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JL ROBERT HARDT51
If SEVEN DATS.
A DREAM A2TD ITS CONSEQUENCES.
BY REV, CHARLES M. SHELDON,
Author of “In His Steps” “The Crucifixion of Philip Strong,”-Jlalcaa JBric,” Etc.
[Copyright, 1000, by Advance Publishing do.]
Tijurs.
CHAPTER XI.
| ana cncing oou mmseii rue nest pos-
TSlhle answer to them all.
Those words of Clara, "i. shall go I Rpjjert Hardy was finding this out
ilii you then, filled the farnily. with / lalcly. am] it was the one thing tliat
with
dismay.
and groaned. Mrs. Hardy, almost be
side herself with grief and terror, flew
to the side of the girl and, with be
seeching erics and caresses, tried to
bring back to consciousness the mind
that for a moment or two bad gleamed
-with reason and then had gone back
into the obscurity and oblivion of that
mysterious condition in which it bad
been lying for three days, but all In
vain. The eyes were closed; the form
was rigid. The others, George and
Will ami Bess, grew pale, and Bess
cried, almost for the first time since
the strange week began. Robert was
the first to break ilie grief with a quiet
word. He raised bis bead, saying:
“1 do mil believe Clara is going to
die when I do,"
‘•Why. father, what makes you think
that?" cried A Heel
“I don't know. 1 can't give any ex
act reason I only know that l don’t
believe it will happen.”
“God grant that she may he spared
to us!" said .Mis. Hardy. “Oh, Rob
ert, it is more Ilian I can bear! Only
today and tomorrow left! It can’t be
real. 1 have battled against your
dream all the week. It was a dream
only. 1 will not believe it to be any
thing else. You are not 111. There Is
no indication that you are going to die.
I will not, I cannot, believe it! God
is too good. And we need you now,
Robert. Let us pray God for mercy.”
Robert shook his head sadly, but
firmly.
“No, Mary; I cannot resist an im
pression so strong that I cannot call It
anything but a conviction of reality;
that somehow, in some way, I shull be
called away from you Sunday night I
have struggled against It,'but it grows
upon me even more firmly. God Is
merciful. I do not question bis good
ness. How much did 1 deserve even
this week of preparation after, the life
I have lived? And-the time will not
be long before we shall all meet there.
God grant that it may be an unbroken
company!”
Mr. Hardy spoke as any one in bis
condition could. The children drew
about him lovingly. Bess climbed into
his lap. She laid her face against her
father’s face, and the strong man' sob
bed as he thought of all the years of
neglected affection in that family cir
cle. The rest of the evening was spent
in talking over the probable future.
George, who seemed thoroughly hum
bled now. listened respectfully and
even tearfully to his father’s counsel
concerning the direction of business
and family matters.
The boy was going through a strug
gle with himself which was apparent
to all in the house. Ever since his
mother had seen him kneeling down in
the night watch he had shown a differ
ent spirit'' It remained to be seen
Whether he had really changed or
Whether he had been for the" time be
ing frightened into a little goodness.
! Saturday morning found the Hardys
weary with the agitation of the'week,
hut bearing about a strange excite
ment which only the prospect of the
father's approaching death or removal
could have produced.
; Robert rould not realize that his
week was almost at an end. Why. it
seemed hut yesterday that lie had
dreamed after the Sunday" evening
service!
As on every other day, he asked him
self the question, “What shall 1 do?”
Only until he had prayed could he
answer the question. Then the light
came. Who says prayer is merely a
form? It is going to God for wisdom
and getting it- It is crying out for
light, and, lo! the darkness flees. It
is spreading out our troubles and onr
Joys and our perplexities and our needs'
Mr. Hardy bowed his head made possible.to him the calmness of
the last two days allotted hint.
The day was spent in much the same
way that the other days had been
spent. He went down to his office
ibout 10 o'clock and after coming
home to lunch went down again with
the intention of getting through all the
business and returning home to spend
the'rest of the time with the family.
Along toward 3 o'clock, when the rou
tine work of the shops was disposed
of, the manager felt an irresistible de
sire to speak to the men in his employ.
They numbered about S00 in his de
partment, and he knew how impossible
it would be for him to speak to them
individually. lie thought a minute
and then called Burns in and gave an
order that made the foreman stare in
the most undisguised wonder. -
“Shut down the works for a little
while and ask the men to got together
in the big machine shop. I want to
speak to them.”
Burns had been astonished so often
this week that, although he opened his
month to say something, he did not
seem able to pronounce the words, and
after staring blankly at his employer
a minute he turned and went out to
execute the order.
The great engine was stopped. The
men from the easting rooms and the
carpenter shops and the storerooms
and the repairing departments came
trooping into the big machine shop and
sat or leaned on the great, grim pieces
of machinery, and as the shop filled
the place began to take on a strange
aspect never seen there before.
Mr. Hardy crossed the yard from the
office, followed by the clerks and as
sistant officers of tliejroaU, all curious
to hear what was coming. Mr. Hardy
mounted one of the planers and looked
about him. The air was still full of
gas’ anil smoke and that mixture of
fine iron filings and oil which is char
acteristic of such places. The men
were quiet and respectful enough.
Many of them had heard the man
ager's speech of Thursday night at the
town hall. Most of them were aware
that some change had taken place in
the man. It had been whispered about
that he had arranged matters for the
men injured in the Sunday accident so
that they would not come to want in
any way.
And now that grimy, hard muscled,
hard featured crowd ot S00 men all
turned their eyes upon the figure
standing very erect and pale faced on
the great planer, and he in turn looked
out through the blue, murky atmos
phere at them with an Intensity of ex
pression which none in that audience
understood. As Mr. Hardy went on
with his speech they began to under
stand what that look meant.
“My brothers.” began the jnanager,
with a slight trembling of the sylla
bles so new to him, “as this may be
the last time I shall ever speak to you
I want to say what is true to me and
what I feel I owe to you. For 23 years
l have ‘carried on the work in this
place without any thought of the S00
men at work in these shops except as
their names were on the pay roll of
the company.
'.'It never made any difference to me
when your wives and children grew
sick and died. 1. never knew what
sort of houses you lived in except to
know that iu comparison with mine
they must have been very crowded
and uncomfortable. For all these 23
years 1 have been as indifferent to you
as one man possibly could be to men
who work for him. It has not occurred
to me during this time that*I could be
anything else. 1 have been too selfish
to see my relation to you and act up
on it.
“Now. 1 do not call you in here today
to apologize for 25 years of selfishness
—not that alone. But I do want you to
know that I have been touched by the
band of God in sueh-a way that before
it is too late I want to say to yon all,
‘Brothers.’ and say to yon that when
you think of me hereafter it may be as
1 am now today, not as I have been in
all the years past. -
It is not for me to say how far or in
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brotherhood of the race. I have called
myself a Christian. I have been a^-JW man's father. He spoke to
member of a cbureli. Yet I will con
fess here today that under the author
ity granted me by the. company I have
more than once dismissed good, honest,
faithful workmen in large bodies and
cut down wages unnecessarily, to. in
crease dividends- and iu general 1
have thought of the human flesh and
blood in these shops as I have thought
of tlie iron and steel here. I confess
nil that and more. Whatever has been
nn-Cbristian I hope will be forgiven.
“There are many things we do to our
fellow men in this world which abide-r
tlie sting of them, 1 mean, Tlie im
press of my selfishness is stamped on
this place. It will take" years to re
move it. 1 misbehave been far more
t° you. i JZ&NFinve raised my voice
as a Christian an-J an infiy.eutial di
rector of this Toad again;: The Sunday
work and traffic; I never did. I might
have relieved unnecessary discomfort
•in different departments: I refused to
do it. I njjgbt have helped the cause
of temperance iu this town by; trying
to banish the saloon; instead of that 1
voted to license la crime and poverty
and disease establishment.
“I might have used my influence and
my wealth to build healthy, comforta
ble homes for the men who work on
this road: I never raised my finger in
the matter. I might have helped to
make life a happier, sweeter tiling to
the nearly 1.000 souls iu this estab
lishment. and I went my selfish way,
content with my own luxurious home
and the ambition for self culture and
the pride of self accomplishments.
And yet there is not a man here today
who isn’t happier than 1 am.
“1 wish yon all. in the name of the
good God. who forgives our sins for
Jesus’ sake, the wish of a man who
looks into the other world and sees
things as they really are. I do not
wisli you to think of my life as a.Chris
tian-life. It lias not been such, but as
you hope to be forgiven at last forgive
all wrongs at my hands.
“Y’on are living in the dawn of a hap-
oier day for labor. There are Christian
nen in business in_thi,s town and some
few connected with railroads who are
“Ihavchecn touched bythchartd of Ood.”
trying to apply the principles of Chris
tianity to tlie business and traffic of the
world. My probable successor iu these
shops is such a man in spirit.
"Coil is love. I have forgotten that
myself. 1 have walked through life
forgetful of him. But 1 know today
that lie is drawing the nations and the
world together iu true sympathy. The
natio'-s that stand defiant and disobe
dient Ti Coil shall perish. The rulers
who haughtily take God's place and
oppress the people shall be destroyed.
The men of power and intelligence and'
money who use these three great ad
vantages merely to bless themselves
and add to their own selfish pleasure
and ease shall very soon be dethroned.
I would giv<? all 1 possess to be able to
live and see a part of it come to pass.
Men, brothers, some "of you younger
ones will live to see that day.
“Love God and obey him. Envy not
the rich. They are more miserable
than you sometimes dream. True hap
piness consists in a conscience at peace
with God and a heart free from selfish
desires and habits. I thank you for
your attention. Yon will know better
why I have said all this to you when.
you come in here to work again next
Monday. My brothers, God bless you!
God bless us all!"
-When Robert stepped down from the
planer and started toward the door,
more than one black hand was thrust
into his with the words, “God bless
you, sir!” He felt a strange desire to
weep. Never before had he felt that
thrill shoot through him at the grasp
of the hand of his brother man. His
speech had made a profound impres
sion on the men. Many of them did
not understand the meaning of certain
sentences, but the spirit of the man
was unmistakable, and the men re
sponded in a manner that touched Air.
Hartly very strongly.
He finally went into his office. The
big engine started up again, and the
whir and dust and clangor of the shops
went on. But men bent over their
work there in the gathering dusk of
the winter day who felt a new heart
throb at the recollection of the pale
face and sincere word of the man who
had broken a selfish silence of a quar
ter of a century to call them brothers.
Oh. Robert Hardy, what glorious op
portunities you missed to love and he
loved! With all your wealth you have
been a very poor man all your life un
til now, on the next to the last day
of it!
There is little need to describe the
rest of this day. Robert went home.
Every one greeted him tenderly. His
first inquiry was for Clara, Still in
that traneelike sleep. Would she nev
er wake?" The wife shuddered with
fear. Airs! Hardy had spent much of
the time in prayer and tears. The
evening sped by without special inci
dent. -
_ . James Caxton came and joined the
what manner I have trampled on the Jamily circle." His presence reminded
Mr. Hardy of the old quarrel wltb-the
James and said if anything should pre
vent his seeing his father the next-
day James might tell his father how
completely and sincerely he wished the
foolish quarrel forgotten and his own
share in it forgiven.
So that'day came to a close in fami
ly conference. In tears, in fear and
hope and anxiety and prayer. But
Mrs. Hardy would not lose all hope.
It did not seem to her possible that her
husband could be called away the next
night.
CHAPTER XII.
Alice, with the quickness of thought
that always characterized her, planned
that all the *&st should go to church
while she remained with Clara._ Will
was auie to go out now. so, ror Tlie
first time in months. Robert and his
wife and Bess and the two boys sat to
gether in the same scat. George had
not been to church for a year, and Will
-was very irregular in his attendance;
The opening services seemed espe
cially impressive-and beautiful to Mr.
Hardy. He wondered how he had ever
dared sit and criticise Mr. Jones and
the way he had.of reading the hymns.
To be sure, he was not a perfect speak
er, but bis love for his pedple and his
great love for men and his rare good
life every day were so well known that
they ought to have counted for more
than, they 'ever did.
It is astonishing how many good
deeds and gr.od nu n pass through this
world unnoticed and unappreciated,
but every evil deed is caught up and
magnified and criticised by press and
people until it seems as if the world
must be a very wicked place indeed
and the good people very scarce indeed.
Mr. Hardy joined in the service with
a joy unknown to him for years. He
had come to it from the reading of his
Bible instead of the reading of the
morning paper and from prayer in
stead of from tliQUghts of his business
or a yawning stroll through bis library.
.His mind was receptive of the best
vhings.in the service. He entered Into it
with the solemn feeling that it-was his
last.
And when the minister gave out the
text. “For we must all appear before
the judgment seat or ChristT that ev
ery man may receive the things done
in his body, whether they be good or
bad.” he started and leaned forward
intently, feeling that the message of
the preacher was for him and him
alone and strangely appropriate for
his own peculiar condition. The first
statement of the sermon arrested his
attention and held him to the argu
ment i^sistibly to the end:
“The judgment seat of Christ will
not be a dreadful place .to a man whose
sins have been forgiven in this world,
but if lie comes up to it seamed and
scarred and stained with sins unre-
pented of anti unforgiven because he
has not asked God to forgive him it
will be a place of awful fear to his
soul. There are men here in this au
dience who are as ready to die now as
they ever will be. They have made
tlieir peace with God. They have no
quarrel with their neighbors. Their
accounts are all square in business.
They ;ire living in loving relations
with the home circle. They^have no
great burdens of remorse or regret
weighing them down, and if God
should call them this minute to step up
to the judgment seat they would be
ready.
“But there are other men here who
are not at all ready for such a tremen
dous event. They may think they are,
but they are mistaken. How can they
stand before the greatest being in all
the universe and have no fear when
they are unprepared to answer his ques
tions: *Wliy did you not confess me be
fore men? Why did you not do as 1
commanded and bear the burdens of
the work instead of pleasing yourself?’
What will.the.man say then?
“It is true tliat Christ is all merciful,
all loving. But will it make no differ
ence with a soul whether it comes up
to liis judgment scat out of a life of
selfish ease and indulgence or out of a
life of self sacrifice and restraint?
When every possible offer of mercy Is
held out to men on earth and they will
not accept it. will it be all the same as
if they had when they come before the
judgment seat of Christ? Why, that
would be to mock at the meaning of
the incarnation and the atonement. It
would be to cast scorn and contempt
on the agony in the garden and the
crucifixion. It would make unnecessa
ry all the prayer and preaching. What
possible need is there that men preach
a gospel of salvation unless there is
danger of the opposite?
“If we are all going to be saved any
way, no matter whether we accept
God’s love in Christ pr not, what use is
the church? And why should we be
anxious any more about our children?
And what difference does it make
whether they go to the bad here in this
world if in the world to come they will
all be saved? For eternity will be, so
much grander and sweeter and endur
ing than time that we might as well
take it easy here and not pay much at
tention to the message, ‘God so loved
the world’—that is, if we are going to
be saved anyway.
“Why should we care very much if it
does say in the revelation of God’s
word that the wicked shall go away
into everlasting punishment if we
don’t believe it? Why, the wicked will
stand just as good a chance of eternal
glory as tlv good if the judgment seat
of Christ does not mean a separation
of the good from the bad. Let us close
our churches and go home. Let U3 eat
and drink and dance and be merry, for
tomorrow we may die; and after death
the judgment, and after the judgment
glory and joy and power and peace and
life eternal in the presence of God.
“It is true we scorned him on earth,
but that won’t make any difference;
lie will receive us just the same. It is
true we refused to believe in his onl,>
begotten Son after all he suffered of
shame and agony for us. but that
makes no difference; be will say, ‘Enter
into the joy of thy Lord.’ It is'true we
made fun of Christians and mocked at
praj’er and sneered at faith, but that is
not much to be afraid of. It Is true we
hated our neighbor and would not for-
give-au insult, but that is a little thing.
It is true when the Holy Spirit pleaded
with us a yvar or six months ago to
confess Christ in public we told him to
leave us; we were ashamed to do it in
the presence of men. to confess him
who spread out bis arms on a cross of
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is a curable disease; and
one of the happy things
about it is, that its victims
rarely ever lose hope.
You know there are all sorts of
secret nostrums advertised to cure
consumption. Some make absurd
claims. We only say that if taken
in time and the laws of health are
properly observed,
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will heal the inflammation of the
throat and lungs and nourish and
strengthen the body so that it can
throw off the disease.
We have thousands of testi
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have been permanently cured of
this malady.
we feel sure that when we march up ti
the judgment seat of' Christ he will
treat us just the same, as he treats thi
disciples who have laid down their
lives for the Master.
“Then let us tear out of the Bible
every line that speaks of retribution or
punishment or judgment—lor we don’t
like those passages; they hurt our feel-
it^s—and let us leave only those words
that speak of love and mercy and for
giveness, for those words are the only
ones that can be true, for those words
don’t make us feel uncomfortable.
“Away with .everything that hurts
our feelings, that makes us anxious,
that sends us to our knees in prayer,
that makes us confess Christ and live
a life of self denial and service, for
when the judgment seat is prepared
and Christ sits down there and we ap
pear before him lie will receive us" as
we come before him—the pure and the
impure, the selfish and the proud and
the humble and the believer and the
disbeliever anil infidels and scoffers
and cowards and despisers of God’s
love on the earth, all the class of men
who fell back on weak and imperfect
Christians as an excuse for their own
weak lives, and the drunkards and the
liars and tlie oppressors of the poor,
and everybody who heard a thousand
sermons full of gospel and despised
them because of some imperfection in
the delivery or .elocution, and all those
men who went through the earth be
trayers of the home, and the selfish
politicians who betrayed their country,
ind all the men who read the Bible
and believe only the parts that didn’t
hurt their sensitive feelings, and the
young smen who lived fast lives and
sowed wild oats because a wicked and
false public sentiment made them
think it was excusable and perhaps
necessary, and ail the other men-and
women who lived as they pleased, re
gardless of God and eternity. When
all these shall appear before the judg
ment seat of Christ, he will behold
them all as one soul and with a smile
of gracious pardon will reach out his
almighty arm aud sweep them all
alike Into a heaven of eternal bliss,
there to reign with him in glory and
power, world without end!
“But is this what Christ taught the
world? Suppose what we have said is
true. It turns his whole life into a
splendid mockery. Foolishness and
absurdity could go no further than to
create a life like his and to put into his
mouth sueii teachings as we have re
ceived if at the judgment seat all'souls,
regardless of their acts in this world,
are received on an equal footing and all
received into eternal life. And where
is there any room in the teachings of
Christ for a purgatory? Do we believe
that? Is it not the plain teaching that
after the judgment the destiny of souls
Is fixed forever?
“But what could man wish more?
Will he not have opportunity enough to
accept the mercy of God before that
time? Does he not have opportunity?
If any soul appears at last and at the
judgment complains that he did not
have a fair chance, will that gracious
Judge condemn him if his complaint be
true? We know he will not. But the
facts of the judgment are these: At
that time, whenever It is, the souls of
men will be passed for their acts in the
earthly life, a verdict that will deter
mine their everlasting destiny, and
that verdict will be just and It will be
merciful. For the crucified one could
not -do otherwise. But tlie men who
have despised am[ neglected and disbe
lieved and confessed shall be separated
from him forever, and the men who
have confessed and believed and tried
to live like him shall IrtTra his presence
continually.
“There will be a division of souls. It
will not be based on wealth or position
or birth or education or genius, but on
Ghristlikcness—on that divine and eter
nal thing we call character. Every
thing else shall go away into destruc
tion, into death, into punishment, into
banishment from God. And banish
ment from God will be hell, nnd it will
be a hell not made by God, but by man
himself, who had an opportunity—nay,
a thousand opportunities—every day of
his life to accept the bliss of heaven
and of his own selfish choice rejected
every one of them and went to ids own
place.
“But some soul starts up and says:
‘You are not preaching the gospel; you
are preaching fear. hell, torments. Is
this your boasted love of God?’ Yes; for
what am I preaching if not the love of
God when I say. ‘God so loved the
world that he gave his only begotten
Son that whosoever believeth in him
should not perish, hut have everlasting
life?’ is there no danger of perishing?
Why did Christ come then? \> T hy did
he say tlie things be did? Why did he
speak of the condemnation of the wick
ed and unbelieving if that were not a
part of the gospel?
“The gospel is glad tidings, but what
makes it glad tidings? Because of the
danger we are in. What is salvation?
It is the opposite of being lost We
eannot have one without tilt other. So
1 am preaching the gospel here today
when I say, ‘We must all appear be
fore the judgment seat of Christ!’
There will be no fear to us then if we
believe in him, if we have lived his life
here, if the things done in the body are
good. And. more than that as long as
this earth life continues God’s mercy
is with us every moment
“It is possible some soul is here who
for years lias lived selfishly within his
own little toys of pleasure. He looks
back on a life of uselessness, of neglect
of. all that Christ did for him. -He this
day hears the voice of God. He listens,
he repents, he cries out. smiting on his
breast, ‘God be merciful to me, a sin
ner!’ Then what will God do? Will he
reject him because be is old in sin, be
cause he has wasted beautiful years?
When he appears before the judgment
Beat, will Christ say: 'You repented too
late on earth. You cannot be saved
now?’
“No! Even if after. 100 years of shame
and sin a soul with its outgoing breath
in genuine repentance and faith in the
Son of God cries ont for mercy that
cry would he answered, and he would
be saved. What less of glory and pow
er such a soul may experience in the
realms of glory we may not be able to
tell. But lie himself will be saved.
“Is not God merciful, then? Let no
man depart from this house of God
fearful or despairing. The earthly life
is full from begiimiug to close with
the love cf an Almighty Father. Shall
men compiaiu because they ~ cannot
have all of this life and all of the oth
er, too, in which to repent and be for
given? 'Now is the accepted time;
now is the day of-salvatiou.’ 'Today
if ye will hear his voice harden not.
your hearts.'
“Alen of Barton, you have heard the
word of God proclaimed from this desk
today. Young men, will you wait un
til you are old iu sin aud shame before
you will repent and be saved? How
do you know you will live to be old
men? Aud what a life to live, even if
you were sure of a hundred years, to
pour out tlie dregs at last as an offer
ing to Christ just to escape hell! Oh,
all men, hear ye this day the message
of Christ!- He is a Saviour of sinners.
It is not necessary lhat any man-go
JA. C. COBB.
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oo it: licneve on trie Lord" .lesus
Christ and iiiou shalt.be saved.k Then
go home and pray, rejoicing
“And if the Almighty call you out
aud away from this prison of clay into
bis resplendent presence this very
night what will you have to fear? Not
one thing. A'ou have put your trust in
him. Your sins are all forgiven. You
can appear before his judgment seat
and await your verdict with a calm
and joyful soul, for you kribw as you
gaze iuio the loving countenance of
your. Redeemer and Judge that when
he turns and speaks to you he will
say, ‘Come, ye beloved of my Father,
inherit the kingdom prepared for you
from the foundation of the world.’
Truly God is love!”
The prayer tliat followed the sermon
seemed to bring all the souls in the
church very close to God. The events
of the past week had stirred the town
deeply. The awful disaster so near
them, the speech of Mr. Hardy in the
town hall, rumors of tlie experience he
was having—ail these had prepared the
audience for just such a sermon on
Sunday morning. And men bowed their
heads and prayed in that house who
had noi done sueii a thing sincerely in
many years.
Robert had many inquiries concern
ing himself and Clara to answer at the
close of the service. He finally went
up and thanked the minister for what
he had said and spoke as lie never had
spoken before in encouragement of his
pastor’s work. But it seemed to him
that he must he getting home. The
time was growing short. He must
have the rest of it with the dear ones
in the home.
What need to describe the details of
the afternoon? Robert Hardy had the
joy of knowing that all his children
were with him, and at dark James
came over and asked if he might join
the circle. He did not know all thai
Mr. Hardy had gone through, but the
children had told him enougli to make
him want to be with the family.
“Why, come right in and join the cir
cle, Jim. You’re one of us,” cried Mr.
Hardy cheerfully. So Jim drew up his
chair, aud the conversation went on.
'ey#
“Did you not hear some one calllnu? ’
They were sitting in the up stairs room
where Clara lay and facing an open
fire. The doctor had called In the mid
dle of the afternoon aud brought two
other skilled surgeons and physicians
at Mr. Hardy’s request. It was a sin
gular ease, and nothing special could
be done. This was the unanimous
opinion after deep consultation, and
after remaining some time the doctors
had withdrawn.
When it grew dark, Alice started to
turn on the lights, but her father said,
“Let us sit iu the firelight.” So they
drew close together and in awe looked
upon him who seemed so sure that God
would call him away at midnight.
Who shall recount the words that were
uttered, tlie exact sentences spo.ke.'i, the
fears and hopes and petitions and tears
of the wife, the commands of the fa
ther to his boys to grow up into tlie
perfect manhood in Jesus Christ, the
sweet words of love and courage that
passed between him and his wife and
daughters? These things cannot be de
scribed; they can only be imagined.
So the night passed. It was after 11
o’clock, when the conversation had al
most ceased and all were sitting hush
ed in a growing silence, that Clara
spoke again, so suddenly and clearly
that they were ail startled and awed
by it:
“Father! Mother! Where have I
been? I have had such a dream! Where
are you? Where am I?”
Mrs. Hardy arose and, with tears
streaming down her face, kneeled be
side the bed and in a few words recall
ed Clara to her surroundings. The girl
had come out of her strange uncon
sciousness with all her faculties intact.
Gradually she recalled the past, the ac
cident, the dream of her father. She
smiled happily on them alL and they
for awhile forgot the approach of mid
night and its possible meaning to Air.
Hardy—all hut himself. He kneeled by
the bed, at the side of his wife, and
thanked God that his dear one was re
stored.
Suddenly he rose to his feet and
spoke aloud, quietly, but clearly:
“Did you not hear some one calling?”
His face was pale, hut peaceful. He
bent down and kissed Clara, embraced
his sons, drew his wife to him and
placed his hand on Bessie’s her.d; then,
as if in answer to a command, he gen
tly kneeled down again by his chair,
and as his lips moved iu prayer tlie
clock struck once more tlie hour of 12.
He continued kneeling there, ami lie
was nearer God than he had ever been
in ail his life before.
Thus Robert Hardy's seven days
came to au end.
tiie t:xt>.
An Epidemic of Whooping Cough.
Last winter during an epidemic of
whooping cough my children contracted
the disease, having severe coughing
spells We had used Chamberlain’s
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cronp and naturally turned to it at that
time and fonnd it relieved the eongh
and effected a complete cure.- Johh E.
Clifford, Proprii tor Norwood Honse,
Norwood, N. Y. This remedy is for
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Some people who never e-ven had a
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‘After suffering from severr dyspepsia
over twelve years and using many rem
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Castoria is a substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric, Drops
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THE NEWS is what you want, and vou get
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Perfume of flaM.Hian Leather.
The original Russia leather per
fume" is difficult to imitate exactly.
The-dominatit flavor or the extract is
due to tin* oil of birch, ill) essential in
gredient. 'rile substance used for this
purpose is tile enipyretunaiie oil. some
times railed birch t:::\ and should not
he confounded with the oil or white
birch, which is used very largely as a
substitute for oil of wintergreen aud.
in fact, forms tlie bulk or tlie so called
"natural oil of wintergreen" of tlie
market.
Following is a recent formula for
Peau de Rttsse: Extract or rose, 10
fluid ounces; extract of violet. 10 tlnfd
ounces: extract or jasmine. 10 fluid
ounces: extract of musk; one-half
ounce: extract of orris. In fluid ounces:
oil of neroli. 30 nuns.: oil of bergamot!
1 dr.: oil of amber, rectified. 1 dr.: oil
of birch (oleum rnseii. 1 dr.: vonillin.
30 grs.; eoumarin. 30 grs.: einnamein. 1
dr.: oil of hitter orange. 20 nous Mix.
—American Druggist aud Pharmaceu
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Nothing has ever been produced to
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eye Pile < intment as a curative and
healing application for Piles, Fissures,
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tnbes 75 cts. T. F. Burbank.
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money he had. Bow?” Thingnmlmb-
“By his speculations.” MeJiggi r - “So?
Well, in the first place, how did lie get
any money to lose that way?” Tiling,
nmbob—“By his peen’ati .ns.”
J. C. Kennedy, It arioke, TV mg,
says, “I cannot say too much for De-
Witt’s Witch Hazel Salve One b x of
it cun d a hat the doctor’s eatied ‘an iu-
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It wouldn't be polite to refer to a man
as a lobster jnst because lie suffers from
boils.
Actress—“Sir! My room lias been
entered and fifteen, thousand dollars
worth ol diamonds stolen!” Hotel Clerk
—“Ah! We will pnt the ease in the hands
of the reporters at once!”
“What, do the Beer farmers raise?”
asked the phsorvnut Boarder. “They
have raised a few seiges lately,” replied
the Cross-Eyed Boarder.
Prevention
better than cure. Tutt’s Liver
Pills will not only cure, but if
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