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The Northwestern BBN8CHOTER & GIBSON. Kd*. & F’ubs. DOUP CITY, * - NEBRASKA. Norway is the latest to score an archy through its legislature. The re turns are not all in. Strange to say, the nickel mines purchased by Americans in New Cal edonia are not street-car lines. Doubtless some of the North Dakota divorce lawyers have already sent their business cards to Queen Wllhelmina. Although King Edward's coronation is to take place in June the confident expectation is that it will be an august ceremony. There is nothing inconsistent in the proposal to make more compact the various concerns that manufacture compressed air tools. A roast pig that had been fattened on potatoes is about the daintiest dish of the Christmas season, and certain ly the most expensive one. Why should a woman fiercely scold a man for smoking on tne street car platform. He is really doing homage; he Is burning incense to the sex. Cities and towns are glad to accept Mr. Carnegie's gifts just as they are offered, but the United States can af ford to make stipulations in such mat ters. Russia Is abolishing part of what little local government its cities had. The czar Is laying up trouble for him self against the time when the people get aroused. It would be a great thing for New York if that German inventor were to destroy the London fogs. Then New York would not have to be at the trou ble of cultivating them. A Brooklyn jury has awarded $8,500 to a woman who incurred a stiff fin ger as the result of a railway collision. The company ought to be thankful her whole hand wasn't stiffened. Emperor William has not only inter dicted dueling in the German colleges, but has ordered the children in the subordinate schools to discontinue the practice of writing letters to him. The Yale football management has netted thirty thousand dollars from this year’s games, but doubtless it would give every dollar of it to have reversed the figures of the score on Soldiers’ Field. A musical paper In I ’on is In dignant because only one carriage at tended the funeral of Manager Maple son. But just think how many times in his long operatic career. Col. Maple son announced substitutions in the cast. And now th3 Bulgarian brigands have a grievance. They complain that Miss Stone, their captive, is trying to convert them to Christianity. As this is Miss Stone’s business she may suc ceed in gaining her freedom without the payment of a cent of ransom. All she needs to do is to persuade her cap tors to apply the golden iule in her case. Like a great many other men of genius who have lived in this world, the late Eugene Field was generally hard up for money. Nevertheless, this is no infallible token of genius, and his latest biographer goes to the limit of indelicacy in retailing episodes in the career of his subject illustrating his impecuniosity. These are among the things that are better left unsaid, ex cept as they serve to illumine char acter. The plan for a penal colony for an archists, proposed or suggested by Senator Vest, seems to meet the an archist situation the most thoroughly; besides there is a poetical side to the idea of letting the anarchists work out their theories on themselves. A fertile island, capable of yielding its inhabitants a bountiful living wKh an average amount of labor, should be chosen, and the anarchists should be deported there and left to themselves and their theories. In order that no doubts might be raised as to their having a fair show, the government might support them for a year or two and supply them with all the imple ments of industry and the comforts of a high civilization. After such a pe riod, let them work out their own des tiny, the government only taking care that no one should escape from the island. It is a safe conjecture that un der such conditions the anarchists would have their theories changed by close experience with practical affairs; they would come to learn respect for government and to know that a gov ernment by a majority is much prefer able to a government by any one pos sessed of the greatest physical force. English peeresses are making organ ized protest against the arbitrary cos tume regulations for King Edward’s coronation ceremonies. They say the wearing of velvet will destroy the sym metry of their figures and that ermine will ruin their complexions. It begins to look as if even hereditary caste privilege in England has its limita tions. The cable may soon inform us that his imperial majesty has dictated to the haughty peeresses what brand of face powder shall be used in build ing complexions for the august occa sion, and then the worm may turn. TALMAGES SERMON. THE BLESSINGS OF HUMILITY SHOWN IN THIS DISCOURSE. In Eloquent Word* I* Told How Throughout the Agee Arregwnre Hue Been Rebuked — Evening of Life Brightened by the Love of tlod. (Copyright, 1901, by Louts Klopsch, N. Y.) Washington, Dec. 29.—While this discourse of Dr. Talmage rebukes ar rogance, it encourages humanity and 6hows how the evening of life may be brightened. The text is I Kings xx, 11, "Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that put teth it off." The text makes a comparison be tween a man enlisting for some war and a veteran returning, the one put ting on the armor and the other put ting it ofT. Benhadad, the king of Syria, thought he could easily overcome the king of Israel. Indeed, the Syrian was so sure of the victory that he spread an ante bellum banquet. There were in all thirty-three kings at the carousal, and their condition iB described in the Bible not as convivial or stimulated exaltation, but drunk. Benhadad sends officers over to the king of Israel de manding the surrender of the city, say ing, "Thou shalt deliver me thy sil ver and thy gold and thy wives and thy children,” and afterward sends other officers, saying that the palace of the king will be searched and ev erything Benhadad wants he will take without asking. Then the king of Is rael called a council of war, and word is sent back to Benhadad that his un reasonable demand will be resisted. Then Benhadad sends another message to the king of Israel, a message full of arrogance and bravado. Then the king of Israel replied to Benhadad, practically saying: "Let me see you do what you say. You huzza too soon. ‘Let not him that girdeth on his har ness boast himself as he that putteth it off.”’ An avalanche or courage ana rignt eousness, the Israelitish army came down on Benhadad and his host. It was a hand to hand fight, each Israel ite hewing down a Syrian. Benhadad, on horseback, gets away with some of the cavalry, but is only saved for a worse defeat, in which 100,000 Syrian infantry were slaughtered in one day. Now we see the sarcasm and the epi grammatic power of the message of my text sent by the king of Israel to Benhadad, "Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off.” All up and down history we see such too early boasting. It will be my ob ject, among other lessons, to show that he who puts off the armor, having fin ished the battle, is more to be con gratulated than he who begins. First, I find encouragement in this subject for the aged who have got through the work and struggle of earthly life. With more or Jess forti tude you passed through the crises of pain and sadness and disappointment and fatigue and still live to recount the divine help that sustained you. At twenty or thirty years of your age at the tap of the drum you put on the harness. Now, at sixty or seventy or eighty, you are peacefully putting it off. You would not want to try the battle of life over again. So let all of the aged In peace with God, through the blessed Christ, cultivate content ment and thank the Lord their Sedan has been fought and the war is over. "Let not him that girdeth on his har ness boast himself as he that putteth it off." There are old fanners who cannot do one more day's work. What harvests they raised In 1S70! What droughts, what freshets, what insectile invasion, they remember! To clothe and feed and educate the household they went through toils and self sacrifices that the world knew but little about. Rest, aged man! Let the boys do the shov eling and thrashing and cutting and sweating. You have put the harness off, and do no* try to put it on again. There are old mechanics that can no more shove the plane or pound with the hammer or bore with the bit or run up the ladder to the scaffolding. You have a right to quit. You have finished your task. Be thankful that your work is done. Then there are aged physicians. What tragedies of pain and accident they have witnessed! How much suf fering they have assuaged! How many brave battles they have fought with lancet and cataclysm! How many fevers they cooled! How many broken bones they set. God comfort and bless the old doctors, allopathic, homeo pathic, hydropathic and eclectic, and make them willing to be out of prac tice! Before long they will hear the benediction of him who said, "I was sick, and ye visited me.” And there are the old ministers. Once they were foremost in general as semblies and conferences and associa tions. Now they have stopped preach ing, for their breath is short, or their nerves are a-jangle, or they lose their thread of discourse or suffer from con fusion of ideas. Cheer up, aged dom inies and doctors! The Bible says God forgets our sins when we repent of them, but he never forgets faithful ser vices rendered. Be content to stop. "Let not him that girdeth on his har ness boast himself as he that putteth it off.” Again, I learn from Benhadad’s be havior the unwisdom of boasting of what one is going to do. Better not tell boastlngly what you are going to do. Wait until it is done. You do well to lay out your plans, but there are so many mistakes and disappoint ments in life that you may not be able to carry out your plans, and there is no need of invoking the world’s de rision and caricature. Napoleon was so sure of conquering England, Scot land end Ireland that he had a medal struck celebrating the conquest, which he never made. On that medal wes represented his own crowned head. Wilberforce did not tell what he was going to do with the slave trade, but how much he accomplished is suggest ed by Ix>rd Brougham's remark con cerning Wilberforce after his decease, "He went to heaven with 800,000 brok en fetters in his hand.” The only kind of boasting that prospers was that of Paul, who cried out, "I glory in the cross of Christ!” and that of John Newton, who declared, "I am not what 1 ought to be; I am not what I wish to be; I am not what I hope to be, but. by the grace of God, I am not what I was.” Do not boast of your moral strength. Better underrate than overrate our selves. My subject Is a’so a refutation of the famous sentiment that God is on the side of the heaviest artillery. God is not on the side of the most swords or the most war chariots or the most cannon if they be in the wrong, but on the side of the right. How such a preposterous sentiment as 1 have men tioned should have gained sway I know not when all history proclaims the opposite. How insignificant were the unarmed Israelites, half starved and unorganised, compared with Pharaoh's host on foot, on horseback and charioted! But the waves of the Red sea took part in the conflict, part ing to let the pursued pass, but com ing together to destroy the pursuers. The Mldlanites and Amalekites were like grasshoppers for multitudes, but 300 men under Gideon came down, their ownly weapons pitchers and lamps and trumpets, and as they held up the lamps and threw down the pitchers and blew the trumpets the flash of the lights and the blare of the instruments and the crash of the crockery made their enemy fall back in wild terror. Notice also that my text takes it for granted that you must put on the har ness, else how can you take it off? Life is a battle—a thirty years', a forty years' or a sixty years' war. Every possible effort will be made to make you think wrong. The young man who gets his head filled with wrong notions about God, about Christ, about the soul, about the great beyond, is already captured. Think right, and you will act right. Keep the heart pure, and the life will be pure. Have the heart corrupt, and your actions will be corrupt. Young man, see that you have on a complete armor. All looks bright now, and it seems as if you could march right on without opposition or attack, but be not deceived. There are hidden foes ready to halt you on your way. The same cup that Benhadad drank out of just before his defeat will be of fered to effect your defeat. What work Benhadad’s cup made for Benhaha^’s army! WThat shipwrecks on the sea, what disasters on the land, caused by inflaming liquids put upon the tongue to set seething the brain! How many kings of thought and influence, with crownsbrighterthan the one Benhadad wore, have by strong drink been put into flight as base as that in which Benhadad rode! "Give them to me," says the dpmon of inebriacy. "Give ;.hem to me; hand them down—the brightest legislators of the land. I will thicken their tongue; I will bloat their cheeks; I will stagger their step; 1 will damn their soul. Hand them down to me.” We hold our breath in horror as once in awhile we hear of someone, either by accident or suicide, going over Niagara Falls, but the tides, the depths, the awful surges of intemper ance. are every hour of every day rushing scores of immortals down into unfathomed abysm. Suicides by the hundreds of thousands! Suicides by the million! Beware of the cup out of which Benhadad drank personal and national demolition. Yes, you must have full armor. There are temptations to an impure life all the time multiplying and in tensifying. Read in private and dis cussed afterward by the refined and elegant in parlors are books poisoned from lid to lid with impurities. Loose characters in the novel applauded by rhetorical pens and proprieties of life caricatured as prudery and infidelity of behavior put in a way to excite sym pathy and half approval. My wonder is not that so many go astray, but my wonder is that ten times as many are not debauched. There are influences at work which, if unarrested, will turn our cities into Sodoms and Gomorrahs ready for the hail and fire and brim stone of God’s indignation. Yes, you must have full armor, for there are all the temptations to gam ing practices, either in gambling halls or in the money markets, buying what they never paid for and selling what they can never deliver, first borrowing what they cannot return and stealing what they cannot borrow. All hours of the day and all hours of the night are vast sums of money passing fraud ulently, for gambling in all eases Is fraud, whether it be a twenty-five cent prize package or a crash in Northern Pacific, which made Lombard street and the bourse aghast and shook the nations with financial earthquake. Oi». yes, you need the harness on until God tells you to take it off. In olden time it was leathern armor or chain armor or ribbed armor, fash ioned in ancient foundry, but no one can give you the outfit you need ex cept God, who is master of this world I and the Infernal world, from which as ! oend the mightiest hostilities. Lay ' hold of God. Nothing but the arm ol Omnipotence is strong enough for the I tempted. Young man, put on the ent're gospel ; outfit. If you have come from the j country to live in the city, Imitate the I example rf a young man who arrived In New York on Saturday night, In tending the following Monday to enter his place of employment. On Sunday morning, carrying out the good ad vice before leaving his country home, he went to church. Standing at the door, he was abashed as the beauty and fashion and wealth swept through the doors of the sanctuary, and he dared not go in. As he was about turning to go away a gentleman said, "Have you a seat, young man?” "No, sir.” "Do you belong to the city?” “No, sir.” "Where is your home?" "In the coun try.” “How long have you been in the city?” "I came in last night.” "What are you going to do here?” "I hope to go Into business to-morrow.” “That is right You have begun well, young man. Never forsake the God of your fathers. Come, I will give you a seat in my pew.” The next morning the young man presented his letter in bus iness circles. "What do you want, young man?” said the Scotch mer chant. "I want to get credit on some leather, upper and sole.” “Have you references?” "I think I can get refer ences. My father has friends here.” "Young man, did I not see you yester day in Mr. Lenox’s pew?” "I do not know. sir. I was at church, and a kind gentleman asked me to sit In his pew.” "Yes, young man. that was Robert Lenox. I will trust anyone that Mr. Lenox invites into his pew. You need not trouble yourself about references. When these goods are gone, come and get more.” That young man became an eminent merchant and. more than that, a Christian merchant, and he at tributed all his success to that first Sabbath in the city. Young man Just arrived, put yourself under good influ ences your llrst day in town. There hangs your helmet. Take It down. There is your breastplate. Adjust it. There is all the harness for safety and triumph. Put it on. Also see in my subject the folly of underestimating the enemy. That was Henhadad’s fatal mistake. He want ed less than half a day to capture Sa maria and make the king of Israel capitulate. But what he thought was so easy turned out to be the impossible. Better overestimate than underesti mate the other side. We who are try ing to make the world what it ought to be contend not with homunculi. We wrestle not with striplings. We have a whole army of antagonists try ing to halt the King of God and over throw the cause of righteousness. If we secure the victory, it will be a struggle as‘fierce as when the Greeks and Persians met at Marathon, as when Darius and Alexander grappled each other at Arbela, as when Joan of Arc rode triumphant at Orleans, as when the Russians met the Swedes at Poltava, as when Marlborough com manded the allied armies at Blenheim. Those were fights for earthly crowns and dominions, but the fight that now goes on between all the allied armies of hell Is to settle whether God or Sa tan is to have possession of this planet. I congratulate all those who are now in the thickest of life’s battle that the time is coming when the struggle will end and you will put the harness off. helmet and greaves and breastplate having fulfilled their mission. You cannot in one visit to London Tower see all. You must go again and again You will see the crowns of kings and queens, the robe worn by the Black Prince, and silver baptismal fonts from which royal infants were christened, and the block on which Lord Lovat was beheaded. But no part of Lon don Tower will more interest you than the armory, in which is skillfully and impressively arranged a collection of all styles of armor worn between the thirteenth and eighteenth centuries, suggesting 500 years of conflict—cui rass and neck guard and chin piece and lance rest and gauntlet and girdle and mailed apron. You see just how from head to heel those old time warriors were defended against sharp weapons that would cu. or thrust or bruise and allowing them to come out of battle unhurt when otherwise they would have been slain. O ye soldiers of Jesus Christ, when the war of life is over and the victors rest in the soldiers’ home on the heav enly heights, perhaps there may be in the city of the sun a tower of spiritual armor such as Incased the warriors for Christ in earthly combat. Some day we may be in that armory and hear the heroes talk of how they fought the good fight of faith and see them with the scars of wounds forever healed and look at the weapons of offense and de fense with which they became more than conquerors. In that tower of heaven, as the weapons of the spiritual conflict are examined, St. Paul may point out to us the armor with which he advised the Ephesians to equip themselves and say: "That is the shield of faith. That is the helmet of salvation. That is the girdle of truth. That is the breastplate of righteous ness. Those are the mailed shoes in which they were shod with the prepa ration of the gospel.” There and then you may recount the contrast between the day when you enlisted in Christian conflict and the day when you closed it in earthly farewell and heavenly sal utation, and the text, which has so much meaning for us now, will have more meaning for us then. “Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off.” Chicago is coquetting with a new drink invented by a visiting Texas statesman of high repute. It is a com pound of stuffed olives, bitters, syrup, gin, ginger ale and asafoetida. Up to the fifth glass it is elysium; at the end of it there is no Chicago. One of the large dry goods stores in Montgomery. Ala., is owned by a col ored man who began life as a porter and made it a rule never to save less than half his wages. Anybody can Imitate that resolution, but—the corn meat is obvious. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. LESSON II. JAN. 12; ACTS 2: l-l I — PROMISE FULFILLED. (•nlilen Te*».-“Th« Promise Is Unto You snd to Your Children—Arts 2: 30.” — The Coming of the Iloly Spirit. I. The Assembly on Pentecost.—V. 1. When. I. "The day of Pentecost was fully come.” Was being completed. It was at the beginning of the day which was not yet complete. The day had not merely dawned, hut was shining In Its full glory, showing how bright must have been the flame that appeared. Pente cost was a harvest festival, celebrated fifty days after the Passover. The word means fiftieth. Who. The one hundred and twenty disciples named In the last chupter. Including the upostles, the wo men. and those who believed In the ressurrectlon of Jesus, and In his prom ise. Where. "With one accord In one place.” The tipper room In Jerusalem, mentioned In the previous chapter. How Long. During ten days from the ascen sion. II. The Coining of the Holy Spirit.— Vs. 2-4. This was one of the greatest, most epochal days In the world's his tory. 2. "And suddenly." As they were praying. So the lightning breaks forth suddenly from the cloud, but the elec tricity that prepared for It had been gath ering silently for hours. Illustration. Mr. Spurgeon says; "I looked recently at a very remarkable sight, the burning of a huge floorcloth manufactory. I was just about returning home from my Master's work when I saw a little blare, and in an Incredibly short space a vol ume of tire rolled up In great masses to the skies. Why blared It so suddenly? Why, because for months before many men had been busily employed in hang ing up the floorcloth, und In saturating the building with combustible materials. 1 do not mean with the Intention of mak ing a blare, but In the ordinary course of their manufacture; so that when at last the spark came It grew into a great sheet of flame all at once." So It Is with an Individual soul; so sometimes with a community. "God had been mysterious ly at work months before In that man's heart, preparing his soul to catch the heavenly flame, so that there was only a spark needed and then up rolled the flame to heaven." III. The Results from This New Pow er. The New Era Begun.—Vs. 4-11. “Be gan to speak with other tongues," In other languages than their own Hebrew, or Aramaic (the then modern form of the Hebrew), or Greek; with all three of which they naturally were more or less familiar. “Luke distinctly asserts that the apostles. If not the whole Christian assembly, received the power of speaking in foreign languages, and that some of the hearers, at all events, understood them.”—Knowling. 5. "And there were dwelling at Jerusalem." Both residents (for the foreign Jews loved to spend their declining years there) and pilgrims who had come up to the Pente cost feast. “Devout men." Truly re ligious men, waiting for the appearing of the promised Messiah. These were the persons most likely to become Chris tians. Such an one was Simeon (Luke 2: 25>, who is described by the same word "devout," and as “waiting for the con solation of Israel.” “Out of every na tion under heaven.” Only a very small portion of the Jewish people lived in Palestine during the times of our Lord and his apostles; hy far the largest num ber were natives of other lands.—Pro fessor Lindsay. IV. The EfTects of the Gift of the Spirit.—Vs. 12-21. First Effect. The ef fect of this gift of the Holy Spirit upon the apostles was a wonderful change in them. It was almost a transliguratlon experience. So the dead wire is thrilled with electricity, and bursts out Into light and power. They were common men no longer. As Moshelm says, "Their Igno rance was turned into light, their doubts Into certainty, their fears into a firm and invincible fortitude, and their form er backwardness into an ardent and in extinguishable zeal." Note especially the change in Peter from the man who, two months before, had forsaken his Lord and fled, and thrice denied him. Then Peter “had to speak on the spur of the moment, and to a crowd excited as only an Eastern crowd can be. It is not easy for the most practiced orator to catch the ear and hold the attention of a confused and hostile crowd. Shakes peare means us to recognize consum mate skill in Mark Antony's handling of the Roman citizens at Caesar’s funeral; but he used flattering words, and he spoke in order to rouse the people against the assassins or i acsar, mu againsi themselves. St. Peter had to address the crowd on a theme which could not be welcome, and to stir them to self-con demnation. Yet we see no trace of hesi tation or embarrassment.''—Donald Fraz er. In Speeches of the Apostles. Second Effect. On the people the effect was. at first, one of Intense amazement and per plexity. 12. "Amazed.’’ The Greek verb is one of which our word "ecstasy" Is al most a transliteration. It means to throw out of position, hence, to drive one out of one's senses, hence, to amaze, as tonish. "Were In doubt," “perplexity.” The Greek word is compound, meaning, to be without a way out or through. The radical Idea of the compound verb seems to be of one who goes through the whole list of possible ways, and finds no way out. Hence, to be in perplexity.—M. R. Vincent. They could not understand the meaning till Peter explained it to them. Third Effect. 13. "Others mocking.” The Greek Is from a word meaning a Jest or joke, and the preposition through. To them it was a Jest all through, something to be sneered at. "These men are full of new wine." At that season there was no new wine, in the sense of unferment ed. But it refers to the last vintage of the precious autumn. 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