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PLYMOUTH, N. C, FRIDAY, DECBER 30? 1898?
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NO. 15. - .:
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THE HEROES
We were told that men no longer fought for
glory, as of yore,
That the ancient Jove of country burned in
'. 'human hearts no more:
''In thiar age of subtle science, valor counts
' ,; for naught," they said;
'Heroea ;aro no longer needed, and their
sturdy, race Is dead,
Science, will decide the struggle nations .
will be conquered then,
Not, by courage, but by cunning with ma-
' chines' and not with men." 1
Yet when flrst the' sound of battle, borne
upon the ocean breeze,
Drifted in from far Manila and from Cuba's
'. .'. tropic seas, ' ; , . -We
were taught that 'tis, as ever, men by
. whom the fight is won,
Filing on their country's altar-mighty tieods
of valor done; -Man's
otfn courage fights his battles
Whether.artned with s.word ard shield.
j" The Head of a Rebel. I
2 .V 'J? A. L, 1 O 1 MANILA. I
BY R. CLYDE FORD.
This is riot really my own story it
is my grandfather's. Still, since it is
all ia the family, I may as well tell it,
and, besides, it has special interest
nowywhen' so many people in this land
are looking and longing across the Pa
cific to where, our Hag floats over Ma
nila bay. . "' .
..In the year 1812 my grandfather, ' a
young; man of 20, shipped as common
Bailor on tile three-masted ship,J?olly
Ann of New Bedford, bound from New
York to the Philippines with a cargo
of flour. -The voyage was uneventful,
and 130 days after passing Sandy Hook
the Polly Ann drbpped anchor in Pasig
river, Manila. . ' ''
During 'the ship's stay there, graud
I father, "who was of an investigating
"V disposition, looked the city over pretty
well, and, believing there were chances
for a wide-awake Yankee to make a
fortune, in the islands, he. quitted the
ship and took service with a trading
firm on the harbor front. In ten years
' . he was manager of a business of his
own and a man of influence among the
' foreign 'traders. ; The Spaniards, too
. looked up to him and respected him.
,' As his business grew he was unable
to manage all the details of the in
creasing trade and so called to his help
: a young Filipino named Juan Aguado,
a bright young man, half Spanish,
half Malay; who had formerly been an
assistant iu the packing house. Aguada
possessed polished, courtly manners
and a good education; he had received
. his., schooling at a monastery, and
' "'grandfather trusted him implicitly for
"in the course of time lie made him
chief .clerk find adviser.
Aguado was absolutely fearless that
was- .whgre -his Malay.blood showed
out, 'grandfather would vemark when
''He himself had occasion to refer to the
story. . They were out hunting one
day in a jungle tract some ten or fif
teen miles away from the city when
tkef were charged by a maddened buf
falo that dashed ..out of a water hole
upon them. They both ran for cover,:
but grandfather .by some misstep
, ;;ta,7ppfid.on;a vine and fell, and before
: -he .cp.uid '.regain las' feet the animal
: was-upon him. It was no time to use
y- a gun- they were armed with nothing
' "but light fowling pieces for pigeon
' shooting. When grandfather fell,
' Agiia'dd, who was a little- behind him,
made a'le'ap'to bne: side to pass him;
but he wa$ not. thinking ' of saving
himpeltr- Quickly drawing his kris,
which was juiother mark of the Malay
in him, he rushed back upon the buf
falo and stabbed it through the neck
f; again and again with all the dexterity
' : of "a Veteran matador. The buffalo fell
dead in its tracks, and grandfather
crawled away with a broken arm.
sFiom' that time on the two men
'were like brothers. Juan seemed
clad that .he had bai an opportunity
D , . -til l?' . I '
to show his regard tor nis employer
and benefactor, and grandfather was
;. too much of a raau to be anything but
' generous to one who had saved his
life. ,
But it was about the end of their
comradeship: One day a native from
vup. country called at the warehouse
; for.Aguado. They retired to a dis
tant jmrt of the building and talked
long and quietly together. ' -Then the
".. stranger went aw;ay aiid. the ; clerk re
, t-uined to his desk, ; ..
'"' 'That night, when' it came time for
M-closing,, Aguado said:- "Senor, I
must leave you. I am wanted at home,
an;d it will be'useless to try to detain
me."..,-..;'. ... .
Grandfather was surprised .beyond
belief, -alrapst;, but he did not try to
. ; dissuade him. He "paid his arrears of
'V "salary, adJled 'a handsome bonus and
stud good bye to the only man in the
East of whom .he was truly fond.
Two years passed and not a word.
Very strange, for . the ' province where
,11ft lived 'had been in open revolt for
some time.and as the fighting on both
sidea' was constant and relentless,
communication with Manila was prac
tically cut off.
' However, as time went on the rebel
lion was crushed, and the insurgents
were scattered or captured. The leader
.of the revolution, one Luiz Berceo, was
a man of considerable generalship and
resoii ces,. for without munitions or
moutTfhe had held his ground against
the Spaniards for a long time and. iiad
OF TODAY.
Lustily, he lays about htm.oharging o'er the
bloody Held, .
Or, on steel protected cruiser, telescope in
hand he stands,
Training engines of destruction on the forts
of hot-tile lands, - r
Hearts of oak and visions watchful these
alone the duy can save;
In setae sttyinge and subtfe. manner Fortune
favors still the brave. . -Though
the sword of song and story hangs
neglected on the wall,
And the musket's clumsy hammer nevermore
shall rise and fall,
We have men who.now and always, in a right
eous cause and bluh,
When their country goes to battlo, for thoir
country dare to die
Men of wise and prudent action, men of
mighty, matchless will;
And the Stars and Stripes are floating o'er a
land ot heroes still :
William Hurd Hillyer, in Youth's Companion.
intrigued successfully against the
native troops seut to oppose him. But
he could not hold out forever, and he,
too, was a fugitive. .
Then it was that the government re
sorted to an expedient often tried in
Spanish countries for catchiug those
who will not surrender a price was
set on. Luiz Beiceo'a head. Placards
were posted in Manila and throughout
theislands wherever Spanish author
ity was recognized, proclaiming a re
ward of 40,000 Mexican dollars to the
one who would bring the head of the
insurgent leader to the authorities.
My grandfather had frequently seen
these announcements and wondered
what sort of a man it was who caused
the captain-general so much annoy
ance. Both the captain-general and
himself were soon to know.
One afternoon the captain-general
sat alone in his office. He was iu a
complacent mood, for certain docu
ments before him related to the dispo
sition of the surrendered insurgent
bauds who . had been harassing his
chosen province for the last two years.
Suddenly, without any warning, the
door opened behind him, and a man
stepped quickly in the room, at the
same time slipping the bolt again into
its place. He- was dressed like a
priest in a long black gown and had a
hood over his head.
"Peace upon you," he said, coldly,
and Don Zavier Macia turned in his
chair.
"Who are you and what do you
want?"
i
"Do
visitor,
his face,
self."
not talk too loud," said the
pushing , back the cowl from
"Who am I? See for your-
The captain-general gave a start of
terror, aud his face blanched. It was
Berceo, the insurgent chief, who stood
before him. 1
' "Listen to me, senor, and I'll tell
you what I want. You have offered
$40,000: for. ( my head. See. I have
brought it myself and claim the
money."' ' ' - ' ' '
Berceo stepped nearer- and. drew
from under, his cloak a long native
knife.
"I can't very well carry Mexican
dollars. I will take; Spanish bank
notes. Hurry!"
General Macia ground his teeth in
rage, but dared ... do nothing except
obey. He knew well the character of
the man he wast -dealing with. From
a desk near by ho counted out the
equivalent of $40,000 in Bank of Spain
notes aud handed them to the rebel
leader who began to back toward the
door, ' 'Good day, senor, " he said po
litely and sprang, out. A guard at the
end of the hall tried to retrain him,lmt
Berceo cut him down with the knife',
and then throwing off his monk's garb
he reached the street and made good
his escape.
That same . night grandfather pat
smoking on his wide . veranda which
looked out upon the bay. One or two'
acquaintances from the neighboring
compounds had dropped in for a chat,
but by 10 o'clock he was alone again.
As he sat dreamily gazing out at the
twinkling lights on the ships at an
chor, he heard a step on the stairway
behind him.; he thought. it was his Chi
nese servant. Soon, however, a fami
liar voice spoke:
"Senor, excuse the intrusion." .
He turned around, and there stood
his former clerk, Juan Aguado.
"Whv, Juan, what a pleasure! But
'how you startled me! Come, sit down,
and tell me all about yourself."
Aguado smiled. "Are we quite
alone, senor?" he asked, glancing
around furtively.
, "Yes.entirely so; the servants have
gone to bed."
"Well, then, you want to know all
about myself. I can tell you in a
word I am Berceo." ;
My grandfather was a cool man.
"Come inside, it's damp here, "he said,
and led the way to a room back of the
veranda.
Briefly Aguado told him what had
taken place in the last two years.
The man that had called upon him
the day he left brought evil news. His
home village had been destroyed, and
his father, a petty official up cuuntry,
had been imprisoned on some trumped
up charge, his txo brothers had been
killed in a fight with their Spanish
guards. He had long known what
Spanish rule was in the out provinces
but, alas, his revolution did not
succeed.
Next he told how he had just braved
the captain-general in his very palace
and wrungfrom him the price set upon
his own head.
"By the grace of God I escaped; but
it will not be for long, unless, senor,
you help me."
"Not knowing what I should have
done in your place, Juan," said grand
father, slowly. "I'm not the mau to
see you handed over to General Don
Xavier Macia. Let me think."
After a while grandfather said: "I
think I have it. A captain friend of
mine sails for Hong IJongon tho morn
ing breeze. If I can get you on board
his ship you are safe. Come, " put on
some of my clothes. I don't thiuk
tho authorities will be looking for you
here; they don't know that Luiz Berceo
is such a dear friend of mine, and I
think we can get out to the ship all
right."
Talking English, they made their
way quietly to the harbor front and
called a sampau. They looked like
two belated 'English captains going
out to their ships.
A half a mile out in the bay lay the
John Dorset, ready to weigh anchor.
My grandfather hailed, and when the
captain appeared, he climbed on board,
leaving Aguado below in the boat.
Grandfather drew the captain below
and told him who the man ws in the
sampan and what he wanted.
Captain Higgins of the John Dorset
was an old seadogof the genuine Yan
kee type. He liked . a man who had
what he called "sand for ballast," as
Luiz Berceo evidently had.
"Shiver my mainmast, but I'll take
him," said Captain Higgins. "He can
have my cabin till we are well past
Corregidor and out to sea."
This is about the end of the story.
Aguado escaped safely to Hong Kong.
A year or two afterward, just 'before
grandfather sold out his business and
started home, he received a package
from a Chinese port. It contained a
beautifully-jeweled Malay kris with
the name "Juan Aguado" upon the
blade.. Detroit Free Press.
The Last Execution at Tyburn.
The last execution at Tyburn, says
a writer in Notes and Queries, took
place on Friday, Nov. 7, 1783, in the
person of John ,Austin, convicted on
the preceding Saturday of lobbing
John Spicer and cutting and wound
ing him in a cruel manner.' Iu Wal
ford's "Old and New London" it is
erroneously said that, "the last crim
inal execution here was one Byland,
who was hung sic for forgerv iu
1783." William Byland was executed
on Aug. 20, two months before the
date of Austin's conviction, and many
a poor wretch made the fatal pilgrim
age to Tyburn in the interval, hanging
by wholesale being the rule in those
days.
The long procession westward had
been attended by such disgraceful
scenes that the authorities resolved to
hang criminals henceforth outside
Newgate prison, straight from the con
demned cell. Accordingly, on Dec.
3, 1783, the recorder ordered the erec
tion of a scafl'ord in front of the jail,
of which a notice and desenrptive en
graving appear in the Gentleman's
Magazine 'for the same month, and on
the 10th the new hanging place was
inaugurated by the execution of ten
malefactors.
.Uses Sometimes Made of Kings.
In ancient times a seal ring served
often as a letter of introduction, and
to go no further, Scripture offers more
than one example of its being used in
this way. In earlier and in later days
a ring served to identify its owner or
his messenger, and not only poetry
and fiction but history itself has offered
many romantic instances of rings em
ployed iu this way. Some persons
have cast doubts on the story of Queen
Elizabeth's waiting for the ring which
Essexwas to send her if ever he found
himself in trouble and needed her.
But whether or not the story is true,
it is a fact that from the time of
Essex's daughter, Lady Frances Dever
eux, such a ring has descended from
mother to daughter down to the pres
ent time. It is of fine gold, with a
cameo head of Queen Elizabeth, most
exquisitely wrought, probably by some
skillful Italian.
The Dreyfus "Hoodoo."
A fatality followed the family of the
late Colonel Henry of Dreyfus fame as
it followed the Stuarts. He was the
third member of his family within 27
years who died a tragical death. Tho
first had the misnomer of "Fortunate
Henry." He was a member of the
Commune and a colonel under it in
1871. His son was Emile Henry, who
dynamited the police station at the
Hue' des Bons Eufauts aud the Cafe
Terminus in 1894. Colonel Henry of
the general staff was . summoned to
give evidence before the assize court
of the Seine as to the character and
morals of his young kinsman. He ap
peared for the prosecution. Perhaps
his disposition hardened the heart of
the jury. He said in his coarse way,
"The father was a restless Republicau
under the empire, the sou of a restless
anarchist. They wore all like that ia
that branch."
E ONLY ONE.
lie Thought He Was, but He Iteallzel
Now That It Is Different.
A young man who at the present
time is willing to accept any position
requiring close application to business,
a high order of intelligence and a meek
and uncomplaining spirit, at a moder
ate salary? has recently been brought
to a realization of the fact that he is
a mere unit in the sum total of human
existence; also that a httld bluffing ia
a dangerous thing at times.
. He was working for an old-established
insurance company, occupying
an entire floor of a large office build
ing in LaSalle street, and 'had been
employed by ihe concern for about sis
mouths, fultilliug his duties, as he had
reason to believe, with entire satisfac
tion to his superiors. He knew that
the head bookkeeper had referred to
him as "a bright young man,"and that
his fellow clerks regarded him with
respect. The manager smiled cordially
when he met him and addressed him
familiarly by his Christian name. Al
together this young man felt remark
ably secure in his position.
One morning he walked into the man
ager's room and asked if he could
speak to him a moment.
"Certainly, Herbert. 'What is it?"
said the manager, wheeling around in
his chair aud beaming kindly through
his spectacles at his subordinate.
"Nothing serious, I hope. "
"Well, sir," said Herbert, "I wanted
to tell you that I intend to leave you
the first of next month."
"Why, is that so ?" said the manager,
"Well," well,' well! You don't mean
to tell me that, Herbert."
"Yes, sir, "said the young man firmly.
"I find that I am getting SI a week
less than any man in the office who is
doing the work 1 am. I have got to
have a raise or quit the first of the
month."
"O, no, Herbert.you won't do that,"
said his chief, thrusting his 'thumb
into an armhole of his 'waistcoat anJ
smilin. in the same genial and benevo
lent wav. "No, no; you Avon't do
that."
"I have quite made up my mind,"
said Herbert.
"O, you've made up your mind,
have you?" said the manager. "Yes,
yes. But you won't quit the first of
the month, Herbert; you'll quit right
now and right here. You cau tell the
cashier to make out au order for your
wages to the end of the week, ai.
send it to me and I'll sign it. That's
all, Herbert. Good day." Chicago
Eecord.
The Higcest Oi-ang;.
The largest captive orang-outang in
the world has just arrived at Liver
pool. The animal stands about five feet
three inches; each arm is about five
feet long; the hands measure a foot
each, and some of the fingers are seven
inches in length.
When arms and haads are extended
this magnificent monkey can stretch
ten feet.
It could wrestle with five men at a
time, and the chances are that this
handsome specimen of their ancestors
would get the better of the encounter..
The animal's face is, of course, free
from hair,, but "the hirsute adorn
ment" on its head is parted in the
centre with a neatness that suggests
that the orang-outang has just come
from the barber's.
Judged from man's standard of
beauty, the new arrival cannot be said
to have an attractive physiogttoniy.
The nose is sunk deep in the face,
and the massive top lip is shot out to
a length prodigious even for an orang
outang. It is au experience to see the animal
yawn.
' When captured the orang-outang
was in the company of a baby ape.
This latter the hunters shot and
placed in a cage.
The grown-up orang had no more
sense than to follow the corpse, and
was surprised to find that there wa3
no exit to the cage.
On the way from Borneo, whence
hails the world's champion orang, the
brute nearly escaped from the ship by
scratching and chewing a hole in the
side of the cage. London Mail.
The Curious ritclier riant.
Specimens of, the Nepenthes Ven
tricosa, or pitcher plant, of the Phili
pine islands, have arrived at Kew.
The pitchers are green, with the peri
stome rosy red, forming a very de
cided contrast, though whether the
color is fully developed at present is
uncertain, for those now on the plant
Khave not been formed under the best
conditions and have not reached their
maximum development, owing to
which the size has been taken from
dried pitchers in M. Loher's collec
tion, which, oft course, were larger
when alive. These dried specimens
f;iye an idea of what the plant will be
ike when well grown, for cue branch
carries eight splendid pitchers and
"culiers are but little, less luxuriant. It
is found in several localities in north
Luzon. - .
It ii too early yet to speak ri its
future as a garden plant, but there is
no reason why it should not prove -as
amenable to cultivation as most of its
allies, and owing to its novel shape it
should prove a great acquisition, both
for its own sake and hybridization
purposes. Philadelphia inquirer.
NOT
DE. TALMAGE'S SERMON.
SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED
DIVINE.
Subject: "Liffht In Darkness" A Dis
course That Will Be Comforting to the
Sick and Helpless Shut In For an All
Wise Purpose.
Text: "The Lord shut him in." Genesis
vii., 1G. , .
Cosmogony has no more' Interesting
chapter than the one which speaks of that
catastrophe of the ages, the submersion of
our world in time of Noah, the flrst ship
carpenter. Many of the nations who never
saw a Bible have a flood story Egyptian
flood story, Grecian flood story, of which
Ducalion was the Noah; Hawaiian flood
story, New Zealand flood story. Chinese
flood story, American Indian flood story
nil of which accounts agree in the immer
sion of tho continents under universal
rains, and that there was a ship floating,
with u select few of the human family and
with specimens of zoological and ornitho
logical and reptilian worlds, although I
could have wished that these last had been
shut out of the ark and drowned.
All of these flood stories represent the
ship thus afloat as finally stranded on a
mountain top. Hugh Miller, in his "Testi
mony of the Rocks." thinks that all these
flood stories were infirm traditions of the
Biblical account, and I believe him. The
worst thing about that great freshet was
that it struck Noah's Great Eastern from
above and beneath. The seas broke the
chain of shells and crystal and rolled over
the land, and the heavens opened their
clouds for falling columns of water which
roared and thundered on the roof of the
great ship for a month and ten days.
There was one door to the ship, but there
were three parts to the door, one part for
each of three stories. The Bible account
says nothing nbout parts of the door be
longing to two of the stories, and I do
not know on which floor Noah and his
family voyaged, but my text tells us that
the part of the door of that particular floor
on which Noah stayed was closed after ho
had entered. "Tho Lord shut him in." So
there are many people now in the world
who are as thoroughly shut in, some by
sickness, some by old age, some by special
duties that will not allow them to go forth,
some surrounded by deluges of misfor
tune and trouble, and for them my sympa
thies are aroused, and from them I often
receive messages, and this sermon, whioh 1
hopo may do good to others, is more, es
pecially intended for them. To-day I ad
dress the shut in. "The Lord shut him in."
The world has no statistics n3 to the
number of invalids. The physicians know
something about it, and the apothecaries
and the pastors, but who can tell us tho
number of blind eyes, and deaf ears, and
diseased lungs, and congested livers, and
jangled nerves, and neuralglo temples, and
rheumatic feet, or how many took no food
this morning because they had no appetite
to eat, or digestive organs to assimilate, or
have lungs so delicate they cannot go
forth when the wind is in the east, or there
is a dampness on the ground or pavement
because of the frost coming out? It would
t 'PPBy to count the people who every day
ko throt.arh a street, or the number of
passengers cabled by a railroad company
in a year, or the nvmber of those who cross
the ocean iu ships, fci.ho can give us the
statistics of the great muaiiu who are
shut in? I call the attention of a'ir;?ch to
their superior opportunities of doing goojt.
Those of us who are well and can see
clearly, and hear distinctly, and partake
of food of all sorts, and questions of diges
tion never occur-to us, and we can wade
the snowbanks and take an equinox in our
faces, and endure the thermometer at zero,
and every breath of air is a tonie and a
stimulus, and sound sleep meets us within
live minutes after our head touches the pil
low, do not make so much of an impression
when we talk about the consolations of reli
gion. The world says right away: "I guess
that man mistakes buoyancy of natural
spirits for religion. What does he know
about it? He has never been tried." But
when one goes out and reports to the world
that that morning on bis way to. business
he called to see you and found you, after
being kept in your room for two months,
cheerful and hopeful, and that yon had not
ono word of complaint, and asked all about
everybody, and rejoiced In the success
of your business friends, although your
own business bad almost come to a stand
still through your absence from store or
office or shop, and that you sent your love
to all yonr old friends, and told them that
if vou did not meet them again in this
world you hoped to meetthem in dominions
seraphic, with a quiet word of advice from
you to the man who carried tLe message
about theimportance of his not neglecting
his own soul, but through Christ seeking
something better than this world could
.give him wlij, all the busiuoss men in the
counting room say; "Good! Now, that is
religionl" And the clerks get hold of the
story and talk it over, so that the weigher
;ind cooper and hackmua standing on the
loorstep say: "That is splendidl Now,
that is what I call religion!"
No doubt while on that voyage Noah
and his three sons and all the four ladles
of the antediluvian world often thought of
tho bright hillsides and the green fields
where they had walked and of the homes
where they had lived. They had had piany
years of experiences. Noah was 600 years
old at the time of this convulsion fl nature.'
He had seen COO springtimes, 600 summers,
COO autumns, 600 winters. We are not
told how old his wife was at this wreck,
of earth and sky. The Bible tells the age
of a great many men, but only once gives a
woman's age. At one time it gives Adam's
age as 130 years and Jared's age is 162
years and Enoch's age as 365 years, and all
up and down the Bible it gives the age of
men, but does not give the age of wjbinen.
Why? Because, I suppose, a woman's age
is none of our business. But all the men
and women that tossed in that oriental
craft had lived long enough to remem
ber a great many of the mercies and
kindnesses ef God, and they coufd not
blot out, and I think they had, no disposi
tion to blot out, the memory ot those bright
nesses, though now they were shut in'.
Neither should the shut in of our time for
get tho blessings of the past. Have you
been blind for ten years? Thank God for
tho time when you saw aa clearly as any of
us can see and let the pageant of all the
radiant landscapes and. illumined "skies
which you ever looked upon kindle your
rnpturous gratitude. I do not see Raphael's
"Madonna di San Sisco" in tho picture gal
lery of Dresden, nor Rubens' . "Itescent
From the Cross" at Antwerp, nor Michael
Angelo's "Last Judgment" on the ceiling of
the Vatican nor St. Sophia at Constan
tinople, . nor tho Parthenon on tho
Acropolis, nor the Taj Mahal of- India
but shall I not thank God that I have
seen them? Is it possible that, such
midnight .dftrkness shall ever Diast my
vision that I cannot call them up again?
Again, notice that during that forty
days of storm which rocked thj.t ship ou
ttmt universal ocean of Noah's time the
door which shut tho captain of the ship in
side the craft kept him from nmay out
side perils. How those wrathful seas
would like to have got their wet hands on
Noah and pulled him out asd sunk him!
And do all of you of the great army of the :
shut in realize that, though you have-.
special temptations where you are" now,
how much of the outside style of tempta- .
tion you escape? Do you, the merchant ,
incaroerated in tho sickroom, reallzo that .V
every hour of the day you Bpond-doakdngv..;
out of the -window, or gazing at the-ipac-
ticular figure on the wall, or listening o .
tho clock's ticks men are being wfetike
by the allurements and uncertainties of.,
business life? . How many fonreries ore
committed, how mnny trust fundsare '
swamped, now-many public moneys are be
ing misappropriated, how many iaonkruptr
cies suffered! It-may be, it is.very u'ncomV,;
portable for Noah inside the ark, for the ,'
apartment is crowded and the afr is vitiated
with the breathing of so much human and
animal life, but it ii not half as bad for him
as though he were outside the ark. There
Is not an ox, or a camel, or an antelope, or
a sheep Inside the ark as badly off as, the
proudest king outside. While yon are .on
the pillow or lounge you will make no bad
hargains, you will rush into no rash In- '
vestments, you will avoid the mistakes
that thousands of men a3 good as you are
every day Jmakiffg. . .
Notice also that there was a limit to the
shut In experience of those ancient marin
ers. I suppose the forty days of the de
scending and uprising floods and the 150
days before the passengers could go
ashore must have seemed to those eljjht
people in the big boat like a small eternity.
"Rain, rain, rain!" said the wife. of Noah.
"Will it never stop?" ' ' For forty'mprnings
they looked out .und snw not one patch of
blue sky. Floating around amid the
peaks of mountains Shem and Ham. and .
Japhet had to hush tho fears oi their wives,
lest they should dash against the project-,
ing rocks. But after awhile it cleared offJ
Sunshine, glorious sunshine! The : as
cending mists were folded up.- into
clouds, which instead of darken
ing the sky only . ornamented it.
As they looked out of the windows these
worn passengers clapped their hands and
rejoiced that the 'storm was over, and I
think if God could stop such a storm as
that He could stop any storm in your life
time experience. If He can control a vul- ,
ture in midsky; He can stap a summer bat
that fifes in at your window. At the right
time He will put the rainbow .on the clond
and the deluge of your misfortunes will
dry up. I preach the doctrine of limita
tion, relief nnd dlsenthrallment. At just
the right time the pnin will cease, the
bondage will drop; the imprisoned will be
liberated, the fires will go out, the body
and mind and soul-will be tree, - Patience!
Notice also that on the cessation of the
deluge the .shut ins came out, and they
built their houses and cultured their gar
dens and started a now world on the ruins
of the old "world that had been, drowned ;
out. Though Noah lived 350 years after
this worldwide accident and no doubt his1
fellow passengers survived centuries'. I'
warrant they never got over talking about
that voyacre. Now I Cave' seen Dare's
pictures- and many other pictures of ..the
entrance into the ark, two and two; of the
human family, and the-animal creation;
into that ship which -sailed between two!
worlds antidiluvian world and' tho ppst-;
diluvian world but I never saw a pict
ure of their cominie out: yet their eni-
.barkation was not more important than.
tneir disemnarKatron. juany a crew na3
entered a ship that never landed. Wit-,
ness the steamsr Portland; a few days
ago, with 100 souls on boaro, going do vn
with all its crew and possengors. ' Witness
the line of suukeh' ship3. reaching. like a
submarine cable- of anguish aaross the
ocean depths from America to Europe.3If
.ny ship might expect complete wreokage,;
th'. -jne Noah commanded might have ex-;
pected it. But no? those' who embarked
disembarked.. Over the 'plank reaching
down tho side of the ark tothe'Ar'meefan j
cliffs on. which they had been strande4the
procession descended." NoTrther wharf felt
so solid or afforded such nttractivotwse.'aai
that height., of Ararat when the eight pas-,
senger put their feet- on it.' And nisaaaer
ha4'the last one, the. invalided wife,, of;
Japheth, been helped down the jilank upon;
the rock than the other apartments j4 he,
ship. were opened, and such a dash of bird!
music never filled the air as whetf t he'eriUro
orchestra of robin redbreast, end niofnlng-j
lark, and chaffinch,- and mocking bird, and
housejswallow took wing into the rjght'
sky, while the cattle began' to low and the;
sheep to bleat and the horse"H to noigHifori
fhe pasture, which from the a(ul sub-!
mergence had now begun to grow green'
and aromatic. I tell you plainly netting;
interests me more in that tragedy froih'the,
flrst to the last act than the "exit?: aud-the1
"exeunt," than .the fact .-that the ;"shut-
ins" became the "got outs." And' I now
cheer with th4s story all the Inmateaof Jhe
sickrooms and hospitals,' and those prisons ;
where men had women are unjusjtly .endun-t
geoned,, -and all tho. thousands who '.reL
bounded on the North and' South and East
and We3t by floods, by deluges ,-ef mkjfor-
ble, if it does not dand on somo-earthly
height of vindication and rescue, will land
on the heights celestial.
And as I now And manv in harrlcanes of ;
trouble, though' I cannot quiet the storm,!
I-aan strike a match to light up the dark-;
noss, and I strike a match. ,"v7honi,the!
Lord loveth He chasteneth.' . I strike'an-l
other match. "Weeping may enduse tot a:
night, but joy cometb. in the momingv I'
strike another match. '.'We have a High
Priest who can be touched with the feeling
of our infirmities, and He was in all points
tempted like as wa are."t Are you old?
One breath of heaven will make you ever-,
lastingly young- again. . Have you aches
and pains? Tney insure Christ's presence
and sympathy through the darkest De
cember nights, which are. the longest
night3 of the year.- Are. you bereft?
Here is .. a resurrected 'Christ whose
voice is full of resurrectionary power.
But do not think that heaven is made up
ot any indiscriminate population. Sqmo of
my friends are so generous in their theol--ogythat
they would" let everybody inwlth
oiit, reference to .condition .or character.
Dcnbt think that libertines or blasphem-,
ers aid-rejecters of God and Ills gospel
have "letters of credit" that will drw any
thing 'from- the bank of . heaven. Pirate
crafts will not be permitted to ko up that, ,,
harbor.' If there are those who as to heaven
are to bo "shut ins," there are those who
wijl belong to the "shut outs." ' Heaven
has twelve-gates, and while those twelve
gates imply wide open entrance for those
who are properly prepared to enter, them
they impl that there .are at least twelve
possibilities tnat many will be shut out,
because a gate is-o no use unless it
can sometimes, -be closed. Heaven is not
an unwashed mob. Show your tickets or
you will not, get in-r-tickets that you may
get without money and Without price, tick
ets With a cross and., a- crown upon them.
Let the unrepentant and the vile and the
offscourings-of "earth enter heaven its they
now are, and they would depreciate and
demoralise it so that no one of us woul
want to enter, and those who are there
would want to move out. The Bible speaks
ot thewithouli" as well aa the "withias."
Revelation xsii., 15, "Without are dag
and. sorcerers and whoremongers and
murderers and idolaters and whosoever
loveth Rud miLketh a lie.'.': Through tha
converting, pardoning, sanctifying graca
of God may wuat last be found'amoiij- tho
shut ins and not aa'ons tho shut cutsi