Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1897-06-30

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aud even the nineties of their lifetime. such
persons are very rare. The majority OF the
VICIOUS die ia their thirties and fewer reach
the forties, and they are exceedingly scarce
In the ffties. Longevity has not been the
characteristic OF the most Of those who
have reached high places in that or this
country. In many cases their wealth
leads them into indulgence, or their
honors make them reckless, or their op-
portunities of doing wrong are multi
piled into the overwhelming, and it Is
as true now as when the Bible first pre-
sented it, The wicked live not out half
their days" Longevity is not a positive
PROOF OF goodness, but it is prma facie evil
dence In that direction. A loose life has
killed hundreds of eminent Americans A
loose life is now killing hundreds of emf.
nent Americans and Europeans The doe
tors are very kind aud the certificate given
| after the distinguished man of dissipation
Is dead, says, "Died Of congestion of the
brain, although 1t was delirium tremens.
| or Died of cirrhosis OF the liver" al
| though 1t WAS a round of lfbertinism
or Died of heart failure although it
was the vengeance of outraged law that
slew him. Thanks, doctor, for YOU are
right In saving the feelings Of the bereft
household by not being more specific
Look all We who are In high places Of earth
and see one who has been piled by all the
temptations which wealth and honor and
| the secret place Of palaces could produce
and yet next Tuesday she will ride along in
the presence of 600 900 people, if they can
get within sight of her chariot in the vigor-
GUS old age, no more hurt by the splendors
| that have surrounded her for seventy eight
years than Is the plain country woman
come down from her mountain home In an
| oxcart to attend the Saturday marketing.
l believe more people die of improper
eating than die OF strong drink. The former
causes no delirium or violence and works
more gradually, but none the less fatally
Queen Victorias habits, self-denying and
almost ascetic, under a good Providence
account for her magnificent longevity. 1t
may be homely lesson for d sexagesimal
anniversary In British palaces but it is
worth all the millions OF dollars the cele-
bratton will cost, and the laborious con-
vocation OF the representatives from all the
zones OF the planet. If the nations will learn
the sanitary lesson of good hours, plain
food, outdoor exercise, reasonable absti-
nence and common sense habits. That which
raul said to the jailer is Just as appropriate
Tor you and for me-"Do thyself no harm
AND here let me say no people outside OF
Great Britain ought to be more Interested
In this queens jubilee than our nation. The
cradles of most of our ancestors were
rocked In Great Britain. They PLAYED in
childhood on the banks of the Thames or
the Clyde or the Shannon. Take from nv
veins the Welsh blood and the Scotch blood,
and the streams of my life would be a shall
low. Great Britain is our grandmother.
Again, this International occasion i'm
presses me with the fact that woman is
competent for political government when
God calls her to it. Great fears have been
experienced IN this country that woman
would get the right of suffrage, and as a
consequence after awhile reach the chief
maSistracy. Awful! Well, better quiet
your perturbationS, as you look across the
sea. In this anniversary time, and behold a
woman who for sixty years has ruled over
IN av,nta - ,ll
we'll. In approval Of her government the
hands OF all nations are olspping, the flags
OF all nations waving, the batteries OF all
nations booming. Look herel Men have
not made such wonderful success of gov
,rnment that they need be afraid that wo-
men should ever take turn at power
The fact Is that men have made a bad
mess of 1t. The most damnably corrupt
hing on earth is American politics after
men have had it all their own way in this
country for l21 years. Other things being
squal-fof there ara fools among women as
Well as among men-I say other things be-
ng equal, Fn has generally, q keener
sense Of the CTS. Tight ane..;s., wro.
Than has Ihaif~nss nsrnraI1y h5fe tsfsf e fs
IN God and knows better how to make self
sacrifices and would more boldly act
against fntemperance and the social evil
and worst things might come to this coun-
Try thau supreme courtroom and a Senate
chamber and a House of Representatives in
which womanly voices were sometimes
heard. We men had better drop some Of
.he strut out of our pOmpous gait and with |
little less of superciliousness thrust the |
thumbs into the sleeves of our yssts and be |
less apprehensive Of the other sex who |
seem to be the Lords favorites from the
fact that he has made more of them If
woman had possessed an influential and
controlling vote on Capitol hill at Washing
ION and in the English Parliament, do you
think that the two fftan and rH
nations of the earth could have gone or
lntil this time with the butcheries In Ar
nenia and Cuba? No. The Christian
nations would have gone forth with
Dread and medicine and bandages and
military relief until Abdul Hamd would
have had no throne to sit on, and Weyler,
the commanding assassin In Cuba, would
have been thrust into prison as dark as
that In which they murdered DR.. Ruiz. l
am no advocate for female suffrage, and l |
do not know whether it would be best to ,,
have 1t, but point you to the queen of
Great Britain and the nation over which |
she rules as proof that woman may be
politically dominant and prosperity reign.
9od save the queen, whether now on the !
throne in buckingham palace or in some |
time to come in American White House.
But as all of us will be denied attendance |
on that sixtieth anniversary coronation
invite you not to the anniversary of coro-
nation, but to coronation itself-aye to
two coronations. Brought up as we are to
love as no other form Of government that
which is republican and democratic, we,
living on this side Of the sea, cannot so
easily AS those living ON the other side of
the sea appreciate the two coronatfOns to !
which all up and down the Bible you
and l are urgently invited. Some of you
have such morbid ideas of religion that
you think of it as gong down into a dark
cellar, or out on a barren common as
when so far from a dark eel
lar, 1t Is a palace, and instead Of a barren |
common 1t Is u garden, atoss with the |
brightest fountains that were ever rain
bowed, and instead of fagellation 1t is
but a coronation utterly eclips-
ing one whose sixtieth anniversary is now
being celebrated.
1t was a great day when, about an eighth
of = mile from the gate Of Jerusalem, IN
der SKY pallid with thickest darkness,
and on mountain trammeled of earth |
quake, and the air on fire with the bias
phemies OF mob, crown OF spikes was
put upon the paliid and agonized brow of
our Jesus. But that particular coronation,
amid tears and blood and groans and shiv-
ing cataclysms, made your own corona
tiOn possible. Paul was not a man to lose
his equilibrium, but when that old mis-
sionary, with crooked back and in
famed eyes, got glimpse of the crown
coming to him, and coming to you, il you
will by repentance and faith accept it, he
WOhe ihtO SSStooiCS, ohu PoOt OsC9
flashed and his crooked back Strengthened
as he cried to Timothy, There is laid up
for me a crown of righteousness" and to
the Corinthians, These athletes run to
obtain a corruptible. we an incorruptible,'
crown" And to the Thessalonians he
speaks of ''the crown of glory" and TO the
Philippians he says, my joy and crown"
The apostle Peter catches the inspira-
tion and cries out, ''Ye shall receive a
crown of glory that fadeth not away"
and st. John joins in the rapture and says,
Faithful to death, and will give thee
crown of lfe." and elsewhere exclaims-
"Hold fast that no man take thy crown.-
Crowns, crowns, crownsl You did not ex-
pect in coming here to-day to be invited to
coronation. You can scarcely believe
YOUR own ears. but in the name of par
doning God and sacrificing Christ and an
onnipotent Holy Spirit and triumphant