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ooooooooooocoooooooooooccoccco '8;The BJt T1RELKS3 WORKER in O g . Kluabeth City is the g It goes Into the homes of the peeplo g g telling. the r.cwf with the voice of a J3 5 trusted friend. k o SoooCooocxooccccooooooooooccoo fun rr 1 , inrMri.: itiiriTi r riiiiiiiiit'iiiiiint..i jir i . ,i .,,it.,.,nni,.T...;, ..rnTr. i. r. I.. .........;.. ...,..,, 3 fl HAKE ADTIZI1SIKS PAT- jj rjj; by using the columns of the ;: g ECONOMIST, i i - -mmmm m W v U1VI W " - 4 families than any other paper ; in EasternU arolina. -, Take, each man's csnsur but rEservB iHy judgment. HairilBtzjl ELIZABETH CITY, 'N. C., FRIDAY, APKIIi 15,1898. VOL. XXVII. NO. 3. . " - . . -. Eceriiififsto. 4 r A woman hand If it is saootb and hite it save her hand to do her cleaning. If her lund is it shows she is still uun the in V 1 X Why don t yon u-e Dust Waging I'cv.Ucr? LaiX't pccltase grcute econonj j. 1V.Z N. K. TP IRSANX C0r.!PLVY. i i j. i n - - - PUBLISHED WEEKLY ; BY THE 'FALCOH mWl CO, E. F. IAMD .Mknser. H. B. CREEUY Editor. Subscriptiorj One Year, $1.00 PROFESIONAL CARDS. R U. CUEECY. Elizabeth City, N. C. r AMD & SKINNER, JLi Attorney t at-Ism? E Usheth City, N. C. Le r H x A, FHANK VAUGHAN. t Attorney at Lax, I KIirbeth City, N. C. Collections faltAfullr made. PUUDEN. &;PKUDEK, Atiornnt-at-JA, EIentnn;N. C. rrscticc m P.qaoiank, IVrquiman Chowan, Gscs, Hertford. WatbioRtnn and Tjnclr counties, and in Supnme Court ot lh Stte. . ' WR.TCORDON, . Attorney ai-Lv. Currituck, C. 1L, N. C. Collection a t pec!!ty. ; Practice in Slate snd Ft!cral Curf. C.M. FEREBEE, Attorney atLauf. ! . Elizabeth City. N. C. 5"Onico hoars at Camilcn C. If. on Monday. CoUcctioDS a upecudty.' rHOMAS O. SKINNER' A ttorney-a ULit ticrtlor 1, N. C. U. WHITE, D. D. S., - EhzAbeth citr. Offers hi provi sional 8"rTics to the public in a'l tht (branches of Dextis- . . M tkt. can ue ioui u at all limes. Ctrnrtice In Kramer hlock, on Main Firett. between Foiudexter and Vtr. F. 31ARTIN, D. I. S;, Elizabeth City, N.C, nfff-o hl tirofefsional eertices to the public in all the branches of Pkntistry Can le found at all times r.n; in Kobe rs on iBh ck on HYater Street, over the Fair.' SW. GREGORY. D. D. S.. . Elizabeth City. N.C OITois hts prou sioral m?nricvs to .1 i . : all ----- v in ihiliu in CZTi" the branches of I 1 . Dkntistiit. V 1 f fTfT'jJ Crown ami Hri!j;e HiAAA work a tvcialty. Otce hours.-S to 12 and 1 to 0, or auy time should special occasion require. Ollice, Flora Buildinff, Corner Mam anil Water St. s : DAVID COX, Jr., J. E., ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER, HERTFORD, N. C, f And snrTevuir a srecialtr. i Plans lurnUhpd unoa srDlica srDlicatioo. HOTELS. ! Bay View House, Nw, , Cleanly. . Attentive . Servant. Near the Court House. ColumbiaHotel, f COLUMniA, Ttbrxll Co. J. E. HUGHES, - - Propiietor. ES""Oood Servants, fooiroom,sro.J table. AxnpU stables and belters. The nsirooszs of the public solicited and satisfaction assured. TUB OLD CAPT. 1YALKEK HOrSR. Simmon's Hotel, CcwuTuac C. IL, N.C. Terras : 50c per mes. or il.73 per dsy. Including lodging. Th ptronace of tbs public solicited SatUfkction ss-ned. iGRIFFIN BROS. - Proorietor. anquil House, MANTEO N.C. A. V. EVANS, - . Proprietor. . First cla.s la every particular. Table opplled with eiery delicacy. Fish, oysters and Game abundance in season. , - An Old Xd. , Every day strengthens the belief of end- uTit phyiidans thct Impcrs blood is the " esoe of ths majority of oa disease, f Twenty .iSve years ajro tliia theory sraa nsd m a Uri for the formula of Drowns' Iron ' IUttr. The many remarkable cores effected by this famoas old household remedy are : sufficient to prove that the theory Is correct, j tBrosxs'troa Biuers is sold by all dealers. I ' . i ' tc'.ls the tale 1 shows hhz uses htr he-ad to that she uses " ' rch, wrinkled and old oap anI soua DIRECTORY. City CtT.cir M&ycr C. A. anks . .Aiion.ty jfsac .i . Jif eKin. Commissioners Palemon John; Thoe. A. Commander. John A Kramer B Frank Npeuco and Wm. W. Griggs, V t v I iic. .iiti . G:-o. W. Cohb; Constable and Chief of Police Wm C. Brooks ; Street Com- lui-sioruT ReulKn W. Berry; Fire C munitioner AIH n Kramer Collector of Customs Dr. P. John Post master E. F Lamb. EiuminliiK Surgeons of Pensions I)rs J. E. Wood, V. W. GriRs and W. J. Luui.dt-n. Meet on the 1st and 3rd Wedntdays of each luouth at the corner of Road and Church Mnets Churchtn Methodist, Rev. J. 11. Hall Pastor: services every Sunday at 11 a. m. and 7 in. Baptist, Rev. W. 8. Pi nnick, 1). I)., pastor; services every Sunday at I la. m. nnd 7. -p. 1'res bterian, Rev. F. II. Johnston, pastor; service every. Sunday at 11 a. in. ana 7:1 I, in. Ki'iscopal. iter. 1 .Li. WH linms. rector ; services every Sunday at 11a in. anil 4 p. m. Jjoi!je$ Masonic: Eureka Ixnlge No. 317. G. W. Brother. W. M. ; J. li UHk'K. S. W.; A. L. Pendleton J. W.; B. t .SiH-nco, TreMirer; D. B. Bradford, S. c ly.; T. li. Wilson, if.; u. w. Griee. J. IK; J. A. Hooper and T.J. Jt rtl.in, fcttewnrds; Rev. E. F. Sawyer, thnpUin; J. K. Sheppard; Tjler. Meets 1st ami Crd Tuesday nichts. ' ()dl Fellow.t: Achoree IxxlL'e Noli C. M. Luwd. N. G.; W. U. Hallard, V. G. It. O. Hill, Un, Secretary; Maurice VW'scott: Treasurer. Weits every Friday at 7:30 p. ra. Royal Arcanum: Tiber Creek Coun cilNo. 12"U; II. O Hill Regent; D. A. (Morion. Vice Recent : C. Guirkin, Orator; . H. Zcn;ller, Secretary; F.M. Treasurer, ileets every 1st and 3rd Monday mcht. Knichl of Honor: R. B. White, Die tutor; J. H Hnsle, Vice Dictator; T. J. Jur.I.iu, ltep,rter; T. U; ilson, i?l nance ireirtet: J. C. Beubury, Treas ur-r. ikets let and 4th Friday in earn month. Pasquotank Tribe No. 8, 1. O. R. M. W. II Saiilord, Prophet; Will Anuer sou. Saclieni : li. C, luue or. oairamore J. 8. Btaslev. Jr. Sagamore; Jam.; ... . ..." in cpirts.C. or K ; li. .iurrei iv.oi w iiet every Wednesday nlclit. County OflctTt Commissioners C, II Wramer. Chairman; F. 31. Godfrey J. W. Williams. Sheriff. "T. 1. Wilcox, Sui-erior Court Clerk. John P. Over man; Register c.f Deeds, M. H. Cf lep- ptr ; 1 rev-urer, John &. iuorns j amy li.altit Oilicers. Dr. J. E ood! Boord of Educnliou, J. T. Davis, J. IX, Fuhner,.N. A Jones. uperiiiteiiil.mt I. N. Meekii:s we m Perhaps you have had the grippe or a hard cold. - You may be recovering from malaria or a slow fever; or possibly some of the chil dren are just getting over the measles or whooping cough. : Are you recovering as fast as you should? Has not your olJ trouble left your blood full of impurities? And isn't this the reason you keep so poorly? Don't delay recovery longer but Tola: It will remove all Impuri ties from your blood. It is also a tonic of immense value. Give nature a little help at this time. Aid her by removing all the products cr disease from your blood. IP vour bowels are not tit n'rht. AVer's Pills will 11 y II 1 mike them so. Send for .cur book on Diet in Conso pation. .r Vfrtto to our Doctor. Wm hT tb exclnulT rrlcM cfg..tn-cf tliaino! eminent r hynt rtn la h lnite4 Ute. rlt f mir nd relT a prompt replj. J tliranten, " "! coniLiuaucn. - CHEIST'S SACBIFICE. REV. DR. TALM AGE'S EASTER SUDAV i ' SERMON. Tb.Xjw of Belt Sacrlfic' the Theme ot u ' ElMvent DitcooneCommon Sbm Most Prerail la Jteficion ma In Eeery. thins Dm. ICoprrtehL 1SSJ. by.Axnertcan Tress Asso- i ciAtioo-J WASmxOTOX, April 10. The radica theory ot Christianity is set forth by Dr. Talmage in this discourse, and re markable instances of self sacrifice are broncht out for illustration. . The text Is Heb. ix, 22, "Without shedding o blood is no remission." John G. Whittier, the last of the great school cf American poets that made the last quarter of this century brilliant, asked me in th White moun tains, one morning after prayers, in which I had given out Co wper's famous hymn about "the fountain filled with blood," "Do you really believe there is a literal application of the blood of Christ to the soul?". My negative reply then is my negative reply now. The Bible statement agrees with all pbysi clans and all physiologists and all sci entists in saying that the blood is the life, and in the Christian relicion it means simply that Christ's life was civen or our life. Hence all this talk of men who say the Bible story of blood is disgusting, and that they don't want what they call a "slaughter house re ligion," only shows their incapacity or unwillingness to look through the figure of speech toward the thing signified The blood that on the darkest Friday the world ever saw oozed or trickled or poured from the brow, and the side, and the hands, and the feet of the illustrious sufferer back of Jerusalem in a few hours coagulated and dried up and for ever disappeared, and if man had do pended on the application of the literal blood of Christ there would not have been a soul saved for the last IS cen turies. In order to understand this red word of my text we only have to exercise as much common sense in religion as we do in everything else. Pang for pang, hunger for hunger! fatigue for fatigue, tear for tear, blood for blood, life for life, we see every day illustrated. The act cf substitution is no novelty, al though I hear men talk as though the idea of Christ's suffering substituted for our suffering were something abnormal, something distressingly odd, something wildly eccentric a solitary episode in the world's history, when Iould take yon out Into this city and colore sun down point you to 500 cases of substi tution and voluntary Buffering of one in behalf of another. The IneUIbl LJne. At 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon go amom tho daces of business or toil. It will he no difficult thing foryou to find men who, by their looks, show you that they aro overworked. rlhey are prema turely old. They are hastening rapidly toward their decease. They have gone through crises in business that shattered their nervous system and pulled on the brain. They havo a shortness of breath and a pain In the back of the head and at night an insomnia that alarms them. Why are they drudcing at business early and late? For fun?No; it would be difficult to extract any amusement out of that " exhaustion. Because they are avaricious? In many cases no. Because their own personal expenses are lavish? No; a few hundred dollars would meet all their wants. The simple fact is the man is enduring all that fatigue and exasperation and wear and tear to keep his home prosperous. There is an invis ible line reaching from that store, xrom that bank, from that shop, from that scaffolding, to a quiet scene a lew blocks, a few miles away, and there is the secret of that business endurance. He is simply tho champion of a home stead, for which he wins bread and wardrobe nnd education and prosperity, and in such battle 10,000 men fall. Of ten business men whom I bury, nine die of overwork for others. Some sud den disease finda them with no power of resistance, and they are gone. Life for lifel Blood for blood! Substitution I At 1" o'clock tomorrow morning, the hour when slumber is most uninterrupt ed and profound, walk amid the dweii- inc houses cf the city. Here ana there you wiU find a dim light, because it is the household custom to keep a subdued Bght burning, but most of the houses from base to ton are as dark as though uninhabited. A merciful God has sent forth the archangel of sleep, and he puts his wines over the city. But yon-. dor is a clear light burning, and outside on a window casement a glass or pitcher containing food for a sick child. The food Is set in tho fresh air. This is the sixth night that mother has sat up with that sufferer. ; She has to the last point beved the physician s prescription, not giving a drop too much or too little or moment too soon or too late, bhe is very anxious, for she has buried three children with the same disease, and she prays and weeps, each prayer and sob ending with a kiss of the pale cneeK. By dint of kindness she gets the little cue through the ordeal. After it is all tver the mother is taken down. 13ram or nervous fever sets in, and. one day she leaves the convalescent child with mother's blessing and goes up to join the three departed ones in the kingdom nf heaven. Life for life I Substitution! The fact is that there are an uncounted. number of mothers who, after they have navigated a large family of chil dren through all the diseases of infancy and got them fairly started up the flow ering slope of boyhood and ginnooa. havo only strength enough left to die. Thoy fade away. Some call it consump tion, some call it nervous prostration, some call it intermittent or malarial in Armnsition. but I call it martyrdom of the domestic circle. Life for lifel Blood for blood I Substitution! Blood Tor Blood. . Or oerhaos a mother lingers long enough to 6ee a son get on the wrong road, and his former: kindness become t rough reply, when she expresses anxiety about him. ,-Eut she goes right cn, look Ing carefully after liis apparel, remem bermg his every Dirtaaay witn some memento, and when he is trough home worn out with t dissipation nurses him till be: gets well and starts him again and hopes and expects and prays and counsels and suffers until her strength gives out and she fails. She is going, and attendants, bending over her pillow, ask her if she has any message . to leave, and she makes great effort to say something, but out of three or four minutes cf indistinct utterance they can catch but three words, "My poor boy!" The simple fact is she died for him. Life for lifel Substitution! About 33 years1 ago there went forth from our northern and southern homes hundreds of thousand? of .men todo bat tle. All the poetry of war soon vanish ed, and left' them nothing but the terri ble prose. ;Tbey waded knee deep in mud. They slept in snow banks."" They marched till their cut feet tracked the earth. They were swindled out of their honest rations and lived on meat not fit for a dcg. They had jaws fractured, and eyes extinguished and limbs shot away. Thousands of them cried for water as they lay on' the field the night after the battle and got it not.' They were home sick and received no message from their loved ones. They died in barns, in bushes, in ditches, the buzzards of the summer heat the only attendants on their obsequies. No one but the infinite God, who knows everything, knows the ten thousandth part cf the length and breadth and depth and height of anguish of the northern and southern .battle fields. Why did these fathers leave their children and go to the front, and why did these young men, postponing the .marriage day, start out into the probabilities of never coming back? For a principle they died. Life for life! Blood for blood 1 Substitution ! Principle of Self Sacrifice. But we need not go so far. What is that tnonument in the cemetery? It is to the doctors who fell in the southern epidemics, i Why go? Were there not enough slck-o be attended in these northern latitudes? Oh, yes; but the doctor puts, a few medical books in his valise, and some vials of medicine, and leaves his-patients here in the hands of other physicians and takes the rail train. Before he gets to the infected re gionsbe passes crowded rail trains, reg ular and extra, taking tho flying -and affrighted populations. H6 arrives in a city over which a great horror is brooding. 1 He goes -from couch to couch, feeling the pulse" and studying symptoms and prescribing day after day, night after night, until a fel low physician says, "Doctor, you had better go home and rest; you look mis erable." But he cannot rest while so many are suffering. On and on, until some morning finds him in a delirium, in which ho talks of home," and then rises and says he must go and look after those patients. He is told to lie down, but he fights his attendants until he falls back, and is weaker and weaker, and dies for people with whom he had no kinship iand far away from his own family, and is hastily put away in a stranger's tomb, and only tho fifth part of a newspaper line tells us of his sac riSce his name just mentioned among five.. Yet he has touched the farthest height of sublimity in that three weeks of humanitarian service. He goes straight as! an arrow to the bosom of him who said, "I was sick and ye vis ited me." i Life for lifel Blood for blood I Substitution! In the legal profession I see the same principle of Eeu sacrifice. In 1846 Wil liam Freeman, a pauperized and idiotic negro, .was: at Auburn, N. Y., on trial for murder. He had -slain the entire Van Nest family. The foaming wrath cf the community could be kept off him only by armed constables. Who would volunteer to be his counsel? No attor ney wanted to sacrifice his popularity by such an ungrateful task. All were silent save' one, a young lawyer with feeble voic6 that could hardly be heard outside the1 bar, pale and thin and awls ward. It Was William H. Seward, who saw that the prisoner was idiotic and irresponsible and ought to be put in an asylum rather than , put to death, the heroic counsel uttering these beautiful words: 1 - j Substitution. : "I speal; now in the hearing of a peo ple who have prejudged prisoner and condemned me for pleading in his be half. He is a convict, a pauper, a negro, without intellect, sense or emotion. My child withau affectionate smile disarms my careworn face of its frown whenever I cross my threshold. The beggar in the street obliges me to give because he says 'God bless you' as I pass. My dog caresses me with fondness if I will but smile cn him. My horse recognizes me when I fill his manger. What reward, what gratitude, what sympathy and affection can I expect here? There the prisoner sits. Look at him.' Look at the assemblage around yen. Listen to their ill suppressed censures and excited fears and tell me where among my neighbors or my feliow.naen, where, even in his heart, I can expect to find a sentiment, thought, not to say of reward or of acknowledgment or even of recognition. Gentlemen, you may think of this evi dence what you please, bring m what verdict you can, but I asseverate beforo heaven and you that to the best of my knowledge and belief the prisoner at the bar does not at this moment Know why it is that my shadow falls cn ypu instead of his own." Th8 gallows got its victim, but the postmortem examination of the -poor creature showed .to all the surgeous and to all the world that the public were wrong ana v imam n. cewaw was right, and that hard, stony .step oi obloquy in the Auburn courtroom was the first steppf the stairs of fame up j which he; went to the top, or to within one step of the top, that last denied him through the treachery of Amarican politics. . Nothing sublimer was ever ; teen in an American courtroom than William H. Seward, without reward, 1 standing between the furious populace and the loathsome imbecile. Substitu ticn! . . -; ; , .;' In the realm of the fine arts there was as remarkable an I instance. A brilliant but hypercriticised painter, Joseph William Turner, was met by volley of abuse from all the art galleries of Europe. His paintings, which have since won the applause of all civilized nations, "The Fifth Plague cf Egypt, 1 "Fishermen on a Lee Shore In Squally Weather, "Calais Pier." "The, Sun Rising Through Mist"j and "Dido Building Carthage" were then targets for critics to shoot at In defense of this outrageously abused man1, a young au thor of 24 years, just one year out of college, came forth with his pen and wrote the ablest and most famous essay on art that the world ever saw or ever will see John Euskic's "Modern Paint ers,',' For 1 7 years this author fought the battles of the maltreated' artist and after, in poverty .and broken hearted ness, the painter had died and the pub lio tried to undo their cruelties toward him by giving him a big funeral and burial in St Paul's cathedral, his old time friend took out of a tin box 19,000 pieces of paper containing drawings by the " bid painter, and through many weary and uncompensated months as sorted and arranged them! for public ob servation. People say John Ruskin in his old day is cross, misanthropic and morbid. Whatever he may do that he ongbt not to do and whatever he may say that be ought not toj say between now and his death, he will leave this world insolvent as far as it has any ca paoitv to pay this author's pen for its chivalrio and Christian 'defense of a poor painter's pencil. John Ruskin foi William Turner 1 Blood for blood! Sub stitution ! j . Suffering For Another. - . J What an exalting principle thii which leads one to.suffer for another 1 Nothing so kindles enthusiasm or awak ens eloquence, or chimes poetic canto. or moves nations. The principle is the dominant one in our religion Christ the martyr, Christ . the celestial hero, Christ the defender, Christ the substi tute. .No new principle, for it was old as human nature, but now on a grander, wider, higher, deeper anpl more world resounding scale. The shepherd boy as a champion for Israel wijth a sling top pled the giant of Philistine braggadocio in the dust, but here is another David, who for all the armiesOf churches mili tant and triumphant hurls the Goliath of perdition into defeat, the crash of his brazen armor like ah explosion at Hell Gate. Abraham had at God's command agreed to sacrifice his son Isaac, and the same God just in time had provided a ram of the thicket as a jsubstitute, but there is another Isaac bound to the al tar, and no hand arrests the sharp edges of laceration and death, 'and the Uni verse shivers, and quakes, and recoils, and groans at the horror.! 1 All good men have for centuries been trying to tell whom this substitute was like, and every comparison, inspired and uninspired, evangelistic, prophetic, apostolio and human, falls short, for Christ was the Great Unlike. Adam a type of Christ, because he came direct ly from God; Noah a type of Christ, because he delivered his own family from deluge; Melchisedeo a type of Christ, because he had no predecessor m a m A 1 . " J - or successor;. josepn a type oi unnsi, because he was cast out by his brethren; Moses a type of Christ, because he was a deliverer from bondage; Joshua a type of Christ, because he was a coh- queror; oamson a type :oi nribc, u cause of his strength toj slay the lions and carry off the iron gates of impossi bility; Solomon a type off Christ, in the affluence of his dominion; Jonah a type of Christ, because of the stormy sea in which he threw himself for the rescue of. others, but put together Adam, and Noah, and Melchisedeo and Joseph, and Moses, and Joshua,! and Samson, and Solomon, and Jonah, and they would not make a fragment of a Christ, a Quarter. Of a Christ, the half of j a Christ, or the millionth part of a Christ He forsook a throne, and sat down on his own footstool. He icame from the top of glory to the bottom of humilia tion and changed a circumference se raphic for a. circumference diabolic. Once waited On by angels, now hissea at by brigands. From afar and high np he came down; past meteors swifter than they ; by starry thrones,, himself more lustrous; past larger worlds ,to smaller worlds ; down stairs of firma ments, and from cloud J to clona, ana through tree tops and into the camel s stall, to thrust his shoulder under our burdens and take the lances or pain through his vitals, and wrapped himself in all the agonies which j we deserve for our misdoings, and stood on the split ting decks of a foundering vessel, amid the drenching surf 'of the sea, and passed midnights on the mountains amid wild beasts cf prey, and stood at the point where all earthly and infernal hostili ties charged on him at Once with their keen sabers our Substitute! The Price of Freedom. - When did attorney ever endnre so much for a pauper client, or physician for the patient in the lazaretto, or mother for the child in membranous croup, as Christ for us, 'and Christ for you, ana unriss ior me: oumi nuy uiau or woman or child in this audience who has ever suffered for another find it hard to understand this Christly suffer ing for us? Shall thdsei whose sympa thies have been wrung in behalf of the unfortunate have no. appreciation of that due moment which was lifted but of all the ages or eternity as most con spicuous, when Christ gathered "up all the sins of those to be redeemed under bis one arm, ana au weir sorrows un der hia other arm, and said : "I will atone for these under my right arm and will heal all those under my left arm. Strike me with all thy glittering shafts, oh, eternal justice! Roll over me with all thy surges, ye oceans of sorrow? And the, thunderbolts strucfchim from ibove, and the seas of trouble rolled up from beneath, hurricane J after hurri-1 5ane, ' and cyclone "after cyclone, and then and there in presence of heaven rnTT7 AynYTtUDO t? cmrrm and earth and bell yea, all worlds Wit.!1 11 " "villlJiUo Ui OblfcuL mcccin' tria rrisA tKa Sfffw Ka1I . . transcendent price, the awful pricaj tho:LUMU I KUUbLtb AND CONSUMP. glorious price, me inxmite price, ; inei eternal price, was paid that sets us free. That is what Paul means, that is! what I mean, that is what all those JwhO have ever had their heart changed ncan by ttdood." I glory in this religion of blood I l am thrilled as I see the sug gestive color in sacramental cup, wheth er it be of burnished silver set on cloth immaculately white or rough bewn from wood set on table in log hut meeting house j of the wilderness. Now l am thrilled as I see the altars of ancient sacrifice crimson with tho blood of the slain lamb, and Leviticus is to mo, not so much the Old Testament as the New. Now I see why the destroying angel passing over Egypt in the night sphred all those houses that had blood sprhkled on their doorposts. Now I know rhai Isaiah means when he speaks, of "oile in red apparel coming with dyed, garments from Bozrah, ' 'and whom the A poca lypse means when it describes a heav enlv chieftain whose "vesture wastdin- ped in blood," and what John, tho apostle, means when he speaks of; the "precious blood that cleanseth from all sin," jand what the old, wornout de crepit missionary Paul means wheh, in my text, he-cries, "Without shedding of blood is no remission. " By that Mood you and I will be saved or never saved at all. In all the ages of the world jGod has not once pardoned a single sinj ex cept through the Saviour's expiation, and he never will. Glory betoGodjtbat the hill back of Jerusalem was the! bat- tlefield on which Christ 'achieved our liberty I , i Palestine's Waterloo.' It was a most exciting day I spent on the battlefield of Waterloo. Starting out' with "the morning train rom ah one had Brussels, we arrived In about hour on that famous spot. A son o who was in the battle and whof heard from his father a thousand rjnies the whole scene recited accompanied us over j the field. There stood the old Hougomont chateau, the walls ddnted and scratched and broken and shat ered by grapeshot and cannon ball. Th(jjro is the well in which 800 dying and dead were pi tched There is the chapel pith the head of the; infant Christ shop off. There are the gates at which, for many hours,' English and French armies, y res tied. 1 Yonder were the 1G0 guns bjf the English and the 250 guns of theFrenchT Yonder the Hanoverian hussars flell for the woods. I Yonder was the ravine of Ghain, where the French cavalry, riot know ing there was a follow in the ground, rolled ovec ana aown, troop alter troop, tumbling into one awful mass or soiier ing, hoof of kicking horses against brow and breast of captains and colonels and private soldiers, the human and the beastly groan keptjup until the day jaf tor all was shoveled under becauso of; the malodor arising in that hot month of June. . vi j ' "There," said onr gnide, "the high land regiments lay down on their faces waiting for the mordent to spring upon the foe. In that orchard 2,500 men .were cut to pieces. Here stood Wellington with white lips, and up that kn611irode Marshal Ney on his sixth horse, five having been shot under him. Here the ranks of the French broke, and Mafrshal Ney, with his boot slashed of a sword, and his hat off, and his face, cohered with powder and blood, triea to raiiy his troops as he cried. 'Come and see how a marshal of j French dies on the battlefield. From yonder direction Grouchy was expected for the French re-enforcement, but he came j not Around those woods' Blucber was looked for to re-enforce the English, and just in time he came up. Yonder is the field where Napoleon stood, his arms through the reins of the horse's bridle, dazed and insane, trying to go back. ' ' $cene of a battle that went on ;from 25min utes to 12 o'clock on the 18th of June until 4 o'clock, when the, English seemed defeated, and their comminder cried out: "f Boys, you can't thiik of giving way? Remember old England!" and the tides turned, and at 8 o'clock in the evening the man of destiny who was called by his troops Old Two Hun dred Thousand, turned away with bro ken heart. And 'the fate of centurie was decided. ' j ' . ' j No wonder a great mound has been reared there, hundreds of feet high a mound at the expense of millions ojf dol lars and many years in rising, and on the top is the great Belgian lin of bronze, and a grand gld lion it is. j But our great Waterloo was in Palestine. There came a day when all hellrode up,. led by Apollyoh, and the Captain of our salvation confronted them alone, the Rider cn the white horse of . the Apocalypifc oing out against the black horse ci-v-hy of death and thej bat talions ot it e demoniac and the myrmK donsof csTness, ! From 12 o'clock at noon to r n clock in '.the afternoon the greatest bir. Ie of the universe wedt on. Eternal d stinks were' being decided. 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