FOE - TALMAGE'S SERMON. ee DR. The Sheathed Sword, “Fifty the 2 CRON. “Every breadth, usand which could keep rank.” 12: 3. one could and not miss,” at a hair. 16. aling stones JUDGES 20! Comraxies of infantry, cavalry, ar- tillery, and zouaves, pleasenotice the first Scripture passage applauds the soldiers of Zebulun, because they were disciplined troops. ‘They may but 1t DRILL ed so clumsy in the line, was DRILL, DRILL, until they could keep step as one man. “Fifty thousand which could rank.’ The second Scripture passage applauds a regiment tribe of Benjamin, dexterous marksmen. enl Slated they may have been an d squad and all their fingers were be but they practised until when they aimed at a mark tiey always hit it, ‘Every one could sling spones atl a hair-breadth, and not miss.” Both texts combining to show us that if we must fight we should do it well. There is something absorbing military the Bible, times all the men between twe fifty vears of age we i army, and then a levy was madi special service. There were thre because they When they first the In olden uty and science of in the § 107 & re enrolled four not a ol IAT if the first were look 1px cou 'd fainted, Tl centre o weapon brea tpiate an enemy but 1 1 3 of offen Arrow bow AITOWS one arrow lift, and swung rocks and distances, woven willos nesses of hid whi i thrust marcel level Olle E penetral ed af tleme: head, proces piece fall falling the it would stax a wovabile the elephant, the elephant made drunk + wine, and then headed toward tl } erny; and what with the heavy feet and the iging proboscis and the ed arrows shot from the moving the was chariots an two arn. pole het went al they 1: down. fully em Wer on Ie k HWir pois tower, Was were destruction appalling. in vogue, and they wele, 80 they could easily was fastened to the were wil 4 JA SW carried flags Tribe of Judah cai vied a g embroidered with a tribe Reuben, embroidered man: tribe of Dan, embroidered sherubitm. I'he noise of the host as they moved on was overwhelming, What with the clatter of shields, and the rumbling of wheels, and the shouts of the captains, and the ation of the entire Lost, the prophet says it was like the roaring of the sea, Decause the arts of war have been advancing all these years, you are not to conclude that these arm- ies of olden times were an uncontrolla- ble mob. I could quote you four or five p sages of Seripture showing you that ¥.v were thoroughly drilled ; they warched step to step, shoulder to shoulder, or, as my texts express it, they were “fifty thousand which conld keep rank, stones af a hair-breadth, and not miss,’ INVASION POSSIBLE, Nothing could be more important than this great National Encampment, | Lindrilled troops can never stand before these which are drilled, At a time when other nations are giving such bie fl of vocifer foreign despotism to stand on, know but that a half dozen nations, en- vious of our prosperity, may want to give us a wrestle, During our Civil War there were lwo or three that could hardly keep their off us, It is very easy to pick national quar- rels, and if our nation escapes it much longer, it will be the exception. 1.» COME, men lke those of 1812 and like those who fought on both sides in 1862, We want them all up and down the Pulaski and Fort Sumter same chorus of thunder as Fort Lafay- ette and Fort Hamilton, men w will low to time comes—Iif it the generations on the stage of action will say, “My country will care for my family as they did soldiers’ asylums for the orphans i Civil War, and my country honor my dust as it honors ded me 1n patriotic sacrifice once a year at any rate n Day—-1 shall be rest ted membrance of those whon Here I go for God and my hould ever ign foe Si mal animosities would be Here go our regiments 10, if fteent hands IF A FOREIGN FOE SHOU in ho die. When such a ever does come those prece irrec for ti ourteent] nn I'enth Massachuset 1 Sout thunderbol » reach them » war we | dea Lreorgia, man I ever could be, Wis era rep i Wilich prayer say the least relatives i ' RLANCes, r uncomfe ministry at 1 y, and the minist ith prayed the other way. fact that North and the South cursed each other with a withering and all-consuming curse, Beside that antipathy of war time 1 place the Sot use in hiding the the THE COMPLE of this time. Not in New York was held to raise money to build a home at Richmond for erippled Confederate soldiers, the meet- TE ACCORD long ago a meeting mation to lack nothing in skill, North and South, Wane of contention, as Leon Shere a depraved politician takes it up Boxe if he can gnaw something off it. care floating off further and further vom tho possibility of sectional strife, The old decayed American slavery, sme. There is absolutely no room on this continent for any other nation. I Bave been across the country again and and I know that we have not a Balt inch of ground for the gowly foot of arm and a leg in fighting on the North- ern side, and the leg not lost so hurt that it does not amount to much. The Cotton Exhibition held not long ago at Atlanta, ands Sherman, who was greeted with kindness, as though they had never seen him before. At the New Orleans Ex- hibition, held two years ago, every | Northern State was represented, A | thousandfold kindlier feeling after the War. NO more use country, except for rifle practice, or at a roebuck in the Adirondacks, Brigadier-generals in the Southern Con- Northern cities, Rivers of turning mills of New England capital- ists, THE OLD LIONS OF WAR Fort Sumter, and Moultrie, and Lafayette, and Pickens, and Hamilton sound asleep on their iron paws, and instead of raising money to keep enemies out of our New York Harbor, for the Bartholdi Statue [on Bedloe’s Island, figure of Liberty with uplifted torch to light the tall who want to come in, Instead of war antiphaties, could not cross the line between the contestants without fighting your way with Keen steel, or getting through by carefully serutinized at every you need only a rail New York to Charles New Orleans, to go clear through, there is no use for any weapon or stronger than a steel pen. vears of time began then ae ever been in about two deci ermastering antithesis war 1 Wir ton or wld the has tlw uch an ov roll in i is mn the ime of col nnlete Lime of cotipele We are Now up To stand up four hold, figures of hair, if I can get them to stan Contrast also the LOArs, write rosy cheeks RELIGIOUS OPPORTUN of twenty afro with 1 on the from Sunday mon night, commanded by officers considered the names of (rod and Christ of 1m to swear bv, YOArs OW, march or y Lise, exes pt SOTNe- heat or cold, all the sur- military life having a make von reckless, No for prayer or Bible-reading. No sound of church bells, Sabbaths spent far away from the place where | you were brought up. Now, the choicest sanctuaries, easy pew, all Christian | surroundings, the air full of God and | Christ, and heaven and doxology. | Three mountains lifting themselves into the holy light—Mount Sinai thundering its law, Mount Calvary pleading the Sacrifice, Mount Pisgah Ay the | | Promised Laud, | CONTRAST standing roundings endency privacy in of to OF NATIONAL CONDITION: | 1862, spending money by the millions in devastation of property and life; 1887, | the finances so reconstructed that all | | the stock gamblers of Wall Street com- | bined cannot wake a National panic; | 1862, surgeons of the land setting broken bones, and amputating gangrened limbs, and studying gunshot fractures, and inventing easy ambulances for the wounded and dying; 1887 surgeons giving their attentions to those a i tn lity of commerce, of thie ol poricuiture, ee hire life, the Rin tance through our not sug | resting battle, but quick of fallen im peaceful industries | thirty- million inhabitants lands: 1887, fifty-five millions wheat, al eighty million bu 1887, the will hundred million bushels; 1862 Const weeks from 1887. for three reasons { Southern Pad only seven long sviums tle rushing street relied | or al Fis J RG2, this 1862, Ole i111 five woul wheat be abou five ific, and days Ol and houses ACTOSS, ' 1 3 ii CchHurci last few i (if orated, giving resounding Hbon-vo cheer: him that Blessed he lord wl om ever. to everl whole wy filled wit Amen Amen: isl tin ng , AN | His glory and —-—- Plain Speaking to a Queen. Queen Elizabeth of Roum nia voted such a large amount of time singing that her attendants lately as. sured her think her voice entitled her to rank with the most celebrated sing- ors, The flattery bore fruit, for the Queen began to ask herse If if these rare dee fo her people, She have the unbiased opinion of a musical | eritic, and so went French Professor, Dumanois, and sang before him in Bucharest, The Pro- | fessor caused the Queen to run over the scales and then to sing a song and an ppera aria, Then, turning to her, he | said seriously: ‘You have no voice at all, though plenty of musical feeling | and excellent phrasing. I would train | you for the operetta, but that, to sincere, you have not the right face. " The Queen handed the Professor several gold pleces with her card, buy- ing before she left a dozen opera airs for private study, EE Method and dispatch govern the world. Sl LESSON. 19, 1887 NDAY SCHOOL, SOAY, JUNE The Commandments, LESSON TEXT. Kxod, 2: 13.21). LESSON Toric or THE QI aul Dieliverane GorLpeEs TES The ¢ 18 no other tis sort. PLAN, ARTER Dondange FOR (Fol Dan, 3 ri that My QUARTER! can deliver LESSON Igno Topic: Delivered Duty Toward Man, od's Law in the Home, v MIH LAW the LILA Bacredness, va Thou shall love thy Matt, 22:30 GOLDEN neighbor Whom to Honor II. Why to Honor I. Murder IHL. Theft of coveld $ PLONISIIeSS § Penalties of covets OLIRIMNESS, REDN ESSY (11. GOD'S LAW IN ITS SA 1. Expressed with Terrors: tnings the Thunderings.. lightnin ain smoking trumpet, and the mounts (18). The Lord descended (Exod, 19: 18), The mountains burned with fire (Deut, 4: 11). At his right (33 : 2). Our God is a consuming fire (Heb, 12: 20). IL. Received with Fears. Let not God speak with us, Jest we die (19). All the people that were in the trembled (Exod, 10: 16). If we hear the voice. . ..any more, then we shall die (Deut, Bb: 2 25). They that heard entreated that no word more should be spoken Jiieh, 12: 19). Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake (Heb, 12: 21). 111. Requiring a Mediator, The people stood afar off, and Moses drew near (21). upon it in fire hand was a fiery law (Deut, camp (Exod. 19: 20), ere 18 no davsmag twixt us (Job 9: rey 331. Ordained liator Gal. 3: 19 wedintor al nen (Lh ‘i A 11 y th a Tne ¥) DeLwees Jesus (1 Tim, 2: 5 people Haw, (1) Goud’ of himself : (2) Man's of €s “i, Crond irl rist 1. Its Origin { alg yy (rial Ad A 2. Its Titles B f A ’ i i -—-— irkable Spring Basin wriles: Sliver head walters white it is » the Geklawaha were fir to me by General Gr w hie JAVE hanced, Lp GEL an i “rg ae wns an Bo ar’s wit) I had been led of visits |] { the dNorgu n att ory talk morical “How mucl ing per *Tharty- thousand gallons.” ! Silver Springs are as remarkable for clear- ness as for copiousness, y are so clear that we underrate the depth, which in places is ceclared to be scarcely Jess than a hundred feet. In this statement there may some ex- aggeratson. A Jady be tn'd that the surface near the shore was seventy- eight from the bottom, tied a railroad spike on a string and letting it down skiff to the ground, ascer- tained the truedepth at that point to be only thirty-nine feet. But there and in all spring-basin you see through water as if locking through French plate glass, hence, depth is as bard to estimate as distance in Colorado. The rocks and clefts in them, weeds with turtles, catfish and swimming among them, seem quile within your reach, as In an aguarum. The diameter of the malin spring Is about two hundred feet, and its depth varies in all the year no more than two feet. Its temperature stand always al seventy-iwo degrees, It is encircled by a ring of stalwart cypresses, almost every one of them hung with streamers panish moss, sic AR A—— De ing or from her the the Hotel Workshops. A good hotel has now within its | walle a workshop, in which it employs painters, carpenters, a cabinet- maker, key-fitter, plumber, glazier, upholsterer and ele tric ian, The elevator shafts and interior courts enhance the danger of fire, though not nearly so much as | to offset the protection which marble | floors and brick partitions offer; but | that is not a perfect hotel which is not also fitted with chemical fire extinguish- ers and hose plug, and which bas not organized its male help into a wel] disciplined band of firemen, practiced in the parts they must play whenever a fire breaks out, The priacipal hotels | usually boast of at least one or two | among their porters who are at the | same time professional bouncers able to quell disturbances summarily when it breaks out. In the large cities the manager's staff is not complies unless | it has a detective or two upon it, usually a mun who knows the faces tricks of the most active criminals-—especially thieves and confidence men—in the country, but the best policeing that a big hotel gets is from its own guests Their numerousness and pecambulalior are great hindrances to crime.
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