REV. DR TALHAGE fhe Eminent Washington Sunday Sermon. Divine's Subject: “A Mighty Warfare, our banners ~Panims xx... b. I hate war. inourbovhood we may have read the biography of Alexander or of some beat high and we ing down a Hessinn Forrusty swords hung houses in whieh they were lodged during the great strifo we had unbounded admiration, or on some publie day, elothed in our grand- father's soldierly nccouterments, we «it as brave us Garibaldi or Miltindles, wiser now, for we between the poetry and the prose of war, The roll of drums, and the eall and the champing of steeds foaming pawing for the muskets glittering among the danel plumes, “God the King" waving from clarinets and trumpets and rung back from deep deflles or the arches of a pr city, distant eapitais of at the tidings, generals der flaming arches anths and the sh pPosry. Chilled : half blanketed, with of bugles, battle Nave returning home un- and shov ng ar ut of empires--that lying on march he ine aud nation fe insulted, climes been offered t« or kir On when n biepn + fact that hus it anions or bond siract) nave nt God ev rid than this. Itis magnifios '. Lot us stop talking so much ag the world. God pronounced it very go ¥ the beginning. Tho wandering child God, 1 in great Father's lineaments, Though t drives i the of 6000 . of Hoan it Ved =e brass the re BOS coming int she shall be kingdoms, we SYR wtinats passion, harn ship, hypoe this Chris sion he wou Orning stars {Go contend, 8 Of against fa'se prof i From oppres- sion he wou From pride he would rend off the | From revenge he would exorcise the devil. While Christ loved the world so much he disdto gave it, he hates sin so woll that to eradicate the last trace of its pollution he will utterly consume | the continents and the oceans, Af the gate | of Eden the declaration of perpetual enmity was made againat the serpent. The tumult | roundabout Meunt Sinai was only the roar and flash of God's artillery of wrath against sin. Bodom on fire waz only one of God's | flaming bulletins announcing hostility. Nineveh and Tyre and Jerusalem in awful ruin weark the track of Jehovah's sfivance- | ment, They show that God was terribly in earnest when he announced himself abhor | rent of all intquity. They make us believe { that, though nations belligerent and revenge. | ful may sign articles of peace and come to an | amicable adjustment, thers shall be no cessa- | tion of hostilities between the foroes of light and the forces of darkoess until the king- doms of this world have hecome the king- | doms of our Lord. Affrighted by no opposi- | tion, discouraged by no temporary defeats, i shrinking from no exposure, every man to | his position, whils from the tops of our | schoolhouses aud ehiurches and seminaries | and asylums “in the name of God we will sot up cur banners,"’ Thers are nonprolessors who have a very correct idea of what Christians ought to be. You have seen members of the church who were as proud as Abab and lied as badly as Ananias and who were as {onl hypocrites as Judas. You abhoralithat, You say follow. ors of Christ ought to be honorable, humble and self denying and charitable and patient ~ud forgiving. Amen Bo they ought. Come to the kingdom of Christ, my hearer, and we Just that glorious Christian that you bave described, Every church bas enough stingy men in it to arrest its charities, no ud men in it to grieve away the Holy 8 lames, host, and spcagh lazy men in it to hang on ( behind till {ta wheels, like Pharaoh's char. 'jots, drag heavily, and enough worldly men { to exhaust the patience of the very eleoct,and enough snarly men to make appropriate tho Bible warning, “Beware of dogs," If any : of you men on the outside of the kingdom axpect to make such Christians as that, we do not want you to coms, for the church has already 1 million members too many of just that kind, We do not want our rapks crowded with serfs when we oan have them | fillad with zouaves, There are men now, as in Christ's time, | possessnd of seven devila, In some instances it seems as though at conversion only six of these evil spirits were cast out, while there romains still one in the heart—the devil of avarice, the devil of lust or the devil of pride, Men of the world, if you would be trapsforried and elevated by the power of the gosp |, now is the time It is no mean nsign I lift this It is a od flag. It to some, hour, battle, humiliation from Bethlehem to Calvary, Rent by hell's onslaught, the spears of a maddened soldiery and the hands of men ensign in His bleading senled the heights of oursin, With this He mounted the walls of perdition, und amid its very smoke and flame and blasphemy He waved His triumph, while demons howled MLvaen Ihronged His chariot wheels And bore Him to His throne, Then swept thelr golden harps and sang. The glorious work is douse, Again, when a grand vietory has been won, iti stomary to announces it by flags float- ing from public buildings and from trees and ships. They are the sig- rejoleing and festivity. church holsts is a There was n time when was not considered ree i sing IR rning and which ry. { Chris ft ensign tha of viet and position ronments ansthema- a Christian was rk the differ priios thelr | ill immediate and drive back the have tha r batter: Ww > they a about ready great Captain wave the sige feniostial weaponry shatl qual wa of hell and sound uj of heaven. Pagodas and tempi i» under the shock and besotted | nations ly from their idols and supers | stitions, shouting like the confounded | worshipers of Baal *The Lord, He is the | ' The Lord, Ha is the God! Wa go not alone to the fleld. We have in- vinoible alijes in the damb elements of na- ture, As Job said, we are in league with the very stones of the Geld. The sun by day and | the moon by night, directly or indirectly, | shall favor Christianity. Tne stars in their i cotiraes are marshalled for ug, as they fought | the thes shall as certainly acting in favor of Christ as in reformation times the Invincible armada in its pride approached the coast of Eogland, As that proud navy directed its guns against the friends of Christ and religious liberty, God said unto his winds, ‘‘Beize hold of them. and to the sea, “Swallow them. ™ The Lord, with his tempests, deshed their valor lay crushed among the waves of the seabench, All are ours, Aye, God the Father, God the Son and God the Hoty Ghost are our allies! The Mohammedans, in their struggle to subjugate the world, had passages from the Koran inseribed an the blades of their scimis tore, and we have nothing to fear if, ap- proaching the infidelity and malice that op- pose the kingdom of Christ, we sball have glittering on our swords the words of David to the giant, “I come to thee in the name of the Lord of Hosts, the God of the armies of Israsl, whom thou hast defied.” Now the church goes forth beating pre elous seed, but after awhile it will be the sheaf binding, and reaper angels shall shout the harvest home, Now it is tents and march ing and exposure, but then, in the ranks of strate juiquiny and on the walls of vet, name of God we will set up our banners,” The earth sends up its long. dp groan of pain and elanks the great chains of its bonds ago and cries by the voles of sea and land the water that the daughter of Lir was transformed into a bird of the alr and that the arrival of at the stroke river and lake until tianity and that first cathedral bell her spirit was freed. Unocounted millions of our race by the power of sin and antan have been transformed into a state of wretchedness, and they wan- der like the poor daugkter of Lir, but they shall after awhile he released, When the great church ef Christ shiall fn those dark- ened lands from ite tower ring out the glad tidings of the gospel, then millions of wan- dering souls shall find rest in a SBaviour's pity and a Saviour's love, transported from the kingdom of satan {nto the kingdom of (tod's dear Son. By and by you would hardly know the earth If you saw it. The world as a whole ot heart by conversion, Fraud, leaving its trickery, will go to work foran honest living. Koavery shall begin to make righteous bargains, Passion shall answer to the eon- trol of reason. Beoffers shall be changed izto worshipers and skeptics into Bible lovers Christ shall begin His reign on earth Whether He shall descend on to the earth In person and establish a govern- ment at Jerusalem, I cannot say, but it will be an ern of more than Augustan splendor, That is enough. Knowing this, we can never despair. But as we see the church of Christ putting on her beautiful garments with the ymwell, who standing famine-stricken soldiers the sun rising out of the mist and, pointing to it with sword, uttered prayer which hurled his men upon the fos like a sky { thunderbolts GArise! O God! ba rel With the his fl crushed thine f faith I Inttar day sheath thy sword and In the name enemies the ear o gio ¥. eh 3 1 battle! untain, he piandits ' Will et ip An defents, shail gathor ¥ r one last terrible asaay God § and t battles ory, ¥ spread out « square and r their cause th qaare fn, w in Bpir its © in and darks by the plunder and BOMNe Jogi ¢ : i larknows straggie Hoattered binuts i sin and As t tha satani f sf the TON ar eres nil Ww wall listen of heaven in the presenes « 3 amie defeat aon of V n Joanie and and the the crown of acelnma- ip in the image rown of victory the wy the amid the chureh ir Lord, an hes d in her SAN in up her bas ‘ me M sant sel ¢ and t of fp af nama the iii if re ne of the Almighty. h shall thin wh ation to i again fo the it sar will stand in the way of thy the sweep of thy wing? A CREAT WAGON TRAIN. Sixty Horses Hauling It to the De La Mar Mines in Utah. P. B. McKeon left Milford, Utah, for De fa Mar the other day with the heavi- est toam train ever undertaken under like condition of roads. of very muddy roads he is attempting to neavy machinery loaded on thres wagons. This outfit is acoompanied by other outfits, and as the train pulled out over the hills to tha wost it looked not unlike some circus at- tempting to invade the western country. four-horse teams busy hauling water, henniest-loaded wagons will drag the ground. This machinery is for the De La Mar mines, machinery, near! road between Mitford and the mine, ——— a a NEW iss ARMY POLICY. The Public No Louger to He Allowed fo Visit Forte, General Miles, commanding the United States army, has issued a general order pro- hibiting. in the strictest terms, the admission of any person, ex officers of the Navy pr Government employes, to any lake or sea const defences without a permit from the commandant of the place, Moreover, such permits are to be given only for true mili- under no conditions are FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. TEMS OF TIMELY INTEREST TO THI FARMER, Thinning Fruit—-Starting Plants in Sods~ Re-enforcing Stable Manure — Chick. ens Reared on Milk. STABLE MANURE, table manure is lying in heap to add to While good plan the pilie with He manure ym the chamber, together German pot . 4 cularly valuable for } y s they will off unite with the fer ven the hy the seed. The 2OW about weeks belo gafe to ground The hardening off fnuring to outdoor conditions 8ix piace the plants open km d § that is ig a very important part of spring plant manage- ment Two weeks the time finally transpiant the plants in a shallow ont of doers, having boards high enough secure head room for the plants. The taken from the trench should banked around the rim. A tight board cover- ing at night will protect from frost, and such a cover may be cheaply made by taking goods boxe. cleating gides and top and bottom, so they will not fall to pieces, and sewing them off close to each end. This will give six covers which will serve for a cold frame twenty-eight inches wide and gixteen to twenty Jeet long, according to the size of the box, and a box will before place trench rim of io a tO soil be dry in nights when there is no probability of frost. the covers may be left off. Thrifty growth, frequent transplant. ing, and careful but thorough harden- ing are the gscrets of strong, early, tough vegetable plants, desirable to put in plenty of seed, as they seem to come up much better than when sown thinly, A certain amount of | i cracking the goil, just as ut the ralsing of a bullding for all The growers but flat Bo thors many hands makes Hight work advanced plant the in do not wiler upon surface have a shallow tank which the box fol the ot This the preve) DUKing surface and steamed makes an for laving hens if mixed food Have ome early and allow PIRS « run with the corn they will eat until weaned old sows for raising strong pigs 10 BOWS, Trees for the home are a great orna- ment and comfort, But too to the dwelling they become a menace to health by encouraging dampness wnt close it" will pay you to breed your farm mares this year, if they are good ones If they are not, keep selling and trad: ing until you get god ones A EODG team tells a good farmer. Don’t forget to soak your seed pola toes ten hours in a solution composed of 1 part corrosive sublimate to 1,001 paris of water, and vou will have a | crop of smooth potatoes this year. | Usually barn yard manure posesses | too much nitrogen for a well balanced | fertilizer. and the use of acid phos | phate and posash salts in addition i | needful. Good wood ashes with the manure will be beneficial When an animal does not thrive | js not always necessary to resort u medicines. [tt may happen that salt & needed. or that linseed meal will prove | & remedy. The cause should be con ~ 3 ANIMAL EXTINCTION, dow Sport and Fashion are Devastating the Animal Kingdom, and rapid are the in the fauna of the perhaps, be generally after race of animals ohe through ural but for the destrac- How changes oCCurring orid extensive may iilzed not, Hace W re § 3 1 i { tne gi i i ope CRAIROR, hel Lion mus ne « POTS door of man. auk, or Bea At LI the great 1 ! be placed extinction { pengu i i Ne ryviina, or arctic I date; Jers hs ree Jas {hit and the Ten in came into offered searce were abundant goods eee were and in five years he» Death By a Mask. come (O08 happy 13 me at little $4 18s Penn just be a Margaret Colley, ideous in the use Jt ex- She They to with an d Margaret dancing into t. where he were romping with i » two-vear-old Wal- Priest fing his face in another ns and froth- off (1 T'eassure utterly were summoned All night long little Walter shrieked in his delirium Next morning he was y 40 anyihing but lie in his sob convulsively At New York World, tore her mask the Two CATESE an little one She failed J. YRICIANDS Pye ans ¥ ie too weak tiny crib and noon the baby died. Cure for Corpulency, A physician who makes a specialty of physical culture and the reduction of obesity tells a rather amusing story of a sidewalk peddiar who came to him for some remedy to check his growing corpulency. The man was a dealer in toy balloons, and the most promineut portion of his frame was his abnormal: ly large abdomen. The physician pre- scribed no drugs, but advised the man to change his line of goods, and to offer for sale some mechanical toy that would be displayed on the sidewalk. The new prescription obliged the pa- tient to stoop over two or three hun- dred times a day, and the doctor de- elares it 10 be a fact that in three month’ time this exercise, without diet or medicine, had reduced the man's girth eleven inches Harper's Bazar. AR as ambien; For the year ending June 30, 1 the net earnings of the 172,368 miles of railways in the United States were $368 675.047. ot
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