The Darlington herald. (Darlington, S.C.) 1890-1895, November 11, 1891, Image 1
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“IF FOK TIIK LIBERTY OF THE WORLD WE CAN DO ANYTHING.”
VOL.II.
OAKLING TON, SOUTH CAKOL1NA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMJ3EK 11, 1891.
NO 10.
OF A VISIT TO PATMOS.
SERMON PREACHED SUNDAY, NOV.
8, BY REV. DR. TALMAGE.
Uo Tells How He Left Kgypt ami Voy-
&gi u £ Past Rhodes Reached the Gre
cian Archipelago and Visited the Island
of St. John's Revelation.
Brooklyn, Nov. 8.—An overflowing con
gregation at the Brooklyn Tabernacle this
morning attested t he interest the religions
public is taking in the series of sermons
Dr. Talmage is preaching on what he saw,
confirmatory of the Scriptures, during his
tour from the pyramids to the Acropolis.
This morning’s sermon, the fourth of the
series, was on the islands of the Greek , ^ThAt cityV. 'mereimu.'li’pe, ftA7ite7at 1^'!
archipelago. The doctor took two texts: i ita schools, its printing presses, its goveru-
cannot see that nations are prosi>ered in
temporal things in proportion as they are
prospered in religious things? Godliness is
profitable not only for individuals, but for
nations. Questions of tariff, questions of
silver bill, questions of republic or mon
archy have not so much to do wir h a na
tion’s temporal welfare as questions of re
ligion. Give Cyprus to Christ, give Eng
land to Christ, give America to Christ,
give the world to Christ, and he will give
them ail a prosperity unlimited. Why is
Brooklyn one of the queen cities of the
earth? Because it is the queen city of
churches.
Blindfold me and lead mo into any city
of the earth so that I cannot see a street or
a warehouse or a home, and then lead me
into the churches and then remove the
bandage from my eyes, and I will tell you
from what I see inside the consecrated
walls, having seen nothing outside, what
FARM READING.
you sit must be darkened, and in the pros | uown, aim tneywm t>e in tne room, anu
euceof John was to pass such a panorama although those in health standing around
as no man ever before saw or ever will see you may hear no voice an 1 see no arrival a n4r4rAe ti Allc .i, A
in this world, and lienee the gloom of his from the heavenly world, you will see and , aufl UlMrUCIIOIlS 10 IIIC
surroundings was a help rather than a henr. And the moment the fleshly bond j Hldl Who GllidC the PlOW.
hindrance. All the surroundings of the; °f the soul shall break, the cry will lie:;
place affected St. John’s imagery when he J “Follow me!
speaks of heaven. St. John, hungry from I cloud
enforced abstinence, or having no food straight for giory, straight for liodF'^ | Imve noticed with surpr
except that at which his appetite revolted,' As on that day in the Grecian archipel 1
t hinks of heaven; and as the famished man
is apt to drenn.of bountiful tables covered | walked to the
with luxuries, so St. John says of the in-1 might keep my
habitants of heaven “They shall hunger! long as I could,
no more.” Scarcity of fresh water on Pat* | cut of heaven
mos and the hot tongue of St. John’s | cavern on Patmos seemed sounding in the . . . „ .
thirst leads him to admire heaven as be waters that dashed agHiiiRt the side of our j Shovels (OF twisters, ) make lip tne j
Hays, "They ghiill no more.” j ship, “Behold tbo tol^rnnclo of Gwlls li st 0 f RthielimonU to do till tin''
St. John henrs the wave, of the sen wild will, men, umt he will dwell with thorn, , . , . , Blit
work of cultivation. While the;
The Door Step.
The conference meeting through at
last,
We ho vs around the vestry waited
!ud! > pnst , t l Ue P 8 t tn i ™,^mlght for home,! I" tnrelling over the country, we; To see the girls come tripping past,
night for gmry, straight for Godf’ v j have noticed with surprise that a! s, ! ow 1,1 waiting to he
As on that day in the Grecian archipel-1 . . j muted,
tgo, Pntmos began to fade out of night, 1 majority of the farmers stlii
THE COURT OF LT.M IL
It is Freely Commented Upon by an
Old Country Paper.
Probably lynch law is indigenous
to American soil. Some of its refine
ments mav he due to red Indian
Acts xxi, 8, “When we had discoverer!
Cyprus we left it on the left hand;” and
Revelation 1, 9, “I, John, was In the Isle
that is called Patmos.”
Goodby, Egypt! Although interesting
and Instructive beyond any country in all
the world, excepting the Holy Isold, Egypt
was to me somewhat depressing. It was a
post mortem examination of cities that
(lied four thousand years ago. The mum
mies, or wrapped up bodies of tbe dead,
were prepared with reference to the Resur
reetton day, the Egyptians departing this
life wanting their bodies to be kept in as
good condition as possible so that they
would be presentable when they were
called again to occupy them. But if when
Pharaoh comes to resurrection he finds his
body looking as I saw his mummy in the
museum at Boulac, his soul will become
an unwilling tenant. The Sphinx also
was to me a stern monstrosity, a statue
carved out of rock of red granite sixty-two
feet high and about one hundred and
forty-three feet long, and having tbe head
of a man and the body of a lion.
We eat down in the sand of the African
desert to study It, With a cold smile It
has looked down upon thousands of years
of earthly history, Egyptian civilization,
Grecian civilization, Roman civilization:
upon the rise and fall of thrones innumer
able; the victory and defeat of the armin'-
of centuries. It took three thousand years
to make one wrinkle on its red cheek. It
is dreadful in its stolidity. Its eyes have
never wept a tear. Its cold ears have not
listened to the groans of the Egyptian na
tlou, the burden of which I tried tc weigh
last Sabbath. Its heart is stone. It cared
not for Pliny when he measured it in the
first century. It will care nothing for the
man who looks into its imperturbable
countenance In the last century.
But Egypt will yet come up to the glow
of life. The Bible promises it. The mis
sionaries, like my friend, good and great
Br. Lansing, are sounding a resurrection
trumpet above those slain empires. There
will lie some other Joseph at Memphis.
There will be some other Moses on tbe
banks of the Nile. There will be some
other Hypatia to teach good morals to the
degraded. Instead of a destroying angel
to slay the firstborn of Egypt the angel of
tbe New Testament will shake everlasting
itfe from bis wings over a nation born iu a
day. When, sopn after my arrival in
■Egypt. I took pari in the solemn and "ten
tier obsequies of a missionary from our
own lundlSij’lng there far away from the
sepulchers of her fathers, and saw around
her the dusky and weeping congregations
of those whom she had come to save, I said
to myself: ’‘Hire is self satrifiee of the
noblest lype. Here is heroism immortal.
Here is a queen unto God forever. Here is
something grander than the pyramids,
lie:.* is that which thrills the heaven*
Here is a Specimen of t hat which will yet
save the world.”
UOODDY TO EGYPT.
Goodby, Egypt! This sermon finds us
on tbe steamer Minerva in the Grecian
archipelago, the islands of the New Testa
meut, and islands Pauliniau and Johan
uinn In their reminiscence. What Brad
shaw’s directory is to travelers in Europe,
and what the railroad guide is to travelers
iu America, the Book of the Acts in the
Bible is to voyagers in the Grecian, or, as 1
shall call it, the Gospel archipelago. The
Bilde geography of that region is accurate
without a shadow of mistake. We are
sailing tin's morning on the same waters
that Paul sailed, but in the opposite direc
tlon to that which Paul voyaged, die was
sailing southward and we northward.
With him it was Ephesus, Coos, Rhodes,
Cyprus. With us it is reversed, and it is
Cyprus, Rhodes, Coos, Ephesus. There is
no book in tbe world so accurate as the
Divine Book.
M y text says that Paul left Cyprus on the
left; we, going in au opposite direct iou,
have it on the right. On our ship Minerva
were only two or three passengers besides
our party, so we had plenty of room to
walk tbe deck, and oh, what u night was
Christmas night of 1889 In that Grecian
archipelago—islands of light above, islands
of beauty liencathl It is a royal family of
Islands, this Grecian archipelago-^the
crown of the world’s scenery set with sap
phire and emerald and topaz and ebryso
prsKiit, and ablaze with a flaky that seems
let down out of celestial landscapes. God
evidently made up bis mind that Just here
be would demonstrate the utmost that can
be done witli Islands for the beautification
of earthly scenery.
The steamer had stopped during tbe
night, and in tbe morning the ship was as
quiet as this floor, when we hastened up
to tbe deck and fouud that we had anchored
off the island of Cyprus. In a boat, which
tbe natives rowed standing up, as is Hie
custom, instead of sitting down, us when
we row, wc vv^e soon lauded on the streets
where Paul and Barnabas walked unit
pre-'ulied. Yea, when at Antioch, Paul
and Baruabus gut intou light—ns ministers
sometimes diil, and sometimes do, for they
all have Imperfections enough to anchor
them to tiiis world till their work is done,
I say—when, because of that bitter con
troversy, Paul and Barnabas parted, Bar
nabas came back here to Cyprus, which
waa hlg birthplace. Island, wouderful for
history! It has been the prize sometimes
won by‘Persia, by Greece, by Egypt, by
tbe Saracenp, by the Crusaders, and Put of
hll, not by sword hut by pen, and that.the
pen of tbe keenest diplomatist of tiie ceo
tury, Lord Benconslield, who, under a
lease which was as good ns a purchase, set
Cyprus among the Jewels of Victoria’s
brown.
We went out into the excavations from
which Dl Cesuola has enriched our Aineri
can museums with antiquities, mid with
no better weapon than our foot we stirred
up the ground' deep enough to get a tear
bottle In which some mourner shed his
tears thousands of years ago, and a lamp
which before Christ was born lighted the
feet of some poor pilgrim on his way.
That island of Cyprus has enough to set
an antiquarian wild. Tbe most of its glory
Is the glorv of the past, and the typhoid
fevers that sweep its coast, and the clouds
of locusts that often blacken Its skies
(though two hundred thousand dollars
were expended by the British empire iu
one year for-the extirpation of these nox
ious iusacts, yet failing to do the work).
and tbsfrequeot ohange of governmental
masters hinder prosperity.
CTTRU* WILL VET COME TO GOD.
But when the island? of tlfe sea come to
ment, its homes, its arts, Its sciences, Its
prosperity or its depression, and igno
rance and pauperism and outlawry. Tne
altar of God in the church is the high
water mark of the world's happiness. The
Christian religion triumphant, all other
Interests triumphant. The Christian reli
gion low down, all other interests low’
down. So I thought on the evening of
that day we stepped from the filthy streets
of Lan.aca, Cyprus, onto the boat that
took us back to the steamer Minerva,
which had already begun to paw the waves
like a courser impal lent to be gone, and
then we moved on and up among tbe is
lands of this Gospel archipelago.
Night came down on land and sea and
the voyage became to me more and more
suggestive and solemn. If you are pacing
it alone a ship’s deck in the darkness and
at sea Is a weird place, anil an active imagi
nation may conjure up almost any shape
he will, and it shall walk the sea or con
front him by the smokestack or meet him
under the captain's bridge, But here J
was alone on ship’s deck iu the Gospel ar
chipelago, and do you wonder that the sea
was populous with the past and that down
the ratlines Bible memories descended?
Our friends had ail gone to their berths.
“Captain,’’ 1 said, “when will we arrive at
the Island of Rhodes?” I,ooking out from
under his glazed cap, he responded in sepul-
chral voice, "About midnight.” Though
it would be keeping unreasonable liours,
I concluded to stay on deck, for 1 must see
Rhodes, one of the islands associated with
the name of the greatest missionary the
world ever saw or ever will see. Paul
lauded there, and that was enough to make
it famous while the world stands, and fa
mous in heaven when the world has be
come a charred wreck,
A WONDERFUL IIISTORV.
This island has had a wonderful history.
With six thousand Knights of St. John, it
at one time stood out against two hundred
thousand warriors under “Solyman the
Magnificent,” The city bad three thou
sand statues, and a status to Apollo called
Colossus, which has always since been con
sidered one of the seven wonders of the
world. It was twelve years in building
and was seventy cubits high, and had a
winding stairs to the top. It stood fifty-
six years and then was prostrated by an
earthquake. After lying In ruins for nino
hundred years, it was purchased to be cou
verted to other purposes, and the metal,
weighing seven hqndred and twenty thou
sand pounds, was put'on nine" hundred
catncls and carried away. Wo were not
permitted to go ashore, but the lights all
up ami down the hills show where the city
stands, and nine boats come out to take
freight and to bring three passengers. Yet
all tiie thousands of years of its history are
eclipsed by tbe few hours ordays that Paul
stopped there.
As 1 stood there on the deck of the
Minerva, looking out upon the place
where the’Colossus once stood, I bethought
myself of the fact that tbe world must
have a God of some kl ml. It is to mean
infinite pathos—this Colossus uot only of
Rhodes, but the colossi in many parts of
tbe earth. This is only the world’s blind
reaching up anti feeling after God. Foun
dered human nature must have a supernat
ural arm to help it ashore. All tiie statues
and images of heathendom are attempts
to bring celestial forces down into human
alfalrs. Blessed lie our ears that we have
heard of an ever present God, and that
through Jesus Christ ite comes into our
hearts and our homes, and with more than
fat herly and motherly interest mid affec
tion lie is with us in all our struggles and
bereavements and vicissitudes. Rhodes
needs something higher than tiie Colos
sus, and the day will come when the
Christ, whom Paul was serving when he
sailed into the harbor of Rhodes, shall
lake possession of-that island.
As we move on up through tiiis archi
pelago, I am reminded of what an iinptg’-
taut part tiie islands have taken in the
history of the world. They are necessary
ro the balancing of the planet. The two
hmnispheres must have them. • As you put
down upon a scale tiie heavy pound
weights, and then the small ounces—and
no one thinks of despising the small
weights—so the continents are the pounds
and the islands arc the ounces. A conti
nent is only a larger island, and an Island
only a smaller continent. Something of
whal part the islands have taken in the
world’s history you will see when I remind
you that the Island of Salamis produced
Solon, and that the Island of Chios pro
duced Homer, and the Island of Samos
produced Pythagoras, and the Island of
Coos produced Hippocrates.
HE LONGED TO SEE PATMOS.
But there Is one island that 1 longed to
see more than any other. I can afford to
miss the princes anion-' the islands, hut 1
must see the king of the archipelago. The
one 1 longed to see is not so many miles in
circumference as Cyprus or Crete or Paros
or Naxos or Scio or Mityleua, hut I had
rather, iu tiiis sail through the Grecian
archipelago, see that than all the others;
for more of the glories of heaven lauded
there thunooall the islands and continents
since the world stood. As we come toward
It I feel my pulses quicken. “I, John, was
iu tbe island that is called Patmos.” It is
a pile of rockti twenty-eight miles in cir
cumference. A few cypresses and inferior
olives pump n living out of tiie eiirlli, aud
one paint tree spreads its foliage. But the
barrenness and gloom and loneliness of tiie
island made it a prison for the banished
evangelist.
Domitiuii could not stand his ministry,
am}, .one day, under armed r guard, that
minister of the Gospel Atefiped from a toss
ing boat to these dismal rocks and walked
up to the diainal cavern which was to be
Ids home and the place where should pass
licfore him all the conflicts of coming time
and all the raptures of a coining eternity.
Is it not remarkable that ivearly all the
great revelations of music and poetry and
religion have been made to men in bauish
ment—Homer and Milton banished into
blindness; Beethoven banished Into deaf
new; Dante writing bit "Divina Com
media” during the nineteen years of ban
ishment from bis nativei-nd; Victor Hugo
writing his "Lea MlseruTfes” exiled from
home and country on tbSisland of Gmeu-
sey, and the brightest visions of the future
have been given to those who by sickness
or sorrow were exiled from the outer world
Into rooms of suffering. Only t hose who
have beeq imprisoned by very hard sur
roundings have had great revelations made
]y dashing agaiu.^t llte rocks, aud each ; and they shall be bis people and God him-1 Worl
wave lias a voice, and all the waves to-| Rt ‘lf shall be witli tin in and Ik.* their God; y-j-j,
gefcher make a chorus, and they remind | and God shall wipe away all tears from 1
him of the multitudinous anthems of ; their eyes, and there shall be no more
heaven, and he says, “They are like the death, neither sorrow nor cryinff, neither
shall there be any more pain, for the for
mer things are p.tj^ed away.”
votc« of many waters.” One day, as he
looked off upon the sea, the waters were
very smooth, as it is to-day while we sail
i them iu the Minerva, and they were like
Kluss, and the sunlight seemed to set them
on fire, and there was a mingling of w hite
j light aud intense flame, and ns St. John
! looked out from hiscavern home upon that j
Popping the Question.
Don’t bo too sudden about
I brilliant sou he thought of the splendors of! Many ;l girl 1ms said “n >” when she
I heaven and describes them “As a sea of
iiiTous patterns of patents of
wrought iron foot plow stocks are
an iiuproveineut in some respects on
the old time all wood stock, «we
doubt if, on the whole, they are ’ I eiui’t remember what we said,
much to be preferred lo a well made, fwas nothing worth a song or
iron bound, well adjusted stock of ,, , sf! ,' l v’
,, ,- , Wt that
the old pattern
sources. Its Lycnrgiis was one John
Lynch, of Irish race, a farmer, jier-
haps a justice of the peace, who
flourished in Virginia or Carolina in
the seventeenth century
n( , ' that he was recognized as judge over a
We let the old folks take the high- f “"'I chastised offenders
way, by summary floggings, a punish-
And started towards the Maple farm, ment which ivuch law in its modern
Along :i kind of lovers’ byway. development ‘retains. The court of
A STORf FROM SIBERIA.
Horrors of Russian Tyranny Ulus
(rated.
she blushed, and took my
A most tragic meeting between
father and son, who, after a long
separation, descried each otherstund-
ing on different sides of the inipas a-
ble gulf that divides this world's
sheep from the goats, occurred near
the city of Yladivo.-toek lately, w here
It is said | the construction of the new Siberian
Kailwuy was commenced in honor of
the Czarowitoll's visit. Among the
None of them are
I
glass minglctl with fire.” Yes, seated in ' meant
l the dark cavern of Kntmos, though home- . , , , , • ,•
j sick and hungry and loaded with Do-! lOYCl* clldll t CllOOric* tiie right time
mitian’s anathemas, St. John was the most j t ,,1.1.,
fortunate man on earth because of the | 11 u I 10 !* the question ^enrl).
■ panorama that passed before the mouth of Take a dark HD'ht for it. Have
| that cavern. I ,' • _ . . ° . . ,
tiik pAxoiiAMA. passks. ’ Hie uliiius closedj the curtains dowiij
Turn down all tbe lights that we may j an d the lamp turned most OUt. Kit
better see it. The panorama passes, aud , . i i
lo! the conquering Christ, robed, girdled, hear eilUllgll to her SO YOU call IIUOK
| armed, the flash of golden candlesticks and : vour little Auger into hers,
seven stars in his right baud, candlesticks! *' ° ,
aud stars meaning light held up and light I ” Alt UUtll to Conversation begins ! .
suited for turning purposes unless i
.sped
sued
‘yes,” simply because the j provided with properly shaped iron.- ! gh:
rude path by which we
:;!i transformed and in e
scattered. Ami there passes a throne and; t 0 flag, and .then quietly remark,— i ’ , J 3 LU51
Christ oa It, and the seals broken, and the . T , . , and keep IU repair than
woes sounded, and a dragon slain, and “busie, I want to ask you a SOJUC-; , . 1 , 1 , .
seven last plagues swoop, and seven vials ihmo-,” ! 11 t * le 111 c<
firw non ml out. and trlip viainn vnniahfie A i lift uuirtn /.u.ilift*
to give tiie correct curve to the!
mould board, and a landside to sup-!
port and guide tiie share All turn- ■
plow work had better be done with i: |
I regular turn-plow—made for this]
: iioe—whether one or two horse.
The old excuse of too “costly”
can 1 ardly be urged now, for these
| improved turn-plows cost less to buy
the “tilers,
condition to
Tie
snow v.'us crisp beneath our
arc poured out, and the vision vanishes,
And we halt a moment to rest from the ex-
j citing spectacle. Again the panorama
moves on before tiie cavern of Patmos, and
John the exile sees a great city represent
j ing all abominations, Babylon towered,
i palaced, templed, fountained, foliaged,
J sculptured, hanging ;<r dens, suddenly go
i lug crash I crash! ati.l the pipers cease to
pipe, and the trumpets cease to trumpet,
; and the dust, and the smoke, aud the bor-
| ror liil the canvas, while from above and
beneath are voices announcing, “Babylon
is fallen, is fallen!” And we halt again to
, do the same quality of work.
biie will fidget about a little and r . ‘ i ■ , ,
Iu the matter of implements for
probable answer,—
“Yes:”
After a pause you can add,—-
“Susie, my actions must have
shown—that is, you must have seen
—i mean, you must be aware that—
JL’uuse for awhile, but keep your
little linger firmly locked. She muv
rest from the spectacle. . ,, , , ., , . , „
Again the panorama passes before the I COUgil and try to tlU'U the subject oil
cavern of Patmos, and John the exile sees I l,y asking YOU how YOU liked the
a mounted Christ on a snow white charger i , ' , , ,*
eadiug forth the cavalry of heaven, the i sermon, but sue does it to eUCOUmgC
long line of white chargers galloping j you,
through the scene, the clattering of hoofs,! •
the clinking of bridle hits, and the flash of
spears, all the earth conquered and all
heaven ia Doxology. And wo halt again
to rest from the spectacle. Again the
panorama passes before the cavern ol
Patmos, and John tne exile sees great
thrones iiflod, thrones of martyrs, thrones
of apostles, thrones of prophets, thrones of
patriarchs, and a throne nlglier than all on
which Jesus sits, and ponderous I looks are
opened, their leaves turned over, reveal
Ing the names of nil th-it have over lived,
tbe good and the had, tha renowned and
the humble, the mighty and the weak, and
at the turn of every leaf the universe is in
ither case it au-pirs wj'l 1 for you.
rapture or fright, and the sea empties its i Wait five 01' tell minutes and then go
sarcophagus of al! the dead of the sunken
shipping, aud file earth gives way, and the 111,
“The past year has been a very
Hippy one. to me, lint J hope that
;aui we rest a moment
tare vc
heavens vanish. A;
fi om the spectacle.
The pHiinraiiin moves on before the cav-.
era of Patmos, aud John the exile beholds
a city of gold, mid a river more beautiful i .• i
than the Rhine or the Hudson rolls i Lowevt r, that depeudse itirely
through it and fruit trees bend their bur- v; , n . ] am here tonight to know
, (lens ou eitdcr bank, uni nil is surrounded
' by walls in whiob the upholstery of au-
i tumnal forests, aud the sunrises and sun
sets of all tbe ngtifi, and the glory of buru-
; in« worlds seem to be commingled. And i
! the inhabitants never breathe a sigh, or i
utter a groan,-or disc ills a difference, or
cultivating the crop-there is a wide
field for progress and improvement.
The practice of running two or
three furrows m a two and tt half or
. •
three feet row, ought to be aban
doned as too laborious aud slow. V.’e
write of this matter now because the
work of laying off rows for the main
crops will soon commence. In some
sections of the South the most suc
cessful fanners have adopted five,
pause volt can con-1. . e ,, ...
1 - , LU.wtic cases, six feet as the uniform
width of rows, both of corn and eot-
R ton, ising improved, adjustable cul
tivators iu the work of cultivation,
requiring only two furrows or one
round trip to inch row atone plow
ing; while we do not recommend that
cotton rows be at once widened from
tfoegto five or even four feet, we
think with thorough preparation
mid liberal manuring it will be
found much more economical both in
seed and labor to approximate
gradually the wider distances. Rut
. . such implements cun not be .used to
ii*s will 1)*.5 still liaupier. ] 4. ■ 1 11 i 1
11 j nu vantage in badly prepared, rough.
011 stumpy land.—firanted, Then pre-
— pare, the hind for thetn by removing
that is, to ask von—1 am here to-; .. . — , , , , ,
. .Jumps and large stones, good break-
qis t te o.ie . j n ^ a , K j harrowing. A farmer who
, . ; has alwttvs been accustomed to their
\\ mt again. It isn t best to be too
After a
tinue,—
“1 was thinking as I was
up the street tonight, that before 1
.vent away I would ask you—that is,
I would broach the subject nearest
my—I mean I would know my—”
Stop again and give her hand a
gentle squeeze. She may make a
move to get away or she mav not. In
night to hear from your
vweet—”
Thu moon was full, the fields were
gleaming; *
Ry hood <in'l tippet sheltered swept
Her face with youth and health
was beaming.
The little hand outside her muff—
0, sculptor, if vou could but mold
it!
So lightly touched my jacket cuff.
To keep it warm I had to h
it.
hold
To have her with me there alone,
’Twns love and fear and triumph
blended;
At last we reached the foot-worn
stone
„ Where that delicious journey
ended.
her
ringlets
from her
thank you, Ned,”
She shook
brow,
And with a
dissembled,
Birt vet ! knew she understood
With what a daring wish 1 trend led.
A cloud passed kindly overhead,
Tire moon was peeping slowly
through it,
Yet hid its face, if it said,
Come, now or never! do it! do it!
My lips till then had only known
, The kiss of mother and of sister,
Lilt somehow full upon her own
Sweet, rosy, darling mouth—1
kissed her. •
j frown a dislike, or weeji a tfeir. The fasl
I ion they wear Is pure white, and their fore
heads are encircled hy garlands, and they
who ware sick are well, and they who were
old are young, ami they who were lieroft
are reunited. And as the last figure of
that panorama rolled out of si^ht I think
that John must have fallen hack into his
| cavern nerveless and exhausted. Too
J much was it for naked eye to look at.
! Too much was it for human strength to
experience.
LAST WORDS OF HAPPY CHRISTIANS.
My friends, I would not wonder if you
should have a very similar vision after
ivsh about such things.
awhile. You will he through with ibis i not deceived me, and vou wore reudv !
world, its cares and fatiRUes and struKxle.s, i , , t „
and if you have served the Lord and have I SJiarc
use would consider himself poorly
Kl ! prepared for his work if suddenly i
p ontv of time to recover composure, ; , ■ i <■ i • i , *, I for.
1 • • 1 ’ deprived of his harrows. A good 1
and then tint vour hand ou vourii • e ,, , ,
1 . - l harrow is one of toe most ^;rtisfac-
uenrt and continue,— I, , , i, ,,
’ ! tory and tiselul implements of a well
“Yes, I thought as I was conn up ; , ,
’ ° • | oiuered farm, and will more than re-
here tonight how hupnv J d been,! •. . -n
, . . f ....... pav its cost every season; it will save
.id I said to mvself that if I onlvi-. . • ,i " • ri i i
• • its cost in the silting of labor and
knew yon would corrteut to be my—I • ...
increase of cron, in going over one
that is. I said if I only knew—f , , , * , , , b ..
, ! oiiiuirea itcres of land one time.—
was only cerhmi timt n»v heart lia<! k . n ,, u -
• tHHUnCTIl ( ulliYiitor.
done tiie best you could, I xhonld not won- I Hold oil—there\s no hlliTV about
der if your dyiiitf bed were n Patinos. It .. ... ,, . . , * .
often has been so. I was reading of a dy J *'• 'JC* V i 1111 a chance to 8oh
ing Imy who, while the family.stood around !ul moan outside among the trees,
sorrowfully, expecting each breath would i . , ■ 4R ,
be tbe last, cried: “Open the gates! Open I 1 1,18 " ill make her lonesome, Tlnd
the g:ires! Happy! Happy! Happy!” John ! call U p all the love in her heart.
Owen, in his last hour, said to his attend-i ,... , , . , •
ant, “Oh, brother Payne! the long wished ! “ ‘ R ‘ u tille begins to COUgll and grow
for day hns come at last!” Rutherford, in j restless VOU CUU go Oil.
the closing moment of his life, cried out: 1 „ . - T b ,,
“I shall shine, I shall see hlm'as he is, ami i Before i met you this world was
ail the fair company with him, and shall | •( desert "to me. I didn’t take unv
have my large share. I have gotten the ! , .
victory. Christ is holding forth his arms i pleasure m life, and it didn t matter
to ejnbrace me. Now I feell Now I enjoyi | whether the sun shone or not. But
Now I rejoice! I feed on manna. I liave
angels’ lni*l. My eyes will see my Re- v, hut a change in one short year. It
deeiner. Glory, glory dwulletli iu Imman
uel's land.” Yes, ten thousand times iu
the history of the world has the dying bed
been mude a Patinos.
Yon see the time will come when you
will, oh, child of God, he exiled to your
last sickness as much as John was exiled
to Patmos. You will go into your room
not to come out again, for God is going to |
do something better and grander and hap
pier for you than he Jias ever yet done!
There will be such visions letdown to your
pillow as God gives no man if he is ever to
return to this tame world. The apparent
feeling of uneasiness nnd restlessness at
the time of the Christian’s departure, the
physicians say, js caused by no real dls
tress. It is an unconscious and involun
tary movement, and I think in many
casus it is the vision of heavenly gladness
too great fur mortal endurance. It Is only
heaven breaking in on the departing spirit.
Yo'» see your work will 1* ^ >11e and the
time for your departure will he at hand,
and there will be wings over you anti
wings under you, and song* 4ct loose on
tbe air, and your old father aud mother
gone for years will descend into the room,
and your little children whom you put
away fur the last sleep years ago will be at
your side, and their kiss will he on your
foreheads, and you will gee gardens in full
bloom, aud the swinging open of shining
gates, and will hear voices long ago hushed.
‘ A SUPERNAL FACT.
In man J a Christian departure that you
have known and I have known there was
in the phraseology of the departing ones
something that indicated the reappearance
of those long deceased, It is no delirium,
no delusion, hut it supernal fact. Your
glorified loved ones will hear that you are
is for you to say wlictliur my nature
kail be a prairie of happiness or one
ienig and never-ending pathway ol
thistles. Speak, dearest Susie, and
-ay—and say that—”
Give her five minutes more by the
clock and then add,—
“That you—you will be—that if,
that you will—be mine!'”
She will heave tt sight, look up at
the clock and around the room, and
(lien us she slides her head over your
vest pocket she will whisper,—
“Henry—I will.” •
Costly Metals.
Some rare metals possessing special
qualities are required for certain
work. Thus, palladium is used in
making some parts of timepieces,
and irridittm for the points of gold
pens. Lithium is the lightest of
metals. Rhodium is extremely hard
and brittle, and is only fusible at u
very high temperature, and irridiom
is the heaviest suUstuuct hitherto
discovered. The mtiuiHated have
Childish Faith.
Perhaps ’twas boyish love, yet, still.
O, listless woman! weary lover!
To feel (’nee more that fresh, wild
thrill
I’d give—but whocan live life over?
—K. ('. Steadman.
A family consisting of a father
and his three sons, by the name oi
;i'eat er, hard “pets,” had often laugh
ed to scorn a pious though eccentric
mini.sler. One of the boys was bitten
by a rattlesnake, and was expected
to die, when the minister was sent
He found the young man
very penitent. The minister, calling
on the family, kneeled down and
prayed lit this wise: “O Lord, we
thank thee for the rattlesnakes. We
Ihank thee because a rattlesnake hits
hitieii Jim. We pray thee send a
r.ittlivnake to bite John; send one to
bite Bill; t.nd, 0 Lord, send the
biggest kind of tt rattlesnake to bite
the old man; for nothin" but rattle-
snakes will bring the Beaver family
An example of childish faith, of a to repentance!"
i;e wears away, wqs
day. A little boy
kind dull age wears away, wqs seen
..the other day. A little boy was!'
sitting in the yard of an old country
homestead; on either side of him sat
a huge dog, patient and loving. The
sun shone down schorchiugly on the
trio, and its rays were uncomforta
ble. Shading his eyes with his
curved hand the child looked, sky
ward and said: “Put iu that sun,
please.” The sun shown brightly,
and the little fellow repeated softly:
“Please put in that sun, man in the
sky, it hurts my head.” Just then
over the face of the orb there sailed
a white summer cloud, then another,
and the yellow I laze turned sudden
ly to a hazy, restful gray. Turning
to the dogs, the little boy, putting
an arm around the neck of each,
said: “Did you see the sun pulled
in, Romeo and Chieftain? When
you wants, anything, if you is good,
and asks God for it, he gives it to
you. The suit hurt my head and I
asked him to put it in, and didn’t
you see how lie did natch out and
put it in for me.” The dogs looked
wise, leaned their Lead loiingly
toward the diminutive little theolo
gian, aud, whatever might have been
their belief,, kept- au inscrutable
silence.—Providence Journal.
If you emiLd see your own scalp
through an ordinary magnifying
glass, you would ..be amazed at the
amount of dust, dandruff, und dead
Advertising Kuggcts.
Don’t expect an adveitisement to
bear fruit in one night.
Bread is the stuff of human life,
and advertising is the stuff of busi
ness,
You can’t cat enough in a week to
hit! a year, and you can’t advertise
on Ihal plan either.
A thing worth doing is worth
doing well. A thing worth adver
tising is worth advertising well.
The enterprising advertiser proves
that he understands how to buy,
because in advertising he knows how
to sell. \ ■ .
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It you cau arouse curiosity by an
advertisement, it is a great point
gained. The fair sex don’t hold all
the curiosity in the world.
People who advertise only once in
three months forget that most peo
ple camnt remember anything longer
than about seven days.
A constant dropping will wear a
mck. Keep dropping your adver
tisement on the public, and they will
soon melt under it like roek-sult.
Quitting advertising in dull times
is like tearing out a dam because the
water is low. Either' plan will pre
vent good times from coming.
A man’s sign offers n mute invita
tion to those only who pass his
place of business; his cifoulur cun
ouh reach those to whom personal
lynch consists of tv lawless multitude,
occasionally drunk, always savage,
impelled by a common desire to mal
treat or kill some object of their dis
like. The number of judges varies
with’lhe force necessary to carry out
their will. For they are accusers,
judges, executioners and legislators
al! in one and at once.
Its procedure cannot be reproached
with delay. No charge is made, no
proof taken, no defeuc6 allowed. In
the case of a foreigner ignorant of
the language, and opportunity of de
fending himself would be clearlv
supefflous. Even the identity of the
accused is left to chance. Every
thing is arbitrary and undefined. Oc
casionally, to induce confession, tor
ture is resorted to. The punishment
however, is the most interesting, and
the only protracted part of the pro
ceedings. At Kan Antonio, on tin
7th of .March, last, lynchers dipper
an alleged thief in petroleum, sei
fire to him, “lighiing up the sur
rounding country,” and, after a suf
ficient enjoyment of his agonies, drew
workmen or helots, w hose guerdon is
many stripes aud no pay, there a-o
some thousands of the least criminai
convicts in the country. Manv of
them are known to be innocent of
the crimes laid to their char-.v,
while others are being punished tor
nets which have ab oia’.eh n.ffhing
in common with mcral crime.
Among the latter was one in*.;.
old man of venerable aspect, a na
tive of Koorok. One day he was
struck by the familiar look of the
soldier who, with loaded rifle, guard
ed his gang, and he made bold to ask
him whence he came. To this ques
tion the soldier, forbidden by the
military rules to enter into conversa
tion with the convicts, gave no reply.
I he old man, however, grew more
ikJgety, soon ceased work altogether
and fixed Ids dark, piercing eves on
the soldier. At lust, unable to con
trol himself any longer, he pro
nounced a Christian name softly,
calling out: “My dear, dear son!”
I he soldier quivered, grew pale, with
in effort eompres'sed his lips, convul
sively clutched his gun raid pulled
himself together for a moment, but
it was only one moment; the next
him up by the neck. Few couutrie his emotions had completelv nia.--.tc;'-
huve been free from occasional out jed him; his hands dropped helplessly
about to come, and tber will say In lieavm: no ideg of the value of these scarce lain thereqn accumulate^, I he attention is given; but his anuauncc-
Qod, Cj-prit* will Dome with ilien*, aud tbe I to t|] 8m '
agricultural and uommeruial Wlk-nw | So P.u.nm wild, chill and blqaii abd ter . ... ■- HI...., _
Hbls-ivu* Unj beUMdliind In all the arch! ; May I wiiit for that limtl 10, the edge of t!ie!f;,l 11101V precious than gold itud ail- 1 rr •
pillow?" And tbe Lord will suvi “Ye*.!. .. . i-.—. . ji. , . I Jltur vigor.
which adorned It in iq<(*» port '--Hi Im>
eclipsed by the agricultural ami cuiouier
eial and ttllifioiM triumph* of the age* to
Coma. XV I,\ |h the world *o Htifnhl that It
- >. •j* * • :
’May 1
way
-1 go down to show,;that soul the; ,, w i.; c ]. (
up?. May I be the cilSsilal escort? * «
of them
pillow?” And tbe Lord will auyi “Yeg<! ua i i,. * .. ..•br.*
You may fly down on that raitudou*” And | l ’ Ul * * tir * ^ Valjjjajs (
p fcbe best pl.iLv in nil the eHi-th lor
dfvim* i'evel)tu<au3 i HcfOtv a panorama , „ ^
yuu toi jMiypwtfitllv wata. room in wH*cb J t Muk *4 your glorified kindred will c#m« ‘ concerned— yiwMvn CitizoUi
* V - 4 - .'‘S'* f
"iT 1 ” r:r
ir Vigor. / lug.twees :i'i<l byways, finding cus-
toinuiersan t compelling them to con-
Qut: dollar.,per .year lor Tms llulULD,
breaks of an excited populace. L
the United States, however, the ten
deucy drifts toward creating tin
• •usual will of any temporary major!
ty into a standard of right tun
wrong. Yt’hut value is set on indi
viduul liberty in a community lik<
Yew Orleans, where killing is n<
murder, if a sufficient number of cit
izens of standing Like part in it, am
subsnrvieuce to the “eivium nrdo
pravtt jubentium” is the special duh
and virtue of ininislers of justice?—
Judicial Review.
She Consented.
“Will you be mine?”
“fan you afford to dress me well if
I marry you;”
“It depends upon whutyou consid
er being dressed well. If you meai
Worth dresses front I’ttris, I can’t af
ford them; nor do you need them,'’
said the w ily New York Press youny
UKUI.
“1 don’t!"
No. Your beauty needs no adorn-,
ment, and it, will always eclipse am
dress you can wear, no matter hov.
fine,or expensive it may be. No one
that looks at yon sees your dress.
The beauty of face and perfection ol
figure only are noted. All fitten
sinks into insignificance besides
them. What satin is there liko yoiu
skin? \\ hat silk like your hair:
What colors to compare with your
lips, cheeks and eyes?”
“John, I am yours.”
Nearly Everybody Likes Salt.
■} uc.
Cl
Those people who assert that the
craving for salt is a purely acquired
taste, and that this mineral as an
article of food is neither nutritive
nor ot heir wise beneficial, may point
to the Esquimau race as evidence of
the value of their theory. The
natives met by our exjdorers on tin
rivers of Forth'Alaske live almost ex
clusively on fish. They do not eat
suit with their fish, and decline to
eat salt, bacon and bam, firmly be
lieving that white folks spoil good
meat by tlieir ubsttvd praotlccof salt
ing it. On the other hand, thereare
probably few African tribes who do
not regard salt as one of man's great-
cst blessings. Many natives procure
it along the coast by evaporation,
and tribes that have salt mines,as on
tbe coast of Albert Nryairza, are al
ways able to sell their product far
und wide.—Now York Journal.
to bis sides, his rifle slipped with ;*
thud to the ground and he hiim-c:;.'
fell heavily without a word or a
moan, as it out down bv a
I'bcold father thiy..’ himself
body, called him tend- rly by hi;:
name and covered hkn w ith i . .
tud kisses.
The other guards an l 'raskma.-
teeing without undersiniiding w ;. s
had happened rtidied to the sp. ,
surrounded tiie convict, who, it was
evident to them, had f**! od hisgu;i"ii,
and; raising the butt , ids of th. r
guns, prepared to d; It out L
brains. Koine of them next tried I :
remove him by force, hut lie held
ihe unconscious guard so tighllv
locked in his embrace, kissing him
tnd muttering to himself, “He knows
me; yes, he knows me now, my dear
boy,’ that they were powerless to
separate them.
At last they were both removed ou
t dray to the hospital, and the true
significance of the scene dawned on
•'he infuriated soldiers, who were
now deeply touched by what they
had witnessed. “It was,” writes a
corrc.-_ , “a must harrowing
scene -one that 1 shall remember
with tt shudder lo my dying dav.”
Tiie next morning the doctor de
clared that the soldier had lost, his
reason und must be removed* to a
mad house. The convict, on being
informed of this, and ordered to be
gin work us usual, refused quietly at
first, then roared and raved like a
maniac, and. was at last, put in a
straight waistcoat and confined along
with the other madmen.—Levant
Herald.
sider hi» iii^iimentij,
•" i •, '•>>«'
Any of our young readers in search
of new schemes for entertainment
might try a “potato walk,’’ which is
a Southern Virginia invention, i It
is described as u novel and amusing
diversion, and. consists in tryijjg to
take tt large,awl knotty potato .from
the floor wifi) u siuqll teaspoon, mid
carrying.it u given .)U$taW>e within a
cerlui ii; period of time, Those who
think it easy should trv it at once,
yy -.1 I -
Specimen eases.
S. II- Clifford, New Cassel, \Vis„ 'was
troubled witli Neuralgia and Riieuimt-
lism, his stomach vvas disordered, ids
fiver was affected to an alarming de.-if*-*
tpnelite fell away, and he was terribly
•educed in flesh :i/)d strengtb. Tbree
bottles of Electrir Bitters cured him.
Edward Shepherd, Harrisburg. IU., had
:t running sore on his leg of eight \ ears'
itanding. L'sfd three bottles of Electric
Bitters and seven boxes of Biiekicu’s
Hrniea Kalye, and his leg i» sound ami
'veil* John Speaker, Catawba, ()., bad
five large fever sores on Ids leg, doctors
said he was incurable. One bottle Elec
tric Bitters and one box Bucklen’s Arnica
Salve cured hint entirely. Sold by Wil
cox’s drug store. * ' jj
Gall a Chicago girl large-hearted
.md generous, if you choose, but a,-,,
er refer lo her as big-soled.
The Boston Journal of Commerce
says: “Cotton of a red color is being
grown in Georgia, it is said, vyh re
in acre of cotton plants have stalks,
leaves and flowers, every stalk of <
which is a deep red color. .This
crop is the product of a seed taJ.yi
three y (.•tirs ago from two stalks of,
red cotton found, in a, cotton.' fidd,.'
Attempts are being made to perpof,-
uatc this variety.” This is my,^-
markable cotton, to be si;re, but vvijl
the. Joitrnal explain how “it s^u”,
was taken from two stalks, aud what
is the color of the lint?—News and
CouffitJ’. • / Wto
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