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Monday Feb. 25-1895 ilTt WO Panes 9-12 IIS 11 i i ANECDOTES OF DOUGLASS Early Career of the Negro Leader as an Editor In Rochester. SPELLI5Q WAS DIFFICULT FOR HIM He Enjoyed Joke HIi Eipeua as "Well mm Other Assisted Many Slave to Escape to Canada. Rochester, n. Feb.

Throw the nigger printing press Into Lake Ontario and banish Douglass to Canada." Thl wu the advice of a New-Tork dally, back la ante-slavery days, given to Boches-tartan advice which It to nMdliM to aar waa not heeded. That It waa not headed ia something of which Rochester to now and haa been for years proud, though at the time It must be confessed that the status here of Frederick Douglass, at whom the Imprecation waa made, waa not an enviable one, except la a limited circle of AboUtlonlsta, But he outlived that prejudice before leaving here, and became a Frederick Douglass, recognised leader and a man of Influence, for which he might hare returned thanka to the nigger printing press which the people of Rochester were good enough not to throw Into Lake Ontario aa advised. He gained his first publicity. It might be said, through the publication of a paper which be printed here for several rears. It waa In 1847 that Frederick Douglass first cams to this city, and he lived here for nearly a quarter of a century.

It waa here he spent the years of his most vigor ous manhood, during the period when the Institution of slavery in the Southern States was most arrogant and aggressive, and the apposition to It In the Northern States was most bitter and uncompromising. It waa nly nine years after his escape from slavery that he came here. Rochester was then a stronghold of the anti-slavery advocates, and there was great sympathy for him. When he announced that be Intended to start a paper la the Interests of the then all-absorbing causa, ha mat with from thoM who b4 botn hi- wannest as it waa beyond the belief of even his most ardent admirers that one who was but nine years removed from the dense Ignorance of the plantation slave should bo fitted to attempt editorial mrkr Bewavar, be established his paper, named The North star, but afterward called It Frederick Douglass's Paper, and kept It float In the face of many difficulties until the Union of States waa assured and emancipation waa accomplished. It waa a weekly of Urge else, and coet about 80 a week to publish.

There were times when all the money of the editor was In the venture, and he waa deeply In debt In addition. The publishers, editors, and printers of the city were then la the habit of holding a banquet annually on- Franklin's birthday. Soon after Douglass started his paper such a banquet waa held In the old Irving House, kept by an old printer named Haskell. Mr. Frederick Douglaas's Homestead, Rochester, 1.

Douglaaa had not been Invited, and waa not expected. But he went to the banquet, nevertheless, accompanied by a young colored man, his associate la editing The North Star. e-They were denied admission at the door, they had procured tickets from lone of the printers In the employ of Mr. Douglass. The matter waa brought to the 'attention of the assembly by Alexander 'Mann of The Rochester American, who waa presiding officer.

The question of admission waa put to a vote, and carried In affirmative. This little episode In the Ufa of Mr. Douglass In Rochester worked greatly to his advantage. The career of a Journalist for Frederick Douglasa was not one strewn with rosea, as the disadvantages of his early life were keenly felt all the time. It was not until he waa twenty-one years old that he managed to learn to read and write, and speil- Ing continued to be difficult for a long time.

Jacob K. Post of this city relates an incident in this connection. It waa at the home of Mr. Post'a father that Douglaaa first lived when coming to this city. Mr.

Post ra: I remember once when he left oar. house to go on. a lecture tour we found In his room a slip of paper on which waa written a long Hat of words In common use. They were hard ones for Frederick, for across the top of the slip ha had written. 'Words that And hard to spelL' Frederick waa a lover of fine horses, and I could tell you many stories la this connection.

He Uked to tell jokes about his race as well as at the expense of any other. Once wbea he was In Dublin he felt very lone-- He-waa wandering about the streets, when he was attracted by two violins ia the window of a second-hand dealer. Frederick Mked ot xhm eaWl hmaV 8or' the Irish Frederick tuned the violin and began to ay. 'Rocky Road to Soon the rlPtor'a wife eieard the music and en-1 t-t jtsr door. Then Frederick start- ed la on The Irish Washerwoman.

and the couple began to dance for dear ufe. When tb music and dancing stopped. Frederick tendered the dealer tne 6a but bis performance on the violin bad greatly enhanced Its valua In toe mind of the storekeeper, and. as he hurried it away to a place of security, be exclaimed: "'If black nagur can git slch chunes out of that flddie, i ll saver sell It at any price, begorrahl The father of Mr. Post Isaac Post, was one of the greatest Abolitionists here during the war.

and man 7 a fugitive slave was sheltered and secreted In Mr. Poet's barn and helped across the Canadian Una to freedom. The moat we ever had a our place at one time," aald Mrs. Amf Post, "waa twelve. They were brought to me without a word of warning one Saturday, and they staid over Sunday.

They were so happy to think that they were so far North, so near Canada, that we had hard work to keep them out of sight. Many a tima I crept out to the barn after dark with a basket of food." It waa Frederick Douglass who secured this retreat for the fugitives, and many others he secured as well. He was In secret communication with the leading anti-slavery people In all parts of the country. It waa well known that Rochester was doing a great business at underground railroading in thoee years, but the officials were no circumspect for detection. Douglass was the superintendent of this terminus of the road.

1 "I says an old neighbor of Frederick Douglass, that sometimes father and the horse and wagon would drive away early In the evening and be gone all night. We never asked any questions, nor saw him go If wa could avoid it, but he would be remarkably cheerful at breakfast, and possibly let out something If we pressed nlm hard, but that was against the rule. The excitement was like that of living on a smuggling coast William 8. Falls, In speaking of what used to be dona here for fugitives by persons unsuspected of anti-slavery proclivities, says: The poor creatures were usually penniless. I used to solicit donations In the and our dtixens would give freely.

Uncle Dave Richardson of Henrietta never refused. Once E. C. Williams and myself, east side of the river, each taking a side of Main Street, collected all we needed. The railroad fare only of the refugees was paid by the agents In the several States while passing on our way to dinner on the from funds raised In England." It waa when the Fugitive Slave bill waa passed that the Indignation of Frederick Douglass found Its fullest vent here.

His contempt of compromising legislsaaon, the highest attainment of his elocsedce. was listened to by those who packed the ball where he was to speak. There was one scene In old Corinthian Hall that is recalled, and will never be forgotten by those who were present. Douglass waa condemning the bill, and said: "Is there a man here who dares to say that he has a right to sell his brother? A voice clearly responded. I do." In an Instant every eye saw the speaker the Anger of Douglass pointing him out as he stood.

Turn your face to the wall, then," said Douglass, in contemptuous sarcasm. An Intimate friend of Douglass relates an Interesting anecdote about how Douglass and others helped three negroes to escape. They were all men, two brothers and a cousin, and said to be exceptionally intelligent. One was harbored at the home of Mr. Douglass, another at the home of Asa Anthony, and the third at the home of a farmer in Irondequolt.

north of the city, near the laae. On the day It had been planned to get the fugitives safely out of the city there happened to be held an anti-slavery meeting here, at which somebody foolishly mentioned the fact that the negroes were in the city. So It was thought Best not to carry out the plan proposed. In fact. It was even thought best to get them to a more secluded hiding place than they were then In, for It wss learned that warrants for their arrest were out.

Accordingly Douglass took the man who was at his house over to Mr. Anthony's, by making a roundabout drive, but there was no way of getting to the Irondequolt man without going through the heart of the city, there being no bridges then on the lower river by which to get across. A plan had to be devised, and Douglass was equal to the emergency. Two revolvers and two bowle knives were rurcbased and given to the two men. Then hey were painted white, dressed In women's clothes, and driven through the town with Instructions to shoot or kill the.

flnt man who. might attempt to Interfere with them. BufTEey were 'not detected and they made' their way to Irondequolt in safety. There the other member of the trio waa found, and the company started east along the lake shore, going as far as 'Williamson, where they remained a couple of weeks. A vessel going to Canada was finally hailed, and the fugitives put aboard for the land of freedom.

Almost an endless number of similar anecdotes can be gained from the numerous friends an co-laborers of Douglass of those exciting day a At the funeral exercises held In this city after the death of Lincoln, the principal speaker was Mr. Douglass, and his effort on that occasion was one of the most eloquent speeches ever beard in this city. At his home on the little hill approaching what Is now Highland Park. Frederick Douglass had manv a distinguished visitor. Among them was John Brown, whose soul goes marching on." Here it waa that Old Ossawatom unfolded the plan of the Harper's Ferry raid.

Brown and Douglass took many a stroll over the neighboring Pinnacle Hills and discussed measures for the improvement of the condition of the negroes and ways and means of liberating them from bondage. Gov. Wise of Virginia, In 1859, believing that Mr. Douglass was implicated In John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry, made a requisition for him upon the Governor of Mlch-gan. to which State Mr.

Douglass had temporarily gone. He heard of this and fled to England, where he remained six or sight months. In a lecture on John Brown many years later, Mr. Douglass said he had been charged with inciting John Brown to his rash undertaking, but the charge was not of fact, he did his best 10 him from such a forlorn hope. was nothing remarkable about John Brown." said Mr.

Douglass. except nis mission. He waa a wool dealer, with aa good judgment about wool aa a good wool ri" "Sht to have. It waa his hatred of wavery that made him a' hero." A5 J90? recnt relations of Mr. Douglasa W.iBJ:?eh,"ter a1 iCs people has been in fJtfil0? whh the movement of the colored people of this city to erect a monument memory of those of their race who the civil war.

It waa decided some statue of Douglass shall this monument. A public mass meeting la memory of Douglasa la now be-. ad w111 Probably be held In 1 T22Vhom i which Frederick Douglass wa rned la 1872, after Property to J. B. Keller.

j5orUt- who rebuilt the house, utilising foundation and some of the walls. The Illustration herewith shows the old Douglass homestead, with the house as it nw t1nd- This spot waa the hotbed of an ti -slavery in ante-bellum days: It was over these rolling hills that Douglass and Jhn Brown wandered, formulated plans, and discussed ways and means to liberate their shackles. In the cellar of this house and In the woods near by many a slave found a safe hiding place while on his journey to freedom. Mr. Keller, who haa owned and occupied the property ever since Douglasa sold ft to him.

says that every time Douglaaa came to the city since leaving he alwaya visited him. as he loved to walk over the old ground, which waa sacred in his memory; he loved to renew the thoughts and associations of former days. This spot, Mr. Douglasa claimed, alwaya seemed the moat homelike of all places la the world to fm. It has beam announced that the remains of wiu uruuxDl 10 uu city, and Interred.

la Mount Hope. Ceme- aar If war kink a IS. we imroeaiaie vicinity i 5'm" where be spent so many years of bis life. It to probable that there wlU be with the funeral, as the Interest ia the life and work of the dead orator haa never abated in this city. THK FTXSRAL ARRAXGEMCCTS.

SaTTteeo te Tea Held la rWaeTslasrtaa Te-aaywliariai tm Reebester. WASHINGTON. Feb. rk-Tha funeral of Frederick Douglass will be held to-morrow. There will be servlcea In the Metropolitan African Methodist Eplaccsal Church, the largest of the denomination ta the city.

The ooay will be taken to the church early In the mornlg, and will lie In the church for view by the public until o'clock, when the servloes will begin, under direction of the Rev. J. G. Jenifer, pastor. Btahope Turner and Wayman will take part, and John W.

Hutchinson, the last of the famous Hutchinson family of Abolition singers, and a mciuniineaa or Mr. Douglaaa, will sing a solo. The sermon will Vw nrMri rr Jenifer, and brief eulogistic remarks will be maae dv tne ttev. ur. Kankin, President of Howard University: the Rev.

Hugh T. Ste venson 01 Anacostia Baptist cnurcb, and the Re. Dr. F. J.

Grtmke. The honorary pall bearers will be e-Sen-ator B. K. Bruce.W. H.

A. Wormley, John R. Lynch, John F. Cook. E.

C. Messer, P. B. 8. Pinch back.

Dr. B. Puitrim. Ixmanl Bailey, John H. Brooks.

J. H. Meriweth er, Dr. jonn K. Francis.

F. J. Barbadoes, Cape D. L. Pitcher, B.

E. Messer. and George W. Murray, member of Congress from South Carolina. The body will be taken to Rochester.

N. for Interment, on a train scheduled to reach there at 9:25 o'clock Tuesday morning. POLICE C1.PTAE SLETDT BUSIED A MnltitTide Paid Tribute to His Memory Services and Pastoral Eulogy St Josephs Bests in Calvary. Capt Edward Slevln, late of the Oak Street command, who died of peritonitis on Friday, was buried yesterday from his home, 121 West Eleventh Street, The funeral announced to leave the house at 1 o'clock, but, owing to the great number of people who called to bid farewell to their friend or comrade, the last journey was delayed. The block between Sixth and Seventh Avenues was blocked by carriages and pedestrians.

There was a constant stream of people passing up the atepa of the Slevln home Into the rear parlor, where was the casket. After looking at the dead, the throng passed out again. The sidewalks were crowded with members of the police force of all ranks, and men from the city depart ments and the courts, and politicians and business men. The body was taken to the hearse, pre ceded by the pall bearers, Ppllce Captains Patrick H. Pickett, Josiab A.

Westervelt, Richard O'Connor, John McCulIagh, Thomas Rellly, and Thomas Killllea. The casket of black cloth was partly hidden by lilies of the valley, tuberoses, and palms Following the casket came the little son and daughter of the dead Captain. Hla widow, who but a few daya ago buried ber mother, followed, supported by James Tralnor, a friend of the family. Her anc gulsh was distressing, but, although friends tried to persuade her not to undergo the, ordeal of attending her husband's funeral, she Insisted, despite her feeble condition. Mrs.

Slevin's two sisters, the Misses Learv. were of the Immediate mourners. The runeral procession was to St Joseph's Roman Catholle Church, Waverley Place and Sixth- Avenue. In it were more than 100 carriages, and many marched along the sidewalks. The church held only muunren ana iraur OI inose WHO paid tuun low memory OE ui are a.

The Rev. T. F. McMajina. thm tulitint pastor, conducted the funeral service, blessing the body and giving benediction, and In ma aaaress pos.e.oi tne captain as one who died a dutiful son of the Church and In peace with God.

The choir service waa Gounod's Mass of Requiem. Among tne many city officials who visited the house were Police Commissioners Martin and Kerwin, Superintendent Byrnes, Inspectors Williams and McAvoy. ex-Inspector Steers. Judge Fitzgerald. ex-Commissioner of Public Works Daly, and many members of the Police Department.

About a hundred members of the Order of Elks walked from th noun tn h. xknt. esch having a boutonnlere. ine interment was at Calvary. THE ALDERMES'S SOCIALISTIC FRANCHISE It Mr.

Clark Had Had Tlaae He Woald Have Made It More Stringent. The Brooklyn Board of Aldermen hv vote of 16 to 2. last Mondav tranM an ad ditional franchise to the Municipal Electric ugnc company, on the condition that the company paid the city $20,000, 'and agreed that, after ten years, the city could purchase the plant at the actual cost. The Directors of the comnanv a anrlmic for the additional franchise, but thv (opposed to the Socialistic ideas of the Alder men aa indicated In the franchise voted. It is expected that Mayor Schieren win send some message to the Aldermen to-day on tne subject.

Alderman Clark of the Twentv-sixth Ward Is the father of the franchise. He haa ed that, if he had had time, he' would have incorporated more stringent Ideas In the resolution. We do not ask the comDanv ta tak. tha franchise," he said, but If It wants It It will have to take it on our terms. This Is a reform Rmn4 nt iMn v.

niuciiucii, aim we are looking out for the city's interests." v. cary ana waixiey voted against It.1" Pd that Alderman Maikley will make a motion to reconsider the entire matter to-day. on the ground that the action was irregular, as the binding amendment to the report of the Committee on Electricity and UU. He claims that th. cannot be amended: PUT LIQUID POLISH II HER MEWCISE Mr Clesaeata Thaayht the Bottle Waa EssptywHU Wlf.

will Recover. Mrs. Elisabeth Clements. thlrtv-io-ht years old, of 43 Ryerson Street, Brooklyn, haa been suffering with a nervous ailment for some time, and. in order to roii7 distress, haa been taking a patent medicine.

ADoui two aoses were left In the bottle yesterday morning. Her husband. Robert Clemnta. la chlnlst, and. believing- the hotti.

x. empty, he put Into It a liquid polish for brass, and then set it dawn in board! VU1 His wife after breakfast drank some of the compoend, and in a short time was lying on the floor In terrible agony. Her hti.hanrf Mfit for i nosed the ease aa chemical poisoning, and land Street Hospital. "MrT Sh waa Dronounced out of linn. the afternoon.

LOCISK lEirDET'S TROUBLES S-er Prior WlU Semd tbe CTaorma People Back Eaat. rrmcAGO. Feb. 24. The dlfflcultv 'tween Louise Beaudet the star of the operetta xne iragoon a juaugater." and Manaaer Thomas W.

Prior of the Schiller Theatre haa been adjusted. To-day an. agreement satisfactory to all 'nartiM was made and the Injunction waa withdrawn. Mr. Prior will take care of the Ion Wednesday next.

The contract reads. consideration." Mr. Prior said he would ft rt. W- Hm, -1 tor suit of Isaac W. Norcrosa.

who claims to nave cgtnpora ine muwj ui bi xra goon's Daughter," for royalties, as the wbhm nam. LESSONS FROM TRODBLES TiironRh Tribalatioa, Dr. Tilma Shows, Men Gain Great Tklories. DR. ABBOTT TALIS OF RIGHT UTOG There Is Xo Short Cut, He Saya, from "Wrong to Right Money Not th Standard of Sacceaa.

"TRILBT" AS A CSEAT MORAL TEACHES Rabbi SilTersnaa Polats Oat Its Lce-aaaa Serntoas by Dr. Parkharst aad Dr. Wllaosu The recent eventful trip of La Qascogne waa taken advantage of by the Rev. T. De Witt Talmage to point a moral and adorn hla sermon in the Academy of Music yesterday afternoon.

ln the 8now 'rs his subject, and hla text was taken from First Chron-lcles, 22. "He went down and slew a aid- PU 10 noWy rr- Talmage pver heard of him? His name waa Benaiah. He was a man of stout muscle and of great avoirdupois. His father was a hero, and he inherited prowess. He was athletic and there was iron in his blood and the strongest bone ln his body was backbone.

He is known for other wonders besides that of the text. An Egyptian Sc.ubli" ta or about seven feet nine Inches high, was moving around in braggadocla and flourishing a great soear of my text, with nothing but a walking stick, came upon him, snatched the spear from the Egyptian, and, with one thrust of KSe' Put an nd to tn blatant bully, which makes us think of the story In our Greek lesson too hard for us If the smarter boy on the same bench had not wlth It. ln which Horatlus ih Mcdonn. and Dioxippus the Athenian fought In the presence of Alexander, the Macedonian armed with shield and sword and Javelin, and the Athenian with nothing but a club. The Macedonian hurled the Javelin, but the Athenian successfully dodged it, and the Macedonian lifted the spear, but the Athenian with the club broke toe Macedonian drew the sword, but tripped him up before he It, and then the AthenuVn with his club would have beaten the life out of the Macedonian, fallen among his useless weapons, if Alexander had not commanded: 'Stop! But Benaiah of the text la about to do something that will eclipse even that.

There Is trouble In all the neighborhood. Lambs are carried off In the night, and children venturing only a little way from ine'J 'ii'r" h.00" found mangled and dead. The fact Is. the land was Infested with lions, and few people dared meet one of these grixxly beasts, much less corner or attack It. Aa a good Providence would have It, one morning a footstep of a Hon was tracked in the snow.

It hsd been out on its devouring errand through the darkness, but at last it Is found by the impression of the four paws on the white surface of the ground which way the wild beast came, and which way It had gone. Perilous undertaking; but Benaiah. the hero of the text, arms himself with such weapons as those early days afforded, gunpowder having been Invented ln a far subsequent century by the German monk, Ber-tholdua BChwarts. Therefore, without gun or any kind of firearms, Benaiah of the text no doubt depended on the sharp steel edge- for his own defense and the slaughter of the lion, aa he followed the track through the snow. It may have been a Javelin, it may have been only a knife; but what Benaiah lacks in weapon he will make up ln strength of arm and skill of stroke.

But where is the lion? We must not get off his track In the snow. The land has many cisterns, or pits, for catching rain, the rainfall being very scarce at certain seasons, and hence these cisterns, or reservoirs, are digged here, and there, and yonder. Lions have an instinct which seems to tell them when they are pin-sued, and this dread monster of which I speak, retreats into one of these cisterns which happened to be free of water, and Is there panting from the long run, and licking its Jaws after a repast of human flesh, and after quaffing the red vintage of human blood. Benaiah is aH alert, and comes cautiously on toward the hiding place of this terror of the fields. Coming to the verge of the pit, he looks down at the lion, and the lion looks up at him.

What a moment It was when their eyes clashed! But while a modern Du Challlu. Gordon or Sir Samuel Baker, or David Livingstone would have just brought the gun to the shoulder and held the eye against the barrel, and blazed away into the depths, and finished the beast; Benaiah, with only the old-time weapon, can do nothing until he gets on a level with the beast, and so he Jumps into the pit, and the lion with shining teeth of rage, and claws lifted to tear to shreds the last vestige of human life, springs for the man, while Benaiah springs for the beast- But the quick stroke of the steel edge flashed agair, and again and again, until the snow was no longer white, and the right foot of triumphant Benaiah Is half covered with the tawny mane of the slain horror of Palestine. Now you see how emphatic and tragic and tremendous are the words of my text: He went down and slew a Hon in a pit in a snowy Why put that ln the Bible? Why put It twice in the Bible once in the book of Samuel, and here ln the book of Chronicles? Oh, the practical lessons are so many for you and for me. What a cheer in this subject for all those of you who are In conjunction of hostile circumstances. Three things were against Benaiah of my text in the moment of combat the snow that Impeded his movements, the pit that environed him ln a small space, and the lion, with open jaws and uplifted paw.

And yet I hear the. shout of Benaiah' victory. Oh. men and women of three troubles. Tou say.

I could stand one, and I think I could stand two, but three are at least one too There Is a man in business perplexity, and who has sickness ln his family, and old age is coming on. Three troubles a Hon, a pit, and a snowy day. There Is a good woman with failing health and a dissipated husband, and a wayward boy three troubles! There Is a young man, salary cut down, bad cough, frowning future three troubles! There Is a maiden with difficult school lessons she cannot get, a face that is not as attractive as some of her schoolmates, a prospect that through hard times she must quit school before she graduates three troubles! There is an author, bis manuscript rejected, his power of origination in decadence, a numbness In forefinger and tluimb, which threatens writer's paralysis three troubles! There is a reporter of fine taste sent to report a gugillsm Instead of an oratorio, the copy he ands ln is rejected because the paper is full, a mother to support on small income three troubles! I could march right off these seats and cross this platform. If they would come at my call, 000 people with three troubles. This Is the opportunity to play the hero or the heroine, not on a small stage, with a few hundred people to clap their approval, but with all the galleries of heaven filled with sympathetic and applauding spectators, for we are surrounded by a great cloud of My brother, my sister, my father, my mother, what a chance you have! While you are ln the struggle.

If you only nave the grace of Christ to listen, a voice parts the heavens, saying: My grace la sufficient for thee. Whom the Lord loveth. He chasteneth. Tou shall be more than conquerors. And that reminds me of a letter on my table, written by some one whom I suppose to be at this moment present, saying: My dear, dear doctor, you will please pardon the writer for asking that at some time when youfeel like it you kindly preach from the Thirtieth Psalm, fifth verse" Weeping may endure for a night, hut joy cometh fn the morning ''and much oblige a down-town business Bo to all down-town business men.

and to all uptown business men, I say: jf you have on hand goods that you cannot sell, and debtors who will not, or cannot, pay, and you are also suffering from uncertainty as to what the Imbecile American Congress will do next, you have three I troubles, and enough la bring you within the range of the consolation of my text, where you find the triumph of Benaiah over a Hon and a pit and a snowy day. if you have only one trouble, I cannot spend any time with you to-day. Tou must have at least three, and then remember how many have triumphed aver such a triad of miafortuaa. Paul had three troubles Sanhedrio denouncing feim. that mt.if'l trouble; physical infirmity.

whLh he called a thorn ta the flesn. and. what the thorn was, wknowrro the figure he need that it must have been something that stuck him, the second trouble: approaching martyrdomthat made the three troubles. ISIvJS" wh he.a: If I bad only one misfortune, I could stand that; but three 5ft0. tS? No; I misinterpret He "JV 'Sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich; having noth-Pflng all Thanka be rho as the victory through our Lord Jesus t.DXV1 had three troubles; a had boy.

a dissoluteness, and What does he say? God ia our "ery present help la trouble. Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be cast into the midst of the "John Wesley had three troubles: Defamation by mobs, domestic Infelicity, fatigue irons more sermons preached and more miles traveled than almost any man of his time. What does he say The best of all is, God And whn poet brother. HfiT1? him, Brother John. If the Lord were to give me wings, I'd fly? John's reply was.

Brother Charles, it the rf 51 it m.to flr-l do lt And leave Him to find the George Whltefleld had three troubles: Rejection from the pulpits of England because he was too dramatic that was one trouble; strabismus, or the crossing of his that him to the caricature of all the email wita of the day; vermin and 5fai animals thrown at htm while he Preched on the commons that made three troubles. Nevertheless, his sermons were so buoyant that a Uttle child dying soon after bearing him preach aald in the Intervals of PlnV Let me go to Mr. Whltefield's Oh. I am ao glad that Benaiah of my text waa not the only one who triumphed over a Hon In a pit on a snowy day. Notice In my text a victory "over bad Xt WM nowy day.

when one's vitality Is at a low ebb. and the spirits are naturally depressed, and one does not feel like undertaking a great enterprise, when Benaiah rubs his hand together to warm them by extra friction, or thrashes his arms around him to revive the circulation of the blood, and then goes at the Hon, which waa ail the more fierce and ravenous because of the sharp weather. Inspiration here admits atmospheric hindrance. The snowy day at Valley Forge well nigh put an end to the struggle for Amerlcsn independence. The snowy day demolished Napoleon's army on the way from Moscow.

The Inclemency of January and February weather has some years bankrupted thousands of merchants. Long succession of stormy Sabbaths haa crippled innumerable churches. Lighthouses veiled by the snow on many a coast have failed to warn off from the rocks the doomed frigate. Tens of thousands of Christians of nervous temperament by the depression of a snowy day almost despair of reaching heaven. Tet ln that style of weather Benaiah of the text achieved his most celebrated victors, and let us by the grace of God become victors over influences atmospheric.

If we are happy only when the wind blows from the clear northwest, and the thermometer Is above freezing point, and the sky Is an inverted blue cup of sunshine poured all over us, it is a religion 95 per cent, off. Thank God there are Christians who, though their whole life through sickness has been a snowy day, have killed every Hon of despondency that dared to put its cruel paw against their suffering pillow. It was a snowy day when the Pilgrim fathers set foot not on a bank of flowers, but on the cold New-England rock, and from a ship that might hsve been more appropriately called after a December hurricane than after a they took possession of this great continent. And amid more chilly worldly circumstances many a good man or a good woman has taken possession of a wnole continent of spiritual satisfaction, valleys of peace, and rivers of gladness, and mountains of Joy. Christ landed In our world not in the month of May, but In the stormy month of December, to show us that we might have Christ In Winter weather and on a snowy day.

Notice, everything down In the pit that snowy day depended upon Benalah's weapon. There was as much strengthen one muscle of that Hon aa in all the muscles of both arms of Benaiah. It Is the strongest of beasts, and haa been known to carry off an ox. Ita tongue la ao rough that It acta aa a rasp, tearing off the flesh. The.

two great canines at eacn aide or tne mouth make escape Impossible for anything It has once seised. Yet Benaiah puts his heel on the neck of this king of Was It a dara-er? Was It a Javelin? Was it a knife? I cannot tell; but everything de pended on it. tsut zor tnat, ttenaian ooay under one craunch of the monster would have been left limp and tumbled In the anow. "And when you and I go Into the fight with temptation. If we have not the right kind of weapon, instead of our slaying the Hon, the Hon will slay us.

The sword of the Spirit! Nothing in earth or hell can stand before that. Victory with that or.no victory at alL By that I mean prayer to God, confidence in His rescuing power, saving grace. Almighty deliverance. I do not care what you call It; I call it Sword of the And if the Hons of all the Jungles of perdition should at once spring upon your soul, by that weapon of heavenly metal you can thrust them back, and cut them down, and stab them through, and leave them powerless at your feet. Tour mere resolution wielded against the powers which assault you is a toy pistol against an Armstrong gun; is a penknife held out against the brandished sabres of a Helnzelmann cavalry charge.

Go Into the fight against sin on your own strength, and the result will be the hot breath of the Hon in your blanched face, and his front paws, one on each lung. Alas! for the man not fully armed, down ln the pit on a snowy day, and before him a lion. Ail my hearers and readers have a big fight of some sort on band, but the biggest and the wrathiest Hon which you have to fight is what the Bible calls The roaring lion, who walketh about seeking whom he may Now, you have never seen a real lion unless you have seen him in India or Africa. Just after capture. Long caging breaks his spirit, and the constant presence of human beings tames him.

But you ought to eee him spring against the Iron bars ln the zoological gardens of Calcutta, and hear him roar for the prey. It makes one's blood curdle, and you shrink back, you know there is no peril. Plenty of lions in olden time. Six hundred of them were slaughtered on one occasion in the presence of Pompey ln the Roman Amphitheatre. Lions came out and destroyed the camels which carried the baggage of Xerxes' army.

In Bible times there were so many lions that they are frequently alluded to in the Scriptures. Joel, the Prophet, describes the cheek teeth of a great lion, and Isaiah mentions among the attractions of heaven that No lion shall be and Amos speaks of a shepherd taking a lamb's ear out "of the mouth of a Hon. and Solomon describes the righteous as bold as a and Daniel was a great lien tamer, and David and Jeremiah and St. John often speak of this creature. "But most am I impressed by what I have quoted from the Apostle Peter, when he calls the devil a lion.

That means strength. That means blood thirstlness. That means cruelty. That means destruction. Some of you have felt the strength of his paw, and the sharpness of his tooth, and the horror of his rage.

Yes, he is a savage devIL He roared at everything good when Claverhouse assailed the Covenanters, and at Bartbolemew against the Huguenots, one August night when the bell toiled for the butchery to begin, and the ghastly joke in the street was. Blood-letting is good in and 50.00U assassin knives were lunged into the victims. And this monster as had under his paw many of the grandest souls of all time, and, fattened with the spoils of centuries, he comes for you. But I am glad to say to aU of you who have got the worst in such a struggle, that there Is a Lion on our side, if you want Him: Revelation, 5, The Lion of Judah's A Lamb to us. but a Lion to meet that other lion, and you can easily guess who will beat in that fight, and who will be beaten.

When two opposing lions meet In a jungle in India you cannot tell which will overcome and which wlU be overcome. They glare at each other for a moment, and then with full strength of muscle they dash against each other like two thunderbolts of colliding storm clouds, and with jaws like the crash of avalanches, and with a re sounding voice that makes the Himalayas tremble, and with a pull, and tear, and clutch, and trample, and shaking of the head from side to side, until It is too much for human endurance to witness, and though one lion may be left dead, the oae which has conquered crawls away lacerated, and gashed, and lame, and eyeless, to bleed to death in an adjoining But If yon and I feel enough our weakness in this battle of temptation, and ask for the Divine help, against that old lion of hell described in St. Peter will go the stronger Lion described In Revelation, and It will be no uncertain grapple, but under one Omnipotent stroke toe devouring monster that would slay our soul shall go reeling back Into a nit tea thousand times deeper than -that fa which Benaiah slew the Hon on a snowy VA word to all who are in a snowy day. Oh fathers and mothers who have lost children, that to the weather that cuts through body and souL But drive back the lion of bereavement with the thought which David IUe of Edinburgh got from the Scotch gravedlgger. who waa alwaya planting white clover and the sweetest flowers on the children's graves In the cemetery, and.

when asked wEy he did so, replied: 'Surely str, eanna make ewer ftaa the bad eovartn a little Innocent sleeper that's waitin' there till It's God's time to waken It and cover it with the white robe, and waft it away to glory. When sic grandeur is waitin' it yonder. Ita fit it should be decked oot here. I think the Saviour that coasts ita dust sae precious wUl Uke to see the white clover sheet spread ower It. Do ye no' think so too.

Cheer up. all diaconsolatea. The best work for God and nlS.m5uJ ha doBe oa- the snowy day. AW gloomy Marine Terrace, Island of J7- lh xUe Victor Hugo wrought the V1 hievement of his pen. Esekiel.

banished aad bereft and aa invalid at Corn-hill, on the banks of tbe Cbebar. had his momentous vision of tae cherubim and wheels within wheels. By the dim light of a -dungeon window at Bedford John Ah Delectable poem of aU time without eyes. Michael Angelo- carved a statue out of anow and all Florence gased raptures at Its exquisitenesa. aad many r.

bervants have out of the cold cut their immortality. 1 the dark background tnat made more Impressive the courage and Vh10? of, who, reau Dttri1' 'Throw me inl" Arnp if you choose; the Rerarrec- enough. rt7 eo1 damn, cutting snowy S-X leonine triumph. Hardship and trouble have again and again eialte5 and Inspired and giorifled their subject 'jSS'f' bM mounted higher And flourished, unconsumed. fire.

wTthTnh. many snowy days ana aoaea to the i tU J4yf. mv cogne. Overdue-for day'may "had were Ul2 the most hopeful anxious. The cyclones, whose shipwrecks, had been reported beutj ronBD UD ownthAtiai; tic.

The ocean a few days before had swalT Fib' "th nnappesaed lojT more? the best The Nonnandie wne Tin on 0lfM waa to travel! and it had not teen her. The Teutonic. bjr th Perhuman effort or Captain and crew, came In and had heard UTh dtatr" frm that missing steTiE f- were pale faces and wringing M1 tears rolled down cold cheeks on those snowy daya We happened, and talked of the City of Boston new pSm artep "a.1inKt nd the steamship President, on which the brilliant Cookman sailed, never reported, and never to be SETup' lTdeaduntU lh Mm Whe" th thl wsy over the waters. Then we all BnKt0iihop at 11 mlht the missing French liner. Three hours of tedious and agonlxlne waiting, and two continents In suspense'.

When will the eyeglasses at Fire Island make revelation of this awful mystery of the sea? There It 1st Ha! Hal Oasco-rne! Quick! Wire the news to o. clt.r.- the fla" out on the towers. King the bells. Sound the whistles of the shipping aU the way up from 8andy Hook to New-York Battery. She'a eafef She's aare! are the words caught up aad passed on from street to street, 7 It Is the Gas-cogne! Is the cry sounding through all our delighted homes, and thriUing aU the telegraphic wires of the continent and all the cables under the sea, and the huzza on the wharf as tap gangptanka were swung out for the disembarkation, was a small part of the huzxah that lifted both hemispheres Into exultation.

Tbe flakes of snow fell on the Extra as we opened It on the street to get the latest particulars. Well. It will be better than that when some of you are seen entering the harbor of heaven. You have had a rough voysge mistake about that. Snowy day -after snowy day.

Again and again the -machinery of health and courage broke down, and the waves of temptstton have swept clear over the hurrlcsue deck, so that you were often compelled to say. AU Thy waves and Thy billows have gone over and you were down In the trough of that sea, and down In the trough of the other sea, and many despaired of. your safe arrival. But the great Pilot, not one who must coma off from some other craft, but the One who walked stormswept Galilee, and now walks the wintry Atlantic, cornea on board, and heada vou for the haven, when no sooner have you passed the Narrows of death than you ftnu ail tbe banks lined with immortals eelebrating your arrival; and while some break off palm branches from the banks and wave them, those standing on one side will chant. 'There shall be no more sea; and those standing on the other side will chant, These ara ther which ame out of gvoat tribulation, andi had, their robes washed and made white la the blood of the 1 ''Off of the stormy sea Into the smooth harbor.

Out of leonine struggle In tbe pit-to guidance by tbe who shall lead you to living fountains of water. Out of the snowy day of earthly severities Into the luucus v. g.i uura, anu inio or chards of eternal fruitage, the fall of their vhltA hlnaiuna rh. nnlv In kuinn XO Cl'T FROM WbOVG TO RIGHT. While Life of Wickedness Mast Be Pruned Away, Dr.

Abbott Saya. The Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott told his hearers in Plymouth Church. Brooklyn, yesterday morning, there was no short cut from a wrong life to a right Ufe.

but that all wbo desired to enter the kingdom of heaven must prune away all their past life of wickedness right down to the roots, and begin again, like little children. Before his sermon Dr. Abbott announced that a few choice pews were for rent, and In this connection he said something about the subject of pew renting that all who go to church wlU like to read. "There are." said he, "two objections made to renting pews ln churches. The first Is that the renting of pews keeps out strangers.

That has not been our experience. Plymouth Church and the Brooklyn Tabernacle have probably welcomed more strangers than any other two churches ln the country, and ln both the pews have been rented. The pew renters In Plymouth have been glad to make room for strangers. By your hospitality you have met the first objection. The second objection Is that It seems to put pew renting on a purely commercial basis.

Now, that depends on the spirit of the man who rents tbe pew. He ought not to be so. We support our church and two We carry on the work within these walls by the pew rents. The outside wdrk we maintain from the envelope fund. We cannot keep up the missions unless we keep up Plymouth.

This Is the dy namo. You cannot have good lights without a dynamo. Tbe expenses of Plymouth certainly are not extravagant. We support four ministers, and their combined salaries Is not equal to the salary of some ministers in Brooklyn. We do not pay much.

In comparison, for our music. Many of our singers serve voluntarily and without pay. By looking above you I think you will see we are not extravagant In the decorations of our meeting house. We do not. in fine, spend much money on ourselves.

We use our money for the we are called cn to do." Dr. Abbott warned hla congregation that an attempt waa under way to secure, by subterfuge, a saloon license for Michael Murphy's place, at Liberty and High Streets. Some time ago, when tbe application for this license waa first made. Dr. Abbott and Plymouth Church led a tremen-doua protest against the proposed saloon.

The application was withdrawn. One of the points made by the protesters waa there ware already thirty-six saloons within two blocks of the bridge. This point had great weight with the Excise Commissioners. To avoid this objection the man who owned the place at Liberty aad High Streets bought out a small saloon near the bridge, and- then went to the Excise Conunimsioa- ers and asked to have the license transferred to the new urging that there would 'now be one leas aalooa within the territory Indicated by Plymouth Church. "We think thirty-five saloons are too much tax that district," said Dr.

Abbott, speaking to hla congregation- Mors than that, aalooa will be situated at the entrance to the bridge, aad every man. woman. rnH child coming over the bridge and seeking to reach Fulton Street must go by it. A great. ciiy is aanea to put saloon at ita chief entrance.

y. We propose to press ear objections to granting this license. A petition wtn be again oreDared. and wo ua mw- tax payers to ajgn it. ot xjt.

Aoootrs sermon was Matthew. xvUL, "At the saaas time as me tbe disci Ed unto Jesoa. saying. MVho is the gr. tbe kingdom of "And Jesus called a little child nr.t him ia the midst of them.

Aad said. Verily 1 say unio you ye be converted and become as l.ti drea. ye haU not eater Into Ihm x.r heaven. Spring haa aald the rrescV-. ginning wlta figure of speech.

vine does not look well, borne of 1 branches are dead. Tou call in an gardener. He aays you must prune 1. away; way dowa to the stock. What' say prune it all away? Yea It is not', oeedjbut It must all be pruned away.

Wbea a vine baa grown wrong the r-il 0X11 away an1 et It start la Chicago they built a large church. a high aieepla. VAfter the church was Uhed the tower began to lean. Tt: not want a Leaning Tower of Pisa in -cago. and ao the had to take down atlon teepla, aad make a new four W'a built la the' South a civilisation.

I and wben civilisation tumbled down it wss bound hd toi build again from bottom. Soma men wonder at the barter. In the South. 1 marvel there Is so l.u. considering the way the old civilisation v.

a long. 5 VS th uua experience with -children. AJ our merchants have had you men com into their stores wbo knew it knew more about the business than merchants Itoemsalvsa. Thai wfiy a r'v, many business men are afraid of Tn bred eeif-coac. that a alt.

Christ applies tils universal prlac V1.ii!.llritlf1 'thtcal nature of m.i. These Disciples had been with Christ ei. months, and Uey were on ih perhaps, more consistent Christians mrm th. p. Church.

And yet Carist said they -t i Q. againand be converted, bad false notions. They bad been gu.i 1m- w-rn direction Strange? No. r. at alt That just whst the merchant ui to the young man who comes into L.

store, knowing it all. young man came and knelt at feet, asking what he should dj be saved. He was a pretty good man, k.U.' an ovei him. He tr 1 him to sell all he had and give It to poor. He didn't toll aU men to sell th- possessions and give the money to the to this particular uiaiu told Nicodemus he must be t.

ru Zaccheus, the corrupt tax, gatherer, ahen he bad repented, told Chria( he wou.I inf.VT1 of hi Pjperty to the vo r. wrung unjuit.y ti righ fourfold. Christ sailT- That a nort cut from a wrong Wt are to find some other way. A young rna i "obleTurpcste tr.bifn aPlrtlons. After a while he be-a.

cuom for conscience! sYvahLe.haV,n" b.uUt UB a fortune. ha? d.hM1 living "vfnaI? to licentious hy he fro" weary. WUd a SsL'ti no! '9 the bottom anj I wiTl0trTt hl to be done? iri niZ mT meaning clear. Thcr heart Z'S1 le mind an i Now, when a man haa ben aMw' I he must am tSl'Ufc world tte'r lh. wXrM" Who V''0 an Mccessfft WOFU to Vt KPTi, puts the Ideal ore men aanlmia.

2i Th' 1 cannot Children are fu I to any. ieC.Yo? iw? IwpVli ou ernltfniX0 the ncasibllltie. of "It. Is easy enough to come mto this sad lifted up by that iroltP.kH,J1 th lnier. But a-reat Wh that fhl Jii? brok dowa In mid-ocean.

thing to io was to mend the machinery, and then -to steer back to the "fH'0f Wlch the eaWhad drifted! Drifting never carried a man anywhere won WW of tw.Wi0rJ2-I single ship ever drifted through a tortuous hann! tV amiv Mnnr. ..7 7 one word to the fathers th "ttle children, atners and mothers are sometimes afraid little children will become reUgious too lfSl taer danger in playing emotions of chlldrer? child can start right, and then it doesn't have to unlearn. a 1 etate two propositions, and I win put them in antithesis. First Every child ought to be trained that It wouiT never "IeJ7'a-. Sccond-Every "lndlnrJln orthodox church aeeda to be converted over and over again." "TRILBY? AS MORAL TEACHER HabM IllTtraaa Declares Mea Mapt Be Better for- IXaviaar Read In the Temple Emanu-EI yesterday the Rev.

Dr. Silverman continued his course of lectures on "Moral Forces," the special subject for the day being "The Moral Influence of Fiction In" General and of Trilby in Particular. The temple was Dr. Silverman divided hla sermon Into two topics. Aa to the first Fiction he aald: It is generally a dlffimit Judge whether the Influence of a book la for good or evil.

No arbitrary rule can be given. In aU auch questions tna nmmni element plays a Prominent nar v. can exactly tell what will feed or poison tbe body, and Just as Uttle can one A.n- what wUl nourish or poison the aalnd. Very serious error nas been made by the preachers aad other moral guides of the young by denouncing the reading of fiction, and wnaiever appeals to the fancy and the imagination. We must discriminate In fiction as In ell tblngs.

We must deter mine tbe effect of such reading on the mind, on the Imagination. muin. the morals. Let no one. la haste put aside tbe good and bad together.

We need literature that adds to our kn.i.. of facts In science, and history, and es- laoiisnes ur place ln nature, society, government, and civilisation. But we need also a literature ror the imagination, tbe emotions, for the Ideals that buoy as np In the stormy tempests of life. What is the effect of a rood a-tv it holds the attention. It charms, fasc mates.

and mis tna soul with delight. Is It not because it shows us a new and Ideal world? We are weary of life with its toll and struggles, tn world in which money and title ia the key that unlocks tna doors at hearts, and we yearn for another worli. where truth conquers, where right prevails, where character tells against power aad influence, where duty Is the watchword, aad where true love meets in everlasting union with Ita mate. This is the world we are yearning for, aad when reality does not bring It, net Ion that furnishes it with all Ita castles in the air wlU fascinate and charm and eathrail as forever. Good novels have more to do with the formation of character than we, at first thoughts, realise.

Wa faU in love with the characters that the author haa carefa 'v and consistently preseated. and thus eu.i forth our own Ideals, make them stronr-r and clearer to ourselves. We are all or leas hero worshippers, and we easily gin to worship the heroes and the -of novels until they become guidirv walking before ua guidinr and us, elevating, purifying. How and women have been transf ojt- 1 lag to live like some hero bars, felt tbenkseives co-unen "lit I'1VJW cf whn.4 se 1.