FORTKNT.
V
A Story of the Inner Vision of the
- Highlanders , Commonly Called
L , the Second Sight.
By GEORGE MACDONALD ,
r „ . CHAPTER VIII.-Continued. )
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I sprang to my feet and opened the
f ldden door. There she stood , white ,
asleep , with closed eyes , singing like
a bird , only with a heartfnl of sad
meaning in every tone. I stepped
aside , without speakhig , and she passed -
ed me into the room. I closed the door
and followed her. She lay already
upon the couch , still and restful-al-
ready covered with my plaid. I sat
down hrske , ! her , wLitsir , and dazed
upon her in wonderment. That she
was possessed of very superior intel-
leetual powers , whatever might be the
cause of their havhmig lain dormant so
long , I had already fully convinced
myself ; but I was not prepared to find
art as well as intellect.
Here was a song , of her own making
as to the music , so true and so potent ,
that , before I knew anything of the
words , it had surrounded me with a
dream of the place in which the scene
of the ballad was laid.
I sat and thought : Some obstruction
to the gateways , outward , prevented
her , in her waking hours , from tittering -
ing herself at all. Their obstruction
damming back upon their sources the
outgoings of life , thew her into this
abnormal sleep. In it the impulse to
utterance , still unsatisfied , so wrought
within her unable , yet compliant form ,
that she could not rest , but rose amid
walked. Atul now afresh surge front
the sea of her unknot'n being , umire-
pressed by the hitherto of the objects
of sense , had burst the gates and bars ,
swept time obstructions from its chant -
net , and poured front her in melodious
t
song.
1mid now I had once more the delight
of watching a spirit dawn , a soul-rise ,
in that lovely form. The light hushing
of its pallid sky waS , as before , the
first sign. I dreaded the flush of love-
] y flame , and the outburst of regnant
.anger. ere I slmould have time to say
that I was miot to blame. But when ,
.at length , the full dawn , the slow situ-
rise came , it was with all the gentleness -
ness of a cloudy summer morn. Never
did a more celestial rosy red Lang
about the skirts of the level sun , than
decpesed and glowed upon her face ,
when , opening her eyes , she saw nlc
I beside her. She covered her face
with her hands ; and instead of the
. , .voids of indignant reproach which I
bad dreaded to hear , she Inurmered
bellilld the snowy screen , "I am glad
you have broken your promnisc. "
My heart gave a bound and was
still. I grew' faint with delight. "No , "
I said , "I have not broken my promise ,
Lady Alice ; I have struggled nearly
to madness to keep it-and I have kept
it. "
"I have come then of myself.
IVorce and worse ! But it is their
fault. "
Tears now found their way through
time repressing fingers. I could not
endure to see her weep. I kneeled beside -
side ter , and , while she still covered
1 her face withh her hands I said-I do
not know what I said. They were
wild , and. IOu1)tless , foolish words in
themselves , but iluy must have been
wise and true in their meaning. 1Vllen
, : I ceased , I knew that I had ceased on-
13by time great silence about me. I
was still looking at her hands. Slowly
site withdrew them. It was as wlten
the stn breaks forthm on a cloudy day.
Time winter was over amid gone ; the
1 time of the singing of birds had come.
She smiled on me through ter tears ,
and heart net heart in the light of
.that smnilt.
She rose to go at once , and I begged
, for no delay. I only stood with clasped -
, ; ed hands , gazing at her. She turned
at time door , and said :
f "I dare say I shall colic again ; I '
: am afraid I cannot help it ; only mind
you d0 not wake mile. "
Before I could reply , I was alone ;
-aud I felt that I must not follow her.
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1'1 . CHAPTER IX.
e. " ' QtESTIONING.
: It way a week before I saw her n
again. Ilcr heart had been stilled and I
she was able to sleep again.
i
But seven nights after , she did come.
r 1
i waite(1 her awaking , possessed with
ell painftl thought , which I longed t
-to impart to her. She awoke with a
: smile , covered her face with her '
'hands for a moment , but only for a
moment , and then sat up. I stood before -
: fore her , and time first words I spoke
'were :
I
' . "Lady Alice , ought I not to go ? "
"No , " she replied at once " 1 can
claim some conponsation from tllemim ti
I
for the wrong they have been doing
t
auc. Do you know in what relation I
: stand to Lord and Lady Hilton ? They e
: are but my stepmotlmer and her hus-
band. "
"I know that"
"Well , I have a fortune of my own , t
about which I never thought or eared t
--till-tll-W [ thin the last few weeks.
Lord Hilton is my guardian. Whether - s
er they made me the stupid creature
I was , I do not know ; but I believe
they have represented me as far worse I
than I was , to keep people from making -
ing my acquaintance. They prevented
my going on with my lessons , because
? they saw I was getting to understand
things , and grow like other people ; and
that would not suit their purposes. It
would be false delicacy in you to
leave me to them , when you can makeup
-up to me for their injustice. Their behavior - S
; havior to me takes away any right
they had over mee and frees you from I
obligation , because I am yours , am I m
.not ? '
Once more she covered her face with
her hands. I could answer only by [
withdrawing one of them , which I was
now emboldened to keep in ins own.
I was very willingly persuaded to
what was so munch my own desire. But
-whether the reasoning was quite just
or not , I am not yet sure. Perhaps it
hmight be so for liner , and yet not for
ing I do not know ; I am a poor casu-
She resumed laying her hand on
mine.
"It would be to tell the soul which
you have called forth , to go back into
Its dark moaning cavern , and never
.come out to the light of day. "
A long pause ensued.
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"It is strange , " she said at length
"to feel , when I lie down at slight , that
I may awake in your presence , without -
out knowing how. It is strange , too ,
that although I should be utterly
ashamed to conic wittingly , I feel no
confusion when I find myself here.
li'hen I fell myself coming awake , I
lie for a little while with my eyes
closed wondering and hoping , and
afiai(1 to open diem , lest I should find
myself only in my own chamber ;
shrinking a little , too-just a little
from the first glance into your face. "
"I-hit when you awake. d0 you know
nothing of what has taken place in
your sleep
"Nothing whatever. "
"Have you no vague sensations , no
haunting shadows , no dim , ; Mostly
moods , seeming to belong to that condition -
dition , left ? "
"None whatever. "
She rose , said "Good.night , " and left
me.
me.It
It was sitting hate one night in my
room. I had all but given lip hope of
her coming. I had , perhaps , deprived
her of the suuuuubulie power. I was
1)ro0hiiig over the possibility , when all
at once I felt as if I w cle looking auto
the liatmted room. It seenle(1 to be
lighted l)3 the moon , shining through
the stained windows. 'r'ime feeling
came amid went suddenly , as such visions -
ions of places usually do ; but this hind
an imidescribable something about it
more clear and real than such resurrections -
rections of the past , whether willed or
unw illed , comilm ° nly possess , 811(1 Ii
great longing seh cd mile to look into
the room once more. I rose with a
sense of yielding to the irresistible , left
the room , groped my way through the
hall and iii ) the oak stairease-I hind
aet-er thought of taking a light with
mild-amid entered time corridor. No sooner -
or had I entered it than the thought
sprang up fu lay min(1-1Vllat if she
should be there ! " ? ly heart stood
still for a moment , like a wounded deer
and then bounded on , with a pang in
every bound. Time corridor vas night
itself , with a dim , bluish gray light
from the window's , sutlicing to mark
their own spaces. I stoic through it ,
811(1 , without erring once , went straight
to the haunted chamiber. The door
stood half open. I entered , and was bewildered -
wildered 1)y time ( limn , mysterious.
dreamimy loveliness upOhl which I gazed.
The nimmaui sih011e fill ! 111)011 the w'i11dOWS ,
and a thousand colored lights and
shadows crossed and intertwined upon
the walls and floor , all so soft , and
mingling , and undefied , that the brain
was filled as with a flickering dance of
ghostly rainbows. But I had little
time to think of these , for out of the
only dark corner in the roam came a
vimito figure , flitting across the chaos
of lights , bedewed , bespangled , bespattered -
spattered as shore passed , with their mui-
titudinous colors. I was speechless with
something far beyond joy. W itlh a tow
moan of delight Lady Alice sank into
my arms. Then , looking up , with a
light laugh. "Time scales are turned.
dear , " she said. "You are in my power
now ; I brought you here. I thought I
could , and I tried , for I wanted s °
ntucll to see you-and you are come. "
She led mile across the room to time place
where she had been seated , and w
sat side by side.
"I thought you had forgotten me , "
I said , "or had grown tired of me. "
"Did you ? That was unkind. You
have made my heart so still , that , body
fluid soul , I sleep at night. "
" "There shall I never see you more ? "
"We can meet here. This is the best
place. No one dares come near the
haunted room at night. We might
even venture in the evening. Look.
now , from where we are sitting „ across
the air , between time windows and the
shadows on the floor. D ° you see nothing -
ing removing ? "
I looked , but could see nothing. She
resumed :
"I almost fancy , sometimes , that
what 01(1 stories say about this room
may be true. I could fancy nmow that 1
I see dim , transparent forms in mum-
i
cient armor , and in strange antique
dresses , men 1111(1 w0111e11 moving about ,
nneeting , speaking , embracing , parting ,
coming and going. But I was nevus ,
afraid of such beings. I am sure these
would not , could not hurt its. "
"I could not persuade myself that t I
too , see them. I replied. "I cannot say
that I am afraid of such beings auIy
than only they will :
more you-if not t
speak. " t
"Aim ! " she replied , with a lengthened , ,
m
neaniug utterance , expressing synt-
) alty with what I said : "I know what-
-on mean. I , too , am afraid of hear-
ng things. And that reminds inc. I 1 m
lave never yet asked you about the
o
galloping horse. I , too , hear somao
[ roes the sound o a loose horseshoe. It
c
drays betokens evil to me ; but f
do not know what it means. Do you ? ' '
s
"I will tell you what my old foster-
mother told me , " I replied. And I bet
gang narrating when and where I had
irst heard the sound ; and then gate t
her , as nearly as could , the legend
rhiclt the nurse had recounted to inc.
did not tell her its association with 1
he events of my birth , for I feared a
xciting her imagination too much. She s
istened to it very quietly , however , s
hnd when I came to a close , only saido
" 0f course , we cannot tell how much
t
of it is true , but. there may be sonic-
king in it. I have never heard any-
king of the sort , and I , too , have an e
oId nurse. She is with me still. You
n
ball see her some day : " u
She rose to go.
" 1Vfi1 you meet me here again , soon ? " a
said. I
"As soon as you wish , " she answeredL s
"Then to-morrow at ? " '
, - , midnight b
"Yes. "
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CHAPTER 1 , nb
THE CLANKING SHOE.
Time passed. We began to feel 'rery
ecure in that room , watched as it was s
by the sleepless sentry , Fear. One a
might I ventured to take a limit with u
cc. r
"How nice to have a candle" ' she v
said as I entered. "I hope they are all '
n bed , though. It will drive sonic of e
them into fits if they see the light. "
"I wanted to show you something 1 , o
foun(1 in the library to-day : " . ,
" \Vhat is it ? "
I opened a book , and showed her a 1
paper inside of it with some verses t
written on it.
"Whose writing is that ? " I asked.
"Yours , of course. As if I did not I
know your writingr'
"Will you look at the date ? " , ,
"Seventeen hundred and ninety-three !
You are making game of me , Duncan ,
hilt the paper does look yellow and
) ld. "
"I tQUnd It as you see i In that book , t
It belouged to Lord Hilton's brother ,
The verses are a translation of part
of the poem beside which they lie--
one by Von Sails , who died shortly before -
fore that date at the bottom. I will
read them to you , amid then show you
something else that is strange about
them. The point is called Psyche's
Sorrow. ' Psyche means the soul ,
Alice. " -
"I remember. You told me about her
before , you know : "
"Then follows the date , with the
words In German underneath it Haw
weary I ant ! ' Now , what is strange.
Alice , is that this date is the very
month and year in which I was born. . "
Site did not reply to this with anything -
thing beyond a mere assent. Her mind
was fixel ou the pocmii itself. She be-
gami to talk about it antl I was surprised
to find how tlhoroughly she entered into
It and understood It. She scented to
have crowded time growth of a lifetime
into the last few months. At length
I told her how unhappy I had felt for
some time , at remaining in Lord Hi ! .
ion's house , as matters now were.
" 'Then you must go , " slue said , quite
quietly.
This troubled me.
"Tout ( lo not miiiud it ? ' '
"No. I shall be very glad.
' Will you go with mac ? " I asked , per-
1)lexed.
'Of course I will.
I ( lid not know what to say to this ,
for I had no money , and of course I
should have none of my salary. She
divined at once the cause of my lmesi-
taton. !
"I Lru e a ( lialnond bracelet in my
room , " she sai(1 , w itli a smile , and
a. few guineas besides. "
"I-low shall we get away ? "
"Nothing is easier. sly old nurse ,
whom I mentioned to you before , lives
at the lodge-gate. "
"I hsmow her very well , " I interrupt-
ed. "But she's not Scotch. "
"Indeed she is. But she has been
with our family almost all her life.
I often go to see her , and sometimes
stay ail night with her. You can get
a carriage ready in the village and
neither of us will be missed before
nlor ning. "
I looked at her in renewed surprisee
at the ICCISI011 of her invention. She
covered her face , as silt seldom did
now , but went on :
"We can go to London , where you
will easily 1111(1 something to do. lien
always can there. Amid when I come
of age- "
"Alice , how old are you" ' I imtterrupt-
ed. '
"Nineteen , " site answered. "By the
way , " lie resulted , ; when I think of it
-how odd-that"-pointing ! to the data
on the paper-"is the very month in
which I , too , was barn. "
I was too nmucll surprised to interrupt -
rupt her , an site continued :
"I never think of my age without recalling -
calling one thing about m y birth , which
nurse often refers to. She was going up
stairs to my mother's room , when shi
happene(1 to notice a bright star , not
far from the new moon. As site crossed -
ed the room with me in her arils , just
after I was born , she saw the salve
star almost on the tip of the opposite
horn. My mother died a week after.
\Vho knows hour different I might have
been if site had lived ! "
It was long before I spoke. The av-
fttl and mysterious thoughts roused in
ely mind by the revelations of the day.
held ale silent. At length I said , half
thing aloud :
"Then you and I. Alice , were been
Urn same hour , and our mothers died
together : "
Receiving no answer , I looked at lief.
Slle was fast asleep , and brealhing
„ entle , full breaths. Site had been sitting -
ting for some time with her head lyin4
on nit shoulder and any arni a1 oun(1
hcr. I could not bear to wake her.
% \TC had been in this position perhaps ,
for half an hour , when suddenly a cold' '
shiver rnn through me , and all at once
became aware of the far-off gallop
) fa horse. It drew nearer. On amid Ozu
t came-nearer and nearer. 't'hen ' came
tlmu clank of the broken shoe !
( T © BE CONTINUED. %
P'GT'ATOES HIS WEAPONS.
low a : IiunLOrons IIientucky Dominic
BroughC the Code Into Erdicnle.
Otte vasof combatfng an evil prac-
ice is toe make ft ridic alous. It was by
his means that doming vas stopped in
i certain district in Kentucky sonic
forty years. ago , says the Lexington
T.ianscripl1. At that time a traveling
lreaciler umamea Bowman. a strong.
muscularr man , . was comlducting a series
f'religious meetings hr Kentucky. At
ne of tfiem a well kir wn desperate
baractei' created ! a disturbance amid ,
tieing publicly rebuked by Bowman ,
( set him in challenge t fight.
the preacher's. iirst thonht was to'
mat the , matter with iieut contempt.
Then lie reflected that d meling was all
oo conunon : in that region , and he de-
citled to accept the challenge.
As the challenged' party , Bowman , ,
lad the choice of weapctus , he selected ?
. half bushel of Irish ; potatoes , and
tipulated that his opponent niint
hand fifteen pmwes dt tant and that ;
my one potato at a crime should Jmm
aken from the measu z -
The desperado. was fun-ions , but Bowman -
man insisted upon his rights as mime
hash ngod party and threatened to dh-
ounce tale fellow as a coward if lie
made Litrtller objections. Seeing no
yay out of the , scrape , the desperaudo
t last consented.
The contest took place on the gut
kirts of time' town , and almost e eery-
ody In the place turned out see the
min. The seconds arranged the , two
len in position , by the side oiY each
ding a half-bushel measure fi11ei. with !
potatoes.
Bowman threw the first on. It
truck his opponent in a central spat
ml fell iu pieces. A shout of delight
tent up from the crowd , wileh fiur-
ied the desperado and his potato flew
aide of the mark. Bow m watch&L
Lis chance , and every time his oppon-
nt stooped for a potatoe another on
Lit hat [ 111 the side , leaving a vet put
n leis clothes and then scattering 'Dj
,11 sides. The fellow was hit in t is
-ay five times ; the sixth potato str ICk i :
lima , in the short ribs and he lay , on l
he grass doubled up with pain and
groaning , "Enough. ' " i
The bystanders ' vent wild whh deI I
ight , but Mr. Bowman looked very
sober. Time desperado was takt u home
and put to bed , and there lie stayed
for more than a week. And when
he appeared ag sin he was greeted with
co Many joke ; that life was almost a
burden to him. That w'as the end of
hieing .n that region.
POINTS r COMPASS.
TALMAGE PREACHES AT THE
ACADEMY OF MUSIC.
"They Shall Come From the East , and
From the Wcet , and From the North ,
and From the South , and Shall Eft
Donn"-Lnko 13:29.
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GSU GS
l07
R , TALMAGE'S FIRST
sermon at the Academy
of Music , New York ,
Sunday was heard by a
great throng. He will
hereafter preach there
on Sundays. The text
'of the sermon is printed
in the heading. 'The
mnan tu ho wrote this
was at the time a prac
ing physician ; at another -
other time a talented
painter ; at another
time a powerfuli
preacher ; at another time a reporter-
aninspired reporter. God bless , and '
help , and inspire all reporters ! From
their pen drops the health or poison of
. The name of this reporter
was Lucanus ; for short he was called
Luke ; and in my textalthough stenography -
raphy had not yet been born , he reports - ,
ports verbatim a sermon of Chrtst i
which in one paragraph bowls the
round world into the light of the mnfl-
lennium. They shall come from the
cast , and from the west , and from the
north , and from the south and shall I
sit down. Nothing more interested
me in my recent journey around the 1
world than to see tune ship captain
about noon , whether on the
Pacific , or the Indian , or Bengal -
gal , or Mediterranean , or Red Sea ,
looking through a nautical instrunment
to find just where we were sailing ; and
it is well to know that though the
cantah , tell you there are thirty-two
points of division of the compass card
in the mariner's compass , there are
only four cardinal points , and my text
hails them , the north , the south , the
cast , the west. So I spread out before -
fore us the map of time world to see time
extent of the gospel campaign. The
hardest part of the field to be taken is
the north , because our gospel is an
emotional gospel , and the nations of
the far ncrtli are a cold blooded race.
They dwell amid icebergs and eternal
snows , and everlasting winter. Greenlanders - (
landers , Laplanders , Icelanders , Si-
berians-their vehicle is the sledge
drawn by reindeer. Their existence a
lifetime battle with the coin. The
I
winter charges upon them with swords
of icicle , and strikes them with bullets
hail and pounds them with battering of
rains of glacier.
But already the huts of the Arctic
hear the songs of divine worship. Already -
ready the snows fall on open New
Testaments. Already the warmth of t
the sun of righteousness begins to be
felt through the minds , and souls of
the Iiyperboreans. Down from Nova
Zembla ; down from Spitzbergen seas ; f
down fromn the land of the' midnight m
situ ; down from the palaces of crystal ;
down over realms of ice , . and over °
dominions of snow , and through hurricanes -
ricanes of sleet , Christ's disciples are J
coming from the north. The inhabitants - °
l
ants of Hudson's bay are gathering to
the cross. The church missionary
scciety in those polar clinics has been v
11
grandly successful in establishing
t
twenty-four gospel stations , and over
twelve thousand natives have been a
t
baptised. The Moravians have kindled
the light of the gospel all np
anti down Labrador. Time Danish mission - e
sion has gathered disciples from among
the slmb'ering inhabitants of Green-
t
Land. William Duncan preaches the
gospel'up in the chill latitudes of Gal- '
umbia , , delivering one sermon nine p
times in the same day to as many different - e
ferent tribes who listen , and then. go t
forth to build school houses and a
churches. Alaska , called at itsan - g
n exalton William H. Seward's folly , . b
nturns
turns out to be William II. Seward'
it is the voice-of t
triumph , and hearing -
God through the American missionaries b
ies , men and women as defiant to Arctic - - q
tic hardships as the old Scottish chief'
who , when camping out in a winter's.
night knocked from under his sonsJ ? t
h ead a pillow of snow , saying that i 1
in would I S (
such indulgence luxury ;
weaken and disgrace the clan ; Time
Jeanette went down in latitude 7T.I ti
while De Long and his freezing ands ! P
lying-men stood watching it from the ( 1
crumbling and crackling polar peak ;
but the old ship of the gospel sails.ti
as unhurt in latitude 77 as in our own t
40 degrees , and time one starred flag
floatsabove the top gallants in Baffih's
bay , and Hudson strait , and Melville °
sound. The heroism of polar expedi-- °
Lion , which has made the namesof g
Selaistman Cabot , and Scoresby , and a
Scbtivatka , and Henry Hudson + icon
mcrtal , is to be eclipsed by the prowess w
of the men or women who amid the b
fasists of highest latitudes are this mo- t
mmsent taking the upper shores of Eu crepe
rope , Asia and America for , God , h
Scientists have been able to agree as. L
ao what is the Aurora Borealis , or
northern lights. I can tell them. It t
is the banner of viatoty for Christ
spread oust in time northern night v
heavens. Partially fulfilled already d
the prophecy of nay teat , to be cornr
pletely fulfilled in , the bear future :
They shall come from the north : "
But my text takes in the opposite V
point of the compass. The far south
has through high temperaturz.tempta-
ions to lethargy and indolence. and T
mot blood wheh tend toward multiform -
form evil. We have through m r teat
got the north , in , nothwitbstanding its
frosts , and the same text brings in the v
south , notwithstanding its torridity. v
The fields of cactus , the orange groves ,
and the thickets of magnolia are to be f
surrendered to the Almighty. The c
south ! That means Mexico , and all s
the regions that William 11. Prescott ti
and Lord Kingsborough made familiar
in literature ; Mexico in strange dialect
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of the Aztecs ; Mexico conquered by
Herman Cortes , to be more gloriously
conquered ; Mexico with its capital -
ital more than 7,000 feet above the sea
level , looking down upon the entrancement -
ment of lake and valley and plain ;
Mexico , time home of nations yet to be
born-all for Christ. Time south ! That
means Africa , which David Livingstone
consecrated to God when he died on
his knees in his tent of exploration.
Already about 50,000 converts to
Christianity in Africa. The south !
That means all the islands strewn by
Omnipotent hand through tropical
seas. Malayan , Polynesia , Melanesia ,
Micronesia , and other islands more
numerous titan you can imagine unless
you have voyaged around the world.
The south ! That means Java for God ;
Sumatra for God ; Borneo for God ;
Siam for God.
A ship was wrecked near one of these
islands and two life boats put out for
shore , but those who arrived in the
first boat were clubbed todeatli by the
cannibals , and the other boat put back
and was somehow saved. Years passed
on , and one of that very crew was
wrecked again with others on the
same rocks. Crawling up on the shore
they proposed to hide from the canni-
bass in one of the caverns , but mounting -
ing the rocks they saw a church , and
cried out : "WTe are saved ! A church !
A church ! " The south ! That means
'enezimela , New Granada , Ecuador and
Bolivia. The south ! That means the
torrid zone , with all its bloomn , and all
its fruitage , and all its exuberance ;
the redolence of illimiiitable gardens ;
time music of boundless groves : the
lands , the seas , that night by night
look up to the southern cross , which in
stars traimsfigures the midnight heaven
as you look up at it all time way front
the Sandwich islands to Australia.
" 'They shall come from the south. "
lint I must not forget that my text
takes in another point of the compass.
It takes in time cast. I have to report
that in a journey around the world
there is nothing so much impresses come
as the fact that the umissionarieslivine-
ly blessed are taking time world for
GOd The Horrible \ ; u between Japan
and China will leave the last wall of
opposition flat in the dust. War is
barbarism always and every iviucre.
We hold up our hands in amazement
at the massacre at Port Arthur , as
though Cln istian nations could never
go into such diabolism. We forgot
Fort I'illow ! We forget the fact that
luring our war both north and south
rejoiced when there were 10,000 more
wounded and slain on the opposite
side. W'ar , whether in China or
the United States , is hell let
oosc. But one good result will
come from the Japanese-Chinese
conflict. Those regions will be more
open to civilization and Christianity
than ever before. When Missionary
Carey put before an assembly of min-
sters at Northampton , England , his
project for time evangelization of India ,
hey laughed hhn out of the house.
h'romn Calcutta on the east of India to
Bombay on the west , there is not a
neighborhocl butdirectlyor indirectly
eels the gospel power. The Jugger-
;
maut , which did its awful work for
enturies , a few weeks ago was brcught
ut from time- place where it has for
ears been kept under she ( [ as a curi- i
sity , . and there was no one reverential-
y to greet it. Ahout'three million of
Christian souls in India are the ad-
anee guard that will lead on the tuvo
undred and fifty million. Time Chris-
ians of Amoy and Pekin and Canton
re the advance guard that will lead the 1
hree hundred and forty million of
China. "They shall come from the
m
ast. " The last mosque of Moham
medanism wilt be- turned into a
Christian ehurcb. . The last. Dudhist
emple will become a fortress of light.
'lie last idol of Ifindooism will be
itched into the fire. The Christ who
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ame from the east will yet bring all
he east withh him. Of course , there
re high. obstaelcs. to be overcome , and.
reat ordeals must be passed through
efore the consummation : as witness
t
he Armenians.under the butchery of
he Turk , flay that throne on. the
t
ants of'tlie Bosphorous soon erumble : , t
site time-has- already come when the o
United States government and Great
Britain , and Germany ought to. intone c
h e indignation , of allcivilized nations. t
j'hile it. is-not requisite that arms be
a
nt there to avenge the wholesale t
massacre of Armenians , it is requisite a
atby cable under the seas and by o
retest that shah thrill the wires from I
Yaslmington , and Londonand Berlin to t
onstantinnple , the nations anatimema-
Y
ze the , diabolism for which the sal- b
in ; f Turkey isresponsible. Mohamna
medanism is a curse whether in h
Turkeyor New York [ "They shall o
ome fromn the east ! " And they will t :
ome-at the , call of the loveliest , and
randest , and best men and women of
1h , the , time : I mean themissionaries. p
o
Dissolute Americans and Englishmen
she
: ho have gone to Calcutta , and BornIi
ay , and Canton to make their for- i
mi nes , . defame the missionaries bemuse - c
muse the holy lives and the pure v
ouseholds of those missionaries are u
constant rebuke to time American and n
hnglish libertines stonpinmr there , but d
he-men and women of God there sta-
tLoned go on gloriously with their i
cork ; people just as good and self-
enying as was Missionary Moffatwho ti
when asked to write in an album i
wrote these words :
!
My album is in savage breasts
phere passion reigns and darkness rests 1
Without one ray of light. o
o write the name of Jesus there ; n
o point to wards both bright and fair ; s
rind see the pagan bow in prayer , i
Is all my soul's delight.
In all these regions are men and
; omen with the consecration of Mels
ille B. Cox , who embarking for the
missionary work in Africa , said to a
chow student : "If I die in Africa ,
ome and write my epitaph. " "What t
hall I write for your epitaph ? " said
e student , 'Write. " said ha , "these
words : Let a thousand fall before
Africa be given up. "
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There isanotherpoint of Limo coin-
pass that cony tcGt includes. "They
shall comie from the west. " That
means America redeemed. Everything
between Atlantic and Pacific. Oceans
to be brought within tune circle of
holiness and rapture. Will it be done
by worldly reformm , or evangelism ?
\1'ill it be law , or gospel ? I am glad
that a wave of reform has swept ) .
across this land , and all the cities 'i '
are feeling the advantages of the ;
mighty movement. Let the good r
work go on until the last municipal
evil is extirpated. About fifteen years
ago the distinguished editor of a New
York daily newspaper said to me in '
his editorial room , "You ministers
talk about evils of which you know
nothing.Yhy don't you go with the
oflicers of time law and explore for
yourself , so that when you preach
against sin you can speak from what
you have seen with your own eyes ? "
I said "I wilt' ' And in company with
a commissioner of police , and a captain
of police , and two elders of my church ,
1 explored the dens and hiding places i
of all styles of crime in New York , and
preached a series of sermons warning 1
young mcn , and setting forth the work
that must be ( lone lest the judgment
of God whelm this city with more
awful snbmuiel gelnent than the volcanic -
ic deluge that buried Herculaneum
and Pompeii. I received , as nearly as
I can renmeniber , several hundred col-
emits of newspaper abuse for tin-
dcrtaking that exploration. Edito-
vials of denunciation. double leaded ,
and with captions iiigreatprimertype ,
entitled "The Pall of 'I'alnage , " or
"Talmage Makes time Nistake of his
Life , " or "iow11 w mtlt'Tamage , ' but I i
still live , and am iii full symnpalhy with
all movements for ununici1pal purifica-
Lion , But a moveument which ends
withm crime exposed multi law executed
stops half way. Nay , it stops long before -
fore it gets half way. The law never
yet sat c ( t anybody ; never yet
changed anybody. lfrcak up all tic
lmouses of iniquity in this city , anti you
only scud the occupants toother cities.
Break down ILII time poiceimmezL 1n New
York , and while it changes their
worldly fortunes , it does not change
their heart or life. 'The greatest uvant
in New York today is the transform-
iug power of the gospel of Jesus Christ
to change the imeart and life , and uplift - J
lift time tone of time moral sentiment ,
anl make men do right , not because
they are afraid of Ludlow Street
jail ot Simmg Sing , but because tlmey
love God ; tad hate unrighteousness. I
have never heard , nor have you heard ,
of anything except the gospel thatpro-
poses to regenerate tlic heart , and , by
the influence of that regenerated
heart , rectify time life. Executetlmo
law most certainly ; but preach the
gospel , by all means-in churches , in
theaters , in homes , in prisons , on land
and on the sea. Time gospel is the only
power that can revolutionize society
and save time world. All else is hail
and half work , and will not last. In
New York it has allowcl men who
tot by police bribery their thousands ,
and tens of thousands , and Perhaps
hundreds of thousands of dollars to
; o scot free ; while sonic whew , ere
merely the cat's paw , amid agents of
bribery arc struck with the liglitnmgs
of the law. It reminds me of a scene
n I'hiladelphia when I was living
there A poor woman had been arrested -
rested and tried and inmprisoned for
selling molasses candy on Sunday.
Other law breakers had been allowed
to go undisturbed , and the grog shops
uvere open emi time Lord's day , and tic
aw uvith its hands behind its back
ivalketl imp and down time streets declin-
ng to molest many of the offenders ;
hat We atl rose up in our righteous in-
lignation , and calling upon all powers -
ers : visible and invisible , to help us ,
we declared that though the heavens
fell no woman should be allowed to
cllmolasses candy on Sunday.
There is that smother who through
alI the years of infancy and childhood
was kept running amid sick trundle
beds , now to shake up the pillow for
hat flaxen head , and now to give a
rink to those parched lips , and now
o hush tie frightened dream of a Title -
le one ; and when there was one , less
f the childreim because the great lover
of ehildren hind lifted one out of the
roup into the easy breathing of celes-
ial atmosphere , the mother putting
11 the more anxious care on those who
were lest ; so weary of arm , and foot ,
nd back , and head , so often crying
ut , ' I ten so tired : I am so tired : ' '
ter work doneshe shah sit down. And
hat business man for tliirtyfortyfifty-
ears has kept on the run , not urged
y selfishness , but for the purpose of
citieving a livelihood for tlmc house-
old. On the run from store to store ,
rfrom factory to factory ; meeting
is loss , and discovering that inaccu-
acy , and suffering hetrayai or disap-
ointment ; never more to be- cheated
r perplexed. or exasperated , lie shall
it down. Not in.a great arm chair of
raven , for thc rockers of such a chair
would imply' one's need of soothing , of
hinging to casy posture , semi-indi- -
idualism ; but , a throne , solidus eter-
ity and radiantas the morning after a
ight of storm. "They- shall sit
own. " '
Frederick the Great , notelthstand-
ng the , : nighty dominions over
which , he reigned , was so depressed at
ices lee could not speak without cry
-mg , and carried a small bottle of
nick poison with thick to end his
amisery. when he could stand it no
onger. But I give you this small vial
f gospel anodyne , one drop of which ,
of hurting bcdy or soul , ought to
mouthm all unrest , and put your pulses
nto an eternal cairn. 'They slall
ome from the east , and from the l
west , and from the north , and the '
outh , and shall sit down. "
Experienced.
Editor--Mr. heating would be just
he man for our "intom mation depart ,
went. "
Assistant--Why ? i
Editor-He has raised a family oij
thirtecu chlldren.-Truth.
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