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About The Sioux County journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1888-1899 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 31, 1896)
AMONG the early Institution of t'lunuis County was the migra tory court of bin Honor, Squire Bonner. Id the summer of 1 ST.i: an apprecia tive public elected Thomas Bonner justice of the ieaoe in (Jisartx town ship. Hp was not the oulv early-day jus- j tire in the county, for tin- record of j Butte show that Kdwin Fitch in is.il. J. B. McOe in ls'u'. anil William Kob ertsou In 1S33. all qualified as magis trates in Quartz township, while S. S. Horton, Samuel Carpenter. I. F. H. lir, Lewis Stark ami II. M. tiazley di.l the same in Mineral township dur- iusr the correKioijdiliK period. Squire Bonner, however. e-uis to have been the only one of the lot who made any special effort to discharge the duties of his office. Justice, as he Impersonated her. was not merely a blind goddess, statnliii' with balances and sword, ly her altar, ready to bear the plaints of the atllii-t-ed. Far from it She was rather a lynx-eyed detective; or, more properly speakiiij.', a knight errant, going from place to place k Ing for an opportunity to apply uie balances and use the sword. Realizing that but little business would come to him at Holmes' Hole, on Kuah Creek, where lie resided, Squire Bonner put hi "Justice shop" oq wheels, metaphorically siicakiug. and traveled from camp to iump in search of controversies upon which to adjudicate and collect the fees. Many are the tales that the old-timers love to recount of this worthy Jus tice and his plonety methods of dis pensing "gilt-e' eil" law to the guile less miner. On one occasion, fully equipped, he made his appearance at Nelson Point, and announced himself as prepared to dal out Justice with a liberal hand to all who felt themselves In need of the commodity. Before his Honor irotnptly appeared one Ratusliire. who wished to sue for a writ of restitution and the recovery of ?rsKi damages, the defendant being an individual who held adverse pos session of a mining claim to which the plaluriiT felt himself entitled. The arrival of the wandering "J. I'." at the particular time in iuesi-ion serv ed to prevent a personal encounter be tween the rival claimants, for they were on the point of setting the ques tion of ownership on the held of honor when Bonner made his apwa ranee on the scene. The two men then wisely decided to let the law take its course and the suit was duly commenced, to the great dis satisfaction, however, of many of the miners, who had Iweo accustomed to see all diflinilties settled among them selves, and therefore looked upon the Invasion of the migratory Justice with father unfriendly eyes. Just here it should Ik? stated that it waa one of tlie Inflexible rules of Bon ner'a court that the fees must be paid. , That was what he held court for, he " said, and unless the costs of i-ourt were promptly liquidated there could be no Joy In life for the worthy Justice. To make it absolutely certain that he should not work in vain. It was his eustom to decide agalmit the party whom he Judged was lest able to pay the costs. Taking his somewhat pecu- . liar view of things, good business prin ciples would not permit him to do oth erwise. It so happened that as the Ramshire ease progressed his Honor began to feel uneatry about the costs. He hud undertod at the lieginnina that the plaintiff bad nothing, and he iarly determined, therefore, to decide in his favor, and thus throw the costs upon the defendant. But something caused him to fear that even from the latter he would be unable to collect his fee. I He therefore made an order that the 1 defendant give bonds for costs of stilt and .im damages, thinking thus to Insure himself against the possibility of disappointment. But this made the defendant sus picious, and as he was not overanxious, anyhow, to have the trial proceed, be refused to furnish the required sure- . tu the meantime the miners couipos- ' tng the large crowd which had assem bled to witness the trial had early be- . come Indignant at Bonner's methods, and when the mandate In regard to the bonds were lastied their anger in- tressed. It waa decided to appeal to the peo ple at large, and a meeting was at once ralhd that this might be done. After j-onsldcraWe debate a committee was splinted to wait upon the digultled ' Justice and request him to adjourn bis wmrt sine die. The members mt the committee, which r.rsted of J. H. Wbltloek, chairman. Dr. Vaiighan. John Baaa, Dr. Lewi imI liintm Walkef, walked Into th rtHrrt and the chairman thus address nl tlie worthy magistrate: "May II please your Honor. I have keen lastructeri by the popl this amp H say to ro tkat we caa And o pn-edeiM la law ky wblek tkt e fewdant In a civil twit can be cotn pcileti o aire awrnrtt either for eerta r -ts'iiMirea hi aJrawre r Jttdgwwwr." Uiiee yt KzteX a!?r drvaiodrd --r tr'" Bonner, addiug. In a towering rage: "This court would like to know whom yon represent iu this case, air'!" "I represent the people." 'Ily re spondod the spokesman of the tiiinen,. "The people harp nothing to do w ith tli- case." shouted Roiiner. "My rul ing must be complied with or the par- ties will hf bound over in contempt of court." ' "If this comt c h'Ssi-s to i.laee itself fin cunteiiipf iif the is-ople," answered ilhe miners' champion, "it must take j , , , , i the consi-quein-es. In tlie name of the i j people command you to adjourn i this court ami not to convene it again." Ti ,,Iir,..lr u-Mcii followed was ter rific ainl long continued, in fact, it was neatly suppT time Is-fore sont tliing like order was restored. Then the Justice' mice was hoard aloe the roar of the crowd ordering an adjourn ment tiuiil V) o'chxk the (ollowins j oiornitig. Itiiring the mglit. however, Bonner evidemlv came to the conclusion that t discretion was the lietter pHrt of valor. ( (for Ions before the hour fixed for the , resumption of the trial the careful Jude was s-en awending the mottn i rain, his li es danclitig on either side of a palleiii pa'-K muie. He had a seat of Justice In Onion Valley, many fi'et btjrher in the air than the river, and this be called his "higher court." where he sat to hear apieals from his own decisions in the lower tribunals. Here he continued the case without the presence of tlie defendant, and gave judgment, but was 'unable to en force it or to collect tin- desired costs. At another time Bonner undertook to hold court at Hock Bar. but he ihere i so infuriated the miners that lie was obliged to even more hastily adjourn OX THE WAY TO proceedings to his higher court In On- j ion Valley. Bonner sent his constable, Tom j Kehooley, to Itich Bar Ih to serve a summons and attachment on a miner j living there. After considerable difficulty Rchooley found his man, and, having made known his business, proceeded to read his papers. The defendant waa aurrounded at the time by a number of fellow min ers, who, one and all, laid down their Implements and listened to the read ing. When it waa finished they told the constable, in the expressive lan guage of the miners, to "git." After some hesitation he accepted the advice, but, as he started away, was foolish enough to drop some of fensive remark. Instantly the miners started for him with sticks and stonea. and. it Is asserted, even to the present day, that the very best record of a trip up Hied Bar hill waa that there and then made by Tom Hchooley. The trial and tribulations attend ant upon bis services in Squire Bon ner's behalf proved too great for tke valiant constable and be soon resigned. 8oon after he made bis way to Vic toria, where he became Involved In a difficulty with an English sailor, whom he killed, being In due time hanged for the crime. Nqnlre Bonner" own official career was brought to an abrupt end upon the formal organlrtion of Phimaa County. Then he took to literature, and in Utf3 wrote a history of the life of James Beckwovth, the noted mountaineer and traper of early days, the volume abounding with atorlea of mountain life and adventure. Boon after pub lishing this book Bonner left for the southern portion of the Htate, and In that congenial clime passed the rest of bis eventful life In peace and quiet. Cental Epidemics Pact aad IVaaait. , In looking back to the medieval ajea, we Had them to be timn In which ab normal aoctal pnenometaa war dis played ao a grand aca la times teeming with moba, riot, reroiu: with bHatf awtin of vaat fcauMi Tx , mm wlta terrible epidemic that ravaged Europe from rod to cwd. They were area peculiar for tka triage, striking fan that whole cidea, extensive prov inces, great countries, were stricken by one dieae. Men went mad Id packs, by the thousands. An obacure Indi vidual in aonie remote country place kail tits of hysterica, and noon all Eo-j ne waa wriggling and struggling In j convulsion of hysterical Insanity. The j dark age were strange, peculiar , j at leant, do they apisear to ua. who con- i aider ouwrselvea vastly tni rior to the poor, ignorant medieval jeaants, burgher, knight, with their ftiipert-ti-tious. religious fervor, and recurrent epidemic liisanltb-s. I am afraid. ho "ever. that a similar fate may overtake us. May not a future historian l'k hack to our own time with dismay, and perhaps with horror? He will rep resent our ae a dark and cruel an age of the Mind. een.-u'les Napoleonic warn, of great i-oiiiitierelal panics, in dustrial crises. Black Friday. Coxey armies, and luol and erase of all sort and description?.- Century. JUDGING BY APPEARANCES. ThouBht Ifc l'ol.l Tell Old M.M from Married Women, H' ' everything ' wU'u' ,i"'v W!";,l f"r a ar lie a giving ut iob ipiiimhi . various sul.Jecls. As for her. she was mi interested 'hut didn't know her feet were cold and rgoi that I lie wind was blowing lier hair out of curl. 'es," he wns s.iyilig." .Voil lnaj tiiik as you pesi als'iit your Un ln-.ir tuaiils. but I can tell an old maid from a married woman by glance. II'W do 1 manage It? 1 lii. il's easy enough. I can Just tell by never inisiak'ii.' her look, and 1 an; "You always were so clever,'' she murmured. ".iw, I am sure I never could do i!. To 1k' sure, a married woman usually puts on a lK.unet sisite r than an old maid but then some old maids affect Is.imets. and I hae seen a gratidmoiher in sailor bat. soj that Un't a mre test." j "Oh. it in't a matter of headgear w ith me. I assure you." lie .replied, in a pati-ni.iiic tone. "Here, I'll let you see me do It. Isk at the two women yonder, now. That lull one is an old maid Uyotid a doubt. In ihe aggr slve curve of her ellw slid the sour droop of her mouth. I know, as well as If I had lwen acquainted with her for years, that she pretends site has re- HIS HiUriKK COFHT.. inained single from choice and that she . hate all mankind." j "Hear me, how awfully clever you are," she gurgled. "1 declare you real ly alarm inc. v ny. 11 s quite like Mier lock Holmes. "Ob. no. you Hatter me. It's really quite simple. Observe the woman who is talking to her Ihe stout, motherly- looking one. It doe not require much j perKpiruity to know that she Is a happy j wire. oitce her helpless air and her general apjiearance of contentment." "Positively, you are so deep that lam actually afraid of you." "Oh, not at all. Now. come a llrtle closer, ao we can hear their conversa tion, and you will see that lam right." "Oh, but I am sure that you are right without that." Nevertheless, they moved on to a no wttkm immediately behind the pa Ir. The tall, aggreswive looking woman was speaking. "Yea," she waa say ing, "this la the tenth anniversary of my wedding, though it hardly seems possible. I tell you, Mary Kllen, I have the hest and kindest hnaband la the whole world -and that hi saying a great deal." " Then the stout, motherly-looking per son responded, and there waa vlnegsr in her tones. "Well, when I find a man aa aenaible a a Maltese cat, as comforting aa a cup of tea and aa en tertaluing as mj polWIcnl club. I may follow your example, but not till then, Jane, not till thenf And the very young man! Ob. be cleared his throat violently and asked the girl if she didn't want another cam paign button. Chicago Tlmea-Herald. Bingo How la the new cook doing? Mra. Bingo Kplendklly. Why, she has only been here thrse daya, and she can already ride my wheel quite nicely. New York Herald. When girt cornea noma from acbool, and la aa nice and modeat aa a girl who baa not been away to aefcool, It la a alga that aba baa extra good aeaae. The only wag t trnka time May la t tak It by tkt fetrawek. THE MASK OF DECEIT "VMY FEIGNEST THOU THYSELF TO BE ANOTHER?" ltv. Dr. Talaiaar Draws Bom Ftart llac ! from u Caique Teat Kovalty im Dlaa-aiee The Accaracjr of God's Providences ! the Vai verse. Oar Wmhinilos I'atpit. Ia this wrmon from a Bible is-eue neTer nwd in sermouic iiixiurse I'r. TaiuiSKe draw a some stsrtliug lessons and tears off thr uissl of deceit. The telt is I. Kinr . "Why feignest thou thyself lo I another'?' In th palace of wicked JtoIm.iu there is a sick child -a very sit k child. Medi cine have tailed; kill in eIiiisled. Young Ahijah, Ihe princv. ha liveil long enough to ts-eome very popular, and jet he must die ti iit-M some uTii:iturnI aid K. ff,.n!ed. lN-ulh comes ni the broad stairs of tlie psiai-e slid swings back the d,s,r of the si l nim of r ally and stamis l.kinif hi the HviiiK prim-e with the !rt uplifted. U i'-k.-d Jerolsiaiu knows ihst he has n rijrht to nsk any thing of Hie Iril in the way of kindness, lie know that his praters would nt Ik answered, and so he semis lii wife oil the delicate and lender mission I" the prophet of the Ivord in Shiioh. Putting aside her ro.tal si tire, she puts on the Kuril of a peasant woman and starts on the road. Instead of carrtiug grdd and :eniii as slie n.iirlit have eurnH from the palace, she curries i.rdy those gift which sih iu to ili dicste that "he l..ips lo the r-asantry - s few loaves of bread ami a few crack nels and a cruse of Imnij. Yonder she JT..CS hissicd ami veiled, the preaiest lady in ail the kingdom, yet passing nii(d.s'rv ed. No one that meets her on the high way has any idea that she is Ihe lirst lady in ail the land. She is a queen in dis guise. The fact is that I'eter the liresl work itig in the dry docks of Saanlniu, the sail or's hat and the shipwright's t gave him no more thorough disguise than the garb of the aMiit woman gave to the ipieen of Tirzah. But ihe prophet of the I-ord saw the dc-cit. Although his physical eyesighl had failed, he was divinely il lumined, and at one glance htoked through the iiiiMisitioii, Slid he cried out: "Come in. thou wife f Jeroboam! Why feignest thou thyself to Is? another? I have evil tidings for thee. Oct thee hack to thy house, and when thy fit touch the gate of the city the child shall die." She had a right to ask for the recovery of her son; she hsd no right to practice an inquisition. Broken hearted now. she started on the way. the tears fulling on the dust of the road all the way from siitloh to Tirzah. Broken hearted now, the is not careful any more to hide In r queenly gait and manner. True to the prophecy, the mo ment her feet touch the gate of the city the cliihl dies. As he goes ill the soul of the child goes out. The cry in the palace is joimd by the IniueiitfliioD of a nation, and as they -arry gissl Abijab to his grave the air is hih-d with the voice of eulogy for the departed youth and the groan of an altiicted kingdom. A Thrillinit Mory. It is for no insignificant purpose that 1 present Jolt tlie thrilling story of the text. In the first place I h arn that wickedness involves others, trying to make Ihetn Its dupes, its allies and its m a pegoa t s. Jero Is.hiii proposed to hoodwink the lord's prophet. How did lie rlo it V Ihd he go and do the work himself 7 No, He sent his wife to do it. Ilers the peril of ex posure, hers the fatigue of tlie w ay, hers the execution of the plot; bis. nothing. Iniquity is a brag, but it is a gnat cow ard. It lays the plan and gets some one else to execute it; puts dow n the gutiKiw der train and gets some one else lo touch it off; contrives mischief and gets some one else to work it; starts a lie and gets some one else to circulate it. In nearly all tlie great crime of the world it is found out that those who planned tlip ar son, the funnier, the theft, the fraud, go free, while those who were decoyed and cheated and b'sidwinked into the conspira cy clank the chain and mount the gallows. Aaron Burr, with heart filled with im purity and ambition, plots for the over throw of the t ailed States tiovernment and gets off with a few throats and a lit tle censure, while Blennerhassett, the learned BtenneriiHssctt, the sweet-tempered Blennerhassett, is decoyed by him from the orchards, and Ihe lalmratorios snd the gardens, and (lie home on the bank of the Ohio river, and his fortunes are scattered, and he is thrown into pris on, and his family, brought up in luxury, is turned out lo die. Abominable Aaron Burr has it comparatively easy. Sweet remnered Blennerhnssetf has it hard. Ben edict Arnold promised to sell out Ihe forts of the I'nited States; to surrender the Revolutionary army and to d-troy the I'nited States f iorernment. He get off with bis pocket full of pounds sterling, while Major Andre, the brave and the brilliant, i decoyed into the conspiracy and suffer on the gihbet on the bank of the Hudson; so that even the literature the marble tablaliire that commemorated that eventhas been blasted hv midnight desperadoes. Benedict Arnold ha it easy. Major Andre baa it hard. I have noticed that nine-tenth of those wbo suffer for crime are merely the satellite of some great villains. I (nonunion fraud i a juggler which by sleiglu of hand and le erdemain makes the gold that it stole ap pear in somebody else pocket. Jero boam plots the lie, contrives the imposi tion, and get his wife lo execute it. Stand off from all imposition and rhiran srj. Do pot consent to be anybody's dupe, anybody's ally in wickedness, anybody's scapegost. The story of the text alo impresses me with the fact that royalty sometime paes in disguise. The frock, the veil, the hood of the peasant woman hid the queenly character of Ibis woman of Tir zah. Nobody suspected that she was a queen or a princess ss she passed by, but she was jnst aa much a queen as though she stood In the palace, her robes incrust ed with diamond. And so all around about there are priiicee and queer s horn the world does not recognise. The sK on no throne of royslly, they ride in nv chariot, they elicit no buxu, they tuak no pretense, but by the grace of Uod they are princesses and they are queens; some times in their poverty, sometimes in their self-deuisl, sometimes in their hard strug gle of Christian service tiod knows they are queen. The world does not recognise them. Hoy a If y passing la dlsgui. ") with out the crown, conquerors wit boat the palm, empresses without the Jetnl. You saw her yesterday oa tko atrost. Taw saw nothing important la her appearaace. but he Is regnapt over a rat realm at virtu and eoadnea reals raster tbaa Jero boam ever laakad at. Yaw weal down into the bouse of desrtrntioa and want and suffering. Yoa saw the story of trial writ ten en the wasted kaad of the mother, oa the pale cheek of the children, oa the empty bread tray, on the fireleos hearth, on the broken chair. Yoa wonld not have given a dollar for all the furniture in the house. But by the grace of Uod she is a princess. The overseer of the poor come there and discuss the case and ay, 'It' a psuer." They do not reallxe that Oisd ha burnished for her a crown, and that after she ha got through the fatiguing Journey from Tirzah to Shiioh and from Shiioh bck to Tinah there will lie a throne of royalty on which he ahall rest forever. Olory veiled. Affluence hiddeu. Klernal rapture hushed np. A queen in mask. A princess in disguise. The "fueeo in Iliasaiae. When you think of a queen you do not think of Catherine of Russia, or Maria Theresa of Oermany. or Mary, queen of Scot. When you think of a queen, you think of a plain woman who at opposite your father at the tahle or walked with him down the path of life arm in arm, sometime to the Thanksgiving banquet, sometime to the grave, but always side by side, soothing your little sorrows and adjusting your little quarrel, listening to your evening prayer, foiling w ith the nee dle or at the spinning wheel, and ou cold nights linking ymi up snug and warm. And then on that dark day when she lay a dying putting iIiokc thin hand that had toiled for yon mi long, putting them be gel her in a dying prayer commending you to that Uod 111 whom she had taught you to trust. Oh, idle was the quern. !lie was the queen'. You cannot think of her now without having the deepest emotions of your soul stirred, and you feel a if you could cry as though you were now sitting in infancy on her lap, and if you could call her hack to speak your name with the tenderness with which she oiue spoke you would be willing now- tu throw yourself on the sod thai cover her grave, crying. "Moth er, mother!'' Ah. she was the queen! Your father knew it. You knew ii. Slit was the queen, but the queen in disguise. The world did not reeoguisio it. But there was a grander disguising. The favorite of a great house tked out of the w imlow f his palace, and he saw that the people were carrying heavy bnr ileus, and Hint some of them were hob bling on crutches, and he saw some lying at the gate exhibiting their sore, and then he heard their lamentation, and he said: "I will just put on the clothes (it those Kor issiple. and I will go down and f what their sorrow are. and I will sympathize with them, and I will lie one of them, and I will help them." Well, the day came for him to start. The lord of Ihe lund came to set. him off. All who could sing joined in the pariiug song, which shook Ihe hill and woke up tin shepherds. The first few night he has been sleeping w ith the hostler and I hi came! drivers, for no one knew then; wa a King In tow 11. He went among the doc tor of the law, astounding ttum, for without any doctor's gown he knew mort law than any doctor. He fishi-d with Ihe ftshermeti. He smote with his own ham uier iu the carpenter's shop. He ate raw orn out of the field. He fried fish on the bank of t'cuiiesarel. He was howled at by era ay people in the tomb, lie was splashed of the surf of the sea. A pilgrim without any pillow, A sick man without any medicament. A mourner with no sympathetic Isisotn iu w hich he could isiur his tears. Jliscuise complete. I know that occasionally his divine royslly Unsh ed out as when in the storm on Oalilee, as in the red w ine at the .-edding haiiquet, as when he freed the fthackhd demoniac of tladam, its when he turned a whole scIkmiI of i.-h into the net of the dis ouragKl Isitittneti, as when he throbbed life into the shriveli d arm of the para lytic, but for Ihe most part he w as in dis guise. No one saw the King's jewel iu his sandal, No one saw the royal robe in ly's plain coat. No one knew that that sheiierless Christ owned all the mansions in which the hiorarch of heaven had their habitation. None knew that that hun gered Christ owned all the olive groves and all the harvest which shook their gold on the hills of Palestine. No one knew that be who said "I thirslT' sured the Kuphrntc out of his own cbalh-e. No one knew that the ocean lay in the palm of hi hand like a dendrop in the vase of a lily. No one knew that the stars and moons and sun and galaxies and constel lations that marched on age after 'age were, as compared with his lifetime, the sparkle of a firefly on a summer nighl. No one knew that the sun in midheaven was only the shadow of bis throne. No one knew thai his crow n of universal do minion was covered up with a hunch of thorns, t himipoteiice sheathed in a hu man body. Omniscience hidden in a hu man eye. Infinite love beating in a hu man heart. Kverlasling harmonies sub dued into a human voice. Koyally en masque, tlrandeur of heaven in earthly disguise. Superstition. My subject also impresses me with how IMHipIc put on mask and how the lird tears them off. It was a terrible moment in the history of this woman of Tirzah when the prophet accosted her, practi cally saying: "I know wbo you are. You cannot cheat me. Yon cannot impose up on me. Why feignest Ihoti thyself to be another?" She had a right to ak for the restoration of her son; she had no right to practice that fBlsehisid, It is never right lo do wrong. Sometimes yon may be able lo conceal an affair. It is not necessary to tell everything. There is a natural pres sure to the liw which seem to indicate that silence sometime j right, but for double dealing, for moral hurtling, for counterfeit and foraham ISod ha nothing but anathema and expoaure. He will tear off the lie. He will rip up the empiricism. He will scatter the ambuscade. There are people who are just ready to be dued. They seem lo lie waiting to lie deccired. Tbey Isdieve in ghosts. They saw one themselves once. They heard something t range in su uninbsbited house, doing along the road one night, something ap proached them In white and croswd tn road. They would think it very disastrous lo count the number of carriage at a funeral. They heard in a neighbor' house something Ihst portended death in the family. They say it i a urr sign of evil If a bst fly Into Ihe room on a summer night or Ihey see ihe moon over the left shoulder. They would not for the world undertake sny enterprise on Friday, for getful of the fact that if they look over the calendar of Ihe world Ihey will see thai Friday has liecn the most fortunate dsy in all the history of the world. As nesr as I can Ml, linking over the calendar ef the world'a hialory, more grand, bright, beautiful things have hap pened on Friday than any other day of the week. Tbey would not begin anything 011 Friday. Tbey would not for the world go back to the house for aaytking after they had once started. Buck psopls are ready to be doped- Ignorance eoatea along, per tains ia the lisnnlaa af sjedleal science, and carries them caprree, for there art al ways some men who hsve found asata Irsnge and mysterious weed in asaM strange place and plucked it iu the atona shiue, and then they cover the board fences with the atlvertisetuciit of "elixir" snd "panacea" and "Indian mixturee and "ineffable cataplasm" and "unfail ing disinfectants" and "lightning alves" and "iustantaneoua ointment." enough lo stun and scanty nd poultice and kill half the race. They are all ready to ls wrought . iqsin by sin h inqsisit ions. Ah. my friend, do not be among such diqs-s! lo not act the part of u4 M-rons a 1 have been de-iM-rihing. Stand hack from all chicauery, from all imposition. They who practice such imposition shall be exposed in the day of Ood's indignation. They may rear great fortune, but their dapple gray will he arrested ou the road noine day, a wa the as by the angel of (owl with drawn sword. The light of the last day will shine through all uch ubterfugc and with a voice louder than that which ac costed this imposition of the text: "Come in, thou wife of Jerolsam. Why feignest thou thyself to be another?" With a -voii-e louder than that (iod will thunder dowu into midnight darkness and doom and death all two faced men, and all char latan, and all knaves, and all jockey, and all w iudler. Behold how the gsxiple put on the mtisk. and Is-hold how the 1-ord tear them oft! God's. I'rovidences. My subject also impresses me with how precise and accurate and particular are 1 'od's providences, .lust at the moment that woman entered the city the child diisl. Just as it 111 prophesied, so JUf turned out, so it always turns out. ThV eietit occurs, the death takes plan1, the tuition is Isirn, Ihe desHitism is over throw it at the apM)ililed time, t'od drive the universe with a stiff r-iu. Kvent do not just happen so. Things do not go slipsh'sl. In all the hook of I iod' provi dences there is not one "if." I iod' provi dence are never caught in dishabille. To iod there are no surprises, no disappoint ments ami no aci idi nt. The most insig iiinYnnt event Hung out in the ages is the connecting link between two great ohains tin- chain of eternity past anil the chain of eternity to come, I am no fatalist, hut I should be com pletely wretched if 1 did not feel that all ihe affairs of my life are in find's hand and all that pertain to me and mine, just a certainty aa all the affairs of this wom an of the text, as thi child of the text, as this king of the text, were in Ood's hand. You may ask me a hundred question I cannot answer, but I shall until the day of my death believe that I am tindea the unerring care of (rod, and the heaven may fall, and Ihe world may burn, and the judgment may thunder, and eternal age may roll, but not a hair shsll fall from my head, not a shadow shall drop on my path, not a sorrow shall transfix my heart without lieing divinely arranged -arranged by a loving, sympathetic Father. He bottle our tears, he catches our sorrow, and lo the orphan he will be a Father, and to the widow he will lie a husband, and to the outcast he will be a home, and fo the most miserable wretch that this day crawls up out of the ditch of hi nlMiiiiimition crying for mercy he will be an all pardoning Cod. The rocks shall lie unmoored in the last hurricane, and the sun shall shut it fiery eyelid, and the mImpu wind! (Iron like hlflHtcd fiirtf ttrtff fit continents shall go down like anchors in the deep, and the 01 can shall heave it , last grouti and lush itself with expiring agony, and Ihe world shall wrap itself in a winding sheet of flame and leap on the funeral pyre of the judgment day; but I '!' love shall not die. It will kindle Its suns alter all other light have gone out. It will be a billowy sea after the Isst. ocean has swept itself away. It will warm itself by the fire of a consuming world. It will sing while the archangel's trumpet is penlitig forth and Ihe iiir is filled w ith the crash (if broken scpulcher and the rush of the Wings of the rising dead. Oh, may (iod comfort all this peo ple will thi Christian sentiment! Hborl Sermon. The Nation's Need. The chureb'g op )Hirtunity Is to supply the tuition's need by preaching Christ ns the savior of so ciety as well us of tlie individual. Also, lo practice bis teachings and obey his In w In the world. Wc pray for millen nial days; we shall hasten Ihetn when in business, soclnl and political life we do the .pleasure of the King. The world's standard of business Is wrong, and our social caste Is heathenish, not Chris tian. IIov. J. K. Montgomery. 1'resby teriun. Cliicintiall, Ohio. Church Work. The church attracts to If iMM-soiis who nre themselves attract ed, ami repels those wbo have nothing to do. Chris! never sought any one. He was overca refill to riqiel them. He . told t hem they would Is- stoned, easy out of the synagogue; men would speatk evil of them, ami tbey would even beS crucified, its he was to be. All thla' tbey were lo cxpwt. he sought no one. The early church sought no one. He and bis church rested on an eseenttal foundation. Kev. K. I. Mi-Connell, Kpisi opallan, Brooklyn, X. Y. Profit and Ixiss. We are continually considering the question of profit and loss. There Is not a more perplexing question than deciding our choice or vocation In starting out In life, but a question of greater value Is the all-Important question of our souls. Where Is there really any profit oulside of tba question of our souls? There are thinga of the world that art valuable, such aa wealth, glory, honor and pleasure, but they all pass away. Men often reach these, but what have Ihey? They all pnaa away, but Ihe soul exists forever. Ilev. Dr. Collins. Methodist, Ixiula vllle. Ky. . (Sod's Way, Life Is a kcImniI iu which souls are taught by Ihe orde rings aa well aa by the word of (Soil. Man de serves punishment ; be, no doubt, merit reprobation; even at hla best be hi an unprofitable servant; but flod't concern la wholly with Ihe salvation of souls. He Is not working on the basis of judg ment. By various means lie wotrid purify and ennoble hla children, and in mi cimi iit us-" jt's nun aiirrows smresses anil failures, aa wall aa Rililoa and pulpit and sacrament and religl otia exercises. Trial are not tmnlah mi nt, but discipline. Pain la not tba work of tlie Father wrath. MctMna, poverty, defect, disaster, may be God choicest gift. At all event tkajr am not lodgment. Bev. Henry Swawtsai, Kpiscopallan, Brooklyn, X. T, V. 1 . ;"v K'lA. 4.-' ' W,,J i4 ) i