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THE GREAT PROCLAMATION
BY REV. ALEXANDER MACLAREN, D D.
“Ho. every one that thirsteth. come
ye to the waters, and he that hath no
money; come ve, buy and eat; yea
come, buy wine and milk without
money and without price."- lea 55:1.
The meaning of the word preach is
“ proclaim like a herald;" or, what is
perhaps more familiar to moat of ns,
like a towncrier; with a loud voice,
clearly and plainly delivering the mea
wage
Now, there are other notiona of a aer
mon than that, and there ia other work
which ministers have to do. of an edu
cational kind Bnt my buaineaa to
night is to preach We have ventured
to ask others than the members of our
own congregation to come and join ua
this evening. and 1 should be ashamed
of myself, and have good reasons to be
so, if I had asked you to come to hear
me talk, or to entertain yon with more
or less eloquent and thoughtful dis
courses There is a time for every
thing; and what thia ia the time for >s
to ring ont like a bellman the meaaage
which I believe God has given me for
yon It cannot but suffer in passing
through human lips, but I pray that my
poor words thia evening may not be all
unworthy of ita stringency, ami of the
greatness of its blessing My text is
God s proclamation, and all that the
best fns can do is but to reiterate that,
more feebly alas, but still earnestly.
Suppose there was an advertisement
in t morrow morning's Manchester pa
p< rs that anybody that liked to go to a
certain place might get a fortune for
going, what a '/nrwof waiting auppli
ants there would be at the door ' Here
is God's greatest gift going a begging
and there are people in thia chapel this
evening who listen to my text with only
the thought “ Oh. the old threadbare
story is what we have been asked to
come and hear ' Brethren, have yon
taken the offer ? If not. it needs to be
pressed upon you once more
S > my purpose thia evening is a very
simple one 1 wish, as a brother to a
brother, to put before you these three
things to whom the offer ia made; what
it consists of. and how it may be ours,
NO ONE LEFT <»UT.
1 To whom this offer is made.
It is to every one thirsty and penniless
That is a melancholy combination to
be needing something infinitely, and to
have not a farthing to get it with But
that is the condition m which we all
atand, in regard of the highest and beat
things For this invitation of my text
is as universal as if it had stopped with
its third word. “Ho, every one "
would have been no broader than is the
offer as it stands. For the character
istics named are those which belong,
necessarily and universally, to human
experience If my text had said. " Ho.
every one that breathes human breath,"
it w mid not have more completely cov
ered the whole race, and enfolded thee
and me and all our brethren in the am
plitude of its promise, than it does
when it sets up as the sole qualifications
thirst and penury that we infinitely
need and that we are absolutely unable
to acquire the blessings that it offers.
Every one that thirsteth. ” That
means desire Yes; but it means need
also And what is every’ man but a
great bundle of yearnings and necessi
ties'; None of in carry within our
selves that which - suffices for ourselves
We are all dependent upon external
things for being and for well being
There are thirsts which infallibly
point to their true objects. If a man is
hungry he knows that it is food that he
wants. And just as the necessities of
the animal lite are incapable of being
misunderstood, and the object which
will satisfy them incapable of being
confused or mistaken, so there are other
noble thirsts, which, in like manner,
work automatically, and point to the
thing that they need. We have social
instincts; we need love, we need friend
ship, we need somebody to lean upon;
we thirst for some heart to rest our
heads upon, for hands to clasp ours;
and we know where the creatures and
the objects are that will satisfy these
desires. And there are the higher
thirsts of the spirit, that “follows
knowledge like a sinking star, beyond
the furthest bounds of human thought;"
and a man knows where and how to
gratify the impulse that drives him to
seek after some form of knowledge and
wisdom.
But besides all these, besides sense,
besides affection, besides emotions, be
sides the intellectual spur of which we
are all more or less conscious, there
come in a whole set of other thirsts
that do not in themselves carry the in
timation of the place where they can
be slaked And so you get men restless,
as some of yon are; always dissatisfied,
as some of you are; feeling that there
is something wanting, yet not knowing
what, as srnie of you are. You remem
ber the old story in the Arabian Nights,
of the man who had a grand palace,
and lived in it quite contentedly, until
somebody told him that it needed a
roc s egg hanging from the roof to make
it complete, and he did not know where
to get that and was miserable accord
ingly. We build onr houses, we fancy
that we are satisfied, and then there
comes the stinging thought that it is
not all complete yet.and we go groping,
groping in the dark, to find out what it
is Sh pwrecked sailors sometimes, in
their desperation, drink salt water, and
that makes them thirstier than ever,
and brings on madness and death.
Some publicans drug the vile liquors
that they sell, so that they increase
thirst We may make no mistake
about how to satisfy the desires of
sense or of earthly affections We may
lie quite certain that money answereth
all things and that it is good to get on
in business in Manchester; or may have
found a pure and enduring satisfaction
in study and in book —yet there are
thirsts that some of us know not where
to satisfy and so we have parched lips
and swollen tongues, and raging desire
that earth can give nothing to till
THE ONE GREAT NEED.
My brother, do you know what it is
that you want? It is God' Nothing
else, nothing less. “My soul thirsteth
for God, for the living God The man
that knows what it is of which he is in
such sore need, is blessed The man
who only feels dimly that he needs
something, and does not know that it
is God whom he does need, is condemn
ed to wander in a dry and thirsty land,
where no water is, and w’here his heart
gapes, parched and cracked like the
soil upbn which he trades. Understand
your thirst. Interpret your desires
aright Open your eyes to your need;
and be -ure of this, that mountains of
money and the clearest insight into in
tellectual problems and fame, and love,
and wives, and children, and happy
homes, and abundance of all things that
you can desire, will leave a central
aching emptiness that nothing and
no person but God can ever fill Oh,
that we all knew what these yearnings
of our hearts mean'
Aye' but there are dormant thirsts
too- It is no proof of superiority that
a savage has fewer wants than yon and
I have, for the want is the open mouth
into which supply comes. And it is no
proof that yon have not, deep in yonr
nature, desires which, unle-s they are
awakened and settled, you will never
lie blessed, that these desires are all un
conscious to yourselves. The business
of us preachers ia. very largely, to get
the people who will listen to us, to rec
ognize the fact that they do want things
which they do not wish; and that, for
the perfection of their natures, the
cherishing of noble longings and
thirsting* is needful, and that to be
without this sense of need ia to lie with
out one of the loftiest prerogatives of
humanity.
Some of you do not want forgiveness
Many of yon would much rather not
have holiness You do not want God
The promises of the gospel go clean over
your heads, and areas impotent to in
fluence you as the wind whistling
through a keyhole, because yon have
never been aware of the wants to which
these promises correspond, and do not
understand what it is that you truly re
quire
And yet there are no desires that is
to say, consciousness of necessities—so
dormant but that their being ungrati
tied makes a man restless. You do not
want forgiveness, but you will never be
happy till you get it. You do not want
to be good and true and holy men, but
you will never be blessed till you are.
You do not want God. some of you. but
you will be restless till yon find him
You fancy you want heaven when you
are dead; you do not want it when yon
are living But until your earthly life
is like the life of.Jesus'Christ, though in
an inferior sense, in heaven whilst it is
on earth, you will never be at rest You
are thirsty enough after these things to
be ill at ease without them, when yon
bethink yourselves and pass out of the
region of mere mechanical and habitual
existence, but until yon get these things
that yon do not desire, be sure of this:
you will be tortured with vain unrest,
and will find that the satisfactions
which you do seek turn to ashes in your
mouth “Bread of deceit," says the
Book, “is sweet to a man " The writer
meant by that that there were people
to whom it was pleasant to tell profit
able lies But we might widen the
meaning, and say that all these lower
satisfactions, apart from the loftier
ones of forgiveness, acceptance, recon
ciliation with God. the conscious p >s
session of him, a well grounded hope of
immortality, the power to live a noble
life and to look forward to a glorious
heaven, are “deceitful bread," which
promises nourishment and does not
give it. but breaks the teeth that try to
masticate it; “it turneth to gravel
"Ho, every one that thirsteth.” That
designation includes in all
' And he that hath no money.” Who
has any? Notice that the persons rep
resented in our text as penniless are, in
the next verse remonstrated with for
spending “money." So then the penni
less had some pence away in some cor
ner of his pc cket which he could spend.
He had tiie money that would buy
shams, “that which is not bread" but a
stone, though it looks like a loaf, but he
Iml no money for the true thing.
Which, being translated out of parable
into fact, is simply this, that our efforts
may win, and do win, for us the lower
satisfaction which meets the transitory
and superficial necessities, but that no
effort of ours can secure for us the loft
ier blessings which slake the diviner
thirsts of immortal souls. A man lands
in a farcountry with English shill ngs
in his pocket, but he finds that no coins
go there but thalers, or francs, or dol
lain. or the like; and his money is only
current in his own land, and he has got
to get it changed before he can make
his purchase So, with a pocketful of
it he may as well lie penniless. And, in
like fashion, you and I. with all our
strenuous efforts, which we are bound
to make, and which there is joy in mak
ing, after these lower things that corre
spond to onr efforts, find that we have
no coinage that will buy the good
things of the Kingdom of Heaven,
without which we faint and die Our
efforts are useless Can a man by his
penitence, by hie tears, by his amend
ment, make it possible for the come
quences of his past to be obliterated, or
all changed in their character into fath
erly chastisement? No! a thousand
times, .no! The superficial notions of
Christianity, which are only too com
mon amongst the -educated and nnedu
cated. vulgar and unspiritual, may say
to a war, “ion need no divine inter
vention. if only you will get up from
your dust, and do your best to keep up
when you are up.” But those who real
ize more deeply what the significance of
sin is, and what the eternal operation of
its consequences upon the soul is, and
what the awful majesty of a divine
righteousness is. learn that the man who
has sinned can. by nothing he can do.
obliterate that awful fact, or reduce it
to insignificance, in regard of the divine
relations to him It is only God that
can do that We have no money.
So thirsty and penniless we stand—a
desperate condition! Aye! brother, it is
desperate, and it is the condition of
every one >of us I wish I could turn
the generalities of my text into the in
dividuality of a personal address. I
wish 1 could bring its wide flowing be
neficence to a sharp point that might
touch your conscience, heart, and will.
I cannot do that; you must do it for
yourself.
“Ho. every one that thirsteth.” Will
yon pause for a moment, and say to
yourself. “That is me”? “And he that
hath no money"—that is me. “Come
ye to the waters' —that is me. The pro
clamation is for thine ear and for thy
heart, and the gift is for thy hand and
thy lips.
WHAT IS OFFERED.
11. In what it consists.
They tell an old story about the re
joicings at the coronation of some great
King, when there was set up in the
market place a triple fountain, from
each of whose three lips flowed a differ
ent kind of rare liquor which any man
who chose to bring a pitcher might fill
from at his choice. Notice my text;
“Come veto the tenters' . . . . “buy’
trine and milk ” The great fountain is
set up in the market place of the world,
and every man may come; and which
ever of this glorious trinity of effluents
he needs most, there his lip may glue
itself and there he may drink be it
“water" that refreshes, or “wine" that
gladdens, or “milk" that nourishes.
They are all contained in this one groat
gift that flows out from the deep heart
of God to the thirsty lips of parched
humanity
And what does that mean? Well, we
may say salvation; or we may use many
other words to define the nature of the
gifts. I venture to take a shorter one.
and say it means Christ. He, and not
merely some truth about him and his
work: he himself, in the fullness of his
being, in the all-sufficiency of his love,
in the reality of his presence, in the
power of his sacrifice, in the daily deri
vation. int > the heart that waits upon
him. of his life and his Spirit.he is theall
sufticient supply of every thirst of every
human soul Do we want happiness?
Christ gives us his joy. remaining and
full, and not as the world gives. Do we
want love? He gathers us to his heart,
in which “there is no variableness,
neither shadow cast by turning," and
THE CHRISTIAN INDEX: THURSDAY, JULY 9 1896.
binds us to himself by bonds that death,
the separator, vainly attempts to untie,
and which no unworthiness, ingrati
tude coldness of ours can ever provoke
to change themselves Do we want
wisdom? He will dwell with us as onr
light Do our hearts yearn for com
panionship? With him we shall never
be solitary Do we long for a bright
hope which shall flight up the dark
future, and spread a rainbow span over
the great gorge and gulf of death?
Jesus Christ spans the void, and gives
us unfailing and undeceiving hope.
For everything that yon and I need
here or yonder, in heart, in will, in
practical life, Jesus Christ himself is the
all sufficient supply.
“My life in death, my all in all."
What is offered in him may lie de
scribed by all the glorious and blessed
names which men have invented to
designate the varions aspects of the
good These are the goodly pearls that
men seek but there is one of great
price which is worth them all, and
gathers into itself all their clouded and
fragmentary splendors Christ is all,
and 'he soul that has him shall never
thirst.
HOW TO BE OBTAINED.
111. Lastly, how do we get the gifts?
The paradox of my text needs little
explanation. ' buy without money and
without price ” The contradiction on
the surface is but intended to make
emphatic this blessed truth, which I
pray may reach your memories and
hearts, that the only conditions are a
sense of need, and a willingness to take
—nothing else, and nothing more. We
must recognize our penury, and must
abandon self, and put away all ideas of
having a finger in our own salvation,
and be willing which, strangely and
sadly enough, many of us are not—
willing to be obliged to God's unhelped
and undeserved love for all
Cheap things are seldom valued.
Ask a big price and people think that
the commodity is precious. A man goes
into a fair for a wager, and he carries
with him a tray full of gold watches
and offers to sell them for a farthing
apiece, and nobody will buy them. It
does not, I hope, degrade the subject, if
I say Jesus Christ comes into the
marketplace of the world with his
hands full of the gifts which the pierced
hands have bought, that he may give
them away. He says, “Will you take
them?" And you, and you, and yon,
pass by on the other side, and go away
to another merchant and buy dearly,
things that are not worth the having.
‘ My fattier, my father, if the prophet
had bid thee do some great thing,
wouldst thou not havedone it? ” Would
you not? Swung at the end of a pole
with hooks in your back; measure all
the way from Cape Comorin to the
Himalayas, lying down on your face
and rising at each length; do a hundred
things which heathens and Roman
Catholics and unspiritual Protestants
think are the way to get salvation; deny
yourselves things that you would like
to do; do things that you do not want to
do: give money that you would like to
keep; avoid habits that are very sweet;
go to church and chapel when you have
no heart for worship; and so try to
balance the account.
“If the prophet had bid thee do some
great thing, thou wouldst have done it
How much rather when he says, Wash
and be clean.” “Nothing in my hand I
bring." You do not bring anything.
“Simply to thy cross I cling ' Do you ?
Diyou? Jesus Christ catches up the
“comes” of my text, and he says.
“Come unto me all ye that labor and
are heavy laden, and I will give you
rest." "If any man thirst, let him
come unto me and live."
Brethren, 1 lay it on yoWr lu-o
consciences to answer him —
about me—to answer him: “Sir. give
me this water that I thirst not ."
Intemperance
BY MARY JOE WEST.
Much has been said against the in
temperance of whiskey and wine drink
ing, and 1 would not have it otherwise;
for indeed too much cannot be said
against so great an evil; but of other
forms of intemperance I wish chiefly to
speak. All forms of intemperance grow
out of lack of self control How many
of us condemn the drunkard, day after
day. and in many cases have no sympa
thy for him. and even say: “He should
not make such a hog of himself," when
we are more intemperate than he. and
never think of lecturing ourselves It
is true of every form of intemperance
that we often hasten down the abyss of
destruction when we think of naught
but safety. “Any excess in the use of
a good tiling is intemperance, therefore
evil, and should be avoided." Reason
is good, but too hard pressed with labor
it ruins the mind and wrecks the temple
in which both mind and soul are al
lowed to dwell for a short while.
Health of body is just as essential to
proper reasoning and activity of the
mind as water is to the thirsty flower.
What we most need is knowledge of the
human body and the laws by which it
is governed, that we may. first of all.
know how to take care of ourselves
But. alas! Where are we to gain this in
formation? It is a lamentable fact that
but little such knowledge can be ob
tained from our parents I think the
leading educators of our day are much
to blame for not having compelled the
study of physiology in our schools before
now But if we felt the need of this
information as we should, we would
bend every energy of mind and body to
obtain it.
The greatest trouble is. we don't do
as well as we know to do. If we would
learn more of nature and less of arti
fieial life we would be prettier, health
ier and more useful. For there is a
beauty in nature not seen in all the
artificials of life. What is more wonder
ful than the human body, with its
different members, each performing a
different office and affording countless
pleasures not obtainable from any other
member?
Should not every one wish to retain
the glow of health and elastic step to
adorn, brighten and cheer old age?
Then let us be temperate and take
warning from our own uncomfortable
nes».as well as the observation of others ,
for how often we do something or eat
something that we know we should not.
and justly suffer for our folly. More
people die from overeating and im
proper eating, than ever die for lack of
food. Friends, let us wake up to our
duty on this subject and be charitable,
remembering our own imperfections,
striving to correct them and aid others
to nobler life.
Cedartown. Ga.
A Verse for Fault-finders.
Some one with a pretty thorough ap
preciation of the evils and vexations
that arise from fault finding, has em
bodied in this versea little moral which
those who are apt to be captious and
exacting should remember:
What are another's faults to me?
I’ve not a vulture's bill
To pick at every flaw I see,
And make it wider still.
It is enough for me to know
I ve follies of my own.
And on myself that care bestow
And let my friends alone
Our Home Talk
o. c. P.
“I believed and, therefore,
have I spoken,” will never cease
to be the true watch-word for
Christian workers. The great
trouble with many preachers is
that in their inmost souls they
have not experienced the truths
they utter. The gospel they
preach is very largely a mean
ingless fable. A man must him
self have been in the deep, horri
ble pit of repentance for sin and
experienced the joy of pardon
beiore he can tell to others the
awful consequences of sin and
the sweetness of being forgiven.
I often think how true was the
remark made by the great actor,
Garrick, to a Christian minister,
“Tell me, Mr. Garrick, ’ said the
minister, “why it is that you,
while uttering mere fancies, have
such large audiences, while I, in
uttering tremendous realities,
speak to so few.” “Ah!” said
Mr. Garrick, “that is easy to ex
plain. I utter mere fancies as if
they were tremendous realities,
while you utter tremendous real
ities as if they were mere fan
cies.” There is a basis of fact
for this comparison We do
not realize the full meaning of
the words we utter. How hard
it is, as we stand before the peo
pie, to rise above the mere ex
ternals and speak boldly, earn
estly and as a dying man to dy
ing men. But, right here lies
the truest success in soul-win
ning. The Christian worker who
sees the awful doom overhanging
all who are out of Christ must
speak in words that burn them
selves into men’s hearts. Such
is the secret of the soul winning
power of Spurgeon, Moody,
Pierson, Wharton, Nelson, and
Quisenberry. With a clear,
spiritual eye they see that the
wrath of God is resting upon
their unbelieving hearers and, in
self-forgetful zeal, they speak
out. Oh! that we all more realized
what sin is, and that a fearful
retribution is to fall on all the
impenitent, that without holiness
no man shall see the Lord, that
sin will not be* forgiven unless it
is repented of and forsaken, that
the doom which falls on the sin
ner is just and, yet, that God, in
tender mercy, is freely offering
salvation to all who repent and
believe. lam not surprised that
men, who see somewhat the real
ity, do weep in agony over the
awful condition of the erring and
lost. Would that all of us could
weep we tell men of their
sins and them to the Savior
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un
the lowest de
gree developed, can contemplate
the present condition of countless
millions of the living, viewed in
the light of the plainest teaching
of God s Word, and not weep, is
more than lean understand. We
walk the streets and jostle
against those upon whom a fear
ful condemnation rests. We as
sociate in business with the lost.
There are many of our dearest
loved ones out of Christ and,
therefore, resting now under con
demnation. How, oh ! how can
we be so indifferent ? May God
stir our own souls that, as we go
here and there seeking to save
others, we may be ourselves par
takers of the blessings of saving
grace. He who would reach
forth the hand of rescue to the
drowning man must himself be
on the rock. We cannot lead
others to the open fountain for
sin and uncleanness until we
are ourselves washed. Let us
believe God's Word ourselves be
fore we go to tell it to others.
Then, in the Sunday-school, the
prayer meeting, in the pulpit,
and everywhere, our words will
be potent for good because we
have tasted and seen that the
Lord is good.
Wartrace, Tenn.
Be Drawn Up.—Take the low
est seat and work your way up.
Let a man be called up always.
Do your woi k wherever you are,
and do it faithfully and so con
tentedly that they will want you
still higher. The more you do
your work well, the more they
will want you still higher, and
higher, and higher. Be drawn
up. Do not force yourself up.
That leads to chicanery, to pre
tense, to mistakes, and even to
temptations and crimes.— Henry
Hard Beecher.
Sins grow, like grapes, close,
but in clusters. We usually say,
he that will swear, will lie; and
he that will lie, will steal; and he
that will do all these, will do
anything. Satan is a serpent; if
the head be once in, his whole
•body will not be long behind.—
Bishop Henshaw
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Boys, remember that you grow older
every day. and if you have bad habits,
they grow older, too, and the older both
get. the harder they are to separate.
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A neatly printed pamphlet on the
subject indicated by its title It is a
practical, sensible refutation of modern
faith cures. Hezekiah is emphasized
as a Bible cure and his case is not a
pleasant one for the theorists. This
book will do good. It is moderate and
free from any flippancy.
The Biblical World. July. U niver
sity of Chicago. $2 00 a year.
This is given up this month to a series
of short historical sketches tending to
show the period of Israelite history
down to the division of the kingdom.
Egypt. Babylon, Assyria, in the same
period, are each separately the subject
of an article. Canaanitish history down
to the year 1000 B. C is of unusual
interest. Early Palestine and Early
Cities of Palestine give the geographical
aspects. The period of Jewish history
mentioned above is treated fully and
then articles follow on the chief liter
ary productions of the period, and
characteristic of Israelitish political life.
The whole is a very complete view of
this period of history. Gnly one of the
articles is radical iu its conclusions, and
that is the weakest in the list every
way.
The Ladies' Home Journal. July.
Curtis Publishing Co.. Philadelphia
Pa. 10 cts or SI.OO a year.
The usual feast of good things. The
departments specially for women are as
excellent and suggestive as possible.
Timeliness is a feature of this publics
tion. Ex President Harrison continues
his studies of our government, dealing
with the State Department in this issue.
There are several excellent stories.
“The Other Side of Robert Burns. " by
Warren, treats of Burns better nature
“Feeding a City like New Y’ork will
be read with interest. Dr. Parkhurst
deals with “A Young Man's Religions
Life." One never goes amiss when in
vesting in this periodical.
The Outlook. Illustrated number.
July. The Outlook Co., New York.
$4.00 a year.
The Outlook is omitted at times from
being mentioned, as it comes under the
category of religious exchangee It
never fails to be read, however. From
an editorial standpoint it has no supe
rior. We call attention here specially
to the Magazine number Thisappears
once a month and is illustrated. A
sketch of Miss Frances Willard and of
the city of Buffalo are the chief fea
tures.
Scribners' Magazine, July. Chas.
Scribners' Sons , New York. Price
25 cts., $3 00 a year.
This number is of the usual value.
An illustrated article on Cone}’ Island.
“A 1000 Mile Journey Through the
Alps" is charming. The fiction is
of fine quality and interesting. “ Sen
timental Tommy." by Barrie, grows in
interest. The August number of the
Scribners’ will be a fiction number.
St Nicholas, July. The Century
Co . New York, seems to be unusually
full “Maurice and his Father" is a
romance of the Revolution, while “A
Story of Admiral Farragut" brings us
nearer our own time. “Sinbad Smith
& Co." and “The Sword maker's Son '
and “The Story of Marco Polo"
are continued. ' Toby Hinkle, Patriot."
is a Fourth of July story. “Gun
powder" and “A School for Firemen ”
introduce us to two very practical
things in this day’s life. The usual
stories, poems, etc., for little folks are
in place.
The Missionary Review of the
World for July. Funk & Wagnalls
Co.. New York, is as full as usual of
good -missionary material. Dr. Pierson
opens with an account of the Missionary
Bands at Cambridge and Oxford.
Work iu Australia, the Philippine
Islands and among the Eskimo, is
t reated in separate articles. "The Pres
ent Outlook for Missions in Turkey "
presents a live theme. The “ West
African Gin Traffic ”
“ Niue Centuries of Buddhism ’’ is con
tinned in paper No 4 The other de
partments are up to their usual standard.
Literary News and Notes.
Mr. Charles A. Hanna, of Lincoln,
Nebraska, is preparing a History of the
Early Settlement of the Scotch-Irish
in Pennsylvania He desires names of
such settlers and facts connected with
them. If yon ate so fortunate as to
have this blood in you, write to him.
After the manner of Mr. Bryce, a
Russian, A P. Tverskoy, ha* published
a ter es of sketches of American life A
translation will be published by Macmil
lan & Co.
All will regret the failure of the old
firm of A D. F. Randolph & Co , in
New York. They have been long and
honorably in the book trade. The
American Baptist Publication Society
have purchased the retail department.
In the South American forests is
found a vegetable growth which may
well illustrate the power of evil habits
The seeds of the clusia, or wild fig
vine, are carried by the birds to the
branches of trees, where they frequently
germinate At first a delicate stem
soft and flexible, frail and easily broken,
makes its appearance. Next, long
aerial rootlets reach the ground and
draw nourishment from it. and little
soft tendrils wrap the trunk round and
round, pushing themselves in and out
among the branches, enfolding the
helpless tree, sucking out the life juices,
and ever growing harder and more
rigid
In the course of tiipe. the natural
growth within the tree makes an effort
toward an increase in girth, and finds
what at first was only thread-like, is
now as an iron band. Like an athlete,
the’tree tries to burst the fetters.bnt the
deadly enemy has the advantage, and
the doomed tree withers and dies, a
victim to what at first teemed only a
harmless little vine
Here and there through the forests,
rise columns, full of vigorous life out
wardly. but within is a cavity where
only dust remains of what was once a
massive tree that nurtured an evil
seed.
“ The law of harvest is to reap more
than you sow. Sow an act, you reap a
habit; sow a habit, }ou reap a character;
sow a character, you reap a destiny."
This persistence and growth of
a power whose methods are an
absolute negation of all our mod
ern ideas seems so little short of
a miracle that the jubilant reli
gious feeling of the coronation
ceremonies commands our re
spect What if providence has
some great use for this vast an
achronism, this oriental despe tism
sitting astride of Europe and Asia
at the end of the nineteenth cen
tury? Any essayist can prove
that Russia must fall to pieces—
must modernize her instiiutior s
But he could have proved the
same propositions in any yeir of
this century; and yetneitherdis
solution nor republicanization
has overtaken Russia. Some
great change may come and Rus
sia may cease to spread out to
ward all seas. But the best rea
son to be given for this hope is:
“It is the unexpected that hap-
THE CURE OF
PARALYSIS
The Case of a Veteran Cited Whose
Paralysis Came from Ex
posure in the Army.
The Equally Interesting Method of His Cure, and
His Enthusiastic Endorsement.
From the Oteego Farmer, Cooperetown, h”. Y.
In the town of Oneonta, in Otsego County,
New York, for a great many years there has
lived a man whose life has been overshad
owed by that terrible disease, paralysis.
Recently it was rumored that a miracle had
been performed—that this man had been re
stored to his normal health and strength and
to ascertain the truth or falsity of such a
rumor your correspondent visited Oneonta
to-day and being directed to the man sought
an interview with him, which was readily
and cheerfully granted. The man told his
own story as follows:
“My name is Edward Haswell. You
would not think from my appearance, but I
was born 77 years ago, in New Scotland,
Albany County. I was reared on a farm
and blessed by Nature with a strong con
stitution and good health. Early in life I
removed to Albany, thence to Schenevus, in
this county, and finally settled down in On
eonta, where I have lived a great many years.
“ When the war broke out I was strong
and active, being nearly six feet tall and
weighing 225 pounds. I enlisted in the
Third New York Cavalry and served three
years. Os the long, weary marches, especi
ally in North Carolina of the days find nights
of exposure I will not speak, for it was in
the barracks at Washington that my misery
began. While there heavy rains fell and
not having sufficient protection ofttimes we
awoke in the morning drenched with the
rain. At this time I contracted a cold and
along with it came that dread disease, rheu
matism. I rapidly grew worse and was re
moved to the hospital where I was attended
by Dr. Leonard, now of Worcester in this
county. lie made me as comfortable as any
man could, but I could not shake off the
disease. It was in ray system and after my
return home with impaired health anil
strength reduced, my nerves gave out and
additional suffering ensued. I could move
around and was able to do some work—at
length I went to work in the car shops here,
inside work wholly—but the least exposure
would bring on terrible pains and life was
made miserable for me. After a few years
my strength gave out and I was unable to
fight against my pains. In addition t<s the
rheumatism extreme nervousness took pos
session of me—then heart disease set in; I
could not lie down to sleep and was brought
very low by this complication of diseases.
My wrists and ankles became swollen, my
legs distorted and my hips sunken, now you
can feel the cavities, also thrust your hand
into my back—such were the ravages of
rheumatism.
“ But this was not all. About six years i
ago I had a stroke of paralysis which affected
my left side—but by extra care I recovered
somewhat from this. Three years ago I had
a second stroke which rendered me entirely
helpless. My left side was wholly useless
and I could not feel it when a pin was thrust
full length into my leg or arm. Before
ftaralysis set in I thought I was nigh to death,
>ut now came the horror of a living death.
On account of my heart trouble which was
aggravated by this new disease, I could not
sleep and could l>e placed only in one posi
tion—bolstered up in a chair reclining
styhtly on my right side. Now the paraly
sis affected my head and I would remain in
that position asleep in the chair for weeks at
a time without awakening. Words cannot
express the misery I was in and the suffer
ing I endured. All this time I consulted
doctors and tried all kinds of patent medi- j
cines without receiving any benefit. I was
doomed to a lingering death and was in
despair. One day a paper was handed me
to read. In the paper I saw an account of
Naked Pills
are fit only, for naked sav
ages. Clothes are the marks
of civilization—in pills as well
as people. A good coat does
not make a good pill, any more
than good clothes make a good
man. But as sure as you’d
look on a clothesle* man as a
mad one, you may look on a
coatless pill as a bad one.
After fifty years of test no
pills stand higher than
AYER’S
Cathartic Pills
SUGAR COATED.
pens.”—Editor's Outlook, in The
Chautauquan for July.
After the death of “the Et
trick Shepherd,” in 1*35, the lau
reateship might be said to be “in
commission" for some years.
Tannahill was gone, and Mother;
well was gone, who might have
claimed it had they lived. There
were many poets, but none of
them pre-eminent in the eyes of
their countrymen. In those
years, I can remember, in my
father's house the question was
oft oiscussed, “What poet has
Scotland now?” And the verdict
always was that she had none
now, in succession to Burns and
Scott and Hogg. And the little
Scotch boy who heard this unwel
come conclusion would creepsad
hearted to his bed, grieving that
Scotland had fallen upon such
evil days and wondering if he
himself could not do something
to repair the loss.—William Wye
Smith, in The Chautauquan for
July.
It is said that James Lafitte
Smith, a clerk in the Washing
ton posti ftice, is the postotfice
clerk who sold the first postage
stamp and the first stamped en
velope ever issued by this gov
ernment, and who registered the
first letters that were presented
for registry when that system of
mail protection was introduced
in the United States. He entered
the postotfice as a clerk in 1847,
and is now seventy-nine years
old.
; the healing of a paralytic who used Dr. Wil
liams’ Pink Pills for Pale People. 1 had no
faith in patent medicines, 1 had spent over
$200.(«) in them, all to no purpose. Unable
to work I had no income save a pension of
SB.OO per month. But some way I was im
pressed with what Pink Pills had done and
determined to give them a fair trial. I did
not stop with one box but used three boxes
before I noticed any effect. After taking
three boxes I felt a change coming over me.
I kept on taking Pink Pills and kept on feel
ing bitter. Gradually my pain left me, I be
j g>n to feel new life course through my body
I and to my surprise and delight, feeling be
■ gan to come into my side and life and
' strength into my leg and arm. After taking
fourteen boxes 1 had recovered full use of
my limbs, my rheumatism was gone and my
heart trouble relieved. During my sickness
my weight had decreased from 225 Bounds
to 144 pounds, but to-day I weigh 170 pounds,
am strong and active and you would not take
me to be 77 years old.”
M hile speaking. Mr. Haswell showed con
siderable emotion and when questioned he
added : “ I cannot say too much in praise
of Dr. Williams’Pink Pillsand I cannot ex-
I press my gratitude to the Dr. Williams’
Medicine Company they saved my life and
tjavo me back heal in I had not enjoyed for
over 30 years.”
5V hen told that people might not believe
such a Story in print, he said : “lam will
ifo go before a Justice of Peace and swear
to its truth, if you wish, and I shall be only
too glad to answer inquiries anyone may
wish to make.”
Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People
are an unfailing remedy for all diseases aris
ing from a poor and watery condition of the
blood, such as pale and sallow complexion
cenural muscular weakness, loss of appetite
depression of spirits, lack of ambition, ana>
niia, chlorosis or greensickness, palpitation
of the heart, shortness of breath on slight
exertion coldness of hands or feet, swelling
ot the feet and limbs, pain in the back,
nervous headache, dizziness, loss of memory
feebleness of will, ringing in the ears, early
decay, all forms of female weakness, leucor
rhoea, tardy or irregular periods, suppression
Os menses, hysteria, paralysis, locomotor
ataxia rheumatism, sciatica, all diseases
depending on vitiated humors in the blood
causing scrofula, swelled glands, fever sores',
nekets, hip-joint diseases, hunchback, ac
quired deformities, decayed bones, chronic
erysipelas, catarrh, consumption of the bow
els and lungs, and also for invigorating the
blood and system when broken down by
overwork, worry, diseases, excesses and
indiscretions of living, recovery from acute
diseases, such as fevers, etc. loss of vital
powers >, spermatorrhoea, early ’decay, prema
ture old age. These pills are not a purga
tive medicine. They contain nothing that
>ould injure the most delicate svsteni. They
act directly on the blood, supplying to the
bl.ssl its life-giving qualities by assisting it
or^? r r? Xyg f n ’ J 1 ? 31 great supporter of all
'h„ u e ’ >“ th J S i way the bloo<1 ’ Becom
ing built up and being supplied with its
lacking constituents, becomes rich and red
lIX . v ? rio “ s or «ns, stimulating
fnnnt? actlvl *y the performance of their
functions, and thus to eliminate diseases
from the system.
w T, l ?f' se P’lls are manufactured by the Dr.
tadv 1! N S v Med , ieine f’on.'Pany, Schenee
th ‘ are so * n bearinff
the firm s trade mark and wrapper at 53
cents a box or six Irnxes for $2.50, and are
never sold tn bulk. They may be had of
Wil Ham” V F <l,re ? by mail froni Dr -
B illtams Medicine Company. The price
at which these pills are sold makes a course
otherremS eXPeU3iVe M cora P ared