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i HEY. ffl. TALHAGE. The Eminent Brooklyn Divine's Sun day Sermon. Subject: 1X1 ,3fw Tabrnaela,r Text: m IT zf mean ye by these stones?" Joshua Iv.. 6, The Jordan, like the Mireisippi. has bluffs on the one side and flats on the other. Here and there a sycamore shadows it. Here and there s willow dipt into it. It was only a little over waist oeep in December as I waded through it, but in the months of April and May tee mows on Mount Lebanon tnaw and flow down into the valley, and then the Jor dan overflows its banks. Then it is wide, deep, raging and impetuous. At this season of the year I bear the tramp of forty thou sand armed men coining: down to cross the river. You say. why do they cot go up. nearer the rise of the river at the o Id camel ford? Ah ! my friends, it is because it is not safe to go around when the Lord tells us to go ahead. The Israelites had been going around forty years, and they had enough of it. I do not know how it is with you, my brethren, but I have always got into trouble when I went around, but always got into safety when I went ahead. There spreads out the Jordan, a raging torrent, much of, it snow water just come down from the mountain top; and I see some of the Israelites shivering at the idea of plunging in, and one soMier says to his com- J rade, "Joseph, canyouswimf And another says: "If we get across the stream we will get there with wet clothes and with damaged armor, and the Canaanitei will slash us to pieces with their swords before we get up the other bank." But it is no time to halt. The great host marches on. The priests carrying the ark go ahead, the people follow. I hear the tramp of the great multitude. The priests have now come with in a stone's throw of the water. Yet still there is no abatement of the flood. Now t hy have come within four or five feet o: 1 stream; but there is no abatement of flood. Bad prospect I It seems as if the Israelites that crossed the desert are now go ing to be drowned in sight of Canaan. But 'Forward ! is the cry. The command rings all along the line of the host. "Forward!" Now the priests have come within one step or the river This time they lift their feet from the solid ground and put thorn down into the raging stream. Ho sooner are their ; feet there than Jordan flies. On the right hand God piles up a great mountain .of floods; on the left the water flows off toward the sea. The great ri v?r for hours halts and rears. The back waters, not being able to flow over the passing Is raelites, pile wave on wave until perhaps a sea bird would find some difficulty in scaling the water cliff. Now the priests and all the people have gone over on dry land. The water on the left hand side by this time has reached the sea; and now that the, miracu lous passage has been made, stand back and see this stupendous pile of waters leap. God takes His hand from that walls of fioods,and like a hundred cataracts tht.y plunge and roar in thunderous triumph to the sea. How are they to ceM-rate this passage? Shall it be with music? I suppose the trum pets and cymbals were all worn out before this. Shalt it be with banners waving? Oh, no; they are all faded and :-m. Joshua cries nut, will tell you b- v to celebrate this build a monuro,: t; hr.io to commemo rate the event," ard every priest puts a heavy stone on his shoulder and marches out And drops that stone in the divinely ap pointed place. I see the pile growing in height, in breadth, in significance; and, in after years, men went by that spot and saw this monument, and cried out one to another, in fulfillment of the prophecy of the text, "What meant ye by these stones k Blessed b God, He did not leave our church in the wilderness! We have been wandering about for a yearanl a half worshiping in the Academy of Music, Brooklyn, ana the Academy or Music, .New xort. And some thought we would never reach the promised land. Some said we had better take this route and others that. Some said we hod better go back, and some said there were sons of Ar.ak in the way that would eat us up, and before the smoke had cleared away from the sky after our tabernacle had been consumed, people ctood on the very site of the place and said: "This church will never again be built.' We came down to the bank of Jordan; we looked off upon the waters. Some of the svmpntby that was expressed turned out to be snow water melted from the top of Lebanon. Some said: "You had bet ter not go in; you will get your feet wet." But we waded in, pastor and people, farther and farther, and in some way, the Lord only knows how, we got through; and to-njgbt "I Eo all around about this great house, erected y your prayer and sympathies and sacri fices, and cry out in the words, of my text: What mean ye by these 6tonesP It is an outrage to build a house like this, so vast and so magnificent, unless there be some tremendous reasons for doing it; and so, my friend?, I pursue you to-night with the. question of ray text, and I demand of these trustees and of these elders and of all who have contributed in the building this structure, 'What mean ye by these st aes?" But before I get your answer to my question you interrupt me and point to the memorial wall at the side of this pulpit, and say, "Et plain that unusual group of memorials. What mean you by those stones ' By per mission of the people of my beloved charge I recently visited the Holy Lands, and having In mind by day and night during my ab sence this rising houseot prayer, I bethought myself, "What can I do to make that place significant and gloriousf On the morning of December the 3d we , were at the foot of the most sacred mount ain of all the earth. Mount Calvary. There is no more doubt of the locality than of Mount Washington or Mount Blanc. On the bluff of this mountain, which istheshapaof the human skull, and so called in the Bible, The place of the skull," there is room for three crosses. There I saw a stone so sug gestive 1 rolled it down the hill and trans ported it. It is at the top of this wall, a white stone, with crimon veins running through it the white typical of parity the crimson suggestive of tne blood that paid the price of pur redemption. We place it at the top of the memorial wall, for above all in this church for all time, in sermon and song and prayer, shall be the sacraficeof Mount Cavalry. Look at it. That stone was one of the rocks rent at the crucifixion. That heard the cry. "It is finished." Was ever any church on earth honored with such, a memorial? Beneath it are two tables of stone which I had brought from Mount irioai where the law was given. Three oimeis were three weeks crossing the desert to fetch them. When at Cairo. Egypt, I proposal to the Christian Arab that he bring one stone from Mount Sinai, he said, "We can easier bring two rocks than one, for one must balance them on the back of the camel," and I dil not think until the day of their arrival how much more suggestive would be the two, be cause the law was written on two tablets of atone. Those stones marked with the words Mount SinaT felt the earthquake that shook the mountains when the law was given. The lower stone of the wall is from Mars Hill, ta place where Paul stood when be preached that famous sermon on the brotherhooi of the nuraan race, declaring 'God hath macb o' one blood all nations.' Since Lord Elgin took the famous statuary from the Acropolis, the hill adjoining; Mars HOI, the Greek Government makes It impos sible to transport to other lands any antiq uities, and armed soldiers guard not only the Acropolis, but Mars HilL That stone I obtained by special permission from the Queen of Greece, a most gracious and bril liant woman, who received us as though we had been old acquaintances, and through Mr. Tricoupis, the Prime Minister of Greece, and Mr. Snowden, our American Minister niDOtentiary. and Dr. Manatt. our Amer "Consul, 'that suggestive tableF was sawed from the pulpit of rock on which Paul preached. Now you understand why e have marked It "The GospeL" Long af ter my lips shall utter in this church theii last message, these hps of stone will tell ol the Law, and the Sacrifice, and tbs GopeI . This day I present them to tb church and to all who shall gaze uoon them. Thus vou have my answer to the queatim, "What man you by these stones But you cannot divert me from the ques tion of the text as I first put it. I have in terpreted these four memorials on. my nzUt hand, but fhere are hundreds of stone in these surround inj: walls and underneath us, in the foundations, and rising above us in the towers. The qnarrlas of this and trans atlantic countries at the call of crowbar and chisel have contributed toward this structure. "What mean ye by these stones?" You mean amon? other things that they shall bo an earthly residence for Christ. Christ did not have much of a home when He was her. Who and where is that child, crying? It is Jesus, born in an outhouse. where is that hard breathing? ' It is Jesus, asleep on a rock. Who is that in the back part of a fishing smack, with a sailor's rough overcoat" thrown over Him? It is Jesus, the worn out voyager. O, Jesus! is it not time that Thou hadst a house? We give Thee this. Thou didst give it to us first, but we give it back to Thee. It is too rood for us. but not half good enough for Thee. Oh f come in and take the best seat here. Walk up and down all these aisles. Speak through these organ pipes. Throw thine inn over us in these arches. In the nr. jg of these brackets ot fire speak to us, W"Iam the light of the world." O King! make this thine audience chamber. Here proclaim righteousness and make treaties. We clap our hnnds, we uncover our heads, we lift our ensigns, we cry with multitudinous acclamation until the place rings and the heavens listen, "O King 1 live forever 1" Is it not time that He who was born in a strangers house and buried in a strangers grave should have an earthly house? Come in, O Jesus 1 not the corpse of a. buried Christ, but a radiant and trumphant Jesus, con queror of earth and heaven and he'd. Be live?, all g ory to His name. - Be lives, my Jejo. stui toe same. Oh, the tweet Jo this sentence giret I know that my Redeemer lives. Blessed be His glorious came forever 1 Again, if anyone asks the question of the text, "What mean ye by these stones?" the reply is we mean the communion of saints. Do you know that there is not a single de nomination of Christians in Brooklyn that has not contributed something toward the building of this house? And if ever, stand ing in this place, there shall be a man who shall try by anything he says to stir up bit terness between different denominations of Christians, may his tongue falter, and hi cheek blanch, and his heart stop! My friends, if there is any church on earth where there is a mingling of all denomina tions it is our church. I just wish that John Calvin and Arminiua, if they were not too busy, would come out on the battlements and see us. Sometimes in our prayer meetings I have heard brethren usa the phrases of a beautiful liturgy, and we know where they come from ; and in the same prayer meetings I have heard brethren made audible ejaculation, "Amen!" "Praise ye the Lord !" and we did not have to guess twice where they came from. When a man knocks at our church door, if he comes from a sect where they will not give him a certificate. We say: 'Come in by confession of faith." While Adoniram Judson, the Baptist, and John Wesley, the Methodist, and John Knox, the glorious old Scotch Presbyterian, are shak ing bands in heaven, all churches on earth cau afford to come into close communica tion: "One Lord, one faith, one baptism." Oh, my brethren, we have had enough of Big i Bethel fights the Fourteenth New Yor I regiment lighting th9 Fifteenth Massachu setts regiment. Now, let all those who ara for Christ and stand on the same side go shoulder to shoulder. and this church, instead of having a sprinkling of thedivin9 blessing, go clear under the wave in onr; glorious im mertion in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. I saw a little child once, in i w dying hour, put one arm around its father's nack and the other arm around its mother's neck and bring them close dowa to its dying lips and give a last kiss. Oh, I said, those two per sons will stand very near to each other al ways after such an interlocking. . The dying Christ puts one arm around this denomina tion of Christians, and the other arm around that d nomination of Christians, and He brings them down to His dying lips while. He gives them this parting kiss: "My peace I leave with you. My paace 1 give unto you. How swift the heavenly eoarre they ran. Whose hearts ani faith and hopes are oua. I heard a Baptist minister once say that he thought in the millennium it would be all one great Baptist church; and I heard & Methodist minister say that he thought in the great millennial day it would be all Dne great Methodist church; and I have known a Presbyterian minister who thought that in the millennial day it would be all one great Presbyterian church. Now think thej are all mistaken. I think the millennial cnurcn win ue composite church; and just as you may take the best parts of five or six tunes, an i under the skil ful hands of Handel, Mozart or Beethoven entwine them into one grand and overpower ing symphony, so, I suppose, in the latter days of the world, God will t ike the best parts of all denominations of Christians, and weave them into one srreat ecclesiastical harmony, broad as the earth aud high as the heavens, and that will be the church of the future. Or, as mosaic is made of jasper and agate and many precious stones cemented together mosaic a thousand feet square in St. Mark's, or mosaic hoisted in colossal seraphim in St. Sophia's so I supposo God will make, after a while, one great blending of all creeds, and all faiths, and all Christian sentiments, the amy th est and the jasper, and the chalcedony of all different experiences and belief, cemeted side by side in toe great mosaic of the ages: aud whi! fie nations look upon the columns hud hitraves of the stupendous chorea of the future, and cry out, "What mean ye by theso stones V there shall be insumerabie roiers to re spond, MvY mean the Lord God c nipotea: reigneth. t Still further, yon mean bv these s .-toss the salvation of the people. We did iot build this church for mere worldly reform or for an educational institution, or as a pLatform on which to read essays and philosophical disquisitions, but a place for the tremendous work of soul saving. Oh, I had rather be the means in this church ot having one soul prepared for a joyful eternity than five thousand souls prepare.! for .mere worldlr success. All churches are in two clashes, all communities in two dashes, all the raca is two classes believers and unbelievers. To augment the number ot the one and subtract from the number of the other we built this church, and toward that supreme and eter nal idea we dedicate all our sermons, all ocr songs, all our prayers, all our Sabbath hand shakings. We want to throw defection into the enemy's ranks. We want to make them either surrender unconditionally to Christ or else fly in front, scattering the way with canteens, blankets and knapsacks. We want to popularize Christ. We would like to tell the story of His lore here until men would feel that they had rather die than live another hour without His sympathy and love and mercy. We want to rouse up an enthusiasm for Him greater than was felt for Nathaniel Lyon when he rode along the ranks; greater than was exhibited for Well ington when he came bacx from Waterloo; greater than was expressed for Napoleon when he stepped ashore from Elba. We really believe in this place Christ will enact the same scenes that were enacted by Him when He landed in the orient, and there will be such an opening of blind eyes and unstop ping "f deaf ears and casting out of unclean Ipirits such silencing bestormed Gennesa- rets as shall maXe this house memorable firs hundred years after you and I are dead and forgotten. Oh, my friends, we want but one revival in this church, that beginning now and running on to the day when the chisel ot time, that brings down even St. Paul's and the Pyramids, shall bring this house into the dust. Oh, that this day of dedication might be the day of emancipation ot all imprisoned soul. My friends, do not make the blunder of the ship carpenters in Noah's time, who helped to build the ark, tut did not get into it. God forbid that you who have been so generous in building this church should not get under it influences. "Come thou and all thy house into the ark." Do you think a man is safe out of Christ? Not one day, not one hour, not one minute, not one second. Three or four years ago. you remember, a rail train broke down a bridge on the way to Albany, and after the catastrophe they were looking around among the timbers of the crushed bridge and the fallen train and found the conductor. He was dying, and had only strength to sar one thine:, and that was. "Hoist the flag for the next train." So there come to us to-night, from the eternal word, voices of God, voices of angels, voices of de parted spirit, crying: "Lift the warning. Blow the trumpet. Give the alarm. Hoist the flag for the next train." Oh, that to-night my Lord Jesus would sweep His arm around the great audience and take you all to His holy heart. You will never see no good a time for personal conse cration as now. W hat mean ye br these stones?" We mean your redemption from sin and death and hell by the power of an omnipotent gospel. Well, the Brooklyn Tabernacle is erected again . e came here to-nisht not to dedi cate it. That was done this morning. To night we dedicate ourselves. In the Epis copal and Methodist churches they have a railing around the altar, and the people come and kneel down at that railing and get the sacramental blessing. Well, my friends, it would take more than a night to gather you in circles around this altar. Then just bow where you ar for the blessing. Aged men, his is the laft church tuat you will ever dedicate. Mav the God who comforted Jacob the Patriarch, and Paul the aged, make this house to you the gate of heaven; and when, in your old days, you put on your spectacles to read the hymn or the Scripture lesson, may you get preparation for that land where you shall no more s?e through a glass darkly. May the warm sunshine of heaven thaw the snow off your foreheads! Men in middle uf e,do you know, that this Is the place where you are going to get your fatigues rested and your sorrows appeased and your souls saved? Do you know that at this altar your sons and daughters will take upon themselves the vows ot the Christian, and from this place you will carry out, some of you, your precious dead? Between this baptismal font and this communion table yon will have some of the tenderest of life's ex periences. God bless you. old and young and middle aged. The money you have given to this church to-day will be, I hope, the best financial investment you have ever made. Your worldly investments may depend upon the whims of the money market, or the hon esty of business associates, but the money you have given to the house ot the Lord shall yield you large percentage, and declare eter nal dividends long after the noonday sun shall have gone out like a spark from a smitten anvil and all the stars are dead. A. Vu Loul Charity. A meek-eyed, mild-spoken man drop ped around to the hotel in SuLonis one evening 3 ait fall, and as fast as he came to any one whom he bized tip as "safe" he said: "It is a case of charity a noble charity but we are opposed to any thing like a subscription. The widow wouldn't have it that way, you know. "NYe have, therefore, arranged for a ten round go between the Missouri Terror and the St. Louis Chain Ligltning. Comes off at 10 o'clock admUicu $1. It's for blood, and the money joe to the widow of the best dog-handler in theUniied States." It seems a sort of duty to go around j with the crowd and pay the admission fee. lhe affair was to come off in a barn, and when the principals entered the rng there were sixtj-two of us dol lar nion present. Thej shook hands, "put upr in good shape, and the know ing ones predicted a hot time. At the first punch the Terror made, bowever. the other fell down seemingly uncon scions, and after working over him for ' five minutes the meek-eyed man stood up aud said: "Gents, I am sorry to inform tou that Chain Lightning i- a dead man. He has evidently died of heart failure, and under the adverse circumstances the fix lit cannot go on. Ill have to send for the police." Of course everybody made a hustle to get away, only too anxious to escape arrest and detention, and the barn was emptied in thirty seconds. Next day, as 1 was going down the river on a steamboat, I heard two men in the stateroom next to mine disputing. " Well, make it an even divide," said one. "Of course, ita even," replied the other. "Bill worked in the crowd, you played dead on 'em, and I had the rig there to get as off. Pnrty slick game, but you died too soon, ion ought to have waited until I got in one on you." "Yon look prosperous." "I am prosperous." "What line are you in?" "I manufacture a complete xnent of silver antiques." assert. RELIGIOUS READING. CTRISTTS COXSOLATOE. Beside the dead I knelt for prsver, And frit treence a I prayed. Lo! it wu Jt-eus standiuic there. He smiled ; "Be not afraid : "Lord. Thou hat conquered death.we trow: Kestore airalu to life." 1 saw. 'This one who died sit hour ao. He smiled: -She is not dead" .Asleep then, as Thyself didst sar, Yet thou canst lift the lias mat keep Iler prisoned eyes from oars away I" lie nailed: "he dutb not sleep." Nay. then, tbo' haply he do wake, Aud look upon tome fairer dawn. Eesiore her to our hearts that ache!' lie nuiled: -the Is cot gone!" 'Alas! too well we know our los, Nor loe again our jy to touch Until the M ream of tltralb we crv.' He iniled : "There is no such! "Yet our beloved urm so tar. The while we yearn to fevl them near. Albeit with Thee we trust they are. He smiled : "And I am bert! "Dear Lord, how shall we know that they Still waik unwn with us nd Thee, Xor s'cep. nor wander far swsv?" He MiuleU: -Abide In Me." Hosnitcr W. Raymond. THE DIBl.r. Tou find the BilK the patriot cftarter bouk, th-: rhild'a delight, the oM Uinu com fort aiid the yourt man's guide. In its pages the nick and weary find the solace which they need and the tempted meet with timely ucAr. lU words whimper hope and peace to the diug. and minister daily food to the healthy and vigorous )iouebold. With the lious muMu of its frubliine or plaintive songs ei-ho the roof of ten thou band time? ten thousand Chritbu U-tuplc, snd the eh 1 la's prayer, night and morn, U lised forth in the Simple and coinprrlH nsWc words which were dictated by llwu who ia Its central light. Dr. Hoard. A 11AT.AJCCE IN THE BAXK. The question f a balance in the bank which we can draw upon wh :i this world has been burned cp, in of fr mor? Impor tance than a balance for our heirs to fjuarrel over wben wc cannot uee it any louder. The truly rich roan is he who i rich toward God", whose trensure ! laid up in heaven, wber neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and v acre thieves do not break through and fcteal.'' And thoe riches arc within the reach of everyone. The capital for increasing their riches has been provided for all by tlie Ird Jesiw Christ. and we are Invited to participate in its bei etits. And yet we run wild over corner lots, and new additions, and reMom try to work the proMem Cbrit ave when he aid, 'For what hall it profit a man, if lie Khali gain the whole world and lo-e his own ouli" Kansas MethudNt CliauUiUqux. BE CARtTl'l. WHAT YOU WHITE. Some person are never eay until they are gossipinjr. Thev tell all' they know, and write to their friend all the petty details of matters which lo not st all concern them. But persons who tell all they know are sure to tell a great deal they do not know, and so do creat miscbiei. They gabble, and colp, and tell tales, ieakitu of tiling which they do not half understand, and so inevitably mhtrr present ins matters which they lUcti, until sensible people are afraid to have them iu their homes. Any person adm'tted into a familr 1khM know" better than to talk or w rite ahont. the affairs which jiertain to the h"iieln.ld. mid pernors who will aecept th hotpitahlic f a home, and repay the privileges nj.iyi-.l bv retailing the tittle-tattle and Ros-tp which can be picked up in almost any family, prove themselves ignorant of what U-lonssto vood breeding, and unlit to U trttfel in orlety. A M-iiHiMe man would a oon have a kiirik in hi yard ns to have a trnldiliu-.', lattlin-r talebearer in the houe who tell nil he know and v.'M"?!e nt nnd invent the ret. The person who bear hutdo not talk, and who is able to bold UU tongue and restrain his curiosity, Hand like tnalve bri k wall in the mid-tof a ilevatatiu; contla jrration. which cheeks the progress f the tire, and save trouble and ensure afcty. The Christian. I.tTTLr. :KEAT MFX. never mentioned anv Jeus never mentioned anv of cart! i rreat men. so called, with words f praie. There had been irreat eon'jiu tvs lefore M time, like Alexander the fireai :ut He never alluded to them. There had lern rhllro rher like Plato and ArUtotle and Sprites, but He never ;oke of them. Ilirh mm had received the notice of their feMow men. but he never mentioned one of them by name. None of tluxenf whom human hi tory speak mot largely eam in for n word of eonimendttion from Ilim or from h'.s static In later years. This should bid in paue and make un stop Mid think whether our human judg ment are not totally fanltv. Have we not Imt the eal of preatiies where it lne n't e'nn2? In what repect U the world letter today for the existence of rieh men like Crrru. of eonq.ierors like Alexander, or philosophers like i'lato. of authors like Ciero? What really valuable thin? should we We had such men never ex ited? (lather U the ennuue ror of the wnrVI together. a:el mr whether hey have leen as ucful to tbi woM as one John Itunvan or ne John Weslev. Fut all your philosophical lxok together, and declare whether thev -have ac-mmpH-hed a much fr huinanitv a the Et it'e of Paul to the Calatian. m.1i Bi mark and Luber. and judee . ,.er po. itkrian or preni her h the !-t of t in th longrun. On the other hand, if vwi t.l.it otu Attnhsro. Joseph. Mo-. IUvM the Inger i not Iivid the king). F.Hjah. LaUh, John the Baptist. Paul, from human hUtorv. yon uher In blackness of darknes. r A. F. Sebauffler, in S. S. Timet. "Well well, don't fret; FI1 be then: in a minute." But. my friend, a minute metns a cod deal, notwithstanding vou affect to bold It of no consequence. Cld you ever stop to think what may happen In a minute No. Well, wni! yon are murdering a tnlnnte for yourself and one for me. 1-efore von re read v to sit down to the liine we have In band, I will imim you by teilli g you sonje things that will happen meantime. In a minute we shall be whirled around on the outside of tbe earth br iu diurnal motion a diatanee of thirteen miles. At the same time we ha!l hare gone along with the earth, in its grand journey around the sun. lfrO mile. Pretty quirk traveling, vou sy ? by that U alow work compared with bZ ""Z lrtTel ofthe nht wblcn J w reflected from that mirror, made you wink A minute ago that ray was I1,1G)W miles' away. In a minute, all oyer the rrorid, about eighty new-horn infants hsvceseh n5$ wail of p rot et at the fates for throning ' Istence upon them, while a many cjT hnman beings, weary witu ine ttrur; life, have opened their lit sirh. lips to utter In a minute the lowot wound your ear e catch has leen wade by RO vibrations,! the hlehest tone reached you after mki-! 25,000 vibrations. In a minute an express train oes a trotting horse H and an. sv walker has rotten over sixteen rods. In each minute In the United States, t, and day. all the year around, twenty-fo-t barrels of beer have to go down 12m throats, and 4,S30 bubels of jrain have coc to bin. Cleveland Preas. .TEMPERANCE.' t " rrcnrxTxo at thx right xsv. p Scientific instruction on the evil a:i- ant on the use of alcoholic stimulants U tx fiven in thirty-three States. This isLer. EiE temperance work at the righ: enl xi 'that can be done to save the slaves of stroe? drink should be done. It is better wtl however, to prevent souls from beiar tt enslaved than to rwcoe thoeo in cLua. Here, surely, in the effort to train the Toc; is an opportunity for common union la t, peracce work. To this ell tetaper&a wor it era mouia airect ueir eJU"uel tion. .Wt 1'orL Obserter. r PRIXK A.1D MCBDtR. A sober man scruples to do that which a j drunken man will execute nithoat h.u- ; tion. These words embody the esvestal motive that induces people to have &ecowi to stupefying drugs and drinks. lVop&. ploy them either lor the purpose o! t remorse, after havirrr. performed an actka disapproved of by their conscience, or el in order to induce a state of mind in wbica they shall be capable cf doiog somethi contrary to the dictates of their conxr.eaot, and to which the animal nature of maa b impelling him. A sober man has conscientious scrilcs ta steal, to commit murder. A drunken maa. on the contrary, is troubled "with no sac scruples, llence it is that if a person wihi to do something which his consoieoce fortii him to do he rt stupenes his faculties. I recollect being struck by the stateast made by a man cook on bis trial for the mur der of tbe old lady a relative of mine ta whose service he had bean living. From account bo gave of the crime, and the tcaa ner in which it was perpetrated, it appears that when he had sent his paramour. Us maidservant, out of tbe bouv. au-t th thss had come for him to do the dred. he Ixai a knife and repaired to the bedroom where lis intended victim was, but as be drew near ts felt that In his sober senses be could not pos sibly perpetrato such a crime. "A sober rr.aa has conscientious tcruple.' lie turned back, culped down two tumblers of brandy tfcit be had provided beforehand, aud then, aM not beforehand, felt that be was ready to de the deed, and did it. Nine-tenths of the total number of crimes that stain humanity are committed in the same wav: "rirst take a drink to give yo courage. Jfor is this alL Jiot only do people cloi their own faculties in order to stifle the voice of conscience, but, knowing what the elect of alcohol is. whenever they wish to maxi other people perform an act that is contrary to the dictates of their conscience they pur posely fctupefy them in order to render tfeea temporarily deaf to its remonstrances. Is war soldiers are always made drunk whea they are abdht to do sent into close hand-to-hand combat. During the terming of & bastop- -1 all the French soldiers were coo pletely intoxicated. After the storming of fortre-s in the Central Asian war. whea Xtt Russian soldiers showed no inclination to plunder M kill tbe defenselcm old men aii children t.t the place, Hkobeldl ordered thea to be duly plied with brandy till ther wen drunk. Then they rushed out to accompli the ghastly wor. ToUloi, in CoaUoo vary lletiev. IATT ATOTRC UOfJf. TSimi The Pittsburg Christ inn Advocxt, errs, menting upon tha legahiAtioH of the liao vramc, says; We have made law to aut'ion'te base m-e. If thev IV tmtr.rAl:. . .... i , m 4 - - -m j mm w . 4ama mm " Tilt 4U m I tT v Mate, au 1 a thousand n,Uf-J . t others, to set up iu all towns and cities tt-c vice producing, drunkard making establish ment: And so we do w bat a heathen Cfci use Emperor refused to run our municipal governments and our State sad national government largely lj tte great revenue which are collected from the vices and crimes of our people. And now we have millions on millions cf mouey invested ia w.nenee, distilleries and brewerie-, and ia w io.esale and retail liquor h'-usei. and taiZ-i-.nson mi lions in the imxraw stocks of JS-tuor. It has come to be a gigantic bo It is ktrenz and mightr. Jthssbeea -tabusbed by Iegiilation. It cinnotbe de stroyed without leziaUtion. We have per juitteJ ltby law. we muat prohibit it by -aw. It exists ia village rn.n l town, in cty and bUU an 1 nation, by tha sanctions of law and the protection ot the (tavern tnee.t. It stands to reason that, in ordr to aboius it, wo muat take awav the aUii-Ll of law anl the protection of the (iovermt nt everywhere, and enact prthibitiou laws aad Constita tional amendments. Men make the Law which legalize G hquor traffic; only a min-ritr of oct mea. and of tbofce who elect them to be legislator, are total abate intra. To change theje lm" se.linglawi, the men who authonsa tiers must somehow m reaebel and convertl. Uow ahall it be done? .Vatonol AdtocaU. Tgyir.4xcc stws Asrn xorrs. Corn in the field is shocked, and when ttu made :nto whta&y It is ahoekmg. Vi man is driven to drink. It Is be cause he has himself loosened tbe brake. AccorJing to Dr. Norman Kerr, the twa things to guard against in cast of tha ap proach of cholera are panic and alcohol. A petition again rt th employment of voun girisas tw-rmalda, has U-s pratl the Kin of Sweden. The pjUlka had I3,UuO signatures. The British canteen syste-n has bea adopted in the baxrac&s r-f Germany, with a view to kep.ng the soldier away from ths liquor shop. In Ireland the number of arrests for druai enneaa steadily increases. ln 17, tbsrs were T3,W arrest for tha. cause- la H". the number reaches ST.'jja, anl in UsSJ, climbs up to 5i,O(J0. Th W. C T. TJ. of Baltimore has per chaied a budding in tt st city which is being fitted op for their headquarter. The bcii teg wita iu furnishing wi!lcMt atoat J3V tAu, ot which sum t2 1,000 has already bees subscribed. Oneot the best moves the devil can maks. says U Ham's era, is to pnuad a Uf beaded man to trust Ln his own strecg- Ther isn't a drunkard on earth to-day wb Jkin't start otit with th kiea that h cocii drink or let it alone. Dr. N arisen, ia Us recently published to ttm. sys that his experience daring th crossing of Green la md led him to take a At cidd stand against ta u of stimulants al rrcutct of ad kiads, from tea and coffee cm tbe on hand to tobacco and alootoLLc dnt t Mothar." i
Siler City Leader (Siler City, N.C.)
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May 13, 1891, edition 1
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