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<f ;w . ." /" '1 ' t \ ' I Note and Comment At a Berlin club there is a unique pair of curtains. This portiere is formfed of hundreds of champagne corks, laken from every known brand of champagne, each of which bears the tin top which adorned it when the cork was in its parent bottle. The corks; are made into strings, there being sixty of them to each string. Between eavy cork there are three big jSminese beads of turquoise blue. Altogether there are twenty-four strings. ? llr^e portiere represents a total expen.J . dlturex)f $5,000. The corks are tied to - & white .enamelled pole with fancy fends, and big sashes of blue ribbon adorn the brass knobs. The total effect is distinctly pretty. **** ' ' ^ *- ?? ? i ?? liie OCaa OCHi can mv.aja uc uioua gulshed by the sense of touch. JJrs.Winslow smoothing Syrup for children teething, soften the gums, reducestnfl&mmua tios.allays pain,cures wind colic. 2oc. a bottlYou can turn a crank down but be always turns up again. PITS permanently cured. No fits or nervousless afterdrst day's use of Dr. Kline's Great NerveRestorer.?2trial bottle and treatisefree Dr. R. H. Kline. Ltd.. f>31 Arch St., Phila., Pa. There are few things more brittle than reputations. Piso's Curo for Consumption is an infallible medicine for coughs and colds.?N. W. Samuel, Ocean Grove, N. J., Feb. 17, 1900. A horse can earn.* a pound on his back to an ounce on his foot. Street-sprinkling carts arc just connng Into use in the City of Mexico Ohio KnoTvs Tettcrine. W. C. McCal). Granville, 0.. writes: "Iflnd your Tetterinc to be a marvelously good ?? ?tin lUsMSM " .r,0c. a box from fcJUlU? IV* J.T. Shuptrine, Savannah, Ga.,if your druggist don't keep it. The Bog of Allen, the biggest in Ireiand, is in places seventeen feet deep. The strike in Sweden for suffrage reform in the way of universal suffrage has been a success. Only last week the industrial classes in Sweden began a strike in support of free voting. On Friday the ministry surrendered and ' promised compliance in 1904. The next day everybody was at work. There had '-'i been no disturbance, but the strikers succeeded in accomplishing their political reforms, and have been equally successful in Belgiuih. it brings the country face to face with the suspension of industries and a political cause had to be very strong to withstand that issue. Washington hotel s are said to be the only ones in this country that serve four regular meals every twenty-four hours?breakfast, luncheon, dinner and supper?the latter being served in some cases as late as midnight Gray Hair r"I have used Ayer's Hair Vigor * ...... T? V, lor over UJIIiy JCIO. 11 uao nvpi my scalp free from dandruff and has prevented my hair from turning gray."?Mrs. F. A. Soule, Billings, Mont. There is this peculiar thing about Ayer's Hair Vigor?it is a hair food, not a dye. Your hair does not suddenly turn black, look dead and lifeless. But gradually the old color comes back,?all the rich, dark color it used to have. The hair stops falling, too. j SI.M a Mtlc. All drauWs. If your druggist cannot supply you, end us one dollar and we will express 1 you a bottle. Be sure and >jive tbe name i of your nearest express office. Address, J. C. AYER CO., Lowell, Mass. 8 CURES jj S (APUDINEsfipp \ X m Cold*, CIC. * S Sold at all Drug Stores, j* ^BUIiiliSIIiitQAisisa **** Genuine stamped C C C. Never sold ic bulk, j Beware of the dealer who tries to sell "something jast as g-cod." So. 23. | { m m jl mi I was troubled with pains in ray back, dizziness and burning in ray stomach. I had no appetite, could not sleep. A sister of mine advised me to try Ripans Tabules. They have entirely cured me. I take one i every night and morning and they just keep me right and regular. i At druggists. The Five-Cent packet is enough for an j ordinary oocasion. The family bottle, 60 cents, contains a supply for a year. " . T-. . ') * / \ . w. A SUNDAY SERMON ! i DR.CDAPMANS REGULAR DISCOURSE I From Bethel to Bethel?A Period of i Thirty Years ? Where is Your \ Bethel? Kfw York City.?The Ttev. Dr. J. Wil | hur Chapman, the popular pastor-evangel- ^ ist. who is now preaching to overflowing ^ congregations in this city, has furnished oWtllOnt cerinon to the , press. It. was preached from the text I "Let ps arise anil go up to Bethel." Gene-1 f sis 3-i: 3. I doubt not you have frequentlv seen the j . sky when throughout a long day it hn? j been overcast with clouds, onlv now and ' then the sup would break forth but for a moment and then the curtain would be , drawn together once more and only the 1 clouds were to be seen. To me this is an illustration of the life of Jacob. The sun j! breaks through at Bethel, and while this seems to be a mixing of figures, for the j hour of the vision was in the night, yet the glory of heaven was upon liirn brighter than the shining of the sun. It pushes its way through at Peniel, once more appears in his pathetic love for Joseph, and later in his dignified appearance in the presence of Pharaoh, but for the most * part his was a life with a cloudy sky, and ' yet there are few stories more interesting. What Peter is to the New Testament Jacob is to the Old. The Bible would hardly be complete without the accounts of these two remarkable men. When we . read of the "Saviour of Peter" we are comforted, for we find ourselves saving, "If Jesus can save such a man as Peter, . transforming him from the fisherman to r the preacher, from the profane man to the . writer of Epistles, there is hone for even* one of us." We read about the "God of . Jacob" and are inspired, for there are few ^ of us to-day whose lives are so deceitful, whose characters are so questionable as Jacob's, and yet he became Israel the Prince. Is anything too hard for the . Lord? J From Bethel to Bethel is a good subject _ growing out of such a text. Thirty years * of time stretch out between the two experiences, and yet in these thirty years ^ Jacob passes through much that is beyond ^ ordinary interest, as, for example, his ex- t perlences with Laban. when he toiled four- t teen years for his beloved Baehel. tbc prosperity which came to him both bv fair _ ?? -J ^ sr i f V? fVlA means ann iuui. ms ...... ...... j angel at Jabbok's Ford, and his tarrving t at Shechem contrary to the command of s God. for in it all he was never satisfied. ^ for I hold it true that if one has once been y to Bethel nothing else can satisfy, ar.d if we have ever had a vision of heaven the ; earth ever afterward seems dull and unin- ^ teres! ing. After all this varied experience Jacob is at Bethel once again. It is not much in itself, just, a long range of hills running . ncrth and south, the eastern slope descending to the Jordan and the western n slope stretching away toward the more ' thickly populated part of the country. . Through the valley before us illustrous travelers in all the history of the Holy Land have made their journey, and up the _ rough mountain road people have climbed 5 with great delight. There is no house in sight and no animals are to be seen ex- , cepting now and then an eagle or a wild mountain goat, but to Jacob it was a ucred place. There the first night of nis flight from Esau he saw the ladder which linked earth to heaven, the ladder which . was thronged with angels performing their '' heavenly ministry, and he heard the voice , of God. There are some words we cannot speak without arousing the tenderest emotions and the holiest memories. Mother ' is such an one. I well remember preach- ' ing to a crowd of rough' miners in the mountains, holding their interest passably . well until I spoke this matchless name, * when all faces were softened and tears . tt i< were seen in many ryes, nume is auuwo r such word. You doubtless remember the . soldiers at Sebastopol, brave men who were ready to die, rtiany of whom did die, . bursting into tears as they heard the band of musicians playing "Home, Sweet , Home," and Bethel was such a word to Jacob. It stirred the best that was in him, and was the summons of God bidding his " better nature to arouse itself. r We have all of us had our Bethels. Some cf us are separated from them by the dreary lapse of time, and between those * happy days and our present unsatisfactory experience days, weeks, months and even H years stretch out, we say it to our shame. ' For some of us an active business life has separated us from Bethel, and yet this is Eositively unnecessary. "Not slothful in P usiness, fervent in spirit, serving the e Lord," and if there is anything in your ? business that dampens your spiritual ar- , dor. or blinds your vision of Christ, either " your business is wrong or you are wrong * yourself. With some a foreign residence lies be- . tween us and Bethel. Back in the old \ country we were most faithful and devoted to Christ and constantly serving the " church, but in this free land we have for- ? gotten our vows, we have made the fatal mistake of leaving God out of our calcula- ~ tions, and somehow seem to forget the words of the Psalmist, "If I take the wings T of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the earth and the sea Thou art w there." We might have been in fellowship i1 with God all these days if we would. \T Where was your Bethel? Perhaps in some little church where on a certain oc- J1 casion you forgot the minister and the one ' sitting by your side and had a vision of F glory, or in some home where poverty ^ abounded, but you were utterly unmindtui of it. The house was filled with heaven, T and down to every pillow was sent the ladder. up and down which angels of God made their way. Or it may have been in f1 some other ^nd where you had a vision . of God, and while we may not make the * journey back to these places in the flesh we can go back in thought and meet Him. Shall we not do so? As many as God . loves He reminds constantly of neglected ' duties, sometimes using conscience, some- ^ times His providences; to-day in the loss of , property He speaks, to-morrow in the de- p parture of health, again in the death of a friend. It would be a good thing if we ^ should stop and listen to His warning and jV then arise and go to Bethel. ^ hi Some preliminary steps. Befote we may w ever expect to go back to the place of w blessing it will be necessary for us to ob- w serve the instructions which Jacob gave t.to his household. B First, "Put away the strange gods," that tl is. literally, "the God of the strangers." ,T They have been living with the enemies of m God's people, and little by little the gods ft of these people had gotten possession of ri them. They were taken into their tents ai and then into their hearts, and they were h out of fellowship with God. Wherever ai there is a fungus growth in the forests u, there is corruption and decay, wherever p there is an idol in the heart there is a al \ resh indie&rtur n- weakness. and we canlot hide ou- idols they refuse to be hidlen. When "vc .eist expect-it there is a esurrection. What is an idol? It may be a very little lung. That which tends to usurp an unlue place in our affections, which gives us nore pleasure than the thought of God. is in idol. The thing in our life which makes is sacrifice nearness to God. which may lot neeessarilv be sinful, onlv questionable, s an idol. That which make us indiffer nt to spiritual advantages and indifferent o Bethel is an idol. Your reputation, our fortune, that unworthv friend upon vliom you lavish vour affection, these may >o idols, for *'no man can sen's two masers. for either he will hate the ore and ove the other, or will eleave to the one ind denart from the other." Therefore nit awa the strange gods, and if we really .-ant to he near to God how easv it will ic to find out the thine that hinders us. ind yet as a matter of fact who can rut iway his idols? I cannot. I am sure, hut here is a deliverance. Do you remember he stcry of David and Xathan. when Da id forgets that he is a king and a father nd sin?. and Xathan is the messenger of lod who comes to rebuke him with the ouehing story of the ewe lamb. When ~>avid acknowledges his sin Xathan immeliatelv responds. "The Lord also hath put way thy sin." and there is in this expresion a reference to the scapegoat of the )ld Testament on the dav of .Atonement, rhen the priest confessed the sins of the >eople, and the goat was represented as taggering away under the load of Israel's ins, down through the valley, up the nountain vonder until he is lost to sight, 1 nd then finally, according to tradition is >ushed over into the abyss where no man s. He can put away our sins on whom he Lord hath laid our iniquity. Second, be clean. This refers to inner leanness, which is only brought about by he indwelling of Christ. God puts away ?ur sins, it is true, when He forgives us, >ut it is one thing to be set right coneernng the guilt of sin and quite another thing o be set free from the pollution of sin. This econd privilege is ours when Christ comes n to dwell with us. We are very much fraid of the word "holiness," in preachng and teaching, yet we have as much of loliness as we have of Christ, no more or 10 less. Let us be clean in heart. This is >ossible bv the word of God which is leansing in its very touch. Let us be lean in what we say, making a covenant rith Christ to guard our lips, asking Him o keep our eyes. Let us not do the things hat will grieve the spirit, remembering hat God can onlv use that which is clean. Third, let us change our garments. This nust refer to the outward practices of our ife; in other words, our habits. What is he garment we are wearing to-day? Y7ith ome of us it is a robe of our own weaving, he robe of selfishness and pride, and mark ou this, where self comes into a life Christ masses out. There is another robe which re may wear to-day woven in the loom of leaven bearing the red mark of the blood f Christ. I traveled^ the other day with a missionry from Wisconsin, who told me how he lad reached a drunken man in the woods f Wisconsin, told him the story of Christ nd won him. and later haW the joy of reeiving tne man and the six members of lis household into the fellowship of the hurch. When Noah entered the ark his amily went with him. Let us arise and o up to Bethel. n. Results. In the 5th verse we read that he people were afraid of .Taeob and his ompany, for the terror of the Lord was ,pon them. Matthew Henry has said that rhen 3in was in Jacob's house he was fraid of his neighbors, but when the dols were put away his neighbors were fraid of him. When shall we learn the esson that we have power over men by he way of God.* The world does not fear worldly Christian, nor does the devil, nd we need expect no triumph over men ntil we have prevailed with God first. Second. God appeared and talked with acob. This we read in verses nine and en. Of course no man can see God as He 5 and live. Moses askec'l this of God and le said. "I will put thee in the cleft of ; he rock and cover thee with My hand rhile I pass bv," and he saw the glorv of - ? j tt:_ t?~ a.a he garments ot uoa ana m.? iatc um | hine, but we can see Christ, and when we ehold Him in His tenderness with little hildren and His ministering to the sick nd suffering everywhere we hear Him ay. 'He that hath seen Me hath seen My 'ather also." God still speaks to us; if re did but have our ears open we should nd Him sneaking in nature. I can rememer as a boy out in the country putting ly ears up against the telegraph pole and istening to what I was told was the rhjrr of the messages flashing from city to ity. and I used to wonder if it might be ossible for some one to hear what might ven then be passing through the air. and ow to-day we have accomplished this in he wireless telegraphy, and if we did but ave our ears open I am sure that with very rising sun, with every running tream. with every singing bird, with every hing in nature we should hear God speak, md He speaks to us in the Bible, but the ifficultv with us is that we have not lith. Tt has long been my desire to own i no of the large old-fashioned clocks used y onr forefathers, and recently it became 1 o==ible for me to pain possession of one. j he works are perfect, the nendulum is ( erfert, and the whole clock is a thine of t eantv. and T started it. but the nendulum onld swing for a moment and then etan, j nd I thought 1 had made a poor bargain 1 the purchase of my clock, but at last I iscovered there was a little catch be leans of which the nendulum was united > the works, and I started the clock once lore, and it is keeping perfect time. Hero i this Old Book truer than ever, if that ere possible, certainly more precious than rer. We have called it uninteresting: we ? ave let it alone when we might h ive been stening to its heaven born messages, "one tber than the voice of God. if we had but ad faith. God said to Jacob. "I am God lmighty." and that was enpugh for Him ) sav. "I will walk with thee.*' "If ('od e for us who can be against us?" Third, in this 35th chapter of Oenes's are >ur burials. There is the burial of the ui? Vmn'al rtf Deborah, the burial of ache) and the burial of Isaac. Tt is a lajpter of sorrow*, but what a difference ethel must hare made in the war that irrow was endured. I stood not lone ?o in the home of a man whose ehild was end. and I hca*d him say. although he ad once been a Christian, that he all but ated God, and I recall another experience here a woman with a breaking; heart ?ai 1 ith the tears flowing down her face that as shining. "The Lord {rare and He l ath > iken away." and she was dwelling at ethel. It is a beautiful thing to know lat over the body of Isaac. Esau and acob clasped hands and were united once lore. If are did but live at Bethel old dif rences would be put away, trying expeences would be easilv met. Com?, let us rise and go to Bethel. We have ill of us ad Bethel experiences, so let us go back ad prav as we used to r.ray, work as; we J sed to work and preach as we used to , reach, and the heavens will be opened \ bove ua. , J.H.WBDDIN< HflRDM 29 E. Trade Street -We are leaders in our business, an prepared to supply the requiremen We sell Syracuse Steel Beam Pic THE AMERICAN MONTHLY is commended by Statesmen, Prot others prominent in the world's i nation in sifting the actual news from co tation of current events in their just pro; freedom from daily-paper sensationalis want to know what the world is doing fit to judge from the letters received fron comprehensive, and labor saving to tl timely contributions on important top: writers. Its reviews of other magazin work. It is profusely illustrated. 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