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"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;
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w*oinig lcdies of I'liioti have ;1
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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
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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'
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(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.
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;'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