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2 ©nr pulpit BAPTISM—WHAT IT IS AND WHAT IT SIGNIFIES. PREACHED TO BROADWAY BAPTIST CHURCH, LOUISVILLE, KY, BY W. L. PICKARD. D D., OCTOBER 18. 1896. ‘‘Go ye therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.” Matt. 28:19. In presenting to you, my hearers, this theme, which has so often been discussed, I shall try and not cover it up with that which might seem to be scholarship, yet shall try to present it In the light of the best scholarship, and so clearly that it cannot be mis understood by any one. It was show’n in our study on last Sunday that “regeneration” is the greatest doctrine for which Baptists stand; that “it is always a prerequisite to baptism"; that baptism, in form, is meaningless and unscriptural, unless he who receives it has been regenerated and has exercised belief and repent ance. It was shown that the logical results of the Scriptural doctrine of regeneration are: a converted mem bership in our churches; individuality of conscience; equality of all church members in church rights and privi leges; separation of Church and State; religious liberty, and, necessarily, a true zeal for the carrying out of our Lord’s great commission. To-day, therefore, we study: What is Baptism? and what does it signify? Baptism is a very sacred thing. There are just two ordinances com manded in the New Testament to be observed. One is baptism, the other the Lord’s Supper. Our Lord received the ordinance of baptism .And after his resurrection from the dead, and just before his ascension, he gave his great commission in these words: “And Jesus came to them and spake unto them saying, AU authority hath been given unto me in heaven and on earth. Go ye, therefore, and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost; teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you." There are four things in this com mission that are perfectly clear. The first is, Christ has all authority for what he is commanding. “All author ity hath been given to me in heaven and on earth,” says he. Second:the Gospel of the Son of God is to be preached, that the world may believe on him. “Go ye, therefore, and make disciples of all the nations.” Third: those who become disciples are to be baptized “into the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.” Fourth: this practice is to continue to the end of the Christian dispensation. “Teaching them to ob serve all things whatsoever I have commanded you; and 10, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.” It is perfectly clear, there fore, that those who believe in Christ as their personal Savior are command ed by him to be baptized. It is the clearest kind of a duty, for the Lord has commanded it. Baptism cannot save. It is not administered for that purpose. On the contrary, no person In this world ought to be baptized who is not already a saved person through faith in the Son of God. What then is the very thing bap tism? Here we must have absolutely definite knowledge. There must be no guessing. Christ has commanded us to believe and be baptized, it we do not know certainly what baptism Is, there is not one of us who can know that he has obeyed Christ's com mand. But this, too, is made as plain as act and word can make it. That John the Baptist first introduced this rite to the world, there can be no tenable ground of doubt. The burden of the world’s scholarship proves this. JOHN S BAPTISM OF THE PEOPLE “In those days came John the Bap tist teaching in the wilderness of Judea, and saying. Repent ye, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. Then went out to him Jerusalem and all Judea, and all the region round about Jordan, and were baptized of him in Jordan confessing their sins.” Matt. 3:1-6. The same is told in Mark 1, and in Luke 3. JOHN BAPTIZES JESUS. “Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him. But John forebade him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and contest thou to me? And Jesus answering, said unto him: Suffer it now; for thus it becometh us to fulfill all righteousness. Then he suffereth him. And Jesus when he was bap tized went up straightway from the water, and 10, the heavens were open ed unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove and com ing upon him; and 10, a voice out of the heavens saying: This is my be loved Son in whom I am well pleased.” Matt. 3:13-17. Told also in Mark 1, and Luke 3. The Apostle John, the writer of the fourth Gospel, testifies to this as fol lows: “And John bare witness, saying, I have beheld the Spirit de scending as a dove out of heaven, and It abode upon him, and I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize in water, he said unto me, Upon whom soever thou shalt see the Spirit de scending, and abiding upon him, the same is he that baptizeth in the Holy Spirit. And I have seen, and have borne witness that this is the Son of God.” John 1:32-34. John again: “And John also was baptizing in Enon near to Salim be cause there was much water there.” John 3:23. APOSTOLIC BAPTISM. “Now when they heard this they were pricked In their hearts, and said unto Peter and the rest of the apostles: Brethren, what shall we do? And Peter said unto them: Repent ye, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ unto the remis sion of your sins. They then that re ceived his word were baptized, and the Lord added to them day by day those that were being saved.” Acts 2:37. Again: “But when they believed Philip preaching the things concern ing the kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.” Acts 8:12. Take the case of Philip and the eunuch. Philip opened his mouth and beginning from the Scriptures, preached unto him Jesus. And as they went on the way they came unto a certain water, and the eunuch saith. Here is water, what doth hinder me to be baptized? And he commanded the chariot to stand still: and they both went down into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he bap tized him. And when they were come up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip. Acts 8: 36-39. “And Ananias went his way, and entered into the house, and putting his hands on him, said: The Lord, even Jesus, who appeared unto thee in the way as thou earnest, hath sent me that thou mlghtest receive thy sight, and be filled with the Holy Ghost. And immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales: and he received his sight forthwith, and arose, and was baptized.” Acts 9: 17-18. “While Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the word. And they of the cir cumcision which believed were aston ished, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost. Then answered Peter: Can any man forbid water that these should not be baptized, which have re ceived the Holy Ghost as well as we? And he commanded them to be bap tized in the name of the Lord.” Acts 10: 44-48. In Acts 16: 13 following, we have the famous case of Lydia and her household. They were “by the river side where prayer was wont to be made.” Paul preached to them, and the Lord opened the hearts of those who heard, and they were baptized. The jailor said to Paul and Silas: “Sirs, what must I do to be saved? And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. And they spake unto him the word of the Lord,' and to all that were in the house. And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and was bap tized, he and all his, straightway.” Acts 16: 30-33. Here Paul preached “the word of the Lord” to “the jailor” “and all his household,” and all be lieved and were baptized. Undoubt edly a case of “household baptism.” But every member exercised personal belief in “the word of the Lord” as preached by Paul. Again: “And Crispus, the chief ruler of the synagogue, believed on the Lord witli all his house, and many of the Corinthians hearing believed, and were baptized.” Acts 18: 8. Here the Gospel was preached, Crispus and every member of his household be lieved, and the believing household were baptized. Likewise the “Corin thians hearing, believed and were bap tized.” In Acts 19: 1-6 we have the notable case of rebaptism, as I think those disciples had not received the Holy Spirit in regeneration before they re ceived John’s baptism. Paul taught them the necessity of conversion be fore baptism. Then when they were "taught the way of the Lord more per fectly” they were baptized, and then, in that particular case, those received the Holy Ghost in an especial sense for special power. Whatever views may be held with reference to this passage, one thing is clear: conver sion comes before baptism. Else even immersion by a great Baptist preacher is not valid. It is believe and then be baptized. Other references. “Or are ye ignorant that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him through baptism into his death; that like as Christ was raised from the dead by tlie glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life. For if we have become united with him by the likeness of his death, we shall be also by the likeness of his resurrec tion.” Rom. 6: 3-5. In 1 Cor. 14: 17, stress is placed on preaching the Gos pel —baptism follows. "Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; and were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea.” 1 Cor. 10: 1-2. They were “under the cloud,” “passed through the sea.” Thus overwhelmed —baptized. “For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ, have put on Christ.” Gal. 3: 27. Again: “Buried with him in bap tism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the opera tion of God, who hath raised him from the dead.” Col. 2: 12. “One Lord, one faith, one baptism.” Eph. 4: 5. “Which some time were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the THE CHRIST. AN INDEX: THURSDAY. JANUARY 24. 1897. ark was preparing, wherein few, that is eight souls, were saved by water. The like figure whereunto even bap tism doth now save us (not the put ting away the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience to ward God), by the resurrection of Jesus Christ.” 1 Peter 3: 20-21. In this passage figure is set over against figure. If there were any trouble as to the baptismal part of it, it seems to me the trouble would disappear by what is Involved in the reference to “the resurrection of Jesus Christ.” I have thus far let the Word of God speak for itself on the question of bap tism, and have tried to be Christianly just to every line of it. I think I have quoted all the passages or referred to them, in the New Testament, that re fer to water baptism. There are three principles involved in these passages—principles that seem perfectly clear to me. First. Every case of baptism in the New Testament is one in which the individual for himself accepted Christ. Even in the cases of the household baptisms each member of the house hold believed on the Word of God for himself. Believe, believe is the key note in the Gospel appeal. Believe and then be baptized! Second. Baptism Is in some cases mentioned simply as a fact. Some thing that was administered to believ ers. Nothing in the description shows what it is. Third. But many cases clearly show the very form of baptism. “They go down Into the water.” “They bap tize in the river.” “They come up out of the water.” "They are buried in baptism.” “They are raised." "They are planted in the likeness of his death,” and raised in the "likeness” of his resurrection. But the meaning of the word bap tize itself settles all questions as to what baptism is. In classic usage it means “to dip,” “to plunge,” "immerse anything in liquid,” "to overwhelm literally or figuratively.” The Sep tuaguint uses this word four times, and, in each case, it signifies to "im merse." The New Testament usage of the word “baptizo” always, either lit erally or figuratively, means “to im merse.” The slightest doubt on this point will be removed by simply look ing into the meaning of the word as given in any reputable Greek lexicon of the New Testament Greek. To this might be added a long list of scholars who are not Baptists who give their decision wholly in favor of Immersion being the baptism which Christ re ceived. But we are commanded to be lieve and be baptized. We have seen what baptism is: "The immersion of a believer in water into the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.” what does baptism mean ? It signifies two things: First: It is a symbol of Christ’s death, burial and resurrection. Bap tism has a very sacred and solemn meaning to it. The great things in Christ’s human career were his death, burial, and resurrection from the dead. “Without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sin.” “The blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth us from all sin.” “Christ died for our sins and rose for our justification.” “And Jesus going up to Jerusalem took the twelve disciples apart in the way, and said to them: Behold we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be betrayed unto the chief priests, and unto the scribes, and they shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver him to the Gentiles to mock and to scourge and to crucify him, and the third day he shall rise again.” . Here the Master calls attention especially to two things, his death and resurrection. Matt. 20: 17-19. Mark 10: 32-34; Luke 18: 31-34. Again: “But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I strait ened till it be accomplished.” Luke 12: 50. Here the Master uses baptism as the one thing to set forth in the strongest possible way, his great suf ferings. As in baptism the body is overwhelmed, immersed in water, so his soul was to be immersed, over whelmed in anguish. Take Christ's death, burial and resurrection out of the New Testament, and you take from it its very heart, and from the world its only hope. “As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness so must the Son of man be lifted up.” “And I, if I be lifted up, will draw all men unto me.” To Calvary! to Cal vary! Christ must die and conquer death literally and spiritually, else man must die forever! Baptism beau tifully sets forth in a simple, sacred picture, the burial and resurrection of our Lord. He commanded that all should believe in him—believe in him as the crucified, risen Lord, and then that they should express this belief in him by putting him on in baptism— the rite that exactly pictures his death and resurrection from the dead. And this is the only ordinance in the world that does picture his burial and resur rection. You never saw another ordi nance that made you think of Christ’s burial and resurrection! But you never saw a person buried in baptism without having your mind fixed on the burial and resurrection of your Lord. Beautiful, simple picture! A sacred duty devolving upon all who believe! If you believe in his death for your sins and his resurrection for your just ification. then “put him on by bap tism;” for he says: “He that believ eth and is baptized shall be saved.” Again, “If ye love me ye will keep my commandments.” Second. Baptism symbolizes our re lation to Christ’s atoning death. It sets forth, first, what he did for us; second, our relation to what he did for us. Regeneration is the greatest need of the soul. We are regenerated by the Holy Spirit, the death of Christ being the foundation of all re generated life. Listen now to the Scripture: ißufled with him by bap tism wherein also ye are risen with him through- the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.” Col. 2: 12. Here baptism sym bolizes that death and burial of Christ in which you devoutly believe as the basis of all your hope. As you believe in his death so you say in act when you go into the symbolic grave: “He died for me.” As you believe in his resurrection, so you say in the sym bolic burial and resurrection: “He rose for me,” “and for me, personally, life and Immortality are brought to light.” You express the belief that by his grace —matchless grace, your soul Is dead to sin and risen to a new and better life —even as the Scripture says: “We are buried, therefore, with him through baptism into death; that like as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.” It also sets forth our complete sur render to the triune God. “Baptized into the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.” The Father so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life.” "Christ died for our sins and rose for our just ification.” The Holy Spirit was given to convict of sin and to quicken into new life. “That which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto you, ye must be born anew.” John 3: 7. So when a person is renewed in heart so that he looks up by faith and says: “Our Father.” “my Savior,” and "thou Holy Spirit, my guide and comforter,” he is pre pared to enter the liquid grave and be baptized “into the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,” and thus say to the world: Henceforth I belong unreservedly to the triune God. How beautiful, how significant is baptism! We know what it is. We have our Lord’s own example. We know what it means. Every one who believes on him as a personal Savior ought meekly to obey his command. God help all to believe and obey! “Down to the sacred wave the Lord of life was led. And he who came our souls to save, in Jordan bowed his head.” “He taught the solemn way, he fixed the holy rite; He bade his ransomed ones obey and keep the path of light.” “Blest Savior, we will tread in thy ap pointed way; Let glory o'er these scenes be shed and smile on us to-day.” For the Index. Led By impressions. BY REV. C. H. WETHERBE. Many Christians are much in the habit of being governed by their im pressions with respect to both tem poral and spiritual things. If they feel impressed to; do a certain thing, or to go to a certain place, they will obey the impression. If they feel im pressed to not do a certain thing, even though at first they thought that they would do it, they will refrain from it. They believe that their impressions are made by the Holy Spirit. Now, I would not discourage any Christian from obeying any impression which the Holy Spirit does make upon him, but rather I would urge him to be true to such an impression; and yet I would urge one to carefully discrimi nate between impressions. This is the advice which I recently gave to a Southern lady, and she asked me how I would discriminate. It is not easy to tell how this may be done. I know that, in my own experience, I have been obliged to exercise much cau tion lest I be misled by my impres sions. I am certain that I have been misled. I have followed some impres sions which I had supposed were made by the Holy Spirit, but which I after wards found were from some other source. Probably they were the result of my anxious wish to go in a certain direction, or to do a certain thing, or to refrain from doing a certain thing. At any rate I found that I was mis taken. Still this is not a matter of frequent occurrence with me. But how shall one discriminate between impressions made by the Holy Spirit and those which come from some other source? I know of no other way than that of praying with all earnestness for light and discernment, desiring above all things to know just what God would have one do. Let one place himself in as receptive a condition as possible. Let there be a hearty will ingness to do God’s will. Ask, “Lord, what shall I do? Keep me from mak ing a mistake in regard to this mat ter.” Sooner or later there will settle in the heart a conviction as to what one ought to do, or not do. But be ware of mere superficial, emotional impressions. Guard against mere imaginations. Don't be in too great a hurry. God reveals his will to those who really want to know and do his will. Rededication and prayer are the in dispensable background to any Chris tian work worth the doing. 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Buhsby, Manager No. 600 The Grand .Atlanta, Ga auglStf the gootj Any publication mentioned in this de panment may be obtained of the American Baptist Publication So ciety. 93 Whitehall St., Atlanta, Ga When prices are named they include postage. The Editors of the Christian Index deeire to make this column of service to their readers They will gladly answer, or have answered, any ques tions regarding books. If you deeire books for certain lines of reading, or desire to find out the worth or pub Usher of any book, write to them. A Brief History of the Nations and of their Progress in Civilization. By George Park Fisher, D.D., LL.D., Professor in Yale University. 599 pp. American Book Company, Cin cinnati. Guide to the Study of American His tory. By Edward Channing, Ph.D., and Albert Bushnell Hart, Ph.D., Assistant Professors of History in Harvard University. 471 pp.. Ginn & Company, Boston. The latter book is very helpful to me. It is gratifying to find in it com mendation of some of the methods of work used in my own classes. It crit icises other methods, and suggests still others. It will stimulate any teacher who has the ambition to supply him self with a few dollars' worth of books in addition to the text-book with which the class is supplied. It will prove helpful to readers also, and ought especially to be commended to the attention of book clubs whose members, co-operating, for a few dol lars apiece, supply themselves with good reading for the winter evenings and then donate the books to the li brary of the village academy. The author of the former book is the well known Professor of Church His tory in the Yale Divinity School, and author of works on American Colonial History, Medieval and Church His tory, and Universal History. The pres ent book is in part an abridgement and in part a recasting of his larger work on Outlines of Universal His tory, by the same publishers and in tended for more advanced pupils. I beg leave to enter a protest against the use of either one of them for a text-book. Not that they cannot and, by some, are not used successfully; but the advertised use of them too often means the abuse of them. The teacher who is trained will find either of them too comprehensive for a class to master in one year or even two. He will study select periods and use other or at least additional treatises. But when used as such text-books too often are used, the pupil gets a great deal of practice in mnemonics and a stock of information enabling him to understand the historical refer ences in general literature. Now this latter could be gotten with less ex pense of time and labor by reference to, say, a Universal History on the reference table, while the time spent on history could be used to better ad vantage by another method. There is more to be learned from history than one author, however faithful his re cital of the facts, has opportunity to indicate. History has been too little appreciated as a medium or instru ment of the pedagogical art. I men tion briefly the study of method, fa miliarity in the use of authorities and sources, the critical estimate of them according to the point of view which the authors take, the study of causal sequence, of cause and effect in social phenomena. The reaction from the one-book sys tem to the many-books system of studying history is full upon us. Its opportunities are great: in its accom plishments already considerable. One instance of its practical application comes to me from the experience of a former pupil. There has been great criticism of the unfairness and preju dice manifest in the text-books on Am erican history prepared by Northern writers for use in public schools. The demand for “fair and unprejudiced” text-books has called forth a crop from Southern writers that are equally unfair and prejudiced on the other side. The child who studies either set to the ex clusion of the other will be as narrow and prejudiced as the source from which he draws. The child who uses both, under proper direction, will form a more critical and fairer judgment and will be more liberal-minded than either author, a consummation devout ly to be wished. FREDERICK W. MOORE. A Critical and Exegetical Commen tary on Luke. Rev. Alfred Plum mer, M. A. Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York. Price $3.00. This is one of the series of com mentaries perfected under the editor ship of Drs. Briggs, Driver and Plum mer. These commentaries are ex pected to meet the needs of the more modern school of critics. Some of the preceding volumes have fully met the expectation of those who were critical ly inclined. Indeed some of them have given indications of a disposition to criticism for mere criticism's sake. With the general reputation of the other volumes of this series of com mentaries we took up this with mani fest suspicion. After a careful exam ination, and in many portions a minute study of Luke by its help, we desire to not only commend it but recommend it. It is honestly critical. Where difficulties occur they are frankly stated and as frankly faced. Many times we might ourselves give a differ ent answer, but in no case is an opin ion rendered with dogmatism or with any slighting allusions’to other views. Indeed this spirit of candor and re spect is found all through the work. The introduction treats of the author ship, sources, time and place, object and plan, characteristics, style and language, the integrity, the condition of the text and the literary history of the book. This introduction is pecu liarly valuable. The authorship of Luke is of course maintained, as well as the influence of Paul upon him. The theory of an Ebionitic source is deemed utterly untenable. Dr. Plum mer gives a fine study of the language and style of Luke, making interesting comparisons with the Acts, with Paul and with Matthew and Mark. All this displays scholarship and care. In the Commentary several excellent principles are observed. The discus sion of critical questions is separated and placed in smaller type just fol lowing the interpretation of passages. Not every word and sentence receives comment, but instead, the salient point of each portion is selected. This gives more space for wise comment where it is needed. Dr. Plummer is the master of clear, pithy English and a spiritual insight into truth. With these two essential qualities he combines good sound sense and ac curate scholarship. The result is a commentary that for helpfulness we have not in our experience found equaled save by Dr. Broadus’ Matthew and Ellicott’s series on the Pauline Epistles. We have undertaken a study of Luke with its help hnd found new light and new truth , Although the Greek text is used it will be found use ful to those using only English, while a comparatively slight knowledge of Greek will suffice to make full use of the whole book. The Evolution of the Art of Music. C. Hubert H. Parry. D. Appleton & Co., New York. Price $1.50. We can imagine no more interest ing book than this for the lover of music. If it is not our lot to be a musical expert there is yet much of the philosophy and the art of music that we can comprehend and be inter ested in. There is a mental concep tion of music possible even to those who have no ear for producing beauti ful combinations of tones. The his tory of music is in Itself a study of un usual interest. Ail of this is com bined in this unusual volume. It is a history, and through the history a study of the philosophy and the prac tical operation of musical laws. It be gins with a study of music in rough and savage tribes and the first efforts to organize tones into melody. Chap ters follow on scales and folk-music, in which are found studies in Persian, Indian, Chinese, Japanese and other systems. After this come chapters on religious music, which was the next stage of progress. The rise of secular music is traced as the next succeeding step. With this instrumental music de velops rapidly. Last of all we have the modern tendencies. Interspersed through all this are melodies, esti mates of composers and the use of various instruments. If any one is not attracted by this summing up of its contents they are dull in musical sense or lacking in interest in a great force in human life. The book is ac curate and very well written. It ought certainly to be in all our schools, where it can be read even if not studied. The Search Light of St. Hippolytus. Park P. Flournay. Fleming H. Revell Co., Chicago and New York. Price $1.50. The basis of this book is the “Refu tation of all Heresies,” an ancient book discovered in 1842 and now defi nitely accredited to Hippolytus, who flourished about 200 A.D. This book expresses certain opinions about men and about heresies then prevalent. The effect of these is to discredit the Romish claims as to their line of Popes and also to throw much light on the canon of Scripture and certain theo ries of New Testament construction. The book is a most unusual one and is of great value. We were surprised to find so much of genuine proof in it. The author uses his material to great A SPIRITUALIST SPEAKS. Advice from a Prominent Member of this Society. 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She bought a box and in a very short time she was a new : woman, the effects of the grippe were all j gone and her stomach which had troubled : her tor so many years was better. For years | she had toeat only the easiest food that could be digested, and many articles of diet that 1 she longed for had to be let alone. She was j troubled with that awful disease of indiges tion and the long train of diseases that go ; with it She suffered with all of the hor- : rors that persons affected with that malady are subject to, hut after she had taken the pills ( a short time she found relief and now she I eats everything she desires, an<XJias no fears I at all. She eats things now, and has noafter j pains, or trouble with indigestion, that a few j months ago she would not have thought of I taking into her stomach no more than she ' wouldadose of poison. Toa J/bon reporter she said: “The Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills made a new woman of me.” Mrs. Estell is [ the picture of health, and says site feels bet ter to-day than she has for years, and attri butes her good health to the use of the reme dy that everyone is taking. She cannot say enough in favor of it and never misses a chance to tell her friends of what it has done for her. One to look at her would not think that she had ever had a sick day in her life and she says she feels better than she has for many years. Mrs. Estell is well-known in this city, her husband owns the Estell cottages on South Avenue, where she and her husband reside. The lady is president of the Ladies’ Aid, and she is a prominent worker in the First Society of Spiritualists in this city. She is known in almost every home here and a re commendation that comes from her has weight. When she tells her friends of what this great remedy has done for her and they see the healthy look on her face, they cannot doubt it, no matter how much they might desire. It is certainly a marvel what has done for her. To the scribe she said that she thought it was her duty to her friends to tell them of what the Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills had done for her. She had been cured and when she saw others who were trying their best to 1 BAILEY’S A REFLECTORS 1 /IW compound, light-spreading, Silver- designs for el. <-tr. light ’A plated Corrugated Glass reflectors.and oil. Catalogue aud pric** her |’ r «-e * Miu t KtHE t s. 1, 1i h iiirelc.‘ u ‘ d “ T BAILEf REFLtCTOR CO.. Pittsburg X IT’S CURES THAT COUNT. Many so-called remedies are pressed on the public attention on account of their claimed large sales. But sales cannot determine values. Sales sijnply argue good salesmen, shrewd puffery, or enormous advertis ing. It’s cures that count. It is cures that are counted on by Ayer’s Sarsaparilla. Its sales might be boasted. It has the world for its market. But sales prove nothing. We point only to the record of Ayer’s Sarsaparilla, as proof of its merit: 50 YEARS OF CURES. advantage, and it is certainly a search light. It will be especially helpful to those opposing the Romish claims. The style is interesting and a touch of sarcasm gives piquancy to it. “Brown’s Bronchial Troches” are a simple yet most effectual remedy for Coughs, Hoarseness and Bronchial Troubles. Avoid imitations. Before the Senate is a petition bear ing more than 600,000 names, asking for the recognition of Cuban independ ence. Among the signatures are most of the members of nearly every State Legislature in the Union. The peti tion is wound on a wheel which stands four feet high. FOR IXDIGESTION Use Horsford’s Acid Phosphate. Dr. 8 P Peck, Hinton, W. Va., says: “ 1 have used It lu Indigestion and it has no equal.” Xenophon, in his speech made to the ten thousand Greeks, spoke a truth which history has never ceased to re peat. “Somehow,” he said, “the brave live to be old, and those who flee to save their lives are ignominiously and quickly killed.” Duty-doing is always a good investment. —S. S. Times. I on’t —ls a dealer offers you a bottle of Sal vation OH without wraoper or labels, or in a mutilated condition, don’t touch it—don't bu? It at any price, the e Is something wrong-It may be a danger us or worthless counterfeit. Insist up > getting a perfect, unbroken, genuine package. Be on your guard 1 And he said unto me, “My grace is sufficient for thee;” for my strength is made perfect in weakness (2 Cor. 12: 9). get relief from their maladies by doctoring with the physicians and after taking treat- ( ment for months and secured no relief, site, believed tiiat it was time for them to try, something that would cure them. In all the 1 cases that she had recommended this remedy : for she had not heard of one that had not been greatly benefited by it. To the reporter she said, “ You cannot put it too strong for, me. I am oveijoyed at the result of my experience with the remedy, and I have not only recommended it to friends in this city, but have written to a number in other places who have taken my advice and bought the pills, with the same remarkable results as I had. It is a remedy that should be in every home.” , J. W. Murphy, of the drug firm of Am berg & Murphy, was seen by a Moon re fresentative in regard to the case of Mrs. Istell. “Yes,” said he, “her case was a remarkable one, but only one of many, yes, perhaps hundreds in this city alone. We never iiave any fears about recommending these pills to our customers. We do not as a rule guarantee patent remedies, but there is no risk to run in guaranteeing this remedy. No one who has ever taken it can say any thing but praise for it and what everyone says must be true.” , Mr. Murphy then cited the cases of a' number of our prominent citizens who hnd been cured by the pills and whose cases had been almost beyond cure so many thought. We have so many calls for these pills a' ' hear so much about their cures that it 1 c comes an everyday occurrence witli us and we do not keep track of the parties w lio are cured by them,” he said to the scribe, “hut if we kept a list of our patrons on the reme dy we could furnish you a long list of per. sons to interview, who have not only been made well, hut happy also by this medicine.” Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People are handy to take and carry. They can be carried in the vest pocket and taken at any time during the day. The cases of Mrs. Estell and Mr. Weston .mentioned in this article were treated by doctors for months. Mr. Weston payingout hundreds of dollars to doctors and then given up. He was cured with a few boxes of Pink Pills. Mrs. Estell only bought two boxes, just a dollar did she spend. This was vastly different from paying out a dollar a visit from a physician. It is no wonder that peo ple are so anxious to tell their friends of what this remedy will do. Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People are prepared by the Dr. Williams’ Med icine Co., of Schenectady, N. Y., a firm whose ability and reliability are unques tioned. Pink Pills are not looked upon as a patent medicine, but as a prescription, having been used as such for years in general practice, and their successful results in curing various afflictions made it imperative that they be prepared in quantities to meet the demand of the public, and place them in reach of all. They are an unfailing specific for such diseases as locomotor ataxia, partial paralysis, St. Vitus’ dance, sciatica, neu ralgia, rheumatism, nervous headache the after effects of la grippe, palpitation of the heart, pale and sallow complexions, and the tired feeling resulting from nervous prostra tion, all diseases resulting from vitiated hu mors in the blood, such as scrofula, chronic erysipelas, etc. They are also a specific for troubles peculiar to females, such as suppres sions, irregularities, and all forms of weak ness. They build up the and restore the glow of health to pale and sallow cheeks. In men they effect a radical cure in all cases arising from mental worry, overwork, or excesses of whatever nature. Pink Pills are sold in boxes (never in ; loose form by the dozen or hundred, and the public are cautioned against numerous imi tations sold in this shape) at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50, and may be had of all druggists, or direct by mail from Dr. Wil liams’ Medicine Company.