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The kings of earth have golden crowa
II light with Jewel rare;
I have no irnwn, liut then I hivi
Your smile nu t Imanty fair;
1 have no crown of high renown,
It nt . O my love so trim!
What r-'ki it in since well I know
That I have y u?
The soldier win. a dying wreath
In leaping leagnered wall
An l vi il nf slaughtered vl-tlms lirinj
I. 'Heath tin- funeral palls;
Sii-h t r. jhi'4 are th meed of war,
Ami riniBon in their hue;
lly wreath, my spoils, are all of love;
l'r I have vou.
Edward Orvlllo Hharpe,
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THAT MISS BENTON. .
riiTii i:on:Niox.
HAVE somo 1)!tl
news for yoii,
Kirls. Don't cull
lut) nn eavesdrop
perunless it is
in tho renso of
dropping from
the eaves. If our
Fonial host, Mr.
Tuttle, persists in
holding Lis do
me otio confer
ences lienentL my
window, in tbo
tone ho uses to
bin oxen, on a
iulijtH't intimately related to my peaco
ami welfare, I consider myself justified
in listening."
When she had mado this speech Lou
Huxo dropped on the lied, already oc
cupied ly lltrtha Lewis aud Jeauie
Foster, in nn attitude of mock despair.
"What hus happened?" asked I'ris
Armstrong, whose room they were iu.
fctio was at the bureau, where she was
trving to lieat a curling iron over the
flickering llanio of a small lump.
"Some one in coming to-rjipht to
take the corner room," answered Lou.
"Sbo is mi invalid at least, Mr. Tut
t!o said she was 'coming for the quiet,'
Bud nobody but a sick person wants to
be quiet, of course."
"Ah!" remarked Trirt, after on
omiuous pntiht'.
"This means," wont on Lou, "that
we luii-t Rive up our evening kettle-'
drums in your room, for when the iu-
-.1:1 . i it
vaini goee io neii sue win want to go
to sleep. We must Hot sing when wo
co u lioino from a buy ride, or dunce
low n the corridor after we have re
tired for the ni-ht. Neither must wo
gutlu r here for midnight ghost stories,
l'cemno nn invalid can hear every
whisper."
"it is too bad that she should come
hero to spoil our good times 1" said
l'ris, indignantly. ".Sick people
should stay at home !"
"I know all about tho way a person
who has nervous postration behaves,
because my Aunt Kathleen had i.".
' - ' , ' " - v- .
girls, the could not bear to see the dog
wug his tail, and she put her hands to
Ler ears it ho threatened to bark. She
diil not liko to have any one eat toast,
because tho crunching affected her
nerves; and if I sat down in front of
her in u rocking-chair, she would bog
mo to stop rocking, for tho motion
made her to nervous!"
"Mere niTectation I" exclaimed Tris.
"If people let such notions Uko pos
session of them, there is no knowing
to what extremes they may be led.
like the nuns in tho Middle Arcs, who
bad a nervous epidemic of barking. I
really think we Lave a mission work
to perform, girls, in the midst of our
good times."
"Aunt Kathleen didn't like clocks,
cither," pursued Lou. "Her power
of hearing them tick was simply super
natural. Her room was rt the top of
the houn, but she could hear the
clock iu the dining-room. She said
she should liko to emigrate to tho
village iu .South America, that Darwin
tells about, where there wan not a
tingle clock or watch, but the hours
were guessed at by an old luuu 'who
Lud a good idea of tune."
"It is clearly our duty to keep our
ui'ighbor from developing into a
hypochondriac, like your amiable rel
ative," said 1'riH, decisively. "She
hould not come to a summer hotel for
(li t. We are here to have u good
t.me, and not to look after invalids!"
The gong souuded, and the girls
tcultcrt'd to their rooms. Later ttiey
gathered on the piazza to watch the
arrivals.
"That is she!" whispered Lou, as a
roundfuct'd, dark-eyed young woman
Came up the steps.
"Hut she doesn't look liko aa in
valid," demurred .Jennie.
"They iievt r do ! Nervous invalids
always look the picture of health," re
turned Lou. "That is one way you
can tell them. Another way'isbv
their bags, to which they cling as to
fear lilo. These bags contaiu little
pellets, or a bottle of e:i ffee-broimne,
or a treatise on how t) cure nervous
ness, according to tlie mental endow
ments or dis 'udowiiieutsol 1 he owner."
Miss lleuton as the uamo of the
tew Buest read simply on the register
retired early, but a light gleaming
beuea'h her door showed that she was
till awake when the girls assembled
iu 1'ris's room to exchange their gos
sip. I'ris Lad dragged the roeking
chairs Irom the other apartraeuts in
to her own chamber, and they began
their discipline of their unwelcome
neighbor by a series of thumps. The
door whs left opcu ; a small round
clock having wonderful ticking pow
ers was placed in the eutry.
If the four girls, after this, could
appear at the breakfast table looking
as fresh as though they Lad gone to
bed with the tun, such was not the
case with thoir neighbor; Miss Ben
ton's heavy eyes and languid manner
Lore witness to a disturbed night.
'The lieoide in the smaller ihuii'cr-
room, having coma early the sot-
I .1
son, had fallen into the pleasant In
timacy for which ctou a few weeks to
gether in a summer hotel are suffi
cient. Miss Denton made no attempt
to join in the merrv, dosultory chat
ter which wa, indeed, skilfully di
rected by Tris to the end of exclud
ing her. What had begun in a mere
spirit of frolio and a passing resent
ment developed, as the dayt went on,
into scarcely concealed dislike, the
reason for which none could have told.
There was certainly do apparent
reason, for Miss Denton was well-bred
anil attractive in appearance.
Even ecntlo Mrs. Forsvthc. who
had hitherto welcomed bo kindly any
solitary stranger, was swept along by
tho current, and save for a stately in
clination of her head and a formal
greeting ignored Miss Benton. Khe
was very fond of her niece, Lou Saxe,
and "A summer hotel was not a hos
pital," she said.
Ho in the picnic at the Rapids, dur
ing the long, bright day spent at tho
Shaker settlement, and at the climb
up nauujooacic, miss iscnton was
ignored. She was not invited to Join
in the evening games, in which even
tho elders participated, nor did any
ono suggest that she was included in
tho bidding to the hop at a neighbor
ing hotel, or to the concert given in
the village by the summer residents.
Tho uext festivity was a "lawn
party," given by an enterprising
youth in tho near neighborhood, who,
in the hope ot remuneration, had
showered his rustio attentions upon
the city visitors. The sawmill of
which he was the owner stood on the
brink of a great dark pool, that had
been named by the girls the Styx.
Mark Mudgett was his name; and
"Mark" was an abbreviation of "Mar
quis do Lafayette," a given name orig
inally bestowed, under tho impression
that the French patriot's namo was a
Christian namo. The girls politely
called him "the Marquis."
Ice cream was to be sold at his lawn
party, and boats were to bo let on the
Styx. The girls had enlistod the in
terest of tho other hotels and tho Mar
quis's fete wa a great success.
Tho girls all enjoyed it much ; but
tho crowning festivity, tho last frolio
of the season, had been reserved for
tho following day. There was to bo
a twenty-mile drive to tho lake, a sail
around it and a moonlight drive home.
Larly oa the moruing following
tho Marquis's lawn party, Lou en
tered I'ris's room to find her friend,
with a ghastly face, scatod upon the
side of tho bed.
"It was tho ice cream 1" Tris
gasped. "Oh, dear? Is this tho way
It feels to be sick?"
Poor l'ris clasped tho bedpost with
both hands,as though she could there
by stop tho dizzy whirl in her aching
head. Tho other girls camo in and
suggested various unsuitable remedies.
"Leavo mo I I don't caro if I die I
I'd rather dio than feel like this. I
heard tha clock strike every hour till
tour think of it, gii " ' And then,
ut as I began t -'Vviel sleepy, the
cows commenced to low, and Mr. Tut
tlo began his usual conference through
tho kitchen window."
Mrs. Forsytho was callol. Tha
remedy for a nick headache, she de
clared, was to lio abed all day in a
darkened room; and to that treat
ment l'ris was condemned.
"l'lease go," she faid, when Mrs.
Forsythe wished to givo up tho pro
posed expedition. "Yon can do noth
ing by remaining, and I do not want
to feel that I have robbed you of a
day's pleasure."
"Vou will bo quito alone. Every
one is going but Mrs. Tuttlo aud that
Miss Bentou," urged Mrs, Forsythe.
"I don't want to talk. I am going
to sleep all day." Tho other girls,
with noisy sympathy, yielded com
niiseratingly to Pris'a command that
tho expedition should not bo given
up.
Tresently she heard tho groaning
wheels of tho mountain wagon roll up
to the door. One horse was restive ;
would he neigh again? The girl put
her hands to her ears in an agony of
appreheusion. What a shrill voice
Lou Saxe had. and how long they were
getting ready I
They were gono at last, and the
girl turned her pillow to see if there
were not a cool spot upon it; but no
sleep came. The day was intensely
hot. She had closed the window to
shut out the sound of Mrs. Tuttle, the
hostess, beatiug eggs in the kitchen.
Her sense of hearing was a torture to
her.
By and by Mrs. Tuttle came to the
room, seated herself in the rocking
chair tho ono that hart been utilized iu
Mrs. Benton's treatmint and enter
tained tho invalid with a graphic ac
count of all tho funerals, accidents
aud illnesses that had come under her
observation.
'rfeaius though you'd ought to have
something for dinner," sbo urgod.
"Cauldu't you eat a bit o' cheese?"
"No, thauk you," answered I'ris,
struggling to speak gently.
It's home-made. Twouldu't hurt
you."
"But I don't oar for any, thank
you."
"Jest a grain. You could soak it
in your tea."
"Please, no I murmured Pris.
"If you soak it in your tea it would
make it soft."
Pris'a self-control was at an end.
Desperation gave momentary strength.
"I don't want any cheese I" she
cried, fiercely. "I never mean to eat
anything again as long as I live. Do
go!"
Mrs. Tutile moved toward the door
in evident alarm ; with her hand on
the knob she hesitated and turned,
with a feeling akin to that of the de
serter condomed to be shot, and ex
pectant of the word of command,
"Fire I" Pris dived beneath the bed
clothes. The next moment the bang
ot the door quivered through and
through her aomug heard.
IIo the hours dragged I In the si-
lenco of tho great house aereepfof
sense of loneliness came over the girl,
till it amounted almost to terror.
"If I live to get home, I'll never
leave it again," she thought. 'Mow da
yon do?"
The lust words were spoken aloud,
in a sudden Irenzied desire to hear a
htimau voice, and to ascertain whether
she had not lost the power of speech.
"Not at all well, thank you," she
answered herself, st 11 aloud. "I am
in a position to realize, as I never did
before, the figures given in the arith
metic benoath the 'Table of Timo
Measure,' of the appalling number of
seconds there are in a day 1"
Presently there was a gentlo tap at
the door.
"Come in I" called Tris, ready to
welcome even Mrs. Tuttle. But it
was Miss Benton who stood upon the
threshold 1
"I thought I heard you speak," siid
Miss Benton, "Can I do anything
for you?"
It was moro in the tono than even
the kindly words, but the last vestigo
of Pris's self-control vanished, and an
incoherent outburst was the only an
swer. Miss Benton listened at first in
astonishment, and finally with a look of
understanding, while her month,
with Pris noticed for tho first time
was so fine and true, lost its smiling
curves. But in tho gravity that had
stolen over the face, the girl was
vaguely aware that a rare depth of
feeling was revealed.
"Ob, it is awful to think of the way
wo have treated you 1" Pris concluded,
breathlessly.
Tho smile camo back for a moment
to Miss Benton's face.
"This is the first I have known ot
my ill treatment," she said, calmly.
"I should have gono home to-morrow
under tho impression that this was a
remarkably agreeable household. I
have been so unutterably thankful
that you let mo alone, did not foro
me to 'talk shop,' ask for my auto
graph, inquire if it were not necessary
for mo to 'keep my mind calm,' a
query with which ono poor unfortun
ate agonized me at Scranton, and
above all, did not allude to me as an
'authoress !' "
"An authoress 1" repeated Tris, in a
dazed tone. "You aro uot you can
not bo Kato Eleanor Benton? Why,
yes, you aro tho Miss Benton !"
Oh, tho difference conveyel in a
girl'stono between "tho Miss Benton"
and "that Miss Benton!"
"Please !" Tho owner of the namo
made u funny little gesture of abhor
rence. That word authoress always
conveys to my mind an impression of
a beiug with long curls, who writes
verses for the Poet's Corner of tho
local newspaper. You see," bho went
on, in a communicative, tone, for
Pris was too much overwhelmed for
tho discovery that the occupaut of tho
corner room was a woman whose namo
was a household word wherever there
wcro girls to read aud love her stories,
"I had work that I must finish, and at
Scranton I was not left iu peace for a
moment, so I stiirTdd my manuscript
iuto my bag and flod. 1 could devote
myself to my work here without one
ear prickod up for fear of interrup
tion. It was so delightfully quiet in
my room "
"Quiet!" interrupted Tris, ia
imuzetncut.
"Wasn't it?" queried Miss Benton,
inrocently. "But I acknowledge that
I am deal, dumb aud bhud when I am
at work on the last pages of a story.
I did hear your good times together,
though, ufter you came upstairs for
the night, aud sometimes longed to
join you. Your extempore orchestra
of whistling and blowing on combs
was my evening refreshment."
"We wouldn't have done it for the
world if wo had known," murmured
Pris, abjectly.
"I am a disappointment, of course,"
returned Miss ' Benton, laughing.
"Confess that you thought an
authoress must be seven feet tall, with
a diotionary ' under one arm, an
oneyclopodiu under the other, goggles
ou her nose and a pen in her hand I
I'm sorry you're ill. I will have your
door and mine open, so you shall not
feel lonesome, and perhaps you can
bleep. Oh, no, don't thank me just
for being neighborly."
A crowd was gathered around Miss
Bentou the next moruing, aud a
chorus of lamentation arosM that tho '
wasgoing by the moruing train. j
"This is what I have oscaped!" she
exclaimed, in mock despair, as auto
graph fans and albums were produced
by the adoring circle of girls.
In one album there was writt?n a
line that, as Pris Armstrong, who felt
quite well the next day, looked upon
it, choked back her "thauk you :"
"I was a stranger, an 1 ye took mo
not iu!" Youth's Compauiou.
rOITLAK KCIESCE.
Startling Insults.
Some Btartling results, stated Lord
Ptayleigu the other day at the Royal
Institution, have been obtained iu iu
vestigatiug the sensitiveness of the
ear to sounds. By one method he
found that the ear is capable of re
sponding to au amount of condensa
tion and refructiou in the air equal to
one twenty-millionth of au atmos
phere, though by other experiments
the amount seemed to be a tenth lens.
A point of some diftioulty is how do
we know the direction ot sounds. By
trial he found that pure sounds, suoh
as those of a tuning fork, tell their
direction with certainty only when at
the right or left; while with other
sounds, suoh as those of the voice or
of clapping the bands, the ear could
easily judge the direction, wherever
it waa. New York News.
The Larrett Camellia.
Perhaps the largest oamellia in ex
istence is at Piluitz Castle, near Dres
den, Germany. The tree is about
tweuty-four feet high and annually
produces about 5i),000 blossoms,
Chicago Thaes-Herald.
An clcctrio con is announced.
Taper water pipes are a possibility.
Electrical power isnt present profit
ably transmitted over a distance of
155 miles.
Boston is to have sterilized school
books. The books are simply baked
to kill disease germs.
A Nunda (N. Y.) man claims to have
invented a contrivance to do away
with carbons in aro lights.
The use of brick-dust mortar as a
substitute for hydraulio cement, where
the latter cannot be obtained, is now
recommended.
It Las been discovered that granu
lated asphalt makes an excellent ferti
lizer. It is especially adapted to
growing potatoes.
A balloon recently sent up in Paris
equipped with self-registering ther
mometers and barometers reached an
altitude of ten miles and the ther
mometer rccordod 110 degrees below
tcro.
Dr. Pictcl asserts that heat radia
tions at temperatures lower than sixty-five
below eero pss as roadily
through a fur overcoat or a wooden
board us a ray of sunlight through
glass.
One who describes himself as a
practical floriculturist, has discovered
a remedy for hot-houso pests in a soap
mailo from tho oil of tho fir tree.
Nothing, he avers, is more disliked by
tho insects.
A street-car compressed air motor
recently underwent a trial iu Rome,
N. Y. Tho motor and car were hung
on elliptio springs and tho ease with
which wido joints, frogs and imperfec
tions were passed over attracted much
favorable comment.
A Hollander Las invented a process
of sterlizing milk by subjecting it to
the passago of an alternating clcctrio
current. All micro-organisms taken
up by tho milk from the air, cto., are
permanently destroyed by the nleo
trio current. This germ-killing
quality of tho electrio current does
not hurt the milk.
It is said that perfectly bright iron
ond steel will not rust in absolutely
pure water. Carbonic acid or some
similar ageut must bo present. In
uny case iron or steel highly polished
will resist corrosion for a long time,
but when tho ru-it oucu starts it
spreads rapidly over tbo surface. The
purer iron is, tho more easily it will
rust.
The Tenilcrluot and 1 lie Burro.
Au amusing incident couocrning
how burros are guided occurred some
time ago when u "tenderfoot" from
the East was induced to mount an an
imal noted for his uuruhness. Tho
stronger had never seen n burro bo
fore, und supposed he could ride the
in.iiguiticant-looking "sheep," a littlo
larger than a Newfoundland dog, with
ease. Tbo burro's grotesque appear
ance, was heightened by the addition
of a Mexican saddle. This curious at
tachment was made of two wooden
crotches that looked liko wishbones,
and wero fastened ou each side by
cross-bars at the lower extremities.
The whole was then covered with raw
hide, which had been stretched over
tho sticks wheu greeu and allowed to
dry. The shriukage made it perfect
ly solid. Instead of a blauket a
sheepskin was thrown over the burro's
back for tho saddle to rest ou.
The "tenderfoot" clambered upon
the strauge looking craft, wheu, to his
astonishment and alarm, tho tricky
animal started oif at a lively pace
with his head down, moving iu a nar
row circle. The stranger ha I no bridle
nor halter nor even rope to guido his
Kosiuantc, and was still further dis
concerted by the yells of derisive
laughter that camo from the crowd as
sembled to witness the sport. The
animal veered so rapidly that the rider
could not get off without losing his
balance, and at the same timo he had
all he could tlo to stick in tho saddle.
Besides, he did not wish to display his
lack of horsemanship, and so he stayed
on. Finally tho burro took another
tack, and started at a lumboring
"lopo" down a neighboring hill, one
ear high in air ami the other flopping
like a loose sail. At the bottom of tbo
hill the ruu iway dus.be I through a
creek deep enough to wet the rider,
and did uot i-top until far up the side
of an incline. Here the rider luckily
remembered hearing a burro driver
say "C'heo !" to his animal; and, al
though the former did not know what
it meant, he yelled "Choe !" at the top
of his voice. The bnrro stopped as
suddenly as if ho had been struck by a
maul. By digging him in tho ribs
with his heels tho "tenderfoot" man
aged to get him started aguiu, and by
use of his newly-acquired vocabulary
of one word of burro luuguage aud
sundry cuffs over the ears, ho tin ally
guided him buck to the starting point.
Demorest's Musaziue.
Stuff .Men Ar .Ha!e 0".
Men aro composed chielly of char
coal and water. As beings of this com
position cauuot exist inauy heat great
enough to set the cutrooiii on tire in
spite of the water, the scientists are
now speculating as to the possibilities
of the hot stars being iuhabited by an
imals with silioon substituted for char
co.il. Silioon is sand, or at least it
bears much the same relation to sand
that carbon does to charcoal. New
York World.
Land of Milk and Huuey.
Switzerland is veritably the land
"flowing with milk and honey, and
cattle upon a thousand hills." Groat
attention is paid to apiaries; the
honey is famed for its aroma and
delicacy; though some tourists are
disposed to doubt if that which is ou
every breakfast table is all the product
of the busy little hymenopter, De
troit Free, Press. .
DP, TALMAGE'S SERMON.
BELIEVES THE BIBLE.
No Effort to Chansre or Destroy the
Book Eu E?tr Baoct!&
Tmt; "Let Ood be true, but every man
a liar." Romans lii.. 4.
The rtill nmNls ircorntnifllnn aearllntf
to sotntt ln.lit and outside the pulpit. It Is
no surprise trmt the world InimWds th
Hrrlntuffm. tin It la n n i j -
. , . B. , nuiiiuiiiH iu llllU 1. IITI--
tlan ministers plklns? at this In the lllhle
n.l .1 ...... I .1 . ... .
"' "jiiik mm iiniu many Knott peopls
are left In the fo ahout what parts of the
Jlihlntupy niiftht to believe ami what rrts
rjwt. The hflnoiinM of flti'llni fnnlt
with tho Bllile af this time Is most -viunt.
In our tlay tht Ilililo Is assailod ly scurrility,
ly misrepresentation, by Infidel selentists,
by all the vice of earth and all the vfnom of
perdition, and at this particular timn even
preachers ot thn (osi.el fall Into lint of
criticism of the word of Ood. Whv, It makes
me think of a ship in a September eipilnox,
tho waves dasliin to thn top of ths smoke,
stack, and the hatches fa.t ned down, and
many prophesying the foundcrlnit ot the
stenmer. and at thnt time some of ths crew
with axes and saws iro down Into the hold of
tho ship, and they try to saw off some of the
planks ami pry out some of the timbers lie.
cause the timber did not come from the right
forest.
It doe not seem to be a eommendablo bus
iness for the crew to lie helpinit the wjnds
and storms outside with their axes and saw
inside. Now, this old (iospcl ship, what with
the roarinij of earth nud hell around tho
stem and stern and mutiny on deck. Is hav
ing a very rouh voyage, but I have noticed
that not one of the timbers has started, an I
the captain says he will see It through. And
I have noticed that keelson and counter tim
ber knee are built out of Lebanon cedar, and
she Is going to weather the gale, but no
credit to those who make mutiny on deck.
When I seo protease I Christians in this
particular day finding fault with the Scrip
tures, It makes me think of a fortress ter
rifically liomltnrile.l anil lltn m.m AM ...
- ........ ...... i, -j .... v. ti inn rum
Jiarts. Instead of swabbing out and loading
tlie l-ll l. tin. I li.,l.,Hl. .... .1. . .
..... ii. i'iwi i.-n u up mtj ammuni
tion from the magazine, are trving with
crowbars to pry out Irom tho wall certain
blocks of stone, becnuse they did not come
from tho right quarry. Oh. men on tho ram
parts, better light ba.ik. und light tlown the
common enemy, Instead of trying to make
breaches in tlio wall!
While I oppose this expurgation of the
Scriptures, I snail give you my reasons for
such opposition. What!" say some of tho
theological evolutionists whose brains have
been addled by too long brooding over them
by Darwin and Hpencer, "you don't now
really believe all tho story of the garden of
Eileu, do you" Yes. as much as I believe
there were roses in my garden Inst summer.
'l)ut." say they, -you don't really believe
that the sun nml moon stood still?" Yes. and
If I had strength enough to create a sua ami
moon I could make them stand still or cause
the refrnctlon nf (lie amra ..... ... i.
...... ...... r. ni'illil
appear to stand still. -Hut." ti.y sav, "vou
aom really lielleve that the whale swal
lowed Jntlllll?" Via nn.l If T -..
enough to make a whale I could have mado
t-ii.ty ingn-ss loriue rcira'torv prophet,
Icavinir to ev.iliiti.m tn ..;.... i.t... t't i. .
.... ........... ... . j... , linn ii n i-re
an unworthy tenant! "Hut," sav they, "vou
aon t reniiy believe that the water was turned
Into wine? ' Yen, Just as eally us water now
is often turned lnt.i tvlnu .oi. n ..ui.i
of strychnine, and logwood! "liut." sav
they, "you tbm t really believe that Mamsoii
Slew 10(10 with the Jaw bono of au os?" Yes,
and I think that the man who iu this tlay
a-s'iuus me uii,ie. is wielding tho saiuo
Weapon!
There is nothing in the Ulble that staggers
me. There are tunny thiugs I do not under
stand. I tin lint nniln.l ..-.I . I
shall iu this world understand, liut that
wouiu Me a very poor Ood who could be fully
understood by the human. That would be a
very small Infinite that can be measured by
finite. You mutt not expect to weigh the
thunderbolts of Omnipotence in an npothe
earv's balance. KtnrtOt.. uroi. 1.1 .1....
-" ...u ,11.7a mill
Clod can do anything, and that Ho was ure.s-
. w.7 .'-Km... uk nun IIIHI no ia prvmMit
now. there I nnihim in tlm h,.u- ul.wnt.
to arouse skepticism In my heart. Here I
not no n 10s.su 01 tne ages, dug up from tho
tertiurv f.irninfliiii fullou .e tt... ul...ir ....
...... .. nuiiiuniinii'l tiu
antiquarian, n man in the latter part of the
" ' iiiin-iccinn eciuury neueviug lu a
Whole liilde from lid to lid!
I am opposed to tiio expurgation of the
Scriptures in the llrst place, because tho
Hil'le in its present shape lias been so mirac
ulously tirescrvcil Vil't.mii lnin.l....l
after Herodotus wrote his history, there was
vuif mm uiuuu.si'ript copy 01 it. Twelve
hundred vcjtra uflep Pl-.t.. .... 1. wt 1 1.
- .. ....... . ....u iii.im 11m uui'a,
there was only one manuscript copy f it.
1 1.-.. I .... ...r..i ... t. 1 ' . . . .... .
..,- n., rmrnu t IIUVM US tlHVC IU Jlll)ie
In i list the rlL'Ilt Mlntne tliuf u-.. I,,,.... fir...
mauii.-icript copies of the New Tc-tament 11
.H1I1.-HIIII jriint uiu, nun some 01 tlieiu 1500
years old. This book, handed tlown from
the time of Christ, or just ufter tho time of
Christ, by tho hand of such men as Origen
In the second century and Tertulllan iu tho
third eeutury, and by meu of different ages
who died for their principles. Tho three
best copies of the New Testament iu maau-
crilit in thai iui.uia.li.il ..f .1...
.H ..... -..r..-. .-V.1..U 111 1,11.1 uirttt Kreill
churche- the Protestant church of England,
mount- euiireu 01 nt. retersinirg tiud tho
Homish church of Italy.
It Is H I, Inii. I.. ,.11... ,.f I. I .l . Tl .l
... ,-....u v, 11 1 -1I I J mill lll'llt-fl
dorf went to a convent in the peuinsula of Sinai
Ullli WMS I.V t.llui. li'tuil ...... .1... .....II l.. .1...
....., u,ri iuit nun mill mtj
convent, that being the only mode of udmis
ui.. -...1.1.... 1... ... .....
mi..!, nun in. n nn m,w mere in me waste
basket for kindling for the Urea a munuseript
nf the Holy Scriptures. That night be eoi
letl many of the parages of t!uu llible, but
it was uot until lltteeu years had passed of
earnest uutrcaty and prayer and euaxiug ami
purchase on his part that that copy of the
Holy Scriptures was put into the hand of
the Emperor of ltussia that one copy so
uiarvelously protected.
j'o you not know that thecatalogue of tho
bonks of tint III, I 11111I V.iur 'I'.iui, .. ..
... . -' - .. ' ....l.:iliv- Ufl WU
have it is the same catalogue that has been
i-uiiiuiK uowii tnrougn tlm age.-? Thirty
nine books of the Old Testament thousand
Of VtlJl!M Ut-'O- Till H V.lllllM 11. i.v M'.......l
r T - ...... j ....... ui 1. , AlTl.lllj.
seven books of tho New Testament IfiOU years
ko. 1 weniy-seveu nooks of tlie .New Testa
ment Hull' Miipelnii f.i!. u-l.. 1.1
.. . .... ... i!!,..-,..., n;
turned out of the church in the second et u-
inry, 1111.1 111 ins assault ou the llible sud
Chrisliitnilv lie 1 1,, I.I....1 1. 1 1 ..;....
loguti of the books of the liibie thut catu-
iiku" 1 urriiiiiiuiK uxiK'iiy Willi ours tes
timony iriVttll llV tilt! MUlllllV lit till ItO.lim .....1
the enemy of Christianity. The eataloguo
now just like the catalogue then. Assaulted
and si.it eu ami torn to pieces and burned,
yet adhering. The book to-day, iu SOU lan
guages, confronting four-llfths of the human
raceiu thoir own tougue. Four hundred
rti i 1 1 1. .i. luit.lwi ..r ... t. .. ..
........... ..v.n . ..1 11 ,u rimirui-ii, uura HOI
that look as If this book had been divinely
1'ruu-cimi. us 11 uoti uad guarded It all
through the conlurti-s.'
Is it not an nrgumeut plain enough to
every honest man and every honest woman
that luinLr ill ii nnl u .....i..tu.l u.lt.. .i.;u
...... - - n . . . . ...... inuiinmii nnij iu milt
shape is lu thn very shape that Ood wants
It It l.lu.... !...! . .. .1 1..
... . iiiuh.. i". mm uiiHTiii to piense us.
The epidemics whleh have swept thousauds
of other books into the sttpulcher of forgot
fulness have only brightened tho fame of
this. There is uot one book out of 1000 that '
lives five years. Any publisher will tell you
that. There wMl not Ik) more than one book
out of .0.000 that will live a century. Yet
here is a book, much of it ItiOO years old ami
much of It 400J years old ami with "more re
bound aud resllltmett and strength la It than
when the book was tlrst put upon parchnieut
or papyruv.
llus book saw the cradle of all other
books, and it will see thoir graves. Would
you not think that an old book, like this,
some ot it forty centuries old, would coins
along hobbling with uge aua eu urutohes?
lUBtoui o! tllHt. mora t.otetit tliun irnu .llii
book of the time. More copies of it printed
u iiw iivt icu mnu vi auy vtuur uuok
Walter fsoti W.i verier Viv,.
ley "History 0f Kuglnn.l." Dis-iH,-,
d vmloa," the works of Tennvsnn n 1 1
fellow, and all the popular books 0f ,h
hsrlng no su-h sale In the last ten .
this old worn out book. Do you kn' II
a st ru ggin a book has In order to get ti,
one cent u rv or t wo ceu 1 11 rien? Some nlH w 1
during a fire in a seraglio of von"
j nople, were thrown into the strwt,' 1,
wnnoiH any education picked upon nltZ
books, read It, and did not see thvalie 5
A scholar looked over his shoul.prilni
It was the first and second decndmi 0f t
and he offered the man a large r4r,i
would bring the books to bis shi ly '
the excitement of the flrethe twnp,,
the first and second decades of Llvvw-n'i
ever lost, riiny wrote twenty book,fll'J
tory. All lost. The most of Mnwu
writings lost. Of 130 comedies ( pi""
all gone but twenty. Euripides wrot. ,
dramas, all gone but nineteen.
wrote 100 dramas, all gone but seven r
wrote the laborious biographies of 701
mans, not a fragment left. yiiliitliB0 J:
his favorite book on tho corruption ots
nuonee. nil mt. Thirty books nf T,
lost. Dion Cassias wrote eighty honiu
twenty remain. Heroslus's history nil 1!
Nearly all the old books are munJ
and are lying In the tombs of old i,r
and perhaps once In tventy year, ,.n,
eomos along and pick up one nf th9
blows the dust off and opens It nn,i tltl
the book he does not want. Hut tiu j
1..1. ....k 1. f... .. .."
."".ii, uiu. 111 ii iiii j ii.uiiirii's ni., nfj
to-day more discussed than anvnth'wi
and It challenges the admiration o( ,n ,
good and the spite and the Venn:,,. J
animosity, and the hypercritical,, ,,f ,1
nun iti-ii. 1 appeal 10 your romnvin wg.
n hook so uiviiieiy giiaraen and prut.'.
Ms t.re"iit shape must not 1st in ju-t th
Ii.it Ood wants it to come to us, v,
Pleases Ood ought it not to nlenni ....
Not only have nil the attempts t i ,-J
iron, me uotuc lalieii, nut all the stt..j,.
add to It. Xtnnv attemnt4 were n... iu.
the apoehryphai bonks to theol i iv-iv.
The council of Trent, thesynod nf .r.r,,i
the bishops of Hippo, all iee. p
npoehryhal books must bo added to th.
Testament. "They must stay in." Mi l :
learned men, but they stat'l mt. 7, '.'.
not an Intelligent Christian man th.it M
will put ttio Ooolc ot Maccabees nr th '
of Judith besido the book of I-nu
Komans. Then a great mativ nil
must hnve books added to the' j
tnent," and there were epistle, nn!
pels and apocalypses written nni t
to tho Now Testament, but t lii-v tin.
fallen out. Y'ou cannot add anvtMt.j.
cannot suhstract aaything. I'ivm-.T
teeted book in the present shape, j.-
man tlarn to lay tils hands on it with Ii
teiitlon of detracting from the l. k ir
ing out nny of these holy page,
liesldes that.l am opposed to llu-i-i-
tlon of tho Scriptures because if tl, :
were successful. It would be the antut
of the llible. Infidel geologists w
"Out with tho Hook of Oencsis; n3.
tronomers would say, "Out with t.v,
of Joshua;" people who do 11 it tIi-
tno atoning sacrillce would say, Oj
the Hook of Leviticus;" people 'win j
believe in the miracles would say, "Ov
all those wonderful stories in tl,
New Testament;' nml some w ,a,
"Out with the Hook of I; -v.-lnti t.'
others would say, "Out with tlie i':,nr
tateuch," and thn work would e,,j
there would not bo enough of th" Li
10 du wortn ns mueii as last y Mr ,;.,
The expurgation of the S 'rlpLirs :
their annihilation.
I am also opposed to this .r. .- i
gallon of the Scriptures for the fa t::
proportion as the people be .;!
llcing and good and holy mid ...
they like tho book ns it Is. I 1, ivevrtt
a man or a woman dlstlnguihei fr-
saerillee, for consecration to 1; l,(r
nessof life, who wants the Ilii li' on
Many of us have luherited fn iiik t
Those Illbles wero In use twentv, Ivit' '
perhaps 100 years lu the gci,i'r,iti.,n
day take down those family MiM'-, u
out It there are any chapters wait
been erased by lead pencil or pen, u!
any margins you can find the wori,'
chapter not fit to road." There hi
plenty of opportunity during the inr
century privately to expurgate tot :
Do you know any case of suc!i xrax
Pid not your grandfather givo it 1.
father, and did not your father j.t
you?
Hesiiles that I nm oppose! ti te
purgation of ths Scriptures, be -ate!;
called Indelicacies and cru"ltie o(tb-
have demonstrated lioewl re-ult S
bonk will produce cruelty. An un-'i
will produce unclennne.ss, I t", h rt
tlm. Out of all Christendom an I '.
tho uses fetch tne a victim h hi
been hardened to cruelty or Wi'v
be iu made Impure bv this l"i"k S:
one. One of tho best families 1 w
of. for thirty or forty year-, m-ri:"..
evening, had all the uiciulics cub
gether, and the servants of tlie a-
aud the strangers that happei,e,ii.i
the gates twice a day, without l-e
a chapter or a verse, they reali:
nook, morning by moruing. hum! u;
Not only tho older children, hut !!
chil l w ho could just spell her :'
the verse while her mother Ii"km :
father bcgimilug and reading
then all the members of tli lut"1.'
reading n verse. The father ma'.n:
integrity, the mother maintain"!
rity, the sons grew up and cu:r
fcssions and commercial life, a ! rn;::
sphere In the life iu which they U-
the daughters weut into lauiuw
Christ wus honored, an I nil tint
and punt nml righteous reign I p'r;
tor tinny years 1 11 lit laniiiy rm.
Scriptures. Not one of tlieiu r.
them.
Now, If you will toll me of .1
tUe llible has been read t we'e a 'lo
yew, ami tlie eliilureii have 1-1
up iu that lia'it, and lii '
ruin, and tun mother went to rum.
sons uud (laughters were ib-itr .aei
if you will tell me of one sii' li 1
will throw away my Hiblu "r I
vour veracity. I tullyou II a ::'tni-
with what he calls the in 1 'h '
word of Ood h is prurient iu
ImuLrinulioii. If a man c iilii 't f
nmn's S )ng without impure ..1."
Is either in his heart or iu la- hi'
The Old Testament deseripti"UA
liess, II lie lea 11 lies ot nil
purposely and ngliteo i- y
ing accoiiut, instead lu
aud the l'arisiau veriia oilar, t'
slu attractive instead of ni'i'''1i
thoio old prophets point you '"
vou umicrsinud it is a laar-o
man having beguu to do riu'lii .k
wickedness and gives it 1 1 1 i . 1 u
llilile does not sav he was
fascinations of tlie festive boor.l.''
surrendered to eoiLVivialitics. ?
cuiiie a little fast in Ins hiihiP1. '
you what the lilblesays, " 1 he J 'f 1
to his own vou it again an iinc'-
washed to her wallowing in t""
gildiugof Iniquity. Nogarlmib
head. No pounding away il"'
lot at iwquty wiuMi. it ue-Uai
hammer.
1 eaawuillv understand le I'
lug over the description l Wfj
the llible may get morbid In '"''.
.11 ... 1. .1 miJ
ore tt lull 01 11 tut mw mil.
and the nostril, aud tlm cU' '(
are full of tht odor ul a "'
Is wuj.tod is t thut tlx Hi''1" .
ed,. but that you, the. critic. I"rt,
and heart washed with crlwh'
Ittrll you at thU point lu "'1
mat a man who does not im J
who is critical at to its eoiitcn'!
lkocked ami outru
li.is uever been souu
I111 1111 nf tlie liHiitla
eupu?y doc not always
heart, and men sometiiues L
Cit. as well as into the pi v j
eu clianged radically I'X
grace of tioil. O.tt your ln,i"
iJiblo will be right. The In
uaiurea are not brought iutoj
the word of Ood. Ah, my In
tienot the heart I wUat U
0
tv
to its eoiitt'B")
ged with ll'fj
iiudly eouvi'e'!
da of prll
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