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ORTHODOXY.
REV. T.
DE WITT TALfMGE
CHAUTAUQUA.
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The CrlolirntMl llrooliljn Dlvlni) AuTen
the Quettloii, "Ii Orthodoxy KIhIo and
Uiirrnnoimblii?" Tlio Illliln Dlrlnrly In-
lilrcil nml Divinely lntrrUl.
CHAUTAUQUA, N. Y.. Aug. ft. Tho llov.
T. DoWittTnlmago, D.D., of Urooklyii. Is
present for tho twelfth time at tho nntlonal
incotlnit of rellgloui educator nnd etiulouta
hold yearly In thin place. III.i sermon today,
which was delivered to an nuilieticc IihikwIiir
In numbers otul Intelligence, was from tho
following text, In tho book of Jcroinlnli
vl, 10: "Ask for tho old wths, whoro is
tho good way, nnil walk thoreln, uml yo shall
rtnd rest for your souN," nnd answered tho
liiwtlom "Is Orthodoxy Btalo nnd Unren
sonahlo!" Following is a verbatim report
oflti
A groat London fog has como down un
sonio of tho milliliters nnd soino of tho
churches In tho shnixj of what Is called "ad
vanced thought" In biblical Interpretation.
All of them, and without any exception,
deny tho full Inspiration of tho Illhlo. Oono
sis Is nn allegory, and thcro nro many myths
In tho Ulblo, and thoy philosophize nnd guess
nnd reason and evoluto until thoy land In o
great continent .of mud, from which, I fear,
for all eternity thoy will not bo nblo to oxtrl
cato themselves.
Tho Illhlo is not only divlnoly inspired,
but it Is divinely protected in its present
shape You could as easily, without detec
tion, tako from tho writings of Bhakospenro
"Hamlet" and Institute In place thereof Alex
ander Smith's drama as at any tlmo during
tho hut fifteen hundred years a man could
hnvo mado nny important cliango in tho
Dlblo without immediate detection. If thero
had been nn element of weakness or of de
ception or of disintegration, tho IkjoU would
long ago have, fallen to pieces. If thero had
been ono looso brick or Cracked cascmont in
this castellated truth, surely tho bombard
inont of eight centuries would havo discov
ered nnd broken through that Imperfection.
'1 ho fact that tho Iliblo stands intact, not
withstanding all tho furious assaults on nil
sides upon it, is proof to mo that it Is a mir
acle, nnd overy mlrnclo is of God.
"Bur," says somo one, "while wo admit tho
Ulblo is of Ood, it has not been understood
until our time," My answer U that if tho
Bible bo n letter from God, our Father, to j
man, ms cunu, is it not strange that that
letter should havo been written In such a
way that it should nllow soventy generations
to pass away and bo burled licforo tho letter
could bo understood I That would bo a very
bright father who should wrlto a letter for
tho guldanco and Intolllgenco of his children,
not undcntandablo until n tbousind years
nfter they wcro burled and forgotten I Whllo
as tho years roll on other beauties nnd excel
lencies will unfold from tho Scriptures, that
tho Ulblo is fcucli a dead failure that all tho
Christian scholars for eighteen hundred years
wcro deceived in regard to vast reaches of its
mcaulug, is a demand upon my credulity bo
great that if I found mysolf at all disposed to
yield to it 1 should to-morrow morning apply
at somo Insane asylum as unlit to go alone.
Who mako up this precious group of ad
vanced thinkers to whom God has mado es
pecial rovolation in our tlmo of that which
ho tried to mako known thousands of years
ago and failed to mako Intelligible? Are
thoy so distinguished forunworldllness, piety
and scholarship that it is to bo exacted that
they would havo havo been chosen to fix up
tho defectlvo work of Moses nnd Isaiah and
Paul and Christ) Is it at all possiblo? I
wonder on what mountain these modern ox
egotes woro transfigured) I wonder what
star pointed down to their blrtbplacef Was
it tho North star or tho evening star or tho
Dipper? As thoy camo through nnd de
scended to our world did Mars blush
or Saturn loso ono of Its rings! When
I find theso modern wUoacres attempt
ing to lmprovo upon tho work of tho
Almighty and to interlard it with their wis
dom and to suggest prophetic and npostollo
errata, 1 nm tilled with a disgust insuffer
able Advanced thought, which proposes t
toll tho Lord what ho ought to havo said
thousands of years ago, anil would havo said
if ho had been as wise us his Nineteenth cen
tury critical All this comes of living away
back In tho eternities Instead of 1883. I
havo two. wonder In regard to theso men.
The first ono Is how tho Lord got along with
out thorn beforo thoy wero bom. Tho second
wonder is how tho Lord will get along with
out them after they aro dead.
"But," say somo, "do you really think tho
Scriptures aro Inspired throughout?" Yes,
either as history or as guidance. Gibbon
and Josepliui nnd I'rescott record in their
histories a great tuauy things thoy did not
approve of. Whon Georgo Buucroft puts
upon his brilliant historical pagothonccount
of an Indlau mn&sncrc, does ho npprovo of
that massacre! Thcro aro scores of things in
tho Iliblo which neither God nor inspired
men sauctioncd. Either as history or as
guldanco tho entlro Biblo was Inspired of
God.
"Hut," eays somo ono, "don't you think
that tho copyists might havo mado mistakes
in transferring tho dlvlno words from ono
manuscript to nnothor?" Yes, no doubt thoro
were such mistakes; but thoy no moro nfTect
tho meaning of tho Scriptures than tho mis
spoiling of a word or tho ungrnmmatlcal
ktructuro of a sontenco in a last will and tes
tament affoct tho validity or tho moaning of
that will. All tho mistakes mado by tho cop
yists in tho Scriptures do not amount to nuy
moro fmportancothan the dilfcrenco between
your spelling in a documont tho word forty
"forty" or "fourty." This book is tho last
will and testament of God to our lost world,
and it bequeaths everything In tho right
way, although human hands may havo dam
aged tho grammar or mado unjustlflablo in-
tcrpolatlon.
Those, me
men who prldo themsalvcs in our
day on being advanced thinkers in biblical
intcrproUitiou will nil of them end in athe
ism, if they livo long enough, and I dcclaro
hero today thoy aro doing moro iii the
dlflercnt denominations of Christians, and
throughout tho world, for damaging Chris
tianity and hindering tho causo of tho world's
betterment than live thousand Robert Inger
fcolls could do. That mau who stands iusido
u castlu is far moro dangerous, if ho bo nu
enomy, thau live mousanu euemles outsldo
tho castle. Itobcrt G.
costlo from tho outsldo.
Iiigcrsoll assails tho i
Theso men who pre-
tend to bo advanced thinkers in all tho do
nominations are ilgutlng tho truth from tho
lnsido and trying to bhovo back thu bolts and
swing open tho gates.
Now, lam In favor of tho greatest freedom
of religious thought and discussion. 1 w ould
havo us much liberty for heterodoxy us for
orthodoxy. If I should chango my theories
of religion I should preach them out nnd out,
tomed to prench, for that was erected by !
uut not in mo uuiiuiiik whero l nm ncciuv-
pooplo who believe in nn entire Biblo, audit
would bo dishonest for me to promulgate
sentiments different from thoso for which
that building was put up. When we outer
any denomination as ministers of religion
wo tnko a solemn vow that wo will preuch
thu sentiments of that denomination. If wo
chango our theories, as wo havo a right to
in i- nni, then tlipi-ols n world K-trml
iou mil niiluN In circumference, and thoro
are liiiiiui'itU of halls nnd hundred of ncutl-
Mm,trl0'Vl'er0 W0Cn" TC,rt,,ftUonr
IrvmenVtlmtinall our oltlc, In tlmo
f iKilltli-nl nffltntion Iheronio tho Henubll
an iiortihpinrtern and thu Democratic head
HUiirter. Suppose I should go Into ono of
these hen-lnuarten. pretending to 1h) In sym
mhy with their work, at tho same tlmo
electioneering for the opposite p.irty. I
would soon llud that the centrifugal force
was gmater thnn tho centrljietall Now, If n
man enters n denomination of Christian,
Inking a solemn oath, a wo nil do, that no
will promulgate tho theories of that denom
ination, nnd thou tho man shall proclaim
some other theory, ho has broken his oath,
nnd ho I nu out nnd out erjurcr. Never
theless, 1 declare for largest lllwity In religi
ous discussion. I would no more hnvo tho
nttempt to rear n monument to Thomas
I'ulno Interfered with than I would havo In
terfered with tho lifting of tho splendid
monument to Washington. largest liberty
for tho liody, largest liberty for tho mind,
largest liberty for tho soul.
Now, I n nut to show you, nn matter of
advocacy for what I Iwllovo to bo tho right,
tho splendors of orthodoxy. Many havo buj
posed that its disciples aro people of Hat
skulls nnd no rending, nut! hchinil tho ago,
and tho victims of gullibility. I shall show
you that tho word orthodoxy stands for tho
greatest splondors outsldo of heaven. He
boid tho splendors of It. achievements. All
tho missionaries of tho Gospel tho world
round nro men who bollovo In nnontlro Bible,
Cnll tho roll of nil tho missionaries who nro
enduring sacrifices In tho ends of tho earth
for tho causo of religion and the world's bet
terment, nnd thoy nil bellovo In nn entlro
Bible, Just nssoonusn mlulonary begin
to doubt whether thcro over wns n Garden of
liden, or whether thero is nny such thing ns
futuro punishment, ho cornea right homo
from Boyrout or .Madras and goes Into tho
Insurance business! All tho missionary socl
ties this day nro officered by orthodox men
und nro supported by orthodox churches.
Orthodoxy, beginning with tho Sandwich
Islands, has captured vast reclons of linrlui.
rism for civilization, whllo hoterodoxy has
to capture tho first square Inch. Blatant for
many years In Groat Britain and tho United
Suites, nnd struttlngnbout with a iieacocklnn
braggadocio, It has yet to capturo the first
continent, tho first state, tho first township,
tho first wanl, tho first spaco of ground ns
big ns you could cover with tho small end of
a sharp pin. Nlnety-nlno out of overy hun
dred of tho I'rotcstnnt churches of America
wcro built by people who belie veil in an entlro
iliblo. The pulpit now may preach somo
other gosjicl, but it Is a heterodox gun on an
orthodox carriage, Tho foundations of all
tho churches that nro of very great uso in
this world today wero laid by men who bo
lloved tho Blblo from lid to lid, and if I can
not tako It in that way I will not tako It at
all; Just as if I received n letter that pro
tended to como from n friend, mid part of It
was his nnd part somebody else's, and tho
other part somebody else's, and it was n sort
of literary niongrellsm, I would throw th
garbled sheet Into tho waste basket
No church of very great Influence today
but was built by thoso wfio bcllovcd in an
entire Biblo. Neither will n church last long
built on n part of tho Biblo. You havo
noticed, I supjiose, that ns soon ns a man bo
gins to givo up tho Blblo ho is npt to preach
In somo hall, and ho has an nudienco whllo ho
lives, nnd when ho dies tho church dies. If I
thought that my church in Ilrooklyn wns
built on a quarter of a Blblo, or a half
Blblo, or three-quarters of n Blblo, or ninety
nino ono-huiidrodths of n Bible, I would
expect It todlo whon I dlo; but when I know
it is built on tho entlro Word of God, I know
ii, win lass iwo numireu ears after you and
I sleep tho last sleep. Oh, tho splendors of
nu orthodoxy which with ten thousand hand
nnd ten thousand pulpits and ten thousand
Christian churches, is trying to savo tho
world I
In Muilo hall, Boston, for many years
stood Theodore Talker battling orthodoxy,
giving It, ns somo suppose! at that tlmo, its
death wound. Ho was tho most fnsclniitln
man I ever heard or over oxjected to hoar,
nnd I camo out from hearing him thinking'
In my boyhood way: "Well, that's tho death
of tho church." On thnt same streot, und
not far from being opiwslto, stood Bark Con
grcgatlonal church, called by Its enemlet
"Holt Flro Corner." Theodoro Parker died
and his church died with him; or, if It is In
existence it is so small you cannot soo it
with the naked eye. Park Congregational
church still stands on "Hell Firo Corner"
thundcrlug uwny tho magnificent truths of
this glorious orthodoxy just ns though Theo
doro Parker had never lived. All that Bos
ton, or Ilrooklyn, or Now York, or tho world
over got that Is worth having i-nmo through
tho wldo uquoduct of orthodoxy from tho
throne of God.
Behold tho splendors of character built up
by orthodoxy. Who had tho greatest hu
man intellect tho world over over knew?
Paul In physical staturo insignificant; in
mind, head nnd shoulders nbovo nil tho
giants of the ago. Orthodox from scalp to
heel. Who was tho greatest poot tho nges
over saw, acknowledged to bo so both by In
fldcls nnd Christians? John Milton, seeing
moro without eyes than anybody else ever
saw with eyes. Orthodox from scnlp to heel.
Who wns tho greatest reformer tho world
has over seen, so acknowledged by Infidels as
well as by Christians Martin Luther. Or
thixlox from scalp to heel.
Then look nt thu certitudes. 0 man, Ix.
lloving in nn entiro Blblo, whero did you
como from! Answer: "I descended from a
perfect pnrentngo in Paradise, and Jehovah
breathed into my nostrils tho breath of life,
I nm a son of God." O man, tailoring in a
half nnd half Blblo, bo loving in a Biclo iu
spots, whero did you como from? Answer:
"It is nil uncertain; in my ancestral lino
nwny back thoro was an ourang-outang and
n tadpole and a pollywog, mid it took mill-
ious of years to got mo ovolutod." Oman,
believing In a Blblo in spots, whero
nro you going to when you quit
this world? Answer: "Going into a
great to bo, so on into tho great bomowhere,
nnd then I shnll pass through on into tho
grcnt anywhere, and I shall probably urrivo
In tho nowhere." That is whore I thought
you would fatch up. O man, bollovlng in nn
entlro Blblo, nnd believing with n'l your
heart, whero nro you going to when you
loavothls world? Answer: "lam going to
my father's houso; I nm noinc into tho com-
poalonshlpof my loved ouw who havo gono
taroro; 1 nm going to leu vo all my sins, and
i nm going vo oo wun uoii and HUo Uod for
over nnd forever." Oh, tho glorious certi
tudes of orthodoxy I
Behold tho splendors of orthodoxy In Its
nuuouucoinent of two destinies.
Palace and penitentiary. Pulaco with
gates on all sides, through which all may
enter and llvo on celestial luxuries world
without end, and all for tho knocking and
tho asking. A palaco grander than If all tho
Alhambrus nnd tho Versailles and tho Wind'
nor castles and tho Winter garden ami tho
imperial abodes of all thu earth wero heaved
up into ono architectural glory. At tho other
end of tho universe u penitentiary, wlioro
men who want their sins can have their
Would it be fair thut you and I should havo
our choice of Christ und tho pal tee anil other
uvjii Ik) doulod their choice of sin and eternal
d 'gradation! rnlnco and penitentiary. Tim
first of no tiie unless you haio tho last.
I Brooklyn nnd Now York would lx hotter
llncw to live In with ltnymond Htrret jail
; L1!',8!? XStM
sniallHx hiMpltnls emptied on them than
heaven would bo If thero were no licit. Pal
ace nnd penitent lary. If 1 seen man with a
full bowl of sin, mid he thirsts for it, ami Ills
whole nnturo craves It, and ho tnkes hold
with loth hands and uressc that bowl to Ids
lips, nnd then presses it hard between hi
teeth, nnd the draught begins to pour its
swoetnes down his throat, shall wo snatch
away tho ImiwI, and Jerk tho man up to tho
gate of honveii, nnd push him in If ho does
not wnnt to go nud sit down nnd sing psalm
forever! Nu Ood has mado you and mo so
completely f reo that w o need not go to heaven
unless wo prefer It. Not more five to soar
than free to sink.
Nearly nil tho heterodox ooplo I know lio
llovo nil nro coming out ut tho snmo destiny;
without regard to faith or character o aro
oil coming out at tho shining gate. There
they arc, nil In glory togothor. Thoinn
Palno nud Oeorgo Whltelleld, Jezebel mid
Mary Lyon, Nero nud Charles Wesloy,
Charles Oulteau and Januv A. Onrllold,
John Wilkes Booth nnd Abraham Lincoln -nil
in glory together I All tho Innocent men,
women and chlldicu who wcro massacred,
sldo by sldo with their murderer. If wo
nro nil coining out nt tho same destiny, with
out regnrd to character, thon It Is true, I
turn uwny from such a debauched heaven.
Against that caldron of piety and blas
phemy, philanthropy nud nssasslnatlou, pelf
sacrifice and taastlinoss, I placo tho two des
tinies of tho Blblo forever nnd forever and
forever opart.
Deltoid also tho splendors of tho Christian
orthodox deathbeds.
Thoso who deny tho Iliblo, or deny nny
part of It, never dlo well. Thoy either go out
In darkness or thoy go out In sllenco porten
tous. You may gather up nil tho biogra
phic that havo como forth since the nrt of
printing wa Invented, and I challenge you
to show mo a triumphant death of u man
who rejected tho Scriptures, or rojectcd nny
part of them. Hero I mnko n great wldo
avenue. On tho one I put tho dcnthUsla of
thoso who belloved In nn entlro Blblo. On
tho other sldo of thntavenuo 1 put tho death
beds of thoso u ho rejected part of tho Bible,
or rejected all of tho Biblo. Now, tako
my arm and let us pass through
this dividing nvonuo. Look off iiimjh the
right sldo. Hero nro the deathbeds on tho
right side of this nventio. "Victory through
our Lord Jesus Christ!" "Freo gracol"
"Glory, glory!" "I nm swooping through
tho gates washed In tho blood of tho Iamb"
"Tho chariots aro comlngl" "I mount, 1
flyl" "Wings, wings!" "Thny nro coming
for mo!" "Pence, bo still!" Alfred Cook
man's deathbed. Richard Cecil's dcntliUs!.
Commodore Footo's ilcnthU'd, your fathor's
deathbed, your mother's deathbed, your sis
ter's deathbed, your child's deathbed. Ten
thousand radiant, songful deathbeds of thoso
who talloved nu entiro Blblo.
Now tnko my nrm and let us go through
that nvonuo and look off upon tho other sldo.
bosmlloof hopo. No shout of triumph. No
tnco supornnturnlly Illumined. Those who
rojcctnny part of tho Blblo never dlo well.
No beckoning for nngels to come. No listen
Ing for tho celestial escort. Without any
exception they go out of tho world lccnuso
thoy aro pushed out; while on tho other hand
tho list of thoso who believed ill an entlro Bl
blo and gono out of tho world In triumph Is a
list so leng it seem Interminable Oh, is
not that a splendid influence, thlsorthodoxy,
which makes that which must otherwlso bo
tho most dreadful hour of llfo tho last hour
positively paradisaical!
Young men, old men, middle nged men,
tako sides In tills contest between orthodoxy
nnd heterodoxy. "Ask for tho old nnths.
wnlk therein, nnd yo shall find rest for your
souls." But you follow this crusndo against
any part of tho Blhlo-ilrst of all you will
glvo up Genesis, which is astruous Matthew;
then you will glvoup all tho historical parts
of tho Bible; thon after n whllo you will glvo
up tho miracles; then you will find it con
venient to givo up tho Ten Commandments;
and then after a whllo you will wako up in
a fountalnlcss, rockless, treeless desert swept
of everlasting sirocco. If you nro laughed nt
you can afford to bo laughed nt for standing
by tho Blblo just ns Ood hns given it to you
nnd miraculously preserved it.
Do not Jump overboard from tho stanch
old Great Eastern of old fashioned orthodoxy
until thero I something ready to tako you
up stronger than tho fantastic yawl which
has painted on thosldo "Advanced Thought,"
nnd which leaks at tho prow nml leaks at the
stern and ha u steel pen for ono oar nnd a
gllli tongue for tho other oar, uud now tips
over this way nnd thon tlw over that way,
until you do not know whether tho passon
gers will laud iu tho breakers of de.palr oron
mo siutum; sanu or nuiuolltvnud a theism.
1 nm In full sympathy with tho advance
ments of our tlmo, but this world will never
advance a single inch beyond this old Blblo,
God wns Just nscapablo of dictating tho truth
to tho prophets nnd apostles ns ho is cnwihIo
of dictating tho truth to thoso modern
upostles nud prophets. God lias not learned
anything In u thousand years. Ho Know just
a much whon ho gnvo tho first dictation n
hodoos now, giving tho last dictation, if ho
is giving any dictation ntall. So 1 will stick
to tho old paths. Naturally n skeptic and
preferring now things to old, I never so much
as today folt tho truth of tho entlro Bibb,
cscc!ally ns I 6eo Into what spoctaeulur
imbecility men rush when they try to chop
up tho Scriptures with tho moat ax of their
own preferences, now calling upon philoso
phy, now calling on tho church, now calling
on God, now calling on tho dovll. I prefer
tho thick, warm robo of tho old religion old
as God tho robo which hns kept so many
wnnn nmld tho cold pilgrimage of this lifu
and nmld tho chills of dontli. Tho old robo
rather than tho thin, uncertain gauze offered
us by theso wiseacres who bellovo tho Biblo
iu spots.
On July 27, 1814, at 73 years of uge, expired I
Isabella Graham. Sho wns tho most usoful
woman of her day amid tho poor nnd sick, nt
tho head of tho orphan asylums nud Magda
len asylums, and an nngol of mercy iu hos- I
pltnl nnd reformatory. Dr. Mason, ono of
mightiest men of his day, said at her funeral
that sho was mentally nnd spiritually
the most wonderfully endowed person ho '
ever met. Sho wns an impcsonntlon of tho
most orthodox orthodoxy. Her lust word
wus lieaco. As n subllmo peroration to mv
sermou I will givo un extract from her last
will and testament, showing how ono who
bclloves in an entiro Biblo muy mako a
Glorious exit.
An extract from n will:
"My children and my grandchildren I
leave to my covonnnt God, tho God who hath
fed mo all my life with tho bread thnt jier
isbeth nud tho bread that never erlaheth,
who has boon a Father to my fatherless chil
dren ami u husband to their widowed mother
thus far. And now receiving my ltedcem
cr's testimony, I set to my 6cal that God is
true; nnd bollovlng tho record of John that
God hath given to me eternal life, and thii
llfo Is iu his Son, who, through tho otornnl
Spirit, overcomes without spot unto God, and
tains consecrated a priest forover, hath iUi
his own blood entered Into the Iwly place,
having obtained eternal redemption for me, I
nlsatallovo that ho will perfect wlwt concerns
me, support nnd carry mo safely through
death, and .rricnt tw to his Father, com.
plotoln hi own rl?hteoii!tne, without spot
or wriiiiuc mioiiic imims or t I s lot cent.
Ing God, Father, Hon and Holy Ghost I coin,
mil my redeemed spirit.-Isabella Graham.
Let mo dlo tho death of the rlglitcou, and
nnd lot my last end bu like hers. "Glory bo
to tho Father nud to the Hon nud to tho Holy
Ghost, n It wn In tho beginning, I now nnd
over shnll ta, world without end. Amen
nudnmeiil"
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Notes ami Hems.
A young woman near Troy, N. Y I matt
ing a fortune selling Dutch cheese.
An Ohio young lady's imtno I F.nmnolpa.
tlon Proclamation. Ilcr friend cnll her
"Prockte,"
Mrs. Langtrv'n fortune Is said lo exceed
t-'00,000 Her father wa only worth about
tlfiO w hen ho dlVd tho other day.
France Hodgson Ilurnett ha yellow hair,
cut short, largo blue eyes, n fnlr complexion,
nnd n plump nnd well proortloiied figure,
Porhap tho tast paid woman writer In
thl country Is Mrs, Hnuthworth, who re
ceive an Income of $7,000 a year from The
Now York l.olger Mnry I? Ilryan, one of
tho now writers from tlm smith, earns nn In
como of f (1,000 by her pen.
Old silver haired beaux who wero wont In
tho years agono to sigh over the lovo ditties
of N. P. Willi will experience n return of
tncirold heart flutterliign when they rend
thnt tho poet's diughter, Mrs. Dr. Eddy, oc
cupies ft (wsltio i Iu Harvard college.
Mis Itnpp, queen of tho Harmony or
Economy society, located on tho Ohio river,
nenr Allegheny ('It v. I over UJ year old,
nnd In nn excellent stnto of preservation.
Tho community was fouii-lnl by Goorgo
Itnpp In 1801. There nro Bald to ta surviv
ing forty of the orlglunl members of tho
society.
Tho general mannifer of Tho Han Francisco
Breeder nud Hnortsuum Is Miss A. L. Wll
son. of Cynthlaim, Ey. Hho Is reputed to bo
ono of tho liest Informed women In America
on pedigrees and tho history of trotting
horse. Very few men, Indeed, nro so well
posted on turf matters, and sho I Itesldc nu
able nnd graceful writer
Tho Rov. Antoinette Ilrown fllnrkwoll,
who Is now 01 years old, innkes her homo nt
El Morn, n suburb of Ellzntath, N. J. Rho
lives Inn pretty red cottngo surrounded by
tree on tho outside, and filled with rugs, old
furniture nnd Ixioks on tho Inside. Mrs.
Blackwcll sonds tho most of her tlmo in licr
study, whom she does a great ileal of writ
ing. It wns her pen, It Is said, that built
mis nttmciivii llltlo homo In New Jersey.
Tho enso of Emma Bonn, who wns brutally
assaulted six year ago in Christian county,
Ills., It still fresh In tho public recollection.
In consequeneo of her Injuries sho lay nt
denth'n door for sovernl years, nnd tho sym
pathy of tho wholo country went out to her
In her pntlont sufferliiL'. Now comes Mm
i in
pleasing nowsthnt sho ha fully rcgnlned her
health, weigh 103 pounds nnd carries roses
on both cheeks.
Mrs. Hannnh Nnllson Is tho manager of n
successful dairy school In Denmark. Sho
traveled oxtenslvoly, learning how to mako
tho finest kind of cheeso in-cullnr to ench
I country. Sho now has hundreds of pupils.
including counts nnd barons from all over
Europe Sho has tnkon a number of pio
niluins, and nt her sllvor wedding sho wns
presented with n silver cup by tho Iloynl
Danish Agricultural society ns nn acknowl
edgment of her sbaro In tho progres, of Dan
ish dairying.
Mrs. Thurbcr, whoso nnmo hns so often
appeared in tho papers In connect Ion with
tuo American opera schome, Is a woman
with whom ii chat Is nlwnys entertaining.
Sho talks In a low voice, leaning her cheek
on ono hand, and until sho has qulto got
! through with what sho has to say her listener
may ns well jiossoss his soul In patience.
Mrs. Thurbcr is passionately dovoted to
music, nnd at one timo beforo her murrlngo
sho sang iu tho choir of a well known church.
Her children, of whom sho has sovernl very
bright ones, nro taught music under tho
i direction of a pianist of somo celebrity
whoso excluslvo services Mrs. Thurtar has
retained and who lives In her house, Tho fail
ure of tho Amoricnu or National oncra
scheme wns, naturally enough, u blow to Sirs.
Thurtar, but her buoynntdlsposltlousoon re
covered from It and today sho Is very ec
thuslnstlo ntaut tho Consorvntory of MuaSj
over whoso fortunes sho presides.
"A curious fenturo of fashionable llfo
today," said Irono Ackermun, thu actress,
Intcly, "is tho mania of every woman
to do something." Tho phraso "fash
ionable buttcrily" has cis utterly gono
out ns "bucks" nud "dandy." Tho first
step In this direction wns tho char
ities, and thoso are now "common." A
woman, to get away from tho background,
must do something special. Young Mrs.
Piorro Lorillard Is aecroditcd with a novel.
Mrs. Poultuey Blgclow has taken to story
writing. Mrs. Robert Ooelet exhibited a
portrait of n child with tho Society of Ameri
can Artists. Young Mrs. Havemoyer has
Just published her first literary sketch. Mrs.
Zoo Dana Underbill ha recently had u short
story In Harper's Weekly. Theso ladies must
not ta classed with tho amateurs uud dobu
tantes who play their pretty games nt elo
cution, In privute theatricals, in art and
music, nor with thoso mnturer ladies who
road solid pajwrs at tho Causerie. do Lundl,
nnd beforo their respective Dante nnd Shako
spraro societies. Nor aro thoy to ta com
pared with thoso who write and publish
booksnt their own expense Thelrnlm is far
moro serious. Thoy place themselves before
thnt tribunal which measures values, and
when they nro successful thoy pockot their
cnccKs just nuo oilier eopIe.
Probably no woman in thu world is tho
subject of moro frequout nnd moro nlteurd
stories than Mrs. John W. Mnckay, tho wife
of tho Cnhiornla millionaire. A favorite
yarn Is lo tho effect that sho once kept a
miners Lnanlliig houo iu Virginia City, nud
thnt her futuro husband was ono of tho
boarders. As a matter of fact, Mrs. Mnckay
never kept n boarding houso either at tho
placo mentioned or clsowhero, nnd never met
Mr. Mnckay ntnll until ho hnd acquired tho
greater jvirt of his wealth und was living nt
tho best hotel of tho country. loreover,
Mm. Mnckay comes from nn exceedingly
good family. Her father wa Col. Hunger
ford, nn ofllccr Iu tho United Stntes nrmy
during both tho Moxlcan war and tho retal
lion. At tho end of tho war ho was porson
ully complimented by President Lincoln uud
received a medal at hi hands. Mrs. Mnckay
wus educated nt St. Catharine's academy, nt
Beiileia, Ca!., und her first husband wns Dr.
IMmund Bryant, of Brooklyn. Kno wn
widowed nt ID uud met Mr. Mnckay shortly
ii terwnrd nt her father's- bouse, Tho mutch
was u lovo match, nnd tho union ha always
tacn a iieculmrly happy ono. Her daughter
by tho first marriage, as i well known, re
cently married Princo Colonna, of Italy, nnd
her sister some tlmougo married Count Tel
fener, of Hume. Mrs. Mnckay has two or
three' sons, nnd sho It staying ubro.ul chlelly
ou account of their education.
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