THE CHARLOTTE MESSENGER
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W.C. SMITH Charlotte NC,
A NOTED DESPAR A DO’S FATE
Tlie Tinule Fuil of Owen Dlnaning nt ilie
Noiili tninliun I'enllenilnry InKalelali
For two years a desparado named
Owen Muiinini?, alias Obcd Mcßccdy,
committed all sorts of crimes in South
Carolina, stealing horses in several
counties. Last winter he was run out of
that State into North Caralina and at
once recommenced his crimes. He stole
horses and all sorts of property and in
Onslow County stole an organ from a
church, running off with the organ, play
ing upon it at places where he stopped
for the night.
In this way he went over the State,
sometimes narrowly evading pursuit.
Finally he reached Beaufort County, and
began a series of outrageous crimes.
Governor Scales received a requisition for
him, and the pursuit became warm.
Last April he was found entering a
swamp in Beaufort County, and he be
gan firing on the possec pursuing him,
and there was a regular fusilade. Fin
ally he was shot down, and thus wound
ed was secured. Even then he was de
fiant. He was taken to jail at Washing
ton.
The news of the capture soon spread, a
search of the swamp was made and it
was found that Manning had his quarters
in a hollow cypress tree of enormous
size, which stood on a sort island. In
this tree he had a stove, bedding and
clothing—even liooks and pictures, Ik*
sid< s food and some stolen property. A
baik door was fitted to close the ojieuing
in tin- tree quite naturally.
He was tried for horse stealing and
sentenced to a twenty years’ term. He
remained defiant, and w hen he was taken
to the Penitentiary said he would es
fape. On the train he nearly filed of his
shackles and was put at work in the pris- j
nn. A few days ago he did not answer (
roll call. The officers of the prison at :
"ce c oncluded that he was hiding some j
lu re in the great enclosure or among !
the numerous buildings. Hay and |
night the search was kept up. Fires!
blazed at intervals around the log stock
•de. which surrounds the prison, and
the guards were always on the alert. No
visitors were admitted to the prison. No
trace of Manning could Ik? found.
At three o’clock in the morning in a
|M»uring rain-storm, he sprang out of a
partially furnished building and with a J
short ladder ill his hands dashed across [
the enclosure towards the stockade. As
lie reared the ladder against it he was
*-een. and a guard riddled his legs with
!in kshot. Nothing daunted he mounted j
the ladder and the stockade*. As he
dropjMd oil the outside another guard
I egan tiring with a rifle and Manning
dashed down the railway truck towards
the c ity. Three shots were fired tinnvuil
i igly. but a fourth struck him in the
uhdonien. He was then taken, but was
•till defiant. At 1 o’clock in tin* aftcr
noon death hushed his voice. He was
about !{0 years old.
The reason why truth is stranger than
fiction is that it is much rarer,- life,
EATEN BY SHARKS.
Terri*. Ml?,I, fink, by n Mall Carrier
with Man Enters.
Ihe mail carriers on the
Florida southeast coast are the Hillsboro
and New River inlets, which have to be
crossed by small boats. Here the dark
waters of the Everglades empty into the
Atlantic with tremendous force at this
season, and if the ocean is rough the
meeting of the cross currents produces
heavy and dangerous seas, Sharks of th
fiercest kind fill all the inlets.
James E, Hamilton, tilt mail Carrier
from Miami to Lake Worth, was an ath
eletjc young tnari and carried tlie light
mail On his shoulders, walking tlie en
tire distance, fefevehty five miles, on the
beaeh, Hi' left Lake Worth in the
toothing, and should have readied Ref.
uge Station, twenty-five miles distant,
that afterhooh.
Lite at night a fisherman named War
ing came to the station and told the story
of Hamilton's horrible death. Waring
was about one-half mile from Hillsboro
Inlet when he saw Hamilton get into his
boat to cross. He noted that the sharks
were about in unusual numbers, and just
as Hamilton reached the centre of the
crossing a huge one drove at the boat
and bit a piece off the gunwale,
Hamilton struek at the sharks, but
nothing could drive them off. Boon
both oars were bitten ill two, and then
the fierce tigers of the sea seemed ]ht
fcctly ravenous. They tore at the boat,
snapped at One another, altd the witter
for yards around was dyed w ith their
blood. Tlie boat began to till, and (lie
sharks, scenting their prey, redoubled
their dashes.
Hamilton stood on the middle sent as
if stupified glaring at them. Looking
up he saw Waring, he cried out to him,
but in Wain. Even as he shouted a huge
shark dashed up and hit the partially
filled boat a tremendous blow, throwing
Hamilton out iuto the midst of the mon
sters.
A cry of agony was heard as he went
down, and the devourers had him piece
mealed before the horror stricken specta
tator could take in the full measure of
tile tragedy. As soon as Waring recov
ed his senses he went to the station ami
told of the affair. A searching party
w ent out at once, but nothing was found
save the remnants of the boat cast on the
shore.
The terrible catastrophe lias east a deep
gloom over the coast people, and no one
his yet accepted the position of mail car
rier over that route.
HE SCOOPED TEN THOUSAND HOL
LARS.
The Pa,lns Teller of Ihe New York mill.
Treasury Kuhn oft'to Cnnndii.
A dispatch from New York says: The
The sub-treasury has now its representa
tive in Canada, in the person of Henry
Jackson, its paying teller. He has gone
with exactly ten thousand dollars of
Uncle Sam’s money, but there is this sat
isfaction for the treasury officials, that j
Jackson might have taken more.
He did not, however, have access to the
vaults, as more stringent rules concerning
admission to the vaults were made under
the present assistant treasurer. Jackson
took the money, on the day of his depart -
ure. His cash was carefully examined
on the 13th instant and found to be cor
rect. On the 17th instant, when Jackson
was absent, through illness. Mr. Canda
said his accounts were again gone over
and no deficit found. On Monday morn
ing last the discovery was made and
measures taken to intercept him, his de
fault meanwhile being kept secret. Mr. !
Canda said.
‘*l know no way that has been devised
to prevent paying tellers in banks or oth
c*r institutions from taking part of the
money necessarially committed to their
charge if th.iy are dishonest. Jaekson
was appointed in February. 18711, ami
was recommended by several »>f the most
influential men in the city. He was pre
viously in the National Currency bank
and other financial institutions of this j
city, occupying smaller salaried |M>sitions.
When he was first appointed he was pro
moted successively until he reached the
position of paying teller at three thou
sand dollars per annum, under present
assistant treasurer. He was a self-pos
sessed and capable man.”
Jackson was not under bonds, so Mr.
Canda will have to bear the loss. Mr.
Canda spoke of the default of $185,000
under Assistant Treasurer Millhouse of j
several years ago, showing that this is I
not the first loss of the kind to ateasurer. j
Made Insa’ic By Th<* Disaster.
( has. Moore,’a telegraph operator cm '
! ployed at Huntington Ind., in the
j despatched office of the Chicago amrl
| Atlantic Railway at the time the terrible j
wreck occurred at Routs, has become in
sane. Moore resigned hisposition sever !
al days ago. He said bis heart failedhim !
every time lie entered the office and re- '
called the scenes enacted therein w hile j
i officials were receiving news of the kill
' ing and burning of tin* passengers. On j
I the day following the wreck Moore states !
that a number of officials of the road I
met in the despatched office at Hunt j
ingtou. and they, with telegraph o|N*rn
a tors and trainmen, wept in each others
arms as the horrible news came in. The
1 chief dcsnatchcr sickened of reiiorting
each hour additional deaths and horrors
t and called Moore to tin key. Theyoung
mm stated the above facta liefore in* lie
j came insane.
( The Democrats of Baltimore elected
; Mr. laitrola*. their candidate for Mayct,
and twenty coiineilmen out of thirty.
j Mr. Jefferson Davis reviewed thirty
, th nisand Confederate veterans at Macon,
i Oa. j
CHARLOTTE, N. C„ SATURDAY, NOV. 5,188 f
TEE RET. 1. TALMAGE.
HIE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUNDAY
SERMON.
Subject: *• In mu pied Field?.”
[After the church was full of people, and
all tin adjoining rooms packed, as many
people went titvay from the doors as got in.]
I'exts “ Lest / should build upon another
man s foundation.'' —Romans XV, 20.
Stirring reports ednie frdm rill prtrts of
s * lo "'i n g tf-hnt a great work the
rmirchts of God are doing, and I congratu
late them and their pastors.. Misapprehen
sions have been going the rounds of some of
tbo religious pre s depreciating the gener
osity of this church ; $731,310.24 have been
paid cash down in this church for religious
uses and Christ ian work during the nineteen
cars of ni v ministry here. This church was
ouiit by ail denominations of Christians ami
b} - people lrom all lands, and lienee we have
I een raising money for many objects outside
, our denomination, and that has sometimes
interfered with our contributions to the
Hoards of our denomination. Subscription
books lor all good objects. Christian, humani
tarian, collegiate, and missionary, have been
hero as common as the daylight, and no
church in Christendom has been more con
tinuous in its lienevolences than this. Be
side that We haVvj received during the year
723 souls oh profession of faiih in Christ, a
fa< t that I mention, not in boasting, but to
?h?W t'kot' this church has not beeil idle,
jho moat ot our accessions have been from
the outside worid, to that, taking th© idea of
my text, we have not been building on other
people's fouudat ona
In laying out the plan of his missionary
tour Paul sought out tmvns und c : ties which
had r.oi yet been preached to. He goes to
Corinth, u c'ty meut.omil for splendor and
vi e, and Jerusalem, wluio the priesthood
and the San he him were ready to leap with
bo!h foot u|xm tho Christian religion. He
feels lie bits e pjciol work to do, and he means
to do it. Wtat was the result? The grand
est life of usefulne s that a man ever lived,
we inoLin Christian workers ar ? not apt to
ini tate Paul. We buil l on other people's
foundations If we erect a church we prefer
to have it filled with families, all of whom
have t*ecn pious. Do Wo g ither a Sabbath
BOhool ela«*. we Want good boys and girls,
bail* combed, faces was:led, manners attract
ive. iSo a church in this day is apt to be
built out of other churches. Homo ministers
spend all their time in fishing in other peo
ple's ponds, and they throw the line into that
church pond and jerk out a Methodist, and
throw the line into another church pond and
bring out a Presbyterian, and there is a re
ligious row in some neighboring church, and
a wholo school of fish swim off from that
pond, and we take them all in with oneswe *p
of til3 net. What is gained ? Absolutely
nothing for the general cause of Christ. It
is only as in an army, when a regiment is
transferred from one division to another,
from the Tennessee to tha Potomac.
What strengthens the army is now recruits.
What I have always desired is that while wo
are courteous to those coming from other
flocks, we build our church not out of other
churches, but out of the world, lest we build
on another man’s foundation. Tho fact is
tiiia is « i»ig world. \V hen, in our schoolboy
days, we learned thediam »ter and circumfer
ence of this planet we did not learn half. It
has a latitude and longitude and diameter
and circumference of want and woe and sin
that no figures can calculate. This one spir
itual continent of wretchedness reaches across .
all zones, and if I were called to give its geo- |
graphical boundary I would say it is bounded !
on the north and south and east and west by
the great heart, of God's sympathy and love. I
Oh, it i» a great world. Since 0 o'clock this j
morning 60,800 persons have been born, and »
all those multiplied populations are to be i
reached of tho Gospel. In England, or
in our eastern American cities, we i
are being much crowded, and an acre of j
ground is of great value, but out West 500
acres is a small farm, and 20,000 acies is no
unusual possession. But there is a vast spir
itual field here and everywhere unoccupied,
plenty of room for more, not building on
another man’s foundation.
We need, as churches, to stop bombarding
tho old ironclad sinners that have been proof
against thirty years of Christian assault.
Alas for that church which lacks the spirit of
evangelism, spending enough on one chande
lier to light 500 souls to glory, and in one
carved pillar enough to have mado a thousand
men “pillars in the house of our God for
ever/’ and doing lass good than many a log
cabin meeting house, with tallow candh a
stuck in wooden sockets, and a minister who
has never seen college or known the differ
ence between Greek and Choctaw. We
need ns churches to get into sympathy
with tho great outside world, and’let them
know that none are so broken hearted or
hardly bestead that will not be welcomed.
“No!” says some fastidious Christian, “I
don't like to bo crowded in church. Don't !
put any one in my pew.” My brother, what
will you do in heaven? When a great mul
titude that no man can number assembles
they will put fifty in your pew. What are
the select few to-day assembled in the Chris
tian churches compared to the mightier mill
ions outside of them, eight hundred thousand
in Brooklyn, but less than one hundred |
thousand in tho churches? Many of tho
churches are like a hospitil that should adver- j
tine that its patients mu it have nothing
worse than toothache or “run-rounds,’' but no I
broken heads, nocrushe 1 ankles, no fractured i
thighs. Give us for treatment moderate sin
ners, velvet coated sinners and sinners with
n gloss on. It is as though a man hid a
farm of three thousand acres and put all his
work on ono acre. He may raise never so
large ears of corn,never so big heads of wheat,
he would remain poor. Thechurchof GoJ ho*
bestowed its chief care on one acre, and has
rajs'?:! splendid men and women in that sin ill
I inclosure; but the field is the world- That
means North and Houth America, Europe,
Asia and Africa and all the islands of the
I sea. It is as tiiough aft *ra great battle there
were left 54,0 H) wounded and dying on the
field, and three surgeons gave oil their time
to three patients uud°r their charge. The
Major General comes in and says to the doc
‘ tors: “Corn© out h«re and look at the nearly
| dying for la*k of surgical attendance.
• “No,” say tho three doctors, standing there
, fanning lh*ir patients, “we have three im
-1 port tut. civ**s here, an 1 wo are attending to
; them, ami when we nn? not positively busy
I with their wounds, it takes all our time
to keep tho flies off.” In this awful bat-
I tie of sin and sorrow, where millions have
i fallen on millions, do not let us sn aid all our
1 time in taking care of a few poople.and when
the command comes: “Go into tho world.”
say practically,“No, I cannot go; I have here
a few choice caw's, and I am busy keening off
the flios!” There aw? multitudes today who
! have never bad any Christian worker look
them in the eye. and* with earnestness in the
accentuation.’ say: “Comer or they would
long ago hrive been in the kingdom. My
friends, religion is either a shim or a
i dous reality. If it Is? a s'.uun, let us disband
. our churches and Christian association. If
'it boa reality, then great populations are on
i the way to the bar of God unfitted for the
ordeal, and what are we doing?
in order to reach tho multitude of out
‘ aiders we must drop all technicalities out of
' our religion. When we talk to people about
the hypostatic uuion nml French Kncyolo
nediiinism, and Ernstinianism, and Coroplm
I teusianism we are ai impolitic and little
understood as if a physician should talk to an
ordinary patient about the pericardium and
intercostal iilusclo, and scorbutic symptoms.
Many of us come out of the th'-oldglcol semi*
naries so loaded up that we take the .first ted
years to show our people how much we know,
and the next ten years get our people to
«j W t. as ® u . c k 83 we know, and at the end
find that neither of us know anything as we
2J®B“t to know. Here are hundreds and
thousands of sinning, struggling and dying
people who need to realize just one thing—
that Jesus Christ came to save them, and
will save them now. But we go intc pro
found and elaborate definition of what justi
fication is, and after all the work there are
not, outside of the learned professions, 5,000
i people in the United States who can tell
J what justification is. 1 will read you the
definition:
“Justification is purely a forensic act, the
■ft of a judge sitting in the fortfm, in which
tho Supreme Ruler and Judge, who is ac
countable to none, and who alone knows the
manner in which th * ends ot His universal
government can best be obtained, beckons
that which was done by the substitute in the
same niannner as if it had beert done by those
who believe in the substitute, ana not on ac
count of anything done by them, but purely
upon account of this gracious method of
grants them full remission or
their sin*.”
Now, what is justification ? I will tell you
what just ficai ion i: .vhen a sinner believes
God lets him off. One summer in Connecti
cut I went to a large factory, and I saw over
tho door written the words ; “No Admit
tance.” I entered and saw over the next
floor : “No Admittance.” Os course t entered.
I got inside and found it a pin factory.and they
were making pins, veby serviceable, fine and
useful pins. Bo tho spirit of exclusiveness
has practically written over the outside door
of many a thurch : “No admittance.” And
if the stranger enters ho finds practically
written over the second door: “Nb Admit
tance;” and if he goes in. overall the pew
doors seems written: “No Admittance,” vthile
the minister stands in the pulpit. linmmeriiiz
out ms little n* reties or belief, fioun ling out
the technicalities of religion, making pins.
In the most practical, comraonsense way. and
laying aside the non-essentials and the hard
definitions of religion, go out on the Gol
- miss on, telling th« pcop’e what they
m:ed an 1 when nml how they can get it.
Comparitively little effort has as yet been i
made to sive that large class of persons in '
nur midst called skeptics, and he who goes to '
work hero will not b« building upon anothei
man s foundation. There is a great multi
tud ? of them. They are afraid of us and our
churches, for the reason wo don’t know how
to treat 1 hem. One of this class met Christ,
and hear with what tenderness, and pathos,
and beauty, and success Christ dealt with
him: “Thou shalt love the Ix»ri thy God
with all Ihy heart and with a’l thy soul, and
with nil thy mind, ami with all thy strength.
This is the first commandm -nt. aud the sec
ond is like to this; namely, thou shalt love
thy neighbor as thys?lf. There is no
other coinmindm?nt greater than this.
And the scribe said to biin: “Well,
master, thou hast said the truth,
for there is one God, and to love
him with all the heart, and all
the nn lerstanding, and all the soul, and all
the strength is more than whole burnt offer
ings and sacrifices. And when Jesus saw
that he answered discreetly, he said unto
him; “Thou art not far from the kingdom
u*rview. iAur l row*H'r'sah a psJp d?e
skeptic in that way. Instead of taking hold
of him with the gentle hand of love, we are
apt to take him with the iron pincers of ec
cfesiasticism.
You would not be so rough on that man if
you knew by what process he had lost his
faith in Christianity. I have known men
skeptical from the fact that they grew up in
houses where religion was overdone. Sun
day was the most awful day of the week.
They had religion driven into them with a
trip hammer. They were surfeited with
prayer meetings. They were stuffed and
'choked with catechu n-. They were often
told they were the worst boys the parents
ever knew because they liked to ride down
bill better than to read Runyan’s “Pilgrim's
Progress.” Whenever father and mother
talked of religion they drew down the corners
of their mouth and rolled up the*? eves. If
any one thing will send a boy or girl to de
struv tion sooner than another that is it. If I
had had such afath?r ant mother I fear I
should have b.*en an inddel.
Others were tripped up of skepticism from
being grievously wronged by so ne man who
professed to lie a Christian. They had a
fiartner in business who turned out to boa
Irst-class scoundrel, though a professed
Christian. Twenty years ago they had lost
all faith by what happened in an oil company
which was formed amid tho petroleum ex
citement. The company owned no land, or
if they did, there was nosign of oil produced.
But the Presi lent of tho company was a
Presbyterian elder, and the Treasurer was an
Episcopal vestryman, and one director was a j
Metho list class leader, and tho other direc- |
tors prominent members of Baptist and Con- j
gregf.tional chur *hes. Circulars were gotten
1 out teliing what fabulous prospects opened be- {
fore this company. Innocent wen and i
women who had a littlo money to
invent, and that little their all, said: “I don’t
i know anything about this company, but so
many good men are at the head of it that it
must be excellent, and taking stock in it
almost as good as joining the church.” So
: they bought the stock, and perhaps received
1 one dividend so as to keen them still, but
after a while they found that the company
nad reorganized and had a different presi
j dent, and different treasurer, und different
! directors, It was said, byway of explana
tion, that other engagements or ill health
had caused the former officers of t he company,
with many regrets, to resign. And all that
the subscribers of that stock had to
show for their investment was a beauti
i fully ornamented certificate. Sometimes
that man looking over his old pajiers
j comes aero s that certificate, and it is
so suggestive that he vows he wants none of
the religion that the presidents aud trustees
and directors of that oil company professed.
Os course their rejection of religion on such
groun Is was unphilosophical and unwise. I
am told that one-third of the United Ktates
army deserts every year, and there are 12,030
court martial trials every year. Is that any
thing against the United States Government
that swore them in? And if soldiers of Jesus
Christ desert, is that anything against the
Christianity which they swore to support and
defend? How do you judge of the currency
of a country? By a counterfeit bill? Oh,
f*ou must have pat ion e with th«ise who have
*?en swindled by religious pretenders. Live
in tho presence of others a frank, honest,
earnest Christian life, that they may be at
tracted to th" same Saviour upon whom your
holies d -|>eiid.
Remember skepticism al waysluw some rea
son, good or bad, for existing. Goethe's irre
ligion started when the news came to Ger
many of the earthquake at Lisbon. Nov.
1, 17/5. '■That 60,000 |?eopk» should have per
ished in that earthquake and in the after
rising of the Tagus river so stirred his sym
pathies tint lie threw up bis belief in the
goodies*of God.
Others have gone into skepticism from a
natural persistence in asking the reason why.
They have been fearfully stabbed ot the in
terrogation point. There are so many thing**
they cannot get explained. They cannot
understand the Trinity, or how God,
can be sovcre!gn, and yet man a
free agent. Neither cen I. Thpy ray:
“1 dim’t understand why a good God
should have let sin come into the world.*’
. Neitbtr do L You m? was that
child started in nre with such disadvan
tages. while others have all physical and
mental equipment ?” I cannot toll. They go
out of church on Easter morning and say :
‘•That do trine of the resurrection confounded
me.” So it is to me a mystery beyond un
ravelment. I Understand all the processes by
which men get into the dark. I know them
all. I have traveled with burning feet their
blistered way. The first wora that children
learn to utter is generally papa or ftuftfima*
I think the first word I ever utterea was
“Why” I know what it is to have a hun
dred midnights pour their darkness into
one hour. Sucn men are not to be
scoffed at, but helped. Turn your bock upofl
a drowning man when you have the rope
with which to pull him ashore, and let that
woman in the third storv of a bouse perish in
the flames when you have a ladder with
which to help her out and help her down,
rather than turn your back scoffingly on a
skeptic whose soul is in more peiil than the
bodies of those other endangered ones possi
bly can be. Oh, skepticism is a dark land.
There are irteft in this house who would give
a thousand Worlds, if they possessed them,
to’get back ttf the ff’acid faith of their fathers
a nil mothers, rind it Is our place to help them,
and we may help them, nevet through their
heads, but always through th£if hearts.
These skeptics, when brought to Jesus, will be
mightily affected—far more eo than those
who never examined the evidences of Chris
tianity. Thomas Chalmers was once a skep
tic, Robert Hall a skeptic, Robert Newton •
skeptic, Christmas Evaus a skeptic. But
when once with strong hand they took hold
of the chariot of the Gospel, they rolled it on
with what momentum! If I address such
men and women today I throw out
no scoff. I implead them by the mem
ory of the good old days when at tneir
mothers knee they said: “Now I lay me
down to sleep,” and by those days and nights
of scarlet fever in which she watched you,
giving you the medicine at just the right
time and turning your pillow when it was
hot, and With hands that many years ago
turned todUst soothed away your”pain, and
with voice that you will never hear again,
unless you join her in the better country,
told you to never mind, for you wold feel
better by and by, and by that dying couch
where she looked so pole and talked so
slowly, catching her breath between the
words, and you felt an awful loneliness
coming over vour soul; by a!l that, I beg
you to come back and take the same relig
ion. It was good enough for her. It is gowl
enough for you. Nay, I have a better plea
than that I plead by all the wounds, and
tears, aud blood, and groans, and agonies,
and death throws of tho Fon of God, who ap
proaches you this moment with torn brow,
and lacerated hand, and whipped back, and
saying: “Come unto me, all ye who are weary
and heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”
Again there is a field of usefulness but
little touched occupied by those who are
astray in their habits. All northern na
tions, like those of North America and Eng
land and Scotland, that is in the colder
climates, are devastated by alcohol
ism. They take tlie fire to keep up
the warmth. In sauthern countries, like
Arabia and Spain, the blood is so they are
not tempted to fiery liqu ds. The great Ro
man armies never drank anything stronger
than water tinge 1 with vinegar, but under
our northern climate the temptaion to neat
ing stimulants is most mighty, and million.!
s’.ccurab. When a man's habits go wrong
the church drops him, the social circle drops
him. al 1* meno*gel’ oft tHe
few ever get on again. Near my summer
residence there is a life saving station on the
beach. There are all tho ropes and rockets,
the boats, the machinery for getting people
off shipwrecks. Summer before last I saw
there fifteen or twenty men who were break
fasting, after having just escaped with their
lives and nothing more. Up and down our
coasts are built these useful structures, and
the mariners know it. and they feel that if
they are driven into the breakers there will
be apt from shore to come a rescue. The
churches of God ought to be so many life sav
ing stations, not so much to help those who
are in smoot h waters,but those who have been
shipwrecked. Come, let us run out the life
lioats! And who will man them? We do not
preach enough to such men; we have not
enough faith in their release. Alas, if when
they come to h- ar us we are laboriously try
ing to show the difference between sublap
sarianism and supralaprarianism while they
have a thousand vipers of remorse and de
spair coiling around and biting their immortal
spirits. The church is not chiefly for goodish
sort of men whose proclivities are all right,
and who could get to heaven praying and
singing in their own hom s. It is on the
beach to help the drowning. Those bad
eases are the cases that God like*
to take hold of. Ha can save a
big sinner as well as a small sinner,
and when a man calls earnestly to God for
help he will go out to deliver such a one. If
it were necessary God would come down
from tho skv, followed by all the artillery of
heaven ami 1,003.000 angels with drawn
swords. Get 100 such redeemed men in each
of your churches, and nothing could stand
before them, for such men are generally warm
hearted and enthusiastic. No formal prayers
then. No heartless singing then. No cold
conventionalisms then.
Furthermore, the destitute children of the
street offer a field of work comparatively un
occupied. The uncared for children are in
the majority in Brooklyn and most of our
cities. When they grow up, if unreformed,
they will outvote ypur children, and they will
govern yoar children. The whisky ring will
hatch out other whisky rings, and grog
shojH will kill with their horrid stench public
sobriety, unless the church of God rises up
with outstretched arms and enfolds this dying
population in her bosom. Public schools can
not do it Art galleries cannot do it. Black
well’s Island cannot do it. Almshouses can
not do it. New York Tombs and Raymond
Street jail cannot do it. Sing Sing cannot
do it. Church of God, wake up to your mag
nificent mission. You can do it. Get some
where. somehow to work.
The Prussian cavalry mount by putting
their right foot into the stirrup, while the
American cavalrymen mount by putting
their left foot into the stirrup. I don’t care
how you mount your war charger, If yon
only get into this battle for God and get there
soon, right stirrup, or left stirrup, or
no stirrup at all. Tho unoccupied fields
are all around us, and why should
we build on another man’s foundation?
That God his called this church to
eqiecial work no one can doubt. I?s his
tory ha? been miraculous God has helped us
at every step, and though the wheels of ita
history havo made many revolutions, they
have all been for warded, and never backward,
and now with our borders enlarged and with
imfiortant re-enforcements we start on a new
campaign. At Sharon Spring?*, nineteen
year?? ago, walking in the park, I asked God, if
lie had any (miticular work for me to do, to
make it plain ami 1 would do it. He revealed
to me the style of church wo were to have,an
he revealed to me he re
vealed to me the modS* of worship, and he
revealed to mo mv work,and, as far as in my
ignorance anu weakness 1 have seen the righl
way, I have tried to walk in it.
We decided that wo want d it a
koul faring church, am! It has been
almost a ismstint outpouring of the Holy
Ghost. Ye powers of darknew, ye devils in
hell, we mean to snatoh from your dominion
other multitudes, if God will help us. I have
h«*ard of wbat was called the “thundering
leg on.” It was in IPJn part of the Roman
army to whi<*h some Christian* belonged,
and their prayers, it was aaid, were an
jwyred by thunder and lightning and hail
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inJ tamp-st, which overthrow on invading
army and saved the empire. And I would
to God that this church may b) so
mighty in prayerand work that it would be
come a thundering legion before which the
forces of sin might be routed and the gates of
hell be made to tremble. Nowthattbeautuma
has come, and the gospel ship has been re
paired and enlarged, it is time to launch her
for another voyage. Heave away now, lada!
shake out the reefs in the foretopsail! Come,
0 heavenly wind, and fill the canvas! Jesus
aboard will assure our safety. Jesus on the
sea will beckon us forward. Jesus on the
shining shore will welcome us into harbor.
"And so it came to pass that they all escaped
mfe to land.”
A Fall of Manna in Tnrkey.
Mr. Cole, of Bitlis, a missionary of the
American Board in eastern Tnrkey, itr
describing a journey from Harpoot to
Bitlis, says:
‘•Wc traveled for four days through a
region where had newly fallen a remark
»i>le deposit of heavenly bread, as the _
natives sometimes call it—manna. There
were extensive forests of scrubby oaks,
and most of the deposit was on the leaves.
Thousands of the poor peasants, men,
women and children, were out upon the
plains gathering the sweet substance.
Some of them plunge into kettles of
boiling water the newly cut branches of
the oaks, which washes off the deposit
until the water becomes so sweet as to re
mind the Yankee of a veritable sugaring
off in the old Granite State as he takes
sips of it. Other companies of natives
may be seen vigorously beating with
sticks tlie branches, that from having
been spread on the ground have so dried
that the glis ening crystals fall readily
upon the carpet spread to receive them.
The crystals are separated from the pieces
of leaves by a sieve, and then the manna
is pressed into cakes for use. The manna
is in great demand among these Oriental
Christians. As we were traveling through
a ;a her dry region the article came in
play for our plain repasts
• A Suitor Scared.
She (blu-hing deeply)—“And you wish
to pay your addresses to me?”
He (enthusiastii ally)—“That has been
the dream of my existence since I first
met you.”
She—“l scarcely know what to say.
I think I must consult with mother.”
He—“ Certainly. I should expect you,
as a dutiful daughter, to consult jour
mother on a matier of so much import
ance.”
She —“Y'ou have never met mother?”
He—“l never hid that pleasure.”
blie—“You will be delighted tohnow
her. She is a noted woman's-rights
woman and President of the Society for
Female Emancipation.”
He (somewhat frigidly)—“H’m! Isthat •
so*”
She (proudly) "well, you nuutu
think so if you heard her talk. Why,
6he is just boiling over with fervor on
the subject of woman's wrongs.
He (consulting his watch)—“Well —
er—l—l—er—ought 1o have told you
that I—cr—couldn't stay but a minute
this evening. My—er—Uncle is in town
and—er—Well, I will call again when
wc can renew the subject of this even
ing's conversation.— Boston Courier.
A Test of Courtesy.
De Musset cordially detested dogs.
IVhen a candidate for the Academy he
called upon a prominent member. At
Ihe gate of the chateau a dirty, ugly dog
received him most affectionately and in
sisted on preceding him into the drawing
room, De Musset cursing his friend's
predilection for the brute. The acade
mician entered and they adjourned to
the dining room, the dog at their heels.
Seizing his opportunity, the dog placed
his muddy paws upon the spotless cloth
and carried off a bonne bouclic. “The
wretch wants shooting!” was De Mus
set’s muttered thought, but he politely
said:
"You are fond of dogs, I see?”
“Fond of dog!” retorted the academi
cian. “I hate them!”
"But this animal here?” queried De
Musset; "I have only tolerated it be
cause it was yours, sir.”
“Mine!” exclaimed the poet;' "the
thought that it was yours alone kept ma
from killing him."— CtisselCs.
A Chinese Sailor's Burial.
A sailor belonging to a Chinese vessel
lying at Suithead, England,died recently,
aDd was buried in the cemetery there.
After the coffin had lieen lowered four
sailors, who occupied a position at the
foot of the grave, produced in succes
sion a tin pail, a parcel of matches, a
number of fagots and various pieces of
brown paper. A fire haring been kindled,
out of the pail were brought forth sev
eral plates, which were disposed round
Ihe lire, a lump of pork, various pieces
of meat, a few eggs and a quantity of
salt and sand. These, having been di
vided into fives, were cooked and placed
on the plates, and on the consummation
of the sacrifice they were all gathered
together and returned to the pail. A
lailor now partly filled in the grave,
after which the captain of the ship and a
couple of subordinate officers came for
ward and prostrated themselvea three
times, uttering a prayer at each genu
flexion. This completed the ceremony.
A Window ol Shells.
Its windows were a curiosity, the first
1 I had seen in India where the panes were
of the pearl oyster shell, cut thin, and
•bout an inch and a half square. Thia
wns the Portuguese window. The labor
of makina great windows of such smsll
pieces oflhcll nently cut and smoothed
must have been immense, even for on#
building. At least one-half the light
was obstructed by the shell sfinta, and
when one adds to this I tie wooden fram
ing for the shells, there must have lieen
I n considerable addition to the semi
: opaqueness. But then this is India, and
I it is always a study to keep out of th*
j glare of th# a Maomsnt,