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J MR. WOLCOTT DENOUNCES
THE BOND ISSUE.
I
t TALKS BIT ZERLY OF CLEYELAt1D ,
L
ACea80d of Attacdng ) the Covernmcnt's
{ Credit anti of Making a False Stato-
niont la Aogard to His Position
on Silver-TcIIor Also liittorl Y
k Attacks the Nation's Clilof
Executive.
WASIiINOTON , Feb. 18.-The Rev.
Dr. II. S. Lunn of London , England ,
pronounced the prayer at the opening
of the senate's session. He is
general editor of the Review of
Clturclies , a leading English church
,
1 ev i a tv.
Mr. Dubois of Idaho presented a
telegram from Phoenix , Ariz. , which
recited that at a meeting of Republicans -
licans of Arizona it was unanimously
resolved that the Republican sentiment
ment of the territory was "unequivo
call y in favor of the admission of
Arizona to statehood at the present
session of congress , " and Republican
senators were requested to aid the
bill for admission.
Mr. Allen of Nebraska presented a
resolution which was agreed to calling -
ing on the secretary of the treasury
for a list of the national banks whichi
bath been depositories of public funds
during the last ten years , the interest -
est , terms of contract , etc.
Mr. hill's resolution , which announced -
nounced the policy of the government
to be that of bitetallism and the
payments of gold obligations in the
best money available then came up
and Mr. Sherman offered a substitute ,
declaring that the policy of the
government
ing the pZirity between the two metals -
als so that every dollar coined should
be equal to every other dollar. Should
there be any disturbance in the parity
then the bonds should be paid in
standard gold coin.
fir. Wolcott of Colorado moved to
lay both the resolution and the substitute -
stitute on the table and Mr. 11111 took
the floor to discuss the resolution.
i ; hIILL FAVORS BIMETALLISM.
Mr. 11111 was accorded close attention -
tion as he proceeded with great vigor
and earnestness. "This declaration
of the policy of the government
should receive the support of every
senator , " he said , unless there sits
about this circle a gold monometallist
or silver monometallist. I have a few
words for them. But assuming that
it senator is for bimetallism then this
declaration of policy embodies his
views. It is a safe , wise and appropriate -
propriate resolution for the present
1 emergency. "
Ni. Hill said that the declaration
first announced is the true policy of
the government that efforts should be
turned toward the accomplishment of
bimetallism. "I need not remind
both political parties that this is what
they profess , " he proceeded. "It is
' in this supreme moment that we
should declare to the country and the
world our ability to maintain the single -
gle hold standard or the single stand-
and of silver. "
' , Dh . Hill said that on general finan-
I cial questions congress was further
apart now than it was six months
ago. The proposition for gold bonds
oil the one hand was met by the proposition -
position for unlimited silver coinage
{ , on the other. What had become of
the proposition to redeem the greenbacks -
] backs and the financial plans ? "In
this condition of action , " he con-
eluded , 'Congress can at least take
. { this one step that will assure the
world that although we may have
1 our hands tied on these various meas
ores , our bonds may be taken with
I the full assurance that they would be
paid by the best money in use. There
i Is a prospect of further issues of
bonds. Let us then keep down the
interest. Wliat can either party gain
by inaction on this subject , by bringing -
( ing on a panic the coming summer
i Washington
ington for further legislation ? "
WOLCGTT'S TITTER sI'EECIr.
t Mr. Wolcott of Colorado , declared
that Mr. Hill was merely threshing
I
i old straw. The present time was inappropriate -
a appropriate for such a resolution ,
=
coining on the very heels of the monstrous -
strous attack which the president had
$ made upon the eurrency and credit of
the United States in his bargain to
sell bouts abroad on such terms as lie
{
had made with the European bank-
erg This action was pronounced the
most disastrous assault upon the
country's financial system which had
, ever been made , and the worst feature -
ture of the whole wretched business ,
be said , with growing earnestness ,
"is that attack is made by the man
' who , because of his position , should
{ have stood the foremost in our de-
fense. ' '
Mr.l'olcott criticised the recent
contract inatle for the sale of bonds
4 x in Europe. He did not believe the
! . ; bankers through whom the negotiations -
tions had been made would ever be
called upon to advance more than 10
per cent of the amount of the bonds
' sold , on account of the advance in
their price. He had been assured
that in New lo.l , . .tlone $ L1/ had
been tendered for $130.000,000 worth
of bonds and said that lie had the au-
i thority of one of the leading bankers
a f New York for the statement that
within sixty clays the whole issue
would be wortli S1.30. "If , " he said ,
speaking directly to the resolution
and the desire expressed by it to uphold -
hold the national credit. there was
men who were not entitled
ever any
. ' ' to consideration it is the Rothsehilds
and the president , because they have
sought to blacken our credit.
Mr. Wolcott asserted that the pres-
had contained i
ident's recent message
, r a false statement that lie was trying
to preserve the parity of the money
metals while lie was discrediting
silver. I
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' t TELLER ALSO TALKS RITTEBLY.
l t Mr. Teller of Colorado arraigned
silent in severe terms.
the p
characterized the recent bond
llc c
t
'
y
transaction as a most monstrous
fraud. During the long years he had
f been a student of the affairs of this
country there had never before been
a time , when opportunity was offered
for the public to charge dishonesty in
a financial transaction by the govern-
ment. It was idle for senators to say
that this was the best the president
could do. With bonds less desirable
selling on the market at $1.10 it was
futile to say that a better price than
$1.04X could not be obtained. It was
impossible to characterize too strongly -
ly a transaction which placed the
credit of the best government in the
world 4 per cent below that of Egypt.
Mr. Lodge agreed with Mr. Wolcott
that the president had assailed the
credit of the country , but asserted
that he had made the attack by his
assault upon our coin bonds. For
that reason , because of this attack ,
he thought that congress should declare -
clare itself without equivocation or
reservation.
Mr. Stewart of Nevada opposed the
hill resolution.
Mr. Hill again rose and said : "The
true purpose of these professed
friends of silver is exposed. They intended -
tended to pay government obligations
in silver coin , no matter how degraded -
graded it might be. " He defended
the president from the attacks on his
contract with foreign bankers.
THE DEFICIENCY BILL IN.
Last of the AppropriatI * Measure
Latd Before the House.
WASIIINGTON , Feb. 18.-The house
committee on appropriations reported
the general deficiency bill , the 'last
for this congress. It carries $6,518-
574 , of whicli the principal appropriations -
tions are as follows : Treasury department -
ment , $1,150,415 ; war . department ,
$2239,500 ; navy department , $109,83 ;
department of justice , $ ,304,430 ; post-
office department , $1,182,148 ; government -
ment printing office , $400,400 ; judg-
inent of the court of claims , $716,093 ;
audited claims , $76,706.
The commiteee declined to act on
the recommendation of Secretary
Gresham for an appropriation of $425-
000 for the payment of all claims. by
Great Britain growing out of the
seizure of fur sealing vessels in Beli-
ring sea , because unable to look into
the matter sufficiently to take action
upon it immediately. Mr. Breckin
ridge was authorized to offer an
amendment in the house for the payment -
ment of these claims without any
recommendation and the members reserve -
serve the right to vote as they might
see fit upon the question.
Under the department of state is a
clause "that the disbursements made
to members and attaches of the
Behring sea tribunal of arbitration
at Paris by Major E. W. Halford and
John \V. Foster , disbursing officers of
said commission , under the authority
and with the approval of the secretary -
tary of state out of moneys heretofore -
fore appropriated , shall be allowed
by the comptroller of the treasury , "
which settles a controversy between
the department and the accounting
officer of the treasury.
The office of the eleventh census , it
is provided , shall be abolished March
4 and the terms of all employes
cease with the exception of a force
not to exceed ninety , to complete the
work under the direction of the secretary -
retary of the interior.
The deficiency appropriations for
United States courts are made
each year. The principal items in this
bill are : Fees of marshals for 1895 ,
$713,000 ; 1894 , $195,450 ; 1893 , $28,159 ;
marshals' expenses. $1.40,000 ; fees
of jurors , 1S95 , $ ,100,000 ; fees of witnesses -
nesses , 1895 , $156,000 and 1894 , $75,700 ;
support of prisoners , 1895 , $50,000 and
1894 , $76,000 ; pay of bailiffs , 1895 ,
$45,00 : fees of district attorneys ,
1S95 , $100,000 and 1S94 , $54,000 ; fees of
clerks , 1895 , $120.000 ; fees of commissioners -
sioners , 1595 , S1S7,200 and 1894 , $40-
511.
511.The
The principal item under the post-
office department is $935,000 for inland -
land mail transportation by railroad
routes exclusive of the Pacific rail-
roads.
TRAMPS RAID A TOWN.
Stores in Yandatia , Mo. , Broken Open
and Two Citizens held Up.
VANDALIA , Mo. , Feb. 18.-Seven
tramps broke into the leading hardware -
ware store last night and helped
themselves to several revolvers each.
After entering several other stores
and securing considerable portable !
goods they went toward the depot.
On their was they met V. B. Shears ,
a merchant , and another citizen , overpowered -
powered and tied them securely and
searched both , securing a diamond
pin and $1.25 in cash. They then left
their victims. Tae town was soon
aroused , but not before the men had
escaped.
KANSAS LEGISLATURE.
The Ballinger Fees and Salaries Bill
Fassed in the House.
ToPEK.t , Kan. , Feb. IS.-The house
passed the Ballinger fees and salaries
bill by a vote of S9 to 16. Those voting -
ing against the measure were : Bender -
der , Brown of Crawford , Bucklin ,
Campbell of Doniphan , Forsythe ,
Hackbuseh , Hart , Hill , Ingle , McKin-
nie , Metzler , Rothweiler , Seaton ,
Smith of Sherman , Trueblood and
Vilott
Mr. Thurston Calls on Mr. Gresham.
WASIIINGTON , Feb. 18.-Hawaiian
Minister Thurston had a long interview -
view with Secretary Gresham to-day ,
presumably relative to the application -
tion made by United States Minister
Willis to the Hawaiian government
for a stay of sentence and copies of
the records of the military commis-
310n in the cases of Gullick and other
alleged American citizens sentenced
to death for participation in the re-
bellion.
A Stock Dealer Under Arrest.
MEXICO , Mo. , Feb. 1S.-Stephen
Elliott , a member of the McName &
Elliott stock firm , which failed for
S50,000 with assets thus far of only
a few hundred dollars , was arrested
to-day. Rollin McNaine , the other
member of the firm , has disappeared
autl detectives are in stearch of him.
raying the income Tax.
WAsuINGToi , Feb. 18.-Collectors of
nternal revenue throughout the
country have begun to receive returns -
turns under the income tax law and
n a number of instances the cash has
accompanied the return. .
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OUR BOYS AND GIRL
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THE ADVENTURES OF A LITTLE
PURITAN.
Salle Coleman's Two Iced Shoes That
Wore Now Two Hundred Years Ago-
What Aunt Laura Knows About Como -
o
positions-Pick Tooths.
Two Red Shoes.
Two hundred years ago , if you had
been alive , you might have seen her
and talked with her , this little girl ,
who was a baby in those distant
years of the seventeenth century ,
when Milton was writing those stately -
ly cantos of the "Paradise Lost , " and
King Philip and his Indians were
making so much trouble for our great-
grandfathers on the New England
frontiers.
How curious she would look to us
in her quaint , old-fashioned dress ,
made just like her mother's , so that
she resembled a little old woman in
miniature ! Her jacket of white linen
was drawn about her waist with a
black cord , and met the blue woolen
petticoat that had not a flounce or a
ruffle on it.
She wore on her head , over her
short , silky curls , a small , stiff linen
cap , for bangs had not been invented
then. A pair of red shoes completed
the toilet of this little Puritan maiden
except when she went to church , and
then she put on a high crowned , steeple
shaped hat and threw a long red cloak
over her shoulders.
Very much like this , excepting the
hat and cloak , looked little Sally
Coleman one September morning in
1077.
She was only a 5-year-old girl , and
those little red shoes were fresh and
new from the counter of a small store
in Hatfield , on the Connecticut river ,
then a small border town. Very
proud was Sally of those little red
shoes , and she was busy trying them
on and thinking how nice they would
look on Sunday as she went with her
father into the square , barn-like
wooden church to listen to one of
Parson Tenney's long sermons. She
had just put them on and tva walking -
ing up and down the kitchen floor
when she was startled by a loud war-
whoop ; and immediately several
painted Indians , looking very frightful -
ful with their war-dress and weapons ,
rushed in and seized the little lady ,
red shoes and all , and carried her
screaming away.
All in a moment the happy child
was made a very sad one. She saw
her mother and her little sisters
killed by the red men , and her home
all in flames ; and in company with
many another captive she was
marched into the wilderness.
To Canada , all the way over the
frozen lakes and rivers , and the hard ,
rough ground , a desolate , tedious
journey in the cold autumn months ,
tramped the red shoes. Often
the little feet were weary , and
often little Sally's heart must
have been despairing and ready to
faint by the wayside.
One of her savage captors took pity
on her forlorn eonditionand did what
lie could to help her , carrying her on
his brawny shoulders when she could
not walk farther , making a soft couch
of hemlock boughs for her comfort
when they camped at night , and se-
lectinc for the homesick little girl
the juiciest steaks from the sides of
bear and deer that he killed in hunt-
ing.So
So the red shoes did not wear out ,
though they had to be mended more
than once with stout deer's sinews.
And glad , you may be sure , was the
pioneer John Coleman when the
faded , worn shoes crossed his threshold -
old , one bright May morning , having
been to Canada and back again. Some
good friends of the Colemans had influence -
fluence enough with the French and
the Indians to effect Sally's release ,
and Count Frontenac , the French
governor , ordered a guard of soldiers
to attend the child and her companions -
ions back to Hatfield.
And the cunning little shoes , soled
with leather from England , bound
with silk from Paris , sewed with
deer's sinews from the Canadian forests -
ests , whose red serge uppers were
brought from Holland by tray of New
Amsterdam , may still be seen , soiled
and ragged , one of them in the collection -
tion of old South church , Boston , the
other in the museum of the Memorial
association of Deerfield , Mass.
Just think of it-a pair of shoes
more than two hundred years old
and with such a history ! Would you
not like to see them ? They are much
the oldest pair of shoes in America ,
and I think they ought to be kept
together.
Little Sally grew to be a woman
and had children of her own , and I
dare say she often told them of the
journey those shoes had taken , and
of the bitter trials she experienced
as a captive among the Indians. Very
likely , too , the children thought the
shoes quite as wonderful as their
mother did , and never tired of hearing -
ing their story. I can imagine them
on a Sunday night , when all was still
and the snow lay white and silent
around the pioneer's house , clambering -
ing upon their mother's knee and
whispa ing :
"Please tell us about the little red
shoes that went to Canada and back. "
The little girl that wore them has
been dead these long , long years ;
and , but for those two little red shoes ,
it is doubtful if Sally Coleman would
be remembered to-day. Certain it is ,
I should not have had this story to
tell , for I should not have thought of
it but for seeing the interesting relIcs
during a recent vacation.Phhladel -
phia Times.
Picit Tooths.
Little Lena was out playing in the
yard. She came running in saying :
"Mamma , I saw a horse made out of
a cow. " It was a spotted horse. One
l
day she had been into a neighbor's
house ; as she came home she said :
"I saw some kitties with white fed-
ders all over them. " She had heard
some one say that toothpicks were
made of goose quills. One day her
papa was out , and upon some one's
asking where lie was , she said he "had
gone to get sheep fedders for pick
tooths. "
Learning how to Yrito.
Ethel , according to her own school
girl phrasing , "hated" t write compositions -
positions , and her dislike was about
evenly divided between the burden of
selecting her own subject and the
embarrassment of having one chosen
for her. In the first case she never
knew what to take , and in the last ,
the teacher , according to her
prejudiced fancy , seemed bound to
select the very topic about which she
knew nothing , and in which she had
no interest. Finally , on a miserable
Saturday when her composition was ,
after much tribulation , finished , she
freed her mind to Aunt Laura.
"Nothing to write about ? " said
auntie. "Dear me , what a pity , in
this big world full of interesting
things ! I suppose you have such
dull time that nothing worth telling
ever happens to you. "
"Oh , no , it isn't that , " said Ethel.
"Lots of things happen , but nothing
important enough to write about.
Why , our compositions have to be
read before the whole school , and
how the girls would laugh if I should
get up and give an account of some of
our larks ! "
"Now , I'll tell you what I'd do , "
said Aunt Laura ; I'd keep a note-
book. "
"Like Hawthorne's ? "
"Well , I dare say it would be rathet
different from his , and so it ought to
be. You must write in it the interesting -
esting things that happen to you , and
put them down in your own way.
Make up your mind not to show the
book , and then you won't be tempted
into affectation. Don't moralize , and
don't indulge in reflections , if you
can help it. "
"Wliy , I shouldn't even know how
to begin. "
"I'11 show you. A dozen times a
day you tell me things that interest
me greatly. Think of that country
walk you were so happy over last
week. When you got home you described -
scribed the blue sky withl its little
tufts of woolly clouds , the bank
where you found hepaticas ; you told
me exactly how you scraped away
the dead leaves , and what a ridiculous -
lous time you had in trying to beg a
string at the farmhouse.
"Then you repeated the story of
the poor little girl you met on the
way home , and said she remarked , as
she took some of your luncheon , that
she liked fruit cake better than sand-
wiches. "
"But I couldn't put that in' a composition -
position ! "
"Perhaps not , but the habit of writing -
ing will not only help you to gain
fluency in the use of the pen , but it
will teach you to observe.
"Besides , you will have in your
note-book a stock of material to
which you can turn when you have
nothing to say.
"Remember , above all things , to
put down only the exact truth-for
nothing that has not the ring of reality -
ity is worth preserving-and not to
indulge in general reflections that
had become commonplaces before
you were born. "
The book was bought , and Ethel ,
with a few relapses , kept it zealously.
At the end of six months she declared
that the plan was a "splendid" one.
Perhaps other young folks , forced to
become writers against their will ,
might think so , too.-Youth's Com-
panion.
Builtihig.
You arc little builders ,
Wortinz every day ,
Brick by brick , brick by brick
OI character you lay ;
Every word you utter ,
Everything you do
Renders the foundation
Either false or true.
Here a brick of honor.
There a brick of truth ,
While the work's progressing
Childhood turns to youth.
As the walls are rising ,
See that they are plumb ,
Strongly put together.
For the time will come
When by their own merits ,
They must stand or fall ,
For the master-builder
Justice metes to alL
Building tor the present ,
For the future , too ,
Character that some day
God himself shall view.
-Our Little Ones
flis Clothes.
A gentleman with a cork leg came
to Tom's house one day to make a
visit. The morning after his arrival
Tom was sent to his room to see if he
was dressed for breakfast.
" ' " Tom his mother
"No'm , replied to ,
when he returned "he hasn't put on
any of his clothes 'ceptin' his leg"
A Little Girl's Thought.
DIy little niece Clara was going
some distance away from her mamma.
Her dear grandma was talking was
talking with her about praying ; told
her God could hear her pray when
{
away ; also hear prayer at home. She
said : "I should think God would take
solid comfort with his ears. "
A Good Stepmother.
Betty was watching her moth er as
she placed the little chicks that had
been hatched in an incubator under a
brooder.
"What a good stepmother that
brooder makes , keeping the chickens
warm , " she cried.
beizers.
Some one remarked before Ethel
that there were twelve Cmsars among
the Roman emperors.
"Did they call them that because
they were always seizing other peoples -
ples countries ? " she asked.
+ TALIIAGE SERMON
SHEEP THAT ARE NOT OF THE
CHURCH FLOCK ,
Bring Thom In anti Put on Their Helmets -
mets , Their Sandals and Their Breastplates -
plates - The Battlefeld Is Yonder ,
the Fight Is On.
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HERE IS NO M0
nopnly to religion
The grace of God is
not a little property
that we may fence
off and have all to
ourselves. It is not
a _ king's park at
which we look
through the barred
gateway , wishing
we might go in and
see the deer and
the' statuary , and
royal conservatory. No , it Is the Fath-
er's orchard and everywhere there are
bars that we may let down and gates
that we may swing open.
In my boyhood , next to the country
school house , there was an orchard of
apples , owned by a very lame man ,
who , although there were apples in the
place perpetually decaying , and by
scores and scores of bushels , never
would allow any of us to touch the
fruit. One day , In the sinfulness of a
nature inherited from our first parents ,
who were ruined by the same temptation -
tion , some of us invaded that orchard ;
but we soon retreated , for the man
came after us at a speed reckless of
making his lameness worse , and cried
out : "Boys , drop those apples , or I'll
set the dog on you' "
Well , my friends , there are Christian
m4n who have the church under severe
guard. There is fruit in this orchard
for the whole world ; but they have a
rough and unsympathetic way of accosting -
costing outsiders , as though they had
no business here though the Lord
wants them all to come and take the
largest and ripest fruit on the premises.
Have you an idea that because you
were baptized at thirteen months of age
and because you have all your life been
under hallowed influences , that therefore -
fore you have a right to one whole side
of the Lord's table , spreading yourself
out and taking up the entire room ?
I tell you no. You will have to haul in
your elbows , for I shall place on either
side of you those whom you never expected -
pected would sit there ; for , as Christ
said to his favored people long ago ,
so he says to you and to me : "Other
sheep I have which are not of this
fold. "
MacDonald , the Scotchman , has four
or five dozen head of sheep. Some of
them are browsing on the heather ,
some of them are lying down under the
trees , some of them are in his yard ;
they are scattered around in eight or
ten different places. Cameron , his
neighbor , comes over and says : "I see
you have thirty sheep ; I have just
counted them. " "No , " says MacDonald ,
"I have a great many more sheep than
that. Some are here and some are else-
where. They are scattered all around
about. I have four or five thousand in
my flocks. Other sheep I have which
are not in this fold. "
So Christ says to us. Here is a knot
of Christians and there is a knot of
Christians but they make up a small
part of the flock. Here is the Episcopal
fold , the Methodist fold , the Lutheran
fold , the Congregational fold , the Presbyterian -
byterian fold , the Baptist and the Pedo-
Baptist fold ; the only difference between
those last two being the mode of sheep {
washing ; and so they are scattered all
over ; and we come with our statistics
and say there are so many thousands of
the Lord's sheep ; but Christ respond ;
"No , no ; you have not seen more than
one out of a thousand of my flock. They
are scattered all over the earth. 'Other
sheep I have which are not of this
fold. ' "
Christ , In my text , was prophesying
the conversion of the Gentiles with as
much confidence as though they were
already converted , and he is now , in
the words of my text , prophesying the
coming of a great multitude of outsiders -
ers that you never supposed would
come in , saying to you and saying to
me : "Other sheep I have which are not
of this fold. '
In the first place , I remark , that the
heavenly Shepherd will find many of
his sheep among the non-church goers.
There are congregations where they
are all Christians , and they seem to be
completely finished , and they remind
one of the skeleton leaves which , by
chemical preparation have had all the
greenness and verdure taken off them
and are left cold and white and delicate ,
nothing wanting but a glass case to
put over them. The minister of Christ
has nothing to do with such Christians
but to come once a week and with ostrich -
rich feathers dust off the accumulation
of the last six days , leaving them bright
and crystalline as before. But the
other kind of a church is an armory ,
with perpetual sound of drum and fife ,
gathering recruits for the Lord of Hosts.
We say to every applicant : "Do you
want to be on God's side , the safe side
and the happy side ? If so , come in the
armory and get equipped. Here is a
bath in which to be cleansed. Here are
sandals to put upon your feet. Here
is a helmet for your brow. Here is a
breast plate for your heart. Here is a
sword for your right arm , and yonder is
the battle field. Quit yourselves like
men ! "
There are some here who say : "I
stopped going to church ten or twenty ,
years ago. " My brother , Is it 1ct
strange that you should be the first
man I should talk to to-day ? I know
all your case ; I know it very well. You
have not been accustomed to come into
religious assemblage , but I have a surprising -
prising announcement to make to you ;
you are going to become one of the i
Lord's sheep. "Ah , " you say , "it is im-
possible. You don't know how far I i
am from anything of that kind. " I !
know all about it. I have wandered up !
and down the world and I understand
your case. I have a still more startling j
announcement to make in regard to
you , you are not only going to become ,
one of the Lord's sheep , but you will
become one to-day. You will stay after '
this service to be talked with about
your soul. People of God , pray for that I
man' That is the only use for you
here. I shall not break off so much as a
crumb for you , Christians , in this sermon -
mon , for I am going to give It all to
the outsiders. "Other sheep I have
which are not of this fold. "
When the Atlantic went to pieces on
Mars' Rock , and the people clambered
upon the beach , why did not that heroic
u -
minister of the Gospel , of whom we
have all read , sit down and take care
of those men on the beach , wrapping
them in flannels , kindling fire for them ,
seeing that they got plenty of food ? Ah ,
he knew that there were others who
would do that. He says : "Yonder are
men and women freezing in the rigging
of that wreck. Boys , launch the boat ! "
And now I see the oar blades bend under -
der the strong pull ; but before they
reached the rigging a woman was frozen -
zen and dead. She was washed off ,
poor thing ! But he says : "There is a'
man to save ; ' and he cries out : "Hold
on five minutes longer and I will save
you. Steady ! Steady ! Give me your
hand. Leap Into the life boat. I thank
God he is saved ! " So there are those
here to-day who are safe on the shore
of God's mercy. I will not spend any
time with them at all ; but I see there
are some who are freezing in the rigging -
ging of sin and surrounded by perilous
storms. Pull away , my lads ! Let us
reach them. Alas ! one is washed err
and gone. There Is one more to be
saved. Let us push out for that one.
Clutch the rope. Oh ! dying man , clutch
it as with a death grip. Steady , now ,
on the slippery places. Steady there ! "
Saved ! Saved ! Just as I thought. For
Christ has declared that there are some
still in the breakers who shall come
ast o , "Other sheep I have which are
not o this fold. " . '
Christ commands his ministers to be
fishermen , and when I go fishing I do
not want to go among other churches ,
but into the wide world , not sitting
along Hohokus creek , where eight or
ten other persons are sitting with ] tools
and line , but , like the fishermen of Newfoundland -
foundland , sailing off and dropping net
away outside , forty or fifty miles from
shore. Yes , there are non-church goers
here who will come in. Next Sabbath
they wlll be here again , or in some better -
ter church. They are this moment being -
ing swept into Christian associations.
Their voice will be heard in public
prayer. They will die in peace , their
bed surrounded by Christian sympathies -
thies , and to be carried out by devout
men to be burled , and on their grave
be chiseled the words : "Precious in the
sight of the Lord Is the death of his
saints. " And on resurrection clay you
will get up with the dear children you
have already buried and with your
Christian parents who have already won
the palm. And all that grand and Flo-
rlous history begins this hour. "Other
sheep I have which are not of this
fold. "
Again I remark , that the heavenly
Shepherd is going to find a great many
sheep among those who have been flung
of evil habit. It makes me sad to see
Christian people give up a prodigal as
lost. There are those who talk as
though the grace of God were a chain
of forty or fifty links and after they
had run out there was nothing to touch
the depth of a very bad case. If they
were hunting and got off the track of
the deer , they would look longer among
the brakes and bushes for the lost game
than they have been looking for that
lost soul. People tell us that if a man
have delirium tremens twice , lie can not
be reclaimed ; that after a woman has
sacrificed her integrity , she can not be
restored. The Bible has distinctly intimated -
mated that the Lord Almighty is ready
to pardon four hundred and ninety
times ; that is , seventy times seven.
There are men before the throne of
God who have wallowed in every kind
of sin ; but , saved by the grace of Jesus -
sus and warmed in his blood , they
stand there radiant now. There are
those who have plunged into the very
lowest of all the heals in New York ,
WhO have for the-tenth time been lifted
up , and finally , by the grace of God.
they stand in heaven gloriously rescued -
cued by the grace promised to the chief
of sinners. I want to tell you that God
loves to take hold of a very bad case.
When the church casts you off and
when the club room casts you off and
when society casts you off and when
business associates casts you off and
when father casts you off , and when
mother casts you off and when every
body casts you off , your first cry for
help will bend the Eternal Goil clear
down into the ditch of your suffering
and shame.
The Good Templars can not save von ,
although they are a grand instituton.
The Sons of Temperance can not save
you , although they are mighty for good.
Signing the temperance pledge can act
save you , although I believe in it. Nothing -
ing but the grace of the Eternal God
can save you , and that will if you will
throw yourself on it. There is a mu
in this house who said to me : "Unless
God helps me I can not be delivered.
I have tried everything , sir ; but now
I have got in the habit of prayer and
when I came to a drinking saloon r
pray that God will take me safe past
and I pray until I am past. He does
help me. " For every man given t
strong drink there are scores of traps
set ; and when lie goes out on business
to-morrow he will be in infinite peril ,
and no one but the everywhere present
God can see that man through. Ohl
they talk about the catacombs of Naples -
ples and the catacombs of Rome and
the catacombs of Egypt-the burial
plate under the city where the dust of
a great multitude lies ; but I tell you
New York has its catacombs and Boston -
ton its catacombs and Philadelphia its
catacombs. They are the underground
restaurants , full of dead men's bones
and all uncleanness. Tong man , you
know It. God help you. There is no
need of going into the art gallery to se
the skillful sculpture that wonderful
representation of a man and his sons
wound around with serpents. There
are families represented in this house i
that are wrapped in the martyrdom of
fang and scale and venom-a living
Laocoon of ghastliness and horror.
What are you to do ? I am not speaking -
ing into the air. I am talking to hundreds -
dreds of men who must be saved by
Christ's gospel or never saved at all.
What are you going to do ?
Do not put your trust in bromide of
potassium , or in Jamaica ginger , or in
any thing that apothecaries can mix.
'
Put your trust only in the Eternal God
and he will see you through. Some of
you do not have temptations every-
day. It is a periodic temptation that
comes every six weeks or every- three
months , when it seems as if the powers
of darkness kindle around about your ,
tongue the fires of the pit. It is well t
enough at such a time , as some of you
;
do , to seek medical counsel ; but your a
first and most importunate cry must be
to God. If the fiends will drab you to
the slaughter , make them do it on your
knees. Oh , God ! now that the paroxysm
of thirst is coming again upon that
man , help him ! Fling back into the pit
of hell the fiend that assaults his soul
this moment. Oh , my heart aches to see
men go on in this fearful struggle with.
out Christ.
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