111; SUNDAY SCHOOL. From the New York Observer, ———— (NTERNATIO NAL LESSON HENRY MN, GROUT, Bb, Db, —————— BY REV, Aug t l,.—Absalom's Death, 2 Samuel 18:24-33, Gor vrs Texr.—Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death, — Mark 7 : At its start the conspiracy of Absalom 4 to be a success, Escaping from lem David fled toward the Jordan wi ha company of faithful ad. Fein Jeru i which herents, he soon crossed to find safe re fare in her fortress of Mahanain, Learn ing of his father's flight, Absalom re- arned trom Hebron to Jersulem, took { the place with its treasures Ahithopbel ( anointed king. «l immediate pursuit of David other counsel prevailed, and the irper set about gathering a to young us which overwhelm on at Thus I. Meanwhile the | increased, and he was wel} vttack. great army with three forces once, all opposit half of this chapter we an neeount of the battle in which \tsalom was defeated with ol a1 y of laughter, Twenty thousand pe rished, and he himself lost In these concluding verses we great Lis men his life. have 1. An a watche t between the two gates.” “And David the battle had not reached him, and . was walling to receive them. the result [hen all this peril to gelf and to his child had been pure and just and faithful all bad now been we | What self reproaches were mi his fears, and deepened his drea dl 2 How few part, ngled with the tre al | not so with us Jes which have not been i self-procured ! How serenely might wait for all the unfoldings of events but for an accusing concience ! An eager messenge nded than the battle ¢ the Cushi—or a Cushite, prol miman der of king's forces ’1 ably the tidings. Zadok, a pian slyve—to bear Ahimaaz, the son of famous runner and friend of the king, had said _| “Let me run’ ; snd, gaining permission at length |had taken a better course and | run so much more swiftly as to outstrip the other, What swiftness give to otherwise laggard feet ? Ought does not the Christian, then, baving the joy- | ful message of the 4 spel on his lig 8, 10 run 58 Ahimaaz did, with eager haste ? “And the king said, He is a good man | and cometh with good tidings.” He knew both were couriers by their alone ; for, had been in there wood have been many. He «ure the news was good because a they ” good man brought it ; being confident that Joab would not choose an Abhimaaz to Whether 3 rea it is carry a bad message. soning was just or not, that all of us do associate the charact of any message with that of the bearer, | y & Painful news is less painful from lips of love. Certainly the gospel is commen ded when those who preach ani are good men, 3. teach A moving question. — Before he had quite reached the king, the eager Ahi, | masz shouted the message, “All is well.” | The rebellion was crushed, throne of David was safe, Wh the king do and ?! Does thanks ? Does it does he he respond with an Amen, to the “Bles. ed be the Neither. His heart was not in the kingdom so much as his son. ‘Is the young man Absalom safe?’ How will an indulgent parent dote over the most waywrad soul After all that Absalom had done, he loved the boy. It was the heart of the parent, not of the king, which spoke in those words. But the question was as important as It was tender and moving. Parents mistake who never ssk it. Is my boy safe?” is the frequent language of a truly loving parent. David's great error bad been, that he had not more seriously used it long before. There would have been less pain in it now, “Ig my boy or girl in health; making pro: gress in studies: mastering sccomplish- ments; winning praise from others; learning the art of making money?” Sach questions too often crewd from the heart that far more important one. “Is my boy, my girl, sate for this world and d jo come 1” a of kiffg Abas rdtor sive answer, He had been of BAY give messenger’'s Lord 7" (aestion LS to tell Ctshite, 100, used rosndabout phrases SRO Wo! std ] LOH Syshih for the simple fact that the young man Absalom had met a merited end: “The enimies of my lord the king, and all that rise up to do thee hurt, be as that young man is, Fleeing from his pursuers with the rest, the head of Absalom, and, quite likely as Josephsus tells, his flowing was As the mule on which be rode ran from un. hair the object of his week pride, caught in the branches of a tree, der him, he hung helpless in nud air until overtaken and pierced to his heart, In his pride he had reared for himself a splendid monument in the king's dale; but it was not there that his remains found burial. “They took him and cast him into a great pit in the wood, and laid a very great heap of stones upon him" (18:17, 18 It is not often that wicked ). Such was his ignomi nious end, ness like his escapes punishment in this life, Never can it always escape, of the parent can avert the due reward of such, No cries or progress tenderest So soon, too had he runhis ungrateful, ' deceitful, relentless course ! » . J 3 3, Comfortieas grief Seldom hins the expression in #0 moving a wail ss burst | from Davids lips whes the whole was What pathos there is in his And known, passionate outburst ! bis grief there was no intermixter of con solation. First of all he had only him self to blame, His own sin was still coming hack upon him in predicted I'he tidings | wel sooner was | love | being | flight, | LL certain | | sorrow, Moreover, if Absalom had | proved an unfeeling, reckless, traitor son, it was because he had an indulgent Did he al unfaithful, sining father $0 [he | What is fa! that which makes Are we safe? What hi t t 0 | did, in his | doting fondn« ¢less child. our fi, We can not di for or those we love can live { them I'he { us, and re is one who through his volunt the worst sinner, if he will may live, - | Greatast Field of Modern Wars {| EXTRACT FROM THE SFERCH OF RENSHI THE CCURT-HOUSE, GETTYS Ww. 1 ESQ., IN 4 15th. 1554 RG, JUNE “I had not thought,” said Mr. Hen. sel, “ to speak to you to-night on so { trite and familiar a theme as this battle, but as | drew near t the that | young man’s life has passed since its oc the pl | recalled fact the span of a | currence I was impressed with the | fact that the great Presidential struggle be decided by rn since the memorabl In now pendiag will | votes of men b . events July, 1863. took place here, | the shadow of those events and the heroic associations of this place we would have to real our eves and ears to ' them It thal ir sides i ZNOTe | countrymen and mine, both brothers, fathers kin and cousin, of or ple, “fought sons and ie bloo Richard ] and died like Philip Sidney | and peo Heart All over 1 IHKe | the land already are springing the white the past, uld de | apoit or whose foot would tread them do about the {roses of peace, through ashes and desolation of the dead Anathema be he whose hand w» and the | wn because their roots sre bones, their fibres net the dreamless head” of one who fell ina mistaken cause, Have you thought of the magnitude That 150,000 men and equipment, of great of this engagement ? in full vigor valor, here faced each with deadly pur pose ! Of the proportion of losses to the numbers engaged ? Of the fact that nearly two score who wore or won the general's stars were listed among the casualties Jof those days | That it was here Pennsylvania's three great soldiers «Meade, Hancock and Reynolds —on the soil of iheir own state stood like a break water against an angry sea ! Rey nolds! of whom the most comprehen: sive and impartial historian of the war said : “He was the most remarkable man among all the officers that the army of the Potomaic saw fall on the battle. field during the four years of its exis tence.” Of whom Mende said: “He was the noblest and bravest of them all I Right fitting it is that on this coming the chief city of his state, a statue ot him ie to be set op for all men to wee that republics are not unmindful of their honored dead. Here took place the only serious en, counter of the wat in a free state, and no reflective mind will deny that there wis a force back of the which hung in the balance here, that decided the fate of that three days’ bloody conflict. Here the Southern was an invader, Here the army of the Union fought for home and heartstone as well as for country and freedom, Amid the peaceful scenes of to day it hills saw prodigies of valor scarcely parallel the grassy slopes and plains were bathed with the moral issue is hard to recall that these stony ed in the history of war ; blood of as brave men fought at Thermopylw or died at Morathon, It seems, says one writer, as if the God of the and as ins battles had selected the list where supreme conflict was to take ; two greatlclouds charged with electricity until the electrie coming storm so these two armies with | out forethought came upon a battlefield where all the world’s armies might bave stance bitterness of human anguish ever found | us | children | we of it. 11 the | amid |, and friends, pe wrap | twenty first anniversary of his death, in} | science and the mightiest prowess of { soldiery. Here, from the ridges which run about this town, belched forth the | fiercest artillery combat that ever shook the | the ‘new world ; there long line across which swept that heroic charge | not shamed by sny record of war : there { 1s the stone wall behind which lay the | northern soldiery to hurl back the brave |] ing room’of the sisters and was stripped of her white clothes snd given the plain habit of the order. The name of master Mary Teresa was given her, ———— . The oven for the baking of small cakes should be “quick,” for a slow oven will prevent the enkes from ris. ing properly. Nor should the heat be increased after the baking has com- menced. When the cake is large a moderate oven will be required, other- wise it will be burnt or overdone on the outside before it is baked in the middle, — A, — ~Qur prices beat all—Garman’s, und Gar- ~ Children Ladies’ Jerseys- man's, | and driven by contrary winde approch, | | ignal announces the | been drilled, with every natural circum- | to show the highest military | — the jurors drawn to s ——— - Follow list of Grand and | the | the contin ing is | Traverse rve at next term of Court beginning « and n fourth Monday of August, uing two weeks: Graxp Junons Daniel Irvin, Huston, W. E. Levin, Philipsburg, 8. J, Herring, Grog P. Hickman, Gregg r, Mari raft, Burnside, { invading foe who went down like clover heads before th: scythe ; ind there ! the | very centre of the conflict, the turning point of all the war, yon clump of trees Ziegler's woods, marks the extreme lin ANA BURT highest satis be marked story has ever been perishal le granite and marl le, of brass | and hands, by states bronze, memoria! ‘ by snd Gray Army ated effor will be doubt and aa to whose was the chief of Gettysburg. You may eall it Meade's or Hancock's, | Reynolds may have been ita hero, as he | certainly have was its martyr; it Pickett's { Kemper's may Heth’ r a} gi | been charge, or Stonewall Jackons { have char ged its fate had he been there, | the Private Soldier may have been its wr the “1 lie f Devil's den; but after all hero ‘nknown' who dragged himself to clefts and bow lde 0 | | as an acute observer of the fight once said, it was God Almighty's battle”, and hills and I's own mark | these fields and creeks, thes | ridges, rocks and trees, Go hall not pass away ove and | shall stand _ these “rock-girded pinna ... wr ing, | lent sentinels mute memorials, whe we giant armies wrest led, the track hose Lop was marked { with bloody footprints and from whose | summit floated the ] | a protected state and a » ment, Monuments not outlive of ston the he roism fought and fell. Carefully as the hands | of the government and the hearts of the | people may tend the gras and flowers, they shall not bloom with such which “th i peren {| nial freshness a= that with e Email | memory of the just ak ms in the dust - Taken the Veil BALTIMORE GIRL FORRAKING THE WORLD, A BEAUTIFUL Bariwore Aug. 5.~There was ao in: t resting and very impressive ceremony at the Catholie Convent of Mount De Sales, on the Fredericks Hoad Monday, when Miss Nannie Riggs, daughter of Mr. Thomas Riggs, a prominent merchant of this city, took the white veil, Miss Riggs’ family are all Episco- palians, and they were very greatly op- posed to the step she has taken, [er father and mother are now in Europe, and none of the family were at the cere. mony. Miss Nannie had been at the convent receiving instruction for three months, having left the house of Mrs, Rhett, with whom she bad been living in Washington. She is considered very beautiful, and was a favorite in both Baltimore and Washington society, The ceremony was preformed by Rev, W. F. Clarke of Loyaly College, assisted by Father: Fitspatrick and Souvin, Miss Riggs was dressed in pure white, with white roses and white kid gloves, After the Sacrament she was taken Lo the retir- Attention, Veterans | 250 250 3. AR, SUITS JUST RECEIVED, Color Guaranteed. Workmanship the best. Fits Perfect. THESE ARE THE REGU- LATION SUITS. Double Sets of Buttons Fur. nished Free. ! AT THE OLD ESTABLISHED RTAXD OF S.& A. LOEB. CATT, —AT THE— Job Office CHEAPLY, NEATLY AND WITH BISPATEH, J Now is the Time to Subscribe FOR THE “CENTRE DEMOCRAT,” The LARGEST and CHEAPEST Paper in Bellefonte. ONLY $1.50 PER YEAR, IN ADVANCE. OFFICE : COR! ALLEGHANY &)BISHOP STS! BELLEFONTEJPAJ
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