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I REV. DR. TALMAGE.
BIE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUH
DAY SERMON.
Subject: "Forgive and Forget."
I "Their sins and their iniquities
EU / remember no more."?Hebrews viii.,
[The national flower of the Egyptians ia
b heliotrope, of the Assyrians is the water
y, of the Hindoos is the marigold, of the
ttineM is the chrysanthemum. Wehaveno
Ltional flower, but there is hardly any
Iwer more suggestive to many of ua than
e forgetmenot. We all like to be rememred,
and one of our misfortunes is that
[ere are ?o many things we cannot rememr.
Mnemonics, or the art of assisting
bmory, is an important art. It was first
ggested by Simonides of Cos Ave hundred
iars before Christ.
Persons who had but little power to recall
ents, or put facts and names and dates in
?cessions, have tt.rough this art had their
emory reinforced to an almost incredible
tent. A good memory is an almost ia*
duable possession. By all means cultivate
I baa an aged friend who, detained all
jht at a miserable depot in waiting for a
ll train fast in the> snow banks, entertained
jroup of some ten to fifteen clergymen,
;ewise detained on their way home irom a
jeting of presbytery, first, with a piece of
alk, drawing out on the black ana sooty
ills of the depot the characters of Walter
ott's "Afarmion," and then reciting from
imory the whole of that poem of some
;hty pages in fine print
My old friend, through great age, lost his
jmory, and when I asked him if this story
the railroad depot was true he said, "I do
t remember now, but it was just like me.
t mo oui " cnirl ha M mft ' 'haVfi I ever
inn you before?" "Yea," I said, "you Were
ly guest last night and I was with you on
Bur ago." What an awful contrast in that
Ian between the greatest memory I ever
lew and no memory at all.
iBut ripht along with this art of recollects,
which I cannot too highly eulogize, is
he quite as important and yet I never
lard it applaudei I mean the art of forItting.
There is a splendid faculty in that
Irection that we all need to cultivate. We
light, through that process, be ten times
Ippier and more useful than we now are.
re have been told that forgetfulness is a
leakness aiid ought to be avoided by all
bssible means. So far from weakness, my
Izt ascribes it to God. It is the very top of
Innipotence that God is able to obliterate a
krt of His own memory. If we repent of
p and rightly seek the divine forgiveness,
Le record of the misbehavior is not only
kissed off the book, but God actually lets
pass out of memory.
"Their sina and their iniquities will I retember
no more." To remember no more
to forget, and you cannot make anything
se out of it God's power of forgetting is
> great that if two men appeal to Him, and
le one man, after a life all right, gets the
as of his heart pardoned, and the other
an, after a life of abomination, gets parHied,
God remembers no more against one
tan against the other. The entire past of
>th the moralist, with his imperfections,
id the profligate, with his debaucheries, is
i much obliterated in the one case as in the
her. Forgotten, forever and forever.
Their sins and their iniquities will I reember
no more."
This sublime attribute of forge tfolnass on |
!rx 01 IjrOQ you auu a iioeu 1U uiu uum
> imitate. You will do well to cast out
r recollection all wrongp done you.
I the course of one'a life he is sure to
represented, to be lied about, to be inThere
are those who keep these
fresh by frequent rehearsal. If things
ppeared in print they keep them in
:rapbook, for they cut these precious
aphs oat of newspapers or books and
tre times look them over, or they hare
ied up in bundles or thrust in pigeonind
they frequently regale themselves
sir friends by an inspection of these
these sarcasms, these falsehoods, these
ive known gentlemen who carried
in their pocketbooks, so that they
asily get at these Irritations, and they
iir right hand in the inside of the coat
over the heart and say: "Look here!
show you something." Scientists
rasps, and hornets, and poisonous inld
transfix them in curiosity bureaus
ly, and that is well. But these of
[ speak catch the wasp a, anl the horid
the poisonous insects, and play
em and put them on th emselves and
r friends, and see how far thenoxiou?
r?n iumr> and show how deep they
an sting. Have no such scrapbook. * Keep
lothing in your possession that is disagreeable.
Tear up the falsehoods, and the slanlerp,
and the nypercriticisau.
Imitate the Lori in my tsxt and forget,
ctually forget, sublimely forget. There is
io happiness for you in any other plan of
procedure. Ycu see all around you, in the
hurch and out of the church, dispositions
cerb, malign, cynica', pessimistic. Do you
now how these men and women got that
ispositioc? It was by the embalmment of
Shings pantherine and viperous. They have
;pent much of their time in calling the roll
>f all the rats that have nibbled at their repitation.
Their soul is a cage of vultures.
Everything in them is sour or imbittered.
rhe milk of human kindness has been
mrdled. They do not believe in anybody or
It they see two people whispering they
hink it is about themselves. If they see
iwo people laughing they think it is about
heniselves. Where there is one sweet pip*
)in in their orchard there are fifty crab
pples. They have never been able to forjet.
They do not want to forest. They
lever win lurgeu xucu mgwuniiitw u aujreme,
for do oue can be happy if he carries
jerpetually in mind the mean things that
lave been done him.
On tbe other hand, you can find here and
iere a man or woman (for there are not
nany of them) whose disposition is genial
ind summery. Wby* Have they always
Men treated well? Oh, no. Hard things
Lave been said against them. They have
ten charged witb olficiousness; and their
5?nerosities have been set down to a dosiro
ok display, and they have many a time
teen tbe subject of tittle-tattle, and they
iavoihad enough small assaults like gnats
ind enough great attacks like lions to nave
nade fchem perpetually miserable, if they
vould bave consented to be miserable.
But they have had enough divine phlloso
I to COSH un mo auuujuu^ auu tuuj
3 kept themselves in the sunlight of
'a favor, and have realised that these
jsitions and hindrances are a part of a
bty discipline, by which they are to be
tared for usetulnes3 and heaven. The
at of it all is, they have by the help of
aternal God learned how to forget.
other practical thought?when our
ts are repented of let them go out of
d. If God forgets them, we have a right
orget them. Having once repented of
infelicities and misdemeanors, there is
need of our repenting of tbem ajain.
pose I owe tou a large sum of money,
you are persuaded I am incapacitated
iy. and you give me acquittal from that
jation. You say: "I cancel that debt,
is right now. Start again." And-the
tday I come in and say: i'You know
nt that big debt I owed you. I have come
> get you to let me off. I feel so had
at it I cannot rest. Do let me off." You
y with a little impatience: "I did let you
Don't bother yourself and bother me ,
i any more of that discussion."
tie following day I come in and say: "My
- sir, about that debt. I can never get
the fact that I owed you that money.
It is something that weighs on my mind like
a millstone. Do forgive me that debt"
This time you clear lose yourpatience and
say: "You are a nuisance. What do you
mean by this reiteration of that affair? I
am almost sorry I forgave you that debt.
Do you doubt my veracity, or do you not
understand the plain language in which I
told you tbat debt was canceled?"
W ell, my friends, there are many Chrf*.
ti&ns guilty of vrorse folly than that. While
It is ng*.t: thai they repent of new sins and
of recent sins, what is the use of bothering
ywurself and insulting God by asking him to
iforjfive sins that long ago were forgiven?
(God has forgotten them. Why do you not
lorget them? No, you drag: the load on with
you and 365 times a year, if you pray every
day, you ask God to recall occurences which
he has not only forgiven but forgotten.
Quit this folly. I do not ask you less to realize
the turpitude of sin, but I ask you to a
Si?har faith in th? nromisn of find and tb<?
lull deliverance of his mercy. He does not
give a reoeipt for part payment, or so much
received on account, but recaipt in full, God
having for Christ's sake decreed, "your sin?
and your iniquities will I remember no more."
As far as possible, let the disagreeables of
life drop. We have enough things in the
present and there will be enough in the future
to disturb us without running a special
train into the great gone-by to fetch us as
special freight things left behind. Somo teu
years argo, when thsre was a great railroad
strike, I remember seeing all along the route
from Omaha to Chicago and from Chicago
to New York hundreds and thousands of
freight cars switched on the side tracks,
those cars loaded with all kinds of perishable
materia!, decaying and wasting.
After the strike was over did the railroad
companies bring all that perished material
down to the markets? No, they threw it
off where it was destroyed, and loaded up
with something else. iJet the long train of
ycur thoughts throw off the worse than use
less freight of a corrupt ana aestroytm pzisu,
and load up with gratitude and faith and
holy determination. We do not please God
by the cultivation of the miserable. He
would rather see us happy than to see 119 depressed.
You would rather 89e your children
laugh than to see them cry, and your
Heavenly Father has no fondness for hysterics.
Not only forget your pardoned transgressions,
but allow others to forget them. The
chief stock on hand of many people is to
recount in prayer meetings and pulpits
what big scoundrels they once were. They
[ not only will not forget their forgiven deI
flcits, but they seem to be determined that
the church and the world shall not forget
them. If you want to declare that you have
been the chief of sinners and extol the grace
that could save such a wretch as you were
do so, but do not go into particulars. Do
not tell how many times you got drunk; or
to what bad places you went, or how many
free rides you had in the prison van before
you were converted. Lump it, brother; give
it to us in bulk.
If you have any scars got in honorable
warfare, show them, but if you have scars
fst in ignoble warfare, do not display them,
know you will quote the Bible reference to
the horrible pit from which you were
digged. Yes, be thankful for that rescue,
but do not make displays of the mud of that
horrible pit or splash it over other people.
Sometimes I have felt in Christian meetings
discomfited and unfit for Christian service
because I had done none of those things
which seemed to be in the estimation of
many necessary for Christian usefulness, for
I never swore a word, or ever got drunk, or
went to compromising places, or was guilty
of assault or battery, or ever uttered a
slanderous word, or ever did any one a
* a. f Irntm mw hourf. mq ?{n.
Duru, lUOUl/U^U M. AUtfn ?* /
fnl enough; and I said to myself, "There Is
no use of my trying to do any good, for I
never went through thoss depraved experiences;"
but afterward I saw consolation
In the thought that no one gained any
ordination by the laying on of the hands of
dissoluteness and infamy. And though an
ordinary moral life, ending in a Christian
life, may not be as dramatic a story to tell
about, let us be grateful to God rather than
worry about it, if wa have never plunged
into outward abominations.
It may be appropriate in a meeting of reformed
drunkards or reformed debauchees tj
quote for those not reformed how despefat9
and nasty you once were, but do not drive a
scavenger's cart into assemblages of people,
the most of whom have always been decent
and respectable. But I have been sometimes
in great evangelistic meetings where people
went into particulars about the sins that they
once committed, so much so that I felt like
putting my hand on my poaketbook or calling
the police lost these reformed men might
fall from grace and go at their old business
of theft or drunkenness or cutthroatery. If
your sins have bsen forgiven and your life
purified, forget the waywardness of the past
and allow others to forget it.
But what I most want in the light of this
text to impress upon my hearers and readers
is that we have a sin-forgetting-God. Suppose
that on tho last day?called the last day
because the sun will never again rise upon
our earth, the oarth itself being flung into
fiery demolition?supposing that on that last
day a group of infernal spirits should somebow
get near enough the gate of heaven and
challenge our entrance, and say: "How
canst thou, the just Lord, let tnose souls
into the realm of supernal gladness? Why,
they said a great many things they nsver
ought to have said, and they did a great
many things they ought never to hare aon9.
Sinners are they: sinnere all."
And suppose God should doigu to answer,
He might nay; "Yea. but did not My only
Son die for their ransom? Did He not pay
the price? Not one drop of blood was retained
in His arteries, not one nerve of His
that was not wrung in the torture. He'took
in His own body and soul all the sufferings
that tbose sinners deserve. They pleaded
that sacrifice. They took the full pardon
that I promised to all who, through My
Bon, earnestly applied for it, and it pissod
out of My mind that they wer<* offenders.
I forgot all about it. Yes, I forgot all about
it. Their sins and their iniquities do I remember
no more.'" A sin-forgetting Godt
That is clear beyond and far above a sinpardoning
tiod.
How orten wa hear it said: "I can forgive,
but I cannot forget." That is equal
to saying, "I verbally admit it is all right,
but I will keep the old grudge good." Human
forgiveness is otten a flimsy affair. It
does not go deep down. It doas not reach
far up. It does not fix things up. The contestants
may shake hands, or passing each
other on the highway they may speak the
"Good mornlug" or "Good night," out the
old cordiality never returns. The relations
always remain strained.
There is something in the demeanor ever
after that siems to say, "I would not do
you harm; indeed, I wish you vrell, but that
unfortunate affair car.never pass out of my
mind." There may no hard words pais between
them, but until death breaks in the
same coolness remains. But God lets our
pardoned offenses go into oblivion. He
never throws tbem uo to us a^ain. He feels
as kindly toward us as though we had beau
spotless and positively auzelic all alan?.
Many years ago a family, consisting of
the husband and wife and little. girl of two
years, lived far out in a cabin on a western
prairie. The husband took a few cattle to
market. Before he started his little child
asked him to buy for her a doll and he
promised. He could after the sale of the
cattle purchase household necessities, and
certainly would not forget the doll he had
promised. In the village to which he went
he sold the cattle and obtained the grocenej
for his household and the doll for nis little
darling. He started home along the dismal
road at nightfall.
As he went along on horseback a thunder
storm broke, and in the most lonely part
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01 toe i'uil'j, uu'j 1u mo uaaymau u ul kuo |
storm, tra beard a child cry. Robbers had
been known to do some bad work along that
road, and it was known that this herdsman
had money with him, the price of the cattle
sold. The herdsman first thought it was a
stratagem to have him halt and be despoiled
of his treasures, but the child's cry became
more keen an i rending, and bo he dismounted
and felt around in the darkness and all in
vain, until he thought of a hollow that he
remembered near the road where the child
might be, and for that he started, and sure
enough found a little one fagged out and
drenched of the storm and almost dead.
He wrapped it up as well as he could and
mounted his horse and resumed his journey
home. Coming in sight of his cabin he saw
It all lighted up and supposed his wife had
kindled all these lights so as to guide her
husbinri throuzh the darkness. But, bo.
The hou^o was full of excitement and th#
neighbors were gathered and stood around
the wife of the house, who was inscnsiblo as
from some great calamity. Oa inquiry the
returned husband found that the little child
of that cabin was gone. She had wandered
I out to meet her father and get the present
he had promised, and the child was lost.
Then the father unrolled from the blanket
the child he ha<i round (a the ueids, ana 101
it was his own child and the lost one of the
prairie home, and the cabin quaked with the
shout over the lost one found.
How suggestive of tbe fact that onco we
r'ere lost in the open fields or among the
mountain crags, God's wandering children,
and He found us dying in the tempest and
wrapped us in the "mantle of His love and
fetched us home, gladness an I congratulation
bidding us welcome. The fact is that
the world does not know God. or thoy would
all Cock to Him, Through their own blindness
or the fault of some rouzh preaching
that has got abroad in the c?nt.uries, many
men and women have an idea that God is a
tyrant, an oppressor, an autocrat, a Nana
SaniD, an omnipotent Herod Ant;pas. iv is
a libel against the Mmischty; it is a slander
against the heavens; it is a defamation
of the infinities.
I counted in my Bible 3iM tirm* the wor I
"mercy," single or comooun led with other
words. I counted in my Bible 473 times the
word "love." single or compounded with
other word.?. Then I got tirel counting.
Perhaps you might count more, being better
at figures. But the Hebrew and the Greek
and the English languages have bean taxed
till they cannot pay any more tribute to the
love and mercy and kindness and grace and
charity and tenderness and friendship and
benerolenc? and sympathy and bountaousness
and fatherliness and motherlinesj and
patience and pardon of our Go4.
There are cartain names so magnetic that
their pronunciation thrills all who hear it.
Such is the name of the Italian soldier an!
liberator. Garibaldi. Marching with his
troops, he met a shepherd who was in great
distress because he had lo*t a lamb. Garibaldi
said to his troops: "Let us help this
poor shepherd find his lamb." And so, with
lantarns and torches, thay explored the
mountains, but did not And the lamb, and
after an nnsuccc&ful search late at night
thev went to their encampment.
The next morning Garibaldi was found
asleep far on into the day, and they
wakened him for some purpose and found
that he had not given up the search when
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tne soldiers aia, uut uau Kepi, uu sun ini uitu
into the night and had found it. and be pulled
down the blankets from his coucn and there
lay the lamb, which Garibaldi ordered immediately
taken to its owner. So the Commander
of all the hosts of heaven turned
aside from His glorious and victorious
march through the centuries of heaven and
said: "I will go and recover that lost world,
and that race of whom Adam was the progenitor,
and let all who will accompany
Me."
And through the night they came, but I
do not see that the allelic escort came any
farther than the clouds, but their most illus trious
Leader came all the way down, and bv
the time His errand is done our little world,
our wandering and lost wopld, our world
fleecy with the light, will be found in the
bosom of the Great Shepherd, and then all
heaven will take up the cantata and aing:
' The lost sheep is found." So I Bet ot>en the
wido gate of my text, inviting you all to
come into the mercy and pardon of God; yea,
still further, into the ruins of the place
where ones was kept the knowledge of your
iniquities.
The place has been torn down and the
records destroyed, and you will find the
ruins more dilapidated and broken and
prostrate than the ruins of Melroso or Kenilworth,
for from these last ruins you can pick
up some fragment of a sculptured stone, or
you can see the curve of some broken arch,
but after your repentance and your forgiveness
you cannot find in all the memory of
God a fragment of all your pardoned sins so
large as a neodle:s point. 'Their sins and
their iniquities will I remember no more."
And none of that will surprise you if you
will climb to the top of a bluff back of Jeru
saiotn (ic coon us only nve or tea minutes to
climb it), and sea what went on when the
plateau of limestone was shaken by a paroxysm
that set tt)e rocks, which had been
upright, aslant, and on the trembling crosspieces
of the split lumber hung the quivering
torm of Him whose life was thrust out by
metallic points of cruelty that sickened the
noonday sun till it fainted and fell back on
the black lounge of the Judoan midnight.
Six different kinds of sounds were hoard
on that night which was interjected into the
daylight of Christ's assassination. The
neighing of tho war horses?for some of the
soldiers were in the saddle?was one sound'
the bang of the- hammers was a second
sound; the jeer of malignants was a third
sound; the weeping of friends and coadjutors
was a fourth sound; the plash of blood
on the rocks was a fifth sound; the groan of
the expiring Lord wm a sixth sound. And
they all commingled into one sadness.
Over a pla;e in Russia where wolvee were
pursuing a load of travelers, and to save
them a servant sprang from the sled into
the mouths of the wild beasts and was devoured,
and thereby toe other lives were
saved, are inscribed the words: "Greater
love hath no man than this, that a man lay
down his life for his friend."
Many a surgeon la our own time has in
tracheotomy with his own lips drawn from
the windpipe of a diptherio patient that
which curoa the patient and slew the surgeon,
and all have honored the self saaridce.
But all other scenes of sacrifice pale before
this most illustrious Martyr of all time and
all eternity. After that agonising spectacle
in behalf of our fallen race nothing about
the sin-forgot tin? Gol Is too atupendoui for
my faith, and I acceot the promise, and will
you not all accspt it? 'Their sins and their
iniquities will I remember no more."
All Monkeys Steal.
The English word stalwart is derivrd
from stael-worth, i. e., worth stealing, I
and the same test seems to be a monkey's
test for the value of earthly things in
general. Kleptomania is the one touch
of nature that makes all four-handers
I kin. They all steal; in their nativa
haunts depredation forms their daily
and constant employment, and nature
has done her utmost to equip them for
their trade. Even the monkey Hanuraan,
the Hindoo ape saint, is the prototype
of the Grecian Mercury, the
patron saint of shoplifters and freebooters.
Light-fingered, quick and retentive,
his four hands seem 'specially
adapted for pillage; be carries a double
"kit," a pair of capacious cheek pouches
for storing his plunder. Any novel,
movable and portable object at once excites
his cupidity. If the digestible
qualities of the novelty seem doubtful,
he appears to act on the principal that
in the ir?iantime it can do no harm to
appropriate it. The leafy domicile of
the light lingered tribe furnishes them
ready-made ambuscades and hiding
places. They cannot be caught nap
ping; their heads move on a suppery
fulcrum, their furtive eyes miss no opportunity
for plunder and timely flight.
It is, indeed, absolutely impossible to
cure a monkey of that hereditary penchant;
you may tame him till he mourns
your momentary absence, and like Mohammed's
cat, makes your sleeve his
favorite hiding place; you may surfeit
him with the tidbits of the Southern
California citru9 fair, but the moment
"".i fni-n rrnur hnclr hp. roil I ransack vour
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room from top to bottom and cram hi3
cheek pouches with the 4'cheek" of an
i Oakland ward politician. The thought
of retribution seems never to moderate
his business energy; the hope of salvaI
tion by well-timed flight seems to be
' a fixed idea of the simiau mind. In
Hindostan monkeys enjoy all the privileges
of an Arizona cowboy, being permitted
to rob the orchards with impunity,
decimate tho rice crop and destroy
all the birds' nests they waut; but, not
content with levying out-door contributions,
they pillage the cottages of the
natives while the proprietors are at work
in the fields; nay, they often manage to
despoil the larder of the foreign residents
or blackmail their children if they
leave the bungalow with a lunch basket
| or a pocketful of nuts.?Saa Francisco
Chronicle.
Had .1 Mouuted Model.
Respecting the colossal statue of
Peter the Great at St. Petersburg it is
related that as soon as the artist had
formed his conception of the design he
communicated it t o the Empress Catharine,
at the same time pointing out the
impossibility of naturally representing si>
striking a position of man and animal
without having before his eyes a horse
and rider in the attitude she had devised.
General Melissino, an officer having the
reputation of being the most expert as
well as the boldest rider of the day, to
urhom tho fliffinultiiis nf the artist v/erc
made known, offered to ride daily one
of Count Alexis Orloff'a best Arabians to
the summit of a steep artificial mound
formed for the purpose, accustoming the
horse to gallop up to it, and to halt suddenly
with the forelegs raised, pawing
the air over the brink of a precipice.
This dangerous experiment was carried
into effect by the general for some days
in the presenca of several spectators and
of the artist, who sketched the various
movements aud parts of the groups from
day to day, and was thus enabled to
produce, perhaps, the finest, certainly
the most correct, statue of the kind in
Europe.?Pearson's Weekly.
SABBATH SCHOOL
INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR
JUNE 26.
Lesson Text: "Messiah's Reign,"
Psalm lxxli., 1-19?Golden Text:
Psalm Ixxii., ll?Commeutary.
1. "Give the king Thy judgments. 0 God,
and Thy righteousness unto the king's son."
A psalm penned by a kin?, dedicated to a
king and concerning the King of Kings. Solomon
was a type of Christ in wisdom and in
the peace and prosperity of his kingdom.
No roan can be a type of Christ as to His
character, but only as to office. Christ is
King and King's Son, divine and human, and
all judgment is given to Him (John v., 22)
2. "He shall judge thy people with righteousness,
and thy poor with judgment."
Compare Isa. ad., 4, 5; xxxii.. 1, 17. When
Jesus shall be made King over all the earth,
the righteous branch of David reigning and
prospering, executing judgment and justice
upon the earth, in the days of Israel's restoration,
then shall all, without exception,
enjoy the lull benefits of equitable judgment
and righteousness (Zech. xiv., U; Jer. xxiii.,
5, 6).
3. "The mountains shall bring peace to
the people and the little hills by righteousness."
Compare Isa. xl.,'4, 5; lv., 12. Peace
and righteousness snail abound, and things
that formerly brought terror and dismay
shall be subaued and be employed in the
service of the king.
4. "He shall judge the poor of the people.
He shall save ttie children of the needy.and
shall break in pieces the oppressor." Contrast
the oppression of the poor in Amos li.,
6; v., 11, and the time of the kingdom when
the meek snail inherit the earth, and shall
delight themselves in the abundance of
peace (Ps. xxxvii., 11; Math. v.. 5).
5. ''They shall fear Thee as long a3 the
sun and moon endure, throughout all generations."
In Jer. xxxi., 35, b6; xxxiii., 20, 2t,
the references are very plain to the restoration
of Israel and her continuance as a nation
while sun and moon endure. Some day
we may see a reference to this also in G en.
i., 14; in the fact that the lights in tha
firmament were appointed for signs.
6. "He shall come down like rain upon
the mown grass, as showers that water the
earth." Compare II Sam. xxiii., 4; Hosea
vi., 3, and notice in each passage the
reference to the morning?the morning
without clouds, the morning when He will
help Israel (Ps. xlvi., 5, margin). All
Gospel blessing now is but a foretaste of the
fulness of blessing when Jesus shall come to
the church as the Morning Star and to Israel
as the Sun of Righteousness (RxxiL, 1C;
Mai. iv., 2).
7. "In His days shall the righteous flourish,
and abundance of peace so long as the moon
endurethf" He will be the true Melchizedek,
who will be both King of Righteousness and
King of Peace. The Saviour teaches us that
in this present world, instead of flourishing,
we must expect hatred and persecution and .
trial; and so also teach the apostles by the
Spirit (John xv., 18-20; xvi., L 2; J as. 1,
12; Rev. ii., 10; II Tim. iii., 12).
8. "He shall have dominion also from sea
to sea, and from the river unto the ends of
l-.hepnrt.h_" Solomon's kincrdom embraced
all the land of promise (I Kings iv., 21, 24);
the true Son of David shall have dominion
over all the earth (Dan. vii., 13,14; Rev. xi.,
15; Num. xiv.. 21; Isa. xi., 9; Hab. ii., 14).
His body, thn church, shall reign with Him
(Rev. iii., 21: v., 9, 10).
9. "They that dwell in the wilderness shall
bow before Him, and His enemies shall lick
the dust." It is only at His second coming
in power and glory that He shall smite His
enemies, when He shall return bringing His
saints with Him (1 Thess. iii., 13; Col. iii.,
4; Zecb. xiv., 3, 4: Rev. xix., 11, 15). There
can be no kingdom till the King returns
(Luke xix., 11, 15).
10. "The kings of Tarshish and the isles
shall bring presents; the kings of Sheba and
Seba , shall offer giits." The most distant
and most opulent seem to be represented here,
while the previous verse suggests the most
uncivilized. The visit of tl^e Queen of Sheba
to Solomon and of the wise men of the ease
to the child Jesus are suggestive of the time
when the glory of the Lord having risen
upon Israel the Gentiles shall come to her
light and kings to the brightness of her rising
(Isa. lx? 1-3).
11. "Yea, all kings shall fall down before
nim; al) nations dhall serve Him." Compare
Ps. Ixxxvi., 9. That this shall be
when He is King ot the Jews is evident from
Isa. lx., 12, where it is written that the nation
and Kingdom that will not serve Thee
(Israel, see context) shall perish. It is the
literal Israel, truly converted, that is to
blossom and bud and fill the faca of the earth
with fruit (Isa. xxvi., *5).
12 "For rio shall deliver the needy when
he crieth, the puor also and him that hath
noheloer." Compare Isa xli., 17. 18. All
His relief, both physical and spiritual,
which he brought to the poor and needy
when He was here in humiliation, was but a
sample of the fullness of blessing that shall
be when the kingdom comes. .
13. "He shall spare the poor and needy,
and shall save the souls of the needy." See I
Jor. xxxix.. 10* Zeph. in., 12, as a rore- i
shadowing of th?e good times. The rich I
control thiugs cow, Dut it shall not be so in I
the days of His kingdom. There is very I
little encouragement for the poor and needy
in the cliurches to-day, but such have not
the spirit of Christ.
14. "He shall redeem their soul from deceit
aurt violence, and precious shall their
blood bo in His sight." They may lay down
thsir lives for His sake, bat He will receive
their souls and in duo time redeem their
bodies. Deceit and violence shall end when
He comes,
l.j. "Au I He shall live, and to Him shall
be given of the gold of Sheba; prayer also
shall be made for Him continually,and dally
shall He he praised." He was dead, but is
alive forevermore (Rev. i., 18). The church
seems to have hard work to raise money to
carry on her work, but in kingdom days
wealth sha.'l sour iu trom all qu?*ters (Isa.
Ix.. i 11 R V i We may be said to pray
for hi m when we pray tor His members.
16. "There shall be aa handful of corn in
the earth upon the top of the mountains, the
fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon, and
they of the city shall flourish like grass of
the earth." There shall be great results
from apparently small causae. "A little
one shall become a thousand, and a small
one a strong nation; (tha Lord will hasten
it in his time ilsa lx.. 22).
17. 'His name shall endure forever; His
name sL >11 be continued as long as tue sun,
and the men shall be blessed in Hun; all
nations shall call Him blessed." The greatest
name on earth; the sweetest name in
heaven. See the power and blessedness of
His name in such passazes as Acts iii., 16;
iv., 10, 12, 30; ix., 15, IB; x., 43.
18. "Blessed be the Lord God, the God of
Israel, who only doeth wondrous things.'
One has wisely said that this verse and the
next calls tor adoration, not exposition.
Compare Ex. xv., 11; Jer. x., 6, 7, 10.
19. "And blessed be His glorious name
forever, and let tiie whole earth be filled
with His glory. Amen and amen." The
five books of the Psilter end with xii., 13;
lxxii., 19; lxxxix., !>2; cvi., 43; cl., tf. It is
worth wnile to compare the close of each
book. When this psalm shall be fulfilled
then David shall have no more occasion to
pray. The promises that the whole earth
shall be filled with His glory are found in
Num. xiv\, 21; Isa. xi, 9; Hab. ii., 14.
They should inspire us to work mightily to
hasten it.?Lesson Helper.
Many raiiures in lire are beat liiastrated
by futile attempts to thread
a needle. It seems easy enough, but
unless one's eyesight is extra sharp a
fine fllm of thread will extend beyond
its visible point, and as thij
~ -i-i- ? 4.1.^ /-vP tVin
goes one siue ur me uiuci <ji. uug
the thread is turned away. It ii
only by forgetting what at first
glance seems to be the end of thj
thread, and looking at the tine poind
in advance, that it can be put
through. Just so it is in life.
Trifling mistakes made early give a
bent away from the true cou *se that
It is hard to overcome, and impossible
except by beginning anew. On the
other hand, if at the flrst due care is
taken to watch the end of the filament
it becomes much easier to follow
it with the thread through thd
eye. In life this means that attending
to the small trirtes that form
character in youth is the best prep*
aration for success in later years.
RELIGIOUS READING.
8EHD OUT THE SUNLIGHT.
Send out the sunlight, the sunlight of cheer,
Shine on earth's sadness till ills disappear?
Souls are in waiting this message to hear.
Send out the 9unJight in letter and word,
Speak it and think it till hearts are all
stirred?
Hearts that are hungry for prayers still unheard.
Send out the sunlight each hour and each
day,
Crown ail the years with its luminous ray.
Nourish the aeedB that are sown on the way.
Send out the sun light! 'tis needed on earth,
Send it afar in scintillant mirth.
Better than go d in its wealth-giving worth!
Send out the sunlight on rich and on poorSilks
sit in sorrow nnd tatters endure?
All need the sunlight to strengthen and
cure.
Send out the sunlight that speaks in a smile.
Often it shortens the long, weary mile.
Often the burdens seem light for awhile.
Send out the sunlight?the spirit's real gold!
Giveof it freely?this gift that's unsold;
Shower it down, on the young and the old!
Send out the sunlight, as free as the air!
Blessings will follow, with none to compare,
Blessing of peace, that will rise from despair!
vSonil Atif thn annlwrhr vaii VintTA if In Vftll!
Clouds may obscure it just now from your
view;
Pray for its presence! Your prayer will come
true.
?("Kllen Dare, in Chicago Iuter-Ocean.
THE TRIVIAL ROUND.
Pious old George Herbert told us long ago
that tbe maid who swept a room for love of
God mnde "that and the action fine." So in
our familiar hymn, it is
The trivial round, the common task,
Will furnish all we ought to ask;
Room to deny ourselves, our road
To bring us daily nearer God.
It lifts all the drodgery of daily existence
out of the reach of common p'ace, just to
keep caying, there is "holiness" on the harness,
there is "holiness" on the shining surface
of the kettle faithfully scoured.v It ennobles
man or woman in anyatatiootakeep
saying: "This I do for Jesus' sake!,I do my
daily duties just as I go ud to comm,nnion,
in remembrance of him."?[EveryT'hursday.
bring your amen.
No more important contribution, says the
Presbyterian, can be brought to prayer
meeting man an .amen j>ui iniu at mc
right moment. Comfort, inspiration, joy
and revivals have been all worn out for
want of this important affix. If a Christian
man don't have it with him and the instinctive
ability when to use it, his power of blessing
his fellow-men is gone. 1 bere can be no
substitute for it. A few years aco there was
an effort to bring it into its place by a timekeeper
and a bell. When a man
had prayed out his time the bell startled
him, and be was compelled to use his
"Amen" as a stopcock to a flowing hydrant.
But this was an irreverent, jerky mode of
proceeding and as hostile to real devotion as
it was bad in manners. A man ought not to
lose his ability in this direction. He is not
praying for himself or he mighi set his goal
at the night's end. He is praying for others,
who may not have his devotion or his velocity,
many will bear him who will believe
in directness of approach to a throne of
grace, many will be young, and
like fledglings, their wing< will tire,
or as Janet, the Scotch wife, waiting
for her husband's Amen smelled the
burning porridge, and after worship, said,
' Jamie, I am sairly troubled, is it right to
let God's marcies spoil a-burnin' while one
is thanking for tbem?" Many of God's dear
servants are so long in getting warmed up
into prayer that both patience and porridge
are spoiled for want of the blessed addendum.
There is less good in elaboration in prayer
than anywhere elfe. It is right to stir up
the pure minds of men by way of remejnbrance,
but there is neither call for, nor reverent
in. rrpcfisinsr the inspired dictum on
the All-mindful.
How oiten we have been ctrried upward
into the fel'owship with God at the start,
and if the one who had norne us aloft in the
spirit of devotion had only been as wise in
his use of his Amen, we might have gone
away saying: "How blessed is this hour and
place." but all was lost, and an evil, reactionary
spirit cnme while we waited for the
Amen, for when a vessel is filled the cork
ought to come nexf. The church ban more
occasion to complain of long pruyers than
indifferent prayers. I'sually long prayers
spring from a want of variety of soul and
experiences and breathed from different
personalities with their varied burdens, with
their varied conceptions of God and tae
varied and various needs that we 'ong for,
we are satisfied if we can drop into the number
our owu varieties of sorrows, joys and
needs.
PRAYER-MEETING RESOLUTIONS.
1. I will make it a matter of conscience
to attend.?"Not forsaking the assembling
of yourselves together."
2. I will endeavor to bring others.?
"Com* thou with us and we.will do thee
! good."
3. As I enter the room I will ask the
Savior's presence.?"We would see Jesus."
4. I will not choose a back seat.?"How
nip!.?r?nt <t is for brethren to dwell together
in unity."
5. 1 will not seat mvse'f as to keep others
from the sauie pew.?"Be courteous.
ti. 1 will fix my attention upon worship
and the won!.?"This people draweth nigh
unto me with their mouth, but their heart is
far from me."
7. I will lead in prayer.?"Ye alao'helping
together by prayer for us."
8. I will otherwise take pirt.?"Teaching
and admonishing one another."
9. My prayers and my. remarks shall be
brief. "For (fort is in heaven and thou
upon earth, therefore let thy words be few."
RFLIfilOC.S KEEMXG.
When we use the understanding in our
spiritual investigations in a way to depreciate
religious emotion, serious consequences
are sure to follow. Love, warm and demonstrative.
is the truest manifestation of
vital godliness. Joy in the Lord?a joy that
expresses itself in a genuine manner?is always
in keeping with the best type of religion.
Pence in the soul?the pea<*e of God?
is one of the chief qualities ofholv character.
Ail these belong to the emotional part of our
nature, and when that is lightly esteemed,
[ increase in these heavenly graces is impossible.
Our age is one of marked intellectual
activity. The training of our youth, es|
peciallvj; in the higher grades of instruction,
i is eonducted with this constantly in view.
Our s.udents are warned that they will rank
low in lite if unprepared to grapple with
abstruse problems, or to combat successfully
with haughty scepticism. But is this, after
all. the highest preparation? We think not.
To develop moral sensibilities, grow in
breadth of holy sympathy, and open the
bidden sprins:3 of the soul Godward?this is
culture of a superior kind; it is that will
qualify the coming generation for high
achievement.
We plead not for mental sluggishness.
Mind, with all its wonderous capabilities, is
God's gift. Let all proper stimulus come to
I : i., nossibilities have never
II* 113 lat-iwu'ii* i
vet been measured. But the dancer is
"rather in bestowing upon the intellectual a
disproportionate attention; overlook inir the
rare of the emotional nature in the strife for
hijjh rank >: scholastic honors.
The Wise Old Hen.
Instinct teaches the hen that it
would be no good to warm only one
side of her eggs, and when she feels
that they are "done" on one side shd
turns them gently round. Anyone^'
who has watched setting hens has
seen them rise every now and theD
I and shuffle about for a few moments
' on the nest. That is when they turn
the eggs over.
** ii'? ?? >q nousi' an IrmMv n l*.
Oevare a me ' "O
terward, for his deed gained him
friends who added some of the city's
I bright life to his isolated home out
at the Dry Rock watchhouse. ? Yankee
Blade.
, -y - : >
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED,
Eastern and Middle States.
Over $10,000 damage was done by a forest
fire at Bakersvilie, N. J.
Alice and Florence Taylob, of
Rangely,Me., sisters, aged sixteen and eighteen,
went bathing in Sandy River and were
drowned.
Tunkhannock, Penn., was visited by a
heavy hailstorm and cloudburst. Hailstones
large as cherries f6ll and did great
damage to growing crops.
Joe and Casmir Tichon, brothers, aged
sixteen and nine yoard respectively,, were
killed by lightning at Scran ton, Penn.,
while robbing a bird's nest.
A serious washout occurred on tin Pennsylvania
Railroad at Retreat, and an engine
and twenty-seven freight cars wa re thrown
into the river. Train No. 5 on the Allegheny
Valley Railroad ran into a washout
at Foster Station, Pena. Three train hands
were killed.
Marshal McElwaine was acquitted at
Utica, N. Y., of complicity in the escape of
Buncoer O'Brien. He was immediately arrested
on a bench warrant from Albany
County. Judge Kennedy then sentenced
ex-Keeper Buck to three years at tusrd labor
in Auburn.
The delegates of the February Convention,
at a conference in the Hoffman House,
New York City, at which all the leaders, including
Governor Flower, were present,
pledged themselves to support Senator Hill
as a Presidential candidate "until ha is nominated
or as long as he will permit his name
to be used.
Edward McMillan, the wife murderer,
was hanged at Wilkesbarre. Pean. He
killed his wife by piercing her body with a
pair of tongs which had been heated red
hot.
Ex-Secretary Blaine passed around
New York City on his way to Maine, where
he will spend the summer.
Sonth and West.
The class of 1892 at the United States
Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md., having
finished the four years' academic course, received
their diplomas from the hands of
Secretary Tracy. The class numbered
forty.
First Lieutenant Wilber Loveridge,
of the Third Artillery, United States Army,
shot himself through the heart while in his
quarters at Fort Sam Houston, San Antouio,
Texas. He was thirty-two years old.
His death is directly traceable to the use of
intoxicants.
The Florida Democratic State Convention
at Tampa placed Judge Henry W. Mitchell,
of Hillsboro, in nomination for Governor.
The delegates to the National Convention,
at Chicago, were seat uainstructed.
At Annonia, Texas, Charles Brittle, in a
drunken quarrel shot and killed Ben Yelly
and was in turn shot dead by Yelly's son.
The Tennessee Prohibition State Convention,
consisting of u>mt 250 delegate*, met
at the State Capitol, Nashville. E. H. East,
a lawyer of Nashville, was nominated for
Governor. The convention Indorsed St.
John as a candidate for the Presidency and
recommended the Rev. D. S. Kelly, of
Nashville, for the nomination for VicePresident.
The steamer John Mathews, loaded with
corn, bound for Pine Bluff, Ark., ran against
the pier on the bridge over the Arkansas
River and sank. Four boat hands were
drowned.
Commodore W. W. Hunter died in New
Orleans, La., aged ninety years. He entered
the United States Navy as a midshipman
May 1, 1322. , "
An excursion train of colored people ran
into a passenger train at South Carrollton,
Ely., and killed five persons and wounded
thirty.
J. F. Mosellt, County Recorder, has disappeared
from Stockton, Cat. His debts
amounted to 1100,000. He has also given
nine forged notes, aggregating 960,000.
Confederate Memorial Day vfaa appropriately
observed in all the Southern States.
A mob of about one hundred and fifty men
from Wiilard, Ky., compelled the jailer at
Grayson to deliver the keys and then unlocked
the jail, securing Austin Porter, the
wife murderer, whom they lynched.
The Platte Valley Bank, one of the oldest
and wealthiest institutions in-Nebraska has
been closed. It is said that Cashier Starrett
has lost $50,000 bulling corn at Chioago.
Wyoming cattlemen report "that th?y
found the bodies of four meo hanging to the
limbs of trees near the seat of the recent
war between (he cattlemen and rustlers.
A cloudburst between Harold ancLBlunt
in South Dakota flooded a large section of
country, doing damage to crops and wash*
ing out a stretch of the Northwestern Railroad
track. Mrs. K. M. Foote and three
children, while returning from a visit, were
drowned in attempting to cross a ravine
with their team.
Returns from the Oregon elections show
that Hermann, Republican, in the First
Congressional District, is elected to Con Areas
by 3500 plurality. Ellis, Republican, is
elected from the Second District by about
4COO plurality. Moore, Republican, is
elected Supreme Judge by at least 6000
plurality. The Republicans control both
branches of the Legislature.
A. fertile district in Illinois, twenty
miles long by four miles wide, has been
flooded by the giving way of a Mississippi
levee.
The boiler in Kiazie & Coughlll'a tile
works, two and a half miles south of Idaville,
lnd., exploded, four men being killed'
Washington.
The United States Census Bureau issued a
bulletin showing the assessed value of property
in the United Stated in 1890 to be $&,651,585,465.
The last Cabinet meeting before the Minneapolis
Convention wasatteaded by all the
members except Secretary Tracy. Secretary
RlAi*n? enmh in mmnflnv with
Elkins, but remained only half an hour, returning
to the State Department.
Postmaster-General Wanamaker sent
an answer to the House Committee on Postoffices
and Post roads to the charges against
him in connection with a pneumatic tube
company.
Comptroller Laoet has notified the
President that he will resign July 1 to accept
the Presidency of the Bankers' National
Bank of Chicago.
Harold M. Sewell, United States Consul-General
at Apia, Samoa, tendered his
resignation, to take effect at tne pleasure of
the President.
The President signed the bill granting
pension to ex-Senacor George W. Jones, uC .
lowu,tor services in the Indian war of 1814.
Foreign.
Herr Bkbel, the noted Socialist and
leader, of Berlin, Germany, is insane.
During naval practice at Wilhelmshaven,
riflriMonT? a ahol) amlnHoH LriMintr thrAA man
and wounding several others.
Three thousand people have died of the
cholera in Serina^ur, Cashmere. Most of
the bodies have bean cremated, and it is
said that victims of the cholera, while yet
alive, bave been cast on the funeral piles.
T. Jefferson Coolidge, the new United
States Minister to France, arrived in Parte.
The British Government proposes to ex pend
$3,000,000 in repairing the ravages
cause by the hurricane in Mauritius.
Cognacci, the chef of Count Corazzi, in
Florence, Italy, smothered his wife and babe
and then shot and killed a rich merchant
named Alinari, because tbe merchant paid
too much attention to Cognacci's wite.
The steamboat Albion was burned and
sunk at Markajen. on the Unsha River in
Russia. Sixty of the ninety persons aboard
were drowued. A boat upset on Lake
Bourget, France, and nine persons were
drowned.
The Emperor Willian of Germany received
the Czar of Russia at Kiel with elaborate
cereaioutei
TTrntTf napuAn< -coru Lrillu.l V>\r licrhf.ninC in
*-"*?? ~j --0 0 ?
the Austrian ; s. 'i'ney were in a building
' together when ... :eadly bolt came,destroy*
in* the bui'^f " >-u ;?
The monument erected by the people of
New Orleans, to the memory ol! the late Superintendent
of Police, David C. Hennesey,
who was assassinated by the Mafla in Octo- ber,
1890, was unveiled a few days since, at
Metarie Cemetery.
A monument to the Bohemian soldiers
was unveiled a few days ago, at Irving Park,
Chicago. It is the first in tha United State*.
LATER HEWP. .
The burial of the victims of the Oil Crwk/
Valley horror w&s be^uu at Oil City and
Titusville. The catastrophe was largely duo
to the same cause as brought about th?f
Johnstown flood. i
The flagBbip Philadelphia, of the North!
Atlantic Station, with Hear-Admiral Gherardi
on board, arrived at New York after a
cruise of seven mouths and four days,dariog
which she covered 16,000 miles.
Extended damage was done in Ohio,'
Michigan, Iowa and Mississippi by wind
and rainstorms. A cloudburst at Zwin;la,i
Iowa, swept away nearly the entire village.!
William Ho3Ea Ballot;, of New York,
has been requested by Sir Henry Pooaonby,)
Her Majesty's Secretary, to place before the
British Foreign Department, through official
channels, the matter of the cruelty to
animals at sea. The State Department has
been advised of the fact and asked to forward
the papers in the premise* through
Minister Lincoln.
A Berlin* newspaper state! positively
that Emin Pacha, the African explorer, is
dead, and that he succumbed to smallpox. <
The New Oriental Bank in London, England.
failed with liabilities of more than.
J36.000.000.
The Czar of Russia returned to Copenhagen,
Denmark, in his yacht, the Polar
Star, from his visit to the German Kaiser at
Kiel.
FIFTY-SECOND C0NGBESS. j
In the Senate.
108th Day.?Mr. Stewart finished his
speech on the bill to provide for the freei
coinage of (told and silver. At the close ofj
his speech the bill went ov?r without action.
109th Day.?Mr. Morrill presented a
petition asking Congress to pass a law prohibiting
the sale and importation of
cigarettes. It was referred to the Committee
on Epidemic Diseases Mr. Vest spoke
on the tariff and reciprocity
110th Day.?The Diplomatic and Consular i
Appropriation bill was passed. The bill,
was subjected to several amendments, j
tmong them the increasing of the salaries
of the Consul-General at London, Paris; I
Havana and Kio de Janeiro from 95000 to
$8000.
111th Day.?The session was short. Thp
attendance on both sides was small. After
the reporting of the Anti-Option bill, which
was laid on the table pending referenae.Mr
Dolph addressed the Senate on a bill pro*
Tiding for the irrigation of arid lands and
for the protection of forests and utilization
of pastures.
In the Hotue.
124th Day.?Consideration of the Post- J
office Appropriation bill was resumed. Mr.
Livingston's motion to incraasa by 1300,0001
the appropriation for Star rout? service
was agreed to?101 to 25 Sir. Hooker, of
Mississippi, asked unanimous consent for the
consideration of a joint resolution appro*j
priatlng $20,000 for the relief of food'
sufferers in Warren and Jefferson Counties, >
Mississippi. Mr. Lohg, of Texas, objected.
124th Day.?Consideration of the Postal
Appropriation bill was continued.
125th Day.?The House passed the Post*
office Appropriation bill. Several hours
were frittered away in filibustering against
a motion made by Mr. Hatch to take up his
Anti-Option bill. The filibusters were finally
successful, and Mr, Ha tea was forced to
move an adjournment
126th Day.?The House passed the Antioption
bill by 163 to fcrty-six The River
and Harbor and Naval Appropriation
bills were sent to conference ??The ;
Legislative, Executive and Judicial
Appropriation bills were passed ??
The House passed the bill appropriating
tin nnn tn nnn<hiuA ? npdefltal and nrenare
site for a statue to General Sherman," by a
vote of 144 to thirty-two Billa for th<
admission to the Union of Arizona and Nan
Mexico were passed.
127th Da.t.?The Urgent Deficiency bill
was passed.
128th Day.?The House for a short time
considered the Land Grant Forfeiture bill,
but laid it aside and took up the Agricultural
Appropriation bill, and passed it without
substantial amendment.
"IIGH-WATEB MABK."
The Tablet Commemorating thm
Turning Poin*?of the Civil War.
The unveiling of the high-water mark tab*
lac of the Civil War, at Gettysburg, Peon.,
was attended by a great crowd. Evary
train brought hundreds of visitors to the famous
battlefield. Long before the time mt
for the dedication of the momument the reserved
space was filled and many thousands
were crowded out 4
The monument stands about midway in
the Federal lines as thev were on June %1863,
between Round Top and Cemetery
Heights, and is just in the rear of the clump
of trees which were pointed out by General
Lee to General Pickett as the objective point
of the' Federal line through which it was
hoped the Virginia infantry would (break.
The monument consists of a broad marble
pedestal flanked on either side by cannon
and surmounted by a great open book of
bronze, the left page or which gives the
names of Confederate commanders in that
charge, and, on the right, the names of tho
commanders of the Federal regiments which
met it.
At 2 o'clock the Marine Band arrived and
the exercises were opened by Dr. J. J. Savage,
of Boston, wno was followed by th?,
Hon. Edward McPherson in an addraa of';
welcome. Colonel John B. Batchalder,
Government historian of the Getteburg battlefield,
then explained why it was called the
high-water mark. The unveiling and presentation
of the monument by Samuel M.
Swope then followed. John M. Vanderallce
received It in behalf of the memorial association,
and General James A. Beaver, exGovernor
of Pennsylvania, delivered th?
oration. Jamas Jeffrey Hoche. of the Boa
ton Pilot, read a poem.'
TWO NEWJTATES.
The House Passes Bills Admitting1
Arizona and New Mexico.
In the House of Representatives at Washington
Mr. Smith (Delegate, Arizona) moved
to pass the bill for the admission of Arizona.
His request was greeted with thunderous
aDplase, and the Democratic members
gathered in groups discussing the day's
events. The Democrats had the opposition
at their mercy. All sorts of rumors prevailed.
Utah was to be next admitted; a
recess was to be taken at 6 o'clock until 10
that night, and the Legislative Appropriation
bill and other important measures were
slated for passage under suspension of the
rules.
The Clerk read the Arizona Admission bill
and Mr. Perkins demanded a second reading,
whicb was ordered, and the bill was
- - - jat
passed admitting Arizoua <u a ut??*o ?* ?.
January 1, 1893?yeas 174, nay* twelve?
amid vociferous applause.
Mr. Forney then moved to pass the Legislative,
Executive and Judicial Appropriation
bill. The bill was read and passed.
A bill was also passed admitting New
Mexico into the Union.
A LEVEE GIVES WAY,
?ighty Square Miles of Fertile Land
Under Water.
The Hunt levee on the Mississippi has
*iven way under the enormous pressure of
the flood, ani what was a fertile district
twenty miles long by four miles wide becomes
a lake from six to fifteen
feet deep. The district exteuds from
Warsaw, ili? southward, and connects with
the Indian Grave levee, eighteen miles
north of Quincy; mush of it was under cultivation.
The crevasse occurred at a point
known as Otter Bay. twenty-four milss
north of Quincy, and the water poured
through the ureas in a solid volume 200 feet
wideaud twenty feet deep, carrying everything
before it, The rusli of water
was heard for miles and the
current rapidly wi.w.ad the crevasse.
No loss of life occurred, as the people nad
beeu expecting the break for several days
and were prepared to flie to the bluffs at a
moment'-" warning.