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DR. TALM AGE’S SERMON
The Eminent Divine’s Sunday
! Discourse.
Subject: “Life** Minor Clior«l”-»Trlala and
Tribulations Are Necessary For the
Proper Development of Character-
Man’s Compensation For Suffering.
Text: “I will open my dtirk saying upon
theharp.”—Psalm xlix., 4.
The world Is full of the inexplicable, the
Impassable, the unfathomable, the insur
mountable. We canuot go three steps in
«my direction without coming up against #
hard wall of mystery, riddles, paradoxes,
profundities, labyrinths; problems that wo -
cannot solve, hieroglyphics-that we cannot
decipher, anagrams we cannot spell out,
sphinxes that will not speak. For that
reason David in my text proposed to take
up gome of these somber and dark things
and try to set them to sweet music. “I
will open ray dark sayings on a harp.”
So I look off upon society and And people
in unhappy conjunction of circumstances,
and they de not know what it means, nud
they have a right to ask. Why is this? Why
is that? and I think I will be doing n good
worfc by trying to explain some of these
strfinge things and make you more content
with your lot, and I shall only be answer
ing questions that havo often been asked
me, or that we havo all asked oursolves;
while I try to set those mysteries to mu9l<i
and open mv dark savings on a harp’
Interrogation the first: Why does God
take out of this world those who are use
ful nud whom wo canuot spnre aucl leave
alive and in good health so many who are
only a nuisance to tho world? I thought I
would begin with tho very toughest of all
tho seeming inscrutables. Many of the
most useful men and women die at thlrtv
or forty years of age, while you often And
useless people alive at sixty and seventy
and eighty. John Careless wrote to Brad
ford, who was soon to bo put to death,
saying: “Why doth God suffer mo and such
other caterpUllars to live, that cau do
nothing but consume tho alms of the
church, and take away so many
worthy workmen in tho Lord’s vine
yard?” Similar questions aro often
asked. Here are two mou. Tho one is a
noble character aud a Chrlstiau man.
Ho chooses for a lifetime companion ono
who 1ms boon tenderly roared, and she
is worthy of him aud ho Is worthy of her.
As merchant or farmer or professional man
or mechanic or artist he toils to educate
and rear his children. He is succeeding,
but he has not yet established for his family
a full competency. Ho seems indispensable
to that household; but ono day. before he
has paid off tho mortgage on his house, he
is coining home through a strong north
east wind and a chill strikes through
him, nbd four days of pneumonia end
his earthly career, and the wife aud
children go Into a struggle for shelter
and food. His next door neighbor is a
man who though stropg and well, lets his
^[fe support him. Ho is around at the
groOflpry store or some general loaflng place
in the^Arenings while his wife sows. His
boys areMmitating his example, and lounge
apd swn«or and swear. All the use that
'* * .hat house is to rave because tho
cold when he comes to a late
breakfast,%>r to say cutting things about
his wife’s lAoks. when ho furnishes nothing
for bor wa&lrobe. Tho best thing that
could bappeft to that family would be that
man’s funeral, but he declines to die. Ho
. lives on and cAu and on. 80 wo have all
qoticed that rmauy of the useful are early
cut off, while thw parasites have great vlta’l
tenacity. >
\ v I take up this [dark saying on my harp
\ndgtve three or\four thrums on the string
>the way of surmising aud hopeful guess.
- ijjmps the usefull man was takon out of
thr’Iprld because! ho and his family wero
sd cU|9tiuoted that they could not have
endu Vd some grefit prosperity that might
have been just ahtoud, and they altogether
might have gone! down in tho vortex of
worldlluess whichV every year swallows up
10,000 households. \ Aud so he went while
hn wim humble nnd’ .consecrated. and tliev
f'
he was humble and'cousecrated, and they
wero by the soveritias of life kept close to
Christ and Atted for, usefulness here and
high seats in heaven, /and when they meet
at last before the throne they will ac
knowledge that, though tho furnace
was hot, it putiflod \ them and pre
pared them for an external career of
glory and reward for which no other kind
of lire could have Atted them. On tho
ofher hand, the useless in an lived on to
Afty or sixty or seventy,years because nil
the ease ho ever can have he must have in
this world, and you ought not, therefore,
begrudge him his eartbjy longevity. In
all the-ages thero has not a single loafer
ever entered heaven. There is no place for
him thero to hang around; not even in the
temples, for they are full of vigorous,
alert and rapturous worship. If the good
and useful go eaily, rejoice for them that
they havo so soon got through with human
life, which at best is a struggle. And if
the useless nnd tho bad stay, rejoice that
they may be out in the world’s fresh air a
good many years before their Anal incar
ceration. ,
Interrogation the second: Why do good
S eople have so much trouble, sickness,
ankruptcy, persecution, the ttyree black
vultures sometimes putting their Aerce
beaks into one set of jangled nerves? I
think now of a good friend I once hud. He
was a consecrated Christian man, an elder
in the church, and as polished n Christian
gentleman as ever walked Broadway. First
his general health gave out and he hobbled
around on a enuo, nn old man at forty.
Aftor awhile paralysis struck him. Hnving
by poor henlth'been compelled suddenly to
quit business, he lost whnt property he
had. Then hi9 beautiful daughter died;
then a son became hopelessly demouted.
Another son, splendid of mind and com
manding of presence, resolved that bo
would take care of his father’s household,
but under the swoop of yellow fever at
Fernandiua, Fla., he suddenly expired. So
you know good men and womon who havo
had enough troubles, you think, to crush
Afty people. No worldly philosophy could
take such a trouble and set it to music, or
play it on violin or flute, but I dare to open
that dark saying on a gospel harp.
You wonder that very consecrated people
have trouble? Did you ever know any
very consecrated man or woniau who had
not had great .trouble? Never! It was
through their troubles sanctified thnt they
were made very good. If you And any
where in this city a man who has now, and
always has had, perfect health, and never
lost a child, and hns always been popular
aud never had business struggle or misfor
tune, who is distinguished for goodness,
pull your wire for a telegraph messenger
boyaudsencl me word, and I will drop
everything and go right away to look at
him. There never has been a man like that
uud never will be. Who are those arro
gant, self conceited creatures who move
about without sympathy for others nnd
who think more <5f a St. Bernard dos
or an Alderney cow or a Southdown
sheep or a Berkshire pig than of a man?
They never had any trouble,-or tho trouble
was never sanctifled. Who are those men
who listen with moist eye as you tell them
of suffering and who have a pathos in
tlieJr voice and a kindness In their manner
and nn excuse or an alleviation for those
gone astray? Tliev are the men who have
graduated at tho Royal Academy of Trou
ble, and they have the diploma written in
wrinkles on their own countenances. My,
my! What heartaches they had! . What
teurs they have wept! What injustice
they have suffered! The mightiest influ
ence for purification aud salvation is
trouble.
There are only three things that can
break off a chain—a hammer, a tile or a Are
—rand trouble is al! three of them. The
greatest writers, orators aud reformers get
much of their force from trouble. Yvhat
gave to Washington Irving that exquisite
tenderness and pntuos which will ina/ce his
boohs fnv.*r,tes>v liluthe English lauiriH~n
eou.iiiU.ii ..o writ.eu and spo-eu: al
early heartbreak, that he never onoe
mentioned, and when thirty years after
the death of Matilda Hoffman, who was
to have been his bride, her father picked
uo a piece of embroidery and said.
That is a piece of poor Matilda's
workmanship.” Washington Irving sank
from hilarity into silence and walked
away. Out of that lifetime grief the
great author dipped his pen’s mightiest re
enforcement. Calvin’s “Institutes of Re
ligion,” than which a moro wondorful
book was never written by human hand
was begun by the author at twenty-flve
years of ago, because of tho persocutiou
by Francis, king of France. Faraday
toiled for all time on a salary or £80 a voar
and candles. As every brick of tho wall of
Babylon was stamped with tho letter N,
stauding for Nebuoliadnezznr, so overv
part ot tho temple ot Christian achieve
ment is stamped with the letter T, stand
ing for trouble.
When in England a man is honored with
knighthood, he is struck with the Ant of-
tho sword. But thQso who havo come to
knighthood in the kingdoms of God were
first struck, not with the flat of the sword,
but with the keeu edge of the soimeter. To
build his maguiAceuco ot character Paul
could not have spared ono lash, one prison,
one stoning, one anathema, one poisonous
viper from the hand, one shipwrook. What
^strue of individuals Is true bf nations.
The horrors of the American Revolution
gave this country this side ot the Mississ
ippi River to independence nnd France gave
the most of this couutry west of the Miss
issippi to the United States. Franco
owned it, but Napoleon, fearing that
England would take it, practically
made a present to the United States—ror
he reooived ouly $15,000,000 for Louisiana,
Missouri, Arkansas. Kansas, Nebraska,
Iowa, Minnesota, Colorado, Dakota, Mon
tana, Wyoming and the Indian Territory.
Out of the Are of the American Revolution
cumo this country ea9t of the Mississippi,
out of tho European war camo that wost
of tho Mississippi River. The British em
pire rose to its present overtowering
grandeur through gunpowder plot and Guy
Fawkes’ conspiracy and Northampton in
surrection nnd Waiter Raleigh’s beheading
and Bacon’s bribery and Cromwell’s disso
lution of parliament and the battles of
Edge Hill and tho vicissitudes of centuries.
So the earth itself, boforo it could beoome
au appropriate and beautiful residence for
the human family, had, according to geol
ogy, to be washed by universal deluge and
scorched nnd made iucandescent by uni
versal fires, aud pounded by sledge hammer
of icebergs and wrenched by earthquakes
that split continents, and shakon by vol
canoes that tossed mountains and passed
through the catastrophes ot thousands ot
years before paradise became possible and
the groves could shake out tjmlr green ban
ners and the first garden pour its oarnage
of color betwoen theGihon and the Hidde
kel. Trouble—a good thing for the rocks,
a good thing for nations, as well as a good
thing for Individuals. So wheu you push
against rae with a sharp interrogation
point, Why do the good suffer? I open tho
dark saying on a harp, aud, though I cau
neither play au organ or cornet or hautboy
or buglo or clarinet, I have'taken some
lessons on tho gospol harp, nnd if you would
like to hear me I will play you these: “All
things work together for good to those who
love God.”
Interrogation thirJ: Why did the good
God let sin or trouble como into*tne world
when He might have kept them out? My
reply Is, Ho had a good roason. He had
reasons that He ha9 never giveu us. He
had reasons whlah He could no moremnlce
us understaud In our finite state than the
father, starting out ou some great nnd
elaborate enterprise, could make the two-
year-old child in its armed chair compre
hend it. One wa i to demonstrate what gran
deur of character may be achieved ou earth
by conquering evil. Had thero been no
evil to conquer and no trouble to console,
thou this universe would never have
known an Abraham or a Moses or a Joshua
or au Ezoldel or a Paul or a Christ or a
Washington or a John Milton or a John
Howard, and a minion victories which have
been gained by the consecrated spirits of
all ages would never have been gained.
Had there been no battle, there would have
boon no victory. Nine-tenths of the an
thems of heaven would never havo been
sung. Heaven could never have been a
thousandth part of the heaven that it is. r
will not say that I am glad that sin ana
Borrow did outer, but I do say that I am
glad that after God has given all His
reasons to an nssltnbled universe He will
bo more honored than if sin aud sorrow had
never entered and that tho unfallen
celestials will be outdone and will put
down their trumpets to listen and it will
be in heaven when those - who' have con
quered sin and sorrow shall enter as it
would be in a small singing school on enrtli
if Thnlberg and Gottsctmlk and Wagner nnd
Beethoven und Rhelnberger and Schumann
should all at ouce enter. Tho immortals
that have been chanting 10,000 years before
the throne will say, as they close their
librettos, “Oh, if we could only sing like
thatl” But God will say totifoso who have
never fallen and consequently have not
been redeemed, “You must bo sllont now;
you havo not the qualification forthls’nn-
them.” So they sit with closed Ups and
folded hands, nnd sinners saved bv grace
take up the harmony, for the Bible says
“no man could learn that song but the hun
dred and forty and four thousand which
were redeemed from the earth.”
A great primn donna, who can now do
auythlng with her voice, told me that when
she first started in music her teacher in
Berlin told her she could be a good singer,
but a certain note she ctrald never reach.
“And then,” she said, “ I went to work and
studied and practiced for years uutll I did
roach it.” But tho song of the singer re
deemed, the Bible say9, the exalted har
monists who have never sinned could not
reach aud never will roach. Would you
like to hear mo in a very poor way play a
snatch of that tune? I can give you
only one bar of the music on this gospel
harp, “Unto Him that hath loved ua
and washed us from our sins in His own
blood and hath made us kings and priests
unto God and tho Lamb, to Him be glory
and dominion forever nud ever, amen.”
But before leaving this intorrogatory, why
God let sin come iuto the world, let me say
that groat battles seem to be nothing but
suffering nnd outrage at the time of their
occurrence, yet after they have been n long
while past wo can see that it was better for
them to have been fought, namely, Sal-
amis, Inkerraan, Toulouse, .‘Arbela, Agin-
court, Trafalgar, Blenheim, Lexington,
Sedan.
But here I must slow up lest in trying to
solve mysteries 1 add to tue mystery tuac
wo have already wouderod at—namely,
why preachers should keep on after all tho
hearers are tired. So I gather up into one
great armful all the whys aud hows and
wherefores of ycur life and mine, which
we have not had time or tho ability to an
swer, aud write on them the words. “Ad
journed to eternity.” I rejoice that we do not
understand all tilings now. for if we did
what would we learn in heaven? If wo
knew it all down hero in tho freshman aud
sophomore class, what would be the use of
our going up to stand amid tho juniors and
tho seniors? If we could put down one leg
of tho compass and with the other sweep a
circle clear around all the iuscrutubles, if
wo could lift our littlo steelyards and
weigh the throne of the Omnipotent, if we
could with our seven-day clock measure
eternity, what would bo left for heavenly
revelation? So I move that wo cheer
fully adjourn wliat is now beyond our
comprehension, and as, according to Rol-
lin, tho historian, Alexander the Great,
having obtained the gold casket in which
Darius had kept his rare perfume, used
that aromatic cusket thereafter to keep bis
favorite copy of Homer in and called the
book, therefore, the “edition of the casket,”
and at night put the casket and his sword
under his pillow, so I put tbfs day into tho
oerfumed casket of your richest affections
and hopes, this promise worth more thau
xlomer ever wrote or sword ever con
quered. “What 1 do thou knowest not
row, but thou shalt know hereafter,” and
that I call the ‘ edition celestial.”
ever
Sec a snow
Storm in
Sommer?
We never did; but we have
seen, the clothing at this time
of the year so covered with
dandruff that it looked as if it
had been out in a regular snow
storm.
No need of this snowstorm.
As the summer sun would
melt the falling snow so will
Ayer’s
Hair
Vigor
melt these flakes of dandruff in
the scalp. It goes further than
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It has still other properties!
it will restore color to gray hair
in just ten times out of every
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And it does even more: it
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thick hair; and short hair be
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We havo a book on the Hair
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asking.
If you do not obtain *11 the benefits
you exported front tho use of tho VlKor,
write tho doctor about it. t’robubly
there is tomo difficulty with your gen
oral system which may ho easily re
moved. Address,
DR. J. C. AYER,
, Lowell, Mass.
Crusade Against Cradles.
“The lmnd that roeks the cradle la
the hand that rules the world” was a
very pretty sentiment In Its day.
Even now orators who are not quite
Up-to-date on the ethics of ‘‘child cul
ture” do a little soaring along this
line. They don’t know thnt well-regu
lated mothers have started a cruflado
against cradle rocking, and that there
fs a stigma on the hand which per
sists in Jogging the buhy. Apparently
the electricians did not know this,
either, for they have invented a cradle
which can be rocked by electricity.
All the fond mother has to do Is to
put the plug In the switchboard, and
tho cradle will rock until the baby
grows up nnd pulls the plug out him
self, if some one doesn’t do It boforo
that. Consequently, the prospects are
that if the cradles of the world do go
on swinging, the hand that rocks
them will be that of the electrician. In
that case, may be tho hand that rocks
the cradle will continue to be the one
-that rules the world, but there will
scarcely ho so much sentiment about
it.—New York Sun.
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The Potash
Question.
Aa Maajr aa Fifty Adjectives Applied to Qrtjr
Eyca.
Out of a list of seventy adjectives
directly applied to gray eyes, no less
than fifty are descriptive of expres
sion. If wo may believe the evidence
of these words, which were not care
fully selected, but Jotted down at ran
dom In the course of reading, almost
every shade of thought or feeling is
mirrored In gray eyes; and not only
do the words Indicate groat variety In
expression, hut many ot the qualities
which they represent seem diametri
cally opposed, (iray eyes are reserv
ed and candid; cold nnd cordial;
rjwnlsh and sad or pathetic; grave
ami genial; sinister nnd go It Was; ear
nest, true, amiable; proud yet tender;
They uiny be keen, sharp, piercing,
penetrating, but they are also soft,
■ereue, mild, pensive, dreamy, trust
ful. They are often severe; yet ns
Often, they a re' sweet, timid, wlptful,
appealing or kindly, beaming, loving,
sympathetic'.
Now, when we turn to the deserli-
Hops of blue, brown or black eyes, wo
shall llnd that these are brief com
pared with the long and elaborate de
scriptions of gray eyes, and that they
usually refer to some peculiarity of
size, shape, coloring or light, rather
than of expression. A good example
Is tho description of l.onm Doolie's
largo dark eyes, lull of a shadowy
light, “l.lke a wood rayed through
with sunset." Drown and black eyes
are almost nlways represented as lus
trous, while luminous Is moat fre
quently used In connection with gray
eyes. Pathetic Is perhaps the adjec
tive of expression yiosl often applied
to brown eyes; spiritual Is seldom
used lo describe other than'blue uyos;
but to these also belongs the bad em
inence of being sldfty, while black
eyes are distinguished In the satue
way by the word beady, Gray eyes
are perhaps oftenest characterized aa
honest, and the worst that Is com
monly said of them Is thnt they are
cold or steely.
Robed In While, They Bore Her.
A touching sight was that witnessed
In Burlington, N. ,1„ recently, when
six young girls clad in spotless' white
walked slowly through tho streets to
tho cemetery, bearing upon' their
shoulders a eoffln, covered with a
pall of flowers. In the coffin rested
the body of a young girl, a Sunday-
school classmate of tho tourers. The
procession moved through the middle
•of the street with the ministers who
hnd conducted the funeral service
immediately behind tho eoltin. It was
not a long march, and the girls mov
ed stondlly with their burden, but
there were tears on their faces nnd on
those of tile spectators who lined the
wnv. The dead girl was burned to
death a. few days before while throw
ing wnste paper on a ho nil re in -her
father’s yard, and It wns one of .her
Inst requests that her classmates, of
whom she was extremely fond, should
enrry her to her grave—New York
Tribune.
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