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B 0ur large stock with what is the newes
\ to save money, you cannot afford to ren:
HR da'b" offer in our handsome store room,
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couvince you that we have every thing new ; j
i. in Shapes, Firds. Wings, Feathers, and
r ltibboDs of all kinds and colors, the cor
xect sj les for'i>7. As a leader s-e oar
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+ Domestics, Trimmings, Etc. |'
A good Mattre's Tick, "c to >D a yard.
A good Feather T.ek 12.1, 15. *-?)c p* v yard. I i
ft bales 4 4 nnbleacht-d homespun 4c. \.ird i
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Linens, Damask, Doylies, r
5 pieces Table Damask 12 1. worth 2i'c.
5 pieces Table Damask 5 c worth 25c.
10 pieces Bltaebed and Unbleached, a bargsiiu,
regular price 5Uo. our pr.yj^PiI
I Dress Goods.
25 pit-ces Changeable Tress Patterns,
yards to a pattern, only '.is -j
20 pieces Mixed Press Patterns, s
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1 yards to the pattern, only <-s j
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REV. DR. TALMAGE ON GOD IN NA- !
TURE.
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T?:o Orchards of Adam. of Solomon, of
Pilate au?i of St. Joli:i? The f'osnolo~y
of the Ifible?The Coiiutry Versus the .
City.
rCopvrl^h.t. 1SP7. hy American IVess Association.
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Washington. Nov. 14.?Dr Talmuge
finds the divine hand in all the donun- j
ions of the natural world, and this ser- j
mon presents religion in its most radiant
attractiveness. The text is Gem-sis
i. 11. "The fruit tree yielding fruit aft
er his hind. '
It is Wednesday morning in paradise, j
The hirds did not sing their opening
piece, nor the fish take their first swim
until the following Friday The solar
and lunar lights d:d not break through
the thick, chaotic fog of the world's
manufacture until Thursday. Before
that there was light, but it was electric
light or phosphorescent light, not the
light of sun or moon But the botanical
and pomological productions came on
Wednesday?first the flowers and then
the fruits. The veil of fog is lifted, and
there stand the orchards. Watch the
sudden maturity of the fruit. In our j
tune pear trees must have two years be- j
fore they bear fruit, and peach trees
three years, and apple trees live years,
but hero iustantly a complete orchard
springs into life, all the brandies bearing
fruit. The insectile forces, which
have been doing tlie-ir worst to destroy
the fruits for <5.000 years, had not yet
begun thou* invasion. Tbccurcuho bail
nor yet stung the plum, nor the caterpillar
hurt the apple, nor had the phylloxera
plague, which has devastated the
vineyards of America and France, assailed
the grapes, nor the borer perforated
the wood, nor the aphides ruined the
cherrv, nor the grub punctured the nectarine.
nor the blight struck the pear
There stood the tirst orchard, with a
perfecticu of rind, and an cxctuisit? ncss
of color, and a luscionsncss of taste
and an affluence of production which it
may take thousands of years more of ;
study of the science of fruits to rcpro- i
ciuce.
The Orchards.
Why was the orchard created two I
days before tiie li>h and birds ami three '
days before the cattle? Among other j
things, to impress the world with a les
son it is too stupid to learn?that fruit J
diet is healthier than meat di-. t, and !
that the former must precede the latter
The reason there are m the world so
many of the imbruted and sensual is
that they have not improved by the \
mighty, unnoticed fact that the or- j
ebards of paradise preceded the herds j
anti aviaries and fish ponds. Oh. those j
fruit bearing trees on the banks of the !
Euphrates and the Oihon and the Hid- j
dekel! 1 wonder not that the ancient j
Romans, iguorant of our (iod, adored j
Pomona, the goddess of fruits, and that i
all the sylvan deities were said to wor- J
ship her, and that groves were set apart |
as her temples. You have thankcdjUod
for bread a thousand times. Have you !
thanked him for the fruits which he
made the first course of food in the menu j
ot the world's table? The acids of those {
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the styles and continually replenish '
t aD(l most desirable, and if you wish
min in ignorance of the big values we '
, 1G35 Main Street.
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CAPES, CLOAKS AM) JACKETS, j
liraidt-.l Cloth 0 ipcs froui 7:1 to ??"> Oi. >
INnsh. Fur Tnrnaed and brocaded 0ipes i
from $2 50 to $15 00.
\11 our Cloaks, the ldvst cuts, at a little :
ibovc factory cost.
UNDERWEAR FOR LADIES, CHILDREN
AND GENTS.
ill Wool. Fleece ;im<i aim comm. i.aon s
and (funis' Fierce med Fndeivtsts iroiii
15c up.
Cotton and Woolen Flanrels. extra heavy
Twill. Fleeced and otln-r Flannels, at
prices that must move them.
Special.
A i all Wool lied T.vil! Flannel at 11\ cents
Time is Money.
?/
S,ve time and save ntouey by piymg a
visit to "-nr Ksialdisltnvnt. and wh?u once
\?.n have \i-sited Us, it low prices and
courteous nib nlion count for anytldnff.
you are sure to call again.
ITHERLAND,
A, -S. ('.
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W. K.
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Solicts a Share of
fruit.* to keep the world's table from being
insipid, and their sweets to keep it
from being too sour?
At Ihts autumnal season how the orchards
breathe and glow, the leaves removed.
that tho crimson, or pink, or
saffron, or the yellow, or brown may
the bettor appear, while the aromatics
fill the air with invitation and reminiscence
As you pass through the orchard
011 these autumnal days and look up
through the arms of the trees laden with
fruit you hear thumping on the ground
that which is fully ripe. and, throwing
vcur arms around tlie trunk, you give a
shake that send? down a shower of gold
and tire on nil sides of you Pile up iu
baskets and barrels and bins and on
shelves and tables the divine supply
But these orchards have been under the
assault of at least (JO centuries?the
storm, the droughts, the winters, the
insectivora. What must the first orchard
have been it And yet it is the explorer's
evidence that on the site of that orchard
there is not an apricot, or an apple, or
an olive?nothing but desert and deso
iuticu. There is not enough to forage
tJie explorer's horse, much less to feed
his own hunger. In other words, that
lirst orchard is a lost orchard. How did
the proprietor and the proprietress of
all that intercolnmniation of fruitage
let the rich splendor slip their posscsfcion'r
It was as now most of the orchards
are lost?namely, by wanting
more. Access they had to all the lig
trees, apricots, walnuts, almonds, apples?
bushels011 bushels?and were forbidden
the use of only one tree in the
orchard. Not satisfied with all but one,
they reached for that and lost the whole
orchard.
Go right down through th? business
marts of the great cities and find among
tjhe weighers and clerks and subordinates
men who once commanded tho
commercial world. They had a whole
orchard of successes, but they wanted
just one more thing?one more house or
one more country seat or one more store
or one more vailroad or one more million
They clutched for that and lost all they
had gained. For one more tree they lost
a whole orchard. There are business
men all around us worried nearly to
death. Tho doctor tells them they ought
to stop. Insomnia or indigestion or aching
at the base of the brain or ungovernable
nerves tell them they ought to stop.
They really have enough for themselves
and their families. Talk with them
about their overwork and urge more
prudence and longer rest, and they say:
" Yes, you are right. After I have accomplished
one more thing that 1 have
on my mind 1 will hand over my business
to my sons and go to Europe and
quit the kind of exhausting life I have
been living for the last oO years." Some
morning you open your paper, and, look
~ I- ? C.wl l,^v
lug at uic ut-aiu cuiuimi, ><ju uuu no
suddenly departed this life. In trying
to win .ia>J one more tree, i.v; i.:st the
whole orchard.
Forbidden Fruit.
Yonder is a man with many styles of
innoeoni entertainment and amusement
He walks. ! ides, he plays tenpins in
private alleys, lie has books on his table,
pictures on his wall and occasional
outings, concerts, lectures, bast 1 all tickets
and the innumerable delights of
lriendship, but lie wants a key to the
place of dissolute eonvtx atioii He wants
association with some m< mber of a high
family as reckless as he is affluent lie
wants, instead of a quiet Sabbath, one
of carousal. lie wants the stimulus of
strong drinks. lie wants the permissions
of a profligate life. The one membership,
the one bad habit, the one carousal,
robs him of all the possibility s
and innocent enjoyments and noble inspirations
of a lifetime By one mouthful
of forbidden fruit be loses a whole
prehard of fruit unforbidden
You see what an expensive thing is
American Beauty.
W omen of'
America bave a
type of beauty
JP| 3>i peculiar to
^ i themselves. The
~Tj climate, habits,
J[\ and social pecu"v
-v liaiities, have
j combined to
J * ' .1,' produce a type
\X . ' f of womanhood
. . p at
quite distinct; irom tue women oi
other couutiies. It lias become
almost au everyday occurrence for
the nobility aud royal blood of
Europe to cross the water in search
of an American beauty, for the
United States has become famous
throughout the world. The American
beauty is a peculiar product of
this country. She has, however, one
formidable enemy, not only to her .
beauty I;lit to her health
as well. That enemy is indigenous
to the climate and soil of the
United States. It is called Catarrh.
Almost every woman has it in mild
or severe forms. Our climate makes
it well nigh unavoidable. It is the
only natural enemy the American
woman has. Not only is the United
States the home of catarrh, but it is
also the home of the now world
famous catarrh remedy, Pe ru na.
The uu dical profession has at last
succeeded in devising a remedy for
the weli nigh universal disease.
Pr. Hart man. the original compounder
cf Pe ru na, has a recent
hook on chronic catarrh which he
will send free to any address for a
short time. Address The Pe ru na
I), nir MYil Co., Columbii?, Ohio.
n o '
A?k your di nggist for a free P?ru-na
Almanac fui lb'.'S.
. ivSOZTCiiiToiL
Your Valued Patrol
When wear begins to exceed repair
in your body you aie going to fall
sick. The signs of it are loss of
liesb, paleness, weakness, nervousness,
etc. The repair needed is food.
You think you eat enough, and yet
you feel that }ou wear out more
tissue, energy, neive-forcc, than your
food makes for you. The difficulty
is that you do not digest enough.
And this is so serious it is worth sit
ting down seriously to think about.
O ~
If you can't digest what you eat,
take a few doses of Shaker Digestive
Cordial. The efl< ct of it will be to
increase your Hesh and make you fell
stronger. You won't fall sick. Proof
that it is in control of your repair
apparatus. It's easy enough to test
this for yourself. Take a few bottles
of Shaker Digestive Cordial.
Sold by druggist- at In cents t >
81.00 per bottle.
sin Ft costs 1.000 times more tlnm it
is worth. As some of all kinds of quad
rupeds and all kinds of winged natures
passed kef ore our progenitor that
lie might announce a name, 1mm ragh
to bat. and from lion to mole, so i suppose
there were in paradise speciiix us
of every land of fruit tree And in that
enormous orchard there was not enly
enough for the original family of iwo.
hut enough fruit fell ripe to the ground
and was never picked up to supply
whole towns and villages if the\ had
existed, but the infatuated couple turn
ed away from all these other trees un<>
faced this tree, ami fruit of that limy
will have though it cost tliem ail paradise.
This story of Eden is rejected by
some as an imjaohability if not an impossibility,
but norbin^ on earth is ca.-ier
for 1110 10 believe than the truth of
this Edenic story, for 1 have seen the
same tiling in this year of our Lord
lS'J?. 1 could call them by name, if it
were politic and righteous to do so. the
men who have sacrificed a paradise en
earth and a paradise in heaven lor raw
sin Their house went. Their library
went Their good name went Th?ir
field of usefulness went Their la-alth
went Their immortal soul went My
friends, there is just one sin that will
turn you cut of paradise if you do not
quit it Von know what it is. and
(?od knows, ami you had better drop
tbo hand and arm lifted toward that
bending bough before you pluck your
own rum. When Adam stood on tiptoe
and took in his right hand that one
round peac;i or apricot or apple, satan
reached lip and pulled down the round,
beautiful world of our present residence
/\ - I. .-v, 1 Ae;.vn'VTtuil\t iimr.
UVUrWUI hl'U iWiiM, u? ui ? liiv *cliaur.
ambitions politician, avaricious
speculator, better take that warning
from Adam's orchard and stop before
you put out for that one thing more.
Solomon'* Orchard.
But 1 turn from Adam's orchard to
Solomon's orchard. With ins own hand
he writes, "1 made me gardens ami orchards.
" Not depending on the natural
fall of rain, he irrigated those orchards.
Pieces of the aqueduct that watered
those gardens 1 have seen, and the reservoirs
are as perfect as when thousands
of years ago the mason's trowel smoothed
the mortar over their gray surfaces.
No orchard of olden or modern time
probably ever had its thirst so well
slaked. The largest of these reservoirs
is 582 feet Jong, 20? feet wide and 50
feet dee]> These reservoirs Solomon refers
to when lie says. "1 made ine pools
of water, to water therewith the wood
that bringoth forth trees." Solomon
used to ride out to that orchard before
breakfast. It gave him an appetite and
something to think about all the day
Josephus. the historian, represents him
as going out "early in the morning from
Jerusalem to the famed rooks of Ktam,
a fertile region, delightful with paradises
and running springs. Tinthrr the
king, in robes of white, rode in his
chariot, escorted by a troop of mounted
archers chosen for their youth and stature
and clad in Tyrian purple, whoso
Jong hair, powdered with gold dust,
sparkled in the sun. " After Solomon
had taken liis morning ride in these
luxuriant orchards lie would sit down
and write those wonderful tilings in
the Bible, drawing his illustrations
from the fruits lie had that very morning
plucked or ridden under And,
wishing to praise the coming Christ, ho
says, "As tiie apple tr?e among the
trees of the wood, so is my beloved."
And wishing to describe the love of the
church for h?-r Lord bo writes, "('emfort
me with apples, for J am sick nf
love, ' and desiring to make refen neu
to the white hair of the octogenarian,
and just before having noticed that the
blossoms of die almond trte were white,
he says of the aged man, "The almond
tree shall flourish." The walnuts and
the pomegranates and the mandrakes
and the kgs make Solomon's writings a
divinely arranged fruit basket
The Luxury of Religion.
What 11:1 an Solomon's orchards and
Solomon's gardens, lor tiny seem to
mingle, the two into one, flowers under
foot ami pomegranates over head'/ To
me they suggest that religion is a luxury
All along the world has looked upon
religion chiefly as a dire necessity?
a lifeboat from the shipwreck, a ladder
lrom the conflagration, a soft landing
place alter we 'nave been shoved oil' the
precipice of tins planet. As a eoiisequi
nee so many have said, "We will
await preparation for the future until
the crash of the shipwreck, until the
conflagration is in full blaze, until wo
roach the brink of the precipice. " No
doubt religion is inexpressibly important
lor the !a>t exigency But what do
the apples, and the tigs, and the melons,
and the pomegranates, and the eitreii.
and 1 he olives ot Solomon's orchard
mean? Luxury They mean that our religion
i> the luscious, the aromatic, the
pungent, the arborescent, the efflorescent,
the fuliaged, the umbrageous
They lutan what Edward Pay son meant
T, TIE2-,
ia?e. Prompt and I
i I
I when He declared. "If my" happiness J
continues to increase, 1 cannot support j
it much longer. " It means what Ha pa I
Padinanji. u Hindoo convert, meant j
when lie said. "I !nn;? f>.r my h< d. nor '
that I may sleep?I lit- awake often ami ;
lom;?hut to hold communion with my
(i'od." lr mean.-what the old colored
man said when In- was ::? ? sled by tin* !
Colporteur, "I hide .lack. how are you;" :
I "I is very painful in my knee, hut. i
I thank my heavenly Ma-n-r. I'm can so i
I to he thankful. My pood .Master just
| \ ib me 11uf to make me humhl"." j
' "And (] > yon enjoy religion :?s mm u
! now. Unele .lack. when you could go j
j to church and c'.a.-s meet ijigg;" "Yes. I |
i joys him more. iMi I tries to de jicoi
jil?*, to de meetings. to do .-anm-nt, and J
i when 1 hear do hymn sin;: and do pray
i 1 feels -lad. I'lit all di> ain't like d?? !
I "nod Lord in do heart, < osl's love lioro "
: It means sttttnso insti ad < i >nndov. n 1'
; means the Menim n statne made to sing !
: at the stroke of the n:< ming light !i '
! means ('hrisf at tin- \v?dditig in ("ana
, Jt moans ! 11? *'?11s of tie- singing of i
1 birds is come." It onans Jeremiah's i
| ?
i "well wat< red garden It nn ans Iki ;
vid's "oil ? ! ghsdm It means Lai i
;:h's "bride ami bridegroom." It moans j
j Luke's bad boy eonio home to liis fa- j
i ther's house Worldly joy killed Leu X i
| when he hoard that Milan wjiscaptured. 1
j Talva died ! v. tali tin- Uensan senate
honori d him Ihngora riled of joy j
f beennso h:> tnroo sons \v re crowned jit i
the Olympian game* Soj,!io? bs di? d of 1
' joy over his Ittnavv .-.mre->i and re- '
; ligions joy has lorn too much for many j
; a Christian, and Ills sou I has sped awav 1
i on the wing ot ho>:mn;?s
Ail old and jioor musician played J
j so well one night h< b re his kino i hat j
I the nest ni->rni!ii: when the musician
| awoke !se fomal |n> I a I |o covered with
j golden cups and plates. ;tnd ;i princely |
! robe lying a toss th(> back of a chair, j
j and richly r??nrLotted horses were p;iw
] ing at tim (p.. i way to take him through
j tlm street in imposing equipage. It was
I only a touch of what conies to every
j man who malms the Lord his portion. ;
| I or lie Jias w;in i M'r linn. mi?'? t ii"o?
I his Kin Lr, jo I irs. hanquots, chariots, man
j sums, triumphs. and it is only a ques- j
I ticn of tnii" wli' ii ho shall wear them,
I drink rheni, ride m them, live in them
! and celebrate t !>eni.
: ;
in li:;it)ii F?r All Timr*.
Yon think n iipion is a pond thinp j
for a funeral Oh, y?s! Km Solomon's <
orchard means more Religion is n !
pood thinp now, v;hen jon are in health J
and prosperity and the appetite is pood :
for citrons and apples and apricots j
j and poniepranates t'oine in without j
j wastiup any time in talkinp about tlirm ;
l and take fh 'usuries of religion Hap- j
j py yourself, thai you can make others
| happy .Make pist one jiersou happy ev
i ery day, and hi 20 years you will have !
j made T.tJOO pi ople happy J like wliar !
; Wellinptoii sai.i alter the hattle <?f \Ya- j
I terioo, ami wmn tie was in pursuit > i
j tlio French wtl.i his advance guard, and ,
j Colonel Harvey said to him, "(-Jenoral. !
! you liad hctt.*..* not go any fartlior, for
! you may be shot. af hv some sfraggh r
from tlm bus In*. " And Wellington replied:
"Let them lire away The I utile j
is won and niv life is of no value now. " 1
j My friends, wrought never to he reek- 1
less, hut if, through the pardoning and
| rescuing grace of Christ, you have gain[
ed the victory over sm and death and
i hell you need fear nothing on the earth
J cr under the earth Let all the sharpj
fehooters of perdition Maze away You ;
i may ride on ;u jov triumphant. Kcli- j
j gion for the funeral! Uh. yes, hut re- j
! ligion h.r the wedding breakfast, re- j
i ligion for tin* brightest spring morning i
i and autumns most gorg?ous sunset, j
I Ki'ligiou n>r ihe day when the stocks
; are up just as much as when stocks arc j
j down. J>< Iigu n when respiration is i
j easy as well a- lur tlie last gasp; whin" :
! the temperature is normal as well as |
I when it iva?*|i#-s 1" I
It may l e a 1'oM thing to say. hut 1 j
' risk it. that it all people, without rc- i
t spcet to helicl or character, at death |
passed into everlasting happiness. r?!
ligion for this worhi is such a luxury
that no man or woman could afford to
do without it Why was it that in the
parable of the prodigal son the finger
ring was ordered pur upon the returned
; wanderer's hand before! tlie shoes were
ordered for hi* tired feet? Are not shoes ;
more liii)i? i f.'iiu nn '"ii 11litii
finger ring-': ' >h. ys, I-nt ir was to impress
11st* world w.lh tin- fart that ndi\
gioii is ;i luxury as well ::s a lmrrssifv
"Put a ring r.jj his hand and shops on
his f> < I " If in s? rnioiur orcxliortaforv
i or serial rrrM|i:niri:<!atl'.n> rt religion ;
We J lit I he < !: ! t el-:}.hn-i> <Mi (h?. fa< t ;
that 1? r our s.;t< :y v.? n:u.-t have it
, when tlie ileer of iho next world is
opened ] 'cr human nature will take !
the ri.-k ami say ""I will wait until fh"
door begin* in open ' Put chow tin ni
the radiant truth, that the table of (Joel's
love ami pardon is m w laid with all
; the 1rnit> whirh the orchards of (Pid's
love and pardon and helpfulness ran |
supply, and th'-y will nunc lit e"d sir
clown with all flie other banqueters,
t[ii r.,jri-i I -111,1 ei-lncf ei I ()h fetch rill
flu; cirr< li.*, and tHo apples, and tlit?
walnuts, and the pomegranates ol ifolomon's
01 c hard.
In i'ilRte's Orchard.
But having introduce d yon to Adam's
orchard and carried yon awhile through
Solomon s orchard, i want to take a
walk with vou Tin-modi Pi bite's orchard
Catarrh is a Disease
Which requires a constitutional rem
cdy, It cannot be cured by local
application?. Hood's .Sarsaparilla is
wonderfully .successful in curing
catarrh bt cause it eradicates from
the blood the scrofulous taints which
cause it. Sufferers with catauii find
a cute in Hood s Sa'sapnilla. e- e i
after other reuu dies utterly fail.
Heed's Pills aie prompt, efficient.
| always reliable, easy to take, easy to ,
' operate. i
COMPi
^o-ehes,
c
Oolite Attention.
of three trees 011 u hill 10 feet high, ten j
minutes' walk from the gate of .Tern??.- i
lent After 1 had read that our greatgrandfather
and great grandmother had
been driven out of the lir.-t orchard, I )
made ii|> my mind that, the Lord would
u?it tin defeated in that way 1 said to j
myself that when 1 hey had been poi
turned by t ho fruit of that one tire. some- i
where, somehow. there would he pro- j
vuletl ati antidote b?r t lie ?t>. I said
"Where is the other f r? e that will undo !
tho work of that tree' Where is tho !
other orchard that will repair the dam- j
ago received in the first orchard.'" And j
1 read on until 1 found the orchard and '
its center free as mighty for euro as this j
one hail been for ruin, and as the one .
tree in Adam's orchard had its branehos j
lath n with the red fruit of carnage, ami j
the pale fruit of sulTci tug. .and the spot- J
ted fruit of decay, and the hitter liuit !
ol disappointment, 1 found m Pilate's J
orchard a tree which, though stripped j
of all its leaves ami struck through hv !
an iron bolt as long as your arm. never- [
tln le.-s btne the rielu'st fruit that wis j
evt r gathered. Jake tlie trees of the first '
orchard, this was planted, blossomed !
and bore fruit all in one day.
Paul was impulsive and vehement ?.f j
nature, and he laid hold rf that trie j
with both arms and shook it till the !
priniml a!! round looked like an orehard i
the morning after an autumnal equinox, j
and. careful lest he step mi vune of the !
fruit. gathered up a basketful ?,f jt for }
the Calatiatis, crying out, "The fruit !
of tlie Spirit is love, joy, peace, hug ;
suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
meekness, temperance. " The other two J
trees of Pilate's orehard were loaded,
the one with the hard fruits of obduracy
and the other with the fender fruit of 1
repentance, hut tin* renter tree (bow j
will I ever forget the day 1 sat (in the j
cxa^t place where it was planter!)?the
rc?iter tree of that orchard yields the
antidote for the poisoned tuitions. There
is in old Filmland the hollow of a tree
win re a kiut: hid, and there is in New
England a trep in which a document of
national importance was k< pf inviolate, J
and then* have been frcis of groat girth !
and immense sh?id? and vast wealth of |
fruitage, hut no other tree had such
value of reminiscence, or depth of root, j
or spread of branch, or infinitude of
1
fruitn^p os l hp con for tivo of Pihite'* i
orchard Kefere 1 pass this day front
under it 1 would like to drop on both j
knees and with both hands outspread J
and uplifted toward the heavens cry out
with all the nations of earth and hear- j
en: "I believe in (!?-d, the Father A1 |
mighty, Maker of heaven and earth. !
and in Jesus Christ, his only Smi. our !
Lord, who was conceived by the Holy ;
(Ihost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered
under rontius i'ilate, was crucified,
dead and buried, lb* descended into f
hell. 'J'ho tliird day lie rose front tie* .
dead. Jfe ascended into heaven and sit- j
fefli on the right liand of (iod the Fa- 1
titer Almighty. Front thence h?* shall |
come to judge the quick and the dead ' i
St. .John'* Orchard.
Now, in this discourse of the jionmlo- !
fly of tilts Hil'le, or (iod airrtiT'Tlio or- j
cliards, having shown you Adam's or- j
chard and Solomon's orchard and J'ilatc's
orchard, 1 now take you into St
John's orchard, and I will stop there, !
-- I .. .1..., ...: 11
iiT ii.it mi: 11 IMIII fun Mm ?)?III I-) i
pro nothing nii'ic. St John himself. j
bavin-.: prni that orchard. discharged a i
whole volley nf Ci.ijip! <Ymo! Com*! i
and tlx n pronounced tlir lirnedjri ion:
"The *;raec of our Lord .Irsns Christ ho j
with you all Anion." Thru tho hanishrd
rvan^i li>r closes tin* hook, and j
tho 1'ihlo is doiio. The dear old hook j
ojM'iinl with Adam's on haul and rlos-s j
wilh St. .Joint's op-hard. Si .J-hn wont |
into lhis orchard thioii^h a sloiu* catr, j
the hlack hast It of the isle of Latinos, I
to which hr had hern exiled. That or- J
chard which lie saw was and is in heav- j
en.
One person will err in speaking of
heaven a> all mat? rial, and another p< rsoii
describes heaven as all firnrati\e '
ami spiritual. ami nini an> imciii: j
II**avfii is boih material and spiritual. !
as w are both material and spiritual, j
While mu'ii of the Bill" H'vount of i
heaven is to P" taken figuratively ami !
spiritually, it i? plain to lm-that li**av* n j
has also a material existence. Christ
said. "I co to pit-par" a place for y?>u. "
Is ii<it a place material? (Jod, who has ,
done all tlm world buildinu. the statistics
<>f stars so vast as to hp a bewilder
nmiit ft; telescopes. run Id have sonmvlit-if
in his astronomy pi ltd up a Ire- ;
nu-ndons world (orualm th?> Bible leaven
tiii" h'>f(j as a material splendor !
ami a spiritual domain I do not- believe j
(it'll put all ill" fl- wpi?, and all the pre j
cioiis st-'HPS, ami ail til" bright metals. i
ami all the miisi?. ami all the fountains,
ami all the orchards in this little world of
ours. H"W nim h was literal ati'l Hr?w
much was tignrative I cannot say. hut
Sr. .lobn saw two rows of trees on each
side of a river, and it differed from oth
er orchards in ih? fa<-t that the ttps I
bore 12 manner of fruits 'J'h" learn*d j
translators of our rotnmon Bibb* say it |
means 12 different kimlsof fruits in one !
yi ar Albert Barnes says it means 12 ?
crops cf the ganm kind of fruit in one 1
year. Not able to decide which i? the j
more accurate translation. I adopt both, j
If it mean 12 different kinds of fruit, it 1
declares variety m heavenly joy If ;
it menus 12 crops of 'ho same kiii'l *-t" {
fruit, it declares- abundance in heavenly 1
jitv, and they are both true.
Variety? oh, yea! Not an eternity
with nothing but mnsii,'1 that oratorio
would be too protracted. Not an eternity i
of procession on white horses; that j
would h? too lone in the stirrups. Not.
an eternity of watching the river; that
would b'1 too much of the picturesque.
Not an eternity of pirn-king frnits front
the tree of life; that would be too much
of the heavenly orchard. Put all manner
of varieties, and I will tell you of
at least 12 of those varieties: -Toy of Ht
vine worship, joy over the victories r,l
the Lamb who was sl;.rn, joy over the j
repentant sinners, joy ut recounting our
own rescue. joy of embraojngold friends
joy at recognition of patriarchs, apostles,
evangelist? and martyrs, joy of ringing
harmonies, joy of reknitting broken
friendships, joy at the explanation of (
Providential mysteries, joy at walking
the boulevards of gold, joy at looking
at Walls gieua with emerald find blue I
ANY,
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j
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;ou MHIA, S. CJ., !
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with sapphire and crimson with jasper
ami alhoh with amethyst, eno-ied
thmni:h swwitrinji Kates, their posts,
their limp's ami then | am is <>! richest
pearl, jJ'iy that then* i> t< ho n<? suhsi
deneo, no ream i >11, ii< i t< i'i ii in us ! < til"
felicity. AM that makes f? ditlereut
joys, 1'J manner of fruits So nun li for
variety fast it you take tin. othei interpretaiinii
ami >av it means crops a
year I am with you still. for that means j
almii'iaii' o That will l>e the first pla? > .
we ever pit into where there is rimn^ii i
of every tiling, enough of health. < noii^ii j
of hfihr, enough of supernal association, i
enough of love, enough of kuowledp.-, i
enough of joy The orchards of this 1
lower world put out all their energic:
f?>r a few days in autumn, and then, j !
having yielded one crop, their hauners
r>f foliage are dropped out <*f tlm air. j
and all their beamy is H'Jjomiifd until i
the blossoming of ih?? n? .\i .May time. >
Tut 1"J eropw in the l.e.nonly ofeh.ird '
during thai v.hi'h < it ejrth we eall a 1
year mean ahnndanee p?T|wtn.tlly.
T he Ijrpvpnlj (Mellaril.
While tin 10 is nnngh of 111?* jinmp of
(Ik- < it\ about Jrvivon for those who
ii]<*' l!)t rify 1"S|. I tlialdi ( I?.?' 1 there is
Piioimh iii tln> nil.!.. wli<>ut ?i:utiy sonitv
in ho;i\.*n to ;?.- ?* those of ws who
tvnv lorn i:i the rouptry and m-ver p?f j
nv<r it. Now von may have strn ts of .
fjohl in In -a v* 11 :n?? 1 ho or. hards .
with I .' manner of fruits ami yielding !
their fmii voy on nth. ami tin? have.- j :
of too tr? .s aro for "the healing of tin- ||
nations. and tin to shall le t:o im-re I
cmii hut tin- throne of (ir.il ami of the
J,a in I. shall l.*o in n, and his SMvants . I
shall serve ltitn. and tin y shtiil o hi:- ! j
fai-o. ami his name shall ho in th* ir i
fori In-ads. ami tln.ro shall lo it" tii-lif |'
tin t-'-, and they need no oandl.'. in ithor ' I
light of the >iiu. for ilm Lord (b.d giv- '
nth thrm light, and tbey shall reign
forever and ovrr. " Bin just think of a '
place so brilliant that ihr* noonday sun ;
shall be munved from the mantle < f .
the sky brraii.-c it is too feeble a tapi r
Yrt most of all atn I impressed with I <
the fart that 1 atn pot yet. lit for that j
plane, nor vou either. l*y the regousf
runt ing and sand ifyitijj gr.tre of Christ (
wo nrrri to ho marie n IJ ovrr. .And Jit i
us ho pitting' our passports ready if wo
want to got into that rnntitiy. Ail rartit- !
ly passport is :i personal niatt< r. telling |
our height, our jrijiIi. the rojoj- of ? ur J
hair, our features, our complexion and 1
our age. I cannot get into a foreign ' (
port on your passport, nor ran yon gpf
in on mine. Kach one of u.s for himself
needs n divine ciynaturo, written by the 1 '
wounded hand of tin* Son of God. to ;i
get into the Juuvf nly orchard, i;nd< r thu j
laden branches of which. in t Jed's go?Hl
time, we may timet the Adam of j)i?j ]
first on-hard and the Solomon of the j J
second orchard, and the St. John of the |
last orchard, to sit down under the live |
of which the church in ihy book of {
Canticles speaks wb<m it says: "As th"
apple tree among the trees of the wood. I
so is my beloved among the sons. 1 >at ! '
down und.er his shadow with great de- ! I
light, and his fruit was sweet to mv j
taste," and there it uiav Ik- found that
today we learned the dangt r of hank" r
ing after one thing tn<.r?'. and thatte- !
ligiou is a luxnry, and that there is a <
divine antidote for all poisons. and that
we had created in us an appetite for ; '
heaven, and that it was a wholesome | f
att<l saving thing for ns to have (lis. ; j
coursed on the pomology of the JJjble, j
or (io<l among the orchards. j
riTnuii nitir'c
11 mill nun 1. 170
4 31AIX S'l
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DRESS G00DS,|
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20 l's .'10 inch Hemietta 20e for J5c '
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25 i's Silk liiul Suiting to inch for 25c
54-Inch LADIES' CLOTH.,jj
25 ps 51 in Ladies' Cloth, I yards :j
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BLACK COODS.
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SILKS. SILKS. :
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October 13 tf.
Tin- United St.d* s Uircuit Court
?r III-* W <<? ?;i I>i-1rii t of North
mr?has deci I' d lli.it the Chcroiee
Indians are not citizens of the
1 *1 Stati s. This decision is eo?tniry
to tlx' ruling of the United
States Su|u'e?ic Court which declared j
in an opinion handed down by du8^
lice Melds, that the Indians were
luti/.' hs and had a right to make con?
tracts
Royal makes the food pure,
wholesome and delicious.
If'
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Absolutely Pure '
p^vai puking ?o*r>fn e?.. NIW VO*K. 3
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Tin* new forms of reports for free
schools ami tcaclicis' pay warrants
have been s< lit out to the various
l'ount\ Supi liiiteiah'iits of KducaI'on.
Tin v are s ii;1. to be a grer.t
i:1111r*ivt'iuc'itt ov r the old forms. If
1 ?
I !? free public school .system would
be improved upon, more satisfaction
would result and its eflicietcy in[ rcas?(l.
There is certainly room <
ildl.^ tltis line.
An application for a receiver for the
Si>ut Item Home building and Loan
Association lias been denied by
f'nitid States Judge Pardee at
Atlanta.
?
A little chili! of J. K. Hays, living
near (lohjuitt, (la., overturned a pot
)f boiling water, scalding itself so
severely that the skin came off its
Lueast an.l limbs. The distressed
[ areiils sent to Mr. Hush, a merchant
?f ('ol?|?iitt, for a remedy, and he
uomptly forwarded Chamberlain's
I'aiu Halm. The child was suffering
n1 em civ, but was relieved by a single
api licaiion of Hie Pain Balm.
Vnother application or two made it
sound and well. For sale by J. E.
Ivuifrnann.
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