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THE (PUL'PIT. AN ELOQUENT SUNDAY SERMON BY DR. R. A. TORREY. Subject: Resurrection a Fact. New York City.-The Rev. Reuben A. Torrey, D.D.. the celebrated evan gelist, preached Sunday morniing in the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church. There was a large congre gation, consisting almost entirely of strangers, only a very small per centage being members of the church. Dr. Torrey's subject was: "The Resurrection a Fact, not Fiction," and his text was I Cor. xv:20 : "But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first-fruits of them that slept." He said: Last Sunday morning we said that the resurrection of Jesus was the most important event in history, and we said that if it could be proved to be a historic fact that 'everything essential to Christianity was proved, but that if, on the other hand, it could not be proved to be a historic fact. then everything essential to Christianity must go. We started . out, without assuming anything as to by whom, or when, the gospels were written, to decide whether they were a record of facts, or merely fic tion. First,we discovered that the four gospels were each an independent account. and we were driven to the conclusion that they were a record of actual occurrences. Next, we dis covered that each bore the evidences of having been written by an eye witness. It often happens that a witness tells his story so artlessly, with such an entire absence of any attempt to color it, that his testi mony carries weight. We have not only one witness. but four, differing apparently in details (showing that they were not coached) but all, agree ing in the essential fac.ts, 'and each one's story bearing marks of artless simplicity, so that we were driven to the conclusion that the story of the four gospels was a record af actual facts beyond dispute. Some - times the details of evidence are more conclusive than the direct evi dence, because it is not the, testi mony of the witness, but of the truth that is sought. We begin here this morning, and we shall show that the narratives in the Gospels prove conclusively that they are not fiction, but fact. One illustration: In St. John's account of- Thomas' refusal to believe that the 'Lord had risen, notice what is said about the character of Thomas and 'the character of Jesus. How characteristic is Thomas' action and how characteristic is the rebuke of Jesus! When the other disciples tell Thomas that they have seen the Lord, he refuses to believe, and says, "I won't believe it until I see the prints of the nails in His hands." A week passes and the disciples, including Thomas, are gathered together, and Jesus suddenly appears again. He bids Thomas put forth his finger and thrust it into His side, and Thomas cries out, "My Lord and my God." And then Jesus introduces the tender rebuke. "Thomas, you ought to have believed before; but because thou hast seen Me, thou hast believed; blessed are those who believe on suf ficient .evidence without sight." Is that made up? Is it a lie? If it is -made up then the man who drew that pIcture of Thomas, without a wor'd of explanation, and that picture of Jesus, is the greatest literary master of the centuries. It is not made up; it is the record of reality. *Another illustration: When Peter said to Jesus (John xxi:21), "What -shall this man do?" the Lord replied: "What is that to thee?. Follow thou *Me." The fishers had breakfasted on the shore, and Jesus had told Peter * of Peter's coming crucifixion, and then starts down the shore and says, "Follow Me." And Peter, turning round as. he goes, sees John .follow lng, and says: "Lord, you have told me what my future is to be.. What will this man do?" Now, remember, all though the life of -Jesus, a it is recorded in the four Gospels, Jesus never answered questions of mere speculative curiosity. Peter wants to *know another man's business, and -.Jesus says, "What is that to thee? You see that you obey." Is that made . p. or it Is reality? Is it a lie? An thrillustration: In the same chap-' ter Jesus asks Peter, "Lovest thou Me?" three times, and Peter was grieved because He asked him that question three times. Notice these words: "Peter was grieved because He said unto him the third time, 'Lovest thou Me?'" Why was Peter grieved? John offers no explana tion. But the Lord's thought went * back to the court of Annas and Cala - phas, where three times Peter had denied Him, and, If the narrative had been made up. this would kave been explained. Have you ever noticed that the four Gospels Insist upon the fact tnat our Lord returned thanks in the breaking of bread? That is -something we do three times every day, but I do not think that any one, in writing our lives, would put it- on record. We simply return thanks as a matter of form, but when Jesus, in the breaking of bread, lifted up His heart and opened His lips, there was such a real drawing into the presence of God that no one at the table ever . forgot it, When, after the walk to Emmaus, Jesus returned thanks, al though they had not recognized Him before, notwithstanding that their hearts burned within them as He talked, the disciples knew Him. In - a moment their eyes were opened, and they said: "It Is the Lord; no -body else ever returned thanks that way." Is this a fiction? If one man wrote the story of the four Gospel, why should he put in all of these de tails without explanation? It is in credible; and that four sheuld do so is absolutely unbelievable. How comes it? Because this is what oc curred, and they told what they saw without realizing the significance of what they put down. Still another Illustration: If a man were inventing * the story of the Resurrection, why should he* put in the fact that the little napkin "was wrapped together in a place by itself?" Who cares whether It was in a place by itse.f or not? I do not know whether John knew the significance of it or not, but * there is a significance in It that no fiction would cortain. It showed that as Jesus arose, triu'mphant over death - and'the grave,in the supreme moment of the world's histor,', there was no hurry, no haste, no excitement, but that, with the same majestic com posure, the same divine sublimity, the same majestic calm that marked Him in the storm on the Sea of Gal ilee, He rises from the grave. He does not tear the handkerchief from His face and finrg It across the room, but calmly unbinds His head and face, lays it aside in a place by itself and passes out of the sepulchre. Ir that made up, and put in without a word of explanation? Never. We -have read not a pictu:re, but facts, *with a detail here an:d another there, nf whicb the writer, maarently, hadJ no conception of the meaning but - simpTy wrote what he saw. We have a volume of evidence on the resurrection of that kind. First, I the apostles, beyond peradventure, made the resurrection of Jesus the cornerstone of their preaching, and they preached it in the very city 4 where He was crucified and before the court that condemnd him. Fur thermore, they gave their lives for a testimony. Men do not do that for what they know to be false. Second ly, the early church, which came out of the Jewish -hurch, changed the Sabbath observance from the seventh day to the first day of the week, and anyone who has studied Jewish his tory knows the harddst thing in the world is to change Jewish customs, an, something tremendous must have happened to make this change possi ble, simply by common consent. The third fact Is most significant-the moral transformation of the apostles themselves. They were a pack of ut terly demoralized cowards, and a few days after we see that same company filled with the most indomitable cour agE- that the world has ever seen. What had happened? Jesus bad risen and they had seen Him. All intelli gent men who deny the resurrection admit that the apostles thought He had risen. Straus says: "We admit that they had seen something; may I not. this appearance have been vis- I ionary?" That -s. they saw a vision. Our answer is this: Whoever heard of aleven men having the same vision at the same time; and of 501 men having the same vision? An old ar gumen't against the resurrection has been revived within the last five years, and it was that Jesus was not really dead and was resuscitated, and they appeal to a historic fact-that a certain Jewish officer was taken down frcm a cross and brought back to life. We have five objections to this: First, what preceded th'e crucifixion -the scourging, etc. Second, the Jews and the Romans took special precautions to prevent this. Third, remember His broken heart. Fourth, if He had been resuscitated He would have been in a state of absolute phys cal collapse, as was the case with the Jewish officer, who was an in va'id all his- life. Fifth, if so, the on s who resuscitated Jesus must have been the apostles and the trans formation in them remains unac counted for. Finally, if it was not resurrection, then the wholeithing is a fraud. and a deliberate fraud. Who can believe that Christianity with its lofty precepts of morality and holy living rests upon a fraud and that Jesus was a party to it? No man can believe it. There is only one conclusion: The re!;urrection of Jesus Christ from t the dead is the best proved fact in hiitory. There is only one really strong argument against it, and that -, is that no one else was ever raised frcm the dead. The answer to that is that the life of Jesus was unique. His mission and nature and character were all unique and it was only to be expected that the issue of that life t would be unique. It is impossible for any man of loyal mind, or who has had any experience of evidence, who wants to know the truth, to sit down before the four Gospels and take them up, point by point, examine the statements and thoroughlysift the evidende, to come to any other con clusion than that Jesus-Christ actual ly arose from the dead, as recorded in the four Gospels.s What of It' Everything. If Christ rose again then Christianity is no longer a system of abstract divinity, but .a gospel of proven facts, and everything that you and I have been taught to beliee, and that is dear to the Christian heart, and the glory of the life to come, is an absolute certainty. - Seeking to Save.1 Christ is in all His redeemed, as the: soul of their soul, the life of] their life. He is the pitying heart and the helping hand of God with every needy, praying spirit In the world. He is the sweet light of thei knowledge of God that breaks in up an every penitent heart. He is not only with those who be lieve in Him and love Him, but also with those avho neither believe in1 Him nor love Him, that He may be to them also Jesus their Saviour. The Christ of God is in thy heart, waitng and aiming to get the con sent of thy will, that He may save thee. Wherever man is, there also is Christ, endeavoring to free him from the law of sin and death, by becoming Himself the law of the spirit of his life.--John Pulsford. The Way to Success. The men whom I have seen suc eeed best in life have always been1 heerful and hopeful men who went abcut their business with a smile on1 their faces, and took the changes and cha nces of their normal life like men facing rough and smooth alike as it came, and so found the truth of the old proverb, that "good times and bad times and all times pass over." Charles Kingsley. -A Continuous Praying. 1 Avoid diligently those false and de-i eptive thoughts which say, wait a little, I will pray an hour hence: _I: rr ust- perform this or that. For, with such thoughts a man quits prayer for business, which lays hold of and entangles him, so that he comes not1 to pray the whole day long.-Martin Luther. You can tell how much a man means his prayers by the way he gets out and pushes things after the meet The best evidence of your own sal vation is your interest - in that of1 others W.OMEN WATCH BUYERS. Greater than ever, jewellers say,' is the demand for women's watches this year. Why this should be the pur veyrs have not undlertaken to ex plain. Of course, with woman's posi tion of increasing importance in the affairs of the business world she prac tises more frequently the virtue o1 punctuality. The increased sale of tiny time pieces, however, cannot be acep unted for through that circumstance /fzr the varieties that are being sold are of the small, showy sort that are pinned1 on the front of the dress, where the actual wearer cannot see them. Jewellers' Circular-Weekly. THE STARVING SAVANT. A poet sat composing toasts Before a fireless grate; A mangled pencil 'twixt his teeth, Upon his lap a slate. While 'neath his ribs, his appetite Bespoke an "em;py" dread. "Oh would." sighed he, "instead of| words. These toasts were made of bread!" -F A. Brandt in Life. 'HE SUNDAY SCHOOL. NTERNATIONAL LESSON COM MENTS FOR SEPTEMBEh 9. iubject: Jesus Enters Jerusalem in Triumph, Matt. xxi., 1-17--Gold en Text, Matt. xxi., 9--Memory Verses, 9-11. I. Preparations for the triumphal ] ,ntry (vs. 1-7). 1. "Drew nigh." Chis was Sunday, commonly called ?alm Sunday. Jesus and His disci >les left Bethany and journeyed to- 3 vard Jerusalem. "Bethphage." The ocation of this town is not definitely Enown; it was between Bethany and rerusalem. "Sent-two disciples." 5upposed to have been Peter and ohn. After they left Bethany Jesus ;ent these disciples on ahead. 2. "The village." Bethphage. 'Ye shall find." Here we have a onderful instance of Christ's pre ;cience in very minute matters. 'Loose them." The animals were :ied; and so men's possessions are 'tied" by pleasure, or greed, or gain, )r habit, or the gordian knot of sel ishness. 3. "Straightway He will send :hem."' Our Lord did not beg, but )orrowed the colt, therefore this should be understood as the promise f returning him. 4. "Might be fulfilled." Was the :hief motive of Jesus merely to ful il a prophecy, and did He turn out )f the way for that purpose? Rath r, let us see that this was the right hing to do at this time. It was iecessary in order to fulfil His mis don for Him to offer Himself, on his laist opportunity, to the Jews as heir Messiah King. so that they night accept Him and be saved. "By he prophet." Zech. 9:9. 5. "The laughter of Sion." The church. 'Behold." Give attention and look vith astonishment and wonder. "Thy ing cometh." Jesus Christ is ap )inted King over the church (Psa. :6), anct is accepted by the church. 6. "Did as Jesus commanded."] Vhat a blessing it would be if every e did as Jesus commanded them, vithout stopping to question, or sug est a different course. 7. "Their :lothes." 'They spread their loose )ter garments- on the colt and sat i Fesus thereon, thus acknowledging Tim to be their king. II. The triumphal procession (vs. -11). 8. "A very great multi ude." Vast crowds were present at he Passover. In the time of Nero a ensus was taken and it was ascer ained that there were 2,700,000 rews present at this feast. "Gar nents in the way." An Oriental nark of honor at the reception of Cings on their entrance into cities. 'Branches from the trees." This vas a demonstration of their joy. .arrying palm and other branches vas emblematical of success and vic ry. 9. "Hosanna." Hosanna is a ren ering into Greek letters of the He rew words, "Save, we pray" (Psa. .18:25). It is like a shout-of "Sal ration! Salvation!" It is used as an hxpression of praise like "Hallelu ah!". The disciples rejoiced and raised God with a loud voice (Luke 9:37, 38), and the Pharisees with inconcealed disgust asked Him to re uke themn. I But Jesus replied, If hese should hold their peace the tones would immediately cry out. resus here grants His people a li ense to rejoice and shout His >raises. "The Son of David." A ~ommon expression for the Messiah. 'In the highest" In the highest de ;ree; in the highest strains; In the tighest heavens. 10.- "Was moved." "Was stirred." 1. V. The word in the original is] orcible, "convulsed" or "stirred" as >y an earthquake, or~ by a violent vrind. The same Greek word is used Jy Matthew. (8:24) to express the iect of a violent tempest upon the vaters of the Sea of Galilee. The nultitude was greatly excited. "Who1 s this?" Well may we, as well as hey, ask this questio'n. 11. "This1 s Jesus." And thus He is the Sa riour, the deliverer (Matt. 1:21).1 'The prophet of Nazareth." That )rophet referred to by Moses (Deut. 8:18). III. Cleansing the temple (vs. 12, L). 12. "Into the temple." This vas the next day, Monday. See dark 11:11-15. Jesus and His dis iples went back to Betha.ny on Sun iay night. This was the second leansing of the temple; one of His irst public acts, three years before his, was to purge His Father's house John 2:13-17). "Cast out." In he first instance He used a "scourge >f small cords," now His word~is suf icient. 13. "It is written." In Isa. 56: I; Jer. 7:11. "A den of thieves." Che business was right enough in it ;elf, but they had perverted the use f the Lord's house, and were rob 3ing the people by charging extor ;ionate prices. They were destroy ng the very spirit of true worship. IV. Christ's popularity (vs. 14 17). 14. "He healed them." In he presence of all the people He per 'rmed most wonderful cures. He low shows the proper use of the emple. 15. "Were sore displeased." [he leaders saw that they were un tble to check His growing popularity. Even the children were taking up ;he strain and were singing His >raises. 16. "Hearest Thou what these ;ay?" They were anxious to have hrist rebuke thenm, but, instead, resus quotes from Psa. 8:2 to show .hat even this was in harmony with he Scriptures. 17. "To Bethany." [hey again return to Bethany to ,odge. STILL ALERT. It was inl the jungle Iestaurfnt The leopard had been :lrinking and the waiter was trying to take~ ad!van tage of that circumstani~ce. "None of that Mr'. Monk:" velic the feline vigorously. "Theu leopard ray not be able to change his~ spot;. but let me tell you th:ut he is. fully competent to spot his u:nge~.'-ou rer Journal. Pan ama. It is supposed b~y some that Pana :na deri'.ed' its name from the native vord for butter:fly. Explorers of the nterior tell of swarms of butterflies ;.hich at times risc on the slopes of e~ nour.u:ainl n dense cloudsl, dark ; asKCn. Ot:ers -maintain Insurance - in France. Frnc has nlow forbidden by law the nsuin'g of the lives of children undei POHlH LAU L[SSONS SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 9. he Power and Blessedness of United Prayer- Matt. 18. 19. Holy fellowship and divine ack-:now Mdm.Sal. 3. 16-18. lutual supplication and confession. ames 3. 16. A spe-cific object for united prayer. Lets 12. 12. A pentecostal prayer meeting. Acts 13, 14. Exhortations to united prayer. Eph. 18, 19. He hears the united prayer of xiles. Isa. 19. 20. The Topic. "'Men ought always to >ray and not to faint"-to grow veary and cease. Men are so needy, nd God is so rich and so willing. 'he materialists, who are forever rying as they investigate the uni 'erse. "*Here's Law: where's God?" nd talking about the immutability of aw. and so forth, will never succeed i convincing more than a very few hat there is no efficacy in prayer. \l for the following reasons: The belief in it is ingrained-a part >f the very f- oric of human nature. The Supreme Book teaches prayer )y precept, and encjurages it by ex unlles of answered petitions. The experience of the church, in all ie ages of its history, teaches that >rayer has a vital energy and ability o reach God and to bring desired lessings. Our topic is concerned, more spe nifically with united prayer, and to his we now M;ne in our Daily Read ngs. Said Jesus, "If two of you shall ree on earth as touching anything :hey shall ask in my name, it shall )e done for them of my Father." Rev. John Livingstone, a Scotch recher, saw five hundred persons yonvrted In one day. Mighty ser on? Doubtless, but there have been housands es eloquent and convinc ng. and not one was converted as a -esult. What then? Why, many hristians had devoted the whole ol he preceding night to prayer for this ery object. We learn another thing from our eadings: namely, that a condition of tessdness and power in united rnyer is the confession of-our faults. Ianes says. "Confess one to another nd 'ray for each other." Let it be eal confession. .Finally, let us not 'rget to pray, as chapters and :urches, for tl-o e whom God hat alled to the seri ice of the sanctuary; he ministers of the gospel. . They ,rill be tempted. 0, so sorely! tc ,hck utterance, to prophesy smooth .hings, to avoid occi.,sions of offense (d opposition. Nei" restrain an mpluse to pray. Who can tell with what treasure he s laden when :-he Holy Spirit in this vay knocks at qur heart's door HBISTIIN ENDEAVOH NOTIE SEPTEMBER NINTH. rhe Triumphs of Christianity. Jchri 12: 32; 1 Cor. 15: 20-28. The goal of Christianity is "all en"; therefore the goal of eact: hristian must be, "al~l men whom I an reach." The triumphs of Alexander, Ceasar. apoleon, meant the death of thou sands; Christ's triumph means life ife abundant, life eternal. The triumph of Christianity Is. the ipremacy of law-of the highesi The majesty of Christianity is the najesty of humility, and ,its clithax is :o be in an act of divine humility. Suggestions. Christianmty is an organization, and riumhs as an organization; but the ;loris results consists of the tri imphs of individuals-of you and me. The triumphs of Christianity mus1 ye such as Christ would call triumphs -victories of humility over pride, 01 ove over selfishness, of purity ovel How Christ must long for us tc nake our longings the same as His! It is no accident that the Christiar ountries are the lands of civiliza :ion and the ruling nations of the llustrations.. in the "triumph" of a Roman con ueror throngs of the captives he iad made were led in chains. It hrist's triumph the captives He hat released march in happy freedom. One of the best illustrations of the rowth of Christianity is Ezekiel't rier, first covering only the feet aow grown a river to swim in, soot o cover the earth "as the watert sover the sea." Chrl?t's Illustration is of a mus Card seed, the tiniest of objects, now become a tree. The water moyes back and forth it in ellipse, but the wave moves on; so Christianity progresses In spite 0: the slowness of Christians. RAM'S IORN BLASTS REY do the besi Tfor men who see the best in men. A straight gait is good evi dence of having entered the strait gate. There is nc such thing r. a scientific religion 'without service. I A great deal that we call gen us turns out to be plain grinding. The historic incarnation is vait vithout the actual daily incarnation Many a man loses his reputation foi visdom by trying to give expressior oo his looks. It takes more than mixed drink! : make a good "mixer." The teLf-eentered life .is always mmall in its circumference. The cure for poverty must come t the point of character. It doesn 't take a very brave dog :o bark at the bones of a lion. People who live for public approva >ften die of private chagrmn. You cann!ot reflect the sun of righ :eousness when your face is cloudei with gloom. Many a woman feeds her childrer >nn pickles and spices and then won; iers where they get their depravet annettes. Current Happenings. President Roosevelt. aceordino to a WN-ashington autliority, will let Pres ident Pahna -o it alone' azainst the insurrection in Cuiba. and is in elined to favor a change of admuiis tration. .J. Ravnor Storrs Wells. appretice sean(in. iited States Navy, and son of a millonaire. is to be discharged for' t he gooid of t he service at the ex piral ion o his term of irnprisotitit aWt artsniolli. Va. Reilections of a Bachelor. After all. a woman's etffort to beau tify herself is but a vain attempt. Men who bra.- are those who for nmelIV 5(qutii Ldered. Some spinsters advance step by Step until they finally beoTme step moit hiers. I3any are trying to ret their hearts into pI Utrad is by b iputting their hainds I into other people's pockets. I North Dakota Solves the Adultera tion Problem. North Dakota seems to have found the key to the question, "How shall we protect the people from frauds in manufactured products?" a plan which is applicable to foods, bever ages, materials used in the arts, etc. A new law has recently gone into ef fect designed to make it impossible to deceive people into buying inferior and adulterated paint under the im pression that they are getting real paint, viz.: pure white lead and lin seed oil. The North Dakota lawmakers did not attempt to absolutely prohibit the inferior pigments, or mixtures of pigments. They adopted the slogan, "Let the label tell," and then left to the people to buy whichever they wished. Under this plan, if any one wishes to buy a mixtureof rock-dust, ground quartz and other cheap elements which are found in many paints and so-called "white leads," no one can object; for they do it with their eyes open. But if they prefer genuine white lead and linseed oil, they can be sure of getting it, for none but the genuine article can bear a label which says "pure white lead." In all other States mixtures are of ten sold as pure white lead which contain little-sometimes no-real white lead. It would seem that were this same principle applied to food, beverages and all other prepared articles, where deception is practiced upon the buy er, the question -would be solved. It would leave us free to buy what we pleased, but would protect us froni unwittingly buying what we did not want. It isn't what a man owes, but what he pays that keeps him poor. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrp for Children teing,softensthegumsreducesinflmma tion, allays pain,cures wind colic, 25ca bottle Let not the sun look down and. say inglorious herb he lies.-Franklin. FITS,St.Vitus'Dance:NervousDiseasesper manently cured by Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. 52 trial bottle and treatise free. Dr. H. R. Kline. Ld.,931 Arch St.. Phila., Pa. I Lawn Mowers' Hospital. Grass-cutting machines of every size and shape, from tiny hand ma chines only six inches wide up to pony mowers of thirty-inch blades, meant for service on bowling greens and lawns of manorlal dimensions, are now pouring into repairing shops for "fixing up" for the season. Most of them require the aid of the mower dentist, for' their "teeth" are worn and blunt; many show signs of severs usage and of having been out in the rain for prolonged periods. A thor ough overhaul works wonders. The machine that looked so disreputable and "seedy" on entrance to Messrs. Green's "hospital," in Southward street, is sent home in gay fresh paint with ble.des agleam and keen almost as razors. 'Wh. foreign ipachines stand repairing .,adly, he . English lawn mower can be rejliv'nated from year to year.--Londoni Daily J.Mail. SHE HADN'T. Fair Buyer--Our club is going to give a lecture on socialism. Have you any literature on the subject? Clerk-Did you ever read "Looking Backward?" Fair Buyer-Read looking back ward? How absurd. How could' I? Chicago News. Health and understand.'ng are the two great blesings of life.-From the Greek. So. 36- '06. GOOD ANDiI HARD Results of Excessive Coffee Drinking. It it remarkable what suffering some persons put up with just to sat isfy an appetite for something. IA Mica. woman -ays: "I had been using coffee since I was old enouzh to have a cup of my own at the table, and! from it I have suffered agony hundreds of timea in the years past. -"My troubme first began in the form of bilious colic, coming on every few weeks and almost ending my life. At every attack for 8 years I suf fered in this way. I used to pray for death to relieve me from my suffer ing. I had also attacks. of sick head ache, and began to suffer from ca tarrh of the stomach, and of course awful dyspepsia. "For about a year I lived on crack ers and water.' Believing that coffee was the cause of all this suffering, I finally quit It and began to use Postum Food Coffee. It agreed with my stomach, my troubles have left me and I am fast gaining my health under its use. "No wonder I condemn coffee and 'Itea. No one could be in a much more critical condition than I was from the use ofs coffee. Some doctors pro nounced it cancer, others ulceration, but none gave me any relief. But since I stopped coffee and began Pos tum I am getting well so fast I can heartily recommend It for all who suffer as I did."~ Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read the little book, "The Road to Items of Interest. Another flood visited Wineliester. over six inches of rain having fallen from Saturday night. Representative .laynard. of the Second Virginia district. det-lined the joint-debate challenge of Col. George C. Cabell. who is miakin-- a contiest for the nomination. The Circuit Court at Martinsburt. W. Va.. is considering the appeal of the Hannis 1)istilling Company from the decisioi of the cotiyt vc t oI question of taxes. Current Events. A number of vessels were drivet ashore and wrecked on the Great Lakes. The assignment of ministers of the West Virginia Methodist Protestant Conference were made at Fairmont. W. Va. The Standard Oil Company laz. it is said, taken steps to aceuire the principal distilling 1ants :of the couintrv. WORN TO A SKELETON. AWonderful Restoration That Caused a Sensation in a Pennsylvania Town. Mrs. Charles M. Preston, of Elk land, Pa., says: "Three years ago I found that my housework was be coming a burden. I tired easily, had no ambition and - was failing fast. My com r~ plexion got yellow, ind I lost over 50 pounds. My thirst was terrible, and there was sugar in N the kidney secretions. My doctor kept me on a strict diet, but as his medicine was not aelping me I began using Doan's Kidney Pills. 7They helped me at once, and soon all traces of sugar disappeared.. I Jaave regained my former weight and am perfectly well." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. The beauty of nature is simply that of obedience. TERRIBLE SCALY ECZEMA. Euptions Appeared on Chest, and Face and Neck Were AU Broken Out -Cured by Cuticura. "I had en eruption appe.- on my chest and body and exrend upwards and down wards, so that my neck and face were al! broken out; Asso my arms and the lower limbs as far as the knees. I at first thought it was prickly heat. But soon scales or crusts formed where the break ing out was. Instead of going to a phy sician I p.xchased e, complete treatment of the Cuticura Remedies, in which I had great faith, and all was satisfactory. A year or two later the eruption appeared again; cnsy a little lower, but before it had time to spread I procured another supply of the 'Juticura Remedies, and con tinued their use until the e re was com-. plete. 11 i-: now five years since the last attack, and have not seen any signs of a -feturn. I have more faith in Outienra Remed'es for skin diseases than anything I know of. kmmna E. Wilson, Liscomb, Iowa, Oct. 1, 1905." Sin is an intruder and not a ten ant in the heart. A HEALTHY OLD AGE OFTENTHE BEST PART OFLIFE elp for Women Passing Through Change of Life Providence has allotted usa each at least seventy years in which to fulfil our mission in life, and it is generally our own fault if we die prematurely. A* * ry*eim Nervous exhaustion invites dsae This statement is the positive truth. When everything becomes a burden adyoennot wt ra few bloekawith out excessive fatigue, and you break out into perspiration easily, and your face flushes, and you grow excited and shaky a~t the least provocation, and ycaninot bear to be crossed In any .thn ' o are in danger; your nerves have gvnout ; you need building up at once ! To build up woman's nerv ous system and during the period of change of lfe we know of no better medicine than Lydia 3. Pinkhiam's Veg etable Compound. Here is an illus traton. Mrs. Mar L. Koehane, 371 Garfld Avenue, (< , 111. writes. "I have used Lydia. E. 'sr eetbl Compound for years eml and it neve ; o fet Iwas nemmg hehazgeof lifelcomimenced treat my dirsy ael.pairs in my back haaches.it which I had suffered for taigthe Compound. I feel th tbMhdnot been for this retmedne for. woasn that I should not been alive Itoday. Itis speddfor w omald oryUg, Mrs. Piiaadaughter-in-law of Lydia E. Pinkham, of Lynn. 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