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7 The Sioux County Journal, VOLUME VIIL HARRISON, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, OCT. 3, 1895. NUMBER 4. A DAY WITH STEPHEN HIV. OR. TALMAQE PRESENTS FIVE LIVING PICTURES. Stephen Qaaing Into iHtn-Stephen Looking at Cbriat-etephea etonod tephea la Bis Dying Prayer Stephen Aaleep. An Inspiring Theme. Id hi sermon fur Sunday Rev. Dr. Talniae chose a theme aa picturesque .s It U spiritually Inspiring, lie troupe bia discourse Into "Five Picture." Ths teit elected waa, "Behold, I aee the heaven epened'-Acts vil., WOO. Stephen had been preaching a rousing aennon, and the people could not it and It. They resolved to do aa men sometimes weald like to do lo thin day, if they dared, with aonie plain preacher of righteouaneaa kill him. The only way to alienee thla nan waa to knock the breath out of him. Bo thry rushed Stephen out of the gatea of the city, and with curse and wboop and bellow they brought him to the cliff, aa waa the custom when they wanted to take way life by atoning. Marlng brought him to the edge of the cliff, they punned him off. After he had fallen they fame and looked down, and aeelng that he waa not yet dead they began to drop Htonea Upon him, atone after atone. Amid tliia horrible rain of missiles Stephen clambera op on hia kneea and folda hU handa, while Ihe blood drlpa from hia temples, and then, looking tip, he makea two prayer, one for himself and one for hia murderers. "Lord Jeaua, receive tny aplrit," that waa for hlmaelf. "Lord, lay not thla in to their charge," that waa for hia murderers. Then, from pain and loaa of blood, he awooned away and fell aaleep. I want to ahow yon to-day Are pictures Stephen gating Into hesven, Stephen looking at Cbriat, Htephen atoned, Stephen In hia dying prayer, Stephen aaleep. Stephen Looking Into Heaven. First look at Stephen gsslag Into heav en. Before you tnke a leap you waBt to know where you are going to land. He fore you climb a ladder yon want to know to what point the ladder reaches. And it waa right that Stephen, within a few mo menta of heaven, should be gazing into it We would all do well to ba found In the hum poature. There ia enough In heaven to keep ua gazing. A man of large wealth may have atatnary In the hall, and paint ing! in the sitting room, and worka of art la all part a of the house, but he haa the chief plcturea in the art gallery, and there hour after hour you walk with catalogue and glaaa and ever Increasing admiration. Well, heaven la the gallery where God haa gathered the chief treaanrea of hia realm. The whole universe ia hia palace. In thia lower room where we atop there are many adornments, teaaellated floor of ametbyat, nd on the winding cloud stairs are stretched out canvaaea on which commin gle azure and purple and saffron and gold. But heaven is the gallery In which the chief glories are gathered. There are the brightest robea. There are the richest crowna. There are the hlgheat exhilara tions. St. John aaya of It, "The kings of the earth shall bring their honor and glory Into It." And I ace the procession form ing, and In the line come all empires, and the stars spring up into an arch for the boats to march under. They keep atep to the aound of earthquake and the pitch of avalanche from the mountains, and the flag they bear la the flame of a consuming world, and all heaven tnrne out with harps and trumpets and myriad voiced ac clamation of angelic dominions to wel come them In, and ao the kings of the earth bring their honor and glory Into It. 10 you wonder that good people often stand, like Stephen, looking Into heaven? We have many friends there. There is not a man here ao isolated In life but there ia aome one In heaven with whom he once shook bands. As a man gets older, the number of his celestial ac quaintances very rapidly multiplies. Ws hare not had one glimpse of them since Ihe night we kissed them good by aid they went away, but atill we atnnd gazing at heaven. As when some of our friends go across the aea we stand on the dock or on the steam tug and watch them, and after awhile the bulk of the vessel dianppeara, and then there is only a patch of sail on the sky, and soon that Is gone, and they art all out of sight, and yef we atand look ing In the same direction, ao when our friends go away from us into the future world we keep looking down through tha Narrows and gazing and gazing aa though ws expected that they woald come oat and stand on aome cloud and give ns on glimpse of their blissful and transfigured facts. While you long to join thalr companion ship, and tha years and the days go with each tedium that they break your htart, end tha viper of pain and sorrow and be reavement keep gnawing at four vltala, yon will stand, liks Stephen, gaalng Into Leaven. You wonder If they have changed since you saw Uitm last. You wonder If they would recognize your face now, ao changed haa It been with trouble. Ton woader If, amid tha myriad delights thsy have, they car as much for you as thsy nasd to when they gave yon a helping hand and put their shoulders uader your burdens. You wonder If they look any elder, and sometimes in the evening tide, when the house la all quiet, you wonder if you should call them by their first same If they would not answer, and perhaps some times you do make the experiment, and when no one but God aad yourself are there you distinctly call their name and listen and ait gazing Iota heaven. Looking Upon Chrlel. Pass on now and aee Stephen looking apon Cbriat. My, text says he aaw the Son of man at the rlgbt band ef God. Just how Christ looked in thia world, Juat how ha look in heaven, wa cannot any. The painters of tb different age bare tried to Imagine tb feature of Cbriat and put then upon canvas, bnt w will have to wait aaril wltb oar ewa eye w aee bun and with oar own ear we can hear bin. Aad yottbere I a way f -tog him and hearing bias sow. bar to tall yo that unless roe are aad boar Christ en earth, yon will never aee and ' hear him ia heaven. Look I There he to! Behold the Laasb ofOodl Caa you net aee him T Then. pray to Ood to take the scales off your eyes. Look that way try to look that way. His voice cornea down to you thia day cornea down to tke blindest, to the deafest soul, saying, "Look unto me, all ye ends of the earth and be ye ssved, fur I am God, aad there is none else." Proclamatioa of uni versal emancipatlen for all alavea. Tell me, ye who know most of the world's his tory, what other king ever asked the aban doned, and the forlorn, and tha wretched, and the outcast te come and sit beside him. Oh, wonderful Invitation! Yea can take It to-day and atand at the head of the darkest alley in all thia city, and say; "Come! Clothes for yeur rags, salve for your sores, a throne for your eternal reigning." A Christ that talks like that and acts like that and pardons like that do you wonder that Stephen atood look ing at him? I hope to apend eternity do ing the aame thing. I must see him; I must look upon that face once clouded with my sin, but now radiant with my pardon. I want to touch that hand that knocked off my shackles. I want to hear th voice that pronounced my deliverance. Behold him, little children, for If you live to three score years and ten you will aee none ao fair. Behold him, ye aged ones, for be only csn shine through the dimness of your failing eyesight. Heboid him, esrth. Behold him, heaven. What a moment when all the nations of tha aaved shsll gather around Christ, all faces thst way, all thrones that way, gaa lng on Jesus! Ills worth If all the nationa knew Sure the whole earth would love blm, too. Stoned. I pass on now snd look at Stephen stoned. The world haa always wsnted to get rid of good men. Their very life Is an assault tion wickedness. Out with Ste phen through the gatea of the city. Down with him over the precipices. Let every man come up and drop a stone upon his bead. Hut these men did not so much kill Stephen as thay killed themselves. Kvery stone rebounded npon them. While these murderers sre transfixed by the scorn of all good men Stephen lives In the admiration of all Christendom. Stephen stoned, but Stephen alive. So all good men muat be pelted, "All who will live godly In Christ Jesus must suffer persecu tion." It is no eulogy of a man to say that everybody likes him. Show me any ens who Is doing all his duty to state or church, and I will ahow you scores of men who utterly abhor him. If sit men spesk well of you, It Is be cause you are either a laggard or a dolt. If a steamer makea rapid progress through the waves, the water will boil and foam all around It. Brave soldiers of Jesus Christ will hear the carbine click. When I see a man with a voice and money and influence all on the right side, and some caricature him, and aome sneer at blm, and some denounce him, and men who pretend to be actuated by right mo tives conspire to cripple him, to cast him out, to destroy him, I say, "Stephen stoned." When I see a man in some great moral or religious reform battle sgainst grog shops, exposing wickedness lu high places, by active means trying to purify the church snd better the world s estate, and I find that the newspapera anthematize him, and men, even good men, oppose him and denounce him, because, though he does good, he does not do it In their way, I say "Stephen stoned." But you no tice, my friends, thst while they assaulted Stephen they did not succeed really In killing htm. You may assault a good man, but you cannot kill him. On the day of his death, Stephen spoke before a few peo ple in the sanhedrln; this Sabbath morn ing he addresses all Christendom. Panl the apostle stood on Mara hill addressing a handful of philosophers who knew not so much about science aa a modern school girl. To-day he talks to all the millions of Christendom about the wonders of Justifi cation and the glories ef resurrection. John Wesley was howled down by the mob to whom he preached, and they threw bricks at him, and they denounced him, and they Jostled him, and they spat upon him, and yet to-day, in all landa, he ia admitted to be the great father of Methodism. Booth's bullet vacated the Presidential chair, but from that spot of cosgulsted blood on the floor in the box of Ford'a Theater there aprang op the new life of a nation. Stephen atoned, hut Stephen alive. A Dvlaa; Prayer, Pass on now aad see Stephen In hi dy ing prayer. Hia Brat thought was net how the stone hurt hi head nor what would become of hi body. His first thought waa about hi spirit "lord Jesua, receive my spirit." The murderer standing en th trapdoor, the black can being drawn ever hi head before th execution, may grim ace about the future, but you and I hav no shame in coufessing some anxiety about where we are going to ootee out. You are not all body. There la within yon a eoul. I aea It gleam from year eye to-day, aad I aea It irradiating your coun tenance. Sometimes I am abashed before an audience, not because I corns under your physical eyesight, bnt bees use I realize the truth that I stand before ao many Immortal spirits. Th probability la that yenr body will at last find a sepul cher in some of the cemv-terie that sur round this city. There is no doubt bnt thst your obsequies will be decent and re spectful, and yon will be able to pillow yeur head under the maple, or the Norway spruce, or the cypres, or th blossoming fir, but this spirit about which Stephen prayed, what direction will that take? What guide will escort it? What gate will npea to receive It? What rlond will be cleft for ita pathway? After it baa got beyond the light of onr sun will there be torches lighted for It the rest of the way? WIU the soul hare to travel through long deserts before It reaches the good land ? 1 f we should lose our pathway, will there be a castle at whoa gate w may ask tba way to the city ? Ob, thl myte rlou plrit withla us! It ba two wing, but It hi la a cage sew.' It la locked fast to bp It, but let tb door of thl cg mm tb least, and that eeal It off, Kagte 'a wlttga could sot catch It Tb Hgbtalag are net wlft raoogh to row np with It When the aoal leave tb body. It takea fifty world at a bound. And hav I a anxiety about it? Have yon ao anxtety about It? I do not care what yen do with my body whea my soul Is gone or whether you be lieve ia cremation er inhumation. I ahatl aleep just as well in a wrapping of sack cloth a in satin lined with eagle's down. But my soul before I close this discourse I will find out where it will land. Thank God for the Intimation of my text, that when we die Jesus takea us. That an swer all questions for me. What though there were massive bars between her and the City ef Light, Jesus could re move them. What though there were great Sahara of darkneaa, Jesus could illume tbem. What though I get weary en the way, Christ could lift me on his omnipotent shoulder. What though there were chasms to cross, hi hand could transport me. Then let Stephen's prayer be my dying litany, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit" It may be in that hour we will be too feeble to aay a long prayer. It may be in that hour we will not be able to aay the Lord'a Prayer, for it has seven petitions. Perhaps we may be too feeble even to say the infant prayer our mothers taught lis, which John Cjuincy Adams, 70 yesrs of sge, said every night when be put his head upon bis pillow: Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep. We may be too feeble te employ either of these familiar forms, but this prayer of Stephen is so shtrt, is ao concise, la so earnest, is s comprehensive, we surely will be able to say that. "Lord Jesua, ro celve my spirit." Oh, if that prayer ia an swered, how sweet it will be to die! Thii world Is clever enough to us. Perhaps It baa treated ua a great deal better than we deserved to be treated, but if on the dying pillow there shall break the light of that better world we shall have no mors regret than about leaving a small, dark, damp house for one large, beautiful and caps oious. That dying minister in Philadel phia some years sgo beautifully depleted It when in the last moment he threw uf his hands and cried out: "I move into thl light!" Asleep. Pass on now, and I will show you ons more picture, and that Is Stephen asleep. With a pathos and simplicity peculiar te the Scriptures, the text says of Stephen. "He fell asleep." "Oh," you say, "what a place that waa to sleep! A hard rock under him, stone falling down upon him. the blood streaming, the mob bowling What a place it wa to sleep!" And yet my text takea that symbol of slumber tc describe his departure, so sweet wss It, a contented wss It, so peaceful was it. Stephen bad lived a very laborious life Ills chief work had been to csre for th poor. How many loaves of bread ha bad distributed, how many hare feet he had aandaled, bow many cota of slckneaa and diatreas be had blesaed with ministries ol kindness and love, I do not know. Yet from the way he lived, and the way h preached, and the way he died, I know h was a laborious Christian. Hut that ia 0,11 over new. lie haa preased the cup to the laat fainting lip. He haa taken th last inault from his enemies. The last stone to whose crushing weight he Is sus ceptible boa been hurled. Stephen is dead' The disciples come! They take him up' They waah away the blood from th wounds. They straighten out the bruised limba. They brush back the tangled hall from the brow, and then they pass around to look upon the calm counteniince of him who had lived for tha poor and died foi the truth. Stephen asleep! I have seen the aea driven with the hur rlcane until the tangled foam caught iu the rigging, and wave rising above win aeemed aa if about to atorin the heavens, and then I have aeen the tempeat drop, and the waves crouch and everything be corns smooth and burnished as though s csmplng place for the glories of heaven. So I have seen a man, whose life has bees toaaed and driven, coming down at laat t aa Infinite calm, in which there was a kuah of heaven's lullaby. Stephen asleep! I saw such a one. He fought all Lis days against poverty and against abuse. They traduced his name. They rattled at the doorknob while he was dying witb duns for debts he could not pay; yet tha peace of God brooded over his pillow and while the world faded, heaven dawned and th deepening twilight of eartb'i night waa only the opening twilight of heaven' morn. Not a sigh. Not a tear. Not a atruggle. Hush! Stephen aaleep. I hav not tb faculty aa many have to tell the weather. I can never tell by th setting aun whether there will be drought or not. I cannot tell by tb blowing of the wind whether It will bs fair weather or foul on the morrow. Bui I I can prophesy, and I will prophesy, what weather It will be when you, the Chris Han, come to die. You may have it very rough now. It may be this week one an noyaace, the next another annoyance. It may be thla year one bereavement, th next another bereavement. But at th laat Christ will come in and darkneaa will go out And though there may be nc band to close your eye and no breast, 01 which to reat your dying head, and nc caadl to lift the night, the odors of God'i hinging garden will regale your soul snd at your bedside will halt the chariot of tb king. No more rent to pay, no mori agony because flour has gone up, no mor struggling wltb "th world, the flesh and the devil," but pesce long, deep, ever lasting peace. Stephen asleep! Asleep In Jesus, blessed sleep, from which none ever wake to weep; A calm ami undiaturbed repose, Uninjured by the last of foes. Asleep in Jeaua, far from thee Thy kindred and thy graves may be, But there is stilt a blessed sleep, From which noue ever wake to weep. You have seen enough for one dsy. Xc one caa successfully examine more thai five pictures In a day. Therefore we stop having seen Ihia cluster of divine Raphael) Stephen gaaiag Into heaven, Stephen looking at Cbriat, Stephen stoned, Hie phn In hi dying prayer, Stephen aaleep f ne Aretlnlane took thalr name from thalr leader. Arralnlua, born in 1MM died In 1600. Tbelr doctrine are (till kM by aevrral Methodl bodla. 30WNS AND GOWNING WOMEN GIVE MUCH ATTENTION TO WHAT THEY WEAR. Brief Olancee at Fanclce Feminine, Frivolous, Mayhap, and Yet Offered In the Hope that the Beading Prove Beatful to Wearied Womankind. Gossip from Gay Gotham. dew lurk correspondence: UOH howy adornmenta a a gold, strings of b e a d a, spangle and Jewels are all to be employed lu the effects of tha coming elaborate dresaes. Many of the close fitted hip will be em phasized by fes toons of glittering strings of beads, and girdles are being shown so much like those worn on the stage by the old time queens that only an exclusive so ciety woman would think of wearing In real life such tawdry adjuncts to dress. These girdles are Inexpensive enough when sold as theatrical properties, but are very costly when designed for other than stago wear. They are a series of links that pass about the hips, Joining In front a little below the waist In a very large and elaborate link. From this hang a scries of links that fall to the foot of the skirt, or to the knees. This model Is a modification of the orig inal design, which comes from the twelfth century. In those days It was a long band of Jeweled chain equipped PI.AIt) AND CLOTH COMBINED AND APA.NGI.KD. with a buckle on one end, through which the other end passed, the belt be ing drawn to suit the costume or the wearer, and the extra length falling loose In front Originally only this pen dent end showed, the blanket or hip drapery being drawn up through the belt and held by It, Its extra width hanging over the belt Artistic selec tion of these, girdles Is guided by consid eration for their twelfth century adap tations, but It's Dot safe to be too faith ful In the copying, because either wom en were more hardy In the old days, or else our climate Is more severe. It's not every costume that will carry off one of these costly affairs success fully, and Uiis sort of girdle Is but one expression of a general liking for glint and glitter. It's early yet to tell what winter's development of this favor will be, but It Is quite within the possibili ties that the rule will be to have some sparkling accessory, no matter what the means of attaining It It Is a simple enough dress that shows beside the Ini tial, yet the big mauve sa tin collar, with Its pendant tabs and ornamental ro settes 1 not deemed sufficiently ornate, bo the broad expanse of satin Is liberal ly sprinkled with spangles, that In gas light or sunlight the wearer can be dis tinguished from the unsparkllng mil lion. As for the rest, the dress Is of a aoruc or kovrl hai'ic. apricot cloth, Ita aklrt baa aide-pleated panel' at either aide of a narrow front, and deep fold at the back. Tb bodice la fitted wltb lining hooka In front, and tha loft 1de of tba atnff lap over, tba edge giving the baggy fulnes In tba waist The back la of bias material wltb a few pleats lu the waist and a belt of mauve aatln wltb rosette garni ture cornea about the w aist Spangled trimming border the edge of the fancy collar in the next pictured dress, appears also at the top of the plaid panels of the skirt and edge the hem all around, with the exception of the panels. Then there Is a circle of II at the top of the fancy collar. Its use here la entirely tasteful, for the cos tume's combination of laurel-green mo hair and bright Scotch plaid la so strlk- DESIGNED TO DECEIVE. lng as to safely admit of rich garniture. Heneath the mohair collar there is a waist of dark-green satin and bows of ribbon top the collar's slashes. Last winter's tidal wave of crepoes didn't strand that material by any means, for crepon will be worn more than ever, and the women who took ad vantage of the sales of that fabric dur ing the summer w.Il have saved a lot of money. The experience of this weave Is a marked exception to all known rule, and Its revival but a few months after It was worn by almost everybody Is ao unusual and unexpected an event that even the dealers themselves seem to have been caught by the manufactur ers. It certainly looked as If tbe dealers were trying to get rid of their crepons aa a goods that would lack sale thl coining season, but now the stuff ap pears In all sorts of modifications, and any number of materials with crepon characteristics are on the market un der new names. In the third picture there Is a dress of one of these cre pon, Its shade styled a Louis XV. blue. Figures, like fashions, cliange, and though the modification that time works In the former are not brought out with the rapidity of those that affect dress styles, their results are more difficult to manage successfully than are the most unconquerable new fashions. Of courses. If the change In dimensions Is a lessening, the matter's simple enough, A FOH EKUNN Kit. but, unfortunately, It seldom works that way, and ordinarily dressmakers are slow to suggest means of stimulating the sleuderness that once was, and now. alas! Is not. A trick that will help to this end Is presented In the fourth Illus tration, and lies in the V of silk let Into the front of the waiHt. As here used, the silk Is pink, and the dress bmmH gray brilliant ino. Kins folds of tin dress stuff trim the skirt, as indicated, and a row of satin buttons appears over each hip. Like folds outline the vest, and similar buttons are placed bestdc It as shown. A plain band of tin goods gives the belt, snd the sleeves art puffed to the elbow, finishing In long tight ruffs. This V device Is not enough to overcome great width of shoulders, but Is enough to act as a take-off for the early signs of broadening, when the need of heroic measures has not arisen. In the hip pieces of the final pictured costume, there Is Just a suggestion ol this fashion, though one can easily sei that, starting from such a beginning the fashion may easily be adapted out of anything like close resemblance tc the old-time etyle. Thl drew 1 of fan cy tobawo brown woolen suiting, ! made princes and button In front Tb aide and blp piece are of plain brown cloth and are bound with fancy woolen braid, which alao border tha bam ol tba aklrt. forming ebnrp polnta In fht renter of back and frost. Washing;. A pneumatic clothe washer la ahawa herewith, which la being put on tb mar ket Tbe washer 1 referred to aa work ing on an entirely new principle, and that tnatead of friction It operate by rompreased air and auction, forcing hot luda through the good with ufnctea, fore to remoT the dirt from a tu full of cloth, cleansing them In from two to At minute. It la a&td for tba waaber that It will cleanse th flnaat Ud most delicate lace or the heaviee bedeprcada, qullta or blanket, a wall a aay amall wearing apparel, In ona NiW CLOTUKS WASHKH. fonrtb. the time it can be done by band, beside making the work easy, wltb comparatively no hard labor. Homely Suggestions. To make delicious corn bread, take one-half pint of flour, one gill of eorn meal, one-half pint of milk, two ta bio spoonfuls of sugar, one generous table spoon ful of butter, one and a half tev spoonful of baking powder, one-third teaapoonful of salt, two tableapoonfula of boiling water and one egg. Mix all the dry Ingredient together and rub through a sieve. Beat the egg till light and add milk to it, then pour thla mix ture on the dry Ingredients, which should be beaten well. Now add tha butter, first melting it In the hot water. Pour the batter Into a well-butterexl pan and bake for half an hour In a moderately hot oven. Quite a lot of little packet and bote ties have to be taken away this sum mer for shoes only. There Is pipe clay for the white shoes, russet polish fof the tans, and black lacquer for the pat ent leathers. For a company breakfast or the us ual family luncheon hominy boiled and sweetened, molded In medlum-sised cups, and served very cool with whip ped cream, makes a very acceptable course for dessert A new fashon In needlework called the "Plazzl" shows white linen laid over whit net; floral designs are traced on the linen and worked In soft-colored allks. The spaces between the flower and leave are then cut away, leaving the linen design upon the net ground. Women who have only very hard water In which to wash their faces and hands will find that such water Is much improved for toilet use If It la boiled and stood In the sun for three or four days. The water Is softened by the ac tion of the air and sun. A large pltcher ful or a larger quantity may be inad ready at one time. Apple Marmalade. Wash your apples, quarter them and cut the cores out Put on to cook with water to cover them. Cook till aof and pour Into a cheese cloth bag. IM drain throughout, but do not quxe. To every quart of Juice use one pint ot granulated sugar; boll fifteen minute. The pulp of the apple may be ued by pressing through a sieve. Add one cup f augar and the Juice of a lemon to each quart of pulp; If It la too thick to cook, add a little water. Boll for thirty minutes, stirring constantly. Put In small crock or bowla It makea a nlc spread for the little one' bread. Lemonade Co pa. Home elm rni lng lemonade cup are shown In Ihe new Prussian ware of egg'' shell china having dainty scrolls and arabesque of lily grW designed upon them. The low, flat ktylo Is moat Ifi favor. Thoepf eut glass are exceed ingly rich and fearfully expensive. A beautiful bet in the Venetian tinted ware, In the paleat opal-green, all crack led over with gilt, la especially suited to a eummer table. ' Ripe Orap Catoap. Five pound of grape, one pound of mgmr, one pint of vinegar, one table ipoon of pepper, ene-balf tableapoea of alt, one teaspoon each of allaplca, clove, cinnamon. Cover the grape with water, cook tan minute, than rub through a aleve ao a to remove akin and aeeda. Add tba Ingradbanta aa4 boll twenty nrlnutn. or tlU a UtUe tMckar than iream, tett).-W