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DR. TALKAGE'S SERMON. ' CCNGPEGATI9N AL SINGING. Text: “It came even to pass, as the tram r-tei's and sing >rs were as one, to make one Lun 1 to be beard in praising and th inking the Lord. ’ 11. Cbrvn. v. 1... Tlie Tempi? was done. It was th? very chorus of ail magnificence a id pomp. Splen dor crowded against splen i< r. It was tin d animd necklace < f the e irth. From tue huge pillars crowned with leaves of Howers an 1 rows of pcmegi anat > wrought out in burn slid metal, down even to lhe tongs ai d smith r- made out of pur.- g dd. everything wa s as complete ns the God-dire, t d architect could make it. It seemed c . if a vision from heaven had alighted on the mountains. The day for > dedi- ation came. Tradition says that th.-re were in and round about the temple on that dav JtO.IWO silver trumpets, 40,000 harps, 4(i.i>oo timbrels and “OO.OJU singers: so that all modern demonstrations at Hits Id «•' or , Boston seem nothing compared with that. I As this great sound surged up amid the precious stone: of the Temple, it must , have seemed like the river of life dashing i against the amethyst of tl.e wall of Hi aven. The sound arose and God, as if to show that He was well p ea-ed with the music which His children make in all ages, dropped into the midst of the Temple a cl >ud of glory so overp waring that theoJiciatingprie t? were obliged to stop in the midst of the services. There has teen much discussion as to where music was born. I think that at the begin ning, when the morning stars rang together an fall the suns of trod shouted for joy. that the earth heard the echo. The cloud on which the angel stood to celebrate the crea tion was the birthplace of song. The stars that glitter at night are only so many keys of celestial pearl on which God's fingers play the musi ■of the spheres. Inanimate nature is full of God’s stringed and wind instruments. Silence itself—perfect silence —isonly a musi cal rest in God’s great anthem of worship. AVind among the 1 saves, insect humming in the summer air, the rush of billow upon beach, the o'can far out standing its ever lasting psalm, the bobolink on the edge of the forest, t :e quail whistling up from the grass, are music. While visiting Blackwell’s Island I heard coming from tie window of the lunatic asylum, a very swe. t song. It was sung by one who had lost her rca on: and I have come to believe that even the deranged and di-ordered elements of nature would make music to ours ear, if we only had acuteness enough to listen. I suppose that even the sounds in nature that are discordant and repulsive make harmony in God's ear. You know that you may come so near to an orchestra that the sounds are painful instead of pleasurable; and Ithink that we stand so near deva tating storm and frightful whirlwind we cannot hear that which makes to God's ear and the ear of the spirits above us a music as complete as it is tremendous. The Day of Judgment, which will be a day of uprear and tumult, 1 suppose will bring no dissonance to the ears of those who can calmly listen; although it will be as when some great performer is executing a boister ous piece of music, he sometimes breaks 1 down the instrument on which he plays; so it mav lie on that last dav that the grand march of God. played by the fingers of thunder and earthquake and conflagration may break down the world upon which the music is executed. Not only is inanimate nature fall of music but God has wonderfully organized the human voice, so that in the plainest j throat and langs there are fourteen direct mus-les which can make over sixteen tuouemd different sounds! Now, there are thirty indirect muscles which can make, it has been estimate !, more than one hundred and seventy-three millions of sounds. Now, 1 say, whenGodhas so constructed the human voice and when he has filled the whole earth with harmony, and whence recognized it in the ancient Temple, I have a right to come to the conclusion that God loves music. I propose t his morning to speak about sacred must -, first showing you its importance and then stating some cf the obstacles to its ad vancement. I draw the first argument for the impor tance of sacred music from the fact that God commanded it. Through Paul He tells us to admonish one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs: through David He cries out: “Sing ye to God all ye kingdoms of the earth " And there are hundreds of other pas sages I might name, proving that it is as much a man's duty to sing as it is his duty to pray. Indeed I think there are more com mands in the Bible to sing than there are to pray. God not only asks for the human voice but for the instruments of music. He asks for the cymbal and the harp and tho trumpet. And I suppose that, in the last days of the church, the harp, the lute, the trumpet, and all the instruments of music that have given their chief aid to the theatre and bacchanal, will be brought by their masters and laid down at the feet of Christ, and then sounded in the church’s triumph on her way from suffering into glory. “Praise ye the Lord!’’ Praise Him with your voices. Praise Him with stringed instruments and with organs. I draw another argument for the import- ■ anre of this exercise from the impressiveness : of the exercise. You know something of ■ what secular music has achieved. You know it has made its impression upon governments, upon laws, upon literature, upon whole gene rations. One inspiriting national air is worth thirty thousand men as a standing army. There comes a time in the battle w hen one bugle is worth a thousand muskets. In the earlier part of our civil war government pro posed toeeonomize in bands of musieandmany of them were sent home.: but the generals ! in the army sent word to Washington: “You are making a very great mistake. We are falling l ack and falling back. We have not enough music.” Then the government changed its mind: more bands of music were sent to the field and the day of shame ful defeat t -rmitated. I have to ted you that no nation or church can afford to severely economize in music. "hy should we rob the programmes of worldly gayety when we have so many ap propriate songs and tunes composed in our own day, as well as that magnificent inheri tance ot church nsalmody which has come down fragrant with the devotions of other generations—tune Ino more worn out than when cur great grandfathers climbed U P on them from the church to glory! Dear old souls, how they used to sing! When they were cheerful our grandfathers and giaudmofh ?rs u-e 1 to sing 1-hester.” When they were very meditative, then the meeting house rang with >utls street” anil “St. Edmonds.” Were I they struck through with great tenderness, they sang “Woodstock.” Were they wrapperl in visions of the glory of the church, they sang “Zion.” Were they overborne with the love and glory of Christ, they sang “Ariel.” And in those days there were certain tunes married to certain hymns, and they have lived in peace a great while, these two old People, and we la.e no right to divorce them. "What God hath joined together let no man nut asunder.” Boni as we have been amid this great w ealth of church music, aug mented by the compositions of artists in our “■Y, we ought not to lie tempted out of the sph re of Christian harmony and try to seek unronse rated sounds. It is absurd for a millionaire to steal. Many of you are illustrations of what aered song can do. Through it you were nroucht into the kingdom of Jesus Christ. oil stood out against the warning and the 1 gum* nt of the pulpit.but w hen in the sweet Tni Char; «’ Wes'ey or John Newton or opludv the lot e of Jesus was sung to your th " n T° u si >rr ndered, asarm.-d castle -a could not be taken by a host, liftsits to listen to a harp's trill. nJi re was afS otch soldier dying in New a Sc< t?h minister came in to K e him the consolation? of the Gospel. The ,an turn-d over on his pillow an I sad: Rr»» n > ! la • • ,o ? R0 about religion.” Then the Grn? “"“-'ter began to sing a familiar ri' n , n , TV that was composed by “1 Hi xenson, beginning with the words: Oh mother, dear Jerusale n, ” h -n shall I come to thee?’ .** to the tune of Dundee, and rvl olv m Scotland knows that; and as he on* his t ' ls ’ol'iier turned over ft' * ni ? said to ‘he minister: re did you learn that!” “Why,” re- 1 plied the minister, "my mother rauglil ma that.” “So did mine,” said the dying Scotch soldier: and the very foundation of Lis heart was upturned, and then aud there he yielded himself to Christ Oh. it has an irre-itible power! Luther's se inons have been torgott'n but libs “Judgment Hymn" siugs on through th? ages and will leap on s wring tint 1 tho bla-'t of the areh lan :e’? train- et shall bring nb nt* tint very day wh ch tbe hvmn celebrates. I would tn Go 1 that those who hear mo to-dav would tile thi-s • so:usof salvat : onas me? :i res fn in heaven: for, just as c -it-vnlv as tho bir s br< light too I to Eli ah by the brook I herit’a. so those winged hnrmon.e-'. Gol-sont. are living tn your soul with ths bread of life. I Op-n your mouth au 1 take it, O hungry Eli- 1 jah! I have a’so noticed tie power of sacrel ! song to soothe perturbiti >n. You may have come in hero with n great many worriment? and anxieties, yet perhaps in the sing'ug of the first hvniu you lost all those worrinwn s and anxieties. You have read in the Bib o of Saul, aud how he was sad and angry, awl how the boy David came in aud played the evil spirit out of him. A Spanish king wai melancholy. Tae windows were all closed. He sat in the dark less. Noth ng 1 c mid bring him forth until Fra- neli came and discoursed music foi three or four days to him. On th? fourth day h" looked up and wept and rejoiced, and the windows wore thrown open, aud that which all the splendors of the court could mt do, the power of song a-complished. If you have anxieties and worriments try this heavenly charm upon them. Do not sit down on tho l ank of the hymn, but plunge in, that the devil of care may be brought out of you. It also arouses to action. Do you not know that a singing church is always a triumphant church! If a congregation is silent during the exercise, or'partially silent, it is the silence of death. If when the hymn is given out you hear the faint hum of here and there a father and mother in Israel while the vast majority are silent, that minister of Christ who is pre sidingnee Is to have a very stron?constit ution if he doe? not get the chills. He ne -ds not only the grace of God but nerves like whalebone. It is amaiing how some people with voice enough t? discharge all their duties in tho world, wh >n they come into the house of God have no voice to discharge this duty. I really believe that if the church of Christ could rise up and sing as it ought to sing, that xvhere we have a hundred souls brought into the kingdom of Christ there would be a thousand- How was it in olden time! Cajetan said: “Luther conquered us by hik songs.” But I must now speak of some of the ob stacles in the way of the advancement of this sacred music; and the first is, that it has been impressed into the service of supersti tion. lam far from believing that music ought always to be positively religious. Re fined art has opened places where music has been secularized and lawfully so. The draw ing-room, the musical club, the orchestra, the concert, by the gratification of pure taste and the production of harmless amusement and the improvement cf talent, have become , very forces in the advancement of our civili zation. Music has as much right to laugh in I Surrey Gardens as it has to pray in St. Paul's. J In the kingdom of nature we have the glad ! filing of the winds as well as the long metre I psalm of the thunder. But while all this iis so, every observer has noticed that ! this art, which God intended for the im nrovement of the ear and tho voice and the head and the heart, has often been impressed into the service of error. Tartini. tin? musi -1 cal composer, dreamed one night that Satan snatched from his hand an instrument and played upon it something Very sweet —a I dream that has often been fulfilled in our day, the voice and the instruments that ought to have been devoted to Christ, cap tured from the church and applied to pur poses of sin. Another obstacle has been an inordinate fear of criticism, The vast majority of peo ple singing in church never want anybody else to near them sing. Everybody is wait ; ing for somebody else to do his duty, I" we all sing then the" inaccuracies thatare evident when only a few sing would 1 e drowned out. ] Gcd asks you to do as well as you can, and then, if you get th? wrong pitch or keep wrong time, he will forgive any deficiency of the ear and imperfections of the voice. Angels will not laugh if you should lose your place in the musical scale, or come in at tho close a bar behind. There are three schools of singing, lam told—the German school, the Italian school and the French school of singing. Now, I would like to ndd a fourth school, and that is the school of Christ. The votes of a contrite,broken heart, although it may not be able to stand human criticism, makes better music to God’s ear than the most artistic performance when , the heart is wanting. I know it is easier to preach on this than it is I to practice: but I sing for two reasons— first, because I like it and next because I ?vant to encourage those Avho do not knoAV how. I have but very little faculty in that direction and no culture at all, yet I am re solved to sing though every- note should go off like a Chinese gong. God has commanded it and I dare not be silent. He calls on the 1 beasts, on the cattle, on the dragons to I praise him, and we ought not to be behind the cattle and the dragons. Another obstacle that has been in the Avay ! of the advancement of this holy art has been so much angry discussion on ths subject of music. There are those who would have this exercise conducted by musical instruments. In the same church there are those Avho do not uke musical instruments, aud so it is or gan and no organ, and there is a light. In I another church it is a question whether the | music shall be conducted by a precentor or by a drilled choir. Some Avant a drilled choir and some want a pre centor, and there is a fight. Then there are those Avho would like in the church to have the organ played in a dull, lifeless, droning Avay, while there are others Avho Avould have it wreathed into fantasties. branching out into jets and spangles of sound, rolling an 1 tossing in marvcllotis con volutions, as A'h -n in pyrotechnic display you think a piece is exhau-ted it breaks out in wheels, rockets, blue lights and serpentine demonstrations. Some Avould have the organ played in almost inaudible siveetmi s. and others would have it full of staccato passages that make the audience jump, with great eves and hair onend,as though by a vision of the Witch of Endor; and he who tries to please all will sue-ee I in nothing. Nevertheless you arc to a Imlt the fact that this contest Avhich is going on in hundreds of tbe churches of the United States to-day. is a might? hindrance to the advancement of this art. In way score? and s ore? of churches are entirely cripple 1 as to all influ ence and the music is a damage rather than a praise. Another obstacle in the advancement of this art, has been the erroneous notion tha', this part of tho se vice could tie conducted by a delegation. Churches have said: “Oh. what an easy time we shall have. Th?; minis ter Avdl do the preaching and the < hole avill do the singing and Ave will have 1: thing to do,” And von know as well as I !hat‘there are a gr. r.t inult.t :d? churches all through this land where the people are not expected to sing. The whole work is done by delega tions of four or six or ten persons and the audience is silent In such a church ia , Syracuse, an old elder persisted in singing.and so th ? choir appointed a commit tee to go and ask the squire if h? would not stop. You know that in a great multitude of churches the choir are ex ected and do all the singing and the great masses of people < are expected to be silent, an 1 if you utter your voice you arc interfering. There they stana, the four, xvith opera-glasses dauglin r at their side, singing, “R6ck of Ages, cleft for me,” with the same spirit that the night, before, on tho stage, they took their | art in tic- “Grand Du ■be?? "or -‘Don Giovanni ’ My Christian friends. Lave we a right to delegate to ethers the disc harge ot this duty which Gcd demands of us! Suppose that four wood thrushes propose to do all the sing ing some bright day when the woods are ringing with bird voices. It is decided that four wood thrushes shall do all the singing of the forest Let all other voices keep silent. How beautifully the four warbled! It is really fine music. But how long will you keep the forest still? Why Christ would come into that forest and look up as he looked through the olives, and h? would raise bls hmian I say: “la?t everything that hath breath praise tho Lord;" and keeping time Avith the stroke of innumerable Avings there av iuM be five thousand bird voic.s leaping into th > h irmcnv. Suppoie this delegation of musi al performeis ware tried in heaven; s ipn is? that four choice spir.ts should try to it ? the singing of the upper temple. Huth ni.v. t iron?? and dominions and pri:i i; abtle?. David, lx? still, though you ivera the “s.veet singer of Israel.” lail. ke-p quiet, though you have co re to that crown oJ rejoicing. Richard Baxt r, ke ?p still, though this is tae “Saints’ Everlistiug Re t, " Four spirit? now do aU the si iging. Hut how long Avould heaven bo culet! How long! “Hallelujah!” Avould cry some glorified Methodist from under the altar. "I’iaisethe I.or.1!" would sing tho martyrs 1 rom among the throne.?. "Thank? lie unto God Avho I’iveth us th? victory!” a great multitude of redeemed spirits would cry—my ria is of voices com ing into tho harmony aud tho one him ire 1 and forty and four thousand break ing forth into one acclamation. Stop that loud singing! Stop! Oh, no; they cannot hear mi'. You might as well try t J drown the thun ier of the sky or lieat back the roar of the sea, for every soul in heaven has re solved to do it? own singing. Alas, that avo should have tried on earth that which they cannot do in h 'aven, and instead of joining all our voices in tho praise of the M.est High God, delegating pierhap? to unconsecrated men and Avomen this most solemn and most delightful service. Now, in this church, we have resolved upon the plan of conducting the music by a pre centor. ive do it rortwo reasons: one is mat. by throwing the whtle responsibility upon the mass of ths people, making th? great multitude the choir, ?ve might rouse more heartiness. The groat congregation com ing on the Sabbath day feel that they cannot delegate this part, of the great service to any one else, and so they themselves assume it. We have glorious congregational singing here. People have come many miles to hoar it. They are not sure about tbe preaching, but they can always depend on the singing. We have heard this sound coming up like “tho A-oice of many Avatqrs,” but it will be done at a better rate after a while, Avhen we shall realize the height and tho depth, and the im mensity of this privilege. Another reason Avhy we adopted this plan: We do not want aay choir quarrels. You know very well that in scores of the churches there has been perpetual contention in that direction. The only church fight that ever occurred under my ministry was over a melodeon in my first settlement. Have you never been in church on the Sabbath day and heard the choir sing and you said: “That is splendid music?’ The next Sabbath you Avere in the church and there was no choir at all! Why? The leader was mail or his assist ants were, or they were all mad together. Some of the choirs are male up of our best Christian people! Some of the warmest friends I have ever had have stood up in them. Sabbath after Sabbath, conscientiously and successfully leading the praises of God. But the majority of the choirs throughout the land are not made up of Christian peo ple, and three-fourths of the church fights originate in the organ loft. I take that back, and say nine-tenths. Many of our churches are dying of choirs. Let us as a church give still more atten tion to the music. If a man with voice enough to sing keeps silent during this exor cise, he commit? a crime against God and insults ths Almighty. Music ought to rush from the audience like the Avater from a rock—clear, blight, spark ling. If all the other part of the church ser vice is dull do not have the music dull. With so many thrilling thing? to sing about, away Avith all draAvling and stupidity! There is nothing that makes me so nervous as to sit in a pulpit and look off on an audience Avith their eves three-fourths closed and their lips almost shut, mumbling the praises of Gcd. During ray recent absence I preached to a large audience and all the music they made together did not equal one skylark! People do not sleep at a coronation Do not let us sleep Avhen avo come to a Saviour’s crowning. In order to a proper discharge of this duty let us stand up, save as age or weakness or fatigue excuse us. Seat'd in an easy peAv we cannot do this duty half so Avell as Avhen, upright, Ave throw our Avholejxidy into it. Let our song be like an acclamation of victory. You haA’e a right to sing. Do not surrender your prerogative. We Avant to rouse all our families upon this subject. We aa ant each family of our congregation to be a singing school. Child ish petulance, obduracy and intractability Avould be soo'hed if Ave had more singing in the household, and then our little ones Avould be prepared f ir the great congi egati >n on Sabbath dav, thrir voice.? uniting with our voice? in tho praises of the Lord. After a shoAvey there aro scores of streams that come down the mountain side with voices rippling and silvery, pouring into one river, and then rolling in unit ‘d strength to the sea. So I Avould have all tho families in my church send forth the voice of prayer ana praise pouring it, into tho great tide of public Avorship that rolls on and on to empty into the great, wide heart of God. Never can Ave have our church sing as it ought until our families sing ns they ought. There Avill be a gr< at, revolution on t'lis sub ject in all our churche ?. God will come down bv his snirit and ro ise up the old hvmns and tunes that have not been more than half awake since the time of our grandfathers. The silent pews in tho chur h Avill break forth inti musi', and when the conductor takes his place on the Sabbath day, there Avill b? a great host of voices rushing into the harmony. My Christ'a'i friends, if av? have no taste for this service c.n earth. Avhat Avill avo do in Heaven Avhere they all sing and sing forever! Let me prophesy in regard to any one here who has no delight in the worshin of Heaven—if you do not sing the praises of God on < arth I do not believe yoa Avill ever sing them in glorv. I would that our singing to-dav might bo like the Saturday night rehearsal for the Sabbath morning in the skies, and might begin now by tho strength and by tho help of Go I. to discharga a duty which “uac of g : Lave fully performed. “Let those refuse to sing Who never knew our God; But <hil Iren of the Heavenly king Should speak their joys abroad. “The hill of Zion yields A thousand saered sweets, Before av<? reach the heavenly fields. Or Avalk the golden streets. “Tli»n let o ir songs aboun 1, And every tear lie dry; We're mar filing through Eoianufi's ground To fairer worlds on high.” Come now, clear your kb cat? and get ready f >r this duty or you will never heartbe end of this. I never shall forget hearing a Frenchman so-. ■ /*’ ■ il'ab'aHymii'in the Champ Elysee?, Paris, just before the battle of S dan. I never saw such enthu-i --as n before or since, as he sang that national air. Oh, how the Frenchmen shouted! Have y hi ever in an English assemblage h< ai'd a band plav “God Save the Que-nf’ If you have you know something about the enthusiasm of n national air. Now, I tell yon that th -so s n;s Ave sing Sabbath by Sabbath are tho rational airs of Jesus Christ and of th ■ king dom of heaven. When Cromwell’s army Avent into battle, hesto >d at the Ina'l of th in one day and gave out Ihe long metre doxol ogy to the tune of “Old Hundred," and iliat great host, company bv company, regi ment by regiment, battalion by battalion, joined in the doxologv: “Praise God from whom all blessing flow, Praise him all creatures here below; Praise Him above, ye heavenly host. Prais? Father, Son and Holy Ghost.” And while th y sang they man-lied, and while they marched they fought, and while thev fought they got the victory. O, men and w ?men of Jesus Christ, let us go into all our conflicts singing the praises of God, and then, instead of falling ba<-k as ?ve often do, from defeat to defeat, we will be marching an from victory to victory. CLIPPINGS FOR THE CURIOUS. The hare was formerly esteemed a melancholy animal, and its flesh was sup posed to engender melancholy. In Holland, the church doors arc locked during the sermon, so that nobody can interrupt by going in or out. In old times ghosts were supposed to maintain an obdurate silence till inter rogated by the person to whom they made their special appearance. The first coinage made by authority of the United States wns of copper and bears date 1787. One of the inscriptions, is “Mind Your Own Business.” A glass bedstead has been made at a Birmingham (England) factory for a Cal cutta millionaire. It is of solid glass, the legs, rails, etc., being richly cut. The King of Burmah also has one. The beautiful red plumage of a South African species of birds has been chemi cally examined anil found to be due to copper. When the birds arc kept away from food containing copper they entirely lose the tint produced by that mineral. A writer in a French medical treatise says that refrigeration of the lobe of the ear Avill stop hiccough, whatever its cause may be. Very slight refrigeration, such as a drop of cold water, is said to be sufficient. In Webster county, Georgia, lives Isaac "Wilkinson, who has a daughter, aged twenty-three, strangely deformed. Iler head and body are well developed, but her arms and legs are short, like a tur tle’s flappers. She is twenty-six inches in height when standing. The first strike in this country of which record can be found occurred among factory girls at Dover, New Hampshire, in 1827. Some oppressive : exactions aroused the girls. They struck and paraded the town with a band and an American Hag. The mill authorities came to terms quickly. A Georgia Romance. About tAVo years before the war, near a pretty and substantial residence near a prosperous little town, a beautiful young lady, about fourteen, was sleeping in a hammock swung from two stately oaks j in a grove. She was a pretty picture of innocence and grace, and won the adtni ! ration of the passers. In a meadow to i the rear a fat, meek-eyed cow reclined in 1 the shade, ruminating the food she hail i gathered in the cool of the morning. ! Across the road from the house, the girl, ; and the cow is a meadow, a branch run ning through it, and coming up the branch is a boy with a gun. When with in one hundred yards of the girl, and about one hundred and fifty yards from the cow, a bird Hew up and sailed in the air toward the c av; the boy flred at the bird, Avhich flew on unhurt, but the cow received a pretty strong dose of shot. She immediately arose in fright, dashed through the grove, caught the girl and hammock on her horns, and rushed with her shrieking victim about the lot. The terrified girl became silent,and the crowd of relatives and friends in pursuit thought that she was dead. The Avild fury of the cow as she rushed around soon tore the netting loose, and the giv! dropped unconsciously to the ground. She was picked up and taken into the house, and on examination only a few minor bruises were found. The boy, thinking he was the innocent cause of the killing of the young girl, disappeared. It was thought that he had perished by his own hand, but about six years after the war a travel stained stranger was in the town inquir ing for persons, most of Avhoin had been swept away by the Avar. After a long search the stranger found an old man on a load of wood, and in conversation with him learned Avhere one of the parties he was in search of lived, a fexv miles out of town. lie went there, made himself known, and turned out to be the boy of the gun. The people he found were his father and mother, who had mourned him dead for eight years. The boy had been in South America, got rich, and, yearning for the love of the old folks, re turned to the desolate home of his child hood and made his loved ones comforta ble. For the first time, then, hearing that the girl was uninjured, he called on her, found her pretty, good, and a first class home woman. He put in Avith a will, got her heart as his own, and the old folks’ consent, and has been for the last twelve or fourteen years one of the leading men of his section. This is fact. —Americut (G'«.) llecorder. Misdirected Enthusiasm. A gentleman who listened to Sam Jones tells the following as illustrative of the peculiar methods of the revivalist: He was delivering an especially fervid address, and a little oi l woman who sat well up in front was constantly interrupt ing him with shrill-voiced and ear-pierc ing exclamations of “Bless the Lord 1” and “Glory Hallelujah!” “Amen!” and other campmeeting eccentricities. Jones stood it for a time, but finally stopped his address and turning to the woman said: “Sister, enthusiasm is a good thing if it is only genuine. But you remind me of a little steamboat that used to run up a stream down in the country where I came from. It had a very small boilej and a very big whistle, and every time the pilot blew the whistle the boat stop ped. Now let the boat go on.” The Most Perfect Used Exclusively at tho “Grand Conservatory of music,” CF NEW YORK. Endorsed by all Eminent Artists. LOICES ! E .lSl' TEHMS ! AUGUSTUS BAUS & CO.,mfbs. 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Miwfffitured by PFANSCHMIDT, DODGE & CO. j 248 & 250 West Polk St., Chicago, 111. § Are the Finest in tie WorU.| ,1 These Eztracts never vary. I H SUPERIOR FOR STRENGTH, QUALITY, I [jj PURITY, ECONOMY, ETO. | aei Frnlti and Spices, E r Bactino’s Flavors I NO OTHERS. H LL GROCERS. R E & CO., I St., New York. | theORRVILLE CHAMPION COMBINED Ackn<»wleil{;c<l hy 'l'bmhennen to be The Rememberwe make tho only Two-<'y Under Crain Thn-whrr am! Clover lliiller that will do the work of two nep/irnt'! ina' blneE. ’1 ho Clover IDtiller Ih notu tiiinple uttu hrnenl but aaepurate hulling cylinder conatrnctcfl and opera ted upon tliemoH approved achmtiflc priucipUtß. Uno the widest Beparatlng capacity of any machine in the market. I* iiirtH, compact, durable, uncm but ono belt nn<l reauirca lews power and Ims fewer working parts (han any other machine. No Miinplo In construction that it hrndly under* stood. WIH tlirewh jM-rtectly all kinds of grain, peas, timothy, flax, clover, etc. Send for nrcijlnr, price lUt. etc., of ThrcHhere, Engine*, Haw Mill* and Grain RegfatcrH, and be *urc to mention this paper. Agents wanted. Addre** THE KOPPES MACHINE CO. ORRVILLE, O. JOHNSON s ANDDrNE OT-OTniEH-Diphtheria, Cronp, Asihmn, Bronehiti*. Neuralgia. Itheumatlnm, Bleeding at Mung*. HOara/inetni. li.ftuenra, Hacking Cough, whooping Cough, Oatarrn, Cholera Morbue, Dyaeutcry, Cl roniu Diarrhoea, Kidney Troubles, and Hpinal Dlßeaeeg. Pamphlet free. Dr. I. 8. Johnson Az Co.rßowton, Maim. PARSONS’S PILLS Theae pills were a wonderful discovery. ?’o other* like then in the ryorld. Wifl positively cure or relieve all manner of disease. The informal.* n around each box Ik worth ten timeu tUo cost or a nox of pills. Find out about them and you will always bo thankful. One Dill n dosu. Illustrated p/uaphUt free. Boi?i ev^ r ,y' A or sent by n Hl for 2&c. in stamps. Dr. I. S. JOHNSON A; CQ . 22 C. fl fjt.. Bnston. Sheridan's i’ion««, mm m ■■■ bi as ■■■ sai ■ zSBk bs mi w> '.bins "n < arth Powder ts absoi'.Urt B W ■ B B H[BBv/r'i jnr ku h< na lay ytirti highly ''O'l'Bß EB B ■■■ Mflßn rn AH wW bite It cure» ?.entratz:d. One oun?»?BBB| V> KJf ■— M WB BW oh ickon oh'riosa mid is worth a pound oflaffE jf ZBB 181 108 B ■■ WuL of hens. anyotbOTkfr.d I 1 Mgl I ■■■ I W B W ■ AA BJ* Ito. weight strictly am> dininc toB B I BjE ■ B S U B B B > r > uold. I Uuvtaatcd b*given with food. BIBIIBbBB BGBIM B yfl 9MB B B book by mutt free. Bold everywhere, or sent by mail for 26 oonta in sUuupa, Si 1-4 lb. air-tight tlu caps. SI i ify mail, .'Tl.bQ* %ta cau* by express, prepaK, for &d.OO» DAL. uQKNtfOa a CO.. Bostca. - No Robbing'. So Ihfltsrlie ! No Sort Fit Warranted not to hij.irc tho Clothes, Ask your Crorrr for if. If be cannot-up ply you, one cake wld be mul ed phkk on receipt of six two cent at amp'* f«»r p«’»tni*e. A hoaiiHfnl nln*-colorod “Chromo” with tliivo bar*. Deal era aud Grocer* should write for partlcnUr*. G. A. SHODDY & SON, ROCKFOIID. ILL.. DURKEE'S riESICCATEh ~£S v CELERY B l POSSESSING THE COMPLETE flavor of the PLANT G A U N T L. E •fc.B RAND SSPICES mustard! SALAD CRESSING g rLAVORP'G 2 BAKING POWDER CHANGE MEATS. FISH&. GENUINE INDIA CURRY POWDER W* I ..■■■? - T -THE. S J liAWRENGE PURE LINSEED OIL D MIXED MINTS READY FOR USE. ttr Tlic newt i*alnt Made. Guaranteed to contain no water, benzine, barytes, chemicals, rubber, asbestos, rosin, gloss oil, or other similar adulUsrations. A full guarantee on every package and directions for use, so that any one not a practical paintercan use it. Handsome Hfynnlc cards, showing • 83 beautiful shades, mailed frep on application. If not kept by yOur dealer, write to us. Be careful to ask for "TjU- LAWRENCE PAINTS," and do not tako any otMF said to bo “ as good as Lawrence's.’* ,W. W. LAWRENCE & CO.,’’ I»rrTSHUItGH, PA. BEFORE ' JrOOk V PAINT I H y° u “Uo’iid ?’w examine \ A u# WETHERILL’S > A R// Portfolio of yty'A / '-Sw Artistic Designs ♦ Old Fashioned HmiHcs,QueenAnn<j <//tinges, Hub urban XStw ftßesidences, etc .col / ' *'• a Grw * to match / fa \\ shades of SWW-XitlasKPaint X? laL ' 7 ' ' f dr and showing tho ■A/-gr —j lab-Ktaml most ef <vX>- feetive combination w. V f,r colors in house pul nt i ng. •iiutenu pX your dealer nna not r got our portfolio, abk idrn parksge | to M-nd to us for one. You htik’l/ 3 <- an then kco exactly how AiLAb r (T'J y our ho( JH e will appear READY-\ J when finished. MIXED \ * ■ I 0° thl* “■ n ‘ l nM “Atlas” PAINT * I Ready-Mixed Paint and tn- . •. Us sure yourself satisfaction. SH- I nGeo.D.Wetherill&Co. L r- fa WH MANwicWRERs'" T / llr Wl 6 ® North Front Bt. PHILAO'A, PA.