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Year: 1878

WHILE there is gratifying decrease
of new cases of fever in Memphis, the
refugees who are at safe distance are
advised to remain away for time. The
majority of the new cases are those who
are Just returning to the city.
Year: 1878

"Eard Times is on every lip, and breath
ed from every tongue
The Banks are cursed by one and all, the
aged and the young.
The merchant has to close his doors, and
throw his ledger by
Such times, he VOWS, were never seen by
any mortal eye.
The shopmen quit the counters side, for
customers are few:
The times are so very tight it makes them
all look blue.
The citizen in vain essays to make more
than his bread;
A pound OF which he declares wont weigh
apound Of flead.
There's not day but some one fails--some
house that goes to smash;
The names that once stood high on change
are out for want of cash.
Hard times Hard times were ever seen
such times, so hard as these w
This is the cry from morn till night, in
which each one agrees.
A Remedy-how do you think this Will do
Pull off your coat, roll your sleeves, and
work the hard times through
Year: 1878

Ona bright and beautiful morning
in the month OF July, about the time
when the wise worms were creeping
out Of their holes to be eaten by the
early birds, a party OF gentlemen were
nimbly springing from their couches,
with high hopes and brilliant expec-
tations, to prepare for an excursion to
the North Branch of the Potomac.
The darkness had passed---a pretty
good time for dreaming of black bass
and the light Of the sun shone on
the party as they trotted merrily on.


It would be instructive to pause and
look IN upon that gay party. Joy
was there and ice too, Fishing tackle,


basket AM buckets ornamented that
coach. Food for man and beast, and
also for the fishes. There was young
manhood, and there was the father of
mary generations. In that wagon
were Aesthetics, Homiletics ard Pts
citechnios. Disquisitious on Theology
| and Bassology and Fluviology could
have been furnished on short notice.
Year: 1878

Some one who seems to know about
the relation of good newspaper to
the family writes as follows "The
strong attachment of subscribers to
well conducted newspapers is fully
confirmed by publishers. Stop my
paper, words of dread to beginners
in business, lose their terror after
paper has been established for term
of years. So long as paper pursues
Just, honorable and judicious course,
meeting the wants of it's customers in
all respects, the ties of friendship be-
tween the subscribers and the paper
are as hard to break by an outside
third party as the link which binds
old friends in business or social life.
Occasional defects and errors in q
newspaper are overlooked by those
who have become attached to it,
through its persual, for years. They
sometimes become dissatisfied with it
on account of something which has
slipped into its columns, and may stop
taking it; but the absence of the fa-
miliar sheet at their homes and Offices
for a week becomes an insupportable
privation, and they hasten to take it
again, and possibly apologize for hav-
ing it stopped. No friendship on
earth is more constant than that con-
tracted by the reader for a journal
which makes an honest and earnest
effort to merit its continued support.
Hence a consoientiously conducted
paper becomes a favorite in the
family"
Year: 1878

ana which the ordinary political parties did
not pity and he did. And when he
showed pity he had power with those men.
That. too is the secret of Mr.. Moody's power; his
theology and his teachings old fashioned but he
has an intense sympathy with human suffering. The
power that he has the power Of the the power
OF the SOUL that is touched with other mems
and sufferngs 1t is his scholarship it is not his
eoquence it is not the theology but the that is
in him. and that the spirit of Christ 1t is the
spirit of love that WINS because every feels the
influence of the true power that is in him.


II violet of wax were brought to man the giver
might point out its beautiful resemblance to nature
and it might be admired as work of art but it would
have fragrance. 1t with the true and the
false philanthropy. II Christian people attended
meetings for the poor and said to the We have left
warm houses tonight to come down and teach
you," and on would snore, another would
swear and all would soon clear out. But If man
didn't tell them what he came for, but found of
them in q ditch, picked him out and helped and en-
couraged him and stood by him. he would ut last
realize what being done for him. and the
power of sympathy and gratitude would save him.
The preacher pleaded for more lenency toward those
who have once transgressed the law divine or hu-
man. As it il now, he said. man might well run
the spear points of hell to go against the sen
ment of the civilized community of Christian
churches Of to-day. If attempted to display
toward criminals the feeling which Christ had for
those who prosecuted Him men did not understand
it, They said "Oh that won't do; that's too thin'
They call it sentimentalism and "gush."


collection was made for the Home Missionary
Society.
Year: 1878

GOING TO CODA PRACTICAL DISCOURSE by


THE REV. DIR. TALMAGE.


"There are many people in New York and Brook
lyn, said the Rev. DR.. Talmage in his discourse at
the Brooklyn Tabernacle yesterday morning, '.who
live thousand miles from church." 1t was the
undercurrent of his to show that to the sin
there are many more agreeable places than tho
Church Of Christ christians, I" he said. apt to
forget that Christ sat with pubcans and sinners
We all the time trying to take Of respect
ability. The dissipated man finds no place in our
churches and the sinner, trying to turn from the
evil Of his ways. meets with little encouragement
Many Of us avoid all whom do not regard as SO
cially equals, and even the pious young man. on
his way home from church. will turn into the near
est street to get rid of the company of thread
bare sinner. For the degraded there are no hearty
greetings, and few Christians know how much gospel
there is in good handshaking. If the drunkard
wants to get to heaven 1t almost necessary that
he should find a special train.


Again, the preacher observed Christian people are
too anxious about church denominations and church
forms. If man tries to turn from the evil of his
ways he is asked how he is going to be baptized.
These observations led to rafting fire of shot ana
shell directed against denominational follies and
paved the way for the preachers instructions for
coming to God. Do not go. he said. with long rig
marole people call prayers made up of 'ohs" and


ahs," but go and ask to be healed. II you want to
get back quit all your evil associations There not
u case in the whole history of Christianity whore
got back to God who retained evil associate.
1t ia not question Of twenty wicked companions or
of ten, but of one would counsel you also, said
the preacher, to seek Christian advice Every Chris
tian is bound to advise you. First of all seek God
and then Christian counsel


The most impassloned part Of DR.. Talmage's dis
course yesterday addressed to the young men in
his congregation who have parents in the country.
TO such ne said. you could not send home more
welcome holiday gift than letter announcing that
You have given your hearts to God. He then drew
picture OF the country home and the aged parents
sitting by the hearth in silence The knitting needles
clicked and the back log cracked in the rhetorical dis
play which the preacher made at this opportunity for
effect At length the father, rousing himself says II
wonder where our boy is in town tonight" I'm
bad place, warrant you,' the mother answers. HE
always was q good boy. We could trust him ut home
and we trust him away from home" With an
appeal to all to be worthy OF this confidence of a
mothers affection, notwithstanding all the wicked
places in the metropolis which DIR. Tamage has re-
Gently seen he closed his DISCOURSE announcing that
the next sermon on the night side of New York
would be given next Sunday. Owing to the rain yes
terday he refrained from adding to the gloom OF the
morning by his dark pictures OF city life.
Year: 1878

The Rev. DIR. Newman preached to very large con.
gregaton on "The Immortality Of Christianity" He
took his text from Hebrews xiii. sJesus Christ tho
same yesterday. to-day and forever" II is not moro
certain that tho power of gravaton extends through
the visible universe, said he, than that through
all tmc all space and ranks of kings there is only
one Mediator between God and His creatures--Christ
is the Lamb, slain from the foundation Of the
world" Not the Christian world nor the Jewish, but
the foundation of the universe. We need not pause
to consider whether mediation is possible ncc-
essary In perfect government. II is enough to
sumo that mediation flows as a necessity out
of the proposition to create beings who
might sin In all essential elements His
moral government is the same throughout
all His domnons Obedience rs the test OF character
everywhere and everywhere IN the universe sin is
disoDedience. And where there is sin there must be
suffering. without the shedding of blood there is
remission. This covers the old inhdel objection


namely THAT IL God had but one Son He would not
give Him to die for the inhabitants of planet while
those of other planets might need saviour Also"


But there three assumptions IN this objection
that other planets inhabited that said inhabitants
are in a state of probation and that lo-
cation restricts tho merits OF the Rcdeemcr.


But grant that other worlds are inhabited.
Year: 1878

n. HEBER NEWTON.


The Rev. Mr.. Newton preached in the evening on
the Christians hell. the sermon being Of a
series in which the various beliefs the subject of
future punishment entertained by the different re-
ligions throughout tho world arc discussed. Mr..
Newton is liberal in his views this question: and
devoted his powers last evening to showing how the
popular and belief in physical place OF
torment after death arose. What the condition
Of the world was, said he. when Christianity
began its icavening work. you know with
tolerable clcarness from the brilliant pages of
Gibbon; the researches of a host of secular and
ecclesiastical historians; the writings still preserved
TO us Of pagan itterateurs and Church fathers Tho
people among whom Christianity went were far gone
in decline of mental and moral life. Beneath the
splendid civilization of the Augustan empire there
were. now discern. the seeds of death
working rapidly. Atrocious cruelty and rapnc were
characteristic of the times. These not so much
shown in the fact of the deliberate and legal slaugh
ter OF tens OF thousands of Christians. guilty
Of no crime against society, as in the
hcndsh barbarity Of their torturing. When
the church spread. IL spread among people
inlbruted by dense ignorance, social d,gra-
dation and nhumanity. such were the materials
from which IL had to construct body OF divinity
comprchending the mystery Of future retribution.
The Church spread largely among the poorer classes
This the glory OF its spirit and the basis of
power. but 10 was also, the unfortunate limitation OF
It's thought. After the first flush of enthusiasm
hearts halted Ill the usrilcship OF the lille and
spirit Jesus, and the inevitable OF speculation
followed The sense OF sin SO intensely quickencd
by the Gospel the reality OF divine Judge brought
home to them in the person of Christ conjured up
solemnity in the future retribution of evil doers


These were the conditions under which the dogma
OF hell slowly fashioned itsclf What the Christian
doctrine might have been under circumstances fay-
oring the development of the inner ethical spirit of
Christ's words, we are only now beginning to dis



AGES.


In medieval ages the doctrine Of hell was en-
bodied In appalling forms. An immortal poem,
Dantc's "Inierno, written when the long night was
already pang toward the morn, conjurcd up all the
grotesque nightmare visions of those dark
ulres and portrayed them for after times There lis
a whole literature of visions of hell. These legends
describe the suphurous flames mounting rs high
are the above the earth the souls of the lost
being pressed together. back to back. and praying
only to be turned face to face, to gain sight of a
brothers countenance the devil ON redhot grid
iron in the of hell seizng souls In his horny
hands, crushing them between his teeth aud drawing
them down his fiery throat. over all this endless
stence OF inconcevable torment throncd the god
who was revealed in il, and around him gathered
Year: 1878

and that the inhabitants thereof probation.
They would not necessarily be excluded from the
benefits of Christ's death, He died for sn mat
ter where committed, and He is received by faith
wherever exercised As we believe in Him, whom we
have not seen. 50 may the inhabitants of Jupiter,
Mars ana saturn. Christ is so inmutably the only
and continuous Saviour that the world will never
outgrow the necessity tor Christianity Inhdels say
that Christianity is an evolution, the outgrowth of
something antecedcn and that it required the prog
ress and culture of four thousand years To produce
such character as Christ There nothing in the
ages that preceded His coming To produce such u
character The six hundred years preceding His ad-
vent were years of degeneracy. Like Millions angel.
Christ was an original character, without an ante
cedent and without subsequent.


MORAL PHILOSOPHY PLACE THE GOSPEL.


The inhdels assert that christianity is inadequate
to meet the demands of advanced civilization and
that the high culture of the age has rendered 1t
obsolete. In plain English, the world has outgrown
the necessity of the gospel. They claim that
moral philosophy takes .he place of the Gospel OF
our Lord and 10 fortify their courage in sailing
this unploted they talk learnedly of ConIucius
and Mohammed and attempt to prove them equal with
Christ. The sum of their assumption is that Chris
tianity is exhausted, and that must now look Tor
something better. But, were you disposed, which
doctrine of the Gospel would you select the one
longer essential to the nature and happiness of
man The existence OF God, moral government
wherein virtue is rewarded and vice punished;
overruling Providence experimenting the
events in individual and national life; the
inspiration OF the Holy Scriptures, the only
inspired communication from the Creator to the
creature? Would you reject human sinfulness? Can
ity? Can you doubt it? Would you reject your per-
sonal responsibility? Can you question it? Can you
dispense with the atonement the pardon of sn the
regeneration of the soul and the witness OF the spirit?
Woulo you have this praycrless worldr Is not
peaceful and triumphant death still desirable? Is not
heaven. with its glorious reunions, hope and
charms Where will you begin to select your obsolete
doctrines? There is only chance OF success tor
this objection. When there no hearts to purity.
sins to pardon. no fears to calm, no sorrows to
assuage, no aead to lament. no hopes to inspire
joys to create dying hours to cheer loved
TO meet in heaven Then, and not till then, will the
objection command the decent respect OF mankind
Year: 1878

THE POWER OF sYMPATHY-sERMoN BY REV.


HENRY WARD BEEcHER.


Neither wisdom personal purity nor authority
nor cloquence any ordinary gift of the human
mind is to be compared for power with sympathy,
said Mr.. Bcecher. Where there is sympathy all these
others come in AMI augment power and influence;
but where it is not the vital air is wantingthe secret
OF power is wanting man that is rude and ignor
ant cannot speak the English tongue within sight
OF grammar, man that would not be tolerated in
m ordinary audience, but who has great soul and is
nllcd with sorrow for his fellow men. will do more
sor them hundred fold than Aristotle and
Plato and Bacon rolled together without sympathy.
why IL IL that such man Murphy In New York
brings thousands aud thousands Of men to him? Is
IL because he understands anatomy and physiology
perfectly? No; for he does not. IL IL because HIS
theories of drinking clever? No; for he is re
quently wrong. ls It because he has such of
The economic relations of thngsp Not at all. But
he is a man and has great soul in him, and when
men come 10 him they feel that that man brothers
them and mothers thcm II ~ the response of the
soul to a soul. But take long. straight, white
crayated clergyman tand here Mr.. Bcechcr's
powers Of mmicry unconsciously brought
into play, his yisago heightened and he spoke
with u drawl, who peers through his spec
tacles and tells you all about the whole theory OF
Gods government, and that there IL q condition In
that unless man must III
or that he will be damned forever and then sit down
aud wipes his mouth with his handkerchief. and
walks nome and feels that he has sustained the
dignity of God and the authority Of God Laughtcr.)
God don't thank him for upholdng His dignity or
anything of the kind.


WHAT nE THINKS or KEAnNEY.


There has never been in our time anything that
reminded us more Of the opening ot the mouth OF
of the great sewers of New York than did Dennis
Kcarney. And yet there is no denying one thing
that this illiterate and foul mouthcd exraynan had
the power to stir up communities as very few
had In bringing together tens of thousands.
Though in many respects unworthy. and in some
spects brutal toward the workinginan. undoubtedly
he had fellow feeling. He Il fellow workman,
and he had such big belly and such big chest that
when lie had feeling it went like lightning to
their hearts. Woe DC to the arrow that has not
bow strong enough to drive IL homcl Many
has good impulses who has not the physical power
10 make them operative. B.cssod be the body for any
one that wants To have an effective soul. II was not
In what he said that Kcarncy power lay. but he took
hold of great class of men whose condition was
pitiable, but which capitalists did not pity
Year: 1878

Rev. Father oShea preached in st. Francis xavicr's
Church on the infinite majesty of God. In order to
look up TO God must be elevated sufficiently TO be
able TO contemplate His majesty and infinity. In
order that He may be thoroughly known lie must be
infinitely explored. We must rise up to an infinite
height sink down to infinite depth, for only the
blessed Virgin and the saints God He is. God
is the life of all that lives He is the sustainer and
ruler Of all things Yet, though cannot ccmpre-
hend God He is, He possesses all the attributes of
power, majesty, divinity and glory. He surpasses
all ideas by His inhnite majesty. If tried to
contemplate that infnity notions would all
vanish like dream. All beings dead.
inasmuch as they not merged in that
Universal Being. Everything of the world is
finite; God is inhnitc Therein lies the foundation
not only of religion but of morality Gods greatness
is infinite in every direction. We finite beings,
cannot show Him infinite respect: but we can
show Him respect as fer as la lies. cup Of cold
Year: 1878

Mrs. Eliza Collins lately arrived at the residence
OF her daughter, Mrs James Walker, who lives at No.
39l First avenue and ascertained that her son-in
law was In the habit OF now and then taxing little
.sstimulant." She determined to put stop to II,
and on Thursday night put her plan into execution
Mr.. Walker reaching homo went into tho parloi
and laid down upon the sofa. Soon alter Mrs. Col
Inns entcrsd and after a brief inspection took Walker
by The ear and landed bin on the oor. walker arose
and struck Mrs. Collins She then laid u saucepan
over his shoulders Hc in turn Knocked her down and
rolled her into the hallway. Securing the door, no
tried again sleep but was soon aroused by move
ment at the back window. Looking up he behsd blrs
Collins making her way into the apartment
and armed with large skillet. He gos up
aud told tho old lady that the 'thing
was getting playedn Sho aimed the skillet at hlm
and he ia return caught 1t and gave Mrs. Collins
fearful blow with the weapon. The lady teli sense.
less and Walker in turn sum moned Oicer Meg urvc.
Tho latter Obtained ambulance and bad the injured
woman removed TO the Ninety-ninth street Hospital.
Yesterday Walker was committed by Judge Smith 70
await the result OF her injuries
Year: 1878

punishment fell on the criminal, who most
richly deserved it, and his death in prison
will operate as an impressive warming.


THE TIMES


says, instead Of dying In fellon's cell.
Tweed ended his days surrounded BY every
comfort that could be introduced into q
sponsible for his career. Tweedism will long
survive Tweed, and the blindness, ignorance
and cowardiee that gave him his lease OF
power are even now contributing to the eleva-
ton OF men as ignoble in character and as
base in their method as was the man who
died yesterday.


says he possessed SO many exoellencies both
OF heart and mind, the magnetism by which
he grappled men to him in bonds Of friend
ship was so Irresistible, his kindness was so
impulsive and unaffected. his sympathy with
distress was 80 genuine and spontaneous, all
his better instincts battled SO bravely against
the tide that bore him tn the maelstrom In
which he was engulfed, that to hold only In
view his estimable qualities and shut out the
d lrkness OF his record, Is now the natural in
knew Tweed ere the catastrophe OF his life had
come upon him.


We hold that Tweed's crimes were due to
the same general causes which have operated
to produce the wrecks OF the regulations OF
bankers, merchants, insurance officers, cabi-
net ministers, savings bank managers, Chris
tian statesmen, etc, that strew the path OF
our history since Grant received the sword of
Lee ut Appomattox and peace introduced the
aftermath OF war.


THE WORLD


says this is Obstruction necessary to be kept
In mind; an unscrupuous man may be not
altogether odious IL the ends for which he
CHOOSES his means without scrnple are worth
aiming at. But IL ne has no aims except
purple and fine linen and champagne, and
violates all the duties OF life in order to put
himself above its decencies. 1t Is impossible
to make anything out of him except vulgar
and commonplace criminal. That was the
case with Tweed.


Tweed's power was well nigh boundless,
his crimes were on the same scale OF grandeur
and his punishment though only the smallest
part Of it was inflicted by the minister of
law was most complete and exemplary, yet
others against whom justice has not raised
her hand, are worse men than he Is or was,
and greater and not less guilty criminals sit
to-day in high places Of power In our country
and fancy that for them the evil day will
never come.
Year: 1878

: New York, April 13.-The Graphic's Wash
iAgton special says: The President stated to-
day, more positively than he has ever stated,
that he intended to do all that was possible
and lawful for him to do to assist the Repub-
lican party in the approaching campaign.
When the congressional committee calls on
him for assistance he says that he will meet
them half way. AS to resembling the order
prohibiting office holders from mingling in
politics. he could not accommodate them, but
would refer to the letter Attorney General
Devens wrote Collector Simmons just before
the campaign in Massachusetts last fall, for
an Interpretation OF the order.
Year: 1878

We have it from undoubted authority that
the report upon the streets that the New Orleans
and Carrollton Railroad Company seeks to con-
troll the Crescent City Railroad. is without the
slightest foundation In fact Such control has
peyer been proposed or contemplated,