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?????? pNTHECf fl? :)f M A NARRATIVE O! ||. >' * 53 By SEWARD -- (COPTBIGBT 13$v.\VtT Roi { CHAPTER XII. [CONTIXrED.] J ' wAnd the iron?" ' * 4'They are not far from the begin tiing of the channel." "Very Veil. Now to the point. Tour Jumar men are skilled in the forking of iron and steel. Conld they, do you think, by working stealthily at night, build smelting shops, forges and other works in the riverbed, and begin the manufacture of guns?" - The two Jumars looked at each other in speechless amazement. 1"The project is a great one," I said, "and dangerous. But the reward is liberty. Will they do it?" kj.( "They can try," said Garu-Saak. '' * "And will the people of Bromporrah work with us?" I asked. "We are one people," replied OsoBark. "Then let us begin at once. Let it become known that to-morrow night the Jumar men are wanted at a secret meeting in the old river channel. We must speak to them and see if we can arouse them from the lethargy into which they have fallen." . ( V "It is well," said Oso-Bark. "I will talk to them as I used to talk to them when they were soldiers of Talmooch, and we were still a nation.". '1 "One other thing. Have your wives get some of the women together and make up a lot of fancy trinkets. They are handy with the needle. Tell them to sew for liberty. Tell them I want a pack full of useful things." "For what?" asked Mr. Avery. * "I shall become a pedc'Jer," I re- , plied. "Peddler!" echoed Mr. Avery. 'Oolek, selling pin-cushions and handkerchiefs! Absurd!"^ "Not at all," I replied. "As a peddler I can go, unsuspected, over the entire island, and can talk with every- 1 body. My friends the Mantchoo, will not know whether I receive pav for my goods or not." "Crickmore, that American brain of yours is a fertile one. What will | yon do next, I wonder?" ? My wishes were carried out to the 1 letter. I visited some of the houses in Galneor on the following day. All the women were sewing industriously. 1 And that night, about eight o'clook, a stream of Jumars began pouring into i Mr. Avery's house. It would have puzzled an observer who was not in the secret of the underground passage, i as to how that house held the hundreds of men who were filing into it. None went out, yet the house did not ; fill up. I feared that a guard would ; discover them, but they were wary and chose their time wisely, wnen the influx had stopped there were two thousand able-bodied men in the river channel. Oso-Eark was the first to address them. I cannot portray to you the fire and fervor of his eloquence. Translated into English, it may seem tame?it certainly is tame as compared wfth the peculiar idioms of the Jumar tongue. There are words in Jumarese for which no synonym can be found in English. Hence the beauty of OsoBark's eloquence is sometimes lost in translation, but what he said was in . substance as follows: "Men of Jumar blood! Men of Galneor! Men of Talmooch! Hear ; what I have to say to you. For twenty y6ars we have bent our necks beneath the yoke of a foreign tyrant, who has filled our hearts with grief, and our once happy land with misery. Our women sing no more at their work, as they sang in the good days of our prosperity. It is maiiy years since the joy of hearing the laughter of a child has come to any of us. The hand of Hen-Ko-Hi has been laid upon ns heavily and sore. But it is time to rise. We have prayed for our deliverer ' to come. We nave prayed and watched : ?a."i ?uJiV liiiiii uur ucrti 10 ncio iuiuu mku uioappointment and our eyes were strained with watching. But he has come. He who is to deliver us from bondage lives even now among us. He is not of the Jumav blood alone. He is not of the Kalek blood alone. He is of all of us a part. He tells us that if we do his bidding, we shall be led from the darkness of this slavery into the dazzling light of freedom. His hand shall strike at Hen-Ko-Hi, and the shackles that bind us shall Jail to tlie ground. Hear, then, what our Oolek has to say to us." The silence at the close of this speech was proiounu. jNot a woru?not even a sigh broke the stillness. Every eye was turneil on me. I felt that iu that moment lay all my chances of success. I hesitated. I did not know whether to launch forth in eloquence, or whether, in their peculiar mood, it would net augment my power to be brief and austere. By a happy intuition I chose the latter. Placiug myself, clad in the gorgeous aniforin of Cua Fong, where all could Beo me, I said: "What Oso-Bark has said is true. I am come to free you from the tyrant's hand. But I must have a nation of workers?an army of soldiers. Every command must be obeyed. Every wish of mice must be to you a law. There is much to do, and the time to begin is now. You will listen to Garu-Saak, who will be my chief officer. He will now tell you what is before you." While I said this I kept my face stern and impassive. When I had finished I saw I had made the impression I hoped to make. At my nod Garn*Sank arose. His fierce eyi> swept over the throng as if he were feeling the temper of his audience. "Men," he begau, and his heavy, poverfn' *-oice filled the caverns > arouud, "are yon ready to follow the J great Oolek to victory? Will you longer be slaves? Will you wrest the fair island of Talmooch from ths tyrant, and say to your women, 'Here are your homes, free again?' Will yon make the women of Galneor; smile proudly on their warriors? j iinaseaI; F , ADVENTURE. || ' HOPKINS; - $3 j IEET BOSJTEB'B SOKS.) ^ Will you brave death, that you shall be free?" He paused. The leadership of n 0._1. ~~11 oa+nHUaVid TTfi ' unru*otui&. wus wen vgiMwuuuvu. ?.w knew the people; they knew their leader. A spasm swept over them. Their spirits were wrestling with the bonds of hopelessness that had so long held them. The revulsion was 1 coming. I saw it, and was delighted, j Oso-Bark saw it, and his eyes glistened, as ho leaned forward eagerly, , a3 if expecting something. Garu-Saak , saw it, and stood proudly waiting. (' Mr. Avery saw it, and hia thin lips quivered with emotion. . ( Finally a cheer like the roar of , thunder smote the air. The multi- ^ tude gave roar after roar. They stamped their feet. They threw their ' hats in the ah*. ? "We will be free!" "We are still men!" . "We know how to fight!" ? ^ These cries were taken up and carried, along by the united voices. I knew that I had struck my first blow, , and had won my first victory. Garu-Saak continued: * . "We must have arms. We cannot fight with our hands alone. We must 1 make guns. Here, in this channel, ? V. * 11 J J tHOBe 01 you WUO are bKlneu rnuou lead the way and show those who are . unskilled how to help you. Here we must build forges and workshops, and at night, when the tasks set by the tyrant are done, we must gather here ' and make the guns that shall set us free. I name you, Poko-Bains, - superintendent of the works. Tour . name is still known wherever the \ Jumar blade was used. When will you be ready to begin?" An aged man, whose brown face ] was seamed with wrinkles, stepped forward. "I am ready, now," he said. > 1 There was no more speaking. There could be none; I heard a ' woman shriek: "Gorgret, you shall yet be free." It was Hankannan, who ^ had come with Miss Arnold to listen. Thereupon the tumult beoame so ^ great as to be almost deafening. The ' Jumars shouted themselves hoarse. They embraced each other. Thay wept. They laughed. They danced. J I was glad when they dispersed, for they were beside themselves. ? > "That is a good night's work," I said, as Mr. Avery, -who was the last to leave, was going, "The deathknell of Hen-Eo-Hi has been sounded." "Crickmore, you have heard my last cavil. I believe in you now as firmly as do the Jumars. I believe you can do anything. Good night!" CHAPTER XIII. preparing for battle. 1 Oso-Bark was the proud possessor of a small lumpy beast that was honored in Talmooch with the name of horse. This animal, at the time I made the acquaintance of its owner, was engaged in the honorable duty of plowing the fields of Oso-Bark|f fertile farm. He was taken from that rustic pm^uit and was harnessed to a lumbering, rickety vehicle that Mr. ( Avery pronounced equal in all its at- ^ tributes to the historical "one-hoss ? Bhay." This vehicle had only two wheels, and the body of it was so liung that the weight of it was some- j times in front of the axle and some- { times behind it. Thus, at one time, < the -weight of the load was sustained by the patient horse, while at another j the weight of the horse was all that . prevented the vehicle from tipping j over backward. Behold me, then, with the reins of j this fascinating turnout in my hands, , furnished with a full supply of knickknacks, made by the Jumar women, ( jaunting around Galneor and into the country beyond, even into Bromporrah, pretending to sell " my wares to my kinsmen. In this way I was in constant communication with my fol lowers and fellow-slaves, without being suspected by the Chinese soldiers. But suspected or unsuspeced, I was not a favorite with the soldiers of Hen-Ko-Hi. I was insulted and abused on all sides. It was no unusual thing for a squad of these interesting rascals to rush at me in the street, upset my cart, throw my goods all over the ground, and then jab a sword into my horse and Bend him clattering away. At these times I had great difficulty in controlling my rage. I knew it would please my tormentors if I resented their actions, and give them an opportunity to take me before the governor for punish ment. ?>ut mat would ruin an my chances of obtaining freedom, and I 7 meekly bore their abuse, biding my 1 time for a sweeping revenge. I made the acquaintance of the J principal men of Galneor, and while I proudly exhibited my goods to the * women, I talked with and gave in- J structions to their husbands. Thus, ' while 'die wife of Poko-Bains was ? looking over my slock of laces (which 3 she had helped to make), that worthy 1 himself was telling me of the progress ] of the work that was laid out for him. And if a Chinese soldier stood sullenly ( looking at ns, he was not the wiser * for his pains, for to him and his kind ( I was but apoorJumar, seeking to earn my living without having recourse to the hard work in the mines. Even into the mines I went, ostensibly f to sell clothes to the miners, but i really to sow the seed of revolution f and to leanx more of my people and their country. { It was in the mines that I saw the greatest cruelties practiced. I saw men who were fainting from exhaustion prodded with the swords of the guard, until in despair the poor fellows would lie down and beg their i tormentors to kill them outright and rid them of their misery. Sometimes 1 this invitation pleased the Mongols 1 and they accepted it. I saw men, bleeding from the i wounds given by their heartless 1 masters, thrown cut on the mountain ( side to die. Often my indignation ? \ nearly overthrew my prudence, but I knew that interference would simply cost me my life, and I went stolidly about my business. In Bromporrah I first met the Kaleks "--i *1,? ?a race was uucc uiduu^i num wo Jumars.butnow closely allied by intermarriage for several generations. They were of still smaller physique than their kinsmen of Galneor, though resembling them in color and mental attributes. The two cities were about ten miles apart. A wide, smooth road led from Galneor to Bromporrah, and from there on to Quiental. This I found to be a continuation of the Street of the Invaders. The same Btyle of nomenclature prevailed at Bromporrah that I found in Galneor. The people of Bromporrah were, if possible, more dispirited than the Jumars. They had had the honor of iol on A fVia liiaf. vn liner giTiWg D family, all the members of which had been killed by Hen-Ko-Hi. I was received everywhere among them with a confidence that amazed me. No one questioned my authority or doubted the success of my plans. I was joggiug along one of the principal streets one day, and stopped before a comfortable-looking house in the best part of Bromporrah. In the garden was a woman planting corn. I took a tray of handkerchiefs from the cart and went to her. "How are ycu, good woman?" I asked. "Good woman" is the nearest translation of the word "madam" in Jumarese. She eyed me a moment and then said: "I am as well as a Kalek woman can be with the bruise of a Mantchoo | thrust in her heart." "Alas!" I said. "And have yon snfFered, too?" "Yes," she replied bitterly. "I have been so deep in sorrow that even death I svould seem welcome. See you this?" She showed me a mound in the ooruer of the garden. It was covered with fragrant and beautiful flowers. "It is a grave," I said. "It is the grave of my heart. There lies the child of myself and BadoRor." I had heard of Bado-Ror. Mr. Avery bad ^old me he was the chief man of Bromporrah. "And your worthy husband?is he it work? I trust he is well." "Bado-Ror is well," said said; "he is within." "Take me to him," I said. "I want to speak to him." "And who of the Jumars shall I say to him is here? Are voji a messenger trom Garu-Saak or the Oolek?" "I am the Oolek," I replied. OV- 1 ,T mo. QlltJ UUWCU 1U VT auu L/OUU iUO 1V11V TV tier. I expected to see in Bado-Ror a aoble-looking man each as were the chiefs of the Jumars. Imagine my surprise when I was nahered into the presence of a wizened little old fellow it least a foot or more shorter than myself. When we entered the room he seemed to be very busy. He paid us scant ittention. There were pots and jare scattered about. A hot fire glowed in i little stove. He was working with ihemicals of some sort. The expression on his face was fierce and rapt, ffe was thinking only of hi3 work, but ie had become so fierce from constant ;hinking of his wrongs, that his face lever lost its tigerish ferocity. "You are Bado-Ror," I said when I yent in. He looked np and nodded.: "This is the Oolek," said his wife. "I knew it," was all he said. I waited in silence, amused at this sool reception. The situation was one ;hat might, if prolonged, become iwkward. Suddenly his eyes gleamed. "Ah! I have it!" he exclaimed. He put down a jar in which he had seen shaking some kind of a mixture, ind motioned for his wife to leave us. 3he bowed and departed. Plunging hi6 hand into the jar he ' leld out toward me a handful of white powder. He did not speak, but divinug his wishes, I examined it. Placing | i small pinch cf it on a stone, he struck t a sharp, quick blow. An explosion ;vas the result. "And what is that, Bado-Ror?" I isked. His grizzled face twisted itself into i knowing smile. [to be continued. 1 Just How It Happened. What is probably one of the moat emarkable accidents on record is jack of the suit of William Henderson against tbe city for S15,000 damiges, which is ou trial in Judge jates's court. Last summer Fred. Erickson was wiping the pistonrod of )ne of the big engines at the Turkey 3reek pumping Btation of the citj vater works. His hand was caught bj ;he driving wheel and his arm torn )ff. Assistant Police Surgeon Pierce vas at once summoned and after he lad hastily dressed the wounded arm nquired into the cause of the accilent. William Henderson, a young man vho helped about the engines, stepped ip to the pistonrod and said: "I'll show you just how it hap? Dened." He started to give a practical illus' ;ration of tbe exact manner in which ;he accident occurred when his own land was caught in the self-same waj md his arm torn off. Both maimed nen were put in the same ambulance .v>/1 tol-oi 4-rt +V)q lirtcnifal Oil thfl ivay, according to the testimony o; j Dr. Pierce yesterday, they tried to :onsolo each other and remarked on he strange manner of the double ac:ident.?Kansas City Journal. Did Good For Once. He knocked at the back door of a i suburban house and the cook opened ! t. He was a sinister-looking fellow, ind the cook held on to the door. "Lady of the house?" he inquired, jruffiy. ".No," trembled tne cook. "Master of the house here?" "No." "None of the people in?" "None but me," and she tried to '.hut the door. "Aw, comc off," he growled, setting lis foot against it; "I'll come in and lave a pood feed. Let go that door." She let go the door, and the tramp Tent in and fell into the arms of a jurly policeman who was courting the >ook contrary to orders.?Boston Journal. DP, TALM AGE'S SERMON SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTEC DIVINE. Subject: The Gospel's Triumph?Vlctortei of the Christian Religion DepictedTransformation* Wrought by Christ* Teachings?Drunkards Reclaimed. [Copyright, Louis KiopBCli, 18Z9.J Washington, D. C.?The antagonists o the Christian religion are in this sermon o Dr. Talmage met in a very unusual way and the triumphs of the Gospel are depict ed. The text is Ezekiel xxi., 21, "He mad his arrows bright, he consulted with lm uges, he looked in the liver." Two modos of divination by which thi king of Babylon proposed to find out th will of God. He took a bundle of arrows put them together, mixed them up, thei pulled forth one, and by the inscription oi it decided what city he should first as sault. Then an animal was slain, and b the lighter or darker color of the liver th brighter or darker prospect of success wa Inferred. That is the meaning of the texi "He made his arrows bright, he consultei with Images, he looked in the liver." Stupii delusion! And yet all the ages have bee: filled with delusions. It seems as if th world loves to be hoodwinked, thedelusio: of the text only aspecimen of a vast numbe of deceits practiced upon the bumnn rac? In the latter part of the last century Jc hanna Southcote came forth pretending t have divine power, made prophecies, ha chupels built in her bunor, and 100,000 dls ciples came forward to follow her. Abou five years Defore the birth of Christ Apo) lonius was born, and he came forth, an after five years being speechless, accordini tn thn tradition, he healed the sick, ani raised tbe dead, and preached virtue, and nccordiDg to the myth, Laving deceased was brought to resurrection. The Delphic oracle deceived vast multl tudes of people; tlie Pythoness seated ii the temple of Apollo uttering a crazy jar gon from which the people guessed thei individual or national fortunes or mlsfoi fortunes. The utterances were of such i nature that you could read them any wa; you wanted to read them. But there are those who say that allthe3 delusions combined are as nothing com pared with the delusion now abroad in th world?the delusion of the Christian relig ion. That delusion has to-day 400,000,00( dupes. It proposes to encircle the eartl with its girdle. That which has been callei a delusion has already overshadowed thi Appalachian range on this side of the sea and it has overshadowed the Balkan am Caucasian ranges on the other side of th sea. It has conquered England and th< United States. This champion delusion this hoax, this swindle of the ages, as i has been called, has gjne forth to conque the islands of tbe Pacific, and Melanesii and Micronesia and Malayan Polynesia have already surrendered to the delusion Yea, it has conquered tne Indian arani pelago, and Borneo and Sumatra and Cel ebes and Java have fallen under its wiles In the Fiji Islands, where there are 120,OOi people. 102,000 have already become th< dupes of this Christian religion, and i things go on as they are now going on an< if the influence of this great ballucinatioi of tho ages cannot be stopped it will swal low the globe. Supposing, then, tha Christianity Is the delusion of the cen turies, as some have pronounced it, I pro pose to show you what has been accom plishert by this chimera, this fallacy, thii hoax, this swindle of the ages. And, in the first place, I remark that thii delusion of the Christian religion has made wonderful transformations of human character. I will go down the aisle of ftni church in Christendom, and I will find 01 either side that aisle those who were onc< n.AflUata nvrtfana nnftlflnn nf onoonh nnr unclean of action, drunken and lost. Bu by tbe power of this delusion of the Cbrls tain religion they have been comjleteli transformed, and now they are kind an< amiable and loving and?useful. Everybody sees tbe change. Under tbe power of thli great hallucination they have quit thel; former associates, and, whereiis they one* found tbelr chief delight among those wh< gambled and swore aud raced horses, no? they find their chief joy among those wh< go to prayer meetings and churches, s< complete Is tbe delusion. Yea, their owi families have noticed It?tbe wife has no ticed It, the children have noticed it. The money that went for rum now goes foj books and for clothes and for education He is a new man. All who know him saj there has been a wonderful change What is tbe cause of this change? This great hallucination of the Christian rollg ion. There Is as much difference betweer what he Is now and what he once was a< between a rose and a nettlo, as between t dove.and u vulture, as between day ani night. Tremendous delusion! Admiral Farragut, one of the most ad mired men of the American nnvy, early be came a victim of this Christian delusion aDd, seated not loDg before Ills death al Long Branch, be was giving some friend! an account of hl9 early life. He said "3Iy father went down In behalf of tn< United States Government to put an ent to Aaron Eurr's rebellion. I was a cabin boy and went along with him. I could swear like an old salt. I could gambla It every style of gambling. I knew oil tin wickedness there was at that tim< aboard. One day my father cleared every body out of the cabin except myself and locked the door. Ho said: 'David, whal are you going to do? What are you going to be?' 'Well,' I said, 'father, I am golnj to follow the sea.' 'Follow the &?a aud b< a poor, miserable, drunken saiior, kickec. and cuffed about the world, and did of ti fever In a foreign hospital.' 'Oh, no!' ] said. 'Father, I will not be that; I wil tread the quarter deck r ' >mmaad ai you do.' 'No, David,' ather said 'no, David, a person that h ,-our prin ciples and your bad habits will nevei tread the ciuarter deck or command.' M3 father wont out and shut the door aftol blra, and I said then, 'I will change, I will never swear again, I will never drlnl again, I will never gamble again,' and gentlemen, by tbe help of God, I bav< kept those tbree vows to this time. I soor after that became n Christian, and thai decided my fate for time and for eternity. Another captive of this great Christian delusion. There goes Saul of Tarsus 01 horseback at full gallop. Where is be go ing? To destroy Christians. He wants n< better play spell than to stand and watcl the hats and coats of tbe murderers tIh are massacring God's children. T) er< goes the same man. This time he is afoot Where is be going now? Going on the roa< to Ostia to die for Christ. They tried t< whip it out of him, they tried to scare i out of him, they thought they would giv< him enough of it by putting him on smal diet, and denying him a cloak, and con J k.'nt An r> /i.l.ntnnl Otwl hnmllnfV fll UL'IDUIUK uirn n? it tiiiuiuai, uuvt uv.i...? ... him through the streets; but they couh not freeze it out of him, and they could noi sweat it out of him, nnd they could noi pound it out of him, so they tried tbo sur fjery of the sword, and one summer d?y ii GG ho was decapitated. ?s;Perhaps the migbti est intellect of theCOOO years of the world'.' existence hoodwinkeJ, cheated, cajoled duped by the Christian religion. An, that is the remarkable thing aboul this delusion of Christianity! Itoverpow era the strongest intellects. Gather the criticp, s<C5iilar and religious, of this cen tury together and put u vote to them as tc which is t'ue greatest book ever written and by 1/irge majority tliey will say "Paradise Lest." Who wrote "Paradise Lost?" One of the fools who believed in this Bible, John Miltou. Benjamin Frarik lin surrendered to this delusion, if you maj judge from the letter that he wrote t< Thomns Paine begging him to destroy "Th< Ago of Reason" iu manuscript and neve] let it go into type, and writing afterward in his old days, "Of this Jesus of Nazaretl I have to say that the system of moral! Ho left and the religion He has given u? are the best things the world has everseet or is likely to seo." Patrick Henry, th< electric champion of liberty, enslaved bj this delusion, so that he ?ays, "The booi worth all other hooks put together is the Bible." Benjamin llusli, the leading phvsi olopist and anatomist of his day, the greal medical scientist?what did he say? "Th< only true and perfect religion is Christian' itv." Isaac Newton, the leading philoso< pher Qf his time?what did ho say' Timt man surrendering to this deliv sion of Christian religion, cryinf out "Tlio subliruest philosophy or earth is tho philosophy of tho Gospel.' David Brewster, at the pronunciation ol whoso name every scientist the world ovei uncovers his head, David Brewster saving "Oh, this religion lias been a great light tc me, a very great light all my days!" President Thiers, tho great French statesman acknowledging that he prayed when 1* said, "I invoke tho Lord Goi, in whom ] am glad to believe." David Livingstone . . * A-. '' -r^'" ablo'to conquer the lion, able to conquei the panther, able to conquer the savage, yet conquered by this delusion, this liallucl> nation, this great swindle of the ages, so when they fled him dead they And him on his knees. William E. Gladstone, the strongest Intellect in England, unable to , resist thle chimera, tnis fallacy, this delusion of the Christian religion, went to " the house of God every Sabbath and often, at the invitation of the rector, read the prayers to the people. If those mighty intellects are overborne by this delusion, f what chanco is there for you and for me? } Besides that, I have noticed that first rate infidels cannot be depended on tot steadfastness in the proclamation of their e sentiments. Goethe, a leading skeptic, . was so wrought upon by this Christianity that in a weak moment he cried out, "My 9 belief in the Bible has saved me in my lite erary and moral life." Rousseau, one of the most eloquent champions of Infidelity, i spending his whole life warring against ! Christianity, cries out, "The majesty of i- the 8criptures amnzes mo." Altemont, y tue notorious lnnaei, one wouia minx ra e would have been snfe agalust the delusion B of the Christian religion. Oh, not After :t talking against ChristianiZy all his days, ? in hiB last hours he cried out, "Oh, Thou a blasphemed but most Indulgent Lord God, a hell Itself is a refuge if it hide me from Tfiy e frownl" Voltaire, the most talented lnfldel u the world ever saw, writing 250.publicar tions, and the most of them spiteful against Christianity, himself the most notorious 1- libertine of the century?one would have 0 thought he could have been depended d upon for steadfastness in the advocacy oi 1. infidelity and in the war against this terrlt ble chimera, this delusion of the Gospel, j. But no; in his last hour he asks for d Christian burial, and asks that they g give him the sacrament of the Lord 1 Jesub Christ. Why, you cannot *det pend upon these first rate infidels; you l cannot depend upon their power to resist ' this great delusion of Christianity. Thomas . Paine, tho god of modern skeptics, his a birthday celebrated in JJew York and Bos.. ton with great enthusiasm?Thomas Paine, r the paragon of Bible haters?Thomas v Paine, about whom his brother infidel, i William Carver, wrote in a letter which 1 y have at my house, saying that he drank a quart of rum a day and was too mean and e too dishonest to pay for it?Thomas Paln<9, . the adored of modern infidelity?Thomas e Paine, who stole another man's wife in . England and brought her to this country ) ?Thomas Paine, who was so squalid and ti so loathsome and so drunken and so prof4 licate and so beastlv in his habits, some a times picked out of the ditch, sometimes ,, too filthy to be picked out?Thomas Paine, i one who would have thought that he e could have been depended ou for stead0 fastness against this great delusion. But no. In bis dying hour he begs the t LordCesus Christ for mercy. "Powerful r delusion, all conquering delusion, eartha quaking delusion of the Christian religion. 1 Yea, it goes oo. It Is so Impertinent, and . It is so overbearing, this chimera of the . Gospel, that, having conquered the great . picture galleries of the world, the old mas. ters and the young masters, it is not satis3 fled until it has conquered the music of the ) world. Look over the programme of any f magnificent musical festival nnd see what 1 pre the great performances and learn that i the greatest of all the subjects are religious . subjects. t Deluded lawyers?Lord Cairns, the high. est legal authority in England, the ex-ud. visor of the throne, spending his vacation . in preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ to 3 the poor people of Scotland. Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, of New Jersey, once Secre3 tary of State, an old-fashioned Evangelical t Christian, an elder in the Reformed . Church. John Bright, a deluded Quaker. j Henry Wilson, the Vice-President of the i United States, dving a deluded Methodist j or Congregationalism Earl of Eintore dy1 lng a deluded Presbyterian. t Yes, this delusion of the Christian re. ligion shows Itself in the fact that it goes j to those who are in trouble. Now, it Is 1 bad enough to cheat a man when he is well f and when he is prosperous, but this re3 ligion comes to a man when he is sick and r says: "You will be well again after awhile, j You are going into a land where there are > no coughs, and no pleurisies, and no conj sumptions, and no languishing. Take j courage and bear up." Yea, this awful > chimera of the Gospel comes to the poor, i and it says to them, "You nre on your . way to vast estates and to dividends al> ways declarable." This delusion of Chrlsr tlanlty comes to the bereft, and it talks of , reunion before the throne and of the cessa tion of all sorrow. And then, to show that , this delusion will stop at absolutely nothi Ing, it goes to the dying bed and fills the . man with anticipations. How much better i it would be to have him die without any i more hope than swine and rats and snakesl i Shovel him under! That is all. Nothing 1 more left of him. He will never knowany? thing again. Shovel him unaerl The soul . is only a superior part of tho body, and . when the body disintegrates the soul dist Integrates Annihilation, vacancy, evert lastiug blank, obliteration. Why not presi ent all that beautiful doctrine to the dying : instead of coming with this hoax, this 3 swindle of the Christian religion, and 11111 ing the dying man with anticipations of L another life until some in the last hour I have clapped their hands, and some have i shouted, and some have sung, and some 3 have been so overwrought with joy that 3 they could only look ecstatic? Palace . gates opening, they thought?diamond | coronets flasning, hands beckoning, ort chestrns sounding. Little chi'dren dying > actually believing they saw their departed c parents, so that although the little chll3 dren hud been so weak and feeble aud sick I for weeks they could not turn on their dyi ing pillow at the last, in a paroxysm of [ rapture uncontrollable they sprang to their 1 feet and shouted, "Mother, catch me; I j am coming." ; And to show the immensity of this delu. sion, this awful swindle of the Gospel of : Jesus Christ, I open a hospital, and I bring j into that hospital the deathbeds of n groat r many Christian people, and 'I take you by I the band, and I walk up and down the : wards of that hospital, ana I ask a few , questions. I ask, "Dying Stephen, what ) IlilYU )UU LU aa..y f JJU1U, awwiio i i my spirit." "Dying John Wesley, wbat I t have you to say?" "The best of all is God is ' with us." "Dying Edward Payson, what have you to say?" "I float In a sen of i glory." "Dying John Eradford, what havo . you to say?" "If there be uny way of go) lng to heaven on horseback, or in a fiery i chariot, It Is tlilo." "Dying Neandor, what > have you to say?" "In am point* to sleep 3 now. Good ni^ht." "Dying Mrs. Flor. ence Foster, what have you to say?" "A I pilgrim in the valley, but the mountain > tops are all ngleam from peak to penk." t 0 my Lord, my God. what a delusiOD, ) what a glorious delusion! Submerge me I with it, 1111 my eyes and ears with it, put it - under my head for a pillow?this delusion t spread it over me for a canopy, put it un1 uerneath me for au outspread wing, roll it c over me in ocean surges 10,000 fathoms t deep. If infidelity, and if atheism, and if - annihilation are a reality and the Chrisi tian religion is a delusion, give me the de lusion. 3 Well, we will soon understand it all. , Your life and mine will soon bo over. We will como to the last bar of the music, to ; the last act of the tragedy, to the last pnije . of the book?yea, to the last line and to the last word?and to you and me it will either be mldnoon or midnight! QUEER PROVISION IN A WILL. Sidney Hall Leave* Money to Combat Doctrine of Soul'* Immortality. By the will of the late Sidney Hall, of Hartford, Conn., the bulk of his estate is bequeathed to the Advent Christian Publication Society of Boston, with instructions to use the same for the propagation of the doctrine of the soul's mortality. Thfc will has just been filed for probate, and the estate is inventoried nt 511,120. Of this amount ?10,000 is left in tr 'St to the soc ety mentioned, ?200 to Mrs. Elizabeth Strickland, the sister of the testator; ' ?100 to his nephew, Frederick Yale; i.'lOO to Mrs. Yale, aud ?100 to Mrs. John \V. Gil- ! > bert. The wiil also cxpre-sly commanded . that net more than *40 be expended for the t testator's funeral expenses. In making bis j will Mr. Hall wrote: "I charge them with the duty of em- j . ploying the legacy according to their wis> dom and judgment, chiefly by publica- j . tions, in counteracting, as far as may be, j ; that greatest of pagau d luslons, ami upon ' i which Is founded all the great system of ; ' error nnd iuperstitiou in the world?namef i [ lv, the unscriptura!, uureasonablo and j r pernicious doctrine of the immortality of , , the soul." > Charles W. Woodman, of Boston, and W. I . J. Tierce, of Hartfor 1, are appointed ex- j , ecutors of the trust without bond. The I i instrument is dated March 23, 1SDH. Tho i [ deceased had been prominent for many j . i yeura nmoiij: the Christian Advening. .. THE SABBATH SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR AUCUST 27. Subject: Returning: From Captivity. Ezra ]., 1-11?Golden Text: "The Lord Hath Done Great Thing* For U?, "Whereof We Are Glad," Pat*. 120:3? Comment! iNTBODuenojf. ? "Ezra was a Jewish scribe, a Levite and a descendant of Aaron and of that high priest, Hilktah, who found tbe Book of Law in tbe temple, in the days of Josiab. He was born B. C. 496. H? lived In Babylon during tbo reign ol Artaxerxes Longlmanus; fcnd nearly eighty years after the return of Zerubbabel, described in this lesson, brought to Jerusalem another company of returned axiles. He was the author of the Book of Ezra, though the events described in the Qrst six chapters took place many years before his time. He died between B, C. 420 and B. C. 410." 1. "In the first vear of Cvras." That Is. his first year as sole king at Babylon. He was king, twenty years before this, of Elam and gradually extended bis empire over the Persians and Medes, Babylonians ind Chaldeans. For two years after the capture of Baoylon (B. C. 538) Darius was ting of Babylon under Cyrus. Now (B. C. 536) Cyrus reigned at Babylon, and this was his first year of direct sovereignty over the Jews. "Word of the Lord." (See Ter. 25:12; 29:10"). The promise that after jeventy years no would bring his peoplo ijrain to Palestine. "The Lord stirred up :he spirit of Cyrus." There is good reason :o accept the Jewish tradition according to fosephus, that Daniel, occupying a high Dosition in the court of Cyrus, brought to bis attention the prophecies of Isaiah, which name Cyrus as God's servant (Isa. U:26-28; 45:1-4), and perhaps, also the prophecies of Jeremiah, showing that God and for this purposo given Babylon Into the hands of Cyrus. "Made a proclamation (see chapter 6) in writing." To preserve it on the rocords, to prevent any mistake or reversal which might occur. 2. "God of heaven hath given me." Henco the Controller of all men and affairs. "God of heaven" seems to have been a usual iitle of the Supreme BeiDg amone the Persians. At this time the Medo-Persian empire was very extensive, extending on the east to the Red Sea, on the north to the Black Sea, on the west to the island of Cyprus and Egypt, and on the south to Ethiopia. "Hath charged me to build Him m house." Cyrus probably accepted the prophecy of Isaiah as a charge to build the temple." The existence of predictions in which, two hundred years before he was born, his victorious career and the important services he should render to the Jews were foretold, led him to acknowledge (hat nil his kingdoms were Rifts bestowed an him by "the Lord God of heaven," and prompted him to falflU the duty which bad Deen laid upon him long before his birth. This was the source and origin of the great favor be showed to the. Jews. 3. "Who is there among you." The return was to bo a volunteer movement, which in all respects was the best both for the purpose of oyras and for the new Jewish settlement. "His God be with him." &. pious wish, indicating the deep religious feeling and goodness of heart which char* aeterized Cyrus alone of Persian monarchs. He ruled his subjects like a futher. No nobler character appears in ancient history. 4. "Whosover remainetb." Some persons af true and eminent piety were so situated that they did not deem it their duty to go, is Daniel in the court of Cyrus; others hindered by old age. Many more returned than we read of being carried away captive. "Let the men help him." Let the heathen population help him. "Free will offering." Probably that made by Cyrus himself. 5. "Chief of the fathers." Venerable nen, heads of families, some of whom bad 3een the first temple. "Judah and Benjamin." Theso tribes, last exiled, were the 3rst to return. "Priests Levites." Without these the temple services could lot be properly administered, nor the sacrifices daily offered. 7. "Vessels... which Nebuchadnezzar had Drought." The most precious of all their property.?Gray. 8ome of these vessels bad been profaned by Belshazzar on that sight when Babylon was taken and Bel3bazz:?r slain. "Sheshbazzar" (9re-worOUnl Jaa a* n n T? o nrt A A 9 suiterliic i/uaiucu kj4 x Cioiuu uuuiu vi Zerubbabel, givenhim at court as other aames were given to Daniel andfhis friends -son of 8bealtlel and descendant of David. Born in Babylon and named by his friends Zerubbnbel (exile , in Babylon). He was recognized as hereditary Prince of Judah; was leader of this first company of exiles, and director of tbe rebuilding of the temple. In the history of tho restoration of tho Jews to their own country, the names 5f three Jewish leaders ana of three Porslans are prominent. The first Jewish leader was Zeru'sbabel, who left Babylon under this proclamation .of Cyrus, JB. C. &36, seventy years after the first captivity. After an interv.il of about twenty years he was enabled to complete the rebuilding of the temple, in the reign of Darius Hystaspes, seventy yenrs after tbe destruction of the temple. The second Jewish leader was Ezra, who went up from Babylon about eighty years after Zerubbabel, in tho seventh year of Artaxerxes Longimanus. He labored chiefly to restore , the institutions of Moses. The third Jewish leader was Nehemlab, -who went up from Susa, oz Shusban, in the twentieth year of the same Artaxerxes. He rebuilt tne wall and set up tho gates of Jerusalem ?nd promoted many reforms. 8. "By the hand of MIthredath:' (given by, or dedicated to Mitbra, tbe sun-god). He had those treasures In his charge. "Sheshbazznr" (fire-wor3biper). The Persian name of Zerubbabel ("Born in Babylon"). In 5:16, wo read that Sheshbazzar laid the foundation of the temple, while in 3:8. the same work is ascribed to Zerubbabel. 11. "All tho vessels....were live thousand and four hundred." This is more than double the sum of the preceding number? 2499. It is probablo that only th? larger or more costly vessels were numbered in detail, and tho 54U0 includes a great number of smaller and less costly ones. So they are reckoned by Josephus. Teachings.?God's evo is upon His people, though they be in "affliction. All tneli afflictions are blessings in disguise. Whet the work of affliction is done God sends deliverance. God's promises never fall All thinss are under His control. Ho wil move hearts to carry out His purposes The day is coming when He will take aL His precious treasures out of Satan's reach When He shall declare the day, all His peo pie will go forth from this fempor^evhod* to their Oral home. DISCOVERIES 'IN ALASKA. Scientist* Have Found a Large Bay and Several Glacier*. The party of scientist who went to Alaska as guests of E. H. Harrimnn, of New York, Hre meeting with unqualified success. They made several important discoveries. Among these is au immense bay extending inland over twenty miles. At the upper end of the bay they have discovered a great glacier. This bay was uamed Unknown Bay. Four other new glaciers which have never before been seen by the white men were found at the liead of Disenchantment Bay. In Icy Bay, opposite Carroll's glacier, an immense glacier, three-quarters of a mile in width was discovered and named Harritnaa's glacier. In the >>ay where the Grand l'aaillc glacier is located observation were taken which show that its ice wall has receded three miles since Muir nud Heed visited the loca'ity ami estab JisUua tneir survey twenty years a?o. WOMAN'S PLUCK SAVcS A TRAIN. She Give* Warninc of 11 liurnlns; Trestle Attired la a Nightdress. The pluck and presence of mind of Mrs. Nellie Sullivan prevented it disastrous I tvr?4ck on the Chicago and Alton Railroad, i >Irs. Sullivan lives near the track north of j Pontine, III. She was alone when she awoke I f rly in the morning and noticed that the ] t;estle which spans a gully near her house ' was 011 lire. Knowing that the night fast < mail was about due, Mrs. Sullivan ran out < in her night-clothes, seized a biasing brand I from the lire and ran down the track in 1 time to stop the traiu. s Tho sudden slowing up of the train aroused the sleeping passengers, and bofore long they had learned the entire of it i * all nml ?-?rH Diliutr olT the train to thuok I their deliverer. But Mrs. Sallivaa had J hastened home to dress. jj '"'?;?! '/t*' / > ?? I GOD'S MESSAGE TO MAN. ' ORECNANT THOUCHTS FROM THE WORLD'S CREATEST PROPHETS. \ Tear After?Perils of Religion* For* , < malUm?Ebbs and Flow* of Expert* ence?Our Own Petty Foot-Kule?Th# Shepherd and Sheep. A year of silence hero ! No echo walteth To the loved voice so cheery in it? ring. We miss the accents blithe?the daily greet* _ ?ng- ? Our hands /all listless, and the hot tears spring. A. year of grief! whose long months, sorrow" laden. Have 9lowly crept their weary way along. Once more the birds sing and the flowera blossom, 1 " 1 1 * ? ? * Uaa/1 n uui wounaea nearcs nor ueauty uoou u?. song. Out of the day has faded so much brightness! Out of our lives has vanished so much joyl How can wo tread earth's paths amid such darkness? How in the Master's work weak hands employ ? 0 drooping hearts, look up! In heaven ? dear shelter t - ? Safe, happy, blest, abides your loved and lost. For you he waits, until when fall the . shadows. You too beyond the Border Land have crossed. Among the shining ones', with the pure- 'j hearted . J| Who serve their Lord and see Him face to face, Where earthly trials enter not, hedwelleth. Kept by his Father's love, in peace and grace. And though ye crave a moment of clear .' vision, A little longer yet He bids you "wait!" 80 may our Lord His patience grant, till, conquerors O'er death, ye enter through the heavenly gate: . ' ,7$ ?Anna R. Moffat, in N. Y. Evangelist. ? s Perils of Religious Formalism. Formalism is opposed to naturalness. Y?( there are certain people to whom formalism is almost a second nature. They live in / ruts from which they rarely emerge. They * ' arrange the details of their domestic life, their studies and their business with a minute attention to routine which,doubtiess, ' has its large value, but which necessarily cats them off from much of the variety and plttisure of life. It is not strange, therefore, -J that a great deal of formalism should ohar-' f. acterize their religious life. Nor is it strange that a degree of formalism should be a feature of almost every religious life, at any rate for a time. When the young convert enters upon the practice of piety, so to speak, when he sets apart a systematic time & for the study of the Bible, for prayer,for re- * J llglous worship and other distinctively >; Christian obligations and exercises, this is- ' / to make up. in a certain seose, a program ,jj for a considerable part of his life. It is natural and proper, also, that he should take pains to fulfill this program withregularity for a long time and, as a consequence, formality becomes a conspicuous feature of his religious experl- v , ence. and little by little, it assumes an undue Importance. As the first blush of bis new spiritual enthusiasm fades, the importance of fidelity to his routine of life ea? larges itself before his mind and the form is not unlikely to take precedence of the 19 spirit. This is one of his temptations and a $ part of his discipline. Sooner or later most of us awake to it and doubtless correct it; but it always is a temptation and to many a * permanent hindrance. <* Ebbs and Flows of Experience. Why is not the course of my spiritual life ' even and progressive? This question hag burdened many a spul, especially during the early years after conversion. At first it > seemed as if spiritual progress must be unbroken, constant and peaceful. But soon It 'i became evident that this is not the fact. Days of enthusiasm were succeeded by days of comparative indifference. Intense loy- * alty, which had endured for a time, was > followed by a period of more or less voluntary yielding to temptation, tfjj which, so far from having lost Its power,' sometimes appeared to have ' increased It. Depression of spirits followed, . accompanied by doubts whether conversion i had been genuine. This often has been a < serious hindrance, but too much should not. be made of such obstacles to progress. They are entirely natural, although, of course, ^ they are lamentable. In one sense converslon is emancipation fnm the law of sin, '3 because it imparts a holy purpose to the heart, loosens the power of evil, assures us. V \ of forgiveness, and affords spiritual health and encouragement. But in another sense I* wmflnninfttA liq from evil. It does 11/ UVV V lw xuvv?? ...? - _ , not tnke us beyond the reach of temptation. So long as temptation assails natures like ours, sometimes it will seem so alluring as tc overcome temporarily the strongest soul. - >''"J\ Onr Own Petty Foot-Ktile. It begets false ideas of spirituality and tempts to a slackening of zeal, a weaksnin^ ; of our spirit of consecration and holy parpose; and, moreover, it almost inevitably begets a certain measure of intolerance and a tendency to estimate the piety of others by the degree of their conformity to our ideas . . of what is right and proper in spiritual '' things. This is to misjudge them and to fetter ourselves. There Is nothing more absolutely hostile to the free, {: noble spirit of Christ than such a ^ disposition lO IllCttSUio iuo */ I others by the petty foot-rale of our owe notions of what is right for ourselves. W? <>. may be correct in our judgment concerning ourselves but we may ba mistaken evec ,7J about that. We ce t iinly have no right tc inflict our standards upon others, unless ' some evident departure on their part from loyalty to fundamental spiritual principles ' v is apparent. Religious formalism is apt tc ; be the excess of a virtue and grows out ol earnest fidelity to religions duty, but It la none the less one of the most offensive and mischievous of faults. Young Christians especially need to be on their guard against it. The Shepherd and Sheep. A friend of mine who lm i been iu eastern lands told me he saw a shepherd who wanted ; his llock to cross a river. He went into the ?. water himself and called them; but no, they would not folfow him into the water. What did he do? Why, he girded up his loins.and ^; lifted h little lamb under eacn arm, ano plunged right into the stream, and crossed it without even looking back. When he lifted the lambs the old sheep looked up into his face aud began to bleat for them; but when he plunged iato the water tho dams plunged after him. aud then the xvhsle Uocfc followed. When they got to the other side he put down the lambs, aud they were quickly joined by their mothers, and there j was a happy meeting. Our great divine Shepherd does this. Your child which He ^ las takea from the earth is but removed to ;he green pfistur^s of Canaan, aud the Shepjerd mentis to draw your heart after it, to r:each you to "set your affections on things above."?Moody. Tho way to broaden love is to deepen it. tJesus loved his disciples more, not less.be- , muse of the inner circle of the four and his special joy in the companionship of John, selfish love i* shallow, but not wide. Ag aur affection breaks through to perfect love of God it will break forth in purer and more , fervent love to all God's creatures. Aa anselfish friendship > ? the best earthly mirrsr of God's love. 3 Urldegroom, 102; Bride, 93. West Virginia comes to the front with the marriage of probably tho oldest couple [>n record. In the county of Barbour, a few days ago. a marriage license was issued to J. R. Shoemaker, aged 102, and * Mrs. Ircue Poling, aged nlnetv-flve vears. rhe ceremony was performed at the home :>f the bride. The bridegroom leaned on a ?ane during the ceremony, anu the bride aid her pipo down on the window while :he words were said. The couple were sweethearts seventy-flve years ago. sixteenth Child; Fa.ther, 8G; Mother, 4S. A sixteenth child was born a few days iKO to Mrs. Walter Ellis, of Anderson, Ind. rhe lather i? eighty-sis years o? age and ;he mother fortv-flvo. . .. . - : , A. ji