REV. DR. TALMAGE. THE EMINENT DIVINE'S SUNDAY DISCOURSE. Bungee: “A Great Man Fallen" A Eulogy of the Late Justice FieldwOne of the Most Notable Characters of Our Times Whose Life is Worthy of Emulation. Text: "Know ye not that there is a rince and a great man fallen this day In rael?”’—11 Samuel {il., 38, Here is a plumed catafalque, followed by King David and a funeral oration which he delivers at the tomb, Concerning Abner, the great, David weeps out the text. More appropriately than when originally ut. tered we may now utter this resounding Jeince and a great man fallen this day in rael?’” It was thirty minutes after six, the exact hour of sunset of the Babbath day, and while the evening lights were being kin- dled, that the soul of Stephen J. Fisid, the man, the Christian, ascended, It was sun. country sald he would rather be author of Judge Field's dissenting opinions than to be the author of the Constitution of the United States, The tendency is to go with the multitude, to think what others think, to say and do what others do. Somes times the majority are wiong, and it resuires heroes to tnke the negative, but to do that logically and in good humor requires some elements of make up not often Jound in judicial dissenters or, indeed, In any c¢luss of men, There are so many people inthe world opposed to every~ thing and who display their opposition in rancorous and obnoxious ways that a Judge Fleld was needed to make the negative re- speated and genial and right, Minorities under God save the world and save the church, An unthinking and precipitate ‘ves’ may be stopped by a righteous and hie roie “no.” The majorities are not al- ways right, The old gospel hymn de Numbers are no mark that men will right be found; millions drowned, The Declaration of American Independ. anon was a dissenting opinion. The Frea Washington, as it was sundown ou all the surrounding hills, but in both cases the sun- get to ba followed by a glorious sunrise, Hear the Easter anthems still Hogering in the air, **The trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall rise.” Our departed friend came forth a boy from a minister's home in New England. He knelt with father and mother at mora- ing and evening prayer, learned from ma. ternal lips lessons of piety which lasted him and controlled him amid all the varied and exciting scenes of a lifotime and helped him to die in peace an octogenarian, out from American history the names of those ministers’ sons who have done honor to judicial bench nud commercial eirele and national Legislature and Presidential chair, and you would obliterate many of the grandest chapters of that history. It is no small advantage to have started from a home where God is honored and the sub- jeet of a world’s emancipation from sin and sorrow is under constant gion. The Ten Commandments, are the foundation of all good law Roman law, German Ilsw Eoglish law, Americun law--are the best foun- dation upon which to build character, and those which the boy, Stephen J. Field, so often heard in the parsonage at Lis compesrs, was a dissenting movement, and New Testament, is a protest against the the. ories that would have destroyed the world and is a dissenting as well as a divinely inspired book. Tho deca logue on Sinal repeated ten times “Thou shalt not.” Foragestocome will be quoted from lawbooks In court rooms Justice Field's magnificant dissenting opinions, Notice that our ascended friend had such a character as assault and peril alone ean develop. He had not come to the soft cushions of the Supreme Court bench step- ping on cloth of gold and saluted all along line by handelapping of applause, Country parsopages do not rock thelr babies in satin lined eradle or afterward send them out into the world with enough in their hands to purchase placa and power. Pastors’ salaries in the early part of this century hardly ever reached $700 a year, Economies that sometimes ent into the bone characterized mafy of the homes of the New England clergymen. The young lawyer of whom we speak to-day arrived in San Francisco In 1849 with only #10 in his pocket. Williamstown College was only introductory to a post-graduate course which our {llustrious friend took while administering justices and halting preme Court of the United States, he un- rolled his opiniuns, extechisms, family prayers, sanctified, are good surroundings for boys fdeas of religion and Sabbath days and home training produce as splendid men Sabbath and Puritanie teachings have pro- duced, it will be a matter of congratulation and thanksgiving. Ob, alia called, those “forty-niners,' as they were through what privations, through what narrow escapes, amid what exposures they moved! Administering and executing law among outlaws never has been an easy undertaking, Among mountaineers, many of whom had no re. pistol and bang of gun were not hnusnal Bshind a dry goods box surmounted by was a minister's son. that there are conspicuous exceptions to the rule—and the exceptions have buiit up a stereotyped defamation on the subject — statistics plain and undeniable prove that a larger proportion of ministers’ sons turn genealogical table, ehiidren are growing up take the cousola- tion. See the star of hope pointing down to that manger! Notice also that our departed friend was a member of a royal family, There were no crowns or scepters or thrones in that ancestral line, but the family of the Fields, like the famiiy of the New York Primes, itke the family of the Princeton Alex. mention, if it were best to mention them, were ‘the children of the king,’ and had put onthem honors brighter than erowns and wielded influence longer and jder than scepters. That family of Fields traces Hubertus dela Feld, condjutor of the Conqueror. Let us thank God for such families, generation alter gener. tion om the of that which and ‘good. Four # ¢f that try minister, k nthe world over traordinary uselulness in their sg legal, commercial, and a daughter, the mother of side ns for ex- Lieres, of one the What exciting sosnes he An infernal machine was handed to him, and foside the lid of the box was pasted his deolsion in the Paeblo ease, the deelsion that had balked unprin- I'en vears ago his life had not an officer It took hardship and abuse and and threat of violence and flash of assassin’s Knife to it him for the high place where he could defy legisintures and congresses and presidents and the world when he knew he was right. Hard- ship is the grindstous that sharpens intel lectual faculties, and the swords with which to strike effectively for God and one's sountry, Notice also how much our friend did for the honor of the judiciary. What momen- tous scenes have been witnessed in our Supreme Court, on the bench and before the bench, whether, far career, ¥ Hall at collar of in the City Phlladelphia, or later in the years the Congressional Library was kept, a sepuicher where books were buried alive, Sueh families couunter-balance for good those families all wrong from generation to generution—{amilies that stand for wealth, unrighteously got and stingiiy kept or for fraud or impurity family names that immediately come priety they do not come to the Jip. The name of Field will survive centuries and be dence, for able Christian journalism, as the names of the Pharaohs aad the stand for eruelty and oppression and vice, « While parents cannot sspire such conspicuous households as the one ters become kings sad queens unto God, to reign forever and ever. Bat the work has aiready been the Invitation which great Virginian, wrote How suggestive Wililamm Wirt, the ne “To-morrow » week will come on the great steamboat question from New York, Emmett and Oakley on one side, Webster and mysell on the other. Come down and hear Enfmett's whole soul is in the case, and he will stretoh all his Oakley is sald to be cne of the finest Jogleians of the age, as much a Phoeion as Emmett {s a Themistooles, and Wabster is as ambitious as Cesar. He will not be outdone by any man i it is within the compass of his power toavold it, Come to Washington. It will be a combat worth it, so hizh in England asd the United Sistes that important place have not been able to neither the corruption of oi Francis Bacon, nor the cruelty of Sir tion of Lord Castlereagh. To that higheat of all tribunals Abraham Lineoin ealled our friead, bat he lived long bousebolds which bave God and blessing upon paternal! and ma- ternal exesllence become the royal families of America, behavior blot such some misdeed, We ean slithink of house. holds the names of which meant everything honorable and consecrated for a while, but by the deed of one son sa flced, disgraced and blasted, Look out the name they handed to you unsulifed! Better as trusteeto that name add some. thing worthy. old bomestead, whether a mountain eabin Or & cily mansion or a country parsonage, Rev. David Dudley Field, though thirty. death of his son Stephen, Among the most absorbing books of the Bible is the book of Kings, which again and again {justrates that, though plety fs not hereditary, the style of parentage has mueh to do with the style of descendant. It declares of King Abijam, “He walked in all the sins of his father which he had done before him,” and of King Azariah, “He did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father Ama- zinh had done.” We owe a debt to those who have gone before in our line as cer. tainly as we have obligations to those who subsequently appear in the household, Not 80 sacred fe your old father’s walking staff, which you keep in his memory or the eye- glasses through which your mother studied the Bible in ber old age as the name the bore, the name which you inherited, Keep it bright, 1 charge you, Keep it sugpeative of something elevated in character. Trample not underfoot that which to your father and mother was dearer than iife itself. Detond their graves ns they defended youreradle, Family cont of arms, escutcheons, ensigns armorial, lion conchant, or Hon dormant, or lon rampant, or llon combatant, may attract attention, but better then all heraidio in- seription is a family name which means from generation to generation faith in God, seit sacrifice, duty performed, a life well lived and a death happily died and a beaven gloriously won! was the kind of name that Justices Field augmented and adorned and perpetuated--sn name honorable at the close of the eighteenth funtury, more honored now at the close of nineteenth, Notice also that our illustrious friend was great in reasonable and genial dis. ent. Of 1042 ns he ren + ROBY more Joten or memornbls than those rendered while he was in small minorit ind sometimes fn a minority of one, A inwyer of this For more than thirty-four years he sat in the pres. ance of this nation snd of all nations a model judge. Feariessness, {ntegrity, de- No No profane No blemish of wrong ever marred his character. Fully qualified was ho to have bis name assoclia- ted in the history of this country with the To have done well, ail that sush a pro- fession eonld ask of him, and to have made brilliant and sublime life, is enough for va- tional and international, terrestrial and And then to ex- pire beantifully, while the pravers of his departure, the sob of the earthly farewell caught ap isto raptures that never die. oll fastloned Christian religion. Young man, I want to tell you that Jas. tice Field believed in the Bible from lid to id, n book all true either as doctrine or history, much of it the history of events that neither God nor man approves. Our friond drank the wine of the holy sasra- ment and ate the bread of which “if a man eat he shall never hunger.” He was theup and down, out and out friend of the chureh of Ohrist, If there had been anything il. logical in our religion, he would have scouted it, for he was a logician, If there had been in it anything unreasonable, he would have rejected it, because he was a great reasoner, If there had been in it any- thing that would not stand ressarch, he would have exploded the failaey, for his life was a life of research. Young men of Washington, young men of America, young men of the round world, a religion that would stand the test of Jastice Fleld's penstrating and all ransacking intellect must have in it something worthy of your confidence. I tell you now that © fan. ity has not only the heart of the world on its side, but the brain of the world # Ye who have tried to represent the religion ol the Bible ss something pusillanimouns, Pow ds you aceount for the Christian fait of Stephen J. Field, whole shelves of the law library occupied with his magnificent decisions? speak to the bersft, especially was the queen of his life from the day when as a siranger he was shown to her pew in the E Church to this time of the broken heart, He oh DUST AND ITS VALUE. FERTILITY OF THE SOI. LARGELY DUE T0 IT. Without It Man Would Have to Devise » New Plan of Existence -The Earth Con- stantly Revived and Enriched by Atmos. pheric Particles. “It it wasn't for dust,” said Profes. gor Wiley, the chief chemist of the Agricultural Department at Washing: ton, recently to W., E. Curtis, of the Chicago Record, “man would have to devise a new plan of existence; he would be compelled to provided him- self with food by some other means than agriculture. You could not have a garden or a farm without dust. It would not be ble for a crop to grow unless the soll contained an or converting nit possi ganism capable of genous matter Into nitric acid. gen Is indispensable as plant food plants ean assimilate it presented in the form of nitric commonly known as aqua-fortis, incapable of be distributed dust which falls upon leaves Hence dust of agriculture, and carried about constantly through the air we would simply have to quit farming: would have nothing feed and would have neither meat bread nor vege tables, only anto-locomaoti i only is can 111 the trees and il to the if it wasn't on the breeze upon of Is essenth the plants, pursuit animals 10 upon, we nol “1 have been spending some years,” continued Professor Wiley, “in the in- 1 fenlturn, value vestigation of the agr dust, and it Is a yer) The soil is continually fmporiant jeer, vived and enriched that from the are floa‘ing about In the atmos They ntoms come (rom of it up by the wind and WO source surface distribute the enrth's vhere, and, second, what we that of meteoric origin, “We are getting gradually to under. stand Its quantity, its and the important part it plays iu agriculture. The heavenly bodies are constantly shedding fragments of iron and other mineral substances, which great velocity, and when the atmosphere that earth are heated by friction and eateh y They $13 cosmic dust f«, mineral matter value fall with reach the they surrounds fire by contact with the oxygen are then burned to ashes and s« in minute and of the larger tached from reach the earth without being entirely consumed. We but the little par. ticles that permeates the alr, because of this perpetual and violent bombard invisible atoms, pieces that become de the stars rtl eall them meteors: { omposed of and other absolutely srtility of the from the stars, are fneld, which ment phosphoric potash chemibenls, (he sential in renewing the fe soil. “What we call terrestrial dust is also in many places the soll is almost entire iy of that been left there by This are of great importance to agriculture, composed particles have the winds. of which 1 are Car the or: voleanie ashes, mense distances {rom ters, A considerable percentage of soil on the earth's surface was origin. ally voleanie dust, which has been dis tributed by that good friend of man we call the wind. { and Her. culaneum Hustrate the great depth to which volcanic dust may reach. These are called Aeolian soils, “The clouds are water dust, a mixture of water, coal, terrestrial and meieoric dust. The fogs of Lon- don might be considerably reduced if the people would burn hard ceal. “The dust from the streets of cities iz of a composite nature and carries ali sorts of fragments and atoms in vari ous stages of decay. It has a high de- gree of agricultoral significance, bee cause it is loaded with germs of all Rome of them are very useful and are injurious. The effect upon the public health is not injurions except where the dust carries patho genic germe—that is, the germs of dis. As an illustration. the sputa of Pompeii Fog ia LOE vane, walk, is redoced to dust when it dries and is then distributed through the alr in the form of germs. If they find lodgment in the lungs of a human be ing whose physical condition allows them to revive and grow, the disease gets a foothold and can be conveyed from one to another.” Customs in Giving Wedding Presents Giving wedding presents is an old enstom, but it differs in different coun tries, Scotland's penny weddings were peculiar. They were called penny af fairs, but the invited guests contribut- ed shillings, and occasionally a half. crown, and out of the sums thus cols lected the expenses of the wadding feast were paid, Germany has a “pay wedding,” at which the bride receives her guests with a basin before her, in which each person entering deposits a jewel, a silver spoon or a piece of money. in some parts of Germany the rule is that the expenses of the marriage feast shall be met by each guest paying for what he eats and drinks-—a sort of Eu: ropean plan wedding, you might call it, The prices paid for dishes and drinks are high, and the happy young couple make a handsome profit out of their wedding, often realizing a sum suffi. cient to start them pretty nicely in life, Often 300 guests are present at such a wedding, Sometimes the flow of presents ix in the other direction. In Poland, for in- stance, a girl is not regarded as eligh blé for mariage until she has wrought with her own hands cloth and gar ments for the friends who will accom. pany her future lord to the altar, 3 No picture is hung on the walls of the Louvre in Paris, France, until the Strange Star Clusters. Among the remarksble recent discov. aries of the Harvard College observatory is that of the existence of many variable sturs in four well-known star clusters in the southern hemisphere, the most cele. brated of which is the one called Omegn Centauri. The latest observations show that no less than three hundred and ninety variable stars are contained in these clusters, and there may be many more. It seems sufficiently remarkable that these stars should be assembled in guch swarms— {or in some of the clusters these are almost innumerable—but the interest is greatly heightened by the dis. covery that so many of them are unsteady in their light, alternately flaring up and dying down in one another's presence, like flickering torches in the night of space, stmsie—— i ———— Unique Postofiice. In Sweden. the most absolute confidence is reposed in the honesty of the people, un extremely informal postal system is in vogue in the interior of the conntry. Asx the little steamer weaches a landing place one the men the letters, which he aces in a little box on the pier. Then le passer-by who expats a letter opens he turns he letters and sclects his own, unques- where mail of ashore with POM fees ind box, whieh is not locked, over tioned by any one. I wo Beanty Is Blood Deep. Clean blood means a clean skin. No beauty without it. 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