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REV. DR. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIViNE’S SUN¬
DAY SERMON.
Sutijecpf^-jf;* rittanasrO in Pales¬
tine.”
l
r Text: “I icent up to Jerusalem .”—Gala¬
tians, i.. 18 .
j’" in My Joppa. second It day is 6 o’clock in the Holy in the Land. morning, We but ari
we must start early, for by night we are to
tie in Jerusalem, and that city is forty-one
miles away. We may take camel or horse
or portunity carriage. As to-day will be ouy last op¬
in Palestine for taking the wheel
We choose that. The horses, with harness
tasseled and jingling, are hitched, and. with
a front, dragoman in coat of many colors seated in
we start on a road which unveils in
twelve hours enough to think of for all time
and all eternity. Farewell, Mediterranean,
with such a blue as no one but the Divine
Chemist could mix, and such a fire of morning
glow as only the Divine Illuminator could
Kindle. Hail; mountains of Ephraim and
Judea, whose ramparts of rock wo shall
mount in a few hours; for modern engineers
-can make a road anywhere, and, without
scale piling Ossa upon Pelion, those giants can
the heavens.
Wo start out of the city amid barricades
of cactus on either side. Not cacti in boxes
two or three feet high, but cactus higher
than the top of the carriage—a plant that
has more swords for defense, considering
the amount of beauty it can exhibit, than
anything created. We passed out amid
about four hundred gardens, seven or eight
acres to the garden, from which at the
right seasons are plucked oranges, lemons, and
figs, olives, citron and pomegranates, be¬
which hold up their censors of perfume
fore the Lord in perpetual praise. We meet
great processions of camels loaded with kegs
of Mohammedan oil and with fruits, and some wealthy
with four wives—three too
many.
The camel is a proud, mysterious, solemn,
ancient, ungainly, majestic and ridiculous
shape, with his stalking whip taps out of the tho camel past. on The the driver fore¬
leg, But and he kneels to take you as a rider.
when he rises hold fast or you will
fall off backward as he puts his fore feet
in standing posture, and then you will fall
off in front as his back legs take their
place. although But the I inhabitants find the riders are use to dis¬ his
ways, often
mount and walk as though to rest them*
Selves. Better stand out of the path of the
camel—he stops for nothing and seems not
to look down; and in the street! saw a
child by the stroke of a camel’s front foot
hurled seven or feet the
ground. Here
and hands we meet people with in faces and arms
tattoo their tattooed, as all lands sailors
arms with some favorite ship
or admired face. It was to this habit of
tattooing among the orientals that God
refers in a figure when he says of his church,
“I have graven thee on tho palms of my
hands.”
sandy, Many of these regions are naturally
but by irrigation they are made
fruitful, and as in this irrigation the brooks
and rivers are turned this way and that to
Water the gardens or farms, so the Bible
says, “The king’s heart is in the hands of the
Lord, and he turneth it as the rivers of water
are turned whithersoever he will.”
, hundred As we pass out and on we find about Universal eight
iferaelitish acres alliance. belonging Montefiore, to the tho Israelite
Mi centenarian and philanthropist, and
Rothschild, the banker, and others of the
largo hearted have paid the passage to Pales-
tine for many of the Israelites, and set apart
lauds for their culture; and it is only a be-
ginningof the fulfillment of divine possession prophecy. of
wheu Holy t hese Land. people The shall road take from Joppa to
the
Jerusalem, and all tho roads leading to
Nazareth and Galilee, wesaw lined withpro-
cessions of Jews going to the sacred settlers. places. All
either on holy pilgrimage or as
where they are among our best citizens, and
-cross two seas to begin life over again in «
strange land. in
But the outrages heaped upon thorn
Russia, and tho insults offered them in Ger-
many, will soon quadruple and centuple Pal¬ the
procession of Israelites from Russia to
estine. Facilities for getting there will be
multiplied, not only in the railroad from
Joppa to Jerusalem, to which I referred last
Sabbath as being built, but permission for a
road from Damascus to tho Bay of Acre has
been obtained, and that of course will soon
connect with Joppa and make one great
ocean shore railroad. So the railroad from
Jerusalem to Joppa, and from Joppa to Da-
mascus, will soon bring all the Holy Jewish Laud
within a few hours of connection.
colonization societies in England and Russia
are gathering money for the transportation for the
of the Israelites to Palestine, and
purchase for them of lands and farming im¬
plements, and so many desire to go that it
is decided by lot as to which families shall go
first.
They were God’s
! and He has promised to bring them back in to
f their home, aud there is no power one
| thousand or five thousand years to make
; God forget His promises. Those who are
a prosp red in other lands will do well to stay
1 where they are. But let the Israelites who
are depreciated and towards attacked the and. rising persecuted of
A turn their faces sun
their deliverance. Cod will gather in that
distant land those of that race who lmve
, maltreated, and He will blast with the
been those lands
lightnings of His omnipoteuce which have been on
either side of the Atlantic
the instruments of annoyance and harm to
i that Jewish race, to w hich belonged Baron Abra-
bam and David and Joshua aud
H B Hirsch and Montefiore and Jesus Paul the Christ Apostle the
and Mary the Virgin and
Lord. On of Sharon
K the way across the plain It is respect- we
meet many veiled women. not
I; able for them to go unveiled, and it is a veil
F that is so hung as to make them hideous. A
I man may not even see engagement the face of his of wife
until after betrothal or mar-
riage. Hence the awful mistakes and the
unhappy homes, for God has made the face
f an index of character, aud honesty or dishon-
esty usually is demonstrated in the features.
I I do not see w hat God made a fair face for if
I It were not to be looked at. But here down come the
■ the crowds of disfigured women bundles of sticks
Rfor road on their way to Joppa, heads. They started
fire wood on their
at three o’clock in the morning to get the
1 ’ fuel. They stagger under the burdens.
Whipped and beaten will some of them be if
their bundle of sticks is too small. All that
is required for divorcement is for a man to
say to his wife, “Be off, I don’t w&ntyou any
1 more.” Woman a slave in all lands, except
f those her in which the Gospel in Christian of Christ countries makes
a queen. And yet
, there are women posing as skeptics, and men
0 with famiiy deriding the only religion that
I makes sacred and honorable the names of
t; wife, mother, daughter and sister.
L What is that? Town of Ramleh, birth-
B place, residence and tomb of Samuel the
glorious Martyrs, prophet. called Near because by, Tower of Forty
so that number ol
disciples but towers perished had there been for built Christ’s sake;
if for aU those
who in the time of war as in time of peace
have fallen on this road during the ages
past you might almost walk on turrets from
Joppa to Jerusalem.
Now castles we of passed chopped the guard houses, which
are straw and mud where
at night and partly through bandits the day armed
men dwell and keep the off travelers.
In the caves of these mountains dwell men
to whom massacre would be high play and
a purse with a few pennies would be com¬
pensation enough for the struggle that the
savage might have with the wayfarer.
There is only one other defense that amounts
to much in these lands aud that is the law of
nospicanty, ir you can get an Arao to eat
with you, if only one mouthful, you are sure
of his protection, and that has been so from
age to age. The Lord’s supper was built on
that custom, a special To friendship after Wal¬ par¬
taking food together. that custom “Talisman,”
ter Scott refers in his immortal
where Saladin, with one stroke of the sword,
strikes the head from an enemy who stands
in Saladin’s tent with a cup in his hand and
before he has time to put it to his lip, and
does it so suddenly that the body of his en¬
emy, beheaded, stands for a moment after
tne oeneaaing, with the cup still m sipped his right
hand. After the cup had been it
would have been impossible, according to the
laws of the oriental hospitality, to give the
fatal blow.
The only lands where it is safe to travel
unarmed are Christian lands. _ Human life ia
more highly valued and personal glad to rights believe are
better respected, and I am
that in our country, from the Atlantic ocean
to the Pacific ocean, thorn is not a place to¬
day where a man is not safer without journeys a pistol
than with one. But all through our
in Palestine we required firearms. While the
only weapon I had on my person was a New
Testament we went through the region where
I said to tho dragoman: “David, are “Are you
irmed?” and he said “Yes,” and I said:
those fifteen or twenty muleteers and hag-
gage men and attendants armed?” and ha
said “Yes,” and I felt safer.
On we roll through the plain of Sharon.
Here grew the rose after which Christ was
named, Rose of Sharon, celebrated in all
Christendom and throughout all ages.
There has been controversy as to what flow¬
er it was. Some say it was a marshmallow
that thrives here,, and some claim this honor
ror tne narcissus, and some for the blue iris,
and some for tho scarlet anemone, for you
must know that this plain of Sharon is a roll¬
ing ocean of color But when Raving the spring botanists breezes in
move across it, what it is, I the would take the
controversy as to and beautiful of them all and
most aromatic
twist them into a garland for the “name
which is above every name."
Yonder, a little to the north as wo move
on, is the plain of Ono. The Bible mentions
it again aud again. The village standing; on
this plain of Ono is a mud village. Two
great basins of rock catch the rains for the
people. Of more importance in olden time
than in modern time was this plain of Ono.
But as the dragoman announced it and in the
Bible I read of it I was reminded of the vasl
multitude of people who now dwell in the
plain of Ono. They are. by their nervous
constitution or by their lack of faith in God,
always in the n-'native. Will you help to
build a church? On, no! enterprise? Will you start Oh, oul nol
in some new Christian
Do you think tho world is getting any bet¬
ter? Oh, no! They lie down in the path ol
all good movements, sanitary, political and
religious. They harness their horses with no
traces to pull ahead, but only breeching
straps to hold back. For all Christian work
I would not give for a thousand of them the
price of a clipped ten cent piece. Lord They multi¬ are
in the plain of Oh, no! May the anything
ply the numbers of those who w-hen
good is undertaken are found to live in the
plain of Oh, yes! Will you support this now
charity? Oh, yes! Do you think that this
victim of evil habit can be reformed? Oh,
yes! whether Are obscure you willing resounding, to do for anything, the wel¬
or
fare of the church and the salvation of a
world? Oh. yes! But, l am sorry to say
that the most populous plain in all the earth
to-day is the plain of Ono.
Here now we come where stood the fields
Into which Samson fired the foxes. The
foxes are no rarity in this land. I counted
at one time twenty or thirty of them in one
group, and the cry all along the line was
*‘Foxes 1 Look at the foxes! ’ and at night
they sometimes bark until all attempts and to
sleep are an absurdity. Thoso I saw
heard in Palestine might have been descend¬
ants of the very foxes that Samson The employed wealth
for an appalling incendiarism.
of that land was in the harvests, and it Three was
harvest time and the caught straw and was tied dry. in couples
hundred foxes are which
by some wire or incombustible cord
the flames cannot divide, and firebrands are
fastened to those couples of foxes, and the
affrighted creatures are let loose and run
every whither among the harvests, and in
the awful blazo down go the corn shocks, and
the vineyards, aud the olives, and all through the
the valleys and over the hills and among
villages is heard the cry of “Fire!” And in
the burnt pathway walk hunger aud want
and desolation. theologians
All this for spite. And some
learn one thing and some another. But I
learn from it that a great piece man of may business, some
times stoop to a very mean much
and that if men would use as ingenu-
Itv in trying to bless as they do in trying to
destroy, the world all the way down would
be in better condition. Yet tbo fire of the
foxes kindled that night in Palestine has not
gone out, but has leaped the seas, aud the sly
foxes, the human foxes, are now still run¬
ning everv whither, kindling political of hate, fires,
fires of religious controversy, fires
world wide fires and the whole harvest of
righteousness perish. It took the hard work
of multitudes on these plains of Palestine for
months and months to rear the vine aCnd raise
the com, but it took only three hundred
worthless foxes one night to blaza all into
ashes. that
Brace up your nerves now, you may
look while I point them out. Yonder is Kir-
jath-Jearim, where the ark of God staid un¬
til David took it to Jerusalem. Yonder John
the Baptist was born. Yonder is Ernmaus, at
where Christ walked with his disciples only
eventide. Here are men plowing, the one of
handle to the plow, showing plow accuracy in America
Christ’s allusion. When we
or England there are two hands on two
handles, but in Palestine only one handle.
And so Christ used the singular saying, “>io
man having put his hand to the plow and
looking back is fit for the kingdom.” The ox
is urged on by a wooden stick pointe i with
sharp iron, and the ox knows enough not tc
kick, for he would only hurt himself instead
of breaking the goad, And the Bible refers
to that when it says to Saul, “It is har J for
thee to kick agaiust the goads.” Ajalon, famous for
Here is the valley of thi
Joshua’s pursuit of the five kings and
lunar arrest. And in imagination I see thi
moon in daytime halt. Who has not s une-
times seen the moon dispute the throne with
the sun? But when the king of day and th«
queen of night, who never before Joshua’s
time nor since then stopped a moment in
their march, halted at Joshua's command it
was a scene, enough to make tho univers*
shiver: “Moon, stand thou still in the vallej
of Ajalon *" At another time we will see thi
sun stop above Gibeon.but now we have only
to do with the moon, and you must remem
Itor ir. was more of an orb than it is now. II
13 a nurnt out world now, a dead world now.
an extinct world now, a corpse laid out in
state in the heavens, waiting for the judg-
ment day to bury it. But' on the day of
which I speak the moon was probably a liv-
ing world, yet it halted at the wave of Josh-
ua’s inch finger, “Stand thou still!” Do not budge
an until Joshua finishes those five kings,
who i are there tumbling over the rocks,sword
of sky man pelting slashing them, hailstones out of tho
them.
And there is the cavern of Makkedah,
where they fled for safety, and where they
were afterward locked in and from which
they were taken out to be slain, and in which
they were afterward buried, and you do
well to examine that cavern, for within a
few hours it became three things which no
other cave ever was—fortress, prison,
sepulcher.
.Now we pass the place where once lived _
one of tho greatest robbers of the country,
Abou Gosh by name. From this point you
see he could look over the surrounding coun-
him try, and the plan long before the travelers came up to
for taking of their money or
their life, or both, was consumated. He one
day found a company of monks who would
not pay, and he smothered them to death in
a hot oven. In his last days he lived here
like an oriental prince, and had attendants
and admirers to whom he told his stories of
brigandage and assassination. So late as
when our eminent and beloved American,
William C. Prime, passed through, Abou
Gosh, the scoundrelly Bedouin, sat at his
doorway livein this smoking village, his pipe. His descendants
honest than their distinguished and probably ancestor, are no mor but
marauding ana murder are not as safe a
business now as when all this route to
Jerusalem was subjected to outrages pan-
demoniac. '
Here we pass the village of Latrun, home
of the penitent thief, the village, a few strag-
gling houses on steep hills, rising from the
valley earlier of days Ajalon. the thief Up these carried steep hills the in spoils his
had
of arson and burglary, and down them he
had born the heavier burden of a hills guilty he
mouuted heart. But after higher had than repented, these from the
he
transfixed posture on the cross to the bosom
of a forgiving God.
Now we come to the brook Elah, from
which little David took the smooth stones
with which he prostrated Goliath. There is
a bridge spanning the ravine, but at the sea-
son we crossed there is not a drop of water
in the brook. We went down into the ravine
and walked amid the pebbles that had been
washed smooth, very smooth, by the rush of
the waters through all' the ages. There is
whore David armed himself. He walked
around ana picked up five of these polished
pebbles. He got them of just the right size. that
He prepared himself for five volleys, so
if the giant escaped the first he will not es¬
cape the whole five. The topography of the
place so corresponds with the Bible story
that I could see the memorable fight go on.
It is the only fight I ever did watch.
Pugilism 1 abhor; but here were two cham¬
pions—the one God appointed, the other
Satan appointed, and deciding the destiny of
a nation, the destiny of a world. It was a
Marathon, an Arbela, a Waterloo, a Blen¬ ri"ht
heim. a Sedan, concentrated into two
arms. Here are two ridges of mountains 500
feet high, the Philistines on one ridge, the Is¬
raelites on the other ridge. The fight is in
the valley between, at that season shaded
and sweet with terebinth and acacia, David
the champion for the Israelites, Goliath the
champion for the Philistines, David under¬
sized and almost effeminate, only a mouth¬
ful for Goliath, who was nearly ten feet high.
They advance to meet each other, but the
Bible says that David made the first step
forward. Nearer and nearer they come,
but I do not think David will wait until he
comes within reach of Goliath’s sword, for
that would be fata), and David has a weapon
with which he can fight at long range.
Closer and closer they come, but David ad¬
vances tho more rapidly. “Come to me,”
said the giant, “and I will give the thy.flesh beasts
unto the fowls of tho air and to
of the field.” You see Goliath going to
give David for a banauet to the vulture
and jackal. He, the mountain of flesh, will
fall over on that little hillock. I hear him
laugh through the mouthpiece of his hel¬
met. He will toast tho little whiffet on the
top of his long sword. He will call all the
crows for a breakfast. “Come to me, you
contemptible little fellow, and I will make
quick work with you. The idea that a five-
tooter should daro to come out against a
ten-rooter T Let the two armies David looking respond¬ down
from the ridges watch me!”
ed, “I come to thee in the name of the
Lord of Hosts!” Aha! that is the right
kind of battle shout. “In the name of the
Lord of Hosts!”
How that cry
Sumpt! Ho who lights in that spirit dwarf wins
the day. The almost Israelitish en¬
larges into omnipotent proportions. The
moment to strike has come. David takes
his sling, with a ston 9 in it. aud whirls it
round his head until he has put the weapon
into sufficient momentum, and then, taking
sure aim, hurls it. The giant throws up his
hands and reels back and falls. The stone
sank into his forehead. That was the only
available point of attack. But bow about
the helmet on his head? Did the stone that
David flung crush through the helmet? No.
An old rabbi says he thinks that when Go¬
liath scoffed at David the giant so suddenly
and contemptuously jerked up his head that
the helmet fell off. That is like enough.
David saw the bare forehead, a foot the high, and
aimed at the centre of it, and skull
cracked and shook broke in like an eggshell, and
the ground as this great oak of a mili¬
tary chieftain struck it. Huzza for David!
But we must hasten on,for the dange now
is that night will be upon us before we reach
Jerusalem. Oh! we must see it before sun¬
down. We with are clifhbing the hills uplands which rising are
terraced olive groves,
above uplands, until we come to an immen¬
sity of 'barrenness, gray rocks leaf, above bush, gray
rocks, where neither tree, nor nor
nor grass blade can grow. The horses stum¬
ble, and slip and puil, till it seems the har¬
ness must break. Solemnity and awe take
possession of us. Though a vivacious jocularity party,
and during part of the day had
reigned, now no one spoke a word except to
say to the dragoman, “Tell us when you get
the first glimpse of the city.” I never had
such high expectation of seeing any place a3
of seeing Jerusalem. I think my feelings of
may have been slightly akin to those the
Christian just about to enter the heavenly
Jeruslaem. My ideas of the earthly Jerusa¬
lem were bewildering. Had I not seen pic¬
tures of it? Oh, yes; but they only increased
the bewilderment. They were taxen rrom a
variety of standpoints.
If twenty artists attempt to sketch Brook¬
lyn or New York or London or Jerusalem
they will plant their cameras at different
places and take as many different pictures, sacred
but in a few minutes I shall see the
city with my own eyes. Over another shoul¬
der of the hill we go,and nothing in sight but
rocks and mountains and awful gulches be¬
tween them, which make the head swim if
vou look down. On and up, on and up,until reined
the lathered and smoking horses front, are and
in. and the dragoman rises in
points eastward, crying “Jerusalem!” It was
mightier than an electric shock. We all rose.
There it lay, the prize of nations, the terrmuus
of famous pilgrimages, the object ot Roman
and crusading wars, and for it Assyrians had
fought and Egyptians had fought and the
world had fought—the place where the Queen
of Sheba visited and Richard Coeur de Lien
had conquered. Borne of Solomon; home ol
Ezekiel; home of Jeremiah; home of David’j Isaiah}
home of Saladin. Mount Zion of
heartbreak, and Mount Moriah, where the
sacrifices smoked; Mount of Olives, where
Jesus preached, and Gethsemane; where He
agonized, and Golgotha, where He died, and
the holy sepulcher where He was buried. O
Jerusalem! Jerusalem! Greatest city on
earth, and type of the city celestial!
After I have been teu thousand years in
heaven the memory of that first view from
the rocks on the afternoon of December 2
will be as vivid as now. An Arab on a horse
that was like a whirlwind, bitted and sad-
died and spurred, its mane and flanks jet as
the night—and there are no such horsemen
as Arab horsemen—had come far out to meet
ns and invite us to his hotel inside the gates,
But arrangements had been made for us to
stay at a hotel outside the gates. In the dusk
of evening we baited in front of the place and
entered, nut I said: “No; thank you for
your courteous reception. but I must slean
to-nignt inside me gates of J erusaiem. t
would rather have the poorest place inside
the gates than the best place outside.” So
we remounted our coach and moved on amid
a ciamor of voices, and between camels
grunting with great beams and timbers on
their backs, brought in for building camel purposes
—for it is amazing how much a can
carry—until we came to what is called the
Joppa Gate of Jerusalem. It is about forty
feet wide, twenty feet -deep and sixty feet
high. There is a sharp turn just after you
have entered, so planned as to make the en-
trance of armed enemies the more difficult,
On the structure of these gates the safety
of Jerusalem depended, and all the Bible
writers used them for illustrations. Within
five minutes’ walk of the gate we entered
David wrote, “Enter into your' thy heads, gates O with
thanksgiving,” “Lift up ye
gates!” •‘The Lord loveth the gates of Zion,”
“Open to me the gates of righteousness.” through
And Isaiah wrote. “Go through, go
the gates.” And the captive of Patmos
wrote. “The city had twelve gates.” Having
passed the gate we went on throug h tho
narrow streets, dimly lighted, and passed the to
our baiting place, and sat down by
window, from which we could see Mount
Zion, and said: “Here we are at last, in the
capital of the whole earth.” And thoughts
of the past and the future rushed through my of
soul in quick succession, and I thought
that odd hymn, sung by so many ascending
spirits:
Jerusalem, my happy home,
Name ever clear to me!
When shall my labors have an end,
In joy and peace and thee?
When shall these eyes thy heav'n built wails
And pearly gates behold?
Thy bulwarks with shining salvation gold? strong,
And streets of
And so with our hearts full all of the gratitude from to
God for journeying mercies way
Joppa anticipation to Jerusalem, of entrance and into with the shining bright
our
gate of the heavenly city when earthly Pales¬
journeys are over, my second day in
tine is
Turkeys Routed by Grasshoppers.
Farmer James C. Fairchild, of the up¬
per Paupack region in Pennsylvania, grasshoppers as¬
serts that has never known
to be as thick in that place as they have
been during the past August. In a tliree-
acre field of late rye the insects were so
numerous that they ate all the blades off
the stalks and sucked all the juice out of
them before the crop was ripe. One day
Farmer Fairchild left his white vest at the
edge of the lot, and when he went to put
it on at night he found that the grasshop¬ in it.
pers had eaten hundreds of holes
The grasshoppers seemed to increase sev¬
eral fold each day in that particular field,
and it appeared to him as though they full
came out of the ground nearly
grown. As the put into the
socn as rye was
barn, he turned the turkeys into the stub¬
ble. A high stone wall surrounds the
lot, and the turkeys drove the hordes of
grasshoppers ahead of them and gobbled
up what they wanted. millions One day of the tur¬ in¬
keys drove apparently the
sects into a corner of the field. They
couldn’t get over the wall or through it,
and several bushels of the grasshoppers, turned
Farmer Fairchild declared, upon
his flock of turkeys and came within an
ace of swamping them. The fowls were
completely covered with grasshoppers,
and the insects kept coming at them so
thick and fast that the turkeys finally
took to their legs and wings, and went
squalling toward the centre of the lot a*
though something had scared them half
to death.
After a little, one of the gobblers ral¬
lied the flock, and led them bark to the
corner. He gobbled a number of times
on the way, and the other tom turkeys
marched abreast of him and gobbled de¬
fiantly at the grasshoppers, the hens
bringing up the rear and talking saucily
as they marched. Well up toward the
corner of the field the flock spread out,
and in a moment innumerable wings were
buzzing toward the wall. Pretty soon
the grasshoppers were as thick in the
corner as they had been before. There
wasn’t room for them all, and again they
turned upon the turkeys aud the turkeys
turned tail in an instant, skedaddled
across the lot, and flew over the bars into
the roadway. The fowls had plainly
been badly scared by the Fairchild grasshoppers,
and since then Farmer has
been unable to get his turkeys to stay in
the rye field for ten minutes at a time.
Curiosity Did It.
Book agents follow the motto, “When
everything else fails, try curiosity,” and
usually wins. Au old gentleman south
of this city, who had thrown book agents
over the fence, allowed his curiosity bi¬ to
lead him down to the fence to see a
cycle go by. Just as the young gentle¬
man came up to the gate something stopped went
wrong with the wheel, and he
to fix it. The old man kindly offered
his aid, and the wily agent slipped till a
book into the victim’s hand to hold
the wheel was fixed. The conversation
turned from the bicycle to the book, and
the former was repaired about the time
the farmer was ready to subscribe to well two
of the latter. When the name was
inscribed and the bicyclist out of hearing,
the old man scratched his head in a i athci
dazed way and said: “I’ll be hanged if
that ain’t a book agent.”—Indianapolis
(Ind.) News.
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A Letter from an Eminent Di¬
vine in Regard to the Best
Medicine in the World.
Read.
Wonclorful Cures.
Atlanta, Ga., January 2, 1890.
Six months ago, at the request of a
friend who was interested in the sale of
King’s Royal Germetuer, I made a writ¬
ten statement of the benefits I had re¬
ceived from the use of that medicine. In
that statement I expressed the belief that
it would cure me entirely of catarrh.
Within the last two months I have re¬
ceived letters from every quarter of the
nation calling on me for further informa¬
tion in regard to my health. It has been
impossible for me to write privately to
each person who has made this request,
and I am therefore under the necessity cf
making another public catarrh. statement. believe
I am free from I that
I could get a certificate to this effect from
any competent physician. I have used
no medicine within the last six months
except King's Royal Germetuer. My
health is better than it has been in thirty
years. I am in possession saying of information that the
which warrants me in re¬
lief which I have experienced from the
use of the medicine is not more certain
and radical than that which it has
brought to hundreds of persons in Geor¬
gia and other States.
I feel it to be my duty to say, also, that
the effects of this remedy upon my wife
have been even more signal and wonder¬
ful. She has been almost a life-long in¬
valid from Nervous Headache, Neuralgia
and Rheumatism. In a period of thirty
years she has scarcely had a day’s exemp¬
tion from pain. She has been using Ger-
meteur about two months. A more com¬
plete transformation I have never wit¬
nessed. Every symptom of disease has
disappeared. She appears to be twenty
years younger, and is as happy and play¬
ful as a healthy child. We have persua¬
ded many of our friends to take the med¬
icine, and the testimony of all of them is
that it is a great remedy.
J. B. Hawthokne.
Pastor First Baptist Church.
Royal Germeteur builds up
first dose, the patient quickly feeling its
invigorating and health-giving influence.
It increases the appetite, aids digestion,
clears the complexion, regulates the liver,
kidneys, etc., and speedily brings bloom
to the cheek, strength to the body and
joy to the heart. For weak and debili¬
tated females it is without a rival or a
peer. suffering with disease and
If you are
fail of a cure, send stamp for printed
matter, certificates, etc.
For sale by the King’s Royal Germe¬
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$1.50 per concentrated bottle, which
makes one gallon of medicine as per di¬
rections accompanying each bottle. Can
oe sent by express C. O. I). if your drug¬
gist cannot supply you. ly
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