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J - - iono ior a while tho grain will re Uni ha fire . j " . n. i.m, as razor 4S 'CO(l u - 7:80 am 44 -. . L 3:80 pm 4:80 44 5:15 44 DR. TALMAGE. I'll I? BROOKLYN DiVlNtTHSUNOAY Kubjectr "Uses of Stratagem." Preach ed to the 13th Regiment. N.'Y. S. N. G., at the leeekiH (?f. Y.) "laic Camp. Tkxtj "Then ye thall rls$ up.Wm th ambush and seize iipon the city" Joshua, . Ibh of the Thirteenth Regiment, and their friends here gathered, of all occupations, and professions, men of the city and men of the nelds, here is a theme fit for all of us. Ouq Kabbath evening with my family around mo, we were talking over the scene of the text. In the wide open ey3 and the quick interrogations ami the blanched cheeks, I realized what a thrilling drama it Was. There is the oJd city, shorter by name than any ether bity in the ages, spelled with two letters A, 1 Ai. Joshua and his men want to take it. How to do it is the Question. On a former ociibh, in a straightforward, face to face fight they had ben defeated; but now they are jgoing to take it by ambuscade. General -Joshua' has two divisions in his army the one division the battle-worn commander will lead himself, the ether division he sends off to encamp in an ambush on the west side of the city of Ai. No torches, no lanterns, no found of heavy battalions, hut 30,000 Bwarthy warriors moving in silence, speaking only in a Whisper; no clicking of swordi against shields, Jest the Watchmen of Ai discover ifc, and the stratagem Iw a; failure. If A rbystering soldier-in the Isratlitfch army forgets him Belf, all a'Ong the line the word is "Hush!" Joshua takes the other division, the one with which he is to march, and puts it on the north side of the city of Ai, and then spends th night in reconnoi taring in the vaHey. There he is, thinking over the fortunes of the coming day, with something of the feelings of VV elnngtou the night liefore Waterloo, or of Meade and Lee the night before Getty burg. There he stands in the night and sayj to himself: 4,Yonder is the division in am bush on tho west side of Ai. Hera is thn division I have under inv esjecial command on the north side of Ai. Thero is the old city slumbering in its sin. To -m or row will be the battle. Look! the morning already begins to tip the hills. The military officers of Ai look out in the morning very arly, and while they do not see the di vUirrt In mi,i.ch they behold the other division of Joshua) and the cry: 44 Jo arms! To arms!" rings through all the streets of the old town, and every sword, whetbefr hacked and bent or newly welded, is brought out, and all the inhabitants of the city of Ai pour through the gates, an in furiated torrent, and their cry is: "Come, we'll make quick work with Joshua and his troops." No sooner had these people of Ai come out against the troops of Joshua than Joshua gave suc h a command as he seldom gave: "Fall back!' AVhy, they could not believe their own ears. is Joshua's courage failing him . The retreat is beaten, and the Israelites are nying, throwing blankets and canteens on every side under this worse than Ball Run de feat. And you ought to hear the soldiers of Ai cheer and cheer and cheer. But they huzza too soon. The men lying in ambush are strain ing their vision to get some signal from Joshua that they may know what time to drop upon the city. Joshua takes his burn-Khed spear, glistening in tha win like a shaft of doom, and points it toward the city; and when the men up yonder in the ambush see it, with hawk like swoop they drop upon Ai, and without stroke of sword or stab of spear take the city and put it to the torch. So much for the division that was In am bush. How about the division under Joshua's1 command? No sooner doe3 Joshua stop irt the flight than all his men stop with him,and a he wheels thy Wheal, fo:-in a voice of thunder lie cried : "Halt !" One strong arm driving back a torrent of flyingtrcops. And, then, as he points his spear through the golden light toward tuac fatal city, his troops know that thoy are to start for it. "What a scene it was when the division in am bush. which ha i taken th- city marched down against the men of Ai on the one side, and the troops under Joshua doublet I upon their" enemies from the other s-ide, and the men of Ai were caught between these two hurr.canesi of Israelitish courage, thrust before and behind, stabbed in breast an I back, ground tietween the iipp.r and the nether millstones of Goi's indignation. Woe to the city1 of Ai! Cheer for the triumphs of Israel ! Lesson the first: There is such a thing as victorious retreat. Joshua's falling back was the first chapt r in his successful iiesiege ment. And there are times in your life when the best thing you can do is to run. You wereOnce the victim of strong drink. The demijohn and the decanter were your fierce foes. They came down upon 3'ou with greater fury than the men of Ai upon the men. of Joshua. Your only sa'ety is to getaway from them. Your dissipating companions will come around you for your overthrow. Run for your life! Fallback! Fallback from the drinking saloon. Fall back from the wine party. Your flight is your advance. Your retreat is your victory. There is a saloon down on the next street that has almost been the ruin of your soul. Then why do you go along that street? Why do you not pass through soma other street rather than by th? place of your calamity? A s:oonful of brandy taken for medicinal purposes by a man who twenty years before had leen reforms I from drunk enness, hurled into inebriety and the grave one of the best friends I ever had. Your re treat is your victory. Here is, a converted infidel. He is so strong now iu bis fanu in the Gospel he siys he can read anything. What are you reading? Bo'insbroke? Andrew Jackson Davis's tracts.1 Tyndall's Glasgow Univers ity admires;! Prop them an 1 run. You will be an infidel liefore yo i die unless you quit that. -These men of Ai ""ill be too much for you. Turn your back on the rank and file of unbelief. Fly before they cut you with their swords and trans.lx you with their jtvelins. There are people who have bean well-nigh ruined because they riko I a fool-hardv expe dition in the presence of mighty and over whelming temptations, and the men of Ai made a morning meal of them. So also there is f utli a thing as victorious retreat in the religious world. Thousand of times the kingdom of Christ has se jmeti to fall back. When tho blood of the St otch Covenanters gave a deeper dye to the heather of the Highlands when the Yaulois of France chose extermination rather than mike an unchristian surrender, whfiion-St. R irthoiomew's Hay mounted as sassins roda ti e streets of Paris, crying; Ki 1! Blood-letting i gol in Ausustl Kill! Dtatb to the Huguenots! Kill!" when Ijitly Jane Grey's head rollol from the executioner's block, when Calvin was im i.risoned in the castle, when John Knox died lor the truth; when John Bunran lay rotting in Bedford Jail, spying: "If God will help me and my physical life continues I will stay here until the moss grows on ray eyebrows rather than give up my faith," the days of retreat for the churcn were aays or victory. The Pilgrim Fathers fell back from the other side of the sea to Ply month Rock, but now are marshaling a continent for the Christianization of the world. The "Church f Christ falling back from Piedmont, (ailing bak from Rue St. Jacques, falling Sack from St Denis, falling hack from Wurteraburg castles, falling back from th Brussels market place, yet a.I tn time triumphing. i0"' u the sho-kin- reverses which the Church of Christ suffers, what do we see to-day f i nree thousand missionaries of the cross on hathe millions oi :iri-i..-" -- -, . : aations to dy kin lliax in a b'a5 of reyWaL Falling back, yet advancing until the old Weslevan hvnm will prove tru: "The Horof JnWi shVl brk be cnaH. An4 glvi us (he victory sjpsi" n" eai But there is a m re marvel illustration of rjctorious retreat in the life of our Joshua, rround: sixty thou-sana m'""?" r Christ in this land; at least hundr. ni! - ni..:.ti.na nn the carta. A't :he Jesiis o( the eg. First falling ta-k from ah, appalling, height to an 4ppal:in- depth, falling from celest:al. bills, to- terras' trial valleys, frprn thron.to tn&nger; yet at did not eeth to suffice Him as a retreat Faiiin? back still further from Bethlehem to Nazareth, from Hazareth to Jerusalem, back from Jerusalem to Golgotha, back from Go! rotha to the mausoleum in the rock, back lown over the precipices of pardition until le walked amid the cavern of the eternal raptivss and drank of the wide df thS wfats if Almighty God uni;d tin Ahabs arid the Jezebels and the BIshazzars. O meri.of the pulpit and men of the new; (Christ's descent .rom heaven to eartt) do,? hot measure half ihe distance. It was trom glorv to perdit on. He descended into bell. All the records of jarthly retreat ar . as nothing compare 1 with this falling. Santa Anna with the frag ments of his army flying over th plateaux f Mexico,' and Napoleon anrt his army re treating from Moscow in the awful mows of Russia are not worthy to be mentioned with this retreat, when ill the powers of darkness see Tie I to be pur wing Christ as he fell back. untU the body rfihirti Who came to do. such wonderful Ininsrs lay iJii'seles? and stripped. M thinks that the city of Ai was hot ib emptie I of its Inhabitants when they Went to pursue Joshua is perdition was empt:ed or. dvil when ther started for the pursuit of Christ, and he fell back and back, down lower, do"vn lower, chasm below chasm, pit below pit. unt 1 h seemed to strike the bottom of objurgation and scorn and torture. Oh! the long, lond, jubilant shout of hell at the defeat of the Lord God Almighty! But let not the powers of darkness reioice "raite so soon. Do you hear that disturbance In the tomb of Arimathei? I hear the sheet" renling! What moans that stone hurled down the side of the hill) Who is this com ing out? Push him back! the deal must not $talk in this open suulight. O'.i, it is our Joshda. Let him come out. He comes forth and starts for the city. He takes the spear of the Roman guard and points that way. Church militant marches iip on one side and the church triumphant marches down bh the other side. And tin powers of darkness being caught between these ranks of celestial and terrestrial valor, nothing is left of them save just enouzh to illus trate the direful overthrow of bell and our Joshua's eternal vitory. On his head be all the crowns. In his hand bo all the scepters. At his feet be all the human heart; and here. Lord, is cne of them. Lesson the second: The triumph of the Wicked is short. Did you ever see ah arrot in a panic? Thero is nothing so uncontrol lable. If you had stood at Long Bridge Washington, during the opening of our sad Civil war, you would know what it is to see an army run. And wlin those men of Ai looked out and saw thOe nteri Of Joshua in a stampede, thfy expected easy work. They would scatter them a the equinox tho leaves. O, the gleeful and jubilant de scent of th3 men of Ai upon the men of Joshua! But their exhilaration wa brief, for the tide of battle turned. and these quondam eonquerers left their miserable carcasses in the wilderness of Bethaven. So it alwiys is. The triumph of the wicked is short. You make $20,0 ;0 at the gamins table. Do vou exoect to keeD it? You will die iu the poorhouse. Youmadeafortnns by iniquitous traffic. Do vou expect to kop it Your money Iwill scatter, or it will stay lon enougii to curse your children after you are dead. Call over the ro l of bad men who pros xfed arid sea how short was their pros perity. For a whil like the men of Ai they went from - con "mast to conquast, but after a whole disaster rolled bick upon them and they were divided into three parts; misfortune took their property, the grave took their body, and the lost World took their soul. I am always inter ested in the building of theatres and the building of dissipating saloons I like to have them built of the best granite and have the rooms made large, and to have the pi bars mado very firm. God is going to conquer them, and they Will be turnad into aiylums, and ar ga'lei ies and churches. The stores in wlich fraudulent m-n do business, the splendid banking institution3, whera the pres'dent and cashier put all their property in their wives' n imes and then fail for 200,000 all these institutions are to be come t places where honest Christian men do business. How long will it take your boys to get through your ill-gotten gains? The wicked do not live out ha'f their days. For a while they swagger and strut and make a great Fplash in the newspapers, but after a while it all dwindles down into a brief paragraph: "Died, suddenly, July 2- 1888, at 85 years of age. Relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend the funeral, on Wednesday at 2 o'olock, from his late residence on Madi son square. Interment at Greenwood." Some Of them jumped off the docks. Some of them took prussic acid. Some of them fell under the snap of a Derrinser pistol Some of them spent their last (lays in a lunatic asy lum. Where are William Tweed and his associates? Where are Ketcham and Swart wout, absconding swindlers? j Where is James Fisk, the libert ne? Where h John Wilkes Booth, the assassin, and all the other misdemeanants? The wicked do not live out half their days. Disemboiue, O world of darkness! Come up Hildebran 1 an i Henry II. and Robespierre, and with blistering and blaspheming and ashen lips biss out: "The triumph of the wicked is short!" Alas for the men of Ai when Joshua stretches out his spear toward the citv. Lesson the third: How much may be ac complished by lying in ambudi for oppor tunities. Are you hypercritical of Joshua's maneuver? Do you say that it was cheating for him to take that city by ambuscade? Was it wrong for Washington to kindle camp fires on New Jersey Heights, giving the impression to the opposing force that a great army was encamped there when there was none at all? I answer, if the war was right, then Joshua was right in his stratsgem. He violaved no flag of truce. He broke no treatv, but by a lawful ambuscade captured the city of Ai. Oh, that we all knew how to lie in ambush for opm rtunities to serve God. The best of our opportunities do not lie on the surface, but are secreted; by tact, by strata gem, by Christian ambuscad, you may take almost any castle cf s n for Christ. Come up toward men with a rejular besieseruent of argument, and you will be defeated; but just wait until the door of their hearts is set ajar, or they are . off their guard, or their severe caution is away from home, and then drop in on them from a Christian ambuscade. There has teen many a man up to his chin in scien tific portfolios which proved tLere was no Christ and no divine revelation, Irs p?n a scimetar flung into the heart of theological opponents, who, nevertheless, has been dis comfited, and captured for God by some little three-year old child, who has got up and put her snowy arms around his sinewy neck and asked some simple question about God and heaven. Oh, make a flank movement ; steal a march on the davil; cheat that man into heaven. A five dollar treatise that will st-and all the laws of homiletics may fail to do that which a penny tract of Christian entreaty may ac- cofiifWish. Oh. for more Christians in am-b-os-aie, not lying in idleness. I n' waiting for a quick Fprin, waiting until just the rirht tune comes. Do not talk to a man about the vanity of th s world on the day when h? has bought something at "twelve" and is coing to se 1 it at "n teen." Bat talk to him about the vanitv of the world on the da v when he has bought something at 'fffteeu" and is compelled to sell at "twelve. Do not rnb a man's disposition the wrong wav. Do not take the imperative mood when th? subjunctive moo i will do juttaswelL Do not talk in per fervid style to a phleimali nor try to tickle a torrid temperament with an icicle. You can take any mm for Christ ir you know how to get at lr m. Do not send word to him that to morrow at M o'clock you propose to open vour batteries upon biro, but coma on him Vy.a sUllfuL persevering, God directed am buscade. LesFon the fourth: The importance of tak ing good aim. There is Joshua, but how are thes. people in araish up yonder to know when they are to drop npon the city, and how are these men aroun 1 Joshua to know when they are to frtop their flight and ad vance! There must he some signal a s gnal to stop the one division and to start the otbr. Joshua, with a spear on. which were er.Iinari'y hung th colors of bittie, points toward the city.. He staodi in such a con- fbicnotis position, and tier U so inueh of the rooming, light drfpwz frem that spear apt that all around the horizon tbesee it, liwa4 as much as to say : "Thera is ths city. Take it. Take it now. Roll down from the west. Surge np from the north- Itioars.lhacity of Ai. " God knows and we know that a great deal of Christian attack amounts to nothinz simply because we do not take good aim. Kobody knows and we do not know, our selves which point we want to take when we ought to make tip our minds whit God frill have us td do. . and point Our spear in , hat directipii and theri hurl diir body, rhiridt ouLUme, eternity at that ode target. lit our pulpits and pews and Sunday-schools and prayer meetings we want to get a feputation for saying pretty thiujrs. and jfai we p'pint our ppenr toward the flowers; or we want a reputation for sajing sublime things, and we point onr spear toward the stars; or we want to pet a reputation for historical knowledge, and we point our spear toward the past: or we want to get a reputation for great liberality, so we -awing our spear all around; and it strikes all points of the horison, an 1 you can make out of it what ever you please: while there is the old world, proud, rebellions ani armed against all rirhteciiisnesi; and blt-i rf furtdmg ftuf further away from iu rairsu t. we ought td turn around, plant our foot hi" the strenriH of the eternal God, and lift the old cros and point it in the direction of th3 world's con quest till the relemud of earth march ing u? from on? side, and thn g'orified of heaven marching down from the other side, th last battlement of sin is compe'led to swing out tho streamers of Emanuel Oh,' church of God, take aim and conquer. - I have heard it said: "Look out for a man who has only" one idea; he is irresistible." . I say: Look out for the man who has one idea, ami thit a determination tot soud saving. I believe God would strike me devi if I dared to point the soear in any other d:rection. Oh. for some of th? courage and eithnsiasm of Joshua! He flung two arm'es frOrn the" tip df that spesr. It is sinful for ds td rat, unless it is td gat strodgef muscle and fnsher brain and purer heart for God s work. I feel on my head the hands of Christ In a new ordina tion. Do you not feel the same omnipot nt pressure? There is a work for all of us. Oh. that we might stand on ide bv si le and point the spear toward t he city! It ought to be taken. It will be taken. Our cities are drifting o!T toward loose relizion or what is called "liber il Christiantv," which is so liberal that it eives up all the cardinal doc trines of the Bible, so liberal that it sur renders the rectitude" of the throrte of tho Almighty That is liberality With A ven geance. Let U3 decide u-on the work which we, as Christian men, have to do, and ill the strength Of Go 1. eo to work arid do it. It is comparatively easy to keep oil A psrade amid a shower of bouquets and hand clapping, and the whole street full of en thusiastic hnzzas; but it is not so easy to stnn I up in the dav of battle, the face black ened with smoke, the uniform covered with the earth plowed up by , whizzing bullets ind bursting is'iel Is. half th regiment cut to pieces and yet the commander crying: "For ward, march!" Then it requ res old fash ioned vilor. My friends, the great trouble of the kingdom of God in this day is the cow ards. They do splendidly on a parade day, and at the communion, when they have on their best clothes Of Christian profession; but put them out m the great battle ot fe, at the first sharp shooting of skepticism they dodge, they fall back, they break ranks. We con front the enemy, we on m the battle azainst fraud, and lo we find on our side a great manyt p?op'e that do not try to pav their debts.' And wo opau tho lattle against in temperance, and we nn 1 on our side a great many people who drink tOi triuch. And we opVrt the battle against profanity, and we find on our own side 'a great mamy men who raakeh-r 1 speeches. And we open tha battle against infidelity, an I lo! we find on our own side a great many men who are not quite sure aiioutthe Book of Jonah. And while we ought to bo massing our troops arid bringing forth more than the united courage of Aust?rlitz and Waterloo and Gettysburg, wo have to lie spending our time in hunting up ambuscades. Therahre a great many in the Lord s army who would like to go out on a campaign with satin sli.ipars and holding umbrellas over their heads to keep off the heavy dew, and having rations of canvas back ducks and lemon custards. If they can not have them they want to go bom?. They think it is unhealthy among so many bullets 1 I believe that the next twelve months will be the most sUipen lousyesrthst heaven ever saw. The nations are quaking now with the coming of Gol. It will be a year of sufcesses for the men of Joshua, but of doom for tho men of Ai. You put your ear to the rail track and you enn hear tho train coming mdes away. So I put my ear to tho ground and I hear the thundering on of the light ning train of God's mercies and judgments. The mTcy of God is first to bo tried upon this nation. It will tie preached ia the pul pits, in theatres, oa tho streets, everywhere. Peop'e will bo invited to accept tho mercy of the Gospel, and the story and the song and Ibe prayer will bo "marcy." But suu 7ose they do not accept the offer of mercy what then? Then Goi will come with His judgments, an 1 the grasshoppers will eat the crops, and the freshets will devastate the valleys, and the def dcations will swallow the money markets, and the fires will burn the cities, and the earth will quake from pole to pole. Year of mercies and of judgments. Year of invitation and of warning. Year of jubilee nd of woo. Which side are you going to be on? With the men of Ai or the men of Joshuaf Pass over this Sabbath into the ranks of Is rael. I would clap my hands at the joy of your coming. You will have a paor chance lor this world and tho world to come without Jesus. You cannot stand what is to come upon you and upon the world unless you have tho pardon and the comfort and the help of Christ Come over. On th s side is your happiness and safety, on the other side K disquietude and despair. Eternal defeat to the men of Ai! Eternal rictory to the men of Joshua! AGAINST CHINESE LABOR. San Francisco Threatens to Impeach Two FederalJudges. A great indignation mass meeting was held at San Francisco against the Chinese. Thousands were turned away from the main hall and formed an overflow meeting. After the speech's a memorial to Congress was adopted with cheers, setting forth that through the perversion of tho laws by the United States Court thousands of Chinamen were entering this port weekly, and offering to prove these facts at their own expense to a visiting Congressional committee, and finally demanding the impeachment of fed eral udges Sawyer and Sabin for perverting the laws- A resolution was also adopted starting a large "popular su criptiou- to fight the Chinese invasion legally, step by step. The meeting was called and pextidprted in by all the trades unions in the city. STABBED BY A CAPITALIST. Richard J. Caproo, a capital;?tof Balti more, went to the c3ce of John King, a well known real estate broker, to transact some business. Their conversation Lecame heated, and finally the lie was given by one of thenv The two men at once clinched, and Mr. Capron" claims that one of; King's clerks struck him. ne then picked np a large pair of shears from a desk and stabbel Mr. King three times. Two of the wounds were slight, but Ihe third penetrated the left breast of Mr. King. and is believed to have entered his lung. Mr. Capron was ar reste 1 nn I aftsra bearing was released oa bsil to await the result of Mr. King's in juries. Both men are well known and the affair has created not a Utile talk. RELIGIOUS BEADING. .XXbifN 4ritBlta fie, "Thre no rose without a thorn f Who has not found thii true. Ami know that griefs of glndu.ss born Our footsteps "tdf pursue! " That in the grandest harmony 1 ho strangest discords rise; Tho brightest bow we only trace Upon the" darke? fckisl lo thorhkMS rose! So,' Wore and ruo1 , , Our pVnSHiil bopos are" laid ' Witt-re writes the fcibki leg lid o ef A still, sepulchral shale. Unt Faiih and Love, with augel might, Ibeiik up life's d smal tond. Transmuting into fcotden lixht, " ' The wir.!s of leitleu gloom. Reversing 11 this funeril pill, Whl e raiment hy disrto ; Their happy song floats fell and long, 4,No tLv. u without a kwo! " A Ii t ie litkiug St mr tlrttffe. A Cmarder put out front England for New York. Ii. was well equippnL but in pint ng u i a stove in the pilot-box. a nail was driven too near I be compart. You know how t' at nail would affect the compass. The ip'ji o(!lcrs,deceivedby th t distracted compass, iait the snip two hundred, miles off hr right course, and suddenly the" man on the lookout cried. "Lind l.o!"' aud the ship was hafttil wiiu.n a few yards of her demult t.on on Nantucket shonl. A six pwnny nail came near wrecking a great Cuunrder. Shim I ropes hold mighty do-tinie. A minister, i-ealed in Boston at his table, lacking a word, puts his hands liehlnd his heal and tills back his chair to think aud the ceiling falls and crushes tho ta le, and wou;d Unto Crushed him. A minister in Jamaica at night, by the light of an it wect called the caudle fly, is kept from stepping over a piwipico cf a hundred feet. F. W. RolerIsou, the celebrate! English man, siid that he eulored the inmihtry from a tram of circumstances started by the bark ing of a dog. Had the wind blown o-e way on a certain 0y, tho Spanish Inquisition won It I ha v. leeT established in England; hut it blew .he other way, and that dropped the accursed institution, . with 75,000 tons cf shipping, to tiio l t torn of the soa, or flung the broken splintered logs on the rocks. "KUen-Err." How many years have yon lived? Has (led lieen it-t y good to yoil,' leading you day by day, protecting jou by night; leadii.g you in green pastures and beside still waters; or, lecausj the way must needs le roughf helping you over all obstacles; becauso the waters of . trial are about and around you, are they parted :o that you can go through dry shod? When you ask for daily bread, is there manna for your hunger and water for your thirst? Has He who clothes the lilies of the field with lieauty, not clothed you, O ye of little faith? Are there falling all around you the showers of blessing? Are you thankful lhat the same loving care that foil) ds even a parrow to fall to tho ground wits out His- knowledge, has you in such keeping that not the slightest harm can come to you, that no trouble cau assail, except as He wills? - When Samuel prayed unto God for help ngaiiifet the Philistines when they were about to go to battle, uhd the assistance was given so that "the enemies were smitten before them, Samuel took a stone and set it up, and called it "Kljenezer," saying,-"Hitherto hath the Lord helped us.". You may not have set up a "stone of help," but is there an Ebon ezer in your heart! And if God has helped you hitherto, is not the same assistance waiting for you iu the fu ture? There Cannot bo even a doubt of tha, for even iu such gentle tones as only the doar Lord knows how to use we hear the precious words: "Fear not, little flock; I am with you even to the end of the world." IChi U tian at Work. The El ter Brother. "Who is this elder sonf The question was once asked in an assembly of ministers at Elberfeldt, and Daniel Krummacher mado answer: "I know hfm very well; I met him only yesterday." 44 Who is he?" they asked eagerly ; and he replied, solemnly : "My self." He then explained that on the pre vious day, hearing that a very gracious vis itation of God's goodness had been received by a very ill-conditioned man, he hail felt not a little envy and irritation. ' That was the' true reading of the story, and it is cap able of manifold application. It fits the case of the scribes and Pharisees, to whom it was addressed, and who sneered at Christ for His reception of sinners. It fits the Jews in the Saviour's day, and . even in, the early church, who looked askance at the (J entiles, and complained becauso unto them also the gospel had been . preached. It fits the dis ciples at Jerusalem, who, immediately after Paul's conversion, were "afraid of hhn,' and believed not that he was a disciple. The appropriateness of this explanation ws very singularly impressed on myiown mind, in a manner which I can never forget. Some nineteen years ago I preached to my congregation in Liverpool, one Lord's Day morning, from this episode to the parable of the Prodigal Son, and gave the same inter pretation of it as I have now presented to you. As I was leaving the church for my home, 1 was requested to visit a dying man whom I had seen frequently before, but who was just then apparently about to pass within the veiL He had ben for many years a careless and irreligious man; but as I spoke with him from time to time I marked that a great change had come over him. I had conversed earnestly ami faithfully ; with him of Jesus and His salvation.: and he had " turned in " sincere penitence- to his Father, and was, as I sincerely believe, accepted by Him. When I entered his room that morning I foand him in great happi ness, rejoicing in the near prospect of being with the Lordnd apparently perfectly, hap py. I talked with him a little on the things of the kingdom, and after prayer I took my leave. His brother-in-law followed medown stairs, and said: 44 1 cannot understand this at all. Here have I been serving Christ Uwe twenty years, and I have never experienced the joy he express-, and yet be has not been a Christian, if he be really one, for more than a few weeks. Immediately I recog nized the elder brother, and I staid long enough to show him just how be looked in the "light of this parable. The result was that he saw his error, and was delivered from hut envy. . ' The pastor or age ana excellence, wno n mourn in it over the apparent fruitlessnew of bis labors, and is tempted to ask why God. makes a young brother m the neighborhood, of little experience and less eminence, instru mental in bringing multitudes to Christ, white be has no such resells from his minis trathms; toe Sabbath school teacher who throws up bis work ia wounded self-love be cau e another, who has no ruch qutliflcatkmj m t rtoaupaoM hxti to be so much more successful than be; the laborer in any de- "1 partment of beneficence, who, because he thinks that more is made of some one else than himself, gives way to person! pique, and withdraws altogether from the enter prise; the over-sensiUve, conceited man, who is al wars taking offence where none is meant, and is so continually anxious for the due re cornition of his dignity, that be manages to , !l khmlf from marv sodetf With" wh-h he is eMoected. mar ail look here, and in tbe elder brother each will see himself. But let not even these Imagine thai iney j that are bevood God's acceptance. The father itlwr ' came out and entree to i the elder brother to go into the feast, and so God i still appeal- i rag to tbe envious. Thefdoor-f cpea to"" them if they will bat enter; and when they consent to do so in tbe rpirit of sons and not , of servants, in humility and not In self-eon- i oeit, in love and not as hirelings, then they ' too will rejoice, and the fevaJ, instead of aggravating them into misery, will be felt by them to be en appropriate expression of their gladoeea iWiUiam XL Taylor.D. D. DISASTERS AN0 CASUALTIES. Carrie A, Dean, aged 76 year, was struck by a train and killed at Corn wall. New York. . A portal le saw tall boiler, at Fell City. Indiana, btirst, killin? Chat les Mayers ami injuring William MeKJriley. Stephen Phillips and Fretlerie Newman were killed by an explosion of nitroglycerine at Lima, Ohio. They were oil well drillers. Mrs. Charles Schoonmaker and her grand' son , James Berriaa, colored, were struck and killed by a train just below Sing Sing, New York, while crostng the track. A freight train on tha Baltimore and Ohio Railroad bltnped the track near Belmont,' OhkJ. A bfakenlaa and throe tramps were injured and i0 cars demolished. ' A bite from a pet dog caused the death of Mrs.- John S. Martin, of Chicago For f ouf days Mrs. Martin suffered the horrors of hydrophobia. She was 28 years old. - Jacob Nelson, an employe of the Philad pbia, Wilmington ami Baltimore Railroad Company, was killed in Baltimore, Md.t while making up a freight train. , Samuel W. Insrersoll. of Tleasautville, New Jersey, aged 83 years, was nfruck and killed j by a train on the Philadelphia and Atlantic City Railroad, as he was crossing the track, j A freight and materia train on the Norfolk i and Western Railroad collided near Lynch- ! burg, Va, killing both engineers, one fireman and five of the crews. The loss is estimated at IRO.OUO. Charles Miranda, a brakeman on the Cin cinnati and Muskingum Yallcy Railway, fell from a freight train, near Bromfu, O., and was killed. Six of bis brothers, were killed on railroads. : As the body of an infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Blinn was awbitiuc burial in Haverhill, Masa, the drapery obout the bier took fire from candles, ana the body was burned to a crisp. About a week ago, A. Lund, with hia brother and four others, left S in Pedro, Cal., in an open boat for a trip around the Cata lina Island. The boat has been found bottom uo, aud it is , thought the whole party was drowne i. . ' Thomas Hennessy, liviug Hear Fairview, Luzerne county, Pa., went to that villige to get some medicine for bis wife, w ho is dan gerously ilL He jumped from a railroad car in front of an engine on another track and was fatally injured. During a thunder storm in Chicago, Mr Moody's old church was struck by lightning which tore off a large part of the slat roof ing. A rush was made for the street, but tho panic was stopped by the Pastor, Rev. Chas. Gos3, coutlnu'.ng the services as if nothing hail occurred. In Wilmington, Del., Theolore W. Dats, a railroad employe, got caught between twj Cars. James S. Wrightington, a car builder, at work near by, ran to Deal's as istance, and rescued him, but in so doing ho received injuries which caused bis death in a short time. A passenger train on the Milwaukee road, carrying the members of Stetn'B Undo Tom's Cabin Company, struck a cow near Red'Wing, Minnesota,, and three cars were thrown down a 25-foot emhankinent. W. A. Clark, of Hurley, Wisconsin, was killed and several members of the company were in jured, one woman having a leg broken. A heavy rain and hail storm visited Ply-, mouth, Wisconsin. Tho extent of the hail may be judged from the fact that it covered the groun 1 to the depth of wvoral inches for hours after the storm. Fruit and crops wero ereatly damaged. The storm is thouzhtto have been quite general and to involve a large area of country. The "Cannon Ball" passenger train on the Alabama Division of the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad, ran through an open switch, 80 miles from Chattanooga, Tenn. The engine turned over and the en gineer and fireman were fatally injured. The switch had been misplaced bv two negroes, who were caught and both con fessed. They were taken to Cleveland to escape lynching. While John P. Anderson was cleaning out a 150-foot well, at Johnstown, Nebraska, the walls collapsed, imprisoning him. "Ho has rtmained there ever 6inee without food or water, and deriving his fresh air from that part of the well below. Another well has been sunk beside tho old one and tho men have dug near enough to him to hear him 6jeak. An old armory in New York, which has been used for commercial purposes for some years, was the 6ceno of a fatal disaster. Part of the gallery on .one side of the building collapsed under tue weight or two neavy folding machines, belonging to the Lovell Manufacturing comiany of book printers, and the machines broke through to tho ground floor. Six girls went down with tho wreck, but only one, Mary Bagnel), was killed Another was brubed in one eye, and the rest escaped injury. A LARGE FIRE, The Destruction of a Shoe Factory Causes $390,000 Damage. The watchman discovered a fire in the second story of the shoe factory of Kripper dorf , Dittman & Co., situated on tho north east corner of Sycamore and New streets Cincinnati, O. Tbe Are engine house No. 4 is not more than two hundred feet distant, and the alarm was instantly given, but bo fore tbe department could begin its fight, the flames had reach d the elevator, and had spread to all the upper floors. Then began the d sperate contest of the entire fire de partment to mitigate tbe calamity by sub duing as much as pomil'Io tha intensity of tho heat, so as to save adjoining structures. It was a great content, but the firemen succeeded ' after almost impossible work. Tho burned factory was one of the largest aul best equipped in the coo u try. It was engaged in the inaouf tscture of fine quality of women's shoe. It had tbe test and most extensive machinery, valui at 1100,000. The building was put up especially for the purpose two years ago, at a cost of f 70,000. J he stock and manufactured good on hand were Inventoried a few days ao at tl--4,'-'". Total loss, 310,000; iusuranco, tlGJ,. Tbe employees thrown out are live bun Ire 1 and fifty, of whom thre hundred and fifty are worn n and girU. The origin of tbe fire is a mystery. There was no fire in the buildiug. FIREARMS AND FIRE WATER. Local Option Cause a Fierce Fight in a Kentucky Town. There is war at Harlan Court Uoum, Ky., over whiskey. Two armed bands of twenty each, one favoring the other opposing tbe I jccal Option law, met in tbe streets there and exchanged volleys. Ia all a hundred shots w-re fired. No one was kill-d, but five men were carried away wounded. More fighting i feared. t . - Mttmwuum m -- when ! County Judge Lewis had several grocery- men brought before him charged with selling liquor. The trial failed to develop proof. As Lewis was going to bis bouse in the country J. VL 1 alley, one of the accused, was in tbe act of s booting at bira while on btetmrse.-wbeaa iystaaier canRht the pis tol away. Lewis rod beck into town, gath ered bis .Tfriends, , piaced a guard with Winchester nflea about tbe .dozen stores eonstitattng tm business part of tbe town and railed the suspected plac. I A down barrel of whiskey were Tolled ' cert and emptied on the groun L : The whiskey men rallied their force and the nht followed. TERRORIZED BY BANDITS. Cltixcna dfnnUcto Punlah".-' lUnf of Murderer kI Cattle Thicyetv Los Angeles county, Cat, hat long bw terrorised by a well armed band of outiawa" whose deaperatedeesls and doprelatlous bavw menaced the public poacA Thsast outrage rf. which thoy bav beeoVuihy haa aroused the coninjwnity to fevcf heat, and steps are being taken to avenge it General Heale, formerly Minister to Aus tria, and a friend of the late General Grant, jwns sixty thousand, acres of land near the town of Lancaster. The greater part- of th tract is In the mountains ami dimcutt o scces General Beef used it to pasture hU herds of cattfe. - - V , The band of desperadoes have their head quarters in the mountains, and last week the outlaws raided the e iUie an t drove off m large herd Tho band was beaded by Frank ; fray, a notorious murderer and cattle thief, npon whose bead a price has long been set. lie has Up to the present time succeesWl in evading his pursuers, and all attemps to cap ture him have been in vaiu. ? At soon as General JWle beard of the raid be offered a reward of f-JU each for ttoe capture of tho thieves, dead or alive, llony Crane, one of Beals's head men. and ador ing tighter, started in pursuit of Frays band. Fray heard of it, and, eluding his pursuer, rode into Iaucast r at the bead of his band while Crane was absent. His men were arme 1 to the teeth. Holding the angry cit rons at bay, they surrouude 1 Crane's houne and burned it to the ground. The people were powerless to interim", j Tho house cost fO.OviO and Is uow a ruiu. After tho burning of tin) house the robber beat a retreat, and as they galloped lout of the town shots were fired at them, but ildoca not appear that auy of them were bit. An indignation meeting was.hwld ami ft poNse of armed men was organized to loliow the trail of the bandits to tho mountain aud capture them dead or olive. MAY BE HIS TOMB. Imprisoned Five Days In a Well. SI ill A live) and Ilia Friends .A. Arc Dlggluff. s John P. Anderson started down Into a well on ii farm four miles northeast of Johnstown, Neb., five days ago for the purjoso of clean ing It out. Alter reaching a d'ith of about sixty-five feet he saw that, the .walU were beginning to cave in. He called to th.-? man above to pull him up. Ho was drawn up to within about twenty five feet of tho top, when the well completely closed In and be fras a prisoner. Ho has been there ever inee. Tho men at one began digging a well beside the old one and kept at it night knd day. A It was thought at first that Anderson bad", been smothered to death, but the work whs continued for the purpose of recovering bis body. Tho ground caved in very easily ami the task of reaching him was much harder than bad been anticipate!. Even tbe two most sanguine of tho rescuing party had given up tho idea of: taking the man out alive, sslien, as they were shunt to learefor dinner, tho rope which wiw attached to the windlass over tho oi l well was ierked Viol ent y ami the bucket was heard to drop to tbe bottom. One of the men, Hitting his car to the wall of tho new well next to the old one, heard Anderson say, "For God's sake, boys, don't loavo me no"." His grave clothes had Ixn-n prep-tred and tho funeral s -t, but the diggers, on Inarhing that he was still alive, ret urned to theirwork with renewed vigor and were within thrs feet of him. Tbe well began caving in again and the curbing sunk about afoot. The men were frightened out of tbe well, but almost immediately returncl and found An derson all right, lie told them to save bin if possible, but to take no chances for themV selves. Ho has constructed a kind of J out of the old curbing, and by this means' hoi to prevent the dirt from caving In on him. It u about a bundrod feet to the bot tout of the well and from this space he g U air. THE BITER BADLY BITTEN.fi Officer Interrupt What Slight Have Been a Confidence or "Oreen- Gooda" Game. Special Officer Sol Coulton captured two men at Pittsburg, one of whom carried a satchel in which were six or eight packages that looked like 11.000 package, being 1 inches IbicJC withrubber bands riroua 1 each end. Each ouo contained only two genuine bills, the balance boing gum paper, such as is used for national Lauk notes, cut to the exact sizo. On the person of one of thera was found several hundred dollars of new bank notes. Both carrioJ revolvers and wre well dresed. Coulson noticed the two men with an old farmer on Fourth avt uueand aucpected they were bunko men from tleir actions. The two men went into No. ld Fourth avenae, where they bavo Iwen rooming for about a week. Sergeant Stix, whom Cools n called., went into the hotiHe as they were coming out with the satchel in hand and arriwlel inern. "IU give you $1,000 to ltmi p," id the one with the satchel, Imt lite bribe wasn t taken. They ref twed to give th-tr names, but are probably gr-oa goods d alers." Tbe names of thn men sre James Mclleny, of lliiladelpbia, and Joe-ph Marsh, U Brooklyn. DIAMONDS IN THEMAIL Fifty Valuable Stone Consigned to a Turk Seized by Custom Authori ties. . A man who looked as though be might be a Turk, called at tbe Custom houso Office in the Post office at New York and inquired for a package" for 8. MisrahL When the pack age was prodaced be persistently ref used to open it in tbe presence of U.) officials as re quired bylaw. On being taken before col lector Magone, however, be ronsenttjd to dis play its contents. The package was hardly as Urge as a parlor nwU h box, but its con tents were much more valuable , When tbe cotton which it cnt-tirv-d wa removed the officers were surprised to find In it fifty diamonds, mostly small, but very brilliant stones. One of them was as big a a pea. Mrsrabi said they were valued at fU00 and showed a foreign invoice to that effect. Ai)pr8jserbttensdiffrred from Lira,' however, and said tbe stone were very fine ones, awl be thought, worth. lunch more than that The diamond were seized until further mforrnation can be had. If Misrahi can prove thst the stone were sent into this country in this manner owing to ignorance of the taw on tbe part of tbe consignee and ronxiruor be may l able to get bit goods back by paying tbe 10 per cent duty on I beta. BLEW HIMSELF UP. " At MnrSey's SUition, CsL James Mason, a veteran stajo driver, committed suicide in a horrible manner. Ila bought allf ty-pound tax of gia t powder, sat oa it and touched the t-xpimire off. Tbe coroner gathered up twenty pounds of the body in a basket ; - 1-
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