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Dr. Talmage Shews How Earthly Trial Comes lieforo Ecavcnly Satisfaction? A Sermcn Appropriate to Individual and National Circumstances. Washington, Sept. 27.?From a neglectcd text and ono to mos( pecplo cn I known Dev. Dr. Taimage this morning k produces u sermon appropriate to indite1 vidnal and national circumstances. The subject was ''Gates of Carbuncle," tho m text being Isaiah liv, 12, "And I will V make thy windows of agates and thy * gates cf carbuncles." Perhaps because a human disease of most painful and oft times fatal character is named after it tho church and the world have never done justice to that intense and all suggestive precious stone, the carbuncle. The pearl that Christ picked up to illustrate his sermon, and the jasper and the sapphire and tho amethyst which the apocalyptic vision masoned into tho wall of heaven bavo had proper recognition, but this, in all tho ages, is the first sermon on the carbuncle. This precious stone is found in the East Indies, in eoler is an intense scarlet, and held up between your eye and tho sun it is a burning coal. The poet puts it into rhythm as ho writes: Liko to tho burning ccal whence comes its name. Among the Grechc as Anthrax known to fame. God sets it high up in Bible crystallography. He cuts it with a divine chisel, shapes it with a precise geometry and kindles its fire into an almost supernatural flame of beauty. Its law of symmetry, its law of zones, its law cf parallelism, something to excite the amazement cf the scientist, chime the cantos of tho pcet and arouse the adoration of tho Christian. No one but the infinite God could fashion a carlnucle as large as your thumb nail, and as if to make all ages appreciate this precious stone he ordered it set in the first row of the high priest's breastplate in olden time and higher up than the onyx and the emerald and tbo diamond, and in Ezekiel's prophecies concerning the splendors cf tbo Tyrian court the carbuncle is mentioned, the brilliancies cf the walls and cf the tesselated floors suggested by the Bible sentence, "Thou hast walked up and down in the midst * of the stones cf fire." Bat in luy text it is not a solitary specimen that I band you, as tbo keeper of a museum might take down frcm tho shelf a precious stone and allow yon to examine it, ncr is it tho panel of a door that you might stand and study for its unique carvings or bronzed traceries, but there i3 a whole gate cf it lifted beforo our admiring <*?>/* jvstnended vision; aye, two gates cf it; aye, many gates cf if, "I will make tby gates of carbuncles." What gates: Gates cf tfco church. Gates of arything worth possessing. Gates of successful enterprise. Gatesof salvation. Gates cf national achievement. Isaiah, who wroto this text, wrote also all that about Christ "asthclambto the slaughter, " and spoke of Christ as saving, "I have trod tho winepress olene," and wrote, "Who is this that ccrneth from Edozu, with dyed garments from Bczrab?" And do yon think that Isaiah in my text merely happened to represent the gates as red gates, us carmine gates, as gates of carbuncle? No. Ee means that it is through atonement, through blood red struggle, tbrcugn agonies, we get into anything worth getting into. Heaven's gates may well bo made of pearl, a bright, pellucid, cheerful crystallisation, tecsuso all the struggles aro over and there is beyond those gates nothing but raptures and cantata and triumphal .precession and everlasting holiday and hiss of reunion, and so the 12 gates urc 10 pearls and could be nothing elso than pearls. Eut Christ hoisted the gates of pardon in his own blood, cud the maris of eight fingers and two thumbs arc on each gate, and us Lo lifted tho gate it leaned ng&'nst jjis fore-head and tcck from it a crimson Jsjprcsr, and all those gates arc deeply dyed, and Isaiah was right when ho cpofctj cf those gates as gates cf garbum cle. &%?iritff For Others. What an odd thing it is, think some, this idcaof vicarious suffering or suffering for others. Kot at all. The world has eceu vicarious suffering millions cf times before Christ came und demonstrated it en a scale that eclipsed all I, i hat \7ei7c before mui~~aT] That shall come j after. Rachel lived only long enough | after the birth cf her sou to give him a j name. In faint whisper she said, "Call i biin Een-oni," which means "son of j my pain," and all modern travelers on j tho road from Jerusalem to Bethel un- | cover their heads and stand reverently ! at tho%tomb of Rachel who died for her j boy. But in all ages how many mothers j die for their children, and in many cases grown up children, Who by recreancy stab clear through the mother's ! heait. Suffering for others? Why, the world is frill cf it "Jump!" said the j engineer to the fireman on the Jeeomo- j tive. "One cf us is enough to die. Jump!" And so the engineer died at his pest, trying 1o savo the train. When this summer the two trains crashed into each other near Atlantic City, among the 47 who lost their lives the engineer was found dead with one hand on the throttle cf the locomotive end the other on tho brake. Ayr, there are hundreds here today suffering for others. You know and God kncw3 that it is vicarious sacrifice. But on one limestone hill about twice the height of this church, five minutes' walk from the gates of Jerusalem, was tho sublimest case of suffering for others that tho world ever saw cr ever will eeo. Christ the victim, human and satanic malevolence the executioner, the whole human race having an overwhelming interest in the spectacle. To open a way for us sinful men and sinful women into glorious pardon and high hope and eternal exaltation, Christ, with hand dripping with the rush of opened arteries, swung back the gate, and behold! it is a red gate, a gate of deepest hue, a gate cf carbuncle. What is true in spirituals is true in temporals. There are young men and older men who hope, through the right settlement cf this acrid controversy between silver and gold, cr the bimetallic quarrel, that it will become easy to make a living. That time will never come. It never has been easy to make a living. The men who have it very easy now went through hardships and self denials to which most young men would never consent. Unless they got it by inheritance you cannot mention 20 men who have como to honorable fortune that did not fight their way inch by **r,/lno fhef I XX1UU ttJuU iCUilUi WiUO | and again almost destroyed them. For some good reason God has arranged it for all the centuries that the only way for most people to get a livelihood for themselves and their families is with both hands- and ail the allied forces cf body, mind and sonl to push back and push open the red gate, the gate of carbuncle. For the benefit of all young men, if I had the time, I would call the rell of these who overcame obstacle. How many of tho mighty men who went cue way on Pennsylvania avenue i and reached tho United States senate or I walked the other way on Pennsylvania | avenue and reached the White House | did not have to climb over political cblcj quy? Net one. How much scorn and ! scoff and brutal attack did Horace Mann I endure between the time-when he Cist j j began to fight for a belter common j j school system in Massachusetts and the j j day when a statue in hcuor cf him was i placed cn the steps of the statehouse overlooking the Commons? Read the biography of Robert Hall, j the Baptist preacher, who, though he had been pronounced a dunce at school, lived to thrill the woild with his Christian eloquence, and cf George Peabcdy, who never owned a carriago and denied himself all luxuries that he might while living aud after death, through l?e<- will ciwl testament, devote his un counted millions to the education of the poor people in England and America, and of Bishop Janes, who in boyhood worked his passage from Ireland to America and became the joy of Methodism and a blessing to the race. Go to the biographical alcove in city, state or national library and hud at least eveiy other book an illustration of overcome ; obstacle and of carmine gate that hud to ] be forced open. Living Gates. What is true of individuals is true cf | nations. Was it a mild spring morning when the pilgrim fathers landed cn i Plymouth rock and did they come in a ! gilded yacht, gay streamers flying? Eo. It was in cold December, and from a 6hip in which one would not want to cross the Hudson or the Potomac river. Scalping knives all ready to receive them, they landed, their only welcome the Indian warwhoep. Red men on the beach. Red men in the forest. Red men 011 the mountains. Red men in the valleys. Living gates cf red men. Gates cf carbuncle. Aboriginal hostility pushed back, surely now oar fort fathers will havo nothing to do but to take easy possession of the fairest continent under tlio sun. The skies so genial, the soil so fertile, the rivers so populous with finny life, the acreage bo immense, there will be nothing to do but cat, drink and bo merry. No. The mc^t powerful nation, by army and navy, sounded its protest across 3,000 miles of water. Then came Lexington, and Bunker Hill, and Menmouth, and Long Island battles, and Valley Forge, and Voiktowu, and starvation, and widowhood, and orphanage, and the 18 colonies went through sufferings which tlio historian has attempted to put upon paper and the artist to put upcu canvas, but all in vain. Engraver's knife, and reporter's skill, and telegraphic wire, and daily press, which have inuco us acquainted with the horrors of modern battlefield, had not yet begun their vigilance, and the story of the American Revolution has never been told and never will Le told. It did not take much ink to sign the Declaration of InUcpeuflcuce, Out n tcck a utihu; amount cf blocil to maintain it. 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Men and women who vividly rcmcmLcr 1861, and 1862, and 1868, and 1864, bo yourselves the historians, telling it, net with pen, but with living tongue and voice and gesture. That is the great use of Memorial decoration day, for the calla j lilies on the grave tops soon become j breathless of perfume, and in a week j /l?cf lilrn r-ntn which lies ' j VUlil IV/ u UOV <ittv J beneath them. Eut the story cf courage end self sacrifice and patriotism told on ,plaricrnis and in households and by the roadside and in churches and in cemeteries by that annual recital will bo ; kept fresh in the memory of generations as long as our American institutions are worthy cf preservation. Long after you are dead your children will be able to say, "with the psalruist, "We have Eeard with our cars, O God, our faiVcrs have told us, what work thou | didst in their days in the times cf old." j j Eut what a timo it was. Four years of j homesickness. Four years of brotherly ! | and sisterly estrangement. Four years I of martyrdom. Four years of massacre, j ~ - * * ? it - /I I Put them in a long line, ire couungru tio:i of cities, and eeo them light up a whole continent. Put them in long rows, the hospitals, making a vast metropolis of pain and paroxysm. Gather them in oro vast assemblage, the millions cf bereft from the St. Lawrenco to the guif, and from the Atlantic to the Pacific beaches. Pat the tears into lakes, and the blood into rivers, and the shrieks into whirlwinds. Daring those four years many good and wise men at the north and south saw nothing ahead but annihilation. With such a national debt we could never meet our obligations. With such mortal antipathies northern and southern men could never come into amity. Representatives of Louisiana and Georgia and the Carolinas could never agaiu sit side by side with the representatives of Maine, Massachusetts and New York at the national oapital. Lord John Russell had declared that i wo were "a bubble bursting nationality, "audit had come true. The nations of Europe had gathered with very resigned spirit at the funeral -of our American republic. They had tolled the bells on parliaments and reichstags and - - * ^ - *- i- ~.%%%^ lowered men nags uc nan uum, ?iju even the lion on the other side of the tea had whined for the dead eagle on this side. The deep grave had! ccn dug, and beside Babylon, and Thebes, and Tyre, and other dead nations of tho past our dead republic was to be buried. The epitaph was all ready:-"Ilere lies the American republic. Bom at Philadelphia, July 4, 177(5. Killed at Bull Run July 21, 18(51. Aged 85 years and 17 days. Peace to its ashes." But before the obsequies had quite closed there was an interruption of the ceremonies, and our dead nation rose from its mortuary surroundings. Gcd had made fcr it a special resurrection day, and cried: "Come forth, thou republic cf Washington, and John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson, and Patrick Plenty, and Jehu Hancock, and Daniel Webster, and S. S. Prentiss, and Henry Clay. Come fori h!" And she came fcrtb, to be stronger than she had ever been. Her j mightiest prosperities have come since I that siine. Who would want to push i hfurlr this ccuntiv to what it was in j 1800 cr 1800? Bet, eh, what a high I gate, what a strong gate, she had to push I back before she could luakc one step in | advance! Gate of flame! See Norfolk i navy yard, and Columbia, and Chaiubersburg, and Charleston on lire! Gato j cf bayonets! See giittuiug rifles and I carbines flash from the Susquehanna | and the James to the Mississippi and j the Arkansas! Gate of heavy artillery, making the mountains of Tennessee and I Kentucky and Virginia tremble as ! though the earth itself were struggling | in its last agony. The gate was so liery | and so red that I can think of nothing I more appropriate than to take the sug; gesticn of Isaiah in the text and call it j a gate of carbuncles. God Save tlie Xr.tion. This country has been for the most part of its History passing tnrougn crises, and after each crisis was better oS than before it entered it, and now ; wo are at another crisis. Wc are told on one hand that if geld is ke pt as a standard and silver is not elevated confidence will be restored, and this nation will rise triumphant from all the financial misfortunes that have been afflicting j us. On the other hand, v.e are told that! if the free coinage tf silver is allowed | all the wheels cf business will revolve, I the i oor man will have a better chance, ! and all cur industries will begin to liam 1 and rear. During the last six presidential clccticnsJL have been urged to enter the political arena, hut I never have I and never will turn the pulpit in which : I preach into a political stuuip. Every j minister must do as he feels called to ; do, and I will nctcritcise him fordoing : what ho considers his duty, but all the j political harangues from pulpits from i now until the lid of November will net in all the United States change cno vote, hut will leave many ears stopped against anything that such clergymen may utter the rest of their lives. As a general rule, the laymen of churches understand politics better than the clergy, because they (the laymen) study politics more than the clergy and have better opportunity cf being intelligent on those subjects. But good moral?, honesty, loyalty, Christian patriotism and the Ten Commandments?these v.*c must preach. God says distinctly in the Bible, "The silver and the gold are mine," and he will settle tho controversy between thorc two metals. If eve r this country needed tho divine rescue it needs it now. Never within my memory have so many people literally starved to death as in the past few j months. Have vou noticed in the news- i papcra hew many men and women here and there have been found dead, the post mortem examination stating that the cause of death was hunger? There is not a day that wo do not hear the crash of some great commercial establishment, and as a consequence many people are thrown out of employment. Among what, we considered comfortable hemes have come privation and clcso calculation and an economy that kills. Millions of people who say nothing about it arc at this moment ut their wits' eud. There aro millions of people who do not want charity, but waut work. Tho cry has gone up to the ears of tho "Lord of Sabaotb," and the prayer will be heard and relief will come. If we have ncthiug better to depend on than American politics, relief will never come. Whoever is elected to the presidency, tho wheels cf government turn so slowly, and a caucus in I yonder white building- on the hill may l tie the hands of any president. Now, though wo who live in the District of j Columbia cannot vote, wc can pray, and i my prayer day and night shall be: "O ! Gcd, hear the cry cf the souls from under tho altar! Thou who has brought I the wheat and corn of this seuson to such mnguitudo of supply, give food to man and beast Thcu who hadst not j where to lay thy head, pity the shelterless. Thou who has brought to pcrfccI ticn the cotton of the eouth and the flax I of the north, clothe tl.c naked. Thcu who hast filled the mine with ccal, give fuel to the shivering. Bring bread to the bedy, intelligence to the mind, and salvation to tho soul cf all tiie people! God save tho natiou!" JBnt wc must admit it is n hard gate to push back. Millions of thin hands have pushed at it without making it swing on its bard hinges. It is a gate made out of empty flour barrels, and cold fire grates, and worn out apparel, aud cheerless home?, and uumeaicated sickness, and ghastliness, and horror. It is a gato of struggle. A gate of penury. A gate cf want A gate of disj appointment. A red gate, or what I T.?;.U ...nnM Kovn fi frnto flf C.i*T JLDUiaii MUU1U VW?4VX* %? w. buncles. A Life of Straggle. Now, as I have already suggested, as there are obstacles in all our paths, we will be happier if we consent to have our life a struggle. I do not knew any one to whom it ia net a struggle. Louis XIV thought he had everything fixed just right and fixed to stay, and so he had the great clock at Bordeaux made. The hours cf that clock were struck by figures in bronze representing the kings of Kurope, and at a certain time of day William III of England and other kings were made to coiuc cut and bow to Louis XIV. But the clock got out of order cue day and just the opposite of what was expected occurred; as the clock struck a certain hour Louis XIV was thrown to the feet of William III. And so tho clock cf destiny brings many surprises, and those go down that you expected to stand, and at tho foot of disaster most regal conditions tumble. In all styles of life there como disappointment and struggle. God has for some good reason arranged it so. If it is not poverty, it is sickness. If it is not sickness, it is persecution. If it is not persecution, it is contest wiib sonic evil appetite. If it is net seme evil appetite, it is bereavement. If it is not one thing, | it i3 another. Do not get soured and j cress and think your case is peculiar. You aro just, like the rest of us. You will have to take the bitter draft whether it bo handed to ycu in golden chalice or pewter mug. A man who has a thousand dollars a year income sleeps sounder and has a better appetite than the man who has five millions. If our life were not a struggle, we would never consent to get out of this world, and we would want to stay here, and so blcck r.p tbo way of the advancing generations. By the time that a man gets to be TO years cf age, and sometimes ty the time he gets to be 50 years of age, he says, "I have had enough cf this, and when the Lord wills it I am ready to emigrate to a fcnntry where there arc 110 taxes, aiul the silver cf the trumpet put to ono's lips has 110 quarrel villi the gold of the pavement under his feet" We have in this world mere op- j portunity to cultivate patience than to j cultivate any other grace. Let that | grace be strengthened in thercyal gym- | nasiuru of obstacle and opposition, and j by the help of God, having overcome j our own hindrances and vorrimcnts, I let us go forth to help others whose struggle is greater than cur own. A Story. A friend told me the other day of a shoemaker in a Russian dry -whose beuch was in the basement of a building and so far underground that he could see only the feet of those who went by on the sidewalk. Seated 011 his bench, he often locked up, and there went the swift and skipping feet cf children, and then the slow and uniform step cf the aged, and then feet with shoes old and worn out, and then crippled feet, and he resolved he would do a kindness to each one who needed it. So when the foct with the old and worn out shoewas passing', he would hail it and make for it a conilortable covering, for l:c had tho hammer, and the pegs, and the shoe lasts, and the lap stene, and the leather to do it. And when he saw the invalid foot pass, he would hail it and go out und effer medicine and crutch and helpfulness. And when ho raw the aged foct pass he hailed it and told the old man cf heaven, where he would be Bucklen's Arnica Sa!ve. The Best Salve in the world for ! Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Sail i Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped ! Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and Skin I Eruptions, and positively cures Piles | or no pay required. 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Well, time went 0:1, and as the shoemaker's wants wcro very few he worked tut little for himself and most of the time for ethers and in the long evenings, when he could not so well see the feet passing en the sidewalk, lie wculd make shoes of all sizes and stand thcru en a shelf, ready for feet that would pass in the daytime. Of course, as the years went on, under this process the shoemaker bceamo more and mere Christian until one day lie said to himself: "I wish among all these feet passing up there on the sidewalk I could see the feet of the dear C'lnist passing. Oh, if I cculd only see his feet go by I would knew them because they are scarred feet!" That night the shoemaker dreamed, and in the dream he saw the glorious Christ, end ho said, "O Christ, I have been waiting for thee to pass on the sidewalk, and I have seen lame feet, and wounded feet, and aged loot, ancl poor iocr, one la vum have I lcoked for thy scarred feet." And Christ said to the shoemaker: "Man, I did pass on the sidewalk, and you did see my feet, and you did come cut r.::d hail me, and bless me, and help me. You thought it was tho foot cf a peer eld man that went shuffling by; that was my foot." Yen thought it was the foot of a soldier that went limping past; that was my feet. You thought that shcelcss fcot was the foot cf a beggar; that was my foot. The shoes, the clothing, the medicines, tho cheering words that you gave to them you gave to your Lord. 'Inasmuch a3 ye have done it unto one of the least cf these ye have done it unto me.' " My hearers, with the humble spirit cf that Russian mechanic, let us go forth and help ethers. Having shoved back tho carbuncle gate for yourself to pass in and pass en and pass up, lend a hand to others, that they also may get through the red gate, and pass in, and pass on, and pas3 up. Before Gate cf Tcarl. Rnt nnrk well and underscore with heavy dashes cf the pen thecrder of the gates. Gate of carbuncle before gate cf pearl. Isaiah the prince saw the cne gate centuries befcre St. Jchn the exile saw the other. Tho one you must push open. The other stands cpeD. Gate cf a saviour's atonement fcctore the gate of divine pardon. Gate cf poverty before gate cf aftiuence. Gate of earthly trial bcfcre gate of heavenly satisfaction. Through much tribulation you enter tho kingdom cf God if you ever enter it at all. But heaven will net be so much of a heaven to those who had everything in this world. A man who had everything in this world enters heaven, and the welcoming angel appoints such a newly arrived soul to a mansion, ami says: "Go in end live there. That mansion is yours forever." That man thinks to himself, " Why, I have fcr many years lived in a mansion; a mansion is no novelty to me." The welcoming angel appoints some cno prospered of earth to the honors cf heaven, the coronets and thrones. The soul thinks to it self, "I had more honors cu earth than I could appreciate, and crowns are heavy things to wear, anyhow." The welcoming angel appoints some prcspcred soul of earth to a fine landscape in the heavenly country and says, "Walkthere and enjoy yourseif." The soul thinks to itself, "The place I owned cu the Hudson" or "tho castle I had on tho Ilhiuo was almost as picturesque, and then I cannot see the sunset on the river, for it is here everlasting ?" <y and t!*o sun i:< vcr sets." The welcoming angel says to some newly arrived soul, "Listen now to the music; the orchestra of heaven is about to render one of tho best oratories." The soul would think: "Why, I have been hearing the test music for 30 years on earth. Almost every winter 1 heard in the Academy cf Music tho 'Creation,' the 'Messiah,' and 'Jephthah.' I have heard all the great living prima donnas and some who are dead." Let the welcoming angel then say to a prospered soul of earth. "Go | 1 .. . ! IiOVr i.UU XVSt, 11:10 11 inv. v )uiu.iiin& j rest." "Why," tho soul would think, j ! "I am not tired; why do I want rest? I ; have not done a stroke of . work for the I last CO years. I spent n:y winters in 1 Florida and my summers in the Adironi dacks, and I am not in need of rest." The Closing Picture. ! My heartrs, heaven will net he so : much of a heaven for these who had 110 1 struggle en earth. Cut wfeen these who | had a hard push with the red gate of ; my text, the gate of carbuncle, c01110 to i the gate of pearl and lind it wide open, they will sav: "Why, how strange this is. This is the fust gate of valuable entrance in 40 years that; I have found J open." And tho welcoming angel will ! say to seme Christian mother who reared a large family cf children and | prepared them for usefulness and heavI en. "Co where you please and sit i down cn what velvet bank cr cushioned i throne yen may prefer." And I hear | the newly arrived soul saying: "Oh, u:y! What a geed thing it i:: to rest. I was s.o tin d. I was tired for -10 years. Angel, tell mo, is "this an unbroken ! rest? Can it Le that there arc no s:<k J children to take eaic of? My head was ! so tired planning fe.r the household < n ! small means; my eyes were so tired with sewing and knitting; my back ached with doing wcrk that made mo stoop fe.r so many hours. Tin re was nothing in the universe I to much ncedI cd as rest. Now I have it. Blessed Jesus! Blessed heaven! Blcrrtd rest!" Then the we lconliug angel will say to seine Christian that en euitli was deaf j ai .1 had l.ot heard voice cf song c.r voice j i of frie ndship, "Hark-now to tlie choirs j ! in white as they are about to join in ' the opening piece cf the temple wor- j I shir," and as the baton swings and as j the deft lingers begin to feel the pulses j j of the harp and lips cf martyrs breathe j I on the soft lutes of praise I hear the j I surpris'd soul just entered heaven say- j j ing: "Music! .Why, that is the first I [ cvir heard. Will ir. keep 011? Tell them not to .slop. What is the name ci' that anthem? Why, I never heard : nytiling like that. 1 never heard anything at all." And a little child, long ego in heaven, polls at tkovhitc robe and sajf, "Mother!" And the turns around, saying: "My child, for the (list time I hear your voice. On earth I saw your smile and fi It the coil of your Llend curls ou your childish brow, but I never heard yc.nr voire, t veil in p.'ay or prattle, and I am confused to knew which is the best music?that which the angels of God render or the voice of yeu, my darling. Music! I read uncut it and saw the notes in the music Lock, and I saw the (ing< is of pianists and (rganists run up and down the snowbanks of the keyboard, but I never thought it would be anything like this. Music!" Then the angel will say to a lifelong invalid: "Did yon ev< r breathe air like this? Much balm! Much tonic! Much immortal life in < very respiration! Did ycu ever have any (liinatc on earth iiko this climate of heaveu?" And the soul says: "This is the first time in many a leng year I have been freed from i ain. As I passed through the river by that gate the last ache left n o, and I am well, gloriously well, everlastingly well. I have swallowed the last bitter draft. I have felt the last cut cf the knife. I I have passed (he last sleepless night, and now I realize the beauty cf what Mt. John said in Itevelalicn, 'There ahull be no more pain.' " And then the martyrs and the prophets and the apostles will take up the chorus, and all the recovered invalids from earth will join in the triumphant refrain that surges to and fro from east gate of heaven to west gate. Chorus, "No more pain, no more pain, no mere pain, no more pain!" My hearers, it will be a great heaven for all who get through, but the best heaven fcr there who had cu earth tmtliinrr V.H* cfrnrro-lo RlpSfcffl all tllCKfi "tro who before they entered the gate cf pearl passed through the gato of carbuncle ! They Must Confess. A curious point in Swedish criminal law is that confession is necessary before a capital sentence can bo carried cut. If, however, the culprit persists in pretesting bis innocence in the face cf overpowering evidence, the prison discipline is made extremely severe <jtff.l the desired confession is obtained. It is surprising to many that football players and other athletes regard a sprain or bruise of so little consequence. One reason of this is, they know how to treat such injuries so as to recover from them in a few days, while others would be laid up for two or three weeks, if not longer. Writing from Central State Normal School, Lock Haven, Pa., Mr. W. H. Loseh, captain of the base ball club and gymnasium says: ''I take pleas ure in statiDg, that members of our base ball club end myself have used Chambei Iain's Pain Balm with most excellent results. I unhesitatingly recommend it as the best remedy for sprains, swellings, cuts and bruises, of any that I know." For sale by J. E. Kaughmsn, Lexington . F. W. Oswalt, Barre's Oswalt & Son, Irene Ex-Judge Thomas J. Mac-key, who was once a prominent tigure in the nnl-.li> r.f South Cirolinc, has .... ... been on a visit to Cjlumbia and Charleston. lie was curious to find out the woi kings of the dispensary, and said that when he left the State fourteen years ago Gen. James Connor was at the head or tho bar, but he was smprised to know that the Governor of the State was now at the bead of the bar. Ke called upon Governor Evans, and presented him with several wooden hams and a badge upon which hung three wooden nutmegs, which were obtained by Judge Mackey upon a recent visit to Connecticut. He is now engaged in literary woik and is living in New Yoik. Ccnd.nsed Testimony. Chas. B. Hood, Broker and Manu factum's Agent, Columbus, Ohio, certifies that Dr. King's New Dis covery has no equal as a Cough remedy. J. I>. Brown, Prop. St. James Hotel, Ft. "Wayne. Ind., testifies that he was cured of a Cough of two years standing, caused by La Grippe, by Dr. King's New Discovery. B F. Men ill, Baldwinsville, Mass., says that he has used am] recommended it and never knew it to fail and would rather have it than any doctor, because it always cures. Mrs. Hemming, 222 E. 2oth St, Chicago, always keeps it at hand and has no fear of Croup, because it iustartly relieves. Free Tiials Bottles at J. E. Kaufman's Drug Store. The question, ''Why is spool cotton numbered as it is, and why are the figures not used in regular cider?" is often a*kcd. The explanation is this: The numbers on the spools express the number of "banks" which aie required to wind a pound. TLe very finest spinning rarely exceeds three hundred hanks to the pound, i i v while id the very coarsest mere is about a half pound in each hank. The more common qualities, however ?those from which thread is usually made?urn from ten to fifly hanks to the pound, and the spools on which it is wound aie numbered from ten to fifty in accordance. Disease attacks the weak and debilitated. Keep yourself ha 1th and strong by taking lfoo Vs Sarsapuiill i. Fell From a Horse. ; Siate's Attorney Switzer TakeD Home by lis Friends. 1 One of Illinois' Most Prominent and j Highly Honored Men Suffers from Injuries Sustained in a Fall?Ilis Colleagues and Ft-llow Citizens Testify to His Integrity and PubI lie Spiritedness. i j From the Jor.rna!, Macomb, III. Theodore B. Switzer is the senior member of the firm of Switzer A Brecdeu, of Macomb, 111., and will this fall (lisyu), close a brilliant lourycars term as State's Attorney for ; McDonough county. 111. Years ago j lie was severely injured by a fall ! from a liorse, sustaining a hurt in < | the light side in the region of the 1 sciatic nerve, leaving this portion of : his anatomy weak and susceptible to ] disease. When last Fobruaiy's term ! of circuit court came on he found 1 himself, from close application to bis 1 business, sadly run down; in fact fcc j was on tho very verge of nervous , i prostration. Mr. Switzer told the ! Daily Journal reporter that while i laid up, with no possible signs or ] j prospect of relief from his family ] | physician, ho road a testimonial when iu Dr. William's Pink Pills for < | I Pale People bad cured a case parallel i with bis own, and ho immediately ] made up bis miud to try the remedy. : ! He scot for a package and comj meDced tkc-ir use immediately ac: , i cording to directions, with the result , ; that he began rapidly to mend and , | was soon attending to Lis business , j once more. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills contain' in a condensed form, all the elements 1 necessary to give new life aud richness to the blood and restore shat| tercd nerves. Pink Piils arc sold by ! all dealers, or will be sent post paid on receipt of price, 50 cents a box, , I or six boxes for ?2.5:^ (they are never sold in kuld or by the 100), by adj dressing Dr. Williams' Medicine ( I CPPff? fl V "V. Y. j V/V/ULI?/<*UJ * K^V. ?, Siot at Fcrt Motto. : The Patriot, Oraugt barer. j Five hundred negroes threatened ] Fort Motte last Saturday night aud 1 ! it was only by remarkable coolness, patience and forbearance on the part of the whites that many livea were not lost and the town razed to the ! ground by fire. j The trouble started in this way. : Friday, a negro, Jesse Goodwin, ini suited Mr. G. W. Collin?, foreman for I Col. R. M. Claffy, and Mr. Collins ! kicked him: but in doing so he slipped and fell. The negro jumped j upon him and chocked him. Saturday worniug Mr. Collins went to the negro's house to see him about f ? i the difficulty. Tho negro mado for . Lim with a heavy stick and Collins shot him through the body inflicting | a dangerous wound. The negroes then became greatly enraged aud begtfu collecting in great numbers in Fort Motte, and j talked openly of lynching Mr. Collins. When night came on the town was at the mercv of a wild, half drunken j mob. It was impossible to reason j with them and when the Fort Motte i Guards, by order from Governor ; Evans, demanded them to disperse, they mocked the commanding officer and defied him to shoot. i ; The negroes had bought kerosene , and were ready to fire the town at l-.i I any moment, -Lfiey were concoiutu j J in ditches, behind seed houses, and j had everything under their sway. Tuesday morning Sheriff Dukes j ; with a posse went up to arrest the | I leaders. Transee Parker was the ] only one that could be found. He f was arrested and is now in j til. It j 1 was said that some of them were j I concealed in the house of -Joe Robin- | son. A squad or deputies went there j to look for the culprits, but Robinson got in his door, cursed them and j drew his pistol. When ordered to j throw up his hands he threw his pistol on deputy W. L. Douglas. Deputy T. D Mitchell then com- j manded him to throw up his pistol, j The negro quickly threw his piste 1 j on Mr. Mitchell a* ci snapped it at j | him but the weapon faded to lire. I ! In an instant this deputy tilled him j j with buckshot, kiliing him instantly, j Tko nonrrcice pnnid nnt, hp found UDV I -i- 1JU i-1 V 11 4 v/v v\' V4 . ? ? i . * I I where and it was rumored that they , | hid congregated in the woods for an l j attack on the place Tuesday night. | Consequently two d-t-.ebments of j militia went up from Orangeburg on i the night train ?one from the Tiil! man Volunteers and one from the j i Edisto Rifles. Everything quiet j i Wednesday morning. ! i , . I Sam Roonev, white, while i i a ; d uuken sleep cu a iabroad t:ack in j ; August i was killed. POWDER Absolutely Pure. A cream of tartar baking fowder. Hifiu?st of I'll m leavening K'rriigth. - Late?t [Juited States Government Food Report. Royal Faking Tov/r ee Co , New York. k " : iM \ : Stealing Heaven's Livery. Vnderson Advocate. TIip r.hnrisaasm and hTDOCri8Y manifested in that assistant Republican convention which met in Indiaaapolie, calling themselves the true Democracy, is enough to make old Satan smile all over his face. The idea of a body of men composed largely of national bankers and representatives of class interests, pretending to the woild that they are followers of old Andrew Jackson, who fought the uational banks to the death. The idea that they are adhering to the ancient Democratic faith promulgated by Thomas Jefferson, who jircclaimcd that the Federal judiciary were the sappers and miners of our Republican institutions. Jefferson engrafted it into our constitution and laws that silver and gold were the Money of final redemption, and he with Hamilton put it into the law that the ratio was 16 to 1, and the Democracy stood by it for eighty years, and the 'country pros-* % pered under it, and now these false p'ophrts with astounding pbarisaism arc trying to make the country be- v lieve they are adhering to the old faith. It is trying "to steal the livery of heaven to serve the devil tvifVi Snatched From Death. Cold Water, Ala., Mar. 11, 1802. My little child had the dropsy for two years. We had tried various remedies and the most prominent physicians in the country but to no avail. We commenced the use of St. Joseph's Liver Regulator and she is now as healthy as anv child. T. P. W. BROOCS, M. D. For further information call on J. E. Kauffmann's drug store and get a copy of St. Joseph's Four Seasons Almanac. . 36. . South Carolina Synod. M The seventy second annual convention of the South Carolina Lutkeran Sjnod will be held in Bethlehem church, Pomaria, S. C, beginning on Wednesday, the 21st of Octob'er, 189G, at 10 o'clock a. m. Synodical sermons in 1896: Missionary?liiv. J. G. Graicken, with Rev 0. B. Shearouse, alternate. Education.?Rev. W. A. C. Mueller, with Rev. C. E. Weltner, ahernate. Ordination.?Rev. L. E. Busby, with Rev. J. H. Wilson, alfernate. Rev. R. C. Holland, D. D, President. Rev. S T. Ualiman, Secretary. Homes will be provided for ministers and delegates," who intend goiDg, by notifying Col. Thos Holloway, at Pomaria, S. C. i? Dr. Sampson t'ope nas ucctr^tcu the nomination for Governor so generously tendered him by the Lily White Republicans. "Old Stamps'' has nominated himself so often it must have been a relief to fiud a corwd that agreed with him in the selection, but it seems that he is to be dropped again and that W. H. Wallace will be the Republican candidate. It is staled that Judge Witherennor. will not stand for re-elccticn ? next year, when his fourth term will expire. Here is another chance fcr the Newberry lawyers, as they can begin to move over to the Sixth Circuit in time to become eligible under the new constitution. If your child is puny, .retful, troubled with glandular swelliDgs, inflamed eyes, or sores on the head, face, >r body, a course cf Ajer's Sarsaparilla is needed to expel the scrofulous humors "firm the blood. The sooner you begin to give this medicine the better. At Portland,- ile , a horse paced a mile in 2:00 1.2. This is the fastest time on record.