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’“‘jWlijL t ■ yp; a -fEMPERANCE. » before a magistrate at ttymonth, the captain of the brigantine Louis rooery was cbargedtrlthhaTiiig failed to serve out lime juice to his craw on a voyage from Montevideo to Plymouth, and the evi dence showed **«■* he had attempted to sub- ■tttnto groc for the lime juice, and that the ■ten hem refused to touch it, and for eight een days had lived on bread and water rather Mian give up their temperance principles. PRECEDENT. Missouri. There were many distm- euiahed guests, and all the appointments of the occasion were of the most elegant charac’- ter, “but no wines or liquors were offered. All heoor to wr-Seemtor snd Mrs. Hendenon for their praiseworthy social precedent.— National Temperance Advocate. MURK DK8TKOYS THE BRAIN. ‘ The Christian Inquirer mentions an im- nreesive leetumco ‘‘Aloohohc Inheritance,” VDr. Hlyrdes Thompson, at Gresham Col- ' >hh%as saying: ■ t» e doctors are often tempted to wish ■n race could be propagated care as is shown in the breed- _ * The lecturer followed with ibie list of the evils to which “al- olic subjects,” or the children and chil i’s children born of drunkards, are lia- not the least of which are insanity and Ufevery form of mental aberration. It was (very noticeable, said the doctor, how much .yhe moral character of the drunkard was destroyed, and the same effect of the parent’s ain was traceable in his children. Again, drink was the greatest destroyer of brain * In the world, and its results were won- ly manifested in the drunkard’s issue. It is well understood that drink destroyed Self-control, and a great necessity of the /present day was tlje training of drunkards’ children in self-control. THUS BROOKL DAT S REV. DR. TALMAGE. DIVINE’S SUN- MON. Subject: •‘Bcvisiq n of Creeds. ^ ■T Text: “Loomhim, aM let him go.”—John kL, 44. My Bible is, at the place of this text, writ- ten all over with kid. p< last December at _ the bouse of Mary and Xartha and Lazarus. We dismounted nom oar horses on the way pencil marks made Betijsny on the rains of md Martha oar non up from Jordan to toe Dead Sea. Bethany was toe summer evening retreat of Jesua After spending the day in the hot city of Jerusalem He would came out there almost every evening to the house of His three friends. I think the occupants of that house were orphans, for the father and mother are not mentioned. But the son and two daugh ters must have inherited property, for it must have been, judging from what I saw of the foundations and the size of the rooms, an opulent home. Lazarus, the brother, was now the head of the household and his sisters depended on him and were proud of him, for he was very popular and everybody liked him, and these girls were splendid girls. Martha a tost rate house keeper and Mary a spirituelle, Somewhat dreamy, but affectionate, and as good a girl as could be found in all Palestine. Bat one day Lazarus got sick. The sisters were in con sternation. Father gone and mother gone, they feel very nervous lest they lose their brother also. Disease did its quick work. How the girls hung over his pillow? Not much sleep about that house, no sleep at alL From the characteristics otherwhere de veloped, I judge that Martha prepared the medicines and made tempting dishes of food for the poor appetite of the sufferer, but Mary prayed and sobbed. Worse and worse gets Lararus, nntil the doctor announces that he can do no more. The shriek that went up from that household when the last breath had been draws and the two sisters were being led by sympathizers into the ad joining room, all those of us can imagine who have had our own hearts broken. But why was not Jesus there as He so often had been? Far away in the country districts preaching, healing other sick, how unfortun ate that this omnipotent Doctor had not been at that domestic crisis in Bethany. When at last Jesus arrived in Bethany Laza rus had been buried four days and dissolu tion had taken place. In that climate the breathless body disintegrates more rapidly than in ours. If, immediately after decease, tnat body had been awakened into life, unbelievers might have said that he was only in a comatose state, or in a sort of trance, and by some vigorous manipulation or powerful stimulant vital ity had been renewed. No! Four days dead. At the door of the sepulcher is a crowd of people, but the three most memor able are Jesus, who wa.? the family friend, and the two bereft sisters. We went into the traditional tomb in December, and it is deep down and dark, and with torches we explored it. We found it all quiet that after- power * tderfully A TRUE STOBT. i' ‘■Papa, will you please give me fifty cents .for my spring hat? ’Most all the Academy ;girl«jpqve theirs.” * J “No, May; I can’t spare the money.” The above request was persuasively made |by a sixteen-year-old maiden as she was i preparing for school one fine spring morn ing. The refusal came from the parent in a cart, indifferent tone. The disappointed girl went to school. The father started for his plaee of business. On his way thither he met a friend, and, being hail fellow well met, he invited him into Mac’s for a drink. As usual, to we were others there, and the man that could not spare his daughter fifty cents dor a bat treated the crowd. When about to leave he laid a half-dollal' on the counter, which just paid for the drinks. , Just then the saloon keeper’s daughter entered, and, going behind the bar, said: ! “Papa, I. want fifty cents for my spring }bat.” “All right,” said the dealer. And taking jnp the half-dollar from the counter, he handed it over to the girl, who departed i smiling. st with, after refusing it r. I’ll never drink an- ^May’s father seemed dazed, walked out jalone, and said to himself: “I bad to bring >my fifty cents here for the rum seller’s daughter to buy a hat to my own daughter. /other drop.” > And he kept his pledge.—Our Young 'People. t TEMPERANCE'BSWB AND NOTES. The Minnesota W. C. T. U. gained 5821 -members last year. It is said thqt the prevalence of the influ enza i#Munich lessened the consumption of beer by 33,000 gallons. f During 1889 the output of the St. Louis breweries was increased by nearly 100,000 /barrels over that of 1888. i High license Omaha sends four students to the State University and eighty-one con- ivicts to the State penitentiary. The young German Fmperor recently dined with Bismarok, and, says the telegram, “re peatedly took Wine with turn.” Western men^Beof Congress have estab lished a club ashington, iu which intoxicating Ih^^^^Bpimhibited. Dtting against the of California, le auring the randy at their distillery. Snoma County, California The statement is made on tha a.uth>^7 private detectives employ toilers, that there are near noon of our visit, but the Bible there was i tude. I wonder wl orders the door of tb. then He begins to Mary and Martha cl the crowd after them, shadows and deeper! roll over His cheeks of His hands. -Were rows compressed into that group pressing oi the time bemoaning before? Now all the crying and all toe feet are stopped. It pectancy. Death has vanquisher of death Amid the awful h e day spoken of in mt an excited multi- Jesus will do. He ,ve removed, and the steps, after Him, and eeper down into the e hot tears of Jesus plash upon the back ever so many sor- lall a space as in wn after Christ, all He had not come _ and all the sound of shuffling the silence of ex- uered, bnt now the ted the scene, of the tomb the Christ had often 'descend ere familiar name whicj had upon His lips in village home came bajlc to His tongue and with a pathos and an I (mightiness of which the resurrection of tl c las.) day shall be only an echo. Ho cries: “I xarus! come forthP’ The eyes of the slurii < rer open and he rises and comes to the foot great difficulty begin* cerements of the tomb his feet are fast and f is bauds are fast and the impediments- his movements are so great that JiM* “Take off these 1f22°ve fr ^esri a.'udrancee; hospitalities of the to His tor >f the steps and with to ascend, for the are yet on him and Gel . nearly d §elpg erieS in operation ia the- A Boston statistician flgu'’' 5 that 64,000,- 000 able-bodied drinks of ^ton-made rum are exported for African -consumption every year. This estimate w-nade on the basis of nearly 1,000,000 gajo®^ aud t* 10 business inaiwi the nun prr^ooers very rich men. Charles Emory Smith, the new Minister to St. Petersburg turns his glasses down when the wine is .hissed at public banquets, and has not tasted the intoxicating cup in fifteen years. He will astonish the Russian blue Woods, wko are the hardest drinkers in the world.. : Since the establishment of the Vienna free kitchens the number of drunkards is said to have greatly diminished. The medical pro fession testify to enormous improvement in &he health of the lower classes. Derange ments of the stomach, formerly the most fre quent cases in Vienna hospitals, have de creased to one-third of the number of- ten years ago. is full of water, half or probably, thus y-u pay r eight cents per pound for water, s’s Elect A soap that is soft two-thirds Its we ght •seven or eteht cents per p< Dobbins’s Electrio Soap is all soap and no adul teration, therefore the ehcaput and lest. Try Xkibbins’t. It oosta'S&50 per carat te cut diamonds. * A box safety matches free to smokers of “Tan aill’a Hnnch’ 1 5c. Clear. Purify Your Blood When spring approaches, it is very Important that toe blood be purified, aa at this season Im parities which have been accumulating for months ar area years, are liable to manifest themselves and Seriously affect the health. Hood’a Sarsaparilla la undoubted’ - ths best blood purifier. It expels e rery Saint, drives out-scrofulous humors, and gives to tba blood the qu Hty and tone essential to good health. Mow is the time to take Hood’s Sarsaparilla . my daughter suffered terribly wttb sore eyes, oaused by scrofula humor. We were Obliged to keep bar out at achoot toe two yean. We had medical yt*"* 1 *""*, but abe failed to gsdn relief. At lest, knowing that Hood’s Sarsaparilla had cured my tanthnr ef rheumatism, and believing It must be good Aar the Mood, I oonAaded to have my daughter try It, and It has entirely oared her.” Oonnanca Ysaozs, 4£ISast Xala Street, Earshalltown, Iowa. Purifies the Blood sparffiaivas cured me eC salt rheum, tad for year*. I do think It ia n splea- I am 40 years of age and my skin la JmI wamooth and fair as a piece of gtaea” Mas. tfwr.A rv-tM-j South Norwalk, Conn. » Hood’s Sarsaparilla told by all druggists. fi;«bcfor$5. Prepared ealy fey CL L HOOD A CO., Lowed, Mass. IOO Doses One Dollar « - ■ 1 Ely’s Crsan Balm # WILLUCRE 1 CATARRH. i frrlce SO C*nts. I Apply Balm tato each nostril. .ELY BROS., at Warren St,. N. Y. >h. I am so giad that after the Lcid He went on And commanded loosening of the cords that tx/und his feet so that he could walk, and the breaking off of toe cerement that bound his hands so that he could stretch out his arms in saluta tion, and the tearing off of the bandage from around his jaws so that he could speak. What would resurrected life have been to Lazarus if he had not been freed from all those cripplements oi his body? I am glad that Christ commanded his complete eman cipation, saying: “Loose him, and let him go.” The.unfortunate thing now is that so many Christians are only half liberated. They have been raised from the death and burial of sin into spiritual life, but they yet have the grave clothes-on them. They are like Lazarus, hob bling up the stairs of the tomb, bound hand and fool, and the object of this sermon is to help free their body and free their soul, and I shall try to obey the Master’s command that comes to me and comes to every minister of religion: “Loose him, and let go.” First, many are bound hand and foot by religious creeds. Let no man misinterpret me as an tagonizing creeds. I have eight or ten of them; a creed about religion, a creed about art, a creed about social life, a creed about govern ment. and so on. A creed is something that a man believes, whether it be written or un written The Presbyterian Church is now agitated about its creed. Borne good mm in it are for keeping it because it was framed from toe belief of John Calvin. Other good men in it want revision. I am with neither party. Instead of revision I want substitu tion. I was sorry to have the question dis turbed at all. The creed did not hinder us from offering toe pardon and the comfort of the Gospel to all men and the Westminster Confession has not interfered with me one minute. But now the electric lights have been turned on the imperfections of that creed—and everything that man fash ions is imperfect—let us put the old creed re spectfully aside and get a brand new one. It is impossible that people .who lived hun dreds of years ago should fashion an appro priate creed for our times. John Calvin was a great and go6d • man, but he died three hundred and twenty-six years The best centuries of Bible study have fWtRamte way. bogie has its toe and meta physics has it* ase, but they are not good at -eeds. A gardener hands you a rose, dewy fresh, bat a severe botanist comes to you with a rose and says: “I will show you the structure of this rose.” And he proceeds to take it apart and pulls off the leaves and he says: “There are the petals,” and he takee out the anthers and he eays: “Just look at the wonderful structure of these floral pillars,” and then he cuts the stem to show you the juices of the plant. So logic or metaphysics takes the aromatic rose of the Christian religion and says: “I will just show you how this rose of religion was fashioned;” and it polls off of it a piece and says: “That is the numan will,” ana another piece and says: “This is God’s will,” and an other piece and says: “This is sovereignty.” and another piece and says: “This is free agency,” this is this and that is that. And while I stand looking at the fragments of the rose palled apart, one whom the Marys took for a gardener comes in and presents ms with a crimson rose, red as blood, and says: “Inhale toe sweetness of this, wear it on your heart and wear it forever.” I must confess that I prefer the rose in full bloom to the rose pulled apart. What a time we have had with toe dogma tics, the apologetics and the hermeneutics. The defect in some of the creeds is that they try to tell ns all about the decrees of God. Now the only human being that was ever competent to handle that subject was Paul, and he would not have been competent had he not been inspired. 1 believe in the so vereignty of God and I believe in man’s free agenev. but no one can harmonize the two. It is not necessary that he harmonize them. Every sermon that I have ever heard that at tempted such harmonization was to me as clear as a London fog, as clear as mud. My brother of the nineteenth century, my brother of the sixteenth century, give us Paul’s statement and leave out our own. Better one chapter of Paul on that subject than all of Calvin’s institutes, able and honest and mighty as they are. Do not try to measure either the throne of God or the thunderbolts of God with your little steel pen. W T hat do you know about the decrees? You cannot pry open the door of God’s eternal counsels. You cannot explain the mysteries of God’s government now, much less the mysteries of His government five hundred quintUlion of years ago. I move for a creed for all our denomi nations made out of Scripture quotations pure and simple. That would take the earth for God. That would be impregnable against infidelity and Apollyonic assault. That would be beyond human criticism. The de nomination, whatever it* name be, that can rise up to that will be the church of the mil lennium, will swallow up all other denomi nations and be the one that will be the bride when the Bridegroom cometh. Let us make it simpler and plainer for people to get into the kingdom of God. Do not hinder people by the idea that they may not have been elected. Do not tag on to the one essential of faith in Christ any of the innumerable nonessentials. A man who heartily accepts Christ is a Christian and the man who does not accept Him is not a Christian, and that is all there is of it. He need not believe in election or rep robation. He need not believe in toe eternal generation of the Son. He need not believe in everlasting punishment. He need not be lieve in infant baptism. He need not believe in plenary inspiration. Faith in Christ is t&e criterion, is the test, is the pivot, is the indispensable. But there are those who would odd unto the tests rather than subtract from them. There are thousands who would not accept persons into church membership if they drink wine or if they smoke cigars or if they attend the theater or if they play cards or if they drive a fast horse. Now I do not drink wine or smoke or attend the theater, never played a game of cards and do not drive a fast horse, although 1 would if 1 owned one. But do not substitute tests which the Bible does not establish. There is one passage of Scripture wide enough to let all in who ought to enter and to keep out all who ought to be kept out: “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.” Get a man’s heart right and his life will be right. But now that the old creeds have been put under public scrutiny, something radical must be done. Some would split them, some would carve them, some would elongate them, some would abbreviate them. At the preoent moment and in the present shape they are a hindrance. Lazarus is alive, but hampered with the old grave clothes. If you want one glorious chi free and unencumbered take off tb coming in for a cup a whole battery of sepulcher. Step oat Into noonday. We come around you to move your grave dothee, and a voice the heavens, tremulous but omnipotent, commands: “Loose him, and lf»t him go.” Again, my text has good advice concern ing any Christian, hampered and bothered and bound by fear of his own dissolution. To such the book refers whenit speaks of those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. The most of us, even if we have the Christain hope, are cowards about death. If a plank falls from a scaffolding and just grasesour hat, how pale we look. If the Atlantic Ocean plays with the steamship, pitching'' it toward the heavens and letting it suddenly drop, how even the Christian paseonzws pester toe stew ard or stewardess as to wWber there is any danger, and the captain. wtuT'has been all night on the bridge and cbjlsd through, in for a cup of voffee, is assailed with of questions aa to what he thinks of the 'weather Ant, many of the best people are, as Paul -* T * fefc may hout their lifetime in bondage byftar of death. My brothers and sisters, if we made full use of our religion we would soon get over this. Backed up oy the teachings of yo«r Bible, just look through the telescope soma bright mght and see how many worlds tfeere are and re flect that all you have seen compared with the number of worlds in existence are less than the fingers of your right hand as compared with all the fingers of the hu man race. How foolish tkeu for us to think that ours is the only world fit for us to stay in. I think that all the stars are inhabited and by beings like the human race in feelings and sentiments and the difference is in long respiration and heart beat and physical con formation, their physical conformation fit for the climate of their world and our physical conformation fit for the climate of our world.- So we shall feel at home in any of th^ stellar neighbor hoods, our physical limitiRRons having ceased. One of our first realizatioAafe getting out of this world, I think, will be t tat in this world we were very much pent up fmd had cramped apartments and were kept c&the limits. The most even of our small worn is water, and the water says to the horton race: “Don’t come here or you will drow^.” A few thou sand feet up the fdmCephfcTe is unin habitable, and the atmosphere says to the human rac >: “Don’t come up here or you can lot—breathe." A few miles down the eartl is a furnace of fire, and the fire says: “Don ; come here or you will burn.” The caverm of the mountains are full of poisonous gas< i, and the gases say: • ‘Don’t come here or you' ill be,asphyxiated.” And, crossing a rail trac ■ you must look out or you will be crushed, knd, standing by a steam boiler, you must 1 ok out or you will be blown up. And pneu: lobias and pleurisies and consumptions and i joplexies go across this earth in flocks, in di ives, in herds, and it is a world of equinox^ and cyclones and graves. Yet we are ut j er the delusion that ft is the only place fit to stay in. We want to stick to the wet pla- k ’mid ocean while the greest ship, “the Cit- of God,” of the Celestial line, goes sail, ig past, and would gladly take us up in a life boat. My Chris tian friends, let me tear qT your desponden cies and frights about cTgfciution. My Lord yon, saying: cent, better than cent, better, • per c TMke #7 C TO 9450 A MOUTH can be made working • 19 for aa Hftrawm preferred who ean furnish a harm and give their whole time to the business. Epare moment* may fee profitably employed also. A few racanck al i towns and cities. B. F. JOHN SON a CO., :00ft Mata St.. Richmond, Vq PENSIONSigSg ot JOrfKFB H.HUVTE9, ATTORNEY, WAHtllNUTON, P. C‘. ago. ■■■ come since then, and explorers have done their work, and you might as well hare the world go back and stick to what Robert Ful ton knew about steamboats and reject the subsequent imnrovemencs in navigation: and go back to John Guttenberg, the inventor of the art of printing, and reject all modern newspaper presses, and go back to the time when telegraphy was the elevating of signals or the burning of bonfires oa the hilltops and reject the magnetic wire, which is the tongue of nations, as to ignore all the •exegetes and the philologists and the theo logians of the last three hundred and twenty- Tiix years and put yqur head under the sleeve of the gdwn of a sixteenth century doctor. T could call the names of twenty living Presbyterian ministers of religion who cornu make a better creed than John Calvin. The Nineteenth century ought not to be called to sit at the feet of the Sixteenth. “But,” you say. “it is the same old Bible, and John Calvin had that as well as the pres ent student of the Scriptures.” Yes; so it is the same old suu in the heavens, but in our time it has gone to making daguerreotypes and photographs. It is the same old water, but in our century it has gone to running steam engines. It is the same old electricity, but in our time it has become footed errand boy. So it is but new applications, new uses, new interpretations. You must remember I that during the last three hundred years ! words have changed their meaning and some of them uow mean more and some less, x do i not think that John Calvin believed, aj soqve say he did, in toe damnation of infanta, al though some of the recent hot disputes would seem to imply that there is such a thing as the damnation of infants. A man who believes in tbp damnation of infants himself deserves to lose heaven. I do not think any good man e-nild _ admit such a possibility. What Christ will do with all the babies in the next world I conclude from what He did with the babies iu Pales tine when He hugged them and kissed them. Whan some of you grown people go out of this world your doubtful destiny will be an embarrassment to ministers officiating at your obsequies, who will have to be cautious so as not to hurt surviving friends. But when the darling children go there are no me a lightning the old Bible, “if*” or “but*” or guesses. T We must re. ■tomher that good John Calvin was a logi cian and a metaphysician and by the procuv- ttte 9t .his o» tor? pot soma tbmg? to an tu. and let her go! Again, there are Christians who are under sepulchral -shadows and hindered and hoppled by doubts and fears and sins long ago re pented of. What they need is to understand the liberty of the sons of God. They spend more time under the shadow of Sinai than at the base of Calvary. They have been sing ing the only poor hymn that Newton ever -wrote: ’Tis a point I king to know. Oft ft causes anxious thought— Do 1 love the Lord or no. Am I His or am I not? Long to know, do you? Why do you not find out? Go to work for God and you will very soon find out. The man who is all the time feeling of his pulse and looking at his tongue to see whether it Is coated is morbid and cannot be physically well. The doctor will say: “Go out into the fresh air and into active life, and stop thinking of yourself and you will get well and strong.” So there are people who are watching their spiritual symptoms, and they cqll it self-examination and'they get weaklier and sicklier in their faith all the time. Go out and do some thing nobly Christian. Take holy exercise ana then examine yourself, and, instead of New ton’s saturnine and bilious hymn that I first quoted, you will sing Newtpn’sother hymn: Amazing grace, how sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me! I once was lost, imt now am found: Was blind, bnt now, I see. What many of you Christians most need is to get your grave clothes ®ff. I rejoice that you have teen brought from the death of sin to the life of the Gospel, but you need to get your hand loose and your feet loose and your tongue loose and your soul loose. There is no sin that the Bible so arraigns and punctures and flagellates as the sin of unbe lief, and that is what is the matter with you. “Oh,” you say, “if you knew what I once was and how many times I have grievously strayed, you would understand why 1 do not come out brighter.” Then I think vou would call yourself the chief of sinners. 1 am glad you hit upon that term, for I have a promise that fits into vour case as the cogs of one wheel between toe cogs of another wheel or as toe key fits into the labyrinths of a lock. A man who was once called Saul but afterward Paul declared: “This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinuers, of whom I am chief.” Mark that —“of whom I am chief.” “Put down your overcoats and hats and I will take care of them while you kill Stephen” —so Saul said to the stoners of the first martyr—“I do not care to exert myself much, but I will guard your surplus apparel while you do the murder.” The New Testa ment. account says: “The witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man’s feet whose name was Saul.” No wonder he said: “Sin ners, of whom I am the chief.” Christ is used to climbing. He climted to the top of the temple. He climbed to the top of Mount Olivet. He climbed to the top of tha cliffs -about Nazareth. He climbed to the top of Golgotha. And to the top of the mils and the mountains of your transgression He is ready to climb with par don for every one of you. The groan of Cal vary is mightier than the thunder of SinaL Fuli receipt is offered for all your indebted ness. If one throw a stone at midnight into a bush where the hedgebird roosts, it im mediately begins to sing; and into the mid night hedges of your despondency these words I hurl, hoping to awaken you to anthem. Drop the tunes in the minor key and take the major. Do you think it pleases the Lord for you to be carrying around with you the debris and carcasses of old transgressions? You make me think of some ship that has had a tempestuous time at sea, and now that it proposes another voyage, keeps on its davits the damaged life-boats, and the splin ters of a shivered mast, and the broken glass of a smashed skylight. My advice is: clear the decks, overboard with all the dam aged rigging, brighten up the salted smoke stacks, open a new book, haul In the planks, lay out a new course and set sail for heaven. You have had the spiritual dumps long enough. You will please the Lord more by being happy than by being miserable. Have you not sometimes started out in the rain with your umbrella and yon were busy thinking and you did not no tice that the rain had stopped, and though it had cleared off you still had your umbrella up, and when you discovered what yon were doing yon felt silly enough? That is what some of you are doing in religions things. Yon have got so used to sadness that though tb# rain has stopped you atm have your mpbrrila up. Com? out ot the They hear all then i I will take £e commands me re< “Loose him, and let hL Heaven is ninety-five 1 this world, a thousam million per cent, better. 1 ^ brightest, most jubilan ’days yon ever hai on earth and compress them all into one hour, sind that hour wofid be a requiem, a fast day, a gloom, a tSrror, as compared with the poorest horn they have had in heaven since its first U vee was built or its first gates swung or it first mnn £ caroled. “Oh,” you say, “that m y be true, but I am so afraid ot crossing o er from world to the next, and I fear he —of the cord between soul 'md bodyT” Well, all the surgeons ai I physicians and scientists declare that there is no pang at the parting of the body V d soul, ana all the seeming restlessness at the doting hour of life is involuntary and nodiseaae at all. And I agree with the doctor; for what they say is confirmed by the fact that persons who were drowned or were srbmcrged until all consciousness departed sad were afterward resuscitated declare tbfit the' sensation of passing into unconscipufeiess wospleasarable rather than distressful The cage of the body has a door jon easy hinges, and when that door of the jhytical cage opens e soul simply puts on’gt -- Wings and soars. go because the r Well, I will The . fox i often do. in the case and papers and give on my decision next week.” So I have card all the arguments in regard to the next world, and some things are uncertain and full of mystery, and so I fold np the papers and reserve until the next world my derision ilfcout them. I can there study all the myi teries to tetter ad vantage, for the light wi l be better and my faculties stronger, andlv ill ask the Christain philosophers, who have 1 iad all the advan tages of heaven for cer buries, to help me, snd I may permit mysell humbly to ask the Lord, and I think there v 11 be only one mys tery left, and that-will b how one so un worthy as myself got i .to such an enrap tured place. Come up or ; of the sepulchral shadows. If you are lot Christians by faith in Christ come t ? into the light; and if you are alrei ly like Tj»w»mg | reanimated, but still hav< your grave clothes on, get rid of them. Che command is: “Loose him, and let him ( >.” The only part ef my recent journey tin i I really dreaded, although I did not say mt to about it before hand, was the landing f • Joppa. That is the port of entrance for t e Holy Land, and there are many rocks, an in rough weather people cannot land at all The boats taking the people from the steam t to the docks must rim between reefs that lool >xl to me to be about fifty feet apart, and one mis-stroke of an oarsman or an unexpeeb 1 wave h»m some times been fatal, and nun reds have perished along those reefs. Besidt i that, as we left Port Said the evening tel ire an old traveler said: “The wind is just i ght to give you a rough landing at Joppa] indeed, I think you will not te able to land at alL” The fact was that when cur Mediterranean steamer dropped and or near Joppa and we put out for shore in the small boat, the water was as still is (hough it had been sound asleep a hundred ylars, and we landed as easily as I came on thi] platform. Well, your fears have pictu (jl for vou an ap palling arrival at the rad of your voy age of yfe, and they »* ’hat ♦'•e seas will ruft hig. and t| & -u< i .cakers will swallow you up, or hat if you reach Canaan at all it will 1 \ a very rough landing. The very oppos » will te true if you have the eternal God !or your portion. Your disembarkation for •he promised land will te as smooth as was urs at Palestine last December. Christ wi meet you far out at sea and pilot you into .xunpleto safety, And you will land with a i ^sanna on one tide of you and a hallelujah or^he other. “Land ahead!” ita fruit. 1 .re waving O’er the hills of fadel^i green. And the living waters laing Shores where heaven! Rocks and storms TO When on that eternal Drop the anchor 1 for I am BAfe within the i r l! forms are sees. ar no move lore; he aall! WORK AMONG SOLDIER AND SAILORS. The important work c, the W. C. T. U. among United States soldi rs and sailors is under the special direction of Mrs. Sarah A. McClees, of New York cif '. Effort is being made to induce interestef men to become total abstainers, to form s idiers’ temperance unions officered by then^elves, to suppress the sale of liquor near soloertf homes to pro vide Bethels, coffee and odgiag rooms for soldiers in seaport cities, *> circulate temper ance and White Cross literature among sol diers and sailors everywhere, end in every way possible to promete Ctrl It's kingdom among these men. The vork hXfemet with marked appreciation, no^ only frwi the men themselves, but from offeers and%haplains, who have given the latfes their sympathies and support throughoii the entire ox years of effort.—IT. G’. T. U'Bulletin. l7tJ IU Lumbago in a tmn of the chroric stage of rheumal sm, in the lumbar! c^iot.or muscles of th s tack, which if iosdiy cured by rubbing the parts freely wit* known asr 1 BLJacobsOiL It! B ACi I waa In bed] suffered about j BL Jacobs Oil months. At THi CHARI , 1S38. \ V* V «,va« axvtAl-ftiAa CV.IAVA OLA wtag LAA AAJVUAAAOIA* cneerful voice rang out again across the sen playground, his cheeks again grew rosy, i eyes bright. He is still “the pride of his clai . Chronic Nasal Catarrh positively cured by Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy. 60 cents, by druggists. Germany has 19,470 postoffices, England 17,- 687, France only 7343. , If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp son’s Eye-water. Druggists sellat26o.per bottle Watch for “Murray” Buggy adv. next week.' ’ I£XJOYSI Both the method and results when Syrup of Figsistaken; it ifipleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acts gently yet promptly on the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys tem effectually, dispels colds, head aches and fryers and cures habitual constipation. Syrup of Figs is the only remedy of its kind ever pro duced, pleasing to the taste and ac ceptable to the stomach, prompt in its action and truly beneficial m its effects, prepared only from the most healthy and agreeable substances, its many excellent qualities com-, mend it to all and have made it the most popular remedy known. Syrup or Figs is for sale in 60o and $1 bottles by all leading drug gists. Any reliable druggist wl\o may not have it on hand will ^ cure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it. Do not accept any substitute. CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. 8AN FRAM018C0, CAL. tSHIRVILU, KV. . HEW VORK, N.f. XlOL&rt Chronic Cough Now: • For If you do not ft may become con- j eumptlve. For Consumption, Srrofula, } General Debility and Hasting Diseases, | there Is nothing like SCOTT’S Fmulsion Of Pure Cod Liver Oil and HYPOPHOSPHITES Or Xalmo azscA toodaa. It Is almost as palatable as milk. Far tetter than other so-culled Emulsions. A wonderful flesh producer. , Scott’s Emulsion, i There are poor Imitations. Get the genuine. APTEB UL OH FAIL CONSULT DR. 1,0BB, 349 North Fifteenth Street, Philadelphia. Twenty years’ experience In special diseases; cures the worst cases of Nervous Complaints, Blood Poisoning, Blotches, Eruptions, Piles, Catarrh, Ulcers, Sores, Impaired Memory, Despmdency, Dimness of Vision, Lung, Liver stomach. Kidney i Bright’s Disease); confidential, ty-call or write for question list and book. CHICHESTER’S ENGLISH PENNYROYAL PILLS SCO CROSS DIAMOND BRAND. Safh tad always reliable. Ladies, a»l D orriit for JHsmond Brand, in red, uetallie bases, sealed with bite / ribbon. Take bo ether. AU pin* 1 Upuubeerd boras,pink wrappers, are (stamps) for oartiealara, Ustimatial* “Beller far Ladles,” in Uttw. by reD neeli. Name Napar. Chlehaster Chtw’l Cm. BaShaa Sa. VUIa. * pxeM.-now and folly oa. done Big O sv ths only ^ Caras la 'NHH specific forth# certain enrt H TO ft daYS.^ of this disease. Isiraarial eat G.H.INGRAHAM.M. fr, ——vmiun ” Amsterdam, N. Y. We have sold Big G fa* riven in® dmi oz mud* ^RDYOmAOOU Chicago, m. 81.M. •oWbjr Druggists. Improvement in Artiftcial Ltmte. The latest improvemett in artificial limbs consists in forming the kg and foot port of a single piece of wood, hav ing the grain curved naturally in its growth, such pieces being procured from toe parts of the trunk contagious to the k roots and branches of trees. Limbs made in this way are stronger with the same amount of wood remaining in them than when made of parts and -glued together, and are made waterproof, which is a valuable feature when toe occupation of the wearer exposes it to constant damp ness, or to water itself, as in fishing, mining, dredging, etc. By making limbs in this manner from natural curves in toe growth of the wood, it has become practicable to make light and substantial artificial feet, adapted to partial ampu tation of the foot. The advantage de rived from lightness of artificial suhsti- , tutes will readily he apparent when the I resistance to motion from inertia is cor- sidered. A Few Poistera. The recent statistics of the number of dear > show that the large majority die with con sumption. This disease may commence with an apparently harmless cough which con bo cored Instantly by Kemp’s Balsam for tbs Throat and Lungswhlch Is guaranteed to cure and relieve all cases. Price 50c. and JL Trial size free. For sale by all druggists. A Liverpool dentist extracts teeth, cleans them and restores them to their sockets to do further duty; About 3OJ,0j0 telephones are in use in this country. There is more Catarrh in this section of the country than all other diseases put together, and until the last few years was supposed to be incurable. For agreat many years doctors pro nounced it a local disease, and prescribed lo cal remedies, and by constantly failing to cure with local treatment, pronounced it Incurable. Science has proven catarrh to be a constitu tional disease, and therefore requires constitu tional treatment. Hall’s Catarrh Cure, manu factured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on the market. ' it is taken internally in doses from 10 drops to ' a teaspoonful. It acts directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of thesystem. The- offer one hundred dollars for any case It fads to cure. Send for circulars and testimonials. Address, F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75c. In India the Goverumeut fixes railroad rates. The Pride ol His Class. He was a bright, handsome boy of sixteen, sunny-; emperyd, brilliant and engaging, the delight of his parents, the joy of his home, and the pride of his class. But a shadow fell' across his bright prospects. It began with a trifling cough;soon came premoniti -ns of con sumption, Ids strength failed, his cheeks grew hollow, and he seemed doomed to an early grave. Then a friend advised Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery. He tried it and was saved. Health and strength returned, his. cheerful voice rang out again across the schooF his; olaas”. and he graduates this year with highest hon ors. WIFE IS A TERROR!” said a mild-tempered man in our hearing. “She soaps and snarls and spanks her children, and finds fault continually. - I can’t beiar it any longer.” Don’t te too severe on her, my friend ; you little realize her sufferings. She has lost her former sweet disposition, and ill health is the cause of it alL Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription will make her welL appendages in par ticular. For overworked, “worn-out,” “ run-down,” debilitated teachers, milliners, dressmakers, seamstresses, “ shop - carls.’’ housekeepers, nursing mothers, and feeble women generally, Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Pre scription is the greatest earthly boon, being on equaled as an appetizing cordial and re storative tonic. As a soothing and strengthening nerv ine. “Favorite Prescription” is unequaled and is invaluable in allaying and subdu ing nervous excitability, irritability, ex haustion, prostration, hysteria, spasms and other distressing, nervous symptoms, com monly attendant upon functional and ic disease of the womb. It induces sleep and relieves ipental anxi ety and despondency. Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prest legitimate medicine, carefully by an experienced and skilni. _ w , and adapted to womanh delicate oremnisa tion. It is purely vegetable in tts i tion end perfectly harmless in any < of the system. “ Favorite Prescription ” is cure for the most complicated and obsti nate cases of leucorrhea, excessive flowing, painful menstruation, unnatural suppres sions, prolapsus, or falling of the wome, weak hack, “ female weakness,!* antever- sion, retroversion, bearing-down sensations, chronic congestion, inflammation and ulcer ation of the womb, inflammation, pain and tenderness in ovaries,' accompanied with “ internal heat. 1 ” is toe only medicine for woman’s weaknesses and ailmeats, sold by < ;, under a positive guarantee from toe lufacturers, to give satisfaction in every case, or money paid for it will be pre refunded. See guarantee printed on 1 wrapper add faithfully carried For an Hlnstrated Treatise on of Women, 160 pages, (Sent sealed envelope,) enclose ten cents, in to World’s Dispensary Medical Aascr-' Ciation, No. 663 Main Street, N. 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