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About The Sioux County journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1888-1899 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 13, 1898)
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"You are very nieicifut, in your si.eie e," he said, after a Ion it pause, leturniiit to the front of the (hep'H'e where Nestorius was slandin;. "Hut no upbiiiidiiitf you could bestow upon me ould iuttusify m; sense of my brutal folly. I v. as like a child destroying a InttterMy in wanton race at its beauty. If she w.-ie be.e I -wixiid ask her pardon on my knee-. 1 'iave liei'n miserable from the hour of lier f'ihtlhe i-hlc.t slave of remorse. All lliiids of it :,ors h.ivc prcseiiti-d selves to ley mind, cvrij the i.iea of sui cide, that she mis;ht have rtisbed down to the rier and RuiiK herself in " ! "No. no," iu!crniiled Nestoiius, o,ui('U- v. "I have no four of sin h sinful foily Tier mind is too we:l bal.ttx that inner eeiisc iousncss I and she has renins whi'h is ntiiiost as an armor airn-n-t !ne arrows -of fa!e. Her dominant 'met was that she would be able to support b-r-elf by liiera "tute, K ponr out her wetilth of thought .and fttocy in tii tion. Sin- had her day dream of a t ott.'Uie near the A v. u, with an old nurse of hers for hoiisc-ieeper and , con paniotx, She had a scheme for the t futuie, and in leaving this house you may be sure she went, with the intention of j working out her own destiny iu that, man-; Iter. I am not afraid of any folly on her j part. My only fear is for the danger to ! which her absolute inexperience of the j world might expose her." ! "She was penniless," said I.ashmar, j "unless as Lady Carniinow suggested i he had borrowed money from you. "Did Ijidy Carniinow make that sue ircstion? How like I.ndy Oanninow! No, he had no money from me. poor child!" "You say she has literary aspirations,' said Lnshmar: "and you !iply that she ' has talent for writing." j "She has more than ta nt, I.ashmar. ' She has genius origins I genius, rarest gift in these days of h.iin-tive art. She j has genius as original ami as unique as J that of Charlotte liroeie. she uiun'oied ; child of those lonely m Us'.ure moors you and I know so well. Hut I will not ask i you to believe this up-n my assertion. You shall judge for yourself, if you will allow me to ask for my letters here. 1 I.ashinar rang the bell and Mr. .o- ! torus' letters were brou h:. among them ; a packet of printer's proofs, which N'es-, t'orius opened, unrolled and arranged in j eiiuence with the deftness of hands mi- ! customed to dealing w ith ptoofs. - j "Read for yourself!'' he said, "when you have an I.o.ir" leisure. That is the j Detuning ot ,-sieiia s siory. i reau ine w hole of it in manuscript." . "What can she write about, she who has seen nothing of the world?" "ISIind Johu Milton had never seen hell and John Keats had never seen a Titan, a:.d yet they contrived to write about ; u. h thtngs w.th very fatr effect, answer- j ed Nestorius. , "It seems to me that she confided all i ber plans and aspirations to you-her . mnrj him,(.lf frep t& manuscripts even. You were pnv.leged , , niri. unheipd and Iinhindered. Mr in receiving so much of her con h.lence. NMforil hired . flv ,n the Ti nd "I am her tutors oh! friend, and she . droye to Kf whpn bf a knew that I sympathized with her. Th-me fc lmiiln and thpn did thrpp or ft,r two facts brought us at once en rapport. h()Urs). iTatp d(,tw.tive work ,m h! flwn AYell, now, Lashmar what have you done , 0rotlnt( poriB, street after street, in towards finding her.' 1 quiring closely in all manner of quietly Lord Lashmar gave a detailed account , rI1tflhe neighborh.rt,d. where such a of lua efforts in Brumni. j jr, ag Hte,u mj(,ht Iilltnr1y 1(M,k fof nn j inexpensive lodging; visiting the Free hi CHATTER XXI. brary and Interrogating the librarians: Nestorius mused somewhat sadly upon ; strolling in that dreary pleasure ground bis interview with Lashmar, as he walked j known aa the People's J'ark; but by a across the park in the blustery autumn strange fatality avoiding Just that one morning. What a fitful, selfish, master- 1 long, narrow street on the way to thecem ful spirit young love seemed to the man . etery, and that one particular chandler's of mature years, who loved with an nn- ship in which the Chapmans had their eirish tenderness and capacity of self- : dwelling place. attcrifiee unknown to youth. And ao it j He was weary, disheartened and alto- was love, after all dominant, uneon - qiterable love which had impelled Iash- uiar to bitter speeches and affected scorn, Hp, too, had felt the strange witchery of that bright creature's personality, had been conquered and had struggled against the victor. ' ' "Hid fhe care for him all the time?" 1'estoriua asked himself. "Win it for his ake she refused me wns it for love of bim she was cold and deaf to my pray ers? I pressed her hard, tried to fathom the depth of her heart and mind, but could discover no secret passion there. Womanly pride ia o close an armor." "Yes, she lovea him. It was that which nmde the sting of his insolence so sharp. Khe lovea him caught by that young frace of his, the darkly handsome face, with Its strong lines and eagle glance, the pride of youth and strength, and tin lisciplined power: the radiance of a young ipirit that ha never known fate's re rerses. Vh, ahe loves him. It was his image that kept ber young heart sealed Igatnst me. He stands at tbe door and keep me oat. Middle age bas no charms. Bhe would rTrenc gray hafra perhaps deem it an art of duty and devotion to give her life to ao aid man: but I, the hard, active maa of the world, csn.hsve o claim on her affection, aw apell for her ImagiiMtioa. I sUad without tbe pale." He fooiM Gabriel Verner with an open tetter hefete htm, brs ight by that morn lafi part. It was from Stella. There was no ad-dnv-i, but the .Ktmnrk was Hniuim. "You may see this letter, for it con tains a message for you," said Verner. after he and Nestorius had exchanged a few friendly words, the old uian much surprised at the statesman's return. "It is for your eye, but no other. !e sure you do not mention it to Ixird Lashmar.." 'Certainly not. If she des res other wise." "V'ou will see." Nestorius read the letter, in the fine, clear hand he knew so well from the rill's manuscripts. She had always striv en Jo make her stories look as attractive as neat penmanship could make ihei 'I'he idea that they would ever take the still more attractive form of print had seenu-d so remote a hoic. And in this j wise she had cultivated writing as a rim art. I "I'o not be unhappy about me. deal friend and master," wrote. "I have done that whi h is bet f..r my own bap pines. My life I.ashmar has lieeu a very hard one ever siio-e niy benefactor's OCBth, ami souiPilim; occurred yesterday j to make it unbearable. 1 could not stay in that bouse another hour, j "I'roviiieiice has b'-rii very good to me. and I have found new friends and a new . home with kind, homely pe..,lc, a b,,me in iwhiih I can work at literature until I ; am able to w in my indopeiidem.-e. Ii rectly that is won, 1 shall come bark to you and carry out the dream of niv life. j w hich Is to have a cottage and u pretn 'garden by the river you and I love so well-the river by which I spent so many happy days in my childhood and which recall the memory of the dear friend I lost. ' Please tell Mr. Nestorius that I thank him with all my heart for his iroodncs to me, and that 1 am happy to leave the fate of my first book in his baud. If he. w ho has suh experience in literature, will correct the proofs of my story, it will be one more favor for which 1 shall b deeply grateful. If the book should be a failure I shall be more sorry upon thai kind friend s account than upon my ow n. "Heaven bless you, dear friend, and be sure that absence will not lessen my a(Tec tioii for the teacher to whom I owe so min h more than my loving care can ever repay. Hut I look forward to the hope of having you by and by for my abiding guest in Dreamland Cottage. "Iou't you think that would be rather good name for my house, if ever I am happy enough to own one? Your ever graieful pupil. STKI.I.A. "I S. On no account let anyone at the castle, except Mr. Nestorius. know thai you have heard from me." "Thank heaven, she has not fslle., tnnong thieves," said Nestorius, w hen he had read this letter. And yet in the next moment his heart sank within him as he asked himself whether any girl so utter ly inexperienced as Stella could be trusted to discriminate between fair and foul? AYhether these new friends of homely class, found with such strange facility. might not be wolves In sheeps" clothing? Her yonth and beauty and ignorance of the world's ways were so many sources of peril, Mr NforJ.1(. W(.tlt bark to ,ne and got rid of the grime and dust of a long railway journey, and issued forth from his dressing room refreshed and re juvenated, but he did not stay to lunch eon. He left a little note for IVird I,ash- nnr tn tVia ttffant that ti hn1 an nwnt ,n Blllmm Uf, h( , him at h,lr t (hrP( in ,ht nfrf ft,. ., T . Having thus stolen a march upon Lash- . gether disgusted with himself at half past four o'clock, when, punctual to the very minute, he entered the hotel coffee room and found Lashmar drooping d , apondently over a local newspaper. ! The police had leen able to tell him I nothing. It was as if the earth liRd opeu- j ed and swallowed the girl for whom tby were searching "She must have gone to Ixmdon,'' said Lashmar, "thol is tl e only place iu which any one could so completely vanish from human ken." Nestorius knew she had not gone lo London, but he held his pence. They were alone in the coffee room, where there was no fire, and where the newly lighted gas w as singing a dismal chorus, "I have been rending her story," said Lnshmar. "It is delightful so new, so hiw ei ful allopeiher fresh and simple. j and fervent and true. To think that Hold- wood's daughter should be a genius and that kind of a genius. Not a vehement partisan of Radical politicians, a shriek ing claimant for womnn's rlgbls, but a poet, a dreamer, a wearer of fancy's most enthralling web. How she will acorn us and the cage In which we kept her! How she will laugh at her tyrants when she has burst upon the world In all the charm of her originality and baa won thousands for her frlenda. Rnch a book must make a lilt." "That waa what the publisher'! reader told dm," aoanered KtaterhM quietly. "Publishers' reader are sometimes w rong; thiee or four of the tribe rejected Miss Hionle's 'Jaue L'yie,' and it is nid that 'Vanity 1'uir' went a begging; but this gentleman wa very positive, "lake my word for it, tin- bk will go,' lie said. 'It lias all tbe fire and freshness of youth, and the grace of a highly cultivated style. Tbe writer must have fd her fancy with the very finest order of intellectual food. 1 here ia no taint of garbage from the first page to the last." Knowing how 8ua had been trained by your brother and p'X'r old Verner, I thought this criticism ar gued some power of judgment on the part of the publi.-her's reader." "Yes, !:e has been fed on the best food. ,1 have I a 1 1 - - !j i .1 at seeinc her poring over Homer or Virgil. My mother told me that girl knew Milton better than any on she bud eer met. except .lohu Bright, and that she had Shelley and Keats inter woven iu her memory. She has an extra ordinary power of memory, my mother says, and a line ear for melodious combi nations of winds. Perhaps she bus some thing to thank her ladyship for in her two years' drudgery as a reader. My mother never cared for inferior writers, and the mill in which Stella worked ground only the finest corn." "Kme weaves in a loom wnose mechan ism we know not." answered Ni morius gravely. "The education of submission may have been the best education for genius, but it was not a ;oj i:s experience." 'No, she lias been badly treated. Do you think that I shall deny that after my free coiifessiuii this morning?" asked Lasbnuir bitterly, "1 ihink j..u aie full ,,f gem-ions in-stineis-marred by icrver; ed prioe," an sweic,) Nestorius, w ith his u;, Din. hing air. "I think you have treated that girl ab in innbly, I think you buve mar!,, h, r suffer; and that by way of revenge she will make you the noblest ;n. KnvlMi gentle man nis-d cvej h'i,t ,,, win for him-elf," "You think -she will ever be I roiu-lit to forgive mt?" faltered La-humr excite Jly. "I think you are both passionately iu love with each other, and 1hat it needs but one luok and one word from yon 'o heal every wound you eoi im'i. ted upon that pine rnd generous heart." "h! it ii you who are generous. It is only who are noble," t ried Lashmar. "I lime lived twenty years longer than you, and I have learned one of the lessons that time tem-hes," answeted Nestorius gravely. 1 have learned the wisdom of renunciation. Not another word, Ijish- mar. 1 am too old for sentiment." CILUTI.Il XXII. Lashmar found his mother sitting by be fire in her morninv room, with her book table and rending lamp beside her, but with no njearance of having been reading. She was seated in a despondent attitude, gazing dreamily into the fire. She started at her son's entrance. "Well, have you heard of her?'" she said at once. 'Not a word. She has disappeared ut terly. Both Nestorius and I have hunted 'or her all through Brumm. Tbe police can do nothing' to help us." "Then I supjsise we must resign our elves to the idea that she has gone for ever, said tier lailyslnp. Mie has been ery ungrateful." "Oh, mother, what cause had she for ?ratittidc except to my brother? What kindness have you or I ever shown her?" "We have given her such a home as she could have had nowhere else. We have given her the opportunity to educate her self to the highest point. Hut for our kindness she would have had to earn her bread by the sweat of her brow. She must have beeti a domestic wrvant or a factory girl." "She would never have remained a ser vant or a factory girl. She is a genius, mother." And then IaOrd Lashmar told his mother about the proofs that he had read and of Nestorius' and the publisher's praise. "What then?" asked her ladyship. "That, book is the fruit of refined sur roundings, of years of elegant leisure. Do you suppose that in service, her genius if you please to term it genius could ever have been developed? Do you think there are no gifts strangled and blighted by adverse circumstances no great intellects among servants and factory girls? I tell yon she had the strongest reasons for gratitude and yet knowing herself use ful, almrst invaluable to me to me, a sick woman she leaves me without compunc tion, without a word of regret." "Then you do miss her, mother; you are fond of her," exclaimed Larhmar, with llushed ( hecks and brightening eyes. The dowager looked up from the fire for tbe fu time and scrutinized her son keenly. (To be continued.) Out for a Trade. He had the manner of a Cheater. Held and the long white beard of a patriarch, and those who saw hltn ac coat a youth who atood at the corner of ."3th and Walnut treta Inst evening, noting the cut of hla black Prince Al bert coat, thought that lie must be a minister of Uie gonpel. "Pardon me, my young friend," he said, with a benevo lent amlle; "pardon me for venturing to address you, but I wish to ask what may seem to be an impertinent ques tion. Do you smoke?" "No, air, I do not," replied the youny man addressed. "Ob, Indeed!" eiclaltned the old gen tleman, his face lighting up with a pleased expression, "Now, you would lie atirprlsed," he continued, "to know bow many of our young men of whom I have asked that same question during the jmst few weeks have made the same reply." The listener elevated bll eyebrows, but said nothing. "How ever," resumed the speaker, "I have la my pocket a good cigar, and it waa my Intention. In caw you smoked, to glvs It to you In exchange for " Here be hesitated, h'n continued In apparent confusion: "For a car fare." Another pause followed, but as tbe youth made do move to produce the desired "car fare" the benevolent papy moved on, adding: "Never mind, may be tbe conductor will be lenient enough to ac cept the cigar." A moment later he wai seen la cotv versa t Ion with anothet pedestrian whom he had accosted half a block way. Philadelphia Kecoid. He Had. "I have designs on you," remarked tbe tattoo artist, aa be finished bU work and looked at hl subject prand- U. Detroit Free I TESTIMONY OF KUCK8. REV. DR. TALMAGE ON THE GE OLOCY OF THE BIBLE. A ' ermon of lnteret to All, Hiowlnc tbi t 'eoloy C'onurni the Truth of tfa, iVord of Cod II. e Hock of Aiccs Never let l.'pstt. Our Wusliiu, 'ton Pulpit. The thror totnii.i; to Dr. Tahnaie's eea blue services ai the l'iist 'rehytv - i.ii Chiirih in a jniLton are ail the Ar inej.-asMig and far bew.nd.tlie i a--:ci:y of his church to h .id. In this "r,n he ji-i -ii'ses a subject interesting i Hi! vi' , "'I he Ceology of the H.bio; r, !.! moi g tbe Pocks." The text is 1 1. Sir .net t:, 7: "And when they came to ;.ahon' threshing Moor I'zznh put fo.tti his hand to I lie ark of C,.i and took 'Id of it; for the oxen shook it. And I'o anger of he Lord was kindled . -a:i s! Czz.ih, itel tits' smote him (here f -i !, s error, a A there j,. died by the ark of 1 .d." A hand of mils'.' is coming down the r'-:d, cornet blown, timbrels struck, 1. irps thtutomcd and cym! als c!apcd, all ! on bv Dfnv", who was himself a inusi- .ii,. '1 hey ate chond of a wagon on I'liuh is the sacred box called the ark. 'i be yoke of oxen drawing tbe wagon ::; ;.er;!os it. Some critics say that tbe i kicked, be ni: s'ru. k with the driver's goo!, but my knowledge of oxen lends i. e to say that if oil a hot day they s-e p. shadow .f ins- or wall, they are apt to MlMen'y shy off to gel the eoolliesis ,,f '. shadow. I think these oxen so ud 1 niy funis) that the sacred box scem i 1 . bom to iii-et iitni be ihtov.ii to the .'!" 'ind. I'zvib rushed forward and Said 1. old of t!,c 'irk to kw-;i it upright. Put 1 Pad r.o rrtlit to do so. A spceinl eorn n and had l. s n given by the Lord that no e pave the i,: -'. under any ctrcutn ' .unos .-h.-n'i! touch that hex. Nervous n'il exeitu) ii nd irteveient. I "mill dis ' ."! when be to.ik hold of the ark, and " ;; I as s cr n-e litem e. In nil ages, never iieue s i than in our own day, '.ere are j.o,.d people all the time afraid ' at the Holy Bible, whnh is the sncred irk of our t n.e, will be upset, and they lave been a long while afraid that sci- ce, and eri-i'eially geology, would over throw it. V- bile we are not forbidden to touch the holy hook and, on the contrary, are urged I i fondle rnd study it. any one who is I! f raid of liie oveithmw o," the hook is gieiitfy often. ling the Lord with his un le'ief. The oven have nd yet been yok e ' Inch can u; set that nrk of the world's salvation. rit ten by tbe Lord Almighty, he is going protect it until its mission is fuliiilcd and there shall be no more need of a Bible because ail its prophecies will have biti fulfilled and the human tace will have exchanged worlds. A trum pet and n violin are very different instru ments, but they may be plated in perfect a cord. So the Bible account of the crea tion of tin- world and the g-ologieal ac count ate different one story written on pa i ohmoiit and the other on the rocks and jet it. ,sTfect and eternal accord. The word "day," rej-eated in the first chapter of Cenesis, has throw n into paroxysms of cri t i-m many exegete. The Hebrew woid "yom" of the Bible tneans some times what we call s day, .nd sometimes it means ago". It may mean ;M hours or i-i),issi,i!ist w ars. The order of ft cat ion us written in the bs,k of (ienesis is the oi'h-r of creatioii ibscovensl by gologists ciow bar. So uoiiiy I'zzahs have been nerv ously rushing about for fear the strong o il, ,f sc;'tililic discovery would Upset ll.e I'.lble tbit 1 went somewhat appre hensively to look into the mutter, when I found tU.it the Bible and geology agree in saying that first were built the rocks, tlmi the p'unts gr-ene) the earth, then inn rim rnii lures were create! from niinuow to whale, then the wings and throats of seiinl choirs were coloied and tuned, and the ijuadi upeds began to Ideal and liellow and neigh. Now. it reuires no stretch of Imagina tion to realize that (J'xl could have taken millions of years for the bringing of the rw ks and the timtrs of this world to gether, yet only one week more to make it inhabitable and to f unrif-h it for human ri-saleuee. HetniTiiber also that all up and down the Bible the language of the times was us"i common parlance and it waa not always to he taken literally. Just aa w e say every dny that the world is round when it is not round. It is spherical flattened at the poles and pmtnlierant at the equator. Prof. Knell, with hi chain of triangles, and Prof. Varin, with the shorto-iicd pendulum of his clock, found It was not round. But we do not liccomp eritiosl of any one who anya the world i round. I.-M us d-al aa fairly with Mows or Job as we do with each other. Kverlustinic Hlglit. P.ut for years good people feared g-e,,l-ozy, and without any imploration on iheir p-rt apprdiended that the rocks and mountains would fall on them until Hugh Miller, the elder of St. John's Piebyte nsn church In Kdinburgh and parishioner of Dr. tiuthrie, came forth and told the world that there was no contradiction be tween the inonnta.iiis and the chun h, and ft. M. Mitchell, a brilliant lecturer before he became brigadier general, dying at Beaufort, S. C, during our civil war, took the platform and spread his mop of the strata of rock in the presence of great au diences, and Prof. Alexander Wiucbell of Michigan I'uiversity and Prof. Taylor Iw is of 1'nlon College, showed that the "without form and void" of the first chap ter of Genesis was the very chaos out of which the world waa fomulaied, the hands of Jod packing together ihe land and tossing up the mountains into great heights and Hinging down the seas into their great depths. Ilefore 1 d gets through with this world there will hardly be a book of the Bible that will not find confirmation either in archaeology or ge ology. Kibumed Babylon, Niiievah. ,li rusalem. Tyre snd Kgyptiau hieroglyphic are crying out In the ears of the world: "The Bible Is right: All right! L'verlusl logly right!" Geology Is saying the same thing, not only continuing the truth about the original creation, but confirming so ninny passage of the Scripture that I can only slightly refer to then.. But you do not really heliev that story of the deluge and tin- .. ,iug off tbe moun tains under tbe ware? Tell ns something we can believe. "Believe that," says ge ology, "for bow do you account for those en shells and seaweeds and skeletons of sea animals found on tbe bob of some of tbe highest mountains! If the wafers did not sometimes rise sbont the mountains, bow did those seashells and seaweed snd skeletons of sea animal get tbe re? Hid you pot tbeas Ultra? But, now, ynn do not really hel eve that Mory shout the storm of fire and brim stone whelming Sodom and Oomorrah, ! and enwrapping Lot's wife in siKh scline incrustations thnt she halted, s sack of stlt? For the confirmation of that story the geologist goes to that region, and after trying in vain to lake a swim in the luke, so thick with salt he cannot swim It the lake Ix-ncsth which Sodom and t!o morrah lie buried, one drop of the water so full of sulphur and brimstone that it Mints your tongue, and for hours you can not get rid of the nauseating drop the srentiut then digging down and finding sulphur in top of sulphur, brimstone on top of brimstone, w hile all round there are jets rtrd crag and peaks of salt, and if one of them did not become the sarcopha gus of loot's wife, they show yon how a human being might in that tempest have been hailed and packed into a white mon ument that would defy the ages. But, now, you do not reaiiy neneve that New Testament story about the earth quake at Ihe time Christ was crucified, do you? Oeology digs down into Mount Cal vary and finds the rocks rupture,! and aslrnt, showing the work of an ',-e dal enrthonake for that mountain, and an earthiiin'.:e which did not touch the sur rounding region. Co and look for your self, and see ilierea dip and cleaverage of rocks as now here else on the planet, geolo gy thus announcing an esjieeinl earth quake for the grcatesi tragedy of all the centuries the assassination of the Son if God. Confirmed by Geology. But you do not really believe that story of the binning of our world at the last dny? (leobgy digs down and finds that the world is already on tire and that the center of this rlobe is incnndi -cent, molt en, volcanic, a Imniing cal. lvirn.it g out toward the surface, and the interna! fires have so far re,i lied the outside t in that I do notfwe how the world is to keep from complete contlagrat Ion until the prophe-ci-s concerning it are fulfilled. The lava poured forth from the mouths of Vesu vius, Mount I'.tna and Cotip.iii and Kii auea is only the regu-gitati-ui fr.itit tin aw ful inllamrr.nl ion thousands of mile d-cp. There sre mines in Penn.-yU a nla and in several parts of the world that have been ou iiie for many jears. The-e coal m.iws bnniins down and Ihe Internal litcs of i In earth Imni'iig up, after awhile ihc-e two fires, the descending and the ascending, will mt, and then will occur the uni versal conflagration of whbh the Bibie i-peaks when it says, "The elements shrill melt with fervent heat the enrth also, and the works that are therein shall l-e burned up." Inwtead of dile!ievltig the Bible story attout the final conflagration, since I have looked a little into geology, finding that its explorations tire all in the line of con firmation of '.list prophecy. I wonder how this o!rl craft of a world can keep sailing on much longer. It is like a ship on fire at sea. the fact that the hatches are kept down the otiiy reason that it iIiks not be come one complete blaze maws on fire, ratlins on tire, everything from cutwater to taiTrail oil fire. After geology has told us how near the internal tires have al ready burm-d their way toward tbe sur face, it ought not to lie a surprise to ns at any time to hear the ringing of tbe fire U'lls of a universal conflagration. Oh, I am so glad that geology bas Us-n born! Thank (!od for the testimony of the rooks. I this day proclaim the banns of a mar riage b"tweeti geology and theology, the rugved bridegroom and the fairest of bride. It them join iheir hand, and "whom texl hath joined together let not man put asunder." Never Yet Upset. .If anything in the history or condition of the earth seems for the time contradict ory of anything in geology, jou must re momlxT that gr-ology is all the time coi retitig itself and more and more coming Hi harmonization with the great b'sik. In the last century the French Scientific As-M-iation print's! a list of eighty theories! of geology which had been adopted and afterward rejected. Lye!!, the scientist, announced fifty theories of geology that had lcsn believed in and afterward thrown overboard. Meanwhile the story of the Bible has not changed at all, and if geology haa east out between IIS) and iIMt theories which it once considered es tablished we can afford to wait until the last theory of geology antagonizing divine revelation shall have Ii-eti given up. Now, In this discourse uism the geology of tie Bible, or God among the rocks, I charge all agitated and affrighted t.'szuhs to calm their pulses atiout the upsetting of the Scriptures. I-ct nie see! Por sev eral hundresl years the nun have been jerking the ark this way and that and pulling It over rough places and trying to stick it in the mud of derision and kicking with all ihe power of their hoofs against the sharp goads and trying to pull it into the cool shade away from the heat of retribution from s God "who will by no means clear the guilty." Vet have you not noticed that the book has never hs-cn up set? The only changes nmde in it were by lis learned friends in the revision of the rv-ripture. The book of Genesis has been thundered against by Ihe mightiest batterie, jet you cannot to-day find In all the earth a copy of the Bible which has not the fifty chapter of the first copy of the book of Genesis ever pi inned. starting with tbe woid "In the beginning God" and closing with Joseph' coffin. Pierce attack ou the book of Kodu ha been made because they said it was cruel to drown Pharaoh and the rtory of Mount Sinai was improbable. But the book of Exodus remains intact, snd not one of u, considering the cruelties which he would have continued among the brick kilns f Kgypt, would have Ihrown Pha raoh a plank if we had seen him drown ing. And Mount Ss-nni is to-day a pile of tossed snd tumbled basalt, recalling the cataclysm of thai mountain when the law was given. And, ns to thie-e Ten Commandments, nil Itunisn law, all Ger man law, all Pnglish law, all American Ian.- wot th nnjlhitig are s.iiare!y founded on Ihem. So mighty aassnlt for centuriisi has b'-n made on the book of Joshua. It was said that the story of the detained sun ami inti is an insult to modern as tronomy, but lhat book of Joshua may be found to-day in the chape! of every uni versity in America, in defiance of any fcleeo) projected from the roof of that university. The les.k of Jonah ha been Ihe target of ridicule for the small wit of are, bill theie it slunk, with its four chapter liiviulale, while geology puts Up in its museums remain of sea monsters capable of doing more tlmn ihe one which allowed the re. riint prophet. There stnnd the l,rf chapter of fhe Bible not withstanding nil the nttHcks of ages, and there fhey will stand until they shglvel up In the final fires, which geologist say are already kindled and glow le.ter than tbe furtmces of an ocean steamer ss It pata out from New York Narrows for Haas burg or Southampton. The God of th Rock. The geology of the Kible shows that OWt religion is not s namby pamby, nr-vekssa, dilettantish religion. It tss projected and bas Is-en protected by the God of the rocks. Bcligioii a hnliu? Oh, yes. Re ligion a B"Hithing pow er? Oh, ye. ' JX ligion a beautiful sentiment? Oh. yeif. But we mtil have a God of the rocks, a mighty God to defend, n.i omnipotent Ood to achieve, a force able to overcome all other forces in the universe. Hose of Sharon and Lily of the Valley is he, com bination of all genllene and tendenwasj and sweetness? Oh, yes. But if the mighty forces now arrayed for the de struction of the nations are to be met and connueri-d, we must have a God of tbe rocks. The "Lion of Judah's tribe," aa well as the "Lamb who was slain." One hundred and thirty times dix-s the Bible sM-ak of the rock a defen-e, a arma ment, as refuge, as overpowering strength. David, the palmist, lived among the rocks, and they reminded him of the Almighty, and he ejaculates, "The Lord liveth; blessed lie my rock." "Lead ine to ihe rock that is higher than I." And then, ns if his prayer had been answered, he foe! the strength come into h's soul, and he cries out, "The Lord is my rock." "lie shall Mt ii. e up Hin a rock." ' How- much the rocks have had to do with the cause of God ill all Hges! In the wilderness God's Israel were fed with honey out of the rock. How the rock of lloreb paid Moses back In gushing, rip pling, sparkling water for the two stout strokes with which he struck it! And there stands the r k with name -1 guess the longest wmd 111 the Bibie se'a bain mablekoth, and it was worthy of a re sounding, soso, ml jwdn lia n nomenclature, for at (bill rock Saul waa compelled to quit his cm suit of David and go bonie and look after Ihe Philistines., who were milking a flank movement. There were ihe rocks of Bo7.ez and Seneh, lietween w hich .lona-hnin liuilM-d up and sent flying in retreat ihe grrtison of the uncircum-ci-eil. And yonder si-c David and his icn hidden in the nick of Odutlam a4id Mi. -sli. Divine Ileliberntion. But while I go on with my study of the ecology nf the Bible, or God among the rocks, I get a more intelligent and help-; ful idea of divine dclilicrution. These1 rocks, the growth of thousands of years, mi 1. geology says, of millions of years, ought to show- the prolongation of God's' plans and cure our impatience becatisel tlcng are not done in short order. Men' without seeing It become critical of the, Almighty and think, Why does he not do this and do that and do it right away? We feel sometimes n if we could not wait. We!!, I sm we w ill have to wait. God is never in a hurry except about two things. His plans, sweeping Ihrougb eternity, are beyond our comprehension.1 They have such wide circle, such vastucse of revolution, such Infinitude, (hat we can-, not compass ihetu. Indeed he would not' lie much of a G.d whom we could thotj oughly understand. That would not be much of a father who had no thoughts or plans larger than his babe of 1 year could compass. If God takes millions of years to make one rock, do not let in become critical if he takes twenty years or a cen tury or several isiiturk-s to do that which we would like to have done immediately. Do not rcpe-at the folly of those w ho con clude there Is no !od or that he Js not in sympathy with the right and thcWood bej1 cause be do- not do certain things ii the time we set apart for their ds-rforra-ntiee. Do not let us hold up our little watch, with its tiny hour hand ami min uie bund, and by it try to correct tbe clock of the universe, its pendulum taking ii"-! years to sw ing this way and 600 year to sw ing that way. I Hi not let us met uj our little spinning wheel beside the loom in which G'sl weaves, sunrises and sun sets and auroras. We have the best of authority for saying that "one day with' the Iird is ss a thousand years and a thousand year as one day." Do not ex Iiect that l .zah's oxen, even if tbey do not shy off, but go straight ahead, can keep up wilh the fire shod lightnings. Truth of the Omnipotent. But concerning all the vast tiling of GikI's government of the universe be pai lierit with the carrying out of plans txjr yond our measurement. O man! O wom an! So far a your earthly existence 1 concerned, only the Insect of an hour, lie nit impatient with the workings of the Omnipotent and the Eternal!" ; And now, for your solace and your safety, I ask you to come under the shel ter, and Into the deep clefts, and the sJ-' mighty defense of s rock that I higher than you, higher than any Gibraltar, higher than the Himalaya the Hock of Agi that will shelter you from the storm; that will hide you from j-otir ene mies; that will stajid when the eaxtb (limke of the last day get (heir pry under ibe mountains snd burl them Into sewT1 boiling with the fires which are already)' burning ttieir way out from red hot centers " 1 toward the surfaces which are aliMl here and there sauting with fire amkl the quaking of the mountains under the look and touch of bim of v. bom It Is stud in the sublhnest sentence ever wrirtenp "He iooketh upon the mountains, snd tbey tremble. He toucheth the hills, and thly smoke." Hie yon one and ail to the Bock" of Ages. And now as before this sermon oa the rocks I gave out the signlflesnt and appropriate hymn, "How firm a founda tion ye taints of the Lord" I will give out sfter this sermon on the rocks tbe significant and appropriate hymn: Bock of Ages, cleft for me, It me hide myself In thee! Copyright. 1Mi7. Hliort Hermon. Church I.'nlty.-L'Dity does not mean conformity lo the same thought Thto would mean the stagnation of tbe r. Ilgioti world. No body of men cmn eeer formulate a creed that tbe world will accept. There will lie "many men of tunny minds" as long as there to th night, fnlty should not mean tbe obliteration or suppression of Individ ual thought, but the harmony of tbe thinkers.-Itov. X'. K. Mllbvrn, Univer salis., llncinnatl, Ohio. Chnraoter.-We deecriy men by tbe niiie.n uiey nun, i tie reputation thej ....... mr money u,ey ran command, but these are but the merest accldenlaV Tbe man la not what he baa or what nu n say of him, but what be la, Xb chief fact about a map the man him self. There Is somewhat Inside the n cle of circumstance, underneath bla words, behind bis deedt, and that some what la ehaiaeter.-rtov. c. W, Ou letu, Mttuodlst, Cincinnati, Obi. I i. t Si 5 v ' i Jr 1 V ,rl' . t
