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CYCLING HIS THEME th rider reins la his startled fcoraa aa the scorcher dashes along, while- the disansted pedestrians steps cut Into the gutter. Into the mud, and Into the dirt, as ths great army -of Bring enthusiasts so wblssing by as they cry. "Here we rome. the hundred upon hundreds of thousands of bicyclists of America. Lo.

a great boat that no man can number. Make way! Make way! Make Aa for the wbeela It waa cried unto tbcm in my hearing. wheel!" A BeneCccat lareatloaw- Now. m'y friends, there are many people who are pesaimiste In rtf-renee to a bicycle. They Ull you that to seme extent It la destroying eTery ether kind ot trade, and to it Is.

Jewelers, dressmakers, thester managers, sewing ros-chlne manufacturers. men, rellrcsd directors; summer Uctel keepers, furniture deal-em, clothiers indeed, every class of merchant Is protesting agsJntt it. The steel chirr' baa almost made the horse aa obsolete an anlmsl as the buffalo, and If ccndltions keep on aa they are aoinr now. the taxidermist must seen be mill Rev. F.

De Witt Talmage Freache3 on the Eicycle. ITS EFFECT AND MISSION "Will Lengthen Life and Is a Boon to Humanity. Saadar Ridlaar aad Brcaklag Down Proprieties Ita Great Da a iter a. ReT. Frank De Witt Talmage, pastor of the Jefferson Park Congregational church, corner of West Adams and Thrc-op streets, took the bicycle as the theme for his sermon yesterday morning.

Taking for his text -the thirtieth Terse of the tenth chapter of Bxekiel, "As for the wheels, it was cried unto them in my hearing, wheel," he spoke as follows: What are the wheels of the Bible If there ever was a strange vtsionlst he ts the Eceklel of my text. One mrment he is standing upon the Mount of Inspiration, looking down upon a dark Talley filled with dry bones, when suddenly. Just as the drum and fife corps in the army of the Potomac might beat the reveille and the call for REV. FRANK DE morning Inspection, so there sounds out the cry, "Fall in. Fall in.

AH you who are coming to Judgment, fall in." And immediately every bona begins to hunt up some other bone, and this dead, rotting, filthy mats of decayed humanity now takes upon Itself the forms of the hundreds of thousands of millions of immortal souls marching on and marching up through the dark corridors of time, to be st last garlanded with the wreaths of commendation of victory, or to hear the sentence of sn everlasting doom, as the five foolish virgins knock against the shut door, moaning. "Lord. Lord, op an to us." while bridegroom snswers, "Verily, I say unto you, know you not." At another time this Ezeklel seems to be opening for us the barred gates of an awful Inferno, aa the terror-stricken Dante followed the guide amid the sufferings of the lest and the damned until he saw the burning arms held aloft, about which the flames were enthroning their golden bracelets of Ore; and the gleaming eyes of those who had not for centuries even one little drop of water upon their parched and cracked andi bleeding tongues: and could hear the never-ending groans of the mothers whe. sat looking at the destroyed spirits of their daughters whom they bad ouce as Innocent babea held against their own warm, loving breasts. So In the blackness of this everlasting night, as shiny refJliles.

there come creeping forth out of their dark dungeons all the loathsomenees and the horre-rs and the abomination of a debauched ana a sinful mind until they seem to crawl over as and coil about ua and hiss at us and try to strangle us. Or In this stranger scene of my text. In this passing review of the glories of God In this Tlsion of heaven, when ss a train of Cars daabes by so quickly that out of the hundreds or passengers looking cut ot the wlnaows you cannot distinguish any one face nor see the smile playing about the cornera of any one Hp; or as a thunder-storm cannonading its havoc among the mountains, which seems to be everywhere and yet nowhere, and whose long rivers cf fire SO quickly rush past us that it seems as though all the furies of the tempest have expended themselves In Just one terrific flash. 60, todsy. aa we see this glory of God we teem to be blinded.

Bat as the long procession of cherubim and angels and innumerable spirits and boat after host, and universe after universe, and hovering about are the clouds of witnesses as these came smashing past, under all and above all, and before all and behind all were wheela, wheels within wheel, and wheels following wheels, snd wheels witty the color of a beryl stone, and wheels flying as though they had wings, and wheela taking upon themselves the thrill and the ruth aad the mad enthusiasm as though they were truly a thing of life; and, as the Bible says. the cherubim stood their wheels stood, and when they flapped their wings and began to mount their wheela. and lifted ud themselves also, the spirit of the living God waa in them. Growth of the Bleyele. And so, Eseklel speaka out in the words of my text, "As for the wheels, it wss cried unto them In my hearing, wheel." For many, many months I have determined to preach a sermon upon the moral effect of the bicycle.

That this bicycle ts like the wheel of my text I do sot for one moment suppose; but whether yon are willing to confeaa it, the greateat moral influence for good or for evil which Is molding the phosent generation of the nineteenth century is this pew stranger which has so lately appeared In our midst; and there la no need of lopid people poob-poohing the wheel aa a erase which Will soon pass awayaa In a day. Not only lias the bicycle come to stay, but most of as will lire to see tho time when the bicycle will develop fromwo wheels Into four wheels and In a light steel carriage driven by an electric battery; some of us with our children and cur grandchildren can start on a Journey from New ifork to Ban Francisco; you, your own engineer, your own conductor, your own team of heroes, and In all that long journey yon will not even have to stop once to catch your breath or pttsh your Sasy machine op a hllL The miracles ot the near are going bo become the easies of tomorrow; and furthermore, the same God whose glories appear in the heavens is the same God whose glories are to be seen here; and when I think of the possibilities of the wheel I reiterate the old tenet of the Bible, "What we do and When we do and how we do, decides how and when the millennium shall appear." And go today I do not believe It Is an over drawn figure to quota tho words of nay text, "Aa lor ths wheels, it was cried onto them In my hearing. wheel." Learn in the first place Irom fa subject, that these words of Ezeklel sounded forth as an exclamation: and I do net know of any greater marvel than the sodden development at the American bicycle. Every one speaks of It as the wonder of all wonder. "My! my!" yon PI did you erer aee anything like ItT" Why.

re is hardly a child In this church bat can lembef when It was first manufactured, and 1 today It seems to be running everywhere, trowds every thoroughfare; It Jingles Its bell apen almost eTery sidewalk. It Is knocking Ogalost tho doers of every legislative ball, de-xoaading Ita rights, and seated) upon the ballot boa it makes the frightened politician hear the Clamorous demand for better highway. ''Glra as free transportation In the baggagv car of our railroads. Give as a Cabinet officer among the advisers of tho President of the United States. GIT us the earth." And today Wwk, stuffing some of the horrs' skins to rrettrve them as sooiosirsi specimens in cur piiwimj museums, ss representatives of a by-gene and extinct race.

Only a few years aro It wss ths enatnin for the vnuns man to buT tCT hiS fiSBCfC an engagement ring, and en the day of the wedding to travel with her to Sew York or Washington or Niagara Falls on a wedding trip. Not so now. instead oi toying ipr ma bride a wedding ling he now presents her a bicycle, and instead of taking a trip to Chicago or Boston or New York, he mounts his tandem and takes a ride through the country: and thus every porter, efery clerk, and eTery store employe, aad every hotel-keeper In every cne of the large cities which be would otherwise have visited, feels that aomehow tney nave neen robbed of the bard-earned money which by all the laws of common tense ought- to belong to them. Daring all that terrible panic of 1894 the only manufacturers which made any money at all were the manufacturers of wheels, and these men. In the face of the most awful financial timet our country has ever teen, gathered Into their pockets millions upon millions upon millions of dollars, until at last there seems to be no end.

"Well." you ask. "what are we going to do about such a condition aa this?" Why. my brother, I herald the wheel of today aa one ot WITT TALMAGE. the greatest benefactors of the human race. 1" 1 V.

1. 1 1 1 1 1 uu ur stj liir jit vtii vi Penn sylvania and Wett Virginia merely because their product destroyed the whaling Industries of New Bedford scd of Nantucket? Would you today go back to the times of Harriet Beecber Clowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and have the lash aunk Into the poor, bleeding back of the dying, pleading negro, to that the alave dealer could again have back hit property? Could you amother up the graves of the field hospltais of the late civil war, when without any anesthetics the surgeon, as a butcher with a meat ax, was chopping off the msngled limbs, while the poor, agonising soldier boy was mufti ring between his set teeth, God, I cannot stand It any longer. God." Oh, no, you answer, better a whole river of blood than a cancer eating out the heart of a nation. Better 600 individual injustices for one universal advancement. You must tear out before you can put in.

We muat tear down before we can build up. The bicycle has hurt other industries, that la true, but do you know the two businesses It has hurt the worst? The first is the saloon, for anybody wbo bat taken long rides uponthe bicycle knows that It ia almost an impossibility to drink whisky snd to fide a wheel. That alaughter-house baa been struck staggering blow straight between the eyea. We tee ita effects in leaa tobacco, less rum, lest haunts of dissipation and of vice of all sorts. My brother, sre you not rational enough to see these results? Lord Geo, some of us have stood over the opened graves of the drunkard; is there to be no end to the misery? At Aid to Health.

Besides that. If the conditions keep on Improv ing as they have begun, the work of our physicians and druggists ahsll be done away with, fcr there will no longer be any need of a hospital. The simple fact is, meat people are not physically well. What most of us need Is not so much pills in the stomach as fresh air In the lungs. This is an overworked! and overdriven and an exhausted and a tired race.

Nervous prostration, which a few years ago was considered exceptional, a very exceptional sickness, is now as common as the babies' croup; and great sanitariums have been erected for cure all ever the land and people have tried to struggle on by the wholesale use of stimulants and by Jamming into their diseased stomachs whole rivers of medicines, until at last no constitution can stand the strain, and the mind gives way atd they land in aa Insane asylum. We need not so much a cup of tea In the' sanitarium- as a glass of milk In a farmhouse; and today the bicycle Is Jet king thousands upon thousands of would-be invalids out of the store, the factory, the professional chair, and from the very pulpits themselves, and setting the dignified doctors of divinity astride of the wheel, it sends them forth to make the same kind of sermons Jesus Christ himself made when he talked about the Illy ot the valley and the rose of Sharon and the tower gring forth to sow, and though some wss wasted, yet at last the good seed did bring forth some thirty, some sixty, and some a hundred fold. Have you ever noticed In tho Bible bow much there la rustling of leaves and clucking of bens and the laughter of children and the striking up of the neat, as the old eagles are teaching their ycong to fly? But, some one says, la not this riding of the bicycle overdone? Of course there have always been fools in the past, and there always will be fools now. And Just aa the legend has it, that In olden time there once Hved a liule mouse in the home of a magician, who was afraid of a cat; so the magician, taking pity upon it, turned the mouse herself into a cat. Immediately the cat became afraid of a dog, and so the magician made the cat a dog.

Immediately the dog became afraid of a tiger, and so the magician made the dog a tiger; but then even the tiger became afraid of the hunters, until at last the magician lost his patience and cried out in his rage, "Go back Into your hole, you miserable coward, and be a mouse again. Yon are only fit to be a moose. God meant yon only a moos to be," and so on account of bis cowardice the magician changed the tiger back again into a mouse. Iajastlee of Prejudice. And so some people keep their fool tea notions all through life, and, as Doctor Tanner, they try to starve themselves for forty days and forty nights; or, as Captain, Webb, they try to swim the rapid of Niagara; or, as Stephen Brodie.

they try to Jump oft a Brooklyn bridge; or, as a boyish freak, they try to ride down the steps of the national eapltol; or, by destroying the delicate and wonderful mechanism of the human frame, they try to rido 100 or 150 miles a day. trying to do that for which yon yourself would be put In Jail did you so maltreat your bora as you are now defaming the beautiful temple- of your own soul. But though these evils are facing would yoa destroy the sanctity and the live of milHons upon millions of homes which are the foundation atones of our national government, snerely because here and there a scandal will try to cleanse its dirty linen In a divorce court? Would yon wrap about the sun the cloud of an everlasting night merely because a few days of the tSi years the year are cold and dismal, full of storm an si tempest, and of consumption and pneumonia? And by the same law, are yoa going by prohi DAHiX' OC33AN, JMOXDAY MAIIC1T 28, 1898. bition 4 destroy alt tbeao oppoi tuaRlea for recreation and frolic-and health aad preparation for asefulneas and for work, merely because la some case soma people pat the bicyeio to uses for which It was nerVr Intended? For Just as truly as 1 stand here. I believe that rough tho Instrumentality of the wheel, aa I look dowa Into the future, the longevity of the hamaa race will be lacreaaed, twenty, perhaps thirty, or even forty year over what it is today: and I also believe that our grandchildren will bt-come stronger, truer.

nbler. purer, and better met and women than if It had never coma, I commend it for your children. God knows they will have a bard enough struggle after a while, se they can have a little fun I com. mend it for the gray-balred men and women not yet too much stiffened by rheumatism In the Joints. I commend It for yoa men and women now In the busy rush of work in the home and the store and the eharch.

Too can laugh better, sing better, preach better, cry better, and pray better. If you are only physically well. Try it, brother and sister, try H. And so I stand by tr let pass the great procession, half holiday f-seuraioaists, aa I call out in the worda of text, "Aa for the wheels. It waa cried onto them In my hearing, wheel." Boslsy Rising Wrosg.

But. my friends, though I am such an enthusiast in commendation of the there are two awful warning to which 1 must call roar attention today, which. If you heed not. will dtatroy your aoula for time and for eternity. First.

In reference to this question of Sabbath desecration; and the amazement of amaaemcn to me is how some of our so-called best ministers seem to be utterly blinded to the awful rendition of things. "Oh," they ssy, "we bar been too strict with our youug people. Vna the church needs Is to gWe tbeni more liberty, more fun. more life, more Braider tfcst, they ssy. it does not take nearly as much Sabbath desecration for a man to ride quietly to church upon a bicycle as for him to fide in the eaxs or a carriage, and make tbe motorman an I be conductor or the horses and the coachman break their day cf rest.

And so some of our prominent churches, especially In the suburbs of our clUos. have racks placed whereTbe bicyclists ran leave the wheels while they attend to the service. Sabbath nasi nc ivrsi. xi m. brother.

It mar be theoretically very bright' to any one that way. but practically It ta against all the laws of common sense. I am rtaur to make tnia statement nmiij-uun hui.dretht of all men and women who go blryct aundav never have and never will show their faces icslde of a church, and I do no mors expect to see them lotioe my own 1 ooiiirf tnn't to tee the devil leading one of our week night prayer meetings and trying to sing a psalm tune; sod mere win oe ioi lor uv1 rl furthermore. I should never want to see Sunday bicyclists attendaia church. It there is sny one tetson wnicn me cLurch ought to teach, it Is tnat 01 cicaouncis; and one of the m.ghtieat all blessings is that on Sunday we can wsth ourselves and put cur host clothes and with our wives and ci lldren come to the boute of God.

My brother, my 1 ask. supposing today you were Invited to an audience to meet the Queen of England, aruid you dare to walk into ber presence In a par or anicaetoocaers or courtesy oeiui her ir. the awkwardness aad the scarcity of a bl-rvole skirf And what vou would not Oo before an earthly king, would you here and now dare to do before your heavenly smgT wh.n vouna- hor I waa a creat horseman There was- not sny kind of an animal that 1 v.aa afraid to ride, and the more my ricVng horses Hood upon their hind legs and with tbe tore feet tried to reach the start, toe oeiier naeu 11, hut. I beaard mv father year after year. sd4 year after year, for a horse, he would never give him to mc.

lor ne taia xf any every )ouui man In a larsre rltr whe baa a bcrse rsn drive down the boulevards snd learn to ttop at tho aaloona. to a bov nearly always rides to oe atruction." And he waa right; for many and many a young friend of my boyhood, who started out with a better chest ana a netter 111110 was bad I. on Account cf that Is today lying in a crunkard's grave: and by tbe same laws I will now make this prophecy: You show me a young man or young women who starte out wees oy week to break tbe Sabbath in bicycle riding. I rare not how long they may have to work during tbe secular daya. tbe time will net be tar distant when thev shall give up the Bible and the home snd the church and the Sundsy school and their belief In God and their hope in a hereafter.

All that I csn ray Is that any minister who Is ad vocating Sunday riding i either an arrant fool or else he it intentionally sending thousands upon thousands of his young people straight down lutt- an everlasting smash up. There is no half way between out and out Infidelity and tbe oid-fashloned religion of our ancestors which thun ders the fourth commandment all through the gospel, "Kemember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. Six days shall thus labor snd do all thy work, but tbe seventh day Is tbe Babbatb of the Lcrd thy God." Aad it is about time that tbe cnurcn ana the home and the civilised world at large ttop cringiug to this Infamy. Dssgert of Wheel wo men. But, lastly, I want to wstn you that, unleaa very careful, the whole tendency of the modern bicycle is to scatter abroad the Immodesty of women, now.

1 am not going to talk about the Indecencies of dress. Far from It- Any more than today I would preach a sermon to sn audience like this In reference to tbe outcasts of society. You are not rotten and you are not morally bad. and, furthermore, as you are ladles, you will not go forth In such costumes. which sre not so much demonstrating "woman's rights" ss a woman's everlasting ahame.

No woman haa a right to flaunt her degradation in th. fm -A nf mwt n. 1 1 A I. more, I do not believe that girls are naturally any netter man ooys. i tmnk when tied made both ot ua he mixed his clsy In the same dirty puddle.

But this I do believe, thst the reason why girls have in the past turned out to much better than boys la becaute they have been surrounded oy better Influences. They bave been chaperoned and guarded and kept, and mothers Knew or ought to bsve known when their daugh tera went to bed. But now. Instead or having the young girl a at home at twilight, where art they? Why, my friendt. you can walk this fltt at 1 and 10 and even at 11 o'clock and the streeta are crowded with bicyclists, while in olden times we would gather the young people together in a party and tbe whole bouse would be given up to fun snd laughter snd the aid iroiic.

Now. instead of being together, the young people go on into me woods alone, where do they go to? What do they do? Mothers snd fathers, remember this. Always auaoect a child who does not want to linger with the rest of the family. Ana tbe time to save your child Is not so much to rescue her after she has done trout. but by kindly advice and watchful eye teach her And so.

the reason why todav I brine amOi subject into the pulpit Is because 1 want yoa to miMiwB na iua v.urir an women and the only way you can become a Christian man or woman is by having a healthy coanel and ik. Ing after the little things. Oh, It la so easy to wiviis fltuu in ira io uo ngm. And Just as when you lost one of your loved ones, you could not cry until at last one night as you ssl alone you felt the sott srms of your wife about your neck as sbe said: "Husband, my dear husband, was not our darling Just ss dear to me as she wss to you. and why don't you trust God?" And as some of you are beginning to drift sway 1 come in today and aay: "Old fellow, be careful." I want you to have your fun.

Oh, yes. And a bicycle can become a creature of lire become a part of yourself. Why, I really believe I used to feel it thrill with excitement when on it I rode through Europe and risited Bannock-burn and Abbottsford and chased the old witches across the bridge of Boony Doon, as together we lingered in the sweet land of Scotland's pride and old "Bobby" Burns. And at night, tired after many, many weary miles of travel, that bicycle used to get so tired that the pedals wculd squesk and the spokes would lsg, and. exhausted, it would rub against me as we climbed together some steep hill like a worn-out horse; at times It would hardly be able to creep along any further on the But in the morning, like a young colt, it would leap down the hill sides and frisk over tbe ruts, and flash back the light of tbe aun.

and would seem to call: "Aba! Is not this sport?" And so, as I send yoa forth upon the Journey of life. I would like yoa to take this friend along. But remember, when you linger by the brook to quench the thirst, I would have yea quaff little of the water of life, for God can spesk to yoa in tbe silence of the mountains: and when you tinkle tbe bell of warning I would have yoa hear the echo of the old TlHage sexton calling you back to' the prayers of your boyhood, whispering: "Come, come, my child. Will yoa not come? Will yoa not come?" And when yoa see the flash of the wheel glistening in the sunlight, I would have you hear tbe rumbling of thst Innumerable multitude when the white chargers of victory have been harnessed to the chariots which are following their great Commander, even the Lord God ot Hosts, when on the day of Judgment there shall be wheels within wheels aad wheels within wheels. MRS.

F1RMAS LEADS THE MEKTIXG. Coagregatioaal Woaaest Addressed by Missloaarles. Mrs. Firman of Oak Park Second church led tho meeting of Congre-gattonal women at No. 69 Pearbora street Friday morning.

Her tople was the thought of thankfulness that In many way It is made pleasant for ns to geek tho thing that are above, and In doing this Is found the truest happiness. Dr. Usxber of Kansas City, under appointment to Kar-poot, Turkey, to assist Dr. Gates, said he felt it privilege that ho could go to this work. Not only lore for the Armenian, but the Turks, influenced him In this step.

Mrs. Hopkins, representing the Evangelical church of Italy, spoke of the stork carried on in that country. This eharch has celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary and is reaching many people in- that country, which is largely without faith of any kind. The schools are very successful, and all the workers are native converts. Dr.

Bartlett of Smyrna, Turkey, spoke of the kindergarten work begun by bis daughter. Before the massacres there were about twenty-seven kindergartens, in Turkey. GEN: BOOTH PREACHES Ha Addresses Immense Audi- enc98 in Princess Kink. MANY SOULS ARE SAVED Salvation Army Gives the Patriarch an Ovation. Kaharlatlaas sC the Cklef Del I re red with All Hla Old-Tlaae Fervsr aad Entkaslasat.

Standing on tbe platform at Princes rink yesterday noon, surrounded by 2.000 soldiers of the Salvation army oa knees praying silently, the red and blue of their uniforms lending color to the somber interior. General William Bo Ah pleafitd earnestly for sinners to come forward and "have their sin wat-hed away in the blood of tbe Lamb." His strong face, surmounted by a mass of rumpled gray hair, glowed enthusla'm. Tbe weight of rears fell from him. He was erect and alert as any youth. "If there Is anybody, anybody, anybody, anybody, anybody here who wants to start for glory today let him come forward," said he, throwing his bead' back and clasping his hands behind his back as he paced back and forth among the kneeling soldier on tbe platform.

"Ah, there is cne. Cosie forward, my dear fellow. The angels In heaven are beginning to sing already. Now everybody who ii glad this soul Is saved ciap their hands." -i A roughly dressed man walked down tbe main aisle and dropped sobbing on hit knees before the row of cnalrs la frcnt ot the platform and buried his face in hi hands, while the air was filled with clapping hands and hallelujahs. An officer ot the Salvation army knelt beaide and whlipe-red words of encouragement while General Booth wen: on to plead for more to come forward.

"Send your friend forward if you are saved yourtclf." he said. "I don't believe In people's religion who will let their families and friends go to hell without a ttruzgle bah." Others came forward. A line of skirmishers was thrown out Into the audlenoe, and before the meeting cloied twenty-nine bad sought the altar, while the band Inspiring music and the soldiers shouted and cheered and I'rlaeess Risk Is Crowded. This extraordinary scene occurred at the close of a half hour's address by the wonderful founder of the Salvstion army at the firit "salvation meeting" of his prcxent campaign In Chicago. Prince; a rink was crowded to the doors, and when General Booth appeared thr entire audience arose and greeted htm with cheers and waving of handkerchiefs.

Tbe general was accompanied by Colonel Lawlcy, bis personal aid, commander Booth-Tucker, Commissioner Niccl. Lieutenant Colonel French, and other (Beers. From the moment tbe General reached tbe platform the meeting was characterised by action. That Is one great secret ot bis success. There was not a moment's wait, not a pause.

A prayer was scarcely finished before a stirring song was under way. The last note of the song bad not died away before the General was speaking. His address waa simple, straightforward, effective, full of startling eplgrsms and fiery warning. at'My congregation is made up Of two classes," he said, while giving out a song. "One composed of those who beat the devil, and the other class who are beaten by tbe devil.

Which class do you belong to?" men, axter reading anotaer verse, ne saicn "When a man slna and Is sorry for it. that Is bad enough, but, when ho sins and. is not sorry for it. that Js -worse. But, thank God there is still salvation even for him.

Those who believe God Almighty can save a man from all his sins, say Amen," and a chorus of hearty amens arose from all over tbe ball "But you can't be saved unless you confess and ask for mercy," be went on. "But you ssy, 'I am a Well, the Lord send ladies to hell. Tea. and gentlemen, too. and your damnation will be deeper and darker because you will realise that you ought to bave known better." Gent from Pswerfsl Sersaon.

General Booth then announced his text as I. John and 9. Some ef bis most striking sayings were as follows: "There are lots of things In the Bible that bave not to do directly with our present lives. Lots of people go to heaven who know nothing about Adam and Noah and Moses and joo. But tne epistles ot John bave to do with our present lives.

They let us know what is. What is sin? A great many people are very uncertain ss to what sin is. They ssy drunkenness is sin. so is murder, theft, arson, adultery. These are simply manifestation of sin.

Sin is the trangres-sion ot the divine law. I'll give you th simplest definition. All unrighteousness is sin. Whenever a man in bis relations with God or man does that which he knows to be wrong, that ia sin. and It goes down in tbe book to be accounted for.

Everybody is a inner. All have stneed. but sinners are divided into two classes. One half have gone to God and had their sin taken away. The other half bave their sins resting on their souls and are carrying them to the last great Judgment.

If any man should start up In this ball and say be bad never sinned the audience would burst into contemptuous lauehter. a "Think of the lies you have told, of the deceit you have practiced, of all the wrong, devilish, dark deeds of your lite. What are you going to do about it? You've got poison In you; get It out. Unless you have confessed and been forgiven your sins are alive and wilt go trooping after you. They will catch you and prey upon your vitals forever.

We are creature of habit. You are the slave of your sins. You ask, 'What am I to do about it. what am I to do about it. what am.

I to do about itr Here Is the answer. Confess your sins and be will blct them out. He will take you away from your nasty, dirty, un righteous disposition. "You are now a photograph of the demon. You can become a photograph of God.

Who tho Chief ilaaert Art. "I was trying to figure out the other dav who are the chief sinners. I divided them all Into three classes. The second class it wort than the first, and the third the worst of all. Some are all three at once.

The first class are those who taught others to sin, who led other into evil, and follow them dowa until they all go to hell together. Think of the way people go together in crowds. Crowda of young men, crowds of young women, crowds of old men and women. clubs, clubs, clubs, clubs, all different except in one thing, that they ars breaking the commandments ana going to hell to gether. "Tbe second class are the children of th kingdom, sons and daughters of pious fathers and mothers, cradled in religion, who know the will of Gcd and don't do It.

"Tbe third class are worse than all. and their damnation will be the most painful. These are the wanderers, tbe renegades, the traitors, who bave sold their birthright for a mess of pottage, for money, for worldly fellowship, for tho applause of tbe wicked and thoughtless. Poor, poor, poor backsliders. But, thank God, for even these there is salvation.

Jehovah is mighty. God Almighty Is strong and clever and loving. Have yflu tbe alns of ten years on your soul He can wipe them away. Have you tho alns of twenty years, of thirty years, of forty years, of fifty years, on your soul? God can wipe them off. Just think of it.

You are Just going to drop into bell, perhaps, but can pop into heaven. But you must come out -In the eyes of all the world first, confess your sins, and promise to live a rlgnteous life. God Invites I yoa to com forward and be saved. I am God' servant, and ask you to come forward and bo saved." Then followed tho scene above described. After the General bad started the.

-work Colonel Lawlcy moantcd chair and directed the campaign. Tbe band played and the audience sung until a convert started for the altar, when Colonel LaWley would blow a whistle, whoa all would stop aad th colonel would an Bounce that another soul was saved. Then they would begin again. When Colonel became exhausted Commander Booth Tucker took charge. af eotlBsr aC tho After Another great meeting was held In the afternoon, hundreds of people failing to gain admittance.

General Booth, apparently as fresh as though ho bad not gone through th fatigue ot a morning meeting, took for his text th story of tho deception and death of Ananias and Sapphira. as told in Acta 1-2. Tho sermon waa aimed especially at that class of Christiana known as backsliders, those professor of religion" who failed to sustain their profession in practice. The offense of Ananlaa and Sapphira, said the general, was attempting to deceive the Almighty. Tho keeping of faith with tho Almighty is the supreme obligation.

General Booth related bow men gav their word to each other. One says. "I give you my word. and insists that it be taken as sacredly as bis bond. How much more sacred should be our promises to GoL Scarcely a man exists who has not at come time, in a moment of supreme trial, pledged his word to th Almighty.

If as man to man we keep our word, how much more should we keep our promise as man to The general appealed to those who had not dealt honestly with God to com forward. Tbe first to come was a woman, who was warmly greeted by the general. Thirteen In all went forward during th afternoon. During bis exhortation General Both bade those who were moved to go to tho altar, not to mind the reporters, saying that be had known even reporters to be touched by the service and go forward to the altar. No Chicago reporter took the bint, however, during the afternoon service.

Gives (he People Wsrslag. General Booth devoted last night's meeting to warning the people against fire and brimstone In the hereafter. He started out with a vigorous protcit against the waving fans of the women. "If you want to hear me talk, please give up fanning." he aaid, with a deprecatory gesture. "It won't help you, and it annoys me.

Give it up. And they did. He took his text from Jeremiah, 5. and asked the auditors what sort of anticipation they had of the prospects when they came to the river Jordan. "Dying is a serious business," said be.

"When you arrive at the brink cf the stream you must bid good-by to all friends and plunge into xthe dark waters alone. God grant that Jesus Christ will with you and help you In that extremity. When you get on the other side there'll be no mistake. The angels will claim you or the devils will claim ycu to carry you off to heaven or to carry you off to hell. Which this will be depends largely upon what you are tonight.

I don't care what church ycu belong to. or whether you belong to the Salvation army. Will you go down to Jordan as you are tonight?" After Graersl Booth's sermon he exhorted all to come forward, and with Colcnel Law-ley's urging and th influence ot the music and prsyers. aided by the active work of the skirmish line of Salvationists, twenty-one person went forwsrd to tbe altar, confessed tceir sins, and claimed salvation. Among those present at the afternoon meeting was Luther-La3in Mills, the eminent attorney and crater.

rrograaime for Today. Today's services Include two meetings at Central Music ball, at and 1p.m. Tuesday there will be counsels from field and staff officers at Wlllard ball at 1 a. m. and 3 p.

and at 8 p. m. there will be a Swedish demonstration at Turner ball, corner of Clark street and Chicago avenue. Wednesday there will an officers' concert at Wlllard ball at 7 p. m.

The campaign will culminate with a mammoth meeting Thursday evening at the Auditorium. Luther Laflin Mills will preside. General Booth will speak on the subject. "The Spiritual and Social Work of tbe Salva tlon Army." PREACHES HIS FAREWELL IEBMO.V. Dr.

Briatol Leave First Methodist Church of Kvttilot. Rev. Dr. Frank M. Bristol preached his farewell sermon st tM First Methodist church of Evanston yesterday mora Ing --prior to bis departure for Washington, where, next Sunday, be will become the pastor of President McKJnley at Metropolitan Methodist church.

As Dr. Bristol said "gcod-by" to his parishioner and to the West, where for fifteen years be has been tbe foremost preacher la Methodism, he waa visibly affected. His voice trembled, and there waa a glistening of tear drops as he told of his debt to Evansion snd ber university, and to tbe men and somen of the town who for a quarter of a century have been bis friends. The 1,800 people who filled every -pew and chair in the big church and crowded out Into the vestibule and up into tbe choir loft were moved, too. and scores of men and women wept before the diacoursd was finished.

DECLINES CALL -TO CHICAGO. Dr. MarKsr Decides to Resnalm la Hla Preteat Pastorate. Special Despatch to Tbe Inter Ocean. NEWARK.

N. March 27. Rev. Dr. Donald Sage MacKay today announced to tho congregation of the North Reformed church ef this city that he would not resign Its pastorship to accept a call to the -pulpit cf the Fourth Presbyterian church of Chicago.

The church, was crowded, a Dr. Mac-Kay's decision was awaltedwwith great interest. As be finished the reading of his typewritten statement the big audience indulged in vigorous hand-clapping. Dr. MacKay Intimated that It bad been hard for him to refuse tbe offer from Chicago, but he believed it his duty to stay here and continue a work that had been eminently successful.

Dr. Dwtght L. Moody, he raid, and other prominent men had written or telegraphed urging him to accept the Chicago offer. Dr. MacKay had been assured that the field cpened to him In Chicago presented, perhaps, tbe greatest opportunity of any in the West.

To The Inter Ocean correspondent Dr. MacKay said tonight: "Tbe Chicago church offered me a salary of a year, and agreed to psy the expenses of a six months' trip to Europe before I lock charge. Other of many Inducements were a fine parsonage, wnd the promise to build a new church. My decision ta final. You may Judge of the urgency ot the call by the fact that I received from Chicago twenty-seven telegrams In cne day." Dr.

MacKay said that tho rcssons which caused him to decline tho Chicago oCer also would make it Impossible for him to accept the pastorate cf tbe First Presbyterian church cf Baltimore or the assistant pastorate of tbe Fifth Avenue Presbyterian church ot New York, both of which were offered bim recently. Dr. MacKay ssys prefers to remsin In the East. He Is very popular here, and Is sn eloquent prescher and acholar. "Ian Mac- laren" Is one of his Intimate friends.

PIES BY FALLING DOWN STAIRS. Professor Michael Seller Meet with a Fatal Accident. Special Dispatch to Tbe Inter Ocean. TERRE HAUTE. Marco27.

Professor Michael Seller, for many years a member cf the faculty of tho Indiana State Normal school here, but lately connected with a New York life Insurance company, fell down stairs at bit residence at midnight last night and died in an hour. He was standing on a chair, turning out the gas, when he fell. Carrylag Ike Baby. The P.ttsburg Times In sa article en "Carry ing th Baby" makes an effort to shame the men into the performance of that task. The trouble Is, there are not many wives who dart trust their husband with tbe babies, Tbe awkward male creature might drop "or mislay them.

Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. Iaeeaapatlblea. "Well." said th observant boarder, "I se that Sola has been convicted and sentenced to a year's imprisonment. "That is what a writer of action gets tor deal ing with facta." replied tbe man oa tbe oppo site side ef th table. Pittsburg Do not neglect to take a good spring medlc'ne.

Little ailments soon break dew the system. America' Greatest Medicine. Hood's Barsapa-rUla, la the best spring medicine. MRS.T. B.BR YAH DEAD Wife of Prominent "World's Fair Official Passe3 WOMAN OF MAN ERIENDS She Was Connsc'el with Prominent Southern Families.

Traveled with Her Hsibtsd Wbea Ho Visited Europe 1st the later- est of the Exposition. Mrs. Jennie Byrd Brysn, th wife of Tbomss B. Bryan and tho mother of Charles Page Bryan, died between th hours of and 10 o'clock, Baturday night, at the family heme known as "Byrd's Nest," on Cottags Hill avenue, in Elmhurst. death resulted from paralysis that affected the brain and tbe vocal organs, and that finally reached the heart.

An attack ot tbe grip bad preceded the paralysis, which developed only last Thursday, when the patient became speechless. The attack of grip was contracted some two weeks ago. while Mrs. Bryan was paying sympathetic atten-tioas at the bedside cf a friend who was suffering from tbe same disease The remains are to be taken-from Elmburst to Washington, D. tor Interment in tho Bryan family burying gtound at Oak Hill cemetery.

Funertl services are to be held tomorrow at noon in the little chapel known as "Byrd's Nest cbapel." built by Mr. Bryan on tbe grounds, near his house. Rev. C. H.

Anderson, rector of the psrlth. is to read the burial service. The pallbearers bave not yet been selected. Kewa Cabled to Charles Pasve Brraa, Charles Page Bryan, the con. It- cow on his way to Brsill.

to which country he recently received an appointment as United Ststes Minister. He left Chicago Msrch 1 snd probably la still on tbe high seas. Ha will have to receive the sad message cf his mother's death aa tbe first Intelligence from home on landing in a foreign country. A cablegram a si sent to him by -his father. Mrs.

Bryan was widely known tolh In Europe and Anrtrica for her many adrnlrabla traits-cf character. Her Eurcpcan acquaintance was acquired to a large extent during the administration of her hustand as president of the foreign commission cf the World's Columbian exposition, which took them to the European capitals and all cf the other principal cities. Ihe acquaintance was extended cn their return home, when Mr. Bryan was ar pointed to the vice presidency of the board ef directors of the exposition. Csaatrltd with Maay oted Fanalllea.

In the United States Mrs. Bryan was well known for ber family ties. Sbe was bcrn near Richmond. sixty-nine years ago, and was christened Jennie Byrd Page. Her lather was an Episcopal and a chaplain in tbe army.

She was related by marriage to the Tages and Lees cf Virginia, and was a fcuest cf General Robert E. Lee a Arlington. Jun before the war cf the rebellion broke out. She was atnitcd In marriage with Thomas B. Bryan forty-eight years sgo.

at Newport, Ky. Mr. Bryan was then practicing law In -Cincinnati. Ohio. In the jcar 182 they re moved to Chicago, where Mr.

Bryan began to practice his profession, and in they settled In Elmburst. From time to time Mr. and Mr. Bryan bad lived away from Chicago, but they always retained the family home. "Byrd's Nest." In 1877 they lived in Wathlntcn.

D. C. where Mr. Bryan bad accepted the rommisslonershtp as governing oCcer of the diftrlot. Ttey alio lived for some year in Colorado, and spent much time In European travel.

Mrs. Bryan waa a woman cf very simple tastes and was much devoted to her borne and to tbe little cbapel on the place. Many famous people have been entertained at tbe unpretentious, though substantial, house in Elmburst. The chapel, which Is the second cne built there by the Bryan, has witnessed the weddings of several noted people, among among them that of Tboniaa Nelson Page, who is a cousin of Mrs. Bryan.

Both her husband and ber daughter. Mlrs Jennie Byrd Bryan, were attending her during her sickness, and are to accompany the remains to Washington for the burial. Fcaeral of Geo rare E. Holmes. Caskets containing the remains of George Ellsworth Holmer, the noted singer, and of hit lltUe daughter.

Phyilia, reached Chicago yesterday from Hcosark Fails, N-- en route to Austin. Jsl.cn. Sir. Holmes died Thurrday afternoon. It was announced that the remains would lay in state fcr a short I'm at the home ef Dr.

Bayard Holme at No. 104 Fortieth street, but yc-sceiday tbe arrangements were changed and the bodies were removed without delay from the Illinois Central depot to tbe Union station. Th widow ef tbe deceased, however, rpent several hours at Dr. Holmes' residence, where msnv triends called to extend their sympathy. Mrs.

Holmes KM the city in company with Dr. Holmes last evening at o'clock tor Austin, where the Interment will take place today. Mr. Holmes waa Sa years old. He leave a widow and one daughter.

Another daughter died at Hoosark Falls a short time preceding the death of ber father. Fastral of WHIIasa A. Mtrvla. Funeral services for the late William whose body waa found Saturday In th? Aycr building, were held yesterday at No. 1268 West Polk street.

The officiating clergyman wss Rev. James Frothinghsm of the Dcuglaa Park Presbyterian church, of which air. Martin was treasurer. The cboir of tbe church side In tbe services, and the remains were bcrne from tbe heats by tbe following pallbearers: B. B.

Mkdd-rn, S. S. Glendenning. C. Houser.

H. 11c-Gill. H. Colvin. and J.

T. Eutor. The eerrices were privste. but aext Sunday there will be public memorial set vices at tbe church. Tbe interment was at Forest Home cemtrry.

Fssersl of Geomt Detttnsver. The funeral of George Dettlngcr, whose bet waa found the river Friday morning, took placa yesterday aftrrcoon from tbe family residence. So. 90 Leiand avenue. Services were held at SC Pblilip'a German Lutheran church, Ijiwrence and Lincoln aver uee.

Rev. Willis in Gautk officiating. The pail bearers were Policemen Gut Johanna. Thomas HcMabon, Nicholas Meisch. Viclcr Johnson.

Will.am Steward, and Edmund Burke. The interment waa in Rose Hill cemetery. Ex-Police man Dettingrr waa a member of the Policemen' Benevolent association. Caotala Jabs Gray. Special Dispatch The Inter Ocean.

COLDWATER, March Captain John Gray, aged 75 year, died very suddenly at bis home in Bala via tcwnsblp this morning. He waa a well-known and wealthy farmer. PEORIA GETS TWO NEW PAPERS. Fans Xewa anal Woaaaklad Coatrht by Carvers. Special Dispatch to Tbe Inter Ocean.

SPRINGFIELD. Ohio. March 27. Announcement -la mad ot the purchase by J. N.

Carver of Peoria, and A. R. Garver of Tippecanoe City. Ohio, from th Hotter- man Publishing company cf this city cf two large publications. Farm News anl Womankind, each ef which claims 100.000 circulation.

Th Garvers bave also purchased A. D. Hottennan's stock in tbe Transcript of Peoria, ot which J. N. Garver was general manager- for several years.

The pur chase alto includes special prcases and fold ing machines. The two publications will bo removed at once to frcm which they will hereafter be Issued. W. E. COB LEY COMMITS SUICIDE.

Railroad Ensrlneer Kills Himself la a Stor la Blae Islaatl. William E. Cobley, aa engineer on th Rock Island road, committed euldde yesterday by shooting himself In bis wife's notion store in Blue A fire waa discovered in the store, and when the ifiembers of the fire de partment broke la- the door they discovered Cobley' body. It ts thought that Cobley had set fir to th store in order to eoneeeJ tho causa ot bis death. Th man and his wit bad been estranged for some time.

Mrs. Cobley lived on th profits of th notion store. WARNING COLORS IN ANIMALS. Professor W. Dadley Wise as! a Le tares at tho Field Ma sea at.

In th nearly pitch dark' lecture ball of th Field Columbian museum Saturday afternoon Profersor W. H. Dudley of th Wisconsin Stat Normal thool spoko for mora than aa hour on "Warning Color and Mimicry In Animals." Eight hundred women aad men beard him through with much profit. Ia this peculiar part of the naturalist' wide doaaln Dr. Dudley is at homo.

Th good thing that be said wer re-enforced by a aerie ot beautiful and-brilliantly colored stereopticoo pictures, illustrating tho text of bis discourse. Tbe acoustics of ttls ba4 is, perhaps, the worst in the world, and th folk in the rear scat could bear little of what was said, but they eouid all look at tb and these were worth going miles to SCO. Before the lecturer appeared cne of lb officers ot the museum stepped to tho froa: or the stage and said: "Evidently many of tie ladles present have forgotten that they still bave on Ihtir I desire to call their attention to the fact that one enormous hat, made of feathers, cloth, dead birde and what not Is competent to obstruct the view of fifty or sixty This is rot right. I sat cure that no true lady would with to appear co selfish and ucjutt." There was a rustle and hundreds of tb bats came off. Wben ail was still, however, actual count forty-eight women wo -were unmoved by tbe officer's words, acd ttill were their mattes of nodilng plum snd millinery.

DXATH I V'NERAL TRAIN Grsceiand snTcaaryFh ners; train of the Chicago. Milwaukee and 6t. Pani railway vs (Vadicca and Canal aueeu) dai.y at m. HAIXr-Msrrb IT. Oar's:" Jomrt It.

nrv TJ refers. Kuneral at the I hurrh of tbe As-rermino. atonday. aXarrb it tl 11 1. a.

FrieaOf Invited. PLATTO Funday morning-. Xfarrh IT. atthere-t-denee ot him aunt. Mrs.

Ida V. Beebe, Ilarv Vauchan Piatt- only son of Georr.s V. ind the late James II. Plattn, In the nineteenth yesr of his age. Funeral.

Tuesday, at o'vioca. Friends" are Invited. SIMON afarrh 27. st No. T2IJ Calumet avenue.

U. Fimon. Funeral nntiee hereafter. COMISllOUi VAUDEVILLE. VESTA TiLLSY, Tr London IdoV Iw Uoekstader.

The K-vr Cohans, Lsnctt Valmore. Musical Jchnstonsy Keno Richards. Ford Irsncis, -rof. 1 nsrno. H.

Kurta. Kfatlne A eJordwln. Owen a Kuchn, I'd minis a Raigat. Arline Va(l. slack's box Cojncxljaca.

t-ltlCES ia ao SO CHjiti. coMrxxiroo. vaiumillk. Tbe Fumy Katie Rrooey. Joe Welch.

t'ukbman Holccacb Uert Cote A Jclle Knoy. Alice Cilmcre, AUt Kurkkmi. The Fiit-tra. Mr. A Mr.

SlTin. Ada I Mar. KuC rrtnon A Monti. lrince Haaehira. Tom Heron, atons.

tiene. 1 be Hollands. t'iticxs ia. t). rerlernaaee i very liar- to Charles 1 KarH Gardner and Ills own com pas v.

Adelnuta A Lwe. Ida Clsrua. i bis. Kteia Oilie fc-vaua. Maud Mclniyre.

I W'crd Hroa, has. W. Vosuft. Andreet Anlmsis, Frye A Alien. Moats.

Pascaiel. Hunt, sad ethers, t'ontlanoa V- nrf-vilie Prices A. lO. IS. S3 GRANDE Thursdiy.

31st, 2 P. A. W. P.orro's Powerful Drama. THIPROFLIGATE Fy But Coawij's Chicago Sotod of Ac'Ja tickets it Box 03ieJ0f tbe Toeater.

GRAND SS ra; XIGHT AJtD ALL WKKg. HOYT'S Mathews and Be-lgerT" A IT. ILK WSi.T FLAG Ckttrfi The Sew A. FRENCH QUEEN. $mif rt Cs aw sEflsBI(iiieEis, ANSAUKLLK and Six Xew Acts.

artatSer' fesnr- 0 oeoosiTc atcso. a coolest in FAY FOSTcR'S BUJLESQUZRS AAil ID VAUVEVU.LS AC M'VICKER'S TYIEATER. TONIGHT AT THO W. Todr rSouveuir nirM and Sat. t.irut.

11 CH A 11L: Wd. Mat- LOCIS I tra rrl HA LET: Saturuav HKRCH NT of VKSUCi. Seats Kow i Sle." KEENEu RICHECIEU FM ill PESF02MANCES SSH. Er.sajremert besr.na rext Fun-lay night with "THE lioa'd HOL'SiO." by lhsea. Hflfll EVS Pf ENS I Seta Ma Mi ass llUWakl A.

4th MR. JOHN i. K-rt will tr HOiU forOt lkitrt A ATttti ejw oroiTiiMfcf 2J Wees. O.Vst SUit li't ri 1A. ly 1 EDVVAO TH MAINE ail Til VIZ 'ill Til nintit Li iB-i-ii as an Rs "PUB1 r01 1 1 GH A Hoor aa ejrbora CHARLES FKOHUA NEVER AGAIN! ac Wed.

aad aC I I a the Only Fasts in Town" SCHILLER' CLEVER M03KJ. THE AS fJREAT A SUCCESS AS EVER. GEISHA Sunday Matinee "OU it FUAT." SA V. T. JACK'S.

If 1 'Ison. nesr Stnts. lei. II -it a. 11 Jl ouly tt.i-toque Shtw in Olilcarj.

I Creal Pcrlsrsuates Ever Day, ail 1 Srrra. fliff Clow O. SlliOL a Stnr front .1 Pr.s. a 1 a ray of M-rry Pric-ld. ifl.

3 THE LlNCOLi-ptaTof Don -RT a lA SECKET I H.avealr AN ELL ia I a 4 AN SEE aim rad'y Bararaia Matinees Thura. and Sat. rents. Next tfuu. iianuce 1 liii PKOU1UAL.

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(ircalest Wsr Play. HELD' BY THa ENEMY- Evrninss lie, Uc No Matinees SJj Hither. All Set Jiererved. April 4 Auc-ustia Duty's "Lottery ot a a st ot 'i JJ2- YOKK ttrAKH." IMwi'tlru! Views of the iim ne" Next Wees; John snd interna luty iu "A Hot o.d T.s HALREID" HUMAh Neat Week UROTlltn iOH BROTH E1U GgSfoGIE SssaTaWSj I.