Published bt Koakokk Publishing Co.
FOU GOD. JJ'OR COUNTRY AND FOR TTiUTLfc -
C. V. W AUBBOX, BUSINESS MANAGER.
VOL. II.
PLYMOUTH, N. C, FRIDAY, .MAY 8, 1891.
NO. 52.
THE NEW!
A. firrge supply of natural gas has bsen dis-i.
covered at BJoomington, 111.- Eniest Mor
ris, a naturalist, died at Indianapolis. Jon
athan Woolford shot and killed Frank Fran
. cis near Pikesvillc, Ky. A beginning was
., mado in a tunnel between Detroit and Wind-
sor. Dr. Joseph Leidy, the naturalist, died
- in Philadelphia. Baron von Raven, laid to'
m a German nobleman, was arrested at .Hot
fjprings, Ark.; He is a bunco steerer.- The
Dhortagc of Cashier 1 1. W. Covington with the
Farmers and Traders' Bank of St. Louis is
$30,000. It is not known where Covington is.
i Fire at 'Mahonby City,' Pennsylvania, de
stroyed half-a-dozen stores and other build
Ingv. Loraes by the forest fires, in New
Jersey, will exceed $1)0,000. -Six ' miles of
forest on the South Mountains, Pennsylvania,
ire burning.-" President Harrison was given
a grand reception in Monterey, Cal. -James
Taylor, colored, shot Policeman Chas. Cook,
who was trying to arrest him at Franklin, Ga.,
and a'niob speedily hanged the negro. Rev.
Phillips Brooks was chosen .bishop at Boston,
o succeed the late Bishop Paddock.- The
quarantine against Hudson county, N. J., on
:, account of plenro-pneumonia, has been raised,'
Jnmcs K. Cooper, of Forepaugh's Circus Com
pany, gave ft $10,000 clcphunt to the National
Zoological Park, at Washington.-r Dr. R.
C. Mauss died in Washington of wounds made
y himself. Archibald Andrews, the oldest
- man in North Carolina, is dead at one hun
dred and ;even ycarfj.-f Professor John Le
Oonte, of the California - (state University, at
Berkeley, is dead, aged seventy-three.
Dr. Philip Leidy died at his home in Phila
delphia, aged fifty-three years. The White
tjquadron, arrived off Fort Monroe. Gen.
Armistead L. Long, ' a , noted Confederate
rifRfpr Atari, Of. PViarlntantlla V. . Tnn
, thousand acres in the vicinity of Millville, N.
" JV, have been burned over by forest fires.
A number of Chicago's boss carpenters have
granted the' employes'. demands, and there is
not Mkely to be a strike. -A. M.' Warner, of
Cincinnati, was elected ,-. department- com
mander of the Ohio grand army. -A fountain
hbI f-tntue to tbe memory of Henry Bergh,
founder of the American; Hociety for the Pre
vention of Cruelty to Animals, was unveiled
in Milwaukee.- B. P, Hutchinson, . the
fatuous grain operator of Chicago, has dis
appeared, and his friends think he lias become
mentally deranged and wandered away.
The Norfolk Southern Railroad was sold .at
' Elizabeth City, .N. C, for $.500,000.- The
bridge over the, Hudson river at New York
will be 150 feet above high water mark.
Henry Bernstein,' ' bhoe dealer nt Mobile,
assigned; liabilities, $?5,000, assets, fo),000.
'By the falling in of the roof of the Opera
House at Troy, Ala., two young women were
killed and several injured.- NathanS. Fisk,
a centenarian, died at St. Croix Falls, Wis.
Fire destroyed property worth $.5,000 of
the Wilmington and Northern Railroad Com
pany at Wilniington.--r-James Ctimmings, a
railroad engineer, was killed at Oswego, N.
Y., by the explosion of a locomotive, -Sain
Anderson, a well-known farmer, was shot and
-killed, near Sbreveport, La. J. Wallace is
Huspeeted of the crioie.- Fire in Chatta-
'. liooga, Tenn., caused a loss of a quarter of a I
; 1 1 : . A . n .. t it-Ljx . l a i .1
killed Dr. Rockett, at Bodcan, Ark.-r-The
Omaha left Mazatlan, Mexico, for San Fran-',
cisco.-- The American Protective Tariff
League gave a banquet In Madison Square
Garden, New . York, at which a., number of
notable speeches were made. Mr. James
Gamble, surviving partner of the old firm of
Proctor & Gamble, soap manufacturers, died
iti Cincinnati, aged eighty-eight years.
' Confederate memorial day observances were
held- in Savannah. and ether Georgia towjis.
Young David Wise,, of Buena Vista, Va.,
while out driving with a young lady, play- i
fully pointed a pistol at his breast, and was
killed.-M Mrs. Julia- Casey Gibbons, a mem
ber of the Casey family, of Philadelphia, died
at Putnam, Ct., aged seventy-one years. -r
The birthday anniversary of General Grant
,was commemorated in Philadelphia'by a
banquet at the Union League. Joseph C.
Vidgeley, a Philadelphia wood dealer, was
arrested on a warrant charging him with pen
jury.--JI. O.Meredith, a young man for
merly of Baltimore, who was , to have been
married shortly, committed suicide in Knox
ville, Tenn.-: Harrisville a thriving village
on the routj from Watertown; N. V., into the !
Adirondack forest, was destroyed by fire.
The New York State Board of Arbitration
called the attention of the legislature to the
infamous "sweating system" in operation in
New York city, by which poor people received
a miserable- pittance for hard labor. The
body of Bertha Everett, of Phillipsburg, Pa.,
was found at the Parker House, Boston. She
bleWout the 'gas. The Writers oft the City
Railway Company, of Detroit,' have Avon.- .
The Supreme Court ofyxiuisiiiua hs decided
the lottery case In (aver of the company.- '
The Glen Hazy snrt .SjHawmu Railroad Com
pany was chartered at II arrisburg, Pa.- The
C. II. an t Dayton Railroad Company hps
leased tho Cincinnati, Dayton and lronto
road for ninety-nine years. - Ground w
broken at Riverside Park, New iYorki for
monument over the remains of Gen. I'ra
Speeches were made by Gen. Horace Yojfter
and Commander Freeman. The Methodist
Conference of Maine and Vermont voted to
admit women. Curwen Stoddnrt, a wealthy
merchant Philadelphia, suddenly became
insane in Chicago and attempted to kill him-wlf.--n
-Auditor Charles L. Stratton, of the
Northern lluilroad, New Hampshire, was
sentenced nt Concord to. three yean in slate
prison for embezzlement.-" -The Baron do
Hirseh Land and Improvement Company was
incorporated at Albiiny, N. Y., with a capital
of fso,000. The Odd Fellowsof Washington
celebrated the sevc ity-secwl anniversary of
j heir order. , . '
M NATtfK Ii.M i.s ciirrifH in his poekrt aa
ji -.nil N-cnir tt lii.pcr.r jiwfv hi U he siiys is the
i i i dime i lovri liisi.-iit pHi-1 hi in, verv
' i" nmiM i 't'lwl I (he tin i !
And Three) Mora Injured by an Acci
, dent on the B. & 0. i '
An Express Train Runs Into a Freight On
the Metropolitan Branch a Few Miles
From Rockville, Mdi ' .
, The Cincinnati express of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad, which left Camden Station
Baltimore, at 2.30 o'clock P. M., ran into a
freight train at Warring'' Station, about one
ruilc'above.Germantown, au the Metropolitan
Branch. The killed were: ... . , ' .
Engiueman Curtis Ellicott, of the express.
Fireman J. IL Murphy, of the freight train.
Postal Clerk Burdette, of Washington. The
injured were: ' Engineman Henry Croff, of
the freight trian. Fireman N. G. Mviller, of
the .express. Postal Clerk Milton Peacock, of
Baltimore. : No passengers were hurt. ' C
The scene of the accident was at a sharp
curve near Wfring Station, eight miles west
of Rockville," Md. - The express loft Washing,
ton at 3.30 P. M., and was made up of engine,
baggage car, postal car,"two day passenger
coaches and two Pullman cars. The freight
train wns at a standstill taking water on the
main track. The" express was running at a
speed of 40 miles an hour. The sharp curve
hid the freight tram from sight until the ex
press was within a short distance of it. Elliott
saw the freight train, on his track as soon as
he rounded the eurvev' and at once reversed
his engine and applied " the. air . brake. The
momentum of the train " was too great to be
checked in snch a short distance, fand a
moment later his train crashed into the freight
without its speed being perceptibly checked.
At the place of collision there was a smaller
curve, which prevented the two engines from
meeting squarely, and the blow was a side one.
As the engines came together ; the crash could
have been heard a long distance. The passen
ger engine reeled to the right and fell on the
ide of the track,: while the freight engine was
thrown over on the left side.; - Following the
the shock the baggage and postal ears left the
track, and a moment latter the two cars were
in flames, having caught fire from the engines",
and not long afterward were completely de
stroyed, as were also -two freight carp, one
loaded with hay and the other with lime. ..
The passengers went to work , to assist in
searching for the killed and iniured. Super-
intendent Thomas Fitzgerald, who was on the
express ordered a wrecking crew from Rock
ville, and began to clear the " track, while an
extra engine was attached to the j passenger
coaches and all of the passengers were sent
back to Washington and thence West via the
Main Line. ;. . - , : f k X
The work ' of extricating the wounded was
made difficult by the heat from the burning
ears. Fireman . Miller was found : lying
against an embankment alongside the track,
badly cut and burnt on the, head and with
several bones broken. : He was token to the
Providence Hospital in Washington. Postal
Clerk Peacock waa discovered beneath the
broken timbers of the postal car, and was
i tsuueu jui in unie w prevenims ueing I'urm
to death. His head was severely cut and he
was injured internally. . Engineer Groff was
found seriously hurt near his engine. Postal
Clerk Burdette was also pulled out of the de
bris of the postal car. He bad probably been
killed instantly. The bodies of Engineman
Elliott and Fireman Murphy were buried
beneath the wreck, so that they could not be
seen, and for a long time the heat from the fire,
made search for them impossible. t Only two
mail bags and three or four pieces of baggage
were saved, while nearly all the express mat
ter, including two sates containing money, are
said to have been lost. The heat was so in
tense that the iron axles of the cars and the
iron of the engines glowed white hot, and with
the primitive means at hand fighting the
flames had to be abandoned. r , The tire depart
ment at Washington was appealed to, the As
sistant Chief Bell and several fireman, with a
supply of hose, were sent to the assistance of
the wreckers . . The bodies of Murphy and
Elliott have undoubtedly been consumed. ...
' HEBELLIOlT IN clLL
The Monitor Huascar Was Sown Up at
CalderaUalmaceda's Fears.
; Advices received in Paris from Chili, via
Buenos Ay res, state that' during the battle at
Caldcra five torpedoes were discharged at tho
Chilian insurgents war vessels, sinking the
monitor Huascar, as well as the Blanco Encal-1
ada. The dispatch adds that President Bai
rn aceda's fleet, after administering this severe
lesson to the insurgents, return to Valparaiso
without having sustained any damage.
The warship Florence, which, up to the
present, has - been loyal to President Bal
maceda, has now gone over to the insur
gents. : -" , ' -.
- President Balmaceda is in dread of being
poisoned. To such an extent does . this feel
ing prey upon his mind that he will not
partake of any food which has not been pre
pared by his own mother. The latter conse
quently, prepares aU the President's meals.
. The Congress yarty in Chili," telegraphs
that the loss of their , warships will . not im
pede their military operations, and that their
army continues its march southward. - .
' ADUEL IN A CAFE. . V
One Gambler Shot Dead by Another, Who
! Is Himself Wounded. ' ' .
A terrible tragedy occurred at Marshall's
Cafe in Roanake, Va. ' Nick Flood, son 'of
Major John II. Flood,' a prominent tobacco
niel of Lynchburg, and Charles L. Ross, who
Vame from Washington on February last cn- J
gaged in a auei with pistols.
Ross fell, pierced by several ' bullets, and
died in a few minutes without speaking.
Flood was shot in the mouth and breast, ; but
will probably recover. :
: Both men were gamblers, and the shooting
was the result of a quarrel at a card table
about six weeks ago. Some, days asro they
were prevented from nhootinc each other and
placed miner nonns to ncep me peace, itoss
bad $71'J in Iun pockets.
Flood is a daiicerous character. A " few
months ago he stabbed Martin O'Meara, a
Lynchburg tailor, nearly to death, and subse
quent I v almost killed a man named Payne, of
Roanoke, with a billiard cue. f
A FAMILY SWEPT AWAY,
l'lve PerxonH Killed by a Hungiirimi AVho
linally Drowns IliniHclf. ,
A terrible tragwly; in which a whole family
lost their lives, happened in Pcsth,' Hungary,
it fVw diiys since.
A irmn employed in the iOKt office wan
M'ized with a houiicbtal frenzy and fV tally ut- 1
lacked all (he meniberHof his household never I
ccHt.ii)'' in his bloinlv woi'k until he I nut iiitn
dcred hi." wife, inoiiier-iii-law, and tlirco chil
li i'cii.
The itimi then si:irted for the Diii.'iln', tui.i
' Mill ri : iliCT t ' " : v I'J !,i ' '.v hi ni ii r I .
r i t:- ' i : ' iic-
ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE.
GESEKAL Hawley declares that he would
much prefer a seat in, the Senate to a Cabinet
porwono. . - ,
Don Fkdbo, the ex-Emperor of Brazil, has
planned to spend the Summer at Busbey Park,
England, the residence of the Duke de
Nemours. - - '
; bin Charles Dilke is 48 years old. He is
a man of average height, with a long brown
beard and a deep voice. He is wealthy,
capable of hard literary work, a convincing
speaker in Parliament, and a man of good
manners and excellent taste in dress.
Mme. Von TEfFFEL (Blanche Willis
Howard) is as busy with her literary work at
Stuttgart as before her marriage. Her .hus
band, proud of literary gifts, says it would be
a disgrace should marriage fetter .her talents.
Geace Gbeenwood is nearljr blind, owing
to cataracts on her eyes, and will soon become
entirely so for a time, and permanently should
the operation fail to remove them. She is to
leave New York and take up her residence in
Washington, soon, with her daughter. .-
Rev. David C. Keliey, who .was sus
pended from the Methodist ministry for six
montlis for running as a candidate for Governor
of Tennessee on the Prohibition ticket, has
been restored to favor; but the Bishop is not
yet able to say whether a fresh ' appointment
w ill be given him immediately.
Mrs. Charles DcDttY TVarner, wife of
the well-known author, is not inclined to
literary pursuits herself, but fills a portion of
her days in the quiet city of Hartford, where
she liM her home, busy at musical studies.
Mrs. Warner is an accomplished artist on the'
piano and a devoted admirer and interpreter
of the classics. . , . ,
Mr. Thomas Edison's house at Orange,
N J ., is a beautiful and luxurious one, and is
but a five minutes' walk from his laboratory.
His family consists of his wife, a daughter
about 18 years old, two boys and two babies.
The boys are being educated at home by a
tutor; oneinhcrit8hisfather'sinventive genius,
while the other is musically inclined. , ' ,
George Francis Train affirms that he is
living solely upon coflee.v "I am astonished
at myself," said he to an acquaintance the
other day "but I am in perfect health and
vigor,? although I take no solid food. Mv
whole diet is a few cups of coffee per day."1
His skeptical hearer, knowing that Train'a
muscles were like those of a ; blacksmith,
questioned him closely, but George Francis
stuck to his story.
Prince and Princess Henry, of Batten,
burg, who were with Queen Victoria at Grasse
recently, wished one day to enter the hotel by
a private entrance leading ipto the garden,
but a sentry of the Alpine Chasseurs, not
recognizing, their royal highnesses, refused to
let tnem pass. The prince in vain explained
his station, and it was not until one. of the
officials had intervened that the prince and
princess were allowed to enter.
. The. Czar of Russia is more than six feet
tall, and has the shoulders, arms and thighs
of an athlete. So great is the strength of his
hands that he can twist a horseshoe with ease.
He is a magnificent horseman, a thoroughly
trained soldier and an accomplished linguist,
speaking seven modern languages besides
Russian. He works hard and is out of bed
from six in the morning till ten at nigbt.
Stimulants and narcotics are however gratlu-
auy uuuerminmg nis sirengtn.
especial table, and was very kind to us, but I
was ternbJy afraid of nun. ' One of his greatest
pleasures at the table was to mix the most fiery
of salids, which he would send by his own
man (who always stood behind his master's
chair) with the General's compliments, to the
fa vored few. My gastronomic tastes were far
from being developed, and thrld gestleman's
red pepper and mustard nearly killed me. I
simply could not eat the burning stuff. Feel
ing the General's eye upon me, I vainly tried
to swallow it, but failed ignominiously, with
tears coming into my eyes with the effort. To
add to my discomfort and mortification, a
voice roared out in a deep tone from the
General's throne: "The little Cbase does not
like my salid.' " .. .
THE DEEPEST WELL ON EART&
A Hole Being Drilled Near Wheeling, W.
Va., for Scientific Observations.'
There is an enterprise in progress near
Wheeling, under the joint patronage of the
United States government and some enter
prising citizens of Wheeling, which, if suc
cessful, will prove of extraordinary interest to
the scientific world. '- Th public-spirited citi
zens of Wheeling, have failed of financial suc
cess in the boring of a deep well, j have dedi
cated the well to the purposes of scienee and
determined that it shall become in that way a
success. ... ; ,f-
- Major J. W. Powell, of the geological sur
vey, writes that if the well is carried down un
til it reaches the carniferous limestone it will
add a very important measurement to geology,
and will aid in guiding future operations in
boring for economic purposes in 'West Virginia
Ohio and Kentucky. "It will also afford an
opportunity practically unique for the deter
mination of the laws of temperature change
beneath the surface of the earth, i The ideal
locality is one where a deep well penetrates
undisturbed horizontal strata and does not tap
veins of water, and the combination has never
been realized before. , I am, therefore, very
desirous to secure for seienee the best records
attainable from observations of this well, and
have detailed for the purpose Dr. William
Hallock. a trained and experienced physician,
who will begin his preparatory work immedi
ately." ' ;.:; it ; ' ' . .." . . -
The well in question has already been bored
by the Wheeling gentlemen to a depth of 4,100
feet and was .started wit h , the a vowed inten
tion of boring until either oil or natural gas
was found, "if they had to go through to
China." ;
To reach u mile deep it. will be necessary to
sink the hole WW feet deeper. It is proposed
tokeen a careful measurement of all the strata"
gone through by the drill and save Kamples of '
each dinerent formation.When the drill gete'l
pone before the temperature of -'tlurearth at
that point will be taken by a self-registering:
thermometer, as minute observations.wili also
be made of the magnetic conditions and other
pern inr ehuraetensties, things of which tho
scientific . world hns now no experimental
knowledge. i
THE ROOF FELL INT
A Party, of Toung Penple Crashed in an
... Open House. -t
The opera house in Troy, Ala., fell in the
other afternoon, while a party of young people
were rehearsing an amateur performance.
A lout 20 persons w ere buried in t he ruins.
The dead are: Miss Annie Foster, of East
man, tin., and Mix Fanr.iu Lou Starke, only
chihi of Judge 1. W. Starke, of Tr-y,
The seriously injured are Mis i Masrcrie
Burnett, lately of lfainhriik'e, Ga., and Ms
Kola limvnfntV Others were burr, hixk not
seNOH-.lv. I
'i i-i - l i.i. iiT i iilti-d iVniii the f-i-n adi f i 1
i IIs- ..-'. w hii Ii - u-" HI-I to "C M IU I :
Kate Chase Spraoce tells this story of a
. visit to old General Winfield Scott, at Cozzen's
West Point. "He gave us seats at his own
. DB. T
The Eminent Brooklyn Di vine's Sun
day Sermon. ;
Snbjeeti Thfe New Tabernacle.'
Text: " What mean ye by these atones f
Joshua iv.. 6. '
The Jordan, like the Mississippi, has Muffs
on the one side and flats on the other. Here
and there a sycamore shadows it. Here and
there a willow dips into it. It waa only a
little over waist aeep in December as I waded
through it, but in tbe months of April and
May tue snows on Mount Lebanon to aw 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 hear the tramp of forty thouJ
sand armed men coming down to cross the
riven ?; You ; say, why do . they i not go up
nearer the rise of the river at the o Id camel
j ford? Ah I my friends, it is because it is not
1 safe to go around when the Lord tells us to
I; go ahead; The Israelites had been going
around forty years, and they had euough 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
saiety wnen i went a Dead.
I There spreads out tbe Jordan, a raging
I torrent, much of it snow, water just come
down from the mountain top; and I see soma
f of the Israelites shivering at the idea of
piungmg in, and one soldier says to nis com
rade, ."Joseph, can you swimf' And another
says: ' "If we get across the itream we will
get there with wet clothes and with damaged
armor, and tbe Canaanites will slash us to
; pieces with their swords before we eetupth9
. ether bank." But it is no time to halt. The
j great host marches on. i' .
I The priests carrying the ark go ahead, the
people follow. 1 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 they
; have come within four or five feet of the
ftream; but there is no abatement of the
' flood.-" Bad .prospect! - It seems as if those
, Israelites that crossed the desert are now eo-
ing to be drowned in sight of Canaan. But
"Forward !M Is the cry. The command rings
all along the line of the host. "Forward!"
Now the priests have come within one step
of the river. This time they lift their feet
rrom tne solid ground and put tnem down
into the raging stream. No 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 river for
hours baits 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 scaliog
the water cliff. Now the priests and all the
people have gone over on dry land. The
I water on the left hand side by this time has
reached tne 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 floods, and
like a hundred cataracts thty plunge and
roar in thunderous triumph to the sea.
How are they to celebrate this passage?
Shall it be with music? I suppose the trum-
j pets and cymbals were all worn out before
this. Shall it be with banners waving? Oh,
no; they are all faded and torn. JoshnJ
cries out, "I will tell you how to celpbrata
this build a monument here to commemoj
rate '".the event," and every priest puts 4
heavy stone on his shoulder and marches bttt
and drops that stone in the divinely ep-
E Dinted place. I see the pile growing m
eight, in breadth, in significance; and, in
I after years, men went by that spot and saw'
iniB monument, and cried out one to anotner,
in fulfillment of the prophecy of the text,
"What meant ye by these stones?'
Blessed be God, He did not leave our church
In the wilderness ! We have been wandering
about for a year and a half worshiping in
the Academy of Music, Brooklyn, and the
Academy of Music, New York. And some
thought we would never reach the promised
land. Some said we had better take this
route and others that. Some said we had
better go back, and some said there were
sons of Arak 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 stood 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 svmpnthy 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-night I
go all around about this great house, erected
by your prayera and sympathies and sacri
fices, and cry out in the words of my text:
' What mean ye by these stonesf
It is an outrage to build a house like this,
Co vast and so magnificent, unless there be
some tremendous reasons for doing it; and
so, my friends, I pursue you to-night with
the question of ' my text, and I demand of
these trustees and of these elders and of all
who have contributed in the building of this
structure, "What mean ye by these stones?"
But before X get your answer to my question
you interrupt me and point to the memorial
wall at the aide of this pulpit, and say, "Ex
plain that unusual group : cf memorials,
What mead you by those stones?" By per
mission of the people of my beloved charge t
recently visited the Holy Lands, and. having
in mind by day and night during my ab-a
gence this rising house of 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 tbe earth, Mount Calvary. There
is no more doubt of the. locality than of
Mount Washington or Mount Blanc. On the
bluflof this mountain, which is the shape of
tbe human skull, and so called jn the Bible,
"The place of the skull," there is room for
three crosses . There I saw a stone so sug
gestive I rolled it down the hill and trans
ported it. It is at the top of this wall, a
white stone, with crimson veins running
through it the white typical of purity the
crimson suggestive of the blood that paid
the price of our redemption. We place it at'
the top of the memorial wall, for abeve all
in this church, fot all time, in sermon and
soug and prayer, shall be, the sacraflce of
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 Siuai where the
law was given. Three camels were three
weeks - crossing the desert to fetch them.
When at Cairo, Egypt, I proposed to the
Christian Arab that he bring one storte from
Mount Sinai, he said, "We can easier bring
two rocks than one, for one must balance
thorn on the back of tho camel," and I dM
not think until the day of their arrival bow
much more uggestiv would be the t wo, be
causfi the law was written on two tablets of
store. '.Those' stones marked with the words
"Moant KimM felt the ftrthquakthat shook
tho mountains when th law was given.- The
lower etone of the wall la from Mars HUI, the
plin-o where .Pftnl stood when hn preached
tLi;t famouj t nnoao'i the tro'.herhood of
the human race, declaring ' 'God hath mad
of one blood all nations."
' Since Lord Elgin took the famous statuary
from tbe Acropolis, the hill adjoining Mars
Hill, the Greek Government makes it Impos
sible to transport to other lands any antiq
uities, and armed soldiers guard not only
the Acropolis, but Mara Hilt That stone I
obtained by special permission from the
Queen of Greece, a most gracious and bril
liant woman, who recsivea us as though we
had boon old acquaintances, and through
Mr. TricouDis, the Prime Minister of Greece,
and Mr. (Snowden, our American Minister
Plenipotentiary, and Dr. Manatt, our Amer
ican Consul, that suggestive tablet was
awed from the- pulpit, of rock on which
Paul preached. Now you understand why
we have marked it "Tha Gospel." f Long af
ter my lips shall utter in this church their
last message, these lips of stone will tell of
the Law, and the Sacrifice, and tbo Gospel.
This day I present them to tbe church and
to all who shall gaze upon them. Thus you
have ray answer to the question, "What
mean 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 rny, right
hand, but there are hundreds of stones in
these surrounding walls and underneath ns,
in the foundations, and rising above us in
the towers. 1 The quarries of tiits and trans
atlantic countries at the call of crowbar and
chisel havecontributed toward this structure.
"What mean ye by these stonesf; 1 - " ,
You mean araonT other things that they
shall be an earthly residence for Christ.
Christ did not have much of a home when
He was hers. 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 flsWng smack, with a sailor's
r ough overcoat thrown over Him ? It is
Jesus, the worn out voyager. O, Jesus Hs
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
good for us. hut not half good enouh for
Thee. Oh! come in and take the best seat
here. Walk -up and down all these aisles.
Speak' through these organ pipes. , Throw
thine arm over us in these arches." In tbe
naming ot these brackets ot fire speak to ns,
saving, "lam the light of the world." O
King! make this thine audienee cnatnner.
Here 'proclaim righteousness, and make
treaties. We clap bur hands, . 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!" ( , - .
Is it not time that He who was born in a
strangers house and buried in a stranger's
grave should have an earthly house? Come
in, O Jesus I not the corpse of a buried Christ,
but a radiant and trumphant Jesus, con
queror of earth and heaven and helL . .
He ltves, all gory to Hts name.
He lives, my Jems, still the earns. '
Ob, the weet Jo this sentence givof
1 know that my Redeemer lives.
Blessed be His glorious name foreverf
Again, if any one asks the question of the
text, "What mean ye by these stonesf 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 his
cheek blanch, and his heart stop I My
friends, if there is any church on earth
where there is a minelinx of all denomina
tions it is our church. I just wish that John
Calvin and Arminius, if they were not too
busy, would come out on the battlements
and see us. " .
Sometimes in our prayer meetings I have
heard brethren use 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 I" "Praise ye the Lord P' 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 certificat?, we say:
'Come in by confession of faith." While
Adoniram Judson, the Baptist, and John
Wealey. the Methodist, and John Knox, the
glorious old Bcotch Presbyterian, are shak
ing bands in heaven, ail churches on earth
can afford to come into close communica
tion: ' "One Lord, one faith, one baptism."
Oh, my brethren, we have had enough of Big
Bethel fights the Fourteenth New Yoric
reeiment flxhting the Fif tesnth Massachu
setts regiment. Now, let all those who are
for Christ and stand on tbe same side go
shoulder to sfcoulder.and this church, Instead
of having a sprinkling of the divine blessing,
go clear under the wave in one glorious im
mertion in the name of the Fathar and of the
Son and of the Holy Ghost.
I saw a little child once, in its dying hour,
put one arm around its father's neck and the
other arm around its mother's neck and
brimz them close down 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 denomination of Christians, and He
brings them down to His dying lips while He
gives them this parting kiss: "My peae I
leave with you. My peace 1 give unto you.
How swift tho heavenly courte they ran.
Whose hearts and faith and hopes art one.
I heard a Baptist minister once say that
he thought in tbe millennium it would be
ill one greas isapust cnurca; ana x neara
& Methodist minister say that he thought
in the great millennial day it would be all
one great Methodist church: and I have
tnown a '- Presbyterian . minister who
thought that in the millennial day it would
be all one great Presbyterian chuBch. Now
think they are all mistaken. I think the
millennial . church will be a composite
ihurch: and just as yon may take the best
parts of flvejor six tunea, and under the skil
ful hands of Handel, Mozart or Beethoven
ntwine them into one grand and overpower
ing symphony, so, I suppose, in the latter
iavs of the world. God will take the best
parte of all denominations of Christians, and
weave them law one great ecciesiasncai
harmony, broad as the earth and 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 suppose God
will make, after a while, one great blending
of all creeds, and all faiths, and all Christian
sentiments, the amythest and the jasper.and
the chalcedony of all different experiences
and belief, cenieted side by side in the great
mosaic oi tne ages: ana wane me nations
look upon the columns and architraves - of
tbe stupendous church; of the future, and
cry out, "What mean ye by these atones I".
mere snail Lie liiiiunierauie vt.uccs vj ip
spond, "We mean the Lord God omnipotent
reioneth." '
Stilt further, yon mean bv these stones tha
salvation of the people. Wo did not build
this church f ;r mere worldly reforms, or for
an educational institution, or as a platform
on 1 which to read essays and philosophical
disquisitions, but a place for tbe tremendous
work of soul saving. . Oh, I had rather ba
the means in this church ot having one. uoul
prepared for a joyful eternity than live
thousand souls prepared for". mere-- workilv
success. ' All churches are m twj e.asjfs, au
uc-umusitio in tw places,;!! the raoe ia
two classes believers and unbelievers. To
augment the number of the one and subtract
from the number of the other we buuc tlua
church, and toward that supreme and eter
nal idea we dedicate all our sermons, a'l our
songs, all our prayers, all our Sabbath L.v.id
shaKings. We want to throw defection into
the enemy's ranks. We want to makg Vvjna
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 love here until
men would feel that they had rather die tha' f!.
live another hour without His symoatay ar. c.
love and mercy. We want to rouse tip t
enthusiasm for Him greater than was :;
for Nathaniel Lyon when he rode alor": ;
ranks; greater than was exhibited for n'
ington when be came baci from Watjj-i
greater than was expressed for Nspof a i
when he stepped ashore from Eibai We r.
believe in this place; Christ will enact
same scenes that were enacted by Him wi
He landed in the orient, and there will
such an opening of blind eyes and unstlf,j
ping of deaf ears and casting out of undo. .,
spirits such silencing bestormed Gentlest,,
rets as shall maie this house memorable five'
hundred years after you and I are dead and t
forgotten. Oh, my friends, we want but one
revival in this church, that beginninar now
and running on to the day when the chisel of
time, that brings down even St. Paul's and
the Pyramids, shall bring this house into the
dust. . ,
Ob, that this dav of dedication might be
the day of emancipation of all imprisoned
soulf. My friends, do not make the blunder
of the ship carpenters in Noah's time, who?
j helped to build the art; but did not g-et into
it. uod lorbid tnaEyon wno cave wen sw -generous
in building this church should not ;
get under its influences. "Come thou and
all thy house into the ark." Do you think a
mania safe oat of Christ? Not one day, not
one hour, not one minute, not one Fecond.
Three or four years ago. you remember, a
rail train broke down a bridge on the way to
Albanyi 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 bad only "
strength to say one thing, and that way,
"Hoist the flag for the next train." So ttiere
come tons to-night, from the eternal word, '.
voices of God, voices of ansrel?, voices of de
parted spirits, cryingr "Lift the warning.
Blow the trumpet. Give the alarm. Hoist
tbe flag for the next train ."
-.'-'Oh, thai), to-night my Lord Jesus would
sweep His arm around the great audience andl
take you au to His holy heart. You will
never see no good a time for personal conse
cration as now. ; "What mean ye by these
stones?" We mean your redemption tvom :
sin and death and hell by the power of an f
omnipotent gospel.
Well, the Brooklyn Tabernacle is erected
again. ' We came here to-nisbt not to dedi
cate it. That was done this morning. To-
night we dedicate ourselves. In tbe 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 are for the blessing. Ared men,
his is the last church that you will ever
dedicate. May the God who comforted -Jacob
the Patriarch, and Paul the aged.i
make this house to yon the gate of heaven;
and when, in your old days, yon put on your
spectacles to read the hymn or the Scripture
lesson, may you get preparation for that
Jand where you shall no more see through
a glass darkly. May the warm sunshine of
heaven thaw the snow off yourforebeadst r
Men in middle lif e,do you know that this is :
the place where you are going to get your ,:
fatigues rested and your sorrows apneased
and your souls saved? Do yon know that at
this altar your sons and daughters will take
upon themselves the vows of the Christian,
and from this place yon will carry out, some
of you, your precious dead? ; Between thut
baptismal font and this communion table you
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 bun'ness associates, but the money -you
have given to the house of the Lord shall "
yield you large percentage, and declare eter
nal dividends Ion? after the noonday sun
shall have gone but like a spark from a
smitten anvil and all the stars are dead .
CABLE SPARKS. . "
Ex-Speaker Thomas Reed is in Home.
A map wolf ran a muck .through an Aus
trian village in the Duccy of Buckowina and ,
bit thirty-two persona. .
The Portuguese in South Africa seized rf
Hritish vessel, hauled -down the English flag
and raised their own in its place.
A gardesek in the village of Albrechts
hein. Germany, murdered his wife and four
children with a hatchet and then hanged him-
self. ' . . :
The natives of Portuguese, Guinea, weEt
roast of Africa, after having massacred all the
Portuguese officers and soldiers, on the Island
of Besso, have hoisted the French flag.
A London jury rendered a verdict in favor
of Mr. William Henry IIurlbut,the American
journalist, who was sued in that city by Mi6
Gladys Evelyn, an actress, for breach of
promise. -
' The British government refused to' appoint
Michael Davitt, the Irish leader, on the labor
commission because he had served a term in
prison, having been convicted of treason felony
while advocating Ireland's cause
Conferences between the delegates from
Newfoundland now in London and represents
tives of the BritiKh government relative to the. '
fisheries dispute have been of a satisfactory
nature to all concerned, and it is believed a
practical and definite agreement will be
reached, i
IT is reported in Paris that Baron ITimch,
the Hrbr' philnntropist, has purchased an
immclse p-ct of hind in Pennsylvania with -the
ntict'if establishing there a colonv of:
KnstnJy lebrews. The -truthfulness of the
report lVsienied in Philadelphia. It is claimed
laud boomers started the report.
. ' Spain- bus concluded a reciprocity treaty"
with the United States, whereby the Vniteil
States wil obtain an exemption from duties on
most of its raw and manufactured products
and a reduction of the tariff on cerea; and
flour shipped to the West Indies. In return
the United States will allow Antilles sucrnr,
molasses, eotl'ee and hides to enter free of duty
and will reduce the. duty on tea. t
The British Governor of tlanibia, Wt
Africa, sent au English official to the native
King of the colony, who had allowed a num
ber of depredations to le nutde on Briti)
onists,ivnniine him that he must behave him
self and nee that dis subjects behave t! m
aelvea properly iu the future.ir flue the nmrm
forces of t lie ijueen of Euuland would be n
dcred t make him a visit of a. discit-bun
nature. Tho King ordered the env-v t.
sci.i-daml port hum of his irhecks and ihi '
cm out. The tortunil Kinrlilnuan mid
pieces of tlcsh were sent buck t- ilie !v
with the rep'iy that they were Use Kh.,i
swer.
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j GermausVii ft failure, evun fi"c; I
-"unoccupied, and the place 5 - 1 s