National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-09-20

hear the crash OF the orchestra rendering
his oratorios. Thomas Carlyle, the dyspep.
tic martyr, was given the commission to
drive cant out OF the worlds literature
Rev. Thomas Stockton, Of Philadelphia,
with one lung raised his audiences nearer
heaven than most ministers who can raise
them with two lungs. In the banks, the
insurance companies, the commercial es-
Establishments, tie reformatory associations,
the churches there are tens of thousands
OF men and women to-day doubled-up OF
rheumatlsms. or subject to neuralgias, or
with only fragments Of limbs, the rest of
which they left at Chattanooga, or South
Mountain, or the Wilderness, and they are
worth more to the world, and
more to the church, and more to God
than those OF US who have never so much as
had a finger joint stiffened by felou
Put to full use all the facul-
ties that remain, and charge on all
opposing circumstances with the determi-
nation Of John OF Bohemia, who was totally
and besoech you to lead me so far In the
fight that may strike one good blow with
this sword Of mine" Do not think so much
Of what faculties you have lost as Of what
faculties remain. You have enough left 10
make yourself felt in three worlds, while
you help the earth and balk hell aud win
heaven. Arise from your ANNOUNCEMENTS,
physical faculties, and see what, by the
special help Of God, you can accomplish.
The skilled horsemen stood around Blu
cephalue, unable to mount or manage him,
30 wild was tho steed. But Alexander
noticed that the sight Of his own shadow
seemed to disturb the horse. SO Alex
ander. clutched him by the bride, and
turned his head away from the shadow,
and toward the sun, and the horses agita.
Hon onA Il
him and rode off, to the astonlshment OF all
who stood by. And what you people need
is to have your sight turned away from the
shadows of your earthly lot over which you
have so long pondered, and your head
turned toward the sun-the glorious sun Of
Gospel consolation, and Christian hope,
and spiritual triumph!
And then remember that all physical dis
advantages will after awhile vanish. Let
those who have been rheumatized out OF q
foot, or cataracted out Of an eye, or by the
perpetual roar OF our cities Numbered out
OF an ear, look forward to the day when
this old tenement house Of flesh Will come
down, and better one shall be builded.
The resurrection morning will provide you
with better outfit. Either the unstrung,
worn.out, blunted, and crippled organs
will be so reconstructed that you will not
know them, or an entire new set OF eyes,
what 1t means by corruption putting on
interruption we do not know, save that 1t
will be glory ineffable; no limping in
heaven, no straining Of the eyesight to sec
things little way off; no putting OF the
hand behind the ear to double the capacity
Of the tympanum; but faculties perfect, all
keys OF the instrument attuned for the
sweep Of the fingers Of ecstasy. But until
that day OF resumption comes let us bear
n0n nj 10 htn~ lana IaN fs.ln Nl,.aI
of Christ.
III. Another form of disadvantage
under which many labor is lack of early ed
ucation. There will be no excuse for IL.
norance In the next generation. Free
schools and illimitable opportunity OF cd.
ucation will make ignorance crime. be.
lieve in compulsory education, and those
parents who neglect to put their children
under educational advantages have but one
right left, and that is the penitentiary. But
there are multitudes OF men and women In
midlife who have had no opportunity.
Free schools had not yet been established,
and vast multitudes had little or no school
at all. They feel IL when as Christian men
they come to speak or pray In religious as
semblies or public occasions, patriotic or
political, or educational. They are silent
because they do not feel competent. They
owe nothing to English grammar, or geog-
raphy, or bellies lettres. They would not
know partIciple from pronoun II they
met 1t many times day. Many Of the
most successful merchants Of America and
men in high political places cannot write an
accurate letter on any theme. They are
completely dependent upon clerks, and dep.
uties, and photographers to make things
right. knew literary man who, In
other years In Washington, made his for
tune by writing speeches for congressman
Axf fs,.. Nla
Record after they were delivered. The
millionaire illiteracy OF this countryis be
You'd measurement.
Now, suppose q man finds himself In mid
life without education, what Is he to do
Do the best he can. The most effective
layman In former pastoral charge that
ever heard speak on religious themes could
within five minutes OF eXhortatlon, break
all the laws Of English grammar, and If he
left any law unfractured he would complete
the work Of lingual devastation In the prayer
Aith which he followed it. But / would
rather have bin pray for me, II were sick
or in trouble, than any Christian man that
know OF, and in that church all the peopl,
preferred him In exhortation and prayer /,
all others. Why Because he was so thor
ouglY pious and had such power with God
he was irresistible; and as he went on In his
| prayer sinners repented and saints shouted
| Tor Joy, and the bereaved seemed TO gel
| back their dead In celestial companionship
And when he had stopped praying, and al
| soon as could wipe out Of my eyes enougl
tears to see the closing hymn, l ended tn
meeting fearful that some long-windet
prayer.meetlng bore would pull us dow
from the seventh heaven.
Not a word have to say against accurac,
of speech, Of fine elocution, or high menta
culture. Get all these you can. But d.
say to those who were brought up In tn
day OF poor school houses and lguoran
schOolmasters and no opportunity, 20,
may have so much Of good III your soul an,
SO much OF heaven In your everyday If
that you will be mightier for good than an,
who went through 1.-THE curriculum OF Har
ward or Yale or o kford, yet never graduated
In tho school OF Christ. When you get VI
| 10 the gate OF heaven no one Will ask YOU
whether you can parse the first chapter o
Genesis, but whether you have learned tn
fear OF the Lord, which is the beginning o
| wisdom; nor whether you know how /,
square the circle, but whether you hay,
lived square life In round world. Noun
Zion is higher than Mount Parnassus.
~. But what other multitudes there ar
under other disadvantages! Here is
| Christian woman whose husband think
religion sham, and while the wife pray
the children one way the husband swear
another. Or here is Christian man win
is trying to do his best for God and tn
church, and his wife holds him back AM
says on the way home from prayer meet
ing, where he gave testimony for Christ
"What fool you made of yourself
hope hereafter you will keep still.n An,
when be would be benevolent and give $50
she crlticises him for not giving 80 cents.
must do justice, and publicly thank Go
that never proposed at home to give any
thing for any cause Of humanity or re
ligion but the other partner iu the dc
nestle firm approved 1t. And when
seemed beyond my ability, and faith In Go
was necessary, she had three,fourths tn
faith. But know men who, when the
contribute TO charitable objects, are afrai
that the wife shall find it out. What
whitening curse such woman must BIO to
good man
Then there are others under the grea
disadvantage OF poverty. Who ought /
get things cheapest9 You say those win
have little means But they pay more. 70
buy coal by the ton, they buy 1t by th
bucket. You buy flour by the barrel, the