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V. LN I Y- 1 1:IR) ANNIVERARY S.r MON PREACHLD BY DR. TALMAGE. ' tl S1,ijlt of the ibtcour. "Tho Thr1-e Tabernavlee. Story ol Trialm atmd Tri- i u1n1hn"t-i-Rovie4w of the 1intory of tihe DoctorasChAurch. 1,ooKLvN, A pril 3.- This is a Fes tival (lay at the Tabernacle. Dr. Tal iage is celebrating the twenty-third anl- I niversary of his settlementin Brooklyn. In white flowers embedded in green at the back of the pulpit. rtood the inscrip tion, "1861) anl 1,.0.'' Dr. Talnage's subjict vas, "Tihe Th:c Tabernacles, a Story of Trials and Triumphs,'" and his text, Luke ix, :1, "LetL us make th.ev tabelunleles.1 Out Arab 1)ones were almost dead with fiatiue, Its, in December, 1889, we rode near the foot of Mount Iermon in ,he Holy Land, the mountain called by one "a mountain ot ice,'' by another "a littering breastplavo of ice," by another 'the Moift Blanc of P'lestine.'' Its top has an almost unearthlv brilliance. But what must it have been In the time to which my text refers? Peter and James and .1(0l1hn were oil thiat mountain top with Jesus when, suddenly, Christ's fa.e took on tie glow of thi. ntonday sun, and Mosws and Elijahl n ho had been (lead For centuries, come out Irom the heavenly world and talked wi,h our Saviour. What an overwhelming three -Aloses, epiesenting the law; EIJah1, represeiung the iropliets, ad Christ, nipresenting all worlds. Ilipeti 'us Peter was so wrought upon by the lorsence of this vondrous thice, that, without N aiting for time to consider how preposterou. was the pro isition, lie cried out, "I,et us make three tabernacles-one for thee, one for .Moses and for Eliijah.'' Where would they get the material for builing one tabermnacle, much less material cuough to build two tabernacles, and still less, hov would lth.y get the material for bU ldmg threc, Where would they get the hammers' Where the gold? Where the silver? Where t le curtaiM,? W here tle costly adorinwnte? Hermon is a 11- :r4renl peak, lilad to build one talberinacle !i such a place would have been an un o1rtaking beyond human achievement., and 'eter was propounding the impossi LIe wOhen lie cried out inl entlusiasm, "Let us build three tabernacles.'' And yet that is what this congrega tionl fihs been ealled to do andi has done. 'I'he first, Jjrooklyn Ttberncle wa de dieatcd inl I's7o, and destroyed by tire in 17'2. Thcse cond Brooklyn Tabernacle was dedicated in 17 1, Ild destroyef, lyi tie in 18,'01. The third Brooklp n Taher imale was4 dedicated in AI ril, Is) 1, anmd inl that we are worslshipinl-- today. What Eounded absurd for Peter to propose, whllen he said on Mount Il erion. in the words of my text, " et us )IIIl'd three fiiernacles," ve have At oily done, but inl the imysterious province. ol God %('e coMpelledi to do. One year it was serif out throu.ghi a syndteate of l'wmspapers that this church wa doing iothinl, ia the way ol liheiall ty, when we lad th.at year raised 4j, 1.000 h ard cash ;or religioiu- use's. Theare Sas b ece pesisten t and hemiisphieiric ying agaiinst t his cliurch'l. WVe hiave I aisedi dur'ing n e lid5storate, for church 1bilding anid chiurch puriposes, '.9%i,( 00 i, (' p'ractically a muilliom doillars. Noft ani i shi famune. < r a (Chiarles ton e'arth quake, C r* an Ohio tre-slhe, or a (icago routfla:rat ion, buit our church'l wais among the first to hldp. We have givent free seats ini the iii orniing and evenIiing ser-. vices to 210,000C stirangers at year, andl that ini twenty years would amount, to 4 ,N00,000 atuditor's. We have receiv'ed mnto our memnber'ship 5,:;i7 members. and thait is only~ i a sma1li or'tionl of the inmber of' those whoi( lut ye hieire been coniver'ted to Go trom aFll parIhiuts of this l and and fr-om other' lands. *'nder th e blesoing of God( and thirough the kindness of the printinig pr'ess my Sei mons1 now go (eery week into (ever' nieighborhoodt mi Chistendomi, and are regularly translhitedl in to neartily all the great hotiuatges of Euro(ipe andit Asia. The syndoicates hiavinig charge (if this sermIoic publication mintrmued me a few dis~ a igo thatt miy pirmited sermlonis ever y week, ini tIns it ut ther lanids, go inito) thle hianids of 25i, ,uin peiople .' )uir ing uthe last year, 1 am authoritatively in formed, over 2.0010 (dimIferent per'iudicals were addeld to the list of' those w ho make this publiention, andi yet thieire are mnimsters of thle G1ospie! and r'eligioums niewsp5apiers that suystemamtically and in duu.triously and contiinuously chnirge this churlich with Iieness and sel lishiness and p arslimiony. faut this continuous mliIisrepresnt.ation of miy beloved churchel, mn the name of Almighty God. I denounce, while I ial peal to thei f'air mindled men aind women to see that jus8tico is done this people, who within a few years hav'e gone through a struggle that no other churchi in any land or any ago has been called to endunre, aind 11>ra'ly God that no other church may Ceer he cailledl to endIure, viz., the building of' thr'ee tabernacles. I ask the f'riemnds of the Bro',klyn Ta'ber nacle to cut out this s('rmon from the nlewspaper's and put it ini thieir p)ocket looks, so that they can intelligently an swer our falsili's, whether clerical or lay. Anid with these yout may put thiat other statement, which recently went through thei country, and which I saw in Detroit, which said that the Brooklyn Tahernacle had a hard financial stiruigle, hI cause it had all along been paying< s ich enormous salaies to its pastor,t 1)1 . TIalmage, wheni the fact is that at tet oui-: last dlisaster andI for two years I gave all my salary t,o the church build- ~ ing fuiid, and 1 received 40,00 less thanii niothimg; ini other words, in addition to c ser vim g this church gratuitously for two years, I let it have $6,00 for buid mng purposes. WVhy is it that peo ple could riot (10 us5 justice iand say that, tall our linancial struggle as a church came 'rom doing what Peter, in may tr xt,t absurdly proposed to do, but whIch, ill the inscrutable provIdence of Godl, we t were compelled to (do-build three tab) ernales. Now I feel better that this is off' my mind, The rest, of my eermon will be spun out of hiosannahs. 1 announce to you this day that we are at last, as a church, it smooth waters. Aarramge muenit have been made by which our fInancial difficulties are now fully and satisf'actorily adjusted. Our incomeu will exceed our outgo, and Brooklyn Tabernacle will be yours andI belong to y'ou and sour children after you, anid anthing you see contrary to this you may -tdown to the cotirmedh habit which 'people have got of misrepresent ~t " h, and they cannot stop. vain tilR BrooklynX came to a August, will a a big Jin'ibtedness. egp8tate. protest ~ncially I ia kO1gOgatioI We IO worL.h over! id becyonld all inidebtedniess, conisider- 1) 1v1.nore. thanl 4t5f),000, I I lrive pron,heel here t1wety-threc Lars, aiH I expect, ifimy life ad health ce conti-ued, to preach here twenty irce years loner, although we Nwill all ) well to remember that, our breath is i our nostrih, and any hour we may be Ailed t,o give ati account. of our ste ward ip. All we ask for the future is ,hat ou do your best, coutrbut,in- all you mn to the support of our inistitutiois. t )ur best days are yet to come; our reatest, revivals of religion, and our I ightiest outpourings of the Holy Ghost.. I Ve have got through t,he Red sea and tand today on the other bank clanving hIe cymlbIals of victory. Do you wonder th-t last Sabbath I sked you in the midst, of the service to ise and sing with jubilant voice tie owg meter Doxology. )raise God from whom all blessings llow. L raise him, all creatures here below, ltaise him above, ye heivnly host, L'raise Father, 6on and Holy Glst. Yes twenty-three years have passied unce I ca ne to live in Brookly, aid they have been to me eveall' years. It was a Iprostrated churel' to which I -ame. a church so 1lat down it could !rop no farther. Through &,ontroversies whicI it would be unless to rehea. se it was well nigh extinct, and lor a oit whie it 1111( been Wit,b-t1, a 1YV.AOC. lIu ninelteci members coild e imuitrecred to sign a call for my coming. As a collmittee was putting that call before mie in til upper room in my house in l'hiladelphia, there werl two olir co:nmittees oi similar err;iis froin (ther chirche:, ii ot1 her rooms, whom mi y wife was entertaining and keeping apart from unhappy colision. The aluldi:oriumi of t li Brookvii ch irch to whlich I came delfed all the laws of acoust tes; the cli rch had a tveplo that u%as t he derision of the town, and a high box pclpit which shut, in tile pi eather as thotigh lie were daiigerotis to i! let loose, or it acted as a barrica,ie ihat, was iiunecessary to keep back t le p- ople, ror they were so few that a iin tster of ordinary muscle could have k.pt back all who were there. Hlfore the close of that year we re w1vt d to construct. t,e first Taberna Le. It was to be a temporary sIrict nre, and therefore we called it a Taber FIScle Instead of a 'I'eiple, iy the el) o(f (od and the indomitable and inparalleled energy of mr trustees hure and there one of them present to Iay, 1i1L the most in a t.etter world), we Yot thle building ready for consecration 1nd on Septem ber 25, 18711. morning aitd -vening dedicatory services were held. i in the afternoon the children, vil h ;weet anmultitudinous voIces, con ieerat.ed the place to God. I ring the short time we occupled hat buill ding we ha1d a1 conistant down millr of religious awakening. Ilosan it' Ten million years in heaven will inve no power to dim imy imemory of le glorious times we had in that first .laria(le, which, becatusO of its inva ilon of the isial style of church archi oture. was calied by m01110 "''almiage's Ii ppo<drome" by othei(rs, "Church of the Hlloy Circus," and by other mirthful loillenclatre. Blit it was a building pertret for acoustics, and stood long Fnoiiugli to have its initation in all the iu go cities of A merica and to com phlt,cly revoluticnize chuirch architfc t.urv. 'eople saw that it was the coim m111n sense~i wayi of seatinig ant audiien1ce. IIitle -IundaIy iiuorinrg in D ecember01, 1872, the thiermomieter nearly dhownl to Iro, I wads On 1my3 wVay to church. T'here wvas ant excjitemet Iln the street and( 1 mtich smoke in the iIr. Fire eni tZme('s dashed plaSt. liut myl3 mind was5 oni te se rmon I was ahout, t o pireach, utili somie one rushed til and told tuie that our church was going uip in the s:ame kinid of a chariot that Elijah took from I lie banks of the .Jordan. Th'lat M5in(hay imoring tralgedly, with its wrin ging of lhumda and frozen tears ont lhe cheeks of iaany 1.n1 tsands staninrg in I lhe st.reet, and the crash that shook the earth, is as vivid as thoutgh it we-re ytet day. Iltt it was not a plerfect loss. W~e wvere, as a clhuirchi, ob lit erat ed. lIut arise anld build,"'saidi iniany' voices. Anomther architect took the aimphtithiea tricliIal h of a chutirch , wh ich ini te first instiace was nlecessaLrily sownewi~haLt rude,Q andl detveloped it, intto att 1 labho:r ate tin that wats iiimediately adop)l)ted. liut hov toe raise thet mnoney I or such ani ex, ensiv e udertaL ing waIs thle quies tiOt expeivet iiot, becatise oif 11t1 y Seitse'lesa lidorniiillent proposed, but 1. X 11e1151ive bec;ause of thle illmelise size of the ti ihinig iieeded to hold our coiu LZregaZtion, It wats at, thiat timte w heln f or y ears' our eintire country ws suffier tig, not. f roim a1 liutancial panlic, buut l'im thl bat long conttinu ted finanticial de piressionx whlich 1al1 busin1108simen remnemt her, as5 the: cloud htung heavy year at teur year aind comimercial establi hmutents wit liut inumiber went down. Th'lroughi what strtiggles we plassed the eterlL ad aiid smael brave souls todlay re niembei(r. Mabny a timle would I have hadly aicceptedI calls to some other fie!d, mtt I could not leaive the flock in the wvilderness. At last, aift.er, in the i nterreginumi, laying worshiped ini our beaut it ul Acaidemy oft Music, on tihe morninig of ebh, 22, 18741, the anniversary ol' the iasin gton who conquiered impossi )ilities and1( on the Sabibath that atl ways e-lebirate's the resurrection, I)r. Ilyron uniiderland, chaplain of thte I :nited -tes senlate, thr'illed us through and binrough wi~ith a dedicatory sermon01 rotm 11aggni ii, 9, "The glom y or tis louse shall be greater than thait of the ormeor, saith the Lord of 1o0t s." Tlheo orner stone of that building had1( been aid by lie illustrious and no0w en hroned I)r. Iremetus Prime. On the >latformn on deocicatoon (lay sait, among ethers, D)r. D)owling of thie Iaptist hiurch, D)r. Crook of thIe Methodist hurch, Mr. lieecher of the Congrega hotnal church and D)r. l'renich of the 'resbyterian c h uI r c h. HIosaiuu,h ! Luiother S3Z,0JO was ratsedI on that lay. Thle following Sunday 328 souls were eceived into our communion, miostly itn ofeio of faifth. At two other ommihonis over 500 souls joined at ach one(. At another ingatheriing 628 ouls entered this communion, andl so nanmy of those gathered throngs have " ilready entered heaven that we expet o feel at home when we get there.t diy! my! Won't we be glad to see.I hem-the men and women who stood: )v us In days that were dark and days i ,hatt were jubilant! hlosannah! Tihe work (tone In that church on Schermer- I iorn atrest can luever be undone. What self sacriflces on the part of many, whio gave almost till the blood eame! What hallelujahs! WVhat vie-| tories! WVhat wedding marches played I with full organ! What babtisms! W hat sacraments!I What obsequies! One of( them on a snowy Sabbath afternoon,( when all lBrooklyn Seemed to suympa. I thize, and my eldest son1, bearing my I wn name, lay beneath the pulpIt in1 the last sleep, and Florence Rice Knox tang, and a score of mInisters on and. around the platform tried to interpret1 iow it was best that one who had just some to manhood, and with brIghtest vorldly prospeat&, should be taken and ie left with a heart that will not cease o dche until we meet where tears never all. That secoi vabernack! What, a tu undous reiniscence But, if tho eter of my text had known what an uderlak itg it. ii I o build two taberna les he w oild not have proposed two, i say nothn1iiW Of three. S ant ami ersary srmon iim,st tionds be soni ht autobiographical, let ie say I avo not been idle. Duiring the tal Ig of tho two tablerfacles lifty-two ouku, under as imiany titles, iade up rom lily writIngs, were published. )ring that tine also I was permitted o di :cuss all the great questions of the lay inl all the great cities of this conti lent, and in many of them manty times, wesides preaching and lecturing ninety ix times in England,Scotland and Ire and in ninety-four days. IDuring all that ti mie, as well as since, I was eniaged in editing a religious lew.spaper, belioving that. sutch a peri xdical was capable of great usefulness, And I have bei a constant centributor to newspapers and periodicals. Meai while all things had become easy in thle Brooklyn Talernacle. Oi a Sabbath in Octob-r, 1881), 1 announced to ily cuigregition that I would In a few weeks visit the Holy Land and that the ofliceurs of the chuich had consented to Ily going, aid the wish Of a i tetime was aboit, to be fithilled. The next Sabbath morning, abot 2 o'leek or juit after midiiight, ai member of iimy louisehold awakened mo by saying that thure was a strange light inl the !ky. A lhunir.itorm h.id let t the air ill of elect ricit y, and fromi horizo to horizi evi r%thiris emeiid t! blaze. Biut, (hat, did not d tsturb me, ntil i an observa I ion tAfkei from the cupola i my hoimise <ecearod Ihat the second 'I aiale was pt'ing onl red wings. I scoittd I le idea acid tiurned over on I hi- pillmv f or anotmer sleep, but a ntim bei of exol,ed voit*es called me Io the rool, ain(d I wient itn and s;atw clarly d Iiied inl the night the litry ual.afalq:te I rIll, s.-coid Tabern;aclv. When I saw ilt. I said to my family: "I think that cis my vork in Brooklyn. Surely the L ini will not call a iniister to bitld t.Lwe cuitirches in one city. The build in' of one chirch generally ends the w-eulilness of a pastor. Ilowv canl alny oRI pre.,id at the building of three cblirCIes?" ht before twenity-foar hiurs had passed we were compelled to cry out, A itLI I'eter of My text, "Let US 1J:1d three tabernae s." We mniit Ive a home somewhere.. The oli site Ih;A ceaseh to be tM.e cvidenr f our COcI i- gaion, and tht- en ter (if the con r( .ation, as near as we cot.ld riud it, is %:here we iww stand. ilavi;.t selected thie lpot, should we bituhl oii it a barn or a t;iernacle, beau i'iil it cominimlioms ()r comimtio ice-te, as welt 19 our N':tgioni, cOMm111ianud Id he latter. Bitut what pwsh, what in .l':.ry, what skill. wh.it. sellf sacrifice. wit, faith in (,oid were necess irv v Im <)(itiments and hindrances w itho! It cwicber we thrown in the tway, and had t i-ot betii for the perseverance if our iorch lliis, and the practical help >I miany people. aid tho prayers o mil i( . tf good sOuil3 in 111 parts of the ,.ch, and the ble.iiing of Almigh:v the work would not have betni houe. I;t it is done, and all good pen pI wiho behold the structire feel inl hari' hiartu, if they dnot ,utter it with Ic-it lp,"low amiable are thv tabi r [,:1e.4, () Lord of Pw,,ts!" 0n the LLrd .abbath ftiof last A pril this church wi.M dedicnted, Dr. Hamlin, ot' Wa.iii int.n,prhacing an in spiring sermo , ID V itidtll I 'rim , of N ew York, offer til the ei<hcatory rprayt.r and some 11 t. ni ce-rg.ymen durini- the duay tak ing I ow suggestive to many of us are the virs spllehd out in flowe-rs ab.aive theu pupit t"t8 t" aid ' "1Mi'- or thio:A da's bound what captutres, what griefs, wit:?.t iggles, wbat Intriumphs. .1 icnc to .i it a-s a matter' of gratitude to Ge; d that iln those twenity-t.hree years I hav e mn:ted bu it one Sabbiat h thrnongh phy:si - ('t)a l disp ot, and lbut thre icnt the thiirty-s;ix years (if my1 mliniistry. Acnd flow, haini g r'.tChied this tw tounty-Lthird mIIh-stonet, I sant, anew. I hatve iln iv I inmora(num books antalyse.c of mno:e sermaous thtan I have evecr Se preachted, and I ha vet preachedi as ne'ar as I c;i c t ell. abou t 3,380. Du)trmcg these paist ears I I..tve learn ed two or thivce Ithings. Aiccig othters I iv ,e leI:rn. lithaI t ''all Iings work to gc-the cr I or go&idi." .\l y pousi ti e modnie of pr tihm ha om~ clet Ines'- s~- ceid to st ir tht host ilitics ofi all ath antd hte:. li elinig calh-d upout lftwo ye-ars agi to e xpldoret underl0grouindci N iw Y orx cy Ac It, t hat I might report the -v i is to he comibatedl, I to'ok with liue two elders ot cliv chirein ancd aL N e w York ttolie corit liionerilt' andt a jolijcemiact,' acid I tex ili tted anc d t-port ed thce h c oros that .e'ideid recmov-al atnd the a!lluirelInen s that. eccn tngered our y otung imenk. There n :ihgcmuii)n tht I righltenled ahinost, i verybod(y bt'lt tn'elf. Tlha,t explorai Ltin put int.to liy chit uh thirty or forty lie wpapel'r crspociden ts fr cm northI, mcitLh, eist and west; whtich1 opIened for mle niew aventutes ict whichcl t.o preach the c:pel ttat t.ther wise woul niever have bi'a opienied. 'i Oltrs patssed ont anid I p)reached a so ri's 01 sermclon 5ott All tusieents, anld at fa se rep)ort of what. I did say--and ono >I tihe sermnoits said to have been p)recUh xd by me1 was riot inte ini a single wvord - mused a violecce thatt thr'eatented and with ipoision and dirk and pistol rie >i her loIas1* of cx ii inguish men t, tint Iii Lle chief of Brookly hn plolice, without iccy sucgge'stioni from me, tocok pioses 11.g ofi the chuiirca with twenty-four poacemten to see that no harmi wats done. jilt I ernteredl for prea'~chling the Gus. A Iter- awhicl' camei( an ecclesiastic:ml iali, Iin w hich I w:a arrainged by pto do whlo dtid not like the way 1 did thinogs mdi alt hough I was ae< itittedt of aill Ithe bartiges, tile circtes?. shook the Anmei i -iat ohurch. T[hat battle made rie mre ri-nds than anyvthinig thlat ever hap )t'led and gav' cue 2hisitendomn atnd noge than Chriist endom0-r for my weekly mittenice. Onl the demolition of each -hizrh we gut a btten antd a latrg'r -ht:rch, andl nIot a disaster, riot a cari it ore, not a persetiIon, not an assutt, htiurig all thesm t wenty-three years, bit ii ined out for our atdvant age, and1( mghit I not to believe that "all things yt.ck together for goodl ?" hlosannah' A riot her lesson I have learned cdurmg htoc t wenty-thcreeu years is that It is not iecessar.v' to prneach error or p)ick llhaws 0 the old Bibile to get an autdience; he old Book without anly lixing tip is ~oi)d inotigh for me', arid htighor erici :1s0n, as it is called, mleanas lo wer re'lig c. IIligher- crit irisim is anoi(the r form if iltdelity, and its dIsc'iples will he itevt letss and less, until many of themn vill landh in Nowhere aund become the vorshilpers of an eternal "What Is it." 'ce most oi the'se higher critics s3eemi o be seeking notoriety by pitching into ho Biible. 1t is such a brave thing t a trike youcr grandmother. The old iotpe-l put in mtodeni p)hrase, and with. lit aniy of the convtyionailities, antd idsptedi to aill 111 he wants andi woes of iuiianity, I have found the mightiiest. ntagnet, andl we have never lacked tin md lence. Nxt to thei blessing of my own faci y 1 account the blessng that I have ail ways had a great miultittude of people to preach to, That old Uospel 1. have preached to you these twentty-three years of my 13rooklyn pastorate, and that old Glospel I will pretch till I d ie, and charge my son, who is on the way to the Imi try, t cl preacl it after I for I remem ; er Paul' thundt bolt, any man pruach any other (ompol, hun be accured." And now, I I stL here o mny t-iwenty-third anniversar se;c two audienmces. 'lie one is imI ip of all those who have worshii with us in the past, but. have beei tra luted to hijgIer ealim. What groups of cldberln --too I and too sweet al to, lovely lor eai and the Lord took them, but they se present today. The croup has gone of the swollen throat, and the p-i) from the cheek, and they have on th the health and ra(liance of heav IIail groups of glorillied cluldren ! Il glad I am to have you come b ick tc today! And here ,si those aged oi who departed this life leaving ai aN vacancy in hoinie and chturch. WI are your stafl's, and whtre are your g locks, id w% ht-re your stooping ih( ders, ye bies: ed old folks? "Oh!" t say, "we are all young agai, and bath in the river from under Throne has made us agile and boundi It the place from which we come t 1S0 no staSff, but SCeptetl'!" 113ail, thers and tmther- in Isreal; how g we are to have you come back to gi us. Biul. the other audience I see, in axinationl is madtl up of all thost whom %vi- have hal -)pporWtulity v church, directiy or imlire.tly, of I seuting mt (ospel. Yea, iil 6y p:tr es -eem to coilne i.ck t(d:L. Th I ple of my Orsi charg in 11iev New .c:.y. Ii'e piople of 11mv :4ec, charge in Sy rauso, N. Y '. The poi of iny th i rt charge in l'hiladelphi. i' the people of all thi-sw three Ircok Tiabi'rnamles. Look at, I hv1ll,:-,td all V, w hiom, through the -r.n'iing press, have invited to Go'l :Ild haven, I s-'imirig to Ait in galltri, s a-ove g;l ics, Ii fty galleries, a Imired galia,t a tholusawl galleries high. I greet them aill in ymir nato. an Christ's name, all whomi I havo < fronted frim imy% first srin- n inmy I villiage charge, whert my lips t rent anld my kne's knocked together It affright, spheakling from tho- text, .J mlliali, i, 1j, "Ah, Lord G,od, hehold I c not speak, ftr I am a child! " until sernon I preach todsy from Luke 33, "Let us make i iree tiabernacl thoFe of Ole past and the present, galter inl inagination. if rot in real all of us grat eful to God for past n cies, all of' us :iorry for misimpro oppi'rtunities, all hopeful for uter raptures, and while the visible aiid iivi:-ible aidieies >A the presnt'fit tile past commingle, I gi ;(. mit tc su:n by thoFe who are here today, to be sting by thoe who :shall read this ',cemw of remint.9ene ;IaI congi Illation, that hyinn whic!i ha b* vi r ing on since Isaac Watt-s starlei it< hun-Ired ant! ilft,y years ago: Our God, our help in ages aIst, Our lope for years to Coine; Our blh'lter from the stormy blast, And our eternal holme. NW Yo!K. April (.-Solil- of ex""enIC"t that the IeV. Dr. Pl hur.t li had to und- rgo in the vigor< igght hi hn ik in.<ing against N and crne and the places anti poo that enoraii-i' e them were revealed tle testim,in1 y riven by the .cver entlemnan t'day in the <h?pos.-es I cerdils broIght aain-t Ilattie Ada who, it iS (ai - ed, kI'eps a hi11Ou 0 repute. Mr. Parkhure- tcstified that the night of March 11, .A-ent Cl G Lrdnel, o,lhl Erving, a eterk emplo ('n WVall street, and hiimsel had gon<t the hbousei qeti on lC1lI). W hen1 thie pa entered th'e room they foundi a nutn of young ''irls theure. Ieer wvas ordei of which every~ bl(y pr.eent, took. T iher Mr. Irving or' Mr'. Gardner thit if any o' tho 4irl1s hadt anythv (10 they lad bertter (d0 it. The can. dlancte was d!i eied upon, and fivye of ~irls w'ere c,electedt for th:e performai 'Te girls d!isr'oh ed In another room dan Icedh w hl-- Ier'fec t ly nakt d. A tler "eir'uit" lmore 'der' was l.ad, andt t '?'3 was~ pa:d by therni for1 each girl da ing. 'The re ve'end genZtIlmn adir ii that Mr'. Eri'g danclled with one of L.aked wOne :1th d lthL at Ar:eni LG;ard 1p1aj at leap tro inw ithi thema. Mc.s e1tvilig aridf (idner' uals test;il, t1 e'.it'etne heilai .11ll-lt, re' cR Cts shil to that e:tli by Drn. 1'arkhiurst. "tAl' was theO li(ci T I1 he~ dele iI m l dsll5 the cte42se,' but tbe motiot mo until tlroorrow. Endt u of tho w Ct'.t&vLAn. ,i AIl IN 1'TON, A PVil -I.-- )ec1iloi the impor)tnt1 c ase of then Coosa w 1N ing Com piulY againlst te State of So Cairohna wats ren'Idered toditay by thme pr1eme Court of tihe U.nite .1 States in I or' oft' te State. T1his case i nvol' i)tssessionl of f.hu vi'Iable p)hioshl r'ock landls on1 the Coosawv river. In I t,he Legislature gave' 1.he Coosaw et panlly the i'ight toi wo;k these landls t,wenty-(one yeats, and1( in 18s7( tile elusive righlt to wor k them was given expiredt last, vear', but thle comlpan y fus,ed 1o reCiin Iish possession, on conltentionl that the r~ght !iven by net, of 187 Slwas 1not onlyV exclusive perlpetuai. Tile caa'e wats broulghti the St,ate courts, the State contend thait tile ex.'lusive right, given wasm tweCnty-onle. 3e Cr onlySh, from 187iI. 'J U~nite'd States Ciri'e, ( 'ourt, f'or' 1he tric:t of South Car'olina decided in fa of thte SLt,at, and( tile Stupremte Court, (lay alliirmeitd that? dhc,Sionl. Jusl liar'lan ltndered tile deCcision of A li1 TAte a 10tts Deatth. I)i'Tnoti'r, March 31.--'T. N. Fecrrel traveling salesman, of D)anvdle(, waIs knocked down by ain unlknloW wn1 on Monroe arvenu~e, this~ city. WI p)ickedl up hie was founld to be unTC scions, and diedl at 1 o'clock this mo ing. Last Saturday night, wvhien For arrived at tile Russell flouse, he suffering from alcoholism, anid a ph, clan ordered him to remain in I, This he refuseqtd to do, appearing menited. Tluesday night Ferrell left hiotel, and( nlothlIng was kniown of whereabouts unitil he was5 knloch downm yest'erday tifttrniooni. A dtlm lye visited F"er'rell at the hlospitaIl b an hiouri a fter te asaul nt cla imfs found JUi1n able to :onvierse0, andit v informed by hiimi that, 11e and( hlis ass. aunt wer'e i iends(, amid had been out gether. IDett'ct.ives are working onil A Y.,uing M..t her 1)-rvowed. MONT'(OMER-Y, Ala., Marchei 303 Mr's. Kalte Clay, her little child and I mnater', Mr's. llannah Faruley, were t mng ani atternoon diivte. TLhe river' is v< high and( the( back water has iloode0 how portion in 111e northecast portionl tihe city. Thell ladies drove necar1 riv'er to look at, the high water, a while crossinlg a sulbmerge.l bridge horse become frighitened, and bancI off' the bridge into a dieep ravine. Ml Farley and tho chlild wore rescured, 1 the efforts to save M's. Cl'ay wore u vailing. 11er body13 was recovered i in a half hour of the drowning. '] victim of tis sad accident was ajont iears old1, and had been marrIed ab five ';ears. She leaves a husband I two chna,--n . THE WOOL DEBATE CLIOISED. l '1t ile i A m em sit m niit It ectc(l inti th- Wsil RI,Il-rd Fftvor..bly. uoe w W INilNo-rON, April 7.--In the ilouvi yistc-rday centrary to expectation, an air aimicable arrangement, was reached as h, to the limitof time for the consideration mIII of the frte wool bill, and the clouds o' Mut yesterday disappeared. lor IMr. McMillin moved to go into com en. mittee of the whole on the bill, and con ow sented to limit the debate to one and its one-half hours, the time to be equally dividf d, and asked Mr. Burrows to ac (r. cept it as a fair compromise. ray This arrangement was agreed to. m' The Ilouso then went into committee ley of the whole (Mr. lount of Georgia in h the chair), the peading motion being ng. that of Mr. Burrows to strike out the hy word "wools." This was naturally re lad jectedl. eet M I. Otis (Fariaers' Alliance) of Kan. ml- sits moved to strike out the entire flrst to section, which insulted the wool grow R a ers :ind flock masters of the country. n e- The second section robbed their pocket ish- hooks. lie wos amazee that the Demo (0) cratic ways and meana committee ille, shotild report such a bill. lie would 1n11 never vote to place wool on the free list ple :d t ax woolen fabrics. Ln'I Mr. Henderson (Rep.) of Illinois op IyII posed the bill. lie said he was unwill ose imY i:tt the producer of wool should not we oaio in the beniefits of protection when LOW wool was put on the free list. It was !t-r- wrong to place wool on the free list and It's, Iax woolenl goos. Mr. Lind of Minnesota spoke in a I in iilar way, and said he believed in qn- (ual protection to all. Tihe price of an irst article was fixed by the law of supply ded and dem md, not by tariff. om Mr. Lanhamn (Dem.) of Texas favored re- the bill, but he advocated a comprehen :n- ive ii, thoroughly ieformatory in its the provi.ions and embracing every sched IX, tile. es, Mr. 13abbitt (Dem.) of Wisconsin fav all ored the measure, and said he had no ier- respect for the Republican party, and ved that they could not fool the people any Ved longur. Dab th'i Mr. McKeigham (Ind.) of Nebraska ad inade a pointed speech, favoring the I bo ineasire because It proposed to place md manufactured gocds on the free list and of abrogated odious specific duties. lie was oI)l)oSed to any system of "daddy" oil- goveintment. As a farmer he asked e CoLigress to take its hands off his busi ness atd leave him alone. [Applause] It the Democratic party hat been logi cal ard honest on this question, they would have settled it long ago. No amount of persuision or threats by manu facturers would intimidate a sin the gle reinber from Nebraska. le said rk itt if the Democratic party had been thoroughly Democratic there would be no Third pariy in this country.[Laugh "cc ter I Ily- Mr. J. 1). Taylor of Ohio and Mr. )y Dngley of Maine opposed the bill. ti Mr. Mcillin of Tenn., in charge of tro- he bill, said that by this bill an oppor OR, tumity was pre6ented to the people to r1 relieve themseives of a great burden. Oil Let in who would go back to his con it,. stiLtuents and say that. he had voted to yel ktep a tariff on wool at nearly 100 per to cent. [ Applause on the Democratic rty side.] ber All the amendments submitted by tihe -cd, Riepublicans to tihe first section of the ten bill wt-re voted down, and the commit mi tte pl aceeded with the second section. to M1r. Breckinridge defended the6 bill, enn and ia Ile it was not all that he could the deal re, yet it was a long step in the right ce. directioni. IIe said that when he was a i bay a pair of trousers could be patched, and ntow it was impossible to patch tl~thiem--thiey were not strong enough to iCen hold a patch. [Laughter.] The bill e-: would miake good material as cheap as tedl poor material, Hie would repeal the ih.e McKiuley bill, the ad ministrative bill, ner and .starL t aresh with the entire tariff, us, no matter whether the bill met with a leir veto at the hands of the P'resident or ihar niot., lie was ready to follow the man ur, who hadl carrledl the flag of reduction of he taxamtiont. To him he wot-ld say "God ci, speed." [ Irolonged applause.] v.: i. Mlilliken of Maine opp)osed the "it Mr. Jioutells (Rtep.) of Maine opposed the bill and defended the system of pro tection. .Mr. Mallory (Dem.) of Florida favor i m d the bill, antd opened his remarks Ein- wi the quotation: "Nero tiddled utht while Rtome burned," and said that the Su- Rtepublican party had been indulging imv- in .jibes, jeers and inuendoes ever since redl this bili,was tinder consideration. The ate mecasure vitally affected every Interest s70 int the eounitry, and lie favored reducing .the tariff all along the line. 'rJTho debate was devoid of special in exterest. andl was principally conspicuous ~X for the large number of speakers. The tu' usual hour for adjournment having at aseC i vedl, an attempt was made to postpone re- iurt.her consideration of the bill until the tomorrow, but Mr. McMillin stated the the bill could easily ho disposed of in com b)ut mlittee( todlay, and the concluding sec nto ticins of the bill were read. ing, The committee then rose and the bill for was reported to the House with a fav L'he orable recommendation. y)_ ThIl ouse then adjourned until to vor (liay, when the bill was again taken up to- and passedl by a vote of 192 to.60O. Icc A Diabelio i6i Plot. the PA nIS, April 0.-The authtorities are not relaxing their vigor in searching out atihe anarchists. Today the police seized 'a., a p)ackage from Sainte Et,ionne, and ad lunn dressed to Matthtieu, known toebe a comn .pauiont of 'Navachol. The package con rn- tained revolvers and dynamite cartridges rell andI was evidIently intendied for use in ;committing more outrages. It is said ed. that the police received warning about de- tiis package from one of the anar-.hists the his now under arrest, p)robably Chaumartin. T ihe police htave also been collecting evi et.- dhence in regard to the alle2ed plan of aif certain anarchists to polison the hood of lie wealthy people. They have proof', It is vias said, that several of the anarchists unl ii- der~ arrest conJspired t,o ptoision by whole to- sutlc the members of' one ef the prmncip)al he Paris club s. One of them is alleged to have repeatedly apphe-l for employment as waiLtr at the club, and cipher corre .-spondlence found on him shows that his ter ob)ject, was to poison the viands or ik- drinks. This form of conspiracy, bow ry ever, is believed to have been confined . a to ai comlpariatively small circle, it, is of said that Rmavachol con fessed that he heo wrote the article in the Journal Internia *nd tional describing how to blow up public the buildings and giving information as to ecd the manufacture of the bombs and high ra explosives, lie says that the explosive Jut lie had employed in the Boulevar d street, ta- Germain and Lobau barracks aflairs thi- were triple power dyn.Amite, Hie charged 'he the destructive machine with two kilo 25 grams of dynamite and two kilograms out ~f hisa own explosive. The explosive, mud 'ich Ravachol calls his own, is being Electropulse. Why stiler with sickness or disease ,vlien you co be so easily and quickly Lured without medicine by the use of the E.lectropolse. GADODEN, S. V., July 27, 1891. ATLANTIC ELECTROPOisE Co. Charleston, b. C. 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