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.. JJ.H. . M'KiNLEY'S INAUGURAL, j ( THE PRESIDENT OUTLINES THE POL- j ICY HE WILL PURSUE. I Deficit la the Treascry ?>Itist be Avoided. J If Expenses Are Not Decreased Receipts Kust be Enlarged?3Ionotary Commission Suggested?tyccbtogs Condemned. Washington, March 4 ?The following is the full text of President McKinley's inaugural address: Fellow-citizens: In obedience to the j will of the people and in their presence Dy tllS SULHOrin.y \esieu xu jlut; i?-j j oath, I assume the arduous and re-1 sponsible duties of President of the i United States, relyinz on the support j of my countrymen and invoking the i guidance of Almighty God. Oar faith teaches that there is no safer re- j liance than upon the God of our iath-1 1 - 7 ?? ^1 ~ ?V?A I ers, wnonasso si.iiguia.i-iv . American people in every national [ trial and who will not forsake us so j long as we obey His commandments j and walk humbly in his footsteps. The responsibilities of the high trust j to which I have been called?always j of grave importance?are augmented j by the prevailing business conditions, j entailing idleness upon willing labor ; and loss to useful enterprises. The \ country is suffering from industrial j disturbances from which speedy relief j must be had. Our financial system | needs some revision. Our money is all good now, but its value must not ho further threatened. It should all j be pat upon an enduring basis, not j subject to easy attack nor its stability ! to doubt or dispute. Our currency should continue under the supervision of the government. The several forms of our paper money offer, in my judgment, a constant embarrassment to the government and a safe balance in the treasury. Therefore, [ believe it necessary to de-} vise a system which, without diminish- j ing the circulating medium, or oifer- j ing a premium for its contraction, will present a remedy for those arrangements which, temporary in their nature rm>ht well in the years of cur prosperity have been displaced by wis- j er provisions. With adequate revenue secured, but not until then, we can enter upon such changes in cur fiscal laws as will, while ensuring safety and volume to our monev, no longer impose upon the government | the necessity of maintaining so large a gold reserve, with its attendant and inevitable temptations to speculation. Most of our Snancials laws are the outgrowth of experience and trial and should not be amended without investigation, and demonstration of the wisdom of the proposed charges. We must be both ''sure we are right" and "make haste slowly." If, therefore, Congress in its wisdom shall deem it exDedient to create a commission to take under early consideration the re- j vision of our coinage, banking: and j currency laws and give them that ex- j haustire, careful and dispassionate examination, that their importance demands, I shall cordially concur in such action. If such power is vested in the President it is my purpose to appoint a commission of prominent, well-informed citizens of different parties who will command public confidence both on account of their ability and special fitness for the work. Business experience and public training may thus be combined and the pa' ~ - ? - 1 - r ; triotic zeai. or tne iriencs ox tne cuuutry be so directed thai such a report be made as to receive the support of all parties and our finances cease to be the subject of mere partisan conten_ tion. The experiment is, at all events. ** - woeth a trial and, in my opinions-it j can- but prove beneSciai.io the entire | country The question of international bimet-1 all ism will have early and earnest i attention. It will be my constant en-1 deavor to secure it by co-operation i with the other great commercial pow- j ers of the world. Until that condition is realized when the parity I between our gold and silver money f - * -3 T? VvTT "f V} I springs irom anu jls supour-cu. u,v 4.^^ ? relative value of the two metals, the J value of the silver already coined and that which may hereafter be coined must be kept constantly at par with gold by every resource at our command. The credit of the government, the integrity of its currency and the inviolability of its obligation must be preserved. This was the common verdict of the people and it will n:-t be uu heeded' Economy is demanded in every j branch of the government at all times, out especially m perious uac i,juc ^ica-1 exit of depression in business ana dis- j tress among the people. The severest j economy must be observed in alJ public expenditures and extravagance stopped, wherever it is found and prevented wherever in the future it may be developed. If the revenues are to remain as now, the only relief that can come must be from decreased expenditures. But the present must net become the permanent condition of the government. It has been our uniform practice to retire, not increase, our outstanding obligations, and this policy must again be resumed and vigorously enforced. Our revenues should j always be large enough to meet with j ease ana promptness not only our current needs but the principal and interest of the public debt, but to make proper and liberal provisions for that most deserving body ot public creditors, the soldiers and sailors and the widows and orphans who are the pensioners of the United States. The government should not be permitted to run behind or increase its debt in times like the present. Suitably to provide against this is a man- j date duty. There is a certain and) easy remedy for most of our financial difficulties. A deficiency is j inevitable so long as the expenditures j of the government exceed its receipts- | It can only be met jay loans or an in- { creased revenue, wnue a large annual surplus of revenue may invite vraste and extravagance, inadequate revenue creates distrust and undermines public and private credit. Neither should be encouraged. Between more loans and more revenues, there ought to be but one opinion. We should have more revenue and that -without delay, hindrance or pest-1 ponement. A surplus in the treasury j created oy loans is nos, a. psruiauem, v.- j safe reliance. It will suffice while it j lasts, but it cannot last long while the j outlays of the government are greater! than its receipts, as has been the case j during the past two years. Nor must it be forgotten that" however much I such loans may temporarily relieve j the situation, the government is still j indebted for the amount of surplus thus accrued, which it- must ultimate- i ly pay, while its abiity to pay is not j sirengmeueu. uui wea^cucu uv a. uuu- ; tinued deficit- Loans are imperative 1 in great emergencies to preserve the ! government or its credit, but a failure j to supply needed revenue in time of S peace for the maintenance of either ! nas no jusuuuauu^i. The best way for the government 10 maintain its credit is to pay as it goes, not by restoring 10 loans, but by keeping out of debt through an adequate income secured by a system of taxation, external or internal, or both. It is the settled policy of the government, pursued from the beginning and practiced ! by all parties and administrations, to raise the bulk of ou>- revenue from tasesupo;; foreign productions entering the United Stales for sale and cossumution: and avoiding for ibe most part every form of direct taxation, except in time of war. The country is clearly opposed to any needless additions to subjects of internal taxation and is cum milled by its latest popular utterance to the system of tarir: tax ilion. Tuers can be no misunderstanding, either, about the principle upon which this tariii' taxation shall be levied. Nothing has ever been made plainer at a general election than that the controlling principle of raising revenue from, duties on imports is zealous care for American interests and American labor. The people have declared that such legislation should be had as will give ample protection a^nd encouragement to the industries and the development of <"?ur country. It is, therefore, earnestly hoped ami expected that Congress will, at the earliest practicable moment, enact revenue legislation that shall be fair, reasonable, and conservative and just and which, while supplying suflicient revenue for public purposes, will still oe signally beneficial and helpful to every section and every enterprise of the people. To this policy we are all, -e ?~ I vs..?i-rr K-m'-r ?-,~nrv) he* Ui Wutile vet the voice or the people?a power vastly more potential than the expressions of any politick platform. The paramount duty of Congrrss is to stop deSciences by the restoration of that prospective legislation which has always been the firmest prop of the Treasury. The passage of such a law or laws would strengthen the credit of trie government both at home and abroad and go far towards stopping the drain upon the gold reserve held for the redemption of oar currency, which has been heavy and wed! nigh constant for several years. In the revision of the tarilf, especial attention should be given to the re enactment and extension of the reciprocity principle of the law of 1S90, under which so great a stimulous was given to our foreign trade in new and advantageous markets for our surplus agricultural and manufactured products. The brief trial given this leg 1? 0 Av-. isiauoa uLainy jusuuio ?. periment and additional discretionary poorer in the making of commercial treaties, the end in view always to be the opening up of new markets for the products of our country, by granting concessions to the products of other lands that we nsed and cannot produes ourselves and which do not involve any loss of labor to our own people, but tend to increase their emvfclritrrr* t The depression of the past four years has fallen with especial severity upon the great body of toilers of the country and upon none more than the holders of small farms. Agriculture has languished and laboi suffered. The revival of manufacturing will be a relief to both. Xo portion of cur population is more devoted to the institutions of free government nor mora loyal in their support, while none bears more cheerfully or fully its proper share in the mantenance of the government or is better entitled to its wise and liberal care and protection. Legislation helpful to producers is beneficial to all. The depressed condition of industry on the farm and in the mine and factory has lessened the ability of the people to meet me demands upon them and they rightfully expect that not only a system of revenue shall be established that will secure the largest income with the least burden, but that every means will be taken to decrease, rather than increase, our public expenditures. Business conditions are ~ot the most promising. It will take time to restore the prosperity of former years. If we cannot promptly attain it we can reso lute! j turn our faces in mat uirecuon and aid its return by friendly legislation. However, troublesome the situaton may appear, Congress will not, I am sure, be found lacking in disposition or ability to relieve it as far as legislation can do so. The restoration of confidence and the revival of business, which men of all parties so much desire, depend more largely upon the prompt, energetic and intelligent action of Congress, than upon any other single agency affecting the situation. It is inspiring, too, to remember that no greater emergency in the one hundred and eight years of our eventful national life has ever arisen that has not been met with wisdom and courage by the American people with fidelity to their best interests and highest destiny and to the honor of the American name. These years of glorious'history have exalted mankind and advanced the cause of freedom throughout the world and immeasurably strengthened the precious free institutions which we enjoy. The people love and wiil sustain these in- j stitutrons. The great essential to cur j happiness ana prosperity is mat we i adhere to the principles upon whivh j the government was established ana j insist upon their faithful observance. ] Equality of rights must prevail and our laws be always and everywhere respect-, ed and obeyed. We may have failed' in the discharge of our fail duty as citizens of the great republic, but it is consoling and encouraging t realiz 2 thai free speech, a free press, free thought, free schools, ihe free and unmolested right of religious liberty and worship and free and fair elections are dearer and more universally enjoyed to-day than ever before. '|Vh?M ?nntt ha In preserved and wisely strengthed. The constituted authorities must I be cheerfully and vigorously up- { held. Lynchinss must not be toJ-1 eratcd in a great and civilized country j like the United States; courts?not mobs?must execute the penalties of the law. The preservation of nublic order, the right of discussion, the integrity of courts and the orderly ad- j ministration of justice must continue forever the rock of safety upon which our government securely rests. One of the lessons taught by the late election, which all can rejoice in, is that the citizens of the United States are both, law-respecting and law abid-1 ing people, not easily swerved from the path of patriotism and honor. This is in entire accord with the gen- j ins of our institutions and but ere phasizes the advantages of inculcating even a greater love for law and order in the future. Immunity should ba granted to none who violates the laws, whether individuals, corporations or communities: and as the Con stitution irr-poses upon the President the duty of both its own execution and of the statutes enacted in pursuance of its provisions I shall endeavor carefully to carry them into ell'ect. The declaration of the party now restored to power lias been in the past that of "opposition to all combinalions of capital organized in trusts or otherwise, to control arbitrarily the j condition of trade among our citizens," i and it has supported ''such legislation > as will prevent the execution of ail I schemes to oppress the people by undue charges on their suppiies or by unjust rates for the transportation o~f their products to market.7' This purpose will be steadily pursued, both by , the enforcement of the laws now in esisisacc and the recommendation and support of such ne^r statutes as may be necessary to carry it into effect. ^ur ziaiuraiiiiwo'ii auu ticn iaws should be further improved j to the constant promotion of a safer,g 533585r"r Vf"i'rtn''i',ii ai?My>i.1 *7"Zr?~"..VSj i ?. belter ar.u a higher citizenship A i grave peril i > ihe republic vrould be -d ! cit!z5r,sh:c loo ignorant'to underitund or 100 vicious 10 appreciate value and beceaceiice of o\j.r instiiu i lions arid laws?and s?aiast all whc I come here Id m?.ke war v.con them i o ar gales ai:ir. be promptly and ti-jhtj iy closed. Xor n>us*. we bft unmicd fui of :he need of improvement araonj; our o wn citizens, but with the z-ai o; our forefathers -incoura^e the spre?.<J of knowledgeuud free education. Illit eracy must b? banished from ihe laua. if we shall I'-ltaia that hi<^h destiny a; tin tr5> ftnlio-htened ca tioas of the world, which under Providencs we ought to achieve. Reforms ia uie civilservir) triust gc on. Cat the chaages should be rea] land genuine, not perfunctory, or prompted "07 a /.yj.1 i.-'i behalf of &uy party, simply b-.cuu?e it happens to b-. 1 in power. As a raombsr of Congr. si I voted aud spoke in favor of the pre sent law an;! I shall attempt iU enforcement in :.!ii spirit la v-Li^a it vr?enacted The purpoi: ia vii.v v: secure tiu mosi. eilicienl ssr^ici of Lh( 1 * U ~ ' ' ? o/.rt,n.' rj -n I .1 < j DSSl iii'JU vyuu uj/jivuii meat under the goveramcjit, retail io^ faithful and devoted public servants in oilice, but shielding none uu der the authority of any rule or cus tooi, who are ineliisient, incompetea! or unworthy. The best interests o! the country demand this, and the peo pie heartily approve the law where ever and whenever it has been thus administered. Congress should give prompt atten lion to the restoration of cur Ameri can merchant marine, once the prid< of the seas in all tne great ocean-high ways of commerce. To my miad, few more important subjects so impera lively demand its intelligent consider ation. The United States has progress ed with marvelous rapidity in everj field o: enterprise and endeavor until we have become foremost ia nearly ail the great lines cf inland trade, commerce and industry. It has been the policy of the Unitec States since the foundation of the gov ernment to cultivate relations of peace j and amity with all the nations of the | world, and this accords with my con jception of our duty now. We have j cherished the policy of non-interfer ! ence with the atl'airs of foreign govj eraments, wisely inaugurated bj i Washington, of keeping ourselves I free from entanglement, either as al lies or foes, content to leave undis ! turbed '.vita them the settlement oi | their own domestic concerns. It will j be our aim to pursue a firm and dig j nlfied foreign policy which shall b? just, impartial, ever watchful of oui national honor and always insisting upon the enforcement of the lawful rights of American citizens every where. Oar diplomacy should seek nothing more and accept nothing less than is due us. We want no wars ol conquest; we must avoid the tempta J tion of territorial aggression. Wai . c-Vx-kn'M ncrf.? lift pntprfi] nnrm nnti' J OU'JUAVl UV I V* W -? every agency of peace has failed, j Peace is preferable to war in almos' | every contingency. Arbitration is the true method of settlement of international as well as local or individual differences. It was recognized as the best means of adjustment of diUerences between employers and employes by the Forty-ninth Congress in ISSf and its application was extended tc ! our diplomatic relations by the unani mous concurrence of the Senate anc House of the Fifty-first Congress ir 1S90. The latter resolution was ac cepted as the basis of negotiations with us by the British House of Com mons in 1S93 and upon cur invitatior ! p trp.at.v of arbitration bv the Unitec I States and Great Britain was signec at Washington, and transmuted to the Senate for its ratification in January 'last. Since this treaty is clearly th< ! result of our own initiative; since r j has been recognized as the leading feature of our foreign policy through out our entire national history?th< adjustment of difficulties by judicial methods rather than by force of arms ?and since it presents to the worlc the glorious example of reason and peace, not passion and war, controlling the relations between two of the S greatest nations of the world, an ex | ample certain to be followed by others, i I respectfully urge ihe early action of the Senate thereon, not merely as a matter of policy, but as a duty to mankind. The importaoce and moral influence of the ratification of such a treaty can hardly be overestimated in the cause of advancing civilization. It may well engage the best thoughl of the statesmen and people of everj; country, and I cannot but consider it fortunate that it was reserved to the United States to have the leadership in so grand a work. Il has beea Ik? uniform practice of ! each Preside at to avoid as far as pos^ I sibis, convening of Congress in extra! ordinary session. It is an example | which, under ordinary circumstances i and in the absence of a public necessi! ty, is to be commended. Bat a failure j to convene the representatives of the j people in Congress in extra session ! when it involves neglect of a public [ duty, places the responsibility of such j neglect upon the executive himself. | The condition of the public treasury, | as has been indicated, demands the ! immediate consideration of Congress. I It alone has the power to provide rev' antiae" P.-iv f nc?r\rro^nrnAnf f A | A^-* J-J w? T A Wi-. V, .~ ? v- - -~' convene ii under such circumstances I can view in no other sense than the ! neglect of a plain duty. I do not sympathize with the sentiment that Congress in session is dangerous to our general business imerests. Its members are the agents of the people and their presence at the seat of government in the execution of the sovereign will should not operate as an injury but a benefit. There could be no better time io put the government upon 1 o l j ?? ;?i a souiiu uuaauiiu auu. ei;ujuujxii^ai u*sis than now. The people have only recently voted that this should be done and nothing is more biadin? upon the agents of their will than the obligation of immediate action. It has always seemed to me that the postponement of the meeting of Congress until more than a year after it has been chosen deprived Congress too often of the inspiration of the popular will, and the country of the corresponding benefits. It is evident therefore that to postpone action in the presence of so great necessity would be unwise on the part of the executive because unjust to the inter^ * *"U -v y^/%.wlrv o i r\y> c yi r\ ttt Ul LLLC (.CUUiC, VUi it will be freor from mere partisan consideration than if the question of tariff revision was postponed until the regular session of Congress. We are nearly two years from a Congressional election and polities cannot so greatly distract us as L" such contest was immediately pending. We can approach the problem calmly and patriotically vritho.U fearing its effect unon an earl? election. Our fellow citizens who may disagree with us upon the character of this legislation prefer to have the question settled now, even against their preconceived views?and perhaps settled so reasonably, as I trust and believe it will be, as .10 insure great permanence?than lo have further uncertainty menacing the vast and varied business interests of the t ailed Slates. Again, wnatever aciion Congress may take will be given a fair opportunity for trial before the people are called to pass judgment upon it, and this I consider a great essential to the rightful and lasting settlement of the question. In . i vie? of these considerations I shall i ! ii r?-i v' i* 11 i \* n5 In r^ir-.- \ i veae Congress in extraordinary sesl sion on Monday, the fifteenth dav of March, 1S97. ! In conclusion. I congratulate the couniry upon the fraternal spirit of the people and the manifestation of fiuod will everywhere so apparent. ; The recent election not only most fortunately demonstrated the obliteration ! of sectional or geographical lines, but j to some extent also the prejudices , ivhich for years have distracted our > councils and marred our true great ress as a natioj The friurnoh of the people whose verdict is carried into eifect today is not the triumph of one i section, nor wholly of one party, ncr 1 but of all sections and all the people. The North and South no longer divide on the old lines, but upon principles and politics, and in this fact surely ; e>ary lover of ihe country can find cause for true felicitation. Let us re ioice in and cultivate this spirit; it is ; fr.rsnhlino-anfl will be both a fain and ) blessing to our beloved country. It i will 33 my constant aim to do nothing and permit nothing to be done that will mar or disturb this growing - sentiment of unity or co-operation, - this revival of esteem and affiliation which now animates so many thousi ands in both the eld antagonistic sec: tions, but I shall cheerfully do every thine possible to promote and increase it, r,3t me again repeat the words of > the oath administered by the' Chief Justice which, in their respective - spheres, so far as applicable, I would have all my countrymen observe: ; liI will faithfully execute ihe office - of President of the United Spates and r will to the best of my ability, preserve, - protect, and defend the Constitution of the United Stales." This is the obligation I havs reverr ently taken before the Lord most L hign. To keep it will be my single r purpose, mv constant, prater?and I 11 o ai? i ? - il. r ? , snaii cannaeniiy reiy upjn me iorbearance and assistance of all the peoi pie in. the discharge of my solemn re sponsibiKties. ! ~ FINISHED ITS LA S ORS^ 1 CONTINUED FKON PAGE ONE.] \ made: light by the cheerful co -opera ; tion of members. The Speaker then - complimented the officers ol the House hr totinor that. Hnr-iric his nnrmectinri with the Legislature foro^er fifteen . yeara he had never knowa officers s more ..ithful, cour' -us and attentive : to duty. Again thanking the House [ for their expressions, he wished them the t est of health and a happy return ^ to their homes. Before these resolutions were adopt! ed, and while the Speakers was out a ' number of members heartily endorsed them and spoke of the fact that the f Speaker was always fair and prompt in his rulings. This was not said in a perfunctory way, usual in such cases, but the facts justified the remarks of members, and they actually meant what they said. During one of the many interims which occurred during the day, Mr. Kobmson rnaae an eloquent speeca, ! in which he said, in parting from fel? low legislators, that he was glad ) brotherly love had returned to South Carolina, and that partisan feeling [ was forgotten. He illustrated his be1 lief and endorsement of the idea by a " joke, which, happily told, elicited 5. much laughter. | I The remainder of the session was I taken up with recesses and the recep[ | tion of conference reports. The com ^ mutes on tree conierence on tne ieg; islative supply bill reported that they ^ had agreed. It met with the approval * of the House, in that it gave proper c salaries for certain employees for extra > work. 5 The committee on free conference [ agreed to various amendments as to 5 the levy in different Counties. It was I referred back for certain minor cori rectioas and after ic came in again it ' was fially adopted. At 12:10 there was nothing to do except wait on the ' ? n:? a ,1 +<^1.? curuiiiu^ ui .auia duu tuc JUL-JLOC iwAa recess until 2 o'clock. When the House returned to its session, Mr. Pattoa offered a resolution | that the regular legislative investigation committee of the office of Treasurer be appointed. Mter the Senate had agreed the Speaker appointed Messrs II C. Patton and C. W. G-ar' ris as the committee. The chair ap' pointed also Mr. John P. Thomas and Mr. Bums on the Dispensary. ! i Mr. Thomas offered a resolution, which was adopted, that the broken historical mace be repaired. This was , agreed to. Mr. Thomas offered a concurrent resolution to allow the South Carolina Club to use the hall of the Eouse of Representatives for one evening in November next. This was agreed to. 'iitie senate agreed to tne resolution ! as to the repairing of the mace; the resolution to inspect the Treasurer's office and the resolution as to allowing the use of the Hall of the House of Representatives for the State ball. At -1:15 the Eouse went to tne Senate to ratify bills. They returned but a few minutes after and sat around for several hours awaiting Senate concurrence. Finally a bilJ in reference to the election of trustees of schools in Xewbsrry was agreed to, as well as the supply bill, which had taken up so much time. After several hours Mr. John P. Thomas moved that a committee of ( 1 i. ' ? i.- j i. a. inreu oe appumseu yish me vjruver- . nor and inform him that all the busicf the House had been completed and it was ready for any other messages from the Governor. Messrs. Baeot, : W. H. Thomas and E. D. Smith were appointed the committee on the part ! of the House. Mr. Townsend sug- j jested that the Governor was "in" the Penitentirv, referring evidently to the Murphy case, which the Governor \ was investigating. The House then went to the Senate for the purpose of ratifying acts. On returning, and after the usual 1 regular formal and legal preliminaries 1 the House adjourned sine die a few minnrpt: hpfrirp K nV?lnftTr_ I I Could Not Climb a I.adder. Washington, March 6.?Miss Maud j Stahlnecker, this city,who was recent- \ ly denied an appointment in the Ad- : ju';ant General's office, war depart- 3 raent, has been appointed a clerk at \ *1,200 in the state department. The duties of the ol?ce require a knowl- ( edge of English, French, German and Spanish. It is said that after Miss 1 Stahlnecker had passed sv ch a credit- 5 able examination for the nlace in the 2 war department, she wa~ -arned down * because the duties of the office in vol- ' ved the frequent use of ladders iu get- * ting down and putting bsck the recordi;, and consequently was regarded ( as not suitable to a lady. As one of e the officials quaintly put it: "Miss ( Stahlnecker was rejected because she ccuid not climb a ladder." ? ] It Is Said i I rnV* v T + i paoeac- 4l>of <y ! i j JL litll Vi C.AJ. Uiv VUO'wtvO?XJ UU.AW J mankind, diseases of the kidneys are 1 the most dangerous and fatal. If this j be so, hov? important it is that the j i *3 ? y-\t-c So l-OY>f -in O V?^0 ? fVlTT /^rtnrl'. I < I &J.UiJLvJ >9 Vw -cxv^/.-/|' w wwi?v<A * | tion. The use of Hilton's Life for the < ! Liver and Kidneys will do this. It is < |'lie "'ounca of prevention*' in thes < I troubles, 5 ...i?. nMPB3apaBBBBggBani?Bgo?egacP8 SOAR LIKE A ?8BAPH. \ ! WHIG!-! 13SWIFT. ASPIRANT. RADIANT j AND BUOYANT I Rev. Dr. T;tlns:i^e Preaches Upon as Ex- j Hire:! Timrn'. but He iVInkes It Practical j j hUU tmui?ii?<! ill I iUIiJllll-l'l- I vine Velocity. I Washington, Feb. 23.?In this dis- \ course Dr. Talmage takes a most ex- j alted theme and makes it practical i and useful to the last decree. The subject is "Wings of Seraphim," and the text is Isaiah vi, 2, "With twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did ily." In a hospital of leprosy good King Uzziah had died, and the whole land was shadowed with solemnity, and theological and phophetic Isaiah was thinking about religious things, as one is apt to do in time of great national bereavement, and, forgetting the presence of his wife and two sous, who made up his family, he has a dream not like the dreams of ordinary character, which generally came from indigestion, but a vision most instructive and under the touch of the hand of the Almighty. The place, the ancient temple; building grand, awful, majestic. Within that temple a throne higher and grander than that occupied by czar or sultan or emperor. On that throne the eternal Christ. In lines, | surrounding that throne, the brightest celestials, not the cherubim, but higher than they, the most exquisite and radiant of the heavenly inhabitants? the seraphim. They are called burners because they look like fire. Lips cf fire, eyes of fire, feet of fire. In audition to the features and the limbs, whiY>h sii?crpst a human beinp*. there " bo"" * - <r ^ are pinions, -which suggest the lithest, the swiftest, the most buoyant and the most aspiring of all unintelligent creation, a bird. Eicn seraph had six wings, each two of the wings for a different purpose. Isaiah's dream quivers and flashes with these pinions. Now folded, now spread, now bes ~ in locomotion. "With twain he co. erfd his feet, with twain he covered his face, and with twain he did fly." The probability is that these wings were not ail used at once. The seraph standing there near the throne, overwhelmed at 1 he insignificance cf the paths his feet had trodden as compared with the paths trodden by the feet of God, and* with the lameness of his locomotion, amounting almost to de crepitude as compared with the divine velocity, with feathery veil of angelic modesty hides the feet. "With twain He did cover the feet." Standing there, overpowered by the overmatching splendors of God's glory and unable "longer with the eyes to look upon them and wishing those eyes shaded from the insufferable glory, the pinions gather over the countenance. "With twain he did cover the face." Then, as God tells this seraph to go to the farthest outpost of immensity on message of light and love and joy and get back before the first anthem, it does not take the seraph a great while to spread himself upon the air with unimagined celerity, one stroke of the wing equal to 10,000 leagues of air. "With twain he did fiy."" The most practical and useful lesson for you and me?when we see the seraph spreading his wings over the feet ?is the lesson of humility at imperfection. The brightest angels of God are so far beneath God that he charges them with folly. The seraph so far beneath God, and we so far beneath the seraph in service, we ought to be plunged in humility, utter and complete. Our feet, horc laggard they have been in the divine service! Our feet, how many missteps they have taken! Our feet, in how many paths of worldliness and folly they have walked! "NToi+t-iaYi r?nA vf\f corcmVi in+onr?pH JL * VAtiUUX \w^ UU i-k.\S K *. -? WW M ?v put any dishonor upon that which is one of the masterpiecs of Almighty God?the human foot. Physiologist and anatomist are overwhelmed at the wonders of its organization. "Ihe Bridge water Treatise,'' written by Sir Charles Bell, on the wisdom and goodness of God as illustrated in the human hand, was a result of the $40,000 bequeathed in the last will aud testament of the Earl of Bridgewater for the encouragement of Christian liter ature. The world cc^ld afford to forgive his eccentricities, the 'gh he had two do^s seated at his table and though he put six dogs alone in an equipage j drawn by four hoises and attended by two footmen. With his large bequest! inducing Sir Charles Bell to write so J valuable a book on the wisdom of God in the structure of the human hand the world could afford to forgive his oddities. And the world could now afford to have another Earl of Bridge water however idosyncratic, if he would induce some other Sir Charles Bell to write a a book on the wisdom and goodness of God in the construction of ihe human foot. The articulation of its bones, the lubrication of its joints, the grace-1 fulness of its lines, the ingenuity of J its cartilages, the delicacy of its veins, the rapidity cf its muscular contraction, the sensitiveness of its nerves. I sound the praises of the human foot. With that we halt or climb or march. It is the foundation of the pnysical fabric. It is the base of a God poised column. "With it the warrior braces himself for battle- With it the orator plants himself for eulogium. With it the toiler reaches his work. With it the outraged stamps his indignation . Its loss an irreparable disas ter. Its health an invaluable equipment. If you wan* to know its vaiue, ask the man whose foot paralysis hath shriveled, or machinery hath crushed, or surgeons knife hath amputated. The Bible honors it. Especial care, "Lest thou dash thy foot against a stone," "He will not suHer thy foot to be moved,15 "Thy feet shall not stumble." Especial charge, "Keep thy foot when thou gcest to the house of God." Especial peril. "Their feet shall slide in due time." Connected with the world's dissolution, "iiesnan set one foot on the sea and the other 3n the earth." Give me the history of your foot, and I will give you the history of your lifetime. Tell me up what steps it aath gene, down what declivities and in what roads and in what directions, < md I will know more about you than [ want to know. None of us could endure the scrutiny. Oar feet not al- i svays in paths of God, sometimes in : paths of worldliness. Oar feet a divine ind glorious machinery for usefulness j md work, so often making missteps, j >0 often going in the wrong direction. 3rod knowing every step, the patriarch < saying, ' 'Thou settest a print on the 1 < leeis of my feet." Crimes of the hand, i: crimes of the tongue, crimes of the iye, crimes of ihe ear not worse thau : crimes of the foot. C h we want the t-inryf of ViTimilifff tO PdirPV tVlA {ppt ' 3ught we not to go myself abnegation before the all searcning1, all scrutiniz- j .ng, all crying eye of God? The seriphs do. Ilowmuch more vre: ''With ;vrain he covered the feet." All this talk about the dignity of raman nature in braggadocio and >in. Our nature started at the hand ^ :>f God regal, but it has been pauperized. There is a well in Belgium vrhich ! Dnce had very pure water, and it was stoutly masoned with stone an<l brick, but that well afiervvard b?came ihe cen ter of the battle of W aterioo. At tJie opening of the batu'e the soldiers, with their saber?, compelled the gsrderer, William von Kylsom, to draw water cut of the well for them, and it was very pure water. But the battle raged, and 3uQ dead and half dead were flung into the well for quick and easy burial, so teat the well of refreshment b:came the well of death, and long afl'-r people locked down into the well, y.nd ihey saw the bleached skulls, but no water. So the human soul was a well of good, but the armies of sin have fought around it ana lougnt across it and been slain, and it has become a well of skeletons. Dead hopes, dead resolutions, dead opportunities, dead ambitions. An abandoned well unless Christ shall reopen and purify and fill itas the well of Belgium never was. Unclean, unclean. Another seraphic posture in the tort- 4;Wifh Vip cowrpd the face." That means reverence Godward. Never so much irreverence abroad in the world as today. You see it in the defaced statuary, in the cutting out of figures from line paintings, in the chipping of monuments for a memento, in ihe fact that military euard must stand a: the grave of Lincoln and Garfield, and that old shade trees must bs cut down for firewood, though 50 George P. Morrises beg the woodmen to spare the tree, and that calls a corpse a cadave, and that speaks of death as going over to ii- - me majority aau suusliiulcs jyr mc reverend terms father and mother "the old man" and "the old woman," and finds; nothing impressive in the ruins of Baal'oec or the columns of Karnac, and sees no difference in the Sabbatti from other days except it allows more dissipation, and reads the Bible in what is called higher criticism, making it not the word of God, but a good book with some fine things in it. Iweverence never so much abroad. How many take the name of God in vain, how many trival things said about the Almighty! Not willing to have God in the world, they roll up an idea of sentimentality and humanitarianism and impudence and imbscili ty and call it Gcd. No wings of reverence over the face, no taking off of shoes on holv o-round. You can tell from the way they talk they could Lave made a better worid than this, and that the God of the Bible shocks every sense of propriety. They talk of the lore of God in a way that shows you they believe it does not make any difference how bad a man is here he will come in at the shining gate. They talk of the love of God in a way which shows you they think it is a general jail der: r n _ 1 j 3 11 very ior a.11 me auauuyucu auu iuc scoundrelly of the universe. No punishment hereafter for any wrong done here. The Bible gives two descriptions of God, and they are just opposite, and they are both true. In one place the Bible says G-od is love. In another place the Bible says God is a consuming fire. The explanation is plain as plain can be. God through Christ is love. God out of Christ is fire. To win the one ana to escape the other we have only to throw ourselves, body, mind and soul, into Chrisl's keeping. * \lno, says irreverence, I want no atonement; I want no pardon; I want no intervention. I will go up and face God, and I will challenge him, and I will defy him, and I will ask him what he wants to do with me." So the infinite confronts the Infinite, so a tack hammer tries to break a thunderbolt, so the breath of a human nostril defies the everlasting God, while the hierarctLs of heaven bow the head and bend the knee as the King's chariot goes by, and the archansei turns away because he cannot endure the splendor, and the chorus of all the empires of heaven comes in with full diapason, liHoly, holy, holy!" Reverence for sham, reverence for the old merely because it is old, reverence for stupidity, however learned, reverence for incapacity, however LLUCij iuau^ uiaicu, JL juavc uuuc. But we want mere reverence for God, more reverence for the sacraments, more reverence for the Bible, more reverence for the pure, more reverence for the good. Reverence a characteristic of all great natures. You hear it in the roll of the master oratories. You see it in the Rephaels and Titians and Ghirlandaios. -You study it in the architecture of the Aholiabs ana Christopher Wrens. Do not be flippant about God. Do not joke about death- Do not make fun of the Bible. Do not deride the Eternal. The brightest and mightiest search cannot iook unabashed upon him. Involuntarily the v?ings come up. 'With twain he covered his face.1' Who is this God before whom the - .4. J ' X X - T- 1 ? f-_ arrogant aau inxraciauie rejuss reverence! There was an cn2ineer of the name of Strasicrates who was in the employ of Alexander the Great, and he offered to hew a mountain in the shape of his master, the emperor, the enormous figure to hold in the left hand a city of 10,000 inhabitants, while with the right and it was to hold a basin large enough to collect all the mountain torrents. Alexander applauded him for his ingenuity, but fobade the enterprise because of its costliness. Yet I have to tell you that our King holds in one hand all the cities of the earth and all the oceans, while he has the siars of heaven for his tiara. Earthly power goes from hand to hand, from Kenry I to Henry Ii and Henry III, from Charles I to Charles II, from Louis I to Louis II and Louis III, but from everlasting to everlasting is H-nd. C^nr) fhp first, (rod the last, God the only. He has one telescope, with which he' sees everything ?his omniscience. He has one bridge with which he crosses everything? his omnipresence. He has one hammer, with which he builds everything his omnipotence. Put 2 tablespoonfuls of water in the palm of your hand, and it will overflow, but Isaiah indicates that God puts the Atlantic and the Pacific and the Arctic and the * -? J' - 1 a T- ? Hf.J.'i J imiarcxic ana me meunerraiieau auu the Black sea and ail the waters of the earth in the holiow of Lis hand. The fingers the beach on one side, the wrist the beach on the other. "He holdeth tne watir in the hollow of his hand." As you take a pinch of salt or powder between your thumb and two fingers, so Isaiah indicates God takes up the earth. He measures the dust of the earth, the original there indicating that God takes all the dust of ail the continents between the thumb and two fingers. You wrap around jour hand a blue ribbon live times, ten Lime. You say it is five hanabreadths, or it is ten handbreadths. So indicates the prophet G-od winds the blue ribbon of the sky around his hand. "He meteth out the heavens with a span." You know that balances are made of a bsara suspended in the middle with two basins at the extremity of equal height. In that way what ra^t heft lias been weighed. Biit i what are all tbe balances of earthly manipulation compared with the balances that Isaiah saw suspended when he saw Gcd putting into the scales the Alps and the Apennines and Mount Washington and the Sierra Xeradas. You see the earth had to be ballasted. Lt would not do to have too much weight in Europe, or too much weight in .Asia, or too much weight in Africa or in America, so when God ! made the mountains he weighed j them. The Bible distinctly says so- God knows the weight of the great ranges that cross the continents, the tons, the pounds avoirdupois, the ounces, the grains, the milligrams ? just howmuci they weighed then, and just how much they weighed now. "He weighed ihe mountains in scales and the hills in a balance." Oh,what a God to run against! Oh, what a flnr) in t OVt wVlflf; fl (rtVl tO dishonor! Oh, what a God to defy! The brightest, the mightiest angel takes no familiarity with God. Tne wings of reverence are lifted. "With tfrain he covered the face." Another seraphic posture in the text. The seraph must not always stand still. He must move, and it must be without clumsiness.' There must be celerity and beauty in the movement. "With twain he did fly." Correction, exhilaration. Correction at our slow gait, for we oaly crawl in the service when we ought to fly at the divine bidding. Exhilaration in me :act mat me soux xias wm^s, as the seraphs have WiUgs. What is a wing? An instrument of locomotien. They may not b9 like seraphs' wing:, they may not be like birds' wing, but the soul has wings. God says so. "Ee shall mount up on wings as eagles." We are made in the divine image, and Grod has wings. The Bible says so. ''Healing in his wings." "Under the shadow of his wings." "Under whose wings hast thou come to trust." The TTT^ + k TTM vn rr -n rvTTT UTATinHpH auai, ?Y1LJU i if , ?? wing, broken wing, bleeding wing, caged wing. Aye, 1 have it now! (Jaged within bars of bone and under curtains of ilish, but one day to be free. I hear the rustle of pinions in Seagrave's poem, which we sometimes sing: Rise my soul, and stretch thy wings. I hear the rustle of pinions in Alexander Pope's stanza, where he says: I mount, I fiy, 0 death, where is thy victory? A djing Christian not long ago cried out, "Wings, wings, wings!" The air is full of them, coming and going, coming and going. You have seen now the dull, sluggish chrysalis becomes the bright butterfly?the dull and the stupid and the lethargic turned into the alert and the beautiful. Well, my friends, in this world we are in the chrysalid state. Death will unfurl the wings. Oh, if we could only realize what a grand thing it will be to get rid of this old clod of the body and mount the heavens! Neither sea gull nor lark nor albatros nor falcon nor condor, pitching from highest range of Andes, so bouyant or so majestic of stroke. See that eagle in the mountain nest? It looks so sick, so ragged feathered, < so wornout and so half asleep. Is that eagle dying? Ao. The ornithologist will tell you it is the molting season with that bird. Not dying, but molting. You see that Christian sick and weary and worn out and seeming about to expire on what is called his deathbed? The world says he is dying. I say it is the molting season for his soul?the body dropping away,the celestial pinions coming on. Not dying, but molting. Molting out of darkness and sin and struggle into glory and into God. Why do you not shout? Why do you sit shiveriug at the thought of death and trying to I" AWtJ " W* /W T?/\1 1 />11 1 JUUJ.U. uaujx auu wiouiug juu. vs^uiu, stay here forever and speak of departure as though the subject were filled with the skeletons and the varnish of coffins and as though you preferred lame foot to swift wing? Oh, people of God, let us stop playing the fool and prepare for rapturous flight When your soul stands on the verge of this life and there are vast precipices beneath and sapphired domes above, which way will you fly? Will you swoop, or will you soar? Will you fly down ward,or will you fly upward? Everything on the wing this day bidding us aspire. Holy Spirit on the wing. Angelof the New Cove riant on the wing. Time on the wing, fljing away from us. Eternity on the wing, flying toward us. Wings, wings, wings! Live so near to Christ that when you are dead people standing by your lifeless tody will not soliloquize, saying: "What a disappointment life was to him; how averse he was to depart: re; what a pity it was he had to die; wnat an awful calamity." Kath* ! er, standing there, may they see a sign more vivid on your still face than the vestiges of pain, something that wiil indicate that it was a happy exit?the clearance from oppressive quarantine, the cast otf chrjsalid, the molLing of the faded and the useless and the ascent from malarial valleys to bright, shining mountain tops, and be led to say, as they stand there contemplating your humility and your reverence in life and your happiness in deatn, "With twain he cDvered the feet, with twain he covered the face, with twain he did fly." Wings, wings, wings! Pianos by the Mile. See Ludden and Bates' new advertisment of one thousand Mathushak pianos. 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