TO MY WATCH.
Little watch, fast ticking out
All the hours of pain and doubs,
All the tumult, toll, and strife
Making up our span of life;
All the heart-wrung sighs and tears
Falling faster with the years,
As the petals drop and fade
From the bloom life's summer made,
Ah! what thoughts each other chase
As 1 look upol’ your face,
Every tick your motions give,
One tick loss have 1 to live,
Did I realize this thought,
With such solemn meaning fraught,
When some new born joy drew nigh
In the happy days gone by,
And your slight hands all too alow
Hound abot your face did go?
Ab! those tardy hours have passed,
Would they wero not now so fast!
Never stopping in your flight,
Nover pausing day or night ;
NOt a moment's rest you crave
From the cradle to the grave,
With a never-ceasing motion,
Steadfast as the tides of ocean ;
feuning evermore to hurry
Yet without a moment's tarry;
Till our worn hearts almost pr. y
“That you would & moment stay.
All things rest--the clouds at noon,
And the lenves in nights of June;
And the grief-bew ildered brain
When sleep falls like softest rain;
And the stars when day awake,
And the d.y when tiesper sunkes
lens of wold from out the skiog
Into wandering lover's eyes
You alone speed on your way,
Never resting night or day.
Yet what joy those hands have brought
Golden days with rapt fraughs ;
Golden days by sunlit niain ;
Golden days on breezy mountain ;
Days made more divine by love
1 han by radiance from above,
Al! those nds tunt to the senso
Ering such joys aud boar them beuce!
Could we know went time coneonls
*Neath those little ticking wheels!
Yet when thore slight hands shall mard
That lust hour when all grows dark,
And stindl still keep tivck:ng on
When earth's Hgut rom me {+ g¢
Tdtile wal j our face shail be
Still a memory sweet LO mie,
Though Jdiviner light may shine
On these opened eyes of mine
for your hands that never conse
Bring at last the perfect peace,
~Temple Bar.
THE TALE OF A CRIME.
M. Theodore, chef de surete, sat in
his cabinet deeply perplexed. his two
elbows on his desk, his head on his
hands. He was musing.
“And was it going to last, this,
which had been going on for so long a
while? And these assassins, were
they going to end by beating him?
Where they going to compel him by
adverse public opinion to send in his
resignation?
“Parbleu! it looked so, and
they did it on purpose, passing the
word from one to another to
him to get out of their way.
assassinations, one after
Crimes of the worst
startling details
with horrifying
the bureaucrat
And not an
no.
as if
force
Eight
another:
with
which peopled alike
iiibre,
visions the sieel
and the
“ fap
assassin, 07
concierge.
ail their
skillful work, had they been able to
lay their bands upon; they had fled,
every man of them: they had
peared, vanished-—pill, like a j
air. Celerity, despatch, their n
and to go without leaving an
behind them! Frankly, it had begun
to pass the bounds of all reas wn.
“And now, to top off these
other crimes, there was still another,
2 ninth —-3& murder
others, accomplished the evening be-
fore, under similar conditions, a
femme galante with her throat cut,
five thousand francs’ worth of jewels
gone, and—not a trace of the
sins!”
Despite his robust philosophy, that
had been the admiration and
emulation of his century, M. Theo-
dore fele himself drifting into mel-
ancholy and reflection, not unmixed
with anger.
“Nine murders, one after the
«other; nine crimes without an author;
nonsense! impossible!” The chef de
surete pulled himself together, threw
back his head like a war horse sail.
fing battle, and-—the door opened
It was his secretary who presented
himself, bearing a card in his fingers
“A gentleman, monsieur, who in.
sists upon seeing you. He declares,”
and the secretary smiled a little at
the absurdity of the idea, ‘‘he de-
ciares himself in a position to furn-
ish you with definite particulars re.
garding the crime of yesterdh
“Ah, the crime of yesterday!” The
Chief turnel quickly. “Then bid
him enter,” said he, and while the
secretary regained the ante-room to
do his bidding, M. Theodore cast his
eye upon the card before him.
“Frederick | ouscal'” heread in a
half voice “*Bouscal, Bouscal; 1t
seems to rue that I know that name
~that 1've heard it somewhere.”
He scrawled a line upon a scrap of
paper, and handed it to the secre-
tary, wuo returned at the moment
ushering in the visitor who had
asked to see him, dismissed him with
a word, and was ready for the mat
ter in hand.
M. Theodore raised his eyes. Re-
fore him was a man simply but
neatly clothed, and with a frank and
honest countenance, though veiled,
as by a cloud, with sadness. The
eyes were clear and open, the mous.
tache and goatee grey and pointed —
in short, there was something in his
manoper, something in his appear.
ance of a militaire in retreat.
You have particulars to give me,
have you not, monsieur?” questioned
the chef de surete; *‘particulars, |
believe, of the crime of yesterday?”
*] hope so, monsieur,” simply re.
sponded the visitor.
‘Ah, hope so! Youare not sure,
then?”
tt rests with you, M. le Chef,
whether I am sure or not. All de
pends, in fact, upon an operation,
Gisip-
i t¥ caf
J 01
101 LO,
address
eight
3
One ilke the
HSsis.
WOOK
able to furnish me.”
“Explain, if you please.”
“Certainly, and at onee, though
doubtless you have heard it often
spoken of, M. le Chef; a certain scien-
tific procedure which permits under
certain conditions, better even than
description can do it, & reproduction
of the portrait of the assassin. Briefly,
behold my meaning. You know, of
course,” he continued, "that the phe-
nemence called vision the object
which we see throws or forms upon a
screen in the eyeball itself—in plain
words, upon the retina of the eye—
an image which remains there until
displaced by another. It has been
proved also that this image continues
even after death. You recognize,
therefore, that if a person murdered,
eves would be fixed, would, in
probability, be the face or form of
the murderer.
of that face or figure would be thrown
only possible to re-find
possible to reproduce it. Ah, well,
monsieur, in the case which occupies
us n
The door
it,
of the cabinet
| dore re-entered, holding in his hand
i his chief, then turned and
again as quickly as he had come.
i Theodore
rapidly over the contents.
“You are named Frederick
cal, are you not, monsieur?”"' he
{ manded, presently, addressing
visitor
t ‘Yes, M. le Chel,
{ cal—"
| “Your age?”
1
M.
do-
his
Frederick Bous-
“Fifty-eight years, M, 18 Che
“Hum-m-m!” Mr. Theodore
idly twirled the sheets beside h.m.
| “Twenty-seven years!” he murmured,
as if tainking aloud. So It was you,
then, who was imprisoned two years
ago, and condemned for contumacy
and the theft of 1,000 florins?”
A sudden flush enpurpled the coun-
tenance of the visitor.
“No, monsieur,” he
an effort, in a dull
not I—it was —my son
“‘An employe of the Credit Agricole,
was he not? Aund—you are ignorant
of what has become of him?”
“Absolutely. It is fifteen months
that his mother and 1 have been
without news of him. That child,
M. le Chef, that child has been our
sorrow and our shame He has
broken our hearts, dishonored our
name n
His was choked. He was
silent, unable, evidently, to go vn.
“Pardon me, monsieur,” said the
Chet de Surette. *'1 have re-opened a
painful wound: but, 1 listen ww you-—
you were saving—-—"
The man passed his hand across his
brow and ciear his vision,
then resumed:
+] was saying,
the case which the
reproduction of the assassins portrait
The vic-
the face, the direc-
and the
tL plainly Me
is, it wrust have been light
wagh to murderer, and with
ficientclearness tohavestamped his
retinal s
that even in death
xed in a wide and
monsieur,
responded with
yolte: ‘no, IL was
VOice
eyes Lo
M. le
occupies
Chef,
Us Now
should be entirely possibile
Was struck in
blow
ta it
4 Le !
im
n
of the
ind indie
form of
ire
sos the
likeness upon the reen, for
he papers assert
jer eves were
rightened Thus,
we find ourselves in the presence of a
half-certainty; i $ ut? ne
sure, that the eve of the ys
lying upon the slab
the exact
iikeness you
I will
stare
it is probable, ¥
corpse |
the m
reproductiv®® ni
With your
draw it [from
of A
contains
the
permission
them.”
seek
“Draw it: but how?”
‘By photography-—it wy
M. le Chel. And matter.
this subject 1 speak of 1 have studied
it long, and almost with passion, for
I hold it to be, in case of success, one
cf the most useful and beautiful ap-
plications of modernscience. 1 know
it can be done. 1 have myself er.
perimented, and in one instance have
reproduced the lineaments of the
physician who bad leaned above the
bed of the dying.”
The man spoke with animation,
and whilespeaking his voice vibrated,
his eyes burned, his whole counte-
nance was illuminated, irradiated
with the light of a legitimate pride.
MM. Theodore regarded him, wisibly
moved himself by this ardent convic-
tion.
“*And you conclude " he ques
tioned, after a moment's thought.
“1 conclude but authorize me to
attempt the experiment on the
woman assassinated yesterday, and 1
will tell you what 1 conclude. If 1
aucceed it will be for us—myv wife and
me—a little glory, and also a little
money-—a ray of hope in our misery:
it 1 fail-——well, no matter—we are
used to misfortune. A failure more
or less need not be counted. In any
event, M. le Chef, you lose nothing
in the experiment, but have the
chance ot an unhoped-for snccess.
“Then so be it,
the chef de surete.
struments to the morgue to-morrow
at 10 o'clock. 1 will see
clerk is instructed.
myself be there
monsieur, Ww
ing.”
Io the obscure nook at the morgue
where he had inclosed himself in ac-
cosdance with the arrangement made
at the office of the surete, Frederick
Bouscal, his body bent, his face
drawn, watched anxiously the result
of nis last washing. The plate was
{ thare before him in its bath of quick-
| silver, into which he had dropped it
{a while ago with such fear and infin.
| ite precaution.
Sensitized? Vitalized? At least
it should be, and if the conditions of
the crime were such as he supposed
| them, and the victim, before dying,
had really seen her murderer's face,
the portrait of the assassin would be
there under that bed of gelatine en
traine to melt away.
His throat closed as by a grip of
tron, the operator held himself im-
movabie, hearing only, with painful
distinctness, the gurgle of the water
as it dripped upon the faces of the
dead in the adjoining chamber; the
plunge of his blood as it throbbed and
is busi.
ness, his
{ have the honor,
wish you good-morn-
"
hammered through
heart.
And at last the moment came—the
moment that was to reveal to him
all or nothing. He rose—that poor,
trembling photographer rose, 1 say,
took it caretully by its dripping
the arteries of his
was hanging, half closed his eyes,
held it to the single ray of light that
filtered through the yellowed pane,
to stagger back with a groan of an.
pieces. His son! Good heavens! The
face of the murderer, the face of the
son!
Five minutes later, when Frederick
Bouscal, the photographer, came from
nook, and the chef de surete,
awaiting him with impatience, hur-
by the pallor of his face, by his som-
bre eyes, that he had nothing good
to announce to him.
“Weill,” said he
“No,” responded
ing.”
“Allons! no matter:
time; do it again.”
“Impossible! the
"
‘nothing?
Bouscal, ‘‘noth-
ury it a second
transparency
1 wished ix
i
and 1 burned
vials. 1 salute
And Frederick Bouscal
it,
You
The next morning the commissaire
of the quarter of
regular repori,
“Today at 10 o'clock a
to 100, Rue Laugiere. A
the concierge,
fumes from the room of the
cals, man and wife, his lccataires.
The door, by ny order, was forced.
Too late were dead, both
side by side upon the bed. a
brazier of lighted charcoal plainly in-
dicating the manner of the death
call from
Bous
-they
he cause
“From Lommissaire
Ternes, third, 16th d i
“Bal, these inventors,”
M. Theodore,
cluded the reading, “they are
alike, stupid and rash; though
too. on this occasion, have naught
boast But how 1 ” x
added, the n
sad face rose
the deuce could 1
a causeso trifling as this?”
“A cause as trifling
Ah, my w
not everything that is Known
perfecture of thine. —The Fre
murmur
as his secretary co
f fe
of. de uce,
at
him,
} i f
think of
gt ay ’ 3
as iemory of th
gy» ¥ few
un Uelore
Sid
as this?”
irthy che! de suretle,
What Is Electricity?
As far as the writer
derstand the matter
Is simply motion
the di
the subjec
as heat,
only diffe
is the
is
erent
tion of sound, as we
paratively siow
ight are very rapid
tricity would appear
between the slow mm of
and the rapid { mn of
Waves whose mot
tat
somewhat
sound
heat
nd
set #oy
mnaGer:
those
ion issiowest
the w
ch electricity shows
of work is dueentirely
vo the | tion which its rate of mo
tion occupies in the scale of the ener
It would also appear that the
reason this wonderful agent laid dor
mant for many ages and is even
now only partially developed is, very
largely at any rate, because we have
po sense which responds to the par.
ticular periods of vibration comprised
within the electrical range
Heat currents would be far more
efficient than electric currents if we
could make use of them as we do of
the latter: and, as before remarked,
the reason electricity is such a useful
agent appears to be because its rate
of vibration is sutciently high to ad-
mit of rapid trdnsmission, not
sufficiently so to be destructive. It
only becomes destructive when it is
transformed into heat —Electrical
eview,
Kies,
“03
yet
Morphine Fiend and Never Tasted It
“There goes a woman who isa
confirmed morphine fiend, and yet
she never took a drop of the durg in
her life,” remarked a well-known
chemist, pointing to a woman walk-
ing down Chestnut street. **No, she
doesn’t inject it, either, and yet her
system is thoroughly saturated with
it. Strange? No, not so very, if you
know the circumstances. You see it
She is employed in a
large labratory, and her special work
is weighing morphine. She has been
doing this for years, and has absorbed
the drug through the pores of the
skin. The more she perspires the
more freely she absorbs the morphine
During the week she is perfectly well,
but on Sunaay the reaction sets in,
and she says she never sleeps over
two hours on Sunday nights and is
In time her sys-
opinm or morphine
fiends" Philadelphia Keeord.
Working Dogs in Belgiom,
Consul Smith, at Liege Belgium,
reports as follows to the Government
at Washington: “Liege Is a city of
large wealth and great industrial ac.
tivity, possessing the largest manu.
factory of machines and machinery
invhe world and employing as many
horses as any other town of ita size in
Europe, and yet for every horse, at
Jeast two dogs are to be seen in har.
ness on the streets They are to be
met at all hours of the day, but in
the early morning the boulevards are
literally alive with them. Six hun.
dred pounds is the usual draft of an
ordinary dos, though a mastiff is
often taxed with twice that amount.”
VAN Perr-—When my wife gets
hysterics and begins to cry, how can
1 stop her? Invalid's Wife—Tell her
it Is making ber nose red
REV. DR. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN-
DAY SERMON,
—
Sublieet: “A Propositi.on to Celebrate
the Nineteen Hundredth Birth.
day of Christ by an Inter
national Jubilee.”
$y,
Text To us a ehdld is born," Isaiah ix. ,
G.
That i= a tremendous hour in the history
of any amily when an immortal spirit is in.
carnated, Out of a very dark cloud there
descends a very bright morning, One life
spared and another given, All the bells of
gladness ring over the eradle, 1 know not
why any one should doubt that of old a star
pointed down to the Saviour's birthplace, for
a star of joy points down to every honorable
nativity, A new eternity dates from
hour, that minute,
lenutiful and appropriate is the custom of
celebrating the anniversary of such an event,
and clear on into the eighties and nineties
the recurrence of that day of the year In an
old man's life causes recognition and more or
jess congratulation, 80 also Nations are ac
customed the anniversary
the birth
wr Geliverars or henetso-
1 of Februnry and the 4th of
allowed to pass in « innd
ont banquet and oration and bell ring-
I ennnonsde, jut all other birthday
versaries are tame comparsed with the
festivity, which the
to celebrate of
The
ney
Ors,
are ur
'
pelebrates
rotestant and Catholla Oroek
mn s snd
and dox« ¥, pu
{my text into National an CO.
$
hoemisnt
procession
he words «
ental and i } .
} is born, On the 26th ol
h year that Is the theme in St, Paul's
, Peter's and Bt, Mark's and St, Isase's and
all the dedicated cathedrals,
and ch
ETC enor
chapels,
clear i
ing houses iroahes round
shall soon reach the
dredih anniversary of that
This soutury is
more puisations, nnd
it at the
hun-
nineteen
hap
ng.
heart will csase to
many of you will write
mar letters ane foot of
plest event ©
time, Only seven
is
It will
EADIIANLS
thers may be no
ate tl
enn :
fre that all
ariel or
His nativit
ates either S00
or A
1800 ¢
8 | $
i
assing into
It will be
the
We have had the
phia,
niversary «
had the magn
leans and Atlanta and Au
fouls, We have the
tion at Chicago, ceolelaative
pent’s emergence, and thers
other great
country, and other
historic events 10 «
eyent that has m
of all Nations
Christ on this planet, and
ever witnessed at London
any of our American
eclipsed by the enthusiasm that w
brates the ransom of all nations, the first step
{ being taken
at Philadel.
hundredth
3 tion & hint
sejelirative one £3
We have
at New Or-
and St
eX positions
uss
present
are at |
promised for
sountrios will have their
ymmemorate, but the ons
with the wells
arrival of
ail the enthusias
or Yienns or Paris
cities would
uid
celebrations this
2. ,
wt to GO re
in he Jonas
or ber
ceime
toward the accomplishing of nt
by an infantile foot one winter's night abx
five miles from , when is
dropped the angelic cantanta, “Glory to God
in the highest, and on earth peace, good will
to men."
Jerganiey the elon
"ho three or four questions that would be
ssked me concerning this nomination of time
and place I procesd to answer. What prae-
tical use would come of such international
enlebration? Answer-—The biggest stride
the world ever took toward the evangeliza-
tion of all Nations, That is a grand and
wonderful convocation, the religious con.
gross at Chioago. It will put intalligently be-
fore the world the nature of false religions
which have been brutalizing the Nations,
tramping womanhood into the dust, enact.
ing the horrors of infanticide, kindling
funeral pyres for shrieking victims, and
rolling juggernauts across the mangied bod-
jes of their worshipers,
But no one supposes that any ons will be
eonverted to Christ by hearing Confucianism
or Buddhism or any form of heathenism
eulogized, That is to be done afterwards.
And how oan it so well be done as by a cele
bration of many weeks of the birth and char.
acter and achievements of the wondrous and
To such an exposi-
The story of a Saviout’s advent conld not
All the world say, “Why this ado,
resentation it would be, when at such a con-
voeation the physicians of the world should
tell what Christ has done for hospitals and
the assuagement of human pain, and when
Christan lawyers declare what Christ has
done for the establishment of good laws, and
bad done in the conquest of Nations, and
Christian rulers of the earth would tell what
dominions !
Thirty da
more to teil the world who Christ is than
any thirty years. Not a land on earth but
would hear of it and discuss it. Not an eye
so dimsaed by the saperstition of ages but
would see the illumination,
ono way of dissemination is by a simple
selling,” not argument, not skilful exoeget-
ists, polemics or the science of theological
fistoufls, but ailing." “Tell yo the
daughter of Zion, Behold, thy King cometh,”
“Go quickly and tell His disciples that He
has risen from the dead.” ‘Go home to thy
friends and toll them how great things the
ford bath done for thee” “When He is
come, Ho will toll us all things.” « A religion
of “telling.”
And in what way eould all Nations so weil
be told that Christ had como as by such an
international em hasizing of His nati T
Al India would er
w
Question the Besond —How would yon have
such an international jubiles conducted? An-
sweor-—All arts should be marshalled, and art
First, architecture, While all
would be needed, there should be one great
an has never been seen on any sacred occs-
sion in Amerion,
dom, could bufld the first two vast amphli-
theatres, placing them back to hack, hold-
ing great audiences for dramatic representa-
tion, and then by wonderful machinery
could turn them round with all their
gudiences in them, making the two
gladitorial contest, and Vespasian could eon-
struct the Coliseum with its eighty columns,
and its triumphs in three orders of Greek
architecture, and a capacity to hold 87,000
people seated and 15,000 standing, and all
for purposes of erusity and sin, sannot our
honor of our
large enough to
hold 50,000 of its worshipers?
If we go groping now among the ruined
Capua and Puzgnoll and Tarraco, and then
stand transfixed with amazement at their 1m-
menses sweep that held from 506,000 to 100,000
spectators gathered for earousal and moral
degradation, could not Christianity afford
architectural achievement that would
hold and enthrall its 50 000 Christian disci
ples? Do you say no human voloe could be
heard throughout such a building? Ah!
then you wers not present when at the Bos.
ton peace jubilee Parepna easily with her voice
enchanted 50,000 suditors,
And the time is near at hand when in theo-
logical Seminaries, wiere our young men are
being trained for the ministry, the voles will
be developed, and instead of the mumbling
ministers, who speak with so low a tone you
hear unless you lean forward and
hold your hand behind your ear, and then
are able to guess the general drift of the sub-
inet and decide quite well whether it is about
Moses or Paul or some one else—instead of
that you will have coming from the theologi-
eal seminaries all over the land young min-
isters with voles enough to command the at-
tention of an audience of 50,000 people. That
reason that Lord gives us two
ungs instead of It is the Divine way
of saving physiologically, ‘‘Be heard’
That is the reason that the New Testament
in beginning the account of Christ's sermon
‘ the mo describes our Lord's plain
ation and resound of utterances by say-
“He opened his mouth.” In that
y concert hall and preaching place
oh I suggest for this nineteen hundredth
siversary let music erown our Lord, Bring
all the oratorios, all the
and Haydn so-
Gre
esnnot
i# the the
one,
unt
rhit
al
and Handel d
us Haydn's oratorio of the
n." for our Lord took part in
pallding and “without him,
not anything made that
and “Measiah” and
honies™ and Mendels-
the prophet that t)
» grandest compositions of
American masters,
that oso
harp or flute or
praises of the
: chant or
iititudinous wor
when 50.000
#nva
was
HRymoh
ff oat
ined
sohn's “Elijah.”
our Christ an
ments
CAL
wronation or
= bi
uiah or subsid-
supernatural amen’
on pedestals all
ms of aposties
whe
MAn's ax
BOOES OF
r fire
the
fon I
Bn. Let sculptors set
as of Christ's eslebration
fescriptive of the bat
r OF : religion, Where ars
vas of the Nineteenth Century?
Amorionn Thorwaldsens and
Hidden ewhere, | warrant
marble «
y selebrate
AL
ere are the
BANIreYS
» turn that place into ano ther
t more glorious by as much as
wr Christ fs stronger than their Hercules,
and has more to do with the sea than their
Neptune, and raises greater harvests than
their Cores, and mises more music in the
heart of the world than their Apollo. *‘The
gods of the heathen are nothing but dumb
jdals, but our Lord made the heavens” In
marble pure as snow oelebrate Him who
sate to make us “whiter than snow.” Let
the chisel as well as pencil and pen be put
down at the lest of Jesus,
Yea, let painting do its best. The foreign
such a jublies their
adonnas, their Angelos, their Eubens, their
taphaels, their “Christ at the Jordan.” or
“Christ at the Last Supper,” or “Christ Com-
ing to Judgment,” or “Christ on the Throne
of Universal Dominion,” and our own Morans
Aredth anniversary, and our Blerstadts from
skotrliing “The Domes of the Yosemite” will
come to present the domes of the world con-
queread for Immanuel
Added to allthis 1 would have a foral
decoration on & scale never equaled, The
fields and open gardens could not farnish it,
for it will be winter, and that season appro-
priately chosen, for it was into the frosts and
desoclations of winter that Christ immigrated
when he came to our world,
elds will be bare, the eonservatories and
hot-houses within 200 miles would gladly
keep the sacred coliseum radiant and aro
matic during all the convoeations.
Added to all let there be banquets, not
fike the drunken bout at the Metropolitan
Opera House, New York, celebrating the
centennial of Washington's inauguration,
where the rivers of wine drowned the so-
briety of s0 many senators and governors
and generals, but a banquet for the poor, the
feeding of scores of thousands of Reopie ola
world in which the majority of the inhabi-
a banquet at which a few favored men and
women of social or political fortune shall
when He told His servants to “go out into
the highways and hedges and compel them
to come in.”
Added to this lot there be at that interna
exposition a
Tot the leadi
world take the pulpite of all these cities and
At those convoostions let vast
for voll , all of
which institutions were born in the beart of
Christ,
ve itself to Him.
propose America as the country
for this convooation? Because most other
lands have a State religion, and while all
may be tolerated in
stand
the world
would take three years to makes a programm’
worthy 6f such a coming together,
Why do I take it upon myself to make sue
a nomination of time and piace? Answer
Because it so happened that in the mysterk
ous providence of God, born in a farmhbouss
{ and of no royal or princely descent, the doors
| of communiontion are open to me every week
| by the secular and religious printing presses
and have been open to me every week for
many years, with all the cities and towns snd
| neighborhoods of Christendom, and indeed
iin lands outside of Christendom, where
printing presses have been established, and 1
| foe! that if there is anything worthy in this
| proposition it will be heeded and adopted,
{| On the other hand, if t be too sanguine, or
too hopeful, or too impractical, I am sure it
will do no harm that I have expressed my
wish for such an international jubiiee, cele.
| brative of the birth of our Immanuel
My friends, such a birthday celebration at
the close of one century and reaching into a
new century would be something in which
heaven and earth could join, It would not
only international, but interplanetary,
interstellar, interconsteliation, If yon re.
| member what occurred on the first Christ
mas night, you know that it was not a joy
confined to our world, The choir above
wthichem was imported from another
world, and when the star left its usual
sphere to designate the birthplace all
ymy felt the thrill, If there be any.
thing true about our religion, it is that other
worlds are sympathetic with this world and
in communication with it, The glorified of
heaven would join in such a eslebrations,
The generations that tolled to have the
world for Christ would take part in such
jubilation and prolonged assemblage,
The upper galleries God's universa
would applacd the scene, whether we heard
the clap of thelr wings and the shout of thelr
volees or did not hear them. Prophets who
predicted the Messiah, and aposties who
talked with Him, and martyrs who died for
Him would take part in the scene, 1 }
our poor eyesight they migh
1 old missionaries who died inthe ma
swamps of Africa, or were
Egyptian typhus, or were buteherad at Luck.
DOW, Or were y Bornesian cannibals
would come down from their thrones to re-
joloe that at last Christ had heard of,
ro first
¥
the f
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1
struck down
sinin by
been
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that meeting all heaven would ory
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expedation
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vast pro-
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many mil
the Borstal
the second
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SON
i Twentieth
+, yet who
adored Mas
sridwide
i This wan
and rebelli That world at
we a dispo 6 to appreciate what I
and with one wave my
nd I will bless and re
but that our Hiesss
pleased with such a
ance, nt
planet, ©
have done for it,
seRrred n
save 1.7
a crjebration «
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kept
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up for ntns,
the gospe t
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is beyond questi
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of yvemrs, which
of it 1900
saintly, chery archangeilo
the
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have also ins ion
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name of varse--4he name
his suggestion ofa world
rati sf the nativity be taken
rowed
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contra) of
central «
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jences, has pres
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wie. befor
shed Him, and
hiank verse hiss sung
| Angelo has glorified the
Vari with His sec
i martyrs while girdled abn
the of the
burning lps
ory, and in the “hundred
th 1" of heaven with
ginss intershot with sunrise,
ited and downswung baton,
rnets, Da Waving banners, and heaven
sapturing dox celebrated Him, the
story of His loveliness, and His might and His
beauty, and His grandeur, and His grace, and
His intercession, and His sacrifice, and of His
birth. and His death will remain untold. Be
His name on our lips while we live, and when
we die after we have spoken farewsll to Iather
and mother and wife, and child let us speak
that name which is the lullaby of earth and
the transport of heaven.
Before the crossing of time on the mid-
night between December 31, 1900, and the
of January, 1901, many of us will be
gone, Some of you will hear the clock strike
twelve of one century and an hour after it
henr it strike one of another century, but
many of you will not that midnight bear
either the stroke of old the city clock or of
the old timepiece in the hallway of the home.
stead. Seven years cut a wide swath through
| the churches and communities and Nations,
But those who cross from world to world
before Old Time in this world crosses that
midnight from century to century will talk
among the thrones of the coming earthly
jubilee, and on the river bank and in the
house of many mansions, until all heaven
will know of the coming of that celebration,
that will fill theearthiy Nations witn joy and
help augment the Nations of heaven. But
whether here or there we will take part in
the music and the banqueting if we have
made the Lord our portion.
Oh, bow I would fike to stand at my front
| door some morning or noon or night and ses
the sky part and the blessed Lord descend in
person, not as he will come in the last judg-
| ment, with fire and hall and earthquake, but
in sweet tenderness to pardon ail sin, and
heal all wounds, and wipe away all tears,
and feed all hunger, and right all wrongs,
| and $llumine all darkness, and break all
| bondage, and harmonize all discords. Some
think he will thus come, but about that
coming 1 make no prophecy, for I am not
| enough learned in the Soriptures, as some of
| my friends are, 10 Announce a very positive
| opinion.
nad oom.
i cano-
stake
mem.
flames
kissed his
and forty and four
fost on seas of
have with up-
and sounding
viogios
ist
| Ba: this Ido know, that it would be wall
| for us to have an international and an inter.
world celebration of the anniversary of His
| birthday about the time of ths birth of the
| new century, and that it will be wise beyond
all others’ wisdom for us to take Him as our
| present and everlasting coadjutor, and if
| that Darling of earth and heaven will only
| aeoept you and me after all oar lifetime of
| anworthiness and sin we can never pay Him
what we owe, though through all the eternity
to some we had every hour a new song and
every moment a new ascription of homage
and praise, for you ses we Ware far out
among the Jost sheep that the gospel hyma
| wo pathetioally describes :
Out tn the desert be beard its ory,
Hick and peiplesw and rea ly to dis,
Fat all through the mountain Uy
ants still live in Germany, snd »
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the Barings New York Dispatch.