REV. DR. TALMAGE Th: Eminent Brooklyn Divine's Sua- day Sermon. Nuhjeect: “Siege of Luachnow,'* Text: “When thon shalt “wsiege a ecitv a fone time in making war against it tot it, thou shalt not destroy the tries therso! by forcing an ax them, -Deouterono my xx., 19. azains: The awlulest thing nwar is hesiegzement, forio the work deadly weapons it adds hunver and starvation and plague, Bssfege- meat is sometimes necosanry, but my text commands mercy even in that, The fruit trees must be spared beeauss they afford food for man, “Thou shalt not destroy the trees thereol forcing an ax agains<t them.” Bat in my recent journey round the world I found at Lucknow. India, the remains of the most merciless nsiegement of the ages, and I procesd io tell you that story for four great rearons—:0 show you what a hor vid thing war is and to make you ali advo- eates for peace, to show you what genuine Christian character is ander bombar iment, to put a ) on Christian courage, and to show you w splendidiy goo 1 die, As onr train station | now?" an pronunciation of smotions rus soni, The word erusity, of gesie { by { tor thirty agonies thers encu there witnaessod have of Tons uy 4 neo nl lide lishtal into the dimly gaard, “Is tl sred, “Luackno wail asked the 1 he answ uct mun, and which ¥ and a poetry « and sae ple, memory talent enc In the ear natiy Beiore 1 English G *he hands mann of the ( time | antiv % bys Cod ana t firearms go their we It was tive the E on, snd into ironears uintion of from the { growling for th of the resides nBoOn-cGr ~ify Hvis » frye rT ior, Were opie were in 3 4 of the time heat at 1 wily the piace them the hospital SeUryy | shot and women | having flewd were born ; loss and less fool: cept that w brought snuer the ensmy 8 fire, so tained was at t ' Of the dead borass addad corp=es, and all wai wien the grony of 8) devi s glion renk the residency, now re riekness and eh] iron, Cull me early,” Tanld, Ing, and I=t us bu at the residence sun becomes 100 hot,” At morning we loft our hotel in La I said to our HP ene take omfort crowded an where nino in rm ifeh one pric death 1 "to-morrow morn. fit us i belorathe in the know, and obliging, gentiomanly escort us aiong ti toad by whic Havelonk and Outram came to the relisf o the residency.” Taat wasthe way we went, There was a solomn stiliness as wo ap- proached the gate of the residency, Bat- terad and torn is the masoury of tas en- trance. Signature of shot and punctuation of eannon ball all up and down and every. where, “Here to the left,” said our escort, fheremains of a building tne first witiel in other days had been used as a bane queting hall, but then was used as a hos. pital, At tois part place, and all such patients died, was so great and the that the poor fsllows from the loss of blood, i G'elork ’ th ¥ ne a if Hi “are The heat food so insufficient could not recover They all died. Ampu- All the anaesthetios wees frmeture that In exnaasted, A other climates and une sasy convaleseenion hore proved fatal, Yon in's “octor. evry’ room, and there Bir Henry Lawrenoe, our dear commander, was wounded, While he sat there a shell struck the room, sod some one suguestel that he had bette: leave the room, but he amiled and said, Ligntning never wsirikes twice in the game place.’ Hardly had he sald this when another shell tore off hinthigh, aad he was carried dying into Dr. Payrer's house on the other side of the roxd. Sir Henry Lawrence had been in poor health for a long time before the mutiny, He had been in the Indian service for years, and he had started tor England to recover his health, but getting as far as Bombay the English riment requested him to remain ot least awhile, tor he eonld not be spared in such dangerous tim He enme hers to Lucknow, und forsseeing the siege of this resldency bad filled many of the rooms with ws boun oh! to surrender, wers into this rest doney rice | and suza= and sharsoal and fo ller for the osen and hay forthe horses, But now, at i the times when all the people were looking {to him for wislom ani courage, Bir Henry is dving,” : Our escort describes the szens, naique, tender, beautiful and overpowering, anil witle I stood on the very spot whers the sighs nnd groans of the besiezad and Incera- tad and broken hairta] me: the whiz of bul. lets, and the demoniae hiss of bursting shell, i and the roar ol rE RAYS me the partieninre “44 soon Sr Henry wis told many he asked chaplain to administer to him the holy com munion, partieaiariv anxious for the safery of women in the residency, who, at aay moment, migit bs subjected to savages who howisl around the resi. dency, thelr breaking in only a matter of time unless resanforcoment should Ho would fred roundel his indies, dren’! defenss of the places, He asked forgiveness ol all those whom he might unintentionally have neglected or offendel He loft a mes- sags for all his friends, He forgot not to g.ve directions tha eara of He charend his oMeers, saving no means surrender, Make no compromiss with desperadoss, Hetook charge ; hud established | or Ho alieres, my esc ns had no: hours no live the He felt the the come, SRY {0 Coed [ava ir woman and the ehil- God hein the po for in horse, 3 tranty or the fizhting.’ Rava the sigitl was iors oC I know the sted their t y tiles wr jraged the so wounded an i CHTS § the grap fan their when tame When svears of They = ier fied and Out these heginord hay Lattas foe married san cer, yee im that 1 the was OWS Was HnDel! i between » and despair, AL ons dey they hear guns of relia! arer, - Yet all the bouses of Lackaow wer reanis, irny § ! nearer and 5 i tresses flied with every step of Have sontest ed dr from wiadow I asked thoaent that the world fame : Inss in her delinum bearing the Scotel bagpipes ade Vaucing with the Scoteh regiment was 5 trae story. He said he did not know but that it was trie, Without this man's telling mo [ knew from my own observation tha lrium sometimes qaickens some of the fa ulties, and I rather think the Heotoh lass in her delirium was the first to hear the bag- pipes, 1 decline to believe that class people who would like to kill all the pootry of the world an! banish all the fla: sen- | timent, They teil us thas Whit. tier's poem atout Barbara Freitohie was { founded on a delusion, and that Longfellow’s | poeme immortalized things that never or. fetrred. The Seoteh lass did hear the slo- gan. I almost beard it myself as I stood in- side the residency while my escort told of Armed ax was Ha story oO. Sete | Regiment, in?" I asked, for I oould suppress the ques. tion no longer, His answer camo ‘was not at the moment present, but with some other young fellows [| saw sol. { dines danviog while two highland pipes played, and [ said, ‘What is all this exits. ment? Then we came up and saw that Havelook was in, and Ootram was Io, and the regiments were pouring in.” “Show us wheres they came fn, I ex- olaimed, for I know that they did not enter through the gate of the residency, that be. ing bunked up Inside to keep the murderar: out, “Here jt is’ answered my esoor:, “Hera it isthe embrasure through which they came," We walked up to the spo’. It fs now an broken down pile of bricks a dozen yards from the gate, irass now, but taen a blood shuttered, bullet soattors tl opening in the wall, As we stood there, sithou zh the seens was thirty seven years ago. L saw them come wn ~ Havelock pale and sick, but triamphant, ani Outram, whom all the equesirian statues in Caleutta and i “What then happened?” 1 sald to my es. eort, Oh," he sald, *‘that Is impossible to tell, The earth was removed from the gate, and soon nll the army of roliel entered, ani some of us laughed, and some cried, ani raved, and some danecad, Highlnne wounds on their faces to make them up- snatched the babes ont of mothers’ arms and Kissal them ani thn babies along for other to kiss, and the wounded their pass +d diers BO. men cheerine, and it was wild jubllee until, the first excitement passed, the story of how of the advancing army had been on the way bagan to have tearfal and the story of sufering that had endured inside the fort, ani the an- to children that they wars andi to wives that thoy wera many wailing of noony, “Bat were you nof embarrassed by the ar no food with them?” He answered: “0. course we were put on smaller rations ime madiately in order that they might shares with us, hut wa knew that the coming of his would help us to hold the place until further relia! should come. Had arrive l as it did in a dav re-anforecament bestegsrs would have broken in, nnd our end The Sepoys hn { dug six ani would soon cone, ines under the residency pve pxnio led After we had ¢ vid bean pi vorites inna Ba 4 Wearaaurh catered the army i pera with He part in the wars of Barma, Afghanistar paiga of 1843 Belained by ads ordinate position, it Bris life to show that Jaristian is consistent hnrge of the ¥ vaanded a dis i and served t his death Mabhratta ean and td 1845, Rar fran duties ion in Porsian Iva the ex ap wife ' #1 Day fis blessinz of Gol " 0 not spared to 1 earned i gorved saw ft 10 of bis labor in He departed to his rest in ham. fident expestation of rewards and houors which IrYy wasansious to bsstow a! nn commander, the courage aad devo of 6 soldier, the learning of a schol sr, the graes of a highly bred gentleman an! all the social and domestic virtues of a band, father and friend wore ed together, ani strengthens), harmonized and adornsd by the spirit of a tras Chris. tisn, the result of the influence of the Holy Spirit on his heart, ant of an humble rele ance on the merits of a eraeifled Raviour, 11 Timothy, iv., 7, 8 ‘I have fought a good fight. Ihave finishe! my course, I havs Kept the faith, Heneeforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shail give md ag that day, and not to me ouly, but nate all them also that love His appearing.’ This the moment of his greatest inampas, sie bt eon far gronter SIL te iil a a grateful In him the sg Hite. blends Is not that magniflsent? Dut I sald while standing at Haveioel's grave, Way does uo England take his dust to herself, ani in Westaiinster abboy make him a pillow? ia magastic, yet she has expressed nothing His widow reareltas Do you say, “Lat him sles) in the region where he did his grandest des «2° Hooton in Belgium, and Von Moltke at V oe sailies, and Grant at Viekstueg, and Stone wall Jackson iar away from his beloval Lexington, Va, Take him home, 0 Euge Innd! The rescasr of ths men, women nnd children at Lucknow! His ear now dulled eonld net hear the roll of the organ warn ic sounds through the venerable abbey tie national anthem. Bat it would hear ths sate trampet that beings up from among those sacred walls the form of Oateam, his feliow hero in the overthrow of the India mutiny, Let Pardament make appropria tion irom the national treasury, ani sows great war ship under some favorite admiral sail neross Moditeranean and A sony, nnd walt at Bombay harbor for the coming of this conqueror of conquerors, aad then, saluted by toe Mnipping ve all tree uations, : up and coms under “Jupnoe,” sald the young man with | the torn clothes and the black eve, “considerin’ the way the police done | me up, I think vou ought to let me | down easy.” “Young man, if you | came hereexpecting this court to be a | parachute,” replied the judge, with a harsh police court lauzh, “you are | away off your trolley. Ninety days.” | ~incinpati Tribune. i —— ae Sne-—1t. takes two to make a bar gain, you know. He—Yes: but only one gets ivi—Boston Courier. a Well Pat. “It makes me mournful to think,” old veteran of the G, A sald an y “that this good, right arm of mine which carried a musket in a hundred fights, should now bs all doubled up and out ol shaps with rheumatism “Wall look here, wheres have you besa living nil this time, that yon don’t know 81, Jacohs Oil will cure you.' And stralghi way went for a bottle, and 10: he was cured The straight way the sure way for the ue- compitshment of any good in tho seeking of the great remedy for the of pain Is sursly the way. Ask those who have been and they will put you straight, ”" ne Hino, 4 jife, and Tle) Fy ngt bonafited BeckeER-—] see hy the Footlights, the traged der his wife's management Decker men, 1 thiydon't ad- Brooklyn Life, PRO : People wi ore 1 degree of joyment posters that an, travels un- mn ’ iat 1s ONCE USED THEY ARE ALWAYS IN FAVOR, « What's there? Things For the Cook, sir"; Methinks it is some Buckwheat For the morrow’s breakfast. © YE wine sik FOSTPAID 8 fue Fu tern, CR "MEDITATION By ¢ pegs ¥ ph excise for 19. aren Ly { Hone, of Trom 3 i‘ BIN 3 oa Seem} wlan i 3 pe § tig Vrite foe vist i oo sheer | ow preminmes fooled ng Hooks Bb baile, gone Ol F WooLson Smee Co i He, ¥ TOLEDO, URLS SERRRSRRE RENN FrrreResase eee ee washed; it teils on the woman work, and works safely. want done well ; what Baking The First Polatoes in In the garden ad ololng bh at Youghal, Raleigh planted potatoes ever grown in Ireland. The vegetable was brought to him from ored COO Ireland, rat aie rst 1 hie 1585, to establish in Virginia started in April, Harriot, one of their ber, wrote a description of the coun- in 1687. He descrip?s a root which must have been the potato: “Openank } of roots round walnuts are found in moist togetl other in ropes, as and are a xing form. some the bigness farre greater, whi marish er BON § ™ many ‘sas This We offer One HH paired D annul be cure lars Reward for i BY CASO iad © v¥ sve known F, Chil “ vy Chol SY ALL MARYIN, IOIOSRIe 1 i Ha'l Ww i506, Kiwvan & bruise rkmbar * 2 rus . : wis y f taken Internally, act. aos of 11 tr botile. Bold by adi Druggist DEATH AFTER ALL NOT SO Ususiliy Brings Neither The Vi or Vesr nor Pain, when that end As for PRs go Lig eis idence that tl # with seated assertions of its made Most ait people are us for some hours before thes ad in the rare where con 8 retained al CHRFCS iv al od xd fies impaled unt minutes before the end 4 tay ahaa YO to Atl « while in good hea Pr. J. W. 1 which cphreses « Pl LEHNE Coe RH ——— I. the Lord Knows, \ © vears ago in a Ma ne revival had been o noted J the med ine put tw © recacs concluded one de for word s rik and sro ed in got into his fold. he other parson felt word looking down at the in his eco converts av i ely vy ic 4 1 CATCUINSG Sun 00 needed a explanation. so, handiul of tion, he said *Brothren, it doesn’t who trings the f:h who caught em.” converys ngrega- make odds he Lord knows - #4 by every Slate Superintendent of Schools nat bd It’s a cold day for the housekeeper when Pearline gets left. Take Pearline {ro washing and cleaning an othing remains but hard work. It shows in the things that are Pearline saves whee who washes, tell - are Oo Work Week. Tunene ome y appear v in the fie day in Li Fwamr-Roor eures and Biad troubles, free, ar Less RIG « 30 and cures consti % 2h ENOWLEDGE Prior 231 rt and improvement and i % 3 & ead whe £ - BE per a ee BE ed eh Hoe, by all drug. but it is mane nia Fig Syrup nted on every } Figs, 1 will not fv 1S THE BEST. NO SQUEARKING $5. CORDOVAN, SAE 1 EN ALT PMELLEDCALY. FIRE CALFAKANSARDR 1 ENCCETON, MASA. You ran eave pocey by weaving the Ve Li. Docsiaos £3.00 Shee, Because, vo pre the lar terers of fs em tee their value by ats bottom, which i ! work ins Ve have (hom he value piven g of your Goal Often in the morning There comes a fecling . Of weariness, indescribable Not exactly i, Nor fit to £0 to the store, But toe near well © remain away. One « Ripans Tabule Taken at night, pt ey after dinner, Has been known a drive Away that eo Nearines—formonths EASTMAN £55 Bm wt edmond onml od stihnbawent sot. Henlihful: best infinenoes; 3 . g Boob mon Shediies and Typo.
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