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Tba writ u frwely il the rrtBTe la your c. You will re ceire prompt replr. without rot- L2L J. C AVER. r - - . - . I. . . . . - Tl t ' - - ' - " ' THE "WORLD TO COME. REV. DR. TALMAGE PICTURES LIFE BE ! VOND THE GRAYE. 9fartrrSom f 6tphen the Tlie For an Able Sermon CHildmi of Iletfcp Tbroorb tbe Erea of tbo Great Prcb. er Tho Eternal Sleep. i i !Corrr!hL 1S3S. by American Press Asso ciation. WASHEforo, ilsrch 13. The dis- course of Dr. Talmage which we teed ont is a vitid ctory cf martyrdom and a rapturous view of the world to coriie; text, Acta vii. C6-60. "Eebcld I see the heavens opened, eta . Stephen had been preaching a reusing sermon, and the people could not Etand it. They resolved to do as tnen Eozne- times would like to do in this day, if they dared, with some plain preacher of righteousness kill him. The only way to silence . this man was to knock the breath out of him. So they rushed Etephen out of the gates of the city, and with curse and whoop and bellow they brought him to the cliff, as was the cus tom when they wanted to take away life by stoning. Having brought him to the edge of the cliff, they pushed him off. After he had fallen they came and look ed down, and seeing that he was not yet dead! they began to drcp stones upen him,' stone after stone. Amid this hor rible rain of ' missiles Stephen clambers up on his knees and folds his hands, while the blood drips from his temples tn hie rhppVa. frnm hia rhppkft tn his garments,! from his garments to the ground, and then, looking up, he makes two prayers one for himself and one for his murderers. "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit; ! that was for himself. !'Lord, lay not this sin to their charge;" that was for his assailants. Then from pain and loss of blood he swooned away and fell asleep. - The Martyr' Vision. I want to show you today five pic tures Stephen gazing into heaven, gtephen looking at Christ, Stephen sfened, Stephen In his dying prayer Xlrtt leek at EUphta fltslng late EUphta heaven. Before you take a leap you Want to know where you are going tc Isnd. Before yon climb a ladder you want to know to what point the ladder reaches. And it was right that Stephen, within a few moments of heaven, should be gazing into it. We wculd all do well to bo found in the same posture. There is enough in heaven to keep us gazing. A man. of large wealth may have stat uary in the hall and paintings in the sitting room and works of art in all parts of the houso, but he has the chief pictures in the art gallery, and there bcur after 'hour you walk with cata- logue and glass and ever increasing ad miration. WelL heaven is the gallery where God has gathered the chief treas ures of his realm. The whole universe is his palace. In this lower room where we stop there are many adornments, tes sellated floor of cmetbyst, and on the winding cloud stairs are stretched otot canvases on which commingle azure and purple and saffron and gold. But heav en is. the gallery in which the chief glo ries are gathered. There are the bright est robes. There aro the richest crowns. There are .the highest exhilarations. John says of it, "The kings of the earth shall bring their honor and glory into it " And I see the procession forming, and in the line come all empires, and tho stars spring up into an arch for. the hosts to march under. The hosts keep step to the sound cf earthquake and the pitch of avalanche from the mountains, and the flag they bear is the flame of a consuming, world, and all heaven turns put with harps and trumpets and myriad voiced acclamation of angelic dominion to welcome them in; and so the kings of theearth bring their honor and glory into It. , Po you wonder that good peo ple often: stand, like Stephen, looking into hbaven? Wo have many friends there. ' i i Friend In Heaven. -" There is not' a man in - this house to day so isolated in life" but there is some one in heaven with whom he once shook hands. As a man gets older the number of his. celestial acquaintances very rap Idly multiplies. . We have not had one glimpse of them since the night we kissed them goodby, and they went away, but still we stand gazing at heaven. As when some of our friends go across the sea, we stand on tbe dock or on the steam tug and watch them, and after awhilffthe hulk of the vessel disappears and then there is only a patch of sail on the sky, and soon that is gone, and they are all out of sight, and vet we stand looking in the same direction, bo when our friends go away from us into the future world we keep looking down through the Narrows, and gazing and gazing, as though we ex pected tha they would come out and stand on some cloud and give us one glimpse of their blissful and transfigur ed faces. 1 Wail youi long to join, their com- panicsthlp and tbe years and the days go with such ; tedium that they break your heart, and the viper of pain .and sorrow and bereavement keeps gnawing at your Vitals, you stand still, like Etephen, Earing into heaven. You won der if they have changed since you saw them -last; tYcu wonder if they would recognize your face now, so changed has it been with trouble. You wonder if, amid, the; myriad delights they have, they care as much for you as they used to when they, gave you a helping hand and, put their shoulder under your bur dens.. You wonder if they look any older, and sometimes, in the evening tide, when the house is all quiet, you wender if you should call them by their first name If they would" not answer, and perhaps sometimes you do make the experiment, and when no one but God and yourself are there yen distinctly call their names and listen: and tit gazing into heaven. 1 Seeing Chxlit. Pass on now and see Stephen looking upon Christ. My text says he saw the Bon of Man at the right hand of God. Just bow Christ locked in this world. just how he looks In heaven, we cannot say. A writer in the time cf Christ says, describing the Saviour's personal appearance, that , he had blue eyes and light complexion, and a very graceful structure, but I suppose it was all guess work. Tte painters of the different ages bare tried to imagine the features of Cbrift and put them upon canvas, but we will have to wait until with our own eyes we see him and with our own ears wci can hear him. And yet there is a way of seeing and hearing him now. 1 have to tell you that unless you see and bear Christ cn earth you will never see and hear him in heaven. Lock! There he is I Behold the Lamb of God I Can yon not see himf Then pray to God to takeh mcales off your eyes. Look that way -ry ro Icok that wcy. His voice c6mes down to you this day comes down to the blindest, to the deaf est souL saying, "Look unto me, all ye ends of the earth, and be ye saved, for I am God, and there is none else." Proc lamation of universal emancipation for all slaves! Proclamation of universal amnesty for all rebels I Belshazzar gath ered the Babylonish nobles to his table; George I entertained the lords of Eng land at' a banquet; Napoleon IH wel comed the czar of Russia and the sultan of Turkey to his feast; the emperor of Germany was glad to have our minis ter, George Bancroft, sit down with him at his table, hut; tell me; ye' who know most of the world's history, what other king ever asked the abandoned and the forlorn and the wretched and the out cast to come and sit beside him? Oh, wonderful invitation! You can take it today and stand at the head of the darkest alley in any city and say : your sores, a throne for your eternal reigning.' A Christ that talks like that and acts like that and pardons like that do you wonder that Stephen stood looking at him? 'I hope to spend eternity doing the same thing. I must see him. I must look upon that face once clouded with my sin, but now radiant with" my pardon.) I want to touch that hand that knocked off my shackles. I want to hear that voice which pronounced my deliv erance. Behold him, little children, for if you live t threescore years and ten you will see none so fair. Behold him, ye aged ones, for he only can shine through tbe dimness of your failing eyesight. Behold him, earth. Behold him, heaven. What a moment when all the nations of the saved shall gather around Christ 1 All faces that way. All thrones that way, gazing on Jesus. Hia worth If all the nations knew Sure the whole earth would love him too. ( Death of m Martyr. I pass on now and look at Stephen 6toned. Tbe world has always, wanted to get. rid of good men. Their very life is ah assault upon wickedness. Out with Stephen through the gates of the city. Down with him over the precipices. Let every man come up and drop a stone upon his head. But these men did not so much kil Stephen as they killed themselves. Every, stone rebounded upon tnem. vvniie tnese murderers were transfixed by the scorn of all good men, ctepnen lives in trie ..admiration of all Christendom. Stephen stoned, but Stephen alive. So all good men must be pelted, j All who will live godly in Christ Jesus mukt suffer persecution. It is no eulogy of alman to say that every body likes him. iShow me any one who is doing all his duty to state or church, and l will show you mejo who utterly abhor him.. j If all men speak well of you, it is be cause you are either a laggard ora dolt II a steamer makes rapid progress through the waves, the water will boil and foam all around it. Brave soldiers of Jesus Christ will hear the carbines click. When I see a man with voice and money and influence all on the right side, and some caricature him, and some sneer at him, and some denounce him and men who pretend to be actuated "By right motives conspire to cripple him, to cast him out, to destroy him, I say, "Stephen stoned.' When I see a man in some great mor al or religious reform battling against grogshops, exposing j wickedness in high places, by active imeans trying to puri fy the church and better the world's es tate, and I find that some of the news papers anathematize him, and men, even good men, 'oppose him and de nounce him, because, though he does good, he does not do it in their way, I say, "Stephen stoned." The world, with infinite spite, took after John Frederick Oberlin and Paul and Stephen of the text. But you notice, my friends, that while they assaulted him they did not succeed really in killing him. You may assault a good man, but you cannot kill him. ; 1 . j -.; ' ( The Way to the City. On the day cf his death Stephen spoke before a few people in the sanhedrin ; now he addresses all Christendom. Paul the apostle stood jon Mara hill address ing a handful of philosophers who knew not so much about science as a modern schoolgirl. - Today he talks to all the millions of Chriiteadom about the won ders of justification and the glories of resurrection. John Wesley was howled down by the mob! to whom he preached, and they threw bricks'at him, and they denounced him, and they jostled him, and they spat upon him, and yet today, in airlands, he is admitted to be tbe gTeat father of Methodism. Booth's bul let vacated the presidential chair, but from that spot of coagulated blood on the floor in the ibox of Ford's theater there sprang up the new life of a nation. Stephen stoned, but Stephen alive. Pass oh now and see Stephen in his dying prayer. His first thought was not how the stones hurt hia head nor what would 'become of his body. His first thought was about his Epirit. "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit". The murder er standing cn the trapdoor, the black cap being drawn over his head before the execution, may grimace about the future, i but you and I have no shame in confessing some- anxiety about where we are going to come out You are not aU body. There is within you a souL I see It gleam from your eyes, and I see it irradiating your countenance Socio-. times I am abashed before an audience, not because I come under their physical eyesight, but because I realize the truth that I stand before so many immortal spirits. The probability is that your body will at last find a sepulcher in some of the cemeteries j that surround your town or , city. There is no doubt but that your obsequies wiU be decent and respectful, and you will be able to pillow your head under! the maple or the Norway spruce or the cypress, or the blossoming fir. But. this spirit 'about which Stephen prayed what direction wiU .that take? What guide wiUl escort it? . What gate will open to receive it? What cloud will be clef t for its path way? After it has got beyond the light of our sun will there be torches lighted for it the rest of the way? Will tho soul have to travel through long deserts .before it reaches the good land? .11 we should lose our pathway, trill there be a castle at whose gate we may ask the way to the city? Oh, this mysterious spirit within us I It has two wings, but it is in a cage now. It is locked fast to keep it but let the door of this cage open the least and that soul s off. Eagle's wing could not catch it The lightnings are not swift enough to take up with it. When the soul leaves the j body, it takes CO worlds at a bound. And have I no anxiety about it? j Have you no anxiety about it? j, j' Stephen' Prayer. ; I do not care what you do with my body when my soul is gone, or whether you believe in cremation or inhuma tion. ' I j shall sleep just as well in a wrapping of sackcloth as in satin' lined with eagle's down. But my soul before this day passes I will find out where it will land. Thank God for the intima tion of my text, that when we die Jesus takes us. That answers all questions for me. What though there: were massive bars between here and the city of light Jesus could remove them. What though there were great Saharas -of darkness, Jesus could illume : them. 1 What though I get weary on the way, Christ could lift me on his omnipotent, shoul der. What though there were chasms to cross, his hand could transport: me. Ta 1 Sfcfiben'a pvayer lie say dyiag litany, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit" It may be in that ; hour we will be too feeble to say a long prayer. . It may be in that hour we will not be able to say the Lord's Prayer, for it j has 'seven pe titions, j Perhaps we may be tocj feeble even to say the infant prayer our moth " ers taught us, which John Quincy Ad ams, 70! years of age, said every night when he put his head upon his pillow: Now I lay me down'toieleep. ! ; I pray the Lord my soul to keep. We may be too feeble; to employ ei ther of these familiar forms, but this prayer of Stephen is so short, isso con cise, is so earnest, is so comprehensive, we surely will be , able to say! that "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit" i Oh, if that prayer is answered, how sweet it will be to die! This world is clover enough to us. Perhaps it has treated us a great deal better than we deserve to be treated, but if on the dying pillow there should break the light of that bet ter world we shall have no more regret about leaving a small, dark, damp house for one large, beautiful anfd papa cious. Hhat dying minister in Philadel phia, some years ago, beautifully de picted it when in the' Jast moment he threw up his hands ahd cried out, "I move into'the light." - . A Working Christian, j i T ; Pass on now, and I will show you one more picture, and that is Stephen asleep. With a pathos and simplicity peculiar to the Scriptures the text. says of Stephen, "He fell asleep." "Oh," you say, " w, hat a place that was to sleep 1 A hard rock under him, ; stones, falling down upon him, the blood streaming, the mob howling. What a place it was to sleep 1" And yet my text takes that symbol cf slumber to describe his de parture, so sweet was-'it so contented was it so peaceful waslt Stephen had lived a very laborious life. His: chief work had been to care for the poor. How many loaves 6? bread he distribut ed, how many bare feet he hadj sandal ed, how many cots of sickness and dis tress he blessed with ministries of kind ness and love, I do not know, but from the way he lived, and the way he preached, and the way he died I know he was a laborious Christian. But that is all over now. He has pressedthe cup to the last fainting lip. I He has taken the last insult from his enemies. ; The last stone to whose crushing weight be is susceptible has been hurled. Stephen is dead. The disciples come. t They take him up. They wash away the blood, from the wounds .They straighten out the bruised limbs. They brush back the tangled hair from the brow, and then they pass around to look upon the. calm countenance of him who had lived for the poor and died for the truth. Stephen asleep! ' ". : v . v ."p . ' V - - ; I have seen the seadriven vith the hurricane until the tangled foam caught in the rigging, and; wave rising above wave seemed as if about : to storm the heavens, and thea I have seen the tempest drop, and the waves crouch, arid every thing become smooth and burnished as though a camping place for the glories of heaven. So I have seen a man whose life has been tossed and driven coming cbown at last to an infinite calm in which there was the hush of heaven's lullaby. ; . i - -T f ; Stephen asleep! I saw such a cne. He fought all his days against! poverty and against abuse. They traduced his name. They rattled at the doorknob while he was dying with duns for debts he could not pay, yet the peace of God brooded oyer his pillow, and whije the world faded heaven dawned, and the deepening twilight of earth's night was only the opening twilight of heaven's morn. Not a sigh; not a tear ; not a struggle. Hush I Stephen asleep I At the Last. ' - I have not the faculty to 'tell the weather. I can never tell by the setting sun whether there will be a drought or not I cannot tell by the blowing of the wind whether it will be fair weather or foul on the morrow. But I Cn prophesy, KEEP YOUR Surely if the word REGULATOR is not on n package it is not .. !' Nothing else is the same. been put up by And it can be easily told FOR SALE BY W and I will prophesy, what weather It will bo wbeiryou, the Christian, come to die. You may have it very rough now. It may be this week on annoy ance, the next another annoyance. It may be this year one bereavement, the next another bereavement Before this year has passed you may have o beg for Dread r asK ior a scuttle oi coal or a pair of shoes, but at the last Christ will come in and darkness will go out, and though there may be no hand J to close your eyes, and no breast on which to rest your dying head, and no candle to lift the night, tbe odors of God'sfhanging garden will regale your sout and at your bedside will halt the chariots of the King. No more rents toj pay, no more agppy because flour has gone up, no more struggle with "the world, the flesh and the devil," but peace long, deep, everlasting peace. Stephen asleep! Asleep in Jesus! Blelrsed sleepf ! -From which none ever wake tof weep! ( A calm and undisturbed repose, Uninjured by the last of toe, j Asleep in Jesus 1 -Far from thee Thy kindred and their graves itiay be, But there is'still a bleased sleep From which none ever wake td weep. You have seen enough for one morn ing. Net one can successfully jexamine more than five pictures in ( a day. Therefore .we stop, having aen this Cluster of divine .Raphaels Stephen gazing into heaven, Stephen looking at Christ, Stephen stoned, Stephen in his dying prayer, Stephen asleep j JlLK. A BEAUTIFUL NEW Hade by "Communal Butterflies,- but Cannot Be Spun Yet. it Some very remarkable bugs are being hatched and reared just at present by the experts of the government bureau of entomology at Washington. Most peo ple would suppose that there were enough insects in existence without re sorting to artificial propagation! but the fact is that this kind of scientific work has a very useful purpose in vie-kv ; this, too,' notwithstanding the fact that the species selected for breeding jare the most pestiferous that can be found. The bug hatchery, or "insecthry," as it is called, ia a brick building jjclose by the department of agriculture, f In con struction it resembles a greenhduse, the upper part being of glass, so as o admit plenty of light for the insects. It is divid ed into two compartments, onef which is artificially heated for the benefit of tropical and other species that require warmth, while the other is old. On shelves all around the interior land on the floor as well are glass jars apd queer glass sided boxes containing a great va riety of odd looking objects. j "l r The objects in the glass jars are parts of plants, fruits, dried up vegetables, pieces or . branches pr roots, e does not see any bugs at all, reason why is simply that the o. one and the bles, fruits and so forth are the food of the insects, and the latter are either inside of them orulse are "done up" in cocoons for the winter. ' For example, there is a bng cocoon nine inches long hanging from a twig in a jar of exceptional size. This is the temporary communal dwelling built by the so called "gregarious butterfly" in Mexico. More correctly speaking, it is the caterpillars transformed later into butterflies that construct the) cocoon for a residence while they are undergo ing their metamorphosis. The cocoon looks and feels as if made of thick parchment and at the lower end of it is a small hole that serves for aj door. The labor employed in building it must be enormous. Under a powerful magnifying glass it is seen to be com posed of an infinite number off shining and very slender silken threads, cross ing each other in every direction. When cut into, the nest is found t4 contain 100 or more chrysalids, attached to tbe walls on the inside each one rpresent ing a future butterfly. . The balii---of combining! together to build a h r: i. seem s to be pejcul iar to this SDecic among butterflies. The silk composing tbe nest is exquisite, ' and from 20 1.5 15; sheets of it canjbe strip ped off frcu'tbe great cocoonj looking as if woven in a loom. If the silk could only be spun, the "gregarious butterfly" would soon displace the silkworm, and the silks and satins of commerce would be of butterfly manufacture. Unfortu nately the difficulty remains nsolved,; though many attempts in, this direction have been made. Could a solution of the problem be found, silk would be come at once enormously less cfostly, in asmuch as the cocoons of this kind of butterfly are to be gathered in 'immense numbers as a wild crop in the forests of Mexico. Washington Letter n Boston Transcript " " Y,'. Glass beads are sometimes found in the bodies of mummies over 3000 years old, proving conclusif ely that glass was known to the ancients. 1 Otto II of Germany massacred his chief nobles at a feast andl himself died of a wound from a poisoned ar- English barmaids earn onian javer ise 10 ehillirijjs a week. EYES OPEN! I Jt A A rs. 0-m It cannot be and never hz: any one except by, their Trade Mark W. CRICCS A SOU. A MATRIMONIAL SNAQ. r fae That Very Often Bring Trouble t Uusband and Wife. I call it a matrimonial enag Ik cause tbe matrimonial bark is a' ways going to pieces on It. It dot mischief to otber thingn, intexfert with tho smooth current of inm merahle friendships and mars man. a close intimacy. But it is to th bark in w hich a man and his wif have been -launched together that i does the greatest horm. Now this Snag mrltself is not formidable affairr It ; la mado u simply of two di verso oplnJor about resting, yet no jngged rcf i more dangerous, and all thoso wh f cannot Fail over it must inovitaW bo wrecked on it. - A man, for instance, has workc all day out of doors in tho flch! maybe. Ho has had the air and th eun and converse with men of hi kind. - Besting to him means con ing home, stretching out his liml and breathing in domestic pence. Tbe woman, howrer. hai beta I all day, without the air "and withov the sundusting, sweeping, cool ing, sowing, disciplining children eeeing ho one, talking, to no on meeting no one with whom an idc could bo interchanged or from whoi a new direction for her thought could be gained. When night come her greatest rest wcfuld seem to li in a change of scene, tho bringin in of outside1 interests or a . mor sy in pa the tic and enlivening lntei course with her husband. He, however, cannot understan this. "You inro restless," he ea toher, "discontented.''' But you cai not find anything hotter than thi; wherever you go. Tako ioy wor for it. I have seen them oil;"; An he folds his hands and puffs at hi pipo and basks in the quiet conten' ment of a soul that has been sati fled. .f ' ". It is the same thing when a ma goes down town all day and leave the woman at hame.'t His 'idea c resting is a cheerful fireside i night, a wife as bright, as gay an responsive as when she received i Jher mother's houso and all carewi spfrfred her.- "I'm so' tired ,1 woul like to go to sleep with the chUlrc at 6 o'clock!" many a wife fcjgh: "But it is just tho time my huehan likes me to ho at my best. It botl ers him tb have me tired, and 'h has euch different idoas of restin from mine." Duties, 6n the other hand, ma have called tho woman out of doo: all day, and duties may have kej thornan in an office. Then it ma rest him to go out at night II may crave amusement and diver sion, some entertainment for th mind. These distract his thought and rest his brain and make hii fresher for the morrow's work. But the thousand demands of ti day, the obligations and requin mehts of some jiosition. she mm fill, have used the woman up. TL bought, of now ejccitements and d versions only wearies her. The e forts she makes to respond to h husband's wishes seem spiritlef; and no pleasure ia given or felt. II cannot understand why it all is. 61. cannot understand why he docs nc see." He grows disconiented, nl. dissatisfied. The need of anothi kind of sympathy is suggested. Ii terests begin to diverge, and ' tw paths are made, 'growing every da wider anart. Ilamer's Bazar. BLOOD POISON CURED. There is no donbt, according to tt. many remarkable cures ierformed L Botanic Blood Balm ("11 .11.11.") that! is far the best Tonic amiBIood Par fier ever manufactured. All othfi pale into insignificance, when con pared with it. It ciires piroples.ulcer hkin diseases, and all manner of bloo and and skin ailments. Buy the be? and dont throw our money .away o substitutes. Try the loner tested an old reliable aB. B. $1.00 per larj bottle. For fale by Druggists A BAD CASE CURED. j Three years ago I contracted a bloc poison. I applied to a phjsiclan once, and his treatment came ner killing me- I employed an old phys cian and then went to Kentucky, then went to riot 8prings and remair ed there two months. Nothing seen ed to cure m permanently, althoug temporary relief was given me. I r turned' home a ruined man physicall. with bnt little prospect of ever gettin well. I was persuaded to try Botan: Blood Balm (B.B. B.,) and to my ut ter astonishment it quickly heale every nicer. Z. T. llAtLKitTOX. . For sale by Druggists, Macon, "Ga,
The Weekly Economist (Elizabeth City, N.C.)
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March 18, 1898, edition 1
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