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“Let Down Your Sets.”
Launch out into the deep. ....
The awlul depth* of the world * despair;
Heart* thatare hr. akinsaiid eye* that w«ep,
Sorrow and mm and death are there.
And tlie *ea is wide, and the pitiles* tide
Bear* on hi* bosom away—away, __
Beauty and youth in relentles* ruth JA
fcTo its dark abyss for aye—for aye.
But the Master’s voice comes over t he sea,
“l«t down your nets lor a draught for Me
He stands in our midst on our wreck strewn
slraud. . ... ,
And sweet and royal is Hi* command
Hi* pleading call
1* to each—u> all;
And wherever the royal call is heard
There hang the nets of the royal wvird.
Trust to the net* and not to your "kill,
Trust to the Royal Master’s will!
Let down your not" each day,each hour.
For the w ord of a king is a word of power.
And the King's own voice coineKovcr the sea,
•’Let down youruet* for a draught” lor Me!
—Sunday Magazine.
Hwang Bien, I’. 0. Ciikfoo, |
North China, Dec. 24, 1893. j
Dear Miss Wright:—A great
celebrity has suddenly arisen in our
midst; One our near neighbors, un
til recently an ordinary individual
known to only a few, has gone crazy
and calls himself a god, possessed of
great virtues as a healer of diseases.
His brothers, who at first sought to
beat the bad spirit out of him, are
now vastly proud of him, and ready
to perform all acts of worship to him
as actual deity. Many marvellous
cures are reported as accomplished
by mere contact with his spiritual
environment, and his fame has spread
for miles around. On account of his
professed wisdom he is called the
“Fox divinity.” No patient is ad
mitted who does not first burn in
cense to him as a god. One who
comes the second day, professing
himself helped of his disease by the
previous treatment is given repeated
doses of spiritually aerated water —
the only medicine used. Hut one
who claims no betterment after one
dose is dismissed, the doctor saying
that the spirit with which he is pos
sessed, and to whom he gives all the
glory of his miracles declines to have
anything to do with that particular
case. If he overhears any slighting
or doubting remarks concerning his
powers he has sufficient method in
his madness to promise the scoffer a
prompt visitation of colic.
A heathen neighbor has been
troubled for several years w ith a stub
born eczema. The native doctors
were all unable to help her. Then she
went to one of our native Christians
who dispenses foreign medicines
with considerable success. He gave
her iodine liniment to apply in limit
ed quantities every day for a month.
She, desiring a speedy cure, applied
the entire quantity in one half day
with disastrous results to her cuticle
and to the chagrin of the apothecary.
When Dr. Randle passed through
here she applied to him and he gave
her medicine for her blood, assuring
her of gradual but sure relief. Now
that this false prophet has arisen she
goes to him and professes to be cured
in one day and the grateful family
propose several days of theatrical
performance in honor of the Healer,
Last Sunday several strange wo
men attended church service here.
I saw from the incense carried by one
of the party that they were on their
way to the famous doctor. One of
them was seeking relief from dys
pepsia of nine years standing. She
had come from a great distance. One
of our Christian women spoke up
earnestly, “Yes that’s the way it is.
The devil’s fame travels fast and goes
far, but Jesus’ gospel is so slow in tak
ing hold of people.” Will you not in
America join in the petition then
sent heavenward from us, that this
people may speedily come to realize
their fatal soul-sickness and seek the
Great Physician as they now seek
the false and pretentious medicine
men ? Lovingly,
Anna S. Pruitt.
HER SAD FACE-
“There is a sadnesss in her face,
and, if one looks closely, you can
read the following story: “My hus
band sits in his lodge and smokes
most of the time. Once a week,
when cattle are issued at the beef
corral, he goes out with me in our
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it’s very bad you must change your diet Dome _ e
SORE and perhaps take some distasteful drug BRUISES
ryrn —the doctor will tell you what—but first qpOAIMQ
rub thoroughly the part afflicted with
WOUNDS POND’S EXTRACT, then wrap it SORE
CnDCQ warmly with flannel, and the rheutna- yiinnii-r
SUntS tism may wholly disappear. It will cer- • HnUAI
Headache tainly be much relieved. Now that you (‘gtgi’i’h
AND have the POND'S EXTRACT try it for and
_ any of the many things its buff wrapper arTED
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wagon and shoots a cow. I have to
cut up the animal, remove the skin
and put the meat in the wagon,while
he sits idly by, regarding my work
complacently. He may aid me in
lifting the heavier pieces, but when
we get home the preparing of cer
tain portions to be dried devovlcs
wholly upon me. I have to cut most
of the wood bring the water, and
make trips to the agency store two
or three miles distant for provisions.
On ration day, when flour, beans,
rice and meal are issued us, I go
to the commissary department
with the dawn of day and
stand in line with four of five hun
dred other women several|hours pa
tiently waiting the opening of the
doors. When 1 receive my heavy
load of provisions there is no one
to help me carry them back home
except my children.” And while the
woman told you this you would feel
very sorry for her; but when she told
you with proud and haughty bear
ing her reason for not permitting her
lord to assist her, you would lose
your symathy. “To you white people
this is dreadful; to us it is right. My
husband is a warrior (or a chief or
medicine man) and it is degrading
for him to do woman’s work. I
would no more think of asking him
to aid mo in ordinary duties, than
your husband would think of asking
their wives to aid them in their bus
iness, or at tneir offices. My sphere
is entirely different from his, and
while it is hard work, it is a labor of
love.”
The missionaries on the reserva
tion find it extremely difficult to in
fuse European ideas into the minds of
the Sioux, especially regarding the
treatment of women. While the
men are perfectly willing to have
their girls educated, they will not
consent to have them placed on an
equality with the men. Time alone
can change this prejudice and raise
Sioux w t omen from their low condi
tions to that high noble position .such
as is attained and held by women of
civilized nations. A woman compelled
to toil as a slave, appeals to no sen
timent in the men’s nature save that
of pity and compassion. Education
and Christianity alone can elevate
them.—Ladies Home Journal.
George B. French, Esq., of Nashua, N. H.
in an argument before the New Hampshire
Legislature July IC.th, I**9,uses the following
words; '’When the common people cannot
find Pond’s Extract, which they run for in
distress, on sale at some convenient place,
just as they have done.there will be a howl go
up that the regular school cannot cure with
their instruments or thorough courses. When
a man Ims a ragingpain in his tooth,.joints,or
face; when he is tied into a double bow-knot
with a cramp in his stomoch, he cannot stop
to go to a physician five miles off and take a
thorough course. He is going to have some
thing in his medicine closet that he can get
nt wi bout any proscription, with a gold seal
on it.”
Monthly report of Georgia Baptist
Orphans’ Home Association for
Jan. 1894.
The monthly meeting of the Asso
ciation was opened with the usual
exercises, the President, Mrs. Hatch
er, presiding.
Reports from all the committees
were encouraging. Children show
daily improvement in their stud
ies, sewing, household duties, deport
ment and personal tidiness. The
general household and domestic af
fairs are managed with economy and
judgment by the matron.
Applications for the admission of
six children into the Home have been
granted and the children are expect
ed soon. The arrival of these little
ones will make it necessary
to have more beds, white counter
pins, sheeting and table linen. We
would most gratefully appreciate
contributions of any of the above
articles.
Many donations have been receiv
ed during the month for which
we wish to return sincere thanks.
The following is a list of same.
From Social Union Ist. Baptist
church, city, 1 dress, 7 yds. check
Muslin, darning cotton and ribbon.
Young Ladies Society, 2nd. Bap
tist church, city, 1 apron, 1 pr.
shoes. Central Baptist Church, city
12 packages.
Mrs. Loulie Gordon. 100 lbs. flour,
Mrs. Bozeman, 1 carpet. Mrs. Gar
rott, strips of carpeting. Mrs. Cox 1
carpet. Miss Nappen, Eatonton, 1
quilt. Mrs. Hatcher,2 pictures. Mrs.
THE CHRISTIAN INDEX: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1894.
Burke, 2 picture frames. Through
Miss Bradley 1 second hand dress.
Mrs- Easterlin 1 apron. .Treasurer’s
collections for Jan. >306.39.
Mrs. Lumpkin, Cor. Sec’ty.
Mrs. A. J. Orme, Admission and
Adoption.
Mrs. A. J. Moore, Treasurer.
Mrs. Hatcher, President.
HINTS FOB HOUSEWIVES.
When milk is used in tumblers
wash them first in cold water, after
wards rinse in hot water.
Weak spots in a black silk waist
may be strengthened by sticking
court-plaster underneath.
A correspondent of the London
Lancet points out that when sugar
is partly burned in a gas flame
it is destructive to mice.
Bread and cake bowls or any
dishes in which flour or eggs have
been used are more easily cleaned if
placed in cold water after using.
For frying always put a pound or
two of fat in the pan. This is no
waste, as the same tat can be used
over and over by pouring it through
a strainer into a crock kept for the
purpose.
Malachite, agate and azurine
when broken, may be cemented with
sulpur, melted at low heat, so as not
to change its color, in which different
pigments are stirred to give it prop
er tints like the stones.
The cardinal rule in a kitchen is to
clean up as you go, and if attended
to this saves half the labor and fa
tigue cooks suffer from who pursue
the old method of having a grand
and comprehensive “clean up.”
No matter how large the spot of
oil, any carpet or woollen stuff can
be cleaned by applying buckwheat
plentifully brushing it into a dust pan
after a short time and putting on
fesh until the oil has disappeared.
When it is required to use car
bolic acid as a disinfectant it should
be mixed with boiling water. This
promtly overcomes the usual antag
onism between the acid and the
water and converts them into a per
manent solution which will keep for
weeks.
To prevent mouldy cheese the
housekeeper should leave the cover a
little open when the cheese is in the
pantry. A revolving cheese dish is
a capital arrangement for keeping
cheese fresh. It has a cover that does
not require to be lifted off when
the cheese is on the table.
Cold boiled potatoes sliced and
placed in milk gravy, and boiled till
warm, are very good with any kind
of pork, especially ham and bacon.
They are more delicate if the gravy
is thickened with cornstarch and
enriched with butter. This is away
of saving potatoes, as the gravy
forms much of the dish.
When you are making your pastry
take the bits that may be left and roll
as thin as writing paper spread with
grated cheese, fold and roll again.
Repeat this three times, then cut in
strips as wide and as long as your
finger. Brush with beaten egg and
bake in a quick oven. Watch care
fully as they burn quickly and re
quire to be only delicately brown.
Here is a recipe for cleaning del
icate laces which an old lacemaker
who has woven many a gossamer
web for the great connoisseur and lov
er of laces, Mme. Modjeska, gave to
her pupil and patron: Spread the lace
out on paper, cover with calcined
magnesia, place another paper over
it and put it away between the
leaves of a book for two or three
days. Then all it needs is a skillful
little shake to scatter the powder,
and its delicate little threads are as
fresh and clean as when first woven.
Mme. Modjeska is quite an adept at
the art of lace-making and fashions
many dainty patterns with her deft
fingers.
A physician is quoted as having
obtained good results in an outbreak
of boils by the administration for
eight days of ten to fifteen grains of
boric acid a day, divided into two
does: At the same time, four or five
times a day, the inflamed areas were
washed with a hot solution of boric
acid in the strength of 4 per cent. Be
tween the application of this lotion
compresses were applied to the diseas
ed parts,which had been wet with the
same solution. In this way he claim
ed to have been able to reduce the
boils which had already formed and
to do much towards preventing the
other outbreaks. By this means he
thinks it possible to avoid surgical
intervention.
A lamp burning badly develops
more beat than usual; the light is red
and the combustion imperfect, pro
ducing a disagreeable odor. Science
says this may arise from the air not
being properly reverberated against
the flame, or from the shape of the
chimney, allowing of back currents,
or from the lamp being dirty, the
airholes clogged, the wick damp or
dirty, the presence of a trace of veg
etable or animal oil in the vessels
used for filling or from the oil itself,
the presence of heavy oils or refin
ing chemicals. When the oils are not
homogeneous, a light and heavy oil
being mixed, the heat developed is
grater than with either oil separate
ly, this result being more pronounced
when a poor wick is used.
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Writing Mention Christian Index.
©hildvvn’a ffiorner.
Children, you should remember,
as we study the Sunday-school les
sons, how important the first book of
the Bible is. Genesis is the only
history of man for twenty-three
hundred years. And these the first
years of his career upon the earth.
This book alone covers a period
twice as long as all the rest of the
Old Testament. Another feature
we would have you note and remem
ber. It is also the oldest history.
Only think of the time we have to
go back in the past! It is more
than 3,300 years since it was writ
ten.
While we study the historical
feature of our Sunday-school lessons,
let us remember these seven repre
sentative men : Adam represents
ruin; Abel, atonement; Noah, re
generation ; Abraham, faith ; Isaac,
sonship ; Jacob, discipline and serv
ice ; Joseph, glory through suffering.
Ruin is remedied by the atonement
which makes possible regeneration
by faith and begets sonship, makes
possible service and suffering and
glory.
We study now the character of
Abraham who occupies the central
point in Genesis. He is the begin
ning of the Hebiew nation, which
gave to the world its Redeemer.
God called Abram out from among
the wicked people who surrounded
him in Ur, of the Chaldees, and led
him to the land of Canaan, where
He blessed Abram and made him a
blessing to others. We would that
you could take the spirit of obedi
ence to God that Abram had and be,
too, blessed of God all your lives.
The book of Genesis centers about
seven pairs of prominent persons.
Adam typifies Christ; Eve, the
church; Cain, the flesh; Abel, the
Spirit; Enoch, the heavenly calling;
Noah, the restored Jewish remnant;
Abraham, walking by faith;' Lot,
walking by sight; Ishmael, the fruit
of nature; Isaac, the fruit of resur
rection ; Esau, that which is natural;
Jacob, that which is spiritual;
Brethren, Israel cut off ; Joseph, the
restoration of all things. Now while
your minds are young and impres
sive, fix these characters in your
memory.
Would you walk perfect before
God ? Then seek to be able to rest
everything with Him.
God knows children. Can you not
trust His love ?
We take it for that the
children whe ’’is page are
children wh L .ay to God. Whether
you pray or not, dear little ones, we
would point you to Abraham. He
prayed and did not simply “say his
prayers,” as we sometimes fear boys
and girls do. Abraham prayed to
God for just what he wanted, and
for what be wanted then. When
you wish something of mother and
father, you go and plead for it. So
Abraham pleaded with God for what
he desired. He felt that God would
do right, and hence he prayed to
Him for help in every trouble.
It is said that a poor woman who
had been left alone to struggle for a
living for herself and three children,
baj returned after a wearisome tramp
in search of work. She was dis
couraged, hungry, almost heart
broken, and the tears would come.
She sat quietly weeping for some
time. Her little boy had been watch
ing her and wondering at the mother
who had always been so brave and
cheerful, and strong. He finally
walked up to her chair and tenderly
smoothing her cheek said, “what is
the matter, mamma, is God dead?”
It was like a cup of cold water in
a desert land, it gave the needed
courage. No, God was not dead,
and she would still try again, and
new hope came to her heart.
Every Christian should realize the
importance of doing something for
others. Abraham’s intercession for
Sodom, is an example worthy of im
itation. Christ ever liveth to inter
cede for us. A beautiful story is
told that illustrates this principle.
A missionary from Labrador was the
guest of a family in London. He
told the children much about his
missionary life, and when he went
away asked them to pray for him.
So every night one little boy would
always finish his prayer with the pe
tition, “Lord Jesus, bless the dear
missionary and keep the polar bears
from hurting him.” Day after day
for a year he offered the same prayer.
The father wrote to his friend and
told him, and enquired if he had had
any adventures with polar bears.
The missionary answered and said
he had been mercifully kept, and he
hoped his little friend would con
tinue to pray. Not long after, the
missionary was appointed to preach
many miles away. He went on
board a small ship with two natives
who were to row him to the place.
As they came near a narrow arm of
the sea, they saw on a steep preci
pice overhanging the water, a bear
ready to spring upon them. The
natives wanted to turn back, for
they said the monster would jump
and overturn their boat and plunge
them all into the greatest danger.
But the missionary said, “No, we will
go on. There is a little boy in Eng
land who has been praying for a
year that God would protect me
from the bears. God will do it! ”
They went on. The bear sprang
into the water and came swimming
toward them. One of the men fired
bis pistol. The bear was wounded
and started away from the ship to
the shore. As he reached the bank
anotliershot killed him. They rowed
to the shore and the missionary cut
off a paw of the bear and dressed
it and sent it with a kind letter to
the faithful boy in London who had
prayed for him. The boy is a man
now, but he treasures his bearpiw
and loves to tell the story of how he
obtained it.
OUR GIRLS.
BY MRS. L. RICHARDS.
What a blank there would be in
this world without our girls; our
cheerful, merry, happy girls. 'Die
fresh, youthful face of girlhood lends
a charm and attraction to any home,
be it a cabin or palace. The light,
elastic step, the cheering presence,
the song on the lips, the laugh in the
eye brightens our homes like the
sunshine.
When we visit in a family where
they are so fortunate as to have one
or more grown girls there is a
brightness inside the walls of that
home that is more attractive than
the sunshine without. We do not
realize the force of this attraction
unless we visit a home in which
there are no girls.
Sometimes it is remarked of a
young girl • “She cant do one really
useful thing ; what is she fit for?”
When at the same time she is a
perfect sunbeam in a home that
might otherwise be desolate. She >8
filling her mission to brighten the
world by her presence; something
too often lost sight of until t! e
brightness has flown—the flower has
faded.
If young people co ild only real
ize the priceless jewel they are in
possession of—the power of making
the world brighter, more cheerful
and happy they would be happier
themselves. There is a natural
charm in youth that only needs cul
tivation of mind and heart, and the
geace of a kindly spirit to make it
lovely and beautiful.
“Old heads on young shoulders”
are not expected. Impatience, im
petuosity and impulsiveness are
characteristic of youth, but the fact
is softened and sobered as being
mother Nature’s gift. There is a
bright, cheerful happy something in
youth that counteracts and makes
amends for many personal defects.
All girls cannot be pretty. Beauty
is the exception and not the rule,
but all can be charming and attract
ive. It is a happy thought that in
training the mind we may shape the
countenance. A cheerful, happy
spirit shining through the plainest
f .ce, makes it p easant and agreea
ble. Probably at no time in the
history of the world has beauty—
mere beauty been at such a dis
count. Novelists recognize this fact.
The heroines of popular stories of
the day are more apt to be plain and
sensible than beautiful. Popular
taste demands that a heroine should
be noble in mind and heart, regard
less of biauty and wealth. Therein
lies the inspiration of such books as
Jane Eyre, which every girl ought
to read in order to better under
stand how matter may be made sub
ject to mind. “Pretty is as pretty
does” is an old adage that should be
kept before young people. Feature
and form God bestows. Character
and manners are ours to form and
maintain.
Custom has coined a new name
for the cheerful, pleasant, helpful
girl; it is “the sweet girl,” and no
longer the beautiful girl, that is ad
mired by young and old. Pleasant
manners, good deeds, and a loving
sympathizing heart is reflected in
the face, is haard in every tone of
voi te, and lends grace and dignity
to the form. These graces are far
m ire attrcctive and lasting than a
pretty face. Ever hopeful, buoyant
in spirit,' care and trouble sit lightly
upon young shoulders. Looking out
upon the morning of life, with hopes
and aspirations all aglow. Why
should they not scatter sunshine in
their path ? And why should not
older people appreciate it, and thank
God for the blessing.
The girl that is father’s comforter,
mothers friend, brother’s sympa
thizer, and sisters companion is a
jewel. She is fulfilling a grand and
glorious destiny, and though she
may not realize it, she is making the
world brighter and better by her
presence.
FOR HEADACHE AND INDIGESTION
Use Horsford’s Acid Phosphate.
A prominent physician of Buffalo, N. ¥..
says of it: ’I have severe headache*, and it
relieves them. lam fond of the pleasures of
the table, and as a consequence of my indul
gence there. 1 have to pay the penalty. It di
vides penalty with me. Indeed it is an indis
pensable article to me.”
Safe in the Lord.—As the diver
in his bell sits at the bottom of the
sea, and draws pure air from the free
heavens far above him, and is parted
from the waste of green death that
clings so closely round the walls that
keep him safe ;so we, enclosed in
God, shall repel from ourselves all
that would overflow to destroy us
and our work, and may, by his grace
lay deeper than the waters some
courses in the great building that
shall one day rise, stately and many
mansioned, from out of the conquer
ed waves.—Dr. Alexander Maclaren.
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DISEASES of the
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ATLANTA, GEORGIA.
WHAT IS ECZEMA?
It is an agony of agonies.
A toiture of tortures.
It is an itching and burning of the
skin almost beyond endurance.
It is thousands of pin-headed ves
icles tilled with an acrid fluid, ever
forming, ever bursting, ever flowing
upon the raw excoriated skin.
No part of the human skin is
exempt.
It tortures, disfigures, humiliates
more than all other skin diseases.
Tender babies are among its most
numerous victims.
They are often born with it.
Sleep and rest are out of the
question.
Most remedies and the best phy
siciansgenerally fail, even to relieve.
If CUTICURA did no more than
cure Eczema, it would be entitled to
the gratitude of mankind.
It not on’y cures but
A single application is often suffi
cient to afford instant relief, permit
rest and sleep, and point to a speedy
cure.
Cuticura works wonders because
it is the most wonderful skin cure
of modern times.
Fold throughout the world. Price. Cuticura,
60c. ; boAP, 2 >c. ; Resolvent, sl. Potter
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Writing Mention Christian Index.
A ROMANTIC REVOLUTIONARY IN
OIDEN”’.
ARTHUR 1.. CARRINGTON—VIRGIN
IA RANDOLPH,
BY REV. W. 11. ROBERTS.
Editor Index :—I find among
my preserved scraps, of interest, the
following, which seems to be well
and fully authenticated. I place it
at your disposal :
During the revolutionary war,
(1778) Arthur L. Carrington, a
noble young man, had follow
ed the fortunes of Washington,
and spent that awful winter
with him at Valley Forge.
In the pursuits of war he had
found and secured the heart of the
pretty and pious “Virginia Ran
dolph,” just eighteen years old.
He frequently wrote to her from
the army and so was prepared
with pen and ink and paper at all
times. He was a young man of
more than ordinary vim, and in hie
hazardous attacks on the scouts of
the British army, had found a safe
place to bide from their approach,
in a cave near the Falls of Fresh
Creek, Pa. He managed to secrete
himself by a rock, which he arrang
ed in the mouth of the cave, and
which he could remove easily as he
wanted to come out.
On one occasion, just after he
had fastened up his entrance, the
British troops fired three shots
near by, and the concussion was so
severe that he was fastened in the
cave in such a manner that it was
impossible for him to escape.
There were rays of sunlight that
enabled him to see, and understand
his real condition. When he knew
that death was near with a firm
confidence in the God in whom he
trusted, he wrote a letter to his be
trothed, and put it in a bottle
which he happened to find.
About ten or twelve years since,
a new cave was found in a granite
qurry which was then being open
ed up and in it a skeleton, and the
bottle, and in the bottle the follow
ing letter:
In the Cave, May 20th, 1778.
Miss Virginia Randolph :
My dearly loved and betrothed.-I
am in my cave in which I have of
ten escaped the approach of our
enemies, but my darling, I am con
fined now, and believe that I shall
never be able to get out. The
British troops who were hot in my
pursuit fired three shots near by
and the concussion moved the rock
which covered it, and has
so fastened it that I cannot
possibly get out, and I give
you these lines which may tell of
my fate. It is God who has allow
ed this. God who created us all
must know what is good for us,
and we can only submit and trust.
To know that your heart is mine
atones, far more than atones for all
I have suffered or can suffer in this
life.
My life seems to have begun
with our love. Only since then
have I truly lived. You have
shielded me from evil thought. I
have been in every way a better
man since I loved you. When I
gaze into the pure depths of your
dark blue eyes, doubts and shadows
flee far away from me. Virginia!
Ah Virginia, I am looking into
them now.
God is good, God is merciful to
let you seem so near me. You are
praying for me now, at this mo
ment I feel it. I know it is so my
beloved. It is not farewell, I can
not say farewell. There is no
farewell to love like ours.
This agony will soon be over
with me, and I will be free. I will
be waiting for you in the land of
the hereafter. Virginia my best be
loved, I am almost there, and some
thing tells me I will not have to
wait long for your coming.
No one should ever doubt the
goodness or the love of God, I feel
his ways are best. He has bound
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our souls together fore v er more
Blessed be His holy name.
As ever yours,
A. L. Carrington.
When this strange, and interest
ing letter was discovered inquiry
was made as to its contents, and
there was found in a family grave
yard in Virginia near the home cf
one of the old Randolph families a
monument with this inscription :
Died of a broken heart, Virginia
Randolph, on the ist of March,
1780, aged 21 years and nine days.
“Faithful unto death.”
Centerville, Miss., Jan. 25th, ’94.
DR. HARTMAN
RECEIVES A I.ETTER FROM A. C.
WARE, OF BYRAN, TEXAS.
“I had chronic catarrh long stand
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doctors had given me up; said
they could do nothing for me; that 1
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about as weak as I could get and
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ter I had spent a great deal f mon
ey on doctors and different medicines
I concluded to try Pe-ru-na. I hon
estly believe that Pe-ru-na saved
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I think if Pe-ru-na was used there
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I have been the means of selling
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if the first bottle did not help them
I would pay for it, and I have nev
er paid for a single bottle. They
were always pleased with it.”
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A Boys Luck.—Some boys have
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luckiest boy the world ever knew was
the little Maidstone (England) boy,
who had a very narrow escape,
while dying his kite, some five or
six years ago. Not looking where
he was going, he stepped backward
and fell into a quarry forty feet
deep, to the horror of some persons
walking near. The string of the
kite, however being fastened around
the wrist, the boy was lowered gent
ly into the .pit, the kite acting as
a parachute, and instead of being
dashed to pieces, he escaped unhurt.
Perhaps this means he is destined to
make his mark in the world- The
great Lord Clive, when a youth,
tried three times to shoot himself,
but the pistol missed fire each time.
—Harper’s Young People.
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The Electropathic Instruments and
Compounds for Catarrh mailed free to
any one sending address. If they cure
you, remit $2.00; if not return. No ob
ligation to buy; no charge for testing.
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