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The White Cloud Review from White Cloud, Kansas • 3

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All Is Peaceful. New York, Oct 29. Jacob Baiz, consul general for Guatemala in New York, has received the following cablegram from the Becretarv of foreign affairs of the republic of Guatemala: "Contradict the reported revolution in Guatemala. The riot occurred in Macaque airurntla, a department of San Jose, wmch was completely quelled in ttiree days." The Benders Identified. Nixes, Nov.

I. The governor of Michigan granted the request of Gov. Humphrey of Kansas for the extradition of Mr9. Monroe and Mrs. Sarah E.

Davia, and yesterday afternoon If re. Monroe and Mr. Davis, in charge of Deputy Sheriff P. Dick, Htarted for Labette county. Kansas, the scena of the York murders.

The parties sent here from Kansas, who were well acquainted with the Bender in Kansas, fully identified Mrs. Davis as being the original Kate Bender, and Mrs. Monroe as Mrs. Bender. Tne fact that officers from Kansas, were fcere had been kept so quiet that their presence was not known until toe arret was made, and they were about taking the train for Kansas.

Their leaving created a i-ensation. The old lady declared she would not be taken alive; that she ould die in her tracks first, but the strong arms of Deputy Sheriff Earl succeeded in leading her into a carriage. At the depot she took the matter very coolly and laughed and 1oked over her prospective trip. Her daughter was reticent and said pimply tht her mother whs Mrs. Bender, but that she was not Kate Bender and that she would make full disclosures hereafter.

She has already implicated under oatn too connection of her mother with the Bender Bays that onother sister, and not she, was Kate Bender, but her identification seems to be complete. 1 '1 he remarkable detective work of the (Ulcers of this county has developed a most astouadinir history of crimes, and this fact), aside from identification, seems to connect them with tne Kansas her wrinicled forehead, so she coolS lorfi closer at the wound, it was tbree-Joorth healed. And when the Lord too berir although you may have been men aacj 3 40, AO years of age, you iuy ea 3e coffin lid and sobbed as though you wtw omy 5 or 10 years of age. man, praise Cii if you have in your memory the piciare urT an honest sympathetic, kind, self mother. Oh, it takes fcis -people who have had trouble to- trcafan.

others in trouble. here did Psiri pet Uremic with which to write hi coasfortiiyr epistle! Where did David get fie inK write his comforting Psalms! Where tOal John get tho ink to writo his Revalatiou They got it out of their mu tears. When a man has gone- tlmsisSj iie curriculum, and has taken a course geons and imprisonments- and siiiprwiteii, ho is qualified for the-work of sympathy; hen I began to preach, my sermons tns the subject of trouble were all poeS otf verse; but God knockai tics blank verse out of me long ago, and I lusrsi -found out that I cannot comfort ew-cept as I myself have been troubled. make me the son of consolation to tbe I would rather bo the means of sootfcin5oe? perturbed spirit to-day, than to play a tsrass that would set all the sons of mirth xesixDEt In the daaco. I am an herb doctor.

I int the caldron the root out of dry without form or co Then 1 pit i tho Rose of Sharon and the I-a3y of tho Valley. Then I pot ante the caldron some of the leaves from the Tree of Life, and the Branch that ws-thrown into the wilderness- MaraK TfcKtm: 1 pour in the tears of Bethany w5 Colt trotha; then I stir them upt Thea.l kijnfilJS" under tho caldron a tire mado cut ef Vsm-wood of the cross, and one drop eff liaSr portion will euro the worst siekses lis over afflicted a human souL Mary aaS-Martha shall receive their Lazarus f.rir the tomb. The damsel shall rise. AshJ tho darkness shall break the nionusg aeaE. God wili wipo all tears from their eyes.

You know on a well spread table Vats becomes more delicate at tho last I tariffed you to-day with the bread of enBc3-tion. Let the table now be cleared, aoraiL let us set on tho chalice of heaven. 3LSs. the King's cup bearers como isa. CachS.

morning, Heaven! "Oh," says some in the audience, "the Bible contradtttB 3t- -self. It intimates again- and that there are to bo no toars in- iMsnrasiiu. nnd. if there be no tears i THE GREAT HEALER. "God Shall Wipe Away All Tears Iron Thsir Eyes." Dr.

Talmage Again Tcachc3 His Fleck from the Platform of the Academy of Music The Eloquont DivineA Statement as to Finances. Before beginning his sermon on Sunday, in tho Brooklyn Academy of Music, Kev. T. Do Witt Talmage said that a mistaken notion wai abroad that tho insurance on his destroyed church was enough to rebuild. Dr.

Talmage's text was: "God shall wipe away all te.irs from their eyes." Kev. vii, 17. Ho said: Riding ncros9 a western prairib, wild flowers up to the hub of the carriage wheel, and while a long distance from any shelter, there came a sudden shower, and while the rain was falling in torrents, tho sun was shilling as biightly as 1 ever saw it shine; and-1 thought what a beautiful spectacle this is So the tours of tho Bible tire not midnight storm, but raiu on pansicd prairies in God's sweet and golden sunlight Yo.t remember that bottlo which David labeled as containing tears, and Mary's tears, and Paul's tears, and Christ's tears, and the harvest of joy that is to spring from tho sowing of tears. God mixes tliem. God round i them.

God shows them where to fall. God exhales them. A census is taken of them, and there is a record 'as to the moment when they arc born, iinJ ns to the place of their grave. Tears of bad men are not kept Alexander, in his sorrow, had the hair clii)-ped from his horses and mules, and made a groat ado about his grief; but in all tho vases of heaven there is not one of Alexander's tears. I speak of tho tears of tho good.

Alas me they are falling all tho time. In summer, you sometimes hear the growling thunder, and you see there is a storm miles away; hut you know from the drift of the clouds that it will not come anywhero near you. So, though it may be all bright around about us, there is a shower of trouble somewhere all tho time. Tears! Tears! hat is the uset of them anyhow 1 Why not substitute laughter) Why not make this a world where all the people are well and eternal strangers to pain and. aches What is the use of an eastern storm when we might have a perpetual nor'wester hy, when a family is put together, not have them all stay, or if they must be transplanted to mako other homes, then have them all live I tho family record telling a story of marriages and births, but of no deaths.

VV hy not have the harvest chase each other without fatiguing toil! Why the hard pillow, the hard crust, the hard struggle? It is easy enough to explain a smile, or a success, or a congratulation; but come now, and bring all your dictionaries and all your philosophies and all your religions, and help no explain a tear. A chemist will tell you that it is made up of salt and lime and other component parts; but he misses the chief ingredients tho acid of a soured life, tho viperine sting of a bitter momory, the fragments of a broken heart. I will tell you what a tear is; it is agony in solution. Here me, then, while I discourse to you of the uses of trouble. First It is the design of trouble to keep this world from being too attractive.

Somo-. heavon, I should lie tompted to take the responsibility and launch you all into glory with one stroke, holding on to the side of the boat until I could get in myself. And yet there are people here to whom this world is brighter than heaven. Well, dear I do not you. It is natural.

But after a while you will be ready to go. It was not until Job had been worn out with bereavements and carbuncles and a pet of a wife that ho wanted to see God. It was not until tho prodigal got tired of living among tlw hogs that he wanted to so to his Father's house. It is the ministry of trouble to make this world worth less and heaven worth more. Again, it is the use of trouble to make us feel our complete dependence upon God.

King Alphonso said that if ho had been present at the creation he could have made a better world than this. What a pity he was not present! I do not know what God will do when some men die. Men think they can do anything until God shows them they can do nothing at all. We lay our great plans and we like to execute them. It looks big.

God comes and takes us down. As Prometheus was assaulted by his enemy, when the lance struck him it opened a great swelling that had threatened his death, and he well. So it is the arrow of trouble that lets out great swellings of pride. We never feel our dependence upon God until we get troublo. I was riding with my little child along the road, and she asked if she might drive.

I said, "Certainly." I handed over tho reins to her, and I had to admire the glee with which she drove. But after a while wo met a team and we had to turn out. Tha road was narrow, and it was sheer down on both sides. She handed the reins over to me, and said: "I think you had better take charge of the horse." So we are all children; and on this road of life we like to drive. It gives one such an appearance of superiority and power.

It looks big. But aft3r a while wo meet somo obstacle, and we have to turn out, and tha road is narrow, and it is sheer down on both sides; and then we are willing that God should take the reins and drive. Ah! my friends, we get upset so often because we do not hand over the reins soon enough. It is trouble, my friends, that makes us feel our dependonca upon God. We do not know our own weakness or God's strensth until the last plank breaks.

It is contempti-blo in us when there is nothing else to take hold of, th it we catch hold of God only. A man is unfortunate in business. He has to raise a great deal of money, and raise it quickly. Ho borrows on word and note all he can borrow. After awhile ho puts a mortgage on his house.

Then he puts a second mortgage on his house. Then he puts a lien on his furniture. Then he makc3 over his life insurance. Then he assigns all his property. Then ha goes to his father-in-law and asks for help! ell, having failed everywhere, completely failed, ho gets down on his knees and says: Lord, I have tried everybody and everything, now help me out of this financial troublo." Ho makes God tha last resort instead ot die first resort.

There a ro men who have piid ten cents on a dollar who could have paid a hundrod cents on a dollar if they had gone to God in lime, hy, you do not know who tho Lord is. Ho is not an autocrat seated far up in a palace, from which ho emerges onco a year, preceded by heralds swinging swords to clear tho way. No. But father willing, at our call, to stand by us in every crisis and predicament of life. I toil you what some of you businoss men mako me th nk of.

A young man goes off from home to earn his fortune. He goes with hU moLhar consent anl bono.liction. She has large wedth; but he wants to mako his own fortune. Ho gjos far away, falls sick, gets out of money. Ho sends for the hotel koepar whero ho is staying, asking for lenience, and tha answer ho gets is: "If vou don't pay up Saturday night you'll be removed to the hospital." Tha young man sends to a C3inrada in the san) building.

No help. He writ33 to a banker who was a friend of his doca isel father. No relief, lie writes to an old sjho.ilmite, but irets no help. Saturday night comes, and ho is moved to tlio hospital. Getting there, ho is frenzied with grief; and lie borrows a sheet of paper and a postage stamp, and ho sits down, and he writes home, saying: "Dear mother, I am sick unto death.

Come." It is ten minutes of 10 o'clock when she gets tho letter. At 10 o'clock tho train starts. She is fivo minutes from the depot. She gets thero in tiino to have five minutes to spare. She wonders why a train that can go thirty miles cin hour cannotgo sixiy miles an hour.

She rushes into the hosp tal. She says: sou, what does all this mean! Why didn't you send for mo? You sent to everybody but me. You knew I could und would hoi) you. Is this the reward I got for my kindness to you always!" Sho bundles him up, takes him home, and gets him well very soon. Again, it is the usa of troublo to cipaci-t'to us for tho office ot' sympathy.

The priests, undor the old dispenS itiou, were Hut apart by bavin water sprinkled on their liuiiUs, feet and head: and by the sprinkling of tutu's people aro now sot apart to tbe odh of sympathy. When we are in prosperity wo like to have a proat many young pwplo around us, and we laugh when they 'laugh, mid wo romp when they romp, and wo sing when they sinjr; but when we have trouble wo like plenty of old folks around. hy? They know how to talk. Tako an aged mother, iJ years of ago, and sho is almost omnipotent In comfort Why! She is been through it all. At 7 o'clock in tho morning sho goes over to comfort a j'oung mother who inn just lost her babe, Grandmother knnvs all about that troublo.

Fifty years ago she folt it. At I o'clock of that day sho goes over to com-lort a widowed soul. Sho knows all about Hint. She has been walking in that, dark vnlloy twenty years. At 4 o'clock in tha ailornoon somo one knocks at tha door broad, Sho knows all about that.

Two or thrco times in hor life sha has came to hor lust loaf. At 10 o'clock that night 1 1 i.i go.M over to it no with somo one save cl.v Sho knows all about it. She knows ull about fevers and pleurisies and broken bonos. Sho has been doctoring all hor life, spreading plistsja, and pouring out bitter drops, and shaking up hot pillow, and coul riving things to tomptupoor npotitu. Doctors Abornothy and Rush and i ios ick and ilarvey were groat doctors, but tho grjiitust doctor tho world ovor a is an old Christian woni in.

Dour mo I Do we not renioiiilxH- hor about tho room vvhon wo wcro sick In our boyhood! Was there any ono who ould ever so touch a soro without hnrtin fit? And when ulio lifted hor spoctaclos against The Sioux Reservation. Washington, Oct 2S Senator Pettigrew, of ouxFalle, S. arrived tonight He will go to see President Harrison tomorrow morning in regard to the opening of the Sioux reservation and on other subjrets pertaining to the interests of his constituents. The senator says the reservation must be opened by presidential proclamation, and that by the law of tne last congress that is sufficient and if the reservation is not opened without going again to concrete a blunder will be acknowledged by the interior department Senator Petti-gxew goes to Boston and Maine from here. The Dakota Destitute.

St. Paul, Oct. 29. The joint relief committee of the St Paul chamber of commerce and Jobbers' union met this morning and organized for the relief of the Dakota sufferers. It v.

as decided to forward clothing, food and fuel as soon as possible, and to leave to thu state the care of the Btock. All the churches will be called upon to make contributions of money as well as clotning, and on some day in the near future to be named vans will traverse the principal streets and make a house-to-house collection for tbe benefit of the suffeiers. In its report the committee says: "A very inadequate idea of the- extent of the distress prevails, but sufficient is known to warrant the statement that it is simnly appalling. "Over peoplo are reduced to the last stage of destitution, lacking even the commonest necessaries of life. "Food cannot be obtained at any price, and even if it were purchasable, there is no monev wherewith to buy ir.

clothing is an unheard of luxury and thousands of distressed settlers have to face the rigors of a severe winti po scantily supplied in this respect that any garment would be welcome. When it is borne in mind that these people are, many of them, pioneers from the mire thickly settled districts of this and other states, people poestied of that independence which is the pride of every American and who wouid scorn to seek relief unless compelled by the direst necessity, something of the keenness tueir distress may perkaps be appreciated. "For the present the committee will concentrate all its efforts to the relief of sufferers in No'th Dakota. "In South Dakota there are upwards of 1,000 families destitute, but as they are surrounded by populous centers it is thought they can be taken care of nearer home The General i'-'siness Outlook. New Yobk, Oct.

18 B. G.Dunn weekly review of trade will say: The money market has become more prospects that serious disturbance this season is no longer to bo apprehended. The banks are running with narrow reserve and artificial stringency may at any time be engineered, but th movement of crops has been heavy. In the natural course of events the return of money to this centre should soon begin, and the possibility of a foreign decline seems nioru remote. The ink of England gained last week and the Bank of France in gold.

Securities do not appear to be moving largely either way, while merchandise ex ports for three weeks show a gain of 14 per cent over last year, aarainHt a gain ot 10 per cent in imports. The rata of foreign exjhange has accordingly declined a shale. Meauwkile commercial paper is more active here. Some of tbe bankH hav begun buying, while the amount offered is unusually small this neason and merchants generally report morn sutislactory collections than nsual. There is a little more stringency at Omaha.

Liquidations in wheat continues, with rices 3 cents lower than a week ago. Stub orn facts, heavy receipts and scanty exports, wear out the patienct, of those who nave had faith in a world's famine, and state ofheial reports indicate a larger yield than those of the department Corn is higher, with sales of bushels ana the export movement still exceeds last year's. Pork Droducts are weak, and in hogs the decline has been 60 cents ppr 100 pounds. Oil has risen 3 cents Coffee is unchanged ana sugar is again lower. Cotton continues downward, receipts exceeding those of tbe same weeklastyear by bales, and exports by BO.OOO bales, and while there has been a touch of snow in Virginia, the dreaded frost in cotton states is still deferred.

The business failures occurring throughout the country during the last seven days as reported by R. G. Dun mercantile agency by tplegraph, number for the United States 188. and for Canada thirty-one, or a total of 2A5, as compared with a total of 2-'3 last weoK and 5il4 the week previous to tho last. For the corresponding week of last year the figures were 254, made up of 223 in the United States aim 32 in Canada.

A Delicate Question. Washington, Oct. 28. "Shall the cattlemen be driven from the Cherokee outlet?" is the question that is puzzling Secretary Noble just now, and well it may, for it is a very delicate one to handle. The Cherokee Indian commission, which spent last summer in on unsuccessful attempt to induce the Indians to surrender these lands to the government, however, do not seem to consider the matter as at all dlffloult of solution, tor they have asked Secretary Noble to drive the cattlemen out forthwith.

These men, the commission arges, by their influenoe with the Indians have so fur prevented the commission from being successful. It is explained that tho cattlemen leaRe large tracts of land from the Indians in the Cuerokee outlet (or grazing purpose and the money received by the Chfioket-H from this source is perhaps their chief source of revenue. The cattlemen also make a good thing out of it by grazing large herds ot Texas cattle on lamid 1 and shipping them at opportune times to the western marketc Tue delicate point of the matter is that these leases to tho oattlemen are approved and formerly mil-fled by the secretory of the interior und for Socrotaiy Noble to accede t-i the request ot his Cherokee commisiiou and drive these men from the outlet would be equivalent to repudiating the acts of the Rf.orutary of trie Interior in granting the leases to tho cattlemen. A Female Horse Thief Des Moines, la Oct. 31.

A female horse thief is not common in Iowa, but one has jutt been arrested who has displayed more than ordinary masculine nerve. Two weeks ugv a woman hired a horse and buggy from W. P. Tendill, of Rock Island, ttbe was seen driving about Davenport and Moline that day until 6 p. when all trace of her was lost until last, Saturday, when Biie was seen at Etdora.

The police of this city were nocifled, and after a long chase the woman and her rig were captured at Madrid, in Boone county, and are now on their way here. The woman's real name is noo known, as the travels under several aliases, but she is regarded as a very bold and desperate character. Struck a Spouter. LkMaes, Nov. 1.

A gang of well diggers on the new Bioux City Northern ail-way, ten miles north of LsMars, struck natural gas at a depth of 104 feet. The wildest excitement prevails here and great crowds have gone to see the well. Tha land on which it is located is owned by the Sioux City Northern railway, building from Sioux City to Palisade, Duk. The wed is at She crossing of the'Caicago Northwestern, near the little town of Maurice, and tht, people there are afraid the gas will get afire and are watching it -closely. Ic will be i psted tomorrow ana is regarded as valua-11 It bie ft the machinery'out of the wt b.

is making a noise now that can be heard eighty rods. mistaken Identity. St. Paci, Get. 28.

That "truth is stranger tnan fiction" has just been here in a moat startling way. Last Mpndny morning about 10 o'clock a young man, apparently atiouc twenty-tour years of aire, while walking along tne beams ot the Eudicott building, missed his footing nd plunged headlong six flights to the basement. Wlier. picked up he was found to be dead. He was taken to an undertak-er's room and identified by Thomas Ma-honey and James Mahoney as their brother Patrick.

Later he was identified by a dozen other acauatntances. After lying in the morgue a day his body was placed in a cofHa, taken to a train and tiorne to wood, Rico county, young Mahoney's former home. When the coffin was opened at St. Patrick's church inHazlewod, the body wa recognized by a hundred peoplo as that of Patrick Mahoney. Now conies the strange part of the story.

ThomaH M-honey returned to St. Paul to secure the effects ti his brother. On ar riviug here, however, be found that Patrick had boarded in Minneapolis. Repairing to the latter city, he went to No. 1718 Hawthorne avenue and inquired if his brother had any effects there.

Mrs. Harrigan, the landlady, replied that he had, but when Maheney asked that they be delivered to him she laughed and said: "If you will wait here until nqonPa'-rick wi'l show up here and take dinner withjou." The brother was first incredulous and then overjoyed. To make a long story short, Patrick Mahoney did turnupasmuon alive as any man in Minneapolis, fie had been at work all week in Minneapolis, and not having received the papers, had not heard of the funeral. The case is the most remarkable in Minnesota, and suggested that the body found in the Chicago catch basin may not have been that of Dr. Cronin after all.

John and Mary. New Yobk, Oct. 29. Mary Casey, an exceedingly handsome school teacher, twenty-one years of age, arrive! at Castle Garden today by the steamer Servia, accompanied by John Dolan, a likely lad nineteen years. Both hailed from the County Kilkenny, Ireland.

Mary said she was to marry John. Her grandfather recently left bier 330, and she, having fallen in love with young Dolan, whose father kept the village store, paid his passage to this country. The emigration commission-era have detained them and Mary is disconsolate. Bhe cannot be prevented from landing, for she is of age and has 217 left John will probably be sent back. Davitt Talks.

LoNDON.Oct. 29. Michael Davitt resumed his address before the Parneli commission today. He referred to the action of Chicago as disproving" the assertion that the Clan-na-gael was actively allied with the league. Authors of Ihe articles of "Parneliism and Crime," which were printed in the London Times, he said willfully invented and garbled quotations from Amorican papers.

He admitted that the expressions of sorao of the speakers at Chicago were bitter against England, but that they were laboring under great excitement at the time. He pronounced a lie the statement that he met the chief of the American association parly while in the United States and eonoci.ed with them to lurl the Irish ('deration, and that Par-noil helped in this Fcheino. He. Davitt, hud eften repudiated the policy of revengo advocated by extremists in America. Davitt also said that many erroneous reports wore current respecting tno claa-na-guol.

seen a ciuia crying one moment anu Baiupa-. lng the next; ana wnue sne was you saw the tears still on her face- Ab perhaps you stopped her in the very jrathSfc of her resumed glee, and wiped cS tiiB- delayed tears. So, I think, after tfea focw-ealy raptures have come upon tss, 9hcr may be the mark of some earthfy grief, wnff. while those tears are glittering in theEclfic of the jasper sea, God will wipe Ultima way- How well he can do that wnen tne soul comes- up into out of the wounds of this life, it vrM sun. stop to look for Paul, or Moses, or Daisiid rr John.

These did very well once, tho soul shall rush past crying "YHasaesm Jesus "Where is Jesus Dear 3fr3, what a magnificent thing to die if V'tm. shalt thus wipo away our tears. it will take us somo time to get Ho -heaven the fruits of God without mtua speck the fro3h pastures without csass mSS tie tho orchestra without one string the river of gladness witfeoat torn hunk: thn snlfcrinos nnd tha miStjwj ot sunrise ana sunset swauowcu up esi ine eternal day that beams froia God's ccrattr tonaiuo 1 Why Bhuuld I wish to linger fn the wild? When thou art waiting, i'ather, to recni-wa Ydy child Have you any appreciation of th 5s2 and glorious times your friends are karanc in heaven! How different it is vriaKu tliey get news there ot a Christian's death tvesa. what it is here. It is the difference txAweuia embarkation and coming into port Evdary-thing depends upon which side of tt riisT you stand when you hear of a death.

If you stand on this- ski off ttm. river you mourn that tliey gpx If you stand on tho other side cf tte river you rejoice that they ecsruft. Cfl, the difference between a un3iid oa caartV and a jubilee in heaven between rcQicaaccf here and triumphal march thero paartans here and reunion there. Together! Haiti you thought of it? They are ttgieftinan. Not one of your departed friends ia land and another in another land bus, together, indifferent rooms of the sains kntw.

the house of many mansions, I believe the message will be ddnr-oracJ; and I believe it will increase the dadxicsc of those who are before the thrones. To gether are they, all their toars- gona. Ktc troublo getting good society for tfctfe. JUS kings, queens, princesses. In- 1351 stons- was a Diu oitereo in tne pariisaManB-proposing to change tho almanac sottiuatlhe 1st of March should come immedaatcSjr after the 18th of February.

But, oh, wrimst a glorious chango in tho calendar wlitii 35 tlm vnnt-a nf vviv nift-Vil. Driaiimn. u. Vl.l UU1J O. MUAW swallowed up in the eternal year of Co-2Z My friends, tako 'this good cheer 1wtrb with you.

These tears of bcreavcituntlt. that course your checks, and of sfrswi--tion, and of trial, aro not always to tnero. xtio motueriy nana oi God wvi wipo them ull away. What is the k.sr, tm the way to such a consummation wuii im. tho use of fretting about anything Wia.

what an exhilaration it to zcr Christian work! See yOu tho pinmr'iua against tho sky! It is tho city tS war-God, and wo aro approaching' it. "OV let us do Dusy in tno lew days ima entiusa remain for us. Tho Saxons and tho Briinm. went out to battle. Tho Saxons were aiia armed.

Tho Britons had no anna ot and yot history tells us tho Britons prA tins victory. Why? They went into fculttln shouting three times, "Hallelujahl" atxi ut tho third shout of "Hallelujah," thesr -ite-lines Hod panic struck; and so tho- llritrtis got tho victory. And, my frionds, if we could only ciate tho glories that are to come, nroi4ailfi be so filled with enthusiasm that do powitr of earth or hell could stand before uojE. at our first shout tho opposing force mnrtkk. begin to tremble, and at our second tha it they would bcirin to fall back, and at, nr third shout thoy would bo routed fcuvwE.

Thero Is no power on earth or in hc-U iktffc could stand before three such Tollejriiv ctf hallelujah. I put this bnlsam on the wounds of ynmr heart. Rcjolco at the thought of wbaiyssur departed frionds have got rid of, nnd you hove a prospect of so niakini? your tins oseapo. Hear clioorfully tlio ministry ttf tears, and exult at tlio thought that is to bo ended. 'J bora we Bliall ronroh up the Vtivuulj rteurf And ground our aniii at Juou' foot.

thing must be done to make us willing to quit existence. If it were not for trouble this world would be a good enough heaven for mo. You and I would be willing to take a lease of this life for a hundred million years if there were no trouble. The earth cushioned and upholstered and pillared and chandeliered with such expense, no story of other worlds could enchant us. We would say: "Let well enough alono.

If you want to dio and have your body disintegrate! ia the dust, and your soul go out on a celestial adventure, then you can go; but this world is good enough for mo." You might as well go to a man who has just entered the Louvre at Paris, und tell him to hasten off to tho picture gallerie's of Venice or Florence "Why." he would say, "what is the use of my going there? There are Rembrandts and Rubens and Raphaels Iiero that I haven't looked at yet." No man wants to go out of this world, or out of any houso, until ho has a better house. To cure this wisn to st ly here, God must somehow create a disgust for our surroundings. How shall he do iti He cannot afford to deface his horizon, or to tear off a fiery panel from the sunset, or to subtract an anther from the water lily, or to banish the pungent aroma from the mignonette, or to drag the robes of the morning in mire. You cannot expect a Christopher Wren to mar his own St. Paul's cathedral, or a Michael Angelo to dash out his own "Last Judgment," or a Handel to discord his 'Israel in iiygpt;" and you cannot expect God to spoil the architecture und music of his own' world.

How then aro wo to bo mado willing to leave! Here is whora troublo comes in. After a man has had a good deal of trouble, he says "Well, lam ready to go. If there is a house somewhoro whose roof doasu't leak, I would like to livo there. If there is an atmosphere soino-whore that doss not distress the luugs, I would liko to tha it. If thare is a society somewhere whore there is no tittlo-tattlo, I would like to live there.

If thero is a homo circle somewhoro where I can find my lost friends, I would liko to go there." Ho used to read tha first part of the Bible cluolly, now ha reads tha last part of tho liiblo chiefly. Why has ho changed Genesis for Revolution! Ah ho usodtoba anxious chietiy to know how this world was made, and all about its geological construction. Now ho is chiofi anxious to know how tliQ next world was mado, and how it looks, and who lives there, and how thoy dross. Ho reads Revolution ton times now whero he roads Genesis onoa. Tho old story, "In tho bo-ginning God cronted tho hoaven-3 and tha earth." dojs not thrill him as much as the other story, "1 saw a now heaven and a new earth." The old man's hand trembles as he turns ovor this apocalyptic loaf, and ho has to tako out his handkerchief to wii) his spoctaclos.

That book of Revelation is a prospectus now of tho country into which ho is to soon immigrate; tho country iu which ho has lots already laid out, unci venues oponcd, and trees planted, and mansions built. '1 ho thought of that blessed ploco comos over mo mightily, mid I doclaro that if this houso woro a great ship, and you all wcro passengers on board it, and one hand could launch Unit Bhtp into tho gloi'loa of.

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Pages Available:
360
Years Available:
1888-1889