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.
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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
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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,
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“Messiah's 2
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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 : :
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