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"1S33. by Amerlcah Press Asso . , ciation.1 1 WAsraxamx, Sept. 18.--Thia arous ing discourse by Dr. Talmage will ex cite inteicst by the manner in which it assails some of the great evils nnw ilrrvn1 Tlin nMut fa "Pnirniiea Orrr thrown." and the text Psalms ixviii, l.."Let God arise, let his enemies be . - - , A procession was formed to carry the it i .1 ars, or sacreu uox, wnicn, inouga vuiy 3 feet 9 inches in length and 4 feet 3 inches in height and deptli, was the symbol of God's presence. As the lead ers of tho procession lifted this orna- tmented and brilliant box by two golden poles run through four golden rings and started for Mount Zion all the peo-' pie chanted the battle hymn of my text, 'Let God arise, let his enemies be scat tered.' t i The Camcrcnians of Scotland, out raged by James I, who forced lpon them religious forms that were offensive, and by the terrible persecution of Drummond, Dalziel and Turner and by the oppressive laws of Charles I and Charles II were driven to proclaim war against tyrants and went forth to fight for religious liberty, and th mountain heather became red with carnage and at Bothwell bridge and Aird's Moss and Drumclog the battle hymn and the bat tlo shout of those glorious old Scotch men was the text I have chosen, "Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered. " What a whirlwind of power was Oli ver Cromwell, and how with his sol diers, named the 'Ironsides," he Went from victory to victory I Opposing ene mies melted as he looked at them. He dismissed parliament as easily as a schoolmaster a school, j He pointed his finger at Berkeley castle, and it was taken. He ordered Sir Ralph Hopkmr the : general, to dismount, and ho dis mounted. See Cromwell marching on with his army and hear the battlecry of tho "Ironsides," loud as a storm and solemn as a deathknell, standards reel ing before it and cavalry horses going back on their haunches and. armies fly ing at Marston Mcor, at Winceby Field, at-Naseby, at Bridgewater and Dart mouth "Let God arise, let his enemies bo scatteredl" God, NbtjMan. So yon seo my text is not like a com plimentary and tasseled sword that you sometimes seo hung up in a parlor, a sword that was never in battle, and only to be used on general training day, but more, like some weapon carefully hung up in your, home, telling its story of battles, for my text hangs in the Scripture armory, telling of the holy wars of 3,000 years in which it has been carried, but still as keen and mighty as when David first unsheathed it It seems to mo that in .the church of God and in all styles of reformatory work what wo most need now is a battlecry. We raiso our little standard and put on it the name of some man who only a few years ago bgan to live and in a few years will cease to live. We go into contest against the armies of iniquity, depending too much on human agencies. We use for a battleciiy the name of some brave Christian reformer, but after awbilo that reformer dies or gets old or loses his courage, and then we take an other battlecry, and this time perhaps we put the name of some one who be trays the cause and Eells out to the en emy. What we want for a battlecry is the name of some leader who will never betray us and will never surrender and will never, dia . All respects have I for brave men and women, but if wo aro to get the victory all along the lino wo must take the hint of tho Gideohites, who wiped out the Bedouin Arabs, commoijly called Midi anites. These Gideonites had a glori ous leader in Gideon, but what was the battlecry with which they flung their enemies into the worst defeat into which any army was ever tumbled? It was, "The sword of the Lord and of Gideon." Put God first, whoever yon put second. If tho army of the American Revolution is to free America, it must be, "The sword of the Lord and of Washington." If the Germans want to win the day at Sedan, it must be, '.'The sword of the Lord and Von Moltke." Waterloo was won for the English because not only the armed men at the, front, but the worshipers in the cathedrals at the rear, wero crying, "The sword of tha Lord and of Wellington. " . Right Is Might ; The Methodists have gone in triumph across nation after nation with the cry, "The sword of the Lord and of Wes ley.' The Presbyterians have gone from victory to victory with the cry, "The sword of the Lord and of John Knox.". The Baptists have conquered millions after millions for Christ with the cry, The sword of the Lord - and of Jud son. " The American Episcopalians have won their mighty way with the cry, "Tho sword of the Lord and of Bishop Mcllvaine." The. victory is to those who put God first But as we want a battlecry suited to all sects of religion ists and to all lands I nominate as the battlecry of Christendom in the ap proaching Armageddon the words of my text, sounded before the ark as it was carried to Monnt Zion, "Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered. As far as our finite mind can judge it seems about time for God to rise. Does it not seem to you that the abomina tions of this earth have gone far enough? Was there ever a time when sin was so defiant? Were there ever before so many fists lifted toward God telling him to come on if he dare? Look at the blas phemy abroad. What towering profan ity I Wquld it be possible for any one to calculate the numbers of times that the j name of the Almighty God and of Jesus 1 Christ are every day taken irreverently on the lips? Profane swearing is as much foroiddden by the law as theft or arson cr murder, Vet who executes, itr Profanity is worse than theft ox arson ! or murder, for these crimes are attacks on humanity that is an attack on God. f .Thisjcountry is pre-eminent for blas phemy.. A man traveling in Russiawas supposed to be a clergyman. -".Why do you take me to be a clergyman?" said the man. "Oh," said the Russian, "all other Americans swear. " The cri me is multiplying in intensity. God very of ten shows what he thinks of it but for the most part the fatality is hushed up. .Among the Adirondacks I met the fu neral procession of a man who two days i beto hd fallen tmder a flash of Rgh I ninS i1-"?. A u7 ; woric in the nelds that he had cheated God out of one . day jinyhow, and the t mn who xrniked with him on the same man who woiked with him on the same Sabbath is still living,-but a helpless invalid, under the same flash. . God Rebukes. Years ago, in a Pittsburg prison, two men were talking about the Bible and Christianity, and one pf them, Thomp son by name, applied to Jesus Christ a very low and villainous epithet, and, as he was uttering it,' he felL A physician was called, but no help could be given. After a day lying with distended pupils and palsied tongue, he passed out of this world. In a cemetery in Sullivan county, in New, York" state, are eight headstones in a line and all alike, and these are the facts: In 1861 diphtheria raged in . the village and a physician was remarkably successful in curing his patients. So confident did he become that he boasted that no case of diph theria could stand before him and final ly defied. . Almighty God to produce a case of diphtheila ' that he could not cure. His youngest child soon after took the disease and died, and one child after another, until all the eight had died' of diphtheria. The blasphemer challenged Almighty God, and God ac cepted the challenge. Do not think that because God has been silent in your case, O profane swearer, that he is dead. Is there nothing now in the peculiar feeling of your tongue xr nothing in the ntimEness of your brain, that indicates that God may come to avenge your blas phemies or is already avenging them? But these cases I have noticed, I believe, are only a lew cases where there are hundreds.! Families keep them quiet to avoid theihorrible conspicuity. Physi cians suppress them . through profes sional confidence. It is a very, very, very long roll that contains the names of those who died with blasphemies on their lipaf ' , Still the crime rolls on, up through parlors', up through chandeliers with; lights all ablate, land .through the pio-. tured- cofridorsi of,' clubrooms,, out through "busy exchanges where oath meets oath .and 'down through all the haunts ofj sin, mingling with the rat tling diceand crackling billiard balls,, and the laughter of her who ,hath for gotten the covenant of her God,' and round the ;city and round the continent and round; the earth a seething, boiling surge flings its hot spray into the face of a long suffering God. And the ship captain curses his crew and the master builder his men and the hack driver his horse, and the traveler the stone that bruises his foot or the mud that soils his shoes Or the defective timepiece that gets him too late to the rail train. I ar raign profane' swearing and blasphemy, two names for the same thing, as being one of the gigantic crimes of this land, and for its extirpation it does seem as if it were about time for God to arise. ! Wine When Red. Then look for a moment at the evil of drunkenness. Whether you live in Washington or New York or Chicago or Cincinnati or Savannah or Boston or in any of the cities of this land, count up the saloons on that street as com pared with the saloons nve years ago and see they are growing far out of proportion to the increase of the popu lation. You people who are so precise and particular lest there should be some imprudence and rashness in attacking the rum traffic will have your Bon some night pitched into your front door dead drunk or your daughter will come home with her children because her husband has, by strong drink, been turned into a demoniac.) The drink fiend has despoil ed whole streets of good homes in all our cities; Fathers, brothers, sons on the funeral pyre of strong drink 1 Fasten tighter the victims I Stir up the flames 1. Pile on the corpses 1 Morp men, women and children for the sacrifice! Let us have whole generations on fire .of evil habit, and at the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery and dulci mer let all-the people fall down and worship King Alcohol, or yon shall be east into the fiery furnace under some political platform 1 ' ' j I indict this evil as the regicide, the fratricide, ; the patricide, the matricide the uxoricide, of the century. Yet under what innocent and 'delusive and mirth ful names alcoholism deceives the peo ple 1 It is a "cordial." It is "bitters.. It is an'"eye opener.' It is an "appe- tizer." Itis a "digester." It is an "in vigorator." It is a "settler." It is a "nightcap." Why don't they put on the right labels: ''Essence of Perdi tion," "Conscience Stupefier," "Five Drams of Heartache," "Tears of Or phanage," "Blood of SquIs," "Scabs of an Eternal Leprosy, "Venom of the Worm That Never Dies?" Only once in awhile is there anything in the title of liquors to even hint their atrocity, as in the case of "sour mash." That I see advertised all over. It is an honest name and any one can understand it "Sour mash 1" That is, it makes a man's dis position sour, and his associations sour and his prospects sour, and then it is good to mash his body, andS mash his soul, and mash his business, and mash, his family. "Sour mash 1" 'One honest name at last for an intoxicant I But through lying labels of many of the apothecaries' shops, good people, who ire only a little undertone in health ind wanting some invigoration, have unwittingly got on their tongue the fangs of this cobra that stings to death so large a ratio of the human race. . f - $Ualc Sips,' Others are ruined by the common and ill destructive habit of treating custom era And it is a treat on their coming to town, and a treat while the bargain Ing progresses, and ja ! treat when tha purchase is made, and a treat as he leaves 'town. Others, ! to drown their troubles, submerge themselves with this worse trouble. : Oh, the world is bat tered and bruised and blasted with this growing eviL It is more and more in trenched and fortified. ! They have mil lions of dollars, subscribed to marshal and advance the alcoholic forces. They nominate and elect and govern the vast majority of the officeholders of this country, .On tbeirside they, hare en listed the mightiest political power of the centuries. And behind them stand all the myrmidons of the nether world, satanic, ApoUyonio and diabolic. It is beyond all human . effort to overthrow thisBasrile of decanters or capture this Gibraltar of rum juga! And while I ap- prove of all human agencies of reform I would utterly despair if we had noth ing else. But what : cheers me is that our best troops are 'yet to come. iOur chief artillery is in reserva Our great est commander has not yet fully taken the field. If all hell is on their side, all heaven is on our side. I Now, "Let God arise and let his enemies "be scattered," Then look at the impurities of these great cities. Ever and anon there are in the newspapers explosions of social life that make the story of Sodom quite re spectable, "for such ! things," Christ says, Vwere more toierawe jor bodom and Gomorrah" than for the Chorazins and Bethsaidas of greater light . It is no unusual thing in bur cities to see men in high positions with two or three families, or refined ladies willing sol emnly to marry the ' very swine of so ciety if they be wealthy. The Bible all aflame with denunciation against an impure life; but many of the American ministry uttering not' one point blank word against this iniquity lest some old libertine throw up ;his churoh pew. Machinery organized in all the cities of the united States and Canada by which to put yearly in the grinding milLof. this iniquity thousands of the unsus pecting of the country farmhouses, one procuress confessing in the courts that- she had supplied the infernal market with 150'victims in six months. Oh, for 50Q newspapers in America to swing open the door of this lazar, house of so cial corruption 1. Exposure must come before extirpation. J I The Social Sins. . While the city van; carries the scum of this sin from the prison to the police court morning by morning it is. full time, if we'do not want high American life to become like that of the court of Louis XV, to put millionaire Lotharios and the Pompadours of your brownstone palaces into a van ofj popular indigna tion and drive them out - of. respectable associations. " What i prospect of social purification can there; be as long as at summer watering places it is usual to see a young woman of excellent rearing stand and simper and giggle and roll up her eyea sideways before one of those first class satyrs of fashionable life and on the ballroom floor join - him in the dance, the I maternal chaperon mean while beaming from the window on the scene? Matches are made, in heaven, thev say. Not such i matches,. for the brimstone indicates the opposite region. The evil is overshadowing an our cities.; By some these immoralities are called peccadillos, gallantries, eccen tricities, and are relegated to the realms of jocularity,' and few. efforts are bemg made I aeainst them. God -bless - the "White Cross" movement, as it is call ed anf organization j making a miglty assault on this evil. God forward fhe tracts on this subject distributed by the religious tract societies of the land. . God help paren ts in the grea t work they hre doing) in trying to start their children with pure principles j God help all leg islators in their attempt to prohibit this crime. -v.-.' " I . .- As Xe Reap. - . ' j - But is this all? 1 Then it is only a question of time when the last vestige of purity and home will vanish out of sight Human arms,' human pens, hu man voices, human talents, are not suffi cient I I begin to look up. I listen for artillery rumbling down the sapphire boulevards oi heaven, x watcn 10 see n in the morning light there be not the flash of descending Bcimiters. Oh, for God 1 Does it not seem time for his ap pearance? Is it not time; for all lands to cry out, "Let God arise and let his enr emies be scattered?" 1 I j; 1 I got a letter asking me if I did hot think that the earthquake in one of Our cities was the divine j chastisement ;on that city for its sins.: That letter I an swered by saying that if all our Ameri can cities got all the punishment they deserve for their horrible! impurities the earth I would long ago have cracked, opening crevices transcontinental, and taken down. all our . cities so far under that the tip of. our church spires would be 500 feet below the surface. It .is' of the Lord's mercies that we have not been consumed., . ! ! Not only are the affairs of thiH world so a-twist, a-jangle and' racked that there seems a need of the divine appearance but there is another reason. , Have ' you" hot noticed that in the history of this planet God turns a leaf about every 2,000 years? God turned a leaf, and this world was fitted for - human residence. About 2, 000 more years j passed along. and God turned another leaf, and it was the deluge. About ,000 more years passed on, and it was tlie Nativity. AK most 2,000 more years passed by, and he will probably soon turn another leaf. What it shall be I cannot say. It may be the demolition of all these monstros ities of turpitude and the establishment of righteousness in all j the earth He can do it, and ha will do it I am as confident as if it were; already accom plished. How easily he can do it my text suggests. It does i hot ask God to : but just to rise from- the throne on I Only that will be necej- ary. 'T r.i i ii I ; Tha Coming of God. It will be no exertion of omnipotenoa, It will be no bending or bracing for a mighty lift It will be.no sending down the sky of the white horse cavalry of heaven or. rumbling war chariots. Ho will only rise. Now he is sitting in the majesty and patience of his reign. He is from his throne watching the muster- ing of all the forces of blasphemy and drunkenness and impurity and fraud and Sabbath breaking, and when they have done their worst and are most surely organized he will bestir himself and say: "My enemies have denied uo long enough and their cup of iniquity is iuj l have given them all opportunity for, repentance. This dispensation of ia tience is ended, and the faith of the good ishall be tried no longer. " And now God begins to rise, and what moon tains give way under his right foot I know not, but, standing in the full radiance and grandeur of his nature, he looks this, way: and that, and how is enemies are scattered 1 Blasphemers, white and . dumb, reel down to their doom, and those who have trafficked in that which destroys the bodies and souls of men and families will fiv with cut fpot on the down grade of broken de canters, and the polluters of society that did their had work with large for tunes and high social sphere will over take in their descent the degraded rab ble of underground city life as they tumble over the eternal precipices, and the world shall be left clear and clean for the friends ; of humanity and the worshipers of Almighty God. The last thorn plucked off, the world will be left a blooming rose on the bosom of that Christ who came to garden ize it The earth that stood snarling with its tigerish passion, .thrusting but its rag ing claws, shall, lie down a lamb at the feet of the Lamb of God, who took away the sins of the world. . ; And now the best thing l can wish for you and the best thing I can wish for myself is that we may be found his warm and undisguised and enthusiastic friends in that hour wbn God shall rise and his enemies shall be scattered. Prince ftlstnarclt's Will. Thfl Tlanry.in Cinrpttn nva triiif. ih hna seen Prince Bismarck's will. The late chancellor bequeathed all his estates in Pomerania to Count William, with the exception of Bheinfeld in Ruinmels- burg,. which falls to Prince Herbert ; All the. valuables, consist ing chiefly of presents deposited by, Bismarck at Bleichroeder's bank in Berlin, are made over to .Prince Herbert 'JLbeir total value is said to amount to ' 1,000,000 marks, and in consideration of their worth Prince Herbert had to hand. over i in money to Count William the Sum of 300,000 marks. The daughters of Count William, three in number, each inherits 100,000 marks, and the Countess Ran t- zau receives 900, 000 marks. The value of the property disposed of in tho will is said by the paper in question t have been estimated at 3,000,000 marks; at the time the will was made,-but 4he late chancellor's real and personal es tate is now valued at 20,000,000 marks, or 1, 000,000. Thus Prince Bismarck leftl, 000, 000 under a will made at a time when his fortune was considerably less than that sum. ) Those who hold that the laborer is worthy of ; his hiro will rejoice to learn that he did not have to save his country for nothing. As he reproached Moltke for avarice it is to be supposed that he was himself able to lay by this considerable sum without any infirmity of that sort His manner of living dur ing the later years of his life offered no temptation to extravagance. He lived on his own country estate 'like a! glori fied squire and tept far from him the inevitable unthriftiness of thetpyn and, the court London News. " ,' Thanks, Mr. Labouchere. The old world in its dealings with the new assumes an attitude of ' conde scension which is as ridiculous as it is unwarranted. When the Spanish-Vmer-ican wart broke out, the Spaniards treat ed their American opponents wjtji aris tocratic contempt,, referred to them as ."filibustering vagabonds", and gener ally assumed an attitude of incompar able superiority. One of tho salient features of the late war, apart frqm the ease with which the Spaniards? were overcome and. the gross corruption that has been shown' to exist in official cir cles in Spain, is. the manly, honesi;, gen erous and chivalrous conduct of the United States government forces and people from the beginning to the end of the campaign. It is only just to give ex pression to the general feeling of ad miration which the new chivalry has created throughout Europe. -London Truth. i 1 -j". I' .- " -h ' ' Qneen Victoria's Private Malt. It is in iH-r private sitting room that Queen Victoria's private letters, jsvhich comprise a uaiiy epistie irom eacn one of her children and children-in-la w,. are always opened and read by the recip ient Each day his portion of thef royal mail bag is brought to the sitting room in locked dispatch boxes. It is not gen erally known that every letter personal ly read by the queen, whether of a pub lic br private nature, is not oniy: filed, but bound, and some years ago. It was comparatively easy for any visitor to the castle to obtain access to these valu able and often wivate documents. Now, however, these volumes are kept 'under lock and key. V The Donkey' Brigade. - The New Haven News says that a Connecticut clergyman on a recent Sun day gave out the following notice:! "The regular session of the Donkey club will be held, as usual, at the close of this service. AiemDers win line up jusc out side the church door, make remarks and stare at the women who pass, as is their custom. Any member known to escort a young, woman to a church like a man and sit with her like a gentleman will be oromntly expelled from member- chip." whl?h he si ts. Ileff "Tadarwaar. A young German engineer who name is lierr "X." von der Wcrra had an amusing incident happen to him on a recent ocean voyage which will bear .repeating and which he narrates him self with relish. On the steamer wcro several English ladies who wero devot ed to whist and who frequently called I npon Ilerr X to join them in a friendly to Doer, me young man does not caro particularly for. the- game; but, as the ladies in question had several charming girls under their wings, policy as well as politeness bade him join in tho daily games. The young man suffered from a severe cold, and, in order to protect himself from the' drafts, took occasion . to wear aooupla of heavy bicyclo sweat- '"' era in addition to bis ordinary clothing. ' " I , The ladies sympathized and frequent ly spoke to Hcrr X "fuhdervoar," as they pronounced italxrat his precau tions against additional cold, . Ho was hot particularly well versed in English, and the pronunciation of his name puz- wea mm very much in fact, ho thought they were referring to his , sweaters, so finally he blurted out: 'Ladies, why do you call mo Mr. Un- ' 'derwear? Is it because, of these- sweat- ' ers?" The reply was lost to j)oterity in tho roar of laughter which caused tho windows of the saloon to rattle. Phil-' adelphia Kecord. 'y . ' . Metallising Wood. A method of metallizing wood.' one , by which it becomes very solid and re sistant and assumes the appearance of a ' true metallic mirror, is described in the i Paris Monde with much detail. 'Briefly, the wood is first immersed L for three or four days, as may be its degree of per- .meability, in acanntic alkaline 1 jo, and thence passed immediately into a hath of hydrosulphite of calcium, to which -Is added, after 24 or 30 hours, concen trated solution of 'sulphur in caustic potash. Tho duration of this bath is about 48 hours, and its temperature is from 55 tO; 50 degrees. Finally the wood is immersed for 30 or 10 hours in & ! iolution of ucetate of lead. The wood - prepared In this manner': and after hav ing undergone a proper drying at a moderate temperature acquires under j burnisher of hard wood a polished ror face and exhibits a very brilliant metal ic luster a luster still further increas ed in its' attractiveness if the surface of . tho wood be rubbed thoroughly, in the first place, with a piece of lead, tin or Sine and afterward be polished with a glass or porcelain burnisher. ; , A Misunderstood Jest. - Lord Lytton wheu viceroy of India was seated One day at dinner next to a lady whoso name was Birch, and who, though very good looking, was not over- intelligent Said she to his excellency: , I "Are you acquainted with any of the. Birches?" . ..-1 ' F "Oh, yes," replied Lord Lytton, "I knew several of theni mott intimately ' whilo at Eton indeed moro intimately than I cared to. " V j - "My lord, " replied tho lady, r,you forget the Birches aro relatives of' mino. '.' . : i 1 '' . j" "And they cut' mei" said tho viceroy, 'tbut, M and he smiled his wonted smile, '1 have never felt. jnoro inclined to kiss the rod than I do now. " , j I Sad to say, Mrs. Birch did not see the point and told her husband his ex cellency had insul ted her. Exchange While we are considerluir i when; to begin it is often too late to act Quin tilian. . ' . . '". . x0DD(B , v.When the, children get their feet wet and take cold give them a hot foot bath, a bowl of hot .drink, a dose of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, and put them to bed. The - chances are they will be all right in the morning. Con tinue the Cherry Pectoral a few days, until all cough has dis appeared. I Old coughs arc also cured; we mean the coughs of bron chitis, weak throats and irritable lungs. Even the hard coughs of consumption are always fi made easy and frequently cured IV by the continued use of 1 Every doctor knows that wild cherry bark is the best remedy known to medical science for soothing and healing inflamed throats ana lungs. Put ono of Dr. Aver's Cherry Pectoral Plasters over your iunga Thm Dmmt Kfmdlcai AdvlcmFrnI We now have some of tlie most emi nent pbytlctan In the United States. Unusual opportunities and long expert, nee eminently fit them for kItIbk yon medical advice. Write freely all tb nartlculara In ?oor ease. Address, l)r. J. C. AYKR, Loirii sisss. em M It 19 LwssSsIbbbibbbbbbsbbbbbibmbbbI 9 i : ..j . ."'
The Weekly Economist (Elizabeth City, N.C.)
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Sept. 23, 1898, edition 1
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