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4 ©he ©hrfcihtit index Published Every Thursday at 87% S. Broad Street, Atlanta, Ga. PEACE THROUGH LOVE. Nothing short of mutual Christian affection can prevent dissensions in the church. Such was the senti ment of the apostle, if we may sup pose the arrangement of his sen tences to indicate the order and connection of his ideas. The com mandment to mutual love precedes the counsel against contention,as if to prepare the way for it and render it possible obedience to it. “If there be, therefore, any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship o f the Spirit, i f any bowels and mer cies, fulfil ye my joy that ye he like minded, having the same love, be ing of one accord, of one mind.’’ This is the language which opens the door for the requirement that ‘■nothing should be done through strife or vain-glory,” but that “in lowliness of mind each should es teem others better than themselves,’’ (Phil. 2: 13). Was not the former advice designed to indicate the dis position, the latter to direct its exer cise? that to inspire the feeling, this to define its operations'? the one to provide the sufficient cause, the other to announce its legitimate effect? Doubtless so. It follows that mutual Christian affection is the great, the only safeguard of the Church’s peace. When flames of dissension threaten to break forth, this is the true “fire-annihilator,” and there is no other. A little thought confirms the view. If the spirit of affection be a stran ger to the hearts, its place must bo tilled by the opposite spirit, enmity, or at best, the negative spirit,indiffer ence.And when jealousy whispers its low suspicions to a people, when sel fishness throws the apple of discord among them, when factions begin to sprout up here and there as mush rooms after a rain, when the waters of debate and variance, which always flow from little springs and springs underground, are making gradual way into their midst, —what office then can indifference or enmity dis charge? Can they teach sincere sol icitude for mutual happiness? Can they school the tongue intoobedicnce to the law of kindness, or render the hand open as day to melting charity,” or do thy brother’s work of help in the a lief! a spirit of uncon cern? Never; as easily might a stone supply the place of bread, or a serpent fulfill the office of a fish. Give these unkindly feelings the in structions of policy, caution and prudence; let them dread for thern relves the consequences of their own development; fix them in the firm resolve that the shame of their nak edness shall not appear; even then, thus warned and checked, they must, sooner or later, aggravate the inflamings and outflamings of con tention, and throw fresh fuel on the treacherous, fierce fires. For, out of the abundance of the heart the mouth will speak; an evil tree must bring forth corrupt fruit; and a spirit of malice by sure gradations obtains vent for itself in a life of malice, if, therefore, the church would protect herself from dissen sion, mutual Christian affection need leave no space for enmity or indiffer ence among her sons and daugh ters. One cheerful aspect of the case suggests itself. It has not befallen us that we should need to ask, “I low may we secure the existence of Christian affection in hearts that are are Christian ? As wisely might we ask, how shall we so learn the struc ture and function of the lungs as to be able to breath? Or, how shall we acquire a knowledge of the location and action of the arteries and veins sufficient to bring about a circula tion of the blood through our sys tem? Jf these vital bodily functions are inseparable from animal life, not less truly is sincere Christian af fection inseparable from spiritual life. Its genus lie in every renewed heart, and form no obscure element of the character it received in its birth from above. They are there because inherent to the nature of holiness itself. When the believer attempts the cultivation of this grace, then, he should not feel as if he were setting himself to the purj suit of a new and unknown princi ple ; he is not called to create, but to conserve, to set in order and to perfect We may enter on this task of con. serving and perfecting hopefully, because the affection, as an element of holiness, strikes an effectual blow it the root of human selfishness. W hen We become the children of God, there is impressed on ns a strong and prevailing tendency to love that which is right for its own sake; thanks for the sake of its rightness in itself and of itself. This tendency, carried to development, becomes, many times, a joyful.ador ation of the holiness of God, of that one only light in which is no dark ness at all, even though for a season we turn our eyes away from its as sociation with benevolence in the promotion of true and enduring blessedness for us. So also it be comes a delight in the moral and spiritual excellence of others, with out respect to the question of its in fluence over our personal interest and happiness. Here, then, if no where else, the soul learns to heed the plea of love to it, though no heed should be given to the plea of self from it. And this is as David’s sling and sword against the Goliath of Church Dissension. This tendency puts another hope ful aspect on our effort to cultivate Christian affection. It is constituted for adaptation to the actual state of things; in other words, it is a love for that which is right, wherever it is, and just as it is. The real right, however small it may be, wins real love in its own degree; ami the in termixture of defect and infirmity cannot estrange it. We know that the supposition contradicts itself, but grant its possibility; then, we venture to say that if Michael, the archangel, contending for the body of Moses, could have distinctly re cognized in the bosom of*his antag onist, the “archangel ruined,” one holy principle, he would have looked on that with pleasure and compla cency. And our Saviour, we know, beheld a young man, who could no more enter into into the kingdom of heaven than a camel could pass through the eye of a needle, and loved him, loved him in spite of his faults, loved him for the virtues that were faulty but not loving the fault iness. If we work after His pattern, will Ho not help the working? We engage in this culture of Christian affection with the energy of hopefulness from a further con sideration. The regenerate soul be gins its new life as it were looking through the clear and pitying eyes of God, and learns more and more to behold every form of moral evil rather in sorrow than in anger. Even while it hates its own trans gressions its mood is to pity and commiserate the transgressions of others. It loathes the sin, and yet loves the sinner. It forbears to curse the fiend or fiend’s dupe that tempts, though it deeply abhors the temptation. It is with that heart as with God, who looked on the wicked ness of the world, and hated it; look ed on the “world” nevertheless, and loved it! What bulwarks ami battle ments such a spirit builds and must build about the church’s peace. Let persons who possesses the traits of character imperfectly sketched be thrown together; mul tiply their numbers to an indefinite extent; diversify their circumstances into every possible aspect of the so cial relations; lead their experiences along all varieties of tried and try ing paths. Through the whole, if they see in each other that which is right, even though it be mingled with much of defect (an infirmity and defect which shall excite only sorrow and pity), they will love each other without instruction, love each other by a property inborn through he new birth, love each other na turally as regards the nature coming from above, love each other by the force and operation of the principles which are essential to the spirit of holiness. It was by virtue of this fact that I’anl wrote to the Thessa lonians: “As touching brotherly love, ye need not that I write unto you; for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.” It is an instinct of our spiritual existence an immediate and original impulse which does not tarry for the slow and dubious step of argument and reason. And therefore John unfolds the great principle that if we have the genuine love of holines which is itself largely the holiness of men, it will move us as certainly to love the church for its excellencies as to love God for his perfection. “We know that we have passed from death into life because we love the brethren.” “If a man say I love God, and hat eth his brother, he is a liar; for he that loveth not his brother whom ho hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen.” “If we love one another God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.” This love alone is the highway of the church to peace, and the peace ( THE CHRISTIAN INDEX: THURSDAY. OCTOBER 20. 1892. should be as universe! as the love: it will be, if the love is rightly cultured. And here there needs a word of warning, lest we be understood rath er to dissuade from effort than to protect effort against despondency. If the existence of this Christian af fection be secure J,o every Christian in advance of effort on his part, if it comes to him by the grand change which makes him a Christian and does not remain to be brought into possession by after-thought and af ter labor, still it is mere possession, mere existence, which is thus estab -ished. He should strive to aug ment the meassure of its power on his bosom and over his life. Hin drances obstruct its operation ; many a chilling frost falls on it, some times nipping its tender bud, sometimes killing it to the very root. But that root lives, and he mast guard it in its growth again, if need be watering it with tears. And this culture of love to the strength of ripe age is the legiti mate field of his toil and enterprise, the legitimate and the unbounded field. Well might Paul pray for his sons in the gospel, “The Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another!” So too let writer and reader mutually pray. HINDERING THE GOSPEL. In a true and very important sense “the word of God is not bound.” It has behind it, and pledged to its final triumphs, the omnipotence and i promise of its author. It shall not return unto him void, but it shall ac complish that whereto he sends it. Can puny man dam the mighty cur rent of Niagara ? No more can he prevent the onward flow of the bless ed voice of salvation. Yet God has been pleased to commit unto his peo ple the gospel of reconciliation, with . the command to declare it to the i world. Alas, how often are the I friends of Christ found hindering its progress ! The gospel has been shamefully hindered by being perverted. How fearful are the apostolic denuncia tions of perverters of the gospel. Read the burning words falling from the pen of Paid in Gal. 1 :7-9 : “'There are some that would pervert the gospel of Christ. But though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach any gospel other than that which wo preached unto you, let him be anathema.” The gospel is the last will of our Lord. He left it to be observed and preserved Inviolate, and it is sinful temerity to alter or evade its plain items. Its doctrines and its ordinances, every one has its proper and Christ-ordain ed place and purpose. The history i of Christianity is full of warning ! along this line. The brightness of its pristine glory confounded gain— sayers. They were constrained by its beauty, and won by its purity. Its proud triumphs began to be bounded only when early corruptions were engrafted. Its life was buried in the grave of constantly increas ing superstition and ritualism. One familiar with the almost uni. versal perversion of Christianity in the beginning of the seventh centu ry, does not marvel at the rise and rapid progress of Mahomet. That “false prophet” struck valiant blows at the prevailing corruption of Chris tian faith ami practice. He scorned I the Christianity of the period, which gave him birth and training, as a car icature of the glorious gospel of Christ, and in some respects preach ed a purer faith and life to his fol lowers than that held forth by a su- - I perstitious ami arrogant priesthood. And to-day the corruptions of Cath olocism have made French, Spanish and Italian intellect infidel. A po tent example of the same kind is seen in the history of New England- Orthodoxy in the last century grad ually ignored the fundamental doc trines of the atonement and a regen erated church membership, and the sad consequence was the ruinous spread of Vnitarianism. The gospel is hindered also by our unfaithfulness to duty. Chris - tian living should be a practical de monstration and illustration of the sanctifying power of the gospel. How tender the word of the Apostle to the I’hilipplans : “Only let your conduct be worthy of the Gospel of Christ.” The very heart of the writer goes out in loving anxiety for his children in the faith. Unbecom- j ing conduct on the part of professors ( of religion is a sad barrier in the . way of the gospel. We may “hold the truth in unrighteousness'’—that is, “hold back,” or hinder, the truth. ' Just in so far as we are unfaithful to | our duty to God, to the church, and to the world, “we hinder the gospel.” The world expects much of Chris tians. Its standard of the Christian life is lugh. Wo know its criticisms and judgments are oft erroneous, its censures undeserved and unjust. Yet, to our shame, be it said, we not infrequently bring reproach ou the cause of our Master by our conduct. We should seek to be above re proach in our lives, exercising ever a holy influence on those without the pale of salvation. When a Christian shows unholy temper, uses profane or ungodly language, indul ges in questionable worldly amuse ments, walks in open sin, overreach es in trade, or does anything incon sistent with the purity demanded in the gospel, he hinders that gospel, and is a stumbling block in the way of others. On the other hand we may have the exalted honor and privilege of advancing the gospel, of being “fel low-helpers of the truth.” Serious ly consider that you may thus help the gospel by such study and medi tation as shall deeply impress the soul with a true sense of the value of the truth. The more we value the gospel the more ardent our desire to prosper it. Our appreciation of it will increase with reverent and spir itual study. Jesus said “Come and see” to one who inquired concerning him, and to the captious Jews he said, “If any man is willing to do his will, he shall know of the teach ing.” Sincere sitting at Jesus’ feet will enhance our spiritual perception of the excellency of his gospel, and we shall more and more behold its perfect adaptation to our moral and mental necessities. Max Muller wrote a splendid truth when he penned this paragraph : “No one can know what Christianity really is so well as he who has patiently and impartially studied the other reli gions of the world ; and no one can so truly and sincerely say with Paul, “1 am not ashamed of the gospel.’ ” One who thus appreciates the gos pel should be zealous in “holding forth the word of life,” by tongue and deed. Gratitude for grace so full and free should constrain our ransomed souls. Having ourselves been blessed by the gospel, surely one joy shoidd be to spread its glad tidings to all the world. Each child of God should recognize this obliga tion. Every heart and life should feel the quickening impulse, and con secrate time, talent and means to the “furtherance of the gospel.” OAHENSLEYISM. The New York Times tells, in the following paragraph, who Cahensley is, and what bis plans and purposes are: “Cahensley, as is well known, is the general secretary of the St. Ra phael Society. The latter has its agents in every European port through which emigrants pass in con siderable numbers. It is their pur pose to direct, if possible, the stream of immigration and to keep the emi grant loyal to old world traditions. He is warned against American in fluences as being dangerous to his faith. It is the purpose of that soci ety to centralize, solidify, and isolate the foreign Catholic emigrants and to secure them at any cost and by any means against Protestant and Amer ican ideas. This accounts for the largo German and Polish colonies all over the West and for the refusal of foreign Catholics everywhere to be come Americanized.” Senator Davis, of Minnesota, took occasion, while discussing the Chinese Exclusion bill, last Spring, to express the opinion that “the attempts of Cahensley made last year to denation alize American institutions and to plant as many nations as there are people of foreign tongues, is a matter of more profound concern than all the Chinese questions that have arisen since 1858.” M hereupon a National convention of a Catholic Benevolent Association held in Dubuque, la., Sept. 20, de manded a public retraction of Mr. Davis. He not only refuses to re tract, but reiterates, with emphasis, his former statement, and warns the country of the danger if Cahensley is allowed to carry out bis scheme. At a recent congress held in New ark, N. J., the German-speaking Catholics of this country endorsed Cahensley's Society and gave utter ance to the following sentiments which plainly show the spirit that an imates these societies: “Our public schools are denounced as ‘abominable in their very nature.’ The English is declared to be a vile language fit only for cursing and the demand is made that the instruction given in the German parochial schools shall be in the German lan guage. All Roman Catholic voters are advised to vote only for candi dates who are in their view sound on the school question. Probably these Eersons will not carry with them all toman Catholics in their projected raid on our institutions. They seem to have come hither to enjoy freedom, and they propose to stab us to the heart.”— Religious Herald, Hartford. It is said that a voice has been denied to three animals, the porcupine, the giraffe, and the armadillo. We wish that there might be added a fourth, at least until the elections are over; and that fourth, the Demagogue ! How sweet a silence this Quartette of Muteness would make in all the land ; sweeter than any music that could be invented to break it, certainly so if the inventor were Wagnerian 1 A BUSY BIRTH-DAY. It chanced that the account wffiich Dr. Wm. E. Hatcher, of Richmond, Va., gave of his recent birth-day has just fallen into our bands. This ac count is so characteristic of the man and the brother, that we place it be fore our readers, though it may seem “out of due time “Personal remarks being now in order we veture to observe that we had a birthday last week. We can not quite say with the colored broth er when the boys asked him how many Chtistmases he had seen, re plied that he could not say exactly, but he reckoned that ‘he had seen two or three hundred of them.’ Not so many birth-days have we celebrat ed, but wc have had many, and every one has been a crown of God's love. We cannot hope for very many more such days on the earth, but we do hope fora life which while it has a beginning will have no end. “It is our joy to always be busy on our birth-days, but as our last birth-day was fearfully hot and as it was Monday (always a languid day for a preacher) and as we were sup porting a formidable carbuncle on the finger, and as the doctor seemed set on our being particular we did not attempt any extensive work. We merely travelled seventy or eighty miles on the train, rode over twenty miles in a buggy and preached morn ing and afternoon in Caroline, and went to Hanover and lectured at night. The rest of the day we lay around and did nothing.” If we may be more definite than Dr. IL, he crossed what was once re garded as “the ministerial dead-line’’ seven years ago; but this account shows that death in that shape, if he has suffered it, is not inconsistent with a masterful activity in the sphere of mortal things, such as might well be the envy even of Her bert Spencer’s ghosts in the palmiest days he assigns them. Younger men, men of more robust physique, and men who would little like to be sus pected of taking their ease in an un due degree, may derive a lesson from it. But, alas, no human virtue is per fect or incapable of being weakened and worn down for a season, just as the most fertile soil now and then bears a scanty harvest; and there is one point in this account which, we are frank to say, gives us pause. To approach it aright, let us recall the times when, almost weekly we talked over with the young Manchester pastor his skeleton sermons for the Sabbath with no very serious detri ment to the sermons we hope from words of ours, seeing the words were spoken to a man of judgement if not by one. In the spirit of those old unforgotten and unforgettable days we speak, then. Refresh your mem ory with the usual common places that as “sands make the mountain and moments make the year” so from acts like scrimpest morsels may grow habits of evil to crash as huge ava lanches across the path of life, and then tell us Dr.: that lying around and doing nothing—to what may it not grow if you indulge it ? Don't you, after all your fair promise and fairer performance, lapse into a cleri cal lazy-bones like your neighbor— over in Europe. Remember, sloth is a fault, is a temptation at least, of the old; and if you let any traces of it appear in your walk and way there are many who will be swift to argue that the number of your birth days is getting nearer to the number of the colored brother’s christtnases than you care to say anything about. May their number grow, each mark ing a year of higher Christian ’influ ence,until the call to the Upper Sanct nary rings out after happy and long delay 1 A MORE HOPEFUL VIEW. In many of the articles written for our religious papers a very dis couraging view of preachers and the character of their preaching, of the churches and their condition, of Christians and their work, is pre sented. The preachers are not preaching the gospel, the churches are asleep, Christians, generally, are indifferent, while the world is awake, the devil is astir, and wickedness is on the increase. These representations are made with the purpose of stimulating preachers, and churches, and Chris tians to greater activity. They are, however, more depressing than stim ulating. There are more earnest gospel preachers in the w orld to-day than ever before. The churches general ly, are better informed, better or ganized, and more active than they have ever been. There are more consecrated, pi ous, liberal, individual Christians in the world to-day than ever blessed it before. The Spirit of the living God is as powerful in the conversion of sinners, and in the guiding, strengthening, and enlightening of true believers as He ever was. The growth of the churches in numbers and in spirituality is as great to-day, or greater, than in any past period of its history. Millions of Bibles are being printed and the number is constantly increasing* There are more people reading and studying the Bible than ever read or studied it in the past. There are more learned scholars expounding the Bible now than at any previous time. There are more books and papers about the Bible than were ever printed and circulated before. There is more money given for the spread of the gospel, for the founding and support of religious schools, than was ever given before- There are more missionaries in the home and foreign fields to-day than ever worked in them in the past. The Bible is translated into enough languages and dialects in common use among men to enable almost every one who can read to study the book for himself. Zion is awaking and putting on her strength. The world is astir on the great matter of salvation through Jesus Christ. Though the devil U loose, his ad versaries] numerous, and the world cursed with sin, and blackened with crime, yet, God rules, Jesus is in the midst of His Church, the Holy Spir it is convincing of sin, of righteous ness, and of judgment, and the king doms of this world are becoming the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ. 'Take courage, and with songs of praise go on with your work. J. W. FEARS. Walking down Peachtree St. a few days ago, near the Ist Metho dist, Church. Atlanta, I saw two gentlemen standing on the opposite side, engaged in conversation. They proved to be two old friends, one Prof. Williams, Principal of the Academy for the Blind, at Macon, the other, J. W. Fears, formerly of Madison Ga. I went across to where they were standing, and upon ex changing salutions, found that they were both in excellent health. See ing Mr. Fears reminded me that my acquaintance with him began in 18- 52, at Madison. It brought to mind Rev. C. M. Irwin, who was then pastor of the Baptist Church there. I told Mr. Fears of Bro. Irwin’s re cent illness, and also mentioned the fact that Bro. H. C. Hornady was in a very low condition of health. He expressed great regret at hearing of their illness, at the same time con gratulated himself upon his own ex cellent health. Imagine my surprise then, on see ing, a few days ago, the announce ment of his death at Toccoa. It led me to reflect upon the uncertainty of life, and of how little even the healthiest and strongest can count upon it. Brethren Irwin and Ilorna dy, who seemed almost .ready to de part, still remain, while Bro. Fears, who seemed to have promise of lon ger life than either, is gone. With him are connected two other men who were his contemporaries at Madison, J. F. Swanson and 11. P. Zimmerman. They were all mer chants, the first two, partners in business. They were all three mem bers of the Baptist Church at Madi son, and were active, zealous, warm hearted Christians. Frank Swanson became a minister just before the war, and though ho died early, vet few men were more useful or suc cessful. Zimmerman survived until a few months ago, when he died at the Providence Hospital, in this City. He had been at one time a success ful merchant, was a true, warm hearted friend, and had been a use ful member of the church. Fortune frowned upon him, and his last years were filled with sadness. Bro. Fears had been a very successful business man, accumulating quite a large for tune. Reverses overtook him also, yet, he continued measurably suc cessful, preserved his integrity, was firm in his Christian principles and retained the respect and confidence of his fellow-men until the end. What a noble band of older men were grouped around these three in the church at Madison! Thomas J. Burney, Jno. B. Wal ker, N. G. Foster, Benj. Peeples, Dr. E. Jones, Lelloy Wilson, Jno. Shields, Mr. Stokes, D. E. Butler, Ben Harris, Nathan Massey, W. B. Crawford, Geo. Y. B’own, Brest, Ga. Fem. CoE, and Prof. Lond. I must not forget, in passing, my con temporary and fellow-teacher in the College the talented, scholarly, mod est, Henry M. Holtzclaw. Providence led me back to Madi son in Dec. 65. Os the men just named I found still living, and mem bers of that church, Burney, Walker, Wilson, Foster, Shields, Butler and Crawford. David E. Butler was ♦ then the pastor. There, I was or dained, in the fall of ‘66, Foster. Springer, Bntler, Stillwell constitut ing the Presbytery. Os these noble men all are gone except Irwin and Crawford. Bro. Irwin still lingers upon the brink of the river. Dr. Crawford, though past his three score and ten, was, when I last saw him, in vigorous health, still preach es the Gospel, and, as a physician, ministering to the bodily sufferings of bis fellow-men. Os the three of us who remain, who will go next? . A few sons of these noble sires still remain in Madison, one of them Rev. S. A. Burney is now the pastor of the church. The death of Bro. Fears has these tender memories. “Boast not thyself of to-morrow.’ I. R. Branham. One of the papers says that small pox, typhoid fever, yellow fever and cholera “were epedemic in former i years,” but are “really no longer causes of alarm,” since “their germs have been discovered and can .be killed as any common enemy.” It adds that “science and precaution have shown their omnipotence :” (a superfluous form of speech, inas much as the precaution is itself a part of the science, so that whatever omnipotence obtains in the case must be accredited to science alone.) These things are said in a very hope ful strain, but we would hear them more hopefully if we had not re cently stumbled on some roseate dreams of human evolution, pict ! tiring the race as attaining to per , feet freedom from disease and find ing in consequence the law of mor tality abolished. Evon if such a millennium of science were in store for the world, language which im plies that the sky is already flushing with its dawn must be counted pre mature. But it is worse than that, it is altogether illusory : since there can be no omnipotence in science to reverse and annul the decree of di vine omnipotence, “Dust thou art and unto dust shalt thou return,” rendering a guilty race no longer mortal, and making that heritage of life which is the prize and portion of righteousness, the possession no less of “the sinfulness of sin.” Crowded rooms, a cry of fire, a shock of panic, a frenzied flight for life, a narrow passway, the outlet blocked by a prostrate woman, the baffled throngs struggling, falling, trampling, shrieking, groaning, faint ing. What boots it to the hapless sufferers that the body through which the way of escape is obstruct ed and which becomes .to them an occasion of wounding and agony and death, is a body of beauty ? What ever charms of complexion, of feat ure, of figure, of posture, of motion, may belong to it, —can these soothe their pangs or make the loss of life glad to them ? As little, when you follow the lure of beauty to vice or to worldliness, and find that either of the two means destruction, can that beauty extract one fang of the worm that never dies, or quench one spark of the fire that shall not be quench ed forever. You will only hate and curse the beauty the more, because the destruction which it cannot al- ■ lay and lighten, it served to clothe with a deadlier certainty, and by prolonging and multiplying offences, plunged the soul into a deeper self torture and a denser darkness of ab solute despair. jSH ft W F S Hr. X. B. Hamlen, Os Augusto. Me., ssys: "I do not r<ynembe» when I began to toko Hood’s Sarsaparilla; It ?‘ ld 1 itove found It docs nio a great deal of good in my declining years. I am 91 Years 'fe?t?v »in5 nd t <ln> ’ ok V nnrl hca,,h I* prr wetly good. I have no aches or pains about me. Hood’s Sarsaparilla ray bowels, stimulates my appetite and help. iu« IO deep well. I <lou&t If * was n V‘ d( ’ ,0 ’rll suited to '!■ “ants of old people.“ L. n Hamlsx Ehn Street, Augusta, Me., Sept, g.l, 1891. * H. 00 o PILLS art a mll<l, gentle, painless, sets and rgclent othartlc. Always reliable.