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t THE PULPIT. f A BRILLIANT SUNDAY SERMON BY a f DR. SPENCER S. ROCHE. i * t t Subject: Lessons of Elijah's Life. - e r ? Brooklyn. N. Y.?At St. Mark's P. E. 1 Church, the Rev. Dr. Spencer Summer- a L field Roche, the rector, preached Sun- a r* day on "Lessons From Elijah's Life." e The test was from I." Kings, xix:9: e "And he came thither, unto a cave." e Dr. Roche said: c The lessons present Quite fully the c * life of that grand old prophet Elijah t the Tishbite. From a sublime scene in r his life I shall attempt to draw such t lessons as may fit the hour. Let us se- a lect the moment when his soul yearned to be on Horeb. the mount of God. Give your thoughts to this statement, **And he eame thither, unto a cave." I shall speak of the coming and of the cavern; of the grief the journey brought to view, and the glory the cavern revealed. Throughout we must remember that we study a typical case of Almighty God's dealing with His discouraged servants. What the Lord said and did to Elijah, He would have us believe He says and does to ourselves. From one of the most striking situations in history we are to see Elijah , < burled in an instant. The occasion of bis fall was one of the slightest of incidents, as when an avalanche which carries down the side of a mountain is started by the waves of the air aroused by a tourist's halloo. Ahab talked with bis wife. We have seen greatness of character in reticence, as when to the numerous interrogatories of Pilate the Son of Man "answered him never a * .word." So meanness, cowardice are 6een often in that easy flow of words which lets out everything. A wife may tell her husband what he has. no business to know; a man may make himself contemptible blabbing everything to his wife. "Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done and withal how he had slain the prophets with the f sword." I do not understand he spoke ^tin wrath or mah'-e; quite the contrary; . . ' he knew ne had a tigress to deal with, and used all the tact his lean wit could | ./ summon. He was afraid to tell her that he himself had abandoned the y\ sinking cause of the Baalites. He di/.: Tided his matters, putting the small things nrst; last of all?her beloved .* ministers of falsehood and fraud were .\i r- slain. The tigress rolled her angry c eyes ana snowea ner cruei teem, cue c sent this message to Elijah: "The gods i do so to me and more also if I make r v not thy life as the life of one of them a toy to-morrow about tbis time." Jeze- a * toel's blood was up. "He ar?se and r went for his life." The man who had ^ confronted the king and his armed re- c taincrs fled terrified from a woman. ^ Th^re is a lesson her* for all. Life's ^ t victories only lift us to new battlefields. t h One of Elijah's mistakes was his sup- t [ position that all would go well if one c E event resulted favorably. He succeed- s | ed beyOnd his wilo st dr'.-ams only to t find bis real troubles yet to begin. I| So we regard the office to which we j | hope to be elected, the partnership we , are anxious to form, the fifty or hun- * dred -thousand we are striving for. ^ When the great achievement is won r i we are simply like the army landed on f- a hostile shore under the guns of the j fleet Shut up for weeks in narrow s quarters, tossed by the sea, fed on f ship's fare, the men long for the land ^ .with its fruit and forage. The joy of t the landing is quickly exchanged for g 1. f the sense of insecurity and the fear of t Vr sudden attack. c A day or so after Carmel, Elijah was j. at Beersheba. Even there he was full c " > of alarm. He fled into deeper solitude. y > The farther he fled the lower sank his g spirits. See his awful consternation t In his Inconsistency with regard to life. He had run away to save it Under ? the juniper tree he begged it might be . taken. So low is Elijah fallen! Nc * j for the second stage of the journey. . The prophe*- * is brofce.i down. He thinks the end has come. See how God cheered His disconsolate servant. t First He took care of Elijah's body. . The prophet was fatigued, famished, y spent. Natural law carrying out di- J vine purpose caused the pining and f v sighing to bring slumber. The discouraged Christian can often t do worse than lie down and take a nap. L When the world is too much for us. when the strain and worry seem as if ? they would never cease, when the disappointment is bitter, when the letter . comes destroying our hopes, when be- * ^ reavement. leaves the heart desolate, * M heaven guides the afflicted soul to calm j and quiet, and the peace of submission. 1 "So He giveth His beloved sleep." c .Next God fed Elijah. "An angel a touched him and said: 'Arise and eat.' J 'And behold there was at his bead a ! cake baken on the coals and a cruse of 1 water." Our depression has at times ? an intensely physical basis. Our Lord ? fed the multitude before He instructed : them. A full stomach is not always * to the sigh of a pure heart, but who * doubts that if we could give one good ^ i- meal to the wretched creatures infest- * ing the streets of cities we might begin in some of them*the salvation from sin. Elijah slept and ate, and slept and ^ ate again. The repose was natural, the repast supernatural, but the lessons are c universally applicable. Crflmed and 1 strengthened, his holy spirit reassej^&d itself. He would see Horeb the Mount of God. "And he came thither, nnto a cave." t Notice the parallel with Moses. These t two who were united in a post-mortem c . * communion on the Mount of Transfig- 1 r' uration, were in life granted the most c inspiring v visions of Jehovah in per- i buns the same identical snot. How of. f P ton in tlis OW Testament and in the i p New, as well as in the later history of 1 F Bedemption, we are reminded that God t grants additional favors and mercies t in the place where prayer is wont to be t made. Places in the lapse of time ac- i quire-redoubled sanctity. This church i _ * was rebuilt over the spot where God < * Ik had for many years listened to His peo- 1 pie's prayers and praises. We see it 1 again this morning after an interval of f several months, changed, but the same: I not yet in the final form of beauty which we shall see in a few weeks and j which will justify unusual services and ( unusual gladness, but already brighter j Land fairer than we have ever seen it j before. j We love to apply the term old to our ] churches, and the world has no more ; nspiring . x ilities than those nreas in ome of the great cities of Europe vhere churches have stood since the lays of Charlemagne. of Constantino, :iid possibly in some cases from the ige of St. John. Where God had retailed Himself hundreds of years beore to Moses He now shows His glory o Elijah.* "What dost thou here. Eli all?" The r usurer illustrates mistaken. thoughtless seal. The Tishbinte is eve i on Israel and caref 1 for his own ife. and betrays a wrong spirit. Very :ood people, even in their religious pinions, their most pious aspirations, rr greatly. They show overwhelming onceit, or unworthy estimates of otbrs, or the most wrongheaded choice >f means, or a seliisii regard for their ?wn comfort, and even life. Among he mistakes of good men think of the niserable narrowness of those who alk against missions to the heathen md refuse to contribute; or the coldiess of those who discourage under he term "slumming" efforts by Clirisian people to fight the devil in his own itrongholds of the brothel and the ummery. Elijah,- though a good man, nade some mistakes. So far has he urned aside that we are tempted to hink his estimate is just that he can lenceforth be of no service to his Lord. 3ut we shall see that heaven can make ibundant use of even cross-grained energy, so only it have a good heart. See 3is method with this devout, heroic, >ut misguided saint. God showed Elijah the impotence of he Carnal. There is no reproach. "Go 'orth and stand on the mount before he Lord." There came sweeping down he granite crags of Sinai a gust and hen a blast and then a hurricane that iprooted the ancient trees, and rolled he loose fragments of rock against one mother till they flew in pieces like - ? J i.. 2.? M ??. nuisiunes suujecieu 10 iw swiii rmuution. The appalled saint knelt jreathless, and as the tornado spent its 'orce he lifted his eyes for a nearer riew of God. "But the Lord "was not n the wind." The earth rumbled, the irags were split, the mount itself ocked, the ground opened great fis;ures, the day of the dissolution of naure itself appeared to have come. He ooked again. "But the Lord was not n the earthquake." The lightning larted out of the clouds, flash followng flash in the terrible splendor of )riental tempests till the atmosphere :eemed charged with continuous flame, ind Mount Sinai and the cave and the irmament itself seemed ablaze. Again le strained his vision to discern in the dinding glare One yet more glorious. 'But the Lord was not in the fire." As has been finely said Elijah had ;onceived God simply as power. His >wn achievements had been wrought >y power. He is now made to recoglize the futility of mere force. This is l needful discovery for us. Especiilly for the world's great ones. The nan who in finance or industry has von the greatest success is speedily onvicced of the impotency of that vhich men ordinarily consider victory. Whatever teaches us this; is good^ Failire, disappointment, sickness, each is a >lessing in disguise if it lifts us out of uirselves and makes us feel that with ill the world can give there is some nmg eise neeaea. He showed Elijah-the infinitude, the nexhaustible power and goodness and ;10ry of the divine. The cyclone was [tilled, the earthquake spent, the lightlings burned out and yet God came lot. "Then on perturbed and tormentk1 nature a silence rested as when the ashed galley slave is permitted to rest, ts when the Atlantic roaring for days alls into a calm." The cave, in its leepest grotto, was penetrated with he spirit of stillness.. No breath itirred. The seer felt an awe, not less, >ut greater than before, when there :ame a voice, mysterious, thrilling his leart and askiDg the old question. The >ld answer was given, we must believe, vith a new meaning, for the great lesion of time and eternity had been aught. In the cave of Horeb the fundamentil truth of the Christian religion is repealed, a truth every mission, however mmble; every church, however idorned; every cathedral, however nagnifioent, must illustrate. Not the earthquake, cyclone, hurly-burly, but he still small voice. Here is the se;ret of God. Not the startling, but the )leading; not the violent, but the tenler; not force, but pity; not Sinatic !ury, but gospel grace; "not by might ior by power, but by My spirit, saith he Lord." God is love. Not an un:een God, but a saving Christ. "He rame to Horeb a voice, he left it an inflated man," says Maurice. But from the living of the Christian urn to his dying. The close of every, jood life has dignity like unto "charots of fire and horses of fire." But the ikeness nns on immeasurably beyond leath. St. James tells that Elijah was i man of like iassions with us. Then >ur infirmities, thank God, allow us a ife that does not end with earth. The bought of All Saints is of the steadily tccumulating honors and joys of releemed souls. We see Elijah go. But t is not the last of him. Malaehi said le would come back on earth. Cenuries later the world asked John the baptist if he were Elijah. Some beieved Jesus must be. C i the day- of transfiguration, Elijah for a moment vas with us, at once on earth and in jlory. We can. trust those dear departed >nes, wh?.sj memorials cluster around is, with the Lord God of Elijah. Spiritual Exercise. The best forms of physical exercise >ring delight and satisfaction to the >ody. Muscles, nerves and tissues are called to new health and enjoyment, ["he best forms of mental exercise secure rich returns to the thinker whose nental faculties are stimulated and juickened to larger powers of attainnent and enjoyment by each hearty, lealthful and honest exercise. So the rue worshiper, as he closes his families to the outer world and draws near o God. spiritually, finds a joy. a peace, ? sfltisfnpHon full of pxhilaration and ipproachiug ecstasy, as ho realizes Sod's presence, and becomes filled with :he fullness of God.?Herald and Presbyter. . "What Life Is. Life is what we are alive to. It is not length but breadth. To be alive >nly to appetite, pleasure, pride, money making, and not to goodness and kindness, purity and love, history, poetry, music, flowers, stars. God and eternal tiopes, is io e all but dead.?Scottish Ue former. | Sir 41fred Harmsworth on Future Newspapers de Predicts Specialized Journals, One Devoted to Sport, One to Religion, One to Politics and lilustrata4 Ma?IA Af? f a'PC C'J 1UU16 U1 1**23. "It is very probable that the daily press of the future will be highly specialized, so much so that we may anticipate one daily devoted entirely to politics, another to sport, another to religious matters, another entirely devoted to literature, and so on," said Sir Alfred Harmsworth, in the course of an interview granted to the World's staff correspondent in London. "Then the man who reads will be able to take any one or all of them, as he pleases. Of course, we already have . daily papers entirely devoted to sport, and it will be found that there is equally good public for papers devoted exclusively to some one other subject. In London, for instance, there are several daily papers trying to cover the whole ground, very much like one another in their supply of news, and not a few of them losing a great deal of money. In time to come this will give place to specialization in the directions which I have mentioned. "I do not see any objection to daily newspapers, like the Times here, running large lending libraries. Perhaps in, the distant future the newspaper will supply the public not only with news, but with everything else that it wants." Twelve months ago Sir Alfred Harmsworth, the multi-millionaire of English journalism, contributed an article in the World on "How to Achieve Business Success." He then owned thirty-three publications. Since then they have nearly doubled in number. Durine this twelve months also the English public has been rather startled to find that in addition to starting many fresh publications of the popular kind with which his name is associated, he has turned his attention to oldestablished papers, some of them possessing more prestige than circulation. Latterly it has been rumored?and some definite statements have been made to that effect in New York and in London?that Sir Alfred Harmsworth has been completing arrangements for duplicating his London enterprises in New York.. On being asked by the World correspondent if these statements\ were true,. Sir Alfred Harmsworth replied: "They are absolutely untrue. I have not the slightest intention of building up any establishment in the States. I have arranged for the publication, of the 'Self-Educator' there because a spontaneous demand arose for it. That is all. If I were foolish enough to think of catering to the American "public I should have just as much chance as an American would have in catering to the English public if he came over to London. I shall be glad if you will give the statement that I Intend to try my hand in the American periodical market the most absolute contradiction. "Nor have I any intention of developing a Sunday newspaper on the lines of the Sunday editions of the big New York dailies. There never will be any demand for such a paper in London. There is a great difference in the re quirements or tne isrmsn ana American public, and the journalistic supply runs on different lines altogether. The British public is accustomed, to getting all it wants in the way' of stories and illustrations in our weekly periodicals, for which there is practically no equivalent in the States. Consequently the Sunday editions of the big American dailies supply this want by delivering a composite publication, including humorous pictures, made up in sections. "With regard to illustrations, my experience of the daily newspaper is that It should either be fully illustrated or not illustrated at all. Consequently the Dally Mail is reducing Its illustrations to the vanishing point, while we are increasing their number , in the Daily Mirror. The public demand is that the newspaper shall be one thing or the other. The same thing applies in the States. That there is a large public growing up which prefers solid reading matter to a combination of letter-press and illustrations is shown by the growing number of 'allreading magazines' now ..being produced on both sides of-the Atlantic/* "It is suggested that the extent and variety of your business, its all-embracing character, is bringing your operations more or less into line with the American trusts." "There seems to me to be no reason for that suggestion. The distinctive features of trusts which is so much disliked is the squeezing out by any sort of means of all other competitors, and so obtaining a monopoly. Nothing of the kind takes place with my business. In fact, our own success in various directions has enabled others to obtain success on similar lines. There cannot be anything to deplore In the growth and expansion of a business which succeeds on the basis of fair competition. "I confess, however, that it is one of my ambitions, which I commend to my energetic friends in the States, to make my business self-sufficing and to manufacture for myself everything that I require. Hence my purchase of land in Newfoundland, in order that I may be able to make my own paper. Soon we hope to makfe everything for osrselves. "I think the big newspapers of the near future will find it convenient to make simultaneous issues in various parts of the country, just as, apart from the over-seas edition, I have established the simultaneous publication of the Daily Mail in London. Manchester and raris."?New York World. The better class o! druggis who devoto their lives to the purest medicinal agents of 1 scientific formula. Druggist always under original or ofii< They are the men to deal wi all standard remedies and c< best of toilet articles and pr< The earning of a fair living, conferred upon their patrons reward for long years of stuc Figs is an excellent laxative are selling many millions of [remedies, and they always t name of the Company?Cali They know that in cases of < of weakness or torpidity of t over-eating, that there is no Syrup of Figs, and they are Owing to the excellence of immense demand for it, imi individual druggists to be fc of the profession and whose to recommend and try to sell r/\rrw?fimaq V?o.VA t.bft nftTTIA-?' K F/VUAW*uavw v ? ? ?? ? I or fictitious fig syrup compt I the Company?California Fi I should he rejected because I they find it necessary to resc & off on a customer a preparat & does not bear the full name he is attempting to deceive i m establishment, whether it b I and deception in one case h I physicians' prescriptions, an I Knowing that the great ma] I for our excellent remedy en' 1 where, in original packages m exist it is necessary to infor m any imitation which may h M California Fig Syrup Co.?] I article and to demand the r m druggists who will sell you wl ' Mail carriers in English, cities get about $400 a year. Cares Blood, Skin Troubles, Cancer, Blood Poison, Greatest Blood Purifier Free. If your blood is impure, thin, diseased, hot or full of humors, if you have blood poison, cancer, carbuncles, eating sores, scrofula, eczema, itching, risings and lamps, scabby, pimply skin, bone pains, catarrh, rheumatism, or any blood or skin disease, take Botanic Blood Balm (B. B.'B.) according to directions. Soon all sores heal, aches and pains stop, the blood is made pure and rich, leaving ttye skin free from every eruption, and giving the rich glow of perfect health to the skin. At the same time, B. B. B. improves the digestion, cures dyspepsia, strengthens weak kidneys. Just the medicine for old people, as it gives them new, vigorous blood. Druggists, $1 per large bottle, with directions for home cure. 8ample free and prepaid by "writing Blood Balm Co., Atlanta, Ga. Describe trouble and special free medical advice also sent in sealed letter. B. B. B. is especially advised for chronic, deep-seated cases of impure blood and skin disease, and cures alter an eise zaus. There is a boom in mushrooms this year in England. twenty years of it. Emaciated by Diabetes; Tortured With Grarel and Kidney P^ns. Henry Soule, cobbler, of Hammondsport, N. Y., says: "Since Doan's Kidney Pills, cured me eight years ago, I've reached 70 and hope to live many years longer. Bat twenty years ago I had kidney trouble so ^ bad I could not Mt work. Backache WPw was persistent and it was agony to lift anything. Gravel, &ches, dizziness and terrible urinary disorders ran me down from 1G8 to 100 pounds. Doctors told me I had diabetes and could not live. I was wretched and hopeless when I began using Doan's Kidney Pills, but they cnred me eight years ago, and I've been well ever since." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. A True Story. I want to tdll you of something I saw take place on a crowded Boston street the other day. A dirty-faced, ragged little lad was poking about In the ash barrels for spoils. He had a tiny dog with him, quite as unkempt and uncared for as himself, but around that dog's neck was tied a bow of faded ribbon, and his incessant gambols and pranks found i favor In the sight of his beggar-boy I master. It was plain to see that the I boy loved the dog, and between the j two there was the complete under-' I standing of mutual affection. Sud? I denly, while the dog was bounding and barking in the exuberance of canine joy and 'his master's eyes were 1.11 ?J+V- valloVt <-rf this OUG i sparKuug wiLtx I thing In life that was his very own, j there came a rapidly driven team down the crowded street. A moment later I saw a ragged boy, with set face and anguished eye, gather in his arms a maimed and dying dog and gently walk away. What had happened? Only a worthless street cur trampled to death, only a miserable little ragpicker robbed of the sole bit of joy and comfort his life ever knew, the one friend that loved him, that was all. But there was a look In the boy's face that will keep my heart aching for many a day to come, and the fluttering bit of fancy ribbon about the dead dog's neck brought a mist to my eyes that hid the splendor of the bright spring morning.?Our Fourfooted Friends. J mssDru ^ND ? 0THE1 ts, everywhere, are men of scientific atti welfare of their fellow men in supplyi mown value, in accordance with ph ;s of the better class manufacture ma: unal names and they never sell false br th when in need of anything in their ] Drresponding adjuncts of a first-class j n A m'oTIIT llCoflll Q^POCBOriP ' Fai UrblVliC auu lilUUJ UOV1U4. HVV>/VW>.? with the satisfaction which arises fror 3 and assistance to the medical profesE ly and many hours of daily toil. Th( remedy and that it gives universal sa bottles annually to the well Informed ake pleasure in handing out the gen" tornia Fig Syrup Co.?printed on t ;olds and headaches attended by bilio he liver and bowels, arising from irr< other remedy so pleasant, prompt an< glad to sell it because it gives univers Syrup of Figs, the universal satisfact tations have been made, tried and und, here and there, who do not maint; greed gets the better of their judgmen the imitation.^ in order to make a larg { Syrup of Figs"?or "Fig Syrup" am tny, printed on the package, but they ig Syrup Co.?printed on the front of they are injurious to the system. * In >rfc to misrepresentation or deception, i ion under the name of "Syrup of Fij of the California Fig Syrup Co. printei md mislead the. patron who has been i ?large or small, for if the dealer resorl e will do so with other medicinal ag id should be avoided by every one who jority of druggists are reliable, we su tirely through the druggists, of whom only, at the regular price of fifty cents m the public of the facts, in order thai e sold to them. If it does not bear the printed on the front of every package, eturn of your money, and in future go aat you wish and the best of everything i Malsby & Co. 41 South Forsyth St., Atlanta, 6a. / Portable and Stationary ? - ' ? -- I engines, Boilers, Saw Mills AND ALL KINDS OF MACHINERY Complete line Carried in stock for IMMEDIATE DELIVERY. Best Machinery, Lowest Prices and Beat Terms 1 Write us for catalogue, prices, etc., before buying. Wanted. Old defaulted or unsaleable stocks and bonds. Bemainders of estates bought. All unquoted or unlisted securities dealt in. No charge for valuing old securities. Valuable book on old securities presented to bolder of any extinct stock not mentioned therein. It. M. aafVTllE. Uoom 462, Produce Exchange, New ? ork. 1C1 m time. Sold by druggists. MV (At4-'06) EEHH For Your Family i 615 Mb, ?' ? - ? ? ? ? ? | In this SHOE G?ts M< Only the Dealer Wh a Biff Profit Will Say You. It is One of th "ALWAYS JUS1 W Clover Bra Mprtljptotpr-iiu LARGEST FINE SH< V^L ST. LOUIS ? COSTS V rs. j ; linments and high integrity, | dp the best of remedies and | ysicians' prescriptions and I ny excellent remedies, ^ but ands, or imitation medicines. I line, which usually includes I >harmacy and the finest and s and remedial appliances. ? n a knowledge of the benefits I x lion, is usually their greatest I. ;y all know that Syrup of I tisfaction, and therefore they I purchasers of the choicest A. nine article bearing the full he front of every package. F usness and constipation and 1 .'gnlar habits, indigestion, or i beneficial in its effects as al satisfaction. ion which it gives and the condemned, but there are ain the dignity and principles t, and who do not hesitate ;er profit. Such preparations 1 of some piratical concern, . ;| never have the full name of TVlA imitfttiona i K1JG * . i order to sell the imitations v a and whenever a dealer passes a j js" or "Fig Syrup," which ! . M i on the front of the package, 1 ( bo unfortunate as to enter his. 1. rM ;s to misrepresentation and 1 ents, and in the filling of I ' -.. - M values health and happiness. I ipply the immense demand li it may be purchased every-, I i per bottle, but as exceptions 'a -S tall may decline or return a,_ j ) full name of the Company? m[ do not hesitate to return the . j to one of the better class of Br j n his line at reasonable prices.^B, . bcrra* MTTzmm ^ 4 Yields PenPyBwSH* s<Za*Mt? 3 of liberally using crar fertUl- V2 zers, is to pay off a mortgage - U on the old farm. Bead the following from Messrs. Wherry ' & Son. owners of the Magnolia Fruit Faxm. Durant, Miss.;/ "Womade $900 from one acre strawberries, on which yoor fertilizers were used. Might years ago we bought this place at 120 per acre. It was then % considered to have been worn . ; <3 oat twenty years before* oat by liberally using Virginia-Carolina Fertilizers under peas and velvet beans. 1 we can now grow almost anything. and have been offered v 1260 per acre for the place. We experimented with a great many brands of fertilizers, bat find the highest per-oerrt. - , cheaper." Nowdjoa'trou think J Virginia-Carolina Fertilizers ? would enable you to pay off a mortgage if yoa had one? ^ f Well, don*t use any other. . / Virginia-Caroline Chemical Bichmond. Va. MM Norfolk. Va. ' TOP ' 4 Durham, N. 0. HW' .>-,>5 Charleston, 8.0. Baltimore, Md. Atlanta, Ga. Savannah, Ga. Montgomery, Ala. (H Memphis, Tenn. UN Shreveport, La. -Jffi lllll'llil _ if z n ana lour norseg Antiseptic Known. I "iRY IT FOR | iui^atism, Strains, I rains,' Swellings I d Enlargements. [ e, 20c., SOo. and 81.00.' if . EARL 8. 8LOAN, any StM Boston, Mass. f i I,, i asssacssl flHOnr M 1 r M >st for Hi* Money. o Wants to Make e Leaders of tlae S CORRECT" 1 nd Shoes 1 arts Slyo* Co. OE EXCLUSlVfSTS MF .U.S. A.