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f , 1;. The ioux County ..'ry ft" VOLUME VI. HARKISON, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1893. NUMBER 14. S JOURNAL. TALMAGES SERMON. HE AGAIN DISCUSSES A SEASON ABLE TOPIC. The Clark af tba Sportaaa 'a liu-ICul-In the Ualas of taw WarM aUUatea la IMrlaiaa; Ike a poll -A Bcattaf ateUa-laa IMImA Tfca Art af Hastta In the forenoon service at the Brook lyn Tabernacle Sunday ltev. Dr. Tal mage took (or his subject a mart Heav aoneble one. "A Hunting Scene," the text being Ueneis xllx, 27, "In the morning be shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoiL" A few nighU ago 800 men encamped long the Ing Inland Kail road no as to be ready for the next morning, which wax the first "open day" (or deer hunting. Between sunrise and 2 o'clock in the afternoon of that day fifteen deer were shot. On the 20th of October our woods and forest resound with a shock of firearms and are tracked of pointer and setters, be cause the quail are then a lawful prize for the sportsman. On a certain day In all Knglana you can hear the crack of the sportsman gun, because grouse hunting has be gun, and every man that can afford the time and ammunition and can draw a lieud starts for the fields. Xenophon grew eloquent in regard to the art of hunting. In the far Eat people, elephant mounted, cnase the tiger. The American Indian darts his arrow at the buffalo until the fright ened herd tumble ov.n- the rocks. Kuropt-.an nobles are often found in the fox chase and -at the stag hunt. Francis I. was called the father of hunt ing. Moses declares of Nirarod, "He was a mighty hunter before the Ixird." Therefore, in all ages of the world, the imagery of tny text ought to le sug gestlve, whether it means a wolf after a fox or a man after a lion. Old Jacob, dying, is tolling tne for tunes of his children, fie prophesies the devouring propensities oi Benja min and his descendants. With his dim old eyes he looks otT and sees the hunters going out to the fields, rang ing them all day, and at nightfall coin ing home, the game slung over the shoulder, and reaching the door of the tent the hunters begin to distribute the game, and one takes a coney, and another a rabbit, and another a "In the morning ho shall devour prey, and at night he shall divide the' ""i spoil." Or it may be a reference to the habits of wild beasts that slay their prey, and then drag it back to the cave or lair, and divide it among the young. thm WorM's Gala. I take my text, in the first place, as descriptive of those people who in the morning of their life give themselves up to bunting the world, but after ward, bv the 'grace of (Jod, in the even ing of their life divide among them selves the spoil of Christian character. There are aged Christian men and women in t his house who, if they gave ! testimony . would K-ll you that in the morninE-of their life they were after the world as intense as a hound after a hare, or as a falcon swoop upon a gazelle. They wanted tne world's plaudits and the world's gains. They felt that if they could get this world they would have everything. Home of them started out for the pleasures of the world. They thought that the man who laughed loudest was hap piest. They tried repartee and conun drum and biirleiqtie ami madrigal. They thought they would like to be Tom Hoods or ( Diaries Limbeor Kdgar A. i'oet.. They mingled wine and music: and the spectacular. j, hey wfin ufii'Mhiiiortt n: lhA httr huiinn. unn the Merry Andrew, and the buffoon, i and the iester. iJfo was to them foam j and bubble and cachinntitlon and roystering and grimace. The were so full of glee they eouid hardly repress their mirth even on solemn occasions, and they came near bursting out hilariously even at the burial because there was some thing so dolorous in the countenance of the undertaker. After awhile misfortune struck thom hard on the back. They found there was something they could not laugh at. Under their lute hours their health gave wav. or there was a death in the v i.. . . , . , t M WV nouso. oi every green tning meir soul was exfoliated. They that life was more than a joke. From 1 the heart of God there blazed into their soul an earnestness they had never felt before. They awoke to their , sinfulness and their immortality, and here they sit at sixty or seventy years of age, as appreciative of all Innocent mirth as they ever were, mil iney are bent on a style of satisfaction which In early life they never hunted -the evening of their days brighter than the morning. In the morning they de voured the prev, but at night they , rauroaa collision, or inesi amuoa., un divided the spoil ' plosion, or the slip on the Ice, or the Then there are others who started ladder or the sudden raid, nut out for financial success. They see " nd to their opportunities. hey h. limU. th rim nf man 'a hat. U when he bows down before some one transpicuous. They felt thev would like to see how the world looked from the window of a W.IMI turnout. They thought tbey would like to have the morninir sunlight tangled in the head gear of dashing span. They wanted 1.-1,1.. l t k. in .....nA i . " ..... under the raUpbai Jof Weir swift hoofs, .i . im K.M.I.. .a , thoy started on tne dollar hunt. T bey chaied it up one street and abased ft down another. They loiiowea it wnen It burrowed in the cellar. They treed it la the roof. Wherever a dollar was expected to be, they wore. Tbey chased It across thai nniisa Thev phased It across the laou. They stopMHl not for the night, Heating that aouar oven in im aar not thrUlod tbW as an Adtraodnek wrtR to thrtilni at mldalffet ty loon lct-h. Tier e-Mt tfc.4 felta to tint--17 tawa. iMy cbnsM It to tht CTwrrawat . Tvmimj. Tfcrj roiitod U fa-osa Ksiar C AU tt kensj w t-c.l vUaUnl and thy setters. They leaped the bodges for that dollar, and they cried: "Hark away! A dollar! A dollar!" And when at last they came upon ,it and had actually captured it their ex citement was like that of a falconer who had successfully flung his first hawk. In the morning of their life, oh. how ther devoured the prey! But there came a better time to their aouL They found out that an immortal nature can not live on bank stock. They took up a Northern Pacific bond, and there was a hole in it through which they could look into the uncertainty of all earthly treasures. They saw some Ralston, living at the rate oi t25.0O0 a month, leaping from San Francisco wharf be cause he could not continue to live at the same ratio. They saw the wizen and paralytic bankers who had changed their souls into molton gold stamped with the image of the earth, earthy. Tbey saw some great souls by avarice turned into bomuncull. and they said to themselves, "I will seek after higher treasure." A roar Thlaf to Haal From that time they did not care whether they walked or rode, iiC'hrist walked with them; nor whether they lived in a mansion or in a hut, if they dwelt under the shadow of the Al mighty: nor whether they were robed in French broadcloth or in homespun, if they had the robe of the Saviour's righteousness: nor if they were san daled with morocco or calfskin, if they were shod with the preparation of the Gospel. Now you see peace on their countenance. Now that man says: "What a fool I was to he enchanted with this world! Why, 1 have more satisfaction in five minutes in the serv ice of God than 1 had in all the first years of my life while I was gainget ting. I like this evening of my day a great deal better than f did the morn ing. In the morning I greedily de voured the prey, but now it is even ing and I am gloriously dividing the spoil." My friends, this world is a poor thing to hunt, it is healthful to go out in the woods and hunt. It rekindles the luster of the eye. It strikes the brown of the autumnal leaf into the cheek. It gives to the rheumatic limbs the strength to leap like a roe. Christopher North's pef gun, the muukie-mou'd Meg, going on in tne summer in the forests, had its echo in the winter time in the eloquence that rang through the university halls of Kjiinlmt irh. - It i health v to Co hunt- 7J?Tn(T I" the fields, but I tell you it is be- iltuing and beawariing ana nciaming i for a man to hunt this world. The hammer comes down on the gun -cap, and the barrel explodes and kills you Instead ot that which you are pursuing. When you turn out to bunt the world, the world turns to hunt you, and as many a sportsman aiming his gun at a panther's heart has gone down under the striped claws, so while you have been attempting to devour this world the world has been devour ing you. So it was with Lord Byron. So it was with Coleridge. So it was with Catherine of Russia. Henry II went out hunting for this world, and it lances struck through his heart. Francis I aimed at the world, but the i assassin's dagger put an end to his am-; onion ana nis me wnn one Mary Queen of Scots wrote on the win- dow of her castle: From the top of all my trust Mishap hath Uld ma In the dust. The Queen Dowager of Navarro was offered for her wedding duy a costly und beautiful jair of gloves, and she put them on, but they were poisoned gloves, and they took her life. Better a bare hand of cold privation than a warm and poisoned glove of ruinous success. "Oh," says some young man in the audience, "l believe what you are preaching. I am going to do that ry thing. In the morn: m froinff to devour the in the morning oi my nie prey, and in the evening I shall divide the spoil of Christian character. I only want a lit tle while to sow my wild oats, and then j I will bo good." Young man, did you ever take the census of ail the old peopled How many old people are there in your house? One. two or none? How many In a vast assemblage like this? Only here and there a gray head, like the patches of snow here and thero in the fields on a late April day. The fact is that the tides of the years are so strong that men tio down under them before , , .... , . , . . . . t.huv irflt. fi iia fui. rwmrA i.nev c-er. m in ; a - - - T; v " f,," . " lounaout;"". f , , iney get 10 oe . yvnu u you. my young brother, resolve now that you will spend the morning of your days in devouring the prey the probability is that, vnn will mvr divide the stwifl in the evening hour. He who postpones until old age the religion of Jesus Christ postpones it forever. Where are the men who.'to years ago resolved to become Christians in old age, putting it off a certain number of years? Thev never got to be old. The . . r . . . nave never nan an op jurtumiy ainctv and thev never will have an opportuni ty again. They locked the door of heaven against their soul, and they threw away the keys. They chased t he world, and they died in the chase. The wounded tiger turned on them. They failed to take the came they . - PUrSUeU. Mounted on a swiit courser, j thy leaped the hedge, but the courser ! fell on them and crushed them. Pro- Don in? to barter their soul for the world, they lost both and got neither. DIvlaHaf I ha MamM. . While this Is an encouragement to old people who are still unpardoned. It la no encouragement to the young who are putting off the day of grace. This doctrine that the old may be repentant t Is to be taken cautiously It is medi cine that kills or cures. The same medicine given to different patients, In one oaos it saves li'e and in the other It destroys It This possibility of ro ran kino at the dose of life may cure the eUntM while it kills the young. OBtttioua la taking lb . , . Again, say subject la descriptive of those who come to a sudden and a radi cal change. You have noticed how short a time it is from morning to night only seven or eight hours. You know that the day has a very brief life. Its heart beat twenty-four times and then it is dead. How quick this trans ition in the character of these- Benla mites! "In the mi-rning tbey shall de vour the prey, and at night they shall divide the spoil." Is it possible that there shall be such a transformation in any of our characters? Yea. A man may be at 7 o'clock in the morning an all devouring worldling.and at 7 o'clock at night he may be a peaceful, dis tributive Christian. Conversion is instantaneous. A roan passes into the kingdom of God quicker than down the sky runs zigzag light ning. A man may be anxious about his soul for a great many years; that does not make him , a Christian. A man may pray a great while; that does not make him a Christian. A man may resolve on the reformation of his character and have that resolution going on a great while; that does not make him a Christian. But the very instant when he flings his soul on the mercy of Jesus Christ, that instant is lustration, emancipation, resurrection. Up to that point he is going in the wrong direction: after that point he is going in the right direction. Before that moment he is a child of sin: after that moment he Is a child of God. Be fore that moment devouring the prey; after that moment dividing the spoil, live minutes is as good as five years. My hearer, you know very well that the best thing's you have done you have done in a flash. You have made up your mind in an instant to buy, or to i sell, or to Invest, or to stop, or to start. If you had missed that one chance, you would have missed it forever. Now, just as precipitate and quick and spon taneous will be the ransom of your soul. Some morning you were making a calculation. You got on the track of some financial or social game. With your pen or your pencil you were pur suing it. That very morning you were devouring the prey, but that very night you were In a different mood. You found that all Heaven was offered you. You wondered how you could get it for yourself and for your family. You wondered what resources it would give you now and hereafter. You are dividing peace and comfort and satis faction and Christian reward in your soul. You are dividing the spoil. One Sabbath night at the close of the sermon I said to some persons. "When did you first become serious about your soul?" And they told me, "To night." And I said to others, "When did you give your heart to God?" And they said, "To-night." And I said to still others, "When did you resolve to serve the Lord all the days of your life?" And they said, 'To-night.' I saw by the gayety of their apparel that when the grace of God struck ' them they were devouring the prey: I but I saw also in the flood of joyful I tears, and in the kindling raptures on their brow, and in their exhilarant and transporting utterances that they were j dividing the spoil. i If you have been in this building ' when the lights are struck at night, I vnti Irnnw thiil. with nnn tmtf'h of electricity they are all blazed. Oh, I would to God that the darkness of your , , ht te broken up and that by , overwhelmin, instantane- ous flash of illumination you migt be brought into the light and the liberty of the sons of God! KollKlon IWInnd. You see that religion Is a different thing from what some of you people suppo.-ed. You thought it was a de cadence. Vou thought religion was macerat ion. Vou thought it was high way robbery: that it struck ono down and loft him half dead; that it plucked out the eyes; that it plucked out the plumes of the soul: that it broke the wing and crushed the beak us it came j clawing with its black talons through the air. No. that is not religion. What is religion? It is dividing the sioil. It is taking a defenseless soul and panoplying it for eternal conquest. It is the distribution of prizes by the king's hand every medal stamped with a coronation. It is an exhilara tion, an expansion. It is imparadisa tion. It is enthronement. Religion makes a man roaster of earth, of death and hell. It goes forth to gather the medals of victory won by Prince Kmanuel, and the diadems of Heaven, and the glories of realms terrestrial , ni-.tUi .ml then attr rnBW : ,.- ,v,, f. splendent, it divides the spoil, What was it that James Turner, the famous Kngllsh evangelist was doing i when in his dying moments he said: ! "Christ Is all! Christ is all!" Why, he was entering into light. He was rounding the Cape of Good Hope. He was dividing the spoil. What was the aged Christian Quakeress doing when at HO years of age she arose in the meeting- one day and said "The time of my departure is come. My grave clothes are railing on." ne was divid ing the spoil. Mi. longad with wlnga to fit Sway And mix with that atornal day. What Is Daniel now doing, the lion tamer? And Klijah. who was drawn by the flaming coursers? And Paul', the rattling of whoso chains made kings ouake? And fall the other victims of flood and wreck and guillotine--where are they? Dividing the sitoil. Ian thousand tttnaa tan thouaaud, In parkltng ralmant bright, To atmloa of tba raaaoroari aalnta Throng op tha ataaai ot light. . Tla Unlihad, all la flniabM. Ttaatr fight with daatta and ata. IJtt high your gold as gat And fat tba victors. ' Oh, What a grand thing it is to be a Christian! We begin now to divide the spoil, but the distribution will not be completed to all eternity. There la a poverty struck soul, there is a busi ness despoiled soul, there Is a sin struck soul, there la a bereaved soul why do you not cone and get the spoil of Christian character, the comfort, the joy, the peaoe, the imitation that I aaa setti to o9er to yon la my Masters eenef Though yovr knees knock together in weakness, though your hands tremble in fear, though your eyes rain tears of uncontrollable weeping come and get the spoil. Best for all the weary. Pardon for all the guilty. Rescue for all the bestormed. Life for all the dead. 1 verily believe that there are some who have come in here downcast because the world is against them, and because they feel God is against them, who will go away saying: 1 came to Jasua as I vi. Wear sod worn and tad ; 1 found In him a mating placa, And bo has mada uio glad. Though you came in children of the world, you may go away heirs of Heaven. Though this very autumnal morning you were devouring the prey, now, all worlds witnessing, you may divide the spoil. KLEPTOMANIA. A Fhjratrlaa t'oa.Dlted oe ThU Subject to HI Sorrow. Sicily,-the classic haunt of brigand age, seems ambitious of showing that highway robbery docs not quite ex haust her methods of breaking the eighth commandment Some days ago, in Palermo, a well-dressed, pleasant-mannered young man was ushered, into the presence of one of the leading alfeoists and proceeded, on p.iinfullv matter-of-fact lines, to state the obiect of his visit. Ills dear wife had during the few months since their marriage developed the ! mo.it distress: na. most, incorrigible. habit of kleptomania. Not only In public shop and in private visits, but even in her own house, she could not keep her hands off othei people's proiierty, which, however, on coming to her real self some hours after wards, she invariably returned to tbeir owners. Medical treatment bad hitherto failed to wean her from the habit, and In his despair he be thought blni of the Palermitan ex perl, whose success in such cases had come to his knowledge. The consul tant, having put a few questions which were intelligently answered, expressed bis willingness to take the young lady in hand, and appointed an hour on the following day when her husband was to bring her to him. r True to time the pair arrived, and the lady had hardly been introduced to the consultant when her beauty and frank, engaging manner impart ed a quite peculiar interest to her case. During the interview she con ducted herself like a high-bred woman of the world, except for the unfortun ate failing she labored under of pock eting articles of value when she thought she was unobserved. Among these the vlgilaut eye of the con sultant missed a photograph framed in brilliant (the gift of a patrician patient), and also a beautifully mod eled statuette of pure gold. He also remarked that just at the moment of bidding him good-day she relieved him In the quickest and most grace ful manner possible of a valuable cravat pin which became "secreted about her person" with the sudden ness of magic "You see yourself," groaned the attlicted husband in an aside to the consultant, "how pos sessed she is with the thieving in stinct. Oh, my poor, unfortunate wife! I will bring you back air the j missing articles to-morrow at any hour you may appoint, wnen you will I kindly give me your opinion of the j case and advise me what to do," To 1 morrow came and with it the ap ! pointed hour, and the consultant ! waited and is still waiting for the 1 "well-dressed, pleasant - mannered j young man" and hi; stolen goods. He j was as cleverly swindled as Gil Bias was by Hon Raphael and Camilla, i "niece of the Governor of the Span ish colonies in the Philippine Is lands. "--London Lancet. How Judge Bedford Kept His Word. Gunning S. Bedford, ex judge, who was buried recently, wai one of the most popular lawyers in New York with newspaper men. The reason was that he always told the truth and never broke a promise. Judite Bedford was once offered a check for $'.,000 bv the representative of a cer tain New York editor to tell to blm the storv whl h he had given to an other man and promised that the other man should have that story ex cluslvely. Judge Bedford explained the circumstances and declined to be interviewed. Then It was that the j representative ot the editor offered him the money, and immediately after it happened that Judge Bed ford knocked a man down. New York l'ress. Koine Familiar Nutnes. Siberia signifies "thirsty." is "the country of grapes." donia means "a high bill." Slcllv 'Cale. Asia signifies "In the middle," from the fact that ancient geographers thought It between Europe and Africa. Italy signifies "a country of pitch," from its yielding great quantities of black pitch. Hibcrnla is "utmost" or "last habitation," for beyond this to the westward the Ph enlclans ueverVx tended the r voyage Hr ta n 'the country of t n," great qnant tie be ing found In it The Greeks call it Alb on, which guifles e ther"wh te" or "h gh," from the whiteness of iti bores or the high rocks on th riV am coast Am exehaaa contains o arUol entitled: -Why do people aare poor teeth?" It It probably because ther cannot afford to boy good ones. THE COMMERCIAL BANK. ESTABLISHED 1888. Harrison, Nebraska. B. E. Brkwbtui, President. D. H. GRISWOLD, Cashisr. . AUTHORIZED CAPITAL. $50000. Transacts a General Banking Business. CORRESPONDENTS: American Exchange National Bank, New York, U.vtkd States National Bank, Omaha, First National Bane, Cbadroa. Interest Paid on Time Deposito. tST"DRAFTS SOLD ON ALL PARTS OF EUROPE. THE PIONEER Pharmacy, J. E. PHMNEY, Proprietor. Pure Drugs, Medicines, Fainto, Oils and Varnishes. HT ARTISTS' MATERIAL. School Supplies. Prescriptions Carefully Compounded Day or Night. SDNS & SMILEY, Harrison, Nebraska, Real Estate Agents, Have a number of bargains in choice land in Sioux county. Parties desiring to buy or sell ro) estate should not fail to call on them. School Lands leased, taxe3 paid for non-residents; farms rented, eta CORRESPONDENTS SOLTCITP . 5"V . C. F. Corm, Vice-Prseideal "7 CrBRTJ8HES. 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