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At THEI ft ME~hRAJ.I REV. D'. TALMAGE'S SERMON ON THE 1 HUMAN FACE. "A Man'd WIltci1 Mak3lcth illS Face to 1 8llg"-T1hO (reat Yroache~r A34aIlta MI)s cOUrteo Upon a li0itn Stai'.) 0 ' A Sltill r of tho Mtali.uI RuiooXmiYNi, Feb. 25.--In the Brook lvn TaborDnleIO this forenoon Hev. Dr. Talmase chose for the tuiject ol his s cr mon "The liumnu Face" and bel his great fuelince fai nalChlted wCi h 1 h 1I charm of his eloquence as lie dIiscoulSd oln a subject of universal interesT. lext was ]cclestes V;i, 1, "A. lim8'd wIs' dom maketh his bice to ahine, unmd the boldness of his face shll be chainwed."' or, as it may berendered, "the -oumness of his fac shall be aweetened.1 " Thus a little chanie in our English translatic- brious out the hetter me an iug of the xt, which sets forth 1tif I. the character of the Itce is dccided by the - character of the soul. The main features of our countenance wore d cided f v Almtihty, and wo cantiot chin-ie Ih, but under God we decide whi hi w e shall have countenanlces i.0;- ii or baleful, sour or sw. ! tf, wr4iti' i or ild benevoletit or une. hloe'' or eu drelly, ini idet. or inh' 1 'iliii d or cowardly, !rnik or senk-w. In all the w k I o! G ( r 1 Ing 11ore wvonu I'l! thil coiotcinnic lThug te is less thin 12 IC of the torehead lo the hi.II Ila d the huroll'Ic1 ( (. ; " - v l 1t fillit u I (''' stich dtleret' , 1;, of t he I umaIU n'rce t;a he Ui 1 froin ech ('her Ivy ther I i n allees. ThE e I-, oldtil:in l \ of cl tic der. It is I 1 eo oin. It 1is Oheh ' - passfions. It isi the n:du acler. IL ;Is ie mapi i v ma i the geopraphy ( I lie ! . And whil the lml :, b l our irtli wh the. t: or hoinely, wie art, bf h we Ifn-111 dI.,d!l w. illic 3 sihadl he jdu s I Ti.s is i I . Iu i'' most beaii htie (lisc of Ilir r't ei. Itlt eSs, a11d i l ! 4.i I 1 alnd ir fgti li Icaulu T - caulse ot the CIidh t themi. Acill(nt oi. 4:; :,1 toi may ved : c Iii eXI 1eSS lie UI, bLi n \ easj es g ie 1,i 1 : i iil1111S coll i -ll i;me d it t whether he is at cuxe c p whether he is a mi r a 1 p. iNt, whether' li t nob; : r u n whether he s I d ri : ii rs' n pressiOl of at 111111l1 <1 ' I the iectirate I ure t. You at the firs l uh : .ep Mind that soline man31 i:' W1,imworm' frieidehip, Iut i ttr m by N stanee8 he ~ Jll* ,u .Iilo; il~ t tion With lii Vo IW ke b trust hi1m. 1, ar w . eniouigh, itivd .nu wmi he' i return to yiur (r - character, I fu. it w ;]I azoor le theated Oiu Im I '.*\('m I. h, "! Ii e lay his ha id n, 0 I : i 2 . i a 11tha we halve 11 o s e t ." character. Phrcnolor i in. inh x a wi while it Nma he earria to an at ex tent there is nto doubt. thavt1~u( eenP in ti' somewhat of a mum : charemerv* v th shape of his head. I\isi:try la113anotit indlex, and while it 31nay be' carrkdiCt nlto the lanciful andh necrnintie iere l ti i( doubt that eera Ltin i c in 1: the palm ii 31 the hand1( 3are inia tVive Il imen1tatliand moral traits. I'hysiugnom 1y is anothe 11ndemx, and whle the contour of the human tface may somet imeis mislad uts we can igenceally,1 after looking ]Iio( the eye and nioticing the curve of the lip, and the spread of'. -the nostril, and the correlat ion of all the features, comue to a right. catituate of a man's character, If it were not so, how wouldl we know whomen to trust andl whom to avoio'r Whet her we will o'r,no't, pihy Biogliomy detcifs ai thio Sand things~ tom. me rcial and liuancial and1( soc ial 3133 l rh ious domiais. .lamot (1ne lidl ot the Ilh b)le to the otheri theris~ no11 elence so I recognizetd ats thait oit phsonm and nothing more thioroui: blfy Iiaken for n'riiut ed L.han the power' .l tihe i< ii to teNii ure the face. The Bihle spieaks of the "lu-o of (;od .' the face of Jesus Chi;lst, th n faic tf Esau,"' the "'face <f lsriotl," thle ie' o Job," tihe '"lace of the~ ol mn," 2 the shining "lacee of Mores,"' the wvriol i "face or P hairoahi,"' the ashes( ('1on :te c of humiliuttion, the resurriec'ionarty ;it on the face of 31he d(11 clildt, thie hy, po - crites diiguriug their lace, andiu in mys text the Bible declar~es, "'A inan w:IV; domn maikethi his ftee to shihne, and( the sourness ofhis faice shabhbe a weetenedc. ~ If tuhe Bible lhas so nmeh~l to saiy abouit phyivaounomy, wio (do nto. wonder!C' tt the wVorldl hits made( it. Ii istudy1' fr1m the - early age. Ini Vam1 the jiio) lih palhaittment in the ' limo of Georg~e 11t orderne. pl)icl y wv i p ped1 and i mprionedl those who11 sihe 'ct physioenomiy. Inutelli.;ett ple~l a ways have. a;ualied if anid always wu studiy it. The pis ofl Moses 31( J)hu and .Job and JIohn and f'ml, as5 welt as, of Ilosnmer and lippee.:tts a1U t (Galen and Aristotle and3( iSi:rites and1( Pito ~ and Liavater, haIve bece dippecd into it and whole libraries~ o1 wheat and clii al havo been garneredI on thi: theme, Now, what pr'achical, t e'li.eous land eternal use would I nuike ol 1his subjaet?q I~aui goin.g to shomat.1i' "hl w le a~re 0 not responsible f r our le: ii ss, the Lorditd shall be p~renaitally, as the Psahnlist de- ~ clares when he writes. 'un my book all my mnembei s'wete written which in contInuance were fashioacd~i when as yet there wab none of them," yet the etuune---* ter which under God we from will chiseil the face most mightily. Every a would like t eanevrwanar r pbinelav bee mad a*dose c We all want to be agreeabic. Ourn. fulness depends so meuch,upon it thit I conslder It important and Christinu for every man ant woman to be sare able as possible. The slouch, tie sloven the man who does not care how lhe looks, all such people lack eqipmuent for use funess. A minister who has to throw a quid of~tobacco out of his mouth before lie begins to preach, or Christians with -beard utrimmed, making them to look like wild botists come out of the lair yea, unkempt, uncom bed, urnwashec d, dis agreeable meni or women-are a hin dracee to religion more than a recoim mendation. .Now, my text luigests how we may, Independent of features, make ourselves agreeable, "A man's wisdom maketh his face to shine the sourness of lisa faco aball be sweetened." What I say may come too lato for many. Their counto nance may by long years of hardnesi bave boon Irozen into 'stolidity, or bl long years of cruel behavior they ma3 inve Herodized all the machinery of ex >rossiou, or by long yeare of avarice hey may have been shylocked until hoir face is as hard as the precious netal they are hoarding, but I am in ime to h)elp multitudes if tho Lord will, ['hat it is possitle to overcome disad ,antaes of physiognomy was im this ountry mightily illustrated by one whose ife recently closed after havmw served ) the presidential cabinet at Wnshing on. By accldent of fire in cllildhoo( il f[ce had been more piteously scarred hn anly huian vis1e. that I ever 9aw. ly hfard study he rose from bein!' a poor >oy to the very Leight of leal prokcs ion, and when an a'torley r2enteral of he United Mt ales was ieeded tiee tered .he prenidential (ahinet. What ia tr LitT ih over destrO)Ied hl lill cotillt I do lit wiI.'rler IlA t whenl 14n oppos itii atttornefy il fl 'hiiadelilia court roomi euuel ry eerrd to f li8i norsoioal 1i sli llvil)nt Heli11lit) 1". Brwc VAt replied i tiese' wor 4: "Whe t Was a ihabe I wasi a b ilitiifll Wle c)ed child. I kilfIw s br:isile ly <enr dead m1iotherp told M, SO. 1i! I WailS )e (lay playing with in y N' sister Wien, lii' clothles took fire, Wtd t rin it) her 1e001 anid Faved her.I i ' ) 'o ily clothes took fire, and w w is not put, out u til i ly fi't c , : I b iz Oie heart of the Scount e wh haai jus' now reiferred to my Tha scolalyretfnlar feiaturres Ii er ("lIr r mak tn' powverful -n' wi n aiia, who photo. ni "h bly pre.senece u wWhlitefield, whlose whstrabismus; andl (i'ens, who stl. pale valif's chuir while le A cC'caln congress with his 'C. lml tianisands of invalid d abbatlh echool teachers 1 Wi n)workers. Aye, the most h:w! the world ever saw was I hv Isinah, Who described his escd and gashel aund Satcriticed, of him), "Iii V!HiaZ Was so ilOrC t ally mall.' Sio yo it the loveliest face in the tililversC acrred face. Ad low I am going to tell You of 4e of the chiscls that work for tie dis. oration or irradiation of the hmIlan mnteat;e. One of the sharpest an( ot dlestru active of those chiselt of the uintenance is cYllicismu. That eouis C dispositioll and then sours the face. vives a contemptuous curl to tle lip. draws down the corners of the loutl li infla1tes tile nosktrils as with a malo. 'r. V iat I )avid said inl haste lethe say their deliberatiou, "All men are u ."Every thing is going to ruin. "All enl aInd women are had or are Yoing, to . Soci ty and the church are on tile vun radoe Tell tiicm of an act, of be. - and they say lie gave t'uIt to ir1 eUil cl. They do not like th3 S i hon of lats for women or of ,its ifr ien. They are opposed to C iifdm ration, municipal and state :mala. Somehow Food does not as it used to, and they wonder why 1 oir no poots or orators or preach . as when they were boys, Eveni SolOmn131, one of the wisest and . 11e time ouc of the worst of men falls to the pessiuistic mood and cries outl the twenty-first chaptsr of Proverns, W ho call find a virtuous woman?" it had behaved himself uter, and kept igood associations, he would not have -ritteni that Interrogation point imply ! (lie scarcity of good womanhood, 'vneism, If a habit, as it is with tens al itmuads of people, writes itself' all ov r thle features; hence so mnany sour vis L!es all up and down the stiee., all1 ul nid down the church and (lie world. One good1 way to make thie worbi gorse is to say it is worse. Let a de. ircused and forebodmw Opinion of' evern hinlg talke pospessioni of y'ou for 201 year mid youI will be a cight to behold. tt i lhe chlastisement of' God that whien I uantl allows his heart, to be cuirseid witl 3ymismii his face becomes gloomed an< lcowledl andlu lachlrymosedI and blaste: vith t he same mlidnfigh t. lBut let (Christiani cheerfulness try it :hiir'l 1upon1 a man'11s couintenanc. Feel ng thalit alil things are for his Lgood1, an<l hat G~od rules, and1( the Bible beinig tru lie world's tloralizatin is rapIdly ap1 >oacnen, and (ho day when beer miii .nl demiijohn and dist illery and bomblh liell and rifle~ pit, and 74 pioundlers 11ant ouletfte talies anld ,.orrut~lt book iand 5a. ine print ini. press will hiave q]uit wvork, ho brhlthtness that comes from anlticipa ion not only gives zest to his work, bul hlnes inl hi eyes and glows in his cheel md1( kindles ai moi~rnigi in his enitire couni eie~ce. Th'lose aire tihe faces I look foi Ii an1 auldienice. Those counitcnainee reI ficeion lofS(11 milennial glory. ThS re heaven imlpersoniatedi. They are t.h ii lltuiahi ligh fted. They are Obris1i .1 di' not (car1 what yotur features are r whether ':11 look like your fathler 01 (o11'n- othier or look like n1' One uindet hie heavens--to God a111ndian you nire cautibitl. M'elleal Angelo, the sculp. Wr, visiltinlg Florence, some( on1e siho wd im ml a baieck yardV a piece of marble imt wias so saiipees ft, seemed of 11io se, anid Anigelo was asked if lie could itake any1thing outL of' it,, and( it so) be as told lhe coul own it'. The, artist >ok (lie mlarble and1( for nline muonthsii mut himtself' tup to wvork, first tryinig to lke of it a statue of Dlavid, withi his tot 011 Gohiathi, but, the marble was not tiite long enough at the base~ to mlake 1c prostrate form of' (lie giant, anud so hc arist fashioned (Ih nimarblle inito ill her figure (that is familouls for I timo because of' its expressivence. A critle came in anid was askedl by ulgcio for his cri ticismn,'and he said it as beautiful, lint (lie niose of (lie statue as not of' (lie ri1~ht shape. Angelo icked up from (he floor some sandl and >53a11 it about (lie face of th'e statue, reotninig lie was ulsing his chlisel to mike (lie improvement suiggestedl by (lie ritic. "W~hait do you think of it now'' aid the artist." "Wonderfully imn l oved,'' said (lhe critic. '"Well "' said bie artist., "'I have not changed it at all'' My iriendts, (lie grace of God comes to lhe heart of' a man or womain and then tefmpt3 to change a fot bidding ne d1 pro udicial face into attractiveness. P.er laps (he face is muost tinpiromising for he <hivie sculptor. But, having abanged the heart., it begins to wvork onl the countenancee with celestial chisel, anld into all (lie lineamenlts of (lie face puti a gladness and an expiectaticn that chlange it from glory to glory, and tog orti 'ycriticism may disapprove fc t ClOhain (lthe aplpearance of thec created cOuntenance thlat i ch PdatL said of hIm, "'Beholdl the mlani" Hero is anloth~er mighty chisel for the countenance, and you may call It, re venge or hate or mnielnce m..i sl)irilt baving taken s8e8iot of the heart, It etcamups sve dovils under the eyebrows. It puts uelty into the compression of the lips. You can tell from the mlan's looks that he Is puren. Ing some one anul -trying to get even with him. There are suggestions of Ne. ro and Robesplerro and Dioclotian ( and thumbscrows and r-icks all up and down the features. Infernal artists, with mutrders' daggers, have been cutting away at that visage. The revengeful hearlftis bulilt its perdition in the re ven, t il counteii..nce. Dis'igu tiWon of dmahole paq.ion! 1.aut hero comes snothercbisel (o shape the conteitianco and its kidness. There e n' a ioving diay, and into her soul jmov.i i ne whole fainly of Christian g raees, wit h all the children and grand eihi ren, oin the colliland has come fort I I Irom t ie heavens that that wom 111's 11( sliall be niado to correspond withl her sibtrb soul. Her entire face irom oar to ear becomes the canvas ipoin which all the best artists of heav eI tegin to pit their finest, strokes,aihd on tie small compass of that face are put pictures of sunrise over the sea, and angels of mercy going up and down laid ers all aillash, andniountains of transliguration and noonday In hli'ieavt. Kil(ltnessl! It is the most mag lier ,it scilptor that evor touched hu nman couintenanice. .No one could wonder at the unusual getiality in f.l'o face of William Win domu, secretary of the treasury of til U nited States, after seeing him at I he New York banquet just, before ho dropped dead, turning his wineglass uipside down, saying, "lI l1ay by doing this oilend some, but by n1o, doing it i might daimage many." he kind to your friends. JIe kind to ,.iltr cimn mies. l'e kind to the young . Bo kind to the old, le kind to your1 ruletas. Be kind to yOur tsirvants. Be kind to your superiors. iHe kind to your infe riors. l3e kind to y0111 horse. Be kind to your dog. Be kind to your c.t. Morning, nloon Ald night be kind, and the ellects of it will he written in the langtage of your face. That is the gospel of phybiognlomly. A Bayonne merchant was in the soth of Eitrope for his health, and sitting on the terrace one morning in his iivalidiism ie saw a rider fiong from a horse into the river, and with out thinking of his own weakness the inerchant lung off his invalid's gown, leped into the strean and swain to the drowning tua), and clutching him as he was aboutt to go (own the last tiie bore him m1i safety to the bank, when glincing into the face of the res cIed mian he cried: '"My God! I have saved my own son1!" All kindness comes back to us in one way or another; if not in one way,then in your own face. Kindness! Show it to others, for the time may come when yot will need it yoir3elf. Peo plo laughed at the lion because he spared the imonso that ran over him, when by one motion of his paw the monster could have erusled the in significant disturber. But it was well that the lion had mercy o1 the mouse, for one day the hon was caught in a trap and roared fearfully because he was held fast by ropes. Then the nouhe gnaeti off the ropes and let the lion go free. You may consider your self a lion, but you cannot alford to deise a mlouIse. lWhen Abraham Lincoln pardoned a yoinir soldier at th? request of his mother, the mother went down the st aits of the W hite House saying: "They have lied about the president's being homnely. Ie is the handsomest man I ever saw." All over that presi dent's rtgaed face was written the kindness which he so well illlastrated whetn the satid, "Some1 of our generals comiplaini that I implair discipline and sribordlination ill the armty by myl par don)Is and1 respiteCs, bitt it mattkes mel resteid after a hard day's work if I catn hlind seime good exctuso for saving ai int's life, and I go to bed haippler as I tinkni how joyous thle signing of my inuntie wiltlImako him and11 his fimily." K~lindness! It malikes the face shine while iit lasts, and after death it puts a summlner' suntset between the still'lips and11 the smtoothled hair, that makes me Say somneting at obsequies, "She seems too bteauttiti to bury.' itt here cotmes another chIsel, and itsi name1 1 is ypiocri.iy. Christ, with one terrilic i',roke ini his sermoni On the miotunt, dlescribed't this character, "'When ve faust., be not, as the hypocrites of a their faces that they may aippear tto metn to fast." llypocrisy hlavitng taik enl possissioni of thei' soul, it Immteditem ly appeatrs In the coutenance. 1 lypo critrs are alwa'Iys solemn. Thtey carry - several Cout fry graveyards in their f acos. Thely are teairful whten there is nothing to cry about, andl itn their prayers the~y catch lor' their brett h and hatve such geneural dle~fulness that they dilsgust young people withk reli gion. We had 0one of I hiemt in on~e of my chutrchles. WVhen hie exhorted, heo al ways dleplored( the lowi stat~e o1 religion Inl lother people, and whenh he prayed ft wast an at tack of i hyteria, miial he went into a partoxysmi of' obs andu ahs that sented to dI 'm1alnd rettsCi tation . I(1 wenlt ('n in tht[ way unttil we hadir to expel him Lt ri um citurchi for stealinug I ne trator andt~ hor othier vices thtat L will not n'enltiton, and1( he0 wrote m~et several letters not all1 Comliment1011.1y from the west slytug Iihat he was dahiy praiying for miiy iverlaistingl' (leit ~r1ri1n. A man11(11 i Itnn. hiave h y proci tv i a his heart without siomohuow shtowing it in his iac'. Alt ititelle ~init peopile wvho wit ness5 It kno1w it isi ntintg but a dira II ere comes anot her chisel and that belontgs to thte old fashioned religIon. It first takes p)ossinSiln of uthe whole soul1, washintg ouit its sins by the blood of the ItLmb antd startitng heaven rig'it there andi theni. Tfhis do~ne (leep down in the heart, religion says: "Now let me1 go utp to the wtindows 111nd front gate of th fi' ace and set uip same signal that I1 have taiken possession~ of this5 cast he. I will celebrate tihe vIctory by an illuinina t ion1 tiit nto 0one calln mis take. I have Itmdle this .11mn hlappy', and1( now I wihl make him look happy. I will draw tile corners of htis mouth as far up as thley were dIrawa (down. 1. will take the contemptuous curl away from tile lipI and niostril. I will make his eyes hash anid Is chleeks glow at every men~ttioni of ChrIst and( heaven. I will ma~ke even the wrinkles of' his face look like furrows plowed for tihe hlarvests of joy. I will mtake what we call the 'crow's feet' auroud his temn 1)10s suggestive that thle (love of peace ha~s been alhighitting there." T1here may be' signs of trouble on that face, but trou~ble satnctliled. There may be scars oi battle on that face, but they will bb scars o ?a camipailgn won. "Now," says suomfe one, "1 knoW very good people who haiveno 0such religion Onl thleir faces." My friend, thle reason probably Is that they werenIot convert ml until late Inl life. Worldliness and sill hand been at work withl their chisels in that face f or 80 or 40 years, and1 Grace, thle divine sculptress, has been busy with tier chise01 only five or ten years. Do not be surprise that Phidias anid GIreenough, with their fine chisels, cannl~ot im a short whiile remove all tile m Iarks of' the stone mason's crowbar, - llc il been busy there for a long would have sympathetic face hopeful face, courageous face, cheerful Kade; kind-face, at the earliest possible mo ment, by the grace of God, have plant. ed in yoursoul sympathy and hope and courage and good cheer and kinduess. No man over indtilged a gracious feeling, or was moved by a righteous indignation, or was stirred by a bonev- f olent impulse, but its effect was more or less indicated in the countenance. 0 while David noticed the physlognomic e effect of a bad disposition when he t said, "A wicked man hardeneth his face," and Jeremiah must have noticed it when he said of the cruel, "They have made their faces harder than a rock." Oh, the power of the human a face! I warrant that you have known faces so magnetic and impress ive that though they -yanished long o ago they still hold you with a holy spell. How long since your child o went? "Well," you say, "Ii she had t lived, she would have been 10 years old 1 now or 20 or 30." But does not that t infant face still have tender supremacy over you entire nature? During many a an eventide does it not look at you? 0 In your dream do you not see it? What a sanctifying, hallowing inauence it has been in your life! You can say in the words of the poet,"Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all." Or it may have been a sister's face. t Perhaps she was the invalid of the 8 family. Perhaps she never went out y except on every clear days, and then she had to be carried down the stairs to the piazza, or for a short ride, but s-he was so patient and cheerful under it all. As that face looks at you through the years with what an elevated teid heavenly emotion you are filled! Or was it a father's face? The storms of life had somewhat roughened it. A good deal of the brightness of the eye had been quenched and the earlwas 8 turned with the hand behind it in order to hear at all. But you remember that face so vividly that if you were an artist you could put it on canyas, an'l it would mean to you more than any face that Rembrandt ever sketched. That face, through long ago viled from human sight, is as plain in yout mem ory as though you this moment saw it moving gently forward and backward in the rocking chair by the stove in the old farmhouse. Or was it your mother's face? A good mothers face is never homely to her boys and girls. 10 is a Maddonna in the picture gallery 6f the memory. C What a sympathetic face it was! Did you ever have a joy, and that face did not respond to it? Did you ever have a grief, and no tears trickled down that maternal cheek ? Did you ever do a bad tning, and a shadov did not cross it? Oh, it Was a sweet face! The spectacles, with large, round glasses through which she looked at you, how sacredlythey have been kept in bureau or closet! Your mother's your mother's smile, your mother's tears! What an, overpowering memory! Through you have comne on to midlife or old age, low you would like just once more to bury your face in her lap and have a good cry! Ilut I can tell you of a more sympa thetic, and more tender, and more lov ing face than any of the faces. I have mentioned. "No, you cannot," says some one. I can, and I will. It is the face of Jesus Christ as he was on earth and is now in heaven. When preparing my life of Christ, entitled "From Man ger to Throne," I ransacked the art galleries and portfolios of the world to lind a picture of our Saviour's face that might be most expressive, and 1 saw it as Francesco Francia painted it in the sixteenth century, and as the em er aid mntaglio of the sixth ca3nt'ury pres. ented it, and as a fresco in the cat acombs near Rome preserved it, and as Leonardlo da Vinci showed it in "The Last Supper," and I looked in the Louver, and the Lexembourg, and the Vatican, and thme Dresden, anid the Berlin and Neapolitan and London galleries for the most inspiring face of Christ, and many of the presentations were wonderful for pathos and majesty and jpower and execution; but, al though I selected that by Ary Scheffer as in some respeci te most e xpressive 1 felt as we all fe jl, that our Christ has niever yet been presented either in sculpture or paintings and that we wvill have to wait until we rise to the upper palace, where we shall see him as he is. WVhat a gentle face it must have been to induce the babes to struggle out of their mothers' arms into his arms What an expressive face it must have been w~hen one reproving look of it thre-w stalwart P.eter into a it to tears! WVhat a pleading l ace it must have been to lead the psalmits in prayer to say of it, "1Look up~on.Lhe face of thine anoint edl!" What a sympathetic face it must have been to encourage lIme sick wo man who wast beyond any help from the doctors to touch the hem of his gar. imnt! WVhat a suffering face it must have been wh'len suspended on the perpen dlicuilar and horizontal .pleces of the wood of martyrdom, and his an tagonists slapped the pallid cheek wvith their rough hands and befouled it with the saliva of their blasphemous lips! WVhat a tremendous face It mu.' have beeni to lead St John to describu it in the coiming judgement as scatter ing the universe whein he says, "From whose face the earth and the heav fled away." O) ChrIst! Once the Naza~rene, but now the celestil: Once of cr-oss, nowv of thmone! Once crowned with stingin g bramble, but ntow coronetedwith the jewels of ransomed empires! Turnu on us thy pardoning face and forgive us; thy symipathetic face and consolo its; thy suffering face and have thy atone ment avail i or uts; thy omniposent face amnd rescue uts. Oh, what a face! So scarred, so ha cerared, so reeplondent, so over whelm ingly gloutrlous that the seraphim put k wvimg to wving, andl with their conjoined pinions keep off some of the luster that is too mightly even for eyes cherubic or archangelic, and yet this morning 4 turning upon us with a sheathed spledl or like that with which he appeared, when he sid to the mothers bashful - about presenting their children, "Suiffer them to come," and to the poor waif of the street,'-Neither do I condlemn thes" and to the eyes of the bling beggar of the wayside, "lBe opened." 1 think my brother John, the return edl foreign missionary, (dy ig summier before last at Bond Brook, caught a glimpse of that face of Christ when in his (lying hour my brother said, "I shall besatisfied when I a wake in his lieknes.' And now unto him that loved us and washed us from our sins in his own' blood and bath madie um kings and priests'uto God and his Farther, to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen arid amen! Amen and] amen! 8tarving, SAN A NTONIO, TEix AS, Fob. 28.--T'ihe starving people of Starr County have received comparatively light assistance in response to their appeal to the world for help. Their condition cannot be described. Many ranches have been deserted, and a number of deaths from starvation have occurred. Cattle and other live stock have died by the thouis. ands. TIhe county is literally burned up, and water for domestic purposes must be hauled lng distances. AN ABDUCTOR CAPTUREDI 110 na Away With a Thirteen Y.,ar 01< air]. COLUMBIA, S. Q., March 1.-An ab uctor of a pretty young girl, after ef ectURlly dodging the O aicers of the W for about ten days, was yesterday *fternoon run down '~ atrdi ompany With the child whom he had aken away from home, and is now.be Ind the bars. The parties came from 'harleston and to 0haarleston they Will ave to return. It 18 quite a romantic tory, and it is hard to believe that a I irl of such tender years coul haecoae o much infatuated with a gr. wri mane o homely and unprepossessliug as thei no in this case, as to willingy Permit erself to be abducted. t1he is a miss f only thi teen years, petite and pret y, well developed and altogether quite striking looking child. The man, on be other hand,-is a long way from be ig good looking. le is red-headed nd has a red face, and- wears a short ropped moustache. Ile is about thir y years of age. Ile hailed originally rom Lexiugton county, and was once mployed in the Congaree cotton fac ory here. The girl is from Charleston dhere her parents live. When the pair rere arreeted yesterday afternoon and aken to the station house, she did not Dem to mind it much,. perhaps too t oung to realize what it meant. The ellow seemed to be much excited, About ten days ago Chief of Police tadcliffe, having previously received a rief telegram, got the following letter otifying him of the abduction: Ch arleston, S. C., Feb. 19, 1894. Ir. L. J. Radcliffe, Chief of Policet Columbia. 8. U.: Dear Sir: Please use your best en eavors to capture the following per ons, viz: Bon Gregg, John Rambo and young girl nugned Marian Williams. .he description of the girl is as follows: Lbout live feet four inches tall, dark row eyes, dark hair, very young but vell eveloped. When she left here n the evening of the 17th inst., she vore a black hat., black dress trimmed vith red velvet, and a blue blazer and ad a locket ring on one of her fingers. The charge against the man is abduc ion. The girl is not yet thirteen years Id, but looks much older, and was en iced away by these two men, one of vhom, Ben Gregg, is a married man. 'hey are all factory hands, and the men vill very likely try to get work in some f the factories in your city. They left ere for Columbia on the 17th at 7:30 m. We are very anxious to get these iersone, and trust that you will be able o assist us in their capture. Yours respectfully, J. ED'MORE MARTIN, Chief of Police. The man brought the child in here nI the night mentioned in the letter nd they spent the night at the 11111 louse, on Gervais street. The next norning they went on to Newberry .Ad trieI to get work in the factory here, and failing in that proceeded to reenwood trying to get work in the actory at that place. They failed there oo, and yesterday afternoon returned o this city, via the Richmond and )anville road. Conductor Roche of he South Carolina Railway happened o be standing near by when they topped off the train. Ile recognized he couple and informed Oflicers Grif in and Clark of the police force that hey were the parties wadited. In the neantime the couple had started off to vards the river bridge. They were ioon overhauled and taken into custo ly. They were forthwith taken to the itation house, where the mani was placed in a cell and the girl was kept .n the ante room. rho man is Ben Gregg. R ambo has lot been seen or heard from. Tlhey old a good many different stories, but nade no effort to deny their identity. \.s lirst they said they had been mar ied while in Newberry. Then they aid that they were going over to the tome of an uncle of the muan in Lex ngton county and intended to get mar led there. At first the girl denied that he bad ever been to Ch irleston, but oon confessed it all. Thue maon denies mphiatically that ho was ever married. Lie says that he lived with a certain wvoman in Charleston for three years, but he wvas never married to her. The father of the girl is a fireman employed at the Edisto phlosphiate works in Charleston. Both -Gregg and the girl! had been working in the weaving room of the Charleston factory. Both deny that ltumbo had anythinag t3 (do with the abduction. Gregg says that ta the afternoon lie left Charleston, INmbo simply walked a portion of' the way to the depot with him and that was his only connection with the affair. After the arrest last evening, Chief lRatcliffe telegrap)hed thme otlicials in Charleston of the capture and Chief Martin replied: "Hold Mary Ann Williams aind all of thme partiesi until our oilicer can come for themi." Thme wayward girl wzh1 accordingly 2 UTI ePrices - .. S600 b~ WE S!ELL PRIAlNO Reliable, Durable, MusIcally Perfm b 1ecause best. We can save you mo: times. WrIte us, Mentlion this pap LUTDDE N J Souiherni Mwusicle o "THE WORLD'S GREAT THE MACi~INLE The Oni: FOR TrYPEWvRiTERS ATr THEW ST 'NO MACHLINE COULD. SE ANY BETTrER. 1T. [ LiERFECT'I." rlvavo statement of one mf the Judges. Responsible Gount: J. W.A Gr-ib G*ENER&I AGENTh. 4 be taker b4ck to her par ets and Greg who hab been living with the child for ,he past ten days as his wife will be e )rosecuted:-Stato. ' d A Horriblo Tragedy,: PIrTSBUIaa, Pa., Feb. 28.--A terr. A tragedy was enacted at the Hotel . liIfl, at 508 Smitheld street, at 8:30 a 'clock tonight, from which Pitcher 8 McNabb, of tt.e Baltimore clib, 15 dead md Louise Kollogg will likely die from 1 .he'resut of the wounds received from t Spistol In the hands of McNabb. e Louise Kellogg was a member of the 0 Alvin Joslin theatrical company, and ame here from New York today. She a net MoNabb a short time baf6re 8:30 1 )i Fifth avenue tonight, and they both v went to the Hotel Eiffel, where a room t Nas engaged. A young man named illen, a friend of both McNabb and F Ae Kellogg wonuit, went up to their 'oom about 8:30 to call on them. lie eard the woman groaning, and called or help. As it is right across from the ty hal, iuspector MoElvy and sev ,ral oflicers were 'soon on the scene. rhe door was burst open and a loody ight met their gaze. On the floor lay Jhe woman with three bullet wounds n Jer head and neck. McNabb was yi~it beside her with two shots through he head that killed him almost instant y. The woman was taken to the [Iomeopathic Hospital. She can hard y recover. McNabb's body was re. noved to the morgue. There was a tire & few doors above the hotel at the time qcNabb did the shooting This caused nuch excitement in the vicinity, and he hotel people did not even hear the ihots fired. McNabb evidently meant nurder when he went to the room, fop ie was only there a short time before ie did the shooting. Louise Kellogg's right name is Mrs. [t. E. Rockwell, and she has a husband lving at Seattle, Washington. Kel togg was her stage name. Her parents Live at 13addock, near this city. Unless ihe regains consciousness, the cause of %o shooting may never be known. Louise IKellogg, or Mrs. W. E. Rock well, the woman's right name, is the wife of the president of the lialifornia baseball league. From what could be learned from young Gillen, after the ihooting, Miss Kellogg was endeavoring to break off her relations witn Mclubb. A. number of letters belonging to Miss Kellogg showed that she had been keeping McNabb supplied with money the past few months. The company sne was with disbanded some time ago, i and she came here with the probable in- t tention of either staying with her pa rents in Braddock, or getting money t lo tide her over until she procured .noter engagement. McNabb met her here, and as the woman was probably trying to break off her intimacy with him, this probably prompted McNabb to shoot the woman and then himself. Will Not Rum. WASIIINCITON, IF b. 28.-There is an attempt being made to force Capt. Shell into the field for governor, but he is preststent in his refusal to enter the ight. lie said to The Chronicle's special correspondent, today: "I have said all along that I would not enter the guber natorial light, and I intend to adhere to my decision. There is plenty of good' material in the reform ranks,:and when the tight opens there will be plenty of good candidates to choose frQm. One thing is very certain, I have no idea of making the race." Capt. Shell is the strongest man inthe House from South Carolina and if he could be prevailed upon to become a candidate it would hetile the problem, so the majority of tile delewration here think. Then, there is MceLaurin. Ile is available timber, and througli lying pretty low now, standse in a lair way to come out as a candidate. 110 Is brainy, and a shrewd I politician, Hie is one of the best stump speakers the State has and should he eniter the race, couldl control one of the wings of thie reform faction. Ils quar rel with Senator Irby has not injured him, though It would throw the State malchineagalnst him. Such is the smell of the battle as it comes here.from the Palmetto State, arid tihe nose of the de legation is hIgh on tile scent, and the trialI will be followed close fromn tis enil of the line.--Augusta Chronicle. CHATTANOOOA, Tenn., Feb. 28.-Ar thur ,Jack was shiot three times, but not fatally, by Ed and Si Spencer. brothers. Jack has been carrying on a flirtation for some time with Mrs. Ed Spencer, an.d yesterday the pair were riding on Missionary Ridge, wvhen the two Spen cers waylaid them and opened lire on Jack, who after being woundled' three Limes, jumped from his buggy and ran a disetance of two miles, closely followed by theiSpencers, but managed to escape. Mrs. Spencer- is 33 years of' age, has been married nineteen years, andl is the mother of seven children. The Sper cers are merchafits, and about the best knowni men of this city. N PAN8 OLY $150 "'TJN l'ANS" IN TrONES, QUAIL--. LND) MUSICA LLY VALUELEhS.. nean thme l'ianos so glaringly adver mider "'Grand1 Olfors,"' "Factory ""Agents' Profits Saved," for $150, $100, and misrepresenited as "'Mag t," ".Best Made," -"Same as Sold at r egular D~ealers." .--MOTI TIN PANS. ct-Only $225, Seco, 0300-Cheoapest icy. Specially easy terms fbr close b BATES EST TYPEWRITER.' TlATh TlOOK t Aw a rd TE'i F4AI,;NOVEMBEl1Il8, 1893. 'iE ONLY AWARDi WAS *ALSO ,MADE~ TO US 'O TYIEWRiTER'S S3UPrLIES. Agents Wanted. bes & Co., DOLUMBIA. (J!3,. Mied of Glandere. BAN FRANoisco; Feb. 23.-Mrs. So hia Eerestord, wife of a prosperous *irynan ha0 just died or gaInders. 'our weeks ago the woman's husband nwittingly ptlrchased a diseased horse or the amily to drive. A few days ster wIlle Mrs. Bereford was standing ear the horse's head the anima! neezed in her face. Soon afterwaM he Was stricken with chills and pains nd swelling of the forehead. She fin. lly became so bad that she was re loved to the hospital, and there the rue nature of the disease was discov red-the whole upper portion ' the woman's face was eaten away y the dread -disease. The husband uid chilaren have also been exposed nd their condition is being closely ratched. "Whe health authorities killed lie horse and will cause the arrest of Lie traders who sold it to Bereford at a rico which was rediculously low. DG TIT PAYS THE FREIGHI V bi 'ay Extrue Prides for Goods I end for abIoguo and See-What Yea Can Ssi b 1 No freight paid on1 thi[ Or -gtnu. uarazteed to be I WdOga or money re. a-at lshPALRUTSonst 'ofa, Alrnt Chair, Rocktig Chair Diva - adt Unr. o $43. Will dolve I.us to yourlic thet or n. g Thi No.' a CO WIG Ware wi be 4i ni u edto one e ri ar ,$(p5 GIING HACRIg .U ith ll Attnehmets, for --ii~ONf LY $8.50 delvr T to your depot. ~~ThcrcguThi No.le Ifti 6.toOKIN 'ho matiuPacterer pays all be expenses and I dll I hem to Uufr0hgssg rauaraneionel - A 13 PIAN4 e t te ( 1~(Oi e 0 $cnd for (att-oguen of Futuiture, Cooking . F. -ON~T YY$8. stovei Babyl~ arriee, 'o I-yeen rgn, s Eu0 is5 to 7n (i Me ,Lapnc, n "iaohinery Commission Agents, With a vilow to mutual advantage, we nylto all parties who inten buying '.a hinery to corropond with us before piac ng *.hoir orders. We are confident or our fbility to save money to our nufomers, Con inly as'k the opportunity 'of proving the act. . . Besides machinery of lail kinds, we leat largely In Buggies, Wagons, andr other renlesnt. Write to us. -0 Wi. H, Gibbes Jr., & co, COLUMBIA,8 C *-. -THE "'' For Ag'ricul tural and Gin eral Plantation UseJ~, have earn3 ''',..ed thelr reputa tion as the best on tne market. For Bimplielty, Dunrablity and Esonomy in fuel andl water THEl TOZER Hlas no Equal. ). .. .... ice Planters and Rice Millers can buy a single machine thlat will clean, hui I and polish rice ready for market for $350.00. Corn Millers can buy the best F'rench burr mill, in iron frame, fully guaran teed, capacity ten bushels01 meal per nour, for $115.00. Saw Millers can buy the variable ft iction fe.ed DeLoach Mill from $190.00 up to the largest sizs. Also Glang Rip 8aws, Edgers. Swinig B3aws, Planing Machines, and all kinds of wood working machinery. "Talbott" Engines and Bioilors. $pecial.discounts made for casb. V. 0. BADliAM, COLUMLIIA. 8.0,.