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
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fest Just
fhe an
{a amusement
To Care a Cold in One Day.
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Druggists refund money if iL falls toon
ne Tablets
re.
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‘ ¥
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who se
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s party of Americans
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The average woman wastes a lot of tishe try.
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Quinine in a tasteless
form. ...Sold by every
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sections of the United
States. .... No curs, no
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a the I
ining our record of inventory under date
Jan. 1st. we find that we
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Goob INK
is unless you use Carseps, It cons
no more than
Boston, Mass.
SRS RSI SIA
|
Dissolve fine shavings
one piece of flannel. Don
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for this purpose.
is insufficient. Dry quickl
stand wet, flannel shrinks.
Cut oul these directions
| ST
f rubd in
y in a warm place. If
and fell the laundress to follow
Right 10 Work “Overtime.
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ploy 1 rR more than tweed
i irenmstanees § hye
3 : 1
de Dion, ©
factory
2 great
fan
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ne 3 :
1.1
Fhursday for viel:
arrest
they were paid liberally for overtime
: nandatory, the Cou
was compelled to fine him,
Ax M. de Dion's workmen said in their |
setition, this law is not a help but a hin. |
to the In ey
de and profession the men who “'g
by making the sacri
in working “overtime }
they accumulate a lead over their fellow
workmen, and them-
selves to an by
Wark
argely for the |
Overtime wy
A law that
not only denving the ia
in
in w
3 2
working man.
on’ do so because
involved
presently raise
sid ition
Condition
the regular hours is |
enefit of the « mMplover. :
done in
ak is work for one's self.
rhids “overtime” is jaw
ndamenta t
sino that other fun
winan pri to ry to §
the wi
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NOUGH of it must be
contained in fertilizers,
otherwise failure will surel»
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Our books tell all about
fertilizers. They are sent
Jree to all farmers applying
for them.
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