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REV, DR. TAM AGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUN¬
DAY SERMON.
Subject: ‘ Paul’s Mission in Athens."
(Preached at Athens, Greece.)
Texts: “Eye hath not seen nor car heard.''
—I Corinthians it., 9 . For now we see
throxigh » glass darkly;'--! Corinthians
xiii., 12.
Both these sentences written by the most
illustrious merely human being ‘tho world
ever saw, one who walked these streets, and
preached Though from yonder classic pile of rocks, Mars
Hill. more associations aro
connected w ith this city than with any city
under the sun, because here Socrates, and
Plato, and Aristotle, and Demosthenes, and
Pericles, and Heroditus. and Pythagoras, and
Xenophon, nnd Praxi t eles wrote or chiseled,
or taught or thundered or sung, yet in my
mind all those iucn and their teachings were
iu eclipsed this city by and Paul and the Gospel lie preached
in your nearby city of Cor¬
inth. Yesterday, standing on the old fortress
at Corinth, the A<r: -Corintlr.is, out from the
ruins at its base arose in my imagination the
old city, just as Paul saw it. L have been
told that for splendor the world beholds no
such 'vender to-lav as that anrie; t, Corinth
standing on an isrnmus washed by two seas,
the one sea bringing t commerce of Europe,
the other sea bringing the commerce of Asia.
Prom her wharves, iu the construction of
which whole kingdoms had been absorbed,
war galleys with three banks of oars pushed
out and confounded the na rds of all toe
world. Huge handed machine o> such as
modern invention imiot equal, lifted ships
from the sea on one side and Iran ported
them on truck.-, aero- . the isthmus and sat
them down iu the sea on the other side, The
revenue oiiirers of the city 'vent doom
through the o'.ice groves that lined the
beach to collect, a tar;it from all nations.
The mirth of aU people sported in her all
Isthmian games, :uio the beauty of
lands sat in her theatres, walked her
porticos and threw itself on the altar of
her stupendous dissipations. Column aid
statue and ten ml e bev.'ildtred the beholdd'V.
There were white marble fountains, in* o
which, from apertures at the side, there
gushed waters everywhere known l’or health*
giving qualitic-. Around those basins,
twisted info wr^at ii . e stone, there were all
the beauties of .sculp.uro and architeciure;
while standing ns if lo guard the c. stly ois
}>lay, wan a statue of Hercules of burnished
Corinthian brass. Yeses of terra cotta
adornod ilia cciuoHirios of t.ic (lead—vases so
costly that Julius C:esar was not satisfied un¬
til he had captured them for Rome. Armed
officials, the corinik.-n ii, paced up ami down
to see that no statue was defaced, no pedestal
overthrown, no bas-relief touched, from the
edge of the city the hit I held its magnificent
burden of columns and towers shrine), and temples and
(1000 slaves wan ing impregnable at one ilia! Gib¬ a
■citadel so thoroughly of sand compared with it.
raltar is a heap
Amid all that strength and magnified ice
Corinth stood and defied the world.
Oh ! it was not to rustics who had never
seen anything grand that Paul uttered ono
of my texts They li.nl heard tho best music
that had come from the host instruments iu
•ill the world , they had heard songs floating
from morning porticos and melting m cven
ing groves, they had passed their whole lives
among pictures and sculpture and architect
ure and Corinthian brass, w hich had been
molded and aliapcd until there v.as no
chariot wheel m which it had not. sped, and
Ill > tower in which it lmd not glittered, and
no gateway that it had not adorned. All, it
was a bold thing for Paul to stand there amid
all that and say "AU this is not lung. These
sounds that come from the temple the of harmonies Neptune
are not, music compared with
of which l speak These w aters rushing in
the basin of Pyrene are not pure. These
statues of Bacchus and Mercury Aero-Corintlnu- are not ex
iu isi to. Your citadel of i
uot strong compared with that which Iofiei
Ai-'-IJin-puOf., i ■ 1 i,tm*—tddlb t’ ” s IIJUTi liis lilit -
den at the brazen gate, Amu Corinthians
think this i:, a splendid city; you think you
have heard all sweet sounds and seen all
beautiful sights; but 1 tell yen eye hath not
seen nor oar heard, neither have entered into
the heart of man, the things which God hath
prepared for them that love Him.” Indeed,
both my texts, the one spoken by Paul mid
the one written by Paul, show us that we
have of very imperfect is c-yesight, for fid that our
day through vision yet to come: but now w e set
Ho Paul u glass, the darkly, responsibility then face of lo saying face.
takes
that even the Bible is an indistinct mirror,
and that its mission shall lie finally suspended
1 think there may he one Bible in heaven
fastened to tln> throne. Just as now, in S
museum, we have a lamp exhumed Iron
Herculaneum or Nineveh, and we look at ii
with great interest and ray: "How poor t
light it must have given, compared with out
modern lamps,” so I think that this Bible,
which was a lamp to our feet in this world
may lie near (he throne of God, exciting otu
interest to all eternity by the contrast be¬
tween its comparati vely feeble light and the
illumination of heaven. The Bible, now, is
the scaffolding to the rising temple, but
when the building is done there will lie no
use for the scaffolding. The idea 1 shall de¬
velop is to-day comparatively is, that in this dim world our knowl¬
edge hut is and unsatisfac¬
tory, nevertheless compl-d- introductory to
grander eminently and more regard vision. This it
true in to our view of God.
We hear so much about God that we con¬
clude that wo understand Him. He is repre¬
sented as having the tenderness of a fath er,
the firmness of a judge, the pomp of a king
and the love of a mother. We bear about
lisji Him. His talk about in Him, infancy, write n-aii abq^v-jSim. it trembles Wt
namo on
e tongue of tho dying octogenarian. We
think that we know very much about Him.
Take tho attribute of mercy. Ho we under¬
stand it 1 ' The Bible blossoms all over with
that word,mercy. It speaks again and again
of the tender mercies of God, of the sure
mercies, of the great mercies, of the mercy
that enilureth forever, of the multitude of
His mercies. And yet I know that the views
we. have of this great being are most indefi¬
nite. on. sided and incomplete. When, at
death, the gates shall fly open, and we shall
look directly upon Him. how new and sur¬
prising! morning. We We see study upon the canvas cloud a in picture the sky, of
t he
the dew upon the grass, and the husbandman
on the way to the field. Beautiful picture of
the morning! But wo rise at daybreak, and
go up on a hill to see for ourselves that which
was represented to us. While we look, the
mountains aro transfigured. The burnished
gates of heaven swing open and shut, to let
pass ail a abloom, host of fiery splendors. The t-ioudi
are alabaster and hang pendant from arbor; make
of and amethyst. The waters
pathway of inlaid pearl for the light to walk
upon; and (here is morning on the sea. The
crags uncover their scarred visage; and there
is morning among the mountains. Now you
go home, and how tame your picture of thi
morning seems in contrast? Greater than
that shall Id the contrast between this script
ural view of God and that which wo shat
have when standing face to lace. Thisiss
picture of the morning; that will be the
morning hseif
Again My texts are true of the Saviour’?
excellency. By image, and sweet rhythm Christ of
expression, and startling If compassion. antitheses, His work, is
set forth—His it it is
His life. His death. His resurrection. We are
challenged to measure it. to compute it, to
weigh it In tho hour of our broken en¬
thrallment we mount up into until high experi¬
ence of His love, and shout the coun¬
tenance glows, and tho blood bounds, and
the whole nature ls exhilarated. "I have
found Hun * And yet it is through a glass,
darkly. Wo me not half of that compassion¬
ate face JYe feel not half the warmth of
that lovmg heart. We wait for d nth to let
us rush lute His outspread arm?. Then we
-hall be face to face. Not shadow then, but
substance Not hope then, but the fulfilling
of all prefigureraent. That wifi bo a magnifi¬
cent unfolding. of all hidden
The rush mg out in view er
ceUency; the coming again of and a long-absent
Jcsils to meet us—not in rags in penury
and death, but amidst a light and pomp and
THE DEMOCRATl CRAW FORD V 1 LLE, GEORGIA
ouvburstingjoy intelligence such as none but a glorified
could experience. Oh! to gazt
full upon the brow that was lacerated, upon
the side that was pierced, upon the feet that
were nailed: to stand close up in the presence
of Him who prayed for us on the mountain,
and thought of us by the sea. and agonized
for us in the gardon, and died for us in horri¬
ble crucifixion: to feel of Him, to embrace
Him, to take His hand, to kiss His feet, tc
run fering; our lingers along the scars of ancient suf¬
to say: "This is my Jesus 1 He
gave Himself for me. I shall never- leave
His presence. I shall forever behold His
glory. I shall eternally hear His voice.
Lord Jesus, now I see Thee! I behold where
the blood started, where the tears coursed,
where the face was distorted. I have waited
for this hour, I sliall never turn luv back
on Thee. No i»iore looking through imper¬
darkness. fect glasses. But, No more long studying this throne Thee stands, in the
as as
and this everlasting river flows, and those
garlands bloom, and these arches of victory
remain to greet home heaven's conquerors,
so Jesus long I shall see Thee, Jesus of my choice;
of my song; Jesus of my triumph—for¬
ever and forever—face to face™
The idea of my texts is just as true whon
applied to God’s providence. Who has not
come to some pass in life thoroughly inex
plieame? Vou say: "What does this mean?
What is Ow'd going to do with me now? He
tells me that all things work together for
good. This does not look like it.” You con¬
tinue to study 1 ho dispensation, and after a
while guess about wlmt God muans. “He
means to teach me this. I think He means to
teach me that. Ferliaps it is to humldo my
pride. Perhaps it is to make me feel more
dependent. Perhaps to teach me the uncer¬
tainty of looking life.” But after all, it is onlv a
guess—a The Bible through the glass, darkly.
assures us there shall bo a satisfac¬
tory unfolding. “AY hat 1 do thou knowost
not now; but thou shall know hereafter.”
You will know why God took to Himself that
only child. Next door there was a household
of seven children. Why not take one from
that group, instead of your only one! Why
i/nglo out the dwelling in which there was
only Why ono did heart beating responsive to yours
God give you a child at all, if He
meant to take it away? Why fill the cup ol
your down? gladness Why brimming, if lie meant to dash
it allow all the tendrils of your
heart to wind around that object, and then,
when every fibre of your own life seemed to
bo interlocked with the child’s life, with
strong hand to tear you apart, until you fall
bleeding and crushed, your dwelling desolate,
Tour hopes blasted, your heart broken? Pc
you suppose that you will explain that? \ en.
He will make it plainer than any mathemat¬
ical problem—ns In the plain ns that two and two
make four. light of the throne you
will see that it was right—all right. "Just
and true arc all Thy ways, Thou King of
Saints.”
Here is a man who cannot get on in (lie
world. Ho always seems to buy at the
wrong time and to sell at the worst disad¬
vantage. that business, He and tries is this disappointed. enterprise, and The fails;
man
next door to him has a lucrative trade, but
he lacks customers. A new prospect opens.
His income is increased. But that year his
family are sick; nnd ike profits are expended
in trying to cure the ailments. He gets a
discouraged look. Becomes faithless ns to
success. wait for something Begins to expect disasters. waits Others
to turn up; he for
it to turn down. Others, with only half as
much education and character, get on twine
ns well. He sometimes guesses as as to wlint it
all means. He says: "Perhaps riches would
spoil keep me. humble. Perhaps Perhaps poverty is might, necessary to
me f if things
were tions.” otherwise, bo tempted into dissipa¬
But there is no complete solution of
the mystery. He secs through a glass, dark¬
ly, and must wait for 11 higher unfolding.
Will there bo an explanation? Yes; God
will take that man in the lightof the throne,
and sa3 r : “Child immortal, hear the explana¬
tion! You remember the failing of that
And great enterprise. will This "It is the explanation.”
you answer: is all right!”
I fop, every day, profound mysteries of
P • deuce, Tin-re is 710 question wo r.si:
■■ fto ranr mWrWw.
gra - t .at need to be explained. Hospitals
for th- blind and lame, asylums for the idio
ti--and insane, almshouses for the destitute,
lmd a Sj orld of pain and misfortune that de¬
mand more than human solution. Ah! God
will clear it *U up. In tho light that pours
from the throne, no dark mystery can live.
Things now utterly inscrutable will be il¬
lumined as plainly as though tho answer
were written on the jasper wall, or sounded
iirtbe temple anthem. Bartiineus will thank
God that ho was blind; and Lazarus that ho
was covered with sores; and Joseph that he
was cast into the pit; and Hamel that lie
denned with lions; and Paul that he was
humpbacked; and David that lie was driven
from Jerusalem; and the seiving-woman that
she could got only a for/ pence for making n
garment; nnd that invalid that for twenty
years he could not lift his head from the pil¬
low; and that widow that she lmd such hard
work to earn bread for her children. You
know that in a song different voices carry
different parts. The sweet mid overwhelm¬
ing carried part of the those hallelujah of heaven will not
he by who rode in high places,
and gave sumptuous entertainments; but
pauper children will sing it, beggars will
sing it, redeemed hod-carriers will sing it,
those who were once the nffscouring of earth
will sing it. The hallelujah will lie nil the
grander heads, for earth’s exhausted weeping eyes, and scourged aching
and hands, and
backs, and martyred agonies.
Again: The thought of my texts is true
when applied to tho enjoyment of the right¬
eous in heaven. I think we have but little
idea of the number of the righteous in heav¬
en. Infidels say: “Your heaven will tie a
very small place compared with the world of
the lost; for, according will to your teaching, the
majority of men I be destroyed.” ldeny
the charge. suppose that the multitude of
the finally lost, finally ns compared witli the multi¬
tude of tho saved, will he a handful.
I suppose that the few sick peojde in the hos
pitals of our great cities, as compared with
the hundreds of thousands of well people,
would not he smaller than the number of
those who shall lie cast out in suffering, com
pared with those who shall havo upon them
the health of heaven. For we are to remem¬
ber that we are living in only the beginning
of the Christian dispensation, and that this
whole world is to he populated and redeemed,
and that ages of light and love are to flow
on. If tills be so, the multitudes of the saved
will he in vast majority. Take ail the cori
eregations that have assembled for worship
throughout Christendom. Put them together,
and they would make but a small audience
compared with the thousand and tens of
thousands, tuid ten thousand limes ten thou¬
sand, and the hundred and forty and four
thousand that shall stand around the
throne. Those flashed up to heaven in
martyr fires; those tossed lor many years
upon the invalid couch; those fought iri the
armies of liberty, and rose as they fell;
those tumbled from high scaffolding, off or
slipped into the from the They mast, or were washed Corinth,
sea. came up from
from Laedicc-a, from the Red Sea hank and
Oenncsarot’s wave, from Egyptian brick¬
yards. and Gideon's threshing floor. Those
thousands of years ago slept the last sleep,
and these are this moment having their eyes
closed, and their limbs stretched out for the
sepulcher.
A Genera! expecting' nri attack from tho
enemy stands on a hill and looks through a
field glass, and : c-cs. iu the great distance,
multitudes approaching, hut “i has no idea of
their numbers. He says: cannot toil any¬
thing about them. X merely know that there
are a great number.” Amts') John, without
nttetc :f-ting to count, say:,: "A great nnjti
i.nde that no man can number” We are
• * fid that heaven is a place of happiness; but
what no we know about happiness! Happi¬
ness in this world is only a half fledged thing;
a flowery broken path, pitcher, with a serpent hissing across
it; a from which Hie water
has dropped before we could drink it: a thrill
of exhilaration, followed by di:ia -
actions. To help us understand the joy We of
heaven, the Bible takes us to a river,
stand on the grassy bank. V> e see the waters
flow on -with ceaseless wave. But the filth
of the cities is emptied into it. and the 1 ranks
are torn, and unhealthy exhalations spring
up from it, and w., fail to jet aa idea of th#
river of life in kte.reo.
We get very imperfect ideaw a\e reunions
of heaven. Wo thiuk of son£ festij day on
earth, and when father children and motlu r were y e t liv¬
ing, the But came A good
lime that! it had this drawback—all
and were never not there. was heard That from. brother J, jvont sister—did off to sea.
fLshiiess a t.
we not life, lay tier away iu the thi| of her
young never more in v . .riel to look
upon her? Ah! there was a k»let.m at the
feast; and tears mingled with o ur laughter
on that Christmas day. Not si " ith heaven's
reunions. Many It will Christian be an iminteriupted puv?*,t glad¬
ness. ft , v ill look
around and find all his children there. "Ah!”
he here—life’s says, "can perils it Iw over? possible the tlqt Jordan we are all
and not wanting? Why, passed prcxl
one iv;- ell ti le
igal is here. 1 almost gave him How long
he despised my counsels! but s; „ hath tri¬
umphed. through All the here! city. all here! Let the Toj vhe mighty
joy mention their Sells ring,and
the angels it in s,»,g Wave it
from the top of the walls. AH i ielv
No more breaking of heartsti; I1?s but face,
to face. The orphans that ’ 4 »iu left poor,
and in a merciless hardships, world, shall kicktq join aU( j t-uiToil
of many rheir mreuts
over whoso graves they ro }cw.wept, and
gaze into their glorified cour l j» nauces foe
over, face to face. We may e ne u j, f 10 ui
different parts of the world, io from the
land and another ntfluent from the depths of the sea; J
from lives and pi-ospen )ug) or f roa
meet scenes in of rapture ragged and distress; jubilee, but fact [we’ f shall all
f 0 ace
Many of our friends havoontie.,.d upon that
joy. A few Gospel days ago they sat ti kiith ^study¬
ing these themes; but F e y only saw
dimly—now revelation hath om „. 'y our
t ime will also come. God will iLf i^ave you
floundering in the darkiu as. t , ,,,, stnmi
wonder all the struck and amazed. life da-f Yd, lee \ as jc
loveliness of were e , | , )U f You
stand gazing into the open el asm of the
grave. Wait a little, in the presence of
your His departed nnd shall of Him who Carries them
in bosom, you soon j ace
face. Oh 1 that our last h y kindle up
with this promised joy! ve be able to
say, like t he Christian not lago, dopart
ing: I “Though a pilgrim _ ting through
the valley, tho mountain like m.vjdeai are gleaming
from peak to Alfred peak!” or, Cookmau, friend
and brother, God, sayiif Tho took his
flight to tho throne of already j n his lust
moment that which has gone into
Christian classics: “I ;\msvveeh ul through
tho pearly gate, washed in the hi, ; ,d 0 f the
Lamb.’”
NEWSY GLEANIl' 13.
Tania: K.-caoh papers in Moat) u Y,,- - n tly
’.Ci-l;n-e,l in favor of a Canadian » ei,nbU<-.
T.u-.r.x. KvtcoaRD Boulangists Isj w pi soon j
visi- General Boulanger on the au q ,,f or .
sey.
.V’Co'.mhxc to the rroptvrmd Cath v \ n R, 0 hk
there an ' MS, 000 .000 Roman 0 u c . s hi tli*j
v.'orkl.
service The youngest is Second officar Lieutenaytj in ijue^‘ Victoria’s
gOghtei-i’. a / ? () f exactly
Thk ne-w.spap.T8 of monumentt XLilly ai. 1 raising sub*
scripr-iims American to erect soil. a Columbus
>n
Dltuxc the last two year s the Italian
army has increased by d0,000 ine2li O(.)0 field
guns and 15000 cavalry.
Tmamaru Ui,:’,l(i newspapar.. a: ,q periodi¬
cals in this country- a gain of gyu ; u i, V elve
months, and of TIMS in tenyeai
Thk Russian (lovenimout has \- 0 p.,j 75 .
1)00,000 roubles to !>e .-xpeuifi'-l ou \ lie nave,
at the l ate of la,000,(XK) roubles a y-. al -
Nixetv-osb soi-ial Dunio.-rats ha! va been
on trial at Elb >rMd, Germany, forbt longing
to a secret society. Among them &U. four
deputi-.A.
Thebe is to be an international cxu,i,in on
of postage stamps bald in Vienna uex year
i:i commemoration of the fiftieth un ,{ vei .
mry of their introduction.
The Society for Frevrn’.ion of Cruelly fban- p,
Animals in Switserlaad has resoK”
i.-;h cats from thoKepubl.C _«>a, tb e’juid
The artistic wealth of the Pavjis hnimici
pality in paintings, scnlpturo, otebnde nhgravmgs,
ate., is estimated at ?' 3 , 50 il,(X >0 o to -
great treasures owned by thenawn.
Bettses from Y ok ok araa state ff.iRt ve
ports from all parts of losses Japan and oy.fiiv. disasters -i the
misgivings as to the stoiaiis.fc
ied bj the recent floods and
The hour. - in Richmond occupied War and by known rettVi -
■ oa Davis during the Civil as
the "White House of the Confederacy ’ is to
he ton do’.vzi and a schoolhouse built on its
fiscal tr *J 0 13 14 fl
Hunisa the last year , C.
money orders were issued in the United
States, amounting to $ 115 , 081 , 845 .id. and
ti,S 0 $.id-i oostel notes, nmoanting to >1 JXW
iyo. 13 .
Os the Inst day of dressmaker, the Paris Exposition each <>!
Worth, the famous spend and gave clo.-ijd ids
!iis cinploy.-s £10 to
store at noon. ’This act of generosity
him WJ#.
Jesse O’Cooly. of Jcffersonvilie, fnd..
■vas arrested for di-seerating the $ d hath 11'
Wcottsbarg. Iiis crime consistod in repair
ing a broken rail to prevent a wreck on a
railroad, he being a section hand.
The extremely difficult feat of climbing
i/he extinct high, has volcano been of achiever! Iztnceihuiise, by Bemsen 18 ,WK
cot
iVJiitfchouse, the Uniterl Htates Glitrge j d’Af
airs at the City of Mexico. Ho ad to cut
sy?) steps in solid ice in making t ic ascent,
■_nd camped one night in a cave a 1 , a height
,f 1 i,n:X) feet.
DASTARDLY LYNCHERS.
.V l'arllally Insane Man Han) ctl l>y a
Masked Mob.
Hans Jacob Olsen, aged fifty years, was
tom from his house at Preston, 'Vis . and
lynched by a party of masked men. Olsen
j , partially .. „ . and , somewha . , quarrel- _ ,
vvas insane
some , and had been ordered by ueighboni bed,
to leave the country. He was seized iri
pulled out and his hands tied behind him
ileqiite of his the desperate family. Without struggles and allowing the
s -reams even
him time to put on his clothes the men led him
diitof the house. Once outside Olsen learned
what was to be done with him. He caught
sight of a new rope hanging ,-er tii?5 iimb
<:f a large tree which stands not more t han
twenty teat from the little cabin v Inch was
his home. He struggled to tree bin inti hands,
tearing the flesh from his wrist* I they
hied freely; hut finding himself unable to get
1O0SG submitted in sullen silence. The rojM;
was put around his neck and willing hands
drew him up to kicking strangle. and His leg* were not
tied and his struggling /ere
earful. The lynchers remained Mime time,
however, lest ii- might ha cut down before
in: was dead. Then, after who shouting threats
of lynching any body, one they should dispersed. dare
-■;:t down the
The body was discovered iu the
morning, hot was not cut down
until the Coroner arrived. No evidence as
to th --identity of the lyncher- w: - offered
la-fore the Coroner's jury. lyncher* In f'roton it is
o ii i mi on go-ip that the w< re led by
one of the Ur - ' prominent farmers in iVe~
ton.
<iisen had served five years in state Prison
or loading wood with powder with Blair. inter:, Arriv¬ to
blow up the stove of atarnily at
ing home from Waupun,hc was shortly Jail after¬
ward sentenced to the County for six
months for threatening the fives of ids
family. He had just returned home from
the County Jail when he was hanged.
S i te recent extraordinary B owth of
t!or- n:ii at on known as the Young
Pcop:«*s Societies of Christian j .ndeavor
is among the m st interesting religious
phenomeriu of the times, it appears by
oflicia’ report just tent out tiiatthere
are now 1,301) of these societies in New
York State, of and both tiiat their naer One ll/ersbip of the:r
i.s made up sexes.
chief objects is to promote “sociability” good
among their members, and this is
work when properly performed.
rEARLS OF THOUGHT.
Fear is the mother of safety.
Example is more forcible than pre¬
cept.
They never fail who die in a gr at
cause.
It is much caster to moot with errot
than to find truth.
Habits are to the soul what the veins
and arteries are to the blood—the
courses in which it moves.
The grandest and strongest natures
are ever calmest. Restlessness is a sym¬
bol of weakness not yet outgrown.
Perhaps the secret regrets of life are
the weightiest, and clueflp on this ac¬
count—that they are incommunicable.
There may he times when silence is
gold, nnd speech silver; hut thou there
are times when silence is death and
speech life.
Nothing is more pitiful than a life
spent iu thinking of nothing hut self;
yes, even in thinking of nothing but
one’s own soul.
The absence of any kind of anxiety
for the spread of the truth, implies
spiritual paralysis, if it does not imply
actual spiritual death.
A brave man thinks no ono his su¬
perior who does him an injury, for ho
has it then in his power to make him¬
self superior to thu oilier by tjH’giv ing
it.
It is foolish to give a.lvico too readily,
it is also fooluli to baton ready in seek¬
ing it. Ad vico should only ba asked
from those whoso opinions we valm
and by whose judgment we are willing
to be guided.
It is not the ease, but—effort—not
faculty but difficulty, that makes men.
There is no station in life in which dif¬
ficulties have not lo be encountered and
overcome before any decided measures
of success can bo achieved.
What llio Mahomotan-i Itollcrn.
Thu Miliomotiins, say.t Frank S.
C.irponlcr, bolieV) iu God and tho
prophets. They look upon Christ as
tho great prophot, and boliovo that Mi
hornet and C-iri.it will art together as
1 lie judgos of all mankind at tho last
day. One of the rainnrots of tin noted
mosque at Dimaacits was luiilt in mem¬
ory of C irist, and 1) imascui is ono of
the fanatical of Mahometan citioi. They
look upon Adam aa a pattern of human
perfection, aid they balieve that the
Garden of JjJioti was orj^iaully located
in heav on. When Evo h i^vnlml Adam
into oatiug tho npplo our pirents were
cast out of tho G ir Ion of 11 1011 and fell
to earth. A lam landed ou n mountain
in Ceylon and Eve dropped down near
Mecca. Adam for hie .sin spent 2(10
yean in linking for Eve, and at last. I 10
found her in Arabia, and the two lived
In a mountain there together until tly/
died.
'l’liis mountain is Biill known as
Adum s M ;unt. Tlie Mahometans con¬
sider Abraham a great prophet. II: it
callo 1 in the 1C irau tliu friend of God.
They call jMo-ci tlie speaker of God,
:u,d they have, all t^ild, I’ll, 00!) proph¬
et 1 . The greatest iff those are Adam,
Abraham, Jesus and Mahomet, Tho
Koran inc’u lei charity ail brotherly
hive. It prohibits lending money at in¬
terest, and it fixes tli: general laws of
tho Mihomctuu world. It inculcates
belief in a future state, iu the heaven of
which each devout believer shall have
four beautiful and ever young maidens
to wait upon him and to administer to
his wants. It is iu tit my of its chap¬
ters so much like the Bible, that it is
believed that Mahomet got a large part
of its teachings from the Scripture ,
and from the Jews w ta whom he wan
acquaints 1.
History of tho Ton I,oaf.
The original country of let is not
definitely known, hut it i.s supposed to
have found its way into China from
Corea during the fourdi century, and
by a noteworthy coincidence was first
introduced into England four hundred
years ago hy Spanish and Portuguese
merchants, just at the date which we
commemorate as the hirtii of the Wes¬
tern Hemisphere.
lea was first introduced into Europe
as an herb of rare medicinal qualities,
and was sold at a fabulously high price.
In fact, the historian, John Gartvay,
mentions that it was worth six guinea 11
a pound iu England so recently ai
1GJ7. To give an idea of its restricted
i’-a it is only necessary to add that
4 000 pounds were brought to England
in Jfi7o “and caused the market to ho
overstocked for seven years.”
The original duty to the British
crown was about %'l per pound, but
this was gradually reduced through the
persistent efforts of P. tt and other
great statesmen, and the exclusive
monopoly which had been conferred
upon the East India C mpany was
abolished in 1831. The present duty
of 5 per cent., however, still brings a
yearly revenue of $-3,000,000 to the
Eng i;h exchequer.
Coffee Drinkers.
In Turkey, coffee drinking is univers 1
ird consinuous. The writer pas-ed a
greater part of four years in Constauti
nople, wucre he h id occasion to call
upon the official) of the Sublime Porte
*o irequently that it would be diffieu.t
to enumerate these official visits; an i
with few exceptions, when the visit
was protracted to any length, black cof
the fee, pure grounds, in quality and prepared served with
was regularly in
small, delicate cups. All Turks, fr mi
tire highest to the lowest, indulge iu time, the
beverage, a few swallows at any
throughout tlie day, and without any
evil effects. Iu Atlieus, also, coffee i
drank in quantities which surprise the
uninitiated; but neither the sedentary
habits of tne Turk nor the quick, ener
getic teraper.inu nr. of the Greek unhiding seems
to bo affected by the perpetual
of tlris beverage.
Romo.
Within the past ten years the aspect of
Rome has c iiisitlerunlv changed. The
old narrow, winding streets are a tiling
of tlie past, and aro replaced by the large, old
wide thoroughfares. Blocks of
houses have been knocked down, and
large modern palnz/.i have sprung up old in
their stead. Thu narrow Corso of
times will soon be no more, as it is grad¬
ually being widened by half its original
width.
A New Idea.
t o lections of th - pm traits of eminent
or notorious ptopl are supeiseding
i hose of coins or stamps, and prove
much more interest ng to the average
mind. The illustrated magazines are
rilled for these pictures, and it takes
no time at all for adilligeut collector to
}p-t quite a line pictorial dictionary of
tne celebrities of the times.
Thoroughly Unlit.
Many of the brick houses erected in
England two hundred years ago are ro
cemented tog. I her that the walls have
io be blown down with gunpowder something
when the site is wanted for
modern.
You in a y si u -c of tho beauty of sprinprllmo
Thai kIowh on tlio cliot’lv of t he youu^t
lhit l smut <0 Jl beauty Unit's raver
Than any of which \ou have huh#.
The beauty Hint's seen in ihofiu-es
Of women whose summer is oYt\
Tliti aiitumn-liko heauiy i hat charms us
Far more than tho beauty of yore.
Rut this beauty Is seen too rarely, The
faces of most women lose the beauty of frosts youth
too soon. FonRile di‘.onlei*K are like
which come to nip the flowers which betoken
good health, without which then' can bo no
real beauty. II our American women would
fortify themselves axainst the approach of
Urn ferrihlo dlsonlers so prevalent emquu
them, by usinn Di. I'iorco’s Favorite PreHcrip
tion, their tjood looks would he retained to a
‘hW oo t. old a tie.” This remedy weaknesses is /« guaranteed and
cure for all the distressing
derangements pet uliar to women.
I)r. Plerco’s l'ellot ono n doso. (’urohoad
aolio, com tipat on ami i ml too lion.
I<tet IV 10 moDvii be in tho»5ri>i\ ami not. In
evonf. Ho not 0110 wUofeo motivo lor at lion in
the liopo of l owiird.
l>o.ilii('N>« I'mi'i Ho <11 rod
by local apnllcntion, portion of as Uu> they can 'there not. in reach only
\ he diMotkMHl ear,
ono way io tmro Do if»««s, ami that in by con
fciUtutiotuil r«Bjedh.‘% condition Deafue tho tj.ia cau»<<i hy
tin Inflamed Tube. ol When riiucu* lining ol
the KuHiaehiau ihin tune ««t
intlarnod you have it rumbling sound •or Im¬
perfect hearing, and when it in entirely
cloned Deafnen* the result, and vinlena tlie
luflumationcan he taken out and thia tuh« re
ttorcdio it* normal (o-» dtion, liearin^ of will
ho destroyed lorevoi*; lime- ottHCH out ton
aro enlist’d hy caiarrh, which Is nothintf hut
mi infljuied condition of the inucusHiirlncoH.
Wo will give Ono Hundred DoIIhim for any
case of DeafnwH (caused Jlallto by < alarrli) Catarrh Dial- wo
cun not cure circuiai'M hy taking ( lire.
H«jnd for fr* <*.
I-'. .!.(; iii#NF.V & CO., Toledo, O.
C^“SoId hy DruuuistH, 7 ->c.
**I.»»ey
Iinrlc ! Die Bound of many voices,
Jubi'ant in gladdest koii;',
And lull many a heart rejourns
As tho chorus floats ail along:
“Uail the Queen of Tobaee js!”
How the happy voicea blond,
‘•Finent 11 nd pnrost nmonx Ii-r followi —
Mail’s Btiiunch and true friend.”
A jp ‘^.50 rup»*r for Hi.7!.
Tiir YoittiiN ( OMf.A mon pfivcH ho much for
ibonmall amount that it cohIh It 1 h no v*.oi»<b’r
jl i«taken already in nearly lluJf a Million
Families. Wit.n ii h fluo paper and boautifui
illtiHtrations, rnent.H and its it« Double Weekly Jlolid JIluFtrated *y Numbers, Fii|'i» e- ii,
seems »ih if tin* jiy publishers could not do efiouab
to plea e. Bending $1. 7 .» now you may ob
lain U. fre,»t 1> .liumnry, and for a full year
from that date to January, 1 WM. Add rets
Thk Youth'h Companion, IS onion. Mass.
Orrffflti, the I'ninillm of I'nrwpM*
Mild, ecjuabl© climate, certain and abundant
r ropH. Ci Ht, fruit, pram, frra«i and Btonk conn
tjy in tho world. Full information free. Ad
drcHH OjeK- Imbtora’ln Board, Portland, Oro.
The nmoUcr*- doH«l»t -“Tan«Hr« Puneb,
ArrortUnit to r< <onl lorrHlz/.li-iu l« , nu-, -1 fix >-i
lacUr aeld In lh« blw»l. SlilniuiM murk.
the fibrous tlwuea, particularly iu tiia Joints, and
caUBCH tlie local inanifestnllonr. of tha dianana, pain*
urid oclic* In tho back and ahouidere, and In tho
JOtal..t.b«km-s «k.«s,h.n, S,..| wrtoU. Thou
sands nl people havo foun'i in flood h HarnaparJll-i
a positive and p rmuucnt euro for rheu/natlsm.
Thin m/xll'-ln-, by 111 v mltyU, x .Ml vital.*.,,* o.v
tion, ncutrallzas ttio acidity of tho blood, and also
strengthen* tho whole body.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
Fold by All dmZKlHt*. $1; hlx for $-*». Pr«par«d only
hy C . I IKXA ) & l '/)., Apotho? arlf’*, ls > wcU ,
.
lOO Do 3 G 8 Ono Dollar
JBUSINESS
W »J COLLEGE,
NASHVILLE, TENN.
y lifc This more:Uuvu College $50<» Ui/iiigh former yrt »*lu<l«’i»t«ofH In Ms intancy, j-
1
lioalf loitu many o t Hunt ro
raffling from
r>00 per autioifj. Kor <;ir?Militr n<l<Jr«'s-?
K. W/ \c;w f jpa*ln*
«r.i WHISKEY HAB¬
ITS etirod at homo who*
out pain. JJoolc FREE. of pur
tlcular* tent
T-mmia ---- “to *'•»
!ia. OSjc« OjH VVhllvlio.i ML
BRYANT & STRATTON Business College
LOUISVILLE. KY.
25m
A Flensing Mens©
Of health and strength renewed and of eas#
and oomfort follows the use of Syrup of Figs,
as It acts in harmony with nature to effectual,
ly cleanso the system whon costive or bilious.
For sale In 50 c. and $1 bottler by all leading
druggists.
Keep doing, always doing. Wishing, dream¬
ing, intending, moun i' g, talking, sigliing
and pining aro idle unil profitless employ¬
ments.
the Catarrh
best
CHILDREjfevE HBMBDYafej^sgS §§|#3
BUFFERING FROM m
COLDinHEAD
SNUFFLES
OR
CUT ARRHhayhfever
A Price particle i*? applied DruggintM; into o&oh no?trii ami in agreeable.
50 cents m t- oy m«il, registered, ot».
kl.y liUOTllKHH, ;>»> Warren Srroot:, Net? York.
pVIMltf.N (VIMTJ*.
'JI
&
SMITH'S Bill BEANS
Act on tliollver and lillc; clear the complexion;
euro biliousness, sick lit*ttdiicho f costivonww*
malaria, and all liver and stonmeli disorder*.
We ui’o itow milking small size Hilo Henna,
especially adapted for children and women—
very small and easy to take. Price of either
SI A panV'l picture, hl/c PHOTO-GRAVURE "Kissing «< G-al. mailed of tho on
abov e Address * l he nmkersot tho
receipt of :.’c stamp. -ItUe Beaus.
m eat Anil bile Ut-medy Louia. Wlo.
4. F. SMITH & CO., St.
THE r
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.AWViuiilA [, -\_Sa />-< /
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m bVlVVVYl'd
HNli
ia\ Sale WHEEL
HAIR!
W« retail At tho X'd! odin Rrnk*
and vhaUmi whip tf good* tartoryprio**,# to l>o (j llld-W , //tfwKiL f < „«r FREE
WUKEI, < lUtBa
lotfUA. Auinc UfHtrc l. iiHI V u* I.
mfu. co., ;i‘X 5 n. «t,
7 //y.e^r s\mAW e FREE. \ovm (SS- Vtit „
*7 •g\ j* vtmvx cowvtww
VtRfiCd HtkUW
Th#** sr* my f»ort.r»tn, am! on
Mfff ount of tha frAB>i'.*lnnl
loiloru.atc.,otTprad a«l\(ieUAny fir davalopmp'U, V .
V IvW FUF.ViwUnVl / \ \
n iiixi to meure Oi#i*ch»flff*i
IlEAt/m (mr# of that allAv/
•‘t!r*d M fueling ami Snpcrhrjrri T
famnU tlt*eaa»0, l.YKSV* --I f
KOIi\f, llrilllatit
■ n.| pun . COMN, KXION Will inmt
letter. A rot.I ».lr r*rtUinjr fr *ti It. Ntnit (lilt gwy or, Aiul « 4 dr •HI
JUu*. II. I/UNT, Uoa !LW, Statiu* c, nuioiM’a, ( •»u
Pennsylranla Agricultural Works, York, Pa.
Vftrqttlur’ft HUudmU ltagUtfl aatittaw AUK
Ha) Tum#s. Bond for Catalogu*. Fortablr, Hi*.
Wj& I A fTi £ /\fw\ fl M doiinrj. Traauou »uil Aiiinnialit: C*
UarrAuu-dc quKior
fv/1 •u parlor W
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ss
Addraia A. H. FAEQCIIAB A HOW, fork,
AFTER ALL OTHERS FAIL CONSULT
DR. LOBB
:)•"> Noi-iii I iff conili 1*olnofiff, Si., rhlliulcljihlfi, .Skin I’fi-, for
tho tritatnumt o t iilood Kroptions,
JStnrvou* Complalutfi, intoht'H JUh’hbo, hi Tjinocurm* ric turns.
Impotcftoy long and kind from rod illBcmut*, what noimvttpr 110 m orlgluattoa. * i r of of 1 how
|Unroll staudinK or c«n««
<lay« mefllotncn furnlubc'l hy mail hqpp iilCfc#
H orn] for Book on HIT.I-IAL
FOR A Double Breech-Loader
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fFlwch^alrr 15.«liol Jllfl*a, 1° ft5.
llrrefh-loaUUp KMm, Io (IH-OO.
Hvlf-rerklug Hrvo|r#F«, IfY.DO,
7c nairi|i for f»0-jmsr* Cafaloffiiomt I n»v''2*p*r ff*t.
GRIFFITH A SEMPLE, 612 W. Main, Louisville, K,.
THE PATENT
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Sublime Harmonie,
Iclo Accorucony.
JOIIS K # fc-TIlATTOS
i- an.t 45 Walker HL,
m New V ora.
Importer* of »ti kindsoC
Bufilcal Alerohandlae.
SSBl Thl» Trad*
Mark Is on
The Best
Waterproof
Coat
a—.
for |l ?L»trqte<l Citalogg e. #>*»». A . J- Boi^n|.
B rmraTIMRIFLE NTXKR |1 sven i||
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Vcpufation of 47 you rv. on thia.Kifla.and
vy..** H »*•*"UlinirSS
j jy ^ 1 QA.p 9 |te itourlptlvo• lililoffiifii (Juni, Klfltii
i lUUff >v „wrr», F. t ut-Jug LOVWX TV~!i lc, ABU» aVtf U>-IkftWi.
INFORMATION fisfc tZVkATuTLWr'
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l.ililw
31 iJi'.ro.iKhly tauK/it Ly MAJJ,. qrcniUr* tto*.
Hi yn iit’n ( (fiicgt’! 4 Tm 7 Main * J., liutlilo, N. Y.
OPIUM rSSS&K
| >A I.M'H »i I H . 4 OIJ.M.t, I'm ulwqMu, P*.
J jsclx/iurfli 1 ^ tii/U Writ* tor oirudltir .
I p renoribe end folly ©n
damn IV, % lift th<> only
tm vhfoAUai ncurt
6«»f «tmd not ioB G H.IMDtAHAM.M- !>-.
i etus sIHrfu us- * AmfcU-rdui.i, N. Y.
14 f donly Wo bavO sold Bijj 45 for
OTfafl|.,i, CAt:*
k. . r • r f.r.ma .ZJm nvrnE^co..^
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A. . «. N. ,» C..... .....Forty-nine, * 89 .
•ri FOB
p sols CURE
Best f .ugu Medicine. Recommended by PhyHlciana. the
Cures where all else fails. Pleasant and agreeable to
taste. Children take it without objection. By druggists.
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