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CONTRASTED WITH NAPOLEON.
Waahlaa-toathe Oroateat and Whlteet
.Character in Modern History.
,0W shall any man
add aught to the
praise or eulogy of
tieorge Washing
ton? History and
biography, eloquence
and poetry have ex
hausted their com
bined riches upon
the successful leader
of the American rev
olution, and the
founder of the Amer
ican republic our
fint preat national
hem.
Kvrry great crisis
in the history of the
wrlil has found its
man to control and guide it. Call this
Providence, or accident, the American
revolution nan no exception to it. Be
fore the first murmurs of discontent were
heard in that, stnitrijle the man was lieing
prepared for the crinia. On the banks of
the Potomac and the lUppahannock, thir
ty yearn before Iexington and Bunker
Hill, a truthful and manly boy was grow
ing np, ripeninjt into stalwart young man
hood. With only the common school ed
ucation of that early dny, the young man
was soon being educated in the broader
whool of nature and experience, in the
treat forest, under the open heavens,
with his surveyor's chain and his sword,
in Indian want, defending the frontier
settlements from savage incursions.
Growing still apace, the manly young
Virginian is anon the leading spirit and
military commander of all that Potomac
region, and his skill, endurance and cour
age in those campaigns swell the measure
of his fame. Then with the peace, the
yonng commander lays aside the sword,
marries and settles upon bis inherited
country seat at Mt. Vernon, and like his
ancestors ia now a ri-b landed proprietor,
a Virginia farmer and planter and country
gentleman. . Ha he might bare restrained
to tbe end. had not the voice of patriotism
called him to take part with his neigh-
KABJ.Y POItTMAIT Ot WASHIJteTOX.
Kraut tlie tmliitlna B C. W. Peale. 1772. ownau
by ties. O. w. C. lse, living ton, Va.
bora and tbe oppressed people of th col
on lea against the tyranny of the aaothar
coaatry. Washington eat with Jefferson
and Bichard Henry Lee tad Maaon and
Pendleton, rolleajraes to that first conti
nental psafrM at IlladHpkla.
Tbe gnas of Irxragton crack, aad their
r.ir ei koa rewc the patriot ujagraas at
l hiladelphia. They waked th coloales to
icilon. It had been debate aad petition
. ad ressonst ranee before It waa war, war
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VI
Hevas- Tol4 LI.
(TU SMALL BOT'l VIW OF IT.)
Ha moat " been a kali; chap, Lfcat fellur
Wutiln'tua,
'Cos I tut orteo kHi( m pa walk b bad
lea a euo;
u Hjra It moat filled hla mother's
Iwart wilt) Joy,
"Cos eiie could led the folk nest door ah
bad a little Ixif
Which wua tba beetest boj 1b Un; 'a' aa
her back yard fence
Could Iran bar chia 'a' tail Mlaa Browa aa
dlilo't bar no atnae
'Boot raltbln' cnU'era; ef aba bad tar waa
no rvalbva why
Hmi Jobaaj wuxn't like bar Ueorge. who
never told a lie.
My! I'v told lota o whopper! 'a' Oeorf
muat ' been a gooth
'fa never told a lis whea It want better'a
lb truth.
Wban my ua'e lam la nilaaln' 'a' b take
bm on hrr kue,
Pulla off bar thllpper, 'a' 1 think a llckla'
won't ault in,
I don't Blind a-aayln' I saw little Wully
there,
N that be conMn't reach tk aaalf 'a' ao aa
tuk a chair.
I (ucaa the bad ao ka them daa, 'n' that'a
tbe reason why
That little bor George Waahlo'toa ner told
a lie.
fa aeoda me off to Sunday achool 'n' I meet
Johnny Browa,
'N we two go a-ewtmmln' with a lou a' boys
front town.
When I get back V ma ask what kep Sun
day achool ao loaf.
I tell ber that the teacher mad a laara a
little aong.
'V aiade ua learn a lota o' hymns, 'a' lots '
Utile rhyme,
JT lot n' lota o' holy thlaaa. I gueae
olden time
They didn't have no Sunday school, a that
tbe reaaon why
That little boy George Waahla'toa aTr teld
a II.
I beard pa tell tbe etory wuaat a boat th
cherry tree.
'W 'bout th llttl hatchet. I'll fct If It was
me . . .
I woe Id 'a chopped ta thing cleaa dowa ''
t tbe cherries, too,
JT I'd 'a-said that Wully don It thafs
what I weald do.
My pa ma for office wuaat. 'a' proatlaad If
he'd win
He'd give each one a bally job who d help
to get him In;
Bat when be u elected 'a' got his seat, be
found
There wmn't Job enough to go one-tenth
tbe way around;
"V ao be wum't 'lerted the neit tint that
be run.
I guess tbere wns no Job tbem day, or meb-
be Waahtn'ton
Never run fur office, 'n' that' th reaaon
wby
Tbe rather of hi Country Barer told a II.
Me 'n' pa went nehln' wunat 'a' didn't get a
btt; t ,
Bnt I beard pa ssy that w caught nineteen
the other mint;
N when I aaid, '7Why, pa
hla face It Jee'
got awful red.
"N" ' -slipped penny In my band, a I
looked up 'n aald:
"Why, pa! I found 'twits twenty whea I
counted 'em again."
Well, I guess tbe presidents never went
a-Bahln' then
Like tbey do aometlmea nowaday, 'n that s
the reaaon wby.
Pa ssje, that Mister Waauln'ton never told
a lie.
for liberty now. Twenty thousand pat
riot colonists bad closed in non the re
treating British In Boston. Who should
this leader be? The hour found the man,
and out there stepped from the Virginia
delegation and advanced to tbe bar of the
house to accept his grest trust, this mod
est frontier colonel, legislator and planter
tall. Imposing and commanding in ap
pearance, his fine form made athletic and
sinewy by long, manly exercise; his Judg
ment ripened by experience In wsr and
peace the very ideal picture of th hero
which the crisis demanded, George Wash
ington, the MAX.
Aside from all qnestions of success or
'MT. VERNOX, THE HOME OF WASHINGTON.
failure, as we look at the man, what was
it that made Washing-ton great? It is
clear that it was not the rxwseHsion of
great or brilliant intellectual faculties.
Not in congress at convention, nor as
speaJier, writer, ot even soldier, were
these displayed. Other men have excel
led him in all tbesv ways, but in a word.it
was manhood; it was character; it was
moral greatness. It was that nice ad
justment of tbe moral and intellectual
faculties, that perfect blending of parts,
that lofty sense of duty In tbe perform
ance of every trmrt, that spotless truth,
that stainless ln.a.ir, that incorruptible
Integrity, that faulflcss courage and un
shaken enduranc---all these and mone,
that made up that consumnuite piece of
manhood which flowered out in that eight
eenth century of time and wbic,h is now
fvermore the priceless possession and
lory of history, . This is the supreme
greatness of Wnsl Ington.
Washington beluga not with the con
querorswith Alennder, Caeear, Napo
leon, hut with tj great unselfish patriotswith-
TimoUon. with (lincinnatns,
with Hampden ajd William of Orange.
It is useless to cx.nipare him with Napo
leon. It were bwiler to contrast them.
The great Oorsics.n and the frent Virgin-
i ian were entirely dissimilar. They be-
longed to differenr race and were cart in
different molds, fbe physical men were
wide apart in appearance. Washington
was tall, straight and commanding, with
't the blue eyes of the Anglo-Hsxon. Na-
, (wneon was snort ann coriiiuenr, witn tne
sallow complexion and dark piercing eyes
of the Latin race. Washington was slow,
retiring and dignified; deliberate and calm
in speech and action. Napoleon waa quick
and restless of movement, impetuous of
speech and sometime undignified la man
ner. But in moral greatness, compared
with Washington, be was a dwarf. The
one i the embodiment of human intel
lect and will, devoted, In th main, to aelf
lah ambition; the other I the noblaat com
bination of the moral and Intellectual
fawaJtaaa, lasspirad by yeastl. aad paUWt
Isaa and gaided aw daty. Tk a la
ary, Bwrtaatwaa saataaw, thaTh that
lurid awoke of battUs, aaaU JlaaslrlM
aureruoient and tuvpling fartinsa aasi
quenched at last la otter dart a TW
ether la aa orderly plan la its apawlatad
sphere, a grand and quasi klsas laaiinary,
staining ever oa with aaeHaaiaiafcad luster,
lighting the world with liberty, la th a
reue, eternal kaavaam.
QCOROK AT SCHOOL.
Out a Ho I Id ItBowladaje wf BUtheaaat
laa, bat Nvr Lama-maw Bawll.
Aa a matter of fact Irttl ta kavws
about George Waabiugtua's acbooldaja.
Hla first teacher was uauted Hobby, and
be waa aextun aa well aa pedagogue of
tk Virginia parian In which tbe Wash
ington family aettlad. Hobby waa not a
man of wide Information or of deep cul
ture. It la to be inferred that be knew
how to writ legibly and to teach the
art skillfully, for the one pupil of bis
achool who waa destined to be illustri
ous wrota a clear plain hand. Bat, judg
ing from the letters and other writing
of the immortal George that are bow ex-
TS riilLU ST. MBHBia CBAYOaT.
tant, the teacher knew very tittle about
orthograpiiy. At tcaat b taught young
George very llttl, for kla spelling would
drlv a modern schoolmaster to drink.
Possibly It waa bis pupil's Inability or
lack of desire to learn to spell that brought
about the lack of cordiality that is said
to bar existed between them, though it
is stated on excellent authority that in
s vary abort time after entering Hobby's
scbooi tbe pupil knew as much if not more
than the master.
Washington, pere, died In 1743, when
Washington, fils, waa but 11 years old.
He then went to live with his half
brother Augustine and attended a school
kept by a man named Williams. There
he studied no language but the Knglixh.
and, the story goe, devoted little atten
tion to that, confining himself principally
to mathematics. This stood him in good
stead when he became a surveyor.
The future general and first President
of this republic, at tbe time he went to
school to Mr. Williams, was tall, active
and muscular and was ao generally con
sidered quite cnpsble of thraahiug any
one of his companions that no one ever
had the temerity to pick a quarrel witb
him.
Uae of the Circle.
Id the "Cycle Notes" of the Hclentflc
American we find. In one week, three
new uses of the nineteenth century
chariot. In France It la used for Hie
distribution of telegrams; the riders
have an allowance fur the use of tbe
machine. In some Belgian cities the
Are department uses tricycle for lumf
carU, with gool result. Oa Imuh
Island, New York, an entomologist -nr
rtea a reservoir of Insecticide atim bed
to the handle-liars of bis bicycle, hihI a
knnpsnck spraying mat-blue on his
shoulders. He bus thus a quick and ef
ficient menus of scattering the poison
which kills Insects Injurious to vegeta
tion. . a
UNLESS HE HAD AFFIDAVITS,
Oeorice Washington Would Not He
Above Bnsplclon.
If Washiegion in "spli'tiug wood"
Or "boxing with a friend,"
Had got a blow by chance that shoulo
His optic features blend;
Did he, in all truth, state tbe way
He fit his bold black eye,
Hit fame would not resound to-day
Aa one that could not lie!
v ' K-aTWJaKV -da'- -i
1 v
THE ONE BIGHT BOAD
REV. DR. TALMAOf POINTS IT
OUT TO LIFE'S TRAVELERS.
Be Shows th. Koad of BlajBtaoaaaiaa)
ta Be Bmfe, Plaia, FUasaat, Bread,
Kaaootk, aad with a Olos-iosuj Tar-
Inai at Laat.
Barasoai at the CaplteL
Rev. Dr. Talmage's sermon in Wash
ington last Sunday wss a picture of the
road thut many have traveled and other
are trying to get on and ia no more appro
priate for tbe capital of the nation than
for all place. The text chosen was Isaiah
xxxv., 8, 9. 10s "And an highway shall be
there, and a way, and it shall be called the
way of holiness. Tbe unclean shsll not
pass over it, but it shall be for those; the
wayfaring men, though fools, shall not
err therein. No lion shall be tbere, nor
any ravenous beast shall go up tbereon.
It shall not be found there, but the re
deemed shall walk there, and the ran
somed of tbe Lord shall return aiul come
to Ziou with songs and everlasting joy
upon their heads. They shall obtaiu joy
and gladnesa, and sorrow and sighing
sbsll flee awsy."
There are hundreds of people In this
house who want to find the right road.
You sometime see a person halting at
cross roads, and you can tell by bis looks
that he wishes to ask a question as to
what direction he had better take. And
I stand in your presence conscious of the
fact that there are many of you here who
realise that tbere are a thousand wrong
roads, but only one right one, and I take
It for granted that you have come in to
ask which one it is. Here is one road
that opens widely, but I have not much
faith in it. Tbere are a great many ex
pensive tollgate scattered all along that
way. Indeed at every rod you muat pay
In tears, or pay ia genuflexions, or ay in
flagellationa. On that road, If you get
through it at all, you have to pay yonr
own way, and aince this differs so much
from what I have heard in regard to the
right way, I believe It is the wrong way.
Here Is another road. On either side of
it are houses of sinful entertainment and
invitations to come in and dine and rest,
but from the looks of the people who stand
on the plana I am certain it la the wrong
house and the wrong way. Here la an
other road. It is very beautiful and mac
adamised. The horses' hoofs clatter and
ring, and tbey who ride over It spin along
the highway, until suddenly they find that
the road breaks over an embaakmeot, and
they try to halt, and they seise the hit In
th month of the fiery steed and cry: "Ho!
Ho!" But it is too late, and, crash! they
go over the embankment. We shall turn
and see if we cannot find a different kind
of road. Yon bare beard of the Applan
way. It was ',',') miles long. It was 24
feet wide, and on either side of the road
was a path for foot passengers. It was
made out 'of rock cut in heiagoiiical
shaie and fitted together. What a road
it must have been! Made of smooth, hard
rock, 3TiO miles long. No wonder that in
the construction of it the treasures of a
whole empire were exhausted. Because of
invaders, and the elements, and time the
old conqueror who tears up a road as he
goea over it there is nothing left of that
structure but a ruin. But I have to tell
you of a road built before the Appian
way, and yet it is ss good as when first
constructed. Millions of souls hsve gone
over It. Millions more will come.
The prophets snd apostles, too,
Pursued this road while here below.
We therefore will, without dismay,
Htill walk in Christ, the good old way.
The Klna-'e Ulsjhwaj.
First, thia road of the text is the king's
highway. In the diligence you dash on
over tbe Bernard pass of the Alps, mile
after mile, and there is not so much as a
pebble to jar the wheels. You go over
bridges which cross chasms that make
you hold your breath, under projecting
rock, along by dangerous precipices,
through tunnels adrip with the meltings
of the glaciers, and Jierhaps for the first
time learn the majesty of a road built and
supported by governmental authority.
Well, my Ird and King decided to buiid
a highway from earth to heaven. I
should span all the chasms of human
wretchedness. It should tunnel all the
mountains of earthly difficulty. Jt should
le wide enough and strong enough to hold
5,RSj,(ll),us,iSSl of the human race, if
so many of them should ever be born. It
should be blasted out of the "Kock of
Ages," and cemented with the blood of
the cross, and be lifted amid the shout
ing of angels and the execration of devils.
The King sent his Son to build that road.
He put head and hand and heart to it,
and after the road was completed wared
his blistered band over the way, i-rylng,
"Jt is finished!" Napoleon paid l.'i.lSII,
OUU francs for the building of the Kim
plon road that his cannon might go over
for the devastation of Italy, but our King
at a greater expense has built a road for
a different purpose that the banners of
heavenly dominion might come down over
It. Being a king's highway, of course It
is well built. Bridges splendidly a relied
and n buttressed have given way and
crushed the passengers who attempted to
cross them. But Christ the King would
build no such thing as that. The work
done, he mounts the chariot of jnve
snd multitudes mount with him, and be
drives on and up the steep of heaven
amid the plaiiiljts of gating worlds! The
work Is done well dono gloriously done
magnificently done.
A Clean Koad.
Still fun her. this road spoken of is a
clean road. Many a Hue road has become
miry mid foul because it bus not lee,ii
proH-rly cared for, but my text says the
unclean sluill not ualk on Ihisoue. Boom
on either side to throw away your sins.
IndiM-d, if you want to carry them along,
yon are not on the right road. Tim!
bridge will break, those overhanging
rocks will fall, the night will come down,
leaving you at tbe mercy of the mouutum
bandits, till at the very next turn of the
road you will iM-rish. But if you are
really on this cleim road of which I have
lieen speaking, then you will stop ever
and anon to wash in the water that stands
in the basin of the eternal rock.
Aye, al almost every step of the jour
ney you will Im crying out. "Creale wiih
in me a elenii bean!" If you have no
such aspirations as that, it proves that
you have mistaken your way, and if you
will only look up and e the finger board
above y-our head you ,nay read iikui It
the words, "There is g way that seemeth
right unto a man, bu the end thereof is
death." Without hqf.ness no man shall
see the Lord, and It you have any Idea
that you can "jsirTy along your sins, your
lust, your worldiiness, and ret irel at the
end of the Christian rae. you are ao aw
fuRy mietaken that, ia th nam mt Ood,
I shatter the del uatom.
A flaia Boast,
Still further, the road spokea of is a
plain road. "The wayfaring aien, though
fool, shall not err therein" that is, if a
man is three-fourths an id kit, be can find
this road just as well as if he were a phi
losopher. The imbecile boy, the laughing
stock of tbe street, and followed by a mob
hooting at hiiu, has only just to knock
once at tbe gate of heaven, anil it swing
o;-u, w hile there has been many a man
who could lecture about pneumatics and
chemistry and tell the story of Faraday's
theory of electrical polarization and yet
baa been shut out of heaven. There has
been many a man who stood in an observ
atory and swept the heavens with hi tele
scope and yet has not been able to see the
morning star. Many a suan has been fa
miliar with all the higher branches of
mathematics and yet could not do tbe
simple sum, "What shall it profit a man
if he gain the whole world and lose hi
own soul?" Many a man has been a fin
reader of tragedies and iioenis and yet
could not "read bis title clear to man
sions in the skies."
Many a man has botanixed the conti
nent and yet not known the Uose of Shar
on, and the Lily of the Valley. But if
one shall come in the right spirit, asking
the way to heaven, be will find It a plain
way. The pardon is plain. The peace is
plain. Everything is plain. He who tries
to get on the road to heaven through the
New Testament teaching will get on beau
tifully. He who goes through philosophi
cal discission will not get oa at all. Christ
says, "Come to me and I will take all
your sins away, and I will take all your
troubles away." Now, what is tbe use
ef my discussing it any more? Is not that
plain? If you wanted to go to soma city,
and I pointed you out a highway thorough
ly laid out, would I b wis in detaining
you by a geological discussion about th
gravel yon will pass over, or a physiologi
cal diacueeiou about the muscles you will
have to bring late play ? No. After thia
Bible haa pointed you the way to beavea,
ia it wiae for me to detain you witb any
discussion about tbe nature cf tbe human
will, or 'w hether the atonement la limited
or unlimited? There la the road -go on it.
It is a plain way. "This is a faithful
saying and worthy of all acceptation that
Christ Jesus came into the world to save
sinners." And tbst Is you and thai is
me. Any little child here can understand
thia as well as I ran. "I n lea you be
come a a little child you cannot aee tba
kingdom of God." If you are saved, it
will not be as a philosopher; It will be as
a little child. "Of such is the kingdom
of heaven." t'nleaa you get the plrlt of
little children you will never come out
at their glorious destiny.
A Raf Bead.
Htill further, this road to beaven I a
afe road. Sometime tbe Iraveler in
those ancient highways would think him
self perfectly secure, not knowing there
was a lion by th way, burying his head
deep between his paws, and then, when
the right moment came, under the fearful
spring the man's life wss gone, and there
was a uiauled carcass by the roadside.
But, says my text. "No lion shall be
there." I wish I could make you feel your
entire security. I tell you plainly that
one minute after a man haa become a
child of God he ia as safe as though he had
len lO.OtlO years In heaven, ne may
slip, he may slide, he may stumble, but
he cannot lie destroyed; kept by the power
of God, through faith, unto complete sal
ration, everlastingly safe. The severest
trial to which you can subject a Chris
tian man is to kill bim, and that is glory.
In other words, the worst thing that can
happen a child of God I heaven. The
body is only the old slippers that he
throws aside just Iwfore putting on the
sandals of light. His soul, you cannot
hurt it. No fires can consume it; no floods
can drown it; no devils can capture it.
Firm and unmoved are they
Who rest their aouis on God;
Fixed as the ground where David stood.
Or where the ark abode.
His soul is safe. His reputation is safe.
F.verything is safe. "But," yoo say, "sup
pose his store bnrna up'" Why, then it
will be only a change of investments from
earthly to heavenly securities. "But,"
you say, "supisjse bis name goes down
under the hoof of scorn and contempt?"
The name will be so much brighter in
glory. "Snpiiose his physical health fails?"
God will pour into him the floods of ever
lasting health, and it will not make any
difference. Karlhly subtraction is heav
enly addition. The tears of earth are the
crystals of heaven. As they take rags
and tatters and put them through the paper
mill, and they come out beautiful white
sheets of paper, so often the rags of earth
ly destitution, under the cylinders of
death, come out a white scroll uHin which
shall be written eternal emancipation.
There was one passsgc of Scripture the
force of which I never understood until
one day at Chamounix, with Mont Bisuc
on one side and Montanvert on the other.
I nMned my Bible and rend, "As the
mountains are around alsmt Jerusalem, so
I he lird is around nlioiit them thnt fear
him." The surroundings were an omniise
tent commentary.
Though troubles assail and dangers af
fright. Though friends should all fail and foe
all unite.
Yet one thing secures us. whatever be
!'. The Scripture assures us the Ixrd will
provide.
A I'leaaant Koad.
Still furllier, the road smken of is a
pleasant road. God gives a bond of In
demnity against all evil to every man ihiit
treads it. "All thing work together for
good lo those ho love God." No weapon
funnel uk'siiiKt tlieui can prosHr. That
is the Isitid. signcd.Kciilcd and ilcli vcrcil
by the president of, tbe whole universe,
What is the use of .your fretting. O child
oi God, ulsnit food '! "Behold the fowls
of the air, for thejr sow not, neither do
llicy reap, nor gathe'avnto burns. Yet your
Heavenly Father jfeedeth them." And
will he take cure of the sparrow, will he
take care of the raweil, will lie take care
of the hawk and lefyou ilie? What is the
use of your frctiingtabout clothes? "Con
sider the lilies of the field. Shall he nut
line b more clotuera-nu. G Je of little
faith?" What is tnv.use of tvorriiug for
fear something will'hapHu to your home?
"He blcsscth the habitation of the'just."
What is the use of your fretting lest you
will Is? overcome of .temptations? "God
is faithful, who wilkAiot suffer you to Is
tempted above that ye are able, but will
.with the temptation also make a way to
escape that ye may be able to bear it."
Oh, this King's highway! Trees of if
'on either side, bending over until their
.branches Interlock and drop midway their
'fruit and shade. Houses of entertain
ment on either side th road for rmor nil-
grima. Tables spread with a feaat f feaal
things, and walls adorned witb Ws ef
gold la pictures at silyer. I start oat M
this Kinc's highway, and I find a Urpr,
and I say, "Wbat is your nameT Tb
harper makes no response, but leave sM
to guess, as with his eyes towsrd heaven
and bis hand upon tbe treuiblin string
this tune comes rimding on the airTh
Lord is my light and my salvation. Who
shall I fear? The Lord ia the trengta ef
my life. Of whom shall I be afraid T
I go a little farther am the nam road
and meet a trumpeter of beaven, and I
say, "Haven't you got ome muaie for a
tired pilgrim T And, wiping hi lip and
taking a king breath, he puts his mouth to
the trumpet and pours forth thi strain,
"Tbey shall hunger no more, neither shall
they thirst any more, neither ahall the
sunlight on them, nor any heat, for the
Ijimb which is in the midst of the throne
shall lead them to living fountain of
water, and God shall wipe away all tear
from their eye." I go a little ditaee
farther 00 the same road, and I et a
maiden of Israel. Hha has no harp, but
she has cymbals. Tbey look as If they
had rusted from sea spray, and I aay I
the maiden of Iarael: "Hav you no song
for a tired pilgrim?" And, lik the clang
of victor' shields, the cymbal flap aa
Miriam begin to dicoure: "Sing y to
the Lord, for h hath triumphed flerl
oualy. Tbe horse and the rider hath h
thrown into the sea." And then I see a
white robed group. They come bounding
toward me, and I say, "Who are they?
The happiest, and tbe brightest, and th
fairest in all b-aven who are they V And
the answer comes, "The are tbey wbe
came out of great tribulation and had
their robes washed and made white ia
the blood of the Itmb."
The Tereslaa.
I pursue this subject only one atep far
ther. Wbat is tbe terminus? I do not
care now fine a road you put me en, I
want to know where It comes out Uf
text declare It, "Th redeemed ef th
Ivord cwne to Zlon." You know what Ziea
was. That waa the king's palace. It waa
a mountain fastness. It was Imrrafnable.
And ao heaven I tbe fastneaa of tha aai
verse. No bowltaer haa long enough
range to ahell those tower. Lt all th
butteries of earth and bell blaaa away.
They cannot break In those gate. Gib
raltar wa taken, Sevastopol was tahea,
Babylon fell, but thee walla of kava
shall never surrender either to human er
satanlc beaiegement. The Ird Oed Al
mighty Is the defense of It. Great capital
of the nnlverae! Terminus of tbe Klag's
highway!
Dr. Dick said that, among other Iking,
he thought In beaven we would study
chemistry and geometry and conie aae
tion. Houthey thought that in heaven
he would have the pleasure of seeing
Chaucer and Khakspeare. Now, Dr. Dick
may have bis mathematics for all eter
nity, and Southey hi Shskspesre. Olv
me Christ and my old friend that la all
the heaven I want Christ and his peo
ple that I knew on earth that is heaven
enough for me. Oh, garden of light,
whose leave never wither, and who
fruit never fall! Oh, banquet of God,
whose sweetness never palls the fast
and whose guests are kings forever! Ok,
city of light, whose walls are salvation,
and whose gates are praise! Ob, palace
of rest, where God is the monarch and
everlasting ages the length of his reign!
Oh, song louder than the snrf beat ef
many waters, yet soft as the whisper of
cherubim!
Oh, glorions heaven! When tbe last
wound is healed, when the last heartbreak
is euded, when the last tear of earthly
sorrow is wiped away, and when the re
deemed of the Iord shall come to Zlon,
then let all the harpers take down their
ban, and all the trumpeters take down
their trumpets, and all across beaven let
there be chorus of morning stars, ebon
of white robed victors, chorus of martyrs
from under the throne, chorus of ages,
chorus of worlds, and there is but one
song sung, and but one name spoken, and
but one throne honored that of Jean
only.
Mother- It,
A pretty long Hat might lie made of
men who have owed their advance
ment In life to ft Hinnrt answer given at
the right moment.
One of Napoleon's Vetera na, who sur
vived his miiNter niuny jream, waa wont
to recount with great glee how he bad
once picked tip the Emperor'a cocked
bat nt a review, when the latter, not
noticing that he waa a private, said
carelcMslj-, 'Thank yoti, captain." "In
what regiment, sire?" Instantly naked
the ready-witted soldier.
Napoleon, perceiving his mistake, an
swered with a smile, "In my Guard, for
I e you know bow to be prompt."
The newly made officer received hla
commission I lie next morning.' A some
what similar anecdote la related of Mar
shal Huvoroff, who, when reorlvlnj a
dispatch from the bands of a Rttaaian
sergeant who had greatly distinguished
himself on tlie Danube, attempted to
confuse the iiesaonger by a aerie of
whimsical questions, but found him
fully equal to the occasion.
"How many llsb nre there In the
sen?" naked Suvoroff.
"All thnt o re not cniigbt yet," wa
the answer. , , .
"Ifnw fur Is It to the iiiis-iii?"
"1 wo of your exivllcncy'a forced
marches." ' ,
"Wlint would you tin If you nnw T0Ilr
men iflvliiK way In buttle?"
"I'll till tbem that there wa a
wairou loud of whisky Just behind tho
enemy's line."
Bullied nt nil points, tlie marshal
ended with "What's, ibe difference be
twecn your eiilnnol ami myself?"
"My colonel cannot make me a Hen
tenant, but your excellency has only to
nay the word."
"I say It now then." nnswcreil Suvor
off -"find n tlglvgiHHl ulllcer you'll be."
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