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- wheneshewill starton
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.yl‘allnanhsving halted here,
' toalarge audiencecnthe
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M and the people thstwere
_ muons up theirvoice andwep! hares
WWW no manpower to weep.
- “ W yidmovcredali." ‘
_ is httense excitement in the vil-
lfleot liking. David and his menace
bidding. goodbytotheir families and are
V the wars. In that little village of
the “useless ones will be safe
all thewarriors, flushed with victory,
, But will the defenseless ones
' , Theseft onus of childrsnsre
. the hooks of the bloated warriors
they shake thmselv‘es free and start,
handkerchief! and flags are waved
”hawthorn! until the'arrued men
mill: beyond the hills.ll Eavid anvil“ his
‘ through wit t eircam go
i”, ‘ Every nightoutheir
" loss the soldier put
the knapsack than in his
the welcome of the wife
the child. Oh, what long
s:
M how they dodged the hattieax, and
_ will rollup their sleeve and showthe
half healed wound! With glad, quick step,
they match on, David and his men, for
thsyses marching home.
. Alareh and a Victory.
Now they come up to the last bill which
I overlooks Ziklag, and they expect in a mo-
ment to ace the dwelling places of their
loved ones. ,They look. and as they look
«‘ ' ' their cheek turns pale, and their lip quiv-
. era, and their hand involuntarily comes
down on the hilt of the sword. “Where is
Zlkiag} Where are our hcmcsf" they cry.
Alas, the curling smoke above the ruin
tells W tragedy! .
Eh! Amalckltss have some down and
‘ and the wives, and the children of
‘ David and his men into captivity. The
, swat-thy warriors stand fora few momenta
' transfixed with horror. “Then their eyes
glance to each other, and they burst into
uncontrollable weeping. for when a strong
warriorweops the grief is appalling. It
seems as if the emotion might tear him to
pieces. They “wept until they had no
moremov'ver to weep." But soon their sor-
row turns into rage, and David, swinging
his svmrd high in air, cries, "Pursue, for
thou shalt overtake them and without fail
recover all.f' Now the march becomes a
' “double quick.” Two hundred of David's
men step by the brook Beam, faint with
fatigue and grief. They cannot go a stop
farther. They are left there. But the
other 400 men under David, with a sort of
panther step, march on in sorrow and in
rage. They find by the side of the road a
'half dead Egyptian, and they resuscitau:
.._.«-. ,him and compo! him to tell the whole
story. He says, “Yonder they went, the
captors and the captives," pointing in the
direction. Forward, ye 400 bravo men of
fire!
Very soon David and his enraged com~
papy come upon the Amalekitish host.
Yogic! they see their own wives and chil-
dren and mothers and under Amalekitish
guard. Here are the officers of tho Amul-
okitlsh army holding a banquet. The cups
are full; the music is mused; the dance
begins. The Amalekitish host cheer and
cheer and cheer over their victory. But
without note of bugle or warning of trum-
pet David and his 400 men burst upon the
scene. David and his men look up, and
one glance at their loved ones in captivity
and under Amalckltlsh guard throws them
into a very {dry of (icicmlinution, for
you know how mm will light when they
fight for their wives and children. Ah,
thmare lightnings in their l-yv, and cv-
ery finger is a spear, and their vnlm! is liki-
the about of the whirlwind!
upset tsnkards and the costly viunds cmsb-
Odunderfoot, the wounded Amulckitns lh-
-their blood mingling with their wine——
shrieking for mercy. No humor lIn David
and his men win the victorythan they
throw their swm-ds down into the dust;-
what do they want with swords howl-—
and the broken families conic togvthcr
amid a great shoot of joy that makes the
parting scene in Ziklug seem very insipid
in the comparison. The rough old warrior
haste use some persuasion bcforohccnn
get his child to corm- to him now after so
longan absence. hut mm the little linger
traces the familiar wrinkiowmsa the scar-
rsdfaco. And then the apply tnnknrds
are set up. and they are filled with the
hestwine from tho hills, and liavld and
his men, the huslmnds, the wives, the
brothers, the sisnvre, drink to the over.
throw of the Anmlckiu-s and to the re-
building of 'lliklag. Ho, 0 Lord, let ihinu
sustsies perish!
The Return.
his men and their fainliiosua long pm
slcn.
of trophies that the Amalckltos had gath-
W m. the hands of David and his men.
plans where staid the men sick and incom-
‘ m the sick as well as among the well.
, «myths
' flood warrior.
dries
_ .nws .
ninhsvs endured as much
also who west into the hauls.
‘vlitiia
“a“ in. .
hi ea‘umuadtlwywie loom. . ,
have to tell their fami-.
thevillageand carried the moth!
Amid the
Now they stemming hnn‘, David and
Men, women and children, bladed
with jewels and minus and with all kinds
and up in years of conquest—everything
m titty come by the brook Dolor, tho
Mic travel the iowslsandtherobes
, ind all kinds 'of treasures are divided
lame and exhausted ought to
hmmofthctreasurcs. ilero isa rob!
, Here is a pillow
, marl. liars is a hauliful of
em: , wowed ire peter. i really
._ 1 » ‘ fshited by the
immune-causes:
‘ mafia..." lbs»
sinus
msgnan hesrtnspiisa,
. isthatgssthdowntothsbat-
. hispart bethattarriethby
is practically osmium
(led, in these times am
arrived. Youzwent u
, the street where
youtdwellingwss, “
m va- night you
stopped. and the gentle hands folded, and
you weep until you have no manpower
to weep. Ziklag in ashes! .
A gentleman went to a friend of mine
in the city of Washington and asked that
through him he might get a wusulsbip to
some foreign port. My friend said to him.
“What do you want to goawsy from your
beautiful home for late a foreign port!"
“0h," he replied, “my home is gone! My
six children are dead. 1 must getaway,
sir. Iosn'tstaud it in this country any
longer." Ziklag‘ in ashes!
Ashes of Life.
, Why these long shadows of bereavement
across this audience! Why is it that in a!»
every assemblage black is the pre-
. 6111th color of the a para]! felt be
cause you do not like run or brown or
vlolctl Oh, no! You say, “The world is
not so bright to us as once it was," and
there is a story of silent voices and of still
feet and of loved ones gone, and when you
look over the hills, upseting only beauty
and loveliness, you find only devastation
and woe. Ziklag in ashes!
One day in Ulster county, N. Y., the
village church was decanted until the
fragrance of the flowers was almost bewil-
dering. The maidens of the village had
emptied the placeof flowers upon one mar-
riage altar. One of their own number was
afiianccd to a minister of Christ, who had
come to take her to his own home. With
hands joined. amid a congratulatory aa-
dlence, the vows were taken. in three
days from that time one of those who stood
at the altar exchanged earth for heaven.
The wedding march broke down into the
funeral dirge. There were not enough
flowers now for the coffin lid, lxmuse they
had all been taken for the bridal hour.
The dead minister of Christ is brought to
another village. "
He had gone out from them less than a
week before in his strength; now he comes
home lifeless. The whole church bewalled
him. The solemn procession moved omund
to look upon the still face that once had
boomed the messages of salvation. Little
children wcn~ lifted up to look at him.
And some of those whom he had minim-tn!
in days of son-luv, when they passmi flint
silent form, llllllll' tho place dreadful with
their wooping. Another village umpiiml of
its flowers—summit them put in the shape
of a cross to symlmlizc his hope, others put
in the shape of a crown to symbolize his
triumph. A hundred lights blown out in
one strong gust from the upon door of a
scpulcher. Zlklag in ashes!
A Bally Cry.
I preach this set-mm today Mouse 1
want to rally you as David milled his men.
for the recovery of the loved and the lost.
i want not only towin heaven, but lwant
all this mugrcgation to go along with me.
I feel thatsomcbow I have a responsibility
in your arriving at that great city. Do
you really want to join the companionship
of yum-loved ones who have gone! Are
you dranxlous to join them as David and
his men were to join their families! Thou
I am here, in the name of God, to say that
you may and to toll you how.
I remark, in the first place, if you want.
to join your loved ones in glory, you must
travel the some way they wont. No mailer
had the half dead Egyptian been rmusci
tnlcd than he minted the way the captors
and the captives had gone, and David and
his men followed off”. So our Christian
friends have gone into another country,
and if we want to reach their companion
ship we must take the some haul. Tin-y
unsuited: u'v must n-pcnt. They prayed;
We must pray. They trusted in Christ; We
must trust in Christ. They lives! a roll-
gious life; we must live a religious life.
They wvrv in some things like uumalvus.
I know. now that thcy are gone. tin-re is a
halo nnmnd tiwir norm-a, but they had
their faults. They said and did things
they ought never to have said or donv.
They were sometimes rebellious, nonm-
timcs cost down. They were far from be-
ing perfect. So i suppose that when we
have gone Ililllll‘ things in us that are now
only tolerable inny be almost resplendent.
But as they were like us in deficiencies We
ought to be like them in taking ssupernul
Christ to make up for the dolir‘its. Had it
not been for Jesus they would have all put-
lshcd, but Christ confronted them and
said, “i am the way." and they tmlr it.
I have also to any to you that the path
that thine motives trod was a troubled
path, and'that David and his men had to
go over the same difficult way. While
those captives ware being taken off they
said, "Uh, we are so tlmd; we are so sick;
we are so hungry!" But the men who had
charge of them said: “Stop this crying.
Go on!" David and his men also found it
a hard way. _ They had to travel it. Our
friends have gone into glory, and it is
through much tribulation that we are to
enter into the kingdom. How our loved
ones used to have to struggle! How their
old hearts ached! llow mealtimes they had
a tussle for bread!
wondered why there were so many wrin-
kles on their faces. We did not know that
what were called "crew's feet" on their
faces were the marks of the black raven
of trouble. Did you never hear the old
purple. seated byths evening stand, talk
over their early trials, their baniships. the
accidents, the burials, the disappointo
meets, the empty leer barrel when there
were so msnyhungry ones to feed, the
Icknsss almost unto death, whose the next
dose of morphine decided between My
bereavement and so unbroken horse on»
in our childhood we homes
on a journey and be gone weeks
“you
, ,andcmusbsck shdushis
is:
will
' Will
m
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DatMstWo'sr. .
Pastthissesnsofiollsad ! ,
nay-aux . mm
Mae‘carumm heaven. "so!
of tribulation, but we will also have
positively battle for their companion-
snd his men never wanted
eschew takeamanon pointof spearor
award. We must win it." And I have to
tell you that between us and coming into
the companionsth of our loved ones who
are departed there is an Austerlits, there,
is a Gettysburg, them is a Waterloo. War
with the world, war with the flesh, war
with the devil. We have either to con-
quer our troubles, or our troubles will con-
quer us. David will either slay the Amal-
ekiws, or the Amaleklts‘s will slay David.
And yet is not the fort to be taken worth
all the pain, all the peril, all the besiege-
meat!
Look! Who are they on the bright hills
of heaven yonder! There they are, those
who sat at your own table, the chair now
vacant. There they are, those whom you
rocked in infancy in the cradle or hushed
to sleep in your arms. There they are,
those in whose life your life was bound up.
There they are, their brow more radiant
than ever before you saw it, thelrlips wait-
ing for the kiss of heavenly greeting, their
cheek mate with the health of eternal
summer, their hands beckoning you up
the steep, the feet bounding with tho mirth
of heaven. The puller of their last sick-
ness gone out of their face, nevcrmorc to
be sick, nevcnuom to cough, novcrmoro
to limp, ncvcrmore to be old, novcnnorc
towccp. They anawatching from those
heights mace if through Christ you can
take that fort and whether you will rush
in upon them—victors. They know that
upon this battle depends whether you will
ever join their society. Up! Strikchurdcr!
Charge more bravely! Remember that cv-
cry inch you gain puts you so much fur-
ther on toward that heavenly reunion.
Victory or Death!
1! this morning while I speak you could
bear the cannonade of a foreign enemy
which was todespoil your city. and if they
really should succeed in carrying your fam-
ilies away from you, how long would we
take before we newlvcd to go after them?
Every weapon. whether free-ah from the
drawn or old and rusty in the parrot,
would be brought out, and we would urge
on, and coming in front of tho foo we
would look at them and then look at our
families, and the cry would be. "Victory
or death!" and when the ammunition was
gone we would take the captors on the
point of the bayonet or under the breech
of the gun.
If you would make such .1 struggle for
the getting back of your earthly friends,
will you not make us much struggle for
the gaining of the oft-run! cotnpnnionship
of your heavenly friends? 0h. yrs, we
must join thvm! We must sit in their
holy smiety. We must sing with them
the song. We must celebrate with them
the triumph. Let it never be told on earth
or in heaven that David and his men push-
ed out with braver hearts for the getting
back of their earthly friends for a few
years on earth than we to got our depart
ed!
You say that all this implies that our
departed Christian frivmisnnmlivo. Why,
had you any idea they WP“! dead? They
have only moved. if you should go on the
2d of May to a house where one of your
fricndslivcd and iind him gone, you Would
not think that he was dual. You would
inquire next door where ho had moved to.
Our departed Christian friends have only
taken another house. The secret is that
they are richer now llum tiwy once were
and can afford a better rosidvncc. They
once drank out of cartlwuwam they now
drink from the King's chalice. “Joseph is
yet alive,” and Jacob will go up and see
him. Living, are they? Why, if a man can
live in this damp, dark dungeon of earthly
captivity, can he not live where hebrcathee
the bracing atmosphere of the mountains
of heaven! Oh, yes, they are living!
Faint. \‘et Pursuing.
Do you think that Paul is so near dead
now as he was when he was living in the
Roman dungconi Do you thlukthatFrcd-
erick Rolxrrtson of Brighton is as near
dead now as he was when, year after year,
he slept seated on the door, his head on
the bottom of a chair. because he could
find ease in no other position! Do you
think that Robert Hall is as near dead
now as when, on his coach, hc nosed in
physical tortures! No. Death gave them
the few black drops that cured thi m. That
is all death does to n Christisn~curcs him.
I know that what i have said implies that
they are living. There is noquestlon about
that. ’l‘heoaly question this morning is
whether you will ever join them.
But ltuust not forget times 900 men
who fainted by the brook llcsor. They
could not take another stepfarther. Their
feet were sore; their head sched; their en
tire nature was exhausted. Besides that,
they were broken hearted because their
were gone. Zlklag in ashes! And
yet David, when he cranes up to them,
divides thespoils upon; them. lie says
they shall have some of theiewsls. some of
tlierohss, acmsof the treasures I look
over this audience this . and I
find at least 900 who have fainted by the
brook Beach—the brookof tears. You feel
as if you could nct‘tak! another step far.
themes}; h yousofldpsrrioofiflo
again. at am goingte In late
and divide ms glorious tro-
phies. Here!sarebs,"Ail thin workto-
fol-good to thus who send."
rspyoursslf in that glorious promise.
Hers isfor yourhseks‘ stung of pearls,
Meet, cf crystallised tears, “it‘esping
sedan for anighi, hm joy cometh
morning " is a comb “Be
no
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then
this
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sf.
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8
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culylisvetotrsvelspathoffsithand um
truth in it, for 1 am there now, and Jesus
is with me, and I find it a very happy way,
not because I am agood man, forlam not
.--I am nothing but a poor, miserable sin-
ner-but I have an Almighty Saviour,
sndhothofhisarmsarearoundme.”
May God Almighty, through the blood
of the everlasting covenant, bring us into
the companionship of our loved ones who
have already entered the hesvenlylsad and
into the presence of Christ, whom, not
having seen, we love, and so David shall
recover all, “and as his part is that goeth
down tothe battle, soshsll hispart bethat
tarrieth by the stuff."
Variation on the Snake Story.
I saw a young man light a long Hun-
garian cigar the other evening and throw
and conversation. The Hungarian cigar
is something like a Pittsburg toby, only it
is twice as long as the Pittsburg article,
and before you get through with it is also
twice as strong. The young man was
more interested in the conversation than
in the cigar apparently, for he laid the
latter down on the edge of the table a mo-
ment as he talked. The waggish gentle-
man next to him slyly took the cigar and
cut oil about three inches of the fire end
and began to smoke it, replacing the body
of the weed. When the young man got
through with his story, at which all the
rest laughed extravagantiy, he picked up
the cigar again and pulled at it. His face
were a puzzled look as he glanced at the end
and saw it had apparently never been light-
ed. But he struck a match and lighted it
again. After a few pulls he had laid it
down to auswu- tho pieasantrics, where-
upon tbe man on the other side drew his
knife and neatly cut the fire end of! and
dropped it in thocuspidor. The expression
on the face of the story teller when he
picked up that cigar and again assayed to
smoke was something too funny to de-
scrlbo. He gave two or three vigorous
pulls at it, thrn stopped and looked at the
fresh cud, while the other follows wore in-
terested in almost anything else at the mo-
wont.
As soon as the would be smoker saw
that his cigar had not boon lighted hc
turned a little polo, shoved his uncmpfled
gloss aside, and with a hasty apology and
a story of an nilcgmi forgotten engagvmcnt
bolted for the sum, amid the demoniucal
glee of the cruel men left behind. Thus
docs conscience make cowards of us all.-¥-
New York Herald.
llamas of Devils.
We read in the Book of Mimics, “Frato
crctto, Flibcrdigibct, lloberdicat, (Incubat-
to, with 40 assistants,” were expelled from
Sara. On Jan. 5 it is recorded that, “be
ing cxorviscd, she pratod. scoffed and song,
called for a piper, and when thc priest
bade her tell him his home made answer
‘Pudding of Thame.’ " But in the inter-
val or‘subsequontly she was possessed by
Hobberdidance, Lusty Dick, Kclilco, Hob,
Corns-reap, Puff, Parr, Kelllcocum, Wil-
kin, Lusty Dolly Jenkin, lionjour, Pour-
dieu, Motuhiznnto and several others.
Marvvood was possessed by a Captain Pip-
pin; Trayford by Captain I'hllpot, lliloo,
Hiaclito, Smolkin and Lusty Hull Cap.
A Colonel Portoricchio. accompanied by
two captains and i0!) assistants, mum to
have been unatulchod. At their expulsion
the demons, many of whom have distin-
guished themselves by some characteristic
devices, gave the cxpcctl‘d signs. llohbcr-
didancc was such to vanish as a whirl-
wind, Phiipot want out nsapull of smoke,
Lusty Dick as a slunsh, the demon of
pride as uponmck, and Smolkln escaped
from 'l‘myfnrd’a our in the sham of a
mouse. Malay had within him, besides
Prince Modu, tho rcpn-scntativcs of the
seven deadly sins, who were cast out with
much appropriate acting on his part by
Father Wcswu on St. George's day in the
presence of 100 persons. The description
of this scene, occupying nearly four puma,
is quoted by llamnct from the"Prlcsts'
Book," and it suggested to Shakespeare
some features in tho feigned madness of
Edgar—Niueneuth Century.
The Bluellflah Signal.
When the dogwmd begius to patent lit-
tle whitish green buds, tho blackilsh fish-
eflnau, who is quite distinct from any
other species of fisherman, gets out his
tackle, fires up his lines, pulls out his old
clothes and inches arrangements for boat
and bolt. Simultaneously the blackflsh
pokes his nose out from between the rocks,
takes along breath of green water and be-
gins to feel that the spring has come and
that he is developing an appetite. But he
knows that he must fast until the dog-
wood signals.
Oue fine morning the fisherman awakes
to find a mantle of white glory over all the
dogwmd thickets, and he drops lmsiness.
engagements, duties, meetings and every-
thing of lesser importance, and loaded with
tackle and luncheon makes for salt water
just in time to connect with the hiackflsh,
who are eapering and darting to and fro
out in the opsnwater. fairly crasywith
impatience for some one todrop some halt
in their direction, for the blackilsh has
seen the dogwood's white flag, too, and
from Cape God to Sandy Book has obeyed
the signal and come forth with open mouth
to the summer in Maggi no?" or
«am asserting Ii may
Just what connection time is between
the Mood tree and the blackish fisher-
men haven't explained yet, but they say
the fish understand it, and maybe the tree
understands it, but anyway no hisckflsh
angler would dare import! his luck for the
by going blaehbhing before the
mod flaunts its flsg.—-Ncw York Sun.
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