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RE ws + (JATHE^HH VOL. V. MACEDON. N. Y., SATURDAY, APRIL 29, 1893. NO. 28.\ ' | LOLA PULASKI -OB- 'The Victim of Circumstan tial Evidence. A Story of Nihilistic Plottlngs and Grimes. BY LEON EDWARDS. rCIIArTF.lt XVI._C0NTn.-uED.] Tlio cell was clump and cold, and he shuddered as ho folt fo r tho little hand she extended t o him. \Why did you vonturo here?\ she asked. \Tospeyou; to talk with you,\ said Ivan, sinking his voice to tho key she had Bet . \Oh Ivan, Ivan!\ she sobbed. \ I fear i t is you who struck this blow. I was assigned the work, and once, once, I felt that 1 cc uld do it; but my ami grew powcrlc ss i n his presence.\ \ \Lola ho asked, earnestly, \do you think I am a liar?\ \I do not.\ \Then you will believe what t tel l you?\ \Without doubt.\ \To shield you I intended to slay this man.\ \And 1 becked vnu t o hold back \ \\ou did, Lola, but Mulelc. the trai tor, and that coward a n 1 snake, Peter the student, stung mo iut > taking mi oath that General I'nul should dio by tuy hand. I—I have been <!• s>i erale'\ \And with good cause, Ivan, still— still \ \Still Lola, I did not strike the blow, and a s I should be judged i n heaven 1 d \ not know who did, though I have a suspicion \ \ I aiii triad to hi a r that— tetlfpfipaJ that,\ she MI d Then, afte r a pause \Lance told me to-night the General was dead; what have \ou he ml\'\ \I have heard the crowd on the street saying he was dead, but that cannot be true.\ \Why not, Ivan 1 \ \Because there ar e guards sta'ioned on the streets lea ling t o the hoti 1 where he lius ami they forbid al l sleighs pas-iitg that way. I heard two soldiers talking, and one of t u m sn d 'It was the pa tare o f that woman tl .it he wore over ln ^ heart that prevenli d th< bullet lrom going deeper ' \ \Did the s ddn r s say what woman's picture it was'-\ she asked, eag -rl\. \No that »n ni l I h. avd \ \But you h i aid peopL- spe.d; about me''\ \Yes tlio ]io 'pl o ar e co.n el that you tired the shot, so that whether the General dii s o r g Is well it will go hard with you u iho real culprit i s no t found, e\en t!uu I can see but one wav i save vnu.\ \\\ hat i s that . Ivan?\ \It i s a v ay that is m my power alone.\ \Then you will tell me?\ \I cannot, wait till the time for ac - tien comes,\ said Ivan, with a resolute ring i n his voire. She half understood him, and was i n tho act of rea< hing out her hand to im plore him t o ilo nothing rash.whon her purpose was i hanged on hearing the tramping ot approaching men and the jingling of bells, while Lance's coarse voice could be heard calling out \Khc is i n cel l three.\ \Si me one coining to se n me,\ said Lola, quickly \Yon must not be found here. Lance i s helpless at pre.\ent. Get under the In d \ The steps stopped before the door, and the gleam of a lantern flashed through the grating Ivan was a s quick to ac t a s Lola was to comprehend the situation He darted under tho little cot and Lola roso and stood i n a position so a s to screen him, fo r the key was grating in the lock The door was thrown open and Lola saw tho night turnkey standing beside Count Liijwold. \JIiss l'ulaski,\ said the Count, with a frigid bow, \ I have come to talk with you.\ \And 1 am readv to hovryou,\ she replied, v> ith a manner quite a s haughty as his own. \These ar c not pleasant quarters for a lady,\ said tho Count, glancing about the dim cell. \They are not o f my choosing.\ \Peoplo who plan crime should ox- pect such a residence But i t is not of this I wou'd talk I hear that you denv being tho assailant of General Paul ?\ \1 do, most emphatically.\ \Do you know who the assailant is?\ \If I did,\ she replied, \I would not tell at this time.\ \In-deed! \I ha\e given you my answer, sir . What more have you to s-ay, o r have you como t o feast your eyes on another •of your helpless victims '\ \No I am hero by order of the Czar.\ \Did he s nd you to seo i f my quarters •were sufficientl y wretched to\ suit tho -taste o f his seivne mightiness?\ \Ho sent mo to take you to General S|aul . It is said that gallant young •• 1 tier i s dying, and his last requo-t js t o >:ea the woman who dealt tho fatal b'. w \v.cni r'il Paul may have requested to so • n\.. but i t i s false, and you know it to l,o lalso, when you sny that ho in - tima'es that I am hi3 slayer.\ \It is the privilege o i the desperate •to say what they please,\ said the Count, showing hi- teeth \Ai d the priv i ego of cowards,\ she retorted, \t o attack whore thcro is no •danger o f defense.\ \You are not helping your case, young woman \ \It is folly to mend a shattered mir ror or a broken egg. My case is as -bad as falsehood, treason, and treach ery can mako it . What moro ran you do than tako tho lifo you have •done so much to curse?\ she asked, with a glow i n her dark eyes that .alnmicd tho Count. \Come with me,\ he said, stopping ibaclc from the door. \I am foolish to bandy words with you.\ Lola asked to be loft alone while sho put on ier hat and cloak, and tho Count and the night turnkey withdrew a few paces and talked in low tones. Hastily throwing on her hat and cloak sho stooped and whigperod: \Patience Ivan; I must Jgo. Lance will come back and release'y°u-\ She reached him hor hand and he pressed it to his lips, but did not utter a word. ' She went out; tho turnkey looked tho door behind hor, and Ivan could hear the steps of the threo receding down the corridor in the direction of the prison reception-room. \It is very uncomfortable hero,\ ho fhnnorht. \but Lola stood it and so can 1, till ijanco gets an opportunity to re lease me.\ He sat on tho bed, and as it was very cold, lie wrapped a blanket about him, and he listened eagerly for the foot step of tho bearded giant. He could hear the hollow coughing of prisoners in tho colls near by, and occasionally ho hoard a groan that seemed to come from a broken heart. Hour followed hour of intense dark ness, and yet no Lance came. Ho could not think ho was entrapped, and yot his suspicions were aroused. Ho dare not cry out; thero was nothing for it but to remain still, and this he did till tho cold, gray dawn came from the corridor through tho bars of the cell. CHAPTER XVII. THE WOUNDED MAN'. So prominent was General Paul as a soldier, a noblo of tho empire, and an attache of tho Czar, that his attempted assassination spread tho greatest alarm and consternation through tho oapital. \They will not hesitato to strike at the Emperor next,\ was tho exclama tion with which the higher classes greoted each other, when they stopped to discuss the news. When tho Czar heard that Lola Pulaski was General i-auis assailant he could not credit it. Either the report was false, or else Count Linw old's story of the General's attachment for tho girl was. Even General Paul himself had de clared to the Czar that he loved this girl, and it was only reasonable to be lieve that she know of this lovo and returned it The pistol had been placed directly against General Paul's heart, and tired. That it would have killed him in stantly there cannot be the slightest doubt, but the force of the bullet was checked by a portrait, m a case, of tho woman who was supposed to have tired tho pistol. The fact soon became known, and it foimed a subject for general com ment. As it was, tho bullet struck through the breast, and lodged in the muscius, just above tho heart. Tho shock would havo killed most men, but the General was young and strong, and after the bullet was ex tracted, ho regained consciousness, and began to rally He had a vivid recollection of every thing that happened, up to the mo ment the shot was fired, but from that time on, till tho bullet was removed from his breast, all was a blank. Whether prudently or not, he was told that Lola Pulaski was his assail ant. It was understood by the General's attendants that tho Czar ordered that this be done. 'Iho General insisted with all tho emphasis he was capable of, that it was a man who tired the shot. Ho did not attempt to explain why he was found in front of Lola's houso, and that she was a m sted in tho act of bending over him within a minute after the shot was tired. \It is my wish,\ he said to the phy- sieiaus, among whom was Dr. Mulok, \that the Countess be brought hero at once.\ \My daughlor, Elvira, your be trothed'\ exclaimed Count Liuwold, who happened to be standing near the wounded man. \No sir,\ replied tho General. \I want to see the Countess Pulaski.\ \The Countess Pulaski!\ cried Count Linwold, and the physicians looked from one to tho other, as if to indicate that their patient was raving, and ech >ed \The Countess Pulaski I'' \Aye gentlemen,\ said the young soldier, \that is as much her title as Czar is that of Alexander the Second, our most gracious sovereign. But, as the name seems to shock you iuto doubting my sanity, I'll be plainer, if you desire it.\ \Wo do desire it,\ said Count Lin wold. \Count Linwold!\ \Yes General.\ \Pray by what right do you adopt the royal we? Speak for yoursolf, sir, and do not ape your master by inti mating that you are more than one man. You havo angered me onough, sir \ \I am sorry for it, General; pray calm yoursolf.\ \These men say I ranv not live; it is my wish to seo XiOla Pulaski, Countess of Warsaw, before I die. I should also liko to soe her old father, the noblest and most deeply wronged man in the empire; but I suppose that I, too, will be charged with treason if I ask for too much.\ \I shall sco that Miss Pulaski is brought here at once,\ said Count Lin wold, leaving tho wounded man's room, with wonderful courtesy of man ner and malignant bitterness of heart. 'Hint Lola might be conducted with safety, tho Count went in his own sleigh for hor. He was Count in rank, but in cun ning ho was a very priiiCe of shrewd ness and fo\y cralliness. Ho was determined to find out Lola's feelings tor tho General. He know the General's feelings for hor only too well. Ho was unfortunate in tho way ht approached Lola in the cell, and as wo have seen he stung her into madness. He dotenmned to be more politic when they got iuto the sleigh, for at once, with well-feigned sorrow, ho be gan to deplore the misfortunes that had come to the poor girl. \I am indifferent to your sympathy or your hate,\ sho said, with spirit. \But if you aro capable of feeling tho pity you profess, go to your master, the Czar, and tell him that my father, now within the walls of the Neva E rison, is an innocent man. Even if e wore capable of thinking treason, the age and infirmities brought on by years of cruel tortures in the mines of Siberia would incapacitate him from raising his hand .against the Czar.\ \Miss Pulaski, I want to help you, and I will promiso to seo that you and your father are freed on ono condition,\ said tho Count, with a manner that showed he did not believe what she had just said. \What is tho one condition?\ sho asked. \That you and your father leave tho empire and never return to it.\ \How long will you give mo to think of that condition?\ \Twenty-four hours, and I will fur ther seo that you aro provided with money to pay all your expenses and es tablish you in a now homo.\ \Money!\ sho repeated, bitterly. \Let tho Czar restore the estates of which my father was plundered and wo shall havo money to help the poor; but only in this way can wo accopt it from tho Czar.\ By this time tho flying sleigh drew up before General Paul's private hotel, and a lino of soldiers at once formed on either side. [TO BE CONTINUED.] BEAUTY OF RELIGION. REV. DH. TALMAGE'8 SERMON The Foolish Excuses Made By Porsoni for Keeping Out of Churohos. TEMPERANCE. WENT DOWN. 'Twos not i n old ocean's passion, 'Twos no t i n tbo battle's din, 'Twos not in th e arctic darkness, Nor yet l a th e tropic sun, •Twos no t i n a leper's prison, 'Twos no t b y tbe cyclone's glee. 'Twos never an earthquake's horror. That ravished my boy from mo . Through th e gates of a sinful pieasuro, 1 Bereft ot his spotless name, With naught but a smiting conscience. With who but himsalf t o blame? He fought au d h e fell—tho tempter Beguiled him with laughter and song, Forgetting his G o I au d mother, My poor, weak bo y went down. For tho brand of th e beast besottod. He bartered his manhood's crown, Ho broke tlio ono heart that loved him. E'er its idol wa s razed to tho ground , Dead, the ashes that cumber tbe altar Where onco tho bright e m ers shone, Life's love light 4s shrouded forever. Since my boy, my boy, went down- Had tho waves in pitiless frenzy But swallowed hi m up in tbo deep. Ha d tho hurry an d tumult of c-trnago Sealed his eyelids forever in sleep. I'd have reckoned bis early translation Of the All Father's love but a sign. But t o stumble an d fall through temptation, Turns to lite's bitter dregs all its wine. Yes, miuo is th e same old story Tha t runs down thecycle of year?, From its birthday, till lime is hoary. There aro crosses tor mothers, an d tears, And the idols wo press t o our bosoms Lie sbattored in fragments around; And the asbos are cold ou th« altars For our boyf, ou r boys, have gone down. O, th e plague is more merciful, heaven. Than this blight ou tie bloom, oi our youth. For tho coflln-lid hides hut tho vestures, And tho soul, disenthralled, soars aloft, Wc, Niobes, shudder uud wonder, Au d strugglo to bite back tho moan; But the traffic in souls is protected. And our poor tempted boys roust g o down. —Gertrude Stanhope, in tb o Voice. \NOT ASHAMED OK IT AITHER.\ ••And y o have taken the teetotal pledgo, have ye?\ said somebody to an Irishman. \Indado I have, an d I'm uot ashamed of it aither.\ \And did no t Paul tell Timoth y to take a little wine for his stomach's sake?\ \3o he did, bu t my name isn't Timothy, and there's nothing tho matter with my stomach.\—National Advocate. TIPPLING AMONG WOMEN. In its department of \Home an d Society,\ tbe New York Tribune, in a recent issue, says: \A good deal ot comment ha s beeu made this winter on tb e obvious increase of tippling among women o t society , and women who doligbt in tbe agreeable stimu lus that champagne gives to tboir spirits and conversation should bewaro lest they pass tbe Rubicon an d flod themselves victim s of n moot terrible disease.\ Tbo soma para graphs quotes \a ma n ot tho world\ as asking \±lo yo u know tbo difference be tween th e English woman wh o drinks too much and tbe American who does tb e same?\ and his answers bis own question b y saying: •The English damoiloes itbrutally, frankly, and is n 'good toilow' among men , and she cither dcos not caro to conceal i t or could not if sho would, whereas to an American it iuvariably causes tremendous depression of spirits, wjicb givoa an excuse to th o tamily doctor to call it b y an y name he likos.\ la certain society circles of tho fast and oxtra fashionable type there is too muci roason to tear ibat tho Tribune's representation of in creasing drinking habits among wonen is true. It s warning against passing the Rubi con m tho matter ot champagne driuictng may welt bo made to read ugainst tamper ing with alcoholic beverages ot any kind at nuy time.—National Temperance Advocate. TE MPEnANCE NEWS AND NOTES. Tempor.ince is a brido who makas her husband rich. One-tbird of the 15,000 arrests for drunk enness in Dublin last year were women. It is very silly to take a drink whenever yo u feel like it, just t o show peoplo you can let it nloue if you want to. Health of the body, and intelligence which is tne henltn of the soul, are lost by on e vice —tbo vice x>£ intemperance. A Brooklyn li mor dealer declares that 100,0M to 151,000 Brooklyn me n who dr.nfc come to Neiv YorK to do it. Drunkenness has greatly Increased in Ire land, tbo number of convictions for the offence being 100,003 in 1S01 as againit 70.- 000 In 1SS7 The Norwegian Total Abstinence Society comprises local unions, with a total ot about 100.00J members. 4-;,000 men , 43,000 women and 15,000 children under sixteen years, A <ie claratio l as t o the use of alcohol as a medicine is going tho rounds of tn e British Medical Association. It is said that over six bu:idr*d names b.rvj been outlined against tho use. If yo u have tb e good of soc.oty at heart touch uot the iutoxicatiog gla^i, for most of the evils we have t o deplore in ou r social and political life are tbe offspring of this prolific mother-vice—intemperance, A prisoner behind the bare m the peniten tiary of Michigan writes to boys as follows: \L;t cards and liquor atone; be i n bed by 9 p. in., and u p by C a: :a., pat regularly, sleep soundly, exercise moderately, pray constantly, aud you will novor bo behind the grates.\ You ofton hear inoderato drinWug men say: \Drinking does not hurt me, bociuso I do no t driuk enough.\ If yo u reply that it may go t th e better of hi m an d make hi m a drunkard, ho will laugh aud say that ho knows what he's about; bo ca n take i t o r let it alone. Bu t i t is a sura fact that about nine ou t o f te a moderate drinking men dl» drunkards. L, TEXT: \And they all with one consent iegan to make excuse.\ —Luke xiv., IS. After tho invitatioDStoalevooarosontout the regrets como in. Ono ma n apologizes for nonattendance o n ono ground, another on another ground. Tho most of tho regrets aro founded on prior engagements. S o i n my text a great banquet wa s spread, the in vitations wero circulated, and now tbe re grets como in. Tho ono gives an agricultu ral reason, tho other a stock dealer's reason, tho other a domestic roason—all poor rea sons. Tho agricultural reason being that the man had bought a farm and wanted to ico it. Could ho no t seo i t tho next day? The stock dealer's reason being that ho had oought Ave yoko of oxen, and ho wanted to go and prove them. Be bad no business to buy them uutil bo know what they wero. Besides thai a man who ca n own Ave yoko of oxen can comman d his ow n time. Bo- jides that he might have yoked two of them togethor and driven them on tho wa y t o tho banquet, for locomotion was no t is rapid then as now. Tho ma o wh o gave tbo domestic reason said ho bad go t married. H o ought to havo taken his wife with bim. Tbe fact was they did not want to go . '\And thoy all with ooo lonsent began t o make excuse.\ S o no w God spreads a great banquet; it is the gospol feast, aud tho table reaches across tho hem ispheres, aud tbo invitations go out and mul titudes como and si t down and drink ou t o t the chalices of God's love, while other mul titudes dccliuo coming—tbo ono giving this apology and tbe other giving that apology. \And they all with ono consent began t o make excuse.\ I propose this morning, so Car a s God may Uolp me, to examine tho apologies which mo n mako for not entering tbo Christian life. Apology tbe first, I am not sure tbero is anything valuable i n tb o Christian re ligion It is pleaded that tbero aro so many Impositions i u this day—so many things that seem to be real are sham. A gilded outside may havo a hollow inside. There is to much quackery in physics, iu ethics, in politics, that mo u come to tho habit of in credulity, and after awhile thoy allow that Incredulity to collido with our holy re ligion. But, my friends, I think religion has mado a pretty good record in tho world. Ho w many wounds it has salvod. how many pil lars of fire it has lifted iu the midnight wilderness: ho w mauy simoon struck Sa- haras it hatli turned into tho gardousof tbe Lord; bo w i t hath stillol tbo cboppod sea! What rosy light It hath sont streaming through tbo rift of the storm cloud wrack; what pools of cool water it bath gathered for thirsty Hagar an d Ishmaol; what manna whiter than coriander seed it hMh dropped oh around the cam p of hardly bestead pil grims, what promises it hath sent out like holy watchers to keep tho lamps burning around death beds I Through the darkness that lowers iuto tho sepulchre, what flashes of rjsurrectiou morn. ! Besides that, this religion has mado so many heroos. It brought Sumraerfield, tho i Methodist, across the Atlantic Ocean with his silver trumpet to blow tbo acceptable year of the Lord, until it seomod as if all our American cities would take tho king dom of heaven by violence. It sent Je- budi Ashraau into Africa alone, m a conti nent of naked barbarians, to litt tho stan dard of civilization an d Christianity. It made John Milton among poets, Raphael among painters, Christopher Wren among architects, Thorwaldsen among sculptors, Handel among musicians, Dupont among military commanders, an d to give now wings to the imagination, an d better bal ance to tho judgmont, and moro determina tion to tbo will, and greater usefulness to tho life, aud grander nobility to tho soul, thero is nothing in all the earth liko our Christian religion. Nothing in religion! Why. thorn, all those Christians wero deceived when in tboir dying moment they thought they saw tbe castles of the blessed; aud your child, that with unutterable agony yo u put away into tho grave—you will n^ver see bim again, nor hear his sweet voic, uor feel tho throb of his youug heart? Th>re is nothing in re ligion I Sickness will como upou you. Roll aud turn on your pillow. No relief. Tbe medicino ma y bo bitter, the night may be dark, tho pain may be sharp. No relief. Christ never comes to the sicif room. Let the pain stab. Let th e fover burn. Curse it and die. Thero is nothing iu religion good old times when yo u knelt at your mother's kneo and said yourovoning prayer, and those other days of sickness whe n sho watched all night and gavo ycu th e medi cines at just th e right time and turned th e pillow when it was hot, and with hand long ago turned to dust soothed your pains, an d with that voico yo u will nover hear again unless you join her In the hotter country told you never mind—you would be better b y an d by, an d b y that dying couch, where she talked so slowly, catching her breath between th e words—by all those memories ask you t o coma and take tho samo relig ion . It was good enough for hor—it is good enough fo r you . Aye, I make a better plea b y the wounds and tho death throes of tho So n o f God, who approaches yo u this morning with torn brow and lacerated hands and whipped back cry ing: \Como unto Mo all ye wh o are wear y and heavy laden, and I will givo you rest.'' Other persons apologize for no t entorin the Christian life because of the incorrigi bility of thoir tompor. Now , w o admit i t i s harder for some people to become Christians than for other?, ou t tbo grace of God nover came t o a mountain that it could no t climb, or to an abyss that it could not fathom, or to a bondage that It could not break. Tho wild est horso that ovor trod Arabian sands has been broken to bit and trace. Tho mad- est torrent ' tumbling from mountain shelving has been harnessed t o the milt wheel an d th e factory band, setting a thou sand shuttles all a-buzz and a-clattor, an d the wildest, tho haughtiest, tho most un governable ma n ovor created b y the graco of God may be subdued and sont ou t on ministry of kindness, as God sends an August thunderstorm t o water th e wild flowers down i n tbe grass. Good resolution, reformatory effort, will not effect th e change. I t takes a mightier arm an d a mightier band to bend evil habits than th e hand that bent the bo w of Ulysses-, and i t takes a stronger lasso than over held tho buffalo ou the prairie. A man cannot go forth with an y human woapons and contend successfully against these Titans armed with uptorn mountains. But you havo known me n into waoso spirit th o influence of the gospel of Christ came until their disposition was entirely changed. S o it wa s with two merchants in New York, They woro very antagonistic. Tuey had done all thoy could to injure each other. They woro i n tho same lino of business. One of the merchants wa s converted t o God. Having been converted, ho askod tho Lord to teach him how to bear himself towar d that business antagonist, and be wa s im pressed with tbe fact that it was his duty when a customer asked for a certain kiud of goods which ho had not, but which ho kno w his opponent had, to recommend hi m t o g o to that store. I supposo that is about th e hardest thiug tbe ma n could do, but being thoroughly converted to God ho resolved to do that very thing, an d being asked for a certain kind of goods which he had no t he said, \You g o t o such and such a store an d vou will ge t it.\ After awhile merchant No. 2 found these customers comiu g so sent, and b o found also that merchant No. 1 had been brought io God, and b e sought tho samo religion Now they aro good friends and good • neighbors, tho grace of God e n tirely cuanglng their disposition. 'Oh,\ says some one, \I havo a rough, jagged, impetuous nature, and religion can't do anything for me.\ D o yo u know that Martin Luther an d Robert Newto n an d Richard Bixter wero impetuou--, all con sumiog natures, yot tho grace of God turned them into th o mightiest usefulness? Oh, how many wh o have been pugnacious an d hard to please and irascible an d more both ered about tho mote in tboir neighbor's oye than about the beam like ship timber in their own ey e havo beeu entirely changed b y th e graco of God an d have found ouc that \godliness is profitable for the lifo that now is as well as for tho lifo which is t o como Peter, with nature temoestuous as tho sea that ho once tried to walk, a t one look of Christ went ou t an d wept bitterly. Rich harvests ot grace ma y grow on the tiptop of the jagged steep, and flocks of Christian graces may find pasturage in fields of bram ble and rock. TUou j h your disposition may be all a-brlstlo with frotfulness, though yo u havo a temper a-gleara with quick light nings, though your avarics bo liko that of the horse-leech, crying, \Givo!\ thoug h damuablo impurities havo wrapped you i n all consuming tire, God can drive that dovil out of your soul, and over the chaos an d the darkness H e can say, 'Let there b.) light.\ Converting grace Mas lifted tbo drunkard from tho ditch and snatched tho kmfo from tho baud of th e assassin an d the false koys from tho burglar, and in tho pestiferous lanes of tho city met the daughter of sin under th e dim lamplight and scattered her sorrow an d her guilt with the words, \Thy sins are forgiveu—go and sin uo more.\ For scarlet sin a scarlet atonement. Other persons apologize for not entering tho Christion life because of the iucoasisten- After awhile death\ w'iiPcome.\\ You\will I eTes of' those who profess religion Thero aro hear the pawing ot the pale horse on the threshold. Tbe spirit will be breaking away from the body, aud it will take flight— whitber, whither? There is no God, no ministeriug angels to conduct, no Chrisr, no heaven, no home. Nothing in religion 1 Oh, yo u are no t williug to adopt such a dismal theory. An d ye t tbe world is full of skeptics. An d let me say thero i s no class of peoplo for whom I have a warme r sympatoy than for skeptics. Wo do not know ho w to trent them. Wo deride thero, we caricature them . We , instead of taking them by tbe solt band of Christian love, clutch them with the iron phjcors of ecclesiasticism. Ob, if yo u knew ho w those men bad falleu away from Christianity an d become skeptics you would not be so roug h on them. Some were brought up i u homes where religion was overdone. Tho most wretched day in the week was Suuday. Religion was driven into them with a triphammer. They bad a surfeit of prayer meetings. They wore stuffed and choued with catechisois. They were told b y their parents that they were tbe worst children that ever lived because they liked to ride down hill better thau to read \Pilgrim's Progress.\ They never heard their parents talk of religion tut with the corners of their mouths drawn down and tbe eyes rolled up. Others went into skepticism through mal treatment on tbo part of some who pro fessed religion. There is a ma n who says, \My partner in business wns voluble in prayer meeting, an d h e was oflicious In nil religious circles, but ho cheated me out of ?b000, an d I don't want an y of that re ligion.\ There are others who go t into skepticism by a natural persistence in asking questions —why or how. How can God bo ono being in threo persons? Thoy cannot understand it. Neither can I. How cau God be a com plete sovereign au d yet ma u a free agent? They cannot understand it. Neither can I. They cannot understand whv a holy God lots siu come into tbe world. Neither can I. They say: \Here is a grea t mystery. Hero is a disciple of fashion, frivolous and god less all her days—she lives on t o be a u octo genarian. Here Is a Christian mother train ing her children for God and for heaven, self-sacrificing. Christlike, indispensable seemingly to tnat household—sho takes tbo cancer nnd dies.\ The skeptic says, \I cau't explain that.\ Neither ca u 1. Oh, I can sea ho w me n reason themsjlves into skepticism. With burning feet I have trod that blistering way. I know what It is to have a hundred night s poured Into on e hour. Thero aro me n in this audience wh o would give their thousands of dollars if they could ge t back to th e old religion .of their lathers. Such men or e notto bo carica tured, bu t helped, an d no t through their beads, but through their hearts. When theso men really d o come into the kingdom ot God, thoy will be worth far moro to th e cause of Christ than those who nover ex amined tbe evidences o t Christianity. Thomas Chalmers once a skeptic; Robert Hall once a skeptic; Christmas- Evans onco a skeptic but when thoy did lay bold of tbo gospol chariot, ho w they made it speed ubeadl If theroforo I sfand this morning before men and women who have drifted awa y Into skepticism I throw ou t no scoff. I 'rather impUa d jou b y th« memory of tuoM thousands of poor farmers. Thoy do not know tbe nature of soil uor the propsr rota tion of crop3. Their corn is shorter in th e stalk an d smaller in the ear. Tooy have ten le^s bushels t o tho acre than their neighbors. But wh o declines being a fanner becauso there are s o many poor tarmers. There aro thousands of incompotent me r chants. Thoy buy a t the wrong time. Tbsy get cheated in tho sale of thetr goods. Every balo of goods is t o them disaster. They fait after a whilo an d g o out ot business. But who declines to oo a merchant because there are so many incompetent merchants? There aro thousands of poor lawyers. They cannot dra w a declaration that will ecand tbe t;st. They cannot recover just da m ages. They cannot help a defenoent escape from thoinjustica of bis persecutors. They are tbo vi orst evidence against any case In which they are retained. Bu t wh o declines to be a lawyer because there are s o many incompetent lawyers? Yet there are tens of thousands o* peoplo who decline being re ligious because thero aro s o many unworthy Christians. Now , I say i t is illogical. Poor lawyers aro nothing against jurisprudence, poor physicians aro nothing against medi cine, poor farmers are nothing against agri culture, an d mean, contemptible (professors of religion are nothing against our glorious Christianity. Sometlmos you have beon rldlag along on a summer night by a swamp, and you have seen lights that kindled over dociyod vege tation—lights which are called jack-o'-lau- teru or will-o'-tho-wlsp. Thoso lights aro merely poisonous miasmata. M y f rieudp, on your way t o heaven yo u will want a borter light than th e will-o -the-wisps which unn\» on tho rotten character of dead Christian.. Exudations from poisonous tree's in our neighbor's garden will make a ve.ry poor balm for our wouuds. Sickness will come, and we will be pushod out toward tho R9d Sea which divides this world from th o nex% and no t tbe incon sistency of Christians but the rod of faith will wave back the waters as a commander wheels his host. Tne judgment will corns with its thundershod solemnities, atten led by bursting mountains an d the deep lau*h o( earthquake?, an d suns will fly before ttio feet of God like sparks fron tho anvil, an d 10,000 burning worlds shall blazj like uau- uers in tbo track of God omnipotent. Ob, then w e will stop and say, '•Taere WOE a mean Christian, there wa s a cowardly Christian: thero was an Impure Christina.\ In that da y as now, \If thou bo wise, thou sbalt be wise for tbyfolf, bw. if thou scorn- cst thou aloue shall bear it.\ Why, my brother, tho inconsistency of Christians so far from being an argument to keep yo u awa y from God ought to be o u argumonc to drive yo u t o Him. The;best place for a skill ful doctor is a neighborhood where they are all poor doctors: th e best place for a n enter prising merchant to open his store is in a place where th e bargain makers do no t un derstand their business, and th o best place for yo u wh o want to become tho illustrious and complete Christians—tho best place for yo u is to como right down among us who are so incompetent and so inconsistent some times. Other persons apologize for not becoming Christians because they lack time, as though religion muddled the brain of the account ant, o r tripped the pen of th e author, or tbiciuneti toe tongue of th*. orator.- or w»»k- v ; v '•'1 .'ft- \- ened\th*arm of th e mechanic, or scattered the briefs o f tho lawyer, o r interrupted the sales of the merchant . The y bolt their store doors against i t an d fight It back with trowels and with Jyard sticks an d cry, \Away with your religion from our ;storo, our office, ou r factory I\ Thoy d o not understand that religion in this workaday world will help you t o do anything you ought t o do. I t ca n la y a keel, i t can soil a ship. It can bu y a cargo, i t can work a pulley, i t ca n pavo a street i t can fit a wristband, i t can write a constitu tion, i t can marshal a host. I t i s a s appro priate t o th o astronomer as his telescope, t o the chemist a s his laboratory, to tho mason as his plumbline, t o tho carpenter as his piano, t o th o child as his marbles, to tha grandfather a s his staff. Notimoto bo religions hero 1 You havo no time not t o be rollgious. You migh t as well havo no clerks in your store, no books in your library, n o compass on your ship, no rifle i n th o battle, no ha t for your head, no cont fo r your back, no shoes for your foot. Bette r travel on toward eternity bare headed and baro footed, an d houseless and homeless, an d friendless, than g o through life without religion. Did roligion make Raleigh an y less of a statesman, o r Havelock an y less of a sol dier, or Grinnell any loss of a merchant, or West any les3 o f a painter? Religion is th o best security i n every bargain, it is the sweetest note i n ever y song, i t i s tho bright est gem in every coronet. N o time to be re - ligiousl Why, you will havo to tako time to be sick, to be troubled, to die. Our world is only th o wharf from which w o aro to ombark for heaven. No time to secure tho friendship of Christ. No time to bu y a lamp and trim i t fo r that walk through th e dnrknoss which otherwise will be illumined only by th e whiteness of th e tombstones. No time to educate tho oye for heavenly splondors. o r th o hand for choral harps, or tne oar for everlasting songs, or tho soul for honor, glory and immortality. One would think wo had timo for nothing olso. Other persons apologize for not entering tho Christinn lifo becauso It is timo enough yet. That is ver y liko those persons wh o sead thoir regrets an d say: \I will como in perhaps at 11 o r 12 o'clock. I will no t be there at the, openin g ot th o banquot, but I will be thero at ih o close.\ Notyetl No t yet I Now, I d o not givo any doleful view o t this lifo. Thero is nothing in my nature, nothing in th e grace of God, that tends to ward a doleful vie w of human life. 1 have SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON FOR SUNDAY, APEIL 30. \Wisdom's Warning,\ Prov. i „ 20-33. Goldon '7ext: Hob. xil„ 12. Commentary. not much sympathy with Addison's descnp tion of the \Vision of Mirza,\ where ho rep resents human lifo as being a bridge of a hundred arches, an d both ends of tbo bridga coverod with clouds, an d tho race coming the most of them falling down through tbe first span, and all of them falling down tbrouga th o last span. I t is a very dismal picture. I have no t much sympathy with tho Spanish proverb which say?, ' The sky is good, an d th o earth is good—that which is bad is between the oarth and the sky.\ But whilo wo Christian peoplo are bound to take a cheerful view of life wo must also confess that life is a great uncertainty, and that ma n who says, \I can't become a Christian because there is time enough yet,\ is running a risk infinite. You do no t per haps realize th o fact that this descending grade of siu gets steeper an d steeper, and that you are gathering up a rush aud veloc ity which after awbilo may not answer to tbo brakes. Oh , my friends, be not among those who give their whole life to tho world and then g'.ve their corpse t o God. It does not seem fair whilo our pulses aro in lull play o t health that wo servo our- s?lves aud serve tho world and then make God at last th e present of a coflln. I t does j uot seem right that wo run our ship from corjt to coast, carrying cargoes foroursolves, aud then when tb o ship is crushed on the rocks givo t o Go d th o shivered timbers. It is a great thing for a mau o u his dying pil low to repent—better than never a t all—but how much better, bo w much more generous, it would have been if he had repented fifty years before 1 My friends, yo u will nover get ovor these procrastinations. Hero is a delusion. Peoplo think, \I can go on i n sin and worldlinoss, but after awhile 1 wilt repent, and then it will be a s though I had come at th e very start.\ That is a delusion. No on o ever gets fully over pro crastination. If yo u give your soul to God, some other timo than this, yo u will enter boaven with only half tb e capacity for en joyment an d knowledge you might have had. Thero will bo heights of blessedness you might havo attained, yo u will never reach, thrones of glory ou which yo u might have oean seated, hut which yo u will never climb. We will never got over pro crastination, neither in time nor in eter nity. Wo havo started on a march from which there is no retreat. The shad ows of eternity gather on our path way. How insignificant is time compared with the vast eternity I I wa s thinking of this whilo coming down over tho Alleghany Mountains at noon , b y that wonderful place which yo u havo all heard described as tho Horsehoo—a depression in the sido of the mountain whve tho train almost (turns backs again upon itsMr. an d yo u see how appro priate is th e description of the Horseshoe— and thinking on this very theme and prepar ing this very sermon it seemed to mo as if tho great cou-ser of eternity speeding along had just struck tho inouutaiu with ono hoof and gone into illimitable space. So short is time, so insignificant is earth, compared with the vast eternity! This morning voices roll down tho sky, and a- the worlds of light aro ready to re joice at your disenthrallmout. Rush not into tho presence of tho King ragged with sin when you may have this robe of right eousness. Dash no t your foot to pieces .gainst the throno of a crucified Christ. Throw not your crown ot lifo off th e battle ments. All th o scribes of God are this mo ment roady with volumes of living light tc ecord the ne^vs of your soul omanc ipated. 20. \Wisdom crietb without: she ntterotb her voice i n tho streets.\ When wo read In tbo Now Testaament such words as these. \Christ tho Wisdom of God.\ Who ot Go d Is mado unto us wisdom\ (I Cor. i. , S4, 80). wo havono difficulty In understanding who is mean t in this book b y wisdom. Jus t as. Jesus Christ is both the livin g personal wor d nnd also tho written word, so Ho i s wisdo m as t o His person and as t o Hi s utterances. It Is n o wonder, then, that It i s writteu, * 'Wis dom is tho principal thing, therefore get wisdom\ (iv„ 7). -fc 21. \Sho crieth in tbo chief place of con course, in tho openings of tho gates. I n th o city sho utteroth her words, saying.\ Th o great multitudo are In tho broad way o t self and self pleasing, with littlo o r n o thought of a hereafter and a da y of judgment. They care no t for tho fact that \whatsoever a man soweth that shall ho also, reap,\ and their only thought is pleasure an d prosper ity hero and now (Math, vii., 13; Gal, v., I). «*«-•»— •• ' ' '\ '.em Transfusion of Blood Not New. Transfusion of blood as practiced in surgery is by no means a recent develop ment in science. Medical records show it to have been known to the Egyptians, Syrians aud Persians. The Pittsburg Dispatch regards it as even possible that the ancients were moro successful than the physicians of recent periods. In the Seventeenth Century so many attempts wero made in France, accompanied by o many failures and latalities, that the Parliament of Paris declared against its legulity. Tho experiments continued, however, calf's blood being substituted for tho human. The results woro not encouraging, the physicians not being aware that the blood of animals injected into the veins of another belonging to a different species acted as a poison. For 200 years the experiments wero discon tinued, and then one day, some years ago, tho story of tho death of u young medical student named Roinain le Goff, whilo trying to save tho life of a friend with his own blood, created a great sen sation. A street in Paris, named after le Gof£, commemorates his bravo act. By this timo tho medical men had learned that to be successful tho blood must neither bo allowed to coagulate, nor air suffered to enter the veins with it. Doctor Roussel, of Geneva, invent ed an apparatus which overcame both the above difficulties. Since that time tbe experiments have been continued with remarkablo success. Many lives havo been undoubtedly saved by it. An old employe of the Theatre Francais in Paris, named Dupnitcb, has given up his blood several times to those in need of it, fot which ho has been awarded a magnificent gold medal by the French (ioireratnent. W'isdom i s represented as calling unto the_ as thoy hurry along their downwar d road. 23. ''How long, y e simple ones, will y o lovo simplicity, and the scornors delight i n their scorning, and fools bate knowledge?' Simple ones, if they beliovo tho devil, aro easily lod astray. If thoy believe God, thoy are easily lod aright. If they g o astray, thoy are soon among tho scorners an d the foots. Yot wisdom loves thorn an d cries unto them : \How long?' \How long shall tby vain thoughts lodge within theo?\ \How long wilt thou refuse to humble thy self beforo Me\ (Jor. iv., 14, Ex. x., 3)? 23. \Turn you at M y reproof; behold I will pour out My Spirit unto you: I will mako known My words unto you.\ Ho calls so lovingly, so patiently, so persoveringly. \Como unto Me; return unto the Lord; turn, O backsliding children, tako with you words and turn to the Lord.\ These are some of tho many words of the Lord to the erring ones as Ho entreats them t o come unto Him (Isa. lv., 3, 7, Jor. ii!., 1, 7, 13,14; Hos. xiv„ 2). He only asks u s t o turn to Him, and Ho will do all tho rest, giving Hb words and His Spirit, His words which are Spirit and Life (John vi., 03). 24. \Because I havoealled, an d y e refused; I have stretched out M y hand, an d n o man regarded.\ It does not seem possiblo that a peoplo wh o had befn so wondrously dealt with could so treat such lovo, but tho huma n heart is still the same, and tho same love on His part is turned awa y from by thoso t o whom Hi s hands are imploringly stretched out. How is i t with you? 23. \But yo bave set at naught, all My counsel, and would nono of My reproof.\ Thoy mocked the messongers of God, an d despised His words, aud misused Hi s proph ets until the wrath of th e Lord arose against His people, till tbero was noromedy. (II Ohron. xxxvl., 10). They even wen t so fnr as t o say, \We havo made a convenant with death, and with hell are w o at agreo- i ment; we have mado lio3 our refuge, and under folsehood have w e hid ourselves\ (Isa. I xxviii., 15). Liko tho men before the flood, | whoso houses God tilled with good things, j thoy said unto God, \Depart from us; what , can the Almighty do for us\ (Job xxii., 15- ' IS)? •JO. \I also will laugh at your calamitv; I will mock whoa your fear comoth.\ What- soevor a man soweth, that shall ho also reap, and he that soweth the wind shall reap tho whirlwind\ (Gal. vi., 7, Hos. viii., 7). Con- corning all who take counsel against Him it is written, \Ho that sitteth in th o heavons shall laugh, tbo Lord shall have them in • derision\ (Ps. ii., 4), and if Hi s loving invi tations aro persistently despised we must re member His words, \Nono of those men which wero bidden shall tosto of My sup\ per\ (Luko xiv., 24). 27. \When your fearcometh as desola-, tion and your destruction as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish comoth upon you.\ In due time these things will como upon all wh o despise Hi s lovo an d mako light of His salvation. Becauso there is wrath, beware lest Ha tako theo away with His stroke, then a great ransom cannot do- liver theo (Job xxxvi, 18;. 28. \Then shall thoy call upon Me, bu t I will not answer, they shall seek Me early, but they shall not find Me.\ Thon shall they cry unto the Lord, but H e will no t hear them, H e will even hide His faco from them at that time, as they behaved themselves ill in their doings (Mic. ill., 4). H e told Jere miah that the intercession of Moses an d Samuel could not save tho Nation, an d He told Ezekiel that the presence of Noah, Daniel and Job would be of no avail (Jer. xv„ 1; Ezok. xiv., 14, 20). Si n may become so great that nothing will do but judgment. 29. \For that they hatod knowledge and did not choose tho fear of tho Lord.\ They say unto God, Depart from us, for we desiro not tho knowledge of Th y ways (Job xxi., 14). The fear of the Lord is th e beginning of wisdom, a foundation of life, a great treas ure iProv. i.. 7; ix., 10 xiv., 27; Isa. xxxlli., 6|. Bu t they had no reverence forGod.no respect for His ways, no gratitude for Hi9 gifts. The fool says there is n o God, and many a one who would no t sa y this wishes that there was no God. Tho carnal mind is jnmity against God (Rom. viii, 7). 30. \Thoy would none of My counsel; they despised all M y reproof.\ Our Lord Jesus 6aid that whosoever heard Hi s words, but did them not, was liko a man building on sand, only to havo everything swept away (Math, vii. , 26, 27). 31. \Therefore shall they ea t of tho fruit of thoir ow n way and bo filled with their own devices.\ Tboir ow n wickedness will correct them and their baekslldings reprove them. Hear, O earth; behold, I will bring ovil upon this people, oven the fruit of their thoughts, because they havo no t hearkenol unto my words (Jer. ii., 19; vi., 19). It J ieoplo will not receive tho truth, God will ot thorn receivo delusion an d a lie (II These, ii., 10-12). H e simply lets tbetn have their own way , with its consequences, if they insist o n having it. 32. \For tho turning away of tho simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.\ ' T o turn way from God is t o zurn one's back o n th o only source of love and light. I t is to chouso darkness rnthor than light (John HI., 19). 33. \But whoso hnrkeneth unto M e shall dwell safely ai.d shall be quiet from fear ot ovil.\ What a wonderful salvation our wonderful Lord has provided for Hi s ene mies if they will only turn t o Him in true penitence. Life, eternal lite, abun lant par don, forgivoness of all sins, with th o assur ance of thero being no more remembered, an inheritance incorruotiblc, a joint heir ship with Jesus Christ, with th e promise o t all things temporal and spiritual that w » can Dossibly need.—Lesson HolDer. THE GIN MILLS AND THE JAILS, A famous New York doctor, whose narao every ono would recogniz?, tells m o that in Tweed's timo ho was stationed as medical adviser at Bellevuo Hospital an d that a largo forco wa s always provide! on Satur day nights and Sunday mornings to attend the great number of cases brought in a s the result of row?, crimes anil accidents attrib utable t o drink H e recalled a notablo Saturday on which, for some reason, in a fit ot anger, Tweod ordered all tbo saloons to clo«e and observe the Sabbath law. The physician says that as a result thero wa->. during thit Saturday night an d Xho following Sabbath, absolute quiet in Bellevuo Hospital, a dearth of new cases that was remarkable. Abolish tho '- gin mill nnd you would see th e jails, the,-. penitenj.fari&i uud tbo poor house-, an d :i , , good mauy of the hospitals g o with tb.etu.--.wS tfjjjf* Mall aud Express. • —- .* \THE most important period with \^Vij^s February,\ said the man whose patrl-iji >,pp otism funs away with his good taste, ^'5 ^1 . \is when It cuts its 22th.\ .. \k' ASS?® I\:* * i~. i •'AN?.? ' •>ity'
