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Washington, .Inn. 10.—In this dis course It. TnImage makes practical use of an occurrence in the orient which has seldom attracted particular attention; text, II Kings vl, 0, “The .ron did swim.” A theological seminary in the valley of palms, near the river Jordan, had become so popular in the time of Elisha, the prophet, that more accom- modations were needed for the stu- ■ lents. The classrooms and the dor- mitcries must he enlarged or an en- irely new building constructed. What will they do? Will they send up to Jerusalem and solicit coutributious for this undertaking? Will they seud out agents to raise the money for a new theological seminary? Having raised the money, will they send for cedars .)? Lebanon and marble from the quar- .•ies where Ahab got the stone for the pillars and walls of his palace? No; • he students propose to build it them selves. They wire rugged boys, who had been brought up in the country u:d who had never been weakened by the* luxuries of city life. All they ask is that Elisha, their professor and prophet, go along with them to the woods and boss the job. They start for the work, Elisha and his students. Identy of lumber in those regions along the Jordan. The sycamore is a stout, strong tree and good for timber. Mr. Gladstone asked me if I had seen in Palestine any sycamore tree more beautiful than the one we stood under at Ha warden. I told him 1 had not. The sycamores near the Jordan are now attacked by Elisha’s students, for they must have lumber for the new theological seminary. I suppose some of the students made an awkward stroke, and they were extemporized axmen. Stand from under! Crash goes one of the trees and another and another. But something now happens so wonderful that the occurrence will tax the credulity of the ages, so won derful that many still think it never happened at all. One of the students, not able to own an ax, had borrowed one. You must remember that while* the ax of olden time was much like our modern ax. it differed in the fact that Instead of the helve or handle being thrust into a socket iu the Iron head the head of the ax was fastened on the handle by n leathern thong, and so it might slip the helve. A student of the seminary was swinging his ax against one of those trees, and whether It was at the moment he made his (irst stroke and the chips fiew or was after he had cut the tree from all sides so deep that it was ready to fall we are not told, but the nx head and the handle parted. Being near the riverside, the ax head dropped into the river and sank to the muddy bottom. Great was the stu dent’s dismay. If It had been bis own ax, it would have been bad enough, but the ax did not belong to biin. He bad no means to buy another for the kind man who had loaned It to him, but God helps the helpless, and he gener ally helps through some good and sym pathetic soul, and in this case it was Elisha, who was in the woods and on the river bank at the time. He did not see the nx head fly off, and so he asked the student where It dropped. He was shown the place where it went down Into the river. Then Elisha broke off a branch of a tree and threw It Into the water, and the ax head rose from the depths of the river and floated to the bank, so thaf the student had Just to stoop down and take up the restored property. Now you see the meaning of my text. “The iron did swim.” The Iron Did Swim. Suppose a hundred years ago some one had told people that the time would come when hundreds of thou sands of tons of iron would float on the Atlantic and Paciflc — iron ships from New York to Southampton, from London to Calcutta, from San Francis co to Canton. The man making such a prophecy would have been sent to an asylum or carefully watched as In competent to go alone. We have all In our day seen iron swim. Now, if man can make hundreds of tons of metal float. I am disposed to think that the Almighty could make an ax bead float. “What,” says some one, “would be the use of such u miracle?” Of vast, of Inlinite.of eternal Importance. Those students were preparing for the min istry. They had joined the theological seminary to get all its advantages. They needed to have their faith strengthened; they needed to be per suaded that God can do everything; they needed to learn that God takes notice of little tilings; that there is no emergency of life where he is not will ing to help. Standing on the banks of that Jordan, tlibse students of that day ,'f tin* recalled ax head had their faith re-enforced, and nothing that they had found out In the classrooms/if that earned Institution had ever done more n the way of fitting them for their uming pr< fession. I hear from different sources that Cu re Is n great deal of Infidelity in •omo of the theological seminaries of day. They think that the garden if Eden Is an allegory, and that Moses lid not write the Pentateuch, and that 'he book of Job Is only a drama, and that the book of Jonah Is an unrelia ble fir.b story, and that water was not turned into wine, although the bar 'ender now by large dilution turns wine Into water, and that most of the »o called miracles of the Old and the New* Testaments were wrought by nat ural causes. When those infidels grad uate from the theological seminary and take the pulpits of America as expounders of the Holy Scriptures, what advocates they will be of that gospel for the truth of which the mar tyrs died! Hail the Polycarps and Hugh Latlmcrs and John Knoxes of the twentieth century, believing the Bible Is true In spots! Would to God that some great revival of religion might sweep through all the theolog ical seminaries of this land, confirming the faith of the coming expounders of an entire Bible! The Right to Borrow. Furthermore, in that scene of the text God sanctions borrov.Mng and sets forth the importance of returning. I do not think there would have been any miracle performed if the young man had owned the ax that slipped the helve. The young man cried out In the hearing of the prophet, “Alas, master, for It was borrowed!” He had a right to borrow. There are times when we have not only a right to bor row, but it is a duty to borrow’. There are times when we ought to lend, for .Christ in his sermon on the mount de clared. “From him that would borrow’ of thee turn not thou away.” It is right that one borrow the means of getting an education, as the young stu dent of my text borrowed the ax. It is right to borrow means for the for warding of commercial ends. Most of the vast fortunes that now overshadow the land were hatched out of a bor rowed dollar. If in any assembly it were requested that those who had never borrowed hold up their hands, none would be lifted, or if here and there a hand were lifted we would know that it was a case of inveracity. Borrow! Why. we are borrowing all the time. We borrow from the Lord the sunlight that shows us our way, the water that slakes our thirst, the food that re freshes us three times a day, the pil low on which we slumber. Wo borrow gladness from our friends; we borrow’ all elevated surroundings. The church borrows all its beauty from the Christ who founded it. In our songs and ser mons we borrow from the raptures of heaven. We borrow time; we will borrow eternity, and that constant borrowing implies a return. For what we borrow from God we must pay back in hearty thanks and Christian service, iu im provement of ourselves and helpful ness for others. For what we borrow in the shape of protection from good government we must pay back in pa triotic devotion. For what we borrow from our parents iu their good exam ple and their hard work wrought for us in our journey from cradle to man hood or womanhood for all the ages to come we ought to be paying back. The halleluiahs of heaven will be re turned for crucifixion agony. Debt a Calamity. Hnydon the painter said his ruin be gan the day he began to borrow mon ey. and he wrote in his diary, “Here began debt and obligation, out of which I have never been and never shall be extricated as long as I live.” Dr. Johnson said: “Do not accustom your self to consider debt only as an in convenience. You will find it a calam ity.” We have a right to borrow for the absolute necessities, expecting to pay back again, but we ought never to borrow for the luxuries. According to the “Laws of Amasis,” In Egypt if a man died without paying that which he had borrowed lie was deprived of all obsequies. If. that law were In vogue In our times, how many postponed and Impossible funerals! Furthermore, let us admire these young men of Elisha’s theological sem inary for the fact that they were earn ing their own way. The most of those today who are successful In the pro fessions. medicating the sick or advo cating the law or preaching the gospel, fought their own way on and up. Those are the kind of men who know what education is worth and know how to use it Many of us remember that In college days the sons of affluent fathers, with plenty of money to spend and horses to drive and libraries crowded with books never read and wardrobes that kept them in perplexity as to which of many garments was appropriate for the weather that day, wore wortli to the world nothing then and have been worth to the world noth ing since, while the young men In col lege who had to economize three moiths iu order to get some book they needed and who could hardly raise money for their diploma have since wrought mightily for God and the truth, turning the world upside down because It was wrong side up. In the summer watering places north, south, east and west, In the great ho tels. serving at table and In baggage room, are theological students who are In prifmrntion for the ministry, earn ing in July and August the means by which they may study the other months of the year. I hall them; 1 cheer them; 1 Mess them. They will be the Her- schels In the observatories, the Dr. Motts in your medical colleges, the Rufus Choates In your courtrooms, the Bishop Mcllvalues In your pulpits. L«>t them not now bo ashamed of the >ix with which they hew the beam for Elisha’s seminary. Superiority of Rod. Trtose students In the valley of palms by the Jordan had a physical strength and hardihood that would In Ip them In their mental and spirit ual achievements. We who are tolling for the world’s betterment need brawn as well as brain, strung bodies ns well as Illumined tn'.t ds and consecrated souls. Many of those who are now do ing the best work in church and state got muscle and power of endurance from the fact that in early life they were compelled to use ux or plow or flail or hammer, while ninny who were brought up in the luxuries of life give out before the battle is won. They are keen and sharp of mind, but have- no physical endurance. They have the ax head, but no handle. The body is the handle cf the soul. Let ail those who toil for their edu cation remember they are especially favored, and if things go against them and the ax head should fly the helve that very hinderment may some time turn out advantageously, as the acci dent by the river Jordan, which seem ed to finish the young student’s capac ity to help build the new seminary, resulted in a splendid demonstration of tite power of Elisha’s God to help any one who helps himself. No ax that was ever wielded has wrought so well as that ax, the handle and head of which parted. Notice, also, how God Is superior to every law that he has made, even the strongest law of nature, the law ot gravitation. The stick that Elisha threw into the Jordan floated, but the ax head sank. F-y inexorable law it must go down into the depths cf the Jordan, yet without so much as a touch the hard, heavy metal sought the surface. There it is. the floating ax head. What a rebuke to those who reject miracles cn the ground that they are contrary to nature, ns tuough the law were stronger than the God who made the law! Again and again in Bible times was that law revoked! Witness the scene on the banks of the same Jor dan, where, in after time, the tix head sank and rose. Elijah stood there, wearing cape of sheepskin, when there was a mighty stir in the air and a flashing equipage descended. Elijah stepped into it, and on wheels of tire, drawn by horses of fire, he rose. Fifty men for three days searched the moun tains to see if the body of Elijah had not been dropped among the rocks and picked at by birds of prey, but the search was in vain. The law of gravi tation had been defeated. Wonder* ol Divine Power. There Christ stood by his disciples on the Mount of Olives after his com ing out of the sepulcher. No ladders let down for his ascension, but his feet lift from tin* hill, and he goes up until the curtain of cloud drops, and he is invisible. Law of gravitation again unharnessed. Enoch. Methuselah’s fa ther, escaping death, went up bodily and will have uo need of resurrection. So will all the good who shall be still alive at the end of the world. They will not need wings. Every one of the millions of our planet who loved and served the Lord, if then alive, will “be caught up.” as the Bible says, body as well us soul, the law of gravitation paralyzed. God mightier than any law he ever created. Oh, I like the mira cles because they show God indepeud- ent of everything. Notice also the divine power in the backwoods. Wonderful things were done at the cities of Jericho and Jeru salem and Babylon and Nineveh, and the great cities of our time have seen the divine power, but this miracle of my text was In the backwoods, far away from the city, in the lumber dis tricts. where the students had gone to cut timber for the new theological seminary. And if this sermon shall come, as it will come, like my other sermons for the list thirty years, with out missing a week, let me say to those far away from the house of God and iu the mountain districts that my text shows the divine power in the back- woods. The Lord by every stream as he certainly was by the Jordan, on ev ery mountain as surely ns he was on Mount Zion, on every lake as on Ti berias, by every rock us by the one whose gushing waters slaked the thirst of the marching Israelites. Do not feel lonely because your near est neighbor may be miles away, be cause the width of the continent may separate you from the place where your cradle was rocked and your father’s grave was dug. Wakened though you may be by lion’s roar or panther’s scream, God will help you, whether at the time the forc-st around you raves in the midnight hurricane or you suffer from something quite insignificant, like the loss of an nx head. Take your Bible out under the trees, If the weath er will permit, and after you have lis tened to the solo of a bird in the tree- tops or the long meter psalm of the thunder, read those words of the Bible, which must have been written out of doors: “The trees of the Lord are full of sap, the cedars of Lebanon which he hath planted, where the birds make their nests: as for the stork, the fir trees are her house. The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats and the rooks for the conies. Thou mukest darkness, and it is night, wherein nil the beasts of the forest do creep forth. The young lions roar after tho!r prey and seek their meat from God. The sun nrlseth. they gather themselves to gether and lay them down In their dens. Man goeth forth unto Ills work and to his labor until the evening. O Lord, bow manifold are thy works! In wis dom hast thou made them all. The tarth Is full of thy riches.” How do you like that sublime pastoral? Overcome Evil. • My subject also reminds us of the importance of keeping our chief imple ment for wot 1; In good order. I think that young theologicvi student on the banks of Jordan was to blame for not examining the ax before he lifted it that day against a tree. He could in a moment have found out whether tla- helve and the head were firmly fas tened. The simple fact was the ax was rot in good order or the strongest stroke that s' tit the edge Into the hard sycnuK re would not have left the Im plement headless. So God has given every one of us an ax with which to hew. L< t us keep It In p od order, having been sharpened by Bible study and strengthened I y prayer. The rea son we sometimes fall In our work Is because we have a dull nx or we do not know how aright to swing It. The head Is cot aright on the handle. At the time we want the most skill for work and perfect equilibrium we lose our head. We expend in useless ex citement the nervous energy that we ought to have employed in direct, straightforward work. Your nx may he a pen or a type or a yardstick or a scales or a tongue which in legislative hall or business circles or Sabbath class or pulpit is to speak for God and righteousness, tut the ax will not bo worth muedi until it has been sharp ened on the* grindstone of affliction. Go right through the world, and go right through all the past ages, and show me one man or woman who lias done anything for the world worth speaking of whose ax was not ground on the revolving wheel of mighty trou ble. It was not David, for lie was de throned and hounded by unfilial Ab salom. Surely it was rot Paul, for he was shipwrecked and whipped with thirty-nine stripes from rods of elm- wood on his way to beheadment. Sure ly it was not Abraham Lincoln, called by every vile name that human and satanic turpitude could invent and de picted by cartoonists with more mean ness than any other man ever suffered, on the way to meet a bullet crashing through his temples. Cod Does tlie Imponnilile. But I have come to the foot of the Alps, which we must climb before we can see the wide reach of my subject. See In all this theme how the impossi bilities may be turned into possibilities. That nx head was sunken in the mud diest river that could be found. The alarmed student of Elisha may know where it w< nt down and may dive for it and perhaps fetch it up, but can ti.e sunken ax head be lifted without a hand thrust deep into the mud at the bottom of the river? No; that is im possible. I admit, so far as human power is concerned, it is impossible, but with God all things are possible. Alter the tree branch was thrown upon the surface of Jordan “the iron did swim.” Some one asks me, “Did you ever see iron swim?” Yes, yes; many a time. I saw a soul hardened until nothing could make it harder. All styles of sin had plied that soul. It was petrified as to all fine feeling. It had been hardening for thirty’ years. It had gone into the deepest depths. It had been given up us lost. The fa ther had given it up. The mother, the last to do so, had given it up. But one day In answer to some prayer a branch of the disfoliaged tree of Calvary was thrown into the dark and sullen stream, and the sunken soul responded to its power and rose into the light, and, to the astonishment of the church and the world, “the iron did swim.” I have seen hundreds of cases like that. When the dying bandit on the cross beside Christ’s cross was converted. When Jerry McAuley, a ruffian gradu ate of Sing Sing prison, was changed into a great evangelist, so useful In reclamation of wandering men and wo men that the merchant princes of New York established for him the Water Street and Cremorne missions and mourned at his burial, amid the lamen tations of a city. When Newton, the blaspheming sailor, under the power of the truth was brought to Christ and became one of the mightiest preachers of the gospel that England ever saw. When John Bunyan. whose curses shocked even the profane of the fish market, was so changed in heart and life that he could write that wonder ful dream. “The Pilgrim’s Progress,” in such a way that uncounted thou sands have found through it the road from the “city of destruction” to the “celestial city’.” In all these cases I think iron was made to swim. I wor ship the God who can do the Impossi ble. Loit and Rentored. You have a wayward boy. Only God knows how you have cried over him. You have tried everything for his ref ormation. Where is Le now—in this city, in this country, or has he crossed the sea? “Oh,” you say, “I do not know where be is. He went away In the sulks and did not say where he was going.” You have about made up your mind that you will never hear from him again. Pretty hard pay he gives you for all your kindness and the nights you sat up with hirn when he was sick. Perhaps he struck you one day when you wore trying to per suade him to do better. How different was the feeling of that hard fist against your face from his little hand in infancy patting your cheek! Fa ther! Mother! That is an impossible that I would like to see God take hold of, the conversion of that boy, for be will never be anything but a boy to you, though you should live to see him fifty years of age. Did you say his heart is hard? How hard? Hurd as stone? “Yes," you say; “harder than that Hard as iron.” But here is a Ged who can lift the soul that has been deepest down. Here is a God who con raise a soul out of the black est depths of sin and wretchedness. Here is a God who ei.u make iron swim, the God of Elisha, the God of the young student that stood in dis may on the banks of the Jordan at the time of the lost ux bead. Lay hold of the Lord In a prayer that will take no denial Alas, there are Impossible** before thousands of people—cailrd to do work that It is Impossible for them to do, called to bear burdens that it is Im possible for them to bear, called to endure suffering that it is Intposs.ble for them to endure. Read all the gos pel promises, rally all your faith, and. while you will always be called to worship the God of hope, today, with all the concentered energies of my soul, I implore you to bow down and worship the God who can turn the impossibles into the possibles. It was no trivial purpose, but for grand and glorious uses I hove spoken to you today of the borrowed, the lost and the restored ox head. 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Charlotte.. 9 45 p 9 25 a 12 95m 8 10 a Lv Gastonia... 10 42 p 1 SUp 900a “ King's Mt.. 11 02p 1 53 p 9 18 a “ Blacksburg 11 25 p 10 SO a 2 17 p 9 3s a " Gaffney.... 11 42p 11 03 a 2 32p 9 53a •* Spor’burg. 12 20 a 11 40 a 3 15 p 10 30 a “ Greenville. “ Central.... 1 25a 12 40p 4 3Up 5 Sop 11 30 a 12 25p “ Seneca 2 28a 1 40 p 5 55 p 12 48 p * W'minster. 8 13 p 1 OBp “ Toccoa 3 ii a 2 23 p 7 4bb 1 33 0 Lv. Eiberton... 9 00a 2 Ln nil Q uu A Ar. Eiberton. 11 53 a 8 45p 0 45 p Lv. Mt. Airy... 7 28 p 1 57 p “ Cornelia... 3 40 a 7 32 p 2 OOp " Lula 4 Osa 8 08 p 8 08 p 2 20 p “ Gainesville 4 29 a 3 27 p 8 2Sp 2 45 p " Buford. 4 57 ft 9 OOp 8 18 P •• Norcross. 5 27 a 9 34 p 3 53 p Ar. Atlanta,ET 0 10 a 4 55n 10 15 p 4 35 p “ Atlanta,CT 5 10 a 3 55 p 9 15 p 8 35 p Between Lain and Athene. *20 minutes fordinner. Note: Trains Nos J2 and 33 are operated dally. Trains Nos 34. 35, 11. 12. 13, 14, 15 and hi are operated daily except Sunday. CONNECTIONS MADE l»Y SOltTBOUND TRAINS. At Marlon: No. 32 connects at Marlon with Southern Uytrain N'<>. 30 which arrives at Marion at s:2sa. ni„ from Chattanooga, Ashe ville and Intermediate points. At Blacksburg: No. 34 and No. 11 connect with Southern By train No. 30 which arrives at Blacksburg at 7:45 a. in., from Atlanta, Greenville, Spartanburg and intermediate points. At Yorkville: No. 34 connects with C .V N. \V. train No. 70 which leaves Yorkville at 10:4'a. m., for Gastonia. Lenoir and Inter- medkatl points. At Rock Hill: No’s 32 and it connect with Southern Ky train No. 75 which leaves Rock Iliil at 3:3o p. in., for Chester. Columbia and intermediate points. At Catawba Jet: X"o’> 52 and 34 connect with S .. 1* train No. 32 which passes Cu- tawb i .let at 7:5t p. in., for Monroe and inter mediate points. At. Lancaster: No'* 3! and 34 connect with L. & c. train No. P'» which leives Lancaster at 4:4,1 p. m., for Chester and intermediate points' At Camden with A. C. L. (N. W. of s. <’,) for Charleston, Sumter, l'ior< mje, 1) irllngton, WilniingU-n and intermediate uoluts. Train No. (is which leaves Camden at 4:15 p.m. CONN EC MONH MAPI: BV NORTH Hot’ Nl> TRAINS.- At Camden: WithA.C. L. (N. W. of S. C.) No. 71 frcm.Ch irlest a. Florence, Darlington. Wilmington and intormediute points, which arrive-at Camden at H :15 a. tn.; with South ern l.’v train No. 77 which arrives at Cumdi n at H :55 a. m. from Kingsville At Lane tster No. :.3 connects at Lane, ster with L. A c. train No. Itl for Chester and in termediate points. At Catawba Jet: No's .13 and 35 conneot With 8. A. L. train No 32. which leaves Ca tawba Jet at 7:54 p. m. for Monroe and Inter mediate points. At l-'oe'i HU1: No's 33 and 35 connect at. Uo(4. HIM with Southern Ky train No. 34. leuvin. :ok (I'll at *:2(! p. m„ for Charlotte and points north. A' Blacksburg: No. .Tlconneets with South ern Uy trains X'u 12 at 4:.is p. m.. No. at 7:0ft u. tn. and No 4n it 7:45 p. m. for points noi tin No's 33 and 35 connect; with Simt hern Ky train No 35, it uving Blacksburg at 11:25 p. nt.. for pointss<mth. At Marion: No il eonnects witb s uthern Ky train No. .,5. leaving M>-rion at l|:4<»p m , for Asia vllh-, ( liatt'Aiuxiga and intt-rritediuie points. Through cur service without change l*'- tween Marlon and Charleston on trains No's 32 and i t. E. H. SHAW. Gen. l':-ss Agl So. 11. Ex. Sun. No. 18. Daily. STATIONS. No. 13. Daily. Nall Ex. Sun. 8 15 p • 45p 9 04p _9 45p 3 15 p 8 45 p 4 02p 4 45 p Lv ..Lula Ar “ Maysville ” “ Harmony “ Ar. Athens .Lv 2 lop 1 45 p 1 28 p 12 45 p 7 Sop T 23 p 7 OOp 0 20 p Note close connection made at Lula with mam line train*. “A" a. m. * , P” p. m. "M” noon. “N" nlg-h*. Chesapeake Line Steamers In dally service between Norfolk and Baltimore. Nos. 37 and 3»—" Washington and Southwest em Limited.” Solid Pulman train, being com posed exclusively ot finest Pullman equipment of latest design, through between New York and Atlanta. Through Pullman sleeping cars between New York and New Orleans, via Washington, Atlanta aud Montgomery and al so be. ween New York and Memphis, via Wash* ingtou, Atlanta and Birmingham. Elegant Pullman Library observation cars between Ma con and New York. Gentlemen’s Hub cars between Atlanta New York. Dining cari serve all meals inroute. Pullman s eeping cars between Greensboro and Goldsboro. No coach serx-iee on tills train. These trains will stop at Gainesville, Lula, Toccoa. Seneca, Gall* ncy and B a -Itsburg only to tak- on and let off passengers for and from Washington and be yond aud for and from Greenville, Columbia and Spartanburg-Colnmbia lines. Nos. 3» and "Atlanta and New York press.” Local train between At.auta and Char lotte, connecting at Charlotte with trains of sumo numbers tor and from Washington, New York and the east, carrying through , aJlmaa sleeping cars between Cnr.rlotte anu New York, Charlotte and Blchmond and Norfolk. Leav ing Washington Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays a tourist sleeping car will be ojiera'ed on this tram through from Was rung ton to mt* Franoisey without change. C-inneorF.n at Grecu-boro with sleeper* for Raleigh. N* Pullman cars on this train between Atlanta and Charlotte. Ampb first and second class c<>iu-h accommaiUtiou* for local and througk travel. Nos. 85nnd9ft—‘‘United States Fns* Ma1i M ruai solid be! ween Washington aud N**'U.'teaa% via Southern Hallway, A. & W. p. R. R. and L- & N. K. K., being composed of ooacheA thrum h without change (or i asseugers of ok •lasses. Pullman drawing-r -om sleeping enri between New York and New Orleans, via A** lauta and Montgomery and between Bir* mingham an t Kielunond. Dining car* serve Oil meaiN en route. Nos. 11 and U-Solil local train betwosa Richmond and Atlanta. Close connsotlen at N< rfolk for Old Point Com roar. Especial attention Is called to above schedule particularly that Nos. #7 and 28 art mada *a sxrlusive Pullman train, without coach saw vice. FRANK S. GANNON, Third Vies Prss- * Gen Mgix t. H HARDWT K. W. H. TATLoit is. Faas. Aueut A. G, Ii A /-.x .raw