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Mld?EY'? INAUGURAL THE PRESIDENT OUTLINES THE POL IOY HE WILL PURSUE. JJollolt In tho Troaaury Must ho Avoided, ?f Hxneuaos Aro Not JUooroasod Uoofttnts Must ho Kui ur go d~Blouotttry Commission Suggested--Lynchings Condemned. WAPFWOTON, March 4-Tho follow ing ia tho full toxt o? Pro?idont Mc Kinley's inaugural address: Fellowdtizons: In obediouce to tho will of the peoplo and in their presonco by tho authority vostod in mo by thia oath, I assume tho arduous and re sponsible duties of President of tho United States, relying on tho support of my oountrymon aud invokiug tho ?;uidauco of Almighty God. Our aith tooohos that there ia no safor ro Banco than upon the God of our falh ors, who has so singularly favored tho American Ipeoplo m ovory national trial and who will not forsako us so long as wo obey His commandments and walk humbly in hia footsteps. Tho resnonsibilities of tho high trust towhiohl have been called-always of gravo importance-aro augtnontod by tho provailing business conditions, entailing idleness upon willing labor and loss to useful ontorprisos. Tho country is suffering from industrial disturbances from which speedy relief must bo had. Our ?nanoial system nooda somo revision. Our money is all good now, but its value must not bo further threatened. It should all bo put upon an enduring basis, not subject to oasy attack nor its stability to doubt or dispute. Our currency should continuo un der tho supervision of tho govern ment. Tho several forms of our papor money offer, in my judgment, a con stant embarrassment to tho govern ment and a safe balance in tho treasury. Thoroforo, 1 boliovo it necessary to de vise a system which, without diminish ing tho circulating medium, or offer ing a premium for its contraction, will present a romedy for those ar rangements which, tomporary in their nature, might woll in tho years of our prosperity have boon displaced by wis er provisions. With adequato rove nuo secured, but not until then, wo can ontor upon such changes in our fiscal laws as will, whilo ensuring safety and volume to our money, no longer impose upon tho govornmout tho necessity of maintaining so largo a gold reserve, with its attendant and inovitablo temptations to speculation. Most of our financials laws aro tho outgrowth of exporionca and Mal and should not bo amondod without inves tigation, and demonstration of tho wisdom cf the proposed charges. Wo must bo both ''sure wo aro right" and "make haste slowly." If, thoroforo, Congress in its wisdom shall doom it expedient to create a commission to take under oarly consideration tho ro vision of our coinage, banking and currency laws and give thom that ex haustive, careful and dlspassionaV; ex amination, that thoir importance de mands, I shall cordially concur in such action. If such power is vested in tho President it is my pur poso to appoint a commission of prominent, well-informed citizens of different parties who will command public con fidence both on account of thoir abili ty and special fitness for the work. Business oxperionco and public train ing may thus bo combined and tho pa triotic zeal of tho friends of tho coun try bo HO directed that such a report be made as to receive tho support of all parties and our iinances cease to bo tho subject of more partisan conten tion . Tho experiment is, at all events, woeth a trial and, in my opinion, it can but provo bonoQcial to tho on tire country. - Tlie question of international bimet allism will have oarly and oarnost attention. It will bo my constant en deavor to soouro it by co-operation with the other groat commercial pow er? of the world. Until that con dition is realized when tho parity bofiweon our gold and silver monoy springs from and is supported by tho relative value of the two metals, tho value of tho silver already coined and that which may hereafter bo coined must be- kept constantly at par with gold by ovory resource at our com mand. Tho credit of tho government, the integrity of its currency and tho inviolability of its obligation must bo preserved. This was tho common verdict of tho peoplo and it will nit bo unheeded* Economy is demanded in every branch of tho govornmont at all timos, but especially in periods like tho pres ent of depression in business and dis tress among tho peoplo. Tho severest economy must bo observed in all pub lic expenditures and extravagance stopped wherever it is found and pre vented wherovor in tho futuro it may bo developed. If tho revenues aro to romain as now, tho only reliof that can come must bo from decreased ox Sondituros. But the present must not ocome the permanent condition of tho government. It has been our uniform practice to retire, not increase, our outstanding obligations, and this poli cy must again be resumed and vigor ously enforced. Our royonuos should always bo largo enough to meet with case and promptness not only our cur rent needs but tho principal and inter est of the public debt, but to make proper and liboral provisions for that most deserving hotly ot public credi tors, the soldiors and sailors and tho widows and orphans who aro tho pen sioners of tho United States. The government should not bo per mitted to run behind or increase its debt in times like tho prosont. Suita bly to provide against this is a man date duty. There is a certain and easy; romedy for most of our fi nancial difficulties. A deficiency is inevitable so long as tho expenditures of the governmont exceed its rocoipls. It can only bo mot by loans or an in creased revenue. Whilo a largo an nual surplus of rovonuo may invito waste and extravagance, inadequate rovenuo creates distrust and under mines public and private credit. Neither should bo encouraged. Be tween moro loans and moro rovonues, there ought to bo but ono opinion. Wo should have moro rovonuo and that without delay, hindranco or post ponement. A surplus in tho treasury croated by loans is not a pormanont or safe rolianco. It will suffice whilo it lasts, but it cannot last long whilo tho outlays of tho governmont aro greater than its receipts, as has boen tho case during tho past two years. Nor must it be forgotton thal, howover much such loans may temporarily roliovo the situation, tho govornmont is still indebted for tho amount of surplus thus accrued, which it must ultimate ly pay, while its ablity to pay is not strengthened but woakonod by a con tinued doflclt. Loans aro imperativo in great emergencies to preservo tho governmont or its credit, but a i'ailuro to supply needed rovonuo in timo of {>eaco for tho maintonanco of oithor las no justification. Tho best way for tho govornmont to maintain its orodit is to pay as it goes, not by restoring to loans, but by keep ing out of debt through an adequato in come secured by a system of taxation, external or internal, or both. It is tho sottlcd policy of the government, pur sued from tho beginning and praoticod by all partios and administrations, to raino tho bulk of our rovonuo from i' taxes upon foreign productions ontor mg the United Stales for salo and con sumption ; and avoiding for tho most part ovory form of direct taxation, ox cept in hmo of war. Tho country is dearly opposed to any noetlless addi tions to subjects of inlornal taxation and is committed by its latest popular utteranoo to tho system of tarin? taxa tion. Thoro can be no misunderstand ing, either, about tho prinoiplo upon which this turill' taxation shall bo lev ied. Nothing has over boon mado plainer at a general election than that tho controlling principio of raising revouuo from duties on imports is zealous caro for Amorioaii iutorests and American labor. Tho peoplo havo declared that such legislation should bo had as will givo urripie protection and encouragement to tho-industries and tho dovelopmont of our country, lt is, therefore, earnestly hoped and oxpoctcd that Congress will, at tho earliest praclicablo momont, onoct rovenuo legislation that shall be fair, reasonable, and conservativo and just and which, whilo supplyiug aullioiont rovonuo for public purposes, will still ho signally bonolicial and helpful to ovory section and overy ontorpriso of tho people To this policy wo aro all, of whatovor party, llrmly bound by tho voice of tho poople-a power vast ly moro potential than tho expressions of any political platform. Tho para mount duty of Congrrss is lo stop do Uciouces by tho restoration of that prospectivo legislation whicli has al ways boon the firmest prop of tho Treasury. Tho passage of suoh a law or laws would strengthen the crodit of tno govornmont both at homo and abroad and go far towards stopping tho drain upon tho gold rosorvo hold for tho rodoniplion. of our currency, which has been heavy and well nigh constant for sovoral yoai'3. In tho rovisiou of tho lari tl', especial attention should bo given to Ibo rc en actment ami extension of the reciproc ity principi? of tho law of 181)0, uudor which so great a stiniulous was given to our foreign trade in now and ad vantageous markets for our surplus agricultural and manufactured pro ducts. Tho brief trial given this leg islation amply justillo:! a further ex periment and additional discretionary power in tho making of commercial treaties, tho end in viow always to bo Ibo opening up of new maricela for tho products of our country, by grant ing concessions to tho products of otb or lands that wo need and cannot pro duce ourselves and which do not in volve any loss of labor to our own peoplo, but tend to i ncroaso their em ployment. Tko depression of tho pasl four yoars has fallon with especial sovority upon tho groat body of toilers of the country and upon nono moro than tko holders of small farms. Agriculture bas lauguishod and laboi suffered. Tho revival of manufacturing will bo a relief to both. No portion of our population is moro dovolod to tho in stitutions of free govornmont nor moro loyal in their support, whilo nono boars moro cheerfully or fully itspropor share in tho mantonanco of Ibo govornmont or is botlor ontitled to its wiso and lib?ral caro and protec tion. Legislation holpful to produc ers is beneficial to all. Tho depressed condition of industry on tho farm and in tho mino and factory bas lessoned tko ability of tko peoplo to moot tko domands upon tkem and tkoy right fully expect thal not only a system of rovenuo shall bo established that will securo tho largest incomo with tho least burden, but that overy moans will be taken lo decrease, rather th^.n incroaso, our public expenditures, liusiness conditions aro not tko most promising. It will lake limo to restoro tho prosperity of former years.' If wo cannot promptly attain it we chu reso lutely turn our faces in tkat direction and aid its rolurn by friendly^ legisla tion, llowovor, troublosome\lho sit uaton may appoar, Congress will not, I am suro, bo found lacking in disposition or ability to relieve it as far as legislation can do so. The res toration of conlidonco and tho revival of business, which mon of all partios so much desire, dopend more largely upon tho prompt, energetic and intel ligent action ol' Congress, than upon any other single agency affecting the situation. It is inspiring, too, to romombor that no greater omorgoncy in tko ono kundred and eigkt years of our event ful national life lias over arisen that has not been mot with wisdom and courage by tho Amorican peoplo with fidelity to their best interests and highest destiny and to tho honor of tho American narho. Those yoars of glorious history havo oxaltod man kind and advanced tko causo of freo dom tkroughout tko world and immea surably strengthened tho precious freo institutions whick wo enjoy. Tko peoplo love and will sustain tkose in stitutions. Tho groat essential to our happiness and prosperity is that wo adhere to tho principles upon whitfh the government was established and insist upon their faithful observance. Equality of rights must provail and our laws bo always and ovory whore respect ed and obeyed. Wo may havo failed in tho discharge of our full duty as citizens of tho groat republic, but it is consoling and encouraging to realizo that free speech, a freo press, freo thought, froo school?!, tho freo and un molested right of religious liberty anti worship and freo and fair elections aro dearer and moro universally en joyed today than ever bofore. These gu?ranteos must bo sacredly preserved and wisely slrongthed. Tho constituted authorities must bo cheerfully and vigorously up hold. Lynchings must not bo lol orated in a great and civilized country liko tho United States\ courts-not mobs-must oxocuto ibo ponaltios of tho law. Tho preservation of oublie ordor, tho right of discussion, tko in tegrity of courts and tko orderly ad ministration of justice must continue forovor tko rock of safety upon whick our government securoly rests. Ono of tko lessons taught by tho lato oleclion, which all can rejoico in, is that tho citizens of tho United Stales aro both law respecting and law-abid ing peoplo, not. easily sworved from tho patk of patriotism and honor. This is in ontiro accord with tho gon ius of our institutions and but empha sizes the advantages of inculcating evon a grealor lovo for law and order in tho future, Immunity should bo granted to none who violates tko laws, whether individuals, corpora tions or communities; and as tho Con stitution imposes upon tho President tho duty of both its own execution and of tho statutes onncted in pursu ance of its provisions I shallondoavor carefully to carry them into effect. Tho declaration of tho party now restored to power has beon in tho past that of "opposition to all combina tions of capital organized in trusts or othorvviso, to control arbitrarily tho condition of trado among our citizons," and it has supported "such legislation as will provont tho oxocution of all schomes to oppress the pooplo by un due charges on their supplies or by unjust rates for tho transportation of thoir products to market." This pur poso will bo steadily pursued, both by tho onforcomont of tko laws now in oxistsnco and tho recommendation and support of such now statutes as may bo nocossary to carry il into of feet. Our naturalization and immigra tion laws should bo further improved to tho constant promotion of a sal or, i a bettor and a higher oltlzonship. A grave peril to tho ronublio would bo si citizenship loo ignorant to understand or too violous to approciato tho greal value and benolicenco of our instlta lions and laws-and against all whc ootno horo to make war upon thom our gates must bo promptly and tight ly closed. Nor must wo bo uumlnd ful ofilia need o! Im^r?verncut ftluouw our own citizens, but wit!) tho x.?al ol our forefathers encourage tho H pro sui i of knowledge and freo education. Hilt i ovaoy must babauished from tho land, if wo shall attain that higli destiny ai the foremost of tho oii?ightoncd na tions of tho world, which under Prov idonoa wo ought to achieve. Reforms in tho civiliser vim must gc on. But tho changes should bo rea! and genuine, not perfunctory, 01 prompted by a /.2al in behalf of an3 I party, simply b.eau so it happens to bs Iii power. As u mcmbor of Oongivs I voted and spoke in favor of tho pro sont law ami t shall attempt its on I forcement hi the spirit in whim it wai enacted Tho purpose in view was ti secure tho most efficient service of th? best mon who would accept appoint mont under tho government, retain ? ing faithful and devoted public sor y ants in oflioo, but shielding nono un dev tho authority of any rule or cus tom, who aro inolliciout, iucompotou or unworthy. Tho best interests o tho country domatid this, aud tho poo plo heartily approvo the law Where ovor aud whenever it has boon thu administered. Congress should give prompt alton lion to tho restoration of our Amori can merchant marino, once tho brid of tho soas in all tao groat ocean-high ways of commerce. Tc my mind, fov moro important subjects so impera tivoly demand its intolligeut consider allon. Tho United States has progross ed with marvelous rapidity in ovor^ hold of enterprise and ondoavor unti wo have bscomo foremost in noarh all tho groat linos of inland trade commerce aud industry. lt has been tho policy of tho Unite Statos sinco tho foundation of tho gov eminent to cultivate relations of poac and amity with all tho nations of th world, and this accords with my con coption of our duty now. Wo hav cherished tho policy of non-intorfcr once with tho affairs of foreign gov evnmonts, wisely inaugurated b Washington, of hooping oursolve free from entanglement, either as a lies or Coos, content to leavo undii turbed with them tho sottlomont 0 their own domestic concerns. It wil j bo our aim lo pursue a Arm and uif ! nilled foreign policy which shall b just, impartial, ovor watch Cul of ou national honor and always insisti? upon tho enforcement of tho lawfu rights of American citizens ovorv where. Our diplomacy should soe nof.hiug moro and accept nothing los than iii duo us. Wo want no wars c conquest; wo must avoid tho tempts lion ot territorial aggression. Wi should no vcr bo ontorcd upon unt every agency of peaco has failei ! Peaco is proforablo to war iii almoi every contingency. Arbitration is th truo method of settlement of interm tional as well as local or individus differences, It was recognized as tl: best moaus of adjustment of diderot cos between employers and employs by tho Forty-ninth Congress in 18f and its application was extended 1 our diplomatic relations by the unan mous concurrence of tho Sonato an Houso of tho Fifty-first Congross i 1800. Tho latter resolution was a copied as tho basis of nogotiatioi with us by tho British House of Con mons in 1893 and upon our iuvitatic a treaty of arbitration by tho Unit* Stales and Groat Britain was signe at Washington and transmitted to tl Senate for its ratification in Januai last. Sinco this treaty is dearly tl result of our own initiative; sinco has been recognized as tho loadle feature of our foreign policy through out our entire national history-tl adjustment of'difficulties by judioi methods rather than by force of arn -and since it presents lo tho wor tho glorious oxamplo of reason ar peaco, not passion and war, control ing tho rolations botwoon two of tl greatest nations of tho world, an 0: ampio certain to bo followed by other I respectfully urgo the early action < tho Sonato thoroon, not merely as matter of policy, but as a duty to sna kind. Tho importance and moral i fluonco of tho ratification of such treaty can hardly bo overestimated tho cause of advancing civilizitioi lt may woll ongago tho bost thoug of tho statosmon and peoplo of ovei country, and I cannot but cousidor fortunato lhat it was rosorved to tl United Slates to have tho leadership : so grand a work. It has beon th? uniform practice oaeh President to avoid as far as pc siblo, convening of Congress in ox ti* ordinary session. It is an examp which, under ordinary circumstanc and in tho absence of a public necesi ty, is to bo commended. But a failu lo conven? tho representatives of tl peoplo in Congross in extra sessic when it involvo3 nogloct of a publ duty, placos tho responsibility of sus neglect upon tho oxecutivo himseJ Tho condition of tho public treasur as has beon indicated, domands tl immediato consideration of Congre? It alone has tho powor to pr?vido ro onuos for tho government. Not convono it under such circumstanc I can view in no other sonso than tl neglect of a plain daty. I do not syi pathizo with tho sontimont that Co gross in session is dangerous to ot gonoral business intorosts. Its mei ors arc tho agents of tho people ni thoir presonce at tho seat of govor mont in tho execution of tho sovoreij will should not oporato as an Uiju but a boneilt. There could bo no ts tor timo to put tho government upi a sound finuncial and economical t sis than now. Tho peoplo havo on recently voted that this .-mouin dono sxnd nothing is moro bindii upon tho agonts of thoir will than 1 obligation of imm?diate action, has always scorned to mo that t postponement of tho mooting of Co ?jr?ss until moro than a your after ms been chosen deprived Congre too ofton of tho inspiration of t popular will, and tho country of t corresponding benefits, lt is ovido therefore that to postpone action tho presonco of so groat nccessi would bo un wiso on tho part oft oxucutivo bocauso unjust to tho inti osts of tho yooplo. Our actions ns will bo froor from moro partisan cc sidcration than if tho quoslion of ti ill' revision was postponod untU t regular session of Congress. Wo s noarJy two yoars from a Congrcssic al election and politics cannot groatly distract us as K such cont was immediately ponding. Wo c approach tho prohlom calmly and 1 triolically wUhoat fearing its off upon an oar ly election. Our fell citizens who may disagree with us 1 on tho charactor of this legislate profor to havo tho question sott now, evon against their prcconcoh viows-and perhaps Bottled so roast ably, as I trust and boliovo it will as to insure groat pormanenco-tl to havo furlhor uncertainty monac: tho vast and varied business intors of tho United States. Again, wi ovor aotion Congress moy tftko > bo given a fair opportunity for t: bofore tho people aro called to p judgment upon it, and this I consi a groat essential to tho rightful 1 lasting settlement of tho question, ??.Ut vlow of these considerations I ({?hall doom it my duty as President ttf cou vono Congress in extraordinary] ses sion on Monday, tho fifteenth dly of Marou, 1897. \^ Jr v In conclusion, I congratulutoV tho country upon tho fraternal spi4t of tho peoplo and tho manifostatidn of good will ovorywhoro KO npp?^*?*?t. Tho rocont election not only mo^ufor tunatoly demonstrated tho obi i ccr \\ion of sectional or goo graphical lines; but lo somo oxton t also the pr?judices whioh for years havo distracted our councils and marred our true great ness as a nation. Tho triumph cit tho peoplo whoso verdict is carried nnto offect today is not tho triumph oe ono section, nor wholly.of one party] nor but of all sections and all tho pepplo. Tho North and South no longer divido on tho old lines, but upon principios and politics, and in this fact surely every lover of ihocouniry. cou.lind cause for true felicitation. Lot ils ro joico iu and cultivato this spirit; lit is ennobling and will be both a gain, and blessing to our beloved country) It will bo my constaut aim to do tooth ing and permit nothing to bo done that will mar or disturb this groking sentiment of unity or co-operation, thia revival of esteem and affiliation which, now animates so many thous ands in both tho old antagonistic sec tions, but I shall cheerfully do oVory . thing possible to promoto and increase it. Ii9t rite again repeat the words of tho oath administered by tho Ohiof Justice which, in thoir respectivo spheres, so far as applicable, I would have all my countrymen observo: "I will faithfully oxecuto tho oillco of Prasidont of tho United Stalos and will to tho bostof my ability,preservo, protect, and defend tho Constitution of the United States." This is tho obligation I havs rever ently takon boforo tho Lord most high. To keep it will bo my singlo purpose, my constant pray or--and I shall contidontly roly upon tho for bearance and assistance of all the peo ple in tho discharge of my solomn re sponsibilities, j FINMIED ITS LAB M | CONTINUED KRON PAOIC ONE.] made light by tho cheerful co-opera tion of members. Tho Speaker thou complimented tho officers ol tho House by saying that during Iu3 connection witli the Legislature for brer fifteen years ho had never known oflicors moro faithful, courteous and attentive to^duty. Again thanking tho Hpuso for thoir expressions, ho wished thom tho best of hoalth and a happy roturn to thoir homes. Boforo theso resolutions woro adopt ed, and while tho Speakers was out a number of members hoartily ondorsed them and smoko of tho fact that tho Speaker was always fair and prompt in his ri; tags. This was not said in a perfunctory way, usual in such cases, but tho facts justified tho remarks of mombers,(nnd thoy actually meant whatthoy said. During ono of tho many interims which occurred during tho day, Mr. Robinson, made au eloquent ?peech, in which ho said, in parting from fol low legislators, that ho was glad brotherly iovo had roturnod to South Carolina, and that partisan feeling was forgotten. Ho illustrated his bo liof and endorsement or tho idea by a joke, which, happily told, oli?itod much laughter. Tho remainder of tho session, jwas taken up with recesses and the recep tion of conforonco reports, Tho (joni mittoo on fi to conforonco on the?leg islativo supply bill reported'that tb.oy had agreed. It met with tho approval of,. Ik IIouso, in that it gave proper salarios for certain employees for extra work, Tho committee on freo conference agreed to various amendments AS to tho levy in different Counties. It, was referred back for cortain? minor cor rections and after it came in again it was hally adopted. At 12:10 ibero was nothing to do except wait on tho enrolling of Acts and tho House took a recess until 2 o'clock. Whon tho Houso returned to its ses sion, Mr. Patton offered a resolution that tho regular legislative investiga tion committee of tho office of Treas uror bo appointed. After tho Senate had agreed tho Speaker appointed Messrs ll C. Patton and C. W. dar ris as tho committee. Tho chair ap pointed also Mr. John P. Thomas and Mr. Burns on tho Dispensary. Mr. Thomas offered a resolution, which was adopted, that tho brokon historical mace be repaired. This was agreod to. Mr. Thomas offered a concurrent resolution lo allow the South Carolina Club to uso tho hall of tho Houso of Representatives for ono ovoning in Novombor next. This was agreed to. Tho Sonato agreed to tho resolution as to tho repairing of tho mace; the resolution to inspect tho Treasurer's ollieo and tho resolution as to allow ing tho uso of tho Hall of tho Hquso of Representatives for tho Stato hall. At 1:15 tho IIouso wont to the 9on ato to ratify bills. They returned but a fow minutes after and sat around for several hours awaiting Senate concurronco. Finally a bill in rofor enco to the olection of trustees of schools in Newberry was agreed to, as woll as tho supply bill, which had takon up so much timo. Af tor sovoral hours Mr. John P. Thomas moved that a committeo of throo bo annotated to visit tho Govor nor and inform him that all tho busi of tho Houso had beon completed ^nd it was ready for any othor mossagos from tho Governor. Messrs. Bacot, W. II. Thomas and IC. D. Smith wore appointod tho committeo ou tho part of the House. Mr. Townsond sug prostod that tho Governor was "in' tho Penitontiry, referring evidently to tho Murphy caso, which tho Governor was investigating. Tho House thon wont to tho Sonato for tho purpose of ratifying acls. On roturning, and after tho usual regular formal and logal preliminaries tho Houso adjourned sino dio a fow minutos boforo C o'clook. Could Not Climb n r.ncltlor. WASHINGTON, March 6.-Miss Maud Stahlncckor, this city,who was recont ly denied an appointment in tho Ad j ulan t General s oillco, war depart mont, has boon appointod a clork at $1,200 ta tho stato dopartmont. The duties of tho oillco requiro a knowl edgo of English, b'ronoh, Gorman and Spanish, lt is said that af tor Miss Stahlnecker had pnssed such a credit ablo examination for tho placo in war dopartmont, she wasturnod down beoauso tho duties of tho oillco invol ved tho frequont uso of ladders In got ting down uud putting baok tho roo ords, and consequently was rogarded as not suitablo to a lady. As ono tho ofHeials quaintly put it: " Stahlncckor was rojooted.becauso could not climb a ladder." it Is BAIU That of all tho diseases that mankind, diseases of the kidneys tho most dangorous and fatal, If bo so, how important lt is that i kidneys bo kept in a healthy condi tion. Tho uso of Hilton's Lifo for Liver and Kidnoys will do this. It ?ho "ounce of proveulion" in tji troubles, SOAR LIKE A SERAPH. WHICH I?SWIFT, ASPIRANT, RADIANT AND BUOYANT. Hov. JUr. Tiiluutgo l'roaolioa Uoou un Kx> n?iw? ?UDUIP, out Ho M nie os It Practical nuil Uaorul-Tho Itustlo ot l'lnloiin--l>l vloo Voloolty. WASHINGTON, Fob. 28.-I ti this dis course Dr. Tal mage takes a most ox alted themo and muk?s it practical and usoful to tho last dogreo. Tho subject is "Wings of Seraphim," and tho toxt is Isaiah vi, 2, "With twain he covered his faco, and with twain ho covered his foot, and with twain ho did fly." In a hospital of leprosy good King Uzziah had died, and tho whole lana was shadowed with solomnity, and theological and phop'hotie Isaiah was thinking about religious things, as ono is apt to do in timo of great nation al bereavement, and, forgetting tho presence of his wife and two sons, Who modo up his family, ho has a dream not like the dreams of ordinary character, which gonorally came from indigestion, buta vision most instruct ivo and undor tho touch of tho hand of tho Almighty. Tho place, tho anciont tomplo; building grand, awful, majestic. Within that templo a throne higher and grander than that occupied by czar or sultan or emperor. On that throno the eternal Ohrist. In H1103, surrounding that throno, tho brightest celestials, not tho cherubim, but high er than they, tho most exquisito and radiant of tho heavenly inhabitants tho Eoraphtm. They aro called burn ers becauso they look Jiko Uro. Lips of lire, oyes of Uro, feet ol Uro. lu addition to tho foaturos and tho limbs, which suggest a human being, thoro aro pinions, which sug?03t tho lithest, the swiftest, tho most buoyant and the most aspiring of all unintelligent crea tion, a bird. Each seraph had six wings, each two of tho wings for a different purpose. Isaiah's dream quivors and Hashes with thoso pinions. Now folded, now sproad, now boaton in locomotion. "With twain ho cov or ed his feet, with twain ho covered his ince, and with twain he did Hy." Tho probability is that theso wings wore not all used at onco. Tho seraph standing thoro near tho throno, over whelmed at tho insignificance of the paths his feot had trodden as compared with tho paths trodden by tho foot of God, and with tho lameness of his lo comotion, amounting almost to de crepitude as compared with tho divino velocity, with feathery voil of angelic modesty hides tho feet. "With twain ho did cover tho feet." Standing there, ovorpoworod by tho overmatching splendors of God's glory and unable lon gor with tho eyes to look upon thom and wishing thoso *yyes. shaded from tho insufferable glory, tho pinions gather over tho countenance. "With twain ho did cover tho faco." Then, as God tells this seraph to go to tho farthest out post of immensity on message of light and love and joy and got back boforo tho first anthem, lt does not take tho seraph a groat whilo to spread himsolf upon tho air with unimaginod celerity, ono stroke of tho wing equal to 10,000 leagues of air. "Willi twain ho did Hy?5 Tho most practical and useful lesson for you and mo-when wo seo tho ser aph spreading his wings over tho feot -is tho lesson of humility at imper fection. Tho brightest angels of God aro so far bo ne nf h God that ho chargos thom with folly. The seraph so far bonoath God, and wo so far beneath tho soraph in service, wo ought to bo plunged in humility, utter and com Elote. Our feot, how laggard they ave been in tho divino service I Our feot, how many miss tops they havo takon I Our feet, in how many paths of worldliness and folly they have walked 1 Neither God nor seraph intended to put any dishonor upon that which is ono of tho mastorpiecs of Almighty God-the human foot. Physiologist and anatomist aro overwhelmed at tho wonders of its organization. "Tho Bridfiowator Treatise," writton by Sir Charles Bell, on tho wisdom and good ness of God as illustrated In tho hu man hand, was a result of tho $10,000 bequeathed in tho last will and testa mont of tho Karl of Bridgewater for tho encouragement of Christian liter ature. Tho world could afford to for givo his eccentricities, though ho had two dogs sealed at his table and though ho put six dogs alono in an equipage drawn by four hoi ses and attended by two footmen. With his largo bequest inducing Sir Charlea Boll to write so valuable a book on the wisdom of God in the slructuro of the human hand the world could alford to forgive his odd i ties. And tho world could now afford to havo another Earl of Bridgewater how ever idosyncratic, if he would induce some other Sir Charles Boll to write a a book on the wisdom and goodness of God in tho construction of tho human foot. Tho articulation of its bones, tho lubrication of its joints, tho grace fulness of its lines, thc ingenuity of {ts cartilages, tho delicacy of its veins, tho rapidity of its muscular contrac tion, tho sonsitivonoss of its norves. I sound tho praises of tho human foot. With that wo halt or climb or march. It is tho foundation of tho physical fabric. It is the baso of a God poised column. With it tho warrior braces himsolf for battle- With it tho orator plants himsolf for oulogium, With it tho toiler roaches his work. With it tho oulragod stamps his indig nation. Its loss an irroparablo disas ter. Tts health an invaluable equip ment, If you want to know its value, ask tho man whoso foot paralysis hath shriveled, or machinery hath crushod, or surgeon's knifo hath amputated. Tho Bible honors it. Especial caro, "Lost thou dash thy foot against a stone," "Ho will not sufl'or thy foot to bo moved," "Thy feet shall not stum ble" Especial ohargo, "Keep thy foot when thou goost to tho houso of God." Especial pori!. "Their feet shall slido in duo timo." Connected with tho world's dissolution, "Ho shall set ono foot on tho sea and tho othor on the earth." Give mo tho history of your foot, and I will civoyou tho history of your lifotimo. Toll mo up what stops it hath gono, down what declivities and in what roads and in what directions, and I will know moro about you than I want to know. Nono of us could ondurotho scrutiny. Our foot not al ways in paths of God, sometimes in path? of worldliness. Our feet a divino and glorious machinery for Usefulness and work, so of ton making missteps, so of ton going in tho wrong dirootion. God knowing every stop, tho patriarch saying, ! 'Thou sottest a print on tho heels of my feot." Crimes of tho hand, orimos of the tonguo, orimes of tho oyo, crimes of tho oar not worso than orimos of tho foot. C h wo want tho wings of humility t? covor tho foot Ought wo not to go into soif abn?gation before tho all soarcntng, all scrutiniz ing, all crying oyo of God? Tho sor aph8do. How much moro wo? "With twain ho coverod tho feot." All this talk about tho dignity of human naturo in braggadocio and sin. Our naturo started at tho hand of God regal, but it has beon pauporiz cd. \ Thoro is a well in Belgium whioh oncoYhad -very pure water, and it was stouyy masonod with steno and brid ?HM mt that woll af leeward b'camo tho con- - or of tho battlo of Watorloo. At tho 1 mouing of tho battle tho soldiers, with I hoir sabot's, compelled tho garuonor, 1 ?Vi ll iain von Kylsom. lo draw wator i mc of tho woll for thom, and it was 1 rory puro wator. But tho battlo ragod, < md 800 doad ami half dead wore , lung into tho well for quick and oasy i >urial, so that tho woll of refreshment ' ucarno tho well of death, and long af- i or peoplo looked down into tho woll, i md they SAW tho bleached skulls, but l io water. So tho human soul was a < voil of good, but tho armies of sin '. i;i.vc fought around it and fought I icross it and boon slain, and it has bo- ? ?orno a well of skolotons. Dead hopes, I lead resolutions, dead opportunities, lead ambitions, An abandoned well 1 m less Christ shall reopen and purify J ind lill itos tho wolJ of Belgium novor i yas. Unclean, unclean. i Anothor roraphio posturo in tho i oxt, 11 With twain he covorod tho I aco." That means roveronco God- i vard. Novor so muoh irreverence I inroad in tho world as today. You 1 ico it in tho dofacod statuary, in tho 1 mittag out of liguros from lino paint- 1 ngs, in tho chipping of monuments or a memento, in tho faot that mili- ' ury guard must staud at tho gravo of 1 Lincoln and Garfield, and that old l ?li?do trees must be cut down for Uro- i .vood, though CO Geoi'go P. Morrises >eg tho woodmon lo spare tho tree, < ind that calls a corpse a cadavo, and 1 .hat spoaks of death as going ovor to i ho majority and substitutes for the < .ovorend torms father and mother "tho i >ld man" and "tho old woman," and \ inda nothing impressive in tho ruins < >f liaalbeo or tho columns ot Karnao, < md soos no dillorouco ia tho Sabbath ? rom otbor days oxeopt it allows moro I lissipation, and reads tho Biblo in ? ?vhat is called higher criticism, male- j ng it not tho word of God, but a ?ood book withsomo lino things in it. Irreverence novor so much abroad, [low many lako tho nanio of God in ? fain, how many trival things said ibout tho Almighty ! Not willing to mvo God in tho world, thoy roll up wi idea of sentimentality and humani arianismand impudoncoandimbecili < ,y and call it God. No wings of re ference ovor tho face, no taking o If of I ihoes on holy ground. You can * ell from tho way they talk they ' ;ould havo mado a bettor world ? ban till?, and that tho God < if tho Biblo shocks ovory sonso of pro priety. They talk of tho lovo of God i n a way that shows you they boliovo 1 t does not mako any diil'orenco how ' jad a man is hore ho will come in at ,ho shining gate. Thoy talk of the ovo of God in a way which shows i fou thoy think it is a general do- 1 ivory for all tho abandoned ami tho 1 icoundrelly of tho universo. No pun shment hereafter for any wrong dono tero. Tho Biblo ?ivos two descriptions of ' 3lod, and thoy aro just opposito, and ' .hoy aro both truo. In ono placo tho liiblo says God is love. In anothor , :>laco tho Biblo says God is a consum- 1 ng (ire. Tho explanation is plain as alain can bo. God through Christ is 1 ovo. God out of Christ is Uro. To 1 fvin tho ono ana to escapo tho other j wo have only to throw oursolves, jody, mind and soul, into Christ's J ceeping. "No," says irrovorenco, "1 ] vant no atouomout; I want no par- ' ion;! want no intervention. I will \ ;o up and faco God, and I will chal engo him, and I will defy him, and I viii ask him what ho wants todo ?villi mo." So tho infinito confronts 1 ho Infinite, so a tack hatnmor trios to ireak a thunderbolt, so tho breath of i human nostril defies tho everlasting ' "loci, while tho hiorarohs of heaven >ow tho hoad and bond tho knee as) ,he King's chariot goes by, and tho' irohangol turns away becauso he oan lot enduro the splendor, and the clio 'us of all thoompiros of heaven comes n with full dianason, "Holy, holy! tioly!" Reverence for sham, reverence for' tho old morely becauso it is old, rov eronco for stupidity, ho wovor loamed, reverence for incapacity, however finely inaugurated, I havo hone. But wo want moro revoronco for God, moro roveronco for the sacraments, noro roveronco for tho Biblo, more .everonco for tho puro, moro revoronco br tho good. Roveronco a charactor stic of all great natures. You hear it n tho roll of tho master oratorios. kTou see it in thoRophaols and Titians ind Ghirlandaios. You study it in he architecture of tho Aholiabs and Christopher Wrens. Do not bo flip,? >ant about God. Do not joko about loath. Do not make fun of tho Bible. 3o not deride tho Eternal. Tho irightcsl and mightiest soarch cannot ook unabashed upon him. Involun arily tho wings como up. "With wain ho covered his faco." Who is this God before whom tho irrogant and intractable rofuso rov ironcol There was an engineer of ho uamo of Strasicrates who was in ho omploy of Aloxandor tho Groat, md ho oirored to how a mountain in ho shapo of his master, tko omperor, ho onormous figuro to hold in tho uft hand a city of 10,000 inhabitants, vhilo with tho right and it was to told a basin largo enough to collect .11 tho mountain torrents. Alexander pplaudcd him for his ingenuity, but obado tho enterprise becauso of its ostliness. Yet I have to toll you that ?ur King holds in ono hand all tho Hies of tho earth and all the oceans, viii lo ho has tho slurs of hoaven for lis tiara. Earthly power goes from hand to land, from Henry I to Henry ll and fonry 111, from Charles I to Charles I, from Louis 1 to Louis ll and Louis II, but from ovorlasting to overlast ng is God. God tho llrst, God the ast, God tho only. Ho has ono tolo oope, with which ho' sees ovorything -his omniscience. Ho has ono bridgo vith which he mosses everything tis omnipresence Ho has ono ham? nor, with which ho builds everything lis omnipotence. Put 2 tablespoonfuls ?f wator in tho palm of your hand, ind it will overflow, but Isaiah iudi ates that God puts tho Atlantic o nd ho Paciflo and tho Arctic and tho ?> ntarotic and tho Meditorvanoan and ho Black sea and all tho waters of tho arth in tho hollow of his hand. Tho ingors tho beach on ono sido, tho vri8t tho beach on tho oilier. "Ho io Ide th tho watti* in tho hollow of his land." ? As you tako a pindi of salt or pow lor between your thumb and two Ingors, so Isaiah indioates God takes ip tho earth, Ho measures tho dust if tho earth, the original thoro indicat ng that God takes all tho dust of all he continonts betwoon tho thumb and wo Angora. You wrap around your land a bluo ribbon Avo times, lon imo. You say it is Avo handbroadths, ir it is ton handbroadths, So indi atos tho prophot God winds tho bluo ibbon of tho sky around his hand. 'Ho moteth out tho hoavons with a pan." You know that balances aro nado of a boam suspended ia the niddlo with two basins at tho oxtromi y of equal height. In that way what rast lieft has boon woighed, But vhat are all tho balances of earthly Manipulation compared with tho bai rn cos that Isaiah saw susponded when io saw God putting into tho scales the vips and tho Apennines and Mount Washington and the Sierra* Nevados, Ion seo tho earth had to bo ballasted, t would not do to have too milch voight in Europe, or too muoh voight in Asia, or too muoh wolght in w*m*mm*m* -?-m- M kfrioa or in Amorloa, so when God tnado tho mountains ho weighed them. Tho Bible distinctly says 30> God knows tho woight of the groat fangos that oross tho continents, the lons, the pounds avoirdupois, the juncea, the ?rainy, the milligrams just mw muon thoy weighed then, ' and j ust how much thoy weighed now. ' l,Ho weighod tho mountains in scales and the hills in a balance." Oh.what i \ God to run against! Oh, what a dod to disobey I Oh, what a God to .Unholier I Oh, what a God to dofy I Tho brightest, tho mightiest angel takes no familiarity with God. Tue wings of rovorence aro lifted. "With twain he covorod tho face." Another soraphio posture in tho text. The seraph must not always iland still. He must move, und it nu Ht bo without clumsiness. Tho rc must bo celerity and beauty in tho movement. "With twain ho did fly." Jorrootion, exhilaration. Correction \t our Blow gait, for wo only orawl in Lho service when wo ought to fly at tho divino bidding. Exhilaration in tho faet that tho soul has wings, OH tho seraphs have wings. What ia a wing? An instrument of locomotion. They may not ba like seraphs1 wing, they may not bo like birds' wing, but Lho soul has wings. God says so. "Ho shall mount up on wings as eagles." We aro mado in tho divino image, and 3od has wings. The Bible says so. 'Hoaling in his wings." "Undor tho ihadow of his wings." "Under whoso wings hast thou como to trust." Tho soul, with folded wing now, wounded wing, broken wing, blooding wing, jaged wing. Ayo, 1 have it now ! Jaged within bars of bono and under surtalna ot ll ?sh, but one day to bo ("roo. ' I hoar tho rusti? of pinions in 3eagravo's poem, which wo sometimes ring: Uiso my soul, nud slrctoh thy whigs. I hear the rusti? of pinions in Alex ander Popo's stanza, where ho snys : I mount, I My, 0 dealh, whore 1? thy victory? A dying Christian not long ago 3riod out, "Winga, wings, wings!" Tho air is full of thom, coming and ?oing, coming and going. You have soon how tho dull, sluggish chrysalis becomes tho bright buttorlly-tho dull ind tho stupid and tho lethargic turn ed into tho alert and tho beautiful. Well, my friends, ia this world wo wo iii tho chrysalld state. Death will unfurl the wings. Oh, if wo could only realizo what a grand thing it will bo to got rid of this old olod of the body and mount, tho boa venal Noithor soa gull nor lark nor albatros nor fal con nor condor, pitching from high est rango of Andes, so bouyant or so majestic of stroke. Soe that eagle in tho mountain nest? It looks so sick, so ragged feathered, so wornout and so half asleep. Is that euglo dying? No. Tho ornithologist will toll you it is tho molting soason with that bird. Not dying, but molt ing. You seo that Christian sick and weary and worn out and scorning \bout to expire on what is called his leathbod? Tho world aaya he ia dy ing. I say it is tho molting soason for bis soul-tho body dropping away,the celestial pinions coming on. Not dy ing, but moiling. Molting out of darkness and sin and struggle into glory and into God. Why do yoji not about? Why do you sit shivering at tho thought of death and trying to hold back and wishing you \?d"Uld stay hero forever and speak of depart ure as though the subject wore flllod with the skeletons and tho varnish of coffins and as though ' you preferred lame foot to swift wing? Oh, people of God, let us stop play ing the fool and prepare for rapturous Hight. When your soul stands on tho vergo of this lifo and there aro vast precipices beneath and oapphired domes above, which way will you ily ? Will you swoop, or will you soar? Will you fly downward,or will you fly upward? Everything on tho wing this day bidding us' aspiro. Holy Spirit on tho wing. Angel of the Now Cove nant on tho wing. Time on the Fing, Hying away from us. Eternity &*2ho wing, flying toward us. Wings, wings, wings I 1 X Live so near to Christ that when you aro dead people standing by your lifeless body will not soliloquize, say ing: "What a (liaappointment life was to him ; how averse he was to de parture; what a pity it was he had to lio; what an awful calamity." Bath ar, standing thoro, may they see a rign moro vivid on your still face than tho vestigos of pain, something that will indicate that it was a happy axit-the cloaranco from oppressive luarantino, tho cast oil* chrysalid, the molting of the faded and tho useless ?nd tho ascent from malarial valleys ;o bright, shining mountain tops, and JO led to say, as thoy stand there con omplating your humility and your 'everonco in lifo and your happiness n death, "With twain ho coverod tho eot, with twain he covered the face, fvith twain he did fly." Winga,wings, vings1 L'lauoa by tho Milo. Seo Budden and Bates' now adver - isment of one thousand Mathuahek nanos. 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