c> THE LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C., OCTOBER 29, 1896. i?.- • ps THE FOREST'S GLORY REV. DR. TALMAGE DRAWS INSPIRA TION FROM THE WOODS. He Likens Human Life to the \Voo• will soften tho wild beast's lair and fill the eagle's eyrie. All tho aisles of tho forest will fi t cov ; ered with their earp* t, and the rlcps * f the hills glow with a wealth of coh r and shape that will defy the looms of Axuiinster. What urn could hold the ashes of all tiie.se dead leaves? Who i could count tho hosts that burn on this funeral pyre of tho mountains? f.o we dio in concert. The dock that strikes tho hour of our going will s;.i;iid tho going of many thousands. I^eeping step with tho feofcof those who carry ns out will bo tho trampof hundreds doing tho same errand. Between 50 and 7;> people every day lie down in Green wood. That place has over 200,000 < f tho dead. I said to tho man at the gate, “Then, if thero uro so many here, you must have tho largest cemetery.” Ho said there wero two Itoumn Catholic cemeteries in tho city, each of which had more than this. Wo are all d; in<. London and Peking aro not the great cit ies of the world. The gravo is tho grei.; city. It hath mightier population, lin ger streets, brighter lights, thicker dart nesses. Caesar is there, and all his sub jects. Nero is there, and all his victims. City of kings and paupers 1 It ha i swal lowed all our cities. Yet, City -f: i lenco. No voice, no hoof, no win <), no clash, no smiting of hummer, no clack of flying loom, no jar, jm whis per. Great City of Silence! Of all Ira million million bands, not one of th< i is lifted. Of all its million n illiou i y , uotoucof thorn sparklet'. Of all Its Mil lion million hearts, not otui pulsate Tho living are in small minority, i I f in the movement of time Homo great question between the living and the dead should he put mid Gotl call* d up all flio dead and tho living to decide it, as wo lifted our hands and front all the resting places of the dead they lifted ; their hands, tho dead would outvuto ns. j Why, the multitude of the dying and tlru dead nr*i as these autumnal leaven drift* rug under our feet today. Wo march on toward eternity, not hy companies of a hundred, or regiments of a thousand, or brigad* s of ten thousands, but sixteen hundred millions abreast! Marching on! Marching on! Ileanty Withers. Again, as with variety of appearance tho leaves depart, no do we. You have noticed that somo trees, at the first touch of die frost, lose all thoir beauty; they stand withered and uncomely and ragged, waiting for tho northeast storm to drive them into the miro. The sun shining at noonday gilds them with no beauty. Ragged leaves! Dead leaves! No one stands to study thorn. They nro gathered in no vase. They aro bung on no wall. So death smites many. Thoro is no beauty in their departure. Ono sharp frost of sickness, or one blast off tho cold waters, and thoy are gone. No tinge of hope. No phophecy of heaven. Their spring was all abloom with bright prospects, their summer thick foliaged with opportunities; but Ootobcr came, and their glory went. Frosted! In early autumn t he frosts como, but do not seem to damago vegetation. They aro light frosts. But somo morning yon look out of the window and say, “There was a black frost Just night, ” and you know that from that day everything will wither. So men seem to get along with out religion amid the annoyances and vexations of lifo that nip them slightly here and nip them there. But after awhile death comes. It is a black frost, and all is ended. Oh, what withering and scattering death makes among those not prepared to meet it! They leave everything pleas ant behind them—their house, thoir families, their friends, their books, tln ir pictures—and step out of the sunshine into the shadow. They quit the prerueo of bird and bloom and wave to go un- beckoued and unwelcomed. Tho bower in which they stood and sang and wove chaplets and made themselves merry has gone down under an awful equinoc tial. No bell can toll one-half tho dole fulness of their condition. Frosted! But. thank God, that is not the way people always dio. Tell mo on what day of all tho year the leaves of the ! woodbine are as bright as they are to- i day. So Christian character is never so | attractive as in the dying hour. Such | go into tho grave not as a dog, with I frown and harsh voice, driven into a ; kennel, but they pass away calmly, ' brightly, sweetly, grandly 1 As the leaf! ' As the leaf! Why go to tho deathbed of distin guished men when thero is hardly a house on this street but from it a Chris tian has departed? When your baby died, there wero enough angels in tho | room to have chanted a coronation. When your father died, yon sat watch ing, and after awhile felt of his wrist, and then put your hand under his arm to see if there were any warmth left, and placed the mirror to tho mouth to see if there were any sign of breathing, ' and when all was over you thought how grandly he slept—a giant resting after a battle. Oh, there are many Christian I deathbeds! Tho chariots of God, como to take bis children home, arc speeding ! every whither. This ono halts at the gate of princes. Tho shout of captives, breaking their chains, comes ou tho morning air. Tho heavens ring again and again with the coronation. The 12 gates of heaven aro crowded with tho ascending righteous. I see the accumu lated glories of a thousand Christian deathbeds—an autumnal forest illumin ed l yon autumnal sunset! They died not in shame, but in triumph 1 As tho loaf! As the leaf! To Hisn Again. Lastly, as the loaves fade end fall only to rise, so do we. All this golden show* r ot the woods is making tho ground richer, and in tho jnice and sap and lifo of the tree tho leaves will come up again. Next May the south wind will blow the resurrection trumpet, and th«y will rise. So wo fall in the dust, only to rise again. “The hour is coming v. li* n all who are in their graves shall bear h's voice and come forth.” it wt-nld be a horrible consideration to think that cur bodies wero always to lie in t !.e ground. However beautiful the lb >v« i i yon plant there, we do not want i i m. I - our everlasting residence in such a pluoo. J luv with these oyoa seen so many oi th glnncs of tho natural world and t!. r chant faces of my friends that I do I ' ' want to think that when I close tie i.i in death I shall never open them eg i. ll is said enough to have a hand or 1 it amputated. In a hospital, after a r-'ldier i ad had his hand taken off, ho said, “i •' odby, dear old hand, you huvo done me u grout deal of good service,” ami I unit into li ars. It is a more awful thin;; t<- think of having tho wholo body amputated from (lie soul forever. 1 • u i have viy body again, to see with, to hear with, to walk with. With this hand 1 ninsk clasp the hand of my loved on* s when I have passed clean over Jor dan, and with it wave tho triumphs of lay King. Alia, wo shall riso again. Wo shall rise ujam. Ah tho leufl An the leaf! t it sing the Atlantic the ship may founder and our bodies be eaten by the •diurb-i, but God tauieth leviathan, and \.e shall eomo again. In awful explo- . i 11 of factory !> iih r our bodies may Im nh.*tt red into a hundred fragments in tho a;r, lint Gud watches the disaster, and vve shall eomo again. He will disg the (!*" p. end ransack the tomb, and upturn tie’ wilderness, and torture the moun tain, fiat he will (lint as and ft tell u< oat mid up to judgment and to victory. W hall conic op with perfect eye, with pt’i i< >t htui'l, with pet feet foot mid With p rfi * t body, all our weaknesses I ft boltliid. W f II, blit We line. We (lilt, but V.’e live a iiiir We molder away, but we tome to higher unfolding, As the leult Ah t in leaf! A Ills HU. “Was that new play a ■tton&u?” "immetisel Tim drop curiam fell on { th* Im.el i t tho muu wltu wrutu it”— Ghieago Record. ASSASSINS AFTER "EZETA. The General St;»rf-» it SoiiasMoii hy IJeelar- ing III-* Lifo lit In I>nii£er. Oaki.and, Cal., Oct. 20. — General Carlos Ezcta lias taken up his quarters in this city and is preparing to moot his enemies. The general has surrounded himself with bodyguards and is ready to meet Senor Raphael Lopez, minister of San Salvador to Mexico. Tho min ister is visiting in San Francisco. Kzeta says that Lopez was sent to s y on him and make a report to President Gutierrez. The general has started a sensation among his friends by raising tho cry that he is pursued by hired assassins, who aro socking his life at the instiga tion of Gutierrez. He has called meet ings of friends to discuss tho arrival if tho minister. Threats have boon made and now the general is waiting for Lopez to make a move. The latter, however, asserts that the general is a bluffer and does not mean business. Dr. Calderon, consul general of San Salvador at San Francisco, has taken a great deal of interest in tho latest out break of Ezeta. “Ezcta’s charge about assassins and spies is ridiculous,” said Dr. Calderon. "Mr. Lopez is tho one man who had the courage, when General Menodez died, to say in public that it "had been caused by tho ingratitude ami the no tions of Ez-^ta and to accuse the latter, in effect, of the crime. Ezeta is only a leaking bag of wind. He will not harm anybody. We only wisli he would try o return to his country. Hut there is no fear of that. lie is simply making iibe threats and we shall nay no attention io him.'' Tom Delk Must Die on the Gollonr-*. Atlanta, Oct. 20.—The supreme court has denied a now trial to Tom Delk, the young outlaw under sentence of death for the murder of tho sheriff of Pike county’. Taylor Delk, Tom's father, convicted of the same crime and sen- ! tenca I to hang, was given another j chance to prove his innocenee. McLaughlin will Oct it New Trial. Albany, Oct. 20.—The court of ap peals has reversed tho judgment of con viction in the case of Inspector of Police McLaughlin, accused of extortion, and lias ordnrotl a new trial. This was ono of the Lsxow cases, WOT A SICK DAY Fop tNgy Tirtf RESULT OF USING AYER’ 1 “Ayer’s Cathartic Pills for over thirty years have kept mo in good health, never having had a sick day in all that time.. 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