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t "THE LAW-MAKERS. Hit. TAIiMAUK'S SUNDAY T1IK3IK. Joseph Whs the Ijord TreHSurer of tho Kgyptlan Government?He Taught His Senators Wisdom. Text- "And tcae'u .lis senators wisdom."? Psalms cv.. 22. Senators in this t"xt staml for law-makers. Joseph was tho lord treasurer of tho F.icyotian novornmonr. ami nmontr other irroat thimrs which he did. neeordimrto my toil, was to teach his senators wisdom. And if nnv men on earth ouirht to ho endow >d with wisdom it is senators, whether tliey stand in congresses. pnr'iamonts or relelistU'rs or assemblies or legislatures. By their deelsioiis nations tro up or down. Law-maker* nro sometimes ? ? tempted hv prejudices, by sectional preference, by opportunity of personal advancement. and sometimes what is be?t to do is so doubt fill that they ought tobonravod for an 1 eneouraeed in every possible way instead of severely criticised and blamed and excoriated, as is mrflh of the time the cnse. Our public men are so often the target to be shot at. merely hee-iuse they obtain eminence which other men wanted tun could not reach, that more iniustices are hurled at our national legislature than the people of the United States ean possible 'magine. The wholesale belying of our public men isslmpdy dnui11 a hie Bv residence in Washington I have noma to IIr*?1 out that mniiv of our public mnn ar? persistently misrepresented. and <omn of the host of them. the p'.m'K1:' Itt their lives an I most faithful in too iHschargeof thoirduties, lint tho worst d of am ad. Simp* day T want to preach a sortoon from tiio text in II Peter: "Tliov aro not afraid to spank ovil of dignitios. Wherens nngcle. which nro greater in power and might. brintt not railing aeeusntion against thorn before tho Lord. But those, as natttral brute beasts, made to bo taken and destroyed, speak evil of thothings that they understand not." S > eonstant and malignant is this work of depreciation and scandalize! ion in regard to our puldie men that all over the land there are those who supnoso that tho oil v of Washington Is tho center of all eorruntion, while what with its parks, and its equestrian statuary, and its wide streets, and Us architectural svmmetries, and its lovely homes, it is not only tho most beautiful oitv under tho sun, hut has tho highest style of citizenship. 1 have seen' but one Intoxicated man in th? more than six months of my residence, and 1 do not think any mnn can Rive similar testimony of nny othercltv on the American continent. 1 Th? envois of out- two houses of national . legislature will soon fall, an l a Ijonrnment of two bodies of men as talnnte 1. as upright | and as patriotic its over grilled the capital will take place. The two or three unfortunate outbreaks which you have notice I only make more conspicuous the dlsnitv, the fraternity, the eloquence, the tldelity which have ehava-'lerlzed those two bodies during all the long months of important and anxious deliberation. Wo nut a halo around great men of the past because they were so rare in their time. Oursenat? and house of representatives have five simh men where once they had one. But It will not be until after thov are dead that they will get appreciated. The worl 1 finds it safer to praiso the dead than tho living, because the departed. having a heavy pile of marble above mem. limy mu riwin 'wimiiii* rivals. Hut. before the travels of a Ijournment drop and tho doors of Capitol Ifill shut, thero are 0110 or two things that ought to Ito done, an<l lot its prav God that they may ! <* nccompiishe I. More forcibly than ever beforo. ooiocroASlias boon imnloreJ toncknow'ndge God in our constitution. Tho Methodist Church, u church that is alwavs dotug glorious things, hns in its recent Wilminglon coufcranoo requested our congress to amend the immortal document which has been the foundation and wall and dome of our United Stat?s government l?y inserting the wor.is, " i'rusliutf in A'mi'^htv God." If that amendment is made, it will not on'.v please all the good people of the country, but will please the heavens. It was only an over.-iiriit or a mental accident tltat the lathers who made the constitution did not insert a divinely worshipful sentence. They nil, so far as they amounted to anything, believed in "God tho Father Almighty, the Maker of honvea and earth, and in Jesus Christ. His only begotten Son." The constitution w uld have been a failure had it not been for tho div 110 interference. The members of tho convention could agree on not I wig until, in response to llmjamiu Franklin's request that I ho ilieetinits be opened by prayer, the Lord God was called ori to interfere and liolp. and then the way was e cared, and nil the states stirued the document. a historical fact that all the rat terriers of modern infidelity cannot bark out of existence. I know that there was an exception to the fact that the prominent men in those times were good men. Tom Paine, a libertine and a sot. slid not believe in anything Rood until he was dying, and then he shrinked out for God's mercy. And Ethau Allen, from one of whoso descendants I have received within a few days a continuation of tho incident 1 mentioned in a lit sermon. as saying to his dying daughter that she hnd hotter take her mother's Christian religion than his own inll.mil>., -ci... .. ? - - nr. .i.nv..-. s.-ni urn says: i no story litis been l>v sorno of the Alton family, hut the ltronson family, some of whom were with tho dying girl, nfYlrni that it is substantially truo. In such n mutter ono conllrmatioii is worth mop* than many denials. ' So snvs tho article sont mo. There is no doubt that Ethan Allen was the vulgarest sort of an infiilol. tor, sitting in a Presbyterian Church, his admirers say ho struck tlm now in front of him ami sworo out louit so as to disturb tho meeting, ami no gentleman would do that. 1 do not woudor that some of his descendants tiro ashamed of I tiltn, but of course tho>* could not help it ami are not to blumo. !lnt all tlie decent men of | the lb-volution holiovod in God. nnd our American congress, now assembled. will only | echo the sentiments of the fathers when they i enthrone tho nanto of God in the const!- ; tutlon. We have now more reason for | insertion that acknowledgement of divinity | than our fathers had. Since then the continent has been peopled and great cit ies from tho Atlantic to tlie Paeille built, nnd all in ' peace, showing that there must have been . sunernal sttpcrvisal. Since ttien the war of ' 181*2, and ours the victory' Since then great tlnnncial prostrations, out of which we came to greater prosperity than anything that r>reccded. Since then sanguinary 1802. 18(?:{, 1804 and 18C:">, and notwithstanding the (act that till tho foreign despotisms were planning for our demolition, we are a united people, and to-morrow you will Had in both houses of congress the men who fou>_-ht for the north and soiiili, now sitting side l<y side. armed wit 11 m> weapon except tho pen, with whieli tuny write home to their constituents who want to ho appoint)'.I postmasters. Tim maa who cannot s>'c (!o.t in our American history is as Mind of sou! as tin would Ito idiinl m I'ody if iio could noi at 12 o'clock of an un-doui'.ed noon see tlm sua in t ho heavens. As a mutter ot gratitude to Almighty God, gentlemen of the American congress, ho pleased to insert the four words sugg'sted by the Met tindis". eiciicrenei'. Xo; only ticcause of the kind in'.? of Goi' to this nation in the nnst should sn h referential insertion tie inaue. luit beeuu-r of (ho iaet that we are going .0 want divine interposition still further in our national history. I'lus gold and silveri|ue.siiou will never he settled mitit God settms it. Tliisipicstion of tariff and free trade will never he settled until God settles it. This ipnstiou between the cast and the vrosi, wuieh is vet tint; hotter and hotter and looks toward a repuhie of the I'acillr, Will liot he settled until God settles it. We needed Go i in the 120 years of our past national life, ami we will need Him still more in thi next 120 years. Lift up l your heads, ye everlasting Kates of our glorious constitution, and let the King of Glory come in! Make one Hue o| that inimortai document radiant with omnipotence! Spell at least oue word with thrones! At the beginning. or at the close, or in the eunlre, recognize Hun from whom as n nation we have received all tho hlesslnys of the past and upon whom wo are dependent for the future. Print that rword "God" or "Lord" or "Eternal Father" or "Ruler of Nations" somewhere between the llrst wc.nl and tho Inst. The irrnnt expounder of the constitution sleeps nt Marshfield. Mass.. the Atlantic ocean still hummint? near his ptllow of dust Its prolonged lullnhv. But is then* not some one now livinj; who in the white marble palace of the nation on yonder hill not ten minutes awav will become the irradiator of the constitution bv causini? to he added the most tremendous word in our English vocabulary, the name of that belt;t? before whom all nation.' rnus hoy or j?o into defeat aud annihilation? "God?" Avain, before the approaebins? adjournment of our America! eonvress it ouirht to be decidedly nnd forever settie<l that no impropriations be made to sectarian schools, and that the courtship between church and state in this country be forever broken tip. That nilostion at read v seems (oniiinmrilv umi. t!? ?!. I wish it might bo completely and forever snttled. All schools nn l nil institution?, ns woll ns nil denominations. should stand on the sumo level before American law. Emperor Alexander of Russia, at his Petorhof palace, asked me how many denominations of religion there were in America, and I recited their names ns well as I could. Then he asked mo the difforenee between them, and their I broke down. Hut when J told him that no religious denomination in America had any pri viloges above the others, he could hardly understand it. The Greek Church llrst in Russia the Lutheran Chureh tlrst in German* the Enlsconal Church tlrst in England, the Catholic Church first in Rome, Mohammedanism first in Constantinople? the emneror wondered how it was possible that all the denominations in America could stand on tho same platform. But so it is. and so let il ever be. Let there he no preference, no partiality, no attempt to help one seat an Inch higher than another. Washington and Jefferson, anil all the early presidents,an I all tho great statesmen of the past, have liftol their voices ngninst anv such londencv. If a school or an institution cannot stand without the prop of national appropriation, then let that school or institution eo down. On the other side of the son the world has had plenty of Illustration of chureh and state united. Let us have none of the hypocrisy and demoralization horn of that relation on this side of I he Atlantic. Let that denomination come out ahead that does the moit for the cause of God and humanity, mon, institutions and religions getting what they achieve by their own right arm of usefulness and not by the favoritism of government. As you regard the welfare and perpetuity of oar iustitu Hons, keep politic* out of religion. But now that I am speaking of national affairs from a religious standpoint I bethink myself of the fact that two other gavels will soon lift and fall, tho one nt St. Louis and i the other at Chicago, and before those national conventions adjourn I ask that they acknowledge Qod in tho platforms. Tho men who construct those platforms nro here this morning or will read thoso words. Let no political party think it can ?lo its duty unless it acknowledges that (do I who built tills continent anil revealod it nt the right time to the discoverer, and who has reared here n prosperity which has been given to no other people. ' Oh," says some one. "there are people in 'his couutrv who do not believe in a God. m l it roulJ bo an insult to them." Well, there arc people in this country who do not believe in common decency, or common honest\\ or any kind of government. preferring anarchy. Your very platform is an insult to them. You ought not to regard a man who does not believe in God any more than you shouhl regard a man who refuses to believe in common decency. Your pocketbook is not safe a mo:n-nf in the presence of an ai'.ieist. God is tho only source of good government. Why not, then, say so and let the chairman of tho committee on resolutions in your national conventions take n pen full of ink and with hold hand head tho document witli onosignillcnnt "whereas," acknowledging the goodness of God in the past and begging His kindness and protection for the fillure. Whv. my friends, this country belongs to Giai. and we ought in every possible way to acknowledge it. From the moment that. 011 an October morning in 1492, Columbus looked over tho side of the ship and saw the carved stuff which made him think he was near an inhabited country, and saw also a thorn and a cluster of berries (type of our history ever since, tho piercing sorrows and cluster of national joys), until this hour our country has been bounded on the north, south, east and west by tho goodness of God. Tho Huguenots took possession of tho Carolines in the name of God. William Pon 11 settled Philadelphia iu tho name of (}oil. The Hollanders tcok possession of Now York in the namo of God. Tlio pilgrim fathers settled New England in tho namo of God. Preceding tho tlrst gun of Hunker Hill, at tho voice of prayer all heads uncovered. In tho war of H12 an officer came to Gonornl Andrew Jackson and said: "Them is an unusuut noise in the camp. It ought to bu stopped." Gouernl Jackson said: "What is tho noise?" Hie officer said: "It is the voice of pra.vor and praise." Then the general said: "God forbid that prayer and praise should be an unusual noise in tho encampment. You had bettor go and join them." l'rayer at Valley Forge. Prayer at Monmouth. Prayer at Atlanta. Prayer at South Mountain. Prayer at Gettysburg. "Oh," says some infidel "the northern people prayed on one side, the southern pooplo prayed on tho other side, and > it did not amount to anything!" An 1 1 have heard good Christian people confoun lo I with the inlidel statement, when it is as plain to mo j as iny right hand. Yes, the northern poo| pie prayed in one way, and the southern I people prayed in another way, and God i answered iu His own way, giving to the north the re-establishment of the government and giving to the south larger opportunities, larger than she had ever anticipated?the narncssing of her rivers in great manufacturing interests, until the Mobile and the Tallapoosa and tho Chattahoochee are southern Merrhna -s, and the unrolling of tho great southern mines of coal and iron, of which the world knew nothing, and opening before her opportunities of wealth wnioh will give ninety-nine por ceut. more of affluence than she over possesso I, and, Inst ad of the black hands of American slaves, there are tho more industrious black hands of the coal and iron miner of the south, which lire nelitnvinr. r.,- I> .IiIuiIa". .....1 ..?i ? ... - ... . ...n .v? mv4 i.imuivuo iiuu uuiur agined wealth. And thero are domes oft white blo33om? where spread the while tents, Ami there tire plows in the track where the war wagons went. And there are songs where they lifted up Itaohoi's lament. Oh. you are a stupid man if you do not understand how Go I answered .\brahnm Lincoln's prayer in the White House, and Stonewall Jackson's prayer in the saddle, and answered all the prayers of all the cathedrals on both sides of Mason and Dixon's line! God's country all the way past. God's country in w1 l'ut His name in your pronuneiaiuentos. Put His name 011 your ensigns! I'm His name on your city and state and national enterprises! I'm Ilis name in your hearts. We cannot sleep wfU the last sleep nii111 we are assured that the God of our American institutions in tho past will both-God oi our American institutions in the days that aie to coins. Oh, when all the rivers that empty into Atlantic an I Pacific soHssha I pull on factory bands; when all the great mines of gold and silver and iron aud coal sh-ill ho laid bare for the nation; when the hi-t swamp shall bo reclaimed, and the las', jangle cleared, and tho last American desert ii.lemxed, and from son to sea the continent shall he occupied by more thuii 1,200,01)0,000 souls, may it bo found tlint moral and religious Influences were multiplied iu more rapid ratio than the population. And then there shall he four doxologies coming from north and somli and east and west, four doxologies rolling toward each other and meeting midcoiitincnt with such dash of holy joy that they shall mount to the throne; V AU V HAIt EXTKKTA1XMKNT. j tn w*oinig lcdies of I'liioti have ;1 Mikened to tlu-ir iK'i'uliar rights on ' s*tint***l ilu' kill rolling h wnla\ niy;lil l?v giving a IYear \ai!( no li at tin* ; par ions ivsidemv of 111 th'ilm A. l'ant. the mayor of the jjM'oo iiiiicii cannot Ik' said of the 0fity ami kindness of the mayor cc wife to the young |teople of bi Iee<, cakes, roses and lovely cuit were as abundant as the average ,^'s" "Sr eould desire. No ie|xiits have 1'?" jfceivctl yet c.s to the ivsuits of til!-- . rton. The Uiehclot s who have . it inlying the social forecast of s '.'juraial hoj.ing for rain l ave the *. *., Ippearancc ot dry weailnr as ?,I ol.' iiThey have hope, however, for ' V'. t) exults when the young ladies <M''1 j:ir hand in. and ask for an early | | ?1 inn of last Friday night. ( ,? >. ,, A Haciikm i:. n,it N if ek f> ilii! Van Cd That IM'? j i i/m i vii mi i ma mil :7' , / the I t New , AT ? r jiGNY & WHiSEtiA'iTS Jnl lit jil t I dll ' , nVerc you will liiui the T P prettiest lino of j . iinery and Notions ?VEB I Si (T.NEOM. fji; in* hals are the prettiest. {' Ji.j.j. ur styles are the newest, j?nm; ir prices are guaranteed o lower than the lowest. ,5c Dotil A>k Eur CiTilil. j,,; visor, u: smi.l ran 4 ash oxi.v. ..p,,,;, o ptnd see our Goods ajul 11,1 t??s. Yours respectfully, ! ' .'Y Jt, 1 J ' liM.tl* ?a tin* II 8JSIY & WKiSEHAi.% ? v j tree Doors AUive (!it* iiacket. Sii|K'i . Illlltll) IrlOCLAMATION. 1 jFO!" M-v^W" "k r<"1"1 """" JJ8?H#Jp *" 'K or NOtTll AIJOI.IN A. : ;:x! :? rijyi; < iiammi:;:-. , * u,ml I? K .\S. illliO'llliit io|> Ji;;s I .cell j j.j KVt tliis ilc|isivtHH'H ill oil tin* I?| wo! April. A. i>.. IS!hi. tin* 1 wini |v|iictl ? o:j .:>( :!!_ * of linn- ,i'. ;;>h or eon, or \v,? ii. lIlt., Oo?. I-. !?;il !iior<i. oi ( icon Ke * c wi iv de-i roved li\ lir,' j wi;{ its: <o:i io lieliev: t!i;u mi id i ! re.* h?,ls i" ' ' oi io'-'-mliiii iMii. i d'.dalc jJ.I.t'ii-ioro. !. doliii C.'avx Kvniis. | l.diiea ?' <?:' i'ii* state oi Somli j pron e in order s!! | jnstiee tn;i? )<? j t| ike ii aj";' \ ol'llie law \ in<li-| h ii? i( l.\ oiler a r"\?arJ o!' one | i >;ij HMm!oII;i!s lor i!ie ;i|i|ir;.i,?,ii- | P'oiiMi'lion in llii- . ; !,:! Hi- (H'l- ' i -non oniili >i??v s?id ..1 1 tii ic i-ndiiir sin. j er,u:e t'iiimti.v m lieivni". I haw p > ' iiin I 'if! and < :a>e ihe a.11 ol I lie Stale to lie atlived. ciliia. lliisiiini!i da;. 01' Ma>. \. i M ? ami in lie- o 1. Imnil'-ei ;4>if| Lander fll\e:t)'oi li.e i id;y.,vn.l< lire d ! sixn l I &1 oitih 'do ourNlti'st f' - .... oou'uv. | >'.hreo great reasons: Our fathers' graves,ouryradle, I our children's birthright. Whon I say your fathers' graves, your puises ruu quickly. Whether they sleep in city cemetery or couu! try graveyard their dus: is very procious to you. I think they lived well and that they died right. Never submit to have anv srov eminent over their tombs other thiin that I government uu ler which they lived mi.I ! die-l. And then this country is our era-tie. It may have rocked us very roughly, but it was n good cradle to be roeko l in. Oh. how much we owe to it! Our boyhood and g.rlhood. it was spout in this biassed country. I never nave any pat i euro With a man who talks against this country. Glorious pines to be born in and a glorious place to live in. It has been our cradle. Aye! It is to bo our children's birthright. You uud 1 will soon be through. Wo will perhaps sea a few more spring blossoms, and we wilt perhaps see a few mora summer harvests, and we will perhaps gather a few more autu nual fruits, hut wo are to hand this government to our children as it was handed to us?a freo laud, a happy land, a Christian land. They are not to be trampled by dosp >ttsm. Thev are net to be frightouel by anarcoists, Wc must baud this government to them over the ballot box over the school desk, over the church altar, as we have received it and charge tliem sujomnly to put their life between it and any keen stroke that would destroy it. And Thou, Lord Go 1 Almighty we put with a thousand nrm*'d prayer, intoTliyprotection this nation! U 'member our fathers bleeding feet at Valley Forge Remember Marion ami Kosciusko Uem^nt..' the cold, and the hunger, an i tiie longai.t.o 1. and th? fever hospital. U-rne nbor the fearful charge at Hunker Hill. Hera unber Lexington, and Yorktown.un l King's tlouutnin, and Gettysburg. lie.number Perry's battle on the lake, and Hamilton ti ?ad-?, w ier; the Cumberland went down. llnnembor Washington's prayer by the camp-lire. It-member Plymouth Hock anil the Inn ling irnnl the savages. Beni -inber In lepondeneo Hall and how much it cost our fathers to sign their names. Hometniier nil the blood and tears of three wars ?177<>. 1S*2. ISC'. And more than all, romumber the urea a that was mightier than a I other groans, ami the thirst tnat siting worse than all other thirsts, and the death thn' was ghastlier than a'l other deatlis?the tnoiint on which Jnsu* die i to make all inen li ippy and free. T'ortho sake of all this human and divine sacrifice. O God. protect this nation! And whosoever would blot it on', and wlwsoevor would strike it down, and whosoever would turn iiis back, lot him be accursed! Go home to-day in high hopns of the future. The eternal Go t is on thesideof this nation. Our brightest day* are vet to cotne. He hath southed fortli the trumpet that will never eall retreat. Ho is sitting out the hearts of men b?fore the judgment sent. Bo swift, my soul, to answer Him, be jubilaut, my feet! Our Ood is marching on' I (abbath school u VernationAij WESSON FOR 31 AY 17. Imdidnl} i [ ? L'0^on Tfx(.?i|>arBDieof the Pour, A.? w lufjalt? X|X.. l1-!27-tioldfn Tut* Luke xvl., lO?Ca?u mcntnry. * WJHlt I J * illul \%. Tho topto is still Kingdom,** for It of hnY 'H* said to ho tho top;? of llio whole (lo. H? has passed through Jericho, hen'< three blind men and saving Yacchens and tim ii*low on w,,y to Jerusalem lo die. p J;y think, however, thai tho kingdom is j ' 1 about to come, and they had some . is lii'Unds for thinking so, for John tho llupVilititO nI"' fie twelve, and Iho seventy, and snl?it'<s Himself had all preached that the i a ;dom was at hand, IVby, then, should lit citv.j jmmediatolv appear? Why should He . 7T ns 8on DMV?d, do what tho prophets '"'i-''|,.\/flabrlel had said Ho would do, sit on the Milii'itJnu of David and reign over the house of of S?f>h forever? (Isa. ix., C, 7; Jcr. ly,. 17, lb; ri. d t?1- 3J> 3:J > J. lie spoke of a ncblemnn going into a ' }. joountrv to receive a kingdom and to re .iiiiiiii,. Well, the sons of Herod niiiy havo I away to Koine to receive the kingdom, lii'rryl'h then iDclmlvd Jerusalem, but what Vi?fi 1 "\tliwt to do with Jesus Christ, the Son of 1 id? He wi-s then present. Ke had to lha 'Jnolloii cf Ills followers proved Himself . > the Son of David. Was lie speaking of ' "?r ongoing away and returning? Yes, even lt> lilt! lor the Nation that Ho came to he King ' was about to kill Him, and this would .. Jive a postponement of the kingdom till I (jlreturn in power antl glorv. Now was 'time to suiter and die, and tho heavens '"A receive Him until the times of restornthlKHlJ of nil things spoken by tho prophets rtiunlMH., 19. 21). huiittcf* "Occupy till I come.'? This Is His sage to His servants, whom He culled, to whom Ho gnvo each a pound. This ihlo differs somewhat from that of the dllUllthts in Matli. xxv.. for there the talents If! I i Idlest owed according to the ability of I but tho ground covered is virtually the of ('(!' Wo know that every true servant of 1st. every true believer, has received tho y Spirit, has received salvation, and this for Himself alone, but that He may Ki v.sewith bless others and glorify His Lord. boundaries of this age in which we live, I'oK limo of tho postponement of the king?, the time of the formation of His body, I'.-lMTfjhurcli, aro His going away and His retlstli? It. t. Thlsdescribos tho attitude of the Nation ii v c!fiat ,'1H rulers representing the Nation ' ward Him. It became fully manifest . | ) j(fn they cried to Pilate. Wo have no king tlulh 11 was foreshadowed in tho . red of Joseph's brethren, but its truly as ' I'"' yaftorwatd saw Joseph on the thronoaml idtuaved down to him. so shall those who cru!(l Christ yet see Him exalted as King of !ivlt\ Jews, oven King of Kings an l Lord of ofli'-fl9' The nttitudo of tho Jews horosiiok>f as His citizens is also the attitude of , vast majority of those who have heard of ') sf'i. Hut, sadder still, it seems to bo tlio l'\ olitudo of many who profess to bo saved l?v h. They are willing to let Him l>e to them if. their Saviour, hut not willing to let ! t JL'y betheirLord and Master. ti. lie will return in due time, and He r llrst reekon with Ilis servants as to their iltiKinhfulness in His ah-enc. The judgment v ,sn of Christ, mentioned only in Horn, xiv., -... 11 Cor. v., 10, seems to be only for he iev' J Ihtao whoso judgment for sin was for1\ ? i gottlcd iu the sufferings of their substion Calvary. They will appear boioru lac. ; i to receive their rewards for service and r places in His kingdom. See 1 Cor. iii., uUitt 5; Nov. xxil., 12; Luke 14; II Johu tin f ,lrst of these passages indicates the libility of being saved and yet being un " "Wirded; the others incite to stieh service a9 1 be rewarded. That the saints shall ro the kingdom with Him is seen in Dan. i|?.v , 27; Pa. cxlix; John s.vii., 22; I Cor. lalu I * Hon ' Here is a faithful servant, and his :o in the kingdom will be to rule over the 1 ,v,i 1 t'S. Although he lmd not a large sphere, stUdi ma been a good servant, lie had walked <'ii, "*igbtly before Cod and had lived unto U. He had been a faitli'ul servant and .p; ci I sought to please ilia master, and not i,,pp..'. . <,19. Here is allot tier good scivant who 1 ' rule over five cities, for the pound in ') hands had gained live pounds. Perhaps tad not such opportunities as the llrst, I ' lie had been faithful, and the Lord finds fault with him, but rewards him accord' 'to his labors. CP'tcrvc that neither of se set?ants takes credit to himself. ? 41 by do not f?y 1 gained ten pounds, or I I'm. end five pounds, but tliey say to their d, "Thy pound hath gained ten pounds, lvepounds." Faul says, "I labored more tndantly than they all, yet not I, but the .ce of God which was with me" (I Cor. , 10), and again, "It is God who worketh .!i lyou both to will and to do of His good I plcasero" (Phil. it., 18. and Heb. xiii., 21). 20. 21. Here is a wicked servant who does not know his Lord, for he enlls Him an nustero man, a hard and unjust master1, lie had made no use of tlio pound intrusted to hint. Ue had not lived for his master and for his * aster's bcunfit, hut for himself. Ho had never enjoyed his master's service, hut rather felt it a bondage to belon.it to Him. How many there are who talk just so! If not in words. Iheir lives talk that way! Are they saved? (toil only knows. The New Testainenf says that I-ot was n righteous man, but the Old Testament sloiy would never lead us to think so. Wo ur<* not to judge before the time until the Lord come. 22,23. He should have had iris Lord's return over before htm, and the great fact of a time of reckoning, and that would have made htm a better servant. There is no more quickening, sanctifying, inspiring truth than that of the Lord's return and its possi| biliiy at any time. There is no more deadening thiug thnu to say: "My Lord delayeth His coming. He will not come in my day anyway." 24-26. Thus this unfaithful servant loses his pound. Tho pound, therefore, could not mean salvation, for God does not give salvation and then take it away (John x.. 27, 28). A child of Go I by faith ia Christ Jesus can never cease to bo (> child of God, but a child of God may bo a selllsh disobedient child as to his service and thus lose his rewards, but he himself saved, yet so as by ilro (I Cor. iii.. 15). 27. These were openly His enemies all through, ami their doom is tlxed. The Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with His mighty augels in flaming lire, taking vengeance on ihem that know not God, and that obev not the cost ml of our Innl I..-no Christ, who shntl be punished with everlasting lies:ruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory <4 His power (If. These, i.. 7-9). These "shall go away into everlasting punishment, hut tic righteous into lifo eternal (Math, xxv., 10).?Lesson Helper. Weekly Cotton Keport. Secretary Hester's weekly cotton report, of New Orleuus, I,a.. indicates that the cotton movement exceeds the entire cotton crop of 1H92 '93 by 17.183 bales. The week shows nn increase over last year's of over two thousand, over year before lest twenty thousand. For eight months and eight days of the season elapsed the aggregate is behind last year '2.802,000 and the year before Inst 479.000. The amount brought into sight during past week 42.702 hales, against 40.507 lest year and 22,592 year before last. The movement since September i( shows receipts 5,0:10,00:1 against 7,780,105 last year, 5,715,080 for the year before last. Including stocks left over from the last crop and the hales brought into sight lor the new crop the supply to ditto is 7.028,713 hales ugalnst 9.810.057 Chlnn Pitying the Indemnity. The sum of ?8,000,000 war indemnity from Chlnn to Japnn was transferred to the latter'* agents in London Friday. THK FIFTY-FOURTH CONKRKSS. A Synopsis of the Proceedings of ISotll Houses. THK SENATE. KM DAY. Mr. Butler offered u joint resolution Mon, day In the Senate to carry into effect two resolutions of the Continental Congress directing monuments to he erected to the memory of Generals Francis Nnsh nud Win. Davidson, of North Carolina. It appropriates live thousand dollars for each monument and directs the money to be paid to the Governor of Norlii Carolina. Tl'ESOAV . Tuesday the river aud harbor bill wns takeu up. After discussion the committee amendments were rejected, ami the bill remains as agreed to by the House, lu the item us to Uavauuab. fla., the aggregate cost was reduced from 'jl,OU3.950 to ?987,950. After disposing of thirty nages of the hill Mr. l'ryo said tlmt he would not pusli the cousidera'ion of the liiil further. The l'effer bond resolution wns taken un. and Mr. ltill continued bis Kr^umcnt iu opposition to It. Twenty-seven private pension bills were passed. W K.DNK8DAT In the Senate on Wednesday the chief point of discussion was the eoinpensntiou of of United Status district attorneys and marshals. The resolution heretofore offered by "Mr. Morgan. Democrat,of Alabama, relating to tho recognition of belligerent rights in Cuba, was, at his request, laid before tho Senate. He moved its reference to the com- ; mittee on foreign relations and expressed the hope that that committee would before Congress adjourned, report some action that would be deliberate, lirm, consistent and energetic for tli? solutiou of the question. Ho did not believe that Congress could adjourn finally, leaving that question as it uow was. The resolution was, with a similar one which had been offered by Mr. Call, refer*ed to the committee on foreign relations. Tao river and hurbor bill was then taken up and proceeded wltb. 1 TIIt'ltHDAY. In the Senate Thursday a resolution di- | reeting the Commissioner of Agriculture to report to the Senate immediately the reason for the delay in distributing seeds, was offer- 1 ed by Mr. Uullinger, and agreed to. The ' resolution for an inquiry as to bond sales iu ' 1 Si>4. '*> and '<>, was taken up, and Mr. Palmer, Democrat, ol Illinois, addressed the Senate. He felt that tho animus of the resolution was to affect tho public mind with reference to the silver question. After the bond resolution was disposed of the river and harbor bill was taken up and its consideration continued. rniDAT. Among tho dozen or tnoro bills which wore passed by the Senate Friday, because they 1 were unobjected to, was one permitlng tho ' erection in Washington of a monument in honor of Samuel Hauemnu, the founder of 1 the medical school of homeopathy, and np- , proprintion $4,000 to defray the cost of the foundation. The only restriction imposed i-s the bill is that the monument is not to be ! placed in tho capital grounds. A bill to prol ibit tho issue of United States bonds without authority of Congress was introduced by Mr. jlacon. Democrat, of Georgia, and laid ' on the table for the present. Tho consideration of the river and harbor bill was eon- ' eluded, with the exception oi ouo amend- ' meut. | scnmoAY. Iu tlio Senate Saturday after tho river an?l harbor bill was laid aside the unot?jeeted-to biib on tho calendar were taken up and some ' thirty wore passed. Anion*: them were tho following: Senate bill appropriating SUS.OOO I for a monument to (loueral Nathaniel ' Greene, on the battelleld of Guilford Court J House, n. C., fought March 15th, 17hi. ' Senate joint resolution for a eommissiou to ! determine tho cost of securing for the United J States the channel in Atohafala^ Ln. ! House bill concerning the d<<4ijU$ig olb^tndy | from fru t * having been rt^,Vae<J, \lr. tiarris, ! Hemoerat, of Tennes^Vsv av\ggest<'d thAt this ! I e passed oyer witUouV Prejudice. Sotue dis- J cession ensued ftrid the bill went pvor with- ' out notion, THE IJOUSE. MONDAY. t Mr. Rutler offered a joint resolution Mon- i day in tho Senate to carry into elTect two i resolutions of the Continental Congress i i directing monuments to be erected to the ? j memory of Generals Francis Nash and Wm. 1 Davidson, of North Carolina. It appro- s j-.rlfttos $5,000 for each monument and directs I the money to bo paid to tho Governor of North Carolina. tpespat. Tuesday the question of concurring in tho q Senate amendments to tho naval appropriation bill reducing the number of new battleships to be authorized from four to two, was cnllod up by Mr. lloutclle, and Mr. Sayers 8 addressed tho House in favor of his motion i to concur. He expressed tho opinion that ? this was u business question and that no pol- ( lties were involved. He did not propose to 1 ctUicise the appropriations that had been t made at this session. The appropriation r bills independently of the contracts author- r ir.ed by them, he regarded as fair and reason- n fl rw< II- II ?- ? * - , ...... vjitin'iiKnlll, II" Uimill'U II1H I attention of the House to the estimated rove- c niics for the next lineal year, which were i placed hy tlie Secretary of the Treasury at C ?404,793,000. including the postal revenues, a The appropriations that had passed tlie 1 House amounted to&JS'!,000.000. If to tlicse f he added the permanent appropriations, a amounting in round numbers to ?119,000.000, tln-ro wss a total appropriation of $505,000,- t Olid, as ngnin>t estimated revenues ol four t, hundred and sixty-four million. Of the per- r nuiuent appropriations llfty million dollars c was estimated for tlie sinking fund, fi WEDNESDAY. d In the House on Wednesday, Mr. Miller, of s West Virginia reported tlie decision of the second elections committee in the contested e election case. The resolutions declared e Thompson not entitled, and 8haw entitled to a the seat. They were adopted without oppo- o sition. They lose both s> uts in the long run, a for a Itopuhiiean, and not Martin, will bo Mr. t< Lock hurt's competitor next time. it THURSDAY. ft In the House Thursday there was a re- a minder of the scones und experiences in the p Fifty-first Congress when Mr. Pickler, lie- n publican, of Houth Dakota, who was unahlc S to secure as long a session of the House as tl he desired for the consldornti u of private II pension bills, made the point of no quorum II before the journal proceeding was read, si Fifteen minutes passed before 159 members a appeared, and then Mr. 1 iekler insisted b upon having tlie journal rend in full, iuelud- a: ing the names of the absentees at roll call, e: He also objected to the suggestion that the p journal be considered as provided, requir Ing a vote upon the question. ir FRIDAY. After several years' diseussion and many unsuccessful attempts, members of the House I' Friday voted 150 to 10S to place themselves i ^ on tin equality wit' he Senate in respect to J ^ tlie matter of pr. cling themselves with tVrks the year round instead of for the ses- ^ sion of Congress only. It was not until 1893 'I that the House went even so far as that. | M SATUllDAY. | 1*' S1 There was no session of the House Batur- ' Jay. '1 SJ Interest III Southern l'orts. " That representatives of tlie great transntlantic steamship companies are closely i uiitcliin.r ?li.? ..f o, ...? ?.. i rs ??-' ? ? wi nuuvumi fHJI It is indientet* by the frequent visits of agents i to New Orleans, Onlvc.Hlon and other cities. I jj Tim improvements to the channel lending into Galveston liarbor. and the remarkably rapid development of New Orleans within tin- past two years, have nnused these ports (j| to s<r"*ire enlarged facilities for ocean traffic. . Tno North Oerman Lloyd, the Hamburg- ' American Pncket Co. ami other corporations ^ have had their representatives in not only these cities, but Savannah, Mobile and Charleston, within the last few months, and ; i'1 it will not he surprising to learn of the cstah- J'i lishment of several additional trausutlantlo ' lines front Bouthoru ports within the next *>i year. - ft ;'lS 'A THE BAPTIST ~ CONVENTION. | OVKK a,()(M)VISHTIN(i DKIiKUATKS AN 1> SI?KC I'AI OKS. s Millionaire fjevoring's Illjj Donntlon to i lln.lc! the Theolotfleiil Seminary tiyiiiuasluiii. Chattanooga. Tenn., is in the hands of oveA 3,000 visiting lluptistH present ns delegate.! and spectators at the sessions of the Southern, baptist Convention. Chattanooga fouls the mighty impulse that a grunt religious gath- J eiing imparts to a eommuulty and for the nonce the city is theirs. The Convention's oflleers are ull quartered at the Southern Hotel, which is the centre of interest. The hist of the auxiliary bodies that follow the lead of the big body llulshed its sessions Thursday. At a largely attended meeting of the trustees of the llaptist Thoologieal Semi nary, located (it Louisville, Joshua Levering, a millionaire coIToe dealer of Baltimore, ami president of the hoard, made the seminary a gift of c110.000 for a gymnasium, to he erected at OUO". Dr. J. 11. Craufdl, of Texas, vlee-presiden- / tial candidate on the Prohibition ticket in f 1882. presided ovor the session of the Baptist^ Editorial Association, at which a nuinbwof-r" learned and Interesting papers were present- / . ed. The most trenchant discussion of any topic was upon a* paper on 'lluptist Acade- j inles," hy F, Bontwright the young president A of Itichmond College. The element of discord predicted at tha sessions of the Baptist Young People's Union, an auxiliary of the i onveution, hy reason of violent opposition in the denomination to the existence of a Southern Union apart from the Yout-g People's of America, did not materialize, opposition to the union coming from churches and not from members of the auxiliary, lteports from the department of the Green, the Southern wing ol the International Union, were present, hut being visitors took no part in the proceedings. The old corps of joftlcers was re-elected hy the union, to-wit. L. t). Dawson, of Tuscaloosa, Ala., president; \V. \V. Gaines, of Allnntn, secretary; P. li. Mcll, of Autmrn, Ala., vice president, and i . U Laws, of Baltimore, second vice prealdeut. Mr. Laws resigned, however, glvijg as a reason that his State, Maryland, did not sympathize with the Southern Uuion movement hut would stay uuder the banner of the international society. Birmingham was selected as headquarters for the society ami a hoard of seven local managers was appointed. J. W. Bailey, 'hairmau of tho committee to select a special lioard of managers to co-operate with the local hoard, reported in favor of one memhui* from each State in tho eoiiventlmi ?> <! < .. r.-*?- "W ral hoard ot sevuu named from Alabama.} Tho Southern baptist Convention, the groat centre of interest, met at 10 o'oloek Friday morning in the First Baptist church. Amid in impressive silence President Jonaiht^u, Haralson, Associate Justice of tho Supreme Court of Alabama opened the session. l>r. S. II. Ford, of St. Louis, invoked the liviue blessing ou the work of the body. Tlw roll enll showed 7(57 accredited delegates, present out of a possible 1,422 entitled to seitsi. )udge Jonathan Haralson, of Alabama, wits re-elected president without a dis3cntlug voice, and Dr. Lansing Burrows, of Augusta, Oh., ami ltev. O, F. Oregory, ol Baltimore, were elected ngalu as sec- ? _ retaries. The president appointed l>r. It. II. Harris, of Louisville, nud the twg, 1 lee retaries as u committee on order of bust ness. Rx-Oovernor J. P. Eagle, of Arkansas; L)r. W. W. Landrum, of Virgli iat J. H. Ktloatriek, of G?orc;n. Dr. T. 8. Dun way, ol Virginia, uu<i W. \y. Pod?C, t f Xoaus, were Dut In for vloe p:t-ddo:Us, ol ..-'J !"hnm there are ifiir. While thy toliei.. vero * liking tf"< hnllut .Mayor creorge it. Oui? ^ ^ utr duccd and delivered the address of wellome on behalf of tho city. Dr. It. 15. Gar ett. pastor of the First Baptist Chur:b, wel omed tho Convention in tho name of the iaptists of Chattanooga. An eloquent reponse to tho words of welcome was made by Jr. W. W. Luudrum, of Yicgiida. AN APPEAL FOR D1X!K. The Southern States Exposition Advisory Committee Meets. The Southern advisory committee of the Southern States Exposition of Chicago met u Atlanta Thursday. Delegates were promt from Maryland, North Carolina, Soutb .'arolina, Georgia, AlabamH, Ml-slssippi, 'ennessce, Kentucky, West Yirgiuia. Enecive and llnal action was taken by which the anjorlty of the Southern States are fully dedged to make n display of their resources it Chicago, Effective State organizations or this purpose already exist in South C&? dinn, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Tenlessee. Delegates from Kentucky, North Carolina aud West Virginia, also Maryland, ire pledged to lit once organize those States. Inrida will be represented uiioilleiiilly but iilly l>y railroad exhibits. Alabama has an vnunoic num. Georgia proposes to raise from thirty housnnd to ttfty thousand. It has 137 eounit's at work and its leading cities are readily cspondiug to their asscsmcnts. Several ountii's in Mississippi iiavo appropriated rom live hundred to oue thousand live hunretl. Guarantees havo beau made to usuren line display from Tennessee. The advisory committee directed the genrnl manager to prepare atiequate general xhlblts, showing the resources of the South s a whole. They will compromise separate xhlblts of forest products, mine products, gricultural, farm and da.ry products, cot5n and cotton mauufactutiag, tobacco und s manufacturing, sugar culture, iron mauuicture, eta. These exldnits will occupy bout llfty thousand square (cet. Detailed lans are to be prepared by Prof. B. E. Ferow, chief of the forestry division, Ui ited tntes department of agriculture; Dr. Bay of 10 United States geological survey; C. KJ lodge, (special agent o( tlie United States bre department, with the assistance of tlm J weral Btnte commissioners of agriculture! nd geology. The generul manager hud een authorized to employ a corps of expert ssistants to gather in a crials and arrange] xhiblts. Menus have been guaranteed to roperly carry out the work projected. The leading Southern railways are warmly, iterested and proffer ample support. Th? dlowing railroads will probably make exibits and several of them have already oplied for space: The Boutliern Ituilwny, ouisville ami Nashville, Chattanooga und t. l.ouls, Seaboard Air Line, Central of icorgia railroad, Mobile and Ohio, Illinois entral ami Georgia liaiimad company. Itel>ioltl.-.nu f.. 1" ? aire over 80,000 font. In addition to this at ast 70,000 feet will lie rcquiriil forthoseven tates which today pledged themselves to iak?< exhibits ami which have the money to gilt to do it with. An appeal was issued ami signed by the lumbers of the advisory ( m mil tee calling n the Southern people to make the cxposioti the most complete object lesson of the r>uth's resources an<l prmluets ever pro nted to tlie American people, tig Cotton >1111 Itunicd in Pennsylvania. The extensive cotton mills of Samuel Rid|os Sons, at (ileu Kiddles, Pa., was destroyed y lire Saturday, involving a loss of $130,10, on which there was inso nice of $105.>0. The mills were buiit in ls|5. hut hava nee boon greatly enlarged. Four hundred amis have la-en thrown m.o. employment y the lire, the origin of wnh h is unknown, he plant will he rebuilt as ({uick as po?bio. A