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rr ^ "i?A? ? A SEEJiON, FOE SUNDAY A>J ELOQUENT DISCOURSE BY THE r REV. DONALD D. MacLAURIN. . Subject: Tlie Greatest Thing in the World ?The Distinguished Divine Dellvwn a Sermon Which is as Scholarly anil Readable as Any of Recent Years. New Yor.:: City.?Dr. Donald D. MacLaurin, of Rochester. oreaehed Sunday morning in St. John's M. E. Church to a large audience. His sennon was the first in a scries on "The Greatest Thing in the World." Dr. MacDaurin said: I have most earnestly sought to bring jrou on successive Sundavs tne best ministry I have yet been able to give you. that your lives may be broadened and deepened and lifted lyi into higher realms of sniritual achievement; and I could find no theme of greater value, as I saw it, than that which is suggested by tiie chapter which I read to you, the thirteenth chapter of PauS's first epistle of the church at Corinth. And so for eight weeks, we shall have our texts from this chapter: ar.d this morning you will find our text in the first verse of the first chapter of First Corinthians: "it 1 speak with the tongues of men and angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal." Nor must we not think that we shall become tired of this wonderful theme. Did you ever know any one to become weary of a diamond? Among the gems of the Lord Ood is found this chapter, and though I do not profess to be a skillful lapidary to bring out its flashing facets. I think, with the aid of the divine spirit, we shall find in each sen ice something fresh and helpful and new. This chapter has been in aM ages of the church especially admired: would that it had received in all the ages of Christian historv that more practical and valuable appreciation which wouid have been ex penenceu oy a practice ui u> puuvuura and an acceptance of its precepts. Tertullian said: "It is uttered with ell the force of the spirit," and the (treat thinker is ri?ht. As 1 have pondered it for several years with ever growing interest. 1 have come to feel that, indeed, mortal faculty could never have written it. It never could have sprung from the braiu or heart of even so great a man as Paul, unless heaven had given him the inspiration. It is. dear friends, an utterance of heaven, through Paul, a servant of God, to the sons of men. It is a glorious hymn or pean in honor .of Christian iove, sung, as we have intimated, by the Apostle Paul when soaring up on the wings o? inspiration into the very heights of Christian eloquence. Like the Forty-fifth Psalm, it mav be fittingly called the "Psalm of Love:" and not infrequently your speaker will so designate it in these Sunday morning services. It has the form of poetry; it has the inspiration of poetry; it has the coloring of the finest poetry. And if you could read it in the Greek yon would catch the fullness of its imagery, as it is impossible for you to do in the best English version. It seems profanation to attempt its exposition. It seems like analyzing a rose or dissecting a nightingale to take the>e principles apart one from another for the necessary analysis in the nrogress of our work. But it is so fnll of the verv heart of the gospel message that we would be cowardly were we not to attempt tne exposition. The" position of the psalm in the hook in which it is found heightens its effect. You find it in the midst of lengthy argument. It reminds us very much of an oasis of towering palm trees and springing flowers and running brooks in the midst of a desert of sand. On either side is argument, is tumult: and right in the midst of all bursts forth his sublime song. It is very much 'ike the song of the sweetvoiced school children in the midst of their hard work and the babel of their games. Or. retter. like the very sound of the song of heaven's choir in the pit of Wall Street on a panicky day. Uc <v.n easily imagine the deepening hu=h that must have fa'lcu on the Corinthian church a, they read this chapter, and we ran imagine, too. the consternation produced in the minus of those Christians as they discovered one after another their favorite gifts or favorite possessions swept away by^, the great teacher. For Paul here shows that love is the one essential of Christian life. Love did you say? Love! that soft sentiment that hard-headed men say belongs to wor-en and children. Do you mean to sav that this is the spirit of V:- l 4 I",-. : ....?tV. lli? imigiiugc. mui j.-. invinc... not apostle formulated. He affirms most explicitly the absolute worth'.cssness oi life without love. Love at the beginning of it; love at the end of it; love filling the whole anace between. Love at the end is not the same as love at the beginning. It is richer, grander, nobler, diviner. But without the first love the other could never be. The blossom and the fruitage bespeak the rootage, and the seed and the flower and the tree. And unless you have the first love?love for Clod?in your heart, the love that shall engage our attention on Sunday mornings will be a stranger to your experience. "If T speak with tne tongues of men and angels, but have not love. I am become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal." It would seem as if all the Corinthian church were eloquent speakers, or at least were eloquent hearers; and let me say that eloquent hearers are as essential as eloauent speech. The Corinthian Christians were distinguished for their gifts in this direction; and so the apostle, knowing it, knowing them right well, for he was their father in the gospel, he supposes them capable of speaking in every tongue that rose from the lips of men or angels. That were thev to have all and were destitute of love they were nothing but sounding brass or clanging cymbals. How hard this must have been on those people who cherished eloquence as more easy to imagine than to describe, for they placed great store by their gift of tongues and their eloquence of speech. And do you know we arc often placing the .emphasis at their wrong place. We are often guilty of that characteristic folly. These Corinthians were often putting the emphasis where the empbais should not be. What Paul affirms and what the Gospel affirms over and over again is that it is not speech, that, it is not doing but being, that God regards. Being is finer than doing; finer than saving; finer than anv expression ?2_ ;ui_ t lr waica u IH pos.MUJe 1U1 it IU iuakc UI a>ni. So it is not speech but reality that God looks for and the church waits for. and the world is hungry for in you and in me. Now. let us consider, if you please, in the first place, wherein love is superior to the most eloquent speech. "If I speak with the tongues of men and angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal." What is Christian love? It is more easily described than defined. That is precisely what the apostle has done in this great Psalm of love.. He nowhere oefines it. He simply describes it, giving eonie fifteen characteristics of it. Indeed, I do not know where love is defined in the entire Bible, nor do I know a definition for it. You have heard the story of the teacher of psychology, who upon receiving a new class at the beginning of the term, instead of giving them a lecture, he asked one of the members of the class to define the human soul: and the young man rose and said: "The human oul is that faculty that thinks and feels and determine;" another member of the claas added that the soul is immaterial. And then he said, will you tell me what the soul is not; and the young man had the sense to say, "I do not know:" and the great professor, whose familiarity with the subject is felt throughout the continent, replied. "Nor more do I." And I fancy that the first theologian in the world, were he asked to define love, and if he was honest and candid as the teacher of psychology he would say, "No more do I." That which comes nearest to being a de finition of love is the summary of the di- ; vine law of the Old Testament and the < New. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God i with all thv heart and with all thy mind I and v.ith all thy strength, and thy neigh- j bor as thyself. But ti.is is not a defini- ; ion of love; nor would it apply, cspeci- j ally the former part of it to the love under 1 consideration now. It is not the reverent ' love of the heart to God, but it is that i i mysterious bond that unites men, the one i A !??.? Aviefo Kof U'POB 1 to tne unicr. tun; iuuv >ai^>vo people of a common spiritual experience. ; It is as Dr. Dodds well says: "The lign- ! ment by which the bouy cf Jesus Christ . is bound together. It is the cement by 1 which the stones in the temple are united 1 into one. That is as near a definition as ; you will be able to get from any known writing. It has Christianity in it. And t so we sing, and we sing it heartily: "Blessed be the tie that binds our hearts ( in (. hristian love. 1 The fellowship of kindred minds is like to J that above." But though we may not be able to de fine this Christian love, we know it when J we see it, when we hear it. and we know ' how it appears in the eurth. We know 1 that love seeks with total sclf-forgetfulness the happiness of the object loved. ! and so long as we know what it does and how it behaves itself in the social fabric. ' we ought to be quite content. And 1 want ! you to notice at this point wherein If is superior to the most eloquent speech. Eloquent speech may mean self rdvertise- I ment. Love always means self efiacement. "The gift in question." says the brilliant ( Drummond, in his book entitled "The { Greatest Thing in the World," and which , I commend to you to read, "was once splendid and dazzling. It was a brilliant ( faculty drawing all eves to the speaker 1 and all ears to his voice.' It is the?gift of eloquence by which a maa sways the . mind and thrills the hearts of his hearers. : Now you can see how a man without love. possessing such a power, gives to himself advertisement, and the fact is that some of the most brilliant orators of fame, and j among them occupants of pulpits, are so : fond of themselves ana glory so mucn m , their eloquence, that they forget the other . elements that go to make up a manly Christian character. And I want to say to you that the man possessing that eloquence . is in constant danger. The attraction 1 which he has for the people always tends j to centre his mind upon himself: and by and by he gets to be greater if he is not J aware, than the Master Himself whom he professes to serve and represent. Love, on the other hand, is self-efface- ' ment. lx>ve goes forth in beneficent ministry. alleviating the wounds of broken J lives all around. In perfect harmony , with this thought is the teaching of the J Master Himself. You remember that * marvelous sermon in the mountain, in * which He says: "Even so, let your light . shine before men that they shall see your good works arid may glorify your Father 1 in heaven." The word '"so" k to be em- J phasized ?s indicating the manner of the shining. Light may be held eo close to \ the eyes as to dazzle the eyes; light may 'J be held so close before the eyes of the J world rs to dazzle the eyes of the world. J You are not to see the shining one. but , you are to sec the fruits, the results of the shining. This is the way with the old J sun itself. You look out upon the lawns in the parks and the country side, and 1 ? have never seen the parks more beautiful 1 tiian when I visited them soon after my ( arrival in this c-ity a few days ago. You 1 look out upon the grass and the growing . grains and the vegetation and the Howers ! and you feast your eyes on the beauty and the wealth of the earth's surface; and you begin to say, whence came all this; who is the worker: who produced all this; and you undertake to look up at the sun shin- < ir.g yonder in the zenith of the heavens. < And the old sun, for your terinerity, will j dart his red hot fire into your eyes and t will leave a mart upon you iriai you win not forget for many a day. Do not look at me; look at the grass; iook at the growing grain; look at the trees?look at the work, not at the worker. So with God Himself. No man has seen God at any time; we see Him only in Jesus Christ. No man has seen God the eternal, at any time; but we count the stars that bejem the dome^bovc us, when the great daylight is gone, and the more we study them the more are we thrown back on the teaching of Our childhood, when we learned to sing: "Twinkle, twinkle, little star, how I wonder what you are, up above the world so high like a diamond in the sky." You see the stars aud the glory of them transj>ort3 your wondering soul, but you do not see Him who made cud keeps the stars. If God is invisible in Himself, He is not invisible in His ministry. You and I, beloved, who have been born anew, are sons and daughters of God. and we please Him most when iike Him. we efface ourselves and are seen only in the beneficent ministry of our lives, in our homes, in our communities, ia our churches, in our city, in the world. Then under this first point, we say again that love is of greater value to the enurch and to the world than the most eloquent speech. Now I may not say that eloquence is not valuable. N~o one of us would refuse it if 1 proffered to us. I mav not say?neither f would Paul say?that eloquence, even the < gift of tongues, was anything to be de- 7 spised. Jn the apostolic age it served 10 a attract the attention of men to the divine manifestations among the eons of men; and ; it was greatly coveted because of this . force resident in it. But 1 want you to j notice that only a few people can be elo- j quent and the great majority of us in regard to speech will have to exhibit reality rather than eloquence in speech, and serve our generation in the most practical manner available to us. Now i might estab- 1 lish this point by argument and by declam- ! ation. but I prefer to give you a few illus- J trations, to fasten what I mean in your mind. J A woman over here in New York City, j some years ago, came to the City Mission , Society and sought the secretary. "1 . would like to do something for God. I am not eloquent in speech, but I think I \ could distribute tracts among the poor . and needy. Give me a suitable supply and j I will render this service to my Lord." ( She was supplied abundantly. On going } down the street she saw a policeman tak- j ing a poor woman to the station; she j went to the station house and there ^ learned the facts in the woman's case and f when the woman was to be discharged. a When she came out she was met by this Eood woman, who threw her arms around j. er neck and kissed her; and the woman said: "My God! Why did you do that? ( No one has kissed me s'ince my mother , died: why did you do that?" And the humble Christian woman said: "I do not know, unless it was Jesu3 sent me to do it." Without going into further detail. . let mc say that that life was redeemed by ' the kiss of that Christian woman, whose ( heart was full of love for her kind. This { is the kind I mean. Nb eloquent preach- J ing from the most brilliant preacher that yon have ever, had in the city could have ' reached that life as"did that kiss. That * reminded her of her departed mother. A poor young girl was dying in the city of j Paris and on seeing a Christian woman ? who was a stranger to her, said to her: 1 "You know 1 hate you Christians. You { have nothing to give but good advice. ' You build tine institutions for us when we have fallen, but you do nothing for U3 to keep \3 from being thrown into the 1 path of temptation." And no one but J that good woman, acting with Miss Hunt ! in her "beneficent work > a the gay city of J Paris, understood the eying energy with 1 which she uttered those words. l5y and f bv this woman won her into the kingdom o? God. and just before she died said to the Christian woman, who represented for the first time Christianity unto her: "Let c me die on something that is yours. Won't 1 you let me put my head on your pillowt li I would like to die with my head on such a li pillow as your pure head has rested on." It * was granted. That is what I mean. That is v the ministry that is open to love. Over v . onder in the city of Detroit, a reporter j | ailed a iir tie bootbhack in the street to aoiish his boots. The little fellow came, I ant as he pot out his brush and was 1 ibout to begin a big, brusk fellow came ilong and sail: "You go awav, Jimmy; rou go away. I will do this." And tiie j reporter became inuigrant a: *' mid: i *\\'hat do ycu mean by this?" "0, that ' s all right, boss. Do you know that Jim- < my has been sick :i the hospital for more than a month r.nd he is not very strong ind we boys when we r.re not doing any:hing turn in and help hiin. Is that right. Jimmy?" "Yes. that's rignt.' And so j >e said: "All right, po ahead;" and as the , jov was plving his brush and his cloth, md while lie was so doing the reporter ' 'ied hirn with questions: "What per cent. | if what you earn do you give to Jimmy?" j 'Eh?" "What per cent, of what you earn . lo you give to Jimmy?" "I don't know vhat you mean." "How much of the money that you receive do you keep and 1 low much do you give to Jitntny?" "Do | rou think I am a sr.icak? I give all of it o him. nnd so do all the hoys: we don't ;eep any of it." ^ So when he finished the I eporter said: "You are a pretty good felow; liere is a quarter, and you keep ten ents and give fifteen cents to Jimmv." . 'No. you don't." and he gave the quarter ;o Jimmy. That was diviner, that was < jobler far than the grandest e'.oquenge hat Brooklyn ever heard. Now notice in the s*rond place, and I >vill make this point brief, the comparison w which Paul sets forth the superiority >f love to eloquence. lie says. If I speak vith the tonguei of men and angels, hut lave not love, I am become as sounding mass as a clanging cymbal. The gift withnit the grace is likened to the sounding >f brass, to the clashing of cymbals of monze. A great i;;a?v preachers boast hemselves of theiv cundness, sound in heir theology?and I an not saying nnyhing against soundness in theology. And >ne is sometimes tempted to ray. Sound, res. that is what it is, but it is without a ninistry and without meaning for a huncry world. A clanging cymbal?noi>e, eonusion, but no ministry, never helpful or a weary, hungry world. Let us ie something more than jungiing roiees, clanging noises. Let us have eality, genuineness of heart, genuneness of love, genuineness of relirion; that is what tells. That is what he world wants. That is what it is lookng for. That is what Cod is begging or. I read a story some months ago in me of your newspapers: Two men who ind met to talk on the corner of a street. iVhilc they were talking a hand organ heran to grind oat its dismal music. One of he men said, let us go on and get away mm that wretched stuff. And the other 'aid, now. I will not let you talk like that ibout that music. Why. do you know hat that was "i?cc the Conquering Hero Homes." composed by the great Handel, \nd his friend said: "I want you to come vith me to a Handel festival. So a month ater. he invited his friend to the concert, tnd so when the livciv choruses were sung md the great symphony went on, this riend of his became enraptured. And he mid: "Isn't thai glorious, isn't that beautiful?" "Yes," said his friend, "do you enow what it is? It is 'See the Conquerng Hero Comes.' It is what you heard on he organ." Let love eonquer your hearts ind the world will make way for your comnr. and we shall startle the world by the irigina'ity of our unseliishness. "If I :peak with th" tongrea of men and angels, rut have not love, I am become as soundng brass or a clanging cymbal." Let us \avc love. Resisting; I'oiriT. When * physician is called to a case >f severe sickness, the first thing that he 'stimates is the resisting power of the jatient. The chances for his recovery are 11 proportion to his vitality. If there be ittle of that at the outset there is small lope of overcoming the disease. The resisfng power of persons in lull health :s such hat in an epidemic they tiirow off the lisease ^crnis that prostrate others. One .annot always tell from appearances just mw much ability one ha* to withstand he inroads ot a malady. Some who ai>larentlv arc robust almost immediately 'uctnimb, while others who look frail reover from violent attacks. Of course dissipation, unhygienic living, unhealthful sur oundings, sup one's resisting power, so liat when a virulent ailment makes an ittael; one has strength insufficient to hgiit t off. Yon see that it is not so much tilt ! Malignancy of the disease as it is the vitaltv of the man that dctet mines the result, fust so it is a'so in the moral world; says lYellspring. There are some persons livng lives so upright, so spiritually healthy, hat they are practically immune from ;cmpt.uion. And when they are over ome, they soon recover themselves, for heir pov.tr of resistance is great. On the >ther hand, there are those who after suc".mihing to one temptation are completely iwc-pt away by the power of evil. How can hat be accounted for'.' Obviously in the :ame way that the ability to resist phvsial disease is to be explained. There has iccr. unwholesome moral living; the mind las been permitted to become familiar with wil thoughts; the soul has breathed in niasma and corruption, until one has no ibility to put away temptation. All this suggests the need of resisting lower both against disease and against ?<in. \ pure, elean. wholesome life, physical md moral, will make one secure against tny harm that either can do. Our Worst Enemy. Dr. Theodore L. Cuyier, in estimating t hat lie deems to be our worst enemy in his life, says: "Dangerous a9 the devil s, dangerous as worldly amusements are, he most dangerous enemy that we often lave to encounter walks in our own shoes, rhat cunning, a.'tful, smooth-tongued ] teart-devil, self, is the foe that needs the ltost constant watching and subjects u? to he worse defeats. 'The flesh lusteth igainst the Spirit, and the Spirit against he flesh, and these are contrary the one o the other.' Paul had a tremendous nlnnor thpco linpc hpntinor Hmvn his :arnal nature by hard blows, and the old lero was able at the last to shout, 'I have ought a good tight; henceforth there is aid up for me a crown of righteousness!' iVhoever has, bv God's help, laid his deares, his plans, his purposes, his property, ind. above all, his own will at the feet of iesus Christ, is already one of the over- , omers. He already begins to wear clean , aiment, and the omniscient eve of God liscerns on his brow the first flashings of he victor's crown!" I Discipline the Appetite. Archdeacon Govett, of Gibraltar, in a etter to the public upon the consumption )f alcohol in the British army, points out i hat despite the strong evidence adduced jy Lord Napier and Lord Wolseley as to he criminal effects of alcohol in the army nearly ninety per cent, of the crime being 1 ittributed to it), and despite the evidence f statistics, science and experience, the . ads of both the army and navy of Britain , ire daily dosed with intoxicants. The narine. at the age of twenty, is served i iverv day with his tot of rum, and cheap Irinking canteens are regimental instituions. Until these customs, supported by ] ligh authority, are destroyed," says Mr. . 3ovett, "we shall have the shameful vices i vhich send men to hospital or prison lourishing both in the army and navy. iVhat is the use of discipline for the body, f there is no discipline applied to the [ ippetite ?" Kon Wllh Patience. ' It is not talent or genius that enables ine to succeed 60 much as perseverance. Ve win not by the sudden spurt, but by I ;eepine persistently at it. One may tire limse'.f more by running a mile than by valking five. If we must run, let us run f vith patience the race that is set before t is.?United Presbyterian. HI8 EAD-COLORED V/KISKERS. j It Was a Gccd Joke, but They Picked Cut the Wrong Man. "A Iittlo joke happened at the turn iack there Ian year," raid the stage . irivcr as he highway made a half |j circle to the west. "What scrt of a joke?" caked the j ran en the seat beside him. 1 "Wall, among the passengers to J start from Hill Top or.c mawnin' was ] i red-whiskered man who wa3 great j 3n the blow. He said he'd almost ] give $100 to have the stage stopped, ] and that he wasn't afraid cf no forty | road agents rolled into cnc. ] "This gave the beys an idea, and it j was put up that Joo Harper should j be at that turn and purtend to hold | us up and see red whiskers go down J Into his butcs." j "And did it come off?" "It did. When we reached the turn ! [ slowed up a leetle and Joe jumped | I out and yelled fur hands up. I pulled ! up the hesses and he hollered fur the ' ! passengers to git down. Lord, how i Joe hollered! You could have heard | him two miles away. Everybody got ! down and the passengers in the joke ! purtended to be half-skcert to death." J "But how about red-whiskers?" ! "Fur about a minit or two he 'pear-1 \ od to be ready to collapse, but then J he pulled himself together and it was ! bad fur poor Joe Harper. He had \ a gun in both hands and he opened fire J and shot to kill. j "I don't know how many buUets he J shot into Joe, but it wasn't less'n six, J and then he put in half an hour to J see if any more robbers was on J hand." J "Then the joke was not a success?" | "Not skassly, sah?not skassly. Joe ' Harper is lyin' in his grave back thar, while tho rcd-whlskercd nian wa3 so mad about the put up job that he drlv all the passengers out of tho stage and made them walk fifteen miles." "I'm a great hand fur a joke, sah. but I ain't jokin' no more?not with rcd-whiskored men. They may be great hands to brag, but they also J is loaded fur b'ar." What Shakespeare Meant. She laid the book aside and pressed ! her hand to her forehead. "What's the matter?" he asked J tenderly. "I've been reading an annotated edi. tion of Shakespeare," she replied wearily. "Wonderful man." he commented. "Wonderful." she exclaimed. "I , shonM nay he was more than that. ' We're taken up his works lu our literary society." , "Some of the passages are very , subtle," he remarked. "There's a world of ihovght back of them." "I should think there was!" she oxclaimed. "I've been studying one of those passages. I began with 'Hamlet.' and I've read all of one act, including the notes. I've also read two essays on it. three reviews and three criticisms of the play as produced." "Ten must un-ierstana it preiiy muioughly," he said. She shook her head despondently. "A careful and painstaking study of j fhe one passage to which I have given I the most attention." she explained, "convinces me th?t Shakespeare meant?let me see! one annotated edi. tion. two essays, three reviews and three criticisms?nine altogether. 1 find that he m3ant nine separate and i distinct things by it. and I've bcei; wondering how many things he had in mind when he wrote any one sent- , <r> the play." She stopped, passed her nand over her forehead and said: "George, what did he mean?" "Perhaps," he replied, thoughtfully, "he meant just what ue wrote. It's a bare possibility, you know, although people do not seem disposed to concede It."?Brooklyn Eagle. The Chinese and Stoiie Floor*. In China the dining rooms are usually floored with tiles or stone slabs, j This Is because the household animals dogs and cats, are allowed to remain in the room at meal time to receive whatever food the diners do cot wiah. V?.. U?A A I uu cauuui tivc uj nuuiu^t o ? rience. 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Address Sterling Remedy Comon I Littleton Fen H One of the mast prosperous est > standard of scholarship, located at? y and with a large patronage from ft Jersey to Florida?an Institution th; / We will take a limited number c a Board and Full Literar A per term on conditions maae kdowd V REV. J. n. RHODE* CLAREMONj ^ C?UrW ' NTELLIGENCE, FIDELITY Are controlling principles with Faculty and ci school, Waynesboro, Virginia, and ht the South, Wilte for catalogue. J a TIES WITH NERVES UNST1 THAT A \i7icr \i BROMO-S TA1 TRIAL BOTTL1 K Cl Dropsy I; jSBfK jr Remove* all swelling in Stoao *j I days; effect* a permanent cure O A in 30 to 60 days. Trial treatment ? given free. Nothingcan be fairer . Write Or. N. H. Graan'i Sooa. Ii > IMir SMCtaUata. B?x B. Atlanta. 8a. * \ ' : I SOUTH CAROLINA 5 i Pe-ru-na Stomach Trouble latarrh of ths Stonic'i is Gsnaralty Called Dyspepsia-Swathing to Produce Artfbial Digestion is Generally Taken. ???? t<?nro. PfnVn. PanrraaHn and a Hast ? "1 oi Other Digestive Remedies Have Been Invented. "hese Remedies Do Not Reich titt Seat of the Diffic iltv, Which is Really Catarrh. EX. U. S. Senator M. C. Butler, from South Carolina, was Senator from that itate for two terma. In a recent letter to The Peruna Medicine Co., from Washing on, D. C., aaya: tll can recommend Peruna for lyapeynla. and stomach trouble, I % iave*been using your medlclrle for i short period an 11 feel very much "slleved. It la Indeed a wonderful red I cine besides a good tonic. ?'? \ tf. C. Butler. ' The only rational war to cure dyspepsia s to remove the catarrh. Peruna cures catarrh. Peruna docs not produce artiticial tigeetion. It cures catarrh and leaves tho itomach to perform digestion in a natural way. This is vastly better and safer than resorting to artificial methods. Peruna has cured more cases of dvspep>ia than all other remedies combined, sim)ly because it cures catarrh wherever located. If catjrrh is located in the head. ; Peruna cures it. If catarrh has fastened itself in the throat or bronchial tubes, Peruna cures it. When catarrh becomes set- * tied in the stomach, Peruna cures it, ma , tvell in this location oa in any other. Peruna is not simply a remedy for drapepsia. Peruna is a catarrh remedy. Peruna cures dyspepsia because it is generiliy dependent upon catarrh. REPEATING SHOTGUNS 1 ;-Dpwn Repeating Shotgun, with full choked barrel, suitable for sK ng, and an extra interchangeable binder bore barrel, for field shoot* BB (42.00. Dealers sell them for ffl serviceable all round gun within H y's pocket book. Winchester B and outlast the most expensive and are just as reHable besides. B rKE BOWELS 4 J ifinifc* CANDY 4 < I CATHARTIC i ?pr>md:citis, bfllouaoeaa, tad breath, bad , >ul mouth, headache, iadifeatioo, plmplea, d diirlneaa. When your bowels don't move : people than all other diseases t of ether. It ing. No matter what ails jroa, ttart taking II and atay well until you get your bowels today under absolute guarantee to euro or 1 C C C. Never aold in bulk. Sampfts aa4 I iny, Chicago or New York. 5?? ? ;? nale College I iooIs In the 5outh, with a high H i very popular Summer Resort, K five states, extending from New y >t is doing a great work. H f pupils, including K y Tuition for $52.90 & i on appiicauon 10 a 5, A. fl., Pres., Littleton. N. C. 3T FcollegeT JT.SSS. HICKORY, N. C. resort. Pare mountain air and water, life, under leflnlog influenem of study. Ratee most reasonable. Conservatory, J H. Norman Maa. > Boe, and LeioeUr, Qer.l Write for A. J. BOLIN, A. n., President. , Enthusiasm, Courtesy, ideUof the FIRHBl'UNBniLITAKT ive made tor it ? reputation throughout 1. F1HHBVBNE, A. B., Principal. * RUNG AND HEADS lCHE OMEN iF.ETZER IE I 10 CENTS J 8a 83. ATLANTA COLLEGE OF PHARMACY. Free Dispensary, only college In the U. 9. oprating a drug atore. Demand for graduate* * v renter than we can supply. Address DR. EO. F. PATNK, Whitehall, Atlanta, Ga. . * tsQB ?1 ?i?m IZkViflS Thtmpstn't Eyi Vafir .'Ij .. ' -SSB , . ;S: