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0WT - i ;v, _ I HVBPRISOHERSI YSCHFD Mob of Indiana Farmers Take Re- ; venge For Robberies. V GUNS AWED THE JAILERS. | The Men Were Held In Versailles, . i Ind., For Robbery?The Farmers Had ; Been the Victims of the Thieves For a Lon? Time?Jail Raided Easily? The Men Beaten, Shot and Handed. Virsailles, Ind. (Special).?Incensed by numerous depredations, burglaries and daylight robberies, the people of Ripley County have taken the law into their own 1 hands. Five men who have long been a ' terror to the citizens of this county were | lynched here Wednesday night. This is the j ; county seat and a town of eight hundred i people. It is one of the oldest towns J in the State, but It is flvo miles from a railroad station, and has no telegraph office. For four or live years the farmers of the county have ? been the victims of a lawless gang whose depredations have continued unceasingly. Arrests have been made, but the guilty men have covered up their lawlessness, and it was seldom that conviction followed. On Saturday last word was received by the Sheriff that the store of Woolev Brothers, at Correct, lnd., ten miles "from here, was to be entered. The information was given by one of the gang who had been under suspicion. Sheriff Henry Bushing, with his Informant and five deputies, went to the place. 8hortly after midnight the I gang reached the store. Clifford G. Gordon and the Sheriff's informant were deslg1 nated to break into the building. Gordon ' effected an entrance, and just as he stepped inside the Sheriff grabbed him. Both pulled pletols and began firing. Bert Andrews, who was with the robbers, joined In the i fusillade, while the deputies came to the I ' assistance of the Sheriff. The 8herlff was shot through the hand and Gordon was shot several times. Three \ pistol balls entered his body, and he was also wounded In the leg. Gordon and An drews succeeded In escaping and came to Osgood, where they were arrested. The ! robbers had driven oat to the place in a *. baggy belonging to Lyle Levi, and It was learned that the robbery had been planned at the home of William Jenkins, Levi and i Jenkins were arrested as accessorise. All were taken to the jail at Versailles. Henry K i Shelter was pat In the jail for robbing the barber shop at Osgood last week. While the citizens were not able to fix the various robberies upon these men, they were thought to belong to the gang that has committed most of them. When It be, came known that they were in Jail, it was quietly suggested by the victims and sympathizers that "justice" be summarily dealt out to the prisoners. At 1 o'clock a. m. horsemen seemed to come from all quarters and dismounted on a hillside near Ver| sallies, and soon about four hundred men \ marched Into the town. Shortly before 2 o'clock there was a knock at the door, and when the jailer opened the ' door he was face to face with pistols held by three masked men, who asked him to turn over| the keys, flbis he did, and then the mob filed into the jail, fc Three of the prisoners?Levi, Jenkins K/ and Shulter?were on the lower floor, while f Gordon and Andrew were In the upper Her. Levi. Jenkins and Shatter showed fight, and the former was shot through the breast, while the skulls of the two others . * ? were crushed with a stool. Ropes were in readiness, and adjusting a noose around the neclt of each and pin- , f, loning their feet and hands was St the work of a few minutes. With several men at the end of each rope, the j fire prisoners were dragged two hundred ^ feet to an elm tree, where their bodies were suspended. It is said that Levi, ^ Jenkins and Shutter were dead before they reached the place. Levi was fifty-seven years old. Andrews thirty-four, Jenkins I twenty-seven. Shulter twenty-four and *v Gordon twenty-two. GERMANY'S NEW AMBASSADOR. l>r. von Holleben is Reappointed to Represent Hit Country at Washington. ( Dr. von Holleben, who will soon come to P Washington as the Ambassador from Germany, is one of the best known diplomats ftfe in Europe. The doctor is also well-known and highly esteemed in Washington, where he filled the post or uerman minister irom t March, 1892, to September, 1893. The mission was then raised to an embassy, and jfc Dr. Ton Holleben was replaced by Ambas v sador Saurma-Jeltsch. The new Ambassador is highly educated and a most suave I, man. He speaks English with as much fluency as a born American or Englishman, 1>B. VOX HOLLXBIX, (Germany's new Ambassador to Washington.) A Md during his stay five years ago he won many friends in Washington society, where he was known as one of the few bachelors j of the diplomatic corps. Dr. von Holleben | has had a wide and varied experience as a diplomat. He has represented Germany at fUntlaeo de Chile ana at Tokio. That was before bi> appointment to the American mission. He is about flity-flve years old > And has An inclination toward the pleasures L&-1 of literature. He will replace Baron von Thielmann, who is to be Secretary of the I German Treasury. Dr. von Holleben is now Minister at Stuttgart. Collision In Midstream. The steamer Catskill, bound for Catskill and way points with forty-seven passengers and freight, was run down and sunk in the North River at New York City by the excursion steamer tit. Johns, of the Sandy ' Hook Line. Bertie Timmerman, the sixyear-old son of Moses Timmerman, of Leeds, N. Y., was seen to jump from the ? [Catskill, and was drowned. Mrs. Maria McDonald and Mrs. Susan Morris, of Gut* tenberg, N. J., were unaccounted for after the rest of the passengers bad been faken from the sunken vessel. Leonard R. Miller had his leg broken. The steamers met in ' midstream. & >> * -'V- ? - ? ' / . r. f \ t THE NEWS EPITOMTZEK XVanhlncton Item*. Domestic exports for August were the largest on record, while imports were the smallest since June, 1879. The President resumed work at the White House, seeing many callers and holding a Cabinet meeting. The President appointed Daniel B. Hainer, of Pennsylvania. United States District Attorney for the Western District of Pennsyl rania. Upon the recommendation of Third Assistant Postmaster General Merritt. the Postmaster General awarded the contract for supplving postal cards for the four years beginning December lnext to Albert Daggett, of Washington. Judge Cos. of the District of Columbia, dismissed the suit of John G. Wood, Superintendent ofMails at Louisville, for an injunction to prevent his removal from office.; The case had been considered in the nature,1 of a test of the power of removal. 1 The monthly comparative statement or the exports of breadstuff?, cotton, mineral; oils, cattle and hogs and provisions in the' month of August shows as follows: Bread-j stuffs, $25,502,532; increase as compared; with August. 1S96, about $11,000,000. Cot-j ton, $1,703,818; decrease, about $1,700,000.; Mineral oils, $5,691,348; increase, nominal.; Cattle and hogs. $2,353,215; increase, about $500,000. Provisions, $12,233,137; Increase,! nearly $1,750,000. Total, $47,984,050; in-' crease, about $11,000,000. President McKinley returned to Wash-! Ington from Somerset, Fenn. He was re-! eeived at the station by three members of his Cabinet. Louise Michel, the notorious French anarchist, has announced her intention to, visit the United States in Ootober. The authorities in Washington may not allow her to land. Consul-General Lee had a conference with Secretary Sherman and Assistant Secretary Day on the Cuban situation. Dr. Guitera3 reported to Surgeon-General Wyman that a case of yellow fever haq been found in Mobile, Ala., and he feared a serious outbreak. Domestic. BSCOBD or THE LEAOCE CLCB8. > Per Per Clubs. Won. Lost. c*. I Clubs. Won. Lost, ct.t Bait 84 S3 .7181 Brooklyn 54 66 .450. Boston ...85 S5 .708 Chicago .53 68 .4381 N'w York.76 42 .644 Pittsb'g ..52 67 .429Cincin'ati67 50 .573,Philad,a..51 89 .425! Clevel'd..60 59 .504 Louisv'le 51 71 .418 Wash'n. 55 63 .466 St. Louis.27 92 .227 Sarah Elmendorf, colored, died at thei home of her daughter, Mrs. John Dorsey,. in Kingston, N. Y., at the age of 110 years. When only ten years of age, together with her parents, she was sold as a slave to the Tremper family, with whom she lived until freed by the Civil War. Her health was Tannawv vhun ahft fftll Sown stairs. The Republican County Committee of New York City decided unanimously that District-Attorney Olcott should be nominated for Mayor of G reater New York. Bridget Hayes, a servant, was found mysteriously 'murdered In the Carpenter residence in a suburb of Newburg, N. Y. She had been dead fifteen hours in the l ouse before the body was discovered. M. J. Patenotre, French Ambassador to the United States, has been transferred to Madrid, Spain, and Comte de Montholon, French Minister to Belgium, has been transferred from the post at Brussels to Washington. "Ben" Ferguson, colored, was convicted at Walhalla. Ocean County, 8. C.. of assaulting a six-year-old colored girl. The white jury rocommended him to mercy, which changes the penalty from death to life imprisonment. There was considerable rioting by the coal strikers in the vicinity of Hazleton, Penn., and the troops were kept on the march to suppress it. From 15,000 to 18.000 coal miners returned to work in the Pittsfleld (Penn.) district. D. T. Watson, a colored school teacher, was lynched in Hamilton, Ark. Mrs. M. M. Brooks, better known as "Auntie Brooks," died in Pana, 111. She was a well-known nurse in the Union Army during the Civil War. A sevpre windstorm swept over Fort Wayne, Ind., and vicinity, doing considerable damage and fatally injuring George K. Rockenberger, Frederick Wehr and Andrew Eindefler. The men were injured by falling bricks from demolished chimneys. At 4 p. m. Thursday three prisoners appeared in the guardroom of the penitentiary at Columbus, Ohio, and, leveling revolvers at Captain Raxhe, attempted to escape.. A fight ensued. Two of the prisoners, Botts and Clark, got away. Lincoln, the third prisoner, was held. Benjamin James, subguard, was shot twice. Botts is from Lucas and Clark is from Cuyahoga Coanty. Fear of yellow fever has practically depopulated" Jackson, Miss. There are several cases at Edwards, near Jackson. The overdue steamer Excelsior arrived In San Francisco with $800,000 In Klondike gold. Michael defeated Lesna by 150 yards in the twenty-mile bicycle race at the Springfield (Mass.) Bicycle Club's tournament, lowering the American record. Arthur Gardiner, of Chicago, broke the world's record In the one-mile professional handicap. During the unloading at Glasgow. Scotland, of the Allan Line steamship Tower Hill, the body of a young American was found deep in the grain. It is supposed that the young man was shot in with the grain when the vessel was being loaded in New York. .There have been no disturbances in. the mining region about Hazleton, Penn., but the strike is spreading rapidly. United States 8enator George L. Wellington resigned the Chairmanship of the Maryland Republican State Central Committee, thus relinquishing the leadership of the party in the State, which he has held for the past three years. . "Joe" Farnsworth, who shot one of the young Hatflelds and tried to kill Miss Alice Ferguson in Lee County, Virginia, was found hanging to a limb in the Cumberland Mountains in Kentucky. It was evident that -he was lynched, though an attempt had been made to make it appear that he had committed suicide. George M. Judd. a lawyer, was arrested on a charge of having stolen $15,000 from the Title Guarantee and Trust Company, of New York City, his former employers. The Kings County (Brooklyn) Republican Committee deposed Jacob Worth as leader and unqualifiedly Indorsed Seth Low. Miners in Eckby, Fenn., were forced to stop work by st;*ikers before troops sent from Hazleton tc head them off reached th? place. The Rev. "G. F. B. Howard," a notorious swindler, escaped from the Ohio Penitentiary. I Dr. E. Benjamin Andrews has withdrawn his resignation from the presidency of Brown University. The public schools of New York City opened at the close of the summer vacation. It is estimated that 200,000 children out of ft total Of 225,000 applied ior aumisslon. The crowding w&s less than usual. Forelrn. Mrs. Elizabeth Palliser,. an American, died at Oxford, England, while under the influence of ether administered for a surgical operation. Catholio missionaries in China ace being subjected to fresh persecutions at the hands of the natives. The shipbuilders' federation has called out the shipwrights In England, completing the paralysis of the shipbuilding trade. - is. V .... 4. -.i : -r/iTTi"p * ^ ROYAL HEIR WEDS SERVANT] Arcli<lnke Franz Ferdlnsnd of Austria Marries a Former Housekeeper. A sensation ha9 been caused by the statement that the Archduke Franz Ferdinnnd> son of the late Archduke Karl Ludwig and Princess Annunciata, daughter of the late King Ferdinando II., of Naples, and heir presumptive to the throne of Austria-Hungary, was murried in London a few days ago to a middle-class lady from Kohljcheidt. near Aix-la-Chapelle. The Kolniseho Yolks-Zeltung says the lady's father was formerly amine manager, that one of her brothers Is a clergyman of Essen and that another brother Is a tradesurn of Aix-la-Chapelle. j The Lokal-Anzeiger adls: "She is a ' ? TT 4ka rormer nouseseepor ui ncrr mu^, great iron master of Essen, where she met FBAXZ FZBDIXAXD, ARCHDUKE OT AUSTBIA. Archduke Franz Ferdlnar.d. The couple have gone to Algiers." Archduke Franz Ferdirand of Austria was born at Qratz on Feoember IS, 1SGS. He ie one of the richest men In Europe, as he Inherited, while still a child, all the immense wealth of the Este branch of the Hapsburg family. He was only eight years old when his mother died,yet his father then straightway handed him over to the care of the Jesuits, with strict Instructions that he should be brought up untainted by this wicked nineteenth century. FIRE DESTROYS A BLOODY RELIC. The Much-Used Gallows at Fort Smith Gone. The old relic of barbarism at Fort Smith, Ark., the gallows la the Federal jailyard, Is gone, never to return. It had been the intention of some civilized persons to exhibit the grewsome relic for money, accompanied by George Maledon, the notori FAMOUS OAXI^awa AT FOBT SMITH, ASK. ous hangman, who has killed legally more, persons than any other man In tho United States, but good sense and humanity prevailed, and that uglv Instrument of death which has given to Fort Smith suoh a murderous reputation abroad, was burned In public, leaving nothing b--t ashes and horrid memories which time alone can effaco. The whole number of executions at Fort Smith within the last twenty-five years is somewhere near a hundred, of whlcn about eighty are credited to George Haledon, who never made a failure or a bungling job. llaledon Is an old Federal soldier of German nationality. He hanged people as a business and seemed to like it, because there was money in it. The highest number of executions in one day was seven, and he called that a "good day's work." GREAT BRITAIN AND SILVER. A Letter on the Subject From a Bank of of Bngland Official. At the semi-annual meeting of the Bank of England, the Governor of that institution, after referring to the proposals of the United 8tates Government on the subject of silver, proceeded to read a letter addressed by himself to the Chancellor of tho Exchecquer, and wherein the bank exits readiness to hold one-fifth of the bullion reserve In silver, as permissa- | ble by the bank oharter, provided always that the Fieneh mints were again open to free coinage of silver, and the prices at which silver was procurable and saleable would prove satisfactory. He concluded by denying that the bank had bought any silver, and declared that all the bank had undertaken to do was under certain condl-1 tion to carry out what was permissable under the statute of 1844. CP.AND ARMY COMMANDER KILLED, E. F. Sands, of Jersey City, Meets Death by Jumping From a Trolley Car. Emanuel F. Sands, of Jersey City, N. J.f whojin June last was elected Commander of the Grand Army of the Republic in the State of New Jersey, was instantly killed while jumping from a trolley car at Vnrlck and Grand streets. Mr. Sands bad been to Newark to a Grand Army meeting, ana was on his way home on a Consolidated Traction car. He told the conductor to let him off at Variok street, but the oar did not stop and he jumped. He fell and his head struok the rail, fracturing his skull. He died before an ambulance could be called. Mr. Sands was sixty-:'our years old and a family .Tnhn V7nf>d wnrd and Irv ing Buck, the conductor and motorman, of Jersey City, were arrested. Forty Person* Drowned. Forty persons were drowned in tLe River Volga near Astrakhan, Russia. The steamer Tsarevitch was sunk in a collision with the Malfltka. As she was going down her passengers leaped into the water in a panic. Many of them swam ashore. Lynched at fikaguay. A young Russian Flan, whose name la unknown, was lynched by five enraged miners on Skaguay trail, bound for the Klondike, on the afternoon of September 8. The crime with which he was charged was stealing. The scene of the hanging was near the foot of the summit, about fifteen miles from salt water. Boiler-Skates For Messenger Boys. American visitors to London often complain of the dilatory messenger boy service. The boys are now being prQylded with roUer-akatee. . , 1 ' V* i . . '' WILL TEACH CHINAMEN TO FARM.' A New York Man Under Engagement to a Progressive Chinese Viceroy. ' G. D. Brill, of Poughquog, Dutchesi County, N. Y., is on his way to China to teach the Orientals how to grow potatoes corn and wheat; how to milk cows, what to i do for hens when they refuse to lay eggs, ' ! and how to preserve the juice of the apple ! so it neither will be too sweet nor too sour, j I and capable always of sending a Celestial , to Walhalla. i Chanp Chi Tung, who, next to Li Hung | Chang, is considered the most progressive of China's ruling great men, sent for Mr. I Brill. Chang is Viceroy of Hu Kwang, Cen, tral China. He has 473 persons to every square mile of his district, and he thinks i they do not get as much out of the soil as they should. Chang had heard of President 8cherman of Cornell University and the school of agriculture there. So he got Sidney C. Partridge, Yale, '80, rector of the Boone school |in Wuchang, a foreign mission of the Epis O. D. BKILL. copal Church, to write to President Scher- j man, telling him that he wanted a smart young American to come over and give his farmers some Information. Mr. Brill was | | graduated from Cornell In 1838, and slnoe then has been running i;hree farms. Preslriant Hdhflrmnn -hnnchf Ha nncrht tr? tnnflr bow to teaoh the Celestials, and the arrangement was made. Chang will pay all of Mr. Brill's expenses and give him a. fat , salary. Mr. Brill is taking along only a few seeds, some books, a chemical outfit, a typewriter ind a camera. He purposes importing his hoes, plows, hayforks, harrows, drills, , Mover, hollers, threshing machines and 1 :burns. Mr. Brill doesn't know what he will do for power. He will need something to pull :he plows. They have no horses in Central , l/'hina, and Mr. Brill may have to harness a iot of Chinamen. WOODFORp"aT san sebastian. j The New Minlatsr Presents His Credentials 1 to the Queen Regent. i The Hon. Hannis Taylor, the retiring ! American Minister, presented bis letters of j recall to the Queen Regent at noon at San ' Sebastian, Spat 3, and in doing so made a: j jliort complimentary non-political speech, ; .1 isU'M I j GEMEEAL STEWAST L WOODEOKD. Half an hour later the Queen received, 1 General Steward L. Woodford, the new] ' Minister, who simply read the letter of' President McKtnley appointing him the! ! American repiesentative to Spain. The! chief paragraph of thie letter said; . j 1 "He (Generai Woodford) Is informed of' the relative interests of both countries,! and of ourslnrere desire to cultivate and, nromote the fr endshio which has so long. existed bet wee 1 both countries. He shall' constantly try :o promote the interests and) prosperity ot b >th Governments, thus making himself ag, eeable to Your Majesty." j Both Mr. Tarlor and General Woodford: were received by the Queen Regent at the Palace of Mlratnar, where she and her court have been spending the summer. j During Mr. Taylor's visit to the Queen) Her Majesty cc rried on a friendly conversa-. tion with him :<egarding the United 8tate4 and ex-President Cleveland, even saying that she hoped some day to visit the United, States. When Mr. Taylor was taking his leave Her Majesty said, tonchingly: "Do, pray, befriend Spain when you goi back to America." Mr. Taylor bowed low and replied: "I will do so as frr as my'consoience permits. Mr. Taylor's departure is personally re^ gretted even hi the ofllcial world, to whiefe i he frequently had to convey unpalatable communicatio is. * Yello sr Fever Spreading. Four new genuine cases of yellow fever were reported from New Orleans and five cases are said to have a suspicious char-' acter. The isolation of the city is)almost complete, one town after ahother having refused to receive persons or goods from Th i nf Alatia.mil him nro nounoecl quarantine against its ooast city, Mobile, in which place two new oases were reported; theie is one new case in Scranton, Miss., a: id a suspicious disease has broken out in Edwards, Miss., which is be-, ing investigated. Alarm is gradually increasing. Sagasta Takes a Gloomy View. Senor Saga; ta, the Spanish Liberal leader, in an int< rview on the subject of tL*| Cuban insurrt ction says that instead of dy-, ing out it is spreading. He adds that the situation in tJie Philippine Islands is serious and asserts t! at the Carlist propaganda in Spain cannot be viewed with indifference. New Grrnan IrOnclad Launched. The new G jrman ironclad Kaiser Wilhei* der Zweite was launched at Wilhelms-' ; haven. She was christened by fateaw ' Hcary ol PrusUr ffl. IMAGE'S MM. SOTK1) WASHINGTON DIVINE'S' SUNDAY DISCOURSE. Strong Word* of Hope and Promise For Dlicoaraetd Toller* In the Lord'* Vineyard ? Christian Worker*, Like the Star*, Shine In Magnitude Forever. Text: "They that turn many to righteousness shall shine as the stars forever and ever."?Daniel xii., 3. Every man has a thousand roots and a thousand branches. His roots reach down + h??/\rtrvh oil the* oorth TTia hrnnphAn spread through all the heavens. He speaks with voice, with eye, with hand, with foot. His silence often is loud as thunder and his life is a dirge or a doxology. There is no such thing as negative influence. We are all positive in the place we occupy, malting the world better or making it worse, on the Lord's side or on the devil's, making up reasons for our blessedness or banishment, and we have already done work In peopling heaven or hell. I hear people tell of what they are going to do. A man who has burned down a city might as well talk of some evil that he expects to do, or a man who has saved an empire might as well talk of some good that he expects to do. By the force of your evil Influence you have already consumed infinite values, or you have by the power of a right influence won whole kingdoms for God. It would be absurd for me, by elaborate argument, to prove that the world is off the track. You might as well stand at the foot of an embankment, amid the wreck of a capsized rail train, proving by elaborate argument that something is out of order. Adam tumbled over the embankment sixty centuries ago, and the whole race, in one long train, has gone on tumbling fn the same direction. Crash! Crash! The only question now is, By what leverage can the crushed thing be lifted? By what hammer may the fragments be reconstructed? I worvf ohom wnn hr\m TXTA mnr tnrn munv to righteousness and what will be our future pay forso doing. First, we may turn them by the charm of a right example. A child coming from a filthy home was taught at school to- wash Its face. It went home so much improved in appearance that its mother washed her face, and when the father of the household eanle home and saw the improvement in domestic appearance he washed his face. The neighbors, happening- In, saw the ehange and tried the same experiment, until all that street was purified, and the next street copied Its example, and the whole eity felt the result of one schoolboy washing his face. That is a fable by which we set forth that the best way to get the world washed of its sins and pollution is to have our own heart and life cleansed and purified. A man with grace in his heart and Christian cheerfulness in his face and holy consistency in his behavior is a perpetual sermon, and the sermon differs from others In that it has but one head and the longer it runs the better. There are honest men who walk down Wall street making the teeth of iniquity hattar Th?? am hinnv man vhn en (n. to a sickroom and by a fook help the broken bone to knit and the excited nerves drop to a calm beating. There are pare men whose presence silences the tonga* ot uneleanness. The mightiest agent ot good on earth is a consistent Christian. I like the Bible folded between lids of oloth or ealfskin or morocco, bat I like It better when, Id the shape of a man, it goes oat into the world a Bible iUastrated. Courage is beautiful to read about, bat rather would I see a man with all the world against him confident as though all the world were for him. Patience is beautiful to read about, but rather would I see a buffeted soul calmly waiting for the time of deliverance: Faith Is beautiful to read about, but rather would [ find a man in the midnight walking straight on as though he saw everything. Oh, how many souls have been turned to God by the charm of a bright exampiel When, in the Mexican War, the-troops were wavering, a general rose in his stirrups and dashed into the enemy's lines, jhouting, "Men, follow mel" They, seeing his courage and disposition, dashed on after him and gained the victory. What meft want to rally them for Ood is an example to lead thorn. All your commands to others to .advance amount to nothing as< long as jrou stay behind. To affect them aright jrouneed to start for heaven yourself, looking back only to give the stirring cry of ' Mori, follow!" Again, we mayjturn many to righteous aess by prayer. There is no sncn aeieciive as prayer, for no one can hide away from It. It puts its hand on the shoulder of a man 10,000 miles off. It alights on a ship mldatlantic. The little child cannot understand the law of electricity, or how the telegraph operator, by touohingthe instrument here, may dart a. message under the Bea to another continent, nor oan we, with our small intellect, understand how the touch of a Christian's prayer shall Instantly strilcea soul on-the other side of the earth. Jfou take ship and go to some other country and get there at 11 o'clock lathe morning. Tou telegraph to Amerioa and the message gets here at 6 o'clock, the same morning. In other words, it seems to arrive here five hours before it started. Like that is prayer. God says, "Before they call I will hear."" To overtake-a loved one on the road you- may spur up a. lathered steed until he shall outrace the one that brought the news to Ghent, but s prayer shall eatcb it at one gallop.. A hoy running away from home may take the midnight train from the country village and reach, the seaport in time to gain the ship that sails on the morrow, but a mother's prayer will be on the deck to meet him.and lathe hammock before he swings into- it. and at the capstan before he winds the rope around, aca dn the sea, against the sky, as the vessel plows on toward it. There is a mightiness in prayer. George Muller prayed a company of poor, boys together, and then he poayed up an Mvltim in which, thev might be sheltered. He turned hie face toward Edinburgh and prayed, and there came ?1000. He turned hie face toward London and prayed and there came ?1000. He turned his face toward Dublin and prayed and there oame ?1000. The breath of Elijah'* prayer blew all the clouds off the iky, and it was dry weather. The breath et Elijah's prayer blew all the clouds together, and U was wet weather. Prayer, la Daniel's, time, walked the cave as a lion tamer. It reached up and took the sun by its golden bit and stopped it and the moon by its silver bit ana stopped it. We bare all yet to try the full power of prayer. The time will come whan the American eburch will pray with Its faoe toward, the west, and all the prairies and inland ities will surrender to Ood and will pray with face toward the sea. and all the Islandsand ships will baeeme Christian. Parents who have wayward sons will get down on their knees and say, "Lord, send my boy home/' and the boy in canton win get ngui, i np from the gaming table and go down to find oat which ship starts first for America. Not one of us yet know) how to pray.. All we have don* as yet has only been pottering. A boy gets hold of his.father's s Aw and hammer and tries to make something, but it Is a poor affair that he makes. The father oomes and takes the snm* saw and hammer and builds the house or the ship*. In the childhood of our Christian faith we make but poor work with these weapons of prayer; but when we come to the stature of men In Christ Jesus then, under these Implements, the temple of God will rise and the world's redemption will be launoh'ed. God cares not forthe length of our prayers, or the number of our prayers,or the beauty of our prayers, or the place of our prayers, but it is the faith in them that tells. Be., hevlng prayer soars higher than the le_rk ever sang, plunges deeper than diving bell ever sank, darts quioker than lightning ever flashed. Though we have used only the haq'c of this weapon Instead of the edge, what marvels have been wroughtl IS saved, we are all the captives of soma earnest iz&f-iA&v * < ? ? i\ ' prayer. Would God that, in desire for the , rescue of souls, we might In prayer lay hold of the resources of the Lord Omnipotent! We may turn to righteousness by Chris- 1 tian admonition. Do not wait until yott . .r. can make a formal speech. Address the " one next to you. You will not go home . | f a!one to-day. Between this and your place . ^ of stopping you may decide the eternal dee- 4 * tiny of an immortal spirit. Just one sentence may do the work, just one question, just one look. The formal talk that begins with a sigh and ends with a canting snuffle is not what is wanted, but the heart throb of a man in dead earnest. There is not a soul on earth that you may not bring to ijf-i) God if you rightly go at it. They said Gibralter could not be taken. It is a rook 1600 feet high and three miles long, but tbe Eng- y* lish and Dutch did take it. Artillery and : sappers and miners and fleets pouring out US volleys of death and thousands of men reck- -j less of danger can do anything. The stoutest s heart of sin, though it be rock and sur- ; v rounded by an ocean of transgression, under Christian bombardment may hoist the flag of redemption. But is all thfy admonition and prajer and Christian work for nothing? My text promisee to ail the faithlul eternal luster. "They that turn many to righteousness shall shine as the stars forever." As stars the redeemed have a borrowed light. , ' Y*j What makes Mars and Venus and Jupiter so luminous? When the sun throws down his torch in the heavens, the stats pick up jg the scattered brands and hold them la procession as the queen of the night sd- . "h vances. 8o all Christian workers, stand- . V" ing around the throne, will shine in the light borrowed from the Sun of Righteous- ~ naca Taana in flinly faPAA .TACiia Iff thftlp c9R9 - songs, Jesus in their trlamph. Again, Christian workers shall be like the stars in the fact that they have a light / *? independent of each other. Look up ?t J the night and see each world show Its dii-. 1 ttnct glory. It is not like the conflagra tion, in which yon cannot tell where one .i v? flame stops and another begins. Neptune, - ^ Herschel and Mercury are as distinct as II . * <i each one of them were the only star. So our Individualism will not be- lost 1ft . heaven. A great multitude?yet each one ' l~- % as observable, as distinctly recognised, a* , f'Jl greatly celebrated, as if in all the sp&oe, ' j! from gate to gate and from hill to hill, ho. *1^9 were the only Inhabitant?no mixing up, no . J. mob, no indiscriminate rush, each Onria? . S Man worker standing out illustrious, all ' (j the story of earthly aohievment adhering to each one, his self-denials and pains and .Cm services and viotories published. Before men went out to the last war the, . orators told them that they would all bo re- . membered by their country and their nasMO ' be commemorated in poetry and'in song. jg But go to the graveyard in Richmond, and you will And there 6000 graves, over each ' ,'J, of which is the inscription, "Unknown." j ,? The world does not remember its heroes,! . <3 but there will be no unrecognized Ohrlsteift . Worker In heaven. Each one known by all ?grandly known, known by acclamation, all the past story of work for God gftariag . ! : in cheek and brow and foot and palnr. They ? , i shall shine with distinct light as the stats; ( M forever and ever. Again, Christian workers shall shine like . *.3: the stars in ohutera. In looking up yoft , > j5y Uuu ids wucius iu mmuj wcia. ixvtuHt ,r- m. and slaters, they talce hold of each other's hands and dance In gronps. Orion In a ' Sfl a group. The Pleiades In a group. The system Is only a company of children "with r ' bright faces, gathered around one gMAti fireplace. The worlds do not straggle oSL . - ' ? They go in squadrons and flaats, ~*m-f . ] through immensity. So Christian woken In hearen will dwell in neighborhood* apui I am sure that some people I wfll like In heaven a great deal better thaf' Others. Yonderis a constellation of stately Christians.. They lived on earth by rigid role.; They never langhed. They walked nv| \ hour, anxious lest they should Iom their dignity. But they loved God. and yonder they shine in brilliant constellation. Yet I' . shall not long to get Into that partlealar group.. Yonder is a constellation of small ' *A hearted Christiana?asteroid?1*eHbdb>*nat j astronomy.. While tome sonlsgo np front 1 . ? Christian battle and blase' like - Mats theer, -' Asteroids dart a feeble ray like Vesta* Yonder is a constellation of martyrs, of apostles, of patriarchs. Oar souls aa they go up to heaven will seek oat the mestoongenlslso* Again, Christian workers, like-the stars, .;?? shine in magnitude. The most illiterate man knows that these things in the sky, looking like gilt buttons, are great Biswas, $ of matters. To -weigh them- one would v.-JJ think that It woold require scales wita a. v jg pillar hundreds of thdusaads of mflee high *1 and obhins hundreds of thousands ol mfles' " -a long; and at the bottom of the-ehalas basins on either aide hundreds of thousands ( ' Jl of milee wide, and that then OmnlpeteaS* * 0J| alone- oould put the mountains into - the < ' scales and the hills Into the balanoe, bet puny man has been equal to the under-' JS 53 taking and has set a little heiaiMe-oa- fcisj. geometry and weighed world, egainat world. Yea. he has pulled bat his measur-; ing line and annonnoed that Btwhd hi j36,000 ml'ee in diameter, Saturn 79,OOOsnfles. ^ in dlameter-and Jupiter 89,000'mfletdhJier' meter and that the smallest pearl OIL'the nf la Imwm DwwiA aUt I imagination. 8o all they whe-bereh&flod' , for <3hrtat on earth shall rise up 'tfeaanag-' ? nltnde of privilege, and a< magaitade of strength, and a magnitude of hoUMM^aaAj a magnitude of Joj, and the weakest-saindi in glory become greater than. alL that we oan imagine of an arofaangeL Lastly?and coming to. thf?- point my mind almost breaks down under- the- contemplation?like the staza, all. Chtiattfti workers shall shine In duration, Tbeeame, stars that look down npon us lookedidowm .* upon the Chaldean shepherds.. The-aaeteor that I saw flashing across the ekptfceoUMTt ",*j night.I wonder if it was not.the ansae ana that pointed, down to whace Jaaow lay ha the manger, and if, having-pointed oat Hlft birthplace, It-has even sines beettt wandering through the heavens, watching: to see ' ffl how the world would treat Bitot When Adam awoka In the garden, in- the- cool qt the day, he-saw coming oat throngh the- . , t?& dusk of the-evening tho-same- worida that greeted us-last night. In Independence Hallia an; ofct cracked -A bell that sounded the signature of the Deo- V / laration ofIndependenee. Youoannotring ', ? it.now, bat this greatjohime of silver bdto * . that strike in the dome of night ring oat ? . as sweet a tone as when. Oodi swung tfcarik at the- creation. Look up at night 3 know that the whit?4lliee-tbat bloom In all the hanging gardens of our King an century ptants?not blooming once In lOOyeara, J 1 but tntengh all the oentoriae. The star not which the mariner-looks to-night waa thelight by which tboehips;oC Tarehiah were . i guided across the Mediterranean and the si Venetian found it*-way into Lepanto. YM* armor is as bright tonight as whoa, la j ancient battle, the stacs- ia their courses fluugbt against Sisera*. To the ancieats the- stars were qrmbola f eternity. But here-theflgure of my text breaks down-'not to. defeat, bnt in the majesties of the judgment. The stars 'shall not siiine fcjrever. The Bible says \':,x they shall fall lite autumnal leaves. As when the connectingfactory ba^d slips at aightfall from the main wheel All the smaller wheels slacken their speed and with slower and slower motion they torn until they- come to a full stop, so this great machinery of the universe, wheel within wheel making revolution of appalling speed, shall, by the touch or God's hand, slip the band '*a( of present law And slacken and stop. That is what will be the matter with the mountains. The chariots In which they ride shall I halt so suddenly that the kings shall be thrown out. Star after star shall be ear- ;i ried out to burial arnld funeral torches of i burning worlds. Constellations shall throw ashes on their heails, and all up and down Ejj the highways of space there shall be mourning, mourning, j mourning, because the worlds are dead. But the Christian work- i ers snail never quit their tfffope?^-thew shall reign fom? and ever* ^ 71 * 'H&*9 ..ri-f*. u- :.. -.