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ONTO An ex-m ’«8 919w not: mmgthmugh con- vrld renowned preacher when 'e fallen samuirthe warld 1mg them, gatowork re- takewimt unlahhareislntf, run-um Oh“ lage sweaty. with 0d Around the tad g, hulking over the m who has gone or three 0! them my get along very 2 built by pubhc that. area in the e I shall not be crowded All my politicians and who had been jokm, applaudâ€" mziug him mm mamas of young from the country 'nonymou but. evil e m and they uoum thumb. ,~ ground, eight”)! and I suppose th- 0 show med:- brav- mk othis carcass slain and whistled is helmet. Belem no; I will tell you thsuines strip 2 mice was. The be mint and come as gradually give watch. Hishedth din parishes. He way home to the Why do the low oint, but yonder had a beautiful oma had elegant WEN. beautifully u ”191$ 8,‘ Andiw apoleon mat-phat]. rhen Von Monks s a simlim-«wena oâ€"dnlwfllshow sis golngonall taken every~ flelcl ”And it. omw when the Lp the slain that three sons fallen Now lathe ring John 30d, utter- nut steps? :her is the > The un- nfl‘ydflfld, go there? , and the are. They d‘ country :rs, and and the n1 oral se for edthe )or, ith cu: good men. What have they done for your immortal soul? Almost insured its over- throw. You are hast ning on toward the consummation of. al that is sad. To- day you stop think. but it is only for a moment, an hen you will tramp on, and at the close of this service you will go out, and the questiontwill be, “How did you like the sermon?" one man will say, very well," and another man will say, "I didn't like it all," but neitker or the answers will touch the tremendous fact that, if impenitent, you are going . at thirty knots an hour toward shipwreck. Yetgyou are inabattle where you will fall. and while your surviving relatives will take your remaining estate, and the ceme- (cry will take your body, the messengers of darkness will take your soul and come and go about you stripping the slain. Manyare crying out, “ I admit I am slainâ€"I admit it. ” On what battlefield, my brothers? By what weapon? “Pol- luted imagination," says one man. ”In- toxicating liquor." says another man. "My own hard heart,” says another man. Do you realize this? Then I come to tell you that the Omnipotent Christ is ready to wall: acmsa:this battlefield and revive your resuscitate and resurrect your dead soul. Let him take your hand and rub away the numbness; your head and' bathe ed the aching; your heart and stop its wild throb. He brought Lazarus to life; he brought .Iairus’ daughter to’life; he brought the young man of Nain to life. and those are three proofs anyhow that he can bring you to life. When the Phillstlnes came down on the field, they stopped between the command they rolled over the dead, and they took away everything that was valuable, and so it was with the people that followed 1er the armies at'Chanoellersville, and at Pittsburgh Landing, and at Stone River, and at Atlantg stripping the slain, carousatl. What have they done for your fortune? most scattered it by spend- thrfl'b behavior. What, have they done for your reputation? Almost mined it with is extermination. Iris jacknlism. It. is robbing the dead. It is stripping the slain. Give in up. Oh, how you have been cheat,- ed on, my brother, from one to another. All these yams you have been underan evil mastery you understand not. What have' you: companions done for you? What have they done for' health? Nearly ruined it by m the “In a! sin and drum-ed through mm mm at poluuon atlasthavnrlsen to positive dominion a! moral power. Ion do not tell him that, do you? No, You my to him: Lam you money? No. Youmdown. Youwmhnvemgotothe dost. hand you 11 dollar? I would not land you five cents to keep you tom the gallows. You are debauched. Get out of my sight now. Down. You will luvs to stay down." And thus those bruised and battered men are sometimes accented by thou who ought to lift them up. Thus tfie' last wedge of hope Ls taken Vtrom them. Thus those who ought to go and lift and save than: are guilty of stripping the Mn. Be jumps at the {all of a teaspoon in a ‘saucer. He shivers at the idea of going away. He 'says: “Wife, don’t think my infidelity is going to take me through. For God’s sake don’t bring up the chil- dren to do as I have done. If you feel like it, I-wishyou would reada varseortwo out of Fannia's Sabbath school hymnbook or New Testament. But satan breaks in and says: “You have always thought ro- liglon a trash and a lie. Don’t. give up at thelast. Besides that you mat, in the hour yuu‘hW'w ma: gent! on that mack. Die as you lived. .With my great black wings I shut out that light. Die in darkness. I tend awuy' tram you that last vestige of hope. It is my business to strip the slain. ” Amnn who has mjecmd Christianity and thought It all trashcama to die. He was in the 'sweat of a. great agony, and his wile ul'd: "We had better have some prayer." “Mary. not. abreath of that," he said. ”The slightest word of pmya would roll back on me like rocks on a drowning man. I have come to the hour ”tbsp-amt Iwmttomaknlsthla: Sln is hard, cruel and met-cues. Instead. of helping a nun up It helps him down, and wlmn, like Saul and his comrades,. “you lie on the field. it will come and steal your sword and helmet and shleld, leaving you to the jackal and the crow. But the world and Sam (11) not: do all Lhelr work with the outcast and abandon- ed. A respectable and pennant man comes While men are in robust health, and their digestion is good, and their nerves are smug, they think their physical strengthwillget them antelythroug hthe Lust exigency. They say it is only coward- ly women who are afraid at the last. and cry out for God. I will show you. You won’t hear me pray, normlltor a. minister not want a chapter read me from the Bible." Butjfier the man has been three weeks in a. sickmom This nerves are not so steady andhls worldlycompamions are not anywhere near to cheer ,him up, and he is persunded that he must quit life. His physical courage is all gone. to die. He is flat on his back. He could not get up if . the. house was on fire. Admiteet medical skill and gentle nursing huvebeena failure. Hehaseome tohls last; hour. ‘What does setan do for such a man? Why, he fetches up all the inept, disagreeable and him-owing things in his life. He says: “Do you rememberell‘those chances you had for heaven and missed them? Do you remember 3.11 those lapses in conduct? Do you remember all those opprobious words, and thoughts and ne- tious? Don’t remember them,eh? I'll make you remember them." And then he take postomce floor. The man is sick. He cannot get away from them. 11 the: man snysto 51mm: “You have dece ved me that all would be well. You said there would be no trouble at the lust. You told me it I did so and so you would do so and so. Now you corner mo and decef'ved me that all would be well. You said there would be no trouble at the lust. You told me it I did so and so you would do so and so. Now you corner me and hedge me up, and submerge me in every- thing evil " ”He. he!" says eaten. ”I we: only fooling you. In is mirth for me to see you sufler. I have (or thirty yam plotting to get you just where you are. It is hard for you ,now. It will be worse for you after awhile. It pleases me. Lie still, sir. Don’t flinch (Jr-shudder. Comgnow; I will tearofftrom youtbelastragorax- pecgngion: I_wlll repd Pway Iron: your soul the last hope. I will leive you 'bara for the beating of the storm. It 1's my bufiness to strip the slain." o the hour orfeited it. let: me in When properly uwd one good oppdrtnn- lty will last a lifetime. “Ah! my friend, thou may'su be Bunk very low down in sin and woe:; but than is a thread of divine love that comes from the throne of heaven, and touches even thee. Seim that thread. Ii; may be small but it is golden. Improve what. you have, however little, and more shall be given: That thin thread of love, it you will not neglect it, shall lift even you up to God and glory. ‘Who hath despised the day of. email things?” "Have not our men been neglectedi he pzutornl work? Most of a minister' calls are upon the women. and this oper- ates to exclude men not only from his wr quaintnnce, but- also from his sympathg and interest. It is nothing to wonder Mi that preachers who have assuciuted all the, week with their feminine parishioners, learning their Woes, ministering to their! necds,brenthing their atmosphem and see- ing life from their angle of vision, mounc the pulpit on Sunday and preach sermons calculated more to interest and help woâ€" men than man. So the minister, for his own sake of a neglected part of his pariah, needs to spend more of his time mo the men. " . i for many a long yeah When you hesitat- ed that night on Broadway, I gained my triumph. Now you are here. Hai 1131 You are here. Come. now, let us fill these two chniices of fire and drink together to darkness and woe and death. Hail! Hail! 0h young man, will the good angel sent forth from Christ or the bud angel sent forth by sin get the victory over your soul? Their wings are interlocked this moment above you, contending for your destiny, as above the Appennincs eagle and condor fight mid-sky. This hour may decide your destiny. why have you thus domived the last, deception full «if the u it sald: "I was sent {urth tr: dwbroy your soul. I watchm of something that had wound him animund, and he said to the bad “That is it that twists me in this convolution?" and' the answer ‘That is the worm that never dies." than the mam said to the bad “What does all this mean? I trus what you said at the corner of Bro And Houston street I trusted in a' “What is that vulture ?" and the answer was, ” That is the vulture waiting for the carcasses of the slain.” And then the man began to try to pull ofi hlm the folds One night I saw a tragedy on the corner of Broadway and Houston street. A. young man evidently doubtingaa to which direc- tion he had better take, his has lifted high enough so that you could see he had an intelligent forehead, stout chest; he had a robust development. Splendid young man. Cultured young man. Honored young man. Why did he stop there while‘ so many were going up and down? The fact is that every man has a good angel and a bad angel contending for the mea- tery of his spirit, and there was a good angel and a bad angel struggling with that young man's soul at the corner of Broadway and Houston street. “Come with me,” said the good angel. ‘ “I will take you home. I will spread my, wings over your pillow. I will lovingiy‘ escort you all through life under super 1 natural protection. I will bless every cup‘ you drink out 0!. every couch you rest on, ‘ every doorway you enter. I will consen; rate your tears when you weep,your sweat when you toil, and at last Iwillhand over your grave into the hand of the bright angel of a Christian resurrection. In answer to your father-9’ petition and your mother‘s prayer I have been seat of the Lord out of heaven to be your guardian spirit. Come with me," said the good angel in a voice of unearthly symphony. It was music like that which drops from. lute of heaven when a 50mph breathes on it. “No, no,” said the bad angel. “Come with the. I have something bettertoofler. The wines I pour are from challicea of be- witching carousal. The ianoe I lead is over floor tessellatod with unrestrained indulgences. There is no God to frown on the temples of sin where I worship. The skies are Italian. The paths I tread an through meadows, daisied and primrosed. Come with me." The young man hesitat- ed. at a timewhen hesitation was ruin,and the bad angel smote the good angel until it departed, spreading wings through the starlight upward and away until a docs flashed open in the sky, and forever the wings vanished. That was the turning point in that young man’s history, tenth good angel down, he hesitated no longer, but started on apathway which is beanti fol at the opening, but blasted at the last. The bad angel. leading the way, open gate after gate, and at each gate the became rougher and the sky more lurid, and what was peculiar as the‘fl “a med shut itmme to with all M Gated thatit would novel We, each portal, there was a 7 ‘ ' and a shoving of halt. Ill either side of the mad dens to deserts, and the June air a cutting December blast, and the bright wings of the bad angel turned to sackcloth, and the eyes of light became hollow with hopeless grief. and the fountains that .at the start had tossed with wine poured forth bubbling tears and foaming blood. and on the right side of the road there was a ser~ pent?" and the man said to the bad angel, um um nmham and son - womanâ€" God ble. “mud-came on flnld with bmnamdpadnnnd towalnnmi line and cordial: and Clix-{man encouragemonnond fellows that. lay than lltted up eh Luna and mild. “011, 11018000. that feel since yqu Aimed m" md others 1 had up and said. ”Oh. how rm make me think ofmy mother!” and others Bald. “Tell the folks at home I died thinklng about them," and another looked up and_ laid, "Mina won't you sing me a verse at ‘Eome, Sweet Home," Morel Illa?" And then the tattoo was sounded, and the hats gm ofl, and the marine was read, “1 mu the Munoctlon and the me," and in hanurotme departed the muskets wure loaded and the command given: “Pusan“ Fire!" And there was a shingle set up at the head of the grave, with the epitaph of “Lieutenantâ€"In the Fourteenth Muss- ohnsetts regulars," or ”Captainâ€"1n the Fifteenth regiment of South Carolina- vol- unteers.” And so now across this green field of moral and spiritual tha angels of God come walking among the slain. and there are voices of comfort, and voices of hope, and voices of mumtiomancl voices of haven. A Thread of Divine Love. Neglecting The Men. [evolved me?" Then hi? the charmer. and {urth from the pit to I watched my chimed lt never dies." And m the bad angel: man? I crusOed ln corner of Broadway I trusted in all mad round And (hpld doesn't kfiow a doilar from I doughnut. Loving art for art's soko lino-t granâ€"fly unlike loving pie for pia'a sake. Tact is sometimes an acquired habit, but never in its highest form. A loud laugh in a woman is liken noise in a picture. Poetry is the language of poverty. #ney is often a concealed weapon. omen hate with their hearts and do- splse with their hemi‘. V Semng a poem or a picture doesn't. Lnâ€" jum the sentiment of either. In that. far. woman is neither u. poem or a picture. to fight. again The combatants some: times succumb to a long contest, but gem emlly they only take superficial damage and um immediately wndy to feed. After 5 match they are ulwuys rested a week or longer. according to the extent of their in- juries, and most of the rents and cuts are repaired by nature. Enthusiastic owners often wager £6 or £7 or more on their favorites. and many people mm a little money in this .wuy by breeding fighting fish and then backing them against others. Halfmhmu' later the grocer entered the -lmrenndwwted his 810 back as the > = received from the shoe mun - dt. 39 got it of courswmd .~- "the shoe dealer out of ”an. of the drummers had Some said the shoe mm Some nid 810 and other! - he was out 828‘ Who was right? - matter is not 'smtled, and Western is still waiting for his drink. Half a dozen shoe drummers met. at the Palmer House the other evening and were mking about. country trade and incidents of their journey. “ Western Pete, ” as be is called by his friends.ofl'ered to stand treat :11 around 1! anyone could give a correct solution of a little incident chm had been told to him by one of his country custom- ers,and this is the story that. Western Pete hold: “Well," he snld slowly, so as to make the dlgnlty of the mansion mom apparent, “I decline to tell you. You ought to know better, slr,thnn to try to get me to answer nquestlon that would incrimlnate mo." and he passed along in the lumber Ihadows, leaving his friend standing In a dazedcondlclon. both cases of them are pretty well yam-s. One night, they hupponcd t, on their way home, und though on‘ And tried to keep in the shade, the \vuutln‘t have It. that way. It was 9 that he wanted something. for be t his legal friend without ceremony. Charlie," he said. ”ls that you?” “Course It 15,” n‘b s’pose I Wm; g did You? What 5' It was two o'clock In the morning and the man in the shadow of the street knew it, and appreciated the fact. ‘ “Well," he said slowly, so as to make In one of the lntorlor towns of Mlchl- gun reside two lmvyvrs who have a. weak- ness which manifests itself at periodical anrans. In is only In a mild form. though, so thelr frlouds rather take lt mm joke than as a serluus matter, ospeclaly as both cases of them are pretty well on In years. One night, they hupponcd to meet on their way home, und though une shlzd Ind trled to keep in the shade, the other \vuutln‘t have It. that way. It was evident yhnt he wanted something. for he tncklod The spectacle of u steamship takinga flying leap down u sheer descent of sixteen feet is an unusual one and "my be fairly described as “thrilling." This Is what a big stmmer dld on thu Mauchcslcr ship mnul hum waekâ€"smmlml lts way thruugh a pair of gates wulghlng 300 tons PMY‘, lending one to the bottom and wn-nchlug the other ofl lts'mckcts. and itself took a leap of sixteen feet to the next- lech P£30311“. u well an Dally Pnpen Con- tribute to Make cm- Department 0! g Our Paper of General Inma- tailing a cholm bit of so “0h certainly not. ‘ "How did you hnppun t . “My wife told me S Womanâ€"can't kocpn so EmSCELLANEOUS READING. "Now, you mung not lea this go any flu-fiber, " mid Watts to McDMvd utter ra- tnlllng a cholm bit of scandal. Want to kno€v FOR THE OLD AND YOUNG. man THAI 0 fl) FIGHT. Weltern Pete's Conundrum stub Ends of Thought. Be Know His Busineul Secret- \\'|ll Out.‘ A Weasel‘n n the shade, the other mt way. It was “idem nothing. for be tackled thou! ceremony. “Say, ”Is that. you?” Nils the response. ”Dld- ‘ing around in disguise, m want?" what Elmo it is, that's '." said Mchvld. to hem- it?" She is just like any womb. of course." Jump An old admiral, well known for his power of "mgmilon. was dowriblng a voyage at- supper one night. “While crim- ing in the Pacific. ” he said. "‘we an island which was posiiively It'd with lobsters." ”But," said one of the guests, smiling incmduloualy. “lobsiers m not red until boiled." "Of course not," re- plied theundnunted admiral; “but this was 3 volcanic island with boiling springs!" 0mm keeps m contrary to Lh and habit are right. he chose the base, the gradually crox tel-1y supplant cultivate: thv g cultivation cm mum. be) felt. for the guud s the evil is m 1 mm: of histu‘ Man 1:3 good deal like a know the fish would never gx of those whn hnv the 9le pan of th‘ good In Its place, n sort of paslon f1 in m as h om. me. but 1 cannot thu actor. General his name. “I got fear I should ask I in the war.“ Jefl‘eJ story. Worse that own name. He 1:: at some small r954 knov n and asked any ms“ for Mm. asked the clerk. “ 1y. Wh-y, let me Wlpkk; you him he astonished and But dolor-on Remembered That no Played Rip Van Winkle. Some of the mostamusing stories of the trick: of memory are thsose which illne- trate the facility with which porper namee escape the recollection. They elude you like greased pigs. “Then I had it on the rd of my tongue," and “I recall your me, but for the life of me. I can't piece you," are so commonly heard as to excite no comment. “By the way how do you spell your name?" inquired a young lady of an old acquaintance. She took this Way of recalling, without cmharrmment. a name that unaccountably escaped her recollection. “S-m-i-t-h," he replied 00 her oontusion. It is related 0! Joe Jefler- son that he was one day introduced to General Grant, an event. that naturally impressed him strongly. Later in the day, wording to t 'ew York Mail and Ex- press, he got in 0 an eleyator of the hotel at which they were both stopping. A short heavy set man also got- in. lifted his hat to Jeflerson. and made some remark. “I beg your pardon. Your face is familiar to entrant: absence was lined with soldiers through its entire length and on the day previous to tho ceremony. which is known as thnt of Birkni-Che (the kissing oi’ the mantle), and composed of ten om- nuthority of the min- 0, made a minute inspection Midge of Knmkieul, which .mully‘w by mum The impart-l prooesfion. however. reached the mogquefithout incident: Incident. rounded by troops, wh( agalnts longm W m death, tbt Khe 333 w saw marl. laugh unl wile smil John Minor, 01 1‘15 West. 'Lun'Ay-flflh (reenwu arraigned in the Jam-non Mar- keb police court ywtmdnyon the charge 0! attmnpwd suicide, my] the New York Ro- cordon to kill himself. "Why. he had the, rope ummd his 3‘ wlfiu [it'll-1118 out," subbed she. ‘d {hi mu} '1'! nplv llul F th The dl The Tl ‘t 1‘ Getting Out of I Tlght Place. 1 old admiral, well known for 1111 n- of "mgumdon. was dowriblng a ge at- supper one nlnht. “While crim- n the Pacific.” he sald. "‘we [land which was positively It'd with era.“ ”But," said one of the guests. 3h! the sultan was the ceremony were taken to I rnt. Yildjz Ki‘ rd rugurding allrgul c Mussulmhn vh-nm -uled with the pn's Specially by the :‘on one were taken on It n'a annual visit, (4 FORGOT BIS OWN NAME '11‘ in the bed 101m Miller. ~sllne coiled man woke h {ugh it 111 '3 been gettiu lately, and um Miller refusu him. and hr \ , thanks lived his A Love For thetGood. Ihl Wanted To'SonM HI- Wife Unveiled Once u Tc o seduliou: to the palw The route t mtch which the policeman: m. r match flickered tornminute, as lit, and what (he policeman s hlm full over on che bed and i] he crimL Even the sad-(wed flux: was thus obllgndt >erfnuouy the greatest p woke him up. John‘ ut as he was fully _( unkcd him out of bed an police smtlon, whemr In cuurt he denied that to kill himself. only tc 1- Then-was the i be policeman and r way tcwm-d the was black as Ink. ruspsot the woman rt 11‘ v. the t 165 IIW air liv haw )r the delilx nude some remark. “I little 11k Your face is fnmlliu- to to come, mall the name," said was “1 1; Grant couneously gave that 31:0 011‘ at the next floor. for Since uh lim If he had ever been has beuL rson sald in relating this and mu: l thanhe once forgot his dred tom; at )it; hm before this , a 100 for the good nger and the thirst est. assurances that. fly. The great, eon- sll M the humblest (13011011 in rejecting ves uud substituting m been actuated by :- beauty of holiness; mate. calm and pm L ls sure to triumph h. true and pun, ,he heart what. in nhrough its entlro 13' previous to tho known as that of :ing of the mantle), wmmmded by a iph luD eat, any untoward was literally an:- ment of Albanian guarded all the uring the sulun's 31d Semgllo Point ping comfortably, .1 pl (it )i let-k. “ Yes, med. politely med himsen the name?” yes. certain- y Rip Van rson," stud lblew ( :mm In Ml]! the ‘lng a crim- droom. nd the moo 'U 1: you have my “rant,“ uld‘fil Judge, “ for win: you Inn done 1 mm possibly mm“ the flue." " Your Honor 1: very kind," mplledm swarm: with mock humility, hunting the money to the elm-k. “ and I hve mo 1.- gret that I hnven'r. n mama mm .20 bllil" ‘ you: ago one hundmd considered Anson prodigi little likely to be exceet The 0011 the attorn The Great Expenditure of Trnnutlnnflc Ste." that should find : Sinc- then, howem has been educated u; and mumenu of m dred tons a day have c than passing notice. titty tons. in fact, a in the Pen-ls and tho twenty-four hours. I: facts Nona little gun thuph by man and immediately pm cured perfect mlid [I ma firmly believe it saving my life." If your hen-I: Human. pdpltu out easily, 1!. la diseased. and should not be delayed a single Agnow‘a Cure for the Heart relic Instantly, and will efl’ec! a radic Atlu York. Gravel Leader Dr. Agnaw's Oumifl Dr. Agnew'l Clue for the "curt Believ- ed me of Agonlzlng Pain In Twenty llnnteu and was the loan- of hi- in‘ My Life. So ny- In. John Jun- Iooon. 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