The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, December 18, 1890, Image 4
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The Eminent Brooklyn Divine's Sunday
Sermon.
SnUJcct: "Among the Holy Hills."
. Text: /.v rn/ :#> to Xrzorfth, ivhei'f Ho i
Was brcwrrJit ?r>."?I.uke iv.. lf>.
"What a splendid s'cep f had iast night in ;
a Catholic convent, my flr-t sleep within i
doors since leaving Jerusalem, and all of I
us as kindly treated as though wo hud been
th? Pop? and his college of Cardinals pas- j
ing tliat way! Last evening the genial siv j
tcrknod of the convent ordered a huudrel
bright-eyed Arab children brought out to
sing for me, and it. was glorious! This I
morning I come out on ti:? sieps of the convent
and Jc.ol; upon the most beautiful vilr"1
lege of nil Palestine, it- houses of whita
lime-iomo fiiiPtsits n.Tne: Nazareth, his
torical Nazareth. one ?>: the tr nity of places
that ail Christian travela's must see or feel
that they have not seen Palestine?namely,
Bethlehem, .Jerusalem, Nazareth. Baby '
liood. boyhood, manhood of Him for wiWni" I
believe there ar- fifty million peijjJio who
would now. if it were required, march out
and die, whether under as-br down in tin
floods or straight through the fire.
Grand old VillageNazaretb.even putting
aside its sacre \ jj-sociaiion-. First of all. it
is clean, aijd-fn it can be said of few of tin
oriental ri:!ag"s. Us neighboring town of
Nah'ouf is the filthiest town 1 ever saw,
A'though its chief industry is the manufae.
ture of soap. Tiny export all of it. Nnzareth
has been the serns of battles passing it
from Israelite t > Mohammedan and
from Mohammedan to Christian, tba
most wonder, ul of the battles beiug
that in which twenty-five thousand
Turks were beaten by twenty-ona
hundred French, Napoleon Bonaparte
commanding. Cue greatest of Frenchmen
walking these very streets through
which Jesus walked tor n-arly thirty years,
the morals of the two, the antipodes, the
snows of Russia an d the plagues of Kgypt
appropriately following the one, the doxo o
giesot earth ana tea haiie.ujaos ci neaven
appropriately following the other. And then
this town is so beautifully situated in a great
green bowl, the sides of the bowl surrounding
fifteen ni ls. The God of nature who is
the God of the Bible evidently scooped out
this valley for privacy and separation from all
the world during three most, important decades,
the thirty years of Christ's boyhood
and youth, for of the thirty-three years of
Christ's stay on earth he spent thirty of
them in this town in getting ready?a startling
rebuke to thcoO wnonavo 110 patience
with the long years of preparation necessary
when they enter on any special mission for
the church or the world. The trouble is with
most young men that they warut to launch
their ship from the drydock before it is ready,
and hence so mauy sink in the first cyclone.
All Christ's boyhood was scent in this village
and its surroundings. There isthe very
well called "The Fountain of the Virgin," to
which by His mother s side He trotted along
holding her hand. No doubt about it; it is
the only well in the village, and it has been
the only well for three thousand years. This
morning we visit it, and the mothers have
their children with them now-as then; The
work of drawing water in all ages
in those countries has been women's
work Scores of them are
waiting for their turn at it, three great and
everlasting springs rolling out into that well
their barrels, their hogsheads of wat?r in
floods, gloriously abun dant. The well is surrounded
by olive groves an 1 wide spaces in
which people talked and children, wearing
charms on their heads as protection against
the "evil eye," are playing, and women with
their stings of coin on cither side of their
face, and in skirts of blue and scarlet
8nd white and green inovo on with
water jars on their heads. Mary, I
suppose, a most always took Jesus
the boy with her, for she had no one she
could leave Ilim with, being in humble circumstances
and haviug no attendants. I do
vinf, Iwiiovp thcro tva<.i iti > rif Mi.i ffliri'mmilin?
fifteen bills that the boy Christ did not range
from bottom to top, or one cavern in their
6ides He did not explore, or one species of
bird flying across the tops that He could not
call by name, or one of all the species of
fauna browsing on these steeps that He had
not recognize!.
You see it all through His sermons. If a
man becomes a public speaker, in his orations
or discourses j'ou discover his eariy
whereabouts. What a boy sees between seven
and seventeen always sticks to him. When
the apostle Peter preaches you see the
fishing nets with which he had from his
earliest days been familiar. And when Amos
delivers his prophecy you hear in it the
bleating of the herds which he had in boyhood
attended. A nd in our Lord's sermons
and conversation-you see all the phases of
village life and the mountainous life surrounding.
it.
Ke had in boyhood seen tho shepherds get
their flecks mixed up. aud t jone not familiar
with the habits of shepherds and their flocks,
hoplesslv mixed up. Aud a skeepstealer appears
on the scene and dishonestly demands
some of those sheep, when he owns not one of
them. "Well," says the two honest shepherds,
''we will soon settle this matter," and
onesheoherd gees out in one direction aud the
other shepherd goes out in the other direction,
and the sheepstealer in another direction,
and each one calls, and the flocks of each
of the honest shc-pherds rush to their
owner, while the sheepstealer calls and
calls again, but gets not one of the flock. No
wonder that Christ, years after, preaching
on a great occasion and illustrating Ilis own
shepherd qualities, says: "When lie putteth
forth His own sheep He goeth before them,
and the sheep follow Him, for they know His
voice, and the stranger they will not follow,
for they know not the voice of the stranger."
The sides of' these hills are terraced for
o-rtir-os: Thfi lviv Christ,had often stood with
--? -?? 7 : ~
great round eyes watching the trimming 01
|i tbe grapevines. Clip! goes the knife and off
falls a branch. The child Christ says to the
farmer. "What do you do that for?"
"Ob,'' says the farmer, "that is
a < cad branch and it is doing
nothing and is only in the way, so I cut ic
off." Vhen the farmer with his sharp knife
prunes from a living branch this and that
tendril aad the other tendril. "But," says
the child Christ, "these twigs that you cut
eff now are not dead; what do you "do that
for?" "Oh," says tho farmer, we prune
off these that the main branch may have
more of the sap and so be more fruitful."
No wonder in after years Christ said in His
sermon: "I am the true vine and My Father
is the husbandman, every branch in Me that
beareth not fruit He taketh away, and every
branch that beareth fruit He purgeth it,
that it may bring forth more fruit." Capital!
No one who had not been & country boy
would have said that.
Oh,this country boy of Nazareth, come
forth to atone for the sins of the world,
and Jto correct the follies of the world, and
tafctirnp out the cruelties of the world,
and to illumine the darkness of the world,
and to transfigure the hemispheres! So it
has been the missiou of the country boys
ill an uges irnusiorni mm inspire mm
rescue. They come into our merchan lisa
ami our court roams and our healing art
and cur studios and our theology They
lived in Nazareth before they entered Jerusalem.
And but for that aunual iufiux our
cities would have enervated and sickened and
slain the race. Late hours and hurtful apparel
and overtaxed digestive organs and
crowding environments of city life would
have halted the world; but the valleys
and mountains of Nazareth have given
fresh supply of health and moral invigoration
to Jerusalem and the country saves
th?j town. From the hills of New "Hampshire
and the hills of Virginia and the
hills of Georgia come in our national
eloquence the Wcbstersand the Clays and the
I Henry W. Gradys. From the plain homes
of Massachusetts and Maryland come into
our national charities the George Peabodvs
and the William Corcorans. From the
^cabins of the lonely country regions come
(into our national destinies the Andrew
; Jacksons and the Abraham Lincolns. From
plow boy's furrow nnd village counter
and blacksmith's forge come most, of
our city giants. Nearly all the Messiahs
iu ell departments dwelt in Nazareth
before they came to Jerusalem. I send
this day thanks from these cities, mostly
mf'.e prosperous by country boys, to too
farmhouse and the prairies and th? mountain
cabins, and the obscure homesteads of
north and south nnd east and west, to the
fathers r.r.d mothers in plain homespun it they
be still ahvaor the hillocks uuder which they
sleep the long sleep. Thanks from Jerusalem
to Nazareth.
But alas! that the city should so often
treat the country boys as of old the one from
Nazareth was treated at Jerusalem! Slain
not by hammers and spikes, but by instruments
just as cruel. On every street of every
city the crucifixion goes on. Every year
shows it s ten thousand of the slain. Oh, how
we grind them up! Vnder what wheels in
what mil's, sud for wit a: an awful grist!
Let the city take Letts.- cars of the-e
hoys aiul young. men arriving from
the country. They are worth saving.
They are now only the preface of what they
will ho if. instead o" sncr.fi'-ing, you help
them. Hcys as grand as the one who with
his e!der brother c!initio:! into a church
to'er. and uot knowing their danger went
outside on some timbers, when on? of those
timbers broke and the boys fell, and the
Vder b'?y caught o:i a beani anJ the younger
.-hitched the foot of the older. The older
rould not climb up with th? younger hanging
t to his feet, so the younger said: "Johu, 1 am
going to let go; you an climb out into safety,
iut you can't climb un with me holding fast;
'. am going to let go, kiss mother for me,
j 1U.1 toil her not to teel badly; gooj-oy!"
And ho lot go and was so hori dasicd u'oou
the gnm>i he ?as not re -o ;n.?ib!e. Plenty
a yumorivj boys 0011104 U1J from S'nzaj>eT;i!
Let Jem-ale 11 i> careful how it
A .--...in,,,,-, lr.no- n?n
| ? -WW.l VU?>U. ** "O?
lere l a sell >oI in GuMtauy and lie bowed
very low fcsfoiv th9 boys, and the teacher
said:. "-R'hy do you do that?'' "Oh,*' soicl
tUff'tHsitor," "I do not know what mighty
oi-an may yet b3 developed among them."'
At that iiwant the eyes of one ot the boys
"a she! fit v. Who was it? Martin Luther.
A la 1 ,o:i his way to school passed a doorstep
oil which sat" a lams an 1 invalid child,
riv; passing boy said to hi 11: "Why don't
you go to scho 0!!'' 'Oh. 1 a:n lauie anil j
cau't walk to school." 'Set on my back,"
?aai the we.l boy, "and I wid carry you to
school." An I so he did that day and for
many days until tho invalid was fairly
started 011 the road to an education. Who
was the well boy that did that kindness? I
don't know. Who was the invalid he cartied?
It was Robert Hall, the rapt pupil
orator of all Christendom. Better give to
rhe boys who coiuc up from Nazareth to Jerusalem
a crown instead of a cross.
On this December morning in Palestine
?:i our way out from Nazareth wa saw just
ueh a carpenter's shop as Jesus worked in,
supporting His widowed mother niter He
was old enough to do so. I looked in, and
there were hammer and saw and plana aud
uiger and vis? and measuring rule and I
jhisel and dri:l and a.lza and wrench and j
tit aud all the tools of carpentry. Think 1
of it! He who smoothed the surface of the
jarth shoving a plane; He who cleft the
Mountains by crthqnake pounding a
taisel; He who opened the mammoth caves
>f tho earth turning an auger; He who
wields the thunderbolt striking with a
iimnier; He who scooped out the bed for
;he ocean hollowing a ludle; He who flashes
:he morning on the earth and makes the
r-idnight heavens quiver with aurora cout.ructing
a window. I cannot understand
t, but 1 believe itv A skeptic said to an old
lerfryman: --i. w?is noi o;ii:va auyimng i
:annot explain."' "Indeed," said the clergynan,
"you will uot believe anything
rou cannot explain. Please to explain
:o rae why some cows hive horns and
others have no horns. "No," said the
ikeptic, "I did not mean exactly that. I
nean that I will not believe anything I have
sot seen." "Indeed," said the clergyman,"
"you will uot believe anything you have uot
teen. Have you a backbone!'' "Yes," said
:he skeptic. "How do you know?" said the
I'.ergyman. "Have you ever seen it?" This
mystery of Goihood and humanity interjoined
I cannot understand and I cannot explain,
but I believe it. I am glad there aro
10 many things we cannot understand, for
that loaves something for heaven.,
In about two hours we pass through Can a,
!he village of Palestine, where the mother of
florist and our L >rd attended the wedding of
i poor relative, bavinr come over from
Nazareth for that purpose. The mother of
Dhrist?for women are first to notice such
things?four.d that the provisions had fallen
ihortand sha told Car.st, an! He to relieve
theedibarra-smenl of the housekeeper, who
aad invitei more guests than the pantry
warranted became the butler of the occasion,
cud out of a cluster of a few sympathetic
words squeezed a beverage of a few bundrol
Mid twenty-six gallons of wine in which
was no: one drop of intoxicant, or it would
have left that party as maudlin and druuk
r,s the great centeunial banquet in New
York, t.vo years ago, left senators, and
governors, and generals, and merchant
princes, the difference between the wine at
the wedding in Can a and the wine at the banquet
in New Y01 k being, thntthe Lord made
the one and the devil made the other. Wo
got off our horsos and examiued some of
these water jars at Cana said to bo the very
ones that h?l 1 the plain water that Christ
turned iuto the par pie bloom of an especial
vintage. I measured them and found them
eighteen inches from edge to edge and nine1
teen inches deep, and declined to accept their
I identity. But we realized tha immensity of
a supply of a huueired and twenty-six galI
Ions of wine.
i Among the arts and inventions of tha future
I hope there n ay be some one that can
press fclie JUICES 1 roiu tut gruptrnuu au miu^io
them and without one drop of damning alcoholism
t hat it will keep for years. And the
more of it you to ce the clearer will be the
brain and the healthier the stomach. And
here is a remarkable fact i:i my recent journey?I
traveled through Italy and Greece t
and Egypt and Palestine and Syria and Turkey.
and how many intoxicated people do
vou think I saw in all those five great realms?
Not one. We must in our Christianized lands
have got hold of some kind of beverage that |
Christ did not make.
Oh, I am glad that Jesus was present at j
that wedding, and last December, standing
at Cam, that wedding came back! Night
had faileu on the village and its surroundings.
The bridegroom had put on his head a
bright turban and a garland of flowers, and |
his garments ha I beau made fragrant with 1
fraakincenss and camphor, r.n odor which j
the oriental especially likes. Accompanied i
by groomsmen, and preceded by a band of
musicians with flures and drums and
horns, and by torches in full blaze,
he starts for the bride's home.
This river of fire is met by another riverof
fire, the torches of' the brido and bridesmaids,
flambeau answering flambeau. The
bride is in white robe and her veil not only
covers her faco but envelopes her borly.
Her trousseau is as elaborate t s the resources
of her father's house permit. Her attendants
are decked with all the ornaments they own
or can borrow; but their own p?rsoualcaarins
make tame the jewels, for those oriental women
eclipse in attractiveness ail others except
those of our own land. The damson rose is
j in their check, and the diamond in the
luster of their eyes, and the blackness
of the night in their long locks, aud in
I their step is the gracefulness o : the morning.
At the fifst sight of the torches of the :
bridegroom and his attendants coming I
| over ttie niii t;:e cry rings tnrougn ma i
home of the bride: "They are insight! Get
ready! behold the bridegroom cometh! Go j
yo out to meet.him!' As the two proces- '
sions approach each other tho timbrels
strike and the songs commingle, and then
the two processions become one and march
toward the bridegroom's house, and meet a
third procession which :s made up of the
friends of both bride and bridegroom
Then all enter the house and the dance
begins and the door is shut. And all this
Christ uses t.o illustrate the joy with which
the ransomed of earth shall meet Hitn when
He comes garlanded with clouds and robed I
in the morning and trumpeted by the thuu- !
ders of tho last day. "Look! Ther3 Ho j
comes down off the hills of heaven, tho
Bridegroom! An l let us start out to hail j
Him, for I hear th^ voices of the judgment J
day sounding: "Behold the Bridegroom !
icoineth! Go ye out to meet Him!" And tho |
(disappointment of those who have declined ;
+ erwnol xvfvJrlinf W DiV- I
mc iuvs..-,/, .. 0 ?
sented under the figure of a door heavily j
c osed. You hear it slam. Too late. The j
door is shut!
But we must hasten on, for I do not mean j
to close rny eyes to-night till I sec from a j
mountain top Lake Galilee, on whose hanks
next Sabbatu we will worship, and on whose
waters the following morning we will take a
sail. On and up we go in the severest climb
of all Palestine, the ascent of the Mount of
Beatitudes, on the top of which Christ
| preached that famous sermon on the blesseds
, ?blessed this and blessed that. Up to their
j knees the horses plunge in molehills and a
surface that gives way at the first touch of
the hoof, and again and again the tired beasts
halt ?s much as to say to the riders. "It is
unjust for you to make us climb these steeps."
On and up over mountain sides, where in the
later season hyacinths an l dasiesand phloxes
and anemones kindle their beauty. On and
up until on the rocks of black basalt w-e dismount,
and c'imbing to the highest peak look
out on an enchantment of scenery that seems
be the beatitudes tnemselves arched iuto
skies and rounde 1 in;o valleys and silvered
into waves. Tne view is like that of Tennessee
and North Carolina from the top of Lookout
Mountain, or like that of Vermont and
New Hampshire lrom the tdp of Mount
Washington. Hail hills of Gallilee! Hail
Lake Gennesaret, only four miles away! .
Yonder, clear up and most conspicuous, is
Safed, the very city to which Christ pointed '
for illustration in the sermon preached here,
saying: "A city set on a hill cannot be hid."
There are rocks around me on this Mount of
Beatitudes enough to build the highest pulpit
the world ever saw. Ay.it is the highest
puipit. It overlooks all tuna and all eternity.
The valley of Hatliu, between here and
Lake Galilee, is an amphitheatre, as thought
the nalural contour of the earth had invited
all nations to come and sit down and hear
Christ preach a sermon in which there were
more startling novelties thac were ever announced
in all the Xsermons that were
ever preached. To>'ioso who heard Hiin on
this very spot I?fs word must have seemed
the contradiction of everything that they
had ever heard or read or experienced. The
worJi's theory had been: Blessed are
tlio arrogant; blessed are the supercilious;
blessed are the tearless; blessed
are they that have everything their owu
way; blessed ar? the war eagles; blessed
are the persecutors; blessed are ill? popularblessed
are the Herods and the Caesars and
tiie Ahab3. "No! 110! no!"says Christ, with
a voice that, rings over these rocks and
through j-onder valley o? Hattin, und down
to tho opaline lake on one side, an l the sapphire
Mediterranean on the other, and across
Europe iu one way, and ncrost Asia in the
other way, and around the earth both ways,
till the globe shall yet be girdled with the
Rloccarl flfft tliA nooiv bless
I1IUU ucaUibUVlCJ* ? v I ,
ed are the mournful; blessed are the meek;
blessed are the hunprry; blessed are the merciful;
blessed are the pure; blessed are the
peacemakers; blessed are the persecuted;
blessed are the falsely reviled.
WOMEN IN PUBLIC LIFE.
Hie Manner of Tlieir Entry Into It Se,
verely Condrinm-d.
The manner of women's entry into
public life has, I hold, affected mischievously
*ht-ir attitude toward publio
affairs, says a writer in the Westminster
Kevietc. It has confirmed in them a
tendency, alread\* fostered by the commonly
used form of speech regarding
the sex. to consider themselves as superior
beings, with a general mission to
reform the world and to instruct mankind
at large how to behave I should
bo the last to dony that women have
something to teach, something to show,
something to add to the sum of human
wisdom, or that many of the affairs
which men have sadly bungled can be
settled otherwise than by the intervention
of women and by the acceptance of
their counsel and help. It does not
follow that there is any reason for the
adaption of superior airs on the part of
women generally merely because they
aro women. The attitude is not beon'l
lonrl<? 4n m.'tkfi the enemv
^W4Jt4Uftl ~ , ?
blaspheme. The calmly dogmatic tone
so often assumed by thoso who pose as
spokesmen of their sex is not a little
trying to such of their fellow women as
happen to possess a sense of humor or of
the fitness of things. Depend upon it,
if women are to partake of the banquet
of life, from all share in which they
have been debarred hitherto, it is not
in the capacity of olftciai tasters of food
that they will be admitled. They may
feast, or they may look on; they will
not do both. .It is nat ural, no doubt,
that after ages of repression women
gaining for the first time in the long
history of the world freedom ami right
of speech, should be strongly inclined
to repay repression rvith repression and
with force, if not of ono kind then of
another. It is natural, but it is unscientific;
for actions of that kind cau
havo but a slight and temporary place
in the evolution of society. If anything
that I have so far tried to maintain is
true, it follows that the power ot womon
must be limited by their environment?
by the degrees of progress which society
has attained. Whether they will
tame and rule that brute force which
lie3 over in the background as the last
and final resort, is more than any one
can undertake to say, but at present
they can only rule by its acquiescence,
and by tlie altered value wmcu scientific
discoveries have given to merely
muscular forms of strength. At the
same time, we may see, from a glance
at political affairs, how mischievous is
the attempt to hold back the bauds of
the clock when juiblic sentiment has already
marked the hour. "While the
right to exercise the franchise is persistently
denied to women, their mother wit
has enabled them to lay firm hold upon
political power, and, although still remaining
officially unrecognized, to attain
a position of no small importance
in political affairs. Being refused responsible
power, they exorcise it in an
irresponsible and, therefore, a mischievous
lorm. Such formal recognition of
their position as, say, the conferring oj
the parliamentary franchise upon duly
qualified women would now act rather
as a steadying than an exciting force.
And here let me say, in closing, that
neither in politics nor in anything else
is the future direction of women's proclivities
as yet revealed. It is tlio fashion,
indeed, to assume complete knowledge
upon this interesting question, and
the strong' h and direction of feminine
influence is habitually discounted with
the utmost confidence. Now, if women
are entering, as I hold, upon a new era,
:it is inevitable that their aims, ideals
and wishes should undergo considerable
change. The ideas of bondage are not
the ideas of freedom, and women have
not yet wholly emerged from one intc
the other.
A Wl?lo\vo?l C.-mnry's Funeral Dirge.
The other day in the fullness of years
a canary belonging to Mr. M. of Alle-i
ghanv, Pennsylvania, fell off ins perch
find decently gave up tho ghost, writer
Hepburn Johns iu the Pittsburg Dispatch.
His death, though sudden, was
not unexpected. For ten years or move
lie had poured out his little heart in
fong, and when at last he lay upon the
floor of his cage a cold, dumb corpse,
nobody was very much surprised but
his mate, a youthful bird, who for o
year or two, had shared h a joys and
cares hi* hemp, rape, canary seed and
cage. She was very much astonished.
Sitting on the middle perch she regarded
the limp body of her lord for
hours with a troubled miou. She had
1 ever been in the presence of death befoie.
and evidently her emotions wore
btrong and conflicting.
But tjie result of the shock to het
fceliugs'was very strange. In common
with most canary birds of her sex she
had been prior to this catastrophe but o
poor singer. Mature is most generous
to the male canary; she gives liira the
gaudiest feather^and the sweetest song,
The widowed bird in this case had reallv
never sung at all, while her tnato hail
)>Dnr n lonimK vnimlkf Itil t, nf n middiMl.
as she sat observing his dead body, she
burst into a wonderful melody; rou
lades and runs welled from her full
throat, and she ran on from cascade fr
cascade, like a niountuiu spring whos(
waters pent up these many years al
last lind an outlet and ily on erysta
feet from crag to crag, making light and
music where shadow and silence reigned
before. Siill more wouderful, the little
cantatrice revived the song of her dead
mate, it was his trills and his rich me
lody which rang again through the
hi>u e. It &eenic4 as if the musical
powers of the departed bird hod do
sceuded upon her. She sings all h<
sung and more. Mr. M. and his family
are astonished and delighted at wba'
fleeina very much like a miracle.
/
Not a Local
j -i^lsease
fl<ceu-e catarrh H"eeis your head, it is not therefore
a loon' tiise.r o. Iit did not exist In your b oo t,
ti rould uot manifest it elt in your nose. The blood
row lu your biain Is fcefnre ton finish reading this
nr Iclr, back In your heart njsln and soon dlstrlbuteri
to your lifer, atom eh, kidneys, and so on.
Whatever impurities the blood doe? not carry atvay,
caure what we rati ntse.ves. Therefore when you
l<avo catarrh of tl e tend, n Banff >.r other luhaluut
eau at most give only temprrary relief. The only
way to effvct a cure IP to attack the disease In tho
l>lood, by taking aconstltut onal remedy tike Hood's j
f nrsaparilla, vht"h eliminates at! Impurities and
tlitis imminently cuffs catarrh. The success of
I food's Sc rs!i,iar1 It at ti remedy for catarrh Is
! vouched for oy nnny people It has cure I.
Ho iff? Sarsaparilla
Sold by ,i!l .iru;':ls,'?. < six for $5. Prepared only !
' l?y C. I. HOOD & CO., Lcvrell, Mass.
103 r> irfos One dollar
I
GRAINS OF GOLD.
fFrom tho Fam'g Horn.]
| The most beautiful glass eye over
! made oanuot see anything.
; Tlie first question nt the sepnlcher
was, "Why weepest thou?"
The sweetest bread ever tasted, is
that cut from I lie loaf of toil.
God clothed man. Man stripped '
Christ, and gambled for hi3 raiment. j
Make your long prayers in private j
and your short ones in public.
Every timo we try to deceive God, j
our chances of being lost increase.
Ileal wealth is that which cannot be !
taken from you by man or devil.
The happiest people are those who .
willingly suffer most for others.
It is not an easy matter for God to j
get His arms around a man who al- |
ready has his arms around a bag of j
money.
It makes no difference what we are. !
The most imporiant of all tilings to j
us is what wo will permit Christ to !
he.
All the preaching that ever has or i
ever will be done may be boiled down j
into throe little words?"God is love."
We know how much trouble the
devil caused Job, but God alone knows
how much trouble Job caused the
devil. i
When wo get to the end of life, we :
shall find that the only things we have '
really lost are those we tried to keep. j
Don't be in too great a hurry for j
. results. You can't raise an oak troo j
I and get a crop of acorns in a few min|
utes.
The devil is always ready to walk
arm in arm with the man who says, "I I
; don't have to join church to be a Chrisj
tian." j
I Wearing his hat on the back of his
! head is one of the ways in which a
I young man can tell everybody ho
' doesn't know much.
I If the women who went to the sepulcher
had waited to find somebody to
roll the stone away, they woiild not
' have started.
Ihe man who goes to heaven on
; flowery beds of case will find himself
I in a mansion of not more than one room
when he gets there.
'Ihe fact that God used the ravens to i
feed Elijah should teach us that wecau
, derive spiritual help from the most
. common-place resources.
Christ didn't say, "Stand still, and I
; will give you rest," but "Come unto
mo Tlmrp must he a elmnce of front
and a forward movement.
If moderate 'drinking is allowable
I and respectable, what's the reason
moderate stealing or any other kind of
qualified meanness is not commend1
able?
j The only way you can persuade somo
I people to join church is to convince
them that it pays. Do this and you
; could n't keep them out with a shotgun.
} Did you ever notice how carefully
1 ( people pick their way over a muddy
street crossing? Christians ought to
1 be just as careful as to how and where
1 they walk.
Gcd's way of blessing is to give every.
body all they can carry, and charge
1 nothing for it, as Joseph did to his
" brethren, when they came to him after
1 ' corn in Egypt.
; j Singular, isn't it, that when a man
; gives his wife a dime to buy a box of
! hair pins or <t gum ring for the baby, it
looks about nine times as big as it does
when he plauks it down on the counter
in exchange for a little bitters for the
' stomach's sake.
j A Xhw Spelling Gaiuw.
j In this game each player must enI
deavor to spell his or her best, and a
i ' prize must be given to the best 6peller,
t and a wooden spoon or other booby
i prize to tho worst. The words to be
, ! spelt should be written out clearly on
i slips of paper, with the definition added
> ' below, ami all placed in a box on Iho
> , table, round which the players are
> seated. The person to 6tart the game
) ' draws out one of tlie t apors at ranuoni,
pronounces the word distinctly and
I roads out the definition. The player
seated next to him spells the word.
J H she does so correctly she takes tho
| paper, draws another and pronounces
1 I it, a id reads the definition to the next
J neighbor, but if she misses the word,
! i the one pronouncing it spells it aloud
j and places it by itself. This continues
1 j round the table, the papers being
1 | drawn in turn till the game comes back"
i to tho starter. No one is allowed to try
twice to spoil a word. Each placer
keops his own pile of correctly, spe'.t
' words, and as many rounds may bo
' played as agreed on at the beginning of
the game. Tho prize goes to the o ie
"Rambo's eyes seem to be perfectly
sound. I don't pee why he wears those
i goggles." "He does it to protect his
eyes from the glare of his nose."
. ? ? - - L"UB l" ?
? 0-m * ? 0-* 0 ?4T-* 0 m 0 -m m-m. %
! If Vml have a j
;i ICOLD or COUGH,J
i : | acute or lending to
>[: CONSUMPTION, i
;!j SCOWS I
? | j or pi re cos* liter oil )
? j AND HYPOPHOSPHITES {
t ; or LIME ASD SODA (
i I ( Its SURE CUR.B FOn IT. {
[ j ! This preparation contains the stimuln- (
I ! { ting properties of tlio Hffpophoaphitra [
j i and flno Xiiricrtjian Cod Liver Oil. Used J
5 J by physicians nil tlio world over. It Is as J
[ * palatable as mill;. Throo times as effica- ?
{ clous aj plain Coil Liver Oil. A perfect (
* Emulsion, better than all others made. For J
) ! all foni)3 ot Wasting Diseases, Bronchitis, J
I | coy SUMPTION,
's Scrofula, 311(1 as a Flesh Producer I
3 ' there Is nothing llko SCOTT'S EMULSION. }
' ' It Is sold by all Druggists. Let no ono by ?
! profuse explanation or impudent entreaty f
Induce you to accopt a substitute. " {
/
Colored Men In Trades.
Colored men are now working their
way into many of the skilled trades in
New York, and their are employers who
apeak highly of their capacity, industry
and faithfulness, says the World. "We
can hold our ground iu this lmsine-s,"
said a negro carpet layer, "though it
needs more pains aud harder work than
some other trades." "There are black
type-setters in some large oflices in New
York," said one of them, "aud they can
pick up both nonpareil and pica as well
as other people." "We have several
dusky engineers in our service," said the
boss of an establishment, "aud they are
both expert and trustworthy." There
has been a considerable migration of
colored men from the southern States
to the northern within the past few
years, and those of them who have
taken quarters in New York get along
quite as well as the new-comer3 of the
white breed. This view is sustained by
representative men of the African race
here who have been interviewed on the
subject.
You wear out clothes on a wash beard ten
Lime as much as on the body. J toto fon'Mi.
Buy Dobbins's Electric tr'onp of your grocer
and save this useless wear. Made ever since
1804. Don't take imitation. There aro lots of
thein.
A slo'c is a man who never lmd the
toothache.
Malaria cured and eradicated from the
system by Brown's Iron Bitters, waich enriches
the blood, tones tho uorve3, aids digestion.
Acts like a charm on persons in general
111 health, giving uew en.rgy and strong h.
S'ate G ologist Dumble says tlie iron enfields
of Eastern 'Jexas will yield 4,000.000
tons to tho sqmre mile.
Leo AVa's Chinese Headache Cure.. Harinless
in effect, quick mnl positi\e in action.
Bent prepaid on receipt of SI per bottle.
Adeler & C'o.,522 Wyandottcst.,KaiisasCity,Mo
Next year bicycles will be mado of aluminum
and will have the deV.ca known as th
pneumatic tire.
Brown's Iron Bitters curei Dyspepsia, Malariu.
Biliousness an I Genera! Debility. Gives
^strength, aides Digestion, touos the norvescrea'es
appetite. The best tonic for Nursing
Mothers, weak women and children.
The Russian Government is'oivsn'wng lnl oratories
for the m-nnf?ctii ? r>r ?-\-p'ojivesTimber,
Mineral, i-arm ism.is and Ranches
in Missouri, Kansas, Texas and Arkansas,
bought and sold. Tyler ?& Co., Kansas City, Mo.
America lias l,0J0,0ffl telcphoni-s; the world
1,200,000
FITS stopped free by Dr. .Kline's Great
Nerve Restorer. No fits after first day's use.
Marvelous cures. Treatise and $2 trial bottle
free. Dr. Kliue, 031 Arch St., Phila., Pa.
Dissppoaring guns have been invented.
Money invested In choice one hundred dol- ;
lax building tots in suburbsof Kansas City wilt i
pay lroin live hundred to ouo thousand pur
t*mt. tho next few years under our plan. *+>
cash and ?5 per month without Interest controls
a dottirablo lot. Particulars on application.
J. ti. Baueriein & Co., Kansas City, Mo.
Papermakers are using tho banana p an I
for paper making.
Guaranteed live, year eight per cent. First
Mortgages on Kansas City property, interest
payable every six months; principal aud .interest
collecte<l when due and remittoil without
expense to lender. For s^Ue by J.. H. Bauerlein
& Co^ City, Mo. AV rite tor particulars
It is the locomotive that whistle* at its work
Do Yon Ever Speculate ?
Any person sending us their name and address
will receive information that will lead
! to a fortune. Benj. Lewis & Co., Security
> Building, Kansas City, Mo.
| To live forever means to love forever.
OklahomaGuidollook and Map sent any*wlior<)
! onreceipt of OOcts.Tyler & Co., Kansas City,Mo.
| Honey bees never sting one another,
! If afflicted with soreeyesuse Drlsaac Thompson'BEyoWater.Dru^gistSH
>11 at35c per bottle
???
| At Eureka. Cat., amner lias a pet sheep
' that follows it'm at! i nmurh th m w.
^JACOBS OR
CURES PERMANENTLY
SCIATICA. LUMBAGO.
N. Ogdcn, Mich., ^Kearney Ft.,
May 17,1890. Pan Francisco, Cal.
I .... . April 28.1890. ]
Jiy urmucr? ju'v, ,, - , _, ,
Samuel Tortcr, was |?.'vc "been "rlfllicteS
cured by St. Jacobs with lame-back anil
Oil of cxcruciat.ng sore throat, and have
sciatic nnins in hk f'Uiid permanent
sciatic pains in nis cllrc by usc 0f gt
thigh." Jacobs Oil.
J. M. h. Portfr. E. J. J.mha
IT 5S THE BEST.
IP I J
< WORTH A G
| For BILIOUS &NERVI
) Sick Headache. Wea
I Digestion, Constipation
\ ACTING LIKE MAGIC on the i
( muscular system, and arousi
v i The Whole Physical Enei
C Beecham's Pills, taken as i
( FEMALES to complete health,
\ SOLD BY ALI
> Price, 25 -cg
/ Prepared only by TH08. BEECHi
) J). F. ALL FX CO., Sol* Agent* for i
\ York, who (if your druyyist dors not h
/^jvvv^r Of prior? Init iuyui rrji
1 PLEASANT AND SAFE. I Neuralgia am
CONTAINS 5?
WO MORPHIA, CIIDFO IN O
NO CHLORAL, CUREM IW ^
j l NO ANTIPYRIN. # # P3Y -p
i trial 4a ^+e. SOLD BV ALL Drt?JCC
; SIZE I W Cldi or mailed on receipt ol
, .?
? I^SL?PIM ,<,, t,m II I HI r?
taste. Children tnK<- it witlif
I TH^RIGtNAL ANOGCNMIN
*-i ' !< Orup?i?st for Chichester'* J
I / iff Ihai*? **nictl with blue nbiw>n. Taken
^ KJJ All plSl? ?n j-a.Mcboard hoxr*. pink rr:
i *5^ hp <*1'* *" f?r particuUM, i-srimoai
V 1/ 10,1100 Tc?timoolalf. .Van* Paper.
fcuM by oil Local Druggist*
y
I
K 92.50 Pnper For SI.73.
Ttie Youth's Companion Rives so ranch for
the small amount that it costs it is no wonder
it is taken alrcalyiu nearly Hulf a Million
F'luiilies. With its lino paper and beautiful
illustration', its Weekly 111 istnited sup.-lc*
are uK and it i Double Holiday Number, it
seems as if the publi-hers could not do cnuu ;h
to please, By ssndiu; $1.7i no v you may o itain
it free to January, and for a full year
from th it date to I inu iry, lSXi. Address,
Tun Your.i'. . ompamon. Boston, Ma s.
An odd tliinu nliottt i outs and shocs-they're
a ways soled in fore you buy th. m.
State or Ohio, City or Toledo, i
Lucas County. f
Fiiask J. Chunky makes oath that he is
the senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney
& Co.. doitiK business in the C.tv of Toledo.
ounty and .-talc aforesaid, and that said lirm
will pay the sum of One liiindre i Dollars fot
each and every case of Cataukii that cannot
be cured by the use of Hall'sCatakkh Luttc.
r kank j. Cheney.
Sworn to hafore me a id subscribed in my
presence, litis 6th day or December, A. D., llSiJ.
t . A. W. Gleason,
SEAL r
?,? ' hntary Puh'te.
Hall's Catarrh Curr is taken internally and
nets directly on tue blood and muc us surfaces
of thj sjstcni. Send tor testimonials,
i pjtf.
F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, 0.
pT" Sold by Diugyisls, Tie.
The waiter in a bustling restaurant always
"sets the tub'*1' in ft roar.
One Thon?awd Dollars.
I will forfeit the above amonnt, if I fail to
prove that Floraplexion is the best medicine in
existence for Dyspepsia,Indigestion or Biliousness.
U is a certain cure, and afTords Immediate
relief.in cases of Kidney and Liver Complaint,
Nervous Debility and Consumption.
Floraplexion builda up the weak system and
cures where other remedies fail. Ask your
druggist for it and get well. Valuable book
"Thing Worth Knowing," also, sample bottle
sent free; all charges prepaid. Address Franklin
Hart. 88 Warren street. New York.
A counter-'rritani?The shopper wlr
.do tn't buy anything.
"W imin, her diseases and thoir treatment.'
A valuable illu.tr ite I book of seventy-two
pages free, on receipt of l-l eta. for cost of mailing,
etc. Address. 1'. 0. Box 1003, Phlla., Pa.
M n who have irorse sense know when to
say neigh.
Both the method and results when
Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, and acts
gently yet promptly on the Kidneys,
.Liver and Bowels, cleanses the system
effectually, dispels colds, headaches
and fevers and cures habitual
constipation. Syrup of Figs is the
. only remedy of its kind ever produced,
pleasing to the taste and acceptable
to the stomach, prompt in
its action and truly beneficial in its
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeable substances,
its many excellent qualities commend
it to all and have made it
the most popular remedy known.
Syrup 01 Figs is for sale in 50o
and $1 bottles by all leading druggists.
Any reliable druggist who
may not have it on hand will procure
it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it. Do not accept
any substitute.
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRxJP CO.
SAN FRANCISCO. CM.
LOUISVILLE, KY. NEW YORK, N.f.
I ci nan ?>PWAPn? !
%if > s a m air n ? mm
The above reward will be paid for proof of
the existence of a better LINIMENT than
MERCHANT'S GARGLING OIL or a better
Worm ltemedv than MERC RANT'S WORM
TABLETS. Sold everywhere.
JOHN HODUE, Sec'r.
Merchant's Gar*lini? Oil Co.,
Loekport, N. Y., U. 5. A.
Oh >>cn!ari sent JFREE.'
mm T?tm\ i ? M- WOOLLBY, 1L U.
ATLANTA. Office U* Whitehall St
LJLS
UINEA A BOX.-*? <
nnena$nRfiFRS*ucH ?
VW VIVWBlVMQa-W ?9 )
k Stomach, Impaired ?
Disordered Liver, etc,, 5
vital organs, strengthening the <
ng with the rosebud of health <
fry of the Human Frame. \
directed, will quickly RESTORE (
LDRUCCISTS. S
ints per Box. >
LM, St. Helens, Lancashire, England. (
r'niterl States, 36,1 <? 3G7 Canal St,, Jfexc !)
'txp them) will mail Bn-cliam's Pills on \
(.Mention this paper,) f
q St., New York. Price CO cts.BHt_^_5?52?i
1 NerVGU^P^SS I consider BRCMO2
S1CP SELTZER a fiod-send
0_Q?TiT!Tv,'^o t0 ,h?s0 subject to
WtlNtfTi^S Nervous Headache.
AKINQ . C. S. MOSHER, Balto.
JUTS, EWERSOK DRUG CO.
! price. Sole Proprietors, BALTIMORE, MC.
. Red Cnr&s ' Diamond Brand a
m^ruius #
E. '[ he only 8nfcf *ure. ac?! reliable Pi;i for sale. \ iC/
/up/it* Mimvnd Urand ?n Ketl an I Cold metallic \y
o of hrr kind. sfi'fiu*: SubAUniifom and Imitations. *
ip;*~ra.ftr? du^rrouti iv>S!i(crMt^ At bnirpia:-*,or srnd n?
uU, and Ni:* Li.iSIm.*' in Utter. M return Moll.
CHICHESTER CHEMICAL CO., M<i?!iMon fejuorc,
-r HHII.A llfr'1 PMf A u? 1
Talking of patent medicines -J
?you know the old prejudice.
And the doctors?some of
them are between you and us. ,
They would like vou to think
that what's curea - thousands
won't cure you. Vo^'d believe
in patent medicines Jf
they didn't profess to cure^- ^
everything ? and so, between
:he experiments of doctors,
and the experiments of patent
medicines that are sold only
because there's money in the
" stuff," you lose faith in everything.
And, you can't always tell
the prescription that cures by
what you read in the1 papers.
So, perhaps, there's no better
X * ? fr*
Way IV SCll el ieiiieu_y, biacua t-vjtell
the truth about it, and
take the risk of its doing just <
what it professes to do.
That's what the World's
Dispensary Medical Association,
of Buffalo, N. Y., does *
with '
Dr. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery,
Favorite Prescription, Pleasant
Pellets, and
Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy.
If they don't do what their * -%
makers say they'll do ? you get
your money back. '
1,000 DOZEN FREE 1
1.000 Dptcn palre Ladles fine Fall and
Wintar Hoalerv (rlrro aUoloteJr free to
Introduce 1IOM E GEE8T. They ?r. P&BKWMW
hra.y, warm, well inadr, faahlinal.le, aelld
colon, atripe*, cherka, *11 tht popular ahadaa NnHBHHBjH
cardinal, nary blue, seal brown, > ?
black. Mate, tan, In f?e? rtyle and fl
colon to mil all taete* Don't pay 85 to. .<
75cta. for pair of Fall and Winter hear KgHSWP: .la.-si
"her, Too can eK a doicn for nothing. The .
old reliable HOME 61'EOT, of New BfiSBiBHB^B ' "
York, le. a complete family paper, richly ,
flluetrntcd, containing aerial and abort
itorin, ranaacrt, nietcbre, wit, bnm'or,
fuhlon, hour hold hlnta, etorieo for childrrn O^B L. uoV 1
Ac., Ac. l'oojtlvely the entire let (1.0(0 i
doi?n)tohe given awar during the neil MJ BBl ..(Jstb
dap. We alaolend the HOME GCE8T HH
all niontba free to 1000 pcncDi who WBw
?11J aniwer this adrerllaeawnt and teod ua
the tddreaa of 90 uewapaper* rradera from
dlfZcreot famtllra. Tolne elnb nleerof the WmMBP
list of 90 euhacrlhera we aend 1 dozen "
nalraof theaa beautlfal and rueful arriclra. JBUHB |
We arc determined to lead the race In prrm- fjaJCTa
luuu, hence tbla liberal ladaceowiit. It la '
a cotoaeal offer and will not appear again. \ jKlkfflb
If yoo wantn dozen faahlooablr, fine hcalary t
aend lficta. In ill error aumpa, to help pay
patage,packinc,4c.,and namcaof SOnewapaper
readrra. and yen will receive Da per 8 !
. month a. dddreaa, HOME GE?8T?
70 Xaaaau Street, New York,
| :? ?_?
At the Head 0
of Young People's Magazines,
tffffflRffflORB
LAR6EDJOQ/5'
"AlNviTING wses
AEVERY MONTH/?'
ABENJUFULLY/St
^llustob#
Stories, By
Articles, ^y\20 cbs/ll' Best
<J\ a. rw
Poems, etc. \&?S Authors.
Five Little Peppers Grown Up.
Notalle Ev Marearet Sidney.
Strials: Cab and Caboose : the Rise of a
Railroad Boy. By Kirk Monrqp.
SUBSCRIBE JfOW! Cot oat and lead with
82.40 to l>. IiOthrnp Co., and receive CHRIST*
MAS NUMBER of WIDE AWAKE FREE.
BA8YIAND, j OUR LITTLE MEN AID I TIE PANSY,
epc.aytar. I WOMEN, $i a year. | ft ayicr.
Specimen of any one, 5 cents; of the four, 15 cents.
D. LoTHRor CoMfANY, Boston.
-VASELINEFOR
A ON E-DOl.l.A R BI 1,1, sent us by man
we will dellv. r, free o nil charges, to any person to
the Unit d States, all of the following articles, carefully
packe :
One two-ounce bottle of Pure Vaseline, - 10 eta.
One two-oui ce bottle of Vaseline Pomade, - 13 "
One Jar of Vas line Cold Cream, 15 "
One t:. ke of Vasell- e Camphor Ice, - 10 "
One Cake of Yasebne Foap, unscent^', 10 "
One Cake of Vaseliue Soap, exquisitely seen ted,25 "
One two-ounce bolt e of White Vaseline, - 25 "
Or for pmtagi s/a-nps any single article at the print
named. On no account be jtersuaded to accept from
four druggist any Vaseline, or preparation therefrom
unless labelled trith ni"- name, because, you irtu certainly
receive an imitation which has little or no value
Clieiebioiigti Mfg. Co,, 24 State St., N. y.
GRATEFUL?COMFORTING.
EPPSS COCOA
BREAKFAST,
"By a thorough itnowledte of the natural laws
wb ch govern the operatl >ns of Ulge tlon and nutrltl
>11, and by a careful appllc atloa of the One rrorerties
of wcli-s lectod Cocoa, Mr. F.p->s has provided >
our breakfast tables with a delicately flavoured beverage
whloa mar save us many heavy doctors' bills.
It is oy the Jidlclouj use of such articles of diet
that aconscltdtloa may oe gr dually oullt upuntli
strong enough to resist every tendency to disease.
Hundreds of subtle maladies are floating around us
ready to attack wherever there Is a weak po:nt.
We may escape many a fatal shaft by keeping ourselves
well fortblal with pure blood a d a properly
nourished frame."?1"CivU Service Oasette."
Made simply with belllnr water <>r milt. Fold
only Innalf-pounl fln=. Grocer*. labelled thus:
JAMES ISIM'S ?fcCO.. Homoeopathic Chemlets,
Lo.vnov, Emolaso.
B N U 40 .
Etniir STU t) V, hook-keeping, Business Forms,
ftlUmC Penmanship, Arithmetic, ShorHiand, etc.
SS thoroughly taught by MAlI* Circulars free.
Hrva ill's Col' nr, .157 Main St., Buffalo, N. V
TELEGRAPHY AND SHORTHAND,
LEADING SCHOOL SUIJ1*||. Catalog:!?
iree. C'OL CII Ll'^EN BEEl.f St*uoin> On.
FRAZER^f
riKST IN THE WORLD Wlll-Mufc
tW~ Oet tha Genuine. Sold Everywhera.
tuirrn pnstnvKi.v tiLMEDIED.
KAliliT Greely l'?nt Stretcher.
Adopted l>v stiiilcuti at Harvard, Amherst, and other
Colliers, also, bv professional and business inert everywhere.
If not for sale in your town send 23c. to
U. J. tiltKKI.Y. 715 Washington Street. Itoston.
is Passed,
? ersuml Fathers are e?
titled to SI2 a mo. Fee 110 when you pet your money,
thanks freo. JOSEPH U. UL'Mtu, nu, HuLiuIm, ?. 4,
/J0NE8\
/ TON SCALES \ / OF \
$60 BiNGHAMTOH
\ Beam Box Tare Beam J V& N. Y. a J
\ f AU.SIZX3 fc/ \xi OL rfc/
A XMAS HEALTH C5FT w
(Exerciser Complete $5) sy\
Is Best op All. Circular Free. yy ||
Books: For "An Ideal Complexion )K
ft Complete I'hvsical Development,'' f , i*,
I aa Ills 50m. "Health & Strength in ^ " *
l'bvsirtl Culture." ao Ills to cts. Chart ofujt- rr i
to Ills for Dumb Belts ft Pulleys, 15 cts. 552 j ; I ,
Ad. J tO. E ODWO'S Vocal & Physical
| Culture school, n6 Monroe St. Chicago