Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-03-07

| tiOnable Russian, that his Imperial 1atnel
may 60 to blazes, and that he will follow
the dictates of his of own heart, which he
claims is his own personal property and
not part of the Great Russian Empire
He has a dozen Or two million in his own
right, and he rather fanoies the notion oil
settling down as quiet gentleman in
America, and lodging the cares Of royal
ty. How it will result, no one can tell. Ii
the Grand Duke is as stubborn as the rest
of his family, he will do it. He is good
deal of democrat, and cares very little
for tie forms of royalty. The attendants
that his state imposes upon him are irk-
some to him, and he enjoys nothing so
much rs his liberty.
TALMAGE.
No man who ever made religion bust
ness does so much that might be called
advertising of himself as the eminent SEN
sationalst who sails under the name of T..
De Witt Talmage. lie had built for him
a church that looked more like n theatre
than anything else, and he fitted it up sole
ly for effect. He is long, cadaverous
man, with IL sepulchral voice and II brim-
stone manner; and he got up his place of
meeting with view solely TO its fitness
for him. lie has the best ore anist and
cornet-player in the city to lead the con-
gregatonal singing and us five thousand
voices are appraised the effect is wonderful.
TaImaGe aims constantly ut sensation
just now he is preaching to the different
professions, and his sermons, rs he calls
them are singular mixtures Of pathos,
cant, and what in any one elseS mouth
would be blasphemy. Last Sunday he
preached to the insurance people, and
what do you think of these as sample
bricks9
"If did not think that God3instituted
the life insurance organizations, | would
not take up your time and my own on the
Sabbath morning in discoursing on the
subject. Life insurance provides for our
families when we are gone.
"lf we do not pay the premium we have
no right to expect mercy; we are worse
that nlidels After the certificate of death
has been made out, and the thirty insur-
ance days have passed, and the officer of
the company pays down the hard cash,
that officer and the company arc perform
ing II religious rite. Set thy house in
order" In our day that would mean make
your will. DO not deceive your heirs with
railroad stock or jay Cookies Northern
Railway bonds; do not deceive them with
deeds for western lands that never will
yield any crop, but fevers or second mort
cages on property that won't pay the first
"Ihere is coming Il conAagration, COM
pared with which that of Chicago in 1871,
or that Of Boston in 1872, or that of New
York in 1887 or 1882, I've forgotten which,
is us nothing. Brooklyn on fire, New York
on fire, Vienna ON fire, Can on on fire, St
Petersburg on fire, Pars on fire, London
on fire, the Andes on fire, the App, mines
on fire, the llimalayas on fire! And what
viii be peculiar about that day will be that
the water with which we put out great
fires will it elf take flame. The Ohio and
Hudson, and Mississippi and trembling
Niagara shall with red tongues lick the
heavens. The geological heats in the ecu
ire of the earth will burn out towards the
and this world will be u
living coal, the living coal falling into
ashes, the ashes scattered by the breath of
the last hurricane, and all that will be left
Of this glorious planet will be flakes of
ashes falling on other worlds. Oh, on that
day will you be lireproof, or will you be IL
total loss? Will You be rescued or will
you he consumed? When this world in
its bnptismal font of the sea shall blaze,
will You 90 out on the fire escape of the
Lords deliverance? Oh, on that day. for
which all other days were made, may it |
be found that this life insurance man had
u paid-up policy, and that this fire insur-
ance man had given him, instead of the
debris of u consumed world, house not
made with hands, eternal in the heavens" |
And after this turgidity he stands for
as if overcome by his feelings
looking slyly out of his left eye to note
The effect upon the throng, and with Il 'let
us pray utters what he calls Il prayer,
which is very like his sermon, and us bias.
phemous. Still this humor draws more
people every Sunday than Beecher, Or any
other preacher in the two cities. Curious
hing, human nature.
BUSINESS
is somewhat better, and shows sirns of
permanent improvement. Buyers from
vi parts OF the country are here, and, |
I'm happy TO say, are purchasing freely.
PIETR0.