Steps Taken for
th 4th of
THI DALLIS,
OBIGON
FRIDAY, MAY 15, 1891
LOCAL AMD FEKBONAL.
Mr. J. B. Mowry of Wasco came into
the city last Friday and gave na a pleas
ant call.
From Mr. Teague of Dutch Flat we
learn that the folks there had 'a "glor
ious rain."
Napoleon Perrault, a Canadian, Satur
day declared his intention to become an
American citizen. -
One car of sheep for the Sound was
shipped from the stock yards Saturday
by Jack Anderson.
Fishermen on the lower river are said
to have banked their nets because of the
light run of salmon.
The race track is now under the care
of Andy Allen, and is in better condition
than it ever was before.
From J. D. Wilcox of Kent we learn
that they had a fine rain there that soak
ed the ground thoroughly.
The Klickitat Leader says that wheat
averaged last year 10 cents a bushel more
at The Dalles than at Columbus.
The granger store will have a new line
of wagons, buggies, and general farming
implements by the early part of next
week.-
We regret to learn that the wife of
Henry Williams of Eight Mile is ill with
measles. Her condition however is not
dangerous.1'- --'
Mrs. Harrison was pleased to say that
the reception given the presidential
party at this place yesterday was one of
the pleasantest they had received on
their whole trip.'
p John Irvine, Esq., formerly an old
resident of the Irvine farm, Chenoweth
creek, near this city, and now a citizen
of Lake county, is in The Dalles visiting
relations and friends.
Shaw and Smith who are fishing with
, . l WACICa ftUllOCU 11IUI IM uov uuaiuwi taut
pound nets on the Washington - side of I pa Balm. One bottle of it cured him
Celebrating
July.
A meeting was held at the Board of
Trade rooms last evening to make ar
rangements for celebrating the coming
4th of July. Those assembled were
called to order and Mr. J. S. Fish was
elected chairman and H. J. Maier, sec
retary. The chairman stated the object
of the meeting and after considerable
discussion as to the proper course to
pursue to get up a rousing 4th of July
celebration, it was moved and carried
that the chair appoint the following
committee.
Executive Committee C. Stubeling,
M. T. Nolan, J. O. Mack.
Committee on finance and soliciting
W. H. lochead, Geo. Blakelv, Ad Kellar,
J. Hampshire, M. T. Nolan, A. Buchler,
J. Menifee, J. S. Fish, Ed. Williams.
Committee on orator W. H. Wilson
H. M. Beal, G. V. Bolton.
Committee on music E. Williams
J. P. FitzGerald, J. W. Condon
Committee on fireworks W. S. Cram
C. E. Haieht. L. E. Crow, and J. W,
Condon.
Committee on invitation H. J,
Maier, J. S. Fish and Geo. Filloon.
Committee on grounds J. O. Mack
C. E. Haight and H. J. Maier.
Committee on decorations J. Hamp
shire. J. FiteGerald. J. Filloon, W;
Corson and A. Keller.
Committee on parade J. A. Varney
Col. Houghton, Lt.-Col. Thompson, M
A. Moody and Geo. Munger.
Committee on printing; J.. Hampshire,
Frank Menefee and Sam Campbell.
. Committee on transportation E. E.
Lytle, C. E. Haight and Geo. Blakeley
Committee on dance Geo. Blakeley,
J. P. FitzGerald, C. Stubling and H. J.
Maier.
On motion adjourned to meet again
Thursday, May 14th. H. J. Maieb,
Secretary.
He wants it known. Mr. J. H
Straub, a well known German citizen of
Fort Madison, Iowa, was terribly afflicted
with inflammatory rheumatism when
Mr. J. F. Salmon, a prominent druggist
there, advised him to use Chamberlain's
the Columbia, opposite Hood River,
caught a carp that, weighed. 8 pounds in
one of their nets the other day.
The county court lias granted full citi
zenship papers to Thomas E. Wickens
and to Ernest Jordan, former subjects of
the British Empire and to John Schas&er
a former subject of the German Empire.
Henry Peters, a subject of the German
empire, and Charles ( and John McAl
lister, former subjects of Great Britain
and Ireland, have declared their inten
tion to become citizens of the United
Statea.
From J. B. Havely of Boyd we learn
that the rain fall at his place was twenty
eight hundreths of an inch, sufficient to
wet the ground "clear through." Ine
prospecta for good crops is very encour
aging. CrandaH A Burget Friday shipped six
single spring mattresses to the Mount
hotel, Hood River.' In ordering them
George Herbert said that his house was
so full of guests that he wanted some
small beds to put in the hall-way.
From the Wasco Gbterver we learn that
His case was a very severe one. He suf
fered a ereat deal and now wants others
similarly afflicted to know what cured
him. 50 cent bottles for sale by Snipes
Kinersly
Forfeited Railroad Lands
We are now ready to prepare papers
for the filing and entry of Railroad
Lands. We also attend to business be
fore the 17. S. Land Office and Secretary
of the Interior. Persons for whom we
have rjre Dared DaDers and who are re
quired to renew their applications, will
not be charged additional tor such papers.
Thornbuby & Hudson,
Rooms 8 and 9, Land Office building,
The Dalles, Oregon.
Baby is sick. The woeful expression
of a Des Moines teamster's countenance
showed his deep anxiety was not entire
ly without cause, when he inquired of a
druggist of the same city what was best
to give a baby for a cold'? It was not ne
cessary for him to say more, his counte
nance showed that the pet of the family,
if not the idol of his life was in distress.
"We give our baby Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy," was the druggist's answer.
"I don't like to give the baby such strong
medicine," said the teamster. You know
John Oleson , of the Watters-Talbot Print
ing Co., don't youT inquired the drug
gist. "His baby, when eighteen months
s
the contract for transcribing the records old. eot hold of a bottle of Chamberlain
affecting the new territory lately added Cough Remedy and drank the whole of
to Sherman county has been given to
The Hood River valley is essentially a
fruit country. While this class of in
dustry is practically in its infancy in
that region, enough has been accom
plished to prove its admirable adapta
tion, in climate and soil, to fruit raising,
A careful estimate places the number of
trees already set out at 50,000. They
consist of apples, pears, plums, cherries,
prunes, apricots and other rarer varie
ties. We saw several young persimmon
trees that looked remarkably healthy
but whether they will bear any fruit in
this northern climate has not yet been
proved. All these, with the exception of
the last, where the trees were sufficiently
matured are now covered with bud and
blossom, and give assured promise of an
immense yield. The quality of the fruit
is not excelled any where. An apple
and pear exhibit was made at our last
district fair which was the admiration
and wonder of all who saw it. Peter
Mohr exhibited 18 plates of apples and
took 16 premiums, 10 of them being first
class. The same exhibit was afterwards
taken to the Portland fair and was pro
nounced the best exhibit at the fair. A
well-known California fruit puyer pro
nounced some white winter Pearmains
the largest he ever saw." Sixty-two of
the same variety filled a box which
weighed 45 pounds. No proper estimate
can yet be made as to the profits of this
special class of fruit, as fully three
fourths of the trees are yet in their infan
cy. It may be said however, that an aver
age of ten dollars a tree is no uncommon
thing where the trees are six years old or
over. Home idea of the quality ot the
fruit may be gathered from the fact than
in the exhibit already referred to was a
Spitzbergen apple that weighed 12
ounces ; a owaar that weighed 14 ounces ;
a Blue Pearmain that weighed 16 ounces
and a Twenty Ounce Pippin that weighed
exactly 20 ounces. In the varieties of
fruit already named Hood River will,dur
ing the coming season, beat all past re
cord. The wealth of promise was face
tiously told in the remark of Joe Wilson
There is a prospect of a good crop of
everything this year except politicians,
It's an off year for them."--
THE NEW TABERNACLE.
DR. TALMAGE'S GRAPHIC REVIEW OF
THE BUILDING AND ITS PURPOSES.
Incident.
Geo.: H. Thompson of this city. The
price to be paid for the work is cents
a folio.
P. T. 'Knowles, of Wamic, started
Monday on a trip overland to Montana
with the S. B. remedies. ' He has the
handsome wagon we spoke of a few days
ago and drives a fine team of his own
with a big "8. B." cover on them. It is
a splendid rig and will attract much
attention.;' ' .
It is said that the Standard Oil com
pany use for their tin cons more than
half the tin plated ware that we export,
and It is mentioned as a 'curious fact that
the. whole population of Greece, and per
haps of Syria, draw their water from
marble-curbed wells, in Philadelphia
petroleum cans.
Hon. E. O. McCoy has bought out the
Interest of O.'M. Scott in the two ware
houses at Biggs and Rufus. . These ware
houses were built about three years ago
and must be valuable property as by
their means Mr. McCoy has a practical
monopoly of the grain market of nearly
all Sherman county, and that is better
than ' all the portage railways on the
Columbia river.
A private letter to Hugh Glenn re
. eeived Friday last from Joseph Paquet,
the contractor of the new': steamboat
line Bays : "I will ship boat frame, stem,
knees, etc, tomorrow. . I intended to go
to The Dalles Monday but I had difficulty
in procuring some lumber needed which
I hope to get by tomorrow. ' It' has been
it. Of course it made the baby vomit
very freely but did not injure it in the
least, and what is more, it cured the ba
by's cold. The teamster already knew
the value of the Remedy, having used it
himself, and was now satisfied that there
was no danger in giving it even to
baby. For sale by Snipes & Kinersly.
NOTICK.
R. E. French has for sale a number of
improved ranches and unimproved
lands in the Grass Valley neighborhood
in Sherman county.' They will be sold
very cheap and on reasonable terms,
Mr. French can locate settlers on some
good unsettled claims in the same neigh
borhood. His address is Grass Valley,
Sherman county, Oregon.
FOB BALE.
A choice lot of brood mares ; also
number of geldings and fillies by "Rock
wood Jr.," "Planter." "Oregon Wilkes.'
and "Idaho Chief," Bame standard bred
Also three fine young stallions by
Kockwood Jr." out ot first class mares,
For prices and terms call on or address
either J. W. Condon, or J. H. Larsen,
The Dalles, Oregon.
Notice.
Having leased the Mount Hood hotel
at Hood River, I would respectfully call
the attention of the traveling public to
the fact that the house is being thorough
ly renovated and will be open for the re
ception ot guests on or about Alv 1st,
and 1 would most respectfully solicit
share of the public patronage. Nothing
will be over-looked for the comfort of
guests. Gkobgx Herbert
Merino Sheep, for Sale.
I have a fine band of thorough bred
Merino sheep consisting of 67 bucks
about S4U ewes and about ZUU young
lamos. wnicn i win sell at a low price
raining here like thunder and I had a and upon easy terms. Address,
rough . time getting out. the frame,, in
consequence.
From W. L. Ward we learn that the
free bridge road across the Deschutes
was never in so fine a condition as it is
under its new keeper John Harris. Mr.
Ward says there is not a rock or stone
on the road from one hill to the other,
and tha the road is in better repair
than he ever thought it could be placed
in. Mr. Harris deserves the credit for
all this as well as for having reduced the
toil ou per cent.
D. M. French,
The Dalles, Or.
tly Qualified Official.
G. J. Farley who has been appointed
superintendent of construction of the
Cascades portage railroad is a mechani
cal engineer of the Academical school of
Toledo, Ohio. - Like all other mechanical
engineers he learned a trade and his
was that of blacksmith, and as such he,
atone time, worked in the company's
shops in this city. He was formerly
superintendent of construction of part of
the road between Kalama and Tacoma.
He filled the same office on the Pitts
burg and Lake Erie railroad and also on
the Pennsylvania railroad. He was in
the employ of the Keystone Bridge Co.,
of Pittsburg, of the Canton Bridge Co.,
of Canton, Ohio, of the King Bridge Co.,
of Cleveland, Ohio, of the Morse Bridge
Co., of Youngstown, Ohio," as a practical
bridge builder, and was superintendent
of the Toronto Bridge Co., of Toronto
Canada. He built the iron and steel
bridge at Gait, Ontario, where he was
also superintendent of construction and
waa assistant superintendent at the
construction of the Winnipeg bridge on
the Canadian Pacific railroad. His ap
pointment, as superintendant of . con
struction of the Cascades portage road, !
was recommended by the highest offi
cial a of the Northern and Union Pacific
railroads. I
The following statement from Mr. W
B. Denny, a well known dairyman of
New Lexington, Ohio, will be of interest
to persons troubled with Rheumatism.
He says: "I have used Chamberlain's
Pain Balm for nearly two years, four
bottles in all, and there is nothing I have
ever used that gave me as much relief
for rheumatism. We always keep a bot
tle of it in the house." For sale by
onipes x xunersiy.
City Treasurer's Notice.
All City Warrants registered prior to
July 6, 1889 are now due and payable,
Interest ceases on and after date.
' J. 8. Fish.
February 7, 1891. City Treas.
Horsemen Attention.
The spring rodero for horses will meet
at .Bake uven on the first day oi May.
R. Bootbn,
Chas. W. Haight,
J. N. Bcbgisb.
A little son of Mr. H. Garner residing
near Centerville was in a runaway last
week and sustained a fracture of his leg.
Dr. Bonebraker of Goldendale was called
in and reduced the fracture and the lit
tle iellow is doing as well as could be ex
pected.
Fisherman here note a difference be
tween the run of salmon this year and
last. Last year the fish kept near the
mouth of the river till about two weeks
before the season closed when the run
was so great that most of them had to
hoist their wheels because of the inabil
ity to dispose of the enormous catch.
County treasurer Ruch today sent to
the state treasurer $2,519.88, balance
taxes due the state from Wasco county.
Seufert Bros, caught about a ton of sal
mon last Saturday.
A Pleasing;
A very pleasing incident of the presi
dential visit, occurred at this place yes
terday which will be long remembered
by those more immediately concerned,
as exhibiting the gracious disposition of
the lady of the White House as well as
the familiarity of the president with the
wants of Eastern Oregon
A Chronicle reporter hearing the
facts related in varying version visited
Miss Anne Lang at her home who kindly
gave us the following :
About five years ago the president,
then Senator Harrison accompanied by
his wife visited this coast as one of a
senatorial commission. The party sep
arated at Portland and Mr. and Mrs,
Harrison started east by the O. R. & N,
Uo.'s line, intending to visit their son
who resided in Montana. Un the way
between Portland and The Dalles they
had for a fellow passenger Miss Anne
Lang of this city. As there were only
three or four passengers on the car
Mrs. Harrison introduced herself to Miss
Lang as one who was anxious to learn
something concerning the country and
the river and its scenery. Miss Lang
pointed out the various points of interest
on the route till Mrs. Harrison had be
come so much interested that she called
her husband who, on their arrival at the
Cascades made particular inquiries as
to the progress of the work going on
there. It so happened that from read
ing proof for her father T. S, Lang
who was then editor of the Wasco Sun
Miss Lang surprised Mr. Harrison by her
familiarity with everything relating to
the locks and a long enquiry was closed
by Senator Harrison saying: "Miss Lang,
tell your father the next time the river
and harbor bill comes up Mr. Harrison of
Indiana, will give the Cascade locks his
particular attention, owing to the success
ful lobbying of his daughter." The com
pany separated at The Dalles, but proof
was given yesterday that at least the inci
dent was not forgotten by Mrs. Harrison
It is well known that Mrs. Lang was ap
pointed one of the ladies who should con
vey to Mrs. Harrison the good wishes of
the people of The Dalles. When Mrs,
Lang was introduced to Mrs. Harrison
that lady immediately said: "When I
was here before I met a young lady
named Miss Lang. Do you know
her?" Mrs. Lang replied : "She is my
daughter," and Mrs. Harrison promptly
requested that the -young lady be sent
for as she could never forget the pleasant
day that they had together. When Miss
Lang was brought to the car it' was evi
dent that the president also had not for
gotten his former traveling companion
and the short interview with Mrs. Harri
left a very pleasing impression of the
graciousness of the lady of the White
House.
THE FISH COMMISSION.
A Mlmoi Hatchery to be Located on
the Upper Columbia.
. The Oregonlan.
State Fish Commissioners Reed and
Myers visited tne luackamas batcherv a
day or two since and found that all the
young fry had been turned out. They
visited points on the Clackamas and
Willamette rivers and made investiga
tions to find out if any fishing was being
done illegally on Saturday nigbt and
Sunday. They found that the fishermen
in some places had been doing things
they should not have been guilty of.
These fishermen are very sly, but "they
need not be astonished u the state fund
is increased by the fines that will surely
follow illegal hshincr. The commission
era find that the promises of the owners
of sawmills, pulp mills and excelsior
factories in regard to keeping waste out
of the rivers, have not been kept. It is
not the intention of the commissioners
to inflict anv annoyance or expense on
the people who violate the laws unin
tentially, and thev therefore give every
body fair warning, and if no heed is taken
the consequence will be that violators of
the law must suffer. Fish Commission
er Crawford, of Washington, has invited
the Oregon state fish commissioners to
assist him in locating a salmon hatchery
on the upper Columbia, for which an
appropriation was made by the Wash
ington legislature. The party will leave
Vancouver about the 12th inst. and will
be accompanied by the superintendent of
the Clackamas hatchery.
Prof. French, writing to Wm. Holder
relative to the programme of the
Farmers Institute to be held here on the
13th and 14th, says it is the best pro
gramme that has been compiled for any
of the institutes he has attended in Ore-.
gon so far. H mco Oburver.
A monument fifty feet in height mark
ing the center of population as shown by
the last census, was erected last Satur
day on a farm twenty miles east of Col
umbus, I&d.
The Passage of Jordan by the Israelite.
The Many Discouragements In BaiMlna
the New Structure Stones from Sinai
and Athens A Church Cor All.
Brooklyn, April 26. Sermon of Rev. T.
De Witt Talmage In the new Brooklyn
Tabernacle on Clinton avenue this even
ing, the building having been dedicated in
the morning at 10:30. A great union meet
ing, In which clergymen of all denomina
tions of Christiana participated, waa held
in the afternoon. Six thousand persona
were present at each of the services, and
many thousands were turned away. Text,
what mean ye by these stones r' (Joshua
iv.8).
The Jordan, like the Mississippi, has
bluffs on the one side and flats on the
other. Here and there a sycamore shad
ows it. Here and there a willow dips into
it. It was only a little over waist deep in
December as I waded through it, but in the
months of April and May the snows on
Mount Lebanon thaw and flow down into
the valley, and then the Jordan overflows
its banks. Then it is wide, deep, raging
and impetuous. At this season of the
year I hear the tramp of forty thousand
armed men coming down to cross the river.
You say, why do they not go up nearer the
rise of the river at the old camel ford? Ah!
my friends, it is because it is not safe to go
around when the Lord tells us to go ahead.
The Tsrafflltf had been going around forty
years, and they had enough of it. I do not
know how it is with you, my brethren, but
I have always got into trouble when I went
around, but always got into safety when I
went ahead.
There spreads out the Jordan, a raging
torrent, much of it snow water just come
down from the mountain top; and I see
some of the Israelites shivering at the idea
of plunging in, and one soldier says to his
comrade, "Joseph, can you swimf" And
another says: "If we get across the stream
we will get there with wet clothes and
with damaged armor, and the Canaanites
will slash us to pieces with their swords
before we get up the other bank." But it
is no time to halt. The great host marches
on.
The priests carrying the ark go ahead,
the people follow. I hear the tramp of the
great multitude. The priests have now
come within a stone's throw of the water.
Yet still there is no abatement of the flood.
Now they have come within four or five
feet of the stream; but there is no abate
ment of the flood. Bad prospect! It seems
as if these Israelites that crossed the desert
are now going to be drowned in sight of
Canaan. But "Forward I" is the cry. The
command rings all along the line of the
host. "Forward!" Now the priests have
come within one step of the river. This
time they lift their feet from the solid
ground and put them down into the rag
ing stream. No sooner are their feet there
than Jordan files.
On the right band God piles up a great
mountain of floods; on the left, the water
flows off toward the sea. The great river
for hours halts and The back
waters, not being able to flow over the pass
ing Israelites, pile wave on wave until per
haps a sea bird would find some difficulty
in scaling the water cliff. Now the priests
and all the people have gone over on dry
land. The water on the left hand aide by
this time has reached the sea; and now
that the miraculous passage has been made,
stand back and see this stupendous pile of
waters leap. God takes his hand from
that wall of floods, and like a hundred cat
aracts they plunsre and roar in thunderous
triumph to the bea.
THK UONUMEHT AT JOBDAJR.
How are they to celebrate this passage?
Shall it ) with musicf I suppose the
trumpet and cymbals were ail worn out
before thin. fahall it be with banners wav
ing? Oh, no; they are all faded and torn.
Joshua cries out, "I will tell you how to
celebrate this build a monument here to
commemorate the event;" and every priest
puts a heavy stone on his shoulder and
marches out, and drops that stone in the
divinely appointed place. I see the pile
growing in height, in breadth, in signifi
cance;, and, in after years, men went by
that spot and saw this monument, and
cried out one to another, In fulfillment of
the prophecy of the text, "What meant ye
by these stones?"
Blessed be God, he did not leave our
church in the wilderness! We have been
wandering about for a year and a half
worshiping in the Academy of Music,
Brooklyn, and the Academy of Music, New
York. And uie thought we would never
reach the promised land. Some said we
had better take this route and others that.
Some said we had better go back, and some
said there were sons of Anak in the way
that would tat us up. and before the
smoke had cleared away from the aky after
our tabernacle had been consumed, people
stood on the very site of the place aud said,
"This church will never again Be built.
We came down to the bank of Jordan: we
looked off upon the waters. Some of the
sympathy that was expressed turned out
to be snow, water melted from the top of
Lebanon. Some said, "You had better not
go in; you will get your feet wet." But
we waded in, pastor and people, farther
and farther, and in some way, the Lord
only knows how, we got through; and to
night I go all around about this great
house, erected by your prayers and sympa
thies and sacrifices, and cry out in the
words of my text. "What mean ye by these
stones f
It is an outrage to build a house like this,
so vast and so magnificent, unless there
be some tremendous reasons for doing it;
and so, my friends, I pursue you to-night
with the question of my text, and I de
mand of these trustees and of these elders
and of all -who have contributed in the
building of this structure, " nut mean ye
by these stones?" But before get your
answer to my question you interrupt me
aud point to the memorial wall at the aide
of this pulpit, and say, "Explain that un
usual group of memorials, What mean you
by tbose stones?" By permission of the
people of my beloved charge I recently
visited the Holy Lands, and having in
mind by day and night during my absence
this rising house of prayer, I bethought
myself, "What can I do to make that place
significant and glorious."
On the morning of December the Sd
we were at the foot of the most sacred
mountain of all the earth. Mount Calvary.
There is no more doubt of the locality
than of Mount Washington or Mont Blanc.
On the bluff of this mountain, which is
the shape of the human skull, and so
called in the Bible, "The place of a skull,"
there is room for three crosses. There 1
saw a stone so suggestive I rolled it down
the hill and transported it. It is at the
top of this wall, a white stone, with crim
son veins running through it the white
typical of purity, the crimson suggestive
of the blood that paid the price of our re
demption. We place it at the top of the
memorial wall, for above all in this church
for all time, in sermon and song and prayer.
shall be the sacrifice of Mount Calvary.
Look at it. That stone was one of the
rocks rent at the crucifixion. That heard
the cry, "It is finished." Waa ever any
church on earth honored with such a me
morial?
THK MEMORIAL OF SISAL
Beneath it are two tables of stone, which
I had brought from Mount Sinai where
the law was given. Three camels were
three weeks crossing the desert to fetch
them. When at Cairo, Egypt, I proposed
to the Christian Arab that he bring one
stone from Mount Sinai, he said, "We can
easier bring two rocks than one, for one
must balance them on the back of the
camel," and I did not think until the day
of their arrival how much more suggestive
would be the two, because the law waa
written on two tables of stone. Those
stones marked with the words "Mount
Sinai" felt the earthquake that shook the
mountains when the law was given. The
lower stone of the wall is from Man Hill,
the place where Paul stood when he
preached that famous sermon on the broth
erhood of the human race, declaring, "God
hath made of one blood all nations."
Since Lord Elgin took the famous statu
ary from the Acropolis, the hill adjoining
Mars Hill, the Greek government makes it
Impossible to transport to other lands any
antiquities, and armed soldiery guard
not only the Aaropolis but Macs BUL
. . ... . : :
mat stone i oocameu D-y special per
mission from the queen of Greece, a
most gracious and brilliant woman, who
received us as though we had been old ac
quaintances, and through Mr. Trieoupis,
the prime minister of Greece, and Mr.
Snowden, our American minister plenipo-
i tentiary, and Dr. Manatt, our American
! consul, that suggestive tablet was sawed
from the pulpit of rock on which Paul
preached. Now you understand why we
have marked it "The Gospel." Long after
my lips shall utter in this church their
last message, these lips of stone will tell of
the Law, and the Sacrifice, and the GospeL
This day I present them to this church
and to all who shall gaze upon them.
Thus you have my answer to the question,
"What mean you by these stones?"
But you cannot divert me from the ques
tion of the text as I first put it. I have in
terpreted these four memorials on my
right hand, but there are hundreds of
stones in these surrounding walls and un
derneath us, in the foundations, and rising
above ns in the towers. The quarries of
this and transatlantic countries at the call
of crowbar and chisel have contributed
toward this structure. "What mean ye by
these stones?"
You mean among other things that they
shall be an earthly residence for Christ.
Christ did not have much of a home when
he was here. Who and where is that child
crying? It is Jesus, born in an outhouse.
Where is that hard breathing? It is Jesus,
asleep on a rock. Who is that in the back
part of the fishing smack, with a sailor's
rough overcoat thrown over him? It is
Jesus the worn out voyager. O Jesus I is
it not time that thou hadst a house? We
give thee this. Thou didst give it to us
first, but we give it back to thee. It is too
good for us, but not half good enough for
thee. Oh! come in and take the best seat
here. Walk up and down all these aisles.
Speak through these organ pipes. Throw
thine arm over us in these arches. In the
flaming of these brackets of fire apeak to
us, saying, "I am the light of the world."
O King! make this thine audience cham
ber. Here proclaim righteousness and
make treaties. We clap our hands, we un
cover our heads, we lift our ensigns, we
cry with multitudinous acclamation until
the place rings and the heavens listen, "O
King! live forever!"
Is it not time that be who waa born in a
stranger's house and buried in a stranger's
grave should have an earthly house? Come
in, O Jesus! not the corpse of a buried
Christ, but a radiant and triumphant Je
sus, conqueror of earth and heaven and
helL
He lives, all glory to his name.
He lives, my Jesus, still the same.
Oh, the sweet Joy this sentence gives
I know that my Redeemer Uvea.
VBBY DENOMINATION HAS CONTRIBUTED.
Blessed be his glorious name forever!
Again, if any one asks the question of the
text. "What mean ye by these stones?" the
reply is we mean the communion of
saints. Do you know that there is not a
single denomination of Christians in Brook
lyn that has not contributed something to
ward the building of this house? And if
u'er, standing in nlace, there shah) be
a man who shall try oy anything ne says
co stir up bitterness between different de
nominations of Christians, may his tongue
falter, and his cheek blanch, and his heart
4topl My friends, if there is any church
on earth where there is a mingling of all
denominations it is our church. I just
wish that John Calvin and Arminius, if
they were not too busy, would come out on
the battlements and see us.
Sometimes iu our prayer meetings! have
heard brethren use the phrases of a beau
tiful liturgy, and we know where they
come from; and in the same prayer meet
ings I have heard brethren make audible
ejaculation, "Amen!" "Praise ye the Lord!"
and we did not have to guess twice where
they came from. When a man knocks at
our church door, if he comes from a sect
where they will not give him a certificate,
we say: "Come in by confession of faith."
While Adoniram Judson the Baptist, and
John Wesley the Methodist, and John
Knox the glorious old Scotch Presbyte
rian are shaking hands in heaven, all
churches on earth can afford to come into
close communication: "One Lord, one
faith, one baptism." Oh, my brethren,
we have had enough of Big Bethel fights
the Fourteenth New York regiment fight
ing the Fifteenth Massachusetts regiment.
Now, let all those who are for Christ and
stand on the same aide go shoulder to
shoulder, and this church, instead of hav
ing a sprinkling of the divine blessing, go
clear under the wave in one glorious im
mersion in the name of the Father and of
the Son and ef the Holy Ghost.
I saw a little child once, in its dying
hour, put one arm around its father's
neck and the other arm around its moth
er's neck and bring them close down to its
dying lips and give a last kiss. Oh, I said,
those two persona will stand very near to
each other always after such an interlock
ing. The dying Christ puts one arm
around this denomination of Christians,
and the other arm around that denomina
tion of Christians, and he brings them
down to his dying lips while he gives them
this parting kiss: "My peace I leave with
you. My peace I give unto you."
How swift the heavenly course they ran.
Whose hearts and faith and hopes are one.
HEAVEN WILL BE TBUXT CATHOLIC.
I heard a Baptist minister once say that
he thought in the millennium it would be
all one great Baptist church; and I heard
a Methodist minister say that he thought
in the great millennial day it would be all
one great Methodist church; and I have
known a Presbyterian minister who
thought that in the millennial day it would
be all one great Presbyterian church. Now
I think they are all mistaken. I think the
millennial church will be a composite
church; and just as you may take the best
parts of five or six tunes, and under the
skillful hands of a Handel, Moaart or
Beethoven entwine them into one grand
and overpowering symphony, so, I suppose,
in the latter days of the world, God will
take the best parts of all denominations
of Christians, and weave them into
one great ecclesiastical harmony, broad
as the earth and high as the
heavens, and that will be the church of
the future. Or, as mosaic is made up of
jasper , and agate and many precious
stones cemented together mosaic a thous
and feet square in St. Mark's, or mosaic
hoisted in colossal seraphim in St. Sophia
I suppose God will make, after awhile,
one great blending of all creeds, and all
faiths, and all Christian sentiments, the
amethyst, and the jasper, and the chalce
dony of all different experiences and be
lief, cemented side by side in the great
mosaio of the ages; and while the nations
look upon the columns and architraves of
that stupendous church of the future, and
cry out, "What mean ye by these stones?"
there shall be Innumerable voices to re
spond, "We mean the Lord God omnipo
tent reigneth."
Still further, you mean by these stones
the salvation of the people. We did not
build this church for mere worldly reforms,
or for an educational institution, or as a
platform on which to read essays and philo
sophical disquisitions, but a place for the
tremendous work of soul saving. Oh, I
had rather be the means in this church of
having one soul prepared for a joyful eter
nity than five thousand souls prepared for
mere worldly success. Ail churches are in
two classes, all communities in twoclasses,
all the race in two classes believers and
unbelievers. To augment the number of
the one and subtract from the number of
the other we built thiscliurcb, and toward
that supreme and eternal idea we dedicate
nil our wrranus, all our songs, nil our
prayers, nil our abUath haurlsh i!;in;.-s.
We want to throw defection into tae ene
my's ranks. We want to make them either
surrender unconditionally to Christ or else
fly in rout, scattering the way with
canteens, blankets and knapsacks, no
want to popularize Christ. We would
like to tell the story of bis love
here until men would feel that they
bad rather die than live another hour
without his sympathy and love and mercy.
We want to rouse -up an enthusiasm for
him greater thau was felt for Nat bn n iel
Lyon when be rode along the r.iuks;
greater than n-as exhibited for Wellington
when he came back from Waterloo; great
er than was expressed for Napoleon when
he stepped axbore from Elba, Vv e really
believe in this place Christ will enact the
same scenes that were enacted by him
when he landed in the orient, and there
will be such au opening of blind eyes and
unstopping of deaf ears and casting out of
unclean spirits such silencing bestormcd
Gennesarets as shall make this house
memorable five hundred years after you
and I are dead and forgotten. Oh, my
friends, we want but one revival in this
church, that beginning now and running
on to the day when the chisel of time, that
brings down even St. Paul's and the Pyra
mids, shall bring this house into the dust.
THEY BUILT, BUT ENTERED NOT.
Oh, that this day of dedication might be
the day of emancipation of all imprisoned
souls. My friends, do not make the blun
der of the ship carpenters in Noah's time,
who helped to build the ark, but did not
get into it. God forbid that you who have
been so generous iu building this church
should not get under its saving influence.
"Come thou and all thy house into the
ark." Do you think a man is safe out of
Christ? Not one day, not one hour, not
one minute, not one second. Three or four
years ago, you remember, a rail train broke
down a bridge on the way to Albany, and
after the catastrophe they were looking
around among the timbers of the crushed
bridge and the fallen train and found the
conductor.. He was dying, and bad only
strength to say one thing, and that was,
"Hoist the flag for the next train." So
there come to us tonight, from the eternal
word, voices of God, voices of angels, voices
of departed spirits, crying: "Lift the warn
ing. Blow the trumpet. Give the alarm.
Hoist the flag for the next train."
Oh, that tonight my Lord Jesus would
sweep his arm around this great audience
and take you all to bis holy heart. You
will r 2ver see so good a time for personal
consecration as now. "What mean ye by
these stones?" We mean your redemption
from sin and death and hell by the power
of an omnipotent gospel.
Well, the Brooklyn Tabernacle is erected
again. We came here tonight not to ded
icate it. That was done this morning. To
night we dedicate ourselves. In the Epis
copal and Methodist churches they have
a railing around the altar, and tho people
come and kneel down at that railing and
get the sacramental blessing. Well, my
friends, it would take more than a night
to gather you in circles around this altar.
Then just bow where you are for the bless
ing. Aged men, this is the last church
that you will ever dedicate. May the God
who comforted Jacob the Patriarch, and
Paul the aged, make this house to you the
gate of heaven; and when, in your old
days, you put on your spectacles to read
the hymn or the Scripture lesson, may yon
get preparation for that land where you
shall no more see through a glass darkly.
May the warm sunshine of heaven thaw
the snow off your foreheads!
Men in midlife, do you know that this is
the place where you are going to get your
fatigues rested and your sorrows appeased
and your souls saved? Do you know that
at this altar your sons aud daughters will
take upon themselves the vows of the Chris
tian, and from this place you will carry
out, some of you, your precious dead? Be
tween this baptismal font and this com
munion table you will have some of the
tenderestof life's experiences. God bless
you, old and young and middle aged.
The money you have given to this church
today will be, I hope, the best financial in
vestment yon have ever made. Your
wordly investments may depend upon the
whims of the money market, or the hon
esty of business associates,'but the money
you have given to the house of the Lord
shall yield you large percentage, and de
clare eternal dividends long after the
noonday sun shall have gone out like a
spark from a smitten anvil and all the
stars are dead.
Removal fiotiee I f J
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sJfr'H. Herbring's
DRY GOODS STORE
Has removed to 177 Second street (French's Block) nearly
opposite his former stand, where he will be pleased to see
his former customers and friends. He carries now a much
larger stock than before and every Department is filled
with the Latest Novelties of the Season.
Thresher Mfg. Go.,
Not Very Reassuring.
At the Tremont House one day some
traveling men were speculating on where
they might probably spend the coming
summer vacation, when one of them re
marked: "Well, I know I won't spend
mine just where I did my last summer's.
My wife had been sick for a long while,1
continued he, "and the doctor said I should
take her to some nice, quiet place in the
country some old farmhouse where she
could regain her strength. I went up into
Wisconsin, and engaged board and rooms
for us at a farmhouse near one of the pany
pretty little towns of that state, and a few
days later took my wife there. She was
very weak and bad to be carried to our
rooms, which were up stairs. In passing
up stairs my wife noticed that the balus
ters were much out of repair and very un
stable.
Later on, when Bhe contemplated coming
down stairs, she said to the landlady:
"Those balusters must be mended and
made firm before lean think of going down
stairs alone. Yon will have them fixed.
won't you?" "My old man and I was talk
ing about that," answered the landlady,
"and we concluded it would not be worth
while to have them fixed just yet, for you
see the undertaker's men, in taking down
the coffin of the last lady that was here,
was what broke them, and If we fix them
now we might have them broken again.'
In spite of her very reassuring words my
wife improved, and was soon able to get
down stairs without breaking anything.
But I never liked the landlady after that,
and we won't go there this summer." Chi
cago Herald.
Story of a Dream.
It was some time in the spring of 1868
that Jethro Jackson went to 'Reaaca to
look for the grave of his son, who was
killed in battle. Like many others, he
wished to find the remains and inter them
In the family burying ground. The com
rades who laid young Jackson to rest gave
the father a description of the spot where
they had buried him, telling him about
the rude pine coffin made from the boards
taken from the bridge. After many days
of tireless search Mr. Jackson failed to lo
cate his son's grave, and returned to his
home in Griffin. A few nights after his
return he dreamed that his son came to
him and pointed out the spot where he
was buried. The dream was like a vision.
He saw his son standing beside his bed.
and heard him say: "Father, I am buried
under a mound which was thrown up by
the Yankees after I was killed. You will
know the mound when you see it by the
pokeberry bushes growing upon it. Go and
take me up and carry me home to mother.
. So strong an impression did this dream
make upon Mr. Jackson that he returned
at once to Kesaca, taking with him one of
the comrades who bad buried his son. The
mound was found just as described in the
dream and the pokeberries were growing
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Apple at Night.
Who is there among us that would not
prefer the eating of an apple to the taking
of a pill 1 Yet the nauseating drugs are
daily being swallowed, and the rosy cheeked
"remedies," so grateful and palatable, al
lowed to go into unwholesome pestry crusts
that only further earthly ills.
Few seem to know the real worth of an
uncooked apple or a roasted one either.
for the matter of that. Why, they're a
medicine delicious to the taste, wholesome
past belief, and, even though pretty dear
at this particular season of this particular
year, much cheaper than drugs. We may
safely put a. quarter's worth of applet
against a quarter's worth of drugs and ex
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suits from the fruit. The one great trouble
arising from any unnatural purgatives is
the reaction so sure to follow, while the
doses provided by nature herself work for
the permanent good of humankind.
It's veritable nonsense that "apples are
gold in the morning, silver at noon and
lead at night." This old saying is as silly
a one as that the Germans feave given ns
that "a had betrfnniiuz makes a eood end
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gold, figuratively speaking, and uon't 1
who like a good ripe raw apple just before
going to bed at night, especially when I've
itaid up long enough to get a bit hungry
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Highly Unnatural.
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Fad man Unnatural I Why, that's Binki
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Walker Yes, but I went on dreaming
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