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Particular attection paid to Shad Department. We employ to agent andjjpay eommJioDS If your etencil is not In pood trder let us koow. PfnnfPrl-fln ?flRa cf aoni aUrnpt 41411(14 a a . wuf av - , for thir tl rn oa It" Mfif LOOKING BACKWARD. OR. TALMAGCr3AYS IT IS WELL TO REVIEW THE PAST. n W14 Arctic tke Sottl to Reml 1 aslMeae ( Daaarers escaped and S arrows Saffcred Old Memories IlaTo a rwrlfrlBST lafluenee. Copyrla-ht. Louis Klopsch. 1S03. Washxsotox. May 7. This sermon of Dr. Talmage calls the roll of many stirring memories and interprets the meaning of Ufe'a vicissitudes. The text is Paalma zzxix. 3, While I waa mus ing, the fire burned." Here Is David, tba psalmist, with the forefinger of bis right band against his temple and the door shut-against the world, engaged in contemplation. And it would be well for na to take the eame posture often, while we sit down in sweet solitude to contemplate. In a small island oft the coast of Nora Scotia I once passed a Sabbath in delightful solitude, for I had resolved that I would have one day of entire quiet before I entered upon autumnal work. I thought to have spent the day in laying out plans for Christian work, but instead of tbat it became a day of tender reminiscence. I reviewed my pastorate; I shook hands with an old departed friend, whom I shall greet again when the curtains of life are lifted. The days of my boyhood came back, and I was 10 years of age, and 1 was 8, and I was 5. There was but one house on the island, and yet from Sab bath daybreak, when the bird chant woke me, until the evening melted into the bay of Fundy, from shore to shore there were ten thousand memories, and the groves were a-hum with voices that had long ago ceased. Youth Is apt too much to spend all its time in looking forward. Old age is apt too much to spend all its time in look ing backward. People in midlife and on the apex look both ways. It would be well for us, I think, however, to spend more time in reminiscenca By the con stitution of our nature we spend most of the time looking forward. And the vast majority of people live cot so much in the present as in the future. 1 find tbat you mean to make a reputa tion, you mean to establish yourself, and the advantages that you expect to achieve absorb a great deal of your time. Cut I see no harm in this If it does not make you discontented with the pres ent, or disqualify you for existing du ties. It is a useful thing sometimes to look back, and to see the dangers we have ewraped, and to see the sorrows we have suffered, and the trials and wan derings of our earthly pilgrimage, and to sum up cur enjoyments. I mean, so far as God may help me, to stir up your memory of the past,' so that in the re view you may be encouraged and hum bled and urged to pray A rreeloos llarrest. There is a chapel in Florence with a fresco ty Guida It was covered up with two finches of stucco until our American and European artists went there, and after long toil removed the covering and retraced the fresco. And I am aware that the memory of the past, with many of you, is all covered up with obliterations, and I now propose, so far as the Lord may help me. to take away the covering, that the old picture may shine out again. I want to bind in one sheaf all your past advantages, and I want to bind in another sheaf all your past adversities. It is a precious har vest, and I must be cautious "bow I swing the scythe. Among the greatest advantages of your past life were an early home and its surroundings. The bad men of the day. for the most part, dip their heated passions out of the boiling spring of an unhappy borne. We are not surprised to find that Byron's heart was a con-, centration of sin when we bear his mother was abandoned and that she made sport of his infirmity and often called him "the lame brat" He who has vicious parents has to fight every Inch of his way if he would maintain his Integrity and at last reach the home of the good in heaven. Perhaps your early home was In a city. It may have been when Pennsylvania avenue, Wash ington, was residential as now it i9 commercial, and Canal street. New York, was far up town. That old house in the city may have been demolished or changed into stores, and it seemed likek sacrilege to you for there was more meaning in that small house than there is in a granite mansion or a tur reted catbedraL Looking back, you see it as though it were yesterday the sit ting room, where the loved one sat by the plain lamp light the mother at the evening stand, the brothers and sisters perhaps long ago gathered into the skies, then plotting mischief on the floor or under the table:, your father with firm voice commanding a 6ilcnce that lasted half a minute Happy Days Gone Dy. - Oh. those were good daysl If you had your foot hurt your mother always io a whin? salve to heal it If yen were wronged in the street, your fatherJ was always ready to protect you .iae year was one round of frolic and mirth. Your greatest trouble was an April shower, more sunshine than shower The heart had not been ransacked by trouble, nor had sickness broken it and no lamb had a Tanner sheepfold than the borne in which your childhood nestled. Perhaps you were brought up In tue country. You stand now today in mem ory under the old tree. You clubbed it for fruit that was not quite ripe, be cause you couldn't wait any longer. v tr the brook rumbling along over the pebbles. You step again into the furrow where your father in bis shirtsleeves shouted to the lary oxen. You frighten the swallows from the rafters of the barn and take just one txz and silence your conscience by say in? they will not miss it You take a f the verv bucket that the old well fetched up. You go for the ; cowt at night and find them pushing . tLeir Lf afo through the bars. Ofttimea in the dusty and busy streets you wish yon wre borne again on tbat cool grass, cr In tLe rag carpeted hall cf the farm hote, through v.hich there came the treslb of new mown hay or the blossom of bnckwbeat. ' Yon may have in your windows now beautifr.l plants and Cowers brought from across the seas, but not one of them stirs in your soul so much charm and memory as the old ivy and the yel low sunflower that stood sentinel along the garden walk and the forgetmenots playing hide and seek mid the long grasA The father who used to come in sunburned from te-field and jdt down cn the docrsill and wipe the sweat from bis brow may have gone to his everlast ing rest. The mother who used to sit at the door a little bent over, cap and ipectacles on, ber face mellowing with the' vicittiitndes cf many years, may have prt down her gray head on the pillow in the valley, but forget that home you never wilL Have you thanked God for it? Have you rehearsed all these blessed reminiscences? Oh, thank God for a Christian father I Thank God for a Christian mother I Thank God for an early Christian altar at which you were taught to kneel I Thank God for an early Christian home I A Great Mission. I bring to mind another passage In the history of your life. The day came when you set up your own household. The days passed along in quiet blessed ness. You twain sat at the table morn- and night and talked over your plans for the future. The most insignifi cant auair in your lire became tne suo ject of mutual consultation and adver tisement You were so happy you felt you never could be any happier. One day a dark cloud hovered over your dwelling, and it got darker and darker, but out cf tbat cloud the shining mes senger of God descended to incarnate an immortal spirit Two little feet started on an eternal journey, and you were to lead them, a gem to flash in heaven's coronet, and you to polish it; eternal ages of light and darkness watching the starting out of a newly created creature. You rejoiced and you trembled at the responsibility that in your possession an immortal treasure was placed Yon' prayed and rejoiced and wept and wondered; you were earnest in supplication that you might lead it through life into the kingdom of Gcd. There was a tremor in your earnestness There was a double inter est about tbat home. There was an ad ditional interest why you should stay there and be faithful, and when in a few months your house was filled with the innsic of the child's laughter yon were struck through with the fact tbat you had a stupendous mission. Have you kept tbat vow? Have you neglected any of these duties? Is .your home as much to you as it used to be? Have those anticipations been gratified ? God help you in your solemn reminis cence, and let his mercy fall upon your soul if your kindness has been ill requited 1 God have mercy on the parent on the wrinkles cf whose face is writ ten the story of a child's sin I God have mercy on the mother who, in addition to her other pangs, has the pang of a child's iniquity I Oh, there are many, many sad sounds in this sad world, but the saddest sound that is ever heard is the breaking of a mother's heart I Svreet Memories. I find another point in your life his tory. You found one day you were in the wrong road. You could not' sleep at night There was just one word that seemed to sob through your banking house, or through your office, or your shop, or your bedroom, and that word was "eternity." You said:. "I'm not ready for it Oh, God, have mercy I" The Lord beard. Peace came to your heart In the breath of the hill and in the waterfall's dash you heard the voice of God's love. The clouds and the trees hailed you with gladness. You came into the house of God. You. remember bow your band trembled as you took up the cup of the communion. You re member the old minister who conse crated it, and you remember the church officials who carried it through the aisle. You remember the old people who at the close cf the service took your hand in theirs in congratulating sympathy, as much as to say. "Welcome home, you lost prodigal l" And, though those hands be all withered away, that com munion Sabbath is resurrected today. It is resurrected with all its prayers and songs and tears and sermon's and transfiguration. Have you kept those vows? Have you been a backslider? God help you This day kneel at the foot cf mercy and start again for heav en Start now as you started then. I rouse your soul by that reminiscence But I must not spend any more of my time in going over the advantages of your life. I jus! put them in one great sheaf, and I call them up in your memory with one loud harvest song, such as the reapers sing. Praise the Lord, ye blood bought immortals on earth! Praise the Lord, ye crowned spirits cf heaven! But some of you bave not always had a smooth life Some of you are now in the shadow Others had their troubles year3 ago; you are a mere wreck of what von cfice were I must gather up the sorrows of your past life, but bow. shall I do it? You say that is impossi ble. as you bave bad so many troubles and adversities: Then I will just take two the first trouble and the last trou ble As when you, are walking along the street land there has -been music in the distance, you unconsciously find yourselves keeping step to the music, eo when you started life your verylife was a musical time beat The air was full of joy and hilarity ; with the bright clear oar yon made the boat. skip.. Ycu went on, and life grew brighter, until, after awhile, suddenly a voice from heaven said. "Halt I' ' and quick as the sunshine you halted, you grew pale, you confronted your first sorrow. You hid no idea that the flush on your child'a cheek was an unhealthy flush. You said it cannot be anything serious. Death in slippered feet walked round about the cradle. Ycu did not hear the tread, but after awhile the truth flash ed on you. You walked the floor. Oh, if you could, with your strong, stout hand, have wrenched that child from the destroyer I You went to your room and you said: "God, save my child! God, save my child!" The world seem ed going out in darkness. You said, "I can't bear it I can't bear it" You felt as if you could not put the long lashes over the bright eyes, never to see them again sparkle. If you could have taken that little one in your arms, and with it leaped the grave, bow gladly you would have done it 1 If you couli let . your property go, your houses gtvonr land and your storehouse go, how glad ly you would have allowed them to de part if you could only have kept that one treasure 1 God's Consolation. But one day there came up a chill blast that swept through the bedroom, and instantly all the lights went out and there" was darkness thick, murky, impenetrable, shuddering darkness. But Ged did not leave you there. Mercy rpoke. As you took up the bitter cup to ptit it to your lipsJGod said, "Let it pass," and forthwith, as by the hand of angels, another cup was put, into your hands. It was the cup of God's consolation. And as you have sometimes lifted the bead of a wounded soldier and poured wine into his lips, so God puts his left arm under your head and with his right hand he pours into your lips the wine of bis comfort and his consolation, and yon looked at the emp ty cradle and looked at your broken heart and you looked at the Lord's chastisement, and you said, "Even so, Father, for so it seemeth good in thy sight" Ah, it was your first trouble. How did you get over it? God comforted you. Yon have been a better man ever since. You have been a better woman ever since. In the jar of the closing gate of the sepulcher you heard the clanging of the opening gate of heaven, and yon felt an irresistible drawing heavenward. Yon have been spiritually better ever eince that night when the little one for the last time put its arms around your neck and 'said: "Good night, papal Good night mamma! Meet me in heaven I" But I must come to your latest sorrow.- What was it? Perhaps it was sickness. The child's tread on the stair or the tick of the watch on the stand disturbed you. Through the long weary days you counted the figures in the carpet or the flowersMn the wall paper. Oh, the weariness of exhaustion I Oh, the burning pangs! Would God it were "morning! Would God it were night! was your frequent cry. But you are better, or perhaps even welL Have you thanked God that today you can come out in the fresh air; that you are in your place to hear God's. name, and to sing God's praise, and to implore God's help, and to ask God's forgiveness? Bless the Lord who healeth all our dis eases and redeemeth our lives from de struction I Tears Wiped Away. Perhaps your last 'sorrow was a finan cial embarrassment. I congratulate some of you on your lucrative profes sion or occupation, on ornate apparel, on a commodious residence everything you put your hands on seems to turn to gold. But there are others of you who are like the ship on which Paul sailed where two seas met, and you are bro ken by the violence of the waves. By an unadvised indorsement, or by a con junction of unforeseen events, or by fire or storm, or a senseless panic, you have been flung headlong, and where you once dispensed great charities now you bave hard work to win your daily bread. Have you forgotten to thank God for your days of prosperity, and that through your trials eomeot you have made investments which will con tinue after the last bank of this world has exploded, and the silver and gold are molten in the fires of a burning world ? Have you, amid all your losses and discouragements, forgot that there was bread on your table this morning, and that there shall. be a shelter for your head from the storm, and there is air for your lungs, and blood for your heart and light for your eye. and a glad and glorious and triumphant reli gion for your soul? Perhaps your last trouble was a be reavement That heart which in child hood was your refuge, the parental heart and which has been a source of the quickest sympathy ever since, has suddenly become silent forever. And now sometimes, whenever in sudden annoyance and without deliberation you say, "I will go and tell mother, " the thought flashes on you, "I have no mother." Or the father, with voice less tender, but with heart as loving, watch ful of all your ways, exultant over your success without saying much, although the old people do talk it over by them selves, his trembling hand on that stall which you now keep as a family relic bis memory embalmed in grateful hearts is taken away forever. Or there was your companion in life, sharer of your joys and sorrows, taken, leaving the heart an old ruin, where the ill winds blow over, a wide wilderness of desolation, the sands of the desert driv ing across the place which oncebloom ed like the garden of God. And Abra ham mourns for Sarah at the cave cf Macbpelah- As you were moving along your path in life, suddenly, right be fore you, was an xtpen grave. People looked down, and they saw it was only t p feet deeo and a few feet wide. but to you it was a cavern down which went all your hopes and all your expec- . a? tations. But cheer up in the name cf i.i t -r ri,of Vio fWmfnrtpT. VUO XIUIUCSUa vu) He is not going to forsake you. Did the ira rase mat csuu uut ui juux oius Why, he is going to shelter it netted than ron conld. He is Ecinsr to array it iU a Wmie H1UV BUU WUil a.aa,aa have it all ready to greet you at your coming home. Blessed the broken heait that 'Jesus heals I Blessed the importu nate cry that Jesus compassionates! IIessed the weeping eye from which the left band of Jesus wipes away the tear I Glorious Eternity. Some years ago I was sailing down the St John river, which is the Rhine and the Hudson commingled In cue scene of beauty and grandeur, and while I was on tbe deck of the steamer a gen tleman pointed out to me tbe places of interest, and he said: All this is inter-1 val land, and it is the richest land in all tbe provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia." "What," said I. "do you mean by interval land?' " .Well," he said, "this land is submerged for a f k a J ca , Bjjitug uccucia luuii; own, aEa . all these- plains . are over- part of the year; spring freshets come flowed with the water, and the water leaves a rich deposit, and when the wa ters are gone the harvest springs up, and there is a richer harvest than I know of elsewhere." And I instantly thought "It is not the heights of the church, and it is not the heights of this world that are the scene. of the greatest prosperity, but the soul over which the floods of sorrow . have gone, the soul over which the freshets of tribulation have torn their way, that yields the greatest fruits of righteousness and the largest harvest for time and the richest harvest for eternity. " Bless God that your soul is interval land! There is one more point of absorbing reminiscence, and that is the last hour of life, when we have to iook over an our past existence What a moment that will be! I place Napoleon's dying reminiscence on St. Helena beside Mrs. Judson's dying reminiscence in the har bor of St Helena, the same island, 20 years after. Napoleon's dying reminis cence.was one of delirium "Tete d'ar-mee,'-r-"Head of the army. " Mrs! Jud son's dying reminiscence, as she came home from her missionary toil and ber life of self sacrifice for God, dying in the cabin of the ship in the harbor of St Helena, was, "I always did love tbe Lord Jesus Christ" And then the his torian say's she fell into a sound sleep for an hour and woke amid the 6on;;s of angels. I place the dying reminis cence of Augustus Caesar against tlio dying reminiscence of the apostle Paul. The dying reminiscence of Augustus Ca?sar was, addressing his attendants, "Have I played my part well on the stage of life?"and they answered in the affirmative, and he said, "Why, then, don't you applaud me?" The dying reminiscence of Paul the apostle was, "I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course. I have kept the faith ; hence forth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, tlie righteous Judge, will give me in that day, and not to me only, but to all tv,0m that lnvtrhid aDnearin." Augus tus Csesar died amid pomp and great surroundings, Paul uttered his dying reminiscence locking up through the wall of a dungeon. God grant that our dying pillow may be ; the closing of a useful life and the opening of a glori ous eternity. Ludlow's Victory Over Shatter. General William Ludlow, who is achieving high fame as the first Ameri can governor of Havana, owes his pres ent command to a personal victory he gained over General Shatter in the first days of the Santiago campaign. - He had long ago attained a fine rec ord as a topographical engineer, and was one of the first regular army officers to seek service in Cuba. With a scarce ly dried commission of brigadier general of volunteers in his pocket he hastened to General Shafter. . Seeing that General Shafter already had a competent engineer onliis staff. General Ludlow applied for command of a brigade On the fighting line, and mentioned the Firs brigade of the Sec ond division. Generjal Shatter looked up in surprise and exclaimed: "I thought you were an engineer I" "So I am," replied General Ludlow, "also an artillerist!; or cavalry officer, or an-infantry offidef. at the will of my superiors, like eWy trained soldier." General Shafter began parleying, and General Ludlow, in the mildest manner possible, insibted, morning after morn ing, until be received it After the ter rible battle of El Caney he was promot ed to be a major general Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post Wanted Riley's Antosraph. The Philadelphia Record says: "The strength of the fad for autographs was strikingly shown yesterday, when scores of clerks and customers besieged James Whitcomb Riley while he was modestly making some book purchases in a large department store "As Boon as the Hoosier poet was sighted near the latest book counter the news quit "Ay went the rounds of the clerks, acn within a half hour Mr. Ri ley had ouiigingly signed his name to 100 card - Customers who were at the book sta jnat the time or were attracted thither o took, advantage of tbe op portunity und secured the signature of tbe poet "To cn- of the clerks Mr. Riley said that on tLe average he receives 200 let ters a day asking for his autograph and many more personal requests while on his tours. When not in a humor for composition the poet as a mental di version, occupies himself in signing the thousands of cards which he yearly receives." The Dntca Queen. Queen Wilhelmina of the Nether lands dislikes to be called "the little ueen." She thinks the phrase reflects upon her kingdom, as she is 5 feet 1 Inches in height The queen of Spain Is only 5 feet 5 2-5 inches -.the empress f Rnoeia s feet 214 inches: the em- press of Germany and Queen Victoria fni omaiw A de from her heieht uess uujju. nre and 42 men Dust give an aanwrauio ororJortion. Her powers of endurance crera well tested on coronation uajr. when for six long hours she wore the ceremonial mantle of red velvet trim med with ermine, a weight of notf a than 80- pounds, and showe no. ymptoa'c' Ugua 1 Pelictous and lrrellffloas Fishes. Pishes are fupposed to havenorell gion. Probably they are greatly malign ed in that as well as in other respect. St Anthony, as you know, nied to preach to them nndtnake their eyes glitter and their hearts beat by his clo- Hjnence. A Jewb story is told I can not unfortunately, lay my hands on tbe passage ju.t tiow of a fish which leaves the sea on Saturday and does not return until Sunday so as to be able to keep the Sabbath. Other fishe,' unlike ththr puritanical brother, do not' observe the sacred day. The Koran gives a story of some very naughty fishes in David's time. Know ing jt bat the Israelites were forbidden to cjitch fish on the Sabbath, tbe'wicked cTeaturea came out of the Red sea in unusual numbers and kept in sight of the people ajl through the day In order to tempt them. On the approach of night they returned to the sea again. In a fatal moment some of the Israelites yielded to 'the piine blaadiehrueutv caught several of them andhad them for dinner. Whereupon Dajrid cur-d the Sahlwth breakers, and Gejd. to show his displeasure, changed theifi Into apes and pigs. For three dnys they. remained in this unpleasant condition, when a violent storm arose and swept them Into tho s a. The fish which brought the tribute money to our Lord is supposed to have been a haddock, which had strayed into the lake of (ieunesarct There are ' eral legends which tell of miraculous find- in fishes. Paris Messenger. Iluntluu Timers in Persia. Tho people of different 'countries have different v.r.j.of hunting the tlxer. Traps. ritf:;!ls. tpiing gnus anil nets are called into play. The Chinese nre said to employ the mirror to lead the animal into a trap. TluMiger'scuiinsity i excited )r n. he his image in the gl;, iHil !:" i::ii.ui1i;!telv procls to investigate : r..tcry. The Per sian i:ian?s:r t.fW.iWtii:-.: the hnnt.'as this is d r -ii! 1 hi ( hiu:V.eri' Journal, i move .s; : A r;J) ! i ' cage;- with 'i i .l.Vii !v w yi n I .iiuIm i a ft v.- inches bc ,v. t l in t n im pet li ,-( r. 7 hi c.v: i 'eLi Ud to i thii :M provided with .".virful htuhbin-r twe'.n th? 1 near tlio h:. is firi'ily t.i. ground. I. several, t '.: sneers, o;' n and pointed swoid, ta': (kj er n ;ti:: (ho wrr; :! 3:i; (to si-.;. In fM! ti' penn:i.ee. t' footed c'jtv:- t f t ijirht, with a ... ; - r.ion. Thero I.l.inhct nr.d goes z t'.e thcrr makes hi$ np- i-j vi!:cd by his foar : nh : i.d after vainly p.vov. Yr.vj, rnuikl tho ras to fiud Jin n'ra:.'. la i tiiT rears against the v;.:. Tiiri i.;:mi ii:-t. of tho Lrr.l n;r with a r t ? V siitly t.j!:e3 advantage roh-ctt d jMisition, and : o" of tho nu-ar or the EWtVvl na to :.' al.h. j;ii.t:.,VuM'ii tit l!rid. In the 1 .: -i Ar.; rii:i, in Ireland, it was a very c.':;.":k n tiling fr gun barrels to be found, relk of fjvut battle there. Thero v. :; a hi :t l.'iith who dug them up inciter t nu;!;e use of the material. One t tV u exploded in hi furnace. v. Ie.n i; v7.;VAv.r : "Bad hick to your lovo of i::nrthr! Iu't the bat tle of Auglrim out of jxo ytt?" Stockings made from human hair are worn by Chinese fishermen u the beet preventive of wet feet. They are drawa over ordinary cotton stockings, being too rough for putting near tbe skin. Ycuf heart beats over cue hun dred thousand tirr.es each day. One hunarcdlhousandsurpHetof good or bad tlood to your brain. Which is ii? ' If bad, impure blood, thenycur brain aches. You are troubled with drowsiness yet cannot sleep. You are as tired In the morning as at night. You have no nerve power. Your foci does you but little rood. Stimulants, tonics, headache powders, cannot cure you; but will. It makes the liver, kidneys, skin and bowels perform their proper work. It removes a!l im purities from tbe blood. ."4f " makes tbe blood rich In In life giving properties. To Hzsfcn Recovery You will be more rapidly cured if you will take a laxative dose of AVer's pills each night. They arouse, the sluggish liver and thus cure biliousness. tfriYo to ow Doctor Ws IhaY th exclu.tYS rHew of opao of the most eins physicians 'la ths Ui.itoU States. Writs Xssly ail UiS particulars In your fays. Address, UJC J. C. ATZTt, Lowell, Uuit v 1 , i ( ; V,, f ! .1 e;.K !' ml ti a: i ' If i:i pV Mf: ??Zrrr ft LJ7 AH a
The Weekly Economist (Elizabeth City, N.C.)
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May 12, 1899, edition 1
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