FBIDAY,
- JULY 24, 1891
LOCAL AND FBBSONAL.
Painting was begun on the Regulator
Friday morning. .
Mra." J. C. Luckey and child left Sat
urday for a visit to La Grande. .
Tacoma wiQ soon vote on the question
of bonding the city for $1,500,000.
The old army potato bng has made its
mnnearance' In some of the Klickitat
garden.
Mr. L. J. Davis editor of the Eastern!
Orecron . Republican is visiting in The
Dalles for a few days.
Mrs. Barkness, of Hood River, is visit
ing E. P. Roberts and family at their
u bar ban residence. -Sydney
6. Haw son, manager Of the Z
F. Moody warehouse at Arlington, aud
Miss Maggie Walsh, were married on the
othinst. . -The
Salem Journal says that an un
known man has sent 59 cents to the treas
urer qf Marion county, who has placed it
to the credit of the conscience fund.
.Hot JtC.-Lackey, U.S. Indian agent
at the Warm Springs, accompanied by
his wife and daughter, came into the city
Friday and will remain several days.
Mr. Riddellj.tells the Chkonicx that
at his place on Five Mile they were fa
vored with fine rain Friday last. He
uvi that he never saw it rain so hard
in Oregon. It is Mr. Riddell's opinion
that the storm extended into Sherman
county, as it was moving rapidly east.
' Mr, Farleyj superintendent of con-
.. structton I of the Cascade Portage road,
came up from the Cascades Saturday and
says hk force is getting along well with
the work and that;the road will be fin
ished an4 ready for the rolling stock as
soon aH arrives.'
Frank Eagen and family who have re
turned from a trip across the river into
Washington .-report . that fine crops are
expected alTover the Klickitat county.
The people thereare looking -to The
Dallesjthi year for a market, thinking
the new "boat line will be of great help.
The I Union.' Paeific ! has raised the
- freight rates' on lumber' and shingles
from the Sound to Chicago and the Mis
souri river ten cents a hundred pounds.
The new rates :went; into effect on the
15th' ipst. ' This gives f "Portland the ad
vantagey and puts "Tacoma and Astoria
on the same footing.; j .-i
- The following Isaaid to be a remedy
for bots in horses : "Take an old shoe
sole, burn it to a black ' crisp ; turn the
horse's upper lip back to expose the
gumSi and press the hot leather to the
lip and gums. The animal will Dear tnis
and not flinch until relieved. Repeat
till relief comes.' J .
Messrs.- W.Neaback of the Granger
feed stables and John Watson have ob
tained from Mn Wiley the contract for
hauling" the city water pipe when it ar
rivet.; Tbypipe is past due and is liable
to arriv i any time;, now. -The con
tranters will use four teams and deliver
- the piperas-fast as it is laid down from
' the cars.
In addition to the wool already
' shippfed by him, Mr. 8hearar is buying
.enough1 to make up another trainload of
' ten or twelve cars. A prominent wool
dealeraSsures the Chboniclk that over
two-thirds of the 6o brought to this
market this season has been sent out,
and at the present rate of shipping there
will not be a pound of wool left here by
the. end of next week.
Mr. Wilson,' traveling freight solicitor
of the Northern Pacific road, has been in
this city for the last few days and has
made it very tropical for the Union.
The rate on" wool to Boston by the line
Mr.'' Wilson represents is twenty cents
"per hundred pounds less than by the U.
P.'s and by a proper representation' of
facta to our shippers he has been enabled
to send r good deal of wool over his line.
He is authority for the' statement that
there was 1023 bales in the shipment
Mr. Shearer made this morning.
" road Track to be Mutilated by the
Locomotive.
COUNCIL MEETISQ.
j An adjourned meeting of the common
council was held Saturday, evening with
Mayor Mays in the-chair.
The bilj. of Glean and Handley was
laid over till the next council meeting as
was also that of Mays. Huntington and
Wilson.
. The bill. of The Dalles water works,
amounting to 432 was ordered paid.'
The recorder was instructed to corres
pond -with-, a numbeif, of . towns in. both
- this state and the state of Washington of
a population similar to that of The
Dalles,' and ascertain the usual cost of
Hahting the streets by electrciity.
- In the matter" of the election of a night
watcnman,. a ballot was taken ana tne
vote- stood,- two for- Farris and three for
Howe. As the necessary two-thuds ma
jority; was wanting, farther voting was
postponed till the next regular council
meeting.' 1
Advertised Letters.
'- The following is the lirt of letters re
maining In, Hie Dalles postofGce uncalled
lor Friday, July 17, 1891. Persons call
ing for these letters will please give the
date on wJbich they were . advertised :
Adams' J W ., ... Miller, John
Belcbet-Mlss Annie Moot S .
Caape George
Church Mrs DW
EbingerF E .
"FelkerG W '
Fowler Wilt .
Gilbert Vina
Harper, Allen
. Harris J E
-Harrison Jno -
- Hendricks H B
Hoes Kelly. ;
Hurst Marion -'Klllgore
Walter
'" Lynch AD
Mason J ,
McHaley J C
MUler F J
' Minton Jacob
. I
On R
Palmer A Ej
Peterson Miss H
Smith Andrew
McKanney R
Bpaid E G
Hayter Jas
Frieman H C
- The Dalles Launery
Woods Mrs
Wyman CL . . .
Woodford Jos
Wright H B
Wiggins M G
Wright W G
Winans Mrs M -Wehlan
Mrs Nora
Young Mrs M
' M. T. Nolan, P. M.
Attention I
The Dalles Mercantile company would
respectfully 'announce, to their many
patroni that they now have a well
- selected stock of general merchandise,
consisting in part of dress goods, ging
hams, ch allies, sateens,- prints,' hosiery,
corsets, gloves, handkerchiefs, hats, caps,
boots, shoes, geiitsp furnishing goods,
ladies' and mens' nnderwaregroceries,
hardware, crockery," glassware, etc, in
fact everything pertaining to general
merchandise. Above being new, full and
complete.' Com and see us.
A man named James M. McGee, aged
about 26 years, who has been employed
for a little over a year as night track
walker, near Celilo, was run over Satur
day night last at about 11 o'clock by a
locomotive in charge of Engineer F. A.
Patterson. The engineer saw a light
ahead of the engine, which eventually
proved to be
m'gbk's lantern,
But, as the road was curved, he was un
able to locate it. Not until it was too
late was he able to stop the locomotive,
as he perceived a dark object lying diag
onally across the track, which event
ually proved to be the body of McGee.
A close examination by Mr. Patterson
and his fireman satisfied them that
McGee was dead when the locomotive
passed over him, and the investigation
of a coroner's jury only confirmed the
impression. The head of McGee was
LITKBALLY SEVERED IN TWAIN,
The body split open, the right hand and
foot crushed, the left leg fractured in two
or three places and the left arm crushed
to a pulp. There was not as much
blood on the clothes of the victim as
would ordinarily appear from a common
nose bleed. The body was brought to
the city and a coroner's inquest was held
last evening, when a verdict was re
turned that indicated that the jury was
agreed that McGee was dead before he
was Btruck by the locomotive. The. evi
dence at the coroner's inquest tended to
prove that McGee may have been
KILLED BY TRAMPS.
And laid on the track to be run over as
described. He had been attacked the
evening before by two men ana naa
broken his lantern in the contest. Fear
ing a repetition of the attack be had en
trusted all his personal estate consisting
of $287 in checks and currency to' the
station keeper at Celilo. This he did
because be feared, as he alleged, that
somebody was
GOING TO KILL HIM.
He bears the character of having been a
sober, steady and industrious loan, and
there was no evidence that drink had
anything to do with his death. Evid
ence at the inquest went to show that
McGee had two cousins, named Morgan,
living at Albina, and.another at Walnlla
while . .-
a"letteb was found
on bis person tbat showed that bis
father, mother and sister were still liv
ing in the east. The people of Celilo
give him an excellent character for
sobriety and industry.
A
College.
Congregational
At the meeting of the General Associa
tion of Oregon, held in Salem in June,
1890, a committee of twelve were ap
pointed to take all needed steps to estab
lish a Congregational' college in Oregon,
and its composition was as follows : H.
A. Shorey, Portland ; Prof. W. N. Hull,
Corvallis ; B. S. Huntington, The Dalles ;
Albert Brownell, Albany: Prof. G. H.
Collier, Eugene ; I. A. Macrum, Forest
Grove; D. B. Gray and Napoleon Davis,
Salem ; James Steel, Portland ; W. H.
Morrow, East Portland ; Rev. George C.
Hall, Astoria ; Rev. George J. Webster,
Ashland. ' A short time after their ap
pointment the committee met and ap
pointed sub-committies for various de
tails of the work in hand. Frank M.
Warren, of Portland, was added to the
committee in lieu of Professor Hull, who
had removed from the state. Dnring
the past week the committee met again.
There were present, I. A. Macrum, Al
bert Brownell, D. B. Gray, Napoleon
Davis, W. H. Morrow, James Steel,
Frank M. Warren, B. S. Huntington,
and H. A. Shorey. Reports from the
various sub-committees were made,
allowing what had been done, and the
matters presented were fully discussed,
after which it was unanimously voted
that the instructions of the State Associ
ation should be carried out and the nec
essary steps taken to establish a Con
gregational college in Oregon. Accord
ingly H. A. Shorey, James Steel, and
W. H. Morrow were appointed as a com
mittee to receive propositions from the
various parts of the state for a college lo
cation. From information in hand it is
thought by the committee that arrange
ments can be made to open the college
in September next.
It is understood that all else being
equal, the locality making the most at
tractive contribution will be recommeded
by the committee.
In Oregon there is no more beautiful
or more healthy place, or more accessi
ble situation than The Dalles, and we
would like to see such an institution as
the college located here. It would bring
a great deal of money to the city and a
desirable class of persons, and as an "in
vestment" itself would be a good thing.
It is to be hoped that some one having
suitable tracts of land in this vicinity
will make a proposition to the commit
tee.- Our townsmen Mr. Huntington
will gladly give all the information in
his power to any person applying to him.
Normal Institute.
A normal county institute for Wasco
county will be held at The Dalles for one
week beginning August 24th, -under the
supervision of Supt. Troy Shelley, as
sisted, by Profs. W. A. Wetzel and i. H.
Ackerman of Portland. The services of
these well known educators have been
engaged at considerable expense and we
hope every teacher, in the county will
profit by it.' Look out for further notice.
Did Mot SeU His Wool.
Mr... Patterson returned from The
Dalles on Tuesday's stage, without hav
ing sold his wool. The highest offer he
had was 14 cents, and that not being
satisfatory, he left the wool in Mr.
Moody's hands, authorizing him to sell
at 15 cents. Watco Obterver.
What a pity Mr. Patterson could not
have met Mr. Shearer and got 17 cents
for bis clip. Ed. Chronicle.
A. O. V. W. Grand Lodge.
Representatives of. the-Grand Lodge
of Oregon, Washington and Britiib Col
umbia, in session at Victoria,have elect
ee the following officers :
25; Grand Foreman B. J. Hawthorne,
Eugene, 15; Grand Overseer J. L. Rand,
Baker City, 100; Grand Recorder New
ton Clark, Riverside, 68; Grand Re
ceiver R. L. Durham, Hope, 1 : Grand
Trustee William Armstrong, three years'
supreme representatives, J. J. Daley, T.
Ktevens ana t. Lu smitn.
I til luoTicl'IiiuliiuIerHeil Up lil lue
nineties, and a scorching westerly wind
adding its mite to the general discomfit
ure of the people, the members of The
Dalles branch of the Women's Christian
Temperance Union yesterday afternoon
found it hard work to hold a meeting
and discuss ways and means of securing
better Sabbath observance. The meet
ing was held in the Methodist church at
3 o'clock, but at that hour there were
less than a score of ladies present, while
aside from the- pastor of the church.
mankind interested in the silent Sunday
system found. Thomas Hodson its only
representative. The meeting was pre
sided over by Mrs. Smith French, who,
after the usual preliminary exercises of
such meetings were concluded, an
nounced to the gathered few . the object
of the meeting. She said :
The Women's Christian- Temperance
Union was seeking to eecure throughout
the country a better Sunday observance
and in common with the other -branches
of the organization, the members at The
Dalles would engage in an effort to se
cure such a blessine for this city. The
movement was not directed against sa
loons alone but every place in the city
where business was in any way con
ducted on the Sabbath. Even the Chi
nese laundries must be closed and the
bias-eyed heathens must not be gather
ers of soiled linen on that holy day.
Several years ago the ladies of the city
took it upon themselves to secure such a
measure and as a result presented to the
council a petition signed by several hun
dred citizens, but the document was
laid upon the table until finally pigeon
holed and nothing more was heard of
it. Now the second attempt was to be
made and the fact that the first name on
the petition of years ago was Robert
Mays, our present mayor, gives us con
siderable encouragement to again go to
I work for a quiet, orderly Sabbath. Now
that Spokane, Walla Walla, Tacoma and
other places have started a Sabbath re
form it seems to be becoming a fashion
and this may have the effect of reaching
the hearts of the men.
Rev. Mr. Brown was called upon to ex
press his views and aiming his rhetori
cal carbine point blank at the Baloon
target made the conduct of that partic
ular business on Sunday his particular
grievance, and he thought that niaybt
the saloon men might be persuaded to
close up their saloons voluntarily and be
lawkeepers instead of lawbreakers, but
if not, they ought to be taught their
places and made to observe the Sabbath
day. Mr. Thomas Hodgsen was next
called upon to say something and in re
sponse gave the ladies some excellent
advice based upon the old maxim of
Davy Crockett of "First be sure you are
right, then go ahead." He was in favor
of having a good, clean Sunday but there
was no use oi rushing headlong into the
fray until theplau of campaign had been
fully " arranged. He was in favor of
continual agitation of the subject take
the question into politics if necessary
but at all times keep up.the agitation for
out of tbat comes education and the
moulding of a public opinion that would
bring strong moral support to the move
ment. None others present seeming in
clined to talk, the members of the union
passed a resolution asking the pastors of
the several churches in the city to bring
the matter before their congregations
next Sunday and awaken an interest in
the work. . Another public meeting will
be held next "Friday at the Methodist
church for further discussion of the sub
ject.
S6ITyT0F A REDEEMER.
Beauty, Pathos and Comfort round in
the Fifty-third Chapter of Isaiah Bow
and Why If en and Sheep " Go Astray.
Whosoever Will, Let Him Coma.
Settled at Last.
The Oregon Short Line and Utah Nor-.
thern railroad companies yesterday set
tled the following claims against them
growing out of an accident at the Cas
cades about two years ago. Mrs. Kate
M. Merrihew. $2,750.00; Mrs. Anna
Schorder, $2,750.00; Mrs. Lizzie Casey,
$2,750.00.
Our Wamlc Letter.
Wajiic, July 15, 1891.
Editor Chronicle : Wamic is waking
up. Harvest has commenced, and as
crops are very good, every one is in good
spirits. We had a nice shower , of rain
last week, and the weather has been
very warm since.
Mr. A. J. Swift has for some time
been training a horse for a grand race
to be run on his track. As horse-racing
is more important and much better em
ployment than good farming, his crop is
likely to suffer.
Several families went from here to the
celebration at Cinnemasb on the Fourth
All had a nice time, and came home
happy. "
Civilization is making a great change
in the" Indians. Long may religion and
education continue their good work.
Chatty,
' Oregon fharmacentlcal Association..
from president ueorge Ulakely we
learn that the pharmaceutical associa
tion is rapidly becoming powerful and
useful institution. It is estimated tbat
there are about 320 competent druggists
in Oregon, and at the meeting in Port
land for the preteut fiscal year there
were 250 of them represented. Since
that time there has has been many ap
plications for certificates. -Yesterday
President Blakely received 96 certificates
from the secretary for his signature,
inis wouia indicate that nearly every
druggist in the state has thought best to
obey the law and join the society. The
next meeting of the association will take
place at Salem, about the first week in
June, 1892.
A. O. V. W. '
. The grand lodge of the A. O. U. W.
closed its proceedings at Victoria, B. C,
last Friday. The newly elected grand
officers were installed by the supreme
master and the following appointments
were made: Guide, H. A. Smith, As
toria;' inside watchman, T. C. Mackay,
Gardiner, Or. ; outside watchman,1 John
F. Moon, Dalles, Or. ; finance commit
tee, F. M. Cohen, chairman, Horace D.
Ramsdale and E. H. Stolte, all of Port
land, Or. ; committee on jurisprudence,
W. D. Hare, Hillsboro; George H. Dur
ham, Portland'; E. L. Smith, Hood
River. .
Death of Mr. Adams.
, Just as we go to press we learn that
Mr. Chas. Adams died at 1 :10 p. m. at
the family residence. He died sur
rounded by his family, as he has been
near death's door for some days. Full
particulars will be given in Monday's
Issue. The funeral will take place from
the house Hondayjforenoon at 10 o'clock.
Friends of the family are invited to at
tend. He was aged seventy-three' years
and six months. -
Bbookltn, June 28. Dr. Talmage's ser
mon today is of so decidedly evangelical
character , as to prove conclusively that
while so many eminent preachers of the
day are drifting away from the old fash
ioned Gospel he remains firm in the paths
of orthodoxy. His subject is "Astray, but
Recovered," and his text, Isaiah liii,
"All we like sheep have gone astray:
and the Lord hath laid on him the Iniquity
of us all."
Within ninety years at the longest all
who bear or read this sermon will be in
eternity. Dnring the next fifty years you
will nearly all be gone. The next ten years
will cut a wide swath among the people.
The year 1891 will to some be the finality.
Such considerations make thisoccasion ab
sorbing and momentous. The first half of
my text is an indictment, "All we like
sheep have gone astray." Some one says:
"Can you not drop the first wordf That is
too general; that sweeps too great a circle."
Some man rises in the audience and he
looks over on the opposite side of the house,
and he says: "There is a blasphemer, and 1
understand how he has gone astray. And
there in another part of the house is a de
frauder, and he has gone astray. And
there is an impure person, and he has gone
astray."
Sit down, my brother, and look at home.
My text takes us all in. It starts behind
the pulpit, Bweeps the circuit of the room
and comes back to the point where it
started, when it says: "All we like sheep
have gone astray." I can very easily under
stand why Martin Luther threw up his
hands after he had found the Bible and
cried out, "Oh! my sins, my sins," and why
the publican, according to the custom to
this day in the east, when they have any
great grief, began to beat himself and cry
as he smote upon his breast, God be merci
ful to me a sinner."
ILLUSTRATION FROM THE SHEPHERD'S LIFE.
I was, like many of you, brought up in the
country, and I know some of the habits of
sheep and how they get astray, and what
my text means when it says, "All we like
sheep have gone astray." Sheep get astray
in two ways, either by trying to get into
other pasture, or from being scared by the
dogs. In the former way some of us got
astray. We thought the religion of Jesus
Christ short commons. We thought there
was better pasturage somewhere else. We
thought if we could only lie down on the
banks of distant streams or under great
oaks on the other side of some hill we
might be better fed.
We wanted other pasturage than that
which God through Jesus Christ gave oar
soul, and we wandered on and we wan
dered on, and we were lost. We wanted
bread and we found garbage. The further
we wandered, instead of finding rich pas
turage, we found blasted heath and sharp
er rocks and more stinging nettles. No
pasture. How was it in the worldly
groups when you lost your child f Did
they come around and console you very
muchf" Did not the plain Christian man
who came into your house and sat up with
your darling child give you more comfort
than all worldly associations? Did all the
convivial songs you ever beard comfort
you in that day of bereavement so much
as the song they sang to you, perhaps the
very song that ws sung by your little
child the last Sabbath afternoon of her
lifer
There is a happy land, far, far away.
Where saints immortal reign, bright, bright
as day.
Did your business associates in that day
of darkness and trouble give you any espe
cial condolence? Business exasperated you,
business wore you out, business left you
limp as a rag, business made you mad.
Ton got. dollars, but you got no peace.
God have mercy on the man who has noth
ing but business to comfort him. The
world afforded you no luxuriant pastur
age. A famous English actor stood, on the
stage impersonating, and thunders of ap
plause came down from the galleries, and
many thought it was the proudest moment
of all his life; but there was a man asleep
just in front of him, and the fact that that
man was indifferent and somnolent spoiled
all the occasion for him, and he cried,
"Wake up! wake up!"
So one little annoyance in life has been
more pervading to your mind than all the
brilliant congratulations and successes.
Poor pasturage for your soul you found in
this world. The world has cheated you,
the world has belied you, the world has
misinterpreted you, the world has perse
cuted you. It never comforted you. Oh!
this world is a good rack from which a
horse may pick his hay; it is a good trough
from which tie swine may crunch their
mess; but it gives but little food to a soul
blood bought and immortal.
What is a soul? It is a hope high as the
throne of God. What is a man? You say,
"It is only a man." It is only a man gone
overboard in business life. What is a man?
The battle ground of three worlds, with his
hands taking hold of destinies of light or.
rinrfc-Tipaa. A man! No line can measure
him. No limit can bound him. The arch
angel before the throne cannot outlive
him.- The stars shall die, but he will watch
their extinguishment. The world will
burn, but he will gaze on the conflagra
tion. ' Endless ages will march on; he will
watch the procession. A man! The mas
terpiece of God Almighty. Yet you say,
"It is only a man." Can a nature like that
be fed on husks of the wilderness?
Substantial comfort will not grow
On nature's barren soil;
All -we can boast till Christ we know
Is vanity and toil.
. THOSE WHO STRAY tS TROUBLE. '
Some of you got astray by looking foi
better pasturage; others by being scared of
the dogs. The hound gets ovtt into the
pasture field. The poor things fly in ever;
direction. In a few moments they are torn
of the hedges and they are plashed of the
ditch, and the lost sheep never gets home
unless the farmer goes after it. There is
nothing so thoroughly lost as a lost sheep.
It may -have been in 1857, during the finan
cial panic, or during the financial stress in
the fall of 1873, when you got astray,
almost became an atheist. You
iniquity of us all."
CHRIST COMES TO THE FALLEN. j
"Oh," says, some man, "that is not gener-,
ous, um is not aan iec every man carry
his own burden and pay his own debts."
That sounds reasonable. If I have an ob
ligation and I have the means to meet it,
and I come to you and ask you to settle
that obligation, you rightly say, "Pay your
own debts.' If you and I walking down
the street, both hale, hearty and well, I ask
you to carry me, you say, and say rightly,
"Walk on your own feet!" But suppose
you and I were in a regiment and I was
wounded in the battle and I fell uncon
scious at your feet with gunshot fractures
and dislocations, what would yon do? You
would call to 'your comrades saying,
"Come 'and help, this man is helpless;
bring the ambulance; let us take him to
the hospital," and I would, be a dead lift
in your arms, and you would lift me from
the ground where I had fallen and put me
in the ambulance and take me to the hos
pital and have all kindness shown me.
Would there be anything mean in your do
ing that? Would there be anything De
meaning in my accepting tbat kindness?
Oh, no. You would be mean not to do it.
That is what Christ does.
If we could pay our debts then it would
be better to go up and pay them, saying,
"Here, Lord, here is my obligation; here
are-the means with which I mean to settle
that obligation; now give me a receipt;
cross it all out." The debt is paid. But
the fact is we have fallen in the battle, we,
have gone down under the hot fire of out'
transgressions, we have been wounded by
the sabers of sin, we are helpless, we are
undone. Cnist comes. The loud clang
heard in the sky on that Christmas night
was only the bell, the resounding bell, oi
the ambulance. Clear the way for the Son
of God. He comes down to bind up the
wounds, and to scatter the darkness, and
to save the lost. Clear the way for the Son
of God.
Christ comes down to see us, and we are
a dead lift, lie does not lift us with the
tips of his fingers. He does not lift us with
one arm. He comes down upon his knee,
and then with a dead lift he raises us to
honor and glory and immortality. "The
Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us
alL" Why, then, will no man carry his
sins? You cannot carry successfully the
smallest sin you ever committed. You
might as well put the Apennines on one
shoulder and the Alps on the other. How
much less can you carryall the sins of your
lifetime! Christ comes and' looks down in
your face and says: "I have come through
all the lacerations of these days and through
all the tempests of these nights. I have
come to bear your burdens, and to pardon
your sins, and to pay your debts. Put
them on my. shoulder; put them on my
heart." "On him the Lord hath laid the
iniquity of us all."
HO BEST FOB THIS WICKED.
Sin has almost pestered the life out of
some of you. At times it has made you
cross and unreasonable, and it has spoiled
the brightness of your days and the peace
of your nights. There are men who have
been riddled of sin. The world gives them
no solace. Gossamer and volatile the world.
while eternity, as they look forward to it,
is black as midnight. They writhe under
the stings of a conscience which proposes
to give no rest here and no rest hereafter;
and yet they do not repent, they do not
pray, they do not weep. They do not real
ize that just the position they occupy is
the position occupied by scores, hundreds
and thousands of men who never found
any hope.
If this meeting should be thrown open
and the ' people who are here could give
their testimony, what thrilling experiences
we should hear on all. sides! There is a
man in the gallery who would say: "I had
brilliant surroundings, I had the best edu
cation that one of the best collegiate insti
tutions of this country could give, and I
observed all the moralities of life, and I
was self righteous, and I thought I was all
right before God as I am all right before
men; but the Holy Spirit came to me one
day and said, 'You are a sinner;' the Holy
Spirit persuaded me of the fact. While I
had escaped the sins against the law of the
land I had really committed the worst sin
a man ever commits the driving back of
the Son of God from my heart's affections.
And I saw that my hands were red with
the blood of the Son of God, and I began to
pray, and peace came to my heart, and I
know by experience that what you say this
morning is true, 'On him the Lord hath
laid the iniquity of us alL' "
Yonder is a man who would say: "I was
the worst drunkard in New York; I went
from bad to worse; I destroyed myself, I
destroyed my home; my children cowered
when I entered the house; when they put
up their lips to be kissed I struck them;'
when my wife protested against the mal
treatment, I kicked her into the street. I
know all the bruises and all the terrors of
a drunkard's woe. I went on further and
further from God until one day I got a let
ter saying:
"Mt Dkab Husbakb I have tried every,
way, done everything, and prayed earnestly
and fervently for your reformation, but it
seems of no avail. Sinceour little Henry died,
with the exception of those few happy weeks
when yon remained sober, my life has been one
of sorrow. Many of the nights I have sat by
the window, with my face bathed in tears,
watching for your coming. I am broken.
hearted, I am sick. Mother and father have
been here frequently and begged -me to come
home, bat my love for you and my hope for
brighter days have always made me refuse
them. That hope seems now beyond realiza
tion, and I have returned to them. It is hard,
and I battled long before doing it. May God
.I...... an,.ma ..aTOe..ft)mUi,uii"auij-f
hand is bloated with sin or not, put it in
my hand, let me give you one warm,
brotherly, Christian grip, and invite you
right up to the heart, to the compassion,
to the sympathy, to the pardon of him on
whom the Lord had laid the iniquity of us
all. Throw away your sins. Carry them
no longer. I proclaim emancipation this
morning to all who are bound, pardon for !
all sin, and eternal life for all the dead. j
Some one comes here this morning, and j
I stand aside. He comes up these steps.
He comes to this place, I must stand j
asiae. xaging mat place he spreads abroad
his hands, and they were nailed. You see
his feet, they were bruised. He pulls aside
the robe and shows you his wounded heart.
I say, "Art thou weary?" "Yes," he says,
"weary with the world's woe." I say,
"Whence comest thou?" He says, "I come
from Calvary." I say, "Who comes with
thee?" He says, "No one; I have trodden
the winepress alone!" I say, "Why comest
thou here?" "Oh," he says, "I came here
to carry all the sins and sorrows of the
people."
And he kneels and he says, "Put on my
shoulders all the sorrows and all the sins."
And, conscious of my own sins first, I take
them and put them on the shoulders of the
Son of God. I say, "Canst thou bear any
more, O Christ?" He says, "Yea, more."
And I gather up the sins of all those who
serve at these altars, the officers of the
Church of Jesus Christ I gather up all
their sins and put them on Christ's shoul
ders, and I say, "Canst thou bear any
more?" He says, "Yea, more." Then I
gather up all the sins of a hundred people
in this house, and I put them on the shoul
ders of Christ, and I say, "Canst thou bear
more?" He says, "Yea, more." And I
gather up all the sins of this assembly, and
I put them on the shoulders of the Sou of
God and I say, "Canst thou bear them?" i
"Yea," he says, "more!" j
HE HATH BORNE OCB TRANSGRESSIONS .
But he is departing. Clear the way for
him, the Son of God. Open the door and
let him pass out. He is carrying our sins
and bearing them away. We shall never
see them again. He throws them down
into the abysm, and you hear the long re
verberating echo of their falL. "On him
the Lord hath laid the iniquity of us alL"
Will you let him take away your sins to
day? Or do you say, "I will take charge
of them myself; I will fight my own bat
tles; I will risk eternity on my own ac
count?" A clergyman said in his pulpit
one Sabbath, "Before next Saturday night
one of this audience will have passed out
of life." A gentleman said to another
seated next to him: "I don't believe it. I
mean to watch, and if it doesn't come true
by next Saturday night I shall tell that
clergyman his falsehood." The man seated
next to him said, "Perhaps it will be your
self." "Oh, no," the other replied; "I
shall live to be an old man." That night
he breathed his last.
Today the Saviour calls. All may come.
God never pushes a man off. God never
destroys anybody. The man jumps off. It
is suicide soul suicide if the man per
ishes, for the invitation is, "Whosoever !
will, let him come." Whosoever, whoso
ever, whosoever! In this day of merciful
visitation, while many are coming into
the kingdom of God, join the procession
heavenward.
Seated among us during a service was a
man who came in and said, "I don't know
that there 1b any God." That was on Fri
day night. I said, "We will kneel down
and find out whether there is any God."
And in the second seat from the pulpit we
knelt. He said: "I have found him. There
Is a God, a pardoning God. I feel him
here." He knelt in the darkness of sin.
He arose two minutes afterward in the lib
erty of the GBspel; while another sitting
under the gallery on Friday night said,
"My opportunity is gone; last week I
might have been saved, not now; the door
Is shut." And another from the very midst
of the meeting, during the week, rushed
out of the front door of the Tabernacle,
laying, "I an a lost man." "Behold! the
Lamb of God who taketh away the sin of
the world." "Now is the accepted time.
Kow is the day of salvation." "It is ap
lointed unto all men once to die, and after
hat the judgment!"
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"Where is God, that honest men go down
and thieves prosper?" - You were dogged
of creditors, you were dogged of the banks,
you were dogged of worldly disaster, and
some of you went into misanthropy, and
some of you took to strong drink, and oth
ers of you fled out of Christian association,
and you got astray. Oman! that was the
last time when you ought to have forsaken
God. '
Standing amid the foundering of your
earthly fortuues, how could yoU get along
without a God to comfort you, and a God
to deliver you, and a God to help you, and
a God to save youf You tell me you have
been through enough, business trouble al
most to kill you; I know it. I cannot un
derstand how the boat could live one hour
in, that- chopped sea. But I do not know
by what process you got astray; some in
one way, and some in another, and if you
could really see the position some of you
occupy before God thi morning, your sonl
would burst into an agony of tears and
you would pelt the heavens with the cry.
God have mercy!" Sinai's batteries have
been nnlimbered above your soul, and at
times you have heard it thunder: "The
wages of sin is death." "All have sinne'l
and come short of the glory of God." "By
one man Bin entered into the world, and
death by sin; aud ho denth pnsned HKn all
men, for that all have sinned." "The soul
tharsinneth it shall die."
When Sebaxtopol was Iwing bom'mnlttl.
two Knssian frigates burned all niirht in
the harbor throwing a glare upon the
trembling fortress, and some of you are
standing in the niht of yon r soul's troii
Die. Ibe cannonade and the confl.iirrn
tipu, the multiplication of your sorrows
and troubles I think ninst nmkc the wins;
of God's hovering angels shiver to the ti-
not tne last part or my text opens a door
wide enough to let u all out ami to let all
heaven in. ' Sound it on the orran with nil
the stops out. Thrum it on the harps
with all the strings atuue. With ail the
melody possible let the heavens sound it to
the earth and let the earth tell it to the
heavens.- "The Lord hath laid on him the
iniquity of us all." I am glad that the
bless and preserve you, and take from you that
accursed appetite and hasten the day when we
shall be again living happily together. This
will be my daily prayer, knowing that be has
said, "Come nil to me all ye that labor and are
heavy laden, and I will give you rest.' From
your loving wife, . Mart.
"And so I wandered on and.' wandered
on," says that man, "until one night I
passed a Methodist meeting house, and I
said to myself, Til go in and see what they
are doing,' and J got to the door, and they.
Were singing:
All may come, whoever wuX,
This man receives poor sinners still,
i- "And I dropped right there where I was
and I said, 'God have mercy,' and be had
mercy on me. My home is restored, my
yon1 wife sings all day long during work, my
gaid i children come out a long way to greet me
home, and my household is a little heaven.
I will tell you what did all this for me. It
was the
'On him
no all
THE DEOSKABD AKD THE OUTCAST.
Yonder is a woman who would say: "I
wandered off from my father's house; I
heard the storm that pelts on a lost soul;
my feet were blistered on the hot rocks. I
went on and on, thinking that no one cared
for my soul, when one night Jesus met me
and he said: 'Poor thing, go home! your
father is waiting . for you, your mother is
waiting for you. Go home, poor thing!'
And, sir, I was too weak to pray, and I was
too weak to repent, but I just cried out; I
sobbed out my sins and my sorrows on the
shoulders of him of whom it is said, the
Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us
all.'"
There is a young man who would say:
"I had a Christian bringing up; I came
from the country to city life; I started
well; I had a good position, a good com
mercial position, but one night at the the
ater I met some young men who did me no
good. They dragged me all through the
sewers of iniquity, and I lost my morals
and I lost my position, and I was shabby
and wretched. I was- going down the
street, thinking that no one cared for me.
when a young man tapped me on the
shoulder and said, 'George, come with me
and. I will do you good.' I looked at him
to see whether he was joking or not. 7 Saw
he was la earnest and I said, 'What do you
mean,' eirr' 'Well,' he replied, 'I mean if
you will come to the meeting tonight I will
be very glad to introduce you. I will meet
you at the door. Will you comer' Said I,
I will
"I went to the place where I was tarry
ing. Iflxed myself up as well as I could.
I buttoned my coat over a ragged vest and
went to the door of the church, and the
young man met- me- and we went in; and
as I went in I heard an old man praying,
and he looked . so much like my father I
sobbed right out; and they were all around
so kind and.sympathettc that I just gave
my heart to God, and 1 know this morning
that what you say is true; J. believe it la
TbaBody of a Tonne Woman Found Forty
Years After Her Disappearance.
Mary Ann Grier disappeared from he
father's home, two miles south of Michigan
City, nearly forty years ago. A few days
ago her body was- recovered in an aban
doned bog iron ore pit, without one vestigtf
of change from the appearance it had
known in life. The last shred of clothing
was long ago destroyed by the action of
the water in which she had met her death.
but the same chemicals which removed the
garments preserved the flesh.
Not only is the contour of the form per
fect as in life, but the color has remained
unchanged. The arms and shoulders are
as white as marble, the hands are brown,
but suffused with a ruddy flush, which old
settlers here will remember as one of the
girl's chief charms, and, were it not for the
unsightly cavities that once contained the
eyes, that petrified frame which has lain
almost half a century in the soil would ap
pear the peacefully sleeping figure of a
healthy, handsome young woman.
The story of Mary Ann Grier is easily
told. In the first place, it should be known
that this country is full of a kind of Iron
called bog ore. In an early day it was ex
tensively mined by the farmers and hauled
by them to Michigan . City and South
Bend, where it commanded a ready sale.
In many instances it was the one product
of the soil which brought in money.
The iron is in small particles, much lfka
the ore from larger mines, and is excellent
in quality, though not ' rich enough in
quantity to repay the trouble of mining it
since the day of railroads and the develop
ment of Pennsylvania mines. None of the
ore has been taken from these swam pa
since 1850, although the swamp lands ail
over northern Indiana are full of it
. Mary Grier was the eldest daughter of
"Nicholas ' Grier, and was a belle in those
old days of 1845 to 1850. She was famous
all oyer the country, which was then new
and 'sparsely settled, and was sought in
marriage by many an excellent- young
man. She was known as . a worker, as a
good cook and as a famous housekeeper,
and besides had had the unusual advan
tage of a fair English education.
With the perversity of her sex she bad
chosen a harebrained fellow named Whit-
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shallow mines to the forge at Michigan
City. He was warned away from the farm
by Grier and his boys, but persisted in his
attentions, and Anally received a sound
drubbing from the old man. . '
The following day he started north with
a load of ore, and early in the. evening
Mary left . the house, saying that she was
going to a neighbor to return some trifle
she had borrowed the day before. 'She was
never again seen in life.
Her parents and the neighbors .'believed
that Whitsel had decoyed her away, and
they followed him clear to- Michigan City;
but they could And no trace of the girL
Fearing to return to the neighborhood
Whitsel sold his oxen and left the country.
He has never since been heard from. It
was known at the time that Mary Ann had
never reached the home of the neighbor
for which she had started.
. In the light of events now known it is
probable she meant to meet her lover, and
started across the lower prairie land to
meet him neai the creek road. She must
have fallen into one of the pits from which
the ore had been taken, drawing down
upon her as she fell an avalanche of the
loose but terribly heavy soil. There roust
have been water in this pit, as was almost I
invariably the case, and this, with the iron, i
must have produced a solution that tended
to preserve the body. Cor. St. Louis
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