REY. DR. TALMAGE
Sunday Sermon,
Bubject: ‘Storming the Helghts,”™
Taxw: "Who art thou, O great mountain?
Petareerubbabael thou shalt becor ea plain.”
~-aocharink iv, 7.
Kewubbabell Who owned that diffeult
name Wm whioh three times the letter hb"
«urn, disposing ost people to stammer in
tha promuneciation? Zerabhabel was
visndid man called to rebuild the destroved
‘wpe of Jurusalem, stone for the bullding
liad been quarried, and the trowal had rung at
tise vine of the cornerstons, and all went
wo, whem the Cuthmans offered to help in
fie wok, They were a bad lot of people,
and Barabbabel declined their help, and then
Hie Lronide began, The Cuathmaus preju-
eal the secretary of the treasury agninst
Locabbabel so that the wages of the sarpon-
rors and masons conld not be paid, and the
Ode
fron Moust Lebanon to the Mediterranean
rid fated (a rafts from Beirut to Joppa and
were bo be drawn by ox team from J gpa to
work gf these jealous Cuthmans for sixtesn
v nee tha building of the temple was sto ped
Hat alter sixteen yoars Zorabbabel, the
the
Loy
1h.
«wad with the temple balidinog, and
nel ofthe Lord fn sub-tunoe said: +7
Ava pied wp obstastes in the way of 2
Labal watt! they have become as a me 4
ba hi above asignt, erag whove cra,
«hall all bs thuniered down wad ms.
1nd smaoeth as the floor of a hove a
t then, ® great mountain? Be
sal Show shalt become a plain,
Wail, the Cuthmans are not all ¢oad vet,
bey wre busy in every neighbor! od
very ety and every Nation Oy ry
ising obstacles in the way of
they have piled up hiondrane
oranees antil they have
ihe BAHL bas bee
fantihan has
nent an tan
Woria » saavation, Bom
rar A/D
™ Ler
"
sad
Of
§ BDH
«me a }
we a mountsin
a Alp, aad
Way Ol m
ix
and
Ome
8 nl
ria
fierd itth
this moun
dans pot
HY of thas
se hig
tad i such a
Hae
TeV Will
“3 wus de i
Ww--1 edn hear it in
Minions that they
knxes and shov
. wok Mountains,
sip me woile | preach
wae of goma of th hi
re puBly in the way and
Rose outings an
Sh, ground up, levels
weven “Who art tt
Zerubbabel
ve
in
fiafora
pan . :
Wirst, there is the
As Mra as a range «
ties aunst the Bil
SM nl ook, a
book, atl in every way at
seed Qf them have ne
fhe steata of the roe
ra (aes 8, The p
al ime Mosale soo
the poolerieal ao
CVOT Was in Det
jiekax acd shovel and blasting 1
aniogiat xoes down in the
The frst thing oroate
thes earth was ths
Aya, 1 told you
Wee enrt
vietding
obilng frum.
figrine in
king In the furnis
aking of th
“Ave, I told
baok ef Genesis,
ming fortn
that have
whales '"
he peck
The nes ;
was the ercatl
Hes and the
suse Moses
Bust chapter of
the earth brio
sfifer his kin
beasts
sist
that
seed
he of
ing
s ereatures
eR
and
The geo
an in His own
1 ereated He him
, area sd Ho t I'n
dns the Biblio do got know
sus In Bevot an
hat the
3 aiestines Aan i Syria are
afirming t Seriptures~ he same facts
yritten on me nents and on
czhamed eit es as written in the Bivle. The !
city of Phihom has heen unburied, and its |
bricks are found to have been made withoat
“URW, axact y « the Bible |
story of the persec i at j
sotta eylinder, recent ip from |
thousands of years of burial, the capture of |
Babyion by Oyrus is told, On a Babylonian |
sem roe tly found are tl i a tree, |
& man, a woman and a serpent, and the
hands of the man and woman are stretohed |
ap toward the tree as to pinck the fruit |
]
i
!
i
fovea |
TR
iy
figures
fo
fas the Bible story of the fall {= coufls
Ia a museum at Constantinople you see a
pieces of the wall that once in the ancient
ismple of Jerusalem separated the court of
the Gentiles and the court of the Israelites,
12 whieh Paul refers when he says of Christ,
““He is our peas, Who hath broken down the
aiddles wali of partition between us” On |
tablets recently discoverad have been found |
the names of prominent of the
«peiled a hittle different, according to
femnnds ancient language, *“Adamu
for Xdam, “Abrama’’ Abrahmm, “Abia
ior Abol, and 80 on. Tw nty-two leet unter. |
ground Bas been found a seal {aserib-d with
the words, “Haggai, son of Shebaniab,”
thousands of years ago cut, showing that
the Proph-t Hazgat, who wrote a part
Bible, was not amyth,
The val nei
feet Lelew th
med
men Jit
uF
»
for
fe I
of the |
oa, naan
sd 58 4 ith inseriptions tt they
yre, just
were furnished by Hirnm, Ki J
#2 the Bible says they were, The great names
»? Ble history, that many suppose are
aames of imagamary belongs, are found eut
into imperishable stons which bave within
a few years been rolled up from their
sulombment of ages, such as Henpacherih
and Tigiath-Plleser. On the edge of a
vroased stop and on burned brick has been
‘ound the same of Nebuchaanezzar, Henry
Bawlinson and Oppett and Hicks an% Palos.
tinpexploration societies and Asyriologists
and Bgypiolog sts have rolled another Bible
up from the depths of the earth, aad lo! it
corresponds exactly with our Bible, the roek
Bible just like the printed Bible, inserip-
tions on eylinders aud brickwork out
3800 years before Christ testilying
fc the treth of what we read 1897
years after Christ, The story of the tower
of Babel has been conllrmad by the fue: that
recently at Babel an oblong plie of brisk 110
feet high evidences the remains of a fallen
tower. lu the inspired book of Bora we
suad of the great and noble Asuapper, 4 ams
that meant pothing especial until recently
in pried up Beyptina sculplurs wo have
the story thers told of him as a great hunter
as woll as a great warrior, What I say now
i# news to those prejudiced agniost the Bible,
are so far behind the times that they
now not that the oid beok’ i= being proved
true by the prying eve of the antiquadan
and the ringiog hammer of the archmologist
and the plunging bammer of the geologist,
No more is infidelity eonaracterized by its
¥ than oy its ignorance, bu:, oh!
wis a high moustaln of prejudice agains
the Bible, agaivst Christianity, sgainst
“htivehes, against al! erupgeilxiog enter.
Presa monntaio that casts fis long black
shadows over this continent and over all
—————
f Everest fs the highest mountain in the world,
{ Oh, nol The mountain of prejudices against
Christianity is higher than the highost crags
that dare the lightaiogs of heaven. Beloro
Zurubbabe!, can it ever boacome a plain?
Another mountain of hindrauce is that of
positive and outspoken tmmorals, There is
thagnouniain of inebriacy, It Is pile t with
kegs and demijohos and decanters and hogs.
heads, on which sit the victims of tht tral
fie whose one busiosss is to rob earth and
| heaven of the most generous and large
hearted and splendid of the human race, [f
their busiaess was to take only the mean and
stingy and contempt and wo
{ would not say much against the work, for
| thers are tons of thousnads of men and wo-
| men who aro a nuisances to the worl 1, and
{ their obliteration trom human society would
| be an a ivantage to all that is good. The re.
{ moval of these moral defleits wonld not
{ arouse in us much of a protest. But inso
bricty tho best. The mountain
nebriney stands in the way of the kingdom
| of God, and handreds of thousands of men
nit for that hindranso would step right into
ile nselogs,
¢
akon Of
the racks of the Lord's host and march
{| heavenward, each taking a regiment
| with Bim. The mountain of inohrlacy is not
| an ordinary mountain, but it is armed. It
i# 1 line of fortresses continually blazing
| away its destract.ve forees upon all our
| neighborh sods, towns and cities, their vol-
{ leys of death poured down upon the hones
and churches, Under this power more than
10,000 men and women a#s in this eountry
| every year imprisoned, aud aa army of 800, -
1000 drunkards almost shake tho earth
{| with their staggeriog tread, It causes in
i this sountry 300 murders and 400 suicides a
vear. This mountain of inebriney has not
j Only Assan ited the land, but bombarded the
*hipping of the seq, snd some of the most
appaliing shipwrecks Atlantie nnd Pacific
oasts hava been the result, What sank the
steamer Rothsay Cast the way fr
| Liverpool to Dublin, stroving 10
| Hives? A drunken sea captain,
| up the Bon Bharrod on the Mississippi
rible d + A dranken
© 0 ih 1 oi ars nn
its way Y
ILE Nev Ww { aha i $
i one
a
on
What drov nto
mayiog hari
way bh
4 oth»
trunken sea
ths of
nAan
iTER AN
OC) O00 000
All, this
rdinnry m
fior bLuttie,
Hike nn «
ons of
It j= like KH
andes, which }
the
1% the Rg ®t volea
ie earth, apd nearning which
from the Sandwich [siands a few
“What a hMealng, belloning tun
ing foree In Kilanea' Lake of nt ne 6H |
mvolutions and paroxysma o !
elements of ature In torture; torridity and
larfdfty; congregation of dreads: mo yu
horrors: salphurous sbysms; swirling oo ye.
tery of all time; Infinite turbulenae: chimney
wallowing terrors: 1liven sores
of threats; glooms [nsafferable and Dant-
esque: ealdron stirred by the champion witeh
of pandemonium; campfire of the armies of
Diabolus; wrath of the mountains in full
bloom; shimmmeriag insandmsencs; pyrotech-
nies of the planet; furnace blast of the a pos
Kilauea!” But, my friends, mightier, high
er, vaster hotter, more raging, is the vo leanie
mountain of war. It has been Lisziag for
tundreds of years and will keep on blagine
but I dare not hazard a or ygdie
uit be that its fires will ever be put
Can it ba that its roar will over b
lancod? Can it be that be
bel that blaring mounatain
33 tn all
I wrote
yao
There is al«o the long ranae of mountains,
ner than Appaiach range, longer than
MUCASIAD Fang taan Sierras Nevada
Ang etre of ition of bad litera
, Dad bad lnstitations, bad nmuse-
poate, bad eanturiea, bad religions—Pagan-
ism, Hindooism, Baddhsm, Mohammedan
ism and battressed and enthroned godless.
ness, devoted to ambition and last and hydra
headed, argus eyed abomination, as it stands
with lifted fist and moacing lips, ehalleaging
Jehovah upon the throna of the goiverse to
strike if We dare. Ob, it is a great mountain,
fs my text deciares. Thers {2 no nie in deny-
ing it. The most authontio st «tistics declare
it. The signs of the times prove it. Al
Christing workers realize it, It Is a moua-
tain. “The mountain ean never bs Hrought
down,” says worldly speculation. “The
mountain can never be made a piain,” says
a small faith io the charches, Wall, Jo us
soe, Let us look sbont for the implements
wa can lay our hands oo. Let us eount the
number on our side who aro willing to dig
withh a shovel or bore a tunnel or blast a
rock, Let us soe if there ia any foreign help
that will come in to re-enforca ue. 1 do not
want to make mysell absurd by attempt.
ing an impossibdfity. If it is only oae
spade at the foot of Mount Blane, if it is
only one arm, capable of Hiting but a few
pounds, against a mountain that weighs
100.0 0,000 rouse, Ist us quit hetore we make
ourselves the travesty and caricature of the
universe, [If we ars to nadertake this job,
first of all we must have a competent eugi-
noer, one who knows all shout excavations,
about embankments, about tunnels, about
mountaing. I know eangineers who have
carved up mountains, eut down mountains,
removed mountains, I will do nothing uc
fess 1 know who ttc be our engineer.
Zerabbabel lod at the rebuilding of the an.
cisnt temple, and Matthew Henry, the great.
set of commentators, declares that one
Zernbbabel is the Lord Jesus Christ. The
Zerubbabsel of my {ext was only a type of the
ire yin
te
/
look ap futo the face of this divine engineer
And soc it glow with all the splendors of the
Godhead, and see that in His arm is the ale
mightiness thus flung out all the worlds that
glitter in tho midnight heavens, and that to
ft the Himalayas would cost Him no hors
effort than for me to lit an ounce, my Bours
age begins to rally, and my faith Logins to
mount, and my enthasinsm Is all nile ine,
and the worls of my text this momont Just
fit my ps and axpresa the triumph of my
soul, and I ery out: “Who art thou, O great
mountain? infors Zaubbavel thon shalt
| become a plain?”
I toll you the ros mot
It 1s coming down ;
down, There are those
these words who will gaze upon hs come
plete prosiration, for what is the use of my
Kseping back any longer the full statement
of the fact, which I have somewhat delayed
through Iawlul sermonle Atratogy, the faet
that the LL rd God Almighty, in the fall
play of His omnipotence, will accomplish
this supornnl work. It God can build a
mountain, I guess He can remove a moun-
tain After God has given full opportunity
for the shovels He will come in with His
thunderboits,. We have amplified the {des
ofthe Lanb of God, I tell you now of the
lion, Hore {2a thought that I have never
seen projected, and yet it is the most ehoer-
ail considerations and plainly Serip-
tural, the thought that as at tne opening of
the gospel dispensation in the Oaristly and
Jonwaian and Pauline “ays the machinery of
the natural world was brought tuto servi o,
the shadow of eclipses and the agitation of
enribguakes, temp put to gloep noder the
is coming down.
It will all come
who hear or read
in
ipidiy.
p
’
i
ing oO
voices uf divias lullaby, iron bolts of prisons
shovel back by {nvisible muscle, kin ling
of flan heads of worshipers, by is an-
tan panrmacy blasted vision given fuli
and toe dead re the
1% On
irnod from
rorid, wiagiing amid earth ¥ scenes,
an ‘ f« from beayen
pet into Hoe wit he lorem of Ood already
fii the iprighteonsooes
will 320 that the mr of d ome
and will waver baek and take Night
and nothing ba left of then save hers and
there, strowa by t an agnd
pen, or a broken dees A torn playbii
ol a debasing amusement, or & blasphemous
paragraph, or a isper’s seale, or a dragon's
t oth, to show they evar existe, Lat there
be cheering all alone the lines
workers aver the faet that what the shovels
fall to do will be sccomplishead by the than.
derbolts. "Who art thou, O great mountain)
Before Zerubbabel thou shalt becomes
pinty.™
The mountaine look o1
And Marath
wor has
$i
stin's
neg y
ELECTRICITY FOR THE
Machinery to Disconrage Strikes by Dig
contented Workmen,
A scheme, having
development and utilisation
to be adapted to the vary
mine, and for its ullimale object ths diseo
agement of Atrios as a moans of battering
conditions, has taken definite shape at Col.
umbus, Ohio,
operator scoured from the Secretary of State
the blank forms and instructions nesaseary
of mm hinare
It was disnosed that the schema ig to con
loys. with a cenfral power hous» as an acons.
sory, from which will be furnished power to
operate machinery to be placed in the son
tignous mine,
taken by the miners at their recsat conven.
tion, and the fact that nuamersns local strikes
industry,
cantral power houses will soon be erested in
Jackson County, at Wellston, and Coalton,
as experiments,
operators is that the lighting of mines by
the experiment in Jackson County. Thou.
#ands of miners will bo thrown out of em-
ployment,
The Poor Ride in Ohaless.
A Wichita (Kan. per announced tha
th ro were 1ob0 et ready for Jdistri au
tion to the poor at the express offices, ana
within thirty minutes after the paper reac 1d
tha street people were driving up in care
riages asking for the rabbits,
Gotham's Wealth 82,106,485,000,
The total valuation of real and persona
property in New York Oity, according to the
nsseement rolls just completed by tre Tax
eovtinents! Geographers ivl! us that Mount
glorious and omnipotent Jesus, and as 1
Depattmant, ts approximated at 82,02,485,.
3
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
Bread “am
used by
1.000, 060) (KK)
a i
t
Qty n
[Hn
presen Prospttiag)
Varmers in no
Killing
i 1
Rey) Then 1
be
tu
ili iis HUW Olex
iY noney on ie
A novel
Ootirso of
In offer
Aarwl
ITE §
hile
1 NEBrreon,
day, with
oRraph, io
it had
in i
I'he Goveram
racting
gaged in
a
HOW
tire for
COE;
cost of $0000.00 cach,
pereling in
the appropriaiion of
Hut
for
made
additional, the most lavieh ex
val
by
werniment,
penditures improveinents
being Russia The
asi
‘
raliway enterprise
are a
perial gy from the
ganic
now
#i
in witch
in engaged. coutemplales the os
ponditure of no less than S30.0000 (0K)
ithin the Nome of
nt has alrea is appro
priated and several vessels are now in
1% next seven years
Hey En
process of consiraction From
figures, the Atlan'a Journal vonclnndes
iv I8 yory evident tha: the w
branch.
W. HH. Campbell, 1 prominent
ultucist, of Sioux City, has been
Omaha, on business connected
seid
wih
road,
menting for the last three years on a
process for turning the arid belt of
lands in Nebraska, Colorado, Kansas
and the Dakotas into crop producing
districts. The experiments have beon
of such a successful raiture that
#
belo dues] the Northern Pa
Moo Line, apd the Ob cago, Mi
watkee and the 81, ‘an’ {
tic t Fei
Aas 10 eft
io the Behe
Rpring Ihe rogas
After 2 Fire Remember
ison baking soda
burned «=
lightly i»
soittion
amd Ini over 1h it
fnowWal i
face, handaging then over
Keep them In pla
That as soon ax dry «pot appears
1 wei with
ROQNCORINE some
Fa
and
fu
by
in
2
spntnratasl
the soda and water
ther Ww Ho smarting
air
on it, and
while it is {we
excindmd,
That if a rubber
a plece thin
cloak or any water-proof article shonld
with a blanket
sufferer,<-Chi
at hand,
Rassgmoer
sip? ix pol
of oifeloth, a
be spread on thie Issel,
GV GL 1D reoeive fae
cago Record.
An Octopus Plant.
It «1 that Me. Dunstan, a
in repre
ous plant of dangerous character on
the shores of 13ke Tearagua, in Central
Amerien. The Indians call the plant
“The Devil's Noose,” and 11 is deseribed
as a veritable “land octopus” lis
branches are Mack, fegible and Jeal-
fess, hut coverad with s=ockers, and a
sticky gum emitting a fetid odor. A
dog belonging to Mr. Dunstan was
canght by the branches and f{airly
“Hmed” Ske a bind, =o that it conld not
escape without the help of is master
i
A OCEAN DRUMMER,
Strange Musical Sounds Mads By a Fish
Otf the Jersey Coast.
par i “er
turalint unde
cof the popular
Petia ries
+ ign mens
bh ms ng n
LEE Wa
s HP TAve
national air
ef ore the
Nae rs
in (rom lie
helr and 1
« undoubladly a
wee, aml is believed
the dram Ssh to iis
fia he peruliar sonmds have beca
investigated amd studied by a Frenne
na M. Direfole, who finds thai
they are produced by the action of the
bladder.
len FE ORA%
{oed
pari 03
{lio call
to iw
RE
turalist,
air
Alaska's C.ntas
Yery people. probably, etm
inink of Sitka as an ancient town ane
+ the first white
tiand there. Thes
were lossian who arrived
four years after Vine Behring took
PORECES On of all thas part of Ameries
in the Bussian Czars name.
The hunters raed theomselves and
few Indians until 17000 when sone
Mupscovite nobles formed a company ox
the same limes as those followed hn
the Hudson Bay Company, and wen
inirusted with control of as much of
the raglon as they chose to claim. Theh
few
vet i= 151 years sin
residents of Alaska met
hnnters
ranoff., whe governed the land and ak
lis people for thirly years, He exer
cised the power of Ife and death ovw
als subjects, or slaves, rather, and wa,
a drunken raflian of considerabh
shrewdness and ability, <