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REV. DR. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUN DAY SERMON. Subject: “Christ the Village Lad.” I eretl thee as a hen gathereth her ehiehens ! under her wing!” By night He had noticed ! His mother by the plain candle light which, as ever and anon it was snuffed and the re moved wick put down on the candlestick, beamed brightly through all the family sitting room as His mother was mending His garments that had been torn during the day's wanderings among the rocks or bushe*, and years afterward it all came out in the bimile of the greatest sermon ever preached: ! “Neither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel but in a candlestick and it giveth light to all who are in the house. ; Let your light so shine.” Some time when His mother in the autumn took out the clothes : that had been put away for the summer He noticed how the moth miller flew out and the Text: 11 And the child grerc, and waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom; and the grace of Ood was upon Him."—Luke ii., 40. About Christ as a village lad I speak. There is for the most part a silence more than eighteen centuries long about Christ between } ^iat dropped apart ruined and useless, and so infancy and manhood. "What kind of a boy twentv vears after He enjoined: “Lay up for was He? "Was He a genuine boy at all, or did j yourselves treasures in heaven where neither there settle upon Him from the start all the j moth por rust can corrupt.” His boyhood intensities of martydom? We have on this spent among birds and flowers they subject only a little guessing, a few surmises, a n caroled and bloomed again fifteen and here and there an unimportant “per- ' haps.” Concerning what bounded that boy hood on both sides we have whole libraries of books and whole galleries of canvas and sculpture. But pen and pencil and chisel have with few exceptions passed by Christ the village lad. Yet by three conjoined evidences I think we can come to as accurate an idea of what Christ was as a boy as we can of what Christ was as a man. First, we have the brief Bible accotmt. years after as He fowls of the air.” cries out “Consider Behold the the lilies.” A t storm one day during Christ's boyhood \ blackened the heavens and angered the rivers. Perhaps standing in the door of the carpenter’s shop He watched it gathering I louder and wilder until two cyclones, one | sweeping down from Mount Tabor and the ! other from Mount Carmel, met in the valley of Esdraelon and two houses are caught in the j fury and crash goes the one and triumphant ! stands the other, and He noticed that one had Then we have the prolonged account of what shifting sand for a foundation and the other Christ was at thirty years of age. Now you an eternal rock for basis; and twenty have only to minify that account somewhat j years after He built the whole scene into a and you find what He was at ten years of peroration of flood and whirlwind that seized age. Temperaments never change. A san- His audience and lifted them into the heights guine temperament never becomes a phleg- | 0 f sublimity with the two great arms of pa- matic temperament A nervous tempera ment never becomes a lymphatic tempera ment. Religion changes one’s affections and ambitions, but it is the same old tempera ment acting in a different direction. As Christ had no religious changes He was as a lad what He was as a man, only on not so upon a rock; and the rain descended, large a scale. When all tradition and all art • - - ' "" —’ ’ ’ ’ — and all history represent Him as a blonde with golden hair I know He was in boyhood a blonde. We have, beside, an uninspired book that was for the first three or four centuries after Christ's appearance) received by many as inspired and which gives pro longed account of Christ’s boy hood. Some of it may be true, most of it may be true, none of it may be true. It may be partly built on facts, or by the passage of the ~ u ““ “f hYs nTrqhlcs and simifes and ages,somereai facts may have been distorted, j that He had been a boy of the fields and had bathed in the streams and heard the nightingale’s call, and broken through the flowery hedge | and looked out of the embrasures of the for tress, and drank from the wells and chased the butterflies, which travelers say have al- wavs been one of the flitting beauties of that neighborhood. thos and terror, which sublime words I render, asking you as far as possible to for get that yon ever heard them before: “Who soever heareth these sayings of Mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house: and it fell not; for it was founded upon a rock. And every one that heareth these sayings of Mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand; and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell; and great was the fall of it.” Yes, from the naturalness, the simnlicity. But because a book is not divinely inspired we are not therefore to conclude that there are not true things in it. Prescott's “Conquest of Mexico” was not inspired, but we believe it although it inav contain mis takes. Macaulay’s “History of 'England” was not inspired, but we believe it although it may have been marred with many errors. lieve to be divinely inspired, and yet it may present facts worthv of consideration. Because it represents the boy Christ as performing miracles some have overthrown that whole apocryphal book. But what right have you to say that Christ did not peform miracles at ten years of age as well as at thirty? He was in boyhood as certainly divine as' in man hood. Then while a lad He must have had the power to work miracles, whether He did or not work them When, hav ing reached manhood, Christ turned water into wine that was said to bo the beginning of miracles. But that may mean that it was the beginning of that series of manhood miracles. In a word, I think that the New Testament is only a small transcript of wiiat Jesus did and said. Indeed, the Bible declares positively that if all Christ did and said were written the world would not contain the books. So we are at liberty to believe or reject those parts of the apocrvphal Gospel which say that when the boy Christ with His mother “passed a band of thieves He told His mother that two of them, Dumachus and Titus by name, would be the two thieves who afterward would expire on crosses beside Him. Was that more, wonder ful than some of Chirst’s manhood pro phesies ? Or the uninspired story that the boy Christ made a fountain spring from the roots of a sycamore tree so tnat His mother washed His coat in the stream —was that more unbelievable than the man hood miracle that changed common water into a marriage beverage? Or the uninspired story that two sick children were recovered by bathing in the water where Christ had washed? Was that more wonderful than the manhood miracle by which the woman jfcwelve years a complete invalid should have been eigr the Syria, I foot passed through His | the dogs barking at their ap- ; proach at sundown. As afterward He was a ! perfect man, in the time of which I sneak He j was a perfect boy, with the spring of a boy’s | foot, the sparkle of a boy’s eye, the rebound l of a boy’s life and just the opposite of those | juveniles who sit around morbid and un- j elastic, old men at ten. I warrant He was 1 able to take His own part and to take the part of others. In that village of Nazareth I am 1 certain there was what is found in all the I neighborhoods of the earth, that terror of children, the bully, who seems born to strike, to punch, to bruise, to overpower the less muscular and robust. The Christ who after ward in no limited terms denounced hypo crite and Pharisee, I warrant, never let such juvenile villain impose upon less vigorous i childhood and yet go unscathed and unde fended. At ten" years He was in sympathy with the underlings as He was at thirty and thirty-three. I want no further inspired or uninspired information to persuade me tbat ! He was a splendid boy, a radiant boy, the grandest, holiest, mightest boy of all the ages. Hence I commend Him as a boy’s Christ. What multitudes between ten and fifteen years have found Him out as the one just suited by His own personal experience to help any boy. But having shown you the divine lad in the fields, I must show you Him in the mechanic’s shop. Joseph, His father, died very early, immediately after the famous trip to the Temple, and. this lad not only to support Him- seL.’ but support His mother, and what that is some of you know. There is a royal race of boys on earth now doing the same thing. They wear no crown. They have no purple t’s coat? In other woi^Brhile I do not believe that any of the so-called apocryphal New Testa ment is inspired, I believe much of it is true; just as I believe a thousand books, none of which are divinely inspired. Much of it was just like Christ. Just as certain as the man Christ was the most of the time getting men out of trouble, I think that the boy Christ was the most of the time getting boys out of trouble. I have declared to you this day a boys’ Christ. And the world wants such a one. He did not sit around moping over what was to be, or what was. From the way in which natural objects en wreathed themselves into his sermons after He had be come a man I conclude there was not a rock or a hill or a cavern or a tree for miles around that He was not familiar with in childhood. He had cautiously felt His way do wn into the caves and had with lithe and agile limb gained a poise on many a high tree top. His boyhood was passed among grand scenery “as most all the great natures have passed early life among the mountains. They may live now on the flats, but they passed the receptive days of ladhood among the hills. Among the mountains of New Hampshire, or the mountains of Virginia, or the moun tains of Kentucky,or the mountains of Swit zerland, or Italy, or Austria, or Scotland, or mountains as high and rugged as they, many of the world’s thrilling biographies bagan. Our Lord s boyhood was passed in a neigh borhood twelve hundred feet above the level of the sea and surrounded by mountains five or sir hundred feet still higher. Before it could shine on the village where this boy slept the sun had to climb far enough up to look over hills fhat held their heads far aloft. From yonder height His eye at one sweeo took in the mighty scoop of the valleys and with another sweep took in the Mediterranean Sea, and you hear the grandeur of the cliffs and the surge of the great waters in His match less sermonology. One day I see that divine boy, the wind flurrying His hair over His sun browned forehead, standing on a hill t6p looking off upon Lake Tiberias, on which at | laid one time according to profane history are, not four hundred, four thousand ships. Au thors have taken pains to say that Christ was not affected by these surroundings, and that He from within lived outwSrd and independ ent of circumstances. So far from that be ing true. He was the most sensitive being that ever walked the earth, and if a pale invalid’s weak finger could not touch His robe without strength going out from Him, these mountains and seas could not have touched His eye with out irradiating His entire nature with their magnificence. I warrant that He had mounted chair on which they sit throne as anything you can imagine. But God knows what the what sacrifices they go, am great Rabbin Simeon! This is the venerable Hillel! This is the famous Shammai. These are the sons of the distinguished Betirah. What can this twelve year lad teach them or what questions can He ask worthy their cogitation? Ah, the first time in all their lives these re ligionists have fonnd their match and more than their match. Though so young. He knew all about the famous Temple under whose roof they held that most wonderful discussion of all history. He knew the meaning of every altar, of every sacrifice, of every golden candlestick, of every embroidered curtain, of every crumb of shew bread, of every drop of oil in that sacred edifice. He knew ali aoout God. He knew all about man. Ho knew all abont heaven, for He came from it. He knew all about this world, for He made it. He knew all worlds, for they were only the sparkling morning dewdrops on the lawn in front of His heavenly palace. Put these seven Bible words in a wreath of emphasis : “ Both hearing them and asking them questions.” I am not so much interested in the questions they asked Him as in the questions He asked them. He asked the questions not to get in formation from the doctors, for He knew it already, but to humble them by showing them the height agd depth and length and breadth of their own ignorance. While the radiant boy thrusts these self-conceited phil osophers with the interrogation point, they put the forefinger of the right hand to the temple as though to stirt their thoughts into more vigor, and then they would look upward and then they would wrinkle their brows and then by absolute silence or in positive words confess their incapacity to answer the inter rogatory. With any one of a hundred ques tions about theology, about philosophy, about astronomy, about time, about eternity. He may have balked them, disconcerted them, flung them flat. Behold the boy Christ asking questions and listen when your child asks questions. He has the right to ask them. The more he asks the better. Alas for the stu pidity of the child without inquisitiveness! It is Christlike to ask questions. Answer them if you can. Do not say: “I can’t be both ered now.” It is your place to be bothered with questions. If you are not able to answer, surrender and confess vour incapacity, as I have no doubt did Babbin Simeon and Hillel and Shammai and the sons of Betirah when that splendid boy, sitting or standing there with a garment reaching from neck to ankle, and girdled at the waist, put them to their very wit’s end. It is no disgrace to say: “I don’t “know.” The learned doctors who environed Christ that day in the Temple did not know or they would not have asked Him any questions. The only being in the universe who never needs to say: “I do not know” is the Lord Almighty. The fact that they did not know sent “Keppler and Cuvier and Columbus and Humboldt and Herschel and Morse and Sir William Hamil ton and all the other of the world's mightiest natures into their life-long explorations. Telescope and microscope and stethoscope and electric battery and all the scientific ap- : paratus of all the ages are only questions | asked at the door of mystery. Behold this i Nazarene lad asking questions, giving ever- i lasting dignity to earnest interrogation. • But while I “see the old theologians standing I around the boy Christ I am impressed as never before with the fact that what theology most wants is more of childish simplicity. The world and the church have built up im mense systems of theology. Half of them try to tell what God thought, what God planned, what God did five hundred million years before the small star on which we live was created. I have had many a sound sleep under sermons about the decrees of God and the eternal generation of the Son and dis courses showing who Melchisedek wasn’t, and I give a fair warning that if any minister ever begins a sermon on such a subject in my presence I will put my head down on the pew m front and go into the deepest slumber I can reach. W icked waste of time, this trying to scale the unscalable and fathom the un fathomable while the nations want the bread of life and to be told how they can get rid of their sins and their sorrows. Why should you and I perplex ourselves about the decrees of God? Mind your own business and God will take care of“ His. In the conduct of the universe I think He will somehow manage to get along without us. If you want to love and serve God. and be good and useful and get to heaven. I wanant that nothing which occurred eight hundred quintillion of years ago will hinder you a min ute. It is not the decrees-of God that do us any harm, it is our own decrees of sin and folly. You need not go any further back in history than about 1856 years. You see this is the year 1889. Christ died about thirty- three years of age. You subtract thirty-three TEMPERANCE. A NICE LITTLE THIS. I saw a little doggery Upon a little hill; I saw a little ugly man A-coining from the milL And in the little doggery The little man did go, To take a little merry grog With his little neighbor Ji oe. And when they took a little grog, Thev felt a little big; They laughed a little hearty laugh And danced a little jig. They took a little more, then They got a little tight; ►oli' They d: And on politics, fight. And when they had a little fight, They felt as large as Ufe; Each staggered to his little home And whioped his little wife. —Thad. Oliver, in the Voice. LIQUOR’S EFFECT UPON* THE HINDOOS. For hundreds of years the natives of India ha ve been a sober race, but they are rapidly giving themselves up to the liquor evil. This & due to British civilization. Association with the English has caused the Hindoos to adopt some of their habits, and the vice of drunkenness is now so common in India that the attention of the Government has been called to it. It has been a difficult matter all along to control these Asiatic hordes, but when inflamed by liquor the problem of gov erning them will be made still mono serious. —Atlanta Constitution. f WITHOUT WINES. the twen- l Temper- eternity God will keep ] they are doing and through ad through all them for their _ paying filial behavior. They shall get full measure of reward, the measure pressed down, shaken together and running over. They have their example in this boy Christ taking care of His mother. He had been taught the car penter’s trade by His father. The boy had done the plainer work at the shop while His father had put on the finish ing touches of the work. The boy also cleared away the chips and blocks and shavings. He helped hold the different pieces of work while the father joined them. In our day we have all kinds of mechanics and the work is divided up among them. But to be a carpenter in Christ’s boyhood days meant to make plows, yokes, shovels, wagons, tables, chairs, sofas, houses, and al most everything that was made. Fortunate was it that the boy had learned the trade, for, when the head of the family dies, it is a grand thin» to have the child able to take care of himself and help take care of others. Now that Joseph, His father, is dead and the responsibility of family sup port comes down on this boy, I hear from morning to night His hammer pounding, Kis saw vacillating, His axe descending, His gim lets boring, and standing amid the dust and debris of the shop I find the perspiration gathering on His temples and notice the fa tigue of His arm, and as He stops a moment to rest I see Him panting, His hand on His side, from the exhaustion. Now He goes forth in the morning loaded with implements of work heavier than any modern kit of tools. Under the tropical sun He swelters. Lifting, pulling,adjusting, cleaving, splitting all day long. At nightfall He goes home to the plain supper provided by His mother and sits down too tired to talk. Work! work! work! You cannot tell Christ thing now about blistered hands or ankles or bruised fingers or stiff joints or rising in thj morning ns i*'-ed as when you down. While yet a boy He knew it all, He felt it all, He suffered it ail. The boy carpenter! The boy wagon maker! The boy house builder! “O Christ, we have seen Thee when full grown in Pilate's police court room, we have seen Thee when full grown Thou wert assassinated on Golgotha, but. O Christ, let all the weary artisans and mechanics of the earth see Thee while yet un dersized and arms not yet muscularized and with the undeveloped strength of juvenes- cence trying to take Thy father’s place in gaining the livelihood for the family. But, having seen Christ the boy of the fields and the boy in the mechanics shop. I any- aching iroin an A tnat KHses it only 1856 years. That is as far back as you need to go. Something oc curred on that day under an eclipsed sun that sets us ell forever free if with our whole heart and life we accept the tremen dous proffer. Do not let the Presbyterian Church or the Methodist Church or the Lutheran Church or the Baptist Church or any of the other evangelical churches spend any time in trying to fix up old creeds, all of them imperfect, as everything man does is imperfect. I move a new creed for all the evangelical churches of Chris tendom, only three articles in the creed and no need of any more. If I had all the consecrated people of all denomina tions of the earth on one great plain, and I had voice loud enough to put it to a vote that creed of three articles would be adopted with a unanimous vote and a thundering aye that would make the earth quake and the heavens ring with hosanna. This is the creed I pro pose for all Christendom: Article First—“God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that per- ie strik- rity and recep- d the nt and wine epubli- i a re- ators, and dis- Brooklyn i on the first not and explored all the fifteen hills around Naza- i show you a more marvelous scene, Christ reth, among them Hermon with its crystal the smooth-browed lad among the long- coronet of perpetual snow, and Carmel" and j bearded, white-haired, high forheaded eecle- Tabor and Gilboa, and they all had their siastics of the Temple. Hundreds of thou- Eublime echo in after time from the Olivetic pulpit. And then it was not uncultivated grandeur. These hills carried in their arms or on their backs gardens, groves, orchards, terraces, vineyards, cactus, sycamores. These out- branching foliages did not have to wait for the floods before their silence was broken, for through them and over them and in circles round them and under them were pelicans, were thrushes, were sparrows, were night ingales. were larks, were quails, were blackbirds, were pairidges, were bulbuls. Yonder the white flocks of sheep snowed down over the pasture lands. And sands of strangers had come to Jerusalem to keep a great religious festival. After the hospital nomes were crowded with visitors, the tents were spread all around the city to '■ shelter immense throngs of strangers. It was very easy among the vast throng coming and going to lose a child. More than two million people have been known to gather at Jerusalem for that national feast. You must not think of those regions as sparsely settled. The ancient historian Josephus says there were in Galilee two hundred cities, the smallest of them containing fifteen thousand people. No wonder that amid the crowds at the time spoken of Jesus the boy was lost. yonder the brook rehearses to the peb- j His parents, knowing that He was mature bles its adventures down the rocky shelving, j enough and agile enough to take care of Yonder are the oriental homes, the housewife Himself, are on their way home without any with pitcher on the shoulder entering the anxiety, supposing that their boy is coming door, and down the lawn in front children with some of the groups. But after a while reveling among the flaming flora. And all they suspect He is lost and with flushed cheek this spring and song and grass and sunshine and shadow woven into the most exquisite nature that ever breathed or wept or sung or suffered. Through studying the sky between the hills Christ had noticed the weather signs, and that a crimson sky at night meant dry weather next day, and that a crimson sky in the morning meant wet weather before night. And how beautifully He made use of it in after years as He drove down upon the pestiferous" Pharisee and Sadducee by crying out: “When it is evening ye say it will be fair weather, for the sky is red, and in the morning it will be foul weather to-day, for the sky is red and lowering. O, ye hypo crites, ye can discern the face of the skjjr," but can ye not discern the signs of the times.” By day, as every boy has done, He watebea the barnyard fowl at sight of over-swinging hawk clack her chickens under wing and in after years He said ; “O, Jerusalem, Jerusalem ! How often would I have gath- and a terrorized look they rush this way and that, saying: "Have you seen anything of my boy? He is twelve years of age. of fair complexion and has blue eyes and auburn hair. Have you seen Him since we left the city?” Back they go in hot haste, in and out the pri vate houses and among the surrounding hills. For three days they search and inquire, won dering if He has been trampled under foot of some of the throngs or has ventured on the cliffs or fallen off a precipice. Send through all the streets and lanes of the city and among all the surrounding hills that most dismal sound: “A lost child! A lost child!” Audio, after three days they discover Him in the great Temple, seated amom; the mightest religionists of all the world. The walls of no other building ever looked down on such a scene. A child twelve years old surrounded by septuagenarians, He asking His own ques tions and answering theirs. Let me introduce I you to some of these eccledas^qc. This is the { whosoever belioveth in Him should ish but have everlasting life.” Article Second—“This is a faithful saving and worthy of all acceptation that Christ Jesus came into this world to save sinners, even the chief.” Article Third—“Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive blessing and riches and honor and glory and power, world without end. Amen.” But you go to tinkering up your old creeds and patching and splicing and interlining and annexing and subtracting and adding and ex plaining and you will lose time and make yourself a target for earth and hell to shoot at. Let us have creeds not fashioned out of human ingenuities but out of scriptual phrase ology, and all the guns of bombardment blazing fron all the port holes of infidelity and perdition will not in a thousand years knocked off the Church of God a splin ter as big as a cambric needle. What is most needed now is that we gather all our theolo gies around the boy in the Temple, the elabo- r.-* + ioiis around the simplicities, and the pro- fmiuities around the clarieties, the octogena- riau of scholastic research around the unwrinkied cheek -of twelve year juven- escence. “Except you become as a lit tle child you can in no wise eittcr the kingdom;” and except you become as a little child you cannot understand the Christian religion. The best thing that Rabbin Simeon and Hillel and Shammai and the sons of Betirah ever did was in the Temple, to bend over the lad, who first made ruddy of cheek by the breath of the Judean hills and on His way to the mechanic's shop where He was soon to be the support of His bereaved mother, stopped long enough to grapple with the venerable dialecticians of the Orient “both hearing them and asking them questions.” Some referring to Christ have exclaimed Ecce Dens! Behold the God. Others have exclaimed Ecce homo! Behold the man. But to-day in conclusion of my subject I cry, Ecce adolescens! Behold the Boy. The Decadence of Mahogany. Mahogany, so long considered the acme of elegance in furniture, is suffering a decadence; not the massive, close- grained wood itself, but the fashionable eye no longer dwells upon it with ad miration, akin to reverence. Light woods, cherry, ash, oak and black wal nut, all susceptible of high polish, are the reigning favorites. A plausible explana tion given is that we are not so settled a people as we once were. The modern business man and the modern pleasure- seeker are respectively rovers in pursuit of their interests, and they don’t want to till their houses with massive articles of furniture that will impress them with the sense of being anchored to their homes.— Table Talk. One of the objects of the recent com bine of rolling mills at Chicago is stated to be the development of the manufacture of tin plate, Chicago pays $2,500,000 annually as special tax for pavements and miscellane ous street improvementa. The following is an extract ty-fourth annual report anco Society: The present year has ing examples of persoi social standing who * tions at which the most fashionable were handsomely en or other intoxicating Mrs. S. V. White, can Congressman froi ception in Washington!^ Congressmen, foreign di tinguished citizens preseni Eagle says: “The entire suite of aparuhi two floors of the house was thrown open for the occasion, and no expense was spared to complete the perfect success of the event. The large dining room back of the reception parlor was cleared of furniture and set apart for dancing, a full band of stringed instru ments being stationed in the ante-room be tween. Long tables were set in the private dining hall beyond laden with delicacies, for which carte “blanch had been given the caterer. with the single stipula tion that no punch or wines were to be included, the generous hostess having conscientiously determined to set a much- needed example in that respect in opposition to the usual rule of such occasions. This radi cal innovation in the local methods was prin cipally noticeable, however, only in the de corum which marked the departure of the guests, for no one was given an opportunity to miss the usual stimulants, so bewilderingly elaborate were all the other appointments. Many prominent ladies had predicted that Mrs. White would not dare omit punch at least, but she declared that she could and would present such other attractions that the absence of intoxicants would be a refreshing novelty, and she succeeded beyond-all ex pectations. The floral decorations were on a scale of magnificence in harmony with the other features of the affair. The mantels of the handsomely decorated reception-room, in which the hostess received her guests sepa rately, were banked with La France roses and scarlet tulips amid a bed of green. The mir rors of the apartment and those that line the walls of the hallway were festooned with smilax and sprays of asparagus vines, which were caught back on each side with garlands of crimson and pink roses, the space within the halls banked with tall tropical plants and wide-spreading palms, forming a refresh ing bower of green in the foreground. Con gress assembled as it had never done before; in fact. Speaker Carlisle declared that a call of the house was evidently not so effective as Mrs. White’s invitation. He had never seen so many members together, save on the first >t the session and_at of the Tiaie Kalla Its Ceaseless Ceurse. Invention has been succeeded by invention, tending to the benefit of mankind; till the very elements have become subservient to his will Witness the winged lightning trained to become a fleet and trusty messenger, the placid water converted into a power, the like of which surpasses the understanding. The canning, craft and ingenuity of man have achieved wonders for his amelioration, 'comfort and requirements, i Under this connection it may not he out-of (place to note of what service Dr. Radway has been to hii fellow men in discovering and compounding, safe and reliable Medicines for the Relief of pain, and for the cure of disease. Dr. Radway’s Medicines, so long and favor- £ bly known to the public, have never been lore popular than of the present time. Their' excellence extends all over the world. They are alike welcomed by the rich as by tbe poor, jin all properly stored homes Radway’s Ready Relief, Sarsa pari Ilian Resolvent or Radway’s* Pills are sure to be found. 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It is thus that the Reudy Relief is so admirably: adapted for the cure of pain and without the. risk of injury which is sure to result from the-, use of many of the so-called pain remedies of' the day. ; ; Radway’s Sarsaparillian Resolvent is the. great Medical Discovery of the age for thei cure of chronic disease, such as Scrofula in all, its forms. Syphilis with its tremendous train < Of evils, and Cutaneous diseases of all kinds, I .often so difficult to cure and yet so formidable- .and antagonistic to good health and tr good looks. Radway’s Pills, the only reliable substitute, {for Calomel or Mercury, are still the people’s' •favorite purgatives; and a sure cure for cos-; tivenesa, indigestion, palpitation and the kin-' dred diseases of thi bowels, liver and stomach' (that result from over eating or use of improper, tfood or improper use of stimulants, or over-! 'flow of bile in the blood, and all cases where a- 'purgative cathartic, aperient or laxative Med icine is required. Dr. Radway’s Medicines can be had of any Druggist or at most of the country stores. Curiosities of Appetite. Sir J. Gorst said in the English Par liament the other day, to illustrate the ancient truth that “one man’s meat is an- othe man’s poison,” that he was once se verely cross-examined by a party of New Zealand chiefs who had strong views on' the depraved English habit of eating, what they called decayed cheese. He pnight have further elucidated the pro verb with a long list of eatables in which jwe delight, but which certain savages •cannot even mention without a feeling of! [repulsion. A while ago Dr. Finsch saw hens scratching around in New Guinea {villages, and learned that the domestic fowl is good for nothing except feathers, .The natives could hardly conceive that! human beings would eat such a creature, j land the bare idea of lunching on eggs (was enough to make a respectable Pap-i :uan ill. Chicken feathers, however,; [particularly of white, heighted the 1 icharms of the fair sex when tastily dis- : posed in their abundant frizzes, and so,- (after all, these gentle birds were not jmade wholly in vain. R 1 helped Mr. White introduce almost every member of tho august body of solons from the upper legislative branch. The diplomatic corps was well represented, and conspicuous among the foreigners was the Corean Em bassy, the members attired in richer colors than ever, and wearing the inevitable horse hair peaked hats, ventilated especially for in door use. Tho Army and Navy, and most of the wealthy residents who complete the high est social circle, also paid their respects.” Hon. B. F. Stockbridge, United States Senator from Michigan, recently gave a dinner, with all the members of the Cabinet resent, together with the leading men of is party, but no intoxicating liquors were furnished. Governor Fifer, of Illinois, gladdened the hearts of the temperance workers of that State by giving his first State dinner without the aid of wine. Several other notable instances of tho kind the past year give hope that the time is fast passing away when wine will be placed so as to tempt guests gathered around the social board. While President Harrison was reviewing the civil parade at the Centennial celebration in New York city, a horseman took a glass of wine from a “wine-float” which was passing by. and handed it to the President, who politely bowed and declined the proffered cup, and at the Centennial ball made notori ous by shameful drinking and drunkenness, the President’s glasses, say the published ac count?, were ‘‘turned severely dCwn.” THE PRODUCT OF DEATH. A. B. Leonard, D. D., Missionary Secre tary of the Methodist Episcopal Church, re cently delivered the following address in Chickering Hall, New York: “Alcohol is the product of the law of death. It cannot be produced without first destroy ing the life principle of that from which it is derived. Where the breath of death is not felt, alcohol is not found. Fermentation always precedes the production of alcohol, and fermentation is the first step in the pro cess of decay. Fei mentation must reach the stage of actual decay before alcohol is evolved. The process of decay renders the articles upon which it operates worthless for food purposes. A fresh, well-prepared beef- t, but you {or decayed ble arti- ented lucious od pip- le from ugh the ,y. The ch, the must die Alcohol Is thus an ■jath and steak makes an excellent brea would not care to eat a ferm beefsteak. A fresh egg cle of food, but no one a vgr decayed ^egg. A ri ! tothe taste, buT Afej-me pin is offensive aU order to produce aleohl which it is derived musi process of fermentation cluster of grapes, the lu beautiful pippin, the golden _ or rot to yield the intoxicating fl' is born of a dead mother, and orphan. Being the product of having no life-giving substance, it causes death everywhere, it has no el ?ment of nutrition, and consequently cannoi build up tissues in a human body. The only nutrition there is in fermented liquors is a small residuum of undecayed vegetable i matter ; a quantity so small that many gallc 118 °f the poisonous fluid must be consumed [ ° pbtain even a teaspoonful of nutrition, whi 0 b* dis tilled liquors there is not an aton 1 food material, the process of distillatio 1 having eliminated the last particle. TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOT] :s * Indiana has organized seventy n local "W. C. T. U. unions this year. A full-blooded negro girl is ab-fat to be sent to Africa as a missionary, by tif 0 Geor gia W. C. T. U. A sterecpticon entertainment jer titled “The Saloon Must Go” has started upm as a public educator. Every family of the United State 1 ''as at present to pay an average of 865 a ye: to en joy the privilege of abundant faciii 'i 08 for being poisoned, says Felix M. Oswald Alcoholize a political party, and al ■ of its virility will ooze like a cold sweat t r ? m its brow, and instead of being an engine of power for good it will become a putrid party. The Royal Naval Temperance Soc fctj °f Great Britain reports that there is not i 1 single ship or gun-boat, hardly even a torped > boat, in Her Majesty’s navy that does not h ivetbe work of the National Temperance Lea ?u® on board. George W. Clark says in the ChristiJm Cy nosure: Out of 600 convicts in AuburalState- Prison, 500 confessed being led astrab 7 first by tobacco; then to liquor; then to frime; then to prison! Tobacco, alcohol and . _ are a trio of devils in the work of bef mm b- ing, deadening and destroying the Imoral sensibilities. le It any Wonder that Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery outsells all other blodi and liver medicines,, elnce it possesses such superior curative prop erties as to warrant its manufacturers in sup-< plying it to the people (as they are doing,; through druggists) under conditions such as no* ether medicine is sold under, viz: that it mas*i either benefit or cure the patient, or the money, paid for it will be promptly returned. It cures all diseases arising from deranged liver, or> •from impure blood, as biliousness, “liver com plaint,” all skin and scalp diseases, salt-i Theum, tetter, scrofulons sores and swellings, fever-sores, hip-joint disease and kindred all-1 i $500 Reward for an incurable case of chronic !Nasal Catarrh offered by the manufacturers of ■Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy. 50 cents, by drug gists. I Chicago covers an area of 37 square miles or ,23,680 acres, against 120 square miles in Phila delphia. Dobbins’s Electric Soap has been made for 24 ears. Each years sales have increased. In 888 sales were 2,047,*>20 boxes. Superior quali ty, and absolute uniformity and purity made this possible. Do you use it? Try it. The sixteen buildings of the Johns Hopkins Hospita', a* Baltimore, have been finished at a cost of $2,050,000. Oregon, the Paradise of Farmers. Mild, equable climate, certain and abundant crops. Best fruit, grain, grass and stock coun try in the world. Full information free. Ad dress Oregon Im’igrat’n Board, Portland, Ore. ly ¥ | Vigor and Vitality are quickly gjven io every [part of the body by Hood's Sarsaparilla. Tbat tired ; feeling is overcome, the blood is purified and vital- jlzed, stomach strengthened, appetite restored. N Y N U—23 In 18831 contracted Blood Poison of bad type, and was treated with mercury, potash and sarsaparilla mixtures,growing worse all the time. 1 took 7 small bottles S. S. S. which I cured me entirely, and no sign of j the dreadful disease has returned. J. C. Nance, Jan. 10,’89. ; ; Hobby ville, Ind. Sly little niece had white swellicg I to such an extent that she was con- 1 fined to the bed for a long time. | More than 20 i-ieces of bone came out of her leg, and the doctors said [ amputation was the only remedy to [ save her life. I refused the operation I and put her on S.S.S. and she is now | up and active and in as good health os | any child. Miss Annie Geksling, Feb. 11, *S9. Columbus, Ga. | Book on Blood Diseases sent free. Swift Specific Co. Drawer 3, Atlanta, Ga. C«ra la L TO » DATS. lira aaiybytfca iC&salttlOfti Ohio. Tr*4» I prescribe and folly an. doraa Big O as the only specific for the certain care of this disease. G. H. INGRAHAM.M. D-, Amsterdam, N. Y. 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