CHRISTIAN CITIZENS. REV. DR. TALMAGE ATTACKS THE EVIL OF PARTISANSHIP. Distortions of the Truth--Nothing but Christianity Can Remedy the Flood of Indecency--Ballot Box Perils--A Scathing Sermon by the Tabernacle Pastor.

BROOKLYN, Nov. 5.--In his sermon this forenoon Rev. Dr. Talmage touched on a topic which is just now uppermost, while the agitation in political circles is raging in all parts of the land. The ser-

mon is pertinent and useful and is based on the text, Acts xix, 32: "Some there-

fore cried one thing, and some another, for the assembly was confused, and the more part knew not wherefore they were come together. And they drew Alexander out of the multitude, the Jews putting him forward. And Alexander beckoned with the hand, and would have made his defense unto the people. But when they knew that he was a Jew, all with one voice about the space of two hours cried out, Great is Diana of the Ephesians."

Ephesus was upside down. It was about the silver question. A manufac-

turer of silver boxes for holding heathen images had called his laborers together to discuss the behavior of one Paul, who had been in public places assaulting image worship, and consequently very much damaging that particular business. There was great excitement in the city. People stood in knots along the streets, violently gesticulating and calling each other hard names. Some of the people favored the policy of the silversmith; other people favored the policy of Paul. There were great moral questions involved, but these did not bother them at all.

The only question about which they seemed to be interested was concerning the wages and the salaried positions. The silversmith and his compeers had put up factories at great expense for the making of these silver boxes, and now,

if this new policy is to be inaugurated, the business will go down, the laborers will be thrown out of employment and the whole city will suffer. Well, what

is to be done? "Call a convention," says some one, for in all ages a convention has been a panacea for public evils. The convention is called, and as they want the largest room in the city they take the theater.

Having there assembled, they all want to get the floor, and they all want to talk at once. You know what excitement that always makes in a convention,

where a great many people want to talk at once. Some cried one thing, some cried another. Some wanted to denounce, some wanted to resolve. After awhile a prominent man gets the floor, and he begins to speak, but they very soon hiss him down, and then the confusion rises into worse uproar, and they begin to shout, all of them together, and they keep on until they are red in the face and hoarse in the throat, for two long hours crying out: "Great is Diana of the Ephesians! Great is Diana of the Ephe-

sians!"

The whole scene reminds me of the excitement we have almost every autumn at the elections. While that goddess Diana has lost her worshipers and her temples have gone into the dust, our American people want to set up a god in place of her, and they want us all to bow down before it, and that god is political party. Considering our superior civilization, I have to declare to you that the Ephesian idolatry was less offensive in the sight of God than is this all absorbing American partisanship. While there are honest men, true men, Christian men, who stand in both po-

litical parties, and who come into the autumnal elections resolving to serve their city or their state or the nation in the best possible way, I have noticed also that with many it is a mere contest between the ins and the outs--those who are trying to stay in and keep the outs out, and those who are trying to get in and thrust the ins out. And one party cries, "Great is Diana of the Ephesians!" and the other party cries, "Great is Di-

ana of the Ephesians!" neither of them honest enough to say, "Great is my pocketbook!"

PUBLIC AFFAIRS DISCUSSED.

Once or twice a year it is my custom to talk to the people about public affairs from what I call a Christian standpoint, and this morning I have chosen for that duty. I hope to say a practical word. History tells us of a sermon once preached amid the highlands of Scot-land--a sermon two hours long--on the sin of luxury, where there were not more than three pairs of shoes in the audience, and during our last war a good man went into a hospital distributing tracts and gave a tract on "The Sin of Dancing" to a an both of whose legs had been amputated! But I hope this morning to present an appropriate and adapted word, as next Tuesday at the ballot box great affairs are to be settled. The Rev. Dr. Emmons in the early history of our country in Massachusetts preached about the election of Thomas Jefferson to the presidency. The Rev. Dr. Mayhew of Boston in the early days of our republic preached about the repeal of the stamp act. There are times when ministers of Christ must look off upon public affairs and discuss them. We need go back to no example. Every man is, before God, responsible for his own duty. If the Norwegian boasts of his home of rocks, and the Siberian is pleased with his land of perpetual snow; if the Roman thought that the muddy Tiber was the favored river in the sight of heaven, and if the Laplander shivers out his eulogy of his native clime, and if the Chinese have pity for anybody born outside of the "Flowery Kingdom," shall

not we, born under these fair skies and standing day by day amid these glorious civil and religious liberties, be public spirited? I propose to tell the people very plainly what I consider to be their Christian duty at the ballot box. First, set yourself against all political falsehood. The most monstrous lies ever told in this country are during the elections. I stop at the door of a Democratic meeting and listen and hear that

the Republicans are liars. I stop at the door of a Republican meeting and listen and hear that the Democrats are scoun-

drels. Our public men microscopized, and the truth distorted. Who believes a tenth part of what he reads or hears in the autumnal elections? Men who at other seasons of the year are very careful in their speech become peddlers of scandal. In the far east there is a place where once a year they let the people do as they please and say what they please, and the place is full of uproar, misrule and wickedness, and they call it the "devil's day." The nearest approximation to that in this country has been the first Tuesday in November. The community at such times seems to say, "Go to, now; let us have a good time at lying." Prominent candidates for office are denounced as unprincipled and renegade. A smart lie will start in the corner of a country newspaper and keep on running until it has captured the printing presses of the whole continent. What garbling of speeches! What misinterpretation of motives! What misrepresentation of individual antecedents! The trouble is that we have in this country two great manufactories--man-ufactories of lies--the Republican man-

ufactory of lies and the Democratic manufactory of lies--and they are run day and night, and they turn out half a dozen a day, all equipped and ready for full sailing. Large lies and small lies.

Lies private and lies public and lies prurient. Lies cut bias and lies cut diagonal. Long limbed lies and lies with double back action. Lies com-

plimentary and lies defamatory. Lies that some people believe, and lies that ll the people believe, and lies that nobody believes. Lies with

humps like camels and scales like crocodiles and necks as long as storks' and feet as swift as an antelope's and stings like adders. Lies raw and scal-

loped and panned and stewed. Crawl-

ing lies and jumping lies and soaring lies. Lies with attachment screws and rufflers and braiders and ready wound

bobbins. Lies by Christian people who never lie except during elections, and lies by people who always lie, but beat themselves in a political campaign.

I confess I am ashamed to have a for-

eigner visit this country in these times. I should think he would stand dazed, and dare not go out nights? What will the hundreds of thousands of foreigners who come here to live think of us? What a disgust they must have for the land of their adoption! The only good thing about it is that many of them cannot un-

derstand the English language. But I suppose the German and Italian and Swedish and French papers translate it all and peddle out the infernal stuff to their subscribers.

BALLOT BOX DISSIPATION. Nothing but Christianity will ever stop such a flood of indecency. The Christian religion will speak after awhile.

The billingsgate and low scandal through which we wade almost every autumn must be rebuked by that religion which speaks from its two great mountains, from the one mountain intoning the command, "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor," and from the

other mount making plea for kindness and love and blessing rather than cursing.

O Christian men, frown upon political falsehood! Remember that a political lie is as black as any other kind of a lie. God has recorded all the falsehoods that have been told at the city, state or national elections since the foundation of this government, and, though the per-

petrators and their victims may have gone into the dust, in the last day judg-

ment will be awarded. The falsehoods that Aaron Burr breathed into the ear of Blennerhassett, the slanders that Lieutenant General Gage proclaimed about George Washington, the misrepresentations in regard to James Monroe, are as fresh on God's book today as the lies that were printed last week about our local candidates. "And all liars shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the second death." Again, I counsel you as Christian men to set yourselves against the misuse of money in political campaigns. Of the thousands of dollars already spent this

autumn, how much of the amount do you suppose has been properly used? You have a right to spend money for the publishing of political tracts, for the es-

tablishment of organizations for the carrying out of what you consider to be the best; you have a right to appeal to the reason of men by argument and statistics and by facts. Printing and renting of public halls and political meetings cost money, but he who puts a bribe into the hand of a voter, or plies weak men with mercenary and corrupt motives, commits a sin against God and the nation.

Bribery is one of the most appalling sins of this country. God says, "Fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery." Have nothing to do with such a sin, O Christian man! Fling it from the ballot box. Hand over to the police the

man who attempts to tamper with your vote, and remember that elections that cannot be carried without bribes ought never to be carried at all. Again I ask you as Christian men to set yourselves against the dissipations that hover over the ballot box. Let me say that no man can afford to go into political life who is not a teetotaler. Hot political discussion somehow creates an unnatural thirst, and hundreds of thousands of

men have gone down into drunkenness through political life.

After an exciting canvass through the evening you must "take something," and rising in the morning with less ani-

mation than usual you must "take something," and going off among your comrades through the forenoon you meet political friends and you must "take

something," and in the afternoon you meet other political friends and you must "take something," and before night has come something has taken you. There are but few cases where men have been able to stand up against the dissipations of political life. Joseph was a politician, but he maintained his integrity. Daniel was a politician, but he was a teetotaler to the last. Abraham was a politician, but he was always characterized as the father of the faithful. Moses was a politician, the grandest of them, but he hon-

ored God more than he did the pharaohs.

And there are hundreds of Christian men now in the political parties, maintaining their integrity, even when they are obliged to stand amid the blasted, lecherous and loathsome crew that sometimes surround the ballotbox; these Christian men doing their political duty, and then coming back to the prayer meetings and Christian circles as pure as when they went out. But that is not the ordinary circumstance, that is the exception. How often you see men coming back from the political conflict, and their eye is glazed, and their cheek has an unnatural flush, and they talk louder than they usually do, and at the least provocation they will bet, and you say they are convivial, or they are exceedingly vivacious, or you apply some other sweet name to them; but God knows they are drunk! Some of you a month or six weeks ago had no more religion than

you ought to have, and after the elections are over, to calculate how much religion you have left will be a sum in vulgar fractions. Oh, the pressure is tremendous!

POLITICAL ABOMINATIONS.

How many mighty intellects have gone down under the dissipation of politics! I think of one who came from the west.

He was able to stand out against the whole American senate. God had given him faculties enough to govern a kingdom or to frame a constitution. His voice was terrible to his country's enemies and a mighty inspiration in the day

of national peril. But 20 glasses of strong drink a day were his usual allowance, and he went down into the habits of a confirmed inebriate.

Alas for him! Though a costly monument has been reared over his resting place, the young men of this country shall not be denied the awful lesson that the agency by which the world was robbed of one of its mightiest intellects, and our country of one of its ablest con-

stitutional defenders, was the dissipa-

tion of political life. You want to know whom I mean? Young man, ask your father when you get home. The adverse tide is fearful, and I warn you against it! You need not go far off to find the wornout politician. Here he is stumbling along the highway, his limbs hardly able to hold him up. Bent over and pale with exhausting sickness. Surly to anybody who accosts him. His last decent article of apparel pawned for strong drink. Glad if, when going by a grocery, some low acquaintance invites him in to take a sip of ale, and then wiping his lip with his greasy sleeve. Kicked off the steps by men who once were proud to be his constituents. Manhood obliterated. Lip blistered with a curse.

Scars of brutal assault on cheek and brow. Foul mouthed. A crouching, staggering, wheezing wretch. No friends. No God. No hope. No heaven.

That is your wornout politician. That is what some of you will become unless by this morning's warning, and the mercy of God, your steps are arrested. Oh, there are no words enough potent, enough portentous, enough consuming, enough damning to describe the horrible drunkenness that has rolled over this land, and that has bent down the necks of some of the mightiest intellects, until they have been compelled to drink out of the trough of bestiality and abomination! I warn young men against political life unless they are teetotalers and consecrated Christian men. Again, I counsel you that, when you go to the ballot box at the city, or the state, or the national elections, you rec-

ognize God and appeal to him for his blessing. There is a power higher than the ballot box, than the gubernatorial

chair, than the presidential White House. It is high time that we put less confidence in political platforms and more confidence in God. See what a weak thing is human foresight! How little our wise men seem to know! See how, every autumn, thousands of men who are clambering up for higher positions are turned under. God upsets them. Every man, every party, every nation, has a mission to perform. Failing to perform it, down he goes.

THE CAUSE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS.

God said to the house of Bourbon, "Remodel France and establish equity." House of Bourbon would not do it.

Down it went. God said to the house of Stuart, "Make the English people free, God fearing and happy." House of Stuart would not do it. Down it

went. God says to the political parties in this day, "By the principles of Chris-

tianity remodel, govern, educate, save the people." Failing to do that, down they go, burying in their ruins their disciples and advocates. God can spare all the

political intriguers of this day, and can raise up another generation who shall do justice and love mercy.

If God could spare Luther before the reformation was done, and if he could spare Washington before free govern-

ment had been fully tested, and if he could spare Howard before more than one out of a thousand dungeons had been alle-

viated, and if he could spare Robert McCheyne just as Scotland was gathering to his burning utterances, and if he could

spare Thomas Clarkson while yet mil-

lions of his fellow men had chains rusting to the bone then he can spare any man, and he can spare any party. That man who, through cowardice or blind idolatry of party, forsakes the cause of righteousness, goes down, and the armed battalions of God march over him. O Christian men, take out your Bible this afternoon, and in the light of that word make up your mind as to what is your duty as citizens. Remember that the highest kind of a patriot is a Christian patriot. Consecrate yourselves first to God, then you will know how to consecrate yourselves to your country. All these political excitements

will be gone. Ballot boxes and gubernatorial chairs and continents will

smoke in the final conflagration, but those who love God do their best shall come to lustrous dominion after the stars have heaved its last billow, and the closing thunder of the judgment day shall toll at the funeral of a world. Oh, prepare for that day!

Next Tuesday questions of the state will be settled, but there comes a day when the questions of eternity will be decided. You may vote right and get the victory at the ballot box and yet suffer eternal defeat. After you have cast your last vote where will you go? In this country there are two parties. You belong to the one or the other of them.

Likewise in eternity there will be two parties, and only two. "These shall go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into life eternal." To which party will you belong? God grant that while you look after the welfare of the land in which God has graciously cast your lot you may not forget to look after your soul--blood bought, judgment bound, immortal! God save the people!

A Forcible Way of Putting It. A nautical term comes with a kind of a shock in art criticism, but there was a certain pertinency in the remark of the good mayor of Gloucester, Mass., who said, speaking of the picture of a predecessor in his office, that it was a pretty good likeness, but with a man of his style of features a profile view would never be as effective as though it were taken a little more "head on."

Only One Time More. He--I've asked you three times to marry me. How many more times do you want me to ask you?

She (tenderly)--Only once, and let that once be 50 years hence.--Detroit Free Press.

OUR COUNTRY'S FLAG. WHY THE UNITED STATES ENSIGN HAS THIRTEEN STRIPES.

Congress on June 14, 1777, First Passed the Law Designating the Color of the National Emblem and the Arrangement of the Stars and Stripes. Beginning about five or six years ago public schools in the old Bay State instituted what is rapidly growing into the custom of honoring the birthday of the starry ensign. The day, the recurring anniversary of the historic 14th of June, 1777, the date of the adoption of the "star spangled banner," was celebrated with patriotic declamations and recitations and songs. From Massachusetts the innovation, commended for the patriotism it aroused among the coming citizens if the country, spread rapidly through New England boards of education in some of the states officially recognizing the occasion and aiding in its celebration. It is also journeying on its

way southward and westward and bids fair to become the red letter day of the year in our public schools, Of the 13,--

125,000 school children about one-fifth already pay tribute in some form to the occasion.

As observance of the anniversary gains in age and popularity knowledge of our country's ensign will increase both among our youngsters and their parents,

the "children of a larger growth." Few symbolisms should be more cherished by all good Americans than should be our flag. And yet--is it due to lack of patri-

otism or to our national hurry?--the av-

erage American, the schoolboy always barred, stutters and stammers when you ask him the simple, primary question,

"How many stars are there in the United States flag?" After a minute of hard thought he is apt to reply with any num-

ber from 38 to 42. Even the third class in history would have answered imme-

diately with one voice, "Forty-four!"

There is much more of romance in the history of the adoption of Uncle Sam's colors and more of symbolism in the

choice of their details than is commonly thought. Captain Preble devoted sev-

eral chapters of his 90,000 word "History of the American Flag" to explain these matters. Here is the story in short:

In the opening days of June, 1777, when the colonial troops had for more than two years been combating under

any local flags that captured their fancy, congress, sitting at Philadelphia, appointed a committee to devise a common flag. The names of the members of this committee have been lost in the ancient dust of congressional history, but it is known that John Adams was mainly instrumental in guiding it to its decisions.

On June 14 congress unanimously adopt-

ed its report, urging that "the flag of the 13 United States be 13 stripes, alternating red and white; that the Union be 13 stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation." A sample flag of silk, made by a good Quaker matron, was displayed in congress, having its union square and the stars forming the rim of a circle.

Red, white and blue were chosen, firstly, because orange, white and blue were the colors of the only other republic of modern times, the old Dutch republic

of the preceding century, and, secondly, because they were the colors of the New York regiments. An easy change turned

orange into red. Stripes were chosen because they were a symbolism of both the New York and the old Dutch flags.

Stars are supposed to have been selected because 13 figures being required for the union, they were the most appropriate for that number of devices for a blue field.

Though this flag was unanimously adopted and was shown to a goodly number of the inhabitants of the Quaker City during the summer following, it was not officially announced until Sept. 8. Paul Jones, the noted naval hero, impatiently waiting for the equipment of his fast brig, the Ranger, at Portsmouth, N. H., was the first one outside of the Quaker town to display the ensign. He ran it up to the masthead of his stanch little man-o'-war and put to see at once to disclose to the winds of the mid-At-lantic a banner as free as themselves and to gain the honor off the Scotch coast of being the first to introduce the star sprent flag to European eyes.

On land, outside of Philadelphia, the flag was first flown during the battle of the Brandywine, floating above Lafay-

ette when that 20-year-old major gen-

eral was wounded. A month later it flaunted at the headquarters of Gates, when he received the surrendering army of Burgoyne.

Uncle Sam's first flag remained un-

changed for 18 years, though in the meantime the government was formally

organized under a constitution, and two new states were added. In 1795 by the

exertions of Senator Bradley of the new state of Vermont the number of stars

and that of stripes were each increased to 15, the additions representing the Green Mountain State and Kentucky.

This amended flag was the one borne by Harrison and Jackson on land and by Hull and Perry at sea in the war of 1812. In 1818 stripes were reduced to 13, and the present law of adding a new star for each new state admitted to the Union was passed.--Daniel D. Bidwell in New York Ledger.

They May Never Marry. One reason why the Russian czaro-

witz can never marry the Princess Victoria of Wales, with whose name the gossips have connected his, is that they are first cousins, and the marriage of first cousins is strictly prohibited by the

canons of the Greek church. The heir of the emperor of all the Russias could not possibly ignore these laws if he de-

sired to do so. The young prince was at one time, it is said, deeply in love with

the daughter of the Greek king, and it was only these same obnoxious laws that prevented their marriage.--New York World.

Were All the Bridegrooms Colonels?

It is said that there were eight mar-

riages in Washington county recently the same day, and that six of the brides were sisters, one was an aunt of them and the other a cousin. There were also three marriages near Tennille the same day, and the brides there were distantly related to those at Sandersville.--Atlanta Constitution.

The Fact Remains. Miss Azure Hughes--I emphatically deny that the educated woman is ashamed to admit her age.

Giglamps--But all the same I notice she doesn't put her college year after her name.--Vogue.

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