Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-06


When shall reach that happy place,
And be forever blestS
When shall see my Fathers face,
And in his bosom rests
1t was a solemn scene; even the sheik was
affected by It, To the surprise of the Ameri-
cans he prostrated himself on the earth and
prayed to Allah, as IL the spirit of worship
could not be resisted. AS the singing ceased
he rose and closely watched the ceremony.
Dr. Talmage then led in prayer, invoking the
Divine presence and blessing. Opening shis
Bible, he then read from the third chapter of
Matthew the account of the baptism of Jesus
The customary questions to the candidate
were asked and satisfactory answers were
given.
DR.. Talmage then read his commission in
Matthew xviii, 10, 20, "Go ye therefore and
teach all nations, baptizing them in the name
of the Father, and Of the Son, and of the
Holy Ghost" etc. Looking the candidate
squarely in the face, DR.. Talmage said: "In
this historic river, which parted three times
to let Gods people pass dry shod, in which
Naaman plunged seven times for healing
from dire disease, and from the banks of
which Elijah assembled in equipage of fire,
and in which Christ was baptized, and which
for ages has been the symbol Of the division
between earth and heaven, / baptize thee.n
Then, taking the candidate by the hand, he
led him into the water. Reaching the suffi
cient depth, he immersed him three separate
times, repeating the usual formula; "In the
name Of the Father and Of the Son and of the
Holy Ghost" after which he pronounced the
benediction. At the close of the ceremony
DR.. Talmage said: Gas the ordinance was OBJ
served under the direction of no particular
denomination of Christians, and no particular
church could be responsible for it, feel it
my duty to report what | did to the church
universal"
After the ceremony, and when DR.. Tai
mage and Mr.. Houston had resumed their
usual attire, the latter went to DR.. Talmage
and thanked him for acceding to his request;
and said, reverently, that it would be
blessed and hallowing memory with him SO
long as he lived. DR.. Tslmage took out his note.
book and wrote baptismal certificate, stat
ing the time and place Of the eadministratio of
the rite, which he handed to Mr.. Houston.
Concerning the young man who was thus
baptized, The News, Of New Haven, Conn.,,
says that last summer he was under the tut
tion of Professor w. w. Haskell of that city,
iHuhiu5 bpSClul SIuuy VI IftW ItSIdIIl6llt
Greek, with the intention of entering Yale
university, but had deferred entering for a
time. A deeply interested work of art, lone
of the most interesting that it had ever been
the writer's coed fortune to see" designed
and executed by Mr.. Houston, was in October,
1899, on exhibition in the Yale reading room.
The News says: "Mr Houston has also
patented an Educational Model of the Uni
verse, which presents very ingenious methods
of illustrating the movements of the human
body, and also material illustrations Of men
tai and moral truth. The model is now at
the Northwestern university, in Chicago.
His invention for illustrating the movements
and positions of the planets Of our solar sys-
tenn is very ingenious.
'In the same mechanism are represented
heavenly plane, terrestrial plane, spirit
ual plane, vicious plane plane of art, a
commercial plane and portion of celestial
plane exterior to q portion of the solar sys-
tenn. Ex-President Porter is greatly inter
ested in his mechanism for representing the
free action of the will and other mental and
moral truth. Professor Thayer, of the How
ard Divinity school, has also shown great
interest in the work. When in Eagland Pro
fessor Drummond and many of the English
scholars became interested in his work"