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KEY. DR. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN* DIVINE'S SUX
DAY SERMON.
Subject of Discourse: "Pillars of
Smoke."
Text: "Who is this (hat cometk out of
the wilderness like pillilrs of smoke?''?Solemon's
Song, iii., 6.
The architecture of the smoke is woedrous,
whether God with His finger curls it into a
cloud,or rounds it into a dome,or points it in
aspire, or spreads it in a wing; or, as in the
text, hoists it in a pillar. Watch it winding up
from the country farmhouse in the eariy
morning, showing that the pastoral industries
have begun; or see it ascending from
the chimneys of the city, telling of the
homes fed, the factories turning out valuable
fabbric, the printing-presses preparing
book and uewspaper, and all the ten thousand
wheels of work in motion. On a clear
day this vapor spoken of mounts with such
buoyancy, and spreads such a delicate veil
cross the sky, and traces such graceful lines
of circle, semi-circle and wave, and tosses,
and sinks, and soars, and scatters with such
affluence of shape, and color, and suggestivene?s.
that if you have never noticed it you
are liKe a man wdu uius un uj& me ikcu n
Paris and vet never seen the Luxembourg,or
all bis life in Rome and never seeu the \ atican,
or all his life at Lockport and never
seen Niagara Forty-four times the Bible
speaks of the smoke, and it is about time that
somebody preaches a sermon recognizing this
strange, weird, beautiful, elastic, charming,
terrific and fascinating vapor. Across the
Bible sky floats the smoke of Sinai, the smoke
of Sodom, the smoke of Ai, the smoke of the
pit, the smoke of the vol.ante bills when God
touches them, and iu my text the glorious
Church of God coming up out of the wilderlike
pillars of smoke.
In the first place, these pillars of smoke in
my text indicate the suffering the Church of
God has endured. What do I mean by the
Church? I mean not a building, not a sect,
but those who in all ages and all lands, and
of all beliefs, love God and are trying ta do
right. Fcr many centuries the heavens have
been black with the smoke of martyrdom.
If set siie by sido you could girdle the earth
with the fires of persecution. Rowland Taylor
burned at Hadleigh; Latimer burned at
Oxford: John Rogers burned at Smithfield;
John Hooper burned at Gloucester; John
Huss burned at Constauce; Laurence Saunders
burned at Coventry: Jcau of Arc
burned at Rouen: Protectants have sometimes
pointed to the Catholics as having
a monopoly of persecutors; but both
Protestant and Catholic have practiced
infamous cruelties. The Catholics during
the reign of Hunneric were by Protestants
put to the worst tortures, stripped of their
clothing, hoisted in the air by pullevs With
weights suspended from their feet, then let
down, and ears and eyes, nose and tcngue
were amputated, and red-hot plates of iron
were put against the tenderest part of their
bodies. George Bancroft, the historiau, says
of the State of Maryland: ' 'In the land which
Catholics had opened to Protestants mass
might Dot be said publicly: no Catholic
priest or bishop might utter his faith in a
voice of persuasion; no Catholic might
teach the young. If a wayward child
ef a Papist would but becorr.? an apostate,
the law wrested for him from his
parents a share of their property. Such
were the methods adopted to prevent th9
growth of Popery." Speaking of Ireland,
Bancroft, the historian, says: "Such priests
as were permitted to reside in Ireland were
required to be registered, and were kept
like prisoners at large within prescribed
limits. All Papists exercising ecclesiastical
jurisdiction, all monks, friars and regular
priests, and all priests not then actually in
parishes and to be resist -red were banished
from Ireland under rain of transportation,
and, on return, of being hanged, drawn snd
quartered."
Catholicism as well as Protestantism has
had its martyrs. It doe; seem as if when any
one sect got complete domiuancy in any land
the devil of persecution and cruelty took
possession of that s-?ct. Theu see the Catholics
after the Hugenota. See the Gentile?
after the Jews in T< uiai'no, where a great
pit was dug and fire lighted at the bottom of
the pit, and 160 Jewish victims were conmimed.
See the Presbyterian Parliament of
England, more tyrannical in their
treatment of opponents than bad
vtxm IUC uiuiiiMti tuui ^ iciacvuuuu
against the Bantists by Pedo-Baptist=.
Persecution of the Established Church against
the Methodist Church. Persecution against
the Quakers. Persecution against the Presbyterians.
Under Emperor Diocletian one
hundred and forty-four thousand Christians
were massacred, and Feven hundred thousand
more of them died from banishment
and exposure. Witness the sufferings of the
Waldenses, of the Albigens?s, of the
Nestorians. Witness St. Bartholomew's
massacre. Witness the Duke of Alva
driving out of life eighteen thou6aud
Christians. Witness Herod, and
Nero, and Decius, and Hildebrand, and Torquemada,
and Earl of Montfort, and Lord
Claverhouse. who, when told that he must
pve account for his cruelties said: "I have
no need to account to man, and as for God I
will take Him in my own hands." A red
line runs through the church history of nineteen
hundred years, a line of blood. Not by
the hundreds of thousands, but by the millions,
must we count those slain for Christ's
sake. No wonder John Milton put the jrrrans
of the martyrs to an immortal tune, writing:
"Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints
whose bones
Lie s-attered on the Alpine mountains
cold"
The smoke of martyrs' homes and martyrs'
bodies, if rolling up all at once, would
have eclipsed the nooudav sun and turned
the brightest dav the world ever saw into a
midnight. " Whr> is thi> that cometh up out
of the wilderness like pillars of smokef
His persecution ceased ? Ask that young
man who is trying to be a Christian in a store
ui lav. wi j , w Li\j is Mid uutouL ait iuo rnrau
witticisims of unVelievins employes. Ask
that wife whose huslv?nd makes her fondness
for the house of God and even her kneeling
prayer by th* bedside a derision, and is
no more fit for lier holy comranioship than
a filthy crow would be fit companion for a
robin or a golden oriole. Comprom so with
the world and surrender to its conventionalities
and it may let you alone, but all who
will live godly in Christ Jesus must suffer
persecution. Be a theatre-going, card-plfvylng.
wine drinking,round dancing Christian,
and you may escape criti -ism and social
pressure. But be an up and down, out and
out follower of Christ, and worlding will
wink to worlding as he speaks your
name, and you will ba put in many
a doggerel and snubbed by those not
worthy to blacken your oldest shoes.
When the bridge nt Ashtabula broke
and let down the mo<t of the carload of passengers
to instant death. Mr. P. P. Bliss was
seated on one side of the aisle of the car
writing down a Christian song which he was
composing, and on the other side a group of
men were playing cards. Whose landingplace
in eternity would you prefer--that of
'P. P. Bliss, the Gospel singer, or of the card
players?
The great complaint comes from the theatres
ab iut the ladies' high hats, because they
obstruct the view of the stage, and a lady
reporter askod me tho other day what I
tnougQC anout lr, ana 1 toia ner mac 11 me
indecent pictures of actresses in the show
windows of Brooklyn and New York were
accurate pictures of what goes on in many
of the theatres night by night, then it would
be well if the ladies' hats were a mile high,
so as to completely obstruct the vision. If
professed Christians go to such places during
the week, no one will ever persecute them
for their religion, for they have none
and they are the joke of hell But let them
lire a consecrated and Christian life and
they will soon run against sneering oppo?
sition. For a compromise Christian
character an ea>y time now, but for consecrated
behavior, griniaco and caricature.
For the body, thanks to the God of free
America, t here are no swords or fierv stakes,
but for the souls of thousands of the good,
in a figurative sense, rack, and glbhet, anrl
Torquemada. The symbol of the dome-tic
aud social and private and public suffering
" ' of a great multitude of God's dear children,
pillars of smoke.
What an exciting scene in India when during
the Sepoy rebellion a regiment of Highlanders
came un ami found the dead body of
one of General Wheeler's daughters, who
kad been insulted and mauled and slain by
?tttoc flia \rrotli n rrninict".
mo OUJA'^N ^IC?W f??o vuv .? >
these murderers that the Scotch regiment
tat down, and cutting off the hair of this
dead daughter of General Wheeler, they
divided it among them, ami each one
counted the number of hairs given
him, and each took an oath, which
was executed, that for each hair of the
murdered daughter they would dash out the
life of a miserable Sepoy. But as we look
over the story of those who in all ages have
! offered for the troth, while we leave veil
gearce to the Lord, ltV us Dana tocoiDer m
! on? solemn vow. one tremendous oath, after
| having counted the hoist of the martvrs, that
for each one of those glorious men and
women who died for the truth, nn immortal
I soul shall live, live with God and live fori
ever.
But. as I already hinted in the first sentence
of this sermon, nothing can be more
i beautiful than the fijrurtsof smoke on a clGar
| sky. You ran see what you will in the contour
of this volatile vapor, now enchanted
! castles, now troops of horsemen, now banj
nered procession, now winired couriers, now
I a black anjjel of wrath under a spear of the
| sunshine turned to an ancel of li^ht, and
j now from horizon to horizon the air is a
I picture gallery filled with masterpieces of
| which God is "the artist, morning clouds of
| imoke born in the sunrise, and evening
! clouds of smoke laid in the burnished sepulI
ehres of the sunset.
| The beauty of the transfieurod sm^ke is a
! divine symbol of the beauty of the Church.
I The fairest of all the fair is she. Do uqt call
those persecutors of whom I spoke the
! Church. They are the parasites of the
i Church, not the Church itself. Her mission
is to cover the earth with a supernatural
gladness. to open all the prison doors, to
baham all the wounds, to nios? nil the graves,
j to burn up the night in the firepiaceof a great
I morning, to change iron handcufis into diaj
monded wristlets, to turn the whole* race
around, and whereas it fared doath, com|
manning it: "Rightabout face for heaven!"
| According to the number of the soires of the
churches in all our cities, towns.and neish'
borhoods. aro *ne erood homes, tlio worldly
I prosperities, and the pure morals, and the
nappy souls.
Meet me at any denot the world over, and
with my eyes closed take me by the hand and
lead me so that my foat will not stumble, and
without my once looking down, or looking
on the level, take me to some liisrh roof or
tower and let me see the tops of the churches,
and I will tell you the proportion of suicides,
of arsons, of murders, of thefts. According as
the churches are numerous aro the crimes
few. According as the churches are few
the crimes are numerous. The most beautiful
organization the world over saw or ever will
see is the much-maligned Church, the friend
of all good, the foe of all evil, "fair as the
moon and clear as the sun." Beautiful in
her author, beautiful in her mission, the
| heroine of tho centuries, the bride of Christ,
the queen of the nations. There are hundreds
of kindly institutions, some carina
for inebriates, some for the crippled,
some for the imbecile, some for ~ the
mi-led, some for the blind, but the Church is
the mother of all these kindly institutions,
rhere are asylums, American, or English, or
Scotch, or Irish, or French, or Germany, or
Italian, but the Church spreads her mantle
over all these, and will yet spread it over all
nations. Her gates * are beautiful, her
songs are beautiful, her prayers are
beautiful, her convocations nre beautiful,
her work is beautiful. All Jvin-'S and
warriors will yet bow down at her altars, all
chains of serfdom be shattered against her
doorstep, all nations will yet fellow her leading.
How amiable are thy tabernacles! How
sacred thy altars! How glorious thy auditoriums!
So graceful, so aspiring, so grand,
and rolling on, and rolling up, we cry out
in rezard to her: " Who is she that rometh
out of the wilderness like pillar* of smoke?"
Men may desecrate it, as Cromws!! when
he stabled his cavalry horses in St. Paul's
Cathedral; or break off the Ima^e ot Christ,
as did the iconoclasts in York Minuter; or
hurl against it august literary antipathies,as
did Gibbon; or plot its overthrow, as dosome
in every community whose pride and hate
and debauchery are reproved by the Ten
Commandments which it thunders, and
the Sermon on the Mount which
it breathes. But it will stand
as long as the earth stands, the same unique,
and wonder-working, beatific, and miraculous
thing for which God decreed it Small
wits tax their brain to say things that will
put her at disadvantage, but many of them
will send for its condolence when dying, and
their children will be gathered up under
its benedictions after the parental curse
has been removed. Through her gates
will march all tte influences for good
that shall ever reach our world. Take her |
membership as a mas?, not speaking of the
acknowledged exceptions, they are the noblest.,
grandest, kindest,best men and women
of the ages But for tbem the earth would
long ago have beon a burned-out volcano.
They have been the salt that has kept the
human race from putrefaction insufferable
either to human or angelic olfactories. You
lying and hypocritical world, shut up those
slanders about the Church of Christ, an institution
whi-h, far from being what it
ought to be and never pretending to be perfect,
is five hundred times better than any
other institution that tho world ever saw or
ever dreamt of. The highest honor I ever had,
and the highest hon<r I shall ever receive,
and the highest honor I ever want is to have
my name on her records as a member. At
her altars I repented. At her sacraments I
believed. In her service let me die. From
her doors let me be buried. Oh, Church of
God! Thou home of the righteous! Thou harbor
from tempest! Thou refuge for the weary!
Thou lighthouse of many nations! Thou
tyi e of heaven! I could kiss thy very dust
with ecstasy of affection.
"For her my tears shall fall,
For her my prayers ascend,
To her my toils and cares be given
Till toils and cares shall end."
"Perfume*1 smoke," says Solomon, in the
words following my text. Not like the fumes
coughed up from the throat of a steam-pipe,
or poisoned with the gases of chemical factonv
flrmtintr in hlnok wrath from the con
flagration of bome-teads, or sulphurous from
blazing batteries, but sweet as a burning
grove of cinDamon or jungle of sassafras, j
or the odors of a temple oenser. "Who is this
that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars
of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense?
" Hear it, men and women everywhere.
that the advance of the genuine
Churc h of Christ means peace for all nations.
Victor Hugo, in his bojk entitle ! "Ninetythree,"
says: "Nothing calmer than smote
but nothing more startling. There are peaceful
smokes and there are evil ones. The thickness
and color of a line of smoke make the
whole difference between war and peace, between
fraternity and hatred. The whole happiness
of man or his complete misery is sometimes
expressed iu this thin vapor which the
win I scatters at will." The great Frenchman
was right, but I go further nnd say that
a?the Kingdom of God advances like pillars
of smoke, the black volumes belching from
batteries of war and pouring out from portholes
of ships will vanish from the sky.
A distinguished General of the late war
told me recently that Abraham Lincoln proposed
to avoid our civil conflict by purchase
of all the slaves of the South and setting them
free. Ho calculated what would be a reasonable
price for them, and, when the num'
ber of millions of dollars that would be required
for such a purpose was annouueed,
the proposition was scouted, and the North
would not have made the oft'er and the
South would not have accepted it
if made. "But," said my military
friend, "the war went on and just the number
of millions of dollars that Mr. Lincoln
calculated would have been enough to make
a reasonable purchase of all the slaves, were
soent in war. besides all the precious lives
that were hurled away in the two hundred
and fifty battle?." In other words, there
ought to be s-omo other way for men to set|
tie their controversies without wholesale
; batchery.
j me cnuren or uoa win yet occome tne
j arbiter of nations. If the world would allow
I it. it could to-day step in between Germany
j and France and settle the trouble about Al- i
i sace and Lorraine, and between Russia and"
l Bulgaria, and between England and her anj
tagonists, and between all the other nations
j that are Hying at each other's throats, and
I command peaoo and disband armies,
and harness for the plow the war
j borsoi now being hit bed to ammunition
I wagons, or saddled for cavalry charge,
i That time must come, or, through the increased
facility for shooting inen and blowing
up cities and whelming ho-.ts to instant
d'.-uth, so that we can kill a regiment easier
than we could on e kill a company, and kill
a brigade easier than we could once kill a ;
regiment, the patent oflices of the world j
more busy than over in recognizing new
; tu^uivi y wa uvnu uvuuu, LI1W Ullinaii
j race'will, after awhile, go fighting with
| one arm. and hobbling with one foot, and
I stumbling along with one eye, and some in|
genious inventor iuspired of the archangel
! of all mischief, will contrive a ma'hinu that
j will bore a hole to the earth's center, and
| some desperate nation will throw into that
j hole enough dynamite to blow this hulk of a
! planet into fragments, dropping like moi
teoric stoues on surrounding stellar habitaj
tions.
But this shall not be, for whatever else I
let go, I hansj on to my Bible, which tells
me that the blacksmith's shop shall yet oome
i to its grainiest use when the warrior and the
| husbandman shall enter it side by side, and
; the soldier shull throw into its bank of fires
i his sword, and the farmer shall pick it
; up a ploughshare, and the. straightesfc
spear shall be bent into a crook at eai'li end,
and then cut in two. and what was one spear
sha'l be two pruning hnoks. Down with
Molo h and up with Christ! Left no more
war-horses eat out of the manger where Jesus
was horn.
Peace! Forever roll off the skv the black
pillars of smoke from the Marengos and
fcalamnntas ana iioroainos ana ?'eitysourgs
of onrtb! And right after them, roll into
the heavens tlio peaceful vapors from the
chimneys of farmhouses, and asylums, and
churches, and capitals of Christian nations,
and. as the sunlight strike? through
these vapors they will write in letters
of jet and gold all over the sky from horizon
to zenith: "Glory to God in the highest,and
on earth peace, good will to men!" Then let
all the men-of-war fire a broadside, and all
the forts thunder forth a resounding volley,
and the earth bo girdled with the cannonade
over the final victory of the truth.
While thinking of the^e things I looked out
from my window, and the wind was violently
blowing. And I saw from many chimneys
the smoke tossed in the air and whirled in
great velocity, volume after volume, fold
after fold, and carried on the swift wind
were the great pillars of smoke. And helned
by Solomon in the text I saw the speed of
the church symbolized. Do you realize
the momentum the Church of God is under?
Why, the smoke of a chimney on the top of
M 'lint Washinelon when the wind is blowing
sixty miles the hour, Is slow as compared
with the celerity of good influences.
For fifty-nine centuries the devil had it his
own way among the nations. Nearly all the
great missionary movements have been
started witfciin the century, and see what one
century has done to recover the world from
fifty-nine centuries of devastation. What
great revivals! What mighty churches)
What saved millions! What advancing civilization!
In all the United States, Great
Britain, Ireland, France, Germany, Italy
fall freedom to worship i?oa according to conS'iouee.
Along the coasts of China, Japan and
Africa the batteries are planted which are to
take all these empires for God and civilization.
Prom the ruins of Babylon and Assyria,
and Nineveh and the valleys of tho
Nile, confirmations have been exhumed proving
to all fair-minded men that the Binle is
the truest book ever written. The mythologies
of Egypt were found to have embodied
m them the knowledge of man's expulsion
from Paradise, artd the sacrifice of a great
emancipator. Moses's account'of the creation,
.corroborated by the hammer of Christian
geologists; the oldest profane writers like
Hiromus, Helanicu?, and Berosus confirming
the Bible account of ancient longevity;
Tacitus and Pliny confirming the Bible
account of destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah;
Tacitus and Porphyry telling the
same story of Christ as Matthew and Luke
told: Macrobius telling of the massacre of
children in Bethlehem, and Phlegon sketching
the darkness at the crucifixion. It is demonstrated
to all honest men that it is not so
certain that William Cullen Byrant wrote
Thanitopsis or Longfelloy wrote Hiawatha,
as that God by the hand of prophet and
apostki wrote the Bible. All the wise men
in science and law and medicine and literature
and merchandise are gradually coming
to believe in Christianity, and soon their
will be no people who disbelieve in it except
those conspicuous for lack of brain or men
with two families who do not like the Bible
because it rebukes their swinish propen?ities.
The time is hastening when there will be
no infidels left except libertines and harlots,
and murderers. Millions of Christians where
once there were thousands, and thousands
where once there were hundreds. What a
bright evening this, the evening of
the nineteenth century; and the twentieth
century, which will dawn in
thirteen years from now, will, in my opinion,
bring universal victory for Christ and the
Church, that now is marching on with step
double-quick, or,'if you prefer the figure of
M1U WAl, IS KSClUfa o wrujJU VU AU VUO miguvj
gales of blessing, imposing and grand end
majestic and swift, like pillars of smoke.
"Oh, come into the Church through Christ
the floor, a door more glorious than that of
the Temple of Hercules, which had two pillars,and
one was gold and the other emerald I
Come in to-day! Come in and be one of the
eternal victors! The world you leave behind
is a poor world, and it will burn and pass off
like pillars of smoke. Whether the final conflagration
will start in the coal mines of
Pennsylvania, which, in some places, have for
many years been burning and eating into
the heart of the mountains: or whether it
shall begin near the California eeysers, or
whether from out the furnaces of Cotopaxf
and Vesuvius and Stromboli, it shall burst
forth upon the astonished nations. I make
no prophecy, but all geologists tell us
that we stand on the lid of a world
the heart of which is a raging flame,
and after a while the probability is that these
red monsters will burst out of their imprisonment
of centuries, and it will be a blaze
that will be seen in other worlds. But after a
while these flames will begin to expire and
they will go down, and the round globe will
be a living coal, and after that the living coal
will take on an ashen hue. Then it will begin
to smoke, and the mountains will smoke,
and the valleys will smoke, and
the islands will smoke, and the sea3 will
smoke* and_ the five continent^ will
be five. ptTlars or smoite, ana then
these columns of vapor all begin to lose their
density, and the\* will lessen, a id they can
hardly bs seen now as from the sky galleries
the inhabitants of other worlds watch them.
Finallv th?"* wil' lw> onh' on? cnrliaB
vapor of smoke. Then that will vanish, (
and there will be nothing left ,
but the charred hulk of a burned out world,
the comse of a dead star, the ashes of an ex- 1
tinguished planer, a fallen pillar of smoke.
But that will not hurt any of your invest- i
nients if vou have made the Lord your por
tion. From your heavenly home" you can
look down upon a dismantled, disrupted and
demolished earth without any perturbation.
When wrapped in fire the realms of ethei
Clow,
And Heaven's last thunder shakes the earth
below,
Thou undismayed shalt o'er the ruins smile.
And lijht thy torch at Nature's funeral
pile.
At Washington, a few days ago,
there was a sale of articles -which had
accumulated in the Dead Letter Office
during the last year. There were some
25,000 miscellaneous articles. The following
are specimens: Women's cheap
hosiery, garters, corsets, chemises, bustles,
underskirts, 6lioulder-braces, men's
underwear, cotton hose, suspenders,
collar buttons, soiled linen, damaged
hose and damaged shoes. Smoking
and plug tobacco and cotton hose are
frequently in the same package. No.
164 contains a cheap revolver, plug
tobacco, and a cheap watch. Another . ]
o.nntains t.wo nairn women's cotton I
hose, pair infant's socks, and soma
sheet wax. Steel pens, rosaries, razors,
some of them badly damaged, galvanic
girdles, mirrors, sewing-machine nee- \
dies, playing-cards, cigars, cigarettes, J
a rope halter, soap, women's backcombs,
doll-corsets, egg-beaters, can- ,
openers, dentophones, ear-muffs, elec- j
trie batteries, cheese-trier, abdominal ]
supporters, gold leaf, dark lanterns, 1
sugar spoons, a crucifix, a seersucker ;
suit, oil-paintings, music, boys' boots, ]
women's shoes, Easter eggs, toys, j
games, damaged pants, marbles, men's i
slippers (seven and a half), six small 1
sewing machines, plumbers' pipe-cut- ]
tor, Indian moccasins, man's damage*' 'j
felt hat, auger-bits, tooth- brusnes, <
bayonets, man's old frock coat, Turkish-bath
towels, violin strings, towel- 1
racks, shoemaker's edge-plane, harmonicas,
dentist's forceps, duck calls, \
fifes, roller-skates, undertakers' em- *
balming needles, bow and arrows,
pipes, artificial eyes, fish-hooks, demijohn,
clinical thermometer, flour-sift- j
ers, and iron and metal castings. <
<
]
Thompson H. Muncn, the stonecut- ]
ter -who surprised everybody by defeat- <
ing Etigene Hale for Congress in 1879, 3
died recently in the insane asylum at : (
Dan vera, Mass. He -was 48 years old, <
and belonged to the large clasB of men
who "cannot stand prosperity." ,
The Moonshiner's Ancestors. j
Rude in speech, figure aDd habit; j
barely lettered, though rarely entirely ;
unlettered; cunning, bold, determined I
and reckless of life, he is apart from the
men of any of the people who dwell on
the plains on either side of his mountain
range, and ha< a code of manners, customs
and morals that is unknown to tho
outer world. The origin of the mountaineers
that inhabit tho ranges from
Virginia to Arkansas is a subject that
might tempt the curosity of a serious,
historian. Tho ve>tiges of the early
population, and of some of the singular
episodic inroads that accompanied the
steady How of English coloni/.ation, are
still plainly perceptible. From the seraiducal
plantations of the king's favorites
in Virgin a and the Carolinas many of
those unfortunate or criminal wretches
who were transported from the mother
country to be penal slaves in the fields
of heartless and mostly absentee masters
escaped into tho refuge of the mountains,
and, animated by a despairing hope of
freedom, sought the most inaccessible
hiding places. To the cscaped convict,
trembling under the remembrance o.f a
master's lash, and willing to dare ?.ny
native dan?cr to escape the slavery he
ViiiH fori thnnimroiich of Anotherrefujrec
was as full of terror as of comfort. The
runaway felon could trust nobody; or
perhaps he had a brand upjn his forehead
to hide from curious eyes, and
wherever he made his home it was kopt
remote from neighborship, and made as
uninviting as possible to adventurous or
suspicious eyes.
There is little doubt that nmong the
first settlers of the mountains were these
British convicts sold into slavery to the
American plantations, and condemned to
a life of laborious servitude, which they
only escaped by snch hardships as could
tempt no free man. The free pioneer
and the woodsman pushed on across the
mouutains or through the passes and
cleared for himself an empire and garden
in fertile Kentucky and middle Tennessee,
or sought the softer air and cotton
lands of the Southern States. The
escaped convict was afraid to venture in
either direction, lest he should rush into
the hands of a former master or overseer,
who would identify and re-enslave him.
So, with that last instinct for personal
freedom that has always possessed the
Caucasian race in every land, he clung to
the mountains of his refuge, secure in
his solitude, and getting his pacc in the
impregnability of his retreat.?Southern
JJlli/lIUC*
The Freedman's Savings Bank.
The Inter- Occan gives the following
history of the Freedman's Savings Bank:
The Freedman's 1'ank was proposed as
a purely charitable enterprise to encourage
frugality and thrift among tho newly
liDerated blacks. Mr. Summer reported
the chartering the bank, 1 ebruary 17,
186"), and on tbc 3d of March, following,
it became a law. The bank was established
in Washington, and bran.h banks
to the number of thirty-four were (afterward)
located in different parts of the
Union. The institution was authorized
to receive the deposits of negroes, and
invest the same in the stocks, bonds,
Treasury notes, or other securities of the
United States. It was not iutended to
be a money-making conce.n, either for
bankers or depositors, but to provide for
the lafe-keeping of the t reedman's
savings. The government did not
guarantee the safety of the bank?
though the negroes were generally
made to believe that :t had ,
done so?nor did it take the proper precautions
to secure honest management.
As a consequence, a number of the
trustees, who were also imp'icated in
many other financial irregularities, were
enabled to take complete control of the
bank, and manage it to suit their own t
interests. During tlie nine years or tne ;
bank's existence, it handled no le-s than J
$56,000,000 of deposits. Tiien it suspended
payment, and a committee of j
Congress was appointed to invvestgate
matters. It found that the bank had
been scandalously mismanaged, its char- j
ter regulations ignored, at d its funds <
dissipated by loaning on inadequate se- 1
curity. By law, the investments of the j
bank were confined to government se- i
curities, but this law was ignored, and j
the funds used to aid the wild-cat
schemes of the "ring" and their friends.
Unimproved real e tate, unsalable stocks
(such as that of tho Maryland Freestone \
Mining and Manufacturing Company,
alias the ".-'eneca Stone Company"), and ,
personal notes, were among the assets of i
the bank. Deficits and embezzlements *
at the branch bau'ss also produced many J
losses. The unsecured debts owed by l
the bank to depositors July 13, 1874, c
amounted to $2,900,000. Tne asset*, j
which realized more than was expected,
yielded nearly $1,700,000. Dividend's
have been paid at various times, but (
many 6mall depositors, through '.gnor- 3
ance and despair, forfeited their divi- :
dends by not calling for them. In all i
77,000 dividends,amounting to $112,000, j
were thus forfeited. The cost of "wind- <
ingup" this bank was $175,000. For i
some years three bank commissioners
were employed at a salary of $:i,000 (
each. But in February. 1881, theafTairs /
- - - n J a. 1
Of tne Ijatl.K were ail tunicu uvcr iu tuic C
Comptroller of the currency, at a gre?!.t ]
saving of expenses. '
Beware of Draughts. !
This is the time of year for colds, neuralgia,
rheumatism, pneumonia, and |
kindred complaints. A little draught
may produce either. A Spanish proverb
runs as follows: ,
If cold winds rea h you through a hole, 1
Go make your will and mind your soul. 1
As the greatest pa!n-c'.ire. St Jacobs Cil is *
recommended bypubliemen of America and
other countries. Hon. Villa Flint, Life Senalor
o' t!:o Dominion Parliament, Canada. *
found it to act like a charm.
Among the remarkable woods of South Af- l<
rka is sneesewood (Pteroxylon utile;, which u
in durability is said to surpass even lignum- i
rit;e, producing machine bearings which havo j.
been know n to outlast those of both brats and
iron.
Ex-Mayor Latrobe, Baltimore, Md., says th? t
best cough medicine is Red Star Cough Cure, i
Dr. Sa nuel K. Cox, D. D., of Washington, D.
2., after a careful analyst's, pronounced it
purely v.ge'able, and most excellent for
hroat troubles. Price, twenty-live cents a 8
bottle. "
The slaughter of lobsters at Prince Edward
island i* 8 >niethii g astounding. Tnere wens
sxpoit'd 1 li'* past si-iison !t 1,00.1 cases, mostly ii>
Unrope. which involved the killing of U'i.OOO, I
)00 looatcr?.
A Terrible Fire.
What a thrill of terror ]>ass's over m when
ive mi I the i i curd of s 'ine fearful devastator!
by fire, and yet it s a fa-t that thousands
ire daily being coioumed by tlu- inward the of 1
'ever, catiscd ly consump'icn of the lungs,
ivhich could beMib.iued by Dr. P erce's "Hold- T
m Medical Discovery." ?<
The Duke of Sutherland owns land In this;
jountry aggregating. it is said, 4-5.U00 acres. ..
Everybody is enquiring for Hood's Calendar T
'or lfc'bT, because it is one of the mostat'ract- ?
ve bits of coloring which lithogiaj lrc art has
iver produced. It is a beautiful thing, the
'hiId's head being a ple'is^ng study, which exjlains
why so many applications are being
nade at the drunrsists for them. They can be
>btained bv sending ten cents in stamps to
2.1. Hood Lowell. Ma^s.
Vvunvnnnv wmenjoys reading a flrat-clas?
Family Story Paper should subscribe for Thb
^nicAfio Ledgek. it is the only $:t paper in
hj United States which is sold for 81.50.
Sample copy free. Send for one. Address
The Chicago Lkdoek,Chicago, 111.
'Royal Glue' mends anything! Broken Chi.
ja. Glass, Wood. Free Vials at Drugs & Grc
INJUSTICE CORRECTED.
Convincing Verlflcntlon of Widocut Fabllo
(Statements.
TO THE RKABIRS OT THIS PAPSR.
In common with many publishers and
editors, we nave been accustomed to look
upon certain statements which we bave seen
in our columns as merely adroit advertising.
Consequently we feel justified in taking
the liberty of printing a few points from a
private letter recently received from one of
our largest patrons, as a sort of confession
of faith to our readers. We quote:
"We have convinced ourselves that by telling
what we know to be true, we have pro
duced at last a permanent conviction in the
public mind. Seven years ago we stated
what the national disease of this country was,
and that it was rapidly increasing. Three
years ago we stated that a marked, check had
been given it
"Tiie statistics of one pf. the largest life inturance
companies of this country shows that
in 1883 and 1884, the mortality from kidney
disorders did not increase over the previous
?ears; other companies stated the same thing.
f. i a tiAf nraonmnftiAna no f a nlo im r> r * / J * f i
*V Mm UVV lUi UO kV l/l ?M>k? I
for checking these ravages.
"Seven years ago we stated that the condi- \
tion of the kidneys was the key to the condi- i
tion of health; within the past five yeai-s all |
careful life insurance companies have con- j
ceded the truth of this statement, for, whereas,
ten years ago, chemical Analysis to deter- j
mine the condition of the kidneys'was not
required, to-day millions of dollars in risks j
are refused, because chemical examination !
discovers unsuspected diseases of the kidneys.
"Seven years ago we stated that the ravages
of Bright's Disease were insignificant
compared with other unsuspected disorder*
of the kidneyBof many misleading names;
that ninety-three per cent of human ailments
are attributable to deranged kidneys,
which fills the blood with uric acid, or kidney
poison, which causes these many fatal
diseases.
X "The uric acid, or kidney poison, Is the real
cause of the majority of cases of paralysis,
apoplexy, heart disease, convulsions, pneumonia,
consumption, and insaulty; over half
the victims of consumption are first the victims
of diseased kidneys.
"When the recent death of an honored exofflcial
of the United States was announced,
his physician said that although he was suffering
from Bright's Disease, that was nnt
the cause of death He was not frank enough
to admit that the apoplexy which overtook
him in his bed, was the fatal effect of the
kidney poison of the blood, which had oaten
away the substance of the arteries and
brain; nor was Logan's physician honest
enough to state that his fatal rheumatism
was caused by kidney acid in the blood.
"If the doctors would state in official reports
the originaI cause of death, the people
of this country would be alarmed, yea,
nearly panic stricken, at the fearful mortality
from kidney disorders."
The writers of the abore letter give these
facts to the public simply to justify the
claims that Utey have made, that "if the
kidneys and liver are kept in a healthy condition
by the use of Warner's safe cure,
which hundreds of thousands have proved to
be a specific, when all other remedies failed,
and that hat received tha endorsement of the
highest medical talent in Europe, Australasia
and America, many a life would be pro*
longed and the happinesi of the people preserved.
It is successful with so many different
diseases because It and it alone, can remore
the uric acid from the blood through
the kidneys."
Our readers are familiar with the preparation
named.
Commendation thereof has often ap peared
in our columns.
We believe it to be one of the best, if nol
the best ever manufactured. We know the
proprietors are men of character and influence.
We are certain they have awakened a
wide-spread interest in the public mind concerning
the importance of the kidueya We
believe with them that they are the key to
health, and that for their restoration from
disease and maintenance in health, there is
nothing equal to this great remedy.
The proprietors say thiy "donot glory in
this un versa] prevalence of disease, but having:
started out with the purpose of spreading
the merits of Warner's safe cure before the
world, because it cured our tenior proprietor,
who was given up by doctors as incurable,
we feel it our duty to state the facts and
leave the public to its own infereocea. We
point to our claims, and to the.r public and
unit ersal verification with pride, and if the
public does not believe what we aay, we tell
them to ask their friends and neighbors
what they think about our preparations."
An stated above, we most cordially com
men acne perusal or wis correspondence oj
our readers, believiug that in ao doing w?
lira 1 ulftlling a simple public obligation.
Aboct 20,010 people are annually destroye
In Indiaby animals.
A New Way to Pur Old Debts.
Shakespeare tells how this can bo accomplished
in one of his immortal plays; but debts
:o rat ure must be paid on demand unlessdays
)f grace i>e obtained through ihe use of Dr.
Pierce's "Golden Medical Discovery." It is
not a "cure-all." but invaluable I or sore throat,
bronchitis, asthma, catarrh, consumption,and
ill diseases of the pulmonary and other orrans.
caused by scrofula or ''bad blood."
Scrofulou ulcers, swell ngs and tumors are
:ured by its wonderful alterative action. By
iruggiits.
One hundred tons of limberger cheese were
manufactured in Marine City, Mich., last
rear.
Dr. Pierce's "Favorito Proscription" is a <
nost powerful restorative tonic, and combines
,he most valuable nervine properties; espeiial'y
aaapted to'the wants of debiliaedlalies
suffering from weak hack, inward fever, I
rongestion inflammation, or ulceration, or (
!rom nervousness or neuralgic pains. By
irug gists.
New York City drinks 6,000,000 birrels of
:ieer every year, at a cost of $.'?,400,1'00. (
A Fortune for You. I
All is new; capital not needed: you are 1
;tarted free. Both sexes; all ages, wherever ,
>ou live you should at once write to Hallett &
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ull information about work that you can do
ind live at home, earning thereby from $5 to
!25 nnd upwards daily, from the llrst start.
have made over gfiO in a day, The b^st
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s th? time- delay not.
If you have a Cold, Cough, (dry-hacking)
>oup. Cankered-throat, Catarrh Dropping <
lausingcough-Dr.Kilmcr's Indian Cough Cure .
Comumptiom Oil) will relieve instantly?heals
tnd cures. Price 50c. and $1.
[f afflicted with sore eyes use I)r. Isasc Thomnon'sEye-watjer.
Druggists soil at2-*>c. per bottle J
No Opium in Piso's Cure for Consumption j
2ures where other roinedies fail. 25c. i
Get Hood's!
If yon hare made up your mind to buy nood'i Sar
uparllU do not be Indaced to take any other,
lood's Sarsaparllla Is a peculiar medicine, poesessor,
by virtue of lta peculiar combination, proportion
und preparation, curative power superior to any
ither article of the Und before the people. Be sure
o get Hood's. <1
"I ha Ibsen taking Haod's Saraiapartlla for dystepsla,
and In one (tore where I tried to buy a bottle '
be clerk tried to Induce me to buy their own In- ^
tead of Hood's; ho told me their'* would laal 1
onger; that I might take It on ten days' trial; that 1
r I did not like It I need not ray anything, etc. But
told blm 1 knew what Hood'a Sarsapjillla was, I ]
* - _??V ?- t ,
I BO LUeD u, It agroou muimc,! "Hi iniimv J
ifled with Hood's Saraaparllla, and did not ? ant any
ther. I am alwayi glad to ipeak a good word for hit
excellent medicine."?Has. Ella a. Gorr, <1
'errace Street, Boiton, Ma s.
Hood's Sarsaparilla i
Old by all drngglfta. $1; *lx for $3. Prepared only .
y C. I. HOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Maia. : (
(00 Doses One Dollar | |j
COCKLE'S ::
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or Llrer. Pile, Indigestion, etc. Free from Mer- I
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tout: C. N. G'lilTTENTON, Now York. i I
riUTCn Jmmediately, 100 .Sulcatum.^Goo-I J
rMV?li-u i'av. timiii i? itc. auurrss n. j . i
KEOIAX ('(). Nurserymen. Hrlghton. N.Y. *
Why did th
of this country use over th
Procter & Gamble's Lenox S
Buy a cake of Lenox and you
L
Something thai will Interest the Afflicted.
{From the Weekly Record, Dundee, X. V.)
There are many people in this country who
are suttering untoia agony irom me ravages
of diseases, who have been medicated until,
the very sound of the word "medicine'1 sends
a thrill of horror through their sensitivn
organism, and yet they are still looking?
looking for something that will prove a benefit
to their shattered constitution and restoreto
tfcem their health. To this class of sufferers
the Record, without solicitation, desires to
say a few words, not with the intent to advertise
a man who to-day is doing more for
this class of sufferers than i>en can describe,
but because we know, notonly from personal
experience, but from the experience of
others, that what we are about to
say in regard to Dr. Kilmer, of Binghamton,
N. Y., and his Herbal Remedies arc
facts, and it is a pleasure to let the sufferer
Know that there is a Medk-ine that has done,
and is still doing so much lasting benefit to
the afflicted. Dr. Kilmer has been represented
in the advertising columns of the
Record for over two years, and during that
period we hove received many communications
asking if his Remedies were as represented,
and have always felt that we could
safely recommend them. Dr. Kilmer is one
of the best-read Physicians of the present
day. He probably has the largest practice
and examines and treats personally more patients
at his large and fully equipped oflice
in Binghamton yearly, than any other physician
in the country.
These Herbal Remedies which he sends out
are prepared and prescribed by him in his
own private practice. Their component parts
are carefully selected from Nature's great
labcratory, and are compounded in a scientific
manner so as to be especially adapted to
the different forms of diseases for which they
are us?d. Th?y are the result of years of
bard, patient study of the science of medicine.
There seems to be at the present time a tendency
toward a great many Kidney, Liver
and Bladder troubles with the people of th's
couutry, and we wish to speak more particularly
about Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root Kidney,
Liver and Bladder Cure. We will say
on the outset, we are not writing sensational
"gush" for l)r. Kilmer, but knowing personally
as we do, of many important cures
wrought from the use of this medicine, we
believe it to be our duty to theafflicted to encourage
them to avail themselves of the use
of this valuable Remedy.
We know a Mr. Chas. E. Roe, of Unionville,
Steuben Co., N. Y. who had Bright's
disease, and was told by the best Physicians
of Hornellsville. N. V., that there was no
hope for him, who was prevailed upon by
a mend to try Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root
Kidnev Cure. He did so, without the least
idea or being benefited, but the result was
most gratifying to himself and family, for
he was cured. Saved from death by tbat
dreadful disease. Another case, that of
Russell Sandford, of Wayne, Steuben Co.,
who had a terrible bowel difficulty which i
would not vield to the medical skill of good !
doctors, who, at our own solicitation, tried
Swamp-Root, and he told us after using several
bottles his trouble was removed, al- ,
though he had no control over his bowels for
a year previous to using the medicine and
had been told tbat he would never be any
better, and that his earthly career was
limited. Our druggists here in Dundee
tell us they have sold hundreds of bottles
of this medicine and in no instance
Vyn-rra fliAtr flvnr henrr? Aiicrhf. hllfc nrni<A
from the persons using it We might mention
scores of similar coses that, to our own
personal knowledge, have been helped out of
serious trouble by using S via nip-Root. We
hope it will help some one, and we have no
fears of the result of a trial, by any one who
is suffering with a Kidney, Liver or Bladder
trouble. "It is worth its weight in gold."
IV. W. West coll, Editor.
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LYOIA E. PINKHAM'S
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physicians often prescribe it.
>Sold by all Druggists, Frice$1.00.
Mrs. Plnkham's "Guide to Health" mailed to any
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NUTS WEEKS A CRIPPLE
TFifA Bheumaiitm, and Twenty Yeart a
Sufferer irit A Neuralgia, Cured by
Dr. Pardee? ? Remedy.
RocnEflTEB, N. Y., May 25,1886.
Gknts: I would like to open my heart
to show you my feelings of gratitude
which I am unable to express in wonls as
I desire, for the great benefit I hare received
from your remedy. I have for
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I was so badly off that I feared I should
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I am most respectfully yours, j
Mrs. J. C. SWEENY
104Savannah Street '
Eheumatio Gout Cored. J
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part of the time so badly that I was unable
to walk. Each year found me a little
worse than the preceding, although I doctored
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t has cured me. I am not only free from
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pour* truly, H. H. WALKER,
893 Fourteenth Street
James Carey, of 180 Pinnacle avenue,
Rochester, had inflammatory rheumatism
*nd for five weeks was unable to walk or
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