The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, April 22, 1897, Image 6
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KjAGOT.EE, S. C.
11 l lb J. ERlfclOW, Ed. & Prop'r.
. FIF1Y-FIFTII CONGRESS.
Report of the Proceedings from Day
to Day.
SENATE.
Monday. ?The Senate met at noon,
for the first time since the death of exSenator
Voorhees, who, until a recent
day, was a conspicuous member of that
body. The opening prayer of Rev. Dr.
Milburn, the blind chaplain, made eloquent
reference to Mr. Voorhees?his
brilliant talents, impassioned ardor,
kindling eloquence, genuine patriotism
and the unselfish dedication of his great
powers to every cause, human and divine,
when entrusted to his care. Consolation
was invoked for the family of
the man who had inscribed his name on
the tablets which perj>etuate the great
orators and statesmen of the generation,
immediately following the prayer, the
benato adjourned.
Tuesday.? In the Senate Morgan, of
Alabama, concluded his long speech on
the resolution declaring that a state of
war ousts in Cuba He did not ask for
? vote on the resolution, bat announced
that he hoped to secure a nnal vote at
an early date. The bankruptcy bi 1 vk
taken up at o'clock, Lindsay, of Kentucky,
defending the measure against
criticisms made against it. During the
day Daris, of Minnesota, chairman of
the committee on foreign relations, gave
notice that he would endeavor, on
Thursday, to proceed with the arbitration
treaty in executive session. At
, 4:45 the Senate went into executive session
and soon afterwards adjourned.
Wkdnesday.? In the Senate the first
skirmish on the tariff question occurred.
Gage's order, relative to goods imported
after April 1st, according to the retractive
clause of the pending Diuglev
bill, was declared illegal by a vote of |
84 to 38. The Democrats, Silver republicans
and Populists voted solidly
* against it. Morgan gave notice that he
would call up his Cubau resolution
dbily until a vote was reachi
ed. At 5 p. m. the Senate went into
J -/t?
executive session ?uu ?uuu uiu adjourned.
Thtjjhdat.? In accordance with his
Eious notice, Senator Davis promptoved
an executive session of the
te after the disposal of the routine
morning business today, for the purpose
of taking up the Anglo-American
arbitration treaty. Senator Davis endeavored
to secure a unanimous agreement
upon a time to take a vote upon
the treaty as a whole, but in this he did
not succeed, owing to objections
from several Senators, including
Messrs. Carter. Morgan and Mills.
The Senate spent today on the Indian
appropriation bill, but did not complete
it Some time was also consumed
in executive session on the arbitration
' treaty. At the olose of the day's proceedings,
the Senate adjonrned until
Monday. The committee amendment
to the Indian appropriation bill, opening
the UucompahgTe Indian reservation
in Utah to pnblic entry was agreed
to. The reservation is said to contain
some of the richest deposits of asphalt
in existence.
c H uuod.
WantHBDAT.?The House was in sesriot*
but ten minutes and then ad
Journed until Saturday, without transacting
any business."
Saturday.?In the House the dissensions
of the recent Democratic caucus
were threshed over again to the evident
edification of the Republicans. The
Presidents message, urging v/uogmso
to take action for representing the
UnitedHtates in the forthcoming international
exposition at Paris, was read,
and the House at 1 o'clock adjourned
until Wednesday.
OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT.
rue Action of the Commission as to
the Phosphate Royalty.
The following official promulgation
sftbe action of the State phosphate
9QBHm)6sion in the matter of the reduction
of the phosphate royaltv has been
ade:
"At a meeting of the phosphate commissioners
of bouth Carolina held at
Beaufort, S. C., on the 1st day April,
18V7, the following resolution was
adopted:
"ite6olved, That on and after April
1st, l&>7t the royaltv to be paid to the
State of Sonth (. arolina by all persons,
corporations or companies mining
phosphate rock or phosphate deposits
from the beds of navigable
streams and waters of the State aDd
the marshes theivoi, shall be, and the
same is hereby, fixed at the rate
nai- tnn rtf (lriml rock. SO I
V* *?/ WUVU WW v? - ? ? ?,
long as the price of said phosphate
rock freight on board to said miners,
at there several mines, shall be $3 per
ton or under; bnt in case there shall
be any increase in such price over and
above $3 per ton, then and m every
ancb oase there shall be paid to the
State an additional royalty per ton to
one-half of such increased price over
and above S3 i>er ton.
^ Provided, 'ihat all phosphate rock
dog, mined and unsl .ipped, on hand on
the 1st day of Aprr ISjJT, shall first be
aooonnted* for at t ;e royalty fixed by
the act of the General Assembly entitled
4An Aot relating to the phosphate industry
of the State" approved December
2^'d, 1883.
Provided, further. That all companies
ahall pay into the State treasury the
royalty upon all shipments prior to the
1st day of April, 1897.
Old Corka.
? Cork has become one of the most valliable
components of a city's refuse.
Great quantities of discarded corks are
now used again in the manufacture of
Insulating covers of steam pipes and
boilers, points to be protected from the
influence of boat. Powdered cork is
very useful In filling in horse collars,
and the very latest application of this
material is the filling in of pneumatic
tires with cork shavings. Mats for
bathrooms are made of cork exclusively,
and it also goes into the composition
of linoleum. Cheap life preservers are
now filled exclusively with bottle stoppers,
cut into little pieces
Across the' hoard she winked at mc?
Nay?do not deem her conduct free:
That wink was in its proper place.
For then I knew she bold the ace.
?Chicago liecord. i
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NEWS ITEMS CONDENSED, j
Southern Pencil Pointers.
Harris Brauilett, the most noted
mooushiner in Georgia, has been captured
aud jailed ut Atlanta.
The Kentucky Building and Loan
Association law has been declared eon- '
stitutional by Judge Scott at Winchester.
Ninety-eight cases of liquor bought
in S an Francisco for personal use by
citizens who clubbed together, was
seized immediately upon its arrival in
Charleston, ?>. C. *
Saturday in the Criminal Court at
Charlotte, N. C., L. J. Kirk was found
guilty of shooting Lake and sentenced
to two years on the chain gang. An
appeal was entered upon the ground of
excessive punishment for a new trial. i
Tn/lnrfl Rorlon allAirorl a writ, of
[error in the case of Elizabeth Nobles,
of Georgia, who is under sentence of
death on the charge of murder, and
who was to have been hanged Friday.
It was represented by Mrs. Nobles'
counsel that she is insane.
The dead body of Charles Hoffman, a j
well known and respected citizen, was
found in a chapel, about four miles I
from Brunswick, Ga. He had shot
himself through the head. He had
evidently gone into the building for the
purpose of committing suicide.
Governor Bloxliam, of Florida, has .
issued a call to a national fisheries
congress to be held at Tampa in January,
18j8.
Forty-five thousand acres of the most
valuable coal and oil lauds iu West Virginia
have been purchased bj* a company
of New l'ork and 1 ittsburg capitalists.
The price paid aggregates
$-OU,UtX).
^ Up to the present the effort to elect a
United Stales Senator in Kentucky has
cost about ^To.OuO.
At Houston, Tex., the cylindrical
process of baling cotton is again cxcitl'ninlic/iiiuoinn
in nnftnn froiln I'irclfi.S.
*"Q V?*UVUk>04VM AM vvvtvu V.. .....
The losses of insurance companies at
Knoxyille, Tenn., foot up $o.">u,200.
In the case of "Cap" Hatfield a jury
at Williamson, W. Va., has returned a
verdict of involuntary manslaughter for
the killing of Ivan Rutherford.
The latest developments in the Knoxville,
Tenn., fire are that at least six
persons lost their lives in the Hotel
K nox. The hotel register has not been
found.
Suit has been brought against the
co-operative town company of Elizabethton,
Tenn , asking for a receiver,
that the property of the company shall
be subjected to the payment of the
company's indebtedness, amounting to
31,000,000. It is charged that the comI>any
was insolvent when its property
was transferred to the Wautauga Land
oompany, more than a year ago.
Clinton R. Woodruff, secretary of the
National Municipal League, has prepared
a program for the confereece to
be held in Louisville on May th, 6th
th. Among the speakers will be exMayor
John F. Ficken, of Charleston,
3. U.
In the Criminal Court at Charlotte,
N. C., Friday, Chas. Blackburn, charged
with originating the fire which partially
destroyed the Charlotte Observer
burning on January 2d last, was acquitted.
All About tbe North.
Elizabeth R. Tilton, the wife of
Henry Ward Beocher's accuser, died .
?m Tuesday last at her home in Brooklyn.
A party of 91 chinamen have arrived
in Montreal by the Canadian Pacific
Railroad, from China via Vancouver.
They are to work on the sugar plantations
of Cuba, so sadly neglected during
the past two years.
The surgeons at the Presbyterian
Hospital in New York are bending all
thoir unArrnAR to save the life of Frank
Hastings, a newspaper man, who for
eight days has hicoonghed at the rate
of 8,640 times a day. Ice cream is
being used to cure him.
At Chicago, 111., Matthias Guster, 22
years old, was shot and instantly killed
by John Formiller, his father-in-law,
at the breakfast table.
A company capitalized at $2,000,000
has been formed at Minneapolis, Minn.,
to manufacture sugar from beets and
fight the Sugar Trust.
The largest flag that ever flew from a
pole will be flung to the breeze on the
2Jth from a staff near the Grant Monument,
in New York.
Governor Jones, of Arkansas, has
called an extra session of the Legislature
to meet on the 28th.
A cyclone destroyed the town of Chandler,
Okla., east of Guthrie. A
dozen or more people were killed and
probably 150 were injured.
Miscellaneous.
The King of Siam will v'. It this
country next September.
Carter H. Harrison was formally installed
as mayor of Chicago Thur day
evening. He delivered a short inaugural
address.
While mass was being said in a
church near Castres, France, the roof
collapsed, killing seven women and one
man, and injuring 80 persons seriously.
A Pniifnn aneeiAl RAvs ''Under fav
orable conditions and to the satisfaction
of all concerned, the United States battleship
Iowto Las been given her official
trial over the Cape Anne course, and
under the inspection of the naval taard
appointed for that purpose. On the
trial she made an average speed of 17
knots over the 06 mile course, exceeding
lier contract speed by one knot,
winning $200,00 bonus for her builders.
Washington.
I-'residcut McKinley has decided that
he would be unable to attend the Nashville
exposition on the oj>eniug day,
May 1, but will visit the exposition
after the adjournment of Congress.
The President will recommend to
Congress an appropriation to pay indemnity
for the lynching of three Italians
in Louisana last August.
A delegation called at the White
House and invited the President to the
Tennessee Centennial ; if he cannot go
he will start the machinery from Washington.
THE FIELD OF ADV ENTURE.
THRILLING INCIDENT3 AND DARING
DEEDS ON LAND AND SEA.
A 31Iner's Ilerolc Deed?Under an
Avalanche In Idaho?Hen. Grant's
Coolness When a Lleuteuant.
71 S bravo as the noble Sparta- '
/ \ cus himself is ntiner Jim
/^\ Hemswortb, of Rossland, I
British Colombia, was the de-1
claration ot those who stood by while
a corps of physicians amputated his
arm at the shoulder to save him from
the fearful possibility of blood puis- I
oning as a result of his terrible injuries,
sustained m his heroic rescue
Irom certain death of two fellow-miners.
That he still lives is tbe marvel
of all Rosslaud, for few have ever
been wrenched, mangled and bruised
as Hemsworth was and lived through
his injuries as this hardy sufferer bids
fair to do. The doctors declared their
belief that he would survive in very
hopeful tones.
Jem Smith and Frank Conpon were
working at the bottom of a narrow
shait of the Yonug America mine at
Bossland at a depth 01 nearly 150 feet,
engaged in loading ore into an ironbound
bucket, while Jim Hernsworth's
dnty con-isted in hauling the bucket
to tbe surface by means of a windlass.
The heavy bucket filled with ore
bad almost reached the top of the
shaft when tbe ironorank ol the windlass
suddenly snapped in two like a
bit of pine, hurling Hemsworth to the
ground. Springing to his feet, halfdazed
by the blow, Hemsworth saw
ih? windlass whirling around at a
frightful rate of speed as the loaded
backet ebot down the shaft upon the
men below.
He had not a second to lose. There
was ju-t one chance to save them, and
he took that chance. damping forward,
he threw bis body upon the
cogs ot the whirling wiudliss, thrusting
his arm and shoulder between the
swiftly revolviug wheels.
Tbrir iron jaw? cruuched- and tore
the herb, crushed nerve', bone and
smews, tore ghastly wounds from
fiuger tip to shoulder, but the windlass
stood still.
With an awfnl jerk the loaded
bncket stopped just above the heads
of the two terrified miners far down
in the shaft. Pale as death, and with
the blood flowing from him in streams
and suffering intense agony, he never
uttered a cry nor even a sound as the
jaws of the wheels pinioned him fast
as in a vise.
Superintendent Shields witnessed
the accident irom a short di-tance
awav, bat so horrified was he at the
6igbt that lor a moment ha stood as if
paralyzed. Quickly recovering his
faculties, he rashed to Hemsworih's
aid, and in u twinkling had blocked
the machinery and c ?n-ed Hemsworth
to be released from his perilous position.
As Hemsworth staggerel back and
was about to lall, Shields caught him
in bis arms, at the tame time exclaiming,
"My God, Jim; this is awful 1"
' 'Oh, what's the differenc?," answered
the plncKy iellow, "so long as I saved
the boys?"
It was not long, however, before the
intense pain he suffered, together with
tlia loss of biood. becran to have their
effect on Heinsworth's powerful constitution.
nnd he became too weak to
stand. A litter waa hastily formed bv
men who had by this ti me arrived
Tendeily the wonnded man was placed
upon it, and with the utmost care
Hems wot th waa carried to Kossland, a
mile away, nnd placed or a cot in the
hospital. JEie was unoon scions then,
but Dr. Bowers, who had been hastily
summoned in advance of i;he arrival of
the litter, was at his 1 de, and with
restoratives Hemswortt was soon
bronght to consciousness
His wounds were dretsed and the
injured man made as comfortable as
could be under the circa instances.
.^mith and Conson, a bo were healed
up lrom the shaft and assisted in carrying
their brave comrade to the hospital,
stood with eyes dimmed with
tears as they witnessed 113 sufferings
of the man who had made snoh a heroio
sacrifice to save them from death.
Smith said, in describing their sensations
at the bottom of tha shaft:
"When I heard the bucket falling I
expected nothing bat death, as there
"">? nn (nr na In avoid thn hnivv
load dropping upon us with suob
frightful rapidity. I'll admit that I
was paralyzed and fully expected that
my hour had come. When the bucket
stopped bat a few feet above as, Coason
and J, iu awful suupense, stood
with heads bowed, awaiting to he
crushed to a pulp. I". was several
minutes alter the bucket stopped before
we recovered ourselvta sufficiently
to realize that m some manner we had
been saved."
Superintendent Shields said that in
all his mining experience of twentyfive
years he had never witnessed a
more heroic effort to save the lives of
fellow workmen than that of Jim
Hemsworth.?San Francisco Examiner.
Under an Avalanche.
An extraordinary escape from death
was lately recorded by a newspaper of
Mountain Home, Idaho, a mining town
high ap among the mountains, where
avalanches of the mo6t fearf ul description
are not infrequent. On the first
day of last December u citizen of
Munnlain Home, Frank Andreas by I
name, started at an early hour iu the
f,i crr? from a mine to a black
vvr .. _
smith shop, some distance away on the
side of the mountain. With him were
his two big dogs, which are in part of
St. Bernard blood.
The dogs were gambolling about in
the snow some distance lrom their
master when a great snewslide, which
the warmth of the sun had di.-lodged
some two hundred feet np the mountain,
descended upon A n Ireos with suoh
velocity that thsje wan no escaping
from it.
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He wse borne along with and undei
I the snow, and lodged against the side
I of the gulch much farther down,
Above hire the snow was packed hard.
Andreas did not know hov deep it was
?in reality it was about four feel;
deep abo\e his head?bul he did not
know that it was so hard 'hat he coulcl
j scarcely move a muscle.
Andreas quicklv began o experience
dillicnlty iu breathing. Luckily he
had been carried along by tho aval- !
ancho in t.n upright position ; he had
thrown up his hands in an effort to
save himself, and his left arm had remained
ia that position?thrust upward.
By working it from side to
side in the hard packed snow, he made 1
a small opening up into looser snow j
in which 'ihere semed to be some air;
at any rate, he conld breath enough j
to save himself from siffocation at ,
present.
He knew, however, that he could '
not live in such a pla ie loug. He !
struggled and pushed, and tried to
enlarge the opening mad; by bis left
arm, piolcing pieces of snow from
abont hitt body with his right hand
and working them into the opening.
Bnt he would certainly have grown
discouraged, after he had worked [
vainly thus for half an hour or more, |
if he had not heard a scratching and
borrowing sound above bis bead. He
kDew by this that his faithful dogs had
escaped the avalanche, had found the
place where be was overwhelmed, and
were digging him out.
This gave him strength for new
efforts. Now he bent all his own endeavors,
not to getting out?he ltdt
the dogs to uncover him?but to getting
air enongb to keep him alive until
the dogs should succeed in digging
down through the hard snow. He
worked his lett arm upward and about,
and as the dogs dng downward, he
soon succeeded in getting a little hole
through :o the air.
For an hour and a half he and the
dogs were at work, and at the end of
that time he succeeded in dragging
l: It _ ~ A 1U. Il,/,
UlUlMfU uav ujjdu tuo oiuc ui iuo ?un"ii' i
tion the (log* bud made. There, more '
detd thai a.ive, be took deep draught*
of the mountain air till these revivsd
him, and he was able to go on his way.
Grant's Coolness.
While General Grant, then a Iiintenant,
was courting the lady whom lie
married, there occurred an event to
which hB never reverted without a
shudder. A writer in the Midland
Monthly, describing an adventure
which the young lieutenant and Miss
D.nt me; with, says:
While the water is high in the M ississippi
the swift current abrades uhe
banks, a id they frequently "cave in"
for several yards or rods at a time.
In-ear y spring, in one of their afternoon
explorations,Lieutenant Gnu!
and the young lady were riding alcug
the banc of the river, passing frim
oue cov 3 or valley to the mouth of
another. Miss Dent was nearest i he
water. The laud was but a few f set
above the surface of tne tur Daunt
stream.
Suddenly Miss Dent's horse bej an
to sink. The earth had given way inder
his hind feet. Grant's horse vas
close beside hers. In an instant he
saw that her horse was sinking into
the awfo I abyss!
.Grant's cool head and splendid
horsemanship here had opportunity
to display themselves. Quick i.s a
flash he lekned over, threw his rijjht
arm around Miss Dent's waist, and
drew her to him as her horse disappeared
in the seething and mitrky
eddy that a moment later boiled and
anrged in angry tamnlt over the place
where bank and horse had vanished
from sip ht.
It wait a frightful moment.
Fortunately the earth parted between
the two animals, leaving Gra at'i
horse on solid gronnd. Lifting and
firmly iolding Misi Dent, and applyin!?
tbe spar to his horse, he was on
6afe ground in a moment; then he
gently lowered he/ to tbe earth?all
this without a word from "the silent
man," cr a scream or murmur from
her.
As he hastened bad: to rescne her
horse she stood folding the bridle* of
his, outwardly as composed as if nothing
had happened.
Her horse had disappeared. Giant
followed down stream and bailed a
boatman in a skiff, who fonud tbe
horse swimming several hundred ynrdt
below, amid driftwood and debris.
He landed the animal c.t a plaee where
it conld climb the ba:ak, and it wai
soon on safe ground, none the worse
for the fright and the bath.
Wedded to a Tree.
A carious custom pravails in certain
parts of India, whioh may be call 3d e
symbolical marriage. In families
where there are several daughter? the
sisters may only marry after the eldei
sister 18 married, xnt.i, 01 cuume, ?
not always the case, bat the obstacle
can easily be snrmonnted if the eldei
sister declares herself ready to marry
some tree or large dower or some oth*
j er lifeless object. Tie elder sister,
| mast, however,take care not to choose
a poplar tree, an elm tree or a pine;
if she cbooces a plum, apple or apricol
tiee, she may get a divorce?that is tc
say, shake it off as soon as a real mao
will ask for her hand, while if she
marries one of the first three namec
trees she cannot easily shake her marital
bonds, for these trees are st.crec
and mast not be trifled with.
Expensive Obituaries.
The obituary addresses delivered
upon the occasion of the death of a
member of Congress cost the Govern
ment a good deal of money. Ueualli
12,000 copies are printed, with a steel
plate portrait of the deceased, fi.ty o
whiob, bonnd in fall morocco, witl
gilt edges, are for the family of th*
dead Congressman. The cost of obit
nary volumes m the Fifty*drat Con
gresa was c?er $50,000,
IIHIII
The Noted Washington Divine's
' Sunday Subject,
Subject: AX EVKRY DAY CHRIST.
Text: ".She, supposing Him to bo the gardener."?John
xx.. 15
Here are Mary Magdalene and Christ, just
after His resurrection. For 40 0 years a
grim and ghastly tyrant had been killing
peonle and dragging them into his cold palace.
He had a pass on for tinman skulls.
For torty centuries ho had been unhindered
in hi9 work. He had taken down kings and
queens and conquerors and those without
fame. In that cold palace there were
shelves of skulls and pillars of skulls and
altars of skulls and even the obalices at the
tnble were made of bleached skulls. To the
skeleton of Abel be bad oddest the ske.etons
of all the ages, and no ono bad disputed bis
right until one Good Friday, about 1867
VftHis acm fl4 npnr as T enn cnlnnlarA it n
Mighty Stranger came to the door of that
awful place, rolled back the door, and went
In, and seizing the tyrant, threw him to the
pavement an t pot upon the tyrant's neck
the heel of triumph.
Then the Might v Stranger. exploring all
the gha-tly furniture 01 the place and walkin?
through the labyrinths, and opening the
dark cellars of mystery and tarrying under a
roof the ribs of wnich were made ol human
bonen?tarrying for two nights and a day,
the nights very dark and the day very dismal.
He seized tho two chief pillars of that
uwful palace and rocked them until it began
to fall, nn?l th-n, laying hoi 1 of the ponderous
front gate. hoisted it from its hinges and
marched forth crying, "I am the resurrection."
That event we celebrate this Easter
mom, Handdllan and Beethov^an miracles
of sound ad led to this floral decoration
which has set the place abloom.
There are thro t or four things which the
worl i an i the church have nor noticed in regard
to the resurrection of Christ. First,
our Lord in gardener's a'.tire. Mary Magdalene.
grief struck, stands by (he rifled sarcophagus
of Christ an I turns around, hoping
she can And the tracks of the sacrilegious
resurrectionist who has despoiled the grave,
and she fin is some one in working apparel
come forth a3 if to water the flow rs or uproot
the weeds from the garden or set to reclimbing
the falling vine?some one in
working apparel. His garments, perhaps,
having the sign of tho dust and the dirt of
the occupation.
Mary Magdalen*, on her face the rain of a
fresh shower of weeping, turns to this workmm
and charges him with the desecration
or the tom*>, when, lol the stranger responds,
flinging His whole sonl into one word wnioo
trembles with all the sweetest rhythm of
earth and h *aven. sayiug, "Mary!" In that
peculiarity of acceutuatioo all the in-ognito
fell off, and she found that instead of talking
with an humble gardener of Asia Minor, she
was talking with Him who owns all the hanging
gardens of h'-aveu. Constellations the
clusters of forgetmenots, the sunflower the
chief of all, the morning sky and midnight
nnrorn, flaring terraces of beanty, blazing
like a summer wall with coronation roses
and giants of battle. Blessed and glorious
mist ike of Mary Magdalene! "She, supposing
Him to be trie gardener." What docs
that mean? It means that we hare an everyday
Christ for everyday work in everyday
apparpL Not on Sabbath morning in our
iuv.-ii oruiuijr no no UJUIU aiuuuuvn
t. Christ than we are in our every Jay work
dress, managing our merchandise, smiting
our aavi1, plowing oar Held, tending the flying
shuttles, menlingthe garments for oar
household, providing food for oar families
or tolling with weary pen or weary pencil or
weary chisel. A working day Christ in working
day apparel for us in our everyday toil.
Put it into the highest strain of this Easter
antbera,"Supposiog Him to be the gardener."
If Christ had appeared at daybreak with a
crown upon His head, that would have
seemed to suggest espec al sympathy for
munarcbs. If Christ had np[>e.-ired in chain
of gol l and with robe diamonds I, that would
have seemed to be especial sympathy for the
affluent. If Christ ha l appeared with soldier's
sash and sword dangling at His side,
that would have seemed to imply especinl
sympathy for warriors. But when I find
Christ in gardener's habit, With perhaps the
flakes of the earth and of the upturned soil
upon His garments, then I spell it oat that
He has hearty and pathetic understanding
with everyday work and everyday anxiety
and everyday fatigue.
Roll it down in comfort all through these
aisles. A working d iy Christ in working
day apparel. Tell it in the darkest corridor
of the mountain to the poor miner. Tell it
to the factory maid in most unventilated
est a ligbment at Lowtll or Lancaster. Tetl
it to the clearer cf roughest new ground in
western wilderness. Tell it to the sewing
wo > an, a stiich in the side for every stitch
in the garment, some of their cruel employers
having no right to think that they
will get through the door of heaven,any
more than they could through the eye of a
broken needle which has just dropped on the
bare floor from the pricked and bleeding
fingers of the consumptive sewing girl.
A way with your talk about hypostatic uulon
and soieriology of the council of Trent and
fhfl mpmnhvaiflfi nf rMliifinn vchlfth vnnlrl
freeze practical Christianity out of the world,
but pass along this gardener's coat to all
nations that thev may touch the horn of It
and foel the thrill of the Cbrisiiy brothorbood.
Not supposing the man to be Cawar,
not supposing Him to be Socnves, but "supposing
Him to l>e the gardener."
Ob, that is what helped Joseph Wedgwood,
toiling amid the heat and the dust of .the
potteries, until he could wake for Queen
Charlotte the llrst royal table service of English
manufacture. That was what heiped
James Watt, scoffed at and caricatured u'util
be could put on wheels the thunderbolt of
power which roars by day and by night in
every furnace of the locomotive engine ot
Ainer ca. That is wh it heiped Hugh Miller,
toiling amid the quarries of Cromarty, until
every rock, became to him a volume of the
world's biography, and be found tbe footsteps
of the Creator in the old red sandstone.
Oh, the world wantn a Christ for the ofllee,
a Christ for the kitchen.a Christ fortneshop,
a Christ for the banking house, a Christ lor
the garden, while spading and irrigating the
territory! 01), of course we waut to see
Christ at last In royal robe and bediamonded,
u celestial equestrian m ounting the white
horse, but from this Easter of 1897 to our
last Easter on earth we most need to see
Christ as Mary Magdalene saw Him nt the
daybreak, "supposing mm 10 oe mc gardener."
Ano.ber thing which the churcli nnd the
world have not noticed in regard to the resurrection
of Christ is that He made His first
post mortem appearance to oue who had been
the seren deviled Mary Magdalene. One
would have supposed He would have made
His first posthumous appearance to a woman
who had always been illustrious for goodne-s.
There are Siiintly women who have always
been saintly?saintly in girlhood, saintly in J
infancy, always saintly, in nearly all our '
families there have been sa;ntly aunts. In
my family circle it was saintly aunt Phebe; '
in yours saintly aunt Martha or saintly aunt j
Ruth. Oue always saintly. But not so was '
the onespoken of in the text.
While you are not to confound her with >
the repentant courtesan who had made her
Jong locks do the work of towel at Christ's
foot washing, you are not to forget that she
was exorcised of seven devils. What .a capital
01 demouologyshe must have beeti! What
a cborns of all diaDolism! Seven devils?
two for the eyt s and i wo for the hands and ,
two for the feet and one for the tongue.
Seven devils; yet all these are extirpated,
and now she is as good as once she was bad.
and Christ honors her with the first posthumous
appearance. What does I hat mean?
Why, it means for worst sinner greatest
grace; it means those lowest dowu shall
come, perhaps, highest up; it means that the
clock that strikes 12 at midnight may strike
12 at midnoon; it means that the grace of
God is seven times stronger than sin, Mary
Magdalene the seven deviled Mary
i*i?k VT I '4 a
I
Magdalene the seven angeled. It mendm
that when the Lord meets us at las' He will
not throw up to us what we have been. All
He said to her was, ".Mary!" Many people
hnving met her under such circumstances
would have said: "Let me see, how many 5
devils did you fcuve? One, two, tnr e, four,
five, six, seven. What a ternbl" piece yon
were when I first met you!" The most of
the Christian women in our day would have
nothing to <lo with M iry Msg-ialene even I
after her conversion, lest somehow they be J
compromised. The only thing I have to say
acalnst women is that they hnv not enough
mercy for Mary Magdalene. Christ put all
piuhos and ail remlnNcenc* and all anticipation
and all pardon and all comfort and all
heaven into one word of four letters,
"Mary!" Mark you. Christ did not appear
to some Bible Eizobetb or Bible Hmnab or
Bible Esther or Bible Debor.11 or Bible Vashti.
bnt to Mary; not to Mary a??inst whom
nothing was said; not to Mary the mother of
Jesus; not to Mary the mother of James; not
to Mary the sister of Lazarus, bat to seven
devi ed Mary.
There is a man seven deviled?devil of
avarioe, devil of pride, devil of hate, devil
of indolence, devil of falsehood, devil of
strong drink, devil of im itritr. God ?*n
take them all nway, seven or seventy. Irode
over the new cantilever bridge that spans
Niagara?a bridge 9? feet long. 850 feet of
chasm from blaff to bluff. I passed over it
without any anxiety. Why? Bec ause twenty-two
locomotives and twenty-two cars
laden with gravel had teste I the bridge^
thousan Is of people standing on the Canadian
side, thousands staudingonthe American
side to app anl the achievement. And
however long Iho train of our Immortal interests
may be, we nre to remember that
God's bridge of mercy spanning the ehasm
of sin has been filly te9te<l by the awful tonnage
of all tho pardone I sin or all the ages, ' *
church rail tant stnnllng on on? bank,
church triumphant stanling on tho other
bauk. Oh, it was ro the seven deviled Mary
that Christ male Bis first post mortem ap- ,
pearance.
There is another thing that tho world and
the church have not observed in regard to
this resurrection, ani that is, it was the
morning twilight
If the ohronometer ha 1 boon invented and
Mary had as good a watch as some o' the
Marys of our tim? have, she wonld have <
found it was about half past 5 o'clock a. m.
Matthew say* it was io the .>awu; dark says
it was very early in th- morning; John says
it was while it .was yet d irk. In other words,
it was twilight That was the o'elo k at
which Mary Magdalene mistook Christ for
the gar ien"r. Waat do-s that no ?n? It
mpnnq thnro nrn sha >nsN over the grave un? J
HftoJ?shadows of mystery that ^r? hoverlnir.
Mary stoojel down an I tried to look
to the other end of the cryp . She gave hysteric
ontcry. 8he <-o?l I not see to the other j
en 1 of the crypt. Neither can you see to the
other end of the grave of your dead. Neither
can we see lothe other > o t ofourown grave.
Oh, if th re were shadows over the family |j
plot belonging to Jos -ph of Anmat'nea, is it
strange that there shonll be some shadows
over oar family lot? Easter dawn, not Easter
noon.
Shadow of unanswered question! Why
were they tnkeu away from ns? Wny were a
th?y ever given to us If they were to bo taken
s > soon? Why were they tak?n so mddenly? *
Why could they not have nttere 1 some farowcll
words? Why? A short question, but a d
whole craeiflxion of agony In it. Why? !
Shadow on the grave-of good men and women
who seemed to die * efore their work
was done. 8hndow on nil the graves ot
children because we ask onrselves why so i
beautiful a craft was launched at all If it was
to be wrecked one mile outside of I he harbor?
Hut what did Mary Magdalene have to do la #
or ter to get more light on that griTe? She i
had only to wait After awhile the Easter 1
snn rolled up, and the whole place was
flooded with light What have you and I to ?
do In order to get more light on our own A
graves and light upon the graves of oar ' m
d? ar lov-d ones? Only to wait
Charles T. of Soaln, with hi- servants'and
torch s, went down into the vault of the t
necropolis where his ancest rs were burled, fj
and went dwper, farther on until he camato . i
across aronnd which were arranged the
caskets of his ancestors. He al-o foood a '
casket containing tho boily of one or his owa a
family. He had that casket opened, and there
by em' a mor'sart he found that the body waa ,
as perfect as eighteen years before when
It was emtotnbed. But under the exploration
his body and mind penrhed.. Oh,
my friends, do not let ns morbidly
straggle with the shadows of the sepal- >
cher. What are we to do? Wa t. . It fa i
not the evening twilight that gets darker
tnd darker. It Is the morning twilight that '
gets brighter and brighter into the perfect
day. I preach it to-d iy. Sunrise over
Pwre le Chaise, sunrise over Oreyfriats
churbyard, sunrise over Ore nwood, over V
Woodlawn, over Lanrel HIH, over Mount
Anbara, over Congressional burying ground, i t
i-unrlse over ?T-ry country graveyard, sunrise
over the catacombs, suurse over the
sarcophagi where the ships lie burled. Half
past 5 o'clock among ihe tombs now, bat
soon to be the noonday of explanation and . J
iieatitu le. It wa? in the morning twilight
that Mary Magdalene mistook Ohrlst for a
gardener.
Another thing the world nnd the church I
have not observed?that Is, Christ's pathetic
credentials. How do you know it was not
a gardener? H>s garm-nts said He was a
gardener. The flakes of Ihe upturned earth
scattered upon His garments said He was a
gardener. How do you know He wae not a
gardener? An! Before Easter bad gone by X
He gnve to some of His disciples His three
credentials. He showed them His hands and
His Hide. Throe paragraphs written in rigid
loitArn A scar In the riirht
I aim, a sear in rbe left oalm, a near amid
the nbs?scars. scars. That is the way they
knew Him. That is the way you and I will
know Him.
After Christ's interment every eeihilar
tissue broke down, and nerve and artery and
brain were a physiological wreck, and yet
Hh comes np swarthy, rubicund and well.
When 1 see alter ?uch mortuary silence such
radiant appearance, that settles it that
whatever should be-ome of the bodies of
our Christian dead, they are going to come
up. the uerves resrrung, the optio nerve rail* .
lumined. the ear drum a-vibrate. the whole *
body iifte t up, without Its weaknesses aad
worldly uses lor wbleh there Is do reeurreotion.
Come, is It not almost time for ns to
go out to meet our reanimated dead? Can
you not hear the lifting of iho rusted latch?
Ob. the glorious thought, the glorious
consolation of this snbject wh?n I find
Christ coming up without any of the lacenu ':
tlons?for you must temember He was lac- ^
ended and woun led fearfully In the crucifixion?coming
up without one! What dose j
that make me think? That tbe grave will v
get nothing of us except our wounds and
imperfections. Christ went into the grave
exh&us.ed and bloodless. Ail the current of
His lire bad poured out from His wounds.
He had lived a life of trouble, sorrow and
privation, and then He dial a lingering
death. His entire bo y hung on four
spikes. No invalid of twenty years' sufferi...
.... n,.ni inin ornvn so white and
ghastly and broken dowu as Christy and yet
here He comes np so rubicun I an I robust
she supposed Hlin to be the gardener.
Ah. all th? si.tenches, and the headaches,
aud tlie backaches, and the leg aches, and
the heart aches we will leave where Christ
left His! The ear will come up without its
heaviness, the eye will come up v:?thout its
dimness, the lungs will come up without oppressed
respiration. Ob, what races we will
ruu when we become Immortal athletes! Oh,
what c.remits we will take when. ail earthly
imperfections substracted and all celrstlal
velocities add. d, we shall set up our residence
in that city which, though vaster than
all the cities of this world, shall never have
one obsequy!
Standing this morning round the shattered
masonry of our Lord's tomb, I point yon to.
a world without hearse, without muffled '
drum, without tumulus, without catafalque
and without a tear. Amid all the carhedvala
of the blessed no longer :he "Dead Xarcfe
in Saul," but whole libretti of ''HnlMolah
Chorus." Oh, pat trumpet to Up finger
to key and loving forehead auninst tho
bosom of n, risen ChlW Hallelnvtb, U&eal
Halleluiah, amen'.
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