The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, September 23, 1897, Image 3
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Mob of Indiana Farmers Take Re- ;
venge For Robberies.
V GUNS AWED THE JAILERS. |
The Men Were Held In Versailles, .
i Ind., For Robbery?The Farmers Had ;
Been the Victims of the Thieves For
a Lon? Time?Jail Raided Easily?
The Men Beaten, Shot and Handed.
Virsailles, Ind. (Special).?Incensed by
numerous depredations, burglaries and
daylight robberies, the people of Ripley
County have taken the law into their own 1
hands. Five men who have long been a '
terror to the citizens of this county were |
lynched here Wednesday night. This is the j
; county seat and a town of eight hundred i
people. It is one of the oldest towns J
in the State, but It is flvo miles
from a railroad station, and has
no telegraph office. For four or
live years the farmers of the county have
? been the victims of a lawless gang whose
depredations have continued unceasingly.
Arrests have been made, but the guilty men
have covered up their lawlessness, and it
was seldom that conviction followed. On
Saturday last word was received by the
Sheriff that the store of Woolev Brothers,
at Correct, lnd., ten miles "from here,
was to be entered. The information was
given by one of the gang who had been under
suspicion. Sheriff Henry Bushing,
with his Informant and five deputies, went
to the place. 8hortly after midnight the
I gang reached the store. Clifford G. Gordon
and the Sheriff's informant were deslg1
nated to break into the building. Gordon
' effected an entrance, and just as he stepped
inside the Sheriff grabbed him. Both pulled
pletols and began firing. Bert Andrews,
who was with the robbers, joined In the
i fusillade, while the deputies came to the
I ' assistance of the Sheriff.
The 8herlff was shot through the hand
and Gordon was shot several times. Three
\ pistol balls entered his body, and he was
also wounded In the leg. Gordon and An
drews succeeded In escaping and came to
Osgood, where they were arrested. The
! robbers had driven oat to the place in a
*. baggy belonging to Lyle Levi, and It was
learned that the robbery had been planned
at the home of William Jenkins, Levi and i
Jenkins were arrested as accessorise. All
were taken to the jail at Versailles. Henry
K i Shelter was pat In the jail for robbing the
barber shop at Osgood last week.
While the citizens were not able to fix the
various robberies upon these men, they
were thought to belong to the gang that
has committed most of them. When It be,
came known that they were in Jail, it was
quietly suggested by the victims and sympathizers
that "justice" be summarily dealt
out to the prisoners. At 1 o'clock a. m.
horsemen seemed to come from all quarters
and dismounted on a hillside near Ver|
sallies, and soon about four hundred men
\ marched Into the town.
Shortly before 2 o'clock there was a knock
at the door, and when the jailer opened the
' door he was face to face with pistols held
by three masked men, who asked him to
turn over| the keys, flbis he did, and
then the mob filed into the jail,
fc Three of the prisoners?Levi, Jenkins
K/ and Shulter?were on the lower floor, while
f Gordon and Andrew were In the upper
Her. Levi. Jenkins and Shatter showed
fight, and the former was shot through the
breast, while the skulls of the two others
. * ? were crushed with a stool. Ropes were
in readiness, and adjusting a noose
around the neclt of each and pin- ,
f, loning their feet and hands was
St the work of a few minutes. With
several men at the end of each rope, the
j fire prisoners were dragged two hundred
^ feet to an elm tree, where their bodies
were suspended. It is said that Levi,
^ Jenkins and Shutter were dead before they
reached the place. Levi was fifty-seven
years old. Andrews thirty-four, Jenkins
I twenty-seven. Shulter twenty-four and
*v Gordon twenty-two.
GERMANY'S NEW AMBASSADOR.
l>r. von Holleben is Reappointed to Represent
Hit Country at Washington.
( Dr. von Holleben, who will soon come to
P Washington as the Ambassador from Germany,
is one of the best known diplomats
ftfe in Europe. The doctor is also well-known
and highly esteemed in Washington, where
he filled the post or uerman minister irom
t March, 1892, to September, 1893. The mission
was then raised to an embassy, and
jfc Dr. Ton Holleben was replaced by Ambas v
sador Saurma-Jeltsch. The new Ambassador
is highly educated and a most suave
I, man. He speaks English with as much
fluency as a born American or Englishman,
1>B. VOX HOLLXBIX,
(Germany's new Ambassador to Washington.)
A Md during his stay five years ago he won
many friends in Washington society, where
he was known as one of the few bachelors j
of the diplomatic corps. Dr. von Holleben |
has had a wide and varied experience as a
diplomat. He has represented Germany at
fUntlaeo de Chile ana at Tokio. That was
before bi> appointment to the American
mission. He is about flity-flve years old
> And has An inclination toward the pleasures
L&-1 of literature. He will replace Baron von
Thielmann, who is to be Secretary of the I
German Treasury. Dr. von Holleben is now
Minister at Stuttgart.
Collision In Midstream.
The steamer Catskill, bound for Catskill
and way points with forty-seven passengers
and freight, was run down and sunk
in the North River at New York City by the
excursion steamer tit. Johns, of the Sandy
' Hook Line. Bertie Timmerman, the sixyear-old
son of Moses Timmerman, of
Leeds, N. Y., was seen to jump from the
? [Catskill, and was drowned. Mrs. Maria
McDonald and Mrs. Susan Morris, of Gut*
tenberg, N. J., were unaccounted for after
the rest of the passengers bad been faken
from the sunken vessel. Leonard R. Miller
had his leg broken. The steamers met in
' midstream.
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THE NEWS EPITOMTZEK
XVanhlncton Item*.
Domestic exports for August were the
largest on record, while imports were the
smallest since June, 1879.
The President resumed work at the White
House, seeing many callers and holding a
Cabinet meeting.
The President appointed Daniel B. Hainer,
of Pennsylvania. United States District Attorney
for the Western District of Pennsyl
rania.
Upon the recommendation of Third Assistant
Postmaster General Merritt. the
Postmaster General awarded the contract
for supplving postal cards for the four
years beginning December lnext to Albert
Daggett, of Washington.
Judge Cos. of the District of Columbia,
dismissed the suit of John G. Wood, Superintendent
ofMails at Louisville, for an injunction
to prevent his removal from office.;
The case had been considered in the nature,1
of a test of the power of removal. 1
The monthly comparative statement or
the exports of breadstuff?, cotton, mineral;
oils, cattle and hogs and provisions in the'
month of August shows as follows: Bread-j
stuffs, $25,502,532; increase as compared;
with August. 1S96, about $11,000,000. Cot-j
ton, $1,703,818; decrease, about $1,700,000.;
Mineral oils, $5,691,348; increase, nominal.;
Cattle and hogs. $2,353,215; increase, about
$500,000. Provisions, $12,233,137; Increase,!
nearly $1,750,000. Total, $47,984,050; in-'
crease, about $11,000,000.
President McKinley returned to Wash-!
Ington from Somerset, Fenn. He was re-!
eeived at the station by three members of
his Cabinet.
Louise Michel, the notorious French
anarchist, has announced her intention to,
visit the United States in Ootober. The
authorities in Washington may not allow
her to land.
Consul-General Lee had a conference
with Secretary Sherman and Assistant Secretary
Day on the Cuban situation.
Dr. Guitera3 reported to Surgeon-General
Wyman that a case of yellow fever haq
been found in Mobile, Ala., and he feared a
serious outbreak.
Domestic.
BSCOBD or THE LEAOCE CLCB8. >
Per Per
Clubs. Won. Lost. c*. I Clubs. Won. Lost, ct.t
Bait 84 S3 .7181 Brooklyn 54 66 .450.
Boston ...85 S5 .708 Chicago .53 68 .4381
N'w York.76 42 .644 Pittsb'g ..52 67 .429Cincin'ati67
50 .573,Philad,a..51 89 .425!
Clevel'd..60 59 .504 Louisv'le 51 71 .418
Wash'n. 55 63 .466 St. Louis.27 92 .227
Sarah Elmendorf, colored, died at thei
home of her daughter, Mrs. John Dorsey,.
in Kingston, N. Y., at the age of 110 years.
When only ten years of age, together with
her parents, she was sold as a slave to the
Tremper family, with whom she lived until
freed by the Civil War. Her health was
Tannawv vhun ahft fftll
Sown stairs.
The Republican County Committee of
New York City decided unanimously that
District-Attorney Olcott should be nominated
for Mayor of G reater New York.
Bridget Hayes, a servant, was found
mysteriously 'murdered In the Carpenter
residence in a suburb of Newburg, N. Y.
She had been dead fifteen hours in the
l ouse before the body was discovered.
M. J. Patenotre, French Ambassador to
the United States, has been transferred to
Madrid, Spain, and Comte de Montholon,
French Minister to Belgium, has been
transferred from the post at Brussels to
Washington.
"Ben" Ferguson, colored, was convicted
at Walhalla. Ocean County, 8. C.. of assaulting
a six-year-old colored girl. The
white jury rocommended him to mercy,
which changes the penalty from death to
life imprisonment.
There was considerable rioting by the
coal strikers in the vicinity of Hazleton,
Penn., and the troops were kept on the
march to suppress it.
From 15,000 to 18.000 coal miners returned
to work in the Pittsfleld (Penn.) district.
D. T. Watson, a colored school teacher,
was lynched in Hamilton, Ark.
Mrs. M. M. Brooks, better known as
"Auntie Brooks," died in Pana, 111. She
was a well-known nurse in the Union Army
during the Civil War.
A sevpre windstorm swept over Fort
Wayne, Ind., and vicinity, doing considerable
damage and fatally injuring George
K. Rockenberger, Frederick Wehr and Andrew
Eindefler. The men were injured by
falling bricks from demolished chimneys.
At 4 p. m. Thursday three prisoners appeared
in the guardroom of the penitentiary
at Columbus, Ohio, and, leveling revolvers
at Captain Raxhe, attempted to escape.. A
fight ensued. Two of the prisoners, Botts
and Clark, got away. Lincoln, the third
prisoner, was held. Benjamin James, subguard,
was shot twice. Botts is from Lucas
and Clark is from Cuyahoga Coanty.
Fear of yellow fever has practically depopulated"
Jackson, Miss. There are several
cases at Edwards, near Jackson.
The overdue steamer Excelsior arrived In
San Francisco with $800,000 In Klondike
gold.
Michael defeated Lesna by 150 yards in
the twenty-mile bicycle race at the Springfield
(Mass.) Bicycle Club's tournament,
lowering the American record. Arthur
Gardiner, of Chicago, broke the world's
record In the one-mile professional handicap.
During the unloading at Glasgow. Scotland,
of the Allan Line steamship Tower
Hill, the body of a young American was
found deep in the grain. It is supposed
that the young man was shot in with the
grain when the vessel was being loaded in
New York.
.There have been no disturbances in. the
mining region about Hazleton, Penn., but
the strike is spreading rapidly.
United States 8enator George L. Wellington
resigned the Chairmanship of the
Maryland Republican State Central Committee,
thus relinquishing the leadership of
the party in the State, which he has held
for the past three years.
. "Joe" Farnsworth, who shot one of the
young Hatflelds and tried to kill Miss Alice
Ferguson in Lee County, Virginia, was
found hanging to a limb in the Cumberland
Mountains in Kentucky. It was evident
that -he was lynched, though an attempt
had been made to make it appear that he
had committed suicide.
George M. Judd. a lawyer, was arrested
on a charge of having stolen $15,000 from
the Title Guarantee and Trust Company, of
New York City, his former employers.
The Kings County (Brooklyn) Republican
Committee deposed Jacob Worth as leader
and unqualifiedly Indorsed Seth Low.
Miners in Eckby, Fenn., were forced to
stop work by st;*ikers before troops sent
from Hazleton tc head them off reached
th? place.
The Rev. "G. F. B. Howard," a notorious
swindler, escaped from the Ohio Penitentiary.
I Dr. E. Benjamin Andrews has withdrawn
his resignation from the presidency of
Brown University.
The public schools of New York City
opened at the close of the summer vacation.
It is estimated that 200,000 children
out of ft total Of 225,000 applied ior aumisslon.
The crowding w&s less than usual.
Forelrn.
Mrs. Elizabeth Palliser,. an American,
died at Oxford, England, while under the
influence of ether administered for a surgical
operation.
Catholio missionaries in China ace being
subjected to fresh persecutions at the hands
of the natives.
The shipbuilders' federation has called
out the shipwrights In England, completing
the paralysis of the shipbuilding trade.
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^ ROYAL HEIR WEDS SERVANT]
Arcli<lnke Franz Ferdlnsnd of Austria
Marries a Former Housekeeper.
A sensation ha9 been caused by the statement
that the Archduke Franz Ferdinnnd>
son of the late Archduke Karl Ludwig and
Princess Annunciata, daughter of the late
King Ferdinando II., of Naples, and heir
presumptive to the throne of Austria-Hungary,
was murried in London a few days
ago to a middle-class lady from Kohljcheidt.
near Aix-la-Chapelle.
The Kolniseho Yolks-Zeltung says the
lady's father was formerly amine manager,
that one of her brothers Is a clergyman of
Essen and that another brother Is a tradesurn
of Aix-la-Chapelle.
j The Lokal-Anzeiger adls: "She is a
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rormer nouseseepor ui ncrr mu^,
great iron master of Essen, where she met
FBAXZ FZBDIXAXD, ARCHDUKE OT AUSTBIA.
Archduke Franz Ferdlnar.d. The couple
have gone to Algiers."
Archduke Franz Ferdirand of Austria
was born at Qratz on Feoember IS, 1SGS. He
ie one of the richest men In Europe, as he
Inherited, while still a child, all the immense
wealth of the Este branch of the
Hapsburg family. He was only eight years
old when his mother died,yet his father then
straightway handed him over to the care
of the Jesuits, with strict Instructions that
he should be brought up untainted by this
wicked nineteenth century.
FIRE DESTROYS A BLOODY RELIC.
The Much-Used Gallows at Fort Smith
Gone.
The old relic of barbarism at Fort Smith,
Ark., the gallows la the Federal jailyard,
Is gone, never to return. It had been the
intention of some civilized persons to exhibit
the grewsome relic for money, accompanied
by George Maledon, the notori
FAMOUS OAXI^awa AT FOBT SMITH, ASK.
ous hangman, who has killed legally more,
persons than any other man In tho United
States, but good sense and humanity prevailed,
and that uglv Instrument of death
which has given to Fort Smith suoh a murderous
reputation abroad, was burned In
public, leaving nothing b--t ashes and horrid
memories which time alone can effaco.
The whole number of executions at Fort
Smith within the last twenty-five years is
somewhere near a hundred, of whlcn about
eighty are credited to George Haledon,
who never made a failure or a bungling
job. llaledon Is an old Federal soldier of
German nationality. He hanged people
as a business and seemed to like it, because
there was money in it. The highest number
of executions in one day was seven,
and he called that a "good day's work."
GREAT BRITAIN AND SILVER.
A Letter on the Subject From a Bank of
of Bngland Official.
At the semi-annual meeting of the Bank
of England, the Governor of that institution,
after referring to the proposals of the
United 8tates Government on the subject
of silver, proceeded to read a letter addressed
by himself to the Chancellor of tho
Exchecquer, and wherein the bank exits
readiness to hold one-fifth of
the bullion reserve In silver, as permissa- |
ble by the bank oharter, provided always
that the Fieneh mints were again open to
free coinage of silver, and the prices at
which silver was procurable and saleable
would prove satisfactory. He concluded
by denying that the bank had bought any
silver, and declared that all the bank had
undertaken to do was under certain condl-1
tion to carry out what was permissable
under the statute of 1844.
CP.AND ARMY COMMANDER KILLED,
E. F. Sands, of Jersey City, Meets Death
by Jumping From a Trolley Car.
Emanuel F. Sands, of Jersey City, N. J.f
whojin June last was elected Commander of
the Grand Army of the Republic in the
State of New Jersey, was instantly killed
while jumping from a trolley car at Vnrlck
and Grand streets.
Mr. Sands bad been to Newark to a Grand
Army meeting, ana was on his way home
on a Consolidated Traction car. He told
the conductor to let him off at Variok
street, but the oar did not stop and he
jumped. He fell and his head struok the
rail, fracturing his skull. He died before
an ambulance could be called.
Mr. Sands was sixty-:'our years old and
a family .Tnhn V7nf>d wnrd and Irv
ing Buck, the conductor and motorman,
of Jersey City, were arrested.
Forty Person* Drowned.
Forty persons were drowned in tLe River
Volga near Astrakhan, Russia. The
steamer Tsarevitch was sunk in a collision
with the Malfltka. As she was going down
her passengers leaped into the water in a
panic. Many of them swam ashore.
Lynched at fikaguay.
A young Russian Flan, whose name la
unknown, was lynched by five enraged
miners on Skaguay trail, bound for the
Klondike, on the afternoon of September
8. The crime with which he was charged was
stealing. The scene of the hanging was
near the foot of the summit, about fifteen
miles from salt water.
Boiler-Skates For Messenger Boys.
American visitors to London often complain
of the dilatory messenger boy service.
The boys are now being prQylded
with roUer-akatee.
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'' WILL TEACH CHINAMEN TO FARM.'
A New York Man Under Engagement to
a Progressive Chinese Viceroy.
' G. D. Brill, of Poughquog, Dutchesi
County, N. Y., is on his way to China to
teach the Orientals how to grow potatoes
corn and wheat; how to milk cows, what to
i do for hens when they refuse to lay eggs, '
! and how to preserve the juice of the apple
! so it neither will be too sweet nor too sour, j
I and capable always of sending a Celestial
, to Walhalla.
i Chanp Chi Tung, who, next to Li Hung
| Chang, is considered the most progressive
of China's ruling great men, sent for Mr.
I Brill. Chang is Viceroy of Hu Kwang, Cen,
tral China. He has 473 persons to every
square mile of his district, and he thinks
i they do not get as much out of the soil as
they should.
Chang had heard of President 8cherman
of Cornell University and the school of agriculture
there. So he got Sidney C. Partridge,
Yale, '80, rector of the Boone school
|in Wuchang, a foreign mission of the Epis
O. D. BKILL.
copal Church, to write to President Scher- j
man, telling him that he wanted a smart
young American to come over and give his
farmers some Information. Mr. Brill was |
| graduated from Cornell In 1838, and slnoe
then has been running i;hree farms. Preslriant
Hdhflrmnn -hnnchf Ha nncrht tr? tnnflr
bow to teaoh the Celestials, and the arrangement
was made. Chang will pay all
of Mr. Brill's expenses and give him a. fat ,
salary.
Mr. Brill is taking along only a few seeds,
some books, a chemical outfit, a typewriter
ind a camera. He purposes importing his
hoes, plows, hayforks, harrows, drills, ,
Mover, hollers, threshing machines and 1
:burns.
Mr. Brill doesn't know what he will do
for power. He will need something to pull
:he plows. They have no horses in Central ,
l/'hina, and Mr. Brill may have to harness a
iot of Chinamen.
WOODFORp"aT san sebastian. j
The New Minlatsr Presents His Credentials 1
to the Queen Regent. i
The Hon. Hannis Taylor, the retiring !
American Minister, presented bis letters of j
recall to the Queen Regent at noon at San '
Sebastian, Spat 3, and in doing so made a: j
jliort complimentary non-political speech, ;
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GEMEEAL STEWAST L WOODEOKD.
Half an hour later the Queen received, 1
General Steward L. Woodford, the new] '
Minister, who simply read the letter of'
President McKtnley appointing him the! !
American repiesentative to Spain. The!
chief paragraph of thie letter said; . j 1
"He (Generai Woodford) Is informed of'
the relative interests of both countries,!
and of ourslnrere desire to cultivate and,
nromote the fr endshio which has so long.
existed bet wee 1 both countries. He shall'
constantly try :o promote the interests and)
prosperity ot b >th Governments, thus making
himself ag, eeable to Your Majesty." j
Both Mr. Tarlor and General Woodford:
were received by the Queen Regent at the
Palace of Mlratnar, where she and her
court have been spending the summer. j
During Mr. Taylor's visit to the Queen)
Her Majesty cc rried on a friendly conversa-.
tion with him :<egarding the United 8tate4
and ex-President Cleveland, even saying
that she hoped some day to visit the United,
States. When Mr. Taylor was taking his
leave Her Majesty said, tonchingly:
"Do, pray, befriend Spain when you goi
back to America."
Mr. Taylor bowed low and replied: "I
will do so as frr as my'consoience permits.
Mr. Taylor's departure is personally re^
gretted even hi the ofllcial world, to whiefe
i he frequently had to convey unpalatable
communicatio is. *
Yello sr Fever Spreading.
Four new genuine cases of yellow fever
were reported from New Orleans and five
cases are said to have a suspicious char-'
acter. The isolation of the city is)almost
complete, one town after ahother having
refused to receive persons or goods from
Th i nf Alatia.mil him nro
nounoecl quarantine against its ooast city,
Mobile, in which place two new oases were
reported; theie is one new case in Scranton,
Miss., a: id a suspicious disease has
broken out in Edwards, Miss., which is be-,
ing investigated. Alarm is gradually increasing.
Sagasta Takes a Gloomy View.
Senor Saga; ta, the Spanish Liberal leader,
in an int< rview on the subject of tL*|
Cuban insurrt ction says that instead of dy-,
ing out it is spreading. He adds that the
situation in tJie Philippine Islands is serious
and asserts t! at the Carlist propaganda in
Spain cannot be viewed with indifference.
New Grrnan IrOnclad Launched.
The new G jrman ironclad Kaiser Wilhei*
der Zweite was launched at Wilhelms-'
; haven. She was christened by fateaw '
Hcary ol PrusUr
ffl. IMAGE'S MM.
SOTK1) WASHINGTON DIVINE'S'
SUNDAY DISCOURSE.
Strong Word* of Hope and Promise For
Dlicoaraetd Toller* In the Lord'* Vineyard
? Christian Worker*, Like the
Star*, Shine In Magnitude Forever.
Text: "They that turn many to righteousness
shall shine as the stars forever
and ever."?Daniel xii., 3.
Every man has a thousand roots and a
thousand branches. His roots reach down
+ h??/\rtrvh oil the* oorth TTia hrnnphAn
spread through all the heavens. He speaks
with voice, with eye, with hand, with foot.
His silence often is loud as thunder and his
life is a dirge or a doxology. There is no
such thing as negative influence. We are
all positive in the place we occupy, malting
the world better or making it worse, on the
Lord's side or on the devil's, making up
reasons for our blessedness or banishment,
and we have already done work In peopling
heaven or hell. I hear people tell of what
they are going to do. A man who has
burned down a city might as well talk of
some evil that he expects to do, or a man
who has saved an empire might as well talk
of some good that he expects to do. By
the force of your evil Influence you have
already consumed infinite values, or you
have by the power of a right influence won
whole kingdoms for God.
It would be absurd for me, by elaborate
argument, to prove that the world is off the
track. You might as well stand at the foot
of an embankment, amid the wreck of a
capsized rail train, proving by elaborate
argument that something is out of order.
Adam tumbled over the embankment sixty
centuries ago, and the whole race, in one
long train, has gone on tumbling fn the
same direction. Crash! Crash! The only
question now is, By what leverage can the
crushed thing be lifted? By what hammer
may the fragments be reconstructed? I
worvf ohom wnn hr\m TXTA mnr tnrn munv
to righteousness and what will be our
future pay forso doing.
First, we may turn them by the charm of
a right example. A child coming from a
filthy home was taught at school to- wash
Its face. It went home so much improved
in appearance that its mother washed her
face, and when the father of the household
eanle home and saw the improvement in
domestic appearance he washed his face.
The neighbors, happening- In, saw the
ehange and tried the same experiment, until
all that street was purified, and the next
street copied Its example, and the whole
eity felt the result of one schoolboy washing
his face. That is a fable by which we
set forth that the best way to get the world
washed of its sins and pollution is to have
our own heart and life cleansed and purified.
A man with grace in his heart and
Christian cheerfulness in his face and holy
consistency in his behavior is a perpetual
sermon, and the sermon differs from others
In that it has but one head and the longer
it runs the better.
There are honest men who walk down
Wall street making the teeth of iniquity
hattar Th?? am hinnv man vhn en (n.
to a sickroom and by a fook help the broken
bone to knit and the excited nerves drop
to a calm beating. There are pare men
whose presence silences the tonga* ot uneleanness.
The mightiest agent ot good on
earth is a consistent Christian. I like the
Bible folded between lids of oloth or ealfskin
or morocco, bat I like It better when,
Id the shape of a man, it goes oat into the
world a Bible iUastrated. Courage is beautiful
to read about, bat rather would I see
a man with all the world against him confident
as though all the world were for him.
Patience is beautiful to read about, but
rather would I see a buffeted soul calmly
waiting for the time of deliverance: Faith
Is beautiful to read about, but rather would
[ find a man in the midnight walking
straight on as though he saw everything.
Oh, how many souls have been turned to
God by the charm of a bright exampiel
When, in the Mexican War, the-troops
were wavering, a general rose in his stirrups
and dashed into the enemy's lines,
jhouting, "Men, follow mel" They, seeing
his courage and disposition, dashed on after
him and gained the victory. What meft
want to rally them for Ood is an example
to lead thorn. All your commands to others
to .advance amount to nothing as< long as
jrou stay behind. To affect them aright
jrouneed to start for heaven yourself, looking
back only to give the stirring cry of
' Mori, follow!"
Again, we mayjturn many to righteous
aess by prayer. There is no sncn aeieciive
as prayer, for no one can hide away from
It. It puts its hand on the shoulder of a
man 10,000 miles off. It alights on a ship
mldatlantic. The little child cannot understand
the law of electricity, or how the
telegraph operator, by touohingthe instrument
here, may dart a. message under the
Bea to another continent, nor oan we, with
our small intellect, understand how the
touch of a Christian's prayer shall Instantly
strilcea soul on-the other side of the earth.
Jfou take ship and go to some other country
and get there at 11 o'clock lathe morning.
Tou telegraph to Amerioa and the
message gets here at 6 o'clock, the same
morning. In other words, it seems to arrive
here five hours before it started. Like
that is prayer. God says, "Before they
call I will hear."" To overtake-a loved one
on the road you- may spur up a. lathered
steed until he shall outrace the one that
brought the news to Ghent, but s prayer
shall eatcb it at one gallop.. A hoy
running away from home may take
the midnight train from the country
village and reach, the seaport in time to
gain the ship that sails on the morrow, but
a mother's prayer will be on the deck to
meet him.and lathe hammock before he
swings into- it. and at the capstan before
he winds the rope around, aca dn the sea,
against the sky, as the vessel plows on
toward it. There is a mightiness in prayer.
George Muller prayed a company of poor,
boys together, and then he poayed up an
Mvltim in which, thev might be sheltered.
He turned hie face toward Edinburgh and
prayed, and there came ?1000. He turned
hie face toward London and prayed and
there came ?1000. He turned his face toward
Dublin and prayed and there oame
?1000. The breath of Elijah'* prayer blew
all the clouds off the iky, and it was dry
weather. The breath et Elijah's prayer
blew all the clouds together, and U was
wet weather. Prayer, la Daniel's, time,
walked the cave as a lion tamer. It reached
up and took the sun by its golden bit and
stopped it and the moon by its silver bit
ana stopped it.
We bare all yet to try the full power of
prayer. The time will come whan the American
eburch will pray with Its faoe toward,
the west, and all the prairies and inland
ities will surrender to Ood and will pray
with face toward the sea. and all the Islandsand
ships will baeeme Christian. Parents
who have wayward sons will get down on
their knees and say, "Lord, send my boy
home/' and the boy in canton win get ngui, i
np from the gaming table and go down to
find oat which ship starts first for America.
Not one of us yet know) how to pray.. All
we have don* as yet has only been pottering.
A boy gets hold of his.father's s Aw and
hammer and tries to make something, but
it Is a poor affair that he makes. The father
oomes and takes the snm* saw and hammer
and builds the house or the ship*. In the
childhood of our Christian faith we make
but poor work with these weapons of
prayer; but when we come to the stature
of men In Christ Jesus then, under these
Implements, the temple of God will rise and
the world's redemption will be launoh'ed.
God cares not forthe length of our prayers,
or the number of our prayers,or the beauty
of our prayers, or the place of our prayers,
but it is the faith in them that tells. Be.,
hevlng prayer soars higher than the le_rk
ever sang, plunges deeper than diving bell
ever sank, darts quioker than lightning
ever flashed. Though we have used only
the haq'c of this weapon Instead of the edge,
what marvels have been wroughtl IS saved,
we are all the captives of soma earnest
iz&f-iA&v * < ? ? i\ '
prayer. Would God that, in desire for the ,
rescue of souls, we might In prayer lay
hold of the resources of the Lord Omnipotent!
We may turn to righteousness by Chris- 1
tian admonition. Do not wait until yott . .r.
can make a formal speech. Address the "
one next to you. You will not go home . | f
a!one to-day. Between this and your place . ^
of stopping you may decide the eternal dee- 4 *
tiny of an immortal spirit. Just one sentence
may do the work, just one question,
just one look. The formal talk that begins
with a sigh and ends with a canting snuffle
is not what is wanted, but the heart throb
of a man in dead earnest. There is not a
soul on earth that you may not bring to ijf-i)
God if you rightly go at it. They said Gibralter
could not be taken. It is a rook 1600
feet high and three miles long, but tbe Eng- y*
lish and Dutch did take it. Artillery and :
sappers and miners and fleets pouring out US
volleys of death and thousands of men reck- -j
less of danger can do anything. The stoutest s
heart of sin, though it be rock and sur- ; v
rounded by an ocean of transgression, under
Christian bombardment may hoist the
flag of redemption.
But is all thfy admonition and prajer
and Christian work for nothing? My text
promisee to ail the faithlul eternal luster.
"They that turn many to righteousness
shall shine as the stars forever." As stars
the redeemed have a borrowed light. , ' Y*j
What makes Mars and Venus and Jupiter
so luminous? When the sun throws down
his torch in the heavens, the stats pick up jg
the scattered brands and hold them la
procession as the queen of the night sd- . "h
vances. 8o all Christian workers, stand- . V"
ing around the throne, will shine in the
light borrowed from the Sun of Righteous- ~
naca Taana in flinly faPAA .TACiia Iff thftlp c9R9 -
songs, Jesus in their trlamph.
Again, Christian workers shall be like
the stars in the fact that they have a light / *?
independent of each other. Look up ?t J
the night and see each world show Its dii-. 1
ttnct glory. It is not like the conflagra
tion, in which yon cannot tell where one .i v?
flame stops and another begins. Neptune, - ^
Herschel and Mercury are as distinct as II . * <i
each one of them were the only star. So
our Individualism will not be- lost 1ft .
heaven. A great multitude?yet each one ' l~- %
as observable, as distinctly recognised, a* , f'Jl
greatly celebrated, as if in all the sp&oe, ' j!
from gate to gate and from hill to hill, ho. *1^9
were the only Inhabitant?no mixing up, no . J.
mob, no indiscriminate rush, each Onria? . S
Man worker standing out illustrious, all ' (j
the story of earthly aohievment adhering
to each one, his self-denials and pains and .Cm
services and viotories published.
Before men went out to the last war the, .
orators told them that they would all bo re- .
membered by their country and their nasMO '
be commemorated in poetry and'in song. jg
But go to the graveyard in Richmond, and
you will And there 6000 graves, over each ' ,'J,
of which is the inscription, "Unknown." j ,?
The world does not remember its heroes,! . <3
but there will be no unrecognized Ohrlsteift .
Worker In heaven. Each one known by all ?grandly
known, known by acclamation,
all the past story of work for God gftariag . ! :
in cheek and brow and foot and palnr. They ? , i
shall shine with distinct light as the stats; ( M
forever and ever.
Again, Christian workers shall shine like . *.3:
the stars in ohutera. In looking up yoft , > j5y
Uuu ids wucius iu mmuj wcia. ixvtuHt ,r- m.
and slaters, they talce hold of each other's
hands and dance In gronps. Orion In a ' Sfl
a group. The Pleiades In a group. The
system Is only a company of children "with r '
bright faces, gathered around one gMAti
fireplace. The worlds do not straggle oSL . - ' ?
They go in squadrons and flaats, ~*m-f . ]
through immensity. So Christian woken
In hearen will dwell in neighborhood* apui
I am sure that some people I wfll like In
heaven a great deal better thaf' Others.
Yonderis a constellation of stately Christians..
They lived on earth by rigid role.;
They never langhed. They walked nv| \
hour, anxious lest they should Iom their
dignity. But they loved God. and yonder
they shine in brilliant constellation. Yet I' .
shall not long to get Into that partlealar
group.. Yonder is a constellation of small ' *A
hearted Christiana?asteroid?1*eHbdb>*nat j
astronomy.. While tome sonlsgo np front 1 . ?
Christian battle and blase' like - Mats theer, -'
Asteroids dart a feeble ray like Vesta* Yonder
is a constellation of martyrs, of apostles,
of patriarchs. Oar souls aa they go up to
heaven will seek oat the mestoongenlslso*
Again, Christian workers, like-the stars, .;??
shine in magnitude. The most illiterate
man knows that these things in the sky,
looking like gilt buttons, are great Biswas, $
of matters. To -weigh them- one would v.-JJ
think that It woold require scales wita a. v jg
pillar hundreds of thdusaads of mflee high *1
and obhins hundreds of thousands ol mfles' " -a
long; and at the bottom of the-ehalas
basins on either aide hundreds of thousands ( ' Jl
of milee wide, and that then OmnlpeteaS* * 0J|
alone- oould put the mountains into - the < '
scales and the hills Into the balanoe, bet
puny man has been equal to the under-' JS 53
taking and has set a little heiaiMe-oa- fcisj.
geometry and weighed world, egainat
world. Yea. he has pulled bat his measur-;
ing line and annonnoed that Btwhd hi j36,000
ml'ee in diameter, Saturn 79,OOOsnfles. ^
in dlameter-and Jupiter 89,000'mfletdhJier'
meter and that the smallest pearl OIL'the
nf la Imwm DwwiA aUt
I imagination. 8o all they whe-bereh&flod' ,
for <3hrtat on earth shall rise up 'tfeaanag-' ?
nltnde of privilege, and a< magaitade of
strength, and a magnitude of hoUMM^aaAj
a magnitude of Joj, and the weakest-saindi
in glory become greater than. alL that we
oan imagine of an arofaangeL
Lastly?and coming to. thf?- point my
mind almost breaks down under- the- contemplation?like
the staza, all. Chtiattfti
workers shall shine In duration, Tbeeame,
stars that look down npon us lookedidowm .*
upon the Chaldean shepherds.. The-aaeteor
that I saw flashing across the ekptfceoUMTt ",*j
night.I wonder if it was not.the ansae ana
that pointed, down to whace Jaaow lay ha
the manger, and if, having-pointed oat Hlft
birthplace, It-has even sines beettt wandering
through the heavens, watching: to see ' ffl
how the world would treat Bitot When
Adam awoka In the garden, in- the- cool qt
the day, he-saw coming oat throngh the- . , t?&
dusk of the-evening tho-same- worida that
greeted us-last night.
In Independence Hallia an; ofct cracked -A
bell that sounded the signature of the Deo- V /
laration ofIndependenee. Youoannotring ', ?
it.now, bat this greatjohime of silver bdto * .
that strike in the dome of night ring oat ? .
as sweet a tone as when. Oodi swung tfcarik
at the- creation. Look up at night 3
know that the whit?4lliee-tbat bloom In all
the hanging gardens of our King an century
ptants?not blooming once In lOOyeara, J 1
but tntengh all the oentoriae. The star not
which the mariner-looks to-night waa thelight
by which tboehips;oC Tarehiah were . i
guided across the Mediterranean and the si
Venetian found it*-way into Lepanto. YM*
armor is as bright tonight as whoa, la j
ancient battle, the stacs- ia their courses
fluugbt against Sisera*.
To the ancieats the- stars were qrmbola
f eternity. But here-theflgure of my text
breaks down-'not to. defeat, bnt in the
majesties of the judgment. The stars
'shall not siiine fcjrever. The Bible says \':,x
they shall fall lite autumnal leaves. As
when the connectingfactory ba^d slips at
aightfall from the main wheel All the
smaller wheels slacken their speed and
with slower and slower motion they torn
until they- come to a full stop, so this
great machinery of the universe, wheel
within wheel making revolution of
appalling speed, shall, by the touch
or God's hand, slip the band '*a(
of present law And slacken and stop. That
is what will be the matter with the mountains.
The chariots In which they ride shall
I halt so suddenly that the kings shall be
thrown out. Star after star shall be ear- ;i
ried out to burial arnld funeral torches of i
burning worlds. Constellations shall throw
ashes on their heails, and all up and down Ejj
the highways of space there shall be mourning,
mourning, j mourning, because the
worlds are dead. But the Christian work- i
ers snail never quit their tfffope?^-thew
shall reign fom? and ever* ^ 71
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