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< .'T' '* ' "'v'~ ' i ???, ' A SERMON EUR SUNDAY _?_ | .. A POWERFUL DISCOURSE ENTITLED '* hIDDEN TALENTS." VCIl* "Rev. Dr. Renry C. Rwentrel Draws a New Lesson From the Parable?The One Talent Alan Shonltl Not Pogo as a Person With a Grievance. | > * BROOKLYN*, N. Y.?Dr. Henrv C. Swentrector of St. Luke's Church, preached | SaBd3y morning on "Hidden Talents." He I took his test from St. Matthew .\xv:18: "lie that had received one talent went and i digged in the earth, and hid bis lord's ^ ^r" Swentzel said: holds the cornucopia of infinite and oi^fcipotent love. With open-handed gent e*fcty He disDCD.ses the gilts of His P .tojesudiess wealth throughout the length X y^ajLbreadth of the whole creation. From ^ Jjtfcd pulpits nature preaches eloquently of divine philanthropy. The universe . ia nat oniy a vast workshop, but a wagh nificent pleasure house for enjoyment, y Kvery field is designed for a harvest, all y the forests resound with symphonies and oratories; everywhere are mines of riches awaiting the toiler. God's plan includes all the D est tilings for the multitude," and he who serves his mission may well say, *1 have all and abound." And yet how manv are almost persuaded to protest against the doctrine of the liberality of the heavenly Father's provisions. ~ "Ehejr have more than a suspicion that our I interpretation of His bounty does not r equare with the facts and experiences of I human life. They are disposed to intimate that His ways are not equal; that He has Hirr.solf hv a hard arid fn?t dnrv trine of foreorciination, predestination and ? election; that His counsels are marred by ' what amounts practically to unjust discrimination and favoritism. Without pausing to emphasize the impiety of criticising Almighty God or to expose the futility and vanity of passing judgment UDon His program for humanity, we ought to be persuaded even by our surroundings that the Lord is prompted ever by a masterful desire to promote the health and wealth, the power and happiness, of His children. If we were qualified to appreciate His plans for mankind, we would accept the t world with its beauties and harmonies, its lights and shadows, its resplendent heavens and fragrant Sowers, its overflowing granaries, its countless picture galleries, wv its monumental glories, as parables of dirvine so .-ereignty. But the man with one talent is likely to present himself as an objector to this* attractive and inspiring view of the Fathers rulership. He is dissatisfied. He has a He is persuaded that he ought to have a better chance, larger privileges, greater opportunities, a* more encouraging r n outlook. It is perfectly true that there are inequalities. Ail are not endowed witn the same gifts. Some seem to have more while others have less; but there is undoubtedly a law of compensation which ? opens the way for a high general avenge y-*. or satisfaction in living, a satisfaction which is not affected by what are called euecess and failure, riches and penury. God' never gives everything to any one person, but He docs offer a generous gift to every soul, and all will find life to be I.V* Worth a thousand times more than it costs "is. ? thev will but do their duty. If the many would honestly do their best with what thov have, a large share of present inequalities would disapear, and it would be clearer to all that tne Almighty is truly a universal Father. Alas, who has done his best? If the complainer had but half filled the measure of bis possibilities, if he had been willing to do what he easily could have done, if he had not hidden his talent, the situation to him would be changed, and he would be more perfectly in Harmony with the life-creed proclaimed by revelation and by all the worlds. Inasmuch as our Lord is the author of the parable of the talents, the religious story with its moral should be received with the utmost thougutfulness. According to His teaching, everybody receives something, and the very smallest gift is one talent. A talent is a goodly sum of money?equal to a little less than $2000. That amount would be a promising starfcing capital to a young man of fair business ability. Many, it will be alleged, must begin life on a much smaller basis, for which there may be human reasons which are both regrettable and inexorable, and which we cannct stay to discuss. Urdinaniy, 5^. however, each soul has a goodly start and eets out wi'h a fair endowment. Gener4** ally speaking, everybody has a chance?hecan be something, he can do something?ho i can serve his mission. It is wholesome to be reminded betimes that many of the V men who have made history have sprung form a comparatively low origin. In every nation saints, heroes and leaders are, for the most part, born in humble cottages, the poor boys of not many yesterdays ago. To every soul God gives an adequate equipment. " Work is the only royal road to excellence. There are people who expect to i be carried on angels' wings to the goal of i their ambition, but angels and their wings .> were made for no such purple. The trouble with the complaining mar. of one talent is that he has hidden his k power in the earth. God made him to live a splendid life; the mar has failed more or less utterly. He may be misunderstood, but far oftener he misunderstands himself. In taking stock of his assets he neglects to & rate them even at their face value. He wonders why he is where he is; he alleges insuperable obstacles and insists that ne p has been sorely handicapped; he regards himself as a victim. It may by apparent that he is not so richly gifted as certain #thers are. hnfc thnt. ia n<% Moo.m v,. should set up an inferior standard for himself and expect nothing as the outcome of his existence. Success is not a matter of talents. It is not true that" they whose achievements have given them a place in kthe world's legion of honor were men whose shining talents, without industry dnd without development, won for them immortal distinction. A11 who have real strength arc hard workers, whose towering object was not to get through the world with the least possible outlay of energy, who are willing to spend and be spent in living their lives. Brilliant abilities count for little. The high places in the world ^ . are seldom tilled by people of genius, but A by men and women who have simply made the most of their capacity. It is an ever recurring surprise that most unlikely souls f *y come to the iront in all the spheres of activity. Many a genius goes at the last to the potter's field, while memorials in marble or bronze are reared to commemorate virtues and triumphs of characters that t were not so rich in natural gifts as they B were abundant in labors. Everybody is ' weil enough endowed. The least we have w "5?one talent, which, if it be rightly used. Wff* will suffice for our energies and till the Vj measure of a laudable ambition. I Everybody is good for something; no body is necessarily good for nothing. The man with talent has some power. We do not refer to his attributes, though these ? may be admirable; he may have faculties winch are more or less notable; he may * have memory, imagination, various gifts which perhaps he does not suspect. But he has a finer talent to be a man?the talent of faithfulness to the right, or conr( age for maintaining principle, of honesty and sturdin^ss for work; he has a talent that will give him a standing among his fellows, and that will make liiin valuable amid the various relationships of his life. By the grace of God he may hone to be ? . eomething and do something, anel he is in honor bound to make large exactions oi I himself. He may never take his place ' ' among the billionaires, or secure fame, or R be known far outside of the small circle oi r. his home and his shop, but everybody who I % tries to do his duty in his own station. 1 " whose example upholds righteousness, r whose influence, be it much o> little, is on God's side in the combat between good and evil, is a public benefactor, and his 3 name, though almost unknown here, is J written in heaven's book of worthies. 1 It is impossible to acquit the man with 2...1?i u;, | , uuc uucut \\ iiu urn vuc unuic khv. xiio , wrong was not the misuse or tne abuse, but tne non-use, of his personal force. He does not belong to the category of tlie vick Urns, he is not chargeable with iniquities 1 which suggest thta there may be some i truth aft.er all in the old. discarded notion of the total depravity of human nature, and yet the Lord says to him. ''thou wicked and slothful servant." He was wicked, not because he had squandered or : lost the gift, but only because lie had bidden it. 1 That is just what thousands and thou: sands are doing to-day. They put their talent in the earth. In spite of all their 1 worth they are stunted and impoverished because they are "of the earth earthy." i The worldly spirit is not restricted by any means to those who pile up colossal for- : i tunes or who are the habitues of Vanity Fair. A begtrar may he, and probably is, ; quite as much, of a mammon worshiper as is the most vulgar money lover. They who fail may be even more worldly than they who succeed. However that may be, our present concern is with the admonition that warns us not to bury our talent by living solely for temporal goods. Every day we are exposed to the contagion of earthly domination. Hoiv easy it is to let ourselves down to a low degree of thought, desire and gratification. We are kin to the elements about us. V7e belong to two worlds?to earth as well as to heaven. With pardonable fondness we refer to our present abode as "mother earth." We came ourselves from its bosom. We get all that we have out of the ground?our food and raiment, our houses, our books, our sciences and arts, all the material blessings with which we are enriched. Here reposes all that was mortal of our beloved dead, and at their funeral rites the church said "earth to 99 fKo mmof mrd livorl fI brave have fought for r'ght and rights, and royal souls have done their work for the cause of progress Hera Jtsas spent three and thirty years. His feet trod upon its hills and vales. His precious blood flowed down from His sacred body to its soil, and His mangled corpse lay in its tomb. How much the earth has in it to fascinate; Is it a marvel that so many fall before its seductions and hide the great and holy talent in the clay? How natural, but how wicked. To every- one who buries the talent?his personal force?in worldliness comes the sharp condemnation, "thou wicked and slothful servant." It is nothing less than a high crime to centre one's being in the earth. When he has the power to be a son of Cod, when he has an equipment that should get results, when he can be efficient and effective throughout his sphere, when he can make a contribution to the fund of goodness and - happiness, what a sorry pity it is that he should put such possibilities into a hole. And yet that is precisely what so many are doing. Some of them are rich, while others are poor; some have knowledge and culture, wnile others are ignorant and hard, but they are all alike in that they have buried the precious gift. It matters not whether they are lofty or lowly, whether they live in a palace or a garret. they have erred grievously if they nave buried the power which alone can make life worth living. What an unspeakable degradation it is to leave the plain where God would have us think and work and to descend to the slavery of a vulgar ambition for worldly concerns. To pass one's years without raising to the dignity and excellences of noble manhood and noble womanhood?to go on from year to year without recognizing the Deity?and without noting the privileges which Christ has assured?to reduce ourselves to the level of machinery, to set up a song and dance as though that were the greatest thing in the world?is to take ourselves into a region which is not fit for immortals. Let ns do our work and enjoy our recreations, but let us also appreciate the doctrine that to be true men and true women is the highest possible estate. Away with the base delusion that the average person is called to a condition of inevitable inferiority, and that it is not for him to look for large personal develop- j mcnt and excellence. All could be strong ( if they would use their talents. We have personality. There is such a thing as the "oersonai equation." Everybody has a fair chance. The man who has buried his talent is apt to deny all this, and may possibly settle down to be a fatalist, a pessimist, a misanthrope, a chronic grumbler. How true the parable is to nature and to life. The complainant is out of harmony with everybody and everything. His gravamen is most unlovely. He may urge heredity by alleging that his an- i tecedents were unfavorable and his birth- ( right counts for nothing. He may point to circumstances as prohibitory and invincible when he would assert his right to be a ( man. He may charge that divine providence constantly thwarts him and reduces his every hope to ashes. In the last analy- , sis he takes the position of the condemned ' man of the parable and says to the Lord: '*1 knew that Thou art an hard man," an allegation which is disproved by the fact ; that the Lord had given him a whole tal- . cnt. Although the human heart recognizes some measure of responsibility, it attempts to argue the matter and sets up a i defense, and it ends by laying the blame at the feet of God. The Father has done His part abundantly; it only remains for His 1 children to do theirs; the talent has value ! only in its use. bt. Paul views this question from a most exalted standpoint. He says: "There are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit, i and there are differences of administration, ; but the same Lord, and there are diversities of onerations. but it is the same ftnrl that worketh all in all, but the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to 'profit withal." We speak of self-iuade men as though thev were miracles. Ia referring to them 1 as such as mean that, in spite of difficul- < ties, they have attained remarkable excel- ) ience. But every worthy individual is self made "by the grace of God. Even under ' the most favorable circumstances, a man, J if he is to amount to anything, must make \ himself. It, therefore, behooves us to go to work upon ourselves. We ought to take ourselves more seriously in the high- 1 est possible sense. We have capacities. I God has made us for some good. He has < given us each one talent- at least. The ! . sons of God, we do not belong to the rub- j bish pile of the universe. If we will take ' ourselves in hand?if we will be ourselves ) and not try to be somebody else- if we j will serve our own mission?if we will faithfully and honestly accept and meet ( the situation as we find it, wc will <ur- J prise ourselves sooner or later when the i results will beerin to appear. . W Xllltf ivy lUCj ud in ui <xs? I lie eld Komans put it?''"dum vivimus vivi- 1 thus." But let us insist upon life in the 1 best possible sense. There is capita! ? enough to begin with. We can develop a sturdier fiber. We need not be ordinary, commonplace, vulgar, inane and insipid. Mediocrity is inexcusable. We can be h'gh-toned, we can be splendid specimens of manhood and womanhood, we can be 1 our best and dd our best, we can be our i true selves by growing more and more into ] the likeness of the strong Son of Man. j Influence of a Holy Lire. The subtle germ of Christ's truth will ? be borne on the secret atmosphere of a ] holy r;ie into hearts which no preacher's voice could penetrate, where the tongue of men and of angels would rail; there its 1 ; an eloquence in living goodness which will often prove persuasive. It is the e)o- ' ' quenee of the summer heat when it basks ' : upon the thick-ribbed ice?blows would 1 ? but break it. but heneatn the softest, gen- ? , tlest, yet most potent iuliucnce, the hard, , impenetrable masie* melt away.?John 4 i Caird. 1 * RELIEVED OF. BLAME. ' electrical Disasters Only Indirectly Due j ' to This Current. When fatalities or damages seemingly attributable to electricity occur, the popular belief is that electricity itself, as a force, is directly responsible for them, says a writer in Cassierks Magazine. In fact, however, there are rew forces of nature that are loss harmful in themselves than electricity. The damage done by floor or tornado, i'or instance, is done directly' by the water or the air. But electricity, when it works, usually does so indirectly or by setting another of nature's forces into operation. An exception to this may be where the victim may have been so weak, physiologically, that a simple fall from a chair might Lave had a similar result* But in the majority of cases death from' electric shock is shown to be due" to well defined chemical changes in the blood or tissues, due to the electric current. The damage done also to gas and water pipes by electrolysis, while primarily occasioned. it is true, by the escape of electricity from electric* railway circuits, is not directly due to that force, but rather to a secondary action, and that j a purely chemical one, namely, the setting free by electric action of certain elements, sr.ch as chlorine and sodium. constituents of a r-aline solution in xhe soil, which attack and corrode the iron pipes. Without some such solution ?n the soil there would be no such riling as electrolysis. Also, when o on/^ chuHorc if" oiuivcn u. <.i? uuu the result is not doe directly to elecfiieity, and not even to the electric current, but rather to the intense heat which the electric current generates in passing through the tree, which heat suddenly converts the sap into steam, and the latter in expanding, if the force be sufficient, tears tho tree to pieces. Ir* the force is not sufficiently powerful, the effect may be only to loosen the bark of the tree in places, the evidence ol' which may last for years, but may not be otherwise hurtful to t!:e tree's growth. So far. indeed, from electricity being necessarily fatal to animal or vegetable life, it is well known that in proper quantities it is decidedly beneficial. and. when properlly applied, acts as a stimulus to vegetation. An excess of current, however, will also kill vegetation. In hoth of these cases its action is due to the chemical changes which it effects in the growing plant or tree. The injuries to shade trees by contact with wires carrying heavy currents, such as electric light or traction wires, is mostly mechanical, an arc forming at the point of contact of the wire with the branch or limb and burning away the wood, leaving the tree stunted at such places. In very stormy, wet weather, it is not uncommon to have large trees spt on fire by the escane of current from abutting electi-ic light wires, the rain, paradox^ ical as it may seem, by improving tlie conductivity of the circuit down the tree to the earth, virtually adding fuel to the dames. Sherman's Caustic Retort. General Sherman was possessed of a very dry humor, his sense of .the ridiculous was very highly developed, and he often convulsed his staff and friends by witty remarks on the most unexpected occasions. This side of his character is aptly illustrated by an incident related of the story of the march to the sea. In one of the battles a corps commander was struck on the head by a rifle bullet, but only slightly wounded. When news of the occurrence reached Sherman reports had it that the wounded general's cheek and nose had been carried away, but that he bravely persisted in remaining In action. Sherman was greatly alarmed and made his way immediately to the side of his officer, who in the meantime had tied up his head and had gone about bis business. When Sherman rode up, protestations were useless, the bandage must come off and he must see the wound to judge for himself of the officer's fitness to remain on the field. When he saw the slight laceration made by the u ~ n of CilnnOA o mo uail lie iuuacu at it xix OUWUV.W %4 <uv tnent and then said with a look of disgust: "Well they came near missing rou, didn't they Detroit Free Press. Women and Religion. A writer in Harper's Weekly has some striking observations to make on :he subject of the emancipated woman if to-day and her attitude towards reigion. It is noted that although, according to the testimony of ministers, uen are attending church more now .hail they were a decade ago, women >f leisure, on the other hand, are at:ending less regularly and in fewer lumbers than formerly. Nor is it without significance, says the writer, that he ir.ost explicit, outspoken plea for ibsclute individualism in matters of eligion, and the ablest argument in ravor of abstention from social forms if worship, should have been made by i woman?Mrs. Margaret Deland, the um-nllef Tf i? nnpeftnn H U UV I V44WVI AW ?* ^ ;viiether or not "woman's eating of the | 'rait of the tree of knowledge will be good for the church and rewarding .0 the woman." Ills First Letter, When George was sent away to boarding school the family waited auxiously for his first letter, which, they feared, would be filled with homesick longings for the people and things he bad left. When the letter came George's father smiled, his mother sighed, and his elder sisters were half lmused and haif provoked: "Dear Mother and Family?I've been here twenty-three hours now and it: is great. My most intimate friend is a boy by the name of Floppy Smith. He's five feet six and has had his left leg broken in two different places. Love to all *nd will soon write again. Tour af* fectionaute son, George." - - - -- * >: No More Stale Eggs. /. voice ont of West Virginia brings the glad tidings that the world is about to emerge from the era of stale eggs. The day is coming when th( egg, packed though it may be, will noi be false. li. H. Hite, chief chemist of the ag ncv/ltural experiment station of the West Virginia University, after ex peiim-ents covering more than twe years, announces that he has hit upor a method which will preserve the freshness in eggs almost indefinitely The method was simple. An alco holic solution of salicylic acid is pre pai-ed, and into it the egg is dippec for a few moments only. If the egg remained submerged longer the acid would penetrate the shell. Then th? egg is wrapped in cotton and packed in boxes through which the aic maj readily circulate. The object in dipping the eggs intc the- solution is to destroy any germs or microbes that may adhere to the shell, and which, if they should gair access to the egg, would effect its de composition! The cotton acts as> s filter and prevents the access of othei germs from the air. Eggs stored in lime water and water glass solutions will almost invari ably crack or burs: on boiling. ThiJ is usually attributed to a tiny bit o1 air enclosed in the shell. The rea' explanation Is to be found in the facl that the old solutions weaken the shell. . The fresh eggs treated with the alcoholic solution of salicylic acid anc wrapped in cotton are not weakened In any way, and behave just like frest egiss when boiled. A GOOD THING RECOGNIZED. "Then you refuse to consider me as a candidate for the position of son-inlaw?" the young man asked. "Yes," replied the captain of indusirv 4'hni I'd Hkft tn Hyp vnn a inh here in my establishment. 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Physicians and specialists everywhere -ffifil'' rescribe and endorse Paxtine, and thon- . a n d s of t estimonial letters prove its value. \ d-SSj At druggists, or sent postpaid 50 cts. A M.l naAbo?ra?n<1 lvtAk ft# ' n3trtictions absolutely free. "Writp I be B. Paxton Co., Dept. gs Boston, Man. | vJ|| ^ hare be?B nainr C&scareta :'or Insomnia. wit!? -jaSf ^ Icq I hare been afflicted for over twenty yean. , 11 can aay that Cascareta have given me mora < "> ef than any other remedy j h?ve ever tried. I . m/ctB ill certainly recommend them 10 my friend* aa ug all they are represented." ; Thos. Gillard, Elgin, lb. . : kWVfWWVWV ^Jg CANDY CATHARTIC leaaant, Palatable, Potent. Taste Good. Do Good, :^!S| er Sicken, Weaken or Gripe. 10c. 23c.50c.Kct?*- 3m I in bnlk. Tho genuine tablet atamped OCC- --ifSH irauteod to cure or your money back. Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or N.Y. soy f ' HUALSILE, TEH MILLIOH BOIES . Cotton Must Have Dnf d cK 1 1 \/i.U47ii l m Potash is an essential plant food hich must be added as a fertilizer , *.-i em free to any farmer who asks us for them. GERJ1AN KALI WORKS, ;w York?88 Noeeee Street, or * Atlanta, Ga.--22% So. Broa4 St. irgwf growto of .ONIONl j i,auu roioeJ* '^j!^ bn A. Salzer Seed Co., u %?"> * :jpi ive the name of this paper when - iJoi ting to advertisers?(AW04) V % ' : *V