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v* J > * ' * s A SKKMON EOK SUNDAY V * A STRONC DISCOURSE BY THE REV. DR. LYMAN ABB3 fT. *x; Subject: The Erer Present God?The Goal Toward Which the Transition of Theology Should Lead Us?Inward Aspirations and Lon;inss the Voice of God ; ^ Bbooklyn, N. Y.?The Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott occupied the pulpit in the Church - of the Pilgrims Sunday morning in the absence of the pastor, the Rev. Dr. H. 1'. \ " Dewey. Dr. Lyman Abbott's subject was. 'The Ever Present God,"/md he took for \ his text, Romans, x:6-7-8: "But the righteousness which is df faith speaketh on this wise: say not in thy heart who shall ascend into heaven (that is. to bring Christ down from above) or. who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ ( again from the dead), but what saith it? The word is nigh thee, it is in thy mouth and in thy heart; that is. the word of feith which we preach." He said: .'The "word" in the New Testament means, God speaking. A friend sits by you* side in absent-minded meditation. And his speech reveals the soul of man. So the word of God reveals the unknown God to us^ We have not to go to the depths to find the manifestation of God is all about us and within us. We are all familiar with the statement that we are passing through a transition in theology, if it were only a transition in theology it J would not disturb us much. We could ^ leave the theologians to study the theology of the future for themselves. But it is also ^transition in religions- experience. I am sure that the older members of this cony. gregation can trace in their lives, more 01* less, a change, not simply in their intellectual opinions of religion, but in their really vital religious experience. We used^ to \, think, in our boyhood, of God as King sitting on the Giyat White Throne, with thfe angels gathered about Him and singing to Him. He was far away. We sent our. prayers up to Him by a .kind of spiritual wireless telegraphy, asking for things, and sometimes H6 WOUiU J1VC US vUV-*C tUiuxc and sometimes He would no? But Ibis was our experience of prayer, and that was our notion of the answer to prayer: and this faraway God, sitting on the Great , White Throne, had revealed Himself to men through the Bible and through the V Christ. It was a great historic revelation, and we went back, more or less conscious of that revelation of the faraway God in - the faraway historic time, and we went to that Bible to find out what it told us re* peering God's law. of what was required of us, and the things with respect to God's grace, what He would do for us, and with many of us that experience has not S changed. The picture of the great King has grown dim and indistinct, or disap^ _... peered altogether? and remains, if it remains at all. as a recognized picture and ppt a ,reality. .And that Christ, who seems to ns a mediator between God and man,* a revelation of the faraway God. has also grown faraway. That is, we have come to recognize that He is a great his^tone figure, and *we are, more or less, pars'*/ plexed as to what His revelation is of the faraway God, and what His relation to ns is, and our prayers have changed and our conception of the Bible has changed, and 7 - we can ifo longer take a text out of the Bible and rest upon it as a final and absolute authority. If we try, perhaps some / *urooed and some fall. What I do want this- morning is tp point out. not what has takeh place, but to * indicate the goal toward which this transition should lead us; what is the Promised Land toward which we should look; what is the religious experience we may hone for in the fnture to take the place of this religious experience of the past, that has Brown <i\m ana nairooci ana wniea is omy half believed. In the first place, I am sure th^t, whJ'e we have been undergoing this change, fo-ces without the church have " V been bringl.iT to ns a'larger, if a vaguer. , conception or God. God does not work only through the church; He does not apeak only through the nreacher. Religion jgL is not a. spiritual /.conduit through which the'water of life is brought down to man. /The grace of God does not come in par?p'' ticolar channels of grace alone. The Bible says it falls like a gentle rain. It is univerr;. sal. and we may look outside the church .4, and among the forces that we have considered forces for skepticism, for the forces which are giving us a more indefinite idea : of religion and, I think, a nearer view of God. I am not going to try to state the reason. I am only stating the facr.. Herbert Spencer has summed up in a single sentence what he thinks is the result of scientific investigation ?and experience. "Amid all the mysteries by which we are surrounded toothing is more certain than v.. ; that we are ever in the presence of Eternal Energy, from which all these things proceed." What science has taught is this: ' .1 You arc not to go back to creative days to ' <' find God. though in some period (Hod launched the world and put His children * fe?re and intervening now andythen ir spccial necessity; you are not to think of God f ' "' that way; you are to think of God as the eternal energy here. Yes. as ever in the presence of the eternal energy ? always creating, always controlling?in the growth of every flower aDd in the perfume, in the flight of every bird. ' Science 6*>s that God is not remote. He is here, and you can go cut into the a Prospect Park this afternoon and find Him in the brown trees, beneath the ground, and in the hidden life that next - ,, spring is to burst forth; for God is life, / and there is no explanation for any" of the phenomena of life except in the indwelling of the sterna J. Jt we turn trom science to literature we find a much closer and more sacred and truer and diviner interpretation of the change that is coming over the thoughts of men. The poets are all prophets. They tell us beforehand what is the fate that by and by we shall come to. k Let nte read ope such interpretation. It is from Tennyson: "The sun, the moon, the stars, the sea, the hills and the flowers, are not these, 0, eon), the vision of Him who reigns? . "Dark is the world to thee; thvseif art the reason why. For is He not all but that which has.power to teel. I am I? "Glory-about thee, within, thee, and thou iulfilTest thy doomv "Making Him broken* slating and a ' . , stifled splendor and gloom. "Speak to Him, thou, for He hears, and pirit with spirit can meet. Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet/' The universal presence, universal communion, in the hearts of men, as it was in the heart of Moses: in the hearts of wearied souls, as in the heart of David when v he wrote the Tbventy-third Psalm; ill the hearts of disconsolate souls,, as in the heart of Isaiah; in the hearts of men now, as in the hearts of men then?a living presence. We are not to ascend into the heavens to bring Him down.from-a great A 1/vaIt vriftlin Tm fkirta wuu^ VIUVUC; UUV W iVVO ?f A fcUAU. XII lUtUW heart thou shalt. findHim. "This is the gospel of faith,?* says St. Paul, "that^we preach up to you." ... And so with prayer. It comes in our experience?just this: Spirit with spirit meeting, spirit with spirit talking. Not the going after something, though it may be that, out the receiving something, preeminent communion, fellowship, companionship. It is this conception, into which some of us have come unwillingly; into which some of us have drifted, we do not know how; into which some have grown gradually and 6ome with a wrench from which we have not recovered?this conception of the universal presence which might perhaps have tie effect of a denial of the personality of God were it not for the message of Christianity, and that message we undertake to couch in a^urato .ideological phraseology. Because we do .' f '' '- ' '' :* ; ' y .'V ' ' ; need a personification of the Eternal, be- ! cause we must have some image that we can see. some conception that we can ; grasp, some humanized thought, that we j make Him of stone, we make Him up in j our imagination. And after all. whether , that image Jiangs on the wall, or is pictured in stone, or *s simnly engraved on our brain, it is still an idol, a something . that stands for reality, flod savs, "I am too great, too infinite, eternal for von to i define n*- gra?o. The agnostic is right in saying. 'Yon do not know Him:' but in order that vou may know Him I will come ??d dwell among men and fill one human life full of Myself. ?*"! through that life you shall int?rr?ret Mo. You may thus obtam vour desire for one you can take bv the band, into whose eves vou can look whom vou can comprehend." 1 h we are to j-h, vu.? ^ . done in the pas*. but what He is always doing. Always Go'1 was in His work and He alwavs is in it. forviving. pitying. help- ) ine, feeding. comforting strengthening. We do not know it. but He is always here, in the hearts and lives of men. doir'* what He did in the nast. still saying to Nicode- i puis. "You need to be born again:" to the j Pharisee. "Woe nnto you that devour widows' houses:" to the weening sisters. "Thv brother is not dead. There is no dving;" to the penitent. pinnc. crashed by j the memory of a wasted life. "Go in neace. thy sins are forgiven thee." The He Christ did not ston at the crop*. I will not say that we look at the cros-~ ton mueh. | but 1 will sav tint we ]n?*e looked at the j resurrection ton little. Christ's is a continuous life. That ic what He means w^en lie says. "I em with you alwavs." We . mtist realise that He is here and row in j the lives o? men. My conception of the : "'Bible has^ undergone--a great change and I cannot anv longer eo to a text and sav. ! "That settle* it." Shall I then ?bnt the i "Rib'e nn and s?v it is but a record ol past , life? No. it is the revelat'on oF the eternal ! life, the internretotion of Cod in human 1 experience, not only in th'e devout but also . m the urdevout: not cnlv in the believing, but in the skeptical. The JWe seems to < me like a great orchestra of inn men all j nlay?ng to express the musical life that, is j in the conductor, li. is God sneaking through the experiences of men. I believe that God is eairrying us through a transi- j tion time (all times a>e transition timesl. . and takin" away the idols unon which we rested, and which we have counted sacred, '* order that He may carrv u* back to Himself: and that, if we take the experience of the past twentv centuiies nnd understand the message it sends, its literature. history and religions life aright, wc shall find it all exnlains these words of St. Paul: we are not to ascend into heaven to brine God out of the nest, nor look to the j future, but we era to look about us and j understand that He is still directing the j desfcirv of nations a^d ourse'ves. We are to look within us and know that the asp?r- j " atioDs. the desires, the dissatisfaction in ! ourselves, tne longing for something h??her i ??d bette**?these ~re the vo'^es of God. j He was a.waw? and always will be in. His j wor'd; md through the church and 1he i Bible and by the revelation of F'mself in the Christ. God manifest in the flesh. He ! fa brining us. not to the church, not to j the B'ble. not to the m?Hiator, but to Himself. He ever lives. He ever indwel's j "closer *han breathing, nearer than hands or feet." Perfect and Not Perfect. A tittle calm reflection and careful study j , of the Bible would relieve many persons j of needless perplexity in regard to the use ; of tbe term perfection as r.pplie* to the Christian. ' / ' I Every true Christian is perfect in the ; sense of being a real Christian, and of having all those thines which are essential to : constitute him a Christian. If any part is j lacking he is not a whole?a perfect? Christian. What these parts are wh:ch j are necessary to constitute one h perfect ; Christian it is not now my purpose to con-1 sider. It is to the necessity of all parts j being present in order to the being of the real Christian that I call your attention. I Take a young horse for an illustration. If there is a foot missing, an eye injured or any other nart damaged or lacking, we 1 cannot say it is a perfect horse, v But if ail j the necessary parts are there, although the ' animal may be young and tintrained. we . say it js perfect. But there is a perfection j it has not reached. It is to grow, to learn, to develop and so go on unto, perfection. ' Tl o nninf Viotrnnd Tv'ninh : it may 11VC IU iuavi a vvmv w* . it cannot grow or develop, ^t has reached ' its perfection. It was a perfect horse wheu it was youDjj and small. It is a perfect horse, now it has reached its maturity or ' perfection. The case is somewhat sifnrlar with* the ' Christian. When the sinner believed with j his heart and received the Holy Ghost he became a Christian. He had all the parts necessary and in this sense was complete I or perfect. But he is }Wng. weak, invnature and needs to go on unto perfect on. This perfection is before him in the pe 'son of the man Christ Jesus, and he ai once commences to seek to he like Christ. All his life long he may be developing and i going on unto this perfection. Indeed, no . one will reach a time or a place where he can say "I am so much like the Lord Jesus that there is no further room for me to advance. I have reached perfection." In order to see this matter more plainly : it is necessary to remember I am not re- i ferring to the holiness of the Christian, j Whether he has just begun to he a Chris- j tian, or has been serving the Lord faith- i fully for many years and has made much i progress toward perfection, the true Christian is "cleansed from all sin," and having i the Spirit of Christ, is holy in his character ; as God is holy. Holiness?real personal j holiness is an essential attribute of the Christian. ( ; Growing out of the above is also another j fact which must be borne in mind, and that is, the true Christian is ready to die ; at any time, and is just as much entitled < to a home among the redeemed in heaven : if he die when just converted as when he ! may become very advanced. His title and fitness rest in the fact of his relation to ( the atonement. "He that believeth hath life." Re-read these plain words, kind render, ; and see if they are not clear and true. May the Lord make them a blessing to ; you!? A. T. Scott. i IVithbfelding Judgment.- i Why should we be harder on our friends 1 than the law is on a suspected prisoner? j Are not most of us quick to count a friend guilty until he is proved innocent? It mat- ' tere not that our lifetime knowledge has : proved one's dependableness, and love, j and good judgment; if something happens | that we do not entirely understand, our silent or outspoken condemnation is likely to be instant, instead of withholding judgment until all the evidence is in.' It is hu- i miliating. a few hours or a few days later, j to learn that, after all, the friend was in * ~f cMmini, tnrplpssness. or un- ! IIOITIH U1 IIIC ovviui..b kindness, or wrong; but this does not pre- I vent ;the same quick condemnation the j next time. He is a rare soul who keeps ! his poise of trust and love when be cannot ' understand. Bat it is fairer, and it makes "life sweeter, to do so.A? Sunday-School I Times. The Work That Endures. If we work upon marble, it will perish; | if we work upon brass, time will efface it; I if we rear temples, they will urumble into j dust, but if we work upon immortal minds, ; if we imbue them with principles, with the just fear of God and love of our fellow- ; man, we engrave on those tablets some- ! thing that will brighten all eternity.?Dan- j iel Webster. I Tour Responsibility. God holds you responsible for your na- i ture plus your nurture, for yourself plus I I your possibilities.?M. D. Babcock. 1 $ Stfo'"' *'- -? : ' lT ' <r'=" V w" ' \ .' '* - <" v~ ' \ 'V?:~ >: '.*' <. . tT >y '~V\ t&UIlVGS J gORTH ^Q>X?N|^ An'attempt js being made to take some property away from two New York women because they have failed to dust tile portrait of the man who left them their fortune'. Russian railroad officials are much alarmed over the increase iu attempts I to wreck trains in that country. The attempts average one in three days, and eleven per cent, result in damage. [ It is proposed to arm ail railway ofi ficials and give ex-soldiers positions | whenever possible, :\nd in this way out a check to the practice. It has been a tradition since the time of Nicholas I., to name the Czarevitches alternately Alexander and i Nicholas. But the murder of Alexander II. caused his name to be considered unlucky, so there will be no more Alexanders 011 the Russian .tnrone, as there will be no more Pauls or Peters. The Czarevitch was therefore named Alexis, after the father of Peter the Great.' He was a powerful and successful ruler. The London Zoological Gardens are the proud possessors of one male and two female gorillas. There is only one other female gorilla in Europe. She is at Breslau. The London specimens are named Chloe and Venus. The description of Venus, which is five years old, is as follows: Height, two feet six inches; chest measurement, thirty-six inches; hair, dark and patchy; eyes, brack and deep set, and huge ' ~ 1 amonsirp. ovcruitiigiiiQ UIVM c, .uiruw., with formidable teeth; expression morose. , ,, j%Oue of the recently discovered natnral curiosities of China, says the Youth's Companion, is an *alum mountain," 1900 feet in height, and about ten miles in circumference at the base. The Chinese quarry the alum, or masses containing alum, in large blocks, which are heated in ovens made for the purpose and afterwards dissolved in boiling water. The alum then chrystallizes in layers about half a foot in thickness and is cut up into ten-pound pieces. Its principal use i3 iu the purification of water. y .Tames Gibson, .who owns a farm in the Salt River Valley, Mississippi, reports that a pear tree in his dooryard has borne three crops of pears this year. He had always noticed that it was of an early variety, and this season, along in May, a crop of pears was picked. A little later his interest was aroused by noticing the tvee in full bloom again. What is still more interesting is that at the present time the tree has another fully matured crop of pears on it, which are nowripening as well as did the first crop. Skeptical m to Jia.Jltx If we Americans don't have a new craze on hand every week day and fwo on Sunday our surplus energy evaporates. Now comes the jiu-jitsu ol i Japan. There is no particular harm in it, unless it be overdone. But we i have a certificate of reasonable doubl that it is not what it is cracaeu up iu be. Writers declare it converts an ordinary man into a miracle of activity and strength, rendering a five-foot Jap the equal of seven six-foot Russians. Why, then, do not the Japs in Manchuria lay down their arms and throw the Russians into the sea? If jiu-! jitsu is even one-half as wonderful a thing as we hear it is, why don't we have Japs leading in international athletics? Why should any living wrestler of other nationality claim a suprem- j acy? Did you ever hear of a Jap win-1 ning a fight in a prize ring with bare fists? Japs are not boxers. The, wicked Chinese are the boxers. Mat- j sada Sorakichi was a great wrestler,1 but won no championships, notwithstanding he was an expert at jiu-jitsu.' Are there Jap champions at running/ jumping, rowing, fencing, swimming? At juggling (sleight-of-hand) they are supreme; hence they are capable of the tricks of jiu-jitsu, which an Amer-! ican could never acquire.?Marion News Tribune. A Tar-Heel Maiden. We do not speak ex-Cathedra, but it is whispered about "on the sly" tuat a handsome and very clever aud most popular gentleman, who occupies a j high and influential position in insurance circles, will soon wed one of the rarest and most brilliant jewels that ever glistened in the coronet of Wil-: son's loveliness?a gem of rarests worth | arch richest brilliancy, for she is so [ bright and so radiant tnat it seems ' that the fabric of her existence had for its woof the shimmering splendors of an iceberg and for its warp the glistening corruscatious of flashing lightnings. And she is just as sweet and as good as she is brilliant and sparkling, for no maiden has ever been endowed with nobler virtues or finer graces or sweeter witcheries.?Raleigh (N. C.) Post. | ?????? Two Senate Clocks That Tick as One. At o enst of S3tlie npw clock a 13 ' thorized by Senator Spooner's resolution passed by the Senate last spring has been hung over the chair of the Vice-President in the Senate chamber. It is a six-day hand-winder, equipped with modern appliances, and is a duplicate of the old clock which has hung for forty years on the opposite side of the chamber. The old timepiece has been repaired so that it will keep exact time with the new one. By the present arrangement Senators can see the time without turning half around, as they have had to do in the past.-* Washington Post \ * ? - 4 .1 . f' /v.- -'JzA.' 5* ' ' ' "" Wanted to Insure His Snakes. "W-e have queer assignments in our business as well as you do in yours," g said a fire insurance agent to a re- * porter. "Aside from soliciting busi| ness on our own hook we must atj tend to calls from persons who write ^ i direct to the office. The other day I I was sent to a small apartment not | far from Tammany HaM. The man I who wrote opened the door himself anc J invited me to take a chair. Just as I was ahout to sit down a huge snake y uncoiled himself, dropped from the p chair to the floor with a bang and scurried off to a basket behind the ^ steam heater, hissing defiance at me y as he went. To say that I was scared n but feebly expresses my feelings. a " 'Don't mind Peter,' said the man n : as calmly as though he had been U speaking of a pet dog. 'He won't bite unless you step on him. He is the soul si of good nature, is Pete. Lie down, old * man.' p ' 'In a rocking chair I found another c snake. The man fold me there were five snakes In this room, which ho " used in his business as a showman, n But I could have sworn I saw fifty i ? of them. He noticed my nervousness q and led the way, into- bis- bedroom, h There was another snake curled* up on ? his bed, stupefied. It was on the sick ? list and he had given it dope. < "Yes, he wanted me to insure his snakes. I believe the company made * I some sort of a deal with him, but I * ! never went back a second time."?New * York Press. j Margie?If you don't quit teasing me I'll: tell mamma and shell tell papa, then papa will whip you. Harry?Then I'll cry and grandma will give me some candy, and I won't give you any.?Chicago News. c ' t < A good many men make money not J because they have brains, but because others haven't, says the Birmingham x I News. ? I FITS permanently cured. No fits or nervous* ness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great i NerveRestorer, |2trial bottleand treatise f reo Dr. R. H. Kict, Ltd., 981 Arch St., Phila., Pa. In the latest form of hospital construe- j i tion there are no corners or angles in the i wall which may catch dust. A Guaranteed Cure For Piles. I Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Pro trading Piles. Druggists will refund money if Pazo Ointment fails to cure in 6 to 14 days. 50c. A new tribe was recently discovered in e . India in which contagious diseases are com* r bated by killing those who are attacked. I Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children b j teething, soften the gumsv reduces inflamma- t , tion, allays pain, cures wind colic, 25c.a bottle * I The total quantity of peat in Sweden is t , estimated to equal a supply for two centur* _ ' ies of the present coal import to that country. " ? i - Piso's Cure Is the best medicine we ever used . . lor all affeotions of throat and lungs.?'Wn. I 0. Evdixjcy, Vanburen, Ind., Feb. 10, 1900. e The dissection of human bodies by med- D ical students has been practiced since B. 0 C. 320. e To Care a Cold In One Dsy , Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All F I druzxUts refund money if it fails to cure, a | ?. W. Grove's signature is on box. 25c. j I The eldest children of two Japanese j families cannot marry. i 1 Itch cured in 30 minutes by Woolford'* k ! Sanitary Lotion. Never fails. Sold by all j druggists, $1. Mail orders promptly niied . by Dr. E. DetChon, Crawfordsville, lnd. I As a rule it is not profitable to keep f hens over two years old. a n Male Shoppers Preferred. . i "Saleswomen would rather wait upon ten men customers than one woman," said the floor manager of ex- / perience. "There is no question but j men make the best and most agree- * j able shopper*.. They know what they i want, are easily suited and are not fussy. They have a genial way that makes them easier to satisfy than"wo- * men are. Their manners are not so ' j stiff. 1 , | "No man ever crushes a salesgirl c with a haughty stare. Men seldom i haggle over prices. They may easily 1 be persuaded to buy a higher priced s article if they have the money, and J />9n /vmvlnep them thev are Ret- , ting their money's worth. Men show i good taste and Judgment in buying articles they know little about. Their fondness for large sizes borders on the ridiculous, .sometimes. Shoes, gloves, shirts?they want them all with ample o room.: H 2 "It is a pity most men seem to feel uncomfortable and out of place in a I store. Persons who sell goods would I like to see them oftener."?New York I ALL. DONE (JUT. I Veteran Joshua Heller, of TOG South Walnut street, Urbana, 111., says: "In J the fall of 1890 after taking Doan's * Kidney Pills I told t the readers of this /HB paper that they had J relieved me of kid- t ney trouble, di* posed of a lame back with pain B Ir- fp J across my loins and / d' a ) beneath the should- f[ /\m c der blades. Dur- /& / X* ing the interval / wfh -which has elapsed I hare had occasion j to resort to Doan's Kidney m when 9 - I ' I noticed Tthndngs -WKfm of an attack. On each and every occa sion the resnlts obtained were just as tj satisfactory as when the pills were I first brought to my notice. I just as ( emphatically endorse the preparation ^ to-day as I did over two years ago." y Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, X. Y., " proprietors. For sale by all druggists, T price 50 cents per box. ' -/ ' . MEDICAL I )f the United State: mends P c nother Prominent Physician Uses | and tndorses Pe-ru-na. r> t ttmur.r w JORDAN. Medi JAV. iJJUUTT w V--? _ cal Examiner of the U. S. Treasury I Department, graduate of Columbia j ollege, and who served three years at | Pest Point, has the following to say of j eruna: "Allow me to express nip gratitude | > you for the benefit derived from j our wonder/ul remedy. One short j tonthhasbroughtfot tta rant<h tnge j nd I now consider myself u voeU tan after months of suffering. Fel- I ?ic sufferers, Per una will cure you.,: A constantly increasing number of phyicians prescribe Peruna in their practice, t has proven its merits so thoroughly that' ven the doctors have overcome their rejudice against so-called patent mediines and recommend it to their patients, j Peruna occupies a unique position in ledical science. It is the only internal ystemic catarrh remedy known to the ledical profession to-day. Catarrh, as. very one will admit, is the cause of onealf the diseases which afflict mankind, latarrh and catarrhal diseases afflict oneialf of the people ot the;United. States. Robert R. Roberts, M. D., Wash- J ington, D. C., writes: , I "Through my own experience } j as well as thai of many of my ?; friendi and acquaintances who\ { have been cured or relieved of I catarrh bythe use of Hart man's* Peruna, I can confidently recom- { mend it to those suffering from, ? sueh disorders, and have no hesl- * I tatioii' in prescribing U to my* j natlents."?Robert R. Roberts. { I Catarrh is a systemic disease curable >nly by systemic treatment. A remedy hat cures catarrh must aim directly at he depressed nerve centres. This is what ?eruna does. Peruna immediately invigorates the lerve-centres which gives vitality to the nucous membranes. Then catarrh disap)ears. Then catarrh is permanently cured. /fMr '/(?)) ' A srBargain To hotter advertise the Sooth's Loading BosSmos Collogo, four scholarships are offered young persons of this connty at less than eost. WRIT* TODAY. IrA-AIi BUM COLLEGE, Haciffl, Gl When to Shake Hands. The question of when and how to hake hands with guests is a difficult ine. A hostess should shake hands rith every guest who comes to her touse, whether her own friend or the riend of her friend, both on their arival and departure. A young girl in* roduced to. an older woman should wait the 'action of the elder, vrh'o, if :indly disposed, will shake hands. Any lan presented to a woman?unless he 3 decidedly elderly or distinguished? aust wait for her tp make a moveaent toward shaking hands, and when ne woman presents to another the aan who is' accompanying her it is be duty of friendship, as well as hoslitality, for the man to; bei met with cordial handshake.?New York Jews; Paderewski Is coming over again to bow us the latest style in scrambled air, says the Washington Post What Would Happen. "I Wonder if we should tell the little savge children about Santa Clans?" said the 1 lisslonary as Christmas approached " "No," cautioned his friend. "If we do hey will expect us to distribute stockings." i LOVELY COMPLEXION few York Lady Proves That Every Woman May Have It by Uiisf Caticura Soap. Mrs. R. Reichenberg, wife of the wellmown jeweller of 146 Fulton St., New fork, says: "I had a friend who was justy proud of her complexion. When asked vhat gave her such a brilliant and lovely tomplexion, she replied, 'A healthy roman can be sure of a fine skin if she. rill do as I do, use plenty of Cuticura Soap tnd water/ She insisted that I follow her txample, which I did with speedy conviction. I find that Cuticura Soap keeps the ikin soft, white, and clear, and prevents reuneas anu ryuguiivoo. Cause for Alarm.* Pennibus?Poor Scribbles is worried. Inkerton?What's the trouble? Pennibus? He's afraid he has lost his aiming as a humorist. The English magnifies ore beginning to copy his jokes. Piedmont Barb Wire ? * ' * * "* a-. | y. I* is fo. 14 Wire, With Two-Point Barbs, Throe ncheaApart. The Barb* oreHalf asLong i Common Barb Wire; It It Just as Effecive at Common Barb Wire, and Does Not hit Your Stock all to Pieces " " ' ' It fir'put up oh mile reels only, and is sold by be mile, not by the pound. We will prepay reight to any railroad station in Georgia, Alaama and South Carolina, at |1U9 per mile. (uuttiok this paras.) > AND?flSON HARDWARE CO., Atlanta, 6a. VANTED? Ib each State. Salesman to sell !f lartfrtla* Tobacco; permanent Position. ENTR.AL TOBACCO WORXSCOMPsaidis.Va. bj?rth. toreiSwuSd eTtnyfilnew flrl'Jun twnt* mlmltwu for ?a ordinary occasion. AlldnigSeeeKhen,. rrltinj? College, LooliTillir, Xr.,6pen the whole ear, wadtnh eta W>f Mf ttnu. Catalog-free. ' Thompson's Eye Wafer ^ . . ?* ^}.... - EXAMINER ' :'V-3 . si s Treasury Recome-ru-na. ^ Medical Examiner United StattJF If you do not derive prompt and **M> : ' 4 factory results from the use of PerwM, -"F write at once to Dr. Hartman, girijoc ft v full statement of your case, and he will b* y pleased to give you his ^valuable adfke , . Malsby & Co. I 41 Sootb Forsjtb St, itlasta, (l . _ r . ' Portable and ? ||| '' jyj | AND-ALLKiNPS OFitCBISIEKl S Complete Kni o&TYitt in ttotk v'S'S lUXKDJATXMpnmL \ I 9m Macfclnenr. Low ?t Priem aa4 B^l|S||p'' V' Write as for catalogs, prifiis^ ;|y ?tc.. before buying. ~ -||8 m'osmJiI I fiaitt's Plasters and Distribitiw Jg WE GUARANTEE THEM. .1 BEWARE OF IMITATIONS. I Write for Price* and Catalogue. " QANTT HFQ. CO.i rUcon.Oa. ? unuivr ? w? 3 a* I :.^ 1 soil most crown plenty el rotisfl* V Tomatoes, melons, cabeece, tonrfps, Irilece - t'teugnm -in fact, an vegeables remove laige quamti- . ' #&Sl ties of Potash from the soil. Sappijr ' > M Potash I I Betto and more profitable ykJdsasrserete . -t Of ?mp&let* are apt advertising rircefcrs ^ .ft boo- ing special fertilisers, bet contain vale- - - . f&8S6 ab e information to tanners. Sent fret lor ?h?-M Write now. B GERMAN KALI WORKS X ^ New York?93 Naaean Street, or V ; / daHl bilm^iSSwtnnV f6 > '^aid^rtiiSS rice and ?*ber drops'bg?eoaSdJcS my friend* sfths only1i^<c^#ainrinSrt*5?*iIM eonr ?tom?b sod to keep tfce bowels fit coed eea> Sterlinf Remedy Co., CWeo?o o^M.Y. ?? uwAiu^Taiauoiioro | "' . 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