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' THE TULT1T. AN ELOQUENT SUNDAY SERMON B7 DR. OTHO F. SARTHOLOW. Subject: The Limitations of Life* Brooklyn, N. Y.? Dr. Otho F. Barth?low, pastor of the Janes M. E. Cliurch, preached Sunday on "The Limitations of Life." The +ext "was chosen from Colossians iv:lS: "Remember my bonds." Dr. Bartholow said: It .is hard to conceive how the glowing and comprehensive atements ofthe flrst three chapters of Paul's Epistle "to the Coi* :ians could be rein^ 'orced. Each sentence is so full of divine truth, it fairly overflows with its Ohrisay abv~dan >. Yet with the words of our text Paul id most positively and b -utifallr reinforce every ' ???*/>??? n# tViic infoncolv enir- I N VU1C1 BCUICULC Ul IUM - itual epistle. He did it in that charmingly inferential -way that added the * -warmth of the heart to the purely logical statements of the mind. In writing to the Colossians of Christ's divinity and of the complete and joyous loyalty eyery soul should render to Him, Paul in the few words of our text delicately refers to the exarhple found in his own experience. "Remember * my bonds." This was an infusion of experience to all the preceding precepts that developed an incalculable force in that unlimited element of sympathy which were at once operative. Paul had no intention of glorifying ? himself .or his sufferings, neither did he sentimentally long for human com fort This very brief allusion to himself in our text was but to strengthen and confirm that feeling which would ^ exalt and glorify Christ Jesus the Lord. Whatf Christian in Colosse could have read or heard Paul's letter and not have felt when he came to the words, "Remember my bonds," this man writes out of life's experience and of What he knows?not like so many of the religionists and philosophers of that time out of his ixhagtaations and dreams. Yet another inference is contained in < * out text It is that which emphasizes the fact of life's limitation. In writtag his advices and directions to the 'Colos3ians Paul did the very best his position would allow him to do. He wished and prayed to do more. That ' v:; more was to be with them in person. to give them all that he felt was in personal effort for Christ and His kingdom. Over against this wish, ify -this desire, this prayer, was his physical imprisonment?a'limitation. Paul rwas chained. The things he would do tie could not do. The fact of life's limitation, its rec^ ?gnition and resolution are suggestively presented in these words of the heart. The fact of limitation is apparent everywhere, in everything and everyperson. Go to the uttermost boundaries of space?to the sun and stars, limitations are there, their boundaries are fixed that they'cannot pass. Gravitation, chemical affinity and other agents of law bind them with invisi> 'toe ehaihs to their limits. As with / these mighty spheres, so with the tiniest atom; the plane of activity and expression is fixed. The reign of law marks insuperable barriers. ; In persons as well as in things the fact of limitation is strikingly manifest The body in which we live is clearly confined in bonds. Each body has an amount of nervous and muscular energy .which limits all that may be received or given. The bonds of v 'place and heredity bind each man to a .very narrow zone of physical and mental activity. That a man is what he eats and where he lives is a certain degree manifestly true. The spiritual in man is limited in all its expression and life by* the presence of the carnal. Paul's pathetic cry: "O, wretched man that I am; who shall deliver me from the body of this death?" Is applicable to all the .children of Adam's race. These distinctions are the marks; of a general (imitation, the bonds that all men in 4 their investigations and experience must remember because they arex of themselves. Within the general limitations there are special and personal limitations. Mental endowments, dis. position, health and grace are largely determinative in establishing the indiyidnal bonds that cannot be passed. The nervous prostrations, the brain tag, the strokes of apoplexy, the creeping lassitudes that seize so many of our -bright and energetic people are in a great majority of instances hut evidences of failure to know or remember tiie physical and mental limitations 4 to which life is conditioned. Failure to record and recognize personal limitations and to be directed by. them causes not only lapse and disaster in^our service to Christ, but ofttimes^ the essential breaking of the moral ;law..? Our fathers were accustomed, to keep the commandments,"to x worship God and reverence His day by preparing hours in advance for that most -.solemn and imperative duty. > Saturday preparation of body and spirit was; in the thought of our Puritan ancestors, essential to the real keeping of those commandments that enforce our duty to God. They had a fine recognition of the limitations inherent in the body. " Their preparation - for the4Lord's day was a "remembrance of bonds." It is only the fashion in these progressive days to ridicule the religious practices of these fathers of our country.? With all of which ridionU wo hoc? Tin svmnflthv rvin tin nine to believe that our grip on God, for loyalty to Christ and His law tbey * continue to be the most inspiring and 7 helpful examples. They certainly shed a helpful light concerning the meeting of limitations in the keeping of those commandments that refer to God and His day. They made religion a life and found delight in it, largely because they remembered their limitations. They refused to rob God by allowing the world and its activities to so rush, in .upon them during six days that there was nothing for the Sabbath but physical weariness and dullness. In yet 1 * another relation it is imperative that we remember ovur own and others' limitations. In relation to others we should be quick to ask: Are we understood and do we understand? Believing fully that ~very man is more than,anything he does or says, we are led to believe that all avenues of expression and reception are to a pV, 1 & ' degree limited and incomplete?"are ia bonds." Every man has in him a best and a worst, neither of which, fairly represents him. Many, however, are to them final f: in their experience of one or the other phase of life. When 1 read Cardinal Newman's "Lead, Kindly Light," I think of a highly intellectual, devout and charitable character. On the other hand, when I read his bigoted and narrow estimate of ~rius, especially his statement "that a publisher of heresy (meaning, of course, anything contrary to his religious denomination), should * - - ue treaietJ. as u at: weit? cmuuuicu evil.'* I tliink naturally of a narrow, unsvmnathetic and bigoted man. It is very evident that any fair estimate of the cardinal as a character cannot be obtained from' either or both of these writings. He had his limitations. They must be remembered. Not until they are estimated can there be a substantial understanding of ue person back of the utterances. But are we understood? We. too, commonly a&sume thr: we are. Thinking we fully understand wnat we say and mean, we naturally infer that others do. But do uey? "Oh, the trouble, the heartaches, the disasters and the deaths to happihess and peace that have come to this old world simply because people have not understood one another," exclaims the writer of an hundred* years ago. Human nature has naturally changed since that day. An appeal to experience must convince even the most superficial observer that this is deeply true, even in the everyday experience of life. Acknowledging vhe fact or i.'mitation and realizing its force in life, we find the only sure approach to its resolution is in the Christ of Paul. Our Saviour entered our limitations. He took upon Himself the form of a servant; He became obedient to death, even the death of the cross; He emp' - TT. 1 ^11 tl6CL ttiinseii; nt* was - ijui un puiuis tempted as are we. He remembered our bonds. Limitation itself brought trophies to His feet Christ made it minister to His eternal glory by living: (1> The simple life?a life of fore.thought and order. In Him there was no trespassing of body upon mind, or mind upon spirit Each was ?ept to its sphere. There wa^ in His soul no conflict in the duties owed God, manand self. The temptation in the wilderness is a perfect presentation of His clear and simple recognition of these duties that leaves no confusion in the mind of the disciple. In Christ was no haste, no vconfusion whatever. He had for each and everything the full measure of its claim. In His speech He gave line upon line, precept upon precept. He did nothing in secret. (2) The charitable life. Christ ever made allowance in all human equations for the elements of ignorance, inheritance and condition. He remembered the bondc of men, their limitations. Thus we And Him dealing with the individual as the wise and loving parent does with-the child, as the teacher with the pupil. . He built on that best possible interpretation of each man's "nature, which required ever'and always a complete knowledge of limitations. He healed.. some in public because their bonds would stand it; others He withdrew to the quiet place alone. He recognized conditions best for the individnal. When two of His favored disciples desired to burn those men whom they Judged heretics; when Peter followed afar off and at last altogether denied Him, with what divine consideration He remembered their limitations and forgave them! With Christ there was neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision or uncircumcision. Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free, because . His charity understood and eliminated all differences that such distinctions implied. (3) The triumphant life. Christ saw the crown above the cross, life beyond death, and lived in them. Hope, with all its expectancies, was His. He saw the morning when it was midnight. He knew the Father knew. The triumphant life of Christ was lived for us. and so became vicarious. We could not live it ourselves, because of an unnatural bondage?the awful bondage of sin. < hrist, however, .ives it for us, and shares .it with us, making it possible for us to have His simple, loving and triumphant life. "I live, yet not I but Christ liveth in me." Oh, what comfort there is to the poor, wounded heart that is struggling to do its best against sin and trial in the narrow straits of life to say and realize "He remembers my.bonds." He took them upon Himself. Simple faith in this truth brings relief and ultimate triumpl. This gracious truth sugests another limitation that we speak of with profoundest reverence, the limitation of- God Himself in the matter of bestowing pardon, peace and love upon the heart of man. God has, according to the revelation He has.given us, limits that He .cannot pass in the salvation of man. The salvation in Christmarks the boundaries of God's ability to save the human soul. God cannot foroe the soul's will to accept of His Son for salvation. He presents Him with all love and power. Kowa oil rrtow 4-a ho CQTTaH XW X1C Will uat(7 Oil mvu iv uv uuivu and to\ome unto the knowledge of the truth. .Beyond this He cannot go. God i? bo^nd by His gift, of free will. Christ the God cried: "I would but ye would not". May God help all of us to recognize and act upon the limitations U which God has committed-us. Strength For To-Day. God promises strength to enable us to. do our present duty. . If we believe that and act accordingly, we shall never, never fail. "As thy days, so shall thy strength be." That is the promise?a promise that never fails. Yesterday has gone, not to return. Tomorrow has not come to us, and it may never come. To-day is our day, and it is the only portion of time that is. Men .who .regret that they did not do their work *>f yesterday, lose their present time because they are not giving their whole strength to it. Men who fear that they will not be able to do to-morrow's work are losing to-day, and are not getting ready for to-morrow. God does not promise strength for yesterday which is gone, nor for to-morrow which may never come, but for to-day, which is here. Let us therefore, trust, and use, while we have it, ? >d's promised strength for to-day. "Sutncient unto the day Is the evil (and the good) thereof."? Sunday School Times. The infidel howls at the Bible miracles, but he aims at its morals. Fam Is the Be I jbr jo Kills a, Sp LaV^CVery Pent \- DR.EARLS.StOAH, Tbe biercst caption ba-il ever made weiehed ?600 pounds. ?????? j |women| will find in Mozley's Lemon H Hi Elixir, the ideal laxative, a HI H to them in any condition IH H| peculiar to themselves. ^H Pleasant in taste, mild in ^H M action and thorough in results. lH H Tested for 35 years. ^9 B9 50c. and $1.00 bottle at |H MA7T T?V'S H n UlV&kUU A M H LEMON ELIXIR I "One Dose Convinces." nB ' v Good Teeth cbl Good Temper Are characteristic of the Atkins Saws always. That is because they are ! made of the best steel ih the I , world ? Silver Steel?by men that know how. " j Atkins Saw*, Corn KnlresvPerfectioa Floor Scrapers, etc., are sold by all good hardware ' dealers. Catalogue on request. E. C. ATIUHS <B. CO. Inc. j Largest SaW Manufacturers in the World * Factory and Executfve Offices, Indianapolis Branches?New York, Chicago, Minneapolis Portland (Oregon), Seattle, San Francisco Memphis, Atlanta and Toronto (Canada) ' Accept no substitute?Insist on the Atkins Brad f [ "SOLD BY GOOD DEALERS '.EVERYWHERE "fl ? n Year 1905 Sale*. The total distributive sales for 1905 exceeded 200,000,000. This total is realized from the sale of fresh meats (beef, mutton and pork), provisions, produce (poultry, butter and eggs), soaps, glues, oils, bones, fertilizers, feathers, casings, hides, wools, pelts and other by-products derived from cattle, sheep, hogs and poultry. Margin of Profit. The industry is operated on a margin of less than 2 cents to each doP lar of sales. Swift & Co. do not sell at retail. Their entire outpnt Is sold at wholesale to many thousands of * ?n' +Via -rrr>T?lrl dealers in vuuuus w wb .....? There are hundreds of local alaughter' era throughout the United States, who *\buy their live stock in competition with the packer doing an interstate :and international business. Likewise the packer must sell in competition /with the local slaughterers. Ther* are 'ho secret processes in the industry, no 'complicated and expensive factories, and as live stock can be purchased in almost every hamlet and city, end the preparation of meats is simple in the extreme, local slaughtering will long remain a factor in the production of fresh meats and provisions. Economic Advantage*. The large packing houses will, how-! ever, always have these advantages: Locations at the chief live stock cen- j ters, with the opportunity to buy the best live stock; manufacturing in large quantities, at the minimum of expense; utilization of all waste material; refrigeration; mechanical appli ances; liigniy emcieni Dusmess management These advantages are reflected in the quality of the packer's output, a quality that has reached its highest development in the products bearing the name and brand of "Swift." Purchasing Live Stock. ; The principal live stock centers are Chicago, Kansas City, Omaha, St lers Say JR -u V T IM 'a^H st Remedy on Earth. ^ avin Curb or Splint Crating. Kills Pain. , 815 ALBANY STREET, 88ST0N, MASS. (At5-'0 ) fABBACE PLANTS. CELERY most reliable seedsmen. TVeuse the ?me plant* on our ed end property packed. Celery ready last of Dec. Le Cabo*Re ready now. Reduced express rates promised.< than merchandise rates. Prices: .Small lots $1.00 per tl B- Mwcgetts. S. C. "Special warden r ertillzer" $5.00 p United grate* Agricultural Department has established kinds of vegetables, especially Cabbages. The results o at any time. Yours respectfully. y. n. butch 1 of liberally using our fertili| zero. Is to pay off a mortgage \ on the old farm. Read the folt 1 lowing from Messrs. Wherry I I &8on,owner# of the Magnolia 1 i\. Fruit Farm. Ihirant, Miss.: Ill "We made $900 from one acre 1 Jr strawberries, on which your ? M fertilizers were uspd. Right H. yaaro ago we bought this place at $20 per aore. It was then V considered to have been worn R out twenty years before, but by liberally using ( Virgmia-Caroima Fertilizers under-peas and velvet beans, . we can now grow almost any* J thing, and have been offered $860 per here for the place. We experimented with a great many brands of fertilisers, i but find (he highest per-cent. I cheaper." Now don*tyon think Virginia-Carolina Fertilisers would enable you to pay off a mortgage if you had one? 1 Well, dont use any other. Vlrgiaia^arolina Chemical Richmond. Va. Norfolk. Va. . ' Durham, N.C. mjm Charleston, 8. C. W Baltimore, MdL BE Atlanta, Ga. BB Savannah. Ga. ? Montgomery, Ala, | Memphis, Tenn, ufl Shreveport, La, , PUTNAM. Color more goods brighter and fas'er color-* than any < can dye any garment without ripping apart, Write tai >\rift & ( Louis, St Joseph, St Paul and Fort Worth. The same methods of purchasing cattle, sheep and hogs prerail at all'dties. At Chicago, which is the ^ largest market there are about two 1 hundred gnd fifty buyers, representing <packers, local slaughterers in various s cities, and exporters. Of this number, s lees than a score are employed by ? Swift & Company. 1 j The farmer ships his live stock to Chicago, consigns'them to a commission firm at the Union Stock Yards, .j who sees that they are unloaded and a put in pens. Then the buyers inspect 2 them, make their offers to the com mis- j j'sjon dealer, who accepts or rejects as a his judgment dictates, i.11 buying must g be finished at 3 o'clock each day, and 0 the buyer- nrust pay spot cash. If the Q commission man has no satisfactory | offers, he can hoii his stock over to the next day. He gets his commission from the farmer, ard naturally strives f to get the highest possible price for his c client c t I Wholesale Dii tributing Houses* e A wholesale distributing house is a a giant refrigerator, but instead of ii shelves there are trolley rails, from 1 which are suspended hooks to hang the t carcasses. Some of the houses cost as "i much as a hundred thousand dollars to build and equip. As a rule they are of pressed brick, the insides being lined? floor, walls and celling?with highly , E polished hardwood. The floors are covered daily with fresh sawdust and all *g aire kept spotlessly clean. There are o-ver three hundred of these wholesale houses in various cities of the United * States, and the public is always wel- . come to visit thera. Packing Plants* I All the Swift & Company plants are * located at the great live stock markets, in the heart of the great agricultural a sections, where can be purchased the finest grades of cattle, sheep and hogs. * We have seven packing plants, employ-- ^ ing at each from two to eight thousand persons. c The following gives the locations and sizes of the different plants; Jff Gibraltar the British channel fleet s been practicing night firing. l>obbe(l in Church. Inst think what an outrage it i* to be bbed of all the benefit* of tbe services continuous coughing throughout the ngregation, when Anfi-Gripine is guaransd to cure. Sold everywhere. 25 eta. \V. Diemer, M. D., manufacturer, iringfleld. Mo. Last year about 2000 persons were arst^d'for in JjORflon. A? euls F W 111 U|IO J fcs V Removes all swelling in 8 to ao days; effects a permanent cure >fl\ -xtt in 30 to 60 days. Trial treatment ^VNv^jK^^given free. Kothingcan be fairer write Dr. H. H. Green's Sens, aMf? dv^Speciaiists, Box b Atlanta, 6a. TfiGURU WHEW Alt ELSE FAILS, fcvl fcrTE?t Cough 8yru.-?; Tastes Good. UM K"<. Prl in timA. Sold by druggists. pcjf ; ? . _ and a<l Ictnds of gardeaplants. PI Alii I V Can now furnish all kinds of I I nil I Ll. eaboage plants, grewa in the 1 L.t 111 1 KJ? oprn an(1 wlll gtanij gretj cold, urown from seeds of the thousand acre track farm. Plants carefully countttuce, onion and Beet plant a same time or earlier, which, when effective, will give us <0 per cent lest lousand. large lota *1.00 to $1.23 per thousand, F. O. er sack of 200 p'-unds, r. O B_ neggetta. S. c. The an Experimental Station on our farms, to test all f these experiments we will be pleased to give you COMPACT, MEGGETTS, 8. C. ftp for 5cc worth of leading lflWi novelties In CboloM u est Garden 8eeds. Si's worth of Universal PreV* minm Coupons free with every order. BoLGJAKO'3 8EFl?'STOKE. BALTIMORE. 'RICE. <=^25 Ct? m ||1 mi the on UN iu Miiu. iin. wur jgf p u ? ra NlNONEMY g'Vjl"* MSSfWm sst-jHS IWSNOfijiMLPOinf^ljQIC }&-Zr tot your ? ^Trr -wTO 9^ F. W. Biett G" OOD, big " can not be out a liberal ami in the fertilizerten per cent. It form of Sulphat* highest quality. "Plant Food" and "Trucl< books which tell of the'success! o*her garden truck?sent free 1 Address, GERMA New York?03 Nassau Street. FADELE jther dye. One 10c package colors all fibers. They < : free booklet?How to Dye, Bleach and Mix Colors. Jompai Packing Plant*. Floor Buildings, Space, Land, Acres. Acres. Acres. Chicago 44% 87% 47 Cansas City 7% 30 19% )maha 6 26 23 It Louis 7% 19% 31%It Joseph 6% 25% 19% It Paul 5 12 16 fort Worth. 3 15 22 Employe*. The total number of persons em- j iloyed in all the Swift packing plants md branch houses aggregate over| 16,000 persons. . Conditions for employes in the various manufacturing nd operating departments is continully improving with the construction >f new buildings and the installation f new and up-to-date equipment Sanitation and Hygiene. The housewife makes no greater efbrt to keep her kitchen* clean than we lo to keep in sanitary and hygienic ondition our abattoirs. They are horoughly scrubbed at the close of ach day's operations, and automatic ippliances are used wherever possible u order to eliminate the personal handing of meats. Rigid rules governing nese points are siricuy emuatu, m.*.ty means dismissal. Visitors Always Welcome. No other industry in the world gives uch a cordial welcome to visitors as I Jwift & Co. We keep open house the rear around, and maintain a corps of | ipecially trained guides, with special levators and rest'rooms. In one year ve have entertained over a quarter of l million of men and women; in one lay?Grand Army Day, 1901?we enertained 23,000. Among our visitors lave been ambassadors from foreign governments, princes, noblemen and Ustinguisbed citizens from all lands md eminent folks from every State in he Union. We wish to familiarize the >ublic with our methods, and the best vay to do that is to let the public see or itself. We have no secret processes ir methods in any department. Swift's Premium Hams and Bacon. Swift's Premium Hams and Bacon / o * v.. &.. .. Wis 1 c /V.">.\ tc <#r- -1 '* 5-^'s :*? ; ?' < -.: Avery & Company | SUCCESSORS TO avery & McMillan, 51.53 South Forsyth St., Atlanta, Ga. ?ALL KINDS OFMACHINERY ? ' 99 Reliable Frlck Engines) ~ Boilers, aU Sizes. Wheat Separators. BEST IMPROVED SAW MILL ON EARTH. Large Engines and Boilers supplied ;'i| promptly. Shingle Mills, Corn Mills*. Circular 8aws,Saw Teeth,Patent Dogs,. Steam Governors. Full line Engines d <^9 MJII Supplies, send for free Catalogue. n-GRiPiNE : GUARANTEED TO CURE COLD, HEADACHE AND NEURALGIA, - f i itt-OrtvUM to 4 d ealer -who wont GimrutM Is. >3 MOlfcT BACK If rr BOMTT CUBI. xeir, Manufacturer, Springfield, JVa V 'mealy" potatoes '-''m produced with- - :m Dunt of Potash '|?j| ?not less than A : must be in the [m s of Potash of : Farming" are two practical Ful growing of potatoes and the to those who write us for them. N KALI WORKS. f Ationtn, Ov?">? v So. Rroad ?*ree* SS DYES jye ia cold w?>?r better th?u *oy oth?r dr?. Yog * yjjg .UONIIOE DRUG CO.* Ualanrlllet liuiwrb IV / are more widely and favorably known ' than any other brand. Their popularity is due to the uniform quality and flavor of the meat, and to their .flat appearance when received from the dealer. Each piece is branded on the rind, "Swift's Premium U. S. Inspect-: ed," and wrapped in cheesecloth and vjgM white parchment paper. " ; Look for the brand, "Swift's Prem-. ium," when buying hams and bacon. Swift's Silver Leaf Lard Is a strictly pure lard, kettle rendered^ . and put up in 3, 5, and 10-pound sealed! I | pails. It is America's Standard LardJ. Jj|l end enjoys a high reputation and an* ' -flg| enormous sale. Swift's Soaps. An interesting feature of a tripj >^| through the Chicago plant is a visit to> - vJjS the soap factory, one of the largest!: and most complete in thi* country*. M There we manufacture numerous toiletl and laundry soaps, and washing- pow* ;J1 ders. Among which are: Wool Soap, widely and favorably} known; for toilet and bath, and wash-* _* ing fine fabrics. Crown Princess Toilet Soap, highlyperfumed. .. Swiff s Pride Soap, for laundry and household use. Swift's Pride Washing Powder, unsurpassed for all cleaning purposes. Swift's Specialties. . .. Jf Swift's Premium. Ham Swift's Premium Bacon Swift's Premium Sliced Bacon 'M Swift's Premium'Lard' 1 Swift's Winchester Ham Swift's Winchester Bacon .Brookfield Farm Sausage Swift's Silver Leaf Lard jewel i^ara uompouna Swift's Cotosuet Swift's Jersey Butterine Swift's Beef Extract Swift's Beef Fluid Swiffs Premium Milk-Fed Chicken# Swift's Soaps. Wck51 Soap Scented Toilet Soaps Swift's Pride Soap Swiffs Pride Waehin* Powder, i