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O fatherland, BO great and free! The prtie that valiant heroes won. Kit Joyful harp we tuna to thee CcMKU&emorftte thy noblest aon. To aim we give oar thoughts to-daj, A thankful, childish, patriot baud; We twine the laurel aud the bay ad crown blm fattier or our land. Ob, not like proud Ambition's son That soared to fame In ancient Hume, Not like tbe Mara who battlea wen Ad found Helena fur a borne. No chains were forged tby name to raise , Above the legal lords of earth, Wo groaning captives sang thy pralae Or flattered crimes to deeds of worth. leap on In peace, O hallowed shadel Bleep on, tbe father of tbe free! The trees that guard the southern glade Tbelr tender Hobs are all for thee! Tile oak that decks onr northern vale And boldly braves the drifting snows Through summer eslni or winter ball Khali teach defiance to thy foes. --U. V. Gonnley. A WASHINGTON RELIC. Maaaion in Which Me Wrote His Fare well Address, a Wreck. That marvel of prophetic wisdom call ad Washington's Farewell Address an ually stirs many hearta in hundreds of the celebrations throughout the country, but the very house in which Washington labored to prepare that masterpiece of American patriotism is now barren f anything- to mark tbe fact that it once sheltered the greatest figure in the na tion's history. The house is filled with rollicking crowd of Italians who, per map. never heard of Washington, or, at the best, have a very hazy idea as to the part he played In forming the country that afford them so many advantage. Yet thia house, dirty, shabby, run down and ugly now. forms a consnienous figure TI1JE BliRKlEN HOUSE AND In the history of the early days of the Union of State. It was really the ex ecutive mansion when 1'rinceton, N. J., waa the capital of the new torn nation. Washington lived in thia honse when the treaty of peace wns signed with Great Britain on Sept. 3. 17S3. At that time the National Congress waa in session in this place, and it was neerssnry for Wash ington to be near the legislator during those critical weeks when the fruits of the long revolutionary war were about to be gathered. Congress bad assembled on June 0, of that year, and Washington arrived on the scene on tbe L'lith of the following August. In Princeton proper there was no avail able house suitable as a headquarters for Washington, so he was established in vt'uat waa known aa the Berrien mansion, four miles from the town on thr Kooky Hill road. There is a little hamlet near by now called Bocky ililL, Close to the old house i the Millstone river, and in revolutionary times the lawna fronting the boose swept gracefully down to the -water' edge. It was a famous house it those day, hot nothing of its grandeur remains. Now h swarms with Italian laborers employed tn the nearby quarries, and their wive and children. Tbe room in which Wash ington aud bis military family conferred n the momentous topics of the day are Uttered with dirt Every room in the Id house, with tbe exception of two, belters an Italian family. All around the boose are grouped numberless aban tie. each occupied to its fullest capacity by Italian. Tbe bouse and the adjoin ing lands are controlled by the Kocky Uill Stone Storage Company, and tbe econom ics of commerce have pat the historic building to such ignoHb uses. There Is a gleam of sentiment left, how ever. The two unoccupied room Just re ferred to are on the second floor. One 1 the apartment in which V aabington slept; Ike other was his atudy, the room in which he aat op the better part of many Bights writing hia farewell address. These two noma were stripped long sgo of v ry article of furniture used by Wssb- Isastoa and distributed among several no nam The furniture of the rest of the ftaas waa disoosed of la the mom way, mrt It Mf betag among the treasure aff UMBt Terae. CetbSMXr the booae bad broad veran ties tte froat aad at the two tide, but ton away long ago- waan ate out from ah) stndy to the roof t the varaada tad oatala a seen did view f tit surrounding country. Tha Berrien plac waa plendidly kept up tn these day, the landa Immediately sur rousdiug the beuse having the appearance f a beautiful park. Mow a hundred clothe lines, earn burdeued h tbe as aorted wash of an Italian family, disfigure tbe once baadsoine grounds. In Washington' time there were a nnm ber of cabins some distance in the rear of the mansion. The were occupied by the slaves on the estate. The cabin disap peared long ago, but miwei of debris still mark the places where they once stood. Aceoninled by member of hi mili tary staff, Washington rode every day to 1'rlueeton to confer with the legislators. Those were btiay times, for the British army still occupied New York, and when the treaty of peace was signed it waa Yanhiugtoij's first endeavor to get tbe last of the enemy out of the country. Many Important conferences were held In the old home, which finally led to the evacu ation of New Tork by the British. Then, when this was accomplished. Washington prepared for bis historic visit to that city to take formal possession of it. A few day later he took leave of bis Generals at Frauuce' Tavern, and then departed for bis Mount Vernon home to reasauuie the quiet country life which bad been so roughly interrupted seven years befure. Notwithstanding the grime and dirt in the Berrien bouse to-day it could easily be restored to its revolutionary glory. The house was built to last for all time, aud to-day it is as strong aa ever. The room now used by the Italian as a general eat ing place, and formerly the banquet ball, where Washington and his military end legal aids dined and talked over the af fuirs of the country, has still the look of a bajidsome apartment about it. The doors are heavy and paneled, and al though the great fireplace in disfigured by an ugly cooking range its dignified pro portions aitest its old-time splendor. Slav aive oaken beam supporting the floor above show through the planter, which has been smeared over tbe ceiling. Al together thie room, if prowrly restored, would furnish one of the finest examples of genuine colonial workmanship in tbe conntry. The Berrien bouse was an old one even in Washington' time. It was erected at the beginning of the eighteenth century by the first of the Berrien to settle In this country. Tbe last one of that name to occupy it waa John Berrien, who died in 1772 after a distinguished career as Colonel Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey, It pasxed through many handa before it became tbe property of the company which has been working tbe ITS MitSEM 0 CLTANT3. nearby '.parries for the pajit fifteen year. fomie time ago a society was formed for the purpose of obtaining possession of the historic mansion, restoring it and preserving it as a museum for revolution ary relics, of which there are a great num ber in the possession of the old families In tbe surrounding country. The stories of battle and raid, la tbe times when our flag was made. Oh. let them be often told. And the stripe and star we'll rata. In tukens of thanks snd praise To one, in tbe grand old days, Most patient snd wise and bold. In honor of trntb and right. In bouor of courage snd might. And the will that makes a way. In honor of work well done. In honor of fame well won. In honor of Washington. Our flag is floating to-day. Yomb's Companion. WASHINGTON STAYED THERE, House Still Standing Here Where the First President Was a Guest. One of tbe oldest substantial houses in Washington i now known as No. 2IH K street northwest. The ground on which it stands waa part of the farm of Itobert Peter, who was an original proprietor. In tbe division of lots between the land owners and the Government the lot on which tbe bouse is built were assigned to lioliert I'eter in 17D3, seven years be fore the capital was removed to Wash ington from Philadelphia. The house bas a front of thirty feet and the brick are supposed to have been imported from England. Tbe locks on the doors are large and have tbe English device of tbe lion and unicorn. In 1HW Christian Hines published his "Karly Uecollvctious of Washington City." He says that in 171M! be lived with bis fatber at the corner of High and Mar ket street, Georgetown; that he bad seen "all tbe Presidents of the United State from Washington to the second Washing ton Mr. Lincoln inclusive," and that the first time he saw Gen. Washington was "when he came up in a boat and land ed at tbe lower bridge, at the foot of K street north, and stopped with hia nephew, Thomas Peter, Esq.," who lived In the bouse of which I am writing. Tbe fact that Gen. Washington waa In tbe habit of stooping at thia bona la cor roborated by the statement of Mr. John Crsoch, sen of Judge W. L. Cranch, who told bm that on Gen. Washington's last visit to tul city ho (topped with Mr. Peter. At that time there was a long balcony Id front of tht houoo. To Georga. town College boys, Mr. Cranch said, sere naded Washington on thia occasion, gad the latter addressed them from the bai cony. AN AMERICAN GENTLEMAN. That the public observance of Wash ington's birthday began during his life It evidence that not public services only but personal character as well gave him hi commanding position among the great mea of all time. It has happened to no other man in history to become o distinctly th representative of a nation, in tbe achieve ment of it national independence, and to siand at the same time for what ia truest and best In its national character. There have been great statesmen, great soldier, great patriots, whose public career wa admired, but whose life or motive or methods in some way repelled; this man, patrlo, soldier and statesman, hold our reverence also by hi clear and upright personality. The mousing modern his torian is fond of finding little flaws in Washington' character, and Inasmuch as he 1 clearing away the fictitious glamour that for a time surrounded the father of hia country and showing him to be human lik,e the rest of ns, the historian baa bee doing a good service. For there wa nothing of the supernatural of phenome nal ia Washington, lie was simply a good, honest American gentleman, who did his duty seriously and strenuously, with unflinching integrity end devotion, gaining breadth of view and strength of intellectual graap as unsought opportu nity broadened out before him, and by weight of character not less tban by the splendor of achievement that character made possible, writing bis name unfading, ly in the bean of his countrymen, of hi own day and for all time. In the fresh accession of popular interest in this anni versary it is well to bear these things in mind. Washington stands not alone for devotion t a sentimental cause, but for devotion to everlasting principle. He wa able to become the Father of his Coun try because he deserved its trust, and by bis wisdom and judgment, bis honor and truth, he row above the turmoil of party passion and the intrigue of selfish men, aud pointed the way to national strength in national righteousness. MARTHA WASHINGTON LETTER. Lay Hidden in the Capitol Archive for More than Ninety Years, A copy of the only letter aud signature of Martha Washington is in possession of tbe I'nited Slates Government, says Kate Field's W ashington. This letter lay for more than niuely years bidden among some musty archives at the Capitol, and was lately discovered by Walter H. French, clerk of the department of files, House of Representatives. The spelling and punctuation are carefully reproduced! Uount Vernou. lec 31st. 171W. 8lr While I feel with keenest anguish tbe lats Disposition of lHvlne Providence, 1 cannot be insensible te the mournful tributes of r spect and veneration which are paid to ths memory of my dear deceased Husband and ss bis beet services and most auxious wishes were always devoted to the welfare aud bap i I news of bis country to know that they were truly appreciated sad gratefully r memttered aflo.'ds no inconsiderable eons iu'lou. Taught by the rreat example which I bar o long had before me never to oppose my private wisues to tbe public will I must con sent to the request made by Congress which you have bad the goodness to trans mit to me ud tu doing tills 1 need not I cannot say what a sacrifice of Individual feeling I make to a sense of public duty. With grateful acknowledgment and sa felgned thanks for the personal respect ind evidences of condolence expressed by Con, gross, and yourself, I remain, very respectfully, air, Tour moat obedient It humbl errant UAUTilA WASHINGTON. Precaution. Boporter Why bare yea boied yaw ebarry tree np la that fashion, farmer Farmer Slyboy Johaale Handa school teacher baa joa gi' him th' Ufa Washington. WULKE WASHINGTON 8TAVEI). DR. T.W.MAGK here shows the style of Christian character re quired for the times in which we live aud pleads for more heroics. The text is Esther ir 14, "Who knowcth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as ihis';" Father the beautiful vias the wife of AhasuertiK the abominable. The time bad come for her to present a petition to her Infamous lnn-bnnd in behalf of the Jewish nation, to which she bail once belonged She wu afraid to undertake tbe work lest the should loop her o n life, but her cous in, Monleciii, ttiio ha4 brought her up, encouraged her with the ntggestion that probably ehe had been raised up of God for that (icculittr mission. "Who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this';"' Esther bad her God appointed work You and I have our. It is my business to tell von what style of men and women you ought to le in order that you meet the drninnd of the age in which God bas cast your lot. So this discourse will not deal with the technicalities, but only with the practicabilities. When two armies have rushed into battle, the officers of either army do not want a philosopV ical discussion about tbe chemical properties of human blood or tbe nature of gunpow der. They want some one to man the batteries and take out the guns. And .... m ..... ...J now, when all me iorces oi ngitv "" oesa of beaten and bell have plunged into the fight. It is no time to give ourselves to the definitions and formulas and tech nicalities and conventionalities of religion. What we want is practical, earnest, con centrated, enthusiastic and triumphant help. Aiigrenlvt Christians. Id the first place, in order to meet the special demand of this age, you need to be , , , n..;..;nn an ununsiaaame, KSrnor '-mu. Of balf and half Christians we do not want any more. Tbe church of Jesus Christ will be better without them. J hey are the chief obstacle to the church's ad vancement. 1 am siieaking of another kind of Christian. All the applance for your becoming an earnest Christian are at your baud, and there is a straight path for you into the broad daylight ul dod s forgiveness. You may this moment lie the bondmen of the world, and the next moment you may be princes of the Lord iod Almigbtv. lou reinemlsr what ex- citemeul there was iu this country, years ago, when the I'riuce of ales c-aine here how the people rtiMieii out by hundreds of thousands to see him. Why': Because they exix-cted that some day he would sit npon the throne of England. But what was nil that honor compared with the honor to which God calls you to U- sons and daughters of the Lord Almighty- yea, to be queens mid kings unto God. "They shall reign with him forever and forever." But you need to ls aggressive Chris tians, and not like those persons who pend their lives in bugging their Chris tian graces and wondering why they do not make progress. How much robust- t.s of health would a man have if he hid himself in a dark closet? A great deal of the piety of to-day is too exclu sive. It bides itself. It needs more freh air, more outdoor exercise. There tire many Christians who nre giving their en tire life to self exaiinnat ion. ibey are feeling their pulses to see what is the condition of their spiritual luiiith. How long would a man have robust physical health if he kept all the day feeling his pulse instead of going out into active. earnest everyday work? Ktroim Characters Needed. I was once amid tiie wonderful, be Itcbing cactus growths of North (,'alo- lina. I never was more bewildered with the beauty of flowers, and yet when 1 would take up one of these cactuses and pull the leaves apart the beauty was all gone. You could hardly teli that it had ever been a flower. And there are a great many Christ inn people in this day just puiling apart tlieir Christian experi ences to see what there is in them, aud there is nothing lift in them. This style of self-examination is a dam age instead of an advantage to their Christian character. I remember when I waa a boy I used to have a small piece in the garden that I called my own, and I planted corn there, aud every few days I would pull it tip to see bow fast it was growing. Now, there are a great ninny Christian people in this day whose self eiiimiiutti'.ii merely nun Hints to the pull ing up of that which they only yesterday or the day Ix-fore planted. Oh, my friends, If you want to have a stalwart Christian character, plant It right out of doors in tbe great field of Christian usefulness, and though storm may come upon It, and though the hot sun of trial may try to con sume It, it will thrive until it become a great tree, in which the fowls of heaven nisy have their habitation. 1 have no patience with these lloerKit Christian, j i bey keep themselves under shelter, and ail their Christian experience In a small, exclusive circle, when they ought to plant it in the great garden of the Iord, so that the whole atmonphere could be aro matic with their CHbristlan usefulness. What we want in the church of God I more strength of piety. The century plant Is wonderfully suggestive and wonderful ly beautiful, but I never look at it without thinking of It parsimony. It let whole generations go by before It put forth one blossom. Ho I have really more admira tion when 1 see the dewy tears In tbe blue yes of the violet, for they come every spring. My Cbristiso friends, time Is go lag by so rapidly that we cannot afford lo be Idle. No Tlsse for Iaortla. A recent sUtlsticisn says that human lift now baa an average of only B2 year. From these 32 years yon most subtract ail the time you take for sleep and the taking of food and recreation; that w ill leave you about Id years. From these 1! you must subtract all the time that you are neces sarily engaged iu the earning of a liveli hood. That will leave you about eight years. From these eight years you must take all the days and weeks and months all tbe length of time that is passed in sickness leaving jolt about one year in which to work for God. my soul, wake up! How da rest thou sleep in harvest time and wilh so few boms in which to reap? So that I state it as a simple fact that all the time that the vast majority of you will have for the exclusive serth-e of Gud w ill be less than one year. "Hut," says some man, "I liberally sup port the gospel, and the church is open, ami the gospel is preached; all the spirit ual advantages are spread Is-fore men, and if thej want to be saved l"t them come and be saved I have discharged all my responsibility." Ah, is that my Mas ter's spirit? Is there not an old book Minion here that coniinands us to go out into the highways and hedges and compel the people to come in? W hat would be come of you and me if Christ bad not come down off the bills of heaven, and if be had not conic through the door of the Bethlehem caravansary, aud if he had not with the crushed band of the crucifixion knocked at the iron gate of the sepubher of our spiritual death, crying. "Lazarus, come forth?" (th, my Christian friend, this is no time for inert in when all the forces of darkness seem to In- ill full b!at w hen steam printing presses are publish ing infidel tracts, when express trains are carrying messengers of sin, when fast clippers are laden w ith opium and strong drink, when the night air of our cities is polluted with the laughter that breaks up from the lM.Wfl gabions of dissipation and abandonment, when the fires of the second death already are kindled in the cheeks of some who, only a little while ago, were incorrupt! Oh, never since the curse fell upon the earth has there been a time when it was such an unwise, such a cruel, such an awful thing for the church lo sleep! The great audience are not gathered in Christian churches. The great audiences are gathered in temples of slu tears of unutterable woe their baptism, the blood of crushed hearts the awful wine of their sacrament, blasphemies their litany, and the groans of the lost world the organ dirge of tlieir worship. Get Out of Old Kuts. Again, if you want to 1 qualified to meet the duties which this age demands of you, you must on the one hand avoid recklesH iconoclasm and on the other hand not stick too much lo things because they are old. The air is full of new plans, new projects, new theories of government, new theologies, and I am amazed to see bow so many Christian want only novelty iu or der to recommend a thing to their confi dence, aud so they vacillate awl swing to and fro, and they are tide leas and they are unhappy. New plans-secular, ethi- ical, philosophical, religious, cisatlantic-, transatlantics long enough to make a line reaching from the German universities to Great Salt Lake City. Ah, my brother, do not take hold of a tiling merely hex-an si lt i new ! Try it by the realities of the judgment day. Hut. on the other band, do not adhere to anything merely because : it is old. There is not a single enterprise of the ' church or the world but has some time , been scoffed at. There was a time when men derided even liinle societies, mid when n few young men met ! in Massachusetts and organized ' tbe first missionary society cier organized in this country there went laughter and ridicule all around the f Uiris- ' tian church. They suld the undertaking j was prepoeterous. And so also the work of .Icsus Christ was assailed. People cried out: "Whoever heard of such theo- : rics of ethic and government? Who- I ever noticed such a style of preaching as Jesus has?' Exekiel bad talked of iiivste- I riotis wings and wheels. Here came a i man from Capernaum and Gcnnesaret, , and he drew bis IJIliNlrsioris from the ! lakes, rom the sand, from the mountain, ' from t ie lilies, from the cornstalks. How the 1. arisees scoffed! How Herod de rided! Aud this Jesus they plucked by tbe beard, and they spat in his face, and they called him "this fellow." Anil the grout enterprises in and out of the church have at times boon scoffed at, and there have Ix-en a great multitude who have j thought that the chariot of God's truth would fall to pieces if it once got out of the old rut. And so there are those who t have no patience with anything like im- ' provement in church architect tire, or with I anything like gsd, hearty, earnest ' church singing, aud they deride any form ' of religious ilisj-usaioii which goes down walking among eve.yuay mvn rather than that w hich makes an excursion on rhetor ical stilts. Oh, that the church of God would wake up to an adaptability of . work! We must admit the simple fact that the churches or Jesus Christ in this day do not reach the great masses. There : are .VJ,XMt people in I'dinburgh who nev er bear the gosjiel. There are l.tHXl.tsm j people In London who never hear the gospel. The great majority of the inbab- j itunts of tiiis capital come not under the j immediate ministrations of Christ's truth, and the churc h of God in this dnv, instead of being a place fq.ll of living epistles, known snd read of nil men, la more like a dead letter sto!1ice. , Work to lie Done. i "Hut," say the people, "the world Is go ing to Is? coinerted: you must be patient; the kingdoms of this world are to become tbe kingdoms of Christ." Never, unless the church of Jeus Christ puis on more , speed and energy. Instead of the church converting the world, the world is convert- i lug the church. Here Is a great fortress. How shall It Is" taken? An army comes , and sits around abojt It, cuts off tbe sup- ' plies and says, 'Now we will Just wait 1 until from exbuuatloi and starvation they ; will have to give up." Weeks and months and perhaps a yesr pas along and finally the fortress surrenders through that star- i vation and exhaustion. lti:t, my friends, , the fortresses of sin arc never to Is- taken In that way. If they are taken for God, it will lie by storm; you wdll have to bring up the great siege gun of the gospel to the very wall and wheel the flying artil lery into line, and when the armed Infan try of heaven shall confront the battle ments you will have to give the quick com. niand, "Forward! Charge!" Ah, my friends, there Is work for you to do and for tne to do in nrder to this grand aceo.ipii.lmeut. 1 bavs m ssjIpIL 1 preach in it. Your pulpit is Your pulp.t i. the store. Your palpi! : to the edilori.l chair, xoar pulpit U the anvil. Your pu'l'it is me boua sfalTold ing Your pulpit is the mechanics' shop. I may stand in my place and, through cowardice or through self eeklng. may keep back tbe word I ought to utter, while you with eiceie rolled up nd brow be swe'ated with toil, may utter tbe word that will jar the foundations of hewvea with the shout of a Freat victory. Ob, that we might all feel that the Lord Ale might! is putting upon us the hands of ordination: I lell you, every one, go forth and preach th,s gospel. You have a much right to preach as I have or any mail living. F.ismplr of Courage. licdley Vicars was wicked mau in th Lnglis'i'army. The grace of God came to him. lie liocauie an earnest and eminent Christian. They scoffed nt him and saidi "Yon are a hypecnte. You are s bad as ever you were." Still he kept his farth ia CI risi, and after awhile, finding that they could not turn him aside by calling, bita a hypocrite, they said to bun, "Ob, you are nothing but a Methodist!" Thi did not diiurb him. He went on performing his Cbristiau duty until be bad formed all In troops into a llible class, aud the whole encampment was shaken with the presence of God. So Havelock went Into the heathen temple in India while the F.ngli-h army wuj. there and put a candle iirto the hand of each of the heathen gods that stood around iu the heathen temple, and by the light of tle.se candies held up by the id. ds General 1 Ian-lock preached riglitc-msiie-.s, temperance and judgment to come. And who will say on eartli or in heaven that Havelock bad not the right to preach? u the uiinieter's bouse where I ptepsred for college there worked a man by the name (.f l'ctcr Croy. He could neither read nor white, but be was a man of God. Often theologians would stop la the liou. -grave theologian - and a family prayer I'eter Croy would be cafled upon t lend, and ad line wise men sat around, wonder struck at bis religions' effi ciency. When be prajed, he reached un. and seemed to take bold of the very tbrons of the Almighty, and he talked with. God until the very heavens were bowed dowa into the silting room. Ob, if I were dying I would rather have plain I'eter Croy kneed by my bedside and commend my Im mortal spirit to God than the greatest archbishop arrayed in costly cauouii-akt. (Jo preach this gospel. You say you ar not licensed. In the name of tbe lAiri Almighty, I license you. Go preach thia gospel, preach it iu the Sabbath schools, in the prayer meetings, in the highways, in the hedges. Woe be unto you if yos preach it not! , Triumph of Troth. I remark again, thttt In order to be qual ficd to meet your duty In this psrticular age you wni't unbounded faith In the tri umph of the truth aud tbe overthrow of wickedness. How dare the Chritisu church ever get discouraged? Have we not tlie Lord Almighty on our side? How long did it take God to slay the hosls of Sennacherib or burn Sodom or shske down Jericho? How lotig will it take God, when hp once arise iu his stresgth, to overthrow all the forces of Iniquity? Between this time iud that there may bo long seasons of darkness, and tbe chariot wheel of God's gosjiel may seem to 'drag heavily, but here is the promise and "yon der Is the throne, and when omniscience has Uml its eyesight and omnipotence a! back impotent iind Jehovah Is driven from bis throne, then tbe church of Jenus Christ can afford to be liepoiideiit, but never un lit then. Iespots may plan and armies "uiay march and the cot .gri -uses of the nations may s.s ni to think they are adjusting all the affairs of the world, but the mighty men of the earth are i nly the dost of the chariot wl.ee Is of God's providence. And I think before the sun of the next century shall set the ln-t tyranny will fall, and with a splendor of demonstration 'that shall lie the Rstnnishmi-nt of the universe Cod will set forth tlio brightness and pomp at,!! glory nnd pTetiity of his eter nal government, tint of the starry flag and the emblazoned insignia of this world God will uiiike a path f..r his own triumph and returning from universal conquest he ivill sit down, the grandest, the strong est, highest throne of earth his footstool. I prepare this sermon Is-cauw J want to encourage sll Christian workers in ev ery possible do arlment. Hosts of the living God, march on. march on! His spirit will blc-Si you. His shield will de fend you. Hji sword will strike for'you March on, man h on! The despotisms" will fail and pagnniaBi will burn its Idols and Mobaniniedauisiti will gire up its false prophet and the great walls of superstition will come down iu thunder and wreck at the long, b.ud blast of the gospel trumis-t. March on, march ont The bclegetm nt will soon be ended. Only a few more step on the long way; only a few more sturdy blows; only a few more battle cries; then God will put the laurels upon your brow, and from the liv ing fountains of b.meii will bathe off the sweat aid the bent and the dust of the lonlliit. March on, march on! For yoo the time for work will soot, i passed, and amid tbe oiitflnsbings of the judgment throne and the trumpeting of resurrection angels and the upheaving of a world of graves am! the bosanna and the groiuiing of the saved and the lost we shall be re warded for our faithfulness or punished fur our stupidity. Hlessed be the lrd God of Israel from everlasting to everlast ing and let the whole earth be filled with his glory. Amen and amen. Copyright, st. Klmrt fsermon. faith. Tbe truly rcjlglous win I pioacli the holy of holies of bin fellow with respect ami reverence. Tbe pri mary puri-oHe of every form of faith Is to uplift man. Fvery religion 1ms s high duty ami destiny. It Is tbe mis fortune that there is not a bettor tin- iortiiricJnf bet ween Judiilsin Christianity. Iinbbl Friedman, brew, I louver, Colo. Iickalller(4. Cltlea are tilled and 11 e- wlth backsliders. They nre those noodle ho once led a good f0 gnj now tll,.y ar8 serving patan. I liousumls of church members move from the country and tne smaller towns nnd "do not bring their church letter. They have no t hnrcli-ljoiiic In the city, nnd they soon lose their spiritual wal. They Join the rellKlous tramps and drift from. church lo church. Thousand of backsliders walk our city streets who once, In soma other luwn, were realous workers. Iter. W, O. Partridge, Baptist, Clncisv natl, 0.