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-. 1 PIARYELS OF MESMERISM ASTOUNDING PERFORMANCES IN THE ORIENT. i Man Darned With Glowing Coal "Without Feeling It Ilurletl ' Alive lor Forty Days. t i, I hare seen during the last twenty fears-,-says KclUr, the conjurer, almost every hypnotist and mesmerist of note in America and Europe. I have been per mitted to carefully examine their per formances and to note the precise effect produced upon the subject by their manipulations. With this experience I think I am able to judore whether a per formance of that :ha meter in well or : poorly done, aiid I say to you that there were ten years io, aud I presume are now, in India mesmerists whose per- ibiccd efforts of such of their Christian f rivals as I have ever .een. Let me (describe one performance. It was in Hecunderabad m 187S, and It took place in ..the broad corridor in the palace of Baler Jung, the Nyzam. I wu i one of a patty of Englishmen, among j whom were Dr. Crawford, surgeon of the British army, and Mr. John Hodg- kin?, forrruTjiy an ofricf-r in Her Majesty' Lancers, bui at that time in the employ of an English banking and mercantile firm in Hong Kong. ..We were in the front tanks t the' spectators nearly all tc EuriKans. After we 1 of whom I had waited a - few minutes, fanning our I telvevfor HC day was oppressively hot, the fakirs made their appearance. There were eight in the party. An old man, with npjiline features, a patriarchal white beard .and a pair of flashing black yes, was the .leader. His wife, a pretty little woman, young enough to le hi. daughter,, was his chief assistant, and his tix remaining men served a.s subjects and tinder-aistant. ' AfU r the fakirs Jtrrivr-d they proceeded t'onc; to bnsines?. The old man bound a bandage tightly around the forehead iuf one of his young men, placing a small, wed-: shaped piece of pith under the cloth and directly between the eyes. Then he handed him a small, round rniiror, telling him to place.it on his fiand and g.e upon it intently. This the young man did. Meanwhile the oth i fakir madiTt irele- partially arounl him, droning a nionotouoiu chant that ran something as follows: j ' "!viru, ram. a ma rant, amaran, ram. Amaram, ftintu"m, nmarant, rain." This was repeated "over and over again in sing-song tones, resembling the distant hum of a hive of bees, and when the : chant: v as ended we w ere-nearly as drowsy as tic poor subject was. ' Dire-rily the song was finisnd we fctaite from tur lethargy and brought our Jigging senses to bear upon the vic tim of this reumikable incantation. He whs lying on the parlor floor, to nil p pearatue dead.- His fare WM of the ghastly pallor of th' tnmb. His arms, legs and jingrrs wtrr as though they had beon oddrnlv turned to ice. - His blood remed to have been frozen on-a day when we living spectators - were' almost PulTorated by-the heat. 1 AVe felt his finder.. They . were 'as rigid as thojgh -moi'lclrd from niarblcl Dr. 'raw ford raised his eyelids. The pupil bad been . upturned nnd nothing but the white was viiMr. The doctor examined bis 1 ir-.irl and frit his pulse. His blood had stopped (lowing through his veins. To, mnke the tot even more complete th5 doctor stopped his nostril.?, his eyes and liis ears .and his month with A thick, putty like pit-, th.it made breathing an impossibility. In every previous inej lueric or hypnotic experiment I had wit ut'ssrd the bultjrrt had breathed. Now raine some further tests, and cruel lines they were,, too. Largo bodkins were thrust .entirely through the hand, and he never moved a muscle. Neither did a single drop of blood follow the withdrawal f the steel. This 'prodding. whs repMed upon his cheeks, his finger point.s, and arms, with precisely tin? same re.Mi!t. 'Tin n the old man took a glow ing coal of thanroal from' his pot and placed it on the upturned palm of his un conscious victim's hand. Hero it first tmoked, then si.led, ami the corridor became pe nuTated, with the odor t)f burn ing human lle.di. Still the man was un conscious. At lat the doctor forced the old man to remove th" charcoal for fear that it might do the young man some permanent injury. - The subject, was then urned over to the doctor's care. The physician made very etTort known to medical scieucu to resuscitate niui, all for naught. After he. had been in this trance for nearly an -hour, the old fakir made some wide spreading passes over his body with his arm-, and leaned back to watch the re- Milt. A shiver pas.-ed over the subject's form, and a. grim smile of triumph curled the corner of the old man's mouth. We gathered around the prostrate man, and watched him until we grew sick at heart -mid. felt faint. Such torture, such hor rible agony I never beheld on a human being's- face. His features were twisted rid distorted out of all human resem blance. His limbs became knotted, and lae writhed into a thousand different Whajvcs from his ringer tips to his toes. After live minutes, that seemed to us an age,' he opened his 'eye,"' rubbed ,the moisture from his forehead, and sat up . s one who was daed., A minute later he rose and took his place -among the ''other .wis though nothing whatever had ha j period. ' While this was very wondeful, the old man now proceeded to astonish us still more. With no one to help him, save the singers and their chant of his own volition, he threw himself (into this same tnarvtlous state. We repeated the same experiment uxn him that we had done in the instance. We drove steels througiiis limb' and scorched the palm of his hand with a living coal. We stopped up his nostrils, ears, eyes and mouth' and .--then the doctor worked on him for half an hour or more? The effect of death was iu this case more pronounced than in the former. The natural pallor of the old msn face, his flowing white hair and beard made him appear like the . carved figure of sorne old Indian Chief tain in one of the royal burial grounds. It impressed us as. though we "were in the presence of actual death and we instinc tively pke in whispers. When the doctor was tired he turned the Inxly over to the woman, who made pertain passes over it, and slowly and .terribly the old man regained his senses. iThat tmled this performance, the like of jwhich I tuver jK'rsonally saw equaled .The old man was said to be the only member of this particulaf jtarty who could throw himself into this trance, if I may so call it, und lus wife was the only one who had power to brin him to life. llVithout hr - ' ' :--.iinJa that condition for an indefinite period. Some of the natives claimed that he could sleep that dreamless sleep for centuries and then be brought to life. However that may be, he would undoubtedly re main unconscious until death really came to him unless some powerful a gert re called his dormant senses. I J Several months later, daring the same year, I Tisited Lucknow, ." the gut t of Col. Jenkins, commander of the UritLsh forces, at the Chuddarrnumzil Clibyof which the Colonel was the Seer tary. One evening I related to the Colon :1 the experience I have just described, when he proceeded to tell me of one thi; re cently happened in Lucknow, the truth of which he vouched for. j This is the Cole net's story: In 1877, I think he said,1 a party of fakirs, possibly the same one? I had seen, for their description tallied closely -with that of my Acquaintance, visited the Colo nel's quarters and gave un exhibiti m of their almost superhuman powers. ( The old man threw himself while in a s tting or rather squatting position into a ti ;ince, and his assistants proceeded to piar e his tongue far back in his mouth. Then they swathed his body with bandag es, as a mummy is prepared for the tomb. They filled his eyes, ears, mouth and nostrils with paste and bandaged his fac : and neck, arms and chest, as they had done the lower ptfrt of his body, j Whe i this was done hef was turned over to the Colo nel. 3Iind you, all this had been done in the presence of the Colonel ."and his officers. Tere was and could be eo de ception in itl - j The Coloriel had had a deep hoi? dug in the barrack-yard, and into this he placed the bandaged fakir, after first putting him into a box, sheatherJ with metal and hermetically sealed. The earth was spread over this box an 1 the grave was placed under the guar of a squad of soldiers. Every second of the time, day and night for forty day: I the grave was under" guard. The box riould Dot have betsn meddled with by any xiuman being and have escaped detection. j At the end of that period the box w; ex humed and opened, the body was un swathed and a woman breathed upon its face, and passed her hands over his imbs, find, precisely as J. have described 1 fore, none the man' came to life, apparently the worse tor his long bunau How longer he could have remained ground of course I can not tell. much under All I know is he certainly was buried and re mained there forty days without air food or drink At War With the Bnbl: The Bubi tribe, who inhabit thd 1 little ulf of island of Fernando Po ini the Ouinc) recently made a raid upd n tne town 'of Santa Isabel, and had t not i been for the timelv arrival of a S mnisn gunboat they would probably h vc re- duccd the town to ashes.) lhei King and a number of his followers wene cap- t.u red and are have once been still in custody. They severely flogged jin the open air, and the news was sent to' theit friends. I r The Bubi are among the most p ?culiar people ever discovered. Though their island home contains only about. 800 square miles, and the whites, Porti guese, British and Spanish, have been n pos session for four centuries, the nativt s were almost- as little known as thoug i they lived in Central Africa Aintil a few years ago. They live far up among the Mount ains that occupy the interior of the sland. For generations at a time they id not molest the white residents of the j coast unless they ventured into the interior They kept a breed of ferocious dogs, which were a srreater source of teiror tc the whites than the Bubi themselves. though the-latter were well arme 1 with arrows and spears. At one tim wdien they were at war with tho whites they were accused of stealing into the settle ments in tne night time anil poiBoninr wells. They have never yet been sub- iucrated. though a while ago a pwhite traveler, by exercising great patience and iiersevcrance managed to win their con fidence, lived among them for some time, and two years ago he published K book giving the first detailed information about the native inhabitants. This is probably the only instance on record of an island, tweuty .miles wide, being in possession of the whites for four centuries, during which time they were not able to explore the interior New ler Sun. A Hangman's Double Li M Writing about the prospective retire ment of Joe Atkinson on account of the electrical execution law th New York correspondent of the i Detroit Free says: j ; j It is doubtful if any man ever wjraore successful in leading a double Wit I so to speak, than this man Atkinson.' His name is not Atkinson at! all, end he never goes by that name except n con nection with hanging. .It i3 only bis nom de gallows, as it were.: At hi s home in Brooklyn and among his ac quaint ances he bears a totally different name. He is quite a home-body too, in h s way, and his acquaintances are not a.fev. But neither in his home nor among his ac quaintances is there any suspicion" bathe is also the Joe Atkinson so ofter men tioned in the newspapers. He has a trade, that of a carpenter, and he ollows it regularly, under hia real name, and could make a fair living at it with ut any of the hanging business, j How he has contrived to keep the identity of be At kinson, the hangman, and the identity of his real self, the working carpenter, separated so many years, j is a Marvel. Thousands of guesses as to who A kinson really is have been made, but no c ne has yet bit the mark. It was in 1S53, thirty six years ago, that his first regular) job as a hangman was done, and he h: 5 since had over forty jobs of the same cind at the Tombs, yet it does not appear that in his goings t6 them, or hia, prest ncc at them, he has ever been connected y any body's eye or in anybody's mind w ith the honest carpenter of another nan e. "I have kept this thing pretty quiet : o far," he says; 'and I am going to as I ng as I live." Chief! v for the sake of his family. who ''haven't anything to do with hang ing, and should not be made unhappy about it. tuite riS"t, Ui Atkirison; it aoa you creait to spare your farm An In?enlons Clock. August Bartli, of Garrettsville, lias invented a peculiar clock. t con- sistsolonly five pieces twowhee s about the size of a silver three cent pie :v, two hands and the dial. The dial i about the size of an old style wooden clock, and the bands are about five inlies in lenrth. The dial is made of Hs ?. and it is plainly to be seen by looking through it that there are no other parts th a thoe named. The clock kwos '. per fee . time. TALMAGE'S TRIP I - . . .. ' : : fH t IJKUOKXIW DIY1NE8 SUNDAY SEB1ION Tkxt: Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men," Luke ii.. 14. , At last I have what I longed for. a Christ mas eve in the Holy Land. This is the time of year that Christ landed. He was a Decem ber Christ. lli is is the chill air through 1 wnicu ne neseendeo. i icoic uptnrougn tnese ChrUtmas skies, and I see no loosened star hastening, southward to halt above Bethle hem, but ail the stars sugeest the Star of Bethlehem. No more need that any of them run along the sky to point downward. In quietude they kneel at the feet of Him who, though once an exile, is now enthroned, for ever. Freh up from BetUehim, I am full of the scenes suggested by a visit to that village. You know that whole region of Bethlehem is famous in Bible tory. There were the waving harvest of Boas, in which Ruth gleaned for herself and weeping Jfaomi. There David the warrior thu fctv, and threo men of unheard of self denial broke through the Philistine army to cet him a drink. It was to that reeion that Joseph and Mary came to have their I uauM euroueu in me census. inat u wnas the Scripture means when it says they came to be taxed." for people did not in those lays rush after the assessors of tax any more than they now do. The village inn was crowded with the Grangers who had come up by the command f Government to have their names in the census, so that J oseph and Mary w-ere obliged to lodge in the stables. You have seed same Of those large stone buildings, in the center of which the camels were kept, while run ning out from this center in all directions there were rooms, in one of which Jesus was born. Had his parents been more showily nppareled I hav.e no doubt they would have found more comfortable entertainment. That night in the fields the shepherd with crook and kindled fires, were watch ing their flocksv when hark!' to the sound of voices strangely sweet. Can it be that the maidens of Bethlehem have come but to serenade the weary shepherds? But how a light stoops upon them like the morning, so that the flocks arise, shaking their snowy fleece and bleating to their drowsy young. Tho heavens are filled with armies of light, and the earth quakes under the harmony as, echoed back from cloud to cloud, it rings over the nndrtight hills: . "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will to men." It seems that the crown of royalty and dominion and power which Christ left behind Him was hung on the sky in sight of Bethlehem. Who knows but that that crown may have been mistaken by the wise men for the star running and pointing downward? My Kubjecfc, in the first place, impresses me with the fact that indigence is not always teignificant bf degradation. When Princes are lorn, heralds announce it, and cannon thunder it, and flags wave it, and illumina tions set cities on fire with the tidings. Some of us in England or America remember the time of rejoicing when the Prince of Wales was born. You can remember the gladness throughout Christendom at tho nativity in the palace at Madrid. But when our glorious Prince was born, there w-as no rejoicing on earth. Poor and growing poorer, yet the tifvonlv rfmi(rrtit irn Il-inf. Phrictmna niarlit-. shows the truth of .the proposition that in- oigence is not always significant of degrada tion. ' In all ages there have been great hearts Ihrobblug under rags, tender sympathies un der rough exterior, gold in the,quartz, Par ian marble in the quarry, and itl every stable bf privation wonders of excellence that have been th joy of tho heavenly host. All the great deliverers of literature and of nations were born in homes without affluence, and from their own privation learned to speak and fight for tho oppressed. Many a man has held up his pi no knot light from the wil derness until all nations and generations have seen it, nnd ofT of his hard crust of pen ury has broken the bread of knowledge and religion for the starving millions of I the race. Poetry, and science, and literature, and commerce, and laws, and consti tutions, ciud liberty, like Christ, were born in a manger. All tho great "thoughts which havo decided tho destiny of nations started in obscure corners, and had Herods who wanted to slay them, and Iscariots who betrayed them, and rabbles that crucified them, and sepulchres that-confined them until they burst forth in glorious resurrection. Strong char acter, like tho rhododendron, is an Alpine plants that grows fastest in the storm. Men are like wheat, worth all the more fo being flaiWl. .Some of the rdost useful peoplo would never have come to post tions of usefulness had they .not been ground and poimded and hammered in the foundry of disaster. When J teee Moses coming up from the ark of bul rushes to bo the greatest lawgiver of th ages, aud Amos from tending the herds to make Israel tremble with his prophecies, and David from the sheepcote to sway the poet' jen and the King's scepter, and Peter from the fishing net to bo the great preacher at th$ Pentecost, I find proof of the triith of my proposition that indigence Li not always significant of degradation. ' My suoject also impresses me with the thought that it is while at our useful oc cupations that we have the divine manifestations. Had thos shepherds gene that night into Bethlehem .end risked their flocks among the wolves, they would nqt have heard the song of tho angels. In other words, that man sees most of Uod -And heaven who minds his own business. We all have our posts of duty, and standing there God appears tons. We are all shep herds or sheperdesses, and we have our flocks of cares and annoyances and anxieties, and we must tend them. We sometimes hear very good people say: "If I had a month br a year or two to do nothing but attend to religious things, I would be a great deal better than I am now.'1 You are mistaken. Generally the best peo ple are the busy people. Elislia was plowing in the field when tho prophetic mantle feu on him. Matthew was attending to his cus tom houso duties when Christ commanded him to follow. J arnes and John were niend iug their nets when Christ called them to be fishers of men. Had they been snoring in the sun Christ would not have called their indolence into tho apostleship. Gideon was at work with ' the flail on the threshing floor when he saw the angel. Saul was with great fatigue hunting up the lost asses when ha foundthe crown of Israel. The prodigal son would never have reformed and wanted to have returned to his father's house if he had not first gone into business, though it was swine feeding. Not once out of a hundred times will a lazy man become a Christ ian. Those who have nothing to do are in very unfavorable circumstances for the receiving of divine manifestations. It is not when you are in idleness, but when you are, like the Bethlehem shepherds, watching your flocks, that the glory descends and there 15 joy among tho angels of God over your soul pemwns ana iorgiven. My subject also strikes at the delusion that tb religion of Christ is dolorous and grief infusing. The music that broke through the midnight heavens was not a dirge, bat an an them. It shook joy over the hills. It not only dropped upon the shepherds, but it sprang upward among the thrones. The robe of a Saviour's righteousness is not black. The Christian life is not made up of weeping and cross bearing and war waging. Through the revelation of that Christ mas night I find that rcligioti is not a groan, but a son.. In a world of sin and sick bed and sepulchcrSj we most have trouble; but in jhs darkest niht the hea vans part with angHo song. You may, like Paul, be sipw decked, but I exhort yoa to bo of good ehr, tUr you shall all escape safe to tho land. Iteligion does not show itself in the elongation of tjh f-c and the cut of the Carb. The Phajruee who puts his religion into his phylactery ha nono left for - his heart. Fretfulness and complaining do not belong to the' family of Christian graces which move into the heart when the devil moves out. Christianity does not frown upon amusement and recreations. It is not a synic, it is not a shrew, it chokes no laughter, jt quenches no light, it defaces no art. Among the happy, it is the happiest. It it just as much at home on the playground as it is in the church. It is just as graceful in the charade ac it is in the psalm book. It sings just as well in Sur rey gardens as it prays in St. Paul. Christ dil thit we might li v-. Christ walked! that wo might ride. Christ wept that w might laugh. Again, my subject impresses ma with the fact ih-it glorious ending sometimes have very UuoibJa beginnings. The straw pallet 74. t&9 fUrtin point, (mf the ihoo 3.th ' m?.i il-'ht sky re raTu 1 wh it woul I1 be th Eloriouf coannixitkin. Chrfet o:i Msrya ip. Christ oa th3 throa of univeratl d miu ton what an humble starting! What a glorious ending! Grace begini on smU scale to the heart. Yoa s only men as tress waPdng. The grace of Go I in the heart is a feeble spark, ani Christ ha? to kap both hands over it left it be blown out." What ma humble beginning! Bat look at that same maa when He has eat -red U3vea. No crown able to express His royalty. pilaco able Mb ex press. Hi wealth. IS 3 sceptre able to express His power an i Hu dominion. Drinking from the fountain that drips f ron the everlasting Rock. Ammj th3 harpars hirpinj with their harp. O j a sea of ghu mingle I with firs. Before th3 tfiroas of GjI, to g ru wore oit forever. Th spirk of grxzr Vit Christ had to keep both hiad ovic I ait it cjoj to ex tinction, having flamI up into hoaorand rlory ani immortality. What humble start ug! What glorious conmtnmitioat The New Testament Church was on small scale. Fisherman watched it. Against ths uprising walls crashed infernal enginery. Th3 world said anathemi. Ten thoosini pawle rejolcad at every so 3m In? defeat, and ami.: "Ahi! aha!so we would hv it." Mrtvr3 on fira cried; "How long, O I-ord, how long? Very humble starting, but sss th difference at the con mm-nitiou, whaa Christ with His almighty arm has struck off the last chain of humia bondage, ani Himalaya shall hi Mount Zion; 1 ani Pyrenees, Moriah; and oceans, the walking place of Him who trol tha wave cliffs of storm 3d Tiberias, an 1 islan 1 shall call to Ulan l, sea to sea, continent to continent, and fcha Tll of t.h Wrtrl.t'l rdi:Ttnt.if -ivinr th3 heavens, like a graat sounding board! shall strike back the shout of salvation to the earth until it rebounds again to the thront of God, and all heaven, rising on their thrones, beat time with their scepters. : Oh, What an humble leginntng! What a glorious ending! Throne linked to a manger, heavenly mansions to a stable . . My subject also impresses me with ."the ef fect of Christ's mission upward and down ward. Glory, to God, peace to man. When God sont His Son into the world, angels dis covered something new in God, something they had never seen before. Not power, not wisdom, not lovo. They knaw all that be fore. But whsn God s-sat His Sort into this world then the angels saw the spirit of self denial in God, the spirit of self-sacrifice in God. It is easier to love an angel on His throne than a thief on the cross, a seraph in his worship than an adulteress in her crime. Whin the angels saw God the God who would not allow , tha most insignificant angel in heaven to be hurt give up His Son; 1 1 Is Son, His only, only Son. they saw something that they had never thought of before, and I do not wonder that when Christ started out cn that pilgrimage the angels in heaven clapped their wings in triumph and called on all the hosts of heaven to help them celebrate it, and sang so loud that the Beth lehem shepherds heard it: "Glory to God in the highest." But it was also to be a mission of peace to man. Iu flat to holiness accumulated de pravity. How could they, ever com? to gether! The Gospel bridges over tho dis tance. Ifc brings God to us. It takes Us to God. God in us, and we in God. Atone ment! Atonament! Justice satisned, sms forgiven, eternal life sacurei, heaven built on a mangor. But it was also to be the pacification of all individual and international animosities. What a sound this word of peace had in the Roman Empire that boasted of tho number of people it nad massacred, that prided itself on the number of tho slain, that rejoiced at tho trembling provinces. Sicily and Cor sica and Sardinia and Macedonia and Egypt ha I bowed to her sword and crouched at the cry of her war eagles. She gave her chief honor to Scipio and Fabiu3 and Caesar all men of blood. What contempt they must hav0 had there for tho penniless, unarmed Christ in tho earn of a Nazarine. starting out to conqu3r all nations. There never was a place on earth where that word peace sounded so offensively to the ears of tho multitude as id tho Roman Empire. Thay did not want peace. Tho greatest music thoy over hoard was the clanking chains of their captives. If all the blood that his been shel in battlo could ba gathore I together it would upbear a navy. The club that struck Abel to the earth has its echoia the butch3rie3 of all ages. Edmund Burke, who gavo no wild statistics, said that ;hera hxl bas i spjat in slau;'at3r thirty-five thousand millions of dollars, or what would ba equal to that; but he hal not seon ; into our titnos, wh3ii in our own day, in America, we oxpondsi threa tUouoial millions of dol lars in civil war. Oh, if wo could now tae our nation on somo high point ani S33 th3 world's armie3 march past I What aspecticlait would ba I Thero go the hosts of Israel through a score of Red seas one of water, tho rest of blood. There go Cyrus and his army, with infuriate Tell rejoicing over tho fall of tho gat3?of Babylort. j There go93 Al0xandei lea. ini forth his hosts and cohliieriri all tlja World but hioisolf, tho earth reeling with the 1 HXr-t tie gash. 6f Arbola ani Persepolis. . Tl ore goes Ferdinand Corte3, leaving Lis buthc rod enemio3 bn tha table lands once Ira grant with vanilla f and covered ever with grove3 of llowaring cacao. Tl lero g033 th3 great Frenchman, loading his at my down through Egypt like ono of its plagi 193, an i up through Russia like one of its own icy blasts. Ybndar is the graj.6 trench under the shadow Of Sabastopal., Ttierd are the rini of Dalhi ah I Allahabai, and yonder are the inhuman S3poy3 ani tha bra ye, regiments undar Havelosk avenging the idsultdflagof Britain; while cut right through the hoarc bf my nativo land is a trench in which there lie on3 million Northern ani Southern dead. Oh. tha tears! Oh, th3 blooi! Oa, the long marches! Oa, ths hospital wounds! Oh, the niartyrdorril Oh, tljo deathL But brighter than the light which flashai on all thasi swords and shields ani musketry is the light that fell oa Bethlehem, ani loudor than the bray of the truenpata, and the neighing of tbe chargers, ani the crash of the walls, and the groaning of tb.3 dyinTj armi33, is the song that unrolls this moaien't from tho sky, swo9t as though all the: bells of hsaven rung a jubilea: "Poaca on earth, goo! will toward ni3n.w Oil, wb?a will the day coma God haste-j itl when tha swords shall ba turned into plowshares, ani thS fortres333 shall ba reoijJelel into churchas, and tha man of blool battlinz for renown shall b come good soldiers of JeatiJ Christ, and the cannon now striking down whole columns of death shall thunder tha victories of the truth. , ! When we think of the ivhole world saved we are apt to think of tho few people that how inhabit it. Only a very few compared With the populations to come. And what a small part cultivated. Do you know it has been authentically estimated that three fourths of Europe is yet all barrenness, and that nine hundred and ninety-one one-thousandth part of the entire globe is uncultivated? This is all to be cultivated, all inhabited and all gospclized. Oh, what 'tears of repentance when nations begin to weep! Ohj what supplications when continents begin td pray! Oh. what rejoicing when hemispheres begin-to sing! Churches will worship n the places where this very hour smokes the blood of human sacrifice,, and wandering through the snake infested jungles of Africa Christ's heel will bruise the serpent's head. Oh, when the trumpet of falvation shall be sounded everywhere and 1 the nations are re loomed. a light will fall upon very town brighter than that which fell upon Bethlehem, and more overwhelm ing than the song that felt on the pasture fields where the flocks fed, there will be a ong louder than the voice cf the storm lifted oceans, "Glory to God in the highest," and from all nations and kindred and people and tongues will come the response, ; "And on earth peace, good will toward men T On this Christmas Eve I bring yon good tidings of great joy. Pardon for all sin, comfort for all trouble and life for the dead. Shall we now take this Christ into our hearts? The time is passing. This is the closing of the year. How the time speeds by. Put your hand on your heart one, two, thre. Three times leas it will beat. Life is passing like gazelles over the plain. Sorrows hover like petrels over the sea. Death swoops like a vulture from the mountains. Misery rolls up to our ears like waves. Heavenly song fall to us like stars. I wish yon a merry Christmas, not with worldly dissipations, but merry with Gospel gladness, merry with pardoned sin. merry with hope of reunion in tbe skies with all yoor loved onee who have preceded yon. In that grandest mod best sense m merry Christmas. And God grant that in our final moment we may have as bright a vision as did the dying girl when she said: "Mother" point ing with her thin white hand through the window "MothT, what is that beautiful land out yonder hey ond tbe mountains, tbe high mountains?" "Oh." raid the mother, "my darling, thxre are no mountains within tight of our home." "Oh. yes, she sail, "don't yon see them that beautiful land be yond the mountains out tljere, just beyond tha fcih mottafafnsT . . ' The mother looked down Into the face off her dying chill and said: "21y dear, 1 think that must be heaven that you meT- "Well, then," she said, "father, you coma, and with I yoor strong arms carry me over those mount ains into that beautiful land beyond the high ' mountains." "No," said tbe weeping father, I "my darling, I can't go with yon." 'Welt, the said, clapping her hands, "never, mind, never mind ; I see yonder a shining one com ing. He is coming now, in His strong arms to carry ma over the mountains to the beao- . tif ul land over the moo.ntains,over the high mormfainsr - water the oss.dbxstx mtuf r 1. An interesting argument for the temper ance advocates is apparent! v to be found in the fate of a large town in South Africa. The name of the place is Shoshong. It contained 20, OX) people and was the center of a large and prosperous trade. The only thing it lacked was water. So jreat was the suffer ing on account of the scarcity of water that tie town has been deserted by its entire pop ulation and a site for a new city selected on the banks of the classic Limpopo, one hun dred miles away. This is a fine object lesson for the temperarce people. It thows that water is or ecsential condition of that aggre gation of human beings which builds cities and forrs great fxrieties, and that man. as he sometimes tries to do. cannot live by rum alone. The good people of Shoshong might have been liberally supplied with liquors; but nevertheless they were fimJly forced to em igrate to the bright nd sparkling waters of the Limpopo. Chicago Herald. A FAMOUS TEVPZJUUVCZ APOSTLE. I had a chat with Francis Murphy, the great temperance apostle, a week or two aco. pays a writer in the Kansas City 7Ymj. Mr. Murphy will be in Kansas City this winter, and ne prpmises to stir up the monkeys in great shape. The famous temperance advo Vate has never worked here, and his novel methods will prove taking. Mr. Murphy's hair is white now, and over a good-natured mouth a heavy gray mustache improves an already handsome face. How old do I think Mr. Mnrphy? Sixty, probably, although he may be five years older. And what a happy, thoroughly happy man he is! He invited me to his room in a small northern Iowa town two weeks n.ro. 1 he floor was literally covered with envel opes addressed to "Francis Xurphy. temper ance apostle." Each of those letters con tained a request for dates With the noted speaker. . "I can't go to all these p'aces, Mr. Murphy said, "but all of these letters must be an swered. I 0 where I think I can do the most good." - THE STATE OF AFFAIRS IN IOWA The Joira Messenger, of Des Moines, in speaking of the temperance movement at home, remarks: "There is over the State a sort cf revival of enforcement of the prohibitory law. Many arrests, trials and, convictions have been made, the fines imposed in severs cases reaching $1000. Violators of the-law m many localities are made to understand that prohi bition prohibits, and that talk cf repeal does not terrii r temperance pecrjle into apathy or indifference, but rather nerves trio arm of the law to assert its si r.-'eniaey. Clandestine sale has b.3 roufk-i in mctfy places ond cor'x u iity relieved of to preknce of the secret roe. LIr. Hoyt tcl3 how some of this work was ccia thruh the 1 joism of a, woman who went fiftaea miles to ilo infor mation, and jM-oposcd to wash to earn money t; pay cost, if i coul 1 be raised in no other way. No record of the name of this heroine ia made, but the blessing of the deed will be monument of her courage and devotion as long as her town shall live. Many women in Iowa have stood in the places to which duty has celled them in support of the law, and in this hour of threatened danger they will prove anew their devotion to tha law which protects the home." . I A I etterkenny, 1'enn.j- farmer, who lives near the mountain, sa3's he can al ways tell when a hard storm is coming, as the crows their fly to the better pro tected nooks for shelter, sometimes a da j before the storm reaches there. Prog-ress. It is very Important in this age of vast mate rial progress that a remedy be pleasing to the' ta te and to the eye, easily taken, acceptable to the stomach and healthy In its nature and effects. Possessing these qualities. Syrup of Firs is the one 1 -effect Laxative and most gen-IU-diun-1 :c know n. , The Gttqmaea of South America eat one pound of clay every tlay; Catarrh Can't b Cured with I,O0AT, APPLICATIONS, as they cannot reach the sat of the dies. Catarrh is a bl od or c mstituti mal d'seas, and 111 order to cure ic you have to take internal remedies. Hall's Catarrh cure is taken in ternally, ani acts di recti von the blood and mucous surfaos. IlaUV Uitarrh Cur n -piack medicine. It wa prescribed by fine of the b't p'ijsinins in th's c unt'-y for ycas, ani is a re;ui r prescription. Jt is composed of ihe beft tonics known, corfi bined with th ht blood purifiT, acting directly ii th mueon5 surface. ThMr per fect combinati n of tbe tw ingredients is w!it irofiu cs su -h wonderful results in cur iageatanh. H--nd for testimoni'tls fre. F. -I. CHENEY & CO., Pro!., Tel do, O. ?'" Sold by druggists, price 5. ; Experts at picking locks wig makers When the lummer'i rose has faded What shall make it fair egain ? When the fce with pain ia t-h dtd What shall frite away the paint . N-vor shall a bio om brighten . A fb r bllglted b the frost, But tbe load t f pain tiiar ligbtefli And we reed not count cS lost all hs plea-ure of life wh n tbe wie anc" mother, cpon whom the happinet-s o! home so larg ly depends, is afflicted with the d licate diseases peculiar to wonwn. I is urriole t c mteinplate th misery exbt nj in our midfct because of the p evalance of tbtse dis a.es. It is h'gh timo that all wo rn n should now that there is one sure rem edy lor all female complsiuts, and mat is Dr. Purce'i Favorite Prescription. Do not allow rl health to fasten itself upon you. Ward it fT by the use of this standard remedy. But if it has already xept in, put it to rout. You can do itbyttn ue of the "Fa-orite Pres cription." t i- guaranteed to give satisfac-ti-u in eveiycjuctr monty pail for it will be returned. - For bili-. usness, si- k hradache, indigestion, and consiipatioo, tAe Dr. Pieices Ptlkt. 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Swain County Herald (Charleston, N.C.)
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Jan. 23, 1890, edition 1
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