CAPITAL CITY COURIER, SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1892
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'ATTHETABKRNACIiB.
DR. TALMAGE ILLUMINATES AN OB
SCURE TEXT.
Slgnlflcnnrn of 11m Wr, "I Annworrri
Th- In the Secret Place of Thunder."
. In the Itlhle Tliiiiuler la the Tjm ul
Fairer unit M)trry.
Iln.ooKl.YN, May 'M. Dr. TnlmnK Ritve
a fresh illustration this morning of the
power ho jxissesses of extracting valuable
lessons from n text which preachers have
generally noKlcetod ns barren groiiml. His
sermon was Imsod on the text I'shIuih lxxxl,
7, "I nnsworcd theu In thu secret place, of
thunder."
It is past midnight, and twoo'cloek In thu
morning, far enough from sunset and ruin
rise, to mnku the darkness very thick, and
the Egyptian army In pursuit of t ho es
cnplng Israelites are on tho lottom of thu
Red Hen, Its waters having heen net up on
cither Hide In masonry of sapphire, for God
can mnkon wall as solid out of water as
out of granite, and thu trowels with which
these two walls weru hullt worn nonu tlio
less powerful because Invisible, Such
walls had never heforo Ik'uii lifted.
When I naw thu waters of thu lied Hea
rolling through thu Suez canal they weru
blue and beautiful nud Mowing like other
waters, but tonight, ns thu Egyptians look
up to them built Into walls, now on one
side nud now on thu other, they must have
been frowning waters, for It was probable
that thu samu power that lifted them up
might suddenly (ling them prostrate. A
great lantern of cloud hung over this
chnsm between thu two walls. Thu door
of that lantern was opened toward thu Is
raelites ahead, giving them light, and thu
back of thu lantern was toward the Egyp
tians, and it growled and rumbled and
jarred with thunder; not thunder llku that
which cheers the earth after a drought,
promising thu refreshing shower, but
charged and surcharged with threats of
doom.
Thu Egyptian captains lost their pres
ence of mind, and thu horses reared and
snorted and would not answer tothelr bits,
And thu chariot wheels got interlocked anil
torn otr, and the charioteers weru hurled
headlong, and tin; ited sea fell on all thu
host. Thu confusing and confounding
thunder was in answer to thu prayer of thu
Israelites. With their hacks cut by the
lash and their feet bleeding and their
bodies decrepit with thu suffering of whole
generations, they had asked Almighty Cod
to cnsepulcher their Egyptian pursuers in
0110 great sarcophagus, and thu splash and
thu roar of thu lted sea as it dropped to its
natural bed weru only thu shutting of the
sarcophagus on a dead host. That is thu
meaning of thu text when God says, "I an
Bwered thee in thusecret placuof thunder."
Till: BYMIIOI. OK I'OWKIt.
Now, thunder, all up and down thu Illble,
is thu symlKil of power. Thu Egypt Ian
plague, of hail was accompanied with this
full diapason of thu heavens. Whllu Sam
uel and his men weru making a burnt of
fering of a htmb, and thu Philistines wore
About to attack them, it was by terrorizing
thunder they were discomfited. Job,
who wiih a combination of thu Dnntosque
and thu Mlltooic, was solemnized on this
reverberation of the heavens, and cried:
"Thu thunder of his power, who can un
derstand r" and be challenges the uni
verse by saying, "Cnn'st thou thunder
with a voice llku hlinf" and he throws
Rosa Iloiihcur's "Horse Fair" into thu
shade by thu Ilililu photograph of a war
horse, when he desetlbes his neck as
"clothed with thunder." Itecnuso of tlm
power of James and John, they were called
"th sons of thunder." Thu law given on
the basaltic crags of Mount Slnal was em
phasized with this cloudy ebullition. Tht
skies all around about St. John at I'atmos
weru full of thu thunder of war anil thu
thunder of Christ ly triumph and thu thuu
der of resurrection and thu thunder of
eternity.
But when my text says, "I answered
thee in thu secret placuof thunder," it sug
gests there is some mystery about thu
thunder. To thu ancients thu cause of this
bombarding thu earth with loud sound
must have been more of a mystery than it
it to us. Thu lightnings, which weru to
them wild monsters ranging through thu
skies, in our timu liavu been domesticated.
We harness electricity to vehicles and we
cage it in lamps, and every schoolboy
knows something about thu fact that it U
the passagu of electricity from cloud to
cloud that makes tho heavenly racket
which wu call thunder. Hut after all that
chemistry has taught thu world, there are
mysteries about this skyey resonance, and
my text, true in thu timu of the Psalmist,
Is true now and always will bo true, that
theru is some secret about thu place of
thunder.
To one thing known about the thunder
there are n hundred things not known.
After all thu scieutillc batteries have bceu
doing their work for a thousand years to
come and learned men have discoursed to
the utmost alout atmospheric electricity
and magnetic electricty and galvanic elec
tricity and thermotic electricity and f ra
tional electricity and posltivu electricity
and negative electricity, my text will be
aa suggestive as it is today, when it speaks
of tho secret place of thunder.
NATUISAL AMI BI'lltlTUAI. LAWS.
Now right along by a natural law there
is always a spiritual law. As theru is a
secret place of natural thunder, there is a
secret place of moral thunder. In other
words, thu religious power that you see
abroad in the church and in tho world lias
a hiding place, and in many cases it U
never discovered at all. I will use a simil
itude, lean give only tho dim outline of
a particular cate, for many of thu remark
able circumstances I havu forgotten. Many
years ago theru was a large church. It wn
characterized by strange and unaccount
able conversions. Theru weru no great re
vivals, hut Individual cases of spiritual
arrest and transformation.
A young man satin one of thu frontpew".
He was a graduate of Vale, brilliant as thu
north star and notoriously dissolute.
Every Ixsly knew him and liked him for Ids
geniality, but deplored ids moral errantry.
To pleaso his parents hu was every Sab
bath morning in church. One day there
was a ringing of the doorbell of the pastor
of that church, and that young man,
whelmed with repentance, Implored prayer
anil advice and passed into complete refor
mation of heart and life. All thu neigh!or
hood was astonished and asked, Why was
this? Ills father uud mother had said
nothing to him about his soul'ir welfare.
On another aisle of thu same church sat
an old miser. Hu paid his pew rent, but
was hard on thu poor and had nn Interest
in any philanthropy. Piles of money!
Ami people said; "What a struggle hu will
havu when hu quits this life, to part with
his Ismdi and mortgages." Ouu day hu
wroto to his minister: "IMeaso to call Im
mediately, I have a matter of great Im
portance about which I want to seu you,"
When thu pastor cainu in thu old muu
could not speak for emotion, but after a
while hu gathered wlf control enough to
say: "I have lived for this world l
long, I wnut to know If )ui think I can l.i
saved, and, If so, I wish you would tell mi
how." Upon his soul thu light soon
dawned, and thu old miser, not only rev
olutionized ill heart but In life, began !t
scatter benefactions, and toward all the
great charities of the tiny he became a
cheerful and bountiful almonrr. What
was tho cause of this change? evcrylxnly
asked; and no one was capable of giving
n intelligent answer.
lu another part of the church sat Sab
hath by Sabbath, a lienutlful and tnlctiud
woman, who was a great society leader.
Shu went to church Ihtiiusu that was a re
HMM'tablu thing to tin, and In thu nelghlsir
hood whore she lived it was hardly rcsicet
ablo not to go. Worldly was shu to the
last degree, and all her family worldly.
Shu had at her house the lliiest germans
that weru ever danced, and thu costliest
favors that were ever given, and though
shu attended church shu never liked to
hear any story of pathos, and as to re
ligious emotion of any kind, shu thought
it positively vulgar. Wines, cards, the
aters, rounds of costly gayety weru to her
thu highest satisfaction. Ouu day a neigh
bor sent lu a visiting card, and this lady
came down the stairs lu tears, and told (hu
whole story of how shu had not slept for
several nights, and shu feared '.hu was ru
ing to lose her soul, and she wondered If
Homu ouu would not como around and pray
with her.
From that timu her entire demeanor was
changed, and though she was not called
upon to sacrlllco any of her amenities of
life, she consecrated her beauty, her social
position, her family, her all to God and thu
church and usefulness. Everybody said
In regard to her, "Have jou noticed the
change, and what lu thu world caused Itr"
and no one could make satisfactory expla
nation. In the course of two years, though
there was no general awakening In that
church, many Mich Isolated cases of such !
unexpected and uiiaceouutahlocouversious i
took place. The very people whom iiiinnu
thought would be affected by hucIi consld
orations weru converted. I
TIIK I'OWKIt OK I'llAYKIt. j
The pastor and thu olllcers of the church
were on thu lookout for thu solution of this
religious phenomenon. "Where Is It," '
they said, "and who is It and what Is itf" I
At last thu discovery was innilu and all '
was explained. A poor old Christian wom
an standing lu thu vestibule of thu church
one Sunday morning, trying to get her
breath again before shu went upstulrsMo
thu gallery, heard the Inquiry and told the '
secret. For years shu had been lu the
habit of concentrating all her prayers for
particular persons in that church. She
would seu some man or soniu woman pros
Nit and, though shu might not know thu
person's name, shu would pray for that
lierson until hu or shu was converted to
God. All her prayers weru for that one
person Just that one. She waited and
waited for communion days to seu when
thu candidates for membership stood up
whether her prayers had been effectual.
It turned out that these marvelous In
Malices of conversion weru thu result of
that old woman's prayers as shu sat In tin
gallery Sabbath by Sabbath, bent and
wizened and poor and unnoticed. A little
cloud of consecrated humanity hovering
In thu galleries. That was the secret place
of thu thunder. Theru Is some hidden, un
known, mysterious source of almost all
thu moral and religious power demon
United. Not one outof a million not onu
ant of ten million prayers ever strikes a
human ear. On public occasions a minis
ter of religion voices thu supplications of
an assemblage, but thu prayers of all the
congregation nru in silence. There Is not
a second in a century when prayers are not
ascending, hut myriads of them are not
even as loud as a whisper, for GimI hears a
thought as plainly as a vocalization. That
silence of supplication hemispheric mid
perpetual Is the secret place of thunder.
In thu winterof lSTft wu weru worshiping
in t ho Brooklyn Academy of Music in I he in
terregnum of churches. Wu had the usual
great audiences, but 1 wax oppressed beyond
measure by thu fact that conversions were
not more numerous. OiiuTuesilay I Invited
to my hotisu live old, consecrated Christian
men all of them gonu now, except Father
Pearson, and he, In blindness and old age,
waiting for thu Master's call to come up
higher. Tliesu old men came, not knowing
why I Invited them. I took them to thu
top room of my house. I said to them: "I
havu called you hero for special prayer. 1
am in an agony for a great turning to God
of the people. Wu have vast multitudes in
attendance and they aru attentive and re
spectful, but I cannot seu that they nru
saved. Let us kneel down and each ouu
pray and not leave this room until wu are
all assured that thu blessing will come and
lias come." It was a most Intense crying
unto God. I said, "Brethren, let this meet
ing be a secret," and they said it would be.
That Tuesday night special service ended.
Oh tho following Friday night occurred
thu usual prayer meeting. No one knew
of what had occurred on Tuesday night,
but thu meeting was unusually thronged.
Men accustomed to pray in public in great
coni)osuro broke down under emotion.
Thu people weru lu tears. There were sobs
and silences and solemnities of such un
usual power that thu worshipers looked
Into each others faces as much as to say,
"What does all this mean?" And when
the following Sabbath came, although we
weru in a secular place, over four hundred
arose for prayers and a religious awaken
ing took place that made that winter mem
orable for time and for eternity. There
may bu lu this building many who were
brought to God during that great ingath
ering, but fuw of them know that the up
per rixmi in my house on Quincy street.
, where thosu live old Christian men poured
out ineir souis oeiore uoti, was me secret
placuof thunder.
SCIKNCK CANNOT AITItOACH IT.
The day will come God hasten It when
peoplu will find out thu velocity, the majes
ty, thu multlpoteucu of prayer. Wu brag
about our limited express trains, which
put us down a thousand miles away in
twenty-four hours, but here is something
by which In a moment wu may confront
peoplu live thousand miles away. We
brag about our telephones, but here is
something that Is'ats thu telephone lu ut
terance and reply, for God says, "Before
they call, I will hear." We brag about
thu phonograph, in which a man can speak
and his words and the tones of his voice
can bu kept for ages, and by thu turning of
a crank thu words may count forth upon
thu ears of another century, hut prajer al-
. lows iih to speaK wonis into tiieearsof
everlasting remembrance, and on the other
side of all thu eternities they will Imj heard,
Oh, ye who are wasting your breath, and
wasting your brains, and wasting your
i nerves, and wasting your lungs, wishing
or this good anil that good for the church
and thu world, why do you not go into the
secret place of thunder?
"But," says someone, "that Is a beauti
ful theory, yet It does not work lu my
case, for I am in a cloud of trouble, or it
cloud of sickness, ora cloud of persecution,
or a cloud of poverty, ora cloud of bereave
ment, or a cloud of perplexity," How glad
I am that ym told me that. That Is ex
actly the place ti which my text refer.
It was from a cloud that God answered
Israel, the cloud over thu chasm cut
through thu Hod sea, the cloud that was
light to thu Israelites and darkness to the
Egyptians, It was from a eloud, a tre
mendous cloud, that God made reply, It
was a eloud that was the secret place of
thunder. So )ou cannot get nwny from
the consolation of my text by talking that
way, Let all thu people under a cloud
hear It. "I answered tlieo lu thu secret
placuof thunder."
Tills subject helps tuu to explain some
thlnys you havu not understood about men
and women, and there are multitudes of
them, and tho multitude Is multiplying by
thu minute. Many of them havu not a
superabundance of education. If jou had
their brain in a postmortem examination,
and Jou could weigh It, It would not weigh
any heavier than the average. They have
not anything escclnlty Impressive In per
sonal appearance. They aru not very lluent
of tongue. They pretend to nothing un
usual lu mental faculty or social Inllucncc,
but you feel their power; jou aru elevated
lu their presence; you aru a hotter man or
a better woman, having confronted them.
You know that lu Intellectual endow
ment, you am their superior, whllu lu thu
matter of moral and religious Inllucncc
they aru vastly your superior. Why is
this? To llnd thu revelation of this secret
you must go back thirty or forty, or per
haps sixty years to the homestead where
this man was brought up. It Is a winter
morning, and the tallow candle Is lighted
and thu I Ires aru kindled, sometimes thu
shavings hardly enough to start thu wood.
Thu mother Is preparing thu breakfast, the
blue edged dishes aru on thu table, and the
lid of tliu kettle on the hearth begins to
rattle with thu steam, and the shadow of
the Industrious woman by tho dickering
Ihune on thu hearth Is moved up and down
the wall. Thu father Is at the barn feed
lug thu stock thu oats thrown Into the
horses' bin and the cattle crauuehing thu
corn. Thu children, earlier than they
would llku and after being called twice,
aru gathered at tho table.
Thu blessing of God is asked on the food,
and thu meal over the family Bible is put
upon thu white table cloth, and a chapter
Is read and a prayer made, which includes
nil the Interests for this world and the
next. Thu children pay not so much at
tention to the prajcr, for It is alsmt thu
Hiuiu thing day after day, hut It puts upon
them an Impression that ten thousand
years will only imiku mom vivid and tre
mendous. As long as thu old folks live
their prayer is for their children and their
children's children. Day In and day out,
mouth In. and mouth out, year in and yeat
nut, decade in and decade out thu sous and
daughters of that family are leniembered
in earnest prayer, and they know It, and
they feel It, and they cannot get away
from it.
Two funerals nftei awhllu not inert
than two yearn apart, for it is seldom the
theru is more than that lapse of time bo
tween father's going and mother's going
two funerals put out of sight thu old folk)'
Hut where are thu children? Thu tlallgh
tors are lu homes where they aru Incarna
tlous of good sense, industry and piety
Thu sous, perhaps one a farmer, another i
merchant, another a mechanic, another
physician, another a minister of tho Gospel
useful, consistent, admired, honored. Wlui
a power for good thosu seven sous and
daughters! Where did they got thu power?
From thu schools, and thu seminaries, and
the colleges!1 Oh, no, though thosu mu)
havu helped. From their superior mental
endowment? No, I tin not think they bad
unusual mental caliber. From ncchlcntrd
circumstances? No, they had nothing ot
what is called astounding good luck.
INKI.l'CNCK OK KAIll.Y ASSOCIATIONS.
I think wu will taku a train and ride t
the depot nearest to thu homestead from
which thosu men and women started. Th
train halts. Let us stop a few minutes n'
thu village graveyard and seu the tomb
stones of thu parents. Yes, thu one wu.
seventy-four years of agu and the other
seventy-two, and thu epitaph says that
"after a useful life they died a Christian
death," How appropriately thu Scripture
passagu cut on thu mother's tombstone,
"Shu hath done what shu could." And
how beautiful thu passagu on tliu father's
tombstone, "Blessed aru tho dead who die
in tliu l.onl, for they rest from their labors
and their works do follow them."
On over the country road wu ride the
road a little rough, for thu spring weather
Is not quite settled, and oucu down in n rut
it is hard to get thu wheels out again with
out breaking thu shafts. But at last we
comu to thu lane in front of tliu farmhouse.
Let mu get out of thu wagon and open the
gatu while you tlrivu through. Hero is tliu
urlior under which those Ixiys and girls
many years ago used to play. But it is
qultu out of order now, for tho property Is
lu other hands. Yonder is the orchard
wheru they used to thrash the trees for
apples, sometimes beforu they were quite
ripe. There Is tliu mow where they hunted
for eggs beforu Easter. There is tliu door
sill upon which they used to sit. There is
thu room in which they had family prayers
and where they all knelt thu father there,
thu mother there, and thu boys and girls
there.
Wu have got to thu fountain of pious and
gracious lulliieuces nt last. That is thu
placu that decided those seven earthly and
immortal destinies. Deholdl Behold! That
is the secret placuof thunder. Boys are
seldom more than their fathers will let
them be. Girls aru seldom more than their
mothers will let them Ih. But there come
times when it seems that parents cannot
control their children. Theru comu times
in a Imy's life when hu thinks hu knows
mom than his father does, and I remember
now that I knew more at fifteen years of
agu than havu over known since.
Theru comu times in a girl's lifu whon,
shu thluks'her mother is notional and docs
not understand what Is proper nud best,
and the sweet child says, "Oh, pshaw!"
and shu longs for thu timu when she will
not have to 1m- dictated to, and she goes
out of the door or goes to lied with limiting
lips, nud these mothers remember for
themselves that they knew more at four
teen years of agu than they have ever
known since. But father and mother tin
not think you have lost your influence over
your child, You havu a resource of prayer
that puts thu sympathetic and omnipotent
God into your parental undertaking. Do
not wastu your time in reading flimsy
lHks alsmt thu liest ways to bring up
children. Go into thu secret place of tliiin
dr. The reason that vt) ministers tlo not ac
complish mom is been usu others do not
jirny enough for us and we do not pray
enough for ourselves. Every minister could
tell you a thrilling story of sermons ser
mons hasty and Impromptu, because of
funerals and sickbeds and annoyances In
the parish; yet those sermons harvesting
many souls for God. And then of sermons
prepared with great cam and research and
toil uninterrupted; yet those sermons fall
ing flat or powerless. Or of tliu same syr
mon mightily blessed on onu occasion and
useless on another. How well I remember
a soi mon I preached nt n great outdooi
moot lug in tho upper part of this state.
For several tla)s In that place pra)ci
had Is'on offered for thu juccrss of thu
service, and I hud myself Iteen unusually
prayerful, and we had a Pentecostal bless
ing while I wo preaching It. That after
noon 1 took tho train for a groat outdoor
meeting In Ohio. I said to myself, "This
sermon was blessed today and It Is fresh In
my mind, and I will preach It tomorrow In
Ohio." And I did preach It, but tint lu as
prayerful a spirit, and 1 think no one clso
had lxi'ii praying about It, and it turned
lulo thu most luaiieand prolltlesstllscoursu
that I over delivered, It was practically
thu samu sermon, but on Wednesday It had
ouitaMiwor that comes from thusecret
placuof thunder, and on Thursday It had
on It no such power at all.
I'llAYKIt IN TIIK I'lM.IMT.
Oh, pray for us! Poor sermons In thu
pulpit aru thu curse of God on a prayerloss
parish. People say: "What Is the matter
with thu ministers lu our time? So many
of them seem dlssatlsllcd with thu Blblu
and they aru trying to help Moses and
Paul and Christ out of Inconsistencies and
contradictions by llxlug up thu Bible." As
well let the musicians go to work to llx up
Hajdii's "Cieatlou," or Handel's "Israel
In Egypt," or let the painters go to llxlug
up Raphael's "Transfiguration," or archi
tects go to Hxlng up Christopher Wren's
SI. Paul's.
But I will ttdl you what Is thu matter.
There are too many unconverted ministers,
Their hearts have nuver been changed by
the grace of God. A meiu Intellectual
ministry Is the deadest failure this side of
perdition, Alas for thu Gospel of Icicles!
From apologetics and heruieneiillcs and
dogmatics uood Lord deliver us! They aru
trying to gel from transcendental theology,
or from profound exegesis, or from thu art
of splitting hairs between noithand north
west side, Instead of getting their power
from the secret placu of thunder. We
want thu Miwer a man gels when hu Is
alone, thu door locked; on Ids knees; at
midnight; with such a bunion of souls
upon him that makes him cry out, llrst lu
lamentation anil thou in raptures.
Let all Ihu Sabbath school teachers and
Illble class Instructors, and nil reformers
mid nil evangelists, and all ministers know
that, diplomas and dictionaries and ency
clopedias and treatises and libraries ate
not the source of moral and spiritual
nchlcvcuiciit, but that thu room of player,
wheru no one but God Is present and no
onu hut Gixl hears, Is thu secret place of
thunder. Secret? Ah, yes! So secret (hat
Miupnrallvfly few ever llnd It. At Bos
obel, England, wu visited a house whore a
king was oucu hid. No one, unless It weru
noiutisl out to him, could Hud Ihu door lu
;hu floor through which thu king entered
Ids hiding place.
When there hidden the armed pursuers
looked lu vain for hhn, and af let-ward
through an underground passage, far out
lu the Holds, lie came out in thu open air.
Ho this Imperial kwci- of spiritual lullu
I'licu has a hiding place, a secret place
which few know, and It comes forth some
times lu strange and mysterious ways, and
far off from thu place wheru it was hidden
you can llnd it only by diligent searching.
But you may llnd it, and some of you will
llnd It, and I wish you might all And it,
the secret placu of thunder.
(IOIMI to Ki'itoi'i:.
At nlnu o'clock Wednesday morning,
June 15 next, on the steamer City of New
York, I exit tositll for Liverpool, to be
gonu until September. It is In acceptance
of many Invitations that I am going on a
preaching tone I expect to devote my
time to preaching the Gospel In England,
Scotland, Ireland and Sweden. I want to
see how ninny souls 1 can gather for thu
kingdom of GimI. Thosu countries havu for
many years Isdouged to my parish, and I
go to speak to them and shake hands with
them. I wnut to visit more thoroughly
than beforu those regions from which my
ancestors came, Wales and Scut land.
But who is sulllcieut for the work I un
dertake? I call upon you who havu long
been my coadjutors to go Into the secret
placuof thu Almighty, and everyday fiom
now until my work is donu on the other
side of the sea to havu me in your prayers.
In proportion to thu Intensity and continu
ance and faitli of tho prayers, yours and
mine, will bu thu results. If you reiuom
lier me in the devotional circle, that will
bu well; but what I most want Is your im
portuning, your wrestling supplication in
thu seen t place of thunder. God and you
alone may make mu the humble Instru
mentality In Uiu redemption of thousands
of souls. I shall preach lu churches, In
chapels and lu thu Holds.
I will mako it a campaign for God and
eternity, and I hnjiu to get during this ab
sence a baptism of power that will make
mu of mom service to you when I return
than I ever yet havu been. For, brethren
and sisters In Clirlst, our opjMirtunlty for
usefulness will soon be gone, and we shall
have our faces uplifted to the throne of
judgment, la-fore which wu must give ac
count. That day theru will bu no secret
placu of thunder, for all thu thunders will
lie out. There will Imj thu thunder of the
tumbling rocks. There will bu thu thunder
of thu bursting waves. There will Imj thu
thunder of the descending chariots. There
will Imj thu thunder of the parting heav
ens. Doom! llooinl
But all that din and uproar and crash
will llnd us unaffrlghted, and will leave
us undismayed, if wu havu made Christ
our confidence, and as after an August
shower, when the whole heavens have Im-oii
an unllmbored battery cannonading thu
earth, thu fields am mom green, and the
sunrise is mom radiant, and thu waters
are thu mom opaline, so thu thunders of
thu last day will make thu trees of lifu ap
pear mom emerald, anil thu carbuncle
of the wall moru crimson, and thu sap
phire seas the more shimmering, and thu
sunrise of eternal gladness tliu moru em
purpled. Thu thunders of dissolving nn
tuio will Imj followed by a celestial psalm
ody, the sound of which St. John on Pat
iiios descrllMsl, when he said, "I heard n
voice like thu voice of mighty thunder
lugs!" Amen.
The llrllef In Witt licrsfl.
Witchcraft is at the present timu lx
lievcd in by a majority of thu cltl.eus of
thu United States. The larger uumls-r of
Immigrants from the continent of Kuropu
am nirtiv or less in fear of such powers.
To these must hu added no inconsiderable
isirtiou of the persons of Kugllsh and
Scotch descent, for a strong vein of suk.t
stitlon is discernible in many Irish, Scotch
ami some hugllsli, whose folklore, dif
fused in nursery tales and nelghlsirhissl
gossip, has entwined itself strongly alsmt
the IIImts of spontaneous siiIk-ouscIous
mental imagery. Among thu more Igno
rant ineiulierH of the church of every na
tionality thu belief produces a injsterlous
dread, against which men and women
cross themselves and resort to various rite
Htippostsl to Iw elllcaclous. Dr. lluckley in
Century.
The OlileM Inlntliluni.
Hiram Iester, of Atlanta, who was mar
ried them on Nov, 4 at the age of I'.M years,
says he is the oldest living inhabitant of
thu earth. Judge Umdouni married him
to Mrs. Mary K. Mosely, who is eighty
' oars of am-. N'evv York Sun.
$s:s sff Jf
CUT "THIS OUT
I lave just unloaded n carload of
Leonard : Refrigerators
Prices lower than over. Conic and sec us.
Rudge & Morris Co.
NVIC MAKIJ IT
A Feature to Fit the Feet!
And just now our line of Spring and Summer
Footwear is the largest and most attractive in the
city. Our slock of
OXFORDS
and all low shoes makes the stock of other houses
pale in comparison. You can't judge unless you
see. our nobby goods. Why not call?
S. B. fllJBrS, Progressive Shoer,
1U15 O ST.REBT.
Lincoln, Neb
An Old School in a New Location
Ninth Year. 25 Departments. 30 Teachers
lienutlful, hcalthv location, magnificent buildings, fine equipments, superior accom
modation, Minng faculty, comprehensive curilciilum, thorough work, high moral and
chriMlnn Influences and low expenses make this ,
The SCHOOL FOR THE MASSES
A practical education without needless waste of time or money Is furnished by the
Wctern Normal College
You can Enter any Time and Choose Your Studies
Tills great scnool Is located In ll.iuthoinc, tlirvc miles southwest of the post ollicc and
will be connected ly elt-ctilc street car line, YOUR CAR KAUE PAID. In order
that nil inav see our main ml vantages lu the wav ot buildlmjs, equipments faculty, etc.
we will p.iy our car fate fiom your home to Lincoln provided you are present on the
opening day" of the fall teim, Sept. 189: Write for particulars.
H.-nd name iiml aililre-s.-s of ii young people ami we will Nonilyou choice of lino l.Vlncb,
ruler, t'leriuiimuturor M-nr's siiberlntluu to our Illustrated tslueatlouitl monthly. UATA
I.OUIIKrf ANIlUIIU.MW.lltM, KltKK. Address WM M. CKOA.N, 1'rcn. or
WESTERN NORMAL COLLEGE, Lincoln,
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Dining Room Suits,
at 1118 to 1122 N St.
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U- rner 171 n and t Street
LINCOLN.
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