Nebraska Newspapers

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The Sioux County Journal,
VOLUME VII.
HAKKLSON, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1894.
NUMBER 5.
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Pore Drugs, Medicines, Painty
Oils and Varnishes.
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School Supplies.
Prescriptions Carefully Compounded
Day or Night.
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Real Estate Agents
Have a number of bargains in
choice land in Sioux county.
Parties desiring to
estate should
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School Lands
leased, taxes paid for
non-residents; farms rented, eta
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TALMAGE'S SERMON.
THE GREAT PREACHER'S MES
SAGE FROM THE ANTIPODES.
How Zacchea. Wm Vim verted and Mj.de
Kratltatlon The CoiMM'lenre fund of the
TrrM.ury Mepartinent Traonf urination
of Family The Mother. Prayer.
The Tai Collector.
Key. Dr. Talniage, wbo is now pre
paring to leave Australia fer India on
his round tbc world tour, Belated as
tbe subject for last Sunday's sermou
through tbe press "'The Tax Collector'.
Conversion," the text being taken from
Luke vix. it, "Thin day if salvation
come to this bouse."
Zaccheus wai a politician and a tax
gatherer. He bad an honest calling.
j but the opiortunity for "stealing."
J was so large tbe temptation was too
much forbim. The Bible say. be ''was
A sinner" that is, in tbe public sense.
How many fine men have been ruined
by official position! It is an awful
thing for any man to seek ortiee under
government unless bis principles of in
tegrity are deeply fixed. Many a man
upright in an insignificant position has
made shipwreck in a great one. As
far as I can tell, in the city of Jericho
this Zaccheus belonged to wuat might
be called the "ring." They bad things
their own way,., successfully va"voiding
exposure, if by no other way perhaps
by hiring somebody to break in and
steal the vouchers. Notwithstanling
his bad reputation, there were streaks
of good about him, as there are anout
almost every man. Gold is found in
quart., and sometimes in a very small
percentage.
Jesus was coming to town. The peo-
le turned out en masse to see Him.
ere He comes, the Lord of glory, on
foot, dust covered and road wearv,
limping along the way, carrying the
griefs and woes of the world. He lo ks
to be sixty years of age when lie is
only about thirty, Zaccheus was A
short man and could not see over the
people's head i while standing on the
ground, so he got up into a sycamore
tree that swung its arm clear over the
road. Jesus advanced amid the wild
excitement of the surging crowd. The
most honorable and popular men of the
city are looking on and trying to gain
His attention. Jesus, instead of re
garding them, looks up at the little
man in the .tree and ,. "Zaccfcev..
come down. I am going home with
you." Everybody was disgusted to
think that Christ would go home with
so dishonorable a man.
Christ end the Pabllcan.
I see Christ entering the f.-ont door
of the house of achei.s. The King
of Heaven and earth sits down, and as
He looks, around on the place and the
family He pronounces the benediction
of the text. "This day is salvation
come to this house, "
Zaccheus had mounted the sycamore
tree out of mere in juisitiveness. He
wanted to see how thisstranger looked
the color of His eyes, the length of
His hair, the contour of Uis features,
the height of His stature. "Come
down," said Christ.
And so many people in this day get
up into tbe tree of curiosity or specula
tion to see Christ. They ask a thou
sand queer (.ucstions about Hisdivinity,
about God s sovereignty and theeternat
decree. They speculate aud criticise
and hang onto the outside limb of a
great sycamore. But they must come
down from that if ihey want to be
saved. We cannot be saved as
philosophers, hut a little chil
dren. y"ou cannot go to Heaven by
way of Athens, but by way of Bethle
hem. Why be perplexed about the
way sin came into the world when the
great question is how we shall get sin
driven out of our hearts.
How many spend their time in criti
cism and religious speculation: They
take the rose of Sharon or the lily of
the valley, pull out the anther, scatter
the corona and say, "Js that tbe boau
tiful flower of religion thut you are
talking about.'" No flower Is beauti
ful after you have torn it all to pieces.
The path to Ileavon is so plain that a
fool need not make any mistake about
it, and yet men stop and cavil. Sup
pose that, going toward the l'arilie
slope, I had resolved that I would stop
until I could kill all the grizzly bears
and tbe panthers on either sido of the
way. I would never have got to the
Pacific const. When I went out lo
hunt the grizzly boar, tho gri..ly bear
would have come out to hunt tnc.
Here is a plain road to Heaven, .Men
say they will not take a step on it un
til they can make game of all the the
ories that bark and growl at them from
tho thickets. They lot-got the fact
that, us thoy go o it to hunt the theory,
tho theory comes out to hunt them,
and so they perish. Wo must receive
tho kingdom of Heaven in simplicity.
A MRttiumii'M ftaMiiipi.
William Pennington was one of the
wisest men of this country a( iovernor
of his own Statu und afterward speaker
of tho House of I iepresoritutives. ot,
when God called him to bo at 'hristian,
he went in and sat down among home
children who were applying lorehurch
membership, und he said to his pastor,
"Talk to mo list as you do to these
children, for 1 know nothing ulioutl:." !
There is no need ol bothering our
selves about mysteries when thero are
so many thing that are plain. Dr.
Ludlow, my profesHor In tbe theolog
ical so i.inary, tought mo a lesson I
have never lorgotlen. While putting
a variety of questions to him that were
perplexing ho turned upon me, some
what in sternness, but more In love,
and said, "Mr. Talmage, you will have
to letOod know some things that you
don't." We tear our hands on the
spines of the cactus instead of feasting
our eye on its tropical bloom, A great
company of people now sit swinging
the jitefves on the sycamore tree of
their pride, and I cry to you: "Zac
cheus. come down! Coine down out of
your pride, out of you tujuisitivenesa,
out of your sjculation. Vou cannot
ride Into the gi-.te of Heaven with
coach and four, pohtillion ahead and
lackey lhind. "Except ye become as
llttie children, ye cannot enter the
kinedom of God.' God has chosen the
weak things of the world to confound
the mighty, .aeeheus, come down,
come oown.''
JfeMtitutlon a KrHltjr.
I notice that this taxgatherer ac
companied his surrender to Christ
with the restoration of property that
did not belong to him. He says, "If I
I have taken anything by fa'sn accusa
' tion, I restore fourfold-'- that is, if I
' have taxed any man lor $10,1)00 when
I he had only .,0'0 worth of property
' an 1 put in my own pocket the tax lor
i the last ,i,O0), I will restore to htm
; fourfold. If I took from him 10, I
! will give him 40. If I took from hira
"MO, 1 will give him 100.
I Hundreds of thousands ot dollars
j have been sent to Washington during
the past few years as 'conscience
j money." I sup, ose that money was
sent by men who wanted to be Chris
tians, but found they could not until
i they mado restitution. There is no
need of our trying- to come to Christ as
long as we keep fraudulently a dol.ar
:ora farthl g in our possession thst
j belongs to another. Suppose you have
I not money enough to pay your debts,
I and for the sake of defrauding your
re di tors you putyour property in your
I wife's name. You might ry until the
, day of judgment for pardon, but you
! would not get it without first making
restitution. In times O' prosperity it
is right, against a rainy day, to as
sign property to your wife, but if, in
time of peroiexlty and for the sake of
defrauding your creditors, you make
t-uch assignment, you oecome a cul
prit before God, and you may as well
stop praying until you have made res
titution. Or supposing one man loans
another money on bond or mortgage,
with tne understanding that the mort
gage can lie quiet for several years,
but as soon as the mortgage is given
commences foreclosure the sheriff
mounts the auction block, and the
property is struck down at half price,
and the mortgagee buys it in. The
mortgagee started to nei the property
at half price and is a thief aim a rob
ber. Lntil he makes restitution there
is no mercy for hi r.
Vou say; "I cannot make restitu
tion. The parties' whom 1 swindled
I are gone. Ihen I say, "Jake the
money "p to the Amer.can Bible So
ciety and consecrate it to God,"' Zac
cheus was wise when he disgorged his
unrighteous gains, an 1 it was his first
step .n the right direction.
Christ In the Home.
The way being clear, Christ walked
into the house of Zaccheus. He be
comes a different man; his wife a dif
ferent woman; the children are differ
ent. Oh, it makes a great change in
any house who.i Christ comes into it!
How many beautiful homes are repre
sented among vou' There are pictures
on the wall, there is music in the drawing-room,
and luxuries in the ward
robe, and a full supply in the pantry.
Even if you wero half asleep there Is
one word with which I could wake you,
and thrill you through and through,
and that word is "home." There are
also houses o! suffering represented in
wmcn there are neither pictures, nor
w rdrobe, nor adornment only one
room, and a plain rot, or a bunk in a
corner. Vet, it is the place where
your loved onos dwell, and your w:.olc
nature tingles witn satisfaction when
you th nk or it and call it home.
Though the world may scoff at us and
pursue us and a 1 the day wo be tossed
about, at eventide we sail into the har
bor of home. Though there be no rest
for us in the busy world, and we go
trudging about, bearing burdens that
well nigh cresh us. there Is a refuge,
and it hath an easy chair m which we
may sit, and a lounge whero we may
lie, and a serenity, of peace in which
wo may repose, and that refuge is
ho i e. The Knglish soldiers, sitting
on the walls around Sevastopol, one
night heard a company of musicians
playing "Home, Sweet Home," and it
is said tho whole army broke out iu
sobs and wailing, so great was their
homesickness. God pity the poor, mis
erable wretch who has no home!
The C'lirtHtlan Mother.
Now, suppose CI, rist should comointo
your house. First the wifo and the
mother would feel His presence. Ko
ligion almost always begins t e.e. It
is easie,' for women to I eoomcChristians
than for us men. They do not 11 gin so
against (.0 1. If women tempted man
originally away from holiness, now t ho
tempts him back. She may not make
any fuss about it, but somehow every
jo.iy in the house knows that there is
u change in tho wiie and mother. She
chides the children more gently. Her
lace lights up sometimes with an un
earthly g.ow. Sho goes into some un
oecupioi room fur a little wliiio, and
the husband goes not after her nor
asks her why she waH there He knows
without asking that s e has I ecu pray
ing. The husband notices that her
faeo is I rig., tor than on the days
when, years ago, they stood at tao
marriage ulUr, and he knows that Je
ms bus been putting upon her brow a
wreath sweeter than the o ango blos
soms, she puts the children to bod,
not satisliod with the lormal prayer
that they onco offered, but she llniors
now and tolls them of .losus who
blessed little cuildron and of the good
place thoy all hopo to c at Inst, And
then she kisses them goo i night w th
something that the chi.d feels to ho a
heavenly benediction a something
that shall hold on to tho I oy a tor ho
hi.s Iweomo a man 4 :or; I years of ago,
for there is something In a good, lov
ing, Christian mother's kiss that oil
years cannot wie oil the cheek.
The Father Overcome,
Now the husband is distressed and
annoyed and almost vexed. If sho
wou'd only speaa to him, he would
"blow her up." He does not like to
say anything about it, but he knows
that she baa a hope that he has not
and a peace that he has not. He
knows that, dying as he now is, be can
not go to the same place. He cannot
stand it any longer.
Some Sunday niifht as they sit in
church side by side the floods of Iks
soul break forth. He wants to pray,
but does not know how. He hides his
face, -est some of his worldly friends
see him, but God's spirit arouses hira,
melts him, overwhelm-' him. And
they go homo -husband aud wife in
silence, until they ret to their room,
when he cries out, "Oh, pray for me."
Ai d they kneel down. They cannot
speak. The words will not come. But
God does not want any words. He
li.oks down and answers sob and groan
and outpushing tenderness. TJiaJ;
night they do not sleep any lor talking
of all the jears wasted and of that
Saviour who ceased not to call. Before
morning they have laid their plans tor
anew nfe. Morning comes, rather
and mother e'escend from the beuroom.
Th f children do not know what is the
matter. They never saw father w th
a bib e in his hand liefore. He says.'
"Come, children. I want you all to sit
down white wo read and pray." The
children look at each other and are
alnio t disjKwed to laugh, b it they see
i their parents are in deep earnest. It
is a short chapter that the father
reads. Ho is a good reader at other
times, but now he does not get on
i much. He sees so much to linger on.
' His voice trembles. Everything is so
strange. y new to hi n. They kneel
1 that is, the father and mother do, but
1 the children come down one by one.
They do not know that they must. It
I is sometime lx;:ore they all got down,
j The sentences are broken. The
phrases are a Httie ungrammat ical. The
' prayer' begins abruptly and ends
abruptly: but, as far as 1 can under
stand what they mean, it is about this:
"O Saviour, help us. We do not know
how to i ray. Teach us. We cannot
live any longer in the way we have
been living. vVe start to-day for
Heaven. Help us to take these chil
dren along with us. Forgive us for all
the past. Strengthen us for all tho
future. And when the ourney is over
tako us whore Jesus is and where the
little babe is that we lost. Amen "
It ended very abruptly, but the angels
camo out anil leaned so far over to lis
ten that they would have fallen off the
battle nenbut for a stroke of their
wings, and cried: "Hark, bark: Be
hold, he prays!"
That night there is a rap at the bed
room dojr. "Who is there:"' cries the
father. It is the o dest child. "What
is the matter.' Are you sick?" "No;
I want to be saved." Only a 1 ttle
while, and all three children are
brought into the kingdom of God And
there is great oy in the house. Years
pass on. The telegraph goes click,
click! What is the news uying over
the country? "Come home. Father
is dying!" The children all gather.
Some come in the last train. Some,
too late for the train, take a carriage
across the country. They stand around
the dying bed of the father. The
oldest son upholds the mother, and
says: "iton't cry, mother. I will take
care of you." - The parting blessing is
given. No long admonition, for he
has, through years, been saying to his
children all he had to say to them, it
is a t lain "good-by," and the remark,
"I know you will xall be klpd tp your
mother," and all is over. " ,
Life's duly done, ai nink. tb. olay, , ;'-'
igbt from In load the spirit 111..,
While Heavtn and Earth combine to ear.1
Row blent'd tb. rlghteoun when h. diet
A whole family saved forever! If
the deluge come, they are ail in the
ark -lather, mother, sons, daughter.
Together on earth, together in
Heaven. What makes it so.' Explain
it. Zaccheus one day took Jesus home
with him. That is all. Salvation came
to that house.
What sound is it I hear to-night? It
is Jesus knocking at the door of your
houso.
Bxhold a itranger at the door t
He geotly knock., hut knocked before.
If you looked out of your window and
saw me going up your front steps, you
would not wait, but go yourself to open
the door. Will you keep Jesus stand
ing on the outside, His locks wet with
tho dews of the night? This aay is sal
vation come to thy house. The great
want of your house is not a new carpet
or costlier pictures or richer furniture
it is Jesus:
Chttmrter a. an Inheritance.
Up to forty years men work for them
selves' after that, for their children.
Now, what do you propose to leave
them. iNothintf but dollars? Alas,
what an inheritance! itismore likely
to be a curse than a blessing. Your
own eoTimon sense and observation
tell you that money, without tho d -vine
blessing, is a curse. You must
soon leave your children. Yourshou.
ders are not so strong as thoy wore,
and you know that they will soon have
to carry their own burdens. Your
eyesight is not so clear as once.
They will soon havo to pick out their
own way. Your arm is not so mighty
as once. Thoy will soon have to tiifht
their own battles. Oh, let it not J)e
told on judgment day that you let your
family st.irt without the only safeguard--the
religion of Christ! Give
yourself no rest until your childron are
the sous and daughters of the Lord Al
mighty. Your son does just as you do.
He tries to walk like you and talk like
you. Tho daughter imitates the moth
er. Alas, if father and mother miss
Heaven, tho children will: Oh, let
Jesus como into your house! Do not
bolt tho hall door, ortho bedroom doo;
against Him. Above all, do not boh
your heart.
Build your altar to night. Tako the
family Bible lying on the parlor table.
Call together as many of your family as
may be awake. Head a chapter, and
then. If you can think of nothing else
besides the Lord's Pr.iyer, say that.
That will do. Heaven will have begun
In your houso. You c:in pm, your head
on your pillow, feeling that, whether
you wake up in this world or in the
next, all Is well. In that great, ton
derous book of the judgment, where
are recorded all the important events
of the earth, you will read at last the
statement that this was the day when
salvation came into your house. On.
Accheus, come down, coma dowal
Jesus Is passing byl
IN ANCIENT DAYS.
Million. ;r.-n ot That Time UltTa
Thone tAwtmgJ i
"Every once in a while we mem
something in the press about tM
prodigality of rich men," said ....
Bucksujiie at the Burnet the other
night, "Fred Gebhard puts a silver
bath-tub in his bouse, and a great
to-do is made about il One of tbe
andcrbilti spends 4l,b00,0oo lo tur
Dishing and decorating hit mansion,
aud there are people who profess to
be shocked by what ihey call wild
extravagance.' The idea conveyed is
that large expend. ture- for personal
purposes are peculiar to o.ir age and
tbe product of our ci .ilization. Noo-hen-e:
compared with the most ex
travagant millionaires ot the prescut
day tbe rich men of old pagan times
were 'out of sunt.' In this respect
they went far ahead of tbe most tree
banded multi-millionaires of this
country or Europe at the present
time. You know history tells us
that for an ord.nary banquet, when
he expected no guests, Lucullus now
and then expended ,u,0u0 drachma,
or 4,ooo. His table cou ties were
purple and his vessels glittered with
jewels. The halls of Hellogabalu
were bung with cloth of gold
enriched with jewels; his table and
plate weie of pure gold, hi? oou.hes
were of silver, and his mattresses,
covered with carpi t of cloth of gold,
were stuffed with down found under
the wings of part Idges. Uis suppeis
never costless than ioO, 00j sesterces.
Croesus paid lOo.woo sesterces for a
golden cup. His b.mquetlng ioo.us
were strewn with lilies and roses.
Aplclus, in the time of Trajan, spent
lOu.ooo.ooo sestcr es in debauchery
aid gluttony, and having only 10,
00 ,ooo left, be ended his life with
poison, fearing be might die of hun
ger. Diusih s caused a dish to be
made of oOO pounds weight of sliver.
Viteliius had one made of such pro
digious si.e that be was obliged to
build a furnace on pu pose for it, and
at a feast whi h he gave in honor of
this dish it was fl led with the livers
of the scai r us (lish , the brains of
peacocks, tbe tongues of parrots and
the roes of lampreys caught in tbe
Carpathian Sea. The nobles sjuau
dfcred money equally on thei, ban
quets, their stables and their dress.
Cicero in a comparatively economl- !
eal age, paid . u or ; o0. Tot bis
banqueting table. Tbese pagans
lived high. We don't know what
prodigality is in our (time." Cincin
nati Times-Star.
l'o.iibilltle. of Kite-Flying.
Have you ever noticed how diffi
cult it is to estimate tbe height of a
kite above the earth? It is a very
hard thing to do, indeed. This is on
account of the fact that objects float
ing in the air seem to be farther
away than they really are. It mar
be safely said that eighteen hundred
feet is the greatest altitude to which
a single kite can soar.
..- Even to a person not apt to make
extravagant estimates, a kite eigh
teen hundred feet above ground will
seem to be fully a hair mile above the
earth. A careful measurement of the
string and Its angle would, however,
prove the error. ( rdlnariiy a kite
will go no higher even if the
string is paid out. This is because
tbe wind depresses the cord, and
causes the kite to really recede when
It appears to be rising.
It is, however, easy to arrange
several kites in such a manner that
tbey will reach a higher altitude than
it is possible to reach w.th a single
kite. In this manner, when three
or four, or even a dozen kites have
been used, remarkable heights have
been reached.
Should you wish to try this experi
ment, yon may do so by attaching
only tbe main one to the end of
the string. The others must
be attached along the main line, In
a manner similar to the arrangement
of hooks on a "trot-iine," at an aver
age distance of twelve feet a Dart.
This (iUestion of how a kite can as
cend has been made the subject ol
investigation by learned mcpttn
philosopher, Ben amin Franklin,
being by no means the only scientist
who bus flown a kite
llinklbuian, who made experiments
at Buda-I'estli, and Irson and Wat
son, whose Investigations were pur.
sued under the dire tion of the Bub
siari Academy of Sciences, repo t
curious results. -Where single kites
cou d be made toascend to a height
of l.i.oo feet, a pair could be made to
ascend to a height of from , oo to
i', loo feet und a tandem easily
reached the h gh water mark of 2,500
feet
These three experimenters declare
their belief that, with proper ar
rangement of kites, and with a sclen
tlllc adjustment of both the tall and
the string a height of two miles will
some day be reached.
Tolly's Guilt.
It is not always easy to be gener
ous, try as one muy.
"I was mean to Georgy this morn
ing when you gave me the bread and
butter," confe sel -year-old I'olly I
her mother at brdtime.
Wby, Polly," said Mr Jenks, !
thought you were quit generou;
didn't you give Georgy tbt lame
piece?"
Yei'm," tig bed Poll, "but I kept
tb buttereet piece mtalf