WHEN A POPE DIES.
The Curious Ceremonies That Follow His Decease and the
Way a Successor is Elected.
CONCLAVE OF CARDINALS IN SISTINE CHAPEL.
Once again the occupant of the Vat
ican at Borne has beoome an object of
acute interest to the civilized world.
When the news of Leo XIII.'s sud
den illness was circulated recently, it
was believed that his great age and
feebleness would make it extremely
doubtful whether he could undergo
the operation which his physicians de
cided to be necessary. His illness re
sulted from a tumor on the thigh, of
thirty years' growth, the excision of
which he bore with much fortitude.
His physical condition, however, was
such that the slightest indisposition
could only have a serious result, and
the princes of the Roman Church
realized the fact that the day was not
far distant when another Pontiff must
be chosen to the throne of the Papacy.
This is the story of the death of a
Pope, of the Conclave which follows
and of the election of a new Pope, as
told by the New York World and il
lustrated by pictures taken from
Harper's Weekly:
When he is in his agony his nephews
and his servants will remove what fur
niture they choose from the palace of
the Vatican.
When the doctors certify His Holi
ness to have ceased to live in this
world the Cardinal Camerlengo, robed
in violet, and the Clerks of the Cham
ber, robed in black, will approach the
corpse and, tapping him three times
on the forehead with a silver mallet,
they will invoke the dead Pope by the
THE CARDINAL CAMERLENGO VERIFYING
THE DEATH OF THE POPE.
name by which his mother called him
in his boyhood: "Oioacchino! Gioac
chino! Gioacchino!"
If no sign of life be given after this
strange summons the Apostolic Pro
thonotaries draw up the Act of Death.
From the lifeless finger the Chamber
lain draws the Fisherman's Ring of
massive gold, worth a hundred golden
crowns, and, having broken it up,
divides the fragments among the six
Masters of Ceremonies.
The Apostolic Datary and his secre
taries carry all the other seals to the
Cardinal Camerlengo, who breaks
them also in the presence of the Audi
tor, the Treasurer and the Apostolic
Clerks. No other Cardinals may as
sist at this ftinction.
THE POPE IN THE EVENING OF HIS DAYS.
(Scene in the private garden at the Vatican devoted to the use of Pontiffs alone.)
The pontifical nephews and the
Cardinal Patron must quit the Palace
now. The Cardinal Camerlengo takes
possession in the name of the Apos
tolic Chamber, making an inventory
of what furniture has survived the
spoliation.
Twelve penitentiaries of St. Peter's
Church with chaplains see the body
shaved and embalmed with new per
fumes. They vest it in the pontifical
habits, crown it with a mitre and
place a ohalioe in the hands.
The great bell of the Capitol, which
only sounds when tho Pope is dead,
knells unceasingly.
After four and twenty hours the
penitentiaries and the chaplains bear
the corpse upon an open bier to St.
Peter's Church. Canons meet them.
The ordinary prayers for one dead are
chanted.
The dead Pope lies instate on a
lofty catafalque, where many tapers
burn in the Chapel of the Holy
Trinity.
After three days the corpse is lapped
in lead. Two and fifty Cardinals of
TINE CHAPEL.
the dead Pope's creation will putin
gold and silver medals, having the
effigy of their benefactor on one side
and some notable act of his upon the
other.
The leadeu coffin is placed inside a
casket covered with cypress wood and
walled up in some part of the Basilica.
If the Holy Father shall have chosen
his place of sepulchre, either when
living or by his will, the translation
of his remains must not take place
until at least one year shall have
-'apsed, except a vast sum of money
->aid to the Chapter of St. Peter's
Church.
During the vacancy of the Holy See
affairs are administered by the Car
dinal Camerlengo, assisted by the
Lord Louis Oreglia di Santo Stefano,
First Cardinal Bishop, Dean of the
Sacred College and Bishop of Ostia
and Valletri; by the Lord Miccislas
Ledochowski, First Cardinal Priest,
and by the Lord Theodolphus Mertel,
First Cardinal Deacon.
The conclave must assemble ten
days after the death of the Pope. The
cardinals go in procession, two and
two, according to their rank, sur
rounded by the Swiss Guard and
singing "Veni Creator Spiritus," to
take possession of the cells assigned
to each by lot.
These cells are erected in a hall of
the Vatican communicating with the
Sistine Chapel. They are mere frame
works of wood hung with fringed cur
tains. Five are green in hue, because
their occupants were created by Pius
IX. The drapery of fifty-two will be
of violet, because their occupants are
creations of Leo XIII.
On one side of each cell is a cur
tained doorway over which the car
dinal's armorials are shown, and
higher still is a little swinging win
dow. Each cardinal has a bed, a
table and a chair.
Having viewed their quarters, the
cardinals goto the Pauline Chapel,
where bulls concerning the eleotion of
a Pope are read. To these the Car
dinal Dean exhorts the conolave to
conform.
Then all may go and dine at borne
in comfort for tue last time •
new Pope begins to reign, but their
Eminences are bound to return to the
Vatican before 9 p. m.on pain of en
trance being barred.
Three hours after sunset doors are
shut and walled up on the inside with
masonry. Guards on the outside
watch every avenue.
One door is not walled up, in case
some cardinal or conclavist must
needs retire because of illness. Such
may not return. There is a lock on
each side of this door. The outside
key is with the Prince Savelli. Heredi
tary Marshal of the Church. The
Cardinal Camevlengo holds the inside
key.
The Sistine Chapel has been furn
ished for the conclave. On both sides
thrones are set, having canopies which
can be let down by pulling on a cord.
On a long table before the altar are
silver basins full of voting papers.
These are blank. On the altar are
two great chalices of gold with patens.
Here is also tho oath which every
Cardinal must sweat before he records
his vote.
Blank voting papers are handed to
the Cardinals. Encli voting paper
is a palm in length aud half a palm in
breadth.
Their Eminences take great care
that none shall overlook them while 1
they write and seal their vote.
Each Cardinal in turn takes his ,
s |j IKTfrfnr?, o>_ _ "
CHIMNEY OF ANNOUNCEMENT.
[As the election of a Pope draws near,
crowds gather without the Vatican aud
watch a tall chimney oh its southwestern
front, fl'he issue of a cloud of smoke sig
nals the election of a Supreme Pontiff.
Tiie chimney Is never used at any other
time.]
folded voting paper between the thumb
and index finger of his ringed right
hand, holding it aloft in view of all.
So, and alone, he goes to the altar,
makes his genuflexion on the lowest
step; on the highest step he swears
his oath aloud tbat his vote is free.
On the pateu which covers one "of
the great golden chalices he lays his
voting paper. He tilts the paten till
the paper slides from it into the chal
lice. He replaces the pateu as a cover
and returns unattended to his throne.
When at last a Pope hah been elected
three Apostolic Protlionotaries record
the act of conclave aud all the Cardi
nal's sign aud seal it. The Cardinal
Dean demands the new Pope's con
sent to bis own election and the new
name by which he wishes to be known.
Each Cardinal releases the cord of
the canopy of his throne, which folds
down. No one may remain covered
in the presence of the Pope. A new
riug—the King of the Fisherman—is
given to the Sovereign Pontiff.
The first and second Cardinal
Deacons—Lord Cardinal Theodolphus
Mertel and Lord Cardinal Louis
Macchi—conduct His Holiness to the
rear of the altar with the masters of
ceremonies and the Augustiuian Sac
ristan; they take away his cardi
nalitial scarlet aud vest him in a cas
sock of white tafleta with cincture, a
fair white linen rochet and the papel
stole, a crimson almuoe, aud shoes of
crimson cloth embroidered in gold.
The servants of the conclave proceed
to pillage the cell lately occupied by
His Holiness.
The new Pope sits upon a chair be
fore the altar of the Sistine Chapel
and the Cardinal Dean, the Lord
Louis Oreglia di Santo Stefano, who
is Ostia's and Velletri's Bishop, fol
lowed by other [Eminences in their
order, kneels to adore His Holiness,
kissing the cross upon his shoe, the
ring upon his hand, whereat the
Sovereign Pontiff makes the kneeler
rise and accords the Kiss of Peace on
both cheeks.
Then thejmaster mason breaks open
the walled-up door. The First Cardi
nal Deacon, the Lord Theodolphus
Mertel, goes to the balcony of St.
Peter's and to the city and the world
proclaims "I announce to you great
joy. We have a Pope."
The papal benediction is imparted
and the Pope is borne away by the
twelve porters, clad in scarlet, to his
private chamber.
Boston has a municipal telsphons
exchange.
CROWING MENACERIE PLANTS.
A Specimen Japanese Ilex, or Larch,
Trained Into a Fantastic Shape.
Several fine specimens of the Japan
ese ilex plant, which have been on ex
hibition in front of a wholesale florist's
shop in Dey street, New York City,
have met with great admiration. The
ilex, or larch, plant is peculiarly pliable
when young, and the native Japanese
have twisted the plants into quaint
figures, chiefly of birds and beasts. As
a result of their handiwork pedestrians
in Dey street are confronted with huge
cranes, roosters bearing on their backs
broods of young chickens, turtles,
frogs, storks and a multitude of snakes
twisting about in shapes weird and
fantastic.
The plant has a thick, strong root,
from which thousands of shoots of
green covered with small white petals
grow. The Japanese gardener takes
charge of it when the plant is young,
and by bending and b'ndu g the stems
with wire gradually forms it into any
shape desired. As t'.je stems ,grow
stronger the forms which they were
trained to assume when young remain
perfect, and when the plant is full
grown and ready to transplant the gar-
JAPANESE ILEX WITH LEAVES AND
FLOWERS.
dener has a collection of birds and ani
mals which lends to bis garden the ap
pearance of a small menagerie.
The bird and beast plants in the Dey
street collection were raised near Yo
kohama, Japan, and were shipped to
this country as an experiment. The
plant is almost unknown in this coun
try.
Forest Life.
Most of the fiercest carnivora. such
as the tiger and the leopard, inhabit
the forests, which are also infested
with the most venomous reptiles and
the most noxious insects. The cause
Df the difference is found in the abun
dance of vegetable food supplied in
wooded regions. The fruits and roots
attract large numbers of herbivorous
animals, and these, in their turn, are
sought for food by flesh-eatiug crea
tures. A keen competition arises
amongst the latter, and in the struggle
for existeuce, the strongest and most
ferocious survive. lu the course of
time, new and still fiercer species re
sult from the law of struggle. Tropi
cal forests, under the influences of
heat aud moisture, produce more luxu
i riant vegetation than those of tem
perate countries, anil, consequently,
| they are tenanted by a more numerous
j and a more ferocious animal popula
\ tion. The vegetable products of open
districts :ire more scanty, they are not
so attractive to animals, and the com
petition for food is not severe enough
to develop the fiercer forms of life.
Unique Monument to Cuban Heroes.
The city of Buffalo is about to erect
i unique memorial to the gallant men
of the Thirteenth Infantry who did
such noble work during our recent
war with Spain. The monument will
celebrate more specifically the good
work done by this regiment at San
Juan Hill aud before Santiago. It
will be merely a huge bowlder suitably
A MEMORIAL ROWLDER.
engraved, aud has already been taken
from the hillside of the Lewiston
mountain, on the lower Niagara. This
bowlder monument will be erected on
a low foundation at Fort Porter, ii>
the city of Buft'alo.
The illustration represents the huge
stone which has been selected and
quarried for this purpose. It is egg
shaped, and is of red granite, ten and
one-half feet long and seven feet high.
Paderewnki'a Kelici.
Paderewski lives in a house that is
a veritable museum of musical relics.
Articles that have belonged to all the
great composers are everywhere; aud
the faces of their departed owners
gaze upon you from the walls. Flow
ers there are in profusion, for admir
ers send to the famous pianist great
bunches daily. The whole of the wall
in one room is occupied by the enor
mous laurel wreath presented to him
at Leipsic.
DR. TALMAGES SERMON.
SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED
DIVIME.
Subject: "Hold Fast to the Hlble"—Les
sons Drawn Prom the Sword of Kleaznr
_Aa He Grasped His Weapon So Should
We Cleave to the Old Gospel.
TEXT: "And his hand clave unto the
sword." —llSamuel xxlll., 10.
What a glorious thing to preach the
Gospel! Some suppose that because I
have resigned a llxed pastorate I will
cease to preach. No, no. I expect to
preaoh more than I ever have. If the
Lord will, four times as much, t"-.„agh
in manifold places. I would not dare to
halt with such opportunity to declare the
truth through the ear to audiences and to
the eye through the printing press. And
here we have u stirring theme put before
us by the prophet.
A*, great general of King David was
Eleazar, the hero of the text. The Philis
tines opened battle against him, and his
troops retreated. The cowards fled.
Eleazar and three of his comrades went
into the battle and swept the field, for
four men with God on their side are
strooger than a whole regiment with God
against them. "Fall back!" shouted the
commander of the Philistine army. The
cry ran along the host, "Fall back!"
Eleazar, having swept the field, throws
himself on the ground to rust, but the mus
cles and sinews of his hand had been so
long bent around the hilt of his sword that
thenllt was imbedded in the flesh, and the
gold wire of the hilt had broken through
the skin of the palm of the hand, and he
could not drop this sword Whloh he had
so gallantly wielded. "His hand clave
unto the sword." That is what I call
magnificent fighting for the Lord God of
Israel. And we want more of it.
I propose to show you how Eleazar took
hold of Mhe sword and how the sword took
hold of Eleazar. I look at Eleazar's hand,
and I come to the conclusion that ho took
the sword with a very tight grip. The
cowards who fled had no trouble in drop
ping their Bwords. As tbeyj fly over the
rocks I hear their swords clanging in every
dlreotion. It is easy enough for them to
drop their swords, but Elenzar's hand clave
unto the sword. In this Christian conflict
we want a tighter grip of the Gospel weap
ons, a tighter grasp of the two edged sword
of the truth. It makes me sick to see these
Christian people who hold only a part of
the truth and let the rest of the truth go,
HO that the Philistines, seeing the loosened
grasp, wrench the whole sword away from
them. The onlv safe thing for us to do Is to
put ourlthumbon the book of Genesis and
sweep our hand around the book until the
New Testament comes into the palm and
keep on sweeping our hand around the
boot until the tips of the fingers clutch at
the words "In the beginning God created
the heavens and the earth." I like an iull
del a great deal better than I do OIIH of
these namby pamby Christians who hold a
part of the truth and let the rest go. Jiy
miracle God preserved this Bible just as It
is, nnd It is a Damascus blade. The sever
est test to which a sword can be putin a
sword factory is to wind the blade arouud
a gun barrel like a ribbon, and then when
the sword is let loose it flies back to its own
shape. So the sword of God's truth has
been fully tested, and it is bent this way
and that way and wound this way and that
way, but it always comes baok to its own
shape. Think of It! A book written nearly
nineteen centuries ago, and some of It
thousands of years ago, and yet in
our time the average sale of this book
Is more than 20,000 copies every week and
more than 1,000,000 copies a year! I say
i now that a book whtcO. Is divinely inspired
and divinely kept and divinely scattered is
. a weapon worth holding a tight grip of.
Bishop Coleuso will come along and try to
wrench out of your hand the five books of
Moses, and Strauss will come along and try
to wrench out of your hand the miracles,
and Renan will come along and try to
' wrench out of your hand the entire life of
the Lord Jesus Christ, and your associates
In the office or the factory or the banking
! house will try to wrench out of your hand
the entire Bible, but In the strength of the
Lord Ood of Israol and with Eleuzajr's grip
j hold onto it. Vou give up the ISible, you
; give up any pnrt of It, and you give up par
don and peace and life In heaven.
Do not be ashamed, young man, to have
! the world know that you are a friend of the
I Btble. This book is the friend of all that is
i i<ood, ami It is the sworn enemy of all that
1 is bad. An eloquent writer recently gives
an incident of a very bail man who stood
In a cell of a Western prison. This crimi
nal had gone through all styles of crime,
! nnd he was there waiting for the gallows.
The convict standing there at tho window
I of the cell, this writer says, "looked out
ind declured, 'I ain an Infidel.' He said
; that to all the men and women and chil
dren who happened to be gathered there,
; 'I am an infidel.' " And the eloquent writer
•ays, "Every man and woman there be
lieved him." And the writer goes onto
1 say, "If he had stood there saying, 'I am
a Christian," every man and woman would
; have said, 'He is a liar!' "
i This Bible is the sworn enemy of all that
! is wrong, and it Is tho friend of all that Is
I sood. Oh, hold on It! Do not take part
of It and throw the rest away. Hold onto
all of it. There are so many people now
who do not know. You ask them if the
soul is immortal, and they say: "I guess it
Is; I don't know. Perhaps It Is; perhaps
it isn't." Is the Bible true? "Well, perhaps
it I*, and perhaps it isn't. Perhaps it may
be, figuratively, and perhaps it may be
partly, and perhaps it may not be at all."
Tbey despise what they call the apostolic
creed, but if their own creed were written
out it would read like this: "I.believe in
nothing, tho maker of heaven and earth,
and in nothing which it hath sent, which
nothing was born of nothing and which
nothing was dead and buried and descend
ed into nothing and rose from nothing
and ascended to nothing and now sitteth
at the right hand of nothing, from
which It will come tojudge nothing. I be
lieve in the holy ngnostlo church and In
the communion of nothingarians and in
the forgiveness of nothing and the resur
rection of nothing and in the life that never
Bhall be. Amen!" That is the creed of
tens of thousands of people lu this day. If
you have a mind to adopt such a theory, I
will not. "I believe in God, the Father' A
lmighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and in
Jesus Christ and in the holy catholio
ohurch and in tho communion of saints
and in the life everlasting. Amen!" Oh,
when I see Eleazar taking euch a stout
grip of tho sword in tho battle agnlnst sin
ana for righteousness, I come to the con
clusion that we ought to take a stouter
grip of God's eternal truth—the sword of
rlgn eousness.
As I look at Elenzar's hand I also notice
his spirit of self forgetfulness. He did not
notice that the hilt of the sword was eating
through the palm of his hand. He did not
know it hurt him. As he went out Into the
oonflict he was so anxious for the victory
he forgot himself, and that hilt might go
never so deeply into the palm of his hand.
It could not disturb him. "His hand clave
unto the sword." Oh, my brothers and
9lsters, let us go Into the Christian conflict
with the spirit of self abnegation. Who
cares whether the world praises us or de
nounces us? What do we care for misrep
resentation or abuse or persecution lu a
oonflict like this? Let us forget ourselves.
That man who Is atVald of getting his hand
hurt will never kill a Philistine. Who
cares whether you get hurt or not if you
get the victory? Oh. how many Christians
there are who are all the time worrying
about the way the world treats them!
They are so tired, and they are so abused,
and they are so tempted, when Eleazar
did not think whether he had a hand or nn
arm or a foot. All he wanted was victory.
We see how men forget themselves In
worldly achievement. We have often seeu
men who. In order to aohleve worldly suc
cess, will forget all physio*! fatigue and
•11 annoyance and all olMtaole. Jhst after
the battle ot lo*fcto*m In tht American
Revolution a musician, wounded, was told
be must have Ills limbs amputated, and
tbey were about to fasten him to
the surgeon's table, for It was
long before the merciful discovery of
anaesthetics. He said: "No; don't fasten
me to that table. Get me a violin." , A
violin was brought to him, and he said,
"Now, go to work as I begin to play," and
for forty minutes, during the awful pangs
of amputation, he moved not a muscle nor
dropped a note, while he played some
sweet tune. Oh, is It not strange that with
tbe music of the Gospel of Jesus Christ,
and with this grand of the church
militant on the way to become the church
triumphant, we cannot forget ourselves
nnd forget all pang and all sorrow and all
persecution and all perturbation?
We know what men accomplish under
worldly opposition. Meu do not shrink back
for antagonism or for hardship. Yoli have
admired Pre-cott's "Conquest of Mexico,"
as brilliant and beautiful a history as was
ever written, but some of you may not
know under what disadvantages it was
written—that "Conquest of Mexico"—for
l'rescott was totally blind, and he had two
pieces of wood parallel to each other fast
ened, and totally blind, with his pen be
tween those pieces of wood, he wrote the
stroke against one piece of wood telling
how far the pen must go in one way, the
stroke against the other piece of wood tell,
ing how far the pen must go the other way.
Oh, how much men will endure for worldly
knowledge and for wordlv success, and yet
how little wo endure for Jesus Christ! How
many Christians there are that go around
saying, "Oh, my hand; oh, my hand, my
hurt hand! Don't you sa« there is blood on
the sword?" while Eleanar, with the hilt im
bedded in the flesh ot his right hand, doer
not know it.
Must I be carried to the skies
On flowery beds of ease,
While others fought to win the prize
Or sailed through bloody sous?
What have we suffered in comparison with
those who expired with suffocation or were
burned or were chopped to pieces for the
truth's sake? We talk of the persecution
of olden times. There is just as much per
secution going on now in various ways. In
1849, in Madagascar, eighteen men were put
to death for Christ's sake. They were to
be hurled over the rocks, and before they
were hurled over the rocks, in order tc
make their death the more dreadful in an
ticipation, they were putin baskets and
swung to and fro over the precipice that
they might see how many hundred feet they
would have to be dashed down, and while
they were swinging in these baskets over
the rocks they sang:
Jesus, lover of my soul.
Let me to Thy bosom fly.
While the billows near mo roil.
While the tempest still Is high.
Then they were dashed down to death.
Oh, how much others have endured for
Christ, and how little wo endure for
Christ! We want to ride to heaven in a
l'ullman sleeping car. our feet on soft
plush, tho bod made up earl>, so we can
sleep all the way, the black porter of death
to wako us up only in timo to enter the
goldon city. We want all the surgeons to
fix our hand up. Let them bring on all tho
lint and all the bandages and all the salve,
for our hand Is hurt, while Eleazar does
not know his hand is hurt. "His hand
clave unto the sword."
As I look at Eleazar's hand I come toth«
conclusion that he has done a great deal ol
hard hitting. lam not surprised when I
see that these four men—Eleazar and his
three companions drove back the army ol
Philistinos—that Eleazar's sword clave to
his hand, for every time hestruck an enemy
with one end oT the sword the other end ol
the sword wounded him. When he took
hold of the sword, the sword took hold ol
him.
Oh, wo have found an enemy who cannot
be conquered by rosowater and sofl
speeches. It must be sharp stroke anil
straight thrust. There is Intemperance,
and there is fraud, and there is gambling,
and there is lust, and there are 10,000 bat
talions of iniquity, armed I'hilistino in
iquity. How are t'uey to be captured and
overthrown? Soft sermons in moroccc
cases laid down in front of an exquisite au
dience will not do it. You have got to call
things by their right name. You have got
to expel from our churches Christians who
eat the sacrement on Sunday and devout
widow's houses all the week. We have
got to stop our indignation against the
llittites and the Jebusites and the Gir
gashites and let those poor wretches go
and apply our indignation to tbe mod
ern transgressions which need to be
dragged out and slain. Ahabs here,
Herods here, Jozebels here, the massacre
of the infants here. Strike for God so hard
that while you slay tho sin the sword will
adhere to your own hand. I toll you, my
friends, wo want a few John linoxes and
John Wesloys in the Christian church to
day. The whole tendeucy is to rellue on
Christian work. We keep on refining on it
until wo send apologetic word to iniquity
wo are about to capture it. And we must
go with sword silver chased and presented
by the ladies, and we must ride oil
white palfrey under embroidered hous
ing, putting the spurs in only just
enough to make the charger dance
gracefully, and then wo must send a
missive, delicate as a wedding card, to
ask the old black giant of sin if ho will
not surrender. Women saved by the
grace ot God and on glorious mission
sent, detained from Sabbath classes be
cause their now hat is not done. Churches
that shook our cities with grent revivals
sending around to ask some demonstrative
worshiper if he will not please to sav
"Amen" ami "halleluiah" a littlo softer. It
seems as if in our churches we wanted a
baptism of cologne and balm of a thousand
Mowers whou we actually need A baptism
of lire from the Lord God of Pentecost.
But we are so afraid somebody will criti
cise our sermons cr criticise our prayers
or criticise our religious work that our
auxiety for the world's redemption is lost
in the fear we will get our baud hurt
while Eleazar wont into the conflct, "and
his hand clave unto the sword."
But I see in the next place what a hard
thing It was for Eleazar to get his hand anil
his sword parted. The muscles and the
sinews had been so long grasped around
the sword he could not drop it when he
proposed to drop it, and his three com
rades, I suppose, came up and tried to help
him, aud they bathed the back purt ot his
hand, hoping the sinews and muscles would
relax. But no. "His hand clave unto the
sword." Then they tried to pull open the
lingers aud to pull back the thumb, but no
sooner were they pulled back than they
closed again, "and his baud clave unto the
sword." But after awhile they were suc
cessful, and then they noticed that the
curve in the palm of the hand corresponded
exactly with the curve of the hilt. "His
hand clave unto the sword."
You and I have seen it many a time.
There are in the United States to-day
many aged ministers of the Gospel.
They are too feeble now to preach. In
the church records the word standing
opposite their name is "emeritus," or
the words are "a minister without
charge." They were a heroic race. They
had small salaries and but few books,
and they swam spring freshets to meet
their appointments, but they did In their
day a mighty work for God. They
took off more ot the heads of Philistine
Iniquity than you oould count from noon
to sundown. You put that old minister of
the Gospel now Into a prayer meeting ot
occasional pulpit or a sick room where
there is some one to be comforted, and it is
the same old ring to his voice and tbe
same old story of pardon and peace and
Christ and beaven. His hand has so long
clutched the sword in Christian conflict he
cannot drop It. "His hand clave unto the
sword." _
The Czar and TwJ Zmptrsri to Meet.
will be a meeting of the Czar, the
Geruxtn Emperor and Emperor Francit
Joseph at Sclernevlce, Russia, upon the oc
casion of a great hunting party next au
tumn. .