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.21 -si II it 1! .Ml 1 I . OR. ' 1 ftEPAlF.D ESPECIALLY FOI AND OLD. tl YOUNG MJect: "The Talli of Safety' Menace to Our atloiil Kxiitrnre The Dan Ker of Monopoly, Nihilism and In fidelity I'olnted Out. Copyright. Louis Klopsch. 1S99.1 Wakhinotcn. D. C In this discourse Dr. Talmngo speaks of some of tho periU tLat :breatea our Americau institutions and points out the path of safety; text. Isaiah liil., 4. 'Thy Jand shall be m'urried." As the greater includes the less, so does ihe circle of future joy around our entire world include th epicycle of our own re public. Bold, exhUarant, unique, divine Itr.njrery of the text. At the close of a week jn which for three days our national apitnl was a pageant, and all that prand review and bannered prucesion and na tional anthems could do celebrated peace, it may not bo inajt to anticipate th time when tho I'rinco of reac and the Heir of L'nivoral Dominion shall take possession of this nation and "thy land shail be mar ried.'' In dIoussinK the final destiny of this Latiou, it makes all the difference in tho world whether we are on the way to a funeral or a weddicfr. The I'ible leaves no Joubt on this subject. In pulpits and on platforms and in places of public concourse 1 hear so many of he muffled drums of evil prophecy sounded, as though we were on the wcy to national interment, and beside rh-bes and Babylon and Tyre in the ceme tery of dead nations our republic was to be entombed, that I wish you to under hand it is not to be obsequies, but nup tial; not mausoleum, but carpeted altar; not cypress, but oranpe blossoms; not re quiem, but wedding march, for "thy land fha.ll be married." I propose to name some of the suitors who are claiming the hand of this repub lic. Th! land is so fair, so beautiful, so fffluei.t that it has many suitors, and it -fill depend much upon your advico whether this or that shall be accepted or rejected. In the llrst place, I remark: l'here is a greedy, all grasping monster who comes in as suitor seeking the hand of this republic, undthat monster is known by the crime of monopoly. His scepter is made out of the iron of the rail track and the wire of telegraphy. He does everything for his own advantage and for the robbery f the pfO le. , Things went on from bad to worse until .n the three legislatures of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania for a long time monopoly decided everything. If monop oly favors a law, it passes; if monopoly op rcses a law it is rejected. Monopoly stands la the railroad depot putting into his pockets in one year ?2C0,C00 in excess of ill reasonable charges for services. Mo nopoly holds iu his one hand the steam power of locomotion and ia the other the electricity of swift communication. Mo nopoly has the Republican party in one pocket and the Democratic party ia the jtLor pocket. Monopoly decides nomina tives and elections city elections, state Meclions, national elections. With bribes he secures the votes of legislators, giving them free passes, giving appointments to needy relatives to lucrative position, em ploying them as attorneys if they are law yers, '"nrrying their goods 15 per cent, less if they are merchants, and if he And a case very stubborn as well as very important puts down Itfcre him the hard cash ot Dribery. But iccncroly is not so easily caught tow as when during the term of Mr. Bu chanan the Legislative Committee in on .f cur States explored and exposed tho manner iu which a certain railway com pany bad obtained a donation cf'puUia t.tnd. It was found out that thirteen of the Senators ci that Stale received $175,000 among them, sixty members of the lower -ouso of that Stat' received between 5000 r i 10. COO each, the iJovernor of that t.r.o received ycO.COO. his clerk received fr'OvO. the uitutenant-Coveraor received tlO.CCO. the clerks of the Legislature receive i -.-c0 each, while $50,000 were di t i .'.ed a org the lobby agents. That thing ;n a larger or smaller scale is all the time icrcg on in some of the States in the Union, .ut i: is Let so Ibjiiderinc as it used to be, r. i therefore net so easily exposed or ar rested. I tc.l you that the overshadowing n:r of the ("nite.i States to-dav is mo ll: ruts his hand on everv rrusLei o: wheat, upon every sckcfsalt, iron eery ten ot coal, and every man. R oman and chi.d ia the United States feels he to-.ch cf that moneyed depotism. T re ;oice that in twenty-four States of the Union already anti-monopoly leagues Lave : een establishes. God speed them ia the wo rks of Jitt? ratio::. I Lave nothing to sav against capital s'.?. A man Las a right to all the money -e -r.n make honestly I have nothing to ay aga;ust corporation as u h: without rlrm co creat enterprise would be possible, tut what I J,i say i that the sime prin- ij ;e are to te airbed to capitalists and orp rations that are applied to the r : r.aa r.:i th- plaiaest laborer. wrorg for creat to to 0 IV 1. tit wrorg for I roie Uor. ia;: a. : it; v If I ut ar :i a th: tuke from you vour n-irite compensa '. -.u i :! a rail wav v tL- t t.- It w:t:i- itr;e s ic. :d hunired? that N a caLt: tue'r. Wh:i: i wrorg -a t m..i s a.e is wrote; on M(v o v ::: England r?s gr . - k . v . s.i s v. . k i r - s . - . . . "t- . . -tarvatioii .ir.d in Icei.md his iriv-. rr.ui:; ;udiro us term.is almost madce-s an 1 tttr Ur.::o' State; ; ror :5o- to takete reilth of C0.000.C00 or TO.OOO.OCO of people Dd put it iu a few silken wallets. llnnnr n V l niztn faced, iron fingered. rulture hearted monopoly offers his band to this republic. He stretcbes It out over the lakes and up the gn?at railroads and aver the telegraph poles of the continent and says, "Here is my heart and hand: be mir." forever." Let the millions of the people North, South, KasI and West forbid the banns of that marriage, forbid them at the ballot lex, forbid them on the plat form, forbid them by great organizations, forbid them bv the overwhelming senti ment of an outraged nation, forbid them ty the protest of the cburch of God, forbid them by r-raver to high heaven. That Herod shall not have this Abigail. It shall aot be to nil devouring monopoly that this and Is to be married. Another suitor claiming the hand of this republic is nihilism. He owns nothing bat a knife for uni versal cutthroatery and a nitroglycerin bomb for universal explosion. He believes !n no God, no government, no heaven and no hell except what he can makefcn earth! He slew the czar of Russia, keeps many u ting practically imprisoned, killed Abra ham Lincoln, would put to death every king and president on earth, and if he had the power would climb up until he could drive th God of heaveu. from His throne and take it himselT. the universal butcher. In Trance it is called communism; iu the United States i: is called anarchism: ia Kusia it Is called nihilism, but that last is Ihe most graphic and descriptive term. It means complete and eternal smash up. It would make the holding of property a xJra ni.A it xmixiA Jriva u dajrirer through four heart and put a torch to your dwell ing and turn over this whole land into the possession of theft and lust and rapine and minder. Where does this monster live? In all the towns and cities of this land. It offers its hand to this fair republic. It proposes to tear to pieces the ballot box, the legislative hall, the congressional assembly. It would take this land and divide it up, or rather divide it down. It would give us much to the idler as to the worker, to the bad as to the good. Nihilism! This panther, having prowled aeross other hinds, has set its paw on our soil, and it is only waiting for the time in which to pring upon its prey. It wa nihilism that burned the railroad prop erty at rittsburg during the great riots; it as nihilism that slew black people in our Northern cities dur'ng the war: It was ni hilism that mauled to death the Chinese immigrants yars ago; it is nihilism that glares out of the windows of the drunker ies upon sober people as thy go by. Ah! Its power has never rt been tested! T. pray God its power may never be fully tested. It would, if it had tbe power, leave everv church, chapel, cathedral, sc'aool bouse and college iu ashes. Another suitor for the hand of this na tion is infidelity. When the midnight ruf tians despoiled the grave of A. T. tew.ir: in St. Mark's churchyard, everybody wa shocked, but infidelity proposes something worse than that the" robbing of all tht graves of Christendom of the hope of a re surrection. It proposes to chisel out from the tomb-stones of your Christian dead the words. "Asleep in Jesus" and substitute the word "Obiiterntion annihilation." Infidelity proposes to rate the letter frorm the world's Father, inviting the nations to virtue and happiness and tear it up into fragments so small that you cannot read a word of it. It proposes to take the conso lation from the broken hearted and the soothing pillow from the dying. Infidelity proposes to swear in the President o! the United States and the supreme court and the Governors of States and the witnesses in the courtroom with their right hand o.t Tatne's "Age of Reason"' or Voltaire's "Thilcsophy of History."' It proposes to take away from this country the book that makes the difference between the Unite" states and the kingdom of Dahomey, be tween American civilization and Bornesia cannibalism. If infidelity could destroy the Scriptures, it would in irOO years turn the civilized nations back to serribarbarism, and then from semibarbarism int. mid night savagery until the morais of a menag erie of tirerr. rattlesnakes and chimpan zees would le better than the morals of th thipwrecked human race. The only impulse ia th right direction that this world has ever had has come from the Bible. It was the mother of Roman law and cf healthful jurisprudence. Tiiat "t ook Las leen the mother of a!! re forms ana ail charities mother of Tr:z Hsh macr.a chart a ar J American Declara tion of Independence. Eenjamia Urankii.k. boldirg that Holy Book in his Land, stood l!re an infidel club in Pari-; and rad te thtm cut cf the prophecies of Habakkuk. r.ud the int! dels, not knowing what took it was, declared that it was the !-t poetry t hey had ever beard. That bock brought George Washington down on his knes it the snow a: Vaiiey Ferine and led the dy ing Prince Albert to ask'some cue to sfn? Rock of Ages."' I tell you that the worst ct tempted crime cf the century is the attempt to destroy this book. Yet infidelity. loa:Lome, steneh ful. leprous, pestiferous, rottei monster -tretehes cut its hand, ichorous with the -econd death, to take the hand cf this re puMv. R stretches it c it through sedu f ive magazines, anl th'-ougii iyceum lec iure and iLrcuch carfctures of relUio.nw It aks for all tf&t part of tt continent al-r-ady fut-y ett!ed. and the two-thirds not it nv: ;:.-, me a!! v . . .. - -i.-s.s-l; ' i. i..e a.-iS Oi -Bat there Is another suitor that resents hbV cliim for the hand of this republic. He fs menSoned ia the verse following my tlxt wh-re it ays. "As the bridegroom re oieerh over the'bride. so shall thy God re oice over thee." Bef ore Columbus and his 1"0 men embarked on the feanta Mann, the plnta, and the Nina, for their wonderful voyage, what was the last thing they did? Thev sat down and took the holy sacrament of the Lord Jesus Christ. After they caught the first glimse of this country and the gun of one ship had announced'it to the other veel that land had been discovered, what was the song tbst went up from all tha three decks? "Gloria in exce.sis. After Columbus and bis 120 men had stepped from the ship's deck to the solid ground, what did thev do? They all knelt and cop eecrated the new world to God. W bat did the Huguenots do after they landed in the Carolines? What did the Holland refugees do after thev bad landed in New ork? What did tbe'pllgrim fathers do after they landed in New England? With bended knee and uplifted face and heaven besieging prayer, thev tooic possession oi tuis cuu nent for God. How was" the first American Congress opened? Bv praver, in the name of Jesus Christ. From its birth this nation was pledged for holy marriage with Christ. And then seo how good God has been to us! Just open the map of the continent and see how it is shaped for immeasurable prosperities. Navigable rivers, more iu number and greater than of any other land, rolling down on all sides to the sea, prophe svinir large manufactures and easy com merce. Look at the great ranges of moun i tains timbered with wealth ou the top and I sides, metaled with wealth underneath. One hundred and eighty thousand square miles of coal. One hundred and eighty thousand square miles of iron. The land eo contoured that extreme weather hardly ever lasts more than three days extreme heat or extreme cold. Climate for the most part bracing and favorable for brawn and brain. All fruits, all minerals, all harvests. Scenery displaying an autumnal pageantry that no land on earth pretends to rival. No South American earthquake. No Scotch mists. No London Fogs. No Egyptian plagues. No Germanic divisions. The people of the United States are happier than any people on earth. It is the testi mony of every man that baa traveled abroad. For the poor more sympathy, for the industrious more opportunity. Oh. how good God was to our fathers, and bow good He has been to us and our chil dren. To Him, blessed be His mighty name to Him of cross and triumph, to Him who still remembers the prayer of the Huguenots and Holland refugees and tho pilgrim fathers, to Him shall this land be married. Oh, you Christian patriots, by your contributions and your prayer?, Jaasten on the fulfillment of the text. While some people may stand at the gate's of the city, saving, '"Stay back! ' to foreign populations, I press out as far be yond those gates as I can press out beyond them and beckon to foreign nations, say ing. "Come, come, all ye people who are honest and Industrious and God loving!" Bat say you, "I am so atraid that they will bring their prejudices for foreign gov ernments and plant them here. ' Absurd. Thejr are sick of the governments that Lave QEjaressed them and they want frej America! Give them the great gospel of welcome. Throw around them ull Chris tian hospitalities. They will add their in dustry and hard earned wages to this country, and then we will dedicate all to Chr.st and "thy land shall be married. But where shall the marriage altar be? Let it be the RoeSy Mountains, when, througu artificial and mighty irrigation, all their tops shall be covered, as thev will be, with vineyards and orchards and grainfields. Then let the Bostons and the New Yorks and the Charlestons of the Pacific coast come to the marriage altar on one side, and then let the Bostons and the New Yorks and the Charlestons ot the Atlantic coast come to the marriaga altar on the other side, and there be tween them let this bride of nations kneel, anl ther if the organ cf the loudest thunders that ever shook the Sierr: Nevadas on the one side or moved the foundations of the Ai!eghanijs on th other side should open lull diapason of wedding march, that organ of thunders could not drown the voice cf Lim who would take the Lar.dcf this bride of nations, saying, "As a bridegroom rejoiceth over a bride, so thy God rejoiceth over thee." At that marriage banquet the platters shall be o Nevsia silver, au i the c;jn!i;s of California gc-11 anl the fruits of northern orchards, and tLe spices of southern groves, and thetapestrvof American manu facture, and the congratulations from all j" free nations cf earth and from all th .riumphant armie of heaven, "Ands.' tLv land -hall Le married.'' The xtoa ia New York L "Sexton and Undertaker" u VA usually found affixed i , rV.TnV'5 OFrSr.TS TO IN'TELLF-Cl V AL FmUITS. '"Katharine, wLat made rem laugb tv be n. I was reaJiup- ruv club parer on 'Aichkectnre " 'Tar.loa me, X-r.cy; I couldn't Lelp it; you looke r so funny with yorsr bat ou rrooke " .Va ra : o ar. w.tn the i r:rt: i: then cive me v"ycvr.iT cive me Mor.t7".?. ctvo v nie a'u the S ates -r, . en ar: I I wiii Ma Le takethese poisr-si: fniiv i ! r-: :t !. . printing j r giv rse . me (oil. i ii THE COOPER MARBLE WORKS. a ..j.ju3.,fu tears. Q Bask St. - N0RF0LS. V in i u r rsontn! Low pr ces 'I" "--d on iloranra ti. Gravestccf.5, Etc.. ia Mrb ora-itt. cti.v'Trd at r.r Snth2 -any tr.r mean tent tne sext.-n a t He merely contracts for t , f "rM- ("r.rr.-... To ul-.t " known as wholesale unJertak"- of the meuil)ers of the and sublets the work A twenty per cent. the sexton's share of the n- 0-e.M?4 . , taking into consideration The -"1 merabership of some of the x,.w churche-; and the elaborv. f-r k that take place almost di ; ' t s. aa honorable calling :.r i; ; a il.-i I ! ? . lies mai uruigs IU Tlio m;;;. 'J h,. i. fits of a sexton 'u .p.. r j downtown churches u e-:::.;a:.j "'" $10,00) annually fr,m his f;::.. r:il i "! iness alone. Weddings ur profitable, but they do fahlv u, . ... i 1 V are cheerful. He collects rents and rakes his habitual ,ni:;n sion. he gets .10 for digtr'.i. a crav. and hires a more Inborn- t. , , the work for $4; he is paid ;.,r the church and for closiu- " few other tliinjrs that kap i.: fr ... starvation. But there is oi.e i: ... he must look sharp after, and tl.a; his collections. It is a peculiar fa-: but people will stand off a f; ii-ral .;; as long rind as callously a Letroit Free Press. ' "t!.r. Lincoln's Urother-ln-I.aw. iaj. ciemeut i. line, oi t-e;n.z. Ala., the only surviving brctlur-in-'.a of Abraham Lincoln, was ?.r. officer c: the Alabama state guard a: the out break of the war, and under orders oi the executive of the state took part with his command in the rapture o: Fort Morgan, Mobile bay, before Al bania had formally seceded froai tht Union. When it was reported to Pres ident Lincoln that his brc:h--r-ia-!a had performed this daring exph.t against the national authority, on be ing asked what he would do about it. replied: "Well, I suppose I shall have to hang White when we catch him.' Maj. White later performed many ex tinguished military and civil s-rvf.v-for the Confederacy. New York Trie une. Ey PUn. 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