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THE SEMI-WEEKLY SUMTER REPUBLICAN.
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tangement of Liver, Bowels and Kidneys.
SYMPTOMS OF A DISEASED LIVER.
Bad Breath; Pain in the Side, sometimes the
pain is felt under the Shoulder-blade, mistaken for
Rheumatism; general loss of appetite; Bowtels
generally costive, sometimes alternating with lax;
the head is troubled with pain, is dull and heavy,
with considerable loss of memory, accompanied
with a painful sensation of leaving undone something
which ought to have been done; a slight, dry cough
and flushed face is sometimes an attendant, often
mistaken for consumption; the patient complains
of weariness and debility; nervous, easily startled;
feet cold or burning, sometimes a prickly sensation
of the skin exists; spirits are low and despondent,
and, although satisfied that exercise would be bene
ficial, yet one can hardly summon up fortitude to
try it—in fact, distrusts every remedy. Several
of the above symptoms astend the disease, but cases
have occurred when but few of them existed, yet
examination after death has shown the Liver to
have been extensively deranged.
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AMERICUS, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 1883.
YOY/yglY,
AT THE DOOR.
BY ItOSE TEItBY COOKE.
“Who’s this at the door of Heaven that
knocks?’’
“Let me in, I am orthodox.”
“What have you done for God and man
In word or deed since your life began?”
"Why do you asli about my deed ?
I have always preached the good old creed,
Stood for Calvin with soul and strength,
Vaunted decrees and Hell at length,
Shut the door of Heaven On-all
Who do not follow the word of Paul,
Ceased not to fast and loudly pray,
Never smiied on the Sabbath uay.
’Tis no heretic stands and knocks,
Let me in! lam orthodox.!”
“The door yon nave shut on any man
Will not open for you a span.
Orthodoxy is not its key,
Nor Paul norCalvin.its warders be.
By ono who sinned and bitterly wept,
A pardoned sinner, tilts door is kept.
Such alone can enter in,.
Only such to the Master win.”
“Who is this at the outer do"r?”
“One who was ready long before.
Many a year lias passed away
Since 1 entered the holy way,
Many a year no sinful thought
Hath in my chastened spirit wrought.
Spotless and pure to the keenest eye,
Perfect in word and deed am I.”
“Not as man seeth the Maker sees,
The words that answer thy call are these:
‘lf any man say he hath no sin.
That man lacketb My truth within.’
Here can enter no liar nor lie;
Heaven is not thy destiny.
Its gate swings wide to the humble soul,
For thee it will never backward roll.”
“Who is this?” “Oh, let me in!
Well have 1 fought with earth and sin.
For heathen tribes I have worked and
prayed;
Hither and thither have begged for aid;
Gathered crowds to hear me tell
Of the pagan nations bound for Hell ;
Journeyed all the country, o’er
Scattered leaves of printed lore,
Loudly preached and fervently prayed.
Surely my place in Heaven is made V”
“Where were the sinners at your side,
When you were wandering far and wide?
What of the humble soul you knew,
Help and comfort asked from you?
Where is the friend your bitter tongue
Turned to alien, with cruel wrong?
Where is tile humble heart you grieved,
That once in your faith and truth believed?
Well you did the greater thing,
Which man could see and your pscan sing.
But the little loves and dues of life,
Tlie healing word for tho daily strife,
The cup of water, the gentle deed,
The ready hand for a neighbor’s need—
Where are they ? Behold. Hesaith:
‘This is he who denies the faith,
He who provides not for his own,
And turns to his nearest a face of stone,
Worse than an intidel is he ’ *
Scarce shall the portals part for thee.”
“Open the door 1 Come in I must!
Do you shut your gates upon the just?
Many a year have I professed
To walk the way of heavenly rest,
Sat at the table of the Lord,
Told His story, and read His Word - ”
“Do not your children shrink with fear
At the snarl from your sneering lips they
hear?
Where is the sweet and smiling wife,
Who faded out from her tortured life?
Who looks glad at your welcome face?
Is your home the dwelling of Peace and
Grace?
You, who talk of the better part,
And set your foot ou a quivering heart,
Trample ou hope, and love, and trust,
Till dead they lie in the drifting dust,
Taking upon you His name in vain,
Spiling its glory with direst stain,
Go to your place where he was laid,
Who first his Master and Lord betrayed!”
“Hark! Whose summons is this I hear?
Scarce it reaches my listening ear.
Faint and low is the faltering call.”
“Can I ever come in at all ?
I am a sinner; but He came
Along tlie wayside and called my name.
Men looked down and passed me by,
Women scorned me with haughty eye;
He alone my misery heard,
Kaised me up with, a healing word.
I heard, I hear it, o’er and o’er;
‘Nor do 1 condemn thee. Go! sin no more!’
I, the outcast of the street,
Washed with my tears His weary feet,
Struggled back to tell His tale
To other souls who faulter and fail;
To bring some help and comforting
To tlie hapless children of my King.
The dust that praises, the grass that grows
Along the highway where He goes—
Such am I. Oh! may it be
Through the door ajar that His face I see 7”
Wide they turned, without a sound,
And the silent glory streamed around.
“Penitent sinner I contrite heart!
Come. He gives thee tlfe better part.
Work and faith and humble love
Fashion the soul for its home above.
Priest and Levite pass by no more;
Christ has opened for thee the door J”
Short Buies for Young: Christians
1. Never neglect daily private
prayer; and when you pray remember
that God is present, and that he hears
your prayers. (Heb. 11: 6.)
2. Never neglect daily private Bible
reading; and when you read remember
that God is speaking to you, and that
you arc to believe and act "upon what
he says. 1 believe all backsliding be
gins with the neglect of these two rales.
(John 5: 39.)
3. Never profess to ask God for
anything you do not want. Tell him
the truth about yourself, however bad
it makes you; and then ask him, for
Christ’s sake, to forgive you what you
are, and to make you what you ought
to be. (John 4: 24.)
4. Never let a day pass without try
ing to do something ior Jesus, Every
night reflect on what Jesus has done
for yon, and then ask yourself, What
have I done to-dav for him?. (Math. 5:
1316.)
5. If ever you are it* doubt as to a
thing being right or wrong, go to your
room, and kneel down and ask God’s
blessings upon it. Col. 2: 17.) If you
cannot do this, it is wrong. (Rom. 44:
23.)
6. Ntver take your Christianity
from Christians, or argue that,* be
cause such and such people do so and
so, therefore you may. (2 Cor. 10; 12)
You are to ask yourself, “How would
Christ act in my place?” and strive to
’follow him. (John 10: 27.)
7. Never believe what you feel if it
contradicts God’s Word. Ask your
self, Can what I feel be true if God’s
Word is true? and if both cannot be
true, believe God, and make your own
heart the liar. (Rom, 3: 4; 1 John 5:
10,11.)— Brownlow N'orth.
For Dyspepsia,
Costive nes s,
(Sick Headache,
Chronic Diar
rhoea, Jaundice,
Impurity of the
Blood, Fever and
| Ague, Malaria,
and all Diseases
caused by Do-
TABERNACLE SERMONS.
BY REV. T. Deffirr TALMAGE
[The Sermons of Dr. Talmage are publish
ed in pamphlet form by Geo. A. Sparks,
48 Bible House, New York. A number
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THE EAR.
“He that planted the ear, shall He not
heap.’’’ Psalms xciv, 9
Architecture is one of the most fas
cinating arts, and the study of Egyp
tian, Grecian, Ettucau, Roman, Byzan
tine, Moorish, Renaissance styles of
building has been to many a man a
subline life work. Lincoln and York
Cathedrals, St. Paul’s and St. Peter’s,
and Arch of Titus, and Theban Tem
ple, and Alhambra, and Parthenon are
the monuments to the genius of those
who built them. But more wonderful
than any arch they ever lifted, or any
transept, window they ever illumined,
or any Corinthion column they ever
crowned, or any Gothic cloister they
ever elaborated, is the human ear. I
am told on all sides that God gave his
blessing to the sermon I preached last
Sabbath morning on the other half of
this verse, “lie that formed the eye,
shall he not see?” and I am expecting
that God will give His blessing this
morning while I speak to you upon this
half ot the verse: “He that planted the
ear, shall he not hear?” Among the
most skillful and assiduous physiolo
gists of our time have "been those who
have given their time to the examina
tion of tho ear and the studying of its
arces, its walls, its floor, its canals, its
aqueducts, its galleries, its intricacies,
its convolutions, its divine machinery,
and yet it will take another thousand
years before the world comes to any
adequate appreciation of what God did
when He planned and executed the in
finite and overmasteiing architecture of
the human ear. The most of it is in
visible,and the microscope breaks down
in the attempt at exploration. The
cartilage which we call the ear is only
the storm door of the great temple clear
down out of sight, next door to the im
mortal soul. Such scientists as Helm
holtz, and Costi, and Deßlainville, and
Rank and P.uek, have attempted to
walk the Appian way of the human
ear, but the mysterious pathway has
been fully trodden by but two feet—the
foot of sound and the foot of God.
Three ears on each side the head—the
external ear, the middle ear, the inter
nal ear—but all connected by most won
derful telegraphy. The external ear in
all ages adorned by precious stones or
precious metals. The temple of Jeru
salem partly built by tho contribution
of earrings, and Homer in the Iliad
speaks of Hera, “the three bright drops,
her glittering gems suspended from the
ear,” and many of the adornments of
our day are only copies of ear jewels
found to-day in Pompeiian museum and
Etruscan vase. But while the outer
ear may be adorned by human art, the
middle and the internal ear are adorned
and garnished only by the hand of the
Lord Almighty. The stroke of a key
of this organ sets the air vibrating,and
the ear catches the undulating sound
and passes it on through the bonelets
of the middle ear to the internal ear,
which is filled with liquid; that liquid
again vibrates until the three thousand
fibes of the human brain took up the
vibration and roll the sound on into the
soul. The hidden machinery of the
ear, by physiologists called by the
names of things familiar to us, like the
hammer, something to strike—like the
anvil, something to be smitten—like
the stirrup of the saddle with which we
mount the steed—like the drum, beaten
in the march—like the harp string to
be swept with music—coiling like a
“snail shell,” by which one of the in
nermost passages of the ear is called—
like a stairway, the sound to ascend—
like a bent tube of a heating apparatus,
taking that which enters round and
round—like a labyrinth with wonderful
passages, into which the thought en
ters only to be lost in bewilderment.
The middle ear filled with air, the
medium of the sound as it presses to
the internal ear filled with liquid—a
muscle contracting when the noise is
too loud just as the pupil ot the eye
contracts when tho light is too glaring.
The external ear is defended by way,
which with its bitterness discourages
inseciile invasions. The internal ear
imbedded in what is by far the hardest
bone of the human system, a very rock
of strength and defense. The ear is so
strange a contrivance that by estimate
of one scientist it can catch tho sound
of 73,700 vibrations in a second. The
outer ear taking in all kind of sound,
whether the crash of an avalanche or
the hum of a bee. Tho sound passing
to the inner door of the outside ear,
halls nntil another divine mechanism
passes it on by the bonelets of the mid
dle ear, and coming to the inner door of
that second ear, the sound has no power
to come further until another divine
mechanism presses it on through into
the inner ear, and then the sound swims
the liquid until it comes to the rail
track of the brain branchlet, and
rolls on and on nntil it comes to sensa
tion, and there the curtain drops and a
hundred gates shut, and the voice of
God seems to aay to all hnman inspec
tion: “Thus far and no further.” In
thic vestibule of the palace of the soil,
how many kings of thought, of medi
cine, of physiology have done penance
of lifelong study and got no further
than the vestibule. Mysterious home
of reverbation and echo. Grand Central
Depot of sound. Headquarters to
which there come quick dispatches,
part the way by cartilage, part the way
by air, part the way by bone, part the
way by water, part the way by nerve—
the slowest dispatch plunging into the
ear at the speed of 1,090 feet a second.
Small instruments of music, on which
is played all the music you ever hear,
from the grandeurs of an August thun
der storm to the softest breathings of
a flute. Small instrument of music,
ouly a quarter of an inch of surface and
the thinuoss of one two hundred and
fiftieth part of an inch, and even that
thinness divided into three layers. In
that ear musical staff lines, spaces, bar
and rest. A bridge leading from the
outside natural world to the inside
spiritual world; we seeing the abut
ment at this end the bridge, but the log
of an unlifted mystery hiding the abut
ment on the other end the bridge.
Whispering gallery of the soul. The
human voice of God’s eulogy to the
ear. That voice capable of producing
seventeen trillion five hundred and
ninety-two billion one hundred and
eighty-six million lorty-four thousand
four hundred and fifteen sounds; and
all that variety made, not for the re
galement of beast or bird, but for the
human ear. Last Tuesday, in Venice,
lay down in death oue whom many
considered the greatest musical com
poser of the century. Struggling on up
from six years of age, when he was left
fatherless, Wagnor rose through the
obloquy of the world and oftimes all
nations seemingly against him, until
he gained tlie favor of a king and won
the enthusiasm of the opera houses of
Europe and America. Struggling all
the way on to seventy years of age to
conquer the world’s ear. In that same
attempt to master the huniau ear and
gain supremacy over this gate ot the
immortal soul great battles were fought
by Gluck and Weber, and by Beethov
en and Moverbeer, and by Rossinini,
and by all the roll of German and
Italian and French composers, some of
them in the battle leaving their blood
on tho keynotes and the musical scores.
Great battle fought for the ear—fought
with baton, with organ pipes, with
trumpet, with coruet-a-piston, with all
ivory and brazen and silver and golden
weapons of the orchestra; royal theatre
and cathedral and Academy of Music
the fortresses of the contest for the ear.
Englaud and Egypt fought for the
supremacy of the Suez Canal, and the
Spartans and the Persians fought for
the defile at Thermopylm, but the mu
sicians of all ages have fought for the
mastery of the auditory canal and the
defile of the immortal soul and the
Thermopyl* of struggling cadences.
For the conquest of the ear Haydn
struggled on up from the garret where
he had neither fire nor food, on and ou
until under the too great nervous strain
of hearing his own oratorio of the Crea
tion performed, he was carried out to
die, but leaving as his legacy to the
world 118 symphonies, 163 pieces for
the baryton, 15 masses, 5 oratorios, 42
German and Italian songs, 39 canons,
365 English and Scotch songs with ac
companiment, 1,536 pages of libretto.
All that to capture the gate of the body
that swings in from the tympanum to
tho “snail shell” lying on the beach of
the ocean of the immortal soul. To
conquer the ear Handel struggled on
from the time when his father would
not let him go to school lest he learn
the gamut and become a musician, and
from the time when he was allowed in
the organ loft to play after the audi
ence had left one by initary, to the
time when he left to all attention as
his unparalleled orations of Esther,
Deborah, Samson, Jepthan, Judas
Maccabeus, Israel in Egypt, and the
Messiah, the soul of the great German
composer still weeping in the dead
march of our great obsequies and tri
umphing in the raptures of every Easter
morn. To conquer the ear and take
this gate of the immortal soul, Schu
bert composed his immortal Serenade,
writing the staves of the music on the
bill of fare in a restaurant, and went
on until he could leave as a legacy to
the world over a thousand magnificant
compositions in music. To conquer
the ear and taste, this gate of tho soul’s
castle, Mozart struggled on through
poverty until he came to a pauper’s
grave, and one chilly, wet afternoon the
body of him who gave to the world the
Requium aud the G minor Symphony,
was crunched in on the top of two other
paupers, into a grave which to this day
is epitaphless. For the ear everything
melifluous, from the birth hour, when
our earth was wrapped in swaddling
clothes of light and serenaded by other
worlds; from the time when Juba)
thrummed the first harp and pressed a
key of the first organ down to the music
of this Sabbath morning. Yea. for
the ear the coming overtures of heavpn,
for whatever other part of the body
may be left in the dust, the ear,we know
is to come to celes'ial life; otherwise,
why the “harpera harping with their
harps?” For the ear, carol of lark
and whistle of quail and chirp of crick
et and dash of cascade and roar of
tides oceanic and doxology of worship
ful assembly and minstrelsy cherubic,
seraphic* archangelic. For the ear all
Pandean pipes, all clarionets, all haut
boys, all bassoons, all bells! and all or
gans—Luzerne and Westminster Ab
bey, and Freyburg and Berim, and all
the organ pipes set across Christendom
a great Giant’s Causeway for the mon
archs of music to pass over. For the
ear all chimes, all ticking of chronom
eters, all anthems, all dirges, all glees,
or choruses, all lullabies, all orchestra
lion. Of the ear, the God-honored
ear, grooved with divine sculpture and
poised with divine gracefulness and
upholstered with curtains of divine
embroidery, and corridored by divine
carpentry and pillared with divine ar
chitecture and chiseled in bone ot di
vine masonry, and conquered by pro
cessions of divine marshaling. The
earl! A perpetual point of interroga
tion, asking how—a perpetual point of
apostrophe, appealing to God. None
but God could plan it. None but
God could build it. None but God
could work it. None but God could
keep it. None but God could under
stand it. None hut Godroould explain
it. O! the wonders of the human ear.
How surpassingly sacred the human
ear. Yon had better be careful how
you let the sound of blasphemy or un
cloanness step into that holy of holies.
The Bible Bays that in the ancient
temple the priest was set apart by the
putting off the blood of a lamb on the
tip of the right ear of the priest. But,
my friends, we need all of us to have
the sacred touch of ordination on the
hanging lobe of both ears, on the ar
ches of the ears, on the Eustachian
tube of the ear, on the mastoid cells of
the ear, on the tampanic cavity of the
ear, and on everything from the out
side rim of the outside ear clear iu to
the point where sound steps off the au
ditory nerve and rolls on down into
the unfathomable depths of the immor
tal soul. The Bible speaks of “dull
ears,” and of “uncircnmcised ears,”
aad itching ears,” and of “rebellious
ears,” and of open ears, and of those
who have all the organs of hearing and
yet who seem to be deaf, for it cries to
them, “He that hath cars to hear let
him hear.” To show how much
Christ thought of the human ear, He
one day met a man who was deaf,
came up to him and put a finger of the
right hand into the orifice of the left
ear of the patient, and put a finger of
the left hand into the orifice of the right
ear of the patient, and agitated the
tympanum, and startled the bonelets,
and with a voice that rang clear
through into the man’s soul, cried,
“Ephphatha!” and tlie polyphoid
growths gave way, and the inflamed .
auricle cooled off, and that man who
had not heard a sound for many years,
that night heard the wash of the waves
of Galilee against the limestone shel
ving. To show haw much Christ
thought of the humau ear, when the
Apostle Peter got mad and with one
clash of his sword dropped the ear of
Malchus into the dust, Christ created
anew external ear for Malchus corres
ponding with the middle ear of the in
ternal ear, that no sword could clip
away. Aud to show what God thinks
of the ear we are informed of tho fact
that in the millennial June which
shall roseate all the earth, the “ears
of the leaf will be bombstopped,” all
the vascular growths gone, all defor
mation of the listening organ cured,
corrected, changed. Every being on
earth will have a hearing apparatus as
perlect as God knows how to make it,
and all the ears will be ready for that
great symphony in which all the musi
cal instruments of the earth shall play
the accompaniment, nations ot earth
and empires of heaven mingling their
voices together, with the deep bass of
the sea and the alto of the woods and
the tenor of the winds and the baritone
of the thunder; ‘‘Allelujah!” surging
up, meeting “Allelujah!” descending.
O! yes, my friends, we have been look
ing for God too far away instead of
looking for him close by and in our
organism. We go up into the obser
vatory and look through the telescope
and see God in Jupiter, and God in
Saturn, and God in Mars; but we
could see more ot Him through the mi
croscope of an artist. No king is sat
isfied with only one residence, and in
France it has been St. Cloud, and Ver
sailles, and the Tuilleries, and in Great
Britain it has been St. James, and
Balmoral, and Osborne. And a mler
does not always prefer the larger. The
King of earth and heaven may have
larger castles and greater palaces, but
Ido not think there is any one more
curiously wrought than the human
ear. The heaven of heavens cannot
contain him, and yet He says He finds
room to dwell in a contrite heart, and
I think in a Ghristian ear. We have
been looking for God in the infinite;
let ns look for him in the infi
nitesimal. God walking in the
corridor of the ear God sitting in the
gallery of tho human ear. God speak
ing along the aupitory nerve of the ear.
God dwelling in the ear to hear that
which comes from the outside, and so
near the brain and the sonl He can
hear all that trespass there. The
Lord of host encamping under the cur
tains of membrane. Palace of the Al
mighty in the human ear. The rider
on the white horse of the Apocalypse
thrusting his hand into the loup of
bone which the physiologist has been
pleased to call the stirrup of the ear.
Are you ready now for the question
of my text? Have you the endurance
to hear its overwhelming snggestive.-
ness? Will you take hold of some
pillar and balance yourself under the
semi-omnipotent strokes? “He that
planted the ear, shall he not hear?”
Shall the God who gives ns the appa
ratus with which we hear the sounds
of the world himself not be able to
catch np song and groan and blasphe
my and worship! Does He give ns a
faculty which He has not Himself?
Drs. Wild and Gruber and Toynbee
invented the aaonnieter and other in
strument* by which to measure and
FOUR DOLLARS PER ANNUM.
NO. 46.
examine the ear, and do these instru
ments know more than the doctors who
made them? “He that planted the
ear, shall He not hear?” Jupiter of
Crete was almost represented in statu
ary and painting as without ears, sug
gesting the idea that he did not want
to be bothered with the affairs of the
world. But our God has ears. Psalms
xxxv., 14: “His ears are open to their
cry.” The Bible intimates that if two
workmen on Saturday night do not
get their wages, their complaint in
stantly strikes the ear ol God. “The
cry of those that reaped hath entered
the ears of the Lord of the Sabbath.”
Did God hear the poor girl last night
as she threw herself on the prison bunk
in the city dangenn and cried in the
midnight, “God have mercy?” Do
you really think God could hear her?
Yes, jnst as easily as when fifteen
years ago she was sick with scarlet fe
ver, and her mother heard her when at
night she asked for a drink of water.
He that planted the ear, shall He not
hear?” When a soul prays, God does
not sit bolt upright until the prayer
travels immensity and climbs to His
ear. The Bible says He bends clear
over. In more than one place Isaiah
said He bowed down His ear. In more
than one place the Psalmist said He
inclined His ear, by which I come to
believe that God puts His ear so close
ly down to your lips that He can hear
yonr faintest whisper. It is not God,
away down here, close up, so close up
that when you pray to Him it is not
more a whisper than a kiss. Ah! yes,
He hears the captive's sigh, and the
plash ol the orphan’s tear, and the dy
ing syllables of the shipwrecked sai
lor driven on the Skerries, and the in
fant’s “now I lay me down to sleep,”
as distinctly as He hears the fortissi
mo.of brazen bands in tho Dusseldoif
festival, as easily as He hears the sal
vo of artillery when the thirteen
squares of English troops open all their
batteries at on re at Waterloo. He
that planted the ear can hear. .lust as
sometimes an entrancing strain of mu
sic will linger in your ears days after
you have heard it, and just as a sharp
cry of pain I once heard while passing
through Bellevue Hospital clung to
my ear for weeks, and just as a horrid
blasphemy in the street sometimes
hauuts one’s ears for days, so God not
only hears but holds the songs, the
prayers, the groans, the worship, the
blasphemy. The phonograph is a
newly invented instrument which holds
uot only the woids you utter but the
verj tone of your voice, bo that a hun
dred years from now, that instrument
turned, the very words you now utter
aud the very tone of your voice will be
reproduced. Wonderful phonograph!
Ab of our beloved dead we keep a lock
ot hair, or picture of the features, so
the time will come when we will be
able to keep the tones of their voices
and the words they utter. So that if
now dear friends should speak into the
phonograph some words of affection
and then they should be taken away from
us,years from now from that instrument
we could unroll the words they uttered
and the very tones of their voice. Bat
more wonderfnl is God's power to hold,
to retain. Ah! what delightful en
couragement for our prayers. What
an awful fright for our hard speeches.
What assurance of warm-hearted sym
pathy for all out griefs. He that plan
ted the ear, shall He not hear?” Bet
ter take that organ away from all sin.
Better put ii under the best sound.
Better take it away from all
from all slander, from all innuendo,
from all bad influences of evil associa
tion. Better put it to school,to church,
to Philharmonic. Better put that ear
under the blessed touch oi Christian
lrymnolegy. Better consecrate it for
time and eternity to him who planted
the ear. ltonssean, the infidel, fell
asleep amid his skeptical manuscript
lying all around the room, and in his
dream he entered heaven and heard
the song of the worshippers, and it was
so sweet he asked an angel what it
meant. The angel said, “This is the
paradise of God, and the song you
hear is the anthem of the redeemed.”
Under another roll of the celestial mu
sic Rousseau wakened and got up in
the midnight and as well as he coaid
wrote down the strains of the music
that he had heard in the wonderful
true called “the anthem of the redeem
ed.” God grant that it may not be to
you and to me an infidel dream,, but a
glorious reality. When we come to
the night of death and we lie down to
our last sleep, may our ears really
be wakened by the canticles of the
heavenly temple, and the songs and
the anthems and the carols and the
doxologies that shall climb the musi
cal ladder of that heavenly gamut.
Kalamazoo, Mich., Feb. 2, ’BO.
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The family man resembles an oyster
on the half-shell. The shell is known
at home, but the soft-side abroad.
Some men carry this resemblance in
their faces. A great many men have
countenances like oysters,