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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1898-11-11, Page 7IN STRENOT11 OF We Must Strive to Overthrow Each and Every Abomination. ftov. Dec Talmage Preaches a Powerful Sermon Against Evil* -We Must Be Polite, as the Wrestlers of Old, in Combating Sin. Washington, Nov. 6.—In tills discourse Da Tainuige selects one of the boldest figures of the Blble to pree,eot inose prao- Moat, and encouraging truths; text, Epbe- liaise vi, 12, "We we not against flesh end blood, bat against principalls Coe, against power, agaiuse the ruiers of the darlthess of this world, against sPiritual wiokedness in high pace," Squeamishness and festidiousoess were never barged against Paui'e rheterio. In the war agaihst, evil he took the firee weapoa he could lay his hazel on. For illustration, be employed the *heal -ay, tZte aremai the feet race, and there woe teethe ing in tee Isthmian going with Its 'Wreath cii pine leaves, er Pytheae mime, with ite weenth of laerel and palm, Or Nommen moue, with its wreeth of pare - ley, or any Rennin circus, bu bofelt he had a righe te put it in serum% or opisele, and aro you not sitrprieed that in ray to be calls upon a ivrestling taut fur sugemetiveness? PlUtareh &aye that evresel- leg le the not avtistio and ounniug tir ethietio games, WO tense =vete e whie differullee been:eon pugillein, tee tweet et speetacles, anti wreetling, which is an effort in sport to pet 'down another on floor or ground, auti wew-all of ve—in, duleed in le in cur boyhood days if we wore healthful awl plucky. The ancient wreetlers were first bathed In oil and then sprinkled with sand, The third throw decided the victory, and 'many a xuan who went down in the Arse throw or swami throw in the third, throw was on top, and his oppeaent ttneer, The Reinatie did not like this game very ter it was not savage cuough, no Wows or kiehie being allowed in tee genue They preferred the foot of hungry pen, tiler on the breast of fallen martyr In wreetlIng, the opponents would bow In apperently suavity, advence face to face, put down both feet solialy, take Cecil oilier by the arme and push civil other backward and forward until the work an in real eernesi. and there were contortions and strangulations and violeut strolote of tho font of ono contest- aut against the foot of the other, trip. ping hint up, or, with struggle thee threatened apoplexy or death, the ilefeat- ed foll and tile shouts of the Spectators greeted the victor. I gime Paul had so i n someuoh contest, and it reminded him ot the struggle of the soul with tempta- tion and the struggle of truth with emir arol the strugele of heavenly forcea agaiinn Apollyonic powers, anti he dic- tates iny text to an ainiumens, for ral las totters, save the ono to Philemon, seem to have buou dictated, and as the ainnimersis gees on with his work I hear the groan mid laugh elle shout of earthly and celestial belligerent'. "Wo wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, agaluet tho rulers of The darknose of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high planes." Polite Athletes. I notioo that as therm wrestlers ad• vaimed to throw eaob other they bowed one to the other. it was a civility, not only in Gretna!) and Roman games, but in later day, in ell tho wrestling bouts at Clerkenwell, England, and th the famous wrestling match during the reign of Henry III., in St. Giles' Field, between men of Westminster and people of Lan- don. However rough a twist and bard a pull ea th wrestler contemplated giving his opponent, they aperoathed each other with politeness and suavity. The genu- flexions, the affability, the courtesy in Eo wise hindered the decisiveness of the contest. Well, Paul, I see what you mean. In this awful struggle between eight and wrong, we must not forget to be gentlemen and ladies. -Affability never binder, but always helps. You are powerless as soon as you get mad. Do not mill runisellers murderers. Do not call infidels fools. Do not call higher critics reprobates. Do not call all card Playerand theatergoers children of the devil Do not say that the dance breaks through into hell. Do not deal in vitu- peration and billingsgate and contempt and adjectives dynamitic. The other stile can beat us at that. Their dictionaries have more objurgation and brimstone. We are in the strength of God to throw flat on its back every abomivation that curses the earth, but let us approaoh our :nighty antagonist with suavity. Herou• les, son of Jupiter and Alcmene, will by a precursor of smiles be helped rather than damaged for the performance of his "12 labors." Let us be as wisely strategic in reliaious circles as attorneys in coma - rooms, who are complimentary to each other in the opening remarks before they come into legal struggle such as that whitt left Rufus Choate or David Paul Brown triumphant or defeated. People who get into a rage in reformatory work aocomplish nothing but the depletion ot their own nervous system. There is such a thing as having a ,eun so hot at the touchhole that le explode, killing the one that sett it off. There are thine re- formatory ineetings to which I alvilen decline to go and take part, because then are apt to become demonstrations. of bad temper. I never like to hear a man swear, even though he swear on the right side. The very Paul who in my text employed illustration the wrestling match be- haved on a memorable occasion as we ought to behave,. The translators of Gee Bible made an unintentional mietake when they represented Paul as insulting the people of Athens by speaking of "the unknown god whom ye ignorantly wor- ship." Instead of thareing them with ignorance the original indicates he com- plimented them by suggesting thati they were very religious, but as they confessed that there were some things they did not understand about God he proposed to say some things concerning him, beginning where they had left off. The same Paul who said in one place, "Be courteous," and who had nein:et' the bow preceding the wrestling match, here exercises ettavities before he proceeds practically to throw down the rooky side of the Acropolis the whole Parthenon of idola- tries, Minerva and Jupiter smashed up with the rest of them. In this holy war polished rifle will do more execution than blunderbussee. Let our wrestlers bow as they go into the struggle whloh will leave ail pordieion wader and all heaven on top. The Test of Strength. Remember Also that these wrestlers went through severe and continuous theme of preparation Zr their work. Ttey were put upon euoti dieas would best develop their muscle. As Paul says, "Every man that striveth for the mas- tery is temperate in ail things." The wrestlers were put under complete disci- /At/le—bathing, gymnastics, struggle in sport with each ether to develop, strength and give quickness to dodge at head and trip of feot, stooping rex lift eace other off the ground, suddenly rushing forvvarce encideraY pulling Weimer& putting the left foot behind the other's riehe foot and Meeting leis oppenent off hie belance, herd training for (leen and weeks and Months, so that winin they met ie was gient °leeching giant And, my friends, if we do nee want munches to be tbrawn 10 this wrestle with the gni and error of the World, we had better get ready by Ceristieu discipline, by eoly self dentd, by constant lireetice, by sulnelteius to divine supervista and aleection, Do not begrudge the then) and the money for that young man who is in properaelon for the ttiinistrw, eliending two years in grammar school and tour yeers in college and three years in theological seminary. know that nine years are a big once to tete off of a man's active life, Lam if you realized the height and strength of tee arehatigeli of evIl la our time with which thee young man is going ro wrestle you would no; think nine pare of Drepara- Zion were too meth. An uneducated tainistey was exousaele In other days, bur not in this time, Wailed with sthoole and celleges. A Ittell who WOO Me tho other dim a letter asking advice, as he felt called to preeeh the gospel, began the word "Gate' with a small g. That kind of a man is not calimi to preach the gos- pel. Illiterate men, preaching the gospel, quote for their own eneouragement ene Scriptural passim% "Open thy mouth wile, tied I fill Veil ele will fill it with wind. Preparation for this wrestl- ing is absolutely necressary. Many years ago Dr. Newman and Dr. Sunderland, an the platform of lezigbain Young's tabernaele at Salt Lake City, gained the victory boons° they hail so long been skillful wrestlers for God. Otherwise Brigham Young, who was blinselt a giant in scree things, woteld bare thrown them out of the witulow. Get ready in 13ible classes. Get reedy in Christian En- deavor meetings, Gin, ready by giving testimony in obseare places before giving teetimony in consphuous pieces. .S. tLltstruzzlei Your goleg around with a Bagster's Bible, with flees at the edges, under your erin does not qualify you for the work of an evangelist. in this clay of profuse gab rememeer thee it is not merely capacity to Mike but the fact that you have something to gem that is going to tit you tor the struggle into which you are to go with a smile an your face end illumination on your brow, but out of whice you will not come until all your physical and inelital and moral end religious energies have been taxed to the utmost and you have not a nerve left or a thought unexpended or a prayer unsaid or a sympathy unwept, In ehis struagle between right and wrong accept no chal- lenge on platform ar ill newspaper unless von are prepared, De not misupply the tory of Goleith the Groat and David the Little. David had been practicing with a eling on dogs and wolves and bandits, anti a thousand time had he swirled a stone around his head before be aimed at She forehead of the giant and tumbled bint backward, otherwise the big foot of Goliath would ahnost have covered up the crushed form of the son of Jesse. Notice also that the success of a wres- tler depended on inc having his foot well planted before he grappled his opponent. Much depends upon the way the wrestler stands. branding ou an uncertain piece of ground or bearing all his weight on right foot or all his weight on loft foot, he is not ready. A slight ouff of his an- tagonist will capsize him A stroke of the heal of the other wrestler will trip him. And in this struggle for God and righteousuess, as well as for our own souls, we want our feet firmly planted in the gospel—both feet on the Rock of Ages. It will not do to believe the Bible in spots or think some of it true and some of it untrue. You just make up your mind that the story of the garden of Eden is an allegory, and the epistle of James an interpolation and that the inir • ticks of Christ oan be accounted for on natural grounds, without any belief in the supernatural. ani the first time you are interlocked In a wrestle with sin and Satan you will go under and your feet will be higher than your head. It will not do to have one foot on a rook and the other on the sand. The old book would long ago have gone to pieces if it had been vulnerable. But of the millions of Bibles that have been printed within the bet 2e: :mare, not one chapter heti boon omitted. and the omission of one chapter would have been the cause of the rejeo- tion of the whole edition. Alas, for those who while trying to prove that Jonah was never swallowed of a whale, themseivenget swallowed of the whale of unbehet, which digests but never ejects its victims, The inspiration of the Bible is not more certain than the preservation of the Bible in its present condition. After so many centuries of assault on the book would it not be matter of economy, to say the least— economy of brain and economy ot Station- ery and economy of printers' ink --if the batteries now assailing the book would (Menge their aim and be aimed againse some other books, and the world shown that Walter Scott did not write "The Lady of the Linee,•' nor Homer "The Iliad," nor 'Virgil "The Georgics," nor Thomas Moore "Latta RookhOnor that Washington's farewell address was writ- ten by Thomas Paine, and that the war of the American Revolution never oo- curred. That attempt would be quite as successful as this long timed attack anti - Biblical, and then it would be new. Oh, keep out of this wrestling bout with the ignorance and the wretthedness of. the World unless you feel that both feet aro planted In the eternal magmas ot tho book of Almighty God! Seimice of wrestling. 'Notice also that in this ecienoe of Wrestling, to which Paul refers in ray text, it was the third throw that decided the contest. A wrestler might be thrown once ana thrown twice, bus the third time he might renever himself, and by an unexpeoted twist of arm or curve of foot gain the day. Well, that Is broad, smiling, unmistakable gospel. Some whom, I address through ear or eye, by voice or printed page, leave been, thrown in their wrestle with evil habit. .Aye, non have been thrown twice, but that does not mean, ob, worsted soul, that you are thrown torever! 1 Junto no authority for saying how many times a man may sin and be forgiven, or bow many times be may fall and yet rise again, Met I thee authority for saying that he may fall 490 times, and 490 times get up, The Bible declares that God will to:give 70 times 7, and if you will employ the rule of multiplication you will lind that 70 times 7 is 490. Blessed be God for suon a gospel of high hope and thrilling encouragement and magnificent rescue. A gospel of lost sheep Mountie home on shepherd's shoulder, and the prodigals who got int() the new work of patting busks into swines' troughs brought tome to jewelry and banqueting and hilarity that made the rafters zing. Three sketches of the mime man: A happy home, of which he aud a laesie Metal from a neighbor's /mese are tile entted Imade Years of iiitepinees real an after neare it tappinees, Stars pointing down to nativities. And whether an- nounced in greeting or not every morn- ing was a *klood morning" and every rlight a "Good eight." Christmas trees aled May queens anti birthday festieltlee Mei Thanksgiving gatherings around leaded tebles. But that husband and father lents an unfortunate acquelut, AIM Who lends him in eireles ton Oqn• vivial, too lava brewed, too soantialeus. After awhile, his money Vile, Ana Zot able to bear his part of the expense, he is gradually shoved out and ignored and pushed away, Now, what a dilapidated Immo is hisi A, diselpeted life always shows itself in failed ovindove ourteins, and impoverisbei wardrobe, and dejected surrouudings, and M. !woken palings ot the garden fence, ond the unhinged ROAM and the dislocated doorbell. and the dies appearance of Avg° awl children froixi Scenes among which then shone the brightest, and laughei the gladdest. It any man Was ever down, that husband arid father is down. A rowerful roe. The feat is he got tete a wrestle With evil that pushed and puiled ana aontort- ed and exhausted Inee worse than any Olympian game ever treated a Grecian, and he wee throinu—thrown out of pros- perity into gionm, thrown out of good association into bad, thrown out of health into luvaildism, thrown out al happiness into misery. But one day while eliuking through one of the back streets, not wishing to be lecognized, a good thought crosses his mind, for he has hoard of mon flung ilat rising again. Ar- riving at his house, he calls his wife in and shuts the door and says: "Mary, ant golpg to do differently. Tleis is not weat I promised you when we were mar- ried. You bawl beou very patient with mo and have borne everything, although I would have had no right to complain If you had left me and gone home to your father's house. It seeine to me that once or twice when I was not myself I struck you, and several timos, 1 knoiv, I called you hard names. Now I want you to forgive me. I am going to do better, and I want you to help me." "Help you?" she says. "Bless your soul, at course I will help you. I knew you did- n't moue it eithen you treated me rough- ly. All that is in the past, Never refer to It again. To -day let us begin anew." nyumatilizing friends come around and kind business people help the man to something to do, so that he can again earn a living The children soon have clothing so that they oan go to school. The old songs which the wife sang years ago come back to her memory and she sings them over again at the cradle or while preparing the noonday ineal. Domestic resurrection! itie conies home earlier than he used to and he is glad to , spend the evening playing games with the children or helping theta with arith• 1 metic or grammar lessons which are a I little too hard. Time passes on, and some outsider suggests to him that he is not getting as much out of life as he ought and proposes an occasional visit to scenes of worldliness and dissipation. He oon• stints to go once, and after much solicita- tion, twice. Then his old habit comes back. He says he has been belated and could not get back until midnight. He had to see some western merchant t hat had arrived and talk of business with him before he got out of town. Kindness and geniality again quit the disposition of that husband and father. The wife's heart breaks in a new place. That man goes into a second wrestle with evil habit and is flung and all hell cackles at the moral defeat. "I told you so!" say many good people who have no faith in the reformation of a fallen man. "I told you so! You made a great tuss about his re- stored home, nut 1 knew it would not last. You can't truet these fellows who have once gone wrong." So with this unfortunate, things get worse and worse, and his family its,ve to give up the house, and the last valuable goes to the pawn- broker's shop. But that unfortunate man is sauntering along the street ono Sunday night, and he goes up to a oburoh door, and the congregation are singing the see- onci hymn, the one just before sermon, and it is William Cowper's glorious hymn: There is a fountain filled with blood Drawn from Emmanuees And sinners plunged beneath teat flood Lose all their guilty stains. Victory Through Christ. He goes into the vestibule of the church aim Stops there, not feeling well enough deessed to go among the worshipers, read he hears the minister say, "You will iind the words of my text in Luke, the nine- teenth tilmpter and tenth verse, 'The an of Man is come to seek and save that which was lost.' '"Uhe iistener in the vestibule says: "If any man was ever lost, I am lost, and the Son of Man came to save that which is lost, and he has found me, and he will take me out of this lost condition, Oh, Christ, have mercy on me." The poor man has cour- age now th enter the main audience room and he sits down on the first seat .by the door, and when .at the cloth of the service the minister comes down the aisle the poor man tells his story, and he is encouraged and invited to come again, and tbe way is cleared tor him for mane- bership in a Christian church, and he feels the omnipotence of wbat Peter the *pestle said when he spoke of those "kept ke the power of God through faith *nth oornmete salvation." Yet he hi to bays One more weestie before he is trite from evil habits, and he goes into it not in Ws own strength, for ehao has hate him twice, but in the strength of the Lord God Almighty. The old bola seizes WM, awl he seizes it, mail the wrestlers bend backward and forward and from, side to side in awful struggle, until the neon:tient conies for his liberation, and with both arms infused with strength from Gocl he lifts that habit, swings it en air and hurls it into perdition from which et came and frern which ie never iniaiu wIll rise Vietory, vietotw, through our Lord Jesus Christ! Hear it, ell ye wrestlers'. It threw hit twice, but the third time he threw it, and by the game of Geri threw it so hard be is as safe now as if he had been ton years in beaten. Oh, I are so glad that Paul tn my text suggests the wrestler end the power of elm third throw. The JLin of 11,,, Day. Sir Herbert Kitchener, wile smashed the Kitaflfa, has Wen a rnau or the Jay before this, and probably will be again, for he makes a point of doing goinethtng notable about once a yeae, Tbis year be tuts done it twice, for on Good Frhlay last he fell upon the Ehalita's advanced guard at rho Athol:a and fairly annibi- lated it, Now ha has deetroyee the lehalita's power in his chosen etrot,g- hold. Sir Herbert is an engineer officer anel is forty-eight years 0111, Be is thus young to to a general of eight or nine yearie staneing, and his rise in the arnq for a Willie nem slow, as no was thClight to be a plodder rather than a brilliant man. His thence came when he joined the Egyptian army at the time of lte morgauizetion by Sir Freneis Oren - fed. His With qualities were seen then, ana lie commanded tho Egpytian easairy from leS2 to 1884, end then, after serv- ing in Lord Wolseiey's expeeltiele, was Governor o Stialtim for a ooeple of veare More. beeoming Slater in MM, Ile also found time for some exceedingly denim; exploration work. aud gained a profoune knowledge of the natives. As Sillier he has done svonderfol work. He is a master organizer, can ao more with narrow tneans than any other soldier In the ein- pine and probably In the world, and has a recoici of etseinte and unbroken Suc- cess. Hie prestige among the fatalistio Aruba by this time is immense. tnity 3litt1iei1 15 Out. A lovelorn youth had quarreled with hie lady love, and with bitter, angry words they parted, and be decided that lite was no longer worth living. Abrupt ly turniug into a herbal's Atm, he sat a vacant chair anti ealmly requested the barber to cut his throat. The barber acquiesced, and, tucking the cloth round his neck, fixed the toad rest so thee the customer's chin was well elevated. Then drawing a stout pin from the corner of his waistcoat and holding it firmly between Ws finger and thumb, he drew the pin quietly across the nook of the mom Immediately, with a scream worthy of a red Indian, the despairing ono leaped from the chair, shouting: "Surely, surely, you have not dono It?" "Oh, no, sir!" sant, the barber. "Sit down egitin, sir. I've only marked it outi" Hisinarek ;se;, antert. A Stoultholm newsraper tolls a story about Bismarck, for which an aged Swedish lady is the authority. Nearly sixty years ago, when a girl, she went to Berlin, where she expected to meat a cousin, then studying tit the university there. Tbis comae appeared, and proved to be a fasoinatina youth. For several days ho was a constant °saint, and a charming companion. It was only when she was on the evo ot departure that he made the explanation: "You see, my dear cousin, I am not your oousin. My friend, your cousin, is so very busy pre- paring for an examination that he has asked me to take his place. My name Is Otto von Bisniereit," In 1886, when the lady n,aae her next visit to Berlin, she called on the Chancellor, who renuirkedt "I have to thank you that I once succeed- ed in seeing the Berlin museums. I have never seen them attain." A Compliment Wasted. Lord Lytton, when Viceroy of India, was seated one day at dinner next to a lady whose name was Birch, and who, though very good looking, was not over intelligent. Said the to His Excellency: "Are you aequainted with any of the Birches?" "Oh, yes," replied Lord Lytton. "I knew several of them most intimately while at Eton—iudeed, more intimately than I cared to." "My Lord," replied the lady, "you for- get the Birches are relatives of mine." "And they out me," said the Viceroy; "but," and he smiled his wonted smile, "I have never felt more inclinea to kiss the rod than I do now." Sad to say, Mrs. Birch did not see the point, and told her busband Elis Excel- lency bad insulted her. Emaciated Christians. Churcb going is not merely a habit; it Is a duty and a very prontable and pleasant one. When the house of God is neglected, it is both a sigu of oolduess and a producer of indifference. No one ought ever willfully to neglect the courts of God. He thereby shows dishonor to God and indifference to His people. But the greatest loss is to himself. The soul starves for want of spiritual nourishment when our Father's house is forsaken. Some may indeed go to tho church serviette, and still famish, but those who Legleot them will certainly become emaciated Christians, if they be Christ- ians at all. Too Much for Him. A Prospect, Maine, correspondent con- tributes this account of the discomfiture of a would-be smart young lawyer, who finally, in a 01390 of assault and battery, asked an old man of the vicinity at what distanoe he was from the paeties when the assault happened. "Just four feet five inches and a balf," answered the witness. "How came ybu to be so exaot?" asked the counsel. "Because I expected some fool or other to ask me and so I ineasured it." B efore and After. "There is a great deal of difference," she said with sarcasm, "between the way a man parts with his money before he is married and afterwards," "Yes," replied Mr. Pennyvvise. "Be• fore marriage, when be gives her a $8 bunch of flowers she says, 'Thank you, George, you are so good and kind and generous But after, when he gives her three-fourths of his salary she merely looks bur; and says. 'Is that all?' " EMPRESS AND PIANIST. nehleaula Wouldn't .A -wait HoYalty's Leisure When the Skating Wu* Elms. Josef leofmann, the fatuous young pianist, is fond of all sorts of sporn especially of skating, in which, as a boy, he excelled. "When visiting St. Peters- burg a year or two ago,' writes hairy B. Mullett in the Ladies' Horne Journal, "Josef was summoned to play before the mt.-Empress, the beim 'Emmet' being trim three to ',our ip tho aftern000. It was a perfeet day. The Newt was frozen °tree, of coerse, and tbe sketieig was at its height, Inmnediately after 'Michaele ,Tosefis father found his son amain as if to go to the nalaea. ". 'Where are you going?' he demauded. " 'To play for the Empress.' 'But YOU were not to no until three " 'Three on:loot! If I wait until then it will be too late to go skatiug. I'm go- ing Lowe "He went. And it is not a surprise to any one who knows Hofmann to learn that he played for the ex lempressas Soon as he reachee the painee, and time he then went off and seated the rest of the afternoon:" Sober at thew "Oh yes, be's sober; because he's dead." This was said in all seriousness to me by a friend regiodieg a peuteal acquaint- ance. Of comae, it NV.Ve nine berieuely, It len% a thing to joke about, though, etreugely onotigb, a drunken mans an - ties do almoit alweys set people laugh- ing Such antics are among the S4dclost things in life. But my friend was very serious in tell- ing ino of this man who had been almost oonetantiy drunn, and who was may Sober DOW heCitilsa hem/eking enough, iin'e it? One would tielak that a single lessee or ehat kind wattle suRiee to keep any Voting man or Woman from takiiis the risk of deeth by drink, avid every one suite tampers with drint takes that risk. But one ieeson isn't enough. Scores of bright young men and women Mks that risk daily. The truth is that aleohol istands alone in this respeet. It ieumoug tho most terrible Qeurses, and yet the evidence of its bad effects appear to bave the lease effeot in the way or Watning• Why is this? I don't enow, it it ien't tbat the drink appetite is so easily form- ed and is so etrong in its hold OD the systein that it captures insensibly all mental powers of Me victims. Isn't it a thing to shun? Think 02 15 being sale some tem of you, "Yes, he's sober; because be's dead." .What *.Sing a Song, of sixpence" erenn You all know this rhyme, bet have you ever beerel what it really means? Tee four -and -twenty Water:lads repre- sent tho twenty-four hours. The bottom Qf the pie is the world, while the top crust is the sky that °menthes it. The opening or the pie is the day dawn, wean the birds Pugin to sing, and surely fetch a sight is lit for a king. The king, who is represented sitting in his parlor counting out his money, is the sun, while tbo gold Mopes that slip through his fingers as he counts them are the golden sunbeams. The queen, who sits in the dark ketch - an, is the moon, and the honey with which she regales berself is the moon- light. The industrious maid, who is in tho garden at work before her king—the Run —lins risen, is the day dawn, and the clothes she hangs out aro the clouds. The bird who so tragically ends the song by "nipping off her nose" is the sunset. So we have the whole day, if not in a nut - hell, In a pie. Great Men's Mothers. "It is an interesting historical faot that nearly every man of great deeds who also possessed a great character .bad a mother of a strong, fine nature, with wboin in &wood and early manhoed he dwelt in close sympathy even when at a distance from her," writes Franois B. Evans, In the Ladies' Home Journal. "Probably the most disagreeable man socially of all celebrated men was poor Tbomas Carlyle, whose disposition was nervous, melancholy aed grumpy, but in the midst of his laborious life and severe mental industry he could always find time to write affectionate letters to his mother, full of the respect, tenderness and consid- eration he never seemed to feel for muole greater pereonages. If a mother's hand holds the leading strings of a man's life be vvill hold Walsall as securely as did Anthony Hope's Prisoner of Zonda, with his motto, 'The King can do no wrong.' " Bewildering Human Nature. Firmness in a man is what men call obstinacy in a woman. The indulgence in some less harmful vice Is the easiest way to resist one's be- setting sin. The "best time I ever had" dwindles in joyful remembrance when one recalls what a lot of money it east. A girl's first love is the prettiest boy in the school. A boy's early affection goes out to some mongrel dog that is a nuisance around the house. Foolishness is about equally divided between the sexes. Women, however, for generations have studied it and have succeeded in making the trait attrixotive. Fun is merely a temporary escape frora environment. Notice the thousands who huddle for hours on overcrowled trolleys and swelter during the best part of the day on the scorcbing sands of any nearby seaside resort. Try to rind Out. All ought to try to End out'what they were made for. Every one has a place and purpose in God's plan. That purpose should be understood and fulfilled as far as possible. Every saverl man is saved for some speoitio sexvioe besides his own bap - please, God made no man simply for his own bappiness, and He saves no man simply that he alone may be happy in heaven. He had a nobler end in both cases than the gratification of ze selfish spirit. 'There is some service for every one in God's vineyard. Idlers are not wanted. Let us fine what God wants us to do, and do it. Let us do it in earneet and do it well. 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Bend address on Pow Card" Wo money: required. Parttime returnable if notgold. Acie14148 8t. E-# TORONTO, Oaw ilisl[11{1U811[{11[11 A Fenton Farmer Tells of His Remarkable Case. At, Regular Intervals Re Was Sttbject to Fits, and Doctors woid non the Trouble Was Ineurahla—Now mrec, From %h. MaLmil. - From The Warier, Liudsay, Out, Mr. Robert McGee, of the Oth cow edesion Of leenien, Victoria County, Says, in speaking of Ids cure from this terrible malady: "I am 35 years of age 'and live on tile old bomestead wliere 1 was born and have lived always elect', Med wbere my own little family were born, This part of lemelon is known al hiefeeMe Settleroten, there are so men; 02 that nate living in tile viclnity. Nee- er in my life did I know wbat it day's sickness was until iNeareh, 1895, when without any known cause aud without any warning, I was stricken down with an epileptic fir. It eame on in the ulglet, causing great consternation in the housebold. as my wife, who navel saw anything of the kind bentegthoughe It was um end; as for raeself I neithee felt nor knew anything that was golug on about me. After coming out of the conenleion, whieli they tell me useally lasted from fifteen to thirty minutes, 1 would fall into a heavy sleep frem which I would awake with a dull, heavy feel - lug, and all the muscles of rim body would be sore. This would pass away, and in a day or two after the attack I would be able to attend to iny farm work, but, strange to eriy, every tout months after, as regular as a clock, I would be seized with a ht, wbicli al- ways mune on in tlw niglin Various doc- tors and specialists were consulted, and I tools several different melieines, but without effecting a cure. Several doc- tors said wie disease c-',9 intim:able. I read of le. Wilhelm: lent Pills in the newspapers and was advised by friends wbo had experienced mires from othet seemingly tinouralele ai1ment:3i, to try them. In November. 1891, I commene- ed, and kept on taking them regularly for a year. The dreaded period passee and passed again without it repetition of my trouble, and I felt that I was: at last released from this terrible ma-, lady. 1 mu now in the hest of health, and I attribute my cure to Dr. Wile hems' Pink Pills." In conversation with MTS. McGee site said that her husband's. trouble WaS the muse of most seriously affecting, ber nerves and general health, as she was always liv- ing In dread, and could never enjoy a night's vest. The slightest noise would startle her, and if it had not been for the kindness of a neighbor, who al- ways came and stayed at the house over night, she believes she would have broken down altogether. She also is thankful for the great change that leas been wrought, and is only too glad To let others with similar afflictions know that there is a remedy for this terrible disease. Dr- Williams' Pink Pills cure by go- ing to the root of the disease. They renew a.nd build up the blood, and strengthen the nerves, thus driving dis- ease from the system. eeyoid imita- tions by insisting that every box you purchase is enclosed in a wrapper bear ing the full trade mark, Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. If your dealer does not keep them, they wit) be sent post paid at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50 by addressing- the Dr. 'Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. Time to Awake. There will come a time when our pee, pie will wake up to the enormities of this insidious devil, or our Government will disintegrate and die. It was through licentiousness and debauchery that ancient Rome found its decay and death. And however much we maw at- tempt to hide the unwelcome truth fione our eyes our own nation is march- ing on in the path that led Rome to its slaughter. "Righteousness exalteth nation, but sin is a reproach to any gem ple." The proprietors of Parmelee's Pills ars constantly re cei ring letters similar to the folloiving,which explains itself. Mr. John A. Beam, 'Waterloo, Out., writes: "I never used any medicine that can equal Parmelees Pills for Dyspepsia or Liver and Kidney Complaints. The relief ex- perienced after using them was wonder- ful." As a safe family medicine Parmee lee's Vegetable Pills can be given in all caries requiring a Cathartic. 440 Did His Best. The distinction between the parieit rector and the curate in the old days Is illustrated by a story of an old res- ter. Returning to his "Parish after his autumn holiday, and noticing a woman at her cottage door with her baby in her arms, he asked: "Inas that ehild been baptized?" "WA. sir," replied the courtesying mother, "I shouldnit like to say as much as that, but your yonng, man canne and did what Bo Mivard's Liniment Cures Distemper. The Egotist. "Did you convince him you loved him, Cleineutinen, "Of course 2 told bit I Joved him as well as he loved hinieele"---Letrolt Free Press.