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SHUT IN BY DISASTER
DR. TALMAGE TALKS ON THE COM
PENSATIONS OF SICKNESS.
The Cgi* nt Xoah nod the Ark-Din*
nnirrn Are God's Denlffna For Onr
Betterment—Men Saved by Being:
Shot In—A Sermon to Invalids.
Copyright, by American Press Asso
ciation.]
WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—This discourse
jf Dr. Talmage, which is helpful to all |
who find life a struggle, is especially ad- J
ireused to a class of persons probably nev- I
w before addressed in a sermon. The text •
la Genesis vil, 16, “The Lord shut him
in.”
Cosmogony has no more interesting
'•hapter than the one which speaks of that
catastrophe of the ages, the submersion of
nir world tn time of Noah, the first ship
carpenter. Many of the nations who nev
<*r saw a Bible have a flood story—Egyp
tian flood story, Grecian flood story, of
which Ducalion was the Noah; Hawaiian
flood story, New Zealand flood story, Chi- |
neae flood story, American Indian flood 1
story—all of which accounts agree in the
immersion of the continents under uni- I
versal rains, and that there was a ship .
floating with a select few of the human
family and with specimens of zoological
snd ornithological and reptilian worlds,
although I could have wished that these
hist hnd been shut out of the ark and
drowned.
All of these flood stories represent the
ship thus afloat us finally stranded on a
mountain top. Hugh Miller in his “Tea- |
tlmony nf tho Rocks” thinks that all these
flood stories were infirm traditions of the
Biblical account, and I believe him. The
worst thing about that great freshet was
that it struck Noah’s Great Eastern from
ahov/i and beneath. The seas broke the
chain of shells and crystal and rolled over
the land, and tho heavens opened their
clouds for falling columns of water which
roared and thundered on the roof of the
great ship for a month and ten days.
There was one door to the ship, but there
were three parts to that door, one part for
< ach of tho three stories. The Bible ac-
< mint says nothing about parts of the door
belonging to two of the stories, and I do
not know on which floor Noah and his i
family voyaged, hut Try next tells us that ‘
the part of the door of that particular floor j
on which Noah staid was closed after he j
had entered. “The Lord shut him in.” '
So t here nrn many people now in the world j
who are ns thoroughly shut in, some by |
sickness, some by old age, some by special j
duties that will not allow them to go '
forth, some surrounded by deluges of mls
fertuno and trouble, and for them I often
receive messages, and this sermon, which
I hope may do good to others, is more es
pecially Intended for them. ’Today I ad
dress the shut in. “The Lord shut him
in. ”
The Closed Boor.
Notice first of all who closed the door so
that they could not get out. Noah did not
do It, nor his son Shorn, nor did Ham, nor
did Japheth, nor did eitht r of the four
married women who wore on shipboard,
nor did desperadoes who had scoffed at the
idea of peril which Noah had been preach
ing close that door. They had turned
their backs on the ark and had in disgust
gone away. I will tell you how it was
done. A hand was stretched down from
heaven to close that door. It was a divine
hand as well as a kindliand. “Tho Lord
•but him in ”
Ami the same kind and sympathetic be
ing has shut you in. my reader or my j
hearer. You thought it was an accident,
ascribablo to the carelessness or misdoings
of others, or a more “happen so,” No,
no! God had gracious design for your
het torment, for tho cultivation of your
eatienco, for the strengthening of your
faith, for tho advantage you might gain
by seclusion, for your eternal salvation.
He put. you in a schoolroom, where you
•could learn in six months or a year more
‘hau you could have learned anywhere
else in a lifetime. He turned the lattice
or pulled down the blinds of the sickroom,
or put your swollen foot on an ottoman,
or held you amid the pillows of a couch
which you could not leave, for some rea- '
son that you may not now understand, but {
which ho has promised ho will explain to [
you satisfactorily, if not in this world, '
then in the world to come, for ho has 1
said. “What I do thou k nowest not now,
but. thou ehalt know hereafter!”
Tho world has no statistics as to the 1
number of invalids. The physicians know •'
something about it, and the apothecaries i
and the pastors, but who can tell us the
number of blind eyes, and deaf ears, and j
diseased lungs, and congested livers, and
jangled nerves, and neuralgic temples, ;
and rheumatic feet, or haw many took no I
food this morning because they had no ap
petite to eat or digestive organs to assiiu- '
ilate, or havo lungs so delicate they can
not go forth when the wind is in the cast,
or there is a fog rising from the river, or i
there is a dampness on the ground or I
l avement because of the frost coming out?
It would be easy to count the people who
every day go through a street, or the num- j
her of passengers carried by a railroad j
company in a year, or the’ number of those
who cross the ocean in ships. But who ■
can give us the statistics of the great mul- ,
titudes who are shut in? I call the atten- I
tion of all such to their superior oppor
tunities of doing good.
fonanlntion of the Sick.
Those of us who are well, and can see
clearly, and hoar distinctly, and partake
of food of all sorts, and questions of diges- i
tion never occur to us. and we can wade
rhe snowbanks, and take an equinox in
our faces, and endure the thermometer at
zero, and every breath of air is a tonic
and a stimulus, and sound sleep meets us
within five minutes after our head touches !
the pillow, do not fnakesomuch of an im
pression when we talk about tho consola
tions of religion. The world says right
away: “I guess that man mistakes buoy- ,
ancy of natural spirits for religion. W.'iat
does he know about it? He has never been
ttied.” But when one goes out and reports J
to the world that that morning on his way j
to business ho called to see you and found
you, after being kept in your room for
two months, cheerful and hopeful, and j
that you had not one word of complaint :
and asked all about everybody and rejoiced ;
in the success of your business friends, al
though your own business had almost ’
eome to a standstill through your absence •
from store or office or shop, and that you ’
sent your love to all your old friends and '
told them that if you did not meet them j
•again in this world you hoped to meet ,
them in dominions seraphic, with a quiet
word of advice from you to the man who I
carried the message about the importance
of his not neglecting his own soul, but 1
through Christ seeking something better
than this world could give him—why, all
the business men in tho counting room
say, “Good! Now, that is religion.” And
the clerks get hold of the story and talk it
•ovur, so that the weigher and cooper and
hackman, standing on the doorstep, say;
“That is splendid! Now, that is what I
call religion.”
It is a good thing to preach on a Sun
day morning, the people as* tn bled in
most n-spectable attire and *• ated on soft
cushions, the preacher “tending in neatly
uphols>retl pulpit surrounded by personal
friends, and after an inspiring hymn has
been sung, nnd that sermon, if preached
in faith, will do good, but the most effect
ive sermon is preached by one seated in
dressing gown in an armchair into which
the invalid haa with much care been lift
wl, the surrounding shelves filled with
medicine bottles, some to produce sleep,
some for the relief of sudden paroxysm,
some for stimulant, some for tonic, some
for anodyne and some for febrifuge, the
pale preacher quoting promises of the gos
pel. telling of tho glories of a sympathetic
Christ, assuring the one or two or three
persons who hear it of the mighty re en
forcements of religion. You say that to
such a sermon there are only one or two
or three hearers. Aye. but the visitor
calling at that room, tben closing the door
softly and going away, tells the story, and
the whole neighborhood hears it, and it
will take all eternity to realize the grand
and uplifting influence of that sermon
about God and the soul, though preached
to an audience of only one man or one wo
man. The Lord has ordained all such in
valids for a style of usefulness which ath
letics and men of 200 healthy avoirdupois
cannot affect. It was not an enemy that
fastened you In that one room or sent you
on crutches, the longest journey you have
made for many weeks being from bed to
sofa and from sofa to looking glass, where
you are shocked at the pallor of your own
cheek and the pindiedness of your fea
tures; then back again from mirror to
sofa and sofa to bed, with a long sigh say
ing, “How good it feels to get back again
to my old place on the pillow !” Remem
ber who it is that appointed the day when
for the first time in many years you could
not go to business and who has kept a rec
ord of all the weary days and all the sleep
less nights of your exile from the world.
O weary man! O feeble woman, it was
the Lord who shut you in! Do yep re
member that some of the noblest and best
of men have been prisoners? Ezekiel a
prisoner, Jeremiah a prisoner, Paul a pris
oner, St. John a prisoner, John Bunyan a
prisoner. Though human hate seemed to
have all to do with them, really tho Lord
shut thorn in.
The Women In the Ark.
No doubt, while on that voyage, Noah
and his three sons and all tho four ladies
of tho antedi’uvian world often thought of
the bright hillsides and the green fields
where they had walked and of the homes
where they had lived. They had had
many years of experiences. Noah was 600
years old at the time of this convulsion of
nature. Ho had seen 600 springtimes, 600
summers, GOO autumns, 600 winters. Wo
are not told how old his wife was at this
wreck of earth and sky. The Bible - tells
the age of a grtat many men, but only
once gives a woman’s age. Atone time
it gi ves Adam’s age as 130 years, and
Jared’s age as 1(52 years, and Enoch's age
as 365 years, and all up and down the
Bible it gives the age of men, but does
not give tho ago of women. Why? Be
cause, I suppose, a woman’s age is none
of our business. But all the mon and
women that tossed in that oriental craft
had lived long enough to remember a
great many of the mercies and kindnesses
of God, and they could not blot out, and. I
think they had no disposition to blot out
the memory of those brightnesses, though,
now they were shut in. Neither should
the shut in of our time forget the bless
ings of tho past. Have you been blind for
ten years? Thank God for the time when
you saw as clearly as any of us can sec,
and let the pageant of all the radiant land
scapes and illumined skies which you ever
looked upon kindle your rapturous grati
tude. I do not see Raphael's “Madonna
di San Sisto” in the picture gallery of
Dresden, nor Rubens’ “Descent From tho
Cross” at Antwerp, nor Michael Angelo’s
“Last Judgment” on the ceiling of the
Vatican, nor Saint Sophia at Constan
tinople, nor the Parthenon on tho Acro
polis, nor the Taj Mahal of India. But
shall I not thank God that I have seen
them? Is it possible that such midnight
darkness slall ever blast my vision that I
cannot call them up again? Perhaps you
are so deaf that you cannot hear the chirp
of bird or sclo of cantatrice, or even organ
in full diapason, though you feel the foun
dations tremble under its majestic roll, or
even the thunderstorm that makes Mount
Washington echo. But are you not grate
ful that once you could hear trill and chant
and carol doxology? I cannot this hour
hear Jenny Lind sing “Comin Through
the Rye,” or Ole Bull's enchanted viol, or
Parepa Rosa’s triumphant voice over
many thousands of voices and many thou
sands of inst ruments in the national peace
jubilee of 33 years ago, all these sounds
accompanied by the ringing of bells and
the guns on Boston Common. But can 1
ever have my ears so silenced that I will
not remember that I did hear them? Are
you chained to your room now, your pow
ers of locomotion all gone, or, if coming
to the house of God, every step is a tor
tn re?
Do you forget when in childhood you
danced and skipped because you were so
full of life you had not patience to walk,
and in after years you climbed the moun
tains of Switzerland, putting your alpen
stock high up on glaciers which few others
ever dared and jumped long reaches in
competition, and after a walk of ten miles
you came in jocund as the morning? Oh,
you shut ins’ Thank God for a vivid
memory of the times when you were free
as the chamois on the rocks, as the eagle
going straight for the sun. When the rain
pounded the roof of the ark, the eight voy
agers on that craft did not forget the time
when it gayly pattered in a summer show
er, and when the door of the ark shut to
keep out the tempest they did not forget
the time when the door of their home in
Armenia was closed to keep out the spring
rains which came to fill the cups of lily
and honeysuckle and make all the trees of
the wood clap their hands.
Shut Off From Temptation.
Again, notice that during that 40 days
of storm which rocked that ship on that
universal ocean of Noah’s time the door
which shut the captain of the ship inside
the craft kept him from many outside per
ils. How those wrathful seas would like
to have got their wet hands on Noah and
pulled him out and sunk him! And do all
of you of the great army of the shut in
realize, though you have special temp
tations where you are now. how much of
the cutside style of temptation you escape?
Do you. the merchant incarcerated in the
sickroom, realize that every hour of the
day you spend looking out of the window
or gazing at the particular figure on the
wall paper or listening to the clock's ticks
men are living wrecked by the allurements
and uncertainties of business life? How
many forgeries are committed, how many
trust funds are swamped, how many pub
lic moneys are being misappropriated,
bow many bankruptcies suffered? It may
be. it is, very uncomfortable for Noah in
side the ark, for the apartment is crowded
and the air is vitiated with the breathing
of so much human and animal life, but it
is not half as bad for him as though he
j were outside the ark. There is not an ox,
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or a camel, or an antelope, or a sheep In
side the ark as badly off as the proudest
| king o it#ide. While you are on the pillow
or lounge you will make no bad bargains,
. you will rush into no rash investments,
yon will avoid the mistakes which thou
sands of men as good as you are every day
making.
Notice also that there was a limit to the
shut in experience of those ancient mari
| ners. I suppose the 40 days of the de
-1 scending and uprising floods and the 150
days Ijefore the passengers could go ashore
must have seemed to those eight people in
: the big boat like a small eternity. “Rain,
rain, rain!” said tho wife of Noah. “Will
it never stop?” For 40 mornings they
looked out and saw not one patch of blue
sky. Floating around amid the peaks of
mountains, Khein and Ham and Japheth
had to hush the fears of their wives lest
they should dash against the projecting
rocks. But after awhile it cleared off.
Sunshine, glorious sunshine! The ascend
ing mists were folded up into clouds,
which instead of darkening the sky only
ornamented it. As they looked out of the
1 windows these worn passengers clapped
I their hands and rejoiced that the storm
! was over, and I think if God could stop
such a storm as that be could atop any
storm in your lifetime experience. If he
can control a vulture in midsky, he can
stop a summer bat that flies in at your
window. At the right time he will put
the rainbow on the cloud and the deluge
of your misfortunes will dry up. I preach
the doctrine of limitation, relief and dis
enthrallment. At just the right time the
pain will cease, the bondage will drop, the
imprisoned will be liberated, the fires will
go out, the body and mind and soul will
be free. < Patience! An old English prov
erb referring to long continued invalid-
■ ism, says, “A creaking gate hangs long
on its hinges,” and this may be a pro
tracted case of valetudinarianism, but you
will have taken the last bitter drop, you
will have suffered the last misinterpreta
: tion, you X*ill feel the gnawing of the last
j hunger, you will have fainted the last time
from exhaustion, you will have felt the
, cut of the last lancet, you will havo wept
i under the last loneliness. The last week
i of the Noachian deluge came, the last day,
I the last hour, the last moment. The beat
ing of the rain on tho roof ceased, and the
I dashing of the billows on tho side of the
ship quieted, and peacefully as a yacht
moves out over quiet Lake Cayuga,'Como
or Lucerne, the ark with its illustrious
passengers and important freight glided
to its mountain wharfage.
Coming Out From the Ark.
Notice also that on tho cessation of tho
deluge the shut ins came out, and they
built their houses and cultured their gar
dens and started a new world on the ruins
of the old world that had been drowned
out. Though Noah lived 350 years after
thia worldwide accident and no doubt his
fellow passengers survived centuries, I
warrant they never got over talking about
that voyage. Now, I have seen Dore's pic
tures and many other pictures of the en
trance into the ark, two and two, of the
human family and the animal creation
‘ into that ship which sailed between two
worlds, antediluvian world and the post
diluvian world, but I never saw a picture
of their coming out, yet their embarkation
was not more important than their disem
barkation. Many a crew has entered a
ship that never landed. Witness the steam
' er Portland, a short time ago, with 100
souls on board, going down with all its
crew and passengers. Witness the line of
I sunken ships reaching like a submarine
i cable of anguish across the ocean depths
; from America to Europe. If any ship
i might expect complete wreckage, the one
i Noah commanded might have expect
ed it. But no. Those who embarked dis
i embarked. Over the plank reaching down
the side of the ark to the Armenian cliffs
I on which they had been stranded the pro
' cession descended. No other wharf felt so
i solid or afforded such attractiveness as
j that height of Alarat when tho eight pas
sengers put their feet on it. And no soon-
I er had the last one, the invalided wife of
Japheth, been hfelpcd down the plank
j upon the rock than the other apartments
l of the ship were opened, and such a dash
of bird music never filled the air as when
the entire orchestra of robin redbreast, and
morning lark, and chaffinch, and mocking
' bird, and house swallow took wing into
! the bright sky, while the cattle began to
low' and the sheep to bleat and tho horses
i to neigh for the pasture, which from the
j awful submergence had now begun to
i grow green and aromatic. I tell you plain
' ly nothing interests me more in that trag
edy from the first to the last act than the
“exit” and the “exeunt,” than the fact
that the “shut ins” became the “go outs.”
And I now cheer with this story all the
i inmates of sickrooms and hospitals, and
those prisons where men and women are
unjustly endungeoned, and all the thou
| sands who are bounded on the north and
south and east and west by floods, by del
uges of misfortune and disaster. The ark
of your trouble, if it does not land on
some earthly height of vindication and
rescue, will land on the heights celestial.
If you have put your trust in God, you
will come out in the garden of the King,
among orchards bending with 12 manner
of fruits and harvests that wave in the
light of a sun that never sets. As the
i eight passengers of that craft of Captain
.Noah never got over talking about their
j seafaring experiences, so you who have
; been the shut ins of earth will add un
bounded interest to the conversation of
heaven by recalling and reciting your
earthly experiences, and the rougher those
experiences the more thrilling will they be
to yourself and others who listen. As
! when we sit amid a group of soldiers and
, bear their story of battle or a group of
sailors and hear their story of cyclones we
' J feel stupid because we have nothing in our
j life worth telling, how uninteresting will
be those souls in heaven who had smooth
sailing all their lives and no accidents,
while Noah tells his story of the deluge,
. and Ixit his story of escape from destroyed
cities, and Paul his story of the Alexan
drian corn ship, and you tell your story of
the days and nights and years of the times
when you were shut in. You will be in
teresting and sought after in heaven in
proportion as you are martyrized of perse
! cution and pain on earth. And surely you
do not want to get the advantage of heav
enly association and consideration without
■_y ourself adding some interest to the inter
view. I hail all the shut ins because they
will be the come outs. Heaven will be all
the brighter for your earthly privations
and environments. For a man who has
always lived in a mansion, and walked in
fine gardens, and regaled his appetite on
1 best fruits, and had warmest furs for win
ter. coolest linens for August heat, and
brilliant earthly surroundings, heaven
will not be so much a change of seems,
He will be disposed to say: “Whv, I am
ised to this. Don i show me the gardens.
Why, I was brought up at Chatsworth.
Don't invite me into a chariot. I always
had a splendid turnout-. Don’t invite mo
to the feast. I have been accustomed to
Belshazzarian banquets. It would be a
relief to me if I could leave heaven a little
while and rough it in some other world.”
• But what a heaven it will be for those
I whose limbs were so rheumatic they could
1 not take a step when they get wings!
, What a heave!) it will be for those who
were always sick when they are always
well, and after 20 years of pain to have
millions of years of health ! What a light
will be the light of heaven for those who
on earth could not see their hand before
their faces! And what will the music of
’ heaven be tothosethe tympanum of whose
, ears for many years had ceased to vibrate!
Denied on earth the pleasure of listening
j to Handel and Haydn and Mendelssohn’s
symphonies, at last reaching a world
; where there never has been a discord, and
hearing singing where all are perfect
songsters, and oratorios in which all the
nations of heaven chant! Great heaven it
will be for all who get there, but a hun
dred times more of a heaven for those
who were shut in.
The Test of Character.
Meanwhile you have all divine and an
gelic sympathy in your infirmities. That
satan thoroughly understood poor human
nature was evidenced when, in plotting to
make Job do wrong, the great master of
j evil, after having failed in every other
way to overthrow the good man, proposed
physical distress, and then the boils came
which made him swear right out. The
: mightiest test of character is physical suf
fering. Critics are impatient at the way
Thomas Carlyle scolded at everything.
His 70 years of dyspepsia were enough to
make any man scold. When you see peo
ple out of patience and irascible and
lachrymose, inquire into the case, and be
fore you get through with the exploration
your hypercriticism will turn to pity, and
I to the divine and angelic sympathy will
be added your own. The clouds of your
indignation, which were full of thunder
bolts, will begin to rain tears of pity.
By a strange Providence, for which I
shall be forever grateful, circumstances
i with which I think you are all familiar, I
[ have admission through the newspaper
press week by week to tens of thousands
of God’s dear children who cannot enter
1 church on tho Sabbath and hear their ex-
■ cellent pastors because of the age of the
I sufferers, or their illness, or the lameness
I of foot, or their incapacity to stay in one
position an hour and a half, or their pov
erties, or their troubles of some sort will
not let them go out of doors, and to them
i as much as to those who hear me I preach
| this sermon, as I preach many of my ser
mons, the invisible audience always vaster
than the visible, some of them tossed on
wilder seas than those that tossed the eight
members of Noah’s family, and instead of
40 days of storm and 5 months of being
shut in, as they were, it has been with
these invalids 5 years of “shut In,” or 10
years of “shut in,” or 20 years of “shut
in.” O comforting God! Help roe to
comfort them! Give me two hands full of
salve for their wounds! When we were 300
miles out at sea, a hurricane struck us,
and the lifeboats were dashed from the
davits and all the lights in the cabin were
put out the rolling of the ship and the
water which through the broken skylights
had poured in. Captain Andrews entered
and said to the men on duty: “Why don’t
you light up and make things brighter,
for we are going to outride this storm?
Passengers, cheer up! Cheer up!” And
• he struck a match and began to light the
■ burners. Ho could not silence cither the
! wind or the waves, but by the striking of
' that match, accompanied by encouraging
! words, we were all helped.
Angelic Companionship.
And as I now find many in hurricanes
of trouble, though I cannot quiet the
storm I can strike a match to light up the
darkness, and I strike a match, “Whom
the Lord loveth he chasteneth.” I strike
another match, “Weeping may endure for
1 a night, but joy eometh in the morning.”
j I strike another match, “We have a great
; High Priest who can be touched with the
feeling of our infirmities, and he was in
all points tempered like as we are,” Are
you old? One breath of heaven will make
i you everlastingly young again. Have you
j aches and pains? They insure Christ’s
1 presence and sympathy through the dark
est December nights, which are the lon*
gest nights of the year. Are you bereft?
Here is a resurrected Christ whose yoice is
full of rcsurrectionary power. Are you
lonely? All the angels of heaven are ready
to swoop into your companionship. Here
is the Christ of Mary and Martha when
they had lost Lazarus, and of David when
he had lost his son, and of Abraham when
he had lost Sarah, and of your father and
mother when in time of old age they part
ed at the gates of the tomb. When last I
was in Savannah, at the close of the Sab
bath morning service I was asked to go
and see a Christian woman, for many
years an invalid. I went. I had not in
all that beautiful city of splendid men and
gracious women seen a face brighter than
hers. Reaching her bedside, I put out
my hand, but she could not shake hands,
for her hand was palsied. I said to her,
“ How long have you been down on this
bed?” She smiled and made ,no answer,
for her tongue had been palsied, but those
standing around said, “Fifteen years.” I
said to her, ‘ 1 Have you been able to keep
i your courage up all that time?” She gave
< a very little motion of her head in affirma
tion, for her whole body was paralytic.
The sermon I had preached that morning
had no power on others compared with
1 the power that silent sermon had on me.
I What was the secret of her conquest over
pain and privation and incapacity to
move? Shall I tell you the secret? 1 will
tell you. The Lord shut her in.
There is a good deal of fanaticism
abroad about the recovery of the sick, but
if we had as much faith as Martin Luther
we would have Luther’s success. His
friend Myconius was very ill, and Luther
fell upon his knees and said: “O Lord, no!
Thou must not yet take our brother My
conius to thyself. Thy cause will not
prosper without him. Amen.” Then he
wrote: “My Dear Myconius—There is no
cause for fear. The Lord will not let roe
hear that you are dead. Y’ou shall not
and must not die. Amen.” Luther’s let
ter so excited Myconius that an ulcer on
his lungs broke, and he got well. Would
, to God that like that we might be able to
pray, that we might have similar results!
i O men and women, visible and invisi
. ble! The probability is you will never
write your autobiography. It is the most
difficult book to write, because you are
i tempted to omit passages in your life that
' were not complimentary to yourself, and
to quote from a diary which is always in
' complete because there are some things
: which you do not think best to write
down. As you will not undertake ah
autobiography, the story of yourself, I
will take the responsibility of presenting
; your biography, which is the story of one’s
life by some one else. If you will give
your love and trust to him of Bethlehem
and Calvary, this will be your biography:
“Born t.t the right time, but the most im
portant event in his life was when he was
born a~ain. Died at the right time, but
long before that he had died unto sin. He
s had many crises, but in all of them was
' i divinely directed; weaknesses, but they
' 1 were divinely sympathized with. In his
' • life there were many sorrows, wave after
1 wave, storm after storm, but he outrode
everything and landed in eternal safety.
' \Vhy? Why? Because the Lord shut biin
' in ”
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CASTORIA |
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The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been
in use for over 30 years, has borne the signature of
and has been made under his per
sonal supervision since its infancy.
Allow no one to deceive you in this.
All Counterfeits, Imitations and Substitutes are but Ex
periments that trifle with and endanger the health of
Infants and Children—Experience against Experiment.
What is CASTORIA
Casto ria is a substitute for Castor Oil. Paregoric, Drops
and Soothing Syrups. It is Harmless and Pleasant. It
contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic
substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms
and allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhoea and Wind.
Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation
and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the
Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep.
The Children’s Panacea—The Mother’s Friend.
GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS
Bears the Signature of
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The Kind You Have Always Bought
In Use For Over 30 Years.
THE CENTAUR COMPANY. TT MURRAY STREET. NEW YORK CITY.
Heaven’s Twelve Gates.
But do not think that heaven is made
up of an indiscriminate population. Some
of my friends are so generous in their
theology that they would let everybody in
without reference to condition or charac
ter. Do not think that libertines and
blasphemers and rejecters of God and his
gospel have “letters of credit’’ that will
draw anything from the bank of heaven,
j Pirate crafts will not be permitted to go
! up that harbor. If there are those who as
to heaven are to bo “shut ins,” there are
those who will belong to the “shut outs.”
Heaven has 12 gates, and while those 12
gates imply wide open entrance for those
who are properly prepared to enter them
they imply that there are at least 12 possi
bilities that many will be shut out, because
a gate is of no use unless it can sometimes
be closed. Heaven is not an unwashed
mob. Show your tickets or you will not
get in—tickets that you may get without
money and without price, tickets with a
cross and a crown upon them. Let the
unrepentant and the vile and the offscour
ings of earth enter heaven as they now
are, and they would depreciate and de
moralize it so that no one of us would
want to enter, and those who are there
would want to move out. The Bible
speaks of the “withouts” as well as tho
“withins” —Revelation xxii, 15, “Without
are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremon
gers, and murderers, and idolaters, and
whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.”
Through the converting, pardoning, sanc
i tifying grace of God may we at last be
j found among the shut ins and not amopg
> the shut cut® ’
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I JHacon and Birmingham ißailroad
'(Pine Mountain Route.)
Schedule effective October 16, 1898.
4.15 pm]Lv Macon Ar]ll 15 am
5:04 pmjLv Lizella LvjlO 25 am
5 45 pmjLv.. ..Culloden.. . .Lv] 9 45 am
556 pmjLv.. . .Yatesville... .Lv] 933 am
6 26 pmjLv. ..Thomaston.. .Lvj 9 03 am
7 07 pmjAr. ..Woodbury .. .Lv| 8 23 am
SOUTHERN RAILWAY.
9 05 pm lAr Columbus So Ry Lv 6 30 am
8 07 pm lAr Griffin Lv 6 50 am
j 9 45 pmjAr Atlanta Lv 5 20 am
4 20 pm|Lv.. ..Atlanta.. . .Ar|llloam
6 03 pmjLv Griffin Ar] 9 18 am
j 5 25 pmjLv.. ..Columbus.. ..
7 07 pm[Lv.. ..Woodbury. . .Ar| 8 23 am
i 7 27 pmjAr... Harris City.. .Lvj 8 03 am
CENTRAL OF GEORGIA.
7 45 pm]Ar.. .Greenville.. ~Lv| 7 45 am
5 20 pmjLv.. ..Columbus. ..ArjlO 15 am
7 27 pmjLv.. Harris City ..Ar] 8 03 am
8 20 pm|Ar.. ..LaGrange.. ..Lv] 7 10 am
j Connections at Macon with Central of
Georgia to Savannah, and Southwestern
j Georgia, and with Georgia Southern and
Florida.
'At Yatesville with Southern for points
south of Yatesville, and at LaGrange with
A. & W. P. for points north of LaGrange.
JULIAN R. LANE,
General Manager.
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“Queen of Sea Routes.’
Merchants
and Miners
T ransportation Co
Steamship Lines
Between Savannah and
Baltimore, Norfolk,
Boston and Prov
dence.
Low rates and excellent service.
Accommodations and cuisine unsurpassed
Best way to travel and ship your goods.
For advertising matter and particulars
J. J. CAROLAN, Agent, Savannah. Ga.
R. H. WRIGHT, Agent, Norfolk, Va.
J. W. SMITH, Agent, 10 Kimball House,
Atlanta, Ga. '
J. C. WHITNEY, Traffic Manager.
W. P. TURNER, General Pass. Agent
General offices, Baltimore, Md.
niacon and Naw York
Short Line.
Via Georgia Railroad and Atlantic Coaat
Line. Through Pullman cars between
iMacon and New York. effective Decem
ber 9th. 1898.
Lv (Macon.... 9 00 ami 4 20 pm 7 40 pm
Lv Mill’gev’le 10 10 am 5 24 pm 9 24 pm
Lv Camak.... 11 40 am 6 47 pm 3 33 am
Lv Camak.... 11 40 ami 6 47 pm 10 31 pm
Ar Aug’taC.T.j 1 20 pmj 8 25 pra 5 15 pm
Lv Aug’taE.T. 2 30 pm I I
'Lv Florence ..j 7 40 pm ] ti
Lv iFayettev’le 9 43 pm | Y
I Ar Petersburg'; 3 35 am | i
' Ar Richmond, i 3 23 am 1 |
I At Wash*ton.; 7 00 am.
. Ar 'Baltimore. I S 35 am
I Ar Pnila’phia. 110 35 am
j Ar (New, York. 1 03 pm
lAr N.Y. W 23d «stj 135 pm j
Trains arrive from Augusta and points
1 on main line 6:45 a. m. and 11:15 a. m.
1 From Camak and way stations 5:30 p. m.
A. G. JACKSON.
General Passenger Agent.
JOE W. WHITE. T. P. A.
W. W. HARDWICK, S. A.. 409 Cherry St.
Macon. Ga.
"THE HIAWASSEE ROUTE.”
Only Through Sleeping Car Line
Atlanta and Knoxville.
Beginning June 19th the Atlanta, Knox
ville and Northern Railway, in connection
with the Western and Atlantic railway,
{ wiff ostabUsh a 'through line of sleepers
between Atlanta and Knoxville.
Trains will leavS Atlanta from Union*
depot at 8:30 p. m. and arrive In Knoxville
at 7 a. m. Good connections made at
Knoxville for all points north, including
Tate Springs and other summer resorts.
Tickets on sale and diagram at W. &
A. city ticket office, No. 1 North Pryor
street, Atlanta. Also at Union depot.
J. E. W. FIELDS, G. P. A..
Marietta, Ga.
j. h. McWilliams, t. p. a..
Knoxville, Tenn.
PULLMAN CAR LINE
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BETWEEN
Cincinnati, Indianapolis, or
Louisville and Chicago ant
THE NORTHWEST.
Pulman Buffet Sleepers on night trains.
Parlor chairs and dining can on day
trains. The Monon trains make the fast
est time between the Southern winter re
sorts and the summer resort of tho
Northwest.
W. H. McDOEL, V. P. «G. M. I
FRANK J. REED, G. P. A.,
Chicago, lIL
For further particulars address
R. W. GLAMNG, Gen. Agt
Thomasville. Ga. .
The Direct Line from Cincinnati.!
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gWHS LI ™ A ’
TOLEDO. DETROIT
AND MICHIGAN POINTS.
Five train? every week day. Three trains
on Sunday. Pullman and Wagner sleepers
on night trains. Vestibuled parlor cars on
i day trains.
Cincinnati to Indianapolis and Chicago,
four trains every week day. Three trains
on Sunday. Vestibuled trains. Pullman
Standard and Compartment Sleeping Cars,
parlor cars and case dining cars.
J. G. MASON,
General Southern Agent.
S. L. PARROTT, T. P. A.
D. G. EDWARDS, Pass. Traffic Mgr. J
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