G THE DAILY EVKmrfQ TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 1870. ILM EYJEfelORIAHI. llir Lnlo ISishops Thomson iind liiugslcy, of the M. E. Church. An Eloquent Tribute to their Memory by Bishop Simpson. Yestcrtlay morning, Union M. E. Churcti, Fourth street, below Arch, was crowded, on the occasion of the delivery v! the memori il sermon by Bishop Simpson on the death of Bishops Kingsley and Thomson, of the M. E. Church. 'Among the audience were a largo number of the clergy of this city and adjacent counties. The exercises were opened by Hev. Alfred Cookman, of the Delaware Conference, who gave out ymn 1083. Rev. Charles Cooke, of St. George's Church, then offered prayer, The nineteenth Psalm and the closing part of the fourth chapter of the First Epistle of l'aul to the Thessalonians were read by He v. S. E. Post, of the New Jersey Conference, after which He v. T. T. Tasker announced the 1077th Ilymn. Bishop Simpson then delivered the sermon, of which the following is a verbatim report: The Bishop selected the following text it being the 15th verse of the Kith Psalm: "Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of ?Us saints." He then said: Sad are our hearts when the angel of death enters the circle of our friends and calls some loved one away. We bow, smitten ! The tomb seems dark 2 And at once we are joined to the spirit world by a strong though unseen tie. When the wise and the good and the great are taken from the family of the Church and of the nation, the hearts of the community are made sad, and, clouded, the congregations feel that God has smitten them. And yet from these signs of sorrow and of death we are called to think of the sovereignty of God; of his care to wards his creatures; that death is not un noticed by Him; that living or dying we are the Lord's! and that especially those who put their trust in Ilim, and in His Word, are denominated as "saints"; that He seems to bend over their dying bed, and precious in His sight are thoir dying moments. ' It seems sometimes difficult for us to real ize this, for so still and quiet, so sad and solemn are such scenes, that we do not think it possible, as we ought to, that God is pre sent in the dying chamber, and that, pre cious to us as loved ones may be, more pre cious are they in the sight of God ! The reflections on this passage lead us to consi der, first, that one great object of revelation seems to be to assure us of the constant pre sence and supervision of God. We speak of the Work of God as a revelation. It is not only a revelation of His will, which might not be learned from the voices and outgoings of nature, but there is a sense in which this Word takes off the veil from the face of na ture, and gives it meaning, and force, and power in ail its utterances. That there is a God, the heavens 'above us declare, and the earth beneath no echoes back. There is a voice that comes in every gale; there seems to be a tongue in every tree and shrub and flower, that tells us of the wisdom and the skill and the goodness of God. And yet such is the perversity of our nature, and such the veil which sin throws over our hearts, that we go through this world a greater part of our journey without recognizing the, presence of God around and about us. It is His declaration that the whole earth shall be filled with His glory; and when the veil is lifted from the heart and the eye, the heavens declare His glory, and the firmament showeth His handi work. His voice goes out through the earth, and on the winds to the ends of the world. When God's spirit touches the human heart, the utterances of His word make us feel His presence, and man rises to something like the dignity which God designs him to have the moral position he ought to occupy, and wherever he goes reoognizing the pre sence of God around him. If he walk in the streets of a crowded city, God .is there ! If he pass through the untrodden waste, God is there ! In the midst of the business of the world, in all its surroundings, and in the pressure and excitements of all its scenes, the man whose heart is right recognizes the presence of God. At home and abroad, in sickness as well as health, in poverty as well as in wealtheverywhere and under all circumstances, when the veil is taken from the eye, God is above U9. Even if enemies press us, when the eye is enlightened, the hills and the mountains are full of chariots and horsemen and fire ! The great error of our hearts, and the error of the day, is a failure to recognize the presence of God with us everywhere. If our hearts could but feel this, it would make us strong to think, strong to work, able to suffer, to do and to die, and make us feel that the arms of overlasting love, everywhere and at all times and circumstances, encircled us. What may be the capabilities of man, or what may be the possibilities of man, so recog nizing the presence and power of God who can tell? If God be foi m, who shall be against us? If God be in us, what strength can he impart to us! I have oone into the philosophical rule. I have seen a person isolated on a stand, and the electric current brought into contract with them, and from the end of every finger and the extremity of every hair would go out a stream of lire. Meat wnicn was unseen, unnoted, and unf elt, beoomes, palpable, visi ble, powerful! So it seems to me a man nriy be in going through this world. Isolate him from his Bins, cut olf the connections thut Limd him to this lower earth, and let the stream of grace be turned on his heart, and let him feel the power and the presence of Almighty God, and in going through this world he becomes a power from whoiu shall issue heavenly influences touching the world wheresoever he goes. For if God work through a man, what may he not accomplish? As I have said, one great object of revolution is to take olf the veil from the face of nature, that God stands revealed an our God, witu his influence guiding, directing, strengtheu ing! It is comparatively easy for us to think of God caring for active workers. The Psalmist says, 'The steps of a good man are ordered of the Lord and He lighteth bis way;" and the figure is one of parental fi'otiou and solici tude. The little child is jubt begiuniug to take its iirtt stepB, is unable yet to overcome difficulties and encounter obstacles. But the father and mother, bending, watch its steps, direct it in the right pathway, are delighted when it is able to walk, hold it by the hand, and rmile at its going forth. And so God is ieprebeuted as bending over a good man, directing his Rteps, delighting in his way, and strengthening him to labor. And so, too, this watchful Providenoe is illustrated reaching to every part of our being. God is with us watching our fall, if we must fall, with great sorrow and care; knowing and counting every hair of our heads. We can more easily be lieve all this, however, than we can bring ourselves to feel that the dying moment is bo especially noted of God. We take an in terest in active workers. Society wants strong men, thinkirg men, planning mon, labor ing men, men of power. Our hearts are drawn to them. We are co-workers with God, and when and while we can work here, it would fteem but proper that God should care for us. His works strengthen ns, work ing in find through ns; and when nature fails, when diseases enfeebles, when death draws near, when the power to labor is gone, often times society takes but little interest in us. But how sweet to turn from what may be carelessness and human thoughtlessness, to remember, "Precious in the sight of the Lord iu the death of His saints." Some of you, my brothren, possibly have or may feel this chango in society. When yon were younger and stronger, when yon could stand in the churches and speak words of life and power; when you were contres around which the moral power of the community gathered, how many warm friends, and kind and active friends gathered around you! When you have been unable to go in and out before the Church; when God has seemed to put you aside to perfect your grace by suffering, the heart has sometimes been pained when friends have seemed few and far between, and the lonely hours have scarcely been comforted by the visita tion of a friend or one expression of kindly feeling. Not so with God watching over the most enfeebled; watching over the moments of old age; watching over the moments when life seems friendless almost; bending over . the very bed of death, and uttering of the voice from Heaven "Pre cious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints," Ho shows His un fathomable love for us. An occasion which calls us together, like this, brings the thought of death very vividly before us; and I think, in the case of our brethren, whose memories are with us to-day, we can well employ the phrase here of "saints." It is true in the highest use of the phrase. It would seem to be one above the infirmities of human nature, and we are too liable to these, and man in his best estate is altogether vanity ! Living, there are few of us who would like to assume the title of "saint," and yet there is a sense in which we are such; that is, taken from the original phrase, we are set apart, sanctified and purified by the Holy Spirit. We are in the process of purification, getting ready and preparing for the society of the blessed above, and for com munion with God. And those whom God calls in to His Church should submit themselves to His sway, should pray for the guidance and purifying power of the Holy Spirit. The Scriptures apply the term "saints" to the "saints that are in Ephesus," and to the "sainis that are in Corinth," and the people of that day had all the human nature we have, and all the imperfections we have, and the term in this modified sense is applicable to all the servants of God. But to those who have, in nis language, devoted their lives to His calling; who have given themselves, with all their power, to the work of lifting this world nearer Heaven; who have given their all to go forth to pro claim the Gospel to man in all its glorious fullness, the term seems peculiarly applicable; and I think I may say oi our dear departed friend?, that "Precious in the sight of the Lord were their deaths. What may be in cluded in this phrase, how much may be im plied, it is scarcely for us to say. A man, though a good man, who neglects the laws of nature or fails to comply with them, notwith standing all his goodness, must bear the con sequences and toe eflect of those laws. I don't believe that it is only because a man lives out the days of his life that God in tended to have him live. There are laws of nature that environ ub on all sides. And yet where there is no intentional wrong, wnere mere is no intentional viola tion of the laws of nature, where men en deavor to perform the law of God, there are errors overruled, imperfections are atoned for, and "precious in th sight of the Lord" is every death. And He overrules all the circumstances connected with a death, and endeavors to bring the greatest possible good to them and the community. And yet I would not inculcate a carelessness for the laws of nature; I would not give any one to suppose that such is the watchful care of God, that do as he may, he will live until a certain period; that living as he choose, life will be of the same length. It is not so. God directs ns; gives us judgment, wisdom, know ledge, and we are to care for the health he gives ub, for the life he bestows upon us, and thus a great duty falls upon man to live just as long as he possibly can in doing his Mas ter's work. He should care for his physical energies, and preserve them, and it should be one of the great objects of his life so to act that that death may be postponed as far as possible, which is to sever him from the asso ciations of life, and to render him incapable on earth to work for his Master s cause. But while I would guard that point, I would say, on the other hand, that we are to use the powers God gives us; aud though we may make mistakes God can overrule these both for our good aud for nis glory; and when we die, "Precious in the sight of the Lord" is our death. He so orders all cir cumstances connected with it that, first, tho saint hball be released from earth aud taken home to glory, and, secondly, that in his death he shall inUuence, in some mysterious way poFsibly, society all around him. But the death of the saint is preoious in the sight of troa in this sense that lie gives, at that time, a clearer sense of llta presence, and a greater consciousness of His power. So dear is He, that He comes to the dying room, bends over the dying pillow, and brings a realizing sense to the person dying that God is there. And then that which seems dark becomes light; that which seems dillioult be comes easy; that whioh they dread as painful loses its terrors, and the person calmly. sweetly lays his head on Jesus' breast and breathes his life out there. Oh, how many have said, in the language of Bishop Thorn- Bon, when dying, "If this be dying, it is easy to die." At that moment who can tell what vibions of glory come to the mind, already partially freed froinjtbe chains that bind it to mortality, about to'granp the invisiblo and dwell in the infinite ! The human soul hero seems to be strangely constituted. It has always room for another beside it the iu dwelling of some spiritual power besides its own. that hlmpts and influences life. And while there is that strange capability on one hand, there seems to be another this is the nowtr of attracting luseii to sometbins le yond it. It is on both of these that the dig iiitv of human nature is iounaea. Man has a fearful responsibility in his cower to admit an evil spirit, which will take up lodging with him. For it is in his power to have God dwell in him. The outgoing soul can commune with the powers of dark ness, on the one hnnd, or cau seem to grasp the very glories of heaven on the other. A man may, while here, have communion with the Futher of his spirit, the Lord Jesus Christ. The soul has this power of outgoing, that can grapp the distant and the invisible, and the dying soul feels but a little more of this power, le is Hearing the banks; it is ready to join the throng; it is almost listening to the music, almoht charmed by the visions, waiting to be numbered with the blest above. Ihe Church to-day feels, in the death of BishopsThomson and KingHley,a sore bereave ment. In the wJsole history of the Church no other such scene has been witnessed. If we trace the lives of the bishops who labored in the Church, a great majority of thorn will be found to have lived to good old age, and died under circumstances that did not so deeply impref s the Church's mind. Bishop Coke was an exception, who, though but partially connected with the Church in this country, labored for the Church in England ns well. But Asbnry, McKeutlree, Roberta, Soule, Hedding, and Waugh all lived to a good old age, and all died surrounded by their friends. George died early, yet in mature years, with his family and friends about him. Hamline was in the midst of his family, but life had been ekeing away for years and he resigned. Emory was smitten down in the middle of life, strangely, unpleasantly cut off in one instant, within a short distance of his own borne. But these two, among the strongest, smong the most talented, among the most endeared to the heart of tho Church, in middle life, in a career of usefulness, at a moment whon the Church had no thought of such a catastrophe, are cut down within a few days of other one on the banks of the Ohio and the other on the shores of the Mediter ranean. How strange, that their deaths should be so sudden, so unexpected, and so near together! I pause but for a moment or two, not to recite their history; not to give biographical sketches such as you have already been per mitted to read, but to recall some of the prominent traits in their lives and to draw lefiBons for ur advantage. And first, this morning we do devoutly thank God that He ever gave such men to the Church. In their early childhood they had religious training, for, es a general rule, those whom God de signs to be preachers in His Church, very cany in me lie throws around them and gives to them influences which are to mike them powers in the world. It is not always the cuse, but it is Uod s general rule. Bishop Thomson lived until the years of a young man belore he gave his heart to God. In this city he graduated in medicine, lteceiv- ing his diploma at the age of nineteen, from the Jenerson Medical College, he com menced the practice of medicine, but as in the case of Calvin, Luther, and other emi nent men, the sudden death of a friend startled him. Shortly after, a sermon to which he listened from the lips of that won derful man of God, Russell Bigelow unpre- posseFsing in appearance, strange in his manner, and yet whose words went like a flame through our Western land shook his fidelity. Subsequently ho gave himself to the work of God; and, some two or three years after his graduation in medicine, and after he commenced to practice it, at the age of twenty-one, he sought and found peace in Jesus Christ. Scarcely had he finished his probation in the Church of six months, when he was licensed to preach, and at the next conference was admitted in a travelling con nection. He gave himself wholly to the work of a Methodist preacher, but having been blessed with an early education, being pos sessed of far more than ordinary talent, the Church selected him for literary labor, and Norwalk Seminary, Ohio, was placed under his care. That institution has since cone out of connection with the Church, yet out of it come great influences, lie founded a West ern university, over which he presided many years in after life. Hishop Kingsley was born in Western Mew York. Early in life he was converted, and felt himself called to the ministry. He strug gled in the midst of difficulties, lie was a young man grown before he was able to ob tain an education. 1 hrst met him in lHdd, just about thirty-one years ago, and when I accepted a chair in Allegheny College I found hinfisley a student a young man, strong. manly, working, and willing to do anything to support himself in the college. He displayed unusual talent and power, and a class was given him to instruct. He was employed as tutor, with the exception of a short time, when he retired from the college to gain ad ditional means for his support by giving in struction to a few in the primary classes. He thus worked his way through college, and, iu 1841, graduated, and what is very unusual, having entered an institution with very little education ana worked his way turounu it the very hrst year atter his graduation he was elected to a professorship there; such was the confidence of the faculty and the trustees aud the Church in his wisdom, skill, and pru dence. lbe history of both of these men is before the Church. They were educated, both were editors, both of them had spoken aud written. Both were clear theologians men of might and power. Ihey had been with the Church in its various localities, and in various posi tions, and then they were called to the highest honor it could bestow upon its ministers. As a mark of the continued afi'eotion towards them by the Church, it may be said that in lHf; they were among the highest in votes of those not elected to the episcopal office. Twelve yesis passed away, and the Church, having had their walk before its eyes, again turned to thtm, and contirmod the indication given twelve years before, iu honoring them with a place in the Episcopal Board. And light well did they perform their du ties. Many of these ministers have s it under their presidency. - You know their kindness, their fidelity, their power. Men of deep piety, great modesty, unaffected simplicity, uniting the highest order of taluut with the deepest humility and doepost devotion in the cauEe of Christ. No man who ever min gled with them could doubt their constant and uninterrupted piety. Thoir lives mark a great era. They were leaders in the latter part of the first century of the Church, aud just entered upon tho second century. I have alluded to the fact thit they were edu cators. The Church needed them at a time wbtn her institutions were few and feeble, and there are veiy few men who had so much to do iu institutions, and iu developing the literary interests of the Church, and laboring to give it an elevation of power iu this land and throughout the uaiverse. Iu all lands and religious institutions their memo ries will be blest; for they had students scat tered over the earth. They found them iu China, in India, in California, in Oregon, wherever these bishopH went iu their widely diffused journeyiugs they fonnd some who, under tl eir early instruction, had been brought to Chrisi, aud consecrated to the ministry of the Lord. In their closing scenes we know that all was well. We have not yet heard of the closing scenes of Bishop Kingsley 's life fur- I . V .1 .1..... t. .r .1 .! 1 luer uinu iuul mii-u wnn utn iiuuorm U"vuuuu to the cause of God that all must have been well. Of Bishop Thomson's death we hve full knowledge. It is peculiar thit both of them died without their families being with them. Thomson was at homo, and yet so sudden was his death that the wife of his affection nnd the children of his love were not permitted to visit him. Kingsley ended his life on the other side of the ocean. lint though they fell without their families beiu;? with them, kind friends were around Thom son, and I have no doubt that Kingsley fell in the midst of the missionary families of the American Board that are stationed at Beyrout, for thre are loving, manly, noble Christina spirits there, as I can testify to, for in thit same place I lay for days in dangerons illness. and received the sympathies and auectiou of brethren who were there then. lbe lessons to the Church are first, les sons of warning to us as ministers and mem bers, "Be ye also ready." How powerfully this voice sounds in our ears this morning! When many of you, my brethren, meet in your conferences, when you greet each other there, your memories will go back to a few weeks ago, when you little thought that Thomson and Kingsley would be no more. Some of us had not so much prospect for long life as they had, but God ordered differ ently, and called at a moment least expected, to ns at least, and they departed to receive the crown. To ns, as ministers who remain, the lesson should be to do the work the Mas ter gives us with increased energy and in creased care. The fewer the men who are left the more diligent the workers should bo. The nearer we approach to the close of life the more faithful ought we to be; and this morning there are some hearts, I trust, that are resolved to make a more perfect confes sion of faith than they ever made, and to be every moment more perfectly prepared than they have been in the post. The second lesson is one of humiliation to the Church. Why is it that God is calling our leaders away ? McClintock dear to all of us, a name honored by all died aud the Church was in tears. Then from the banks of the Ohio came the tidings that Thomson the gifted, eloquent, and polished writer, the powerful Christian man, Thomson had fallen, and scarcely had we recovered from this bereavement than there came along the wires the terrible intelligence that Kingsley had fallen in a moment at Beyrout. Oh, how the Church bowed ! I was in the New Hampshire Conference, and was closing the services, and the telegram was placed in my hands as I stood in the pulpit. The choir and congregotion were singing. I asked them to pause at the close of the verse, and I read the dreadful tidings to them. Bishop Baker burst into tears by my side, and sunk to his seat. Strong men sat with heads bowed and streaming eyes, and for a few moments I never saw a congregation so powerfully moved. , We should humiliate ourselves and see whether we have in any way offended the Great Head of tho Church. There is cause for humiliation. We are not faithful as a Church, and devoted as a Church, as we ought to be. We should be more upon our Knees. I think, again, that possibly in passing throuch the centenary exercises we have closed we had too much of the spirit of boast ing. We have failed to be grateful to God. Sometimes I have feared that we have failed to give all the credit to God on account of soli-congratulation, possibly self-adulation. We have magnified our position beyond what was, possibly, acceptable to Uod. lie may need to smite ns to bring us to our knees and make us feel our dependence on nim. And if in any of these things we have been smit ten, that the lesson should reach our hearts, let us humbly arise and look up, feeling that He is a jealous God and will not give His glory to men. Another lesson is this: that the Church should learn to depend more perfectly on God and less on men. ihere is a wrong feeling pervading the Church. It is among ministers and among members. We should be grateful that God gives man the power in the Church; and yet I think congregations depend too much on their ministers, and ministers depend too much on church arrange ments and church officers. It is right that there should be affection; it is right there should be harmony and co-operation; it is right that we have a brotherly love, and yet, after all, the strength of the Church is in the dependence on the love of uoa, ana no man should be suffered to come between us and God. Members of the Church of the living God, do you not expect your ministers to do a large proportion oi the worn, and are you not dependent upon the strength, the power, and eloquence alone of your minister to conquer the world for Christ i I will not underrate all those strong in faith and hope and love. We should be grateful to God for all the power given, but at the same time learn the Church has the right to go directly to the throne of power and find strength, be the minister whom he may. If ho leads well. all right; if he does not lead us well, go directly to the great ear. And this lesson, in this respect, we would do well to. heed and learn. How beautiful the thought, that while God buries nis work men lie carries on llis worK still I now blessed to feel that God guides His Church He took His Son, sent to earth, from the band of the Apostles, and left them poor, smitten, scattered, and helpless, and yet founded a Church through the mstrumen tality against which the gates of hell cannot prevail, and who is able at all times and in all circumstances to give to His Church ex pansion and perpetuity. But there is in the death of these brethren, it seems to me, a providential voice calling the Church to greater exertion aud greater labor than it has yet undertaken in the past, And that voice, it seems to me, comes from Asia's shores. It seems to be strange, and yet I think it is in the order of God that to America has been reserved in a great measure the honor and ability to raise Asia from its stupor and bring it to the toot of the uross, Our first bishop. Dr. Coke, felt his heart turn with intensest love for Asia. He was then connected with the English Wealeyans, and it was this missionary spirit of his that led him to our shores and over the extent of our then settled country and Canada. The same yearning led him to care for Asia and he looked out; and when men thought missions to the multitudes of Asia, were almost an im possibility, his heart yearned to demonstrate that the Gospel was the power of God unto salvation even in Asia, lie pieau lor it, Men thought him fanatical. At last he suo ceeded iu getting a few chosen young men to go with him and start on a voyage to plant the Church in India. He had almost reached that shore when God called him up higher, and one morning be was found dead in his room. No one had witnessed the struggle. No one bad known he was ill. He had retired feeling a little unwell; he desired no aid, and the next morning was found dead. It was a great calamity, as it appeared to me, and in one sense it was. And vet that death of Dr. Coke on the far shores of India while going to lift a heathen people up, whita tailing nn advanced step in the history of Christian effort bound the great heart of the Church to India. Up to that moment there were uo missionaries there; there was no missionary societies. Coke's great heart yearned for their establishment. He founded missions. He himself was the planner and arranger, not only for the relief of this country, but for India, too. And when be fell, men felt some thing more must bo done. A society was formed; men combined together, and they resolved that India should not be forsaken. Missions were formed and progressed with great rapidity after the death of Dr. Coke. Mow these two bishops have had the honor of laboring in our Church, of laying broad her foundations. Bishop Thomson had been through India and China; had seen the mis sions, and the last literary work of his life. to comprise two volumes, lust coming out of the press, is entitled "Missions in the Orient." He bad given his last days to this work of bringing this Hubject more lully before the Church, and ho called upon it loudly in behalf of India and China. It was the great burthen of his thoughts. He plead for China and he plead for India in missionary boards, an J on the platform, by voice and by pen; and he asked the Church to take possession of that part of the heathen land. How strangely God bos been joining our nation to China! In the midst of all this work, America the youngest and China the oldest have been joining hands. A strange intimacy has pprung up. Burlingame was selected as our Minister and became her Minister. You know the whole history of the embassy, and how he led their chosen men through tho world, finding out what might be done for China, and they copied American institutions. America has now aroused China, she has in fluenced her, and is beginning to arouse India, though she is not so powerful in India as England, as the latter has civil oontrol. But lor China, especially, America seems to have a wonderful mission. The first bishop sleeps in the ocean, not far from Ceylon. The first bishop consecrated and ordained over the Methodist Episcopal Church here has his grave by tho hores of India; and the last bishop elected and ordained has his grave on the outlook of the Mediterranean Beyrout. Asia has ever called to the American Church to take possession of India. Strange seems it to be that the ocean and the land should bind us to Asia. The ceme tery is a beautiful spot. On the brow of yon hiil, on tho out-look of yon sea, the American Missions below, on the way up where Le banon summit seems to tower towards the clouds it is there that Kingsley sleeps. His heart of sympathy is silent in the body; but strongly, before it ceased to beat, it beat for India and China. No man has ever rendered the Church so famous in India and China as Bishop Kingsley, by his faith, by his vivid description of the degradation of the people, bv his genius, by his nietv. This is the labor he bad performed, and yet, possibly, it may be that in the death of these men the Church will take a wider outlook. Had but one of them fallen, possibly the shock would not have so deeply aroused the whole heart of the Church. But both have fallen aud the stroke is heavy. Let the spirit of these men live in the young men of the land. I am glad to say that the fruit of their labors is appearing. I passed through Mew York on Tuesday even ing. On that afternoon I learned they had just selected six missionaries for China and India, to send tliem on to reinforce a band of men who have labored so faithfully and long for the conversion of the country to the blessed saviour,, In Bishop Kingsley 'a death there is some thing especially beautiful. I could have wished for him long life. We were waiting lor his return, lie gave us intelligence. Papers respecting our mission had been sent to him in Germany. We wanted his know ledge and ability. But oh, how grand that death! lie had almost completed the circum navigation of the globe. He had started in June, had scaled the mountains of Colorado, bad gone down into California, had sailed across to China, penetrated far into its inte rior, swept around to India, held its confer ence, arranged with its laborers for future triumph, had come back to the lied Sea, had gone tnrougn that great canal which had iust been opened one of the wonderful works of the world and there his heart turned to the Holy Land. He sailed from Alexandria to old Joppa, went up to Jerusalem, had stood doubtlessby the sepulchre of Abraham and the manger at Bethlehem, had wandered over the lit: le fields and hills of Nazareth, had looked at Capernaum. passed over the Sea of Galilee, looked where fire came down on Mount Carmel, had made his way up to Tyre and Sidon, and had reached Beyrout. He bad longed to see Jerusalem; ho had talked very much of it and now he had been at the City of the Great King; he had been at Gethsemane; he had looked upon Calvary; had been at the sepulchre and the, Hill of Zion; had walked over the places where Jesus' feet pressed this earth and where the apostles spoke in His name; had wandered over the lands where angels used to come down from heaven to earth, to give glad tidings to men; seemed almost to bear the sound of praise through the opening heavens; he had finished his mission and God called him to go up higher; he had seen the gates of the earthly Jerusalem, and his heart was full of love, full of joy, full of zeal, but God said "It is enough;" he completed the journey around the globe aud be was taken up totieavento join the saints in glory; he had no tidings of MoClintock's death, but oh! they meet in glory ! lie had not heard of Thomson's decease, but a glad hand met him on the other shore and what a meeting there! and with the redeemed! Blessed meeting, where parting is no more ! I might say of these brethren gone that the Church of God could illy spare them. They were men of progress, knowledge, ideas; of deep sympathy for all the movements in the Church; men that were planning for the en largement of its borders. But they have ceased to work, and now let us gird ourselves for labor. Brethren of the ministry ! brethren of the membership ! let us covenant before God this day to do better work for the Master than we have ever done before; now, in the opening century, that opens bo grandly, to develop the means and resources of the Church and to bring it to a higher plane of action. Let us resolve to conquer the world for Christ, and let Asia be the pivot on whioh our labors shall rest. Oh, let us conquer that land for Christ. Now for an era of missionary labor; now for an era of heroio valor. Young men, some of you niny come to work for the Church in foreign lands; and no matter where you labor, beautifully it will be said of you: "Precious in the sight of the Lord io the death of the saints." God grant us, when we fall, to fall on the side of glory. God grant ns that when we die we may be permitted to join thote dear spirits, and all the loved ones who have gone before us, around the throne of God. A Memphis man, who last week brought a suit for 5U damages agaioit the owner of a dog which bad killed hit cat and left him aa unpro tected victim of rats, lost his cose. OAHPETINQS, ETO. E. J. LESTER. OHAS. T. WEBEB. WM. T. CEH!A. E. J. LESTER & CO.'S CARPET WAREHOUSE, Ko. 29 North SECOND Street, Opposite Christ Church PHILADELPHIA. VELVETS, eodit nnvnsniiS, TAPSSSIIY BRUSSELS, THREE-PL?, 1TJ GRAIN, VEI7ETIAZ7 CARPETS, ALSO, Oil Cloths, Window Shades, Etc., IN GREAT VARIETY. ALL TDK ABOVB GOODS WILL BR SOLD, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL, AT TUB Lowest Market Rates. E. J. LESMSl tL CO., Opposite Christ Church No. North SECOND Street 4 8 BmwSm PHILADELPHIA. CARP E T I N C S, Oil. CLOTIIN, lHATTIIf 8, lCUUH, imUUUUTM, Stair and Hall Carpeting;, IN GREAT VARIETY. PRICES ALL REDUCED. R. L. KNIGHT & SON, No. 1222 CHKSNUT STREET, 8 6 BtathSm PHILADELPHIA. tj E W CARPETING 8. W are now opening a fall Una of FOREIGN and DOMESTIC CARPETS OIL CLOTHS, AND m a. rr rr i iv & , OV ALL GRADES, Which we are offering at greatly redaoed price from iasi eaaou. LEEDOM, SHAW & STEWART, Wo. 635 3IAKUET Street, 8 34 thstnSm PHILADELPHIA. CARPETS AND OIL CLOTHS ASSIGNEES' SALE OF A LARGE STOCK OP CARPETS, MATTING, OIL CLOTH, AND WINDOW SHADES. TO BE 80LD FOR CASH, AT STORE, DEPUY'S OLD STAND, No. 253 SOUTH SECOND STREET, 4 86 6trp PHILADELPHIA ARCH STREET CARPET WAREHOUSE. New Styles at the Reduced Rates BRUSSELS. 3-PLY8, INGRAIN, AND VENETIAN - CAItPUTIHttS, At 85 per cent, lower than last aaaaon't prioa. JOSEPH BLACKWOOD, No. 832 ARCH STREET, r 1 19 imrp Below Ninth, Roath 8ld. REFRIGERATORS. REFRIGERATORS. TOR THE CHEAPEST AND BEST GO TO THE MANUFACTORY 09" P. P. K EARN 8. No. 39 NORTH NINTH STREET, 4 83smw3mrp BBLOW ARCH, KA8T SIDE. BOZORTH'S FREEZING REFRIGERATOR FREEZING WATER DAILY.. GXtxrriTix a fage, Ko. 1001 A1CC1I Street, til 6trp PHILADELPHIA. . YT -ALL REFRIGERATORS -tVJ ALWAYS RELIABLE. The eubeoiiber guarantee the make and fintah of hl BUPKKIOR REKHIGKKATOR equal in ernrj reepect to nil former make. Th thouaanda aold and now in ns Unify to their (uperior qualiuoatioua. For ale wboleaaleana retail at the Manufactory, No, 8U6 OHERR Y btreet, abov Third. Alao, W.F.NIUKEL'8 Patent Combination ale, beer, and liquor ooolar and refrigerator. a WthatuStit 6KOROR W. NICKELS. LOST. I OST CERTIFICATE No. 6551 FOR a J WH ARKS COMMON 8TOOK of the LKHtGU, VAIXKY RAILROAD OOMPAMY, in nu of UaryK.. Chanva. Ainlioation haa been luada lor raua.al. April 30, lb?U. 20Ut-
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