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REV. DR. TALMAGE.
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Sunday Sermon.
He Discusses From an Moral and Neliglious
Standpoint the Welfare of All the
Towns and Cltles of Our Country
Points the Way to Municipal Purity.
Texr: “0, thou that art situate at the
entry of the sea.” Ezokiol xxvil., 3.
This is a part of an impassioned apos-
trophe to the eity of Tyre. It was a beau-
tiful eity-—a majestio ety, At the east end
of the Mediterranean it sat, with one hand
beckoning the inland trade and with the
other the commerce of foreign nations, It
gwung a monstrous boom across {ts harbor
to shut out foreign enemies, and then
swung back that boom to lot tn its friends,
The air of the desert was fragrant with the
spices brought by caravans to her fairs,
and all seas were cleft into foam by the
keels her inden merchantmen. Her
markets were rich with horses and mules
and camels from Togarmah, with uphol-
stery and ebony and ivory from Dedan,
with emeralds and agate and coral from
Syria, with wine from Helbon, with
needlework from Ashur and Chilma 1. Talk
about the splendid
Cunard and Inman and White Star Ilr
international steamers—why, the bench
of the staterooms in those Tyrian ships
were all ivory, and instead of
canvas on the masts of
had the finest linen, quilted together and
fnwrought with embroideries almost mirac-
ulous for beauty. Its columns hadowed
all nati Distant em
beat. Majestic city, *'
of the sea.”
But where now
towers, the ros
of her
dry thelr net
sto let the sea
ren !
miration of
who build the
her palace
Blotted out
Go t
eities
of
staterooms of ¥
Our COArsH
ns.
ing
O
It is
affairs
ni sipal ;
DOW
the ei
I hav
Jegisiat:
the m
ous go
cities
deemed
different
prog
cipal suprems Officials that
fraud, and that her
arraignment for glittering
always weaken the pulse of
honor. Every every store,
bazaar, every factory in the cities feels the
moral character of the eity hall, If in any
wink
have neit] cOnsure 1
shop,
unprineipled ec
susceptible t
be unlimited H
and sin, while, on the other hand,
eials are faithful to their oath
the laws are promptly executed
vigilance in regard tothe
yon council or a coum
if
outbranchings o
all bargain making.
A merchant may stand in his store and
say: ‘Now, I'll have nothing to do with
city polities. I will not soil my hands with
the siush.” Nevertheless the most Insig-
nificant trial in the police court will affect
that merchant directly or indirectly. What
style of clerk issues the writ; what style of
constable makes the arrest; what style of
attorney issues the plea; what style of
judge charges the jury; what styles of
sheriff execentes the sentence—these are
questions that strike your counting rooms
to the center. You may not throw it
off. In the city of New York Christian
merchants for a great while said, “We'll
have nothing to do with the management
of public affairs,” and they allowed every-
thing to go at loose ends until there rolled
up in that city a debt of nearly $120,000,
, The municipal government became a8
hissing and a by-word in the whole earth,
and then the Christian merchants saw
their folly, and they wont and took pos-
session of the ballot boxes, 1 wish all com-
mercial men to understand that they are
not independent of the moral character of
the men who raise over them, but must be
thoronghly, mightily affected by them.
80 also of the educational interests of a
eity. Do you know that thers are in this
eountry about 70,000 common schools, snd
that there are over 8,000,000 pupils, and that
the majority of those schools and the ma.
ority of those pupils are in our eitiesl
, this great multitude of chdidren will
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bo affected by the Intelligence or ignorance,
the virtue or the vice, of boards of eduen
tion and boards of control. There are
oities where educational affairs are gottled
in the low caucus in the abandoned partd
of the eities by men full of ignorance and
rum. It ought not to be so, but in many
olties {t ta so. I hear the tramp of coming
generations, What that great multitude
of youth shall be for this world and the
next will be affected very much by the
character of your public schools, You had
better multiply the moral and religious
influences about the common schools rath-
er than subtract from them, Instead of
driving the Bible out you had better drive
the Bible farther in, May (God defend our
glorfons common school system and send
into rout and confusion all its sworn ene-
mies!
I have also to say that the character of
ofMoials in a ecofty affects the domestio
elrele, In a city whers grogshops have
thelr own Wav, and gambling hells aro not
interferad with, and for fear of losing
p Jitionl influence offi sinls close thelr ayes
to abominations—in all those
oities the home interests nee i to make im-
The circles of the city
must inevitably sated by the moral
harscter or immoral character of those
who rule over them,
I will go further and say that
eity ara thus affected,
to-day has to o« nd with
wils that the efvil jaw ought to smite, and
while T wonld not have the eivil govern-
wont in any wise relax {ts energy in tho ar.
and punishment of erime I would have
usandfold more energy put forth in
up of the fountains of iniquity.
fostaring
the religl-
yus interests of a
The ehurch
inte
a th
the drying
{rom political p
vddition to all the evils we must nec
vontend against we shall not have to
also municipal negligene Oh
yar eities Christian AOD
and that they wot
nssarily
fight
that in all
rise
have
giving so
pire
ship!
y national
h in where
death
e vigilant whi
pers ating
mn
to seize,
lent, i
want
our great cities are to-day
gh character as that
t! New York addressed to |
whom there cama letters from London ask-
letters addressed to “Jacob Hayes, High
Constable of New York.” Your police need
your appreciation, your sympathy, your
gratitude, and, above all, your prayers.
Yea I want you to go further and pray
every day for prison inspectors and jail
kespers—work awfal and beneficent,
Bough men, ernel men, impatient men,
are not fit for those places, They have
ander their care men who were once ad
Bad company, Or
strange conjunction of eclrcumstances
flung thom headlong. Godown that prison
esrridor and ask them how they got in, and
about their families and what their early
prospects in life were, and you will find
that they are very much like yourself, ex-
cept in this, that God kept you, while He
did not restrain them. Just one {alse step
made the difference between them and you.
They want mors than prison bars, more than
jail fare, mote than handenfls and hopples,
more than a vermin aoverad couch, to re
form them. Pray God day by day that the
men who have these unfortunates in charge
may be merciful, Christianly strategie, and
the means of reformation and rescue,
Some years ago a city pastorin New York
was called to the eity prison to attend a
funeral. A young woman had committed a
erime and was inearcerated, and her
mother eame to visit her, and died on the
visit, The mother, having no home, was
buried from her daughter's prison cell.
After the service was over the imprigoned
daughter came up to the minister of Christ
dn’t you like to ses my
poor mother?” And while they stood at the
soffin the minister of Christ said to that
fmprisoned soul, “Don’t you fel to-day
fn the presence ol vour mother's dead
body, as if you ought to make a vow
befors God that you will do differently
and live a better life?’ She stood for a
few moments, and then the tears rolled
down her cheeks, and she pulled from
strong drink, or
sho had put on in honor of tho obasquies
and, having bared her right hand, she
put it upon the chill brow of her dead
mother, and said: “By the help of God
I swenr I will do differently! God help
mal” And she kept her vow. And yoars
after, when she was told of the incident,
she sald: “When that minister of the
gospel sald, ‘God bless you and help you
to keep tho vBw that yon have made.’
I erled out, and sald: “You bless mel
Do you bless mo? Why, that's the first
kind word I've heard in ten years,’ and
it thrilled through my soul, and it was
the means of my reforination, and ever
since, by the grace of God, I've tried
to live a Christian life.” Oh, yes, there
are many amid the oriminal classes that
may be reformed: Pray for the mon who
have these nnfortunates in charge, and
who knows that when you ars leaving the
world you may hear the voles of Christ
dropping to vour dylug pillow, saying,
“I was slok and in prison, and you visited
ma.” Yen, I take the suggestion of the
Apostle Paul and ask you to pray for all
who are in authority, that we may lead
quiet and poaceful®lives in godliness and
honesty,
My word now 18 to all who may come to
hold any publie position of trust in any
eity. You ars God's representatives, God,
the King and Buler and Judge, sets y I
His placa. Oh, be faithful in the dise
of all your duties, so that when all «
olties are in ashos and the world itself
red soroll of flame you may be inthe mercy
and grace of Christ rewarded for your
faithfulness, It was that feeling which
gave such eminent qualifications for cfllce
her right band the worn out glove tha
fo Neal Dow, Mayor of P rtiand, and to
Judge MoLean, of Ohio, and to Benja-
min FP. Batler, Attornsy (ieneral of New
and to George Governor
of Massachusetts, and to Thoodore Fro-
Sanator of the [United
nd to William Wilberfo
1 n be yo British Parliament, You
make the of eternity
ments of yo 3
drigas,
the en
on you
yet ot ¥O pubile
and all the years |
and then the tribur
tore which youand I n
i #0 faithful now
Pieasad with the news,
Bo
Kor angels ean the
But kindle with
whe sinner lost is fo
And strike the souns
1
bea been
a month;
im oa WIL
“Do all the boys |
repaorier,
#0 us
him? asked the
“Yeu alr: when they ain't got no job
3
themselves and Jim
gets one, they turn
in and help "im; for he ain't strong yet,
au :
“How m
you? asked the reportes
“The boy smiled: ‘1 don’t keep none of
All
the boye give up what they get on his
job. I'd like to catch any feller sneak.
ing on a sick boy, 1 would.’
“The reporter gave him a twenty-five
cent piece, and said, ‘You keep ten cents
for yourself, and give the rest to Jim’
“Can't do it, sir; 1's bis customer,
Here, Jim.”
soe,’
10h 1a $4 oie
ich perce niage does ho give
it. 1 ain't no such sneak as that,
The rirst Laflcvad in America,
Gridley Bryant, a civil engineer, in
1826, projected the first rajiroad in the
United States. 1t was built for the pur
pose of carrying granite from the quar
ries of Quincey, Mass, to the nearest
tidewater, Its length was four miles,
including branches, and its first cost
£50,000. The sleepers were of stone and
wore laid across the track eight feet
apart. Upon rails of wood, six inches
thick, wrought-iron pintes, three inches
wide and a quarter of an inch thick,
were spiked, At the crossings stone
ralls were used, and as the wooden
pails became unserviceable they were
placed by others of stone. ~ Ladies’
Cila Monsters Venomous,
Professor John Van Denburg deliv-
ered an interesting lecture at the
Academy of Beiences, Ban Francisco,
recently, upon the Gila monster. He
HATH
“It has become a common supposi
tion for the
“that the bite of a Gila monster was
Af POISONOUS BH that of a rattlesnake,
but many of the scientists denied this
Numerous scientific men
stated that from actual experience they
hal demonstrated that the bite
harmless, One of these Dr. Sehu
fert) had himself been bitten by one
of the reptiles,
years,” said lecturer,
eminent
Wie
and, besides the pain
animal, no ill results followed.”
The then stated, the
San Francisco Call, he had dem
that the the Gila
monster wa poi Its
almost every case
the teeth of
the BKInD
lecturer BAYH
that
snl
onstrated iva of
LONOKE,
would in
if
CRNRE
death, the lower aw
je netrated wank the n
per jaw of the reptile
Sehind
into
+ where that
glands pigeons,
from
# injected the victim has
He showed
ten by
I}
:
n a short time
hh are bit
{ome Journal,
ed poultry market o
. and Mr. Spreckel ’
neal 1s much amaller than it w as,’
Tests in Fuel Consumption.
A greater variation in locom tive
i
i 1el consump n resnits from a varia-
the
than from a variaty
the tran,
constant,
tion in number of cars per train
i in the weight of
number of cars being
according to experiments
P. Bush, superinten-
notive power, Pennsylvania
lines west of Pittsburg. The experi-
ments noted consisted in taking a
large number of observations on trains
running between Chicago, Iii, and
Logansport, Ind., 115 miles, {1} on
trains of equal weight but a varving
anmber of cars, (2) on trains of an
equal number of cars, but varying
weight. In the first case, that is with
a constant weight and a variable num-
ber of cars, the records show that the
fuel consumption increases very uni-
formly as the number of cars in the
train increased. In the second case,
the records give rather irregular re-
sults in individual cases, but show
quite clearly that with a given num-
ber of ears in the train very little
variation in fuel consumption results,
whether these cars be lightly or heav-
ily loaded. For example, in one train
of thirty-two cars the increase in fuel
consumption was only about 400
pounds between # weight of 750 tons
the
conducted by 8
of
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Are We n Natton of Bwenrers!
1 a recent sermon on swearing Rev.
¥. M. Goodchild, pastor of the Central
Baptist Church, New York, says:
“There 8 no vice more prevalent
than that of profane swearing.
men swear, the women swear,
children with the lisp hardly out of
thetr speech swear, I suppose the name
er as ln blasphemy.
prohibition. It may at least be sald
too often and far too lightly.
Iles are told In any custom
sink the place. What strange verdicts
juries render; but they are under oath,
What singular charges judges
oath. How hurriedly viclons railroad
“(God forbade only taking His name
in vain, but Christ condemns all oaths
That includes all common oaths, such
lke, to pothing of the
as ‘Damm it)! when
means ‘Damn it,” and ‘Gosh,’
means ‘God.’ "
ay
such
mes AI on.
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nter & Wri
non case of {1
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