. I must show you that instead of Christianity falling back it is on the march and that the coming religion of the world is to be the religion of the Lord Jesus Christ ten thousand times intensified. It is to take possession of everything—-of all laws, all manners, all customs, all nations. It is going to be so mighty compared with what it has been—so much more mighty—that it will seem almost like a new religion.

C!o back a few years when there was not a decent paper in the United States that had not a discussion on the doctrine pf eternal punishment. Small wits made merry. I know, but there was not an intelligent man in the United States that, as a result of the controversy in regard to eternal punishment, did not ask himself the question, “What is to be toy eternal destiny?’' And so some years ago, when Tyndall offered his prayer guage there was not a secular paper in the United States that did not discuss the ques tion, “Does God-cver answer prayer? May the creature impress the Creator?” Besides that, you must have noticed if you have talked on these great themes that they are finding out that while science is grand in secular directions, they can not give any comfort to a soul in trouble. Talking with men on steamboats

, and in rail cars, I find they are coming back to the comfort of the gospel. They sayu “Somehow human science doesn’t comfort me when I have any trouble, and I must try something else.” And they are trying the gospel. Take your scientific consolation to that mother who has just lost her child. Apply the doctrine of the “Survival of th§„ Fittest;” tell her that her child died because its life was not worth as much as the life of one that lived. Try that, if you dare. Go to that dying man with your transcendental phraseology and tell him he ought to have confidence in the great “to be,” and the everlasting “now.” and the eternal “what is it?” and go on with your consolation and see if he is comforted. Go to that woman who has lost her husbaud and tell her it was a geological necessity that that man passed out of existence just as the megatherium disappears in order to make room for a higher style of creation, and go on with your consolation and tell her that there is a possibility that 10,000,000 years irom now we ourselves may be geological specimens of the extinct human race! And after you have got all through with your consolation, if the poor afflicted soul is not utterly crazed, I will send out the plainest Christian from my church, and with one-half hour prayer and the reading of the scripture promises, the tears will be staid, and the consolation and the joy in that house will be like the calmness of an Indian summer sunset. There will be glory flooding the house from floor to cupola. Oh, people arc finding out themselves—and they all have troubles —they find that philosophy and science do not help when there is a dead babe in the house. They are coming back to our glorious old-fashioned sympathetic religion.

Traveled Incog.

New York \\ v cckly. First American—Have a good time abroad? Sccoud American—Fine. I traveled incog. Went where I pleased and escaped the vulgar curiosity o.' the gaping crowd. “Eh? llow did you travel?" “Incognito, I said. I didn’t let ’em know I was a rich American. Just pretended I wasn’t anybody but a common English lord.”

Out of Politics.

New York Weekly. Forcigh Visitor —You have a glorious country here, and fairly revel in the blessings of freedom, I suppose. Mr. Crossroads—Wall, as to that, we don't take much interest in politics up our way. The postoflice don't half pay expenses, so all parties patriotically agreed to retire from the political field and let a soldier's widow have it.

THE FAIR SEX.

In; England and th# United State! most women suicides are young—which means that social disgrace n taken very keenly. In France most of them are old—-which means poverty. The rumor that Helen Gould daughter of Jay Gould, is engaged to a young man who has small means a denied by friends of the family. They say she isn’t engaged to anybody, be he rich or poor. The report that Miss Sartoris. granddaughter of General Grant, is in Buffalo studying for the stage, is untrue. She is in London with hei mother, and is said to have no intention of becoming ah actress. Lady Amherst has been made an honorary member of the guild of the turners. She is skilled as a manipulator of the lathe, and her house is full of specimens of her work. The Queen of Italy is taking her usual annual, holiday among the Alps. She is attended onl}' be two <;f her ladies-in-waiting, and with them she proposes to make an ascent of Monte Rosa. The tetai amount of sufiscriptions for the wedding present from the women of Canada to the Princess May is $3,716. Orders for a sleigh, robes, harness and hells have been given to Montreal and Quebec deal ers.

FOB A TAO-lKAl! 01.0,

President Helen A. Shafer, of Wettest}* College, is the second wor.an in America to receive the hon>rary degree of LL.D.„ Maria Miteh?ll being the first, It was conferred >n Miss Shafer this year by Oberlin, ler alma mater.

The Ladies’ Improvement Association of Narragansett Pier has undertaken to build a sea-wall along the ><*ean road, and one evening last veek an entertainment in aid of the lund was given. The program consisted of the play A Comical Countess and Mrs. Jarley’s Wax Works. Nearly 2,000 persons attended.

Mrs. Lucy C. Carnegie, of Pittsburg, the widow of Andrew Carne?ie’s brother, has contracted with a Baltimore ship-building company for i handsome steel yacht, on which she expects to cruise in Southern waters. Mrs. Carnegie owns an islind off the coast of Georgia, of which she has made an attractive summer resort.

k Bicycle costumes are thus described by a looker-on at the Bois de Boulogne: There is Mile, de Saint Sauveur, who, however, is a circus rider, and doubtless feels quite at ?ase in her bicycle costume of a white silk skirt with full sleeves, and white flannel trousers buttoned below the knee. Another is a famous French duchess, who rides with her friends in the morning, attired in a fawn cloth coat and breeches disappearing into top boots of suede feather.

Miss Kirby Jmith, daughter of the famous Confederate leader, was only a fourth-class postmistress when she was given the office at Sewanee, Tenn., but she has man aged with such tact as to carry it into the Presidential class, and she dow gets $1,300 a year out of it.

SOCIETY NOTE.

Texas Siftings. Mrs. O’Rafferty O’id have vez kno.v, Mrs. Dooliban, that theO’Raffertys have always moved in the upper circle. Mrs. Doolihan—Yes, indeed, I know of my own observation that the scoom is sure to rise to the top.

The average life of a ship is about twenty-six years.

NOT BE THERE.

Texas Siftings. Sam Johnsing—Gwbter to be at de ball ter night? James Webster Sarcumstances repugnant ter de ackquiesence perwents my exceptance ter de inwite. A OTEI.F-EVIDENT PROPOSITION. Gus De Smith—There seems to be more fair equestrienne* than ever in the Park. Hostetter McGinnis Yeej but there will be a heavy falling off ti that horse takes to bucking/ *

The United States Government reports ROYAL a pure cream of tartar baking powder, highest of all in leavening strength. **v # | ' The Royal Baking Powder is undoubtedly 0 the purest and most reliable baking powder of- | sered to the public.” Late United States „ < N Government Chemist. f i jj _'.rr 5 UOVAL BAKING POWDEft to., 106 WALL St., NEW-YORK. * § ft T” I Ml— ■ I"■ II ■ ■■ i .1 ... - - -- ' - ' ' - - - ■ - - - II

A Negro Prodigy.

Pittsburg Dispatch. Barnwell County, S. C., possesses a negro boy, 12 years of age, who is, looked on as the owner of the most remarkable memory of which the world has any record. He committed the entire book of Genesis to memory the other day in the space o f three hours, repeating every chapter after redding once, and forgetting only some half dozen words from the first verse to the last. Some weeks ago a local politician delivered a speech of nearly two hours at a county meeting, and on returning home the boy was able to tell the discourse over with such accuracy that the following day the man who delivered it went to see him to take a copy, of it from his mouth, having himself iost the manuscript on which it was written. This gift seems unaccompanied by an unusual degree of intelligence, the boy being a day laborer in the fields, and he appears not to take in the sense of what the camera of his mind preserves but to repeat it after the manner of a parrot. His mother says that he has possessed this faculty since a baby, and at the extraordinary age of one year he could repeat any conversation that took place in his presence, irrespective of its length or purpose. He does not know how to read or write, but has frequently given exhibitions of being able to correctly copy out any sheet of writing he has read over once, giving every punctuation mark and flourish, and imitating the handwriting with startling accuracy,and this for several pages of ordinary letter paper

They call them selling races because a big majority of those who take a chance at the pool-box are sold.

No Pen Can Describe The suffering I endured ten years from DyapepI tried almost every H n.e llcine and ulmoet . ™ ffir v gave up hope of ever be- / V. \ing any better. But U I lHood’sS arsaparilla I '£g (gave me relief very soon now I am entirely S eared of dyspepsia, and advise every one to try Mrs. J. Fenton. Hood’s Sarsaparilla. Mrs. John Fbnton,67 Pride St., Pittsburg,Pa. Hood’s 5 Cures Hooo-a Pill* act easily, yet promptly. f ISH BR^ This Trad* Mark Ueathebe* WATERPROOF COAT in the World I A. J. TOWER. BOSTON. MASS B Indianapolis V USINESS UNIVERSITY liieSsi fellege nf BeSeiM Jt Shorthand. Bryant* Stratton. leUMlebed MO. When Block. Ele▼ator day and night. M.OOB former atodaaS* koldlnc parins poaliiona. Widely known. Oar endorsement paraport to best situation*. Orest railroad, manufacturing and commaroial center. Cheer beerdlno. terse fecalEly’s Cream Bain I&gl<gSl WII*L* CCttk! ■grI AR J*aO] CATARRHoS Prim 50 Cents. VTGyiKI Apply Balm Into each nostril H, Ely Bros , M Warren St.,M. V. end Typewritten Meet, Imdtenmpelle BedMO Ondvaselty. When Binek. Elevator. Oldest, larscet end beet equipped. Individual 1 net rue floe by assert mg; earner pepmeeh. JPeelUaam sift by our PITENTC THOMAS P SlMPSON.Washlnsum.

Caught in the Toils

Or that lurking foe. chills and fever, we often struggle vainly to free ourselves from Its clutch. Palliatives there are without number, but if you want a real remedy, as of course you do if afflicted with this abominable malady, hasten Uj procure and persistently use Hostetter s Stomach Bitters. If you follow this suggestioa. permanent restoration to health Vr.ll reward you. form of malarial disease is permanently eradicated by the Bitters, which is likewise a reliable safeguard against maladies of this type. Not alone on this continent, but throughout the tropics, It Is justly regarded as a complete antidote to miasma poison In air or water. No less effective Is It for disorders of the stomach, liver and bowels, rheumatism, kidney complaints and nervousness. No one sojourning in a malarious region, or who is subjected to outdoor exposure in rough weather or to excessive mental or physical strain, Bhould be without this fine defensive tonic. Fashion in England has decided upon a recall of white cotton hosiery for women, but it can never get a footing in America again.

State op Ohio, city or Toledo, I Hjcas County, f Frank J. Chbnky makes oath that he is the senior partner of the firm of F. J.C heney & Co., doing business In the City of Toledo, County and tate aforesaid, and that said man will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLAR for each and every case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of Hall's CaTAttUB CURE. FRANK J. CHENEY, wo a to before me and subscribed in my presence, this 6th day of December, A. D. lSttt . I A. W. GLEASON, 1 1 Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is taken Internally and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testlmonlrls, free. F. J. CHENEY & Co.. Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75« i “Well, do you call that thing a trunk?” said the cultured Boston baggageman, surveying a huge shapeless box on the truck. ‘T don’t call it a trank; I call it a torso Beivedore.”

TO THE WORLD'S FAIR. Some of the Advantages of the Most Desirable Boats. Of the railways centering at the World's Fair City aone have better demonstrated ample ability and facilities for handling large crowds expeditiously, safely and comfortably than the Pennsylvania Lines. This system of railways has two principal arteries running to Chicago which ore tapped by laterals reaching all over Western Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indian*. The main lines stretch In direct routes from Pittsburg, Columbus. Cincinnati. Louisville, and the Intermediate territory, touohing at ali the principal cities and towns, from which through trains run without change to the very gates of the World's Fair Duiing the past year the tracks of this system have undergone extensive Improvements, the train service has been augmented, and the policy of the Pennsylvania to adopt every plan or device conducing to tho welfare of Its patrons Is conspicuous in these Improvements. In' addition to being tbe most direct route to Chicago from the territory traversed by them, these liras offer among other things, the following advantages for a delightful journey to tbe World's Fair. Passengers have the privilege of leaving tnrough trains at South Chicago. Grand Crossing or Englewood. These are practically W orld’s Pair stations, as they are almost within the shadow of the gate* to the grounds, which can be easily reached by a ride of a few blocks in street cars. They are also In the midst of the hotel and boarding house district adjacent to the World's Fair, so that passengers who may have engaged accommodations near the grounds can easily reach them, and have their baggage transferred with the least delay and discomfort, as baggage will be checked from and to tjouth Chicago, Grand Crossing and Englewood. The main station of the Pennsylvania Llm a In Chicago is the Chicago Union Passenger Stnlon on Canal street, between Adams and Madison streets, In the midst of the business portion and near to the principal hotels, and passengers may go with their baggage to that station if they do not desire to leave trains at South Chicago, Grand Crossing or Englewood. At all stations will be fonnd courteous employes who will cheerfully furnish any desired information and direct passengers to certain streets or avenues upon which their hotel or boarding house may be located. Visitors will find special information bureaus of these lines on tbe Exposition Grounds, one being located on Midway Plalsance. in the Adams Express Company's Building, and another In the Pennsylvania Railroad Company’s Individual exhibit building near tbe Mth street entrance, lime cards, maps, and *ny Information pertaining to trains, can be obtained there. Tbe city ticket offloe of the Pennsylvania Lines la located at No. 218 South Clark street, corner Jackaon.and at this office as well as at the Union Passenger Station on Canal street, between Adams and Msdlson streets, time cards and Information can be obtained and sleeping car accommodations secured. Mr. H, R. Bering. Assistant General Passenger Agent, will be found at No. MS South Clark street, and an application addressed to him will be promptly responded to by that gentleman or one of his representatives to aid passengers in arranging details of a trip. Rates over the Pennsylvania Lines for tbe World's Fair have been reasonable since its Inauguration. Soma days before the opening of the Fair a reduced round trip rate was made from principal stations. This rats is for tickets good going any time before Oct. 31st and gooa returning until Nov. 6th. Another special rate account the World's Falsnis in effect and has a ten day return limit besides the above there is a special low exousiou rate, for the special coach excursion* xunperlodically. and which are daly advertised. This is also a ten day limit rate. It will be seen that the concessions in far# have been arranged to suit all tastes and requirements, the prtfHeges enjoyed being employed as a basis upon which to make the reductions and considering the superior service and advantages offered, the reductions have been liberal, Information on the anbject can be obtained from, any Pennsylvania Line ticket agent or by aldressing- W. F. Brunner. District Passenger Agent, Indianapolis, led

fAugustf “I am ready to testify under oath that if it bad not been tor August Flower I should have died before this. Eight years ago I was take* sick, and suffered as so one but at dyspeptic can. I employed three of our best doctors and received no benefit. They told me that I had heart, kidney, and liver Everything Late distressed me so that I had to throw it up. August Flower cored me. There is no roedicine equal to it.” Lobxszo K Sleeper, Appleton, Maine.

Boston Man (looking admiringly at tb« Ferris wheel)—What a hub it has!

Ten (10) Per Cent Per Annum

Is an excellent profit on money, but for tbs pass three years the Provident Saving, Loan and Investment Association, of Indianapolis, Ind., has never failed to pay its members a regular semi-annual dividend of five <*» dm cent. In these hard times an honestly and economically managed budding association the best security for the investment of large or small sums of money. Ail the funds are loaned on the choicest Improved real estate. Loss is, therefore. Impossible. Anr sum of mlney, large or small, may be deposited and withdrawn at any time. Dividends paid promptly In cash. The Provident Association is managed by conservative experienced business men who are personally responsible. The Society has never had a loss, never forectcwed » mortgage, has paid its members ten (tOi per cent, dividends per annum for the past .-three years, and in addition has accumulated a surplus. If you have any idle money which might be earning you Interest write Arthur B.GroTer. Secretary. 11, 13. 16. It Lombard Building, and receive by return mail, full information concerning the Provident Association. AH latter* promptly answered It is when a woman gets caught In a shower with a new hat on that you may realize what a rain of terror is. •> j»f y* 1 ' 1 » * « I, BEECHAMa A uJi’O *k* headache, disordered liver, and act like magic on the vital organs. For sale by all druggists. - , . ' Gov. Tillman Is said to have a strong pull. He will now have an opportunity to try It on the corks.

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