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DR. TALMAG Vivid [Pictures of tl "WASHINGTON, D. C.-In a unique way the heavenly world is discoursed upon by Dr. Talmage in this sermon under the figure of a home; text, John xiv,, 2, "In My Father's house are many rooms." Here 5s a bottle of medicine that is a cure all. The disciples were sad. and Christ offered heaven as an alter ative, a stimulant and a tonic. He shows them that their sorrows are on ly a dark background cf a bright pic ture 01 coming felicity. He lets them know that, though now they live on the lowlands, they shall yet have a house on the uplands. Near ly all the Bible descriptions of heaven may be figurative. I am not positive that in all heaven there is a literal crown cr harp or pearly gate or throne or chariot. They may he only used to illustrate the glories af the place, but how well they do it! The favorite symbol by which the Bible presents oelestial happiness is a house. Paul, who never owned a house, although he hired one for two years in Italy, speaks of heaven as a "house not made with hands," and Christ in our text, the translation of which is little changed, so as to give the more accur ate meaning, says: "In My Father's house are many rooms." This divinely authorized compari son of heaven to a great homestead of large accommodations I propose to carry"1 mt In some healthy neigh borhood ? wau builds a very commo dious habitation. He must have room for ail his children. The rooms come to be called after the different members of the* family. That is mother's room, that is George's room, that is Henry's room, that is Flora's room, that is Mary's room, and the house is all occupied. But time goes by, and the sons go out into the world and build their own homes, and the daughters are married or have talents enough singly to go out and do a good work in the world. After a while the father and mother are almost alone in the big house, and, seated by the evening stand, they say, "Well, our family is no larger now than when we started together forty years ago." Bat time goes still, further by, and some of the children are unfortunate and return to the old homestead to live, and the grandchildren come with them and perhaps great-grandchildren, and again the house is full. Millennia ago God built on the hills of heaven a great homestead for a family innumerable, yet to be. At first He lived alone in the great house, but after awhile it was.occupied by a very large family, cherubic, seraphic, angelic. The eternities patted on, and many of the inhabitants became wayward and left, never to rr turu, and many of the apartments were va cant. I refer to the fallen angels. Now these apartments are filling up again. There are arrivals at the old homestead of God's children every day, and the day will come when ther-i .will be no unoccupied room in all the .house. As you and I expect to enter it and .make there eternal residence, I thought you would like to get some more par ticulars about the many roomed home stead. "In my Father's house are many rooms." You see, the place is to be apportioned off into apartments. We shall love all who are in heaven, but there are some very good people whom we would not want to live with, in the same room. They may be bet ter than we are, but they are of a di vergent temperament. We would like to meet with them on the golden streets and worship with them in the temple and walk with them on the river banks, but I am glad to say that we shall live in different apartments. "In my Father's house are many rooms." You see, heaven will be so large that if one wants an entire room to himself or herself it can be afford ed. An ingenious statistician, taking the statement made in Revelation, twenty-first chapter, that the heaven ly Jerusalem was measured and found ? to be 12,000 furlongs and that the I length and height and breadth of it j are equal, says that would make heav- | en in size 948 sextillion W88 quintil lion cubic feet, and then, reserving a certain portion for the court of heaven and the streets and estimating that the world may last a hundred thous and years, he ciphers out that there are over 5,000,000,000,000 rooms, each room seventeen feet long, six teen feet wide, fifteen feet high. But I have no faith in the accuracy of that calculation. He makes the rooms too small. From all I can read the rooms will be palatial, and those who have not had enough room in this world will have plenty of room at the last. I should not wonder if, instead of the room that the statistician ciphered out as only seventeen feet by sixteen, it should be larger than any of the rooms at Berlin, St. James or Winter palace. "In my Father's E'S SERMON. tie Celestial Home. house are many rooms." Carrying out still further thc sym bolism of thc test, let us join hands and go up to this majestic homestead and see for ourselves. As wc ascend the golden steps an invisible guards man swings open thc front door, and we are ushered to thc right into the reception room of the old homestead. That is the place where we first meet the welcome of heaven. There must bc a place where the departed spirit enters and a place in which it con fronts thc inhabitants celestial. The reception room of the newly arrived from this world-what scenes it must have witnessed since the first guest arrived, the victim of the first fratri cide, pious Abell! In that room Christ lovingly greets all newcomers. He redeemed them, and He has the right to the first embrace on arrival. What a minute when the ascended spirit first sees the Lord! Better than all we ever read about Him or talked about Him or sang about Him in all the churches and through all our earthly lifetime will it be, just for one second to see Him. The most rapturous idea we ever had of Him on sacramental days or at the height of some great revival or under the uplift ed baton of an oratorio is a bankruptcy of thought compared with the first flash of His appearance in that recep tion room. At that moment ?when you confront each other, Christ look ing upon you and you looking upon Christ, there will be an ecstatic thrill and surging of emotion that beggar all description. Look! They need no introduction. Long ago Christ chose 1 that repentant sinner, and that repent ant sinner chose Christ. Mightiest moment of an immortal history-the first kiss of heaven! Jesus, and the soul! The soul and Jesus! But now into that reception room pour the glorified kinsfolk, enough of earthly retention to let you know them, but without their wounds or their sickness or their troubles. See what heaven has done for them-so radiant, so gleeful, so transportingly lovely! They call you by name. They greet you with an ardor proportioned to the anguish of your parting and the length of your separation. Father! Mother! There is your child. Sis ters! Brothers! Friends! I wish you joy. For years apart, together again in the reception room of the old homestead. You see, they will know you are coming. There are so many immortals filling all the spaces between here and heaven that news like that flies like lightning. They will be there in an instant. Though they were in some other world on er rand from God, a signal would be throwD that would fetch them. Though you might at first feel dazed aud overawed at their supernal splen dor, all that feeling will be gone at their first touch of heavenly saluta tion, and we will say: "Oh, my lost boy!" "Oh, my lost companion!" ' Oh, my lost friend! Are we here to gether!" What scenes in that recep tion room of the old homestead have been witnessed! There met Joseph aud Jacob, finding it a brighter room than anything they saw in Pharaoh's p;ilnc??; David and the little child for wt?.-in i-e once fasted and wept; Mary and Lazarus after the heartbreak of Bethany; Timothy and grandmother Lui?; Isabella Graham and her sailor son; Alfred and George Cookman, the uiyMery of the sea at last made mani fest; Luther and Magdalene, the daughter he bemoaned; John Howard and the prisoners whom he gospelized, and multitudes without number who, once so weary and so sad, parted on earth, but gloriously met in heaven. Among all the rooms of that house there is no one that more enraptures my soul than that reception room. "In my Father's house are many rooms " Another room in our Father's house is thc throne room. We belong to the royal family. The blood of King Jesus flow? in our veins, so we have a right to enter the throne room. It is no easy thing on earth to get through even the outside door of a king's residence. During the Franco German war, one eventide in thc sum mer of 1870, I stood studying the ex quisite sculpturing of the gate of the Tuileries, Paris. Lost in admiration of the wonderful art of that gate, I knew not that I was exciting suspic ion. Lowering my eyes to the crowds of people, I found myself being close ly inspected by the government offi cials, who, from my complexion, judged me to bc a German and that for some belligerent purpose I might be exam ining the gates of thc palace. My ex planation in very poor French did not satisfy them, and they followed mc long distances until 1 reached my ho tel and were not satis?ed until from my landlord they found that I was only an inoffensive American. The gates of earthly palaces are carefully guarded, and if so, how much more the thronerooin! A dazzling place it for mirrors and all costly art. > one who ever saw the throneroom > th3 first and only Napoleon will cv forget the letter N embroidered i purple and gold on the upholstery i chair and wiudow, the letter N gildc on the wall, the letter N chased c the chalices, the letter N flaming fro; the ceiling. What a conflagration < brilliance the throueroom. of Charl) Immanuel of Sardinia, of Ferd i nan of Spain, of Elizabeth of England, < Boniface of Italy. But the thron? room of our Father's house hath glory eclipsing all the throucroou that ever saw scepter wave or crow glitter or foreign cmbassador bow. f< our Father's throne is a throne ( grace, a throne of. mercy, a throne ( holiness, a throne of justice, a thron of universal dominion. We need nc stand shivering and cowering befoi it, for our Father says we may yet on day come up and sit on it beside Hin "To him that overebmeth will I grar to sit with Me in My throne." Yo see, wc are princes and princesse: Perhaps now we move about incognitc as Peter the Great in the garb of ship carpenter at Amsterdam or a Queen Tirzah in the dress of a pe? sant woman seeking the prophet fe her child's cure, but it will be foun out after a while who wc are whe we get into the throneroom. Aye we need not wait until then. Werna by prayer aud song and spiritual up lifting this moment enter the throne room. 0 King, live forever! W touch the scepter and prostrate our selves at Thy feet. Another room in our Father's hous is the music room. St. John am other Bible writers talk so mucl about thc music of heaven that th er? must be music there, perhaps no such as on earth was thrummed fron trembling siring or evoked by touch o ivory key; but, if not that, thensooie tilling better. There are so manj Christian harpists and Christian cora posers and Christian organists anc Christian hymnologists that hive gouc up from earth, there must be for then some place of especial delectation Shall we have music in this world oi discords and no music in the land oi complete harmony? In that music room of our Father's house you will some day meet the old masters, Mozart and Handel and Men delssohn and Beethoven and Dodd ridge, whose sacred poetry was as re? markablc as his sacred prose, and James Montgomery and William Cow per, at last got rid of his spiritual melancholy, and Bishop Heber, who sang of "Greenland's icy mountains and India's coral strand,'' and Dr. Raffles, who wrote of "High in yon der realms of light," and Isaac Watts, who went to visit Sir Thomas Abney and wife for a week, but proved him self so agreeable a guest that they made him stay thirty-six years, and side by side Augustus Toplandy, who has got over his dislike for Methodists, and Charles Wesley, freed from his dislike for Calvinists, and George W. Bethune, as sweet as a songmaker as he was great as a preacher and the author of "The Village Hymns," and many who wrote in verse or song, in church or by eventide cradle, and many who were passionately fond of music, but could make none them selves, the poorest singer there more than any earthly prima donna and the poorest players there more than any earthly Gottschalk. Oh, that music room, the headquarters of cadence and rhythm, symphony and chant, psalm and antiphon! Muy we be there some hour when Ha vdu sits at the keys of one of his own oratorios, and David the psalmist fingers the harp, and Miriam of the lied sea banks claps thc cymbals, and Gabriel puts his lips to the trumpet and the four and twenty elders chant, and Lind and Parepa render matchless duet in the music room of the old heavenly homestead! 'In my Father's house arc many rooms." Another room in our Father's house will be the family room. It may cor respond somewhat with the family room on earth.. At morning and evening, you know, that is the place we now meet. Though every member of the household have a separate room, in the family room they all gather, and joys and sorrows and ex periences of all styles are .jere re hearsed. Sacred room in all our dwellings, whether it be luxurious with ottomans and divaus and books in Russian lids standing in mahogany case or there be only a few plain chairs and a cradle. So the family room on high will be the place where the kinsfolk assemble and talk over the family experiences of earth, the weddings, the births, the burials, the festal days of Christmas and Thanks giving reunion. Will thc children departed remain children there? Will the aged remain aged there? Oh, no I Everything is perfect there. The child will go ahead to glorified maturi ty, and the aged will go back to glori fied maturity. The rising sun of thc one will rise to meridian, and the de scending sun of the other will return to meridian. However much wc love our children on earth, we would con sider it a domestic disaster if they staid children, and so wc rejoice at their growth here. And when we meet in the family room of our Fath er's house wc will be glad that they have grandly and gloriously matured, while our parents, who were aged and infirm here, we shall bc glad to find restored to the most agile and vigor ous immortality there. I hope none of us will be disap pointed about getting there. There is a room fer us if we will go and take it, but in order to reach it it is abso lutely necessary that we take the right way, and Christ is the way, and! we must enter at the right door, and Christ is thc door, and we must start in time, and the only hour you are sure of is thc hour the clock now strikes, and the only second thc euc your watch is now ticking. I hold iu my hand a roll of letters inviting you all to make that your home forever. Thc New Testament is only a role of letters inviting you, as the spirit of them practically says: "My dying yet immortal child in earthly neighborhood I have built for you a great residence. It is full of rooms. I have furnished them as no palace was ever furnished. Pearls are nothing, emeralds are noth ing, chrysoprasus is nothing, illu mined panels of sunrise and sunset nothing, the aurora of the northern heavens nothing, compared with the splendor with which I have garnitured them. But you must be clean before you can enter there, and so I have opened a fountain where you may wash all your sins away. Come now! Put your weary but cleansed feet on the upward pathway. Do you no see amid the thick foliage on the heavenly hilltops the old family homestead?" "In my Father's house are many rooms." mu i mm The Story of a Fnruace. The host looked at his guest "Come down to thc basement," he said, with a slight wink; "I want to show you my furLace." The hostess glanced up with a queer little smile. "Mr. Stiverson is quite daft about his furnace, Mr. Jolloboy," she said. "Ive no doubt he'll have you down there every time he opens a damper." The host turned away and choked slightly, and then they stepped down thc stairs together. Mr. Stiverson went straight to the furnace room, and reaching above the bricked heater, pulled down a squat black bottle and a small glass. He filled the latter. "Here's to thc furnace," he said with a hoarse chuckle, as he passed the glass to his guest. "Have to be a little careful, you know, on account of the old lady. Best vornan in the world, of course, but prejudiced. How's that?" The guest gulped and took down the contents of the glass. "Npw, what would you call that?" "Well," replied the visitor with a grimace, "to be frank with you, I would call it a mighty good sample of spoiled cidar vinegar." "Eh! what?" And the host hastily poured out a glass ^r>d took a mouth ful. "Wow-w-w! So it is. Hang it all, the old lady has discovered thc hiding place! Wonder what in thun der she did with thc real stuff? Heav ens! what a contempitible trick. Let's go upstairs." And they went. "How did Mi. Jollyboy like the fur nace?" inquired the hostess as she looked up with a pleasant smile. The accidulated guest did his best to call up a smile in return. "It's a splendid furnish-I should say furnace," he remarked. "I don't think I ever saw one with better ap pointments outside and inside." "And on top, too?" queried the hostless sweetly. Then she pointed to the open rcgiiter at her feet. "It's quite wonderful," she added, 4,how distinctly the sound of voices in the furnace room below comes up through the register. I could hear every word you said!" Then she laughed softly. But the men made no comment. Cleveland Plain Dealer. Rheumatism-Catarrh, are Blood Dis eases-Cure Free! It is the deep-seated, obstinate cases of Catarrh and llheumatism that B. B. B. (Botanic Blood Balm) cures. It matters not what other treatments, doctors, sprays, liniments, medicated air, blood purifiers, have failed to do, B. B. B. always promptly reaches the real cause and roots out and drives from the bones, joints, mucous mem brane, and entire system the specific poison in the blood that causes llheu matism and Catarrh. B. B. B. is thc only remedy strong enough to do this so there can never bc a return of thc symptoms. Don't give up hope but ask your druggist for B. B. B.-Bo tanic Blood Balm of 3 Bs.-Large bottles SI, six bottles (full treatment) $5. B. B. B. is an honest remedy that makes real cures of all Blood Diseases after everything else fails. We have absolute confidence in Bo tanic Blood Balm; hence, so you may test it, we will send a Trial Bottle Free on request. Personal medical advice free. Address Blood Balm Co., 380 Mitchell St., Atlanta Ga. - A kansas man is having a violin made from a piece of the pulpit of the first church of the Pilgrim Fathers, near Boston. Joseph Stockford, Ilodgdon, Me., healed a sore running for seventeen years and cured his piles of long stand ing by using DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve. It cures all skin diseases. Evans Pharmacy. I Freak Farms. Farmers of Indiana are raising strange products these days, the list including tomcats, skunks, weasels, rabbits and frogs. Herman Fular, at Xcw Harmony, Posey County, has ten acres devoted to raising and breed ing Angora cats. Some sell for as much as $25 apiece. During the last year he has raised 3,000 for thc l?st ern markets. A mile away is a leech farm. It is the only one in thc country, and the industry is carried on in moss filled vat?. Thc original leeches came from Ucl many. Nathan Meyer has a rabbit farm of sixty acres, near Wabash. This year he expects to raise 1,000,000 rabbits. The meat is edible, the pelts are in grout demand, and sonic of the rab bits ure sold as pets. From the hair crush hats are made. There arc six big skunk farms in Indiana, where the little animals are raised by thc thousands. Their pelts sell for from $1.50 to $2 apiece. Mark Beeger has a large pepper mint farm in St. Joseph County, and some Poles have an ernorraous pepper mint farm on the Michigan-Indiana linc. Thc most freakish notion is to ar tificially fatten watermelons. The farmers do it by performing a sur gical operation on the stem, inserting a cotton fuse, which is passed through thc cork of a bottle full of sweetened water. -? i mt - The night watchman who struck a match in the powder mill at Santa Clara, Cal., to see what time it was has not been able to tell anybody since whether his watch had stopped or not. . A very pretty custom obtains among cer tain classes by which thc newly married pair starts a srJvings hank for the child yet to bc. Every day a penny or a dime, as the case may* be, is dropped into the bank to swell thc fund, and this practice is kept up until thc ch dd is old enough to save for itself. The parents have the right theory but how rarely they carry it to its broad est application. Every mother is perforce laying up for her child what money cannot in fluence-happiness or misery. The nervous motherw?l have a nervous child. Thc irrita ble and fearful nirther cannot have a happy and cheerful child. In mind and body the child will reflect the mother's condition. The best preparation for motherhood is made by the use of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. Its perfect control over the sensitive feminine organism gives it a natural influence over the mind. It ban ishes anxiety and fear. It does away with t: . misery of morning sickness. It gives vitality and elasticity to the organs pecu liarly feminine, and makes the trial of motherhood easy and brief. It makes healthy mothers, capable of nursing and nourishing the babes they bring into thc world. "Favorite Prescription" contains no alcohol, whisky or other intoxicant Accept no substitute. Mrs. Axel Kjer, of Gordonville. Cape Girar deau Co., Mo., writes: "When I look at my little boy I feel it my duty to write to you. Per haps some one will see my testimony and be ledto use your 'Favorite Prescription' and be blessed in the same way. This is my fifth child and the only one who came to maturity ; thc others having died from lack of nourishment so thc doctor said. I was net sickly in any way and this time I just thought I would try your 'Prescription.* I tock niue bottles .nul "to" my surprise it carried me through, and pave usas fine a little boy as ever rvas. Weighed ten and one-half pounds. He is now five months old. has never beet? sick n day, and is so strong that everybody who sees him wonders at him. He is so playful and holds himself up so well. I would like to sec this in print for so many have asked me, 'Doyou think these are the testimonials of thc people, or has Dr. Pierce just made them up and printed them?' " Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cure bilious ness. VALUABLE LAND SALE. WITH a view of changing my invest ment I will olF?r for ?aie on next Balesdav, December 4, 1S90, before tho Court House in Anderdon, S. C., if not sold at. private sale bufore, my Planta tion, containing !}32 aon-s, mnrn ur ?CHI, situated near the Town of Belton, .S C., Kiib divided sw follows : TRACT NO. 1 -57i aeren, known as che Wilkes Pince. TRACT NO. 2-56i acree,known au the Martin I'laeo TRACT NO. 3-97 acres, known as the Caroline Ellison Place. TRACT NO. 4-120acres, known?8 the Wm. Ellison Place, including .'il! acres of woodland, originally part of Georg?. Tel ford land. Term?-One-third cash, balance in one and two years, with interest at eight per cent per annum. Purchaaers to pay for papers and stamps. W. F. COX. Nov 15, 1899 21 2 KAMNOL. HEADACHE, NEURALGIA, LA GRIPPE. Relieves all pain. 25c. all Druggists, i BANKERS and BROKERS. GEO. SKALIER & CO., CONSOL, STOCK EXCHANGE BLDG, 60-62 Broadway, - New York. LOTS OF MONEY CAN be made through speculation with deposit of $30.00 [thirty dollars] upward [or :i per cent, margin upward] on the Stock Exchange. The greatest fortunes have boen made through speculations in StockB, Wheat or Cotton. If you are intoroHted to know how spec ulations are conducted, notify us and we will send you information and market ettor free of charge. Usual commission charged for exe cuting orders. Government, Municipal and Railroad bonds quotations furnished on applica tion for purchase, sale and exchange. Oct. 25,1909 18 Om !. 'l '^^^^^^^^.---T 1 For Infants and Children, ! il^B^B I The Kind Yon Have |pM??i?|||B I Always Bought ?VegctablcPreparationforAs- 'M & i [ similatinig?LerooclandRcgula- m ? I lingtticStoiimda g* jjp^jT^. ?jRP ff ? l^fflsffl! " " " /(/tl* . _zr:" i Signature f R\W i PromotesDi|?stio?Xf?serfuI- jg # / I?!5 I nessandlfestConff?nsneither ? r> # li elf j: Opium.Morphine ncr Miserai, g Ul #S\^LF j KOTNAHCOT?C. S ^^]jf \ Pan/Jan S ie il' ? tty lg j?J/fli?- \ 1 TL j Aperfccf Remedy for Constipa- wJj^vf fy* IC I fl fl j tion.SourSto??i?ch.Diarrhoea, || %fMr I Worms .Convulsions,Feverish- ll j|P ^f^n* l|A,IA ; ness and Loss OF SLEEK il ^Jfv j 0 ll S BYS Tac Simile Signature of |S !^^^^ I Always Bought _j " THC CENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK CITT. Is a Little Thing when it Begins ! THE longer ou put it off the harder it is to cure. The longer it las:s the more serious it becomes. Let it run on and ?here's n>> telling "hat the end will be. The worst ease of Consumption was a little Cold once. Will stop any Cou sh when it first begins. It will stop most Coughs after they get bad. But the best way is to take it at the first sign of a Cold. It ought to be right at your elbow all the time. / Is the BEST REMEDY for COU,.HS, COLDS, HOARSENESS, and all diseases of the Throat and Luugs. Don't buy any other kind. te rtPP Lino Trade is on the increase, but we want it to increase more. THOUSANDS of Farmers can testily that "Old Hickory," "Tennessee," "Studebaker" and "Milburn" Wagons are the lightest running and will wear longer than other makes on the market. You nun find iu this County these Wagons that have been in constant use for the past twenty years. We also have on hand ?. large and varied assortment of BUGGIES and CARRIAGES, and among them the celebrated 'Babcock's," "Columbias," "Tyson & Jones," "Columbus," and many <-ther brands. Our record for selling first-class G ods is evident by the blands men tioned above, that we have exclusive sale for in Anderson County. Our "Young Men's" Buggy has no equal. Have also a large and select line of ri A RN ESS, SADDLES, BRI DLES, &c., and have recently secured exelu>ive control and sale of the cele brated "Matthew Heldman" Harness, which is well known in this County, and needs no "talking up." The Wagon and Buggy manufacturers are advancing prices on all their goods on account of the advance in price of a l the material, and in conse quence we will have to advance our prices norn $5.00 to $10.00 a job ; bu we wish to give you a chance to buy before the rise, so you had better join in the procession and buy one of ur Buggies or Wagons at once, for on and after September let next our prices will bc at least S5 00 higher than, at present. We regret having to do ?his, but cannot ge* around it. Buy now and save this advance. JOS. J. FRET WELL Will still sell you a first-class Buggy for $30.00. Car riage $85.00. WM & BRO. FLOURFLOUR! 500 BAHRKLS. GOT every grade you are looking for. We know what you want, and we've got the prices right. Can't give it to yon, but we will sell you high grade Flour 25 to 35c cheaper than any competition. Low grade Flout S3.00 ncr barrel. Car EAR CORN and stacks of Shelled Corn. Buy while it is cheap advancing rapidly. We know where to buy and get good, sound Corn cheap. OATS, HAY and BRAN. Special prices by the ton. We want your trade, and if honest dealings and low prices count we will get it. Yours for Business, O. D. ANDERSON & BRO. B6U Now is your chance to get Tobacco cheap. Closing out odds and ends in Caddies.