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Thomas' Husoir, Business Uuzagxr
VOL. u
PLYMOUTH, N. 0., FHIDAY, MARCH 14, 1800.
NO. 44i
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.. Trepidant Joseph Stanley, of the Broad
, . fway and Newberg Railway ia Cleveland,
,as kilted by J J in ping from one of hit own
- electromotors--AnEngUahayndicatsbaa
'-botghttbe business of tha four firms con-
! trolling tha manufacture o! soda watar and
beer apparatus in the United State. -t50,-
000 damage wea don i by a tire at Thomas
lladdcck'a sanitary wara factory in Trenton,
. JN,' Jf. Eagloeer Tom Walters and Brake-
man William Carletoa were killed on tba
- "railroad, near Washburn, Wla, Henry D.
Lecato ia held in Puila lelphla, on tha charge
. of stealing dUmond-i and jewelry.- A
.Biaiuber of shawl concealed among macaroni
s . Were aeieed b7 customs officers in New Yotk.
w There are fourteen cases of amall-pqx ia
., Meriden, Cf State Treasurer Noland.'of
Missouri, is short in his accounta over $30,.
000. Senators Barlow an 1 Dodds, of the
-North Dako tietslat jrj, were oentarel by
their colleague for substituting a report in
which they called other Senators dead beats.
Andrew Alexander was burned to death
tfn bis saloon (n Brail, I id. Patrolman
Shoemaker, of Detroit, Mich., was shot and
' tnortally , wounded' by burglars.-James
Leonard was fatally Injured, and Thomas
' Owens crippltd for life by tha premature ex
, plosion of rock In Wilkeabarre, Pa, '
j The Exchange Hotel, at Mlldletown, N.
. was burned, and a young woman fatally
injured by , leaping 'from .a '. window.
Chalkley L-eooey waa acquitted at Camden,
N. J., of the murder of his i niece. The
: , fruit prospects in Lancaster, Pa., are said to
t bare been ruined by the lecent frosts.
1 Ex Postmaster William U, Bennett, of Long
Branch, waa held for the action of the United
States grand Jury, oharged with beinj $1,000
short ia his acooujita. Jbarlesi A. WLe,
of South Greenfield, N. Y., committed suU
ctde on a railroad train, at Roanoke, Va. -.
Mayor Elyson; .of Rioamond, Va.; reports
,.. that the acccunta of 'A. Rv Woodsou, late
city collector, ahow a deficit of- $38,080..
Alt. Joy, Lutheran Church, near Gettysburg,
Pa., waa burned. Three youog Catholio
, women of D-tybrook, . JlL, hare become in
sane upon the question of Christian science.,
,rThe First Methodist Episcopal Cburch of
Keithaburg, 111.', was burned.. Ltss $15,000.
In -the wreck of a freight train hear
Massillon,' Ohio, several train uien were
killed, an oil tank explodiug. Colonel E.
E. Brianl'aatookbarn near Huntingdon.Ind.,
was burned, and thirty five thorougbbroi
pdlled Annus cattle perished. .AiiOiber
uttompt to pass a lottery bill through the
North. Diketa legislature will bj m-.de.-
The renegade Ap'acht s ure tealiag horces and
comtniltin o'.her depredations in Sonora,
Mexico. -The Boedle Hjue, at Keer.e
Valley; in the : Adirondack Moun:aim, was
burned. . Loss ' $03.00a i - ' ;:
- . . . -- . .
'The dead bodies of a man named , Holmes,
his wife and two chil ireu, were found bear . i
Shawnee, 1. '17, and it is supposed the whole
family were raiir lered by the outlaws that
lufext that locality, Frank McGowan,
Who risked his life in the interest of science,
to 11 ud a rare fiber of bamboo iu South
America for E iiaon, baa disappeared from
his' borne in Orauge,-,.N. J. Whitecaps
whipped three women and two mon near
Kocklngbam, N.C. -President' Chauncey
Ihpaw. of the New York Central Railroad,
"uWje the report that be will resign his po
V- litionftMrtewof hia possible nomination by.
the Republicans for the presidency. The
WhittU-f memorial building, on the Harnp-
o Normal School grouuds, Port Monroe,
Vo., was burne.l.- The rubber shoe manu
, ' fiiulurers' combine propose to advance the
- price Uftesn per cent- Tha lo.'ts of life by
;ha treeking of the big dam near Prescott,
'v - Arizona, is not so great as first reported. In
- all thirty-nlim bodies have beeQ recorered.
.- 'Krank Pormenich manager, and V, JJ.'
Vinlth, superintendent of the Fortneniob.
. ; : (iluuosa Works, near Marshalltown, Iowa,
'aavo been indicted for polutin the Iowa
t river ami lniiintuiolug a nu.sanco. Fire at
JCMiHiiigtit, HI., destroyed the hotel and o
Sii'"bor of buildin a. Loss, $16,000.''
', ' , : .Oscar Evans, (n his aecaod trial at Rom
'! f r. ney, W.,Va., for the murder of Jacob Kirby,
i ,J waa acquitted. -Mrs. Gerard Perktns.wife
. ' of a farmer of Amsterdam,"!?. Y., bad a
terrible struggle with a tramp who attempt
p rd to assault her,- Leroy Joaes, of Han
over county, Va., waa thrown from jumper
wagon, and hij head crushed , between the
; spokes of the . re vol Tin .wheal. Throe
t ' large tnoinshinera' distllleriea have been
eia d on JsTo Man's Land, forty miles from
v Clayton, N. M. -Colonel J, Mervyn Dona-'
:' vhue, president of the Sin Francisco and
-'" . Northern Pacllio Railroad, died In San Fran
I Cisco; The accounts of Town Collector
John Cbaihourne, of Oxford, Me., have been
found $4,003 short. W, H. Pope, teller of
- ' the Louisville National Bank, has disappeared
; ' ' and so has $53,000 from the Bank vaults.
Edwin CowK 9, editor of the Ltaderpt Clave
l5' taud, Ohio, died, aged sixty-five year. ;
' The Columbia and Fort Deposit Railroad
; ,' waa aold to the Pennsylvania Company for
v $1,800,000., The awitchmen of the Pitts
' burg and Like Erie Road : have 'determined
. io continue the strike, and the yardsat Pitta-'
; ; burg ere blockadod with freight cars.- -'
Thomas Bishop waa arretted in Petersburg,.
- Va., charged with beating his wife nd caus
' - log her dtalh. The Illlnoi state oonven
y tlou of raioerB, opened at Springfield, and P.
II. McBryde, of Pennsylvania, president of
the national executive board, advised the
minors' to stand by th scale adopted by the
. Ohio con vent)ou.--VioeI,rtaident Morton
und party ".rrived at St. .Augustine, Fla.
" th West Jersey Presoytery dee ded for re.
vision o(: faith. -United States S nitor
: Alilson wai re eeoUd by th Iawa Iagisla
; lure. Jude Dniel It Tildtn, who wis a
. number or Congress during the Mexican
war; died at Cleveland, Ohio, aged eighty-
f.ur yeara A bi building on iiroaiway,
New York 'C.ty, occupied by M. & C Mayer,
Jmjoi'tra ot tosierr ud g; ovei, and ISscon
a; L'-i'ori, u-..brf-1'.-i ni.ii.ufacti.rera, was
lMirne-1. -Los-.'s :m?.O0O,'
REVISION OF GRBEDS-
BET. : DIU ' TAiVMTAOE'S SVJCDAY
Preached ht nroklyn Academy
, ' ' s VI MUSIC ' -'
' Text: "Loosehim.and let Mm oo." John
tl.,44. , , , v
' My Bible ia, at the place of this text, writ
ten all over with lead pencil marks made
last December at Bethany on the ruins of
the house of Mary and Martha and Lasarus.
We dismounted from our horses on the way
up from Jordan to the . Dead Sea. Bethany
waa tha summer evening retreat of Jesus.
After spending the day in the hot city of
J erusalem He would come out there almost
every evening to the house of His three
friends. I think the occupants of that house
were orphans, for the father and mother are
hot mentioned. But the son and two daugh
ters must have wherited property, for
it mast have been, judging from 7 what I
saw. of the foundations and the size of the
rooms, , an opulent ' home, Lazarus, the
brother, was now the bead of the household
and his sisters depended on him, and were
proud of him, for he was very popular and,
everybody liked him, and these girls were
splendid girls. ' Martha a first rate house-:
keeper and ; Mary a spirituelle, somewhat
dreamy, but affectionate, and as good a girl
as could be found in all Palestine? But one
day Lazarus got sick. The sisters were in con
stern&tion. Fathar gone and mother gone,
they feel very nervous lest they lose their
nrotner also, , disease aid its , quick woric.
How the girls hung . over his pillow? . : Not
much sleep about that house, no sleep at all.
From the : characteristics otherwhere de
veloped, I judge that Martha prepared the
medicines and made tempting dishes of
food for the poor appetite of the sufferer, but
Mary prayed and sobbed. Worse and worse
gets Lazarus, until the doctor announces
that he can do no more. ' The shriek that
went up from that household when the last
breath had been drawn and the two sisters
were being led by sympathizers into the ad
joining room, all those of as can imagine who
nave had our own hearts broken. '
, But why was not Jesus there as Be so often
had been! 'Faraway in the .country districts
preaching,healing other sick, how unfortun
ate that this ; omnipotent Doctor bad not
been' at that domestic crisis in Bethany.
When at last Jesus h rrived to Bethany Laza
rus had been "buried . four days and dissolu
tion had taken place. In that climate the
breathless body disintegrates more rapidly
than in ours. If, immediately after decease,
that body had been awakened into life,
unbelievers might have said that ho was
only in a comatose state, or in a sort
of ,v trance, and by some vigorous
manipulation or powerful stimulant vital
ity had: been renewed. No! Four days
dead. At the . door of the sepulcner is a
crowd of people, but the three mortt memor
able .are Jesus, whowas the family friend,
and the two bereft sisters.; We went into'
the traditional tomb in December, and it is
deep down and dark, and "with torches we
e.rplored it. Wo found it all quiet that after
noon of our visit, but the day spoken of in
the. Bible there was present an excited multi
tude.;! wonder what Jesus wiil do. He
orders the dkr of the grave removed, and
then He begins . to - descend the. steps.
Mary and Martha close . after Him, and
the crowd after them." Deeper down into the
shadows and deeper I The hot tears of Jesus
roll over His chesfca and plash upon the back
of His hands. Were there ever so many sor
rows compressed into so small a space as in
that group pressing on down after Christ, all
the time bemoaning that He had not come
beforel1, Now alt the whispering and all the
crying and all the sound, of shuffling
feet are stopped. - It is the silence of ex
pectancy. Death has conquered, but now the
vanquisher of death confronted the scene. .
Amid the awful hush of the tomb the
Familiar neme which Christ bad often
hod upon His lips in the hospitalities of the
village home came back to His tongue and
with a pathos and an almigh tineas of which
the resurrection of the last day shall be only
an echo. He cries "Lazarus! come forth I'V
The eyes of the slumberer open and he rises
and comes to the foot of the steps and with
great difficulty begins to ascend, for the
cerements of the tomb art -yet on him and
his f3t are fast and bis hands are fast and
the impediments to all his movements ore so
great that Jesus commands: "Take off these
cerements; remove these hindrances; unfas
ten these grave clothes, v loose bim and let
him go !" Oh. 1 am so glad tha t after the Lord
raised Lazarus He went on and commanded
the loosening of the eoi ds - thatt bound his
feut so that he could walk, and the breaking
off of the eremnt that bound his hands so .
that he could stretch out his arms in saltita- I
tioo, ana me rarwg on or tne oannage
from around bis jaws so that he could speak.'
What would, resurrected life have been to
Lazarus if be bad not been freed from all
those cripplements of his body? I am glad
that Christ commanded his complete eman
cipation, saying: "Loose him, ana let him
go. - '
The unfortunate thing now ia that so many
Christian-; are only half liberated. They have
been raised from the death and burial of sin
Into spiritual life, but they yet have the grave
clothe." on them. ; They are like Lazarus, hob
bling up the stain of the tomb, bound hand
and foot, and the object of this sermon is to
help free thair body and free their soul, and
I sbtJI try to oliey the i Master's command
that omes to me and comes to every minister
of religion: "Loose him, and let go." First,
many are bound hand and foot by religious
creeHts. Let no man misinterpret me as an
tagonizing creeds. I have eight or ten of them;
a creed about religion, a creed about art, ft
creed about social life, a creed about govern
ment, and eo on. A creed is something that
a man bolipve whether it bwrittcn or un
written' The Presbyterian Jhurch Is now
agitated about its creed. Home good men In
it are for keeping it because it was framed
from the bJif- of John Calvin. ; : Other good
men io It want revision. I am with neither
party.' Instead of revision I want substitu
tion. J waii sorry to have the question dis
turbed at alL , The cril did not
hinder; us ' from offering the pardon and
the fomfort of the Gospel to aJI niwu and the
Westminster Confession has iut interfered
with me one minute. But now the electric
lights have been turned on the imperfections
of that creed and everything that man fash'
(ona U imperfect let us put the old creed re
spectfully aside and get a brand new one.
It is impossible that people who lived hun
dreds of years ago should fashion an appro
priate creed for our times. John Calvin was
a great and J good : man. but : he . .died
threa hundred and twenty-six years
ago The bet centuries of. Bible etudy have
como since'. tton. and explorers have done
their work, and you might as well have the
world go back And stick to wihati. Robert Ful
ton knew about teAuhoats and reject the
suosequeot impi-ovctneiits injiavigation; and
go bacK t John Outtenberg, the- inventor of
the art of printing, and reject, all modern
newspaper presses, mid go back to the time
when telegraphy was tha elevating of signals
or the burning of bonilresou the hilltops and
reject the magnetic wire, whioh is the
tongue of nMlicrw. as to ignore all th
eregeffs and the philoloiristsiivl the theo
K'giTms of the lust three hundred and twenty
sis: ywirsand put your head undn' toe 'eve
of thr ryvt'i'" a f-s f -entli century d;';.!r.
I could' till i'"-1 ' r -,::ies t tv-"ry Ijvi-.r
Presbyterian ministers of religion who could
make a better creed than J ohu Calvin. .The
Nineteenth century ought not to be called to
ait at the feet of the Sixteenth.
' "But," you say, "it ia the same' old Bible,
and John Calvin bad that as well as the pre
ent student of the Scriptures," Yes; so it ia
the same old sun in the heavens, but in our
time it has gone to making daguerreotype
and photographs. It ia the same old water,
but in our century it has gone to running
steam engines. ' It is the same old electricity,
but in our time it has become ft lightning
-footed errand boy." So it is the old Bible,
but new, applications. , new , uses, ;- new
interpretations. Yon must - remember
that during . the last three hundred years
words have changed their meaning and some
of them now mean more and some leas, 1 do
not think that John Calvin believed, as soma
say ha did, in the damnation of infants, al
though some of the recent hot disputes would
seem to imply that there is such ft thing an
the damnation of infanta. ' - '
A man who believes in the damnation ot
Infants himself deserves to lose heaven, r I
do not think any good man could admit
such a possibility. What Christ will do with
all the babies in the nertVworld I conclude
from what He did with the babies in - Pales;
tine when He hugged them and kissed them.
When some of you grown people go out of
tbia world your doubtful destiny will be an
embarrassment to ministers officiating at
your obsequies, who will have to be cautious
so as not to hurt surviving friends," But
when the darling children go there are no
'if s" or "buts" or guesses. We must re
member that good John Calvin was a logi
cian and a metaphysician and by the procliv
ities of his nature put some things in an un
fortunate way., Logic has Its use and meta
physics has its use, but they are not good at
making creeds. . A gardener hands you ft
blooming , rose, dewy : fresh, but ft severe
botanist cornea to v you with a rose
and says. "I wiU show you the structure
of this : rose." .- . And he proceeds to take
it apart. andJ pulls off the leaves and
he says: ' There re the petals," and he
takes out' the anthers and he says: "Just
look at the wonderful structure of these
floral pillars," and then he cuts the stem to
show: you the juices of the plant. So logic
or metaphysics takes the aromatic rose of
tne unristian religion and says: , I will just
show . you how . this rose of religion waa
fashioned;" and it pulls off of it a piece and
says: ''That is the human will," and another
piece and says: "This is God's will" and an
other piece and says: This is sovereignty,"
and another piece aid ' sava: : "This it free
agency," this is this and tnat is that. And
while I stand i looking at the. fragments of
the rose pulled apart, one whom the Marya
took for a gardener comes in and presents me
with a crimson rose, red as blood, and says:
"Inhale the sweetness of this, wear it on your
heart and wear it forever." I must confess
that I prefer the rose in full bloom to the rose
pulled apart..' A l: v - f s ; ,
vv nat ft time we nave bad with tne dogma
tics, the anoloeetics and tha hermeneutica.
The defect in some of the creeds is that they
try to tell us all about the decrees : of God.
Now the only human being that - waa ever
competent to handle that subject: waa Paul,
and he would not have been competent had
he not been inspired. 1 believe in the .so
vereignty of God and I believe in man's free
agency, but no one can harmonize the two. It is
not necessary that he harmonize them, livery
sermon ' that . I : have ever; beard that at
tempted such harmonization was to me as
clear as ft London fog, as clear as mud. My
brother of the nineteenth - century, my
brother of the sixteenth century, give us
Paul's statement and leave out our own.
Better one chapter of -Paul on that subject
than all of Calvin's institutes, able and honest
and; mighty as they are. ,. Do not try to
measure - either the throne of God or the
thunderbolts of God with your little steel
pen, ' What do you know about the decrees?
You cannot pry open the door . of God's
eternal " counsels. You cannot ' explain
the , -mysteries of God's government
now, much less the mysteries of His
government five hundred quintiUion of years
ago. 1 move for a creed for all our denomi-'
nations made out of Scripture quotations
pure and simple. - That would take the earth
for God. That would be impregnable against
infidelity and ApoUyonic assault. That
would be beyond human criticism. The de
nomination, whatever its name be, that can
rise up to that will be the church of the mil
lennium, will swallow up all other denomi
nations and be the one that will be the bride
when the Bridegroom cometh. Let us make
it simpler and plainer for people to get into
the kingdom of God. Do not binder people by
the idea that they may not have been elected.
Do not tag on to the one essential of faith in
Christ any of the innumerable nonessentials.
A ; man who - heartily accepts Christ is a
Christian and the man who does not accept
Him is not a Christian, and that is all there is
ot it. He need not believe in election or rep
robation. He need not believe in the eternal
generation of the Son.' He need not believe
ia everlasting punishment.- He need not be
lieve in infant baptism. He need not believe
in plenary tnspirataon. Faith in Christ
U the criterion, ia the test is the pivot,
is the indispensable. But there are those
who would add unto the tests rather than
subtract from them. There are thousands
who would not accept persons into church
membership if they drink wine or if they
emoke cigars or if they attend the theater
or if they play cards or if they drive a fast
horse. Now I do not drink wine or smoke or
attend the theater, never played ft game of
cards and do not drive fast horse, although.
I would if I owned .one." But do nos
substitute tests ' which the Bible does
not establish. There is ona passage of
Scripture f wide enough to . let all in
who ought to enter and to keep out all who
ought to be kept out: "Believe in the Lord
Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved." Get
a man's heart right and his life will be
right ; But now that the. old creeds have
been put under public scrutiny, something
radical must be done. 1 Some would split
them, some would carve them, some would
elongate them, some would abbreviate them.
At the present moment and . in the present,
ghape they are a hmdrance. Lazarus ia
alive,' but hampered .with the old grave
clothes. . If you want one glorious church
free and unencumbered take off the cerements
of old ecclesiastical vocabulary. Loose her,
and let her go! -
Again, there are Christiana who are under
sepulchral shadows and hindered and hoppled
by doubts and fears and fdns long ago re
punted of. ' What they need ia to understand
the liberty of the sons of God. They spend
more time under the shadow of Sinai than at
the base of Cal vary. They have been sing
ing the only poor bymn that Newton ever
wrote: .'.'..,.;.
' TV a point 1 loajr to know. ,
Oft it rtuswumxlou thought
- ' Do I lore the Lord orno, . ..
v . . Am I His ot tn I Dot? :
Long to know,-do"; youJ Why do you not
find out? . Go to work for God and you will
very toon find out..,; The man who is -all the
time feeling of his-pulee. wid- looking atr his
tongue to see wbetBr4t la coated1 Is morbid
and cannot be physically well. The doctor
willsav: "Go out Into the fresh air and into
active life, and stop thinking of yourself and
you will get well ami strong. " 60 there are
people who are watchini their spiritual
symptoms, and they call it seU-esamiuation
and they get w(5ail,4r an i sick'cer in tbeir
faith all the time. o out and do some thiusr
nobly Christ ia. Tfike holy exercise una
then e.fauiiti" yo'ir-.f, aril, josUm 1 cf 'w
t.'n's ";'.sirur.' 1 nn.l ! :;ku t-ynin t'-at I ti-sfc
'20te:', you " -.1 th. Nev 1 ,('s c ' rhi a
Amssing grace, bow sweet the so and - ,
Thai saved a wretch like me! .
1 once was lost bnt now am found; '
Vas blind, bat oow I see. . .
v What many of you Christiana most need
la to get your grave clothes off, I rejoice
that you have been brought from the death
of sin to the life of the Gospel, but you need
to get your hand loose and your feet loose
and your tongue loose and your soul loose.
There is do sin that the Bible so arraigns and
fmnctures and flagbHates aa the sin of unbe
ief, and that ia what is the matter with you.
"On," you say.'.'Hf you knew what I once
was and how many times I have - grievously
strayed, you would r understand why
1 do not come out brighter." Then I think
you would call yourself the chief of sinners.
I am glad you hit upon that term, for I have
a promise that tits into your case as the cogs
of one wheel between the cogs of another
wheel or as the key fits into the labyrinths of
a lock. A man who was once called Saul
but afterward Paul declared: "This is a
faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation
that Christ Jesus came into the world to save
sinners, of whom I am chief." ' Mark that
-"of whom I am chief," "Put down your
overcoats mnd hats and-1 will take care
of '' them J; while , you kill Stephen"
so Saul said to the stoners of the first
martyr -"I do not care to exert myself
much, but I will guard your surplus apparel
while you do the murder." The New Testa
ment account says: "The witnesses laid down
their clothes at a young man's feet whose
name was Saul." No wonder he said: "Sin
ners, of whom t . am the chief." Christ is
used to climbing. x He climbed to the top of
the temple. He climbed to the top of Mount
Olivet. He " climbed to the top of tha
cliffs about . Nazareth.' He climbed
to the top- of Golgotha. ! . And to the
top of the hills and the mountains of your
transgression He is ready to climb with par
don for every one of you. The groan of Cal
vary is mightier than the thunder of Sinai.
Full receipt is offered for all your indebted
ness.. If one throw a stone at midnight into
a bnfih where the hedgebird roosts, it im
mediately begins to sing: and into the mid
night hedges of your despondency the) words.
I hurl, hoping to awaken you to anthem.
Drop the tunes in the minor key and take
the major. Do you think it pleases the Lord
for you to be carrying around with you the
debris and carcasses of . old transgressions?
You make me think of some ship that has
had a tempestuous time at sea, and now that
it : proposes another voyage, : keeps on its
davits the damaged life-boats, and the splin
ters of a shivered mast, . and the broken
glass of a smashed skylight My advice is: ,
clear the decks, overboard with all the dam-,
aged rigging, brighten up the salted smoke-;
scacits, ; open a B new book, O haul in:
the planks, lay out a new course and set sail
for heaven. You have had the spiritual'
dumps long- enough. You will please the
Lord more by being happy than by being
miserable. V Have you not sometimes started
out in the rain with your umbrella and you
were busy thinking and you did not no
tice that the rain had stopped, and though it
had cleared oft you still had your umbrella
up, and when you discovered what you .
were uuuig you ieu siuy enougnr inat is
what some of you are doing in religious
things. You have got so used, to sadness
that though the rain has stopped you still
have yowx umbrella up. Come out of tho
shadow. Ascend the i stairs ' of - your
sepulchcr. Step put into the broad light of
noonaay. w e come around you to neip re
move your grave clothes, and s voice from
the heavens, tremulous . but ' omnipotent,
commands: "Loose him, and let bim go."
Again, my text has good advice concern
ing any Christian ham-wed and bothered
and bound by fear of hia own dissolution. To
such the book refers when it speaks of those
who through fear of death were alt their
lifetime subject to bondage. The most of us,
Bven. if we have the Chrlstain hope, are
cowards about death. If a plank falls from
scaffolding and just grazes our hat,- how pale
we look. If the Atlantic Ocean plays with
the. ' steamship, pitching it toward the
heavens and letting it suddenly drop, how
even the Christian passengers pester the stew
ard or stewardess as to wnether there is any
danger, and the captain, , who has . been all
night on the bridge and chilled through.
Doming in for a cup of coffee, ia assailed with
a whole battery of questions aa to what be
thinks of the weather. And many of the
best people are, as Paul says, throughout their
lifetime in bondage by fear of death. My
brothers and sisters, if we made full use of our
aligion we would soon get over this. Backed
up by the teachings of your Bible, lust look
through the telescope some bright night and
see how many worlds there are nd re
Sect that all you have ; seen compared
with the number of worlds in existence are
less than the. fingers of your right hand
tts compared with all the lingers of the hu
man race. How foolish then for us to think
that ours ia the only world fit for us to stay
in. I think that all the stars are inhabited .
and by beings like the human race in feelings
and sentiments and the difference is in lung
respiration and heart beat and physical con
formation, their physical conformation lit
for the climate of their world and
our physical conformation fit for the
climate of our. 7 world. So we shall
feel at home in any of the stellar neighbor
hoods, our physical limitations having ceased.
One of our first realizations in getting out of
this world, I think, will be that in this world
we were very much pent up and had cramped '
apartments and were kept on the limits. The
most even of our small world ia water, and
the water says to the human race: "Don't
come here or you will drown." A few thou
sand v feet up the . atmosphere is unin
habitable, : and the . atmosphere J says
to the . human race: "Don't . come
up here or ".: you cannot ' breatbe.' A
few miles down the earth is a furnace of fire,
and the fire says : ' "Don't come here or - you
will burn." The caverns of the mountains
are full of poisonous gases, and the gases say:
"Don't come here or you will be asphyxiated."
And, crossing a rail track, you must look out
or you wil) be crushed. And, standing, by ft
steam boiler, you must look out or , you will
be blown up. i And pneumonias and pleurisies
and eon.nimptiona and apoplexies go across
this earth in flocks, in droves, in herds, and it
is a wonld of equinoxes and cyclones and
graves. Yet we are. under the delusion that
it is the only place fit to stay in We want
to stick to the wet plank 'mid ocean while
the great ship, 'the City of God," of the
Celestial line, goes sailing past, and would
eladly take us up In a -life boat' v My Chris
tian friends, let me tear off your desponden
cies and frights about dissolution. My Lord
Dommands- me regarding you, saying:
"Loose him, and let bim go.". -'
Heaven is ninety-five per cent better than
tnis world, a thousand per cent better, a
million per cent better. Take the gladdest
brightest most jubilant days you ever had
on earth and compress- them all Into on,
hour, and that hour, would be a requiem, a
fast day, a gloom, a horror, as compared
with the., poorest hour -they -.have bad in
heaven siacA its ffrRt'tower- was built -or its
fbst gates- swung' Ft -first song caroled.
"Oh," you say, "that' may be true, but I am
to afraid of crossing over from this world
to the next and I fear the snapping of the
cord between soul and body." Well,
all the Burgeons and physicians and
scientists declare that there is no pang at
the parting of the body and soul, and all the
seeming resttessnew at the closing hour of
life is involuntary and no disease at all. And
I agree with tho doctors, for what they say
in confirmed by the fact that persons who
were (v-'iwn l or wc-e sill:,. i?rgn-i unt'l all
const r .;.w-. 'i'-rwr',--! aci were efterwurd
pasting into unconsciousness was pleUSiif able
rather than distressful. - . The cage of
the body has a door on easy binges, and
when that door of the physical cage opens
the soul simply puts out its wings and soars.
"But" yon say, "I fear to go becnse the
future is so full of mystery.'"' Well, I will
tell, you how to treat the mysteries. The
mysteries have ceased bothering me, for I
do as the judges of your courts often do.
They bear all the arguments in the case and
then say : "I will take these papers and give
you my decision next week." So I have
heard all the arguments in regard to
the next world, and some things are
uncertain and full of mystery, and so
I fold up the papers and reserve until the
next world my decision about them. I can
there study all the mysteries to better ad
vantage, for the light will bo better and my
faculties stronger, and I will ask the Chrlstaiu
philosophers, who have bad all the advan
tages of , heaven for centuries, to help me,
nd : 1 may permit myself humbly to ass the
Lord, and 1 think there will be only one mys
tery left, and that will ; be how one so un
worthy aa myself got into such an enrap
tured place. Come Hp out of the sepulchral
shadows. If you are not' Christians by
faith in CnriBt come op into the light;
and if you are already like Lazarus,
reanimated, but still have your grave clothes
on, get rid of them. The command is;
"Loose him; and let him go." ., The only part
of my recent journey that I really dreaded,
although I did not say much about it before
hand, was the landing at Joppa. ' That is
the port of entrance for the Holy Land, and
there are many rocks, and in rough weather
people cannot land at alL The boats taking
the people from the steamer to the docks must
run between reef a that looked to me to be about
fifty feet apart, and one mis-stroke of an
oarsman or an unexpected wave has some
times been fatal, and hundreds have perished
along those reefs. Besides that, as we left
Port Said the evening before an old traveler
said: 'The wind is just right to give you a
rough landing at Joppa; indeed, I ' think
you will not be able to land at alLw The
fact was that ' when : our Mediterranean
steamer dropped f anchor near ; Joppa
and we put out for shore in the small boat,
the water waa aa still aa though it had been:
sound asleep a hundred years, and we landed
as easily as I came on this platform. Well,
your fears have pictured for you an ap
palling arrival at the end of your voy
age of life, and they gay that tha seas
will run high and that the breakers
will swallow you up, or that if you reach
Canaan at all it will be a - very rough
landing.. The. very opposite will be true if
you have the eternal God for your portion.
Your disembarkation for the promised land
will be as smooth as was ours at Palestine
last December; Christ will meet you far out
at sea and pilot you into complete safety,
and you will land with a hosanna on one side
cf you and a hallelujah on the other.; -;
"Iiind ahead !" its fruits are waving
. - O'er the hll.s of fsdc'es ?rocn.
Ann the lhmpr waters lavirnf
' frhores where heavenly forms are seca.
- Rocks and storms I'll fear no mora .
When on that (crnal hores .
Drop the auehnr ! furl the sail! : 1.
1 am safe withiu the veil I . . .
DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES:
The dwelling of Hunt Bead, in Augusta,
Georgia, waa burned a lew days ago, aud bis
three children, aged, at x, lour aud twoyejrs,
perishod in the flames. - . .:
It is reported from' Wood River. O eon,
that Catue aud horts are dying la. large
numbers in that section, ana tun. "uiauy
bauds will be wiped out entirely uuleaa a
thaw ccmes,w: ."7 ::v- :.: ..--;,'-. :
Martin Starrow jammed a bar iato a hole
containing a dyuamlte cartridge at the
Lackawanna Irou tCoinpanys stone quarry
at Scran ton, Pa. He waa oluwn high Into
the air and decap.tated.
' During a runaway accident, near Newark.
New Jercey, Mine Mary K. Tyler was killt d
and Lottie Tyler, her sister, waa injured iu"
teroa ly. - Two other women wno were in tha
carriage wre slightly injured.
Stockdale Jackson, a wealthy resident of
East Liverpool, Ouo, while suffering from
an attack of la grippe, took a large dose of
corrosive sublimate in mistake for bis medi
cine. He died in a short time.
A despatch from Preacott Arizona, says
that the death list has grown until now it ia
known that no less than 150 persons lost their
lives in the dam disasters, Wlckenburg waa
destroyed, evory building falling biore the
awful assault Seymour, 12 miles further on,
was also wrecked.
f. Charles Hunley and William Dodson were
asphyxiated in a atreet crossing watch box
of the Vaodalia Railroad, in 'JLVrre Hanti,
Indiana. Hanley was dead when found, and
Dodson ia thought to be twyond recovery.
They entered the watch box during a heavy
rain. -, - ' .
A train on the Evansvllle and Terre Hauti
Railroad went through a bridge at Kelso
creek, near Vincnnes, Indianra, . Engineer
A. Lyons and fireman Louia i owdun are
missing, and are . supposed to be under- the
engine, which was totally wrecked. Several
passengers were injured, but not fatally.
- Michael McDonoagh, aged SO years, dis
covered that a railroad rail bad been placed
across a track just outside Akron, Ohio. A
vain being iu sight, be had only time to take
one end ot the obatruction and drag it from
tha track when the engine atruck the ether
end and the rail waa dashed aaii - his head,
crushing hia skull like an egg shel.. The en
gine and care did net leave the track. ,
: . George Do well set a shot gun trap for a
thief iu his barn in Spring Hill, Missouri.
The trap was ao set that the gna would b
discharged when the barn door was opened.
Mrs. Dowel! did not know tbs trap had been
set and when she went to the barn and open
ed tha door the trap waa sprung and aha re
ceived the who's charge tull in the- breast
She died instantly. : Mr. and Mra. D J well had
been married only two months.',
Mail advices from Hong Konfj and Yoko
hama, received in San Francisco, repor t that
the storm along the Bashu coast m January
24 th was very disastrous." About 1XW fishing
boats, with between 2VX) and 3UUU flihermen,
drifted out to sea. r Nine hundred of thru
boats, with all the men aboard, were : lost
Most of the bodies drilled upon the beach,
The same day 11 boats wore wrecked la tha
sea off Tobisham. and AO fishermen were
drowned. On January 85th 33 fish rne 1 wer
drowned oa tba ooaat of MaschiM a. '
IN A BLAZING MINE.
Eight Men Imprisoned Behind a Wall
f riama In Pennsylvania.
A disaster lOcourrei at ttie Sittth Wilke.
barra Colliery ot the Lihigh and Wllkesbarr-)
Cotnpnny which will probably involve tha
lives ot eight men. During the proo.-sa ot
timbering one of the gangways, the wood
work took tire from an explosion of gas.
Bcycni tho workiog, eight men, are ento:ube
by tha fUmes, auu, as all efforts to rwicue
them have proved unavailing, it is feared
that "ffooauoo m en, ua, if the men are
not alreadj dead. Tlte names of the men ara
Tfeom ia Williamson, HusS Dnzzn, Thomai
Jr,-;)a, ltl-hal V'rry, h'rani Ou 1, Thos.
ncD--lJ, J : .aes U i)vti: ,i ac-i a iaaa v -jm
Ik
No Improvement in the State
of Trade.
Grain Ntocks Coutiuue to Snow a X"
creaseEx pott or Wheat and Float
have lucrcascd Cotteu 0uUU ;
Special telegrams to BradstrmA$ do not. re
port any material or widespread improve-1
aient in the state of trade, s The alight gain
in wheat prices is more than cfl-aet by that
dullness in Iron, while unfavorable weather
heavy wagon roads and floods in the Ohio;
Valley, all tend to further restrict the dis
tribution of general merchandise, already
less than that reported one year ago. The
decline in petro'eum results from the dis
covery of three flawing wells.' Cattle ara 15,
to 29c. higher, and live hogs off 5c. per sua-'
ired. Dru.js and chemicals are steady and in'
fair demand, aa are wholesale groceriea,
Reports to Bradstreets of grain stocks,
Eat of tbs Kooky Mountains, continue to.
abow a decrease, the total decrease during
January and February promising to quai.
y.SOO.OUU bushels, ugtunrit b,(XA),(AJ0 busuela
decrease list year, wuica will rednce wheat
(Wcka, March 1, to about what they wera,
cue yearngo. Tha average decrease during-
tare weeks of February has been nearly;
1,250,000 bushela per weak, against 7U0,0U
bushels during like wteks ot Ibo'X 1
Exports of wheat (and Sour as wheat) from'
bota. coasts Lava increased again, and ara
now noticeably lull, particularly from Sanj
Francisco. Tbo week's reported shipment
trqual a.300,7-53 tushels, against 2,!7ifilV
bushela last week, and i,3M,5U4: busuelS iu:
the last wetvk ot Fobi uary. les'J. ; The total1
foreign shipments July lt to date ia
146 bushels, againsi ti,7o5,tiK bushals ia a,
like port ou of ltSSa-tSU. ":i : , 'v v;
A. San Fraocisca tbe appointment of a re-j
ceiver for tbe trust refinery anus tbe Pacific
coast sufar market in tbvhtnUsot Mr. Caua
Sprackels, but urnou! -.ted u only J4'c bigher.r
There ia a light busiuess in raw sugars Kast,,
owing to lack of demand, foreign advices u
ing rather stimulating. Rebued su,ir is4
stmnger. Coffee is about steady on restricted
offerings. -" - f
Dry goods jobber report trade fair'y ho-
tlve. Cotton and w uoitu doiuestio and for,
eiga dress oods are roost active. Agsuta
pwiwirt laailln Mtvlra of coKtaa Well sold uo.
and a fair re-order business in Spring spao.alt
ties. Prices are geu-ry.'y firm, with bleach-
ed cottons showing greatest strength. lUwf
wool is dull. Carpat wools are active, and!
prices are weak . but not quotably lower.
Raw cotton is dull iu all ruari ti. '1 h cr ji
wovemeut continues light but linn; price
disoeurag the consumptive demand.
NOT SO SLICK AFTER ALL.5 .
i .-. . . (
'The Boldness of n Bank Bobber COM
Him ll'sliifo.. ' ' -
I'm a alick'un " Telegraph Operator Tay
lor beard these words adireased to him by a
stranger while he was receiving meesaiea at
the railway station in Meriden, Ks. lie paid
no attention to tha remark until he had com
pleted a message from Valley Falls, which
read aa follows: . . ;
"To tho Sheriff, Meriden, Ks.:
"Hicks & Orphan's Bank robbed this even
ing of $3,(WU , Robber unknown. Dscrip-
tiou as follow; Biondi; liht bair and inoua
tache; blue eyes; five feet eleven inches tall;
medium weight i .. "Sheriff."
The operator looked up, and nearly lost
bis breath when be saw standing befor bim
the man described in tha dispatch. H did
not reveal the fact of tbe recognition, bat
merely agreed with the stranger that on was
a slick 'unJ The atraazer inquired tbs
time of the next train tor Atcmson, and
aked where be could put up for the night
The operator directed him to a hotel, where)
Jha man took a room without registering, re
questing that he be c tiled at Ave o clock: ia
the morninic in time for tbe Atchison train.
Local Police O dicers Smith and Summerfild,
it nil nun sansn ran si sratii l nai.run lhhih aariiris w ia a
ley FalU to arrest any su-p-sct, were toform
ad by the operator of the presenoa of tbe
ttranger a tne hotel. '
Arming themselves with Winchester nil ,
)hey went to tbe hotel,- waited und r tbe
"--lick 'uuV window uatil twelve o'clock, aud
then going to tbe office, acquainted the pro
prietor with their inteotiou of arresting his
guest A ball-boy was aent to tbe tranjor'
room with a m.-ssage that it was time to get
up to catch the Atchison train. When the
stranger descended to the ofiicj he was con-
fronted with police-offloers, with Winchester
rifles pointed squarely as hU breast, lie
never quivered, but looked inquiringly
around. 'Tnrow np your bands,'' Othoer
Smith aaid. Tbs stranger seemed to realisa
hia situation then; but instead of obeying, ha
thrust n hand in either side-pocket ot his
overcoat, to' draw, revolvers which only a
few hours before bad intimidated Cannier
Coba, of the Valley Falls . Bank. As tba
stranger made tbe motion toward bis weapons
totb Winoheaters were discharged instantly
at bis breast The stranger foil dead with one
bu let te rough bis heart and another through
the right luug. Tbe coroner was notified, aud
before noon tns verdict waa returned txo i
erating tbe otHoers of any criminally io Hav
ing caused the death of tbe bank robber, self
defense being their excuse Up to this time
no search ot tha dead outlaw's person hd
been made, but at Udshier Cohu's req.icss a
eareb-was made and the sto. en moey re
covered.. Ia his boots were found two packa
ges of greenbacks of $oJU each. Tne b tiaace
of the money bad been distributed amoti bis
various pockets. TlA outlaw wm positively
identified froit? a registered receipt dat -d as
Burlington, Kansas, as one Robertson. Tbe
money receipted for hd been payable to one
li. C Smith, at Ottawa. Ilansas. Iu Kobert
son'a pocket was a watch with tba initial 'ft" '
engraved upon it and a foot-tula bjariii the
lameinitiat . -.' .v : :
ENDED HIS LIFE'S JOURNEY.
A 3few York .Han Shoots Himself on
N a Ittttlronri 1 raiii. . -
Just as' tha oraicemin ot who east-bound
Norfolk and Western train called out "Eiio
oka, change cars for tbe Shenandoah Valley,"
a well-dressed man was observed by p:iajn
gers in one of tbi first-class coachea to delib
erately rise froaa his seaftake hiagripiack
from the rack overhead, open it ami take
therefrom a large CoU'a r.volver. U-for
anyone reilizd whit be intended doui ha
placed the revolver to bis forehead, Ore i, ul
f ell dead between the seats. Tn body wu
removed to an un i'rtafiiri e-ttablishni 'tit,
and au examination of papers found ou ic re-,
vealed that the suicide wiu Ooarl . s A. V.'i.e,
of boutU (JrefuUeid, N. Y., en route from
Jacksonville, Tin., to his home. A ibrou ;h
tiouet check (or bi.-i-ai-t and Hi iu i-..u-y
wera fouud o i hfs j'.Tsoii, llswaifau!1 -a.y
ilrci- ' !, and his fi'n'iw paingi:i's nay i.u .lid
or sc- ; ;oi$! . 4 dun l. ih-j i iy t.i; m !... t 4
;,-. fiii; Ued s U-d-. '. h- - as
s-.i.n - i .t'.v y ' o. 1', .