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" ' - ' T'T The Sioux County Journal, VOLUME VII. HAKKISON, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1894. NUMBER 8. .5 J.-- THE COMMERCIAL BANK. (ESTABLISHED 1668.1 Harrison, Nebraska. D. H. ORI8WOLD, OMbJar. AUTHORIZED CAPITAL. $50000. Transacts a General Banking Business. CORRESPONDENTS! bOHANOB Natiowal Bajti, New York, U;vna Statu National Bank. Ornate, Futsr National Baxk, Qa4raav Interest Paid on Time Deposits. arDzxrrs bold on all parts op europx. THE PIONEER Pharmacy, J. E. PHINNEY, Proprietor. Pure Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Oils and Varnishes. -AimTS" MATERIAL. School Prescriptions Carefully Compounded Day or SIMMS & SMILEY, Harrison, Nebraska, Real Kstate Agents, , Have a number of bargaina in choice land in Sioux county. Parties desiring to estate should call on School Lands leased, taxes paid for non-residents; farms rented, eta CORRESPONDENTS SOLICITED. a F. Omwm, Till TimM OrBXT7BHE.- Supplies. Night. buy or sell real not fail to them. TALMAGE'S SERMON. rALKS ON THE NtCESSITY OF PRAYER WITH WORK. Tb Marlnera at Mm Kelled on Their ().r, but In Their Extremity Called on Uod, and So Mint All the Sorrowful and ajixinua Jonah In tb. Storm. Rev. Dr. Talmage, who la still absent n his rouna tho world tour, selected n the subject of last Sunday's sermon through the press, "The Oarsmen De feated," the text chosen being Jonah I, 13, 14, "The men rowed hard to bring It to the land, but they could not, wherefore they cried unto the l ord." Navigation in the Mediterranean Sea always was perilous, especially so in Early ti.nes. Vessels were propelled partly by sail and partly by oar. When, by reason of great stress of weather, it was necessary to reef the canvas or haul it in, then the vessel was entirely dependent UKn the oars, sometimes twenty o:' thirty of thera on either side the ves.-el. ou would not venture outside your harbor with such a craft as my text linds Jonah sailing in, but ho had not much choice of vessels. He was running away from the Lord, and when a man is running away from the IorJ he has to run very fast. "rroin tin I'rraenre of the l.or'1. God told Jonah to go to Nineveh to p ea h about t he destruction of that rity, .ionan disobeyed That alwuys make rough water, whether in tho Mediterranean, or tho Atlaniic. or the 1'acilic, or the Caspian Sea. It ia very hard tiling to sea e sailors. I have seen them w her, 1 hi) brow of the vessel was almost under water, and they were walking the deck knee deep in the surf, an i t he siuail boats by tho side of tiie vessel had been i rushed as s.uall us kindling wood, whistling as though lio hing had hap ened, but the Hible Kiys that the.ie mariners of whom I speak wo i e li'igl.tencd. That which sailors call "a lump if a f"V had become a blinding, deafen ing swamping fury. How mud tho wind can get at the water, and tho water can gel at the wind, vcu do not know miles-. ou have been spectators. ha' o in my house a piece of tho sail of a ship no largorthun the palm of my liiind. Thai iiieco of canvas was all that was left u tho largest s:iii of the ship Greece that went into tho storm iMO miles oil .Newfoundland Oh. what a night 1 hat was! 1 sunposc it was in some such storm as this that Jonah was caught. He knew that tho tern, est was on his account, and he a ked the sailors to throw him overboard. Sailors are a generous heai ted race, and they re solved to make their es apo if possi h o without resorting to such e:tron o measures. The siiils are ol no use. and so they lny hold on their oars. 1 see tho long bank of shining bla'les on either side the vessel. ( )h, how they did pull, the broa ed seamen, as tnr.y la'd back into the oars. Hut rowing on the sea is very dillVront from row ing ukjii a rifor, und as tac vessel hoists the ours skip th'! wa.e and miss the stroke, und the te n) est laughs to scorn tue tl;. ing addle". It is ot no use, no use. There coit.es a wave that crushes the hist mast and sweeps the oarsmen from their places and tumoics everything in tho co'ifu sion of impending shipwreck, or. as my text has it,, ' Toe men rowed hard to bring it to land, but they could not, wherefore they cried unto tho l ord.'' S-.ilvittit n from llic Miornu This scene is very suggestivo lo me, and 1 pray God 1 may ha.e grace and strength-enough to roiirerent it intel ligently to you. M-ars ago I preached a sermon on another phase of this very s ib oct, anil 1 got, a letter from Hons ton Tex., the writer saving that the reading of tuat sermon in London had led him to God. And 1 received an other letter from South Australia say ing that the reading of that ; ei inon in Australia had brought several miuIs to Christ And thou I thought, '-Why not take another phase of the same sub ject, for perhaps that (iod who can ruino in power that which is sown in weakness may m.w thiough another phase of tho same subject bring salva tion to tho people who shall hoar and Milvation to the people who shall ready Men and wonen who know how to pray lay hold of tho Lord Col Al mighty and wrostlo for tho blessing. Bishop Latimer would stop some times in his sermon in the midst of his argument and nay, "Now 1 will tell you a table, 'ami to-day I would like to bring the scene of tho text as an illus tration of a most important religious truth. As those Mediterranean oar.-;- niea trying to bring onahashord wore discounted, 1 ha.e to tell you that thev were not the only men who have broken down on their paddles and havo I ecu obliged to call on the Lord for help. 1 want to say that the una vailing o "orts of those Mediterranean oarsmen have a counterpart in tho ef forts wo aro muking to bring ion s to the shoreof mfety mid set their feet on tho rook of ages. You have a falheror mother or husband or wife or child or near riend who is not uChris tian. Tho e have been times when you have been in agony about their sal i at ion. Ml fcnr.M Hnil Morrow. A minister of Christ whose wife was dying without any ho e in csiis walked the lloor, wrung Irs ham s. cried bitterly and said, "1 believe I shall go insane, (or 1 know she is not prepared to moot (lod;" And there may have been na., sof sickness in your house hoi i when you leare I it would bo a lauu sickness, an 1 how closely vou examined the face of tho doctor us he cun.o III and scrulinl ed the patient and felt the pulse, and you followed him into the next room and said, "There Isn't any danger,, in' there, doc tor?" And the hesitation and the un (jurln'y oj tlc reply made two eternl-J ties Bash before your vision. And then you went and talked to the sick ouJ4-t-o. t too great future. OL, there are those here who have tried to bring ' their friends 5j (iod. They have beeu unable to bring them to the share of i safety. They aro no nearer that point thaft they were 20 years ago. You tblajt you have got them almost to the ' show when you are swept back agaiq. I What shall you do.' Put down the oar? Obno! 1 do not advise that, but I do ad viae that you appeal to that God to whom the Mediterranean oarsmen ap pealed, the Cod who could silence the tempest and bring the ship into safety i to'lae port.' i tell you. my friends, ' thai there has got to be a good deal of i firaying before our families are irottgbt to Christ. Ah, it is an awful i thing to have half a household on one i side the line and the other part of the ' household on the other side of the lino. Two vessels part on the ocean of eternity one going to the right and . the other to the left, farther apart and farther apart until the signals cease to be recognized, and there are only t two specks on the horizon, and then they are lost to sight forever. I bave to toll you that the unavail- j inr efforts of the Mediterranean oars-i men have a counterpart in the efforts ' some o. us are making to bring our j children to the shore of safety. There j never were so many temptations for young people aB there are now. Tho literary and tho social influences seem ' to i)e against their spiritual interests. ; Christ soems to bo driven almost en-j tirely from the school and the ploasur- able concourse, yet God knows how i aniious we aro for our children We ( cannot think of going into Heaven wf tiout them. We do not want to lea' e his life while they are to siug on "ihe waves of temptation and away; frcm God. I rom which of them i-ould we consent to be eternally separated?! Would it be the son? Would it be the I daughter? Wou.d it lie the eldest' ', Wou d it be the youngest,' Would it j be'the one that is well and stout or tho one that is sick? Uh, I hear.-, me ar- i fnt saying to-nig!.t: "I have tr.ed my lK:St to bring my children to Christ. 1 have laid hold of the oars until they bent in my grasp, and I have braced myself against t lie ribs of the boat, and have pulled for their eternal rescue, but 1 can't get them to Christ." Then I ask you to imitate the men of the text and cry mightily unto God. W i want more importunate pra villi; fof 'children such as the liitlierindulged irj-,vhen be had tried to bring his six i to Christ, and they have wandered or y.Xo dissipation. Then ho got down if '.lis prayers and said. ' O Cod, take ji,)v.y icy life If through that means my suns may repent and be I ro.ight to Christ," and the i ord startlingly an swered the prayer, an i in a few weeks the father was taken away, und through the solemnity the six sons fled unto God. Oil, that father co d. I allord to dto for the et 'rnal welfare of his children! Ho rowed hard to bring their to the land, but could not, and then he cried unto the Lord. Hie W,iiiilirer"H Kcturn. There are parents who are almost dis enraged about their children. Where is your son to night? lie has wandered oil perhaps to the ends of the earth. It seems ls if he cannot get far enougi away froit voijr Chris tian couiieol. W'liai (ioo.s he a'rcaliout the farrows that come to your brow; ubo .t the qui k whitening of the hair: about this fact that your lia k begins to stoop with the burdens? Why, he would not care much tr he heard vou were dead. The black edged letter that brought the ti ings ho would put in tho sume package with other letters telling the stury of his sliainy. What a'-e you going to do? Loth paddles broken at tho middle of tho blade, how can you pull him a hore? I throw you one oar oh which I believe you i-an bring him into harbor. it s the glorious promise, "I will be aGoiito ttiee and to thy seed alter t hoe.'' t h. broken hearted fulherund mother, you have tried everything else, now mako au appeal for tho holpan;! omnipotun e of the covenant keeping Cod, anil per haps at your next lumily gathering -porhaim on Thanksgiving day, perhaps next Christmas - too prodigal may be homo, und if yo.t erow.i on his place more luxuries than on anv other plate at the table I am sure the brothers i will not bo jealous, but they will wake uu all tho mus c in tho house, ' because tho dead is ulivo again, and because tho lost is loun l.' i'erhaps your nrayei s 1 ave been answered already. The vessel may be om.ng homeward, and by tho light of th a night's stars that son may bo pacing the deck of tho ship anxious for tho time to come' when ho can throw his arm around your neck und ask lor forgi; eness for that he has iK'cn wringing your old heart so long. Glorious reunion that will be too sacred for outsiders to look upon, but I would just like to look through the window when you have all got to gether again aud aro seated at the banquet. UUenuti pnronli mat hi eomenant be And have ilmlr H'ivi'ii in view, Tboy are ooi happy ltd llifty avo I iioirctiiiiii'i-n impiiy too. Again I remark that tl.e unavailing ed'ort of the .iediterranoau oarsmen has a counterpart in tho efort which wo are making to bring this worl I ha k to Cod, Ills pardon and safety. If th world could have be- n saved I y h ... ... . "'''i': eliort, It would have been done long ago. John Howard took hold of ono oar, and Carey took hold of Another oar, and Adoniriim Jiul-on took hold of another, and John j nox took hold o another oir, and they all pulloluntll they fell back dead from exhaustion. Some dropped in the a hos of martyr dom, some on the h a ping knives of savages and some into the plaguo struck room of the I yard to, an I still the chains ure not bro'cen, and still the despotisms are net dcmo.ished.a id still the world is ims ivod. What then ' 1 nt down the oars and make no effort? I do Dot advise tuat, Hut 1 want you, Christian bietliren, to understand that the church, and the hool, and the i ollege, and the missionary society are only the instrumentalities,' and If this work is ever done at all God must do it, and He will do It in answer to our prayer. "They rowed bard to bring , it to the land, but thry could not, wherelore the4 cried nuto the Lord.' It 1m Not in Human Mrma'.iii gain the unavailing efTort of those Mediterranean o irsmen haj a t ounter part in every man that is trying orow bis own soul into safety. When the eternal spirit flashes upon usourcondi tion, wo try to save ourselves. We say, "Give me a stout oar for my right hand, give me a stout oar for my left hand, and I will pull myself into safety." No. A wave of sin comes and dashes you one way, and a wave o temptation comes and dashes you in ' another way, and there are i fenty of rocks on which to founder seemingly j no harbor into which to sail. Sin must bo thrown overboard, or we must ; perish. I i There are men who have tried for ; : years to become Christians. They be lieve all I say in regard to a future ; wo Id. They believe that religion is ' the first, the last.thein nite necessity. They do everything but trust inChrist. They matce sixty strokes in a minute. ' They liend forwrd with all earnest , ness, an 1 they lie ba k until the i muscles are distended, and yet they ': have not made one inch in ten years ' toward Heaven. What is the reason? i That is not the way to go to work, j j You might as well take a frail skiff, i : put it down at tho foot of Niagara and then head it up toward the churning thunderbolt of waters and expect to ! wcrk your wav up through the light-, j ning of the foam into calm Lake Krie, , j as foryoti to try to pull yourself through the surf of your sin into hope and par ' don and placidity of tho gospel. Vou i cannot do it in that way. Sin is a rough sea, and longboat, yawl, pinnace and ; gondola go down un!ess tho Lord de ! liver, but if you will cry to Christ and 1 lay nold of divine mercy you aro as . saio from eternal condemnat on as j though you had been twenty years in Heaven. i 1 wish I could put before my unpar ' poned rea ietM thei own helplessness. ' No human arm was ever strong enough i to tinlo, k the door or Heaven. No foot i ever was mighty enough to break the ; shackle of sin. No oarsmiin swarthy enough to row h mself into (lod s har bor. The wind is against you. The tide is against yo . The aw is against you. Ten t hous .nd orr.i, ting ir. 11 cu es are ae.iiiint vo . Helpless : and undone. .' ot so be I a plume. n.'d-At autt i less a traveler girded ipies-i u sauor on . ot so help by twenty m les I of prairie on tiro. 1 rjvo it. you say. 1 r.jve it, John vi, 1 wi 1 prove it. .lobn vi, -. t: "ad man can come to Father which hath ,e, except the sent trie draw him." rvlvH'loti In of (irco. lint while 1 have shown your help-le.-sne: s 1 want to put by the side ol it the power and tho illingue s of I blunt to save you. 1 think it was in IliKli a vessel was bound ;or t o tugal, but it was driven to pieces on an un riendly coast. The caplain had his son with him. ami with tho crew they wandered ; up the beach an i started on the long ; journey To find relief. After a while tiie son fainted by reason of hungerand the length of the way. The capt .in said , to the crew: "Carrv my boy for me oa I your shoulders.'' They Ci.r: iod him on, but the jo.irney was .-o long th t af- ' lor awhile the crew fainted from him- ( ger and from weariness aiidcouul carry him no longer. '1 ben tho father ral lied h s almost wiis'ed energy and took up his own boy and put liim on his shoulder and carried bim on mile after mile, until, overcome h. mself by hunger and weariness, he, too, tainted by the way. The boy lay loyn and j died, an I the fatheT', 'uTo at the time r'-cu icumo to him. also perished, liv ing only long enough to toll the story sad slory indeed. Lot glory be t j Go l that Jesus Christ is able to take , us up out of our sh'pwreckeu and '.lying ' condition and put us on tho shoulder of his strength anil by the omnipo tence of his gospel bear us on through 1 all the journey of this life and at last through the op, n gates o," Heaven. He is mighty to save. Though your sin be 1 long and blacK, the . erv moment you believe I will proclaim pardon quick, i full, grand, unco alitional, uncompro-mi-ing, illimitable, infinite. Oh. the ! grace of God: I am overwhelmed when ; 1 co . c to think of it. Give me a i thousand ladders lashed fast to each other that 1 may scale the height. Let j . tiie lino run out with t e anchor until ; jail tho cab es oi the earth ure ex-' ha usled that we may touch tho depth, I Lot the archangel liy in circui.'.o etor- I nal ages in trying to sweep around this I theme. Oh, the gra-eol i o I! Itisso high. It is so broa '. It is so deep, -'"'J h; lo "d lh;it where man's oar gives out Cod's arm begins! Why will ve carry voursiiiKand vonr sorrows nnu longer when Christ oilers to take them? Why will you wrestle down your fears when this moment you might give up and bo saved Do you not know that everytli.ng .s ready? ThiTr. iiHiiri HiM'ovrrnd. I 'lenty of room at the feast. Jesus has the ring of His love all ready lo put upon vour har.d. Come now and sit down, yo hungry ones, at tho I an quet. Yo who are in rags of sin, take the robe of Christ. ; e who are swamped by tho breakers aro.ind vod) cry to Christ to j Lot you in o smooth st. 11 waters. ( n a. count, ol the pe- itllHfl, TtlltlM.V llf t IV ilillv'll t I ,.i-.i r-. .. "' drawn my present lllu trations, you 1 ""' "" ""'" nucic i ue ieo. n see, childly from tho water. I remem- ; u sl)C;lk English and to wear t nglisb her that, u vessel wut to pieces o:i tho 1 clothes, and to tell the time of day Leruiudas a great many yours ago. Jtjbyan English clock; for In Nepaul had a vast treasure on i oard. Hut the I time Is measured by means of a vessel liemg sunif, no o ort was made to raise it. A iter many years had passed a company of adventurers wont out from Kngliind. and after a long voy age they reached the place where tho vessel was said to havesttnk. They got into a sinab boa and hovered over tiie p ace.- Then the divers went down, and thoy broko through what looked like a limestone covering, and tho treasures rolled out-what was found ultorward to be, in American money, worth $l, .ilO,(KHi, tno inundation oi a great business house. At that tttno the wholo world j re olcod over what whs called the luck I of thesi adventurers. Oh, yo who have bnn rowing toward the tboreSt Nicholas. and have not been a: le to reach it, I want to tell you to-i,ight that your boat hovers over infinite treasure. All the riches of God are at your feet. Trea ures that never .ail and crowns that never grow dim. Who will go down now and seek them? Who will dive for the pearl of great priee? Who will be prepared lor life, for death, for judgment, for the long eternity see two hands o' blood stretched out io ward thy soul, a; Jeus says, "Come unto me, all ye that laUjr and are heavy laden, and 1 will give you rest." HUNTING A TROOP OF WOLVES. They Cbar(ed I Mill the Bullet, flew and then Made Off. Od, od tbey came, each eager to get ahead of the other, aud lessening the distance between us and them at a rapid rate. Hut wc stood driu, with rides raised aud sighted oa the two in advance till Ned thought they were near enough. Then, after care ful aim, bis rifle sang out and tbe foremost wolf, with a convulsive bound, dashed to one side and fell over on the ice. I had good aim on the other, and as Ned's shot made tbe pack slacken their speed 1 luckily sent a ball through its head and dropped it In its tracks. This reception quite cooled the courage of the nearest wolves and they cut their race short and began spreading out around us. 'ibose farther back slackened speed, which showed their doubt and hesitation. We would have thought the bat tle won had not the little one, who seemed lobe the leader, i nine bound ing on as fast as ever, passing those ahead one alter the other and inspir ing them with fresh courage. We knew not what this might lead to and reserved our buckshot lor the occasion. It looked serious for a whiie and we were afraid th s second attack woii'd prove harder to repel than Llieli.st. We had not rnucli t, me to consult i n the mat ter, but we decided that Ned at the proper moment was to make sure of the lit tle one. and immcliat.ely after I was to send my charge into the foremost ones following. On the leader madly rushed to a point within thirty wrnls of us, then, with a wolf's tunning, turned sud denly to one side, says a St. Ni holas writer. Th s brought the others to a halt and relieved us of any lear we had, for we saw that i heir attack was mere bluster. Hut if they weie ready for a parley we were not. We sent our buckshot into the thickest of the crowd and knocked the little one over, which scut the rest flying away, either to the woods or back to the deer, aud lei t us musters of tho lleld. Tbe Chinese Teiil.ouie. Tho restaurant or teahouse in China takes the p ace of the West ern clubtonin. All the current news and gossip is here circuia ed and dis cussed over their eating or gambling. One of their games of chance, which we have frequeui.ly noticed, seems to consist in throwing their lingers at r.ine another, anil shouting at the the to") of their voices. It is matching of numbers, for which the China men make signs on their lin gers, up to the numeral M The Chlne.e of alt nations seem to live in order to eat, and from this race of epicures has developed a na t ion of e cellent cooks. Our fare in China, outside the Gobi district was far better than in Turkey or Persia, and, for this reason, we are better able to endure tho incre scd hard ships A plate of sli ed meat, stewed with vegetables aud served with a piquaut sauce, sliced radishes and onions with v negar, two leaves of t hinese mo-mo or steamed bread, and a not of tea, would usually cost us about ;i cents apiece. i verythlng in C hina is sliced so that it can be eaten with the chopsti ks. These we at ietigtli learned to ma nipulate with ii'l.cient dexterity to pick up a dove's egg the highest at tainment in the chopslick art. -The Chinese have rather a sour than a sweet toot h. Sugar is rarely used in anything, and ucier in tea. The steeped teallowers, which the higher classes use, are really more tasty with .ut it The Century. Time of Day in epuul. There are no public schools in Ne pan I. The sons of 1 rincesanrl nobles even our young King, while he is yet nlyaboy are taught al homo try tho guru, or household priest, w:.o js supposed to be also a pundit, or very learned man. Later, the young men of rank are sent to Patna. Ho ,,..., .-v i h..-.i,.. i copper vessel, with a small hole in the bottom, set ulloat on a tank or pool. Sixty times a day this kettle (Ills and sinks, and every time it sinks n gong is struck; so that the day is di vided into sixty 'gongs'' or "bells" m s.iilors reckon time u board shin, The poor Ithootlya shepherds or tho Ncwar wotue i who make pottery in the fields say that the day I begun when they can count the tiles ou the roof or a house, or when the can see the hairs on the back of a man' hand by holding it up against tbe light, "1 v -r f . v Hi ?! i i-v V 5' C-rv
