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Galveston has experienced storms be
fore, and on several occasions severe
damage has been done. But the peo
ple have grown used tj the danger
ifrom inundation, and even when the
storm broke on that fateful Saturday
morning they were not unusually dis
turbed, writes John Gilmer Speed, in
Harper's Weekly. They went fthout
•their business in ordinary fashion,
confident that tlie storm would soon
blow over. At ten o'clock a gale was
blowing. By noon this gale had in
creased to hurricane proportions, aud
those dwelling near the beach began
to realize that this was something
more than an ordinary summer gust
of wind. Great waves were dashed
over tlie beach, and the summer re-
MOBNING AFTEIi THE FLOOD NEAR BASE BALL PABK, FOOT OF TKEMONT STREET.
sorts were 110 longer habitable. Even
then the people in Galveston were
not apprehensive. But shortly past
three in the afternoon it was appar
ent that something unusual was in the
wind, which was blowing at forty-four
milos an hour, while the barometer
read 20.22 inches. Business men
closed up their places and started for
their homes to look after their fam
ilies. But before these tardily awak
ened people could realize what was
happen l : z the full fury of the tropical
liurricar- was upon them, and com
munication was cut off not only with
the outside world, but it was impossi
ble to get from one part of the city to
another. T.ro great forces were lierce
ly at worn.. The Gulf waves drove
high upon the beach, and the gale
from the northeast pitched the waters
against the wharves and abutments,
choking the sewers and flooding the
city from that quarter. The wind,
which had been some fifty miles an
hour, quickened to eighty-four, when
the measuring apparatus of the
Weather Bureau.was wrecked, and the
rest can only be guessed at. The
streets v.'e ,- e rapidly tilling with water,
and each person had to stay where lie
was eauplit, as it was nlgli impossible
to move from place to place,
In times such as this, however, the
Impossible is done, and many men did
succeed in getting their families into
the more suistantial buildings, such
as the public scnools, t lie courthouse
and tlu- hotels. From three o'clock in
the afternoon the wind increased
Steadily until it was ai its highest, and
certainly not less than 100 miles an
hour. 'IT ,• barometer also continued
to fall, reaching its lowest, 2N.i»-l I j
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TWO LI AVs aFIT.U I'TLK HUAI. WAVE HAt» lIKCKOKU.
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Ibe iiiy wt-rc nearly HII IIUWII, kitoeketj
luiu kiin'hiiii wiMitl 1»y iln* fury of the
Wltlil, ami i vi*ii the 111 I aubataiillul
nt lIN bul|illui;a wt'n l I INV tlaiiiugetl
Hi ll* « »'aie ruvf win blwwu uET, Ituriv
nil Iron roof rolled up and was hurled
across the street as though It had been
paper; timbers were carried In the air
as though the solid oak and pine were
only grass or straw, while wires, tele
graph, telephone, electric light and
trolley, were everywhere, for the poles
had snapped like pipe-stems and let
their burdens loose. The force seemed
Irresistible, as mighty as It was mer
ciless. All this was in unrelieved dark
ness, which prevented even the most
resourcefr' from averting the dan
gers that were on every hand. There
was little if any change for two hours
and a half. Then the barometer be
gan slowly to rise and the worst of
the storm was over. In two hours
more the wind had subsided, and by
midnight there was quiet in stricken
Galveston —the quiet of death.
The water, which In some streets
had bern eight feet deep, began quick
ly to run out, and by daylight the
pavements were again exposed. But
what a scene of devastation this day
light revealed! Wreckage on every
side, wreckage and death. A battle
lield lias its dread story to tell, but a
city suddenly strlckc 11 as this was is a
more pathetic spectacle. When men
light ineu the strong are killed alone,
for all are strong, but here it was the
weak, who suffered inost severely, it
was the women an t children who died
in the greatest number. They could
not reach places of security for lack of
strength, and the bravj and willing
men wore powerless t > help them.
Those pinned down by solid wreckage
lay where they had fallen, those
drowned while fleeing for safety were
carried out by the ebbing waters,
while t lie fallen houses each held the
secret of those who had been crushed
in the downfall. A more pathetically
wretched condition never met the eyes
of men.
As tiie day got older, however, there
was other work than grieving.
There was 110 drinking water in
the town, and the uninjured food
supply was short, while commu
nication was cut off from the
world that was willing to help. But
above all was the necessity to get rid
of tlie dead, which in so hot a climate
began quickly to decay. In very many,
indeed in most, instances the dead
could not be recognized, and therefore
could not be claimed Is relatives.
The bodies were buried in trendies,
and boat loads were taken to deep
water and there sunk, yielding up to
the sea the victims it had come ashore
to claim.
But the vicious in the community,
many of them negroes, were as dili
gent in evil work as the rescuers were
- :od. Hundreds robbed the dead bod
ies of what valuables they could find,
even cutting off lingers and ears to
get linger rings and ear rinjis. The
few United States soldiers stationed
In Galveston were called upon to do
police 'Mty, and State militiamen were
sent to help as soon as possible. Every
man caught robbing the dead was
shot, and some tweuty-tive more were
tried by drum head court-martial and
shot immediately. The summary ex
ecution of these wretches pnt an end
to this phase of the awful situation.
One of the most thrilling tales of the
Texas disaster is told by Miss Sadie
Hirshfeld, of New York, who has Just
returned from Galveston.
She was witti her family In their
liomf on Seeley avenue when the
storm came, and until she was rescued
twenty-four hours later battled with
death upon tlie roof of a cottage
which had become enmeshed with de
bris bound seaward.
"'llu- cry, •riu- water'* coming,'
n-mliin our t-arn," itai'l Ulh lllrah
frlil, "illlil it Mint Hut UUtll tlilit lllo
uii-at Hint we 1 tiougiit that noun-thing
mi itit mi I liml tia|i|M>ne<l. My fntktr,
mother, aiatcra am) brother* all rii*iii-tl
tut U>* wlmlow* J nut aa the water
awc|ii 1 trough our iiwrt, At my
faihvr* rfijuwn all (lie Uuuni wvrv
bolted and tho shutters that were not
carried away by the wind fastened.
"Suddenly the house gave a lurch,
creaked mournfully and then began to
swing to and fro. Our home was lift
ed from Its foundations und sot adrift.
The waters rose higher and higher
until they reached the second story.
"lip the garret stairs we rushed,
and soon the nine of us were clinging
on the coped roof.
"Hundreds of families were in the
same plight. We had gone about a
block when the house struck against
something, which we discovered later
was an oid hut.
"We remained there all night, while
our clothes were being torn from our
backs by tho wind, and house after
house floated by us, telling its story
of misery.
"On one coped roof, when Sunday
dawned, I saw a mother with a babe,
which I judged to be some two months
old, clinging ns best she could. The
wind had taken every stitch of cloth
ing she had had on her back, and the
expression on her face was almost
heartrending.
"AH eyes were turned in her direc
tion waiting to see her disappear be
neath the water. We had not long to
wait. The babe slipped from her
arms, and in her effort to save it she
also was lost.
"On the floating house tops men,
women and children knelt in prayer
and sang by nips. Our family was
half starved and 011 the verge of drop
ping into the sea and about to utter a
last prayer when I fired a pistol which
brought about our rescue.
"Two men from the convent for ne
gro women a short distance away put
. '
out in a raft and carried us to tiui
building."
Miss Hershfeld said that she saw at
least fifty persons lose their lives un
der the most trying circumstances.
No llmiiU 011 Chlueae Coin*.
Numismatics who may in the dim
and distant future investigate the
coinage of China in order to find some
authentic record of the lineaments of
its sovereigns will be doomed to dis
appointment. A representation of the
human head separate from the ligure
is there an object of horror; hence
there is never an eftlgy of the emperor
on his coin. Further, the hermit-like
seclusion in which the Son of Heaven
traditionally lives is Intended to stim
ulate veneration; and there are very
few of the subjects apart from the
officials of the palace, who ever see his
face. A missionary recently returned
from the celestial land observes that
were it known that In Europe portraits
of kings were suspended before Inns,
exposed to dust, wind and rain, and
to the witticisms and perhaps the sar
casms of the populace, we should be
held in even greater derision than we
are.—London Daily Chronicle.
I'owor of Mo«l©rn Gun*.
The power of the modern gun Is a
tiling that cannot be grasped. The
100-tou projectile strikes with a force
equal to eleven-atone meu
jtynping from a height of one foot.
When the rlghty-one-ton gun tires a
shot twelve miles, it Is tired at such
an angle that the shell goes up to a
height MXi feet higher than .Mont
Itlaue. Klg guus have been longer in
use than most people think. In the
year His they had guns called "bom
bard*," which threw projectiles weigh
ing a quarter of a ton. They were
wider at the tnuzzle thau in the bore,
and were used for battering buildings.
The English used big gnus at the bat
tle of t'recy, and amazed the French,
who had never seen sueh wcapous b»
fore. Tile Uegilliellt.
TrNt'hllm I'lttl#
It Is wonderful how much knowledge
can be Imparted to small children by
a quick nursemaid who has mi Inkling
of the kludurgartett system tliilrircu
are never tired of usklut; quc»tiou*.
and If these are Intelligently au»wen*d
they pick up all i«orts of useful knowl
edge without any actual teaching. Tim
object of the kindergarten system Is
to teach the little ones to think for
themselves.and >• Is worth every moth
er's alid nurse's while In 11111 n some
tiling uf It, The custom of talkiutf Dolt*
I sense to tticui aud distorting H wtila
cuuut Ur two much cwMdcUiUvd. . ...
A VINE-DRAPED WINDOW.
It Gives a Small Dark Room a Delight,
lolly Cool Effect.
It was a small, dark dining-room,
with only a narrow side yard separat
ing it from the brick wall of the neigh
boring house. It would have been
gloomy and unattractive but for the
flowers and vino drapery of the nue
window. And tills same window was
a discovery well worth describing,
and bettor worth imitating; for few
beauty-loving housewives seem tore-
A WINDOW DItArED WITII VINES.
allze that window boxes may flourish
even at the most sheltered and shaded
windows.
As this on-> had only a glimpse of
sunshine in the early morning (be
cause of the surrounding brick walls),
pnnsies and ferns and tuberous bego
nias were grown in the box, instead of
the bloomers that cfeniand plenty of
sunlight.
The deep window box was arranged
so that the upper edge was even with
the glass, that the full benefit of the
growing plarts could be seen from the
inside, lu one., corner of the box
thrifty honeysucK.e roots had been
placed, and these soon sent strong
branches up to the top of the window
where pliable splints had been ar
ranged to form an arch. Clematis
and other sun-loving Jlnibers could
be crown in less shady q'virters.but
in this position the honeysuckle
proved most satisfactory.
With a very thin lace drapery on
the inside of the window, to flutter In
every passing breeze, and this vine
drapery rf green 011 the outside, and
the blooming pnnsies and begonias
peeping in at the sill, this one window
transformed the whole effect of that
small, dark dining room.
The Karri Tree.
It is generally known fo most peo
ple that the karri tree, which is now
used so largely in paving the London
streets. Is the giant tree of Western
Australia, but few are aware, how
ever, of the enormous proportions
which the species sometimes attain,
and it may, therefore, be of interest to
give the measurements of a tree re
cently discovered 011 the banks of the
Warren ltlver. The specimen in ques
tion is thirty-four feet in circumfer
ence three feet from the ground, four
teen feet in circumference at the first
limb, which is Hit) feet from tho
ground, and over 200 feet in extreme
height. In other words, the whole of
the tree from the bottom to the first
limb contains nearly (WOO cubic feet of
timber, which means that it lias a
weight of over forty tons in all.
For street blocking the karri timber
is pronounced by experts better than
its colleague, tin- in that its
surface is less liable to get slippery
for the horse's feet.—St. James Ga
zette.
CRUDE APPLIANCES STILL USED.
Clumsy Uazors, Shear* mill Spades Still
Mit<le unit So til.
After viewing some of the interest
ing refinements of modern tools and
appliances it is surprising to turn to
some of the cxhlbi s und see the crude,
clumsy, ineti.'lent articles still in use
111 various lands. The group shown
contains - fo./ typical examples.
What appears to be u knife is really a
razor, that Is made In large quantities
in Austri'i and shipped to the Far
East—Chiua a*-il Japan. The han
dles are exactly sliulh.r to clothes pins,
110 attempt liciug made to finish or pol
ish thorn. The blades are crude iu
proportion. Uclow you will note a pair
of shears that a village blacksmith
would hardly be willing to claim hav
ing made. These are also made 111
Austria, and llnd 11 ready market la
Syria and Morocco.
The wooden spade is such as is used
in Finland, lu that land wood is fur
more abundant than iron, ami. conse
quently, If Is utilized wherever possl-
UAMfAcrt UBI) KOH fllK AMI?ol>«|
hie, only such part* of agricultural Im
ph'iufiila being uiade of Iron u» urn
subject iu the greatest wear. i hi*
clmiisy coiitrhauco U uot a luust-uiu
■IMH'tUicD. but a spado that ia iu ui 111111
eterydu) in**. Aa allow 11, it cuuaUt*
of n wedgt'idiapt'd pieen of wood,
pointed wlili aii Iron ahcaihtitii. uud
l>i\M nicvJ wilu » emtio w iamKu Uaudiv.
DR. TALMAGPS SERMON.
SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED
DIVINE.
Bubjmt . Spread tlitt Gospel Kftort* of
the entireties Should |tn Directed
Toward Saving Sinners—Tim y Should
del in Sympathy With Stranger*.
ICopyrinUt lttUU.l
Washington. D. C.—lg this discourse
T)r. Talmagc points to fields of usefulness
that ure not yet thoroughly cultivated,
and shows the need of move activity. Tho
text is Romans xv, 20, "Lest I should
build upon another man's foundation."
In laying out the plan of his missionary
tour Paul sought out towns and cities
which had not yet been preached to. lie
goes to Corinth, a city famous for splen
dor and vice, and Jerusalem, where the
priesthood and the sanhedrin were ready
to leap with both feet upon the Christian
religion. He feels he has especial work
to do, and he means to do it. What was
the result? The grandest life of usefulness
that .1 man ever lived. We modern Chris
tian workers are not apt to imitate Paul.
We build 011 other people's foundations.
If %ve erect a church, we prefer to have it
filled with families all of whom have been
pious. Do we gather a Sabbath-school class,
we want good boys and girls, hair combed,
faces washed, manners attractive. So a
church in this day is apt to be built out
of other churches. Some ministers spend
all their time in fishing in other people's
ponds, and they throw the line into that
church pond and jerk out a Methodist,
and throw the line into another church
pond and bring out a Presbyterian, or
there is a religious row in some neighbor
ing church, and a whole school of fish
swim off from that pond, and we lake
them all in with one sweep of the net.
What is gained? Absolutely nothing for
the cause of Christ. What strengthens an
army is new recruits. While courteous to
those coming from other Hocks, we should
build our churches not out of other
churches, but out of the world, lest we
build on another man's foundation.
The fact is this is a big world. When
in our schoolboy days we learned the dia
meter and circumference of this planet we
did not learn half. It is the latitude and
longitude and diameter and circumference
of want and woe and sin that no figures
can calculate. This one spiritual conti
nent of wretchedness reaches across all
zones, and if I were called to give its geo
graphical boundary I would say it was
bounded on the north and south and east
and west by the great heart of Clod's sym
pathy and love. Oh, it is a great world!
Since 6 o'clock this morning GO,BOO persons
have been born, and all these multiplied
populations are to be reached by the gos
pel. In England or in our Eastern Ameri
can cities we are being much crowded,
and an acre of ground is of great value,
but in Western America 500 acres is a
small farm, and 20,000 acres is no unusual
possession. There is a vast field here and
everywhere unoccupied, plenty of room
more, not building on another man's foun
dation.
We need as churches to stop bombard
ing the old iron-clad sinners that have
been proof against thirty years of Chris
tian assault. Alas for that church which
hacks the spirit of evangelism, spending
on one chandelier enough to light 500
souls to glory, and in one carved pillar
enough to have made a thousand men
"pillars in the house of our God forever,"
and doing less good than many a log
cabin meeting-house with tallow candles
stuck in wooden sockets and a minister
who has never seen a college and does
not know the difference between Greek
and Choctaw! We ' eed as churches to
get into sympathy a uh the great outside
world, and let then, know that none are
so broken-hearted or hardly bestead that
they will not be welcomed. "No," says
some fastidious Christian; "I don't like to
be crowded in church. Don't put any one
in my pefc."
My brother, what will you do in heaven?
When a great multitude that no man can
number assembles, they will put fifty in
your pew. What are the select few to-day
assembled in the Christian churches coin
pared with the mightier millions outside
of them? Many of the churches are like
a hospital that should advertise that its
patients must have nothing more than
toothache or "run rounds,but no broken
heads, no crushed ankles, no fractured
thighs, (iive us for treatment moderate
sinners, velvet-coated sinners and sinners
with a gloss on. It is as though a man
had a farm of 3000 acres and put all his
work 011 one acre. He may raise ever so
large ears of corn, ever so big heads of
wheat —he would remain poor. The
church of God has bestowed its chief care
on one acre, and has raised splendid men
women in that small inclosure, but the
field is the world. That means North
and South America. Europe. Asia and
Africa and all the islands of the sea. It
is as though, after a great battle, there
were left 50.000 wounded and dying 011 the
field anil three surgeons gave all their
time to three patients under their charge.
The major general comes in and says to
the doctors, "Come out here and look at
the nearlv 50,000 dying for lack of surgi
cal attendance." "No,' say the three doc
tors, standing there fanning their patients,
1 we have three important cases here, and
we arc attending to them, and when we
are not positively busy with their wonnds
it takes all our time to keep the flies off."
In this awful liattle of sin and sorrow,
where millions have fallen on millions, do
not let us spend all our time in taking
care of a few people, and when the com
mand comes. Go into the world," say
practically: "No. I cannot. 1 have here
a few choice cases, and I am busy keeping
oil the flies.'' There are multitudes to
il > > who have never had any Christian
worker look them in the eye and with
earnestness in the accentuation say.
"Come!" or they would long ago have
been in the kingdom. My friends, reli
gion is either a chain or a gn.it reality.
It it be a sham, let us disband our
churches and Christian associations. Ii
it be a reality, then great populations are
on the way to the bar of (Sod unfitted lor
the ordeal. And what are we doing '
In order to reach the multitude of out
siders we must drou all technicalities mil
ot our religion. When we talk to people
about the hypostatie union and 1 rtiuli
en< vc!o|iedianisnt ami Krastinianism and
I 'tnuplutcnsiaiiisut. we are impolite and 1-
little understood as if a physician should
talk to uii ordinary patient about the per
icardium and intercostal muscle and seor
but'c mpto'iis. Many of us come out of
the theoli cat seminaries so loaded up
that we take the first ten years to show
our people how much we know and the
next leu years to net our people to know
as much as we know, and at the end we
find that neither ol us knows Itliytllllix
as we ought know. Here are hundreds
of thousands of sinning, struggling and
d>ing |»-ople who need to realise ju-t one
thing that Jcsua Chiisl came to saw-
On 111 af 1 will save them now. lint we
gul into a profound and elaborate ileum
11011 of >vbat justili' ition is. and after all
the work there are not, outside of llit
learned iiroltrssioiis, 10.IKKI people who can
tell uh.it justification is. I will read ton
the deli ml loll » "Justification is purely a
fuiciixe act, the act of a judge sit tin 4 in
the forum, in which the Supreme I'iiln
Slid Judge, who is account able to liniw,
and who alone knows the manner 111 which
the ends of His unitrrsal government iau
Iwst Is' ohlatued, mkous that which was
d.ine h> the salntitut# in the saute ttian
Iter as if It had lawn done by those »I|«
ixdieve lu the sulwtitute, and puiely on
account ol this gracious method of re> k
OOIM, grants them ths lull leutiasluit ui
their sins
, .New, wUt m mui »iJJ
you what justification fg—when a sinner
believes, God lets him off. One suiniHer
in Connecticut 1 went to a large factory,
and I Raw over the door written t(!n
words, "No Admittance." I entered artd
saw over the next door "No Admittance."
Of course I entered. I got inside and
found it a pin factory, and they were
making pins, very serviceable, tine and
useful pins. So the spirit of exclusivenewt
has practically written over the outside
door of many a church, "No Admittance."
And if the stranger enters he finds practi
cally writt > over the second door. ''Xo
Admittance," while the minister stands
in the pulpit hammering out his little
niceties of belief, pounding out the techni
calities of religion, making pins.
In the most practical, common-sense
way and laying aside the non-essentials
and the hard definitions of religion go out
on the <!od given mission, telling the peo
ple what they need and when and how
they can get it.
Comparatively little effort as yet ha«
been made to save that large class of per
sons in our midst called skeptics, and he
who goes to work here will not be build
ing upon Another man's foundation. There
is a large number of them. They are
afraid of us and our churches, for the rea
son we do not know how to treat them.
One of this class met Christ and heard
with what tenderness and pathos and
beauty and success Christ dealt with him:
"Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with
all thy heart, and with all thv soul, and
with all thy mind, and with all thy
strength. This is the first and great
commandment, and the second is like unto
it—namely, 'i nou shalt love thy neighbor
as thyself. There is none other com
mandment greater than these." And the
scribe said to Him, "Well. Master, Thou
hast said the truth, for there is one God.
and to love llim with all the heart, anil
all the understanding, and all the soul,
and all tiie strength, is more than whole
burnt offerings and sacrifices." And when
Jesus saw that he answered discreetly He
said unto llim. "Thou art not far from
the kingdom of God." So a skeptic was
saved in one interview. Hut few Chris
tian people treat the skepnc in that way.
Instead of taking hold of him with the
gentle hand of love we are apt to take
him with the pinchers of ccclesiast icism.
You would not be so rough on that man
if you knew how he lost his faith in Chris
tianity. i have known men skeptical from
the fact that they grew up in houses where
religion " as overdone. Sunday was the
most awful day in the week. They had
religion driven into them with a trip ham
mer; they were surfeited with prayer
meetings; they were stuffed and choked
with catechisms; they were often told
that they were the worst boys the parents
ever knew because they liked to ride down
hill better than to read JBunyan's "Pil
grim's Progress."
Whenever father and mother talked of
religion they drew down the corners of
their mouth and rolled up their eyes. It"
any one thing will send a boy or girl to
ruin sooner than another that is it. J £ E
had such a father and mother 1 fear I
should have been an. infidel.
The first word that children learn is
generally papa or mamma. I think the
first word 1 ever uttered was "why." I
know what it is to have a hundred mid
nights pour their darkness into one hour.
Oh, skepticism is a dark land! There
are men who would give a thousand
worlds, if they possessed them, to get
back to the placid faith of their fathers
and mothers, and it is our place to help
them, and we may help them, never
through their heads, but always through
their hearts.
These skeptics, when brought to Jesus,
will be mightily effective, far more so than
those who never examined the evidences
of Christianity. Thomas Chalmers was
once a skeptic, Robert llall a skeptic,
Robert Newton a skeptic, Christian Evans
a skeptic. Hut when once with strong
hand they tool: hold of the chariot of the
gospel they rolled it on with what mo
mentum !
If I address such men and women to-day
T throw out no scoff. I implead them by
the memory of the good old days when at
their mother's knee they said. "Now I
lay me down to sleep," and by those days
and nights of scarlet fever in which she
watched you, giving you the medicine in
just the right time, and turning your pil
low when it was hot, ami with hands that
many years ago turned to dust soothed
away your cain and with voice that you
will never hear again, unless you join lit r
in the better countrv, told you to never
mind, for you would feel better by and
by, and by that dying couch where she
looked so pale and talked so slowly, catch
ing her breath between the words, and you
felt an awful loneliness coming over your
soul—by all that I beg you to come back
and take the same religion.
It was good enough for her; it is good
enough for you. i\av, I have a better plan
than that. I plead by all the wounds and
tears and blood and groans and agonies
anil death throes of the Son of God, who
approaches you this moment with torn
brow and lacerated hands and whipped
back and saying, "Come unto Me all ye
who are weary and heavy laden, and I will
give you rest.'
Again, tnere is a field of usefulness but
little touched, occupied by those who are
astray in their habits. All northern na
tions. like those of North American and
England and Scotland that is. in the
colijer climates—are devastated by alco
holism. They take the fire to keep up
the warmth. In southern countries, like
Arabia and Spain, the blood is so warm
they arc not tempted to fiery liquids. The
great Roman armies never drank any
thing stronger than water tinged with
vinegar, but under our northern climate
the temptation to heating stimulants is
most mighty and millions succumb. When
a man's habits go wrong, the church dro|m
him. the social rircle drops him. good in
fluetu en drop him—we all drop him. Of
all the men who get off the track but few
even get on again.
Destitute children of the street offer a
tield of work comparatively unoccupied.
The uncared for children are in the ma
jority in most of nui cities. When they
grow u;>, if unreformeil. they will outvote
voui children, and thev will govern your
childra.i.
The whisky ring will hatch out other
whisky rings, and grog shops will kill
with their horrid stem h public > ibriety
mill the church < t God rnii up with ou'
,lrehhed arms nnl molds this dying pop
ulation in her bosom.
I'ublic schools cannot do it. \rt galler
ies cannot do it. Itlackwell's Island ran
nut do it. Almshouses cannot no it
Jails i iimot di it CluiKch of ti.nl. wake
up to your niagmiiccnt mission! You i in
d'i it! Get somewhere, somehow to work'
the Prussian cavalry riount bv putting
their right foot in the stirrup, while the
\»nci tan cavalry mount by putting their
leit )>••.! into the stirrup. I do lint car#
how \ i.i Mount your war charger if yon
oillt _' i into tin* battlc I'll thill and gel
there noun, right stirrup or left .lirrup
or tin -11 It up at all Iha iltlon'tlpii I fields
ne ill around us, and why should we
build on another man's foundation? I
have heard .0 what «... called the ' thilll
deling lege 'i it was in l?U i part ui t!l«
I! in uin\ to which "line Chn.tians
belonged, and the players, it was .aid,
well aimicre I bv thumb rand lightning
and h ill and terii|w.t which ovet threw
an invading aimv and saved the empire.
Vnd I n.aild I-. God that our thurches
might lie so mighty lu piatrr and work
that 111. v would liecome a thuudci iug le
gion I*l.ue which the lotve* of am might
la- routed and the gate, of he!) might
tremble launch tie- gospel ship far SH
olhii to)age Heave aw is now, laiii!
Miake oal the r«vfs in th- ioreto|>M»il!
funic II h«aicult wind end nil the can
ts.' Jesun aboard will will) otu salstv
Ic.im au tlie Ma will Urckwli us forward
leu. uu the .here will well, unit Us Mil*
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