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WOLCOTT PRESENTS A BIMETALLIC -
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In Case an Inturnattonat Conference le
held-Tio Senate H111s the Pooling
1 , I illIadlan Appropriation Lilt
Again ConshleroI. Other
Late IyastInFton News
-Fay for Clerks.
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ti 'ASfIINGTO : ; , Feb. 25.-A memorial
frcm the Idaho legislature was prc-
berited to the senate to-day , protest
in ; ; against the pooling bill as a plan
to place the railroads in the hands of
a vast syndicate and thus crush competition -
petition under the iron heel of
monopoly.
Mr. Voorhees , chairman of the
finance comiittee , presented a comprehensive -
prehensive resolution for an investigation
gation by the committee of the effect
of the tariff and iaterual revenue
laws.
Dlr. Wolcott of Colorado then presented -
sented as anatuendirtent tothesundry
civil bill 110W on the calendar an
amendment providing that if the
preside utupon invitation of Germany
01 Great Hritain or any of the other
governments of Europe , shall determine -
mine that this government shall be
represented at the international or
other conference to be held with a
view to secure internationally
a fixity of relative values between
tween gold and silver as money ,
by means of a common ratio 1)etWCell
those metals with free mintage at
such a ratio , he shall be autliorizcd
to regncst the attendance of a coin-
mission of nine , three to be appointed
by Imitn by and with the consent of
the senate , prior to the adjournment
i of the present congress , and the
, others to be a joint committee of this
i congress , three to be members of the
senate and three of the house of rep-
resentatives. The amendment makes
available x100,000 for the CXpe11SC of
the commission.
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' -it is satisfying , " said Mr. Wolcott ,
"to thole who vote for bimetallism ,
and it should be satisfactory to those
gentlemen who talk for binnctallism
and vote against it and who await
with ravished eyes to sec what England -
land Will do. "
Mr. Wol"ott asked that the amend-
went go to the f ounce committee and
Dir. Hale made the suggestion that as
the sundry civil bill was so soon tobe
COIISlderel there should be no delay
in getting the amendment from the
finance committee and the appropriation -
tion committee.
Consideration of the Indian appropriation -
priation 1)111 Was resumed , and Mr.
ICvle oilered an amendment that the
word "Indian" should include not
only those of full blood , but those of
mixed blood , of whatever degree ,
while tribal relations arc maintained.
e ' EXTRA PAY FOR CLERKS.
The leproentattves Cote to OIve a
I I Uontlt's Sttiry : to the lngdoyes.
WASIINGTON , Feb. 25.-After some
brief routine morning business the
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1 lmouse , in committee of the whole , resumed -
sumed consideration of the deficiency
bill. While a series of amendments
to give extra compeitsatioI to various
employes of the house was being
atlonted Mr. Iingley of Maine protested -
tested mildly.
Mr. Livingston of Georgia offered
an amendment to give an extra
months pay to the individual clerks
of members. Mr. Sayers , chairman
, of the conitnittee on appropriations ,
protested. The Livingston amend-
' rent ryas carried , 105 to 70. Mr.
I1 , Dockery , however , gave notice that
" he would denIaId a yea and nay vote
in the house.
TO EXAMINE PACIFIC 120ADS.
The Senate Committee May Speed its
'nmmcr Epos an Iuvcstigation.
W'tsHlrwToN , Feb. 25. - Senator
Morgan introduced today a resolu-
tion authorizing the senate comnmitte
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on Pacific railroads to sit during
i the coming recess for the purpose of
I i continuing its investigation of the
l relations of those roads to the govern-
ment. The committee is authorized
to make a personal examination of
e the roads and other properties of the
bond aided Pacific railway companies
and their branches , and the country
1 through which they pass or which is
immediately tributary to their income -
come tivitil a view of ascertaining
their present status and their ability
to pay their indebtedness to the
United States.
RANSOM GOES TO MEXICO.
The North Carolina Senator Selected
for tIa Vacant Position.
WASIIINGTON , Feb. 25.-Soon after
the senate met , the president sent in
the name of Senator Matt W. Ransom
of'Nortli Carolina as minister to Mex-
Mr. Ransomn's term as senator
1 will expire Monday week
Immediately after the nomination
was received Senator Blackburn
moved an executive session , and the
nomination was forthwith taken up
and confirmed by the unulimous vote
of time senate.
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THE POOLING BILL KILLED.
The Scnato Refuses by a Ieclslvo vote
to Take Up the Measure.
.4 1 VAsIIINGT0N , Feb. 25.-At 3 o'clock
this afternoon Mr. Butler moved to
' take up the pooling bill. A vote was
t demanded. This resulted 21
at once
to 42 and time bill was thus virtually
killed and a Sunday session prey
vented.
' Exterminating time Seals.
i' Poachers
SAN FI1ANCISCO , Feb. 25. - James
Sheaklcy , governor of the territory
of Alaska , who is now In the city ,
i sans time sealing business is practic-
ally a t.ad. In a few years there will
be no more seals , the poachers hay-
them.
exterminated
lug all but
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WOMEN ON LIVE TOPICS.
Art Training , vlvlsoction , Rosiness TrainIng -
Ing and Immigration Discussed.
\VASIIINOTON , Feb. 25. - Woman's
work in the field of education and
organized work in patriotism
and politics occupied to-day's
session of the National Council of
Women. Many of the papers embodied -
bodied suggestions for fmproviug the
methods for teaching the young and
the various phases of female educa-
tion.
tion.The
The opening address was by Dr.
Julia Holmes-Smith of Pennsylvania ,
whose paper was read by Miss Clara
Bewiclt Colby of Washington. It
gave an analysis of humanity so far
as regarded personal beauty. Following -
lowing this review came a statement
of the necessity for time cultivation of
higher ideals in children and a protest
test against the commonplace in edu-
cation.
Virginia Graff of Pennsylvania
pointed out that the children , irrespective -
pective of outside conditions , were
responsive to kindergarten teaching , ,
while Mrs. J. Ellen Foster of Washington
ington protested against time restriction -
tion of art instruction to time higher
arts.
arts.The
The perils of immigration were
commented on by Mrs. I. C. Manchester -
ter of I hole Island of time National
association of local women of American -
can liberty. She protested against
indiscriminate immigration and declared -
clared that the great middle class was
becoming alarmed at the serious
aspect of the situation , since the
foreign vote had become so important
a factor in the demoralization of politics -
tics and labor interests. Special legislation -
lation compelling all immigrants to
bear carefully granted certificates ,
extending the time of naturalization
and basing citizenship on educational
requirements , was advocated.
DOUGLASS' LAST LETTER.
Tlmo Colored Loader Discussed Politico
the Day Before His Death.
Burru , Mont. , Feb. 25.-The following -
ing letter , written by Frederick
Douglass the day before his death ,
has just been received by Ellis P.
Passmore of this city , dated Cedar
hill , Anacosta , D. C. , Feb. 17 , 1395 :
I cannot say that I anm much elated
by the victory of time Republican
party , though I am glad the Demo-
cratie party has met with defeat. I
Have many fears that the victory of
the Republicans may make them even
a little more indifferent' about protecting -
tecting human rights under the constitution -
stitution than when they were in
power before. It is to time shame of
the Republican party that it could
protect the rights of American citizens
everywhere but at home. It made
no earnest effort to see that the constitution -
stitution was obeyed in the Southern
states and time ballot box protected.
The fourteenth ameudment declares
that when any state shall deprive
any of its citizens of the elective
franchise representation shall be re-
duced. No attempt has been made to
enforce this provision by time Republican -
lican party or any other. Yet all
swore to support the constitution.
I have not declared for any particular -
ticular candidate for the Republican
nomination in 1890 , nor do I see any
need of such declaration at this distance -
tance of time. The moan likely to get
it will be from a state which the Republicans -
publicans may think it difficult but
important to carry. Old "Mr. Avail-
ability" will as usual decide the question -
tion as to who the man shall be.
Still , we have a chance of getting a
better man from the Republicans
than from Democrats or Populists.
EXCURSIONISTS IN A WRECK.
A Mardi Gras Train Derailed and Bnrned
-A Northern Man Killed.
DIONTGOMErr , Ala. , Feb. 25.-On the
Louisville & Nashville railroad about
forty miles south of here a Mardi
Gras train of eight coaches was
wrecked and at once caught fire. A
special train left here at once for the
scene of the wreck with all of time
available physicians in the city.
One report is that seven passengers
were killed , but Superintendent McKinney -
Kinney of time Southern division of
time Louisville & Nashville road , who
went to the scene of time wreck , telegraphed -
graphed that one man was killed outright -
right and one woman probably fatally
injured. Both were passengers from
the North and their names are not
known Many others were more or
less injured.
All the eight coaches were totally
destroyed by the fire.
VETOED BY THE PRESIDENT.
The Kansas City , Oklahoma S : Pacific
Railroad Bill Refused Approval.
WASHINGTON , Feb. -President
Cleveland has vetoed the bill authorizing -
izing the Kansas City , Oklahoma and
Pacific railway company to construct
and operate a railway through Indian -
dian reservations in the Indian territory -
tory and time territories of Oklahoma
amid New Dlexic0.
A Railroad Conductor a Maniac.
ST. JosEPII , Mo. , Feb. 25.-John
Enos , a conductor on the St. Joseph
& Grand Island railroad , told his
physicians and neighbors that he had
been seized several times during recent -
cent nights with an almost uncontrollable -
trollable impulse to kill his wife and
three children. He had realized before -
fore that his mind was not right , and
fought the murderous desire with all
the power lie could control. His
neighbors searched the house and
found a knife hidden ism his slipper.
He was at once placed in time asylum
here. Ile had been in poor health
durilig time past two years.
Greenhut to Fight the Trust.
PEORIA , Ill. , Feb. 25.-A company is
being organized here for the purpose
of erecting two distilleries with a Capacity -
pacity of 15,000 barrels each. J. B.
Greenhut is said to be at the head of
time move.
Two More Houw Bills Vetoed.
WASHINGTON , Feb. 25.-The president -
dent sent to the house to-day his veto
of the two bills , one to incorporate
the Society of American Florists and
one for time relief of John L. Rhea.
Fe Quorum in Missouri's House.
JEFFERSON CITY , Mo. , Feb. 25.-The
house had no quorum this afternoon ,
but it worked away engrossing'a few
of the hundreds of bills not yet acted
on.
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TELEGRAPHIC NEWS NOTES.
For the first time in ten years every
coal mine in the Salineville , Ohio , district -
trict is working with a full force of
men.
Thursday's statement of the condition -
tion of the treasury shows : Available
cash balance , S167,331,354 ; gold reserve -
serve , $08,70,823.
At Brooklyn fire in the eight-story
building owned by Arbuckle Bros. ,
and known as the Arbuckle coffee
mills , caused $300,000 damages.
Eighty-five per cent of the window
glass production of the country is
represented in Columbus , Ohio , for
tlmo purpose of bracing up business.
In Chicago , Minnie Dingat , a domestic
mestic , 21 years old , was shot and instantly -
stantly killed by Joseph Wyman , a
tailor. Wyman then attempted sui-
cide.
In Detroit , Mich. , Mrs. Horace Pope
and William L'rosseauher accomplice ,
were bothm held for trial for time murder -
der of Dr. Pope , the husband of the
former.
William C. Murphy , the last of
General Sam Houston's army in the
war for Independence for Texas ,
died at his home in Philadelphia ,
aged 75 years.
A. J. Balfour , the earl of Dunraven ,
the marquis of Granby , Sir Iferbert
Maxwell and a number of other
prominent British politicians arc
suffering from influenza.
The Lawson flag bill forbidding the
display of foreign flags on public
buildings passed the New York senate -
ate after some debate by a vote of 20
to 0. It now goes to the governor.
The bill submitting to time pcoplc
the question of bonding the state for
$9.000,000 for canal improvements has
prssed the New York senate , yeas 20 ,
nays 4. It now goes to the governor.
John Geiger , a pioneer resident of
Norfolk , Neb. , has received notice
from New York city that his brother ,
who recently died there , left his entire -
tire estate , valued at $1,500,000 to
him.
The president has signed the joint
resolution earnestly recommending
to Great Britain and Venezuela the
president's suggestion that their
boundary dispute be settled by arbi-
tration.
John McPAride's illness seems to be
growing more serious. lie has been
unable to leave the house since his
' arrival at Massilon , Ohio , and time
dcctors state that he will lose the
nails from toes and hands.
harry C. Stillwell , a young clerk in I
time employ of the Thank of California ,
shot himself through the heart. He
had been caught in time act of abstracting -
stracting a $50 treasury note off a
bundle of notes in the bank.
The silvermen have determined to
fight the proposition for certificates
of indebtedness in time sundry civil
bill and will carry their opposition to
such lengths as tivill prevent the bill
becoming a law if it is retained.
'r'ime deported Hawaiian royalists ,
Cranstoun , Johnston and Muller , are
still at Vancouver. Muller , who was
a prosperous merchant in Honolulu ,
has been given work by the city ,
shoveling dirt on the streets to enable
him to live.
At a conference of whisky men in
Chicago it was decided to fix the price
of whisky at 1.4 cents a gallon , or 2
cents advance of the present rate.
This rate will go into effect Monday
morning , and with a tax of $1.10 will
raise time price of spirits to $1.2.4 s
gallon.
In San Francisco Reuben H. Lloyd ,
attorney for Mrs , Ilermann Oelrichs
and Miss Virginia Fair , announces
positively that his clients would not
be a party to any contest of the will
of their father , the late James G.
Fair. Charles Fair will contest the
will , however.
In .ludge Ferguson's court in New
Orleans , Charles D. Leeper was fined
$300 and sent to the parish prison for
two months for carrying concealed
weapons , with the additional penalty
of one month's imprisonment in time
event that the fine is not paid. This
is time lmeawiest sentence for carrying
a concealed weapon ever i mposed in
the criminal court of that city.
ASK FOR A RECEIVER.
bill in Equity : ilotl Against heirs of
the Late Senator Plumb.
WASIIINGTON , Feb. 23.-A bill in
equity was filed in the District supreme -
preme court yesterday by Arthur E.
Bateman , Douglass Grien and James
A. Garner , assignees , vs. the widow
and heirs-at-law of the late Senator
Preston B. Plumb of Kansas. The
case grows out of an agreement to
which the senator is alleged to have
been a party , for time construetion of
a railroad from Portsmouth to Hicks-
ford , Va. , ( the line which was afterward -
ward extended ) , to which Plumb became -
came liable for certain obligations to
reimburse Bateman and Grien for
advances made.
No Danger of War Now.
CITY OF MEXICO , Feb. 23.-Time s&
vere illness of Emilio DeLeon , Guate-
mnalan envoy to Mexico , has delayed
active negotiations on the international -
tional boundary question , which now
resolved itself largely to routine auditing -
diting work and diplomatic corre-
spondence. It has been generally
accepted now ion over a week that
there is not time slightest prospect for
war , unless thins should take an utterly -
terly unlooked for turn.
Seed for the Snferer , .
WASmNCTON , Feb. 23.-Senator
Allen , from time committee on forest
reservation , today favorably reported
the amendment to the sundry civil
appropriation bill appropriating $300-
000 for the purchase of seed for time
benefit of the drought stricken dis
triets.
MILLS AGAINST BONDS.
iho Texas Senator Proposes to Repeal
Alt Provisions Still in Force.
WASHINGTON , Feb. 23. - Senator
Mills has given notice of the following -
ing amendment to time sundry civil
appropriation bill : "And all laws
whieh authorize the secretary of the
treasury to sell bonds of the United
States for any purpose are lmereby re-
pealed. " It is intended to follow time
paragraph in the bill making the provision
vision for the collection , safe keeping -
ing , transfer an ( disbursement of the
public money and for transportation
Qf notes , bonds and other securities.
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THE TAI M { SERMON.
THE GLORIOUS GOSPEL AND ITS
HEAVENLY LIGHT.
the Text Chosen Being : //According to
the Glorious Gospel of time Most
Blessed God lahleh Was Committed
to My Trust"-Tim. 1 : ii.
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EW YORK , FEB. 17.
1895.-Several thousand
i persons were turned
away this afternoon
from the door's of the
Academy of Music , after -
ter the huge building
had been filled to overflowing -
. flowing , the crowds hawing -
ing begun to assemble
fully two hours before
the time fixed for opening -
ing the services. P.ev.
Dr. Talmage took for hIs
subject , "Time Glorious
Gospel ; " the text chosen
being : "According to time
glorious gospel of time blessed God
which was committed to my trust.-1
Tim. , Iii. :
The greatest novelty of our time is
the gospel. It is so old that it is new.
As potters and artists are now attempting -
ing to fashion pitchers and cups and
curious ware like those of 1,900 years
ago recently brought up from buried
Pompeii , and such cups and pitchers
and curious ware are universally admired -
mired , so anyone who can unshovel
the real gospel from the mountains of
stuff under which it has been buried ,
whit be able to present something that
will attract time gaze and admiration
and adoption of all the people. It is
amazing what substitutes have been
presented for what my text calls "Time
Glorious Gospel. " There has been an
hemispheric apostasy. There are many
people in this anti all other large assemblages -
semblages who have no more idea of
what the gospel really is than they
have of what is contained in the four-
teentit chapter of Zend-Avesta , time bible -
ble of the Hindoo , the first copy of
which I ever saw I purchased in Calcutta -
cutta , India , last September. The old
gospel is fifty feet wider and time work
has been done by the shovels of those
who have been trying to contrive the
philosophy of religion. There is no philosophy -
osophy about it. It is a plain matter of
bible statement and of clmild-like faith.
Some of the theological seminaries have
been hotbeds of infidelity , because they
have tried to teach the "philosophy of
religion. " By the time that many a
young theological student gets half
throughm his preparatory course he is
so filled with doubts about plenary inspiration -
spiration and the divinity of Christ and
time questions of eternal destiny that
he is more fit for the lowest branch in
the infant class of a Sunday school
than to become a teacher and leader of
the people. The ablest theological professor -
fessor is a Christian mother , who out
of her own experience can tell the four-
year-old how beautiful Christ was on
earth and how beautiful he is in heaven
and how dearly lie loves little folks and
then she kneels down and puts one arm
around the boy and with her somewhat
faded cheek against the roseate cheek
of the little one , consecrates him for
time and eternity to him who said , "Suf-
fer them to come unto me. " What an
awful work Paul made with the D. D.'s
and the LL. D.'s and the F. R. S.'s when
lie cleared the decks of time old gospel
ship by saying : 'Not many wise men ,
not many noble , are called , but God
hath chosen the weak things of the
world to confound the mighty. "
There sits the dear old theologian
with his table piled up with all the
great books on inspiration and exegesis
and apologetics for the Almighty and
writing out his own elaborate work on
the philosophy of religion , and his little
grandchild coming up to lmirn for a good
night kiss , lie accidentally knocks off
time biggest book from the table and it
falls on time head of the child , of whom
Christ himself said : "Out of the mouths
of babes and sucklins thou hast perfected -
fected praise. " Ah ! my friends , the
bible wants no apologetics. The throne
of the last judgment wants no apolo-
getics. Eternity wants no apologetics.
Scientists may tell us that natural light
is the "propagation of undulations in
an elastic medium and thus set in vibratory -
bratory motion by the action of luminous -
ous bodies ; " but no one knows what
gospel light is until his own blind eyes
by the touch of time Divine Spirit have
opened to see the noonday of pardon
and peace. Scientists may tell us that
natural sound is "the effect of an impression -
pression made on the organs of hearing
by an impulse of the air , caused by a
collision of bodies or by other means ; "
but those only know what the gospel
sound is who have heard the voice of
Christ directly saying : "Thy sins are
forgiven thee ; go in peace. " Time theological -
logical dude unrolls upon the plush of
the exquisitely carved pulpit a learned
discourse showing that time garden of
Eden was an allegory and Solomon's
song a rather indelicate love ditty and
the book of Job a drama in which satan
was time star actor and that Renan was
three-quarters right about time miracles
of Jesus and that the bible was gradually -
ally evoluted and the best thought of
the different ages , Moses and David and
Paul doing time best they could under
the circumstances and therefore to be
encouraged. Lord of heaven and earth ,
get us out of the London fog of higher
criticism !
The right is dark and the way is
rough and we have a lantern which God
has put in our hands ; but instead of
employing that lantern to show ourselves -
selves and others the right way we are
discussing lanterns , their shape , their
size , their material and whichm is the
better light-kerosene , lamp oil or candle -
dle ; and while we discuss it we stand
all around the lantern so that we shut
out the light from the multitudes who
are stumbling on the dark mountains
of sin and death. Twelve hundred dead
birds were found one morning around
Bartholdi s statue in New York harbor.
They had dashed their life out against
the lighthouse the night before. Poor
things ! And time great lighthouse of the
gospel-how many high-soaring thinkers -
ers have beaten all their religious life
out against it , while it was intended for
only one thing , and that to show all nations -
tions the way into the harbor of God's
mercy and to the crystalline wharves
of the heavenly city , where the Immortals -
tals are waiting for new arrivals. Dead
skylarks , when they might have been
flying seraphs.
Here also come , covering up the old
gospel , some who think they can by law
and a : posure of crime soya the world ,
and from Portland , Maine , across to
San Francisco and back again to New
Orleans and Savannah , many of time
ministers have gone into the detective
bushness. Worldly reform by all
means ; but unless It be also gospel reform -
form , it will be dead failure. In New
York its chief work has been to give us
a change of bosses. We had a democratic -
cratic boss and now it is to be a republican -
lican boss , but the quarrel Is , who shall
be the republican ? Politics will save
the cities the same day that satan ev amI-
gelizes perdition.
The glorious gospel of the blessed God
as spoken of hm my test will have more
drawing power , and when that gospel
gets fulf swing it will have a momentum -
tum and a power mightier than that
of time Atlantic ocean when , under time
force of the September equinox , It
strikes the higlmlands of the Navesink.
The meaning of the word "gospel" is
"good news , " and my text says it Is
glorious good news and we must tell it
in our churches and over our dry goods
counters and in our factories and over
our threshing machines and behind our
ploughs and on our ships' decks and in
our parlors , our nurseries and kitchens ,
as though it were glorious good news
and not with a dismal drawl in our
voice and a dismal look in our faces ,
as tlmough religion were a rheumatic
twinge or a dyspeptic pang or a malarial -
rial chill or an attack of nervous prostration -
tration Withm nine "hlesseds" or "lmap-
pys , " Christ began his sermon on time
mount : Blessed time poor , blessed the
mourner , blessed the meek , blessed the
hungry , blessed time merciful , blessed
the pure , blessed the peace makers ,
blessed the persecuted , blessed time reviled -
viled , blessed , blessed , blessed ; happy ,
happy , happy. Glorious good news for
the young as through Christ timey may
have their coming years ennobled anti
for a life time all the angels of God
their coadjutors and all the armies of
heaven their allies. Glorious good news
for the middle aged , as throliglm Christ
they may have their perplexities tlis-
entangled and their courage rallied and
their victory over all obstacles and lmin-
drauces made forever sure. Glorious
good news for the aged , as they may
have time sympathy of him of whom St.
John wrote : "His ] mead and his hairs
were white like wool , as white as snow , "
and the defense of the everlasting arms.
Glorious good news for the dying , as
they may have ministering spirits to
escort them and opening gates to receive -
ceive them and a sweep of eternal glories -
ries to encircle them and the welcome
of a loving God to embosom themn.
Oh , my text is right when it speaks
of the glorious gospel. It is an invitation -
tation from the most radient being that
ever trod the earthm or ascended the
heavens , to you and me , to come and be
made happy and then take after that a
royal castle for everlasting residence ,
the angels of God our cup bearers. The
price paid for all of this on the cliff of
limestone about as high as this house ,
about seven minutes' walk from time
wall of Jerusalem , where with an agony
that with one hand tore down the rocks
and withm the other drew a midnight
blackness over time heavens , our Lord
set us forever free. Making no apology
for any one of the million sins of our
life , but confessing all of theme we can
point to tlmat cliff of limestone and say ,
"There was paid our indebtedness and
God never collects a bill twice. Glad
am I that all the Christian poets have
exerted their pen in extolling time matchless -
less one of this gospel. Isaac Watts ,
how do you feel concerning him ? And
he writes , "I am not ashamed to own
my Lord. " Newton , what do you think
of this gospel ? And he writes , "Amaz-
ing grace , how sweet the sound. " Cow-
per , what do you think of lmim ? And
the answer comes , "There is a fountain
filled with blood. " Charles Wesley ,
what do you think of him ? And he answers -
swers , "Jesus , lover of my soul. " Ho-
ratius Bonar , what tlo you think of
him ? And he responds , "I lay my sins
on Jesus. " Ray Palmer , what do you
think of him ? And he writes , "My faith
looks up to thee. " Fannie Crosby , what
do you think of him ? And she writes ,
"Blessed assurance , Jesus is mine. " But
r take higher testimony : Solomon , what
do you think of him ? And the answer
is , "Lily of the valley. " Ezekiel , what
do you think of him ? And the answer
is , "Plant of renown. " David , what do
you think of him ? And the answer is ,
"My Shepherd. " St. John , what do you
think of lmi n ? And the answer is ,
"Bright and morning star. ' St. Paul ,
what do you think of him ? And the
answer comes , "Christ is all in all. " Do
you think as well of him , 0 man , 0 woman -
man of the blood-bought immortal spirit -
it ? Yes , Paul was right when lie styled
it "The Glorious Gospel. " And then as
a druggist , while you are waiting for
him to make up the doctor's prescription -
tion , puts into a bottle so many grains
of this and so many grains of that , and
so many drops of timis and so many
drops of that , and the intermixture taken -
en , though sour or bitter , restores the
health , so Christ , time Dfwine Physician ,
prepares this trouble of our life time
and that disappointment and this persecution -
secution and that hardship and that
tear , and we must take the Intermixture -
ture , yet though it be a bitter draught ,
under the divine prescription it administers -
isters to our restoration and spiritual
health , "all things working together for
good. " Glorious gospel !
And then the royal castle Into which
we step out of this life without so much
as soiling our foot with the upturned
earth of the grave. "They shall reign
forever and ever. " Does not that mean
that you are , if saved , to be kings and
Iqueens , and do not kings and queens
have castles ? But the one that you are
offered was for thirty-three years an
abandoned castle , though now gloriously -
ly inhabited. There is an abandoned
royal castle at Amber , India. One hundred -
dred and seventy years ago a king
moved out of it never to return. But
time castle still stands in indescribable
; i grandeur , and you go through brazen
I doorway after brazen doorway and
carved room after carved room and under -
der embellished ceiling after embellished -
ed ceiling and through halls precious-
stoned into wider halls precious-stoned ,
and on that hill are pavillions deeply
, dyed and tasselled and arched , the fire
of colored gardens cooled by the snow
of white architecture ; birds in crab-
; esque so natural to life that while you
cannot hear their voices you imagine
you see the flutter of their wings while
you are passing ; walls pictured with
! triumphal procession ; rooms that were
called "Alcove of Light" and "Hall of
Victory ; " marble , white and black , like
a mixture of morn and night ; alabaster -
ter and mother-of-pearl and laquer
work. Standing before It , the eye
climbs from step to latticed balcony ,
and from latticed balcony to oriel , and
( from orlel to arch and from arch to roof ,
and then descends on ladder of all cot
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
ots fin 'b Atalrs of perfect llncs tG
tropical gardens of pomegranite and
pine apple. Seven stories of resplt'ndent
architecture ! But the royal castle provided -
vided for you , if you will only take It
on the prescribed terms , Is grander than
all that , and though an abandoned castle -
tle simile Christ was here achieving
your redemption , is again occupied b Y ,
the "Chief among ten thousand" and
some of your own kindred who have
gone up and , waiting for you , are leaning -
ing from the balcony. The windows of
"
that castle look off on the king's gardens - '
dens where immortals walk linked in
eternal friendship ; and the banquet hall
of that castle has princes and princesses -
es at the table ; and the wine is time
new wine of the kingdom" and the supper -
per is the marriage supper of time lamb ;
and there are fountains into wlmich no
tear ever fell and there is music that
trembles witlm no grief and the llglmt that
falls upon that scene Is never beclouded -
ed and there is the kiss of those reunited -
united after long separation. More 1
nerve will we have there than now or
we would swoon away under the rap-
tures. Stronger vision will we have
tlmere than now or our eyesight would
be blinded by the brilliance. Stronger
ear will we have there tlman now or under -
der the roll of timat minstrelsy and the
clapping of that acclamation and the
boom of that hallelujah we would be
deafened. Glorious gospel ! You
thought religion was a straight-jacket ,
that it put you on time limits , that thereafter -
after you must go cowed down. No , no ,
no. It Is to be castellated. By time
cleansing power of the shed blood of
Golgotha set your faces toward the shining -
ing pinnacles. Oh , It does riot matter
much rvlmat becomes of us here-for at
the longest our stay is short-if we can
only land there. You see there are so
many I do want to meet there. Joshua.
my favorite prophet ; and John among
the evangelists ; and Paul among the
apostles , and Wycliffe among the martyrs -
tyrs , and Bourdaloue among the preaclm-
ers , and Dante anmong the poets , and
Havelock among time heroes , and our
loved ones whom we have so much
missed since they left us , so many
darlings of the heart , their absence
sometimes almost unbearable ; and ,
mentioned fn this sentence last of all
because I want the tlmougimt climacteric ,
our blessed Lord , without whom we
could never reach the old castle at all.
IIe took our place. lie purchased our
ransom. He wept our woes. IIe suffered -
fered out' stripes. He lied our death.
He assured our resurrection. Blessed
be his glorious name forever ! Surging
to his car be all the anthems ! Facing
him be all the thrones !
Oh , I want to see it and I will see it-
the day of his coronation. On a throne
nlready , methinks the day will come
when In some great hall of eternity all
the nations of earth whom he has conquered -
quered by his grace will assemble again
to crown him. Wide and high and immense -
mense and upholstered as with the sunrises -
rises and sunsets of a thousand years ,
; great audience room of heaven. Like
the leaves of an Adirondack forest the
ransomed multitudes , and Christ standing -
ing on a high place surrounded by worshippers -
shippers and subjects. They shall coma
out of time farthest past led on by the
prophets ; they shall come out of time
early gospel days led on by the apostles ;
they shall come out of the centuries still
ahead of us , led on by champions of the
truth , heroes and heroines yet to be
born.
And then from that vastest audience
ever assembled in all the universe there
will go up time shout , "Crown him !
Crown him ! Crown him ! " and the
Father who long ago promised his only
begotten Son , "I will give thee the
heathen for thy inheritance and the uttermost -
termost parts of time earth for tlmy' possession -
session , " shall set time crown upon the
forehead yet scarred with crucifixion
bramble , and time hosts of heaven , down
on the levels and up in the galleries will
drop on their knees crying , "Hail king
of earth ! King of heaven ! Iiing of
saints ! King of seraphs ! Thy kingdom
is an everlasting kingdom , and to thy
dominions there shall be no end ! Amery
and Aimmen ! Amen and Amaen ! "
FAMOUS.
Cathedral Labyrinths and Why They
Were Made.
Piero are four of the most famous
labyrinths of time world. It was customary -
tomary during the middle ages to in-
sart in the floor of the nave of contain -
tain cathedrals a labyrinth of black
and white stone or colored tiles.
These labyrinths were known as
"Roads of Jerusalem , " owing , it is
probable , to the fact that worshipers
were accustomed to traverse the sharp
stones of time maze upontheir knees in
memory of the journey of Christ from
Jerusalem to Calvary.
That of the cathedral of Sens is of
circular form and incased in lead. It
measured sixty-eight feet across , and
the length of the circuit , which took
an hour to traverse , was over a mile
and a half.
The labyrinth of St. Owen was
formed of blue and yellow tiles and
measured Three quarters of a mile.
That of St. Quentin was taken away
in 1792 , because children played the
game of "Who Can Get Into It the
Quickest ? " disturbed the worshipers.
Why the children were not taken
away instead of the labyrinth history
does not say.
The labyrinth of Bayeux is of black
Squares bearing yellow grifiins , roses
and armorial bearings , which make ii
% great rarity.
in tire Interest of Man. '
A new paper , devoted solely to mas- '
euline interests and bearing the comprehensive -
prehensive title , Man , will shortly be
issued in London. In addition to
playing the part of guide , philosopher
and friend to nmankind in all matters
of dress , drink , food and manners , it
will take up much the same attitude
toward women as the advanced ladies'
papers adopt toward man.
A Little Too -eat.
"I don't mind a woman bein' neat , '
said old Mrs. Jason , "but one woman
I used to know was jilt a little too
neat for any use. Why , that there
woman used to take a couple of goldfish -
fish she had out of their tank every I
Saturday night and give 'em a bath. " 1
Pretty Good Evidence.
Lawyer , angrily-Are you sure your.
are telling the truth ?
Witness-Be jabers , you wudc't base
so hot ab ; + > t it if Oi wasn't.