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4 (the (Christian JtuTeat Published Every Thursday at 57% S Broad Street. Atlanta. Ga. OUK OBLIGATION I'o DISCIPLE THE NATIONS. In previous issues we have seen how radical and revolutionary Chris tianity was designed to be. The Saviour’s last commission contem plated nothing less than the religious conquest of the whole world. Christ sent his disciples forth to overthrow every system of faith and worship, and to build up a new system that should embrace in its pale the entire race. We have seen also that Chris tianity is admirably adopted to this designed universality. The glorified Son of man is entitled to the king ship over humanity. His gospel, in its provisions and promises, meets the universal need and hope of man kind. As was its founder, so is Christianity the “friend of sinners.” Out of these considerations arise obligations. 'The commission in Matt. 28: 18-20 was given not to the apostles alone. According to the the most reasonable hypothesis the words were spoken to the assembled “five hundred” brethren mentioned by Paul in 1 Cor. 15:6. Certainly of none of the eleven could it have been said “some doubted.” At the time the commission was given every Shadow of ddubt had been driven from their minds, and we may con fidently believe the same certainty of faith also came to the five hundred before their Lord finally ascended. We conclude, therefore, that the com mission was given to Christ’s follow ers as such. The obligation to disci ple the nations is the heritage of discipleship “even unto the cud of the world.” It is plain says Dr. Broadus, from Acts 8: 2, -I, that the first Christians all set themselves to carry out the Lord’s last command. “Christianity is essentially amission ary religion, analogous to the great conquering nations, the Homans, En glish, Russians. It must be spread by a law of its nature ; it must be active at the extremetieg, or it be chilled at the heart, must bo enlarg ing its circumference, or its very centre tends to be defaced.” The soldiers of Christ are to-day under the marching orders of the great Captain of Salvation. It is our du ty to discisplc the nations. The obli gation to send the gospel into all the world rests on us, and will rest on nil suceeeeding generations of believ ers, until the final victory is won. It is the obligation of Loyalty. It is the King—tho enthroned Prince of life who says “Go.” Aye, it is the word of him who claims our loyal obedience, not only because he is the crowned one, but because ho also is our Saviour. He calls us to tho glorious service who died for us and rose again; who hath freely forgiven our sins and given us a name and place in his Father’s household of faith. .Surely grateful love should constrain to enthusiastic loyalty ! We contend earnestly for the ordinances of tho gospel.” Baptists are sei. for the ex position and defence of scriptural views concerning baptism and the supper. Here is an ordinance of the King equally demanding the loyal attention and obedience of every believer. It is the King's ordinance that the nations shall be discipled by bis followers. It is the obligation of Humanity. It is too late for intelligent faith to ask, “Ain I my brother's keeper?’’ The whole world is kin, and our neighbors are mankind. As was Panl, so are wo “debtors to the Greeks and to the Barbarians, both to the wise and to the unwise.” We cannot sinlessly withhold the gospej committed to us. A world lies in the shadow of sin and death, ami the Saviour commands us to hold forth the light. "Shall we whose souls are lighted With wisdom from on high, Shall we to men bi n iahtod Tho lamp of life deny?” It is the obligation of Opportuni ty. As loving children of God we should be ever watching the movings of his Providence, even as old Isreal was obedient to the pillar of cloud and fire. Our eyes must wait on God. Surely the eye is dull indeed that does not see the divine provi dence and presence in the grand missionary movements of the past century. Who can doubt the mov ing of his Spirit on the hearts of his people as they have been led to sieze opening opportunities to send his gospel to the nations ? As those op portunities are multiplied he calls upon the hosts of faith to press for ward in the grand work. It is the obligation of Encourage ment. Success is often God’s stamp of approval and encouragement. Sometimes his people must walk wholly by faith through darkness; but it does seem that in the modern missionary movement God is leading them beneath the shining sun. “The morning light is breaking”—aye, it has already broken ! The day has dawned, and missions are no longer an experiment. We must not meas ure progress by statistics altogether. M uch has been accomplished that cannot be tabulated. The foundation of Christianity have now been laid in heathen lands, and the superstructure will go for ward more rapidly. The edge of the wedge is in, and will bo driven home by prayer and consecration to the sundering of the solid mass of hoary heathenism. The sacrafice of life and the contributions of the cen tury have planted the divine seed, which will spring up in a rapidly in creasing harvest to the glory of God and the redemption of man. It is not too much to say that when an other century of such rapid progress and such blessing from heaven shall end, starting from such vantage ground as we have now gained, heathenism will be crumbled to dust and scattered to thcjwinds, tho evil spirit will be driven into the sea,and the whole world, like the released demoniac of Gadara, will be “sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed, and in its right mind.” A LAW THAT NEEDS MENDING. In one of our Georgia Courts, tho other day, a man was convicted of incest with his own daughter. That a father should have been guilty of an offence so infamous and horrible, and that he should have made con fession of Ins crime before tho tri bunal of his country without a blush, these are two matters of wonder When first feeling their double shock, one is apt to conclude that they could not come into connection with any thing more surprising than themsel ves. But the special astonishment of this case lies in the fact that a third wonder greater than these two has been found to bo linked with them. It is this—that grosser marvel is— that the State, by its Law, and by its Court, condemns such a flagrant offender to nothing more than im prisonment in the penitentiary for a single year! This seemed so incredi ble to us, that we could not believe it until both the evening and morn ing papers of the city concurred in reporting it I Is that sentence, tri vial by comparison with the nauseous misdeed, a fair measure of Georgia’s abhorrence in the case ? Nay, is not so light a punishment for a crime so grievous a virtual apology for the crime ? We call for an amendment of this law. Let the penalty attest the enormity of the offence. Let no other man like this so nearly “a lump where all beasts kneaded be,” come so near escaping entirely “unwhipt of justice.” Wo read that there are now throughout France 41(1,600 establish ments for the sale of intoxicating liquors, 27,000 of which are in Paris alone.” It surprises us that the peo ple supporting these establishments can look on one hand and see un warned that “one tenth of tho men who die prematurely in Switzerland die of alcoholic poisoning,” ami look on the other hand and see unwarned that “delirium tremens kills four per sons per day in England.” But what cause is there for wonder in this? Is it not the quality of fallen human nature to follow tho way of evil blindly? When Wrong entices us, is it not in ourselves, is it not all men, of whom it is written: “He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks; till a dart strike through his liver, as a bird hast, eth to tho snare and knoweth not that it is for his life?” We are happy to agree, as far as we may, with Dr. Arthur T. Pierson in relation to the Metropolitan Tab ernacle. In a recent letter, he wrote: “I have never for a moment had a thought of effecting if I were able, any change on the doctrinal basis of the Tabernacle or in its polity. My belief has always been that the fu ture pastor should not only bo ‘an immersed believer’ ami a Baptist by conviction, but a Baptist by associa tion and life-long history. No other man would be tit to command the confidence of this great church, and of the greater denomination which it represents." That is to the point we strike hands on that. Then, let the “other man” get out of the way. And as Dr. Pierson happens to be that “other man,” let him get out of it. We hope that he will agree with us as cheerfully as we agreed with I him. THE CHRISTIAN INDEX: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8. 1892. ONCE MORE—AND FINALLY. Our brother 11. B. Hillyer, of Bel ton, Texas, is not satisfied with our recent editorial articles on the resur rection of Christ. We are sorry he still clings to bis Watsonian “inter pretation” of the “three days and three nights” in Matt. 12 :40. We do no not see the necessity of any further discussion of the subject, but he does. He writes: “In your review of my article you quote largely from scholars and com mentators. Now my good brother, let me say that nearly all of those authors are Catholics, Lutherans, Episcopalians and are mere apolo gists for our false translations Os passages relating to this subject, and all in an effort to establish Good Fri day of their church.” This is positively amazing in view of the fact that -we quoted, we be lieve, only three scholars, one Bap tist and two Presbyterians! It is well known that the latter as well as the Baptists have no regard for “Good Friday.” Bro. Hilly er says ho “does not get his theology from such sources.” He continues : “I hold the Bible to be God’s Rev elation to man. If God has made a Revelation so ambiguous and hidden that it requires a priest to discern it spiritually, it is in no sense of the word a Revelation, one so plain that a ‘wayfaring man tho’ a fool need not err therein.’ Away with com mentaries ! Let us to the ‘Law and Gospel’ as our ‘only sunlight in dark places.’ lam really amused to hear men talk about ‘Hard passa ges.’ They are only hard when we try to make them teach error.” This is decidedly rich—almost amusing. The wisest men of alj ages have acknowledged the value of reverent and competent com mentaries. It is a pity our Texas brother has advanced so far beyond them. If he sees no “hard passages,” he has eyes different from those of the apostle Peter, who saw in his brother Paul’s epistles some things hard to be understood. (2 I’et. 3 : 16.) But again : “Christ says ‘three days and three nights,’ not in ambiguous Hebrew, but simple, plain Greek, lie did not say ‘three onah’ nor ‘three nuch theemeron,’ but three days and three nights.” As a matter of fact Christ did not speak in Greek at all. Ho almost certainly used tho common language of the people, viz: the Aramaic. 'Then by what authorityjis tho He brew characterized as more “ambig uous” than the “plain Greek ?” Mat thew’s gospel is in Greek, but at the time he wrote there was no single Greek word to express the time word “onah,” which wo know- to have been used by the Jews to ex press the entire day of twenty-four hours. Again we let Dr. John A. Broadus speak : “The expression in Matt. 12 :40 is explained by a state ment in the Talmud, that a night and day together make up an “onah,” and any part of such period is counted as tho whole.” And neither Dr. Broadus nor the Talmud cared a fig for “Good Friday.” But we had al most forgotten that Bro. 11. has no use for scholars 1 The brother fur ther says : “All agree that the burial took place late in the evening, and (im mediately) ‘the Sabbath drew on’ and we find an inspired apostle (Matthew 28 :1) says in the end (or late) in the Sabbath, as the first day of the week began to appear, ‘draw on,’ or ‘dawn,’ ‘begin,’—the women came to the grave and found it emp ty. This was late Saturday evening about 6 o’clock. Here I might rest my ease as proven, but I am requir ed to harmonize every Scripture or repudiate Christ’s and Matthew’s statements. Now it is a fixed piin ciple in law, that one definite, credi ble statement in testimony will out weigh any amount of ‘believe,’ or ‘think,’ or indefinite testimony. Now Matthew states as a fact, that Christ was out of the grave Saturday even ing about sundown, and the other evangelists do not contradict it, but simply state that tho women visited tho grave Sunday morning and found it empty. Christ had risen, they do not say when. To find the day of crucifixion we count back from Saturday evening, at 6, three days and three nights, and it brings us to Wednesday evening at 6 o’clock for the burial. How simple !” Our brother dogmatically assumes that his interpretation of Matthew’s words is the only possible one. Wc , have before admitted a difficulty in tho use of the Greek “opse,”—ren dered “late” in the Revised Version i and in the Bible Union. Yet there are explanations which relieve the pas sage of the absurd idea of a visit of the women to the tomb on Saturday evening. Indeed the only respecta ble scholars, so far as wc know, who assume such a visit are McClellan and Westcott, strangely enough reg ular “Good Friday” Episcopalians I Meyer, regarded as the most emi nent among exegotical scholars, un. derstands Matthew as reckoning the night following Saturday as a part of the Sabbath, departing from the Jewish custom. Morrison (quoted by Broadus) says : “Tho difficulty vanishes if we suppose that the meth od of adding diurnally the night to the day, rather than the day to the night, had got more or less into common use among the Jews, so that there were two ways of reckoning complete astronomical days. . . . Here the evangelist was thinking of day-night, and hence ‘late in that day-night’ would mean about the end of the night that followed the day of the Sabbath.” Several oth er explanations are offered by com mentators, (excuse us !) but on the whole the foregoing is the preferable one. We find it impossible to seriously consider the supposition that the “resurrection and the visit of the women occurred on Saturday about sundown.” The idea is really gro tesque when we compare the several accounts of the evangelists. What Matthew tells of the resurrection and the conduct of the keepers in verses 2-4, and verses 11-15, seems almost necessarily to have occurred late in the night. The “raiment white as snow” and the “countenance as lightning” recall the night glory on-the transfiguration mount. Then, wouldn’t it have been a pretty story for the soldiers to tell that they were asleep before sunset! The Satur day evening theory thus becomes simply ridiculous. Further : Bro. IL does not shrink from affirming “three distinct visits of the women’ 1 to the empty tomb. The first he says was on “Saturday evening,” recorded by Matthew only. John tells of a visit in the early morning of Sunday while it was yet dark, while Mark says they went on Sunday morning at the rising of the sun. Thus the visit described by Mark was nearly two hours later than the one described by John, and twelve hours later than the one de scribed by Matthew.” The man who can seriously pro pose this is beyond the reach of ar gument. He is making the gospel narratives puerilities ! In a similar way, another distinguished man once insisted that Peter’s wife’s mother was healed of the fever three times, because he could not reconcile the several accounts of the one event ! It is impossible to think of the same women going to the tomb twice on Sunday morning, after a previous visit on Saturday evening, saying as as they go, “who will roll away the stone for us ?” Road carefully the several records : Matt. 27 :57 to 28 : 1-7, compared with Mark 15:40 to 16:1-4; Luke 23:50 to 24:1-9; John 19 :40 to 20 :l-9. However fragmentary and apparently confus ed these records may be, they can be intelligently understood and har monized only as they relate to one visit to tho open tomb. It is needless to follow Bro. 11. in his rather labored effort to show “two Sabbaths” and “two prepara tion days,” intervening between the crucifixion and the resurrection- True he speaks quite authoritively ’ and if strong assertion, and charges of “tampering with evidence,’ “wresting facts” and “contortion of Scripture,” were allowed to pass un challenged for argument, his posi tion would be demonstrated, and the scholarly world of cxegetes and commentators would be compelled to retire into darkness before the light from 4 Texas. He will excuse us if we prefer the testimony and opinion of able and competent, rev erent and conservative interpreters like Broadus and Robinson. We think enough has been said .on this question and promise our readers that wo will not further impose on their patience. The Forum for December has an article by an anti-Sabbatarian preach er in favor of opening the Colum - bian exposition on Sundays. What this man wants is that the United States congress’ should rescind its action in regard to the Sunday open ing, not, we suspect, that he is spe cially interested in the exposition but he is anxious to score a victory over the Sabbatarians ; and in order to do so he is willing to enter into a league with the enemies of all reli gious observance. His insinuations that the vote on tho subject in congress was due to tho approaching election is a gratu itous insult to the honesty and pa triotism of that body. It is a suggestive spectacle when a plain American citizen like tho Rev Dr. Talmage of New York, becomes the real or supposed champion of autocracy. The careful reader of the doughty doctor’s “glittering gen eralities” will not fail to note, how ever, that ho utterly ignores tho whole question of the Russian out- rages against the Jews, and the per secutions of the Baptists m that un happy country are passed over as a bagatelle! •‘BRIGGS-ISM.’’ Whether there is “a wounded snake,” or a snake of any kind, in the case we will not say; but the trial of Prof. Charles A. Briggs for her esy certainly “drags its slow length along.” It has as yet only reached the stage of “amended charges and specifications” before tho New York Presbytery; which is in fact, about fairly “beginning to begin” on the side of the prosecu tion, while the doctor, on his part declares himself still unready, m view of the amendments, to answer But the parties will warm to their work by and by, and we shall know its final issue some day if we we live. The amended charges and specifi cations make up a pamphlet of thir ty-six pages, and we compile from it the eight points of doctrine which are accounted worthy on the one side to be assailed as false and harm ful, and on the other to be defended as true and wholesome. This is done to remind our readers that the times theologically are sadly out of joint; that questions of gravest mo ment are held subject to challenge in the most unexpected quarters; and that we cannot lightly whistle current discussions down tho wind as altogether inapt to affect men who are influential as classes of thinkers or to involve matters which are vital in ranges of truth and duty* Here, then are the eight heresies al leged against Dr. Briggs.- 1. That “Reason is a fountain of divine authority, which may, and does, savingly enlighten men, even such men as reject the Scriptures as the authoritative proclamation of the will of God, and reject also the way of salvation through the mediation and sacrifice of the Son of God as revealed therein.” 2. That “the church is a fountain of divine au thority ; which, apart from the Holy Scripture, may, and does savingly enlighten men.” 3. That “Errors may have existed in the original text of the Holy Scripture, as it came from its authors.” 4. That “many of the Old Testament predictions have been reversed by history, and that the great body of Messionic pre diction has not been and cannot be fulfilled.” 4. That “Moses is not the author of the Pentateuch.” 6. That “Isaiah is not the author of half of the book that bears his name.’ 7. That “the processes of redemp tion extend to the world to come in the case of many who die in sin.” 8. That “sanctification is not com plete at death,” that “the souls of believers are not at their death at once made perfect in holiness.” The case is manifestly a serious one. It would be, if Dr. Briggs stood alone. But he does not stand so. There are many who range themselves by his side, men of re pute, of piety, of power who may or may not accept these eight points of doctrine with him, but who after he has accepted them are willing still to accept him, as a personal believer in Christ, as a preacher of the gos pel, as a professor of dogmatic theol ogy. And “they are they” who es pecially trouble us. There is an apparent tendency in certain quarters to undervalue the effect of habitual goodness, on the ground that it becomes involuntary and so ceases to be goodness at all. We think there is some virtue left in goodness which is the product of persistent effort, and which repre sents a series of victories, even though it may now be more or less involuntary. It is hardly possible to keep our moral optics so continually turned upon ourselves as to make each and every seperate act the re sult of a distinct approach to the source of guidance and help. If moral actions are to be valued ac cording to tho amount of direct con scious effort they represent, then the training of children makes the great est moral achievements impossible to them. We do not believe that self-conquest is ever so complete in this world that the force of habit may be depended upon with safety, but we do believe that tho habit of devotion is an important vantage ground and the most welcome aid in moments of weakness. By all means, our piety should not degenerate into mere routine, but he who has firmly fixed tho habit of constantly ap proaching tho throne of grace has a moral bulwark which will stand him in good stead in many a time of storm. Wo wish to place on record our unqualified gratificatian upon rea d ing these two sentences in Governor Northen’s address to the legislature, and we do so now that they may not be forgotten : “No state or nation can live long in power and influence after it forgets God and abandons righteousness. You should not pass any law to which the seal of the great Ruler of the universe cannot be affixed.” We most devoutly wish that this might be the standard by which every legislative act in our whole country should be tried. Bishop Benj. Tucker Tanner, of the African Methodist Episcopal church, has an article of nearly two columns in The Independent, Nov. 24th explanatory of the defeat of the Republican party in the late presi dential election. He begins thus: “And so the Republican Party has suffered what seems to be an Appomattox defeat. To use a strong figure of speech, Providence may be said to have literally kicked it out. “ Thy glory, O Israel, is slain upon thy high places! How are the mighty fallen? Toll it not in Gath. Publish it not in the streets of Askelon; Lest thedaughters of the Philistines rejoice Lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph. 2 Sam. 1: 19,20. Worse than the defeat is what seems the appearance that many quadrenniums will pass before it will be reinstated, if, indeed, it ever be. The question of moment is, Why?” The main reason assigned for de feat is the neglect of the negroes, es pecially, in political and social mat ters. The Republican party pulled down, or moved to the rear, the old banner which had inscribed upon it, “Humanity and Freedom,” and this was the precursor of disaster. If this cry is to be hushed, there is no longer need for the Republican party. According to Bishop Tanner it is the business of the Democratic party to ignore “Humanity and Free dom,” to fight for spoils, to lie, and to shed blood, and as that party is in power there is no need for any other. He closes with the pitiful, but misapplied, wail of David over the death of Jonathan. “And so the Republican Party is asked, ay, is commanded, to step down and out. “lam distressed for thee, my brother Jona than, Very pleasant hast thou been unto mo; Thy loVb to me wus wonderful. Passing the love of woman. How are the tnightv fallen. And the weapons of war perished.” For how long? As wc read the signs of the times, forever; or until it repents and does its first work over.” Repentance is, indeed, in order. But it is most devoutly hoped that the Republican party may never have a chance to do its first work over. The topic considered at a late Ministers’ meeting in Chicago is be ginning to attract the attention its importance deserves. The facts em bodied. in the following statement show the value of the opportunities, brought to our very doors, by the presence of so many foreigners in our larger cities and towns. Brought under the influence of the gospel and properly trained, they seem to be most natural,and wopld,no doubt, prove to be the most eflicent and ac ceptable foreign missionaries among the different nationalities they re present. The Chicago Ministers’ meeting on the 14th inst., considered the top ic, “The Foreign Population of Chi cago.” Among the 385,000 Ger mans, there are 1100 Baptists and only 4500 evangelical Protestants. There are five self-sustaining German Baptist churches in the city, with property valued at $90,500 with an indebtedness of $21,000. The Scandinavians number 105,000, and are largelj’ Lutheran. The Swedes have been very accessible to Bap tists. There are nine Swedish Bap tist churches in the city, with a mem bership of 1500, and property valued at |82,750. —Christian Standard. God seems to be turning these people into our hands and saying to us, “Here are Chinese, here are Turks, here are Indians, here are Italians, here are Mexicans, here are thousands of Negroes, take them, use the means I have given you to bring rhem to the knowledge of the truth, they already speak the lan guages needed to communicate with their own people, they have habits customs an<l sympathies in common with them, prepare them for the work and send them back to preach the gospel in their own lands.” Earnest work in this direction, will produce rich fruits in our foreign mission fields, before tho end of tho present century. There is no real tragedy except in wrong and evil; and this tragedy of evil and wrong is always double— the harm wo inflict on others, tho harm we suffer in ourselves. A re cent incident in one of our Southern cities strikingly illustrates this truth. Two men waxed fiercely angry, and one of them, dealing tho blow with a gun, and the concussion of the fa tal blow discharged it, sending swift death to the man by whom it was wielded. In the nature of thingsg such are our relations to our fellow mortals. If we smite others, it it with loaded guns: there is no weapon else for the hand of wickedness, an d in killing we are killed. UNLOVELY JOURNALISM. For sometime we have been hav ing an exhibition of unlovely journal ism, which is shamefully suggestive of too much of the “old Adam” in the minds and hearts of certain brethren. The world has come to expect newspaper quarrels between secular editors, for like a certain quadruped, of which the nursery rhyme tells, it is their nature to ‘‘light.” But better things are to be expected of editors of religious jour nals. Petty jealousies and spiteful charges und insinuations should be impossible among them. But alas I We scarcely ever open our Baptist organs hailing from Richmond and Louisville that something most un lovely is not read. The Virginian and the Kentuckian for some reason not wholly on the surface, have an implacable spite towards each other, and their subscribers have to be the unwilling witness to a very unfra ternal warfare. We do beg the dear brethren to bury their ugly be havior and cease their struggles for each other's scaips. Then there is an editor in Missis sippi who perches himself up in his observatory, and scans the horizon as far as his glass will reach, to find something wrong and heretical among bis brethren. He has sent forth his arrows (not always dipped in love) against devoted servants of Christ and the denomination, from Chicago to South Carolina, and from Texas to Virginia. Nqj is the Texas man wholly faultlefS. He has shown him self not unwilling to accept the chal lenge thrown fit his feet, and para graphs have disfigured his fair col umns, which had been better un written. Really brethren, is it not time to stop? .Unlovely journalism ■s| not the bestrway to champion the Master’s cause. The Augusta, Ga., Chronicle, in a recent issue, says: “It is a rather singular thing, almost peculiar to Augusta within our experience, that our best speakers do not coinmit to paper addresses which they are call, ed on tojmake on special occasions. It is impossible tor a newspaper to get a manuscript in Augusta where the speaker is one of our best ora tors.” This fact indicates a practice on the part of these speakers, in ac cordance with the counsel of the ablest teachers in rhetoric. The books tell us that too slavish a de pendence on the selection of words and the preparation of sentences before hand fetters the free and vigor ous action of the mind, renders the manner of delivery less natural, and takes something of the freshness from what is most original in the orator. Is this one reason why tho local eloquence of Augusta is of such unusual and widening repute? Did that city welcbme unawares a model of natural oratory to her bosom, and are her sons reaping from her hospi tality an unexpected harvest of bet terment ? -"■■e'u i _ —--isau Ng A Wk - Hi 1 M'iVl -or ' Jtfr. Harvey Heed Laeoyvillo, O. Catarrh,.Heart Failure, Pa" ralysls of the Throat “1 Thank God and Hood’e Sarso* partita for Perfect Health." “ Gentlemen: For tho benefit of suffering hu. inanity I wish to state a few facts: For several years I have suffered from catarrh and heart iatlure, getting so bad I could not work and Could Scnroely Walk I had a vary bad spell of paralysis of the throat soma time ago. My throat seemed closed and I could nos awnllow. Tho doctors said II was caused by heart failure, and gave medicine, which I took according to directions, but It did not seem to do me any good. My wire urged me to try Hood’s Sarsaparilla, telling mo of Mr. JoJeph C. Smith, who had been At Death’s Door bnt was entirely cured by Hood's Sarsaparilla After talking with Mr. Smith. I concluded <r try Hood’s Sarsaparilla. When 1 had taken two bottles I felt very much better. 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