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*H6 BANNER-WATCHMAN, A1»*KS, AO, MARCH, ty
M«a than lire fifty yean in the flneet
house on Malison square and wake up at
laet and And that one of you, for all eternity,
is oatiidq the ark. Go borne to-night, lock
the door of your room, take up the Bible and
readit'togiiufofvand then kneel down and
oommfcnd your souls to him who bee watched
yon all tbeM yean; and, before you rite,
there will be a fluttering of winge over your
bead, angel crying to angel; "Behold, they
pray."
Bat this doeaoot Include all yottr family.
Bring the children too, God bleat the deer
children I What would our hornet lie without
them I We may hare done much for them.
They bare done more for us. Whet attire
for a woanded heart there it in tbesaftjriJn
of a child's hhndl Did harp or flute ever
hare such muslo at there it in a child's "good
night!” From our eoane, rough life the
angels of Odd are often driver. back; but who
cornet into the nnraery without feeling that
angels ore hovering around! They who die
in Infancy go Into glory, but you ore expect
ing your children to grow up in this world.
It it not a question then that rings through
all the corridors, and windings, and heights
and depths of your eonl, what is to become of
your sons and daughters for time and far
eternity. “Oh!” you say, “I mean to tee that
they have good manners.” Very well. “I
mean to dram thorn well, if 1 havo myself to
go shabby.” Vary good. "I shall give them
an education and I shall leave them n for
tune,” Very welt But is that oil! Don’t
you mean to take them into the ark! Don’t
you know that the storm is coming, end that
Cut of Christ there h no safety, no pardon,
DO llODO. DO bCATnl
Howto get them fast Go in yonrtdf. If
Roth hod staid out, do you not suppose tint
his eons, Sham, Ham and Japhet, would
have staid out! Tonr sou tad daughters
will be apt to do justao you do. Reject
Christ yourself, tad the probability ie that
your children will reject him.
An account wee taken of the rellgiuiw con
dition of families in e certain district. In the
families of pious tsusalB two-thirds of the
children were Christiana Id the families
where the parents were ungodly, only one-
twelfth of the children were Christians. Re
sponsible at yoo ora for their tampon! exis
tence, you ore also responsible far their eter
nity. Which way will you take them! Out
Into the deluge, or Into the ark! Her# you
ever mode one earnest payer for their lm-
mortel souls! What will yon say In the
judgment, when God asks; “Where it Oeoige,
or Hairy, or Freak, or Kory, or Anna!
Where are theta precious souls whose Inter-
tots I oommitted Into your hander
A dying sen told to his father; "Father,
you gave me an education, and good man
ners, and everything that the world coaid do
forme; bat, father, you never told me bow
to die, and now my soul k going out in tha
dor know."
Go homo and erect a family altar. You
may break down in your prayer. But never
mind, God will take whet yon math, whether
yon exprea it Intelligibly or not Bring ell
your bouse into the ark. b there one eon
whom you hare given npl bhssodiaipated
that you have Ihmjpid counseling and pray
ing! Give him up! How dare yoo rive him
up! Did God ever give that up! Whilst
thou best e single articulation of speech left
cease not to prey for the return ot that prod-
ana fiords Of Metis; bra wfll Walt
until we get a HtUo oldor; we will enjoy oar
old farm a little laager.” But mean while the
storm woe brewing. Tha fountains of heaven
'were filling op. The pry woe being pieced
beneath the foundations of the great deep.
The last year had coifit, the lest month, the
but week, the laet day, the lost hoar, the hut
moment, In an awfbl dash, an ocean dropped
from thesky and rolled up from beneath, and
God rolled the earth and ekyinto one wave
of universal destruction.
. Bo men now pat off going Into the ark.
They say they will wait twenty yearn tint
They will have e little longer time wtth their
worldly aomdotea They will wait antfl they
get older. They esy you cannot expect a
man of my attainmenta and of my position to
•mrenderhiyaeif just now. But before the
atoms comes I will go in. Yea, I will I
knowwbat lam about Trust me. After
awhile, one night about 19 o’clock, going
borne, he peases a scaffolding os a gust of
wfnd strikes it and a plank falls. Dead! and
outside the ark! Or, riding; in the park,'a
reckless vehicle crashes into him, and Ills
harm becomes unmanageable, and he shouts;
"Whoa I Wheat" and takes another twfat to
the reins and plants hie feet against the dosh-
board, and pulls beck, Bat tiu use, It is
not so much down tbs avenue that bs
files as on the way to eternity. Out of the
wreck of tha crash his body is drawn, but his
aoul is not picked up. It fled behind a ewifter
courser into the great future. Dead, and out
side the ark! Or rom* night be wakes up
with a dlstreoe that momentarily Increases,
until he shrieks out with pain. The doctors
come In and they gits him twenty drops, but
no relief; forty drope, fifty drops, sixty drops,
hut no relief. No tune for prayer. No time
fie nad one of the promisee. No time to get
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a single sin pardoned. The whole boose Is
wife taints; the pnltae foil; the heart stops;
the sanl flies. Oh. my God I dead, and oataide
theark]
I-have no doubt that derision kept nan],
people out of the ark The world laughed to
sees man go In and said; "Hera b a man
starting for th* ark Why, there Will ha 00
deluge. If there Is one that miserable ship
will not weather it. Aha! going Into tha
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fellows, bAve you heard the newt! This nun
Is going Into the ark” Under this Artillery
•of scorn tho man's good' resolution perished.
And so there on hundreds kept out by the
fear of derision. Tbs young man asks him
self: “What would they any at tha etore to
morrow morning if I should becomes Chris-
'.tlahf When I go down to tha club bpaae thay
DXjuP-Tho Ills at Indlgrttlons
yamjiT/ With every trouble,echo
5jp£ v ThaTf-lilon'a In tho Mliout
Will scatter llko tho thieves of nlsht
before a draught of Scltsor bright.
tr, give ns a touch. WIU
ity Christian you are.’” Is
ring laughed at that keeps
igdom of God! Which of
help you at Gw lest! When
dying pillow which of them
the day of eternity will
vlUU 10 iuUU vrerkin* for i
fvrred wno can fdrnitb tbclr •
giro their * hole Urn* to tho hi
moment* m»y bo profitably tm
few fa cor cle» In town* and
JOHNSON * CO., 101! Mala 8t.,
tuarl7dtiwlm.
now silent forever, ho cried: “Th® Ldrd’ga^
tha Lord hath taken away; blcmed be tha
name of the Lord." "The Lord abut him in."
AU the sine of a Bfattom clamored for his
overthrow. The broken vowe, the dishonored
Sabbaths, the outrageous profanities the
miedenmtnurs of twenty years, reached Xp
their hands to the door of the ark to pull Mux
out Tha boundless ooean of his sin rjr-
roanded Ua eonl, bowling like « ipgj
raring UKe an euroolyson. Bat, looking oat
proposed lint of advertising la America
papers. IN page pamphlet, rv, marl
oat toward yon.
me and be happy.
Igal Ha
beach at Hong Kong or Madras, meditating
a return to his tether's house, Give him up!
Never gin him up, Has God promised to
hear thy prayer only to mock thee! It is not
too lata
In St. PanFo, London, there is a whispering
gallery. A voice uttered moat feebly ig amt
ride of the gallery Is beard distinctly at tbs
opposite side, a great distonoe off. Bo every
word of earnest prayer goes an around the
earth and makes heaven a whispering gallery.
Go Into the ark—not to eit down, hntto stand
hi the door and cell untB all the family come
In. Aged Noah, where ia Japhet! David,
where le Absalom! Hannah, where Is Samnel!
Bring them at snrougfi cartst, tae floor.
Would it not be pleemnt to tpwd eternity
with onrtemfflari Gladder than Christinas
Or Thanksgiving fastival will baths reunion
if we get all our family into the ark Which
of them can we spore oat of haares!
of tbs window, be Saw his sins gink like
into the depths of the sea. Tha dot
heaven brought on olive branch to the
The wrath of the btnow only pushed hi
ward heaven. “The Lord shut him in."
1 The same door faafcaingttfaht'ksfjt$c
keep the world out. lamgladto know
when a man isaefcps heaven nil as
troubles ere done with him. Hen be
have tad it bard to gi* bread for Ids fai
there bewUl never hanger any lhora
ha mfiy have wrpt bittarly; there "the ;
that is in tho midst of tbs throne *ffl
him to Bring fountains of water, and
will wipe away all tears frooq his eyes,”
he may Jtava hard work iore* a house;
fa my fhtherb bouse are many mansions
reotday never eimmt, Here there eta <
W. L. DOUGLAS
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your children to Christ, but yon cannot co-
arothamu Tbs croeswao lifted, not to drive,
but to draw. «H Lb* lifted op, I WiB drew
oil men unto me.” tAatfiMudfam np the
drop, of morning dow, so.tbe etmof righteous-
father and two daughters journeying. They
•earned extremely poor. A benevolent gen
tleman stepped up to the poor man to proffer
emn* form of relief, and sold; "You mam to
bo very poor, sir.” "Poor, sir," replied tho
Bum, "if there’s a poorer mu than me
atroublfag tho world, God pity both of ns I"
•I will toko one of your children and adopt
it if you say so, I think it would bo a great
relief to you." “A what I” said the poor man.
“A relief." "Would It bo a relief to have the
hands chopped off from the body or the heart
tom from the breast I A relief, indeed! God
be good to us I What doyou mean, sirl"
However manj children we meybava. Sa
hara none to give up, Which, of our fami
lies; can ere afford to spare out of bsaven!
dome; /ether! Come, mother! Come, son!
Come, daughter! Come, brother! Coosa,
sister! Only oua step, and we are in. Christ,
the door, swings eut to admit ua; and it knot
the booraenees of eetormy Most that yoo hear,
but the voice Of a loving and patient God
that addresses yon, saying: “Coma thou and
all thy boas) into tha ark"'
And those may tha Lcrishstarfa.
hifd day’s work; but tho rubbing of tha work
against the ring only auuie it shine brighter.
8*11 that rfageverbe lost! Will the iron
dadgof the sepulchre gate crush it forever)
I prey God that you who'havs been married
•on earth may be together in heaven. Oh! by
the quiet bUrnot your earthly home; by the
babe's credit; by all tha vows of that day
When you started Ufa together, ! bag yoo ID
aw fiflt that you both get Intoihoark
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A MEDICINE, NOT A DRINK.
High Authority.
Hop Bitters is not, in any sense, an
Alcoholic beverage or liquor, and could
not be sold, tor use, except to persons
desirous of obtaining medicinal bitters.
GREEN B. RAUM,
U. 8. Com’r Internal Rev.
Washington, D. C., Sept. 24, 1884.
Dear Sir—Why don’t you get n certifi
cate from Col. W. II. W., of Baltimore,
showing how ho cured himself of drunk-
eness by tho help of Hop Bitters. Ills is
a wonderful case. He is well known in
Rochester, N. Y., by nil tho drinking
people there. He is known in this city,
Cincinnati, New Orleans, New York; in
fact ail over tiio country, as lie 1ms spent
thousands of dollars fnr rum. 1 honestly
believable card would he worth thousands
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more alone, and make thousands of sober
men by inducing the use of your hitters.
J. A W.
Prejudice Kills,
"Eleven years our daughter suffered
on a bed of misery under the care of
several of the best .physicians, who gave
her, disease various names hut no relief,
and’ new she is restored to us in good
health by Hop Bitters, that we had
poohed at two years before using it. Wo
earnestly hope and pray that no one
else will let their sick suffer ns we did,
on account of prejudice ngninst so gootl
a medicine ns Hop Bitters.’ 1 — The Parents
—Good Templars.
Milton, Del., Feb. 10,1880.
Having used Hop Bitters, tho noted
remedy for debility, nervousness, indi
gestion, etc., I have no hesitation in say
ing that it is indeed nn excellent medicine
and- recommend it to any one us a truly
tonic billers. Respectfully,
Rev. Sins. J. H. ELI-GOOD.
Seipio, JK T., Dec. 1, 1884.
I am the pastor of the Baptist church
hero and au educated physician. I am
not in practice, but am my sole family
physician, and advise In chronic cases.
Over a year ago I recommended your
Hop Bitters to my invalid wife, who lias
been under incdicul treatment of Albany's
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cated diseases liy their use. Wo both
recommend thorn to our friends, many of
whom have also ticen cured of their vari
ous aliments by them.
Kev. E. R. WARREN.
Cur^d of Drinking.
“A young friend of mine was cured of
anlnsntiabio thirst for liquor that had so
prostrated his system that be was unable
to do any business. He wus entirely cured
by the use of Hop Bitters. It allayed all
that burning thirst; took away the appe
tite for liquor; made his nerves ateady;
and he has remained a steady and lober
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of a number of others that have been
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DR. TALMAGE’S SERMON.
“COME THOU AND ALL THY HOU86
INTO THE ARK.
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es id. in it. city A... MRS. T. A, ADAMS,
nerdMIr. Riojd Street, Athens, Oeorgte
It Is Not Enough to Teach Your Children
Good Manners, Educate Them and Pro
vide Liberally for Them—You Are Ke-
sponilblo for Their Souls’ Welfare.
Dks Moists, la., Man'll 97.—The Rev. T.
Do Witt Tehnage, D. D., preached in thieclty
this morning to a vest congregation. Ilfs
text was Genesis vil, 1: “Come thou and all
thy house into tho ark.” The eloquent
preacher said:
We do not need the Bible to prove the del
uge. Tho geologist’s hammer announces it
See shells end marine formations on the top
of some of the highest mountains of the earth
provo Hi at at some time the waters washed
over the top of the Alps and the Andes. In
what way the catastrophe came wo know not
Whether by the stroke'of a comet, or by
flashes of lightning changing the air into
water, or by a stroke of tho hand of God, like
tho stroke of tho ax between the horns of the
ox, the earth staggered. To meet the catas
trophe God ordered a great ship built It
was to bo without prow, for It was to sail to
iv) shore. It was to bo without helm, for no
human hand should guide it It Was a vast
structure, probably as large as two or three
Cuunn) steamer* It wee the Great Eastern
of olden fimo.
The ship Is done. Tha door I* open. Tbs
lizards crawl in. Tho cattle walk in. The
grasshoppers hop In. The birds fly in. The
Invitation goes forth to Noah: "Come thou
and ell thy house into the nrk.” Just
one human family embark on the Strang*
voyage, und I beer the door slam shut A
grout storm sweeps along the bills end bends
the cedars until oil the branches snap in the
gale. There Is a moan in the wind like onto
tho moan of a dying world. The blackness
of tho heavens is stuttered by the flare of the
lightnings that look down Into the waters and
throw n ghustlincse on the face of the mount
ains. How strange it looks 1 How suffocat
ing the air seems! The big drops of rain
plush upon the upturned faces of those who
are watching the tempest Crash go the
rocks in convulsion. Boom! go the burst
ing heavens. The inhabitants of tbs earth,
instead uf_ fleeing to house top and mountain
top, as men have fancied, sit down in dumb,
white horror to die. For when God grinds
mountains to pieces and lets the ocean slip Its
cable, there Is no place for men to fly to, Bee
the ark pitch and tumble in the surf, while
from its windows the paseengera look out
upon the shipwreck of a race and the car-
auacsof a dead world. Woe to the mountains!
TVoo to the sal
lam no alarmist. When, on Sept. 99, after
the wind luu for three days been blowing
from the northeast, yon prophesy that the
equinoetlal storm is coming you simply state
a fact not to bo disputed. Neither am I an
I alarmist when I say that a storm is coming,
compared With which Noah’s deluge was but
an April shower; and that it is the wisest and
safest for you and tor me to get safely
housed for eternity. Tflo invitation that
wont forth to Noah sounds in our ears:
"Come thou and all thy house into the ark.”
Well, how dhl Noah end his family come
Into the ark! Did they climb In at the win
dow or come down the roof! No; they went
through the door. And just so, if w* get
into the ark of God'* mercy, it will be through
Christ, the door. The entrance to the ark of
old must have been a very targe entrance.
We know that it was, from the feet that Own
were monster animals in the earlier ages;
and, In order toget them into tbenrk two
and two, according to the Bible statement,
the door must have been very wide and vary
high. Bo the door into the mercy of God ia
a large door. Wo go fa, not two by two, but
by hundreds, and by thousands, and by mO-
lions. Yea, all the nations of the earth may
go in, ten millions abreast.
The door of the ancient ark was in the side.
Bo now it is through the side of Christ—tbs
flerced side, the wideopen aide, the heart side
—that w# enter. Aha I the Roman soldier,
thrusting his spear into the Saviour’* side,
expected only to let the blood out, hot he
opined the way to let all tbs worjd in. Oh,
what a broad gcepel to preach! If a mania
about to give on entertainment, ha Isaneaone
or two hundred invitations, carefully pot up
and directed to the particular persons whom
bo wishes to entertain. But God oar Father
makes a banquet, and goes out to the front
door of heaven, and stretches out bis bond*
over lend and sea, and, with a voice that pen
etrates the Hindoo jungle, anil the Greenland
toe Castle, and Brazilian grove, and English
fketory, and American home, cries out:
•Come, for all things are now ready." It Is a
wide door! The old cro* has been taken
opart, and lie two pieces are stood up for the
font prats. SI for »|Tit t'in- -11 the world con
come in. Kings scatter treasures on day*
»(’ gisnt tsjofcing. Ko Christ, o6r'""‘ ‘
cornea and . scatter* the jefrtl
Heaven. Rowland II ' -aid that be ,
fa get into Hravea th-. , ,b tho crevices of
tbe door. Bnt be was not obliged thu* to go
in. After having preached the Gospel fa
Bamy chapel, going nptowar* Heaven, the
gatekeeper cried: "Lift up your beads, ya
everlasting gates, and let thb man come in.”
The dying thief went in. Richard Baxter
and Robert Newton went in. .Europe, Asia,
Africa, North and South America may yet
ro through this wide door without crowdiag.
.Jill . — :
that "God no loved the world . that He gave 1
His only begotten Son, that whomever be-
lieveth in Him should not perish, but have
everlasting Ufa' Whosoever will, let him
come through the huge door. Archimedes
wanted a fulcrum on which to place hi*
Jovcr, and then he said that he could move
the world. Calvary ie the fulcrum and the
cram of Christ it the lever; and by that
power *11 nations shall yet be lifted.
Fhrther, It is a door that awing* both Ivey*.
I do not know whether the door of the ancient
ark was lifted or roiled on hinges; bnt this
door of Christ open both wnyx. It swings oat
toward all our woes; it swing* in toward tba
raptures of heaven. It swings la to let ue In;,
it swinge out to 1st our ministering ones come
out AU are one In Christ—Christians alt.
earth and saint* In heaven.
One army of the livingGod,
At his commend we bow;
Pert of the host have crooned the flood.
And pert ere crossing now.
Swing fa, O blessed dosrl until an tbe
earth shell go in and Uva .-Swing out nntii
aU the heavens cams forth to celebrate the
victory.
But, farther, it is a doer with fastenings.
The Bible says oCNooh: "The lord that him
in." A vessel without bulwarks or doors
would not be a safe vassal to go fa. When
Noohand Us family heard the fastening of
the door of tbs ark they w«e Tesy glad.
Without those doom were fastened tbs first
heavy surge of tbe ssa would have whelmed
them; end they inight.ee well have, perished
outside the erk as Inside the ark, "The lord
shut him In." Oh, the perfect safety of tha
-ark! The sort at tbesvaosid the lightnings
of tbe sky may be twisted into* garland of
snow and fire—deep to dstp, storm to storm,
darkness to darkness; bnt onoo in th* ark, sail
is well “God shut him In."
There oatnea upon tbe good man a deluge of
financial trouble. He hod hi* thousands to
land; now be cannot borrow * dollar. He
once owned a store in New York, end had
branch hoatea in Boston, Philadelphia and
New Orleans. Ha owned four borers; and
employed a man to keep tbe dot off bis
coach, phaeton, carriage and auricle; now
bo bos bard work to get shoes In which to
walk. The great deep of commercial disaster
was broken up, arid fore and aft, and across
the hurricane deck, the Wave* struck him.
Bnt be was safely sheltered tram tbestorm.
"The Lord that him to." A flood df dtnosMp
Now, If the ark of Christ is to
fa which to Uve, and die,and L_J>.
into the ark. Know well that tbe door that
that Ncab fa shot the world oat; and thong*
when the pitiless storm come pelting on their
beads, they heat upon th* door, laying: "Let
me tel let me fat” th* door did not open. For
120 yean they were tnvitsd. They expected
to came fa; but th* AntedUarian ash',:
must be werU ««. finrto ri.
rams- ucimi
“very
At