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The following words, in praise of Dn. Prune K's Favoiiitb Pnr.scnriTioM ns a remedy for those delicate diseases and weak
nesses peculiar to women, must be of inter, t to every sufferer from such maladies. They are fair sampl-.s of the spontaneous
expressions with which thousands give utterance to their sense of gratitude for the inestimable boon of health which has been
restored to them by tI.G use of this world-fam. 1 medicine.
John E. Segar, of Millcnbcck, Va., writes:
“ My wife had been suffering for t wo or three
years with female weakness, and had paid
out one hundred dollars to physicians with
out relief. Sin* l< ■!; Dr. ih'-rc .-« Favorite
Proscription and it did her more good than
* all the medicine (riven to her l.v the nhv«i-
SSIOO
Thrown Aw&y.
an tno 'i;< .n<‘ given io in r i»v tno pnyui-
Ciang during the three years th- y hud been pr;;i t ie-in < upon her.”
The Greatest I
Earthly Booh.
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mu' iikuii tin, wiiii'H, I «-• ■ it it. ; ID ll’ 111.
The ‘Favorite Prescription ’ ia the greutctil earthly boon to us
poor suffering women.”
TREATS TOE BSSEASEo
Many ti»n» » women »di on their Tamil pV.v.cb’innß, F-irfferlng, as they imagine, one from dyspepsia. another from heart disease,
ftnotl.er from liver <>r hi !n<-y <b -<■■.s■••, nm/iii-r from nervous exhaustion or prostration, another with pain h< re or there, and iu
thin way they j,i| p ;t n t alike to tie r. - Iv< and tip ir <.i y-going and indifferent, or owr-busy doctor, separate and distinct diseases,
for which l:«> po i- i ?,< m, his pills ind potions. a uming th< !.i to he such, when, in r< alii.v, they are all only symptom caitEed by some
womb <]• ’<>rd'T. 'I he phy<ie;.:u, ignored oft;. <-.xus< el' :jff< ring, encourages his practice until large bilft are made. The suffering
patient geta no better, uut probably . rse by itn on of th delay, wrong treatment and c< msequent complications. A proper me< icine,
lik<- Dr. i'H :•<•< i’:tvorii<' pi- i- i■ ■ I /<> the <■<;■ would have entirely removed the disease, thereby dispelling all those
distressing symptoms, and instituting <•< ndi . tend of prolonged misery.
I Mrs. F F. Morgan, cl .Vo. / r Lc.) tn(jh>n St.,
I Kcut Mt: says: “l ive years ago I
I was a dreadful sufferer tr> m uterine troubles.
I Having exhausted the «...d of ttn-ee phy-
I hicians. 1 w.c: c ample' •! / d;-iconraged, and no
iv< "lie I > 11i v■ 11 ‘ i 11. 1 1 '• 11 v t-r iif ♦ 1.. • tv wmi
ETtaSlfiJisl
I Failed. |
weak J could v. it.i <hni ulty crops the room
alone. J began taking Dr. Pirrer’.-i FavoHL JT» I eripi b n and
using the local treatment n-<;< no»i«-.i i lin his *( om.u-n Some
Medical Adviser.’ I commenced to impr.Ac nt or.-■■<■. In three
months I wt>< pcr/ccW//rn. f/, and hav< ‘b:l no t -übki him-c. I
wrote a letter to my family paper, I :• '!./ mentioning how my
health had b«-<-n restored, n-i I off-a t > id the full pniticula's
to any one writing me for tli -m, u.-, ’ « i.-e/o .'-oitpi ./-< a
velopr. ft,r reply. I have rccMv -I o, r four hundred letters.
In reply, 1 have described my <• - .It.' Inahe-nt used,
and have earnestly advised them to ‘do lil.« From a grout
many I have roc ivod second letl< » -■ «.r ti . td;a, stating that they
hail commenced the use of ‘ Favrit- I . t-cripth-B,’had -nt the
$1.50 required for the ‘Medical Aivi r,’ and had applied the
local Ireat.nu nt ■ » fully and plainly laid down therein, and were
much bi-tier iilroi. !
muen iK.tl<-r aireiviy.
THS OT A VAST
The treatnient of many thoun.in Ui of <,;i
of thoso chronic wi-nknc.; :md r< • ;
nihnrntxn: < uliar to s, at th • hivm- ls’ |
lloM-l and Siu fn litutu, Buffalo, Y„ '
lift# afforded a v.uH expert- in ni- Jy
H<hi:'t:n.u- and thoroughly t<‘: tiri < r i{
forth • < uro of v ..;- iu'm pet :ii u- in -I -lies, i
Ifrr. rrrS; E iivorhc fi*r ion :
in the out -rowth, or n .nit, <»f Hr cr at !
and xnl i <hle e\-i>“rl-.n Thou- -n; <>i
tcHtirn*.ui.i'S, rec -1 red from patieiits and I
from physi-.-imiH who have tested it in t'i<»
more ar'tiav.d- i and obstinate ca •' .<hi« h
had baffled their : kill, prov • it tn 1. • u ■
moat w inderful rmnrdy over devim-d for
the r«»li f and cure ot sUurrhitf wenmn. It
i# not reeomm m !< 1 ns a “cure-r.il,’’ but j
ilh a mo-.t perfect Specific for woman s
peculiar allni- nta.
Ah n powerful, liivSfforntftonic, I
it impurtH Htr to tlio whole t m. [
nnd to the uterus, or womb and its m>--
pendagC'. in particular, lor ov» I’wprk I, i
•‘worn-<»ut,” run-down,” debiiitut- I !< .: h
•rv, ml Hiners, dr im ik<
“fdiop-gdrlH," housj'k'■ |M-rn, nursin.-r rm th- ;
(■rs, ami feeble worn n pe;n i illy. Dr.
I’ierce’H Favorite Pres’i ipHon i -t! < ;
earthly bo«m, beirpr nr; ( milh d as mi I
apl'Ttiziiig cordial ami r« . torativc tonic. It
prouiolca digestion mid nßKimilation ot food.
r’liiii fj'.u - |’.!."e-J Oil 1./IHCHBCM O1 YVOmCU.
Addroit. WORDWS mSF.LVSARY ASSOCIATION, No. GG3 PZalu Street, BUFFALO, N. Y.
B. THE original
\^^S UTrLE UVER pills.
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G BiIFAIJB OF FJOT-IWOA-S!
® sSl t® p Da*. Pierce’s Pellets, ©r Little
000 Sugar-coated granules or Pilis.
lIEING VIN’TIICFI.Ii VECF-TAIIGFI, Dr. Pierce’s Pellets operate without disturbance to the system,
diet, or occupation. Put up iu ;.;!nsH vials, hermetically sealed. Always fresh and reliable. As a
EAVATIVII, AIiTEItATIVE, or Pl lIGATIVE, these little Pellets give the most perfect satisfaction.
SCI SICK HMW..
.AX. HEUoum Headache, Dizziuet'S, Con*
KVs-'jr Mtlpalioia, I? ill gun
1V yL z ///Xs. Attach#, and all dcrnujicnicnts of the
AX Sfk&Atf Ftonuich and Im wclr. arc promptly relieved
’-y . V’ 7■’ mid pi ru’m t . eii \‘d I••th’in eof Dr.
A V!'** I rie:is:eu Purgative Pellets. In v.v-
. I’lunniion’of r. :i'< dial powe r of ihe. a <«
r Pellets over r-o gT”at a variety of diseases,
it may truthfully be t.Hd that tb-(r ::eti< n upon the uystem is
universal, not a gland or tissue escaping their sanative Influence.
Kaki by druggist.;, fork* cents a vial. Ahmnlnotured at the t hvin
ie«d Pab. . ntory of World’s Disi’ENb tur M4.dk al Association,
Buffalo, N. Y.
WarrtHWiw 1
FGB A CASE Or CATARRH WHICH THEY CAN NOT CURE. .
Deb. heavy head-Lbo, obstruction of the nasal paNutgea, dis
• u.rm-s tailing from tlie bend into the throat, s.nnvtimcs pro
<us\ xy.i.erv, mill acrid, at etb. i■, thick, tenrcMua, mucous.
J’ 1 .; ! ’ ’ 1 1v mid putrid; th»' « y are w« tk, watery, ami
uni;.... '4; then* ia r tu a g ui the ♦ '.in. deafnr«i, backing or
t» (dear tb>» thn-.it. <x p< etui at ;• u «d offensive matter,
’ ' ’’ " •’ ‘■• ‘O'"' tivm ul-.xix: thu vol 'ia changed and luis
n u.isii tu , lhe ) ’.tui .. ,J. ‘.Ov 't rm.'ll nud tm»tc are Im
pa.t i. t icn> na H - , f tib »_ with mental depression,
n I Jgh a.id > vm-.U dm a . v . However, only a few of
’ a-oy ivimed mptoms ai V hkci\ to be present many one
J 1 " "•si'b.s i f > ai iuaby. without manifesting half of
JJ' ' in n, and rm! in tlu*
I • • is so e- mmon, m. rv deceptive nnd damuTous,
1 . .-I : nm <t-ee ...tuPv to med by phytiviune.
L.v u;-M. « otlinw, anil henh'.m pnipenica.
i»i:. s .<;r s c.vriiuui rehuby
CUREfI THE WORST CAPOQ OF
Cfk •?!. “ fc!;j in tha Head,” Coryza, and Catarrhal Headache.
SUL D Ji y DU F. I Fli Y n iILUF.
X’XXXOEE, DC C’EUXTTSi.
!Mrs. George Her j it. of in t-'nt't, y.
writes: “I was a grc:;i ruff over from leucor
rlp-a, hearing-down pains, and pain contin
ually across my back. Three bottle.! of your
‘ Favorite Prescription ’ r< st (.red me to per
t- i !>i’D. I : i)r. , for
• nine months, without receiving any hem lit.
our-s naii: ea, weakness of stomach, fndi- I
1 pobtl'-n. hie - ling and eructations of gas.
Vs ii feooH’ing and HtrensftheiiSisg
1 iierwinc, “ Fan.rite Prescript ion ” is un-i
, •‘■ i i: ; ,]!i‘d and is invaluable in allaying and ■
subduing nerv 'ini excitability, irritability, j
• ea'i- tion, pro. i r.-iI i<»ti? hyttorin, spaimn
{ami oilier dii-; r<: -ing, nervQUR symptom* ;
1 <« mwenlv attendant upon functional and [
! oi- '-iic <11: ease of the womb, it induct s I
i refi - .--hifig sleep and relieves mental an.x-'
li< i and <b-sr on-l- my.
: »r. Picr« •’*» it’.ivorhe Prescription
'ls ji ghisnalo niedicine, cawfuilf, i
i < >m!H»nnd< <1 by an < xncrienced and skillful .
, ph,.. ic an. and lalapted to woman’s d< li<'af*‘ I
Ioi; aniz.ition. It is purely vegetable ia its |
< ■>’.ipositk n and perfectly barmb tLS in its
c : . -i t • in ;ny condition of the svrtenj.
“a’uvorlte H’ropcriptlon ” n posU I
tive e ’rc lor the most complleuted and i
obcnr.tv ( ns-.a of leucorrhea, or “xvhitot 3 ,” |
< X’ - “-ivo llowiiig at monthly periods, pain- j
std t : n.4rnati• ri. unnatural P’lpprosHio’is, *
prolapsus or ftdllng of the womb, w<‘:ik I
I buck, “female weakuc:anteversion, re- ’
; truversion, bearing-down sensations, chron-
I ie in'kimmation ami ulceration i
i -if the womb, inflammation, pain and ton- I
domes in ovaries, accompanied with “ in-
I tx’rnal heat.” I
THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. ATLANTA, GA.. TUESDAY. OCTOBER 18. 1887.
Mrs. PorntA F. Boswetj., TFTiftc Cottage, O„
writes: “I took eleven liottks of your ‘Fa
vorite Prescription’ and one bottle of your
‘ I eilets.’ 1 am doing my work, and have been
for some time. I hin t' had to en ploy help tor
about sixteen years before I commenci d tak
ing your medicine. 1 have had to wear a
' supporter rm st of the time; this I have hud
Threw Away
Her
Supporter.
■ ' I I ' I • ' « l l ' •■ L fcUX> V44X4V , VUJJ X i-illV V liIJU
iUiide, and feel as well as I ever did.”
■— -»r mnr.ir—_~T aa
M.t May Gleason, of Ktinira, Ottawa Co.
I 'tich., writes: “ Four ‘Favorite Prescription•
btuj worked wonders in my case.
Again she writes: “Having taken several bot
tles of the ‘ Favorite Prescription ’ I have re
gained my health wonderfully, to the nstonish-
F’ s-MRjrxrr «
| It Utas |
l Wohoers.
BaraD.-U9*MME£3JBUZ£rn
► ••in ■« l»l.» I. .11.11 »» > > ■ WUJ , lll«- U.-M Oil Ibll-
rn.'nt of myself and friends. 1 <nn now be on my feet all day,
attending to the duties of iny household.
IA Marvelous Cure.—Mrs. G. F. Spraoitb,
of Crystal. Mich., writes: “1 was troubled with
female weakness, leucorrhea and falling of the
womb for seven years, so I hail to keep mv bed
for a good part ot the time. 1 doctored w ith an
iirniv of di';, rent physicians, and spent large sums
rjrjgfc.4M'a
Jealous
I Doctors.
turn TKsrarxsroJf A
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of money, but received no laeline benefit. At lii.-.t. my husband
persuaded me to try your medicines, which 1 viih loath to do,
because I w:is prejudiced against them, and the doctors said
they would do me no good. I finally told my htriband that if
he would git me some of your medicines, I would try them
against the advice of my physician. Hcg.it me six bottles of the
• favorite Prescription,’ also six bottles of the‘Discovery,’ for
ten dollar;’.. I took three bottles of ‘Discovery’ and four of
‘ favorite Prescription,'and I have been a sound woman for four
years. I then ku’,o the balance of the medicine to my sister, who
was troubled m the same way, and she cured herselt in a short
time. I have not hud to take utiy medicine now for almost
four years.”
I In pregmaiscy, “Favorite I’reseription”
is a “ mother's cordial," relieving nausea,
v.-eakni r.‘i of stomach and other distressing
i symptoms common to that condition. If
' its use is kept, up in tlie latter months of
I io station, it so ]>n fires tiie system for de
] livery as to greatly 1< ssen. and niunv tinies
i almost entirely <!<> away with tlie sufferings
| of tliat, tryin - ordeal.
i “Favorite ii'i eserlption,” when taken
i in connection with tlie use of Dr. I’iei-ee's
I Golden Medical Discovery, and small laxa
i tire <los<s of Dr. Piirie's I’lirgntivo Fillets
I < I it :ie Liv< r I'llls), enr . Liv< r. 1< iilnej and
. 111 sliler 6! . iris. Their combined use also
I removes blood taints, and al.olishi-a e.m
--| cerons and scrofulous humors from the
j ayiit'-m.
I - Favorite Prescription” is the only
medicine tor women sold, by druggists,
mid I- a positive guaimnti e, IT the
| inmiufactm: th, that it will f-ivo siiti. fno
i tion in every case, or money w'll l> re
fundi-d. This fru.irantee lias been printed
on the Ik (tic-wrapper, mill tiiihliillr er,r
ii< d out for. ninny years. J.i.oge bottles
(loti doses) SI.OO, or six butties s'or
l $5.00.
! f*/“Scnd ton rents in slam;,a for Dr.
: Pierce's large, illustrated Treatise (IGO
1 pages) on Diseases of Women.
William IL.Micn, Esq.,of Kearney
•j MBH Q B j .<l writes; “I was troubled wi‘h Foils for
| | thirty years. Four years ago 1 was so allliet. d with
d hllßFft I tiKUH that I could not walk. T bounht two bottles
| O f Dr. r-ierce’s Pleasant Purgative Pellets, and took
on< » ‘ » after each meal, till all Were gone. By
that time 1 bad no boils, ami have hud none since. I have also
been troubled with sick hcmlacbe. When I feel it coming on,
I take one or two ‘Pellets,’ and aui relicvtnl of the headache.’’
3 M 1 * 8, Brown, of Wapakoneta,
I IHE BEST | s ft.y 8: “Your ‘Pleasant Purgative Pel lets’ are
u n I without question the best cathartic e\cr
u iiATUAUTIP I Hold. They are also a most cffleicnt remedy
| UAI. nnilUa I for torpor ot the liver. Wo have used them
ti mininiwxmJ for years in our family, aud keep them in
the house all the time.”
I Prof. W. Havsner, the famous metimer
13 UHTninfiMNY l ,st ' of Ithaca, N. r., writes; “Some ten
I J viIIULU m«3Uhi | years ago I suffered untold agony from
i tDfIU PtTAQDU I chronic nasal catarrh. My family physi
-3 rnUln UillMonn. fl clan gave mo up as incurable, and said I
wnu-xaMvmust die. My ca-'e was such a bad on?,
that very <lnv, tov,anl, nir.s- t. my voio.- would 11 come m hoarse
, I < ouid ban ly sp. ak above a whisper. In the morning my cough
ing and clearin'-ot my throat would abm-c; sinmvleme. By the
use of Dr. Cage’s C atarrh Itcmedy, in t'.tve months, 1 was u well
i man, and the cun has been iHU'manent.”
[--mniriiHimmmmom j Hvsinx’G, E.*!.. f.- '? Pine Street.
Constantly I s ' 1 ■-.Mc. v.ritce-. -i itgUf
vviwiHitihi ■ Irl , n . t ri >n» entarrh lor three v.'Rre, At
nAWKIHIi JND l ,i " u ’ 1 j 1 " 111 - 1 t i>.■>->><•, an.'i v- is «>n.
> I RtMnth l .i’vkiiur ui.J spitting, ninl fcr the
SPITTUIfJ I ; "' t Cl >' ,u inoi'Hw''“UW not I n ..the through
uri.LNU. |tl>'.' n . ”s. I til,.ill ..t trailin'.- eould be
, imMvvMMU ■ .f. 1,,,. In.'.ilj, I v.vs .<.<■. ,<t to try
Dr. Slice’s Catarrh Remedy. nn<l 1 tint now u well t.:an. I is'-
I L.'VW it to l> the only tn:re t ine !> for catarrh now tnanufac
titred. nnd one has only to give It a fair trial to expvrleuee
astounding results and n larmaneut cure.”
—F: t KonntNS. Rwc. m V. 0.. Columbia Co.,
i THREE BUTTLES I ? " My l, ’“ l «»t*rrh wh««n
■ I nrtLL uui II.LO ■ p , u , „ us |j Vl , }enn , nij. very t n.ilj,-. I saw
I Plinr PITtQnU I Br. Sagv » Catarrh Remedy advertised, and
I l-una UAlftflun. I procured at» ;le for tier, ami soon saw
1 ■ wii i iw.urwj (Lat it helped het; a third bottle < tb-ctid
a pcmiauent euro, bho Is now eighteen yre.ra old and sound
aud heart v,"
“FORBIDDENHONEY."
Sermon Delivered by Dr, Tal
mage at Brooklyn Tabernacle.
“I DID BUT TASTE A LITTLE HONEY
Brooklyn, October 16.—[Special.]—"Soven
hundred ond eighty-one thousand three hun
dred and sixteen dollars and twenty-four cents
have been paid cash down in this church for re
ligious uses and Christian work during the
nineteen years of my ministry,” said the Rev.
T. DeWitt Talmage, D. D., in answer to the
misrepresentations that have been going
through some of the religions papers depreci
ating the work of the Brooklyn tabernacle.
After giving out the hymn:
“Our God. our h In In ages past,
Our hope for years to come.
Dr. Talmage preached a sermon, the subject
of which was “Forbidden Honey,” the text
being I Samuel xiv, v. 43: “I did but-taste a
little honey with the end of the rod that was
in my hand, and, 10, I must die.” Dr. Tal
mage said:
The honey bee is a most ingenious architect,
a Christopher Wren among insects,a geometer
drawing hexagons and pentagons, afreebotter,
robbing the fields of pollen and aroma, a won
drous creature of God whose biography,
written by Huber and Swammerdam,is an en
chantment for any lover of nature. Virgil
celebrated the bee in his fable of Aristaeus,
and Moses, and Samuel, and David, and Solo
mon, and Jeremiah, and Ezekiel, and St.
John used the delicacies of bee manufacture
as a Bible symbol. A miracle of formation is
the bee; five eyes, two tongues, the outer
having a sheath of protection hairs on all sides
of its tiny body to brush up the
particles of flowers, its flight so
straight that all the world
knows of the bee-line. Tlio honey comb is a
palace such as no one but God could plan, and
the honey-bee construct; its cells sometimes a
dormitory, and sometim s a store-house and
sometimes a cemetery. These winged toilers
first- make eight strips of wax, and by their an
teenae, which are to th m hammer, and chisel,
and square, and plumb-line, and fashion them
for use. Two and two, these workers shape
tlio wall. If an accident happen they put up
buttresses er extra beams to remedy the dam
age. When about the year 1776, an insect, be
fore unknown, in the night limo attacked the
bee hives all over Europe, and the men who
owned them were in vain trying to plan some
thing to keep out the invader that was the ter
ror of the Jbee-hives of the continent, it was
found that everywhere the bees had arranged
for their own protection, and built before their
honeycombs an especial wall of wax with port
hole through which the bees might go to and
fro. but not large enough to admit the winged
combatant, called the Sphinx Atropos.
Do you know that the swarming of the bees
is divinely directed? The mother bee starts
for a new home, and because of this the other
bee:; of the. hive get into an excitement which
raises the heat of the hive some four degrees,
and they must die unless they leave their
heated apartments, and they follow the mother
bee and alight on the branch of a tree, and
cling to each other and hold on until a com
mittee of two or three have explored the re
gion ami found the hollow of a tree or rock
not far off from a stream of water, and they
here set un a new colony, and ply their aro
matic industries, and give themselves to the
manufacture of the saccharine edible.
But who can toll the chemistry of that mix
ture of sweetness, part of it the very life
of the bee and part of it the life of the fields?
Plenty of this luscious product was hanging
in the woods of Bethaven during tlie time of
Saul and Jonathan. Their army was in pur
suit of an enemy that by God’s command must
bo exterminated. The soldiery were positive
ly forbidden to stop to eat anything until tlie
work was done. It they di obeyed they were
accursed. Coming through the woods they
found a place where the bees had been busy, a
great honey manufactory. Honey gathered in
the hollow of tlio trees until it had
overflowed upon tlio ground in great
profusion of sweetness. All the army
obeyed orders and touched it not save Jona
than, and lie not knowing the military order
about abstinence, dipped tlie end of a stick he
bad in his baud into tlie candied liquid and as,
yellow, an-1 brown and tempting, it glowed on
the < nd of tlie stick, he put it to his mouth and
ate the limojr. Judgment fell upon him, and
but for special intervention, ho would have
been slain. In my text, Jonathan announces
his awful mistake: “I did but taste a little
honey with the end of the rod that was in my
hand, and, 10, 1 must die.” Alas, what multi
tude of people in all ages have been damaged
by foibblden honey, by which I mean tempta
tion. delicious and attractive, but damaging
and destructive.
J literature fascinating but deathful conies in
this category. Where one good, honest, health
ful book is read now. there are one hundred
miulo up of rhetorical trash consumed with
avidity. When the boy on the cars oumes
through with a pile of publications, look
over the titles and notice that nine out of ten
of tli<‘books are depleting and injurious. All
the way from New York to Chicago or New-
Orleans notice that objectionable books domi
nate. Taste for pure literature is poisoned
by this scum of the publishing house. Every
book in which sin triunips over a irtue, or in
which a glamour is thrown over dissipation, or
which leaves you at its last line with less re
spect for the marriage institution and less ab
horrence for tlio paramour, is a depression of I
your own moral character. The book bindery
may be attractive, and the plot dramatic, and
startling, and the style of writing sweet as the
honey that Jonathan dipped up with his rod,
but your best interests forbid it, your moral
safety forbids it, your God forbids it and one
taste of it may lead to such bad results that
you may have to say at the close of the exper
iment or at the close of a inisimprovcd life
time: “I did but taste a little honey with the
rod that waspn my hand, and, 10, I must die.”
Corrupt literature is doing more today for
the disniption of domestic life than any other
cause. Elopements, marital intrigues, sly cor
respondence, fictitious names given at postoftice
windows, clandestine meetings in parks, and
at ferry gates, and in hotel parlors, and conju
gal perjuries arc among the damnable results.
When a woman, young or eld, gets her head
thoroughly stuffed with modern novels "she is
in appalling peril. But some one will say:
“The heroes are so adroitly knavish, and the
persons so bewitchingly untrue, and tlie turn
of the story so exquisite, and all the characters
so enrapturing, 1 cannot quit them.” My
brother, my sister, you can find stylesof litera
ture just as charming that will elevate and
purify, ami enoble, and Christianize while they
please. The devil does not own all the honey.
I'here is a wealth of good books coming forth
from our publishing houses that leaves no ex
cuse for tlio choice of that which is debauching
to the body, mind and soul. Go to some intel
ligent men or women, and ask for a list of
books that will be strengthening to your men
tal and moral condition. Rife is so short and
your time for improvement so abbreviated that
you cannot afford to fill up with husks and
cinders mid debris. In the interstices of busi
ness that voting man is reading that which will
prepare him to boa merchant prince, and that
young woman is filling her mind with an intel
ligence that will yet either make her the chief
attraction of a good mail's homo or give her
an indepemience of character that will qualify
her to build her own homo and main
tain it in a happiness that requires no
augmentation from any of cur rough- I
er sex. That yoiuij; man or young
woman can by the right literary ami moral im- !
proveinent of the snare ten minutes hero or !
there in every day, rise head and shoulders in :
prosperity, and character, ami influence above i
the loungers who read nothing or read that i
which bedwarfs. Seo all the forests of good !
American literature dripping with honey.
Why pick up the honeycom’ s that h ive in I
them tlie fiery bees which will sting you with
an eternal poison while you taste it ? Ono
book may for you or me decide everything ‘
for this world or the next. It was a
turning point with me when in Wyn
koop’s bookstore, Syracuse. one I
duv I picked up a book called "The Beauties i
of Ruskin.” It was only a book of extracts I
but it was all pure hom y, and 1 w.w net satis- ;
tied until I had pur. based all his works, at I
that time expensi’e beyond an easy capacity
to own them, nud wbat.i heaven I went
through in reading his “Seven Lamps of
Arehileetiiri'." and Ids ‘ Stones cl Venice.” it
is impossible for me to describe except by say- J
ing that it ga\e me a rapture for good Uooks, 1
and an everiasting disgust for decrepit or ini- '
moral i»»ks that will last me while my im-
mortal sou lasts. All around the church and
the world today there are busy hives of
intelligence occupied by authors and author
esses from whose pens drip a distillation which
is the very nectar of heaven, and why will you
thrust your rod of inquisitiveness into the
deathful saccharine of perdition.
Stimulating liquids also come into the same
category of temptations delicious but deathful.
You say : “I cannot bear tlio taste of intoxi
cating liquor, and how any man can like it is
tome an amazemeut.” Well, then, it, is no
credit to yon that you do not take it. Do not
brag about your total abstinence, because it is
not from any principle that you reject alco
holism, but for the same reason that
you reject certain styles of food—you simply
don’t like the taste of them. But multitudes
of people have a natural fondness for all kinds
of intoxicants. They like it so much that it
makes them smack their lips to look at it.
They are dyspeptic, and they take it to aid
digestion, or they are annoyed by insomnia,
and they take it to produce sleep, or they are
troubled, and they take it to make them oblivi
ous, or they feel good, and they must celebrate
their hilarity. They begin with mint julep,
sucked through two straws on the Long
Branch piazza, and end in the ditch,
taking from a jug a liouid half
kerosene and half whisky. They
not only like it, but it is an all-consuming
passion of body, mind and soul, and after
awhile have it they w ill, though one wine
glass of it should cost the temporal and eternal
destruction of themselves, and all their fami
lies, and the whole human race. They would
say: “I am sorry it is going to cost me, and
my family, and all the world's population so
very much, but here it goes to mv lips, and
now let it roll over my parched tongue and
down ray heated throat, the sweetest, the most
inspiring, the most rapturous thing
that ever thrilled mortal or immortal.”
To cure the habit before it comes to
its last stages, various plans were tried in olden
times. This plan was recommended In the
books: When a man wanted to reform he i>ut
shot or bullets into the cup or glass of strong
drink—one additional shot or bullet each day,
that displaced so much liquor. Bullet after
bullet added day by day, of course tlio liquor
became less and less until tlio bullets would
entirely fill up the glass and there was no room
for the liquid, and by that time it was said the
inebriate would be cured. Whether anyone
ever was cured in that way I know not, but by
long experiment it is found that the only way
is to stop short off, and when a man does that
he needs God to Irelp him. And there have
been more cases than you can count when God
has so helped the man that he quit forever,
and I could count a score of them here todav,
some of them pillars in tlie bouse of God.
One would suppose that men would take
warning from some of the ominous name given
to tlie intoxicants, and stand otf from the de
vastating influence. You have noticed for in
stance that some of the restaurants are called
“The Shades,” typical of the fact that it puts
a man’s reputation in the shade, and his mor
als in the shade, and his prosperity in the
shade, and hi; w ifo and children in tlie shade,
anil his immortal destiny in tlie shade.
Now, I find on some of the liquor
signs in all our cities the words “Old Crow,”
mightily suggestive of a carcass, and the
filthy raven that swoops upon it. “Old Crow!”
Men and women without numbers slain of
rum, but buried, and this evil is picking at
their glazed eyes, and pecking at their bloat
ed cheek, and peeking at their destroyed man
hood and womanhood, thrusting beak and
claw into tlie mortal remains of what was once
gloriously alive but now morally dead. “Old
Crow!” But alas, how many take
no warning. They make me think of
Cresar on his way to assassination fearing noth
ing; though his statue in the hall crashed into
fragments at his feet, and a scroll containing
the names of conspirators wore thrust into his
hands, yet walking right on to meet the dag
ger that was to take his life. This infatuation
of strong drink is so mighty in many a man
that though his fortunes are crashing, and his
health is crashing, and his domestic interests
are crashing, and we hand him a long scroll
containing the names of perils that await him,
he goes straight on to physical, and mental,
and moral assassination. In proportion as any
style of alcoholism is pleasant to your taste,
and stimulating to your nerves, and for a time
delightful to all your physical and mental con
stitution, is the peril awful? Remember
Jonathan and the forbidden honey in the
woods of Bethaven.
Furthermore, the J gamester’s indulgence
must be put in the listof temptations delicious
but destructive. I have crossed the ocean
eight times, and always one of the best rooms
has, from morning till late at night, been given
up to gambling practices. I heard of many
men who went on board with enough money
for European excursion who landed without
enough money to get their baggage up to the
hotel or railroad station. To many there is a
complete fascination in games of hazard or the
risking of money on possibilities. It seems as
natural for them to bet as to cat. Indeed the
hunger for food is often overpowered with tlie
hunger for wagers, as in the case of Lord Sand
wich, a persistent gambler, who not being will
ing to leave tlie dice table long enough lor the
taking of food, invented a preparation of food
that he could take without stopping the game;
namely, a slice of beef between two slices of
bread, which was named after Lord Sandwich.
It is absurd for those of us who have never felt
the fascination of tlie wager to speak slight
ingly of the temptation. It lias slain a multi
tude of intellectual and moral giants, men and
women stronger than you or I. 1 town under
its power went glorious Oliver Goldsmith, and
Gibbon, tlie historian, and Charles Fox, the
statesman, and in olden times famous sena
tors of tlie United States, who used to bo as
regularly at the gambling bouse all night as
I they were in the halls of legislation by day.
Oh, the tragedies of the faro table! 1 know
persons who began with a slight stake
in a ladies’ parlor, and ended with the
suicide’s pistol at Monte Carlo. They played
with the square pieces of bone with
black marks on them, not knowing that Satan
was playing for their bones at the same time,
and was sure to sweep all the stakes off on his
side of the table. The last New York legisla
ture sanctioned the mighty evil last spring by
passing a law for its defense at the race tracks,
and many young men in these cities lost all
their wages at Coney Island this summer, and
this fali are borrowing from the money tills of
their employers, or arranging by means of false
entry to adjust their demoralized finances.
Every man who voted for the Ives pool bill has
on his hands and forehead the blood of these
souls.
But in this connection some young converts
say to me: “Is it right to play cards? Is there
any harm in a game of whist or euchre?”
Well, I know good men who play whist and
euchre, and other styles of game without any
wagers. I had a friend who played, cards with
his wife and children, and then at the close,
said: “Come, now, let us have prayers.” I will
not judge other men's consciences, but I tell
you that cards are in my mind so associated
with the temporal and eternal damnation of
splendid young men, that 1 should no sooner
say to my family: “Come, let us have a game
of cards,” than I would go into a
menagerie and say: ‘Conic, let us have
a game of rattlesnakes,” or into a
cemetery, and sitting down by a
marble slab, say to the grave diggers: “Come,
let us have a game of skulls.” Conscientious
young ladies are silently saying to mo while I
speak : “Do you think car l playing will do
us any harm’?” Perhaps not, but how will
you fed if in the great day of eternity, when
we are asked to give an account of our influ
ence, some man shall say to you: “I was in
troduced to games of chance in the year 1887,
in Brooklyn, at your bouse, and I went on
from that sport to something more exciting,
and went on down until I lost my business,and
lost ray morals, and lost my soul, and these
chains that you see on my wrists and feet are
the chains of a gamester's doom, and lam on
my way to a gambler's l-.e11.” Money at the
start, eternal catastrophe at the last.
Stock gambling conies into tlie same cata
logue. It must be verv exhilarating to go into I
W.i'.i stn ■ t. New York, or State str < t, Bos- I
ton, or Third street, Philadelphia, and deposit- I
ing a small sum ot money, run th” risk of tak
ing out a fortune. Many men are doing an |
honest and safe business in the sto.-k mark. t.
and yon are an ignoramus if you do not know
that it is just as legitimate t”'<le.il in stocks as '
to deal in coffee, or sugar or flour. But nearly ’
all the outsiders wh" go there eu a little :inaii- !
cial excursion lose all? The old rs .. u ~,, ;
tlie unsn-p.-'ting fl-os. 1 had a friend who '
put his hand on his hip pocket and said to me I
in substance: “1 h.i o ti-.nre the value of a ■
hundred and fifty thous’nd dollars.” His i
h< me is today penniless. What was the mat- |
ter? Wall street. Os the vast majority who
are victimized you hear net ouo 'word. I
One great stock firm goes down,
and whole columns of newspapers
discuss their fraud, or their dis-
aster, and we are presented with their features
and their biography. But where one such
fam°us firm sinks, five hundred unknown men
sink with them. The great steamer goes down
and all the little boats are swallowed in tha
same ongulfment. Gambling is gambling,
whether in stocks or breadstaffs, or dice or
race track betting. Exhilaration at the start,
and a raving brain and a shattered nervous
system, and a sacrificed property, and a
destroyed soul at the last. Young man, buy no
lottery tickets, purchase no prize packages, bet
on no baseball games or yacht racing, have no
faith in luck, answer no mysterious circulars
proposing great income for small investments
shoo away the buzzards that hover aroung our
hotels trying to entrap strangers. Go out and
mrke an honest living. Have God on your
side and be a candidate for heaven. Remem
ber all the paths of sin are banked with flow
ers at the start, and there are plenty of helpful
hands to fetch the gay charger to your door
aud hold the stirrup while you mount. But
further on the horse plunges to the bit in a
slough inextricable. Tlie best honey is not
like that which Jonathan took on the end of
the rod and brought to his lips, but that which
God puts on the banqueting table of
Mercy, at which we are all invited
to sit. I was reading of a boy among the
mountains of Switerland ascending a danger
ous place with his father and the guides. The
boy stopped on the edge of the cliff and said:
“There is a flower I mean to get.” “Come
away from there,” said the father, “you will
fall off.” “No,” said he, “I must get that
beautiful flower,” and the guides rushed to
ward lnm to pull him back, when they heard
him say: “I almost have it,” as he
fell two two thousand feet. Birds of prey
were scon a few days after circling
through the air and lowering gradually to the
place where tlie corpse lay. Why seek flowers
off the edge of a precipice when you may walk
knee deep amid the full blooms of tlie very
Paradise of God ? When a miin may sit at a
king’s banquet, why will he go down the steps
and contend for the gristle and bonesofa
hound’s kennel? “Sweeter than honey and
the honeycomb,” says David, “is the truth of
God.” “With honey out of the rock would I
have satisfied thee,” says God to tlie recreant.
Here is honey gathered from the blossoms of
trees of life, and w ith a rod made out of the
wood of the cross I dip it up for all your souls.
The poet Hesoid tolls of an ambrosia and a
nectar tlie drinking of which would make men
live forever, and one sip of this honey from
tlie Eternal Rock w-ill give you immortal lifo
wiiii God. Come off of the malarial levels of
a sinful life. Come and live on the uplands of
grace where the vineyards sun themselves.
Oh, taste and see that the Lord is gracious.
Be happy now and happy forever. For thoso
who take a different course the honey will
turn to gall. For many things I have ad
mired Percy Shelley, the groat English poet,
but I deplore the fact that it was a great
sweetness to him to dishonor God. The poem
“Queen Slab” lias in it tlie maligning of tlio
Deity. The infidel poet was impious enough
to ask for Rowland Hill's Surrey Chapel that
he might denounce the Christian religion. Ho
was in great glee against God and the truth >#'
But lie visited Italy, and one day on the MecF*
iterranean with two friends iu a boat
which was twenty-four feet long he was
coming toward shore when an hour’s squall
struck tlie water. A gentleman standing on
shore,through a- glass, saw many boats tossed
in this squall, but all outrode the terror ex
cept one. that in which Shelley, the infidel
poet, and his two friends w ere sailing. That
never came ashore, but the bodies of two of
the occupants were washed upon the
beach, one of them the poet A funeral pyre
was built on the seashore by some classic
friends, and the two bodies were consumed.
Poor Shelley, ho would have no God while ha
lived, and he probalily had no God when he
died. “Ths Lord knoweth the way of the
righteous, but the way of the ungodly shall
perish.”
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