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Chancery Clerk
The Grenada Sentinel.
j, \y. BUCHANAN, Manager and Proprietor.
M Be Just and Poar Not"
TEKMS; $1.00 Per Annum In Advance.
VOLUME XLVI.
GRENADA, MISS., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1900.
NUMBER 23.
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j Mississippi Matters. |
? NOTES OF PAST AND CURRENT EVENTS. 9
i By J. L. POWER. *
s
i
OUTING NOTES—Concluded.
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A visit to the home of Dr. John Y.
Murry and his interesting family, at Rip
specially enjoyable. It was un
hospitable roof that we re- J™
— , . nann i n l " l! *
cuperated in 1895, after the good people t)u ,
of Mississippi had called us from a sick ].- u ]
bed to a position of high honor in the
State. Dr. Murry is one of the most dis
tinguished and influential citizens of the ments
county, and although now in advanced
years, lie walks as fast and steps as high On
aa most men of 30. He was Sheriff of
the county, Representative in the Legis- and
lature and Grand Master of Masons for and
two terms in succession—a rare honor in
that body. He still practices medicine,
keeps a drug store and is always active two
in every movement for the good of the large
community. His youngest son, Dr. and
C. M. Murry, is one of the best physi- been
dans in the State, and has his full share to
of the practice in Ripley and vicinity,
Just now he is specially busy, for there
has been much typhoid fever there tills
fall—and some deaths. with
lion. John Y. Murry, Jr., the efficient h »*
and popular Secretary of our State Sen- fpc
ate practices law anil conducts the Rip
lev branch of the Tishomingo Savings In
Btitution. The good Cord' is prospering
him, as he deserves, in many ways. ch
Dr. E. M. Alexander, another good
friend, we were specially glad to meet,
He s one of the best beloved citizens of
{J. .
.W : Tt.An.na
Ripley .8 the home ot Hon Thomas
spight, Representative m Congress for
the Second District. He is a great force
in that section; is always in demand, at
Confederate reunions, educational and un
church occasions, lie is a member of the wor
Baptist Church.
\Ve called, of course, on our good friend nn(
Joe Owen, editor of the Southern Sentinel
arid one of lippahs Representatives in
the Legislature. He has a well-equipped
office and a fine subscription list. He has
just recovered from a protracted siege of
typhoid fever.
Ripley was the home of Hon. Charles
M. Thurmond, recently deceased. The
family has been much afflicted of late,
but the devoted widow and mother ac
cepts it all as the dealing of One who
doeth all things well.
• We made our second visit to Ripley's
public school, conducted by Prof. John
Ncwhardt and three capable assistants,
The attendance is not large, and the
equipment might be improved. Ripley
should be a separate district, with an
up-to-date building, and a nine-months*
term. This would cost, but it would
pav. We cannot do too much for our
children; and in thus helping them we
help ourselves
To Sheriff Sam Nelms and other conn- of
ty officials we are indebted for appreci
ated courtesies
It 1, eighteen* mile, from Ripley to New
Albany, on the Gulf * Chicago railroad,
This road runs from Middleton, Torn... on
the Southern road, to Pontotoc, a dis- >»
tance of 02* miles. It is narrow gauge,
and doing good business, and out of debt.
It was built by Lol. \\ C. Inlkner, and is
now owned and managed by Hon. John
W. T. Falkner, Senator for Lafayette.
Smile of these days it will extend in an
air hue to Hattiesburg connecting there &
with the Gulf A bhip Inland road.
. , •
keeps forging ahead. New buildings are
the order of the day in that progressive
town. The matter of a new school build
ing was being discussed, end New Albany s
will not be true to its record if the neces
■ary bonds are not voted. Editor Blakes- r
lee is a great force in New Albany and in
all that section. He has that kind of
pr ogres si ve spirit that is infectious. The
Gazette is a credit to Mississippi journal
ism. To him and to Mr. Robert Hender
son, Jr., Sam Owen and many others, we
are indebted for courtesies during our
very hurried visit.
New Albany U a junctional point—on
the Kansas City, Memphis & Birming
ham, 26 miles from Tupelo and 34 miles
from Holly Springs. The two roads
crossing there should have a union pas
aenger depot. It would be nice. Tupelo
has & union depot, and the roads and
the traveling public are proud of it.
Holly Springs.
was reached at 8 o'clock Saturday morn
ing. Taking advantage of a delayed
train We drove to the square and were
glad to note gome evidences of prosper
y, in the way of new buildings, and had
the pleasure of meeting George Myers,
« .V'A, P y^ ,a " 0™nd Chancellor
Blumenthal, Rev. Dr. Raymond, president
of the Presbyterian Female College, our
dear friend, Mrs. Dr. Butler, and others.
Many of Mississippi's greatest men
lived in Holly Springs—distinguished in
civil and military life. The city was spe
cially scouraged by tho yellow fever of
1878, when the city opened wide her
gates to plngue-stricken Grenada. Four
teen hundred and forty of her people were
prostrated by the disease, the total
deaths being 304, or 71.60 per cent, of the
white population. The deaths included
Col. Harvey W. Walter and his noble
^ys, Frank and Jimmie, Kinloch and
Howard Falconer, Col. W. J. L. Holland,
Col. E. W. Upshaw and one or more in
nearly every home in the city. Col. Kin
lock Falconer left his office as Secretary
of State never to return. When he re
ceived the telegram about "suspicious
i cases" he remarked to the writer: "I
take the first train to Holly Springs'*'
I °nd there lie won laurels even grander
than those that he earmxl on the field ot
[ baitl*
ley, was
der
tion
of
ings
said:
far
to
the
and
by
ing
is
bv
twon ty nine miles south of Holly
Springs. On reaching there Saturday
morning ex-Lieutenant Governor G. D.
Shands, law professor, was taking the
J™ in f ° r h «alth and rest and Biloxi, and
" l! * good wife insisted on conveying us to
t)u , univeraity- We found chancellor
].- u ] ton in l,ia' ofHoe, but he dropped his
correspondence und escorted us over the
ground, and explained the great improve
ments thut were being made, costing
something over twenty thousand dollars,
On or before the close of the year all the
buildings on the campus except the chapel
and one dormitory will be steam-heated,
and all the buildings and grounds will be
lighted by electricity. Half a mile of
eight-inch pipe, a 100-horse power engine,
two holiers of 125-horse power each, a
large dynamo, radiators in all the rooms,
and fixtures for hundreds of lights, have
been installed, and will add immensely
to the health and comfort of the entire
university population. The university
dynamo will provide the current for the
town, whose good people can dispense
with oils and matches. The university
h »* an abundance of pure water and per
fpc t sewerage system. The School of
Electric Engineering, recently established,
require a considerable plant. Prof.
Douglas Anderson, late of Tulane. is in
ch SI? e ' T .u u in .-*i n O o nnn
P' e Library building, uith its -3,000
volumes is in fine shape. Mrs. Lizzie M
Hunt, of Ripley, is librarian. She took
charge in July last, and ha3 re-arranged,
classified and catalogued all the books.
„ Fulton was very compliment
manag ement.
fc, th thg imp * uvements mentioned, and
manv r( . pa i rB that have been made, the
un j v ' er8 i,y will be in fine shape for better
wor j. But there are other and pressing
needs—a woman's building, a gymnasium
nn( j num ber Q f cottages for married stu
donts There are thirty-five young ladies
now the university, and there
one hundred if a woman's building
were provided. Chancellor Fulton related
Inanv interesting instances of how young
men* came to the university after they
were married, and pursue the course to
graduation, their wives helping in various
ways. In one of the university classes
there is now a young man pursuing his
studies
young wife, '
small salary, i
visited. When he shall enter upon a lu
crative law practice, and both
lished in a comfortable home, they can
think it all over, and enjoy it the more
because of the separation and sacrifice
now experienced,
On Saturday night the Phi Sig
competitive speech-making and selected
two commencement orators, the topic dis
cussed being "Resolved, that the progress
of civilization is due more to physical sci
once than to politics. Messrs. Russell
aitt Drummond were voted the best
speakers. The orators were honored by
the presence of the young ladies of the
Woman s ( ollege. w hoiacre■ in
>» their beconm.g eostu nes aecompan. d
by President Malone and several of the
<^er 9 prpf „ t univcraU y enrollment, is
Fifty or sixty more will enter after
. , ,. .* J
u, ^ h (he ;. j( j #f Marchi )ftm , Chancellor
Fulton w jjj complete his thirtieth year as
& toa( . h( , r the Univcr sity of Mississippi,
en ^ ered as a student in 1866, grad
uated as first honor
186J) some 0 f c i ass n,atcs being F. A.
q.^ 7 b. H. Thompson, W. Calvin Wells,
r Miller. He has been chancellor
s i„ cp 1892, succeeding Chancellor Mayes,
jj e j a emphatically "the right man in the
r jght place."
Oxford has much improved since a for
mer visit, especially in the residence por
tion. One of the largest and handsomest
residences recently erected is that of Hon.
j. \V. T. Falkner. Through the courtesy of
Judge B. T. Kimbrough we were able to
see all of Oxford. He poinetd out the
homes of L. Q. C. Lamar. Jacob Tliomp
son, James M. Howry, H. A. Barr, Judge
R. A. Hill and others who have passed
away. Oxford lias now the blessing of
pure water, and will soon have a sewerage
system.
All the Protestant denominations have
nice churches, and the public schools are
among the best in the State. The Globe
and Eagle continue to prosper,
1'he Masonic grand bodiesjll Mi
their annual meeting in Oxford duiing
n °teut fou'r htm^eiTto the popula
•?<» *«> ' ^ , provided for.
d J n0 anxiety Vn that seore.
thia conch „les our outing, many
Wng omitted for want of space.
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in
of
in
re
"I
ot
Oxford
•ould
money earned by his beautiful
ho lias a position, on a
i one of the schools that we
estab
had
*
in the class of
Colonel J. M. Stlgler.
A comrade and admirer of this gal
lant Confederate, thus writes:
In your department of interesting and
important Mississippi matters and histori
cal facts, for which I compliraeut you, that
occurred before, during and since the War
of Secession, is a brief mention of the life
and death of Col. J. M. Stigler at his home
in Lexington.
Major Stigler commanded a battalion of
sharpshooters in Featherston's brigade,
Loving's division, Johnston's army. He
brave, gallant and trusted officer,
aud skillfully led bis little command in the
nuaierous engagements iu which it partici
pated. In the last engagement that John
ston's army had, at Bentonville, N. C., the
major, a young lieutenant, and one or two
soldiers, were wounded. The major was
struck on the cheek, but he received prompt
surgical attention and the wound healed.
He was the last man wounded in the last
battle, iu the last ol the fight. A superb
was a
soldier, a splendid citizen, has joined the
great majority. Requiescat in pace.
When the Old Capitol Was First Occupied.
A correspondent writes:
Will Colonel Power please state when the
present Htate capitol was built and first
occupied?
On February 2C, 1833, the sum of $95,
000 was appropriated toward the erec
tion of a statehouse. The final leport
of the commissioner of public build
ings was made January 16, 1840—the
expenditures were about $400,000.
The capitol was first used by the leg
islature in January, 1839. Gov. Mc
Nutt, in his message to that session,
said:
The capitol, although not finished, is so
far advanced as to afford accommodation
to the legislature and the various public
officers. The building has progressed very
slowly the past year, and it is believed that
the expenditures have been unusually ex
travagant. A rigid scrutiny into all ths
contracts and accounts of the officers
charged with the erection of the statehouse
and penitentiary is necessary.
The rooms of the old statehouse were,
by resolution, authorized to be used for
various purposes after the legislature
took possession of the new capitol.
The old statehouse
ing on the corner where the Harding
building now stands. It was used for
many years as the Mississippian office.
The State Flower.
The vote on State flower has not yet
been tabulated. The result cannot be
definitely announced before next week.
The indications are that the Magnolia
is in the lead; the Cotton Bloom, Chrys
anthemum, Cape Jasmine and others
being favorites. Here is the report of
the resut of A. and M. College, as wired
bv President J. C. Hardy: "Magnolia,
303; Cotton Bloom, 95. Sentiment
wins." Alcorn A. and M. College
(colored), gave Cotton Blossom 211;
Magnolia. 37. Greenville gave the
Cotton Plant and Blossom, 483; Mag
nolia, 290. Yazoo City gave the Mag
nolia, 385; Cape Jasmine, 30.
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The Democratic presidential electors
met in Jackson on the 5th ultimo, it
being the time named by the State law,
and discovered that a Federal statute.
passed in 1891, provides that they shall
cast the vote for president and vice
president on the second Monday in
January. They balloted, and unani
mously voted for William J. Bryan for
president, and Adlai E. Stevenson for
vice-president, and will repeat the
ballot when they meet in January. All
nine electors vv
R
a
present—James J.
McCool, T. U. Sisson, J. P. Landrum,
Jr., W. J. East, J. T. Lowe, E. D. Stone,
S. A. Witherspoon, Edward Mayes.
Mr. Garrard Harris, of Jackson, w
elected to carry the vote to Washington.
The Olrient MiHsl«»ipi>l Legislator.
* In a recent issue we named several
living members of the legislatures of
1844 and 1846. But there is another
who outranks them -the venerable
Wyatt J. Draughn, of Hattiesburg, who
represented Perry county at the regular
session in January, 1840. He is 88 years
of age, and has been living in Perry
county eighty-two years.
Indications are that Mississippi will
be largely and ably represented at the
meeting of the Southern Educational
Association in Richmond
itist. Chancellor Robert Fulton of the
University of Mississippi is president.
One fare for round trip from all points.
From Jackson the round trip rate is
$25.50.
The Evening Star claims that "Me
ridian is the best town in the State;
that there is nearly twice as much busi
ness, wholesale and retail, done there
in any two cities of the State, two
houses enjoying a trade that will total
something like $450,000."
There is no prominent citizen of Mis
sissippi whose name is more uniformly
misspelled than that of Judge Newnau
Cayce of Columbus. It is usually print
ed Newman and Noonan. Newnan is
correct.
The population of four Mississippi
cities, as telegraphed the Jackson News
by Census Director Merriam, is as fol
lows: Vicksburg, 14,834; Meridian, 14,
050: Jackson, 7,816; Greenville, 7,642.
Natchez is to have an electric street
railway, built by local capitalists. Some
of the local capitalists of Jackson will
never cease to regret that they did not
build the street railway in that city. It
is the most money-making franchise in
Mississippi.
Among the Thanksgiving offerings to
the Natchez Protestant Orphan Asy
lum is one that we are specially pleased
to note—$5 from the students (colored)
of Alcorn A. and M. College. They
make an annual contribution to the
asylum.
Hon. W. L. Trowbridge was re-elected
mayor of Vicksburg. The Hill City ia
progressive, and Trowbridge is built
that way. __
The hens of the country are on strike
—at least they are not doing much lay
ing these days. Forty cents a dozen is
the price in Jackson, and they arc
scarce at that figure.
There were fourteen deaths in Jack
son during November, of whom 12 were
negroes, and four of these pauper a
the 27th
of
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and
that
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last
CROSSING THE FERRY
Dr. Talmage Tells of David's Pas
sage Over the Jordan.
.riion of Comfort and
All tiod'a Cbll
Ile Dram a
Hopcfulneat
dren—The Ferry
Heaven.
(Copyright, 1900, by Louis Klopsch.]
Washington,
From an unnoticed incident of olden
time Dr. Talmage in this discourse
draws some comforting and rapturous
lessons. The text is 2 Samuel 19:18:
"And there went over a ferryboat to
carry over the king's household."
Which of the crowd is the king?
That short man, sunburnt and in fa
tigue dress. It is David, the exiled
king. He has defeated his enemies and
is now going home to resume his pal
ace. Good! I always like to see David
come out ahead. But between him and
his home there is the celebrated river
Jordan which has to be passed. The
king is accompanied to the bank of the
river by an aristocratic old gentleman
of 80 years, Barzillai by name, who
owned a fine country seat at Roge
lini. Besides that, David has his fam
ily with him. But how shall they get i
across the river? While they are stand
ing there I see a ferryboat coming from
the other side, and as it cuts through |
the water I see the faces of David and
his household brighten up at the
thought of so soon getting home No J
aooner has the ferryboat struck the |
shore than David and his family and
crowds of people, who are waving and
shouting at the approach of the king
and his family. The military are all
out. Some of those who have been
David's worst enemies now shout until
they are hoarse at his return. No
sooner has the boat struck the shore
on the western side than the earth
quakes and the heavens ring with
cheers of welcome and congratulation,
David and his family and Barzillai from
Rogelim step ashore. King David asks
his old friend to go with him and live
at the palace, but Barzillai apolo
that he is infirm
with age and too deaf to appreciate
the music, and has a delicate appetite
that would soon be cloyed
urious living, and so he begs that David
would let him go back to his country
seat.
his old friend Barzillai, from Rogelim,
get on board the boat,
splashing oa
oar sculling
they leave the eastern bank of the Jor
dan and start for the western bank,
estern bank is black
•ith |
ith one
Either
at the side or
t the stern of the boat
Thai
ith
R
seat.
I once heard the father of a presi
dent of the United States sav that he
had j
t b*en to Washingt
his
ti
in the
hite house, and he told
of the wonderful things that
hat Daniel Webst
to him. but he declared:
th
said
. anil of
"I was glad
to get home. There was too much go
ing on there for me." My father, an
aged man. made his last visit at my
house in Philadelphia, and after the
church
as over, and
rviee
home, some one in the house asked the
nijed man how he enjoyed the
"Well," he replied, "I enjoyed the serv
ice, but there were too many people
there for me. It troubled my head
very much." The fact is that old peo
ple do not like excitement. If King
David had asked Barzillai 30 years be
fore to go to the palace, the probability
is that Barzillai would have gone, but
not now. They kiss each other good
by, a custom among men oriental, but
in vogue yet where two brothers part
an aged father and a son go away
from each other never to meet again.
No wonder that their lips met as King
David and old Barzillai, at the prow of
the ferryboat, parted forever.
This river Jordan, in all ages and
among all languages, has been the sym
bol of the boundary line between earth
and Heaven. Yet wh
casion I preached to you about the
Jordanic passage I have no doubt that
some of you despondingly said: "The
Lord might have divided Jord
Joshua, but not for poor me." Cheer
I want to show you that there is
ray over Jordan as well as through
It. My text says: "And there
over a ferryboat to carry over the
king's household."
My subject, in the first place, im
presses me with the fact that
cross over from this world to the next
the boat will have to come from the
other side. The tribe of Judah, we
are informed, sent this ferryboat across
to get David and his household. I stand
on the eastern side of the river Jor
dan. and I find no shipping at all. but
while I am standing there I see a boat
plowing through the river, and as I
hear the swirl of the waters and the
ve
a former
for
P :
hen we
boat comes to the eastern side of the
Jordan and David and his family and
his old friend step on board that boat
I am mightily impressed with the fact
that when we cross over from this
world to the next the boat will have to
come from the opposite shore.
A guide at Niagara falls said to me:
"I)o you see that rock down in the
rapids?" I so id: "Yes." "Well," he
said, "some years ago a mar got into
the rapids and floated down until he
enme to that rock, and he clutched
that and held on. We sent five iife
boats at different times out to him,
and they were all broken to splinters.
After awhile
e got him some food,
but he could not eat it. lie seemed to
have no appetite. H? wanted to get
ashore, and Uhe pool fellow held on
and held on. and with a shriek louder
than the thunder of the cataract he
went over." When
from the shore of this world on the
river of Death in a boat of his own
construction, he li
n puts ot»l
disaster
*k, eternal ship
than that—sliipwr
reck.
Blessed be God, there is a boat com
ing from the other side! Transporta
tion at last for
other shore: everything about this
Gospel from the other shore; pardon
from the other shore; mercy from the
oth
r souls from the
i
|
J about to dip> „, e boat
| the 5an)e direption
j g j lf
other
shore; pity from the
ministry of angels from the
other shore; power to work miracles
from the other shore; Jesus Christ
from the other shore. *This is a faith
sli
ful saying and worthy of all accepta
tion that Christ Jesus came into the [
world to save sinners," and from a
foreign shore I sec the ferryboat com
ing. and it rolls with the surges of a
Saviour's suffering; but as it strikes
the earth the mountains rock, and the
dead adjust their apparel so
they may be fit to come out.
boat touches the earth, and glorious
Thomas Walsh gets into it i
piring moment, saying: "He has
come! He has come! My Beloved is
mine, and I am His." Good Sarah
.... . , . ,
Wesley got into that boat, and as she ,
shoved oft from the shore she cried:
Ope,, the pates! Open the gates.
I bless God that as the boat came
from the other shore to take David ,
d his men across, so, when we arc
will come from
God forbid tha ;
Id ever trust to anything that
starts from this side. j
bject suggests that \
hen vve cross over at the last the
• ill be on board the boat. Ship
| carpentry in Bible times was in its ,
The boats were not skill*
| full Y made, and I can very easily im
a £ me that the women and the chil
j dren t ^ ie King's household might
have been nervous about going on
• tbat boat, afraid that the oarsman or
j the helmsman might give out and
j that th '' boat might be dashed on the
rocks,as sometimes boats were dashed
j *be Jordan, and then I could have
imagined the boat starting and rock
ill $L and they crying out: "Oh. we are
Piping- to bo lost. We are going down!"
so -
that
That
,
|
1
Again,
King
infancy.
i
board the
.•omen and children
The King was
boat, and th
and all the household of the king
ras take
knew that every c
to
have the king—the head of the e
pire—pas
in safetv.
j
ant to break up a delusi
in your mind, and that is this: When j
our friends go out of this world, we 1
feel sorrv for them, because they have I
1
I
lone; and parents hold
the hands of their childre
and hold on to something of j
to
to g
ho a
dying.
that the moment they I
rill he in the a
the boat all alone. I
the i
pre
let go the little one
dnrknesi
and i
"Oh," the parent says, "if I could only
go with my child, I would be willing
to die half a dozen times. 1 am afraid
vill be lost in the woods or in the
vill be
she v
darki
; I am afraid she
?h frightened in the boat all
alone." I break up the delusion.
Whe
not go alone; the King is
the boat. Was Paul alone in the last
a soul goes to Heaven, it does
board
extremity? Hear the shout of the
sacred missionary as he cries out:
am now ready to be offered, and the
of my departure is at hand."
Was John Wesley alone in the last
Hear him say:
"I
ti
extremity ?
"Best of all, God is with us." W
William Forbes alone in the last ex
No.
Sir
Hear him say to his
"Tell all the people who are
to the bed of death from
has no terrors."
No.
tremity ?
friends:
coming dow
my experience it
"Oh." say a great many people, "that
does very well for distinguished Chris
tians, but for me, a common man. for
e can't ex
If I
, a com
pect that guidance and help."
should give you a passage of Scripture
•ould promise to you positively
when you are crossing the river to
the next world the King would be in
the boat, would you believe the prom
ise? "Oh, yes." you say. "I would."
Here is the promise: "When
passest through the waters, I
with thee, and through the rivers,
they shall not overflow thee." Christ
at the sick pillow to take th; 6cul out
of the body; Christ to help the soul
down the bank into the boat; Christ
that
thou
vill be
i; Christ on the other side
midst rea
to help the soul up the beach,
comforted
friends.
Re
about your departed
Re comforted about your
hen the time shall come.
ow n demise
Tell it to all the people under the sun
Christian ever dies alone; the
King is in the boat.
Blessed be God, that when we leave
not to have a great
and perilous nterprise of getting into
Heaven. Not a dangerous Franklin ex
pedition to find the
among icebergs. Only n ferry. That
accounts for something you have never
been able to understand. You never
ervous and timid
Christian people could be so unexcited
and placid in the last hour. The fact
is, they were clear down on the bank,
r there w as nothing to be
frightened about. Such a short dis
tance—only a ferry. With one ear they
heard the funeral psalm in their mem
ory, and with the other ear they heard
the song of Heavenly salutation. The
willows on this side the Jordan and
the Lubauon cedars on the other almost
that
this world
•thwest pa
supposed that ve
and thev s
ebes. Only a
interlocked their E
ferry.
My subject also suggests the fact that
when we cross over at the last we shall
find a solid landing. The ferryboat as
spoken of in my text means a place to
start from and a place to land. David
and his people did not find the eastern
shore of the Jordan any more solid than
the western shore where he landed, and
yet to a great many Heaven is not a
To you He
bank in the distance. Now, my Heaven
is a solid Heaven. After the resurrec
tion has come you will have a resur
rected foot and something to tread on
a resurrected eye and colors to
1th it and a resurrected ear and
is a fog
real place.
and
music to regale it. Smart men in this
day are making a great deal of fun
about St. John's materialistic descrip
tions of Heaven. Well, now. my friends.
vhat will be the use
vith
not my Heaven.
, j 0 j in .
thinkers are trvi to patch up ,
He>Ten , hat wiu d ' 0 for them at
; ^ & Hfaven j want to
, ^ p ( gt John . s Heaven . j be .
, jeve , sha] , hoBr Mr Topladv sin( . vet
and Isaac Watu recite h ' vmns
; Mr , , av « 0 h." you sav. "where would
you ^ , he ' The Lord will
j p rov ide the organ. Don't you bother
\ about the organ. I believe'I shall yet
5ee David with a harp, and I will ask
(dm to sing one of the songs of Zion. T
, believe after the resurrection I shall
r PP Massillon, the great French pulpit
orator, and I shall hear from his own
^ lips how he felt on that day when he
, preached the king's funeral sermon
and flung his whole audience into a
paroxysm of grief and solemnity,
have no patience with your transcend
ental, gelatinous, gaseous Heaven. My
Heaven is not a fog bank,
The King's ferryboat, starting from a
wharf
I on the othe
if you
of a resurrected body in Heaven
nothing to t
hear and nothing to handle and noth
ing to taste then I will laugh, too. Are
you going to float about in ether for
r, swinging about your hands and
feet through the air indiscriminately,
one moment sweltering in the center of
the sun and the next moment shivering
in the mountains of the moon? That is
vill tell me
d on and nothing to
Dissatisfled with
materialistic Heaven, theolog
d Mo
My eyes a
hills.
to the hills, the everlasting
hart
thi
ide.
ill go to a
side.
vhen
y subject tenches that
t the last we shall be met
Again,
a t the landing,
e cross over
When David and his
the ferryboat
family
spoken of in the text, they landed amid
a nati
er in
ent
t to greet
j them. As they stepped from the deck
shore there
ho gathered
that had come
j of the boat to the
1 thousands of people
I around them to express a satisfacti
1 that was beyond description. And s
I vou and I will be met at the landing.
shore
ers
j Dur arrival
ill be like stepping
I at Antwerp or Constantinople anion?
a crowd of strangers. It
I friends, good friends, those who are
-hearted friends, and all their
ill ben
g
friends. \Ye know people whom we
have never seen by hearing somebody
talk about them very much;
them almost as well as if we had seen
them. And do you suppose that our
parents and brothers and sisters and
children in Heaven have been talking
about us all these years, and talking
to their friends? So that, I suppose,
when we cross the river at the last
we :.hall not only be met by all those
Christian friends whom we knew on
earth, but by all their friends. They
will come down to the landing to meet
us. Your departed friends love you
now more than they ever did. You will
be surprised at the last to find how they
know about all the affairs of your life.
e know
"I
only across the ferry.
Why, they a
and the boat is coming this way. and
the boat is going that way. 1 do not
know but thev have already asked the
I
Lord the day, the hour, the moment
when you are
they km
ling across and that
v, but I do know that you
will be met at the landing. The poet
Southey said he thought he should
know Bishop Heber in Heaven by the
portraits he had seen of him in London,
and Dr. Randolph said he thought he
would know William Cow per. the poet,
in Heaven, from the pictures he had
seen of him in England; but we will
know our departed kindred by the por
traits hung in the throneroom of our
hearts.
to
in
out
be
But there is a thought that comes
like an electric shock. Do I
over
belong to the King's household? Mark
you, the text says: "And there went
over a ferryboat to carry over the
king's household," and none but the
king's household. Then I ask: "Do I
belong to the household? Do you?"
If you do not. come to-day and be adopt
ed into that household. "Oh,"
some soul here: "I do not know wheth
er the King wants me!" He does; hs
does. Hear the voice from the throne:
"I will be a father to them, and they
shall be my sons and daughters, said
the Lord Almighty." "Him that cometh
,'' Christ says, "1 will in now ist
cast out." Come into the King's house
hold. Sit down at the King's table.
and take your apparel from
the King's wardrc.be, even the wedding
garment of Christ's righteousness.
Come in and inherit the King's wealth.
Come iu and cross in the King's ferry
boat.
Re
sun
the
ex
be
dis
they
The
and
vs
unto
t
The field lit «>* Monotony. ' v ^
Church—The parrot repeats every
thing my wife says.
Gotham—Gracious! I shouic think
you'd get tired hearing the thing talk!
—Yonkers Statesman.