The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, April 03, 1896, Image 7
I" "RECREATIONS."
DR. TALMAG E'S SUNDAY THPyK.
The Innocent Ones Are Helpful and
Advantageous.
Tsxts: "They that use this world a* not
abusing It."?I Corinthians ril., 31. "An<llt
came to pass, wheu their hearts wero merry,
that they saia, onit for 8am4on. that ho may
make us sport."?Judges xvi., 25.
There wero 3000 people assembled in the
temple of Dagon. They had ome to make
Sport of eyeless Samson. Thoy wero all ready
for the entertainment. They begau to clap
and pound, impatient for tho amusement to
begin* and they cried, "Fetch hitn out, fetch
lilm oui!* Yonder I see tho blind old giant
coming, led by tbo hand of a child into the
very midst of tho temple. At his first appear*
ance there goes up a shout of laughter and
derision. .Tho blind old giant pretends be Is
tired, nud wants to rest himself against the
pillars of the house. So he says to the lad
who leads him, "ihow me where the main
pillars are!" Tho lad does so. Then tho
strong man nuts his right hand on ono pillar,
and his loft hand on sunt her pillar, and with
the mightiest nnsh that mortal over made,
throws himself forward until the whole bouss
comes down in thunderous crash, grinding
the audience like grapes in a winepress.
'And so it came to pass, wheu their hearts
were merry, that they said, call for 8amson.
that he may make us sport. And thoy called
for Samson out of the prison house, and he
made them sport." #
iu uiui'r worus. in(>rn are amusements that
nr? destructive, and briny: down disaster nml
death upon the Jiea Is of thow* who praotloo
them. While they laugh and cheer, they die.
The S000 who perished that day in Gnzn are
as nothing compared to tho tens of thousands
who have been destroyoil by siufui
amusements.
Cut my first text Implies that there Is a
lawful use of tho world, as well as an unlawful
abuse of it. and the difference between
the man Christian and the man un-Chrlstian
* Is that in the former case the mnu masters
the world, while in tho latter ease the world
masters him. For whom did Ood make this
grand and beautiful world? For whotu this
wonderful expenditure of color, this graceSfuluws
of line, this mosaic of the ground,
this fresco of the sky, this glowing fruitage
of orchard and vineyard, thfs full orchestra
of the tempest, in which the tree branches
fluty, and the winds trumpet, nnd the thunders
rirum, and all the splendor of earth and
sky some clashing their cymbals? For whom
did God spring the arched bridge of colors
I resting uj>on buttresses of broken storm
cloud? For whom did He gather the upholstery
ol lire around tho window of the scttiug
sun? For all men, but more especially
lor His own dear children.
_ If you build a large mansion nnd spread a
great feast after it to celebrate tho completion
of the structure, do you allow strangers
to come in nnd occupy the place, while you
thrust your own children iu the kitchen, or
the barn, or tho fields? Oh, no! You say,
"I am very glad to see strangers in my mansion.
but my own sons and daughters shall
have the lirst right there." Now. God iias
built this graud mansion of a world, and He
has spread a glorious least in it. and while
those who are strangers to His graoe mnv
come iu. I think that God especially intends
to give the advantage to His own children?
those who are the sons and daughters of the
Lord Almighty, those who through giv.ee
can look up and sav, "Abba Father." You
cannot make me believe that God gives more
advantages to the world than He gives to the
church bought by His own blood. If. therelore,
people of the world have looked with I
tuoiurous .sympathy upon those who make
profession of religion ami have said: ''Those
new converts are going down into privation
nn<l into hardship. Why did they not tarry
a little longer In the world and liave Some of
its enjoyments and amuse.aents and recreations?"
1 say to such men of the world,
4'You are greatly mis'.nken," and beforo I
get through I will show that those people
who stay out of the kingdom of God have
the hardships and self denials, while those
who come In have the joys and satisfactions.
lu the name of the King of heaven aud
oartli I serve a writ of ejectment upon all
the sinful and polluted who have ?quntted
on the domain of tnrthly pleasure as though
it belonged to them, while I claim in behalf
of the good nnd the poor and the true, the
eternal inheritance which God has given
them. Hitherto, Christian philanthropists,'
clerical ami lay, have busied themselves1
chiefly in denouncing sinful recreations, but|
I feel we liave no right to stand before men
and women iu whose hearts there is a desirn
for recreation amounting to positive neces-j
sity, denouncing this and that and the other
thing, when we do not propose to give them
something better. Ood helping mo and with
referenco to my last account, I shall enter
upon a sphere not usual In sermonizing, but]
a subject which I think ought to be presented)
nt this time. 1 propose now to lay before!
you some of the recreations which am not!
only innocent, but positive y helpful and ad-!
vaut ngeous.
In the llrst place T commend, among indoor
recreations, music?vocal and instrumental.
Among the llrst things created wit':
the bird, so that the earth might have mush j
at the start. This world, which began witlj
so sweet a serenade, is llnaliy to ha demol-;
Islied amid the ringing blast of the nrchaiH
gel's trumpet, so that as there was music nt
the start, there shall he music, at the close.
While litis heavenly art has often been
dragged into the uses of superstition and
dissipation, we all know it may bo the means
of high moral culture. Oh, it is a grand
thing to have our children brought up amid
the sound of cultured voices and amid the
melody of musical instruments.
There is in this art an indescribable
fascination for the household, r.et all iIkwk I
families who have the means to niYord it
havo lluto or harp or piano or organ. As
soon as the hand is large enough to compass
the keys tench it how to pick out the melody.
Let nil our young men try this heavenly art
upon their nature. Those who havo gone
into it fully have found in it illimitable
recrention nnl amusement. Dark days,
stormy nights, seasons cJf sickness, business
disasters, will do little toward depressing
the soul which can gallop oiT over musical
keys or sour in jubilant lay. It will cure
pain. It will rest fatigue. It will cjuell
passion. It will revive health. It will reclaim
dissipation. It will strengthen the
inunortnl soul. In the battle or Waterloo,
Wellington saw that the Highlanders were
falling back. He said: "What is the matter
there?" lie was told that the band of music
Itnd ceased playing, and he called up the
pipers and crdeivd them to strike up nn inspiriting
nir, and no sooner did they strike
the nir than the Highlanders worn rallied
and helped to win the day. Oh, yo who
have been routed in lite conflicts of life, try
by the force of music to ra !y your scattered
battalions.
I am glad to know thnt in our great cities
there is hardly a night in which there are
not concerts, where, with the best musical
lustrum ants and the sweetest voices, people
may llnd entertainment. Patronise such entertainments
when tiioy are alTordod you.
Iluy season ticke s, if you can, for the Philharmonic
and tic llaiubd and Haydn societies.
Feel tha. the "J 1.50 or s-'J thtp you
Spend for tile purpose of hearing au artist
piny or ring is a profitable invest in cut. Let
your Acad< tnies of .Music roar with thn acclamation
of iiporeehitive audiences assembled
at the concert or the oratorio.
Xull furl her, I e mine; 1, ie. worthy of
their support, the gymnasium. This institution
is gaining io fav -r every year, and I
know of not long m fr o from dissipation
or moi'e cjiIcii ati I io rectinerale the physi- I
cal and mental energies. While there are n
good many ]>i who l,n\ employed 11 > Institution
there i a vast number vli> are
iffhoruut of it-> There are
Then with > : l rims'* and weak
rides nn.l d-'sp- a nt spirits wiio liiroiigli
^iie gymi .".: iu a jn'ght be roii-e 1 up to the
bxuberair'c an i e\ - ara'.ou of life, Tiiore
are innny Can- iuri p eple despond-mi from
year to your wiio might through sueh nn institution
bo b.ur.i'.v-J iii their spiritual re I a
mod?, mere are unr.stlan people who seem
to think that It is a coot I sice to be poorly,
and because Richard Baxter and Robert Hall
were invalids they think that by the same
sickliness they may couae to the same
grandeur of character. 1 want to tell the
Christian people ot my congregation that
God will hold yon responsible for your Invalidism
If it Is your fault Had when, through
right exercise and prudence, yon might be
athletic and well. The effect of the body
upon the soul you acknowledge. Put a mau
or mild disposition upon the animal diet o(
which the Indian partakes, and la a little
while his blood will change-Its chemical proportion*.
It will become like nnto the blood
of the Hon or the tiger or the bear, while his
disposition will change and be -onto ilerc<
and uaroleuting. The boJy **?j? a povrerfu'
effect unon the souL
There are good people ideas ol
heaven arts all shut out with clouds of tobacco
smoke. There are people who dare to
shatter the physical vase in which God ha>
put the jewel of eternity. There are men with
great hearts and Intellects in bodies wore
out by their own neglects?magnificent ma
ohlnery, capable ot propelling a Majestic
Across the Atlantic, yet fastened In a rickets
North lllver propeller. Martin Luther was
so mighty for Ood, first, because he hnd c
noble soul, and, secondly, because he had ?
muscular development which would havt
enabled hi in to thrash ?nv five of his perse
cutors If it hud been Christian so to do,
rhvsioal development which merely show*
itself in fabulous lifting, or in perilous ropt
walking, or In pugillstio encounter, excite.*
only our contempt, but we confess to greai
admiration for the man who has a great sou
in an athletic body, every nerve, muscle an*,
oone ot wm "*n is consecrated to right uses,
Oh, it seems to me outrageous that men,
throughnegleot, should allow their physical
health to go down beyond repair?a ship
which ought, with all sail set and every man
at his post, to be oarryiog a rich cargo foi
eternity, employing all Its men In stopping
up leakages. When you may, through th?
gymnasium, work off your spleen and* youi
querulousness and one-half of your physical
and mental ailments, do not turn your back
upon such a grnnd medicament.
Still lurthor, I commend to vou n large
class of parlor games and recrentlons. There
Is a way of making our homes a hundredfold
more attractive than they are now.
Those parents o&nnot expect to keep their
ohildrep away from outside dissipations unless
they make the domestic circle brighter
thau anything thoy cau And outside of it.
Do not, then, sit in your homo surlv and unsympathetic
and with a half condemnatory
look becuuse of the sportfulness o!
your children. You were young
onco yourself; let your childruu
be young. Because your eyes are
dim and your ankles nro stiff do not denounce
sportfulness in those upon whose
eyes there is the first luster and in whose
foot thero is the bounding joy of robust
health. I thank Ood that iu our drawing
rooms and in our parlors theroaro innumerable
games and sports which have not upon
them the least taint of iniquity.
Light up ull your homes wilh innocent
hilarities. Do not Sit down with the rheumatism,
wondering how children can go on so.
Rather thank Ood that their hearts are so
light, and their laughtor is so free, unci their
cheeks are so ruddy, und that thoir oxpecta
nous are bo radiant. The night will "come
soon enough, ami the heartbreak nud the
pang ami the desolation?!t will come soon
enough for the dear children. But when the
storm actually clouds the sky it will he time
enough for you to haul out your reef tackles.
Carry, then, into your homes not only the
innocent sports and games which are the inventions
of our own day, but the games
which come down with the sportfuluess of
all the past ages?chess and charades and
tableaux and hattledoor an J calisthenics and
lawn tennis and all thos" amusements which
the >oung people of our homes kuow so well
how to contrive. Then there will be the
parlor socialities?groups of people assembled
in vour homes, with wit and mimicry
aud joviality, filling the room with joy from
door to mnutol and from the carpet to the
ceiling. Ob, is there any exhilaration like a
score of genial souls in one room, each one
adding a contribution of his owu individual
merriment to the aggregation of general
hilarity?
Suppose you want to go abroad in the city;
then you will llnd the panorama aud the art
gallery and the exquisite collections of pictures.
You will find the museum and the
historical society rooms full of rare curiosities,
and scores of places which cau stand
plainly the test of whnt Is right nud wrong
in amusements. You will ilud the lecturing
hall, which has been honored by the names
of Agasslz in natural history, Doremus la
ohomlstry, Boynton In geology, Mitchell in
astronomy, John B. Gough in moral reform
and scores and hundreds of men who have
poured their wit and genius and ingenuity
through that particular channel upon the
hearts and consciences and imaginations of
man, sotting this country fifty years farther
in advance than it would have born without
the lecture platform.
I rejoice In the popularization of outdoor
sports. I hail the croquet ground and the
tlshcrmau's rod aud the snortsmuu's gun. In
our cities nro is so unhealthy and unnatural
that when the census taker represents a city
as having 400.000 inhabitants there are only
200,000, since It tak-'s at least two men to
amount to ono miia. so depleting aud unnerving
an 1 exhausting is this metropolitan
lifo. We want more fresh air, more sunlight,
more of tho abandon of Held sports. I cry
out for it in behalf of tho church of God as
well as iu behalf of secular interests. I wish
that our ponds and our rivers and our ca:?itoltno
ground might bo all uquako with the
heel and tho shout of the swift skater. I
wish that when tho warm weather comes
tho graceful oar might dip the stream
and tho evening tido be resonant with boatman's
song. tho bright prow splitting the
crystalline billow, v?
We shall have tho smooth and grassy lawns
and wo will call out people of all occupations
and professions and ask them to join in the
ball player's sport. You will come back from
these outdoor exercises and recreatlous with
strength iu your arm and color in your
cheek and a (lash in your eye and courage in
your heart. In this great battle that is opening
against tho kingdom of darkness wo
wnnt not only a consecrated soul, but a
strong arm and stout lungs and mighty tuusole.
I bless God that there are so tnanr recreations
thnt'have not on them tho taint of
iniquity, recreation in which we may engage
for the strengthening of the body, for the
clearing of the intellect, for tho illumination
of tho soul.
There is still another form of recreation
which I commend to you. and that is tho
pleasure of doing good. 1 havo seen vount*
men, weak and cross and sour and repelling
in their disposition, who by one heavenly
touch hnvo wakened up and become blessed
and buoyant, the ground under their foot
and tho sky over their heads breaking forth
into music. "Oh," says some young man in
tho house to-day, "I should like that recreation
above all others but I have not the
means." My dear brother, let us take an
aeeouut of stock. You have a large estate if
you only realize it. Two hands, two feat.
You will have perhaps during the next year
at least 10 for eharitablo contribution. You
will liiivo i!3C0 cheerful looks if you want to
employ thorn. You will have JjUOO pleasant
words if you want to sneak them. Now,
what an r mount that is to start with.
Ycai i;o out to-morrow mornini;, and you
sea a earn of real destitution l>v tho wayside.
You uivi him two cents. Too blind man
hears the pennies rnttlo in his hat, and h<?
say-, "Thank you. sir; dad bless you!"
You pa-sdawn Ihe street, trviirr to loo!; iniliiYiTent,
'oit you Ha l from tlie very?hpth
o your soul a nro"oiind .satisfaction that you
tua !e that man liap,?y. You on still
farther and llud a po <r boy with a wheelbarrov.',
trying to <n\ it tipoii the curbstone,
lie fails in the attempt. You ,-ajs. "Stuud
ba 'k, i; y lad; let mo try." You push it up
on the euro-tone for him and pass on. Ho
wonders w im that well dre?s< .1 man wnstnat
helpe ! him. You did, a kindi.es- lo tho boy,
lull you did a u*re.it joy to your own soul.
YoU Will Hot ?el over it till the wee!;.
On the street to-morrow nmruinft you will
see a sick man pa-sini; uIouk- "Ah."' you
Kay, "what can 1 do to ajako this nym
happy? Ho certainly does not want moneyt
ho is not poor, bat he is slot" Give him one
of those 2500 cheerful looks that you hare
garnered uo for the whole year. Look Joy
i and hopefulness into hie soul. It will thrill
i him through, and there will be a reaction
upon your own soul! Going on a little
' farther, yon will oome to the store of a friead
who is ombarrassed in business matters. You
i will go In and say: "What a line store you
have! I think business will brighten up, and
you will have more custom after awhile. I
think there is coming a great prosperity to all
i the country. Good morning." You pass out.
You have helped that young man, and you
have helped yourself.
> Golonel Gardiner, who sat with his elbow
on a table, spread with all extravagant
viands, looking ofT at a dog on the rug. saying.
"How I would like to change places
[ v.th him. I be the dog nud he be Colonel
Gardiner," or those two Moravian mission,
aries who wantod to go into the lazaretto for
; the sake of attending the sick, and they wore
i told: "If you go in there, you will never
, come out. Wo neyer allow any ono to come
ont, for he would bring the contagion,"
' TH?n thuv mil <1A fhftir mlllc and mani Is* fleo*
to help the sioit and theu to die. Which was
* the happier?Colonel Gardiner or the Mora1
vinn missionaries dying lor othorsV Was it
1 all sacrifice when the missionaries wanted to
' bring the gospel to the negroes at the Barbados,
and, being dented the privilege, sold
, themselves into slavery, standing side by
| side and lying side by side down in the vary
ditch of suffering, iu order that they might
' bring those men up to life and God' and
| heaven? Oh, there Is a thrill in the joy of
j doing good! It Is tho most magnificent recreation
to which a man evor puis his hand
or his head or his heart.
But before closing I want tp impress upon
j you that mere secular entertainments are not
, a (it foundation for your soul to build on. I
was reading of a woman who had gone all
the rounds of sinful amusement, and sho
oame to die. She said, "I will die to-night
at 6 o'clock." "Oh," they Said. "I gue98
I not; you don't seem to be sick." "I shall
die at 6 o'clock, and my soul will be lost. I
know it will bo lost. I have sinned away
, my day of grace.*' The noon came. Thev
, desired her to seek religious counsel. "Ob,
she said. "It is of no use. My dny is gone.
I have been all the rounds of worldly pleasure.
and it is too late. I shall die to-night
nt 6 o'clock." The day wore away, and it
came to 4 o'clock and to 5 o'clock, and she
cried out at 5 o'clock: "Destroying spirits,
ye shall not have mo yet; it is not 6. it is not
6!" Tho moments went by, and the shadows
began to gathur, and the clock struck 6. and
while it was striking her soul went. SYhat
hour God will call for us I do not know?
whether 6 o'clock to-night, or 3 o'clock this
afternoon, or at 1 o'clook, or nt this moment.
Hitting whom you are. falling forward, or
drooping down, whore will you go to?
The last hour of our life will soon be hore,
and from that hour wo will review this day's
proceedings. It will bo a solemn hour. If
from our death pillow we have to look back
and see a life spent in slntul amusement,
thero will be a dart that will strike through
our s<jul sharper than the dagger with which
Virginius slew liis child. The memory of
the past will make us quake like Macbeth.
The iniquities aud rioting through which we
have passed will come upon us, weird and
skeleton as Meg Merrllies. Death, the old
Hhyiock, will demand and take the remaining
pound of flesh and the remaining drop of
blood, and upon our last opportuuity for repentance
and our last chance for hoaren the
curtain will forever dro p.
PROGRESS IX DIXIE.
The Southern Industrial Situation
Expanding.
The Baltimore Manufacturers' Record's
weekly review of southern industrial progress
shows the organisation of a number
of important concerns In nil parts of the
south. Cotton mill interost3 continue to attract
the greatest attention and while two or
three of the foremost cotton mills of New England
are looking for sites In the south for
mills southern mill companies contfnue the
enlargement of plants ana the establishment
of mills. A woolen mill company at Ku)x%
ville has commenced work on a 6100.000 cotton
mill addition to its plant, a 10.000 spindle
mill has been chartered at Spartanburg, 8.
C. a knitting mill hns been projected at Alcolu,
and n number of established mills are
increasing their equipment. Among other
important enterprises reported during the
week are the extensive development of timber
nnd muck lauds in Floriaa at an estimated
cost of J?300 000 hv PlnetnTiatl rwnnlw.
a ?150,000 brewery at Tampa; the reported
letting of a contract for ?1.100,000 for the
construction of u canal along the coast
of Texas; contracts let nt about ?1,000,000
for the deepening and general overhauling of
the Dismal Swamp canal in Virginia and
North Carolina; contracts for what is claimed
to be the largest cotton compress ever built
in the world, to be located at New Orleans;
a coal company at Jelico, Tenn., will Increase
its daily output from 400 to 1,500 tons; a ?30,000
stove foundry to bo established at Middlesboro;
a cotton compress nt Aberdeen,
Miss.; plans are being prepared for a ?60,000
government machine shop in connexion
with tho dry dock nt Port lloyal; a ?59,000
ice factory at Dallas; extensive improvements,
including large extensions of water
power, by a street railway at Columbus, Ga
The ?5.000.000 bridge which was projected
to be built at New Orleans across the Mississippi
river a few years ago, will, it is rej.orteu,
bo shortly taken up, and active work of
construction commenced. There is considerable
complaiat of the scarcity of money and
many manufacturers are not "disposed to oxtend
their operations while financial and
tariff matters are so unsettled, bu* the general
industrial situation of the South seems to
be expanding at a very satisfactory rate.
NEW DISCOVERY IN MEDICINE.
An Indlanlan Secures a Preparation
That (irently Aids Cataleptic*.
Superintendent Rogers, of the Northern Indiann
Hospital for tho Insnne has been experimenting
on cataleptic patients with u
preparation made from the thyroid glands
of sheep, and ho lias discovered a treatment
which will sot tho medical profession to talking.
Two peculiar eases of insanity came
under Dr. Roger's special observation. One
was a man who went into a trance three
years ago, and for three years lay on his
back with his eyes half upon. Usually at
night he nppnraroutly slept naturilly, but
?luriug the day he was seemingly unconscious.
He was fed on raw eggs and milk
..i. o ?i.I.i -
(1 IUI?> J'l VJv\ ivvi HIIUUqII 1113 IIU3U
Into liis stomnch.
Tho other patient was known u'J over the
eouutry as a cataleptic. lie was stupid most
of the time, possessed the poweis of locomotion
only at intervals, and wherever placed
he woul'i stand in that position until ro1
loved. Six months ago l>r. Honors t??
experimenting on these two patients with
tlx1 preparation. Tho medicine was giv n
internally at regular intervals, and in two
months both men hogan Improving, In the
Inst ease mentioned the patient has cnti.ely
recovered. Tnc recovery In the other case Is
not so marked, stiil the patient has wonderfully
improved, and his eon vale iceno is assured.
F r two weeks during this special
treatment l>r. lingers was unalilo t< secure a
supply of his new medicine an 1 the man in a
trance rapidly relapsed, only to begin recovery
again as soon as a tiew supply was
obtained. This fact impresses 1?r. it )gcrs
ami his assistant { hy-dciuns with the value of
the new discovery.
President Cleveland has directed the presentation
of a pair oT l-iuocular glasses tc
Captain Tsofton Alexander, of tho llritisli
steamship Mexican, in recognition of his humane
services in rescuing the captain and
crow of tho American schooner Drisko on
October (J, iiis>3.
' -
I
I
/'
'*? ' #
SABBATH SCHOOL
INTKRXaTIOXATj liRSSuN FOR
APRIL 5.
Lesson Text: "W?rnineAwln?t Sin,**
LuJcn xlll., 22-30?Golden
Text: Luke xlll., 24
?Commentary.
When ire are having but one lesson In *a~H
chapter, it seems a pitv to pass a chapter bv,
but as the Resurrection is the greatest topl?
in Boripture, Including all others, we feel led
?u odouk mo rosier iisson. xi any preier
chapter xill.?fail not to notice the corruption
suggested by the henven, nn<l tho hypocrisy
whloh shall In due time find its home where
there Is weeping and gnashing of teeth. Before
the door is shut let nil enter who will by
truly receiving Htm in whom alone is salvation.
1. "Thev came unto th? sepulcbor, bringing
the sploes which they had prepared." In
Mark xvl., 1, we find that it was two of the
Marys and 8alome who did this. Verse 10 of
our lesson mentions some others. Their sersloe
was truly a loving one. but it was not a
work of faith. And therefore in a measure
fruitless, for "without faith it is impossible
to please Him" (Heb. xl., 6). Tho order in I
Thesa. 1., 8 is "Work of faith, labor of love,
patlenoe of hope." If we keep Ood's order
in our service all will be well.
2. "And they found the stone rolled away
from the sepulcber." Mark xvl , 3, says
that they talked among themselves as to who
should roll away the stone from the sepulcber;
for Mark xv.. 46. 47. savsthat they saw
the burial of His body and the stone rolled
unto the door of the sepulchor. The apparent
or real difllulties will vanish as we
move on in love to Him constrained by His
love to us. Those wotnon were ready to
minister at His death, but they had ulso
ministered to Him in His life (Mark xv., 40,
41).
9 llinil Iksv ln o?.l 1 ~
the body ot the Lord Jesus." They were
looking for a wrong thing in a wrong plaoo
through laok of knowledge booauso of lack
of faith. They were as unsuccessful as were
the people who looked for the body of Enoch
'or the fifty men who looked three days for
the body ot Elijah (Ileb. si., 5; II Kings, 11..
17). There will bo some more unsuccessful
searchers some ot thcao days when all the
'dead in Christ shall have loft their craves
|and the living saints shnll have been caught
up with them to meet the Lord in the utr (I
Cor. xv.. 23, 51, 62; I Thess. iv., 1C-18).
I 4. "Behold two men stood by them in
shining garments." From the story of tho
'angola who came with tho Lord to visit
iAbraham (Gen. xviii., 2. 22: xlx.. 1), all tho
jway through the Scriptures they aro always
jspoken of as men and never as women. I
only mention this to show how unscriptural
|are our' pictures of angels. Heb. i., 14, is
'very comforting concerning the ministry of
'angels, and Ps. ciil.,20, 21, is very inspiring,
making us long to bo like thorn in service
and in obedience.
' 5. "Why seek ye the living among iho
dead?" For "tho living" tho margin says,
"film that llveth." The previous verse says
they were much perplexed, and now we read
that they vtoro afraid and bowed down to
the earth. Unbelief always produces these
things, whilo joy and peace come by believing
(liom. xv., 13). Our departed friends
who have died in Christ are alive and well,
although tholr bodies rest in the grave.
Theyaro "with Christ," "present with tho
Lord," and it is a very weak faith or no
iaith that clings to tho tomb as if they wore
there.
6. "Ho is not hero, but is risen; remember
how Ha spake unto you when He was yet iu
Galilee." The words of the Lord aro very
Slain words, easily understood if simply t>eeved,
for "Through faith wo understand"
fHeb. xi.. 31. As to both ln.w nml nronheev
being very plain, see Dent, xxvli.. 8; Hub.
11., 2. Now we cunnot remember the words
ofttao Lord if we h:ivo not received them, if
we have not laid thein up in our hearts.
J 7. ,-The Son of Man must bo dollvero 1 into
the hands of sinful men und oructfled and
the third day rise again." Ho had said just
these words to them over and over again
(Math. xvi.. 31; xvti.. S3; xx., 19), aud He
had meant just what He said, and It had all
come to pass exnctly as He had said, so that
their whole difficulty was that they had
failed to take Him at His word.
8. "And they remembered His words." So
we, in the morulu? of H1b coming ngalu, will
remember His words and see everything fulfilled
exactly as it is written. We would
thereforo do well to remember them now
and hold them Inst and be ever saying for
our own encouragement and for the*encouragement
of others, "He of good cheer fori
believe God that it shall bo even as it was
told me."
' 9. "Aud returned from the scpulchcr and
told all those things unto the eleven and to all
the rest." Head Math xxvlll., f.-8, for further
dotal s of the angel's message tp the women.
You wiU se? that they departed1 quickly with
fear and great joy and did run to bring Ilia
disciples word. To run errands for Jesus,
bringing glad tidings of His resurrection ami
coming glory, is a good euro for sorrow. It
was as they thus went that Jesus met them
and suffered thorn to hold Him by the foot
and worship Hini. He meets thoso who rejoice
and work righteousness.
< 10. "It was Mary Magdalene and Joanna,"
etc. It would seem that Mary Magdalene
got somehow und for a time separated from
tho other women (she will explain It all to
us when wo see her) and that the Lord appeared
to her the very llrst aud spoke to her,
|but wouldjnot allow her to touch Him, for IIo
jhadjnct then ascended to His Father in His
'resurrectlon^body (John xx., 16. 17), but before
Ho met iho other women whom Ho allowed
to touch Him Ho must have ascended
ji\hu feturneu. Tho movements of the renloimod
and Klorljjod bodios may bo as quick
[as lightning (Ezek. L.TiJ^
I 11. "And tbe'r ?r;.r.6d to them as
.idle tales, ana they believed tbem not.'*
When Paul at Rope faithfully expounded
ithe Sorlptures, sdaio believed and sbiuS bgr
'II'.-^eun'M (Acts xxvlii., 28, 24). They wore
^natural pton to whom Fdul preached tho
gospel, and, as always, some received it and
some did not. But these in our lesson were
saved people, the apostles and others, and ot
[the apostles tho Lord had said that they
iwere "clean every whit" (Johu xiii., 10), yet
in reference to tho fact of His resurrection
Ithey wore unbelieving.
| 12, "Wondering in Himself at that which
| was come to pass." This is the record con'cernlng
Peter oven nfter lio hud seen tho
empty tomb?not ioynnd peace in behoving,
but simply wonderment. So with people
then nud now, there Is much wondering
[(chapters iv., 22; It.,43; si., 14. etc.), but
[there is no prollt apart from faith (Hub. iv ,
2). It seems so simple and reasonable that
wo should say as Mary did, "Jlo it unto mo
according to Thy word." or as Paul, "I lio'lievo
Ood." Lot us do it. and wo shall surely
know His joy and peace.?Lesson Helper.
It seems to be a striking compliment
to fervent eloquence, or some other
peculiar power of persuasion, that
among the conversions made by a revivalist
tit Tekonsah, Mich., recently,
were two deaf and dumb persons, a
man and his wife. ?
Cigar-makers of San Francisco arc
going to establish n strike shop. When
n strike Is ordered In any factory In the
city the workmen will he put at work
in the strike shop, nt regular wages, instead
of remaining idle and in receipt
cl the strike allowance from the union.
A woman in Pittsburg, Pa., sold licr
husband the other day to a former
sweetheart for $l>0 hi cash, a pair of
diamond earrings, a diamond rjug ami
u pin. A. I .-.Xitlihi
lUH i-irn-KODKlH CUAUbKaa.
A HyMpaU of the Proe ofBoU
Houim.
THE 8ENATA
TtJESDAY.
The Cuban resolutions were discussed in
the Benate on Tuesdny. ' Benntor Mills, of
Texas, uiade an eloquent speech in support
of Cuban Independence. The remainder of
tho day was fflven up to the consideration
of the executive, legislative and judicial appropriation
bill, bat no final disposition was
made of it. *
WEDNESDAY.
A move in the direction of an early adjournment
of Congress was made in the Sen
ate Wednesday by Mr. Plutt. who offered a
resolution to tlx the timo of final adjournment
for the 2d of May next. Tho resolution
took the usual course?a reference to the
committee on appropriations. It will probably
not be reported back uutil all the annual
appropriation bills have passed both
houses.
After the executive, judicial and legislative
appropriation bill, which has been before the
8enate for the last three days, shall have
been disposed of there will bo only two
others left for action by the Senate. These
are the Indlau and the postofllce appropriation
bills, neither of which is likely to occupy
more than one day.
Nearly all the discussions Wednesday was
on the subject of changing the fee system of
United Status district attorneys and marshals
to a salary system?tho amounts proposed
in the bill being assailed us extravagant by
Senators Alluu and George. In all cases,
however, tho propositions for the higher
amounts were agreed to.
A joint resolution to amend the constitution
by prohibiting Congress and State Legislatures
from using public moneys in aid of
any institution controlled wholly or in
part by auy sectarian or religious association,
was introduced by Mr. Gulliuger and laid on
tho tablo for the present.
THURSDAY.
None of tho matters that came up before
the Senate Thursday was of much public interest
and importance. One-third of the
time was consumed ovor a joint resolution
appointing Bernard It. Green successor to
General Cusey in the matter of the construction
of the new Library building iu Washington;
nearly as much time on HQ amendment
to the legislative appropriation bill
allowing n third clerk to the Seuate committee
on peuslons, and all the rest of the time
on a motion made by Mr. Shermnu to siri te
out of tho legislative bill all the sections in
relation to the compensation of United
States district attorneys, clerks and marshals.
This latter subject was not disposed
of.
Tho joint resolution reported from the
committee on foreign relations authorizing
Dunjamin narrisou 10 accept certain medals
presented to him bv the governments of
Brnr.il and Spain during ids term of service
as President of the United States was taken
up und passed.
FRIDAY.
The legislative appropriation bill passed
the Senate Friday. It appropriates in round
numbers twenty-live and a half million
dollars.
No other business of importance came before
Senate, and that body adjourned until
Monday.
THE HOUSE.
TUESDAY.
The unfinished business when the House
met Tuesday was the bill introduced by Mr.
Curtis, of New York, to reduce the number
of crimes subject to capital punishment, uml
it was passed.
The House ngreed to the Senate request
for a further conference on the Cuban resolutions.
Mr. Boutoile, chairman of the committee
on naval nITairs, reported the naval appropriation
bill for the years lS'JO-'T, it was ordered
printed. It carries an appropriation
Of 181,770,188, of which $12,011.084 is for the
increase of the navy.
WEDNESDAY.
On Wednesday the House addressed itself
in committee of the whole, to the consideration
of the naval appropriation bill. All of
it, save the paragraph providing for new
ships, was disposed of by the committe, with
a single umendment, appropriating $00,003
for building the quay and wing walls of the
Brooklyn dry dock.
Besides a few personal matters nothing
else was done.
THURSDAY.
The House on Thursday pnssed the naval
appropriation bill, after considerable discus
slon.
Tho sundry civil npp ropriation bill for tlio
year ending June, 30. 1807. was reported.
FRIDAY.
In tho House Friday only pension and
pr vat* relief hills reported from the comI
mi tee on Militry affairs were considered.
Tao House adjourned until Monday.
HERE'S ANOTHER PARTY.
The New National Reform Party
Which is to Meet in Convention.
Tho provisional national executive committee,
representing tho new National lieform
party, have issued an official circular,
calling a national convention of the reformers
to meet in Old City Hall, Pittsburg, l'a.i
May 25, 18%.
The following principles and measures are
recommended by the committed to the consideration
of tho platform committee to bo
created by that convention:
First?Direct legislation through tho initiative
and referendum should be tho first
principle incorporated in a national platform
In order to restore the ancient rights of government
of the people, by the people, for
the people.
Second?That as the money question has
become a live issqo In politics, it must therefore
form A prominent feature in the platform,
sciting forth thy distinctive views of
the reformers ns favoring iW issuing of all
monies?gold, silver and paper?by the gtytpral
government and this money should bo
tho legal tender for all debts, both public nhd
privato, and that each shall bo exchangeable
Into tho other ut par at the option of the government.
Third?The abolition 6f the liquor traffic
for beverago purposes witli government control
of the same for all other uses.
Fourth?The free or equal coinago of silver
and gold at the ratio of 16 to 1, government
ownership of railroads, telegraph lines,
telepnones iimi other nivalis or eommuulcation.
Kijoul suffrage and proper invaus to
raise revvnuo for the government, immigration,
public improvements and other questions
that may bo deemed sufficiently important
for consideration.
(Signed) E. Evans, chairman,
51. F. Gray, secretary,
INCH AIM N <I*M1 S S II AH TON.
Turkey Will Allow Her Agents to (live
Heller Directly.
Secretary Oluey has received a cahlo dispatch
from the United States legation at
Constantinople, stating that tlie Eritish ambassador
there hnd been informed by Tetvilk
Pasha that relief may lie distributed freely
in the interior by English and American
Agents, a member of the Turkish relief committee
being present at every description.
Miss Clara Ear*.oil's agents are thus aide, says
the dispatch, to dispatch, to distribute supplies
directly with their own hands to whomsoever
they think proper.
?r
Carlisle to Speak in Chicago.
J. G. Carlisle, Secretary of the Treasury,
I will deliver a non-partisan a?Mr before
the laboring people of Chicago, II.. April
15 next. Mr. Carlisle was last fai; invlt? d t.>
I make an address An the silver a o t
lie could not come at that tiin". (I i.<>\v
sends word that he will Lc able to speak, on
I the date given abovo,.
m^w
I . r '
latest news !
in brief!
GLEANINGS FROM MANY rOOTB^
Important Happenings, Both Baa4t
aud Foreign, Briefly Told*,
i
V?. '-?
ouuiiiviu 11 ^ ?v n 11 utrrv*
Florida's Mate Democratio Cobvmmi
tion will meet at Ocala, June 16th.
j The re-organization plan of the
: Norfolk and Westorn Kail road has
been completed and will be published
April 1st.
The Southern Railway's npset offer
for the Cape Foar aud Yadkin Vallejr
Railway is S1,G92,0U0, this covering
the entire line.
J. E. Cramlall, president of the do?
funct First National Bank of Johnson
City, Tenn., has been oonvicted of
fraudulent entries and sentenced to
eight years' imprisonment.
Elections have been ordered in Kentucky
for April 31st, to fill the seats of
tho two unseated State Senators and
one resigned Senntor. This is taken as
an indication of an early extra session,
of the Legislature.
Gen. John B. Gordon has been
selected by the board of directors of.
the Davis Monument Association to
act as chief marshal of the parade, July
2nd next at the laying of tho corner
stone of tho Davis monument in Rich?
moud.
The Supremo Court of Tenneuiea
has desided, the opinion being given bjr
Chief Justice Suodgruse, that the production
of o poll-tax receipt at tho
polling place is a perequisite to oasting
a legal vote. Snodgrass is the Judgo
who shot a man in Chattanooga, and
he is still on tho Bench.
Governor Gates, of Alabama, who is
an announced candidate for tho United
States Senato to succcod Hon. James
T. Pturk luiu a Inifoi* in urTiiAla
ho states that he is going to vote for
Hon. llichnrd M. Clarke, the sound
money candidate for Governor, in ther ?
party primary and that ho is going to*
use his influence to carry his hom?.
county for Mr. Clarke.
Northern News Items.
Convention of tho W. C. T. XT, will
meet in St. Louis next fall.
A bill has passed tho Ohio Legislature
substituting electrocution fair
hunging.
Tho New York Republicans liavo declared
for Morton, protection and
"sound money."
Senator Lexow's greater New York
bill pussed the New York Assembly l?y
n vote of yeas 91, noes 50. The measure
now gooB to Governor Morton for
approval.
Tho Ohio House of Representa&rea
has passed a bill prohibiting the wearing
of an obstruction in the shape of ^
lint or headgear by women in theatres*
Will it become a law?
The good prohibitionists of the State
of Iowa are protesting against breaking
a bottle of wine in chirBtening the
battle ship Iowa, named after their
State. Chas. H. Cram]), at Philadelphia,
said he was perfectly willing to
have a bottle of water used instead,
and added: "There is usu&llw mora
disgust over the spilling of the wins
used at tho launching of a ship among
people who are not total abstainers
than among those who are. The former
think it is a useless waste of wine
when water would answer the purpose
as well."
????
Washington.
The House has passed a bill remove
ing Confederate soldiers' disabilities.
Gen. Casey, for many years chief of
engineers of the Army, died suddenly
in Washington.
Secretary Hoke Smith has appointed
Wni. McKiuley Cobb, of Georgia, his
private secretary.
Tho conferrees on Cuban resolutions
have agreed to accept the resolution*
as passed by tho Senate.
!D. F. Murphy, chief official reporter1
of tho United States Senator, died at
his home in Washington City thia
week
A bill has been intrdauccd in eongress
to i>rovido for the erection of a
monumeut_to James Monroe at Fredericksburg,
Va. The statue, whioh will
be lifellzo, will represent him holding
a scroll with tho words, "The Monrao
doctrine" inscribed thereon.
Foreign.
President Hippolyte, of Ilayti, itt
dead.
Mavaroyeni Bey, Turkish minister tor
the United States, has be'en recalled.
Elbert Rappleye, tho correspondent
in Cuba of the New York Mail and Express,
has embarked for the United
States from Havana, in accordance
with an order issued by tho governor*
general decreeing his expulsion from,
tho country.
A dispatch received in London fronr
Cairo says that six members of ther
Egyptian public dobt commission have*
noti tied the Egyptian Minister of war
of their assent to tho government's
drawing upon tho Egyptian reserves
fund to meet tho expenses of tho Nilon
expedition.
Something of now record was ostab-j
IIhIkmI l?y thieves in Adams County;
Wash., last week. They stole a big
barn belonging to tho county auditor,
pulling it down during the night, loading
it on wagons, and hauling It Ui
harts as yet unknown. "
Society Courtesies. "
Mrs. Parvenne 1 am thinking of go*
Ing slumming to-morrow."
Mrs. May fair Ah! Going to call one
your relatives, 1 presume."?Pick