HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1897-5-6, Page 3AN APPEALFOR INDIA,
REV. DR, TALMAGE IN BEHALF OF
' A FAMINE STRICKEN PEOPLE.
"Blessed is He That Considereth the root.;
, the Lord Will Deliver Him in Time or
Trouble"—A Thrilling Story or a Pros-
trate Feople.
Chicago, May 2.—Dr. Talmage is on a
missiat a bread, for the famine sufferers
of ladle. He is speaking every day to
vast audiences in Iowa and Illinois, help-
ing to 1111 the ships provided by the Uni-
ted States government for carrying corn
to India. Text, Esther i, 1, "This is
Ahasuerus whioh reigned from India
even unto Ethiopia."
I Among the 773,698 words which make
up the Bible only once occurs the word
"India." •In this port of the Scriptures,
which the rabbis call "Megillah Esther,"
• or the volume a Esther, a book some
times complained against because the
word "God" is not even once mentioned
in it, although ono rightly disposed can
• see God in it from the first chapter to
the last, we have it set forth that Xerxes,
or Ahasuerus, who invaded Greece with
2,000,000.mene but 'returned in a poor
fisher's boat, had a vast donainion, among
other regions, India. In my text India
takes its place in Bible geography, and
the interest in that land has continued
• to increase until with more and more
enthusiasm all around the world Bishop
Heber's hymn about "India's coral
strand" is being sung. Never will I for-
get the thrill of anticipation that went
through my body and mind a,nd soul
when afteietwo week's tossing on the
seas around Ceylon • and India—for the
winds did not, according to the old hymn
"blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle"—our ship
sailed up one of the mouths of the Gan-
ges PAO Jainea and Mary island. so
named because a royal ship of that name
Was wrecked there, and I stepped ashdre
at Calcutta, amid the shrines ;fend tem-
ples and sculptures of that City of Pal-
aces, the strange physiognomies . of the
living and the cremations of the dead.
I had never expected to be there, be-
cause the sea and. I long ago had a seri-
ous falling out, but the facilities of travel
are so increasing that you or yoor chil-
dren will probably visit that land of
boundless faseioation. Its cionflgoration
is such as no one but God could have'
architected, and it seems as if a man wt.°
had no religion going there would be
obliged to acknowledge a God, as did
the cowboy in Colorado.' His companion,
an atheist, had about persuaded the cow- =
boy that there was no God, but coining
amid some of that tremendous scenery of
high rooks and awful chasms, and depths
dug under depths, and motnitabes piled
on mountains, the oowboy said to his
atheletio companion, "Jack, if there is
no God, I guess from the looks of things
aroundhere there must have been a God
some time." No one but the Oinnisoient
could have planned India, and no one
but the Oinnepotent could have built IL
It is a great triangle, its base the Him-
alayas, a word meaning "the dwelling
place of snows," those mountains pouring
out of their crystal oup the Indus, the
Brahmaputra and the Ganges to slake
, the thirst of the vast populations of India.
That country is the home of 240,000,000
•souls. Whatever be one's taste, going
there his taste in gratified. Some go as
hunters of great game, tend there is no
end to their entertainment. Mighty fauna
—bison, buffalo, rhinoceros, elephant,
panther, lion, tiger, this last to be the
perpetual game for Americans and Eu-
ropeans because he comes up from the
malarial swamps where no human being
dare enterethe deer and antelope his
accustomed. food, but once having ob-
tained the taste of human blood he wants
nothing clse and is called "the man
eater," You cannot see the tiger's natural
ferocity after he has been bumiliated by
a voyage across the sea. You need to hear
his growl as he presses his iron paw
against the cage in Caleatta, Thirteen
towns have been abandoned as residence
becauee of the work of this cruel invader.
In India, in the year 1877, 819 peoplr
were slain by the tiger and 10,000 cattle
destroyed. FrOM the back of the elephant
or from galleries built among the trees
e,500 tigers went down and $18,000 of
government reward was paid the sports -
:nolo I advise all those who in America
and, other lands find amusement in shoot-
ing singing birds, coming home at night
with empty powder flask and a whole
choir of heaven slung over their shoulder
to absent themselves for awhile and at-
tack the justifiable game of India. Or
if you go as botanists, oh, what opulence
of floral. With no distinct flora of its
own, it is the chorus of all the flora of
Persia and Siberia and China and. Arabia
and Egypt.
Two Great Passions.
• Tbe Baptist missionary Carey, wbo did
inflate good to India, had two great
passions—first, .ev, passion for souls, and,
next, a passion for flowers—and he
• adorned his Asiatio home and the Ameri-
can homes of his friends and museums
on either side the sea with the results of
•ee his floral expeditions in India. To pre-
' h.pare himself for morning prayers he was
.accustomea to walk amid the flowers and
treee. It is the heaven of the amonolia
and aeelmosk and palm tree. Theethno-
logist going there will find endless enter-
tainment i the study of the races now
living there and the races of whose blood
they are a commingling.
The historian going there will find his
theory of 'Warren Hastings' government
in India the reverse from that which
Edmund Burke gave him inthe mesa
famous address ever made in a court-
room, its two characteristics matchless
eloquence and onesicledness of statement.
Tae archaeologist Will be thrown into a
frenzy of delght as he visits Delhi of In-
dia and. digs down and Made seven dead
cities -underneath the now living city:
All success to tho littoters,and the botan-
ists, and the ethnolgists, and the histori-
ans, and the arclmologists who visit In-
• dia, each one on his or her errand. But
we to -day visit India as Chrietian women
and men to hear the full meaning of a
groan of hunger that bas travelled 14,000
miles, yet gets louder and more agoniz-
ing as the days go by. But evhy Mae
any interest in people so far away that it
is evening there when it is miming here,
their complexion darker, their language
•, to us a jargon, their attire unlike that
found in any American wardrobe their
memory and their ambition unlike any-
thing that we moan or hope. for?
With more emphasis thaa you put into
the •interrogatory " Why?" 1 answer,• ,
, first, because our Christ was an A.siatie.
Egypt• Neve to us its monuments Rome
" gave to us its law, Germany gave to us
ite philosophy, brit Asia 'gave to us its
Christ. Big mother an Asiatic; the
mauntains that looked down emon
oanks he rested. and on whoSe chopped
waves he walked, Asiatic); the apostles
whom he first commissioned, Asiatic;
the audiences he whelened with his illus-
trations drawn from blooming lilies and
salt crystals and great rainfalls and bel-
lowing tempests and hypocrite' long faces
and croaking ravens—all those audiences
Asiatic. Chz•ist during las earthly stay
Was never outside of Asia. When be had
16 or 18 years to spare from hie Dative
work. instead of spendiug that time in
Europe, I think he goes •farther toward
the heart of Asia—namely, India. The
• A men obtains a proper rule of action
by looking on his neighbor as illillaelf.
An Eloquent Appeal:
From that continent of •interesting
folk, from that continent, that gave the
Cbrist, from that continent which has
been endeared by so many missionary
heroics, there comes a groan of 80,000,-
000 people in hunger. -More people are in
danger of starving to death. in India to-
day than the entire population of the
United States In the famine in India in
the year 1877 about 6,000 000 people
starved to death, That is more than all
Bible says nothing of Christ from 12
the people of Washington, of New York,
years of age until 30, but there are
of Philadelphia, of Chicago put together.
records in India and traditions in India
whoeh represent a strange, wonderful,
most excellent and supernatural beiug Ete
staying in India about that time. I
think Christ was there much of the time
between his twelfth and his thirtieth
year, but however that may be, Christ
was born in Asia, suffered in Asia, died
in Asia and ascended from Asia, and all
that makes me turn my ear more atten-
But that famine was not a tenth part as
awful as the one there now aaging.
Twenty thousand are dying there of
famine every day. Whole villages and
towns have died—every man, woman and
child; none left to bury the dead. The
vultures and the jackals are the only
pall -bearers. Though some help has been
sent, before full relief can reach them f
suppose there will be at least 10,000,000
tively toward that continent as I hear its
cry of distress. dead. Starvation, even for one person,
is an awful process. No food, the vitals
Noble missionaries. gnaw upon themselves, and faintness
Besides that, I remember that some of and languor and pangs from head to
the most splendid aohievements for the foot, and horror and despair and insanity
cause of that Asiatic Christ have been take full possession. One bandful of
made in India. How the heart of every wheat or corn or rice per day would keep
intelligent Christian beats with admire- life going but they cannot get a ha,ndful.
tion at the mere mention of the name of The crops failed and the millions are
-Henry Martyn! Having read the life of dying. Oh, it is hard to be hungry in a
our American David Brainerd, who gave world where there are enough grain and
his life to evangelizing our American fruit and meat to fill all the hungry
savages, Homy Martyn goes' forward to mouths on the planet! But, alas, tbat
give his life for the salvation of India, the sufferer and the supply cannot be
dying from exbaustion of service at 81 brouglit together. There stands India to -
years of age. Lord Macaulay, writing of day. Look at ben Her face dusky from
him, says:— • the hot suns of many celaturies. Under
Here Martyn lies. In xnanhood's early her turban suoh achings of brow as only
bloom • a dying nation feels; her eyes hollow with
The Christian hero found a pagan tomb. unutterable woe; the tears rolling down
Religion, sorrowing o'er her favorite son, her sunken cheek; her back bent with
Points to the glorious trophies which he more agonies than she knows how to
wou. r carry; ber ovens containing nothing but
Immortal trophies! Not with slaughter ashes. Gaunt, ghastly, wasted, the dew
red, of death upon her forehead and a pallor
Nor stained with tears by friendless such as the last hour brings, she stretches
orphans shed, forth her trembling bana toward us and
But trophies of the cross. In that dear with 'hoarse whisper she says: "I am
name, • dying! Give me bread! That is what I
Through every scene of danger, toil and want! Bread! Give it to me quick. Give
shame, • it to' me now. Bread bread, bread!"
I
Onward he journeyed to that happy shore, America has heard the cry. Many
Where danger, toil and shame are known thousands of dollars have already been
no more, contributed. One ship laden with bread -
stuffs has sailed from San Francisco for
Is there in all history, secular or re- India. Our senate and house of repre-
ligions. a more wondrous character than sentatives in a bill signed by our sym-
William Carey, the converted shoemaker pathetie president have authorized the
of England, daring all things for God in secretary of the navy to charter it vessel
Luba translating the Bible into many to carry food to the famine sufferers.
dialects, building chapels and opening and you may help fil1 that ship. We want
mission houses and laying fouridations t -
o send.at least 600,000 bushels of corn.
for the redemption of the country, an:d That will save the lives of at least 600,e
although Sydney Smith, who sometimes 000 people. Many will respond in eantra
laughed at things he ought not to have butions of money, and the barns and
satirized, bad in the learned Edinburgh corncribs of the entire United States
Review scoffed at the idea of what he will pour forth their treasures of food.
called "lowborn, lowbred methanies" When that ship is laden tin it can carry
like Carey attempting to convert the no more, we will ask him who holds the
"Brahmans Carey stopped not until he
winds in his fist and plants his trium-
had started influences that eternity, no phant foot on stormy waves to let meth -
more than time, shall have power to ar- ing but good bappen to the ship till it
rest, 213,000 Bibles going forth from his anchors in Bengal or Arabian waters.
Printing Presses at Seranmore. His sub- They who help by contributions of money
lirne humility showing itself in the tad- or breadstuffs toward filling that relief
taph he ordered from the old gospel
hyena:— ship will flavor their own food for their
lifetime with appetizing qualities and
A vvretched, poor and helpless worm, insure their own welfare through the
On thy kind &MIS I fall. promise of him who said, "131essed. is he
• Need I tell you of .Alphonse Lacroix, that considereth the poor; the Lord will
the Swiss missionary in lndia,„ or .of deliver him in time of trouble."
William Butler, the glorione American Something to Eat.
Methodist missionary in India, or of the
Oh, what a relief ship that will be It
royal family of the Scudders, or the Re.
shall not turn a screw nor hoist a sail
formed Church .of America, my dear
until we have had something to do with
mother churoh to whom give kiee of
its cargo. Just 17 years ago frorn these
love in passing,or of Dr. Alexander Dnlie
Easter times a ship on similes errand
the Scotch rnissionau7 whose visit to this
went out from New York harbor—the
country some of us will remein bee for -
old war frigate Conseellation. It had
ever?'. 'When he stood in the old Brondway
once carried guns of death, but there was
tabernacle, New York. and pleaded for
famine in Ireland, and the Constellation
India until there was no other depth of
was loaded with 500 tons of food. That
religious. emotion for him to stir and no
ship, once co-vered with smoke of battle,
loftier 'might of Christian eloquence for
then covered with Easter hosannas! That
him to scale, and closed in a whirlwind
ship, constructed to battle England, go-
of halleluiahs, I could easily believe that
ing forth over the waters to carry relief
'which was said of hien, that while plead -
to some of her starving subjects. Better
ing the cause of India in one of the
than sword into plowshare, better than
churches in Scotland he got so over -
spear into pruning hook, was that old
wrought that he fell in the pulpit in a
'war frigate turned into a white winged
swoon and was carried into flee vestry to
angel of resurrection to roll away the
be resuscitated, and when restored to his
stone from the mouth of Ireland's sepule
senses and preparation was being made
cher.
to carry hint out to same dwelling where
On like errand five years ago the ship
he could be put to bed, be compelled his
Leo put out with ninny tons of food for
friends to take him back to the pulpit to
famine struck Russia. One Satartlay
complete his 'plea for the salvation of
aftern000, on the deck of that steamer
India, no sooner getting on his feet than
as she lay at Brooklyn wharf, it wondrous
he began where he left off, but with more
scene took place. A comnaittee of the
giganticuower than before he fainted.
Daughters bad decorated the ship
But just as noble as any I have men- King's
with streamers and bunting, American
tioned are the men and women who are
and Russian flags intertwining. Thou -
there now for Christ's sake and the re -
sands of people on tbe wharfs and on the
demption of that people. Ear away from
decks joined us in invoking God's bless -
their native land, famine on one side and
ing on the cargo, and the long meter
black plague on the other side swamps
breathing on tlaem malaria, and jungles Doxology in "Old Hundred." souuded
grandly up amid the masts and ratlines.
howling on them with wild beasts or
Having had the joy of seeing that ship
hissing with cobras; the names of those
thus consecrated we had the additional
missionaries of all denominations to be
joy of standing en ,the docks at St.
wietten so high on the roll of martyrs
Petersburg when the planks of the relief
that no names of the last 1,800 years
ship were thrown out and the representa-
shall be written above them. You need to
tives of the municipalities and of royalty
see tlaem at their work in schools and
event aboard her, the long freight train
churohes and lazarettos to appreciate
their at the same aloe rolling down to take the
them. All boiaor upon them and
food to the starving, and on alternate
households, while I smite the lying lips
cars of that train Aioerican and 'Russian
of their slanderers!
flag floating. lent new he hunger in
Their Religion. India is mightier than any that Ireland
Most interesting are the people of In- or Russia ever suffered. Quicker ought
dia. At Calcutta, I said to one of their to be the response and on so vast a scale
leaders, who spoke English well:— that the one ship would become a whole
"Have these idols . which I see any flotilla—New York sending one, Boston
power of themselves to help or destroy?" another, Philadelphia another, Charles -
He said: "No; they only represent God. ton another, New Orleans another. Then
let them all meetinamne harbor og In -
There is but one God."
"When people die, where do they go dia. What it peroration of mercy for the
to?" nineteenth century! I would like to stand
• "That depends upon whae they have on the wharf at Calcutta or Bombay and
been doing; if they have been doing see such a fleet come in. Witia what joy
good, to heaven, and if they have been it veould be welcomed! The emaoiated
would lift their heads on shriveled heads
doing evil, to hell."
"But do you not believe in the trans- and elbows and with thin lips ask. "Is
migration of souls, and that after death it comiog—something to eat?" And
we go into birds or aniinals of some whole villages and towns, too weak to
walk, would crawl out on hands and.
sent?".
"Yes; the last creatuve moo. is knees to get the first grain of , corn they
thinking of while derino is the one into could reach and. put it to their famished
which he will go. If lie is thinking of a /ips. May I cry out for you and for
• bird, he will go into a bird; if he is others to those, sufferers: 'Wait a little
thinking of a beast, he will go into a longer, bear up it little more, 0 dying
beaet." • . men, of India 1 Relief is on the way, and
"1 thonglet you said that at deatIcthe more relief will soon be cornieng. We send
soul goes to beaven or hell?' ,it in the name of the Asiatic Christ, woo
"He goes there by . gradual prooess. said, 'I was hungry and ye fed me; Inas-
It may take /aim years and years, . much as ye bay° done it unto one ,of the
"Can any one become allindoo?' Could least of these, my brethren, ye bane clone
I become a Hiudoo?' it unto ine ' " •
Cheistion people of .Ameriea I I call
"Yes, you could.'
•
your attention to tile fact that we may
"How could I become a Efindoo?" '
"By doing as the Hindoos do." now, as never before, by one mag.nificent
ream the walls of one. of their muse- stroke open the widest door for the even
urns at Jaipur bad translated for xis gelization of Asia. A stupendous obstacle
in the way of Christianizing Asia has
these beautifed sentinients
The wise make failure equel to success. been the difference of language, but all
Like threads of silver seen through those people understand the gospel of
crystal beads, let love through good.deeds bread, Another obstaele has beet. tnela,w
sbow. • of oasts, but in what heftier way can we
Do not to others that svhieh if dooe to Mach. them the brotherhood of man? An
would cause thee pain. And this is other hag° difficulty in the way ;of
Asiatic; the lakes on whose pebbly the sum of duty,
Ceristianizing Asia has been that theSe
people thought the religion we would
have them take was no better than their
Hindooism or Mohammedanism,but they
will now see by this crusade for the re-
lief of people 14,000 miles away that the
Christian religion is of a higher, better
and grander type than any other religion,
/or when did the followers of Brahma,
or Visbnu, or Buddha, or Coofueius, or
Moba.mmed ever demonstrate like inter-
est in people on the opposite side of the some striking and entertainioa facts that
world? Having taken the bread of this have undoubtedly escaped the closest at -
life from our hands, they will be more tentiou of Americans, even those who
apt to take from us the bread of eternal were present. Nothing is more curious
life. The missionaries of different de-
nominations in India at 46 stations are
already distribnting relief sent through
The Christian Herald. Is it not plain
AN AMAZING FESTIVITY.
Presld e 111 eKin ley's Inauguration as Los-
azi nett by at French Journalist.
The Figaro of Paris two days after
President McKinley's inauguration pre-
sented to its readers a vivacious account
of the oeremouies of the day drawn from
a Parisian imagination, vebich conveys
than this ceremony, observes the French
journal, to wbion an altogether indi-
vidual character is leot by the tempera-
ment of the American people. The hero
that those inissionaries, after feealng the of the day, lar. McKinley, has been for
hunger of the body, will be at better ad- a week installed with his family modest -
vantage to feed the hunger of the soul? ly in a little villa far froin the noise and
When Christ, before preaching to the the crowd. Surrounded by his family, he
5,000 in the wilderness broke for tlaem has staid till midnight of March 3 in
the miraculous loaves, he indicated that , his office, and bis secretaries, who have
the best way to prepare the world for been warding off office seekers in the
spiritual and eternal considerations is next room, declare that they beard chaxn-
first to look after their temporal inter -1 Vagne corks popping above the joyous
ests. Oh, ohnrch of God in America and bursts of laughter that kept up all the
have on occasions of Christian patriotism On Tuesday, when noon struck, the
Europe! This is your opportunity. 'Wei evening!
cried, "America for Godl" Now let us President elect, without -uniform or pomp
add the battle shont, "Asia for Godl"
In this movement to give food to starv-
ing India I hear the rustling of the
wings of the Apocalyptic angel, ready to
fly through the midst of heaven pro-
claiming to all the leingdonas and people
and ;tongues the unsearchable riches of
Jesus Christ.
A Divine Circle.
of any kind, clad in an overcoat and a
high hat, went on foot to the capitol to
take the, oath and to come into contact
with the people. There is nothing more
primetive or more grandiose than this
procession, which characterizes the
American democracy in such an impres-
sive way. The only official element in it
is a detachment of soldiers and marines,
who march at its head, but surrounding,
And now I bethink myself of some- preceding and following Mr. McKinley
thing I never thought of before. I had there is a vast mass of humanity which
3aotioed that the circle is God's favorite stretches as far as tbe eye can reach. Tbe
figure, and upon that subject I addressed "marshal," or chief of police, keeps it
at a proper distance by a sign.
When lee reaches the threshold of the
palace, the president uncovers and walks in
alone. Having taken the oath and deliv-
ered his speech and reviewed the garrison
of Washington, he returns to the White
House. all the time afoot and continually
hemmed in by thousands of people sing-
ing "Yankee Doodle' or "Star Spangled
it crossed to America. It has prayed and Banner. ' Mr. Cleveland welcomes him
preached and sung its way across our and hands him the keys of the house.
continent. It has crossed to Asia, taking Then come the diplomatic reception and
the Sandwich Islands in its way, and the first cabinet meeting.
now in all the great cities on tbe coast But the fatigues of the day are not
of China people are singing "Rock of, over for the new president He has to be
Ages" and "There Is a Fountain Pilled present at a public .banquet of 10,000
With Blood," for you must know that covers at $1.25 a head, served in tants
in the pnblie garden ancl to open the
'ball which is the last of the festivities,
.at the dinner Mrs. McKinley does the
boners, dazzling in the charm of her
youth, wearing a gown of white satba
spanzled with silver and adorned wieb
venetian lace and precious stones. The
menu offers it variety of extraordinary
dishes—fried oysters, chicken cutlets,
veal in rice, chioken lobster and crab
salads, pates de foie grass and Roman
• punch. If wine is passed, it is certainly
not with the approval of the temper-
ance societies, who have organized a
demonstration the day before against the
generous wines of France.
The ball that marks the close of the
festivities is of an unheard of magnifi-
cence, and it certainly is no common
sigbt to see 10,000 people dancing at the
same dine in a tent in the public garden.
For the future the new president does
not belong to himself, but is the prey of
journalists and reporters. Already they
hays published the list of things con-
tained in his baggage and that of Mrs.
McKinley. Clothes, linen, jewelry, sil-
verware, toilet articles --everything has
been counted, labeled and delivered over
to the curiosity of the public. One
transatlantic journal has even published
a picture of the sheep whose wool fur-
nisbed the cloth from which the presi-
dential overcoat was made.
you some tune ago, but et did not occur
to me until now that the gospel seems to
be moving in a circle. It started in
Asia, Bethlelaem, an Asiatic village;
Jordan, an _tested° eiver; Calvary, an
Asiatic mountaile, nen this gospel
moved on to Europe; witness the chapels
and ehurohes and cathedrals and Christ-
ian universities of that continent. Then
not only have the Scriptures been trans,
lated into those Asiatic tongues, but also
the evangelical hymns.
My missionary brother John translated
some of them into Chinese'and Mr.
Gladstone gave me a copy of the hymn,
"Jesus, Lover of My Saul," wlaieh he
had himself translated into Greek. The
Christ woo it seems spent 16 or 18 years
of his life in India is there now in spirit,
converting and saving the people by tbe
hundreds of thousands, and the gospel
will move right on through Asia until
the story of the Saviour's birth will anew
be made known in Bethlehem, and the
stoey of it Saviour's sacrifice be told anew
on and around Mount Calvary, and the
story of a Saviour's ascension be told
anew on the shoulder of Mount Olivet.
And then do you not see the circle will
be complete? The glorious eirole, the cir-
cle of the earth. This old, planet, gashed
with earthquake and scorched with con-
flagration and torn with revolutions, will
be girdled with churches, with schools,
with universities, with millennial festivi-
ties. Bow cheering and. how inspirbeg
the thought that we are, whether giving
temporal or spiritual relief, •svorking on
the segment of such a circle, and that
the Christly mission which started in
Asia will keep on its way until it goes
clear around to the place where it
started. Then the earth will have demon-
strated that for which it was created,
and as soon as a world has completed its
mission it dies. Part of the heavens is a
cemetery of dead worlds. Our world,
built to demonstrate to the worlds which
have been loyal to God the awful results
of disloyalty, so that none of them may
ever attempt it—I say our world, having
finished its mission, may then go out of
existence. The central fires of the world
-which are burning out rapidly toward
the crust may have reaohed the surface
by that time and the Bible prophecy be
fulfilled, whioh declares that the earth
and all things that are therein shall be
burned up. The ransomed human race at
that time oxi earth will start unhurt in
those chariots of fire for the great me-
tropolis of the universe, the heaven,
wbere the redeemed of the Lord shall
talk over the famines, and the plagues,
and the wars which this earth suffered
and against which we struggled and
prayed as long as there was any breath
in us. Glorious consummation!
Christian Generosity.
May 10, 1869, was a memorable day,
for than was laid the last tie that con-
nected the two rail tracks which united
the Atlantic and. Paciflo oceans. The
Central Pacific railroad. was built from
California eastward. The Union Pacifie
railroad was built westward. They were
within arm's reach of sneeting, only one
more piece of the rail traok to put down.
A great audience assembled, enitl-conti-
nenato see the last tie laid. The locomo-
tives of the eastern and svestern trains
stood panting on the tracks close by.
Oration explained the occasion, and
prayer solemnized it and music enchanted
it.. Tho tie was Iliad° of polished laurel
woodaeolincl with silver bands, and three
spikes were used—a golcl spike, presented.
by California; a silver spike, presented
by Nevada, and an iron spike, presented
by Arizona. When, all heads uncovered
and all hearts thrilling with emotion,the
haanrner struck the last spike into its
place, the cannon boomed it amid the re-
sounding mountain echoes, and the tele-
graphic instruments choked to all no-
tions tient the deed was done, My friends,
if the laying of the last tie that bound
the east and the west of one continent
together was such a resounding occasion,
what will it be when the last tie of the
track of gospel influences, reaching olear
round, the world, shall be laid amid. the
anthems of all nations? The spikes will
be the golden and silver spikes fashioned
out of the Christian generosity of the
hemispheres. The last hammer strike
that completes the work will be heard
by all theraptured and piled up galleries
of the uutverse, and tho MOUOtaille of
earth will shout to tho thrones of
beaven: "Halleluiab I For the Lord God
omnipotent reigneth. Halleluiahl For
the kiogdonts of this world have become
tlee kingdoms of our Lord Jesus Clirist 1"
The Wretch.
The Brooklyn school priocipal -wbose
suit for reinstatement is being tried be-
fore a jury ba Brooklyn admits baying
said, "Let any one of you gentlexnen try
the experience of being an tunnarried
roam thrown daily among 45 old maids
and see what will come of it," Away
with hi/ill—Boston Globe.
Dr. Bale's Twin Brother.
Dr. Henry M. Field of The Evangelist
and Dr. Edward Everett Hale are the
same age to a day. Both were born on
April 3, 1822. It pleases them that their
years are meal, and the fact that they
have but one birtladay betweeu them has
formed one of many ties that have helped
to maiiataln a long continued intimacy.
Dr. Field sonde The Week/3, the last
birthday letter he received from Dr.
Hale. It is dated at Washington and be-
gins, "My dear young friend." In the
course of it Dr. Hale sayse—
"Frankly I ought to say that I am
hardly conscious that I am an old man.
I sometimes think it would be better if I
looked in the glass more often. I am,
when I think of it, quite aware that I
do not see myself as others see me.
"I think I enjoy life more than I did
50 years ago. I am sure that some things
wheel' I cannot 'nonage fret me less than
they did then. And I am quite sure that
I see better bow man, the child, can be
a fellow worker with God, the Father,
than I did then. - Snob a coworker has,
course,af infinite power—so far forth—
and he wo has that is apt to be cheer-
ful. I try to learn to let youuger men
and the evozuen of their age do the bard
work of the world. I try to comae's my-
self to giving them advice and enconrage-
ment, brit do not aleva,ys succeed."
Judging from Dr. Efale's mood and
philosophy, it is a remunerative experi-
ence to be 75 years old, .provided the
preliminary steps are well taken. The
letter winds up with Dr. Hale's ex -pres-
sion of regard for his "dear twin
brotber." "So he calls me his twin
brother " says Dr. Field. "I am very
proud of my twin brother, and he, to
judge from his letter, seems evelesatisfled
with his."
Long life to these brethren and many
cheerful returns of their joint birthdayl—
Harper's Weekly.
The Sufficiency of Life.
What business has the young vigor of
20 to demand that the fire shall be warm
and the seat cushioned and the road
smooth? Let him not parade his incom-
petence for life by insisting that life is
not worth living unless a man is rich—
unless, that is, the abundance of life
should be eked out with wealth, which
is an accident of life, not of its essence).
Let him. not insult himself by behaving
as if the sunshine or the shower made it
difference to bine Let those poor slaver-
ies wait until the heart is soured and the
knees are weak. No, the young mans
placo is to .scorn delights. Our gilded
youth are not—and they ought to kieow
that they 'are not; they ought to be told
that thev are rote—choice young men
when they Study of their life is to .spare
themselves pain and surround themselves
with creature comforts. It is a sign that
they have oot got bohl of the sufficiency
of lila. They do not know • what pure
gold is; and so they try to eke it, out
with gilelizig.—Phillips 'Brooks, .
lir-CIRCUIT RIDER.
CHRISTIANITY OWES MITCH TO
• HIS ZEAL AND ENDURANCE.
eneeleenee.
Ere—If I should kiss you, would you
call your mother?
She (naively)—Why, no; she wouldn't
zare to be kissed,
His Lite During' the Early Days of Method-
ism in Cana,In Was Often One of Great
Ilardship—The Story of One NQW Enjoy -
ing a Ripe Old A.45.
From the Siancoe Refornaer.
In the early days of Methodism in Can-
ada the gospel was spread abroad ha the
land by the active exertions of the circuit
rider. It required it roan of noeordinall
health and strength; an iron constitu-
tion and unflagging deterndoation to ful-
fil the arduous duties incumbent on ono
who undertook to preach salvation to his
fellowmen. It was no easy task that
these men set themselves to, but they
were strong in the faith and hope of ul-
timate reward. Many fell by the wayside,
while others struggled on and prospered,
and a few are to -day enjoying a ripe old.
age, happy in the knowledge that it last-
ing reward Will soon be theirs. Most of
these old timers are not' now engagel in
active ohurch work, but have been
placed on the superaonuated list, and are
now living a quiet life in town or on it
farm, free from the cares of the world,
they await the call to come up higher.
Rev. David Williams, who lines two
miles southwest of Nixoo, Ont., in the
township of Windham, Norfolk County,
was one of these early days circuit riders.
He was a man of vigorous health and al-
though without many adaantages in the
way of early educatiou he succeeded by
dint of hard and constant study in being
admitted to the nainistry. He was the
first born in the first house built in Glen
Williams, near Georgetown, Ur, Geo.
Kennedy, the founder of Georgetown,
being a brother of his mother. To -day he
is '70 years old and for the past 06 years
has lived in this county. For many years
be had beenit sufferer from kidney and
kindred diseases. Be tried all kinds of
remedies, and although sometimes tern.
pQrarily rellevedl be gradually grew worse
until In October, 1895, he was stricken
with paralysis. From this he partially ree
covered and recovered his powers of
speech, but leis inind was badly 'wrecked
and his memory -was so poor that he
could not remember the name of the per-
son to wbora he wished to speak without
thinking intently for several minutes.
One day driving to church he wished to
speak of a neighbor who lived next to
him foe. twenty years, but he could not
recall the name for an hour or more. In
addition to his mental trouble, he had
Intense bodily sufferin'g. pains in the
head, across the forehead, in the temples
and behind the ears, across the lower
part of the skull and in the joint of the
neck. He had great weakness and pains
In the back, hips and legs. In fact, so
much did he suffer that sleep was almost
an impossibility, and he fell away in
weight until he weighed only 145
pounds. By this time, Dec., 1895, be be-
came despoodent and felt that if he did
not soon obtain relief, he would soon bid
adieu to the things of this world. On the
20th of December be read ot a cure in
The Reformer by Dr. Williams' Pink
Pills'and being seized with a sudden in-
spiration at onee wrote to Brockville for
a supply of that xnarvellous remedy. Im-
mediate good results followed their use
and he has improved wonderfully during
the past year. He has recovered his bodily
health and strength, is comparatively
free from pain and his memory is nearly
as good as it ever was and as the im-
proverecinte continues the prospeocs are
very bright for complete recovery. He
bets gained 20 pounds in weight since be-
ginning the use of Dr, Williams' Pink
Pills. Mr. Williams says: "I can heartily
endorse the many good things said of
these pills in the papers, and strongly re-
commend them to any one suffering as I
was."
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are a blood
builder and nerve restorer. They supply
the blood with its life and healtb-giving
properties thus driving disease from the
systole'. There are numerous pink colored
imitations'against which the public is
warned The genuine Pink Pills can be
had only in boxes the wrapper around
wbch bears the full trade mark, "Dr.
Williams' Pink Pine for Pale People."
Refuse all others.
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