The Sioux County journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1888-1899, December 20, 1894, Image 1
t i ' t . ' l ; (if . ELlN TikSioux County Journal A I t! ' "P, r Hi. mil hi. Mlii HAHKISOX, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1894. NUMBER 15. itur.J ... i. J VOLUME VII. !lp. tl.u ling l-f Irtll; II rj i a '1; lO I idmlj 0 nit Ir nl b to 1 1 boil Inr d tU id'T OvH 1 It ir&l WeJ y 1 and le. (1 anJ ImrneJ f DT alter nt. A the v moot DIA. n t InaoJ Ilk? I g-uii what ao1 re In .old amliii Milan , Nltr id 1 ring I w not rli gf ydm-! n.l h IP- Nl on of ' bad n1. Ing rni 1 nrnt-i u-r 0Tft aiwd I IWl'l' . Wf t hiK 'am fVtmtri nr. in which it a much corue f i bad brrruN-l Bag ray. iw a trlke wl Ir WU , to knn employ e rotriii i ami tl I: anl j -tonwly I Iwd art tleHflMl i romlsl lt"tM-d Ml, twl i tbey bl hi bom iitilil fls mla ved thf twtri than tM lab mui f srn mrthod (iaa )rtl ghts (, aa Ui xijtb. avl ' aba1ol raa adof f r palol inmlser i up to M THE COMMERCIAL CBTABLISHED 1888. Harrison, Nebraska. BANK. a r. Cm, Vim- D. L OBWWOLD, Chier. AUTHORIZED CAPITAL. $30000. jansacts a General Banking Business. TALM AGE'S SERMON. HE PREACHES ON THE OBJEC TIONS TO REVIVALS. The Great KeviralLt of the Pa.t-Be-Kinainn of Aaron Iturr'n Downward Career-From Paradle to the Judg ment Couflagriitiou. COREtSPONDF.N'TSi El0ii- 5 ATlfWAL BaI, N.w York, U-T ftTilTH NatioxaL IU.hi. Omaha, Firr NiTiONU. Baxk, Chadr Interest Paid on Time Deposits. I7DBJLFT9 BOLD ON ALL PAKT3 OF EUSOf. THE PIONEER 9 harmacy, J. E. PH1NNEY, Proprietor. Pure Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Oils and Varnishes. Sjmrtv MATERIAL, 0-BIX7EH.S School Supplies. Jrexriptions Carefully Compounded Day or Night. Simons & SMILEY, Harrison, Nebraska, Estate Agents, eal A Net Full of Flh. Ir. Talma"- vh,, fr the subject of hi fc-rawn ihr.Miifli the pr-i. lnHt Sunday "Tbo lij-ii,,i, to Kelixiou HTivala," fn.in Ui tit I.uk v., (i, "Tlifr incl'is-d a gr-at luulutmle of dhIi., aud their net trakf." Himcin and hia (Yimradea had experi-n.-ed tli. ninlit U-f.irt. what fishermen rail "i-wir lii.-k." Christ ateps on lx,ard th huhiiiK Hiuui'k and t.-lU the ailorn to pull iay from the beaeh and diretia tiiem airuin to iiik the net. Sure eunuch, Tery niu the net is full (,f finht, and the ssilum lu-Kin t.i haul in. So lurue a whool of tih wan tnk.'ii that the hardy men te K'li to If A in the face aa they pull, and hardly have (hey begun to rejoiee at their sueiess when Hiiap fn' a thread of the net, and simp k m anuthr thread, ao there m dimmer nut only of loaiiig the tiah hut nf .miiiK Hie net. With'itit much are ss to how much the Ix.at tilt or how much water is uplHshed je.'k, t))(. hKiiernien rush aleiut, gather ing up Hie t.n.k. n uieahea of the net. Out yonder there i a ship dancing on the are, and liicy hail it, ''.Ship ahoy, bear down this way!" The ship comes, and ljth In.atM, both Bulling M)Hckn, are filled with tlie Hoimd"! ing treaaurea. "Ah," Kin Home one, "how much bet ter it would have been if they had staid on aleire. and tihed with a hook and line, and tuketi one nt a time, inntead of hnving l!n great excitement, and the Iniut al riiot upet, jind the net broken, and hav ing to rail for help, and getting Hopping wet with the Hca!" The church is the bout, the gospel is the net. aociety is the s-a. and a great rerival is a whole hc1io.iI brought in nt one sweep of the net. I have admiration for that miin who goea out with a hook and line to fish. I admire the fiy he unwinds the reel and adjust the buit and drops the hook in a quiet place on a still afternoon, aud here (atches one and there one, but I like also ii big b.Ht, and a hirge crew, and a net a mile long, and wlft oars, and atout sails, and stiff breeze, and a great multitude of Bouls brought, o great a multitude thut you have to get help to draw it ashore, straining the net to the utmost uutil it breaks here and there, letting a few es cajte, but bringing the great multitude in to eternal safety. Objection to Revival. In other words. I believe In revivals. The great work of laving men began with 3,is ii.o pi., joining the church in one day, and it will 'lose with 4.isKi,"si or lmt.-issi.i.sii-ople saved in twenty-four hours, h.-ii nations shall be born iu a duy. Hut there are objections to revivals. People are opposed to them ls-canse the net might get broken, and if by tlie pressure of souls It does get broken then they take the ir own h nknives and slit the net "The- inclose.) a gr.-..t multitude of Babes, and the net brake." It is somet lines objected to revivals of religion that those who come into the church at such limes do rot hold out. As long as there is a gale of blessing they buve their sails up. but a soon as strong winds stop blowing then they drop iuto a dead calm. Hut what are the facts in the case'; In nl! mr churches the vast ma jority of tie- ii-eiul p.-, pie are those who i r.. br,,io.'ht in n:cr gieat awakenings. nd th'-y hold .nt men in hun-ho, in pre . hooU: Tor it of gr.nt awakenings. I r.. .t 1 . 1 that Uiose WHO die i.-Hht into the kingdom of (Jod through t t..iv.. more i.eristcnce and more j. o siK.n in the Christian lift than ' , . . ..f .. I... nt Mloler U low sunt: oi . I'.-,,,!., is.m in n icehouse may will ncv.-r get over me coin i the i. -"house. A cannon s uj.on the impulse with w hich .i,.rts for how far it shall go and now I il,e eresti r tlie revival ion-e . i ..i iu at i. rt. -it t lie more inr wi:n wni' u o - reaching and far resounding will be th. times objected to revivals h excitement that pr- those r.-iigi. llv-, hut th.-y thev clliight ball depend it swiftly. Hint s'. Who are the proml if;e lliited Ktutes in er me.-tiiigs, in Sabbath . m part they are the ti.at ppl Have a number of bargains xice land in Sioux county. in I Cut it is some! ... there is so triu mistake hysteria tor religion. A I'.eful Kicltennnt. ii .v,-t ..dn.it that in e,..ry revival . . ,t .. i. either a uitrets1 or o: religion , , . i if .1 ..,.. ti-i.eil eiclteniem. nio!-eo " . . r .. .. .1 a . nl ot a Hlttte OI eoiio.-iouu- of acceptance v. ittl 'Si, without anv agitation Ues desiring to buy or sell ml estate should not fail to call on them. a man can g tioti into a stall l,.-r tm ' . ..i i... ,. i -n unhealthy, morbid ur soul, o -. . .a i .a reniiUive and 11 VU,r s..o ... . , ., . DHSI lie ru n . ...... nrl.-r a horse's hoof r saw a man re- tht . i. .i . a man wti1' "'"" ...at. hwl out Irom i. . j i.m .... ..citation U" ' . . f u hol.SC III ooj ... c. 1. hi. sec- eranou OI me tire ano in - 1 mid hid! l-. I. ... Midi S I ail'i " " . ' ... ....I pud heaven forever into me , . ,i.i if. , h a trellicnooiis - .. ,. .a.k on ll oiioio ...... . . . . l..u et.rixtinliitV. The o , ...eiteiiiC mill soil.' , l,e lillllg. ' ... drowtiiiig or frcezing ite itnimatioii. J"- dead. II i l" cue on Dulses. In U"" t.-Hs me School Lands leased, taxes paid for Presidents; farms rented, etc nt is the fact is most itl.le.rtl.nt possl ..,i.citatioii from the one idi-a i" ' n' rai.m we tire In ks of the chur, h to revive, amuse, business o: u,rte into hi"- awaken. res" ..rrfing to t an s - . ,,, do. If t IU"K,'H " I'.inl.inent Is u-hnt It mnkes that hich i bad It I V-i'l excitement. but If It mBke as agitHtetl al ut our ., i. .b.. ns nrny. II " ,tenil welfsre ll s,.rvice, , i . m.JL mc tetnent. tbeu it i. a g f " tbt during ra- U In grUt multituile. of children and do Dot know Bt0 ttoxluMl -f oneratlo l '"J 0od ,jie mora Into tha kl ol U0Q w fql tbey ara. Holrt Hall, the prince of Baptist preachers, was converted at 12 years of age. It is supjewed be knew what he u about. Matthew Henry, the com- j inentalor, w ho did more than any man of Lis century for increasing the interest in the study of the Scriptures, waa con verted at 11 years of age; Isabella (Jra- i ham, immortal in the Chriatian church, was converted at V) year of age; Dr. WattB. whoHo hyuina will I aung all down tne ageg, was converted at 9 years of age; Jonathan Kdwards, perhaps the mightiest intellect that the American pul pit ever produced, was converted at 7 years of age, and that father and mother take an awful responsibility when they tell their child at 7 years of age, "You are too young to be a Christian," or "You are too young to connect yourself with the church." That is a mistake as long as eternity. If during a revival two persons present themselves as candidates for the church, and the one is 10 years of age and the other is 40 years of age, I will imve more confidence iu the profession of religion of the one ID years of age than the one 40 years of age. Why? The one who pro fesses at 40 years of age has forty years of impulse in the wrong direction to cor rect; the child has only ten years in the wrong direction to correct. Four times ten are forty. Four times the religious prosieet for the lad that comes into the kingdom of iod and Into the church at In years of age than the man at 40. I am very upt to look upon revivals as connected with certain men who fostered them. People who iu this day do not like revivals nevertheless have not words to express their admiration for the re vivalists of the past, for they were re vivalists Jonathan Edward, John Wes ley, George Wbitefield, Fletcher. Griffin. I)avies. Unborn, Knapp, Nettletou, and many others whose names come to my mind. The strength of their intellect and the holiness of their lives make me think they would not have anything to do with that which was ephemeral. Uh, it is easy to talk against revivals. A man said to Mr. Dawson: "I like your sermons very much, but the after meetings I despise. When the prayer meeting begins, I always go up into the gallery and lsk dow n, aud I am disgust ed." "Well," said Mr. Dawson, "the rea son is you go on the top of your neigh tsir's house and look down his chimney to examine his fire, and of course you only get amoke in your eyes. Why don't you come in the door and sit down and warm?" The Downward Koad. Ob, I am afraid to say anything against revivals of religion, or against anything that looks like theni, because I think it would be a Bin against the Holy Ghost, and you know the Bible says jhat fi sin against the Holy Ghost ahall never lie forgiven, neither in this world nor the worhj to cornel Now, if you are a paiyter, and I speak against your pictures, do I not speak against you? If you are an architect, and I speak against a building you put up. do 1 not speak against you? If a revival lie a work of the Holy Ghost, and I speak against that revival, do I not speak against the Holy Ghost? And whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, says the Bible, he shall never be forgiven, neither in this world or in the world to come. I think sometimes peo ple have mode a fatal mistake in this direction. Many of you know the history of Aaron Burr. He was one of the most brilliant men of his day. I suppose this country never produced a stronger Intellect. He was capable of doing anything good and great for h country or for the church of God had he been rightly disposed, but his name la associated with treason agaiust the United States Government, which he tried to overthrow, and with libertinism and public immorality. Do you know w here Aaron Burr started on the downward road? It was when he was in college, and he liecHiue anxious alsitit his soul and was about to put him self under the influences of a revival, and a minister of religion said: "Don't go there Aaron; don't go there. That's a place of wildfire and great excitement. No religion about that. Don't go there." He tarried away. His serious impressions de parted. He started on the dow nward road. And who is resixmsible for his ruin? Was it the minister who warned him agaiust that revival? The Heal Difficulty. When I am speaking of excitement in revivals, of course I do not mean teinise rary derangement of the nerves. I do not mean the absurd things of w hich we have read us transpiring sometimes in the church of Christ, but I mean an intelli gent, InteiiMe, all-absorbing agitation of Isely, mind, and Boul in the work of spir itual escape and spiritual n-scue. Now I come to the real, genuine cause of objection to revivals. This is the cold ness of the objector. It ia the sacret aid hidden but unmistakable cnuse in every case, a low state of religion in the heart. Wideawake, consecrated, useful Chris tians are never afraid of revivals. It is the spiritually dead who are afraid of having their sepulcher molested. The chief agents of the devil during a great awaken ing are always unconverted professors of religion. A soon as Christ's work be gins they begin to gossip Kgainst it, and take a pail of water and try to put out th.s spark of religious Influence, and they try to put out another Kpnrk. Do thev succeed? Aa well when Chicago was on lire might some one have gone out with a garden water-put trying to extinguish it. The difficulty is that when a revival be gins in a church it begins at so many jsiints that while you have doused one anxious aoul with a pail of cold water there are 500 other auxioua aouls on fire, (ih, how much better it would be to lay hold of the ohariot of Christ's gospel and help pull it on rather than to fling our selves in front of the wheels, trying to block their progress! We will not stop the chariot, but we ourselves will be ground to powder. Did you ever hear that there was a con vention one held among tha lceberfs in the Arctic T It aaeras that the tu rattier was coming an, a4 the a an. mi ttttinj hotter and aottac, and thatw aa 4mfr that tba whoja rafiM , Would Ifraak up sud fto s)Wfv. iaJW nd th coldest, as taw broadaat 0f m bergs, the very king of the arctics, stood at the head of the convention, and with a ! gavel of ice smote on a table of ice calling the convention to order. But the sun kept growing in intensity of heat, and the aouth wind blew stronger and stronger, aud soon all the icefield began to grind up, iceberg agaiust iceberg, and to flow away. The first resolution passed by the convention was, "Resolved, that we abol ish the sun." But the sun would not be abolished. The heat of the sun grew greater and greater until after awhile the very king of the iceberg began to perspire under the glow, and the smaller iceberg fell over, and the cry was: "Too much ex citement." Order! Order!" Then the whole body, the whole field of ice began to flow out, and a thousand voices began to ask: "Where are we going to dow? Where are we floating to? We will all break to pieces." By this time the ice bergs had reached the gulf stream, and they were melted into the bosom of the Atlantic Ocean. The warm sun is the eternal spirit. The warm gulf stream is a great revival. The ocean into which everything melted is the great, wide heart of the pardoning and sympathizing God. An Uncoh verted Minitry. But I think, after all, the greatest ob stacle to revivals throughout Christen dom to-day is au unconverted ministry. We must believe that the vast majority of those who officiate at the sacred altars are regenerated, but I suppose there may float into the ministery of all denomina tions of Christians men whose hearts have never bi-eu changed by the grace of God. Of course they are all antagonistic to revivals How did they get into the ministry V I'erhnpB ouie of them chose it a a re spectable profession. Perhaps some chose it as a means of livelihood. 1 ertiap some of them were sincere, but were mis taken. A Thomas Chalmers said, he had been many years preaching the gos pel before bis heart had been changed and, as many ministers of the gospel de dare, they had been preaching and had been ordained to sacred orders years and vearg before their hearts were regenerat ed. Gracious God. what a solemn thought for those of us who minister at the altar! With the present ministry in the tiresent temiierature of piety the world will never be enveloped with re vivals. While the pews on one side the altar cry for mercy the pulpits on the other side the altar must cry for mercy. Ministers quarreling, ministers trying to pull each other down, ministers Strug gling for ecclesiastical place, ministers lethargic with whole congregations dying on their hands. What a spectacle Aroused pulpits will make aroused pews. Pulpits aflame will make pews aflame. Everybody believes in a revival iu trade everylsnly likes a revival m lit erature, everybody likes a revival in art yet a great multitude cannot understand a revival in matters of religion. Depend upon it, where you find a man antago nistic to revivals, whether be be in pulpit or pew, lie needs to be regenerated by the grace of God. Volunteer Wanted. 1 could prove to a demonstration that without revivals this world will never be converted, and that in 1X or 200 years without revivals Christianity will be prac tically extinct. It is a matter of astound ing arithmetic. In each of our modern geueratons there are at least 32,000,00(1 children. Now add 32,Hsj,(kX to the world's population, and then have only 100,000 or 200,000 converted every year, and how long before the world will be saved? Never absolutely never! You are a dry goods merchant on a large scale, and I am a merchant on a small scale, and I come to you and want to buy 1.IKK) yards of cloth. Do you say: "Thank you. I'll sell you 1.IKKJ yurds of cloth, but I'll sell you 20 yurds to-day, and 20 to-morrow, and 20 the next day, and if it takes me six months I'll sell you the whole 1,000 yurds. You will want as long as that to examine the goods, anil I'll want as long as that to examine the credit, and, besides that, 1,000 yards of cloth i too much to sell at once?" No; you do not say that. You take me into the counting-room, and in ten minutes the whole transaction is consummated. The fact is we cannot ufford to lie fools iu anything butTeligion! That very merchant who on Saturday afternoon sold me the l.Ooo yards of cloth at one stroke the next Sabbath in church will stroke his beard and wonder whether it would not be better for l.oiH) souls to come straggling along for ten years, in stead of bolting in at one service. We talk DRIVING BACK THE 8EA. ThouAda of DquAra HiWa Baling Bat claimed by the People ot Hnlanrt TUo people of Holland bare under taken a glgautlc work by taoaa at which they expect Ut recorw the larfer part of the territory now covered by the ZuyUer Zee, the Inland se ot tit country, and turn It again Into a fer tile arming region, says the Milwau kee Journal. It I now Juat live cen turies since the Inundation of that part of the Netherlands now covered by the Zuyder Zee was completed, the encroachments of the sea having been going on for 225 years, previoua to which time the territory was covered with forests. By the moat stupendous exertions about 350 ayuare miles of country has already been recovered by an elaborate dike system which has gradually reclaimed section after aectlou that wus lost, but the new fccheme transcends the previoua work In extent and Importance. The town of the region which had become of con siderable Importance aa seaports through the bringing of the waters of the ocean to their doors have lost considerable of that imjortance through the difficulties of navigation and the transfer of the trade to the North Holland Canal and the Y Ship (.'anal, which connects the metropolis with tlie ocean. On this account the remnants of commerce are not worth as much to the towns as the country would be after It is reclaimed, and therefore there Is general acquiescence In the plan to drive the ocean out. On account of the great cost It will be distributed over a period of thirty three year, so as to make It less op pressive and to make the benefits grad ually bear their share of the expense. A colossal sea wall Is first to be built from North Holland to Friesland, shut ting out the tides of the ocean. Thla wall will be 216 feet wide at the base and the toj) will lwe seventeen feet above the sea level, while along the inner side and at some distance below the top will be a track wide enough for a wagon road and a railway. Af ter the sea is barred out the Inclosed space to be reclaimed will Inclose within separate embankments four areas containing In the aggregate 750 square miles. One of these areas will be first drained by pumping the water over the embankment, the water find ing its way to the sea through the main channel, and as the shallower portions become exposed they will be successively brought under cultiva tion. It is calculated that within ten years 25,000 acres can be made p.n nually available, and In The end the. Inland sea will be reduced to a channel alout fifteen miles wide called the ysselmeer, connecting with the sea by locks at AVleringen, with Ams terdam by a branch three miles wide, and by another with the mouth of the Yfisel. The plan has received the sanc tion of the Government, and the en gineers pronounce It feasible. . times that are coming aud about tne world's redemption. How long before they will come? There is a man who says fssl years. Here is some one more confi dent who soys in fifty years. What, fifty years? l you propose to let two gen erations pas off the stage before the world is converted? The Ocean of Life. One summer I stood on the isle of Wight, and I had pointed out to me the place where the Eurydice sank w ith 200 or IJiKl young men who were in training for the British navy. You remember when the trainingship went down there was a thrill of horror all over the world. Oh, my friends, this world is only a train ing ship. On it we are training for heaven. Tlie old ship sails up and down the ocean, of Immensity, now through the dark wave of the midnight, now through the golden crested wave of the morn, but saila on and sails on. After awhile her work will be done, and the inhabitants of heaven will look out and find a world missing. The cry will be: "Where is that enrth where Christ died and the hu man race were emancipated? Send out fleets of angels to find the missing craft." Let them sail up and down, cruise up and down the ocean of eternity, and they will catch not one glimpse of her mountain masts or her top-gallants of floating cloud. Gone down 1 The training ship of a world nerihed in the last tornado. Oh let It not lie thnt she goes down with all on board, but rather may it be said of her DaaaeiiKers aa it was said of the drenched passengers of the Alexandrian corn ship that crashed Into the breakers of Mellta, "TW all escaped safe to land. , nut t' ' t of Ml the Ice- I OMIDIAM la a Ut gism Humors of the Poor. Country doctors are to be envied If all of them have experiences as amus ing as those described in the November number of the Cornhill Magazine. On one occasion the doctor found an old woman toiling to his door with a heavy load of potatoes. "Take 'em, doctor, take 'em," she said, magnanimously. "What saith the scriptures? Cast thy potatoes on the doctor, aud thou shall find them after many days may tx about Christmas time," she added shy ly, and, with1 obvious glee at this in genious method of Insurance againsi the privations of winter, old Peggy hobbled off. This same old lady, when on hoi death-bed, said "she didn't expect to go to heaven, but wherever she did go she'd put in a good word for the doc tor." Another woman lost her husband. The doctor found her tearful but not inconsolable. "Ah! poor Jim!" sh said. "My good man! Eh! I'm very good deal about the good j grateful to you, doctor, but it's a mercy the Ixird took the case into s own hands." An old couple fell 111, of old age, to gether. The husband died, but the wife had more vitality. On the day fol lowing her husband's death she was letter, and the doctor was congratu lating himself on the sacceas ef his treatment But the woman's point of view was different. She complained bitterly; for, as she forcibly pointed out, "Ef ee'd let me alone one funeral 'ud 'a' done for us two, an' look what It '11 cost now, berrying two of us separately!" Japanese Women. Japanese women have, in the past few years, shown signs of waking up to the demands of tbe nineteenth cen tury progress. Very ninny women of the Flowery Kingdom have engaged In business for themselves, and they are nearly as successful In the matter of In dependence as their Western Bisters. A subscription has been raised In Tokyo, and subscribed to by several of the Ministers of State, Government officers, and others to erect a monument In Cyeno Park In commemoration of Mrs. Oura, a Japanese woman who died lo 1884,- at the age of 07, after having achieved the distinction of being th woman pioneer of foreign commerce to ,pn- ;; '. . ,; . woman la wh n (UaafgolBtad ft. love m rl life that aha ooeant better la h Is a story. .. 1 s :3sispoNDEirrs soucirm It WW Tkla v... s "r99BsiHt1vBJI