HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1897-9-23, Page 3SHINING LIKE STARS
REV. DR. TALMAGE OFFERS HOPE
FOR CHRISTIAN WORKERS,
A Good .Example--Righteousness by Prayer
and by Christian Admonition—The Over-
wheltning Thought of the Te ct--Shining
Through Eternity and Reigning !?'Drover.
Washington, Sept. 10. --This discourse
flashes a bright light into the life of
Christian workers and offers 'a sublime
hope for all those who are discouraged in
their attempts to do good. Dr, Talmage's
text is Daniel xil, 8, "They that turn
many to righteousness shall shine as the
stars forever and ever." Every man has a thousand ropts and a
thousand branches. His roots reach down
through all the earth. His branches
spread through all the heavens. He
speaks with voice, with eye, with hand,
with foot. His silence often is loud as
thunder and his life is a dirge or a dox-
ology. There is no such thing as nega-
tive influence. We are all positive in the
place we occupy, making the world bet-
ter or making it worse, on the Lord's
side or on the .devil's, ' making up reit-
eons for our blessedness or banishment,
and we have already clone work in peo-
pling heaven or hell. I hear people tell
of what they are going to do. A man
wbo has burned down a city might as
well talk of some evil that he expeots to
do, or a man who has saved an, empire
might as well talk of some good that ho
expects to do. By the force of your evil
influence you have already consumed in-
finite values, or you have by the power
of a right iniluouee won whole kingdoms
for God. .
It would be absurd for me, by elabor-
ate argument, to prove that the world is
off the track. You might as well stand
at the foot of an embankment, amid the
wreck of a capsized rail train, proving
by elaborate argument that something is
out of order. Adam tumbled over the
embankment 60 centuries ago, and the
whole race in one long train has gone
on tumbling in tIle same dirootion.
Crash, crash!. The only question now is,
By what leverage can the crushed thing
be lifted!' By what hummer may the
fragments be reconstructed? I want to
show you how we may turn many to
righteousness, and what will be our
future pay for so doing.
A Good b rumple.
First, we may turn them by the
charm of a right example. A child com-
ing from a filthy home was taught at
sobool to wash its face. It went home so
much improved In appearance that its
mother washed her free. And when the
father of the household mune home and
saw the improvement in domestic appear-
ance be washed his face. The neighbors,
happening in, saw the chance and tried
the same experiment, until all that street
was purified, and the next street copied
its example, and the whole elty felt the
result of one schoolboy washing his face.
That is a fable by which we set forth
that the best way to get the world
washed of its sins and pollution i, to
have our uwn heart and life eleaused and
purified. A, clan with grace in his heart
and Christian cheerfulness in his taco
and holy consistency in his behavior is a
if perpetual sermon, and the sermon differs
from others in that it has but ono head,
and the longer it runs the better.
There are hono',t amen who walk down
Wall street, making the teeth of iniquity
chatter. There are happy men who go
Into a sickroom and by a look help the
broken bone to knit and the excited
nerves drop to a calm beating. There
are pure men whose presence silences the
tongue of uncleanness. The mightiest
agent of good on earth is a consistent
Christian. I like the Bible folded between
lids of cloth, of calfskin or morocco, but
I like it better when, in the shape of a
man, it goes out into the world—a Bible
illustrated. Courage is beautiful to read
about, but rather would I see a man
with all the world against him confident
as ,though all the world were for him.
Patience is beautiful to read about, but
rather would I see a buffeted soul calm-
ly waiting for the time of deliverance.
Faith is beautiful to read about, but
rather would I find a man in tbe mid-
night walking straight on as though he
saw everything, Oh, how many souls
bave been turned to God by the charm
of a bright example!
When in the Mexican war the troops
were wavering, a general rose in his
stirrups and dashed into the enemy's
lines, shouting, "Men, follow me!"
They, seeing his courage and disposition,
dashed on after him and gained the
victory. \Vhat men want to rally them
for God is an example to lead them. All
your commands to others to advance
amount to nothing as long as you stay
behind. To affect them aright you need
to start for heaven yourself, looking back
only to give the stirring ory of "Men,
follow !"
Power of Prayer.
Again, we may turn many to righteous-
ness by prayer. There is no such detec-
tive as prayer, for no oue can hide away
from it. It puts its hand on the shoulder
of a man 10,000 miles off. It alights on
a ship midatlantio. The little ohild can-
not understand the law of electricity or
how the telegraph operator by tonebing
the instrument here may dart a message
under the sea to another continent. Nor
can we, with our small intellect, under-
stand how the touch of a Christian's
prayer shall instantly strike a soul on
the other side of the earth. You take a
ship and go to some other country and
get there at 11 o'clock in the morning.
You telegraph to America and the mess-
age gets here at 6 o'clook the same morn-
ing. In other words, it seems to arrive
here five hours before it started. Like
that is prayer. God says, "Before they
call I will hear." To overtake a Ioved
one on the road you may spur up a lath
ered steed until be shall outrace the one
that brought the news to Ghent, but a
prayer shall catch it at one gallop. A
boy running away from home may take
the midnigbt train from the country
village and reaoh the seaport in time to
gain the ship that sails on the morrow,
but a mother's prayer will be on the
deck to meet himn, and in the hammock
before be swings into it, and at the cap-
stan before he winds the rope around,
and on the sea against the sky ,as the
vessel plows on toward it. There is
mightiness in prayer. George !Muller
prayed a company of poor boys together,
and then he prayed up an asylum in
which they might be sheltered. He
turned his face toward Edinburgh and
prayed, and there oame '£1,000. He
turned his face toward London and pray-
ed, and there oame a1,00O. He turned
his face toward Dublin and prayed, and
there oame £1,000. The breath of Elijah's
prayer blew all the clouds off ,the sity,
and it was dry weather. The breath of
Eiijah's prayer blew all the olouds to-
gether, and it was wet weather. Prayer
in Daniel's timewalked the Dave as a
non tamer. It reaohed up and tsok the
sun by its golden bit and stopped it and
the moon, by its silver bit and stopped it.
We have all yet to try , the full power
of prayer. The time will Dome when the
American church will pray with ^ts face
toward the west and all the prairies and
inland oities will surrender to God, and
will pray with face toward the sea, and
all the islands and ships will become
Christian. Parents wile have wayward
sons will get down on their knees and
say, "Lord, send my boy home," and the
boy In Canton shall get right up from
the gaming table and go down to find
out which ship starts first for America.
No one of us yet knows how to pray.
All we bave done as yet has only been
pottering. A boy gets hold of his father's
saw and hammer and tries to make
something, but it is a 'Door affair that he
makes. The father Domes and takes the
same saw and hammer and builds the
house or the ship. In the childhood of
our Christian faith we make but poor
work with these weapons of prayer, but
when we come tothe stature of inen in
Christ Jesus, then, under these Imple-
ments, the temple of God will rise and
the world's redemption will be launched.
God nares not for the length of our pray-
ers, or the number of our prayers, or the
beauty of our prayers, or the place of
our prayers, but it is the faith in them
that tells. Believing prayer soars higher
than the lark ever sang, plunges deeper
than diving hell ever sank, darts quicker
than lightuimz. over flashed. Though we
have used only the bask of this weapon
instead of the edge, what marvels have
been wrought! If saved, we are all the
captives of some earnest prayer. Would
God that in desire for the rosette of souls
we alight in prayer lay hold of the re -
sourness of the Lord Omnipotent!
We may turn many to righteousness by
Christian admonition, Do not wait until
you eau make a formal speech. Address
the one next to you. You will not go
home alone to -day. Between this and
your place of stopping you may decide
the eternal destiny of an immortal spirit.
Just one sentence may do tbe work, just
one question, just one look. The formal
talk that begins with a sigh and ends
with a canting snitflle is not what is
wanted, but the heart throb of a man in
dead earnest. There is not a soul on
earth that you may not bring to God if
you rightly go at it. They said Gibraltar
could not be taken. It is a rock 1,600
feet high and 8 miles long, but the Eng-
lish and Dutch did take it. Artillery and
sappers and miners, and fleets pouring
out volleys of death, and thousands of
men reckless of danger can do anything.
The stoutest heart of sin, though it by
rock and surrounded by an ocean of
transgressionunder Christian bombard-
ment may hoist the flag of redemption.
But is all this admonition and prayer
and Christian work for nothing? My text
promises to all the faithful eternal lus-
ton "They that turn many to righteous -
nose shall shins as the stars forever."
As stars the redeemed have a borrowed
light. What snakes Mars and Venus and
Jupiter so luminous? When the sun
throws down bis torch in the heavens,
the stars piek up the scattered brands
and hold them in procession as the queen
of, the night advances, so all Christian
workers, standing around the throne,
will shins in the light borrowed from
the Sun of Righteousness—Jesus in their
faces, Jesus In their sones, Jesus in their
triumpb.
Christ left heaven once for a tour of
redemption on earth, yet the glorified
ones knew he would pompe baok again.
But let him abdicate his throne and go
away to stay forever, the music would
stop,, the congregation would disperse,
the temples of God. be darkened, the rivers
of lifo stagnate, and every chariot would
become a hearse, and every bell would
toll, and there would not be room on the
hillsides to bury the dead. of the great
metropolis, for there would be pestilence
in beaven. But Jesus lives, and 8o all
the redeemed live with him. He shall
reoognize them as his comrades in earthly
toil and remember what they did for tbe
honor of his name and for the spread of
bis kingdom. All their prayers and tears
and work will rise before him as he looks
into their faces, and he will divide his
kingdom with them—his peace their
peace, his holiness their holiness, his joy
their joy. The glory of the central throne
reflected from the surrounding thrones,
the last spot of sin struck from the Chris-
tian orb, and the entire nature a -tremble
and a -flash with light, they shall shine
as the stars forever and ever.
Separate and in Clusters.
Again, Christian workers shall be like
the stars in the fact that they have a
light independent of each other. Look up
at the night and see each world show
its distinct glory. It is ot Iike the con-
flagration in which you cannot tell
where one flame stops and another begins.
Neptune, Herschel and Mercury are as
distinct as if each ono of them were the
only star: So our individualism will not
be lost in heaven. • A great multitude,
yet each ons as observable, as distinctly
recognized, as greatly celebrated, as if in
all the space, from gate to gate, and
from bill to hill, he were the only inhab-
itant. No mixing up, no mob, no indis-
criminate rush, each Christian worker
standing out illustrious, all the story of
earthly achievement adhering to each one,
his self denials and pains and services
and victories published.
Before men went out to the last war
the orators told them that they would all
be' remembered by their country and
their names be oomluemorated in poetry
and in song, but go to the graveyard in
Ricbmond and you will find there 6,000
graves, over eaoh one of which is the in-
scription, "Unknown." The world doe's
not remember its heroes, but there will
be no unrecognized Christian worker in
heaven. Each one known by all; grand-
ly known; known by acclamation; all
the past story of work for God gleaming
in cheek and brow and foot and palm.
They shall shine with distinct light as
the stars forever and ever.
Again, Christian workers shall shine
like the stars in clusters. In looking up
you: find the worlds in family circles.
Brothers and sisters—they take hold of
each other's hands and dance in groups.
Orlon , in a group. The Pleiades in a
group. The solar system is only a com-
pany of children with bright faces gath-
erect around ono great fireplace. The
worlds do not straggle off. They go in
squadrons and fleets sailing through im-
mensity. So Christian workers in heaven
will dwell in neighborhoods and clusters.
I am sure that some people I will like
in heaven a great deal better than others.
Yonder is a constellation of stately Chris-
tians. They lived on earth by rigid rule.
They never laughed. They walked every
hour anxious lest they .sbould lose their
diguity, but they loved God, and yonder
they shine in brilliant constellation. Yes
I ehall`not long to get into that nartiou-
lar group. Yonder is a constellation of
email hearted Christians—asteroids in
the eternal astronomy. While some souls
go up from Ch>;istian battle and blaze
like Mars, these asteroids dart a feeble
ray like 'Vesta, Yonder is a constellation
of martyrs, of apostles, of patriarchs.
Our souls as they go up to heaven will
seek out the'most congenial society.
Yonder is a constellation almost merry.
with the play of light. On earth they
were full of sympathies and songs and
tears and raptures and congratulations.
When they prayed, their words took fire.
When they sang, the tune could not hold
them. 'When they wept over a world's
woes, they sobbed as if heartbroken.
When they worked for Christ, they
flamed with enthusiasm. Yonder they
are—oiroles of light, constellation of joy,
galaxy of fire! Oh, that you and I by
that grace which can transform the worst
into the best might at last sail in the
wake of that fleet and wheel in that
glorious group as the stars forever and
ever!
Speed and Magnitude.
Again, Christian workers will shine
like the stars in swiftness of motion.
The worids do not stop to shine. There
are no fixed stars save as to relative posi-
tion. The star apparently most thorough-
ly fixed flies thousands of miles a minute..
The astronomer, using his telescope for
an alpenstock, leaps from world crag to
world crag and finds no star standing
still. The chamois hunter has to fly to
catch his prey, but not so swift is bis
game as that which the scientist tries to
shoot through the tower of observatory.
Like petrels midatlantio that seem to
Dome from no shore and be bound to no
landing place, flying, flying, so these
great flocks of worlds rest notes they go,
wing for wing, age after age, forever
and ever. The eagle hastes to its prey,
but we shall in speed beat the eagles.
You have noticed the velocity of the
swift horse, under' whose feet the miles
slip like a smooth ribbon, and as he
Passes the four bobfs strike the earth in
suoh quick beat your pulses take the
same vibration. But all these things are
nob swift in comparison with the motion
of which I speak. The moon moves
54,000 miles in a day. Yonder Neptune
flashes on 11,000 miles in an hour. Yon-
der Mercury goes 109,000 miles in an
hour. So, like the stars, the Christian
shall shine in swiftness of motion.
You -bear now of father or mother or
child siok 1,000 miles away, and it takes
you two days to get to them. You hear
of some case of suffering that demands
your immediate attention, but it takes
you an hour to get there, Oh, the joy
when you shall, in fulfillment of the
text, take starry speed and be equal to
100,000 miles an hour 1 Having on earth
got used to Christian work, you will not
quit when death strikes you. You will
only take on more velocity. There is a
dying child in London, and its spirit
must be taken up to God. You are there
in an instant to do it. There is a young
man in New York to be arrested from
going into that gate of sin. You are
there in an instant to arrest him.
Whether with spring of foot or strike of
wing or by the force of some new law
that shall burl you to the spot where
you would go I know not, but my text
suggests velocity. All space open before
you, with nothing to hinder you in mis-
sion of light and love and joy, you shall
shine in swiftness of motion as the stars
forever and ever.
Again, Christian workers, like the
stars, shine in magnitude. The most illit-
erate man knows that these things in
the sky, looking like gilt buttons, are
great masses of matter. To weigh them
one would think that it would require
scales with a pillar hundreds of thou-
sands ot miles high and chains huvdreds
of thousands of miles long, and at the
bottom of the ohains basins on either
side hundreds of thousands of miles
wide, and that then Omnipotenoe alone
oould put the mountains into the scales
and the hills into the balance, but puny
man has been equal to the undertaking
and bas set a little balance on his geom-
etry and weighed world against world.
Yea, he has pulled out his measuring
line and announced that Herschel is
86,000 miles in diameter, Saturn 79,000
miles in diameter and Jupiter 89,000
miles in diameter, and that the smallest
pearl on the beach of heaven is immense
beyond a1I imagination. So all they who
have toiled for Christ on earth shall rise
up to a magnitude of privilege, and a
magnitude of strength, and a magnitude
of holiness, and a magnitude of joy, and
the weakest saint in glory become greater
than all that we can imagine of an
archangel.
Brethren, "It doth not yet appear
what we shall be." Wisdom that shall
know everything, wealth that shall
possess everything, strength that shall
do everything, glory that shall circum-
scribe everything! We shall not be like a
taper set in a sick man's window or a
bundle of sticks kindled on the beach to
warm a shivering crew, but you must
take` the diameter and the circumfer-
ence of a world if you would get any
idea of the greatness of our estate when
we shall' shine as the stars forever and
ever.
Duration.
Lastly—and owning to this point my
mind almost breaks down under the
contemplation ---like the stars, all Chris-
tian workers shall shine in duration.
The same stars that look down upon us
looked down upon the Chaldean shep-
herds. The meteor that I saw flashing
across the sky the other night, I wonder
if it was not the same one that pointed
down to where Jesus lay In the manger,
and if, having pointed out his birthplace,
it has ever since been wandering through
the heavens, watching to see how the
world would treat him, When .Adam
awoke in the garden in the cool of the
day, he saw coming out through the
dusk of the evening, the same' worlds
that greeted us last night.
In Independence hail is an old cracked
bell that sounded the signature of the
Declaration of Independence. You cannot
ring it now, but this great chime of sil-
ver bells that strike in the dome of night
ring out with as sweet a tone as when
God swung them at the creation. Look
up at nightand know that the white
lilies that bloom in all the hanging
gardens of our King are century plants,
not blooming once In 100 years, but
through all the centuries. The star at
which the mariner looks to -night was
Cie light by which the ships of Tarshish
were guided across the Mediterranean
and the Venetian flotilla found its way
into Lepanto. Their armor is asbright
to -night as when in ancient battle the
stars in their courses fought against
Sisera.
To the ancients the stars were symbols
of eternity, but here the figure of my
text breaks down, 'nob in defeat, but in
the majesties of the judgment. The stars
shall not shine forever. The Bible' says
they shall fall like autumnal leaves. As
when the connecting factory band slips
at nightfall from the main wheel all
she smaller wheels slacken their speed,
and with slower and slower motion they
turn until they come to a full stop, so
this great machinery of the universe,
wheel within wheel, making revolution
of appalling speed., shall by the touch of
God's hand slip the baud of present law
and slacken and.stop. That is what will
be the matter with the mountains. The
chariots in which they rids shall halt so
stioden!y that the kings shall be thrown
001. ,Stor after star shall be carried out
to burial amid funeral torches of burn-
ing worlds. Constellations shall throw
ashes on their heads, and all up and
down the highways of space there shall
be mourning, mourning, mourning,
because the worlds are dead, But ibe
Christian workers shall never quit their
thrones, They shall reign forever and
ever.
An ArtistleRevenge.
The elevator boy was a genius, .al-
though nothing of the kind had ever
been charged up against him. When the
far—that is to say, stout, for only men
and the lower animals are fat, women
of that style of architecture being invari-
ably stout—when the stout stenographer
on the ninth floor repulsed the admiring
Armen of the elevator boy, she did not
know that she was laying a mine for the
desrruotion of her peace of mind if not
of herself. The elevator boy, brooded
upon the snubbing he had received and
re-oived that he should be gloriously re-
v {+u;od.
but bow? as the cheap novels say,
The elevator boy did not know at first,
but the next time the stout stenographer
entered his car to ride to the ninth floor
lin Inspiration came to him.The inspiration came on a Monday
moving.
At noon of the same day, the elevator
boy, shooting downward from the pin-
nnele of the building, found the stout
stenographer waiting at the ninth floor
to go down and get her cup of coffee and
peanh pie a is mode.
"Nine, down!" piped the stout steno-
grapher. The lift stopped, and with great
uiguity and politeness the elevator boy
opened the door. Tile stout stenographer
entered. The moment her foot pressed
the flour of the sage the elevator sank
two inches. The elevator boy closed the
door without a word, a glance or a
smile, and the downward journey was
resumed. The three men wbo were in
the dropping box, however, gazed about
with a wondering expression on their
fares. When their eyes took in the pro-
portions of the stout steuograpber a satis-
fied look cams into their countenances.
They understood why the elevator had
dropped two inches under the pressure.
The stout stenographer colored a rich,
005041051 red and looked daggers,
sabers, broadswords and other cutlery at
the boy. He. said no other word than
"Main floor, All out!"
After the luncheon Hour the stout
stenographer sauntered into the rotunda
of the big building once more. She had
forgotten the incident of the two inches.
"Going up!" cried the elevator boy, and
she accelerated her movement toward
the lift. Four Inen and two women were
inside. The boy again, with princely
politeness, held the uo"r open. She en-
tered. At the pressure of her foot the
elevator promptly dropped two inches.
The four men, aroused from after lun-
cheon reflections by the sudden lurch,
looked about inquiringly. They saw the
stout stenographer and smiled. The two:
women smiled with smiles of even
greater dimensions and duration. The
hay was a hewn monument of imper-
turbable dignity. The stout stenographer
glared about her, the half suspected,
but could not be certain.
It was in this fashion that things con-
tinued for six days. She tried to oatoll
the boy off his guard and slip into the
lift when his attention was attracted to
other things --the cigar stand, for in-
stance—but all snob endeavors were un-
availing. That fatal drop of two inches
always manifested itself. She felt that
she was a marked woman and the talk
of the town, Once she resolved to walk
up the nine flights of stairs rather than
submit herself to the ignominy of that
elevator, but by the time she bad reaohed
the fifth floor, disheartened and perspir-
ing, she rang the bell for the lift. "He
will not expect to catch mo on this
door," she said. But he did. She stepped
inside. The elevator dropped. An ill bred
man, who pretended to sell wire feuoing
on the eleventh floor, snickered. The
stout stenographer turned upon him, but
seeing the quiet, solemn face of the ele-
vator.boy she remembered in time that
she was a perfect lady.
On the sixth day the stout steno
grapber capitulated. She caused this
advertism
eent to be inserted in a news-
parter :—
"Wanted—A position by a capable
stenographer; wages not so much a con-
sideration as a position with a firm doing
business on the ground floor."
The next day she went forever out of
the tall building. The boy found the
advertisement in the paper and pasted it
up in his cage, where ho could see it all
clap long.
Such is adequate, beautiful, glorious
revenge when undertaken by' an artist.
--Chicago Record.
Put it in Writing.
In every commercial transaction involv-
ing any semblance to a contract it is
always best to have a definite under-
standing between the parties, and. if
possible, that understanding should be
in black and white. He who borrows
even $5 should insist on giving a note
therefor, and the lender ought not to re-
fuse it. As far as possible payments
should be mads in bank checks, and
receipts invariably given and. required.
In extending credit it is especially neces-
sary that a day of settlement should be
fixed, and that the debtor, as well as his
creditor, should understand that the
designated day is to be a day of settle-
ment No one should enter the employ
of another, nor should anyone receive
service until the question of remunera-
tion has been definitely decided. In busi-
ness it does not do to take things for
granted. People aro very likely to form
different ideas of the meaning of.'a ver-
bal agreement and any man's memory is
treacherous at times. If men would only
insist upon understanding the contract
between them as they were made there
would be no necessity for appealing to
the law for an interpretation. No one
knows how much litigation, and loss,
and dishonesty, and trouble might be
obviated if business people strictly ad-
hered to the rule of undertaking no
obligation without first arriving at. a,
mutual conclusion as to the exact limits,
of that obligation.
Bischof proven conclusively that spongy
metallic iron 25 an exceedingly powerful
disinfectant, though in what manner it
acts as such is not exactly agreed upon
by "chemists.
WORTH ITS WEIGHT IN GOLD.
Is the Testimony of Frank S, Emerick of
Alvinston, (Ont:.—Says South American
Kidney Cure Saved 1I1s Life--lt Relieves
in Six Hours.
"For two years I was greatly troubled
with kidney disease. I suffered intense
pain, agd ;Frequently was unable to work.
I doctored at intervals, but got little or
no relief. I began to grow worse, and
the pains, were frequent and intense.
About this time I saw South American
Kidney Cure advertised as a. epoody re-
lief for all kidney troubles, I purchased
a bottle, and it gave ine wonderful relief
in a few hours. I improved steadily,
and after taking four bottles I am com-
pletely cured. I consider it worth its
weight in gold, for it assuredly saved
my life.
A. Cool Empress:
Few people are aware that the dowager
Empress of Russia saved her husband's
life on two occasions. One day, when in
the Emperor's dressing room, sbe ob-
served that on his dressing table lay a
curious looking little jewel ease. Some-
thing about its appearance aroused her
curiosity, and, taking it up, sbe became
aware that it was extremely heavy- With-
out saying a word she went into her
room and placed it carefully in a basin
of water; then, sending for the prefect
of police, whose duties kept him much
about the palace, she begged hien to bave
it examined, and it was discovered to be
one of the most marvelous infernal ma-
chines ever invented by the ingenuity of
clan.
The second occasion on whioh the Em-
press was directly instrumental in stop-
ping murder occurred in the Winter pal-
ace, when she heard a slight noise which
indicated the presence' of some stranger
in the Czar's study, Without betraying
the slightest anxiety, she begged her bus-
abnd to come and speak to ono of the
children, He did so. She looked tbe door,
and only gave up the key to party of
soldiers, who found when they entered
the apartment that some one had just
eseaped through the window.
WiLL CARRY THE SCARS TO HER
GRAVE.
Spent Thousands for Health, Rut Di4 Net
Obtain This Greatest ot All Blessings
Until She Used the Great South American
Rheumatic: Cure Suffered Intensely for
12 a`ears•
Mrs. P. Brawley, of Tottenbam, Ont.,
states: "I suffered almost continually
for 1aa years with rheumatism, the effects
of which I will carry to my grave, and
while the joints at Icy elbows and wrists
are yet stiff X am entirely freed from
pain in the use of South American Rheu-
matic Cure- It has indeed proved a won-
derful cure in my case. I have spent
thousands of dollars in doctors' bills and,
inedieines without avail. !five bottles of
this wonder -worker has cured all pain. I
am better in heelth generally than 1
have been for ten years.
Interesting Speculation.
"111y dear," asked his wife, "what are
you thinking about?"
"I was thinking,"replied the theoso-
phist, shaking otr his fit of dreamy ab-
straction, "which make of wheel I will
ride the next time I appear on earth."
The Rev. S. Riopel, M.D., County
Jacques -Cartier, writes: "I have had
considerable experience with Dr. fevers'
'Quickcure' and have always found it
Surprisingly effective, answering fully,
when directions were observed, the sev-
eral claims of its author. It relieves pain
in an incredibly short time."
For Rheumatism, Pain in the Back,
Sides or Chest, spread "Quiokoura" on
linen, or cotton, as for Burns, and cover
with cotton batting, or even paper, over
which put a bandage to keep all in place
and protect the clothing. Many physi-
cians will not prescribe or allow use of
ordinary plasters, as so many of them
contain Belladonna, and Aconite, and
sometimes these drugs may be absorbed
by the systema and cause serious disturb-
ances, Plasters made of "Quick -cure"
have been recommended, as being entire-
ly free from anything which could pos-
sibly injure even a child, and no plaster
removes pain so quickly.
Lack of Co-ordination.
"John, you ought to buy a whole bar-
rel of flour. It's getting higher every
day." •
"I know it is, Maria, and I have been
surprised that it doesn't have a more
buoyant effect on your biscuits."
Sleeplessness is due to nervous excite-
ment. The delicately constituted, the
financier, the business man, and those
whose occupation necessitates great men-
tal strain or worry, all suffer less or mote
from it..Sleep is the great restorer of a
worried brain, and to get sleep cleanse the
stomach from all impurities with a few
doses of Parmelee's Vegetable Pills, gela
tine coated, containing uo mercury, and
are guaranteed to give satisfaction or the
money will be refunded,
Quite so,
Jack—Mother, where do flies come
tram?
Mother—God makes them, lackey,
dear.
Jack (after a long pause)—What r
fiddling job it must be!
Report Prom the Government 1'hys°ian.
Port of Quebec.
"1 have used "Pheno-Banum' or Quick.
Duro' in a suppurating wound-oilowint;
a severe bite of a cat; after the nsu,tl
remedies seemed ineffectual this prepuru-
tion cleaned up the woun' and healed is
after the second applic,tion; its effect
was most satisfactory it bas also proved
a valuable remedy Lor removing pain,
and destroying tl 00501 that cause bails
and carbuncles.' healing in some oases
more quickly.han if the microbes had
been out mai as is 3101v recognized to be
tropes, tro,Oment instead of poultioing,
etc, Thii remedy has a grand future
before it" Signed,
T. 11. iENOBEY, M.D., M.RC.S., Eng.
woman turns. the years substantially
as go turns collars and cuffs; and they
1001 pretty nearly as good as new.
'totting looks more ugly than to see a
Yrson whose hands ate covered over with
harts. 'Why have these disfigurements
on yourperson. when 11 sure remover ofall
warts, corns, etc., cru be found in Hollo-
way's Corn Cure.
13ETTEIII THAN GOLD
IS THE RARE TREASURE OF PER.
FEC!` HEALTH.
ANeva. Scotia Lady Says; "'I Consider Dr.
Williams' Pink Pills a Priceless 'Boon to
Suffering Huulanity,"
Froin the Amherst, N,S., Sentinel.
The rugged and the strong do not ap-
preciate to its full extent the blessing of
perfect health. It is only those who have
passed through a trying illness, wbo feel
that health is a treasure to be prized
more than silver or gold. Among those
who have experienced the truth of this ie
Ailss Sabra Rector, of West .River Her
bert, N. S. This lady has passed through
a trying and • wearisome illness, from
which happily relief was found through
the medium of a me .ieine that bas
brought health and strength to tliausands
of others, and whose medicinal virtues
will work equally goo! results is all.
cases where it is given a fair trial. Miss
Rector says: "I feel it is my duty to
recommend Dr, Williams' Pank Pills, as
they have done wonders for me. ,About
two years age I beca.ue very i11 with a
complication of diseases. I was suffering
with indigestion. biliousness and the
resulting nervous disorders, such as sink
headache, loss of appetite, and flashes of
heat and cold. I began doctoring, and al-
though I bad the best of care I seemed
to grow worse every day. 1 slept but lit -
tie and when lying ,down would grow
So hot and suffer from a sensation of
smothering that I would find it neces-
sary to arise. Then the other extreme
would some and I would shiver with
cold. Time wore on and there was no
improvement In my condition. I was
not able to do any work about the Howse
and even the exertion of moving about
would tire nye out, If I attempted to
walk any distance or hurried in the least
I would gasp for breath and could
scarcely speak. I had a very poor appe-
tite, and what food I ate did not seem to
agree with me or furnish needed nourish-
ment, and 1 also suffered with a severe
pain in my side and back. During this
time I tried many remedies, but they
gave me no relief whatever. I had be-
come so weak, and n1P system was so
run down that life was a. burden to me.
At this stage my attention was directed
to Dr. Williams' Pink fills and I deter-
mined to give them a trial. After using
four box,s 1 felt so 1uu' h better that
hope and eneouragrnent mule to nit' once
more. 1 continued the use of the fink
Pills and found myself steadily gaining
health and strength. By the time I had
used four boxes more I had fully re-
gained health and strength and I am not
only able to do my full share of house-
hold work, but !filo attend to Icy Sab-
bath school elass and other ohuroh
duties. I look upon Dr, Williams' Pink
l illi as a priceless boon to suffering.
humanity."
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are a specific
for the troubles which Inake the lives of
so many women a burden, and speedily
restore the rich glow of health to pale.
and sallow cheeks. Sold by all dealers,
or sent by mail postpaid, at 50o. a box.
or six boxes for $a 50, by addressing the
Dr. Williams' -Medicine Co., Brockville,
Ont. Beware of imitations and substi-
tutes alleged to be "just as good."
The Olti'atan Converted. .1
"This here speculatin' in wheat on the
stook exchange is gamblin' pure and
simple," Paid the farmer, who was a
deacon and a strict di<ciplinarian, "an'
the Lord won't prosper them that wins
by it."
"Well, father," replied his son, "I'm
solary to hear that, ,or I plaeed that
money you gave me an t mace $0Q0 by
the deal."
The old man coughed, wiped bis
glasses and then said:—
"Well, well! Providence does work in
mysterious ways! The p arson wuz sayin'
last week that the churns needed paint -
in'; an' besides—tsar's a mortgage on
the farm that orter be lifted, an' one o'
two other little accounts that's got ter
bo squared. Well, wall1"
Extract of "'1'I,- American itm o[
Surgery."
""Boils ar' caused by Microbes,sle(or
germs) tamCocci, penetrate the
skin, us'alyed along awhich hair follicle, and
ifnless destroyed they cause Bolls and
Carrtncles, being favored by oonstitu-
tio'al disturbances and .certain atmos-
rierio conditions. Carbuncles are like
.Boils—at first superficial, but are caused
when the microbe penetrates deeper, or
into denser tissue. A11 Bolls appear at
first as pimples, or pustules." "Quick -
cure" removes all boils or pimples.
Of Coarse.
"Say, Pa, what kind of pans
ars nee when panning gold?"
"Dust pans, my son."
do nun -
If your childrenmoan and are restless
during sleep, coupled when awake with a
loss of appetite, pale countenance, picking
of the nose, etc.. you ntay depend upon it
that the primary cause of the trouble is
12,C11118. Mother. Graves' Worm Exter-
minater effectually removes these pests,
at once relieving the little sufferers.
Quality and Number.
"That shoe, madam," said the urbane
clerk, "is Al. '
They were also S's, but the sale was.,
mads.
Dr. S. J. Andres, Beaver Zell, ° Mont-
real, writes: "On several occasions I
have known'Pheno-Banum' or 'Quick -
cure' to remove Pain in the Back within
fifteen minntes. It is especially valuable
where Belladonna or ,Aconite plasters
would not be prescribed." '