Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1894 — Page 2

XXVTH ANNIVERSARY.

Prospective and Retrospective Remarks. br. Tairnm** Rsriswi th* FsMt ftnff Talks of His Future »» Plans. Sunday was a great day in the history of the Brooklyn Tabernacle. The figures in flowers back of the platform, 1869 and 1894, indicated ihe Rev. Dr. Talmage’s time of coming to Brooklyn and the present feelebration, and were introductory ito the great meetings in honor of Dr. Talmage's pastorate to take place on the following Thursday and •Friday, presided over by the Mayor of the city and ex-Secretary of the Navy Tracy, and to be participated in by Governors and Senators and prominent men from North, South, East and West. The subject of the sermon was “The Generations,” the text being Ecclesiastes i, 4- “One generation cometh ” He said: This is ray twenty-fifth anniversary sennon, 1869 and 1894. It is twenty-five years since 1 assumed the Brooklyn pastorate. A whole generation has passed. Three generations we have known—that which preceded our own, that which is now at the front and the one coming on. We are at the heels of our predecessors and our predecessors are at our heels. What a generation it was that preceded us! We who are now in the front regiment are the only ones competent to tell the new generation just now coming in sight who our predecessors were. Biography cannot tell it. Biographies are generally written by special frierds of the departed, perhaps by wifo or son-or daughter, and they only tell the good things. The biographers of one of the first presiden ts of the United States make no record Of the president’s account books, now in the archives at the eapitoj, which 1 have seen, telling how much he Lost or gained daily at the gaming table. The biographers of one of the early secretaries of the United States never described the scene that day witnessed when the secretary was carried dead drunk from the State apartments to his own home. Yes, that generation wMch passed off within the last twenty-five years had their bereavements, their temptations, their struggles, their disappointments, their success, their failures, their gladnesses and their griefs, like these two generations trow in sight, that in advance and that following. But the twenty-five years between 1869 and 1894—how much they saw! How much they discovered! How much they felt! Within that time have been performed the miracles of the telephone and the phonograph. From the observatories other worlds have been seen to heave in sight. Six presidents of the United States have been inaugurated. Trans-Atlantic voyage abbreviated from ten days to five and one-half. Chicago and New York, once three days apart, now only twenty-four hours by the vestibule limited. There are fathers and mothers here whom I baptized in their infancy. There is not one person in this church’s board of session of trustees who was here when I came. Here and there in this vast assembly is one person who heard my opening sermon in Brooklyn, not more than one person in every five hundred now present. Of the seventeen persons who gave me a unanimous call when I came only three, I believo, are living. But this sermon is not a dirge. It is an anthem. While this world is appropriate as a temporary stay, as an eternal residence it would be a dead failure. It would be a dreadful sentence if our race were doomed to remain here 1,000 winters and 1,000 summers. God keeps us here just long enough to give us an appetite for heaven.

Nothing can rob us of' the satisfaction that uncounted thousands of the generation just past were converted. comforted and harvested for heaven by this church, whether in the present building or the three preceding buildings in which they worshiped. The two great organs of the previous churches went down in the memorable fires, but the multitudinous songs they led year after year were not recalled or in jured. There is no power on earth or hell to kill a halleluiah. It is impossible to arrest a hosanna. In this my quarter century sermon, I record the fact that side by side with the procession of blessings has gone a procession of disasters. I am preaching to day in the fourth church building since I began in this city. My first sermon was in the old church on Schermerhorn-st. to ao audience chiefly of empty seats, for the church was almost extinguished. That church filled and overflowing, we built a larger cnurch, which after two or three years disappeared in flame. Then we built another church, which also in a line of fiery succession disappeared in the same way. Then we put up this building, apd may it stand for many years a fortress of righteousness and a lighthouse for the storm-tossed, its gates crowded ■with vast assemblages long after we have ceased to frequent them. We have raised in this church over •1,030,000"7or church charitable purposes during the present pastorate, while we have given, free of all expense, the gospel to hundreds of thousands of strangers year bv year. I record with gratitude to God that

during this generation oftwentyffive years 1 remember but two Sabbaths that I have missed service through, anything like physical indisposition. E Almmjti R-fanatic on the sahjegt of physical exercis^,have made the parks with which our city is blessed the means of goodphysical condition. A daily walk and run in the open air have kept me ready for Work, and in good humor with all the world. I say to all young ministers of the gospel it is easier to keep good health than to regain it when once lost. The reason so many good men think the world is going to ruin is because their own physical condition is on the down grade. No man ought to preach who has a diseased liver or an enlarged spleen. There are two things ahead of us that ought to keep us cheerful in our work—heaven and the millennium. Most of you are aware that I propose at this time, between the close of my twenty-fifth year of pastorate and before the beginning of my twenty-sixth year, to be absent for a lew months in order to take a journey around the world. I expect to sail from San Francisco in the steamer Alameda May 31. My place here on Sabbaths will be fully occupied, while on Mondays, and every Monday, I will continue to speak through the printing press in this and other lands as heretofore. Why do I go? To make pastoral visitation among people whom I have been permitted a long while to administer. I want to see them in their own cities, towns and h&ighborhoods. Why do I go? For educational purposes. I want to freshen my mind and heart by new scenes, new faces, new manners and customs, I want better to understand what are the wrongs to be righted and the waste places to be reclaimed. I want to see the Sandwich islands, not so much in the light of modern politics as. in the light of the gospel of Jesus Christ, which Fas transformed them, and Samoa and those vast realms of New Zealand and Australia and Ceylon and India. I want to see what Christianity has accomplished. I want to see how the missionaries have been lied about as living in luxury and idleness. I want to know whether the heathen religions are really as tolerable jtnd as commendable as they were represented by their adherents in the parliament of religious at Chicago. I want to see whether Mohammedanism and Buddhism would be a good thing for transplantation in America, as it has again and again been argued. I want to hear the Brahmans pray. I want to test whether the Pacific ocean treats its guests any better than does the Atlantic. I want to see the wondrous architecture of India, and the Delhi and Cawtfpore where Christ was crucified in the massacre of his modern disciples, and the disabled Jug gernaut unwheeled by Christianity, and to see if the Taj which the Emperor Shah Jehan built in honor of his Empress really means any more than the plain slab we put above our dear departed. I want to see the world from all sides, how much of it is in darkness, - how much of it is in light, what the bible means by the “end of the earth,” and get myself ready to appreciate the extent of the present to be made to Christ as spokon of in the Psalms, “Ask for me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the utter most parts of the earth for thy p< s session,” and so I shall be ready to celebrate in heaven the victories of Christ in more rapturous song than I could have rendered had I never seen the heathen abominations before they were conquered. And so I hope to come back refreshed, reinforced and better equipped and to do in ten years more effectual work than I have done in the last twentyfive.

And now in this twenty-fifth anniversary sermon I propose to do two things—first, to put a garland on the grave of the generation that has just passed off, and then to put palm branch in the hand of the generation just now coming on the field of action, for my text is true, “One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh.” Oh, how many we revered and honored and loved in the last generation that quit the earth! Tears fell at the time of their going, and dirges were sounded, and signals of mourning were put on, but neither tears nor dirge nor somber veil told the half that we felt. Their going left a vacancy in our souls that has never been filled up. We never get used to their abseuce. There are times when the sight of something with which they were associated-—a picture. or a b ok, or a garment, or a staff —breaks us down with emotion, but we bear it simply because we have to bear it. Ob, bow snowy white their hair got, and how the wrinkles multiplied, and the sight grew more dim, and the hearing less alert, and step more frail, and one day they were gone out of the chair by the fireside, and from the plate at the meal, and from the end of the church pew, where they worshipped with us. Omy soul, how we miss them! But let us console each other with the thought that we shall meet them again in the land of salutation and reunion. But what shall we do with the palm branch? That we will put in the hand of the generation coming on. The last and the present gen - erations have been perfecting the steam power, and the electric light, and the electric forces. To these will be added transportation. It will be your mission to use all these forces. Everything is ready now for you to march ritrht up and take this world for heaven. Get your heart right for repentance and the

pardoning grace of the Lord Jesud and your mind right by elevating books and pictures, and your body, right bv gymnasium and field exercise and plenty of ozone, and by looking as often as you can xxpoii til© fOl iiiouu tcihi ciim sea. ■ Then start! In God’s name start 1 And here is the palm branch. From conquest to conquest move right oq and right up. You will soon havq the whole field for yourself. Beforq another twenty-five years have gone, we will be out of the pulpits, and th j stores, and the factories, and the be* nevolent institutions, and you wilj be at the front. Forward into th.J battle! If God be for you who can be against you? “He that spared not his own Son, but delivered Hint up for us all, how slfoll He not with: .Him also freely give us all things?” And as for us who are now at thq front, having put the garland on thd grave of the last generation, anci having put the palm branch in tho hand of the coming generation, wo will cheer each other in the remaining onsets^andgo into the shining gate somewhere about the same time, and greeted by the generation that has preceded us we will have to wait only a little while to greet tho generation that will come after us. Three generations in heaven together—the grandfather, the son and the grandson, the grandmother, thej daughter and the granddaughter* And so with wider range and keener faeultv we shall realize the full significance of the text. “One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh.

AMONG MAN-EATERS.

The Flesh of White Men Too' Salty, Chinamen Not Bad. j Explorer Lumholtz has just returned] from Queensland, says the Pali Mall: Gazette. He devoted a year to the] -cannibal tribes inhabiting a terriblyj 1 wild tract of country a couple of h.uti-t dred miles north of Townsville. Mr. i Lumholtz says: “To begin with don’t imagine that because the tribes are c annibals they are therefore loathsome or repulsive in appearance. On the contrary many of the men are physically fine fellows and some of tho women have, pleasing features. Then, when you call them cannibals, you must remember th t human fle3h is a very rare luxury, for they only eat foreign tribes —nativo tribes, I moan, for thej flesh of the white man is nasty to. their palate. He has a salty flavor,] which is very disagreeable to them.”) “That was lucky for you.” “Well,' jio. If I were once dead it mattered: 1 little to me how my body was disposed] of. But being without morals and: absolutely indifferent to human life.' they would have killed me if they had] dared for the sake of the tobacco and* the few odds and ends I had with me.' When I joined them at first they wore friendly enough. They were a good; bit afraid of the white man, and for an] inch of tobacco apiece were willing toi serve me. Then they respected what; they called my baby-gun —my revolver: —which. I fired off every night. But! in time their fears wore off and there were several attempts to tomahawk; me, but I was lucky. I had a splendid; hunter with me who twice tried. I; should have shot him dead, but I was! a little loath to do so as I was very keen about getting that specimen of! the tiger marsupial, so I tolerated, him. Might is right among them. If! I had shot a few of them my dangers would have been considerably lessen-; ed.” “To resume about the man-eating, I never saw a cannibal feast, but every night in their huts the talk was of women and human ilesh. Those were the, stock subjects of conversation.” “Not very different from highly cultivated. Europeans, Mr. Lumholtz? Women] and Cooking.” “I was able to understand them, for I had learned tho, language, and I gathered that white man was no good— too salty. China-, man was not half bad. He fed on rice,! and had a tender vegetable flavor about him, like a mealy cauliflower. Butofar'T varieties there was nothing so sweet as a native baby—so sweet, so juicy, so fat, so tender. Old men and women were naturally tough and sinewy. And the favorite parts were tho thigh and the flesh of the hand. The cannibal blacks have no religion, no ceremonial,; no idols, and the only approach to a charm was a bit of human fat, wrapped up in grass and tied round the neck us good luck to your hunting.” “If you want a wife and you have money, which is tobacco, orahmdkerchief, or a tomahawk —I should tell you that these articles percolate through the densest bush, and over the wildest ranges—you can luy a wife. You may inherit a wife by agreement. Yon may get your dead brother’s wile but the; commonest method of acquiring a wife is to go and help yourself. If you are a big fellow you walk into a hut and take the lady. Then there is a row, and you h ve to fight a duel with a wooden broadsword, anl the wonnn come clown to the fight and howl and sereoch and hack their men, and there is a terriblo to-do. It is the women who cause all tho rows, all tho wars, all the feu Is. It is always some chocolate Helen and some ravishing Paris.” "And do the ladiet like a change of husb nds?" “They go and don’t seem to mind it tho least.” “How do tho men reg rd the women, then?” “As useful drudges, to do all the work and make them comfortable. The more women n man has the biager swell be is. The black fellow hates work. He only cares for hunting. He hates to rise until the sun is well up in the heavens and the dew has disappeared. Then he end his friends depart into '.he forest and hunt, eeldora bringing horns the food, but devouring it in the bush. It is ono of the rem rknblo things th t tho old men have always the prettiest wive 3. There are no chiefs. One man is as good as Hnolh°r. but when a political crisis arises the old men are consulted, and that is why the old men are the most influential. As for the young fellow, he oiten hag to do without a wife until ho is 30.

THE CAMPAIGN.

An Off Year, But the Contest Is None the Less Important. The Cleveland Badge. Macomb Journal. Here is a story from actual life that is too good to be lost: A lady in Macomb, wife of one of our merchants who voted for Cleveland and reform, was down town, the other day, doing some trading at one of the leading grocery stores. She was well acquainted with the proprietor, and when through ordering goods fell into a chat with that gentleman. After awhile she suddenly started up and said: “Well, this won’t do. I must hurry home and finish my husband’s Cleveland badge.”

■ The grocer is a Republican, and he flew up in a minute, saying: “I j'houM think you would be thinking H anything but making Cleveland J adges these hard times, an.'. I can’t imagine what sort of a badge yon jpould make.” “I’ll tell you what it fs, sir,” the spunky woman retorted. “It’s a patch about the size of a palm-leaf fan on the*seat of his I j reusers. It’s the prevailing hid up j fn the Second Ward since the presjj nt administration came in. Why, j ven the Republicans are putting ]them on. And there never was a ] jnore appropriate badge in the I world.” And with a smile the lady passed out, while the somewhat sold ’ |;rocer soliloquized: “That woman diagnosed the case precisely. It’s as appropriate a badge for Cleveland and reform as the skull and cross-bones is . the proper coat of arms for the poison label.” —— Democratic Incapacity. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. It would be difficult to find in the /entire annals of parliamentary procedure anywhere in the world a (more humiliating confession of incapacity by the dominant party than |‘s made by the Democracy in the [House of Representatives in its rtdoption of the quorum-countingde-jvice. That party in that body has a 'lead of more than forty votes in excess of a quorum, and yet, day after day, the wheels of legislation were absolutely stopped because it could jnot muster enough members to answer to their names to enable it to do business. Some members sat silent in their seats, but a larger number, on one pretext or other, or on qo pretext, absented themselves from the proceedings. The delinquents were alternately coaxed and denounced by the leaders of their .party and by the party press to perform the duties for which they were chosen, but neither sort of appeal was of avail.

What sort of answer to the charge of shiftlessness and imbecility will the Democratic Congressmen make a few months hence when they ask their constituents for a renomination? How will they explain why, with their overwhelming majority, they were unable to muster enough members to transact the business which the people commissioned them to undertake? When they are called to account for the days and weeks of the session which were wasted, what excuse can they offer which will be worth a moment's serious examination? Notwithstanding ihe special session of three months last summer and fall the business of Congress is, on the whole, but very ■little farther advanced than it is at this date in average years. Outside of the tariff bill, indeed, which is .ahead of the usual stage which it is in at the middle of April in the Congresses which are not summoned before the statutory time, the public business is behindhand, and it is likely to remain behind throughout the term. Representative Russell, of Georgia, is right in his assertion that the Republicans wo6ld never have ad' pted quorum-counting expedient if the/ had anything like the majority wtiich the Democracy has today. This concession is no disparagement to the new rule, but is made in the interest of truth. The device put in operation by the Republicans in the Fifty-First Congress, which the Democrats have indorsed by id pi'ng i' t was and is an excellent legulutioi , which must ultimately find a place in the rules of all legislative assemblies, but it was suggested by dil - culties such as the Democrats have not encountered in recent years. In the House in that Congress the Republicans started out with a majority of only five or six. Under such conditions, the Democrats refusing to answer to the r names, the absence of three or four Republicans

would break a quorum and block business. It was a dangerous exigency, and the remedy devised to meet it was an innovation on the established rules of parliamentary procedure in this country. The rule, however, in operation conspicuously attested the wisdom of its framers, and while the Democrats are to be commended for their sense in seizing it, they, with their immense majority, deserve censure for the nervelessness and incapacity which have rendered its adoption necessary. t Slobbering on Voorhees. , White County Democrat. We notice that three of the several members of the executive committee of the Democratic State Editorial Association met at Indianapolis recently, to arrange a program for the mid-summer meeting of the association, and while there took occasion to pass a resolution “taffying” Senator Voorhees for his efforts towards carrying out the demands of the Democracy of Indiana. The writer is a member of the executive committee and would have been present to protest against any such foolishness had not the Democratic Central Committee of this county, of which he is a member, held a meeting the same day. It has always been a mystery to us why it is that no conceivable meeting of Democrats in this State, large or small, for whatever purpose, can be held unless Mr. Voorhees must be sfobbered on and eulogized. So invariablj’ has this been the case in the past that the conclusion forces itself upon us that it is a studied effort on the part of the Senator and his friends to mold public opinion favorable to his own personal advancement. As for the writer, we repudiate any and all such tactics, and especially is this the case in the present instance. Mr. Voorhees is not entitled to the commendation of Indiana Democratsbecause he has not faithfully represented them. The Democratic Legislature that Last returned Mr. Voorhees to the U. S. Senate was elected on a platform that unequivocally declared in favor of the “free and unlimited coinage of silver.” The national Democratic convention virtually declared the same thing, and yet Mr. Voorhees championed the repeal of the Sherman bill, thus virtually demonetizing silver. Again, Indiana Democrats are tariff reformers in the full meaning of that term, and they utterly repudiate the mongrel monstrosity which Mr. Voorhees, as chairman of the Senate finance committee, has reported and is supporting in the Senate. Democracy, and especially Indiana Democracy, has been too much in the habit of shaping its opinions after those of its officials and of making its platforms to suit the whims of its servants. The Democrat bows to no idol, and as a member of the executive committee of the State Editorial Association its editor repudiates the fulsome and undeserved flattery rendered a man who has failed to do the very things that resolution praises him for doing.

NATURE’S REMEDY.

What Is Clamed for tho Cold Bath In Typhoid Fever. The efficacy of the cold bath in typhoid fever is now admitted, says the Washington Capital, and tho doctors are claiming it is a discovery of science. Fever patients would have discovered it long ago if they had boon permitted to treat themsolve*. A dear friend of mine discovere 1 it for himself when a prisoner of war in East Tennesseo. He had been captured and was on his way further south when taken with typhoid fever. His guard found nim delirious when waking him to continue his march. They consigned him to the care of a farmer’s wife who looked kindly upm the suffering prisoner. She gave him a spare room and religiously shut the windows lost he should have a draft of Heaven’s air and die; she denied him the cool water of the well, becauso the country doctor said so. The patient lnv still in tho midnight hours, and the kind watcher by his bod slept tho sleep of the righteous. Awakening suddenly the nurse found tho 6ick bed empty. The patient had gone. Running out to the front yard she heard a splpttering noise, which she traced to the deep, cold mountain well. Getting a candle she lowered it by a string to the water’s brink, and there stood the Yanke3 soldier up to his cilia in the cold water. Ho had escaped whilb sho slept, and had sought for coolness and found it. It took some time to arouse the sleepy negro man, who was farm hand aud general factotum. After an hour or moro the soldier was rescued. He was hoisted up and for tbe first time in many hours ho was conscious. He was wrapped in blankets amid many forebodings of death. Sweet sleep ensued, and the next morning appetite returned. A few days and strength returned. The man was cured by nature’s remedy. lie never saw a confederate prison, for the kind woman piloted him over the mountains to the Union lines. He remembers that well to-day with the deepest gratitude, and no summer p sses that ho does not send to the east Tennessee farm some remembrance of the kindness he had thorn.

How Women Buy Cigars.

Texas Sittings. Pete Amsterdam —May I offer you a cigar? Mountmorris Parke —Thank you, but it is very seldom that I indulge. Pete Amsterdam—’Then smoke one of these and it will cure you entirely of the habit. My wife bought me a whol? box of them as a birthday present.

HOUSEHOLD TREASURE.

Growing Popularity of tho Oxford a' Sewing Machines. .There Is nothing more truly a household treasure t.han a good sewing machine. To be without it is to be willfully deprived of the immense advantage of one of the greatest of all inventions. A machine once bought is a perpetual treasure. It demands no wages, occasions no expense or trouble and is always ready without a moment’s notice to render the work of the laborious housewife tenfold more efficient and expeditious. Some machines combine the best ideas and suggestions which have been so abundantly introduced in this remarkable mechanism. A machine which exhibits in liberal combination all the best features introduced is the Oxford Improved Sewing Machine, made by the Oxford Manufacturing Company, Chicago, description and cut of which can be seen in the advertising columns of this paper. make high and low arm machines, with lock-stitch shtittle.ruuning light and quiet These machines have the following important features: Cheapness (ranging from $10.50 upward:) perfect almost self-adjusting and graduated tension; are under control of the operator, and are always positive in their working. They are entirely self-! threading in ail points, including the shuttle. The needle is self-setting, and the attachments -are quickly and easily placed and fastened. The shuttle has an easy oscillating motion, causing it to keep ts proper place against the race. Their Oxford, Home and Columbia Machines, with attachments, were awarded the medal pt. mium at the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago. It Is a lamentable fact that Pride often wears patent-leather boots and begs its tobacco.

ELECTRIC WIRES.

Some writer very aptly likens the nerves to electric wires, and the general working of their system to that of electric cars. A man who “slips his trolly,” like Mr. Jeremiah Eney, 1812 VV. Lombard st., Baltimore, Md., will need something better than even a galvanic battery to set him all right. Mr. Eney found that somethingin the following way: “I suffered,” he says, “a long time with neuralgia in the head. I gave St. Jacobs Oil a fair trial and am completely cured.” In this wav the great remedy acts as a motorman to restore broken wires, and set the system to perfect action. Ono is generally compelled to enjoy the song of the tenor without catching tbs tenor of the song. • Sufferer* from Coughs, Sore Throat, etc., should use “Brown's Bronchial Troches," a staple but sure remedy. Sold only in boxes. Prlc# 25 cts, The elephant that Dr. Parkhurst saw In New York must have had all its clothes In Its trunk. ~ The melody of music Is divine, but it is no more enchanting than a young girl's face made supremely beautiful by tho use of Glenn’s Sulphur Soap.

SHOWLEMB Brings comfort and improvement and tends to personal enjoyment when/ rightly used. The many, who live better than others and enjoy life more, with less expenditure, by more promptly adapting the world’s best products to the needs of physical being, will attest the value to health of the pure liquid laxative principles embraced in tho remedy, Syrup of Figs. Its excellence is due to its presenting in the form most acceptable and pleasr ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly beneficial properties of a perfect lax« ative; effectually cleansing the system, J dispelling colds, headaches and fevers and permanently curing constipation. It has given satisfaction to millions and met with the approval of the medical profession, because it acts on the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels without weakening them and it is perfectly free from every objectionable substance. Syrup of Figs is for sale by all druggists in 50c and $1 bottles, but it is manufactured by the Llalifomia Fig Syrup Co. only, whose name is printed on every package, also the name, Syrup of Figs, and being well informed, you will not accept any substitute if offered.

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