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•R EV. p*R. T A LM AG E
The Eminent Divine’s Sunday
Subject : Spr£ n f (lie Gnapel Kflort of
tl.e ChnriWU Should Be Directed
Toward Savinjj Sinnnri—Tliey Should
Get in Sympathy With Strangers.
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"U apttingtox. D. C.—Tn this discouuse
Dr. Talmage points to iields of usefulness
that yet thoroughly cultivated,
and shcnr* need of more activity. The
text is Owj&riK xv, 20. “Lest I should
build iM' or jotlier man’s foundation.”
In layw It the plan of his missionary
tour out towns and cities
which had lot yet been preached to. He
froes to Cojjnth, a city famous for splen
dor and vice, and Jerusalem, where the
priesthood and the sanhedrin were ready
1° } e . a P with both feet upon the Christian
religion. TTe feels he has especial work'
to do, and be means to do it. What was
the result? The grandest life of usefulness
that a man ever lived. We modern Chris
tian workers are not apt to imitate Paul.
We build on other people’s foundations.
If we erect a church, we prefer to have it
tilled with families all of. whom have been
pious. Do we gather a Sabbath-school class,
we want good boys and girls, hair combed,
faces washed, manners attractive. So a
church in this day is apt to be built out
of other churches. Some ministers spend
all 1 heir time in fishing in other people's
ponds, and they throw the line into that
church pond and jerk out a Methodist,
and throw the line into another church
pond and bring out a Presbyterian, or
there is a religious row in some neighbor
ing church, and a whole school of fish
swim off from that pond, and we take
them nil in with one sweep of the ret.
At hat is gained? Absolutely nothing for
the cause of Christ. What strengthens an
army is new recruits. While courteous to
those coming from other flocks, we should
build our churches not out of other
churches, but, out of the world, lest we
build on another man’s foundation.
The fact is this is a big world. When
in our schoolboy days we learned the dia
meter and circumference of this planet we
did not learn half. It is the latitude and
longitude and diameter and circumference
of want and woe and sin that no figures
can ealeul'te. This one spiritual conti
nent of wretchedness reaches across all
zones, and if I were called to give its geo
graphical boundary T would say it was
bounded on the north and south and east
and west by the great heart of Cod’s sym
pathy and love. Oh, it is a great world!
f>ince 6 o’clock this morning 60,800 persons
have been born, and all these multiplied
pointin'. ions are to be reached by the gos
pel. In England or in our Eastern Ameri
can cities we are being much crowded,
and an acre of ground is of great value,
but in Western America 500 acres is a
small farm, and 20.000 acres is no unusual
possession. There is a vast field here and
everywhere unoccupied, plenty of room
more, not building on another man’s foun
dation.
We neefl as churches to stop bombard
ing the old iron-clad sinners that have
been proof against thirty years of Chris
tian assault. Alas for that church which
lacks the spirit of evangelism, spending
on one chandelier enough to light 500
souls to glory, and in one carved pillar
enough to have made a thousand men
in the house of our God forever,”
and doing less good than many a log
•cabin meeting-house with tallow candles
stuck in wooden sockets and a minister
who has never seen a college and does
not know the difference between Greek
■and Choctaw! We need as churches to
get into sympathy with the great outside
world, and let them know that none are
so broken-hearted or hardly bestead that
they will not be welcomed. “No,” says
some fastidious Christian: “I don’t like to
lie crowded in church. Don't put any one
in my pew.”
My brother, what will you do in heaven?
When a great it’ titude that no man can
number assemtL J they will put fifty in
your pew. What*'re the select few to-day
assembled in the Christian churches com
pared with the mightier millions outside
of them? Many of the churches are like
a hospital that should advertise that its
patients must have nothing more than
toothache or “run rounds,” but no broken
heads, no crushed ankles, no fractured
thighs. Give us fpr treatment moderate
sinners, velvet-coated sinners and sinners
with a gloss on. It is as though a man
had a farm of and put all his
work on one may raise ever so
large ears of c<irU ever so big heads of
wheat —he wonlW remain poor. The
church of Cod its chief care
on one acre, raised splendid men
women in inclosure, but the
field is the wolH That means North
and South Europe, Asia and
Africa and all of the sea. It
is as though, battle, there
St’i'c hi; 5U.000 and dying on the
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I c isi-l 1H ‘ n'. Illl'l
SjjHvm. uml when we
their wmi’ids
V> keep the flies oil."
sin and sorrow,
sHHu on millions, do
time in taking
wli'-ii tile
|Hl> the world,” say
I have here
■ I am busy keeping
are multitudes to-
any Christian
|Bbi' eye and with
Hi -i.lt 101 l - IV.
long ago have
B.My friends, idi-
a great reality.
assoi'iations. If
■■-at ji<i:.' ii:■ t mi., a
HH|>f Cod untiUed for
WWare we doing?
Hint multitude of out-
Hali'i technicalities out
Bni\n; talk to people
H[ ulfion and French
Erastinianism and
are impolite and as
Hi a physician should
Oat lent about the per-
Ostal muscle and scor
jn v of us come out of
so loaded uj|
■lt ten years to jiM O
O’ we know jHtef.
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"on wliat fnsfT.VntTnn is—when a sinner
i. el loves. Cod lets him off. One summer
in Connecticut I went to a large factory,
and I sew over the door written the
words. “N’o Admittance.” I entered and
saw over th next door “No Admittance.”
Of course I entered. I got inside and
found it a pin factory, and they were
making pins, very serviceable, fine and
useful pins. So the spirit of exclusiveness
has practically written over the outside
door of manv a church. “No Admittance ”
And if the stranger enters he finds practi
cally writ; ’ ovrt the second door. “No
Admittance.” while the minister stands
.in the pulnit hammering out his little
niceties of belief, pounding out the techni
calities of religion, making pins.
In the most practical, common-sense
way and laying aside the non-essentials
and the hard definitions of religion go out
on the Col given mission, telling the neo
nle what t’nev need and when and how
thev can get if.
Comparatively litHe effort as yet has
been made to save that large class of tier
sous in our midst called skeptics, and he
who goes to work here will not he build
ing upon another man's foundation. Thtre
is a large number of them. They are
afraid of us and our churches, for the rea
son we do not know how to treat them.
One of this class met Christ and heard
with what tenderness and pathos and
Im-Mltv and success Christ dealt with him:
“Thou shalt love the T.ord tfcy Cod with
all thy heart, and with Ml thv soul, and
with all tl"' mind, and with all thv
strength. This is Ihe first and great
commandment, and the second is like unto
it—namelv, 'loon shalt love thv neighbor
as thyself. There is none other com
mandment greater than the* o ” And the
scribe said to Him, “Well. Master, Thou
hast said the truth, for (here is one God.
.md to iove Him with all the heart, and
all the understanding, and all the soul,
and all tn strength, is more than whole
burnt offerings and sacrifices.” And when
Jesus saw that he answered discreetly He
said unto Him. “Thou art not far from
the kingdom of Hod.” So a skeptic was
saved in one interview. But few Chris
tian people treat the skeptic in that way.
Instead of taking hold of him with the
gentle hand of love we are ant tn take
him with the pinchers of eoolesiasticism.
You would not he so rough on that man
if you knew how he lost his faith in Chris
tianity. T have known men skeptical from
the fact that they grew up in houses where
religion •us overdone. Sunday was tiie
most awful day in the week. They had
religion driven into them with a trip ham
mer: they were surfeited with prayer
meetings; they were stuffed and choked
with catechisms: they were often told
that they were the worst bovs the* parents
oyer knew because they liked to ride down
hill better than to read Banyan’s “Pil
grim’s Progress.”
Whenever father and mother talked of
religion they drew down the corners of
their mouth and rolled up their eyes. If
any one thing will send a boy or girl to
r.uin cioner than another that is it. If I
had such a father and mother I fear I
should have been an infidel.
The first word that c.iildren learn is
generally papa or mamma. I think the
first word T ever uttered was “why.” I
know what it is to have a hundred mid
nights pour their darkness into one hour.
Oh, skepticism is a dark land! There
are men who would give a thousand
worlds, if they possessed them, to get
hack to the placid faith of their fathers
and mothers, and it is our place to help
them, and we may help them, never
through their heads, but always through
their hearts.
These skeptics, when brought to Jesus,
will be mightily effective, far more so than
those who never examined the evidences
of Christianity. Thomas Chalmers was
once a skep'.c, Robert Hall a skeptic,
Robert Nevion a skeptic, Christian Evans
a skeptic. But when once with strong
hand they took hold of the chariot of the
gospel they rolled it on with what mo
mentum ! in
If I address such men and women to-day
I throw out no scoff. I implead them by
the memory of the good old days when at
their mother’s knee they said, “now I
lay me down to sleep,” and by those days
and nights of scarlet fever in which she
watched you. giving you the medicine in
just the right time, and turning your pil
low when it was hot, and with hands that
many years ago turned to dust soothed
away your nain ami with voice that you
will never hear again, unless you join her
in the better country, told you to never
mind, for you would feel better by and
by, and by that dying couch where she
looked so pale and talked so slowly, catch
ing her breath between the words, and you
felt an awful loneliness coming over your
soul —by all that I beg you to come back
and take the same religion.
It was good enough for her; it is good
enough for you. Nay, I have a better plan
than that. I plead by all the wounds and
tears and blood and groans and agonies
and death throes of the Son of Cod, who
approaches you this moment with torn
brow and lacerated iiands and whipped
back and saying, “Come unto Me all ye
who are weary and heavy laden, and I will
give you rest.”
Again, tnere is a field of usefulness but
little touched, occupied by those who are
astray in their habits. All northern na
tions, like those of North American and
England and Scotland that is, in the
colder climates—are devastated by alco
holism. They take the fire to keep up
the warmth. In southern countries, like
Arabia and Spain, the blood is so warm
they are not tempted to fiery liquids. The
great Roman armies never drank any
thing stronger than water tinged with
vinegar, hut under our northern climate
the temptation to heating stimulants is
most mighty and millions succumb. When
a man’s habits go wrong, the church drops
him, the social circle drops him, good in
fluences drop him —we all drop him. Of
all the men who get off the track but few
even get on again.
Destitute children of the street offer a
field of work comparatively unoccupied.
The uncared for children -are in the ma
jority in most of our cities. When they
if unreformed, they will outvote
ydHr children, and they will govern your
childre-.
The whisky ring will hatch out other
whisky rings, and grog siiops will kill
with their horrid . stench public sobriety
unless the church of Cod rises up witli out
stretched arms ana infolas this dying pop
ulation in her bosom.
Public cannotik^^^H^r
do
Don’t worry ove r m ijc h
about those sharp pains -in
your head. Seek their cause
in your liver.
One Ayer’s Pill at night ror
a few nights drives away morn
ing headaches.
J. C.‘Ayer. Company,
Practical Chemists, Lowell, Mass.
Ayer’s Sarsaparilla Ayer’s Hair Vigor
Ayer’s Pills Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral
Ayer’s Ague Cure Ayer’s Comatonc
FIRE BALLS FROM THE CLOUDS.
These Electric Phenomena Are Rare. But
Brilliant.
The storms that have raged over
England displayed some extraordi
nary freaks of lightning.
A Are ball fell into Dlddop reser
voir, near Halifax, about 3 o’clock p.
m., and was seen by the caretaker’s
daughter. The ball of lire lllumili
natod the countryside. There was a
loud, hissing sound. A gigantic foun
tain was thrown into the air and half
th* surface of the reservoir was ruf
fled for fully five minutes. An ap
palling thunderclap followed. The
smell of sulphur was so strong that
the caretaker and his family could
scarcely breathe.
The tire ball which wrecked the vil
lage of Stoke Doyle, near Aundle, is
described as having presented a vivid
spectacle. It is nyt possible to as
certain its true character, for there are
various sorts of electrical phenomena
which come under the term “tiro
ball.”
According to the best authorities, a
fire ball is a mysterious phenomenon
of spherical form which falls from a
thunder cloud and frequently re
bounds after striking the earth. It
usually burns with a bright flash
and a loml explosion and occasionally
discharges flashes of lightning. By
some scientists the fire ball is term
ed “globe lightning,” but the keenest
enthusiast has never stopped suffi
ciently long to examine it closely on
arrival.
Sometimes an ordinary bolt of light
ning is described as a fire ball. The
real fire ball is a very rare phenome
non, so much so that at one time it
was supposed by scientific men to ex
ist only in the popular Imagination.
The French electrician, Plante, when
experimenting with his rheostat—a
kind of condenser—several times ob
served balls of fire travel along the
wires of the machine and then burst
with a loud detonation.
This phenomenon, which has never
been satisfactorily explained, presents
all the characteristics of the true fire
ball, which travels slowly enougu
for its movements to be plainly visi
ble and then explodes.—London Mail.
Salesmen Wanted.
Two honest, reliable men; experience not abso
lutely necessary; salary and expenses paid.
Peerless Tobacco Works Cos., Bedford City, Va.
It Comes High.
“Papa,” said Benny Beochwood “what Is the
highest position in ihe army?”
• The command of the balloon brigade,” re
plied Mr. Beech wood, promptly.
Putnam ladki.ksß Dtb produces the
fastest and brightest colors of any known dye
stutl. Bold by all diuggists.
Sure Tiling.
Edith—l would be willing to marry the man I
loved oven if he wasn’t capable of earning over
IS 10 a week.
Ethel—So would I. Such men as that almost
always come of rich and Influential families.—
Puck.
The lient, Prescription for Chill*
and Fever Is a bottle of Grove’s Tasteless
( iiu.l Tonic. It is simply iron and quinine in
u lasteless form. No cure—no pay. Price 50c.
How I>l<l She Know?
He—Funny thing about surf bathing. It
makes my mustache smell so salty for a whole
day afterward.
Mio—lt does so; that’s a fact.
Deafness Cannot 15e Cured
by local applications, as they cannot reach the
diseased portion of the ear. There is only one
way to cure deafness, and that is by constitu
tional remedies, deafness is caused by an in
flamed condition of the mucous lining of the
Eustachian Tube. When this tube is in
flamed you have a rumbling sound or imper
lect hearing, and when it is entirely closed
Deafness is the result, and unless the inflam
mation can be taken out and this tube restored
to its normal condition, hearing will be de
stroyed forover. Nine cases out of ten are
caused by catarrh, which la nothing but an in-
Mamed condition of the mucous surfaces.
will give One Hundred Dollars for any
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Pills are the best.
Kit;lit In It.
! what'll we : wltr.
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Notea From the Paris Exposition.
“The Singer Manufacturing Com
pany, ot 149 Broadway, New York,
show their usual American enterprise
by having a very creditable exhibit
located in Group XIII., Class 79, at the
Paris International Exposition, where
they show to great advantage the cel
ebrated Singer Sewing-Machine which
is used in every country on the globe,
both for family use and for manufac
turing purposes. The writer was
highly pleased with this display and
observed with much satisfaction that
it was favorably commented upon by
visitors gencraJly.
The Grand Prize was awarded by
the International Jury to Singer Sew
ing-Machines for superior excellence
in design, construction, efficiency {Mid
for remarkable development and adap
tion to every stitching process used
in either the family or the factory.
Only One Grand Prize for sewing
machines wjts awarded at Paris, and
this distinction of absolutely superior
merit confirms the previous action of
the International Jury at the World’s
Columbian Exposition, in Chicago,
where Singer Machines received fifty
four distinct awards, being more than
were received by all other kinds of
sewing machines combined.
Should it be possible that any of
our readers are unfamiliar with the
celebrated Singer Machine, we would
respectfully advise that they call at
any of the Singer salesrooms, which
can be found in all cities and most
towns in the United States.”
Some Chinese Impressions.
There is no such thing In China as a
government, as we understand it.
There Is the outward form, but it is
entirely devoid of substance. There
are officials, but they lack power, and
even the imperious will of the Em
press Dowager cannot bo impressed on
the people at large. The present dis
turbance, if it is at least a popular
uprising, indicates the helplessness of
the central government to govern; or
if it Is at most actually supported by
the authorities, then wc see the curi
ous spectacle of a government carry
ing on a war against the civilized
world in concert, with the greater
part of Its people and the whole of its
navy standing by apparently unmoved.
What other country but China can
present such an anomaly.—William
Barclay Parsons, In Harper’s Weekly.
The Hen and Her Egg?.
The common hen lays about 500 or
000 eggs in ten years. In- the first
year the number is only 10 to 20; in
the second, third and fourth 1(M) to
135 each, whence it again diminishes
to 10 In the last year.
• You can always smell a “dead
He has a costive-looking face.
f His breath knocks you down.
He drags hls^feet.
Listeners to his talk turn their
L heads the other way.
His breath poisons God’s pure
He ought ft keep clean inside;
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An International Music Exhibition-
An International music exhibition
Is being held at the Crystal Palace,
London, and will be continued until
September, with the object of Illustrat
ing the progress of musical art dur
ing the nineteenth century. The ex
hibition Is divided Into four groups:
Musical Instruments or appliances
constructed or In use during the last
hundred years: musical engraving and
type printing; loan collections of In
struments, pictures, etc.; modern oil
and water color paintings of musical
(subjects. In connection Yvlth tbisjtf-
Ihlbition
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8 Plates ot Soup, 10c.
a to-ct. can ot Libby’s Premier
SOUP makes eight plates of
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If there was a way to make sotfp
better, we would learn it —but
there isn’t.
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Chicken Kidney or Giblet
Tomato Ready-made Soups.
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Now the best time to Paint.
THE TRIPOD PAINTS
are the best to use, as
THEY OUTLAST ALL OTHERS.
If your denier does not handle them,
write for color-cards and Information to
THE TRIPOD PAINT CO.,
ATLANTA, GEORGIA.
If you will buy three
Old Virginia Cheroots
and smoke them to-day you will get rf
the greatest amount of comfort and
satisfaction that 5 cents will buy in
a smoke, and get it three times over I
You haven’t any idea how good they
are and cannot have until you try them.
Try three to-day instead of a sc. cigar.
Three hundred million QldVtrgitm Cheroots smoked this
year. Ask your own dealer. Price, 3 for 5 cents. 3
Homeless.
“It strikes mo that Broughton Is not afl bright
a* soui* moil I have met.”
“Bright? Why. bless my 00til, he hasn't oven
enough sense to talk politics.”
FITS permanently cured. No fits or nervous
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Husband—l see they're a<lvsrt Ist 11 1 bargains
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Wife- Isn’t that too aggravating? There lsu’t
. a thincr the matter with any of us —Phlladel
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