HEV OR. TALHAGES SERMON “THE TIME OF DEPARTURE. > The Sunday Sermon as Delivered by the Brooklyn Divine. TEXT: “The time of my departure 1 hand.”—1I Timotny L A r Tv De; ure! That is a worl used onl twice in all the Bible. But itis a word often used - in the courtroom and means the ‘desertion of one cours: ei pieading for an- | other. Itisusedin navigation to describe the distance between two meridians passing through the extremitiesof a course. Itis a word { have recently heard applied to my departure from America to Europe for a preaching tour to last until September. In a smaller and less significant sense than that impliéd in the text I can say, “The time of my departure is as hand.” “Through the printing press I address this sermon to my readersall the world over,and when they read it I will be in midocean,and unless something new happens in my ma- rine experiences I will be in no condition to preach. But how unimporiant the word de- parturs when spplied to exchange of conti- nents as when applied to exchange oi worlds as when Paul wrote, ‘The time of my de- partureis at hand.” ‘Now, departure implies a starting place and a place of destination. When Paul left this world, what was the starting point? It was a scene of great physical distress. 1t was the Tullianum, the lower dungeon of the Mamertine prison, Rome, Italy. The top dungeon was bad enough, it having no means of ingress or egress but through an opening in the top, Throuzh that the pris- oner was lowered, and through that came all the food and air and light received. It was a terrible placa, that upper dungeon, Tut the Tullianum was the lower dungeon, and that was still more wretchad, the only light and the only air coming through the roof, and that roof the floor of the upper dungeon. That was Paul's last earthly res- idence, I was in that lower dungeon in November, 1889. It is made of volcanic stone. Imeas- ured it, and from wall to wall it was fifteen teet. The highest of the roof was seven feet from the floor and the lowest of the roof five feet seven inches. The opening in the roof through which Paul was let down was three feet wide. The dungeon has a seat of rock two and a half feet high and a shelf of rock four feet high. It was there that Paul spent his last cays on earth, and it is there that I sce him now, in the fearful dungeon, shiver- ing, blue with the cold, waiting for that old overcoat which be had sent up for to Troas and which they had not yet sent down, not— withstanding that he had written for it. 1t some skillful surgeon should go into that €ungeon where Paul is incarcerated we eight find out what are the prospects of Paul's living through the rougn imprison- ment. In the first place he is an old man, only two years short of seventy. Aft that very time when he most needs the warmth, anda the sunlight, and the fresh air he is shut out from the sun. What are those scars on his ankles? Why, those were got when he was fast, his feet in the stocks. Every time be turned the flesh on his ankles started. What are those scars on his back? You know he was whipped five times, each time getting thirty-nine strokes—one hundred and vinety-five bruises on the back (count them!) made with rods of elmwood, each one of the one hundred and ninety-five strokes bringing the blood, Look at Paul's face and look at his arms. Where did he get those bruises? I think it was when he was struggling ashore amid the shivered timbers of the shipwreck. I see a gash in Paul's side. Where did he get that? Ithink he got that in the tussel with highwaymen, for he had been in peril of robbers and he had money of his own. He was a mechanic as well as an apostle, and I think the tents hs made were as good as his sermon. Hark! what is that shuffling of feet in the upper dungeon? Why, Paul has an invita- tion to a banquet, and he is gong to dine to-day with tne King. Those shuffling feet are the feet of the executioners. They come, ahd they cry down through the hole of the dungeon: ‘Hurry up, old man. Come now; get yourself ready.” Why, Paul was ready. He had nothing to pack up, He had no baggage to take. He had been ready a good while. I see him rising up, and straight- ening ous his limbs, and pushing back his white hair from his creviced forehead, and see lim looking up vhrough the hole in the roof of the dungeon into the face of his éx- ecutioners, and hear lum say, “I am now ready to be offered, and the ume of my de- parture is at hand.” Then they lift him out of the dungeon, and they start with him to the p.ace of excution. They say* ‘Hurry alonz, oid man, or you will feel the weight of cur spear. Hurry along.” “dow tar is i,” says Paul, ‘we have to travei?” ‘“Ihree miles.” Three miles is a good way for an old man to travel atter he has been whipped and crippled wita maltreatment. But they soon get to the place of execution--Acquz Salvia—and he 1s tastenea to the pillar or martyrdom. It aoes not take any strength to tie him rast. He makes no resistance. O Paul! why not now strike for your life? You have a great many triends here, ‘With that withered band just launch the thunderbolt ot the people upon those m- tamous soldiers. No! Paul was notgoing to intertere with bis own coronation. He was too glad to go. Iseenim looking up in the face of his executioner, and, as the grim cfficial draws thesword, Paul caimiy says, *L am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hana.” Bat +1 put my hand over my eyes. 1want nov to see that last struggle. One sharp, keer stroke, and Paul does go to the banquet and Paul does dine with the King. What a transition it was! From the ma Javia of Rome to the finest climate in all th universe—the zone of eternal beauty anc health. Hisashes were pu: in the catacomb: of Rome, but in ons moment the air o heaven bathed from his soul the last ache From shiowreck, from dungeon, from the biting pain oi the elmwood rods, from the sharp sword of the headsman, he goes inte the most brilliant assemblaze of heaven, a king among kin zs, multitudes of the saint. hood rusainz out and stratchiny forth hands oi welcome, for f co really tamz that as on the right hand of God is Carist, so on the right hand of Christ is Paul, the seconi great in heaven. He changed kings likewize. Before ti: bour of déath and un to the last moment he was under Nero, the thick-necked, the cruel- eyed, the filthy-lippel ani sculotured fea- tures of that man bringing down to us this very day the borribls possibilities of his pature—seated as he was among pictured marbles of Ezxypt, uuadsc a roof adoraned with mother-of-peari. in a dining-room which by machinery was kept wairling day and night with most bewitcaing magnifi. sence; . his horses standing in stalls of solid zold, and the grounds around his palace Gehted at might by its victims, who had peen bedanbed with tar and pitch and then set on fire to iflumine the darsness. That was Paul's king. But the next moment he goes into the realm of Him whose reign is love, and whose courts ara paved with love, and whos wrone is set on pillars of layé, and. whose wepter 1s adorned with jewels of love, and whose palace is lighted with love, and whose ifetime is an eternity of love, hen Paul was leaving so much on this side the plilar »f martyrdom to gain so much on the sitier fide, do you wonder at the cheerful valedi wry of tte text, ‘‘The time ofl my departure s at hand!” ] RE Now, why cannot all the old people havs fas:same holy glee as that aged man had? Dharles I, when he was combinz his hair, ‘ound a gray hair, and he sent it to the {ueen asa great joke; bubtold aze is really 10 joke at all. . For the last forty years you 3 oe been dreading that which ought to have been an exhilaration. You say Fb . mosh fhe struggle at the moment, ‘woul and body part.” Buv millions have en- jured that moment, aud may nof. we as | 5 £ 2 ing that there is probably no struggle at the ages, soul will ask when it comes through the gate of heaven? will be, *‘Whers is Jesus, ths Saviour that pardoned my sin, that carried my sorrows, that fought my battles, that won my victor- 16s: see Thee! Thou of the manger, but without | sult is a firmly coherent mass, which Besides this, all madical men azres in say- ‘ast moment—not so much pain as the prici 3f a pin, the seeming signs of distress being altogether involuntary. But you say. “It Is the uncertainty of the future.” INow, shild of God, do not play the infidel. After God has filled the Bible till it can hold no more with stories oi the good things ahead, hetter not talk about uncartainties. I remark again, all those ought to feel this joy of the text who have a holy curios- ity to know what is beyond this earthly ter- minus. And who has not any curiosity about it? Paul, I suppose, had the most sat- isfactory view of heaven, and he says, “It doth not yet appear what we shall be.” It is like looking through a broken telescope, “Now we see through a glass darkly.” Can you tell me anything about that heavenly olace? You ask/me a thousand questions about it that I cannot answer. I ask youa thousand questions about it that you cannot answer. And do you wonder that Paul was ;0 glad when martyrdom gave him a chance to go over and make discoveries in that blessed country? 1 hope some day, by the grace of God, to zo over and sea for myself, but not now. No well man, no prospered man, I think, wants to go now. Bus the time will come, [ think, when I shall go over. I want to see what they do there and I want to see how they do it. I do not want to bo looking; through the gates ajar forever. I wanu them fo swing wide open. There ars fen thousand things I want explained—about you, about myselt, about the government of this world, about God, about everything. Columbus risked hislife to find this con- tinent, and shall we saudder to go out on 3 voyage of discovery which shall reveal a vaster and more brilliant country? John Franklin risked his life to find a passage between icebergs, and shall we dread to find a passage to eternal summer? Men in Switzerland travel up the heights of the Matterhorn with alpenstock and guides and rockets and ropes, and getting halt way up sacre. They just wanted to say they had been on the tops of those high peaks. And shall we fear to go out for the ascent of the eternal hills which start a thousand mile: beyond where stop the highest peaks of the Alps when in that ascent there is no peril} A man doomed to die stepped on the scaffold and said in joy, ‘‘Now in tea min- utes I will know the great secret.” One minute atter the vital functions ceased, thi little child that died last night knew mors than Jonathan Edwards or St. Paul himself befora he died. Friends, the exit from thi world, or death, if you please to call it, the Christian is glorious explanation. 1t is demonstraton. It is illumination. It is sunburst. It is the opening of all the windows. It is shutting up ths catechism of doubt and the unrolling of all the scrolls of positive and accurate information. In- stead of standing at the foot of the ladder and looking up itis stanliag at ths top of the ladder and looking down. It is the last mystery taken oub of botany and geology and astronomy and theology. I remarx again, we ouzht to hava ths joy ot the text, because, leavin this world, wa move into the best society of the universs. You see a great crowd of people in some’ street and you say: ‘Who is passing there? What general, what princz is goinz up there?” Well, I see a great throng in heaven. I say: ‘Who is tha focus of all that admiration? Who is tha canta, of that glittering company?’ It is Jesus, tae cham- pion of all the world, the favorite of all Do you know what is the first question the I think the first question Oh, Radiant One! how 1 would like to its humiliations; Thou of the cross, but without its pangs; Thou of the grave, but without its darkness. But when I meet my Lord Jesus Christ, of what shall I first delight to hear Him speak? Now I think what it is. I shall first want to hear the tragedy of His last hours, and then Luke's account of the crucifixion and Mark's account of the crucifixion, and John’s ac- count of the crucifixion will be nothing, while from the living lips of Christ the story shall ba told of the gloom that fell, and tho devils that arose, and tha fact that upon His endurance depended the rescus of a race; and there was darkness in the sky,and there was darkness in the soul, and ths pain became more sharp,and the burdens becams more heavy, until the mob began to swim away from the dying vision of Christ, and the cursing of the mob cams to His ear more faintly,and His hands were fastened to the’ horizontal piece of the cross, and His fees were fastenel to the perpendicular piece of the cross,and His head fell forward in a swoon as He uttered the last moan and cried, *‘It is finished!” All heaven will stop to listen until the story is done, and every harp will be put down, and every lin closed, and all eyes fixed on the Divine Narrator until the story is done, and then, at the tap of the baton, the eternal orchestra will rouse up finger on string of harp, and lips to the mouth of trumpet, there shall roll forth the oratorio of the Messiah, ‘Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive blessing and riches and honor and glory and power, world Avithout end! W hat He endurad, ob, who can tell, To save onr souls from death and hell! YWhen there was between Paul and that magnificent Personage only the thinness of the sharp edge of the sword of the execu: tioner, do you wonder tnat he wanted to go? Oh! my Lord Jesus, let one wave of that glory roll over us! Hark! I hear the wed- ding bells of heaven ringing now. The marriage of the Lamb has come, and the bride hath made herself ready. And now for a little while good by. I have no morbid feeling about the future. But if anything should happen that we never meet again in this world, let ‘us meet where there are no partings. Our friendships have been delight- ful on earth, but they will be more delightful jn heaven. And now I commend you to God and the word of His grace, which is able to build us up and give an inheritance among all them that are sanctified. FLOURS HEAVIEST WEEK. The Record of Production by the Minne- apolis Mills is Broken. Mixneaports, June 20.—The Northwest- | ern Miller says: The mills made their ban- | ner run last week, grinding 214,930 barrels, or 35,821 barrels daily. The heaviest pre- vious output was 208,930 barrels, made for the week ended October 31, 1891. Kor the | corresponding time last year the production was 133,455 barrels, and in 1890, 63,620 bar- els. : Drowned in a Cloud Burs®. Spring VALLEY Minn, June 18.—There was a cloud burst just before 8 o'clock last night, which destroyed a great deal of prop- erty. One woman whose house was swept away was drowned, but further than that there was no loss of life. Broken Class, : A plan has also been put into prac- tice by which broken glass of various colors. is mixed up, placed in molds lined with silica, tale. or some other resisting material and fired. The re- can be dressed and cut into blocks, which are, of course, irreglarly col- ored, and may he employed in place pt artificial marble. If decorative pifects are desired designs in relief can be obtained by pressure while the ‘block or slab is still - plastic. Chey gob hit and 80 can Who Commanded It,and What a Stafl Longstreet at the Tennessee River, but to try and induce him to cross and go up the valley as far as conducive with his own safety, end to intercept Long- street’s rear, until he (Grant) repulsed Gen. Bragg, and that if he (Burnside) got into trouble he would assist him. Gen. Burnside ordered me to retreat the army to Lenoir’s Station, Nov. 15, At 12 o'clock that night, he ordered | stumble and tall down in a horrible mas- | the retreat to Campbell west of the railroad station, at which place he or. dered me to assume command of the advance line of battle to intercept Gen. Longstreet’s advance. After the battle, Nov. 16, he ordered the retreat to Knoxville, where the army arrived at daylight Nov, 17. 1863 of the Army of the Ohio. consisting of the Twenty:ithird and Ninth Corps, assigned the troops their respective po- | sitions on the line of defense around | Knoxville, the Second and Third Di- visions, Twenty-third Corps, on the north of the city, from the railroad to the Tennessee river. Upon this line of defense was the fort on’ Temperance Hill, cccupied by the 24th Ind. and the Elgin (Ill) batteries. Corps was on the “west and southwest of the city, while Col. mounted infantry were on the south, their left resting on the right of Fort Sanders; Lieut. 5. N. Benjamin's Regu lar battery, U. S.Art,, to Fort Sanders; Maj. Reemer’s battery (L) to the fort on College Hill. east of Fort Sanders; which completed the investment ofthe city south to the river. forts were situated on the eminences gouth of Run No. 2, and were formida- ble structures for military defense, commanding all the approaches of the south to the city of Knoxville. right of Fort Sanders, that Gen. Long- street's advance attacked Gen. er's forces on the 18th and 19th of November, Sanders was killed. His forces was then reinforced by Col. Ferrero’s Bri¢ gade, consisting of the 79th N. Y., the 69th Pa., and the 25th Mass, of the Ninth Corps, and Col, Ferrero, with the rank . of Brigadier—General, was assigned to the command of the con: golidated division by order of Gen. Burside. ‘Sherman, with his command, was en- WAR REMINISCENCES. | Eonesies Somos 50 Vinge sua thereby force Longstreet to defend his FORT SANDERS. Officer Knows About It: The night ot the 14th of Nov- ember, 1863, after the charge on Gen. Longstreet’s ad: vance at Hufls Ferry, west of Louden, East Tennessee I was assigned to gen- ! eral duty in the i.) field by Gen. fl, = Burnside in per- | Ne son. At 9. p.m. } NGen. Grant sent a =%" Gigpatch to Gen. ent es Burnside, order: > a ing him not to - Le Sd repulse Gen. Capt. E. M. Poe, Engineer in Chief The Ninth Sanders’ dis- These two It was in the advance, and to the Sand* ijn which assault Gen. I still seemed to have been considered by Gen. Burnside as a general roust- about on the line of defense. At 9 a. m., November 28, I was ordered to re- port in person to his headquarters. After ascertaining the condition and vigilance of the lices, their ability to resist an assault, he informed me that he had received unofficial information that Gen. Grant had repulsed Gen. Bragg’s army at Chatanooga, and Gen. rout for Knoxville; that if General Longstreet was not already informed of the result he would soon be, and would surely attack Knoxville before Gen. Sherman could arrive. The con- versation turned upon the probable point of attack, and Gen. Burnside strorgly asserted it would be at the river, either north or south of the city; that Fort Sanders being the most available for Gen. Longstreet to con- centrate his forces npon, it most like- ly would be the point of attack, and the fort must be reinforced, and that he had some doubts of the propriety of trusting so important a command to so young an officer as Lieut. Benja: min. : I then ventured the query whether he had any regular officer in his army, with experience in the field in com: mand of artillery, to relieve Lieut. Benjamin. It being decided that Maj. Roemer could not be relieved from the fort on College Hill, immediately east of Fort Sanders. I was then instructed to report the military situation to Gen. Julius White, of the Second. Division, Twenty third Corps. The interview was then adjourned to 2 p. m., with the request that Gen, White be present. At 2 p.m. Gen. White was unable to be present and Gen. Burnside then int formed me he had reinforced Fort Sanders with one section each from Maj. Roemer’s and Berkley’s batteries, leaving my friend, Lieut, Berjamin, in command. He then proceeded to give me full instructions for commander of the infantry forces in case of an at- tack: that Capt, Lee of the U. 8. Army, should command the reserve infantry, which should support the fort on the east: that Gen. Ferrero would support. it on the west. If the fort was cab- tured, or linés broken, then we must with all the available forces of the Twenty third corps retake it or hold Gen. Lonstreet’s forces at Run No.2, on the south of che city, immediately in the rear of the fort, In case this could not be done and it became necessary to vacate the city, fall instructions were given for the retreat, but i case to surrender the forces. When Gen. Sherman came up Gen. Burnside was not a day teo soon his lines, Gen. Longstreet ordering the sisting of one brigade of Pickett’s visions, in all amounting to one divis- south of the Tennessee river. The river College Hill, thence west to the rail road. range of the fort and Gen. Longstreet a. m. from the southwest and it lasted instructions, reserved his fire from the fort until the storming column was in full range of his guns, when he opened fire. The effect was terrific. same instant Maj. Roemer opened his guns from the fort on College Hill, which gave a cross fire on the advanc: ing and storming column of Gen.Long! street. The repulse was complete; the slaughter of Longstreet’s forces was simply terrible. maining troops at once, and his army was in full retreat from Knoxville northward to Bristol, on the Virginia line, Dec. 3 and 4, 1863. the morning of Dec.5, I met Gen.Sher® man on Gay street. Knoxville, and ac: companied him to Gen. Burnside’s headquarters at 10 a. m. I cannot ua- derstand how Gen. Longtreet obtained so much notoriety for his charge on Fort Sanders and why Lieut.Benjamin of the regular army got so little credit for repulsing his forces.—D. W.EDxIs- TON, in National Tribune. N x Lik m the 8 army against our forces. The events that followed proved in the preparation for the defense of assault on Fort Sanders Nov. 29, 1863, at 4 a. m., the assaulting forces con: Division and detachments from the Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi Din jon of troops,supported by Gen. Wheel- er’s artillery oosted on the east and at this point runs due south below His artillery was brought within made the assault on the fort about from 20 to 80 minutes. Lieut. Benjamin, according to his At the He withdrew his re Gen. Sherman's forces arriving on PROMINENT PEOPLE: Oscar WiLDE is about to revisit this ccuntry. JxFFERSON, the comedian, is worth over a quarter of a million. : Ex-QUEEN NATALIE, of Servia, has dram- atized her matrimonial experiences. Mazes. U. 8. GRANT has concluded to spend most of the summer at Cranston’s, West Point, N. X. S FR upYARD KirLING’s contributions to the London limes are paid for at the rate of $150 a letter. JusTiCE LAMAR is frequently seen in ‘Washington at an early hour doing the fam- ily marketing. . QUEEN VICTORIA, of England, is gradu- ally being reconciled to her various royal rel. atives with whom she has not been on good terms. W CraARK RUSSELL, the popular novelist, first conceived the idea of writing a story while imprisonea on board ship for insubor- dination. S1GNoR GIiovANNI GroriTTi, the Italian Premier, is the youngest head of a Ministry that Italy has had since Cavour. He is barely fifty years of age. CoMMODORE ELBRIDGE T. GERRY will erect a home in New York that will surpass in magnificence any private residence ever reared on Manhattan Island. GENERAL LONGSTREET has become very infirm with advancing years, and is so deat that all conversation with him has to be carried on through an ear trumpet. CARDINAL MANNING did not leave prop erty enough to pay his" funeral expenses. ‘Phese amounted to $2100, and to meet them a subscription was started among his rela. tives and intimatedriends. WouEeN in Washington are represented as being wild with envy at the magnificent wardrobe of the Chinese Minister. He never appeargat any public entertainment twice in the same costume, and his silk and satin garments are valued at $150,000, EDISON received a fee of $40,000 for his opinion asan electrical exfert when he was employed by the company organized to bore the Niagara power tunnel to examine the ground, study conditions and plans, and give an opinion as the feasibility and practicabil- ity of the work. Tar United States Marine Band will soon Jose the servicevuf John Philip Sousa as lead. er. He will, in about sixty days, take charge of a musical organization at Chicago at a salary of $6000 per year. Mr. Sousa bas for twelve years served the band and the public of Washington with great merits THE LABOR WORLD. New YORK cash girls get $1.50 a week, Tag formation of a National organization of engravers has been set on foot. Tar Californians are alarmel by reports that Japanese cheap labor is beinz brought in. CHINESE laborers are to bs importad into Africa to teach the natives how to cultivate tobacco. AUSTRALIAN colanies are proposing com. bined aclion against the importation ol colored labor. : THE sponge industry of the Bahuma Isl- ands employs 500 boats and nearly SUC workmen and boys. IT is calculated that the aggregate annual income of the working ciasses of England is about $1, 500,000,000. : : Tue National Federation of Sailors, re- cently organizad in Chicago, is taking steps to form an international organization com- prising America, England, India and Aus- tralia. A LAW in opera ‘on in Missouri compels railroad companies to fill or block al switches, frogs and guard rails with tho best known appliauces for ths protection of em ployes. Governor Frowgnr has issued a parion to Joseph Barondess, the leader of the New York Cloakmakers’ Union, who was cou- victed and sentenced for extoriing money as a condition of ending a strike. THE report of the Secretary of the Order of Railway Telegraphers to the convention at Chattanooga, Tenn., showed a member- ship of 26,000, with a protsctive tunl oi $80,000 and a general fund of $40,000. THE superintendent oi the new elevated read in Chicago males all applicants for conductorships sing him a song or two, He is determined to have clear-voicel young nen who will not mumble hoarsely the names of the stations. IN the United States the average expendi- tube per family is stated at $6110 the covron industry and only $394 in the woolen iudus- try, a difference of §217, while the difference in come is only #5, and that in favor of the industry in which the expenditure per family is least. . Wonderful. A Georgia man boasts possession of an ordinary school slate which has HOCHSTETLER'S SLAYERS. - Old Man Miller Gats Ten Years and His 3 Son Robart Two. AtSomerset William C. Miller,” conyicted of manslaughter for the killing of Johathan C. Hochstetler, the moonshiner, was sen: tenced to 10 years in the Penitentiary. His son Robert escaped witha sentence of two vears. Florence Fuhrer of Pittsburg, the slayer | of Michael Niland, got a nine-year sentence; and William Boyer, convicted of criminal assault will spend the next eight years in the penitentiary. Legislative Nominations. THE Republicans at Huntingdon nomina- ted K. Allen Lovell for State Senate; and P. M. Lytle and Captain John 8. Bare for the Legislature. Tur Adams county Democratic Conven- tion nominated W. L. Zeigler, of Gettys- burg, and W. F. Rittaz, of Littlestown, for the Legislature. - Ar the Republican primary election held in Forest county on Saturday, Captain J. J. Haight, of Balltown, defeated Dr.3. S. Tow- ler, the present member of the Legislature, for renomination by a majority of 32. Tar Northumberland County Republican Convention nominated John L. Shelley, of Mechanicsburg, for the Legislature. A 8:orm Swept Valley Near Pottsville. THURSDAY evening at dusk a terrific wind and hail storm, accompanied by thunder and lightning, passed through the Deep creck valley, a farming district about eight miles west of Pottsville. Great damage was done to crops, In many instances entire orchards were uprooted, fences were torn down and many buildings razed to the ground. The storm affected the country for a distance of 15 miles, and the loss will be thousands of dollars Victims of The Blazing Sun. As a result of the excessive heat of the past two days, numerous cases of sunstroke have been reported in the vicinity of Potts- ville. At Cressona there were three cases and at Minersville five. Charles Erb, of the former place, and Thomas Perry, of the lat- ter place, are in a precarious condition. The thermometer raged from 93° to 97° at differ- ent points. Another Johnstown Flood Victim. The bones of a flood victim were found av Johnstown, being the second = found since last winter. A common marble in one of the pockets indicated that it was the body of a boy, though all other means of identifica tion were lost. — A Cloud Burst. A cloud burst at Moscow wrecked and de luged buildings and caused considerable damage. The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad tracks were washed out and in places swept the tracks entirely away. Several bridges and dams were car- ried away. Trains were stopped in time to prevent catastrophes. Communication with New York avas enlirely shut off for everal days. Tre Du Bois.Deposit bank of Clearfield county, capital $75,000, was chartered. At 01d Eagle, Washington county, the wife of a Frenchman, who isa miner at the coal works there, was burned to death. After building the fire, which did not burn fast enough to suit her, she poured oil from a can on the wood, and instantly there was an explosion. She was burned in a horri- ble manner and died shortly afier. BexsaMmiy HEBER, aged 55, a. farmer of Tenhartsville, committed suicide by hanging himself in his barn. The previous owner of the farm hanged himself in the same spot. Wirtiam Henry ParvtoNy was hanged at York for murdering Mrs. Strominger while trying to burglarize her house. WuiLe drawing tubing in an old gas well on Mackey’s hill in Butler, Tuesday, Frank Bell was struck on the head and killed by the tubing breaking. “@G. B. ArvoLp, aged 17, and Arthur Pol- lenger, 19, Be gians, were drowned at Char- leroi while bathing. MrcuAEL MULL1GAN, a trackmen, was killed by a train at Altoona. Jor CamerrLL was found in a dying con. dition at the railroad at. No. lock. near Monongahela City, having been struck by an early train, He was section foreman of a gang at that place. Perry DAUBENSPECK, charged with for gery, J. H. Black, charged with jail break. ing, and J. G. Reynolds, awaiting trial for assault and battery, escaped from the Butler jail, sawing the bars of their cells, and are still at large. Ax oil can exploded Monday evening at the home of Jules Leroy, a French miner, at Imperial, while his wife was cooking supper. Mrs. Leroy was badly bruised. Her baby inhaled the flames and died. An- other child is also seriously burned and may die. AT a meeting of the students of the Wash. ington and Jefferson College at Washington, Pa., a resolution was passed which will dis- continue cane rushes here in the future. The faculty of the college are greatly pleased ‘with the move. Tuc 4-year-old son of Peter Benson was killed by a heavy railroad tie falling on him at Butler. By the burning of a cap of the tank at the McKeeglass works at Jeannette, 300 men are thrown out of employment anda loss of $3,000 caused. An electric storm of great fierceness and unusual rainfall passed over Wiiliamsport, flooding the low sections. A bolt of light- ning shattered the spire of St. Mark's Lath- eran church. Mrs, Rosa FreminG, whose daughter Clara was killed last fall on the P. C. C. & St. L R. R., by a rock falling through tbe car, while entering Pittsburg, was awarded 22,- 700 by the jury at Little Washington. LicurNina struck a treeon the farm of Parker Snodgrass, Petets township, Wash- ington county, and a flock of fine sheep un- der it wereinstantly killed. The Hock con- tained 23 sheep and lambs, A 1ArGe copperhead snake crawled through a hole in the stone chimney of the residence of George Lisbon, inthe moun: tains above Ifairchance, and got in the fam- ily bedroom. When Mrs. Lisbon gotup in the dark Friday morning the reptile struck at her from the fireplace and bit her on the foot. It was thought she would die, but she is improving. Epwarp Pryrrs, aged 17, and John Berg- man, aged 14. were fatally injured by a run- away at Braddock. They were ina wagon delivering goods when the horse, in guing down a grade, took fright and dashed down would be reinforced by the . for ee MAN manufactures most of his’ ~ temptations himself. En : Kingston, Tenn,, snd would been in constant use for more than fifty years and is yet unbroken, & sul “Messiah's 2 i . Reign,” Psalm Ixx Commentary. - 1. “Give the king Thy jucgments, O God, and Thy righteousness unto fie king's son.” the peace and prosperity of his kinzdom. No man ean’ bea type of Christ asio His. character, butonly as to office. Christ is King and King’s Son, divine and human,and all judgment is given to Him (John v., 22. £2 ‘He shall judge thy people with righte- ousness, and thy poor with judgment.” Compare Isa. =i, 4, 5; xxxii., 1, 17. - When Jesus shall be made King over all the earth, the righteous branch of David reigning and prospering, executing judgment and justice upon the earth, in the days of Israels resto- ration, then shall all, without exception, enjoy the tull benefits of equitable judgment and righteousness (Zech. xiv,, 9; Jer. xxiii, 5, 6) ae the people and the little hills by righteous- ness.” Compare Isa. xl., 4, 5; ly, 12. Peace and righveousness shall abound, and things - that former;y brought terror and dismay shall be subdued and be employed in the service of the king. 4 4, ‘He shall judge the poor of the people, He shall save the children of the needy.and shall break in pisces the oppressor.” (Jon- trast the oppression of the book in Amos u., 6; v., 11, and the time of the kingdom when the meek shall inherit the earth, and shall delight ‘themselves in the abundance of peace (Ps. xxxvii,, 113 Math. v.. By. 5. “They shall fear Thee as long as the sun and moon endure, throughout all genera- tions.” In Jer. xxxi., 35, 58; xxxiii., 20, 21, the references are very piain to the restora- tion while sun and moon eraure, Some day we may see a reference to this also in Gen. i., 14; in the fact that the lights in the firmament were appointed for signs. : 6. "He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass, as showers that water the earth.” Compare II Sam. xxiii., 4; Hos vi, 2, and notice in each ‘passage the reference to the morning—the morning withcut clouds, the morning when He will help Israel (Ps. xlvi,, 5, margin). All Gicspel blessing now is but a foretaste of the fulness of blessing when Jesus shall cometo the church as the Morning Star and to Israel as the Sun of Righteousness (Rev. xxii, 165 Mal. 1v., 2). 3 fe 7. “In Hisdaysshall the righteous flourish and abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth.” He will be the true Melchizedek who will be both King of Righteousness. and King of Peace. The Saviour teaches us that in this present world, instead of flourishing, trial; Spirit (John xv., . 12: Rev. ii., 10; II Tim. iii., 12). 5 8. *‘He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and trom the river anto the ends of the earth.” Solomon's kingdom embraced all the land of promise (I Kings iy., 21, 24); the true Son of David shall have.dominion over all the earth (Dan. vii., 13, 14; Rev. xi 15; Num. xiv., 21; Isa. xi., 9; Hab. 1i,, 14) His body, the church, shall reign with Him (Rev. iii., 21: v., 9, 10). Eu 9, “They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before Him, and His enemies shall hick the dust.” Itisonly at His second com in power and glory that He shall smite His enemies, when He shall ‘return bringing H saints with Him (1 Thess. iii, 13; Col. 4: Zech. xiv,, 3, 4: Rev. xix, 11, 15). There returns can be no kingdom till the King (Luke xis., 11, 15). 8 10. “The kings of Tarshish and the isles shall bring presents; the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer ‘girts.” The most distant and most opulent seem to be represented here, while the previous verse suggests the most uncivilized, The visit of the Queen of Sheba to Solomon and of the wise men of the east to the child Jesus are suggestive of the time when the glory of the Lord having risem upon lsrael the Gentiles shall come to light and kings fo the brightness of her ris= ing (Isa, Ix, 1-3). Him: ali nations shall serve Him.” Com- pare Ps. l1xxxvi., 9. Thay this shall be when He is King ot the Jews is evident from Isa. Ix., 12, where it is written that =the na- | tion and Kingdom that will not serve Thee (Israel, see context) shall perish. 1t is the literal israel, truly converted, that is to biossom and bud and fill the face of the earths w sth fruit (Isa. xxVvi., 6). 12 “For ce shall aehiver the needy when he crieth; the puor also and him tbat hath no helper.” Compare Isa. xl, 17, 18. Alt His relie, both physical and spiritual, which He orought to the poor and needy when He was here in humiliation, was but a L sample of the fulness of blessing that shall be when'the kingaom comes. 13, “de shall spare ths poor and needy, and shall save the sous of tne needy.” See Jer. =xxix., 10; Zsph, iii, 12, as a fore- shadowing o: these good tiwes. rhe rich control things now, but it shall not be so in the days of His kinggom. There is vel little encouragement for the poor and neady in the churches to-day, but suca have nob the spirit of Christ. : 14. ‘‘He shall redeem their soul from de- ca and violence, and precious shall their blood be in His sight.” They may lay down their lives for His sake, but He will receive taeir souls 2nd in due time redeem : their bouailes. Deceit and violence shall end when He comes. : 15. ““And He shalllive, and to Him shall be given of the gold of Sheba; prayer also shall be made for Him continually,and daily shall He be praised.” He was dead, but is alive forevermore (Rev. i, 18). The church ‘seems to have hard work to raise money te carry on her work, but in kmgdom days wealth sha!l pour in from all quarters (Isa. 1x., 5, 11 R. V.) We may be said to pray for Hi m1 when we pray for His members. 16. “There shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains, the fruit thereof shall shake like Lisbanon, and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.” There shall be great results irom apparently small causes, “A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation; I the Lord will hasten it in his time Isa 1x. 22). L : 17. ‘*dis name shall endura forever; His name shall be continued as long as the sun, and the men shall be Bisson in Him; all nations shall call Him blessed.” The great- est name on earth; the sweetest nams in heaven. See the power and blessednéss of His name in such passages as Acts iii.,, 16; iv., 10, 12, 30; ix., 15, 16; x., 43. : 18. “*Blessad be the Lord God, the God of Israel, who only doeth wondrous things. One has wisely said that this verse and the next calls for adoration, not exvosition. Compare Ex. xv., 11; Jer, 'x., 6, 7, 10, : 19. “And blessed be His glorious name forever, and let tha whole earth be filled with His'glory. Amen ani amen.” The five books of the Psalter end with xii., 13; Ixxii., 19, Ixzxix., 52: evi, 48; cl, 6. Itis worth waile to compare the ciose of each book. When this psalm shall be fulfilled then David shall hays no more occasion to pray. The promises that the whole earth shall be filled with His glory are found in Num. xiv., 21; Isa. ., 19: Hab. ii, 14. They should inspire us to work mightily to hasten it.—Lasson Helper. Trapped by Nature. An insect of South America has its tangs so like the flower of the orchid that smaller insects are tempted inte its jaws, while certain spiders double themselves up in the leaf-stock and the stem, and so closely resembl flower buds that their unsuspecting prey approach to their destruction. Ir is not what we think about God but what we know about Him that the street. The wagon was overturned, the devil is afraid of... * : Thy ikl a A psalm penned by a king, dedicated to a king and concerning the King of Kings. Sol- : ; omon was a type of Christ in wisdom andin 3. “The mountains shall bring peace to tion of Israel and her ‘continuance as a nas 11. “Yea, all kings shall full down before : : ‘ AAO Baal sal Ee a ST 06 et 0 SiMe 0 BA eH had BAS AD DAIS. Pen . I TR
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