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,v . ? - G. ,, \ - . >. V \ i , . ' " '?' ' ' " * I ' * * * ASEHMON FOR SUNDAY V ? * . AN ELOQUENT DISCOURSE BY DS CHARLES H. PARKHURST.. ? i s 8nfeject of the Distinguished N?w York Clergyman's Sermon* " What Think Ye ot Christ ? "?Why So Many People Get Tired of Being Christians. New York City.?Dr. Charlei H. Parki knrst. Dastbr of the Madison Sauare Pres byteriau Church, preached Sunday morning on "What Think Ye of Christ T" from the words found in Mark viii:29: "Whom say \ ye that I am?" Dr. Parkhurst said among other things: Christ means to you something; what is it? Christ Himself asks this of His disci pies. It is the first Christian catechism. Brief, but nevertheless it is catechism, and is 1 God's warrant for our asking doctrinal questions, and His warrant, too, for our being prepared to frame some sort of an answer to them. Christ's inquiry here means that He expects His disciples to have convictions? convictions in regard to Himself at any rate?and definite enough for them to be able to state them. Such convictions may be more correct, may be less so, but an imperfect opinion is better than none, and no opinion ends in being perfect that did not begin by being imperfect, and sound conviction is blunder convicted and converted. 4 Everything human begins in a mistake. Error is the loamy soil out of which truth vegetates and blossoms. The history of philosophy, science and theology illustrates this "principle with a distinct eogency that is unanswerable. So that we need not be too much afraid of being in error provided only we cling to our error with a tenacity that is not simply tenacious, but that is also honest and intelligent. What think ye of Christ? His appeal here is to man considered as an animal who thinks, who has ideas, ideas of his own, takes impressions from what is shown him, told to him, acted out before him, and impressions that so groove themselves into nis substance as to take defined shape and snape that is fairly permanent. Just as objects make an image of themselves in the eye, so facts, events, truths, make an image of themselves in the mind?that is, tbey do if the mind is an alert mind, sensitive, responsive. A man can, of course, look without seeing anything; so he can hrar without learning anything; live in the presence of great realities and come away from them without carrying upon his soul any of their imprint. An ox can look toward the west at 6 o'clock in the afternoon without observing any sunset; there ;s a good deal of the bovine still in most of us that call ourselves human, and that is why we behold so little of what is reallv visible and why we garner so little of the fruit that falls into our laps. A duck can go through the water ana still come out dry. A boy can go through college without any of the college going through bim. Judas walked three years with Je$us and finished ? by being a devil. What think ve of Christ? He wants to find out from His disciples, then, what impression pf Himself He has left with them, what stamp He has put upon them. What they think of Him will be only another name for the record of Himself that His teachings and demeanor have left printed nnnn their intelligences. I am trving to have you realize tHat their opinion of Bim that He was trying to get hold of was tomething definitely traceable to the working influence upon them of His own presence and activity. He is not interested to know what they imagine Him to be, nor what they logically iruer He may be, nor what some one has told them that He is. He has been for some time demonstrating Himself to them by word, act and Sirit, and if they are not altogether like e duck in the water or the ox before the sunset, as presumably they are not, this demonstration of Himself to them has in some way told upon them, it has lodged something within them, and He wants them to give a name to it. "Their opinion of Him w^s something that He had Himself been the means of making to grow up in them without their consciously having any part in the matter themselves. It was not something .""hey had borrowed from' somewhere nor :omething that they had personally striven to acquire. Opinion, then, if it is anything more than mere quotation, copy of what some one else has thought, is one of the things that grows. The influence that starts the conviction will, if it continues to operate, go on adding to that conviction's strength and intensity. As illustrative of this compare the feebleness and timorousness of the convictions of the disciples when they 2 began to believe in Jesus with what those convictions were when at the end of their course they laid down their lives in martyrdom. That is the natural course of things. It is natural for a flower to continue to grow if it stands in the same sunC shine and rain as that which first made it begin to grow. If a flower comes up out of the ground, grows for a day and then suddenly stops growing and remains as it is, you know something is the mattereither there is a tSorm at the root or the air too cold or the soil too dry. It is not natural for it not to go on improving upon itself, adding to itself. It is a sorry condition, then, that a man i3 in, that a Christian believer is in, when he says that he has the same opinion of * Christ that he had a year ago. It tells a sad story of the way the year has been passing with him. If the vine that is twin. ang itself around your trellis clothes itself in no more leaves and puts forth no more blossoms this summer than it did last summer, the season must have been an infelicitous one for plant life or there i6 some, thing serious tne matter with the vine. I nave in this been speaking broadly of conviction in general, but of course the reference specifically intended is to religious conviction, and more specifics?ioM0ill to the conviction contemplated when the question was asked, "What think ye of Christ?" We doubtless all of 'us have some conviction respecting Him; that is, we ail of us possess among our other coroodities and belongings?either out on the table or tucked away in some drawer or closet or stored in the garret among other -1 disused furniture or obsolete bric-a-brac? . something which we called (and properly call) a belief in Christ, an opinion about Him, a conviction concerning Him. We are willing to assume, too, that it may be a vArv valid conviction. sound, vea. thor oughlv in the terms of Scripture. Yes. but granting all that, is there any of to-day's sap in it or is it an antiquity? ?. It means a great deal to say of a man's Christian conviction that it is a living conviction, that it is going on to-day maintaining a continuous life, freshly ministered to and daily supplied by communications * from the sanurdivine source that first initiated it. A dead conviction we have to lug around?a conviction that is alive takes us around. It means a continuous sense of the reality of that to which our conviction fastens. It brings everything down to date and sets it out in front of us. Memory does not have to be appealed to to recall it, nor books, manuscripts, catechisms rummaged through in order to authenticate it. It is an imbedded impulse tL .t keeps pushing and that goes on pushing with an ever accelerated pace and a widening energy while we stand near enough to Him whom we Delieve in to have His presence made ever more immediate to us. His reality more real to us. It is for that reason that some believers can believe very nicely and yet behave very bad ly. There is not the slightest incompatibility between being orthodox and being villainous, only in order that that may be poesib'e the orthodoxy in question must be a dead orthodoxy, last year's leaf though sti1? glued to this year's tree. t When Christ taugnt us to pray "Give us this aay our daily bread" He probably meant us to understand that in the spiritual life as well as in the stomach continu% ' .r..- 5;"* " " ' r ' ' '-* " oas health means consecutive supply. JThere is no incompatibility between your parlor being- brilliantly luminous at noon and black with Egyptian darkness at midnight. Light is not laid on in fast colors; neither is the light of God, and the. heavenly radiance that was upon us in 1902 is no guarantee against devilish blackness being upon us in 1903. Even Christ's power over us is valid only for the time that it is over us, so that the liveliest kind of orthodoxy, provided it is merely a mummified residuum froifi an extinct experience, is no kind . of an embarrassment to the very liveliest kind of depravity. It is all right to believe in the doctrine of perseverance of the saints that persevere, but that doctrine, applied in cold literalism, has done as much as any one thing nerhsps to prevent their persevering. If the. money a man has in his pocket to-day is thought by him to be sufficient to pay all his debts, defray all his expenses and secure all desired comforts and luxuries for an indefi nite time to come he will feel 110 incentive to going out and earning a couple of dollars to-morrow, and so his confidence in the absolute and everlasting sufficiency of his present pocket containing may easily issue in his turning pauner. Those illustra-. tions only serve to indicate what J mean by saying that a man may be as orthodox as Calvin and as wicked as he knows how. The principle we have been discussing also explains why it is that so many people who show a good deal of Christian zest at the start so soon get" tired of being Chris* tians. To have earnest views of Christ and to be intensely interested in them and controlled by them cannot,vunfortunatelv. be taken as a certain sign of the continuance of that interest. The falling off. the cooling down of Christian enthusiasm is common experience. Even the disciples, at Jesus' temporary withdrawal from them at crucifixion, threw up the whole matter, resumed their old life and went back to their fishing. Interest is not self-sustaining. Enthusiasm, like a burning candle, eonsumes itself'in its own heat. The sun. so astronomer? tell us. would burn itself out and our systems fall back into original' darkness were not special provision made for keeping up the sun's temperahire. . xi 1: -r ?r At toe same time tnere jut: uues ui cxfort and employment where interest, cm the contrary, never does seem to flag, where heat is not only maintained, but | with a mercury that is rather steadily>ra the rise! Setting aside the familiar and rather shop worn instance of the money getter, who; the more he gets, the intenser, r.s a rule, becomes his ambition to get, that is only one of the many, pursuits where the like enhancement of interest, I mounting up in many cases to the height of a steadily growing passion, is seen to evince itself. Examples of this are, I shonld say, especially frequent among scholars devoted to the scientific investigation of nature and nature's beauties and marvels. But in the instances of such advancing and steadily intensifying interest the particular fact I would beg you to notice is that what "keeps the investigator's , heart glowing with a warmer and warmer fervor is not the array of facts that have been brought distinctly within the range of his knowledge, that he has been able definitely to tabulate, and of which in some time past he has issued a complete and finished catalogue. It is the constant stepping forward on to new ground that keeps his thoughts alert and his fieart aglow. Whatever it be, the old is alwavs tiresome, only the new is interesting. To the naturalist the world retains its fascination, although an old world, because of the deeper entrance he day by day gains into that world and the ever fresh disclosures ! of newly discovered wonderfulness and beauty that she thereby makes over to him. In the same wav there are certain hooks that we read and re-read. In a way they are old books, but it is not their oldness that fascinates us but a certain everlasting newness that lay beyond the reaco nf nur riTVpiniifi n??niK?ls. HS eves that look quietly and intensely into the night-sky see stars that are sunk too deep in the firmament to be caught by. a first- and easy glance. And that suggeets-the old holy book, the Bible, which is always new and which the church always loves, 'because l there is that in it always which our last leading was only on the edge of discovering. If the church should ever come to the end of the Bible it would throw it away. Some people have thrown it away already; some who. seem to themselves to be Christians have thrown it away; it seems I to them they have come to the end of it. ! To them there is nothing new in it any j more, so, of course, by the princiole we are I illustrating they can do nothing but throw i it away. The ox knows enough to feel when it is dark, but never sees a sunset. All of this leads up easily to an explanation of the fact 6tated a moment ago that so many who have begun to be Christians get tired of being Christians after a while; it has ceased to offer them anything new to which interest can attach and by which therefore enjoyment can be kept alive. ! They reached a little conviction as to the | real import of Christ, entered into a ceri tain amount of relation with Him. had a ciegre oi experience or Jtiira, iearnea a nctie of what He could do to strengthen in weakness, brighten in darkness, comfort in sorrow and disappointment, and then everything stopped. Instead of "going on to know the Lord," drawing closer and closer to Him, and pressing forward into the j deeper and deeper meanings involved in j His Spirit, presence and companionship, they drew up all that part of the matter, ruminated only upon such little prospect as had opened to them, till they became weary of it, drank the old cup of consolation till its waters became stale, munched the drying crumbs of light, strength and comfort till they were moldy, strained themselves to keep warm by a fire that had gone out, and ended, of course, by concluding that whatever might be the theoretical value of personal religion it was nothing if not uninteresting, and people will not, if they can help it, permanently commit themselves to a course of drudgery, #even if that drudgery be baptized by so honorable a name as Christianity. Closing this morning with the prayer that we may all of us feel ourselves moved by a reverent and holy ambition to break free from the burden and entanglement of all the petty and now withered experiences garnered long ago, entering into ever new prospects, into larger discernmeuts, into an ever wider world of knowledge, comfort and anticipation. To this end may we have with us in our closets and in onr sanctuary gatherings the abounding Spirit of God the Father and of His Son Jesus Christ, to whom with the Blessed Spirit be given our obedience, adoration and love forever and ever. Amen. A Duty to Be Pleasant. We are ar' to think that our being happy or unhappy is something that affects only ourselves. On the contrary, neither condition is ever absolute.y confined to the person who experiences it, and, unfortunately, the "black edge" of one's unhappy moods^ iap3 over on the lives of others. The girl who comes down to breakfast "feeling blue" is apt to impart a tinge of the same melancholy to every one e.se before the meal is over, and the man or woman who is absorbed in the contemplation of h.s or her own troubles, real or fancied, is doinz something to add to the gloom of a wor.u that is more lacking in sunshine thatf it need be. No matter vhat one's private fcding may be, one can always make an effort to be pleasant for the sake of other people's happiness. While the opportunity of doirrg some great and noble thing may not often occur, the simple but beautiful opportunity of being pleasant is al. mv?vs present. Others First. If, in addition to the desire to live day i by day aright, we wish to add some pledge, can it not be that self shall sink into significance, and that the good, the happiness, the welfare of others, shall come first? ' "v* ' " " * r * ' "f?:' ?.* . t COMMODORE MtCHOLSOII * ~ OF OUR UVY j Recommends Pe-ro na?Other Pro* j minent Man Testify. 3 Mcholson fa Commodore Somerville Nicholson, of 1 - the United States Navy, in a letter * from 1837 R St., N. W., Washington, ? D. C., says: I "Your Peruna has been and is now ^ used by so many of my friends and ae- j, quaintances as a sure cure for catarrh that I am convinced of its curative qualities, and I unhesitatingly recom- J mend it to all persons suffering from that complaint."?S. Nicholson. 1 The highest men in our nation have ? given Peruna a strong endorsement.. ^ Men of all classes and stations are equally represented. ? If you do not derive prompt and sat- * isfactory results from the use of Pe- I runa, write at once to Dr. Hartman, ( giving a full statement of your case, j and he will be pleased to give you his valuable advice gratis. Address Dr. Hartman, President of 4 The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, O. 1 Ask Your Druggist for a free Parana ' ! Almanac for 1904. j THE WOMAN AND THE GOWN. 1 She is the wonder of the town; Miranda in her clinging gown. I It fits her as a silken srtieen . . , That lies upon a nectarine. \ There's not a wrinkle, not a fold j Along its lines of pliant gold. ' \ In queenliness and splendor she's 1 A vision of Hesperides. J And, like her gown, her brow is free { From fold or wrinkle e'er so wee. 1 No trace of thought, no furrow made 1 By introspection thqre te laid. Mentality's wide signature < . Has not been scrawled upon its pure * Smooth surface, which is glossy white As almond blossoms in the light Her heart?I'm sure the heart of her Is tightly laced, and cannot stir. Emotion, passion, love alive j Are not allowed therein to strive. ? Were it to beat it might distress r The contour of that perfect dress. \ She is the wonder of the town! t Confound (ber, brow, and heart, arid c gown! i ?New Orleans Times-Democrat : AT THE CONCERT. He?What delicacy! What har- j mony! It is divine! - j o.Vjg?j 3*2 so glad you like it.' I ; think it exquisite. He?I co-uW listen to it forever! She?Why, what are you referring j to? He?That symphony which was just i rendered, of course. She?Oh, I though* you meant tD-at beautiful gown In front of us.?The Master-Singer. X do not believe PLso's Cure for Consump tion baa anoqual for coughs and colds.?JoHK i F.Boykb, Trinity Springs, Ind., Feb. 15,1900. There is nothing sadder than the man who has loved and lost?unless it is the man who lias loved and won. No muss or failures made with PcTNAM Fadeless Di'es. , Wise Is the man who is able to keep his mouth shut when he has nothing to say. J Teo*inte and Billion Dollar Grass* ^ The two greatest fodder plants on earth, J one good for 1-1 tons of hay and the other 80 tons green fodder per; acre. Grows everywhere, so does Victoria Itape, yield- e ing 00,090 lbs. sheep and swine food per i acre. [A.C.L.] J just send ioc. IN stamps to the f John A. Salicer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis.. ' \ and receive in return their big catalog and f lots of farm seed samples. r In the United States the sparrow has six T broods a year; in England, seldom ever ^ three. * j A. Father's Worry. _ Your poor wearied wife losing sleep E night after night nursing the little one suf- t fenng from that night liend for children s and horror to parents, ckoup, should have p a bottle ox aaylor's Gherokee itemedy of & Sweet Gum and Mullein, an undoubted y croup preventive autl cure for coughs, colds _ and consumption. r At druggists, 2Jc., 50c. and $1.00 a bottle. . A man who is looking for trouble can le usualiv had it withoi>f trouble. c A Modern Samson. c From Tisra Szs Miklos, Hungary, J comes the story of a modern Samson, | 0 although the Delilah Is- missing. Ru- a dolf Tyrrltz, the strongest man in his ! part of the country, was building a *1 stable for a farmer. When it was all * but completed a dispute arose about pay. Rudolph so lost his temper that he grabbed one of the pillars ? which supported the roof and shook R It so hard that the whole structure ft came down on him. He was killed. ? \ An Elephant Problem. When Ah Chung, a Chinaman, -died t was found that he had left property by will to his three sons, as folows: One-half to the eldest, one-third jo the next, and one-ninth to the roungest son. When the property vas inventoried it was found to consist of seventeen elephants. Here vas a dilemma, for it was impossible jo divide the property according to die terms of the will without chop)ing up the seventeenth elephant. Fi lally the heirs applied to a wise law- | rer, Sam Punk, for advice, which they )ronlised to act upon. Sam Punk had in elephant of his own. He drove It nto the yard with the seventeen, and laid: "Now, we will suppose that your lather left these eighteen elephants. 5\im Hum, take your half and depart" So Funr Hum took nine elephant3 md went his way. "Now, Nu Pin," said the wise man, 'take your third and depart also." So Nu Pin took six elephants and went. "Now, Ding Bat" said the wise nan, "take your ninth and begone." So Ding Bat took two elephants and Hsappeared. Then the lawyer took his own elephant and went home again, feeling rery well satisfied with himself.?Cas?lTe Journal. Pol lets Cure for Insomnia. That any policeman can sleep after nidnlght, provided he has his uniorm on, ds vouched for by Alfred 3haw, formerly a patrolman in the eighteenth District One night he vas occupying a bed in the station louse vainly endeavoring to sleep. He ossed and rolled from side to side. The night was vary warm. Suddenly a brilliant idea struck ilm. He jumped from his bed, hastily loaned his uniform, and again lay lown. He swears that the charm icted like magic. He slept soundly or twelve hours.?Philadelphia Led ;er. May Bnild National Theatre. A Breslau journal announces that jrerhart Hauptmann has a plan of milding a national theatre, a la Bai euth, at Schreiberhau, in the Giant fountains, where every summer about lfteen or twenty performances of Gernan plays could be given. DeaftiMd Cannot B? Cared Iocs) applications as they cannot reach the llseased portion of the ear. There U only one vay to cure' deafness, and that is by constl- 1 utional re-nedies. Deafness is caused by an ^ - S I'll A-L g nnamea condition 01 mo mucous juuu*; ?l he Eustachian Tab?. When this tube is inlamed you have a rumbling sound orimperect hearing and when it Ls entirely olosed Oeafness is the result, and unless the infiamnation can be taken out and this tube reitored to its normal condition, hearing witl 5e destroyed forever. Nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh,whicbisnothingbut an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any sase of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cantot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for irsulars free. P. J. Cheney 4 Co., ToledorO. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the be3t. Wealth of South Africa. The numerous islands of Patagonia lrchipelago are covered with evergreen forests capable of supplying imnense quantities of valuable timber, vliile the mountain ranges, being of he same geological formation as those >f Chile and Peru are probably rich in nineral resources. $ Miss OannoG, Sec'y Detroit a Amateur Art Association, tells | foung women what to do to : ivoid pain and suffering caused ! )y female troubles. 44 Deab Mbs. Pinkham :?I can concientiously recommend Lydia E. ^inkham's Vegetable Compound o those of my sisters suffering with j emale weakness and the troubles j vhich so often befall women. I sufered for months with general weakLess, and felt so weary that I had hard vork to keep up. I had shooting pains, md was utterly miserable. In my disress I was advised to use Lydia E. >inkham,s Vegetable Com>Ound, and it was a red letter day to ae when I took the first dose, for at hat time my restoration began. In ix weeks I was a changed woman, erfectly well in every respect. I felt o elated and happy that I want all rornen who suffer to get well as I did." -Miss Guila Gannon, 359 Jones St., )etroit, Mich., Secretary Amateur Art iSSOCZStion. ?f5000forfeit tf original of above tter proving genuineness cannot be produced. When one considers that Miss lannon's letter is only one of the -j ountless hundreds which we r*?rrmtJnnn.llvnnblishmfrin the news- i apers of this country, the great virtue, f Mrs. Pinkham's medicine must be dmitted by all. 'his is What Yon Want! flare Yoa Any Malarial Troubles ? X>o ycm want to get well and get well quick ? If so, led a Postofflce order for lLfty cents to th? EfiAL IIEOiClNE CO.,if Stamford, Uonn., tt medicine and directions A quick and certain ire guaranteed In ail casee of malaria, chills and iT?r,dw ib ague and intermittent fever. . ^ * ' ;:i GOVERNORi Uses Pe-ru-na For Colds fjj CAPITOL BUILDING A Letter From The { Peruna if known from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Letters of congratulation and commendation testifying to the merits of Peruna as a catarrh remedy are pouring in from every State in the Union. Dr. Hartman is receiving hundreds of such letters dailv. All classes write-these let- ( ters, from the highest to the lowest. The outdoor laborer, the indoor artisan, the clerk, the editor, the statesman, the preacher?all agree that Peruna is the catarrh remedy of the age. The stage and rostrum, recognizing catarrh as their greatest enemy, are especially enthusiastic in their praise and testimony. Any man who wishes perfect health must be entirely free from catarrh. Catarrh is well nigh universal; almost omnipresent. Peruna is the only absolute safeguard known. A cold is the beginning of catarrh. To prevent colds, to cure colds, is to cheat catarrh out of its victims. Peruna not only cures catarrh, but orevents it. Every household should be supplied with this great remedy for coughs, colds and so forth. The Governor of Oregon is an ardent admirer of Peruna. He keeps it continually in the house. In a recent letter to Dr. Hartman he say?: Ask Your Druggist for a free w\mca P?1 RIFLE (&PIS1 | ^ H " It's the shots that Pistol Cart pM teMl they shoot accurately t |? trating blow. This is th y111 1 =1 if you insist on having, t I' I ' I ALL DEALERS SELL WXK U/ffl) UPSET YOUR. STOMA1 M ** " ?V To Cure Your He?.d&cb I TaKe r A *PT7Thl ~ Immediately?while jou wait?and has n tllOUID- r"/WrrnMf 11 written by men who know, tell j? | Potash I & They are needed by every man S Uf who owns a field and a plow, and who desires, to get the most out fi| ' GEKMAX KALI WOEKS i| 2Cew Yorfc?09 > waa Street, XX if Atlarla, G?.-S2J4 go. Broad St. Earliest and Most Profitable Trucking and Fruit Lands in aouui iexas. ; Southernmost warm, well drained soil, j moisture abundant. Undeveloped lands j cheap. Special inducements to the first j settlers- Write for bulletin No. IX. S. GIBBS, Huntsvifle, Texas. 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State of Oregon, > jjb Executive Department, j y The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus* OtC ->-.^3 Dear Sirs?/ /tare /tad occasion t? ^ use your Peruna medicine in '"> family/or colds, and it proved to f*0 . an excellent remedy. 1 have u4t ;-j had c ccasion to use it for other a0- ,/$| men 11. Your very truly, W. M. Lord. : It will be noticed that the Govcrny ^ says be has not had occasion to use runa for other ailments. The reason Isfr v*|g this is, most other ailments begin with * /;$? cold. Using Peruna to promptly cure ; s he protects his family against other ments. This is exactly what every otly;&mb; family in the United States should d*. Keep Peruna in the house. Use it Mft --%m coughs, colds, la grippe, and other cHmadit v'-j , affections of winter, and there will be nt? other ailments in the house. Such f*m- ?sgl ilies should provide themselves with a cay ^ of Dr. Hartman's free book, entitled f-gSS&i ter Catarrh" Address Dr. Hartmaxr, Gfc- \~S3 iumbus, Ohio. | Peruna Almanac for 1904. | >| WsfMmk POL CARTRIDGES, fl hit that count. " Winchester ^ | ridges in all calibers hit, that is, ^ ^ md strike a good, hard, pene- < | e kind of cartridges you will get, he time-tried Winchester make. M - ) [CHESTER MAKE OF CARISOOQE8.V| ;d BMDnaaHBnRBnDBHBHBnP ' > bad affects on tba Stomach. IT IS, }^| Also* 10>23 mMi s** * 3-^E f FOR W I M E | heals^all inflammation df^ (he mucoot | ^ | memDrane wnerever jucaicu. In local treatment of female Dls Pax- m " ? tine is invaluable. 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