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CHAFPER IX. ( Continued. )
"You will find It very hard to get
any one to believe your story in the
face of the cashier's sworn testimony , "
lie says coolly. "My dear Barbara ,
Bouverle was proved guilty. He was
tried for drugging the cashier and rob
bing the bank , and he committed the
crime witnout a shadow of doubt. I
dare say you were weak enough to
iiand him over a hundred pounds , but
he robbed the bank as well. "
"He did not ! " breathes Barbara desperately -
porately , "and it was I who begged
and prayed him to take the money. I
was to be his wife ; there was no harm
in it , and it saved him from dis
honor. "
Mrs. Saville takes Barbara's hand.
"My dear , don't make a fool of your
self ! We don't doubt that he took
your money it was exactly the kind
of thing a man like George Bouverie
would do , but he was guilty of the
bank robbery as well. It is hard on
you , Barbara , but he is not worth a
regret. "
Barbara's breath comes fast. Her
eyes fill suddenly with tears at the re
membrance of an interview between
herself and George that had been sol
emn and almost sacred. He had knelt
beside , her , with his face sorely trou
bled , and she had prayed to God to
give him strength to begin a new life ,
and give up the poison of the mania
for gambling. Was it likely after that
lie would have committed the sin he
was found guilty of ?
She draws her hand from her aunt's
clasp.
"You are all against him you and
Sebastian most of all. but I will save
him. "
Barbara carries her point , and starts
on her journey alone.
Sebastian shrugs his shoulders.
"What a high-flown piece of business -
ness ! But I see now why she went
o\it to Tasmania second class. "
"Barbara is an idiot ! " responds Mrs.
Saville irritably. "I would like to lock
her up ! I suppose we may as well go
back to the Court till she comes to her
senses. "
"Not so. You can settle anywhere
you like , and when Barbara finds that
her tragic explanation of George Bou-
verio and the hundred pounds won't
get him out of prison I'll fetch her
over myself , but let her do all she can
now. "
Barbara goes straight to the Grange ,
Who should she go to with her news
but to George's mother ? And never
for a moment has she the slightest
doubt that her story will unbar the
prison doors and let George free. It
was her money he had. She had
brought it to him in a little bag , and
made him take it ; and now , with her
yrctty face full of sympathy and hope ,
she gathers poor , sorrowful Mrs. .uou-
verie in her arms , and half weeping ,
balf laughing , tells the whole story.
And no doubt crosses the mother's
mind. Trembling with joy and excitement -
citement , she clings to Barbara , and
the two women weep together , drawn
to each other by the link of love that
is between them.
"God bless you ! " sobs .Mrs. Bou-
verie. "I knew my boy was innocent ,
but what shall we do , I am so ig
norant ? Ought we not go to the law-
ycr who defended his case ? Come ,
Barbara ! Oh , darling , you love him ,
Lee ; do not let us lose a moment ! We fi
can go to Dublin this evening , ami
then oh , surely tomorrow they will
set him free ? "
Neither Mrs. Bouverie nor Barbara
have the slightest idea of the red tape
and the endless formalities that can
keep even an innocent man unier lock c
and key.
Upon this tearful scene of excitement -
ment 'Doctor Carter enters. He pays
many , a visit to cheer up his old friend ,
and he alone knows of the calendar t
lhat is so full of sorrowful interest as
across each day a trembling line is
drawn , one twenty-four hours nearer
the end ol the time that is only beginning -
ning now.
He is fully as much excited as Mrs.
Bouverie and Barbara , and. like them ,
sees no difficulties in the way. It is
only when , in answer to an urgent appeal -
peal , Mr. Jarvis pays a late visit to
the Hotel Mctropole , where Mrs. Bou-
verie engages rooms , that a little
doubt damps the ardor of their hopes.
The man of law looks at Barbara's
flushed , eager face with a dawning of
comprehension. ni
"Quixotic , " he thinks. "Now I niPI
know why Bouverie held his tongue. I PI
thought there was something behind
PIG
ihe scenes. " G
To Mrs. Bouverie he says : "j
"This is most important evidence , I tcai
wish it had been produced at the time ai
aiB
of the trial. It accounts for the B
money , but how are w * to get over the tlhi
facts sworn to by Mr. Grey when he hi
Identified Bouverie as the man who in
drugged him ? That is the nut we have tic
to crack. " v <
The look of joy died out of Mrs. c
Bouverie's eyes , tears roll down her g <
cheeks. gl ;
glpi
"I thought this would have set him pi >
pim
tree , " she murmurs , pressing her pim
uands together. m
And Barbara's face is full -of sorrowful - ci
rowful anxiety. tl
tlpi
"He must be set free ! " she cries , pi
looking eagerly at Mr. Jarvis. "Mr. th
Jarvis , I am to be his wife" and how m
proudly she says it , as though she
were glorying in the fact "and I w
I
want to work for him" the color
flooding her cheeks. "I have money
oh , more than I know what to do
with ! You will know what to do ! Oh ,
you will help us , won't you ? "
Miss Savillo , I will do all that I can , "
the lawyer says earnestly. "If you
wish to leave the case In my hands , I
will do my very best. You may de
pend upon me. "
After that the days go by in an
agonized time of suspense and anxiety.
It seems so hard to sit still and wait ,
so cruel not to be able to rush to
George and tell him to hope. For ,
after all , there seems to be very little
hope , for how are they to prove that
George Bouverie did not rob the bank
as well as take Barbara's hundred
pounds ?
Barbara stays at the Grange , and
she Is all energy and excitement. She
will never rest till the whole case is
brought to trial again , and Mr. Jar-
vis' policy of waiting Is just what Barbara -
bara cannot bear to do.
The great lawyer has come to Port-
raven , hoping to find out some clue ,
but there seems nothing to find out.
Nobody can throw any light on the
mystery till chance discloses what the
brains of men have failed to find out.
Mr. Jarvis. walking down the street
of Portraven , puzzling out the case
that occupies all his thoughts , meets
a sharp-faced-looking lad , who accosts
him.
"You be the gentleman who is for
Mr. Bouverie ? " he says , touching his
cap.
cap."Yes
"Yes , my boy , I was his counsel , " re
turns Mr. Jarvis , alert in a second.
The boy looks at him.
"I don't believe It were he took the
money. I am the bank messenger , sir ,
and I see Mr. Grey taking a bag out
of the chimney in the bank. It was
this way , sir. Mr. Kelly was out , and
I'm fond of reading , and there was a
book Mr. Grey had , and I hid to get a
chance to nab it. and I saw him with
a
my own eyes taking down a wash
leather bag the day before he left the
office for good. "
"And where is Mr. Grey now ? " Mr. .
Jarvis asked sharply.
"Gone to Queenstown today to catch a.
the steamer for America , " the boy
says , with a glance of cunning. "I
told him I saw him take the bag , and I
thought he might give me a fiver to w
say nothing about it , but he kicked
me down stairs , and I don't care now
if I tell on him or not. "
Mr. Jarvis puts his hand on the
boy's shoulder.
"Come and tell Mr. Kelly what you
have told me , but take care you tell
the truth. "
The whole case seems full of per
plexity. Mr. Grey may have robbed
the bank a second time ; that remains
to be seen. It is a mystery indeed !
"You can't get over the chloroform e
business , " thinks Mr. Jarvis , " and the e
fellow positively swore it was Bou a
verie who did it. Still there seems to n
be a glimmer of daylight somewhere. " t
* * * * * * c
The Lucania is getting up steam , the b
lender is alongside , and the sun is h
shining brilliantly across the dazzling , h
sparkling water. tlri
Mr. Grey , the cashier who had been ria
the victim of the Portraven tragedy , a
stands on board with a grey , anxious iin
face. His wife is beside him a loud , n
flashy-looking young woman. a
"We're just off , " she is saying , when C
she catches sight of a look of horror h
Dn her husband's face. A police officer ' '
ind a private detective are coming to
wards them. The late cashier is seized
with trembling , and remains as if fas
cinated.
An arrest on board one of the outgoing
w
going American steamers is not a very
cl
uncommon occurrence. Mr. Grey and cla
tiis wife are conducted on board the a
tender , and the Lucania steams on her cc :
way. ccC
way.There
There is guilt on the face of the man C
who sits staring with wild , desperate re
before him , deaf to the angry fr :
protestations of his wife. is
Only once he speaks as he turns to ai
ier. te :
ier."Hold
"Hold your tongue ! You brought ai
ne to this ! It is all your fault ! " Then sc
le looks at the officer in charge of to
lim. "I will make a clean breast of it
there is nothing else to be done. "
And it is before Sebastian Saville he
makes his confession , as he stands , a
shrinking , craven object , wailing for
Mr. Jarvis listens , with a well- )
leased smile on his face.
"I took the hundred pounds , " Mr.
3rey says , with sullen composure.
'My wife thought of the plan ; I was a
eel in her hands. I stole the money , n
ind that day , after I had cashed Mr.
3ouverie's check , I tossed all the
.hings about , and myself stuffed the >
landkerchief soaked in chloroform
nto my mouth. I swear I am telling o
he truth. I swore it was George
verie who had attacked me. I did not
lare who suffered for my sin. But ,
tentlemen , " he cries , his agonized
lance wandering round , "I am hap- ou >
ier today than I have been for vi
nonths. I have never known a mo- th
nent's peace. Remorse has been my th
urse day and night when I used to sti
hink of the man suffering in my en
ilace , and his eyes , as they looked me su
hrough and through , have haunted Tl
ne. " fri
frim
Mr. Jarvis smiles at Barbara's tear- m ;
yet face. "I think George Bouverie
will find a sweet compensation for all
his troubles , " he says , as he promises
her to hurry on all legal formalities.
George Bouverie Is Innocent after
all ! Who can measure the mad anger
in the mind of Sebastian Saville ? In
his rage and disappointment he says
hard , bitter things , but Barbara does ,
not ejire. Before long she meets her
lover tfgain , and , in the sunshine of
her love , he forgets all the sorrow and
shame and desperation that had been
his lot.
With rare delicacy , Barbara has
willed lhat his mother shall be with
him first ; that they two shall go to
some haven till the first trouble shall
have passed away. Afterwards she
will go to him herself.
And so those two who have suffered
and sorrowed meet together again , and
Barbara once more looks into the face
that still bears the shadows of the
trouble.
"I am not fit for you ! " the man
groans.
But her eyes are full of smiles.
"There is a great estate at Tasmania
to be looked after , and it is waiting for
its 'manager , ' " she says.
THE END.
Great Cavalry Leader.
While Grant was-cutting4 and selling
cordwood , and Sherman was teaching
school , there was a man in Memphis
who was having no preparation what
ever for war.and yet who was destined
to t make no end of trouble for these able
soldiers. This was Gen. N. B. Forrest ,
whose life by Dr. J. A. Wyeth has re
cently been issued. Forrest was an
uneducated man and belonged to that
proscribed class in the south known
as "poor whites. " Moreover.he was still
further handicapped in. any effort to
stand on an equality with men of posi
tion by having been a slave trader.
But by native force and by a geaius for
action this unlettered man became the
most successful cavalry leader in the
south. He enlisted as a private , but
before he really went into action had
been made a lieutenant colonel. In this
capacity he proved that he could move
men through the country- with a celer
ity most remarkable. He knew noth
ing whatever about the principles of
war.and probably never read a book on
the subject in his life. It is unlikely ,
indeed , that he ever read many books
iio
of any kind. He was essentially a man
of action , and for more than three and
half years he kept the federal com
manders guessing as to where ho was
and what he was going to do next. To
ward the close of the war Forrest's
wonderful capacity was appreciated in
Richmond , and he was made a lieu
tenant-general and put in command of
all the cavalry west of the Mississippi.
.
It was too late , however , for 'hlra to
do much. Hood's army had been all but
destroyed before Nashville , Shea-man
was marching through Georgia , and
Gen. James H. Wilson was after For
rest with the strongest cavalry com
mand ever placed in the saddle. He
defeated Forrest at Selma the first
time , by the way.Forrest had ever been
2ompletely beaten and shortly after
ward the war ended. Saturday Even
ing Post.
Latest News from the Front.
At the war office the other day an
elderly gentleman of somewhat chol
eric disposition was making inquiries
after a relative in South Africa. An
noyed at the inability of the official
to < give him any tidings , he began to
charge them with willfully keeping
back intelligence. In the midst of
his expostulations a telegram was
handed him , and he immediately asked
the official if it concerned South Af
rica. The official replied in the affirm
ative , but said it was not of public
interest. Thereupon the old gentle
man alternately raved and pleaded.till
lit last , to keep him quiet , the official
consented ( , as a special favor , to show
tiim the wire. It read as follows :
'More nose-bags wanted at the front. "
London Express.
Few stoves In Uruguay.
Few houses in Uruguay are provided
ivith stoves for heating purposes. No
chimneys or fireplaces are provided , aa
rule , one house recently built at a
est of $14,000 having for Us only
himney a stovepipe from the kitchen ,
battle ; graze in the open all the year
ound , but during the winter season ,
rom April to October , the dampness
conducive to the spread of pulmon- It
iry troubles. Only one dealer in Mon-
evideo sells heating stoves , and these
ire of American make. Oil stoves find
iome favor , as coal sells at from $10 )
$14 per ton.
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Stealing "Whlleaways. " tl
At a church recently there was a tla
song service , and one mother took ai
ler little five-year-old daughter to it. aiPI
ne of the selections was "I Love to PICf
Steal Awhile Away. " It was drawled Cfs
lut in the good , old-fashioned way to jf
he end , and the little miss , after the si
Irst line , seemed to be lost in study , siSI
the midst of the prayer that fol- SIol
pwed , she climbed up on the seat be- ol
oloi
ide her mother , and in a stage whis- oi
oiki
er , asked : "Mamma , what are 'while- ki
kiB
ways , ' and what do good people want B
steal them for ? " fa
Suspicious Visitors Photographed. ai
cc :
The Bank of France has an ingenl-
aj
us arrangement by which suspicious
isitors can be photographed without . .
heir knowledge. Behind the desk of
th
he cashier is a hidden photographic fr
tudio , and at a signal from any of the
erS
mployes of the bank a picture of the
S (
uspected customer is instantly taken ,
di
'he camera is also used for detecting fe
rauds , an erasure on a check , which th
lay not be visible to the eye , being
3arly ; perceptible in a photograph.
TALMAGE'S SBKMON.
THE B5BLE. THE SUBJECT ON
LAST SUNDAY.
Good Accomplished Thereby an Evidence
of IM Dlvliio Origin An Answer to
the Cheap Agnosticism of the Pres
ent Day.
( Copyrighted , 1500 , by Louis Klopsch. )
Text , Matthew vil. , 16 , "Do men
gather grapes of thorns ? "
Not in this country. Not In any
country. Thorns stick , thorns lacer
ate , but all the thorns- ever put togeth
er never yielded one cluster of Cataw-
ba or Isabella grapes. Christ , who
was the master of apt and potent il
lustration , is thus setting forth what
you and I well know , that you cannot
get that which is pleasant and health
ful and good from that which Is bad.
If you find a round , large , beautiful
cluster of grapes , you know that it was
produced by a good grape vine and not
from a tangle of Canada thistle. Now ,
if I can show you that this holy Bible
yields good fruit , healthful fruit , grand
fruit , splendid fruit , you will come to
the conclusion that it is a good Bible ,
and all the arguments of the skeptic
against it when he tries to show it Is
a bad book will go overboard.
"Do men gather grapes of thorns ? "
Can a bad book yield good results ?
Skeptics with great vehemence declare
that the Bible is a cruel book. They
read the story of the extermination of
the Canaanltes and of all the ancient
wars and the history of David and
Joshua , and they come to the conclu
sion that the Bible is in favor of lac
eration and manslaughter and massa
cre. Now , a bad book will produce a
bad result ; a cruel book will produce a
cruel result.
Effect on Children.
What has been the effect upon your
children of this cruel book ? Or if you
do. not allow the book to be read in
your household , what has been the ef
fect upon the children of other house
holds where the word of * God is hon
ored ? Have they , as a result of readIng -
Ing this cruel book gone forth with a
cruel spirit to pull the wings off flies
and to pinion grasshoppers and to rob
birds' nests ? A cruel book ought to
make cruel people. If they diligently
read it and get absorbed with its prin
ciples that cause must produce that
effect. At what time did you notice
that the teachings of this holy Bible
created cruelty in the heart and life of
George Peabody , of Miss Dix , of Flor
ence Nightingale , of John Howard , of
John Frederick Oberlin , of Abbot Lau
rence ? Have you noticed in reading
the biography of these people that in
proportion as they become friends of
the Bible they became enemies to hu
manity ? Have you not , on the con
trary , noticed that all the institutions
of mercy established or being estab
lished were chiefly supported by the
friends of this book ? There is the
hospital in wartime. There are twenty
Christian women. They are binding
up wounds ; they are offering cordials ;
they are kneeling down by the dying
praying 1 for their departing spirits. n
Where does the cruelty crop out ? They ii
iiSi
have been reading the Bible all their Si
Sih
lives. They read it every morning ; h
they read it every night ; they carry it CI
CItl
under their arm when they go into the tl :
tlti
hospital. ti
tiT
Where does the cruelty of the book T
crop out ? Is it in the gentleness of u
their step ? Is it in the cadence of their g
voice ? Is it In the sympathetic prayer Ci ;
they offer at the bedside of the dying ? CiL
Your common sense tells you that a L
cruel book must produce cruel results. gi
When you can make a rose leaf stab
like a bayonet , and when you can tl
manufacture icicles out of the south li
wind , and when you can poison your licl
tongue with honey got from blossoming - cl
ing buckwheat , then you can get cruel tl
ty out of the Bible. That charge of the ei
skeptics falls fiat in the presence of tc
tcN
every honest man. N
The Charge of Infidels. "Jw
Again , infidels go on and most ve w
hemently charge that his Bible is an it
impure book. You all know that an tr
impure book produces impure results. to
No amount of money could hire you th
to allow your child to read an un th
clean book. Now , if this Bible be an ly
impure book , where are the victims ?
Your father read it did it make him a tr
bad man ? Your mother read it did a
make her a bad woman ? Your sis- T1 !
ter fifteen years in heaven died in the
taith of this gospel did it despoil her
nature ? Some say there are 200,000-
)00 copies of the Bible in existence , remi
some say there are 400,000,000 copies mi
ho
the Bible. It is impossible to get
the accurate statistics , but suppose o
'
there are 200,000,000 copies of the Bible
ibroad ! , this one book read more than °
my twenty books that the world ever sa
printed , this book abroad for ages , for
jenturies where are the victims ? yo
Show : me 1,000. Show me 500 victims
an impure book. Show me 100 de
spoiled of the Bible. Show me fifty.no
Show me ten. Show me two. Show no
ne one ! Two hundred million copies s" :
f an impure book and not one victim thi
f the impurity ! On the contrary , you cu
enow very well that it is where the tui
Bible has the most power that the an
ramily institution is most respected. an
Again , agnostics go on still further , an
md they say the Bible is a mass of thi
ontradctions , and they put prophet in t
igainst prophet , evangelist against cei
svangelist , apostle against apostle , and no
hey say if this be true , how , then , can kn
hat be true ? Mr. Mill , who was a ye ; ;
fiend of the Bible , said he had discov-
ired 30,000 different readings of the
Scriptures , and yet not one important aw
lifference out of 30,000 only the dif- big
erence that one might expect from wa
he fact that the book came down zai
rom generation to generation and was me
opied by a great many hands. And mi
yet I put before you this fact today ,
that all the Bible writers agree in the
four great doctrines of the Bible.
What are those four great doctrines ?
God good , kind , patient , Just , loving ,
omnipotent. Man a lost sinner. Two
destinies one for believers , the other
for unbelievers ; all who accept Christ
reaching that home and only those
destroyed who destroy themselves ;
only those who turn their backs upon
Christ and come to the precipice and
jump off , for God never pushes a man
off , he jumps off. Now , In these four
great doctrines all the Bible writers
agree. Mozart , Beethoven , Handel and
Hadyn never wrote more harmonious
music than you will find in this perfect
harmony of the word of God , the har
mony in providence and in grace.
A Romaknble Fact.
You must remember also that the
authors of the Bible came from differ
ent lands , from different ages and
from different centuries. They had no
communication with each other ; they
did not have an idea as to what was
the chief design of the Bible , and yet
their writings got up from all these
different lands and all these different
ages and all these different centuries ,
coming together , make a perfect har
mony in the opinion of the very best
scholars of all lands. Is not that a
most remarkable fact ?
Again , infidels vehemently charge
that the Bible is an unscientific book.
In a former discourse I showed you
that there was no collision between
science and revelation , and I went
from point to point In the discussion ,
but now let us have authority in this
matter. You and I cannot give forty
or fifty or sixty years exclusively to
the study of science that some men
give. Let us have authority in this
matter.
Infidelity Non-Suited.
Now , I might , as infidels have failed
to prove that the Bible is a cruel book ,
;
that the Bible Is an impure book , lhat
the Bible is a contradictory book , that
the Bible is an unscientific book I
might move a nonsuit in this case of
Infidelity , the plaintiff , against Christ
ianity , the defendant , but I will not
take advantage of the circumstances ,
for when the skeptic goes on to say
that we are a gullible people , when
he goes on to say , as he often does ,
that the greater the improbability , the
moie we like to believe it , when
he goes on to say that the
Bible is made up of a lot of manu
scripts , one picked up here anil an
other there and another from some
other place and that the whole thing is
an imposition on the credulity of the
human race , I must reply to that
charge.
The Bible is made up of the Old
Testament and the New Testament.
Let us take the New Testament first.
Why do I believe it ? Why do I take it
to my heart ? It is because it can be
traced back to the divine heart just
as easily as that aisle can be traced to
that door , and that aisle to that door.
Jerome and Eusebius in the first y
century and Origen in the second and b
ather writers in the third and fourth i
centuries gave a list of the New Testa
ment writers just exactly correspond
ing with our list , showing that the
same New Testament which we
iiave they had in the fourth I
century and the third century and "
he second century and the first cen-
.ury. But where did they get the New
restamcnt ? They got it from Irenae- "
.is. Where did Irenaeus get it ? He
jot < it from Polycarp. Where did Poly- "
arp get it ? He got it from St. John , s
vho was the personal associate of the i
lord Jesus Christ. My grandfather tl
tlci
ave a book to my father , my father ci
cigi
jave it to me , I give it to my child. Is gi
here any difficulty in tracing this tt
ine ?
On communion day I will start the I [
ihalice at that end of the aisle , and g
he chalice will pass along to the oth- la
end of the aisle. Will it be difficult
trace the line of that holy chalice ?
Co difficulty at all. This one will say ,
gave it to that one , " and this one
irill say , "I gave it to that one. " But
will not be so long a line as this to
i
race the New Testament. It is easier
)
get at the. fact. But you say , "AI- ,
hough this was handed right down in f
hat way , who knows but they were
to
ring imposters ? How can you take
in
neir testimony ? " They died for the
ruth of that book. Men never die for lehi
hi
lie cheerfully and triumphantly ,
'hey were not lying imposters. They la
led in triumph for the truth of that ev :
few Testament.
"Well , " says some one , "now I am tu
2ady to believe that the New Testa- of
lent is from the heart of Christ , but se
ow about the Old Testament ? Why qu
you believe that ? " I believe the Old th
'estament because the prophecies sa
jretold events hundreds and thou- ab
inds of years ahead events which th
Eterward took place. How far can at
ou see ahead ? Two thousand years ?
an you see ahead a hundred years ? an
an you see ahead five minutes ? No ,
! Human prophecy amounts to
othing. Here these old prophets
oed thousands of years back , and t\v
ley foretold events which came ac- lai
irately true far on in the future cen- ca
iries. Suppose I should stand here [
id say to you , "Twenty-five hundred ar
id sixty years from now , three miles an
id a half from the city of Moscow , an
lere will be an advent , and it will be co
a certain family , and it wil be amid Th
irtain surroundings. " It would make isl
impression upon you because you ve :
low I cannot foresee a thousand be
ars or one year , or one minute. a
aRi
The Infidels Harpoon. Ri
The infidels have been trying to pull
vay the miracles , pulling away at the
asted fig tree , at the turning of the
ater into wine , at the raising of La- a i
.rus from the dead. Can you show
col
a Bible from which one of these PI ;
iracles has been erased ? How mar- inj
velouslr fne old boota stick tether
All the striking at these chaptersonly
until they are
driving them in deeper
other' side witthe
clinched on the
book 13
he
hammers of eternity. And
going to keep right on " * & * * * * %
Some of
of the last day are kindled
and some
them will begin on one side
book.
old
on the other side of the
of loose
They will not find a bundle
manuscripts easily consumed by w
last day.
fire. When the fires of the
will burn on this
are kindled , some
side , from Genesis toward Revelation ,
and others will burn on this side , from
Revelation toward Genesis , and in an
their way they will not find a single
out of pla e.
chapter or a single verse
That will be the first time we can af
ford to do without the Bible , what
will be the use of the book of Genesis ,
descriptive of how the world was
made , when the world Is destroyed ?
What will bo the use of the prophecies
when they are all fulfilled ? What will
be the use of the evangelistic or Pau
line description of Jesus Christ when
we see him face to Sice. What will be
the use of his photograph when we
have met him in glory ? What will
be the use of the books of Revelation ,
standing , as you will , with your foot :
on the glaesy sea and your hand on the1
ringing harp and your forehead chapleted -
leted with eternal coronation amid the
amethystine and twelve gated glories
of heaven ? The emerald dashing Its
green against the beryl and the beryl
dashing Its blue against the sapphire
and the sapphire throwing its light on.
the Jacinth and the jacinth dashing Its
fire against the chrysoprase and you
and I standing In the chorus of 10,000
sunsets.
The Bible in Heaven.
But I do not think we will give up
the Bible even at that time. I think
we will want the Bible in heaven. I
really think the fires of the last day
will not consume the last copy , for
when you and I get our dead children
out of the dust we want to show them
just the passages , just the promises ,
which comforted us here in the dark
day of interment , and we will want to
talk over with Christians who have
had trials and struggles , and we will
want to show them the promises that
especially refreshed us. I think we
shall have the Bible In heaven.
Oh , I want to hear David with his
own voice read , 'The Lord is my Shep
herd. 1 " I want to hear Paul with his
own voice read , 'Thanks be unto God
that giveth us the victory. " I want
to hear Paul's
the archangel play _ _
march of the resurrection with the
same trumpet with which he awoke
the dead. O blessed book , good enough
for earth , good enough for heaven.
Dear old book book bespattered with
the blood of martyrs who died for its'
defense book sprinkled all over with ,
the tears of those who by it were com
forted. Put it in the hand of your
children on their birthday. Put it on
the table in the sitting room when you
begin to keep house. Put it under i
your head when you die. Dear old
book ! I press it to my heart , I press
it to my lips.
"Where shall I go ? " said a dying
Hindoo to the Brahmitic priest to
whom he had given money to pray for
his salvation. "Where shall I go after
die ? " The Brahmitic priest said ,
"You will first of all go into a holy
quadruped. " "But , " said the dying
Hindoo , "where shall I go then ? "
"Then you shall go into a singing
bird. " "But , " said the dying Hindoo ,
"where then shall I go ? " "Then , "
said ; the Brahmitic , "you will go into
beautiful flower. " The dying Hindoo
threw up his arms In an agony of soli
citation as he said , "But where shall I
o last of all ? " Thank God , this Bible
tells the Hindoo , tells you , tells me ,
iot where I shall go today , not where
shall go tomorrow , not where I shall
o < next year , but where I shall go
last of all !
"World's Most Rapid Readers.
Perhaps the fastest reader the world
sver knew was Gladstone. He could
cad and digest a novel of 50,000 words ,
scientific work as large or larger , a
olitical treatise or history by merely
flancing at the leaves as he turned
hem over. His eye and mind seemed
photograph with the
rapidity of an
nstantaneous camera. His eye was th
ens , his mind the sensitive plate. In
iia reading he was omnivorous to the
ast degree. The most rapid reader we
ver had in this country was John G.
Jarlisle , former senator from Ken-
ucky , speaker of the house , secretary
the treasury , and now legal repre-
entative of a giant trust , with head-
uarters in New York. Joe Blackburn ,
he most popular man in Kentucky !
'
ays that Carlisle is the most remark-
ble man he ever saw ; that he can tell
he contents of a book without lookiag
it , and give the synopsis of an ar-
ument on being told the
name of the
uthor.
Siara's > 'av- .
The Siamese navy consists
of be-
.veen forty and
fifty vessels , th
irgest of which is a well-armored and
apable vessel of 3,000 tons , named the
ahachakri. Nearly all the vessels are
rrned with quick-firing
, modern guns
nd are manned
by native crews who
strictly disciplined and have shown
onsiderable adaptability as sailors
here are three or four English , Dan-
or German
officers on each of th
essels of the fleet , the only American
emg Dr. Hayes of Baltimore , who is
surgeon on the staff of Admiral de
.icheheu.-San Francisco
Chronicle.
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white straw hat will
remove the dis-
loration caused by sun and dual
ace weights on the
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