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TALMAGE IS A IS A TACTICIAN, Ho eliaves. in. Stratagam in the Christian Warfare. _ "ny Plan of Keligious Attack, However or Uunconveational, elble--4 Different Pian of Campaign Advocated--The Power of Example. Washington despatch : In his sermon for to-day Rev. Dr. Talmage took for his subject The Power of Example. The text selected was Judges ix. 48: "And Abimelech took an axe in his hand and cut down a bovgh from the trees and took it and 'laid it on his sboulder and said unto the people that were with him, What ye have seen me do make haste and do a3 I have done. i am all the people likewise cut down very man his bough." Abimelech is a name malodorous in Bible history and yet full of profitable Suggestion. Buoys are black and un- comely, but they tell where the rocks are. The snake's rattle is hideous, but it gives timely warning. From the plazza of my summer: home, night by night, I saw a lighthouse fifteen miles away, not pla there for adornment, but to tell hele to stand off from that us point. So all to the for- tation and it eet his us e und ese obstinate iniquities" land 'ti then, dled by o. nail with a very poor The city of Shechem i ahi tai. vate ee en, da Abimelech Ww re heart.3 -- song, more heart in our al ore heart in our prayers, aanctveart in our preaching. Oh, for less o Abimelech's sword and more of Abimech's confia- ration! I had often head There is a fountain fille: with blood sung artistically by tour drds percned on thelr Sunday roost ir the gallery until I thought of Jenny Iind and Nils- n and Sontag, and all tie other war- rca but there came no one tear to an ve and glazed eyes, looking up beggingly for far th et néeting house In rmngeges pore and at tle close of the service a blac oman inthe middle of the audience Geran to si and all the audience join: were floated some three gr four m nearer heaven than I hare ever on, ere ie groan stopping not, be- spot for it to rest, so full is the aece of other groans. A city wounded! A city dying! A eity dead! Wail for inachean. all ye who know the orrors of a sacked rolis across the as. cause there is n that hymn. town. As I look oter the city I can find a as we all wént down under For sinners plunged beneath that flood Line all their guilty stains. - "on a. my friends, the -- is not . ° with the dayspri from on mar when Chris: gives tight to a soul I have heard Parepa sing, but there was no music in that com- pg with the voice of Christ when he ins = koreever thee; go -Let every one cut down a iresch me ths tree of life }and wave it. Let all the way from ;} Mount Zalmon to Shechem be filled } with the tossing oy Go -news! | This bonfire of the "gosrel shali con- ) Sume the last temple of sin and will i ry a the sky w pocalyptic joy, | t Jesus Christ came into the worid is save sinners. s prostrates-a-wro favor of as ieaueh all the doctors; and the bishops, and the archbishops, and the ynods, nd the academical ie mae of Christi anity sanctioned | limb-of-a tree cut down, and not only poy but--has- put it on Shoulder ust as Abimelech show him how. re these men all armed with ag ne tree f u of the temple at Berith, and Abime- lech takes his limb of a tree and throws it down, and the first platoon of soldiers come up, and they throw down their branches, and the second platoon, and third, until all around about the temple of Berith there is a pile of tree branches. The Shechemites look out from the win- dow of the temple upon what seems to them childish play om the part of their-enemies. But soon the dints are struck, and the spark begins to kindle the brush, and the flame comes up al through the pile, and the red elements roy wood- e.arm of | side | ews gore Abimelech's puts it om Abimelech's shoulder, 'ana marches on, then, my text J agai all the people did the sama I that was! What made Garitala = | Stonewall Jackson the m magneti | commanders of this Scntury? They al- rae 3 rode' ahead. Oh, the overwheilm- ing power of examiple!. a father on the wrong road Al his em go om the wrong mad. Here father who enlists for Christ. His e left side of | children enlist. I saw in some of the e tempie, until they. clap their =| picture galleries of Europe that before night sky, the great works of the re er the Aa | many o the cry of "Fire! within and "Fire! ; ~;the old masters--there would be som without announces the terror, and the times four or five artists ¥ master- | a it ay being copied, and long | t will gone h ang alse orit bg a er of f: dlast in theese homes of those who knew | Madonna. ¥O | you, and b the weaponry of olden times--javelins, battleaxes, habergeons--and "Show me a single weapon with which Abimelech ark you want yourse:! shoulder their duty, Where Abim will join Ww one branch of the tree -- = life cor & batcm, marehel marsha! fust as aS you can ga' - Ob, the infinite, th the oe p Stic of a good or a ou are only up to be cut to pieces." Yet you are will- ing to testify to-day that by no other a dierent style day shouldering his whole duty there are a at many who never lift an axe or swing a bough. It seems me as if there were 10 drones in every nice! tol b bee; as though there were 20 waar sound asleep In the ship's ham- mocks to 4 men on the stormy --_ I seems as if there were 50,000 m longing to the reserve corps, an aan only | 1,000 active combatants. Oh, we an you! What do you know, my brother, 'ing gospel made to storm Now, my idea of a Chris- tian is a man on fire with zeal for God, know the one and her & poor chance | of getting to the other. = = fon me Sabbath. ae reco: ofChrist to-day should bring the eburch | records into the pulpit and read, oh, what a flutter there would be! There | would not be fans eneugh in chure urc pulpit and call the roll, for chat is pon I consider ev- t o be--merely a mus- Lord's army, Soo the ame to headquarters that these delinquents exc th xing their feet wet, or that they were : * be you not see the | troops? Hear ye not all the trumpets of | to what artillery service, to what gar tison duty do you 1 w yer meeting do you | penitentiary do you declare sterani tiberty? To what aims- ; house do you announcé the riches of | What broken bone of | have og ever set? Are you doing not ; ing? Is it possible that a_man-or-w? man-swortt tO be a follower of Christ ts doings nothings? $ horrible secret away if you are dk ing not eg do not let | the worid:find it out, lest they charge} | Your religion with being a false face. | Do not. let your cowardice and treasom; } | Of that cause for which they agonized | } and died. ¥ the eternal God rouse us all to Oh, Rater how waitthe | the time goes by! r of speed electric. } The temple of Berith ts very broad, and it is very high. It has been going | up by the hands of men and devils, and mp. Sin and worldliness and folly, it would need oe cher ep they we ; Said: "Bert will take | of to touch off the pile, for, as in the days of E fire would fail from hearen and kindle the bonfire of Christian v ric | tory over demolish: Sul r, I learn from this subject soon ese Shechenfites got into the tem- were safe. care | Abimelech one batter down everything I | else. He cannot ppose every person this moment is stepping into nd Acie yo ere -- Step in the tower shall e mo | and they were afraid of get- the drums of hell? | ne match or coal or torch of ours} The ey o- i claring, "By the deeds of the Inw shail meow "iy = "Th oon ari "Well," you say, ave m drive: tower, Where shall en- | gaged in avery mean business, aaviag | us iz tower to tower." o! I want to tell you of a Gibral- | ; tar 'that never has and never will be taken, of a wall that une hogy = sault can scale, of a bulwark ¢ judgment earthquakes steph The Bible refers to it whe n God is thy beet "Bate bd andes some one, "you a | nTread down un- | AWedoe an that Sakae e yourself into it!- ceremoniously cepts you. | There are enough hounds of death aa i | peril after-you to make you hurry. Many | rished Qh, get inside! second have you Spare. Quick, a quick! ANOTBER WIGGINS. This Time in Connection With the Famous Pletzel Case. The following despatch has going the rounds of United papers : Indianapolis. Ind.. Jan. 2%--H. W. Bullock, of this city, who has been deavoring to secure evidence on which } Holmes received a letter from William Wic- } Sins, 168 Parliament street, Toronto, } Ont. in which Mr. Wiggins maya he | | believes he knows me-- rolls oi bille--aad whe! ite Sot into the trouble al ped fonce he bee Z Q! as arrested household goods, - but le" He Stands about 5 feet age, Irish, ciieve 2 hookéd" or Roman nose. mystery here." f iggins was seen last night at ; his residence, and questioned as the authenticity Of the letter. | mitted having written one like it, al- though he denied any i of the Indianapolis man. His | ¥ersion of how he came to oro te and send the letter was as follo "Last Monazy.F read in the ers i that Mr Butioek was looking for evi- dence on which to secure a new trial for Holmes the m letter might be the mysterious Hateh. Know that he came to Toronte at about the same time Hehnes~ts pieget to hare reached the city the Pitere: chiktren----A<---f KAY ae Stuteri, I fount out he was here mier a chow, and. thousit that if | they heeded money te seture a Rew trial for Holmes, and ilateh has what } Was secured sbisag! the insurance, they ~ with th | besides the heavyweight and his to | no been | States | assisting the detectives who are en- i to; ames. Head- | man to whom I 'referred 1 mY ig $3 So ei" Ba THE HUMAN BRUTES: The Heavyweight Pug Before and Afver Taking. AND THEY CALL IT MANLY. Mufiled to the ears in a dark blue Sweater, the meauvyweight sat in his dressing-room. A couple of furrows denoting concentrated thought ap- peared In the nurrow space between his eyebrows and hair. He was about to enter the ring and expose his chin to the deadly knock-out blow. Near this magniliceent human 'brute hovered his tramer. aiso ateir- lea in a sweater, keenly alert to every. | moye and sound. The suave gentie- man in the role of financial backer. | who manipulates the gate receipts, t in bh, | pocket, but with a good prospect of if fondling a coupie of dollars knew "the heavy- ture went right. He ' The = falta contained little friends. wide a table opposite stood a num ttles seemless, -- --_ linim also ponge, come -- and Gael, and un- or the tab Outside coake be Konia the roar of ithe rabble at S6 per head, enjoyinx P the preliminary bout as seen cEroaeh the murky haze of tobacco smoke. | The event of the evening--the meet- jing of the hearr yy bebe next on the programme. A favored few gain- ed admittance to the dressing-rooms, | for there were twoor three retreats ee dpmase looking men in cheese col- ; ored overcoats and diamonds a shade , Or two lighter crowded in to shake the hand of the thumper on whom , ther had Staked their money. and to of encour: ; t was a painfully solemn Bebe Impressive -- on. Now | then the trainer, lest he be overiooked the shadow of the stellar attrac- bi Loommgars diussad i inary. scratch on y che, piekied } aigtes of his employer. : Eventual the battie takes place, : ly ; and at the end of an oe the heary- as hts The is the mysterious Hateh, | ] . and eo aees familiarity tg = first t astute individual is e- solicitous for the welfare of personal know- | euriousiy wrought bottle. The shape of the flask creates t ion that the liquer is of a superior quality, distilled expressiy for winning pug He is slow rene dressin victor, for the cess es On his neck, breast and arms enbance his popularity 100 per cent. But he nifects net to notice these wotniis aud chats gayty about how he knew that dub wo af With Lim, ete part, however, with the gate receipts, and spend the night iz dr.nking cham- € himself, is welts. and pagae. 3 Across in the other dressingt+room the dub efits biinking diczily at va- | Canty. He shakes so that the tra is i Who fs the man aia where tha | Lee lite > ae decline to say. ER "TF ha het gm ai urderi man is not Ha n he is <tr in Toronto ?~ } - Yes! 7 ; and althourh be sold ail his furniture at the time Holmes was arrested he ' : has sinee furnishe? another house and i | is living there with a woman and her | two children. Ive frequently seen bhfm hand mi a | bonds. ling larse sums of money and ; to and Fm not give a bit more in- | formation, even o the k shou.dnmt Rare Yee Tt he didn't aeink the } Seription of the ma: | that of Hatch he secu hare thrown | it into his waste basket "Br the war, went line of besiness } are you engaged in. Mr. Wizsins T° "None in particu! ar. 4 a tit- tle of everything." . che i € ; { ; Dr. Agnew"s Cure for the Heart Relieved Me of Agentzsing Pain tn 20 Minutes and that the He lives not far from here | Now, Ive said all Pm going | | the sports who supported the a the fight. and which fouowed as he was | Renton from the ring. still sound in } the ~~" rs of the man. iis tomaek has been ham and welded 3 and muscle im his pula rachion. bodr aches. detectives, | that! man bebe taltio? with | isy sarod to pee without support. Afte: an ur of grooming the victim: of misplaced money, sodden is ee Was the Means of Saving My Life. Says | Mrs. John Jamtesen, Tara. Ontario. | ts inside of 3 and firmly --€ it was the means of saving my tires If pcr' heart eciare. 'palpitates or | is diseased, and About three pea ago I was at- | ; he opens a. saloon and power in polities. --N- Y¥. Journal SECURING, A RECEIPT. aA gentlensstf exes 'asked a lawyer what he would do provided be kad man 5500 and? the man left : the country without sending any ac- know ; "Why, that's simple : hi! kaw jest write