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*O THOU AND PREACH
0 DR. TALMAGE TELLS WHAT THE
FUTURE SERMON WILL BE.
The World Wants. a Living Christ—Con.
detonation the Demand of the Age—Why
People Do Not Go to Clanrch—Axa Appeal
to the Unsaved Soul,
lcopyrigbt 1897, by American Press Associa-
tion.)
Washington, Nov. 91. --Most appropri-
ate to the times we live in is Dr, Tal -
wage's clisooarse of to -day. All Christian
workers will read it with interest. His
text is Luke ix,, 60 "Go, thou, and
preanh the kingdom of God."
The gospel is to be regnant over all
hearts, all circles, ell governments and
all lands. The kingdom of God spoken of
in the text is to be a universal kingdom,
and just as wide as tbat will be the
realm sermonic. "Go, thou, and preanh
tbe kingdom of God." We hear a great
deal in .these days about the coming roan,
and the coining woman, and the coming
time. Some one ought to tell us of the
coming sermon. It is a simple fact that
everybody knows that most of the ser-
mons of today do not reach the world.
The vast majority of the people of our
great cities never enter church.
The sermon of to -day carries along
with it the deadwood of all ages. Hun-
dreds of years ago it was decided what a
sermon ought to be, and it is the at-
tempt of many theological seminaries
and doctors of divinity to hew the
/- modern pulpit utterances into the same
it R old style proportions. Booksellers will
telt you they dispose of a hundred his-
tories, a hundred novels,a bundred poems
to one book of sermons. What is the
matter? Some say the age is the worst
of all ages. It is better. Some say reli-
gion is wearing out, when it is wearing
in, Sonic say there are so many who
despise the Christian religion. I answer
there never was an ago when there were
so many Christians or so many friends
of Christianity as this age has—aur age,
as to others a hundred to one. What is
the matter, then? It is simply because
our sermon of to -day is not suited to the
age. It is the canalboat in an age of loco-
motive and electric telegraph. The ser-
mon will haus to be shaken out of the
old grooves or it will not be heard and
it will not be read,
The Coaling Sermon.
Before the world is converted the
sermon will have to be converted. You
might as well go into a modern Sedan
or Gettysburg with bows and arrows
instead of rifies and bombshells and
parks of artillery lie to aspect to conquer
this world for God by the old styles of
serinonology. Jonathan Edwards preached
the sermons best adapted to the age in
which . he lived. But if those sermons
were preached now they would divide an
audience into two classes—those sound
asleep and those wanting to go home.
But there is a corning sermon—who
will preach it 1 have no idea. In what
part of the earth it will be born 1 have
no idea. In which denomination of
Christiana it will be delivered I cannot
guess. That owning sermon may be
Morn in the country meeting house on
r uhe banks of the St. Lawrence, or the
Oregon, or the Ohio, or the Tombigbee,
or the Alabama, Tho person who shall
deliver it may this moment lie in a
0 cradle under the shadow of the Sierra
Nevadas, or in n New England farm
house, or amid the riaeflelds of southern
savannas; or this moment there may be
some young man in some of our tbeoln-
gioat seminaries in the junior or middle
or senior class shaping that weapon of
power; or there inay be coming some
new baptism of the Holy Ghost on the
churches, so that some of us who now
stand in the watch towers of Zion,
waking to the realization of our
present inefficiency, ,nay preanh it our-
selves. '.That coming sermon maynot be
20 years off. .And let us pray God that
its arrival may be hastened, while 1
announce to you what I think will be
the chief obaracteristlos of that sermon
when it does arrive, and 1 want to
make the remarks appropriate and' sug-
gestive to all classes of Christian work-
ers.
First of all, I remark that tbat
coming sermon will be full of a living
Christ, in contradistinction to didactic
technicalities. a A. sermon may be full of
Christ, though hardly mentioning his
name, and a sermon may bo empty of
Christ,while every sentence is repetitious
of his title. The world wants a living
Christ, not a Christ standing at the head
of a formal systehn of theology, but a
Christ who means pardon and sympathy
and condolence and brotherhood and life
and heaven A poor man's Christ. An
overworked man's Christ. An invalid's
Owlet. An artisan's Christ. An -every
man's Christ.
The World Wants Help.
A symmetrical and finely worded
system of the theology is well enough
,for theological classes, but it has no
asore business in a pulpit than have the
ehnioel phrases of an antomist or a
hysioian in the sickroom of a patient.
The world wants help, immediate and
world uplifting, and it will Dome
through a sermon in which Christ shall
walk right down into the immortal soul
and take everlasting possession of it,
filling it as full of light as is the noon-
day firmament. That sermon of the
future will not deal with men the
threadbare illustrations of Jesus Christ.
In that coining sermon there will be
intanoes of vicarious sacrifice taken
right out of everyday life, for there is
not a day somebody is not dying for
others. As the . physician, saving his
diphtherio patient by sacrificing his own
life; as the ship captaill, going down
with his 'vessel, while be is. getting his
passengers into the lifeboat; as the fire-
; utan,consuming in the burning building,
Whilehe is taking ,a ohild out of a
fourth story window; as last summer
the strong swimmer at Long Branch or
Cape May or Lake George himself
perishing tryingto resou
e the drowning;
as the newspaper boy not long ago, sup-
porting his mother for some years, his
invalid mother,when offered by a gentle-
man 50
entle-pian-50 cents to get some especial paper,
and he got it . and rushed up in his
anxiety to deliver it, and was crushed
under the wheels of the train, and lay
on the grass with only strength enough
to say, "Oh, what will become, of my
poor, sick mother now?"
Vicarious suffering? The world is full
of it. An engineer said to pie on a 10004
motive in Deekta: "We men seem to be
coming to better appreciation than we
used to. Did you see thataccount the.
other day of nib engineer, wbo to save
his passengers, stuck to his place, and
When he was found dead in the l000-
Motive,' which was found upside down,
he was found still smiling, his hand on
the air -brake?" And as . the engineer
said it to me be put his hand on the
air -brake to illustrate his meaning, and
I looked at him and thought, "You
would he just as much of a hero in the
same crisis."
Oh, in that naming sermon of the
Christian cbureh there will be living
illustrations taken from everyday life of
vicarious suffering—illustrations that
willbring to mind the ghastlier sacrifice
of hint who, in the high places of the
field and on the oross, fought aur battle
and wept our griefs and endured our
struggles and cited our death.
The ILnage of Christ.
.A German sculptor made an image of
Christ, and he asked his little child, two
years old, who it was, and she said,
"That mast be some very great man."
The sculptor was displeased with the
criticism, So he got another block of
marble and chiseled away on it two
or three years, and then he brought in
his little child, four or live years of age,
and he said to her, "Who do you think
that is?" She said, "That must be the
one who took little children in bis arms
and blessed them." Then the sculptor
was satisfied. Oh, my friends, what the
world wapts is not a cold Christ, not an
intelleotual Christ. not a severely mag-
isterial
agisterial Christ, but a loving Christ,
spreading out his arms of sympathy to
press the whole world to his loving
heart.
But I remark, again, that the coming
sermon of the Christian ohurch will, be a
short sermon. Condensation is demanded
by the age in which we live, No more
need of long introductions and long ap-
plications and so many divisions to a
discourse that it may be said to be hydra
beaded, In other days men got all their
information from the pulpit. There
were few books, and there were no
newspapers, and there was little travel
from plane to plane, and people would
sit and listen two and a half hours to a
religious discourse, and "seventeenthiy"
would find them fresh and abipper, In
those times there was enough room for
a man to take an hour to warm Munson
up to the subject acid an hour to cool off.
But what was a nececity then is a
superfluity now. Cougr'gations are full
of knowledge from books, from news-
papers, ,from rapid and continuous
intercommunioatian, and long, disquisi-
tions of what they know ulr'ady will
not be abided. If a religious teacher can-
not compress a hat he wishes to say to
the people in the spate of 45 minutes,
better adjourn it to some other day.
The trouble is we preach audiences
into a Christian frame, and then we
preach them out of it. We forget that
every auditor has so much capacity of
atteution,and when that is exbausted he
is restless The accident on the Long
Island railroad came from the feat that
the brakes were out of order and when
they wanted to stop the train alley
could not stop; hence the casualty was
terrific. In all religious discourse we
want locomotive power and propulsion.
We want at the same time stout brakes
to let down at the rigbt instant. It is
e dismal thing, after a hearer, has com-
prehended thewhole subject, to bear a
man say, "Now, to recapitulate," and
"a few words by way of application"
and "once mora," and "finally," and
"now to conolude."
The 31odel Sermon.
Paul preached until midnight, and
Eutychus got sound asleep and fell out
of a window and broke his nook. Some
would say, "Good for him," I would
rather be sympathetic, ince Paul, and
resuscitate him. That accident is often
quoted now in religious ciroles as a warn-
ing against somnolence in thumb. It is
just as muoh a warning to ministers
against prolixity. Itutyabus was wrong
in his somnolence, but Paul made a
mistake when he kept on until mid-
night. He ought to have stopped at 11
o'clock and there would have been no
accident, If Paul might have gone on to
too great lengths, lot all those of us who
are now preachiug the gospel remember
that there is a limit to religious dis-
course, or ought to be, and that in our
time we have no apostolic power of
miracles. Napoleon, in an address of
seven minutes, thrilled his army and
thrilled Europe. Christ's sermon on the
mount—the model sermon—was less
than 18 minutes long at ordinary mode
of delivery. It is not electricity scattered
all over the sky that strikes. but elec-
trioity gathered into a thunderbolt and
hurled, and it is notreligious truth seat-
tered over, spread out over a vast reach
of time, but religious truth projected in
compact form that flashes light upon'
the soul and drives . its indifference.
When the coining sermon arrives in this
land and in the Christian church—the
sermon which is to arouse the world
and startle the nations and usher in the
kingdom -1t will be a brief sermon.
Hear it, all theological students, all ye
just entering upon religious work, all ye
men and women who in Sabbath schools
and other departments are toiling far
Christ and the salvation of immortals.
Brevity, brevity!
But I remark also that the coming ser-
mon of which I speak will be a 'popular
sermon. There are those in these times
who speak of a popular sermon as
though there must be something wrong
about it. .As these critics are dull them-
selves, the world gets the impression
that a sermon is good in proportion as
it is stupid. Christ was the most popular
preacher the world ever saw, and, con-
sidering the small number of the world's
population had the largest audiences ever
gathered. He never preached anywhere
'without making a great sensation. Peo-
ple rushed out in the wilderness to hear
him,reckiess of their'physioai necessities.
So great was their anxiety to hear
Christ, that, taking no fa od with them,
they would have fainted and starved had
not Christ performed a miracle and fed
them. Why did so many people take the
truth a Christ's hands? Because they all
understood it. He illustrated his subject
by a hen and her chickens, by a bushel
measure, by a handful of salt, by a
bird's flightand by a lily's aroma. All
the people knew what he meant, and
k to him. And when the
they flocked
coining sermon of the Christian church
appears, it will not be Prinoetonian,
not 53.00hersterian, not Andoverien, not
Middletonian, but Olivetio—plain, prac-
tical, unique, earnest, comprehensive
of all the woes, wants, sins, sorrows and
necessities of an auditory.
Churches Rill be Thronged.
But when that sermon does come,
there will be a thousand gleaming
scimitars to charge on it. There are in
so many theological seminaries profes-
sors
telling young men how to preach,
themselves not knowing bow, and I am
told ' if a young man in some of our
theological seminaries says anything
quaint or thrilling or unique, faculty
end students fty at him,, and set him
right, and straighten him out; and
smooth him down, and chop bine off
until he says everything just as every
body else says it. Oh, when the coming
sermon of the Christian chnroh arrives,
all the' churches of Christ in our great
cities will be thronged. The world wants
spiritual help. All who have buried their
deed want comfort. All know them-
selves to be mortal and to • be immortal
and they want to hear about the great
future. I tell you, my friends if the peo-
ple of these great cities who have bad
rc.nble only thought they coulee get
,practical and sympathetic help in the
Christine church, there would not be a
street in Washington or New York ar
13oston which would be passable on the
Sabbath day, if there were a chnroh on
it; for all the people would press to
that asylum of mercy, that great house
of comfort and consolation.
A mother with a dead babe in her
arinS came to the god Veda and asked
to have her child restored to life. The
god Veda s, id to her, "Yon go and got
a handful of mustard seed from a house
in which there has been no sorrow and
in which there has been no death and I
will restore your child to life " So the
mother went out, and she went from
house to house and from home to home
looking for a plane where there bad been
no sorrow and where there had been
no death, but she found none. She went
back to the god Veda and said: "uy
mission is a failure. You see, I baven't
brought the mustard seed. I can't find
a •placo where there bas been no sorrow
and no death." "Oh," says the god
Veda, "understand, your sorrows are no
worse than the sorrows of others. We all
have our griefs, and all have our heart-
breaks.'
Laugh, apd the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone,
For the sad old earth must borrow its
mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
We hear a great deal of discussion now
all over tbe land about why people do
not go to church, Some say it is because
Christie,uity is dying out and because
people do not believe in the truth of
God's word, and all that. They are false
reasons.
Why People Do Not Go to C1,nrch.
The reason is because our sermons are
not interesting and practical and syippa-
thetio and helpful. tome ane might as
well tell the whole truth on this subject,
and so I will tell it. The sermon of the
future—the gospel sermon to come forth
and shake the nations and lift people
out of darkness—will be a. popular ser•
mon just for the simple reason that it
will meet the woes and the wants and
the anxieties cf the people. There are in
all our denominations ecclesinstioal
mummies sitting around to frown upon
the fresh young pulpits of America to
try to awe them down, to ory out: "rat,
tut, tut! Sensational! They stand to-
day preaching in churches that bold a
thousand people, and there are a hun-
dred persons present, and if they cannot
have the world saved in their way it
seems as it they do not want it saved at
all. I do not know but the old way of
making ministers of the gospel is better
-.-a collegiate education and an appren-
ticeship under the care and borne atten-
tion of some earnest, aged Christian
minister, the young man getting 11e
patriarch's spirit and assisting hits in
his religious service. Young lawyers
study with old, lawyers, young physicians
study with old physicians, and I believe
it would be a great help if every young
man studying for the gospel ministry
could put himself in the home and heart
and sympathy and under the benediction
and perpetual presence of a Christian
minister.
But I remark again, the sermon of the
future will be an awakening sermon.
From altar rail to the front doorstep,
under that sermon an audience will get
up and start for heaven. There will be
in it many a staccato passage. It will
not Le a lullaby; it will be a battle
charge. Men will drop their sins, for
they will feel the hot breath of pursuing
retribution on the buck of their necks.
It will be a sermon sympathetic with all
the physical distresea as well `as the
spiritual distresses of the world. Christ
not only preached, but he healed
paralysis, and he healed epilepsy, and he
healed the dumb and the blind and the
ten lepers.
That sermon of the future will be an
everyday sermon, going right down into
every ,Hans life, and it will teaoh him
how to vote, how to bargain, bow to
plow, • how to do work be is ea led to,
how to wield trowel and pen and penoil
and yardstick and plane. And it will
teach women how to eduoate their child-
ren, and how to imitate Miriam and
Esther and Vashti, and Eunice, ' the
mother of Timothy, and Mary, the
mother of Christ, and those women who
on northern and southern battlefields
were mistaken by the wounded for
angels of mercy fresh from the throne of
God.
The Gospel and the Printing Press.
Yes, I have to tell you the sermon of
the future will be a reported sermon. If
you have any idea that printing was
invented simply to print secular books.
and stenography and phonography were
contrived merely to set forth secular
ideas, you are mistaken. The printing
press is to be the great agency of gospel
proclamation. It is bigh time that good
men, instead of denouncing the press,
employ it to scatter forth the gospel of
Jesus Cbrist. The vast majority of people
i our cities do not and
come to church, o
nothing but the printed sermon can
reach thein and call them to pardon and
life and peace and heaven.
So I cannot . understand the nervous-
ness of some of my brethren of the
ministry. When they see a newspaper
man coming in, they say, "Alas, there
is a reporter. Every added reporter is
1,000 or 50,000 or 200,000 immortal
souls added to the auditory. The time
will come when all the village, town
and city newspapers will reproduce the
gospel of Jesus Christ, and sermons
preached on the Sabbath will reverberate
all around the world, and, some by type
and 501 30 by voice all nations will be
evangelized. •
The practical bearing of this is upon
those who are engaged in Christian
work, not only upon theological students
and young ministers, but upon all who
preanh the gospel, and that is all of you,
if you are doing your duty.
Do you exhort in prayer meeting?
Be short and be spirited. Do you teaoh
in Bible class? Though your have to
study every night, be interesting. Do
you Accost people on the subject of relig-
ion in their homes or in public places?
Study adroitness and use common sense.
The most graceful, the most beautiful
thing on earth is the religion of Jesus
Christ, and if you awkwardly present
it it is defamation. We . must do our
work rapidly, and we must do it effec-
tively, Soon our time for work will be
gone A .dying Christian took out his
watch and nave it to a friend and said:
"Take that watch I have no mare use
for it. 'Time is ended for me, and etern-
ity begins.
An Appeal to tate unsaved.
Oh, my friends, when aur watch has
ticked away for us for the last moment
and our clock has struck for us the last
hour, may it be found we did our work
well, that we slid it in the very best way,
and whether we preached, the gospel in
pulpits, or taught Sabba h classes, or
administered to the sick as physicians,
•or bargained as merchants, or pleaded
the law as attorneys, or were busy as
artisans or as busbandmon or as
mechanics, or were like Martha nailed to
give a meal to a hungry Christ, or like
Uannah to make a Boat for prophet, or
like Deborah to rouse the courage of
some timid Barak in the Lord's conflict,
we did our work in such a way that it
will stand the test of the judgment.
And in the long procession of the re-
deemed that marches round the throne
may it be found there are many there
brought to God through our instrument-
ality and in wbose rescue we are exult-
ant. But, oh, you unsaved, wait not for
that coming sermon. It may oome•after
your obsequies It may come after the
stonecutter has chiseled our name on
the slab fifty years before. Do not wait
for a great stoainer of tbe Cunard or
White Star line to take you off the
wreak, but hail tbe first craft, with
however law a mast, and however small
a bulk, and however poor a rudder, and
however weak a captain. Better a dis-
abled schooner, that comes up in time,
than a full-rigged brig that conies up
after you have sunken.. Instead of wait-
ing for that coming sermon—it may be
20 years off—take this plain ipvitation
of a roan who, to have given you spirit-
ual eyesight, would be glad to be called
the spittle by the band of Christ put on
the eyes of a blind man, and tubo would
consider the highest compliment of this
service if at the close 500 men should
start from these doors, saying: "Whether
he be a sinner or no, I know not. This
one thing I know—whereas I was blind,.
now 1 see." Swifter than shadows over
the plain, quicker than birds in their
autumnal flight, hastier than eagles to
their prey, hie you to a sympathetic(
Christ, The orchestras of heaven have
already strung their instruments to cele-
brate your rescue.
.dud many were the voices around the
throne
Rejoice, for the Lord brings back his
awn.
The Crowning of the Tear,
This is the festival which the Pilgrim
fathers inaugurated, which New England
has annually celebrated for two centur-
ies, and which the nation has adopted
and sanctioned as a day of public thanks-
giving to Gad, It exults tbe home and
strengthens its sacred and tender ties.
It brightens the shadows which have
gathered over it. It dignifies prosperity,
It prompt men to reach out helpful
hands to their less fortunate neighbors.
It reminds us afresh from whenoc every
goad gift conies. If it seemed good to
our fathers in the midst of the hardships
01 this new world to give public thanks
to Clot] for blessings, how much more
reason have we to follow their example?
Abundance of food and clothing, happy
homes, a free country at peace with all
nations and extending its influence
throughout the world, with marvelously
multiplied appliances fur use and pleas-
ure which snrpass the wildest dreams of
those wbo first were moved to set apart
a day of public thanksgiving and praise,
are ours. What shall I render unto the
Lord for all His benefits toward me? 1
will take the cup of salvation, and call
upon the name of the Lord.
Thanksgiving Day.
The first great reason for thankkgiving
is that we are all alive to take part in
the drama of humanite.
Mere existence, then, is sufficient rea-
son for thankfulness on the part of the
generationn wbich is on earth at this
period of its history. Never before was
the pursuit of kuowiedge so swift as
now, and never before was the chase so
well directed to the goal. The remaining
years of this century are few, but mea-
sured by their accomplishments in
politics, society, and science, they are
likely to be of more valve and more in-
terest than whole centuries which have
already passed.
This is a wonderfully interesting, a
peculiarly exhilarating • time in which
we are so fortunate as to live. The world
is more beautiful than ever before and a
better place to dwell in. Let us, then,
sound the notes of rejoicing and pour
forth the songs of thanksgiving.
Should See Her.
"She is a very businesslike woman," re-
marked one young loan.
"Yes," replied the other, "but I ad-
mire a clinging nature."
"Then you ought to see her some time
when she is trying to hold on to a dollar."
—Washington Star.
STERILIZING
Beer to Do It at Home t(aslly and With
Little t xh,ouwe.
Milk may be sterilized successfully by
taking any ordinary bottles, filling with
milk to the neck or a little below, plan-
ing a stopper of cotton batting in the
neck, then setting on a thin strip of
wood or inverted pie plate, which has
been perforated, iu a thin basin or pail
of water. The whole is then heated until
the mak shows a temperature of nearly
150 degrees. 'lhe bottle is then stoppered
and the pail and contents are removed
to the back of the stove, where the tem-
perature will remain fairly constant for
20 minutes, especially if covered with
some non -conducting material, as a cloth
or dry towel or the pail saver. At the
end of the 20 minutes the bottles are re-
moved and set in warm water, which is
gradually cooled and then iced, The
bottle may finally be put in the refrigera-
tor after being partially tainted in water.
Sterilizing may also be accomplished
with equally good, if not better, results
in tin vessels, either a double boiler oat-
meal cooker or two dishes of suitable
capacity, one with a diameter two inches
shorter than the other. The water is
poured into the outer dish at boiling
point, the milk dish and contents being
set in at once and the milk constantly
stirred until its temperature is 150 de-
grees. It is then removed for a moment,
while the water in the outer dish Is tom-
pered to the salve or a degree or two
higher. The milk is then set back into
the boiler, put to one side and olesely
covered and wrapped in order to retain
the heat for 15 or 20 minutes.
If the object of sterilizing be to destroy
the bacillus of tuberculosis a minimum
temperature of 1411 degrees should to
maintained for 15 minutes, or 140 de-
grees for half an hour.
If milk can be obtained from a herd
known to be free from tuberculosis, or
the person has no fear of this trouble, a
sterilizing temperature of from 138 de-
grees to 140 degrees maintained for 15
or 20 minutes is sufficient to give good
keeping qualities and to effectually get
rid of 95 per cent. of all bacteria, in-
cluding the forms which produce stom-
ach disturbances, vomiting and cholera
infautum in children.
In all sterilizing work the sudden
chilling of 50 degrees or thereabouts is
imperative. The milk should be kept
covered and at as low it temperature as
can be obtained. Treated in this man-
ner sterilized milk will be found to have
a delightfully sweet, pure taste long
after common milk has lost its freshness.
On the average it keeps from 6 to 86
hours longer than unsterilized milk in
the same temperature.
English In Paris.
Apropos of the exhibition and of the
thousands of Engle, h speaking people
who will visit Paris in 1900, a very en-
terprising step has just been taken by
the proprietors of the Mugasins do
Louvre, the Whiteley's of Paris. The
aro going to teach English to their em-
ployees. A series of classes has been ar-
ranged, and a number of the young men
and women who serve at the counters
will have the opportunity of learning
the English language free of charge.
The administration itself is going to
pay the professors, wbo are all English-
men. This scheme will enable English
speaking customers to be served more
agreeably and will render, too, the as-
sistance of the hateful interpreter un-
necessary,—London Sketch.
A Season of Recreation.
Thauksgiving day has long been a pe-
riod of social happiness, and one cannot
fail to note a decided tendency to make
it a day of physical recreation also.
Both of these forms of enjoyment are
valuable and desirable. Perhaps the
ideal Thanksgiving day would be that
in which all the activities of man—the
intellectual, the moral, the spiritual
and the physical—work in harmony for
the accomplishment of the highest and
noblest purposes.
Enterprising and Original..
Mrs. Watts—Tbat Simonsbee woman
is a perfect fiend!
Mr. Watts—I always thought her gen
tle and refined.
Mrs. Watts—Ob, she is among you
men, but what do you think of a wo-
man who will wear her little boy's base-
ball shoes to a bargain rush and spike
every woman who gets in her way?
To Seep Blankets Fresh.
Blankets cannot be too frequently
exposed to the fresh air. Even those
made of the finest wool, if constantly
used without careful airing, will cease
to afford that deligious warmth and to
be the luxurious covering that they were
when new. When washed they should be
dried as soon as possible, and the nap
raised by going over them with a fine
and short -toothed wool card.
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LITTLE THINGS.
Instances in Which Trifles iiavaChanged
Hie „f'MVO,
Some sage has observed, aid the
makers of copybooks have reoorded the
observation, that "Trines make the sum
of human things;" Like most copybook
maxims, this remark is faithfully correct,'
and in addition to their makiz g the
sum of human things, trifles have very
often changed, also, the whole course of
human lives. Here are a few instances:--
A young and clever solicitor who was
making rapid headway in his profession,
was asked by a friend who dabbled in,
amateur theatricals, to attend one even-
ing a performanee given by a club, of
whioh the said friend was a prominent
member. Tho man of law, having no en-
gagement for the evening in question,
consented readily enough, and the slight
of the representation found bim In a stall
near the stage, calmly awaiting the
rising of the curtain. While be was
engaged in studying his programme he
received a message by one of the attend-
ants from bis friend behind the scenes,
bidding him come there et once, as he
had a favor to ask of him. The favor
was that he should go on in the first
scene in the place of one of the actors
who bad been taken i11 at the last
moment, and as only ordinary dress
was required, no special preparation was
needed, The solicitor, who had never
faced the footlights in the course of his
existence, was somewhat taken aback
by the suddenness of the proposition,
but at length he consented to read the
part, and so well did he succeed that
from tbat night onward be waspossessed
of the stage fever, and a few months
later he threw up ]lis legal work and
went on the professional stage.
The erratic time kept by hotel clacks
has often been the cause of many curses,
"not loud, but deep," but one young
fellow had occasion to bless the eccen-
tricity of the timepiece in a large Ameri-
can hotel, for had it registered the cor-
rect time he would most assuredly have
gone to his death. The young man in
question was delirious of leaving the
city in which be was stopping by a train
timed to depart at 6.30 it the evening,
and at 6 o'clock—as be thought—he left
the hotel with his bag and strolled
}leisurely down to the "depot," only to
find that the train bad departed some
five minutes. Terribly annoyed, he re-
turned to the betel, and on making
inquiries there be found that the cloak
at that establishment was ten minutes
slow --hence the loss of the train. Next
mooing the whole of America was ring-
ing with the news of a terrible railway
accident, the train in wbich our young
friend had intended to travel having
been blown over a bridge into the river,
not ane life being saved. It may be hn-
agined that the youth in question did
not regret, when be beard the news, that
the hotel clack ]lad been slow, for had it
been otherwise he would most surely
have caught the train, and met a hor-
rible death. Here, again, the terrible
force of trifles will be apparent to all.
But perhaps one of the most extraor-
dinary eases of lives changed by trines
was the following, in which the careless
writing of the figure "1" so that it ap-
peared 1;ke "7," altered the whole course
of a young clerk's esistenoe. It was
many years ago, when the gold fever in
California was at its highest pitch, and
hundreds were leaving every day for the
ell Dorado on that western shore. Our
oink, who was plodding along in a Lon-
don ofidce on (el a week, was very much
in love with a certain young lady, who
was of n somewhat erratic and changeable
disposition. In due course the young
man asked the girl to marry him, and
on her refusing he became very despond-
ent, and accepted the invitation of friend
wino was going out to California to ao-
company him toward the land of gold.
He accordingly made his preparations
tine set out, and by a stroke of luck hit
upon a valuable vein, with the result
that he returned to England some years
later an exceedingly wealthy man. The
girl had long since married, and her
sweetheart never knew that on the very
eve of bis • departure she had written
him a letter, informing bim that she
had changed her mind and would
become bis wife after all. This, bowever,
she bad done, but owing to her having
written the number of the house at
which be lodged so that it seemed like
"47" instead of "41," the note was
delayed, and when at length it reached
its proper destination, he who should
have received it was on the Atlantic).
Bad that letter been properly directed,
he would in all probability have married
the girl and remained a clerk on a few
shillings a week to the end of his days.
Strange that so tiny a thing as the
figure "7" should change the whole
course of a inan's existence.
A Woman's Idea.
When Henry Barstow got home the
other night after a hard day's work in
the office, the first things that attracted
his attention were a lot of deep ruts in
his lawn.
He had taken pride in that lawn.
Through all the summer months he had
nursed it. He bad lifted up little pieces
of sod from vacant lots near by and
planted them upon the bare spots in hie
yard. He had raked and mowed and
clipped and worked until his lawn looked
like a big pieue of green velvet. His
neighbors had praised his industry, and
his heart had been glad.
It is little wonder therefore that he
thought things which cannot be printed
when he saw half a dozen deep wagon
tracks in his beloved sod.
He entered the house, fairly livid with
rage.
"Who has been driving over nay yard?"
he eaolaimed when his sweet little wife
came to put her arms around his neok,
"Why," said Mildred Barstow, "the-
coal
thecoal man has been here."
"Oh, he has, bas he? Haven't I always
had the ooal dumped in the street and.
carried into the basement?"
" Yes, but you know you ordered coke
this time."
"Well, what of it? Why didn't you
have it parried in just the same?"
"But I didn't
suppose it would do
any• to drive bar m, over the lawn with
coke."
You didn't? And why not?"
"Coke, you know," said Mrs. Bar-
stow, as she patted ber husbanit'a cheeks,
isn't nearly as heavy as coal."
"How much did the man bring at a . .
time?"
• "A ton, he said."
"And so you think a ton of coke
isn't as heavy as a ton of coal?"
"Why, of course. It isn't, is it?"
Mr. Barstow said nothing then. He
put his hands down into :his pookets,
walked out and looked at the deep ruts
for a long time. At last he muttered
to himself:--
"And
imself:—"And that woman is the mother of my
children 1" --Cleveland. Leader.