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■ L-—— -*■' •. . V. THE LEDGER: GAFFNEV, S. C., JUNE 24 1897. 5 G0$> save the queen 2 VICTORIA'S JUBILEE ISTHLTHEVE OF REV. DR. TALMAGE’S DISCOURSE. HAi:;<-KOf rjtjtLUt :,inl aiul vroni« u who ha bat I do m it Th^ Eloquent Trencher Pr.y* a Tine Trib ute to Enslautl*» Uelovctl Ilultr anu Eu- , the Ix-s-mio of Her Life—The fcaontent Curonatiun. Beatuice, N«*b., Jane W.—This is j Dr. Talxuuge’s third annaul visit to tiie j Chautuatjuu here, ou< of the ^reutf t j throngB ever aiisiniblwi cu thia ccuti- cent. He lectured yesterday; be preach- j &> today. Text, Esther v, 3,hat wilt j thoo, Queen Esther:” This qaesticn, v.'hicb was asked of a queen thousands ot years ago, all civi lized nations arc this day asking cf Queen Victoria. “What wilt thou Lave cf honor, cf reward or reverence or service, of national and m* m.;tional acclamation? What wilt thou, tb'-quetu of the nineteenth c entury?” The- ■.* v* u juiles of procession thr ugh th*- street.' cf London day after temorrov.- will b- a kuuJI part of the congratulatory pr ctc- eifjn whose multlindiuons tramp will encircle the earth. Tha oelebrative un- thems that will sound up from West minster abbey and Ht. PauUs cathedral in I>indcu will bo lens than the vibra tion cf one harp string as compared with the dcxologiea which this hfjur roll up from all nations in praise to Ocd for tii* 1 Loactiful life and th • glorious r.ign J : of this oldest queon amid many t« n- tarios. From 5 o’clock of the morning ‘of 1 SoT, when the archbishop of Cuirtii - bury addressed the embiirrasted and wi ping ai d almost affrighted girl cf r yiars with the startling words, “your majesty,” until this sixth th auuiversary of her enthronement, the prayer of all g*x)d ‘ people on all sidee (jt the sc-as, .whether that prayer ho offered by the h0t),00u,000of her subjects or th' 1 larger number cf millions who are net her sub verts, whether that prayer be solemnized in church or roll' d fr m gr» at < rch* slras or poured forth by military bauds ir: m ‘forts and battlements ana in irent cf triumphant armies all around th<- world, has been and is now, “God save th'< queen.” Amid the innumerable column.- that have Le».u printed in eulogy of tbi- quo«*n at the approaching anniver-ary— columns which, pat together, would L< literally miles long—it seems touietha’ the chief cause cf congratulation tc. h< i and of praise to God has not yet been properly emphasized, and in many cum the chief key noie hut ue<l been ciiuch at all. We have been told over and over again what has occurred in tin Victo rian era. The migliti. st thing sh • b.» done bus b<.'u almost ignored, whi’i she has been bcuorcd l>y having h<-r name rttached to individuals and cv* ni. for whom and fur which she had no r 'spcnsibility. Wo have put Ufere u - th< sof potent and grandly um ful u,' n lave livi (i during h. i that d alt helped Thomas C; rlyle in twisiing his involv'd ami xn.ghty sutir.',, <1 helped Disraeli in i^suanco of his «-pi grammutic wit, or helped Cardinal -U w- mun in his cros ing over from n ligioii to reiigiein, or h' lptd to inspire ii.< < n- ehauted sentiments of G<< rgc Eliot nun Harriet fdnrtineau and Jlrs. Browning, cr helped to inve nt any of George Cruik- shauk’s healthful cartcons, or iieij d Gex.rgo Grey iu founding a L:i». ! South African «:upiie, cr kinditd *..■ patriotic f< rvor with whicii John Eiight stirred the masses, or hud anything t< do v. ith the iuv( ntiou of the tel< j lion* or photograph, ortl - building up cl tL< science of bacteriology, or the dir* < ting of the Roentgen rays v. ki Ji have i; \ j- lutiouized surgery, or In ljie»l in tin in- ventions for fu' ilitating printing and railroading and *,'•< an voyaging. Gne* is not to be cre dited or di: credited ft r th. virtue or tb ■ vi'e, the* brilliunee < r th* stupidity of his or her conteuipOiuries. WhiJe Queen Victoria has b».en ti:** fri*-iid of all art, all literature, all s* i euce, all invention, all reform, her reigu will bo m:«t remembered for all time and all eternity as the r< ign ot Christianity. Beginning with that scene at 6 j o'clock in the morning in Kem iui ton palace, wliero sb" asked the archhishoj of Canterbury to pray for her, and they knelt down, iicploring divine guidance until this hour, not only in tin' sublim* liturgy of lx-r established church, but < n , all occasions, she has directly c,r iudi-| rectly de*clared, “I believe in G< d the Father Almighty, r..ak* r of heaven and earth, and in J< sus Christ, his only Lo- potb n tfon." I d" lure it, f* arias ol contradiction, that the mightiest cham pion of Christianity today is the thr< n cf England. The queen’s be;ok so much criticise d at the time • f its api earance, | some saying it was ne t skillfully done and seme; saying ti nt the private affairs of a household ought not so to have j b»‘eu expend, was nev* rthed<-s a be* k ! of vast um fulness from the fact that it | showed that Gcd was acknowledg'd in all her life and that “Rock cf Age s” was not an unusual song in Windsor , cattle. Was h<-r son, the Prince of , Wales, down with an illm ss that buiHe*d j the greatest debtors <jf England? Then she proclaimed a day of praye r to Al mighty God, and in answer to the pray- j » rs (,f the whole civilized world the i prince got we ll. Was Ke-vustopcl to be i taken anel the- thousands of bcre-aveeJ j homes of soldi* rs to bo comfort* d, she 1 culleei la r uati* !i to its knees, anel th* pray* r was answ'r< d. Hco her walking through the; ii( .-j,nul.s like an ang* 1 ot mercy. Was there e ver an explosion o! tit** damp in the mint sof bhelheldor V* ules and In r t<-lt gritni v.a'- i!*it tin ! fir -t to arrive with help and Christian sympathy? Ik President Garfield dying at Long Lruin.. aati in t,. , *. c«.^-e un* del the seu tt aehing tes Buimorul castle kept busy in announcing the tympunas of th* * utfe-rer? The Chri»tl*u Oiu t a. I Ix lievo that no throne sinof the throf^- of David und the throne of lieze- kiah and the throne of Esther has been in booh constant touch with the throne of heaven as the throne of Victoria. From what 1 know cf her habits she reads the Bible ra* re th.m she does Shakespeare. She admires the hymns ? Horatio Bonar more than shu does Byron’s “Corsair.” She 1ms not know ingly admitted into her presence' a cor- “Whcn thon sittest to eat with a mler, consider diligently what is before thee and put a knife to thy throat if thou tie a man given to appetite.” I believe more people die erf improper e ating than die of strong drink. The former causes no delirium or violence* and works more less fatally. 1 ( rupt man or dissolute woman. To very gradually, but none the 1* k distinguished novelists and very cele- Qi’‘ (, | Nictoria s ha dts, se o* nyi i brated prim a donnas she has declined re-o**ption because tli* y were immoral. All the coming eenturies of time can not revr.k** the advantages of having had 00 years of Christian womanhood enthroned in the palaces cf England. Compare) her court surroundings with what were the court surroundings in the time of Henry VIII, cr what were the court surroundings in the time of Napoleon, in the time of Lems XVI, in the- times of men and women whose names may not be mentioned in decent society. Ah; ! f- r tbe revelries, and th** v. (,rs*- than Belshazzar feasts, and the more than ib rodian dances, and th** sc. ih ' from which the v« il must net h* 1 lifted You ne rd, however, in order to u; j.r late the purity end virtuous Fplciieior < f Victoria’s reipn to contrast it mu — what with the geheiinM and the pundemonlnms of many of th«* tlireae rooms of the past and some of th* throne:coins of the present I call tl. lull cf the queens of the earth, not that I would have tb<m come* up or come back, but that J muy make them the background of a picture in which I can better present, the present septuage narian, so so* n to be an odkogenarian, now on the throne cf England, her ex ample so th* roughly on the right side that all the scandal mongers in all the nations in six decades have not teen alio to manufacture an evil suspicion in regard to her that could be made to stick: Maria of Portugal, Isabella and Eleanor und Joanna of Spain, Cathe riue of Russia, Mary of Scotland, Maria Theresa cf Germany, Marie Antoinette of Franc*- and all the queenc of Eng- Ir.nd, as Miss Strickland has pat th* m t< fere us in in r charming volumes, and while **< m«* queen muy surpass our modem qu* < n in learning, and another in attruotivim ss of feature, anel anoth er in grucefulm ss of form, and another m romauee e.f histe ry, Victoria surpass- j es th* ui ail in nobility and grandeur i and thoroughnesa of Christian ebaru* - t*r. I hail h» r, the Christian daughter, : the Christian wife, the Christian moth er, the Christian queen, anel let the church of God and all benign and gra cious institutions the world over cry out, as they come with music and ban- m red ho.-t, and million voiced huzza, and the benedictions of e-r.rth and h< av- eu, ”V«Jiat wilt tcou, Qu*e*n Esther."'’ A Noble Life. Anedhi r tJ.n;g I eali to yonr attention in this illustrious woman’s career i that she* is a specimen cf high Lie un corrupted. Would she have lived to c* 1- • l;iati the sixth th anniversary of h<; eon nation anu the seventy-* ighth ant: vers ary of her lirtbdey, ha*i sL<* not I •. n an * Maniple of good principles and g* ■ 1 i:al its? While tLo*ro* have he* n ban 1 u and \v< nuu in exulted tuition ana klimbic stall-, n who have carried then j \i**s clear (.a into the seventies and j * ightics and * veil the mneti' s of tbe-ir . lifetime, such persona an; very rare. The majority cf the vicious die in their thirties und fewer reach the forties, and the y ar<* *.x* < * dingiy atce in the fifties. Long* city 1 as u* t been the character istic of the most of those who have reaf heei high places in that ox this country. In many eas* a their w* ulth Pads them into indulg.-ncc-s, or theii j honors make them r* < kitss, or their op ( , pvrtuuities of doing wrong are multi plied into the overwhelming, und it is i as true no w as when the; Bible- hrst px*'- sented it, “The wicked live not out halt ti. irdaya.” Longe vity i: not a jjositiv* proof of gee cu* s:.-, hut if is primu fae-i* tvidenc*- in that eiirectiun. A loose Li lias kill* el hunarubs < 1 eminent Ann ri I can.-. A loose life i.- no\. killing hun dreds of eminent American* and Eur i and almost ascetic, under a gt?od Prov- He u^e, account for her magnificent lou- gevity. It may he a homely lesson for n sexagesimal annive rsary in British ] al- aces. but it is worth all the millions of dollar- the* celebration will c r st, and th* laborious convocation of the rt-pro- sontatives from all the' zones *f the planet, if the nations will learn the san itary lesson of good hours, plain foes!, outdoor exere-ise, reasonable abstinence und common se nse habits. That which Paul said to t{ie jailer is just as appro priate for you and for me—“Dei thyself no harm. ” And here let me say no peo- 1 pie outside cf Great Britain ought to , be moie interested in this queen’s jubi lee than our nation. The cradles of most of our ancestors were rocked in Great Britain. They played in child hood on the banks of the Thames cr the Clyde or the Shannon. Take from my veins the Welsh blood and the Scotch blood, und the streams of my life would be a shrllew. Great Britain is cur grand moth* r. We have read in the family records that without our grandincthe-r’s consent, her daughter, our mother, left homo and married th<- ge nius of American inde- pmd* nee, an^ for awhile there was bit ter (strangement, but the family quar rel has ended and all has been forgiven, and we shake hands every day across the seas. At this queenly anniversary our authorized representatives will offer greeting in Buckingham palace and our warships will thunder congratulation in English waters. They are, over there, bone of our bone and flei-h of our flesh. It is our John Banyan, onr Wilber force, our Coleridge, our Do Quince-y, our John Milton, our John Wesley, our John Knox, our Thomas Chalmers, our Bish op Charnock, our Latimer, our Ridley, cur Walter fcfoott, our Daniel O’Connell, our Robert Emmet, our Havelock, our Henry Lawrence, our William E. Glad stone, eur Qufen Victoria. Long live the daughter * f the Duchess cf Kent! A Lon;; Itei^n. Again, this international occasion impresses m*- with the fact that v.oar.ai is comp* tent h r political government when God calls her to it. Great fear- have l*tn expciiemed in this country that woman would get the right of zuf rage, and as a consequence after awhile woman might get inte* congressional chair and perhaps after awhile reach the chief magistracy. Awful! Well, be t ter quiet y* ur perturl ations, us you look across the sea, in this anniversary time, and behold a woman who for CO y* an has rul* el over the mightiest empire ed ::il time and xulcel well. In approval of her government the hands ot all nations urc clapping, the flags of nil nations waving, the l atte l ies of all nuti—n- fcc ming. Look here! Men have* not mad* such a wonderful success of gov ernment that they need he afraid that vcmen should ever take a turn at power. The fact is that men have made a tad mess of it. The mr; a t damnably corrupt thing on earth is American politics after me n have had it all their own way in this country for ii!l years. Oth<r things , * peaus. The doctors are very kind and 1 the c* rT.licate giv-n after the distin guished man ot dissipation is dead, , says, “Died of congestion of the bruin,” although it was delirium tremens, e;r “Died cf cinhosis e.f the liver,” ai- though it was a round of libertinism, tir “Li* i of J,> art failure,” although it was th*- k ng* a;. <■ oi outraged law that slew him. Thanks, doctor, for you are xight in saving l he ft* lings of the Ltrolt household by not bt iug more specific. Look, all ye who arc* in high places e.f the earth, and se e on* who has been plied by ail the temptations which wtaltb and honor ami the secret place of pal- o* os could produce, and yet next Tues day she win ride along in the presence of 7,00 f ),(J‘A) people, if they can g< t within sight of 1:* r chariot, in a vigor ous old age, no more hurt by the spl* n- ders that have surrounded her for Tb years thau is th- plain country woman ti me down from her mountain home in an oxcart to altonu the Saturday mar keting. The temptations of social life among the successful classe s have been so great that every v. inter is u holocaust of hu man nerves, und the beaches of this tossing m a of high life are constantly str* wu with physical and mental and moral shipwreck. Beware, all ye suc cessful ones. Take a good look at the venerable queen ns she rides through Regent street, and along the tstrand, and through Trafalgar square, and by the Nelson monument. What is the use of your dying sit 40 when you may just as well live to be M)? If you are doing nothing for God or the race, the sooner you quit the Litter, but if you are worth anything for the world’s Letter- unnt, in the str* ngth of God und through good habits, lay <>ut a plan for a life tiiat will r* uch through most of a century. How many p* oj.le are prac tically suicides iiom the fact that their gormandizing or th* ir recklessness or th<-ir defiance of dietetics and plain sauitaiy luws cuts short in* ir days. In deed, ko gi< at is the temptation of those who have bountiful tables and full wine closets that Kolomou suggists that in* it* ud of putting the knife into the moat on tlie:r plat*- th*y direct the edge of it icross their throat. I’roverts xxiii, 1, being i qua]—lor there are worn* u at veil as among men—I say ot!: r things being equal, woman has generally a keener souk* of what is right ard what is wrong than has man—has naturally more faith in God and knows better how to make s* if sacrifices and would more boldly act against intern- p. ranee and the zccial evil, and worse things might ccmt- to this country than a supreme courtroom and a senate cham ber and a house * f r* pre-s* ntativu* in which womanly v* ices w"r<* sometimes he ard. We men had better drop toiu*- ot th*' strut cut of our pompous gait and with a little less of superciliousness tliiust the thumbs into the sleeves of our vests and be hts apprehensive of the othertex, whose* ni to be the Lord’s favorit* s from the fact that be has mad*- more of them. If woman had possessed an influential and controlling ve;t< on Capitol hill at Washington and in th* English parliament, do you think that the two ruffian and murck-rcjus nations of th*- earth could Lave- gone on until this time with the Lutein lies in Ar menia and Cuba? No. The Christian nations would have gone forth with bread and medicine und bandages and military r*li*f until Abdul Hamid w ould have had no throne to sit on, and Weykr, the commanding assassin in Cuba, would have been thrust into a prison us dark as that in which they murdered Dr. Ruiz. I am no advocate for f* male suffrage, and I do not know whether it would lx; best to have it. but I point you to th** qute-n of Great Britain and the nation over which she rules as proof that woman may be politically dominant and prosperity xeign. God save the queen, whether now on the thr* ne in Buckingham palace or in some time to come in American White House. And now I pray God that day after tomorrow’the uncertain skits of Eng land, so economic of sunshine, may pour golden light upon all the scene, and that since the day when in Westmin ster abbey the girlish queen took in one hand the scepter and in the other the orb of empire there may have been no day so happy .is that one in which she shall this wick receive the plaudits of Christ* ndom. May she b<- strengthened in her aged body to ride the whirlwind of international excitement, and h*-r failing vision be illumined with bright m* morns of the past and brighter vi sions < f the future, and when she quits the throne of earth may she have a throne in heaven, and as the doors of the eternal j alace are swung ojien muy the qu* stiou of the text sound in her enraptured ears, “What wilt thou, Quo*, n Esther?” Another Coronation. But as all of us will he denied attend- ancc* on that sixtieth anniversary coro nation 1 invite you not to the anniver sary of a coronation, but to a corona- | tion itself—aye, to two coronations. : Brought up us v:e ar*, to love as no oth- j er form of government that which is j n publican and democratic, we, living on this snk* * f f be sea, cannot so easily as those living on the other side of the sea appreciate the two coronations to i which all up and down the Bib!** you I and I are urgently invited. Some of you ! have such morbid ideas of religion that ! you think of it as going down into a dark cellar, or out on .. barren com- i men, or as a flagellati .u, wh*a, so fi r ftom a dark cellar, ii is a palace, and instead of a barren donnnon it is a garden, a toss with the brightest foun tains that were ever rainbowed, and instead of flagellation it is coronation, | but a ccTcnuticu utterly eclipsing the cue whose sixtieth anniversary is now being celebrated. It was u great day when David, the little king who was large enough to thrash Goliath, took ; the crown at Kabbah—a crown weigh ing a talent of gold and encircled with precious stones—and the people shout ed, “Long live the king!” It was a great day when Petrarch, surrounded by 12 patrician youths clothed in scar let, received ircin a senator the laurel crown, and the people- shouted, * ‘Long live the poet!” It was a great day when Mark An tony put vponCtesar the mightiest tiara of all the earth, and in honor of divin** authority Cu sar Lad it placed after ward on the- head cf the statue of Jupiter Olympus. It was a great day which the greatest of Frenchmen took the diadem of Charlemagne and put it ca his own brow. It was a great day when, about an eighth of r> mile from the gate of Je rusalem, under - ?ky pallid with thick est darkness and cu a mountain tram meled of earthquake-, and the air on fire* with the blasphcmuH cf a meb, a crown of spikes was put upon the pal lid and agonized brow of our Jesus. But that particular coronation, amid t< ars and blood and gicans and shiver ing cataclysms, made your own cor- na tion possible. Paul wa;' not a man to lose his equilibrium, bat when that old missionary, with crooked back and in flamed eyes, got a glimpse of the* crown coming to him, ami coming to you, if you will by r;p- utance and faith ucc. pt it, he went into ecstasies, and his poor cyts flashed and his crooked hack straightened as he ex mu to Timothy, “There is laid up lor ia. a crown of rightccurniss,” and to the Corinthians, “These athic-tcs run to ‘obtain a cor ruptible, we an incorruptible,’ crown.” And to the Thessaionians he* speaks of “the crown of glory, ’’ and to the- Philip- pians he* says, “Mr joy and crown.” The apt .- tie Peter catches the-inspira tion and cries cut, “Yu shall receive a crown of glory that fadoth not away,” and .^t. John j-.in. in t:. raptan and says, “Faithful Jo death, and I will give thee* a crown of life,” and else where * xciaii;.:', “Hold fast that no man take thy crown. ” Crowns, crowns, crowns’ You oio riot expet ia coming her*: today to b • invik. :1 to a corona tion. You can .-varce-ly 1 -liev-your own tars, but m the name cf a pardoning God i***i a saerifieing Chr ist ami au om nipotent Holy Spirit and u triumphant heaven I offer each one- a crown for the us:kiug. Crowns, crowns! Howto g« t the crown? The- way Victoria got her crown, on her kne es. Although eight duchesses and marquises, all in cloth of flowers out of another parterre and the blue flowers out of another parterre and the pink flowers out of another parterre and gracefully and skillfully work these four or five crowns into one* crown of beauty. i?o all the splendors of earth and heaven are to be enwroathod into one coronal for our Lord’s forehead— one blazing glory, one dazzling bright ness, one overpowering perfume, ouo down flashing, up rolling, outspread ing magnificence, and so ca his bead shall be many crowns. Tlii- Greatest Cicwa. The world’s best music will yet 1*0 sounded in his praise, the world's b*-t architecture built for his worship, the word’s best paintings descriptive of bis triumphs, the word's best sculpture per petuate the memory of his heroes and heroines. Already the crown woven cut of many crowns is being put upon his brow. His scarred feet are already as cending the threne. A ear* ful statisti cian estimates that in IbfiU there will be 174,000,000 people* in the United States, and by the present ratio of unit ing with the church 100.000,000 cf them w ill be- church members. Whet think ye cf that, ye pessimists inspire d by the devil? The deadest failure in the universe is the kingdom of satan. The grandest threne of all time and all eter nity is the one that Christ is now mounting. The most of us will not se e the consummation in this world, but we will gaze* on it from the high heav ens. The morning of that consumma tion will arrive, and what a stir in tho holy city! All the towers of gold will ring its arrival. Ail the chariots will roll into lino. The armies of heaven 1 which John saw seated on white horses passing in infinite cavalcade. The* in- j habitants of Europe, A'da, Africa, * North and South America and of all is- ! lands of the sea, and perhaps of other worlds, will join in u procession com pared with which that of next Tuesday will not make one battalion. The con queror ahead, having on his vesture und on his thigh written “King of kiugs and Lord of lords,” and when he passes through the- chief of the 12 up lifted gates, all nations following, may you and 1 be* there to hear the combine*! shout of church militant and chur**h triumphant. Until the choirs standing on “thf sea of glass mingled with lire” i shall sound the triumph in more jubi lant strains, accompanied by harpers with their harps and trumpeters with their trumpets, the hundred and forty and four thousand coming into the chorus, I think we will stick to Isaac Watts’ old hymn, which tho 5,000 na tives cf Tcnga, Fiji and biumca sang when they gave up their idolatries for Christianity, usd I would not be sur prised to see some of you old heroes of the cross, who for a lifetime have been toiling in the service, beating time with your right hand a little tremulous with many years: Ji -us shall rele-r where'er tli: :,an Dues lltr tillC*1S ivi- joUTT.eT- rtUI J iii- kii»;r*h :a rir* tch fr >m .-Lo:'- V* -Lore Till M-.ns shall rise an-1 set i.o n.orc. L* t * v* ry '-nature and bring peculiar henort* to cur Kmg; A::K’<-Ls descend with kjrnin. And earth rej^-ut the loud amen. 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Apply Limi; ( *>. for there are feds among silver, curried h-r ttain, and the win dow 8 and archtb and ic- £ of the abbey shook with tho “TeL’t-um” of the-organ in full diapat:or, sh*.- had to ki.u-1, !■].*• had to come down. To git the crown < f pai'uon and eternal life, you will have to kneel, yon will have to com*- down. Y’ea. Kincry cays that at her eoroua- tion not only the entire assembly wept with profound emoiiou, but Victoria was in tears, iio you will have to have your dry eyes moistened w;th tears, in your oar** tears of repentance, tears ol joy. tears *,f coronation, and you v. iii feel like crying out with Jeremiah, “Oli, that lay head were waters and mine eyes fountains of tears.” Yes, she was elating the ceremc ny seated for awhile on a lowly' ston*-called the Lia Fail, which, as I remember it, as I have seen it again and again, was rough and not a foot high, a lowly and humble place in which to be st ated, and if you a:<; to be crowned king or que* u to God forever yon must be seated on th*- Lia Fail of profound humiliation. After all that she was ready for the throne, and let me say that God is nut going to leave your* saltation half done. There are thrones ;.s \\* J! as crowns awaiting you. tit. John shouted, "I saw thrones,” and again hesunt, “They shall reign forever and ever.” Thrones! Thrones! Get ready for the- coronation. But I invite you not only to your own coronation, but to a mightier and tho mightiest. In all the’ag s of tim*-no one ever had such a hard time us< hrist while be was on earth. Brambles for his brow, expectoration for his < h i L, whips for his buck, spears for his side, spikes for his feet, contumely for his name, and even xu our time how many say he is m* Christ at all, and there uio tens of thousands of hands trying to push him back and keep him down. But, oh, the human und satanic impo* teucy! Can a spider stop an albatross? Can the hole which the toy shove 1 * f a child digs in tho sand at Capo May ■wallow the Atlantic? Can the breath of a Hummer fan driv back tho M. diter- ruuc-nu euroclydon: Yes, when all tho combined forces of earth and h* 11 can keep Christ from ascending the throne of universal dominion. David the psalmist foresaw that coronation and cried out in regard to Bio Messiah, “Upon himself shall his crown flour ish.” From the cave ol black basalt fct. John foresaw it ami cried, “On his head were many crowns. ” Now do not misa the beauty of that figure. There is no room on any head for more than one crown of silver, gr id or diamond. Then what (1<mk the honk mean when it says, “Un his head were many’ crow ns?" Well, it means twisted and enwreathed flow ers. To prepare a crown for your child and make her the “queen of the Muy” you might take the white flowers out of one parterre and the crimson The Natonal Bank of Gafihev. CAl»lTA.Iv S-»o.or>o. Tbis bank i- no-.v open fur buMiiei-i :*e<l u>li and Mtrr lumliez - uue’iy. It aill e.\ieii<] i*» >!•>:< i:t wltl* **af* ty. Money to luai> on approve !ts tin- p*)»r - it ■> *» : m •u;Siy. * f f 1 !:«* of (i ff iy ilt'UlllGlaDLlUtioii 1). c ICOSi?t, CsiHliie-r. J. O. WAKIJI I* \\V. Viee-l'i ICC'FOI-fH. 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