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5 caused an inquiry to be made into the motives nnd the extent of the opposition ;to the Satolli mission. The pope holds absolutely to his policy that ecclesiasti cal affairs shall develop themselves along moderate lines and in a spirit of liarmonv with the. institutions of the "United "States. From official sources your correspondent learns that all the archbishops who took part in the New, York conference have affirmed the four teen scholastic proposals which Mgr. Satolli placed before them in the name of the pope. S3ti Semi-Annual Red Figure Sale at The "Plymouth," Seventh Street. SUNDAY POLO. In Which the Henriettas Vanquish the Minnesotas. A large and enthusiastic crowd wit nessed a good game of polo \ yesterday at the Henrietta skating rink, foot of Chestnut street. The game was for a goodly purse, and . was between the Minnesota and Henrietta clubs, in which the latter were victorious, van quishing their opponents to the tune of three goals to nothing; but as the Mm ncsotas did not have their regular team, the next game, which is to be played at the Broadway rink on Sunday after noon next, may result differently. file features ot 'the game were the playing of Xurber, Miller and Hatch. The par- Bonnel of the teams was as follows: Miunesotas. ■ '"V "■'-'■* V* Henriettas. Keifer Goal *,*„ Ml U er "M uruaue ...Cover Goal 1 feitter J. "Murphy Center >e*wson Hatch . First Rush Schintsberg YA "Murphy Second Rush Sheehan Esau ... .'. ..Cover Yurber Referee— William Lesh. Friday next the Henrietta rink an nounces as an attraction a skating race of the mile heats order, best two in three, between J. King, of Philadelphia, and an unknown, short club skates to be used. The' purse is ?'".3 a side and gate receipts. "DER MENONIT." A Semi-Reliffious Drama by the .tollman Company at the Met ropolitan Last Evening. Herman Schmelzer, Richard Wag ner anil Elsa ltoemer Given Many Ovations. The return of the Bollman company brought out a good-sized German-Amer ican audience at the Metropolitan last evening to witness the "Mcnouite." The play is a mixture of tragedy, love and religion, and is fairly well put to gether, and might have an interest for some people in Minnesota from the fact that at one time there was a community of this class in the state, but it did not seem to thoroughly catch the interest of the au dience at the Metropolitan last evening. The story of the play is rather unique, but this is owing to the peculiar ending, and the last scene leaves what might be termed a sorrowing audience. There is a splendid opportunity for four good characters, and some of them made good use of the same. Hermann Schmelzer was probably never seen better, with the possible exception of his appearance in "Shuldig," when he was here with Die Milwaukee 1 , last season. The canorous applause and the frequent calls before the curtain ac corded him were certainly evidences of a popularity that might provoke envy from any actor. His conception of the part was parfect, his lines well deliv ered, and his acting gave evidence of hard study that brought good results. It was a masterpiece of acting.: Elsa Roomer, as Marie, was rather weak iv the first two acts, owing to a peculiar expression she has of depicting pain, but redeemed herself grandly in the next two acts, where her rendition of the love and death scenes showed her capa ble of displaying emotional ability of a very high order. In the first part her costumes were hardly appropriate for a Meuoulte maiden, and all through the play the wearing of diamond rings and eardrops rather marred an otherwise good character representation. Richard Wagner had last evening his first opportunity of displaying his abil ity before a St. Paul audience, and in some of the scenes was excellent in speech and delineation, but occasionally showed a disposition to use the gutturals too often; but with this elimination would win the plaudits of the audience to a larger degree than he did last even ing. Julius CoHmer, as the oldest of the Menonltes, has a difficult part, but ren dered it well, and, like Wagner, speaks a little too far down the throat. Theo dore Bollman's minor part as the Ger man defender of his country was grand in sentiment, and by the playwright Khould have been given more scope. . Next Sunday evening, Jan. 15, will be presented "The Milkmaid of Schoene berg," and the subscription patrons of the Bollman engagement will again have an opportunity of seeing that charming souhrette, Martha Neuman, in a part that will give her wonderful versatility full scope. "A Hole iv the Ground." People were turned away from the doors of the Grand opera house last evening, and many late comers who would go in whether or no stood up around the walls. Hoyt's "A Hole in the Ground" was the" attraction, and from first rise to last fall of- the curtain the fun was fast and furious. Charles COwles, as the ola Reuben stranger, was "out of sight" in his antics, singing and dancing. Frank Lawton, as the station agent, satisfied all expectations. Miss Margaret .May and Miss Virginia Earl proved themselves very clever, and the whole company is worthy of commenda tion. Same bill all week. The Musin Concert. The concert by Ovide Musin, the vio linist, and his company will take place this evening at the Unitarian church on "Wabasha street. The sale of seats has been excellent and an audienceof music lovers and our representative people is booked. The programme Is an excep tionally fine one. Mr. Musin has, by the request of some of the local musicians, consented to play the great Paganini variations for the (' string alone. For this number the artist appears with a violin strung with only one string, the difficulties are innumerable, but Musin plays them so that it is bard to believe* there is but one string on the instru ment. The Most Pleasant Way Of preventing the grippe, colds, head* aches, and levers is to use the liquid laxative remedy Syrup of Figs, when ever the system needs a gentle, yet effective cleansing, To be benefited one must get the true remedy manu factured by tli a California Fig Syrup Co. only. For sale by all druggists in f>oc and *fl bottles. Tickets are on sale this morning at Dyer's tor the great Uemenyi concert at the People's cliurch next Monday night. Be patriotic and net one of the "World.')* Fair Souvenir Coins. They will be ready for delivery at the (»iol>e Counting ICoom today's The opening for me .ale of seats for the Riley entertainment begins fhls morning at the wareroom of the Nathan Ford Music compady. lie arrives from the West in this lit* on Wednesday morning. § TF^TGSEAT ENGLISH REMEDY, I 1 BEECHAM'S PILLS j ; I For Billons **__ Wfl_»*DWei.. | H .-• "Worth a G-nwVjaW col, f* m for 25 Costs, . [ H„';. . r BY ALL _mt'«GtST9. HIS GRAND EFFORT. Eloquent Bishop Fowler at the Metropolitan Opera House. An Immense Audience Listens to the Eminent Ex- :;/ pounder. His Sermon Devoted to Prov ing- the Right of Chris- - tianity. \!; One of the Most Powerful Discourses Ever Heard in St. Paul. ; Methodism was given a marked Im petus in the Northwest yesterday.: It was the occasion of the initial sermon of Bishop C. 11. Fowler, who has recently been assigned to this state. The serv ices were held in the Metropolitan theater, in this city, yesterday.after noon, and the capacity, of - the. audito rium was taxed to its utmost. The pro gramme introduced Miss Jessie Turner in a soprano solo." eongre'gatioual sing ing, a Scripture lesson by Key. E. J. Funk, Rev. Thomas McCleary and Rev. William McKinley took part in the services. . . ':\g7££,fc£* :;':•:,:• A* ,-. , ..; .. Bishop Fowler is esteemed one of the most eloquent, cultured, unctions, pop ular and successful orators of the Meth odist pulpit of today. It is for this rea son that the Globe reproduces yester day's sermon entire. It yvill be read with unusual interest by laymen as well as leaders in the church work. It was listened to with rapt attention and punctuated by the deep, hearty aniens so peculiar to Methodist gatherings. Bishop Charles H. Fowler then spoke as follows: I hope I have a message for some of you, and I ask that you will give me prayerful attention. lam more than ordinarily anxious that tho spirit of the living God should accompany the word this afternoon; and I want you to accompany it with your believing pray ers. Some part of the subject which 1 have chosen will probably require your at tention; but, at all events, 1 want you on my side. Don't sit there and look at me. Pray. 1 will read, as a basis of what 1 wish to say. part of the eighth verse of the seventh chapter of St. Luke. "For I, also, am a man set under authority." On the surface of that much reading it hardly appears what 1 wish to talk about. In the verse preceding the cen turian says: "But say in a word, and my servant shall be healed; for 1, also, am a man set under . authority, having under me soldiers; and I say unto one go, and he goeth; to another come, and he cometh: and to my servant do this, and he doeth it." You will not have to study the text very long, 1 think, till you will be satisfied that the great thought in it and under it is the super natural presence in this world, a super natural power operating upon men and upon the affairs of men in the interest of the kingdom of God. • This is a marvelous picture presented in this test, worthy to hang on ihe same wall with that other picture yonder on the Mount of Transfiguration, where the Master met Moses and Elijah, the representatives of the old dispensation ; not altogether out of place in the same room with that sublimest of pictures, the scene on Mount Calvary, where the Master .wrought out for a dying race a way of escape. So 1 ask you to look a little at this picture: In the foreground the Son of God, disguised, concealed in the form of a servant, but discovered and revealed by the penetrating faith of the centurion. Above, the friends of the Master, members of the oppressed Jewish nation, the servants of the cen turion, other appointments to make up this picture, in which the principal characters are the Son of God and the centurion, the representative of the Gentile Christian church, made out of worldly material, but exalted by love of the truth, by loyalty to conviction, by princely munificence to a depressed people and to a despised cause, by faith in the Son of God. and by a heroism that asked only what God would re quire of. him. Fine specimen of Gen tile; magnificent specimen, of a Chris tian. And the meeting in this picture somehow towers ahove any other meet ing that you can find among men. The Great Historic Meetings dwindle into insignificance contrasted with this. • Look yonder at that little company and see those two chiefs in the center of that South American continent meeting for the first time, studying each other and the conditions. Some of you are familiar with it. It was the culmination of the ereat struggle of South America for the freedom of half a score of repub lics. Marvelous interests gathered in it. Spain had robbed and trampled South America tor three centuries. Bonaparte, by an apparently aimless campaign, held Spain by the throat with a desper ate grasp, and while she struggled, helpless in his hand, for ten years, the republics of South America sprang into being and threw off the yoke, and gained what they pleased to call free dom. (.en. San Martin, by courage, hero ism, patriotism, organized, compacted, created, liberated the republics of Uru guay, Argentine, Paraguay, went push ing over the Andes by a movement not less heroic or magnificent than the pas sage of "Napoleon or Hannibal over the Alps, dropped into Chili and into Peru, creating republics as he went, and then pushed northward on the great table land; and there in the middle of the continent he met that other magnificent chief who had created the republics of the northern end of the continent, and they met to look each other in the face, any settle somewhat the independence of South America. Two victorious armies, devoted to two great chiefs, restrained, indeed, . by some little idea of a common interest, but with the cruder thought of the power of the sword of that other time. "it required no prophet to see that these armies must struggle. A tent was pitched between them; a personal body guard of the chiefs was camped round it. The penalty of death was the order for interruption. For twenty-four hours they were together. What passed? .No body knows. Wncn the interview ended, San Martin took the lead of his troops, faced them away to the south, went back to Argentine, and.-;' from Buenos Ayres scattered them through the states, settled up his private affairs, went over to Paris to live and die an exile add a stranger in private life. Bolivar took command of his legion, completed the work of CoitKolid_tiii_* the Republics, left his name on Bolivia, and left South America full of vigor. As I stood by the tomb of San Martin in the great cathedral at Buenos Ayres, and, with uncovered head, thought ot his heroism and his patriotism and his self-sacrifice', I said, "They have not made many peers of this man. He may take**his. seat by the side of Washington and Lincoln and Cincinuatue." Magnificent record] And yet the meeting of these two chiefs upon whose decision hung the liberty and the fate of a continent, and of more than half a score of republics, is but the merest child's play compared with the meeting that is here before us in this picture of the believing Gentile and the Savior of the Jews, the Sou of God. Let us remember this picture, and sea that out of it come some marvel ous truths. '*■: *' ' I would like to linger by the munili cence of this centurion; I would like to THE SAINT PAUL DAILY GLOBE: * MONDAY' IUORMNG." 'JANUARY 9, 1893* dwell a little upon the breadth and mag. nificence of his mind, overlooking the conditions .of this prostrate and con quered colony.and of a faith that swept out beyond the faith of his fathers, and beyond the adopted faith from the Jews, and saw the Sou of Cod. 1 would like to call your attention to his deep and sincere humility. No sign of that pride that comes chiefly of being proud of one's humility, but in the deepest hu mility saying: VI did not count myself worthy that you should come under my roof, nor yet that I should • even come out to greet "'you. -'Only say the word, and my servant shall live; for I. too. am a man set under authority." What a picture! He saw this material world of ours not as a , machine that grinds on, cog in cog, as it may turn about under the pressing hand of Fate, but as a camp where the great forces of life and death, ot disease and pestilence and plague, of health and strength, and the ongoing of the natural agencies; where all these were but common sol diers and common servants obeying the order of the commandant. "I speak to my soldiers; they obey. Master, Speak to Thine, and they will obey." And Jesus "mar veled* at him, and, turning to the com pany about him, he says: "I have not found such faith, no, not in Israel." • It seems to me the great truth in the Scripture, and under this narration and through this history, is the great truth under the Christian religion, back of our faith, embodied in our personal ex perience, towering above our convic tions and shining out into the -infinite and endless future— the truth of the supernatural presence and action of Al mighty God in the midst of our material and natural, as well as our social and spiritual, forces in this life. I think that is the truth that blazes out before us, and -it is to put some little emphasis upon that, and to call attention to that wonderful word. "1, also, am a man under authority." and to the deeper truth of the camp on which 1 have posted the supernatural hosts of the living God— walking, in deed, and driving along our streets, hovering above our homes, watching by our sanctuary doors, keeping guard by our bed chambers, standing with tender and untiring feet by the couches of our Buffering and pain, and forgetting us never till we shall be gathered into the the city of God. Such, I think, is the doctrine which I am sent to give you. Some of you may need it. All of you may be improved by it. Let me state as clearly and definitely as 1 may what I think the Book teaches on this subject. It teaches the sub stance of what 1 have already uttered, the supernatural presence of God in our affairs, His fatherly care and especial attention to the interestsof His children and of His kingdom. I am aware that some will be sur prised, and a few may be offended, but if it be God's truth, receiving, as it did, the commendation of His Son, I am content; for I know this, that you can not come near enough to such a truth as this, even to dispute it or to throw stones at it, without being blessed blessed, at least, with one glance of '**■ The Claim of God upon each one of you. We believe in a material age. We are occupied in the midst of material machinery and the application of the natural forces about us till we have pushed away the super natural. We have crowded God out of our thought; we organize instead of be lieve, for victory, when we should do both. Indeed, we have come to think that this world is driven by long lines, which we call laws; and we make them so long that many people (possibly some here) doubt whether there is any driver at the other end of the lines. They say: "We have not seen Him." Ot course you have not seen Him; you have never seen your own soul. Worse than that for your argument, you have never seen the "lines you talk about. You. know the lines exist by the work they do, by the results they produce. So we know the driver exists by tho work He does, by the results He produces, by the fact that. He keeps these magnificent forces, these magnificent steeds of the earth and the heavens going oil and on forever on the track, working out intelligent ends. So we know lie. is driving. SWe are enswathed with a spiritual atmosphere in spite of this materialism ; we are handled by deep and far-reaching spiritual forces. This is a scaffolding, this is a staging, this outside material organism on which eternal principles and forces of the spiritual world meet and struggle. We are treated as immortal; we are not to be measured by the hay-scales; we are to be measured by the sweep and vigor of our thought, by the grip of our faith, by the clarity of our vision— measured oil a different field. You ask me do 1 believe that God and angels and good spirits and the forces of righteousness encounter us on this stage of * life? Of course 1 do, or I would not be here. I would not be in the miserable* business of preaching a gospel if it hadn't any good news in it, of talking about a God that was "deader than a door-nail." It is because I believe in Almighty God as a present, acting, supernatural force operating by all agencies within His reach upon our hearts that I present His offers of eternal life. But you say to me. "Do you believe in the existence of Satan?— wanted tojsay the devil [Smiles.] but 1 think I won't. [Laughter.] "Ho you believe in the ex istence of Satan?" "I so read the Scriptures." "Have you ever seen it?" "No, but 1 have seen places where his will is accomplished. I have found places on the earth where they do what he wants done. When 1 walk about among the churches of all persuasions and see this— not exactly the particular tone of their creed as to how it balances with mine; that is, of course J think as to how it balances with the truth— but I'd rather ask this: Is the saving work being done? Are the poor cared for? the sick nursed? the wayward reclaimed? the hungry fed? this all in the name of the Master? If so, then 1 believe that the Saying: "Work Is Being Bones and if the Saviour's work is being done, 1 cannot but think that He is not very far off. So when Igo down by one of these dead-falls and see the wrecks that are pushed out through tne doors, see the poor man robbed of his earnings and of his health and of his character and of his standing and of his hope aud of his manhood, and when I see them take our clean boys and transform them into blear-eyed, bloated, oozing, staggering, filthy incarnations of disease and de pravity, then I cannot but believe that Satan's work is being done, and lean not think otlierw ise than that Satan is not very far off. Now, then, we ate in the midst of these great forces, and they move upon us to mould and fashion our characters, knowing that we are immortal. So far that is pretty good, old-fashioned ortho dox faith, and if you will accept it it will do you good. " It is not so weak and so badly emasculated that if you took the whole of it you would be worse off than you were before. So I accept a supernatural work upon us, aud that we live in the miast of divine forces helping us upward, and that the great tempter does not sleep concerning us. The supernatural, then, involves all this, and we are put to account to an swer for our faith and for our belief. We meet two great opponents— l do not want to say enemies, for, while they take the part of enemies, I am of the persuasion that very many of them very often think that they are in deed the friends of truth. They have high names in all these parts of the civ ilized world; they have a great follow ing and a mighty retinue, each of them; it is almost an offense against our civ ilization to mention in such a connec tion the name of either of them; and yet lam here to catechize them. They are "science and higher criticism. Science has a tremendous- train. In deed, it is almost all your life is worth to stand erect when her sacred emblems arc carried through the 'highway. She has seized upon the forces in our liter ature. She has a mighty cohort accom plishing her purpose. She is rich in thought, and deep in scholarship, and profound in wisdom, and almost un measured in the magnificence of her gifts. And I would not 'be understood as going into antagonism with her,- but I must not be understood: as submitting one iota of my faith in the living God, or any - dictates that this poor, : little bare-footed-* hand-maid .,- of ' Christianity . may give. -have no antagonism l with science, and heed * hardly say that •-_. have no fear of science.:- I want to tell you as simply as 1 can .what - 1 th.ink is the truth iv the bottom of this. I have no fear of seiche, because I have noth ing out in the street to be harmed. -Ill* have anything that you can hurt by run ning over it, you are welcome to hurt it. Yet science is tome, in many sides of it, wonderful, and 1 have a great admira tion for the great scientists in their work. They are set with us to . \ ..eel. the' Garden. That order was given to the whole company of the children of Adam, and we have made a poor job of it. " Where' we should have had fruit trees and har vests we have thorns and thistles; and we have spent more time beating each"' other's heads than we have in beating down these thistles. We have poorly kept the garden, and while those men of science may not come near enough to, the mansion to hear the music and to seethe hilarity and the glory of * the great festivities and rejoice in the smil ing countenance of the Father, yet they are on the plantation; they are subdu ing some parts of the estate; . they are ; cutting down the trees and stumping the lots yonder, and I am not willing to club them off. -Let them cut the stump. We will follow them and sow the good seed where they make the soil ready. Whenever a scientist conies up to a new. door and opens it, as best 1 can in "a busy life 1 run after him and" go in and;: see what he has found, for I know that-, at most he has but opened another, apartment in the great mansion which '"my Father has given me. So lam not anxious about him, and yet he must not put himself in such' shape, even in ex ceptional cases, as to poison our litera ture and make much of our intellectual food that which is calculated to strangle; our spirituality. , »!"«*'•'•*■' 1 know when I talk to men about the fact that God can come into our lives,* into my. life and your life, so as to be a* factor among my motives and a king over them all, and more than that, •to come in with a teaching and a guiding hand; and more than that, to come in with his sleeve to His elbow and His hand closed to make a broad way for me by the power of His almighty arm, if it shall be necessary, then, when 1 reach that point, 1 am met by a storm of terms, such as laws of nature, and principles of action, and rules of order, and principles of lite, and a great host of other terms that may be gathered up and tied with tbe single band the laws of nature; and 1 do not object to your talking to me about tiie laws of nature, only I do want you should know what you mean. I have" seen young men who were unable to do so much as grow a fair mustache [laughter], actually poising themselves on their sins and conceits, and saying they would not ac cept the order of the Soil of God . be cause, forsooth, they had some law of nature that directed them; putting away their obligations when, to save their immortal souls, they could not dis tinctly tell what they mean by a law of nature. . All I object to is that you should practice a fallacy upon your selves and upon your friends and upon your neighbors. 1 have a belief that we are, as a rule, handled by great laws that run through ages; that we are, indeed, in the midst of the mighty and steady movements of God's patient and persistent pur poses. Generation after generation sinks down into the grave, but these ■ great forces move on and on.. And, , more than tnat, Ido not see how a moral government could be established , over any people, that were not under these laws, because they could find no field for their intelligence. It is be cause we are handled by far-reaching laws that we can see them or discover them and then use them. We know when and how to plant our seed and when to expect the far-off spring; we j know, indeed, how, by the use of our : intelligence, to handle ourselves in the midst of these laws, which we could not do but for the laws. So we shall have no trouble at that point. They are not only a fact, but they are" the best that could happen to us, and : they are a ne cessity for our well-being and a neces sity for the maintenance of a race over whi'di could be established a moral government. :.^'...;v More than this. Personally it seems to me a wonderful thing to get hold of the laws of nature. 1 like sometimes in mv thought to take hold of the law of gravity and feel ot it a little and push out to right and left and see how it will operate. Away yonder, along the diameter of the non-universe, and yon der and according to the great prin ciples He has established already, 1 find myself on a train that, running a mile a minute and without stopping can run one hundred and fifty trillions of cen turies right on ami make only one trip through the diameter of the non-uni verse, and 1 am glad I live in so big an establishment;; and 1 like to stop out yonder, about -a hundred trillions of centuries of travel from here.and feel of the law of gravity and feel that it holds, but then 1 know that lam still under the administration of my Great Father, and that 1 am not out of His reach nor beyond His care. . It is to me a great comfort that lam thus also in the midst, of these wonderous laws. " But they are not enough, 1 must have something else. There comes upon me the unexpected- "which always hap pens." The little openings here, this little window at my right that looks out upon eternity, suddenly swings around open and a coffin is shot into my home. It is a sad hour and a sad fact. it does not comfort me to tell me. that it is a great law of nature by which this one was smitten. That poor widow who weeps over the body of her husband that has been washed from the wreck is not comforted by being told that, it is a groat law of nature that winds should blow and seas should beat; she wants something more than. that. So do you. And the part of my nature that de mands something more than that is as much a part of me as that other part that is glad to feel the wide reach of these laws; and 1 am, as an intelligent being, unwilling to accept the theory concerning the administration of this universe that leaves our, unaccounted for, a large per cent of the facts in the case. 1 want something more than merely that; I must know that there is an intelligent, thoughtful, ordering mind above it and back of it that loves me infinitely and never forgets, and then, though I cannot see, I cau endure and wait. . <:^;c-'*-v^ .'.'■'■. The Great Combiner. But, to come a little closer, those laws that may trouble some of you a little. I will only stay a moment with them. Exactly what do you mean? 1 will tell you one thing that possibly you think you mean, but which you do not. The sun rose this morning and yesterday morning and the day before; that is, I suppose it did, and It has been rising for countless ages, and nobody here, in' his right mind, has any doubt but what, it will do so tomorrow morning and the next morning, and so you tell me that it is a law of nature that the sun should rise. Very good, what is it? What makes it rise? "Its continual rising." By no means. "What you" call your law of nature Is only the product, the result ant, the generalization . ot all those facts put together, and the reason makes the law, and not the law- the reason. You don't mean that. There is another putting of the law of nature that I will touch just a moment that seems to me to come a little nearer to the point of becoming a cause—which is the thing you arc struggling after. I" will not go about it much, but come right down to the necessities of the case as soon as possible. Wo find that matter has certain susceptibilities and certain capabilities. It is able to operate upon other bodies of matter, and it is able to receive the operation of other bodies of matter. Now then, if you will take the simplest possible illustration;: a "given! amount of oxygen and a: given amount of hydrogen and then chemically com bine them in given' operations and by a - given process, . you 7 have """'rv new. resultant — water. iou " have' caused something to come to pass. Now. that approaches shadowing forth some what, possibly, the idea you have of Un law of * nature. .'■".: But look * a ■"; moment. How does it do it? The boy over you- dor from the .laboratory ; in the r high school could tell you- that if you leave the oxygen by itself, or the hydrogen by itself, or any other., element In nature by itself, it ' will stay there: alone for ever ! and ever, and' nothing will .'be caused; that it Is : only when they are brought together in given, relations. j when they are properly combined— hear, it— when they are properly combined, that you get any resultant. . Now then. that is all 1 ask. Who combines them? Give me some chance to. come to Him, to the Great Combiner, and I shall be , content. •*.'- ■'."'.' , . -. 1 have seen no theory anywhere that ,by any.chance embarrasses mo, in the •last analysis in this work of conscience f when 1 think about Him, for, tako any thing you please and go back along the line of the order of. our being, take any ,-line" of your ancestry you may select, whether you may say of yourself that you.were not the son of Seth, and you 'was not the son of this one and that one 1 and the other, all through the long line 5 till you come to the great Adam "which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God ;" or, you can lake that other line, which was the son of an which "•was the sou of .a polliwog, which was the son of protoplasm, back to the last analysis (I prefer the first), but take the last [laughter], you come always to a point where, somehow, the Great Com biner must come in to help you over the gulf and out of the chasm; for you will pot tell me that you have seen- this protoplasm, this first form, that you have seen this wriggling before is ex isted in order that it might wriggle itself into existence. [Laughter.] You will; not ask me to think of it. But, somehow, always we come to •■.:_•*>:" This Infinite Chasm over which nothing but the arm of Al mighty God can lift us, back to the Great Combiner; and the thoughtful and great and scholarly men who have gone astray in this thought, anxious above measure concerning the truth in the universe, have come tip to this and staggered and fallen; trained on another side, giving all their energies to one particular de partment of their being, they have not been poised for its best adjustment, and so" they stagger away from the fact, but there forever is the gulf. They might cry out and find relief if they would adopt the wail or shout of that old Rus sian poet. "1 am, 0 God, and surely Thou must be." • Somehow- we have come over the chasm, and nothing yet discovered but the arm of Almighty God can lift us over— >the Great Combiner brought out by the very forces of science. ;.".•': James Martineau— not exactly sound in his theology, but with a good head and some magnificent thinking machin ery inside of it, has in substance said that it is. pitiful to see these men along •the borders of the chasm crying out and saying, "Grant us some tiniest granule of power, with even an infinitesimal tendency toward increment, and out of that little thing, too small to--'- make a case of cause, and altogether too small to object to flaugfi ter], out of that we will show you the sum of the universe." This Infinitesimal tendency to increment is treated' iii their thought after this fashion :■ It is' simultaneously equated backward, to ward the caase into nothing, ami for ward toward the effects into the sum of things. Then he says: "It is a mean device for the philosopher to equate causation with hairs' breadths, and put 'itjoutat compound interest through all time, and then deny the debt.-"' [Laugh ter.] And it is vain, after all, for, while for the purpose of a logical theft it is easier when doled out through endless ages than when it is condensed into one stroke, yet the power that .'eventuated the universe is nothing less than infinite and nothing lower than .Stone—back to the Great Combiner. '"' It is a comfort, then, for me, out of the very deptns and in the very midst of our best thinking, concerning' this great and ••"everlastingly practical work going on •about us by possibly our taller and more industrious brethren, that yet we do come, back to God. Why, as a practical question getting hold of the Combiner settles many a difficulty. Just across this strip of land, over yonder in Lake Superior, some little lime ago, a craft 'was beaten by the tempest and got out i of the hands of the pilot and went, bow I forward, I Toward a TreniciidoiiH Reef, in the night, with an overwhelming tem pest and a boiling sea, and the captain said, "Shu's gone; we're lost!" But a poor widow woman, over yonder in Jer sey, in a little quite town, had. her only son on that craft, and that night she was awfully oppressed for the, lad and could not sleep, and. on her knees she got hold of the Great Combiner, and she said, "O Thou that didst stop the bier of the son of the widow of Main, care for that craft." And He struck a little new combination in the elements, the tempest smote the craft astern, she gave a quivering leap over, the reef, and rocKed and righted in a cove of safety. She had gotten hold of the Combiner, that was all. Over yonder on the New England coast, in one of those little whaling town, just towards evening, a whaling craft from a three-Years' voy age, pushed round and tried to make her way in. but a gale had come up and the storm was on. and the whaler was driven back. The poor people of the town who were specially interested in it, whose sons and husbands were on board, went out and lined the shore and looked and watched, but she did not land. She was driven back and seemed to struggle as a thing of life for a single moment of existence. One poor woman went away in the dusk into a little one-story, one-roomed cabin, in which she lived, and there on her knees she reached up to the Great Combiner, and there .he stayed through the weary night. And just at dawn a stout, burly young man bounded into the door and caught her up in his arms, saying, "Oh, mother, 1 knew you would pray me ashore." She got bold of the Great Combiner. Now, if he noes not answer prayer, we had better give up the whole business. [A voice:. "That', so."] Let us not be deceived about it. Full, full to the brim is the book and the history, of the church and the lives of men of the gentle and sleepless interferences of the presence of the King. Let us not be afraid of Him. lam afraid *_. some things. I should be afraid of get ting into hot water if I undertook to preach to you a gospel that did not have any power in it, or to give you a religion that did not have in it the liberated forces of Almighty God, so you may re member that we have the fullest confi dence in the religion of the Bible, j, Now, let _us look a moment at this .Other antagonism of a different type al together-great and wonderful in its scholarship and " 1 think (though it is 'not' a nice thing to pass severe criti cism) a good deal less noble in its char acter than this other one, I mean the higher critics, who clothe themselves .'with the sacred vesture of the holy of holies by calling it Biblical scholarship. They have a great train behind them .'and a dangerous train . They take the , life out of the pulpit so it cannot defend itself' they put it into such shape that when once tney have put the truth, an -honest man cannot stand up and say to -"them "The whole thing as you present .it, ain't worth a cent." That is the peril of the higher critics in pushing out . somewhat in literature, '"but, largely in Biblical literature. !,a class of men who, by some chance, fail to take hold of the saving power of the Son of .God as a supernatural, mir acle worker In the midst of mankind. ALL THE SAME, ALWAYS, spg-Ass-is. If^^-v o_^^l| BRUISES. i Mt. Pleasant, Texas, * x^_V»i_^^^C'sv , _f^ ___b_bg, Pa., June 20,1888..- QSf&Zqffe&Offlfr 802Wylie Ave., Jan. 29/87. Suffered 8 months with * «^^V/J One of my workmen fell ;:; strain of back;, could not __^ m B^>_. from a ladder, he sprained walk straight; lised.tw'o v . % \> ' and bruised his arm very -bottles of -^^r|j_B K^lll^ badly. He used ■-.-Vst. Jacobs Oil, PPfff SB 1 1 B_r___! ■ St* Jacobs Oil was cured. No pain in a if -"as rof $1| §|}yg|l and was cured in four I ' \ M. J. WALLACE. lE&Aw^ _§ __^__| ■£■ FRANZ X. GOELZ. A PROMPT AN© PERMANENT CURE. But let us look a little at this case. The attack is made at this time on the Old Testament— and it is a very wise .'move-, ment on the. part 'of* criticism. If we should, suppose that they wanted to un dermine Christianity, that -would be exactly the place to begin for that work, for if they leave, the Old Testament in tact and there comes S out of it the spirit of prophecy, a spirit that could predict, that could tell beforehand the things that were to come to pass, they have enthroned the supernatural and en throned. Almighty God in the convic tion of men; so that, the only way to escape from the presence of.a penetrat ing mind, that may penetrate the fiery future, is by some ;i ■■■:£/ y. Chance to Wipe Out this Old Testament authority. Let us not be deceived. .It is I* not sufficient to tell us that they will make a great and wondrous book of teaching. Judas lscariot betrayed Jesus Christ by a kiss —let us not be kissed. [Voice, "Amen."] If there is no protective element in the Old Testament, then -. there is no mean ing to the. Old Testament sacrifices; then there is no long and steady and authoritative putting of meaning, into tite sacrifice on Mount Calvary; then there is no:* great, far-reaching plan for the salvation of man; then with the Old Testament soon must go the New. Then the eternal silence has never been broken ; then we have no word from God; then the mighty fabric of religious thought and purpose that has swept through so many ages and over so many races is wiped out; then the hope of humanity is quenched in the sepulcher. So 1 beseech you, breth ren, let us not be deceived, but, stand ing on this rock, let us defend our out posts. [Voices. "Amen."] ;.-i •_-'•; Tbe Peroration. Bishop Fowler then turned to an elaborate argument <? to V prove the au thenticity of the book of Daniel, gave a few eloquent words of advice to young men, and concluded as follows: Now, tell me that He is too great; that lie cannot come down to my little ness; for, as I see it as I look 'in your faces today, that just simply because lie. is great lie can come down to my littleness; and, more than that, that if lie cannot come down to my littleness, He is not so great. You have got a statesman here in this, beautiful city of St. Paul; you put him in your common i council; he enacts a law for the city of St. Paul that touches all the interests of all the merchants and all the farmers and all the lumbermen, and everybody else you have about here, and touches all the interests of all j the churches and all the societies, and exactly fits everybody perfectly, ami you all say he is a great man. Of course he is; but you send him into the capitol building, and he enacts a law that will fit everybody in the state of* Minnesota, that will care for every in terest, from one end of this magnificent empire lo the other; that not only care lor all the great interests of the city of St. Paul, but will also care for the in terests of Minneapolis — think of that [laughter]: will care for all the interests of every city in the slate, so that every man. woman and child will say that he has exactly suited our needs. You will [ say he is' greater than the man down j yonder in the common council. So then I you send him to Washington— and it is i ii good thing to send a great, brainy man t to Washington. Don't send any fools to Washington. I don't believe we do, from what I know. But you send a man to Washington, and he en acts a law that will touch every interest of all the states in the United States, the lumber of Maine and Minnesota, the flour of Minnesota and Dakota, the gold of California and the cotton of the South, and the hoop poles of Michigan [laughter]; care for every interest all the great Union over and fit everybody's case, and you say that he is immeasur ably greater than the other. So it seems to me that if God sits on yonder throne lie must be able come down to my little personal needs; stand by my bed in the night time and walk by me in the daytime; able to count the very hairs of my head aim see to it that nothing shall by any means harm me. lie is not 100 great—only great on that account. * No, brother,, [ believe iii God Al mighty and iv a supernatural power. [Voices, "Amen."] And lie is our fa ther, and He cares for us- and lie never tires out.and He never upbraids. Let us honor Him, as our fathers did, with a faith in a simple, straightforward, all conquering God. [Voices, "Amen."] He is never defeated, -He never lacks power to do what He wants, lie does not want any power from us, He has it all. He is o.ble to save to the uttermost. [Voices, "Praise God."] Aye, and if we steal away into some dark corner in the uni verse and call for Him, lie will find us, even if Ho has to hunt for us by the light of burning worlds. He is our" father. [Voices, "Praise God."] Broth ers, come and let us bold on to Him and accept perpetual and constant and eter nal victory. [Voices, "Amen."] - 23d Seml-Annoal Red Figure Sale at The "Plymouth,"' Seventh Street. BOSS BOWLERS MEET. The ' Calumets and Universities Try Conclusions Tonight. One of the most exciting contests In the entire Globe bowling tournament is scheduled for this evening. 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