Semi-weekly Independent, Volume 2, Number 12, Plymouth, Marshall County, 21 December 1895 — Page 7

OUR SUNDAY SEBMONS

A FEW SUBJECTS FOR ALL TO PONDER OVER. Pride of a Ruler Who Finds Peace and HuppincNS in the Prosperity of His People Anecdote of a Famous . French Atheiet. An Emperor's Memorial Church. , -- fr II I S magnificent I church, just dediil rated in memory of Emperor Frederick, fc I5"T will take rank with I j-J the foremost eccle siastical structures in Furopo. It is a peculiarly lining memorial to this Emperor who. instead of priding himself on being a "war lord," a tur mm bulent spirit ever ready for strife and bloodshed, was a man who sought t ho happiness of his people in the realms of serenity and pea co. Thus will this temple stand a glorious expression in stone f that predominant twit in the German nation which finds expression in the grand, religious, yet defiant old choral, "Eine fest burg ist unser Gott." The intention of the present Emperor was that the cost of the church should not exci t d one million marks, but as the work progressed he found that to realize hi ideas fore money would have to be e.';pe'ided. The original sum was doubleö. and even with this amount the archil. .-r. Her Schwcchten found himself ur-able to carry out the onlers o; :i1:1! ;i:il master. Tin ciiH!'.-!: as ir .-tutnis to-uay. winimu COülüiü'Z the est of the l.iV.'t".' with .j. Its SUJ :" i be!IV eseii's a:: outlay of r,.o :.(:! !i m ilk s. or four times more than i!;" original estimate. The church is btiilr of light -colored sandstone of a sofr. agree plain: rich n.o so tin; to It b severly its simJ n pi i city. Th" interior is a triumph of both the builder's and the decorator's art. The chancel is the most splendid feature of the interior. It is framed in an enormously high and broad triumphal arch. Five seven and one-half meters Jiish stained glass windows throw a flood of soft light over the elaborate mosaics adorning the walls on all sides. The windows are masterpieces of glass painting, Between the windows on superbly wrought brackets stand large THE EMPflROIl FRKDKRICK'S MEMORIAL CIIUKCII. statutes of the four evangelists. At the base of the triumphal arch stands on one side a statue of Luther and on the other that of Melanchton. nie tower of the church is particularly imposing, but on account of its inasdveness does not look so high as it really is. its height is 3-M feet, making it one of the loftiest church spires Jn the world. The tower contains live large bells, and Emperor Wilhelm has taken particular pride in having these masterpieces of the bell founder's. They are all made of bronze from cannon captured from the French in the last war. The largest of these bells is named Königin Louise and Kaiser Wilhelm I., and is adorned with the coat of arms of Prussia and Mecklenburg; Its tone is pitched in I). It weighs, without the tongue. l.'t.soo kilograms, and is about ten feet high and six feet in diameter. It is the linest toned and the largest of all the lells but one in the empire. The seeond bell is named "Augusta," and is embellished with the coat of arms of Prussia and Saxony; its weight without tongue is S.öno kilograms and It is pitched in F. The third bell is pitched in A and is named "Deutschland' This is the war bell; it weighs 4.rHM) kilograms, and is ornamented with the German eagle surmounted by the imperial crown. Fnder this is the Inscription. "Versailles, IS Januar. 1S7L" The fourth bell is named "Kaiser Frederick," whose coat of arms it bears. Its tone is pitched in I and its weight is ::.Ux kilograms without the clapper. The fifth bell is named "Willielm II. and Auguste Viktoria.' It is ornamented with the coat of arms of Prussia and Holstein. Its tone is pitched in O and it weighs without tongue IM. kilograms. Of all the monuments and memorials that the German Emperor has erected there is none, not even excepting the one to his grandfather, which has received such a universal approval of the German people as does this, the magnificent church erected in memory of their beloved "Fnser Fritz," as Kmperor Frederick was universally called. Interesting Testimony. Monsieur Litt re, a French scholar, whose great work is the "Dictionary of the French Language," on which ho labored for many years, was a positivist in religion. lie believed neither In the existence of God nor In the immortality of man. When, in 1K71, he was admitted to the French Academy, the cele

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brated Dupanloup, bishop of Orleans, protested against his admission by withdrawing from his seat. Legouve, another member of the Academy, a famous author of novels, plays and poems, and also a free-thinking agnostic, once told an anecdote about Littre which attracted the attention, of the editor of the New York Christian Advocate, lie wrote to Legouve, asking If the anecdote was true. The following came in reply: "This history is almolutely correct." This is the story: ''Legouve says that shortly after Litt re's daughter was born he (Littre) said to his wife: " My dear, you are a good Christian. Bring up your daughter in the ways of religion and piety which you have always followed; but 1 must exact one condition, and that is that when she is lifteen years of age you will bring her to me. I will then explain my views ti her, and sin? can choose for herself." "The mother accepted the condition-, years rolled on, the fifteenth birtluViy of the child soon came, and the mother entered her husband's study. "'Vou remember what you said to me, and what I promised, said she. 'Your daughter is lifteen years old today. She is now ready to listen to you with the respect and coiitidence due to tit" best of fathers. .Shall I bring her in?' " 'Why, certainly,' replied Littre. 'lint for what special reason? To explain, to her my viwws! Oh. no. my dear; no. ho. You have made of her a good, affertiouate, simple, straightforward, bright and happy creature. Happy, yes; that is the word that in a pure being desrribes every vine-. "'And you fancy that I would cover all that happiness and purity with my idea!. I'shaw. my iKas are good enough for nie. Wh. ean s;iy that they uou'd be good f r her? Wh ct'.n say that ti'ey woiiid not destroy or at least

da ma your wor l?r:::g her in. so thai I may bless you in her p;ve;ice for all that you have t'. iie for i.er. and s that siie may lve you more than ever.' " l. too.' added I.egottve. at the close of Iiis little anecdote, 'have around tue believers whom I love, and I should consider myself a criminal if I troubled their religious convictions with my doubts and my objections, especially when I know that they lind in those convictions nothing but joy, consolation and virtue.' " Home and Society. "Our home and our society are to us what the world is to a great man the sphere we may till with work that cannot die. The statesman molds a people into order and progress, jvartly by the force of character, partly by great measures. We are the statesmen of our little world. Every day mother ami father stamp their character upon their children's lives, mold their manners, conscience and future by the. measures with which they direct the household." S. A. Brooke. Chnrch and the Clergy. Of seventy-three religious communities in the diocese of Paris only twentyeight have refused to pay the new tax imposed. The chair of mathematics at Durham University will become vacant after Christmas through the resignation of the Rev. Dr. R. J. I'earce. The late Bishop of Chichester. Dr. Durnford, was president of the Union Society of Oxford in the lirst year of its existence, IS'-':?, and again in lSL'G. I). L. Moody's festival services in Atlanta are attracting enormous crowds. At every service seats in the big tabernacle are at a premium, though it will accommodate about G.OOO people. Count Lippe, a canon of the Vienna Cathedral, has gone to Rome, bearing a beautiful brocaded robe, presented to the Virgin of Lore t to by the Archduchess Maria Theresa, and a purse of 100.000 golden ducats, the gift of the Austrian nobility to the IVpe. The Churchman's league, an Episcopal organization of Washington, I). C, is searching the statutes of the District of Columbia to lind a law for the better observance of Sunday, and if such a law cannot be found it will agitate for the passage of a law on the subject. The Rev. Ralph William Lyonel Tol-loniache-Tollemache, who died in England a few days ago. was chiefly remarkable for his embarrassing generosity to his children in the matter of names. One of his daughters is called Lyoiia Decima Veronica Esyth Undine Cyssa Ilylda Rowena Adele Thyra Ursula Ysabel Blanche Lelias Dysart Plantagenet Tollemache-Tolleniache. The Rev. Dr. W. M. Swindells, Methodist Episcopal, of Philadelphia, lias been appointed a member of the General Committees of Missions, Church Extension, and Freed men's Aid and Southern Education Societies for the Fourth General Conference District, to fill tin vacancy occasioned by the death of Dr. Hargis. Dr. Swindells will represent Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia and a part of Virginia. Ills duties will bo to ascertain the financial needs of the district for missions, church extension, freedmen's aid and Southern education. Bishop Wilmer (Episcopal), of Alabama, who is famous as a story teller, says that one of his friends lost a dearly beloved wife, and, in his sorrow, caused these words to be inscribed on her tombstone: "The light of mine eyes has gone out." The bereaved married within a year. Shortly afterward the bishop was walking through the graveyard with another gentleman. When they arrived at the tomb the latter asked the bishop what he would say of the present state of affairs, in view of the words on the tombstone. "I think," said the bishop, "the words 'But I havt struck another match should be add-eU."

TALMAGE S SERMON.

HE TALKS ON THE PETTY ANNOYANCES OF LIFE. The Hornet on Its Mission Varieties of Insect Annoyances .Necessity for Little Troublcs-Thcy Arc All lilessinca in Disguise A World of Trouble. Dr Tal mage Sunday chose for his discourse a theme that will appeal to most people iz, "The Petty Annoyances of Life." His text was. "The Lord thy God will send the hornet." Deuteronomy vii., 110. It seems as if the insectile world were determined to extirpate the Iranian race. It bombards the graintields and the orchards and the vineyards. The Colorado beetle, the Nebraska grasshopper, the New Jersey locust, the universal potato bug seem to carry on the work which was begun ag-s ago when the insects buzzed out of Noah's ark as the door was opened. In my text the hornet l'ies out on its mission. It Is a species of wasp, swift in its motion ana violent in its sting. Its touch is torture to humi or beast. We have nil seen the cattle run bellowing under the cut of its l;in-Ci in boyhood we used tv stand cautiously looking :t the globular nest hung from the tree branch, and while we wire looking at the wonderful covering we were struck with something that sent us shrieking away. The hornet goes in swarms. It n:'.s captains over hundreds, an 1 twenty of them alighting on cue man will produce death. The Persians attempted to conquer a Christian city, but the elephants and the beasts on which the IVrshins rude were nssaulted by th hornet, so that the whole army was broken up and the besieged city was rescue'!. This barnim.' and noxious :::scct stu::u" o-it the Ilh'ites and the Ca:i::u:ij( -a from tl.cir ci.unlry. W hat gleaming sword and e'::;riot oi' war ould not accomplish was dene by the lf.üciuie of an insect. The L-.ol sent the hornets. !:m;i!l A i:;:t.v;:ticC3. My friends, win a we are snnlted by great behelilotilS of tl'onl'.e. Wo b'-eollie chivalric. and we :is ;::ot ihc:n. We get 0T1 the high in; tiled steed :' c.tf courage, and we make a cavalry 1 arge at them, find if God be with lis, we ome out stronger and belter than when we went in. Iut. alas, for these ineelilo annoyunces of life these foes too small t shoot these tilings without any avoirdupois weight, the gnats, and tin midget, and the Hies, and the wasps, and the hornets! In other words, it the small, stinging annoyances of oar life which drive us oat lind use us up. In the best conditioned life, for some grand and glorious purpose, God has sent the hornet. I remark, in the hrst place, that these small, stinging annoyances may come ia the shape of a nervous organization. People who are prostrated under typhoid fevers or with broken bones get plenty of sympathy, but who pities anybody that is nervous V The doctors say. and the family say, and everybody says. '()h, she's only a little nervous; that's all!" The 6ound of a heavy foot, the harsh clearing of a throat, a discord in music, a want of harmony between 1 lie shawl and the plove on the same person, n curt answer, a passing flight, the wind from the east, any one of 10,000 annoyances opens the door for the hornet. The fact is that the vast majority of the people in this country are overworked, and their nerves are the first to givo out. A great multitude are tinder the strain of Leyden, who. when he was told by his physician that if he did not stop working while he was in such poor physical health he would die. responded. "Doctor, whether I live or die, the wheel must keep going round." These sensitive persons of whom I speak have a bleeding sensitiveness. The Hies love to light on anything raw, and these people are like the Canaatiites ppoken of in the text or in the context they have a very thin covering and are vulnerable at all points. "And the Lord lent the hornet." Joke Jnsectn. Again, the small insect annoyances may come to us in the shape of friends and acquaintances who are always saying disagreeable things. There are some people you cannot be with for half an hour but you feel cheered and comforted. Then there are other people you cannot be with for live minutes before you fvl miserable. They do not mean to disturb you. but they Pting you to the lom. They gather up all the yarn which he gossips spin and retail it. They gather up all the adverse criticisms about your person, about your business, about your home, about your church, and they make your ear the funnel into which they pour it. They laugh heartily when they tell you, as though it were a good joke, and you laugh, too outside. These people are brought to our attention in the Pible, in the book of Ktith. Naomi went forth beautiful and with the finest of worldly prospects, mid into another land. but. after awhile, she came back widowed and sick and poor. What did her friends do when she came to the city? They all went out, and instead of giving her common sense consolation, what did they doV Read the book of Ruth and hud out. They threw up their hands and said, "is this Naomi V" as much as to say, "How awful you do look!" When I e ntered the minstry, I looked very pale for years, ami every year, for four or live years, a hundred times a year. I was asked if I had not the consumption, and passing through the room I would sometimes hear people sigh and say, "A-ah, not long for this world!" 1 resolved in those times that 1 never in any conversation would say anything depressing, ami by the help of God I have kept the resolution. These pet. de of whom I speak reap and bind in the great harvest field of discouragement. Some day you greet them with a hilarious "good"inorning," and they come buzzing at you with some depressing information. "The Lord sent the hornet." When I see so many people in the world who like to say disagreeable things ami write disagreeable thin.A, I come almost in my weaker moments to believe what a man said to me in Philadelphia one Monday morning. I went to get the horse at the livery stable, and the hostler, a plain man, said to me, ".Mr. Talma gc. I saw that you preached to the young men yesterday?" I said, "Yes." He said, "No use no use. Man's a failure." Plivedcul 1 1 1m. The small insect annoyances of life sometimes come in the shape of local physical trouble, which does not amount to a positive prostration, but which bothers you when you want to feel the best. Perhaps it is a sick hcad-tchc which has been the plague of your life, and you appoint some occasion of mirth or sociality or usefulness, ami when the clock strikes the hour you cannot make your appear

and. Ffwhnps tho troiibe ts between the ear and the forehead, in the shape of a neuralgic twinge. Nobody can sec it or sympath.e wiih it. but just at the time when you want your intellect clearest and your disposition brightest you feel a sharp, keen, disconcerting thrust. "The Lord sent the hornet." Per aaps these small insect annoyances will ome in the shape of a domestic invitatio l. The parlor and the kitchen do not t.hvays harmonize. To get good service and to keep it is one of the greatest questions of the country. Sometimes it may be the arrogancy and iuconsiderateness of employers, but, whatever be the fact, we all admit there are these insect annoyances winging their way out from the culinary department. If the grace of God be not in the heart of the housekeeper, she cannot maintain her etpiilibriuui. The men come home at night and hear the story of these annoyances and say, "Oh. these home troubles are very little things!" They are small, small as wasps, but they sting. Martha's nerves were all unstrung when she rushed in, asking Christ to scold Mary, and there are tens of thousands of women who are dying, stung to death by these pestiferous domestic annoyances. "The Lord bent the hornet." These small insect disturbances may also come in the shape of business irritations. There are men here who went through 1S."7 and the 2 Ith of September, IS'., without losing their balance, who are every day unhorsed by little annoyances a clerk's ill manners, or a blot of ink on a bill of lading, or the extravagance of a partner who overdraws his account, or the underselling by a business rival, or the whispering of store confidences in the street, or the making of some little bad debt which was against your judgment, ju.t to phase somebody else. The Lord Sends Hornets. It is not the panics t!:::t kill the merchants. Panks come only ome in nil or twenty cars. It is the constant din of these everyday aiinoyr.nc s which is si tiding so many of our best im reliant: into ii rvoiis dyspepsia and paialysis jm: ! the grave. When our :: 1 1 . : i : i i comni'Tee lei! flat e:i its 1'a.e. these men so.od t:j and fi ll almost 1. .ia nt. but tlu-ir life is going away now under ti.e swarm of these pestiferous annoyances. "The Lord sent the hornet." I hae noticed in the history oC sr-me that their annoyances are multiplying and that they have a hundred where they used to have ten. The naturalist tells us that a wasp sometimes has a family of L'H.OOO wasps, and it does seem as if every annoyance of your life brooded a million. I?y the lielp of (Jod I want to show you the oilier side. The hornet is of no use? Oh, y s! The naturalists tell us they are very important in the world's economy. They kill spiders, and they clear the atmosphere, and I really believe God sends the annoyances of our life upon us to kill the spiders of the soul and to clear the atmosphere of our skies. These annoyances are sent to us, I think, to wake us up from our lethargy. There is nothing that makes a man so lively as a nest of "yellow jackets," and I think that these annoyances are intended to persuade us of the fact that this is "not a world for us to stop in. If we had r. bed of everything that was attractive and soft and easy, what would we want of heaven? We think that the hollow tree sends ihe hornet, or we may think that the devil sends the hornet. I want to correct your opinion. "The Lord sent the hornet." Then I think these annoyances come on us to culture our patience. In the gymnasium you find upright parallel barsupright bars, with holes over each other for pegs to be put in. Then the gymnast takes a peg in each hand, and he begins to climb, one Inch at a time or two inches, and getting his strength cultured, reaches after awhile the ceiling. And it seems to me that these annoyances in life are a moral gymnasium, each worrinient a peg with which we are to climb higher and higher in Christian attainment. We all love to see patience, but it cannot be cultured in fair weather. Patience is a child of the storm. If you had everything desirable and there was nothing more to get, what would you want with patience? The only time to culture it is when you are lied about and sick and half dead. "Oh." you say. "if I only had the circumstances of some well-to-do man, I would be patient, too!" You might as well say, "If it were not for this water, I would swim," or "I could shoot this gun if it were not for the charge." When you stand chin deep in annoyances is the time for you to swim out toward the great headlands of Christian attainment, so as to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and to have fellowship with his sufferings. So a by Fire. Nothing but the furnace will ever burn out of us the clinker and the slag. I have formed this theory in regard to small annoyances and vexations. It takes just so much trouble to tit us for usefulness and for heaven. The only question is whether we shall take it in the bulk or pulverized and granulated. Here is one nu:n who takes it in the bulk. His back is broken, or his eyesight put out. or some other awful calamity befalls him, while the vast majority of people take the thing piecemeal. Which way would you rather have it? Of course, in piecemeal. Retter have live aching teeth than one broken jaw; better ten lly blisters than an amputation; better twenty squalls than one cyclone. There may be a difference of opinion as to allopathy and homeopathy, but in this matter of trouble I like homeopathic doses small pellets of annoyance rather than some knockdown dose of calamity. Instead of the thunderbolt give us the hornet. It you have a bank, you would a great deal rather that fifty men would come in with checks less than 25100 than to have two depositors eoine in the same day, each wanting his $10,000. In this latter case you cough and look down to the floor, and you look up at the ceiling before you look into the safe. Now, my friends, would you not rather have these small drafts of annoyance on your bank of faith than some till staggering demand upon your endurance? Rut remember that little as well as great, annoyances equally require you to trust in Christ for succor and a deliverance from impatience and irritability. "Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is staid on thee." In the village of HamelTii, tradition says, there was an invasion of rats, and these small creatures almost dcvouicd the town and threatened the lives of the population.

and the storv is that a oioer came out one I - 1 " " " " " day and played a very sweet tune, and all the vermin followed him followed him to the banks of the Weser. Then lie blew a blast, and then they dropped in and disappeared forever. Of course this is a fable, but 1 wish I could, on the sweet flute of the gospel, draw forth all the nibbling and burrowing annoyances

of your ltfe and pTay them down Into the depths forever. How many touches did Mr. Church give to his pictim of "Cotopazl" or his "Ilpart of the Aufirs?" I suppose about Ö0.U00 touches. I hear the canvas saying: "Why do you keep me trembling with that pencil so long? Why don't you put it on in one dash?" "No." says Mr. Church, "I know how c make a painting. It wiil take Ö0.0O0 of these touches." And I waut you, my friends, to understand that it is these lO.OOO annoyances which, uner God, are making up the picture of your life, to be hung at last in the galleries of. heaven, tit for angels to look at. God knows how to make a picture. Little Strokes Only. I go into a sculptor's studio and soe him shaping a statue. He has a chisel in one hand und a mallet in the other, and he gives a very gentle stroke click, dick, 4 lick! I say. "Why don't you strike harder V" "Oh." he replies, "that would shatter the statue. I can't do it that way. I must do it this way." So he works on, and after awhile the features come out. and everybody that enters the studio is charmed and fascinated. Well, (Jod has your soul under process of development, nnd it is the little annoyances and vexations of life that are chiseling out your immortal nature. It is click, click, click! I wonder why some great providence does not come and with one stroke prepare you for heaven. Ah. no. God says that is not the way. And so ho keeps on by strokes of little vexations until at last you shall be a glad spectacle for angels and for men. You know that a large fortune may be spent in small change, and a vast amount of moral character may go away in small depletions. It is the little troubles of life that are having nvre effect upon you than great oins. A swarm of locusts v. i!! kill a grainlvdd sooner than tie- lueur-ioii of three er four attle. You say. "Since I lost my child. si:ve I lost lay property. I have been a d;f; rent man." I:n you do not reeo-'::xr t'.e ar.d.iie turv of buie

'ii!-v;it:ces t !.:: t a r lilting a:;d in'erioining your ::ie;il o-;,i!i?i. s. U::;s m;:y si d; :i ship. Iucii"or m:it-h may se: i destruction throcgh a block of sinn i, . ... tl i;e! .,! tie M.-diej got hef d'-ntll Ifo'n smelling a poisonous i-i.se. (Vluml o ,y sinpping and askim: fer a pic e of b-. ;i i and a drink of water at a Francis-;;:; conv nt was led to tbo disenvery of a now world. And there i a:i intimate connection between trilles and immensities, bttween nothings and everything-. Now. be careful t let none of these annoyances go through your soul unarraigned. Comptl them to administer to your spiritual wealth. The scratch of a sixpenny nail sometimes produces loekjaw, and the clip of a mst infinitesimal annoyance may damage you forever. Do not let any annoyance or perplexity eomo across your soul without its making yuu better. Our government does not think it belittling to put a tax on small articles. The individual taxes do not amount to much, but in the aggregate to millions and millions of dollars. And I would have you, O Christian man, put a high tariff on every annoyance and vexation that comes through your soul. This might not amount to much in single cases, but in the aggregate it would be a great revenue of spiritual strength and satisfaction. A bee can suck honey even .ut of a nett la, and if you have the grace oZ God in your heart you can get sweetness out of that which would othe rwise irritate and annoy. Faithful in Little Things. A returned missionary told me that a company of adventurers rowing up the Ganges were stung to death by Hies that infest that region at certain seasons. I have seen the earth strewn with the carcasses of men slain by insect annoyances. The only way to get prepared for the great troubles of life is to conquer these small troubles. What would vou sav of a soldier who refused to load his gun or to go into the conflict because it was only a skirmish, saying: "I am not going to expend my ammunition on n skirmish. Wait until there comes a general eugagenu nt. ami then you will see how courageous I am nnd what battling I will do." The general would say to such a man. "If you are not faithful in a skirmish, you would be nothing in a general engagement." And I have to tell you, 0 Christian men, if you cannot apply the principles of Christ's religion on a small scale you will never be able to apply them on a large scale. If I had my way with you. I would have you possessall possible worldly prosperity. 1 would have you each one a garden, a river llowing through it. geraniums a id shrubs on the sides, and the gras and llowers as beautiful as though the rainbow had fallen. 1 would have you a Louse, a splendid mansion ami the bed should be covered with upholstery dipped in the setting sun. 1 would have every hall in your house set with statues and Statuetten, and then 1 would have the four quarters of the globe pour in all their luxuries on your table, and yon should have forks of silver and knives of gold, inlaid with diamonds and amethysts. Then you should each one of you have the linest horses, and your pick of the equipages of the world. Then I would have you live ITA) years, and you should not have a pain or ache until the last breath. Wisdom in It All. ''Not each one of us?" you say. Yes. Kachoneof you. "Not to your enemies?" Yes. The only difference I woul.l make with them would be that I would put a little extra gilt on their walls and a little extra embroidery on their slippers. Hut, you say, "Why does not God give us all these things?" Ah. I bethink myself he is wiser. It would make fools and sluggards of us if we had our way. No man puts his best picture in the portico or vestibule of his house. (Jod meant thi world to be only the vestibule of heaven, that great gallery of the universe toward which we are aspiring. We must not have it too good in this world, or we would want no heaven. l'olyearp was condemned to be burned to death. The stake was planted. II' was fastened to it. The fagots were placed around him, the lires kindled, but history tells us that the Haines bent outward like the canvas of a ship in a stout breeze, so that the Hames. instead of destroying l'olycarp, were only a wall between him and his enemies. They had actually to destroy him with the poniard. The Haines would not touch him. Well, my hearer, 1 want you to understand that Uy Go-J's grace the Hames of trial, instead of consuming your soul, are only going to be a wall of defense and a canopy of blessing. God i going to fulfill to you the blessing ami the promise, as he did to Poly carp, "When thou walkest through the fire thou shalt not be burned." Now you do not understand. You shall know herenfter. In heaven you will bless God even for the hornet. Do right yourself, and you will help some other man to behave himself.

HIS PASS CANCELED.

Ponto, the Doii that Carried a Street Car 1 üss. Is Dead. Pont is dead and several youi.gi In-arts. and at leas: one ohb-r oi.o. arei the sadder, lie liel quietly ami pom-e-. fully a few days ago and his o; equ;e were mre elaborate and i:n:'vss; ei than usually attend the iuier::; d :l: log. For IViito was a giv:t:. sluggyj big New fo'.nllanl. w ho loved to play with chiMrcn. was gentle with thenij and responded alik' to c-itv- and. blows with a friemlly way; !' Mis j-jjij He was faithful and forgiving in alt things and was the kiml of whvii aller death drew th flhv;ui: line? from 1U ron: 4 "To mark a friend's iv:ua ':'... :h sq stones Uprise. ! 1 never knew but me. and ie-ie !-oi lies." In :ie r'sp-t Pnto was tie m. :-c remarkable dog 1 1 i:i : ever gnawe! .u bone, "bayed the moon" or ; w 1 tl;o, log -atehor in Kansas Ciry. ilo n. the oviM-r of a street car p.:-. whi.-tj, entitled him to bid leli.inee ite bo. 1st of all conductors and to : i-ie .:' will all over the ciry n the Me !-op.";:.i!i cable c:irs. 1; is doithlful if any .'!.:, log in w wo -Id was similarly ii.tr,.. .v.ij And he was modest withal and did tot air i; over other h-ss !'..;-r..i i;.- d s IIoW Pom ai.,. pi .,is-.. a p.s, was Ii!;. ihis; i 11 e day ;w years ;rj. hU master hoarded a ear :;::d Pin,'. follow. -d hiiii. Tit" -.'üdio-'o" d.-:i:i:.: .-d and hoisted that - : vz-':.- tlio rules of ; he .:i.p-,;y to ! ;; .0:1 1 i i" IV ! Used to e" U ;tc- , :..' ,'f l"g and ruthievdv i!.:n. ).'.:, . .. : iw Tis.-: s-:t - ' -' d t '! ..s inc. 11 as ; ,!,. , '' , e-q e ;...; . . 1 !'; .-.-. r.. v:i-- ;: : : . ot' r.ii ."! i;. .!. .; " Iii.- M- ; . -r-,- ;.. ... him ii.- v it.; ; -.. !. - . .? , (' : :.( ha r-o 1 r. 1 1 1 : i -: .-. , . .1 fr ':. iii .-, :..:lt. t.., "i M e' :: ;. ' ' ': t , ::ioi ":. v.'-.;- u ..; i 'oil ' I v'l, -i; M .. . j ,; . .;; ; : , ! :: tie. M tp'pdii.in s- -t .. lien;. I.'ver .': . that '.' '.: :; ridden ;; e:!b!. cars witli i :v When a eo:nin.-: v e.uin- ::i ! master i;;id his own fare 'e-e;:!-'1 a pass for the dog. Polio was :i1mi a trained e.i-rie- ami ,H ihe hMding" d his master wo.lhl iitari for bonie with an ane-to ;n bin louih lroüi any par: of the ciry. i!o Seemed to know he was entitled U rile n the cable cars and f rc;nT.:Iyj jumped on one of them when nr inj the company of his master. .Many 4ff the conductors knew ;he dog and hin right to ride was re-ogni:'.el. About ten days ago Poii t-. b-vamo sick. He sank slowly until WedncH day when his stnt-t car pass was can-4 celle! by death. Kansas Citv Star. She Got Neither. The Italian papers have a pretty storv. which has. nevertheless, a iiu-huH 1 choly side to it. about Queen .Margaret Tlie Queen hcvauie interested in lbe condition of poor girl who had. inj simple kindness, knilled a pair of stock-, itigs and sent them to her on her b;rth-i day. J iler Majesty fteii results tu ingenious ways f showing her generosity and on this occasion she sent a pair oi stK-kings in return fr hs. sbt hadt receivoi. ( ne f th's stockings w ast Idled with coin, and the oilier with; bonbons. With the gift ihe kindly; queen sent a h".:'r written with her own hand, which contained the fHving words: "Yrit ami tell me. my child, which' you like the Ikm ter of those two sl kr ings which one gives you the mora pleasure?" Next day Queet Margate: receive this disappointing reply: "Hear Madame Quern-About thestockings. I have had just sorrow, ami nothing more; for my father took th. one with the money, and my broiheej the one with tin- boiilMiiis:" j Lost Pattern. 1 The reason why old lace is so valuable is because It is woven in lost patterns. Lace-ma king in France ivreived a severe oluvk during the French revolution, ltefore that time whole village suplKrted themselves by lace-making,, and patterns were handed down frni one generation to an.dher. When the Keigu of Terror began all work of this kiml was interrupted fr a t J 11 : . After the storm had subsided the dealers :ud workers were far apart some dead, stinie lost, some escaped to fre:gii. lands, and such of the women as :- niained were bound by their ;itli work for but one dealer: they regarded the obligation as binding, ami then wer instances whore they suffered a--tual want rather than break their 011I1. Some, however, taught their chihbvn and their gramlchihlren. and many patterns Avcre in this way preserved. S.n-u f the daintiest and finest patterns w r never recovered, and to-lay sjus-imeiis, of these laces are excvdingly valuables I A Matle Voice. It is reported that Prf. Stuart, of t'i.i Fnivorsity of Sydney, has invented an artificial larynx, and that it has been! trid with success upon a man who hatlj lost his voice. The mechanism esni b regulated so as t make the voice sh prano. tenor, contralto, or bass, at will It is sincerely to he hoped that the n.: ringers of vrtain ('mipanS m the rid will lay in a lilnral supply of these artU des for "artists" who have 11 voice, but endeavor to sing fr the public. IIa! IIa! Smith "It is understood that th breweries have engaged a carload oC f rogs." 1 It row 11 "Hera use they're so full of hops." Atlanta Constitution. j . . - 1 t The Natural (JucM ion. New Yorker Yes, old Col. Hawker is dead. It was a case of bad blood. ' Kciitiu kian Between him and whom? 1 Syracuse Post.