The Exeter Advocate, 1897-3-18, Page 7THE FLAGS HOISTED.
DR. TALMAGE PREACHES A VIVID
AND APPROPRIATE SERMON.
Efe Says He Hates War --But He Admires
the Right Kind of Martha Spirit—Words
of Glowing and Picturesque Exhorta-
tion.
Washington, March 14,—At this time,
when our national capital nevi for ten
days been ablaze with our national flag,
ithe imagery of this sermon of Dr. Tal-
mage seems very vivid and. appropriate.
The text is Psalms xx, 5, "In tbe name
of God we will set up our banners."
I hate war. In my boyhood we may
have read the biography of Alexander or
of some Revolutionary hero until our
young heart beat high and we wished we
had been born over 100 years ago, just
for the glory el striking clown a Hessian.
For rusty swords hung up on the rafters
and. bullets out out of log houses in
which they were lodged during the great
strife we had unbounded admiration, or
on some public clay, clothed in our
grandfather's soldierly accouterments, we
felt as brave as Garibaldi or Miltiades.
We are wiser now, for we make a vast
distinction between the poetry and the
prose of war. The roll of drums and the
call of bugles and the champing of
steeds foaming and pawing for the battle,
100,000 muskets glittering among the
dancing plumes, "God. Save the Ring"
waving up from clarinets and trumpets
and. rung back from deep defiles or the
arches of a prostrate city, distant capitals
of kingdoms illuminated a the tidings,
generals returning home under flaming
arches and showering amaranths and the
shout of empires—that is poetry.
Chilled .and half blanketed, lying on
the wet earth; feet sore with the march
and bleeding at the slightest touch;
hunger pulling on every fiber of fiesh or
attempting to satisfy itself with a scanty
and spoiled ration; thirst licking up the
dew or drinking out of filthy and tram-
pled pool; thoughts of home and kindred
fax away while jest on the eve of a deadly
strife, where death may leap on him from
any one of a hundred bayonets; the
closing in of two armies, now changed
to 100,000 maniacs; the ground slippery
with blood and shattered flesh; fallen
ones writhing under the hoofs of un-
bridled chargers maddened with pain;
the dreadfulness of night, that comes
down when the strife is over; the strug-
gle of the wounded ones crawling out
over the corpses; the long, feverish
agony of the crowded barrack and hos-
pital, from whose mattresses the frag-
ments of men send up their groans, the
only music of carnage and butchery;
desolate homes, from which fathers and
husbands and brothers and sons went off;
without giving any dying message or
sending a kiss to the dear ones at home,
tumbled into the soldiers' grave trench,
.and houses in which a few weeks before
unbroken family circles rejoiced, now
plunged in the great sorrows of widow-
hood and orphanage. That is prose.
But there is now on the earth a king-
dom which bas set itself up for conflicts
without number. In its march it tramples
no grainfields, it sacks no cities, it im-
poverishes no treasuries, it fills no hos-
pitals, it bereaves no families. The °our-
-page and. victory of Solferino and Magenta
without carnage. Tho kingdom of Christ
against the kingdom of Satan, That is
the strife now raging. We will offer no
armistices. We will make no treaty. Un-
til all the revolted nations of the earth
shall submit again to Ring Emmanuel
"in the name of God we will set up our
banners."
, The Ensign.
would rend off the plumes, From revenge
he would exorcise the devil. While Christ
loved the world so much he died to save
it, he hates sin so well that to eradicate
the last imam of its pollution he• will
utterly consume the continents and the
oceans. At the gate of Eden the declara-
tion of perpetual enmity was made
against the serpent. The tumult round-
abouts Mount Sinai was only the roar
and flash of God's artillery of wrath
against sin. Sodom on fire was only one
of God's flaming bulletins announcing
hostility. Nineveh and Tyre,and Jerusa-
lem in awful ruin mark the track of
Jehovah's advancement. They show that
God was terribly in earnest when he an-
nounced himself abhorrent of all iniquity.
They make us believe that though
nations belligerent and revengeful may
sign articles of peace and come to an
amicable adjustment, there shall be no
cessation of hostilities between the forces
of light and the.forces of darkness until
the kingdom of this world have become
the kingdoms of our Lord. Affrighted by
no opposition, discouraged by no tempor-
ary defeats, shrinking from no exposure
—every man to his position, while from
the top of our schools and churches and
seminaries and asylums "in the name of
God we will. set up our banners."
Every army has its ensigns. Long -be-
fore the time when David wrote the text
they were in use. The hosts of Israel dis-
played them, the tribe of Benjamin car-
ried a flag with the inscription of a
wolf, the tribe of Dan a representation
of cherubim, Judah, a lion wrought into
the groundwork of white, 'maple, crira-
eon and blue. Such flags from their folds
hook fire into the hearts of such num-
bers as were in the field when Abijah
fought against Jehoram, and there were
1,200,000 soldiers, and more than 500,000
were left dead. on the field. These ensigns
gave heroism to such numbers as were
assembled when Asa fought against
Zerah, and there were 1,580,000 troops
in the battle. The Athenians carried an
inscription of the owl, which was their
emblem of wisdom. The flags of modern
nations are familiar to you all, and
many of them so inappropriate for the
character of the nations they represent
it would be impolitic to enumerate them.
These ensigns are streamers borne on the
point of a lenge and on the top of wooden
shafts. They are carried in the front and
rear of armies. They unroll from the
main top gallant masthead of an admir-
al's flagship to distinguish it among other
ships of the same squadron. They are
the objects of national pride. The loss
of them on the field is ignominious.
The three banners of the Lord's hosts
are the banner of proclamation, the ban-
ner of recruit and the banner of victory.
When a nation feels its rights infringed
omits honor insulted, when its citizens
have in foreign climes been oppressed and
no indemnity has been offered to the in-
habitant of the republic or kingdom, a
proclamation of war is uttered. On the
top of batteries and arson* and custom
houses and revenue offices flags are im-
mediately swung out. All who look upon
thein realize the feet that uncompromis-
ing war is declared. Thus it is that the
church of Jesus Christ, jealous for the
honor of its sovereign and determined to
get back those who have been carried off
captive into the bondage of rattan and
intent upon the destruction of those
mighty wrongs which have so long cursed
the earth and bent upon the extension
of the Saviour's reign of mercy. in the
name of God sets up its banner of procla-
mation.
The church snakes no assault upon the
world. I do not believe that God ever
made a better world than this. It is
magnificent in its ruins. Let us stop
talking so much against themorld. God
pronounced it very good at the beginning.
Though a wandering child of God, I see
in it yet the great Father's lineaments.
Though tossed and driven by the storms
of 6,000 years, she sails bravely yet, and
as at her launching in the beginning the
morning stars sang together and all the
sons of God shouted for joy, so at last,
when coming into 'the calm harbor of
God's mercy she shall be greeted by the
buzzes of glorified kingdoms. It is not
the world against which we contend, but
its transgressions. Whatever is obstinate
in the will, degrading in passion. harm-
ful in custom, false in friendship, hypo-
critical in profession—against all this
Christ makes onset. From false profession
he would tear the mask. From oppression
he would snatch the rod. in Pro pride he
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A Glorious Standard.
Again, it was the custom in ancient
times for the purpose of gathering armies
to lift an ensign on the top of some high
hill, so that all who saw it would feel
impelled to rally around it. In more
modern tittles the same plan has been
employed for the gathering of an army.
Thus it is that the church of Christ lifts
its flag for recruits. The cross of Jesus
is our standard, planted on the hill of
Calvary. Other armies demand that per-
sons desiring to enter the lists of war
shall be between such and such an age,
lest the folly of extreme youth or the in-
firmity of advanced age be a clog rather
than an advantage. But none is too
young for Christ's regiment; none can
bo too old. The band that is strong,
enough to bound a ball or trundle a hoop
is skilled enough to fight for Christ,
while many a hand trembling with old
age has grasped the arrow of truth, and,
with a dim eye close to it, taking aim,
has sent its sharp point right through
the heart of the Ring's enemies. Many
of you have long ago bad your names
written on the roll of celestial troops,
and you like the service well, although
you now bear tie scars of multitudinous
conflicts and. can recount many a long
march and tell of siege guns opened on
you that you thought never would be
spiked, But there may be some who have
not yet enlisted. Your being here implies
that you are seriously thinking about it,
and your attention makes me hope you
are only looking for the standard to be
hoisted. Will you not, 100 of you, with
all the aroused enthusiasm or your na-
ture, come bounding into the ranks,
while "in the name of God we set up
our banners?"
Through natural modesty do you hold
back and say: "I will bo of no advantage
to Christ. I am too awkward to learn
the step of the host, or to be of any ser-
vice in the shook of battle?" To you 1
make the reply, Try it. One hour under
Christ's drill, and you would so Well un-
derstand his rules that the first step of
your march beavenward would make the
gates of hell tremble on their hinges. We
may not be as polished and trine as
many Christians we have known, and. we
may not as well understand' sharpshoot-
ing, but there is rough work which we
can all accomplish. We may be axmen
and hew a pathway through the forests.
We may be spadesmen and dig the
trenches or throw up the fortifications.
We do not care where, we do not care
what—if we can only help in the cause
of our king and shout as loudly as any
of them at the completion of the conquest.
Serfs or Zouaves.
There are nonprofessors who have a
very correct idea of -what Christians
ought to be. You have seen members of
the church who were as proud as Ahab
and lied as badly as Ananias, and who
were as foul hypocrites as Judas. You
abhor all that. You say followers of
Christ ought to be honorable, humble
and self denying and charitable and
patient and forgiving. Amen l So they
ought. Come into the kingdom of Christ,
iny bearer, and be just that glorious
Christian that you have desoribed. Every
chinch has enough stingy men in it to
arrest its charities, and enough proud
men in it to grieve away the Holy Ghost,
and enough lazy men in it to bang on
behind till its wheels, like Pharaoh's
chariots, drag heavily, and. enough
worldly men to exhaust the patience of
the very +sleet, and enough snarly men
to make appropriate the Bible warning,
"Beware of dogs 1" If any of you men on
the outside of the kingdom expect to
make such Christians as that, we do not
•want you to come, for the church has
already a million members too many of
just that kind. Wo do not want our
ranks crowded with serfs when we can
have them filled with zouaves
There are men now, as in Christ's
tixne, possessed of seven. devils. In some
instances it seems as though at conver-
sion only six of those evil spirits were
cast out, while there remains still one in
the heart, the devil of avarice, the devil
of lust or the devil of pride. Men of the
world, if you would be transformed and
elevated by the power of the gospel, now
is the time to come. It is no mean ensign
I lift this hour. It is a time honored flag.
14 bas been in terrific, battle. Draggled
in the dust of a Saviour's humiliation
from Bethlehem to Calvary. Bent by
hell's onset, the spears of a maddened
soldiery, and the hands of the men who
said, "Let him be crucified." With this
ensign in his bleeding hand the Saviour
scaled the heights of our sin. With this
he mounted the walls of perdition, and
amid its very smoke and flame and blas-
phemy he waved his triumph, while de-
mons howled with defeat and heaven.
Thronged his chariot wheels
And bore him to his throne,
Then swept their golden harps and sung,
The glorious work is done.
Again, when a grand victory has been
won, it is customary to announce it by
fla,gs iloatng from pnblio buildings, and
from trees'and from the ma,sts.of ships.
They are the signal for eulogy and re-
joicing and festivity. So the ,ensign
which the church hoists is a banner of
victory. There was a time when the re--
ligion of Christ was not considered, re-
spectable. Men of learning and position
frowned upon it. Governments anathe-
matized its supPorters. To be a Christian
was to be an underling. But mark the
difference. Religion bas compelled the
World's respect. Infidelity in the tre-
mendous effort it has made to crush it
has cbmpthnented its pewer. . And there
is not now a Mee civiii,ei. netinn led
in its constitution or lews or pronlenie
tions pays hoinage to the it nee et ce. 1 .
cross. In the war le 'ewe, Len Sir
Archibald Canipbell found in an hour of
danger that the men he ordered to the
field were intoxicated and asked for the
pious men whom the Christian ITayelock
had under his management, he said:
"Call out Havelock's saints. They are
never drunk, and Havelock is always
ready." That Christianity which gathered
its first trophies from the fishermen's huts
on the shore of Galilee now has Saan-
sonian strength thrown upon its shoulders
and has carried .off the gates of science
and worldly power. Wo point not to fort-
resses and standing armies and navies as
the evidence of the church's progress.
We point to the men whom Christ has
redeemedby his blood.'
' What if arsenals and navy yards do
not belong to the ohurch? We do not
want them. The weapon of our warfare
are not carnal, but spiritual and mighty
through God to the pulling clown of
strongholds. The world and satan have
no idea of the strength and heroism
whioh God will yet let out against the
force of darkness. As yet they have had
only one round from the first regiment.
The Lord of Hosts will soon appear in
the field at the head of his troops. De-
pend. upon it, that when God inspires the
soul with a new life he puts in it the
principle of "never give up." In all ages
of the church there have been those who
have had a faith that was almost equal
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the glad tidings of the gospel, then rail -
to sight, looking through persecution and
reverses with as much expectation as lions of wandering souls shall bad rest
through palpable achievements. There in a Saviour's pity and 7t Saviour's love,
have been men for Christ who have acted transported. from the kingdom of eaten
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tacked by Fitzpatrick of Ossory. The By and.by you would hardly know the
wounded soldiers begged that they might earth if you saw it The world, as a
t t1,n fl ht wth thetha nhn,-eTh whole shall be as greatly improved as the
said, "Let stakes be stuck in the ground individual heart by conversion. Fraud,
and. suffer each of us, tied to and sup- leaving its trickery, will go to work for
ported by one of these stakes, to battle an honest living. Knavery shall begizt to
make righteous bargains. Passion shall
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It is said that 700 or 800 men, pale and answer to the control of reason. Scoffers
emaciated from former wounds, and thus shall be changed into 'worshipers and
supporteed by the stakes, struggled, skeptics into Bible lovers. Christ shall
through the comkat.
Thus has it been I begin his reign on earth. Whether be
that multitudes of the children of God,
shall descend on to the earth in person
though feollng themselvesthemselvss weak and and establish a government at Jerusalem,
wounded, perhaps in body, perhaps in I I cannot say. But it will be an era of
estate, perhaps in soul, supported by the more than Augustan splendor. That is
staff of God's promise, have warred it up enough. Knowing this, we can never
to the hilt in the subjugation of a world despair. But as we see the church of
of wickedness, Christ putting on her beautiful garments
and arising to shine we will say, with
the enthusiasm of Oliver Cromwell, who,
standing before the sick and famine
stricken soldiers at Dunbar, saw the sun
rising out of the morning mist and,
pointing to it with his sword, uttered a
prayer *which huiled his men upon the
crushed foe like a sky full of thunder-
bolts: "Arise, 0 God! Let thine enemies
be scattered." With the ear of faith X
catch the sound, of the latter day glory.
Church of Christ, unsheath thy sword
and tbis moment into the 'battle 1 In the
name of Christ, march on! Upon every
school and. hospital, upon every banker's
desk and merchant's counter, upon every
chemist's laboratory and astronomer'i
tower, upon shepherd's but and wood-
man's cabin,upon ship's deck and sailor's
haramock, far out on the sea and high
up in the mountain, before the gaze of
nations, under the applaudits of heaven,
"in the name of God we will set up our
banners."
Ensigns and Colors.
My subject has taught you that in this
contest we are not without ensigns and
colors. All we want now is men to carry
them. Before I sit down I must propose
to each of you this great honor. Becom-
ing a Christian is not so ignoble a thing
as many have thought it. "It makes a
man stoop," you say. I know it, but it
is only the stoop of an heir of royalty,
who ap his knees is to receive a crown
of dominion. We want standard bearers
in all pulpits, in all places of business—
everywhere. I do not ask you how old
you are, nor how young, how weak or
bow strong,ihow dull or how sharp, nor
what your home, nor who your ancestors.
The Battle Cry -
We are mighty in this cause, for we
have the help of the pious dead. Mess-
engers of salvation from high heaven,
they visit the field. They stand behind
us to keep us from ignominious retreat.
They go before us to encourage us in the
strife. The MoCheynes, and the Paysons,
and the Martyns, and the Brainerds, an
uncounted multitude of the glorified, are
our coadjutors. Have you heard the
Swiss tradition? The herdsmen say that
three great leaders of the Helvetic nation,
though seemingly dead, are only lying
down under the ground in their old time
dress, refreshing theinselves with sleep,
and that if at any time the liberties of
their country are in danger they will im-
mediately spring to their feet and drive
back the enemy. May I not have the
thought that if ever the church of the
blessed.. Christ shall be threatened with
destruction by foes which seem too great
for her strength, the Lord himself will
not only come to the deliverance, but
those great ancients who have seemed. to
be sleeping among the dead shall imme-
diately hear the trumpet blast of the
church militant and full armed spring
back to their old positions in the ranks
of God. with the battlecry, "More than
conquerors througb him that loved us."
Although we have already much to en-
courage us in the work of the world's
evangelization, yet we must confess that
much of our time has been consumed in
planting our batteries and getting ready
for the conflict. We hays not yet begun
to preach. We have not yet begun to
pray. We have not yet begun to work.
On the coasts of heathendom are mis-
sionary stations. They have scarcely yet Without any condition, without any re -
begun to accomplish what they propose. serve, in the name of the God of Israel, I
It takes some time to dig the trenches offer you the honor of carrying the
church's
and elevate the standard and direct the ensigns. Do not be afraid of the
great guns. From what I bear I think assaults of a world whose ranks you
they are about ready now. Let but the desert, nor of devils who will oppose you
with infernal might. It were more blessed
great captain wave the signal and the
ringing of celestial weaponry shall quake to fall here than stand anywhere else. It
were
among the thrones of heaven. Pagodas Christ,' engagedunderfoot wwiitthh
in every dungeon of hell and sound up moretobeef tranamhpoinedor
this army of banners, tumble than, opposing
and temples shall
and besotted nations flying from their Christ, to be buried, like Edward I, in
under the shock, '
Egyptian porphyry.
idols and. superstitions, shouting like the
wYou know in ancient dines elephants
confounded worshippers of Baal: "The
Lord, he is the God! The Lord, he is the ere trained to fight and that on one
, they turned upon their owners, and
occasion, instead of attacking the enemy,
God!"
i
We go not alone to the field We have t
invincible allies in the dumb elements of thousands were crushed under the stroke
of their trunks and the mountain weight
nature. As Job said, we are in league , ee their step.
with the very stones of the field. The sun ' These mighty opportunities
by day and the moon by night, directly things in overthrowing the sin of the
or indirectly, shall favor Christianity. of 'work for Christ may accomplish great
The stars in their courses are marshaled world and beating to pieces its errors, but
for us, as they fought against Sisera. if we do not wield them aright these very
advantages will in unguarded moments
The winds of heaven are now as certain-
turn terribly upon us and under then
ly acting in favor of Christ as in reform-
ation times the invincible armada in its heels of vengeance grind us to powder.
pride approached the coast of England. I Rejected 'blessing are sevenfold curses.
We cannot compromise this matter. We
As that proud navy directed their guns ,
cannot stand aside and look on. Clarast
against the friends of Christ and religious:
has declared it, "All who are not with
liberty God said unto his winds,A
"-eize I me are against me." Lord Jesus, we sur -
hold of them," and to the sea, "Swallow
them." The Lord with his tempests,
dashed their hulks together and splinter-
ed them on the rocks until the flower of
sounding board of exultation to the
earth till it rebound again to the throne
of the Almighty. Angel of the Apocal-
ypse, fly, fiy! For who will stand in the
way of thy might or resist the sweep of
thy wing?
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render.
The prophecies intimate that there
shall before the destruction of the world
be one greab battic betweert
Spanish pride and valor lay crushed
among the waves of the sea-beaoh. All uprighteousness. We shall not probably
see it on earth. God. grant that we may
are ours. Aye, God the Father, God the ,
Son and God the Holy Ghost are our see it, leaning from the battlements of '
allies!.
Precious Seed.
The Mohammedans, in their struggles g
to subjugate the world, had passages on by their priests; the subjects of Mo -
from the Koran inscribed on the blades hammedanism, following the command
of their schniters, and we have nothing of their sheiks. And gluttony and intem-1
to fear if, approaching the infidelity and peranos and iniquity of every phase shall
malice that oppose „ the kingdorn of be largely represented on the field. All
Christ, we shall have glittering on our
swords the words of David to the giant,
"I come to thee in the name of the Lord
of Hosts, the God of the armies of Israel,
who thou hast defied."
Now the church goes forth bearing
precious seed, but after awhile it will be
the sheaf binding, and reaper angels
shall shout the harvest bome. Now it is
tents and marching and exposure, but
then, in the ranks of prostrate iniquity
and on the very walls of heaven, "in the
name of God we will set up our ban-
ners."
The earth sends up its long, deep
groan of pain and clanks the great
chains of its bondage and cries by the
voice of sea and land and'sky, "How
long, 0 Lord, how long?" There was a
tradition on the other side of the water
that the daughter of Lir was transformed
into a bird of the air, and that she wan-
dered for hundreds of years over river
and lake until the arrival of Christianity,
and that at the stroke of the first cathe-
dral bell her spirit was freed. Uncounted
millions of our race, by the power of sin
and satan, have been transformed into a
state of wretchedness, and they wander
like the poor daughter of Lir, but they
shall after awhile be released.When the
great church of Christ shall in those
heaven. 0313. the side of sm shall be
arrayed all forms of oppression and
cruelty, led on by infamous kings and
les led
the wealth and splendor and power and
glory of wickedness shall be concentrated
on that one decisive spot, and, maddened
by 10,000 previous defeats, shall gather
themselves up for one last terrible assault.
With hatred to God for their cause and
blasphemy for the battle -cry, they spread
out over the earth in square behind
square and legion beyond legion, while
in some overhanging cloud of blackness
foul spirits of hell watch this last strug-
gle of sin and darkness for dominion.
Scattered by the blasts of Jehovah's
nostrils, plunder and sin and satanic
force shall quit the field. As the roar of
the conflict sounds through the universe
all worlds shall listen. The air shall be
full of wings of heavenly cohorts. The
work is done, and in the presence of a
world reclaimed for the crown of Jesus,
and amid the crumbling of tyrannies
and the defeat of satanic force, and amid
the sound of heavenly acclamations, the
church shall rise up in the image of our
Lord,. and with the crown of victory 011
her head and the scepter of dominion in
her hand in the name of God shall set
up her banners. Then Hiinalaya shall
become Mount Zion, and the Pyrenees
Moriah, and the oceans the walking
place of bine who trod the wave crests of
gables, and the great.hedyeng becionatteee
THE FIRST WOMAN RABBI.
Mrs. IIanah G. Golomon's Appearance in.
In The Pulpit of a Chicago Synagoftne.
The Jews of Chicago aro making his-
tory. For the first time in the chronicles
of Judaism, a woman has acted as a
rabbi. Mrs Hannah G. Solomon, who
was prominently before the congress of
Jewish women, recently held in this
city, is the woman. Tha Incident took
Place in the only Jewish temple where
such a thing could happen now, the
Sinai temple, in Indiana avenue, Chi-
cago, the temple which,under Dr. Hirsch,
has led. the way in the liberal Jewish
movement.
The house was filled, not with the
young people, who might perhaps be
supposed. to be in sympathy with the in-
novation, but with elderly people, who
perhaps never dreamed that then creed.
could get so far from the traditions as to
tolerate a woman as a teacher. It was a
new page in Hebrew history—a page as
remarkable as that which chronicled the
congress of religions at the World's fair,
when a Catholic) bishop prayed before a
council of Jewish women,
President Fisher, the head of the con-
gregation, and Profeasor Rohn of North-
western university, sat beside Mrs. Solo-
mon when she appeared in the Sinai
pulpit. There was not a vacant seat in
the house, and there was not a disparag-
ing comment on the new rabbi. Presi-
dent Fisher introduce the "daughter of
the congregation" and said that he was
pleased that Sinai and its Judaism had
advanced to the point where a "daugh-
ter" might stand in the piece of a rabbi.
He claimed it to be a triumph for Jew-
ish womanhood. Mrs, Solomon read from
manuscript, taking the work of the re-
cent council of Jewish woman as her
theme. She was epigrammatic and logi-
cal.
"The woman question is settled as far
as this country is concerned," she said.
"It is all over. There are a great many
men who do not think it is over, but
there are also a great many amen who do
not think the civil war is over. They
have a right to both views: There 15 110
law against ignorance of any kind. The
man who sneers at WOMan'S work and
woman's higher missiori sneers at most
everything else in life
"It was necessary for Judaism that
women organize and save the traditions
of Judaism. The women confessed they
were ignorant of the traditions, and, the
mothers being ignorant, there was but
little hope that the coining generations
would know of them except as anemones.
The ceremonial beauties were becoming
a closed book. It is our plan to open it
and save the beauties.
"It has come to pass that the world is
asikng whether any religion is worth
saving. There are many who have lived
aright without religion, but there tare
few who can live aright without its in-
fluence. It is the Jewish mothers who
are going to save the traditions of the
ages, the prophets and the philosophers
of Judaism.t• al
than men and religion is the science of
rational emotionalisna.
"Jewish women have organized for
progress. They want to change the edu-
cation of the three R's to the three H'e
1 —head, band and heark The woman of
to -day cannot afford to live as her grand-
mother did.
"The ready made woman has gone
into the past with the self made man,
taking with her the old subject for col-
legiate debate 'Resolved, That matrimony
unfits a man for business or a woman
, for advancement.'
I "The hysterical woman has passed
away. You will find her sleeping on a
couch 100 years old and noting only each
passing hour as adding one to the daily
calendar. The woman who thinks, and,
thinking, acts, has come upon the stage
to take ber place.
"The thoughtful woman would not try
too suppress gambling. She would first
invent something to take its place. Pro-
vide amusement better than gambling
and these would be no gambling prob-
lem. It is a poor teacher who destroys
and brings nothing to take the place of
the thing destroyed. Society can cure
most of the evils of the world by ceasing
to attack them aud providing other
things which shall make the evils stea1k.
and fiat in oomparison."—New 'York
Sun.
A Strange Character.
A strange character has just died in
Paris in the person of Mme. Brasseux,
an old lady of 70. She had no relative(
and was an incurable invalid, but she
had a large fortune which she used fol
her pleasure in a most unusual way. The
filled her house, not with servants, but
with a troop of young and pretty girl&
Once a week she gave a ball, to whioh
she invited all who pleased her, irrespec-
tive of their social status. One of the
most regular attendants was a young
messenger girl, whose gentle grace at-
tracted the old lady's attention one day
in an omnibus, Saturday after Saturday
this eccentric hostess used to sit in her
ehair by the piano, watching her guests
dance. When she died, her will was
found to be as eminently Parisian as the
character of its author. To her distant
relations, who had neglected her auxins
her illness, she left only a few hundred
thousand francs, but the bulk of hey
fortune is left to her dancers, her visitors
and the members of her household. She
left 3,000 francs to one young man be-
cause he danced well. The girl of the
omnibus got 8,000 francs. Twelve thou-
sand francs went to a young lawyer's
clerk, who, bringing her some papers one
day, gratitously offered her a piece of
advice which afterward proved useful
Each of her maids is assured lodging,
board and wages during the next 14
months. The requests are not large, but
there are so many of them that they
amount to more than 2,000,000 francs.
A Wonderful Steel.
Reraarkable reports are current about
a new kind of steel invented by Samuel
Maxim at his experimental laboratory at
Wayne, Me. The inventor believes it in
be identical with the ancient steel of
India, which is alleged to have been fan
superior to any steel known to mettle
lurgists in modern times. It is said that
small blade made from the Maxim steel
possesses the power of cutting glass with
as much ease as 11 14 were chalk.
Piece Boxes.
For the sewing room piece boxes In-,
stead of piece bags are much to be pre-
ferred. These may he built along the
wall, forming pigeonholes about
inches square, duly labeled for eaohi
member of the family and for lining"
and patterns. A chintz curtain falls *
the floor in front of such a cabin
whose convenience has only to be tr
.1,
to be amply demonstneted.
The Exact Situation.
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"Poor1'1 I felber, aro yor 1 t?"
"Nope—boo-hoo—hut my ma is."—
Phil May's Annual.
Judge and Jury,
An exchange tella story of a well
known judge who is noted for his fond-
ness for conveying in his charges to
rors his own opinions in regard to the
merits of the case in hand. Recently,
in giving such a charge, he expressed
his views very plainly, but to his amaze-
ment the jury remained out for some
hours.
The judge inquired of the officer what
was the matter and learned from him
that one juror was holding out against
the other 11. He sent for the jury at
once, and stating to the jurors that he
had plainly intimated bow the case
ought to be decided said he understood
that one juror was standing out against
the other 11. He proceeded to rebuke
the juror sharply.
The obstinate juror, as it happened,
was a nervous little man, and as soon as
the judge was done he arose and said:
"Your honor, may I say a word?"
"Yes, air," said the indignant judge.
"What have you to say?"
"Well, what I wanted to say is, X am
the only fellow that's on your side,"
Charles Klein and John Philip Sousa,
are at work upon a new operetta to be
entitled "The Bride Fleet."
Jessie Bartlett bavis has announced
that she will retire from the Bostonians
at the end of the present season.
Sardou's latest dranaa, "Spiritfeme,"
has inade a good iinpression at the
Knickerbocker theater in Now York
city,