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4pel Life to Freezing; Souls.
Beoqklt N) g e pt;. 17.—In his sermon at
tfche Brook [y n Tabernacle this forenoon
IJlev. Dr.il j e "Witt Talmage preached to a
"vast and’ ence 0 n the subject of “Re-en-
jgorcemoT (. » the text being Luke xvii, 5,
-“Lord.w ncrease our faith.”
b- a p^y he ia going there!” said
I*ny frk nd> a most distinguialied general
iof the army, when ho was told that the
:*easo» , f or ni y not being present on a
■rcfclhb i-ated day in Brooklyn was that on
-.that day I had sailed for the Holy Land.
"'W ny do you say that?” inquired some
on* My military friend replied, “Oh,
•Ihe will be disillusioned when lie gets
ra* ddtbe squalor and commonplace scenes
• 3? Palestine, and his faith will bo shaken
& i Christianity, for that is often the re-
1 iult.” The great general misjudged the
ucase.
I went to the Holy Land for the one
-purpose of having my faith strength
ened, and that was the result which
• came of it. In all our journeying, in all
•our reading, in all our associations, in
;all our plans, augmentation rather than
•■the depletion of our faith should be our
• chief desire. It is easy enough to have
• our faith destroyed. I can give you a
urecipe for its obliteration. Read infidel
. books, have long and frequent conversa
tions with skeptics, attend the lectures
• of those antagonistic to religion, give
;full swing to some bad habit, and your
"faith will be so completely gone that
zyaa will laugh at tlio idea that you ever
H?iad any.
•If you want to ruin your faith, you can
.To it more easily than you can do any
thing else. After believing the Bible all
:*ny life I can see a plain way by which, in
:six weeks, I couldenlist my voice and pen
it-md heart and head and entire nature in
7.the bombardment of the Scriptures and
■. the church and all I now hold sacred.
“That it is easy to banish soon and forever
call respect for the Bible I prove by the
::fact tlnlt so many have done it. They were
mot particularly brainy nor had especial
rforce of will, but they so thoroughly ac-
coomplislied the overthrow of their faith
•that they have no more idea that the
iBible is true, or that Christianity
; Amounts to anything, than they have in
rthe truth of the “ArabianNights’ Enter
tainments” or the existence of Don Quix-
.ote’s “windmills.” They have destroyed
-.their faith so thoroughly that they never
•. will have a return of it.
Fifty revivals of religion may sweep
• over the city, the town, the ueighbor-
Eaood where they live, and they will feel
. nothing but a silent or expressed dis-
: gust. There are persons in this house
today who 20 years ago gave up their
;£aith, and they will never resume it. The
TJblack and deep toned bell of doom hangs
•over their head, and I take the hammei
• of that bell, and I strike it three times
•with all my might, and it sounds, woe!
-woe! woe! But my wish, and the wish
..of most of you, is the prayer expressed
I by the disciples to Jesus Christ in the
• words of my text, “Lord, increase our
rfaith.”
STRENGTH OF THE BIBLE.
The first mode of accomplishing this
its to study the Bible itself. I do not be-
’ I lieve there is an infidel now alive who
laas read the Bible through. But as so
; important a document needs to be read
; at least twice through in order that it
raiay be thoroughly understood, and read
r.in course, I now offer $100 reward to
: any infidel who has read the Bible
■.through twice and read it in course. But
II cannot take such a man’s own word for
: it, for there is no foundation for integri-
tty except the Bible, and the man who re
jects the source of truth how can I ac-
i cept his truthfulness?
So I must have another witness in the
• case before I give the reward. I must
luave the testimony of some one who has
i seen him read it all through twice. In-
-fidels fish in this Bible for incoherencies
: and contradictious and absurdities, and
;if you find their Bible you will see inter-
Mineations in the book of Jonah and some
• of the chapters of that amfortunate
-prophet nearly worn out by much use,
rand some parts of II Samuel or I
! Kings you will find dim with finger
iimarks, but the pages which contain the
“Ten Commandments, and the Psalms of
1 David, and the sermon on the mount, and
tthe book of John the Evangelist, will
mot have a single lead pencil stroke in the
r.xnargin nor any finger marks showing
frequent perusal.
The father of one of the presidents of
•.the United States was a pronounced in-
Sfidel. I knew it when many years ago I
: accepted his invitation to spend the
might in his home. Just before retiring
nat night he said in a jocose way, “I
[ Suppose you are accustomed to read the
ItBible before going to bed, and here is
-any Bible fi;oni which to read.” He then
ihold me what portions lie would like to
It lave me read, and lie only asked for
-..chose portions on which he could easily
\be facetious.
You know you can make fun about
.-anything. I suppose you could take the
Host letter your father or mother ever
-wrote and find something in the gram-
:4nax or the spelling or the tremor of the
-penmanship about which to be derisively
.critical. The internal evidence of the
rtrathfulness of the Bible is so mighty
7 that no one man out of the 1,000,000,000
.of the world’s present population or the
’•raster millions of the past ever read the
IBible in course, and read it prayerfully
:and carefully, but was led to believe it.
John Murray, the famous book pub
lisher of Edinburgh and the intimate
jfriend <>f Southey, Coleridge, Walter
tt, Canning and Washington Irving,
Fbaught of Moore, the poet, the “Memoirs
.Lord Byron,” and they were to be
jpnbiished after Byron’s death. But they
•were not fit to be published, although
IMurray had paid for them $10,000. That
rjras a solemn conclave when eight of the
picominent literary people of those times
sembled in Albemarle street after By-
n’s death to decide what should he
ne with the “Memoirs,” which were
charged and surcharged with deft,mo
tions and indelicacies. The “Memoirs"
were read and pondered, and the decision
came that they must be burned, and not
nntil the last word of those “Memoirs”
went to ashes did the literary company
separate.
But suppose, now, all the best spirits of
all ages were assembled to decide the
fate of the Bible, which is the last will and
testament of our Heavenly Father, and
theSe memoirs of our Lord Jesns, what
would he the verdict? Shall they burn,
or shall they live? The unanimous ver
dict of all is, "Lot thorn live, though all
else burn.” Then put together on the
other hand all the debauchees and profli
gates and assassins of the ages, and their
unanimous verdict concerning the Bible
would be, “Let it burn."
Mind you, 1 do not say that all infidels
are immoral, but I do say that all the
scrapegraces and scoundrels of the uni
verse agree with them about the Bible.
Let me vote with those who believo in
the holy Scriptures. Men believe other
tilings with half the evidence required to
belWothe Bible. The distinguished Ab
ner Knecland rejected the Scriptures
and then put all his money into an en
terprise for the recovery of that hocus
pools “Captain Kidd’s treasures,” Knee-
laud’s faith for doing so being founded
on a man’s statement that lie could tell
where those treasures were be ried from
tlio looks of a glass of water dipped from
the Hudson river.
The internal evidence of tlio authen
ticity of the Scriptures is so exact and
so vivid that no man, honest and sane,
can thoroughly and continuously and
prayerfully read them without entering
tlieir discipleship. So I put that inter
nal evidence paramount. How are you
led to believe in a letter you received
from husband or wife or child or friend?
You know the handwriting. You know
the style. You recognize the sentiment.
When the letter comes, you do not sum
mon tlio postmaster who stamped it, and
the postmaster who received it, and the
letter carrier who brought it to your
door to prove that it is a genuine letter.
Tho internal evidence settles it, and by
the same process you can forever settle
the fact that the Bible is tlio handwrit
ing and communication of tho infinite
God.
a Sublime philosophy.
Furthermore, as 1 have already inti
mated, we may increase our faith by the
testimony of others. Perhaps we of less
er brain may have been overcome by
superstition or cajoled into an acceptance
of a hollow pretension. So I will this
morning turn this bouse into a court
room and summon witnesses, and you
shall be the jury, and I now impanel you
for that purpose, and I will put upon the
witness stand men whom all the world
acknowledge to be strong intellectually
and whose evidence in any other court
room would bo incontrovertible. I will
not call to the witness stand any min
ister of the gospel, for he might be prej
udiced.
There are two ways of taking an oath
in a courtroom. One is by putting tho
lips to tlio Bible and the other is by
holding up the right hand toward heav
en. Now, as in this case it is the Bible
that is on trial, we will not ask the wit
ness to put the book to liis lips, for that
would imply that the sanctity and divin
ity of the book is settled, and that would
be begging the question. So I shall ask
each witness to lift his hand toward
heaven in affirmation.
Salmon P. Chase, chief justice of the
supreme court of the United States, ap
pointed by President Lincoln, will take
the witness stand. “Chief Justice
Chase, upon your oath, please state what
you have to say about the book common
ly called the Bible.” Tlie witness re
plies: “There came a time in my life
when I doubted tlie divinity of the
Scriptures, and I resolved, as a lawyer
and judge, I would try the book as I
would try anything in the courtroom,
taking evidence for and against. It
was a long and serious and profound
study, and using the same principles of
evidence in this religious matter as I
always do in secular matters I have
come to the decision that the Bible is a
supernatural book, that it has come
from God, and that the only safety for
the human race is to follow its teach
ings.” “Judge, that will do. Go back
again to your pillow of dust on the
hanks of the Ohio.”
Next I put upon tlie witness stand a
president of the United States—John
Quincy Adams. President Adams, what
have you to say about the Bible and
Christianity?” The president replies: “I
have for many years made it a practice
to read through the Bible once a year.
My custom is to read four or five chap
ters every morning immediately after
arising from my bed. It employs about
an hour of my time and seems to me the
most suitable manner of beginning tlie
day. In what light soever we regard
the Bible, whether with reference to rev
elation, to history or to morality, it is
an invaluable and inexhaustible mine of
knowledge and virtue.”
Next I put upon the witness stand Sir
Isaac Newton, the author of the “Prin-
cipia” and tlie greatest natural philoso
pher the world has ever seen. “Sir
Isaac, what have you to say concerning
the Bible?” The philosopher’s reply is,
“We account the Scriptures of God to bo
the most sublime philosophy.”
Next I put upon the witness stand the
enchantment of letters, Sir Walter
Scott, and when I ask him what he
thinks of the place that our great book
ought to take among other books he re
plies, “There is but one book, and that
is the Bible.”
Next I put upon the stand the most
famous geologist of all time, Hugh Mil
ler, an elder of Dr. Guthrie’s Presby
terian church in Edinburgh, and Fara
day and Kepler, and they all testify to
the same thing. They all say the Bible
is from God, and that the mightiest in
fluence for good that ever touched our
wdrlcl is' Christianity.
“Chancellor Kent, what do you think
of the Bible?” Answer: “No other book
ever addressed itself so authoritatively
and so pathetically to tlie judgment and
moral sense of mankind.”
“Edmund Burke, what do you think
of the Bible?” Answer: “I have read
the Bible morning, noon and night, and
have ever since been tlie happier and the
better man for such reading.”
Next I put upon tlie stand William E.
Gladstone, the head of tlio English gov
ernment, and I hear him saying what
ho said to mo in'January of 1800, when
in reply to his telegram, “Pray come to
Hawarden tomorrow," I visited him.
Then and there I asked him as to wheth
er in the passage of years his faith in the
holy Scriptures and Christianity was on
the increase or decrease, and lie turned
upon mo with an emphasis and enthusi
asm such as no one who has not con
versed with him can fully appreciate
and expressed by voice and gesture and
illumined countenance his ever increas
ing f aitli in God and the Bible and Chris
tianity as the only hope of our ruined
world. "That is all, Mr. Gladstone, we
will tnko of yonr time now, for, from
the reports of what is going on in Eng
land just now, I think you are very
busy.”
The next man I put upon tlie witness
stand is tho lute Earl of Kltitore, and 1
ask him wliat lie thinks of Christianity,
and lie replies, “Why do you ask me
that? Did you not hear me preach Christ
in tlie Midnight Mission of London?”
“Oh, yes! I remember!” But I see
many witnesses present today in the
courtroom, and I call you to tlie witness
stand, but I have only a second of time
for any one of you. As you pass along
hist give one sentence in regard to
Christianity. “Under God it lias
changed my entire nature,” says
one. “It brought me from drunken
ness and poverty to sobriety and a
good home,” says another. “It solaced
me when I lost my child,” says another.
“It gave me a hope of future treasures
when my property was swept off by tlio
last panic,” says another. “It has given
mo a peace and a satisfaction more to mo
than all the world beside,” says another.
“It has been to me light and music and
fragrance and radiant anticipation,”
says another. Ah! stop the procession
of witnesses. Enough! Enough! All
those voices of the past and the present
have mightily increased our faith.
testimony of the rocks.
Again, our belief is re-enforced by ar
chaeological exploration. We must con
fess that good men at one time were afraid
of geologist’s hammer and chemist's cru
cible and archaeologist's investigation,
but now intelligent Christians are re
ceiving and still expecting nothing but
confirmation from all such sources. Wliat
supports the Palestine Exploration soci
ety? Contributions from churches and
Christian benefactors. I saw the marks
of the shovels of that exploring society
amid the ruins of ancient Jericho and
all up and down from tlie Dead sea to
Caesarea Philippi. “Dig away!” says the
church of God, “and the deeper you dig
the better I like.”
Tlie discovered monuments of Egypt
have chiseled on them the story of the
sufferings of the Israelites in Egyptian
bondage, as we find it in the Bible—
there, In imperishable stone, representa
tions of tho slave, of the whips and
of the taskmasters who compelled the
making of bricks without straw. Ex
humed Nineveh and Babylon, with their
dusty lips, declare the Bible true. Na
poleon’s soldiers in the Egyptian cam
paign pried up a stone, which you may
find in the British museum, a stone, as
I remember it, presenting perhaps two
feet of lettered surface. It contains words
in three languages. That stone was tlie
key that unlocked the meaning of all
the hieroglyphics of tombs and obelisks
and tells over and over again tlie same
events which Moses recorded.
The sulphurous graves of Sodom and
Gomorrah have been identified. The re
mains of the tower of Babel have been
found. Assyrian documents lifted from
the sand and Beliistun inscription hun
dreds of feet high up on tlie rock echo
and re-echo tlie truth of Bible history.
The signs of the time indicate that al
most every fact of the Bible from lid to
lid will find its corroboration in ancient
city disentombed, or ancient wall
cleared from the dust of ages, or ancient
document unrolled by archaeologist.
Before the world rolls on as far into
the twentieth century as it has already
rolled into the nineteenth an infidel
will he a man who does not believe his
own senses, and the volumes now crit
ical and denunciatory of the Bible, if
not entirely devastated by the book
worms, will be taken down from the
shelf as curiosities of ignorance or idiocy.
All success to the pickaxes and crow
bars and powder blasting of those apos
tles of archaeological exploration. I like
the ringing defiance of the old Huguenots
to the assailants of Christianity: “Pound
away, you rebels! Your hammers break,
but the anvil of God’s word stands.”
How wonderfully tlie old book hangs
together. It is a library made up of 0(5
books and written by at least 39 authors.
It is a supernatural thing that they have
stuck together. Take the writings of any
other 39 authors, or any 10 authors, or any
5 authors, and put them together, and
how long would they stay together?
Books of “elegant extracts" compiled
from many authors are proverbially
short lived. I never knew one such book
which, to use tlie publisher’s phrase,
“had life in it” for five years.
Why is it that the Bible, made up of
the writings of at least 39 authors, has
kept together for a long line of centu
ries when the natural tendency would
have been to fly apart like loose sheets of
paper when a gust of wind blows upon
them? It is because God stuck them to
gether and keeps them together. But for
that Joshua Would have wandered off in
one direction, and Paul into another, and
Ezekiel into another, and Habakkuk into
another, and the 39 authors into 39 direc
tions.
Put the writings of Shakespeare and
Tennyson and Longfellow, or any part
of them, together. How long would they
stay together? No book bindery could
keep them together. But the cannon of
Scripture is loaded now with the same
ammunition with which prophet and
apostle loaded it.
Bring me all tlie Bibles of the earth
into one pile, and blindfold me so that I
cannot tell the difference between day
and night, and put into my hand any
one of all that Alpine mountain of sacred
books, and pul my linger on the last page
of Genesis and let me know it, and I
cun. tell yon what is on the next page—
namely, tho first chapter of Exodus; or
while thus blindfolded put my finger on
the last chapter of Matthew and let mo
know it, and 1 will tell yon what is on
the next page—namely, tho first chapter
of Mark. In tho pilo of OOOJKJO.OtlO
Bibles there will bo no exception. In
other words, tho book gives me confi
dence by its supernatural adhesion of
writing to writing.
Even the stoutest ship sometimes shifts
its cargo, and that is what made our
peril the greater in the ship Greece of
the National line when the cyclone
struck us off the coast of Newfoundland,
and tho cargo of iron had shifted as the
ship swung from larboard to starboard,
and from starboard to larboard. But,
thanks bo to God, this old Bible ship,
though it has been in thousands of yearn
of tempest, has kept its cargo of gold
and precious stones compact and sure,
and in all the centuries nothing about
it has shifted. Thero they stand,
shoulder to shoulder, David and Solo
mon and Isaiah and Jeremiah arid
Ezekiel and Daniel and Iloaea and Joel
and.Amos and Obadiali and Jonah and
Micali and Nahum and Habakkuk and
Zeplianiah and Haggai and Zechariah
and Malacbi and Matthew and Mark
and Luke and Jolm and Paul and Peter,
all there, and with a certainty of being
there until the heavens and tlie earth,
the creation of which is described in the
first book of the Bible, shall have Col
lapsed, and tlio white horse of the con
queror, described in the last book of tho
Bible, shall paw tho dust in universal de
molition. By that tremendous fact my
faith is re-enforced.
Tho discussion is abroad as to who
wrote those hooks of tlie Bible called
the Pentateuch, whether Moses or
Hilltiah or Ezra or Samuel or Jeremiah
or another group of ancients. None of
them wrote it. God wrote the Penta
teuch, and in this day of stenography
and typewriting that ought not to he a
difficult thing to understand. The great
merchants and lawyers and editors and
business men of our towns and cities
dictate nearly all their letters; they only
sign them after they are dictated. The
prophet and evangelist and upostle were
Jehovah’s stenographers or typewriters.
They put down only what God dictated;
he signed it afterward. Ho has been
writing his name upon it all through the
vicissitudes of centuries.
THE PRAYER OF FAITH.
But I come to the height of my sub
ject when I say the way to re-enforce
our faith is to pray for it. So the disci
ples in my text got their abounding
faith. “Lord, increase our faith.” Some
one suggests, “Do you really think that
prayer amounts to anything?” I might
as well ask you, is there a line of tele
graphic poles from New York to Wash
ington, is there a line of telegraphic
wires from Manchester to London, from
Cologne to Berlin? All the people who
have sent and received messages on those
lines know of their existence. So there
are millions of souls who have been in
constant communication with the cap
ital of tlie universe, with the throne of
the Almighty, with the great God him
self, for years and years and years.
There has not been a day when sup
plications did not flash up and blessings
did not flash down. Will some igno
ramus, who lias never received a tele
gram or sent one, come and tell us that
there is no such thing as telegraphic
communication? Will some one who
has never- offered a prayer that was
heard and answered come and tell us
that there is nothing ill prayer? It may
not come as we expect it, but as sure as
an honest prayer goes up a merciful
answer will come down.
During the blizzard of four or five
years ago, you know that many of the
telegraph wires were prostrated, and I
telegraphed to Chicago by the way of
Liverpool, and the answer after awhile
came round by another wide circuit
and so the prayer we offer may come
back in a way we never imagined, and
if we ask to have our faith increased,
although it may come by a widely dif
ferent process than that which we ex
pected, our confidence will surely be
augmented.
Oh, put it in every prayer you ever
make between your next breath and
your last gasp, “Lord, increase our
faith”—faith in Christ as our personal
ransom from present guilt and eternal
catastrophe; faith in the omnipotent
Holy Ghost; faith in the Bible, the
truest volume ever dictated or written
or printed or read; faith in adverse
providences, harmonized for our best
welfare; faith in a judgment day that
will set all things right which have for
ages been wrong.
Increase our faith, not by a fragile ad
dition, but by an infinitude of recupera
tion. Let us do as we saw it done in the
country while we were yet in our teens,
at tlie old farmhouse after a long
drought, and the well had been dried,
and the cattle moaned with thirst at the
bars, and the meadow brook had ceased
to run, and tlie grass withered, and
the corn was shriveled up, and one day
there was a growl of thunder, and
then a congregation of clouds on the
sky, and then a startling flash, and then
a drenching rain, and father and mother
put barrels under every spout at the cor
ners of the house and set pails and buck
ets and tubs and pans and pitchers to
catcli as much as they could of the show
er. For in many of our souls there has
been a long drought of confidence and
in many no faith at all. Let us set out
all our affections, all our hopes, all our
contemplations, all our prayers, to catch
a mighty shower. “Lord, increase our
faith.”
I like the way that the minister’s wid
ow did in Elisha’s time, when, after the
family being very unfortunate, her two
sous were about to be sold for debt, and
she bad nothing in the bouse but a pot
of oil, and at Elisha’s direction she bor
rowed from her neighbors all the vessels
she could borrow, and then began to
pour out the oil into those vessels and
kept on pouring until they were all full,
and she became an oil merchant with
rnoro assets than liabilities, and when
she cried, “Bring me yet a vessel,” the
answer emne, “There is not a vessel
moro.” Ho lot ns tnko what oil of faith
we have and uso it until tho supply
sliiil). Vie miraculously multiplied. Bring
on your empty vessels, and by the power
of tlio Lord God of Elisha they shall be
filled until they can hold no moro of.
jubilant, all inspiring and triumphant
faith.
RESUSCITATION.
Wliat a frightful time we had ft few
days ago down on the coast of Long Is
land, where I have been stopping. That
archangel of tempest which, with its
awful wings, swept the Atlantic coast
from Florida to Newfoundland did not
spare our region. A few miles away, at
Southampton, I saw the bodies of four
men whom the storm lmd slain ami the
sea liad cast up. As I stood there among
the dead bodies I said to myself, and I
said aloud: “These men represent homes.
What will mother and father and wife
and children say when tlioy know this?”
Some of the victims were unknown.
Only the first name of two of them was
found out—Charley and William. 1
wondered then and I wonder now if they
will remain unknown and if snino kin
dred far away may be waiting for their
coming and never hear of tho rough way
of tlieir going. I saw also one of the
three who had come in alive, but more
dead than alive. The ship had become
helpless six miles out, and us one wave
swept the deck and went down on tlie
furnaces till they hissed and went out
tho cry was, “Oh, my God, we are lost!”
Then the crew put on life preservers,
one of the sailors saying to the other,
"We will meet again on the shore, and,
if not, well, we must all go some time.”
Of tho 23 men who put oil tlie life
preservers, only' 3 lived to reach the
beach. But what a scene it was as the
good and kind people of Southampton,
led on by Dr. Thomas, the great and
good surgeon of New York, stood watch
ing the sailors struggling in tho break
ers. “Are you still alive?” shouted Dr.
Thomas to one of them out, in the break
ers, and he signaled yes and then went
into unconsciousness. Who should do
the most for the poor fellows and how
to resuscitate them were the questions
that, ran up and down the beach at South
ampton.
How the men and women on tlio shore
stood wringing their hands, impatiently
waiting for the sufferers to come within
reach, and then they were lifted up and
carried indoors and waited on with os
much kindness and wrapped us warmly
as though they had been the princes of
tho earth. “Are they alive?” “Are they
breathing?" Do you think they will
live?" "Wliat can we do for them?"
were the rapid and intense questions
asked, and so much money was sent foi
tlie clothing and equipment of the un
fortunates that Dr. Thomas had to make
a proclamation that no more money was
needed. In other words, all that day it
was resuscitation.
And this is the appropriate word for
us this morning as we stand and look
off upon this awful sea of doubt and un
belief on which hundreds are this mo
ment being wrecked. Some of them
were launched by Christian parentage
on smooth seas and with promise for
prosperous voyage, but a Voltaire cy
clone struck them on one side, and a Tom
Paine cyclone struck them on the other
side, and a bad habit cyclone struck
them on all sides, and they have foun
dered far away from shore, far away
from God, and they have gone down or
are washed, ashore with no spiritual life
left in them.
But, thank God, there are many hero
today with enough faith left to enconr-
age us in tlie effort at their resuscitation.
All hands to the beach! With a confi
dence in God that takes no denial, let
us lay hold of them! Fetch them out
of the breakers! Bring gospel warmth
and gospel stimulus and gospel life to
their freezing souls! Resuscitation!
Resuscitation!
Mr. J. A. Wheeler
“While Serving My Country
I was taken 111 with spinal disease and rlien-
matlsm. When I returned home my trouble
was still with mo, and I was confined to my bed,
unable to help myself tor 22 months. After
taking seven bottles ot Hood’s Sarsaparilla I
was well and have not since boon troubled with
my old complaints. My wlfo was In 111 health,
suffering with headache, dizziness and dys
pepsia. Blio took two bottlos ot
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
and foels like o new woninn.” ,1a... s a,
WHEELER, 1000 Division St., Baltimore, Md.
Hood’s Pills are tho best after-dinner rills,
assist digestion, cure headache. Try a box.
S KEEP COOL*
inside, outside, and all the way through,
by drinking ---
HIRES’K
Tills great Temperance drink;
is us Ueultbful, us It is pleasant. Try ft
LADIES
Needing a tonic, or children who want build*
ing up, should take
BROWN'S IRON BITTERS.
It is pleosnnt; cureH Malaria, Indigestion,
Biliousness, Liver Complaints und Neuralgia.
A beautiful Stylish Shoe
for Ladies.
Is made to expand with every motion of the foot;
it retains it.s stylish slmpo when other shoes give
way and break. It U the best shoe made.
PRICES, $2, C2.50, $3, $3.50,
Consolidated Shoe Co„ iWrs., Lynn. Mass.
For sale by the leading Shoo dotilore in West
Point, Ga.
ADAMS & BROTHER.
(Agents wanted everywhere.'
PECULIARLY MADE.
Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets are
made of refined and concentrated
botanical extracts. They’re differ
ent from the large old-fashioned
pills for these Pellets are as tiny as
mustard seeds, and are sugar-coated.
They’re made in an improved chem
ical laboratory under the direct su
pervision of scientific men. Every
thing else being equal, the smaller
the size of a liver pill, the more
comfort.
, They do not shock the system,
but regulate, cleanse and tone up,
the liver, stomach, and bowels, in
nature’s own way.
■ They’re put up in sealed glass
vials, easily carried in the vest-
pocket.
In Bilious Disorders, Sick Head
ache, Constipation, Indigestion, Diz
ziness, or for breaking up sudden
attacks of Colds, Fevers, and Inflam
mation, “ Pleasant Pellets ” are
prompt and effective in action.
Peculiar in the way they’re sold,
too, for they’re guaranteed to give
satisfaction, or money is returned.
WESLEYAN FEMALE INSTITUTE
, STAUNTON, VA.
Opens Sept. 6th, 1893. OiiniHtn and surroundings ex
ceptional. Handsome buildings, being remodeled
thoroughly renovated, repainted inside and ontf iae
and refurnished with now pianos, e.-rpets. Ac. Steam
hetft, gas light, bath rooms on every floor. How Labora
tory thoroughly equipped. 2*'. experienced tenchere.
Advanced Courses in English, Latin. German. French.
&c. Special advantages m Music and Art. 141 board
ing pupils from 18 States Terms moderate For Cata
logues of this celebrated old Virginia School, address
h .W. ROltbUTSON* Proa., .Staunton, Vu.
FRAY BENTOS
ia a town iu tTrUituay, South Vruorlcaon Mia
river Plate. It would not be c.-lebr ed ex
cept that It la where the celebrated
Lsbi g Company’s
EXTRACT OF BEEF
cornea from, and Id the fertile grazing fields
around It, are reared the cattle which are
slaughter, d—l.oou a day—to mako this ra-
mous product, which Is known ’rouui the
world as the standard for
QUALITY, FLAVOR AND PURITY.
BEATTY'S ORGANS mid PIANOS |33
want agent. Cutnlogue Free. Address
DANIEL F. BEATTY, Washington, N.
A e° nt 8 profits per month. W
, P’^ve it or pap forfeit. New n
.jV f 1 "' 0 sample and terms fri
ly us. (!,HIDES mill Jk SON, 28 Bond st„N.’
MOOD’S CURES when all other
J preparations fail. It'possesses
curative power peculiar to itself,
sure to get Hood’s Sarsaparilla.
Be
All First-Class Druggists.
From present date will keep on sale the Im
ported East India Hemp Remedies. Dr. H
James’preparation of tills herb on its own
soil (Calouuta),wlll positively cure Consump
tion, Bronchitns, Asthma, and Nasal Ca
tarrh, and break up a fresh cold iu 24 hours
•12.50 per bottle, or J bottles t0.50. Try it.
CHADDOCK & CO., Proprietors,
1032 Race Street, Philadelphia.
DRS. LOLEMAN & MITCHELL,
(Graduates Philadelphia Dental College,)
Having purchased the practice of Dr. J. A.
Chappie, are prepared to perform all opera
tions pertaining to the practice of Dentistry
and respectfully solicit tlie patronage of the
people of LaGrange and surrounding country,
teeth extracted without pain by tlie use of
Nitrous Oxide Gas, Specialties—Crownand
bridge work and operative dentistry.
"Mvwdp! w.s 3i0
• ,i n< ”* ll| = io» n»., 7i
»I W0 nnd ,V“ 1 r““ °" lch l,erer I would not take
S the T pl “V' h(r “ ’•»*■ » *1" both surprised end proud
PATIENTS TREATER BY MAIL. CONFIDENTIAL.
Harmlr-ig, And with no stirring, inconvenience, or bud ’fleets.
For particulars nddreu, with 6 cenU in sUmps, -necu.
CR. P. W. F. lir 'Tp. H'vicsfg’g IHUTET. nutCflG({ IR,
BROWN'S IRON BITTERS
cures Dyspepsia, In
digestion & Debility.