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good cheer.
Aa v/mest inquirer after truth, who,
T Ld with some contagious blood dis-
9 " seeks a remedy which will con,
eradicate from his system every
P !Tot blood poison, that the ones he
f:: ,°his wife and his children-may be
avS-the experience of others comes as
miKhtyrevelation. Commonsensetells
1 “ trtual res'dts are the only sure proof
J^Sve virtue. Read the foUowing
ue testimony:
Twelve years ago I contracted a tern-
e case of l)lood poisoning. My afflic-
was truly horrible. I had no appe-
e" d d not sleep well at night, my diees,
fn was impaired, my throat was full of
,icers and in fact I was a totsd wreck.
/ had ’been under the treatment of several
>f the leading physicians Atlanta;
ried nearly every blood remedy adver-
Sed; went to Hot Springs, where I re
gained several months, receiving no ben-
whatever—the dread disease still clung
° Three years ago I was laid up with
heumatism. My knees were drawn up
n such a position that I could not leave
iy lied for months.
Last summer the disease seemed to re*
cw its attack upon me with all the rav-
<res of death. My life was a lingering
mure, and I had despaired of ever get-
n[ r well when a friend of mine recom-
icndcd II. B. B. I began to use it at
nee, and find myself permanently cured,
refer to Rev. C. C. Davis, Dr. John G.
v’estinorland, Dr. Knott. Garrett & Bro.,
t numerous others who know of my
. I cheerfully recommend B. B. B.,
fa really believe it is the best medicine
fohe blood in the world.
Jas. L. Bos worth, Atlanta, Ga.
iring the month of February I bought
ortottle of B. B. B for my four-year old
bewho had what doctors term heredi-
tat'Iood poison, and to mjr utter aston-
isfcnt one bottle cured him. In Feb-
ru: my elder son, twelve years of age,
waiiterally covered with ugly sores on
hisgs, and a terrible eruption on his
he; He was cuied with two bottles of
B. I. As a quick blood cleanser it has
no ual. James Hill, Atlanta,X^a.
I- several years I have been suffering
froa constitutional blood poison, which
hasesisted the treatment of our best
phyians, and the use of the most noted
mednes.
I as covered with a CQpper-colored
erujon all over my body and limbs, with
loss; ppetite. excruciating pains in mv
back, ling of my joints, general debil
ity, en i at ion, falling off of my hair, sore
throat d great nervousness. I became
incred ius, but being told that B. B. B.
was a e enough blood purifier and that
ildid i : require a patient to use a gross
bforc e was cured, I commenced its
we- 1 thin two weeks’ time I felt im-
poved I have taken about ten bottles
aid fe< >s well and sprightly as any man.
Ky ap tite and strength have returned
ad rni iair does not fall out. I do not
fcsitat o say that B. B. B. has no equal
: a ge ral blood purifier, and any one
vio wi use only one bottle will be con-
yiced lat it has no equal in these parts
^still c ntir.*e its use, as it is a splendid
tnic ai 1 keeps my system in a fine con-
cion. Vou nave the liberty to direct any
dferei to me in person.
K. P. B. Jones,
•i Atlanta, Ga.
DK. TALMAGE’S SERMON.
SOME OF THE QUESTIONS THAT
ARE always ASKING.
Why Do Useful Bt
Bellies DI« Young?
anagrams we cannot spell out,
sphinxes that will not speak. For
times putting their fierce beaks into
Why Do So Many Goo«l People Dave So
Trouble?—Why Is There Sin In the
Problems.
thatcSSlSi£ el>: 24_ The audienco
nf twSSSif 11 * “? men se auditorium
of Jhe Brooklyn Tabernacle and the
adioinin" lecture room and parlors
today united in singing: ^
Sun of my soul, thou Saviour dear. .
It is not night if thou he near.
preached on the sub- . _ o .
Jyt. lAark bayin^sona Harp.” Text P lre ®- 8° you know good men and
.-A* 1 * i salm of David, verse 4: “I women who have had enough troubles,
will open mv dark savings on a harp.”
-O world is full or the inexplicable,
the impassable, the unfathomable, the
insurmountable. We cannot go t\iree
steps in any direction without coming
MR a hard wall of mystery,
riddles, paradoxes, profundities, laby
rinths, problems that we cannot solve,
hieroglyphics that we cannot decipher,
one set of jangled nerves? I think
now of a good friend I once had. He
was a consecrated Christian man, an
elder in the church and as polished a
Christian gentleman as ever walked
Broadway. First his general health
gave out and he hobbled aroundkm a
cane, an old man. at forty. After a
while paralysis struck him. Having
by poor health been compelled sud
denly to quit business, he lost what
property he had. Then his beautiful
daughter died. Then a son became
hopelessly demented. Another son,
splendid of mind and commanding of
presence, resolved that he would take
care of his father's household, but
under the swoop of yellow fever at
Fernandina, Fla., he suddenly ex-
1 had
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running ulcers on one leg, and
tn _the|other, ana felt greatly prostrated,
lelieve I actually swallowed a barrel of
idicini in vain efforts to cure the dis-
ee. With little hope, I finally acted on
t urgent advice of a friend, and got a
Itlc of B. B. B. I experienced a change
d my despondency was somewhat dis
ced. I kept using it until I had taken
seen bottles, and all the ulcers, rheuma-
tn, and other horrors of blood poison
he disappeared, and at last I am sound
al well again, after an experience of
t nty years of torture.
A. P. Brunson, Atlanta. Ga.
Kennesaw, Ga., Sept. 11, 1887.
. B. B. Company—My Dear Sir:
like great pleasure in acknowledging
tlgreat benefit my wife has derived from
yr great and wonderful medicine, B. B.
li For two years she was a great suf
fer from Scrofula, or some blood dis
ea which had lain dormant all her life.
Uhad attention from some of the most
sMul physicians in the country, but all
too effect, until we had all despaired of
h ever recovering. Her mouth was one
sid ulcer, and tor two months or more
h<body was broken out with sores until
si lost a beautiful head of hair, also eye-
laes and eye-brows; in fact, she seemed
toe a complete wreck.
low comes the great secret which I
wit all the world to know: That three
bcles of Blood Balm medicine has done
thworic which would sound incredible to
ar one who did not know it to be so.
Tday my wife is perfectly healthy and
cltr from any scrofulous taint, ana she
ncr has a three-month-old babe, also per-
fely healthy. Very respectfully
H. L. Cassidy.
Glen Alpine Station, N. C. \
February 13th, 1888. J
lua is to certify that three years ago I
ha my left leg amputated ? tow inches
bow the knee, caused by blood poison
an bone affection. After it was ampu-
ta:d there came a running ulcer on the
sn of it that measured 8# ihches one
wy and 4}4 inches the other, and con-
tmed growing worse every day until a
1 was given up to die by
in Charlotte. I heard of
ul B. B. B. I resolved to try
reight at the time 1 com-
B. was 120 pounds. When
three bottles I gained 37
weight; when 1 had taken
1 I was sound and •well, but
until I had taken fifteen
now weigh 180 pounds and
feet and three inches high.
shrt time
th best di
th> wonde:
tht M.
mneed B'.
I had t;
pounds in
twdve boti
continued
bottles,
measure fi
I contend
as a blood
like a ch
at your medicine has no equal
Dunfier. It certainly worked
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that reason, David in my text pro
posed to take up some of these somber
and dark things and try to set them to
sweet music: “I will open my dark
sayings on a harp.”
Bo I look off upon society and find
people in unhappy conjunction of
circumstances and they do not know
what it means and they have a right
to ask, why is this? anu why is that?
and I think I will bo doing a good
work by trying to explain some of
those strange things and make you
more content with your lot, and I shall
only be answering questions that have
often been asked me, or that we have
all asked ourselves, while I try to set
these mysteries to music and open my
dark sayings on a.harp.
A QUESTION THAT IS OFTEN ASKED.
Interrogation the first: Why does
God take out of this world those who
are useful and whom we cannot snare
and leave alive and in good health so
many who are only a nuisance or a
positive injury to the world? I thought
I would begin with the very toughest
of all the seeming inscru tables. Many
of the most useful men and women
die at thirty or forty years of age,
while you often find useless people
alive at sixty and seventy and eighty.
John Careless wrote to Bradford, who
was soon to be nut to death, saying:
“Why doth God suffer me and such
other caterpillars to live that can do
nothing but consume the alms of the
church, and take away so many
worthy workmen in the Lord's vine
yard?’’ Similar questions are often
asked. Here are two men. The one
is a noble character and a Christian
man; he chooses for lifetime com
panion one who lias been tenderly
reared and she is worthy of him and
he is worthy of her; as merchant, or
fanner, or professional man, or me
chanic, or artist, lie toils to educate
and rear his children; he is succeeding,
but he has not yet established for ms
family a full competency; he seems
absolutely indispensable to thqt house
hold, put one day before lie lias paid
off the mortgage on his house he Is
coming home through a strong north
east wind and a chill strikes through
him and four days of pneumonia end
his earthly career and tho wife and
children go into a struggle for shelter
and food. His next door neighbor is a
man who, though strong and well, lets
his wife support him; nc is round at
the grocery store or some general loaf
ing ' place in the evenings while liis
wife sews; his boys are imitating liis
example and lounge and swagger and
swear; all the use that man is in that
house is to rave because the coffeo is
cold when lie comes to a late break
fast, or to say cutting things about his
wife’s looks when he furnishes noth
ing for lie? wardrobe. The best tiling
that could happen to that family would
be that man's funeral: but he declines
to die; he lives on and on and on. So
we have all noticed that many of the
useful are early cut off while the
parasites of society have great vital
tenacity.
I take up this dark saying on my
■harp and give three or four thrums
on the string in the way of surmising
and hopeful guess. Perhaps the use
ful man was taken out of the world,
because be and liis family were so con-
struated that they could not have en
dured some great prosperity that might
have been Just ahead and they alto
gether might have gono down in thq
vortex of worldliness which every year
Bwallows up ten thousand households.
And so he went while he was humble
and consecrated, and they were bv the
severities of life kept close to Christ
and fitted for usefulness here and high
seats in heaven; and when they meet
at last before the Throne, they will ac
knowledge that though the furnace
was hot, it purified them, and pre
pared them for an eternal career of
glory and reward for which no other
bind of life could have fitted them.
On the-'other hand, the useless man
lived * on fo fifty; or sixty, or seventy
years,, because all the case he ever can
have he must have in this world, and
you ought not, therefore, begrudehim
his earthly longevity. In all the ages
there has not a single loafer ever en
tered heaven. There is no place for
him there to hang around. Not in tho
temples, for they are full of the most
vigorous, alert and rapturous wor
ship. Noton the river bank, for that is
the place where the conquerors recline
Not in the gates, because there are
multitudes entering, and we are told
that at each of the twelve gates, there
is an angel, and that celestial guard
would not allow the place to be block
ed up with idlers. If the good and
useful, go early, rejoice for them that
they have so soon got through with
human life, which at best is a shrug-
1 gle. And if the useless and the badstay,
rejoice that they may be out in th«
world’s fresh air" a good many years
before their final incarceration. .
AN INSCRUTABLE MYSTERY, BUT IT
HAS ADVANTAGES. .
Interrogation the second: Why do
so ninny good poople have; so much
you think, to crush fifty people. No
worldly philosophy could take such a
trouble and set it to music, or \»lay it
on violin or flute or dulcimer or sack-
but, but I dare to open that dark say
ing on a gospel harp.
You wonder that very consecrated
people have trouble? Did you ever
know any very consecrated man or
woman who had not had groat trouble?
Never. It was through their troubles
sanctified that they wepe made very
good. If you find anywhere in this
city a man who has now and always
has had perfect health, and never lost
a child, and has always been popular,
and never had business struggle or
misfortune, who is distinguished for
goodness, pull your wire fpr a tele
graph messenger boy and send me
word and I will drop everything and
go right away to look at him. There
never has been a man like that, and
never will be. Who are those arrogant,
self conceited creatures who mover
about without sympathy for others and
who think more or a St. Bernard dog,
or an Alderney cow, or a Southdown
sheep, or a Berkshire pig than of a
man ? They never had any trouble, or
the trouble was never sanctified. Who
are those men who listen with moist
eye as you tell them of suffering and
who have a pathos in their voice and
a kindness in their manner and ah ex
cuse or an alleviation for those gone
astray? They are tho men who nave
graduated at tho Royal Academy
of Trouble and they have the di
ploma written in wrinkles on
their own countenances. Myl my!
What heartaches they had! What
tears they have wept! What injustice
they have suffered 1 The mightiest in
fluence for purification and salvation
is trouble. .No diamond fit for a
crown until it is cut No wheat fit
.for bread till it is ground. There
are only, three things that can break
off a chain—a hammer, a file or a fire;
and trouble is all three of them. Tho
greatest writers, orators and reformers
get much of their force from trouble.
What gave to Washington Irving that
exquisite tenderness and pathos which
will make his books favorites while
the English language continues to be
i written and spoken t An early heart
break that he never once mentioned;
and when, thirty years after the
deavh of Matilda Hoffman.
to have been, his bride, lier
picked up a piece of embroidery and
said: “Tnqt.is a piece of poor Matilda's
workmanship,” Washington Irvin"
sank from hilarity into sileneo and
walked away. Out of that lifetime
grief JJie great author dipped his pen’s
nations, as well as a good thing for
individuals. So when you push
against me with a sharp interrogation
point, Why do the good suffer? I open
the dark saying on a harp and, though
I can neither play an organ, or cornet,
or hautboy, or bugle, or clarionet, I
have taken some lessons on the gospel
harp, and if you would like to hear
me I will play you these: “All things
work together for good toihose who
love Goo.” Now no chastening for the
present seemeth to be joyous, but
grievous; nevertheless afterward it
yieldeth all possible fruits of right
eousness unto them which are exer
cised thereby.” “Weeping may enr
dure for a night, but joy cometh in
tlib morning.’” What a sweet thing is
a. harp, ana I wonder not that in
wales, the country of my ancestors,
the harp, has become the national in
strument, and that.they have festivals
where great prizes are offered in the
competition between harp and harp;
or that weird Sebastian Erard was
much of histimebentover thischorded
aud vibrating triangle, and was not
satisfied untiljhe had given it a com
pass of six octaves from E to E with
all the semi-tones, br that when King
Saul was demented the son of Jesse'
came before him and putting his
fingers among the charmed strings of
tho harp played the devil out. of the
crazed monarch, or that in heaven
there shall be harpers harping with
their harps. So you will uot blame
mo for opening the dark saying on the
gospel harp.
Your harps, ye trembling saints,
Down-from the willows take;
Loud to the praise of lore divine
Bid every string awake!
THERE IS A REASON IN THIS OFT RE
PEATED PROBLEM.
Interrogation third: Why did a
good God let sin and trouble come into
tlio world when he might have kept
them out? My reply is, be had a good
reason. He had reasons that lie has
never given us. He had reasons
which ne could no more make us un
derstand in our finite state than the
father starting out on some great and
elaborate enterprise could make the
2-year-old child in its armed chair
comprehend it One was to .demon
strate what. grandeur of- character
may be achieved on earth by conquer
ing evil. Had there been no evu to
conquer and no trouble to console,
then this universe would never have
| known an Abraham or a Moses or a
! Joshua or an Ezekiel or a Paul or a
i Christ or a Washington or a John
i Milton or a John Howard, and a mill
ion victories which have been gained
by the consecrated spirits of all ages
would never have been gained. Had
1 there been no battle tlierer would have
. been no victory. Nine-tenths of the
1 anthems of heaven would never have
been sung. Heaven could never have
been u thousandth part of the heaven
that it is. I will not say that
l am glad that sin and sorrow aid en
ter, but 1 do say tbat I am glad that
after God has given all his reasons to an
assembled universe he will be more
honored than if sin and sorrow had
never entered, and that the unfallen
celestials will be outdone and will put
who was down their trumpets to listen ana it
father ''will be in heaven when those who
have conquered sin and sorrow shall
enter, os ii would be in q small sing
ing school on earth if Thalberg and
Gottsehalk and Wagner dnd Beetho
ven and Rheinberger and Schumann
should all at once enter. The immor
tals that haye been chanting ten thou-
mighticsf re-enforcement. “Caivin’s . ...
Institutes Religion, than which a ' kind years before the throiio will.say,
more wonderful ’book was never writ- \ as they close theirlibrettos: “Oh, if we
ten by human hand, was begun by the ‘ could only sing like that !” But God
author at twenty-five years of age, be- . will say to those who have never fallen
cause of the persecution by Francis,
king of France. Faraday toiled for
all time on a salary of 80 pounds a
year and candles. As every brick of
the wall of Babylon was stamped with
tho letter N, standing for Nebuchad
nezzar, so every part of the temple of
.Christian achievement is stamped with
tho letter T, standing for trouble.
When in olden time a man was be to
honored with knighthood, he was
struck with the flat of tho sword. But
those who have come to the honor of
knighthood in tho kingdom of God
were first struck not with the flat of
tho sword but with the keen edge of
the cimefer. To build his magnifi
cence of character, Paul could not
have spared one lash, one prison, one j
stoning, one anathema, one poisonous !
viper from tho hand, ono shipwreck.
What is true of individuals is true of
nations. The horrors of the American
revolution gave this country this side
of the Mississippi river "to independ
ence, and the conflict between Eng
land and France gave the most of this
and consequently have not been re
deemed: “You must be silent now.
you have not the qualification for this
anthem,” so they sit with closed lips
and folded hands and sinners saved
] by "race take up the harmony, for
■ the Bible says “no man could learn
that song but the hundred and forty
! and four thousand which were re-
j deemed from the earth."
I A great prima donna, who can now
do anything 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 slio could never reach. “And
| then,” she said, “I went to work and
; studied and practiced for years until I
! did reach it.” But the song of the
sinner redeemed, the Bible* says,
the exalted harmonists who have
never sinned could not reach and
never will reach. 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 gos
pel harp: “Unto him that hath loved
us and washed us from our sins in his
cause he has for you extra glory, ex
tra enthronement and extra felicities.
That is no guess of .mine, but a divine
say-so: “Whom the Lord loveth he
cliasteneth.” “Well,"sayssome one, *JtI
would rather have a little less in heaven
and a little more here. Discount my
heavenly robe 10 per cent and let me
now put it on, a fur lined overcoat;
nut me in a leas'gorgeoiis room of the
house of many mansions and let me
have a house here in a better neigh
borhood.” No, no; God is not going
to rob heaven, which is to be your
residence for nine hundred quadrillion
of years, to fix up your earthly abode,
: which you will occupy at most for less
than a century, ana where you may
perhaps stay only ten years longer, or
only one year, or perhaps & month
more. Now you had better cheerfully
let God have his way, for,, you see, he
has been taking.care of folks for near
seven thousand years, and knows how
to do it and can see what is' best for
you better than you can yourself.
Don’t think you are too insignificant
to be divinely cared for. It was said that
Diana, the goddess, could not be pres
ent to keep her temple at Ephesus from
burning because she was attending
upon the-birth of him who was to be
Alexander the Great But I tell you
that your God and my God is so great
in small things as well as large things
that he could attend the cradle of a
babe and at the same time the burning
of a world.
And God will make it all right with
you, and there is one song that you
will sing every hour your first ten
rears in heaven, and the refrain of
hat song will be: VI am so glad God
did not let me have It my own way.”
Your case will be all fixed up in
heaven and there will be such a re
versal of conditions that we can hardly
find each other for some time. - Some
of us who have lived in first rate
houses here and in first rate neighbor
hoods will be found, because of our
lukewarmness of earthly service, liv
ing on one of the hock streets of the
celestial city, and clear down at the
end of it at No. 808, or 909, or 1505,
wnile some who ha3 unattractive
eartlily abodes, and a cramped one at
that, will, in the heavenly city, be in a
house fronting the Royal plaza, right
by the imperial fountain, or on the
Heights overlooking the River of Life,
the chariots of salvation halting at
your door while those visit you who
are more than conqueror^, and those
who are kings and queens unto God
forever. You, my brother, and you,
my sister, who nave it so hard here
wul have it so fine and grand there that
you will hardly know yourself and
will feel disposed to dispute your own
identity, and the first time *T see you
there I will cry out: “Didn’t I tell you
so when you sat down there in the
Brooklyn Tabernacle and looked in
credulous because you thought it too
good to be true?" And you will
answer: “You were right, tho half
was not told me 1” So this morning I
open your dark saying of despondency
and complaint on my gospel uarp and
S ive you just one bar of music, for I
o not pretend to be much of a player.
“The Lamb which is in the midst of
tho throne shall. lead them to living
fountains of water and God shall wipe
away:all tears from their eyes.” But
I must confess I am a little perplexed
how some of you good Christians are
>ing to get through the gate, because
ere will be so many there to greet
you and theywill qU want to shake
hands at once and will all want the
first kiss. They will have heard that
you are coming, and they will all
press around to welcome you and will
want you to say- whether you know
them after being so long parted.
THINGS BEYOND OUR COMPREHENSION
SHOULD BE ADJOURNED.
Amid tho tussle .and romp of re
union I tell you whose hand of wel
come you had better first clasp and
whose cheek is entitled to the first
kiss. It is the hand and the cheek
of him without whom yoit would
never have got there at all, the Lord
Jesus, the darling of the skies, os he
cries out, “I have loved thee with
an everlasting love and the fires
could not burn it aud the floods could
not drown it” Then you, my dear
people, having no more use for my
poor harp oh which I used to open
jfour dark sayings and whose chords
sometimes snapped, despoiling the
the gold casket in which Darius had
kep* his rare perfume, used that aro
matic casket thereafter to keep his
favorite copy of Homer in, and called
the book, tnerefore, the “edition of
the casket,” and at night he put the
casket and his sword under his pillow,
so I put this day into tho perfumed
casket of your richest affections and
hopes this promise, worth more than
anything Homer ever wrote or sword
ever conquered: “What I do thou
knowest not now, but thou shalt know
hereafter.” and that Lcall the “edition
celestial." y, .. i
SCISSORS AND PENCIL.
country west of the Mississippi to the ., , » , ^ i .. . . . , . ,
United States. France owned it, but oxv . n 1 blood abd hath nmde us kings and
Napolepn, fearing that England would
take it, practically made a present to
the United States—for ho received
only $15,000,000—of Louisiana, Mis
souri, Arkansas, Kansas, Nebraska,
Iowa, Minnesota, Colorado, Dakota,
Montana, Wyoming and the Indian
territory. Out of the fire of, the
American revolution came this coun
try east of the Mississippi, out Of the
European war came that west of the
Mississippi river. The British empire
rose to its present overtowering gran-
cution/the three'black vulti
perse-
some-
insurrection, and’ Walter Raliegh’s
beheading, and Bacon’s bribery, and
Cromwell’8 dissolution of parliament,
and the battles of Edge Hill, and
Grantham, and Newberry, and Mars-
ton Moor, and Naseby, and Dunbar,
and Sedgemoor, and execution of
Charles the First, and London plague,
and London fire, and London insur
rection, and Ryehouse plot, and the
vicissitudes of centuries. So the earth
itself, before it could become appropri
ate and beautiful residence for the hu
man family had» according to geology,
to be washed by universal deluge, and
scorched and made incandescent by
universal fires, and pounded by sledge-'
hammer of icebergs, and wrenched hy
.earthquakes that split continents, and
shaken by volcanoes that tossed moun
tains, and passed through the catas
trophes of thousands of years before
Paradise became possible and the
groves could shake out their green
banners and the first garden pour its
carnage of color between the Gihon
and the Hiddekel. Trouble a good
thing for tho rocks, a good thing for
It is easy to find reasons why other
folks should be patient
The largest peach orchard in Cali
fornia is near Marysville. It contains
425 acres. i -
Not a single baby has been bom in
Liberty, Ky., for thirteen years. lib
erty has a population of 700.
Caribou, Me., citizens were recently
treated to the unusual sight of a rain
bow by moonlighL
Fish may be scaled easier by first
ppmg them in boiling water for a
minute.
A chicken with a liver that weighed
quarter of a pound and a heart as big
as an egg killed in Ellen ville,
N. Y„ recently.
A beard over seven and one-half
feet long is worn by Louis Coulon, a
mechanic 63 years old, living in Mont-
lucon, France.
A young woman at Ostend, Bel-
£ ‘um, is said to take a sea bath every
iy in the year, remaining in the
water about fifteen minutes.
The peculiar flavor of a Havana ci-
ir was supposed to be influenced by
ie climate of the island, but it has
lately been discovered that it was al
ways imparted by drugs. The real
old Connecticut is the thing to tie to.
‘What I say, I say 1” ruled a Mis-
entitli
“The
priests unto God and the Lamb, to him
oe glory and dominion forever and
ever, Amen.’’,, But before leaving this
interrogatory^ Why God let sin come
into the world? let me say that great
battles seem to be nothing but suffer
ing and outrage at the time of their
occurrence, yet after they have been a
long while past we can see that it was
better for them to have been fought,
namely, Salamis, Inkerman, Toulouse,
Ai-bella, Agincourt, Trafalgar, Blen
heim, Lexington, Sedan. So now
that the great battles against sin and
suffering are going on we can see
mostly that which is deplorable. But
twenty thousand years from now,
standing in glory, we shall appreciate.
that heaven is better off than if the
battle of this world’s sin and suffering
had never been projected.
THE QUESTION ASKED BY THE DISCON
TENTED.
But now I come nearer home and
put a dark saying on the gospel harp,
a style of question that is asked a mil
lion times every year. Interrogation
the fourth: Why do I have it so hard
while others have it so easy? or, why
do I have so much difficulty in getting
a livelihood while others go aronnu
with a full portemonnaie? or, why
must I wear these plain clothes while
others have to push hard to get their
wardrobes closed, so crowded are they
with brilliant attire? oi% why should I
have to work so hard while others
have three hundred and sixty-five hol
idays every year? They are all prac
tically one question. I answer them
by saying, it is'because the Lord has
his favorites and he puts extra disci
pline upon you, and extra trial, be-.
symphony, you will take down your
own harps from the willows that
grow by the* eternal water .courses
anduiplay tbgHber thase celestial airs,
some of the names of which are
in His Beauty,”
That”-Was Far Off,”
the Golden,” “Home
e Grand March of God,”
e life Everlasting.” And as the
last dark curtain of mystery is forever
lifted it will be as though all the ora
torios that were ever heard had beep
rolled into one and “Israel in Egypt”
S id “Jephtha’s Daughter” and I
oven’s ^‘Overture in C”and Ritter’s
first sonata in D minor and the “Cre-
8 on” and the “Messiah" had been
lown from the lips of one trumpet or
been invoked by tne sweep of one bow
or had. dropped from the vibrating
chords of one harp.
But here I must slow up lest in try
ing to solve mysteries 1 add to the
mystery that we have already won
dered at; namely, Why preachers
should keep on after all the hearers
are tired? So I gather up into one
great.annful all the whys, and hows,
and wherefores of your fife and mine,
which we. have. not had time or the
ability to answer, and write on them
the words “adjourned to eternity.” I
rejoice that we do not understand all
things now, for if we did, what would
we learn in heaven? Ir we knew it
all down here in the freshman and
sophomore class, what would bo the
use of our going up to stand amid the
juniors and the seniors? If we pould
put down one leg of the compass and
with the other sweep a circle clear
around all the inscru tables, if we
could lift our little steelyards and
weigh the throne of the Omnipotent,
if we could with our seven day clock
measure eternity, what would be left
for heavenly revelation t So I move
that we cheerfully adjourn what is
now beyond our comprehension, and
as according to Rollin, the historian,
Alexander the Great, having obtained
quicker’n a coon kin fall out of a tree 1”
The threat keeps the higher courts
cowed.
Mrs. G.—La, met The paper says
the sultan of Turkey scarcely sleeps at
all, but just walks the floor all night.
Tired Husband—Well, a man with 100
wives must have an awful lot of teeth
ing babies.—Cartoon.
Says a teacher: “Wind gets into the
head and heels of a boy, and teachers
dread a windy day, as the boys are
hard to manage then. In fact, the at
mosphere affects boys particularly.
Teachers in different portions of the
city by comparision of dates have
found a great similarity in the beha
vior of the boys on certain days.”
A Tekemah, Neb., 5-year-old gave
the following receipt to a playmate
for securing a baby brother: “It’S aw
ful easy. You just wait till the doc
tor comes and then send for Grandma
Black and have a bright light and
leave the window open, and then they
fly right in and in the morning you’ve
got him!”
Mistook the Servant for n Bandar.
A Front street commission merchant
who resides in Nob hill section was
awakened by his mother the other
night and informed that there
were burglars in the house. Lis
tening a . moment he heard a
noise of foot steps and a slight rat
tle of crockery in the lower regions.
Grasping a big revolver he Sapped
quietly down the stairs and on coming
to the kitchen door saw that there was
a light in the pantry. Holding liis
pistol at “ready” he marched to the
pantry door and found the servant
girl who had been out calling helping
nerself to a collation. With her
mouth full ' of cold roast beef she
turned and saw him looking like a
ghost, in his night shirt, and with a
yell for mercy fainted. The subse
quent proceedings don’t interest the
public.—Portland Oregonian.
A Lime Fire.
A mortar mixer at the new hotel
was observed to be heating his kettle
of coffee recently in a way which was
no novelty to him, but seemed strange
toa reporter. He dug a hole in a pile
of sand, placed a lump of lime in it,
sprinkled some water on the lime,
placed his kettle on it, and banked
sand up around it When 12 o’clock
struck ne shouted, “Come to tay, your
coffee's a-bilii.’.”—Portland Oregon
ian.
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