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nOMAJI .A6HN8T WOMAJI.
BY MRS. M.
CHAPTER Xtr CoaUaoed.
"It iloca iucou. nm uauued hi
rein to the Earl, and peered about, ' I
can see no hole or corner even where
they co-id hide, ' he said, after a few
minutes' search, "Shall we return '"
"It is useless staying longer," Koy
ga'd with hU diaaijiointment; then his
brow cleared. "We will come to-night
axid watch. What do you say? '
"An excellent plan; by then Geoffrey
wiil have brought thede''.'; lives,"
He mounted his hors again, And
they role slowly back on the uith.
"I suppose it is the animal instinct
within me,'' Frank s-tid suddenly, "but
I feel convinced that the robbery at
the castle and attempted robbery last
night at the Grange were all one plot,
and I strongly suspect that foreign
Countis in it. Lord Darrell."
"It seetns Incredible," began Roy;
then he stoppei. "Who are these
men coming toward us?'' he added
hurriedly.
Frank looked for an instant, then
with an exclamation spurred his horse
on.
"It is Geoffrey anl the detectives.
How quick he has been!''
The Earl i re rein and waited till
the riding iiarty approached him.
Geoffrey Armistead he knew; but the
tall, whre-haired stranger on his left
he did not, nor the three others who
rode behind.
"You have traveled on wings, Geof
frey, " exclaimed frank Meredith, shak
ing his friend's hand.
"I did not go to sleep, certainly,"
returned Mr. Armistead, greeting the
Earl, "and I have worked to some good,
too. Prank, our suspicions were cor
rect There is a gang of the most no
torious burglars somewhere about
here. I have brought down Mr.
Newton, the celebrated detective, who
has been seeking their whereajouts
for some time.
' They've just fairly puzzled me,"
spoke a Keen-faced man from the three
behind; "but I think we have got them
now."
"But let me Introduce you. Lord
Darrell, to an old friend, Sir Humphrey
Durant, whom I have met abroad many
times, and whose name, doubtless, is
familiar to you," added Geoffrey Armi
stead. Koy grasped the hand the white
haired stranger held out.
"It is a name I have heard all mv
life. Welcome back once more to your
mother will I
I
own sir uumpnrey: My
be glad to see you again. "
"Thanks, Lord Darrell," answered
Sir Humphrey, quietly. "Life is very
trange indeed. I was traveling to
Nestley as quickly as trains would
bring me, when chance flung into my
path my friend, Mr. Armistead. From
him I learnt of the robbery at the
ca-.tle, the attempted robbery at the
"Grange and the suspicion that the
burglars had taken refuge in the
--Abbey ruins, my inheritance. Mr.
-Armistead 'a only tear was that the
Abbey offered them actually no pro
tection, but I can and have informed of
-the truththat it is indeed the very
home for such a crew."
"Go on, go on!" cried Roy with flash-'
ing eyes.
bir Humphrey gazed at him with a
' strange exprescion.
"Lord Darrell," he said quickly, "I
Twish ask you a question; these gen--tleirfen
will give me one moment's
'grace if I draw you aside."
Frank and Geoffrey bowed.
The old man and Lord Darrell moved
apart a few steps.
"Koy Darrell," said Sir Humphrey,
"you have lost more than diamonds In
this robbery, have you not?"
Koy bit his lip.
"Y es." he said huskily. "I have lost
my wife."
"One other question, and I have
done. Was that wife pre ioug to you,
or did you regard her coldly?"
"When I married her. my heart was
not mine to gie, but since my return i
here, only one short week, I love her
with all my life; she is to me the most j
precious jewel earth can bold."
The old man put out his hand si
lently, and Roy grasped it, his face
bearing witness to the heart felt earn
estness of his words.
"I thank you for this," said Sir Hum
phrey, speaking as with difficulty.
"You look surprised-as, indeed, you
may. I will tell you all in full after
ward. To be brief now, I will simply
ay that the girl you have married is
no low-born farmer's niece, but the
child I sought for many years ago the
child of my dead son, t ulke Durant.
My granddaughter is heir to all I pos
sess." Roy passed his band over his brow.
"Your granddaughter!" he repeated,
blankly. "I thought -the world
thougct you had no kith or kin."
"As I have thought for many a
dreary day. But, come, we must re
turn to the others. You shall know all
later on. I was on my way to Darrel
Castle to make mvselt known to the
child of my beloved ton, when I learnt
the sad news of her abduction -for ab
duction it must be-and once again I
am com pel led to wait and hope. "
"We will work together to f!nd her,"
exclaimed Roy eagerly. "And now
tell me you say they tould find nests
here?"
-nuwa miov can. oir uumpnrey ,
am7'!"K9. tbe7 joined the others ;
yam. "Beneath tbe ruins are series
of vaults, some good, large and airy.
There, If we search well, we shall Aim-
over our birds. I doubt not."
Geoffrey Armistead metiooed the de
fectives on.
They each produced a revolver.
"Mow, remember, If we meet any
ne, endeavor to seize him without
hurt. We do not want to shed blood
van eearily."
Hlr Humphrey dismounted from his
horse.
'Bow many yean since I have stood
re!" ho ssid, mueinsrlr. "It recalls
the boyish days when I played at nigh:s
with my couaia sad brothers all dead
mom-ill dead."
12 Mtpd s 1 for one moment, then
txi 13m way mad till he halted at the
r-rf ft where freak had pieked ap
t -Matwta-,
f aJtwaly hsaii. over
t rw of Ur. H
' r Lo$fty pmmi asaat, then
t' t rv
' V rla " fc m1-l
1traaar a 29 Clr .Myj
E. HOLMES.
leads to the vaults.
Come, i will lead
you.'
"Not you," cried Koy.
"I am young
ana ne "
"Beg pardon, gents: but if yoc will
permit me, ts an otlicer of te law, I
must eo first. "'
Mr. Newton took up hi position, and
both Sir Humphrey and Lord Darrel
fell back. ,
The two detectives, at their chief's
orders, lifted the stone.
To their surwise they found it rolled
over as lightly as isible, and the way
was clear.
Koy shuddered as he g'aneed down
the dark passage.
Was she, the woman he loved, en
tombed there?
Frank Meredith pushed forward,
but Geoffrev Armistead held him back.
"Not so fast, Frans. You remain
here with Sir Humphey and Darrel:.'
The detectives, headei by Mr. New
ton, crept down the steps and groped
their way.
OeotJrey Armistead went after them.
"Kemain rouiia here," he said bur-
riediy to the others,
jj case of an es-
cape."
iCoy flung himself o3 his horse, and
even as he did so. a contused sound
came from the vauts.
With wild excitement he approached
the entrance. He heard Mr. Newton's
voice utter, deep and loud, "bur
render." He heard muffled sound of men
struggling, loud exclamations, the re
port of a revolver shot, and then a
woman's shriek.
His heart stood still, and he fed
down the steps. Sir Humphrey, with
face as white as his hair, following,
while Frank endeavored to quiet the
horses that were tethered together.
Geoffrey Armistead pushed x;oy back.
"Out in the air." he said excitedly.
"They are fighting hard: but we have
got them, I think.''
"But she! Good God! she screamed
did you not hear her? She is hurt.
Let me go?" Hoy panted.
"Back, I say," Geoffrey said, bluntly,
"there is no one there but a man, a
boy, and an old woman: it was she
who screamed 1 swear I am speaking
the truth. Ah, here comes Newton;
lend a hand.''
Scarce knowing what he did, Roy
grastted a struggling arm. He dimly
saw a man's form held by Newton and
Geoffrey; his eve was wanderinc over
h? otv iwo pruwners that were le i
out. Geoffrey was right. A youth
, came ursi, wniie ana trembling, then
an old woman, whose coarse face
looked ghastly with its fear: her hands
were linkeJ together, but she was
pouring out cries for mercy, all of
', which feil on deaf ears.
i Geoffrey Armistead and the detect-
I ives struggled with the man and suc
ceeded in forcing him on his knees;
then after some little difficulty they
i put the handcuffs on his wrists and let
i him free.
! Koy gazed at him eagerly; his heart
fell. It was not Count J ura.
' "Let me search," he said eagerly.
I "We have searched, my lord," said
lne aetective civilly; "trns ts all at
Only let me go and 1 11
tell all."
screamed name uurcien. "Oh, kind
' gentlemen, good, kind gentlemen,
have mercy - let me go, I am a poor,
harmless woman."
; She held out her hands, and Roy,
1 glancing at them, caigrht them in his.
"You were right," he cried to
I Frank; "the diamonds are here, for
she wears one see! Then " His
; voice failed.
j The old woman tried to snatch back
her hand.
I "You answer my questions," and
Geoffrey Armistead advanced to the
old woman, drew his pistol, and
( pointed at her head. "Where is tbe
i young lady who was brought here two
! days ago? Answer quickly the truth,
or "
I Mrs. Burden turned green with fear.
"1 will speak -I will speak. She
went away with George; and oh, sir, 1
swear it I tried to help and g.ve her
a sovereign on my honor I did "
1 Roy ana Frank exchanged glances.
"Where have they gone?" continued
Geoffrey.
" Yei.speak, " broke In Sir Humphrey
hoarsely.
"To furrin parts I think to Italy."
S Koy turned and mounted his horse.
"Where are you going?" eagerly
asked Frank.
"To track them down," answered
Roy, madly.
Geo .rey put his hand on the rein.
"Can you say nothing?" he said to
the prisoners who had struggled so
hard.
Paul Ross lifted his eyes and glared
at the speaker, but made no answer.
"Do nothing, Lord Darrell, till we
have questioned them further. Now
to Nestley jail," commanded Geoffrey
firmly.
CMAFTEK XVL
Valerie Ross wag chatting in her
most pleasant manner to Lady Darrell
when her quick ears caught the
sound of arrivals on the graveled path
leading to the castle entrance. She
rose and swept to the window; her
?uick eyes caught a glimpse of Roy's
ace, white and agitated, as he threw
himself from his horse, and her heart
told her that something had happened.
So great was her e mot on that for an
instant a film gathered over her eyes;
she could distingish no other among
the group of horsemen below, and
when the mist cleared away they had
all dismounted and bad entered the
castle.
At all hazards she must know what i
had happened. I
She made some hurried excuse to ,
Lady Darrell, and slipped from the
room.
In the passage she met Davis Alice's 1
maid. The woman had never liked j
her, and since her very open abuse of
poor Alice, had grown to hate-her.
"What has happened. Davis?" cried
Valerie, shrilly, forgetting even her
aignuy in ner rear, "is anything tbe
matter?"
"Nothing that I have beard of,
atlas" aaswered Davis, and then Va
lerie knew she mast endeavor to grow
aim, or she weald betray herseli
"I ttttf kt I heard a noise," eh
mU, oy, "Wat I dare ssf I was mis-
'1 tl' ywa RMst b
TsrlwrWv,
tbe staircase she haliei. Should she
go downstair or not? Her movements
were soon decided, for at that instant J
Koy. followed by rrank Meredith and
Geoffrey Armistead. ran up the stairs.
"Ah. Valerie." he cried, excitedly, j
"ureal news' V e have captured oni6
of the burglars, and traced - my
Lady I ai re L Where is my mother?
I "
He hurried off.leaving Valerie face to
face w.ta Mr. Armistead. She grew
suddenly pale.
"Caught some of the robbers?" she
exciaime L "How romantic. Where
ani how? Ah, Mr. Meredith, you are
the gentleman who befriended my
Lady Alice tbe other day. And so they
t:aced her? Whe.-e is sne?"
"Safe, I trust," said Goeffrey Arml-
sieam "v e nave sooicheci two of the
villains, the otaur we shall have to
morrow."
Valerie's heart rtood stilL
"Are thev very ferocious?'' she
asked in a forced laughing manner.
"Do they look very terrible.-"
"They are most ordinary-in fact.one
is strantfoiy like yourself."
"Valerie gasped, put out one hand
and clutched the balustrade.
Geoi rey it.otioned Frank away; he
put his band oil V alere's, sje opened
hoi-eyes.
"My brother Paul!'' she gapped.
"Is below in liandeu?s.'
"My God failed!" she murmured,
wildly: "what has hapiiened?' e
passed her hand over her eyes: then
ier brain cleared. "Mr. Armistead."
she pleaded pass onatelv, "iielp me, I
beg. y wretched brother! You
know what I have suered through
him. For God s sake help mi now.
They know nothing of him here. I
shall be disgraced - eternally shamed,
unless you will aid me. bee. 1 tling
mysolf at your feet! Help me to escape
mis.
"I will help you on one condition,"
Geoflrey Aruiistcad saiu quietly, li. ting
Valerie from her humiliating positkuj
"and on one condition only. 1
"Name it!" cried Valerie.
"That you confess wtut share you
had in Lady Darrell's abduction?'
She gave a slight ,eream, then drew
herself up.
"I don t understand you," she Baid
haughtily, "You insult me by such
words."
"Oh no. I don't," answered Geoffrey.
"I am a p:,tty good judtre of things,
Madame Valerie, and your own lips
have condemned you. What did you
whisper just now? 'Failed!' What
has failed? Y'our plan, of course.
Come, will you confess?"
"Never." said alvQe, passionately.
"It is all fake! I know nothing."
"I her Lord Darrell coming. I will
tell him all -tell him that the woman
he is harboring in his home is the sis
ter of a "
"No no!" Valerie drew him back.
"I may know something. Give me an
hour.;'
"I give you till to-night willingly."
And Mr. Armistead turned away,
leaving the wretched woman lost for a
momeut to ail her self-possession, feel
ing chat her revengeful plan bad
failed, yet knowing nothing.
She went hurriedly along the cor
ridor to her own room, and as she went,
her courage returned, and she could
have cursed herself for her weakness in
betraying herself to Geoflrey Armi
stead s keen eyes.
Koy Darrell met his friend with out
stretched hand.
"My mothor is quite upset anl ill
with all tnis business. She has sent
me to fetch Sir Humphrey. She wishes
to see him."
"I have been thinking that our best
plan will be to ride in separate direc
tions, to try and trace tbe Italian
scoundrel: the others had better stay
here, if you don't object to turning
your castle into apriscn for the nonce. '
"Object! ' cried the Farl. "I feel
safe when I know they are within my
grasp. Armistead. I put myself into
your hands. What you think wisest
I will do. As soon as the detectives
return trom Nestley with the police I
will start with you."
"Good," returned Geoffrey; "it will
be a strange thing if we don't catch
him, I think.'1
Frank Meredith here joined them,
and they went down stairs together.
"Look after your friend, Armis
tead," said the Farl, waving his hand
towards the dining-room, where a de
luner was spread.
me, I must take Sir Humphrey up to
mv mother."
He left the two friends and hurried
in search of Alice's grandfather.
Alice's grandfather!
The news came back to him with all
Its strange force.
TO BE CONTINUED.
The Note Wasn't Indorsed.
Gus Williams was entertained by a
party of West End ac uaiutanees af
ter Thursday night's performance.
The original idea was to have a lit
tle eucher party, but Williams began
to tell stories, and in that way tbe
nigbt was spent.
"A country clothing merchant
went to the ktore of Bernbeimer,
Bloom .v Co., in New York not long
ago," said Mr. Williams, "and before
be left be bad completed the pur
chase of a bill to the anount of $4,
000. He paid 12,000 in cash and gave
his note for tbe remainder.
" 'I'nd now,' be said to the sales
man, 'vol vill I ged for a Grlsmas
present'
" I'm glad you spoke, already,' tbe
salesman returned. 'Step right over
by the gounder and pi It fur yourse f
I handsome silk necktie.'
The country merchant was astoa-
'What! Do I bear rlghd? Only
a ne ktle und 1 buy 14,000 in spring
goods?'
'"Well, I don'd know. I'll see
Mr, Bernbeimer,' said tbe salesman.
'"How much did he buy?' the ex
perienced bead of the bouse asked,
" 'Four t'ousand, helluf cash and
belluf a note,' returned the clerk.
'Well,' Mr. 1 ernhelmer con
Utiuoi, kItc blm bis note.'
The clerk went oat, delighted
with tbe magnificence of tbe gift
When tbe country merchant heard
of it bis face fell.
" nd did be Indorse Id?" be
asked.
Of (ouree not,' replied the as
tonished derk.
11 . til, In dot gase,' the rural
trader replied, 'I'll take dot neck-tit.'"--St,
Louis llepubllc
TALM AGE'S SERMON.
AN
ELOQUENT DISCOURSt ON
EASTER IN GREENWOOD."
Where the Woimd of Death I Bndtt(rd
by foiiafr hrl.t i Rnnnwliie J ln
KesnrrrtioB it We A re HU The "Good
Morning; " of Our rtavtour.
At the Tabernacle.
In the Brooklyn Tabernacle. Suuday
forenoon, Itev. ir. Talmage delivered
an elo-juent sermon on "Faster in
Greenwood," the text being tiken
from Genesis jcxiil. IT, 18, "And the
field in Hebron, which was in- Mac h
pe'ah, which was before Mamre, the
field, and the cave which was therein,
and all the trees that were in the
field, that were in all the borders
round a!xut, were made sure unto
Abraham.
Here is the first cemetery ever laid
out. Machpelah was its name. It was
an arLoi-escent beauty, where the
wound of death was" bandaged with
foliage. Abraham, a rich man, not
being able to brile the king of ter
rors, proposes here, a far as ossible,
to i over up the ravages. He had no
dmbt pr-evio isly not'J ed this region,
and now that Sarah, his wife, had
died 1 hat remarkable person who at
90 years of age had m n to her the
son Isaac and who now, after she had
reached 17 years, had expired - At ra
ham is negotiuting for & family plot
for her last slumber.
Fphron owned this real estate, and
a'tor, in mock sympathy for Abraham,
refusing to take anvthinc for it. now
sticks on a big price -4l shekels of
silver. The cemetery!lot is paid for,
and the transfer nv de in the presence
o' witnesses in a public place, forthere
were no dee ls and no halls of record
in those early times. Then in a cav-
ern of limestone rock Abraham put
Sarah, and a few years a'ter himself
followed, and therlsaac and Hebekah,
and then Jacob and Leah. Fmbowered,
picturesque, and memorable Machphe
bh! That '-God s a. re" dedicated by
Aoranam nas Deen tne mother ot in
numerable mortuary observances. The
necroiolls of every civilized land has
vied with it njetroixiiis.
Ka mouit Tombs,
The most beautiful hills of Europe 1
outside the great cities are covered j
with obelisk and funeral vase, and '
arched gateways and columns and par- I
terres In honor of the inhumated. The j
Applan way of Rome was bordered by j
sepulchral commemorations. For this !
purpose Pisa has its arcaaes of marble !
sculptured into excellent bas-reliefs j
and the features of dear faces that
have vanish, d. 4Genoa has its terraces '
cut into toombs, and Constantinople
covers with cypress the silent habita- I
tions. and Paris has its Pere la Chaise,
on whose heights rest llalzac and
David and Marshal Ney and Culvier I
an l la Place and Moliere and a mighty
group of warriors and poets and paint
ers and musicians. In all foreign na
tions utmo-it genius on all tddes is ex
pended in the work of interment,mum
mification, ind incineration.
Our own country onscnts to be sec
ond to none in respect to the lifeless
body. Every city and town and neigh
borhood of any intelligence or virtue
has, not many miles away, its sacred
inclosure, where affection has engaged
sculptor's chisel and florist's spade and
a rt i n t v matalu ins fmrx ,,tt Vu
shown its religions well as its art in i
k o. Jtii, i. , v, '
the manner which it holds the mem- i
ory of those who have passed forever I
away by its Cypress Hills, and its
Evergreens, and Its Calvary, and Holly
Cross, and Friends' cemeteries.
Ail the warld knows of our Green
wood, with now about 270,000 inhabi
tants sleeping among the hills that
overlook the sea, and by lakes em
bosomed in an Edon of flowers, our
American Westminster
a oe v, an
Pantheon of mighty ones ascended, 1
elesries instone. Iliads in marble. wnnl
generations in peace waiting for other
generations to join them. No dormi
torv of breathless sleepers in all the
world has so many mighty dead.
The Illnatrtoiu leaL
Among tho preachers of the gospel,
Bethuue and Thomas DeWitt, and
'If vo'u will nardonfJl5lhop Jalle8 an1 Tyg"- an1 Abeel.the
ton, and McClintock and Inskip, anl
Bangs and Chapin, and Noah Schenck
and Samuel Hanson Cox. Among
musicians, the renowned Gottschulk
and the holy Thomas Hastings. Among
philanthropists, PeterCooperantl Isaac
I. Hopper, and Lueretia Mott and
Isabella Graham, and Henry Bergh,
the apostle of mercy to the brute crea- j
tion. Among the litterati, the Carys, t
Alice and Phbe; James K. Spaulding ;
linrt .InhnfJ Suro Amr.no in,.IU. 1
Bennet and liaymond ani Greeley.
Among scientists, Ormsby Mitchell,
warrior as well asastronomer, and lov
ingly called by his soldiers "Old
Stars;" Professor Proctor and the
Drapers, splendid men, as I well know,
one of them my teac her, the other my
classmate.
Among inventors, Elias flowe. who
through the sewing machines, did
more to alleviate the tolls of woinan
jiood than any man that ever lived,
and Professor Morse, who gave us mag
netic telegraphy, the former doing his
work with a needle, the latter witn the
thunderbolt. Among physicians and
surgeons, Joseph C, Jintchinson and
Marion Sims and Dr. Valentine Mot;,
with the following epitaph which he
ordered cut in honor of Christian re
ligion: "My iraplic it faith and hope is
in a merciful Kedeemer, who is the
resurrection and the life. Amen and
aracn." This is our American Mach
pelah, as sacred to us as the Mach
pelah in Canaan, of which Jacob ut
tered that pastoral poem in one verse,
"There they buried Abraham and
Sarah, his wife, there they buried
Isaac and Hebekah, his wl e.and there
I buried Leah."
The Kevarrretloa Dar. -
At this Easter service I ask and an
swer what may seem a novel question,
but it will be found, before I get
through, a practical and useful and tre
mendous fjuettion. What will resur
rection day do for the cemeteries?
! ir, t, I remark, it will be their super
nal beau ti that ion. At certain seasons
it is customary in all lands to strew
flowers over the mounds of the de
parted. It may have been suggested
by the fact that Christ's tomb was In a
garden. And when I say garden I do
not mean a garden of these latitudes.
Tbe late frosts of spring and tbe early
rests of autumn are so near each other
that there are only a few months of
flowers In tbe field. All the flowers we
see to-da., had 'o be p-tteJ and coaxed
and put nn er she. ter. or thev would
not have bloomed at all. They are the
children of the eonsei-vatorie-i. B-it at
thi.j season an 1 thi-ough the most of
the year the Holy Land is all ablush
with floral opulence.
You tind ail tbe roy.:l family of flow
ers there, some that you supoed in
digenous to the ftr north and others
indigenous to the far Kiu'.h- the daisy
and hyacinth, cro us and anemone,
tulip and water lily, cerar.ium and
rtnuu 'ulus, mignonette and sweet
marjjiam. In tne cobege at Ueirut
you may see Dr. Port's collection of
about l,Mi kinds of Holy Land Dowers,
while among trees are the oaks of
iroen climes, and the tamarisk of the
tropics, walnut and willow, ivy and
hawthorn, ash and elder, nine and
syca nore. If such lloral and Ixitanical
beauties are the wild growths of the
field, think of what a garden must be
lu Falestuie! And in such a garden
Jesus Christ slept after, on the soldier's
spear. His latorop of blood had coag
ulated. And then see bow appropri
ate that all our cemeteries should be
noralized and tree shaded. In June
Greenwood is Frooklyu s garden.
"Wed. then," you say, ' how can you
make out that the resurrection day
will beautify the cemeteries? Will
it not leave them a plowed up
ground? On that day there will le an
earthquake, and will not this split the
!oiished Aberdeen granite as well as
the plain slab that can afford but two
words - 'Our Mary' or "Our Charley?' "
Well, I wiil tell you how resurrection
day will beautify all the emeteries.
It will be by bringing up the faces th;it
were to us on o and in our memories
are to us now more beautiful thun any
1 calls lily and the forms that are to us
more graceful than any willow by the
, waters, t an yon think of anything
! more beuutifuf than the reappearance
! of those from whom we have been
! parted? I do not care which way the
tree falls in the blast of the judgment
hurricane, or if the plowshare that
! day fhall turn under the last rose leaf
j and tbe !ast china aster, if out of the
broken sod shall come the bodies of
! our loved ones not damaged, but ir-
radiated.
The Voire of the Dead,
The idea of the resurrection gets
easier to understand as I hear the pho
nograph unroll some voice that talked
into
li a year ago. just before our
friend's decease. You touch the lever,
afid then come fo th the very tones,
the vert' song b! the person that
breathed into it once, but is now de
parted. If a man can do that, cannot
Almighty God, without half trying, re
turn the voice of your departed? And
if He can return tbe voice, whv not
thft l!mi. mt tlin tsin.nta anA tl.a
throat, why not the brain' that gug.
(rested the words? And if the brain,
and
wnv not tne nerves, ot which the. Oram
is the headquarters? And if He can
return the nerves, why not the
muscles, which are less ingenious?
And if the muscles, why not the bones,
that are less wonde. ful? And if the
voice, and the brain, and tho muscles,
and the bones, why not the entire
body? If roan can do the phonograph,
God can do the i esurroction.
Will it be the same body that in the
j last day shall be reanimated? Yes,
! but infinitely improved. Our bodies
j change every seven yea s, and yet in
; one sense it Is the same body. On my
! wrist and the second finger of my
! t ight hand there is a scar. I made
thatat 1 yea s of age, when, disgusted
at the presence of two warts, I took a
k ho,T aml. b?d A!10"5 ofT,and
burned them out. Since then mvboclv
has changed at least a half dozen times,
but those scars prove it is the same
bod v.
We nevorlose our identity. If God
can and does t-ome. lines rebuild a man
five, six, ten times in this world, is it
mysterious that He can rebuild him
once more and that in the resurrec
tion? If He can do it ten times, 1 think
He can do it 11 times. For seventeen
years gone, at the end of seventeen
1??.iM V' rubbln the
hln4 log against the wing make that
rattle at which all the husbandmen
and vine dressers tremble as the in
sect! e host takes up the march of de
vastation. Resurrection every seven
teen yeurs, a wonderful fact.
The UotpW Algebra.
Another consideration makes the
idea of resurrection easier. God made
Adam. He was not fashioned afterany
model There had never been a hu
man organism, and bo there was noth
ing to copy. At the first attempt God
made a perfect man. He made him
out of the dust of the earth. If out of
ordinary dust of the earh and without
a model God could make a tterfect man,
surely out of the extraordinary dust of 1
mo1 J10?"
models God a
Pt'r , .. ,
"Urcly thO la.
mortal ronv ana wnn millions 01
an make each one of us a
ing in the resurrection, i
Surely tho last undertaking would not vf,mo lel UM nd together! The
be (.'renter than the f!rst. See the ol(ier onm ur8t. the yottntrer ones next!
gospel algebra ordinary dust minus a ' vui(:is now- ? into lino! The ttkv
model equals a perfect man: oxtraordi- I wuru profession has already started!
nary dust and plus a model equals a i Steer now by that embankment of
resurrection body. Mysteries f.bout i
it? Oh, yes. That is one reason why (
iiietievoit. it wo Hd not be much of
a God who could do things only as far
as I can understand. Mysteries ' Oh,
yes: but no more about "tho resurrec
tion of your body than about its present
existence.
I will e xplain to you the last mystery
of t le resurrection and make itas plain
to you s that two and two make four
if you will tell me how your mind,
which is entirely independent of vour
body, can act upon vour body so that
at your will your ees open, or your
loot walks, or your hand is extended.
So I find nothing in the Bible state
ment concerning the resurrection that
staggers me for a moment. All doubts
clear from my mind. I say that the
eerneteries, however beautiful now, will
be more beautiful when the bodies of
our loved ones come up in the morning
of the resurrection.
They will come in improved condi
tion. Thsy will come up rested. The
most of tlwm lay down at the butt very
tired. H w o.'ten you have heard them
say, "1 mo so tired ' The fact is, it is a
tirod wot'ld. If I should go throjgh
this audience and go round tbe world,
I could not find a person in any style of
life Ignorant of the sensation of
laugi'd
I iiu not believe there are fifty per- j
sons In this audience who are not tired.
ivir i
. tli ed,
Araln I
lion, o
Yf ir bead is tired, or your back is
tiled, or your foot is tired, or your
is tlrod, or your nerves are tired.
journeying, or business appllca-
or bereavement, or sickness has
out on you heavy weights. So the vast
majority of those who went out of this
world went out fatigued. About the
poorest place to rest In this world. Its
atmosphere, Its surroundings, and even
its hilarities are exhausting, bo God
stof our earthly life, and mercifully
closes the eves, and more epc daily
glvesquiescence to the lung and heart,
that have not haa ten minutes' rest
from tbe first resuiration and the first
beat.
The fartory of th tirade.
Facto, ies are apt to be ro; gh places,
and thus who toil in tbe u have their
garments grimy and their hands
smutched. Hut who cares for that
when they turn out for us beautiful
musical instruments or exquis te up
holstery? What though the grave is
a rough place, it is a resurrection body
ma utactory, and from it sha I come
t:ie rad.ant and lespiendent iorms of
our b lends on the brightest morning
the wo. lu eer saw. You put into a
factory cotton, and it conies out a(
parel. You put into a tactory lumber
ana lead, and they come out pianos and
organs. And so ln'othe factory of the
grave you put in pneumonias and con
sumptions, and they come out health.
You put in groans, and they come out
hallelujahs. For us on the final day
the most attractive places will not be
the parks, or the gardens, or the pal
aces, but tne cemetorie-'.
We are not told in what season that
dav will come, if it should le whiter,
those who como up will be more
lustrous than the snow that covered
them. If in the autumn, those who
como up will be mo e gorgeous than
the woods after the frosts had penciled
them. If in the p in, the bloom on
which they tread will be dead corn
pa' ed with the rubicund of their
cheeks. Oh. the r ect reiurteetion
body! Almost everybody has some de
leetive siot in his physical constitu-tion-a
uull ea.', or a dim eye, or a
rheumatic foot, or a- neuralgic b ow,
o a twisted muscle, or a weak si :e, or
an inilamed tonsil, or some )oint at
which the east winu or a season ot
ovei work assaults him.
Hut the resurre tion body shall be
without one weak spot, and all that the
doctors and nurses an I apothecaries of
earth will thereafter have to do will
be to rest without interruption after
the broken nights of their earthly ex
istence. .Not only will that day be the
bcautitication of well ko,it cemeteries,
but some of the graveyards that have
been neglected and been the pasture
ground for cattle and rooting places
lor Bwine will for the first time hao
attractiveness given them. J
It was a shame that in that place un
grateful generations planted no trees,
and twi.sted no garlands, and sculptured
no marble for their Christian ancestry,
but on the day of which I sjioak the
resurrected shall make the place of
their feet glorious. From under the
shadow of th'! church, where they
tlumbereJ anions nettles and mullein
j Hia
ks and thistles and slabs aslant.
they shall rise with a glory that shall
i ll,ush ,the ""V"' of the village
church, and by the bell tower that used
to call them to worship, and above the
old spiro beside which their prayers
formerly a-ceride I. What triumphal
procession never did for a street, what
an oratorio never did for an academy,
w hat an orator never did for a brilliant
auditory, what olxrlisk never did for a
kin?, resurrection morn will do for all
the cemeteries.
If We Are HI.
This Easter tells us that in Christ's
resurrection our resurrection, if we
are his. and the resurrection of all the
pious dead, is assured, for he was "the
urst fruits of them thatslept." Hunan
says he did not rise, but iN) witnesses,
sity of them Christ's enemies, say he
did rise, for they saw him utter ho had
risen. If he did not rise, how did puty
armed soldiers let him get away?
Surely sixty living soldiers ought to be
able to keep one dead man! Blessed
be God! He dia get away.
After his resurrection Mary Mag
dalene saw him. Cleopas saw him.
Ten disciples in an upijr room at Jer
uselatn saw him. On a mountain the
eleven saw him. Five hundred at once
saw him. Professor Ernest Kenan,
who did not see him, win excuse us for
taking the testimony of the who
did see him. Yes, yes, ho got away.
And that makes me feel sure that our
departed loved ones, and we ourselves
shall get away. Freed himself from
the shackles of clod, he is not going to
leave us and ours in the lurch.
There will le no doorknob on tho In
side of our lamily sepulcher. for we
caaDOt come out of ourselves, but there
Is a doorknob on the out-dde, and that
Jesus shall lay bold of, and opening
will say: 'Good morning! You have
slept long enough! Arise, arise!"
And then what flutter of wings, and
what flashing of rekindled eyes, and
what gladsome rushing across the
family lot with cries of "Father, is
that you?" "Mother, is that niu"'
V,7 uarll,n8'' 18 tbltt yoi.?" "How vou
: iuu uuugu gone,
r. cruu 1 K."ne' me consumption gone,
Lne paralysis gone, the weariness gone.
c out""" tne nearest Kate
And as we ascend on one sido th
earth got smaller until it is no longer
than a mountain, and smaller until it
is no larger man a palace, and smaller
; until it is no larger than a ship, and
smaller until it is no larger than a
wheel, and smaller until it is no larger
than a speck.
j farewell to Earth.
Farewell, dissolving earth! But on
the tther side as we rise Heaven at
first appears no larger than your hand
And nearer it looks like a chariot, and
nearer it looks like a throne, and nearer
looks like a star, and nearer it looks
like a universe. Uaii, scepters that
shrll always wave! Hail, anthems that
shall always roll. Hail, companion
ships never again to part! That is
what resurro tion day will do for all
the cemeterlos and graveyards from
the Machpolah that was opened by
rather Abraham in Hebron to the
Machpolah yesterday consecrated.
Brass.
Brass Is perhai the best known
and most u-ful alioy. tt is formed
by fusing together copper and ilnc,
Dllterent proportions of these metals
invuuui ui asses possessing very
lu.uaou uiiiiiiciive properties.
TlM
jortions of the d fferent Ingredients
are wiuora precisely alike, these de
pend utoo the te (UlremenU of varl.
ous uses for wblcb the alloys are In
tended. Peculiar qualities of the
constituent metals also exercise In.
fluenee on tbe results.
Sunshine falling through a water
bottle Is the reported oilgin of a Ore
recently In the Industrial Home for
Girls, tt llanpstead, England,