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FRIDAY,
JULY 3, im
LOCAX AK1 FlksOSAL. .
' James Brown of Moeier, paid this of
fice a pleasant visit Friday.
Mr. S. B. Hosbanda, W. T. McClare
- and Amoa Boot of Moeier, were in. the
city Friday.
We are informed that Mr. Connelly
from Crook county sold his clip of wool
Thursday for 173 cents a pound.
Governor Pennoyer has been selected
to address the Tammany Society of New
York on the Fourth of July.
The wool crop in eastern Oregon is
" 1,000,000 pounds this year in excess of
any former year, ' and da of superior
quality.
George 'Miller ' has returned from
Klickitat. He says that the yield in
that yalley will exceed that of last year
, by as much -again.
The Klickitat Leader says that over in
his country the faces of the farmers have
- so shortened since the late rains that
barbers have reduced the price of efbav-
ing to fifteen cents.
-J Tom Sullivan, who works in Payette's
blacksmith shop, at the Eaat.End, while
shoeing a vicious horse Friday, morning,
was kicked in the face by the animal,
thereby' losing- five of his front teeth.
Supplemental articles of incorporation
Wr& filed - in thtf iffice of ' the county
clerk Friday of the Eastern Oregon Co
" bperatlvw Association 'givlnfc power to
.that institution to increase its capital
. stock from $4,000 to $2U,000.
. . Rev. Jno. W. Scott the father of Mrs.
President Harrison is now visiting his
son Hon. Jno. N. Scott of Port Town send,
' Wash.-4-Mr. -Scott is now in his 92d
year, having been born in Beaver county
Pennsylvania, on the 22dof January,
1800. t
' ! TJia prolific character of quail may be
fcJl 11,1 1. UCU" W I) U lll.llll'll.
is on a visit to The Dalles, a guest
Rev. O. D. Taylor. -
Bev. O. D. Taylor and wife returned
from the east where they have been for
the past four months.
The boiler and engines for the Regula
tor came up on yesterday's freight train
and will be put on board immediately,
Mr. Enfield Farris, of Wapinitia, and
his sister went up the road Saturday to be
present at the funeral of Mrs. Farris at
Yakima.
Louis Paquet went to Portland Sat'
urday to hurry up the machinery for the
"Bezulator." He will be back here
tomorrow night.
We acknowledge a pleasant call, today
from Mr. Ellsworth Lentz of the Baker
City -Democrat and Mr. Jones of the
Wasco Observer.
Mr. P. T. Sham. Monday, left at
this office eighteen ears of Little Club
wheat, in which the grain is in the stiff
dough. The eighteen ears weighed two
dram's over a quarter of a pound.
Mr. Arthur Dowler. of Beardstown,
111., is in the city and is the guest of
Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Brooks. Mr. Dowler
is well pleased with the city, and thinks
there is a great outcome to this county,
Mr. John Irvine of Chenoweth creek
near . this city has, an apple tree of the
Red Astrachifn variety that was set out
in the spring of- 1836, which measures
six feet and three inches in circu infer
ence.i This . tree is . belfeveiL to be the
largest apple tree of itse in Yfte West.
rwri 1 l - o ' J
w no nas a larger one i
The Chronicle office is indebted to
Mr.. Henry .Hudson of Dufur for. the
present of a twenty pound box of rich,
ripe, luscious black cherries, which have
afforded the whole, staff from the devil
down to the editor, a right royal feast ;
partaken of with the earnest grace that
the shadow of the giver may never grow
less.
A very pleasant and successful enter-
eatnerecl irom tne tact taat me wruer
has aiemale quail in-iis possession that taininent wat given last Saturday night
laid yesterday, the last of 33 eggs since j,, ESeht Mile school-house. It was
the.contffienoement ol -tne -present sea
son and does not seem to have any in
Ji.i "'tentiOT'oftaytogTjuits.
'., -The1 Portland: Telegram is the authority
foi1 the sUtement that Washington's ex
hibit to the world's fair will be carried
-to Chicago freeof charge. The Northern
Paciflo is going to do the jwork and it is
" believed "that if will be a saving to the
under the auspices of the Eight Mile
Club at the close of the school term, and
was heartily, entered into by the people
who were determined ' to have a good.
pleasant time. As a proof that they
were successful we may mention that the
programme was not ended till two
o'clock Sunday morning and yet
the interest and enjoyment of the
" stateof $20,000 which can-be spent on. audience remained Jinflagged until the
increasing-the --extent-of the exhibit,
How much will the Union Pacific do for
Oregon in the same line? , ' t
' All the rails and ties for the portage
road at the Cascades are on the ground
or to arrive this week. Work is being
"'pushed on the bridge' work and inclines adopted by the deligates present : "Re-
- -'AB 'laBt as rjossi ble. under tne -present solved, that we demand of tne next. !pt
islature a law cre-tlll precinct asses
close. : The house was more than
crowded, and all went iome delighted
and pleased.
The county alliance of Lane county
met last week at Eugene City. The fol
lowing resolutions were - unanimously
rmtonipngrg-atafia'aT,arRTPotiii uirt'irer
grounds of Mr. Irvine, about two miles
west of town. The encampment gronuds
1st
W.
L. D. Sheets ; 1st
2nd Lieut., A. S.
sors, saulhat all property be listed for
assessment on a certain day ; that the
present railroad commission be abolished
and that in its stead a maximum rate
will be established, and that the legal
rate ol interest be reduced to six per
cent., and that the national government
pass a law that will enable the peopl
to borrow money at two per cent, on the
sub-treasury plan or on approved secur
ity.
The funeral of the late Jos. E.Atwater
took place from the family residence at
two o'clock p. m. Sunday. Rev. W
state of -the, river. , Mr Farley, superin
'. pendent of construction, is in the east,
purchasing the rolling stock and every
thing indicates that all wilLbe in readi
' neas to move the coming crop.
,Tse friends of Mr. Jack Anderson will
b sorry to hear ot the" bad luck which
. : befell him, as related by: the Klickitat
Leaders - "
Mr. ' Anderson, from ' Oregon; who
passed through this county last week
i with 10,00ft-head, of fine mutton sheep
. vs j foe the boundjnarket met with quite a
' misfortune at the head of Bowman creek.
There was si small canyon ahead of the
band which the herders did not see, and
L ; when the-' front sljeep came to it the rear C. Curtis conducted the ceremony which
ones pushed m aheadntU there was wag opened by a quartette choir, singing
P. AvinrT leaders. r-fThe rest oG the band th hymn ,,Kestw Brother, Rest." Mr.
' passed" over and when the herders ar-1 Curtis then made some very appropriate
nved- -they found 360 dead and ' dying I remarks, which were followed by the
.heep., : -.j . choir's singing the anthem, "He Giveth
A telegram came to this city JFri- His - Beloved Sleep." . Mr. Curtis then
day ! to the friends of Mr. f John Far- led in prayer and at its conclusion
a ris, late of Wapinitia but now of -Yakima Hon. W. Lair Hill, in harmony with an
City! Informing' them that "his wife had agreement entered into with the deceased
suddenly died at that place last night. 1 some time ago, delivered an address.
. JtofErth.ei particulars are given, but her These remarks were reported stenograph
death must nave been very sudden as lically for the Chboxiclk, but in deference
letters were received from Mr. Farris a I to the wishes of Mr. Hill, who desires to
i iewjdays iago and thte fM no; allusion look them over, before publication, we
w to" her belnjfr'ill."- Mrs. 'Farris was the shall defer their publication till to-mor
.idaughtern-law of r Mr. James Farris -of (row
iuj cuv. dub leavtm a uuiusou nnu
fivenildreh to 1 mount- her loss.- She
. . -was an .excellent, affectionate, tender,
gloving WifeTand-mgther, and r her be-
reaved husband and children have the
heartfelt sympathy of all who! know
them.
.'is lTS. B.rngalls purser, 'on, the Lurline
told a story the other day to W. T. Mc
. Clure of Meeierj in order to illustrate the
difference between Eastern and Western
1 JLV I J 0egOUjV which is wll iworth -relating.
About two years ago an old lady Of Mr.
s r In jail's acquaintance got on -his boat-at
tne Vascaaes on ner way to tne vauey
Ingalls hailed-her with "Hello I Mrs,
v r Blank where are yon .going?" "Going
- down to-wash ray-elothes,' she replied.
W lfave to atet in Eastern Oregon.'
AboUtthree weeks later Mrs. Blank was
A very quiet and pleasing little wed
ding ceremony was performed at Dufur
yesterday afternoon at five o'clock, when
Rev. T. W. Atkinson pronounced Mr,
C. P.- Balch.-the gentlemanly and genial
Dufur druggist and Miss Lois Dufur, the
charming daughter of Mr. A. J. Dufnr
junior, man and wife. The ceremony.
las well as the wedding supper, was held
at the residence of the bride's parents.
after which ' the -bridegroom took his
bride to the new .-.home, a charming
little cottage in the town of Dufur.' which
Mr.. Balch had built and furnished with
I every modern convenience and necessasy
comfort against the' important event.
I The marriage itself is the fruit of an ac
quaintance extending over the years in-
tervening since 1883, when Mr. . Balch
came to the Dufnr neighborhood from
ipin; a passenr on Ward the Lurline I the place of his birth in New.' London,
' coming back. ln galls again accosted Wisconsin, and Mrs; Balch was not yet
her with "Hello ! Are you going back?" I in her teens. Few young couples have
ic Vim xepued the old lady, "I have got ever started m hfe with brighter pros
. my washing done and am going-back j pects, and fewer still have had so many
east of the mountains - to ' dry my 1 wishes from a large circle of friends and
, clothes'." " .acquaintances for a happy and pros per
Hon. Joseph E. At water, of this city. oua married life, and in these wishes, no
vdied at his residence yesterday evening, one enters more sincerely and heartily
.-,altB a lingering illness extending over than does the . editor of The Dalles
"j - . - w. tf .a u 104.
. JSon Scotia 54 years ago last month,
When, a mere boy he removed to the
United SUtee. - He was educated at the
Cbbokiclk.
Too Many Mechanics for Portland,
President O'Brien of the Federated
Trades has said: "While there is a
Lawrence University Wisconsin, and great deal of work going on in Portland,
after leaving college, engaged in the the supply of labor exceeds the demand
- 'i tBTikW bninM t rjaw-n . wi- ftna iere is danger in tne continued m-
r -; . ... ' - ' rease. - Times seem to be dull up in
consul, in partnership with G. W. Peck Washington.-jmd hundreds of mechanics
of the Milwaukee Stin. During the h-.te are pouring into Portland. But for the
During the b-.te
war of taeTebellion he entered the army,
inclemency of the weather a great deal
r a member of the First Wisconsin cavalry TL w,tJ , . -Ia 7 7
a - , ,, , , v.ujr i an(j hundreds of men furnished employ-
BCXfOU WIUJ UlBUllCUUn lOr WO mnnl HniEAiwr when nrnrlr a MBnmoH
' and
years. He entered as -first lieutenant
and was mustered out with the commis-
- sion of captain. : At the close of the war
be commenced the .study of law at La
Crowe) Wfeeonsin,".. which j .he" labee--quently
" made his" life profession. "He"
took up his residence in The-Dalles in
the spring of 1877 , and ': has since made
on the city ball, the Bull Run water
line, the Union depot and numerous
other public and private improvements,
incident to the consolidation of - the
cities, there will- be work for all, and
thousands' of-dollars will be put into
circulation. What" the Federation
Trades .want is for the board of immi
gration to publish articles to attract
capital to the Nehalem country, Astoria,
this city his home... . He was a man. of Cooa Bay country. Yaauina bav. Sius-
fine intellectual and legal ability and of taw 001111 try. Tillamook country, and the
gon are susceptible of wonderful develop
ment, ana once tney oegin to grow the
enure state won id -De benented. It will
not do to bring in too many laborers
nere unless tnere is capital to furnish
employment ror tnem."
f generous and kihdly .- Impulses, f He
-leaves a ; ' wife - and - two f daughters.
The 'funeral will -take - place from
the family residence on Third street,
at two o clock next Sunday afternoon.
' According to an arrangement entered
into between himself and the Hon. W.
Lair Hill, it falls to the lot of the latter
to pronounce a eulogy over the remains.
BORN.
On Five Mile creek, June 26, 1891, to
the wife of J. L. Hayes, a son.
are fine, being a freshly mown meadow,
and the city of tents with its regular
streets and blocks, is as pretty as possi
ble, though the present warm spell is
causing the soldier boys to think they
are in active service.
Adjutant General Schoefner arrived on
the train at 3 o'clock this morning, re
maining with the regiment all day.
There are nine companies in camp,
and number about 430 officers and men
The following is a list of officers pres
ent: Col., T. A. Houghton ; Lieut.-Col.,
G. T. Thompson ; Major, J. P. Lucas ;
Surgeon, O. C. Hollister; Adjutant, J.
F. Ha worth ; 1st Lieut, and R. Q. M., J.
N. Patterson ; Engineer, R. II. Norton.
A Company Capt., A. Keller; 1st
Lieut., D. Bunnell ; 2nd Lieut., H. H.
Cam pell.
B company. Capt., J.' D. Israel; 1st
Lieut., M. A. Baker; 2d Lieut,, 8. S.
Shields.
C. company Captain, Levi Chrisman ;
1st Lieut., Chancey Moore; 2nd Lieut.,
Jos. Worsley.
D. company Capt. A. S. Blowers ; 1st
Lieut., A. Winans; 2nd Lieut., L. N.
Blowers.
E. company Capt., B. Goffney ;
Lieut, H. S. Goddont : 2nd Lieut.,
W. Hoover.
F. company Capt.,
Lieut., W. S. Bowers ;
Shockley.
H. company Capt., W. L. Wilcox;
1st Lieut., H. R. Frazier ; 2nd Lieut., H.
Holstead.
I company Capt., F. M. McCully;
1st Lieut., J. A. Rumble ; 2nd Lieut., J.
A. French.
K company- Capt., J. C. Henry; 1st
Lieut.,' Wm.' F. Snodgrass; 2d Lieut.,
J.W.Baker.
The following general order has been
issued:" " ' -
I. The camp of this regiment will be
designated Camp Chenowith.
IX. Detail for field court during this
encampment, Lieut.-Col. Geo. T. Thomp
son.
HI. All absentees from the different
roll calls ol this encampment, without
leave, will be compelled to appear be
fore the court and will be fined or pun
ished as the court may direct.
XV. The following routine of duty is
promulgated for the observance and
guidance of this regiment during the
encampment :
first call assembly of trumpet
ers 4:j a. m.
Reveille 5:00 "
Assembly (roll call and sitting
up drill S:2U "
Recall 6:00 "
Mess call 6:05 "
Sick call." 7:00 "
Fatigue (policing quarters). . . .7 :15 "
First call for drill 7:20 "
Drill call -. . -.."7:30 "
Recall..: , ' ..8:15 "
First eal assembly guard de-
tail 1.8:30 "
Adjutant's call (guard mount. 8 :45 "
Assembly of trumpeters 9:35 "
Assembly (company drill) 9 :45 "
Recall 11:15 "
First sergeant's call 11:30 "
Mess call. 12:00 m.
First call assembly. 1:15 p. m
Adjutant's call battalion dnil 1 :3U
Recall 3:00
Mess call 6:00
Fatigue (policing camp) 6:45
First call assembly dress par
ade 6:50
Adjutant's call 7:10
Retreat 7 :30
First call assembly of trump
eters 8:00
Tattoo 8:30
Assembly roll call 8 45
Taps..: 9:30
It will be seen from this that the boys
are to have plenty to do, and by the
time the encampment breaks up they
will imagine they have been on a six
months' campaign. The companies
present a fine appearance, and in a day
or two will go through battalion drill in
fine shape. Up to date they have only
fairly gotten into camp so that no very
extended comment can be made. The
Dalles is glad to have them here, and
will show her appreciation' by crowding
the grounds and visiting Camp Cheno
with every cay of tne encampment,
IMU HLouoIf la ths Chief Insttgmtor of
til Oontrorany Now Raring la Many
. Caarehaa, and Karnost Work for Cbrlat
la thM Bomody.
.Died.
Very .. suddenly Monday about 5
o'clock the infant son of Mr. and Mrs,
Frank Menefee, aged about eight months.
The. child had been sick as children
usually are while teething, and after
midnight Mr. Menefee becoming alarm
ed, came down for a physician, just be
fore he "returned, the child was dead,
The mother is perfectly prostrated with
grief; and she and her husband have the
sympathy of the whole community.
At Dufur, at three o'clock Sunday
morning, after a short illness, Essie, the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Thomas,
aged seven years. . Little Essie was an
unusually winsome, affectionate and in
telligent child and was very much be
loved by all who knew her. The
bereaved parents have the heartfelt sym
pathy of the whole community.
At the residence of his son C. W.
Haight of Cow Canyon, this county, on
Saturday last, A. J. Haight, aged 83
years.
Advertised Letter.
The following is the list of letters re
maining in The Dalles pbstoffice uncalled
for Friday, June 26, 1891. Persons call
ing for these letters will please give the
date on which they were advertised :
Barnhart G W
Burdette Robert
Cosper O J
rchhowe George
Elkins Jack ,
Hogan E S
Halse Reed
Johnson A J
Little John
Mines John
Peaterson Jos
Reed Mrs OB
Stone Mrs V S
Snilor Mrs R
Smith Edd
Finlayson Mrs Margaret,
Packages,
Belcher Miss Annie
Bye LB
Dunlap R C
. Ebert Henrye
:, Falioner Daniel
Hubbard C L
Jackson Miss Beryl
- Ruhne Herman .
. Madron D
McGrath Miss Mary
Katzian uernard
Ruggles Mr
Stone Mrs S H
Smith E C
Smith Anders
Blein J W
Hall A W Mrs
OLeary Kate
M. T. Nolan, P.
M.
Real Estate Transactions.
The Dalles Land and Improvement
Company to Lucy A. Brown, lot 6 in
block 13, of Thompson's addition to
Dalles City. Consideration, $100.
Mary L. Booth et. al. to Emil Schano,
. of lot 3 in block 5, Biglow's addi
tion to - Dalles City. Consideration,
$7000. ,
Mr. Taylor Hill, of Crook county,
brother of Hon. Lair Hill, is in the city.
Probably 200,000 pounds of wool
changed hands yesterday, at prices rang
ing from 17 to 17 cents. - j
Bbookxtx, June 14. Dr. Ta Image dealt
In his sermon this morning with the very
timely topic the Battle of Creeds. After
so long and exhaustive. a discussion in
clerical circles and in the secular press
there seemed nothing more to be said on
the subject. Dr. Talmage, however, has
his own way of looking at all subjects, and
even people who thought they knew all
that could be said on both sides received
light from the fresh and original contribu
tion which he made to the controversy.
His text was taken from Proverbs xxvi, 17,
"He that passeth by and meddleth with
strife belonging not to him is like one that
taketh a dog by the ears."
Solomon here deplores the habit of rush
ing in between contestants; of taking part
in the antagonisms of others; of joining in
fights which they ought to shun. They do
no good to others and get damage for them
selves. He compares it to the experiment
of taking a dog by the ears. Nothing so
irritates the canines as to be clutched by
the lugs. Take them by the back, of the
neck and lift them and it does not seem to
hurt or offend; but you take the dog by
the ear, and he will take you with his teeth.
In all the history of kennels no intelligent
or spirited dog will stand that. "Now,''
says Solomon, "you go into quarrels or
controversies that are not yours and you
will get lacerated and torn and bitten.
'He that passeth by and meddleth with
strife belonging not to him is like one that
taketh a dog by the ears.' "
THIS IS THE AGE OV CONTBOVER8T.
This is a time of resounding ecclesiastic
al quarrel. Never within your memory or
mine has the air been so full of missiles.
The Presbyterian church has on hand a
controversy so great that it finds it pru
dent to postpone its settlement for at least
one more year, hoping that something wUl
turn up. Somebody might die or a new
general . assembly may have grace to han
dle the exciting questions. The Episcopal
church has cast out some recalcitrants, and
its digestive organs are taxed to the ut
most in trying to assimilate others. "Shall
women preach?" "Or be sent as delegates
to conferences? are questions that have
pat many of our Methodist brethren on the
anxious seat.' And the waters in some
of the great baptistries are troubled wa
ters. Because of the controversies through
out Christendom the air is now like an
August afternoon about 5 o'clock, when it
has been steaming hot all day, and clouds
are gathering, and there are lions of thun
der with grumbling voices and flashing
eyes coming forth from their cloudy lairs,
and people are waiting for the full burst of
the tempest. 1 am not much of a weather
prophet, but the clouds look to me mostly
like wind clouds. It may be a big blow,
bnt I hope it will soon be over. In regard
to the Battle of the Creeds, I am every day
asked what I think about it. I want to
make it so plain this morning what I think
that no one will ever ask again.
Let those who are jurymen in the case
I mean those who in the different ecclesi
astical courts have the questions put di
rectly before them weigh and decide. Let
the rest of us keep out The most dam
aging thing on earth is religious contro
versy. No one "r nes out of it as good
a Euui d ne goes in. Some of the ministers
in all denominations who before the pres
ent acerbity were good and kind and use
ful, now seem almost swearing mad.
These brethren I notice always open their
Violent meetings with prayer before de
vouring each other, thus saying grace be
1 fore meat. They have a moral hydropho
bia that makes as think they have taken a
dog by the ears. They never read the im
precatory PBalms of David with such sest
as since the Bnggs and Newton and Mac-
Queary and Bridgman and Brooks ques
tions got into full swing. May the rams of
the sheepfold soon have their horns sawed
oil! Before the controversies are settled
good many ministers will, through what
they call liberalism, be landed into prac
tical infidelity, and others through what
they call conservatism will shrink up into
bigots tight and hard as the mummies
Eoypt which got through their contro
versies three thousand years ago.
SATAN STXBBEO IT UP.
: This trouble throughout Christendom
was directly inspired by Satan. He saw
that too much good was being done. Re
cruits were being gathered by hundreds of
thousands to the Gospel standard. The
victories for God and the truth were too
near together. Too many churches were
being dedicated. Too many ministers were
being ordained. Too many philanthropies
were being fostered. Too . many souls
were being saved. It had been a dull time
In the nether world, and the arrivals were
too few. So Satan one day rose upon his
throne and said, "Ye powers of darkness,
hearl" And all up and down the caverns
the cry was, "Hearl Hearl" Satan said:
"There is that American Board of Com
missioners for Foreign Missions. It must
either be -demolished or crippled, or the
first thing you know they will have all
nations brought to God. Apollyon the
Younger! Ton go up to Andover and get
the professors to discussing whether the
heathen can be saved without the uospei.
Divert them from the work of missions
and get them in angry convention in
room at Young's hotel, Boston, and by the
time they adjourn the cause of foreign
missions will be gloriously and magnifi
cently injured. . Diabolus the Younger)
You go up and get Union Theological
Seminary of New York and the general
assembly of the Presbyterian church at
Detroit at swords' points and diverted from
the work of making earnest ministers of
religion, and turn that old Presbyterian
church, which has been keeping us out of
customers for-, hundreds of years, into
splendid pandemonium on a small scale.
Abaddon the Third! You go up and as
sault that old Episcopal church, which has
been storming the heavens for centuries
with the sublimest prayers that were ever
uttered church of Bishop Leighton, Bish
op White and Bishop Mcllvaine, and get
that denomination discussing men instead
of discussing the eternities, i Abaddon the
Fourth! , -You go up to that old Methodist
church, which , has, through her revivals,
sent millions to heaven which we would
otherwise have added to our population;
the church of Wesley and Matthew Simp
son, against which we have an especial
grudge, and get them bo absorbed in dis
cussing whether women shall take part in
her conference that they shall not have so
much time to discuss how many sons and
daughters she will take to glory."
What amazes me most is that ail people
do not see that the entire movement at this
time all over Christendom is satanic. Many
of the infernal attacks are sly and bidden
and strategic and so ingenious that they
are not easily- discovered. But here is a
bold and uncovered attempt of the powei-n
or darkness to split up the churches, to gel
ministers to take each other by the throat.
to make religion a laughing stock of earth
ana nell, to leave the .Bible with no more
respect or authenticity than an old almanac
of 1823. which told what would be the
change of weather six months ahead and
in what quarter of the month it is best to
plant turnips. In a word, the effort is to
stop the evangelization of the world. It
seems to me very much like this: There
has been a railroad accident and many are
wounded and dying. There are several
drag stores near the scene of casualty. All
the doctors and druggists are needed and
needed right away. Bandages, stimulants,
anaesthetics, medicines of all sorts. What
are the doctors and druggists doing? Dis
cussing the contents of some old bottles on
the top shelf, bottles of medicine which
some doctors and druggists mixed two or
three hundred years ago. "Come doctors!''
"Come druggists!" cry the people, "and
help these wounded and dying that are
being brought from beneath the timbers of
the crushed rail train. In a little while it
will be too late. Come for God's sake!
Come right awayl" "No," says the doctor,
"not until we have settled whether the
medicine on that top shelf was rightly
mixed. I say there were too many drops
of laudanum in ft, and this other man says
there were too many drops of camphire,
and we must get this question settled be-j
tore we can attend to the railroad accident." J
1 "annua.' muu irmiLT'liu" iuu"lon ei'' aue.i,1
plainly marked and within easy reach are
all the medicines needed for the helping of
the sufferers by the accident, and in that
drawer, easily opened, are bandages and
splints for the lack of which fifty people
are dying outside the drug store. Before I
apply this thought every one sees its appli
cation. Here is this old world, and it is off
track. Sin and sorrow have collided with
it. The groan of agony is fourteen hun
dred million voiced. God has opened for
relief and cure a great sanitarium, a great
house of mercy, and all its shelves are
filled with balsams, with catholicons, with
help glorious help, tremendous help, help
so easily administered that yon need not
get upon any Rtep ladder to reach it. You
can reach it on your knees and then hand
it to all the suffering, and the sinning, and
the dying Comfort for all the troubled!
Pardon for all the guilty! Peace for all
the dying! But while the world is needing
the rehef and perishing for lack of it, what
of the church? 'Why, it is full of fighting
doctors. On the top shelf are some old
bottles, which several hundred years ago
Calvin or Arminius, or tbe members of the
synod of Dort, or the formers of the Nicene
creed filled with holy mixtures, and until
we get a revision of these old bottles and
find out whether we must take a teaspoon-
ful or tablespoonful, and whether before
or after meals, let the nations. suffer and
groan and die. Save the bottles by all
means, if you cannot save anything else.
Now, what part shall you and I take in
this controversy which fills all Christen
dom with clangor? My advice is, take no
part. In time of riot all mayors of cities
advise good citizens to stay at home or in
their places of business, and in this time of
religious riot I advise you to go about your
regular work for God. lueave the bottles
on the higher shelves for others to fight
about, and take the two bottles on the shelf
within easy reach, the two bottles which
are all this dying world needs; the one
filled With a potion which is for the cleans
ing of all sin, the other filled with a po
tion which is for the soothing of all suffer
ing. Two gospel bottles! Christ mixed
them out of his own tears and blood. In
them is no human admixture. Spend no
time on the mysteries! You, a man only
five or six feet high, ought not try to wade
an ocean a thousand feet deep My own
experience has been vivid. I devoted the
most of my time for years in trying to un
derstand God's eternal decrees, and I was
determined to find out why the Lord let
sin come into the world, and I set out to
explore the doctrine of the Trinity, and
with a yardstick to measure the throne of
the Infinite. As with all my predecessors,
the attempt was a dead failure. For the
last thirty years I have not spent two
minutes in studying the controverted
points of theology, and if I live thirty
years longer I will not spend the thousandth
part of a second in such exploration. I
know two things, and these I will devote
all the years of my life in proclaiming-
God will through Jesus Christ pardon sin,
and he will comfort trouble.'
KEEP OUT OF THE SQUABBLE.
Creeds have their uses, but just now the
church is creeded to death. The young
men entering the ministry are going to be
launched In tbe thickest fog that ever set
tled on the coasts. As I am told that in all
our services students of Princeton and Un
ion an, Drew and other theological semi
naries are present, and as these words will
come to thousands of young men who are
soon to enter tbe ministry, let me say to
such and through them to their associates.
keep out of the bewildering, belittling, de
stroying and angry controversies abroad.
The questions our doctors of divinity are
trying to settle will not be settled until the
day after the day of judgment. It is such
a poor economy of time to spend years and
years in trying to fathom the unxathoma
ble, when in five minutes in heaven we will
know all we want to know. . Walt till we
get our throne. Wait until the light of
eternity flashes upon our newly ascended
spirits. It is useless for ants on different
aides of a mole hill to try to discuss the com
pare' ive heights of Mount Blanc and Mount
Washington. Let me say to all young men
about to enter the ministry that soon the
greatest novelty in the world will be the
unadulterated religion of Jesus Christ.
Preach that and yon will have a crowd.
The world is sick to regurgitation with the
modern quacks in religion. The world has
been swinging off from the old Gospel, but
it will swing back, and by the time you
young men go into the pulpits the cry will
be coming up from all the millions of man
kind, "Give us tbe bread of life; no sweet
ened bread, no bread with sickly raisins
stuck here and there into it, bnt old fash
ioned bread as God our mother mixed It
and baked itl"
You see, God knew as much when he
made the Bible as he knows now. He has
not learned a single thing in six thousand
years. He knew at the start .that the hu
man race would go wrong and what would
be the best means of its restoration and re
demption. And the law which was thun
dered on Mount Sinai, from whose top I
had the two tables of stone in yonder wall
transported, is the perfect law. And the
Gospel which Christ announced while dy
ing on that mount from which I brought
that stone in yonder wall, and which Paul
preached on that hill from which I brought
yonder granite. Is the Gospel that is going
to save the world. Young man, pnt on
that Gospel armor! No other sword will
triumph Kke that. No other shield will
protect like thai;. No other helmet will
glance off the battle axes like that. Our
theological seminaries are doing glorious
work, but if ever sncb theological semina
ries shall cease to prepare young men for
this plain Gospel advocacy and shall be
come mere philosophical schools for guess
lng about God and guessing about the
Bible and guessing about the souL they
will cease their usefnlness, and young
men, as in olden time, when they would
study for the Gospel ministry, will put
themselves under the care of some intelli
gent and warm hearted pastor and kneel
with him in family prayer at the parson
age, and go with him into the room of the
sick and the dying, and see what victories
the grace of God can gain when the couch
of the dying saint is the marathon.
VITAL RELIGION IS THE REMEDY.
That is the way the mighty ministers of
the Gospel were made in olden times. Oh,
for a great wave of revival to roll over our
theological seminaries and our pulpits and
our cnurcnes ana our ecclesiastical courts,
and over all Christendom! That would be
the end of controversy. While snch a del
uge would float the ark of God higher and
higher, It would put all the bears and
tigers and reptiles of raging eccleslastidsm
fifteen cubits under.
Now, what is the simple fact that you in
the pew and Sabbath school class and re
formatory association and we in the pul
pits have to deal with? It is this: That God
has somewhere,- and it matters not where,
but somewhere, provided a great heaven,
great for quietness for those who want
quiet; great for vast assemblage for those
who like multitudes; great for architecture
for those who like architecture: great for
beautiful landscape for those who like
beautiful landscape; great for music for
those who like music; great for processions
for those who like armies on white horses.
and great for anything that one especially
desires in such aVapturous domiuion; and"
through the doings of one who was born
about five miles south of Jerusalem and
died about ten minutes' walk from its east
ern gate all may enter that great heaven
for the earnest and heartfelt asking. Is
that all? That is all. What, then, is your
work and mine? Our work is to persuade
people to face that way and start thither
ward and finally go in. But has not reli
gion something to do with this world us
well as tbe next? Oh, yes; but do you not
that if the people start for heaven on
their way there they will dd all the good
they can? They will at the very start of
the journey get so much of the spirit of
Christ, which is a spirit of kindness and
self sacrifice and generosity and burden
bearing and helpfulness, that every step
they take will resound with good deeds.
Oh, get your religion off of stilts! Get it
down out of the high towers! Get it on a
level with the wants and woes of our poor
human race! Get it out of the dusty t Ideo
logical books that few people read, and put
it in their hearts and lives. Good thing is
it to profess religion when you join the
patchwork quilt she sent! On every block
of the quilt was a passage of Scripture or a
verse of a hymn. The months and years of
the war went by. On that quilt many a
wounded man had lain and suffered and
died. But one morning the hospital nurse
saw a patient under that blanket kissing
tbe figure of a leaf in the quilt, and the
nurse supposed he was only wandering In
his mind. But no; he was the son of the
mother who had made the quilt and he
recognized that figure of a leaf as part of a
gown his mother used to wear, and it re
minded him of home. "Do you know where
this quilt came from?" he asked. The nurse
answered, "I can find out, for there was a
card pinned fast to it, and I will find that."
Sure enough, it confirmed what he thought.
Then the nurse pointed' to a passage of
Scripture in the block of the quilt, the
passage which says, "When he was yet a
great way off his father saw him and ran
and fell on his neck and kissed him."
"Yes," said the dying soldier, "I was a
great way off, but God has met me and had
compassion on me." "Shall I write to your
mother and tell her that tbe lost one is
found and the dead is alive again?" He
answered, "I wish you would, if it would
not be too much trouble." Do you sup
pose that woman who made that quilt and
filled it with scripture passages had any
trouble about who Melchizedek was, or
how the doctrine of God's sovereignty can
be harmonized with man's free agency, or
who wrote the Pentateuch or the incon
sistencies of the Nicene creed? No, no; go
to work for God and suffering humanity
and all your doubts and fears and mysteries
and unbeliefs pnt together will not be heavy
enough to stir the chemist s scales, which
is accustomed to weighing one-fiftieth part
of a grain of chamomile flowers. Why stop
a moment to understand the mysteries
when there are so many certitudes? Why
spend our time exploring the dark garrets
and coal holes of a great palace which has
above ground one hundred rooms flooded
with sunshine? It takes all my time to
absorb what has been revealed, so that I
have no time to upturn and root out and
drag forth what has not been revealed.
The most of the effort to solve mysteries
and explore the inexplicable and harmonize
things is an attempt to help the Lord out
of theological difficulties. Good enough in
tention, my brother, no doubt; but the Lord
is not anxious to have you help him. He
will keep bis "throne without your assist
ance. Don't be afraid that the Bible will
fall apart from inconsistencies. It hung
together many centuries before you were
born, and your funeral sermon will be
preached from a text taken from its undis
turbed authenticity.
LAV HOLD ON GOD'S WORD.
Do you know that I think that if all
ministers in all denominations would stop
this nonsense of ecclesiastical strife and
take hold the word of God, the only ques
tion with each of us being how many souls
we cau bring to Christ and in how short a
time, the Lord would soon appear for the
salvation of all nations? When the young
queen of England visited Scotland many
years ago great preparations were made
for ber reception. The vessel in which she
sailed was far out at sea, bnt every hill in
Scotland was illumined with bonfires and
torches. The night was set on fire with ar
tiflcinl illumination. The queen, standing
ou ship's deck, knew from that that Scot-
laud was full of heartiest welcome, and tbe
thunder of tbe great guns at Glasgow and
Edinburgh castle woke up all the echoes.
Boom! they sounded out over the sea.
Boom! they sounded up among the. hills.
Do you know that I think that our King
would land if we were only ready to receive
him? Why not call to him from all our
churches, from all our hospitals, from all
our homes? Why not all at once light all
the torches of Gospel invitation? Why not
ring all the .bells of welcome? Why not
light up the long night of the world's sin
and suffering with bonfires of victory?
Why not unlimber all the Gospel batteries
and let them boom across tbe earth, and
boom into the parting heavens. The King
is ready to land if we are ready to receive
him. Why cannot we who are now living
see his descent? Must it all be postponed
to later ages? Has not our poor world
groaned long enough in mortal agonies?
Have there not been martyrs enough, and
have not the lakes of tears and the rivers
of blood been deep enough? Why cannot
the final glory roll in now? Why cannot
this dying century feel the incoming tides
of the oceans of heavenly mercy? Must
our eyes close in death and bur ears take
on the deafness of the tomb, and these
hearts beat their last throb before the day
comes in? O Christ! Why tarriest thou?
Wilt thou not, before we go the way of all
the earth, let us see thy scarred feet under
some noonday cloud coming this way? Be
fore we die let us behold thy hands that
were spiked, spread out in benediction for
a lost race. And why not let us, with our
mortal ears, hear, that voice which spoke
peace as thou didst go up, speak pardon
and emancipation and love and holiness
and joy to all nations as thou comest down?
But the skies do not part. I hear no
rambling of chariot wheels coming down
over the sapphire. There is no swoop or
wings. I see no flash of angelic appear
ances. All is still. I hear nothing but the
tramp of my own heart as I pause between
these utterances. The king does not land
because the world is not ready, and the
church is not ready. To clear the way for
tbe Lord s coming let us devote all our en
ergies of body, mind and soul. A Russian
general riding over the battlefield, his horse
treading amid the dying and dead, a wound
ed soldier asked him for water, but the
officer did' not understand his language
and knew not what the poor fellow wanted.
Then the soldier cried out "Christos," and
that word meant sympathy and help, and
the Russian officer dismounted and put to
the hps of the sufferer a cooling draught.
Be that the charmed word with which we
go forth to do our whole duty. In many
languages it has only a little difference of
termination. Christos! It stands for sym
pathy. It stands for help. It stands for
pardon. It stands for hope. It stands for
heaven. Christos! In that name we were
baptized. In that name we took onr first
sacrament. That will be the battle shout
that will win the whole world for God!
Christos! Put it on our banners when we
march! Put it on our lips when we die!
Put it in the funeral psalm at our obse
quies! Put it on the plain slab over our
grave! Christos! Blessed be his glorious
name forever! Amen I
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reminds me that several of the great men
known to science, literature, war and art
were originally known by names almost
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Henry Wilson, vice president under
Grant, was christened as Henry Colbath,
and was known by that name until after
the end of bis nineteenth year.
By a curious coincidence U. 8. Grant.
who was president at tbe time Wilson was
vice, as above mentioned, was also a hero
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was a term unknown even in the embryo
general's family. H. U. Grant" would
sound odd if written on the pages of his
tory, but, in fact, would be perfectly
proper. The great general was christened
Hiram Ulysses Grant, and by the name of
Hiram or "Hi" was known to all his school
fellows.
Hon. T. L. Harmer, an ex-member of
congress, is responsible for "U. S." Grant
being thrust upon the world. It came
about in this way: When the name of the
aspiring yon ng man was sent in as candi
date to West ytint, by some oversight on
the part of Mr. Harmer it was sent as "U.
S." in place of "H. C." Grant "U. &
Grant was appointed. When he graduated
in 1818 his commission and diploma were
both made out to "U. S." Grant, therefore
he was forced to accept the inevitable.
Jules Grevy, so well known as the lata
president of the French republic, is neither
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Frank Leslie was plain Henry Carter
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