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TARIFF TALK.
' Debate on the MoKlnley Bill In the
House.
lfr. McKlnlrjr Open the llrtiats In Favor
of III lllll nnil U rnlltmil
Hjr Mr. Mills In Oppo
sition, Tho brhalK OfrnMt.
WAMtiMiToie) May H. Tho House,
oon after assembling yesterday, wont
into Committee of tho Wholo upon tho
McKlnloy Tariff Mil, reported from tho
Ways und Means Committee.
Mr. McKlnloy took tho floor In
Ntipport of tho hill. In tho lust political
campaign tho tarllT hail been thoahsorh
Ing question bnfnro tho pooplo. It
nconicd to him that no extended iIImciim
lon of thin frrcnt principle) wasoxpootod
or required or necessary under existing
conditions, for If any ono thing was not
tied by tho political contest of 188 it
wan that tho protective policy us promul
gated hy tho Republican party In tho
platform, an maintained hy tho Repub
lican party through a lontf series of yours,
should bo secured in any legislation
which was tobohadby aCongrcssehoson
in this great contest and on this mas
tering Issue. Ho interpreted llio vie
tory to moan, ho lntorprctod tho major
ilty in this House to mean, bo Interpreted
the Incumbency of tho Presidency of
itho United States hy tho present Kxocu
tlve to mean, that a revision of tho
tariff was demanded hy tho people, ami
that that revision should ho along tho
line and in full recognition of tho prin
ciple and purpo.sos of protection. Ap
plause. Tho pooplo had soken and
they asked this Congress to register
their will and embody their verdict into
public law. Tho hill presented hy tho
Committee on Ways and Means to tho
House was a thorough answer to that
demand, in full recognition of tho prin
ciple and policy of the protective InrllT.
The bill, Mr. McKlnloy said, had not
abolished tho Internal revenue tax, as the
Republican party had pledged Itself to
do In tho event that abolition was
necessary to preserve tho protective
system, because tho coin mi tteo had
found tho abolition of the one wan not
necessary to tho preservation of tho
other. Tho bill recommended the aboli
tion of all special taxes and tho reduc
tion of tho tax on tobacco and it ro
moved tho restrictions upon the grow
ers of tobacco. With these exceptions
the Internal revenue laws stood as at
present. If thoso recommendations
wore agreed to, Internal taxation would
'bo reduced a little fH,tMM),(H)0. Tho com
mittee also recommended a provision
requiring all lmjorlod articles to hear n
tatamp or mark Indicating the country In
which such articles are manufactured.
The reason that actuated the commit
too was that It had Income too common
tamong somo of tho countries of tho
world to copy aonie of tho host known
brands and sell thorn In eomietltlon
with America's homo mitdo product.
The next provision recommended was
ono extending and llhorullilng tho
drawback sections of tho law. Under
ttho existing statute any oltlr.on of tho
United Htates could Import an article,
pay duty upon It, make it Into a com
plete product, export It and tho
Oovornmont refunded 00 per cent,
of tho duty paid on tho raw ma
terial. Tho committee recommend
ed that hereafter tho Government
hould retain only imhi per cent instead
of to per cent. This would give lo the
people of tho United States practically
freo raw material for the oxjtort trade.
Tho committee said to capitalists of the
country: "If you think you can go Into
tho foreign markets with freo raw ma
terial, we give you within one percent,
of freo raw material and you try and see
what you can do." Laughter. ) This
provision completely disposed of what
had sometimes seemed an almost un
answerable argument, urged by gentle
men on the outside that If the manu
facturers only had raw material they
could compote in tho markets of tho
world.
Mr. Springer, of Illinois, Inquired
whether this provision auplicd to wool.
Mr. MoKlnley replied that It applied
to evory thing. It win assorted by the
minority that the bill would not reduce
tho revenues of tho Government, but
that on tho contrary It would Increase
the revenues. Tnta statement was mis
leading. It could only bo valuable on
the assumption that the importations of
tho present year under this bill would
le equal to tho Importation of like arti
cle under existing law. The instant
duties were increased ton fair protective
.point, that Instant the Importation
diminished. No one could dispute that
proposition. If tho bill should become
a law tbo revenues of tho Government
would bo diminished from S.M,ooo,ooo to
i?U0,O0O,00O.
After discussing the bill more In do
tall Mr. MoKlnley said that under tho
dtitloa fixed by tho bill tho annual im
ports of S-AOOO.OOO of agricultural prod
iioU would bo supplied the (ample of
the United States by tho American
farmer rather than by tho Canadian
farmer, and that tM.OOO.OOO distributed
among the farmers would relievo some
of the depression prevailing among
them and give confidence, courage and
increased ability to raise the mortgages
upon their farms. Applause. During
tho twelve years of reciprocity with
Canada the United Slates had 'bought
much mora than it bad sold. What
Canada wanted, what other countries
wanted, was a free and open market In
tho United States. What tho United
States wanted, If It ever had reciprocity
was reciprocity with equality, re
ciprocity that was fair, reciprocity that
was just, reciprocity that would give
Iter her sharo In the trade or
tho bargain she made with tho old
countries of tho world. Whenever the
United States had freo trade, reciprocity
or low duties It had always been tbo
loser. Hut ho would not discuss recip
rocity. This was a domestic hill; it was
not a foreign bill. Applause.)
Mr, McKlnloy explained and defended
fcne wool schedule und the paragraph In
(he saetal schedule concerning tin-plate
.end passed to the consideration of tho
-freelUt. Ilo said that tho committee
had taken from tho free list and placed
e the utiablt lUt, eighteen articles,
ten of which wero articles of agriculture.
If tho Hame quantity should m imported
this year as was Imported last year, this
would Ineronnn tho rovenue S-J,400,000.
It had taken from tho dutiable list and
put upon tho freo list forty-eight arti
cles which last year paid into tho treas
ury Wl.ftOO.OOO, 935,000,000 of which was
from sugar alone.
Referring to tho growth of tho carpet
Industry In tho United States, Mr. Mc
Klnloy said that tho prlco of carpotshnd
gone down while tho ad valorem equiv
alent hail gono up. It was tho hlgn ad
valorem that gentlemen on tho other
side saw, while thoy shut their eyes to
the diminished price. The favorite as
sault of tho Domocratio freo trader and
revenue tariff reformer was to parade
tills high per contngo and ad valorem
equivalent to show tho enormous burden
of taxation Imposed upon tho people.
When stool rails wero 8100 a ton there
was an equivalent ad valorem duty upon
them of as jtor coot., but tho very in
stant the prlco of steel rails had been re
duced to ?:( n ton, becauso of this
duty of 8 per cent., which had
Induced manufacturers to engage
In that business, tho ad valorem
equivalent went up to M per cent. Tho
Democrats looked ut tho percent., tho
Republicans looked nt tho prices. Tho
Republicans would rather have steel
rails nt (50 per ton and an ml valorem of
M per cent, than steel rails at PI 00 a ton
and an ad valorem of MH per cent. The
Democrats pursued tho shadow; the Re
publicans enjoyed tho Hiibstance. Ap
plause. The Democrats would rather
hnvnlnwad vuloromcqulviilnntsandhlgh
prices than high ad valorem equivalents
and low prices. What was tliocoinplalnt
against the bill? Was it that it would
stop exportation and Interfere with for
eign markets? Tho foreign markets wero
nsnccesslhle uuderthnblll nsundcroxlsl
Ing law. They wero as accessible under
tho hill ns they would bo under abso
lute free trade. Tho committee would
encourage foreign trade und sustain
It, but what peculiar sanctity hung
about the foreign market that illd not
attach to tho domestic market'.' Was
tho foreign consumer a bettor consumer
than the American consumer? Was not
tht) American consumer a better con
sumer, and therefore u better customer
for tho American consumer?
Under the system of revenue tariff,
Mr. McKlnloy declared, this Nation
bought more abroad than It sold and
paid the balance In gold an unearthly
state of alTalrs. The organized opposi
tion to the bill came from theeonslguees
here and the consignors and merchants
abroad. Why? Ilccuuso It would check
their business. Tho press of other
countries had condemned thoblll. Why?
llooauHo It worked against them. Tills
bill was an American bill, made for
American Interests. Much had been
said about foreign tradn and com
merce and vast domestic, commerce
has been Ignored. What would It boot It
that tho produotof tho great West found
their markets In New York and Chi
cago rather than In Kuropo? Why pass
over the best market of tho world the
homo market? Notwithstanding alt of
these croaklngs, however, the Ameri
cans were now exporting mnro products
than at any time In their history.
America's exports hud Increased !!S per
cent, morn than the exports from free
trado (Sreat llrliulu. While (Ireat
llrltaln had between 1870 and tsso lost
lit percent, of her commerce, the United
States had gained SM per cent, and with
the same aid to shipping that Ureal
llrltaln gave, tho ships of the United
Stales would plow every sea, under
tho American flag, In successful
competition with tho ships of the
world. Applause. On. the Atlantic
coast this year would he produced
100,000 tons of shipping, built hy Amer
ican workmen of American material.
This Nation had enjoyed twenty-nine
years of continuous protection- the
longest porlisl since the foundation of
the (lovernment and found Itself In
greater prosperity than at any other
time. In tho arts and sciences, In
wealth, In National honor, tho country
was ut the front. In I t. after fourteen
years of revenue tariff, tho country was
In a Htate of depression with neither
money nor credit, li had both now und
hud a surplus revenue. Under the Mor
rill tarllT contldcncn was restored
and courage reanimated. With a
great war on hand, with money flowing
Into the treasury to save tho Govern
ment, Industries wero springing up on
every hand under the benellcent Influ
ence of protection. The accumulations
of the working classes had increased
und their deposits In savings banks ex
ceeded those of the working class of uny
other country. The public debt of the
United States per capita was less than
that of any Nation of the world. Vet
men were found to talk about the re
stralnts we put upon trade. Tho great
est good to the greatest number, the
largest opportunity for human endeavor,
were the maxims upon which the pro
tective system restou. Applause.
Mr. Mill Talks.
Mr. Mills, of Texas, followed Mr. Mc
Klnloy. In opposing the bill ho declared
that this wus the tlrst bill t ).-. tm.l
come before the American people with
Its mask torn off like a highwayman
demanding their purses. Applause.)
To check Importation was to check ex
portation. Split hairs as ono might no
man could show that they might sell
without buying. When this Nation re
fused to take the products of other Na
tions that refusal was an Interdiction
against exports, and as this country re
moved the barriers to freo exchange It
Increased its trade. l'mtix'Hnn Iwii..i
i down meant more work and less result,
1 and carried out to Its conclusion it
meant alt work and no result, rig Iron
was the base of all Iron nnd steel manu
factures. In lsTl prices wero rising,
aiier a periiM ot depression und tho Im
(torts of pig Iron wore increasing. From
vl.MM.ooo tons In IST0 the Imports of pig
iron rose to ?,ooo,ooo In lXTit. If the
Republican doctrine was true, then
every ton Imported displaced it ton of
American Iron. lint the llgures
showed that domestic product rose
from M.ooo.ooo tons in is-o
to 110,000,000 tons In IsTS. That showed
conclusively that the Democratic hi1
tlonwAt right that Increased Import.
Increased the demand for American la
bor. Following out the figure It was
seen that from 1880 to 189.1, when the
imports of pig Iron dropped off, the do
mestic production foil off morn rapidly.
Theso figures presented an argumont
absolutely overwhelming horse, foot
and dragoon all this talk of importa
tions interfering with domestic employ
ment. Mr. Mills crltlcUed tho provisions of
tho bill relating to hides, tin-plate and
sugar, and then said that at length thoso
gentlemen wero brought to their kneel
nt tho confessional and wero bound to
admit that there was widespread depres
sion throughout the agricultural regions.
What did tho bill do to nld agriculture?
It put sugar on tho freo list, though all
tho Republicans did not come up Ilka
little gentlemen nnd take sugar In theirs.
Gentlemen on the other side expressed
sympathy for the farmer, and their
zeal to relieve the distress which they at
length acknowledged surrounded the
agriculturalist. Two years ugo tho
Democrats stood hero and declared that
tho country was on the edge of a dark
shadow. Tho Republicans ridiculed
this and said that tho farm mortgages
were only n further evidence of prosper
Ity nnd wealth. Laughter. Why did
not the committee treat sugar as it
treated woolen goods and cotton goods
and Iron goods? Why did It not put
protective duty on Hiigar and compel In
production In this country and carry out
tho protective policy'.'
Tho committee, Sir. Mills said, had
found out that thewheat production was
In danger und had increased tho duty GO
Kr cent. Tho United States exported
00,000,000 bushels of wheat a year, and
It imported tho startling amount of 1,'JM
bushels. Laughter. Tho Increased
duty was to protect tho American farmer
against the patior of India. Corn was
to ho protected. Thn United States last
year exported 00,000,000 bushels of corn
und Imported J.JtSI bushels. This Im
mense Importation must ho stopped.
The committee proposed to deliver tho
ryo farmer from all peril. It was
going to speak words of com
fort to him und tell him that
ho would not have to cotiioto
with pauper labor. How much rye did
the United States lmMirt? sixteen
bushels. Laughter.) Some adventur
ous farmer hud bought this rye to im
prove his crop and ho was to lie' rebuked
for this at the capital of his Nation. Ilo
attributed to the majority of the com
mittee one bold and audacious move,
which meant the deliverance of tho
farmers. They cried out, "let the port
cullis fall," In order to save the cabbage
patch, They had placed a duty on cab
bage, and that was to be the panacea for
nil Ills. The farmer could stand In his
eabbage patch and defy the world.
Laughter. This was a cabbage-head
bill. (Applause,
The Republicans, Mr. Mills declared,
must do some something more than this
In order to fool the farmers. The farm
ers understood that they needed market
for their products. This bill would al
most stop thooxMirtutlonof agricultural
products, and then the Republicans
would hear a storm worse than n Ne
braska cyclone. In order to Increase
the homo muiket and give employment
to America's people, the farmers should
he given access to the foreign markets,
where they could sell their surplus
produoU Agriculture was chained like
a galley slave. When her bonds wero
rended and her products exported to
foreign markets, the prlco of her pro
ducts would he Increased at home and
abroad, and the Increased price would
extend employment to production
In all departments of laltor.
The Industries of the country
had developed lalnir. The Industries of
of the country had develosd until they
produced 1,1 per cent, more than could
be consumed In this country. The sur
plus was constantly Increasing and tho
question was what Congress was going
to do about It. The Democratic way
was to let down the barriers and let tho
surplus go out to tho people who wanted
It and take from other people what they
did not want and this Nation did.
In this extraordinary Mil a new policy
was Inaugurated, by which the whole
American people were taxed In order
that somebody might go Into a foreign
market and sell cheap goods to foreign
ers. The American Government had a
foundation laid hy the grandest and
greatest men the world ever produced.
They did not build the Government to
tax the people In order that homebody
might sell cheap goods to foreigners.
Discussing the sugar bounty clans,
Mr. Mills said that the people who
raised corn and wheat and rye would
step up to the counter and say: "We
will lake some sugar III ours." Tho
Democrats were opposed to .subsidies.
He wanted to see tho Hag of the Union
float In every sea; he wanted to seo
American vessels In every port; but ho
wanted to see those vessels go Into for
eign ports as free ships, representing
free American institutions. He did not
want to hire anybody todlsplay the flag
of the United Slates anywhere In thn
world. He wanted to see the
flag, when It went Into for
eign seas, go as an emblem of tho
proudest and freest people ot tho world,
who hy their genius had conquered tho
seas and brought their commerce when
they pleased. '1 he Republicans might
pass their bill, but It had a Hell Gate to
go through after It left tho House and
Senate. Applause. There was a
whirlpool iKMieath the surface ot the
waters upon which the little craft float
ed. The American pooplo wero long
sutler Ing, but there was a time when
distress was so supremo that tho man
stood with his eyes open and was bound
to step forth for his own deliverance.
That time had altoul come. Applause.
He did not expect to hinder the Repub
licans from pacing this bill, but he
wanted them to take the bill to tho
Northwest and show It to tho people
whom they were taxing unnecessarily.
Ho wanted them to confront those peo
ple and when they had preached their
sermons and told the people how good
the Republicans had been and how In
the people's name they had east out tho
devils, the people would say to them:
"Get thee behind me, Satan." Tho
Democrat would not Impede the pass-
ago ot the bill, but, when the Republic
ans uppcartM before the great American
people, after passing this measure, "May
the Lord have mercy eu their soul,
lApplautv.
MUUXT OLIVET.
Dr. Talmaire Dincoursos on Christ'
Aecenslon.
A ftntatitft I'lar In Hsrrfil IIUInry-TIm
fcavlmir on Mount nilvrt-IIU Ascent
Into llratrn-ltlrstlngt For .til
True llrlltttrr
Inn recent sermon nt llrooklyn Rev.
T. DeWllt Talmage took his text from
Psalms xxlv.. 7: "Lift up your heads.
0 ye gates; nnd be ye lifted up, ye ever
lasting doors; and the King of Glory
shall come in." He said:
In olden limes, when a great con
queror H'turned from victorious war.
the people In wild trunsort would take
hold of the gates of the city nnd lift
them from their hinges, as much as to
say: "This city needs no more gates to
defend It since the conqueror has got
home. OIT fiom the hinges with the
gales!" David, who was (he poet of
poets, foretells In his own way the
triumphal entrance of Christ Into
Heaven, after Ills victory over sin and
death and hell. It was as It the celes
tial inhabitants had said "Mere He
conies! Make way for him! I'usti back
the bolts ot diamond! Take bold of the
doors of pearl und hoisl thorn from their
hinges of gold.! Lift up your heads, O
ye gates; and be ye lifted up, ye ever
lasting doots; and the King of Glory
ahall come In."
Among the mountains of Palestine no
one Is more uplifting than Mount Olivet.
It was the peroration of our Lord's min
istry. On the roof of a house In Jerusalem
1 asked: "Which Is Olivet?" and the
first glance transfixed me. Hut how
shall I describe my emotions, when
near the close of u Journey. In which we
had for two nights encamped amid the
shattered masonry of old Jorllho and
tasted of the acrid waters of the Dead
sea. that crystal sarcophagus of the
burled cities of the plain, nnd waded
down Into the deep and swift Jordan to
haptlire a man, and visited the ruins of
the house of Mary and Martha and Laz
arils, we found ourselves In stirrups and
on horse, lathered with the long and
dltlliiiilt way, ascending Mount Olivet.
O, that solemn and suggestive ridge! It
Is a limestone hill a mile In length, and
:too feet high, and '-'.700 feet above the
level ot the sea. Over It King David
fled with a broken heart. Over It Pom
poy led his devastating hosts. Here the
famous Tenth legion built their bat
teries In heslcgcmcnU The garden of
Gethsemane weeps ut the foot of It,
Along the base or this hill lla-dicd the
lanterns and torches of those who came
to arrest Jesus. From the trees on this
hilt the boughs were torn off and thrown
Into the path of Christ's triumphal pro
cession. Up und down that road Jesus
had walked twice a day from llothany
to Jerusalem, and from Jerusalem to
Itethany. There, again and again, He
hud taught Ills disciples. Halfway up
this mount He uttered Ills lamentation,
"O. Jerusalem! Jerusalem!" From Its
heights Jesus took flight homeward
when He had finished Ills earthly mis
sion. There Is nothing more for Him to
do. A sacrifice was needed to make
ioueo between the reereant earth and
the outraged Heaven and He hud offered
It. Death needed to ho conquered, and
He had put Ills resurrection foot upon
It. The thirty-three years of voluntary
exile had ended. The grandest, tender
est, mightiest good-bye ever heard was
now to lie uttered.
On Mount Olivet Jesus stands In u
group of Galileo llshermen. They had
been together In many scones of sadness
and had been the more endeared by that
brotherhood of suffering. They had e.
(tooted Him tostay until the day of coro
nation, when He would take the earthly
throne and wave a .scepter mightier, anil
rule a dominion wider than any David,
than any Ciena r. Rut now nil these antici
pations collapse. Christ has given Ills
last advice. He has offered Ills last
sympathy. He has spoken Ills last
word, His hands are spread apart us
one is apt to do when he pronounces a
IsMiedlctloii, when suddenly thn strong
est and most stupendous law of all
worlds Is shattered. It Is the law which,
since the worlds were created, holds
them together. It Is the law which
holds every thing to tho earth, or tem
porarily burled from earth, returns It;
the law which keeps the planets whirl
ing around our sun and our solar system
whirling around the throne of God- the
law of gravitation, That law Is sus
pended, or relaxed, or broken, to let the
body of Jesus go. The law had laid
hold of II in thirty-three years before,
when HodcHccmlid. It had relaxed Its
grip of Him but once and that when It
declined to sink Him from the top of
the waves on Galilee, on which He
walked, to the bottom of the lake.
That law of gravitation must now give
way to II m who made the law. It may
hold the other stars, but it can not
longer hold the Morning Star of Re
demption. It tuny hold the noonday
sun, but It can not hold the Son of
Righteousness. The linger of the law
are about to open to let go the most
lllustrous Ilelug tho world had ever
s?cn, and whom It had worst maltreated.
The strongest law of nature which
philosophers ever weighed or measured
mutt at last give war. It will break lie
tween the rook of Olivet and the heel of
Christ's foot. Watch It, all ye disciples!
Watch It, all the earth! Watch it, all
the heavens! Christ about to leave this
planet. Howl IIU friends will not con
tent to have Htm go. Ills enemies
-atchlng Him would only attempt by
mother Calvary to put Him Into some
.vther tomk I will tell you how. The
'haln of the most tremendous natural
aw Is unlinked. The sacred foot of our
Lord and the limestone rock part, and
part forever.
Leaning back, and with pallid cheek
tnd uplifted eye, the disciples see their
laml rising from the solid earth. Then,
.ushlng forward, they would grasp Ills
feet to hold Hint fast, but they are out
of reach, and It Is too late to detain
Him. Higher than the tops of the rig
trees from which they had plucked tho
fruit. Higher than the olive trees that
shaded the mount. Higher, until He Is
within sight of the llethlehcm where
He was born, and the Jordan where He
wa baptized, and tho Golgotha where
He was slain. Higher, until on stairs
offle-cy cloud He steps. Higher, until
into a sky bluer than tho lake that
could not sink Him, He disappears Into
a sea of glory whose billowing splendors
hide Him. The fishermen watch und
watch, wondering If tho law of nature
will not reassert Itself, and Ho shall In
a few moments come back again, and
they shall see Him descending; tlrst Ills
scared feet coming in sight, then the
scarred side, then the scarred brow, atrd
they may take again His scarred hand.
No wonder that for at least 1,400 years
tho churches have, fortv davs ufter
Kaster, kept Ascension day: for the les- j
miii urv most inspiring inu glorious.
takes much of the uncertainty out of the
Idea of Heaven when from Olivet
we seo human nature ascending. The
same body that rose from Joseph's tomb
ascended from Mount OUvqL Our hu
man nature is in Heaven to-day. Just
as they had seen Christ for forty days,
He us! ended, head. face, shoulders,
hands. fiM .nut tlm i.titlri luifiif.fi orir.in.
Ism. Humanity ascended! Ah. how'
closely th.il keeps ( hrlst In sympathy
Willi those who are still in the struggle!
Christ leads us nil the way: Through '
the birth hour, for lie was Ijorn in lleth-1
lehem; through boyhood, for He passed
It In Nazareth; through Injustice, for
Ilo endured the outragesof I'ilato's court
room; through death, for He sutTcrtl It
on Calvary; through the sepub hn for
He lay three days within Us darkened
walls; through resurrection, foe the
solid masonry gave way on the llrt
Master morning: through ascension, fur
Mount Olivet watched' Him as He
climbed the skies; through tbo shining
gales, for He entered them amid mag
nificent acclaim. And hero Is a gratify
Ingeonsldorntlon thatyoii never thought
of. We will see tho Lord Just as llr
lookml on earth. Ai lie arose from lh
tomb He ascended from Mount I'Mlvet.
We shall see Him as He looked onthe
road to Kniiiiaiis. us lie appeared In the
upjirr room in Jerusalem, us Ho was that
day of valedictory on the rldgn from
which lie swung into tho skies. How
much we will want to see Him.
I was reading of a man horn blind'.
He was married to one who took care of
him all those years of darkness. X
surgeon said to him: "I can remove tlmr
blindness," und so he did. Ills sight,
given blin. a rose was handed to tho
man who never before had seen a rose
and he was In admiration of It. and his
family whom he had never seen before
now appeared to him, and ho wns In
tears of rupture, when he suddenlycrled
out: "I ought tlrst to have usked to see
the one who cured me; show me the
doctor." When from our eyes the
scales of earth shall fall, and we have
our llrst vision of Heaven, our tlrst cry
ought not to be: "Where are our loved
ones?" Our llrst cry ought to be:
"Where NCbrlst. who made all this invi
sible? Show me the Doctor!" tilery be
to God for ascended humanity!
")ur fetlnw sufferer yet intuitu
A lellnw Ifflltiii in our pitlm.
Ami still relneiiilii'M, la tin- sklr.
HWteuii, III iikdiiIi-n ioi 1 1 1 rli's."
I am so- glad that Christ broke the
natural law of gravitation when He
shook olt from his feel the clutch of
Mount Olivet. People talk as though
cold, Iron, unsympathetic, natural law
controlled every thing. The reign of
law Is a- Majestic thing, but the God
who made ft has a right to break It. and
again and again has broken It, and
again and uguln will break It. A law Is
only God's way of doing things, and If
lie chooses to do them some other way
He has it right to do so. A law Is not
strong enough to shackle the Almighty.
Christ broke the botanical law when one
Monday morning In March, on the way
from llelhanv to Jerusalem, by a few
words he turned a full leaved tig tree
Into a lifeless stick. He broke Ichthyo
logical law when, without any natural
Inducement, he swung a great school of
flsh Into a part of Lake Tiberias, where
the fishermen had cast their nuts for
eight or ten hours without the capture
of a-minnow, nnd by making n fish help
pay the tax by yielding from Its mouth
ii Roman stater. Christ broke the
law of storms by compelling,
with a word, the lingered sea to hush Its
freny, and tho winds to quit their bel
lowing. He broke zoological law when
He made the devils possess the swine
of Gadara. He broke the law of eco
nomics whim H made enough bread for
.1,000 people out of tlve biscuits that
would not ordinarily have lcon enough
for ten of the hungry. He broke In
tellectual law when, by a word, He
slleacvd n maniac Into placidity. He
broke physlologlc.il law when, hy n
totteri. He straightened n woman who
for eighteen years hud been benialmost
double, and when He put spring Into-the
tool of liihumatisl I, .minis, .md when,
without medicine, lit gave the dying
girl back in health to the Syro
PhuMilcisn mother, and when He made
the palatial home of the nobleman re
sound again with the laughter of hit
restored boy, ami when, without knife
or battery. He sot cateractcd eyes to
seeing again, and tho drum of draf ears
ti vibrating again, and the nerves of
parslyied arms to thrilling ag.vl. n I ,
then when. In leaving tint earth. He do-1
tied all atmospheric law and physio-1
logical law, and that law whlrh has In
It withes and cables and girders enough I
to hold the unlver.se, the law of gravita
tion, I
The Cnrlst who proved Hlmwdt on so J
many occasions, and especially the last,
superior to law. still lives, and ovcry
day, in answer to prayer for the ginl of ,
the world, He Is overriding the law,
Itlessed le God that we are not the sub-)
Vols of blind fatality, but of a sympa- ,
thliln.1 divinity. Have you never seen
a typhoid fever hrvak, or a storm sud-1
J denly quiet, or a ship a-lsani's-end right
1 Itself, or a fog lift, or a parched sky
1 break In showers or a perplexity dlten
' tangled, or the Inconsolable take solace,
or the wayward reform at the call of
prayer? I have seen It; multitudes have
seen it You have. If jou have I teen
willing to see it. IVrlde not the faith
, cure. llecaUM Impostors attempt It. Is,
nothing airalntt rood men whom Gil
I hath honored with marvelous reitera
tion. Pronounce nothing Impossible to ,
prajvr and trust. Itecause you and I'
can not effect It U no reason why other
may not. Hy the same argument I
could prow that Raphael never painted I
Madonna, and that Mendelssoha
never wrote an oratorio, nnd that
Phidias never chiseled a statue.
Ilecause we can not accomplish it
ourselves, we are not to conclude that
others may not. There are In Immen
sity great ranges of mists which havo
proved, under closer telescopic scrutiny,
to he the storehouse of worlds, atul I do
not know, but from tint passage in
James, which, to some of us, is yet
misty and dim, there may roll out u new
Heaven and a new earth. "The prayer
of faith shuli save the sick. ' Tho faltb
curlstrtinay. in this war agai'ist disease,
be only skirmishing before a general
engagement. In which all the- maladies
of earth shall Is routed. Sujely allo
pathy and homeopathy and hjlropathy
und eclecticism neirsj reinforcement from
somewhere: Why not from tlf faith
nnd prayer of the- consecrated.' Tho
mightiest school ' medicine .may jet
be the school! of Chrkt. I do nosknow
but that diseases, nw by all sihools
pronoun 1 Incurable-, may give w.iy un
der gospel bombardment. I do not know
but that the day may come when faith
nnd prayer shall ruii she dead. Strauss
and Woolston and Spinora and Hume
and Sclilolermueher rejected tho
miracles of the fas past. 1 do
not propose to be lUv -Jieui nnd reject
the miracles of the far future. This I
know, the Christ of Ascension day Is
mightier than any natural laws, for on
the day of which I spcalr Ho tramplisl
dow u the strongest of rhein nil. Law la
mighty, but who He made It Is mightier.
Drive out fatalism from your theology,
and give grace the throne.
Standing to-duv on the Asvonslon peak
of Mount Olivet I am uImi gladdened at
the closing gesture, the lut gesture
Christ ever made, "lie lifted up Ills
bunds and blessed theim" says the In
spired account of our Lord's departure.
I am so -.lad lifted up His hands.
Gestures are often mom significant
than words, attitudes than arguments.
Christ had made a gesture of con
tempt when with Ills finger He wroto
on the ground; gesture of repulsion
when He .aid: "Get thee behind me.
Satan." gesture of condemnation when
He said: "Woe unto you. Pharisees and
hypocrites." Hut hl's lust gesture Is a
gesture of benediction. He lifted up
his hands and blessed them. Ills arms
are extended and thep.ilmsof lllshands
turned downejtt. nnd so He dropped
benediction Tfftrtn Olivet, benediction
upon Palestine, benediction upon all the
earth.
The cruel world took Him In at the
start on a audio of straw, ami at last
thrust Him out with the point
if the sjiear: but benediction! As
cending until beneath He saw on one
side the Itothlchcm, where they put
Him among tho cattle, and Calvary on
the other side, where they put lltm
among the thieves us fnr us the excited
und Intensified vision of the group on
'iet could see Him, and after He was
so far up they could no longer hear Ilia
words they saw the gesture of tho
outspread bauds, the benediction.
And that Is His attitude to-day.
His benediction upon the world'-
climates, and they are changing and will
kisqiou chunglng until the ulmosphcro
shall lie u commingling of October and
Jane. Ilenedlctton iimiii the deserts
till they whiten with lily and blush
with lose and yellow with cowslip and
emerald with grass. Ilenedlctton upon
governments till they become more just
and humane. Ilcncdlctlon upon nations
till they kneel in prayer. Ilcncdlctlon
iin the whole earth until every
mountain Is an Olivet of consecration,
ami every take a Galilee on whose mo
saic of crystal and opal and sapphire
divine splendors -shall walk, O, take
tho benediction of His pardon, sinners
young and sinners old, sinners modorntn
and sinners abandoned. Take thn
benediction of His comfort, all ye
broken hearted under bereavement,
and privation, and myriad woes.
Take his benediction all ye sick
beds, whether under acute spasms
of pain or In long protracted Invalidism.
For orphannge, nnd childlessness und
w blow hood a benediction. For cradles,
and trundle beds nnd rocking chairs of
ts-togenarlans a Itenedlf tlon. For life
aad for death, for time and for eternity,
for earth and for Heaven a benediction.
Subllniest gesture ever made, the last
gesture of our ascending !ortl. "Anil
He lifted up His hands and blessed,
them."
Is our attitude the same? Is It wrath
or is It kindness? Is it diabolism or
ChrlstlMii? (Sod give us the grace of the
open palm. ocu upward to get the lxn
edlctton. open downward to pronounce a
benedlctl jn. A lady was passing along
a street and suddenly ran Miraln-tt
a raggtsl boy, and she said: "I
lsg your pardon, my lsy, I did
not mean to run against you:
I am very sorry." And tli Ny
took olt the piece of o uap he had
upon his head and said: "Yu hart my
pardlug, lady, and you may rwn agin ma
and knock me clear down; I won'tcare."
And turning to a comraoV he said:
"That nearly ttntk me off my feet No
body ever asked my pardlng before."
Kindness! Kindness! Hit tho world
with It. There has always hrn too
much disregard for othr. Illustrated
In titto, in Kngland. when 0.1,000 acres
ot marshes wem dralarU for health and
for crop raising and ihc sportsmen de
stroyed the drainat work hecausn
they wanted to kcew the marshes for
hunting ground. whee they could shoot
wild duck. The same selfishness in
all ages. O, for kindnes that would
make our life a symphony suggestive of
one of theanc cut banquet w hem every
thing was set to music: the plate
brought In and removed to the tound of
music, the motions ot the carter keep
ing time with th" music, the conversa
tion lifting and dropping with the rising
and falling of th music, (tut. Instead
of tho music of an earthly orchestra, It
would be the music of a hravenly
charm, our words the music of kind
thoughts, our tf ps the music of helpful
deed, our mlle the mutio of encourag
ing looks, our youth and old agf tae
first and lat liar of music conducted
by the pierced hand that a opened In
love and spread dnanward In benedic
tion on Olivetlc height on Asornjioe
day,
-Hy b wty rtroJ.
Christ tcouairi to UM tarwM ot .'
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