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THE BARE ARM OF G.0D
HEV. DR. TALMAGE'3 IMPRESSIVE SER
MON AT THE TABERNACLE.
"Tlie Lord Hftth Mndo Itaro ill Holy
Arm" A rt'ondeirul Reicrto of I'owiTi
Achlavemoiit Without lllTort On llir
Winning Side.
Brooklyn, Jan. 21. Singularly np-
f propriato and impressive vns tho old
$ gospel hymn n it wan Bung this morn-
4' Ing by tho thousands of Hrooklyn Tub-
' ernncle, led on by cornet nml organ:
Arm of tho Lord, (tK'.ikc, nwtiko!
Tut on thy strength, tho nations slntke.
Rev. Dr. Talmngo too!: for his sub
ject, "Tho Baro Arm of Clod," tho toxt
being Isaiah' Hi, 10, "Tho Lord Imth
.i mndo lmro his holy tirni."
It almost takes our breath nwny to
rend,somuof tho Hlblo imngery. Thoro
is such boldness of mctnphor in my text
that I hnvo been for bouio tlino gottlng
my courngo tip to prench from it. Isa
iah, tho ovnngolistic prophet, is sound
ing tho jubllnto of our pin not redcomod
and cries out, "Tho Lord hath mndo
bare his holy arm." What overwhelm
ing nuggestiveness in that figuro of
pooch, "Tho baro arm of God!" Tho
pcoplo 6f Palestino to this day wear
much hindering apparel, and whon
thoy want to run a Apodal raco, or lift
a special bunion, or light a special bat
tle, they put oft tho out si do nppurol, as
in our land when a man proposes a
special exertion ho piitrfoft his coat
and rolls up his sloove3. Walk through
our foundries, our machiuo shops, our
mines, our factories, und you will find
that most of tho toilors hnvo their couts
olf and thoir sleeves rolled up.
Isaiah saw thnt Micro must bo n tro
mendons amount of work dono beforo
this world becomes what it ought to bo,
and ho foreseen it nil accomplished, and
accomplished by tho Almighty, not ns
wo ordinarilyhink of him, but by tho
Almighty with tho slcovo of his robo
rolled back to his shoulder, "Tho Lord
hath mado baro his holy arm."
TUB CRKATION OP LIQIIT.
Nothing moro impresses mo in tho
f. Bible than tho oaso with which God
' does most things. Thoro is such n ro
aervo of power. Hu has moro thunder
bolts than ho has over flung, moro light
thnn hn linnnvnr fllntrilintrd. mnrn lilun
than that with which hu has overarch- '
ed tho sky, moro green than that with
which bo lmsoincralded tho grass, moro
crimson than that with which ho has
burnished tho sunsets. I bay it with
reverence, from all I can see, God has
never hnlf tried.
Vou know ns well ns I do that many
of tho most elaborato and expensive in
dustries of our world hnvo been em
ployed in creating nrtificinl light. Half
of tho timo tho world is dark. Tho
moon nnd the otnra hnvo their gloriotu
nscs, but as instruments of illumiuntion
thoy nro failures. Thoy will not; allow
you to read n book or stop tho ruffian
ism ot your great cities, Had not tho
darkness been persistently fought back
by nrtilicial mcann, tho most of tho
world's enterprises would havo halted
' half tho time, whllo tho criino of our
(treat municipalities would for half tho
timo run rampant and uurcbuked;
bunco nil tho inventions for crenting
artificial light, Irom tho flint Htruck
against stool in centuries past to tho
tlynnmoof our electrical manufactories.
What uncounted numbers of pcoplo at
work tho year round in making chnn
doliors nnd lumps and fixtures nnd
wires nnd batteries whero light shall
bo made, or along which light shall
run, or whero light shall iioIho! How
innny baro arms of human toil and
aoiqo of tlioso baro urms nro very tired
in tho creation of light und its ap
paratus, and after nil tho work tho
greater pait of tho continents and hem
ispheres at night havo no light at all,
except perhaps tho fireflies flashing thoir
amall lanterns across tho mvamp.
maph with iuh riNor.ity.
Bnt sco how easy God mado tho light.
Ho did not inako baro his arm; ho did
not oven put forth his robed arm; ho
did not lift so much as it finger. Tito
Hint out pf which ho struck tho noon
day sun was tho word, "Light." "Let
thero bo light!" Adam did not sco tho
sun until the fourth day, for, though tho
nu was created on tho fir&t day, it
took its rays from tho first to tho fourth
duy to work through tho denso mass of
fluids by which this earth wna com
jinwtcd. Did you over hear of any
thing so easy ns that? So uniquo? Out
of a word camu tho blazing sun,' tho
father of flowers, and wnrmth nnd
light! Out of n word building a flro
pluco for nil tho nations of tho earth to
wnrm themselves byi Von, seven other
worlds, livo of them inconceivably lar
ger than our own, and 70 asteroids, or
worlds on n nmnllor scale! Tho warmth
nnd light for this great brotherhood,
great eistorhood, great family of
worlds, 87 larger or smaller worlds, all
from that ono magnificent fireplace,
mado ont of tho ono word Light.
Tho sun flSO.000 miles in diameter, 1
do not know how much grander a solar
system God could hnvo created if ho
Jind put f oi th hisrobrri arm, to say
nothing of an arm mudo h;jrol But
this 1 know, that our noonday una was
a spark struck from tho anvil of ono
word, mid that word "Light."
"But,," wiya soino one, "do you not
think thttt in making tho machinery of
the, universe, of which our' solar byi.
tern is comparatively a small wheel
working into mightier wheoU, it must
avavo cost God sotiw Exertion? Tho ;j
heuval of an arm either robotl or tin
arm mado baro?" Nos wo xuo dis
tinctly told otherwise. Tho marhJuery
.of n uuivcrnu Hod made e imply with hie
Angers. David, inspired in n night
nong, Ktiys bo "When I consider thy
hcuvens, ho work of thy fingers."
Till: TISTIMONY OV lAVI.
A Scottish clergyman told mo n fuw
w.neks ago of dyK.'ptio Thomits Curly Jo
walking out with u friend ono starry
night, and as tho friend Jouked up und
wid, "What a splendid fry!" Mr.
(Uwrtyle e qpHwJ as In glanced uo.vanl, j
"Bad sight, sad Right!" Not so thought
Duvld us ho road tho great Scripture of
tho ulpjht heat ns. It was tt sweep of
ombroidery, of vast tapestry, God mil
nlpnlat :'l, That i.i thu allusion of tho
psalmist to tho woven hangings of tup
cstry ns thoy.woro known long beforo
David's time. Fur back in tho ages
what enchantment of thread nml color,
tho Plorentltio velvets of silk and gold
and Torsion carpots woven of goats'
halrl If you hnvo been In tho Gobelin
manufactory of tapestry in Paris alas,
now no moro! you witnessed wondrous
tilings as you saw tho wooden uccdloor
broach going buck and forth and in
and out; yon wcro transfixed wlth'ad
miration at tho patterns wrought. No
wonder that Louis XIV bought it, and
It becamo-tho possession of tho throne,
and for n long whllo nono but thrones
nml palaces might havo any of its work!
What triumphs of loom ! What victory
of skilled fingers! So David says of tho
heavens that God's fingers wovo into
them tho light; ttiat God's fingers tap
estried them with stars; that God's fin
gers embroidered them with Worlds.
How much of tho immensity of the
heavens David understood I know not.
Astronomy was born in China 0,800
years beforo Christ was born. During
tho reign of Hoang-TI astronomers wero
put to death if thoy mado wrong calcu
lations about tho heavens. Job under
fttood tho refraction of tho sun's rays
and enld thoy wero "turned ns tho clay i
to tho seal." Tho pyramids wero as-1
tronomical observatories, and thoy wero i
so long ngo built that Isaiah refers to '
ono of them in his nineteenth chapter
nnd calls it tho "pillar nt tho border."
Tho first of all tho sciences born was
astronomy. Whether from knowledgo
already nbrond or from direct inspira
tion, it seems to mo David had wido
knowledgo of tho heavens. Whether ho
understood tho full forco of what ho
wrote, J know not, but tho God who
inspired him know, and ho would not
let David writo anything but truth, nnd
thorcforo all tho worlds that tho tclo
8eot0 over reached or Coporuicus or
Galilei or Kepler or Nowton or La
placo or Hortichel or our own Mitchell
over saw wero no easily mado that they
wcro mado with tho flngors. As easily
ns with your fingers you mold tho wax,
or tho clay, or tho dough to particular
shapes, so ho decided tho bhapo of
our world, and that it should weigh
six scxtilliou tons and appointed for
nil worlds their orbits nnd decided their
color tho whito to Shins, tho ruddy
to Aldebarnn, tho yellow to Pollux,
tho bluo to Altair, marrying some of
tho stars, as tho '-V10U dfcublo stars that
Herschel observed, administering to tho
whims of tho vnriablo stars as their
glauco becomes brighter or dim, pre
paring what astronomers called, "tho
girdle of Andromeda" and tho nebula
in tho sword handle of Orion. Worlds
on worlds! Worlds under worlds!
Worlds nbovo worlds! Worlds beyond
worlds So many that arithmetics nro
of no uso in (ho calculation! But ho
counted them us ho mado them, mid ho
mndo them with his fingers! Jlesurya
tlon of power! Suppression of omnipo
tence! Resources ns yet untouched!
Almightfncyetiiiidemonstrated! Now
I ask, for tho benefit of all disheartened
Christian worker, If God accomplished
no much with Ills fingers, what can ho
do When ho puts out all his strength
and when houulimbcrsall tho batteries
of his oninipofeiu'o? Tho Bible speaks
again and again of God's outstretched
arm, but only once, mid that io tho text
of tho baro arm of God.
A (JltKAT UNDI'tlTAKlNO.
My text makes it plain that tho rec
tification of this world is a stupendous
undertaking. It takes moro power to
mnko this world over again than it took
to mnko it nt first. A word was only
necessary for tho first creation, but for
tho, new creation tho unslcoved nnd un
hindered foronrm of tlio Almighty! Tho
reason of thnt I enn understand. In tho
shipyards of Liverpool or Glasgow or
New Vork it grent vessel is construct
ed. Tho architect draws out tho pjan,
tho length of tho beam, tho capacity of
tonnage, tho rotation of wbccl or scrow,
tho cabin, tho masts and all tho ap
pointments of this great palaco of tho
deep. Tho architect finishes his work
without imy potfdoxity, and thoar
pouters and tho artisans toil on tho craft
so many hours a dny, each ono doing his
part, until with Hugs flying, nnd thou
sands of 'tcoplo huzzaing on tho docks,
tho vessel is launched. But ont on tho
sea that steamer breaks her shaft nnd
is limping slowly nlong toward harbor,
when Caribbean whirlwinds, thoso
migtity hunters of tho deep, looking out
for prey of tdiips, surround that wound
ed vessel nnd pitch it on a rocky const,
nnd she lifts mid falls in tho breakers
until every joint U loose, nnd every
spar is down, and every wavo swoops
over tho hurricano dock as alio parts
midships.
Would, it not requiro moro skill and
power to got; that splintered vessel off
tho rocks ami iccons tract it than it re
quired originally to build ficr? Ayo!
Our world that God built so beautiful,
mid which started out with all tho flags
of Edonjo foliagound with tho chnnt of
paradisaical boiyprs, has been CO cen
turies pounding in tho skerrlo9 of sin
and sorrow, and to get tier out, nnd to
get her olf, and to get her on tho right
yay again will requiro moro of oiniiip
otenco Jtlinn It requited to build her
nnd lnuhdi her. So I tun not sur
prised that though iu ho dryfock of
cjuo word our world wti3 mado it will
tno Jhu unslcoved nrm of God to lift
her from 4fca.rocks and put her on tho
right courso ngnin. p is evident from
jy. text and its comparison with other
texts (hat it would not bo so great an
uudot faking iy mnko it wholo constella
tion .of world?, nnd a wholo galaxy of
world, and u nl'fl) tisiionoiny of
wot Ids, up Wing them ju !cir right
orbits as to tyku (his wounded world,
this stranded world, i)i bankrupt
world, this destroyed world, and pinko
it its good as when it sturted.
j:vu.s to ovmtcoMi:.
yitxt, i-tf o.k at tho enthroned diffi
culties In the wu ,X? removal of which,
tho oveithtow of which,' t&vwj,to requiro
tho baro right nrm of omnipotence.
Thoro stands hoatheniain, with Its 800,
OOJ.OOO vlctini3. I do not euro wheth
eroticall them Brahmans or Bud
dhists, Coiifiiciam or fetich detains.
At tho World's Talr In Chicago last
summer thoso inoiutrosltitii of religion
tried to inuko tlnmisnlViM respectable,
but tho long hair mid baggy tro iscrs
and trinketed robes of their representa
tives cannot hido from tho world tho
fact that thoso religions ato tho nuthors
of funeral pyro, mid juggernaut crush
ing, and Gauges infanticide, und Chi
nese shoo torture, and tho nggregatod
massacres of many centuries. They
havo their heels on India, on China, on
Persia, on Borneo, on three-fourths of
tho ncroago of our poor old world,
I know that tho missionaries, who
aro tho most Rncriflcing and Christllko
mon nnd women on earth, aro making
steady and glorious inroads upon theso
built up uliominations of tho centuries.
All this stuff that you sco in some of
tho nowspapcra about tho missionaries
ns living in luxury and idleness is pro
mulgated by corrupt American or Eng
lish or Scotch merchants, whoso looso
bohnvior in heathen cities has been re
buked by tho missionaries, nnd thoso
corrupt morchants writo homo or toll
innocent nnd unsuspecting visitors in
India or China or tho darkened islands
of tho sen theso falsehoods about our
consecrnted missionaircs, who, turning
thoir backs on homo and civilization
nnd emolument nnd comfort, spend
their lives in trying to introduce tho
morcy of tho gospol among tho down
trodden of heathenism. Somo of thoso
merchants lcavo their families in Amer
ica or England or Scotland and stay for
n fow years in tho ports of heathenism
whllo thoy aro making their fortunes
in tho tea or rico or opium trado, and
whllo thoy aro thus absent from homo
givo thomsolvcs to orgies of dissolute
ness such as no pen or tongno could,
without tho abolition of nil decency,
attempt to roport. Tho presenco of tho
missionaries, with their puro and noblo
households, in thoso hoatben ports is a
constant robuko to such dobauchces und
miscreants. If satan should visit heav
en, from which ho was onco roughly
but justly oxpatriatcd, aud hu should
writo homo to tho realms pandemoniac,
his correspondence published in Dinbo
los Gnzetto or Apollyonic Nows, about
what ho had seen, ho would roport tho
tcmplo of God and tho Lamb as n bro
ken down church, and tho houso of
many mansions nsn disreputable plnco,
nnd tho cherubim as suspicious of mor
ula. Sin never did like holiness, nnd
you had better not depend upon mttunic
report of tho sublime nnd multipotent
work of our missionaries in foreign
lauds, Hut notwithstanding nil thut
theso men aud women of God havo
nchioved, thoy feel and wo nil feel thut
if tho idolatrous lands aro to bo Chris
tianized thero needs to bo n powor
from tho heuvons thut has not yot con
descended, and wo feel iko crying out
in tho words of Charles Wesloyt
Arm of tlm Iml, awake, awake!
fat on thy strongth, tlio nations shake!
Aye, il ia not only tho Lord's nrm
that is needed, tho holy arm, tho out
stretched arm, but tho baro arm!
AN KUCMSIASTICAL JOKU.
There, too, stands Mohammedanism,
with Its 170,000,009 victims. ItsBlblo
i9 tho Koran, it book not quito as largo
as our flow Testament, which was ro?
vealed toMoInmmed whou in epileptic
fits, and resuscitated from theso fits ho
dictated it to bcrlbes. Vet it is read
today by moro pcoplp thai) miy other
book ever written, Mohammed, tho
founder of that religion, a polygnmist,
with superfluity of wives, tho fiibt stop
of his religion on tho body, mind and
soul of woman, mid no wonder that tho
heaven of tho Koran is mi ovorlastiug
Sodom, an infinite boraglio, about which
Mohammed piomtses that pad) follower
shall havo in that pluco ?'J wives, in
addition to nil tho wive3 ho had on
earth, but that no old wounn shall ever
enter heaven. When ;t bishop of Eng
land recently proposed that tho best
way of saving Mohamm-jdans wis to
let thcnikcep thoir religion, butongruft
upon itpomonow plnciple3 from Chris
tianity, ho perpetrated uu ecclesiastical
joke, at which no mm can laugh who
has over seen tho tyrimiy and domestic
wretchedness which always appear
whero that religion gets foothold. It
has marched across continents and
now proposes to set up Its filthy wl ac
cursed banner in America, and what it
has dono for Turkey it would liko to
do for our nuMon. A ruligion that bru
tally treats wountihood pu','ht never to
bo fostered in our country. But thiro
nover was a religion so. ubsurd or wbk
ed that it did not git disciples, nnd
fhero nro enough fools In Amorica o
mnko a Jargo discipleship of Moham
medanism, This corrupt religion has
been making steady progress for hun
dreds of yours, and notwithstanding H
tho splendid wotk dono by tho Teis-jp?,
and tho Goodells, and tho Blisses, nnd
tho Von Dykes, and tho Posts, and tho
Mis3C3 Boweus, and tho Misses Thomp
n9; and scores of othor men and wom
en of whom tho world was uot worthy,
thoro it stands, the giant of pin, Mo
hammedanism, with ono foot on tho
heart of woman nnd tho othor on tho
heart pf Christ, whllo it mumbles from
its minarets t)iis stupendous blasphemy:
"God is great, and Mohnrnrned is bis
prophet." Lot tho Christian printing
presses nt Boyroot nnd Constantinople
keep on with their work nnd the meu
aud women of God in the mission fields
'ioil nntil tho Lord crowns them, but
;what wo aro ail hoppg for is something
supernatural from tho heavens, as ypt
unseen, something stretched down out
fd tho ekies, something 11 ko an arm an
.covered, tho buro nrm of tho God of na
tions.! TltU MACIAHA OF IKEMURTY.
tfhuru stands also tho arch domon of
Alcoholism. It throtio is whlto and
jinndopf bleached human bkiill-!. On
(w side of that throno of skulls kneels
in nbcisajico and worship democracy,
nnd ou tho other fijdo republicanism,
and tho ono thnt kisses tho cancerous
and gangrened foot of this despot tho
Ottoaost gu tno most benedictions.
Thero Is a Hudson river, an Ohio, n
Mississippi of strong drink rolling
through this nation, but as th rivers
from which I tuko my llguro of sposch
empty Into tho Atlantic or thj gulf this
mightier flood of slcJnen and insanity
nnd domestic ruin and crime and
bankruptcy and woo empties into tho
hearts, and tho homes, and the churches,
nnd tho time, and tho eternity of a mul
titude boyond nit statistics to number
or describe. All notions nro mauled
und scarified with baleful stimulus, or
killing narcotic. Thopulquoof Mexico,
tho enshnw of Brazil, tho hasheesh of
Persia, tho opium of China, tho guavo
of Honduras, tho wedro of Russia, tho
soma of India, tho nguardlonto of Mo
rocco, tho arnk of Arabia, tho mastic
of Syria, tho rakl of Turkoy, tho beer
ot Germany, tho whisky of Scotland,
tho alo of England, tho all drinks of
America, nrodoing their best tostunoty.
inflame, domont, impoverish, brutallzo
and slay tlio human raco. Human pow
er, unless ro-enforcod from tho hoavons,
can nover extirpate thoevils I mention.
Much good has been accomplished by
tho heroism nnd fidelity of Christian re
formers, but tho fact romains that thoro
aro moro Bplcndid men and magnificent
women this moment going over tho Ni
agara abysm of inebriety thnn at any
timo sinco tho -fiist grnpo was turned
into wlno nnd tho first head of ryo bo
gaii to soak in n browery. f, Whon pco
plo touch, this subject, thoy aro npt to
givo statistics ns to how many millions
aro in drunkards' graves, or with quick
tread marching on toward them. Tho
lnnd is full of talk of high tariff nnd
low tnriir, but wlwt about tho highest
of all tariffs in this country, tho tarllf
of $000,000,000 which rum put upon
tho United States in 1891, for that is
what it cost us? You do not trcmblo
or turn palo when I say that. Tho fact
is wo havo becomo hardened by statis
tics, and thoy mako little impression.
But if somo ono could gather into ono
mighty lakoall tho tears that havo been
wrung out of orphnnngo nnd widow
hood, or into ono organ diapason nil tho
groans that havo been uttered by tho
suffering victims of this holocaust, or
Into ono whirlwind nil tho sighs of cen
turiesof dissipation, or from tlio wlckot
of ono immenso prison hnvo look upon
us tho glaring eyes of nil thoso whom
strong drink has ondungconed, wo
might perhaps rcnlizo tio nppalling
desolation. But, no, no, tho sight
would forover "blast our vision; tho
sound would forover stun our souls. Go
on with your temperauco litornturo; go
on with your tompeinnco plutforms;
go on with your temporanco laws. But
wo nro all hoping for something from
nbovu, and while tho baro arm of suf
fering, nnd tho baro nrm of invalidism,
and tho baro arm of poverty, nnd tho
baro nrm of domestic desolation, from
which rum hnth torn tlio sleeve, nro
lirted up in beggary nnd supplication
nnd despnir, lot tho buro nrm of God
striko tho breweries, and tho liquor
stores, und tho corrupt politics, nnd tho
license laws, and tho wholo inferno of
grogshops all mound tho world. Down,
thou accursed bottlo, from tho thronol
Into tho dust, thou king of tho demi
john! Parched bo thy lips, thou' wlno
cup, with fires that shall nover bo
quenched! -
l'LKNTV OV AMMUNITION.
But I hnvo no timo to specify tho
manifold ovils that chnllengo Christian
ity. And I think I havo been in somo
Christians, and read in somo newspa
pers, and hcftrd from eomo pulpits a
dishcnitciiment, as though Christianity
wero so w.stcd that it is hardly worth
whilo to attempt to win this world for
God, nnd that all Christian work would
collapse, and that it is no uso for you to
teach a Sabbath class, or distribute
tracts, or exhort in prayor.mcotings, or
preach in a pulpit, as satan is gaining
ground. To robuko that pessimism, tho
gospel of Binashup, I preach this ser
mon, showing that you aro on tho win
ing side. Go ahead! Fight on! What
I want to mako out today is that our
ammunition is not oxhausted; that nil
which has been accomplished hns been
only tho skirmishing boforo tho great
Armageddon; thnt not moro than ono
pf tho thousand fountains of beauty
in tho King's park haa begun to
play; that not moro than one brigado
of tho innumorablo hosts to bo mar
shaled by tho rider on tho whito horso
has yet taken tho field; that what God
has dono yet has been with nrm folded
in flowing robe, but that tho timo is
coming whon he will riso from his
throne, nnd throw oil that robe, and
poms out pf tho palaces of eternity, nnd
como down tho stairs of heaven with
all conquering step, nnd hnlt in tho
firesnncoof expectant nations, and flash
ng his omnisclont oyos across tho work
to bo dono will put bock tho slcovo ot
his right arm to tho shouldor. und roll
H up thoro, nnd for tho world's final
pud. complete roscuomako baro his arm.
Who cap doubt tho result whon accord
ing to my toxt Johovn.li does hs best:
when tho last rcservo forco of omnipo
tence takes tho flold; when tho lust
sword of eternal might leaps from its
scabbard? Dc you know what decided
thobattloof Seduu? Tho hills n thousand
feet high. Eleven hundred cannons on
tho hills. Artillery on tho hoighfs pf
Givonno, nnd 13 German batteries ou
the heights of La Moncello. Tho crown
princo of Sixony watched tho scono
rrom the heights of Mnlry. pntweon n
quarter to 0 o'clock in tho morning nnd
1 o'clock in tho afternoon of Sept. 2,
1870,'flio hills dropped tho sholls that
shuttered the French host in tho valley.
Tho French emperor and tho 80,000 of
his nrmy captured by tho hills. So in
lhii oaiiflint flow ingtag between poll
ncss nnd slit ''.our eyes are unto the
bills."
a anr.AT victorv.
- Down hero In tho vnlloys of earth
wo must bo valiant eoldiors of tho
cross, but tho Commandor of our host
walks tho iolghts und viows tho sccno
far bolter than wo can in tho valleys',
and at the right day and tiro right hour
'nil heaven wll open its butteries on our
eido, am tho commander pf tho hosts pf
unrightcopsnoss with a)l hit) followers,
will surrender, and it will talwateroUy
to fully celebrate tho universal victory
through our Lotd Jesus Ch:it. "Our
eyes aro unto tho hfllj." It is so cer
tain to bo accomplished thnt Isaiah la
my text lodes down through the fldd
glass of prtpnecy ,nd sp-uit ot it as
already accomplished, and 1 lake my
etand whcte tho prophet took his stand
nnd looknt it nsnli dope. "Hilloluiah,
'tis done." See' Thoo cities, without
r tear! Look! Those continents with;
out a pang. Behold! Thoo hemi
spheres without a sin! Why, thoso
deserts, Arabian den-rt, American dei
ttt. und Grent Sahara ilfrt. n. ,n
Irrigated into gardens whero Ord walks
in tho cool of tho day. Tho utinojpia-rs
mat encircles our glouo floating not ono
groan. All tho livers nnd lakes aud
oceans dimpled with not ono fulling
tear. Iho climates of tho earth have
dropped out of them tho rigors of tho
cold and tho blasts of tho heat, nnd It
is universal spring! Let us :h ingo tho
out worms name. Lot ft no moro be
called tho earth, ns when It was reeking
with ovorythlng pestiferous und mulev
olont, scnrlctod with battlefields and
gashod with graves, but now so
changed, so aromatic with gardens, nnd
so resonant with song, nnd so rnbescent
with beauty, lot us call it Immnnuol's
Land or Beulah or millennial gardens
or pnradiso regained or heaven! And
to God, tho only wise, tho only good,
tho only great, bo glory forover. Amen.
Tho Story or n Holt.
In tho church tower of tho llttlo town
of Grosslaswitz, in tho north of Ger
many, hangs n bell, nnd on it is engraved
its liistory, surmounted by a bas-roliof
representing a six eared stalk of corn
and tho dnto, Oct. 15, 1729. This is tho
story of tho bell: At tho beginning of
the last century tho only church tell at
Grosslaswitz wna bo small that its tones
woro not sufficient to ponotrato to the
ends of tho village. A second bell was
badly wanted, but tho vllhtgo was poor,
and whero was tho money to como from?
Every one offered to givo what ho could,
but tho united offcrimrs did not nmnnnt
to nearly enough for tho purpose.
Ono Sunday when tho schoolmaster,
Gottfried Hayn, was going to church he
noticed growing out of tho churchyard
wall a flourishing green stalk of corn,
tho seed of which must have been dropped
thero by a passing bird. Tho idea sud
denly struck him that porhaps this ono
Btalk of corn could bo mado tho moans
of producing tho second boll they want
ed so much. Ho waited till tho corn was
ripo, nnd then ho plucked tho six ears on
it nnd sowed them in his own garden.
Tho next year ho gathered tho littlo crop
thus produced and sowed it again, tillnt
last ho had not enough room in his gar
don for tho crop, soho divided it among a
certain number of farmers, who went on
sowing tho cars until in tho eighth year
the crop was so largo that whon it was
put together and sold thoy found that
they had enough money to buy a beauti
ful bell, with its story nnd its birthday
engraved upon it und n cast of tho corn
stalk to which it owed its existence.
Londou Globe.
She Silenced Dcpew.
Somo of tho best of Chicago's post
praudinl speakers aro of tho clergy, nnd
ono of tho brightest of all of them is
Rov. P. . Hcnson, tho populnr pastor of
tho First Baptist church. At a dinner
not long ngo ho wus called upon without
any warning, and ho acquitted himself
us cloverly as ho always doos under such
circumstances. Ho incidentally referred
to great men who hud been spoiled, liko
children, by being mado much of, aud
ho stated that tho only great man who
had not been spoiled by being "lionized"
was Daniel.
Dr. Henson referred in this connec
tion, too, to Dr. Chauncey M. Dopow, tho
silver tongued Now Yorker, who speaks
best after ho has lost his appetite, und
of him ho told a story. Dr. Dopew, ho
said, was in attendance nt a Baptist so
cial affair onco upon u time, and ho had
a soat noxt to a good sister, whom he at
tempted to patronize "Do you know,
madam," ho said to her between courses,
"I camo very near being n Baptist my
self." Tho lady expressed mild surprise,
pnd Dr. Dopow proceeded to mako it a
littlo stronger. "Yes, I nnrrowly es
caped immersion onco," ho said. "In
deed," said tho lady. "Why, Dr. Do
pow, I nover thought you conld disap
pear from tho public gazo long cpougli
for that," whereat Dr. Dopow busied
himself with tho next courso and forov
er after held his pcaco on that occasion
at least. Chicago Post.
A Friend of (ho. rauillj-.
Mr. Arthur Gilman of Cambrldgo tolls
tho following story: "You know there
was a picturo of Mr. Longfellow's cbil-.
dren that was copied a, good deal whlalt
w.as taken in such ft way that tho anas
pf ono of tho littlo girls did not show,
and so it wn3 told about a good deal that
sho had no arms. Ono day Mr. Lowell
was in n enr going by Mr. Longfellow's,
hquso, and nenr him woro three women
seeing tho sights,
"Ono of them was explaining things to
tho othors, and nfter pointing out tho
houso sho said, 'You know ono of Long
fellow's children had no arms.' Mft
Lowell thought that story had gonu
itbopt far onqugh, eq ho bald, 'Excus'o
mo, madam,' pnd told her Mr. Longfel
low's children all had tho usual number
of arms. Sho turned on him with n anlfT
and a little toss of her head and said:
'Ouo of thorn has no urms, sir, I hud it
from it friond of tho family.' "Boston
Transcript.
The nuthtub Trunk.
Some novelties in bathtubs nro mndai
abroad especially for traveling purposes,"
U'hey are mudo Of best tinned iron, with
japanned oak outside nnd whito inside.
Tho novelty is that thoy can bo closed
up with a strap und utilized as a trunk
to hold tho clothes of tho owner. A solf
heating gas bath is mado upon tho fol
lowing principle: An atmospherio gas
burner is employed, from which tlio.
heat is conduced around tho body of the
bath by flues, and after doing this duty
escaping by n main flue. A bath can bo
heated in this way in 45 minutc3 at an,
txpeaM of 8 cents. Hard warn.
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Glrc tlieUoya .$
A ohfltcll In h tm,..- n.,.l I. .!!,.. f.l' '1
them with ooJ ptn'c fnn, mimI ! n
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For huiu uy Litjo & tt
A I'li 1il
A Constantinople pnrtor, it business
is good, can mako 8.'i 17 it week,
Lndie : If jou lipr. iiff-il ;i lonjr
tnui VI' I .lillM l) , . . . -
try -.,
.
A lull' fi .UK . ,
bus Hoasotia, 111 cotitM .. ., ..
Mr. U. Altyiti', .n Uun sru ouu-tty
rcHitiurof the W. C. t. U. and a very
iiilliiunliril worker in II, uaiiki u( wmnuu
Miy-: "1 lmo used I'ark s' I'oa nnd Hud it
is tho best remtdj I huvo evur trlrd for
ooiiRtipittion. Il rtqufres mnHller doses
nml Is utoru. thorough. I shall use noth
ing else hi futuro"
Ii Mexico scunistiesscs aro paid
conts u day; weavers, fiO cents.
'Ladles: Irrogniatitn-s nnd all thoso
pains and distrdasiiig diseases peculiur
to women nre positively nnd effect unlly
cured by using Dr. Suwtr's l'ustilles.
Deyoifc Qrlco.
A confoctionor in Venezuela caii oarn
from 81i2 to $10 per month.
Money, experloncu und nkill cannot fit
provu Dr. tiiiwyer's l'ustilles, for dlseuses
peculiar to wotuon. LadUs teud to your
druggist for a free sample package. Dtyo
k Unco.
Fig pickora in Aoitt Minor, if skillful,
can malto 20 cents a day.
All that money, experience and skill
:an do h ts buen dono in the preperiitfoti
and inniiufncltiro of Dr.Suwper's Pastilles
fo Indies. Doyo & Onco.
lUcst Uouwb hjrup. TMtesUood. VhH
rhhiH ivHiag in tree una hv
aula dt dniffffltu.
Mf Notice: loiccltmuu of
AgtNtrMl,lcii.
Notice Is hui oh) clvcn ninth) vlrlue of nn
ichteis lieu, uu nfllihitlt fur whleli I llli'd In
lie ulllee of tlie county eltikof Welisteremintv
uliniikitotiilifDtliilii) nt (imcinliHi 1831, for
llio ciire. fevillinr mid kee.nu of ouo buy i turn
ltli lilitek iiiiiiip iiiul lull, seun .wars nlil.
mined "Nell"thn property of i. I). Snicker, fur
llio period of fonrieon weeks from tin- 3')tli duy
ir.jimusimitollmutLulrtyuf Deremlier I81M
it I lie price iuiicimI tu h) said Sun-ki-r ot $i.M
pit week, and for tlie tinili.-r euro und leiMIni:
if ald iii.uv to tlio il.iteot thin vdi lit tlie.i.imu
orlce; 1 II on thi: i,t da. nf I'ct.iismy twt.
lUliliuly oiler siild tiiiiiefur s.V" lit 10-a Cloud.
Nebraska lit tcno'elnk In tne riviiiiiiii i.( mIU
liiytn.s.illiry llieHiiiiiiifjMultli iiihi of keti
iiii'.s.iM mare Irom UereHber Dili ISWI to tlio
liuoifsaletarateoI.'.6) per week und costa
f rule.
U .. .... v. . A.M. OIIAV.
Own ft MeXlTT. I'lii'ntlir's t nriiPVH.
Xollt'u to .Voii.ltt-ftlUciii iiuivnd
nnlti.
In tlio District Court of Webitcr county. No
Jirftku. UduaraU. Hodge,
vs.
Abram "cott,
Anna Scott,
'rim Neinii'kit and Kan
sas Farm Unn Co.
and Leonard Iievens,
Defendants.
To ronnrd Ilcvons. ilo'ori taut In tlio above
Mill! ed I'iiuse: u arii lieieliv muim-n that
"III tlio ISth llltV Of Jllll'l uv, 88, V..w Kill.
Iloiko, plulutlll licrjln. II ed Ills petltl'in In Iho
liilriet voitit ,.f Wist.-r onntv, Ncbrui-ki.
iKiilu.t )nu. Implcado, i wllli tlio other ililena
nits named in the 'title nf n.tld eau-e, the iiideit
ifid piajer uf wlileli Is in fnrrclona leMaln
iniirtKitsiii'xeeiitMl by the dm udiinis, Abr.ni
.Scott and Anu-i r-uutl to .innirs II. Tallman. mid
now ovvne-l by plaintiff iiHn iho follinn u.
eiilird mil pioperty sltuiiteil In tlioioiiiilvnf
Webster nml stito of Ni-tirask'i. to-wlt: Tho
J""' It-west (ii.trt-r or section u inhered twenty
(20) lit tuwnslilp iiuinST. il four ('.) north. Hi
laiwoiiiiuibeied twelve (la,) west of tlm cih V.
M ; to setiuru tho ui) intuitu! it certain priimls
sory note, dated Am-.tst 1st, isss.ind -Iiih und
p;i utile nvii) ear from the d lu thereof j that
theieU iimviiuoiipo maul nolo mid niDrtmiKo
iho sum of SJOi, lor wlil.u sum. with inierest
from ibis dato mid ci Ms nf for closure, plii'iulir
ptitys for a decree; tlutt ilefondiintsiiuiequlred
to pii) tno same, .a-that sild niemhes be sold
"' ,".1" l "l?, wnoMU'touwl due: th.it tiny
riidit, tltlo, lien or intoiot owned or pialine't
by ou or any ot o r cii-defiinliiiit In or to
said pivmlses b licljtiiluedtobejuiil ruudlu
ti,rlor to plal'itllf's Men t lernan.
You uii! liereb) fiirtti-t- nolllleil tlM vmi itrn
rciitlrudtii answer said pctlilot i.f tha 'lalutlrr
on or lieforo the Wth d.t of IVbiimr " IS'it. ai d
tlm If )ou fnll to unsitDr iho M.ime i n or bojnro
k:i d dav, tho facts and Alienation-1 onliilnnl n
Hllld lietlll'lll Will iMtnVl'll.. Iriiini,,l I,,, I, ,,..,
and (lecreo reaiUrrcd -is thoreiil r.nud rr.
Dated January 18th, 1591.
11V !.!. MCXKWV. Ill, ,55 B- f'MK
Xullcc to .Vouslliitltieiit lclcntl
mitti. In the District C'ouit of Webster County, No
britska. , "
l'renton II fclhley iia ex-cnt'ir of tb last will
!"".L st, 'i" ,V.', "' Slar- K' K'wwcrlh. do
toascd, plulntlir, .
Joint Zitckerv, Bantli A. Znckerv, V K. Jaci:.
('11. exeeutnr nf the la-t will nn'l tsiitiiiiut
of lle.ry .McConiml. ileceuso.l, V. M. -t-rv.
Ilenit O i:iiiier. font tiny Cutter, Thn Nel
biasjta iiinl Kansas Farm Imm Co. and
Court i) Wlntoii, (U foiiditntf.
To.lnlui'.ickiiiy, Sara't A. Zaekery. 'W. i;.
Jiiekwui, iceiiinr of iii luii wl.l iimi tmunirnt
of lleni) McCormul.ileii'iiseil.nuil V, tl. story,
ilef iiclants In iIkiiIiiivo eiiiiili'ii c nsoi Yin
in n hen by tint Iliad that ou (lie IHIh day of ann
um v. Ini. 1'ivstoii II. Slbli-i-. .is nxi.iiirip ..I I,...
lust will unit testament nt .M irv I" Knsivorili.
dvooiiscd, nlalu lir lu-reiti. illi-d his iHtnii hi
the illsli let coin t of Vister county, Ni-Iiius.
Uii, lipilnil jou, liniiNviil.il wt'li t i-other ilu
feuilnnts niillU'd ill tlm llllonf niiIiI ejiise.lhn
old ft and prayer of whlWi Is to forccbsi-ii -or-mill
inoitsuu'eexi-euteil In thiMlclfuiJanii Jniin
. ii Kery mid .Surah A. Zickeiy to a mo II
I'allmaii, mid now owned bv the enimeet Mnry
(C, i;iihi)rlll, ilci'i'isioil. iipn'i thofiillowiii des.
erllied real piniH-rlv, bltu.itid In the county nr
Webster and unite of NubmsUa, t -wit: j'ht,
snutli-wrHl quartrr of hpciIoii unmtiero 1 two ty.
ilnee ('.'0 lit lowi'Mdp iiiiiiiIiimvii two (.' ) uortn,
lu iniiKii nittnlifii'd leu (liUwestof the u;li I'.
II.; tiiM'ciiiiillii! piiMiient nf ueeitiilu promt.
K"ry imie, tt nt il IVbriiury lm. I8S7, nml duo
ami pliable Intlve )ears Irian ihv (latcth-ro
tlmtiheieniiowiliii.upiui8.il uu ,i ,. mi.rti
K.'tKotlio sum i f Slim, ior which tiiui' uu 'titer,
est fr in lilts dale, lillil cnsls ot leieelnviKe,
iiiiuiiu pui) ii it ii nrtJ", win ut i 'i.uiitiix ot
ri(iuipd tn list th tin oi ill , Fi.t I rfinlnts
liohold to tuitbfy the urn in l 'mini due. nrnl Jti
Ihilnny ilRht, Idle, Ilia ir Inl test imni-iliii-OH'
i-lnlmetl ty )(ai, or ifix uf yien hi l.'fenj.V;?
n ..i In nlil nteinki.. b' iitjiitt ! 'il),V '
unillnferlnrtollou
u or no planum-, lY'c.ii,,
(urtliM- notm-il Vif, 'gjl'f
thereon.
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said uajf, W fit"' ad hi ' '"crei,.
imImpi! iii uilil nutiiinu will Ii- tukr
jiiilirinent mill decree lemlcrt
piiuedfor. .;i,""Sf
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