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VOL. V. MANNING, CLARENDON COUNTY, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1889. NO. 21. THE WORLDS REDEMPTION. Seation by Rev. T. De Witt Tale nage, D. D. Thas tie World Can Be Gospelized Betore'the Present Century Close. Christian Effort Backed by Chris. tlan Money Wil Do It. 1is-recent s'erinon at the Brooklyn. Ta'beriaete;'afOer expounding passages de scriptive,Qf the world as It shall be when gospelized. Dr. Talmage gave out the hymn: - People and realms of every tongue Dwell on His love with sweetest song. Text, Revelations xix., 4: "Amen; Alle lula." The eloquent preacher~spoke as fol lows: The nineteenth century isdeparting. After it has taken a few more steps, if each year be a step, it will be gone into the eternities. In a short time we shall beinthelast decade of .this century, which fact makes the sol emnest 6do.Qutside the Bible the almanac, and themost suggestive and the most tre mendous piece of machinery in all the earth the clock. The last decade of this century upon which we shall soon enter will be the grandest, mightiest and most decisive decade in all the chronologies. I am glad it is not to come immediately, for we need by a new baptism of the Holy Ghost to prepare for it. Thatlastten yearsof the nineteenth century, may we all live to see them! Does anyone say that this division of time is arbitrary? 0, no; in other ages the divisions of time may ha've been arbitrary, but our years date from Christ. Does any one say that the grouping of ten together is an arrangement arbitrary!- 0. fo; next to the figure seven. ten iswith God a favorite number. Abrs hanfl dwelt ten-years in Caanan. Ten right eous men would have saved Sodom. In the ancient tabernacle were ten curtains, their pillars ten, and their sockets ten. In the an cient temple were ten layers and ten candle sticks, and ten tables, and a molten sea of ten cubits. And the commandments writ tenq% the granite.of Mount Sinai were ten, and ekingdom of God was likeneI to ten viriiirand ten men should lay hold of him that was a Jew, and the reward of the greatly faithful is that they shall reign over ten cities, and In the effort to take the cen sus of the New Jerusalem the number ten swings around the thousands, crying "ten thousand times ten thousand." So I come to look toward the closing ten years of the nineteenthcentury with an intensity of in terest I can hardly describe. I have also noticed that the favorite time in many of the centuries for great events was the closing fragment of . the century. Is America to be discovered, it must be in the last: decade- of the fifteenth century, namely, 1492. Was free constitutional gov ernment to be well established' in America, thes.laat..years. - the -eighteenth century must achieve it. Were . three cities to be znbmerged'by one -pitch. of scorim Hercu laneum an.-Strabim and Pompeii in the latter part :of the ~first century must go under. The fourth century closed with the most agitating ecclesiastical war of history, Urban the Sixth against Clement the Seventh. Alfred the Great closes the nineteenth centu-y, and Edward Iron sides the eleventh century with their re sounding deeds. The sixteenth century closed with the establishment of religious Independence In the United Netherlands. Aye, almost every century has had its pero ration of overtowering achievements. As the closing years of the centuries seem a favorite time for great scenes of emancipa tion or disaster, and as the number ten seems a favorite number in the Scriptures, written by divine direction, and as we are soon to enter upon the last ten years of the nineteenth century, what does the world propose? What does the church of Christ propose? What do reformers propose! I know not; but now In the presence of this consecrated assembly I propose that we zake ready, get all our batteries planted. and all our plans well laid in what remains of .bis decade, and then In the last decade .of the nineteenth century march up and -tak~e this round world for God. ,WhenI say we. I mean the live hundred million Christians now alive. But, as many -of them will not have enough heart for the work let us copy Gideon, and as he had thirty thousand men in his army to fight the Midianites, but many of them were not m'ade of the right stuff and so'hie promul gated a military order saying: "Whosoever is iful and-afraid let him' retun and do pai- early from Gilead," and twenty-two thousaird were afrai of getting hurt and went home. and only ten thousand were le'itiand. Godltold them that even this re duced-nmbefrwas toe large'a number, for they plight think they had triumphed inde pendent of~dizine help, and so the number must bJitill fui-therreduced, and only those should bekept in the-ranks who, in passing the river should be so in haste for victory over theirenemiesthat, though very thirsty, they would withou't stop'ing a second just -scoop up the water iathepalm of their right & ayco*u h water In thie palm of - n ,'e~au and only three-hundred men did that, and those three hundred men with the battle shout, "The sword of the Lord and Gideen," scattered the Midianites like leaves. iu.a equinox~ so out of the five hun dreg million nominal Christians of to-day let-all unbelievers and cowards go home and get out.qf,the .w~ay. ,And suppose we have mal~y four-huhdr'ed million left, suppose only two lhundred million left, suppose only one hundred million left, yes, suppose we only have*fMty million- left, with them we will undertake the divine crusade, and each one just scooping up a palm full of the river of God's mercy in one hand and a palm full of the river -f God's strength In the other, let . us with the cry. "The sword of the Lord and of Gideon," the sword of the Lord and of.John Knox, the sword of the Lord and of -MIatthiew Simpson, the sword of the Lord and of Bishop McIlvaine, the sword of the Lord and of Adoniramn Judson, the sword of the Lord and of Martin Luther, go Into the last decade of the nineteenth century. '* Is.lt audacious for me to propose itt O0 ndt a captive servant in the kitchen of Naamnan told the commander-in-chief where he could get rid of the blotches of his awful - leprosy and bis complexion become as fair -as a babe's. And didn't Christ In order to take ?e ophthalmia out of the eyes of the biffd man. use a mixture of spittle and dust! And 'who showed Blucher a short cut for his Sso that instead of taking the rezular - A ~ bywhiob-he would have come up~oo late, he came up in time to save Waterloo and Europe? Was it not an unknown lad who, perhaps, could not write his own namei And so IL "who am less then the least of all sai~s" propose a short cut to victory and auiwlEi' to be the expectoratior on some blind 'eye and tell someof the brigadier generals of the Lord of hosts how this leprosied' -world xiay in the final decade of the nineteenth century have its flesh come again as the flesh of. a little child. Is there any thing in prophecy to hinder this speedy consummation ? No. So me one begins to quote from Daniel about "time, tinmes and a half time," and takes from Revelation the seven trumpets blowing them all at once in my ear. But with ut most reverence I take up all the prophecies and hold them toward heaven and say God never has and nevei- will stop consecrated effert and holy determination and magnifi. e a n zeovand that if the Church of God will rise up to its full work it can make Daniel's tipez twenty years and his half time ten years. Neither Isaiah, Ezekiel, nor Micah. noi Malachi, nor Jeremiah, nor any of the major or minor prophets will hinder us a second. Suppose the .Bible had announced the millennium to begin the year 3SS9, that would be no hin drance. In one sense God never changes his mind, being the same yesterday, today and forever. but in another sense He does chabge his mind and times without number every day, and that is when his people pray. Didn't He ehange His mind about Ninevehi By God's comman'd Jonah, at the top of his voice, while standing on the steps of the merchants' exchange and the palatial resi dences of that city, cried out, "Yet forty days and Nineveh shall be overthrown. Was it overthrown in forty days? No. The people gave up their sins and cried for mercy, and though Jonah got- mad because his whole course of - sermons -had - been spoiled and went into a disgraceful pouting we have the record so sublime I can not read it without feeling a nervous chill running through me. "God saw their works that they turned from their evil way and God repented of the evil that He had said He would do unto them, and He did it not." God is a father, and some of us know what that means, and some time when we have promised chastisement and the child de served it, the little darling has put her arms around our neck and expressed such sorrow and such promises of doing better that her tears landed on the lips of our kiss, and we held her a half hour after on our knee and would as soon think of slapping an angel in the face as of even striking her with the weight of our little finger. God is a father, and while He has promised this world scourgings, though they were to be for a thousand years or five thousand years He woul:, if the world repented, substitute beneliction and divine caress. God changed His mind about Sodom six times. He had determined on its destruction. Abraham asked Him if He would net spare it if fifty righteous people were found there, and, narrowing down the number, if forty-five people Are found there, if forty people. if thirty people, if twenty people, if ten people were found there. And each of the six times the Lord answered yes. 0. why didn't Abraham go on just two steps further, and say if five be found there and if one be found there, for then for the sake of Lot, its one goal citizen, I think Sodom would have been spared. Eight times does the Bible say tat God re pented when. He had promised punishments, and withheld the stroke. Was it a slip of Paul's pen when he spoke of God's cutting short the work in righteousness? No, Paul's pen never slipped. There is nothing in the way of prophecy to hinder the crusade 1 have proposed for the last decade of the nine teenth century. The whole trouble is that we put off the completion of the world's redemption to such long and indefinite distances. The old proverb that "what is everybody's business is-hobody's business," might be changed a little and be made truthfully to say what is the gospel business of all the ages is the gos pel business of no age. We are so constitu. ted we can not get up much enthusiasm about something five hundred years from nowor a thousand years from now. We are fighting at too long a range. That gun called the "Swamp Angel" was * nuisance. It shot six miles, but it hardly ever hit any thing. It did its chief destructive work when it burst and killed tnose who were setting it off. Short range is the effective kind of work, whether it be for worldly or religious purpose. Some man with his eyes half shut drones out to me the Bible q'hotation: "A thousand years are as one day;" that is, ten centuries are not.long for the Lord. But why do you not quote the previous sentence, which says that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years f That is, He could do the work of ten centuries in twenty-four hours. The mightiest obstacle to Christian work is the impression that the world's evangeliza tion is away off. And we take the telescope and look on and on through centuries until we see two objects near each other. and we strain our vision and guess what they are and we call great conventions to guess what they are, and we get down our heaviest theo logical works and balance our telescope on the lid and look and look and finally conclude that they are two beas's that we see, and the one ha hair and the other has wool and we guess it must be the lion and the lamb lying down together. . In that great cradle of post pnement and somnolence we rock the church as though it were an impatient child and say, "Hush, my dear. don't be impatient!i Don't get excited by revivals! Dont cry! Your Father's coming ! Don't get uneasy!I He will be here in two or three or ten or twenty thousand years." And we act as though we thought that when Miacaulay's famous New Zealander in the far distance is seated on a broken arch of London bridge sketching the ruins of St. Paul's, his grand child might break in and jolt his pencil by asking him if he thought the millennium ever would appear. Men and women of the eternal God! Sons and daughters of the Lord Almighty! We may have it start in the decade that is soon to commence, and it will be done If we can persuade the people between now and then to get ready for the work. What makes me think it can be done: First, because God is ready. .He needs no long persuasion to do His work, for if He ir notwilling that any should perish, He is not willing that any of the people of the next decade shall perish; and the whole Bible is a chime of bells ringing out "Come, come, come," and you need not go round the earth to finid out how much He wants the world to come, but just to walk around one stripped and bare and leafless tree with two branches, not arched, but horizontal. But He is waiting, as He said He would, for the co-operation of the church. When we are ready God Is ready. And He certainly has all the weaponry ready to capture this world for the truth all the weapons of kindness or devastation. On the one hand Gospel and sunshine and power to orchardize and gardenize the earth, and fountain~s swinging in rainbow and Chatsworthian verdure and aromas poured out of the vials of heaven, while on the ether hand he has the weaponry of de vastation, thunderbolt and conflagration and forces planetary, solar, lunar, stellar, or meteoric. that with loose rein thrown on the neck for a see -nd would leave conctella tons and galaxies so many split and shiv ered wheels on the boulevards of heaven. And that God is on our side, all on our side. Blessed be his glorioun name ! Blessed was the hour when through Jesus Christ my sinful soul made peace with Him! If you continue to ask me why I think the world can be saved in the tinal decade of the nineteenth century, I reply that It is nog great undertsaking. considering the number of workers that will go at it, If once persuaded it can be done. We have sifted the five hundred million of workers down to four hundred million and three hundred million and two hundred million and-one hundred million and to fity million. I went to work to cipher- out how many souls thatnumber could bring to God in ten years, if each one -erought a soul every year. and if each soul so brought should bring another each succeeding year. I found out, aided by a professor in mathematices, that we did not need any thing like such a number of workers enlisted. You see it Is simply a question of mathematics and In geometrical pro.r.ssio, Then I gnve to the learned professor this problem: now many per sons would it require &o start with if each one brought a soul into tbe king dom each for ten years, and each one brought another each succeeding year, In order to have fourteen hundred million people saved or the popula tion of the earth at present? His answer was two million seven hundred and fifty-four thousand three shunared and seventy-five workers. So you see-that when I sifted the five hundred million nominal Christians of the earth down to fifty millions and stopped there, I retained for this work forty-seven million people too many. There it is in glorious mathematics, quod erat demonstran dum. Do you tellme that God does not care for mathematics? Then you have never seen the Giant's Causeway where God shows his regard for the hexagonal in whole ranges. of rocky columns with six sides arid sx angles. Then you have not studied the geometry of a bee's honeycomb with six sides and six angles. Then ygu have not noticed what regard God has for the square, the altar of the ancient tabernacle four square, the breastplate four square. the court of the temple in Ezekiel's vision four square, the New Jerusalem laid out four square. Or you have not noticed His regard for the circle by making it his throne, "sitting in the circle of the earth," and fashioning s p and moon and stars in a circle, and send- - our planetary system around other systems in a circle and the whole universe sweeping around the throne of God in a circle. And as to His regard for mathematical numbers, He makes the fourth book in his Bible the Book of Numbers, and numbers the hosts of Israel and num bers the troops of Sennacherib and numbers Solomon's howers in the forest and numbers the spearm-n and numbers the footmen and numbers the converts at Pentecost and numbers the chariots of God rolling down the steps of heaven. So I have a rirht to enlist mathematics for the demonstration of the easy possibility of bringing the whole world ') God in the coming decade by simple process of solicitation, each one only havinz to brir g one a year; although I want to take In forty thousand and I know men now alive who I think by pen or voice, or both, directly or indirectly, will take hundreds of thousands each. So you see that that will discharge some of the 2,754.375 from the aedessity of taking any. Another reason why I know it can he done is that we may divide the work up among the denominations. God does not ask any one denomination to do the work. or any dozen denominations. The work can be di vided and is being divided utff not geograph Ically. but according to the temperaments of the human family. We can not say to one denomination, you take Peraia, and another, you take China. and another. you take India, because there aus all kinds of tem peraments in all nations. And some de nominations are especially adapted to work with people of saneuine temper ament, or phelgmatic temperament. or choleric temperament, or bilious tempe ament, or nervous temperament, or hy-i phatic temperament. The Episcop-.i church will do its most effective work with ih -sue who by taste prefer the ctately and ritual istic. 'gie Methodist church wil do its best wok among the emotional and demon strative. The Presbyterian churc will do its best work among those who like strore doctrine and the stately service softened hn the emotional. So each denomination wil have certain kinds of people whom it will especially affect. So let the w'rk be dividr.I up. There are the seven hundre-i an-I fift. thousand Christians of the Presbyterian church North, and other hundreds c-i thousands in the Presbyterian church South, ard all foreign Presbyterans. more especially Scotch. English and Trish. making. I guess, about two million Presby terians: the Methodist Church is still larger: the Church of England on both sides the sea still larger: and many other denominations as much, if not more. consecrated than any I have mentioned. Divide up the world's evangelization among these denominations after they are persuaded it can bo done be fore the nineteenth century is dead, and the last Hottentot, the last Turk, the last Jap anese, (*ie last American. the last European. the last Asiatic, the last African will see the salvation of God before he sees the opening gate of the twentieth century. Again, I feel the whole world can be saved in the time specified, because we have all manner of machinery requisite. It is not as though we bad to build the printing presses; they are all built and running day and night, those printing religious papers (925 of those religious papers in this coun try), those printing religious tracts and those printing religious books. And thou sands of printing presses now in the service of the devil could be brought and set to work in the service of God. Why was the printing press invented! To turn out billheads and circulars of patent medicines and tell the news which in three weeks will be of no importance? From the old-time Franklin printing press on up to the Lord Stanhope's press and the Wash ington press and the Victory press to Hoe's perfecting printing press that machine has been improving for its best work, namely, the publication of the glad tidings of great joy which shall be to all people. We have the presses, or can have them before the first of January when the new decade is to begin, to put a Bible in the hand of every' son and daughter of Adam and Eve now living, and if such person can not re ad we can have a colporteur, an evangeli.t, or missionary to read it to him or her. But this brings me to the adjoining thought; namely, we have the money to do, the work. I mean the fifty millions of Christians have it. Aye, the two million, seven hundred and fifty-four thousand Christians have it: and the dam, which is beginning to leak, will soon break and there will be rushing floods of hundreds and millions and billions of dollars in holy con tribution when you persuade the wealthby1 men of the kingdom of God, that the speedy conversion of the world is a possi-I bility, and that Isaiah and Ezekiel and Daniel and St. John will not stand inth way of it but help it on. I have no sympa-. thy with this bombardment of rich men. We would each one be worth $5.00,000 if we could, and by hard persuasion might perhaps be induced to take fifteen million. Almost every paper I take up tells of some wealthy man who has endowed a college or built a chuoch or a hospital or a free library, and that thing is going to multiply until the treasury of all our denominations and reform atory organizations will be overwhelmed with munificence if we can persuade our men of wealth that the world's evangeliza tion is possible and that they may live to see: it with their own eyes. I1 have always cher-: ished the idea that when the world is con verted we would be allowed to come out on the battlements of heaven and see the ban nered procession and the bonfires of victory.? But I would like the procession closer by ad just be permitted myself to throw on a fagot for a bigger bonfire. And if you per suade our men of wealth that there is a pos-' sibility for them to join on earth in the uni versal glen of a redeernel p'anet. instead or laborio :s beseeching for funds and arguing and flatter-ing in order to ret a contrbu tion for Christian objects our men of wealth will stand in the line at a post-ofilee window or a railroad ticket ofice, but in this case waiting for their turn to make charitable deposit. The Gentiles are not long going to allow Ithemselves to be eclipsed by Mr-. Hirsch, the Jew who as. ust given $;40,000,000 for sehoots in France, Germany and Russia. a rejoice that so much of the wealth of the world is coming into the possession of Christian men and women. And although the original church was very poor, and its members were fish dealers on the banks of Galilee, and had only such stock on hand as they could take In their own net, to-day in the hands of Christian men and women there is enough money to print Bibles and build churches and support missionaries under God in ten years to save the world. Again, I think that the world's evangeliza tion can be achieved in the time specified be cause we have already the theological insti tutions necessary for this work. We do not have to build them; they are b iilt and they are filled with tens of thousands o! young men and there will be three sets of students who will graduate into the ministry before the close of this century, and once have them understand that instead of preaching thirty or forty years and taking into the kingdom of God a few hundred souls, right before them is the Sedan, is the Armageddon, and these young men, instead of entering the ministry timid and with apologetic air, will feel like David who came up just as the armies were set in array and he left his carriage and shouted for the battle and cried: "Who is this uncircumcised Phil istine that he should defy the armies of the living God?" And with five gravel stones skillfully flung sent sprawling the bragging ten-foster. his mouth into the dust and his heels into the air. My friends, what but such a consumma tion could be a fit climax to this century? You notice a tendency in history and all about us to a climax. The creation week rising from herbs to fish, and from fish to bird, and from bird to quadruped, and from quadruped to immortal man. The New Testament rising from quiet geneological table in Matthew to apocalyptic doxology in Revelation. Now, what can be an appro priate climax to this century. which has heard the puff of the first steamer, and the throb of the first stethoscope, and the click of the first telegraph, and the clatter of the first sewing machine, and saw the flash of the first electric light and the revo lution of the first steam plow, and the law of storms was written, and the American Bible :oclety and American Tract So ciety were born; and instead of anaudience laughing down Dr. Carey for advocat ing foreign missions, as was done in Northampton. in England. in the last century, now all denominations vieing with each other as to who shall go the furthest and the soonest into the darkest of the New Hebrides; and three hundred thou sand souls have been born to God in the South Sea Islands, and Micronesia and Me lanesia and Malayan Polynesia have been set in the crown of Christ,and David Living stone has unveiled Africa, and the last bolted gate of barbaric nations has swung wide open to let the gospel in. What, I ask, with a thousand interrogation points uplifted, an be a fit, an appropriate and sufficient climax except it be a world redeemed? Yea, I believe it can be done if we get prepared for it, because the whole air and the whole heaven is full of willing help. "Are they all ministering spirits sent forth?" We make an awful mistake if we calculate only on the forces we can see. The mightiest army is in the air. My brethren, so much of the selfishness and pride and rivalry and bad motives get into our work here that we are hindered. But the mighty souls that have gone up to the flying armies of the sky have left all imperfection behind them, and these souls are with us, and without a fault and with perfect natures are on our side. You can not make me believe that after toiling here for long years for the redemp tion of the world until from exhaustion some of them fall into their graves they have ceased their interest in the stupendous conflict now raging, or that they are going to decline their help. Irenmus Prime! Hon ored on earth but now glorified in heaven, have you forgotten the work toward which you gave for more than half a century your gracious life, your loving voice, and your matchless pen? No! Then come down and help. Alexander Duff! Have you for gotten the millions of India for whose salva tion you suffered in Hindoo jungle and thundered on the missionary platform? No! Then come down arnd help. David Brainard ! Have you forgotten the aborigines to whom you preached and for whom you prayed un til you could preach and pray no more, lying down delirious amid the miasas of the swamp? No! Then come down and help. Moncrieff and Freeman and Campbell! Have you forgotten Lucknow and Cawnpore? No! Then come down and help. I rub out of my eyes the st ipidity and unbelief, and I, the servant of those great Elishas in the gospel, see the mountains all round about are full of horses of fire and chariots of fire; and they head this way. Hovered over are we by great clouds of witnesses and helpers! Clouds of Apostles in the air led on by Paul! Clouds of martyrs in the air led on by Stephen! Clouds of prophets in the air led on by Isaiah ? Clouds of patriarchs in the air led on by Abraham! Clouds of ancient warriors in the air lcd on by Joshua, and that Bible wvarrrior at whose prayer astronomy once halted ever Ajalon, and Gibeon seems now to lift one hand toward the setting sun of this century and the other hand toward the moon of the last decade, saying: "Stand thou still till the church of Go] gets the final victory !" Then let us take what remains of this de cade to cet ready for the final decade of the nineteenth century. You and I may no-t live to see that decade, or may not live to see its close, bitt that shall not hinder me from declaring the magnificent p'ssibilit y. I con fess that the mistake of my life has been, not that I did not work hard-for I could not have worked harder and lived, as God knows and my family know-but that I have not worked under the realization that the salva tion of this world was a nearby possiblility. But whether we see it, the beginning or the closing of that decade, is of no importance, if only that decade can get the coronation, and then all decades shall kneel before this enthroned deacde, and even the gray grown centuries will cast their cilwns before it and it will be the most honored decade betwveen the time when the mording stars sang to gether as the libretto of~worlds was opened. and tne time when the mighty angel, robed in cloud and garlanded in rainbow, shall with one foot on the sea and the other foot on the land swear by Him that liveth for ever and ever that time shall be no longer. Allelua! Amen! Novel Advertising Scherne. The Postal and Railway Department of the Hungarian Ministry has taken a curious step in a business direction. It offers to sel postal cards with trade advertisements for one kreut zee~ (one farthing) each-that is, half the price of the common postal cards! The transaction has the following explana. tion: Any would-be advertiser must order no fewer than fifty thousand postal cards and pay full prices for them-that is, two kreutzers (one half-penny), to the postal authority, who will print his advertisement, not exceeding the third part of the back of the card. without any further charge, at the Hungarian Government printing office at Budapest. The cost ot the printing is got Out of the one kreutzer, and the cards are afterwards sold to the puiblic.-N. Y. Post -Be kind to your friends that you may keep them; be kind to your enemies that they may become your friends.-Thales, BR re 40 am CHAOS IN OKLAHOMA. THE LAND OF PROMISE BECOMES A VER ITABLE HELL UPON EARTH. Settlers Suffering for Lack of Shelter, Water and Food-They Desert Their Claims and Flee for Their Lives-A Stampede to Get Out of the Country and Back to Civilization. CHIcAGo, April 25.-An Arkansas City, Kansas, special says: Chaos reigns, not only in Oklahoma. but in the entire tributary country. The railroad is prostrated, and com munications are entirely cut off. The Western Union, with its crush of train dispatching, would not touch a message of any other character in the Territory, though the earth swallowed a town site. Gutbrie's back seems broken, and there is a furious stampede to get out. People there are wild from the depriva tions that lack of shelter, water and food impose upon them. To these dis tresses are added the misfortunes of terrific heat and the absence of means of flight. When your correspondent reached Willow Springs from the Diamond Bar Ranch, be learned from dispatches that neither the North nor South bound pas senger trains, shortly due had been heard from. The hour of waiting passed, when a train of . twenty cars from the South arrived. The cars were locked, but upon the roofs, the buffers, amid the coal on the tender, on the pilot and gangway of the locomo tive, and packed in and upon the ca boose, was a dense and miserable throng of men. The train from Guthrie had started with its strange load at 6 o'clock in the evening. It was useless to attempt to enforce the laws restricting railroad travel. The people were fleeing practi cally for their lives. They had added to long periods of privation a suffering of seventeen hours without food or pro tection from the cold. No trains had passed them, and none was in sight from behind They had left a howling mob in Guthrie, baffled in its efforts to join in the flight. The uselessness of pro ceeding to Guthrie was apparent, and your correspondent secured footing for one foot and returned to this point with the baggage train. Since dark other freight trains have followed, having made eighty-five miles from Guthrie in from six to fourteen hours. The cars are piled with fugitives, thirsty and famine-stricken, and Ar kansas City is crowded as it was before the descent. Some experiences are piti ful. A terrible storm last night raised the miseries of Guthrie to almost horror. A violent wind arose as the sun sank and tilled the air with the stifling red alkali dust that strews the plain. A deluge of rain succeeded and through the night it beat upon the thousands of shelterless. The railroad is utterly in competent in the emergency, and is de livering baggage and express too slowly to be of use to the unprotected. The fugitives cry with joy as they alight here and rush to the hydrants and eating houses. Curses are heaped upon the region, and the government mar shals, Needles and Jones, are execrated without stint for the theft of the land and the railroad denounced for its feeble service. Gutbrie is without form. The orig inal streets have disappeared and new sections are being plowed every hour. Values have fallen to practically no thing, and confidence is at a low ebb. Those who are not going home announce their intention of moving upon the Cherokee Strip, and report that hun dreds of boonmers in wagons have already done so. Scores of men surrendered their claims to lots in Guthrie without an effort to preserve or dispose of them. The South bound passenger train ar rived, after a time, crowded with pil grims for Guthrie, and few could be dis suaded by the lamentations of the fugi tives. It is impossible to predict what the next few days will develop in Guth Sr. Louis. April 25.--An Arkansas City special to the RepuZ'ic says: A number of claims have been de serted in various parts of the Territory, and wagons can be seen frequently on the back trail. Many of the disgruntled threaten to "squat" on the Indian lands surrounding Oklahoma. Some will go back to the Cherokee Strip; others will go down into the Chickasaw country and lease farms from the Indians. That country is being rapidly settled by farm ers who pay annual head right or lease for the privilege of tilling the soil there. The country is as much superior to Oklahoma as is the Cherokee Oulet, and there is a great deal of com plaint among the boomers that the poorest land in the Indian Territory should have been the only land opened to settlement. Despite this discouragement, however, many contests for possession of lands are threatened. An interesting case has arisen, where two men arrived on the same quarter section not five minutes apart. The first arrival claimed posses sion by priority. The seond made im provements and claimed that it was the imrovement which perfected the right of ~occupation. This case will doubtless be taken to the Land Office for settle ment. As illustrating the "ingratitude of re publics" it may be mentioned that con tests are already filed against the claim of Captain Crouch, the old' boomer leader, on the curious ground that he disqualified himself from making entry by entering the Territory years ago on boom expeditions. General James B. Weater of Iowa. one of the most persistent advocates of the opening of Oklahoma in Congress, has also had his claim contested, and has been accused of attempting to take the people by the throat. The old time boomer leaders have not fared well. Any number of Payne's men can be found now lying around Purcell, who have been outridden and outrn by men who have taken the fruit of their years of sacrifice. Most of them take it ~philosophically, but it nmeans blood, and a murdered boy of 19, who was shot when found in possession of one of those claims, owes his daa. to. that injustiece, whether he was partly responsible for it or not. The man who killed him had worked it for his own for yeam.s. Ie t is broadly hinted at Pur-. cell that old colonits there could pimt out the murderer, and that instead of doing so they assisted him to escape into Texas. - Twenty claims have been deserted in one neighborhood, and last night in the de pot at Oklahoma City a broken home steader offered to sell his claim for $25. Contests and excitement over town sites continue, and much trouble is promised for the future. - STORY OF LONSDALES TRIP. He Penetrated to 75 Degrees North, and Had Scme Lively Experiences.' SAN FRANcrsco, April 23.-Lord Lons dale arrived here to-day from Kodiak, and gave full details of his extraordinary voyage to 75 degrees North latitude and his overland trip across Alaska. He is in excellent health, and bears no trace of the hardships he endured. He de clared that he penetrated to Banks Land in latitude 75 degrees, discovered a Niagara of ice 200 fet high, and found that all maps of the Arctic re gions are wrong. Sehwatka's so-called military map of Alaska, he says. is a farces as few of the passes and ravines are indicated. He found little game anywhere, and his hunting expeditions were failures. Lord Lansdale reached the Great Slave Lake in June last year, and went around it in boats, suffering great hardships. His only white com panion was William McEwan, a Hud son's Bay Company's cook. On hay River lie found one of the company's steamers put on to carry freights up the McKenzie River. Of this part of his trip he said: "While on the Hay River I saw the most beautiful waterfall in the world. It is a horseshoe in shape and has a sheer fall of 200 feet, with another fall above it. It is about one and a half miles wide at the top and one and three fourth miles wide at the bottom. "It is more beautiful than Niagara, although there is not the same weight of water. Words cannot describe sits magnificent beauty as block after block of ice and iceberg after iceberg come whirling over and down into the abyss below. "I went to Peel river in a steamer and there got a boat and eight natives and started for the Arctic Ocean. It was with the greatest difficulty I could get Indians to go with me, as they were terribly afraid of the Esquimaux. who up there are called 'Huskeys.' These Huskeys seem to be a race by them selves. Instead of being small of stature and dark, as is the case with Esquimaux generally, the are big and tall." These Esquimaux tried to intimidate Lord Lonsdale, but he refused to be frightened by their pretended attempts to stab him, and they ended by becom ing his sworn friends. In August, with their help be arrived at Melville BIland, the farthest North he reached. From this point Lord Lonsdale determined to walk to the Yukon River, across the mountains, a distance of eighty miles. He reached the Yukon, and floated clown the Ajuko, where there is a Rus sian missionary station. . The river was then closed, so he determined to strike off overland for Katami, opposite Ko diak. He says of this trip: "During the journey we encountered many difficulties, and it was bitterly cld, the lowest the thermometer reached being 64 degrees below zero. It was worst, after walking and running all day, to have to lie in the snow to sleep. There was no wood to warm our cloth ing, and we had the greatest difficulty in crossing the mountains. "The people said it was impossible; that twelve men had died in trying. I started with nine sleds and sixrv-nine dogs. At the foot of the mountains the Indians refused to cross and tried to desert in the night. I took one of them by the neck and made him go before and I walked after him. I took all their rifles and snowshoes, put them in my sled, and sat on them. At 3 in the moring, when they got up to abandon me in the dark, they were surprised to find me before thenm. I started at 6 'clock that morning in the dark and had to cross ranges,the highest point of which was 5,200 feet. The cold was intense, and terrible storms would come up at times. When I got across I had only twenty nine dogs left, all the others having frozen to death. Seven Indians were missing and tive sleds. After waiting two days I set out to look for the miss ing men and found them in a terrible condition. All the dogs were dead. 1 brought the men down safe and sound. only their hands and feet being frozen. I w~aited at Katami until March 16, when the Alaska Company sent a letter to me. Then I waited for the steamer Bertha, on which I have just arrived." In conclusion. Lord Lonsdale said he did not think anything would be made out of the Yukon mines. There was gold, but only in small quantites. The miners were suffering greatly. Caused by a Forgetful Engineer. CINCINNATI, April 25.-A dispatch from Glen Mary, Tenn., says a collision occurred there yesterday between two freight trains on the Cincinnati South er road, as a result of the forgetful ness of the engineer of one of them. The collision occurred a mile South of Glen Mar-y. Brakeman Talor, Conductor Hiuline and Engineer Rusk were badly crushed. The first two died soon after being extricated. Rusk's injuries are fatal. Two others were slightly injured. Boulanger Lionized in London. LoDON, April 25.-I an interview to-day General Bohilanger denied the re port that he would immediately issue a manifesto explaining his intentions, and stated that as yet he had no thought of doing so. The General has received scores of bouquets sent to him by ad mirers in France. He has received many invitations to attend parties to be given in his honor by persons who are desir ous of lionizing him. Besignationl of a Federal Marshal. WASmINGTON, April 25.-Attorney General M1iller has accepted the resigna tion of S. F. Wilson, as United States Marshal for the middle district of Ten nessee, to take effect upon the appoint mnt and qnalification of his successor. THE GRAND OLD MAN. AN INTERESTING LETTER FROM THE CHAM PION OF HOME RULE. Mr. Gladstone Declares His Faith in the Ultimate Success of His Cause-His Par ticipation in Our Centennial Celebra tion. BUFFALO, April 26.-The Curier to day prints the following: A little over four weeks ago John J. McBride of this city wrote a letter to Mr. Gladstone enclosing a list of names that had been signed to the memorial circulated by Mr. McBride, expressing sympathy with the cause of home rule for Ireland. This additional list in cluded the names of President Harrison, Cardinal Gibbons, Speaker Carlisle, Vice President Morton, Archbishop Ryan, Secretary Blaine, and a large ma - jority of the members of both houses of Congress. Yesterday Mr. McBride re ceived from Mr. Gladstone the letter published below. Every word of it, from: the address.to the signature, was written by his own hand. It is of interest to all patriotic Americans. His high trib ute to Washington will at this time attract general attention. HOUSE OF CoMONS, LONDON, APRIL 12, 1889. MY DEAR Sm: I have the honor to acknowledge your letter of the 22nd of March, and the remarkable list appended to it of those distinguished citizens of the United States who have testified through the memorial you mention their interest in the condition of Ireland and their desire for a just and reason able acknowledgment of her natoinal claims and aspirations. I rejoice not only to think but to know that throughout the wide confines of the race to which we all belong there is an overwhelming preponderance of sentiment in favor of that acknowledg ment. At home this judgment has been constitutionally recorded by Ireland herself, by Scotland and Wales, the rep resentatives of all the three being in fa vor of home rule by a majority of three or four to one. And founding ourselves - on the evidence of the elections in Eng land whi.h have taken place since the general election of 186, we firmly be lieve that England herself, were the op portunity now afforded her by a disso lution, would record a verdict decisively in accord with those of the other por tions of the United Kingdom and of the Anglo-Saxon race at large. Encodraged by these indications at home and abroad, and by the wise ad- _ vice of their representatives, in Parha ment, the Irish people show an indisp - sition to crime and outrage not less re markable than their determination to carry forward their cause to a successful consummation, now retarded by the votes of men who do not represent the real sentimnent of the country. It is a fur-her satisfaction to me to include in this acknowldegment local, but authoritative, manifestations from America only less remarkable than what has proceeded from other centres and has had the illustrious sanction - President himself. This very day I have received a communication in the same spirit with your own from the Legislature of Nebraska, one further in dication of the sentiment and desire which prevail throughout the vast do main of the United States. Finally, I rejoice to be put in pos session of such declarations at a moment when your great country is about to cel ebrate, on the 30th inst., the centennial anniversary of the inauguration of George 'Vashington as the first Presi dent of the American Commonwealth. I have been requested from Chicago and elsewhere to intimate an - assurance of my participation in your national joy. It is a real and grateful participation, for the statesmen of the American ret olution have taken their place, once for: all among the greatest political instruct ors of the world. George Washington was their acknowledged and illustrious head, and to him and them I have long~ felt that I owed no trivial part of my own public education. Long, without limit of length, may that union flourish under the blessing and favor ofLGod, with the foundation of which itheir names are inseparably associated. I have the honor to remain, my dear sir, your most obedient and fathful, W. E. GLADsTONE, To J. J. McBride, Esq. COLORED SECRET SOCIETY. "The Colored Farmers' National Allmance and Co-Operative Union." Ustos, April 23.-Special to The Register. I-" The colored Farmers' Na tionalt Alliance and Co-operative Union of the United States" met in the court house here Saturday with closed doors. The superintendent and County organi zer, Jno. D. Norris, a colored teacher and recognmzed leader of the negroes in this County, was seen by the correspondent of THE REGISTER, and told that the ob ject of the Alliance was for the promo tion of the colored people and to advance their educational interests; to make them love their homes better and be on more friendly terms with each other; to be more obedient to the laws of the country; become better citizens and withdraw their attention from "politi cal partisanship;" that they had seen that their happiness and fortunes were not in politics; that they had been de ceived so often by 'political tricksters" that their hope in politics was lost: that they had been looked upon as "political prey" long enough, -and by the Alliance they wished to show to the world that the colored race was no longer a mission field for polities; also. that taey in tended to devote their time to the in terest of that which would build up their homes. This is among the first meetings held here, and little is known of it and little thought, but if John D. Norris .is to be believed, there can be no harm in it as he says, "In no way are we working against the white man." The BEecord Beaten. SAN FNcisco, April 24.-In the Pacific Derby yesterday, Czar made a mie and a hati in 2.36-tne fastest Derby ever run in America, beating the record of 2.3Gb made by Ben Ali at Louisville in 1886. and that of C. H. Todd at Chi agonin 1887.