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FRIDAY,
MAY 22, 1891
LOCAL AND FIBSONAL.
, ."Work on the new boat is going; ahead.
Cherries are begining to ripen in the
dty.
At 11 o'clock Monday the Wasco ware
house had unloaded twenty-two wool
teams, a pretty good forenoon's work.
Forepangh's circus will be here in
August.
C. P. Balch the Dufnr drureist is in
the city.
; William Beezely, Esq., of Idaho, is in
the city via ting his parents.
A. H, Jewett the nurseryman of White
Salmon was in the city Friday.
The GL A. R., of this city will properly
observe Decoration day.
Mr. T. H. Johnston the leading mer
chant of Dufnr was in the city Friday.
Hon. Geo. P. Litchfield, IT. S. special
Indian agent was in the city last week
Billy Cantrel of Tygh has sold his
band of horses to C. V. Swarts of Grass
Valley.
Mr. xt. ll. Norton, the surveyor, re
turned from the Fossil coal mines Fri
day night.
Louis Davenport, of M osier, paid the
Chboxiclx office a pleasant visit last Sat
orday.
WDbor Hendrix. of Dufnr and Mr.
Lander of Salt Springs gave this office a
pleasant call Monday.
The fireworks will be set off from
cow on the river at the forthcoming
celebration.
Jndge W. L, Bradahaw returned Friday
eve from Pjvermewhere he has finished
a term of court..
The Diamond Mills, received Friday
even loads of wheat for which they paid
80 cents per bushel.
Mr. J. w. waterman, merchant at
Caleb, Grant county, was in the city on
business last week.
U. W. uenton bad the misfortune to
lose his barn byfire. Wednesday night.
The ongion is not known. The loss
probably will not exceed $300.
1 Mrs. E. W, Aevius and, children left
Thursday for a visit to her parents in
the Wallowa valley, and will be absent
during the heated term.
Mr. John Buick, of Silver Lake, came
into the city, and will return with a load
of merchandise for that city. Silver Lake
is 225 miles distant from The Dalles.
How much stock are you going to sub
scribe towards the new transportation
company which promises you relief from
over taxation on freight rates? Klicki
tat MOer.
The Portland physicians have demon
strated that Koch's lymph is no longer
an- experiment when used under favora
ble,, conditions, and this is the climate
for conditions.
.nouncauons are out from the secre
tary of the Eastern Oregon Co-operative
Association to the effect that the annual
meeting of the directors will be held in
the parlors of the Cosmopolitan hotel, in
The Dalles, Wednesday June 3.
We are informed by Grant Mays, who
has just epme from Antelope, that a
heavy rain fell on Friday night in that
part of this county and in the northern
portion . of Crook, which wet up the
. country in good shape, doing an immense
fciJount of good.
Messrs. 8awtell and Prose came in Fri
day with four loads of wool for T. Lafall
ett, Prineville. These gentlemen inform
us that shearing has only fairly got start
ed, and from this on to the close of the
season there will be lively times in that
section.
Mr. A. J. Anderson- brought to this
city Friday last, some very fine straw
berries, gooseberries and peas which he
raised-on his place a mile and a half be
low town. They are as large and good
as any brought from California, and
have the additional value of being fresh.
They taste slightly of silver, however.
We had the pleasure of meeting Wm.
Connell, Esq., of Portland, who was an
old resident of Rockland, in the early
years of this, section. . Although Father
TimeXhas frosted his locks he has dealt
gently with him. Mr. Connell feels con
fident The Dalles will be one among the
first cities nfEastarn Ommn and Wash.
Mr. George Burlingame, of New York,
who has been stopping at The Dalles for
several weeks was over with Dr. Claude
Eahelman, Sunday. - Mr. Burlingajne
has gained eighteen pounds," and informs
us that he woold leave far his old home
Monday morning to dispose of his prop
erty and immediately return to the
co&sU Klickitat Leader.
Mr. B urlin game says he is to be the
manager of the Boston Shoe and Leather
Company when Mr. Taylor takes pos
session of it. - 'f v
The ninth annual convention of the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union,
was in session in Walla Walla last week.
The following officers were elected' for
the ensuing year : , President, Mrs. Lucy
A. Switzer, of Cheney; corresponding
secretary, Mrs. Claudia A. Penn, of
Spokane; recording secretary, Mrs.
Came tureen, of Medical Lake; assist
ant recording secretary, Mrs. Carrie
Green, of Davenport; treasurer, Mrs.
Lucy Berry, of Walla Walla.
The threatenings of rain for the past
week have all disappeared from this sec
tion without giving us anything more
than a few sprinkles although in some
few localities light rains have fallen,
though not sufficient to benefit crops.
Volunteer and late sown wheat, as well
as oats and barley is in need of more
moisture. Our farmers are still in good
spirits and should rains be had the last
of this and the forepart of next month,
the harvest will be above the average.
We are pleased to hear that Father
BronBgeest contemplates moving the
church edifice within the. next three
weeks on to the north end of the lots in
the rear of the present site, and will
change its front from a northern to a
southern entrance. This immediate
change is to make room for the excava
tion and the building of a foundation
rand basement of the new church edifice
V which' we are glad to learn, will be of
brick and of elegant design, in keeping
with the ideas of that Christian belief.
The Reverened Father is very hopeful of
the accomplishment of his desire in
completing this house of worship before
the close of 1892, of which we have no
doubt he will succeed in. .
FICIM
the Foull People.
Fossil Journal.
R. H. Norton and crew reached the j
coal mines last Friday with the prelim- j
inary survev irom ine uaiies. Jir.
Norton was in town Saturday and ap
Deared to be well pleased with the
practicability of his route, ine general
route swings out sontuwaru irom ine1.
IWilO OWIUK3 UUt C.U lll.OlU II Will 1UI.
noiw .A.vin nni,.nJtl, C.aa.
cade mountains,. and then goes throngh
t i. ..n i i. J,;.,
. fi tw-Ii.... . . n
creek to the confluence of Deep creek ;
thence up Deep creek and on the high
rtiviH Wrin, thp oitvnf AnteW hont
hve miles to the south ; thence by Jiau
Sacks down Drv creek to the John Day
be'.ow the mouth of Curran creek ; thence
up Dry Hollow to the mines. The dis
tance is about 150 miles by the survey.
It is about 75 miles on an air line from
The Dalles to the mines. The prelim
inary survey crosses the John Day river
nine times in the distance it travels up
that stream some 15 miles. From this
finding of facts we would conclude that
Mr. Norton's route is unneceesarily long
and not very practicable. It leaves j
nearly all the resources that The Dalles
vanta iav rt n.rt V n it an1 Trip !
Dalles is bound to eet the Dnfur and Tveh
valley trade without any rail road. hat
The Dalles ought to have is a road
direct to the mines and tapping the best
part of Sherman and (jilliam counties
the agricultural part. It would appear
that the Norton route goes buy roues
out of the wav in order to avoid all the
country that it would pay The Dalles to
build a road over.
Mr. Norton has - arrived in The Dalles
from Fossil and tells the Chronicle that
the route surveyed is the most direct
and practical that can be found. He
started out to find the best grade no
matter whose feelings he hurt or what
towns were passed by. No intentional
slight was intended to anybody or place,
but no deviation for personal reasons was
entertained for a moment. Had Mr.
Norton taken the advice of every would
be engineer and railroad buildier he met
the party would have been in the field
all summer. The statement in the Fos
sil Journal that it is about seventy-five
miles on an air line is untrue on the
face of it as' a glance at the map will
show, and when the configuration of the
intervening country is considered,, the
immense canyons and ravines, the dis
tance surveyed may be considered short
instead of fifty miles too long.
Mr. Norton will complete the "office
work" as speedily as possible, and when
the profile is ready will arrange his facts
and submit a report to the subscribers
to the fund.
There was a Dhotoeranhie outfit taken
with the party, and so soon as the pic
tures taken can be made available Mr.
Norton will deliver a public lecture u-
lustrated with views of the country
traversed which will be a reveajition to
our citizens we feel sure.
CROP BULLETIN.
Indication Are Unireraally Favorable
for Good Crops Heavy Fruit
Yield Expected.
The increased warmth has been of
great benefit to crops of all kinds. The
growth is remarkable. Winter wheat is
m places quite rank. On low land
spring seeding is not completed owing
to the rains and wet soil. Some rye is
heading. The hay and clover fields are
unusually promising: Hay will be a
big crop, the rain being very beneficial.
Hops are pole high already and so tar
are very healthy. . Corn is being planted,
Warden products are up and growing
well. Strawberries are in blossom and
the fruit formed. ' Grape vines are being
trained on arbors, and the leaves are
about fully formed. The vines are
thrifty and'clusters forming. Fruit trees
are heavily laden. The frost has not
pruned out the surplus fruit, hence con
siderable fruit pruning will have to be
done by hand, else the trees will be
broken down. The prospects for all
products are unusually promising.
in .Eastern uregon late spring grain is
in need of more rain. Unless more
moisture is soon had the spring grain
will be a short crop. Fall wheat
promises unusually well. In Umatilla
county the ground is quite hard, but the
late showers benefitted it somewhat, in
Baker and Malheur - counties irrigation
is mainly depended upon for crops, and
here they are very promising as the cool,
cloudy weather retarded evaporation. In
Union county wheat prospects are ex
cellent. South of the Blue mountains
spring is backward and frosts are fre
quent. Fruit is now blooming; frost
t as done no damage to it so tar. Spring
f jain is coming up, but more rain is
wished lor. bnow yet lingers in the
mocntaiss keeping the air cool.
Throughout Eastern Oregon the fruit
prospects are excellent. Sheep shearing
is progressing nnely. borne cups are
being delivered to warehouses.
THE COMING CBLEBRAtlON.
Over a Thouud Dollars Kalsed by the
. General Committee.
The Fourth of July general committee
held its called meeting in the board of
trade chambers last night, and heard the
report of the finance committee.
The chairman reported that $1035,00
was subscribed to the fund and 'that
there was no doubt but $1300, would be
raised without difficulty.
The chairman of each committee was
instructed to make all the esttmates
covering the expenses incident to the
accomplishment of the plans mapped out
by the executive committee.
Col. Houghton being present informed
the committee that he would endeavor
to have the Third Regiment convened
here on the Fourth and have a sham
battle, and as far as he could be of use,
nothing would be left undone to make
the event one of the noted epochs in this
city.
Our people are wide awake for a good
time on the glorious Fourth, and 'will
have it, and will expect our neighbors
in Klickitat, as well as Sherman county,
to come and share with us of Old Wasco,
in the pleasures of the day.
An Old Pioneer Gone.
School Superintendent Troy Shelly re
ceived a telegram today from Milton
Odell, at Hood River, which stated that
his father, William Odell, was dead, and
that the funeral would take place at that
place tomorrow, at 11 o'clock. Mr. Shel
ley will go down and conduct the services.
Mr. Odell was well known all over Wasco
county, and was one of its early settlers.
His demise has been expected for some
time.
MARRIED
At the residence of R. E. Williams
esq., in this city on the eve of the 13th
inst., Mr. C. L. Williams to Miss
Whonato E. Winkleman of Silver Lake,
Oregon. Rev. H. Brown officiating.
Mr. Norton's Kouta Ooc Not
The steamer Baker is again making j will be appreciated at this office.
regular trips from The Dalles to the up- :
per Cascades, after having been laid up Mr- Jnn Corum has just came across
since the Middle of last December. There i the Cascade mountains on the Barlow
has not been a particle of ice in the river j ronte. He reports the road to be in fair
during that time and her withdrawal: . .. ,
from the river was an outrage. The fact i condlt,on w,th no 8now in the wa-v f
that the new boat at The Dalles will soon 'travel. Several wagons have already
be on the river stirred the company up, I passed over the road.
it is probable that if it were not for this
the Baker wonld not have been put on Mr- Arthur Powell, of Portland spent
the route during the summer. Glacier. I Sunday in the city visiting friends.
tommliilenrrfl - Met ud
Work Began at Once.
Order
Salem, May 15. Governor Pennover
j and State Treasurer Metsciian, as com
i missioners of the portage railway at the
i Cascades held their first meeting todav
! and completed the organization by ap-
T- 1 .. . T 1,11
I pointing G. J. Farley, of The Dalles,
' superintendent of construction. Col. 8.
'
I L. Lovell, engineer and clerk. The com-
mission also ordered that construction
i . . , , ... . ..
! proceeded with immediately.
This is the railway ordered constructed
bv the passaire of Walking' bill at the
last legislature.
Secretary McBride is one of the board
but is absent at San Francisco.
Lovell left for The Dalles this afternoon
to commence preliminary work.
. f Signed F. 8. Ckaig.
AFTER MAJOR HANDBI'BV.
! 8nt"r"
Mitchell and
Hand.
Dolph Take
The Chronicle has been trying for
some few days to ascertain where the
blame lies for not beginning work on the
portage road at the Cascades. The
movement it inaugurated has been taken
hold of bv The Dalles Board of Trade and
Senators Mitchell and Dolph were tele.
graphed to in regard to the matter. The
inquiries of the board met with prompt
response as the telegram below will
show. The Chronicle will persevere in
this matter until it is ascertained who it
is that is delaying this work and will
proclaim the guilty one to the world
Our two senators have proved them
selves the friends of the people in this
matter and we publish the telegram re
ceived from them with much pleasure :
Washington-, D. C, May 15, 1891.
To A. S. Macalltiter, Preident Board of
Trade:
Handburv and "McBride have been
telegraphed to know if location made by
Handburv is satisfactory. If so it will
le approved ; if not Handbury will be
directed bv telegraph to make one. We
are doing everything to facilitate work.
Mitchell and Dolph.
Baby is sick. The woeful expression
of a Den 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 snowed 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 Vo., don t your inquired the drug
gist. "His baby, when eighteen months
old, got hold of a bottle of Chamberlain's
(Jough Keniedy and dranK tne wnoie oi
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 a
babv. For sale by Snipes & Kinersly.
Forfeited Railroad Linda '
We are now ready to prepare papers
for the tiling and entry of Railroad
Lands. We also attend to business be
fore the U. S. Land Office and Secretary
of the Interior. Persons for whom we
have prepared papers and who are re
quired to renew their applications, will
not be charged additional for such papers.
THORN'BUEV & Hl'DSOX,
Rooms 8 and 9, Land Office building,
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 of guests on or about iuv 1st,
and I would most respectfully solicit a
share of the public patronage. Nothing
will be over-looked for the comfort of
guests. George Herbert.
FOR SALE.
A .choice lot of brood mares ; also a
number of geldings and fillies bv "Rock-
wood Jr.," "Planter," "Oregon Wilkes,"
and "Idaho (Jhief, same standard bred.
Also three fine young stallions by
"Rockwood Jr." out of first class mares.
For prices and terms call on or address
either J. VV. Ijondon, or J. H. ISrsen,
The Dalles, Oregon.
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
Pain Balm. One bottle of it cured him.
His case was a very severe one. He suf
fered a great deal and now wants others
similarly afflicted to know what cured
him. 50 cent bottles for sale by Snipes
Kinersly.
NOTICE.
R. E. French has for sale a number of
improved ranches and unimproved
lands in the urass 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, hi is address is Grass Valley,
Sherman county, Oregon.
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 save: "1 have used Uhainberlain 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
Snipes & Kinersly.
. Examination of Teachers.
Notice is hereby given that for the
purpose of making an examination of
all persons who may offer themselves as
candidates for teachers of the schools of
this county, the county school superin
tendent thereof will hold a public exam
ination at The Dalles, Wednesday, May
Zth, at 12 o clock
Dated, this 16th day of May, 1891.
Troy Shelley,
County School Superintendent of Wasco
County, Oregon.
Mr. Robert Mays informs ns that he
has been on the range for the past two
weeks with the horse round np. It is
just finished, and he reports that the
horses are in much better condition than
was expected. There was no loss from
the winter, and there will be a large, in
crease in colts over last year. ...
A small sorrel, branded H. G., on
right shoulder with some saddle marks
and shod all around, escaped from the
stable of the editor of the Chronicle at
twilight yesterday. She had on a check
ed horse cover, nearly new. Any infor
mation as to the animal or the blanket
: The
-H UMDjiij M -AiiULiSfiED.
SERMON PREACHED SUNDAY, MAY 3,
BY REV. T. DE WITT TALMAGE.
A Stirring Exhortation to Christians so
Hah Their Religion Lively, Based Opu
the Visit of the Queen of Sheba to Sol
omon, the Great King.
BbooKLTX, May 3. The capacity of the
New Tabernacle was fully tested this morn
ing by the vast audience which assemble
to hear Dr. Talmage in his handsome and
spacious church. He is now preaching
there morning and evening, and The
Christian Herald services in New York
have been discontinued. This has caused
much regret to many people in that city.
A memorial was prepared and signed by
influential citizens asking Dr. Talmage to
continue the services. He could not see
his way to comply at the time, bat, as he
was evidently impressed by the warmth of
the welcome given him in the metropolis,
and deeply moved by the good that was
done, it is not improbable that in the near
future he will again be found duplicating
his usefulness by ministering to two con
gregations, as he has been doing during the
past seven months. His subject this morn
ing was "Humdrum Abolished," and his
text II Chronicles ix, 9: "Of spices great
abundance; neither was there any saeh
spice as the Queen of SJieba gave King Sol
omon." A WONDERFUL BUILDING.
Whatis that building out yonder glit
tering in the sunf Have you not heard?
It is the house of the forest of Lebanon.
King Solomon has just taken to it his
bride, the princess of Egypt. You see the
pillars of the portico, and a great tower,
adorned with one thousand shields of gold,
bang on the outside of the tower five
hundred of the shields of gold manufact
ured at Solomon's order, five hundred
were captured by David, his father, in bat
tle. See bow they blaze tn the noonday
sun!
Solomon goes up the ivory stairs of his
throne between twelve lions in statuary,
and sits down on the back of the golden
bull, the head of the bronze beast turned
toward the people. ' The family and at
tendants of the king are so many that the
caterers of the place have to provide every
day one hundred sheep and thirteen oxen,
besides the birds and the venison. 1 near
the stamping and pawing of four thousand
fine horses in the royal stables. There
were important officials who had charge of
the work of gathering the straw and the
barley for these horses. King Solomon
was an early riser, tradition says, and used
to take a ride out at daybreak; and when
in his white apparel, behind the swiftest
horses of all the realm, and followed by
mounted archers in purple, as the cava!
cade dashed through the streets of Jerusa
lem I suppose it was something worth get
ting up at five o'clock in the morning to
look at.
Solomon was not like some of the kings
of the present day crowned imbecility.
All the splendor of his palace and retinue
was eclipsed by nis intellectual power.
Why. be seemed to know everything. - He
the first great naturalist the world
ever saw. reacocKs irom xndia strutted
the basaltic walk, and apes chattered in
the trees and deer stalked the parks, and
there were aquariums with foreign fish
and aviaries with foreign birds, and tradi
tion says these birds were so well tamed
that Solomon might walk clear across the
city under the shadow of their wings as
they hovered and flitted about him.
SOLOMON AND HIS RIDDLES.
More than this, he had a great reputa
tion for the conundrums and riddles that
he made and gneoopd. He and King Hi
ram, his neighbor, used to sit by the hour
and ask riddles, each one paying in money
if he could not answer or guess the riddle.
The Solomonic navy visited all the world.
and the sailors, of course, talked about the
wealth of their king, and about the riddles
and enigmas that he made and solved, and
the news spread until Queen Balkis, away
off south, heard of it, and sent messengers
with a few riddles that bhe would like to
have Solomon solve, and a few. puzzles
which she would like to have him find out.
She sent among other things to King Sol
omon a diamond with a hole so small that
a needle could not penetrate it, asking him
to thread that diamond. And Solomon
took a worm and put it at the opening in
the diamond, and the worm crawled
through, leaving the thread in the dia
mond. The queen also sent a goblet to Solomon.
asking him to fill it with water that did
not pour from the sky, and that did not
rush out from the earth, and immediately
Solomon put n slave on the back of a swift
horse and galloped him around and around
the park until the horse was nigh exhaust
ed, and from the perspiration of the horse
the goblet was filled. . She also sent King
Solomon five hundred boys in girls' dress,
and five hundred girls in boys' dress, won
dering if he would be acute enough to find
out the deception. Immediately Solomon,
when he saw them wash their faces, knew
from the way they applied the water that
it was all a cheat.
THE Vlsrr OF TtTB QUEEN.
Queen Balkis was so pleased with the
acute nees of Solomon that she said, "I'll
just go and see him for myself." Yonder
it comes the cavalcade horses and drom
edaries, chariots and charioteers, jingling
harness and clattering hoofs, and blazing
shields, and flying ensigns, and clapping
cymbals. The place is saturated with the
perfume. She brings cinnamon and saf
fron and calamns and fraul.njicense and
all manner of sweet spices. As the reti
nue sweeps through the gate the armed
guard inhale the aroma. "Halt!" cry the
charioteers, as the wheels grind the gravel
in front of the pillared portico of the king.
Queen Balkis alights in an atmosphere be
witched wit) perfume. As the drome
daries are driven up to the king's store
houses, and the bundles of camphor are
unloaded, and the sacks of cinnamon, and
the boxes of spices are opened, the purvey
ors of the palace discover whav my text
announces, "Of spices, great abundance;
neither was there any such spices aa the
Queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon."
Well, my friends, you know that all the
ologians agree in making Solomon a type
of Christ, and making the Queen of Sheba
a type of every truth seeker, and 1 shall
take the responsibility of saying that ail
the spikenard and cassia and frankincense
which the Queen of Sheba brought to King
Solomon are mightily suggestive of the
sweet spices of our holy religion. Chris
tianity is not a collection of sharp techni
calities and angular facts and chronolog
ical tables and dry statistics. Our religion
is compared to frankincense and to eassia,
but never to nightshade. It is a bundle of
myrrh. It is a dash of holy light. It is a
sparkle of cool fountains. It is an opening
of opaline gates. It is a collection of spices.
Would Uod that we were as wise in taxing
spices to our Divine King as Queen Balkis
was wise in taking the spices to the earthly
Solomon 1 What many of us most need is
to have, the humdrum driven out of our
life aud the humdrum out of our religion.
The American and English and Scottish
church will die of humdrum unless there
be a change.
An editor from San Francisco a few weeks
ago wrote me saying he was getting np
for his paper a symposium from many
Clergymen, discussing among other things
"Why do not people go, to church?'
and he wanted my opinion, and I gave it
in one sentence, "People do not go to church
because they cannot stand the humdrum."
The fact is that most people have bo much
humdrum in their worldly calli ng that they
do not want to have added the humdrum
of religion. We need in all our sermons
and exhortations and songs and prayers
more of what Queen Balkis brought to
Solomon namely, more spice.
LIFE IS HUMP BUM. u.
The fact is that the duties and cares of
this life, coming to us from time to time,
are stupid often and inane and intoler
able. Here are men who have been barter
ing and negotiating, climbing, ponnding,
hammering for twenty years, forty years,
fifty years. One great long drudgery has
their life been. Their face anxious, their
feelings benumbed, their days monotonous.
What is necessary to brighten up that
man's life, and to sweeten that acid dispo
sition, and to put sparkle into the man's
spirits? The spicery of our holy religion.
Why, If between the losses of life there
dashed a gleam of an eternal gain; if be
tween the betrayals of life there came the
g.tuuii at Ine undying friendship of Christ;
if in dull times in business we found min
istering spirits flying to and fro In our
office and store and shop, everyday life,
Instead of being a stupid monotone, would
be a glorious inspiration, penduluming be
tween calm satisfaction and high rapture.
How any woman keeps house without
the religion of Christ to help her is a mys
tery to me. To have to spend the greater
part of one's life, as many women do, in
planning for the meals, in stitching gar
ment that will soon be rent again, and de
ploring breakages and supervising tardy
subordinates and driving off dust that
soon attain will settle, and doing the same
thing day in and day out, and year in and 1
year out, until their hair silvers, and the
back stoops, and the spectacles crawl to the
eyes, and the grave breaks open under the
thin sole of the shoe oh, it is a long mon
otonyl But when Christ comes to the
drawing room, and comes to the kitchen,
and comes to the nursery, and comes in
the dwelling, then how cheery becomes all
womanly duties. She is never alone now;
Martha gets through fretting and joins
Mary at the feet of Jesus. .
All day long Deborah is happy because
she can help Lapidoth; Hannah, because
she can make a coat for young Samuel;
Miriam, because she can watch her infant
brother; Rachel, because she can help her
father water the stock; the widow of Sa
repta, because the cruse of oil is being re
plenished. O woman! having in your
pantry a nest of boxes containing all kinds
of condiments, why have you not tried in
your heart and life the spicery of our holy
religion? "Martha! Martha! thou art care
ful and troubled about many things; bat
one thing is needful, and Mary hath chosen
that good part which shall not be taken
away from her."
SOME RELIGION 18 INSIPID.
I must confess that a great deal of the
religion of this day is utterly insipid.
There is nothing piquant or elevating
about it. Men and women go around
humming psalms in a minor key, and
culturing melancholy, and their worship
has in it more sighs than rapture. We do
not doubt their piety. Oh, no. But they
are sitting at a feast where the cook has
forgotten to season the food. Everything
is flat in their experience and in their con
versation. Emancipated from sin and
death and hell, and on their way to a mag
nificeut heaven, they act as though they
were trudging on toward an everlasting
Botany bay. Religion does not seem to
agree with them It seems to catch in the
windpipe and become a tight strangulation
instead of an exhilaration.
All the infidel books that have been writ
ten, from Voltaire down to Herbert Spen
cer, have not done so much damage to
our Christianity as lugubrious Christians.
Who wants a religion woven out of the
shadows of the night? Why go growling
on your way to celestial enthronement?
Come out of that cave and sit down in the
warm light of the Sun of Righteousness.
Away with your odes to melancholy and
Hervey's "Meditations Among the Tombs.
Then let our songs abound,
And every tear be dry;
We're marching- through Emmanuel's
ground
To fairer worlds on high.
I have to say, also, that we need to put
more spice and enlivenment in our relig
ious teaching, whether it be in the prayer
meeting, or in the Sabbath school, or in
the church. We ministers need more fresh
air and sunshine in our lungs and onr
heart and our head. Do you wonder that
the world is so far from being converted
when you find so little vivacity in the pal
pit and in the pewf We want, like the Lord,
to plant in our sermons and exhortations
more lilies of the field. We want fewer
rhetorical elaborations and fewer sesqui
pedalian words; and when we talk about
shadows, we do not want to say adumbra
tion; and when we mean queerness, we do
not want to talk about idiosy ncrades; or if
a stitch in the back, we do not want to
talk of lumbago, but in the plain vernacu
lar preach that gospel which proposes to
make all men happy, honest, victorious
and free.
In other words, we want more cinnamon
and less gristle. Let this be so in all the
different departments of work to which the
Lord calls us. Let us be plain. Let us be
earnest. Let us be common senaicaL
When we talk to the people in a vernacu
lar they can understand they will be very
glad to come and receive the truth we pre
sent. Would to God that Queen Balkis
would drive her spice laden dromedaries
Into all our sermons and prayer meeting
exhortations.
LIFE AND SPICK IN CHRISTIAN WORK.
More than that, we want more life and
spice in our Christian work. The poor do
not want so much to be groaned over as
sung to. With the bread and medicines
and the garments you give them, let there
be an accompaniment of smiles and brisk
encouragement. Do not stand and talk to
them about the wretchedness of their
abode, and the hunger of their looks, and
the hardness of their lot. ' Ah! they know
it better than you can tell them. Show
them the bright side of the thing, if there
be any bright side. Tell them good times
will come. Tell them that for the children
of God there is immortal rescue. Wake
them up out of their stolidity by an in-
spiring laugh, and while you send in help,
like the Queen of Sheba also send in the
spices.
There are two ways of meeting the poor.
One is to cosao into their house with a nose
elevated in disgust, as much as to say
don't see hew you live here In this neigh
borhood. It actually makes me sick.
There is that bundle; take it, you poor,
miserable wretch, and make the most of
it." Another way is to go into the abode
of the poor in a manner which seems to
say "The blesned Lord sent me. He was
poor himself. - It is not more for the good
I am going to try to do you than it is for
the good you can do me.' Coming in that
spirit the gift will be as aromatic as the
spikenard on the feet of Christ, and all the
hovels in that alley will be fragrant with
the spice.
We need more spice and enlivenment in
our church music. Churches sit discussing
whether they shall have choirs, or precen
tors, or organs, or bass viols, or cornets. I
say, take that which will bring out the
most inspiring music. If we had half as
much zeal and spirit in onr churches as we
have in the songs of our Sabbath schools
it would not be long before the whole earth
would quake with the coming God. Why,
in most churches nine-tenths of the peo
ple do not sing, or they sing so feebly that
the people at their elbows do not know they
are singing. People mouth and mumble
the praises of God; but there is not more
than one out of a hundred who makes "a
joyful noise" unto the Rock of Oar Salva
tion. Sometimes, when the congregation
forgets itself, and is ail absorbed in the
goodness of God or the glories of heaven,
I get an intimation of what church music
will be a hundred years from now, when
the coming generation shall wake up to its
duty.
WAXX UP.
I promise a high spiritual blessing to any
one who will sing in church, and who will
sing so heartily that the people all around
cannot help bat sing. Wake np! all the
churches from Bangor to San Francisco
and across Christendom. It is not a matter
of preference, It is a matter of religious
duty. Oh, for fifty times more volume of
sound. German chorals in German ca
thedrals surpass ns, and yet Germany has
received nothing at the hands of God com
pared with America; and ought the
acclaim In Berlin be louder than that in
Brooklyn? Soft. long drawn out music is
appropriate for the drawing room aud ap
propriate for the concert, but St. John
gives an idea of the sonorous and resonant
congregational singing appropriate for
churches when, in listening to t he temple
service of heaven, he says: "I heard a great
voice, as the voice of agrut multitude, and
as the voice of many waters, and as the
voice of mighty tbnnderings. Hallelujah,
for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth."
Join with me in a crusade. giviug me not
only your hearts but the mighty uplifting
of your voice, and 1 believe we can,
through Christ's grace, sing fifty thousand
souls into the kingdom of Christ. An ar
gument they ran laugh at, a uernion t hcy
may talk flown, but a vast audience join
ing in oue anthem is irresistible. Would
that Queen Balkis would drive all ' her.
spice laden dromedaries into onr church
music. "Neither was there any ouch spice
as the Queen of Sheba gave King Solo
mon." Now, 1 want to impress this audience
f with the fact that religion is sweetness and
perfume and spikenard and saffron and
cinnamon' and eiuau, and frankincense,
and all sweet spicesfgether. "ph." you
say, "I have not looked at it as such. I
thought it was a nuisance; it had for me a
repalsion; I held my breath as though it
were malodor; I have been appalled at its
advance; I have said, If I have any religion
at all, I want to have just as little of it as
is possible to get through with." Oh, what
a mistake you have made, my brother. The
religion of Christ is a present and everlast
ing redolence. It counteracts all trouble.
Just put it on the stand beside the pillow
of sickness. It catches in the curtains and
perfumes the stifling air. It sweetens the
cup of bitter medicine, and throws a glow
on the doom of the turned lattice. It is a
balm for the aching side, and a soft ban-
dage for the temple stung with pain.
It lifted Samuel Rutherford into a rev
elry of spiritual delight while he was in
physical agonies. It helped Richard Bax
ter until, in the midst of such a complica
tion of diseases as perhaps no other man
ever suffered, he wrote "The Saint's Ever
lasting Rest." And it poured light upon
John Bunyan's dungeon the light of the
shining gate of the shining city. And it is
good for rheumatism, and for neuralgia,
and for low spirits, and for consumption;
it is the catboiicon for all disorders. Yes,
it will heal all your sorrows.
ALL HAVE HAD BORROW.
Why did you look so sad today when
yon came in? Alas! for the loneliness and
the heartbreak, and the load that is never
lifted from your souL Some of you go
about feeling like Macaulay when he wrote,
"If I had another month of such days aa
I have been spending, I would be impa
tient to get down into my little narrow
crib in the ground like a weary factory
child." And there have been times in
your life when you wished you could get
out of this life. You have said, "Oh, how
sweet to my lips would be the dust of the
valley," and wished you could pull over
you in your last slumber the coverlet of
green grass and daisies. You have said:
"Oh, how beautifully quiet it must be in
the tomb. I wish I was there." I see all
around about me widowhood and orphan
age and childlessness; sadness, disappoint
ment, perplexity. If I could ask all those
to rise in this audience who have felt no
sorrow and been buffeted by no disap
pointment if I could ask all such to rise,
how many would rise? Not one.
A widowed mother with her little child
went west, hoping to get better wages
there, and she was taken sick and died.
The overseer of the poor got her body and
put it in a box, and put it in a wagon, and
started down the street toward the ceme
tery at full trot. The little child the only
child ran after it through the streets,
bare headed, crying, "Bring me back my
mother! bring me back my mother!" And"
it was said that as the people looked on
and saw her crying after that which lay in
the box in the wagon all she loved on
earth it is said the whole village was in
tears. And that is what a great many of
you are doing chasing the dead. Dear
Lord, is there no appeasement for all this sor
row that I see about me? Yes, the thought
of resurrection and reunion far beyond
this scene of struggle and tears. "They
shall hunger no more, neither thirst any
more, neither shall the sun light on them,
nor any heat; for the Lamb which is in the
midst of the throne shall lead t'uem to liv
ing fountains of water, and God shall wipe
away all tears from their eyes."
Across the couches of your sick and
across the graves of your dead I fling this
shower of sweet spices. Queen Balkis,
driving np to the pillared portico of the
house of cedar, carried no such pungency
of perfume as exhales today from the
Lord's garden. It is peace. - It is sweet
ness. It is comfort. It is infinite satisfac
tion, this Gospel I commend to you. Some
one could not understand why au old Ger
man Christian scholar used to be always so
calm and happy and hopeful when he
had so many trials and sicknesses and ail-
ments. A man secreted himself in the
house. He said, "I mean to watch this old
scholar and Christian;" and he saw the old
Christian man go to his room and sit down
on the chair beside the stand and open the
Bible and begin to read. He read on and
on, chapter after chapter, hour after hour,
until his face was all aglow with the tid
ings from heaven, and when the clock
struck twelve he arose and shnt his Bible,
and said: "Blessed Lord, we are on the
tame old terms- yet. Good night. Good
night."
Oh, you sin parched aud you trouble
pounded, here is comfort, here is satisfac
tion. Will you come and get it? I cannot
tell you what the Lord offers you hereafter
so well as I can tell you now. "It doth not
yet appear what we Bhall be." Have you
read of the Taj Mahal in India, in some
respects the most majestic building on
earth? Twenty thousand men were twenty
years in building it. It cost about sixteen
millions of. dollars. The walls are of mar
ble, inlaid with carnelian from Bagdad,
and tnrquois from Thibet, and jasper
from the Punjaub, and amethyst from
Persia, and all manner of precious stones.
A traveler says that it seems to him like
the shining of an enchanted castle of bur
nished silver. The walls are two hundred
and forty-five feet high, and from the top
of these springs a dome thirty more feet
high, that dome containing the most won
derful echo the world has ever known, so
that ever and anon travelers standing be
low with flutes and drums and harps are
testing that echo, and the sounds from be
low strike up, and then come down, as it
were, the voices of angels all around about
the building. ' There is around it a garden
of tamarind and banyan and palm and all
the floral glories of the ransacked earth.
But that is only a tomb of a dead em
press, and it is tame compared with the
grandeurs which God has builded for your
living and immortal spirit. Oh, home of
the blessed) Foundations of gold! Arches
of victory I Capstones of praise! And
dome in which there are echoing and re
echoing the hallelujahs of the ages. And
around about that mansion is a garden
the garden of God and all the springing
fountains are the bottled tears of thechurcb
in the wilderness, and all the crimson of
flowers is the deep hue that was caught np
from the carnage of earthly martyrdoms,
and the fragrance is the prayer of all the
saints, and the aroma pats into utter for
getfulness the cassia, and the spikenard,
and the frankincense, and the world re
nowned spices which the Queen Balkis, of
Abyssinia, flung at the feet of King Solo
mon. When shall these eyes thy heaven built walls
And pearly gates behold,
Thy bulwarks, with salvation strong.
And streets of shining gold?
Through obduracy on our part, and
through the rejection of that Christ who
makes heaven possible, I wonder if any of
us will miss that spectacle? I fearl I fearl
The queen of the south will rise up in judg
ment against this generation and condemn
it, because she came from the uttermost
parts of the earth to bear the wisdom of
Solomon, and behold, a greater than Solo
mon is beret May God grant that through
your own practical experience you may find
that religion s ways are ways of pleasant
ness, and that all her paths are paths of
peace that it is perfume now and perfume
forever. And there was an abundance of
spice; neither was there any such spice as
the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon."
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