T.T1E DAILY IIKRaU), VLA i'ini i n, MiitKASKA, MONDAY, APRIL 23. 18S8. DKILMAXT MTTERXESS. DR. TALMACE'S SUNDAY fORNINO SERMON AT THC TADCRffACLE. Hie i:iiit'ii t I't-cuclicr lit uii Llmli, t mill I ..:. I iirwunl la th '11 mo Wlii !.ilst Will Sf-l IIU Hun no Itfttvcoi lli A 1 i!aniiltn iiihI SU'iru Ncv:sI.tH. 1Ji;ooxi.yn. April Ie Wirt Talma--, l. 22. The I lev. T. II., pn-aelied this I:nri.i;i :il tin- T;Jci n.'u !o on thy snl-j'-ct. i .Star Wonnw!. or Krilliaiit l;itt rrif s.s. " Tho inn ii-al exercises were tis..i-.trd by tho organ and cornet. Thousands of voices in ih; main nudi toriiini jiii. I in the adjoining parlor and lecture room and corrid r, joined in sing ing: We'll crowd thy j-atcs v. It! t!nn!;f.,l !ion;j.. M tho lieavuii uikI unci's r.ii Whilofartli wild Jut tfii thoiL-.ui.l t-inir.i'' html) I. II llij courts Willi Koun.liti r:iis. 1'rofcs.vir ISrowuc rendered honata Ko. 1 in I) minor, by (luillmaiit. After 1)r. Tahnage had expounded the. sarcasm of Elijah at tho olTcring of tho llualitcs lie Fjioko as follows: Revelation viii. 10-11: "There Ml n great btar from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, ami it fell upon tho third Iart of 1 1 m rivers, a nl iijou tho fountains of waters; ami the namo of the fctar is called Wormwood." l'atrick ami Lowth, Thomas Scott, Matthew Henry, Albert I lames ami all tlie other commentators agree in saying that the star Worm woo-1 of my text was Attil.o, king of t!ie 1 Ilium, llo was to called h4-ca11.se ho was brilliant as a star, nml. like wormwoo:!, lie t-mbilteri-d everything he touched. Wo have studied the btar of l!ethlehein, and the morning fctar of tho revelation, ami tho fctar of I-aee. lut my subject tliis hour calls us to Raze at the Mar Wormwood, and my tlieme might he called Drilliant liitter IietiS. A moro extraordinary character his tory dn-s iKt furnish than this man re ferred to in in v text Attila, the king of the I Inns. One day a wounded heifer came limping along through tho fields, lin I a herdsman followed its bloody track on the grass to see where tlie heifer was wounded, and went on hack, further and further, until ho came to a sword fast in the earth, the point downward as though it had dropped from the ln-aven. and pgaiiist the edg-s if this .sword the heifer l:ad lieen cut. The herdsman pulled up t'.iat sword and pre-ented it to Attila. Anil. i said that sword i:ii!-t have dropjx.d from the heavens from the grasp of the god Mars, and its leirii given, to him meant that Attila i-houlJ coiH'ii r and govern the whole earth. Oilier mighty men have U-en delighted at being called liberators or tho Merciful or the ( ioo l.' hut Attii.i calkd himself and demanded that others call him the Scourge of (od. At the head of 700.00J troops. mounted on ( 'appad eian horses, lie swept everything from the Adriatic to the .Mack fieri, lie put his iron heel on Macedonia and Urn -co and Thrace, lie made Milan and i'avia and Padua and Verona U'g for mercy, which he l,stowed not. The liyzautine ca.-tle.i to xuoct his rmnons levy, put tip at auction massive silver tables and vases of solid gold. A city captured ly him, the i:i liahitants were brought out, ami put into tlirec classes: The lir.-t cla-s. those who could hear arms, who iiiiiil immediately enlist uuder Attila -r he butchered; tho second class. tliL" beautiful women, who were ma-lu caj'tives t; the Huns; tho thml class, the atl men and women, who were roblied of everything, fmd let go back to the city to pay heavy tax. k was a common saying that tho grac3 never grow again where the hoof of At tila's horse had trod. His armies reddened the waters of the Seine and the Moselle and the Khine with carrago, and fought on the l.'iitalonian plains the fiercest battle since tho world stxxl, 800.000 dead left on the fieM. On and on until all those who could not oppose hi:n with arms lay Instniteo!i their faces in prayer and, a cloud cf dust Been in the distance, a liLshop criel: "It is the aid of God;" and all the people took up the cry: "It is the aid of God." As tho cloud of ilust was Mown aside tho banners of re-enforcing armie3 marched in to help again-M Attila. the seourgo of God. Tlie most uniinifortant occurrence he used as a Fupei natural resource, and after three months of failure to capture tho city of Aquileia and his army had given up the siege, the flight of a stork and her young from Die tower of tho pity was taken by him as a sign that ho was to capture the city, and his ermrin-f-pired with tlse same occurrence, re sumed the siego and took the walls at a i:it from which tho stork had emerged. fc brilliant was the conqueror in attiro . that his enemies could not look at hiui, but shaded U-eir eyes or turned their lioa-is. fSbin cn tho ererung of his marriage by Ids Tlli Il.lico, who was hired for tho assassination, his followers bewailed him not witii tears l ut with blood, cutting thenxseivts wi:h knives and lances, llo was put i:;to ti .rce coHins, thfe first of iron, tho fcAcond of kJivt, and tho third ot goki. He was bui iv-i by nhjhtcnd into his grave were jourel the ui-t valuable coin and precious stones, amounting to tho wealth of a kingdom. The grave diggers uiid all those v. ho iisisttl at the burial wcr ixiafs-icretl to that it would never bo known where so much wcahh was en- tor.iNi!. Tlie Hoinaii empire conquered tho world but Attila conquered tho l'oman empire. He was right in calling himself a scourge, but instead of being the scourge of God, ho was the scourge oi helL Bixrausa cf l.is brilliancy and bitterness thecommon t nors wire rig!-.t in U-Iieving him to le the star Worm wood .f tho text. As th regions I-.e devastated were iarts most opulent with fountains and streams and rivers, you see how graphic my text is: There" fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon tho fountains of waters; a'il tho name of the star is cu!!od Wormwood." Have you ever thought how maiiyem Littrrcd lives there are all about us. mis anthropic, morbid, acrid, saturnine? Tho European plant from which wormwood is extracted. Artemisia Absithium. is a perennial plant, and all the year round it is ready to exude its oiL And i.i many human lives there ia a perennial distilla tion of acrid cxperienoea. Yea. there are tomo whose whole work U to shed a bale ful Influence on others. TJ-xro nro Attl las of the home, or Atlilaa of the social circ le, or Attila" of the church, or Atti las of tho Hato, and one-thinl of the waters of all the world, if not two thirds tho waters, are poisoned by the falling of the h.tar Wormwoo I. It is iiot couiplinienlary to human nature that mo t men. iis soon as they get great pov.vr, Ihjc-ouio overhearing. Tim more jxnvcr men have tlm better, if tlieir powi l 1 1; lined for good. The lesjower lin n have tlie belter, if they umi it for evil. I;irls circle round and round and round iK-forc they swooi down uio:i that which they are aiming for. And if my dwrour.so so fjr h.is be-;! swinging round ami round, this moment it drops straight on j our lu art and asks the questicn: Is your life to others a benediction or an cmbitteinieiit, a blessing or a cuse, a bal -am or a wormwo!? Some of you, I know, aro morning stars, and you are making tho dawning life of your children bright with gracious influences, ami you aro beaming iioii all thu onii!g enterprises of philanthropic and Christian endeavor, and you are her alds of that day of gospclizaliou which will yet flood all the mountains and val leys of our t in cursed earth. Hail, morn ing star! Keep on shining with encour agement and Christian hope. .S mie of you are evening stars, and you are cheering the last days of old jK-ople, and though a cloud sometimes comes over you through the querulous-nc-vs or unreasonableness of your old father and mother, it is only for a mo ment, and the star soon comes out cleat again and is won from all tho balconies of the noighliorhood. Tho old j?ople will forgive your occasional shortcom ings for they themselves several times lost their patience with you when you were young and slap;ed you when 3ou did not deserve it. Hail, eveninc; star! Hang on the darkening sky your diamond coronet. lhit aro any of you the star Worm wood? Do you scold and growl from the .thrones paternal or maternal? Aro your children everlastingly pecked at? Are you always crying: "Hush!" to the merry voices and swift feet and their laughter, which occasionally trickles through at wrong tiniesand is suppressed by them untd they can hold it no longe r and all the harriers buret into unlimited guffaw and cachinnation, as in high wether the water has trickled through a sii'lit opening iri the mill dam but af terward makes wider and wider breach liuiil it carries all lcfore it with iiTi-sistlble freshet. Do not be t:i i!i'i h olffinled at the noi.'e your children now make. It will be siiil enough when one of them is dead. Then you would give your right hand to hoar one shout from their sili nt voices or one step from the still foot. You will not any of you have to wait very long I. Tore yoHr house U stiller than you want it. Alas that there are so many hemes not known to the Society. Cor tho Prevention of Cruelty to Children, where children are put on the limits and whacked and cuffed and ear pulled and sensele.-ly called to order and answered sharp and suppress. vl until it is a wonder that under such processes they '.! n.'C all turn out Modocs and Nana .S:.!iih.i. What is your influence upon the neigh- o.: !:oju, me town, or me city ot vour 1 wiil suppose that you are a star cf wit. What kind of rays do you shoot forth? Do you use that splendid faculty to irradiate the world, or to rankle it? I blss all tho apostolic college of humor ists. Tho man that makes me laugh is my benefactor. I do not thank anybody to make me cry. I can do that without ar.y assistance. We all cry enough and have enough to cry about. God bless all skillful punsters, all reparteeiats, all prcpounders of ingenious conundrums, all those who mirthfully surprise us with unusual juxtaposition of words. Thomas Hood and Charles Lamb and Sidney Smith had a divine mission and so have their successors in these times. They stir into the acid beverage of lifetho saccha rine. They inako the cup of earthly exi-tenco, which is sometimes stale, effervesce and bubble. They placate ani niositios. They foster longevitj. They slay foilies and absurdities which all the ser mons of all the pulpits cannot reach. They have for examples Elijah, who ma le fun of the Baalites when they called down fire and it did not come, suggesting that their heathen god had gone hunting or was of? on a journey, or was asleep and nothing but vociferation could wake him, saving: 4,Cry aloud, for he is a god; either he is talking or pursu ing; or ieradventuro he sleepelh and must be awaked." They have an ex ample in Christ, who with healthful sarcasm showed up tho lying, hypocriti cal Pharisees by suggesting that such per fect people like themselves needed no im provements, saying: ''The whole need not a physician but they that are sick." But what use are you making of your wjt? Is it bosmirched with profanity and unch an.ie? Do you employ it in amusement at physical defects for which tho victims are not responsible? Are your powers of mimicry used to put re ligion in contempt? Is it a bunch of nct tlesouio invectives Is it a bolt of unjust rcorn? Is it fun at other's misfortune? Is it glee at their disappointment and de feat' Is jt bitterness put drop by drop i:t a cup? Is it Ilka tho squeezing of ArL'inisia Alsinthiura into a draught al ready disUistefulIy pungent? Then you are the star Wormwood. Yours is the fun of a rattlesnake trying how well it can sting. It is the fan of a hawk tiy i:;g ho-.v quick it can strike out the eye cf a dove. Bdt I wi!l change this and I will sup-po- e you are a star of worldly prosperity. Then you have large opportunity. You can encourage that artist by buying his picture. You can improve tho fields, the stables, the highway, by introducing higher style of fowl and horse and cow and sheep. You can bless the world with pomological achievement in the or chards. You can advance aboriculturo and arrest this death ful iconoeiasm cf tha j American forests. You can put a piece j cf sculpture into tho niche of that public academy. You can endow a college, j You can stocking a thousand bare feet from tho winter fro&T' You can build a church. You can put a missionary of Christ on tliat foreign shore. You can help ransom a world- A rich man with L.M heart rirrht can vou tell me how mncii good a James Lennox or a George j rcahody or a PVter Cooper or a William K. Dodge did while living or is doiii now that he is dead? T.hero is not a city, town or neighliorhood that ban not glorious specimens of consecrated wealth. Hut suppose you grin 1 tho face of the poor. Supjioso when a man's wages are duo you make him wait for them le cau -e he cannot help himself. SupK:;' that because his family is sick and he has hal extra exjK'nseri lie should jxiiitely ask you to rai.-Mj his wages for this year and you roughly tell him if ho wants a letter place to go and get it. Suppose by your manner you act as though Ik were nothing and you were everything. Supose you are seiii.ih and overloariiig and .arrogant. Your first name ought tc lie Attila and your last name Attila. lieeause you are the star Wormw (xl, and you have embittered one-third, if not three-thirds, of tho waters that roll past your employes ami operatives and de-K-ndents and associates, and the long line of carriages which the undertaker orders for jour funeral in order to make tho occasion respectable, wiil be filled with twice as many dry, fearless eyes as there are icrsons occupying them. The. clumsy pall Imarers may make tlie gates of your sepulcher quake by striking jour silver handled cohin against them, but the world will feel no jar as you go out of it. There is an erroneous idea abroad that there aro only a few geniuses. There are millions of them; that is, men and women who have especial adaptation and quickness for some one thing. It may be great, it may bo small. The circle may lw like the circumference of the earth or no larger than a thimble. There aro thousands of geniuses here this morn ing and in some one thing you are a star. What kind of a star are you? You will Ih3 in this world but a few minutes. As compared with eternity the stay of the longest life on earth is not more than a minute. What are we doing with that minute? Are we embittering tho domestic or social or (K)litical fountains, or are wo like Moses, who, when the Israelites in tho wilder ness complained that the waters of Lake Marah were bitter and they could not drink them, their leader cut off the branch of a certain tree and threw that branch into the water, and it became sweet and slaked the thirst of the suffer ing host? Are we with a branch of tlie Tree of Life sweetening all the brackish fountains that we can touch? Dear Lord, send us all out on thy mission. All around us embittered lives, embittered by persecution, embittered by hyporcrki- cism. embittered iy oovertv. embittered by pain, embittered by injustice, embit tered by sin. Why not go forth and sweeten them by smile, by inspiring words, by Ienef actions, by hearty coun sel, by prayer, by gospeii.ed behavior. Let us remember that if we tire worm wood to others we are wormwood to our selves, and our life will be bitter and our eternity bitter. The gospel of Jesus Christ is tho only sweetening power that is bUwicicnt. It sweetens tho disposition. It sweetens the manners. It sweetens ife. It sweetens mysterious Provi-h-ncos. It sweetens aliliclions. It sweetens death. It sweetens every- thing. I in social havc hoard jx-ople asked company: If vou cou!(J. have three wishes gratified what would your three wishes be?" If 1 could have three .wishes met this morning I tell you what tbey wouhl be. First: More of t! ;e grace of Cod. Second: More of the grace of God. Third: More of the grace of God. In the door yard of i iv brother John, missionary in Aiuoy, China, there is a tree called the emperor tree, tho two characteristics of winch are that it al ways grows higher than its surrounding and its leaves take the form of a crown. If this emperor trco be planted by a rose bush it grows a little higher than the bush, and spreads o:it above it a crown. If it bo planted by the side of another tree, it grows a little higher than that tree and spreads above it. a crown. Would God that this religion of Christ, a more wonderful emperor tree, might overshadow all j-oung lives; .ire you lowly in ambition or circum stance, putting over you its crown ; are you high in talent and position, putting over you its crown. Oh, for more of the raccharine in our lives and less of. the wormwood 1 What is true of 'individuals is true of nations. God sets them up to revolve as stars, but they may fall wormwood. Tyre tho atmosphere of the desert fragrant with spices coming in caravati3 to her fairs; all seas cleft into foam by the keejs of her laden merchantmen; her markets rich with horses and camels from Togarman, her bazars filled with upholstery from Dodan, with emeralds and coral and agate from Syria, with wines from Ilelbon, with embroidered work from Ashur and Chilrnad. Where now the gleam of her towers, where the roar of her chariots, where the masts of her ships? Let tho fishermen who dry their nets where once she stood, let the sea that rush.es upon the barrenness where once she challenged the admira tion of all nations, let the barbarians who 6et their rude tents where once her palaces glittered, answer tho question. She was a star, but by her own sin turned to wormwood and has fallen. Hundred-gated Thebes for ail timo to 13 the study of antiquarian and hieror glyphist; her stupendous ruins spread over twenty-seven miles; her sculptures presenting in figures of warrior and chariot the victories with which the ncvy forgotten kings of Cgypt shook tlie nations; her obelisks and columns; Car nae and Luxor, the stupendous temples cf her pride. Who can i:nagiiielhe great ness of Thebes in those days when tlie hip podrome rang with her sports and foreign royalty bowed at her shrines and her avenues roared with the wheels of j re cessions in the wake of returning con querors? What dtished down the vision of chariots and temples and thrones? What hands pulled upon the columns of her glory? What ruthlessness defaced her sculptured wall and broke olielisks and left her indescribable temples great skeletons cf granite? What spirit of destruction spread the lair of wild beast3 in her royal sepulchers, and taught the miserable cottagejs of to day to build huts in the courts of her temples, and sent desolation and ruia tkulking behind the obelisks and dodging among the sarcophagi and leaning against the columns and stooping under the arche3 and weeping in tne waters which go mournfully, by as though tkey wore carrying the tears of all aged? LefJc""Tert8.- New York Pott. the mummies break their long 6i!onco and come up to shiver in the desolation, and point to fallen gates and shattered statues and defuovl sculpture, res;oi:d ing: "TheU's built not one temple t God. TheljoH hated righteousness and loved sin. Thelns was a star but she turned to wormwood and has fallen." liabylon, with her 2o0 towers and her bra.en gates and her embattled wall, the splendor of the earth gathered wiiinn her palaces, her hanging gardens built by Nebuchadnezzar to please his bride Amyittis who had been brought up in a mountainous country and could not en dure the flat country round Babylon, tho::e hanging gardens built, terrace alxne terrace, till at the height of -10') feet there were woods waving and foiin t.ons playing, the verdure, the foliage, the plory looking as if a mountain were on the wing. On tho tip top a king walking with hi3 queen, among statues snowy white, looking up at bird, brought from distant lands, and drinking out of tankards of solid gold, or looking o,'f over rivers Uand lakes in ion nations subdued and tributary, crying: "Is not this great Babylon which 1 have built?" What let tering ram smote tlie walls? What plow share upturned the gardens? What army shattered the brazen gates? What long, fierce blast cf storm put out this -light which illumined the world? What crash of discord drove down tho music that poured from palace window and garden grove and called the banqueters to their revel and the dancers to their foot? I walk Uon the scone of doso'a':-;-: ?' ' an answer and pick up pieces ot bitumen and brick and broken lottery, tho re mains of Babylon, and, as in the silence oi mo nignt 1 near tlie surging or that billow of desolation which rolls over the scone, I hear the wild waves saying: 'Babylon was proud. Babylon was im pure. Babylon was a star, but by sin she turned to wormwood and has fallen." From the persecutions of the Pilgrim fathers and the Huguenots in other lands God set upon these shores a nation. Tho council fires of the aliorigines went out in tho greater light of a free govern ment. The sound of the war whoop was exchanged for the thousand wheels of enterprise and progress. The mild win ters, tke fruitful summers, the healthful skies charmed from other lands a race of hardy men who loved God and wanted to be free. Before tho woodman's ax forests fell and rose again into ships' masts and churches' pillars. Cities on the bank of lakes begin to rival cities by the sea. The land quakes with the rush of the rail car and the waters are churned white with the steamer's wheel. I'abuloua bushels of western wheat meet on tho way fabulous tons of eastern coal. Furs from the north pass on the rivers fruits from the south. And trading in the same market is Elaine lumberman and South Carolina rice merchant and Ohio farmer and Alaska fur dealer. And churches and schools and asylums scatter light and love and mercy and salvation upon sixty millions of jieople. I pray that our nation may not copy the crimes of the nations that have perished, and our cup of blessing turn to wormwood and like them v" go down. I am by nature and by grace an optimist, and I expect that this country will con tinue to advance until the world shall put on millennial era, and that when Chri t comes again he will st his throne some where between tho Alleghanies and the Sierra Nevadas. But be not deceived! Our only safety is in righteousness to wart". God and justice toward man. If we for get tho goodness of the Lord to this land and break his Sabbaths and im prove not by the dire disasters th :t have again and again come to us as a people, and we learn caving lerson neither from civil war nor raging epidemic, nor drought, nor mildew, ncr scourge of locust and grasshopjjer, if the political corruption which has poisoned tho fountains of public virtue, and be slimed the high places of authority, making free government at limes a hissing and a byword in all tho earth, If the drunkenness and licentiousness that stagger and blaspheme in tho streets of our great cities, as though they were reaching after the fame of a Corinth and a Sodom, are not repented of, we will yet see the smoke of our nation's ruin; tho pillars of our national and state capitals will fall more disastrously than when Sampson pulled down Dagon; r.nd future historians will record upon t:;e page bedewed with generous tears the story that the free nation of the west arose in splendor which made the world stare. It had magnificent possibilities. It forgot God. It hated justice. It hugged its crime. It halted on its high march. It reeled under the blow of ca lamity. It fell. And as it was going down all tho despotisms of earth, from the top of bloody thrones, began to shout: "Aha, so would we have it," while strug gling and oppressed peoples looked out from dungeon bars with tears and groans and cries of untold agony, the scorn of those and the woe of these uniting jr. the exclamation: "Look: ypnder ! There f el j a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon tho third part of the rivers and upon the fountain cf waters; and the name of t;he eiar is, called Wormwood P Do Our Authors Wm 3 l. is. Aidrich does not weer or aspire i to invoke tears in others. Mrs. Burnett , ! says she is -always moved by what moves ! ; others. Jlark Twain thuik3 he weep j ! and he probably does in his way. Ed- ; j ward Everett Hale is inclined to make ! light of the inquiry and would like to j j hear from others on the subject. Mifj i Anaelie Rives, tho" latest American, i genius, has wept copiously while writ-, j 1 ing. Miss Rives is notlnng if net in-. ; j tense. Mr. Frank TL Stockton doesn't j engage in a kind of composition that in- .' ! vokes tears. Boston Herald. j i ! Fanaticism at foocbow. The Lancet states that a medical mis. sionary nearly lost his life through an outburst of fanaticism at Fooc-how, China. It seems that the doctor, who wa3 attending a patient with hemorrh age, immediately proceeded to check the latter in disregard of a native supersti tion, according to which delay should liave been made until the patient's, friends liad finished consulting the gods in the joss house. Tlie patient died, and the Chinese would have boUVd the diK?tor in oil but for the courage of some of the he Plattsmo u th Herald Xs n joying a D AXL1T A TO WEEK DITICXNS. Will be one itirin which the Kiihjects of national interest ami importance will he strongly noitalcfl and flie election of a President will take place, 'lhe poople of Cass County who would like to learn of Political, Commercial and Social Transactions of thi. yea. and woi;!d keep apace with the times should ---- -rap -y- j-oi: o-r Weekly Herald Now while wc have tlie subject before the people wo will venture to tpeak of our if IB Which is lirst-class in all respects and from which our job printers are turning out much satisfactory work. PLATTSMGUTH, i So 022a. in both, its 1888 Kiiiii;n tiik NEBRASKA. pa j3 fj- rp py! era Hy flit i lUyOl U o