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DAUGHTER OF THE SHEIK.
TALMAGE PREACHES ON A TEXT
TAKEN FROM EXODUS.
Opens With a Story of the Pluck of
Moses in Routing the Shepherds
"Who Had Driven the Seven Daugh
ter* of the Midianite Priest From
a Well—The Lessons Taught by the
Text Expounded.
Washington, May B.—From a rustic
Bible scene, Dr. Talmage, in this sermon,
draws practical and inspiring lessons for
all classes of people. The text is Exodus
8:1: “Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro,
his father-in-law, the priest of Midian.”
In the southeastern part of Arabia a
man is sitting by a well. It is an arid
country, and water is scarce, so that a
Avell is of great value, and flocks and
herds are driven vast distances to have
their thirst slaked. Jethro, a Midianite
eheik and priest, was so fortunate as to
have seven daughters; and they are prac
tical girls, and yonder they come driving
the sheep and cattle and camels of their
father to the watering. They lower the
buckets and then pull them up, the water
plashing on the stones and chilling their
feet, and the troughs are filled. Who is
that man out there sitting unconcerned
and looking on? Why does he not come
and help the women in this hard work of
drawing water? But no sooner have the
dry lips and panting nostrils of the flocks
begun to cool a little in the brimming
trough of the well, than some rough Be
douin shepherds break in upon the scene,
and with clubs and shouts drive back the
animals that were drinking, and affright
those girls until they fly in retreat, and
the flocks of these ill-mannered Hhepherds
are driven to the troughs, taking tha
places of the other flocks. Now the man
sitting by the well begins to color up, and
his eyes flashes with indignation, and all
the gallantry of his nature is aroused. It
is Moses, who naturally had a quick tem
per anyhow, as he demonstrated on one
occasion when he saw an Egyptian op
pressing an Israelite and gave the Egypt
ian a sudden clip and buried him in the
sand, and as he showed afterwards when
he broke all the Ten Commandments at
once by shattering the two granite slabs
orr which the law was written. But the
injustice of this treatment of the seven
girls sets him on fire with wrath, and he
takes this shepherd by the throat and
pushes back another shepherd till he
falls over the trough, and aims a stunning
blow between the eyes of another, as he
Cries, "Begone, you vllllans!” and he
hoots and roars at the sheep and cattle
and camels of these invaders and driven
them back; and having cleared the place of
the desperadoes, he told the seven girls
of this, Midianite sheik to gather their
flocks together and bring them again to
the watering.
O, you ought to see a tight between the
shepherds at a well in the Orient as I
Saw It in December, 1800. There were here,
a group of rough men who had driven the
cattle many miles, and here another group
who had driven their cattle as many miles.
Who should have precedence? Such
clashing of buckets! Such hooking of
horns! Such kicking of hoofs! Such ve
hemence in a language I fortunately could
not understand! Now the sheep with a
peculiar mark across their woolly backs
were nt the trough, and now the sheep of
another mark. It was one of the most ex-
Aiitlng scenes I ever witnessed. An old
book describe* one of these contentions
at an Eastern well when it says: "One
day the poor men, the widows and the
orphans met together and were driving
their camels and their flocks to drink, and
were all standing by the water-side. Daji
came up and stopped them all, and took
possession of the water for his master’s
cattle. Just then an old woman belong
ing to the tribe of Ab* camo up and ac
costed him in a suppliant manner saying,
‘Be so good. Master Daji, as to let my
cattle drink. They are all the property I
possess anti I live by their milk. Pity
my flock, have compassion on nae. Grant
my request and let them drink.’ Then
came another old woman and addressed
him: *O, Master Daji. lam a poor, weak
old woman as you see. Time has dealt
hardly with me. It has aimed its arrows
at me. anti Us daily and nigialy calamities
have destroyed all my men.! I have lost
my children tint) my husband, and since
then I have Iwcn in great distress. These
sheep are all that 1 possess. Let them
drink, for 1 live on the milk that they pro
duce. Pity my forlorn state. I have no
one to tend them. Therefore grant my sup
plication and of thy kindness let them
drink,* But In this cast* the brutal slave,
so far from granting this humble request,
smote the woman to the ground.”
A like scrimmage has taken place at
the well in the triangle of Arabia between
the Bedouin shepherds and jMoses cham
pioning the cause of tire seven daughters
who hnd driven their father’s flocks to the
watering. One of these girls, Zlpporah,
her name meaning "little bird.” was fasci
nated by this heroic behavior of Moses;
for however timid woman herself may be,
she always admires eouragp in a man.
Zlppofah became the bride oft Moses, one
of the mightiest men of al) the centuries.
Zlpporah little thought that that morning
as she helped drive her father’s flocks
to the well, she was splendidly deciding
her own destiny. Had sh»> stayed in the
tent or house while the ottjer six daugh
ters of the sheik tendeo to their herds,
her life would probably have been a tamo
and uneventful life In the solitudes. But
her Industry, her fidelity to her father’s
interest, her spirit of helpfulness brought
her into league with one of the grandest
characters of all history. They met at
that famous well, and while she admired
the courage of Mores, h 6 admired the
filial behavior of Zlpporah, /
The fact that It took the seven daugh
ters to drive the flocks to the well Implies
that they were Immense flocks, and that
her father was a man o.' wealth. What
was the use of Zlpporah** bemeanlng her
self with work when she might have re
clined on the hillside pear her father's
tent, and plucked buttcin ups. «nd dream
ed out txunnnbcs. and Mghed Mly ♦” the
windr. and wept over imaginary songs to
the brooks. No, she knew that work was
honorable, and that every girl ought to
have something to do, and so she starts
with the bkating »ml lowing and bellow
ing and neighing, droves to the well for
the watering.
Around every home there are flocks
and droves of cares apd apxlettas. and
•very daughter of the fathily, though
there be seven, ought to be doing her part
to take care of the fles'ks. In many house- I
holds, not only in Zlpporah, but all her I
•'■’ters, without practical and useful em
ployments. Mans of them are waiting i
f.'r fortunate and prosngfoua. matrimonial
alliance. but some lounger like themselves I
will come along. and after counting th*' :
large number of Father Jethro's *heeo and
<arm is will make pro|o*al that will be ac
cepted; ami neither of them having done
anything more practical than to chew j
chocolate caramel*, the two nothings will
start on the road of life together, every
et<P motx and hhhv a failure. That
daughter of the MLlUu.tLeh sheik wilt
never find her >• >«** Girl* of America;
imitate Do something prac-
tical. IVa something helpful. lx> *'in<-
thing welt, Many have fathers nMth greu i
Socks abaorbtng dutte*. tn<l such
a latbct a’.k la help tn home, or ©ll’ve, or j
lr
field. Go out and help him with the
flocks. The reason that so many men
now condemn themselves so unaffianced
and solitary life is because they cannot
support the modern young woman, who
rises at half-past ten in the morning and
retires after midnight, dne of the trashiest
of novels in her hands most of the time
between the late rising and the late retir-
thousand of them not Worth one
Zlpporah.
There is a question that every father
and mother ought to ask the daughter al
breakfast-or tea table, and that all the
daughters of the wealthy sheik ought to
ask each other: “What would you do if
the family fortune should fail, if sickness
should prostrate the bread-winner, if the
flocks of Jethro should be destroyed by a
sudden excursion of wolves and bears'and
hyenas from the mountain? What would
you do for a living? Could you support
yourself? Can you take care of an in
valid mother, or frother or sister as well
as yourself?” Yea, bring it down to what
any day might come to a prosperous fam
ily. “Can you cook a dinner if the ser
vants should make a strike for higher
wages and leave that morning?” Every
minute of every hour of every day of
every year there are families flung from
prosperity into hardship, and alas! if in
such exigency the seven daughters of
Jethro can do nothing but sit around and
cry and wait for some one to come and
hunt them up a situation for which they
have no qualification. Get at something
useful; get at it right away! Do not say:
If I were thrown upon my own resources
I would become a music teacher.” There
are now more music teachers than could
be supported if they were all Mozarts
and Wagners and Handels. Do not say:
“I will go to embroidering slippers.” There
are more slipipers now than there are feet.
Our hearts are every day wrung by the
story of elegant women who were once
affluent, but through catastrophe have
fallen helpless, with no ability to take
care of themselves.
Our friend and Washingtonian towns
man, W. W. Corcoran, did a magnificent
thing when he built and endowed the
‘Louise Home” for the support of the un
fortunate aristocracy of the South—the
people who once had everything but have
come to nothing. We want another W
W. Corcoran to build a “Louise Home” for
the unfortunate aristocracy of the North.
But institutions like that in every city of
the land could not take care of one-half
the unfortunate aristocracy of the North
and South, whose large fortunes have fail
ed and who, through lack of acquaintance
with any style of work, cannot now earn
their own bread.
There needs to be peaceful, yet radical
revolution among most of the prosperous
homes of America, by which the elegant
do-nothings may be transformed into
practical do-somethings. Let useless wo
men go to work and gather the flocks.
Come, Zlpporah, let me introduce you to
Moses. But you do not mean that this
man affianced to this country girl was the
great Moses of history, do you? You do
not mean that he was the man who after
ward wrought such wonders? . Surely,
you do not mean the man whose staff
dropped, wriggled Into a serpent, and
then, clutched, stiffened again into a
staff? You do not mean the challenger of
Egyptian thrones and palaces? You do
not mean him who struck the rock so
hard .t wept in a stream for thirsty hosts?
Surely, you do not mean the man who
stood alone with God on the quaking Si
naitlc ranges; not him to whom the Red
sea was surrendered? Yes, the same
>fe , nding the seven daughters of
the Midlanitish sheik; who afterward res
cued a nation.
Why, do you not know that this is the
way men and women get prepared for
special work? The wilderness of Arabia
was the law* school, the theological semi
nary, the university of rock and sand,
from which he graduated for a mission
that will balk seas, and drown armies,
and lift the lantern of illumined cloud by
night, and start the workmen with bleed
ing backs among Egyptian brick-kilns to
ward the pasture lands that flow with milk
and the trees of Canaan dripping with
honey. Gracious God, teach all the peo
ple this lesson. You must go into humil
iation and retirement and hidden closets
of prayer if you are to be fitted for spe
cial usefulness. How did John the Bap
tist get prepared to become a forerunner
of Christ? Show me his wardrobe It
will be hung with silken socks and em
broidered robes and attire of Syrian pur
ple. Show me his dining table. On it
the tankards ablush with the richest wines
of the vineyards of Engedi, and rarest
birds that were ever caught in net, and
sweetest venison that ever dropped antlers
before the hunter. No, we are distinctly
told ‘‘the same John had his raiment of
camels’ hair,”—not the fine hair of the
camel which we call camlet, but the long
coarse hair such as beggars in the East
wear—and his only meat was* of insects
the green locust, about two inches long
roasted, a disgusting food. These insects
| were caught and the wings and legs torn
off, and they were stuck on wooden spits
and turned before the fire. The Bedouins
pack them in salt and carry them in sacks.
What a menu for John the Baptist'
Through what deprivation he came to
what exultation!
And you will have to go down before
you go up. From the pit into which his
brothers threw- him and the prison <n
which his enemies incarcerated him Jo
seph rose to be Egyptian prime minister.
Elijah, who was to be the greatest of all
the ancient prophets. Elijah, who made
King Ahab's knees knock together with
the prophecy that the dogs would be his
only undertaker*; Elijah, whose one pray
er brought more than three years of
drought, and whose other prayer brought
drenching showers; the man who wrapped
up his cape of sheepskin into a roll and
with it cut a path through raging Jord tn
for just two to pass over; the man who
with wheel tire rode over death and es
caped into the skies without mortuary dis
integration; the man who. thousands of
years after, was called out of the eterni
ties to stand besides Jesus Christ on
Mount Tabor when it was ablaze with the
splendors of transfiguration—this man
could look back to the time when voracious
amrfilthy ravens were his only caterers
You John Knox preaching the coro
nation sermon of James VI. and arraigning
Queen Mary and Lord Darnley in a’'pub
lic discourse at Edinburgh, and telling the
French ambassador to go home «nd call
his King a murderer; John Knox making
all Christendom feel his moral power and
at hia burial the Earl of Morton, saying
! "Here lieth a man who in his life ne-er
feanM the face of man.” Where did John
Knox get much of his schooling for such
resounding and everlasting achievement?
He got it while in chains pulh*>g
boat's oar In French captivity. Michael
Faraday, one of the greatest in tne sci
entific worM. did not begin by lecturing
I in the university. He began by washing
I bottles in the room of Hum
phrey Davy. "Hohenlind.n,” the immor
tal poem of Thomas Cnmpbell. was
rejected by a nawsp.i;dr editor, and in the
not’ - to correspondent* app* ><red the
, words: "To T. C.—The lines commencing
On Linden when the sun was low.' are
I not up to our standard. Poetry is not T.
t'.'a forte." oh. it is a rough road to any
kind of valuable success. So the priva
tions and hardships of your life nuy on
a smaller scale be the preface and intro
duction to usefulness and victory.
S<c also £n this call of Mores that God
hsa a great memory. Four hundred years
before te had promts, .1 the deliverance
of the oppressed Israelites of Egypt. The
clock of time has struck the hour, and
lucw Moses is ebbed to the work of rescue.
Four hundred years is a very long time,
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but you see God can remember a promise
four hundred years, as well as you can
remember four hundred minutes. Four
hundred years includes all your ancestry
that you know anything about, and all
the promises made to them, and we may
expect fulfillment in our heart and life of
all the blessings predicted to our Christian
ancestry centuries ago. You have a dim
remembrance, if any remembrance at ail,
of your great-grandfather, but God sees
those who were on their knees in 1598 as
well as those on their knees in IS9B, and
the blessings he promised the former and
their descendants have arrived, *or will
arrive. While piety is not hereditary, it
is a grand thing to have had a pious an
cestry. So God in this chapter calls uq
the pedigree of the people whom Moses
was to deliver, and Moses is ordered to
say to them: “The Lord God of your fath
ers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac
and the ,God of Jacob hath sent me unto
you.” If that thought be divinely accu
rate, let me ask, What are we doing by
prayer and by a holy life for the redemp
tion of the next four hundred years? Our
work is not only with the people of the
latter part df the nineteenth century, but
with those in the closing of the twentieth
century, and the closing of the twenty
first century, and the closing of the twen
ty-second century and the clos
ing of the twenty-third cen
tury. For four hundred years
if the world continues to swing until that
time, or if it drops, then, notwithstand
ing the influence, will go on in other lati
tudes and longitudes of God’s universe.
No one realizes how great he is for good
or for evil. There are branchings out and
rebounds, and reverberations, and elabo
rations of influence that cannot be esti
mated. The fifty or one hundred Vears
of our earthly stay is only a small part of
our sphere. The flap of the wing of the
destroying angel that smote the Egyptian
oppressors, the wash of the Red sea over
the of the drowned Egyptians,
were all fulfillments of promises four
centuries old. And things occur in your
life and in mine that we cannot account
for. They may be the echoes of what was
promised in the sixteenth or seventeenth
centurT- Oh, the prolongation of the di
vine memory!
Notice, also, that Moses was eighty
years of age when he got this call to be
come the Israelitish deliverer. Forty
years he had lived in palaces as a prince;
another forty years he had lived in the
wilderness of Arabia. I should not won
der if he had said: “Take a younger man
for this work. Eighty winters have ex
posed my health; eighty summers have
poured their heats upon my head. There
are the forty years that I spent among the
enervating luxuries of a palace, and then
followed the forty years of wilderness
hardship. I am too old. Let me off. Bet
ter call a man in the forties or fifties, and
not one who has entered upon the eigh
ties.” Nevertheless, he undertook the
work, and if we want to know whether
he succeeded, ask the abandoned brick
kilns of Egyptian task-masters, and the
splintered chariot wheels strewn on the
beach of the Red sea, and the timbrels
which Miriam clapped for the Israelites
passed over and the Egyptians gone under.
Do not retire too early. Like Moses,
you may have your chief work to do after
eighty. It may not be in the high places
of the field; it may not be where a strong
arm and an athletic foot and a clear vision
are required, but there Is something for
you yet to do. Perhaps it may be to
round off the work you have already done;
to demonstrate the patience you have been
recommending all your lifetime; perhaps
to stand a lighthouse at the mouth of the
bay to light others into the harbor; per
hap* to show how glorious a sunset may
come after a stormy day.
If aged men do not feel strong enough
for anything else, let them sit around in
our churches and pray, and perhaps in
that way they may accomplish more good
than they ever did in the meridian of
their life. It makes us feel strong to see
aged men and women all up and down the
pews, their faces showing they have been
on mountains of transfiguration. We want
in all our churches more men like Moses,
men who have been through the deeps
and climbed up the shelled beach on the
other side. We want aged Jacobs, who
have seen ladders which let down heaven
into their dreams. We want aged Peters,
who have been at Pentecosts, and aged
Pauls, who have made Felix tremble.
There are. here and there those w'ho fee)
like the woman of ninety years who said
to Fontenelle, who was elghty-flve years
of age, "Death appears to have forgot
ten us." “Hush,” said Fontenelle, the
wit, putting his finger to his lip. No, my
friend, you have not been forgotten. You
will be called kt the right time. Mean
time, be holily occupied. Let the aged re
member that by increased longevity of
the race men are not as old at sixty as
they used to be at fifty, not as old at sev
enty as they used to be at sixty, not as old
at eighty as they used to he at seventy.
Sanitary precaution better understood;
mud lea I science further advanced; laws of
health more thoroughly adopted; dentistry
continuing for longer time successful mas
tication; homes, and churches, and court
rooms, and places of business better ven
tilated—all these have prolonged life, and
men and women in the close of this cen
tury ought not to retire until at least fif
teen years later than In the opening of the
century. Do not put the harness off until
you have fought a few more battles.
Think of Moses starting out for his chiet
work an octogenarian; forty years of wil
derness life after forty years of palace
life, yet just beginning.
There lies dying at Hawarden, England,
one of the most wonderful men that ever
lived since the ages of time began their
roll. He Is the chief citizen of the whole
world. Three limes has he practically
been King of Great Britain. Again and
again coming from the House of Com
mons. which he had thrilled and overawetl
by his eloquence, on Saturday, on Sunday
morning reading prayers for the people
with illumined countenance and brimming
eyes and resounding voice, saying: "I
believe in God the Father Almighty. Maker
of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ,
his only Son, our Lord."
The world has no other such man to
lose as Gladstone; the church has no
other «uch champion to mourn over. I
shall never ce ise to thank God that on
Mr. Gladstone's invitation 1 visited him
at Hawarden, and heard from his own
lips his belief in the authenticity of the
Holy Scriptures, the Divinity of Jesus
Christ, and the grandeurs of the world to
come. At his table and in the walk
through his grounds I was Impressed as
I was never before, and probably will
never be again, with the majesty of a
nature all consecrated to God and the
world's betterment. In .ae presence of
such a mna, what hove those to say who
profess to think that our religion l» a
pusillanimous and weak, and cowardly.
ami unreasonable affair? Matchless Will
liam E. Gladstone’
Sull further, watch this spectacle of
genuine courage. No wonder when Moses
scattered the rude shepherds, he won
Zipporahs heart. What mattered it to
Moses whether the cattle of the seven
daughters of Jethro were driven from
the troughs by the rude herdsmen?
Sense of justice flred his courage; and the
world wants more of the spirit that will
dare almost anything to see others right
ed. AH the time at wells of comfort, at
wells of joy. at wells of religions, and at
wells of literature there are outrages prac
ticed. the wrong herds getting the first
water. Those who have the previous right
come in last, if they come in at all. Thank
God. we have here and there a strong man
to sei things right! I am so glad that
wh«a God ha* an especial work to do, he
has some one ready to accomplish it. Is
there a Bible to translate, there is a
Wickliff to translate it; if there is a lit
erature to be energized, there is a Shakes
peare to energize it; if there is an error to
smite, there is a Luther to smite it; if
there is to be a nation freed, there is a
Moses to free it. But courage is needed
in religion, in literature, in statesmanship,
in all spheres; heroics to defend Jethro’s
seven daughters and their flocks and put
to flight the insolent invaders. And those
w’ho do the brave work will win some
where high reward. The loudest cheer of
heaven is to be given “to him that over
cometh.”
Still further, see in this call of Moses
that if God has any especial work for. you
to do he will find you. There were Egypt
and Arabia and Palestine with their
crowded population, but the man the Lord
wanted was at the southern point of the
triangle of Arabia, and he picks him right
out, the shepherd who kept the flock of
Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest and
sheik. So God will not find it hard to
take you out from the sixteen hundred
million of the.human race if he wants you
for anything especial. There was only
just one man qualified. Other men trad
courage like Moses; other men had some
of the talents of Moses; other men had
romance in their history, as had Moses;
other men were impetuous, like Moses;
but no other man had these different qual
ities in the exact proportion as had Moses;
and God, who makes no mistake found the
right man for the right place. Do not
fear you will be overlooked, or that whin
you are wanted God cannot find you. He
knows your name, your features, your
temperament, and your charcteristics, and
in w’hat land, or city, or w r ard, or neighbor
hood, or house you live. He will not have
to send out scouts or explorers to find your
re-idence of place of stopping, and when
he wants you he will make it as plain that
he means you .as he made it plain that he
needed Moses. He called his name twice,
as afterward when he called the great
apostle of the Gentiles he called twice, say
ing “Saul, Saul,” and when he called the
troubled housekeeper he called her twice,
saying “Martha, Martha,” and when he
called the prophet to his mission he called
him twice, saying “Samuel, Samuel,” and
now when he wants a deliverer he calls
twice, saying “Moses, Moses.” Yes, if
God has anything for us ,to do he will call
us twice by name. At the first announce
ment of our name we may think it possi
ble that we misunderstood the sound; but
after he calls us twice by name we know
he means us as certainly as when he twice
spoke the names of Saul or Martha, or
Samuel, or Moses.
You see, religion is a tremendous per
sonality. Wei all have the general call to
salvation. We hear it in songs in ser
mons, in prayers; we hear it year after
year. But after awhile, throilgh our own
sudden and alarming illness, or the death
of a playmate, or a schoolmate, or a col
legemate, or the decease of a business
partner, or the demise of a next-door
neighbor, we get the especial call to re
pentance, and a new life and eternal hap
piness., and we know that God means us.
Oh, have you noticed this way in which
God calls us twice? Two failures of invest
ment; two sicknesses; two persecutions;
two bereavements; two disappointments;
two disasters. Moses! Moses!
Still further, notice that the call of
Moses was written in letters of fire. On
the Sinaitic peninsular there is a thorn
bush called the acacia, dry and brittle,
and it easily goes down at the touch of
{he flame. It crackles and turns to ashes
very quickly. Moses, seeing one of these
bushes on fire, goes to look at it. At flret,
no doubt, it seemed to be a botanical curi
osity, burning, yet crumpling, no leaf,
parting no stem, scattering no ashes. It
Was a supernatural Are that did no dam
age to the vegetation. That burning bush
was the call. Your call will probably
some in letters of Are. Ministers get their
call to preach in letters on paper, or parch
ment, or type-written, it does not
amount to much until they get their next
call in letters of fire. You will not amount
to much in usefulness until somewhere
near you find a burning bush. It may
be found burning in the hectic flush of
your child’s cheek; it may be found burn
ing in business misfortune; it may be
found burning in the fire of the world’s
scorn or hate or misrepresentation. But
harken to the.crackle of the burning bush'
Oh, what a fascinating and inspiring
character this Moses’ How tame all other
stories compared with the biography of
Moses! From the lattice of her bathing
house on the Nile, Thermutis. daughter of
Pharoah, sees him in the floating cradle
of papyrus leaves made water-tight by bi
tumen; his infantile cry is heard among
the marble palaces and princesses hush
him with their lullabies; workmen by the
roadside drop their work to look on him
when as a boy he passed, so beautiful was
he; two bowls put before his infant eyes
for choice to demonstrate his wisdom, the
one bowl containing rubies and the other
containing coals of fire. Sufficiently wise
was he to take the gems, but, divinely di
rected, he took the coals and put them to
his mouth, and his tongue was burnt, and
he was left a stammerer all his days so
that he declared, in Exod., 4.10: “i am
slow of speech and of slow tongue;” on
and on until he set firm foot among the
crumbling basalt, and his ear was rot
deafened by the thunderous “Thou shalt
not" of Mount Sinai; the man who went
to the relief of the Israelites who were
scourged because without chopped straw
they were required to make firm bricks.the
story of their oppression found chiseled
on the tomb of Roschere at Thebes; and
when his armies were impeded by veno
mous serpents, sent crates of Ibises, the
snake destroying birds, to clear the way
so that his host could march straight
ahead, thus surprising the enemy, who
thought they must take another route to
avoid the reptiles; the whole sky an aqua
rium to drop quails for him and the hosts
following; the only man in all ages whom
Christ likens to himself; the man of whom
it is written: “Jehovah spoke unto Moses
face to face as a man speaketh to his
friend; the man who had the most won
drous funeral of all time, fche Lord com
ing down out of heaven to bury him. No
human lips to read the service. No choir
to chant a Psalm. No organ to roll a re
quiem. No ang» 1 alighting upon the scene;
but God laying him out for the last sleep;
God upturning the earth to receive the
saint; God smoothing or banking the dust
above the sacred form; God, with fare
wt 11 and benediction, closing the sublime
obsequies of law-giver, poet and warrior.
"And no man knoweth of his sepulchre
unto this day.” Get your eye on him. in
stead of trying to imitate some smaller ex
ample.
A great snow storm came on a prairie
in Minnesota, and a farmer in a sleigh
was lost, but after a while struck the track
of another sleigh, and felt cheered to go
on. since he had found the track of an
other traveler. He heard sleigh-bells pre
ceding him. and hastened on and caught
up with his predecessor, who said:“Where
are you going?” "I um following you.”
was the answer that came back. The fact
is. that they were both lost, and had gone
round and round In a circle. Then they
talked the matter over. and. looking up.
saw the north star; and toward the north
was their home, and they started straight
for it. Oh. instead of imitating men like
ourselves and circling round ami round,
lej us took up and take some starry guide
like Moses and follow on until we join
h.m amid the “delectable mountains.” You
say you cannot reach his character. On.
no. Neither can you reach the north star,
but you can be guided by its heavenly
pointing.
WOMAN ONjymiLEFIEID.
WHAT SHE GIVES TO A NATION.
Whether war shall descend and continue
upon us now with all its indescribable hor
rors and frightful carriage, or the brood
ing angel of peace shall “spread i\er white
wings to the sunshine of love”—whatever
may be the issue, to-day or any other day,
in our American history—the tremendous
fact remains the same.fthat woman is for
ever a chief and inseparable factor in the
warfare of nations.
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Her rare appearance on the battlefield
or in hospitals—nursing, cheering and com
forting the wounded or dying—is a very
small part of what woman does to pro
mote this country’s fighting capacity. She
does more than roll bandages, scrape lint
and send out dainty boxes of provisions
for husbands, brothers and sweethearts in
the field.
The w’ives and mothers, and the sisters
and sweethearts that will become wives
and mothers—contribute something more
in addition to this cheering comfort and
inspiration.
Every male fighter, however brawny and
heroic, was born of woman; was once a
feeble Infant, drawing—along with his
very breath of life from his mother’s
own physical resources—the hardihood,
mental stamina and high courage that be
comes a nation’s final and impregnable
defense in the last dread arbitrament of
war.
Shall we say that women contribute the
bandages and provisions? No, they con
tribute the fighters.
What sort of men will the women of
the present day contribute to the nation
and the world. What sort of help and
encouragement and inspiration can a w’o
man be who is enfeebled and broken down
by the diseases and weaknesses peculiar
to her sex? Can such a Woman main
tain the position that belongs to her
on the battlefield of every-day exertion
and struggle? Can she hope to be a
capable mother or efficient wife?
The dreadful sufferings which women
endure solely because of the delicate,
special organization which makes them
wives and mothers, leads a thoughtful
person to consider whether it is most
woefully deplorable on their own sad ac
count or for the sake of the other lives
that are sooner or later dependent on
their own.
It is certain that the great work which
has been done toward restoring the phy
sical capacity of women in the last twenty
years, by Dr. R. V. Pierce, of Jiuffalo,
N. Y., has had a phenomenal share in
building up the courage and power of
the present generation. But there are
50,000 more women who ought to know
what Dr. Pierce’s extraordinary medical
insight and experience and his marvelous
“Favorite Prescription” have done for
their hopeless discouraged sisters through
out the world.
Every woman knows that the average
doctor cannot understand her case. He
is too busy; he has too many other cases
of an entirely different nature; he lacks
the special experience and thorough un
derstanding which are necessary to a
complete appreciation of her troubles.
A life-time of experience and constant
study has made Dr. Pierce the acknowl
edged expert authority in this particular
field of practice.
So many women are in almost the same
state of mind as Mrs. Elizabeth J. Bul
lard, of Winnie, Bladen county. North
Carolina. “I was afflicted for seventeen
months.” she writes: “I was confined to
the house and yard all the time. I could
not be on my feet but a very little; could
not lift the weight of a cup of coffee, and
did not have strength to speak more than
a few words at a time. We tried three doc
tors and a lot of patent medicine, which
cost over one hundred and twenty-five dol
lars, and found no relief. I had lost all
hopes of ever getting any better when my
friends advised me to take Dr. Pierce's,
medicines. My jiusband said he would try -
them npxt. He got me five bottles of ’Fa- |
vorite Prescription’ and three of ‘Golden I
Medical Discovery.’ I commenced taking ’
these medicines and soon found’ relief, i
When I had taken one bottle of each I j
walked half-a-mile to church. I comment- >
ed taking them the first of January, 1897; \
the first of the following June I took my
cooking in hand and have cooked for elev- i
en in family all through the summer. It :
was Dr. Pierce s medicines that gave me j
all the relief I have received. I recommend '
them to all suffering females, for it is his i
medicines and the help of God that has re
stored me. May the Lord bless him and hi® I
medicines for the good they have done me.” |
Another lady. Mrs. W. G. Day, of Truss
ville, Jefferson county. Alabama, writes: *
“1 cannot find words sufficient to express I
my prnise for Dr. Pierce’s medicine. For ■
two years I had suffered with weakness. I
headache, pain in my back and side which :
would become so sore that I could hardly |
bear the weight of my hand on it; had cold
hands and feet and many other bad feel
ings. too numerous to mention. Home phy
sicians' treatment did me no good. I hnd
become very despondent and thought I
Bould never be well again, but with a
faint heart I wrote Dr. Pierce and describ
ed my symptoms as best I could. He
promptly answered by letter, and sent me
a treatise on ‘Woman and Her Diseases;’
he also outlined a treatment for me which
I followed to the best of my ability, and
after taking six bottles of ‘Favorite Pre
scription’ I can truthfully say that I felt
like a new woman. In a few months after
wards, when I was suffering with the
many troubles due to pregnancy, I procur
ed ‘Favorite Prescription’ and took it
through that time. I soon became very
stout and felt well. I was in labor only a
short time and got along well—better than
I ever did before. My baby is a fine boy,
now two months old, and has never been
Eick any. I will never miss an opportunity
to recommend Dr. Pierce’s medicines. I
hope that all suffering ladies will consult
you, for I think they will be benefitted by
taking your medicines.”
In the treatment of women’s diseases,
there must be on the part of the physi
cian a realizinfi sense first of . all that the
trouble is a specific one; that it saps the
very foundation of a woman’s vitality.
Il is not to be pooh-poohed at, nor made
light of; nor “patched-up” with ‘‘a little
something for the digestion,” or a little
something else for the heart-action. The
remedy must be radical and. thorough; It
must give specific tone, health,
puriiy and organic power di
rectly to the fundamental start-
ing point of the difficulty; it mugt en
tirely rejuvenate the nervous system and
recreate the supply of complete, forceful
I abundant vitality.
1 h wisest physician is none too wise to
deal with these troubles; scientific train
ing, deep study and the widest practical
dS en<?e are no mere un
n.UrS? I ? owever capable in her own
sphere, is at all suitable or equipped with
nna r^ qU > 1 S ' 1 te understan ding of physiology
and medicine to be safely trusted in dif
ficulties so delicate and complicated.
T*. prec,sely alike every
respect, and while as a matter of fact
and record there has not been found one
buV wha? f 3 hUnd r ° f fema ' e difficuhi":
Promptly alleviated and
eventually cured by Dr. Pierce’s Favorite
ffioSna’Je freqUently 11 happens that
in obstinate cases a course of simnle and
inexpensive self-treatment at home will
greatly a d recovery, m all such c™es Dr
1 lerce gladly gives careful, professional
advice by mall free of charge ° ressional
J** 11 for thlrt y years chief con
sulting physician of the Invalids'
and Surgical Institute, at Buffalo N Y
ahd has gathered about Him a staff of cm’
•inent associate specialists in the differ™
fields of medical practice. Dr. Pierce hal
ong.nateei some of the most wonderfully
ffective remedial discoveries known in
modern medicine. The late Presided Gar
field once said of him: “H e Js onp of , h
best men in the world, and is at the head
the°wor?d ” he teSt medlCal lnßtitu t‘ons in
in A wL7° m t an T may feel abso confidence
in writing to Dr. Pierce; her letter will be
considered sacredly private, never pub'Ui
ed, except by her express wish and per
mission, and will be answered with a sin
cere and intelligent desire to place at her
the most capable and expert
In ti? world.* 06 ‘° * ° b ‘ ained
“My wife had been a great sufferer for
a number of years with nervous prostra
tion, associated with every symptom that
women of her age (45) are liable to have ”
’writes W. O. Gardner. Esq., O s No 122
Diamond street, Little Falls, N Y “She
took a good deal of medicine of various
kinds, and doctored with local doctors r.n
tors’ bins n sh Bb,e P . ay any morc doc
tors bills. She read the book that she
procured from you, and commenced to
Dr. Pierce s Golden Medical Discovery and
his ‘Favorite Prescription.’ Her heakh is
better now than it has been in six years
If she had used the medicines six years
®*°;. l ** n a «<x>i many hun-
dred dollars better off.”
"I had been a great sufferer from fe
male weakness,” writes Mrs. M. B Wal
lace, of Muenster, Cook county Texas
“I tried four doctors and none’ did me
any good. I suffered six years but at
last I found relief.’ I followed your ad
vice, and took four bottles of ‘Golden
Medical Discovery,’ and eight of the ‘Fa
vorite Prescription.’ I feel like a new
woman. I have gained eighteen pounds ”
The famous work, entitled ”The Com
mon Sense Medical Adviser ” by R y
Pierce M. D.. is a splendid, thousand
page illustrated volume, which is i n itself
a complete, popular medical library It
has had a greater sale than any 'other
medical work ever printed in any lan
guage, and has made Dr. Pierce's name
a household word in every corner df the
English-speaking world. The profit from
the sale of the first great edition of 750 .
000 copies, at 31.50 each, prompted Dr.
Fxrce to issue a free edition in paper
covers. Most of this edition has already
been taken up, but while it lasts a copy
will be sent, without charge, on receipt
of 21 one cent stamps, to cover the cost
of mailing only. Address Dr. Pierce, 663
Main street., Buffalo, N. Y. Or if a
heavier, handsome cloth-bound copy is
preferred, send 10 stamps additional—3l
cents in all. This grand volume contains
the best advice and explicit information
on all those phases of life with which
every intelligent person, and especially
all women, ehould be familiar.
UNCLE SAM’S STEEL FENCE.
No Clianxe on the Blockade—French!
♦ Frigate’s Entry.
Key West, Fla., May B.—Cuba is still
locked out tty «I’ncle Sam’s steel fence.
Two natiojip are still vis-a-vis, eyeing
each other stealthily, waiting for the un«
known.
On one side is an island full of hot and
chafing Spaniards, who occasionally ex
pend their warmth in a few futile shots
towards the enemy, only to be beaten back
like fractious children; on the other side a
weary lot of naval men longing to open
their guns and show the bad children,
what punishment awaits their incorrigi
bility.
The zest which accompanied,the capture
of the big steamers during the first days
of the war has vanished now that the
blockade is an established fact.
Petty prizes are still taken, and three
yesterday. They surrendered too easily
to make their capture interesting. They
were the brigantine Lorenzo, taken by the
Montgomery, near Havana, on Friday
while bound from Rio de la Plata with a
cargo of dried beef.
Curiously enough, an American was
among those made prisoners. Seaman
Scott of Baltimore was “shanghaied” by
the Spaniard’s crew at Buenos Ayres, and
he was glad to get back in American,
hands, even a prisoner.- He was in the
Confederate army during the civil war.
The Espana, a little fishing sloop, was
taken by the Morrill about three miles off
Mariel, just after yesterday’s sharp Ha
vana engagement.
The third vessel taken was the schooner
Padre de Dios, Master Mato Herrera,
laden with fish. She was captured by the
Newport off Mariel yesterday, and was
brought in by a petty officer and a prize
crew. .
Considerable Indignation is expressed
here over the story lately sent North of
yellow fever on the Nashville, contracted
from the Spanish prize Argonauta. The
captain and officers of the ship, as well as
■Commandant Forsyth of the naval station,
brand it in unmeasured terms as false and
cruel.
Interesting details are being added to the
story of the entrance of the French frigate
Du Bordieu into Havana yesterday. It is
said that after the fleet released her she
was seen transmitting heliograph signals
to the Cuban shore.
FANCE AT THE POLLS.
Monarchists Get Only 27 Votes Ont
of 428.
Paris, May 9.—The elections for the new
Chamber of Deputies have passed off in
orderly fashion. At 4a. m. 428 results were
officially reported: Monarchists, 27 k , Mod
erate Republicans,; 151; Radicals, 94, and
Socialists, 29. One hundred and twenty
seven second will be necessary. The
IJepublicans have gained eight seats.
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